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Franz Kafka born 1883

Samuel de Champlain born 1567

• Across the Sea: Europeans Explore the New World
  Looking for information and activities about the intrepid adventurers who first voyaged to the New World? Check out these Internet sites and help your students explore the earliest explorers.
• Great Sites for Teaching About…Explorers
  Best sites on the web for teaching about exlorers
• Millenium Series: The Great Explorers!
  This week, Education World presents the second in our year-long Millennium Series. Last month we explored the Middle Ages; this month we turn our sites to the great explorers of the millennium. In the stories listed below you'll find resources and activities for exploring the great explorers -- from Leif Eriksson to Neil Armstrong!

1st US Bank opened (1819)

George Washington assumed command of Continental Army (1775)

• Great Sites for Teaching About...The American Revolution
  Best sites on the web for teaching about the American Revolution time period.
• Join the Revolution!
  Follow the progress of the American Revolution War from the first battle to the last.
• George Washington Lives!--On the Internet
  George Washington: Farmer, Soldier, and First President of the United States of America. Students can learn all about him on the Internet -- by George!

USS Vincennes accidently shoots down an Iranian airliner killing 268 people, mistaking it for a bomber (Gulf War; 1988)

Hero of Chernobyl, Anatoli Grishchenko, died of leukemia (1990)

1890 - Idaho becomes 43rd state

1976 - Israel launches rescue of passengers & Air France crew members being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers