1600s
1640s
1820s
1830s
1870s
1880s
1890s
- BORN 1893: GEORGE SISLER (BASEBALL PLAYER)
- 1896: CLEMENT HARDY WAS ISSUED A PATENT FOR A ROTARY DISK PLOW
1900s
- 1900: NYC MAYOR ROBERT A. VAN WYCK FORMALLY BROKE GROUND FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE NYC SUBWAY SYSTEM
- BORN 1901: UB IWERKS (ANIMATOR, CARTOONIST)
- BORN 1902: THOMAS E. DEWEY (POLITICIAN)
- DIED 1905: JULES VERNE (AUTHOR)
- BORN 1909: CLYDE BARROW (BANK ROBBER)
1910s
1930s
1940s
- 1944: PRESIDENT FDR ISSUED STATEMENT APPEALING TO HUNGARIANS TO HELP JEWS ESCAPE FROM NAZIS (WWII)
- 1944: NICHOLAS ALKEMADE SURVIVED AN 18,000-FOOT FALL FROM A PLANE
1950s
- BORN 1951: TOMMY HILFIGER (FASHION DESIGNER)
- 1955: THE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS PLAY CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF OPENED ON BROADWAY, WITH BARBARA BEL GEDDES AS MAGGIE, BEN GAZARRA AS BRICK, AND BURL IVES AS BIG DADDY
- 1958: ENTERTAINER ELVIS PRESLEY WAS INDUCTED INTO THE U.S. ARMY
- 1959: MASER PATENTED
1960s
- 1965: U.S. SPACECRAFT RANGER 9 CRASH-LANDED PRECISELY ON TARGET IN THE ALPHONSUS CRATER OF THE MOON AFTER TRANSMITTING TO EARTH 5,814 PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE CRATER REGION
- 1965: SENATOR ROBERT KENNEDY WAS FIRST TO REACH SUMMIT OF MT. KENNEDY IN YUKON TERRITORY
1970s
- BORN 1973: JIM PARSONS (ACTOR)
- 1975: THE BEAVER BECAME A SYMBOL OF CANADIAN SOVEREIGNTY
- BORN 1976: PEYTON MANNING (FOOTBALL PLAYER)
1980s
- DIED 1980: ARCHBISHOP OSCAR ROMERO (SALVADORIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST)
- 1986: LIBYAN AND U.S. FORCES EXCHANGED GUNFIRE AFTER U.S. NAVAL PLANES ENTERED A RESTRICTED AREA ACROSS THE GULF OF SIDRA
- 1987: FRENCH PREMIER JACQUES CHIRAC SIGNED A CONTRACT TO BUILD THE FIRST DISNEYLAND-TYPE AMUSEMENT PARK IN EUROPE, ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF PARIS
- 1989: THE LARGEST OIL SPILL IN U.S. HISTORY, INITIALLY ESTIMATED AT 240,000 BARRELS, OCCURRED AFTER THE EXXON VALDEZ STRUCK BLIGH REEF IN ALASKA’S PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND
1990s
2000s
- 2006: BOSTON ARCHBISHOP SEAN O’MALLEY WAS ELEVATED TO CARDINAL AT A CEREMONY IN ST. PETER’S SQUARE IN ROME
- DIED 2008: RICHARD WIDMARK (ACTOR)
2010s
- DIED 2010: ROBERT CULP (ACTOR)
- DIED 2016: GARRY SHANDLING (COMEDIAN)
- DIED 2016: MARIE-CLAIRE KIRKLAND-CASGRAIN (CANADIAN POLITICIAN)
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