Educators' Calendar: United States

February 2026

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National Freedom Day Robinson Crusoe Day Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster (2003)	Groundhog Day World Wetlands Day Girls & Women in Sports Day Mexican-American War Ended (1848)	15th Amendment Signed (Black Americans Right to Vote) (1868)	World Cancer Day First U.S. Presidential Election (1789) Confederacy Formed (1861) Activist Rosa Parks's Birthday (1913)	National Weatherperson's Day Baseball Player Hank Aaron's Birthday (1934)	2026 Winter Olympics Begin Baseball Player Babe Ruth's Birthday (1895) Queen Elizabeth II Crowned (1952) Feb. 6-10 School Counseling Week	Love Your Robot Day Author Charles Dickens's Birthday (1812) Tattooing Machine Introduced (1875)
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Kite Day Author Jules Verne's Birthday (1828) Russo-Japanese War Began (1904) NASDAQ Debuted (1971)	Super Bowl Sunday Toothache Day National Weather Service Established (1870) Hershey's^® Chocolate Founded (1894)	Umbrella Day Treaty of Paris Signed Ending French and Indian War (1763)	Steamboat Patented (1809) Inventor Thomas Edison's Birthday (1847) First Weekly Weather Report (1878) Nelson Mandela Freed (1990)	Red Hand Day Naturalist Charles Darwin's Birthday (1809) Pres. Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (1809) NAACP Founded (1909)	First Public School Founded in U.S. (1635) Strauss's Blue Danube Premiered (1867)	Valentine's Day Read to Your Child Day Oregon Admission Day (1859) Arizona Admission Day (1912)
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Susan B. Anthony Day Scientist Galileo Galilei's Birthday (1564) Muhammad Ali Lost Boxing Title (1978)	World Read Aloud Day King Tutankhamen's Tomb Opened (1923) Nylon Patented (1937) Fidel Castro Became Leader of Cuba (1959)	Presidents' Day National PTA Founders Day Last Classic VW Beetle Assembled (1972)	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Published (1885) Pluto Discovered (1930)	Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus's Birthday (1473) FDR Authorized Japanese Internment (1942) U.S. Marines Went Ashore at Iwo Jima (1945)	Metropolitan Museum of Art Opened in NYC (1872) "Batman & Robin" Comic Debuted (1944)	International Mother Language Day Peace Symbol Designed (1958) Malcolm X Assassinated (1965)
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2026 Winter Olympics End World Thinking Day Pres. George Washington's Birthday (1732) Spain Ceded Florida to the U.S. (1819) Woolworth Opened First "Five Cent Store" (1879)	Santa Anna Began Siege of the Alamo (1836) The Tootsie Roll Debuted (1896)	Author Wilhelm Carl Grimm's Birthday (1786) First Uranus "Flyby" by Voyager 2 (1986)	Maha Shivratri First African-American Elected to U.S. Senate (1870) Glacier Bay (Alaska) Proclaimed a National Monument (1925)	Tell a Fairy Tale Day Author Victor Hugo's Birthday (1802) Grand Canyon National Park Established (1919) Feb. 26-32 Eating Disorders Awareness Week	Polar Bear Day 15th Recorded Passage of Halley's Comet (837) Poet H.W. Longfellow's Birthday (1807)	DNA Discovered (1953) Computer Core Memory Patented (1956)

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