Every Year

• US: BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS DAY

1640s

• DIED 1642: GALILEO (ASTRONOMER)

1680s

• BORN 1682: JONATHAN BELCHER (COLONIAL GOVERNOR AND MERCHANT)

1730s

• BORN 1735: JOHN CARROL (FOUNDED GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY)

1790s

• 1790: FIRST STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGE, DELIVERED BY PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON
• 1790: PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON DELIVERED FIRST STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
• 1798: THE 11TH AMENDMENT OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, MODIFYING THE POWER OF THE SUPREME COURT, WAS RATIFIED

1800s

• 1800: FIRST SOUP KITCHENS OPENED IN LONDON FOR THE RELIEF OF THE POOR
• 1806: LEWIS AND CLARK SAW A 105-FOOT-LONG WHALE SKELETON IN NW OREGON

1810s

• 1815: ANDREW JACKSON DEFEATED THE BRITISH AT THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS (WAR OF 1812)

1820s

• BORN 1823: ALFRED WALLACE (NATURALIST)
• DIED 1825: ELI WHITNEY (INVENTOR)

1860s

• BORN 1862: FRANK NELSON DOUBLEDAY (PUBLISHER)

1870s

• 1870: JOSEPH LISTER PUBLISHED THE RESULTS OF HIS STUDY OF ANTISEPTIC SURGICAL METHODS. HIS USE OF CARBOLIC ACID TO STERILIZE INSTUMENTS AND WOUNDS TREBLES THE SURVIVAL RATE OF HIS PATIENTS

1910s

• 1918: PRESIDENT WILSON DELIVERED HIS “FOURTEEN POINTS” SPEECH, SUGGESTING THE CREATION OF A LEAGUE OF NATIONS

1920s

• BORN 1923: LARRY STORCH (ACTOR)

1930s

• BORN 1931: BILL GRAHAM (PRODUCER)
• BORN 1935: ELVIS PRESLEY (SINGER)
• BORN 1938: BOB EUBANKS (GAME SHOW HOST)

1940s

• BORN 1941: GRAHAM CHAPMAN (ACTOR)
• BORN 1942: STEPHEN HAWKING (PHYSICIST)
• BORN 1947: DAVID BOWIE (SINGER)
• BORN 1949: WOLFGANG PUCK (CHEF)

1980s

• BORN 1981: JEFF FRANCIS (BASEBALL PLAYER)
• BORN 1982: GABY HOFFMANN (ACTRESS)
• 1987: THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL STOCK AVERAGE PASSED THE 2,000 MARK

1990s

• DIED 1990: TERRY-THOMAS (COMEDIAN)
• 1996: IN SINGAPORE, A BARGE ACCIDENTALLY RAMMED JACQUES COUSTEAU’S CALYPSO, CAUSING IT TO SINK IN THE HARBOR (IT WAS LATER RAISED)25 Years Ago

2000s

• DIED 2002: DAVE THOMAS (WENDY’S FAST FOOD ENTREPRENEUR)
• DIED 2002: ALEXANDER PROKHOROV (RUSSIAN SCIENTIST WHO SHARED THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS IN 1964 FOR WORK THAT LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LASER)
• DIED 2007: IWAO TAKAMOTO (CARTOONIST; CREATED SCOOBY DOO)
• DIED 2007: YVONNE DE CARLO (ACTRESS BEST KNOWN AS LILY MUNSTER ON THE MUNSTERS)

2010s

• DIED 2010: ART CLOKEY (CREATOR OF GUMBY AND POKEY)

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