EVENT1=1863 - The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect.
EVENT2=1914 - The world's first airline starts operation in St. Petersburg, Florida and is called the St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line.
EVENT3=1975 - Former Attorney General John Mitchell and former Presidential Aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of conspiracy to obstruct the Watergate investigation.
NAME1=Executive, founder, Fox Film Corporation William Fox (1879)
NAME2=Actor Frank Langella (1940)
NAME3=Actor Dana Andrews (1911)
[DATE0102]
TODAY=January 2
EVENT1=1788 - Georgia is admitted to the Union as the 4th state.
EVENT2=1863 - The Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee is a Union victory.
EVENT3=1989 - One of the largest inland oil spills in history occurs in the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
NAME1=Director Dziga Vertov (1896)
[DATE0103]
TODAY=January 3
EVENT1=1847 - The California town of Yerba Buena is renamed San Francisco.
EVENT2=1959 - Alaska becomes the 49th U.S. state.
EVENT3=1990 - General Manuel Noriega surrenders to the Americans and is extradited to Florida on charges of drug trafficking.
NAME1=Actor Dabney Coleman (1932)
NAME2=Musician Stephan Stills (1945)
NAME3=Actor Mel Gibson (1956)
[DATE0104]
TODAY=January 4
EVENT1=1754 - Kings College is founded in New York and will later be called Columbia University.
EVENT2=1884 - The first recorded successful appendix removal takes place.
EVENT3=1896 - Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah is admitted to the Union as the 45th state.
NAME1=Actress Jane Wyman (1914)
NAME2=Inventor Louise Braille (1909)
NAME3=Actress Dyan Cannon (1937)
[DATE0105]
TODAY=January 5
EVENT1=1776 - The assembly of New Hampshire adopts the first state constitution.
EVENT2=1782 - British forces withdraw from Wilmington, Delaware as part of the plan to evacuate all American towns occupied during the Revolutionary War.
EVENT3=1925 - The first woman governor in the U.S. is Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming.
NAME1=Actor, director Robert Duvall (1931)
NAME2=Actress, director Diane Keaton (1945)
[DATE0106]
TODAY=January 6
EVENT1=1759 - George Washington marries Martha Curtis.
EVENT2=1838 - The telegraph is publicly tested for the first time.
EVENT3=1994 - In Detroit, Nancy Kerrigan, America's leading contender for an Olympic figure skating gold medal, is attacked and wounded in the knee following practice. An investigation of the incident pointed to Kerrigan's rival skater, Tonya Harding, as being involved in the plot.
NAME1=Actress Loretta Young (1913)
[DATE0107]
TODAY=January 7
EVENT1=1789 - The first national elections are held in the U.S., and the Presidential winner is George Washington.
EVENT2=1916 - Responding to U.S. pressure, Germany pledges to abide by the international rules of naval warfare.
EVENT3=1986 - President Reagan announces that the U.S. will sever economic ties with Libya.
NAME1=13th President of the United States Millard Fillmore (1800)
NAME2=Actor Vincent Gardenia (1922)
NAME3=Singer, songwriter Kenny Loggins (1947)
NAME4=Actor Nicholas Cage (1964)
[DATE0108]
TODAY=January 8
EVENT1=1815 - Andrew Jackson defeats the British at the Battle of New Orleans.
EVENT2=1867 - African American males are given the right to vote in the U.S.
EVENT3=1918 - President Woodrow Wilson presents fourteen specific war aims for World War I, and these later become the basis of the Treaty of Versailles which ends the war.
NAME1=Singer, guitarist, actor Elvis Aron Presley (1935)
NAME2=Singer Shirley Bassey (1937)
NAME3=Musician David Bowie (1947)
NAME4=Actor, director Jose Ferrer (1912)
[DATE0109]
TODAY=January 9
EVENT1=1626 - Peter Minuit sets sail from Amsterdam on a voyage to Manhattan.
EVENT2=1793 - The first balloon flight in the U.S. is made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
EVENT3=1992 - President George Bush vomits and passes out due to a stomach virus in the middle of a state dinner in Japan.
NAME1=37th United States president Richard M. Nixon (1913)
NAME2=Writer, feminist Simone de Beauvoir (1908)
NAME3=Musician Jimmy Page (1944)
[DATE0110]
TODAY=January 10
EVENT1=1776 - Thomas Paine publishes "Common Sense" in which he states the case for American independence from England.
EVENT2=1881 - Barbed wire is patented by O. P. Briggs.
EVENT3=1901 - In Beaumont, Texas, the discovery of oil at Spindletop marks the beginning of oil finds in the state.
NAME1=Actor Ray Bolger (1904)
NAME2=Musician Rod Stewart (1945),
[DATE0111]
TODAY=January 11
EVENT1=1861 - Alabama secedes from the Union.
EVENT2=1935 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean, flying from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California.
EVENT3=1964 - The U.S. Surgeon General announces that smoking may harm health.
NAME1=Writer Alan Paton (1903)
[DATE0112]
TODAY=January 12
EVENT1=1792 - Thomas Pickney is appointed the first minister to Great Britain from the U.S.
EVENT2=1932 - Hattie Caraway takes her late husband's Arkansas Senate seat and later will become the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
EVENT3=1991 - The House and Senate authorize President George Bush to use force to expel Iraq from Kuwait.
NAME1=Actress Kirstie Alley (1955)
NAME2=Actress Penelope Ann Miller (1964)
[DATE0113]
TODAY=January 13
EVENT1=1857 - The first railway track scale is patented by E. & T. Fairbanks and Company of St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
EVENT2=1942 - Henry Ford obtains a patent for a plastic automobile body.
EVENT3=1966 - Robert C. Weaver is appointed the first African American U.S. Cabinet Member.
NAME1=Actor Robert Stack (1919)
NAME2=Actor Kevin Anderson (1960)
[DATE0114]
TODAY=January 14
EVENT1=1784 - The Revolutionary War formally ends with the ratification of the Treaty of Paris.
EVENT2=1914 - The assembly line is introduced by Henry Ford.
EVENT3=1943 - Churchill and Roosevelt begin ten days of meetings in Casablanca to discuss strategy for World War II.
NAME1=Singer, songwriter Neil Diamond (1941)
NAME2=Actress Faye Dunaway (1941)
NAME3=Director, screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan (1949)
[DATE0115]
TODAY=January 15
EVENT1=1680 - French explorer Sieur de La Salle erects Fort Crevecoeur on the Illinois River.
EVENT2=1778 - Captain Cook discovers the Hawaiian Islands.
EVENT3=1991 The United States and its allies officially go to war against the nation of Iraq.
NAME1=Actor Lloyd Bridges (1913)
[DATE0116]
TODAY=January 16
EVENT1=1778 - France recognizes American independence.
EVENT2=1920 - The 18th U.S. Constitutional Amendment (prohibiting alcohol) goes into effect and will later be the only Amendment to be repealed.
EVENT3=1944 - General Dwight Eisenhower assumes the post of Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force.
NAME1=Director, screenwriter Alain Jessud (1932)
NAME2=Director John Carpenter (1948)
[DATE0117]
TODAY=January 17
EVENT1=1778 - The U.S. purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million.
EVENT2=1955 - The first atomic-powered submarine, the Nautilus, is launched by the U.S. Navy.
EVENT3=1994 - An earthquake registering 6.6 on the Richter Scale rocked the city of Los Angeles at 4:31 am, destroying property and transportation systems throughout the area.
NAME1=Inventor, statesman Benjamin Franklin (1706)
NAME2=Actor James Earl Jones (1931)
NAME3=Musician Paul Young (1956)
[DATE0118]
TODAY=January 18
EVENT1=1896 - The first x-ray machine is exhibited in the U.S. at Casino Chambers, New York City.
EVENT2=1944 - E. B. Kan of Chicago, Illinois becomes the first Chinese person to be granted U.S. citizenship .
EVENT3=1986 - The first Hispanic American astronaut, Franklin Chang-Diaz, is aboard the space shuttle Columbia's six-day mission.
NAME1=Actor, comedian Oliver Hardy (1892)
NAME2=Actor Danny Kaye (1913)
NAME3=Actor Kevin Costner (1955)
[DATE0119]
TODAY=January 19
EVENT1=1903 - The first radio message is transmitted from the U.S. to Great Britain.
EVENT2=1955 - The first televised Presidential press conference takes place with President Eisenhower.
EVENT3=1987 - Amy Carter, daughter of former President Jimmy Carter, is charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct in a demonstration at the University of Massachusetts.
NAME1=Writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809)
NAME2=Musician Phil Everly (1938)
NAME3=Singer Janis Joplin (1943)
NAME4=Actress, singer Dolly Parton (1945)
[DATE0120]
TODAY=January 20
EVENT1=1892 - The first game of basketball is played in Springfield, Massachusetts.
EVENT2=1946 - The Central Intelligence Group, later to become the Central Intelligence Agency, is established by President Truman.
EVENT3=1981 - Ronald Reagan becomes the 40th U.S. President.
NAME4=Director, writer, actor Dolph Lundgren (1935),
[DATE0121]
TODAY=January 21
EVENT1=1880 - The first sewage disposal system in a U.S city is established in Memphis, Tennessee.
EVENT2=1930 - The first Buck Rogers comic strip is published in the U.S.
EVENT3=1954 - The first submarine christened by a First Lady, Mamie Eisenhower, is the Nautilus.
NAME1=Actor, director Robbie Benson (1956)
NAME2=Actress Geena Davis (1957)
[DATE0122]
TODAY=January 22
EVENT1=1789 - The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy, is published.
EVENT2=1917 - President Wilson calls for a league of peace to promote the resolution of conflicts.
EVENT3=1987 - Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, convicted on corruption charges, takes his own life at a news conference.
NAME1=Actor Robert Young (1907)
NAME2=Actress Ann Sothern (1909)
NAME3=Actress Piper Laurie (1932)
NAME4=Actor John Hurt (1940)
NAME5=Actress Linda Blair (1959)
[DATE0123]
TODAY=January 23
EVENT1=1789 - Father John Carroll founds Georgetown University, the first Catholic college in the U.S.
EVENT2=1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first American woman to receive an M.D. degree.
EVENT3=1992 Secretary of State James Baker announces a program to airlift food and other relief supplies to the new nations which formerly composed the Soviet republics.
NAME1=Actor Humphrey Bogart (1899)
NAME2=Actor Rutger Hauer (1944)
[DATE0124]
TODAY=January 24
EVENT1=1848 - James W. Marshall's gold find in the lower Sacramento Valley starts the California gold rush.
EVENT2=1881 - Income tax laws are found to be constitutional by the Supreme Court.
EVENT3=1935 - Beer is sold in cans by the Kruger Brewing Company in Newark, New Jersey.
NAME1=Author Edith Wharton (1899)
NAME2=Actor Ernest Borgnine (1917)
NAME3=Musician Warren Zevon (1947)
NAME4=Actor Michael Ontkean (1950)
NAME5=Actress Natassja Kinski (1960)
[DATE0125]
TODAY=January 25
EVENT1=1898 - The battleship Maine arrives in the Havana, Cuba harbor to protect the interests of Americans who are being brutalized by the Spanish government.
EVENT2=1989 - A Colombian jetliner runs out of fuel over Long Island, New York and crashes, killing 73 passengers.
EVENT3=1991 The state of Utah enacts the toughest anti-abortion law in the nation.
NAME1=Author W. Somerset Maugham (1874)
NAME2=Actress Helen Redding (1942)
[DATE0126]
TODAY=January 26
EVENT1=1679 - The keel of the Groffins, the first vessel to be built in North American waters, is laid.
EVENT2=1802 - The first Congressional Library is founded and has one librarian and one room in Congress.
EVENT3=1863 - Secretary of War authorizes the governor of Massachusetts to recruit African American troops.
NAME1=Actor, director Paul Newman (1925)
NAME2=Actor Scott Glenn (1942)
NAME3=Musician Eddie Van Halen (1957)
[DATE0127]
TODAY=January 27
EVENT1=1862 - President Lincoln issues General War Order 1, calling for a general Union offensive.
EVENT2=1967 - Fire breaks out in the sealed Apollo 1 space capsule during pre-flight simulation and kills astronauts Gus Grisson, Edward White and Roger Chaffee.
EVENT3=1973 - Formal peace accords are signed in Paris by North Vietnam, South Vietnam, the U.S. and the National Liberation Front.
NAME1=Composer Jerome Kern (1885)
NAME2=Singer Bobby "Blue" Bland (1930)
NAME3=Dancer, actor Mikhail Baryshnikov (1947)
[DATE0128]
TODAY=January 28
EVENT1=1934 - The first ski lift operated in the U.S. is at Woodstock, Vermont.
EVENT2=1986 - The space shuttle Challenger explodes after takeoff.
EVENT3=1991 - American football legend Red Grange, "The Galloping Ghost," dies at the age of seventy-eight.
NAME1=Actor Alan Alda (1936)
[DATE0129]
TODAY=January 29
EVENT1=1861 - Kansas is admitted to the Union as the 34th state.
EVENT2=1936 - The Baseball Hall of Fame is established in Cooperstown, New York.
EVENT3=1963 - Robert Frost, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, dies.
NAME1=25th president of the United States William McKinley (1843)
NAME2=Actress Katherine Ross (1942)
NAME3=Actor Tom Selleck (1945)
[DATE0130]
TODAY=January 30
EVENT1=1815 - The U.S. purchases Thomas Jefferson's library as the nucleus of the Library of Congress.
EVENT2=1862 - The Union ironclad ship Monitor is launched.
EVENT3=1917 - In the U.S., the first jazz record is cut.
NAME1=32nd president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882)
NAME2=Actor Gene Hackman (1930)
NAME3=Actress Vanessa Redgrave (1937)
[DATE0131]
TODAY=January 31
EVENT1=1867 - The first Elective Franchise Act is passed in the U.S. and provides that there should be no denial of elective franchises to any U.S. citizen on account of his race, color or previous conditions of servitude.
EVENT2=1957 - The U.S. launches its first artificial Earth satellite Explorer I.
EVENT3=1991 - Trans World Airlines (T.W.A.) declares bankruptcy. The airline, which is facing over $1 billion in debts, continues to fly however.
NAME1=Comedian, actor, signer Eddie Cantor (1892)
NAME2=Actor Norman Mailer (1923)
NAME3=Guitarist Andy Summers (1943)
NAME4=Guitarist John Paul Jones (1946)
NAME5=Musician Phil Collins (1951)
[DATE0201]
TODAY=February 1
EVENT1=1790 - The first meeting of the U.S. Supreme Court takes place in New York City with Chief Justice John Jay presiding.
EVENT2=1893 - Thomas Edison finishes building the world's first moving picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
EVENT3=1978 - The first African American woman honored with a U.S. postage stamp is Harriet Tubman.
NAME1=Director John Ford (1895)
NAME2=Actor Clark Gable (1901)
NAME3=Musician Don Everly (1937)
NAME4=Musician Graham Nash (1942)
[DATE0202]
TODAY=February 2
HOLIDAY=Groundhog Day
EVENT1=1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, between the U.S. and Mexico, gives the U.S. Texas, Arizona and California.
EVENT2=1901 - The Army Nurse Corp. is formed.
EVENT3=1934 - President Franklin Roosevelt establishes the Export-Import Bank of Washington.
NAME1=Author James Joyce (1882)
NAME2=Actor Burt Reynolds (1935)
NAME3=Actress Holly Hunter (1948)
[DATE0203]
TODAY=February 3
EVENT1=1917 - President Wilson severs diplomatic relations with Germany.
EVENT2=1923 - Lassen Peak, a volcano in California, erupts.
EVENT3=1947 - Snag Airport, in the Yukon reports record cold for North America of minus 81 degrees Fahrenheit.
NAME1=Actress Blythe Danner (1943)
NAME2=Musician Johnny Winter (1944)
NAME3=Director Lizzie Borden (1954)
[DATE0204]
TODAY=February 4
EVENT1=1783 - Great Britain officially declares an end to the hostilities in America.
EVENT2=1865 - Robert E. Lee is named commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army.
EVENT3=1941 - The United Service Organization (USO) is formed to serve the social, educational, welfare and religious needs of members of the armed forces.
EVENT1=1945 - Under General MacArthur, U.S. troops enter Manila.
EVENT2=1974 - Patricia Hearst, daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped in San Francisco by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
EVENT3=1987 - 438 people are arrested in a protest at the nuclear test site in Mercury, Nevada.
NAME1=Baseball player Hank Aaron (1882)
NAME2=Actor John Carradine (1906)
NAME3=Musician Al Kooper (1944)
NAME4=Actor Christopher Guest (1948)
NAME5=Actress Barbara Hershey (1948)
[DATE0206]
TODAY=February 6
EVENT1=1899 - The Spanish-American War is ended.
EVENT2=1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is formed.
EVENT3=1956 - Autherine Lucy becomes the first African American student to enroll in the University of Alabama.
NAME1=Baseball player Babe Ruth (1895)
NAME2=Actor and 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan (1911)
NAME3=Actor, director Rip Torn (1931)
NAME4=Singer, actor Fabian (1943)
NAME5=Singer, pianist Natalie Cole (1950)
NAME6=Actor, director Robert Townshend ( 1957)
[DATE0207]
TODAY=February 7
EVENT1=1915 - The first wireless message sent from a moving train to a station is received.
EVENT2=1964 - The Beatles arrive in the U.S.
EVENT3=1984 - Captain Bruce McCandless is the first astronaut to go freely into space without a lifeline as he leaves the space shuttle Challenger.
NAME1=Author Charles Dickens (1812)
NAME2=Novelist Sinclair Lewis (1885)
NAME3=Actor James Spader (1960)
[DATE0208]
TODAY=February 8
EVENT1=1693 - The College of William and Mary is the 2nd college in the U.S. to be chartered.
EVENT2=1861 - The Confederate States of America are formed.
EVENT3=1898 - The first envelope folding and gumming machine is patented by John Ames Sherman of Worcester, Massachusetts.
NAME1=Actress Lana Turner (1920)
NAME2=Actor Jack Lemmon (1925)
NAME3=Actor James Dean (1931)
NAME4=Actor Nick Nolte (1941)
NAME5=Actress Brooke Adams (1949)
[DATE0209]
TODAY=February 9
EVENT1=1775 - English Parliament declares the colony of Massachusetts to be in a state of rebellion.
EVENT2=1861 - Jefferson Davis is elected President of the Confederate States of America.
EVENT3=1971 - In Southern California an earthquake causes the deaths of 61 people.
NAME1=9th president of the United States, William Henry Harrison (1773)
NAME2=Singer, dancer, actress Carmen Miranda (1909)
NAME3=Singer, songwriter Carole King (1942)
NAME4=Novelist, poet Alice Walker (1944)
NAME5=Actress Mia Farrow (1945)
[DATE0210]
TODAY=February 10
EVENT1=1870 - The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in New York City.
EVENT2=1947 - Italy signs a peace treaty with the U.S., Great Britain, France and the U.S.S.R.
EVENT3=1961 - The Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power.
NAME1=Actor, screenwriter W.C. Fields (1879)
NAME2=Actress Dame Judith Anderson (1898)
NAME3=Playwright Berthold Brecht (1898)
NAME4=Director Michael Apted (1941)
[DATE0211]
TODAY=February 11
EVENT1=1752 - The Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the first American hospital.
EVENT2=1768 - Samuel Adams writes a circular letter to spread opposition to the Townshend Act, a new series of taxes on the American colonies.
EVENT3=1790 - The Society of Friends presents a petition to Congress calling for the abolition of slavery.
NAME1=1st president of the United States, George Washington (1732)
NAME2=Inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847)
[DATE0212]
TODAY=February 12
EVENT1=1733 - James Oglethorpe lands at present-day Georgia.
EVENT2=1908 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is formed.
EVENT3=1992 - Democratic Presidential candidate Bill Clinton releases the text of a 1969 letter in which he thanks a U.S. Army Colonel for "saving me from the draft."
NAME1=16th president of the United States Abraham Lincoln (1809)
NAME3=Politician, former singer and songwriter Sonny Bono (1935)
NAME4=Actress Maud Adams (1945)
[DATE0213]
TODAY=February 13
EVENT1=1635 - The first public schools in America open in Boston, Massachusetts.
EVENT2=1875 - The first birth of quintuplets in the U.S. takes place in Watertown, Wisconsin.
EVENT3=1969 - J. L. Searles III of New York City is the first African American member of the New York Stock Exchange.
NAME1=Actress Kim Novak (1933)
NAME2=Actor George Segal (1934)
NAME3=Actress Stockard Channing (1944)
NAME4=Actor David Naughton (1951)
NAME5=Musician Henry Rollins (1962)
[DATE0214]
TODAY=February 14
HOLIDAY=Valentine's Day
EVENT1=1849 - President Polk is the first U.S. president in office to be photographed.
EVENT2=1859 - Oregon is admitted to the Union as the 33rd state.
EVENT3=1865 - The first Congressional Directory is published by the U.S. Government.
EVENT4=1929 - Six gangsters are machine gunned to death in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
NAME1=Actor Roger Moore (1927)
NAME2=Director, writer Alan Parker (1944)
NAME3=Dancer, actor Gregory Hines (1945)
[DATE0215]
TODAY=February 15
EVENT1=1898 - The battleship Maine mysteriously explodes while in the Havana, Cuba harbor. Although no clear evidence of foul play could be produced, this event would lead to the Spanish-American War.
EVENT2=1933 - Franklin Roosevelt escapes an assassination attempt by Giuseppe Zangara in Miami, Florida.
EVENT3=1992 - A Milwaukee, Wisconsin jury rejects mass murderer Jeffrey Dahmer's insanity plea and holds him responsible for the brutal sex-torture murders of at least fifteen people. The judge sentences him to fifteen consecutive life prison terms.
NAME1=Actor John Barrymore (1882)
NAME2=Actor Kevin McCarthy (1914)
NAME3=Singer Melissa Manchester (1951)
[DATE0216]
TODAY=February 16
EVENT1=1760 - Native American hostages held in Fort Prince George, South Carolina are killed in retaliation for continued Cherokee raids.
EVENT2=1838 - A law is passed in Kentucky permitting women to attend school under certain conditions.
EVENT3=1937 - Nylon is patented by W. H. Carothers.
NAME1=Actor, director John Schlesinger (1926)
NAME2=Author Henry Adams (1938)
[DATE0217]
TODAY=February 17
EVENT1=1621 - Miles Standish is appointed first military commander of Plymouth Colony.
EVENT2=1876 - The first sardines are canned in Eastport, Maine at the Wolff & Reesing Cannery.
EVENT3=1913 - Modern Art is officially introduced to America with an exhibition in the 69th Regiment Armory in New York.
EVENT1=1793 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that a citizen of one state may sue a citizen of another state in Federal Court.
EVENT2=1930 - The planet Pluto is discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
EVENT3=1985 - An out-of-court settlement awards General William Westmoreland $120 million in a libel suit brought against CBS for falsely accusing him of misrepresenting the strength of the Vietcong Forces.
NAME1=Actor Jack Palance (1919)
NAME2=Actor George Kennedy (1925)
NAME3=Singer, songwriter Yoko Ono (1933)
NAME4=Actress Cybil Shepherd (1950)
NAME5=Actor John Travolta (1954)
NAME6=Actor Matt Dillon (1964)
[DATE0219]
TODAY=February 19
EVENT1=1674 - The American Dutch colonies are returned to British rule under the Treaty of Westminster.
EVENT2=1807 - The first U.S. Vice President to be arrested is Aaron Burr for organizing an expedition to invade Mexico.
EVENT3=1848 - Thomas Edison patents his invention, the phonograph.
NAME1=Actress Merle Oberon (1911)
NAME2=Actor Lee Marvin (1924)
NAME3=Singer Smokey Robinson (1940)
[DATE0220]
TODAY=February 20
EVENT1=1521 - Ponce de Leon lands in Florida.
EVENT2=1877 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City opens.
EVENT3=1962 - Lieutenant Colonel John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth in the Mercury space capsule.
EVENT1=1882 - The observance of Labor Day starts with a parade in New York City by the Knights of Labor.
EVENT2=1885 - The Washington Monument is dedicated.
EVENT3=1965 - Black Muslim leader Malcolm X is assassinated in New York City.
NAME1=Actor, director Sam Peckinpah (1925)
NAME2=Actress, singer Anne Sheridan (1915)
[DATE0222]
TODAY=February 22
EVENT1=1865 - Wilmington, North Carolina is the last open southern port to fall to Union forces.
EVENT2=1876 - Johns Hopkins University is opened.
EVENT3=1987 - Andy Warhol, pop artist, dies.
NAME1=Director, screenwriter, actor Luis Bunuel (1900)
NAME2=Actor Paul Dooley (1928)
NAME3=Director, producer Jonathan Demme (1944)
NAME4=Actress Drew Barrymore (1975)
[DATE0223]
TODAY=February 23
EVENT1=1861 - Texas secedes from the Union.
EVENT2=1887 - The import of opium from China into the U.S. is forbidden.
EVENT3=1945 - Associated Press photographer, Joe Rosenthal, takes the famous picture of six U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Iwo Jima.
NAME1=Actor, director Peter Fonda (1938)
NAME2=Director Grigor Alexandrov (1903)
[DATE0224]
TODAY=February 24
EVENT1=1761 - Boston lawyer James Otis questions the constitutionality of general search warrants allowed by British customs officials.
EVENT2=1986 - The Nature Conservancy environmental group buys 17 acres of desert in California to protect the world's oldest known plant, a creosote bush.
EVENT3=1989 - A 150-million-year-old fossil egg containing the oldest dinosaur embryo is discovered in Utah.
NAME1=Actor, producer Edward James Olmos (1947)
NAME2=Actress Helen Shaver (1952)
[DATE0225]
TODAY=February 25
EVENT1=1836 - Samuel Colt receives a patent for his revolver.
EVENT2=1913 - The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed, authorizing income tax.
EVENT3=1964 - Cassius Clay wins the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship.
NAME1=Actor and comedian Zeppo Marx (1901)
NAME2=Musician George Harrison (1943)
[DATE0226]
TODAY=February 26
EVENT1=1775 - British troops land in Salem, Massachusetts to capture the arsenal of the colonists, but do not succeed.
EVENT2=1917 - President Wilson asks for permission to arm merchant ships.
EVENT3=1919 - The Grand Canyon becomes a national park.
NAME1=Writer Aldous Huxley (1894)
NAME2=Novelist John Steinbeck (1902)
NAME3=Actor Jackie Gleason (1916)
NAME4=Actress, singer Betty Hutton (1921)
NAME5=Musician Antoine "Fats" Domino (1928)
NAME6=Musician Johnny Cash (1932)
NAME7=Musician Brian Jones (1942)
[DATE0227]
TODAY=February 27
EVENT1=1782 - The House of Commons votes against waging further war on America.
EVENT2=1879 - Saccharin, the artificial sweetener, is discovered by Constantine Fahlberg at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
EVENT3=1973 - Members of the American Indian Movement take over Wounded Knee, South Dakota as a protest to poor treatment of Native Americans.
NAME1=Actress Joanne Woodward (1930)
NAME2=Actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932)
[DATE0228]
TODAY=February 28
EVENT1=1704 - The town of Deerfield, Massachusetts is completely destroyed by the French and Native Americans.
EVENT2=1844 - The gun of the American warship Princeton explodes and kills the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Navy and twelve crew members.
EVENT3=1854 - The U.S. Republican Party is formed.
NAME1=Director Vincent Minelli (1910)
NAME2=Actor Charles Durning (1933)
NAME3=Singer, guitarist Joe South (1942)
NAME4=Actress, singer Bernadette Peters (1948)
NAME5=Actor John Turturro (1957)
[DATE0229]
TODAY=February 29
EVENT1=1940 - Hattie McDaniel, who starred in Gone with the Wind, is the first African American actress to win an Oscar.
EVENT2=1952 - President Truman signs a bill designating September 17 as Annual Citizenship Day.
EVENT3=1968 - Defense Secretary Robert McNamara resigns after concluding that the U.S. cannot win the Vietnam War.
NAME1=Actor Joss Ackland (1928)
[DATE0301]
TODAY=March 1
EVENT1=1698 - Elspeth McEwan is charged with witchcraft in New England, beginning a series of witch hunts throughout the area.
EVENT2=1781 - The United States Articles of Confederation is ratified.
EVENT3=1932 - The Lindbergh baby is kidnapped.
NAME1=Writer William Dean Howells (1837)
NAME2=Actor, author David Niven (1910)
NAME3=Singer, actor Harry Belafonte (1927)
NAME4=Musician Lou Reed (1944)
NAME5=Director, producer Ron Howard (1954)
[DATE0302]
TODAY=March 2
EVENT1=1836 - Texas declares its independence from Mexico.
EVENT2=1889 - The first American electrocutions are performed on dogs, calves and a horse and are declared successful.
EVENT3=1899 - Mt. Rainier National Park is established.
NAME1=Actress Jennifer Jones (1919)
NAME2=Singer Karen Carpenter (1950)
NAME3=Actor Ricky Shroder (1970)
[DATE0303]
TODAY=March 3
EVENT1=1855 - The U.S. Congress approved an appropriation of $30,000 to be placed at the disposal of the Secretary of War for the import of camels to be tested for military purposes.
EVENT2=1931 - "The Star Spangled Banner" is officially declared the national anthem of the U.S.
EVENT3=1991 - Television audiences are shocked by the airing of a home video of several Los Angeles Police Officers beating motorist Rodney King with billy clubs.
NAME1=Actress Jean Harlow (1911)
NAME2=Heavy metal musician John "Ozzy" Osbourne (1946)
[DATE0304]
TODAY=March 4
EVENT1=1681 - William Penn receives a charter from King Charles II, making him proprietor of a large land grant in the Pennsylvania area.
EVENT2=1891 - The International Copyright Act is passed by Congress.
EVENT3=1958 - The U.S. nuclear submarine Nautilus travels under the North Pole ice cap.
NAME1=Singer, musician Bobby Womack (1944)
NAME2=Musician Chris Squire (1948)
[DATE0305]
TODAY=March 5
EVENT1=1770 - During a protest, the Boston Massacre occurs in which five persons are killed by British troops, and the governor agrees to withdraw troops from Boston.
EVENT2=1842 - The Florida legislature passes a resolution requesting their Congressional delegate to press for a law authorizing rewards for Indian scalps and Indians captured.
EVENT3=1946 - Churchill makes a speech in the U.S. warning Western nations to beware of the U.S.S.R. and the Iron Curtain across Europe.
NAME1=7th president of the United States Andrew Jackson (1767)
NAME2=Actor Rex Harrison (1908)
[DATE0306]
TODAY=March 6
EVENT1=1836 - Mexican General Antonio Santa Anna captures the Alamo in Texas.
EVENT2=1854 - A block of marble, sent by Pope Pius IX to be used for the Washington Monument, is destroyed by persons unknown.
EVENT3=1944 - U.S. Air Force begins daylight bombing attacks on Berlin.
NAME1=Actor, vaudevillian Lou Costello (1906)
NAME2=Director, actor Rob Reiner (1945)
[DATE0307]
TODAY=March 7
EVENT1=1825 - Joel R. Poinsett is nominated as the first U.S. minister to Mexico.
EVENT2=1876 - Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his invention of the telephone.
EVENT3=1945 - American forces cross the Rhine River into Germany.
NAME1=Walt Disney Productions CEO Michael D. Eisner (1942)
NAME2=Actor John Heard (1946)
[DATE0308]
TODAY=March 8
EVENT1=1854 - Commodore Perry, representing the U.S., and Japan sign a treaty ending Japan's isolation policy and opening two ports for trade with the U.S.
EVENT2=1911 - New York City Police introduce a new tool, the latent-fingerprint evidence.
EVENT3=1965 - The U.S. lands 3,500 marines in South Vietnam.
NAME1=Actress, dancer Cyd Charisse (1921)
NAME2=Actress Lyn Redgrave (1943)
NAME3=Actor Aidan Quinn (1959)
[DATE0309]
TODAY=March 9
EVENT1=1861 - Confederate currency is authorized by the Confederate Government.
EVENT2=1862 - The Monitor and the Virginia clash in the first battle of two ironclad ships.
EVENT3=1976 - The first female cadets are accepted for admission to West Point Military Academy.
NAME1=Band leader Lloyd Price (1933)
NAME2=Actor Raul Julia (1940)
[DATE0310]
TODAY=March 10
EVENT1=1876 - The first complete, intelligible sentence is transmitted over the telephone as Alexander Graham Bell said to his assistant: "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you."
EVENT2=1969 - James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the shooting death of Martin Luther King Jr. and is sentenced to 99 years in prison.
EVENT3=1971 - The U.S. Senate approves voting for 18 year olds.
NAME1=Musician Andy Gibb (1958)
[DATE0311]
TODAY=March 11
EVENT1=1811 - The wedding of President Madison's sister-in-law is the first to be held in the White House.
EVENT2=1930 - William Howard Taft is the first U.S. President buried in the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
EVENT3=1991 - Walter H. Annenberg bequeaths his art collection worth one billion dollars to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
NAME1=Actress Dorothy Gish (1898)
NAME2=Director, producer Jerry Zucker (1940)
[DATE0312]
TODAY=March 12
EVENT1=1789 - The first U.S. Post Office is opened.
EVENT2=1888 - A blizzard hits the Northeast U.S. and is responsible for great loss of life and widespread destruction.
EVENT3=1947 - President Truman requests aid for Turkey and Greece and sets forth the Truman Doctrine for the containment of Communism.
NAME1=Playwright Edward Albee (1928)
NAME2=Actress, singer Liza Minelli (1946)
NAME3=Singer, songwriter James Taylor (1948)
[DATE0313]
TODAY=March 13
EVENT1=1639 - Harvard University is founded as the first college in the U.S.
EVENT2=1868 - President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial begins; he is later acquitted.
EVENT3=1994 - An artificial element, known as Element 106, is named seaborgium in honor of U.S. Nobel Laureate Dr. Glenn Seaborg.
NAME1=Singer, songwriter Neil Sedaka (1939)
[DATE0314]
TODAY=March 14
EVENT1=1794 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for his cotton gin.
EVENT2=1900 - The U.S. adopts the gold standard.
EVENT3=1964 - Jack Ruby is convicted in Dallas, Texas of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy.
NAME1=Musician Quincy Jones (1933)
NAME2=Actor, comedian Billy Crystal (1947)
[DATE0315]
TODAY=March 15
EVENT1=1781 - British military leader Cornwallis suffers heavy losses and abandons plans to control the Carolinas.
EVENT2=1875 - Archbishop John McCloskey becomes the first U.S. cardinal.
EVENT3=1956 - The longest-running musical in the history of Broadway theater, My Fair Lady, is first performed in New York City.
NAME1=22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland (1837)
EVENT1=1763 - The first St. Patrick's Day Parade is held in New York City.
EVENT2=1898 - The first practical submarine made by John P. Holland is submerged off Staten Island, New York and remains underwater for a little longer than an hour
EVENT3=1950 - The heaviest element, Californium, is discovered by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley.
NAME1=Composer, conductor Alfred Newman (1901)
NAME2=Actor Kurt Russell (1951)
NAME3=Actor Rob Lowe (1964)
[DATE0318]
TODAY=March 18
EVENT1=1673 - Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers.
EVENT2=1944 - Approximately 2,500 women trample guards and floorwalkers in their panic to buy 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago, Illinois department store.
EVENT3=1989 - The largest robbery in the history of art occurs at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, where twelve paintings valued at $100 million are stolen.
NAME1=Novelist John Updike (1932)
NAME2=Singer, songwriter Wilson Pickett (1941)
[DATE0319]
TODAY=March 19
EVENT1=1524 - Giovanni de Varrazano of France sights land near the Carolinas.
EVENT2=1628 - The Massachusetts colony is founded by Englishmen.
EVENT3=1920 - The U.S. Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles.
EVENT2=1899 - The first woman executed by electrocution is M.M. Place in Ossining, New York.
EVENT3=1954 - The first newspaper vending machine is used in Columbia, Pennsylvania.
NAME1=Actress Ursula Andress (1936)
NAME2=Actress Glenn Close (1947)
NAME3=Actor Bruce Willis (1955)
[DATE0321]
TODAY=March 21
EVENT1=1891 - The long standing Hatfield-McCoy feud of West Virginia ends when a son and a daughter, one from each faction, announce their engagement.
EVENT2=1965 - Martin Luther King, Jr. heads a procession of 4,000 civil rights demonstrators from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
EVENT3=1991 - Twenty-seven men are lost at sea when two U.S. Navy anti-submarine planes collide over Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California.
NAME1=Actor Timothy Dalton (1944)
NAME2=Actor Gary Oldman (1958)
[DATE0322]
TODAY=March 22
EVENT1=1765 - The Stamp Act is passed by the English Parliament and is the first direct tax on the American colonies.
EVENT2=1794 - A bill banning slave trade with foreign nations is passed by Congress.
EVENT3=1991 - Federal, state, and local law enforcement officers raid fraternities at the University of Virginia seizing bags of drugs and arresting eleven students.
NAME1=Actor, comedian Chico Marx (1887)
NAME2=Composer, screenwriter Stephen Sondheim (1930)
NAME3=Actor William Shatner (1931)
NAME4=Actor Matthew Modine (1959)
[DATE0323]
TODAY=March 23
EVENT1=1775 - Patrick Henry proclaims: "Give me liberty or give me death."
EVENT2=1858 - The streetcar is patented by E. A. Gardner of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
EVENT3=1868 - The University of California is founded in Oakland, California.
EVENT1=1923 - The Twin Cities are the first cities in the world to have the noiseless roller-bearing street cars.
EVENT2=1965 - Robert F. Kennedy reaches the top of Mt. Kennedy in the Yukon Territory, becoming the first person to scale the highest unclimbed mountain in North America. The mountain was named by the Canadian government in honor of the Senator's brother, the late President John F. Kennedy.
EVENT3=1989 - The Exxon Valdez oil tanker causes a major oil spill in Prince William Sound, off the coast of Alaska.
EVENT1=1609 - Henry Hudson sets out on the seven-month exploration for the Dutch East India Company that takes him to America.
EVENT2=1687 - Governor Andros orders that the Old South Meeting House be converted into an Anglican Church.
EVENT3=1992 - In Washington D.C. members of the U.S. Senate meet with exiled author Salman Rushdie despite a warning from the state department that meeting with him could potentially bring revenge from Muslim extremists.
NAME1=Actor Ed Begley (1901)
NAME2=Singer, songwriter Elton John (1947)
NAME3=Actress Bonnie Bedelia (1952)
[DATE0326]
TODAY=March 26
EVENT1=1790 - The Naturalization Act is passed by Congress and requires a two-year residency for new citizens.
EVENT2=1856 - The first trolley line in the U.S. is opened between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
EVENT3=1992 - Former heavyweight boxing champion of the world Mike Tyson is sentenced to six years in prison for raping an Indiana beauty pageant contestant.
NAME1=Playwright Tennessee Williams (1926)
NAME2=Actor/Director Leonard Nimoy (1931)
NAME3=Actor, director Alan Arkin (1934)
NAME4=Actor, director James Caan (1939)
NAME5=Singer, actress Diana Ross (1944)
NAME6=Musician Steven Tyler (1948)
[DATE0327]
TODAY=March 27
EVENT1=1794 - The U.S. Navy is established by Congress.
EVENT2=1955 - The first U.S. coast-to-coast color television broadcast is shown from New York to California.
EVENT3=1964 - A severe earthquake occurs in Alaska, killing 66 and causing damages of close to $500 million.
NAME1=Actor, director James Cruze (1884)
NAME2=Actor Julian Glover (1935)
[DATE0328]
TODAY=March 28
EVENT1=1886 - Apache Indian leader Geronimo escapes after one day of surrender.
EVENT2=1944 - Singing commercials are banned by radio station WQXR in New York City.
EVENT3=1979 - The Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania nuclear power plant suffers a major accident, and clouds of radioactive steam pour into the atmosphere.
NAME1=Actress Dianne Wiest (1948)
[DATE0329]
TODAY=March 29
EVENT1=1638 - The first Swedish expedition to the New World lands in Delaware.
EVENT2=1848 - Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam blocking the Niagara River in Buffalo, New York.
EVENT3=1973 - The last American ground troops leave Vietnam.
NAME1=10th president of the United States John Tyler (1790)
[DATE0330]
TODAY=March 30
EVENT1=1867 - The U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia for $7 million dollars.
EVENT2=1942 - A directive from Washington, D.C. decrees that men's suits be manufactured without trouser cuffs, pleats and patch pockets for the duration of the war.
EVENT3=1981 - John W. Hinckley shoots and wounds President Ronald Reagan.
NAME1=Actor Warren Beatty (1937)
NAME2=Musician Eric Clapton (1945)
[DATE0331]
TODAY=March 31
EVENT1=1870 - The first African American votes in a municipal election in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
EVENT2=1917 - The U.S. purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark.
EVENT3=1925 - Mt. Rushmore National Memorial is authorized by Congress with sculptor Gutzon Borgium to carve Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt.
