here is a list of some important dates and holidays
January 1st, 2011 - New Year’s Day
January 3rd, 2011 - J.R.R. Tolkien, 1892
January 6th, 2011 - Epiphany (Three Wise Men come to Jesus)
January 11th, Amelia Earhart Day
January 15th, 2011 - Martin Luther King Jr.,1929
January 17th, 2011 - Benjamin Franklin, 1706
January 18th, 2011 - Civil Rights Day
January 30th, 2011 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882
February 1st, 2011 - National Freedom Day
February 2nd, 2011 - Groundhog Day
February 7th, 2011 - Charles Dickens, 1812
February 8, 2011 – Boy Scout Day, 100 Years
February 12th, 2011 - Abraham Lincoln, 1809
February 14th, 2011 - Valentine’s Day
February 15th, 2011 - Galileo Galilei, 1564
February 15th, 2011 - Presidents’ Day
February 20th, 2011 - John Glenn, third American in Space, first to orbit the Earth 1962
February 22, 2011 - George Washington, 1732
March 14th, 2011 - Daylight Savings Time Begins, One Hour Ahead
March 17th, 2011 - St. Patrick’s Day
March 20th, 2011 - Vernal Equinox, 17:32UT, First Day of Spring
April 1st, 2011 - April Fool’s Day
April 2nd, 2011 - Good Friday
April 4th, 2011 - Easter Sunday
April 11th, 2009 - Holocaust Remembrance Day
April 12th, 2011 - Yuri Gagarin first man in Space, 1961
April 13th, 2011 - Thomas Jefferson, 1743
April 22nd, 2011 - Earth Day
May 1st, 2011 - May Day, Loyality Day
May 5th, 2011 - Alan Shepard is first American in Space 1961
May 7th, 2011 - National Day of Prayer
May 9th, 2011 - Mother’s Day
May 12th, 2011 – Nurses Day
May 14th, 2011 - Lewis and Clark Expedition left Camp Dubois 1804
May 15th, 2011 - Armed Forces Day
May 30th, 2011 - Memorial Day
May 31st, 2011 - Memorial Day Observed
June 6, 2011 - D-Day, 1944
June 14th, 2011 - Flag Day
June 16th, 2011 - First Woman in Space, 1963 (Valentina Tereshkova)
June 19th, 2011 - Juneteenth, end of slavery
June 20th, 2011 - Audie Murphy, 1924
June 20th, 2011 - Father’s Day
June 21st, 2011 - Summer Solstice, 11:28UT, First Day of Summer
June 26th - Partial Lunar Eclipse (Asia, Australia, Pacific, Western Americas)
July 4th, 2011 - Independence Day
July 16th, 2011 - Apollo 11 Launch, 1969
July 20th, 2011 - First Man on the Moon 1969(Neil Armstrong)
July 24th, 2011 – Amelia Earhart, 1897
August 1st, 2011 - Friendship Day
August 2nd, 2011 - Congress signed Declaration of Independence, 1776
August 19th, 2011 - National Aviation Day
August 19th, 2011 - Orville Wright, 1871
September 3rd, 2011 - Treaty of Paris, 1783
September 6th, 2011 - Labor Day
September 11th, 2011 - Patriot Day
September 23rd, 2011 - Autumnal Equinox, 03:09 UT, First Day of Fall
September 23rd, 2011 - Lewis and Clark reached St. Louis
October 11th, 2011 - Columbus Day
October 24th, 2011 - United Nations Day
October 31st, 2011 - Halloween
November 7th, 2011 - Daylight Savings Time Ends, 1 Hour Back
November 11th, 2011 - Veterans Day
November 25th, 2011- Thanksgiving Day
November 30th, 2011 - Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), 1835
December 3rd, 2011 - 1805 Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific
December 7th, 2011 - Pearl Harbor Attacked, 1941
December 16th, 2011 - Jane Austen, 1775
December 17th, 2011 - Wright Brothers Day, 1903
December 21st, 2011 - Winter Solstice 23:38UT, First Day of Winter
December 21st, 2011 - Total Lunar Eclipse (Asia, Australia, Pacific, Americas, and Europe)
December 24th, 2011 - Christmas Eve
December 25th, 2011 - Christmas Day
December 30th, 2011 - Rudyard Kipling, 1865
December 31st, 2011 - New Year’s Eve
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