Valentine Stuff
 

Valentine Coloring Pages

Valentine Day WordSeach Puzzle
Puzzle 1  

Other Valentine Coloring Pages
Valentine Coloring Pages
Virtual Quincy Valentine Pages
Annie’s Valentines History Page
Black Dog’s Valentine Fun and Games
Billy Bear’s Online Valentine Games
Celebrating Valentine's Day with a Kids Heart
Color, Cut out and Play the Matching Game with these Valentine Cards
Decode this Valentine Math Message
Print and Color Valentines
History of the Valentine’s Day Card
Valentine Envelopes
Print and Color Valentines
Valentine Crafts from Crafty Kids
Valentine Envelopes
Valentine Day History and Facts

February Calendar

February 1
1923 Ethyl gasoline first marketed, Dayton OH
1942 US auto factories switch from commercial to war production

February 3
1690 First paper money in America issued (colony of Massachusetts)
The Money Factory, Games and Activities Using Money   Bogus Bucks Fun Activity
Face Value, Do You Know What Your Money Looks Like? Spot the Imposter

1783 Spain recognizes US independence
1836 Whig Party holds its first national convention (Albany NY)
1864 Sherman's march through Georgia
1870 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed
1919 League of Nations first meeting (Paris)
1966 First operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched (US)
1966 First soft landing on the Moon (Soviet Luna 9)

February 4
1789 first electoral college chooses Washington & Adams as President & Vice President
1865 Robert E Lee is named commander-in-chief of Confederate Army
1945 FDR, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta
1957 first electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)
1964 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax

February 5
1736 Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah GA
1778 Articles of Confederation ratified by first state, South Carolina
1817 First US gas company incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)
1850 Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz NY
1870 first motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia
1901 Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp
1922 Reader's Digest magazine first published
1936 National Wildlife Federation forms
1972 US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage

February 6
1508 Maximilian I crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1778 England declares war on France
1865 Robert E Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief
1869 Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers
1891 1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)
1933 20th Amendment goes into effect; Presidential term begins in Jan not March

February 7
Charles Dickens Day
Who Was Charles Dickens
Detailed Information about Charles Dickens
1905 Oklahoma admitted to statehood

February 8
1861 Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery AL
1924 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago
1926 Walt Disney Studios is formed

February 9
1863 Fire extinguisher patented by Alanson Crane
1867 Nebraska becomes 37th US state
1861 Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & Vice President of CSA
1877 US weather service established
1945 US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla
1963 first flight of Boeing 727 jet

February 10
1947 WWII peace treaties signed

February 11
1847 Thomas Edision was born
1807 US Coast Survey authorized by Congress

February 12
1809 Abraham Lincoln was born Hodgenville, Hardin County, Kentucky
Overview of Lincoln's Life

1733 Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah

February 13
1693 College of William & Mary opens
1832 first appearance of cholera at London
1867 Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna
1895 Moving picture projector patented
1924 King Tut's tomb opened
1943 Women's Marine Corps created

February 14
Valentine's Day
Valentine Coloring Pages
Valentine Crafts from Crafty Kids
Black Dog's Valentine Fun and Games
Valentine Envelopes
Print and Color Valentines
Billy Bear's Online Valentine Games
Decode this Valentine Math Message
Annie's Valentines History Page
Child Fun Valentine E-cards
About Valentine's Day
History of Valentine's Day

February 15
1799 first US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania
1820 Susan B Anthony was born
1929 St Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago)

February 16
1659 first known check (£400) (on display at Westminster Abbey)
1878 Silver dollar became US legal tender
1933 first issue of "Newsweek" magazine published
1883 "Ladies Home Journal" begins publication
1914 first airplane flight to Los Angeles from San Francisco

February 17
1621 Miles Standish appointed first commander of Plymouth colony
1817 first US city lit by gas (Baltimore)
1818 Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine" (early bicycle)
1865 Columbia SC burns down during the Civil War
1867 first ship passes through Suez Canal

February 18
1688 Quakers conduct first formal protest of slavery in Germantown PA
1885 Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" published
1908 first US postage stamps in coils issued
1927 US & Canada begin diplomatic relations

Pluto Discovered February 18, 1930
Pluto the Frozen Planet
About Pluto
Solar System Guide - Pluto
The Nine Planets - Pluto
Photo Journal of Pluto

February 19
1807 Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent
1831 first practical US coal-burning locomotive makes first trial run, Pennsylvania
1846 Texas state government formally installed in Austin
1856 Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier OH
1878 Thomas Alva Edison patents the gramophone (phonograph)

February 22
George Washington's Birthday
George Washington - Biography
George Washington, Early Life and Career
Historic Mount Vernon
George Washington - Valley Forge
George Washington National Monument

February 26
Purium

February 27
Polar Bear Day
Polar Bears - The Bear Facts
Polar World