Every Year
- CALIFORNIA: SWALLOW DAY
- ST. JOSEPH’S DAY
- 721 B.C. FIRST LUNAR ECLIPSE RECORDED IN HISTORY OBSERVED BY THE BABYLONIANS (ACCORDING TO PTOLEMY)
1810s
1820s
1830s
1840s
1860s
1890s
1900s
1910s
- BORN 1914: LEONIDAS ALAOGLU (MATHEMATICIAN)
- BORN 1914: JAY BERWANGER (FOOTBALL PLAYER)
- BORN 1916: IRVING WALLACE (NOVELIST)
- 1918: DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME WAS FIRST ENACTED IN THE UNITED STATES
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
- DIED 1950: EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (AUTHOR)
- 1953: ACADEMY AWARDS WERE FIRST TELEVISED
- BORN 1955: BRUCE WILLIS (ACTOR)
- 1957: SENATE CONFIRMED THE NOMINATIONS OF WILLIAM BRENNAN AND CHARLES WHITTAKER TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
1960s
- 1964: GREAT ST. BERNARD TUNNEL, 3.6 MILES LONG, BETWEEN ITALY AND SWITZERLAND IN THE ALPS, OFFICIALLY OPENED TO AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC
- 1965: NICOLAE CEAUSESCU BECAME HEAD OF THE ROMANIAN COMMUNIST PARTY AND GOVERNMENT
- 1968: PRESIDENT JOHNSON SIGNED INTO LAW A BILL ELIMINATING THE REQUIREMENT THAT U.S. CURRENCY BE BACKED BY GOLD
- BORN 1969: CONNOR TRINNEER (ACTOR)
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
- DIED 2002: THE REV. CARL MCINTIRE (RIGHT-WING RADIO PREACHER)
- DIED 2004: BRIAN MAXWELL (CANADIAN WORLD-RANKED MARATHONER WHO CREATED THE POWERBAR IN HIS KITCHEN TO IMPROVE HIS PERFORMANCE)
- DIED 2005: GUS BERNIER (HOST OF THE CHILDREN’S PROGRAM THE UNCLE GUS SHOW)
- DIED 2005: JOHN DELOREAN (AUTOMOTIVE INNOVATOR WHO LEFT GENERAL MOTORS CORP. TO DEVELOP A RADICALLY FUTURISTIC SPORTS CAR)
- DIED 2008: ARTHUR C. CLARKE (SCIENCE FICTION WRITER, AUTHOR OF 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY)
- DIED 2008: PAUL SCOFIELD (ACTOR)
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