EVENT1=1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg, the turning point of the Civil War, occurs.
EVENT2=1929 - The Immigration Act of 1924 goes into effect, instituting a quota system for immigrants into the U.S.
EVENT3=1987 - 25,000 people in the U.S. over the age of 100 celebrate the first Centenarians Day.
NAME1=Actress Olivia De Haviland (1916)
NAME2=Actress Karen Black (1942)
NAME3=Musician Deborah Harry (1946)
NAME4=Actor, comedian, screenwriter Dan Aykroyd (1952)
NAME5=Singer Evelyn "Champagne" King (1960)
[DATE0702]
TODAY=July 2
EVENT1=1881 - President Garfield is shot and wounded by Charles Guiteau in Washington, D.C.
EVENT2=1937 - Amelia Earhart reports trouble and disappears while attempting to fly around the world.
EVENT3=1964 - The U.S. Civil Rights Act is passed.
NAME1=Author Herman Hesse (1877)
NAME2=Actor Ron Silver (1946)
[DATE0703]
TODAY=July 3
EVENT1=1775 - George Washington assumes formal command of the Continental Army.
EVENT2=1890 - Idaho is admitted to the Union as the 43rd state.
EVENT3=1930 - Congress passes the Veterans Administration Act.
NAME1=Writer, philosopher Franz Kafka (1883)
NAME2=Actor Tom Cruise (1962)
[DATE0704]
TODAY=July 4
HOLIDAY=Independence Day
EVENT1=1776 - The Declaration of Independence is formally adopted by the U.S. Congress.
EVENT2=1826 - Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President of the U.S., and John Adams, the 2nd President of the U.S., die within hours of one another, on the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
EVENT3=1884 - The Statue of Liberty is presented to the U.S. from France, commemorating the French and U.S. Revolutions.
NAME1=Author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804)
NAME2=30th president of the United States Calvin Coolidge (1872)
NAME3=Executive, founder Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Louis B. Mayer (1885)
NAME4=Actress Eva Marie Saint (1924)
NAME6=Actress Gina Lollabrigida (1927)
NAME7=Playwright Neil Simon (1927)
NAME8=Singer, musician Bull Withers (1938)
[DATE0705]
TODAY=July 5
EVENT1=1884 - The first U.S. Navigation Bureau is authorized.
EVENT2=1972 - Jerome Heart Holland becomes the first African American director of the New York Stock Exchange.
EVENT3=1987 - Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts hosts the first national conference of the American Green Movement.
NAME1=Director, screenwriter, poet Jean Cocteau (1889)
NAME2=Musician Robbie Robertson (1944)
[DATE0706]
TODAY=July 6
EVENT1=1699 - Captain Kidd, the pirate, is captured in Boston and extradited to England.
EVENT2=1945 - The Medal of Freedom is established by President Truman to be awarded to civilians for meritorious service.
EVENT3=1987 - The U.S. fines Chrysler Corporation $1.5 million for 811 violations of worker safety regulations.
NAME1=Singer, songwriter Bill Haley (1925)
NAME2=Actor Ned Beatty (1937)
NAME3=Actor Sylvester Stallone (1946)
[DATE0706]
TODAY=July 7
EVENT1=1945 - The Medal of Freedom is established by President Truman to be awarded to civilians for meritorious service.
EVENT2=1987 - The U.S. fines Chrysler Corporation $1.5 million for 811 violations of worker safety regulations.
NAME1=Actress Janet Leigh (1927)
NAME2=Musician Ringo Starr (1940)
[DATE0708]
TODAY=July 8
EVENT1=1778 - George Washington establishes headquarters for the Continental Army at West Point.
EVENT2=1898 - Admiral Dewey takes Isla Grande near Manila.
EVENT3=1950 - General Douglas MacArthur becomes commander of the United Nations troops in South Korea.
NAME1=Actress Anjelica Huston (1951)
NAME2=Actor Kevin Bacon (1958)
[DATE0709]
TODAY=July 9
EVENT1=1776 - The Declaration of Independence is read to the colonial troops, and they tear down a statue of King George III.
EVENT2=1918 - Congress authorizes the Distinguished Service Medal.
EVENT3=1991 - The Los Angeles Police Department is charged with the use of excessive force in numerous situations.
NAME1=Actor Brian Dennehy (1939)
NAME2=Actor Jimmy Smits (1955)
NAME3=Actor Tom Hanks (1956)
NAME4=Actor Fred Savage (1979)
[DATE0710]
TODAY=July 10
EVENT1=1790 - The House of Representatives votes to locate the planned national capital on a ten square mile site along the Potomac River.
EVENT2=1913 - In Death Valley, California the highest temperature ever recorded in the U.S., 134 degrees Fahrenheit, is reached.
EVENT3=1962 - Telstar 1 is launched as the first private communications satellite which allows live television to be transmitted between Europe and America.
NAME1=Writer Saul Bellow (1915)
NAME2=Actor Fred Gwynne (1926)
[DATE0711]
TODAY=July 11
EVENT1=1804 - Alexander Hamilton is mortally wounded by Aaron Burr in a duel.
EVENT2=1955 - The U.S. Air Force Academy opens.
EVENT3=1962 - The first U.S. television programs are broadcast by the BBC via satellite.
NAME1=6th president of the United States John Quincy Adams (1767)
[DATE0712]
TODAY=July 12
EVENT1=1776 - A plan for confederation of the 13 colonies is presented to the Continental Congress by John Dickinson.
EVENT2=1912 - The first foreign film is shown in the U.S.
EVENT3=1984 - Dem. Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale names Geraldine Ferraro to be his running mate, making her the first woman to be named to a major party ticket.
NAME1=Actor Yul Brenner (1915)
NAME2=Actor, comedian Bill Cosby (1937)
NAME3=Inventor, photographic pioneer George Eastman (1954)
[DATE0713]
TODAY=July 13
EVENT1=1832 - The source of the Mississippi River is found by explorer Henry Schoolcraft.
EVENT2=1881 - Billy the Kid is shot and killed in Ft. Sumner, Mexico.
EVENT3=1985 - Rock musicians perform at Live Aid in Philadelphia and London to raise money for starving Africans.
NAME1=Actor Harrison Ford (1942)
[DATE0714]
TODAY=July 14
EVENT1=1806 - Lewis and Clark become the first white men to enter what's now Washington state from the East.
EVENT2=1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record for flying around the world.
EVENT3=1953 - The birthplace of George Washington Carver is declared a National Monument.
NAME1=Writer Henry David Thoreau (1817)
NAME2=38th President of the United States Gerald Ford (1913)
NAME3=Actor Harry Dean Stanton (1926)
[DATE0715]
TODAY=July 15
EVENT1=1830 - The Sioux, Sauk and Fox Indians sign a treaty with the U.S., giving the U.S. most of what is now Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri.
EVENT2=1885 - Niagara Falls Reservation is formally opened.
EVENT3=1958 - U.S. troops land in Lebanon to prevent Communist takeover.
EVENT1=1861 - The first U.S. paper money is issued.
EVENT2=1955 - Disneyland in California is opened.
EVENT3=1994 - Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashes into the planet Jupiter at 60 kilometers per second. Images from various satellites and the Hubble Space Telescope displayed the impact and showed the formation of a large dark spot and plumes of fire and gas that reached out over thousands of miles into space.
NAME1=Actor James Cagney (1899)
NAME2=Actor Donald Sutherland (1924)
NAME3=Singer, songwriter Phoebe Snow (1952)
[DATE0718]
TODAY=July 18
EVENT1=1768 - The first sheet music, "The Liberty Song," is published in the U.S.
EVENT2=1984 - An unemployed gun collector shoots and kills 21 people at a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, California.
EVENT3=1987 - U.S. Senator Patrick Moynihan proposes a bill to overhaul welfare, transferring responsibility from government to parents.
NAME1=Actor, screenwriter Hume Cronyn (1911)
NAME2=Astronaut John Glenn (1921)
NAME3=Singer Dion (1939)
NAME4=Actress Elizabeth McGovern (1961)
[DATE0719]
TODAY=July 19
EVENT1=1812 - The British launch an unsuccessful attack on Sacketts Harbor, New York during the War of 1812.
EVENT2=1848 - The first American women's rights convention ends in Seneca Falls, New York.
EVENT3=1909 - Neal Ball of the Cleveland Indians becomes the only player to hit a home run and have an unassisted triple play in the same baseball game.
NAME1=Actor Anthony Edwards (1963)
[DATE0720]
TODAY=July 20
EVENT1=1881 - Sitting Bull, Sioux Indian Chief, surrenders to the U.S. Army.
EVENT2=1969 - Apollo XI touches down on the Sea of Tranquillity on the Moon's surface. Neil Armstrong becomes the first human being to set foot on another world.
EVENT3=1987 - New York Yankee Don Mattingly ties the record for first baseman with 22 putouts in one game.
NAME1=Actress Natalie Wood (1938)
NAME2=Musician Carlos Santana (1947)
[DATE0721]
TODAY=July 21
EVENT1=1873 - The first U.S. train robbery occurs when Jesse James and his gang hold up the Rock Island Express at Adair, Iowa.
EVENT2=1949 - The first woman Treasurer of the U.S. takes office.
EVENT3=1974 - The House Judiciary Committee approves two Articles of Impeachment against President Nixon.
NAME1=Director, screenwriter Jacques Feyder (1885)
NAME2=Author Ernest Hemingway (1899)
NAME3=Director and producer Norman Jewison (1926)
NAME4=Musician Cat Stevens (1948)
NAME5=Actor, comedian Robin Williams (1952)
[DATE0722]
TODAY=July 22
EVENT1=1892 - H. C. Frick of Carnegie Steel in Pennsylvania is shot by a worker during a violent strike.
EVENT2=1932 - The Federal Home Loan Bank Board is established.
EVENT3=1991 - Police arrest serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in Milwaukee after discovering skulls, heads and other body parts in his apartment.
NAME1=Novelist, screenwriter Raymond Chandler (1888)
NAME2=Actor Jason Robards (1922)
NAME3=Singer, songwriter George Clinton (1941)
NAME4=Musician Don Henley (1947)
NAME5=Actor, director, screenwriter Albert Brooks (1947)
NAME6=Actor Willem Defoe (1955)
[DATE0723]
TODAY=July 23
EVENT1=1664 - Four British ships arrive in Boston, Massachusetts on their way to oust the Dutch from New York.
EVENT2=1904 - Charles E. Menches of St. Louis, Missouri invents the ice cream cone.
EVENT3=1984 - Vanessa Williams gives up her Miss America title when nude photos of her are to be published in Penthouse magazine.
NAME1=Actor Terence Stamp (1939)
[DATE0724]
TODAY=July 24
EVENT1=1701 - French Fort Pontchartrain is built at Detroit, Michigan.
EVENT2=1847 - Brigham Young founds the State of Deseret; the Federal government later changed the name to Utah..
EVENT3=1870 - The first railroad car to travel the transcontinental railway arrives in New York from California.
NAME1=Actor Chris Sarandon (1942)
[DATE0725]
TODAY=July 25
EVENT1=1868 - The Territory of Wyoming is formed.
EVENT2=1915 - The American merchant ship Leelanaw is sunk off the coast of Scotland by a German U-boat.
EVENT3=1941 - President Roosevelt freezes all Japanese assets in the U.S.
NAME1=Director, playwright Paul Ruiz (1941)
[DATE0726]
TODAY=July 26
EVENT1=1775 - The U.S. Post Office is established, with Benjamin Franklin as Post Master General.
EVENT2=1898 - Spain requests peace terms with the U.S.
EVENT3=1945 - The Potsdam Conference closes as the U.S. and Great Britain, in association with China, sign the Potsdam Declaration demanding the unconditional surrender of Japan. Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union was also in attendance at the conference, but his nation did not declare war on Japan until August eighth.
EVENT1=1586 - Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England from Virginia with the first tobacco to reach Europe.
EVENT2=1909 - Orville Wright sets a new world record for staying airborne in an airplane by flying above Fort Myer in Virginia for one hour, twelve minutes, and forty seconds.
EVENT3=1933 - The first death penalty is imposed for a kidnapping in Kansas City, Missouri.
NAME1=Actor, director Donald Crisp (1880)
[DATE0728]
TODAY=July 28
EVENT1=1945 - A B-25 bomber accidentally crashes into the Empire State Building in New York City.
EVENT2=1982 - San Francisco, California is the first U.S. city to ban the sale and possession of handguns.
EVENT3=1984 - The twenty-third Olympic Games open in Los Angeles, California.
NAME1=Novelist Malcolm Lowry (1909)
NAME2=First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (1929)
[DATE0729]
TODAY=July 29
EVENT1=1676 - Virginia Governor Berkley declares Nathaniel Bacon a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect the settlers from Indians.
EVENT2=1786 - The Pittsburgh Gazette is the first newspaper west of the Allegheny Mountains to be published.
EVENT3=1978 - The first football game where referees utilize a televised instant replay takes place between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Miami Dolphins.
NAME1=Actor William Powell (1892)
[DATE0730]
TODAY=July 30
EVENT1=1619 - The first U.S. Legislative Assembly meets in Jamestown, Virginia.
EVENT2=1909 - The first plane is delivered to the U.S. government by the Wright Brothers and costs $31,250.
EVENT3=1974 - The House Judiciary Committee votes to recommend the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon on three counts of "high crimes and misdemeanors".
NAME1=Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947)
[DATE0731]
TODAY=July 31
EVENT1=1792 - The cornerstone for the U.S. Mint Building is laid in Philadelphia and is the first U.S. government building.
EVENT2=1976 - Torrential rains flood a canyon in Colorado, causing the loss of 100 lives.
EVENT3=1991 - The United States Senate votes in a large majority to overturn a forty-three year old law banning women from flying combat aircraft.
NAME1=Director, screenwriter Peter Bogdanovich (1939)
[DATE0801]
TODAY=August 1
EVENT1=1873 - The first cable car trip is made in San Francisco, California.
EVENT2=1956 - The Salk Polio vaccine becomes available to the public.
EVENT3=1981 - MTV - Music Television begins broadcasting at 12:01 am with the music video "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. MTV would become a driving force in mass media and pop culture.
NAME1="Star-Spangled Banner" author Francis Scott Key (1779)
NAME2=Actor Dom De Luise (1933)
NAME3=Grateful Dead band member Jerry Garcia (1942)
[DATE0802]
TODAY=August 2
EVENT1=1776 - The parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence is signed in Philadelphia by most of the 55 members of the Continental Congress.
EVENT2=1876 - Wild Bill Hickok is killed while playing poker in Deadwood, South Dakota.
EVENT3=1964 - An American destroyer is attacked off the coast of North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin, and U.S. aircraft attack North Vietnamese bases.
EVENT1=1795 - The U.S government signs treaties with the Native American tribes, giving the U.S. the Ohio Territory.
EVENT2=1923 - Calvin Coolidge is sworn in as 30th U.S. President.
EVENT3=1987 - Three days of talks between the U.S. and Vietnam end with no progress on recovering soldiers missing in action.
NAME1=Novelist Walter Clark (1909)
[DATE0804]
TODAY=August 4
EVENT1=1790 - The U.S. Revenue Cutter Service is formed and is later known as the U.S. Coast Guard.
EVENT2=1790 - The first bonds of the U.S. government are authorized.
EVENT3=1977 - The Department of Energy is created.
NAME1=Theoretician, poet, screenwriter Bela Belazs (1884)
[DATE0805]
TODAY=August 5
EVENT1=1844 - The cornerstone is laid for the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island, New York.
EVENT2=1914 - The first traffic signal lights are used in Cleveland, Ohio.
EVENT3=1963 - A nuclear test ban treaty is signed by Great Britain, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
NAME1=Director, screenwriter, actor John Huston (1906)
[DATE0806]
TODAY=August 6
EVENT1=1774 - The founder of the Shaker Movement in the American colonies, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in New York.
EVENT2=1890 - The first death sentence by electrocution is performed in the U.S. on William Kemmeler for murder.
EVENT3=1945 - The U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
NAME1=Poet Alfred Tennyson (1809)
NAME2=Actress, comedienne Lucille Ball (1911)
[DATE0807]
TODAY=August 7
EVENT1=1782 - The Military Order of the Purple Heart is founded.
EVENT2=1959 - Explorer 6 takes the first photos via television of the Earth from space.
EVENT3=1990 - U.S. troops leave for Saudi Arabia to enact Operation Desert Shield which intends to protect the Saudi oil fields from attacks by Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces.
NAME1=Actress Billie Burke (1885)
[DATE0808]
TODAY=August 8
EVENT1=1786 - The silver dollar and the decimal system of money are adopted by the U.S. Congress.
EVENT2=1889 - Clams containing pearls are found in the Sugar River in Wisconsin.
EVENT3=1900 - The first Davis Cup Tennis Tournament is held in Massachusetts.
NAME1=Actor Robert Mitchum (1917)
NAME2=Screenwriter, novelist, director Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922)
NAME3=Actress, swimmer Esther Williams (1923)
NAME4=Artist, filmaker, author Andy Warhol (1927)
NAME5=Singer, songwriter Joe Tex (1933)
NAME6=Actor Dustin Hoffman (1937)
NAME7=Actor Martin Sheen (1940)
[DATE0809]
TODAY=August 9
EVENT1=1862 - At the Battle of Cedar Mt., Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson defeats the Union army.
EVENT2=1945 - U.S. bombers drop an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
EVENT3=1974 - President Richard M. Nixon resigns from office to avoid impeachment.
NAME1=Poet John Dryden (1631)
NAME2=Director, producer Robert Aldrich (1918)
NAME3=Actor, novelist, playwright Robert Shaw (1927)
NAME4=Actor Sam Elliott (1944)
NAME5=Actor, singer, songwriter Keith Carradine (1949)
NAME6=Actress Melanie Griffith (1957)
[DATE0810]
TODAY=August 10
EVENT1=1790 - The first American voyage circumnavigating the globe concludes in Boston Harbor with the return of the ship Columbia.
EVENT2=1889 - The skeleton of a thirty-six foot long and fifteen-foot high mammoth is found in St. James, Nebraska.
EVENT3=1988 - President Reagan signs legislation giving apologies and reparations to Japanese-Americans interred at camps in the U.S. during World War II.
NAME1=31st President of the United States Herbert Hoover (1874)
NAME2=Musician Ian Anderson (1947)
NAME3=Actress Rosanna Arquette (1959)
[DATE0811]
TODAY=August 11
EVENT1=1860 - The first successful silver mill in the U.S. begins operation in Virginia City, Nevada.
EVENT2=1941 - Churchill and Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter which sets forth eight goals for the world and later will be the document establishing the United Nations.
EVENT3=1994 - Major League Baseball players walked out causing a stoppage of play for the first time since an owners lock out in 1985.
NAME1=Singer, musician Joe Jackson (1955)
[DATE0812]
TODAY=August 12
EVENT1=1658 - The first police force in the U.S. is established in New York City.
EVENT2=1880 - A great storm almost entirely destroys Brownsville, Texas and also does severe damage to the surrounding country.
EVENT3=1970 - The U.S. Post Office becomes an independent government corporation.
NAME1=Actor, director John Derek (1926)
[DATE0813]
TODAY=August 13
EVENT1=1608 - John Smith's account of the early days of the Jamestown Colony is submitted for publication in London.
EVENT2=1846 - The first American flag is raised in Los Angeles, California.
EVENT3=1994 - Woodstock '94 takes place in Saugerties, New York.
NAME1=Director, screenwriter Alfred Hitchcock (1899)
[DATE0814]
TODAY=August 14
EVENT1=1919 - A U.S. aeromarine flying boat carries the first air mail delivery at sea.
EVENT2=1935 - The Social Security Act is signed by President Roosevelt.
EVENT3=1987 - Mass deaths of bottle nose dolphins between New Jersey and Virginia puzzle scientists.
NAME1=Musician David Crosby (1941)
[DATE0815]
TODAY=August 15
EVENT1=1790 - Father John Carroll becomes the first U.S. Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
EVENT2=1945 - World War II in the Pacific ends (V-J Day).
EVENT3=1970 - Patricia Palinkas, playing for the Orlando Panthers, is the first female professional football player.
NAME1=Actress Ethel Barrymore (1879)
NAME2=Singer, songwriter Jimmy Webb (1946)
[DATE0816]
TODAY=August 16
EVENT1=1894 - The chiefs of the Sioux and Onondaga tribes in America hold a meeting to urge their people to cast aside Christianity and return to the faith of their fathers.
EVENT2=1965 - Five days of civil rights rioting ends in Los Angeles, California.
EVENT3=1987 - A Northwest Airlines jet crashes near Detroit, killing 140 people.
NAME1=Football Hall-of-Famer, sportscaster Frank Gifford (1930)
NAME2=Singer, songwriter, actress Madonna (1959)
NAME3=Actor Timothy Hutton (1960)
[DATE0817]
TODAY=August 17
EVENT1=1835 - The wrench is patented by Solymon Merrick of Springfield, Massachusetts.
EVENT2=1945 - Korea is divided at the 38th parallel, and the U.S. occupies the southern portion.
EVENT3=1959 - Yellowstone National Park is rocked by an earthquake.
EVENT1=1587 - The first English child is born in America.
EVENT2=1969 - Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, a three-day concert featuring a line-up of such bands as The Who, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Sly and The Family Stone, Canned Heat, and Jimi Hendrix, is held on Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm in Bethel, New York. The event is attended by 500,000 people and becomes the symbol of the counter-culture movement.
EVENT3=1969 - Senator Edward Kennedy is involved in an automobile accident that kills Mary Jo Kopechne.
NAME1=Director, actor, screenwriter Roman Polanski (1933)
NAME2=Actor Robert Redford (1937)
NAME3=Actor Patrick Swayze (1954)
NAME4=Actor Christian Slater (1969)
[DATE0819]
TODAY=August 19
EVENT1=1812 - The American ship Constitution wins a naval battle against the British ship Guerriere.
EVENT2=1942 - The first American pilot to shoot down a German fighter plane is S. F. Junkin.
EVENT3=1991 - A hurricane cuts off electrical power to millions of homes from North Carolina to Maine. Two people are killed.
NAME1=Novelist Herman Melville (1819)
NAME2=Actress Ingrid Bergman (1915)
NAME3=Musician Ginger Baker (1940)
NAME4=42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton (1946)
NAME5=Actor Kevin Dillon (1965)
[DATE0820]
TODAY=August 20
EVENT1=1910 - The first U.S. pilot to fire a gun from an airplane is J. E. Fickel of Sheepshead Bay, New York.
EVENT2=1948 - The first uniform birth registration system for numbering U.S. birth certificates goes into effect.
EVENT3=1968 - The last imperial pheasant in a U.S. zoo dies at the Bronx Zoo, New York.
NAME1=23rd President of the United States Benjamin Harrison (1833)
NAME2=36th President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson (1908)
NAME3=Singer, musician Isaac Hayes (1942)
NAME4=Actress Joan Allen (1956)
[DATE0821]
TODAY=August 21
EVENT1=1841 - The venetian blind is patented by John Hampton of New Orleans, Louisiana.
EVENT2=1912 - The first boy scout to become an eagle scout is A. R. Eldred in Oceanside, New York.
EVENT3=1959 - Hawaii is admitted to the Union as the 50th state.
NAME1=Director, producer, screenwriter Cecil B. DeMille (1881)
NAME2=Actress Kristy McNichol (1962)
[DATE0822]
TODAY=August 22
EVENT1=1886 - William J. Kendall swims through the Niagara Rapids wearing a cork vest.
EVENT2=1902 - The first U.S. President to ride in an automobile is Theodore Roosevelt.
EVENT3=1934 - Public Enemy No. 1, John Dillinger, is shot by the FBI.
NAME1=Guitarist, singer, songwriter John Lee Hooker (1917)
NAME2=Novelist Raymond Bradbury (1920)
[DATE0823]
TODAY=August 23
EVENT1=1775 - King George III issues a proclamation declaring the American colonies to be in a state of open rebellion.
EVENT2=1902 - Fannie Farmer opens her famous cooking school in Boston, Massachusetts.
EVENT3=1956 - The first transcontinental helicopter flight begins.
NAME1=Actor, dancer, director, choreographer Gene Kelly (1912)
NAME2=Actor Ronny Cox (1938)
NAME3=Musician Keith Moon (1947)
NAME4=Actor, singer Rick Springfield (1949)
NAME5=Actress Shelley Long (1949)
NAME6=Actor River Phoenix (1970)
[DATE0824]
TODAY=August 24
EVENT1=1624 - Sir Francis Wyatt is officially appointed governor of the royal Virginia Colony.
EVENT2=1869 - Cornelius Swartwout is granted a patent for the waffle-iron.
EVENT3=1992 - Hurricane Andrew strikes south Florida and Louisiana, causing major devastation.
NAME1=Musician Jim Capaldi (1944)
NAME2=Actress Marlee Matlin (1965)
[DATE0825]
TODAY=August 25
EVENT1=1540 - Hernando de Alarcon travels from Acapulco to the Gulf of California and journeys up the Colorado River.
EVENT2=1814 - The British destroy the U.S. Library of Congress and approximately 3,000 books.
EVENT3=1940 - The first parachute wedding takes place between Arno Rudolphi and Ann Hayward at the World's Fair amusement area in New York City.
NAME1=Composer, conductor Leonard Bernstein (1918)
NAME2=Actor Sean Connery (1930)
NAME3=Actor Tom Skerritt (1933)
NAME4=Actress Anne Archer (1947)
NAME5=Actor John Savage (1949)
[DATE0826]
TODAY=August 26
EVENT1=1791 - John Fitch and Nathan Read are issued a patent for the steamboat.
EVENT2=1842 - The July 1st fiscal year is mandated by Congress.
EVENT3=1920 - Under the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, women receive the right to vote.
NAME1=Actor Lon Chaney (1930)
NAME2=Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant (1947)
[DATE0827]
TODAY=August 27
EVENT1=1859 - Edwin L. Drake builds the first oil well in the country in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
EVENT2=1950 - All U.S. railroads are seized by the Army to prevent a strike.
EVENT3=1962 - NASA launches Mariner 2 spacecraft to explore Venus.
NAME1=Actress Tuesday Weld (1943)
[DATE0828]
TODAY=August 28
EVENT1=1830 - Tom Thumb, the first locomotive built in America, runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill.
EVENT2=1904 - The first jail sentence in the U.S. for auto speeding is handed down in Newport, Rhode Island.
EVENT3=1963 - Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his "I have a dream" speech at the March on Washington in Washington, D.C.
NAME1=Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
NAME2=Novelist Leo Tolstoy (1828)
NAME3=Actor, director Ben Gazzara (1930)
NAME4=Actor Daniel Stern (1957)
[DATE0829]
TODAY=August 29
EVENT1=1758 - The New Jersey Legislature establishes the first Indian reservation on a tract of 1,600 acres.
EVENT2=1909 - The world's first air race, the Gordon Bennett Cup, is held in Rheims, France and is won by American Glenn Curtiss.
EVENT3=1958 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is created by President Eisenhower.
NAME1=Actor, director, producer Sir Richard Attenborough (1923)
NAME2=Singer Dinah Washington (1924)
NAME3=Actor Eliot Gould (1938)
NAME4=Actor Richard Gere (1949)
NAME5=Singer, songwriter Michael Jackson (1958)
NAME6=Actress Rebecca De Mornay (1961)
[DATE0830]
TODAY=August 30
EVENT1=1862 - In the second Battle of Bull Run, the Union is defeated.
EVENT2=1932 - The tenth Olympic Games open in Los Angeles, California.
EVENT3=1983 - The first African American astronaut to enter space is Lt. Colonel Guion Bluford, who traveled on the space shuttle Challenger.
NAME1=Actor Fred MacMurray (1908)
NAME2=Actor Donald O' Connor (1925)
NAME3=Musician John Phillips (1935)
NAME4=Actress Elizabeth Ashley (1939)
[DATE0831]
TODAY=August 31
EVENT1=1742 - Swarms of grasshoppers destroy pastures and crops in Pennsylvania.
EVENT2=1895 - The first professional football game is played.
EVENT3=1975 - James Hoffa, former president of the Teamsters Union, is reported missing in Detroit.
NAME1=Playwright, lyricist, screenwriter Alan Jay Lerner (1918)
NAME2=Singer, songwriter Van Morrison (1945)
[DATE0901]
TODAY=September 1
EVENT1=1878 - The first woman telephone operator, Emma Nutt, begins working in Boston, Massachusetts.
EVENT2=1945 - The Japanese sign the World War II surrender agreement.
EVENT3=1985 - The wreckage of the Titanic is found by a U.S. and French team.
NAME1=Actress, comedienne Lily Tomlin (1939)
NAME2=Musician Barry Gibb (1947)
[DATE0902]
TODAY=September 2
EVENT1=1789 - The Treasury Department is established by the U.S. Congress.
EVENT2=1901 - Theodore Roosevelt advises: "Speak softly and carry a big stick".
EVENT3=1987 - People meters make a debut in the U.S. in an attempt to find a new way of monitoring television viewing.
NAME1=Actor Mark Harmon (1951)
[DATE0903]
TODAY=September 3
EVENT1=1639 - The first U.S. lawyer to be disbarred is Thomas Lechford.
EVENT2=1783 - The Treaty of Paris is signed by Great Britain and the U.S., formally ending the Revolutionary War.
EVENT3=1987 - A study finds that Vietnam veterans have a higher death rate from cancer.
NAME1=Actor Alan Ladd (1913)
NAME2=Actress Valerie Perrine (1944)
NAME3=Actor Charlie Sheen (1965)
[DATE0904]
TODAY=September 4
EVENT1=1882 - Electricity begins to be supplied to New York City from Thomas Edison's steam powered plant.
EVENT2=1904 - The St. Regis Hotel in New York City is the first to have individual air conditioning and heating in every room.
EVENT3=1991 - Computer hackers devise a program to decipher the tightly held secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
NAME1=Poet, screenwriter, actor Antonin Artaud (1896)
NAME2=Singer, musician Chrissie Hynde (1951)
[DATE0905]
TODAY=September 5
EVENT1=1645 - Peace is declared between the Dutch and the Hudson River Valley Indians.
EVENT2=1844 - Iron ore is discovered in the Mesabi Mountains in Minnesota.
EVENT3=1975 - Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme makes an assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford.
NAME1=Actress Raquel Welch (1940)
NAME2=Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury (1946)
[DATE0906]
TODAY=September 6
EVENT1=1781 - Benedict Arnold loots and burns the American port of New London, Connecticut.
EVENT2=1901 - President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, New York and dies on September 14th.
EVENT3=1970 - The first African American contestant in the Miss America Pageant is C. A. Browne.
NAME1=Actress Swoosie Kurtz (1944)
[DATE0907]
TODAY=September 7
EVENT1=1899 - The first automobile parade is held in Newport, Rhode Island by socialites.
EVENT2=1921 - The first Miss America Pageant is held at Keith's Theater on the Garden Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
EVENT3=1963 - The Football Hall of Fame is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
NAME1=Actor Peter Lawford (1923)
NAME2=Musician Buddy Holly (1936)
NAME3=Actor Richard Roundtree (1942)
NAME4=Actress Susan Blakely (1950)
NAME5=Actor Corbin Bernsen (1954)
[DATE0908]
TODAY=September 8
EVENT1=1565 - Spaniard Pedro Menendez founds the first permanent colony in North America at St. Augustine.
EVENT2=1858 - Abraham Lincoln makes a speech in Clinton, Illinois which includes: "You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but not all of the people all of the time".
EVENT3=1974 - President Gerald Ford grants Richard M. Nixon "a full, free and absolute pardon".
NAME1=Actor Peter Sellers (1925)
[DATE0909]
TODAY=September 9
EVENT1=1753 - The first steam engine arrives in the colonies from England.
EVENT2=1836 - Abraham Lincoln receives his license to practice law.
EVENT3=1945 - U.S. troops land in South Korea, as Soviet forces begin to occupy the northern half of the country. The 38th parallel officially begins to serve as the boundary between the two new nations.
NAME1=Actor Michael Keaton (1951)
NAME2=Singer, songwriter Otis Redding (1941)
[DATE0910]
TODAY=September 10
EVENT1=1608 - John Smith is chosen the new president of the Jamestown, Virginia council.
EVENT2=1890 - During a rain storm in Cairo, Illinois a number of live fish fall in various parts of the city.
EVENT3=1927 - An American meat packing plant announces that it has perfected a frankfurter with a zipper.
NAME1=Actress Amy Irving (1953)
[DATE0911]
TODAY=September 11
EVENT1=1609 - Henry Hudson discovers that Manhattan is an island.
EVENT2=1875 - The first newspaper cartoon strip appears in the Daily Graphic, New York City.
EVENT3=1883 - The postal mail chute is patented by J. G. Cutter of Rochester, New York.
NAME1=Songwriter Alan Bergman (1925)
NAME2=Director, screenwriter Brian De Palma (1940)
NAME3=Drummer Mickey Hart (1943)
NAME4=Musician Jermaine Jackson (1954)
[DATE0912]
TODAY=September 12
EVENT1=1944 - The U.S. Army enters Germany for the first time.
EVENT2=1953 - John F. Kennedy marries Jacqueline Bouvier.
EVENT3=1983 - In the U.S., two Picasso paintings worth a million dollars are stolen from a South Texas art museum.
NAME1=Actor, singer Maurice Chevalier (1899)
[DATE0913]
TODAY=September 13
EVENT1=1814 - Francis Scott Key writes "The Star Spangled Banner" as the British shell Ft. McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland.
EVENT2=1898 - H. W. Goodwin of Newark, New Jersey patents celluloid photographic film.
EVENT3=1976 - New Jersey has the first state-regulated lottery winning number of three zeros (000).
NAME1=Musician Peter Cetera (1944)
NAME2=Actress Jacqueline Bisset (1944)
[DATE0914]
TODAY=September 14
EVENT1=1861 - The first naval battle of the Civil War occurs between the Colorado and the Judah near Pensacola, Florida.
EVENT2=1956 - The first lobotomy is performed at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
EVENT3=1987 - The Reynolds Corporation announces a new smokeless cigarette to be marketed in 1988.
NAME1=Director Pietro Germi (1885)
NAME2=Director, screenwriter James Dearden (1949)
[DATE0915]
TODAY=September 15
EVENT1=1492 - Christopher Columbus sees a meteor fall into the sea.
EVENT2=1959 - Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins a six-day U.S. visit.
EVENT3=1987 - The Pope urges Hollywood, California film makers to shun violence, sex and fantasy in American films.
NAME1=27th President of the United States William Howard Taft (1857)
NAME2=Novelist H. G. Wells (1886)
NAME3=Actor, director Jackie Cooper (1921)
NAME4=Actor Tommy Lee Jones (1946)
NAME5=Director Oliver Stone (1946)
[DATE0916]
TODAY=September 16
EVENT1=1620 - The Mayflower Puritans sail from Great Britain for America.
EVENT2=1953 - The first film made in Cinema Scope, which enhances the depth of the film image, is released by 20th Century Fox.
EVENT3=1991 - A federal judge overturns a previous conviction and drops all charges against former National Security Council Aide Oliver North.
NAME1=Actress Lauren Bacall (1924)
NAME2=Singer and songwriter B.B. King (1925)
NAME3=Actor Peter Falk (1927)
NAME4=Actor, comedian Ed Begley, Jr. (1949)
[DATE0917]
TODAY=September 17
HOLIDAY=Constitution Day
EVENT1=1630 - The settlement of Boston is established by Massachusetts Bay colonists.
EVENT2=1787 - The Federal Constitution of the U.S. is passed.
EVENT3=1926 - Miami, Florida is devastated by a hurricane that kills 370 people and causes $100,000,000 property damage.
NAME1=Actress Anne Bancroft (1931)
NAME2=Writer Ken Kesey (1935)
NAME3=Actor John Ritter (1948)
[DATE0918]
TODAY=September 18
EVENT1=1793 - George Washington lays the cornerstone for the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
EVENT2=1851 - The first issue of the New York Daily News is published and later becomes the New York Times.
EVENT3=1975 - Patricia Hearst, the kidnapped heiress, is captured by police after a 19-month search.
NAME1=Singer, actor Frankie Avalon (1940)
[DATE0919]
TODAY=September 19
EVENT1=1881 - President Garfield dies from wounds received in an assassination attempt.
EVENT2=1928 - Mickey Mouse's first appearance is in the cartoon feature "Steamboat Willie" by Walt Disney.
EVENT3=1957 - The first U.S. underground nuclear explosive is tested.
NAME1=Actor Jeremy Irons (1948)
NAME2=Producer Joe Pasternak (1901)
[DATE0920]
TODAY=September 20
EVENT1=1644 - Colonel George Cartwright accepts the surrender of the Dutch at Fort Orange, New York.
EVENT2=1881 - Chester A. Arthur becomes the 21st U.S. president.
EVENT3=1974 - The first female police officer killed in the line of duty is Gail Cobb of Washington, D.C.
NAME1=Actress Rachel Roberts (1927)
NAME2=Actress Sophia Loren (1934)
[DATE0921]
TODAY=September 21
EVENT1=1776 - A fire sweeps through New York City, destroying nearly 300 buildings.
EVENT2=1814 - "The Star Spangled Banner" is published as a poem in the Baltimore American.
EVENT3=1981 - The first female justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, joins the U.S. Supreme Court.
NAME1=Actor, comedian Bill Murray (1950)
[DATE0922]
TODAY=September 22
EVENT1=1776 - Nathan Hale is executed as a spy by the British in New York City.
EVENT2=1862 - President Abraham Lincoln declares all U.S. slaves free.
EVENT3=1919 - A steel strike in the U.S. lasts until January 20.
NAME1=Musician Joan Jett (1960)
NAME2=Actor, producer, screenwriter John Houseman (1902)
[DATE0923]
TODAY=September 23
EVENT1=1890 - American Association member Ed Cartwright of St. Louis becomes the only major league player to bat in seven runs in one inning.
EVENT2=1911 - Earl Ovington is sworn in as "air mail pilot number one" and delivers the first air mail authorized by the U.S. Post Office.
EVENT3=1987 - The rose is voted by the House of Representatives, in agreement with the Senate, to become America's national flower.
NAME1=Actor Walter Pidgeon (1897)
NAME2=Actor, singer, dancer Mickey Rooney (1920)
NAME3=Musician Ray Charles (1930)
NAME4=Musician Bruce Springsteen (1949)
[DATE0924]
TODAY=September 24
EVENT1=1657 - The first autopsy and coroner's jury verdict is recorded in the state of Maryland.
EVENT2=1869 - This day becomes known as Black Friday as the price of gold rises to panic-causing heights.
EVENT3=1955 - President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack in Denver and is hospitalized for three weeks.
NAME1=Producer, puppeteer Jim Henson (1936)
[DATE0925]
TODAY=September 25
EVENT1=1804 - The twelfth Constitutional Amendment is added and provides for a change in the method of electing the President and Vice President.
EVENT2=1956 - The first telephone conversation over transoceanic telephone cable takes place.
EVENT3=1960 - The first atomic powered aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Enterprise, is launched in the U.S.
NAME1=Actress Mary Astor (1887)
NAME2=Novelist William Faulkner (1897)
NAME3=Composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906)
NAME4=Actor, producer Michael Douglas (1944)
NAME5=Director, screenwriter Pedro Almodovar (1951)
NAME6=Actor Mark Hamill (1952)
NAME7=Actor Christopher Reeve (1952)
[DATE0926]
TODAY=September 26
EVENT1=1772 - The New Jersey Legislature passes a bill forbidding the practice of medicine without a license.
EVENT2=1914 - The Federal Trade Commission is established.
EVENT3=1960 - The first televised Presidential candidate debate is held between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
NAME1=Poet T.S. Eliot (1888)
NAME2=Composer George Gershwin (1898)
NAME3=Singer, actress Olivia Newton-John (1947)
NAME4=Actress Mary Beth Hurt (1948)
[DATE0927]
TODAY=September 27
EVENT1=1779 - The U.S. Congress appoints John Adams to negotiate peace with Great Britain.
EVENT2=1937 - The first Santa Claus Training School is opened in Albion, New York.
EVENT3=1964 - The Warren Commission releases its report on the assassination of President Kennedy.
NAME1=Actor Wilford Brimley (1934)
[DATE0928]
TODAY=September 28
EVENT1=1781 - 9,000 American forces and 7,000 French forces begin the siege of Yorktown.
EVENT2=1850 - The U.S Navy abolish flogging as a form of punishment.
EVENT3=1920 - Eight players of the Chicago White Sox are indicted for throwing the 1919 World Series between their team and the Cincinnati Reds.
NAME1=Actor Marcello Mastroianni (1923)
NAME2=Actress Brigitte Bardot (1934)
NAME3=Singer, songwriter Ben E. King (1938)
NAME4=Director, screenwriter John Sayles (1950)
[DATE0929]
TODAY=September 29
EVENT1=1608 - Captain Newport arrives from England with supplies for the colonists.
EVENT2=1927 - Telephone service begins between the U.S. and Mexico.
EVENT3=1977 - Eva Shain becomes the first woman to referee a heavyweight championship when she monitors the fight between Ali and Shavers in New York City.
NAME1=Novelist Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547)
NAME2=Actor Trevor Howard (1916)
NAME3=Actor, singer, songwriter Gene Autry (1907)
NAME4=Actress Greer Garson (1908)
NAME5=Singer, songwriter, musician Jerry Lee Lewis (1935)
NAME6=Actress, singer Madeline Kahn (1942)
[DATE0930]
TODAY=September 30
EVENT1=1630 - The first public execution in the American colonies takes place.
EVENT2=1946 - The International Military Tribunal ends in Nuremberg, Germany. Twenty-two top officials in Hitler's Nazi regime are found to be guilty of war crimes, and eleven of them are sentenced to death.
EVENT3=1972 - Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates is the only player to end his career with exactly 3,000 hits
