Celebrating Families Calendar
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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.
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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.
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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.
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02 / 11
Start: 12:00 am
End: 11:59 pm
This is Child Passenger Safety Week.
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02 / 12
Start: 12:00 pm
President Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809.
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02 / 14
Start: 12:00 pm
Celebrate with a loved one.
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02 / 22
Start: 12:00 pm
President George Washington, the first president of the United States of America was born on this day in 1732.
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03 / 2
Start: 12:00 pm
On March 2, 1945, a group of parents led by Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez, filed a class action lawsuit in federal court, charging that segregation in Orange County, California’s public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Supported in this legal effort by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the parents prevailed when Judge Paul J. MacCormick ruled in their favor.
Start: 12:00 pm
Every year on March 2, the birthday of children's author Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), the National Education Association celebrates Read Across America Day.
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