JULY
National Ice-cream Month in US declared by Ronald Reagon in 1984
Ice-cream Recipes
July 4 - US Independence Day;
Canada Day
July 7 - Chocolate Day
July 10 - Sunil Gavaskar, Indian Cricketer Born 1949
July 12 - Julius Caesar, Roman General Born
July 15 - Rembrandt, Dutch Painter born 1606
July 25- George Stephenson first successfully demonstrated a Steam locomotive in
England, 1814
July 26-George Bernard Shaw, English Playwright Born 1856
July 27 - Aldous Leonard Huxley Born
July 30- Henry Ford, American Car Manufacturer born, 1863
Birthstone-Ruby
Special July Flower-Water Lily
JUNE
1 -
Helen Keller
dies, 1968
-John Masefield, British writer born, 1878
- Sir Frank Whittle, British Inventor of Jet Engine, born 1907
4 - Aesop's Birthday
5 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist & Author (Wealth of Nations) Born, 1723
- World Environment Day
6 - D Day in World War II
- Sweden Flag day
- German Author, Nobel Prize winner, Thomas Mann born, 1875
9 - George Stephenson born, (Founder of Railways) 1781
11 - Ben Jonson, English poet and playwright, born 1572
- Richard Strauss, German Composer born, 1864
12 - Anne Frank Born
1929
- George Bush, President of US, born 1924
- Philippines Independence day
13 - William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet and playwright born, 1865
14 - National Flag Day (US)
16 -
Ford
Motor company founded, 1903
18 - Paul Maccartney (Beatles) born
19 - Blaise Pascal, French philosopher, mathematician and scientist, born,
1623
19 (India)-20 - Father's Day (first sunday)
21 - Jean Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, born 1905
22 - US actress Meryl Streep born, 1949
23 - Carl Milles, Swedish sculptor, born 1875
27 - Hellen Keller Born, 1880
28 - King Henry VII born
June Quotes
"And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it solftly, her warm ear
lays;
Whether we look, or whether we listen,
We hear life murmur, or see it glisten"
- James Russell Lowell
No Price is
set on the lavish summer, June may be had by the poorest comer.
- James Russell Lowell
June symbols
Rose
is the special flower
Gems are pearl, alexandrite and moonstone
MAY
6 National Teachers Day
- Appreciation Day
15 International Day of Families
Asparagus Month
1 - MAY DAY
Gujarat Day
2 - Leonardo Da Vinci died, 1519
4 - First Derby, an important English Horse Race, 1780
5 - Childrens' Day in Japan
* Karl Marx, born 1818
* Napolean Died, 1821
-Cartoon day
6 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychoanalysis, born 1856
7 - Rabindranath Tagore Born 1861
8 - Mother's day
9 - First Newspaper Cartoon in US, 1754
12 - Edward Lear, born 1812 (English writer & artist)
Bertrand Russell British Philosopher born 1872
- Florence Nightingale born, 1820
15 - International Day of Families
21 - Alexander Pope, English poet born 1688
22 - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes creator, born
1859
24 - Queen Victoria Born, 1819
25 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Essayist & Poet born 1803
29 - John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S.President born 1917
30 - First flight by hovercraft, 1959
31 - Walt Whitman, American poet born 1819
"Hail, bounteous May, that dot inspire,
Mirth and youth and
warm desire;
Woods and groves are of thy dressing,
Hill and dale doth boast thy
blessing" - John Milton
May Birthstone: Emerald
Flowers: Hawthorn and Lily
April
1 - April
Fool's Day
2 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer of Fairy tales born 1805
6 -
Robert Peary
reached what he claimed North Pole
7 - St. Francis Xavier born in spain 1506
*
World Health Day
8 - Buddha's Birthday celebrated in Japan
* Flower Festival in Japan
10 - US Journalist Joseph Pulitzer born 1847
12 - Yuri Gagarin orbits Earth
15 - Titanic Sank, 1912
* Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Painter, Sculptor & Scientist born 1452
20 - Adolf Hitler, German Dictator born 1889
21 - Rome founded as per Tradition 753 BC
*
Friedrich Froebel, German founder of the kindergarten system born 1782
23 - William Shakespeare Born 1564 & same day died
1616
* St. George's Day
* World Book Day
-
World Book Copyright Day
24 - Astronomy Day
Arbor Day
30 - Adolf Hitler commited suicide 1945
Flowers of April
Sweet pea and daisy
Birthstone
Diamond
"The first of April,
some do say, Is set apart for All Fool's Day; But why the people call it so, Nor I, nor
they themselves do know"
- Poor Robin's Almanac, 1760
When proud April, dressed in
all his trim
Has put a spirit of youth in everything
- Shakespeare
MARCH
2010
2 - Dr. Seuss, Author born 1904
6-Italian
Artist Michelangelo born 1475
-E-B. Browing, English Poet born
1806
7-Alexander Graham Bell patented Telephone 1876
8 - Women's Day |
International Women's Day
2009
9 - Barbie's Birthday (1959
when it made its debut at a Toy Fair in New York)
12 - Gandhiji leads Disobedience March - Dandi March
13-St.Patrick's Day
14-Johann Strauss, Austrian
composer born 1804
15-Julius Ceaser Assasinated, 44BC
21-Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer born 1685
- Children's Poetry Day
22 - World Day for Water
23-Pakistan National Day
25-Greece Independence Day
26-Robert Frost, American Poet
born 1874
30 - Vincent Van Gogh 1853
Quote
The stormy March has come at last,
With wind and cloud and
changing skies;
I hear the rushing of the blast
That through
the snowy valley flies.
-William Cullen Bryant
The Year's at the
spring, And day's at the morn; God's in his Heaven-All's
right with the world!
-Robert Frost
Flower:Violet
Did
you Know?
It is said:March comes like a Lion and goes out like a Lamb.
This means that the first day of March is stormy and last
day is mild and warm. It is also said March winds follows
April showers.
February
4 Sri Lanka Independence Day
6 Ronald Reagan,
President
of US, Born 1911
7 Charles Dickens Born,1812
British Novelist
8 Jules Verne, French novelist, born 1828
11 Thomas Edison, American inventor born, 1847
12
Abraham Lincoln, President of US, born, 1809
14 Valentine's Day
15
Galileo, Italian Astronomer and Physicist, born 1564
17-Sidney Sheldon, Author born 1917
20 British poet W.H.Auden born, 1907
22 George Washington, first
president of us, born 1732
24 Winslow Homer, American Painter, born 1836
26 Victor Hugo, French poet and
novelist, born 1802
27 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American Poet born 1807
Did
You Know?
The
Roman Catholic Church celebrates February 2 as Candlemas
Day. The candles used in the church during the rest of the
year are blessed on Feb 2.
In
the US, Feb 2 is known as Ground Hog Day, from the old
belief that the ground Hog, or woodchunk, comes out of its
burrow to see whether the sun is shining so than the animals
begins its springtime activities
Quote
- Feb
"Thirty
days hath September, April, June and November; All the rest
have thirty-one, Excepting February alone Which hath but
twenty eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it Twenty
Nine"
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