Every Year

• GET A DIFFERENT NAME DAY

1580s

• 1588: ASTRONOMER TYCHO BRAHE OUTLINED HIS SOLAR SYSTEM STRUCTURE

1860s

• 1866: JESSE JAMES ROBBED HIS FIRST BANK
• 1867: STRAUSS’S BLUE DANUBE PREMIERED IN VIENNA

1870s

• 1875: FIRST U.S. QUINTUPLETS BORN, IN WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN

1880s

• BORN 1885: BESS TRUMAN (U.S. FIRST LADY)

1900s

• 1906: NOVOCAIN (PROCAINE) PATENTED

1910s

• 1914: THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS, AUTHORS, AND PUBLISHERS (ASCAP) ESTABLISHED

1920s

• BORN 1923: CHUCK YEAGER (PILOT)

1930s

• BORN 1934: GEORGE SEGAL (ACTOR)

1940s

• BORN 1942: PETER TORK (MUSICIAN, MEMBER OF THE MONKEES)

1950s

• BORN 1950: PETER GABRIEL (MUSICIAN)
• 1959: THE FIRST BARBIE DOLLS WENT ON SALE

1970s

• BORN 1974: ROBBIE WILLIAMS (SINGER)
• DIED 1976: LILY PONS (SOPRANO)

1980s

• BORN 1980: KRISTY POWELL (OLYMPIC GYMNAST)
• 1981: FIRST WOMEN ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE PILOTS (CAPTAINS NORA BOTTOMLEY, DEE BRASSEUR, AND LEAH MOSHER) GRADUATED
• 1988: WINTER OLYMPICS BEGAN, CALGARY, ALBERTA

2000s

• 2000: THE LAST ORIGINAL PEANUTS COMIC STRIP RAN IN NEWSPAPERS
• DIED 2002: WAYLON JENNINGS (SINGER)
• DIED 2002: PAULINE TRIGERE (FASHION DESIGNER)
• 2002: FORMER NEW YORK CITY MAYOR RUDOLPH GIULIANI RECEIVED AN HONORARY KNIGHTHOOD FROM QUEEN ELIZABETH II

2010s

• DIED 2014: RALPH WAITE (ACTOR; BEST KNOWN AS JOHN WALTON ON THE WALTONS)

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