Every Year
1700s
1790s
1840s
1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s
1920s
1930s
- 1930: YANKEE SLUGGER BABE RUTH SIGNED AN $80,000 PER YEAR (2-YEAR, $160,000) CONTRACT
- DIED 1930: WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (27TH U.S. PRESIDENT)
- BORN 1933: JOHNNY DOLLAR (COUNTRY SINGER)
- BORN 1938: LEW DEWITT (SINGER, STATLER BROTHERS)
1940s
- BORN 1943: LYNN REDGRAVE (ACTRESS)
- BORN 1945: MICKY DOLENZ (MUSICIAN, ACTOR, & DIRECTOR)
- 1948: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULED IN MCCOLLUM V. BOARD OF EDUCATION THAT RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
1950s
- BORN 1953: JIM RICE (BASEBALL PLAYER)
- 1955: WHIRLWIND I’S DIRECTOR, PRECURSOR TO COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEM, DEMONSTRATED
- BORN 1959: AIDAN QUINN (ACTOR)
1960s
- BORN 1963: KATHY IRELAND (MODEL & ACTRESS)
- 1965: FIRST YEAR FREE FOR STUDENTS FROM NEWFOUNDLAND AT MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY, N.L.
- 1965: FIRST U.S. GROUND COMBAT TROOPS ARRIVED IN VIETNAM
1970s
- 1971: JOE FRAZIER DEFEATED MUHAMMAD ALI FOR THE HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP IN NEW YORK50 Years Ago
- 1976: METEORITES FELL IN NORTHEASTERN CHINA, WITH THE LARGEST FRAGMENT, WEIGHING ABOUT 3,902 POUNDS, FALLING IN JILIN PROVINCE.
- BORN 1976: FREDDIE PRINZE JR. (ACTOR)
- BORN 1977: JAMES VAN DER BEEK (ACTOR)
1980s
- BORN 1984: BOB, DAVE, & CLINT MOFFATT (MUSICIANS, OF THE MOFFATTS)
- 1989: DAILY ARTILLERY BARRAGES BETWEEN CHRISTIAN AND SYRIAN FORCES AND THEIR MILITIA ALLIES BEGAN IN BEIRUT. AT LEAST 930 DIED BEFORE CEASE-FIRE TOOK HOLD IN SEPTEMBER
1990s
- BORN 1991: DEVON WERKHEISER (ACTOR)
- 1994: WHEELED SUITCASE WITH COLLAPSIBLE TOWING HANDLE PATENTED
- DIED 1999: JOE DIMAGGIO (BASEBALL PLAYER)
2000s
- DIED 2003: ELLIOTT JAQUES (SCIENTIST WHO COINED THE TERM “MIDLIFE CRISIS”)
- 2004: THE BODY OF ACTOR-WRITER SPALDING GRAY WAS PULLED FROM NEW YORK’S EAST RIVER, TWO MONTHS AFTER HE WALKED OUT OF HIS MANHATTAN APARTMENT AND DISAPPEARED
- DIED 2004: ROBERT PASTORELLI (ACTOR)
- DIED 2007: JOHN INMAN (ACTOR)
2010s
- DIED 2011: VICTOR MANUEL BLANCO (ASTRONOMER WHO HELPED BUILD THE CERRO TOLOLO INTER-AMERICAN OBSERVATORY IN CHILE)
- 2016: TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN
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