Every Year

• BORN : BERT (CHARACTER ON SESAME STREET)

1770s

• 1775: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BECAME THE FIRST POSTMASTER GENERAL

1780s

• 1788: NEW YORK RATIFIED THE CONSTITUTION AND BECAME THE 11TH STATE

1850s

• BORN 1856: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (PLAYWRIGHT)

1860s

• DIED 1863: SAM HOUSTON (PRESIDENT OF TEXAS, 1836-38; 1841-44)

1870s

• 1875: “BLACK BART” MADE HIS FIRST STAGECOACH ROBBERY IN CALIFORNIA

1920s

• BORN 1922: BLAKE EDWARDS (DIRECTOR)
• BORN 1922: JASON ROBARDS (ACTOR)
• BORN 1928: STANLEY KUBRICK (DIRECTOR)

1940s

• BORN 1943: SIR MICHAEL PHILIP “MICK” JAGGER (SINGER)
• 1945: THE POTSDAM DECLARATION WAS ISSUED BY PRESIDENT TRUMAN, WINSTON CHURCHILL, AND CHIANG KAI-SHEK, WHICH OUTLINED THE TERMS OF SURRENDER FOR JAPAN

1950s

• DIED 1952: EVA PERON (WIFE OF ARGENTINE PRESIDENT JUAN PERON)
• 1956: THE SS ANDREA DORIA SUNK NEAR NANTUCKET LIGHTSHIP, MA
• BORN 1956: DOROTHY HAMILL (OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL FIGURE SKATER)
• BORN 1959: KEVIN SPACEY (ACTOR)

1960s

• BORN 1964: SANDRA BULLOCK (ACTRESS)
• BORN 1965: JEREMY PIVEN (ACTOR)
• 1969: FIRST MOON ROCK SAMPLES ANALYZED, LUNAR RECEIVING LABORATORY, HOUSTON, TEXAS

1970s

• BORN 1973: KATE BECKINSALE (ACTRESS)

1980s

• 1989: A FEDERAL GRAND JURY INDICTED ROBERT T. MORRIS, JR. FOR RELEASING A COMPUTER WORM, MAKING HIM THE FIRST PERSON TO BE PROSECUTED UNDER THE 1986 COMPUTER FRAUD AND ABUSE ACT

2000s

• 2009: JIM RICE AND RICKY HENDERSON WERE INDUCTED INTO THE NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME

2010s

• 2010: THE PLASTIKI, A BOAT MADE MOSTLY FROM RECYCLED PLASTIC BOTTLES (12,500 OF THEM), REACHED SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, TO COMPLETE A 4-MONTH JOURNEY ACROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN

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