Every Year

• DIED : ALEXANDER THE GREAT (KING OF MACEDONIA)

1520s

• 1525: THEOLOGIAN MARTIN LUTHER WED KATHARINA VON BORA

1860s

• BORN 1865: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (POET)

1900s

• 1900: THE BOXER REBELLION BEGAN IN CHINA

1920s

• BORN 1926: PAUL LYNDE (ACTOR)

1930s

• 1933: THE FIRST SODIUM VAPOR LAMPS WERE INSTALLED ON BALLTOWN ROAD, IN SCHENECTADY, N.Y.

1940s

• 1940: THE BOSTON RED SOX AND THE CHICAGO CUBS BECAME THE FIRST MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAMS TO PLAY AT DOUBLEDAY FIELD IN COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK, IN THE HALL OF FAME GAME
• BORN 1943: MALCOLM MACDOWELL (ACTOR)
• 1944: GERMANY’S HIGHLY PUBLICIZED “SECRET WEAPON,” THE FLYING BOMB, WAS DROPPED ON ENGLISH TARGETS FOR THE FIRST TIME

1950s

• BORN 1951: RICHARD EARL THOMAS (ACTOR)
• BORN 1953: TIM ALLEN (ACTOR)

1960s

• 1966: THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT RULED IN MIRANDA V. ARIZONA THAT THE POLICE MUST INFORM SUSPECTS OF THEIR RIGHTS BEFORE QUESTIONING THEM
• 1967: THURGOOD MARSHALL NOMINATED TO U.S. SUPREME COURT
• BORN 1968: DAVID GRAY (MUSICIAN)

1970s

• BORN 1978: ETHAN EMBRY (ACTOR)

1980s

• BORN 1981: CHRIS EVANS (ACTOR)
• 1983: PIONEER 10, AN UNMANNED U.S. SPACE PROBE, BECAME THE FIRST MAN-MADE OBJECT TO LEAVE THE SOLAR SYSTEM WHEN IT CROSSED THE ORBIT OF NEPTUNE
• DIED 1986: BENNY GOODMAN (MUSICIAN)
• BORN 1986: MARY-KATE AND ASHLEY OLSEN (ACTRESSES)
• DIED 1987: GERALDINE PAGE (ACTRESS)

2000s

• DIED 2005: LANE SMITH (ACTOR)
• 2005: A 7.9-MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE SHOOK CHILE
• DIED 2008: TIM RUSSERT (MODERATOR FOR NBC’S MEET THE PRESS)

2010s

• 2012: SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS PITCHER MATT CAIN THREW A PERFECT GAME; A FIRST FOR THE FRANCHISE
• 2018: RACCOON COMPLETED CLIMB OF 25-STORY SKYSCRAPER IN ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA

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