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"Selected anniversaries of the month" archive

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Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/January

January

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  • 1888 – In Nebraska, teacher Minnie Freeman leads thirteen children from her schoolhouse to safety during the Schoolhouse Blizzard.

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Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/February

February

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Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/March

March

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  • 1996 – The Dunblane massacre, a multiple murder-suicide in which sixteen children and one adult are killed, occurs at Dunblane Primary School in the Scottish town of Dunblane. It remains the deadliest single targeted mass homicide on children in the history of the United Kingdom.

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Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/April

April

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  • 2003Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus.

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Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/May

May

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Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/June

June

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Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/July

July

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  • 1925 – In the Scopes Trial, the Criminal Court of Tennessee upholds the Bulter Act, which made it unlawful, in any state-funded educational establishment in Tennessee, "to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals." The case was a watershed in the creation-evolution controversy.

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Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/August

August

  • Filipino schools and theaters celebrate Filipino Language Month ("Buwan ng Wika") in August.

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Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/September

September

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Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/October

October

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Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/November

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Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/December

December

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  • 1891James Naismith introduces the first version of basketball, with thirteen rules, a peach basket nailed to either end of his school's gymnasium, and two teams of nine players.

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March

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  • 2006 - Pine Middle School shooting: a fourteen-year-old student at Edward L. Pine Middle School in Reno, Nevada, U.S. shoots and injures two 14-year-old eighth grade classmates with a pistol that had belonged to his parents.

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August

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August 15 Schoolchildren and others across Japan celebrate an annual peace and love day in honor of Sadako Sasaki

September

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September 1, 2004, Beslan school hostage crisis

  • 1st September 1968 saw the first UK Middle School open in Bradford, West Yorkshire
  • 1st September 2000 saw the launch of the General Teaching Councils for England, Wales and Northern Ireland
  • 5th September 1954, Carlton le Willows Grammar School becomes the first Grammar School in England to be established after the Second World War

September 16, 1863, Robert College opens in Istanbul, Turkey

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November

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December

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