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 […]

KENTUCKY DERBY America’s most famous horse race, the Kentucky Derby, has been held continuously since 1875 at Louisville, Kentucky, and has become one of the country’s largest civic celebrations (and betting opportunity). Not bad when you consider that the event lasts only two minutes! Modeled […]

NATIONAL ARBOR DAY “Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.” These are the words of J. Sterling Morton, the originator of the Arbor Day idea. He was among the many pioneers […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS ABC’s Wide World of Sports was an American sports anthology television program that aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) from April 29, 1961 to January 3, 1998, primarily on Saturday afternoons. Hosted by Jim McKay, with a succession of co-hosts beginning in 1987, the title continued to be […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS  Robinson scouted for the Detroit Pistons for 28 years, and worked 22 years for the Detroit Lions as a part-time scout. Robinson, who is a member of seven athletic halls of fame, was also the first black high school coach in Michigan, winning two state championships […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Ruth Marianna Handler (née Mosko; November 4, 1916 – April 27, 2002) was an American businesswoman and inventor. She served as the president of the toy manufacturer Mattel Inc., In 1959, she invented the Barbie doll, which sold over a billion worldwide. She was the founder […]

1560s 1564: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BAPTIZED 1780s BORN 1785: JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (NATURALIST) 1800s 1803: METEORITES FELL ON THE TOWN OF L’AIGLE, FRANCE 1820s BORN 1822: FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED (LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT) 1860s DIED 1865: JOHN WILKES BOOTH, ASSASSIN OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, WAS SHOT BY FEDERAL TROOPS […]

1900s 1901: NEW YORK BECAME FIRST STATE TO REQUIRE AUTO LICENSE PLATES 1910s BORN 1917: ELLA FITZGERALD (SINGER) 1920s BORN 1923: MELISSA HAYDEN (BALLERINA) 1928: THE FIRST GUIDE DOG, BUDDY, WAS PRESENTED TO MORRIS FRANK 1940s 1940: FIRST CIRCUS TELECAST BORN 1940: AL PACINO (ACTOR) […]

ST. VALENTINE Although a Christian bishop named Valentine was martyred on February 14 in A.D. 271, there is nothing in this legend to account for the custom of choosing a sweetheart on this day.By the early 1600s, handmade valentines were customarily sent from admirers to […]

Every Year GET A DIFFERENT NAME DAY 1580s 1588: ASTRONOMER TYCHO BRAHE OUTLINED HIS SOLAR SYSTEM STRUCTURE 1860s 1866: JESSE JAMES ROBBED HIS FIRST BANK 1867: STRAUSS’S BLUE DANUBE PREMIERED IN VIENNA 1870s 1875: FIRST U.S. QUINTUPLETS BORN, IN WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN 1880s BORN 1885: BESS […]

ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY The 16th president of the United States was born on the morning of Sunday, February 12, 1809, in a one-room, 16×18-foot, log cabin with a dirt floor. Called Sinking Spring Farm, the land was situated near Hodgenville, Kentucky. Abe’s father, Thomas, was […]

Every Year NATIONAL INVENTORS’ DAY (UNITED STATES) 1570s 1573: SIR FRANCIS DRAKE CLIMBED TREE AND SAW PACIFIC OCEAN FOR FIRST TIME, ISTHMUS OF PANAMA 1800s 1808: FIRST USE OF ANTHRACITE COAL AS A HOUSEHOLD FUEL 1830s 1836: MOUNT HOLYOKE SEMINARY, THE FIRST U.S. COLLEGE FOR […]

1720s 1720: EDMOND HALLEY BECAME SECOND ASTRONOMER ROYAL OF ENGLAND 1760s 1763: FRANCE CEDED CANADA TO ENGLAND AT THE TREATY OF PARIS, ENDING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR 1840s 1840: QUEEN VICTORIA OF THE UNITED KINGDOM MARRIED PRINCE ALBERT OF SAXE COBURG-GOTHA 1841: ACT OF […]

1770s BORN 1773: WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON (9TH U.S. PRESIDENT) 1810s 1811: ROBERT FULTON RECEIVED PATENT FOR STEAMBOAT IMPROVEMENTS 1860s 1861: JEFFERSON DAVIS NAMED PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA BORN 1866: GEORGE ADE (HUMORIST) 1870s 1870: U.S. WEATHER BUREAU ESTABLISHED BY CONGRESS AS PART […]

COURTESY WIKIPEDIA COMMONS: The Boy Scouts of America (BSA, colloquially the Boy Scouts) is the largest scouting organization and one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with about 2.3 million youth participants and about one million adult volunteers. The BSA was founded in 1910, and since then, about 110 million Americans participated in […]

1800s BORN 1804: JOHN DEERE (FARM EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER) 1810s BORN 1812: CHARLES DICKENS (AUTHOR) 1820s 1827: MADAME FRANCISQUY HUTIN FIRST INTRODUCED BALLET IN THE U.S. WHEN SHE STAGED THE DESERTER AT THE BOWERY THEATER IN NEW YORK CITY 1860s BORN 1867: LAURA INGALLS WILDER (AUTHOR) […]

1630s 1631: RELIGIOUS LEADER ROGER WILLIAMS ARRIVED IN AMERICA (BOSTON) 1780s BORN 1784: NANCY HANKS LINCOLN (MOTHER OF U.S. PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN) 1840s 1840: FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION 1846: THE OREGON SPECTATOR WAS THE FIRST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED ON THE PACIFIC COAST […]

Every Year NATIONAL FREEDOM DAY (UNITED STATES) MONTH OF FEBRUARY 1700s 1709: ALEXANDER SELKIRK, A SCOTTISH SAILOR, WAS FOUND ON AN ISLAND WHERE HE HAD BEEN STRANDED FOR OVER 4 YEARS. HIS EXPERIENCE WAS THE BASIS FOR DANIEL DEFOE’S NOVEL, “ROBINSON CRUSOE” 1790s 1791: FIRST […]

1770s 1776: THOMAS PAINE PUBLISHED COMMON SENSE, A PAMPHLET CALLING FOR INDEPEDENCE FROM ENGLAND DIED 1778: CAROLUS LINNAEUS (BOTANIST) 1860s 1861: FLORIDA SECEDED FROM THE UNION (U.S. CIVIL WAR) 1863: THE FIRST LINE OF LONDON’S UNDERGROUND TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM OPENED 1870s 1870: STANDARD OIL COMPANY WAS […]