Read To Your Child Day

Thomas Malthus, English population expert (Law of Malthus), born (1766)

Margaret E. Knight, American inventor who received patents for various manufacturing machinery, born (1838)

• Great Sites for Teaching About...Inventors and Inventions
  

Carl Bernstein, investigative reporter for the Washington Post who helped uncover the Watergate scandal, born (1944)

Captain James Cook, British explorer, was killed in a fight with natives on the island of Hawaii (1779)

• Great Sites for Teaching about Hawaii
  The best on the Web for teaching about Hawaii.
  

Frederick Loewe, American composer (My Fair Lady), died at 84 (1988)

• Making the Case for Music Education
  
• Energy In The Air: Sounds From The Orchestra
  

Civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama occurred led by Martin Luther King Jr. (1965)

James Polk became the first U.S. President photographed in office (by Matthew Brady) 1848

• Presidential Sites Resources
  

Oregon was admitted as the 33rd State (1859)

• Information : The Fifty States of the United States
  The site lists all 50 states with most of their features (flag, song, bird, motto etc.) and their capitol cities.
  

Alexander Graham Bell filed an application for a patent on the telephone (1876)

• Great Sites for Teaching About...Inventors and Inventions
  

USSR adopted the use of the Gregorian calendar (1918)

Arizona became the 48th state (1912)

• Information : The Fifty States of the United States
  The site lists all 50 states with most of their features (flag, song, bird, motto etc.) and their capitol cities.
  

League of Women Voters founded (1920)

• Celebrate Women's History Month!
  Each March, Education World recognizes women's history month with new classroom teaching resources. This year, we're excited to bring you several valuable tools -- including a Women's History WebQuest, Women of the Century. This WebQuest will challenge your students to work cooperatively as they create a women's history encyclopedia to supplement outdated and sorely lacking textbooks!
  

British Navy under Captain Nelson defeated Spanish Armada off Cape St. Vincent (1797)

Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran placed a death sentence on author Salmon Rushdie for writing a book (1989)

First state bird refuge authorized at Lake Merritt CA (1872)

U.S. Dept. of Commerce & Labor established (1903)