Every Year

• INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY

1150s

• BORN 1157: KING RICHARD I OF ENGLAND (THE LION-HEARTED)

1500s

• 1504: MICHELANGELO’S DAVID STATUE WAS UNVEILED IN FLORENCE, ITALY

1560s

• 1565: DON PEDRO MENÉNDEZ DE AVILÉS FOUNDED WHAT BECAME ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA
• 1565: THE FIRST PERMANENT SETTLEMENT IN WHAT IS NOW THE UNITED STATES WAS ESTABLISHED AT ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, BY DON PEDRO MENENDEZ DE AVILES

1780s

• DIED 1784: ANN LEE (SHAKER LEADER)

1840s

• BORN 1841: ANTONIN DVORAK (COMPOSER)

1860s

• 1860: THE STEAMER LADY ELGIN COLLIDED WITH THE SCHOONER AUGUSTA ON LAKE MICHIGAN

1880s

• 1883: THE EASTERN AND WESTERN LINES OF THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY WERE JOINED IN GOLD CREEK, MONTANA
• BORN 1886: SIEGFRIED SASSOON (POET)

1890s

• 1892: FRANCIS BELLAMY’S PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE FIRST PUBLISHED, IN THE YOUTH’S COMPANION

1910s

• BORN 1911: EUELL GIBBONS (AUTHOR)

1920s

• 1921: MARGARET GORMAN OF WASHINGTON, D.C., BECAME THE FIRST MISS AMERICA100 Years Ago
• BORN 1922: SID CAESAR (COMEDIAN & ACTOR)
• BORN 1925: PETER SELLERS (ACTOR)

1930s

• BORN 1932: PATSY CLINE (COUNTRY MUSIC SINGER)
• 1934: CRUISE SHIP S.S. MORRO CASTLE BURNED NEAR ASBURY PARK, NEW JERSEY

1940s

• DIED 1949: RICHARD STRAUSS (COMPOSER)

1950s

• 1952: PERCY SALTZMAN BECAME THE FIRST METEOROLOGIST TO APPEAR ON CANADIAN TELEVISION. KNOWN FOR HIS ENTERTAINING PRESENTATIONS, PERCY WROTE VIGOROUSLY ON A CHALKBOARD MAP WHILE REPORTING ON AIR AND ENDED EACH BROADCAST BY TOSSING AND CATCHING HIS CHALK.

1960s

• DIED 1965: DOROTHY DANDRIDGE (ACTRESS)
• 1966: ORIGINAL STAR TREK SERIES DEBUTED ON TELEVISION

1970s

• 1971: JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS MADE ITS PUBLIC DEBUT, WASHINGTON, D.C.50 Years Ago
• BORN 1971: HENRY THOMAS (ACTOR)
• BORN 1971: DAVID ARQUETTE (ACTOR)
• 1974: STUNT MOTORCYCLIST EVEL KNIEVEL MADE A FAILED ATTEMPT TO JUMP THE SNAKE RIVER CANYON IN IDAHO. HE WAS PROPELLED BY A RED, WHITE AND BLUE ROCKET-POWERED MOTORCYCLE, DESIGNED BY ROCKET SCIENTIST ROBERT TRUAX.
• BORN 1979: PINK (SINGER)

1980s

• BORN 1981: JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS (ACTOR)
• DIED 1981: ROY WILKINS (CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER)

2000s

• 2004: THE GENESIS RETURN CAPSULE, WHICH HAD COLLECTED SOLAR WIND ATOMS IN FRAGILE DISKS, CRASHED IN THE DESERT AFTER ITS PARACHUTES FAILED TO DEPLOY

2010s

• DIED 2010: RICH CRONIN (SINGER)
• 2012: A RARE BLACK RHINO WAS BORN IN PITTSBURGH ZOO, PENNSYLVANIA

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