2015 Event U.S. President Barack Obama restores the Native American name of Alaska's Mount McKinley, the tallest North American peak; the mountain will revert to its former name of Denali Australian golfer Jason Day wins the PGA Championship with a score of 20 under par; American Jordan Spieth wins second place, resulting in a rank of #1 in the world, replacing Northern Irish golf champ Rory McIlroy Delta Airlines states it will no longer transport wildlife trophies after the recent killing of a lion, Cecil, by an American who was reportedly unaware that the hunt was illegal; Delta formerly shipped such trophies if they were obtained legally Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei emphasizes that the country's recent nuclear agreement with the West does not change its opposition to the U.S. and to American policies in the Middle East During his visit to Bolivia, Pope Francis asks for forgiveness for the Catholic Church for its offenses against the indigenous population of the American continent during the conquest by European powers Amazon.com joins eBay and others in removing Confederate flag items from its site after last week's shooting of nine African American church members; though part of U.S. Civil War history, the flag is also seen by many as a symbol of racism American skier Lindsey Vonn wins her 63rd World Cup, setting a new record after 35 years; the previous record of 62 wins was held by Austrian skier Annemarie Moser-Proell American rock climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson become the first to successfully free-climb the Dawn Wall face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, a climb of 3,000 feet; the men started the climb on December 27th, 2014 The U.S. has fined American Honda Motor Company $70 million for neglecting to report, from mid-2003 to mid-2014, over 1,700 safety issues that resulted in deaths or injuries 2014 Event The U.S. will end its 1960 embargo and reestablish diplomatic relations with Cuba; the agreement took place after an exchange of three Cuban spies for aid worker Alan Gross and an unnamed American spy American pet supply retailer PetSmart agrees to be purchased by private equity firm BC Partners for $8.7 billion American doctor Craig Spencer has been diagnosed with Ebola after recently returning to New York from Sierra Leone; Spencer rode the subway, went bowling, and took a taxi the day before he began displaying symptoms American freelance videographer Ashoka Mukpo tests positive for Ebola while working in Liberia; the cameraman has been working in the country for the past three years but became symptomatic the day after beginning an assignment for NBC News Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange; its pre-IPO market valuation of almost $168 billion exceeds that of American e-commerce giant Amazon by over $17 billion Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, American aid workers who contracted the Ebola virus in Liberia and returned to the U.S. for treatment, have been released and declared fully recovered Dr. Kent Brantly, one of two American medical workers who contracted the Ebola virus in Liberia, arrives in the U.S. for treatment in isolation at Emory University Hospital; the virus has already claimed hundreds of lives in West Africa U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Central American leaders, asking their assistance in curbing the flood of children attempting to immigrate; Obama asserted that children without proper documentation would be returned to their home countries Maya Angelou, American author of 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' and many other works, dies of natural causes at age 86 An American, Meb Keflezighi, wins the men's Boston Marathon, one year after the race was targeted by bombings; an American last won the men's race in 1983 Bubba Watson, American golfer, wins the Masters Tournament for the second year in a row Storied American actor Mickey Rooney dies at age 93 of natural causes American ice dancing pair Charlie White and Meryl Davis win the Olympic gold medal - the first gold won by the U.S. in this sport The 20th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are held in Los Angeles; 'American Hustle' takes top awards, actor Matthew McConaughey and Cate Blanchett win Outstanding Performance awards At the 71st Golden Globe Awards, Best Motion Picture is awarded to '12 Years a Slave'; 'American Hustle is receives the Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy award, with actress Amy Adams honored as Best Actress 2013 Event Joan Fontaine, a British and American actress and sister of Olivia de Havilland, dies at the age of 96; Fontaine is famous for roles in Alfred Hitchcock thrillers Suspicion and Rebecca AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, merges with US Airways Group; American Airlines Group is formed and the public company begins trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol AAL American comedian Don Rickles receives treatment for a flesh-eating disease, necrotizing fasciitis, he contracted in his leg; the 87-year old is expected to make a full recovery A $3.4 billion takeover bid by American global food-processing giant Archer Daniels Midland for GrainCorp, an Australian agribusiness, is rejected by Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey American baseball shortstop Jose Iglesias secures a one-year contract to play for the Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball team Three American economists win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences: Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller Astronaut Scott Carpenter, the second American to orbit the earth on Mercury 7, dies of complications from a stroke at the age of 88 Winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine include German scientist Thomas C. Sudhof and American scientists Randy Schekman and James Rothman Best-selling American author Tom Clancy dies at the age of 66; the author's debut book, 'The Hunt for Red October' has been cited as one of the greatest genre novels ever written An antitrust lawsuit brought on by the U.S. Department of Justice and six states is filed to block the proposed merger of American Airlines and US Airways At the Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford, New York, American golfer Jason Dufner wins the 2013 PGA Championship In Scotland, the 2013 Open Championship is won by American golfer Phil Mickelson 2013 Death Helen Thomas, an American Journalist who reported on the White House for nearly fifty years, dies at the age of 92 British-born, American businessman Christopher O'Neill marries Princess Madeleine of Sweden in a lavish ceremony American actress Angelina Jolie announces she underwent elective double mastectomy surgery because she carried the BRCA1 gene and had a family history of breast cancer American boxer Floyd Mayweather defeats Robert Guerrero and retains his WBC Welterweight title in a unanimous decision The News Corporation phone hacking scandal results in the company's agreement to pay $139 million to American shareholders American actress, Reese Witherspoon is arrested for disorderly conduct in Atlanta, Georgia A transistor-like transcriptor is built out of DNA and RNA molecules by American bioengineers at Stanford University The FBI reports they have discovered who stole $580 million in masterpieces from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, the greatest art heist in American history American Grammy-winning rap artist, Lil Wayne, suffers a seizure in California, and recovers at a Los Angeles hospital Bankrupt carrier, American Airlines and U.S. Airways merge, forming the world's largest air carrier, to trade under the name, American Airlines The group of hackers known as Anonymous, hacks into the U.S. Sentencing Commission website as a response to the suicide of Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, and internet activist The 1950's American pop singer Patti Page, known for the songs, '(How Much Is That) Doggie In The Window' and "Tennessee Waltz', dies in Encinitas, California at 85 years old 2012 Event Famous American pianist and jazz composer, Dave Brubeck, dies at the age of 91 Ballerina Natalia Makarova, blues legend Buddy Guy, actor Dustin Hoffman, American television host David Letterman, and surviving members of Led Zeppelin, receive 2012 Kennedy Center Honors for their contributions to American culture Former award-winning cyclist, American Lance Armstrong, is banned for life from participating in International Cycling Union-sanctioned events and stripped of his seven Tour de France titles based on the findings of a systematic doping investigation After five years of marriage, American actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes announce their plans to divorce In the eleventh 'American Idol' finale, Philip Phillips is named winner of 'American Idol,' with Jessica Sanchez as the runner-up Robert Spitzer, a retired American psychiatrist, claims his 2001 study was 'fatally flawed'; the study falsely supported the myth that gay people could be 'cured' The American company Apple, Inc. announces it is worth over $600 billion dollars, making the technology company the largest in the world by market capitalization In the U.S., the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists merge to create the SAG-AFTRA union Pope Benedict XVI announces seven new saints - including American saint Kateri Tekakwitha - and appoints 22 new cardinals American singer and actress Whitney Houston dies suddenly at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel in California at age 48 American Airlines' parent company announces it will cut 13,000 jobs or 15% of its workforce Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez meets with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the first stop of Ahmadinejad's Latin American tour 2011 Event Lynn Margulis, an American evolutionary biologist, dies at age 73 An investigation into the death of American actress Natalie Wood is reopened by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department after fresh information surfaces; Wood drowned in 1981 Physician Conrad Murray, is found guilty of manslaughter in the death of the American entertainer Michael Jackson The U.S. is granted permission by North Korea to search for remains of American soliders killed during the Korean War In Game 5 of the American League Division Series, the Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees, moving on to play the Texas Rangers American innovator, businessman, co-founder and longtime CEO of Apple Inc., dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56 A 26-year old American citizen is arrested by the FBI for a plot to fly remote-controlled planes filled with explosives into the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, founder of the militant Islamist group Al-Quaeda was killed by American military operatives The North American winter storm continues across the Southeastern United States and the Tennessee Valley The North American winter storm causes persistent cold temperatures in Mexico and power outages in the U.S. American actress Zsa Zsa Gabor undergoes a life-saving operation and has her leg amputated 2010 Event The 2010 Country Music Awards are held in Nashville, Tennessee; American singer Brad Paisley wins Entertainer of the Year American Alexandria Mills, age 18, wins the 60th Miss World pageant in China American Idol producer Simon Cowell signs a three-year deal with ITV for 'The X Factor' and 'Britain's Got Talent' The New York Yankees beat the Minnesota Twins, progressing to Major League Baseball's 2010 American League Championship Series American Actor Tony Curtis dies in Las Vegas, Nevada; Curtis appeared in over 100 films 2010 Death Eddie Fisher, American singer, dies in Berkeley, California Photographic negatives purchased at a garage sale prove to be early works by American photographer Ansel Adams United and Continental air lines announce that the two American companies will merge, creating the world's largest airline 2009 Event A large amount of space debris is created when a Russan and American satellite collide over Siberia 2009 Death Andrew Wyeth, American artist, dies at 91, after a brief illness 2007 Event Writers Guild of American goes on strike 2007 Death Albert Ellis, American psychologist, dies of heart failure at 93 Louis W. Ballard, Native American composer, author, artist, wrote 'Incident at Wounded Knee', dies of cancer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at age 75 2006 Death Clifford Geertz, American Scientist Jeff Cooper, American Celebrity John M. Ford, American Writer Joseph Stefano, American Writer Kenneth Lay, American Businessman Stanley Kunitz, American Poet Caspar Weinberger, American Public Servant Harry Browne, American Writer Henry M. Morris, American Celebrity Andreas Katsulas, American Actor Wendy Wasserstein, American Playwright 2005 Death Robert Sheckley, American Author Al Lopez, American Coach Wellington Mara, American Businessman Constance Baker Motley, American Activist M. Scott Peck, American Psychologist Gordon Gould, American Physicist Robert Moog, American Inventor John H. Johnson, American Businessman Little Milton, American Musician Hank Stram, American Athlete Gaylord Nelson, American Politician John T. Walton, American Businessman Shelby Foote, American Author Jack Kilby, American Scientist James Jarrell Pickle, American Politician Jean O'Leary, American Activist Lloyd Cutler, American Lawyer Lloyd Norton Cutler, American Lawyer Joe Grant, American Artist David Hackworth, American Soldier Mel Gussow, American Critic Percy Heath, American Musician Philip Morrison, American Scientist Dale Messick, American Artist Frank Perdue, American Businessman Don Rose, American Entertainer Fred Korematsu, American Celebrity Howell Heflin, American Politician Greg Garrison, American Director John DeLorean, American Businessman Andre Norton, American Writer Jef Raskin, American Scientist Gene Scott, American Clergyman Fritz Scholder, American Artist Rose Mary Woods, American Celebrity Ruth Warrick, American Musician Will Eisner, American Cartoonist Shirley Chisholm, American Politician Bob Matsui, American Politician 2004 Death Johnny Oates, American Athlete Tom Wesselmann, American Artist Larry Buchanan, American Director Anthony Hecht, American Poet Paul Nitze, American Writer Marvin Davis, American Businessman 2004 Event American military deaths in the Iraq War reach 1,000 J. Irwin Miller, American Businessman Donald Justice, American Poet Cotton Fitzsimmons, American Coach Laurance Rockefeller, venture capitalist/philanthropist, founded the American Conservation Association, dies at 94 Joe Gold, American Businessman Walter Wager, American Novelist Rodger Ward, American Celebrity Neal A. Maxwell, American Clergyman Edward B. Lewis, American Scientist Robert Teeter, American Politician Steve Lacy, American Musician Samuel Dash, American Lawyer Jim Cantalupo, American Businessman Victor Argo, American Actor Alistair Cooke, American Journalist Jerome Lawrence, American Playwright Bart Howard, American Composer John Hench, American Artist Jerry Nachman, American Journalist Alexandra Ripley, American Writer Tug McGraw, American Athlete 2003 Event American forces capture Sadam Hussen outside of Tikrit 2003 Death Clark Kerr, American Economist Warren Spahn, American Baseball pitcher, dies at home Wally George, American Celebrity Arthur Berger, American Composer Neil Postman, American Educator Garrett Hardin, American Environmentalist Ron Burton, American Athlete Wesley Willis, American Musician Ed Townsend, American Musician Herb Brooks, American Coach Ivan Allen, American Politician Buddy Hackett, American Comedian Donald T. Regan, American Public Servant Burke Marshall, American Lawyer Kathleen Winsor, American Author Sloan Wilson, American Novelist Mark McCormack, American Businessman June Carter, American Musician Jack Gelber, American Playwright David Lavender, American Historian Anita Borg, American Scientist Edwin Starr, American Musician Harry Ellis Dickson, American Musician Rachel Corrie, American Activist Stan Brakhage, American Director Karen Morley, American Actress Tom Glazer, American Musician Thomas Leonard, American Businessman Ron Ziegler, American Politician Michael P. Anderson, American Astronaut Leslie Fiedler, American Critic Craig Kelly, American Athlete Conrad Hall, American Artist 2002 Death John Rawls, American Educator Jam Master Jay, American Musician Harry Hay, American Celebrity Richard M. Helms, American Celebrity Aileen Wuornos, American Criminal Charles Guggenheim, American Director Bruce Paltrow, American Producer Norman O. Brown, American Philosopher Bob Hayes, American Athlete W. Clement Stone, American Businessman Abe Lemons, American Coach Jesse Brown, American Politician William Pierce, American Celebrity Alan Lomax, American Writer Timothy White, American Critic Jack Buck, American Celebrity John Gotti, American Criminal Lew Wasserman, American Producer Flora Lewis, American Journalist Walter Lord, American Author David Riesman, American Sociologist Dan Devine, American Coach George Sidney, American Director Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, American Writer Jay Chiat, American Businessman Buck Baker, American Celebrity Ed Turner, American Journalist Randy Castillo, American Musician James Tobin, American Economist Harlan Howard, American Musician John W. Gardner, American Educator Vernon A. Walters, American Soldier Jack Henry Abbott, American Author Claude Brown, American Writer Robert Nozick, American Philosopher Stanley Marcus, American Businessman Carl Olson, American Athlete Cyrus Vance, American Statesman 2001 Death Millicent Carey McIntosh, American Educator Harvey Martin, American Athlete Lance Loud, "actor/early ""reality show"" star", An American Family, dies at 50 Norman Granz, American Musician 2001 Event American Airlines flight 587 crashes in Belle Harbor, New York, killing 265, vertical stabilizer failure Marvin Harris, American Scientist Howard Finster, American Artist Herbert Lawrence Block, American Cartoonist John Lilly, American Scientist Katherine Graham, American Publisher Joe Henderson, American Musician Jack Lemon, American Actor Joseph Greenberg, American Writer Morris Graves, American Artist Billy Higgins, American Musician Michael Ritchie, American Director Harvey Ball, American Celebrity Henry Lee Lucas, American Criminal Henry Wade, American Lawyer Roger Caras, American Activist Dale Earnhardt, American Celebrity Herbert Simon, American Scientist J. J. Johnson, American Musician O. Winston Link, American Photographer Al McGuire, American Coach Gregory Corso, American Poet William Reddington Hewlett, American Businessman John G. Schmitz, American Politician 2000 Death Kenneth Lee Pike, American Sociologist John Lindsay, American Politician Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, first black American to win a Pulitzer Prize, dies at 83 Gwendolyn Brooks, American Poet David R. Brower, American Environmentalist Mel Carnahan, American Politician Gus Hall, American Businessman Bruce Palmer, Jr., American Soldier William P. Bundy, American Historian John Harsanyi, American Educator Richard Kerry, American Diplomat John Tukey, American Scientist Jerome Richardson, American Musician Alan Hovhaness, American Composer Jacob Lawrence, American Artist William Simon, American Public Servant William E. Simon, American Public Servant Merton Miller, American Economist Leonard Baskin, American Artist John Coolidge, American Celebrity Karl Shapiro, American Poet Adam Petty, American Celebrity John Cardinal O'Connor, American Clergyman Lee Petty, American Celebrity 2000 Event 72nd Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Billy Crystal hosts, American Beauty wins Best Picture, Kevin Spacey and Hilary Swank win lead acting awards Malcolm Wilson, American Politician Franklin Garrett, American Historian Clifton Daniel, American Editor Tom Landry, American Coach Gil Kane, American Artist Bob Lemon, American Athlete 1999 Death Joey Adams, American Comedian Elizabeth Gray Vining, American Writer Alexander Liberman, American Designer Daniel Nathans, American Scientist Lester Bowie, American Musician Theodore Hall, American Criminal Bobby Sheehan, American Musician Pee Wee Reese, American Athlete Harry Walker, American Athlete James L. Farmer, Jr., American Activist J. F. Powers, American Novelist James Broughton, American Director John Minor Wisdom, American Judge Roderick Thorp, American Novelist Boxcar Willie, born Lecil Travis Martin, guitarist, American hobo music singer, sang country, gospel music, dies from leukemia, in Branson, Missouri, at age 67 Harry Callahan, American Photographer Early Wynn, American Athlete Andre Dubus, American Writer Henry W. Kendall, American Scientist 1998 Death William Gaddis, American Novelist Margaret Walker, American Poet Kerry Thornley, American Philosopher Nelson Goodman, American Philosopher Stokely Carmichael, American Activist Bob Kane, American Artist Betty Carter, American Musician Frederick Reines, American Physicist James Patrick Murray, American Journalist Alan Shepard, astronaut, first American in space, dies at 74 Danielle Berry, American Celebrity Kay Thompson, American Author Alan Shepard, American Astronaut Eldridge Cleaver, American Activist Gabe Paul, American Businessman Tom Cora, American Musician Tim Flock, American Celebrity David F. Powers, American Politician Benjamin Spock, American Scientist Theodore William Schultz, American Economist Henny Youngman, American Comedian, dies at age 91 in New York City Lawrence Sanders, American Novelist 1998 Event 25th American Music Award: Spice Girls and Babyface win President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" World League of American Football becomes NFL East 1997 Death James Laughlin, American Poet 1997 Event "Jackie - An American Life," opens at Belasco Theater New York City James A. Michener, American Novelist American Justin Leonard wins the British Open shooting at 272 "American Daughter" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 88 performances Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mount Everest for 3rd time Alfred Day Hershey, American Scientist "American Daughter" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 88 performances Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals Edward M. Purcell, American Scientist American Express Senior Golf Invitational 11th American Comedy Award: Debbie Reynolds 24th American Music Award: Toni Braxton and Alanis Morissette win 1996 Death Ray Blanton, American Politician Harold E. Hughes, American Politician David Viscott, American Psychologist Spiro T. Agnew, American Politician Leon Shenandoah, native American leader, dies at 81 Thomas Kuhn, American Writer George D. Snell, American Scientist Timothy Leary, American Educator William Colby, American Public Servant James Rouse, American Businessman Edmund S. Muskie, American Politician George Burns, American Comedian 1996 Event 10th American Comedy Award Gene Kelly, actor and dancer, 'An American in Paris', 'Singin' in the Rain', dies at 83 23rd American Music Award: Garth Brooks wins 1995 Event American Flight 965 crashes in Columbia, 159 die, 5 survive 1995 Death Morrie Schwartz, American Educator Eiji Okada, actor (Traffic Jam, Yakuza, Ugly American), dies at 75 William Kunstler, American Activist Alfred Eisenstaedt, American Photographer Alonzo Church, American Mathematician Warren E. Burger, American Judge Al Hansen, Norwegian American artist, dies at 67 Roger Zelazny, American Writer Stanley Elkin, American Author Lewis Thompson Preston, American Businessman Selena, born Selena Quintanilla-Perez, Mexican American singer, dies in Corpus Christi, Texas, murdered by Yolanda Saldivar at age 23 Letitia Vriesde runs S American indoor record 800m (2:00.35) 9th American Comedy Award: Rodney Dangerfield American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets James Merrill, American Poet 22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men and Ace of Base win Rose Kennedy, American Author Murray Rothbard, American Economist 1994 Death David Dean Rusk, American Politician 1994 Event American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15 Al Levitt, American jazz artist, dies at 63 American Eagle ATR-72 crash down at Gary, Indiana: 68 killed National Museum of American Indian opens (New York City) Cab Calloway, American Musician Gene Cherico, bassist, American jazz, toured with Toshiko Akiyoshi, recorded with Paul Desmond, dies at 59 Charles A. Beckwith, American Soldier "Cafe American," last airs on NBC-TV Margaret Skeete, oldest American, dies at 115 Fred Sadoff, actor (Quiet American), dies of AIDS at 67 Richard M. Nixon, American President Karl Hess, American Writer Ralph Ellison, American Author Lewis Grizzard, American Writer 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top wins Marvin J. Ashton, American Clergyman 1994 Birthday Dakota Fanning, born in Conyers, Georgia, American Actress 21st American Music Award: Whitney Houston wins Thomas P. O'Neill, American Politician Dixie Lee Ray, American Politician North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect 1993 Death Frank Zappa, American Musician 1993 Event Atlantic Radio (20 radio stations) becomes American Radio Systems Doris Duke, heiress (American Tobacco Co), dies at 80 Jimmy Doolittle, American Aviator Marian Anderson, American Musician Henry Hazlitt, American Philosopher Harrison Salisbury, American Journalist GG Allin, American Musician Max A. Zorn, American Mathematician 7th American Comedy Award: Seinfeld wins Edward P. Morgan, American Journalist 20th American Music Award: Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey win 1992 Death Allan Bloom, author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62 James Van Fleet, American Soldier Evelyn Wesler Zemel, U.S. author (American Glass Animals), dies M. F. K. Fisher, American Writer Morris Kline, American Writer Robert Alton Harris, American Criminal 1992 Event American Airlines reduce its 1st-class fares 20%-50% Issac Asimov, American Writer 6th American Comedy Award: Cathy Ladman, Judy Watkins, Billy Crystal Irving R. Kaufman, American Judge 19th American Music Award: C and C Music Factory, Michael Bolton win 1991 Event Pan American World Airways ceased operations Muslim Shites release American held in Lebanon hostage Joseph Cicippio 1991 Death Steven Jesse Bernstein, American Writer Miles Davis, American Musician Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts James Roosevelt, American Politician Richard Snelling, American Politician James Irwin, American Astronaut Debbie Doom (U.S.) pitches 2nd consecutive perfect game in women's softball at the Pan American Games, beats Nicaragua, 8-0 Buffalo Bills beat Philadelphia Eagles, 17-13 in American Bowl in Wembley Isaac Bashevis Singer, American Novelist Warren Schutte, is 1st non American to win NCAA Div 1 golf title Johnny Thunders, American Musician 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 and Mont beats Birmingham 20-5 5th American Comedy Award: Dennis Wolfberg Planeloads of U.S. troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured Cool Papa Bell, American Athlete Bank of Credit and Commerce International divests itself of 1st American Bank End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft John Sloan Dickey, American Diplomat All American Bowl ends after 14 years 18th American Music Award: M C Hammer and Janet Jackson Harold Grange, American Athlete Carl D. Anderson, American Scientist 1990 Birthday Joanna Noelle Levesque, also known as JoJo, American Musician 1990 Death Ed Parker, American Athlete William S. Paley, American Businessman Anatole Broyard, American Critic Norman Maclean, American Author Cedric Belfrage, American Sociologist Ralph Abernathy, American Activist Cyrus Rowlett Smith, American Businessman Sarah Vaughan, American Musician Harry Bridges, American Activist 1990 Event 4th American Comedy Award: When Harry Met Sally Malcolm S. Forbes, American Publisher James M. Gavin, American Scientist Del Shannon, American Musician Alan Perlis, American Scientist Aaron Copland, American Composer Lewis Mumford, American Sociologist 17th American Music Award: Milli Vanilli Arthur Joseph Goldberg, American Statesman died at age 81 1989 Event American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route 1989 Birthday Michelle Wie, American Athlete 1989 Death Bette Davis, American Actress Robert Penn Warren, American Novelist A. Bartlett Giamatti, American Educator Diana Vreeland, American Editor Lil' Romeo, American Musician William Shockley, American Physicist I. F. Stone, American Journalist Walter Martin, American Clergyman Howard Simons, American Editor 3rd American Comedy Award: Paula Poundstone John J. McCloy, American Lawyer Norris Cotton, American Politician 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis and George Michael wins Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission 1988 Event Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden 1988 Death John N. Mitchell, American Politician Virginia Satir, American Psychologist Andy Hampton is 1st American to win Round of Italy 1988 Birthday Mae Whitman, American Actress 2nd American Comedy Award: Robin Williams and Tracey Ullman Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer Valerie Solanas, American Writer Clifford D. Simak, American Writer Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop John Clellon Holmes, American Writer 15th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon and Whitney Houston Pappy Boyington, American Soldier 1987 Birthday Angel Carter, American Model 1987 Death James A. Baldwin, American Author Alf Landon, American Politician Evan Rachel Wood, American Actress 1987 Event 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala Michael Welch, American Actor North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video 1st American Comedy Award Jesse McCartney, American Musician Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90 Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion Carl Rogers, American Psychologist 14th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie and Alabama Lawrence Kohlberg, American Educator 1986 Death Virginia C. Andrews, American Author Ella Baker, American Activist 1986 Birthday Camilla Belle, American Actress Emmy Rossum, American Actress 1986 Event Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France James Rainwater, American Scientist Helen B. Taussig, American Scientist Jimmy Lyons, American Musician Theodore White, American Journalist Donald E. Pelotte becomes 1st native American bishop J. Allen Hynek, American Scientist Mary Beth Whitehead, American Celebrity Brittany Snow, American Actress Georgia O'Keeffe, American Artist Frank Herbert, American Writer 13th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis and C Gayle Mischa Barton, American Actress 1985 Event Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st) 1985 Birthday Michelle Trachtenberg, American Actress 1985 Death E. B. White, American Comedian Smokey Joe Wood, American Athlete American, Brazilian and West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped and held hostage in Lebanon Theodore Sturgeon, American Writer Irving Mills, American Musician Charles Francis Richter, American Scientist Emile Hirsch, American Actor Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American Politician 12th American Music Award 16 indicted by U.S. for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees 1984 Death Stanley Milgram, American Psychologist 1984 Birthday Scarlett Johansson, American Actress Jena Malone, American Actress Sasha Cohen, American Athlete George Gaylord Simpson, American Scientist Walt Alston, American Athlete Joe Cronin, shortstop and American League President, dies at 77 George Oppen, American Poet Fantasia Barrino, American Musician Carmelo Anthony, American Athlete Francis Schaeffer, American Theologian William Allen Egan, American Politician Count Basie, American Musician America Ferrera, American Actress 1984 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive" Christy Romano, American Actress Olivia Wilde, American Actress Bill Johnson becomes 1st American to win Olympic downhill skiing gold Malcolm H Kerr, 9th President of American University of Beirut, shot dead Madonna 1st sings "Holiday" on American Bandstand 1983 Event "Marilyn: An American Fable" closes at Minskoff New York City after 16 performances "Marilyn: An American Fable" opens at Minskoff New York City for 16 performances 1983 Death George Halas, American Coach Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship Henry M. Jackson, American Politician 1983 Birthday Mila Kunis, American Actress Howard Dietz, American Musician U.S. announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge Kenneth Millar, American Writer R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor James Van Der Zee, American Photographer Earl Hines, American Musician Haldan Keffer Hartline, American Scientist Carrie Underwood, American Musician Paul Bryant, American Coach 10th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers William Hung, born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, outsider musician, rose to fame for an off-key performance of 'She Bangs' by Ricky Martin on 'American Idol' show Tom McCall, American Politician Natalie Gulbis, American Athlete 1982 Event Seattle Baptist Church declares sanctuary for Central American refugees 1982 Birthday Lucas Black, born in Decatur, Alabama, actor, appeared in film, 'Sling Blade', 'Jarhead', 'Friday Night Lights' and television series, 'American Gothic' Heather Matarazzo, American Actress 1982 Death Waverley Lewis Root, American Journalist Erika Christensen, American Actress Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria and France form American European Football Federation (AEFF) Brad Renfro, born in Knoxville, Tennessee American actor, film and television David S. Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon Sophia Bush, American Actress Neil Bogart, American Businessman Kelly Clarkson, born in Fort Worth, Texas, singer, songwriter, winner of first season of 'American Idol' television series, hits include, 'Thankful', 'Because of You' Archibald McLeish, American Poet Nathan F. Twining, American Soldier Danica Patrick, American Celebrity Thora Birch, American Actress Beth Daniel wins LPGA American Express Sun City Golf Classic Philip K. Dick, American Writer 9th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers win Vladimir K Zworykin, Russian/American engineer (cathode-ray tube), dies 1981 Birthday Elizabeth Jordan Carr, 1st American test tube baby Sienna Miller, American Actress 1981 Death Mehmet Shehu, Prime Minister Albania 1954 - 1981, American spy, commits suicide Walter Knott, American Businessman Jenna Bush, American Celebrity Brooks Hays, American Politician 1981 Event Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honarary American Christina Milian, American Musician Harry Warren, American Composer West Tampa Florida defeats Richmand Virgina, 6-4 to win American Legion World Series Rachel Bilson, American Actress American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel Chad Michael Murray, American Actor Ray Harrison, dancer (American Song), dies at 64 Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition Arthur C. Nielsen, American Businessman Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic Michael Pitt, American Actor Frank Lane, American Businessman Young Buck, American Musician Ellen Muth, American Actress Bryce Dallas Howard, American Actress John Walker Lindh, American Criminal Justin Timberlake, American Musician 8th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers wins Beverley Mitchell, American Actress U.S. and Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages 1980 Birthday Christina Aguilera, American Musician 1980 Death Colonel Sanders, also known as Harland Sanders, American Celebrity 1980 Event 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador John William McCormack, American Politician Nick Cannon, American Musician Jason Cook, American Actor Willard Libby, American Scientist James S. McDonnell, American Businessman Vanessa Carlton, American Musician American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran Adam Petty, American Celebrity Dore Schary, American Producer Helen Gahagan, American Actress Richard Jefferson, American Athlete Henry Miller, American Author Matt Long, American Actor Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic Jesse Owens, American Athlete George H. Fallon, American Politician Howard Bailey, American Musician Laura Prepon, American Actress Steve Blake, American Athlete Jason Ritter, American Actor William Howard Stein, American Scientist William O. Douglas, American Judge Zooey Deschanel, born in Los Angeles, California, American Actress 1979 Birthday Nick Stahl, American Actor 1979 Death Jerome Cavanagh, American Politician 1979 Event American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275 ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to "Nightline") Trishelle Cannatella, American Celebrity Mya, Mya Marie Harrison, American Musician Kristanna Loken, American Actress Charlie Smith, oldest American (137 year), dies Rachael Leigh Cook, American Actress Shannyn Sossamon, American Musician Dorothy Arzner, American Director Foxy Brown, American Musician Jamal Lewis, American Athlete George Seaton, American Playwright Leverett Saltonstall, American Politician Forrest Carter, American Writer Monica Keena, American Actress American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275 A. Philip Randolph, American Activist Rosario Dawson, American Actress Lance Bass, American Musician Jaime King, American Actress Rachel Corrie, American Activist Natasha Lyonne, American Actress Joel Madden, American Musician Mena Suvari, born in Newport, Rhode Island, actress, fashion designer, movies include: 'American Beauty', 'American Pie', 'Day of the Dead' 6th American Music Award: Barry Manilow, Linda Ronstadt win 1978 Birthday LaToya London, American Musician John Legend, American Musician Jackie Stiles, American Athlete 1978 Death Don Ellis, American Musician Ian Somerhalder, American Actor Shiri Appleby, American Actress Clay Aiken, born in Raleigh, North Carolina, singer, appeared on 'American Idol' television show, debut album, 'Measure of a Man' went multi-platinum Warren Weaver, American Scientist Justin Guarini, American Musician Will Estes, American Actor Tibor Serly, Hungarian violist/composer (American Elegy), dies at 76 Dante Hall, American Athlete Nick Johnson, American Athlete Ruben Studdard, American Musician Benjamin McKenzie, American Actor Wes Bentley, born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, actor, films include 'Beloved', 'American Beauty', 'The Last Word' Amber Brkich, American Celebrity Marisa Miller, American Model Michelle Rodriguez, American Actress Mario Vazquez, born in The Bronx, New York, singer, competitor on television show, 'American Idol', released album, 'Mario Vazquez' with Arista Records in 2005 1978 Event Jordan's King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American Shane West, American Actor Justin Long, American Actor Jessica Cutler, American Celebrity Barry Zito, American Athlete Jason Biggs, born in Pompton Palins, New Jersey, actor, breakout role, Jim Levenstein in movie, 'American Pie' Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic James Franco, American Actor "History of the American Film" closes at ANTA New York City after 21 performances "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 21 performances Kevin Federline, American Dancer Jay Hernandez, American Actor Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic James Bryant Conant, American Scientist Michael East, American Athlete 5th American Music Award: Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac and C Twitty Hubert H. Humphrey, American Politician January Jones, American Actress 1977 Birthday Colin Hanks, American Actor Maggie Gyllenhaal, American Actress Obie Trice, American Musician Randy Harrison, American Actor John Mayer, American Musician 1977 Event N.Y. Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland, Oregon, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship 1977 Death Groucho Marx, American Comedian George Kenney, American Soldier Nat Friedman, American Businessman Ashley Scott, American Actress Alice Paul, American Activist Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist Jason Mraz, American Musician Jai Rodriguez, American Actor Marston Morse, American Mathematician Tom C. Clark, American Politician Kanye West, American Musician Ricky Williams, American Athlete Robert M. Hutchins, American Educator Tom Welling, American Actor Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA American Defender Golf Tournament Aaron Stanford, American Actor Kelli White, American Athlete Joseph Hahn, American Musician Bubba Sparxxx, American Musician Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship Pam Higgins wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic Randy Moss, American Athlete Mike Shinoda, American Musician Gavin DeGraw, American Musician Shakira, born in Barranquilla, Columbia, singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, Latin American musical prodigy Anais Nin, Cuban/American writer (Delta of Venus), dies at 73 Carroll Quigley, American Writer 1976 Death Richard J. Daley, American Politician 1976 Birthday Colleen Haskell, American Celebrity Walter Piston, American Composer 1976 Event American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature Desmond Harrington, American Actor Seann William Scott, American Actor Shannon Elizabeth, American Actress Oliver Hudson, American Actor Shar Jackson, American Actress Scott Caan, American Actor Josh Schwartz, American Producer Jon Crosby, American Musician 1st U.S. football club in Austria forms (FAAFC-1st Austrian American) Minor White, American Photographer J. Paul Getty, American Businessman Sue Roberts wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic Samuel E. Morison, American Historian Dave Willis, American Actor Susan Ward, American Model Candace Cameron, American Actress Peyton Manning, American Athlete Reese Witherspoon, American Actress Chester Bennington, American Musician Brittany Daniel, American Actress Danny Masterson, American Actor Lee J. Cobb, American Actor Buddy Rice, American Celebrity David Mamet's "American Buffalo," premieres in New York City Charles Reznikoff, American Poet 1975 Birthday Rob Mariano, American Celebrity Trish Stratus, American Entertainer 1975 Death Thornton Wilder, American Novelist Travis Barker, American Musician Tara Reid, born in Wyckoff, New Jersey, actress, appeared in films, 'American Pie', 'Urban Legend', 'The Big Lebowski', 'Josie and the Pussycats' Edward Lawrie Tatum, American Scientist Bo Bice, American Musician Patrick McHenry, American Politician Marion Jones, American Athlete Casey Affleck, American Actor Carolyn Murphy, American Model Anthony McAuliffe, American Soldier James Blish, American Author Curtis Jackson, American Musician Joshua Leonard, American Actor Andre Benjamin, American Musician 1975 Event Joanne Carner wins LPGA American DefenderGolf Classic Johnny Galecki, born in Bree, Belgium, actor, American Dreamer, David-Roseanne Zach Braff, American Actor Eva Longoria, American Actress 2nd American Music Awards Wes Borland, American Musician Kim Mathers, American Celebrity Bradley Cooper, American Actor 1974 Birthday Ryan Seacrest, American Entertainer Heather Donahue, American Actress Giovanni Ribisi, American Actor Meg White, American Musician Chloe Sevigny, American Actress Nelly, also known as Cornell Haynes, Jr., American Musician Joaquin Phoenix, American Actor 1974 Death Luther H. Hodges, American Politician 1974 Event Clarence Jones of Kintetsu Buffaloes hits his 38th home run, 1st American to win a Japanese home run title Harmony Korine, American Director Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-European American Golf Open Dizzy Dean, American Athlete Earl Warren, American Judge Brande Roderick, American Model Jason Mewes, American Actor Ahmed Best, American Actor Aaron McGruder, American Artist Ken Jennings, American Celebrity Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic Frederick Kelly, American Athlete Derek Luke, American Actor American Boccaccio Association forms Marston Bates, American Scientist Alyson Hannigan, born in Washington, D.C., actress, known for television series, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', appeared in 'American Pie' films Beanie Sigel, American Musician Matt Robinson, American Actor Chad Hugo, American Musician Seth Green, American Actor Ed Helms, American Comedian ABC airs final episode of "Love, American Style" 1973 Birthday Jason Behr, American Actor 1973 Event American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness Mos Def, also known as Dante Terrel Smith, American Musician Holly Marie Combs, American Actress Dana Snyder, American Actor Nick Lachey, American Musician OLADE (Latin American Energy Organization) forms Seth MacFarlane, American Cartoonist 1973 Death Margaret Anderson, American Editor "We're An American Band" by Grand Funk peaks at #1 Bridgette Wilson, American Actress James Marsden, American Actor Mike Storen becomes American Basketball Association's 4th commissioner Rose McGowan, American Actress Alexandra Kerry, American Actress Jennifer Wilbanks, American Celebrity Dave Chappelle, American Comedian Monica Lewinsky, American Celebrity Nomar Garciaparra, American Athlete Omar Epps, American Actor Tim Ryan, American Politician Laurens Hammond, American Inventor Gretchen Wilson, American Musician "American Graffiti" opens in New York City Faith Evans, American Musician Jeanette Rankin, American Politician Joshua Homme, American Musician Tori Spelling, American Actress Judy Rankin wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic Elisabeth Rohm, American Actress Jennifer Esposito, American Actress Pharrell Williams, American Musician Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota Members of American Indian Movement begin occupation of Wounded Knee Justin Sane, American Musician Drew Curtis, American Businessman Lyndon B. Johnson, American President American League adopts designated hitter rule 1972 Death Joseph Cornell, American Sculptor Harry S. Truman, American President 1972 Birthday Tre Cool, American Musician Josh Duhamel, American Actor Ezra Pound, American Poet Gabrielle Union, American Actress Brad Paisley, American Musician Wyclef Jean, American Musician 1972 Event American Museum of Immigration dedicated Michael Landes, actor, American Summer Chris Tucker, American Actor Don Byas, American Musician Oscar Levant, actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life), dies at 65 Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam Angie Harmon, American Model Maya Rudolph, American Actress Allen J. Ellender, American Politician Scott Foley, American Actor Michael Rosenbaum, American Actor Chuck Klosterman, American Critic Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history Selma Blair, American Actress Brian McBride, American Athlete Robin Tunney, American Actress Saul Alinsky, American Activist Wayne Brady, American Comedian Frank Tashlin, American Artist J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant Dwayne Johnson, American Athlete Julie Benz, American Actress Jorge Garcia, American Actor Jennifer Garner, American Actress Frank H Knight, American Economist C. W. Ceram, Kurt Marek, German/U.S. writer (1st American), dies at 57 James F. Byrnes, American Politician Mark Hoppus, American Musician Rory Cochrane, American Actor Bo Bennett, American Businessman Ajay Naidu, American Actor Julian H Steward, U.S. anthropologist (South American), dies at 70 Natalie Clifford Barney, American Author Amanda Peet, American Actress Taye Diggs, American Actor 1971 Event Don McLean's 8+ minute version of "American Pie" released 1971 Birthday Harry Knowles, American Critic 1971 Death Ralph Bunche, American Diplomat Angelica Bridges, American Actress Big Punisher, also known as Big Pun and Christopher Rios, American Musician Corin Nemec, American Actor Richard L. Evans, American Clergyman Snoop Dogg, American Musician Chris Kirkpatrick, American Musician Billy Bush, American Entertainer Dean Acheson, American Statesman Norman Cota, American Soldier Hugo Black, American Judge Sanaa Lathan, American Actress Jada Pinkett Smith, American Actress Rick Yune, American Actor 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research Allison Krauss, American Musician Monica Potter, American Actress Mary Lynn Rajskub, American Actress Josh Lucas, American Actor Bobby Jindal, American Politician Leo Burnett, American Businessman Ben Pollack, American Musician Tony Stewart, American Celebrity Marc Andreessen, American Businessman Selena, born Selena Quintanilla-Perez, born in Lake Jackson, Texas, Mexican American singer, called 'The Queen of Tejano music', released first album at age 12 Nicholas Brendon, American Actor Joe Valachi, American Celebrity Method Man, American Musician Whitney M. Young, American Activist Matthew Vaughn, American Producer American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in NY Alex Chiu, American Businessman William Griffith Wilson, American Celebrity John Wozniak, American Musician Kid Rock, born in Romeo, Michigan, singer, songwriter, Grammy-Award winner, hits include, 'All Summer Long', 'American Bad Ass', sold over 22 million albums Joey Lauren Adams, American Actress 1970 Birthday Will Oldham, American Musician Sean Patrick Thomas, American Actor 1970 Event North American Soccer League awards New York and Toronto franchises Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, American Politician Sarah Silverman, American Comedian Mike Epps, American Comedian 1970 Death Napoleon Hill, American Writer Napolean Hill, American Author Morgan Spurlock, American Director Puff Daddy, American Musician Richard Cardinal Cushing, American Clergyman Adam Goldberg, American Actor Chely Wright, American Musician American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Michelle Malkin, American Writer Chris Kattan, American Comedian Amy Jo Johnson, American Actress New American Bible published Dean Ween, American Musician Neko Case, American Musician Latrell Sprewell, American Athlete Debbie Gibson, American Musician Bill Roth, born in Yonkers, New York, gymnast, Gold Medal 1995 Pan American, 1996 Olympics Fred Durst, American Musician Anthony Anderson, American Actor Thomas Lennon, American Actor M. Night Shyamalan, American Director Charisma Carpenter, American Actress Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio Barnett Newman, American Artist Amy Weber, American Actress Yancy Butler, American Actress Steve Burton, American Actor Paul Thomas Anderson, American Director Sean Hayes, American Actor Cobi Jones, American Athlete Leah Remini, American Actress Lonnie Johnson, American Musician Jamie Kennedy, American Actor Joseph Wood Krutch, American Environmentalist Jordan Knight, American Musician Michael Patrick Jann, American Actor Samantha Mathis, American Actress Gina Philips, American Actress "Long and Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release Debra Wilson, American Comedian Richard Neutra, American Architect Wesley Barnett, born in St. Joseph, Missouri, Olympic weightlifter, Silver medal 1987 Pan American Anna Louise Strong, American Journalist John Frusciante, American Musician Julie Bowen, American Actress American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747 Jackson 5 make TV debut on American Bandstand Paul Ryan, American Politician George M. Humphrey, American Lawyer George Humphrey, American Lawyer David O. McKay, American Clergyman Zack de la Rocha, American Musician Charles Olson, American Poet Dave Eggers, American Writer Julie Chen, American Journalist 1969 Birthday Sarah Vowell, American Author Jakob Dylan, American Musician Jay Z, also known as Shawn Corey Carter, American Musician Duncan Sheik, American Musician Ben Harper, American Musician John Edward, American Entertainer Paige Davis, American Actress Nancy Kerrigan, American Athlete 1969 Event "Love American Style," premieres on ABC-TV Marc Anthony, American Musician France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912) Donnie Wahlberg, American Actor David Wain, American Writer 1969 Death Charles Edison, American Businessman Josh Holloway, American Actor Lisa Nicole Carson, American Actress Gale Harold, American Actor Michael Gerber, American Writer John L. Lewis, American Leader Brian McKnight, American Musician Cathy McMorris, American Politician Tucker Carlson, American Journalist David Boreanaz, American Actor Kim Fields, American Actress Wes Anderson, American Writer Jack Black, American Actor Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President Max Eastman, American Author Jonah Goldberg, American Celebrity Terrence Howard, American Actor Joshua Micah Marshall, American Politician Darren Aronofsky, American Director Thomas Jane, American Actor Allen Dulles, American Public Servant Mo Rocca, American Writer Jason Bateman, American Actor 1968 Death Weegee, also known as Arthur Fellig, American Photographer Kenneth Scott Latourette, American Historian Bob Bartlett, American Politician 1968 Birthday Kathleen Hanna, American Musician Rose Wilder Lane, American Journalist Rodney Carrington, American Comedian Emily Procter, American Actress Francis Biddle, American Lawyer Jim Caviezel, American Celebrity James Caviezel, American Actor Kristin Chenoweth, American Actress Bobby Sheehan, American Musician Robert Kennedy, American Politician Ron Livingston, American Actor Rachel Griffiths, American Actress Margaret Young, American Musician Daisy Berkowitz, American Musician Curtis Jones, American Musician Edna Ferber, author (American Beauty), dies at 78 Orlando Jones, American Comedian Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader Aaron Eckhart, American Actor Johnny Kelly, American Musician Neal Cassady, American Writer Lisa Marie Presley, American Musician Trevor Dunn, American Musician Edward Burns, American Actor 1967 Birthday Chris Ware, American Artist Gary Allan, American Musician 1967 Death Francis Joseph Spellman, American Clergyman Mark Ruffalo, American Actor Jimmy Kimmel, American Celebrity Courtney Thorne Smith, American Actress 1967 Event Edward Brooke, born in Washington, D.C, Senator-R-Massachusetts 1967 - 1979, first African American to be elected to the Senate Keith Urban, American Musician Artur Davis, American Politician Maria Bartiromo, American Journalist Ad Reinhardt, American Artist Jeff Tweedy, American Musician George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated Esther Forbes, American Author Philip Seymour Hoffman, American Actor Carl Sandberg, American Poet Adam Savage, American Entertainer Patrick J. Kennedy, American Politician Ethel Percy Andrus, educator and founder of AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons , dies Bruce Barton, American Author Mia Sara, American Actress John Yoo, American Educator Dave Navarro, American Musician Paul Giamatti, American Actor Anderson Cooper, American Journalist Billy Strayhorn, American Composer Poppy Z. Brite, American Author Charlie Hunter, American Musician Langston Hughes, American Poet Jane Clayson, American Journalist Maria Bello, American Actress John Coltrane, American Musician Liz Phair, American Musician Matthew Barney, American Artist Brad Carson, American Lawyer George Eads, American Actor Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up A. J. Muste, American Activist Formation of American Basketball Association is announced Meg Cabot, American Author Zakk Wylde, American Musician 1966 Birthday Bill Goldberg, American Athlete Sarah Zettel, American Author Rachel True, American Actress 1966 Event Edward Brooke, Representative-R-Massachusetts 1967 - 1979, becomes 1st African American elected to Senate Matt Drudge, American Celebrity, author of "The Drudge Report" Bai Ling, born in Chengdu, China, American actress, appeared in films, 'The Crow', 'The Beautiful Country', 'Shanghai Baby' Sherman Alexie, born in Wellpinit, Washington, writer, filmmaker, Native American, known for book, 'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven', and 'Smoke Signals' film Doug E. Fresh, American Musician Ben Folds, American Musician Lee Ann Womack, American Musician Jimmy Wales, American Businessman Kristin Hersh, American Musician 1966 Death Montgomery Clift, American Actor Dan Lipinski, American Politician Dan Abrams, American Journalist Kamal Ahmed, American Comedian Louis A. Johnson, American Public Servant Craig Kelly, American Athlete Tone Loc, American Musician Chester W. Nimitz, American Soldier Alfred P. Sloan, American Businessman Antoine Fuqua, American Director Rob Zombie, American Musician 1965 Death Branch Rickey, American baseball player, manager, and general manager 1965 Birthday Michael Diamond, also known as Mike D, American Musician Katharine Anthony, American Writer Henry A. Wallace, American Vice President Dawn Powell, American Writer Randall Jarrell, American Poet Dorothea Lange, American Photographer Cindy Margolis, American Model Kyle Chandler, American Actor Claudia Christian, American Actress Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician David O. Selznick, American Producer Joseph Auslander, American Poet Bernard Baruch, American Businessman Rick Larsen, American Politician 1965 Event Sonny and Cher make their 1st TV appearance, "American Bandstand" Mike Gordon, American Musician John C. Reilly, American Actor Chris A. Bridges, American Author Krist Novoselic, American Musician Edward R. Murrow, American Journalist Eric Avery, American Musician Suge Knight, American Producer Jeff Zucker, American Businessman Mike McCready, American Musician Jill Goodacre, American Model Kiana Tom, American Model Billy Sherwood, American Musician Kevin Williamson, American Author Carrot Top, Florida, comedian, American Comedy Award-1994 Felix Frankfurter, American Judge Malcom X, American Clergyman Jon Fishman, American Musician Michael Bay, American Director Jam Master Jay, American Musician Adam Jones, American Musician Slick Rick, American Musician Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History Milton Avery, American Artist 1964 Death Carl Van Vechten, American Writer Victor Francis Hess, American Physicist 1964 Event American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded 1964 Birthday Bobby Flay, American Celebrity Patrick Warburton, American Actor Calista Flockhart, American Actress Douglas Wilson, American Entertainer Dan Savage, American Writer Matthew Sweet, American Musician Stephan Jenkins, American Musician Molly Shannon, American Actress Alfred Blalock, American Inventor Tavis Smiley, American Author Anthony Weiner, American Politician Anthony D. Weiner, American Politician William Eardley, IV, American Public Servant Tom Walsh, American Celebrity Vivica Fox, American Actress Eric Dolphy, American Musician Dan Brown, American Author Laura Kightlinger, American Comedian Kerry King, American Musician Wynonna Judd, Ashland, Kentucky, American Musician, Judds-Why Not Me Stephen Colbert, born in Washington D.C., American Comedian Melissa Gilbert, American Actress Margaret Haddix, American Author Raye Hollit, American Gladiator, Zap Lisa Guerrero, American Journalist David Cross, American Actor Todd Barry, American Comedian Annabella Sciorra, American Actress Cheryl James, American Musician Wanda Sykes, American Comedian Glenn Beck, American Journalist GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy Fareed Zakaria, American Journalist Shepard Smith, American Journalist Penelope Ann Miller, American Actress 1963 Death A. J. Liebling, American journalist and writer, dies 1963 Birthday Sam Graves, American Politician Philip Greenspun, American Scientist Randy Johnson, American Athlete 1963 Event American Bandstand moves to California, and airs once a week on Saturday Malcolm Gladwell, American Journalist Eric Johnston, American Businessman Charles Seymour, American Historian Andrew Sullivan, American Journalist Kevin Mitnick, American Celebrity Alexandra Paul, born in New York City, actress, Christine, American Flyers, Dragnet Edie Falco, American Actress American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes Wesley Willis, American Musician Page McConnell, American Musician Aiden Wilson Tozer, American Clergyman Alessandra Ferri, British ballerina, American Ballet Theater 1st American, James Whittaker, conquers Mount Everest Alfred Whitney Griswold, American historian and educator, President of Yale 1951 - 1963, dies of colon cancer Conan O'Brien, American Entertainer Joe Scarborough, American Politician Marc Jacobs, American Designer Michael Schiavo, American Celebrity Michael K. Powell, American Politician Neil LaBute, American Director Ron Kind, American Politician Nancy O'Dell, American Celebrity Billy Baldwin, American Designer Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer Brian Greene, American Physicist Robert Frost, American Poet James Denton, American Actor Laura Ingraham, American Celebrity 1962 Event American Basketball League announces suspension of operation 1962 Birthday Jeff Flake, American Politician 1962 Death Warren R. Austin, American Politician Richard Jewell, American Celebrity Victoria Gotti, American Celebrity Steven Curtis Chapman, American Musician Dennis Chavez, American Politician Laura San Giacomo, American Actress American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature Mike Judge, American Producer Aida Turturro, American Actress Rebecca Miller, American Director Elizabeth Vargas, American Journalist e. e. cummings, American Poet Marie Laurie Mahabir, Guadeloupe, North American Bodybuilding Champ, 1985-87 James Marsters, American Actor Tammy Bruce, American Author Kool Moe Dee, American Musician Alton Brown, American Entertainer Bob Schaffer, American Politician Jack Irons, American Musician Tom Kenny, American Actor Owen D. Young, American Businessman William Faulkner, American Novelist "All American" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 80 performances E. Franklin Frazier, American Sociologist Franz Kline, American Artist David Fincher, American Director Kevin J. Anderson, American Writer Stephen Sommers, American Director "All American" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 80 performances Arthur H. Compton, American Scientist Arthur Holly Compton, American Scientist American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay New York killing 95 Chris Chocola, American Politician John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth in Friendship 7 Jackie Silva, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, volleyballer, Bronze Pan American Tammy Baldwin, American Politician Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA Lee Terry, American Politician Melissa Bean, American Politician Rob Glaser, American Businessman Peter Steele, American Musician April Winchell, American Actress 1961 Birthday Sean Hannity, American Writer Eric Allin Cornell, American Physicist 1961 Event American Basketball League starts play Mary Bono, American Politician Rick Moody, American Novelist Isaac Mizrahi, American Designer Tom Sizemore, American Actor 1961 Death Charles Erwin Wilson, American Businessman Eric Stoltz, American Samoa, actor, Mask Dee Dee Myers, American Public Servant Mike Ross, American Politician J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a U.S. District Court Tom Ford, American Designer Learned Hand, American Judge Susan Olsen, American Actress Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open Keith Sweat, American Musician Carl Lewis, born in Birmingham, Alabama, American Athlete Ma Ferguson, American Politician Kim Deal, American Musician Aaron Sorkin, American Producer Tom Araya, American Musician Lawrence Lessig, American Educator Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7) George Lopez, American Comedian American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight John Podhoretz, American Writer Vincent Gallo, American Actor Amy Sedaris, American Actress B. Carroll Reece, American Politician Mitch Gaylord, born in California, gymnast, Olympics 1984, actor, American Anthem Camryn Manheim, American Actress Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist Wendy Liebman, born in Manhasset, New York, comedian, performs stand up comedy, American Comedy Award for Female Stand-up Comedian of the Year, 1997, appeared on HBO, The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Tonight Show Gresham Barrett, American Politician Vince Neil, American Musician Dexter Scott King, American Actor Edward Albee's "American Dream," premieres in New York City Wayne Coyne, American Musician Janet Jones, Bridgeton, Missouri, actress, American Anthem, Flamingo Kid Bill Shuster, American Politician Clarice Baright, 1st woman admitted to American Bar Association, dies at 74 1960 Birthday Heather Wilson, American Politician Dave Pelzer, American Writer 1960 Event Washington Senators joins American League Matthew Shipp, American Musician Timothy Pawlenty, American Politician Peter G. Fitzgerald, American Politician Ari Fleischer, American Public Servant Blanche Lincoln, American Politician Melissa Leo, American Actress Alison Bechdel, American Cartoonist 4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10) Aimee Mann, American Musician 1960 Death Edith Rogers, American Politician Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open Richard Linklater, American Director Adam Schiff, American Politician Charlie Dent, American Politician John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American Businessman Steve Cauthen, American Athlete American Samoa sets up a constitutional government Brad Garrett, American Actor Afrika Bambaataa, American Musician Jon Huntsman, Jr., American Politician Catherine Keener, American Actress Jim Matheson, American Politician Lance Burton, American Entertainer Joel Hodgson, American Entertainer Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist Eric Alterman, American Writer Stanley Tucci, American Actor Michael R. Turner, American Politician Loretta Sanchez, American Politician Andrea Thompson, American Actress Dudley Nichols, American Screenwriter 1959 Birthday Patricia Clarkson, American Actress Michael P. Anderson, American Astronaut 1959 Death William Cameron Forbes, American Diplomat Donna Brazile, American Politician Rahm Emanuel, American Politician Allison Janney, born in Dayton, Ohio, actress, films include, 'American Beauty', 'Nurse Betty', known for television show 'The West Wing' Jo Bonner, American Politician Lee Haney, American Athlete George Marshall, American Statesman George C. Marshall, American Soldier Emeril Lagasse, American Celebrity Julia Sweeney, American Comedian Michael Pare, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Greatest American Hero, Houston Knights Simon Cowell, born in Brighton, England, entrepreneur, producer of television shows, 'Britain's Got Talent', 'American Idol', owner of publishing house, Syco Brian Higgins, American Politician Abraham Flexner, American Educator Mark Kirk, American Politician Ben Chandler, American Politician Jack Norworth, American Musician William Halsey, American Soldier Jonathan Franzen, American Novelist Marcia Gay Harden, American Actress Stanley Jordan, American Musician William D. Leahy, American Soldier Scott Garrett, American Politician Jessica Hahn, American Celebrity Vincent D'Onofrio, American Actor Brian Roberts, American Businessman 1959 Event Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open Eliot Spitzer, American Lawyer Mike Pence, American Politician Ving Rhames, American Actor Brian Williams, American Journalist Raymond Chandler, American Writer Flavor Flav, American Musician Lester Young, American Musician Lester Dent, American Writer Ira Glass, American Journalist Jennifer M. Granholm, American Politician Jennifer Granholm, American Politician Armstrong Williams, American Journalist American Airlines Electra crashes in New York's East River, killing 65 Mike Tice, American Coach Frank Darabont, American Director Keith Olbermann, American Journalist 1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to New York for $301) Cecil B. DeMille, American Producer Clancy Brown, American Actor 1958 Birthday George Saunders, American Writer Candace Bushnell, American Writer 1958 Death Charles Kettering, American Inventor Warner Fabian, S Adams, U.S. author (Great American Fraud), dies at 87 Megan Mullally, American Actress Robert Patrick, American Actor Charlie Kaufman, American Screenwriter Geoff Davis, American Politician Hilary Rosen, American Businessman Neil Cavuto, American Journalist Dan Castellaneta, American Actor Ernest Lawrence, American Scientist Mary Ritter Beard, American historian, dies at 82 Mark Cuban, American Businessman 1958 Event Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open Bela Fleck, American Musician Bill Watterson, American Cartoonist Bruce Campbell, American Actor Herbert Bayard Swope, American Editor Bobby Farrelly, American Director Mac Thornberry, American Politician Meredith Brooks, American Musician Keenen Ivory Wayans, American Comedian Prince, American Musician Annette Bening, born in Topeka, Kansas, actress, films include, 'American Beauty', 'Bugsy', 'The Grifters', married to actor, Warren Beatty Ted Levine, American Actor Tom Feeney, American Athlete Ron Reagan, American Journalist U.S. and Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist Elliot Paul, American Journalist William Christopher Handy, American Musician Susie Bright, American Writer Recording Industry Association of American created Jack Abramoff, American Criminal Cecily Adams, Queens, New York, entertainment caster, American Heart Rick Reilly, American Writer Thomas Kinkade, American Artist Edward Weston, American Photographer 1957 Birthday Margaret Spellings, American Public Servant Michael Clarke Duncan, American Actor Andrew Cuomo, American Politician Eric S. Raymond, American Author Janet Napolitano, American Politician Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, American Celebrity Robert. L. Ehrlich, American Politician Bob Ehrlich, American Politician 1957 Event Simon and Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom and Jerry" 1957 Death Louis B. Mayer, American Director Jeff East, born in Kansas, Missouri, American actor, best-known for role of Clark Kent in 1978 film "Superman" Nancy Cartwright, American Actress "American Bandstand" premieres Michael W. Smith, American Musician Bernie Mac, born in Chicago, American actor, comedian, sketch writer Russell Simmons, American Businessman Khandi Alexander, American Dancer Laura Innes, American Actress Nancy Glass, TV broadcaster, American Journal James McGreevey, American Politician "American Bandstand," begins network TV (ABC) Mojo Nixon, American Musician Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7) Cindy Sheehan, American Activist Jerry Weller, American Politician Berkeley Breathed, American Cartoonist Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan John Rowland, American Politician Lisa Murkowski, American Politician Eliot Ness, American Public Servant Katherine Harris, American Politician Christopher Morley, American Author Tad Williams, American Writer Cheryl Lynn, American Musician Renee Fleming, American Musician Julia Morgan, American Architect Gilbert Hernandez, American Artist Steve Harvey, American Actor Greg Walden, American Politician Nicholson Baker, American Novelist 1956 Birthday Karen Hughes, American Politician Peter Farrelly, American Director Rod Blagojevich, American Politician Chaka Fattah, American Politician Jim Hodges, American Politician 1956 Event 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole - Rear Admiral G. J. Dufek Rita Wilson, American Actress Marvin Bush, American Celebrity Grover Norquist, American Politician James Newman, American Astronaut 1956 Death Charles E. Merrill, American Businessman Mark Morris, American Dancer GG Allin, American Musician Alfred Kinsey, American Scientist Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Golf Open Carol Leifer, American Comedian Michael Connelly, American Author Jerry Doyle, American Actor Tom McClintock, American Politician Dick Clark's 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand Bill Caudill, born in Santa Monica, California, nickname 'Cuffs', baseball player, pitcher, played for American and National League teams, including, Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist Patricia Cornwell, American Writer Keith David, American Actor Sugar Ray Leonard, American Athlete David Guterson, American Author Phil Foglio, American Cartoonist Alben W. Barkley, American Vice President Charles MacArthur, American Playwright Christopher Darden, American Lawyer David E. Kelley, American Producer Steve Ballmer, American Businessman Laura Thorne, chef, named one of 10 best American chefs Teena Marie, American Musician Elsie Janis, American Musician Emo Philips, American Comedian H. L. Mencken, American Writer Jim Elliot, American Clergyman 1955 Birthday Jane Kaczmarek, American Actress Rob Portman, American Politician Xander Berkeley, American Actor Carter Burwell, American Composer Kevin Shelley, American Politician 1955 Death Robert E. Sherwood, American Playwright Bill Condon, American Director Thomas Keller, American Celebrity Darrell Hammond, American Comedian Yo-Yo Ma, American Musician Gwen Ifill, American Journalist Brian Schweitzer, American Politician Bernard Kerik, American Public Servant John Sweeney, American Politician Wayne Knight, American Actor Alberto Gonzales, American Public Servant Thomas Leonard, American Businessman Brent Bozell, American Journalist Lindsey Graham, American Politician Glenn Danzig, American Musician George Radanovich, American Politician Griffin Dunne, actor, American Werewolf in London, Who's That Girl Joey Scarbury, born in Ontario, California, singer, Greatest American Hero Jake Roberts, American Celebrity Jon Porter, American Politician Tom Bergeron, American Celebrity Dave Winer, American Scientist Barbara Kingsolver, American Novelist David Wu, American Politician Stephen F. Lynch, American Politician Matthew Henson, American Explorer Jim Gerlach, American Politician Jim Cramer, American Businessman Ira Hayes, American Soldier Neil Bush, American Businessman Yves Tanguy, French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies 1954 Birthday Lawrence Summers, American Economist Condoleezza Rice, American Statesman Scott McNealy, American Businessman Chris Noth, American Actor Jeff Sachs, American Economist Mike McCurry, American Public Servant Stephen Carter, American Lawyer 1954 Death Robert H. Jackson, American Statesman Al Sharpton, born in Brooklyn, New York, African American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, 2004 candidate for President, host of 'Keepin' It Real' radio show Jeffrey Combs, American Actor Mark Foley, American Politician Carly Fiorina, American Businessman Pat Metheny, American Musician Sam J. Jones, American Actor Michael Badnarik, American Politician Al Dimeola, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, rocker, guitarist, Latin jazz and Italian American jazz fusion Tobias Picker, born in New York City, New York, composer, awarded Joseph H. Bearns Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Award in Music from American Academy of Arts and Letters, composer-in-residence for Houston Symphony, 1985 - 1990, music publisher, Schott Music Corporation J. Michael Straczynski, American Producer Grantland Rice, American Journalist Betty McCollum, American Politician Neil Tennant, American Musician Bob Ney, American Politician Jerry Moran, American Politician Robert Capa, American Photographer Marvin Hagler, American Athlete Candice S. Miller, American Politician Randy Cross, American Athlete 1954 Event 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina Michael Moore, American Activist Gale Norton, American Public Servant Ron Howard, Oklahoma, actor and director, American Graffiti, Happy Days Neil Schon, American Musician Frederick Lewis Allen, American Editor Michael Bergdahl, American Author Maxwell Bodenheim, American Poet Cliff Martinez, American Musician Bill Mumy, American Actor Cindy Sherman, American Photographer Robert Menendez, American Politician 1953 Event American Airlines begins 1st regular coml NY-LA air service 1953 Birthday Frances Conroy, American Actress Joyce Maynard, American Writer Charles Martin Smith, Van Nuys California, actor, American Graffiti Steven Hatfill, American Scientist Tito Jackson, American Musician 1953 Death Edwin Powell Hubble, American Scientist Tommy Shaw, American Musician Frederick M. Vinson, American Judge John Zorn, American Composer Mary Matalin, American Celebrity John Salazar, American Politician Thomas Friedman, American Journalist Douglas Feith, American Public Servant Anna Quindlen, American author, journalist, and New York Times columnist Billy Hinsche, born in Manila, Philippines, William 'Billy' Hinsche, American musician, rocker, member of Dino, Desi, and Billy singing group, toured with The Beach Boys George Herbert Walker, American Businessman Baron Hill, American Politician Cornel West, American Educator Janis Karpinski, American Soldier Kim Gordon, American Musician Andy Hertzfeld, American Inventor Frank Gaffney, American Writer Lincoln Chafee, American Politician Carl Hiaasen, American Writer American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches Robert M. La Follette, American Politician William Petersen, American Actor Roberta Williams, American Designer Carl Joseph Stone, born in America, composer, electronic music genre, minimalist, studied composition at California Institute of the Arts, served as President of the American Music Center Rick Wagoner, American Businessman NFL's National and American conference become Eastern and Western conf Antonio Villaraigosa, American Politician Jim Jarmusch, American Director Steve Chabot, American Politician NFL Pro Bowl: National Conference beats American Conference 27-7 1952 Birthday Bill Kristol, American Politician Susan Estrich, American Journalist John Lurie, American Actor Cathy Rigby, American Athlete Susan Dey, American Actress Rick Ross, American Celebrity 1952 Event North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH Robin McKinley, American Writer Ernie Fletcher, American Politician Michael Cunningham, American Writer Chris Cox, American Politician John Lone, American Actor Jim Woodring, American Artist "I am an American Day" and "Constitution Day" renamed "Citizenship Day" Don Was, American Musician Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Women Golf Tournament Philip E. Berger, American Politician Johnny Thunders, American Musician A. Whitney Brown, American Comedian Robert D. Kaplan, American Journalist James H. Douglas, American Politician Spencer Abraham, American Politician Matthew Bright, American Director Diane Duane, American Writer American Bowling Congress approves use of an automatic pinsetter Larry Elder, American Journalist Jim Costa, American Politician Clayton Christensen, American Businessman Kim Stanley Robinson, American Writer 24th Academy Awards - "American in Paris," H Bogart and Vivian Leigh win Harvey Weinstein, American Producer 1952 Death Howard Chandler Christy, American Artist Randy Forbes, American Politician Mike Varty, born in Detroit, Michigan, athlete, American football linebacker for the National Football League John Hickenlooper, American Politician Timothy White, American Critic Curly Howard, American Actor Sydney Biddle Barrows, American Celebrity NFL Pro Bowl: National Conference beats American Conference 30-13 Walter Mosley, American Novelist Ben Crenshaw, American Athlete Charles F. Bass, American Politician Charles Foster Bass, American Politician 1951 Death Harold Ross, American Editor Shoeless Joe Jackson, American Athlete 1951 Birthday Kathryn Bigelow, American Director Terry McMillan, American Author 1951 Event Organization of Central American States forms John Tierney, American Politician Bill Klem, American Athlete Albert Wynn, American Politician John French Sloan, American Artist Edward Witten, American Mathematician Greg Bear, American Writer Emmet Fox, American Author Anthony A. Williams, American Politician Rob Bishop, American Politician James Norman Hall, American Author John Doerr, American Businessman John Salthouse, British actor, American Werewolf in London Todd Tiahrt, American Politician Liz Phillips, born in New Jersey, composer, sound artist, interactive artist, creates sound installations relating to live forms, has held exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, collaborated with Merce Cunningham Dance Company Bun E. Carlos, born in Rockford, Illinois, born Brad Carlson, rocker, drummer, played with American rock band Cheap Trick Sally Ride, born in Encino, California, physicist, astronaut, first American woman crewmember in space on the Challenger, founded NASA's Office of Exploration Charles G. Dawes, American Vice President Gwen Moore, American Politician American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament John Hannah, American Athlete John Abizaid, American Soldier Michael Kinsley, American Journalist 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina) Lloyd C. Douglas, American Clergyman Charles S. Dutton, American Actor Shelley Berkley, American Politician Eugene Chadbourne, American Composer 1950 Birthday Jeffrey Katzenberg, American Producer Randy Castillo, American Musician Thomas Vilsack, American Politician 1950 Event Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize Steven Jesse Bernstein, American Writer Asa Hutchinson, American Lawyer Charles Schumer, American Politician Tina Weymouth, American Musician Harvey Martin, American Athlete 1950 Death Agnes Repplier, American essayist and writer, 'Books and Men' and 'In Pursuit of Laughter', dies Augusto Gen'un Alcalde, Buenos Aires, 1st South American Zen teacher Robert B. Laughlin, American Physicist John Doolittle, American Politician Henry L. Stimson, American Statesman Edna St. Vincent Millay, American Author Wendy Wasserstein, American Playwright Dave Freudenthal, American Politician Jo Ann Emerson, American Politician Henry Louis Gates, American Critic Mike Simpson, American Politician Michael K. Simpson, American Politician 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines John Landis, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, American Werewolf in London Dave Reichert, American Politician Andres Serrano, American Photographer American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule Mark Udall, American Politician Arianna Huffington, American Journalist Jo Ann Davis, American Politician Mercedes Lackey, American Author Mike Johanns, American Politician Marvin Olasky, American Educator George Noory, American Journalist Tim Bishop, American Politician Tim Russert, born in New York, American television journalist, author, lawyer, 'Meet the Press' moderator Scott McCallum, American Politician Debbie Stabenow, American Politician Bainbridge Colby, American Public Servant Carter G Woodson, American historian (black studies), dies at 74 Carter G. Woodson, American Historian Michael F. Easley, American Politician Charles Krauthammer, American Journalist Edgar Lee Masters, American Poet George Richards Minot, American Scientist George Thorogood, American Musician Julius Irving, born in Roosevelt, New York, basketball, helped legitimize the now-defunct American Basketball Association (ABA), inducted in the Basketball Hall of Fame William Katt, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Greatest American Hero, 1st Love Rich Glover, born in Bayonne, New Jersey, athlete, American football player, played in the NFL's New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles Barry Pearson, born in Geneseo, Illinois, born Barry Lynn Pearson, American professional football player, attended Northwestern University, played position of wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs Tom Brown, Jr., American Celebrity Gennifer Flowers, American Celebrity Gary Locke, American Politician Sheila Jackson Lee, American Politician Roy Blunt, American Politician Louis Freeh, American Lawyer 1949 Death Hervey Allen, American Author 1949 Birthday Tom Kite, American Athlete Robert Sternberg, American Educator Jerry Lawler, American Entertainer Linda Tripp, American Celebrity Jeff Dowd, American Actor Joseph C. Wilson, American Public Servant Lois McMaster Bujold, American Writer Sigourney Weaver, American Actress 1949 Event American Contract Bridge League votes 58 % to keep blacks out Burton Richardson, American Entertainer Jerry Costello, American Politician Jerry B. Jenkins, American Novelist Will Cuppy, American Writer Joe Barton, American Politician Leon Redbone, American Musician Bob Holden, American Politician Norm Coleman, American Politician Jonathan Kellerman, American Psychologist Edward Thorndike, American Psychologist James Fallows, American Journalist Frank Murphy, American Politician Richard Russo, American Novelist Ann Veneman, American Public Servant Vera Wang, American Designer Chris Van Allsburg, American Author Bill Keller, American Editor Holly Near, American Musician Steve King, American Politician Jim Broadbent, American Actor Tom Cole, American Politician Christopher Hitchens, American Author Scott Turow, American Novelist Dorothy Allison, American Writer Mitch Daniels, American Politician Leigh Steinberg, American Businessman Elizabeth George, American Author Danielle Berry, American Celebrity Richard Neal, American Politician Ken Wilber, American Philosopher Peter Agre, American Scientist Jonathan Carroll, American Author Anita Borg, American Scientist Franklin Raines, American Businessman Harry Stack Sullivan, American Psychologist 1948 Birthday Les Moonves, American Businessman Lester Bangs, American Critic 1948 Death Robert Quillen, American Journalist Dick Morris, American Author John Bolton, American Statesman Howard Dean, American Politician Aaron Brown, American Journalist Max Burns, American Politician Jim Steinman, American Musician John Engler, American Politician Diane Ackerman, born in Waukegan, Illinois, American poet, author and naturalist, wrote 'Wife of Light' and 'A Natural History of Love' Allyson Schwartz, American Politician John M. McHugh, American Politician Bob Beauprez, American Politician Ted Poe, American Politician Christa McAuliffe, American Astronaut Charles A. Beard, American Historian Lewis Black, American Comedian Charles Evans Hughes, American Judge Dennis Prager, American Journalist Sally Struthers, American Actress Peggy Fleming, American Athlete D. W. Griffith, American Director John B. Larson, American Politician S. E. Hinton, American Writer John Larson, American Politician John Joseph Pershing, American Soldier Tom Latham, American Politician Phylicia Rashad, American Actress 1948 Event American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights Rufus Jones, American Writer Joe Roth, American Director Jim Wallis, American Writer Duncan Hunter, American Politician Gary McCord, American Athlete Richard H. Baker, American Politician Tom Udall, American Politician Kathleen Sebelius, American Politician Dave Heineman, American Politician Org of American States charter signed at Bogota, Colombia Paul Cellucci, American Politician Dan Simmons, American Author Steve Tyler, American Musician Wolf Blitzer, American Journalist Margaret Weis, American Writer Michael Owen Bruce, American Musician Tom Coburn, American Politician Roy Barnes, American Politician James Ellroy, American Writer Jean O'Leary, American Activist Steven Chu, American Scientist Kenneth Blackwell, American Politician Art Spiegelman, American Artist Mordecai Brown, American Athlete Ray Kurzweil, American Inventor Errol Morris, American Director Rick James, American Musician Josephus Daniels, American Politician Lynn Abbey, American Author 1947 Birthday Zoe Lofgren, American Politician Tom Daschle, American Politician Thomas R. Cech, American Scientist Lamar S. Smith, American Politician Jameson Parker, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actor, American Justice, Simon and Simon Bill Richardson, American Politician P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian Haley Barbour, American Politician John Perry Barlow, American Writer Ward Churchill, American Educator Vic Snyder, American Politician 1947 Death Fiorello LaGuardia, American Politician John Kline, American Politician Temple Grandin, American Educator Joe Manchin, American Politician Ben Shneiderman, American Scientist Carol Moseley Braun, American Politician Danielle Steel, American Novelist Rick Derringer, rocker, I am the Real American, Hulk Hogan's theme Robert M. Parker, Jr., American Critic Steve Forbes, American Businessman Alexis Herman, American Public Servant O. J. Simpson, American Athlete Todd Akin, American Politician Octavia Butler, American Writer Meredith Baxter, American Actress Candy Clark, born in Oklahoma, actress, Man Who Fell to Earth, Q, American Graffiti Linda Chavez, American Author 1947 Event Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win British Women's Amateur Golf Champ Sara Paretsky, American Author John Dykstra, American Scientist Gene Robinson, American Clergyman Karen Valentine, Santa Rosa California, actress, Love American Style, Room 222 Bob Edwards, American Journalist Al Ciner, born in Chicago, Illinois, rock guitarist, American Breed Andrew Card, American Politician Caroline B. Cooney, American Writer William Moulton Marston, American Psychologist Willa Cather, American Author Andrew Tobias, American Journalist John Thorn, American Historian Tom Clancy, American Novelist Tom DeLay, American Politician Robert Kiyosaki, American Author Christine Gregoire, American Politician James Patterson, American Author Karen McCarthy, American Politician Mitt Romney, American Politician Bob Greene, American Journalist John Stossel, American Journalist Olympia Snowe, American Politician Eliot Engel, American Politician Stephen Hadley, American Politician Roy Moore, American Judge -81 degrees F (-63 degrees C), Snag Yukon (North American record) Mark Dayton, American Politician Michio Kaku, American Scientist Thomas Carper, American Economist Joe Baca, American Politician Laura Schlessinger, American Writer Robert Martin, American Politician Mike DeWine, American Politician Jack Hanna, American Celebrity Jon Corzine, American Politician 1946 Death Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85 1946 Birthday Tim Johnson, American Politician W. C. Fields, American Comedian Jeff Sessions, American Politician Sonny Perdue, American Politician Dick Wolf, American Producer Josiah Bailey, American Politician Rodney Alexander, American Politician Barbara Cubin, American Politician Richard J. Codey, American Politician Bobby Rush, American Politician Jodi Rell, American Politician David A. Stockman, American Playwright Laura Bush, American First Lady Lynne Marta, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, actress, Love American Style Mel Martinez, American Politician Ernest Thompson Seton, American Leader Lewis Grizzard, American Writer Dennis Kucinich, American Politician John T. Walton, American Businessman Catharine MacKinnon, American Activist Lloyd Doggett, American Politician Chuck Hagel, American Politician Gifford Pinchot, American Politician Andrea Dworkin, American Critic Christine Todd Whitman, American Politician William Strunk, Jr., American Writer Christie Todd Whitman, American Politician Pete Coors, American Businessman Joe Klein, American Journalist Jerome Corsi, American Author Tom Ridge, American Politician Richard Richards, American Astronaut William J. Clinton, American President Larry Graham, American Musician Rick Boucher, American Politician Gertrude Stein, American Author Paul Schrader, director, American Gigolo, Cat People, Hardcore Steve Friedman, TV news executive/actor, American Anthem Ken Starr, American Lawyer Kenneth Starr, American Lawyer Randal Kleiser, American Director Ed Markey, American Politician 1946 Event Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint George W. Bush, two-term American president 2000-2008 Jamie Wyeth, Penn, artist, An American Vision-Boston Robert Asprin, American Author Antoinette Perry, American Actress Janice Giteck, born in Hicksville, New York, composer, influenced by world music, American Indian music, studied with Olivier Messiaen William S. Hart, American Actor Bob Vila, American Entertainer Sidney Hillman, American Activist Tony Levin, American Musician Carter Glass, American Politician Cher, American Musician Andreas Katsulas, American Actor L. Neil Smith, American Writer Gary Bauer, American Public Servant Mrs. Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of Year" Harlan Stone, American Lawyer Catfish Hunter, American Athlete Gilbert Newton Lewis, American Scientist Rudy Rucker, American Scientist Jerry Nachman, American Journalist Joseph Sobran, American Activist Harry Hopkins, American Diplomat United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor Johnny Oates, American Athlete Dolly Parton, American Musician 1945 Birthday Connie Willis, American Writer Lloyd Kaufman, American Director 1945 Death Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74 George S. Patton, American Soldier Tom Tancredo, American Politician Chris Matthews, American Journalist Stanley Crouch, American Critic Tracy Kidder, American Author Penelope Spheeris, American Director Ellen Glasgow, American Novelist Dennis Moore, American Politician Jim Doyle, American Politician Sandy Berger, American Public Servant Pat Conroy, American writer, Great Santini, Prince of Tides Don McLean, New Rochelle, New York, singer and songwriter, American Pie, Vincent Dee Dee Warwick, American Musician Robert Benchley, American Comedian Jerry Bruckheimer, American Producer Alphonso Jackson, American Public Servant Robert Greenwald, American Director Mel Watt, American Politician Vince McMahon, American Entertainer Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher Gary Loizzo, born in Chicago, Illinois, rock guitarist, American Breed Wim Wenders, West German director, American Friend, Hammett Dorothy Denning, American Public Servant Erskine Bowles, American Businessman William Weld, American Politician Bill Weld, American Politician Larry Craig, American Politician Debbie Harry, American Musician Jane Harman, American Politician Bill Luther, American Politician George Pataki, American Politician George E. Pataki, American Politician Art Bell, American Entertainer Tommy Franks, American Soldier Mercer Reynolds, American Businessman Whitley Strieber, American Writer Deborah Tannen, American Sociologist Allen Boyd, American Politician James P. Moran, American Politician Charlie Gonzalez, American Politician Annie Dillard, American writer, An American Childhood Richard Armitage, American Politician 1945 Event American planes bombed Tokyo and damaged the Imperial Palace Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President Robert A. Brady, American Politician Neal Boortz, American Journalist Michael V. Hayden, American Soldier Elizabeth Moon, American Author Curtis Hanson, American Director Bubba Smith, American Athlete Marta Kristen, American Actress Douglas Hofstadter, American Writer Bill Bergey, born in South Dayton, New York, American collegiate and professional football player, played for American Football League's Cincinnati Bengals and NFL Philadelphia Eagles Mia Farrow, American Actress Don Ohlmeyer, American Producer Margaret Deland, American Novelist Barry Lopez, American Author 1944 Birthday Kary Mullis, American Scientist 1944 Death Amy Marcy Beach, American Musician Johnny Isakson, American Politician Wesley Clark, American Soldier 1944 Event Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium Jim Gibbons, American Politician Ben Stein, American Actor Dick Durbin, American Politician Earl Monroe, American Athlete Kinky Friedman, American Musician Emanuel Cleaver, American Politician James Carville, American Lawyer Steve Crocker, American Businessman Rodney Marsh, born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, athlete, footballer, striker, player for Manchester City, Queens Park Rangers, Tampa Bay Rowdies, coached the New York United team in the American Soccer League Wendell L. Wilkie, American Lawyer George Nethercutt, American Politician Alfred Emanuel Smith, American Politician John S. Tanner, American Politician Thomas E. Mann, American Sociologist Ander Crenshaw, American Politician Charles Colbert, born in Chicago, Illinois, rocker, American Breed Tug McGraw, American Athlete 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees Larry Ellison, American Businessman Robert Mueller, American Public Servant Kenneth Tomlinson, American Editor Gary Busey, American Actor Collin C. Peterson, American Politician Whitfield Diffie, American Scientist Christopher Dodd, American Politician Armistead Maupin, American Novelist Max Brand, American Writer Richard Kline, American Actor Frank Knox, American Public Servant Sandra Dee, American Actress Bernie Worrell, American Musician Susan Davis, American Politician Jesse Brown, American Politician R. Lee Ermey, American Soldier Sirhan Sirhan, American Criminal Hendrik Willem Van Loon, American Journalist Stanley Schmidt, American Writer Charles Davenport, American Scientist Michael Oxley, American Politician Vernor Vinge, American Writer Gordon Gee, American Educator Michael Enzi, American Politician Angela Davis, American Activist Neely Bruce, born in America, composer, conductor, pianist, scholar of American music, Professor of Music and American Studies at Wesleyan University, chorus director for Connecticut Opera Jack Henry Abbott, American Author Peter Lynch, American Businessman Edward G. Rendell, American Politician Carolyn McCarthy, American Politician Ed Rendell, American Politician 1943 Birthday Paul Wolfowitz, American Celebrity 1943 Death Fats Waller, American Musician John F. Kerry, American Politician Wayne Allard, American Politician Jim Mitchell, American Director Bruce Paltrow, American Producer Jerry Kleczka, American Politician Phil Bredesen, American Politician Lauren Hutton, Mary, Charleston, South Carolina, model/actress, American Gigolo Jim Cantalupo, American Businessman Saxby Chambliss, American Politician Lee Graziano, born in Chicago, Illinois, rock drummer, American Breed Stephen Greenblatt, American Critic R. L. Stine, American Writer Oliver North, American Soldier H. Rap Brown, American Activist Robert M. Gates, American Politician Joe Morgan, American Athlete Lincoln Davis, American Politician Michael D. Barnes, American Politician Nelson DeMille, American Author William Lyon Phelps, American Educator Eni Faleomavaega, born in Vailoatai Village, American Samoa, Representative-D-American Samoa 1989 Bill Bradley, American Politician Kay Hutchison, American Politician Kay Bailey Hutchison, American Politician Thomas J. Sargent, American Economist Walter Murch, American film editor and sound deisgner Joel Siegel, born in Los Angeles, California, American film critic, television journalist Virginia Foxx, American Politician Vinton Cerf, American Inventor Brit Hume, American Journalist Jim Sensenbrenner, American Politician Joe Haldeman, American Author Sue Simmons, American Journalist David Clennon, American Actor Richard Darman, American Economist Bob Livingston, American Politician Ben Lindsey, American Judge Bobby Fischer, born in Chicago, eleventh World Chess Champion, American chess Grandmaster Jef Raskin, American Scientist Peter Straub, American Writer Sally Jessy Raphael, American Entertainer David Geffen, American Businessman Rob Simmons, American Politician Joseph E. Stiglitz, American Economist Howell Raines, American Editor Neil Bogart, American Businessman John Mica, American Politician Tobe Hooper, American Director Jim Barksdale, American Businessman Gary Burton, American Musician Jim Saxton, American Politician Kay Granger, American Politician Jim Hightower, American Activist Arthur Guiterman, American Comedian Doris Kearns Goodwin, American Historian Richard Ben-Veniste, American Lawyer 1942 Birthday Thomas Menino, American Politician Gray Davis, American Politician Bob Hayes, American Athlete Dennis Conner, American Athlete Donald L. Carcieri, American Politician Dick Murphy, American Politician Kathleen Blanco, American Politician Anna Eshoo, American Politician Eric Shinseki, American Soldier Gary Ackerman, American Politician Barry McCaffrey, American Soldier 1942 Death George M. Cohan, American Actor John Spratt, American Politician Jim Rogers, American Businessman James A. Leach, American Politician Paul Weyrich, American Critic Bernice Johnson Reagon, American Musician Bill Nelson, American Politician Donna Leon, American Author Nathan Deal, American Politician Max Cleland, American Politician Alice Duer Miller, American Poet 1942 Event 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is John F. Lehman, Jr., American Businessman 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II) 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast) Joan Van Ark, American Actress Byron Dorgan, American Politician Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River John Ashcroft, American Public Servant John Kyl, American Politician Ken Auletta, American Journalist Kenneth Lay, American Businessman Richie Allen, American Athlete Lou Gerstner, American Businessman Louis Gerstner, American Businessman Michael Bloomberg, American Politician Grant Wood, U.S. painter (American Gothic), dies at 49 Alexander Woollcott, American Critic Barbara Lynn, born in Beaumont, Texas, American guitarist, singer, rhythm and blues, toured with soul music greats like Stevie Wonder, B.B. King, recorded the song Oh Baby (We've Got A Good Thing Goin') with The Rolling Stones Bob Taft, American Politician Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American Clergyman Dennis Hastert, American Politician Hugh Shelton, American Soldier Al Hunt, American Journalist 1941 Event American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese 1941 Birthday Bruce Nauman, American Artist Tom Conti, Paisley Scotland, actor, Reuben Reuben, American Dreamer Dick Trickle, American Celebrity Anne Tyler, American writer, Accidental Tourist Lester Bowie, American Musician Brian Lamb, American Businessman 1941 Death Justice Brandeis, American Lawyer Paul Bremer, American Statesman Bob Matsui, American Politician Richard Perle, American Public Servant Franklin D. Roosevelt orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight Stephen Jay Gould, American Scientist Dennis Ritchie, American Scientist Bernie Sanders, American Politician Danny K. Davis, American Politician Barbara Ehrenreich, American Writer Lynne Cheney, American Celebrity Bob Etheridge, American Politician Phil Condit, American Businessman Raymond Sokolov, American Journalist Michael Ledeen, American Writer Bill Delahunt, American Politician Sam Farr, American Politician Stokely Carmichael, American Activist Michael M. Honda, American Politician Mike Honda, American Politician Louis Chevrolet, American Celebrity American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Philadelphia James P. Hoffa, American Businessman Ben Nelson, American Politician Howard Berman, American Politician Paul Theroux, American travel book writer, Mosquito Coast David Boies, American Lawyer Don Sherwood, American Politician Robert Hass, American Poet Donna Shalala, American Public Servant Sonny Landham, American Actor Dave Parnas, American Scientist Doc Hastings, American Politician Dick Gephardt, American Politician Don Van Vliet, American Artist Faye Dunaway, American Actress 1940 Birthday Norm Dicks, American Politician 1940 Death Jesse Livermore, American Businessman Sam Waterston, American Actor Ted Kulongoski, American Politician Lewis Hine, American Photographer John Gotti, American Criminal Cynthia Weil, American Musician John Warnock, American Scientist Steve Swallow, American Musician Bill Kurtis, Pensacola, Florida, newscaster, American Parade 1940 Event 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2) Norman Spinrad, American Author Brian De Palma, American Director Ted Olson, American Politician William S. Cohen, American Politician Galen Rowell, American Photographer Ruben Hinojosa, American Politician Bill McCartney, American Celebrity Jan Claire, actor, American Anthem Walter Chrysler, American Inventor David E. Price, American Politician Frederick Albert Cook, American Explorer Roscoe Mitchell, American Composer Pat Schroeder, American Politician Joe Torre, American Athlete Phyllis Davis, born in Port Arthur, Texas, actress, Love American Style, Vega$ Dick Armey, American Politician Lamar Alexander, American Politician Smedley Butler, American Soldier Shirley Muldowney, American Celebrity Alan Kay, American Scientist Roger Ailes, American Businessman Don Nelson, American Coach Sue Grafton, American Novelist Russell Banks, American Author Solomon Burke, American Musician Mary Ellen Mark, American Photographer Wayne Dyer, American Psychologist Edwin Markham, American Poet Stuart Margolin, Davenport Iowa, actor, Love American Style Edmund White, American Novelist 1939 Birthday Peter Camejo, American Businessman Kim Weston, American Musician 1939 Event 1st American skimobiles, North Conway, New Hampshire Phil Spector, American Businessman Wen Ho Lee, American Scientist Harry Reid, American Politician Lee Trevino, American Athlete Tom Harkin, American Politician Wendy Carlos, American Musician Russell Means, American Activist Franklin Jones, American Celebrity Richard Serra, American Artist F. Murray Abraham, American Actor 1939 Death Charles M. Schwab, American Businessman Harvey Cushing, American Scientist David H. Souter, American Judge Phillip Ramey, born in Elmhurst, Illinois, pianist, composer, associated with Aaron Copeland, wrote, 'Irving Fine: An American Composer in His Time' Joel Schumacher, American Director Frederick Carl Frieseke, American Artist Josh McDowell, American Writer Michael Storm, American Actor John W. Snow, American Economist William J. Mayo, American Scientist John Negroponte, American Diplomat Mike Castle, American Politician Peter Bogdanovich, American Chuck Robb, American Politician Benjamin Tucker, American Activist Marian Wright Edelman, American Activist Robert A. M. Stern, American Architect Ron Ziegler, American Politician Catholic church beatified the 1st Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha Fred F. Fielding, American Lawyer Kit Bond, American Politician Leon Kass, American Educator Frank R. Wolf, American Politician Jeff Smith, American Entertainer George Kaufman and Moss Hart's "American Way," premieres in New York City David Horowitz, American Writer Charles Alexander Eastman, American Author 1938 Birthday Stewart Brand, American Author Michael Ritchie, American Director Porter Goss, American Public Servant Robert Nozick, American Philosopher Pat Buchanan, American Journalist Dawn Wells, American Actress Evel Knievel, American Entertainer Teresa Heinz Kerry, American David Obey, American Politician Sam Nunn, American Politician Bob Rubin, American Businessman Robert E. Rubin, American Businessman Paul Maguire, American Athlete Lee R. Raymond, American Businessman Ron Fairly, American Athlete 1938 Death William Wallace Campbell, American Scientist Charles Simic, American Poet Stanley Fish, American Writer Kerry Thornley, American Philosopher Jay Garner, American Soldier A. Bartlett Giamatti, American Educator John Bates Clark, American Economist Clarence Darrow, American Lawyer David Baltimore, American Scientist 1938 Event American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors) Philip Knight, American Businessman Phil Knight, American Businessman Donald Knuth, American Scientist 1937 Death Don Marquis, American Poet Frank B. Kellogg, American Politician 1937 Birthday Jim Harrison, American Writer Fritz Scholder, American Artist Joseph Jarman, American Musician Don Bluth, American Artist Robert Crippen, American Astronaut 1937 Event 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0) Jared Diamond, American Author Olly Wilson, born in St. Louis, Missouri, composer, double bassist, musicologist, contemporary classical music, preeminent African American composer, studied with Robert Wykes, earned PhD from University of Iowa Allen Weinstein, American Public Servant Andrew Mellon, American Businessman Edith Wharton, American Author Charlie Haden, American Musician Herb Brooks, American Coach Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist George Gershwin, composer (American in Paris), dies at 38 Jay Rockefeller, American Politician Red Grooms, American Artist Robert Fulghum, American Author Charles W. Pickering, American Judge Mark Shields, American Journalist John D. Rockefeller, American Businessman Madeleine Albright, American Statesman Roger Zelazny, American Writer George Carlin, born in New York, American comedian, actor, author, Grammy Award winner William Gillette, American Actor Joe Henderson, American Musician Paul Elmer More, American Critic Claude Brown, American Writer David Ackles, Illinois, vocalist/songwriter, American Gothic 1936 Birthday Jim McDermott, American Politician Hector Elizondo, New York City, actor, American Gigolo, Young Doctors in Love William L. Jenkins, American Politician Don DeLillo, American Novelist Neil Sheehan, American Journalist Shelley Morrison, American Actress Bobby Seale, American Activist 1936 Death Anne Sullivan, American Educator Sylvia Browne, American Celebrity Billy Higgins, American Musician Christopher Alexander, American Architect Jim Sasser, American Politician Sue Kelly, American Politician Sunny Murray, American Musician Al Oerter, born in New York City, American athlete, four-time, consecutive, Olympic Champion in the discus throw Walter Koenig, American Actor Roderick Thorp, American Novelist Kenny Guinn, American Politician Andre Dubus, American Writer Lincoln Steffens, American Journalist Don Bowden, U.S., 1st American to run a sub 4 minute mile Buddy Guy, born in Lettsworth, Louisiana, rock guitarist, singer, American blues five-time Grammy-Award winner, inspired Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan Elizabeth Dole, American Politician Ron Burton, American Athlete Tom Robbins, American Author George Voinovich, American Politician Major R. Owens, American Politician Major Owens, American Politician Robert E. Howard, American Writer M. Scott Peck, American Psychologist Frank Stella, American Artist James Dobson, American Psychologist James C. Dobson, American Psychologist Frank Serpico, American Celebrity Robert Scheer, American Journalist Valerie Solanas, American Writer Judith Guest, American Novelist Marion Barry, American Politician Sonia Johnson, American Activist Roger Mahony, American Clergyman Joshua Willis Alexander, American Judge Jean M. Auel, American Writer Al Goldstein, American Publisher 1935 Birthday Robert Crandall, American Businessman Paul O'Neill, American Politician Eddie Bernice Johnson, American Politician Jack Welch, American Businessman Tom Atkins, American Politician Roy Scheider, born in New Jersey, American actor, played Martin Brody in 'Jaws' 1935 Death Billy Sunday, American Athlete Ronald Graham, American Mathematician Robert Caro, American Writer Ann Rule, American Writer Huey Long, American Politician Richard Lamm, American Politician Mary Oliver, American Poet Dallas Willard, American Philosopher Ron Paul, American Politician Story Musgrave, American Astronaut Jack Schmitt, American Astronaut Norman Ralph Augustine, American businessman and Under Secretary of the Army 1975 - 1977 Alice Brown Davis, American Statesman Len Dawson, American Athlete Thomas H. Kean, American Politician Gene Cherico, born in Buffalo, New York, Eugene Valentino Gene Cherico, bassist, American jazz, toured with Toshiko Akiyoshi, recorded with Paul Desmond, accompanied singer Peggy Lee Anna Katharine Green, American Author Gene Oliver, American Athlete Jimmy Swaggart, American Clergyman Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American Judge Frank Jordan, American Politician Jane Wagner, American Comedian Conrad Burns, American Politician Pete du Pont, American Politician Ruth Ann Minner, American Politician A. J. Foyt, American Celebrity 1934 Birthday Del Shannon, American Musician Willie Morris, American Writer R. W. Apple, Jr., American Journalist James Inhofe, American Politician Victor Argo, American Actor Bill Gothard, American Clergyman Charles R. Swindoll, American Clergyman Chuck Swindoll, American Clergyman Amiri Baraka, American Writer Little Milton, American Musician James Tenney, American Composer Wendell Berry, American Poet Don Ellis, American Musician Steve Lacy, American Musician Donald M. Payne, American Politician Van Cliburn, American Musician Giorgio Armani, born in Milan, Italy, fashion designer, American Gigolo Don Rose, American Entertainer Sydney Pollack, born in Indiana, American film director, producer, actor in over 30 films Carl Levin, American Politician Harlan Ellison, American Writer Robert Moog, American Inventor Jim Lehrer, American Journalist 1934 Death Cass Gilbert, American Architect James Jeffords, American Politician Jim Jeffords, American Politician Richard Shelby, American Politician John J. Sweeney, American Businessman Diane Johnson, American Novelist Mark Strand, American poet/editor/translator, Another Republic George Ryan, American Politician Audre Lorde, American Poet Mel Carnahan, American Politician Nick Clooney, American Politician Leonard Boswell, American Politician Alexandra Ripley, American Writer 1934 Event National and American baseball leagues select a uniform ball 1933 Birthday Mel Gussow, American Critic Diane Watson, American Politician James D. Houston, American Writer 1933 Death Texas Guinan, American Businessman Michael Dukakis, American Politician Robert Bennett, American Politician Robert Foster Bennett, American Politician Chuck Grassley, American Politician Charles Grassley, American Politician William Pierce, American Celebrity Michael Novak, American Philosopher Ann Richards, born in Lakeview, Texas, American politician, Democrat, Governor of Texas, second female governor of Texas, defeated for re-election by future U.S. President George W. Bush Nancy Friday, American Author Ken Lucas, American Politician George J. Mitchell, American Politician Stanley Milgram, American Psychologist Jerry Pournelle, American Journalist Donald E. Westlake, American Writer Oliver Sacks, American Scientist Fatty Arbuckle, American Comedian Dave Bristol, American Celebrity Harry Browne, American Writer Rod Paige, American Politician F. Lee Bailey, American Lawyer James Loeb, American Businessman Joan Collins, American Actress Frank H. Murkowski, American Politician Frank Murkowski, American Politician Philip Zimbardo, American Psychologist Sanford I. Weill, American Businessman Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American Judge Paul Sarbanes, American Politician Sara Teasdale, American Author Susan Sontag, born in New York City, Susan Rosenblatt, New York, writer, author, filmmaker, philosopher, political activist, 'Against Interpretation' established reputation as 'the Dark Lady of American Letters' Ernest Gaines, American Writer Stan Brakhage, American Director 1932 Birthday Bob Pettit, American Athlete Don King, American Celebrity 1932 Death Charles W. Chesnutt, American Novelist Al Levitt, born in New York City, New York, drummer, American jazz artist, studied under Irv Kuger, played in Europe with Peter Ind, Slide Hampton, Chet Baker, Wayne Marsh, James Moody Stephen Covey, American Businessman John Sharp Williams, American Politician John Searle, American Philosopher William Ruckelshaus, American Lawyer Dick Thornburgh, American Politician Nina Van Pallandt, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, actress, American Gigolo 1932 Event Bradman scores 260, a North American record, vs. Western Ontario Richard Scaife, American Businessman Peter Bart, American Editor William Odom, American, NASA director, Soviet Union expert, U.S. Army lieutenant general, advised Carter, Reagan Pete Domenici, American Politician Charles Fort, American Writer Casey Kasem, born in Detroit, Michigan, radio personality, American Top 40 Hart Crane, American Poet Karl Kroeger, born in Louisville, Kentucky, composer, studied with Claude Almand, head, American Music Collection, New York Public Library Dennis Banks, American Educator Clive Davis, American Businessman Ted Morgan, American Writer Walter Gilbert, American Scientist Zell Miller, American Politician Edward Kennedy, American Politician Duane Michals, American Photographer Florence Kelley, American Activist David Antin, American Poet Julius Rosenwald, American Businessman 1931 Death Melvil Dewey, American Inventor 1931 Birthday Allen Klein, American Businessman Vachel Lindsay, American Poet Wally George, American Celebrity Jimmy Lyons, American Musician Bob Crewe, born in Newark, New Jersey, American songwriter, singer, co-wrote with Bob Gaudio, Top 10 singles for The Four Seasons, recorded with Bobby Darin, Roberta Flack, Patti LaBelle Pete Stark, American Politician Ike Turner, born in Mississippi, American musician, bandleader, record producer, talent scout, Grammy Award winner Drew Lewis, American Businessman Jay Chiat, American Businessman Chuck Colson, American Lawyer Eddie Mathews, American Athlete Cotton Fitzsimmons, American Coach Riccardo Giacconi, American Scientist Dwight Morrow, American Businessman James Cronin, American Physicist Sandy Levin, American Politician Boxcar Willie, born in Red Oak, Texas, born Lecil Travis Martin, guitarist, American hobo music singer, sang country, gospel music Francis Bellamy, American Clergyman Louis W. Ballard, born in Cherokee, Quapaw, Native American composer, author, artist, wrote 'Incident at Wounded Knee' John Shelby Spong, American Clergyman Bert Lance, American Politician James Q. Wilson, American Politician David Belasco, American Playwright Gene Wolfe, American Writer George H. Mead, American Philosopher George Herbert Mead, American Philosopher Fred Brooks, American Scientist 1931 Event 1st walk across American backwards begins Ram Dass, American Psychologist Ida B. Wells, American Activist Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67 Burton Richter, American Scientist Ed Parker, American Athlete Herb Kelleher, American Businessman Neil Postman, American Educator Robert Novak, American Journalist Bob Novak, American Entertainer Dominic Chianese, American Actor Tom Wesselman, U.S. sculptor, Great American Nudes Tom Wesselmann, American Artist Tippi Hedren, American Actress Charles Nelson Reilly, born in New York, American actor, director, comedian, drama teacher, game show panelist E. L. Doctorow, American Author Alvin Ailey, choreographer, American Dance Theater 1930 Death Kin Hubbard, American Journalist 1930 Birthday Gary Becker, American Economist Mother Jones, American Activist David Amram, American Composer David Hackworth, American Soldier Mark McCormack, American Businessman Phil Crane, American Politician Faith Ringgold, American Artist Raymond J. Donovan, American Politician Warren Buffett, American Businessman John G. Schmitz, American Politician Joseph Force Crater, American Judge Harold Bloom, American Critic Ahmad Jamal, American Musician Ross Perot, American Businessman Marion Zimmer Bradley, American Writer Harvey Milk, American Politician Fred Saberhagen, American Author Herbert Croly, American Author Betty Carter, American Musician Stanley Elkin, American Author Richard Donner, American Director Ray Blanton, American Politician Jerome Isaac Friedman, American Physicist James Irwin, American Astronaut Cecil Taylor, American Musician George Haven Putnam, American Soldier Harry Mathews, American Author Arlen Spector, American Politician Kenneth Anger, American Author Bobby Bland, American Musician Ernest Just, Black biologist, served as Vice President of American Zoologists Frederick Wiseman, American Director 1929 Death Charles Goodnight, American Celebrity 1929 Event 1st U.S. nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, New York City) 1929 Birthday Dick Clark, Mount Vernon, New York, TV Host, American Bandstand G. Gordon Liddy, American Entertainer Berry Gordy, American Businessman Dick Clark, Mount Vernon, New York, TV host, American Bandstand Ed Asner, American Actor Bobby Bowden, American Coach George Crumb, American Composer Ursula K. LeGuin, American Author Arnold Palmer, American Athlete Betty Dodson, American Educator Louise Slaughter, American Politician Gene Scott, American Clergyman Joseph Jackson, American Businessman Milton Glaser, American Designer Eric Carle, American Author June Carter, American Musician Edward O. Wilson, American Scientist E. O. Wilson, American Scientist Chuck Barris, American Producer Howard Simons, American Editor Norton Juster, American Architect John Conyers, American Politician Dave Anderson, American Writer Ed Townsend, American Musician Tom Foley, American Politician Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American Vice President Frank Gehry, American Architect Hayden Fry, American Coach American Samoa organizes as territory of U.S. Jim Whittacker, mountain climber, 1st American to climb Mount Everest Charles A. Beckwith, American Soldier Gerry Spence, American Lawyer Gordon Moore, American Businessman 1928 Birthday Bo Diddley, born in Mississippi, acclaimed as a founder of American rock and roll, singer, guitarist, songwriter George Lindsey, American Actor 1928 Death Elinor Wylie, American Poet 1928 Event George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (New York City) Cleo Moore, American Actress Daniel Nathans, American Scientist President Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism" Whitey Ford, American Athlete M. Russell Ballard, American Clergyman Albert Shanker, American labor leader, American Federation of Teachers Robert Indiana, American Artist Walter Martin, American Clergyman Robert M. Pirsig, American Philosopher Vera Rubin, American Scientist Robert Sheckley, American Author Carl Olson, American Athlete Crystal Eastman, American Lawyer Eric Dolphy, American Musician Jerome Cavanagh, American Politician John Forbes Nash, American Mathematician Timothy Thomas Fortune, American Writer Jack Kevorkian, American Activist Roger Caras, American Activist T. Boone Pickens, American Businessman Theodore C. Sorensen, American Lawyer Shirley Temple, American Actress Robert Byrne, American Celebrity Dick Lane, American Athlete Chauncey Depew, American Politician Patrick McGoohan, born in New York, American actor of Irish descent, appeared in films, theater, television Eddie Foy, American Actor Frank Frazetta, American Artist Andrew Greeley, American Clergyman Walter F. Mondale, American Lawyer 1927 Birthday William Labov, American Writer Vin Scully, American Celebrity William E. Simon, American Public Servant Lawrence Kohlberg, American Educator William J. Perry, American Politician Jim Elliot, American Clergyman Al Hansen, born in New York City, New York, Norwegian American artist, member of the 1960's Flexus art movement that blended different artistic media and disciplines W. S. Merwin, American Poet 1927 Death Isadora Duncan, American Dancer Harlan Howard, American Musician Paul A. Volcker, American Economist Thomas S. Monson, American Clergyman Rosalynn Carter, American First Lady Marvin Harris, American Scientist Edwin Edwards, American Politician John Ashbery, American Poet Doc Severinsen, American Musician Martin Lewis Perl, American Physicist Evelyn Wesler Zemel, U.S., author, American Glass Animals George Andrew Olah, American Scientist 1927 Event Pan American Airlines incorporates James D. Watkins, American Soldier Gordon Cooper, American Astronaut 1,000 U.S. Marines land in China to protect American property Robert Bork, American Public Servant John Warner, American Politician Richard Snelling, American Politician Vernon L. Smith, American Economist 1926 Birthday Henry W. Kendall, American Scientist Poul Anderson, American Writer 1926 Death Joseph McKenna, American Politician Jeane Kirkpatrick, American Public Servant Joseph Gurney Cannon, American Politician Zig Ziglar, American Author H. R. Haldeman, American Politician Olympia Brown, American Activist Eugene V. Debs, American Politician Evan Hunter, Ed McBain, American writer, Blackboard Jungle Duke Snider, American Athlete James Lipton, American Educator Robert H. Schuller, American Clergyman Tommy Bond, American Actor Clifford Geertz, American Scientist Charles W. Eliot, American Educator Charles William Eliot, American Educator Arthur Rock, American Businessman Lewis Thompson Preston, American Businessman Hilary Putnam, American Philosopher Frederick Buechner, American Clergyman Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, American John Dingell, American Politician Neal A. Maxwell, American Clergyman Paul Berg, American Scientist Conrad Hall, American Artist Roscoe Bartlett, American Politician Robert Jay Lifton, American Psychologist George C. Williams, American Scientist James S. Coleman, American Sociologist Bessie Coleman, American Aviator Gil Kane, American Artist John Clellon Holmes, American Writer Murray Rothbard, American Economist Bob Richards, American Athlete Ken Olsen, American Businessman Neal Cassady, American Writer Shelley Berman, Chicago, comedian, Son of Blob, Love American Style Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, 1st Cent American cardinal, Nicaragua Newton N. Minow, American Lawyer 1925 Birthday Paul Kurtz, American Philosopher Robert Kennedy, American Politician 1925 Event American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY) Howard H. Baker, Jr., American Politician Jan Wolkers, Dutch sculptor/novelist, Brief American Warren M. Christopher, American diplomat and lawyer Frank D Gilroy, American writer, Subject Was Roses 1925 Death Christy Mathewson, American Athlete Bill Dixon, American Musician B. B. King, American Musician Forrest Carter, American Writer Donald Justice, American Poet Medgar Evers, American Activist 57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8 Thomas R. Marshall, American Politician Tony Hillerman, American Author Malcom X, American Clergyman Nelson A. Miles, American Soldier Yogi Berra, American Athlete John Ehrlichman, American Politician Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at 65 Harry Harrison, American Author Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by U.S. James E. Burke, American Businessman Samuel Dash, American Lawyer Virginia Johnson, American Psychologist Jack Lemon, American Actor George Washington Cable, American Novelist Douglas Engelbart, American Inventor John DeLorean, American Businessman 1924 Birthday Dan Devine, American Coach 1924 Death Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74 Ed Koch, American Politician Frank Press, American Scientist Florence Harding, American First Lady Joy Page, American Actress Lee Iacocca, American Businessman Jose Donoso, born in Chile, writer, born Jose Donoso Yanez, part of Latin American literary boom, Magical Realism literary movement, wrote Coronacion, El lugar sin limites (The Place Without Limits) Frederic Morton, American Writer Daniel Akaka, American Politician Russell M. Nelson, American Clergyman Grace Metalious, American Novelist Daniel Inouye, American Politician Walter Wager, American Novelist Buddy Hackett, American Comedian Jack Buck, American Celebrity James A. Baldwin, American Author William H. Gass, American Novelist Brett Somers, born in Canada, American actress, singer, comedienne, game show panelist 1924 Event Snyder Act: U.S. citizenship granted to all American Indians Candy Cummings, American Athlete Tim Flock, American Celebrity G. Stanley Hall, American Psychologist Nina Foch, born in Leiden, Netherlands, actress, American in Paris Louis Sullivan, American Architect Jack T. Chick, American Cartoonist Jack Chick, American Cartoonist Kenneth Noland, American Artist Charles Guggenheim, American Director Sarah Vaughan, American Musician Allen Neuharth, American Businessman William Hedgcock Webster, American Public Servant Lloyd Alexander, born in Pennsylvania, American author, wrote children's fantasy novels, 'Cricket' magazine creator Frank Lautenberg, American Politician J. J. Johnson, American Musician Max Roach, born in North Carolina, American jazz percussionist, drummer, composer 1923 Birthday Freeman Dyson, American Physicist Ted Stevens, American Politician Alan Shepard, American Astronaut Jack Kilby, American Scientist Denise Levertov, American poet/essayist, Joy Beneath the Skin Charlton Heston, born in Illinois, American actor in film, theater, television, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom Bum Phillips, American Coach Sam Rivers, American Musician 1923 Event 1st American to swim English Channel, Henry Sullivan Bob Dole, American Politician Robert J. Dole, American Politician Mari Evans, American Poet Peter Gay, American Historian Virginia C. Andrews, American Author Sumner Redstone, American Businessman Karl Hess, American Writer Merton Miller, American Economist Bea Arthur, American Actress Percy Heath, American Musician 1923 Death Knute Nelson, American Politician Bettie Page, born in Nashville, Tennessee, American fetish and pin-up model, 'Playboy' playmate Manon H E Alving, Dutch actress, Short American James L. Buckley, American Politician Doc Watson, American Musician Edward E. Barnard, American Scientist United States signs friendship treaty with Central American countries Norman Mailer, born in New Jersey, American novelist, poet, playwright, film director, wrote 40 books and 11 novels Larry Buchanan, American Director Paddy Chayefsky, American Dramatist Anthony Hecht, American Poet Ira Hayes, American Soldier Carroll Shelby, American Designer Joseph Weizenbaum, American Educator Hank Stram, American Athlete Willie Keeler, American Athlete 1922 Birthday William Gaddis, American Novelist Abe Lemons, American Coach 1922 Death Thomas Nelson Page, American Writer George Cadbury, American Businessman Lyman Abbott, American Author Burke Marshall, American Lawyer Damon Knight, American Writer Lyndon LaRouche, American presidental candidate, 1980 Frank Kelly Freas, American Writer Howard Zinn, American Historian Thomas Kuhn, American Writer John W. Vessey, Jr., American Soldier Hal Clement, American Writer Lou Duva, American Coach Joseph Stefano, American Writer Alan Perlis, American Scientist Joe Gold, American Businessman Harold E. Hughes, American Politician 1922 Event American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League" Fritz Hollings, American Politician 1921 Death P. B. S. Pinchback, American Politician 1921 Birthday John Lindsay, American Politician Jim Garrison, American Public Servant 1921 Event National Birth Control League and Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League Bat Masterson, American Explorer Constance Baker Motley, American Activist Kenneth Joseph Arrow, American Economist Elaine Dundy, born in New York, American novelist, biographer, journalist, actress, playwright Whitney M. Young, American Activist Edgar Saltus, American Writer Rosalyn S. Yalow, American Scientist Harvey Ball, American Celebrity Howell Heflin, American Politician Jack Steinberger, American Physicist James Blish, American Author Daniel Berrigan, American Clergyman American Soccer League forms American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron Ada Louise Huxtable, American Critic Betty Hutton, born in Michigan, American film actress, singer, 'Greatest Show on Earth' John Rawls, American Educator Rodger Ward, American Celebrity 1920 Event Bob Hope became an American citizen 1920 Birthday George Schultz, American Public Servant Ricardo Montalban, born in Mexico, American radio, television, film actor, Mr. Roarke in 'Fantasy Island' television show Jerome Richardson, American Musician American Pro Football League's Chicago Tiger Joe Guyon punts 95 yards Douglass North, American Economist Frank Herbert, American Writer NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games Mickey Rooney, American Actor Roger Angell, American Writer National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Professional Football Association Lawrence R. Klein, American Economist Ray Bradbury, American Writer Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League Anatole Broyard, American Critic Gordon Gould, American Physicist Eliseo Diego, latin American poet Eiji Okada, actor, Traffic Jam, Yakuza, Ugly American John Harsanyi, American Educator 1920 Death Eleanor Porter, American Novelist Jeff Cooper, American Celebrity Frank Perdue, American Businessman American Professional Football Association forms (NFL) Thomas Szasz, American Psychologist Lawrence Sanders, American Novelist John Cardinal O'Connor, American Clergyman James L. Farmer, Jr., American Activist William Colby, American Public Servant Issac Asimov, American Writer 1919 Birthday Jim Murray, American Journalist James Patrick Murray, American Journalist 1919 Event American Meteorological Society found Jocelyn Brando, San Francisco, actress, Ugly American American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis) 1919 Death Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American Writer Kathleen Winsor, American Author American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago George C. Wallace, American Politician William Kunstler, American Activist,defense attorney, Chicago 8 Robert Merrill, American Musician Huston Smith, American Theologian Henry J. Heinz, American Businessman Daniel Bell, American Sociologist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist, opppsed prayer in school American Legion forms (Paris) Buck Baker, American Celebrity American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (New York City) American Legion organizes in Paris Fred Korematsu, American Celebrity J. D. Salinger, American Novelist, Catcher in the Rye 1918 Death George H. White, American Politician 1918 Birthday Donald T. Regan, American Public Servant 1918 Event American Jewish Congress holds its 1st meeting Madeleine L'Engle, born in New York City, American writer, known for "A Wrinkle in Time" Spiro T. Agnew, American Politician Harry Walker, American Athlete E. Howard Hunt, born in New York, American author, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spy, involved in Watergate Henry M. Morris, American Celebrity Norman Granz, American Musician Paul D. Boyer, American Scientist Pee Wee Reese, American Athlete 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France Edward B. Lewis, American Scientist Richard P. Feynman, American Physicist Jack Morpurgo, American Literature scholar, Leeds University Flora Lewis, American Journalist House of Representatives accepts American Creed written by William Tyler Frederick Reines, American Physicist American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms James Tobin, American Economist Ernie Harwell, American Celebrity John H. Johnson, American Businessman Jeane Dixon, American 1917 Event Federal government took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I 1917 Birthday Rose Mary Woods, American Celebrity Alicia Alonso, Havana Cuba, ballerina, American Ballet Theatre David Bohm, American Scientist James Rainwater, American Scientist 1917 Death John W. Foster, American Soldier Jo Stafford, born in California, American pop and jazz singer, pioneer of modern musical parody Lloyd Cutler, American Lawyer Lloyd Norton Cutler, American Lawyer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., born in Ohio, American historian, author, democratic activist, Pulitzer prize recipient Walter Lord, American Author William P. Bundy, American Historian Red Auerbach, American Coach June Foray, American Actress Jessica Mitford, author, American Way of Death Jacob Lawrence, American Artist Malcolm S. Forbes, American Publisher Caspar Weinberger, American Public Servant William Scranton, American Politician J. F. Powers, American Novelist William Henry Moody, American Politician Katherine Graham, American Publisher Irving Penn, American Photographer American men begin registering for the draft William Standish Knowles, American Scientist Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I Belva Lockwood, American Lawyer Cyrus Vance, American Statesman H C Allen, American historian Leslie Fiedler, American Critic Will Eisner, American Cartoonist Sidney Sheldon, born in Chicago, American writer, Academy-Award winner, crime fiction novelist Vernon A. Walters, American Soldier 1916 Birthday Morrie Schwartz, American Educator Kirk Douglas, American Actor Howard Finster, American Artist Shelby Foote, American Author 1916 Death Percival Lowell, American Scientist Bob Kane, American Artist C. Everett Koop, American Public Servant George Sidney, American Director 1916 Event 1st Native American Day celebrated, honoring American Indians Seth Low, American Educator Wellington Mara, American Businessman Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic, novelist, author, co-founded The New York Review of Books Virginia Satir, American Psychologist Herbert Simon, American Scientist Gaylord Nelson, American Politician James J. Hill, American Businessman C. Wright Mills, American Sociologist 1st observance of Indian (Native American) Day Native American Day is 1st observed Dorothy Salisbury Davis, American Writer Beverly Cleary, American Author Cole Younger, American Criminal Dinah Shore, American Actress Bill Doggett, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, organist, musician, American jazz and rhythm and blues pianist, hit Honky Tonk, recorded with King Records, sold four million copies, arranged music for Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald Jay McShann, American Musician 1915 Birthday Robert A. Dahl, American Writer Kenneth Millar, American Writer Billy Strayhorn, American Composer 1915 Death Booker T. Washington, American Educator 1915 Event Theodore W. Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry Philip Morrison, American Scientist Edith Cavell, American Public Servant Jerome Bruner, American Psychologist Richard Kerry, American Diplomat Ellen G. White, American Writer Ellen White, American Writer Jerome Lawrence, American Playwright Margaret Walker, American Poet Ruth Warrick, American Musician Thomas Jordan Jarvis, American Politician John Tukey, American Scientist David Rockefeller, American Businessman Bart Howard, American Composer Joseph Greenberg, American Writer Leon Shenandoah, native American leader Paul Samuelson, American Economist Theodore White, American Journalist Marvin J. Ashton, American Clergyman John Bunny, American Actor Garrett Hardin, American Environmentalist Nelson W. Aldrich, American Politician Frederick W. Taylor, American Scientist Frank James, American Criminal Fanny Crosby, American Musician Alan Lomax, American Writer John Lilly, American Scientist Jack Levine, American Artist 1914 Birthday Richard Widmark, born in Minnesota, American actor in films, theater, radio, television 1914 Death John Muir, American Environmentalist O. Winston Link, American Photographer Henry Wade, American Lawyer James Laughlin, American Poet John Berryman, American poet, Friends and Associates Martin Gardner, Scientific American math and puzzles columnist 1914 Event ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) founded William Allen Egan, American Politician Daniel J. Boorstin, American Historian Richard W. Sears, American Businessman Dixie Lee Ray, American Politician Tom Glazer, American Musician Paul Rand, American Designer Hugh Martin, American Composer Irwin Corey, American Actor John Hersey, American Writer American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes in Kansas City Edward T. Hall, American Scientist Randall Jarrell, American Poet James Rouse, American Businessman Edmund S. Muskie, American Politician Sammy Baugh, born in Texas, American football player, coach, inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame Martin Ritt, American Actor Ralph Ellison, American Author Malcolm Wilson, American Politician Joshua Chamberlain, American Soldier American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers-ASCAP forms in New York City William S. Burroughs, American Writer William Stafford, American Poet 1913 Birthday Ad Reinhardt, American Artist George Smathers, born in New Jersey, American lawyer, politician, U.S. Senator from Florida James Broughton, American Director Karl Shapiro, American Poet James Jarrell Pickle, American Politician Albert Ellis, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, American psychologist, developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Henry Dreyfus Brant, Montreal Canada, composer, Great American Goot John N. Mitchell, American Politician Paul Bryant, American Coach 1913 Death Henry Billings Brown, American Judge Robert Mondavi, born in Minnesota, American vintner, marketer, attracted worldwide recognition for Napa Valley wines William Reddington Hewlett, American Businessman Henry Flagler, American Businessman Bruce Palmer, Jr., American Soldier Richard M. Helms, American Celebrity Karl Malden, born in Chicago, actor, Mike-Streets of SF, American Express Tom McCall, American Politician Lew Wasserman, American Producer Lee Petty, American Celebrity 1913 Event William Knox, becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300 Frank Tashlin, American Artist Joaquin Miller, American Poet Rosa Parks, American Activist Tillie Olsen, born in Nebraska, writer, considered the first generation of American feminists 1912 Birthday Doris Duke, New York City, heiress, American Tobacco Co Claudia Johnson, American First Lady Thomas P. O'Neill, American Politician Pappy Boyington, American Soldier 1912 Event American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Ill Doris Duke, New York City, multi-millionaire, American Tobacco heiress 1912 Death John P. Jones, American Politician Harry Callahan, American Photographer Don Byas, American Musician John W. Gardner, American Educator Clifton Daniel, American Editor Edward M. Purcell, American Scientist Gene Kelly, born in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, dancer and actor, 'An American in Paris', 'Singin' in the Rain' David R. Brower, American Environmentalist Kenneth L. Pike, American Sociologist Arthur Berger, American Composer May Sarton, American Poet David F. Powers, American Politician Pan American Union forms Clara Barton, organizer (American Red Cross), dies at 90 Harry Hay, American Celebrity Dorothy Height, American Activist Andre Norton, American Writer Francis Schaeffer, American Theologian 1911 Death John Bigelow, American Lawyer 1911 Birthday Lee J. Cobb, American Actor Walt Alston, American Athlete 1911 Event Opera "Lobetanz" 1st American performance Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC Mahalia Jackson, American Musician Roger Q. Mills, American Politician John Archibald Wheeler, born in Florida, American theoretical physicist, coined terms black hole, wormhole Czeslaw Milosz, Polish/American writer, Bells in Winter, Nobel 1980 William Howard Stein, American Scientist George Dorsey, American Politician Carry Amelia Moore Nation, American temperance leader, dies Hubert H. Humphrey, American Politician Clark Kerr, American Economist George Seaton, American Playwright Ivan Allen, American Politician Sam Walter Foss, American Poet David Graham Phillips, American Journalist 1910 Birthday Paul Bowles, American Composer Charles Olson, American Poet 1910 Death John LaFarge, American Artist Carroll Quigley, American Writer Gus Hall, American Businessman Kitty Carlisle, born in Louisiana, American singer, spokeswoman for the arts, actress, 'To Tell The Truth' panelist Morris Graves, American Artist William James, American Philosopher William H. Schuman, born in New York City, composer, American Festival Overture, Juilliard Irving R. Kaufman, American Judge Edward P. Morgan, American Journalist Abe Fortas, American Judge O. Henry, American Writer Franz Kline, American Artist Eric Berne, American Psychologist J. Allen Hynek, American Scientist Vincente Minnelli, born in Chicago, Illinois, director, American in Paris, Gigi William Shockley, American Physicist David Lavender, American Historian Dizzy Dean, American Athlete Gabe Paul, American Businessman 1909 Death Frederic Remington, American Artist 1909 Birthday Edward Lawrie Tatum, American Scientist Karen Morley, American Actress James Agee, American author, African Queen, Death in Family Peter Drucker, American Businessman Henry Charles Lea, American Historian Herbert Lawrence Block, American Cartoonist Edward H. Harriman, American Businessman Lester Young, American Musician 1909 Event SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC John Baur, museum director/author, American Paintings in 19th Century Arnold Shaw, born in America, composer, songwriter, music business executive for Leeds Music Corporation, later MCA, wrote book on Harry Belafonte, series on 20th century American music Shawn Fanning, American Businessman Jayson Blair, American Journalist J. Irwin Miller, American Businessman Sibel Edmonds, American Public Servant Mary Cheney, American Celebrity Scott McClellan, American Politician Rich Lowry, American Editor Jeff Vandermeer, American Writer Laura Hillenbrand, American Author Matt Gonzalez, American Politician Augusten Burroughs, American Writer Michel Gondry, American Writer Melinda Gates, American Clergyman Ted Rall, American Cartoonist David Brock, American Author Eleanor Mondale, American Actress Scott McCloud, American Cartoonist Jeffrey Eugenides, American Novelist Fawn Hall, American Celebrity Ron Suskind, American Journalist Paul Farmer, American Educator Robert Kagan, American Writer Terry McAuliffe, American Politician Karen Finley, American Artist Tom Bodett, American Author Guy Kawasaki, American Businessman Rick Warren, American Writer Tom Cora, American Musician Edwin H. Land, American Inventor Ricardo Sanchez, American Soldier Howard Schultz, American Businessman Roger Stone, American Politician Terry Gross, American Journalist Andrew Heyward, American Businessman Mitch Kapor, American Businessman Lee Scott, American Businessman Tom Joyner, American Celebrity Larry Harvey, American Celebrity Terry Goodkind, American Writer Michael Porter, American Educator Richard Grasso, American Businessman Mack McLarty, American Politician James Sanborn, American Sculptor Shirley Franklin, American Politician Terry Semel, American Businessman Nicholas Negroponte, American Businessman Laurence Tribe, American Lawyer Willie Herenton, American Politician Adam Clymer, American Journalist James R. Bath, American Businessman Paul Crouch, American Clergyman Joe Arpaio, American Public Servant Alice Rivlin, American Economist Sheri S. Tepper, American Author Hilton Kramer, American Critic Hutton Gibson, American Writer Joseph Force Crater, American Judge David Dean Rusk, American Politician Saul Alinsky, American Activist 1908 Birthday Willard Libby, American Scientist Elliot Carter, American Composer Elliott Carter, American Composer Alfred Day Hershey, American Scientist Harrison Salisbury, American Journalist Harry A. Blackmun, American Judge Kay Thompson, American Author Martha Gellhorn, American Journalist 1908 Death Charles Eliot Norton, American Writer Carole Lombard, American Actress Lyndon B. Johnson, American President Al Lopez, American Coach Minor White, American Photographer Nelson Rockefeller, American Vice President M. F. K. Fisher, American Writer John Hench, American Artist Joe Grant, American Artist Morris Kline, American Writer George Oppen, American Poet Louis L'Amour, American Author Edward Lansdale, general/model, Quiet American, Ugly American 1907 Birthday Cab Calloway, American Musician I. F. Stone, American Journalist James Roosevelt, American Politician John Sloan Dickey, American Diplomat Henriette Wyeth, 1st lady of american art Leo Castelli, Trieste, American art dealer Melvin Belli, American Lawyer Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer Charles Eames, American Designer 1907 Event -27 degrees F (-33 degrees C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record) Fred Zinnemann, American Director Stephen Longstreet, American writer, All or Nothing Lucia Chase, U.S. ballerina/co-founder, American Ballet Theater James M. Gavin, American Scientist Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American U.S. senator Paul Nitze, American Writer 1906 Event 1st annual meeting of American Sociological Society, Providence, RI 1906 Birthday Oscar Levant, Pittsburgh, actor, American in Paris, Dance of Life Clark M. Clifford, American Public Servant President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed U.S. Senate commission on the Congo Louise Brooks, silent screen star, American Venus, Pandora's Box Alfred Whitney Griswold, born in Morristown, New Jersey, American historian and educator, President of Yale 1951 - 1963 Franklin Garrett, American Historian John Coolidge, American Celebrity Nelson Goodman, American Philosopher Diana Vreeland, American Editor Marston Bates, American Scientist Satchel Paige, American Athlete, baseball pitcher, never look back Max A. Zorn, American Mathematician Dale Messick, American Artist Richard L. Evans, American Clergyman Henny Youngman, American Comedian, "Take my wife - please" 1906 Death Susan B[rownell] Anthony, American suffragist, dies at 85 Susan B. Anthony, American Activist Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers Henry Roth, born in Galicia, Austro-Hungary, writer, short story writer, novelist, Call It Sleep considered masterpiece of Jewish American literature Anya Seton, American Writer Robert E. Howard, American Writer 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile 1905 Event 120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record) 1905 Birthday Leon Jaworski, American Public Servant Carl D. Anderson, American Scientist Stanley Kunitz, American Poet John Minor Wisdom, American Judge 1905 Death Joseph Jefferson, American Artist Stanley Marcus, American Businessman John H. Reagan, American Politician Lew Wallace, American Soldier Jay Cooke, American Businessman Barnett Newman, American Artist 1904 Birthday Cedric Belfrage, American Sociologist A. J. Liebling, born in New York City, New York, American journalist and writer Lester Dent, American Writer 1904 Event 1st monument honoring Spanish American War erected (Monroeville Ohio) Christopher Isherwood, American Author Count Basie, American Musician Ralph Bunche, American Diplomat Clifford D. Simak, American Writer Peter Lorre, Hungarian American, actor, M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers American Ion Perdicaris kidnapped in Morocco American Lung Association holds its 1st meeting American Academy of Arts and Letters forms Bob Bartlett, American Politician B. F. Skinner, American Psychologist 1904 Death Marcus A. Hanna, American Politician American occupation of Cuba ends 1903 Event American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans 1903 Birthday Earl Hines, American Musician Joseph Cornell, American Sculptor Haldan Keffer Hartline, American Scientist George D. Snell, American Scientist Ella Baker, American Activist Curly Howard, American Actor Nathanael West, American novelist, Day of the Locusts Joe Valachi, American Celebrity Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY 1903 Death Frederick Law Olmsted, American Architect Marvin Bower, American Businessman James Whistler, American Artist Ben Pollack, American Musician Al Hirschfeld, American Cartoonist Lou Gehrig, American Athlete, 1st baseman, New York Yankees Alonzo Church, American Mathematician Harold Grange, American Athlete Marcia Davenport, American Author Cool Papa Bell, American Athlete Frank Belknap Long, American writer, Rim of the Unknown American Power Boat Association forms Waverley Lewis Root, American Journalist American Hotel opens in Amsterdam Fairfax Cone, American Businessman Baseball's National and American Leagues make peace 1902 Birthday Mortimer Adler, American Philosopher Joe Adonis, Italy, American crime-syndicate boss in New York and New Jersey 1902 Death Thomas Reed, American Politician Eugene Wigner, American Physicist Elizabeth Gray Vining, American Writer Esther Ralston, Bar Harbor ME, American Venus/actress, Old Ironsides Horace Gray, American Judge Harry Bridges, American Activist George H. Fallon, American Politician Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American Politician George Gaylord Simpson, American Scientist Meredith Willson, American Composer Richard J. Daley, American Politician David O. Selznick, American Producer Bret Harte, American Author W. Clement Stone, American Businessman Theodore William Schultz, American Economist Frank Richard Stockton, American Writer Bobby Jones, American Athlete 1902 Event American Automobile Association, AAA, founded in Cleveland, Ohio Norman Maclean, American Author Carl Rogers, American Psychologist 1901 Birthday Tibor Serly, Losonc Hungary, violinist and composer, American Elegy William S. Paley, American Businessman 1901 Event President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later Ernest Lawrence, American Scientist Louis Armstrong, American Musician Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League Erve Beck hits American League's 1st home run Whittaker Chambers, American Writer Carl Barks, American Artist Louis Kahn, American Architect 1st games played in baseball's American League 1901 Death Elisha Gray, American Inventor 1900 Birthday Helen Gahagan, American Actress Aaron Copland, American Composer 1900 Event Baltimore Orioles (now New York Yankees) enter baseball's American League 1900 Death Henry Villard, American Journalist W. Edwards Deming, American Scientist Thomas Wolfe, American novelist, Look Homeward Angel George Antheil, American Composer Norris Cotton, American Politician Charles Francis Richter, American Scientist 7 high chiefs of American Samoa sign Instrument of Cession Frank Hamilton Cushing, American Writer Howard Aiken, American Scientist American Hall of Fame found Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee and Minneapolis 1899 Death Dwight L. Moody, American Clergyman 1899 Birthday Tom C. Clark, American Politician Cyrus Rowlett Smith, American Businessman Ezra Taft Benson, American Leader Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer Richard Parks Bland, American Politician Weegee, American Photographer Arthur Fellig, American Photographer James S. McDonnell, American Businessman Alfred Blalock, American Inventor 1899 Event American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress Robert M. Hutchins, American Educator 1898 Birthday Millicent Carey McIntosh, American Educator 1898 Event American flag raised in Puerto Rico William O. Douglas, American Judge Brooks Hays, American Politician 1898 Death William Pepper, American Scientist Spanish American War-Spaniards surrender to U.S. at Santiago Cuba American troops captured deserted Wake Island Anthony McAuliffe, American Soldier American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba Helen B. Taussig, American Scientist Robert Purvis, American Activist Luther H. Hodges, American Politician Frances E. Willard, American Activist 1897 Birthday Herman J. Mankiewicz, American Writer 1897 Death Justin Winsor, American Writer Joseph Auslander, American Poet Nathan F. Twining, American Soldier Arthur C. Nielsen, American Businessman Fredric March, American Actor Ralph Wyckoff, American pioneer in x-ray crystallography Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director Benjamin Whorf, American Aiden Wilson Tozer, American Clergyman 1897 Event 1st American marathon ran, John J McDermott wins in 2:55:10 (Boston) Dorothy Arzner, American Director 1896 Birthday Eric Johnston, American Businessman Jimmy Doolittle, American Aviator Dawn Powell, American Writer Howard Dietz, American Musician 1896 Death Wyatt Eaton, artist, painter, portraitist, one of the founders of the Society of American Artists, dies from tuberculosis in Newport, Rhode Island 1896 Event 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece, American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history Robert E. Sherwood, American Playwright Theodore Robinson, American Artist Frank Lane, American Businessman 1895 Birthday William Griffith Wilson, American Celebrity Michael Arlen, Armenia, English author, An American Verdict Charles MacArthur, American Playwright Lewis Mumford, American Sociologist Buster Keaton, American Actor George Raft, American Actor 1895 Event American Bowling Congress forms (New York City) Earl Long, American Politician Richard Cardinal Cushing, American Clergyman Benjamin E. Mays, American Educator R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form Central American Union Prescott Bush, American Politician Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer, Patriotic Gore Fulton J. Sheen, American Clergyman 1895 Death James Dwight Dana, American Scientist Dudley Nichols, American Screenwriter John J. McCloy, American Lawyer Babe Ruth, American Athlete, baseball legend Robert M. La Follette, American Politician George Halas, American Coach Laurens Hammond, American Inventor J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant 1894 Birthday James Thurber, American Comedian 1894 Death Joseph E. Brown, American Politician Henry Hazlitt, American Philosopher Robert Charles Winthrop, American Politician Eugen Zador, Bataszek, Hungary, Hungarian/American composer, Diana E. Franklin Frazier, American Sociologist Arthur Freed, American Producer Charles Reznikoff, American Poet Warren Weaver, American Scientist 1894 Event American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co Lonnie Johnson, American Musician Walter Piston, American Composer Irving Mills, American Musician 1893 Birthday Harry Warren, American Composer Joseph Wood Krutch, American Environmentalist 1893 Death Lucy Stone, American Activist Huey Long, American Politician Edwin Booth, American Actor Norman Cota, American Soldier William Moulton Marston, American Psychologist Allen Dulles, American Public Servant James Bryant Conant, American Scientist 1892 Birthday J. Paul Getty, American Businessman Harold Ross, American Editor Arthur H. Compton, American Scientist Arthur Holly Compton, American Scientist 1892 Death John Greenleaf Whittier, American Poet Leverett Saltonstall, American Politician George William Curtis, American Author 1892 Event American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Massacgysetts Djuna Barnes, American Novelist Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist Max Brand, American Writer Archibald McLeish, American Poet Richard Neutra, American Architect Marston Morse, American Mathematician James Van Fleet, American Soldier Alice James, American Writer Harry Stack Sullivan, American Psychologist Wendell L. Wilkie, American Lawyer Grant Wood, U.S., painter, American Gothic Robert H. Jackson, American Statesman 1891 Birthday John William McCormack, American Politician Leo Burnett, American Businessman 1891 Death Rooney Lee, American Soldier Frederick Kelly, American Athlete 1891 Event 1st travelers checks issued, American Express Henry James' "American," premieres in London Esther Forbes, American Author Maxwell Bodenheim, American Poet P. T. Barnum, American Entertainer Albert Pike, American Lawyer Lawrence Barrett, American Actor Elliot Paul, American Journalist George Bancroft, American Historian Louis A. Johnson, American Public Servant Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist 1890 Birthday Mark Tobey, American Artist Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President 1890 Event Daughters of American Revolution forms 1890 Death Catherine Booth, American Activist Allen J. Ellender, American Politician Colonel Sanders, American Celebrity H. P. Lovecraft, American Novelist Harry Hopkins, American Diplomat Daughters of American Revolution organizes Charles Edison, American Businessman Rose Kennedy, American Author Charles Erwin Wilson, American Businessman John Charles Fremont, American Soldier Frederick Lewis Allen, American Editor Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Washington D.C.) Frank Murphy, American Politician Vannevar Bush, American Scientist George M. Humphrey, American Lawyer George Humphrey, American Lawyer Frederick M. Vinson, American Judge Francis Bowen, American Philosopher 1889 Birthday B. Carroll Reece, American Politician 1889 Event American Academy of Political and Social Science organized, Philadelphia Walter Knott, American Businessman Hervey Allen, American Author Edwin Powell Hubble, American Scientist George S. Kaufman, American Dramatist Smokey Joe Wood, American Athlete 1st Pan American conference (Washington D.C.) 1889 Death Daniel H. Hill, American Soldier Robert A. Taft, American Politician 1st American International pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI) George Kenney, American Soldier Shoeless Joe Jackson, American Athlete Francis Cardinal Spellman, American Clergyman Elsie Janis, American Musician H. L. Hunt, American Businessman, Texas oil multi-millionaire A. Philip Randolph, American Activist 1888 Birthday Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st President of American Newspaper Guild Richard E. Byrd, American Explorer Henry A. Wallace, American Vice President Joseph P. Kennedy, American Diplomat Antoinette Perry, American Actress Dennis Chavez, American Politician 1887 Event Opera "Trumpeter of Sackingen" 1st American production (New York City) 1887 Birthday Georgia O'Keeffe, American Artist Alf Landon, American Politician Edna Ferber, U.S., author, American Beauty, Cimarron Samuel E. Morison, American Historian 1887 Death Lysander Spooner, American Philosopher James Norman Hall, American Author Robert Quillen, American Journalist Fatty Arbuckle, American Comedian Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman American Protective Association forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton Iowa American Trotting Association organized in Detroit Arthur Rubinstein, American Musician 1886 Death John A. Logan, American Soldier 1886 Event American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president 1886 Birthday Rose Wilder Lane, American Journalist Margaret Anderson, American Editor Bruce Barton, American Author Emmet Fox, American Author James Van Der Zee, American Photographer Francis Biddle, American Lawyer Edward Weston, American Photographer Hugo Black, American Judge Horatio Seymour, American Politician 1885 Birthday George Richards Minot, American Scientist Anna Louise Strong, American Journalist George S. Patton, American Soldier Frank H Knight, American Economist Ezra Pound, American Poet 1885 Death George McClellan, American Soldier George B. McClellan, American Soldier Charles E. Merrill, American Businessman, born in Green Cove Springs, Florida Josh Billings, American Comedian Elinor Wylie, American Poet Helen Hunt Jackson, American Writer Ulysses S. Grant, American President Milton Avery, American Artist 1885 Event American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates Chester W. Nimitz, American Soldier A. J. Muste, American Activist Charles Seymour, American Historian 1884 Birthday Ruth Draper, American Actress Ethel Percy Andrus, born in San Francisco, California, educator and founder of AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons Will Cuppy, American Writer Kenneth Scott Latourette, American Historian 1884 Death Matthew Simpson, American Clergyman Harry S. Truman, American President Judah Philip Benjamin, American Politician Thomas Gold Appleton, American critic, writer, and artist, dies Roger Nash Baldwin, founder, American Civil Liberties Union Texas Guinan, American Businessman 1883 Event NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race 1883 Birthday Napoleon Hill, American Writer Napolean Hill, American Author Victor Francis Hess, American Physicist Charles Bender, only American Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame New York Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer American Anti-Vivisection Society organized in Philadelphia Joseph A. Schumpeter, American Economist Max Eastman, American Author 1882 Event Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" 1882 Birthday Fiorello LaGuardia, American Politician William Halsey, American Soldier Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their 1st season in the American Association Louis B. Mayer, American Director Henry J. Kaiser, American Businessman Geraldine Farrar, U.S. soprano/actress, Story of American Singer George Jean Nathan, U.S., editor/author/critic, American Mercury Hendrik Willem Van Loon, American Journalist Sam Rayburn, American Politician Herbert Bayard Swope, American Editor 1881 Event American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh) 1881 Birthday Franklin P. Adams, American Journalist 1st American fishing magazine, American Angler published 1881 Death Orson Pratt, American Theologian James A. Garfield, American President Sidney Lanier, American Poet Cecil B. DeMille, American Producer Leo Carrillo, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, American Empire, Cisco Kid Smedley Butler, American Soldier Crystal Eastman, American Lawyer American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton Edith Rogers, American Politician Fernando Wood, American Politician 1880 Birthday George Marshall, American Statesman George C. Marshall, American Soldier Henry Louis Mencken, U.S. essayist/critic, American Mercury 1880 Event American Canoe Association founded at Lake George, New York Carl Van Vechten, American Writer Jeanette Rankin, American Politician League of American Wheelmen (1st U.S. bicycle association), forms in Newport, Rhode Island American Society of Mechanical Engineers forms (New York City) 1879 Birthday Billy Mitchell, American Soldier Vachel Lindsay, American Poet 1879 Death Daniel Drew, American Businessman William Morris Hunt, American Artist John B. Hood, American Soldier James F. Byrnes, American Politician Sarah Josepha Hale, American Writer James Branch Cabell, American novelist/essayist, Restless Heads Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography Jack Norworth, American Musician Caleb Cushing, American Diplomat 1878 Birthday Louis Chevrolet, American Celebrity Upton Sinclair, American Author 1878 Event American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, New York CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston 1878 Death Joseph Henry, American Scientist Boss Tweed, born in New York City, New York, American Politician, Democratic leader of Tammany Hall Benjamin F. Wade, American Politician Carl Sandberg, American Poet 1877 Event "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Massachusetts) 1877 Birthday Katharine Anthony, American Writer Alben W. Barkley, American Vice President Warren R. Austin, American Politician American Chemical Society chartered in New York 1877 Death Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South, dies in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 56 American Humane Association organizes (Cleveland) Alvin Adams, American Businessman Lloyd C. Douglas, American Clergyman Jesse Livermore, American Businessman Ivy Lee, American Writer Society of American Artists forms Alice B. Toklas, American Edgar Cayce, American 1876 Birthday Mordecai Brown, American Athlete 1876 Event American Library Association organized in Philadelphia 1876 Death James Lick, American Celebrity Henry A. Wise, American Statesman American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle Charles Kettering, American Inventor George Armstrong Custer, American Soldier Irvin S. Cobb, American Journalist Charlotte Saunders Cushman, American Actress Natalie Clifford Barney, American Author Eliza Johnson, American First Lady 1875 Birthday Carter G Woodson, New Canton, Virginia, American historian, black studies Carter G. Woodson, American Historian Gilbert Newton Lewis, American Scientist 1875 Event Sons of American Revolution organizes 1875 Death Chauncey Wright, American Philosopher Ma Ferguson, American Politician George Herbert Walker, American Businessman Duff Green, American Politician Alfred P. Sloan, American Businessman William D. Leahy, American Soldier D. W. Griffith, American Director 1874 Death Gerrit Smith, American Politician 1874 Birthday Charles A. Beard, American Historian Owen D. Young, American Businessman Lewis Hine, American Photographer Edward Thorndike, American Psychologist Herbert Hoover, American President Charles Fort, American Writer Alice Duer Miller, American Poet Frederick Carl Frieseke, American Artist John Bachman, American Clergyman Bill Klem, American Athlete Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist, IBM John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American Businessman Frank Knox, American Public Servant 1873 Event American Metrological Society forms (New York City) weights, measures and money 1873 Birthday Alfred E. Smith, American Politician Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher Josiah Bailey, American Politician David O. McKay, American Clergyman 1873 Death Salmon P. Chase, American Politician Salmon Portland Chase, American Politician William Green, president of American Federation of Labor, 1924-52 William Christopher Handy, American Musician Dwight Morrow, American Businessman Howard Chandler Christy, American Artist 1872 Birthday Harlan Stone, American Lawyer 1872 Death William H. Seward, American Statesman Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist Willie Keeler, American Athlete Zane Grey, American West novelist, Riders of the Purple Sage Julia Morgan, American Architect 1871 Birthday Arthur Guiterman, American Comedian Theodore Dreiser, U.S., novelist, Sister Carie, American Tragedy John Sloan, American Artist John French Sloan, American Artist 1870 Death Robert E. Lee, American Soldier 1870 Birthday Clark Wissler, anthropologist, American Indian Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, American Lawyer John P. Kennedy, American Soldier Ethan A. Hitchcock, American Soldier William Cameron Forbes, American Diplomat 1870 Event American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves 1869 Death Edwin M. Stanton, American Lawyer 1869 Birthday Bainbridge Colby, American Public Servant Ben Lindsey, American Judge 1869 Event American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland) Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American Clergyman 1st American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, New York) John Joseph Pershing, American Soldier William Strunk, Jr., American Writer American Museum of Natural History opens (New York City) Herbert David Croly, U.S. author, Promise of American Life Herbert Croly, American Author 1868 Birthday Harvey S. Firestone, American Businessman Eleanor Porter, American Novelist 1868 Event 1st American bicycle college opens (NY) American Philological Association organized in NY 1st American amateur track and field meet (New York City) Kin Hubbard, American Journalist Edgar Lee Masters, American Poet 1868 Death David Wilmot, American Activist 1867 Birthday David Graham Phillips, American Journalist 1867 Death Henry Timrod, American Poet Henry L. Stimson, American Statesman Amy Marcy Beach, American Musician James Loeb, American Businessman Charles Anthon, American Writer Fannie Thomas, became oldest known American, 113 y 273 d at death Charles Farrar Browne, American Writer Nathaniel Parker Willis, American Author 1866 Birthday Abraham Flexner, American Educator Matthew Henson, American Explorer 1866 Death Chief Seattle, American Charles Davenport, American Scientist 1866 Event American Equal Rights Association forms Anne Sullivan, American Educator American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms Lincoln Steffens, American Journalist 1865 Birthday Edith Cavell, American Public Servant 1865 Event PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport Warren G. Harding, American President 1865 Death William Duane, American Lawyer Charles G. Dawes, American Vice President Gifford Pinchot, American Politician Frederick Albert Cook, American Explorer Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time George Phillips Bond, American Scientist Lyman Beecher, American Clergyman William Lyon Phelps, American Educator 1864 Birthday Paul Elmer More, American Critic William S. Hart, American Actor George Washington Carver, American Scientist Ban Johnson, Norwalk, Connecticut, baseball founder, American League 1863 Death John Buford, American Soldier 1863 Birthday John Bunny, American Actor Robert Gould Shaw, American Soldier Thomas J. Jackson, American Soldier George H. Mead, American Philosopher George Herbert Mead, American Philosopher Rufus Jones, American Writer 1862 Birthday Billy Sunday, American Athlete O. Henry, American Writer Julius Rosenwald, American Businessman Ida B. Wells, American Activist Florence Bascom, U.S., 1st American woman PhD Josephus Daniels, American Politician Charles Evans Hughes, American Judge William Wallace Campbell, American Scientist Charles M. Schwab, American Businessman 1862 Death William Pennington, American Lawyer Edith Wharton, American Author 1861 Birthday Frederic Remington, U.S., artist/sculptor of American West William J. Mayo, American Scientist 1861 Death Stephen Douglas, American Politician 1860 Birthday Grandma Moses, American Artist Florence Harding, American First Lady Ernest Thompson Seton, American Leader 1860 Death Theodore Parker, American Theologian 1860 Event American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX 1859 Birthday Cass Gilbert, American Architect Florence Kelley, American Activist 1859 Death Horace Mann, American Educator Richard Rush, American Lawyer Elbert Hubbard, American Writer Gamaliel Bailey, American Journalist Walter Camp, Connecticut, father of American football, Yale 1858 Death James Gadsden, American Politician 1858 Birthday Charles W. Chesnutt, American Novelist Sam Walter Foss, American Poet Charles Alexander Eastman, American Author Anson Jones, American Public Servant Carter Glass, American Politician 1857 Birthday Edward E. Barnard, American Scientist 1857 Event American Chess Association formed (New York City) American Chess Association organized; 1st major U.S. chess tournament (New York City) Frank Hamilton Cushing, American Writer Margaret Deland, American Novelist Henry B Fuller, American writer, Under the Skylights 1856 Birthday Woodrow Wilson, American President Frank B. Kellogg, American Politician 1856 Death John Eaton, American Politician Justice Brandeis, American Lawyer Timothy Thomas Fortune, American Writer Louis Sullivan, American Architect L. Frank Baum, American Author John Wilbur, American Clergyman Booker T. Washington, American Educator Frederick W. Taylor, American Scientist Eddie Foy, American Actor 1856 Event American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy 1855 Birthday Eugene V. Debs, American Politician Edgar Saltus, American Writer 1855 Event George F Bristow's "Rip Van Winkle," 2nd American opera, opens in New York City James Edward Kelly, U.S., sculptor "Sculptor of American History" Francis Bellamy, American Clergyman Agnes Repplier, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American essayist and writer, 'Books and Men' and 'In Pursuit of Laughter' Andrew Mellon, American Businessman Percival Lowell, American Scientist 1854 Birthday John Sharp Williams, American Politician Benjamin Tucker, American Activist Thomas R. Marshall, American Politician 1854 Death Juda Turo, American philanthropist, dies 1853 Birthday William Henry Moody, American Politician Bat Masterson, American Explorer 1853 Death Simon Greenleaf, American Judge David Belasco, American Playwright William Gillette, American Actor 1853 Event Completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over 1st North American railroad between Portland, Maine and Montreal William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel," 1st novel by black American Thomas Nelson Page, American Writer Olympia Brown, American Activist 1852 Birthday George H. White, American Politician Alice Brown Davis, American Statesman 1852 Death John McKinley, American Politician Theodore Robinson, American Artist Louisa Catherine Adams, American First Lady Edwin Markham, U.S., poet, 1st winner of American Academy of Poets Award 1937 Joshua Willis Alexander, American Judge 1851 Birthday Melvil Dewey, American Inventor 1851 Death Philip Hone, American Politician 1850 Death Richard Mentor Johnson, American Politician 1850 Birthday Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American Writer Jose Francisco de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero, dies Daniel Chester, French/American sculptor, Minute Man Herbert Baxter Adams, U.S., historian, American Historical Association Adoniram Judson, American Clergyman 1850 Event Henry Wells and William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo Kate Chopin, American Author Samuel Gompers, Dutch/U.S. 1st president, American Federation of Labor Seth Low, American Educator 1849 Death Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet 1849 Birthday Wyatt Eaton, born in Philipsburg, Canada, artist, painter, portraitist, one of the founders of the Society of American Artists Bernard Barton, American Poet 1848 Birthday Candy Cummings, American Athlete Alice James, American Writer 1848 Death John Jacob Astor, charted American Fur Company, dies at 84 Edward H. Harriman, American Businessman 1847 Event Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society American Medical Association organizes in Philadelphia American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia) 1847 Birthday Thomas A. Edison, born in Milan, Ohio, American Inventor John Bates Clark, American Economist 1846 Birthday Anna Katharine Green, American Author Charles Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist 1844 Birthday George W. Cable, American writer, Northampton Years George Washington Cable, American Novelist Henry J. Heinz, American Businessman Thomas Eakins, American Artist George Haven Putnam, American Soldier G. Stanley Hall, American Psychologist Cole Younger, American Criminal 1843 Birthday William Pepper, American Scientist Joseph McKenna, American Politician Knute Nelson, American Politician Frank James, American Criminal 1842 Birthday Ellen Henrietta Richards, U.S., chemist, American Home Economics Association - 1st President James Morrison Steele Mackaye, U.S. actor, American Academy of Dramatic Art Sidney Lanier, American Poet George Dorsey, American Politician 1841 Birthday Nelson W. Aldrich, American Politician 1840 Event Organization of American Society of Dental Surgeons founded in New York 1840 Birthday Flora Adams Darling, founded Daughters of American Revolution 1840 Death Gerald Griffin, American Author American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica 1839 Event American Statistical Association organizes in Boston 1839 Birthday Thomas Reed, American Politician Frances E. Willard, American Activist George Cadbury, American Businessman Nelson A. Miles, American Soldier 1838 Event Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation 1838 Birthday John Hay, American Writer James J. Hill, American Businessman Central American federation is dissolved John Wilkes Booth, American Criminal Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation 1837 Birthday Admiral George Dewey, American naval hero of Manila Robert Gould Shaw, American Soldier Marcus A. Hanna, American Politician Joaquin Miller, American Poet Mother Jones, American Activist Rooney Lee, American Soldier P. B. S. Pinchback, American Politician 1837 Death Joseph Anderson, American Politician 1837 Event Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American American Physiological Society organizes in Boston 1836 Death Edward Livingston, American Judge 1836 Birthday Joseph Cannon, American Politician Lawrence Barrett, American Actor Charles Goodnight, American Celebrity John W. Foster, American Soldier Henry Billings Brown, American Judge Betsy Ross, American Celebrity Thomas Jordan Jarvis, American Politician 1835 Birthday Lyman Abbott, American Author Richard Parks Bland, American Politician Elisha Gray, American Inventor 1835 Death John Marshall, American Judge Henry Villard, American Journalist John LaFarge, American Artist 1834 Birthday James McNeill Whistler, American Artist James Whistler, American Artist Charles Farrar Browne, American Writer Chauncey Depew, American Politician Frank Richard Stockton, American Writer Charles W. Eliot, American Educator Charles William Eliot, American Educator 1834 Death William Wirt, American Statesman 1833 Event American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Philadelphia 1833 Birthday Edwin Booth, American Actor 1833 Death William Bainbridge, American Soldier 1832 Birthday Roger Q. Mills, American Politician 1831 Birthday James A. Garfield, American President John B. Hood, American Soldier Justin Winsor, American Writer 1830 Death Simon Bolivar, South American freedom fighter/"dictator", dies 1830 Birthday Belva Lockwood, American Lawyer Helen Hunt Jackson, American Writer Chester A. Arthur, American President Chauncey Wright, American Philosopher 1830 Event 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American) Elias Hicks, American Clergyman Henry Rutgers, American Soldier Henry Flagler, American Businessman 1829 Birthday Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon Joseph Jefferson, American Artist John P. Jones, American Politician Catherine Booth, American Activist 1828 Birthday Henry Timrod, American Poet Joshua Chamberlain, American Soldier 1828 Event Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary Horace Gray, American Judge 1st American Indian newspaper in U.S., "Cherokee Phoenix," published 1827 Birthday Ellen G. White, American Writer Ellen White, American Writer Charles Eliot Norton, American Writer Lew Wallace, American Soldier 1826 Birthday George B. McClellan, American Soldier 1826 Death Luther Martin, American Politician 1826 Event General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama John Buford, American Soldier American Temperance Society, forms in Boston John A. Logan, American Soldier 1825 Death William Hull, American Soldier 1825 Birthday Henry Charles Lea, American Historian Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American Statesman 1825 Event American Unitarian Association founded George Phillips Bond, American Scientist Eli Whitney, American Inventor 1824 Birthday Phoebe Cary, born in Cincinnati, American poet, Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary 1824 Death Charles Thomson, American Public Servant 1824 Event Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia Tench Coxe, American Economist Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54 degrees 40' N William Morris Hunt, American Artist Elisha Harris, U.S., physician/found American Public Health Assoc Lucy Larcom, American Poet George William Curtis, American Author Thomas J. Jackson, American Soldier 1823 Birthday Francis Parkman, American historian/author, Oregon Trail 1823 Death William Bartram, American Environmentalist 1822 Birthday Rutherford B. Hayes, American President Frederick Law Olmsted, American Architect 1822 Death Nathaniel Smith, American Politician 1822 Event American Indian Society organizes Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa 1821 Birthday Clara Harlowe Barton, Oxford Massachusetts, nurse/founder, American Red Cross Clara Barton, American Public Servant Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/women's suffrage leader Jay Cooke, American Businessman Nathan Bedford Forrest, born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South Daniel H. Hill, American Soldier Joseph E. Brown, American Politician 1821 Death Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1st native-born American saint, dies in Maryland 1820 Death Joseph R. Drake, U.S. poet (American Flag), dies at 25) 1820 Birthday Alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet, Cincinnati Sentinel Fanny Crosby, American Musician Susan B. Anthony, American Activist 1819 Death William Samuel Johnson, American Politician John Langdon, American Politician George Leonard, American Lawyer Hugh Williamson, American Politician 1819 Event 1st successful agricultural journal ("American Farmer") begins 1819 Birthday Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi and founder American Hebrew Congregations 1818 Death Joshua Barney, American Soldier 1818 Birthday John H. Reagan, American Politician Lucy Stone, American Activist Daniel Smith, American Politician Paul Revere, American patriot, dies Josh Billings, American Comedian 1817 Birthday John Bigelow, American Lawyer 1817 Event 1st American school for the deaf opens in Hartford, Connecticut 1817 Death Francis Cabot Lowell, American Businessman 1816 Event American Colonization Society organizes 1816 Death Gouverneur Morris, American Statesman 1816 Birthday Charlotte Saunders Cushman, American Actress Benjamin Hawkins, American Diplomat American Bible Society forms in New York American Bible Society organized in New York James McHenry, American Politician Daniel Waters, American Soldier 1814 Birthday Edwin M. Stanton, American Lawyer 1814 Event Battle of Lake Champlain, New York; American Navy defeats British David Wilmot, American Activist 1813 Death Edmund Randolph, American Lawyer 1813 Birthday Stephen Douglas, American Politician James Dwight Dana, American Scientist John Charles Fremont, American Soldier 1812 Birthday Fernando Wood, American Politician Thomas Gold Appleton, born in Boston, Massachusetts, American critic, writer, and artist Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking 1811 Birthday Orson Pratt, American Theologian Francis Bowen, American Philosopher Judah Philip Benjamin, American Politician 1811 Event Venezuela, 1st South American country to gain independence from Spain Matthew Simpson, American Clergyman 1811 Death William Eaton, American Soldier 1810 Birthday Eliza Johnson, American First Lady Theodore Parker, American Theologian Robert Purvis, American Activist P. T. Barnum, American Entertainer Margaret Fuller, American Critic 1810 Event 1st insurance co managed by blacks, American Insurance Company of Philadelphia 1809 Birthday Robert Charles Winthrop, American Politician 1808 Birthday Lysander Spooner, American Philosopher Salmon P. Chase, American Politician Salmon Portland Chase, American Politician 1807 Birthday Gamaliel Bailey, American Journalist Robert E. Lee, American Soldier 1806 Birthday Henry A. Wise, American Statesman 1806 Death Timothy Dexter, American Businessman Henry Knox, American Soldier Nathaniel Willis, writer/editor/founder, American Monthly Mag Nathaniel Parker Willis, American Author 1805 Birthday Henry Wells, founder, American Express Co and Wells Fargo and Co William Lloyd Garrison, American Journalist 1805 Event Opera "Thais" 1st American performance American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England 1804 Birthday Alvin Adams, American Businessman 1803 Death Samuel Hopkins, American Clergyman 1803 Birthday Gerald Griffin, American Author John Barry, 1st American commodore, dies 1802 Birthday Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist 1802 Death Daniel Morgan, American Soldier Leonard Bacon, American Clergyman 1801 Birthday William H. Seward, American Statesman 1800 Birthday Benjamin F. Wade, American Politician Caleb Cushing, American Diplomat 1799 Birthday Titian Ramsey Peale, U.S., artist/naturalist, American Ornithology 1799 Death Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary 1798 Death James Wilson, American Politician John Fitch, American inventor, clockmaker, etc, dies 1798 Birthday Ethan A. Hitchcock, American Soldier Anson Jones, American Public Servant 1797 Birthday Charles Anthon, American Writer Daniel Drew, American Businessman Gerrit Smith, American Politician 1797 Event Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks 1796 Death Anthony Wayne, American Soldier 1796 Birthday James Lick, American Celebrity George Catlin, U.S., author/painter, American Indian scenes 1796 Event U.S. State Department issues 1st American passport William Pennington, American Lawyer 1795 Birthday John P. Kennedy, American Soldier 1795 Death William Prescott, American Revolutionary soldier, dies Ezra Stiles, American Clergyman 1794 Birthday William Cullen Bryant, American Poet 1794 Death Richard Henry Lee, American Politician 1793 Event Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva 1st American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick 1793 Birthday Lucretia Mott, American Activist 1792 Death Henry Laurens, American Politician 1792 Birthday Sarah Moore Grimke, American abolitionist/women's rights advocate George Mason, American Statesman 1791 Birthday Duff Green, American Politician 1791 Death Isaac Low, American Businessman 1790 Birthday Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, American Lawyer 1790 Event Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage John Eaton, American Politician Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth John Bachman, American Clergyman 1789 Birthday James F. Cooper, American Novelist 1789 Event 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published 1788 Birthday Adoniram Judson, American Clergyman James Gadsden, American Politician 1787 Event 1st American comedy, "The Contrast," made its debut in New York City 1784 Birthday Bernard Barton, American Poet 1783 Birthday Simon Greenleaf, American Judge Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule 1783 Death James Otis, American lawyer, dies 1782 Birthday John C. Calhoun, American Statesman 1781 Event 9,000 American forces and 7,000 French forces begin siege of Yorktown 1780 Birthday Philip Hone, American Politician Richard Mentor Johnson, American Politician 1780 Event British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC Richard Rush, American Lawyer 1780 Death Thomas Hutchinson, American Politician William Duane, American Lawyer 2nd oldest learned society in U.S. (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) forms (Boston) American Academy of Arts and Science founded John McKinley, American Politician 1778 Event Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass 1777 Event British troops occupy Philadelphia during American Revolution Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery 1777 Death John Bartram, father of American botany, dies at 77 1776 Event Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls" British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested 1776 Death Francis Salvador, 1st Jew to die in American Revolutionary War Thomas Hickey, American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged France and Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels 1775 Event American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal 1775 Birthday Lyman Beecher, American Clergyman American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army Francis Cabot Lowell, American Businessman Louisa Catherine Adams, American First Lady 1774 Event 1st American colonial decl of rights with sinking of Peggy Stewart 1774 Birthday Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint, 1975 John Wilbur, American Clergyman William Bainbridge, American Soldier 1772 Birthday William Wirt, American Statesman 1772 Death John Woolman, American Clergyman 1771 Birthday Hosea Ballou, American Clergyman Charles Brockden Brown, father of American novel, Wieland 1770 Death George Whitefield, American Clergyman 1770 Event Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd. Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom 1768 Event 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn) Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes 1766 Birthday Samuel Wilson, American Public Servant 1766 Death Jonathan Mayhew, American Clergyman 1764 Birthday Edward Livingston, American Judge William Eaton, American Soldier 1762 Birthday Nathaniel Smith, American Politician 1760 Event Native American hostages killed in Ft. Prince George 1759 Birthday Joshua Barney, American Soldier 1759 Event 1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia 1757 Birthday Joseph Anderson, American Politician Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary 1755 Birthday Tench Coxe, American Economist 1754 Birthday Jack Jouett, American patriot Benjamin Hawkins, American Diplomat 1753 Birthday James McHenry, American Politician Edmund Randolph, American Lawyer William Hull, American Soldier 1752 Birthday Gouverneur Morris, American Statesman Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution, The American Village Betsy Ross, American Celebrity 1751 Event 1st American cricket match is played 1750 Event 1st American school to offer manual training courses opens, Md 1750 Birthday Henry Knox, American Soldier 1st American Shakespearean production-"altered" Richard III, New York City 1748 Birthday Daniel Smith, American Politician Elias Hicks, American Clergyman Casimir Pulaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general Timothy Dexter, American Businessman Luther Martin, American Politician 1746 Birthday Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American Statesman 1745 Birthday Henry Rutgers, American Soldier 1745 Event American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston Anthony Wayne, American Soldier 1743 Event 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall) 1742 Birthday Nathanael Greene, American Revoluntionary War General 1741 Birthday John Langdon, American Politician 1741 Event Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine (American Magazine) 1740 Birthday Elias Boudinot, lawyer/patriot, found American Biblical Society 1739 Birthday William Bartram, American Environmentalist 1738 Birthday John Singleton Copley, Massachusetts, finest colonial American artist George III, English King during American Revolution, 1760-1820 1737 Birthday John Hancock, American Politician 1736 Birthday Daniel Morgan, American Soldier 1735 Birthday Hugh Williamson, American Politician John Morgan, American physician-in-chief of Continental Army Isaac Low, American Businessman 1733 Event Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston 1732 Event 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, New York City 1732 Birthday Martha Washington, born in the Province of Virginia, 1st American First Lady, 1789 - 1797 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, Philadelphia Richard Henry Lee, American Politician 1731 Birthday Martha Washington, American First Lady Daniel Waters, American Soldier 1729 Birthday Charles Thomson, American Public Servant George Leonard, American Lawyer Henry William, Baron, Stiegel, early American glassmaker 1727 Birthday Ezra Stiles, American Clergyman William Samuel Johnson, American Politician 1725 Birthday George Mason, American Statesman 1724 Birthday Henry Laurens, American Politician 1721 Birthday Samuel Hopkins, American Clergyman 1720 Birthday John Woolman, American Clergyman Jonathan Mayhew, American Clergyman 1715 Event 1st English patent granted to an American, for processing corn 1714 Birthday George Whitefield, American Clergyman 1711 Birthday Jupiter Hammon, 1st American black to publish poetry, Complete Works Thomas Hutchinson, American Politician 1710 Birthday David Wooster, American Soldier 1702 Event War of Spanish Succession, 1st American conflict between England and France 1699 Birthday John Bartram, naturalist/explorer, father of American botany 1693 Event New York City authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies 1691 Death Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason 1691 Event Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service 1690 Event Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money 1681 Event English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania 1676 Event 1st war between American colonists and Indians ends in New England 1675 Event 1st American commercial corporation chartered (New York Fishing Co) 1672 Death Anne Bradstreet, American poet, dies (birth date unknown) 1664 Event 1st naturalization act in American colonies 1662 Event 1st American lime kiln begins operation (Providence RI) 1649 Death Thomas Shepard, American Clergyman 1647 Death Thomas Hooker, clergyman, father of American democracy, dies 1642 Event Georgeana (York) Maine became the 1st incorporated American city 1639 Event 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware) 1630 Death John Billington, murderer, 1st American execution, hanged 1630 Event Fork introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop 1629 Event 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia 1623 Event 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia 1621 Event Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth Mass 1607 Event 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va 1605 Birthday Thomas Shepard, American Clergyman 1587 Birthday Virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents 1519 Event Pizarro receives royal charter for South American west coast 1503 Event Casa Contratacion (Board of Trade) found (Spain) to deal with American affairs
