Every Year
1450s
1790s
- 1796: NAPOLEON BONAPARTE MARRIED JOSEPHINE DE BEAUHARNAIS IN PARIS–HE ARRIVED TWO HOURS LATE FOR THE WEDDING225 Years Ago
1800s
1820s
- 1820: PRESIDENT JAMES MONROE’S DAUGHTER, MARIA, BECAME THE FIRST DAUGHTER OF A PRESIDENT TO BE MARRIED IN THE WHITE HOUSE
- 1822: A PATENT FOR ARTIFICIAL TEETH WAS GRANTED TO CHARLES GRAHAM OF NEW YORK
1830s
1860s
- 1860: FIRST JAPANESE AMBASSADOR TO U.S. ARRIVED IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA
- 1862: BATTLE OF U.S.S. MONITOR AND U.S.S. MERRIMACK (RENAMED C.S.S. VIRGINIA) ENDED IN A DRAW
1900s
1910s
1930s
- 1932: FIRST V-8 FORD WAS BUILT BY FORD MOTOR COMPANY
- 1933: THE HUNDRED DAYS BEGAN. PRESIDENT FDR PUSHED SWEEPING SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC REFORMS OF THE NEW DEAL THROUGH CONGRESS WITHIN THE NEXT 100 DAYS
- BORN 1934: YURI GAGARIN (FIRST HUMAN TO TRAVEL IN SPACE)
1940s
- BORN 1940: RAUL JULIA (ACTOR)
- BORN 1943: CHARLES GIBSON (JOURNALIST)
- BORN 1943: BOBBY FISCHER (CHAMPION CHESS PLAYER)
- BORN 1947: DAVID HUME KENNERLY (PHOTOGRAPHER)
1950s
- 1954: JOURNALIST EDWARD R. MURROW ACCUSED SEN. MCCARTHY OF MISLEADING THE U.S. PUBLIC AND PERSECUTING CONGRESSIONAL WITNESSES
- 1955: CELEBRITY PREMIERE OF EAST OF EDEN, THE FILM VERSION OF JOHN STIENBECK’S NOVEL
- 1959: BARBIE DOLL DEBUTED
1960s
- 1961: THE FIRST ANIMAL TO RETURN FROM SPACE WAS A DOG WHOSE RUSSIAN NAME TRANSLATED AS BLACKIE, ABOARD THE SOVIET SPACECRAFT SPUTNIK 9
- BORN 1964: JULIETTE BINOCHE (ACTRESS)
- 1969: THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS’ TELEVISION SHOW WAS CANCELLED AFTER THEY REFUSED TO CENSOR A COMMENT MADE BY JOAN BAEZ. SHE WANTED TO DEDICATE HER SONG TO HER HUSBAND, DAVID, WHO WAS ABOUT TO GO TO JAIL FOR OBJECTING TO THE DRAFT
1970s
- BORN 1971: EMMANUEL LEWIS (ACTOR)
- 1975: WORK BEGAN ON THE 789-MILE ALASKAN OIL PIPELINE, THE LARGEST PRIVATE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IN U.S. HISTORY
- 1977: HEALTH AND WELFARE CANADA BANNED SACCHARIN AS A FOOD ADDITIVE
1980s
- 1983: ANNE M. BURFORD WAS FORCED TO RESIGN AS HEAD OF THE EPA FOLLOWING A DISPUTE WITH CONGRESS OVER THE AGENCY’S ENFORCEMENT OF TOXIC WASTE REGULATIONS
- 1987: PAUL MCCARTNEY, JOHN LENNON, CAROLE KING, GERRY GOFFIN, AND CAROLE BAYER SAGER WERE INDUCTED INTO THE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME
- BORN 1987: LIL’ BOW WOW (RAPPER, ACTOR)
- 1989: PRESIDENT GEORGE H. W. BUSH’S NOMINEE FOR DEFENSE SECRATARY, JOHN TOWER, LOST SENATE RATIFICATION VOTE
1990s
- DIED 1994: CHARLES BUKOWSKI (POET)
- DIED 1994: FERNANDO REY (ACTOR)
- DIED 1996: GEORGE BURNS (COMEDIAN & ACTOR)
2000s
2010s
- DIED 2010: DORIS “GRANNY D” HADDOCK (POLITICAL ACTIVIST)
- 2017: CHRIS BERTISH, A SOUTH AFRICAN SURFER, PADDLEBOARDED ACROSS THE ATLANTIC SOLO. THE 4,050 TREK TOOK HIM 93 DAYS.
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Very interesting subject, thanks for putting up. “Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouthTame the dragon and the gift is yours.” by Noela Evans.