• Making the Case for Music Education

Joe DiMaggio, Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder for the New York Yankees, born (1914)

• The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
  

Andrew Carnegie, steel industrialist and philanthropist library builder, born in Scotland (1835)

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UN Secretary-General U Thant died in New York of cancer at 65 (1974)

President John F. Kennedy was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery (1963)

Rensselaer Polytechnic, first American engineering college opened in Troy, NY (1825)

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Columbia University scientists developed an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years (1955)

Disney's animated film “Aladdin” premiered (1992)

Sojourner Truth addressed the first Black Women's Rights Convention in Akron (1851)

• Women of Accomplishment: An Internet Scavenger Hunt
  Neglected for years, the historical contributions of women are celebrated during March, the official National Women's History Month. Supplement your textbooks with the other half of history -- the achievements of women -- by posing a question about women's history during every school day of the month!
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• 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.

Julia Ward Howe became the first woman elected to the National Institute of Arts & Letters (1907)

Segregation prohibited in public transportation by Interstate Commerce Commission (1955)

Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, invented dynamite (1867)