Daylight Saving Time 2021 ends on Sunday, November 7 at 2:00 A.M.Remember to “fall back” by setting your clocks back one hour. (The exceptions are Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.) Credit for Daylight Saving Time belongs to Benjamin Franklin, who first suggested the idea in 1784. The idea was revived in 1907, when William Willett, an Englishman, proposed a similar system in the pamphlet The Waste of Daylight. The Germans were the first to officially adopt the light-extending system in 1915 as a fuel-saving measure during World War I. The British switched one year later, and the United States followed in 1918, when Congress passed the Standard Time Act, which established our time zones. This experiment lasted only until 1920, when the law was repealed due to opposition from dairy farmers (cows don’t pay attention to clocks). During World War II, Daylight Saving Time was imposed once again (this time year-round) to save fuel. Since then, Daylight Saving Time has been used on and off, with different start and end dates. Currently, Daylight Saving Time begins at 2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday of March and ends at 2:00 A.M. on the first Sunday in November.
Every Year
1860s
1870s
- 1873: ALEXANDER MACKENZIE BECAME THE SECOND PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA
- 1874: IN A CARTOON BY THOMAS NAST, THE ELEPHANT WAS FIRST USED TO REPRESENT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
1880s
1890s
1900s
1910s
- BORN 1913: ALBERT CAMUS (WRITER)
- DIED 1913: ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE (NATURALIST)
- BORN 1918: BILLY GRAHAM (EVANGELIST)
1920s
1930s
1940s
- 1941: BETTE DAVIS BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES IN HOLLYWOOD
- BORN 1942: JOHNNY RIVERS (SINGER)
- BORN 1943: JONI MITCHELL (SINGER)
- 1944: PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT WAS RE-ELECTED FOR A FOURTH TERM
1950s
1960s
- DIED 1962: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT (U.S. FIRST LADY)
- 1963: ELSTON HOWARD WON AMERICAN LEAGUE’S MOST VALUABLE PLAYER AWARD
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
- DIED 2004: HOWARD KEEL (ACTOR)
- 2006: THE FIRST FEMALE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, NANCY PELOSI, WAS ELECTED
2010s
- DIED 2011: JOE FRAZIER (BOXER)
- 2012: A MAGNITUDE-6.3 EARTHQUAKE STRUCK OFF THE COAST OF VANCOUVER ISLAND, CANADA
- DIED 2017: ROY HALLADAY (BASEBALL PLAYER)
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