Every Year

• INDEPENDENCE DAY (MEXICO)

1730s

• DIED 1736: GABRIEL DANIEL FAHRENHEIT (PHYSICIST)

1780s

• 1782: U.S. GREAT SEAL USED FOR FIRST TIME

1850s

• 1857: JAMES PIERPONT’S “JINGLE BELLS” (ORIGINALLY TITLED “ONE HORSE OPEN SLEIGH”) WAS COPYRIGHTED

1870s

• BORN 1875: JAMES C. PENNEY (DEPARTMENT STORE FOUNDER)

1900s

• 1907: SUPREME COURT OF SASKATCHEWAN ESTABLISHED, REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN
• 1908: WILLIAM DURANT INCORPORATED GENERAL MOTORS CORP. IN NEW JERSEY

1910s

• BORN 1914: ALLEN FUNT (PRODUCER)
• 1919: AMERICAN LEGION INCORPORATED

1920s

• BORN 1921: URSULA FRANKLIN (PHYSICIST AND EDUCATOR)
• BORN 1924: LAUREN BACALL (ACTRESS)
• BORN 1925: B.B. KING (MUSICIAN)
• 1926: MANY PEOPLE REPORTED SEEING LAKE MONSTER OGOPOGO IN LAKE OKANAGAN, BRITISH COLUMBIA
• BORN 1927: PETER FALK (ACTOR)

1940s

• BORN 1949: ED BEGLEY, JR. (ACTOR)

1950s

• BORN 1955: ROBIN YOUNT (BASEBALL PLAYER)
• BORN 1956: DAVID COPPERFIELD (MAGICIAN)
• 1959: EDWARD ELLIOTT CAUGHT A 97-POUND BLUE CATFISH IN THE MISSOURI RIVER NEAR VERMILLION, SOUTH DAKOTA

1960s

• BORN 1964: MOLLY SHANNON (ACTRESS)
• 1966: THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE OPENED IN NEW YORK CITY
• BORN 1969: MARC ANTHONY (SINGER)

1970s

• BORN 1971: AMY POEHLER (ACTRESS)
• 1974: ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE BEGAN TRAINING WOMEN TROOPERS
• DIED 1977: MARIA CALLAS (OPERA SINGER)

1980s

• BORN 1981: ALEXIS BLEDEL (ACTRESS)
• BORN 1985: MADELINE ZIMA (ACTRESS)
• 1987: MONTREAL PROTOCOL (ABOUT OZONE) SIGNED BY 24 COUNTRIES

1990s

• 1990: SAM ACKERMAN (AGE 101) MARRIED EVA POWERS (AGE 95), NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK

2000s

• DIED 2009: MARY TRAVERS (SINGER) OF THE FOLK TRIO PETER, PAUL AND MARY

2010s

• 2016: PENUMBRAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON

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