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Robert and Marie Carson give birth to Rachel Carson May 27, 1907 in Springdale , Pennsylvnia.
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Rachel starts school in Springdale
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Rachel Carson begins to get interested with reading and writing and starts to write poems and stories
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Rachel graduates from Parnassus High School and signs up for Pennsylvania College for Women(today called Chatham College )
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Graduates From Pennsylvania College for Women and and Rachel gets offered to study at the Marine Biological Labratory at Woods Hole,Massachusetts.She sees the ocean for the very first time
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Rachel Carson Gets her Masters Degree for marine biology from John Hopkins University
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Rachel's dad,Robert, dies suddenly
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Rachels joins the Bureau of FIsheries
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The Atlantic Monthly publishes Rachel's article "Undersea".
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Rachel's first book "Under the Sea Wind" is published
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Rachels sends a letter to Readers Digest suggesting that they should write a story about pesticides
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Rachels book "The Sea Around Us" is published and becomes a New York Times Bestseller for 86 weeks
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Rachels goes to Maine and builds a seaside cottage
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Rachel publishes " The Edge of the Sea" which also becomes a bestselller
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Rachel begins to work on learning about pesticide use and documents it
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"Silent Spring" a book about pesticides being used harmfully on plants and killing plants animals, and harmful n animals is published and becomes a bestseller
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Rachel Carson's findings in Silent Spring is supported by John F. Kennedy's Sciens Advisory Committee
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Rachel Carson dies of Breast Cancer and a heart attack
