1630s
1740s
- BORN 1741: BENEDICT ARNOLD (GENERAL IN U. S. REVOLUTIONARY WAR)
- DIED 1742: EDMOND HALLEY (ASTRONOMER)
1790s
1810s
1840s
1870s
1880s
1890s
1940s
1950s
1960s
- DIED 1965: JEANETTE MACDONALD (SINGER)
- BORN 1968: LL COOL J (RAPPER & ACTOR)
- BORN 1969: JASON BATEMAN (ACTOR)
1970s
1980s
2000s
- 2005: THE FIRST PROBE TO LAND ON SATURN’S MOON, TITAN, SIGNALED IT SURVIVED ITS DESCENT. THE HUYGENS SPACE PROBE WAS DESIGNED TO LAST ONLY MINUTES ON TITAN’S SURFACE, BUT SURPASSED THE EXPECTATIONS OF MISSION MANAGERS. HUYGENS DESCENDED THE ATMOSPHERE, CONTACTED THE SURFACE, AND TRANSMITTED FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR AND A HALF
- DIED 2006: SHELLEY WINTERS (ACTRESS)
- DIED 2007: DARLENE CONLEY (ACTRESS)
- DIED 2009: RICARDO MONTALBAN (ACTOR)
2010s
- 2010: ANDEAN BEAR BILLIE JEAN GAVE BIRTH TO THE FIRST OF TWIN CUBS, AT THE NATIONAL ZOO IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
- BORN 2011: A RARE BLACK RHINO WAS BORN AT THE ST. LOUIS ZOO IN MISSOURI
- DIED 2013: CONRAD STAFFORD BAIN (CANADIAN-AMERICAN ACTOR)
- DIED 2016: ALAN RICKMAN (ACTOR)
- 2019: A TANKER CARRYING 40,000 POUNDS (ABOUT 3,500 GALLONS) OF 120-DEGREE-F LIQUID CHOCOLATE BECAME UNHITCHED FROM THE MAIN TRUCK AND ROLLED OVER ON WESTBOUND INTERSTATE 40, AT MILEPOST 211, EAST OF FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA. NO ONE WAS INJURED. THE BIODEGRADABLE CONTENTS OF THE DAMAGED TANKER HAD TO BE PUMPED OUT ONTO THE MEDIAN SO THAT THE VEHICLE COULD BE LIFTED ONTO A TOW TRUCK. IT TOOK CREWS ABOUT 4 HOURS TO CLEAN UP THE RIVER OF CHOCOLATE BEFORE SEVERAL CLOSED LANES COULD OPEN ONCE MORE.
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