2013 Event Canada awards Pakistani educational activist Malala Yousafzai honorary citizenship 1996 Death Barry Troyna, teacher/educational sociologist, dies at 44 1971 Death Armand Spitz, developer of small educational planetarium, dies 1967 Event PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network 1963 Death William Edward Burghardt du Bois, educational editor/author, dies 1956 Event 1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama 1953 Event 1st non-commercial educational television station, Houston, Texas 1951 Birthday Barry Troyna, teacher/educational sociologist 1946 Event U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization formed 1922 Event WOI (Ames, Iowa) country's 1st licensed educational radio station 1859 Birthday John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer, Learn by doing 1848 Event Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston 1845 Birthday Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman President, National Educational Association 1818 Event 1st successful U.S. educational magazine "Academician," begins (New York City) 1592 Birthday Jan Amos Komensky, Comenius, Moravian educational reB03281603 Stephan Otto, composer
