Every Year

• REPUBLIC DAY (ITALY)

1730s

• BORN 1731: MARTHA WASHINGTON (U.S. FIRST LADY)

1840s

• BORN 1840: THOMAS HARDY (WRITER)

1860s

• BORN 1861: HELEN LOUISE HERRON TAFT (U.S. FIRST LADY)

1880s

• 1883: IN FORT WAYNE, INDIANA, THE FIRST BASEBALL GAME WAS PLAYED UNDER ELECTRIC LIGHTS AT NIGHT
• 1886: GROVER CLEVELAND BECAME THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO MARRY IN THE WHITE HOUSE

1920s

• BORN 1922: CLAIR CAMERON PATTERSON (GEOCHEMIST)
• 1924: CONGRESS GRANTED CITIZENSHIP TO NATIVE AMERICANS BORN IN THE U.S.
• 1928: KRAFT’S VELVEETA INVENTED

1930s

• 1930: MARINERS’ MUSEUM ESTABLISHED IN NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA
• 1933: PRESIDENT FDR FORMALLY ACCEPTED THE SWIMMING POOL ADDITION TO THE WHITE HOUSE

1940s

• BORN 1948: JERRY MATHERS (ACTOR)

1950s

• 1953: ELIZABETH II CROWNED QUEEN OF ENGLAND
• BORN 1955: DANA CARVEY (COMEDIAN & ACTOR)

1960s

• BORN 1960: KYLE PETTY (NASCAR DRIVER)
• 1966: US SPACECRAFT SURVEYOR I MADE SUCCESSFUL SOFT LANDING ON THE MOON AND BEGAN TO RELAY FIRST CLOSE UP PICTURES OF THE MOON

1970s

• BORN 1972: WAYNE BRADY (COMEDIAN & ACTOR)
• BORN 1972: WENTWORTH MILLER (ACTOR)

1980s

• DIED 1987: ANDRES SEGOVIA (GUITARIST)

1990s

• DIED 1998: SYLVESTER RITTER (PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER KNOWN AS “JUNKYARD DOG”)

2000s

• DIED 2002: FLORA LEWIS (JOURNALIST)
• 2005: 13-YEAR-OLD ANURAG KASHYAP CORRECTLY SPELLED “APPOGGIATURA” TO WIN NATIONAL SCRIPPS SPELLING BEE
• DIED 2008: BO DIDDLEY (MUSICIAN)
• DIED 2008: MEL FERRER (ACTOR & DIRECTOR)

2010s

• 2010: ACTOR PATRICK STEWART WAS KNIGHTED BY QUEEN ELIZABETH II AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE
• DIED 2010: CHRIS HANEY (INVENTOR OF TRIVIAL PURSUIT)
• 2010: AT THE WHITE HOUSE, SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY ACCEPTED THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GERSHWIN PRIZE FOR POPULAR SONG
• 2011: SUKANYA ROY WON 84TH SCRIPPS NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WITH WORD “CYMOTRICHOUS”
• DIED 2012: RICHARD DAWSON (GAME SHOW HOST)
• DIED 2012: KATHRYN JOOSTEN (ACTRESS)

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