DU's Calendar of Democratic Milestones, Birthdays, and other Days to Remember

[Muttocracy]

This came up on another thread for Howard Dean's birthday today. Joe Biden's is coming up soon too. I said there ought to be a calendar of dates for us all to remember...so here goes - suggest your Democratic birthdays, historical milestones, elections, days of celebration, days of remembrance...etc.

I'll post a bunch of months in reply to this and then we can "file" replies by month, so hang on...

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1. January 1 - 15

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30. Jan 15 - Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday

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2. January 16 - 31

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33. Jan 30: FDR's birthday

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48. Jan 17 - Michelle Obama's birthday

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3. February 1 - 14

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44. Feb. 1, 1960

Four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they'd been refused service.

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56. oh, good, I was hoping someone would add some civil rights dates. nt

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45. February 1, 1878

Hattie O. Caraway

First female U.S. senator

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46. February 3

Paul Sarbanes
U.S. senator, D-Md.

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49. February 5, 1900

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

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50. February 6, 2000

Hillary Rodham Clinton launched her successful candidacy for the U.S. Senate.

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52. February 8, 1996

On Feb. 8, 1996, in a ceremony at the Library of Congress, President Clinton signed legislation revamping the telecommunications industry, saying it would "bring the future to our doorstep

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54. February 1, 1872

Jerome Francis Donovan was a Democratic United States Representative from New York.

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57. February 10, 1989

Ron Brown was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first black to head a major U.S. political party.

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4. February 15 - 28

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5. February 22 - Ted Kennedy's birthday

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6. March 1 - 15

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7. March 16 - 31

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36. March 31 - Al Gore's birthday

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8. April 1 - 15

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9. April 16 - 30

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10. May 1 - 15

[ColbertWatcher]

51. May 13 - Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A's birthday!

http://www.wikiality.com/Stephen_Colbert%27s_Birthday

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11. May 16 - 31

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12. June 1 - 15

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13. June 16 - 30

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14. July 1 - 15

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15. July 16 - 31

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16. August 1 - 15

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28. August 4 - Barack Obama's birthday

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17. August 16 - 31

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35. August 19 - Bill Clinton's birthday

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53. August 26, 1920

Tennessee ratifies the 19th Amendement to the US Constitution, finally giving women in the US the right to vote.

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18. September 1 - 15

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19. September 16 - 30

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20. October 1 - 15

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37. October 1 - Jimmy Carter's birthday

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21. October 16 - 31

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47. 10/25/2002 Paul Wellstone's death

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22. November 1 - 15

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43. November 4, 2008 -- Historic Presidential Election in America

and a day of joyous celebration around the world.

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23. November 16 - 30

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26. Nov 17 - Howard Dean's Birthday

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27. Nov 20 - Joe Biden's birthday

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31. Nov 22

JFK assassinated

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24. December 1 - 15

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55. Dec. 12, 2000

The day the Supreme Court handed Bush the presidency and set us off an disastrous eight years.
Never forget.

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25. December 16 - 31

[piedmont]

29. delete-- filed in the wrong place

[Muttocracy]

32. that's OK - this is a rough draft :)

[Lavender Brown]

34. URL of Dem calendar - we can add dates as we go along

http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=liberalcalendar%40gmail.com&ctz=America/New_York

Let me know what you think :)

[ColbertWatcher]

40. SWEET! Thank you!

I posted a bunch of names to look up and add to your calendar!

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38. List of names to look up

Bill Clinton

Hillary Clinton

barney Frank

Nancy Pelosi

Harry Reid

Rahm Emanuel

France

Helen Thomas

Jon Stewart

Stephen Colbert

Al Gore

Michael Moore

George Clooney

Ben Affleck

Jane Fonda

Oprah Winfrey

Al Franken

Barbara Lee

Keith Olberman

Cindy Sheehan

John Kerry

Wesley Clark

Willie Nelson

Amy Goodman

Frank Rich

Susan Sarandon

Tim Robbins

[ColbertWatcher]

39. More Names to look up ...

David Souter

Thurgood Marshall

Rosa Parks

Jimmy Carter

Rosalyn Carter

Andy Stern

David Cross

Rachel Maddow

Robert Byrd

Teddy Kennedy

Ron Reagan Jr.

Bobby Kennedy

Bobby Jr

Alec Baldwin

Patrick Leahy

John Murtha

James Carville

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Edward R. Murrow.

Dick Drubin

Dennis Kucinich

Bill Moyers

Howard Zinn

Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson, Jr.

Danny Glover

Kanye West

Kurt Vonnegut

Thom Hartmann

Eleanor Roosevelt

Harriet Tubman

Mother Jones

Rachel Carson

Gavin Newsom

Barbara Ehrenreich

Ed Begley, Jr.

Jennifer Granholm

David Plouffe

David Axelrod

[Lavender Brown]

41. I added a bunch of your names

I'll put in more tomorrow.

[ColbertWatcher]

42. Wow, thank you! I had to step out. I'll add some tomorrow. n/t