attending the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 21, 2008. By Greg Hernandez – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, https commons.wikimedia.org.jpg
Every Year
1550s
1810s
1840s
- 1849: ELIZABETH BLACKWELL BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN TO RECEIVE AN M.D. DEGREE
- 1849: ENVELOPE MACHINE PATENTED
1860s
1890s
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
- 1943: DUKE ELLINGTON PLAYED AT NEW YORK CITY’S CARNEGIE HALL FOR THE FIRST TIME
- 1943: THE MOVIE CASABLANCA WAS COPYRIGHTED
- BORN 1943: GIL GERARD (ACTOR)
- BORN 1944: RUTGER HAUER (ACTOR)
- 1949: FIRE DEVASTATED STREETCAR BARNS IN REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
- DIED 1981: SAMUEL BARBER (COMPOSER)
- 1984: CHINA’S GIANT PANDAS WERE ADDED TO THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST
- 1986: THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTED ITS FIRST MEMBERS: CHUCK BERRY, JAMES BROWN, RAY CHARLES, SAM COOKE, FATS DOMINO, EVERLY BROTHERS, BUDDY HOLLY, JERRY LEE LEWIS, ELVIS PRESLEY, AND LITTLE RICHARD
- DIED 1989: SALVADOR DALI (ARTIST)
2000s
- DIED 2002: DANIEL PEARL (WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTER WHO DISAPPEARED AND WAS LATER KILLED)
- DIED 2003: NELL CARTER (SINGER & ACTRESS)
- DIED 2004: BOB KEESHAN (CAPTAIN KANGAROO)
- DIED 2004: HELMUT NEWTON (FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER)
- DIED 2005: JOHNNY CARSON (COMEDIAN WHO DOMINATED LATE-NIGHT TELEVISION FOR 30 YEARS AS THE HOST OF THE TONIGHT SHOW)
2010s
- 2012: INTERNATIONAL POLAR BEAR CONSERVATION CENTRE OPENED IN WINNIPEG, MANITOBA
- 2018: AT 12:31 AM, A 7.9 EARTHQUAKE STRUCK THE GULF OF ALASKA, ABOUT 181 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KODIAK, PROMPTING A TSUNAMI WARNING FOR COASTAL ALASKA AND BRITISH COLUMBIA, AND A TSUNAMI WATCH FOR THE REST OF THE U.S. WEST COAST. THIS WAS CANCELLED AFTER SEVERAL HOURS; A MINOR TSUNAMI, LESS THAN A FOOT, WAS REPORTED IN ALASKA.
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