Celebrating Families Calendar
month | week | day
| « | January 12, 2007 - February 11, 2007 | » |
|---|
01 / 12
|
01 / 13
|
01 / 14
|
01 / 15
Start: 12:00 pm
Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, was born on this day in 1929. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most visible advocates of nonviolence and direct action as methods of social change. With amazing writing and speaking skills, he helped mobilize the Civil Rights Movement and served as a mouthpiece for hundreds of thousands of people.
Start: 12:00 pm
In 2006, America celebrates the 20th anniversary of the federal holiday celebrating the life and achievements of civil rights great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
|
01 / 16
Start: 12:00 pm
President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked that the Social Security Act of 1935 be extended to include more women and children.
|
01 / 17
|
01 / 18
|
01 / 19
|
01 / 20
|
01 / 21
|
01 / 22
|
01 / 23
|
01 / 24
|
01 / 25
|
01 / 26
|
01 / 27
|
01 / 28
|
01 / 29
|
01 / 30
|
01 / 31
Start: 12:00 pm
This day marks the beginning of the year for the Islamic calendar. It is also the anniversary of the flight of the Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 AD. This flight is known as the Hegira.
|
02 / 1
Start: 12:00 pm
The purpose of this holiday is to promote good feelings, harmony, and equal opportunity among all citizens and to remember that the United States is a nation dedicated to the ideal of freedom.
Start: 12:00 pm
On this day in 1960 four African American students attending North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College staged a sit-in at a segregated Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter.
|
02 / 2
|
02 / 3
|
02 / 4
|
02 / 5
|
02 / 6
|
02 / 7
Start: 12:00 pm
Originated by Carter G. Woodson, noted scholar and historian, who saw Negro History Week as a mechanism through which to raise the consciousness of blacks as well as whites about the intimate linkages between the cultures and societies established by persons of African descent in the New World.
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
The 3rd annual Friends of National Service reception will be held at the Library of Congress (James Madison building) on Tuesday, February 7, 2006.
|
02 / 8
|
02 / 9
|
02 / 10
|
02 / 11
Start: 12:00 am
End: 11:59 pm
This is Child Passenger Safety Week.
|
|
What if you Ran CFK?
Subscribe to