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Ideas for Your 4-HClub MeetingsCeremonies • Themes • Skits and Stunts • Games

AUGUST 9 – FrancisScottKey(1780,AuthorofourNationalAnthem,“TheStarSpangled Banner”) 10 – HerbertHoover(thirty-firstPresidentoftheUnitedStates,1929-1933) 17 – DavyCrockett

SEPTEMBER – LaborDay,thefirstMondayinSeptember – National4-HClubWeek 11 – PatriotDay 13 – TheStarSpangledBannerwaswritten,1814. 14 – ConstitutionDay.Onthisdayin1787theConstitutionoftheUnitedStates wascompletedandsigned.

OCTOBER 12 – ColumbusDay 24 – UnitedNationsDay 27 – TheodoreRoosevelt(twenty-sixthPresidentoftheUnitedStates,1901-1909) 31 – Halloween

NOVEMBER – ElectionDay(firstTuesdayafterthefirstMonday) – ThanksgivingDay(FourthThursday) 2 – DanielBoone(Americancolonizerandexplorer,1735) 6 – JohnPhilipSousa,theMarchKing 11 – VeteransDay

DECEMBER 17 – WrightBrothers’firstairplaneflightatKittyHawkin1903 24 – KitCarson(famousAmericanexplorerandIndianfighter) 25 – ChristmasDay 27 – LouisPasteur(Frenchchemist–pasteurization,1882) 28 – WoodrowWilson(twenty-eighthPresidentoftheUnitedStates,1913-1921) 31 – NewYear’sEve

JANUARY – Dr.MartinLutherKingJr.day(thirdMondayinJanuary) 1 – NewYear’sDay 1 – PaulRevere(AmericanPatriot) 1– BetsyRoss(MakeroffirstAmericanFlag) 17 – BenjaminFranklin 19 – RobertE.Lee

FEBUARY 2 – GroundhogDay 12 – AbrahamLincoln,(sixteenthPresidentoftheUnitedStates,1861-1865) 14 – St.Valentine’sDay 22 – GeorgeWashington(firstPresidentoftheUnitedStates,1789-1797) 27 – HenryLongfellow(Americanpoet,educator,linguist) 29 – LeapYearDay

Calendar(Theme Programs)

MARCH – MardiGras(TuesdaybeforeAshWednesday––mayfallinFebruarysomeyears) 3 – AlexanderGrahamBell(1847-1922,Inventorofthetelephone) 17 – St.Patrick’sDay 20 – InternationalEarthDay 23 – PatrickHenrydeliveredfamousspeech(“Givemelibertyorgivemedeath.”)

APRIL – Easter 1 – AprilFool’sDay 13 – ThomasJefferson(thirdPresidentoftheUnitedStates,1801-1809,authorofthe DeclarationofIndependenceandFatherofAmericanDemocracy) 18 – PaulRevere’sride,1775 19 – Patriots’Day 22 – ArborDay 26 – JohnAudubon(famousforstudyingandsketchingAmericanbirds)

MAY – Mother’sDay(SecondSunday) – ArmedForcesDay(ThirdSaturday) 1 – MayDay 12 – FlorenceNightingale(1820-1910,anEnglishwarnurse,thefounderofmodern nursing) 29 – PatrickHenry(Birthday) 30 – MemorialDay

JUNE – Father’sDay(ThirdSundayinJune) 3 – JeffersonDavis(1808-1889,PresidentofConfederacy) 14 – FlagDay(anniversarydatewhentheContinentalCongressformallyadoptedthe StarsandStripesastheflagoftheU.S.A.

JULY 4 – IndependenceDay 20 – Apollo11landsonthemoon,1969.NeilArmstrongisthefirstpersontowalk onthemoon.

Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, WilliamB.Richardson,ChancellorLouisiana Cooperative Extension Service, PaulD.Coreil,ViceChancellorandDirector

Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station, DavidJ.Boethel,ViceChancellorandDirector Pub.1604 7/06

IssuedinfurtheranceofCooperativeExtensionwork,ActsofCongressofMay8andJune30,1914,incooperationwiththeUnitedStatesDepartmentofAgriculture.TheLouisianaCooperativeExtension

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