Every Year
1500s
1550s
1780s
1810s
1830s
1880s
1910s
- DIED 1910: MARK TWAIN (AMERICAN WRITER)
- 1912: THE NEW YORK GIANTS AND NEW YORK YANKEES PLAYED AN EXHIBITION GAME TO BENEFIT SURVIVORS OF THE TITANIC
- BORN 1915: ANTHONY QUINN (ACTOR)
- DIED 1918: MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN (AVIATOR, AKA THE “RED BARON”)
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
- BORN 1951: TONY DANZA (ACTOR)
- 1959: WORLD RECORD: 2,664-POUND GREAT WHITE SHARK CAUGHT OFF SOUTHERN COAST OF AUSTRALIA
1970s
1980s
1990s
- 1990: 50-LB. 8-OZ. AFRICAN POMPANO CAUGHT, DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA
- 1997: ASHES OF STAR TREK CREATOR, GENE RODDENBERRY, JOURNEYED INTO SPACE
2000s
- 2004: IN A PROCEDURE BILLED AS A FIRST IN THE U.S., STEPHANIE YARBER, AN INFERTILE ALABAMA WOMAN, RECEIVED A TRANSPLANTED OVARY FROM HER IDENTICAL TWIN SISTER, MELANIE MORGAN
- 2007: THIRTEEN YEAR OLD MORGAN POZGAR WON THE LG NATIONAL TEXTING CHAMPIONSHIP. SHE TYPED THE MESSAGE, “SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS! EVEN THOUGH THE SOUND OF IT IS SOMETHING QUITE ATROCIOUS. IF YOU SAY IT LOUD ENOUGH YOU’LL ALWAYS SOUND PRECOCIOUS.” IN 15 SECONDS
- 2007: 13-YR.-OLD MORGAN POZGAR WON LG U.S. NATIONAL TEXTING CHAMPIONSHIP
2010s
- 2012: CHICAGO WHITE SOX PITCHER PHIL HUMBER THREW A PERFECT GAME
- 2012: FIREBALL EXPLODED OVER SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAIN RANGE IN CALIFORNIA, RATTLING HOMES FROM CENTRAL CALIFORNIA TO RENO, NEVADA. EXPERTS BELIEVE IT WAS CAUSED BY A METEOROID ABOUT THE SIZE OF A MINIVAN.
- DIED 2015: MARY DOYLE KEEFE (MODEL FOR NORMAN ROCKWELL’S 1943 PAINTING OF ROSIE THE RIVETER)
- DIED 2016: PRINCE (MUSICIAN)
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