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idea of the day iconTEENS: Consider the major events and causes of tension in a teenager's life: growing up, relationships with boys/girls, parents rowing/splitting up/divorcing, grandparents dying, looking forward to leaving school/home, going to college/university, work, career, older siblings leaving home, moving house, leaving friends behind, making new friends, holidays, difficult teachers, and so on. There are plenty of stories there; you just have to dig deeper to find them.


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Forthcoming anniversaries of historic events for you to write about

A sample of the entries for October from The Date-A-Base Book 2010

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* (200) First Oktoberfest
* (150) First British Open golf championship
* (150) Second Opium War ends
* (100) Los Angeles Times building destroyed by bomb
* (100) Portuguese Revolution
* (100) RMS Olympic launched (sister ship of the Titanic)
* (100) Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen guilty of killing wife, sentenced to death
* (80) British airship R101 crashes in France on maiden voyage
* (80) Military coup in Brazi, President de Sousa ousted
* (75) Italy invades Abyssinia
* (75) Mao Zedong's Long March ends
* (70) WWII: Hitler and Mussolini hold war conference in the Alps
* (70) WWII: German bomb destroys St. Paul's Cathedral altar, London
* (70) WWII: Warsaw Ghetto established in Poland
* (70) WWII: Battle of Britain ends
* (60) Peanuts comic strip debuts
* (60) Korean War: UN troops capture Pyongyang
* (50) Nigeria gains independence from UK
* (50) Britain launches first nuclear submarine, HMS Dreadnought
* (50) Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) wins first professional fight
* (50) UK's first successful kidney transplant
* (40) PBS launches in USA
* (40) Fiji gains independence from UK
* (40) Anwar Sadat becomes President of Egypt
* (40) Doonesbury comic strip debuts
* (30) British council tenants gain right to buy homes
* (30) Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns due to ill health
* (30) Polish Solidarity trade union recognised by government
* (25) Toxteth and Peckham riots in UK
* (25) Tottenham riots in UK
* (20) East and West Germany reunite
* (20) Britain joins Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM)
* (20) S. Africa’s Separate Amenities Act repealed
* (15) OJ Simpson found not guilty of double murder
* (15) Million Man March in Washington, D.C.
* (10) Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic resigns due to vote-rigging
* (10) Hatfield rail crash, UK

Birth anniversaries

(150) Elmer Sperry
(150) Andrew Volstead
(150) Juliette Gordon Low
(100) Bonnie Parker

(100) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
(80) Robert Atkins
(75) Luciano Pavarotti
(70) John Lennon


Death anniversaries

 

(250) King George II
(100) Julia Ward Howe
(100) King Rama V of Siam
(100) Henri Dunant
(60) Al Jolson
(60) King Gustav V of Sweden
(40) Janis Joplin
(30) Hattie Jacques
(30) Hans Asperger

(25) E.B. White
(25) Rock Hudson
(25) Nelson Riddle
(25) Yul Brynner
(25) Orson Welles
(10) Reginald Kray
(10) Donald Dewar
(10) Steve Allen
(10) Ring Lardner, Jr.
Anniversaries for later months are available in these books:

The Date-A-Base Book 2010

The Date-A-Base Book 2010
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The Date-A-Base Book 2011

The Date-A-Base Book 2011
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