Every Year

• DOCTOR’S DAY

1130s

• BORN 1135: MOSES MAIMONIDES (RABBI)

1790s

• 1791: PRESIDENT WASHINGTON PROCLAIMED BOUNDARY OF NEW CAPITAL CITY ON POTOMAC RIVER

1820s

• BORN 1820: ANNA SEWELL (AUTHOR)

1840s

• 1842: DR. CRAWFORD LONG OF JEFFERSON, GA, PLACED AN ETHER-SOAKED TOWEL OVER THE FACE OF JAMES VENABLE AND REMOVED A TUMOR FROM HIS NECK. THIS WAS THE FIRST RECORDED USE OF ANESTHESIA

1850s

• BORN 1853: VINCENT VAN GOGH (ARTIST)
• 1858: H. L. LIPMAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PATENTED THE FIRST PENCIL WITH ERASER

1860s

• 1867: AMERICA BOUGHT ALASKA FROM RUSSIA DUE TO PRESSURE FROM SECRETARY OF STATE WILLIAM SEWARD (“SEWARD’S FOLLY”). THE PRICE WAS $7.2 MILLION, OR SLIGHTLY MORE THAN $0.02 AN ACRE
• 1868: IMPEACHMENT TRIAL OF PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON BEGAN

1870s

• 1870: TEXAS READMITTED TO THE UNION

1880s

• BORN 1880: SEAN O’CASEY (PLAYWRIGHT)
• BORN 1883: JO DAVIDSON (SCULPTOR)

1900s

• 1909: QUEENSBORO BRIDGE, THE FIRST DOUBLE-DECKER, OPENED IN NEW YORK CITY

1930s

• BORN 1937: WARREN BEATTY (ACTOR)

1940s

• BORN 1945: ERIC CLAPTON (MUSICIAN)

1950s

• 1954: OFFICIAL OPENING OF CANADA’S FIRST SUBWAY (TORONTO)
• 1956: WOODY GUTHRIE’S SONG THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND COPYRIGHTED

1960s

• 1964: JEOPARDY! GAME SHOW MADE ITS TELEVISION DEBUT
• BORN 1964: TRACY CHAPMAN (MUSICIAN)
• BORN 1968: CELINE DION (SINGER)

1970s

• BORN 1970: SECRETARIAT (RACEHORSE)
• 1972: CANADIAN NAVY STOPPED ISSUING RUM RATIONS
• BORN 1979: NORAH JONES (SINGER)

1980s

• 1981: PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN WAS SHOT AND WOUNDED OUTSIDE A WASHINGTON, D.C., HOTEL
• BORN 1983: SCOTT MOFFATT (MUSICIAN, OF THE MOFFATTS)
• BORN 1984: ANNA NALICK (MUSICIAN)
• 1987: AN ANONYMOUS BUYER PAID OVER $39 MILLION FOR VINCENT VAN GOGH’S SUNFLOWERS

2000s

• 2000: POSSIBLE UFO SEEN, LITTLE FOX LAKE, YUKON TERRITORY
• DIED 2002: QUEEN MOTHER ELIZABETH (BRITAIN’S BELOVED “QUEEN MUM”)
• DIED 2004: TIMI YURO (SINGER)
• 2007: SUPERATHLETES KIRILL SHIMKO AND PAVEL SOROKA PULLED FIVE RAILWAY CARS MORE THAN 20 FEET

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