To celebrate the International year of chemistry, ACS has many resources including a calendar for the year honoring a historic event for each day. The project is called 365: Chemistry for Life. Some relevent days highlighting organic chemistry include:
January 1, 2011, Day 1: Chemical Abstracts First Publishes in 1907
January 27, 2011, Day 27: F. August Kekulé
February 12, 2011, Day 43: Discovery of Organic Free Radicals
February 22, 2011, Day 53: Friedrich Wöhler
April 5, 2011, Day 95: Morphine
June 3, 2011, Day 154: Robert Woodward