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July
07/01/23 First U.S. Postage Stamp
07/02/23 The Lee Resolution and Road to Independence
07/03/23 Battle of Gettysburg
07/04/23 Independence Day
07/05/23 The Salvation Army Founded
07/06/23 Louis Pasteur/ Rabies Vaccine
07/07/23 Missionary Farewell of 12 Apostles
07/08/23 The Liberty Bell Rings
07/09/23 National Sugar Cookie Day
07/10/23 Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
07/11/23 President John Quincy Adams
07/12/23 George Washington Carver
07/13/23 National French Fry Day
07/14/23 The Storming of the Bastille
07/15/23 First Tabernacle Choir Broadcast
07/16/23 Washington D.C. Becomes the Capital
07/17/23 Disneyland’s Opening Day
07/18/23 Thomas Edison Records Sound
07/19/23 Joseph Fielding Smith
07/20/23 Evening and Morning Star
07/21/23 First Men on the Moon
07/22/23 National Hammock Day
07/23/23 National Vanilla Ice Cream Day
07/24/23 Pioneers Arrive at This Is the Place
07/25/23 Pres. Young Declares Day of Worship
07/26/23 FBI is Founded
07/27/23 The Forgotten Korean War
07/28/23 14th Amendment is Ratified
07/29/23 National Lasagna Day
07/30/23 Nation’s Motto, “In God We Trust”
07/31/23 The Brooklyn arrived at Yerba Buena
June
06/01/24 Brigham Young
06/02/24 President Grover Cleveland
06/03/24 World Bicycle Day
06/04/24 The 19th Amendment
06/05/24 National Hot Air Balloon Day
06/06/24 D Day and Operation Overlord
06/07/24 Richard Henry Lee, Forgotten Founder
06/08/24 Frank Lloyd Wright
06/09/24 The First Handcart Pioneers
06/10/24 National Ballpoint Pen Day
06/11/24 Dr. Joseph Warren: Forgotten Patriot
06/12/24 Pres. Reagan “Tear Down This Wall”
06/13/24 Miranda Rights
06/14/24 National Flag Day
06/15/24 National Magna Carta Day
06/16/24 Father’s Day
06/17/24 Bunker Hill and William Prescott
06/18/24 Battle of Waterloo
06/19/24 Juneteenth
06/20/24 National American Eagle Day
06/21/24 New Hampshire Ratifies U.S. Constitution
06/22/24 Voting Rights Act 1965
06/23/24 Gordon B. Hinckley’s Birthday
06/24/24 John Colter Mountain Man
06/25/24 Diary of Anne Frank
06/26/24 National Coconut Day
06/27/24 Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum
06/28/24 The Saxophone Invented
06/29/24 National Camera Day
06/30/24 “Little Sister” Statue of Liberty
March 2024
03/01/24 Wilford Woodruff
03/02/24 Dr. Seuss
03/03/24 National Anthem Day – The Star-Spangled Banner
03/04/24 National Grammar Day
03/05/24 The Boston Massacre
03/06/24 Michelangelo
03/07/24 National Cereal Day
03/08/24 Big Ben and Clockmaker Edward John Dent
03/09/24 Battle of the Ironclads
03/10/24 Daylight Savings Time
03/11/24 National Napping Day
03/12/24 Gandhi’s Salt March
03/13/24 William Bradford and The Mayflower Compact
03/14/24 Albert Einstein
03/15/24 Ides of March
03/16/24 James Madison
03/17/24 St. Patrick’s Day
03/18/24 The First Vision 1820
03/19/24 The First Day of Spring
03/20/24 Sir Isaac Newton
03/21/24 Johann Sebastian Bach
03/22/24 The Stamp Act
03/23/24 Patrick Henry, “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”
03/24/24 Escape Artist Harry Houdini
03/25/24 National Medal of Honor Day
03/26/24 Book of Mormon Published
03/27/24 Kirtland Temple Dedication
03/28/24 Spencer W. Kimball
03/29/24 Harold B. Lee
03/30/24 Final Days of the Savior’s Life
03/31/24 Easter Sunday
February 2024
02/01/24 National Freedom Day and The Thirteenth Amendment
02/02/24 Groundhog Day
02/03/24 The Sixteenth Amendment
02/04/24 Thank a Mail Carrier Day
02/05/24 First Pedestrian Crossing Light
02/06/24 President Ronald Reagan
02/07/24 Frederick Douglass
02/08/24 National Kite Flying Day
02/09/24 Father of Volleyball: William G. Morgan
02/10/24 The Treaty of Paris
02/11/24 National Make a Friend Day
02/12/24 Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
02/13/24 National Negro Baseball League
02/14/24 Valentine’s Day
02/15/24 Susan B. Anthony
02/16/24 King Tut’s Tomb Discovered
02/17/24 The Election of 1800
0218/24 John Bunyan & The Pilgrim’s Progress
02/19/24 President’s Day
02/20/24 National Love Your Pet Day
02/21/24 John Quincy Adam’s Fight Against Slavery
02/22/24 George Washington’s Birthday
02/23/24 The Panama Canal
02/24/24 The Battle of the Alamo
02/25/24 USS Ranger Launched
02/26/24 Grand Canyon National Park
02/27/24 National Polar Bear Day
02/28/24 Quorum of the Seventy Organized
January
01/01/24 New Year’s Day
01/02/24 Niagara Falls
01/03/24 Battle of Princeton
01/04/23 Louis Braille
01/05/24 National Whipped Cream Day
01/06/24 Samuel Morse & Morse Code
01/07/24 Galileo Discovers Jupiter’s Moons
01/08/24 First State of the Union Address
01/09/24 National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day
01/10/24 Thomas Paine Publishes Common Sense
01/11/24 Alexander Hamilton
01/12/24 Edmund Burke
01/13/24 Restored Gospel Preached to Native Americans
01/14/24 President Russell M. Nelson Sustained as Prophet
01/15/24 Martin Luther King Jr. Day
01/16/24 National Religious Freedom Day
01/17/24 Benjamin Franklin
01/18/24 Daniel Webster
01/19/24 National Popcorn Day
01/20/24 Presidential Inaugurations and the 20th Amendment
01/21/24 First Nuclear Submarine Launched
01/22/24 The Empire State Building
01/23/24 John Hancock and National Handwriting Day
01/24/24 National Compliment Day
01/25/24 Robert Boyle, The Father of Chemistry
01/26/24 The Great Seal of the United States
01/27/24 Liberation of Auschwitz
01/28/24 Mormon Battalion Monument
01/29/24 National Puzzle Day
01/30/24 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
01/31/24 First Prayer in Continental Congress
December 2023
12/01/23 Lessons from Liberty Jail
12/02/23 History of the Gillette Razor
12/03/23 Lydia Darragh: Patriot Spy
12/04/23 National Sock Day
12/05/23 Walt Disney’s Birthday
12/06/23 St. Nicholas and Gift Giving
12/07/23 Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
12/08/23 Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
12/09/23 A Charlie Brown Christmas
12/10/23 Emily Dickinson
12/11/23 International Mountain Day
12/12/23 Gingerbread House Day
12/13/23 National Cocoa Day
12/14/23 1911 Race to the South Pole
12/15/23 Ugly Christmas Sweater Day
12/16/23 Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit
12/17/23 Beethoven and Classical Christmas Composers
12/18/23 The Nutcracker Debuts in 1892
12/19/23 Charles Dickens & A Christmas Carol
12/20/23 History of the Christmas Tree
12/21/23 The Winter Solstice and the Christmas Star
12/22/23 The First Christmas Tree Lights
12/23/23 Joseph Smith’s Birthday
12/24/23 Silent Night and the Christmas Truce
12/25/23 Christmas Day
12/26/23 Boxing Day
12/27/23 National Fruitcake Day
12/28/23 National Pledge of Allegiance Day
12/29/23 Charles Goodyear, American Inventor
12/30/23 National Bacon Day
12/31/23 New Year’s Eve at Times Square
November 2023
11/01/23 John Taylor, Third President of the Church
11/02/23 The Birthplace of Cheerleading
11/03/23 National Sandwich Day
11/04/23 Charles Carroll, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
11/05/23 The Game of Monopoly
11/06/23 President Abraham Lincoln
11/07/23 Miracle on the SS Arizona
11/08/23 The History of Election Day
11/09/23 The Berlin Wall Comes Down
11/10/23 The History of the U.S. Marine Corps
11/11/23 Veterans Day
11/12/23 Ellis Island 1892-1954
11/13/23 Joseph F. Smith
11/14/23 Howard W. Hunter
11/15/23 Mercy Otis Warren
11/16/23 National Fast-Food Day
11/17/23 The Suez Canal
11/18/23 US Adopts Four Separate Time Zones
11/19/23 The Gettysburg Address
11/20/23 Alaska Frontier Highway
11/21/23 First Baptism in Nauvoo Temple
11/22/23 Heber J. Grant
11/23/23 Thanksgiving Day
11/24/23 Santa Catalina Island
11/25/23 The First Farmer’s Almanac
11/26/23 Charles Schultz and Charlie Brown
11/27/23 First Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
11/28/23 National French Toast Day
11/29/23. Louisa May Alcott
11/30/23 Mark Twain
OCTOBER 2023
10/01/23 First Major League Baseball World Series
10/02/23 Thurgood Marshall, First Black Supreme Court Justice
10/03/23 Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer
10/04/23 Call to Rescue the Handcart Companies
10/05/23 History of the Ball Point Pen
10/06/23 National Noodle Day
10/07/23 Henry Ford’s Moving Assembly Line
10/08/23 Fire Prevention Week and the Great Chicago Fire
10/09/23 Columbus Day
10/10/23 Hoover Dam Hydroelectric Project
10/11/23 Nathan Eldon Tanner
10/12/23 Bruce R. McConkie
10/13/23 United States Navy Established
10/14/23 National Dessert Day
10/15/23 Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
10/16/23 Noah Webster, An American Dictionary
10/17/23 The Monroe Doctrine
10/18/23 National Alaska Day
10/19/23 British Surrender at Yorktown
10/20/23 Louisiana Purchase and Westward Expansion
10/21/23 Thomas Edison Day
10/22/23 National Nut Day
10/23/23 Brigham Young University Founded
10/24/23 Orson Hyde Dedicates the Holy Land
10/25/23 The Letters of Abigail and John Adams
10/26/23 National Pumpkin Day
10/27/23 The Federalist Papers
10/28/23 National Geographic Magazine
10/29/23 Quilting and Harriet Powers
10/30/23 National Candy Corn Day
10/31/23 Halloween
SEPTEMBER 2023
09/01/23 Deseret Industries Opens
09/02/23 Japan Surrenders to End WWII
09/03/23 727-Pound Alligator
09/04/23 Labor Day
09/05/23 First Daily Seminary Class
09/06/23 The Mayflower Sails for America
09/07/23 Grandma Moses
09/08/23 David O. McKay
09/09/23 President Russell M. Nelson
09/10/23 Battle of Nauvoo
09/11/23 Patriot Day: Remembering 9/11
09/12/23 Henry Hudson and the Northwest Passage
09/13/23 National Uncle Sam Day
09/14/23 Francis S. Key Star Spangled Banner
09/15/23 Santiago Chile Temple
09/16/23 National Play-Doh Day
09/17/23 U.S. Constitution Day
09/18/23 Apostles Leave for Missions in Great Britain
09/19/23 George Washington’s Farewell Address
09/20/23 Fisher Ames, Forgotten Founding Father
09/21/23 The Angel Moroni Visits Joseph Smith
09/22/23 The Life and Death of Nathan Hale
09/23/23 John Paul Jones: Father of the American Navy
09/24/23 National Punctuation Day
09/25/23 The Bill of Rights
09/26/23 Johnny Appleseed Day
09/27/23 Sam Adams, Patriot
09/28/23 Louis Pasteur
09/29/23 King James Version of the Bible
09/30/23 Invitation to General Conference