1750s
1830s
1860s
1870s
- BORN 1870: GEORGE CLAUDE (INVENTOR OF NEON LIGHT)
- 1877: FIRE BREAKS OUT AT THE U.S. PATENT OFFICE, WASH., D.C.
1890s
1900s
- BORN 1905: SEVERO OCHOA (BIOCHEMIST)
- 1905: JAMES HENRY FLEMING WAS THE FIRST TO BAND A BIRD IN CANADA
1910s
- BORN 1911: KONSTANTIN CHERNENKO (RUSSIAN POLITICIAN)
- BORN 1918: AUDRA LINDLEY (ACTRESS)
- 1918: ERNST A. COUTURIER PATENTED A TRUMPET DESIGN
1920s
1930s
1940s
- BORN 1942: LINDA MCCARTNEY (PHOTOGRAPHER, SINGER, ACTIVIST, & WIFE OF BEATLE PAUL MCCARTNEY)
- BORN 1946: JOE GREENE (AMERICAN FOOTBALL PLAYER)
- BORN 1948: PHIL HARTMAN (ACTOR)
1950s
- BORN 1952: JOSEPH PATRICK KENNEDY (POLITICIAN)
- 1956: THE WORLD’S FIRST TRANSATLANTIC TELEPHONE CABLE, FROM CLARENVILLE, NEWFOUNDLAND, TO OBAN, SCOTLAND, BEGAN OPERATION
- 1957: THE BROOKLYN DODGERS PLAYED THEIR LAST GAME AT EBBETS FIELD
1960s
- 1960: THE USS ENTERPRISE, THE FIRST U.S. ATOMIC-POWERED AIRCRAFT CARRIER, WAS LAUNCHED AT NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA
- BORN 1962: NIA VARDALOS (ACTRESS)
- 1968: FIRST TV NEWSMAGAZINE, 60 MINUTES, DEBUTED
1970s
- BORN 1970: KRISTIN TALBOT (OLYMPIC SPEED SKATER)
- BORN 1970: PAUL SPOLJARIC (BASEBALL PLAYER)
- BORN 1971: KEVIN MILLAR (BASEBALL PLAYER)
- BORN 1974: MATT MCKEON (OLYMPIC SOCCER PLAYER)
1980s
- 1984: TENNIS PLAYER VICKI NELSON-DUNBAR PLAYED JEAN HEPNER IN A 29-MINUTE, 643-SHOT RALLY IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. THE RALLY REMAINS THE LONGEST POINT PLAYED IN A PROFESSIONAL TENNIS MATCH. NELSON-DUNBAR SAYS THE TWO-SET MATCH LASTED 61/2 HOURS. IT WAS THE LONGEST RALLY IN THE HISTORY OF PROFESSIONAL TENNIS AND PROBABLY IN THE HISTORY OF ANY KIND OF COMPETITIVE TENNIS.
- 1988: THE FIRST FEMALE EPISCOPAL ASSISTANT BISHOP WAS ELECTED
1990s
- DIED 1991: THEODOR GEISEL (AUTHOR KNOWN AS DR. SEUSS)
- DIED 1998: JEFFREY MOSS (TELEVISION WRITER, CREATED COOKIE MONSTER ON SESAME STREET)
2000s
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