H0101 The start of a new year... enjoy the bowl games.
H0101 Feast of the Solemnity of Mary.
H0104 National Trivia Day.
H0105 Twelfth Night, end of the Christmas season.
H0106 Feast of the Epiphany.
H0113 Blame Someone Else Day.
H0116 National Nothing Day.
H0118 Hat Day.
H0122 Popcorn Day.
H0123 Handwriting Day.
H0128 Kazoo Day.
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E01010056 Seneca becomes an advisor to Emperor Nero.
E01011788 `The Times' of London is first published.
E01011863 Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation.
E01011892 Brooklyn merges with New York to form the City of New York.
E01011892 the Ellis Island Immigration Center opens.
E01011902 the first Rose Bowl game is played, (Michigan beats Stanford 49-0).
E01011934 Alcatraz Island officially becomes a Federal Prison.
E01011935 the first Orange Bowl game is played, (Bucknell beats Miami 26-0).
E01011937 the first Cotton Bowl game is played, (TCU beats Marquette 16-6).
E01011958 the European Economic Community (EEC) is formed.
E01011959 Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba is successful.
E01011984 AT&T is broken up into 8 companies.
E01021788 Georgia becomes the 4th state.
E01021921 religious services are first broadcast on radio by KDKA in Pittsburgh.
E01021935 Bruno Richard Hauptmann goes on trial in Flemington, NJ, for the kidnap/murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.
E01021942 the Japanese capture Manila.
E01021965 the NY Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath for $400,000.
E01021968 the first successful heart transplant is performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard.
E01021974 President Richard Nixon signs the 55 mph speed limit into law.
E01031521 Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
E01031777 Washington defeats British at Princeton, NJ.
E01031870 construction begins on the Brooklyn Bridge.
E01031888 the drinking straw is patented.
E01031938 the March of Dimes organization is formed.
E01031959 Alaska becomes the 49th state.
E01031967 Jack Ruby, (nee Jack Rubenstein), Lee Harvey Oswald's killer, dies.
E01031977 Apple Computer is incorporated.
E01041790 President Washington delivers the first "State of the Union" message.
E01041821 Elizabeth Ann Seton, America's first saint, dies at age 46.
E01041885 Dr. William W. Grant performs the first appendectomy.
E01041896 Utah becomes the 45th state.
E01041965 President Lyndon Johnson outlines the goals for his "Great Society."
E01041984 "Night Court" premieres on NBC-TV.
E01051781 a British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, VA.
E01051914 Henry Ford announces a minimum wage of $5 for an eight hour day.
E01051925 Nellie Taylor Ross becomes the first woman governor (Wyoming).
E01051933 work on the Golden Gate Bridge begins on the Marin County side.
E01051970 "All My Children" premieres on ABC-TV.
E01061540 King Henry VIII marries his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
E01061838 Samuel Morse publicly demonstrates his telegraph.
E01061912 New Mexico becomes the 47th state.
E01061914 the stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch is founded.
E01061941 the "Four Freedoms" speech is given by FDR.
E01061942 the first around-the-world flight by a commercial airplane is completed by Pan Am's "Pacific Clipper".
E01071610 Galileo discovers the 4 major moons of Jupiter.
E01071714 the typewriter is patented (it was built years later).
E01071785 the first balloon flight across the English Channel.
E01071789 the first US presidential election is held.
E01071924 commercial trans-Atlantic telephone service is inaugurated between New York and London.
E01071929 the "Tarzan" comic strip premieres.
E01071953 President Truman announces the US has developed the hydrogen bomb.
E01071959 the US recognizes Fidel Castro's new Cuban government.
E01071963 First Class postage goes from 4 cents to 5 cents.
E01071968 First Class postage goes from 5 cents to 6 cents.
E01071991 baseball player Pete Rose is released from prison.
E01081798 the 11th Amendment is ratified, construing judicial powers.
E01081815 the Battle of New Orleans, which made a hero out of Andrew Jackson (the War of 1812 had ended on 12/24/1814, but nobody knew that).
E01081964 President Lyndon Johnson declares a "War on Poverty."
E01081985 American Lawrence Jenco is taken hostage in Lebanon.
E01091788 Conneticut becomes the 5th state.
E01091793 the first balloon flight in North America is made by Jean Pierre Blanchard.
E01091861 Mississippi secedes from the Union.
E01091945 as he vowed, General MacArthur returns to the Philippines.
E01091972 the 2,000,000th point is scored in the NBA.
E01091972 the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Los Angeles Lakers, ending the Lakers 33-game winning streak; the longest in pro sports.
E01091977 the Oakland Raiders (-4.5) beat the Minnesota Vikings 32-14 in Super Bowl XI at the Rose Bowl.
E01091982 a 5.9 earthquake hits New England & Canada; the last one was in 1855.
E01101776 "Common Sense", by Thomas Paine, is published.
E01101861 Florida secedes from the Union.
E01101863 the first "subway" opens in London.
E01101870 John Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
E01101901 the "Spindletop" oil well is found near Beaumont, TX.
E01101920 the League of Nations is established.
E01101928 Josef Stalin exiles Leon Trotsky.
E01101946 the United Nations convenes for the first time.
E01101946 using radar, man bounces signals off the moon for the first time.
E01111861 Alabama secedes from the Union.
E01111913 the first sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, goes on display at the 13th Auto Show in New York.
E01111935 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to Oakland.
E01111964 the Surgeon General releases the first government report saying smoking may be hazardous to one's health.
E01111970 the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Minnesota Vikings (-13.5) 23-7 in Super Bowl IV at New Orleans, the second biggest upset in Super Bowl history.
E01111973 the American League adopts the "designated hitter" rule.
E01121915 the US House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
E01121932 Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate.
E01121945 German forces retreat from the Battle of the Bulge.
E01121945 the US Navy destroys 41 Japanese ships in the Battle of the South China Sea.
E01121966 "Batman" premieres on ABC-TV.
E01121967 the National Organization of Women (NOW) is formed.
E01121969 the New York Jets defeat the Baltimore Colts (-19) 16-7 in Super Bowl III, the biggest upset in Super Bowl history in Miami.
E01121969 Led Zeppelin releases their first album, "Led Zeppelin".
E01121971 "All in the Family" premieres on CBS-TV.
E01121975 the Pittsburgh Steelers (-3) win their first of four Super Bowl's 16-6 over the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IX in New Orleans.
E01131733 English colonists land at present day Charleston to settle Georgia.
E01131854 Anthony Foss patents the accordion.
E01131906 the first advertisement for a radio appears in Scientific American magazine.
E01131920 the NY Times says rockets will never fly.
E01131971 Apollo 14 is launched.
E01131974 the Miami Dolphins (-7) win Super Bowl VIII over the Minnesota Vikings 24-7 in Houston, their second Super Bowl in a row.
E01141784 the Revolutionary War formally ends.
E01141858 Napoleon III escapes an assassination attempt.
E01141914 Henry Ford introduces the "assembly line" for his cars.
E01141952 the "Today" show premieres on NBC-TV.
E01141967 the first "Human Be-In" is held is San Francicso.
E01141968 the Green Bay Packers (-13) win their third NFL title in a row, beating the Oakland Raiders 33-14 in Super Bowl II in Miami.
E01141973 the Miami Dolphins beat the Washington Redskins (-1) 14-7 in Super Bowl VII in Los Angeles, finishing up the only perfect season in NFL history (17-0).
E01141978 the Sex Pistols give their last concert in San Francisco.
E01151559 Queen Elizabeth I is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
E01151777 New Connecticut (later Vermont) declares its independence.
E01151844 the University of Notre Dame receives its charter from Indiana.
E01151861 the steam elevator is patented by Elisha Otis, forming the base for his elevator company.
E01151870 the Democratic Party is represented as a donkey for the first time in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.
E01151925 Hialeah Park racetrack opens in Miami.
E01151943 the Pentagon Building in Washington is completed.
E01151950 masked robbers steal more than $250,000 in securities from the Brink's office in Boston.
E01151967 the Green Bay Packers (-14) win Super Bowl I 35-10 over the Kansas City Chiefs in Los Angeles.
E01151968 NBC-TV broadcasts the last episode of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.".
E01151973 President Nixon announces the suspension of US offensive action in Vietnam.
E01151974 "Happy Days" premieres on ABC-TV.
E01151978 the Dallas Cowboys (-5.5) beat the Denver Broncos 27-10 in Super Bowl XII at the Superdome, the first indoor Super Bowl.
E01161547 Ivan IV, (Ivan the Terrible), crowns himself czar of Russia at age 17.
E01161883 the US Civil Service Commission is established.
E01161920 Prohibition goes into effect.
E01161944 Gen. Dwight Eisenhower takes command of the Allied Invasion Force in London.
E01161964 "Hello Dolly!", starring Carol Channing, premieres on Broadway.
E01161965 ABC-TV broadcasts the last episode of "The Outer Limits".
E01161972 the Dallas Cowboys (-6) beat the Miami Dolphins 24-3 in Super Bowl VI in New Orleans.
E01161991 At 5:30pm CT the US and allies attack Iraq (1/17/91, 2:30am Baghdad time).
E01171861 the flush toilet is patented by Thomas Crapper.
E01171917 the US buys the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million.
E01171945 in WWII, Polish and Soviet armies recapture Warsaw.
E01171945 Raoul Wallenberg, diplomat, disappears in Hungary while in Soviet custody.
E01171946 the UN Security Council meets for the first time.
E01171950 the "Great Brink's Robbery" in Boston, $2.8 million is taken.
E01171961 President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against the rise of the "military-industrial complex."
E01171971 the Baltimore Colts beat the Dallas Cowboys (-3) 16-13 in Super Bowl V in Miami. (Sometimes called the "Blunder Bowl".) Also, the first Super Bowl played on Astro-Turf.
E01181644 the first UFO sighting in America, by Pilgrims in Boston.
E01181778 Captain James Cook discovers the Hawaiian Islands.
E01181788 the first English settlers arrive at Australia's Botany Bay to establish a penal colony.
E01181912 explorer Robert Scott and party reach the South Pole only to learn Ronald Amundsen and his party had been there first; Scott and party die on the way back.
E01181943 a wartime ban on the sale of pre-sliced bread went into effect.
E01181964 the Beatles' "I Want To Hold Your Hand" debuts on the charts.
E01181976 the Pittsburgh Steelers (-4) beat the Dallas Cowboys 21-17 in Super Bowl X in Miami.
E01191825 the process for storing foods in tin cans is patented.
E01191861 Georgia secedes from the Union.
E01191903 the first regular transatlantic radio broadcast between the US & England is made.
E01191937 Howard Hughes sets a speed record by flying his monoplane from Los Angeles to Newark, NJ in 7:28.25.
E01191955 President Eisenhower allows a presidential news conference to be filmed for television for the first time.
E01191991 the USS Louisville fires a Tomahawk Cruise missile, the first launched from a submarine during wartime, against Iraq.
E01201265 the first English Parliament is called into session by the Earl of Leicester.
E01201783 the Revolutionary War ends, the formal document is signed a year later.
E01201877 the US Senate agrees to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
E01201892 the first basketball game is played.
E01201936 Britain's King George V dies and is succeeded by Edward VIII.
E01201945 FDR is inaugurated for a record fourth term as President.
E01201980 the Pittsburgh Steelers (-10) win their fourth Super Bowl 31-19 over the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl XIV at the Rose Bowl.
E01201981 the Iran hostages are freed after 444 days, minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated President.
E01201985 the San Francisco 49'ers (-3) beat the Miami Dolphins 38-16 in Super Bowl XIX at Palo Alto, CA.
E01211813 the pineapple is introduced in Hawaii.
E01211861 Jefferson Davis and four other Southerners resign from the US Senate.
E01211915 the first Kiwanis Club is founded in Detroit.
E01211954 the USS Nautilus is launched, the first atomic-powered sub.
E01211977 President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.
E01211979 the Pittsburgh Steelers (-4) win their third Super Bowl, over the Dallas Cowboys 35-31, in Super Bowl XIII in Miami.
E01221881 "Cloepatra's Needle", an ancient Egyptian obelisk, is erected in New York's Central Park.
E01221917 President Woodrow Wilson asks for an end to WWI-in three months America joins in.
E01221938 Thornton Wilder's `Our Town' premieres.
E01221944 the Battle of Anzio Beach.
E01221968 "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC-TV.
E01221970 the first commercial flight, (New York to London), for the Boeing 747.
E01221973 the Supreme Court legalizes abortion.
E01221984 the LA Raiders slaughter the Washington Redskins (-3) 38-9 in Super Bowl XVIII in Tampa, FL.
E01221989 the San Francisco 49'ers (-7) win Super Bowl XXIII over the Cincinnati Bengals 20-16 in Miami.
E01231789 Georgetown University is established in Washington, DC.
E01231845 Congress decides all federal elections will be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
E01231849 Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to receive a medical degree in the US.
E01231964 the 24th Amendment is ratified, barring the poll tax in federal elections.
E01231968 North Korea captures the US Navy ship "Pueblo".
E01231973 President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end the Vietnam War.
E01231975 "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC-TV.
E01231977 "Roots" premieres on ABC-TV.
E01241848 James Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill, Coloma, Cal.
E01241899 Humphrey O'Sullivan patents the rubber heel.
E01241908 the first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
E01241916 the Supreme Court rules the income tax is constitutional.
E01241922 Christian Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
E01241935 the first canned beer is sold.
E01241982 the San Francisco 49'ers (-1) win their first Super Bowl 26-21 over the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl XVI in Pontiac, MI.
E01241987 American's Alann Steen, Robert Pohill and Jonathan Turner are taken hostage in Lebanon.
E01251533 King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn.
E01251915 Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates transcontinental phone service.
E01251949 the first Emmy Awards are given out.
E01251959 the first transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for for $301.)
E01251971 Charles Manson and four followers are convicted of the Tate-LaBianca murders.
E01251981 the Oakland Raiders maul the Philadelphia Eagles (-3) 27-10 in Super Bowl XV in New Orleans.
E01251981 the hostages come home from Iran after 444 days.
E01251987 the NY Giants (-9) dominate the Denver Broncos 39-20 in Super Bowl XXI at the Rose Bowl.
E01251988 the 5,000,000th point is scored in the NBA by Rickey Green of Utah.
E01261784 Ben Franklin says the turkey would be a better national symbol than the bald eagle.
E01261788 European settlers first land at Sydney, Australia.
E01261837 Michigan becomes the 26th state.
E01261926 television is first demonstrated by John Baird in London.
E01261986 the Chicago Bears (-10) crush the New England Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl XX in New Orleans.
E01261992 the Washington Redskins (-7) win their third Super Bowl, beating the Buffalo Bills 37-24 in Super Bowl XXVI in Minneapolis.
E01271880 Thomas Edison patents the electric light.
E01271888 the National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, DC.
E01271913 Jim Thorpe is stripped of his Olympic gold medals when it is learned he played semi-pro baseball for $25 a week.
E01271926 the first public demonstration of television.
E01271943 the first all-American air raid takes place against Germany.
E01271948 the first tape recorder is sold.
E01271973 the end of the military draft.
E01271973 the Vietnam War peace accords are signed in Paris.
E01271991 the NY Giants upset the Buffalo Bills (-7) 20-19 in Super Bowl XXV in Tampa.
E01281807 London's Pall Mall is the first street lit by gaslights.
E01281878 the Yale Daily News is published, the first daily college paper.
E01281878 George W. Coy is hired as the first full-time telephone operator.
E01281915 the US Coast Guard is established.
E01281938 the first ski tow begins operation in Vermont.
E01281990 the San Francisco 49'ers (-12.5) maim the Denver Broncos 55-10 in Super Bowl XXIV in New Orleans for their fourth Super Bowl title.
E01291845 Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" is first published (under a pseudonym) in the New York Evening Mirror.
E01291861 Kansas becomes the 34th state.
E01291900 the American League is formed in Philadelphia with eight teams.
E01291919 the 18th Amendment is ratified.
E01291920 the 18th Amendment takes effect, starting Prohibition.
E01301649 England's King Charles I is beheaded.
E01301835 President Andrew Jackson survives the first presidential assassination attempt.
E01301862 the US Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", is launched.
E01301917 the first jazz record in the United States is recorded.
E01301933 Adolf Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany.
E01301933 the "Lone Ranger" premieres on radio (WXYZ-Detroit).
E01301941 FDR delivers the "Four Freedoms" speech - "freedom of speech and expression, freedom to worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear".
E01301968 the TET Offensive starts during the Vietnam War.
E01301979 the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, exiled in France, is allowed to return to Iran.
E01301983 the Washington Redskins beat the Miami Dolphins (-3) 27-17 in Super Bowl XVII at the Rose Bowl.
E01301990 "The National", a national sports daily, publishes its first issue.
E01311943 the WWII battle of Stalingrad ends - the first major military defeat for Nazi Germany.
E01311945 Pvt. Eddie Slovik becomes the first American executed for desertion since the Civil War during WWII.
E01311950 President Truman authorizes production of the H-Bomb.
E01311958 the first US satellite, Explorer I, is launched.
E01311961 Ham (a chimp) is the first animal sent into space by the US.
E01311988 the Washington Redskins tame the Denver Broncos (-3.5) 42-10 in Super Bowl XXII in San Diego.
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; Disasters/Accidents/Deaths
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D01021974 Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres.
D01021990 Alan Hale, Jr., actor, dies at age 71.
D01021991 George Burkley, personal physician for JFK, dies.
D01031274 Thomas Aquinas, philosopher, dies at age 48.
D01031991 Luke Appling, baseball player, dies at age 83.
D01031992 Dame Judith Anderson, actress, dies at age 93.
D01031992 M.J. Frankovich, film producer, dies at age 83.
D01041786 Moses Mendelssohn, composer, dies at age 56.
D01041960 Albert Camus, poet, dies at age 46.
D01041964 the Boston Strangler kills his 13th, and last, victim, Mary Sullivan, age 19.
D01041965 T.S. Eliot, poet, dies at age 76.
D01051933 Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President, dies at age 60.
D01051943 George Washington Carver, scientist and educator, dies at age 81.
D01051975 14 die when British freighter 'Lake Illawarra' rams pylon bridge between Derwent & Hobart, Tasmania & ship sinks.
D01061919 Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President, dies at age 60.
D01061839 2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as 'The Big Wind
D01061967 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Phillipines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140.
D01071608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
D01071943 Nikola Tesla, electrician/inventor, dies at age 86.
D01071950 Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, killing 41 patients. (Davenport, Iowa)
D01071972 Iberian Airlines flight crashed into 800-foot-peak on island of Ibiza, killing 104.
D01081337 Giotto, painter, dies at age 70.
D01081642 Galileo Galilei, astronomer, dies at age 77.
D01081962 Dutch express train crashed into rear of a slow commuter train, killing 91. (Woerden, Netherlands)
D01081990 Terry-Thomas, actor/comedian, dies at age 78.
D01081991 Steve Clark, musician, dies at age 30.
D01091953 Korean ferryboat 'Chang Tyong-Ho' sank off Pusan with the loss of 249 lives.
D01091959 Dam across the Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains. Noise warns residents of Rivaldelago, but 135 still die.
D01101883 Fire at the uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P.T. Barnum fame, escapes unhurt.
D01101947 Greek steamer 'Himara' struck a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard.
D01101962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroyed 7 villages & killed 3,500 people.
D01111954 Two-ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche. 10 die at Dalaas, Austria.
D01111966 550 people die in landslides in the mountains behind Rio de Janeiro
D01111966 Brazil after heavy rains.
D01121903 Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown, Pa. killing 170.
D01121954 Austria's worst avalanche at Blons, kills 200. Second avalanche 9 hrs. later kills 115 rescue workers and survivors.
D01131864 Stephen Foster, composer, dies at age 37.
D01131915 Avezzano, Italy. Quake kills 30,000.
D01131941 James Joyce, author, dies at age 59.
D01131962 Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies at age 42.
D01131978 Hubert H. Humphrey, politician, dies at age 66.
D01131982 74 passengers and crew and four people on the ground are killed when Air Florida flight 90 crashes in Washington, DC.
D01141742 Edmund Halley, astronomer, dies at age 85.
D01141898 Lewis Carroll, author, dies at age 65.
D01141957 Humphrey Bogart, actor, dies at age 57.
D01141969 Aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise ripped by explosions in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 27 killed, 82 injured.
D01141984 Donna Reed, actress, dies at age 64.
D01141991 Keye Luke, actor, dies at age 86.
D01151919 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston, MA. drowning 21.
D01151951 'Cloud of Death', similar to Pelee rolled down the slope of Mount Lamington, New Guinea killing 3-5,000.
D01151953 'Federal Express' train crashed into Washington, D.C.'s Union station injuring 87 when brakes failed. No one killed.
D01161942 Carole Lombard, actress, dies at age 33.
D01161974 Mud slide destroys concrete telephone relay station killing 9 men inside, filling entire canyon with mud. (Canyonville, Oregon)
D01171718 53 killed at the spa at Leuherbad (Wallis) Switzerland by two snowslides.
D01171893 Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th President, dies at age 70.
D01181947 Small river steamer sank on the Yangtze River killing 400 people.
D01221901 England's Queen Victoria dies at age 81.
D01221905 "Sunday Bloody Sunday" - Russian troops fire on demonstrating workers in St. Petersburg.
D01171977 Gary Gilmore is executed in Utah, the first since 1967.
D01171991 King Olav V of Norway dies at age 87.
D01181936 Rudyard Kipling, author, dies at age 70.
D01181952 Jerome (Curly) Howard, comedian/actor, dies at age 48.
D01191862 John Tyler, the 10th President, dies at age 71.
D01201870 'City of Boston' vanished at sea with all 177 aboard.
D01201990 Barbara Stanwyck, actress, dies at age 82.
D01211793 Frances' King Louis XVI is executed.
D01211924 Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary, dies at age 54.
D01211960 Rock falls trap 437 underground at Coalbrook, South Africa. 417 die of methane poisoning.
D01221922 Pope Benedict XV dies.
D01221973 Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President, dies at age 64.
D01231556 Earthquake kills 830,000 when loess cliffs collapse on inhabited caves. (Shensi Province, China)
D01231973 Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims.
D01231973 Helgafell, island of Heimaey, Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 years, causing village of Vestmannaeyjar to be evacuated.
D01231989 Salvador Dali, artist, dies at age 84.
D01241939 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion, Chile. Damage reported over 50,000 square miles.
D01241965 Sir Winston Churchill, British politician, dies at age 90.
D01241992 Ken Darby, composer, dies at age 82.
D01251904 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania.
D01251937 Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, killing 13 people.
D01251975 Larry Fine, comedian/actor, dies at age 72.
D01251990 Ava Gardner, actress, dies at age 67.
D01261979 Nelson Rockefeller, politician, dies at age 70.
D01261992 Jose Ferrer, actor/director, dies at age 80.
D01271793 Frances' King Louis XVI is executed.
D01271851 John James Audubon, naturalist, dies at age 65.
D01271891 Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania.
D01271949 Chinese liner 'Taiping' collided with a collier off south China, sinking both ships with a loss of at least 600 lives.
D01271967 three astronauts (Grissom, White and Chaffee) die in a flash fire aboard Apollo 1 at Cape Kennedy.
D01271991 Dale Long, baseball player, dies at age 64.
D01281547 England's King Henry VIII dies at age 56.
D01281986 the Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, killing a crew of seven, at 10:39 AM CT.
D01281991 Harold (Red) Grange, football player, dies at age 87.
D01291596 Sir Francis Drake, explorer, dies.
D01291820 England's King George III dies.
D01291977 Freddie Prinze, comedian/actor, dies at age 22.
D01291980 Jimmy Durante, comedian, dies at age 86.
D01291992 Willie Dixon, musician/songwriter, dies at age 76.
D01301945 German troopship 'Wilhelm Gustloff' torpedoed by Russian submarine off Gdansk, Poland. 7,700 men die.
D01301948 Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated at age 78.
D01301991 John Bardeen, co-inventor of the transistor, dies at age 82.
D01311953 Hurricane-like winds flood The Netherlands drowning nearly 2,000.
D01311953 'Princess Victoria' capsized off Stanraer, Scotland. 133 die.
D01311966 Buster Keaton, comedian/actor, dies at age 70.
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B01011735 Paul Revere, patriot.
B01011745 (Mad) Anthony Wayne, general.
B01011752 Betsy Ross, flagmaker.
B01011895 J. Edgar Hoover, Mr. FBI.
B01011900 Xavier Cugat, band leader.
B01011909 Barry Goldwater, politician.
B01011909 Dana Andrews, actor.
B01011909 John Glenn, astronaut/politician.
B01011919 J.D. Salinger, author.
B01011939 Frank Langella, actor.
B01011942 Don Novello, comedian.
B01021880 Josef Stalin.
B01021920 Isaac Asimov, scientist/author.
B01021930 Julius LaRosa, singer.
B01021936 Roger Miller, singer.
B01021939 Jim Bakker, evangelist.
B01031840 Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii.
B01031883 Earl Clement Attlee, British politician.
B01031892 J.R.R. Tolkien, author.
B01031909 Victor Borge, pianist.
B01031916 Betty Furness, consumer reporter.
B01031923 Hank Stram, football coach/sportscaster.
B01031926 George Martin, record producer.
B01031930 Robert Loggia, actor.
B01031930 Eddie Egan, actor.
B01031932 Dabney Coleman, actor.
B01031936 Betty Rollin, journalist.
B01031939 Bobby Hull, hockey player.
B01031945 Stephen Stills, musician.
B01031946 John Paul Jones, (nee John Baldwin), musician.
B01031950 Victoria Principal, actress.
B01031956 Mel Gibson, actor.
B01041643 Sir Issac Newton, scientist.
B01041785 Jacob Grimm, storyteller.
B01041809 Louis Braille, developed reading system for the blind.
B01041813 Sir Issac Pitman, shorthand inventor.
B01041838 General Tom Thumb, (nee Charles Stratton), dwarf.
B01041905 Sterling Holloway, actor.
B01041914 Jane Wyman, actress.
B01041930 Don Shula, football coach.
B01041930 Sorrell Brooke, actor.
B01041935 Floyd Patterson, boxer.
B01041936 Porky Pig, cartoon character.
B01041937 Dyan Cannon, actress.
B0105 Sherlock Holmes, detective.
B01051779 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero.
B01051855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor.
B01051876 Konrad Adenauer, German politician.
B01051928 Walter Mondale, politician.
B01051931 Robert Duvall, actor.
B01051932 Chuck Noll, football player/coach.
B01051938 Juan Carlos, Spanish royal.
B01051946 Diane Keaton, actress.
B01051954 Pamela Sue Martin, actress.
B01061412 Joan of Arc, saint/martyr.
B01061811 Charles Sumner, politician.
B01061878 Carl Sandburg, poet.
B01061882 Samuel Rayburn, politician.
B01061911 Joey Adams, comedian.
B01061913 Loretta Young, actress.
B01061914 Danny Thomas, (nee Amos Jacobs), entertainer.
B01061921 Lou Harris, pollster.
B01061924 Earl Scruggs, musician.
B01061925 John DeLorean, automobile maker.
B01061930 Vic Tayback, actor.
B01061931 E.L. Doctorow, author.
B01061943 Bonnie Franklin, actress.
B01061956 Nancy Lopez, golfer.
B01071800 Millard Fillmore, the 13th President (1850-1853).
B01071912 Charles Addams, cartoonist.
B01071922 Vincent Gardenia, actor.
B01071928 William Peter Blatty, author.
B01071929 Terry Moore, actress.
B01071930 Douglas Kiker, TV newsman.
B01071942 Vasily Alexeyev, weight lifter.
B01071946 Jann Wenner, magazine publisher.
B01071948 Kenny Loggins, singer.
B01071952 Erin Gray, actress.
B01081862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder of Doubleday & Co.
B01081868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity.
