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					1 1902—Langston Hughes, African-American poet, is born 1861—Texas secedes from the Union	2 2—Groundhog Day —James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet, born 1653—New Amsterdam (New York City) is incorporated as a city
3 1894—Norman Rockwell, American illustrator, is born 1870—15th Amendment, granting black men suffrage, ratified 1874—American modernist Gertrude Stein born	4 1913—Rosa Parks birthday 1938—Disney film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the 1st animated feature, is released 1902—Charles Lindbergh, American aviator, is born	5 1917—Mexican Constitution is adopted —Congress passes the Immigration Act	6 1911—Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989), is born 1778—France recognizes the United States as a sovereign nation 1937—John Steinbeck’s novel “Of Mice and Men” published	7 1926—Historian Carter G. Woodson establishes "Negro History Week" 1867—Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author, born 1812—Charles Dickens, born	8 1870—15h Amendment ratified guarantees the right to vote regardless of race 1915—D.W. Griffith film "Birth of a Nation" premieres 1887—Dawes Act passed—Indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship more	9 1824—John Quincy Adams is elected President 1995—Bernard Harris first Black astronaut to take spacewalk 1862— Julia Ward Howe’s "Battle Hymn of the Republic" published
10 1949—Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman opens on Broadway 1763—The Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War 2013—Chinese New Year: Year of the Snake more	11 1945—FDR, Stalin, Churchill, sign Yalta Agreement 1990—Nelson Mandela is released from jail after 27 years in prison	12 1909—National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded 2013—Mardi Gras 1809—Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president, is born more	13 1826—The American Temperance Society, the first national organization to advocate prohibition, founded —Andrew Bradford publishes first magazine in colonies, "The American Magazine," beating Benjamin Franklin by three days 1891—American Painter Grant Wood born	14 2013—Valentine’s Day 1817—Frederick Douglass, abolitionist adopted birthday because his mother referred to him as my “little valentine”	15 1564—Galileo Galilei, astronomer, is born —The philosopher Socrates is sentenced to death	16 1923—Burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's unearthed tomb is unsealed in Egypt 1838—Historian Henry Adams born
17 1801—Thomas Jefferson is elected President	18 1885—Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published 1880—Presidents' Day observed (USA)	19 1674—Peace of Westminster- NYC becomes English 1919—W.E.B. DuBois organizes first Pan-African Congress in Paris	20 1805—Angelina Grimké, abolitionist & lawyer, is born 1895—Abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies	21 1965—Malcolm X is shot to death in New York City	22 1732—George Washington, 1st U.S. President, is born	23 1848—John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. President (1825–1829), dies 1868—W.E.B. Du Bois, civil rights writer, is born 1940—Singer Woody Guthrie writes "This Land is Your Land"
24 1803—Marbury v. Madison is decided	25 1868—Andrew Johnson impeached for violating Tenure of Office Act	26 1885—Berlin Act—European powers partition Africa	27 1902—John Steinbeck, American writer, is born 1807—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet, is born 1860—Presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln delivers Cooper Union speech	28 1820—British illustrator and graphic humorist John Tenniel born

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