Every Year
1690s
1740s
1750s
1770s
1840s
1850s
- BORN 1857: FANNIE FARMER (COOKERY EXPERT)
- 1857: ELISHA GRAVES OTIS INSTALLED THE FIRST COMMERCIAL PASSENGER ELEVATOR, IN NYC STORE
1900s
- BORN 1900: ERIC FROMM (PSYCHOANALYST)
- 1901: OPERA DIVA NELLIE MELBA RECOUNTED HOW SHE PREPARED TOAST, THE ORIGINAL MELBA TOAST
- BORN 1908: JOAN CRAWFORD (ACTRESS)
1910s
- 1911: SS YONGALA SANK IN CYCLONE, NEAR TOWNSVILLE, AUSTRALIA
- BORN 1912: WERNER VON BRAUN (ROCKET SCIENTIST)
1920s
- BORN 1929: ROGER BANNISTER (RUNNER)
- 1929: HERBERT HOOVER BECAME THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO HAVE A TELEPHONE INSTALLED ON HIS DESK
1940s
1950s
- 1950: THE WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION ESTABLISHED BY THE UN
- BORN 1951: RON JAWORSKI (FOOTBALL PLAYER)
- BORN 1952: TEOFILO STEVENSON (BOXER)
- BORN 1953: CHAKA KHAN (SINGER)
- BORN 1955: MOSES MALONE (BASKETBALL PLAYER)
- 1957: U.S. ARMY SOLD ITS LAST HOMING PIGEONS
- BORN 1957: AMANDA PLUMMER (ACTRESS)
1960s
1970s
1980s
- 1983: PRESIDENT REAGAN FIRST PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY TO INTERCEPT ENEMY MISSILES — A PROPOSAL THAT CAME TO BE KNOWN AS THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE, OR STAR WARS
- DIED 1983: BARNEY CLARK (FIRST PERSON TO RECEIVE A PERMANENT ARTIFICIAL HEART)
- 1985: BILLY JOEL MARRIED MODEL CHRISTIE BRINKLEY IN NYC
- 1988: SANDINISTAS AND CONTRAS SIGNED A 60-DAY CEASEFIRE ACCORD
1990s
- 1991: A 1910 HONUS WAGNER BASEBALL CARD WAS SOLD AT A SOTHEBY’S AUCTION FOR $451,000 TO HOCKEY GREAT WAYNE GRETZKY AND LOS ANGELES KINGS OWNER BRUCE MCNALL
- 1994: WAYNE GRETZKY SCORED HIS 802ND CAREER GOAL IN FRONT OF A SELLOUT CROWD AT THE GREAT WESTERN FORUM, TO BREAK THE LEGENDARY GORDIE HOWE’S NHL ALL-TIME GOAL RECORD
2000s
- 2001: MIR SPACE STATION DEORBITED AS PLANNED, FALLING INTO THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN
- DIED 2004: ARTHUR LITHGOW (ACTOR, PRODUCER, AND DIRECTOR WHO WAS A PIONEER IN AMERICAN REGIONAL THEATER)
- 2005: AN OIL REFINERY EXPLOSION OCCURRED IN TEXAS CITY, TEXAS
2010s
- DIED 2011: ELIZABETH TAYLOR (ACTRESS)
- DIED 2015: GARY DAHL (CREATOR OF THE PET ROCK)
- 2016: PENUMBRAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON
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