National Organization for Women founded (1966)

• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
  The site offers a collection of on-line primary documents and supporting materials on women's issues in history.
• March Into Women's History Month!
  Planning a March project to celebrate Women's History Month? Join us as we explore some of the best Web sites for and about women.

On "Black Tuesday” the U.S. stock market crashed leading to the Great Depression (1929)

Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist (Dr. Shivago) refused his Nobel Prize in Literature for political reasons (1958)

• 9-12 Literature & Poetry Center
  Resources and tools from our Language & Literature Center

Edmund Halley, English astronomer, born in London (1656)

• Meteor Showers
  Education World recommends some of the best web sites on meteors, comets, and amateur astronomy.

James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson, born (1740)

Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper publisher, died (1911)

• Ten Great Activities: Teaching With the Newspaper
• It's News to Me: Teaching Kids *About* the Newspaper

First compulsory U.S. peacetime draft began (1940)