EVENT1=1884 - The first U.S. theatrical school opens and will later be known as the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
EVENT2=1908 - The Model T car is introduced by Henry Ford.
EVENT3=1988 - A severe earthquake hits Los Angeles, California causing 7 deaths and more than $200 million in damages.
NAME1=Actor, producer, director Walter Matthau (1920)
NAME2=39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter (1924)
NAME3=Actor, director George Peppard (1928)
NAME4=Actor and singer Richard Harris (1930)
NAME5=Actress, singer Julie Andrews (1935)
[DATE1002]
TODAY=October 2
EVENT1=1866 - The first tin can with a key opener is patented by J. Osterhoudt in New York City.
EVENT2=1889 - The first Pan American conference is held in Washington, D.C.
EVENT3=1987 - The U.S. imposes severe economic sanctions against South Africa for the racial policy of apartheid.
NAME1=Poet Wallace Stevens (1879)
NAME2=Actor, comedian Bud Abbot (1895)
NAME3=Actor Moses Gunn (1929)
NAME4=Singer, songwriter Don McLean (1945)
NAME5=Musician Sting (1952)
[DATE1003]
TODAY=October 3
EVENT1=1698 - The first Annual Dog Mart is held in Fredericksburg, Virginia
EVENT2=1863 - The last Thursday in November is officially declared Thanksgiving Day by President Lincoln
EVENT3=1969 - The last wooden passenger train cars are taken out of service in Brooklyn, New York
NAME1=Writer Thomas Wolfe (1900)
NAME2=Singer, dancer Chubby Checker (1941)
[DATE1004]
TODAY=October 4
EVENT1=1830 - The first power printing press capable of fine book work is patented by Isaac Adams of Boston, Massachusetts.
EVENT2=1909 - The first dirigible balloon race is held in St. Louis, Missouri.
EVENT3=1977 - New Jersey and Pennsylvania are the first states with daily lotteries to have the same winning number.
NAME1=19th President of the United States Rutherford B. Hayes(1822)
NAME2=Actor, director Charlton Heston (1924)
NAME3=Actress Susan Sarandon (1946)
[DATE1005]
TODAY=October 5
EVENT1=1853 - R. M. Peale of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio is the first female college professor.
EVENT2=1947 - Harry Truman has the first televised Presidential address from the White House.
EVENT3=1953 - The first baseball team to win five World Series in a row is the New York Yankees.
NAME1=21st President of the United States Chester Alan Arthur (1830)
NAME2=Actress Glynis Johns (1923)
NAME3=Playwright, screenwriter, actor Sam Shepard (1943)
NAME4=Actress Karen Allen (1951)
NAME5=Musician Bob Geldof (1953)
[DATE1006]
TODAY=October 6
EVENT1=1889 - Thomas Edison exhibits his kinetoscope.
EVENT2=1927 - The first talking feature film, "The Jazz Singer," is shown in New York City.
EVENT3=1991 - University of Oklahoma law professor Anita F. Hill accuses Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of having sexually harassed her while she worked as his personal assistant. The majority of the U.S. Senate finds the charges groundless and he is later confirmed to the court.
NAME1=Actress Carole Lombard (1908)
NAME2=Writer Thor Heyerdahl (1914)
[DATE1007]
TODAY=October 7
EVENT1=1492 - A false cry of "Land ho!" and sighting of land birds makes Christopher Columbus change course and miss Florida.
EVENT2=1849 - Author and poet Edgar Allen Poe dies under mysterious circumstances in Baltimore, Maryland.
EVENT3=1916 - The most one-sided intercollegiate football game between Georgia Tech and Cumberland University has the final score of 222 - 0.
NAME1=Actress, singer, dancer June Allyson (1917)
NAME2=Musician John Mellencamp (1951)
[DATE1008]
TODAY=October 8
EVENT1=1633 - The first town government is organized by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
EVENT2=1872 - Most of Chicago, Illinois is destroyed by fire that is started when Mrs. O'Leary's cow knocks over a lantern.
EVENT3=1955 - The aircraft carrier Saratoga is launched as the world's most powerful warship.
NAME1=Actor Chevy Chase (1944)
NAME2=Actress Sigourney Weaver (1949)
[DATE1009]
TODAY=October 9
EVENT1=1877 - The American Humane Association is founded in Cleveland, Ohio.
EVENT2=1987 - Clare Boothe Luce, American writer and first American woman to hold a diplomatic post, dies.
EVENT3=1991 - The food and drug administration approves a drug known as dideoxyinosine for treatment of patients with AIDS. It is the second drug approved for this purpose.
NAME1=Actor Edward Andrews (1914)
NAME2=Musician John Lennon (1940)
NAME3=Musician John Entwistle (1946)
NAME4=Singer, songwriter Jackson Browne (1948)
[DATE1010]
TODAY=October 10
EVENT1=1845 - The formal opening of the U.S. Naval Academy takes place in Annapolis, Maryland.
EVENT2=1882 - The skull of Guiteau, President Garfield's assassin, is stolen from a Medical Museum exhibit in Washington, D.C.
EVENT3=1973 - Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns from office after pleading no contest to charges of tax evasion.
NAME1=Playwright, screenwriter, novelist Harold Pinter (1930)
NAME2=Musician David Lee Roth (1955)
[DATE1011]
TODAY=October 11
EVENT1=1614 - The New Netherland Company is granted a charter by the Dutch government, giving the company a three-year monopoly in America between 40 degrees North and 45 degrees North.
EVENT2=1868 - Thomas Edison files for his first patent for an electrical vote recorder to tabulate votes in the U.S. Congress.
EVENT3=1963 - Anna Eleanor Roosevelt is the first Presidential wife portrayed on a commemorative U.S. postage stamp.
NAME1=Musician Daryl Hall (1948)
NAME2=Actress Joan Cusack (1962)
[DATE1012]
TODAY=October 12
EVENT1=1773 - The Public Hospital for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds is established in Williamsburg, Virginia.
EVENT2=1871 - President Grant publicly condemns the Ku Klux Klan and orders the arrest of over 600 citizens involved in its activities in South Carolina.
EVENT3=1987 - The Forbes magazine list of "The 400 Richest Americans" ranks Sam Walton, founder of WalMart Stores, as the richest, being worth $8.5 billion.
NAME1=Temptations member Melvin Franklin (1942)
[DATE1013]
TODAY=October 13
EVENT1=1792 - The cornerstone for the White House is laid in Washington, D.C.
EVENT2=1913 - The first air passenger flight is made from Albany, New York to New York City.
EVENT3=1987 - Los Angeles, California schools announce that they will begin a year-round schedule, beginning July 1989.
NAME1=Novelist Conrad Richter (1890)
NAME2=Musician, actor Art Garfunkel (1942)
NAME3=Singer Marie Osmond (1959)
[DATE1014]
TODAY=October 14
EVENT1=1912 - President Theodore Roosevelt is shot during his campaign for his third Presidential term, but survives.
EVENT2=1964 - Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
EVENT3=1994 - President Clinton bade Jean-Bertrand Aristide farewell as Aristide returned to Haiti after 3 years in exile.
NAME1=Singer, actor Bing Crosby (1877)
NAME2=34th President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890)
NAME3=Actress, director Lillian Gish (1896)
NAME4=Director Carroll Ballard (1937)
NAME5=Singer, actor Cliff Richard (1940)
NAME6=Baseball player Willie Mays (1954)
[DATE1015]
TODAY=October 15
EVENT1=1878 - The Edison Electric Light Company is founded by Thomas Edison.
EVENT2=1966 - A man in McKinney, Texas commits four hit-and-runs, drives off the side of the road four times and causes six accidents in the span of twenty minutes, becoming perhaps the worst driver of all time.
EVENT3=1969 - In the U.S., demonstrations are staged to protest against the Vietnam War.
NAME1=Philosopher Frederich Nietszsche (1844)
NAME2=Actress, director Penny Marshall (1942)
NAME3=Musician Richard Carpenter (1945)
NAME4=Singer, musician Sammy Hagar (1947)
[DATE1016]
TODAY=October 16
EVENT1=1701 - Yale College is founded in Saybrook, Connecticut.
EVENT2=1859 - John Brown raids Harper's Ferry in an attempt to liberate and arm African American slaves.
EVENT3=1973 - Henry Kissinger receives the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the Paris Peace Accord between the U.S. and Vietnam.
NAME1=Playwright Eugene O' Neill (1888)
NAME2=Actress Angela Lansbury (1925)
NAME3=Author Gunter Grass (1927)
NAME4=Musician Bob Weir (1947)
NAME5=Actor Tim Robbins (1958)
[DATE1017]
TODAY=October 17
EVENT1=1777 - General John Burgoyne surrenders to the Americans at Saratoga, New York.
EVENT2=1916 - The first motion picture sex shocker, A Daughter of the Gods, makes its debut in New York City.
EVENT3=1989 - San Francisco, California suffers a major earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter Scale.
NAME1=Actress Jean Arthur (1908)
NAME2=Playwright Arthur Miller (1915)
NAME3=Actress, dancer Rita Hayworth (1918)
NAME4=Actor Montgomery Clift (1920)
NAME5=Actress Margot Kidder (1948)
[DATE1018]
TODAY=October 18
EVENT1=1648 - The Massachusetts general court grants a charter to the shoemakers of Boston, and the first labor organization in America is born.
EVENT2=1913 - Emmeline Pankhurst, a British suffragette, is denied admission into the U.S. because she was declared an undesirable alien.
EVENT3=1955 - A new nuclear particle, the antiproton, is discovered by scientists at the University of California.
NAME1=Actress Joan Plowright (1919)
NAME2=Singer, songwriter Chuck Berry (1926)
NAME3=Actor George C. Scott (1927)
NAME4=Actor Peter Boyle (1933)
NAME5=Actor Vincent Spano (1962)
[DATE1019]
TODAY=October 19
EVENT1=1630 - The first general court is held in New England in Boston, Massachusetts.
EVENT2=1944 - U.S. forces land in the Philippines.
EVENT3=1988 - The U.S. Stock Market has its worst day in history, known as Black Monday.
NAME1=2nd President of the United States John Adams (1735)
NAME2=Reggae musician Peter Tosh (1944)
NAME3=Actor John Lithgow (1945)
[DATE1020]
TODAY=October 20
EVENT1=1873 - Handbills in New York announce the opening of P. T. Barnum's Hippodrome featuring "The Greatest Show on Earth".
EVENT2=1968 - Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of assassinated President John Kennedy, marries Aristotle Onassis.
EVENT3=1970 - An American Norman Borlaug receives the Nobel Peace Prize for perfecting and introducing new strains of wheat and rice crops.
NAME1=Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
NAME2=Actor Bela Lugosi (1882)
NAME3=Baseball player Mickey Mantle (1931)
NAME4=Musician Tom Petty (1953)
[DATE1021]
TODAY=October 21
EVENT1=1879 - Thomas Edison invents a workable incandescent lamp in his Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratories.
EVENT2=1929 - The first air ambulance is organized in New York City.
EVENT3=1976 - American Saul Bellow receives the Nobel Prize for Literature, making 1976 the first year all Nobel Prizes are won by Americans.
NAME1=Actress, novelist Carrie Fisher (1956)
[DATE1022]
TODAY=October 22
EVENT1=1863 - Sam Houston becomes the first president of the Republic of Texas.
EVENT2=1962 - President Kennedy announces that the U.S.S.R. has installed missiles in Cuba.
EVENT3=1987 - The U.S. cuts exports to China because of reported arms sales to Iran by the Chinese.
NAME1=Poet Dylan Thomas (1914)
NAME2=Actress Joan Fontaine (1917)
NAME3=Actor Christopher Lloyd (1938)
NAME4=Actor Tony Roberts (1939)
NAME5=Actor Jeff Goldblum (1952)
[DATE1023]
TODAY=October 23
EVENT1=1910 - Blanche Scott is the first woman to make a public air flight by herself in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
EVENT2=1947 - The first husband and wife to win joint Nobel Prizes are Dr. Carl Cori and Dr. Gerty Cori of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.
EVENT3=1983 - 241 U.S. troops are killed in Beirut by a terrorist suicide bomb attack on the U.S. Marine Headquarters.
NAME1=Television personality Johnny Carson (1925)
[DATE1024]
TODAY=October 24
EVENT1=1901 - Anna Edson Taylor is the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
EVENT2=1940 - The 40-hour work week goes into effect.
EVENT3=1954 - A U.S. Cabinet meeting is shown on television for the first time.
NAME1=Singer, songwriter, disc jockey J.P. Richardson, aka The Big Bopper (1930)
NAME2=Actor F. Murray Abraham (1940)
NAME3=Actor Kevin Kline (1947)
[DATE1025]
TODAY=October 25
EVENT1=1960 - The first electric watch is produced in New York.
EVENT2=1951 - Color television is introduced in the U.S.
EVENT3=1983 - U.S. troops and forces from six Caribbean countries invade Grenada.
NAME1=Musician Jon Anderson (1944)
NAME2=Producer Gale Anne Hurd (1955)
[DATE1026]
TODAY=October 26
EVENT1=1749 - The Georgia Colony revokes its prohibition of slavery.
EVENT2=1774 - The Minute Men are organized in America.
EVENT3=1982 - The Reagan Administration shows a record budget deficit of more than $110,000,000,000 for fiscal year 1982.
NAME1=Actor Jackie Coogan (1914)
NAME2=Actor, director Bob Hoskins (1942)
NAME3=Producer, director Ivan Reitman (1946)
[DATE1027]
TODAY=October 27
HOLIDAY=Navy Day
EVENT1=1682 - William Penn comes to the Delaware River to formally accept the territory from the Duke of York's deputy.
EVENT2=1804 - Lewis and Clark set camp for the first winter of their expedition near Bismarck, North Dakota.
EVENT3=1829 - The first patent for a baby carriage is issued in the U.S.
NAME1=26th President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt (1858)
NAME2=Poet Harold Pinter (1932)
NAME3=Actor, screenwriter John Cleese (1939)
[DATE1028]
TODAY=October 28
EVENT1=1886 - The Statue of Liberty is dedicated in the New York harbor.
EVENT2=1929 - The first child is born in an airplane over Miami, Florida.
EVENT3=1946 - The Atomic Energy Commission is created.
NAME1=Author Evelyn Waugh (1903)
NAME2=Actress Jane Alexander (1939)
NAME3=Actress Annie Potts (1952)
[DATE1029]
TODAY=October 29
EVENT1=1652 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony proclaims itself an independent commonwealth.
EVENT2=1929 - The N.Y. Stock Exchange collapses in New York City -- Black Tuesday -- setting off the Great Depression.
EVENT3=1978 - The largest slot machine payoff is for $275,000 to James Schelich of Washington, Missouri.
NAME1=Actor Richard Dressler (1947)
[DATE1030]
TODAY=October 30
EVENT1=1888 - The ball point pen is patented by John Loud of Weymouth, Massachusetts.
EVENT2=1938 - Orson Wells broadcasts his radio program, "The War of the Worlds," on CBS and causes a national panic.
EVENT3=1945 - Shoe rationing in the U.S. ends.
NAME1=Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821)
NAME2=Actress, playwright Ruth Gordon (1896)
NAME3=Director, producer Louis Malle (1932)
[DATE1031]
TODAY=October 31
HOLIDAY=Halloween
EVENT1=1864 - Nevada is admitted to the Union as the 36th state.
EVENT2=1956 - The first naval expedition to the South Pole, led by G. J. Dufek, lands.
EVENT3=1968 - President Lyndon Johnson orders a total halt to U.S. bombing of North Vietnam.
NAME1=Poet John Keats (1795)
NAME2=Actress Sally Kirkland (1944)
NAME3=Actor John Candy (1950)
[DATE1101]
TODAY=November 1
EVENT1=1848 - The Boston Female Medical School is the first U.S. women's medical school to be established.
EVENT2=1879 - The first all-steel railroad bridge is built in Glasgow, Missouri.
EVENT3=1950 - Two Puerto Rican nationalists fail at assassinating President Truman.
NAME1=Novelist Stephan Crane (1871)
[DATE1102]
TODAY=November 2
EVENT1=1867 - Harpers Bazaar magazine is founded.
EVENT2=1920 - The first radio station in the U.S., KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, begins regular broadcasting.
EVENT3=1983 - Legislation is signed making the third Monday in January a national holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
NAME1=Actor Burt Lancaster (1913)
NAME2=11th President of the United States James Knox Polk (1795)
NAME3=29th President United States Warren G. Harding (1865)
[DATE1103]
TODAY=November 3
EVENT1=1896 - The first female U.S. Senator is Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah.
EVENT2=1941 - Japanese Ambassador John Grew warns that the Japanese may be planning a sudden attack on the U.S.
EVENT3=1992 - Bill Clinton wins the Presidential election to become the 42nd U.S. President.
NAME1=Actor Charles Bronson (1921)
[DATE1104]
TODAY=November 4
EVENT1=1842 - Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois.
EVENT2=1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected to be the 34th U.S. President.
EVENT3=1968 - Nez Pierce warrior Chief Joseph is the first Native American pictured on a U.S postage stamp.
NAME1=Actor, comedian Art Carney (1918)
NAME2=Actor Ralph Macchio (1962)
[DATE1105]
TODAY=November 5
EVENT1=1844 - A California grizzly bear undergoes a successful cataract operation at the Zoological Garden.
EVENT2=1917 - American troops under General Pershing go into action for the first time on the Western Front.
EVENT3=1940 - President Franklin Roosevelt wins re-election to a third Presidential term.
NAME1=Director, actor Otto Preminger (1906)
NAME2=Musician Ike Turner (1933)
NAME3=Singer Paul Simon (1941)
NAME4=Singer, songwriter Gram Parsons (1946)
NAME5=Singer, actor Peter Noone (1947)
NAME6=Actress Tatum O' Neill (1863)
NAME7=Animator Walt Disney (1902)
[DATE1106]
TODAY=November 6
EVENT1=1860 - Abraham Lincoln is elected to be the 16th U.S. President.
EVENT2=1952 - The first hydrogen bomb explodes near the U.S. at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
EVENT3=1989 - In the hopes of freeing U.S. hostages held in Iran, the U.S. announces it will unfreeze $567 million in Iranian assets that had been held since 1979.
NAME1=Musician Glenn Frey (1948)
NAME2=Actress Lori Singer (1962)
[DATE1107]
TODAY=November 7
EVENT1=1874 - Harper's Weekly runs a cartoon depicting an elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party.
EVENT2=1944 - Franklin Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term as U.S. President.
EVENT3=1991 - Magic Johnson, professional basketball player, retires from the Los Angeles Lakers after testing positive for the HIV virus.
NAME1=Novelist, philosopher, essayist Albert Camus (1913)
NAME2=Musician Johnny Rivers (1942)
[DATE1108]
TODAY=November 8
EVENT1=1889 - Montana is admitted to the Union as the 41st state.
EVENT2=1942 - Under General Eisenhower, the Allied Forces land in French North Africa.
EVENT3=1994 - Election highlights: The Republican Party made major gains in Congress, winning at least 7 seats from the Democrats and taking control of the House and Senate for the first time since 1954.
NAME1=Director, actor Gene Saks (1921).
NAME2=Actor, director David Carradine (1946)
NAME3=Singer, songwriter Rickie Lee Jones (1954)
[DATE1109]
TODAY=November 9
EVENT1=1620 - The Mayflower reaches Cape Cod, and the Pilgrims first set foot on New World soil.
EVENT2=1911 - The first neon tube advertising sign is patented by George Claude.
EVENT3=1965 - The largest blackout in American History takes place. Over 80,000 square miles are thrown into complete darkness at the height of rush hour by the failure which began in western New York State at 5:17 P.M. and reached New York City by 5:27. Eventually over 30,000,000 people in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Ontario, Canada lost power for most of the night.
NAME1=Actress Katherine Hepburn (1907)
[DATE1110]
TODAY=November 10
HOLIDAY=Marine Corp. Day
EVENT1=1775 - The American Marines are organized.
EVENT2=1951 - The first dial telephone coast-to-coast service without the aid of an operator takes place from Englewood, New Jersey to Alameda, California.
EVENT3=1994 - As a postscript to the Gulf War, Iraq recognized new Kuwaiti borders as defined by the United Nations.
NAME1=Actor Claude Rains (1889)
NAME2=Actor Richard Burton (1925)
NAME3=Actor Roy Scheider (1935)
[DATE1111]
TODAY=November 11
HOLIDAY=Veteran's Day
EVENT1=1817 - The first sword-swallowing exhibition is seen in New York City.
EVENT2=1925 - The discovery of cosmic rays is announced in Madison, Wisconsin.
EVENT3=1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is unveiled in Washington, D.C.
EVENT1=1923 - In Akron, Ohio Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company announces it has purchased all patents and rights to manufacture Zeppelin dirigibles.
EVENT2=1926 - The first recorded airplane bombing takes place in Williamson County, Illinois during a feud between rival beer and liquor factions, the Sheltons and the Birgers.
EVENT3=1971 - President Richard M. Nixon announces the end of U.S. offensives in Vietnam.
NAME1=Actress Grace Kelly (1928)
NAME2=Musician Neil Young (1945)
[DATE1113]
TODAY=November 13
EVENT1=1875 - The first football uniforms are worn in a game between Yale and Harvard Universities in New Haven, Connecticut.
EVENT2=1921 - The Pacific Treaty is signed between the U.S., Great Britain, France and Japan.
EVENT3=1946 - The first artificial snow is produced by Vincent Schaefer at Mount Greylock, Massachusetts.
NAME1=Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850)
NAME2=Actor Joe Mantegna (1947)
NAME3=Actress, comedienne Whoopi Goldberg (1949)
[DATE1114]
TODAY=November 14
EVENT1=1732 - The first librarian to be paid is Louis Timothie of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
EVENT2=1851 - Herman Melville's book Moby Dick is published.
EVENT3=1910 - Pilot Eugene Ely takes off in a Curtiss biplane from the flight deck of the light cruiser Birmingham.
EVENT1=1789 - New Jersey is the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
EVENT2=1962 - The U.S.S.R. agrees to remove bombers from Cuba, and the U.S. lifts the blockade.
EVENT3=1967 - U.S. population reaches 200 million.
NAME1=Guitarist Duane Allman (1946)
NAME2=Musician Joe Walsh (1947)
NAME3=Actress Tracey Ullman (1959)
[DATE1121]
TODAY=November 21
EVENT1=1789 - North Carolina is admitted to the Union as the 12th state.
EVENT2=1877 - Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
EVENT3=1981 - A 26-story hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada is destroyed by fire with a loss of 84 lives.
NAME1=Novelist Joseph Conrad (1857)
NAME2=Actor, comedian, harpist Harpo Marx (1888)
NAME3=Actress Eleanor Powell (1913)
NAME4=Musician Dr. John (1940)
NAME5=Actor, screenwriter, director Harold Ramis (1944)
NAME6=Actress, producer Goldie Hawn (1945)
[DATE1122]
TODAY=November 22
EVENT1=1927 - The first snowmobile patent is granted to Carl Eliason of Sayner, Wisconsin.
EVENT2=1961 - Frank Robinson is the first baseball player to be named "Most Valuable Player" in both major leagues.
EVENT3=1963 - President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
NAME1=Novelist George Sand (aka Marian Evans) (1819)
NAME2=Actress Geraldine Page (1924)
NAME3=Actress Jamie Lee Curtis (1958)
NAME4=Actress Mariel Hemingway (1961)
[DATE1123]
TODAY=November 23
EVENT1=1906 - Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, is convicted of polygamy.
EVENT2=1945 - Meat and butter rationing in the U.S. ends.
EVENT3=1973 - The first U.S. Representative to give birth while in office is Yvonne Braithwaite Burke.
NAME1=Actor Boris Karloff (1887)
[DATE1124]
TODAY=November 24
EVENT1=1903 - Clyde Coleman receives the patent for an electric self-starter for an automobile.
EVENT2=1964 - Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy, is shot by Jack Ruby.
EVENT3=1969 - Lieutenant William Calley, a U.S. Marine platoon commander at My Lai, Vietnam, is to be court marshalled for charges of murdering 109 innocent Vietnamese.
NAME1=33rd president of the United States Harry S. Truman (1884)
[DATE1125]
TODAY=November 25
EVENT1=1783 - The last British troops leave Manhattan.
EVENT2=1863 - The Northern troops have a victory at the Battle of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
EVENT3=1955 - Segregation on trains and buses crossing state lines is banned by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
NAME1=Screenwriter, novelist W. R. Burnett (1899)
NAME2=Director Jonathan Kaplan (1947)
[DATE1126]
TODAY=November 26
EVENT1=1789 - The first national Thanksgiving Day is established by a Congressional resolution.
EVENT2=1814 - A British fleet leaves Jamaica to attack New Orleans in order to gain control of the Mississippi River.
EVENT3=1923 - All mail planes are ordered to be equipped with special radios, sending and receiving sets by order of the Postmaster.
NAME1=Cartoonist Charles Schulz (1922)
NAME2=Singer, dancer, songwriter Tina Turner (1939)
[DATE1127]
TODAY=November 27
EVENT1=1963 - The first satellite (Centaur 2) to be fueled by liquid hydrogen is launched at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
EVENT2=1966 - The first professional football game with 16 touchdowns is between the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants in Washington, D.C.
NAME1=Filmaker, producer Les Blank (1935)
NAME2=Musician Jimi Hendrix (1942)
NAME3=Daughter of Jackie and John F. Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy (1957)
NAME4=Actress, singer Marlene Dietrich (1902)
[DATE1128]
TODAY=November 28
EVENT1=1775 - The Second Continental Congress formally establishes the American Navy.
EVENT2=1922 - Skywriting is demonstrated for the first time in the U.S. by Cyril Turner in New York City.
EVENT3=1961 - Ernest Davis becomes the first African American football player to win the Heisman Trophy.
NAME1=Poet William Blake (1757)
NAME2=Record company executive Berry Gordy, Jr. (1929)
NAME3=Actor Ed Harris (1950)
[DATE1129]
TODAY=November 29
EVENT1=1804 - The New York Historical Society is formed, and similar organizations are formed in New England.
EVENT2=1921 - The U.S., Great Britain, France and Japan sign the Washington Treaty to limit naval armaments.
EVENT3=1929 - Commander Richard Byrd makes his first flight over the South Pole.
NAME1=Actor Cary Grant (1886)
NAME2=Singer, guitarist, songwriter John Mayall (1934)
NAME3=Actress Diane Ladd (1939)
[DATE1130]
TODAY=November 30
EVENT1=1667 - The English Crown formally recognizes the claims of the Connecticut Colony to territory west of the Connecticut River.
EVENT2=1774 - Thomas Paine emigrates to America and settles in Philadelphia, later becoming the vanguard for the colonies' complete break from England.
EVENT3=1782 - A preliminary peace treaty is signed in Paris between America and England
NAME1=Actor Richard Crenna (1927).
NAME2=Disc Jockey, TV producer Dick Clark (1929)
NAME3=Playwright, screenwriter, director David Mamet (1947)
NAME4=Singer, songwriter, musician Billy Idol (1955)
[DATE1201]
TODAY=December 1
EVENT1=1878 - The first telephone is installed in the White House.
EVENT2=1913 - The first drive-in gasoline station opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
EVENT3=1955 - Rosa Parks, an African American, is arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a public bus.
NAME1=Actor, screenwriter, author Woody Allen (1935)
NAME2=Actor, comedian Richard Pryor (1940)
NAME3=Singer, songwriter Bette Midler (1945)
[DATE1202]
TODAY=December 2
EVENT1=1823 - The Monroe Doctrine is set forth proclaiming that the Americas will no longer be the subject of European colonization.
EVENT2=1859 - Abolitionist John Brown is hanged for treason.
EVENT3=1982 - Surgeons remove the heart of a 61-year-old man and replace it with a permanent artificial one in Salt Lake City, Utah.
NAME1=Playwright Adolph Green (1918)
[DATE1203]
TODAY=December 3
EVENT1=1833 - The first co-educational college in America, Oberlin College, opens in Ohio.
EVENT2=1923 - The first Congressional open session is broadcast via radio on WRC in Washington, D.C.
EVENT3=1948 - The first female Army officer is M.A. Hallaren.
EVENT1=1783 - George Washington bids farewell to troops as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
EVENT2=1918 - President Wilson sails for France and becomes the first U.S. President to visit a foreign country.
EVENT3=1965 - U.S. astronauts Frank Borman and J. A. Lovell, Jr. set a duration record by orbiting the earth for fourteen days in Gemini 7.
NAME1=Actor Jeff Bridges (1949)
[DATE1205]
TODAY=December 5
EVENT1=1776 - Phi Betta Kappa, an honorary scholastic fraternity, is founded at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
EVENT2=1868 - A velocipede riding school opens in New York to teach the art of riding bicycles.
EVENT3=1933 - The 21st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution legalizes alcohol in the U.S. after 22 years of prohibition.
NAME1=8th President of the United States Martin Van Buren (1882)
[DATE1206]
TODAY=December 6
EVENT1=1847 - Abraham Lincoln becomes a member of the House of Representatives.
EVENT2=1923 - President Coolidge broadcasts the first Presidential message over radio.
EVENT3=1973 - Gerald Ford is sworn in as Vice President to replace Spiro Agnew who resigned from office on October 10th.
NAME1=Composer Ira Gershwin (1896)
NAME2=Actress Agnes Moorehead (1906)
NAME3=Actor James Naughton (1945)
NAME4=Actor Tom Hulce (1953)
[DATE1207]
TODAY=December 7
EVENT1=1787 - Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the new Constitution.
EVENT2=1917 - The U.S. declares war on Austria-Hungary.
EVENT3=1941 - The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
NAME1=Actress Ellen Burstyn (1932)
NAME2=Singer, songwriter Harry Chapin (1942)
NAME3=Singer, songwriter Tom Waits (1949)
NAME4=Actor C. Thomas Howell (1966)
[DATE1208]
TODAY=December 8
EVENT1=1776 - George Washington and the American troops cross the Delaware River.
EVENT2=1941 - U.S. and Great Britain declare war on Japan.
EVENT3=1980 - Former Beatle John Lennon is shot and killed in New York City.
NAME1=The Doors' vocalist Jim Morrison (1943)
NAME2=Musician Greg Allman (1947)
NAME3=Actress Kim Basinger (1954)
[DATE1209]
TODAY=December 9
EVENT1=1502 - A patent is granted by Henry VII of England that results in a series of transatlantic voyages.
EVENT2=1813 - President Madison calls for an embargo on all trade with the British.
EVENT3=1884 - The ball-bearing skate is patented by Levant Richardson of Chicago, Illinois.
NAME1=Actor, producer, director Kirk Douglas (1916)
NAME2=Actor, producer Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (1909)
NAME3=Director, actor, screenwriter John Cassavetes (1929)
NAME4=Singer, songwriter Joan Armatrading (1950)
NAME5=Actor John Malkovich (1953)
NAME6=Singer Donnie Osmond (1957)
[DATE1210]
TODAY=December 10
EVENT1=1607 - Captain John Smith leaves Jamestown on the trip that would involve him with Pocahontas.
EVENT2=1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
EVENT3=1958 - National Airlines begins jet passenger service.
NAME1=Actress Dorothy Lamour (1914)
[DATE1211]
TODAY=December 11
EVENT1=1844 - The first dental anesthetic is used for a tooth extraction on Horace Wells.
EVENT2=1919 - The first monument to an insect is dedicated at Enterprise, Alaska in profound appreciation of the boll weevil.
EVENT3=1941 - Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S.
NAME1=Producer Carlo Ponti (1910)
NAME2=Singer, songwriter Big Mama Thornton (1926)
NAME3=Actress Rita Moreno (1931)
NAME4=Musician Lou Rawls (1935)
NAME5=Actress Teri Garr (1949)
[DATE1212]
TODAY=December 12
EVENT1=1787 - Pennsylvania is admitted to the Union as the 2nd state.
EVENT2=1822 - Mexico is officially recognized as an independent nation by the U.S.
EVENT3=1958 - A Jupiter missile, with a nose-cone containing a monkey, is lost at sea.
NAME1=Novelist Gustave Flaubert (1821)
NAME2=Actor Edward G. Robinson (1893)
NAME3=Singer, actor Frank Sinatra (1915)
NAME4=Actress Betty Grable (1916)
NAME5=Writer Eugene Burdick (1918)
NAME6=Singer Connie Francis (1938)
NAME7=Singer, songwriter Dionne Warwick (1940)
NAME8=Musician Dickie Betts (1943)
NAME9=Musician Grover Washington (1943)
[DATE1213]
TODAY=December 13
EVENT1=1621 - The first furs are exported from the U.S. to Great Britain.
EVENT2=1816 - The Provident Institution for Savings is chartered as the first U.S. savings bank.
EVENT3=1873 - Women in Fredonia, New York form a society to visit saloons in a Christian spirit and later became the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
NAME1=Actor Christopher Plummer (1927)
NAME2=Singer, guitarist Ted Nugent (1948)
[DATE1214]
TODAY=December 14
EVENT1=1774 - Warned by Paul Revere of a British plan to station troops at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a group of Massachusetts militiamen successfully attack the arsenal of Fort William and Mary.
EVENT2=1814 - The Treaty of Ghent between the U.S. and Great Britain ends the War of 1812.
EVENT3=1962 - Mariner 2 flies close to Venus and discovers that the planet has a heavy atmosphere consisting mostly of carbon dioxide.
NAME1=Singer, songwriter Charlie Rich (1932)
NAME2=Actress Lee Remick (1935)
NAME3=Actress Dee Wallace Stone (1948)
[DATE1215]
TODAY=December 15
EVENT1=1791 - The U.S. Bill of Rights goes into effect.
EVENT2=1854 - The first street cleaning machine is used in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
EVENT3=1989 - General Manuel Noriega is declared head of the Panamanian government and proclaims that a state of war exists between the U.S. and Panama.
NAME1=Disc Jockey, songwriter Alan Freed (1922)
NAME2=Actor Don Johnson (1950)
NAME3=Actress Helen Slater (1963)
[DATE1216]
TODAY=December 16
EVENT1=1773 - The Boston Tea Party occurs when Samuel Adams and his followers empty 343 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.
EVENT2=1915 - Albert Einstein publishes his "General Theory of Relativity".
EVENT3=1953 - The first White House Press Conference, which allows direct quotations to be used, is held with President Eisenhower and is attended by 161 reporters.
NAME1=Playwright, screenwriter, actor Noel Coward (1899)
NAME2=Actress Liv Ullman (1939)
[DATE1217]
TODAY=December 17
EVENT1=1777 - George Washington's Army enters winter headquarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
EVENT2=1903 - Wilbur and Orville Wright successfully fly an engine-powered plane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
EVENT3=1947 - A blizzard in New York City leaves 27 inches of snow.
NAME1=Actor Bernard Hill (1944)
[DATE1218]
TODAY=December 18
EVENT1=1787 - New Jersey is admitted to the Union as the 3rd state.
EVENT2=1865 - The 13th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified completely abolishing slavery in the U.S.
EVENT3=1936 - The first giant panda, Su-Lin, arrives in the U.S.
NAME1=Actor, director, screenwriter Ossie Davis (1917)
NAME2=Guitarist Keith Richards (1943)
NAME3=Director, producer Stephen Speilberg (1947)
[DATE1219]
TODAY=December 19
EVENT1=1732 - Benjamin Franklin begins publication of Poor Richard's Almanac.
EVENT2=1950 - General Eisenhower is named Supreme Commander of Western European defense forces.
EVENT3=1974 - Nelson Rockefeller takes the oath of Vice President of the U.S.
NAME1=Actress Cicely Tyson (1933)
NAME2=Singer, guitarist Alvin Lee (1944)
NAME3=Actress Jennifer Beals (1963)
[DATE1220]
TODAY=December 20
EVENT1=1849 - The U.S. and the Hawaiian Islands sign a treaty of friendship, navigation and trade.
EVENT2=1941 - The Draft Act is signed by President Roosevelt.
EVENT3=1989 - 12,000 U.S. troops are sent to Panama to capture General Manuel Noriega and keep the Panama Canal safe.
NAME1=Actress Irene Dunne (1901)
NAME2=Singer, songwriter Bo Diddley (1928)
[DATE1221]
TODAY=December 21
EVENT1=1708 - The French and the Native Americans capture the English settlement at St. Johns in Newfoundland, giving the French control over the North Atlantic coastline.
EVENT2=1790 - The first American cotton mill begins production in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
EVENT3=1987 - 100 workers at the Okonite cable plant in New Brunswick, New Jersey are suspended for wearing Santa hats to work.
NAME1=Writer Heinrich Boll (1917)
NAME2=Actress Jane Fonda (1937)
NAME3=Singer, songwriter Frank Zappa (1940)
NAME4=Singer, songwriter Carla Thomas (1942)
[DATE1222]
TODAY=December 22
EVENT1=1620 - The Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts.
EVENT2=1894 - The U.S. Golf Association is formed in New York City.
EVENT3=1987 - U.S. scientists say a single gene may decide the sex of a baby.
NAME1=Actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft (1907)
NAME2=Musician Robin Gibb (1949)
NAME3=Musician Maurice Gibb (1949)
[DATE1223]
TODAY=December 23
EVENT1=1617 - The English Crown institutes a penal colony in Virginia.
EVENT2=1913 - The Federal Reserve Banking System is put into effect.
EVENT3=1943 - The Corvina becomes the first U.S. submarine sunk by an enemy submarine.
NAME1=Singer Esther Phillips (1935)
[DATE1224]
TODAY=December 24
EVENT1=1832 - The first U.S. hospital and asylum for African Americans is the Georgia Infirmary.
EVENT2=1865 - The Ku Klux Klan is formed in Tennessee.
EVENT3=1948 - The first house to be completely solar heated is occupied in Dover, Massachusetts.
NAME1=Producer, director Howard Hughes (1905)
NAME2=Actress Ava Gardner (1922)
[DATE1225]
TODAY=December 25
HOLIDAY=Christmas Day
EVENT1=1659 - The General Court of Massachusetts passes a law making the observance of Christmas a penal offense, but it was later repealed.
EVENT2=1776 - General Washington stages a surprise attack against the British at Trenton, New Jersey and wins.
EVENT3=1868 - President Johnson proclaims general amnesty to all parties of the Civil War.
NAME1=Singer, songwriter, musician Little Richard (1935)
NAME2=Actress Sissy Spacek (1949)
NAME3=Musician Annie Lennox (1954)
[DATE1226]
TODAY=December 26
EVENT1=1783 - American manufactured goods are allowed to be imported into England by British order.
EVENT2=1865 - James Nason of Franklin, Massachusetts is granted a patent for the coffee percolator.
EVENT3=1990 - The U.S. Census Bureau reports that the U.S. population is 249,632,692.
NAME1=Record company executive Phil Spector (1940)
[DATE1227]
TODAY=December 27
EVENT1=1934 - The first U.S. youth hostel is opened in Northfield, Massachusetts.
EVENT2=1968 - The first U.S. astronauts to land at night are Frank Borman, J. A. Lovell, Jr. and W.A. Anders in Apollo 8.
EVENT3=1985 - Palestinian terrorists open fire at airports in Rome and Vienna, killing 18 people, including 5 Americans.
NAME1=Actor Gerard Depardieu (1948)
[DATE1228]
TODAY=December 28
EVENT1=1832 - The first U.S. Vice President to resign is J. C. Calhoun.
EVENT2=1869 - William Semple of Mt. Vernon, Ohio receives a patent for chewing gum.
EVENT3=1967 - Muriel Siebert is the first women to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
NAME1=28th United States president Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856)
NAME2=Singer, songwriter, drummer Johnny Otis (1921)
NAME3=Singer, guitarist Edgar Winter (1946)
[DATE1229]
TODAY=December 29
EVENT1=1778 - The British capture Savannah, Georgia from American General Robert Howe.
EVENT2=1845 - Texas is admitted to the Union as the 28th state.
EVENT3=1952 - The first transistorized hearing aid is offered for sale in Elmsford, New York.
NAME1=17th United States president Andrew Johnson (1808)
NAME2=Actress Mary Tyler Moore (1937)
NAME3=Actor Ted Danson (1947)
[DATE1230]
TODAY=December 30
EVENT1=1731 - The first music concert in the U.S. is held at Peter Pelham's great room in Boston, Massachusetts.
EVENT2=1854 - The Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company is the first oil company to be incorporated in the U.S.
EVENT3=1959 - The first ballistic missile submarine, George Washington, is commissioned in Groton, Connecticut.
NAME1=Actor Joseph Bologna (1938)
NAME2=Singer Mike Nesmith (1942)
NAME3=Singer David Jones (1946)
[DATE1231]
TODAY=December 31
EVENT1=1775 - American forces led by Benedict Arnold lose the Battle of Quebec to the British.
EVENT2=1862 - President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill admitting West Virginia to the Union
EVENT3=1972 - Baseball player Roberto Clemente is killed in an airplane crash while attempting to deliver supplies to Puerto Rican earthquake victims.
