FEBRUARY 2011

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Women’s Heart Week

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United States launches first satellite (1958)

Apollo 14 mission to Moon launched (1971)

1

Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster (2003)

HP introduces first handheld scientific calculator (1972)

2

Sled Dogs deliver diphtheria vaccine to Nome Alaska (1925) 

Ray McIntire died (1996)

3

Endangered Species Act (1973)

Cousteau’s The Silent World (1953)

Eileen Collins pilot ‘s space shuttle (1995)

4

Charles Lindbergh Birthday (1902)

Bismuth-210 is first artificially synthesized radioactive substance. (1936)

5

Mariner 10 arrives at Venus (1974)

Barnum Brown dies (1963)

6

Alan Shepard plays golf on the moon (1971)

Germanium discovered (1886)

American Burn Awareness Week

7

Ruth Sager born (1918)

Bruce McCandless completes first untethered spacewalk (1984)

8

Dmitri Mendeleev born (1834)

Dennis Gabor died (1979)

9

Daylight saving time instituted (1942)

James Melville Gilliss died (1865)

Element 98 first created (1950)

10

National Weather Service established (1870)

Deep Blue beats Kasparov at chess (1996)

Wilhelm Roentgen died (1923)

11

Thomas Edison's born (1847)

National Inventors Day

12

Darwin Day

Charles Darwin born (1809)

NEAR landing on asteroid  (2001)

13

Cardiac  Rehabilitation Week

14

Valentine’s Day

National Organ
 Donor Day

15

Galileo Galilei born (1564)

Susan B. Anthony born (1820)

16

Archaeologist opens tomb King Tut’s tomb (1923)

Nylon patented (1937)

17

Rudolph Jacob Camerarius born (1665)

18

Pluto Discovered (1930)

Alessandro Volta born (1745)

J. Robert Oppenheimer died (1967)

19

Nicolaus Copernicus born (1473)

Edison patents the phonograph (1878)

20

Ansel Adams born (1902)

John Glenn is first American to orbit Earth (1962)

Space station Mir launched (1986)

21
President’s Day

First Steam Train Travels 10 Miles (1804)

Polaroid introduces instant photography (1947)

22

Steve Irwin born (1962)

Heinrich Hertz born (1857)

23

 Dolly cloned From an Adult Sheep (1997)

First meeting of the Chemical Society of London (1840)

24
Gregorian calendar created (1582)

Henry Cavendish died (1810)

25
Ruth Erica Benesch born (1925)

26

Grand Teton National Park established (1929)

Herbert Henry Dow born (1866)

27
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov died (1936)

Aspirin patented (1900)

28

Watson and Crick Discover the DNA Double Helix (1953)

February is the month of:

 

* African American History Month * Children's Dental Health Month *
 

* Eating Disorders Awareness Week * *Wild Bird Feeding Month *