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Rachel Carson was born in Springdale Pennsylvania.
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Rachel Carson published her first story in St. Nicholas Magazine.
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Rachel Carson attends Pennsylvania College for Women and majors in science.
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Robert Warden Carson, Rachel Carson's father, dies.
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Rachel Carson writes “The World of Water” later published as “Undersea” in The Atlantic Monthly.
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This book is a Naturalist’s Picture of Ocean Life published by Simon & Schuster.
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The Sea Around Us was published by Oxford University Press. Resigns from Government service to write full time.
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Rachel adopts Roger Christie after the death of his mother.
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Silent Spring was published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Carson testifies before the US Senate Committee on Commerce December Awarded the National Audubon Society Medal.
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Rachel Carson dies in Silver Spring, Maryland at age 56.
