1590s
1840s
1850s
1890s
1900s
1910s
- BORN 1911: WILLIAM ALFRED FOWLER (PHYSICIST)
- 1916: LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHED
1920s
1930s
- 1930: BETTY BOOP PREMIERED IN THE ANIMATED FILM DIZZY DISHES
- 1936: JESSE OWENS STOLE THE LIMELIGHT BY WINNING FOUR GOLD MEDALS IN TRACK AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN BERLIN AND BECAME THE FIRST AMERICAN TO WIN FOUR MEDALS IN ONE OLYMPICS
1940s
- 1944: SMOKEY BEAR WAS CHOSEN AS A FIRE PREVENTION SYMBOL. POSTERS WERE RELEASED BY THE FOREST SERVICE AND THE WARTIME ADVERTISING COUNCIL.
- BORN 1944: SAM ELLIOTT (ACTOR)
- 1945: THE SECOND ATOMIC BOMB, “FAT MAN,” WAS DROPPED ON NAGASAKI, JAPAN
- BORN 1949: JONATHAN KELLERMAN (MYSTERY WRITER)
1950s
1960s
- DIED 1962: HERMAN HESSE (AUTHOR)
- BORN 1963: WHITNEY HOUSTON (SINGER)
- BORN 1964: BRETT HULL (HOCKEY PLAYER)
- 1965: FATAL MISSILE SILO EXPLOSION OCCURRED IN SEARCY, ARKANSAS
- BORN 1967: DEION SANDERS (FOOTBALL PLAYER)
- BORN 1968: GILLIAN ANDERSON (ACTRESS)
1970s
1980s
- BORN 1983: DAN LEVY (WRITER AND ACTOR)
- 1988: THE EDMONTON OILERS TRADED WAYNE GRETZKY TO THE L.A. KINGS
1990s
2000s
- DIED 2003: GREGORY HINES (DANCER & ACTOR)
- 2004: DONALD DUCK RECEIVED A STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME
- DIED 2004: FAY WRAY (WON FAME AS THE DAMSEL HELD ATOP THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING BY A GIANT APE IN THE 1933 FILM KING KONG)
- DIED 2005: MATTHEW MCGRORY (ACTOR)
- 2007: A MAGNITUDE-7.5 EARTHQUAKE STRUCK EAST OF JAKARTA, INDONESIA
- 2007: A MAGNITUDE-4.5 EARTHQUAKE STRUCK THE GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA
- DIED 2008: BERNIE MAC (COMEDIAN & ACTOR)
2010s
- DIED 2015: FRANK GIFFORD (NFL HALL OF FAME FOOTBALL PLAYER)
- 2018: IN KARLSRUHE, GERMANY, POLICE RESPONDED TO AN EMERGENCY CALL: A BABY SQUIRREL WAS CHASING A MAN DOWN THE STREET AND WOULD NOT GIVE UP. WHEN POLICE ARRIVED ON THE SCENE, THE SQUIRREL WAS STILL IN PURSUIT, BUT THEN THE EXHAUSTED RODENT SUDDENLY STOPPED AND FELL ASLEEP. THE POLICE NAMED THE SMALL SQUIRREL “KARL-FRIEDRICH” AND TOOK HIM INTO CUSTODY. SOON AFTER, HE WAS TAKEN TO AN ANIMAL RESCUE CENTER, WHERE HE WAS LATER REPORTED TO BE DOING WELL. POLICE SAID LIKELY THE BABY SQUIRREL HAD LOST ITS MOTHER AND HAD FIXATED ON THE MAN AS A REPLACEMENT.
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