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Every Year

• FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (CELEBRATED IN MANY CATHOLIC COUNTRIES)

1760s

• BORN 1765: ELI WHITNEY (INVENTOR)

1880s

• 1886: AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR IS ORGANIZED AT COLUMBUS, OHIO, WITH SAMUEL GOMPERS AS FIRST PRESIDENT
• BORN 1886: DIEGO RIVERA (ARTIST)

1890s

• BORN 1894: ELZIE CRISLER SEGAR (POPEYE CREATOR)

1900s

• 1909: AMERICAN BIRD BANDING ASSOCIATION FORMED, FIRST SUCH SOCIETY IN U.S.

1910s

• 1911: THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GAVE ITS FIRST CONCERT
• 1915: JOHN MCCRAE’S IN FLANDERS FIELDS POEM WAS PUBLISHED

1920s

• BORN 1925: SAMMY DAVIS, JR. (ENTERTAINER)

1930s

• BORN 1933: FLIP WILSON (COMEDIAN)

1940s

• 1941: U.S. DECLARED WAR ON JAPAN (WW II)
• BORN 1943: JIM MORRISON (LEAD SINGER OF THE DOORS)

1950s

• BORN 1953: KIM BASINGER (ACTRESS)

1960s

• 1962: NINE N.Y.C. NEWSPAPERS SHUT DOWN WHEN INTERNATIONAL TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION WORKERS STRIKE
• DIED 1967: MAJOR ROBERT LAWRENCE, THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN ASTRONAUT, WAS KILLED DURING TRAINING EXERCISES

1970s

• BORN 1976: DOMINIC MONAGHAN (ACTOR)
• BORN 1978: IAN SOMERHALDER (ACTOR)

1980s

• DIED 1980: JOHN LENNON (MUSICIAN, FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE BEATLES)
• 1980: MUSICIAN AND FORMER BEATLE JOHN LENNON WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN NEW YORK CITY

1990s

• 1991: RUSSIAN LEADERS ANNOUNCED THE DISSOLUTION OF THE SOVIET UNION
• BORN 1993: ANNASOPHIA ROBB (ACTRESS)
• 1994: ELEMENT 111, ROENTGENIUM, FIRST CREATED

2010s

• DIED 2016: JOHN GLENN (ASTRONAUT, FIRST AMERICAN TO ORBIT EARTH)
• DIED 2019: CAROLL SPINNEY (PUPPETEER; BEST KNOWN FOR BIG BIRD AND OSCAR THE GROUCH)
• 2019: AT THREE ANHEUSER-BUSCH PROPERTIES (MERRIMACK, NEW HAMPSHIRE; ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI; AND FORT COLLINS, COLORADO) 896 COUPLES GATHERED TO KISS UNDER THE MISTLETOE, SETTING A NEW GUINNESS WORLD RECORD

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