= 1st: The Great London Fire begins. It
destroys 80% of London. (1666)
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2nd : Labor Day! No school
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6th: Magellan’s expedition to circumnavigate the globe (1522)
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7th: National Grandparents’ Day!
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8th: New Amsterdam becomes New York
(1664)
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11th: Patriot Day!
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17th: Citizenship Day! The United
States Constitution is signed (1787)
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22nd: President Lincoln issues the
preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
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26th: John “Appleseed” Chapman is born (1774)
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28th: National Good Neighbor Day!
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30th: Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust
survivor, is born (1928)