Archived Sites of the Month

2004

• March - St. Patrick, Holi, Mardi Gras, Taxes, Women's History Month, and National Nutrition Month. Historical Events - Vasaloppet Ski Race, Pi Day, Birthdays - Dr. Seuss, Alexander Graham Bell, Mikhail Gorbachev, Antiono Vivaldi, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Piet Mondriaan, Maurice Ravel, Michael Caine, Rudolph Nureyev, John Updike, akira Kurosawa, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Norah Jones.
• February - Black History Month, Chinese New Year, Leap Year, Washington's and Lincoln's Birthdays, St. Valentine's Day, San Francisco Crab Festival, AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Course Info, Ground Hog Day, Setsubun, Darwin Day Maha Shivaratri, and Candlemas; Historical Events - Waitangi Day; Birthdays - Ayn Rand, Gertrude Stein, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Rosa Parks, Betty Friedan, Frederick Douglass, Eubie Blake, Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Toni Morrison, Smokey Robinson, Barbara C. Jordan, George Washington, W.E.B.Dubois, Winslow Homer and Fats Domino.
• January - Martin Luther King Day, The Super Bowl,Taxes; Historical Events - Abraham Lincoln issues the Emanciaption Proclamation, Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England, Hawaiian monarchy overthrown by America, Louis XVI of France executed, Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the US, graduates, Republic of India is born; Birthdays -Betsy Ross, J. D. Salinger, Isaac Asimov, J. R. R. Tolkein, Diane Keaton, Joan of Arc, Carl Sandburg, Khalili Gibran, Zora Neale Hurston, Steven Hawking, Jack London, Anton Checkhov.

2003

• December - What To Do This Holiday Season, In The Giving Spirit, Holiday Histories, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Solstice, For the Whole Family, Pearl Harbor Day, Nobel Prize; Historical Events - Pearl Harbor Day, Santa Lucia Day, and the Battle of Wounded Knee; Birthdays - Rosa Parks, Raoul Wallenberg, Mata Hari, Ogden Nash, Bill Clinton, Oliver Hazard Perry, C.S. Forester, Mother Teresa and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
• November - Election Day, America Recycles Day, American Education Week, Thanksgiving Day, Native American Heritage Month and Ramadan. Historical Events: All Hallows or Saints' Day, Dias de Muertos, or, Day of the Dead, Totensonntag, or, Dead Sunday German day for remembrance of the dead, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Birthdays: Daniel Boone, Albert Camus, Joan Sutherland, Bram Stoker, Martin Luther, Friedrich von Schiller, Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Robert Louis Stevenson, Georgia O'Keefe, Robert F. Kennedy, Voltaire, Louisa May Alcott and Sir Winston Churchill.
• October - Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, National Reading Group Month, Vegetarian Month, Baseball, National Latino Heritage Month, Dia de los Muertos, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Fire Prevention Week, National Metic Week, Teen Read Week. Historical Events: Reunification of Germany, Founding of the American Library Association and the Battle of Trafalgar. Birthdays: Jimmy Carter, Mahatma Gandhi and Eleanor Roosevelt.
• September - College Football, September 11, For Teachers (and the curious), Back to School. Birthdays: Richard Wright, James Fenimore Cooper, Stephen King and F. Scott Fitzgerald Holidays: Labor Day, Respect for the Aged Day - Japan, The first Day of Autumn, and Jewish High Holy Days.
• August - Children’s Programs at PLS Libraries, Farmers’ Markets, Fairs, Travel. Birthdays: William Clark, P. D. James, Raoul Wallenberg, Neil Armstrong, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Garrison Keillor, Betty Boop, Alex Haley, Annie Oakley, Fidel Castro, Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), Georgette Heyer, Coco Chanel, Paul Tillich, C. S. Forester, Leo Tolstoy, William Saroyan. Anniversaries: American Bandstand debuts nationally, Woodstock, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speach in Washington, D.C.
• July - Independence Day, Children's Programs at PLS Libraries, Farmers' Markets, Fairs, Travel. Anniversaries: the Battle of Gettysburg; signing of the Declaration of Independence; the first atomic bomb detonated in Alamagordo, New Mexico; World War I began in 1914. Birthdays: Robert Heinlein, E. B. White, Peggy Parish, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Newberry, Robert Quackenbush, Beatrix Potter, Booth Tarkington, and J. K. Rowling.
• June - Accordion Awareness Month, Gay and Lesbian Pride Sites, Fairs, the U.S. Open, Farmers’ Markets ,the Great Outdoors in California, Rose Month; celebration of King Kamehameha Day and Juneteenth; anniversary of Watergate; birthdays for Allen Ginsberg, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lou Gehrig, Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charlotte Zolotow.