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"Selected anniversaries of the month" archive
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January
- Catholic Schools Week starts on the last Sunday of January.
6th
- 1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome.
12th
- 1888 – In Nebraska, teacher Minnie Freeman leads thirteen children from her schoolhouse to safety during the Schoolhouse Blizzard.
17th
- 1989 – Stockton massacre: Patrick Purdy opens fire with an assault rifle at the Cleveland Elementary School playground in California, killing five children and wounding 29 others and one teacher before taking his own life.
28th
- 1986 – Christa McAuliffe, a teacher at Concord High School (New Hampshire), dies in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/February
February
- 1572 – Harrow School is founded under the Royal Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth I to John Lyon, a local farmer.
9th
- 2001 - American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fisheries High School.
15th
- 1905 – Victoria, Australia's first state secondary school, the Melbourne Continuation School, opens with 135 girls and 68 boys. It now exists as Melbourne High School and Mac.Robertson Girls' High School
20th
- 1944 – The buildings of Thomasschule zu Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany are destroyed during Big Week or Operation Argument as part of the European strategic bombing campaign against the Third Reich during World War II.
Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/March
March
3rd
- 1887 – Teacher Anne Sullivan meets Helen Keller for the first time in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
18th
- 1887 – The first public secondary school in Thailand, Suankularb Wittayalai School, is established by King Chulalongkorn.
13th
- 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.
18th
- 1937 – A natural gas leak causes an explosion, destroying the New London School of the city of New London, Texas. The disaster kills in excess of 295 students and teachers, making it the worst catastrophe to take place in a U.S. school building.
Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/April
April
20th
- 1999 – Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold embarks on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School, killing 12 students and a teacher, as well as wounding 23 others, before committing suicide. It is the fourth-deadliest school killing in United States history.
23rd
- 1635 – Boston Latin School, the oldest public school in the United States, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts
25th
- 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he reads a letter in which she expresses fears about nuclear war.
Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/May
May
17th
- 1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a decision for Brown v. Board of Education, overturning earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, and declaring that state laws that established separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities.
18th
- 1927 – School board member Andrew Kehoe sets up a series of bombs in a Bath Township, Michigan elementary school, killing 45 people and injuring 58. The bombings were the deadliest act of mass murder in a school in U.S. history and became known as the Bath School disaster.
29th
- 1966 – A group of students at the Tsinghua University Middle School in China use the name Red Guards to sign two big-character posters issued on 29 May. The name would eventually become the label for students and other young people in the People's Republic of China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong between 1966 and 1968, during the Cultural Revolution.
Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/June
June
5th
- 1823 – Raffles Institution, the oldest school in Singapore, is founded by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.
19th
- 1987 – In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania rules against the Dover Area School District, holding that teaching intelligent design in public school biology classes violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
30th
- 1857 – Britain calls on the schoolboys of La Martiniere Lucknow to aid in the residency's defence during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Because of their contributions, La Martiniere Lucknow is the only school in the world to have been awarded royal battle honours
Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/July
July
21st
- 1922 – Institut Le Rosey's first alumni association, the "Old Rosey Association," is created in Switzerland
- 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.
29th
- 1988 – The Education Reform Act of 1988 is introduced into England, Wales and Northern Ireland, ensuring that state schools of all Local Education Authorities have a common curriculum.
31st
- 1881 – Permission is received from Her Majesty Queen Victoria to rename Colombo Academy and Queens College in Sri Lanka to Royal College, Colombo
Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/August
August
- In the United States, August is National Back to School Month.
- Filipino schools and theaters celebrate Filipino Language Month ("Buwan ng Wika") in August.
15th
- 1949 – Reconstruction of Rizal High School in the Philippines, the largest secondary school in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is completed after the original building was destroyed from carpet-bombing by American Liberation Forces during World War II.
29th
- 2005 – Hurricane Katrina damages or destroys more than 100 of the 128 school buildings under the school district New Orleans Public Schools.
Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/September
September
7th
- 1992 – The first Charter School in the United States, City Academy High School, opens in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
10th
- 2002 – Business Academy Bexley in the London Borough of Bexley, England, is the first British school to open under the Academy programme, independently run secondary schools that receive public funding.
21st
- 1949 – Britain's first comprehensive school, Holyhead County School (now renamed Holyhead High School), opens in Wales.
23rd
- 1957 – President Dwight Eisenhower orders a battle group of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division to escort nine students into Little Rock Central High School. This enforcement of Brown v. Board of Education is considered to be one of the most important events in the Civil Rights Movement.
Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/October
October
1st
- 1829 - South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
6th
- 1851 – Scotch College, an independent, Presbyterian, day and boarding school for boys opens in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
18th
- 1976 – James Callaghan gives a speech at Ruskin College, Oxford, starting what has since become known as 'The Great Debate', and eventually leading to the introduction of the National Curriculum into England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
31st
- 1950 – The program on Halloween known as "Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF" starts in a Philadelphia suburb.
Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/November
November
2nd
- 1878 – Phillips Academy plays a game of football against Phillips Exeter Academy, starting one of the oldest high school football rivalries in the United States
10th
- 1900 – Kyunggi High School, the oldest modern secondary school in Korea, opens in South Korea under an edict by King Gojong
20th
- 1959 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, later the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, and is often the day chosen by countries as their designated day to observe Universal Children's Day.
28th
- 1966 – The Plowden Report reviews Primary education in England in a wholesale fashion.
Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/December
December
1st
- 1958 – A fire breaks out at the Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois, killing a total of 92 pupils and 3 nuns. The severity of the fire shocks the United States and leads to major improvements in standards for school design and fire safety codes.
5th
- 1884 - Moose Jaw School District #1 and Qu'Appelle School District #2 were formally established Dec. 5, 1884 under the new Board of Education for the North West Territories, Canada
15th
- 1891 – James 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.
20th
- 2005 – US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of "intelligent design" in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.
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[edit]February
[edit]- February 27, 1999 - Korea International School is founded in South Korea by Soon-Il Chung. It is currently directed by Ann Clapper.
- February 28, 1958 – A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in what remains the worst school bus accident in U.S. history.
March
[edit]14th
- 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.
May
[edit]- May 5, 1586, The senate of Jagiellonian University proposes the creation of Bartłomiej Nowodworski High School in Kraków, Poland.
- May 6, 1860 St Patrick's High School in Karachi, Pakistan is established.
- Note: the anniversary of Royal College, Colombo is under July for space reasons, but the following event is highly notable: on May 22, 1972, the National State Assembly of Sri Lanka met at the Navarangahala at Royal College, Colombo, and finalised and approved the Republic Constitution, thereby proclaimed establishment of the Republic of Sri Lanka.
August
[edit]August 15 Schoolchildren and others across Japan celebrate an annual peace and love day in honor of Sadako Sasaki
September
[edit]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
October
[edit]- October 11, 1906 - San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
- October 12, 1892 - The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited in unison by students in US public schools.
- October 21, 1816 - The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
- October 21, 1966 - Aberfan disaster: A coal tip falls on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
- October 25, 1995 - A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
November
[edit]1st
- 1886 - Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka was established with 37 students.
7th
- 2007 - Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
15th
- Austria - Saint Leopold's day -- no school in Vienna, Lower Austria and Upper Austria
18th
- 1917 - Sigma Alpha Rho (SAR), oldest, continuously run, independent Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
26th
- 2004 - Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
December
[edit]4th
- 2006 - Racial tension peaks at Jena High School in Jena, Louisiana, United States when a group of six African American teenagers attack a White American student.
4th
- 1979 - In England, The Hastie fire in Hull kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.
18th
- 1996 - The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect.