EVENT1=1614 - Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
EVENT2=1621 - The Mayflower sets sail on the return trip to England.
EVENT3=1951 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for giving top secret information on nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union.
NAME1=Philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588)
NAME2=Actor Spencer Tracy (1900)
NAME3=Actress Bette Davis (1908)
NAME4=Actor Michael Moriarty (1941)
NAME5=Singer Songwriter Eric Burdon (1941)
[DATE0406]
TODAY=April 6
EVENT1=1830 - Joseph Smith organizes the Church of the Latter-Day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church.
EVENT2=1909 - American explorer Robert Peary and company become the first to reach the North Pole.
EVENT3=1917 - The U.S. declares war on Germany.
NAME1=Composer, conducter Andre Previn (1929)
NAME2=Actor Billy Dee Williams (1937)
NAME3=Reggae musician Bob Marley (1945)
[DATE0407]
TODAY=April 7
EVENT1=1923 - The first operation for a brain tumor under local anesthetic is performed at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City by Dr. K. Winfield Ney.
EVENT2=1927 - The first public demonstration of television is held.
EVENT3=1959 - The first atomic generated electricity is produced in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
NAME1=Actor James Garner (1928)
NAME2=Director Francis Ford Coppola (1939)
NAME3=Poet William Wordsworth (1770)
NAME4=Musician John Oates (1949)
[DATE0408]
TODAY=April 8
EVENT1=1730 - The first Jewish Synagogue in New York City is consecrated.
EVENT2=1865 - General Robert E. Lee surrenders the Confederate Army at Appomatox Court House in Virginia.
EVENT3=1994 - Kurt Cobain, lead singer of the group Nirvana, committs suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in his Seattle, Washington home.
NAME1=Actress Mary Pickford (1893)
NAME2=Singer, musician Julian Lennon (1963)
[DATE0409]
TODAY=April 9
EVENT1=1682 - Explorer Sieur de La Salle claims the Mississippi River Valley for France.
EVENT2=1833 - The first free public library in the U.S. is established in Peterboro, New Hampshire.
EVENT3=1992 - A U.S. Federal court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of cocaine trafficking, money laundering, and racketeering. It is the first time the former head of state in another nation is convicted under United States law.
NAME1=Actor Paul Robeson (1898)
NAME2=Playboy Magazine founder Hugh Hefner (1929)
NAME3=Musician Carl Perkins (1932)
NAME4=Actor Dennis Quaid (1953)
[DATE0410]
TODAY=April 10
EVENT1=1841 - The New York Tribune begins publication under editor Horace Greeley, who has been referred to as the single greatest journalistic influence in America.
EVENT2=1866 - The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is founded.
EVENT3=1869 - Congress increases the number of Supreme Court judges from seven to nine.
NAME1=Actor, director Max von Sydow (1929)
NAME2=Actor Omar Sharif (1932)
[DATE0411]
TODAY=April 11
EVENT1=1783 - Congress declares a formal end to the Revolutionary War.
EVENT2=1865 - In his last public address, Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during the Reconstruction era.
EVENT3=1945 - U.S. troops reach the Elbe River in central Europe.
NAME1=Actor, singer, dancer Joel Grey (1932)
[DATE0412]
TODAY=April 12
EVENT1=1861 - South Carolina forces fire upon Fort Sumter, and the Civil War begins.
EVENT2=1887 - The remains of ex-President Abraham Lincoln are moved from a secret burial lot and re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Illinois.
EVENT3=1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in Warm Springs, Georgia and is succeeded by Harry Truman.
NAME1=Composer Herbie Hancock (1940)
[DATE0413]
TODAY=April 13
EVENT1=1920 - Helen Hamilton is appointed the first woman U.S. Civil Service Commissioner.
EVENT2=1943 - The Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. is dedicated.
EVENT3=1964 - Sidney Poitier, for his role in Lilies of the Field, becomes the first African American actor to win an Oscar.
NAME1=3rd president of the United States Thomas Jefferson (1743)
NAME2=Singer, songwriter Al Green (1946)
[DATE0414]
TODAY=April 14
EVENT1=1828 - The first edition of Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language is published.
EVENT2=1865 - President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth and dies the next day.
EVENT3=1910 - President Taft begins the custom of the President's throwing out the first ball of the baseball season.
NAME1=Actor Rod Steiger (1924)
NAME2=Actor Sir John Gielgud (1904)
[DATE0415]
TODAY=April 15
EVENT1=1861 - President Lincoln declares a state of insurrection.
EVENT2=1912 - The Titanic is struck by an iceberg and sinks; 1,502 people die, including many Americans, because of a lack of life boats.
EVENT3=1923 - The first public sound-on-film performance is shown at the Rialto Theater in New York City.
NAME1=Actress Claudia Cardinale (1939)
[DATE0416]
TODAY=April 16
EVENT1=1789 - George Washington begins an eight-day journey from Mt. Vernon to New York City to head the new government.
EVENT2=1813 - The first mass production factory in the U.S. begins turning out pistols.
EVENT3=1972 - Two giant Pandas arrive in the U.S. as a present from China to President Nixon.
NAME1=Actor, director, screenwriter Charlie Chaplin (1889)
NAME2=Composer, songwriter Henri Mancini (1924)
NAME3=Singer, songwriter, musician Bobby Vinton (1935)
[DATE0417]
TODAY=April 17
EVENT1=1524 - Giovanni de Varrazano of France reaches New York Harbor and discovers the Hudson River.
EVENT2=1964 - Jerrie Mock is the first woman to fly solo around the world, taking 29 days.
EVENT3=1991 - Congress halts a one day railroad strike by appointing a three person panel to hear the differences of the railroads and the workers.
NAME1=Novelist Isak Dinesen (1885)
NAME2=Actor William Holden (1918)
NAME3=Singer, songwriter, musician Eddie Cochran (1960)
[DATE0418]
TODAY=April 18
EVENT1=1853 - Vice President William R. King dies one month after his inauguration, and President Pierce will not have a Vice President during his term in office.
EVENT2=1906 - San Francisco, California is devastated by earthquake and fire.
EVENT3=1956 - Prince Ranier III of Monaco marries American actress Grace Kelly.
NAME1=Writer Thornton Wilder (1897)
NAME2=Actor James Woods (1947)
NAME3=Actor Eric Roberts (1956)
[DATE0419]
TODAY=April 19
EVENT1=1775 - The American Revolutionary War begins in Concord, Massachusetts.
EVENT2=1782 - The Netherlands recognizes America's independence from England.
EVENT3=1987 - The last wild condor captured on a California wildlife reserve is named AC-9.
NAME1=Actor, pianist, composer Dudley Moore (1935)
[DATE0420]
TODAY=April 20
EVENT1=1836 - The Wisconsin Territory is established in the Western part of the Michigan Territory.
EVENT2=1971 - The Supreme Court rules unanimously that busing is the primary means to achieve school integration.
EVENT3=1973 - L. Patrick Gray, acting director of the FBI, resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence connected to Watergate.
NAME1=Actor Harold Lloyd (1893)
NAME2=Actor Ryan O'Neill (1941)
NAME3=Actress Jessica Lange (1949)
NAME4=Singer, songwriter Luther Vandross (1951)
[DATE0421]
TODAY=April 21
EVENT1=1856 - The first railroad bridge is constructed across the Mississippi River.
EVENT2=1954 - The U.S. Air Force flies a French battalion to Vietnam to defend that country against the Vietminh in North Vietnam.
EVENT3=1987 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average soars 66.47 in the second biggest one-day gain in history.
NAME1=Novelist Charlotte Bronte (1816)
NAME2=Actor Anthony Quinn (1915)
NAME3=Actor, playwright Charles Grodin (1935)
[DATE0422]
TODAY=April 22
EVENT1=1864 - "In God We Trust" becomes the U.S. motto.
EVENT2=1892 - The Winstar Institute, the first anatomy school in the U.S., opens.
EVENT3=1898 - Congress passes the Volunteer Army Act which calls for the organization of a first Volunteer Cavalry, which later became known as the Rough Riders.
NAME1=Actor Eddie Albert (1908)
NAME2=Actor Jack Nicholson (1937)
[DATE0423]
TODAY=April 23
EVENT1=1635 - A boundary dispute between Maryland and Virginia causes a naval skirmish off the coast of Virginia.
EVENT2=1985 - The House of Representatives rejects President Reagan's appeal for financial support for the Contra freedom fighters in Nicaragua.
EVENT3=1987 - Chrysler Corporation buys the Italian automaker, Lamborghini.
NAME1=15th President of the United States James Buchanan (1791)
NAME2=Actress, singer Shirley Temple (1928)
NAME3=Musician Roy Orbison (1936)
[DATE0424]
TODAY=April 24
EVENT1=1704 - The first regularly issued newspaper, the Boston News-Letter, is published in the American colonies.
EVENT2=1800 - The Library of Congress is established.
EVENT3=1814 - The British burn Washington, D.C. in the War of 1812.
NAME1=Writer Robert Penn Warren (1905)
NAME2=Actress, author Shirley MacLaine (1934)
NAME3=Actress Jill Ireland (1936)
NAME4=Singer, actress Barbara Streisand (1942)
[DATE0425]
TODAY=April 25
EVENT1=1898 - The U.S. declares that a state of war with Spain has existed since April 21st.
EVENT2=1954 - The first solar battery is invented by Gerald Pearson, Calvin Fuller and Daryl Chapin at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City.
EVENT3=1987 - 100,000 people line up between the White House and the Capitol to protest against U.S. involvement in Central America.
NAME1=Director, actor Paul Mazursky (1930)
NAME2=Actor Al Pacino (1940)
NAME3=Actress Talia Shire (1946)
[DATE0426]
TODAY=April 26
EVENT1=1826 - Rensselaer School in Troy, New York is the first engineering college to be opened in the U.S.
EVENT2=1865 - John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Lincoln, is shot near Bowling Green, Virginia.
EVENT3=1991 More than seventy tornadoes blow across seven midwestern states killing at least twenty people and leaving over 1,000 homeless.
NAME1=Playwright, poet William Shakespeare (1564)
NAME2=Orinthologist John James Audobon (1785)
NAME3=Singer, songwriter Maurice Williams (1938)
NAME4=Musician Duane Eddy (1938)
[DATE0427]
TODAY=April 27
EVENT1=1850 - The first U.S.-owned steamship begins commercial Atlantic crossings.
EVENT2=1865 - Cornell University is incorporated.
EVENT3=1891 - Ground is broken for Grant's Tomb in New York City.
NAME1=18th United States President Ulysses S. Grant (1822)
NAME2=Actress Sandy Dennis (1937)
NAME3=Singer Sheena Easton (1959)
[DATE0428]
TODAY=April 28
EVENT1=1788 - Maryland is admitted to the Union as the 7th state.
EVENT2=1952 - President Truman formally announces an end to the state of war between Japan and the U.S.
EVENT3=1956 - New York Coliseum Exhibit Hall in New York City is opened.
NAME1=5th United States president James Monroe (1758)
NAME2=Actor Lionel Barrymore (1878)
NAME3=Novelist Harper Lee (1925)
NAME4=Actress, singer Ann-Margret (1941)
NAME5=Musician John Fogerty (1945)
[DATE0429]
TODAY=April 29
EVENT1=1900 - Casey Jones has his famous train accident.
EVENT2=1957 - The first nuclear power reactor is dedicated in Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
EVENT3=1992 The worst riots in American history erupt in Los Angeles after four white police officers are aquitted of the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King.
NAME1=Actress Uma Thurman (1970)
[DATE0430]
TODAY=April 30
EVENT1=1788 - George Washington is sworn in as the first President of the U.S.
EVENT2=1803 - France sells the entire Louisiana Territory to the U.S. for $15 million dollars.
EVENT3=1947 - Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
NAME1=Actress Eve Arden (1912)
NAME2=Actress Cloris Leachman (1926)
NAME3=Singer, songwriter Bobby Vee (1943)
[DATE0501]
TODAY=May 1
EVENT1=1871 - The first U.S. postal card is issued.
EVENT2=1915 - German submarines sink the U.S. ship Gulflight.
EVENT3=1931 - The Empire State Building is completed and dedicated.
NAME1=Singer, songwriter Ray Parker, Jr. (1954)
[DATE0502]
TODAY=May 2
EVENT1=1780 - The French set sail to support the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
EVENT2=1969 - Wawona Tunnel Tree, a sequoia in Yosemite National Park, is discovered to have fallen.
EVENT3=1983 - A severe earthquake in central California is the strongest to strike the area in twelve years.
NAME1=Actor Brian Ahern (1902)
[DATE0503]
TODAY=May 3
EVENT1=1765 - The first medical school in the colonies is founded and will later be called the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
EVENT2=1989 - A painting by American artist Jasper Johns, "The Diver," is sold for $4.18 million and nets the highest amount ever paid for a work by a living artist.
EVENT3=1991 - The Exxon Corporation and the state of Alaska withdraw from a $1.1 billion settlement resulting from the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
NAME1=Singer Engelbert Humperdinck (1936)
NAME2=Singer, musician Frankie Valli (1937)
[DATE0504]
TODAY=May 4
EVENT1=1626 - Dutch colonist Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland and settles on Manhattan Island, which he later buys from the Native Americans for about $24 dollars.
EVENT2=1932 - Al Capone, named Public Enemy No. 1 by the Justice Department, is jailed for income tax evasion.
EVENT3=1970 - Four students are killed by National Guardsman during an antiwar demonstration at Kent State University in Ohio.
NAME1=Actress Audrey Hepburn (1929)
[DATE0505]
TODAY=May 5
EVENT1=1925 - John T. Scopes, a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, is arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
EVENT2=1961 - NASA launches Mercury 3 spacecraft carrying Commander Alan B. Shepard on the first U.S. sub-orbital flight.
EVENT3=1987 - A joint tribunal orders the U.S. to return $451.4 million in frozen assets to Iran.
NAME1=Actor Michael Murphy (1938)
NAME2=Actor Michael Palin (1943)
[DATE0506]
TODAY=May 6
EVENT1=1937 - The Hindenburg zeppelin explodes while landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
EVENT2=1957 - Senator John F. Kennedy wins the Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage.
EVENT3=1992 - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev visits Fulton, Missouri the site of Winston Churchill's famous "Iron Curtain" speech.
NAME1=Actor, screenwriter, director Orson Welles (1915)
NAME2=Singer, guitarist Bob Seger (1945)
[DATE0507]
TODAY=May 7
EVENT1=1915 - The Lusitania is sunk by the Germans, and 124 Americans die.
EVENT2=1945 - The Germans formally surrender to General Eisenhower at Rheims, France.
EVENT3=1992 - President George Bush is horrified as he tours the burned out areas affected by the recent Los Angeles riots.
NAME1=Actress Anne Baxter (1923)
NAME2=Musician Bill Kreutzman (1946)
[DATE0508]
TODAY=May 8
EVENT1=1541 - Spaniard Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River.
EVENT2=1861 - Richmond, Virginia is made the capital of the Confederacy.
EVENT3=1945 - WW II in Europe ends (V-E Day).
NAME1=Director Roberto Rossellini (1906)
NAME2=Singer, songwriter Rick Nelson (1940)
NAME3=Singer Mickey Dolenz (1945)
NAME4=Actress Candice Bergen (1946)
NAME5=Musician Alex Van Halen (1955)
[DATE0509]
TODAY=May 9
EVENT1=1914 - Mothers Day is established by Presidential Proclamation.
EVENT2=1926 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd makes the first flight over the North Pole.
EVENT3=1939 - The first Catholic beatification of an American Indian, Kateri Tekakwitha, takes place.
NAME1=Actor Albert Finney (1936)
NAME2=Actress Glenda Jackson (1936)
NAME3=Director, producer, screenwriter James Brooks (1940)
NAME4=Singer, pianist Billy Joel (1949)
[DATE0510]
TODAY=May 10
EVENT1=1797 - The United States, the first ship of the U.S. Navy, is launched.
EVENT2=1869 - California Governor Stanford drives the golden spike into the last railway tie in Promontory, Utah, completing the transcontinental railroad.
EVENT3=1904 - James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald finances an expedition to find David Livingston, the Scottish missionary lost in Africa.
NAME1=Actor, dancer, singer, choreographer Fred Astaire (1899)
NAME2=Actor Albert Finney (1936)
NAME3=Actress Glenda Jackson (1936)
NAME4=Director, producer, screenwriter James Brooks (1940)
NAME5=Singer, pianist Billy Joel (1949)
[DATE0511]
TODAY=May 11
EVENT1=1910 - Glacier National Park is founded.
EVENT2=1950 - The Grand Coulee Dam is dedicated in Washington.
EVENT3=1973 - Charges against Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo are dropped for their theft and release of the Pentagon Papers.
NAME1=Composer, songwriter Irving Berlin (1888)
[DATE0512]
TODAY=May 12
EVENT1=1621 - The first marriage to take place in Plymouth Colony is between Edward Winslow and Susanna White.
EVENT2=1898 - The U.S. bombards San Juan, Puerto Rico.
EVENT3=1969 - The first woman to sail solo across the Pacific Ocean is Sharon Sites Adams.
NAME1=Singer, songwriter Burt Bacharach (1928)
NAME2=Singer, Piano player/keyboardist Steve Winwood (1948)
EVENT2=1910 - The Rainbow Bridge in Utah is proclaimed a National Monument.
EVENT3=1947 - The Taft-Hartley Act is approved by the U.S. Senate which intended to limit the power of Unions by restricting the weapons they could employ.
NAME1=Singer, songwriter Mary Wells (1943)
NAME2=Musician Peter Gabriel (1950)
NAME3=Musician Stevie Wonder (1950)
NAME4=Actor Gary Cooper (1961)
[DATE0514]
TODAY=May 14
EVENT1=1838 - The speaker of the Arkansas House of Assembly is tried and found guilty of killing a member of the House with a bowie knife on the House floor while in session.
EVENT2=1853 - Gail Borden applies for a patent for her process for making condensed milk.
EVENT3=1930 - The Carlsbad Caverns National Park is established in New Mexico.
NAME1=Singer, songwriter, actor Bobby Darin (1936)
NAME2=Musician David Byrne (1952)
[DATE0515]
TODAY=May 15
EVENT1=1602 - Captain Bartholomew Gosnold anchors at New Bedford, Massachusetts and becomes the first Englishman to land on the New England coast.
EVENT2=1920 - The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery.
EVENT3=1972 - Governor George Wallace of Alabama is shot and paralyzed.
NAME1=Actor James Mason (1909)
NAME2=Director, producer, screenwriter George Lucas (1944)
[DATE0516]
TODAY=May 16
EVENT1=1927 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that even though the manufacturing of liquor is illegal, all bootleggers must pay income tax.
EVENT2=1929 - The first motion picture Oscars are awarded.
EVENT3=1991 - Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first British Monarch to address Congress.
NAME1=Actor Henry Fonda (1905)
NAME2=Singer, musician Robert Fripp (1946)
NAME3=Critic, screenwriter, novelist James Agee (1955)
[DATE0517]
TODAY=May 17
EVENT1=1792 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
EVENT2=1875 - The first Kentucky Derby horse race takes place.
EVENT3=1989 - A record price was paid for a painting sold at an auction when Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" sells for $82.5 million.
NAME1=Actor, director, screenwriter Dennis Hopper (1936)
NAME2=Actress Debra Winger (1955)
[DATE0518]
TODAY=May 18
EVENT1=1917 - The Selective Services Act is passed authorizing the registration and drafting of U.S. males between the ages of 21 and 30.
EVENT2=1933 - The Homestead Bill is passed by Congress which grants 160 acre lots to settlers who have resided on their land for three years.
EVENT3=1980 - Mount St. Helens volcano, dormant for over 100 years, erupts in Washington.
NAME1=Producer, screenwriter Frank Capra (1897)
NAME2=Musician Rick Wakeman (1949)
[DATE0519]
TODAY=May 19
EVENT1=1643 - The first conviction for bribery in New York State occurs when Alderman Sharpe is convicted of accepting a bribe for voting for the Broadway Railway Franchise.
EVENT2=1862 - The first annual Frog Jumping Jubilee is held in Angel's Camp, Calaveras County, California to commemorate Mark Twain's story "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
EVENT3=1928 - The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is created to develop the areas resources.
NAME1=Screenwriter, novelist Nora Ephron (1941)
NAME2=Musician Pete Townshend (1945)
[DATE0520]
TODAY=May 20
EVENT1=1927 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
EVENT2=1932 - Charles Lindbergh begins the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
EVENT3=1991 - General Norman Schwarzkopf is granted honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II of England.
NAME1=Author Honore de Balzac (1799)
NAME2=Actor James "Jimmy" Stewart (1908)
NAME3=Singer, songwriter Joe Cocker (1944)
NAME4=Actress, singer Cher (1945)
[DATE0521]
TODAY=May 21
EVENT1=1861 - North Carolina secedes from the Union.
EVENT2=1881 - The American Red Cross is formed in Washington, D.C.
EVENT3=1930 - Max Bishop of the Philadelphia Athletics becomes the only pitcher to hit three batters in his first inning in the major leagues.
NAME1=Writer Alexander Pope (1688)
NAME2=Actor Raymond Burr (1917)
NAME3=Actor Robert Montgomery (1904)
[DATE0522]
TODAY=May 22
EVENT1=1819 - The Savannah is the first U.S. steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
EVENT2=1959 - The first African American Brigadier General Benjamin Davis, Jr. is appointed to the rank of Major General of the U.S. Air Force.
EVENT3=1992 - 55 million people watch Johnny Carson host his last "Tonight Show," ending his run of 30 years on that program.
NAME1=Novelist Arthur Conan Doyle (1859)
NAME2=Actor, director, producer Lord Laurence Olivier (1907)
[DATE0523]
TODAY=May 23
EVENT1=1611 - Sir Thomas Dale replaces Lord Delaware as leader of the Jamestown Colony.
EVENT2=1788 - South Carolina is admitted to the Union as the 8th state.
EVENT3=1990 - The cost of rescuing the savings and loan industry may be as high as $130 billion.
NAME1=Actor, producer, screenwriter Douglas Fairbanks (1883)
NAME2=Actress Joan Collins (1933)
[DATE0524]
TODAY=May 24
EVENT1=1624 - The charter of the Virginia Company is revoked, and the colony of Virginia is now designated a royal colony.
EVENT2=1844 - The English Crown grants a new charter to the London Company to be titled the Virginia Company and increases its powers of government in the American colony.
EVENT3=1899 - Samuel Morse sends the first telegraph message from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland.
NAME1=Actor, director, screenwriter Thomas "Tommy" Chong (1938)
NAME2=Singer, songwriter Bob Dylan (1941)
NAME3=Singer, songwriter Patti Labelle (1944)
[DATE0525]
TODAY=May 25
EVENT1=1787 - The Constitutional Convention is held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Constitution is drafted.
EVENT2=1898 - The first American troops leave for Manila.
EVENT3=1987 - 5,000,000 people joins hands to form a human chain across the U.S. in a fund-raising event called "Hands Across America," a cause which gives aid to the hungry and homeless.
NAME1=Director, screenwriter Frank Oz (1944)
NAME2=Singer, songwriter Nick Lowe (1949)
NAME3=Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson (1903)
[DATE0526]
TODAY=May 26
EVENT1=1805 - The Rocky Mountains are sighted for the first time by the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
EVENT2=1864 - The Territory of Montana is formed from a portion of the Territory of Idaho.
EVENT3=1987 - The U.S. Supreme Court holds that dangerous defendants may be held without bail.
NAME1=Singer, actor Al Jolson (1886)
NAME2=Actor John Wayne (1907)
NAME3=Singer, songwriter Stevie Nicks (1948)
NAME4=Musician Teddy Pendergrass (1950)
NAME5=Actress Helena Bonham Carter (1966)
[DATE0527]
TODAY=May 27
EVENT1=1637 - John Winthrop defeats Governor Henry Vane in the Massachusetts Bay Colony election.
EVENT2=1930 - Cellophane transparent tape is patented by Richard Drew.
EVENT3=1943 - Edwin James Barclay of the Republic of Liberia is the first president of a black African country to visit the U.S.
NAME1=Writer Dashiell Hammett (1894)
NAME2=Actor Vincent Price (1911)
NAME3=Actor Christopher Lee (1922)
NAME4=Actor Louis Gosset, Jr. (1936)
[DATE0528]
TODAY=May 28
EVENT1=1868 - Henry Bacon is awarded the gold medal and highest honor of the American Institute of Architects for his Lincoln Memorial.
EVENT2=1958 - A nose-cone containing two monkeys is launched atop a U.S. and is later recovered, but one monkey dies.
EVENT3=1991 The Supreme Court rules that the conviction on perjury charges given to former National Security Council aide Oliver North should be reviewed.
NAME1=Singer Gladys Knight (1944)
NAME2=Actress Sondra Locke (1947)
[DATE0529]
TODAY=May 29
EVENT1=1790 - Rhode Island, the last of the original colonies to adopt the U.S. Constitution, becomes the 13th state.
EVENT2=1892 - The American fleet blockades the Spanish fleet in Santiago Harbor.
EVENT3=1935 - The French liner Normandie leaves Le Harve on her maiden voyage to New York.
NAME1=35th president of the United States John F. Kennedy (1917)
NAME2=Actor Bob Hope (1903)
[DATE0530]
TODAY=May 30
EVENT1=1778 - Cobleskill, New York is burned by Iroquois Indians.
EVENT2=1806 - A dual between former Tennessee Supreme Court Judge Andrew Jackson and lawyer Charles Dickinson results in Dickinson's death.
EVENT3=1991 - The Supreme Court rules that police officers with a warrant to search a car may search bags and packages within the car whether or not they have a cause to do so.
NAME1=Actor, voice specialist Mel Blanc (1908)
[DATE0531]
TODAY=May 31
EVENT1=1851 - The 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution goes into effect and states the number of senators and rules governing vacancies.
EVENT2=1913 - Several American women give speeches in London on a new costume known as the Bloomer and recommend the outfit be adopted by the English.
EVENT3=1919 - The first wedding held in an aircraft takes place over Ellington Field, Houston, Texas between Marjorie Dumont and R. W. Meade.
NAME1=Poet Walt Whitman (1819)
NAME2=Actor Don Ameche (1908)
NAME3=Actor, director Clint Eastwood (1930)
NAME4=Drummer John Bonham (1947)
NAME5=Actor Tom Berenger (1950)
NAME6=Actress Brook Sheilds (1965)
[DATE0601]
TODAY=June 1
EVENT1=1789 - Congress passes its first act which mandates the procedure for administering oaths of public office.
EVENT2=1966 - Surveyer 1 makes a soft landing on the moon and sends back TV pictures.
EVENT3=1984 - President Ronald Reagan visits Ireland.
NAME1=Actress Marilyn Monroe (1926)
NAME2=Actor Morgan Freeman (1937)
NAME3=Musician Ron Wood (1947)
NAME4=Actor Jonathan Pryce (1947)
[DATE0602]
TODAY=June 2
EVENT1=1862 - Robert E. Lee takes command of the Confederate Armies of Northern Virginia.
EVENT2=1886 - The first White House wedding of a President is held between Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom.
EVENT3=1987 - Amnesty International charges Cambodia with widespread use of arbitrary arrest and torture of political prisoners.
NAME1=Writer Thomas Hardy (1840)
NAME2=Actress Sally Kellerman (1938)
NAME3=Actor Stacy Keach (1941)
NAME4=Composer, pianist Marvin Hamlisch (1944)
[DATE0603]
TODAY=June 3
EVENT1=1972 - The first U.S. female rabbi is Sally Jane Priesand; she is ordained in Cincinnati, Ohio.
EVENT2=1987 - Reverend Leon Sullivan calls for firms to pull out of South Africa.
EVENT3=1990 - Talks are held in the U.S. between President Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev concerning nuclear arms reduction.
NAME1=Singer, entertainer Josephine Baker (1906)
NAME2=Actor Tony Curtis (1925)
NAME3=Actress Colleen Dewhurst (1926)
NAME4=Musician Curtis Mayfield (1942)
[DATE0604]
TODAY=June 4
EVENT1=1776 - American General Charles Lee takes command of the colonial forces in Charleston, South Carolina.
EVENT2=1917 - H. B. Swope becomes the first newspaper reporter to receive the Pulitzer Prize.
EVENT3=1990 - Dr. Jack Kevorkian helps an Oregon woman commit suicide, an event which begins the debate over a patient's right to die.
NAME1=Actor Bruce Dern (1936)
[DATE0605]
TODAY=June 5
EVENT1=1852 - Members of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity build the first fraternity house in the U.S.
EVENT2=1945 - The U.S., Russia, England and France agree to split occupied Germany into Eastern and Western halves.
EVENT3=1968 - Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated during the Presidential Nomination Campaign.
NAME1=Director, screenwriter Jacques Demy (1931)
[DATE0606]
TODAY=June 6
EVENT1=1716 - The first African slaves arrive in the French Territory of Louisiana.
EVENT2=1934 - President Roosevelt establishes the Securities Exchange Commission to regulate exchanges and transactions involving all securities.
EVENT3=1944 - Allied troops land in Normandy on D-Day in World War II.
NAME1=Singer Gary "U.S." Bonds (1939)
NAME2=Actor Robert Englund (1949)
NAME3=Actress, comedienne Sandra Bernhard (1955)
[DATE0607]
TODAY=June 7
EVENT1=1769 - Daniel Boone, frontiersman and explorer, sights the Kentucky Territory after heading into the western wilderness.
EVENT2=1892 - J. F. Palmer of Chicago, Illinois is granted the first bicycle tire patent.
EVENT3=1980 - The first solar power plant is dedicated in Utah.
NAME1=Actor, singer Dean Martin (1917)
NAME2=Singer, drummer Tom Jones (1940)
NAME3=The Artist Formerly Known As Prince (1959)
NAME4=Actress Jessica Tandy (1909)
[DATE0608]
TODAY=June 8
EVENT1=1786 - Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago, Illinois receives a patent for the vacuum cleaner.
EVENT2=1969 - President Nixon announces that 25,000 U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Vietnam by the end of August.
EVENT3=1987 - President Reagan lifts economic sanctions against Japan at the beginning of the Economic Summit held in Vienna.
NAME1=Actor Robert Preston (1918)
NAME2=Singer, musician Boz Scaggs (1944)
NAME3=Actress Kathy Baker (1950)
[DATE0609]
TODAY=June 9
EVENT1=1772 - The first Revolutionary War Naval attack occurs at Providence, Rhode Island.
EVENT2=1902 - The first restaurant with vending machine service is the Automat Restaurant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
EVENT3=1969 - The U.S. destroyer Frank E. Evans is cut in two after colliding with the Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne in the South China Sea.
NAME1=Singer Jackie Wilson (1934)
NAME2=Actor Michael J. Fox (1961)
[DATE0610]
TODAY=June 10
EVENT1=1898 - The U.S. Marines land at Guantanamo Bay, beginning the invasion of Cuba.
EVENT2=1908 - Alcoholics Anonymous is established in the U.S.
EVENT3=1991 - Thousands of people participate in a tickertape parade in New York City celebrating the American victory in the Persian Gulf War.
NAME1=Actress, singer Judy Garland (1922)
[DATE0611]
TODAY=June 11
EVENT1=1578 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert receives a patent from the English crown to explore and colonize America.
EVENT2=1793 - The first stove is patented by Robert Haeterick.
EVENT3=1978 - Joseph Freeman, Jr. becomes the first African American to be ordained into the priesthood of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah.
NAME1=Actor, director Gene Wilder (1935)
NAME2=Musician Ronnie Van Zant (1952)
[DATE0612]
TODAY=June 12
EVENT1=1838 - Land in the western part of the Wisconsin Territory is used to form the Iowa Territory.
EVENT2=1979 - American Bryan Allen makes the first man powered flight across the English Channel, pedaling the Gossamer Albatross.
EVENT3=1987 - President Reagan goes to the Berlin Wall and challenges Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear it down to prove he is really a man of peace.
NAME1=41st president of the United States, George Bush (1924)
NAME2=Author Anne Frank (1929)
[DATE0613]
TODAY=June 13
EVENT1=1898 - The Yukon Territory is organized.
EVENT2=1966 - In the case Miranda v. Arizona, the U.S. Supreme Court decides that police must advise prisoners of their right to remain silent.
EVENT3=1988 - For the first time, a tobacco company is found to be partially responsible for the death of a smoker who had developed lung cancer.
NAME1=Actress, writer Ally Sheedy (1962)
[DATE0614]
TODAY=June 14
HOLIDAY=Flag Day
EVENT1=1834 - Congress enacts legislation mandating a United States flag with 13 stars and 13 alternating white and red stripes.
EVENT2=1877 - The 100th anniversary of the U.S. flag is celebrated with the first Flag Day.
EVENT3=1941 - President Roosevelt freezes the assets of Germany and Italy in the U.S.
NAME1=Actor, singer Burl Ives (1908)
NAME2=Performer "Boy George" (1961)
[DATE0615]
TODAY=June 15
EVENT1=1775 - The Second Continental Congress votes unanimously to appoint George Washington head of the Continental Army.
EVENT2=1734 - Ben Franklin flies a kite in a thunder storm as an experiment to prove lighting contains electricity.
EVENT3=1982 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that all children are entitled to a public education whatever their citizenship.
NAME1=Actor Malcolm McDowell (1943)
NAME2=Actor James Belushi (1954)
[DATE0616]
TODAY=June 16
EVENT1=1779 - Spain declares war on Great Britain in favor of the U.S.
EVENT2=1864 - Union General U.S. Grant begins the siege of Petersburg, Virginia.
EVENT3=1987 - The last dusky seaside sparrow dies in Orlando, Florida and becomes the seventh bird type to die off in the U.S.
NAME1=Actor, vaudevillian Stan Laurel (1890)
[DATE0617]
TODAY=June 17
EVENT1=1775 - The American colonies are victorious over the British at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
EVENT2=1890 - Bible reading in the public schools is declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
EVENT3=1972 - The Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C. is burglarized, beginning the Watergate Scandal.
NAME1=Actor Ralph Bellamy (1904)
NAME2=Singer, songwriter Barry Manilow (1946)
[DATE0618]
TODAY=June 18
EVENT1=1812 - The U.S. declares war on Great Britain, and the War of 1812 begins.
EVENT2=1970 - A bill giving 18 year olds the right to vote is signed into law by President Nixon.
EVENT3=1983 - NASA launches the space shuttle Challenger on a six-day mission with the first woman astronaut, Dr. Sally Ride.
NAME1=Musician Paul McCartney (1942)
NAME2=Actress Carol Kane (1952)
NAME3=Actress Isabella Rosselini (1952)
[DATE0619]
TODAY=June 19
EVENT1=1846 - In Hoboken, New Jersey the first match baseball game is played.
EVENT2=1862 - Slavery is forbidden in Federal territories by a Congressional Act.
EVENT3=1991 - The state legislator of Louisiana enacts the strictest anti-abortion law in the United States which outlaws all abortions except in a few special circumstances.
NAME1=Critic, author Pauline Kael (1919)
NAME2=Actress Gena Rowlands (1936)
NAME3=Actress Kathleen Turner (1954)
NAME4=Baseball player Lou Gehrig (1903)
[DATE0620]
TODAY=June 20
EVENT1=1782 - Congress officially adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
EVENT2=1815 - A giant sea serpent is sighted off Plymouth, Massachusetts, supposedly extending 100 feet above the water with a 6 - 8 foot long head.
EVENT3=1863 - West Virginia severs from Virginia and is admitted to the Union as the 35th U.S. state.
EVENT1=1888 - The first African American to be nominated as a presidential candidate is Frederick Douglass.
EVENT2=1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take the first single plane, around-the-world flight.
EVENT3=1938 - The first aquarium opens in the U.S. at Marineland in St. Augustine, Florida.
NAME1=Director, choreographer Bob Fosse (1927)
[DATE0624]
TODAY=June 24
EVENT1=1497 - John Cabot first sights the land mass of North America and claims this area for England.
EVENT2=1898 - The Rough Riders win the first land battle at Las Guasimas, Cuba.
EVENT3=1985 - The space shuttle Discovery ends a seven-day mission with the first Arab astronaut, Prince Sultan Salman al-Saud, on board.
NAME1=Guitarist, singer, songwriter Jeff Beck (1944)
NAME2=Actor Peter Weller (1947)
NAME3=Actress John Landis (1950)
[DATE0625]
TODAY=June 25
EVENT1=1630 - Governor John Winthrop brings the table fork to America from England.
EVENT2=1788 - Virginia is admitted to the Union as the 10th state.
EVENT3=1942 - General Dwight Eisenhower is appointed commander of U.S. troops in Europe.
EVENT4=1973 - John Dean III, former Presidential Counsel, accuses President Nixon of involvement in the Watergate cover-up.
NAME1=Director, actor Sidney Lumet (1924)
[DATE0626]
TODAY=June 26
EVENT1=1721 - Dr. Zabdiel Boylston gives the first smallpox vaccination in the U.S.
EVENT2=1917 - The first American forces arrive in France.
EVENT3=1950 - President Harry Truman authorizes U.S. troops to aid South Korean troops.
NAME1=Author Pearl Buck (1892)
NAME2=Singer, Mick Jagger (1943)
NAME3=Actor Peter Lorre (1904)
[DATE0627]
TODAY=June 27
EVENT1=1776 - Thomas Hickey is publicly hanged for conspiring to deliver George Washington to the British.
EVENT2=1844 - Brigham Young becomes the leader of the Mormons.
EVENT3=1991 - Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court, resigns after twenty-four years as a one of the most liberal voices on the panel.
NAME1=Actress Isabelle Adjani (1955)
[DATE0628]
TODAY=June 28
EVENT1=1776 - Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence is presented to Congress for consideration.
EVENT2=1832 - The first medical epidemic in the U.S., cholera, is reported.
EVENT3=1992 - Southern California is hit by an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter Scale.
NAME1=Director, actor Mel Brooks (1926)
NAME2=Actor John Cusack (1966)
[DATE0629]
TODAY=June 29
EVENT1=1620 - An agreement between the English and the Virginia Company prohibits the growing of tobacco in England.
EVENT2=1949 - The last U.S. troops leave Korea.
EVENT3=1989 - A bill requiring employers to give workers unpaid time off for births, adoptions and major medical emergencies at home is vetoed by President Bush.
NAME1=Actor Slim Pickens (1919)
NAME2=Singer, actor Nelson Eddy (1901)
NAME3=Actor Gary Busey (1944)
[DATE0630]
TODAY=June 30
EVENT1=1896 - The first electric stove is patented by W. S. Hadaway in New York City.
EVENT2=1858 - Joseph Hecois the first Japanese granted U.S. citizenship.
EVENT3=1982 - The Equal Rights Amendment is defeated.
