History Calendar for May

Cartoon Art Appreciation Week
National Family Week
Be Kind To Animals Week
National Bathroom Reading Week
Heritage Week (Utah)
National Music Week
Carpet Care Improvement Week
National Volunteer Week
Childcare Awareness Week
National Photo Week
Pen Friends Week International
National Self-Help Book Week
Public Service Recognition Week

National Postcard Week
Golf Week
National Nursing Home Week
Deaf Awareness Week
National Hospital Week
Goodwill Industries Week
National Nurses Week
Be Kind To Animals Week
National Transportation Week
Astronomy Week
Small Business Week
National Tourism Week
International Online Romance Week
Conserve Water/Detect-A-Leak Day
National Herb Week
Flexible Work Arrangements Week
Universal Family Week
National Historic Preservation Week
PTA Teacher Appreciation Week
National Pet Week

Public Transportation Week
National Police Week
Raisin Week
National Bike Week
Public Relations Week
Art Week
National Historic Preservation Week
World Trade Week
National Educational Bosses Week
Girls Incorporated Week
National Salvation Army Week
Kiwanis Prayer Week
Alcohol & Other Drug-Realted Birth Defects Week

Poetry Week
National Frozen Yogurt Week
International Pickle Week
National Design Drafting Week
American Beer Week (begins Last Sun)
National Safe Boating Week
Poppy Week (ends Sat before Memorial Day)
National Surgical Technologists Week

1830 Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), labor leader (Cork, Ireland; died 1930)
1852 Martha Jane Burke (Calamity Jane), frontier adventuress/Indian fighter (Princeton, MO; died 1903)
1909 Kate Smith, singer (Greenville, VA; died 1986)
1916 Glenn Ford, actor (Quebec, Canada)
1918 Jack Paar, TV personality (Canton, OH)
1923 Joseph Heller, novelist (Brooklyn, NY; died 1999)
1925 Scott Carpenter, astronaut (Boulder, CO)
1939 Judy Collins, singer (Seattle, WA)
1940 Bobbie Ann Mason, writer (near Mayfield, KY)
1945 Rita Coolidge, singer (Nashville, TN)
1946 John Woo, director (Guangzhau, China)
1960 Steve Cauthen, jockey (Walton, KY)
1962 Bobcat Goldthwait, comedian/actor (Syracuse, NY)
Philippus Paracelsus
Tim McGraw
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" May Day (Celtic, 6th Station)
" Lei Day (Hawaii)
" Bealtaine (aka Beltane; Old Ireland)
" Festival of the Hare
" Americanism Day (Pennsylvania)
" Walpurgisnacht (Norse, Germanic)
" Law Day
" International Labor Day
" International Workers Day
" Traditional Fertility Festival
" Loyalty Day
" Maytine Faeries Appearance (Ireland @)
" Floralia (Goddess of Flowers; Old Roman)
" Race of the Old Men Day (Archova, Greece)
" St. Brioc's Day (patron of purse makers)
" Mother Goose Day
" Riding of the Bounds (Berwick-Upon-Tweed, UK)
" St. Joseph Worker's Day (Vatican City)
" Kallemooi (Holland)
" Faint-Hearted Fairies May (or May Not) Ball (Fairy)
" St. Peregrine Laziosi's Day (patron against cancer)
" Amtrak Day
" Dipping Day
" St. Tamenend's Day (aka Tammany's Day)
" Chimney Sweep's Day
" St. Efsio's Feast (Italy)
" Play of St. Evermaar (Belgium)
" Santacruzan (Philippine Girls' Festival)
" Repentence Day (Scotland)
" Senior Citizens Day (Massachusetts)
" Moving Day
" National Chocolate Parfait Day
" St. Joseph the Worker's Day
" Plant A Flower Day
" Save the Rhino Day
" Labor Day (Zambia)
" St. Asaph's Day
" National Anxiety Disorders Screening Day
" Pack Rag Day
" St. Walburga's Day
" St. Marculf's Day (patron against scrofula)

" 1st Advertisment in US (1704)
" England & Scotland became Great Britain (1707)
" Order of the Illuminati founded (1776)
" 1st US Trade Union formed (1794)
" Panny Black stamps 1st for sale (UK; 1840)
" Mother Jones gave her last speech, at age 100 (1893)
" US Navy destroyed Spanish Fleet (1898)
" Word "Jazz" 1st printed in newpaper (1916)
" Dabussy's Afternoon of a Faun premiered with Nijinsky choreography (1922)
" Empire State Building opened (1931)
" Emperor Haile Selassie fled Ethiopa (1936)
" Citizen Kane premiered in New York (1941)
" Pogo comic strip began (1949)
" Gary Powers' U-2 shot down over USSR (1960)
" Elvis Presely and Priscilla Beaulieu married (1967)
" Legoland Family Park opened (Denmark; 1968)
" UN Convention held on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1995)
" 1st National Christmas Tree dedicated
" Battle of Berlin
" Amtrak Service began
" 1st Wagon Train left for California
" Battle of Chencellorsville
" 1st Postcard printed
" Smokey the Bear retired

1660 Alessandro Scarlatti, composer (Italy; died 1725)
1729 Catherine II (Catherine the Great), empress of Russia (Prussian Pomerania; died 1796)
1860 Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism (Budapest, Hungary; died 1904)
1895 Lorenz Hart, lyricist and collaborator with Richard Rodgers (New York, NY; died 1943)
1903 Benjamin Spock, physician/author/child-rearing expert and political activist (New Haven, CT; died 1998)
1904 Bing Crosby, singer/songwriter/actor (Tacoma, WA; died 1977)
1924 Theodore Bikel, actor/singer (Vienna, Austria)
1925 Roscoe Lee Brown, actor (Woodbury, NJ)
1945 Bianca Jagger, actress/activist and ex-wife of singer Mick Jagger (Managua, Nicaragua)
1946 Lesley Gore, singer (Tenafly, NJ)
David Suchet, actor (London, England)
1948 Larry Gatlin, country singer/songwriter (Seminole, TX)
1952 Christine Baranski, actress (Buffalo, NY)
1977 Jenna Von Oy, actress (Newtown, CT)
Manfred Von Richthofen (The Red Baron)
Pinky Lee
Leo XIII

" Mad Festival
" Fire Day
" Elena's Day (Goddess of the Holy Road)
" Robert's Rules of Order Day
" Minehead Hobbyhorse (UK)
" St. Zoe's Day
" International Garden Festival (UK)
" Eve of the Finding of the True Cross
" St. Athanasius' Day
" Education Day (Indonesia)
" Door-Banging and Window-Tapping Conference (Fairy)
" Peasant's Day (Burma)
" National Truffles Day
" St. Athanasius' Day

" Leonard Da Vinci died (1519)
" Mary Rowlandson returned to her minister husband after 11 weeks kidnapped by Indians (1676)
" Explorer David Livingstone crossed Africa (1856)
" Battle of Chancellorsville began (1863)
" Freer Gallery opened (Washington DC; 1923)
" 1st Non-stop Flight across US (1923)
" Jack Benny Show debuted on radio (1932)
" Lou Gehrig's 2,310 game streak ends (1939)
" Citizen Kane opened worldwide (1941)
" 1st Commercial jet flight (1952)
" 1st Satellite TV broadcast linked 9 countries & 300 million viewers (1956)
" Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall banned in South Africa (1980)
" UK submarine torpedoed the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano (1982)
" Argentine missile sank the UK destroyer Sheffield (1982)
" China imposed martial law (1989)
" In Seattle Hindus filed a suit against McDonald's for nondisclosure of beef flavoring in French fries. (2001)
" 1st American Booksellers Convention held
" Celluloid Film patented
" Hudson Bay Company chartered

1469 Niccolò Machiavelli, Renaissance writer and statesman (Florence, Italy; died 1527)
1849 Jacob Riis, journalist/author and social reformer (Ribe, Denmark; died 1914)
1898 Golda Meir, Israeli prime minister (Kiev, Russia; died 1978)
1913 William Inge, playwright (Independence, KS; died 1973)
1919 Betty Comden, lyricist (Brooklyn, NY)
Pete Seeger, folk singer/songwriter (New York, NY)
1921 Sugar Ray Robinson, champion boxer (Detroit, MI; died 1989)
1936 Engelbert Humperdinck, singer (Madras, India)
1937 Frankie Valli, singer and member of the Four Seasons (Newark, NJ)
1946 Greg Gumbel, TV personality/sportscaster (New Orleans, LA)
1947 Doug Henning, magician (Fort Garry, Manitoba, Canada; died 2000)
1963 John Hornacek, basketball player (Elmhurst, IL)
1964 Wynonna Judd, country singer (Ashland, KY)
1974 Jewel (Kilcher), singer (Payson, UT)
William Shakespeare
Mary Astor
Christopher Cross
Peter Oosterhuis
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho

" Sun Day (US)
" Labour Day (Australia)
" World Press Freedom Day (UN)
" Discoflux (Discordian)
" Lumpy Rug Day
" Dia de la Cruz (Latin America)
" Feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa (Poland)
" Holy Cross Day (Mexico)
" Invention of the Cross
" Japanese Constitution Day
" Polish Constitution Day
" Dismal Day
" Tin Hau Festival (Queen Goddess of the Fisherman; Hong Kong)
" Semi-Pro Baseball Day
" Constitution Day (Japan)
" Procession of the Holy Blood (Belgium)
" Bent Wand-Straightening Day (Fairy)
" St. Phillip's Day (patron of Luxembourg, Uruguay)
Crouchmas Day
" Three Days of Kite Battles (Hamamatsu, Japan)
" St. James the Lesser's Day (patron of the dying, hatters, Uruguay)
" National Raspberry Popover Day
" St. Philip of Zell's Day (patron of babies)
" Be Kind To Your Student Counsellor Day

" St. Helena, daugther of Old King Cole &
Constantine's Mother, found True Cross in Mexico (326)
" Columbus discovered Jamaica (1494)
Maryland banned tobacco production for 1 year (1666)
" Washington, D.C. city incorporated (1802)
" Macon Allen, 1st US black attorney, passed the bar (1845)
" 1st Comic Book, Famous Funnies, published (1934)
" Gone With the Wind won Pulitzer Prize (1937)
" Festival of Britain opened (1951)
" Margaret Thatcher 1st elected prime minister of Great Britian (1979)
" Dollywood theme park opened (1986)
" 1st US State imposed sales tax (West Virginia)
" Land Mines 1st used
" Mouth of the Amazon River discovered
" Swift Fox declared extinct
" Headlight patented

1796 Horace Mann, educator/author (Franklin, MA; died 1859)
1889 Francis Joseph Spellman, archbishop of New York (Whitman, MA; died 1967)
1928 Maynard Ferguson, bandleader (Verdun, Quebec, Canada)
Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian president (Kafr-el Meselha, Egypt)
1929 Audrey Hepburn, actress (near Brussels, Belgium; died 1993)
1930 Roberta Peters, opera singer (New York, NY)
1937 Ron Carter, jazz musician (Royal Oak Township, MI)
1940 Robin Cook, author (New York, NY)
1941 George Will, journalist/columnist/author (Champaign, IL)
1942 Nicholas Ashford, singer/songwriter (Fairfield, SC)
1956 David Guterson, author (Seattle, WA)
1959 Randy Travis, country singer (Marshville, NC)
1979 Lance Bass, singer and member of 'N Sync (Mississippi)
Thomas Huxley
Alice Liddell
Horace Mann
Bartholommeo Christofori
Howard de Silva
St. Vincent de Paul
Johann Friedrich Herbart
Randy Travis
Kakuei Tanaka
Crown Prince Tuputo of Tonga

" National Homebrew Day
" Bona Dea (Old Roman Goddess of Women's Mysteries)
" Veneration of the Thorn
" Movie Day
" Fairy Ring Day (Giving; Fairy)
" Hel Hole Swamp Festival
" Lobster Race & Oyster Festival
" National Weather Observer's Day
" Youth Day (China)
" St. Florian's Day (patron of Poland, upper Austria, brewers, chimney sweeps, firefighters)
" Prophet Mohammed's Trip To Heaven and Back
" Memorial Day (Curacao)
" People's Day (Japan)
" Holocaust Remembrance Day
" Rhode Island Declaration of Independence Day
" St. Gotthard's Day
" National Candied Orange Peel Day
" Relationship Renewal Day
" Martin Z. Mollusk Day (if the hermit crab sees his shadow, summer will be a week early)
" Dodenherdenking (Remembrance Day; 2 minutes of silence observed at 8 pm; Netherlands)

" Arawaks of Jamaica discovered (1494)
" Peter Minuit arrived in New Amsterdam (1626)
" Sultan Tipu Sahib of Mysore fought to the death but failed to keep British from conquering (1799)
" 1st All-professional baseball game played (1871)
" Haymarket Riots (1886)
" Charles Roll and Henry Royce agreed to make cars together (1904)
" 1st Grammy Awards held (1959)
" Battle of the Coral Sea began (1942)
" 4 Students killed demonstrating at Kent State, Ohio (1970)
" Ronald Reagan announced support for Contras in Nicaragua (1983)
" Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science founded
" Moody Blues formed
" Line of Demarcation drawn
" Invisible Ink invented
" Bell's Vireo discovered

1813 Sören Kierkegaard, philosopher/theologian (Denmark; died 1855)
1818 Karl Marx, socialist/political theorist (Treves, Germany; died 1883)
1867 Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman), journalist/adventuress and social reformer (Cochran's Mills, PA; died 1922)
1913 Tyrone Power, actor (Cincinnati, OH; died 1958)
1921 Arthur Schawlow, physicist who helped develop the laser (Mount Vernon, NY; died 1999)
1926 Ann B. Davis, actress (Schenectady, NY)
1927 Pat Carroll, actress (Shreveport, LA)
1934 John J. Sweeney, labor leader (New York, NY)
1938 Michael Murphy, actor (Los Angeles, CA)
1943 Michael Palin, actor/comedian and member of Monty Python (Sheffield, England)
1973 Tina Yothers, actress (Whittier, CA)
James Beard
Mohamet
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Christopher Morley, actor
Darren McGavin
John Rhys-Davies, actor
Tammy Wynette
H.H. Bancroft

" World Environment Day
" Cinco de Mayo (Mexico, US)
" Folly Festival
" Demonstration Day
" Fairy Ring Day (Receiving; Fairy)
" Children's Day (Japan, South Korea)
" May Day (UK)
" Bonza Bottler Day
" Chulakongkron's Day (Thailand)
" Tango-No-Sekku (Boys' Festival; Japan)
" St. Avertine's Day (patron against dizziness)
" Feast of Banners (Japan)
" Old Dover Days begin
" May Fellowship Day
" Sandlapper Festival
" National Chocolate Custard Day
" Bevrijdingsday (Liberation Day; Netherlands)
" Kodomo-No-Hi (Children's Festival; Japan)
" St. Judith's Day (patron of Prussia)
" Project Aces Day
" St. Hilary of Arles' Day

" Crusaders lost last stronghold in holy land (1291)
" Battle of Puebla (1862)
" Battle of Guadelupe, Mexico (1862)
" Dred Scot decision rendered (1857)
" Battle of the Wilderness (1864)
" 1st Train Robbery (Ohio; 1865)
" Stock Market Crash of 1893
" Cy Young threw baseball's 1st perfect game (1904)
" Sacco and Vanzetti arrested (1920)
" John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee (1925)
" Kent Tree dedicated at Muir Woods, California (1929)
" Six Americans are killed on the Oregon Coast by a Japanese balloon carrying a bomb (WW2; 1945)
" German Occupation ended, returning sovereignty but dividing Germany into East & West (1955)
" World Bank warned that "poverty is a greater threat to peace than the cold war" (1955)
" Freedom 7 launched 1st American into space in Mercury capsule (1961)
" UK launched its 1st satellite (1963)
" UK SAS stormed Iranian embassy in London to free hostages (1980)
" Tchaikovsky's Peter & the Wolf premiered
" Carnegie Hall opened
" Jet Helicopter invented
" Screw Top Bottle patented
" Lewis & Clark encountered a grizzly bear

1758 Maximilien Robespierre, leader of the French Revolution and Reign of Terror (France; died 1794)
1856 Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (Freiburg, Moravia; died 1939)
Robert E. Peary, Arctic explorer and discoverer of the North Pole (Cresson, PA; died 1920)
1895 Rudolph Valentino, actor (Castellaneta, Italy; died 1926)
1913 Stewart Granger, actor (London, England; died 1993)
1914 Randall Jarrell, poet/novelist/critic (Nashville, TN; died 1965)
1915 Orson Welles, actor/director (Kenosha, WI; died 1985)
Theodore H. White, journalist/author (Boston, MA; died 1986)
1931 Willie Mays, baseball player (Westfield, AL)
1945 Bob Seger, singer/songwriter (Ann Arbor, MI)
1953 Tony Blair, British prime minister (Edinburgh, Scotland)
1959 Mare Winningham, actress (Phoenix, AZ)
1960 Roma Downey, actress (Derry, Northern Ireland)
1961 George Clooney, actor (Lexington, KY)
Aram Khachaturian
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
William Daniel Leahy
Gaston Leroux
Rabindranath Tagore
Toots Shor
Weeb Ewbank
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Henry II

" Enlightenment of the Buddha
" International No Diet Day
" Beverage Day
" Eyvind Kelve (Norse)
" Feast of the Fiery Flying Roll
" Shepherd's and Herdsman's Day (Bulgaria)
" Nurses' Day
" Sixth Day of May (Fairy)
" St. Ava's Day (patron of children learning to walk)
" National Crepe Suzette Day

" Sack of Rome (1527)
" Peter Minuit bought Manhattan (1626)
" 1st International Boxing Match held (1733)
" 1st Postage Stamp issued (UK Black Penny; 1840)
" Yale Lock patented (1851)
" Arkansas seceded from the Union (1861)
" Crazy Horse surrendered, giving up Nebraska (1877)
" Chinese Exclusion Act passed (1882)
" US Supreme Court established the ludicrous "separate but equal" doctrine in transportation (1896)
" Babe Ruth hit his 1st Home Run (1915)
" Works Progress Administration (WPA) established (1935)
" Hindenburg dirigible exploded (1937)
" Mile 1st run in under 4 minutes (1954)
" 1st Shots fired in Cod War (1959)
" Battle of Wounded Knee (1973)
" Hitler Diaries announced as fakes (1983)
" FCC gave TV Channel 1 to the US military
" Refrigerator invented
" Lock patented

1812 Robert Browning, poet (Camberwall, England; died 1889)
1833 Johannes Brahms, composer (Germany; died 1897)
1836 Joseph Cannon, Illinois U.S. representative and Speaker of the House (New Garden, Guilford County, NC; died 1926)
1840 Peter Tchaikovsky, composer (Vatkinsk, Russia; died 1893)
1892 Archibald MacLeish, poet/playwright and Librarian of Congress (Glencoe, IL; died 1982)
1901 Gary Cooper, actor (Helena, MT; died 1961)
1919 Eva Perón, Argentine political leader and wife of Juan Perón (Argentina; died 1952)
1922 Darren McGavin, actor (Spokane, WA)
1931 Teresa Brewer, singer (Spokane, WA)
1932 Pete Domenici, New Mexico senator (Albuquerque, NM)
1933 Johnny Unitas, football quarterback (Pittsburgh, PA)
1943 Donal McCann, actor (Dublin, Ireland; died 1999)
1945 Robin Strasser, actress (New York, NY)
1950 Tim Russert, TV journalist (Buffalo, NY)
1954 Amy Heckerling, filmmaker (New York, NY)
1955 Peter Reckell, actor (Elkhart, IN)
John Heard
Gabby Hayes
Anne Baxter
Rabindranath Tagore
Janis Ian

" Spring Day (Scotland)
" Helston Furry Dance (Cornwall, UK)
" Beaufort Scale Day (wind scale)
" Feat of St. Nicola (Bari, Italy' patron of orphans, pirates)
" Bucks County Kite Day (Pennsylvania)
" Homespun History Day
" Paste-Up Day
" Feast Day of San Nicola (Bari, Italy)
" St. Domitian's Day (patron against fever)
" National Roast Leg of Lamb Day
" St. John of Beverley's Day
" O. Henry World Championship Pun Off (@)
" Experience the Awsome Stomach-Churning Wonder of a Thrill Ride Day

" Drury Lane's Theatre Royal opened (1663)
" Protestant Episcopal Chuch formed in US (1789)
" Greece is declared an independent kingdom (1832)
" American Medical Association founded (1847)
" Chief Pontiac attacked English garrison at Detroit (1863)
" Kodak Cameras 1st for sale (1888)
" Lusitania sank by German U-Boat (1915)
" 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance race held (1923)
" Women's voting age lowered from 30 to 21 in UK (1926)
" Tunis captured from Germany (WW2; 1943)
" Germany surrendered (WW 2; 1945)
" French forces in Vietnam overrun at Dien Bien Phu (1954)
" Johns Hopkins University Geneticists given permission to clone Abraham Lincoln's genes (1991)
" Beethoven's 9th Symphony premiered
" Pulitzer Prize established
" Subtractive Method of Color Photography patented
" Telstar 2 launched

1829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, pianist/composer (New Orleans, LA; died 1869)
1884 Harry S. Truman, 33d president of the United States (Lamar, MO; died 1972)
1895 Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, religious leader and radio/TV personality (El Paso, IL; died 1979)
Edmund Wilson, literary/social critic (Red Bank, NJ; died 1972)
1912 Robert Johnson, blues guitarist/singer/songwriter (Hazelhurst, MS; died 1938)
1926 David Attenborough, author/naturalist (London, England)
Don Rickles, comedian/actor (New York, NY)
1932 Sonny Liston, champion boxer (St. Francis County, AR; died 1970)
1937 Thomas Pynchon, novelist (Glen Cove, NY)
1940 Peter Benchley, author (New York, NY)
1943 Toni Tennille, singer (Montgomery, AL)
1945 Keith Jarrette, jazz pianist (Allentown, PA)
1964 Melissa Gilbert, actress (Los Angeles, CA)
1975 Enrique Iglesias, singer (Madrid, Spain)
Jean Henri Durant
Oscar Hammerstein
Jamie Summers
Wen Shu Buddha
Miguel Hidalgo
Thomas Hancock
Ricky Nelson
Sloan Wilson
Billy Burnette
Stephen Furst
Angel Cordero Jr.

" Daisy Day (Children's Hospital)
" World Red Cross Day
" Furry Day (aka Furry Dance; UK)
" No Socks Day
" Stork Day (Denmark)
" V.E. Day (aka Armistice Day)
" Birthday of Lord Buddha (Hong Kong)
" St. John's Day (Eastern)
" Dog-Prodding (Gremlins)
" Archangel Michael's Day (aka Furry Day)
" St. Wiro's Day (patron of Holland)
" National Coconut Cream Pie Day
" St. Peter of Tarantaise's Day

" Joan of Arc's forces vanquished English at Orleans (1429)
" Explorer Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi (1541)
" 1st US draft authorized (1792)
" 1st International Yacht Race (1849)
" Massachusetts adopted a 10-hour work day for women (1874)
" Mt. Pelee erupted, killing 30,000 (Martinique; 1902)
" Sweden abolished the death penalty (1921)
" Africaans became official language of South Africa (1924)
" Battle of Coral Sea began (WW2; 1942)
" Last Tasmanian Aborigine died (1976)
" Estonia readopted its 1938 Constitution (1990)
" Battle of Spotsylvania
" Saluting began
" Baseball's 1st unassisted triple play made
" 1st Blindfold Chess Match played
" US/China Opium Trading Treaty signed

1800 John Brown, abolitionist who led the attack on Harpers Ferry (Torrington, CT; died 1859)
1860 Sir James M. Barrie, novelist/dramatist/children's author (Britain; died 1937)
1914 Hank Snow, country singer (Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 1999)
1918 Mike Wallace, TV journalist (Brookline, MA)
1921 Mona Van Duyn, poet (Waterloo, IA)
1928 Pancho Gonzales, tennis champion (Los Angeles, CA; died 1995)
1936 Albert Finney, actor (Salford, England)
Glenda Jackson, actress (Liverpool, England)
1940 James L. Brooks, TV writer/producer (North Bergen, NJ)
1946 Candice Bergen, actress (Beverly Hills, CA)
1949 Billy Joel, singer/songwriter (Bronx, NY)
1960 Tony Gwynn, baseball player (Los Angeles, CA)
Richard Adams
Bobby Fischer
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Belle Boyd
Barbara Woodhouse
Terry Drinkwater
Hank Snow

" Lost Sock Memorial Day
" Astronomy Day
" Victory Day (USSR)
" Lemuria (Old Roman; Honors Ghosts of Dead without Family)
" National Teacher Day
" School Family Day
" National Bike To Work Day
" Joan of Arc Processions (France)
" National Butterscotch Brownie Day
" St. Pachomius' Day
" Grand Bairam Holiday begins (Egypt)
" National Holiday (Czechoslovakia)
" Liberation Day (Jersey, Channel Islands)

" Siege of Orleans (1429)
" English Crown Jewels stolen (1671)
" 1st Newspaper Cartoon (Join-or-Die by Ben Franklin)
" 1st Purple Hearts awarded (1783)
" Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opened in London (1887)
" UK Parliament agreed to home rule for Ireland (1911)
" 1st Mother's Day declared (1914)
" 1st Flight over the North Pole (1926)
" Dianetics 1st published (1950)
" FCC President called TV a "vast wasteland" (1961)
" Aldo Moro's body discovered murdered in Rome (1978)
" Nazis burned 25,000 books
" Eye Bank 1st opened
" Treaty of Windsor signed
" Columbus left on his 4th & last voyage

1838 John Wilkes Booth, actor and assassin of Pres. Abraham Lincoln (near Bel Air, MD; died 1865)
1898 Ariel Durant, historian/author (Prosurov, Russia; died 1981)
1899 Fred Astaire, dancer/actor (Omaha, NE; died 1987)
1902 David O. Selznick, producer (Pittsburgh, PA; died 1965)
1908 Carl Albert, Oklahoma congressman (McAlester, OK; died 2000)
1918 T. Berry Brazelton, pediatrician/author (Waco, TX)
1933 Barbara Taylor Bradford, writer (Leeds, England)
1944 Judith Jamison, dancer/choreographer (Philadelphia, PA)
1946 Dave Mason, singer/musician/songwriter (Worcester, England)
1957 Phil & Steve Mahre, Olympic champion skiers (White Pass, WA)
1960 Bono (Vox), singer and member of U2 (Dublin, Ireland)
1965 Rony Seikaly, basketball player (Beirut, Lebanon)
1966 Jason Brooks, actor (Colorado Springs, CO)
Max Steiner
Donovan Leitch
Gary Owens
Ken Berry
Anatol Liadov
Manuel Santana

" Human Kindness Day
" Ring Day
" National Receptionist Day
" St. Job's Day (patron against depression, ulcers)
" Golden Spike Day
" St. Isidore's Day
" Clean Up Your Room Day
" St. Cathal's Day (patron against drought, storms, hernias)
" Burning of the Books Day
" National Third Shift Workers Day
" St. Solangia's Day (patron of children, shepherds; against rain)
" El Dia Del Maestro (Day of the Teacher; Mexico)
" St. John of Avila's Day
" National Tourist Appreciation Day
" St. Comgall's Day
" Day of the Mother (Mexico)
Confederate Memorial Day (North & South Carolina)
" St. Simon's Day (Eastern)
" National Shrimp Day
" Skunks Born Day
" St. Antoninus' Day

" Paper invented (China; 105 CE)
" Michelangelo commissioned to paint Sistine Chapel (1508)
" Transcontinental Railroad completed (1869)
" Ethan Allen & his Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ticonderoga in the Battle of Ft. Ticonderoga (1775)
" 2nd Continental Congress met in Philadelphia (1775)
" American Equal Rights Association founded (1866)
" 1st Woman nominated for US President (Victoria Woodhull; 1872)
" Pullman Strike began (1894)
" Nazis began burning "unGerman" books (1933)
" 1st Year without a reported lynching in US South (1940)
" Wounded Knee standoff ended (1973)
" 1st Europe-wide newspaper published (1990)
" Nelson Mandela inaugurated as President of South Africa (1994)
" 1st Planetarium in US opened
" Frigate United States launched
" 1st Archeological Society founded
" Ivory Billed Woodpecker declared extinct

Justinian (483 CE)
Baron von Munchhausen (1720)
1888 Irving Berlin, songwriter (Tyumen, Russia; died 1989)
1891 Henry Morgenthau Jr., government official/conservationist (New York, NY; died 1967)
1892 Dame Margaret Rutherford, actress (London, England; died 1972)
1894 Martha Graham, modern dancer/choreographer (Allegheny, PA; died 1991)
1904 Salvador Dali, painter (Figueras, Spain; died 1989)
1918 Richard Feynman, physicist (New York, NY; died 1988)
1930 Stanley Elkin, novelist/short-story writer (Brooklyn, NY; died 1995)
1933 Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam leader (New York, NY)
1946 Robert Jarvik, physician and inventor of the artificial heart (Midland, MI)
1959 Martha Quinn, TV personality (Albany, NY)
1963 Natasha Richardson, actress (London, England)
1982 Jonathan Jackson, actor (Orlando, FL) Mort Sahl
Sam Donaldson
Antonin Scalia
Denver Pyle
Jean-Louis Gerome
Phil Silvers
Foster Brooks
Bobby McFerrin
Rupert Murdoch

" International Strange Music Festival
" Twilight Zone Day
" St. Gengulf's Day (patron against unhappy marriages)
" Bob Marley Day (Jamaica)
" St. Philip's Day
" Five Day Rain Ceremony (Guatemala)
" St. Mamertus' Day
" Joan of Arc Day (France)
" International Mother's Day
" St. Mamertius' Day (1st of Ice Saints)
" National Mocha Torte Day
" St. Cyril and Methodius' Day (Eastern)

" Constantinople founded
" 1st Christian Hospital founded by Helena, mother of Constantine (369 CE)
" Diamond Sutra, 1st printed book, published (868 CE)
" British captured Rangoon (1824)
" Sepoy Mutiny (1857)
" Minnesota became the 32nd state (1858)
" 1st Regularly televised TV Show broadcast (1928)
" Submarine 1st circled the world submerged (1960)
" Battle of Hamburger Hill began (Vietnam War; 1969)
" Bob Marley died (1981)
" 1st Blackout occured
" Habeas Corpus Act passed

Socrates
1812 Edward Lear, artist/author of light verse (Highgate, England; died 1888)
1820 Florence Nightingale, nurse and public health activist (Florence, Italy; died 1910)
1828 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite poet/painter (Britain; died 1882)
1842 Jules Massenet, composer (France; died 1912)
1850 Henry Cabot Lodge, politician/historian (Boston, MA; died 1924)
1907 Katharine Hepburn, actress (Hartford, CT, d: 2003)
1918 Julius Rosenberg, convicted spy executed for espionage (New York, NY; died 1953)
1925 Yogi Berra, baseball player/manager (St. Louis, MO)
1928 Burt Bacharach, songwriter (Kansas City, MO)
1936 Tom Snyder, broadcast journalist/TV personality (Milwaukee, WI)
Frank Stella, artist (Malden, MA)
1937 George Carlin, comedian (New York, NY)
1948 Steve Winwood, musician/singer (Birmingham, England)
1950 Bruce Boxleitner, actor (Elgin, IL)
Gabriel Byrne, actor (Dublin, Ireland)
1962 Emilio Estevez, actor (New York, NY)
1973 MacKenzie Astin, actor (Los Angeles, CA)
Al Jarreau
Steve Winwood
Howard K. Smith
Samuel Daniel Nujoma
Robert Baldwin
Shozo Fujii
Stephen Baldwin

" Nonsense Day
" International Nurses' Day
" Limerick Day
" National Windmill Day
" Woodmen Ranger's Day
" Olde May Day
" National Hospital Day
" Garland Day (Dorsetshire, UK)
" Celtic tree month of Saille ends
" St. Epiphanius' Day
" National Wine Show
" Account Days begin (until 30th)
" St. Tammany's Day (patron of democracy)
" Garland Day (aka Derby Day; UK)
" National Mushroom Festival
" St. Pancras' Day (2nd Ice Saint; patron of children, oaths, treaties)
" National Nutty Fudge Day
" St. Nereus and Achilleus' Day
" Pisark Bochea (Cambodia)
" St. Francis Patrizi's Day (patron of reconcilliations)

" Society of Saint Tammany founded (1789)
" Battle of Spotsylvania began (1864)
" Easter Rebellion leaders executed (1916)
" Meteor strikes earth near Blackstone, Virginia (1922)
" UK General Strike by Trades Union Council ended (1926)
" Lindbergh Baby found dead (1932)
" Alcoholics Anonymous founded (1935)
" North African Axis countries surrendered (WW2; 1943)
" Berlin Blockade lifted (1949)
" Sharon Sites Adams began 1st solo voyage by a woman across the " Pacific Ocean (1969)
" Last USSR SS-20 intermediate range missiles destroyed (1991)
" NOAA agreed to name Pacific storms after men
" Wedding in US 1st held
" Spitting outlawed

1842 Sir Arthur Sullivan, composer and collaborator with Sir William Gilbert (London, England; died 1900)
1907 Dame Daphne du Maurier, novelist (London, England; died 1989)
1914 Joe Louis, boxing champion (near Lafayette, AL; died 1981)
1923 Beatrice Arthur, actress (New York, NY)
1927 Herbert Ross, actor/choreographer/director (New York, NY)
1939 Harvey Keitel, actor (Brooklyn, NY)
1943 Mary Wells, singer (Detroit, MI; died 1992)
1946 Tim Pigott-Smith, actor (Rugby, England)
1950 Stevie Wonder, singer/musician (Saginaw, MI)
1961 Dennis Rodman, basketball player (Trenton, NJ)
1962 Julianne Phillips, actress (Lake Oswego, OR)
1968 Darius Rucker, singer and member of Hootie & the Blowfish (Charleston, SC)
Peter Gabriel
Gabriel Faure
Shipwreck Kelly
Georges Braque
Edward Lear
Clive Barnes
Ritchie Valens
Felipe Alou
Marquess of Rockingham
Empress Maria Theresa
Henry William Stiegel
Jim Jones

" Druid Day
" Fiesta of Five Flags
" Indian Day
" Leprechaun Day
" Celtic tree month of Huath (Hawthorn) begins
" Purlliya (Ancient Anatola; Dragon Slaying Festival)
" London Marathon
" Runic half-month of Lagu ends
" St. Servatius' Day (3rd Ice Saint)
" National Apple Pie Day
" Fairy King and Queen Jumping Competition (Fairy)
" St. Imelda's Day (patron of first communicants)
" Procession of Our Lady of Fatima (Macau)
" St. Servais' Day (patron against rats, vermin, foot troubles)

" 1st Permanent English setlement in America began at Jamestown, Virginia (1607)
" Cardinal Richelieu invented the table knife (1639)
" Whisky Rebellion began (Pennsylvania; 1794)
" Republic of Ecuador created (1830)
" US declared war against Mexico (1846)
" 3 Children near Fatima, Portugal saw a vision of the virgin Mary (1917)
" Rockefeller destroyed Diego Rivera's mural in the RCA Building (1933)
" French settlers in Algiers seized government buildings & demanded independence (1958)
" St. Lawrence Seaway Act enacted (1954)
" Unsuccessful assassination of Pope John Paul II attempted (1981)
" Philadelphia Police dropped a C-4 bomb on a "radical group", killing 11 (including 4 children), and destroying 61 homes (1985)
" Practical Printing Press invented
" 1st Billiard Match held
" Casey at the Bat published
" Air Mail Stamp 1st used
" 1st Ford car made
" Kirtland's Warbler discovered
" 1st Golf Tournament held
" Term "Bogey" 1st used in golf

1686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, physicist who introduced mercury thermometers and devised the Fahrenheit scale (Danzig, Germany; died 1736)
1727 Thomas Gainsborough, landscape/portrait painter (Sudbury, Sheffield, England; died 1788)
1771 Robert Owen, political philosopher/reformer and pioneer of utopian communities (Newtown, Wales; died 1858)
1925 Patrice Munsel, opera singer (Spokane, WA)
1944 George Lucas, filmmaker (Modesto, CA)
1948 Meg Foster, actress (Reading, PA)
1951 Robert Zemeckis, director (Chicago, IL)
1952 David Byrne, singer/composer and member of the Talking Heads (Dumbarton, Scotland)
1955 Dennis Martinez, baseball pitcher (Granada, Nicaragua)
1961 Tim Roth, actor (London, England)
Heloise
Season Hubley
Otto Klemperer
Bobby Darin
Walter Berry
Charles IV

" Crazy Day
" Underground America Day
" Mother Ocean Day
" Runic half-month of Ing (expansive energy) begins
" Help Clean Up Your Street Day
" Kamuzu Day (Malawi)
" Paraguay Independence Day
" French Fairy Awareness Day (Fairy)
" Israel Independence Day
" Philippine Islands Constitution Day
" Liberian Unification and Integration Day
" Veal Ban Action Day
" St. Bonifatius' Day (4th Ice Saint)
" National Buttermilk Biscuit Day
" Stars and Stripes Forever Day
" National Dance Like A Chicken Day
" St. Matthias' Day (Western; patron against alcoholism)

" Battle of Nicea (1st Crusade; 1097)
" Mad Monk Ravaillac killed France's King Henry IV (1610)
" 1st Vaccination Shot given (1796)
" Tripoli declared war on US (1801)
" Lewis & Clark left St. Louis (1804)
" HMS Driver completed 1st around-the-world journey by a steamship (1847)
" 1st Japanese diplomats visited another country (US; 1860)
" John Philip Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever premiered (1897)
" Women 1st competed in Olympic Games (Paris; 1900)
" Olympics 1st held in US (1904)
" Sam Goldwyn bought United Artists from Chaplin, Pickford, and Fairbanks (1939)
" US Speed Limit lowered to 40 mph (1942)
" Women's Auxilury Army Corps (WAAC) established (1942)
" Zionist State of Israel declared (1948)
" Warsaw Pact signed by Eastern Bloc (1955)
" UK Frogman disappeared bugging underside of Khruschev's warship in Portsmouth (1956)
" Nile River's course changed for Aswan Dam (1964)
" French Workers strike for one day in support of student protesters (1968)
" 2 Black students killed protesting the war in Cambodia (1970)
" Skylab I, 1st manned space station, orbited Earth (1973)
" Explosion at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Wash. state. Plutonium and other hazardous chemicals were released and emergency response procedures broke down almost completely. (1997)
" Goalposts 1st used in American Football
" 1st Passenger Flight
" 1st Camel arrived in US

1773 Klemens W. N. L. Metternich, diplomat/statesman (Austria; died 1859)
1856 L. Frank Baum, children's author (Chittenango, NY; died 1919)
1859 Pierre Curie, chemist known for work on radioactivity (France; died 1906)
1890 Katherine Anne Porter, novelist/short-story writer (Indian Creek, TX; died 1980)
1905 Joseph Cotten, actor (Petersburg, VA; died 1994)
1910 Constance Cummings, actress (Seattle, WA)
1915 Paul A. Samuelson, economist (Gary, IN)
1923 Richard Avedon, photographer (New York, NY)
1930 Jasper Johns, artist (Augusta, GA)
1937 Madeleine Albright, secretary of state (Prague, Czechoslovakia)
1942 Lainie Kazan, singer/actress (New York, NY)
1951 Chazz Palminteri, actor/playwright/screenwriter (Bronx, NY)
1953 George Brett, baseball player (Glen Dale, WV)
1955 Lee Horsley, actor (Muleshoe, TX)
1969 Emmitt Smith, football player (Pensacola, FL)
1972 David Charvet, actor (Lyon, France)
James Mason
Peter Shaffer
Arthur Schnitzler
Max Frisch

International Day of Families (UN)
Peace Officer Memorial Day (aka Police Memorial Day)
Straw Hat Day
Feast of Maia and Mercury (Old Roman)
St. Dympna's Day (patron of the insane, asylums, mental health workers; against epilepsy, insanity, sleepwalking)
Feast of St. Isidore (patron of farmers, Madrid)
Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean Day
Israeli National Day
Paraguay Independence Observance Day
San Isidro Day (Mexico)
Police Memorial Day Goddess Month of Maia ends
St. Hallvard's Day (patron of Oslo; defending innocence)
Cold Sophie's Day (5th Ice Saint)
St. Isidore's Day (patron farmers, farm workers, ranchers)
National Chocolate Chip Day
Relive Your Past By Listening to the First Music You Ever Bought, No Matter What It Was!, No Excuses Now Day

" St. Dymphna, Princess of Gheel, Belgium beheaded by her father had her killed because she could cure those "possessed by the devil" by touching them; (600 CE)
" Philosophy started (578 BCE)
" Navigator Bartholomew Gosnold landed in New England (1602)
" Machine Gun patented (1718)
" James Hatfield attempted to assassinate George III (1800)
" US Congress declared slave trade to be piracy (1829)
" National Woman Suffrage Association founded (1869)
" US Air Mail service began (1918)
" Flying Doctor Service established (Australia; 1928)
" 1st Stewardess flew (1930)
" Nylon stockings 1st for sale (1940)
" UK 1st dropped the H-Bomb (1957)
" Edward Hopper died (1967)
" George Wallace shot (1972)
" USSR began troop evacuation of Afghanistan (1988)
" Tienanmen Square student protests began during Gorbachev visit to China (1989)
" Panama Canal opened
" Cape Cod discovered
" Virginia Convention held
" Motion Picture Censor Board established

1905 Henry Fonda, actor (Grand Island, NE; died 1982)
1911 Margaret Sullavan, actress (Norfolk, VA; died 1960)
1912 Studs Terkel, author/journalist (New York, NY)
1913 Woody Herman, musician/bandleader (Milwaukee, WI; died 1987)
1919 Liberace, pianist/entertainer (West Allis, WI; died 1987)
1928 Billy Martin, baseball player/manager (Berkeley, CA; died 1989)
1929 Adrienne Rich, writer (Baltimore, MD)
1953 Pierce Brosnan, actor (County Meath, Ireland)
1955 Olga Korbut, Olympic champion gymnast (Grodno, USSR)
Debra Winger, actress (Cleveland, OH)
1957 Joan Benoit Samuelson, Olympic champion marathon runner (Cape Elizabeth, ME)
1966 Janet Jackson, pop singer (Gary, IN)
1970 Gabriela Sabatini, tennis champion (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
1971 David Boreanaz, actor (Buffalo, NY)
1973 Tori Spelling, actress (Los Angeles, CA)
Tracey Gold
Swami Muktananda Paramahansa

Animal Day
National Bike to Work Day
St. Brendan the Navigator's Day (patron of sailors, Ireland)
Goddess Month of Hera begins
Biographer's Day
Love A Tree Day
Rogation Day
St. Honoratus' Day (patron of bakers, millers)
Cancer Day
Falling Off a Log Night (Fairy)
St. Brendan's Voyage Day
National Coquilles St. Jacques Day
St. John of Nepomuk's Day (patron of bridges, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia)
Wear Purple For Peace Day
St. Simon Stock's Day (patron of tanners)

" 1st US Nickel issued (1866)
" Demonstration of Flat Recording Disk 1st given (1888)
" 17th Amendment proposed by US Congress (1916)
" US Sedition Act passed (1918)
" 1st Academy Awards Ceremony held (1929)
" Food Stamps 1st issued Rochester, New York; 1939)
" Junko Tabei became the 1st woman to climb Mt. Everest (1975)
" Muppet creator Jim Henson died (1990)
" 1st Woman Prime Minister in France (1991)
" Hayes Williams released from a Louisiana prison after 30 years for a crime he didn't commit (1996)
" Ballots were counted in the nation's first regular primary election conducted by mail. Estimated response was 47%. (2000)
" 1st Color Photo taken
" Pogo 1st published
" 1st Envelope made
" 1st Transcontinental Motorcycle Trip completed
" National Horseshoe Pitchers Association established
" 1st Successful hole-in-the-heart operation performed

1749 Edward Jenner, physician who pioneered vaccination (Berkeley, England; died 1823)
1900? Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious/revolutionary leader (Khomein, Iran; died 1989)
1903 James "Cool Papa" Bell, baseball player and Negro Leagues star (Starkville, MS; died 1991)
1911 Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (Ireland; died 1998)
1918 Birgit Nilsson, opera singer (Karup, Sweden)
1936 Dennis Hopper, actor (Dodge City, KS)
1950 Christian Lacroix, fashion designer (Arles, France)
1955 Bob Saget, actor/TV personality (Philadelphia, PA)
1956 Sugar Ray Leonard, champion boxer (Washington, DC)
Bill Paxton, actor (Fort Worth, TX)
1961 Enya, singer (Gweedore, Ireland)
1965 Trent Reznor, singer and member of Nine Inch Nails (Mercer, PA)
1966 Danny Manning, basketball player (Hattiesburg, MS)
1972 Mia Hamm, champion soccer player (Selma, AL)
Sandro Botticelli
Taj Mahal

Dea Dia (Goddess of the Cosmos)
Pack Rat Day
Discovery Day (Cayman Islands)
I-Am-An-American Day
Nauru Constitution Day
Constitution Day (Norway)
Las Piedras Day (Uruguay)
Fertility Rites (Phillippines)
World Telecommunications Day (UN)
St. Robert Bellarmine's Day
National Employee Health & Fitness Day
St. Madern's Day (patron against lameness)
Uff Da Day (North Dakota)
St. Pascal Babylon's Day (patron of shepherds)
National Cherry Cobbler Day

" 1st Merry-Go-Round built (Turkey; 1620)
" New York Stock Exchange opened (1792)
" Norwegian Constitution signed (1814)
" 1st Kentucky Derby held (1875)
" Tide turned as Mafeking siege ended (Boer War; 1900)
" US Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools (Brown v. Board of Education; 1954)
" 1st Color Photograph exhibited (1961)
" Hong Kong put up its own "Berlin Wall" to keep out Chinese immigrants (1962)
" Draft files napalmed in Catonsville, Maryland (1968)
" 1st Person to row across the Atlantic completed the journey from Newfoundland to Ireland (1969)
" NFL Football teams (Colts, Steelers, & Browns) agreed to join AFL to form the AFC (1969)
" Senate Watergate hearings began (1973)
" Charlie Chaplin's stolen coffin found (1978)
" Vaclav Havel's sentence commuted by Czechoslovakian government (1989)
" US Speech researchers declare Churchill's radio speeches faked (1990)
" The Senate ethics committee concluded that Sen. Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) had to face a full-scale Senate investigation of charges that included making improper advances toward women. (1995)
" In Neah Bay, Washington state, Makah Indian hunters legally killed their first gray whale in 75 years. (1999)
" Great Train Robbery occurred
" Grauman's Chinese Theatre opened
" 1st Stand Up Comic stood up

1814 Mikhail Bakunin, anarchist/revolutionary leader (Russia; died 1876)
1872 Bertrand Russell, philosopher/mathematician (Britain; died 1970)
1892 Ezio Pinza, opera singer (Rome, Italy; died 1957)
1897 Frank Capra, director (Palermo, Sicily; died 1991)
1902 Meredith Willson, composer/playwright/musician (Mason City, IA; died 1984)
1904 Jacob Javits, New York senator (New York, NY; died 1986)
1912 Perry Como, singer (Canonsburg, PA; died 2001)
1919 Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (Reigate, Surrey, England; died 1991)
1920 Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), pope (Wadowice, Poland)
1930 Pernell Roberts, actor (Waycross, GA)
1931 Robert Morse, actor (Newton, MA)
1937 Brooks Robinson, baseball player (Little Rock, AR)
1946 Reggie Jackson, baseball player (Wyncote, PA)
1952 George Strait, country singer/musician (Pearsall, TX)
1955 Yun-Fat Chow, actor (Hong Kong)
Omar Khayyam
Nicholas II

Black Watch Day
International Museum Day
Apollon Day (God of Music Poetry, Sunlight)
World Goodwill Day
Peace Day
Visit Your Relatives Day
Moonbeam Hopping Gala (Fairy)
St. Eric's Day (patron of Sweden)
National Tenant's Day
Flag Day (Haiti)
Iris Festival
Rooster Day
St. John I's Day
Whistling Festival
Hispanic Family Day
St. Theodotus' Day (patron of innkeepers)
National Cheese Souffle Day
St. Venantius' Day (patron of leaping, against danger from falling)

" UK declared war on France (1803)
" Napoleon Bonaparte crowned Emperor of France (1804)
" Poem, Casey at the Bat 1st recited in a theatre (1888)
" US Supreme Court declared racial segregation ok if "separate but equal" in Plessy v. Ferguson decision which was overturned in 1954 (1896)
" Tennessee Valley Act passed (1933)
" Kingsmen recorded Louie, Louie (1963)
" European Convention on Human Rights took effect (1954)
" India exploded its 1st atomic bomb (1974)
" Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt. Everest (1975)
" The eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington state occurred at 8:32 a.m. The mountain lost over 1,300 feet of elevation and gained a two-mile-long and one mile-wide crater on its north face. It left 57 people dead or missing. (1980)
" Capital Punishment established
" Battle of Vicksburg

1861 Nellie Melba, opera singer (Australia; died 1931)
1890 Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnamese president and Communist leader (Kim Lien, Vietnam; died 1969)
1925 Malcolm X (Little), black nationalist leader and civil rights activist (Omaha, NE; died 1965)
1930 Lorraine Hansberry, playwright (Chicago, IL; died 1965)
1934 Jim Lehrer, TV journalist/author (Wichita, KS)
1935 David Hartman, actor/TV personality (Pawtucket, RI)
1939 James Fox, actor (London, England)
Francis Scobee, astronaut who died in the Challenger explosion (Cle Elum, WA; died 1986)
1941 Nora Ephron, writer/director (New York, NY)
James P. Hoffa, labor leader (Detroit, MI)
1945 Pete Townshend, musician/singer/member of the Who and writer (Chiswick, England)
1947 David Helfgott, pianist (Melbourne, Australia)
1952 Grace Jones, model/actress/singer (Spanishtown, Jamaica)
1957 Bill Laimbeer, basketball player (Boston, MA)
Edward de Bono
Button Gwinnett
William Waldorf Astor
Steven Ford

May Ray Day
Dark Day (UK)
Orphan Day (Spain)
St. Dunstan's Day (patron of goldsmiths)
Youth and Sports Day (Turkey)
International Chicken Flying Meet
National Memo Day
St. Peter Celestine's Day (patron of book-industry workers)
Pardon of the Poor (Brittany)
St. Dunstan's Day (patron of blacksmiths, goldsmiths, jewelers, locksmiths)
Flag Day of the Army (Finland)
St. Ivo of Kermartin's Day (patron of lawyers, judges, notaries, orphans, Brittany)
Dulcimer Days begin
Dance to Mark the Third of January (Fairy)
St. Pudens' Day (Western)
Ambridge Nationality Days (Pennsylvania)
National Pike Festival
St. Pudentiana's Day (patron of Philippines)
Kirtland's Warbler Day

" Earl of Pembroke captured Piers Gaveston, a favorite of King Edward II, at Yorkshire (1312)
Anne Boylen, Henry VIII 2nd wife, beheaded (1536)
" England declared a Commonwealth (1649)
" Boston Bread Riot began (1713)
" Legion of Honor established (France; 1802)
" Kingdom of Tonga (aka the Friendly Islands) became a British protectorate (1900)
" Boys' Clubs of America founded (1906)
" 1st Frog Jumping Contest held (Calaveras County, California; 1918)
" NFL adopted the college draft system of selection in inverse order of standings (1935)
" Immigration Act established
" Homestead Bill passed
" 1st Classified Ad appeared
" Day the Earth Stood Still premiered

1768 Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States (Guilford County, NC; died 1849)
1799 Honoré de Balzac, novelist (Tours, France; died 1850)
1806 John Stuart Mill, economist/philosopher (Britain; died 1873)
1844 Henri Rousseau, painter (Laval, Mayenne, France; died 1910)
1881 Sigrid Undset, novelist/poet (Norway; died 1949)
1890 Allan Nevins, historian (Camp Point, IL; died 1971)
1908 James Stewart, actor (Indiana, PA; died 1997)
1915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/public official (Israel; died 1981)
1936 Anthony Zerbe, actor (Long Beach, CA)
1944 Joe Cocker, singer (Sheffield, England)
1946 Cher, singer/actress (El Centro, CA)
1959 Bronson Pinchot, actor (New York, NY)
1972 Busta Rhymes, rapper (Brooklyn, NY)
Christopher Columbus, explorer
Laurence Olivier, actor
Tom Gorman
Ron Reagan Jr., journalist
George Gobel, comedian

Beating of the Bounds (Old England)
Mjollnir (Old Germany; Celebration of Thor's Hammer)
St. Bernadino of Siena's Day (patron of advertising, publicity agents; against horseness)
MPR Day (Zaire)
Lafayette Day Massachusetts)
Maritime Day
Flower Day
Cameroon Constitution Day
Festival of the Chirping Crickets (Florence, Italy)
Mecklenburg Day (North Carolina)
Dainty-Four Remembrance Day (Fairy)
Wisakha Bucha Day (Thailand)
Weights and Measures Day
Birthday of the Tathagata Buddha (Guatama)
St. Ethelbert's Day (patron against thieves)
Taurus zodiac sign ends

" Nicea I eccumenical council began (325 CE)
" Treaty of Paris restored Gascony to the UK (11 Years War; 1303)
" Roman Emperor Cola di Rienzo attempted to restore the Republic (1347)
" Vasco da Gama arrived at Calicut, India, completing his voyage around Africa (1498)
" Christopher Columbus died (1506)
" Spanish Armada set sail to go to war with England (1588)
" Shakespeare's Sonnets 1st published (1609)
" UK passed the Quebec Act (1774)
" US makes 1st land grant for education law (1785)
" France restored slavery and the slave trade (1802)
" Moccasins patented (1825)
" Fountain Pen patented (1830)
" North Carolina seceded from the Union (1861)
" Homestead Act signed by Lincoln (1862)
" Levi's Blue Jeans with riveted pockets patented (1873)
" International Bureau of Weights and Measures established (1875)
" US Income Tax declared unconstitutional (1895)
" Last US troops left Cuba (1902)
" World expected to end as Halley's comet returned (1910)
" Cruiseliner Egypt collided with steamship Seine and sank off Ushant, losing 90 lives and 1 million sterling in gold and silver (1922)
" Treaty of Jeddah signed, resulting in UK's recognition of Saudi Arabia's independence (1927)
" Charles Lindbergh began 1st transatlantic solo flight (1927)
" Amelia Earhart began first transatlantic solo flight by a woman (1932)
" Pan American Airways began 1st scheduled commercial service across Atlantic Ocean (1939)
" Crete invaded by Nazi Germany (WW2; 1941)
" 1st Hydrogen Bomb dropped from the air (Bikini Atoll; 1956)
" Last run of the Orient Express (1961)
" Chicago pop band bassist and singer Peter Cetera beaten up by 3 men at a Chicago Cubs game because he had long hair (1971)
" Quebec voted not to cecede from Canada (1980)
" 1st Iron Boat floated
" 1st Speeding Ticket issued

Plato
J1471 Albrecht Dürer, painter/engraver (Nuremberg, Germany; died 1528)
1688 Alexander Pope, poet (London, England; died 1744)
1878 Glenn Curtis, pioneer aviator and inventor of the hydroplane (Hammondsport, NY; died 1930)
1898 Armand Hammer, industrialist/philanthropist (New York, NY; died 1990)
1901 Sam Jaffe, producer/talent agent (New York, NY; died 2000)
1904 Fats Waller, jazz pianist/songwriter (New York, NY; died 1943)
1909 Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, teacher/artist and creator of Hummel figurines (Massing, Bavaria; died 1946)
1916 Harold Robbins, novelist (New York, NY; died 1997)
1917 Raymond Burr, actor (New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada; died 1993)
1921 Andrei Sakharov, physicist and human rights activist/Soviet dissident (Moscow, Russia; died 1989)
1924 Peggy Cass, actress (Boston, MA; died 1999)
1944 Janet Dailey, romance novelist (Storm Lake, IA)
1948 Leo Sayer, singer/songwriter (Shoreham, England)
1951 Al Franken, comedian/actor/writer (New York, NY)
1952 Mr. T (Lawrence Tero), actor (Chicago, IL)
1956 Judge Reinhold, actor (Wilmington, DE) Andrei Sakharov
Philip II

Feast of the Triple Scoop
National Waitresses/Waiters Day
Lilies and Roses Day (UK)
Gemini zodiac sign begins
Anasternarides Feast (Macedonia)
Navy Day (Chile)
Oberammergau Passion Play (Germany; since 1634)
St. Andrew Bobola's Day
Anastenarides Feast (Greece)
Birthday of the Goddess of Midwifery (China)
St. Helena's Day (Eastern)
National Strawberries 'n Cream Day

" Treaty of Troyes united Enland and France under Henry V (1420)
" King Henry VI of England died in the Tower of London (1471)
" Lady Jane Grey forcibly married Lord Guildford Dudley (1553)
" Pere Lachaise Cemetary opened (Paris; 1804)
" New Zealand became a British colony (1840)
" American Red Cross established (1881)
" Charles Linbergh completed the 1st transatlantic solo flight as the Spirit of St. Louis landed in Paris (1927)
" Bikini Atoll subjected to 1st aerial hydrogen bomb test (1956)
" Cosmic background radiation discovered, believed to be "embers" of big bang (1965)
" Michaelangelo's Pieta attacked and damaged by Hungarian shouting "I am Jesus Christ" (1972)
" Baader-Meinhof terrorists went on trial (Germany; 1975)
" Elton John became 1st western rock star to play USSR (1979)
" UK troops landed on the Falkland Islands (1982)
" In Springfield, Ore., Kipland Kinkel, age 15, killed 1 classmate and wounded 19 more at Thurston High School. His parents, William and Faith, were found shot dead at home and a 2nd student died the next day. He had been expelled from school the previous day for bringing a gun to school. Kinkel dropped an insanity plea in 1999 and pleaded guilty to 4 counts of murder and 26 counts of attempted murder. He was sentenced over 111 years in prison. (1998)
" Mt. Vesuvius erupted

1813 Richard Wagner, composer (Leipzig, Germany; died 1883)
1844 Mary Cassatt, artist (Allegheny City, PA; died 1926)
1859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, detective story writer (Edinburgh, Scotland; died 1930)
1907 Lord Laurence Olivier, actor/director (Dorking, England; died 1989)
1922 Judith Crist, film critic (New York, NY)
1924 Charles Azvanour, singer/songwriter/actor (Paris, France)
1934 Gary Wills, author (Atlanta, GA)
1938 Richard Benjamin, actor (New York, NY)
Frank Converse, actor (St. Louis, MO)
Susan Strasberg, actress (New York, NY; died 1999)
1941 Paul Winfield, actor (Los Angeles, CA)
1943 Tommy John, baseball pitcher (Terre Haute, IN)
1959 Morrissey, singer (Manchester, England)
1970 Naomi Campbell, model (London, England)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Vance Packard
Willem Einthoven
Sun Ra
Krishnamurti
Peter Nero

Buy-A-Musical Instrument Day
Night of the Tree of Extremity (Islam)
St. Julia's Day (patron of Corsica, Portugal)
Ragnar Lodbrok (Viking)
Sovereignity and Thanksgiving Day (Haiti)
National Maritime Day)
National Vanilla Pudding Day
St. Rita of Cascia's Day (patron of desperate cases; against bleeding, infertility, loneliness, tumors, unhappy marriages)
Yemen National Holiday
Toad-Pinching (Pixies)
La Abogada de Impossibles (St. Rita of Cascia's Day; patron of desperate cases)

" Constantine became 1st Roman Emperor to be baptized into christianity (337)
" 1st Battle in War of the Roses began at St. Albans (1455)
" 1st large-scale migration to Oregon began from Independence, Missouri (1843)
" On the Floor of the US Senate, Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats with his cane Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, a strong opponent of slavery (1856)
" Wright Brothers patented the aircraft (1908)
" Ceylon became Sri Lanka (1972)
" Richard Nixon became 1st US President to visit USSR (1972)
" Johnny Carson's last night hosting the Tonight Show (1992)
" Associated Press established
" Saudia Arabia threatened to cut off diplomatic relations with UK for showing a documentary film, Death of a Princess, about the execution of a Saudi princess convicted of adultery.

1707 Carolus Linnaeus, botanist and founder of modern taxonomy (Rashult, Sweden; died 1778)
1734 Franz Mesmer, physician who introduced hypnotherapy (Iznang, Swabia, Germany; died 1815)
1810 Margaret Fuller, writer/feminist (Cambridgeport, MA; died 1850)
1883 Douglas Fairbanks, actor (Denver, CO; died 1939)
1910 Artie Shaw, musician/bandleader (New York, NY)
1919 Betty Garrett, actress (St. Joseph, MO)
1920 Helen O'Connell, singer (Lima, OH; died 1993)
1928 Rosemary Clooney, singer (Maysville, KY)
1931 Barbara Barrie, actress (Chicago, IL)
1933 Joan Collins, actress (London, England)
1936 Charles Kimbrough, actor (St. Paul, MN)
1954 Marvelous Marvin Hagler, champion boxer (Newark, NJ)
1958 Drew Carey, actor/comedian (Cleveland, OH)
1966 Helena Bonham Carter, actress (London, England)
1974 Jewel Kilcher, singer
Scatman Crothers
Arabella Mansfield
James Buchanan Eads
Anatoly Karpov
Richard Anuszkiewicz
Harvey Milk

Penny Day
Rosalia (Old Roman Rose Festival)
Vulcan's Day (Old Rome)
Declaration of the Bab (Baha'i)
Bluebell Day (Fairy)
Madonna of the Mountain (Italy)
Jamacian Labour Day
Linnaeus Day (Sweden)
St. Didier's Day (patron against perjury)
National Taffy Day
St. Ivo of Chartres' Day

" Vasco da Gama arrived in India (1498)
" Italian religious reformer Girolamo Savonarola hanged by his rivals for heresy (1498)
" Martial Law imposed at Jamestown to enforce discipline (1611)
" Captain Kidd hanged (1701)
" South Carolina became the 8th state (1788)
" Cherokee "Trail of Tears" killed 4,000 in forced march (1838)
" Canada's Mounties (Northwest Mounted Police) founded (1873)
" Part of the Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Washington. (1908)
" Bonnie & Clyde gunned down (1939)
" Heinrich Himmler commited suicide (1945)
" 1st West Indian immigrants invited to help Uk with post-war reconstruction left Jamaica (1948)
" Presbyterian Church ordains its 1st woman minister (1955)
Israelis captured Adolf Eichmann (1960)
" Sen. Bob Packwood (R-OR) gives a commencement address to graduates of The Dalles High School. His rambling remarks about how his son likes the rug in the Oval office and other irrelevant topics prompts Packwood to write an apology letter to school officials for his "unrehearsed"speech. (1974)
" Tom Jefferson's letter initiates organization of the Democratic Party
" German Federal Republic began
" Bifocals invented

1686 Gabriel Fahrenheit
1819 Queen Victoria, queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India (London, England; died 1901)
1870 Benjamin Cardozo, Supreme Court justice (New York, NY; died 1938)
1895 Samuel Newhouse, businessman/media mogul (New York, NY; died 1979)
1899 Suzanne Lenglen, tennis champion (France; died 1938)
1914 Lilli Palmer, actress (Poznan, Poland; died 1986)
1928 Roger Caras, nature writer (Methuen, MA)
1938 Tommy Chong, actor (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
1940 Gary Burghoff, actor (Bristol, CT)
1941 Bob Dylan, singer/songwriter (Duluth, MN)
1944 Patti LaBelle, singer (Philadelphia, PA)
1946 Priscilla Presley, actress and ex-wife of Elvis Presley (New York, NY)
1955 Rosanne Cash, country singer (Memphis, TN)
1960 Kristin Scott Thomas, actress (Cornwall, England)
1963 Joe Dumars, basketball player (Shreveport, LA)
1965 John C. Reilly, actor (Chicago, IL)
Lillian M. Gilbreth
Jean Paul Marat
Priscilla Presley
Arthur Wing Pinero
George Washington Carver

Empire Day
Feast of Hermes Trismegistus (patron of alchemy)
The Mothers (Celtic Prosperity Festival)
Eritrea Independence Day
St. Sara's Day (patron of Gypsies)
Slavic Script and Culture Day (aka Enlightenment Day; Bulgaria)
Empire Day (Canada)
Commonwealth Day (Belize)
St. Cyril's Day
Education Day (Bermuda)
Day for the Naming of Rocks and Planets (Fairy)
Independence Battle Day (Ecuador)
National Escargot Day
St. Vincent of Lerins' Day
Bermuda Day
La Fete des Saintes Maries (Festival of the Holy Maries, Gypsy Festival, France)

1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet/essayist and Transcendalist (Boston, MA; died 1882)
1878 Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, tap dancer (Richmond, VA; died 1949)
1889 Igor Sikorsky, aeronautical engineer and developer of the helicopter (Kiev, Russia; died 1972)
1892 Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavian president (near Zagreb, Yugoslavia; died 1980)
1898 Gene Tunney, champion boxer (New York, NY; died 1978)
1908 Theodore Roethke, poet (Saginaw, MI; died 1963)
1926 Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter (Alton, IL; died 1991)
1927 Robert Ludlum, author (New York, NY; died 2001)
1929 Beverly Sills, opera singer (Brooklyn, NY)
1932 John Gregory Dunne, author (Hartford, CT)
1938 Raymond Carver, short-story writer/poet (Clatskanie, OR; died 1988)
1939 Dixie Carter, actress (McLemoresville, TN)
Sir Ian McKellen, actor (Burnley, England)
1943 Leslie Uggams, singer/actress (New York, NY)
1955 Connie Sellecca, actress (New York, NY)
1963 Mike Myers, actor/comedian (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
1969 Anne Heche, actress (Aurora, OH)
1971 Sheryl Swoopes, basketball player (Brownfield, TX)
Frank Oz
Bennett Cerf
John Raleigh Mott
Igor Sikorsky

International Day
Flitting Day (Scotland)
Women's Day
National Wine Day
St. Bede the Venerable's Day (patron of scholars)
Missing Children's Day
Argentina Independence Day
Saint Cool Day
OAU Day (Equatorial Guinea)
National Tap Dance Day
St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi's Day
National Don't Utter a Word Day
Day of Youth (former Yugoslavia)
St. Aldhelm's Day
Lag B'Omer Day (Israel)
Jordan Independence Day
National Missing Children's Day
Sudan Revolution Day
Bath Festival (UK)
St. Gregory VII's Day
Africa Day (aka Africa Freedom Day; Chad, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

" Toledo, Spain taken by the Moors (1085)
" DeSoto landed at Tampa, Florida (1539)
" 1st Woman Colonist set foot in America (1539)
" US Constitutional Convention opened (1787)
" 1st Priest ordained in the US (1793)
" Lloyds of London incorporated (1871)
" Oscar Wilde convicted of indecency and sentenced to 2 years hard labor for preferring men (1895)
" Dow Jones Industrial Average debuted in the Wall Street Journal (1896)
" Poison Gas 1st used in warfare (by Germany; 1915)
" 2nd Battle of Ypres ended (WW1; 1915)
" Scopes Monkey Trial began (1925)
" Babe Ruth hit home run #714 (1935)
" US athelete Jesse Owens set 6 world records in 45 miniutes (1936 Olympics)
" UK Foreign Office Officials Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean disappeared, later turning up as Russian spies (1951)
" Kennedy gave his "putting a man on the moon by 1970" speech (1961)
" Organization for African Unity founded (1963)
" St. Louis' Gateway Arch opened (1968)
" Sudan government overthrown by military coup (1969)
" Star Wars premiered (1977)
" DC-10 crashed at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, killing 273 (1979)
" Live Aid concert held to raise money for starving Ethiopians (1986)
" Hands Across America formed a human line of 7 million people across the US (1986)
" Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executiave President of USSR (1989)
" Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn left Vermont to return from his exile to Russia (1994)
" Gas Engine patented
" 1st National Spelling Bee held
" Glastonbury Monastary destroyed by fire
" Chicago founded

1859 A. E. Housman, poet/scholar (Britain; died 1936)
1886 Al Jolson, singer/actor (St. Petersburg, Russia; died 1950)
1907 John Wayne, actor (Winterset, IA; died 1979)
1908 Robert Morley, actor (Semley, England; died 1992)
1920 Peggy Lee, singer (Jamestown, ND)
1923 James Arness, actor (Minneapolis, MN)
1928 Jack Kevorkian, physician and assisted suicide activist (Pontiac, MI)
1938 Teresa Stratas, opera singer (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
1939 Brent Musberger, sportscaster (Portland, OR)
1948 Stevie Nicks, singer/songwriter and member of Fleetwood Mac (Phoenix, AZ)
1949 Philip Michael Thomas, actor (Columbus, OH)
Hank Williams Jr., country singer (Shreveport, LA)
1951 Sally Ride, astronaut and first U.S. woman in space (Encino, CA)
1955 Wesley Walker, football player (San Bernardino, CA)
1962 Genie Francis, actress (Englewood, NJ)
1964 Lenny Kravitz, singer/songwriter (New York, NY)Alexander Pushkin
Helena Bonham-Carter
John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough

Grey Day
St. Leonard's Day
Windmill Day (Netherlands)
Appalachian Trade Festival
St. Augustine of Canterbury's Day
Guyana Independence Day
National Death Busters Day
Georgia Independence Restoration Day
St. Philip Neri's Day (patron of Rome)
Goblin Races (Goblin)
National Blueberry Cheesecake Day
St. Quadratus' Day
National Heroes Day (Turk and Caicos Islands)

" Edict of Worms outlawed Martin Luther and his followers (1521)
" Charles II returned from exile to Dover (1660)
" Aurangzeb ascended to the Mogul throne (1659)
" Battle of Tara, UK troops killed 500 Irish rebels (1798)
Napoleon Bonaparte crowned King of Italy in Milan (1805)
" Portugese Civil War ended (1834)
" Kansas-Nebraska Act passed, allowing those states to decide on slavery (1854)
" Last Confederate resistence of US Civil War ended (New Orleans; 1865)
" US President Andrew Johnson acquitted of impeachment charges (1868)
" Last Public Execution in England held (1868)
General Custer and troops left Fort Lincoln heading for Little Big Horn (1876)
" 1st Oil strike in Middle East (Persia; 1908)
" 1st 24-hour Le Man auto race held (1923)
" 1st National Narcotic Sanitorium dedicated (1935)
" Union organizers attacked at Ford plant (1937)
House Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities formed (1938)
" Evacuation of Dunkirk (WW 2; 1940)
" Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London (WW2; 1942)
" British Guiana changed its name to Guyana (1966)

1794 Cornelius Vanderbilt, financier/railroad builder (Port Richmond, Staten Island, NY; died 1877)
1819 Julia Ward Howe, poet/writer and social reformer (New York, NY; died 1910)
1836 Jay Gould, financier/railroad executive (Roxbury, NY; died 1892)
1837 Wild Bill Hickock, frontiersman/lawman/gambler (Troy Grove, IL; died 1876)
1878 Isadora Duncan, dancer (San Francisco, CA; died 1927)
1894 Dashiell Hammett, mystery writer (St. Marys County, MD; died 1961)
1911 Hubert H. Humphrey, vice president of the United States and presidential nominee (Wallace, SD; died 1978)
Vincent Price, actor (St. Louis, MO; died 1993)
1912 John Cheever, writer (Quincy, MA; died 1982)
Sam Snead, golfer (Hot Springs, VA)
1915 Herman Wouk, novelist (New York, NY)
1923 Henry Kissinger, secretary of state, national security adviser, scholar (Fuerth, Germany)
1936 Louis Gossett Jr., actor (Brooklyn, NY)
1943 Bruce Weitz, actor (Norwalk, CT)
1963 Peri Gilpin, actress (Waco, TX)
1968 Frank Thomas, baseball player (Columbus, GA)
1970 Joseph Fiennes, actor (Salisbury, England)
William II
Rachel Carson
Ibn Khaldun
Christopher Lee, actor

Covered Bridge Festival
Buttercup Day
Season of Confusion begins (Discordian)
Body Painting Arts Festival
Children's Day (Nigeria)
St. Augustine of Canterbury's Day (patron of England)
Findle Fritters' Stoat-Wheedling Event (Fairy)
National Grape Popsicle Day

" Cormwell refused UK Parliament's offer to be King (1657)
" Peter Stuyvesant inaugurated Governor of New Amsterdam (1647)
" HMS Gaspee burned in Rhode Island (1772)
" 1st International Master chess tournament held (1851)
" 25,000 massacred in Paris Commune (1871)
" 1st Running of The Preakness (1873)
" Queen Mary set sail on her maiden voyage (1936)
" Golden Gate Bridge opened (1937)
" Bismark sank (1941)
" Believe it or not, Robert Ripley died (1949)
" Rita Hayworth married Prince Aly Khan (1949)
" Chinese Communists took Shanghai (1949)
" Tibet incorporated into China (1951)
" Muhammed Ali refused being drafted (1967)
" Christopher Reeves left paralyzed from the shoulders down after a riding accident (1995)
" 1st Witch Execution in US
" 1st Wind Tunnel built
" US Piano patented

1759 William Pitt, British prime minister (Hayes, Kent, England; died 1806)
1807 Louis Agassiz, zoologist (Motier, Switzerland; died 1873)
1888 Jim Thorpe, Olympic champion pentathlete/decathlete and baseball/football player (near Prague, OK; died 1953)
1908 Ian Fleming, novelist (London, England; died 1964)
1916 Walker Percy, novelist/essayist (Alabama; died 1990)
1931 Carroll Baker, actress (Johnstown, PA)
1938 Jerry West, basketball player/executive (Cheylan, WV)
1944 Rudolph Giuliani, New York City mayor (New York, NY)
Gladys Knight, R&B singer (Atlanta, GA)
1945 John Fogerty, rock singer (Berkeley, CA)
1947 Sondra Locke, actress/director (Shelbyville, TN)
1957 Daniel Stern, actor (Stamford, CT)
Solomon
Thomas Moore
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Lynn Johnston, cartoonist
Sojourner Truth
Joseph Guillotin
Dionne Quintuplets
General P.G.T. Beauregard
George I

Whale Day
Feast of Zerowork
St. Bernard of Montjoux's Day (patron of mountain climbers, skiers)
Azerbaijan National Day
Day of the Pin-Hiding and Button-Losing (Fairy)
Runic half-month of Ing ends
National Hamburger Day

" 1st Sermon in a Jewish service in America (1773)
" Indian Removal Act passed, moving all Native Americans west of the Mississippi River (1830)
" 1st World Weighlifting Championship held (1891)
" Sierra Club founded (1892)
" 1st Photos taken of Shroud of Turin (1898)
" Golden Gate Bridge opened (1937)
" Belgium surrendered to Germany (WW2; 1940)
" Two Hour Work Day 1st advocated (1955)
" US launched 2 monkeys into space (1959)
" IRA Gunmen accidently shot dead 2 Australian tourists in Amsterdam, mistaking them for British soldiers (1990)
" 1st All-women crew finished around-the-world yacht race (1990)
" 1st All-Color Talking Film premiered
" 1st Book Club established
" US Border Patrol established

1630 Charles II, king of England (London, England; died 1685)
1736 Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary leader/orator (Studley, VA; died 1799)
1874 G(ilbert) K. Chesterton, author/critic/religious apologist (London, England; died 1936)
1898 Beatrice Lillie, actress/comedian (Canada; died 1989)
1903 Bob Hope, comedian/actor (London, England)
1917 John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States (Brookline, MA; died 1963)
1939 Al Unser Sr., auto racer (Albuquerque, NM)
1947 Anthony Geary, actor (Coalville, UT)
1956 La Toya Jackson, pop singer (Gary, IN)
1958 Annette Bening, actress (Topeka, KS)
1959 Rupert Everett, actor (Norfolk, England)
1961 Melissa Etheridge, rock singer (Leavenworth, KS)
1962 Eric Davis, baseball player (Los Angeles, CA)
Isaac Albeniz
Joseph von Sternberg
Paul Ehrlich
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Ebenezer Butterick
Chan Kinchla
Charles II

End of the Middle Ages Day
Restoration Day
Ascension of Baha'u'llah (Baha'i)
Luilak (Lazy Bones Day; Belgium)
Bobby Ack Day (Ulverston, UK)
Nettle Day
Runic half-month of Odal (home, possession) begins
Ambarvailia (Old Roman Purification Festival to Ceres)
Oak Apple Day (aka Royal Oak Day; UK)
St. Bona's Day (patron of flight attendants)
Royal Hospital Founder's Day (UK)
Yak Bob Day (Westmoreland, UK)
Shick-Shack Day (aka Shitsack Day, Shik-Shak Day)
National Coq Au Vin Day

" Battle of Legnano (1167)
" Byzantine Empire ended when Constantinople fell to the Turks (1453)
" "Virginia Plan" proposed at Constitutional Convention (1787)
" Rhode Island became the 13th state (1790)
" Wisconsin became the 30th state (1848)
" Abraham Lincoln warned "you can fool some of the people some of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" (1856)
" Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the top of Mt. Everest (1953)
" Charles II of England restored to the throne
" Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premiered (1913)
" Empress of Ireland lost at sea (1914)
" Flag of the US President adopted (1916)
" Bonus March on Washington, DC (1932)
" Nazi troops captured Ypres, Belgium and Lille, France (WW2; 1940)
" Bing Crosby recorded White Christmas (1942)
" 1st Arms Reduction Pact between US & USSR signed (1972)
" Boris Yeltsin elected to Supreme Soviet (1989)
" Theory of Relativity 1st tested
" Ascension of Baha'u'llah - Bahá'í. The prophet- founder of the Bahá'í Faith passed away near Haifa, Israel. The event is observed at the actual time of passing, 3 am.

1672 Peter I (Peter the Great), czar and emperor of Russia (Moscow, Russia; died 1725)
1846 Peter Carl Fabergé, goldsmith/jeweler (St. Petersburg, Russia; died 1920)
1896 Howard Hawks, director (Goshen, IN; died 1977)
1909 Benny Goodman, bandleader/musician (Chicago, IL; died 1986)
1912 Julian Symons, mystery writer/poet/critic (London, England; died 1994)
1927 Clint Walker, actor (Hartford, IL)
1936 Keir Dullea, actor (Cleveland, OH)
1939 Michael J. Pollard, actor (Passaic, NJ)
1943 Gale Sayers, football player (Wichita, KS)
1953 Colm Meaney, actor (Dublin, Ireland)
1963 Lisa Kudrow, actress (Encino, CA)
Mel Blanc
Otis Skinner
Ernesto de La Guardia
Wynona Judd
Michael J. Pollard

Frigg's Day (Norse Queen of Heaven)
Decoration Day
Feast Day of St. Joan of Arc (patron of France)
My Bucket's Got A Hole In It Day
St. Ferdinand III's Day (patron of engineers, governors, rulers)
Croatia National Day
Loomis Day
This Day (Fairy)
Account Days end (from 12th)
St. Walston's Day (patron of farmers)

" Joan of Arc burned at the stake (1431)
" Columbus left on his 3rd voyage (1498)
" Marburg University founded (Germany; 1527)
" Henry VIII married Jane Seymour (1536)
" De Soto landed in Florida (1539)
" Pennsylvania Evening Post, 1st US daily newspaper, published (1783)
" Andrew Jackson killed fellow lawyer Charles Dickinson in a dual over a personal insult (1806)
" 1st Memorial Day celebrated (1868)
" 1st Automobile Accident occurred (1896)
" Hall of Fame for Great Americans dedicated (1901)
" 1st Indianapolis 500 race held (1911)
" Construction began on Lincoln Memorial (1915)
" Lincoln Memorial dedicated (1922)
" US Marines took Okinawa (WW 2)
" 1st Hovercraft launched (1959)
" A Streetcar Named Desire premiered

Imhotep of Egypt (2900 BCE)
1819 Walt Whitman, poet/journalist (West Hills, Long Island, NY; died 1892)
1894 Fred Allen, comedian/radio personality (Cambridge, MA; died 1956)
1898 Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, religious leader/inspirational writer (Bowersville, OH; died 1993)
1908 Don Ameche, actor (Kenosha, WI; died 1993)
1930 Clint Eastwood, actor/director (San Francisco, CA)
1938 Peter Yarrow, singer/songwriter and member of Peter, Paul, and Mary (New York, NY)
1941 Johnny Paycheck, singer/songwriter (Greenfield, OH)
1943 Sharon Gless, actress (Los Angeles, CA)
Joe Namath, football quarterback (Beaver Falls, PA)
1950 Tom Berenger, actor (Chicago, IL)
Gregory Harrison, actor (Avalon, CA)
1960 Chris Elliott, actor/writer (New York, NY)
1961 Lea Thompson, actress (Rochester, MN)
1965 Brooke Shields, actress/model (New York, NY)

William Mayo
Prince Ranier III of Monaco
Manuel I
Pius XI

Syaday (Discordian)
World No-Tobacco Day
Ambarvalia (Old Roman; No Work Day)
Speak In Complete Sentences Day
Feast of the Visitation
This Day (again; Fairy)
Union Day (South Africa)
National Senior Health & Fitness Day
St. Petronilla's Day (patron against ague)
Royal Brunei Malay Regiment Day
National Macaroon Day

" Lady Godiva's ride (1678)
" 1st US Copyright Law enacted (1790)
" Cornflakes patented (1884)
" Johnstown Flood (1889)
" Boer War ended (1902)
" Battle of Jutland (WW 1; 1916)
" Exemption from US military service 1st offered to Conscientious Objectors (1918)
" Last Model T Ford made (1927)
" Superman debuted in Action Comic #1 (1938)
" Playwright Arthur Miller arrested for refusing to rat on other writers who were communists (1957)
" South Africa declared itself to be independent (1961)
" Nazi Adolf Eichmann hanged in Israel (1961)
" Rolling Stones played their 1st US concert (at a high school; 1964)
" John Lennon recorded Give Peace a Chance (1969)
" Angola Civil War ended (1991)
" Rossini's La Gazza Ladra premiered
" 1st Strike took place
" Bra invented
" 1st Cricket Match played