Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries

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Candidates

 * Category:Disasters in schools
 * events by day and month starting with January 1

February

 * February 27, 1999 - Korea International School is founded in South Korea by Soon-Il Chung. It is currently directed by Ann Clapper.
 * February 28, 1958 – A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in what remains the worst school bus accident in U.S. history.

March
14th
 * 2006 - Pine Middle School shooting: a fourteen-year-old student at Edward L. Pine Middle School in Reno, Nevada, U.S. shoots and injures two 14-year-old eighth grade classmates with a pistol that had belonged to his parents.

May

 * May 5, 1586, The senate of Jagiellonian University proposes the creation of Bartłomiej Nowodworski High School in Kraków, Poland.
 * May 6, 1860 St Patrick's High School in Karachi, Pakistan is established.
 * Note: the anniversary of Royal College, Colombo is under July for space reasons, but the following event is highly notable: on May 22, 1972, the National State Assembly of Sri Lanka met at the Navarangahala at Royal College, Colombo, and finalised and approved the Republic Constitution, thereby proclaimed establishment of the Republic of Sri Lanka.

August
August 15 Schoolchildren and others across Japan celebrate an annual peace and love day in honor of Sadako Sasaki

September
September 1, 2004, Beslan school hostage crisis September 16, 1863, Robert College opens in Istanbul, Turkey
 * 1st September 1968 saw the first UK Middle School open in Bradford, West Yorkshire
 * 1st September 2000 saw the launch of the General Teaching Councils for England, Wales and Northern Ireland
 * 5th September 1954, Carlton le Willows Grammar School becomes the first Grammar School in England to be established after the Second World War

October

 * October 11, 1906 - San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
 * October 12, 1892 - The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited in unison by students in US public schools.
 * October 21, 1816 - The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
 * October 21, 1966 - Aberfan disaster: A coal tip falls on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
 * October 25, 1995 - A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.

November
1st
 * 1886 - Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka was established with 37 students.

7th
 * 2007 - Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.

15th
 * Austria - Saint Leopold's day -- no school in Vienna, Lower Austria and Upper Austria

18th
 * 1917 - Sigma Alpha Rho (SAR), oldest, continuously run, independent Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

26th
 * 2004 - Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.

December
4th
 * 2006 - Racial tension peaks at Jena High School in Jena, Louisiana, United States when a group of six African American teenagers attack a White American student.

4th
 * 1979 - In England, The Hastie fire in Hull kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.

18th
 * 1996 - The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect.