The K-12 TLC Daily Almanac

for

FEBRUARY 17

Teaching - there can be no finer calling requiring the clearest demonstration of moral and ethical behavior. Ira Shull, For the Love of Teaching

Why do you teach? Let Us Know.		Tell Us about your most memorable teacher.

Today's 5-Minute Quest

Answers to all questions can be found on this page or by using links provided on this page.
Good Luck!

BEGINNERS

1. In which state was Michael Jordan born? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

2. Which member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame was born on this date? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

3. According to the Library of Congress, on what date did Marian Anderson make her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

Use all of these letters to spell the name of a classical composer or performer born on this date:
SON READ RAIN MAN

INTERMEDIATE

1. Which jazz pianist died on this date in 1982? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

2. According to National Women's Hall of Fame, where did Marian Anderson first travel to gain recognition? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

3. According to the Congressional Hunger Center, in what year did Mickey Leland found the House Select Committee on Hunger? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

Use all of these letters to spell the title of a 1981 work by Thelonious Monk (according to the All Music Guide discography):
USE SUCH IF MOO

EXPERT
(hint: all three questions will require you to use a link found on this page)

1. According to BlackEnterprise.com, what magazine named Earl G. Graves as one of the 200 future leaders of the country?

2. According to the Library of Congress, a 1942 fellowship allowed Gordon Parks to go to Washington, D.C. and work for what organization?

3. According to the History Channel, the Missouri Compromise, passed by the U.S. Senate on this date in 1820, allowed Missouri to enter the union without restriction on slavery, in exchange for which state entering the Union as a free state?

Use all of these letters to spell the name of a book written by Gordon Parks about his life (according to the New York Writers Institute):
CIOS HIM TERROR VINE


Gordon Parks	Earl G. Graves, Sr.	Marian Anderson	Mickey Leland	Michael Jordan Born on This Date 1963

http://www.myfloridahistory.org/library/flahistory/february


Championship Crab Races Day



1864	Andrew Barton Paterson (Australian Poet, Songwriter, Children's Author)
1879	Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Kansas-born Children's Author)
1912	Alice Mary Norton (Ohio-born Children's Author)
1912	Virginia Sorenson (Utah-born Children's Author Awarded the 1957 Newbery Medal for Miracles on Maple Hill)
1928	Robert Newton Peck (Vermont-born Children's Author)
1929	Chaim Potok (New York City-born Jewish Writer, Translator, Educator, Artist, Children's Author)
1948	Susan Beth Pfeffer (New York City-born Children's Author)

1857	S. S. McClure (Irish-American Editor Who Developed the Technique of "Muckraking")
1881	Bess Streeter Aldrich (Iowa-born Author)
1903	Sadeq Hedayat (Iranian Playwright; Father of Modern Persian Fiction)
1904	Hans J. Morgenthau (German-American Political Scientist)
1920	Elleston Trevor (English Author)
1936	Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (Spanish Poet)

1774	Raphaelle Peale (Maryland-born Artist)

1653	Arcangelo Corelli (Italian Violinist, Composer)
1902	Marian Anderson (Pennsylvania-born African-American Operatic Singer)
1920	Paul Fetler (Pennsylvania-born Composer)
1926	Lee Hoiby (Wisconsin-born Composer)

1843	Aaron Montgomery Ward (New Jersey-born co-Founder of Montgomery Ward Mail Order Company)
1874	Thomas J. Watson (New York-born Business Leader Responsible for Building IBM)
1889	H.L. Hunt (Illinois-born Entrepreneur, Investor Who May Have Been the World's Richest Man)

1781	René Laennec (French Physician Who Invented the Stethoscope)

1938	Mary Frances Berry (Tennessee-born African-American Lawyer, Educator, Rights Activist)
1941	Wellington Webb (Chicago-born First African-American Mayor of Denver, Colorado)
1942	Huey P. Newton (Louisiana-born African-American Rights Activist; Founder and Leader of the Black Panther Party)
1951	Patricia de Lille (South African Leader of the Independent Democrats)

1925	Hal Holbrook (Ohio-born Actor)
1934	Alan Bates (English Actor)
1945	Brenda Fricker (Irish Actress)
1954	Rene Russo (California-born Actress)
1962	Lou Diamond Phillips (American Actor)

1908	Red Barber (Mississippi-born Broadcaster; Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame)
1936	Jim Brown (Georgia-born African-American Member of the Professional Football hall of Fame)
1959	Ambrose "Rowdy" Gaines (Florida-born Member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame)
1963	Michael Jordan (New York City-born African-American Professional Basketball Player)

1600	Giordano Bruno (Italian Philosopher, Poet Burned at the Stake for Heresy)
1763	Molière (French Dramatist)
1898	Frances E. Willard (New York-born Temperance and Women's Suffrage Activist)
1909	Geronimo (Apache Warrior, Chief)
1913	Joaquin Miller (Indiana-born Poet)
1982	Lee Strasberg (Polish-American Drama Teacher)
1982	Thelonious Monk (North Carolina-born African-American Jazz Pianist, Composer)


1600	Italian Philosopher Giordano Bruno Is Burned at the Stake for Heresy in Rome's Campo dei Fiori

1776	Continental Congress Approves a Standing Committee of Five to Superintend the Treasury Department
1782	British Navy Engages the American-allied French in the First of Five Indian Ocean Battles
1783	Georgia's House of Assembly Allocates Land Entitlements for Georgia Veterans of the Revolutionary War
1784	Georgia's House of Assembly Enacts New Legislation for the Distribution of Public Land

1801	U.S. House of Representatives Selects Thomas Jefferson As President
1804	The First Steam Locomotive, the Penydarren, Is Given a Test Run
1805	The City of New Orleans Is Incorporated and Its First Election Is Held
1805	Clark: this morning worm & a little Cloudy, the Coal & his Son visited me to day with about 30 w. of Drid Buffalow meat, & Some Tallow Mr. McKinsey one of the N W. Compys. Clerks visited me (one of the hoses the Sous robed a fiew Days past belonged to this man) The after part of the day fair, Ordway: all hands able to walk went out to hunt in different directions. aiming to drive the Game in to the bottom of wood as much as possable So that the best hunters who was in the bottom might kill them. they all returned in the evening had killed 10 deer and 4 Elk. packed Some of them in hung up the remainder on trees so as to keep the wolves from it.
1806	Clark: Collins and Windser were permited to hunt to day towards the praries in point Adams with a view to obtain Some fresh meat for the Sick. a little before noon Shannon and Labiesh & frazier Came with the flesh and hide of an Elk which had been wounded by Serjt. Gasses party and took the water where they pursued it and cought it. they did not See Sergt. Gass or any of his party or learn what further Sucksess they have had. Continu the barks with Bratten, and Commenced them with gibson his feaver being Sufficiently low this morning to permit the use of them. I think therefore that there is no further danger of his recovery.—. at 2 P. M. Joseph Field arrived from the Salt works and informd us that they had about 2 Kegs of Salt on hand (say 3 bushels) which with what we have at this place we suppose will be Sufficient to last us to our deposit of that article on the Missouri. we directed a party of Six men to go in the morning in order to bring the salt and Kittles to the Fort. at 4 P. M. Serjt. Gass and party arrive; they had killed 8 Elk. Drewyer and Whitehouse also return late in the evening, they had killed one Elk, part of the meat of which they brought in with them. Gass: The day was stormy; we set out for the fort, and arrived there in the afternoon. We found the sick men at the fort, and still very bad. One of the men brought word from the salt works, that they had made about four bushels of salt; and the Commanding Officers thought that would be sufficient to serve the party, until we should arrive at the Missouri where there is some deposited.
1809	In Ohio, Miami University Is Chartered
1815	The Treaty of Ghent Goes into Effect, Formally Ending the War of 1812
1817	Baltimore Is First U.S. City Lit by Gas
1818	In Arkansas, U.S. Land Offices Are Established at Davidsonville and Arkansas Post
1820	U.S. Senate Passes the Missouri Compromise
1821	Louisiana General Assembly Passes Resolution to Build the State's First Penitentiary
1827	Virginia's General Assembly Passes Its Responsibility for Reviewing Divorce Petitions to the Courts
1827	Chester Stone Receives the First U.S. Patent for a Washing Machine
1836	Abraham Lincoln Completes His Year-Long Surveying of the Town of Petersburgh, Illinois
1838	The Indiana State Legislature Approves the Organization of Jasper and Whitley Counties
1844	First Lt. William Tecumseh Sherman Begins His Military Career at Marietta, Georgia
1861	President-elect & Mrs. Lincoln Attend Church in Buffalo, NY with Former President Fillmore
1863	President Lincoln Transmits to Congress a Treaty with the Potawatomi Indians in Kansas
1863	West Virginia's Constitutional Convention Adopts Amendment for Gradual Emancipation
1864	Confederate Hunley Is First Sub to Sink an Enemy Ship: The Union Housatonic
	The First Michigan Colored Infantry Is Mustered into Federal Service
	Union Forces Destroy a Large Salt Works Near St. Marks, Florida
	The Confederacy Authorizes Fourth Printing of Currency, Amounting to $200 Million of Notes
1865	General Sherman's Army Ransacks and Razes Columbia, SC
	U.S.S. Mahaska Captures the Schooner Delia Off the Coast of Bayport, Florida
	President Lincoln Signs Proclamation Convening Congress for an Extra Session
	President Lincoln Signs the Army Commission for His Son Captain Robert Lincoln
1868	Martial Law Is Revoked in Greene and Craighead Counties, Arkansas
1870	Wyoming's Esther Hobart Morris Is First Woman to be Appointed Justice of the Peace
1874	Modoc County, California Is Created from an Eastern Section of Siskiyou County
1881	Norman County, Minnesota Is Established in Honor of the Homeland of the Area's Norwegian Settlers
1882	Virginia's Governor William Cameron Initiates the "Oyster War" to Rid the Chesapeake Bay of non-Virginian Oyster Men
1889	White Sox Baseball Player-turned-Evangelist, Billy Sunday, First Preaches in Chicago
1894	The Seattle Branch of the Young Women's Christian Association Is Founded
1894	John Phillip Sousa's Band Plays in Portland, Oregon
1897	National Congress of Mothers (precursor of PTA) Meets in Washington, D.C.

1904	Puccini's Opera Madame Butterfly Premieres in Milan at the Teatro alla Scala
1905	Philippine Military Academy Opens as Philippine Constabulary Officers School
1906	Idaho Authorities Arrest Union Leaders in Colorado for Governor's Assassination
1911	The First Self-Starter Is Installed in a Cadillac
1915	German Zeppelin L-4 Crash-Lands in the North Sea Near the Danish Coastal Town of Varde
1921	Sister Carmela Hanggi, Principal of Cathedral School in St. Paul, Founds the School Safety Patrol in Minnesota
1929	The League of United Latin American Citizens Is Founded in Corpus Christi, Texas
1930	The El Paso Museum of Art Is Chartered
1933	First Issue of "Newsweek" Magazine Published
1934	The First Driver's Ed Course Offered at State College High School, PA
1944	U.S. Attack Devastates Japan's Truk Naval Base, Caroline Islands
1944	U.S. Troops Land on Eniwetok Atoll
1947	Voice of America Begins Broadcasts to Russia

1959	Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes Survives Air Crash Near London That Kills 12
	U.S. Launches Vanguard 2 Rocket with Earth-Orbiting Satellite to Measure Cloud Distribution
	First Boy Is enrolled at Florida Sheriffs' Ranch Founded for Homeless Boys 8-18 Years of Age
1960	Alabama Prosecutors Issue an Arrest Warrant for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for State Tax Fraud
1964	Supreme Court Rules Congressional District Populations Must Be Nearly Equal
1965	Gambia Gains Independence as the Smallest Sovereign State in Africa
	NASA Launches the Ranger 8 Spacecraft to Photograph the Lunar Surface Up to Impact
	Massachusetts Officials Remove What Is Left of the Abandoned Wooden Tramway to the Summit of Mt. Holyoke
1968	Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Opens in Springfield, Massachusetts
1968	Jean-Claude Killy Wins His Third Gold Medal in Alpine Skiing at the Grenoble Winter Olympics
1972	President Richard Nixon Departs for Historic Trip to China
	In Minnesota, the U.S. Government Files a Suit Against Reserve Mining Company for Polluting Lake Superior
	15,007,034th VW Beetle Breaks Ford Model T Production Record
1973	USS Jesse L. Brown Is Commissioned in Honor of the first African-American Naval Aviator
1974	A Portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Is Unveiled at the Georgia State Capitol
1977	The Archbishop of Cape Town Condemns South Africa's Apartheid Society as Morally Indefensible
1978	An Irish Republican Army Bomb Kills 12 People and Injures 30 in a Northern Ireland Restaurant
1979	Chinese Troops Invade Northern Provinces of Vietnam
1985	In Louisville, Kentucky, Dr. William DeVries, Implants the Third Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart
1986	Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist Wins National Book Critics Circle Award
1987	Sri Lankan Tamils Seeking Asylum Stage Protest Against Deportation at London's Heathrow Airport
1992	Members of the Azanian People's Liberation Army Kill Three South African Policemen
1996	8.2 Magnitude Earthquake and Tsunami Kill 108 in Indonesia's Irian Jaya Region
	NASA's Launches Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Spacecraft to Orbit the Asteroid Eros
	Garry Kasparov Defeats IBM's Deep Blue Chess-playing Computer
1998	U.S. Women's Hockey Team Wins Gold at 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics

2002	New Transportation Security Administration to Supervise U.S. Aviation Security
2002	Chris Witty Wins a Gold Medal in Speed Skating's 1000m at the Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games in World Record Time of 1:13.82
2006	A Mudslide Buries a Remote Village on the Southern Philippine Island of Leyte: 1,800 Die
2008	The Province of Kosovo Declares Independence From Serbia
2009	President Obama Signs the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into Law

FEBRUARY 17