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1872 Yellowstone National Park established as the world’s first national park.
1961 The U.S. Peace Corps was established by President John F. Kennedy.
1990 Steve Jackson Games was raided by the United States Secret Service.
1847 Alexander Graham Bell, telephone inventor, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1877 Rutherford B. Hayes declared President by U.S. Congress, even though the popular vote was won by Samuel J. Tilden on November 7, 1876.
1904 Theodore “Dr. Seuss” Geisel was born.
1933 King Kong (film) opened at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
1956 Morocco gained its independence from France.
1964 Filming began on The Beatles’ first film, “A Hard Day’s Night.”
1974 Mavis De Blanc Barnes Wilson died.
1995 Yahoo! was incorporated.
1820 The United States Congress passed the Missouri Compromise.
1840 Nez Perce Chief Joseph was born in Wallowa Valley, Oregon.
1873 U.S. Congress’ Comstock Law made it illegal to send any “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” books through the mail.
1913 Woman Suffrage Procession of 1913 attended by thousands in Washington, D.C.
1923 Doc Watson was born in Deep Gap, North Carolina.
1923 The first issue of Time magazine was published.
1938 Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1959 The new home of the San Francisco Giants baseball team was officially named Candlestick Park.
1991 Beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers captured on amateur video.
1791 Vermont admitted to the United States as the 14th state.
1830 Former President John Quincy Adams returned to Congress as a representative from Massachusetts. He went on to serve 8 consecutive terms.
1837 The city of Chicago was incorporated.
1897 Francis Joseph “Lefty” O’Doul was born in San Francisco.
1918 The USS Cyclops departed Barbados and was never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the Bermuda Triangle.
1966 John Lennon said that “We’re (The Beatles) more popular than Jesus now.”
1983 Sergio Romo was born in Brawley, California.
2016 Captain Budley Nelson died.
1046 Naser Khosrow’s seven-
1770 The Boston Massacre occurred.
1946 The “Iron Curtain” speech was delivered by Winston Churchill at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
1982 John Belushi died in Hollywood, California.
1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared a “bank holiday,” closing all U.S. Banks and freezing all financial transactions.
2016 Ray Tomlinson, inventor @ email, died.
1475 Michelangelo was born in Caprese, Italy.
1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born.
1820 The Missouri Compromise was signed into law by U.S. President James Monroe.
1836 Fort Alamo fell to Mexican troops led by General Santa Anna.
1926 Alan Greenspan was born in New York City.
2013 The opening of The Bay Lights on the western span of the San Francisco-
2016 Nancy Reagan died in Los Angeles.
1994 U.S. Supreme Court ruled that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
1999 Stanley Kubrick died in St. Albans, England at age 70.
2016 Dudley “Doodle” Dunlap, a brave orange cat, died in San Francisco, age 16-
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1817 The New York Stock Exchange founded.
1911 International Women’s Day begun in Copenhagen, Denmark by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women’s Office for the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
1999 Joe DiMaggio died in Hollywood, Florida at age 84.
2016 Sir George Martin died at age 90.
1934 Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, was born in Gzhatsk, U.S.S.R.
1958 Alan K. Lipton was born.
1996 George Burns died in Beverly Hills, California at age 100.
2012 Peter Bergman died in Santa Monica, California at age 72.
2015 Eugene Patton, “Gene Gene the Dancing Machine” on NBC’s The Gong Show, died in Pasadena, California at age 82.
1862 The first issue of U.S. government paper money occurred as $5, $10 and $20 bills began circulation.
2006 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, operated by NASA / JPL, arrived at Mars.
1905 Mavis De Blanc was born in New Orleans.
1985 Mikhail Gorbachev elected General Secretary of the Communisy Party of USSR.
2011 9.0 magnitude earthquake off Japan followed by tsunami killed thousands and triggered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
2014 The Autonomous Republic of Crimea was annexed by Russia.
1894 Coca-
1912 The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) were founded.
1922 Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts.
1925 Harry Harrison was born in Stamford, Connecticut.
1989 Invention of the World Wide Web by Sir Tim Berners-
2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant reactor melted and exploded, releasing radioactivity after Japan’s earthquake.
624 Battle of Badr between Muhammad’s army and the Quraish of Mecca.
1882 Eadweard Muybridge's Zoopraxiscope debuted in London.
1892 Janet Flanner (Genêt) was born.
2013 Pope Francis was elected as 266th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1813 Red hail and snow fell on Tuscany.
1879 Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg. German Empire.
1900 Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act.
1983 Taylor Hanson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
2015 Pi Day -
2018 Stephen Hawking died in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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1767 Andrew Jackson was born in the Waxhaws border region between the Carolinas.
1912 Lightnin’ Hopkins was born in Centerville, Texas.
1940 Phil Lesh was born in Berkeley, California.
1985 The first Internet .com domain name was registered (symbolics.com).
2019 W.S. Merwin diet at age 91.
1872 The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in
the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-
1983 Arthur Godfrey died in Manhattan, New York at age 79.
2014 Crimea voted in a referendum to secede from Ukraine and join Russia.
2017 Bluesman Jams Cotton died at age 81.
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1938 John O. Wilson was born in San Francisco.
1941 Paul Kantner was born in San Francisco.
1948 Bruce Henderson was born in New Jersey.
1979 First meeting of Daniel C. Nettell and David A. Wilson in Pleasant Hill, California.
2017 Poet Derek Walcott died in Saint Lucia.
1871 Declaration of the Paris Commune.
1893 English poet Wilfred Owen was born.
1968 The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back U.S. Currency.
2017 Chuck Berry, King of Rock-
1895 Auguste & Louis Lumière recorded first footage on new patented cinematograph.
1918 U.S. Congress established time zones and approved daylight saving time.
1931 Gambling was legalized in Nevada.
2013 American porn actor Harry Reems died.
2014 Fred Phelps, Westboro Baptist Church founder, died.
2017 Newspaperman Jimmy Breslin died.
2018 Last male northern white rhinoceros died.
1602 The Dutch East India Company was established.
1828 Poet and playwright Henrik Ibsen was born in Skien, Grenland, Norway.
1883 The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property was signed.
1916 Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity published.
1685 Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany.
1952 Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
1961 The Beatles played their debut performance at The Cavern Club in Liverpool.
1970 First Earth Day proclamation was issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
2006 Social media site Twitter was founded.
1630 Massachusetts Bay Colony outlawed possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
1638 Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
1887 Leonard “Chico” Marx was born in New York City.
1962 Neal Ross Attinson (Barbatus the Elder) was born.
1972 United Status Congress sent Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
1775 Patrick Henry’s famous “Give me liberty, or give me death!” speech ignited the American Revolution.
1853 Elisha Otis’ first elevator was installed at 488 Broadway in New York City.
1910 Akira Kurosawa was born in Shingawa, Tokyo.
1981 First meeting of the Neo-
2011 Elizabeth Taylor died in Los Angeles at age 79.
1874 Harry Houdini was born in Budapest, Austria-
1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow died in Cambridge, Massachusetts at age 75.
1896 The first radio signal transmission in human history was made by A. S. Popov.
1919 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and publisher, was born in Yonkers, New York.
1983 Brenna Rose Hills-
421 Venice was founded at twelve o'clock noon, according to legend.
1811 Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
1957 U.S. Customs seized copies of Howl by Allen Ginsberg on obscenity grounds.
1484 At Westminster, William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop’s Fables.
1830 The Book of Mormon was published in Palmyra, New York.
1874 Poet Robert Frost was born in San Francisco.
1892 Poet Walt Whitman died in Camden, New Jersey at age 72.
1904 American mythologist Joseph Campbell was born in White Plains, New York.
1911 Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi.
1931 Leonard Nimoy was born in Boston.
1942 English writer and journalist Michael Jackson was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
845 Paris was sacked by Viking raiders, probably led by Ragnar Lodbrok, who collected huge ransoms in exchange for leaving.
1871 In Paris, France, the Paris Commune was formally established.
1905 Marlin Perkins was born in Carthage, Missouri.
1979 Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident occurred in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
1985 Cirocco Dunlap was born in San Francisco.
2012 Earl Scruggs died in Nashville at age 88.
1871 The Royal Albert Hall was opened by Queen Victoria.
1999 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 10,000 mark for the first time.
2014 The first same-
2017 The United Kingdom invoked Article 50, beginning the formal process of Brexit.
1746 Francisco Goya was born in Fuendetodos, Aragon, Spain.
1853 Vincent van Gogh was born in Zundert, Netherlands.
1856 The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Crimean War.
1870 Texas readmitted to the United States following Reconstruction.
1939 Detective Comics #27 introduced Batman.
1981 President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded in an assassination attempt in Washington, D.C.
1732 Franz Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria.
1889 Official opening of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
1918 Daylight saving time went into effect in the United States for the first time.
1927 Cesar Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona.
1959 The 14th Dalai Lama crossed border into India and was granted political asylum.
1991 The Republic of Georgia voted for independence from the Soviet Union.
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