1630s
1800s
1860s
- 1866: FIRST PEPPERSASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE DEMONSTRATION ON THE MOUNT WASHINGTON COG RAILWAY TOOK PLACE
- DIED 1868: CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH SCHÖNBEIN (CHEMIST)
1870s
1910s
- BORN 1915: INGRID BERGMAN (ACTRESS)
- DIED 1917: EARL GREY (CANADIAN GOVERNOR GENERAL 1904 – 1911)
- BORN 1917: ISABEL SANFORD (ACTRESS)
1920s
1930s
- DIED 1930: WILLIAM ARCHIBALD SPOONER (KNOWN FOR VERBAL INVERSIONS CALLED “SPOONERISMS”)
- BORN 1939: JOEL SCHUMACHER (FILM DIRECTOR)
1950s
- 1950: ALTHEA GIBSON BECAME THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN TO COMPETE IN A NATIONAL TENNIS TOURNAMENT
- 1957: AS SEN. THURMOND’S FILIBUSTER CAME TO AN END, HE ESTABLISHED A NEW RECORD FOR THE LONGEST SPEECH BY ONE SENATOR (24 HRS AND 18 MIN.), AND DESPITE HIS EFFORTS THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL PASSED
- 1958: UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY OPENED IN COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO
- BORN 1959: CHRIS HADFIELD (ASTRONAUT)
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
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