1^st-          1776-     First vote on the Declaration of Independence

1847-     1^st postage stamp in the United States is available

1850-     Over 600 U.S. ships sit outside San Francisco Bay

1867-     Canada gains Independence

1898-     Theodore Roosevelt’s “Rough Riders” charge San Juan Hill

1916-     The Battle of the Somme starts

1932-     FDR is nominated for president at the Democratic Convention

1908-     Estee Lauder is born

                1960-     The Republic of Ghana is created

1934-     Jamie Farr “Klinger” is born

1962-     Polygamy is outlawed by Congress

1967-     Pamela Anderson is born

1971-     The Golden Gate Bridge finally pays for itself

1980-     The new world record for the mile is set at 3 min. 48 sec. by Steve Overt in Olso

1997-     Great Britain gives up control of Hong Kong

 

2^nd-          0419-     Valentinian III is born

                1566-     Nostradamus dies

1777-     Vermont abolishes slavery

1843-     During a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina, an Alligator falls right out of the sky

1882-     James Garfield is assassinated

1885-     The Northwest Insurrection in Canada wins, and Canada surrenders Big Bear

1890-     Sherman Antitrust Act is put into effect

1900-     The World’s first rigid airship is demonstrated

1903-     Olav V, King of Norway, is born

1926-     The Army Air Corps are formed

1937-     Amelia Earhart disappears into the Atlantic Ocean

 

3^rd-          1423-     Louis XI, King of France, is born

                1754-     George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to the French

1778-     360 men, women, and children are massacred by the British at Wyoming, PA

1848-     Slaves are emancipated in what are now the U.S. Virgin Islands

1863-     Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Forces lose at the Battle of Gettysburg

1898-     US fleet destroys the Spanish fleet in Santiago Harbor, Cuba

1930-     The U.S. Veteran’s Administration is formed

1943-     Geraldo Rivera, newsman, is born

                1962-     Tom Cruise is born

                1969-     Brian Jones, a member of the Rolling Stones, drowns

                1988-     An Iranian passenger jet is shot down by the U.S. Navy, which kills almost 300

 

4^th-          1054-     Brightest supernova in history begins shining for 23 days

1776-     The Declaration of Independence is signed

1802-     West Point opens

1804-     Nathaniel Hawthorne is born

                1826-     Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die

1827-     New York abolishes slavery

1845-     The Republic of Texas Congress votes to let the U.S. annex the country

1863-     Boise, Idaho is founded

                Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Northern forces

1872-     Calvin Coolidge is born

1881-     Tuskegee Institute is founded by Booker T. Washington

1884-     France presents the Statue of Liberty to the U.S.

1894-     The Republic of Hawaii is formed

1946-     U.S. grants independence to the Philippines

1956-     In Unionville, Maryland, the U.S. most intense rainfall ever occurs (1.23” in 1 min)

1959-     The new American Flag is released, now with 49 stars with Alaska’s statehood

1960-     The new American Flag is released, now with 50 stars with Hawaii’s statehood

1987-     Klause Barbie, a Nazi, is convicted of war crimes in France

                1997-     Pathfinder lands on Mars

 

5^th-          1643-     1^st tornado observed in U.S. in Essex County, Massachusetts

                1808-     The Battle of Buenos Aires occurs

                1811-     Venezuela gains its independence from Spain

                1830-     France begins its invasion of Algeria

                1859-     Midway Islands discovered

                1865-     Salvation Army founded in London

                1935-     The National Labor Relations Act is signed by President FDR

                1946-     Bikini introduced

1950-     First casualty for the U.S. in the Korean War

1962-     Algeria gains its independence from France

                1966-     Saturn I Rocket is launched from Cape Kennedy

 

6^th-          1189-     Henry II, King of England, dies

1483-     Richard III of England is crowned king

1535-     Sir Thomas More executed for treason in England

1699-     Captain Kidd arrested in Boston

1747-     John Paul Jones, the creator of the phrase “I have not yet begun to fight” is born

1796-     Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia, is born

1885-     Louis Pasteur administers the first human inoculation for rabies

1894-     2000 troops are sent to Chicago to stop the Pullman Strike

1908-     Robert Peary and his expedition sails away from New York to the North Pole

1919-     1^st airship successfully crosses the Atlantic Ocean

1923-     Nancy Davis Reagan is born

                U.S.S.R. created

1958-     Alaska joins the Union as the 49^th state

1971-     Louis Armstrong dies

1975-     Most of the Comoros declare their independence from France

 

7^th-          1668-     Isaac Newton receives a degree from Trinity College in Cambridge, Mass.

1754-     King’s College (later renamed Columbia) is founded in New York City

1862-     The Land Grant Act is passed, giving state colleges federal land to sell

1863-     1^st U.S. military draft is passed

1898-     President McKinley signs for the annexation of Hawaii

                Hawaii is annexed

1908-     The Great White Fleet sails from San Francisco Bay

1930-     Construction starts on the Hoover Dam

1937-     The first confrontation between the Japanese and Chinese military forces, which will eventually escalate into World War II

1941-     The U.S. holds off the Nazi invasion of Iceland

1958-     FDR signs the bill to form Alaska into a state

1976-     Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars

1982-     Steve Scott runs a record mile of 3:47.69 in the U.S.

1987-     The Kiwanis Club begins admitting women for the first time

1990-     Bill Cullen, host of “The Price is Right” dies of cancer

 

8^th-          810-        Pepin, King of Italy, dies

1663-     Charles II, King of England, grants Rhode Island a Royal Charter

1777-     Vermont becomes the first state to grant negro men suffrage

1796-     First American passport issued

1835-     The Liberty Bell cracks for the second time

1838-     Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, the inventor of the rigid dirigibles, is born

                1839-     John D. Rockefeller is born

                1853-     Matthew Perry sails into Tokyo Harbor

1870-     Casswell County, North Carolina, is declared to be in a state of insurrection

1889-     First issue of the Wall Street Journal is printed

1908-     Nelson A. Rockefeller, the 41^st Vice President, is born

                1933-     Public Works Administration is effective

1948-     Raffy, the children’s singer, is born

                1957-     Grace Coolidge, the former First Lady, dies

                1961-     Portuguese Passenger Liner “Save” sinks near Mozambique, killing 230 people

                1969-     United States troops begin withdrawing from Vietnam

                1990-     12:34:56 7/8/90 (1234567890)

 

9^th-          1540-     Henry VIII, King of England, divorces Anne of Cleves

1776-     The Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington’s troops

1816-     Argentina declares its independence from Spain

1850-     Zachary Taylor, the 12^th president, dies

1877-     Wimbledon Tournament starts

1918-     117 people die in a train wreck in Nashville, Tennessee

1944-     168 die as a Ringling Brothers circus tent burns to the ground

1947-     O.J. Simpson is born

                1976-     Fred Savage is born

                1979-     Voyager 2 soars past Jupiter

                1993-     Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia’s remains are identified

 

10^th-        1692-     The first “witch” is hung in Salem, Massachusetts

                1775-     Negroes are officially excluded from serving in the Continental Army

1850-     Fillmore, the Vice President, is sworn in as the new president after President Taylor’s death

1890-     Wyoming reaches statehood, becoming the 44^th state

1914-     The Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth

1925-     The “Monkey Trial” begins

1926-     The arsenal at Lake Denmark, New Jersey explodes, which kills 21

1927-     Kevin O’Higgins, the Irish Free State Vice President, is assassinated

1929-     New U.S. currency is issued

1943-     The Allied invasion of Sicily begins

1958-     First parking meter installed

1962-     Martin Luther King, Jr., arrested in Georgia

1973-     Bahamas gain their independence from Great Britain

1987-     French secret agents blow up an sink Greenpeace’s vessel “Rainbow Warrior”

 

11^th-        1274-     Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, is born

                1740-     Jews are forced out of Russia

1767-     John Adams is born

                1798-     U.S. Marines are created

                1804-     Aaron Burr, the Vice President, kills Alex Hamilton during a pistol duel

                1812-     United States troops invade Canada

                1864-     Confederate forces begin the invasion of Washington, D.C.

                1921-     China grants Mongolia its independence

                1955-     Congress passes a bill that says that all U.S. currency will say, “In God We Trust”

                1960-     Ivory Coast and Niger declare their independence

                1979-     The United States’ Skylab falls into the Earth’s atmosphere and is destroyed

 

12^th-        100-        Julius C’sar is born

                1290-     Jews are thrown out of England

1862-     Medal of Honor is authorized by Congress

1864-     George Washington Carver is born

                1909-     16^th Amendment (Power to tax incomes) is passed by Congress

1937-     Bill Cosby is born

1948-     1^st jet to cross the Atlantic

1957-     Dwight Eisenhower becomes the 1^st president to fly in a helicopter

1960-     Sputnik 5 is launched with two dogs inside by the U.S.S.R.

1985-     Cancer is discovered in President Reagan’s colon

 

13^th-        1568-     A beer-bottling technique is perfected

                1787-     The Northwest Territory is established by Congress

                Congress passes a bill that says that a territory can become three to five states when it reaches a population of at least 60,000 people

1832-     The source of the Mississippi River is discovered

1836-     Train wheels become U.S. patent #1

1863-     Approximately 1,000 African Americans are lynched by rioters in New York City

1919-     Race Riots in Texas

1934-     Babe Ruth hits his 700^th home run

1942-     Harrison Ford is formed

1943-     The Battle of Kursk, with around 6,000 tanks involved, ends

1960-     John F. Kennedy is nominated for president

1967-     27 people die in Race Riots in Newark

1978-     Walter Poenische swims from Cuba to Florida

 

14^th-        1099-     Jerusalem is captured during the first crusade

1853-     Matthew Perry asks for trade relations with Japan

1857-     Maytag, the inventor of the washing machine, is born

                1865-     1^st person to climb the Matterhorn

1913-     Gerald Ford is born

                1958-     King Faisal II of Iraq is assassinated

                                Monarchy of Iraq is overthrown

                1965-     The first Mars probe, United States’ Mariner IV, passes the red planet

                1976-     Jimmy Carter is nominated for president

                1987-     37 years of martial law is ended in Taiwan

 

15^th-        1815-     Napoleon Bonaparte is taken prisoner

1864-     A Confederate troop train carrying over 900 soldiers has a collision with a coal train and 65 are killed

1870-     Georgia is the last Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union

1881-     Billy the Kidd is killed by Pat Garrett

1918-     2^nd Battle of Marne begins

1937-     Japanese invade China

1968-     “One Life to Live” first airs

1991-     United States soldiers depart from Northern Iraq

1997-     Gianni Versace is murdered in California

 

16^th-        1439-     Kissing is actually banned in England

1548-     La Paz, the capitol of Bolivia, is founded

1775-     Future President John Adams graduates from Harvard

1790-     The District of Columbia is created

1862-     Ida B. Wells is born

                1907-     Orville Redenbacher is born

                1912-     1^st torpedo designed to be dropped from an airplane is patented

1918-     Nicholas II, the last Russian tsar, and his family are executed

1935-     1^st parking meter in the U.S. is installed

1945-     1^st atomic bomb tested in New Mexico

1969-     Apollo 11 launched

1980-     Ronald Reagan nominated for President

1999-     John F. Kennedy Jr. dies in a plane crash

 

17^th-        1549-     Jews are thrown out of Belgium

1763-     John Jacob Astor is born

                1861-     Paper money is authorized by Congress

1879-     First train in Hawaii opens

1898-     Spain gives up control of Cuba

1928-     The president of Mexico is assassinated

                1944-     2 ammo ships explode in California, which kills 322 people

1955-     Disneyland opens

1959-     Billie Holiday dies of liver failure

                1962-     Medicare rejected by the Senate

                1974-     John Lennon is told that he must leave the United States within 60 days

                1987-     A river flood in Comfort, Texas, kills ten teens

                1996-     Flight 800 blows up over Long Island, New York shortly after takeoff

 

18^th-        64-          Great Fire of Rome starts

1536-     King Henry VIII declares that the Pope has no authority in England

1853-     America’s first international railroad is completed

1872-     The Secret Ballot is introduced in Great Britain

1910-     Red Skelton is born

                1918-     Nelson Mandela is born

                1936-     Spanish Civil War begins

                1942-     1^st jet airplane flight

                1964-     Race Riots in Harlem, New York

 

19^th-        1510-     Almost forty Jews are burned at the stake in Berlin

1799-     The Rosetta Stone is discovered in Egypt

1860-     Lizzie Borden was born

                1870-     The Franco-Prussian War begins

                1943-     The Allies bomb Rome

                1957-     1^st nuclear-tipped rocket is tested in the Nevada desert

                1969-     Apollo 11 begins orbiting the moon

                1979-     260,000 tons of oil is spilled after two oil tanker collide

 

20^th-        1810-     Colombia declares itself independent from Spain

1864-     Battle of Peachtree Creek

1881-     Sitting Bull surrenders

1894-     2000 federal troops successfully end the Pullman Strike

1919-     Sir Edmund Hillary is born

                1934-     A new temperature record for Iowa is set in Keokuk at 118 degrees Fahrenheit

1951-     Jordan’s King is assassinated in Jerusalem

1956-     Tunisia is recognized as an independent nation by France

1960-     Two dogs become first living organisms to return from space

1969-     1^st men land on the moon

1974-     Cyprus is invaded by Turkey

1976-     1^st Martian probe landing

1982-     Irish terrorists plant two bombs in parks in London

 

21^st-        1588-     English ships defeat Spanish Armada

1831-     Netherlands grant Belgium its independence

1861-     Battle of Bull Run ends in a Southern victory

1873-     Jesse James commits the first train robbery

1898-     U.S. gains control of Guam from Spain

1899-     Ernest Hemmingway is born

                1919-     A dirigible crashes through a skylight in Chicago, which kills thirteen people

                1940-     Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are taken over by the U.S.S.R.

                1944-     United States liberates Guam from Japan

                1954-     North and South Vietnam gain their independence from France

                1969-     The USSR’s Luna 5 lunar orbiter crashes into the moon after 52 revolutions

                1970-     Aswan High Dam finished

1972-     57 murders occur in 1 day in New York

                1984-     1^st human killed by a robot in the United States

 

22^nd-       1298-     Scots are defeated by the English at the Battle of Falkirk

1461-     The King of France, Charles VII, dies

1686-     The city of Albany, New York is granted a charter

1864-     Battle of Atlanta

1775-     Control of the Continental Army is given to George Washington

1822-     Gregor Mendel is born

1918-     504 sheep in Wasatch National Park, Utah are killed by lightning

1934-     John Dillinger murdered in Chicago

1942-     The United States began rationing gasoline

1943-     Palermo, Sicily is captured by the Allies

1972-     10.84 inches of rain fall at Fort Ripley, Minnesota

1983-     -128 degrees Fahrenheit recorded in Antarctica (World Record)

 

23^rd-       1298-     Hundreds of Jews are massacred in Wurzburg, Germany

1798-     Alexandria, Egypt is captured by Napoleon

1829-     First typewriter patented

1880-     1^st hydroelectric power plant in the U.S. begins operation in Grand Rapids, MI

1885-     Ulysses S. Grant dies

1904-     Ice Cream Cone invented

1944-     Japanese-controlled Tinian is invaded by the United States

1961-     Woody Harrelson is born

1967-     Racial rebellion in Detroit

 

24^th-        1567-     Mary Queen of Scots is deposed

1683-     First German settlers leave Germany bound for America

1704-     Gibralter is taken from Spain by Great Britain

1799-     William Clark, the famous explorer, inherits his slave named York

1862-     Former President Martin Van Buren dies

                1866-     Tennessee is the first Confederate state readmitted to the Union

                1877-     Federal troops are used to combat striking workers for the first time

                1915-     The ship “Eastland” sinks in Lake Michigan, drowning 852

                1948-     The USSR begins the Blockade of Berlin

                1952-     A 53-day steelworkers strike is ended by President Truman

                1969-     Apollo 11 makes the return trip back to Earth

                1975-     Apollo 18 makes the return trip back to Earth

                1991-     1^st planet discovered outside of the solar system

 

25^th-        1593-     King Henry IV of France converts to Roman Catholicism

                1670-     Jews are forced out of Vienna, Austria

                1759-     Fort Niagara is captured by the British from the French

                1814-     Battle of Niagara Falls, where the British were defeated by the Americans

                1868-     Wyoming Territory was created

                1916-     Explosion at Cleveland Waterworks

                1944-     1^st jet fighter to be used in combat

                1952-     Commonwealth of Puerto Rico formed

                1956-     The “Andrea Doria” and the “Stockholm” collide in the Atlantic Ocean

                1981-     Voyager 2 reaches Saturn

 

26^th-        1775-     Ben Franklin is appointed the first Postmaster General

1788-     New York ratifies the Constitution, becoming the eleventh state to do so

1835-     The first sugar plantation started in Hawaii

1863-     Sam Houston, the president of the old Republic of Texas and whom Houston, Texas was named after, dies

1908-     FBI created

1925-     William Jennings Bryan dies

1943-     Mick Jagger is born

                1947-     CIA created

1953-     Cuban Revolution begins

1956-     Dorothy Hamill is born

1957-     The first Intercontinental Multistage Ballistic Missile is launched by the USSR

1965-     Great Britain gives the Republic of Maldives its independence

1971-     Apollo 15 is launched

1979-     73” (national record) falls in Alvin, Texas

 

27^th-        1586-     First tobacco in England arrives from Virginia

                1866-     1^st successful trans-Atlantic telegraph cable completed

                1909-     1^st US Army airplane is tested by Orville Wright

                1919-     Race riots in Chicago

                1944-     The Gloster Meteor becomes the first British jet fighter to be used in combat

                                US captures Guam from the Japanese

                1953-     The Korean War is ended by an armistice

                1954-     Vietnam is divided into North and South Vietnam

                1960-     Nixon nominated for president

                1962-     Mariner 2 is launched, headed for Venus

                1977-     John Lennon is given his Green Card, allowing him to permanently reside in the United States

                1980-     Shaw Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the exiled Shaw of Iran, dies in Egypt

 

28^th-        1586-     Potatoes are introduced to Europe

1750-     Johann Sebastian Bach dies

1821-     Peru declares itself independent from Spain

1862-     Union forces defeat the Confederates in More’s Hill, Missouri

1868-     Fourteenth Amendment is passed

1896-     Miami, Florida is incorporated

1900-     Hamburger invented

1907-     Vivian Vance (Lucy from “I Love Lucy”) is born

                1914-     World War I begins

1929-     Jacky Kennedy, the future first lady, is born

                1931-     The “Star Spangled Banner” becomes our second national anthem

1947-     Sally Struther is born

1962-     Mariner 1 is launched, but fails and plummets into the Atlantic Ocean

1976-     An 8.2 Earthquake in China kills 242,000 people

2061-     Halley’s Comet is set to return to the inner Solar System

 

29^th-        1030-     Olav Haraldsson, King of Norway, dies at the Battle of Stiklestad

1164-     Olaf, King of Norway, dies

1588-     Spanish Armada defeated as they attack England

1715-     A hurricane sinks ten Spanish treasure galleons just off the coast of Florida

1858-     First trade treaty between the United States and Japan is signed

1883-     Mussolini is born

1890-     Vincent Van Gogh dies

1900-     Umberto I, King of Italy, is assassinated

1920-     First airmail flight between New York City and San Francisco

1947-     10 women die in a gas leak explosion in a beauty parlor in Virginia

1969-     First Martian pictures arrive from Mariner 6

1978-     Pioneer 11 transmits pictures of Saturn back to Earth

1985-     Challenger-8 is launched

 

30^th-        1619-     Virginia House of Burgesses is created

1729-     Baltimore, Maryland is incorporated

1839-     Slaves takeover the Slave Ship “Armistad”

1863-     Henry Ford is born

                1916-     German spies blow up an ammunition factory in New Jersey

1942-     25,000 Jews are murdered in Minsk, Belarus

1947-     Arnold Schwarzenegger is born

1967-     Race riots occur in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1971-     A Japanese Boeing 727 crashes into an F-86, and 162 people are killed

 

31^st-        1498-     The Island of Trinidad is discovered by Christopher Columbus

                1790-     First patent granted in the United States

1813-     Plattsburg, New York invaded by the British

1875-     Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president, dies

1922-     World’s first water skis ridden

1942-     1,000 Jews are gassed in Minsk, Belarus

1964-     The United States’ Ranger 7 takes several thousand pictures before flying into the moon

1973-     A DC-9 crashes in Boston, killing 88 of 89 passengers

1987-     Rockwell Inc. is given a contract from NASA to build a fifth space shuttle