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2013 Event - The 2013 National Poetry Competition is won by Patricia McCarthy

2013 Event - In China, Premier Wen Jiabao addresses the National People's Congress announcing the country's 2013 goal of a 7.5% growth rate in GDP

2013 Event - Estonia becomes the first country in the world to establish a national electric car charging network , with cars charging in less than 30 minutes

2013 Event - Parliamentary elections are held in Monaco, with the the Horizon Monaco alliance winning 50.3% of the vote, securing 20 of 24 seats in the country's National Council

2013 Event - Austria holds a national referendum on whether or not to retain its system of conscription for the army and social service for young men; they vote to keep military service compulsory

2013 Event - The European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, reveals that the EU is planning regulatory action to facilitate consolidation of the telecommunications market across national borders

2013 Event - For the first time since 1996, no candidates were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame

2013 Event - The President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, declares that official documents must use the words 'State of Palestine'

2013 Event - Ray Lewis, U.S. football linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League, announces plans for retirement at the end of the season

2012 Event - Kgalema Motlanthe, Deputy President of South Africa, challenges party leadership by President Jacob Zuma at the opening of the African National Congress (ANC)

2012 Event - An early work by noted childhood fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen, titled, 'The Tallow Candle", is found at the bottom of a filing box at the National Archives of Funen

2012 Event - Philippine President Benigno Aquino, announces a state of national calamity after Typhoon Bopha claims over 450 lives

2012 Event - Burmese President Thein Sein and National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi meet U.S. President Barack Obama, the country's first visit from a sitting U.S. President

2012 Event - Sisters Eva Hoffe and Ruth Wiesler, who inherited valuable documents belonging to Franz Kafka and his colleague Max Brod are ordered to turn the documents over to the National Library in Tel Aviv

2012 Event - Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf, Chairman of Libya's legislative authority, the General National Congress, says al-Qaeda elements who fought with rebels in Libya's civil war number "up to 200" in Libya

2012 Event - Japan appoints its new finance minister, Koriki Jojima, and Seiji Maehara as its new minister of national strategy and economic policy

2012 Event - Japanese automakers announce plans to cut output in China; they announce plans to suspend operations in the country until after National Day

2012 Event - The National Zoo in Washington, D.C., announces a successful artificial insemination as Mei Xiang gives birth to her second giant panda cub

2012 Event - The expiration of a collective bargaining agreement causes the National Hockey League player lock out

2012 Event - The U.S. Surgeon General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Army Secretary, release a new U.S. national strategy to prevent suicides; the strategy uses Facebook as a tactic

2012 Event - At the National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, the U.S. Democratic Party vote three separate times in order to approve putting the terms, 'God', 'Jerusalem', and 'Israel' back into the platform

2012 Event - U.S. National Park officials notify 3,100 recent visitors of an outbreak of Hantavirus sourced to tent cabins in Yosemite National Park

2012 Event - At the National Convention in Tampa, Florida, the U.S. Republican Party nominates Mitt Romney as its candidate in the 2012 presidential election

2012 Event - In China, thousands protest plans to introduce national patriotism lessons in Hong Kong school, labeling it Chines propaganda

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candidate Ron Paul announces he will end his campaign, but that he will still try to obtain delegates before the Republican National Convention in August

2012 Event - New Delhi hosts the 59th National Film Awards; 'Deool' and 'Byari' win the Award for Best Feature Film

2012 Event - Leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, is sworn in as a member of Pyithu Hluttaw, Burma's lower house of the parliament

2012 Event - After 70 years, two papers on Alan Turing's theory of code-breaking are released to the U.K.'s National Archives

2012 Event - Owner of the New Orleans Saints, Tom Benson, agrees to purchase the New Orleans Hornets from the National Basketball Association for an estimated $338 million

2012 Event - Libya's National Transitional Council admits it faces a national crisis amidst and escalation of violence and militia rule

2012 Event - After two decades of being closed due to civil war, the Somali National Theater reopens in Mogadishu

2011 Event - Financial disputes lead New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to report that the National September 11 Museum will not open on time

2011 Event - The U.S. Library of Congress intends to preserve the thriller 'Silence of the Lambs' as part of its National Film Registry

2011 Event - Drew Brees, quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, sets a new National Football League record for yards passing in a season

2011 Event - A report claiming nearly all research on chimpanzees is scientifically unjustified causes the U.S. National Institute of Health to place a moratorium on new studies using chimpanzees

2011 Event - Protesters storm the national Parliament in Kuwait; Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah and his cabinet, resign

2011 Event - Parliament gives the new Greek Prime Minister, Lucas Papademos a vote of confidence, opening the doors for national unity to help restore financial stability in Greece

2011 Event - Thailand's Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, reveals it is impossible to protect Bangkok from flooding; calls the floods a 'national crisis'

2011 Event - The Libyan National Transitional Council will move to Tripoli from Benghazi next week

2011 Event - The National Diet of Japan, Japan's bicameral legislature, approves Yoshihiko Noda as its new Prime Minister

2011 Event - Libya's National Transitional Council raises concerns about the mass killing of political prisoners by Muammar Gaddafi's government

2011 Event - Japan's National Police Agency discloses that 90% of cyberattacks on its web site came from IP addresses in the People's Republic of China

2011 Event - The Chairman of the National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil announces Muammar Gaddafi's regime has collapsed

2011 Event - The U.S. National Football League ratifies a new collective bargaining agreement which includes provisions for human growth hormone tests

2011 Event - The U.K. government recognizes the National Transitional Council and expels Libyan diplomats loyal to Muammar Gaddafi

2011 Event - In Iran, the Central Bank of Iran launches a website which it will use to poll Iranians on planned economic reforms and changing the national currency

2011 Event - In Egypt, the court orders the former ruling National Democratic Part of Hosni Mubarak be dissolved

2011 Event - The U.S. Democratic National Committee appoints Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz Chairwoman

2011 Event - The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports 32,788 traffic deaths; the lowest number of deaths since 1949

2011 Event - National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller resigns after a scandal involving NPR executives

2010 Event - A male Algerian is fined by a court in Nice for insulting the French national flag; this was the first such penalty ever to be administered

2010 Event - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is granted temporary powers to pass laws by decree, negating any required review or support from the National Assembly

2010 Event - Wikileaks releases 250,000 classified documents and sensitive national security information sent by U.S. embassies; the U.S. condemns the unauthorized disclosure

2010 Event - Union of Myanmar changes its name to Republic of the Union of Myanmar, and changes the design of the national flag

2010 Event - A Southampton University research fellow discovers a lost Antonio Vivaldi flute concerto at the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh

2010 Event - Uganda's Wildlife Authority announces that some animals in the country's national parks and game reserves have doubled in population since 1999

2010 Event - A crowd of 500,000 people attend a 'Restoring Honor' rally hosted by Glenn Beck at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

2010 Event - Hawaii's Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument and Sri Lanka's central highlands are added to the World Heritage List

2010 Event - President Obama meets with Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority, and promises Palestinians $400 million in U.S. assistance for the West Bank and Gaza

2010 Event - Bolivian president Evo Morales Ayma and United National Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon discuss climate change

2010 Event - Nepal declares a national day of mourning in honor of Girija Prasad Koirala, the 'elder statesman of South Asia' who dies in Kathmandu at age 86

2009 Event - Slovakia replaces its national currency, the Slovak koruna, with the Euro

2004 Event - President Bush signs the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Act of 2004 which reorganizes intelligence agencies and creates position of national security director

2004 Event - Former President Gerald Ford suffers a stroke during the Republican National Convention

2002 Death - Barbara Rowell, photographer, National Geographic, dies at 54

2002 Death - Galen Rowell, photographer, National Geographic, dies at 61

2000 Death - Frank Wills, often unemployed security guard, he the Democratic National Committee office in the Watergate Building had been burgled in June 1972, dies at 52

2000 Death - Robert Trent Jones, golf course architect, Augusta National Course, dies at 93

1997 Death - Mary Louise Smith, first woman to chair the Republican National Committee, dies at 82

1997 Event - Women's National Basketball Association begins as New York Liberty beats LA Sparks

1997 Event - 70th National Spelling Bee: Rebecca Sealfon wins spelling euonym

1997 Event - PBA National Championship Won by Rick Steelsmith

1997 Event - Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Diet Dr. Pepper National Pro-Am

1997 Event - Palm Beach National LPGA Pro-Am

1997 Event - Mark O'Meara wins Pebble Beach National Golf Pro-am

1996 Death - McGeorge Bundy, U.S. national security advisor (1961-66), dies at 77

1996 Event - PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper

1996 Event - 69th National Spelling Bee: Wendy Guey wins spelling vivisepulture

1995 Event - 68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis

1995 Death - Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, British national park warden, dies at 87

1995 Event - President Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City

1995 Death - Cleo Brown, pianist, performed on National Public Radio, dies at 91

1995 Event - Congress party loses India national election

1995 Event - PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander

1994 Event - National Museum of American Indian opens (New York City)

1994 Event - 67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian

1994 Death - George Gennimatas, Greek minister of National Economy, dies at 55

1994 Event - Anne P. Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of National History

1994 Event - PBA National Championship won by David Traber

1994 Death - Charles "Chub" Feeney, baseball President (National League), dies at 72

1993 Event - 66th National Spelling Bee: Geoff Hooper wins spelling kamikaze

1993 Death - Oliver R Tambo, chairman (African National Congress), dies at 75

1993 Event - PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr

1992 Death - Paul E Garber, 1st curator (National Air and Space Museum), dies at 93

1992 Event - Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Rep National Convention

1992 Event - 65th National Spelling Bee: Amanda Goad wins spelling lyceum

1992 Event - William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame

1992 Event - PBA National Championship Won by Eric Forkel

1991 Event - San Diego State's Marshall Faulk is 1st freshman to capture national rushing and scoring titles

1991 Event - 91st U.S. Golf Open: Payne Stewart shoots a 282 at Hazeline National Golf Club Minnesota

1991 Event - The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication

1991 Event - 64th National Spelling Bee: Joanne Lagatta wins spelling antipyretic

1991 Event - PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller

1991 Event - Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll

1990 Death - Anne Revere, actress (National Velvet), dies of pneumonia at 87

1990 Event - Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years

1990 Event - Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego)

1990 Event - Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at Reds-Padres game

1990 Event - Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at San Diego Padre game

1990 Event - "Les Miserables," opens at National Theatre, Washington

1990 Event - Marla Maples father sues National Enquirer for $12M

1990 Event - Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress

1990 Event - Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die

1990 Event - 63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne

1990 Event - Former president PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party

1990 Event - South Africa and African National Congress open talks to end apartheid

1990 Event - National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards

1990 Event - John Poindexter (National Security Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal

1990 Event - PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak

1990 Event - 1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing

1990 Event - South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African National Congress

1989 Event - Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki

1989 Event - 62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator

1989 Event - African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam

1989 Event - FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader

1988 Death - Generoso Pope, Jr., National Enquirer owner, dies at 61

1988 Event - New York City's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark

1988 Death - Oren Lee Staley, 1st President of National Farmers Org (1955-79), dies at 65

1988 Event - 61st National Spell Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal

1987 Event - "Les Miserables" opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik

1987 Event - Sam's Town National Bowling Pro-Am won by Debbie Bennett

1987 Event - 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins

1987 Event - 69th PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots 287 at PGA National Palm Beach

1987 Event - Chris Johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am

1987 Event - Molly Yard elected new President of National Org for Women

1987 Event - 60th National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci

1987 Event - Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show

1987 Event - National Museum of Female Physician opens in Washington D.C.

1987 Event - National Federation of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)

1987 Event - Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide

1986 Event - A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League

1986 Event - Congress selects the rose as U.S. national flower

1986 Event - Amy Alcott wins LPGA National Golf Pro-Am

1986 Event - Kuwait's National Assembly (Majlis al Umma) dissolves

1986 Event - P. W. Botha declares South African national emergency

1986 Event - 59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia

1986 Event - U.S. national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000

1986 Event - "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper)

1985 Event - Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament

1985 Event - 58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu

1985 Event - French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)

1985 Event - National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike

1984 Event - Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day)

1984 Event - 57th National Spelling Bee: Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge

1984 Event - National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike

1984 Event - Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections

1983 Event - Nigeria's National Assembly dissolves after military coup

1983 Event - 25th Ryder Cup: U.S., 14 -13 at PGA National Golf Club Florida

1983 Event - 56th National Spelling Bee: Blake Giddens wins spelling purim

1983 Event - 1st National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed

1983 Event - 1st National Coin Week begins

1982 Event - 11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland

1982 Event - 1st live orchestra on commerical network since 1954 (National Symphony)

1982 Event - National railroad strike in Belgium

1982 Event - Stephabue Hix, of Alabama, 18, crowned Miss National Teen-Ager

1982 Event - ABC national music radio network scheduled premiere (never happened)

1982 Event - 55th National Spelling Bee: Molly Dieveney wins spelling psoriasis

1982 Death - Melville Bell Grosvenor, President National Geographic Society, dies at 80

1982 Birthday - Jessica Joseph, born in Royal Oak, Michigan, dance skater, Butler-1997 National

1982 Event - National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27

1981 Event - Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1981 Event - U.S. national debt tops $1 trillion

1981 Event - Vernon Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League

1981 Event - National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men

1981 Event - Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of National Bar Association

1981 Event - 54th National Spelling Bee: Paige Pipkin wins spelling sarcophagus

1980 Event - National Black Independent Party forms

1980 Birthday - Timothy Goebel, born in Evanston, Illinois, figure skater, 1996 National, Jr. champ

1980 Event - U.S. swimmers set 3 world records at National championships

1980 Event - 53rd National Spelling Bee: Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate

1980 Event - Attempted assassination on Vernon Jordan, Jr. National Urban League president

1980 Event - Donna Caponi Young Pro-Am wins LPGA National Golf Tournament

1980 Birthday - Aubrie Rippner, born in Los Angeles, California, tennis star, 1995 USTA National Girls 18

1979 Birthday - James Allen, born in Portland, Oregon, James Deshaune Allen, football player, linebacker, played for National Football League, attended Oregon State University, chosen 82nd overall in 2002 NFL Draft by the New Orleans Saints, now a free agent

1979 Event - St. Vincent and Grenadines becomes independent of U.K. (National Day)

1979 Event - Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, Texas (national record)

1979 Event - National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, New York) dedicated

1979 Event - Dr. Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab

1979 Event - 52nd National Spelling Bee: Katie Kerwin wins spelling maculature

1979 Birthday - Jonny Wilkinson, born in Frimley, England, professional rugby union player, member of the England national team, considered one of the world's best rugby players

1979 Event - National Volksraad installed in Namibia

1979 Event - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament

1979 Event - President Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh

1978 Birthday - Amber Corwin, Harbor City California, figure skater, 1997 National Sr - 5th

1978 Event - Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size

1978 Event - President Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio

1978 Event - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open

1978 Event - USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing, New York

1978 Event - Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua Nicaragua

1978 Event - 51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins spelling deification

1978 Birthday - Mike Bryan, born in Oxnard, California, tennis star, USTA National 18 doubles

1978 Event - Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup

1978 Event - Red Rum wins 3rd consecutive Grand National and retires

1977 Event - Linda Ronstadt sings national anthem at World Series

1977 Event - Joanne Carner/Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Team Golf Championship

1977 Event - Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open

1977 Birthday - Shaun Alexander, born in Florence, Kentucky, football, running back, played college football at University of Alabama, drafted by Seattle Seahawks, placed 19th overall in 2000 National Football League Draft

1977 Event - 50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist

1977 Event - Coup in Seychelles, National Day

1977 Birthday - Jere Michael, Aspen, Colorado, figure skater, 1994 National, Jr. champ

1977 Birthday - Diane Halber, Torrance, California, fig skater, 1996 National Collegiate champ

1977 Birthday - Vince Carter, born in Daytona Beach, Florida, professional basketball player, shooting guard and small forward for Orlando Magic National Basketball Team

1976 Event - Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national

1976 Event - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open

1976 Event - 49th National Spelling Bee: Tim Kneale wins spelling narcolepsy

1976 Event - Elections in Vietnam for a National Assembly to reunite the country

1976 Death - Gerald Smith, antisemite / catholic, National Christian Crusade, dies at 78

1976 Event - 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students

1976 Event - Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consec national figure skating champions

1975 Event - Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)

1975 Event - Netherlands grants Suriname independence (National Day)

1975 Event - Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day)

1975 Event - 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Tech Labs, Miss

1975 Event - Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day)

1975 Event - Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open

1975 Event - Sao Tome e Principe gains independence from Portugal (National Day)

1975 Event - Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day)

1975 Event - 48th National Spelling Bee: Hugh Tosteson wins spelling incisor

1975 Event - Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea National Day)

1974 Event - National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing

1974 Event - Austr National Gallery buys W de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000

1974 Event - Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day)

1974 Event - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open

1974 Event - 47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte

1974 Event - Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1974 Birthday - Juan Roque, born in San Diego, California, professional football player, offensive tackle, played for the National Football League's Detroit Lions

1973 Event - Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship

1973 Event - PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony

1973 Event - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open

1973 Birthday - Sergey Brin, born in Moscow, Soviet Union, computer scientist, Google co-founder, speaker, National Academy of Engineering inductee

1973 Event - WPBA National Championship won by Betty Morris

1973 Event - National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections

1973 Event - 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe

1973 Event - John and Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence

1973 Birthday - Michael Joyce, born in Santa Monica, California, tennis star, 1989 USTA National Boys' 18

1972 Birthday - Luis Figo, born in Almada, Portugal, professional soccer player, midfielder, 2001 FIFA World Player of the Year, won 127 caps for the Portuguese national soccer team

1972 Event - Golden Gate National Recreation Area created

1972 Event - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open

1972 Event - Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee

1972 Event - White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National headquarters at the Watergate Hotel

1972 Event - UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title

1971 Birthday - Todd Eldredge, Chatham Massachusetts, figure skater, 1997 National Sr champ

1971 Birthday - Ernest Faber, born in Geldrop, Netherlands, professional soccer player, played for the Netherlands national football team, PSV Eindhoven, FC Groningen and Sparta Rotterdam

1971 Birthday - Mary Joe Fernandez, Dominican Republic, tennis player, U.S. National 16s

1971 Birthday - Kenny Cunningham, born in Dublin, Ireland, professional soccer player, defender, won 70 caps for the Republic of Ireland national football team

1971 Event - Vernon E Jordan, Jr., appointed executive director of National Urban League

1971 Event - 44th National Spelling Bee: Jonathan Knisely wins spelling shalloon

1971 Death - Max Trapp, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement, dies at 83

1971 Event - National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga, Tennessee

1971 Event - All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations

1971 Event - Sierra Leone becomes a republic (National Day)

1971 Event - Fort Point, San Francisco dedicated as a national historic site

1971 Event - South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion

1971 Death - Whitney M Young, Jr., leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at 49

1971 Event - 53rd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA National Florida Jack Nicklaus wins his 2nd golf grand slam

1971 Event - National Emergency Center erroneously orders U.S. radio and TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes

1971 Death - Whitney Young, Jr., National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria

1971 Event - National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC

1971 Event - Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota established

1970 Event - Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1970 Death - Ralph W. Sockman, Protestant pastor, author, successful radio show, National Radio Pulpit, considered by Time magazine as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S., dies at age 80

1970 Event - 70th U.S. Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 281 at Hazeltine National Minn

1970 Event - 43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant

1970 Event - National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U

1970 Event - National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio

1970 Death - 4 students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard

1970 Event - Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)

1970 Birthday - Adam Keefe, born in Irvine, California, professional basketball player, power forward, played in the National Basketball Association with the Utah Jazz for nine years

1970 Event - Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League

1969 Birthday - Ben Iroha, born in Aba, Nigeria, professional soccer player, played for the Nigerian national team, head coach, Nigeria's Dolphins FC

1969 Death - Marion Lloyd Vince, fencer (National champ 1928, 31), dies at 63

1969 Event - Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)

1969 Event - Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem National Conv) begins

1969 Event - Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles national elections

1969 Event - National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

1969 Event - 31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years

1969 Event - The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO

1968 Event - PBA National Championship won by Wayne Zahn

1968 Event - "National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning

1968 Event - Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1968 Event - Police and anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem National Conven

1968 Event - Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1968 Event - National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism and demands aid given to blacks

1967 Event - United Soccer Association and National Pro Soccer League merge into NASL

1967 Event - A's drop grievance filed with National Labor Relations against C Finley

1967 Birthday - Deborah Lee, Hamilton Ontario, LPGA golfer, 1989 National Amat France

1967 Event - Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes

1967 Birthday - Paul Gascoigne, born in Dunston, England, professional soccer player, nicknamed Gazza, midfielder, capped 57 times for the England national soccer team

1967 Event - PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network

1966 Event - Barbados gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1966 Event - National Organization of Women founded

1966 Event - Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1966 Event - Botswana (Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1966 Birthday - Salma Hayek, born in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, actress, Mexican national, most prominent Mexican figure in Hollywood, fights discrimination against immigrants

1966 Event - National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioting

1966 Event - National Welfare Rights Organization organizes

1966 Death - Gilbert H Grosvenor, president National Geographic Society, dies at 90

1966 Event - Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE

1965 Event - Singapore gains independence from Malaysia, National Day

1965 Event - Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1965 Event - Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument

1965 Event - Gambia gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1965 Event - Senator Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the national flower

1964 Birthday - Jon Hough, Royal Oak, Michigan, Nike golfer, 1986 NAIA Individual National Champ

1964 Event - Zambia (N Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1964 Event - San Francisco cable cars declared a national landmark

1964 Event - Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem

1964 Birthday - Richard Dunwoody, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, British jockey in National Hunt Racing, won King George VI Chase four times on the famous grey Desert Orchid in 1989 and 1990

1964 Event - Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract

1963 Event - John F. Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery

1963 Event - Lyndon Baines Johnson proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for John F. Kennedy)

1963 Event - "Mona Lisa," on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art

1962 Event - U.S. National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope

1962 Event - Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day)

1962 Death - Hanns Eisler, composer (North Vietnam/East German National Anthem), dies at 64

1962 Event - Trinidad and Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day)

1962 Event - Burundi and Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days)

1962 Event - U.S. national debt above $300,000,000,000

1961 Birthday - Ian Rush, born in St. Asaph, Wales, soccer player, footballer, striker, played with Liverpool FC, Welsh national football team

1961 Birthday - Sunny Deol, born in New Delhi, India, actor, action movie star, director, producer, winner, two National Film Awards, hit film 'Gadar: Ek Prem Katha'

1961 Event - Amsterdam National Ballet forms

1961 Event - Whitney Young, Jr. named executive director of National Urban League

1961 Event - Haleakala National Park forms in Hawaii

1961 Birthday - Gary Varsho, born in Marshfield, Wisconsin, Gary Andrew Varsho, baseball player, outfielder, played for Major League Baseball teams, the Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, played in 1991 and 1992 National League Championship Series

1961 Event - Largest check issued, National Bank of Chicago to Sears ($960.242 billion)

1960 Event - Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)

1960 Event - French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons

1960 Event - Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1960 Event - Gabon gains independence from France, National Day

1960 Event - Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate

1960 Event - National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated

1960 Event - Syracuse National Dolph Schayes is 1st NBA'er to score 15,000 points

1959 Birthday - Keith Allen Clearwater, born in Long Beach, California, PGA golfer, 1987 Colonial National

1959 Event - 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park

1959 Event - Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)

1958 Event - Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X

1958 Birthday - Carlos Carson, born in Lake Worth, Florida, football player, wide receiver, played in ten National Football League seasons, from 1980 to 1989, all time Pro Bowl NFL player

1958 Event - Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)

1958 Event - Central African Republic made autonomous member of French Community (National Day)

1958 Event - Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day)

1958 Event - National Defense Education Act was signed

1958 Event - President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central High School, Little Rock

1958 Event - National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA

1958 Event - Syracuse National Dolph Schayes sets NBA record at 11,770 points

1957 Event - Elvis Presley given draft notice to join U.S. Army for National Service

1957 Birthday - Glenn Hoddle, born in Hayes, London, soccer team manager for Swindon Town, formerly played for Swindon Town, National Football Museum Hall of Fame inductee

1957 Event - Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school

1957 Birthday - Hansi Muller, born in Stuttgart, Germany, athlete, footballer, played for German national football team

1957 Event - 1st National Curling Championship held

1957 Birthday - Faith Daniels, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, news anchor, CBS News, at age 27 was one of the youngest national news anchors ever, first journalist to host daily talk show, A Closer Look, 1991

1956 Event - Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia

1956 Birthday - 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

1956 Event - Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam

1956 Event - Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day)

1956 Event - East Germany forms own army (National People's Army)

1955 Birthday - Ann Bancroft, born in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, author, teacher, adventurer, Arctic and Antarctic explorer, National Women's Hall of Fame inductee

1955 Birthday - Alan Hansen, born in Sauchie, Scotland, professional football player, television pundit, played for Liverpool, Scottish national team, and Patrick Thistle

1955 Birthday - Robert Feld, born in Nashville, Tennessee, National Scrabble Champion 1990

1955 Event - U.S. Assay Office in Seattle, Washington closes Chase National (3rd largest bank) and Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan

1955 Birthday - Tim Young, born in Ontario, Canada, athlete, former professional ice hockey center in the National Hockey League

1954 Event - 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution

1954 Event - Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA National Capital Golf Open

1953 Event - French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy

1953 Event - Albert W. Dent, elected president of National Health Council

1953 Birthday - Linda Lingle, born in St. Louis, Missouri, politician, Republican, 6th Governor of Hawaii, chairman, 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City

1953 Event - Malans National Party wins South African elections

1953 Event - "Maggie" closes at National Theater New York City after 5 performances

1953 Event - "Maggie" opens at National Theater New York City for 5 performances

1953 Birthday - Robert Brazile, born in Mobile, Alabama, football player, linebacker, played for National Football League's Houston Oilers and Kansas City Chiefs, nicknamed 'Dr. Doom', named 1975's NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year

1953 Event - NFL's National and American conference become Eastern and Western conf

1953 Event - NFL Pro Bowl: National Conference beats American Conference 27-7

1952 Birthday - John Francome, born in Swindon, England, jockey, National Hunt Champion Jockey seven times, apprenticed with Fred Winter, presenter for horseracing broadcasts on Channel 4

1952 Event - General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day)

1952 Birthday - Gary Bettman, born in Queens, New York City, commissioner, National Hockey League, formerly, general counsel and president, National Basketball Association

1952 Birthday - Zoltan Kocsis, born in Budapest, Hungary, composer, pianist, conductor, musical director, Hungarian National Philharmonic

1952 Event - Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card

1952 Birthday - Mike Varty, born in Detroit, Michigan, athlete, American football linebacker for the National Football League

1952 Birthday - John Cornyn, born in Houston, Texas, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Texas, Chairman, National Republican Senatorial Committee for the 111th U.S. Congress

1952 Event - NFL Pro Bowl: National Conference beats American Conference 30-13

1951 Event - Snowdonia becomes a National Park in Wales

1951 Event - Ford Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League

1951 Event - "Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater New York City after 37 performances

1951 Event - "Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater New York City for 37 performances

1951 Birthday - Dale Earnhardt, auto racer, 7-time NASCAR national champion

1951 Birthday - Lee Atwater, Republican National Committee Chairman, 1989-91

1951 Birthday - Bonnie Lauer, born in America, professional golfer, won National Collegiate Championship playing for Michigan State University, won 2 LPGA Tours, served as 1988 LPGA President

1950 Event - Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast

1950 Event - National Council of Church of Christ in U.S. forms

1950 Birthday - Frank Murray, Australian field hockey national coach, 1992, 1996 Olympics

1950 Event - Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competetor in national tennis competition

1950 Event - 12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: CCNY beats Bradley 71-68 New York City college becomes 1st to win NCAA and National Inv Basketball in same year

1950 Event - 1st annual National Book Awards

1950 Event - Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of National China on Formosa

1950 Birthday - Clarence Ellis, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, football player, safety, played with National Football League's Atlanta Falcons, drafted in first round of 1972 NFL Draft

1950 Event - "Lend an Ear" closes at National Theater New York City after 460 performances

1950 Event - 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington D.C.

1949 Event - German Dem Rep formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day)

1949 Event - People's Rep of China proclaimed by Mao Tse-tung (National Day)

1949 Event - National Military Establishment renamed Department of Defense

1949 Event - NBL and NBAA merge into National Basketball Association

1949 Event - Basketball Assoc of America and National Basketball League merge to form National Basketball Association

1949 Birthday - Jean Potvin, born in Ottawa, Ontario, hockey player, National Hockey League, played defenseman for the Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota North Stars, Philadelphia Flyers

1949 Birthday - Joe Lavender, born in Rayville, Louisiana, football cornerback, played for National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins

1948 Event - "Lend an Ear" opens at National Theater New York City for 460 performances

1948 Event - Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)

1948 Event - "Hold It!" opens at National Theater New York City for 46 performances

1948 Event - Britain's National Health Service Act begins

1948 Event - Republican National Convention in Philadelphia nominates New York Governor Thomas Dewey

1948 Event - National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time

1948 Event - "Hold It!" closes at National Theater New York City after 46 performances

1948 Birthday - Boyd Matson, TV host/correspondent, National Geographic Explorer

1948 Event - "Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater New York City after 734 performances

1947 Event - National Security Act, passes

1947 Event - National Security Act establishes CIA

1946 Event - Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%)

1946 Birthday - Neil MacGregor, director, British National Gallery

1946 Event - Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy, National Day

1946 Event - KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands

1946 Event - Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1946 Event - "Call Me Mister" opens at National Theater New York City for 734 performances

1946 Event - "Day Before Spring" closes at National Theater New York City after 167 performances

1946 Birthday - Timothy Clifford, director, National Galleries of Scotland

1946 Event - National Assembly proclaims Hungary a republic

1945 Event - "Day before Spring" opens at National Theater New York City for 167 performances

1945 Birthday - Patricia Ireland, feminist/president, National Organization of Women

1945 Death - John McCormack, Irish singer (Irish national anthem/folk songs), dies

1945 Event - Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day)

1945 Birthday - Jewell Jackson McCabe, President, national coaltion of 100 black women

1945 Event - Polish Provisional Government of National Unity set up by Soviets

1945 Event - Day of Unity in West Germany, National Day

1945 Event - Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)

1945 Birthday - Robert Key, MP/British undersecretary for National Heritage

1945 Event - Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)

1945 Birthday - Sam Abell, born in Toledo, Ohio, photographer, published in National Geographic, artistic photographic style, noted for transcendent qualities, graduate, University of Kentucky, photographic books include 'The Photographic Life', 'The Life of a Photograph'

1944 Event - Albania liberated from Nazi control (National Day)

1944 Event - Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day)

1944 Event - Romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)

1944 Event - Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation

1944 Birthday - Peter Ryan, British national director, Police Training

1944 Birthday - Margo MacDonald, Scotish national broadcaster

1944 Birthday - R. J. B. Knight, deputy director, National Maritime Museum

1943 Event - WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters

1943 Event - "International" is no longer U.S.S.R. National Anthem

1943 Event - National Committee Freies Deutschland forms

1943 Event - WEB DuBois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters

1943 Event - National Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes

1943 Event - Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in 5,000m at national AAU track and field championship in NY

1943 Death - Richard Sears, 1st to win U.S. amateur national tennis match, dies at 81

1943 Birthday - Ian Robertson, British museum director, National Army Museum

1943 Birthday - Richard Eyre, British director, National Theatre

1942 Event - Anti fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms

1942 Event - National Organization for Aid to Underground, LO, forms

1942 Event - National Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving in armed services

1942 Event - Admiral Nimitz' B-17 finding Guadalcanal using National Geographic map

1942 Birthday - Neil Chalmers, director, National History Museum, London

1942 Death - Reimond Tollenaere, leader Flemishch National Front, dies at 81

1942 Event - National War Labor Board created

1941 Event - German occupiers forbid National Front and Netherland Union

1941 Birthday - Daniel Pinkwater, born in Memphis, Tennessee, author, children's books, critic, commentator, National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Saturday

1941 Birthday - George Will, born in Champaign, Illinois, journalist, author, wrote, editor, National Review magazine 1972 - 1978, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

1941 Event - National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. opens

1941 Event - National Gallery of Art opens in Washington D.C.

1940 Event - 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0

1940 Birthday - Lord Davies, chairman, Welsh National Opera

1940 Event - Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated

1940 Event - U.S. National Guard assembles

1940 Birthday - David Hart, General-Secretary, National Association of Head Teachers

1940 Birthday - Murray Sidlin, born in Baltimore, Maryland, conductor, National Symph 1973-77

1940 Event - Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government"

1940 Birthday - Braulio Baeza, jockey, National Horse Racing Hall of Famer

1939 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe

1939 Event - 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)

1939 Birthday - Eleanor Smeal, leader, National Organization for Women

1939 Birthday - Nganani Enos J Mabuza, South African leader, Inyandza National Movement

1939 Birthday - Robert Tear, born in Barry, Wales, tenor, Welsh National Opera 1970

1939 Event - Federal Hall National Monument established

1938 Event - National Semi-Pro Basketball Congress authorizes yellow basketball

1938 Event - Olympic National Park forms

1938 Death - Muhammad Iqbal, Brt E Indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, dies at 65

1938 Event - 1st U.S. bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase

1938 Event - National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY)

1938 Event - Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a U.S. national bank

1937 Event - U.S. Housing Authority created by National Housing Act

1937 Birthday - Varbara Ann Teer, U.S. actress/director, National Black Theatre Company

1937 Event - National Gallery of Art established by Congress

1936 Event - National Wildlife Federation forms

1935 Event - 1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis)

1935 Birthday - Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr., civil rights activist, National Urban League

1935 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs National Labor Relations Act

1935 Event - Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional

1935 Event - Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network

1935 Event - Fort Jefferson National Monument in Florida established

1934 Event - Ford Frick becomes president of baseball's National League

1934 Birthday - J. Carter Brown, Providence Rhode Island, art director, Washington National Gallery

1934 Birthday - Duncan Thompson, keeper, Scottish National Portrait Gallery

1934 Birthday - Simon Gournlay, president, British National Farmer's Union

1934 Event - Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated

1934 Birthday - Jan Wijn, born in Amsterdam, Holland, Dutch pianist, piano teacher, played contemporary classical music to national and international audiences

1934 Death - Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by National Guard

1934 Event - Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by National Guard

1934 Event - National and American baseball leagues select a uniform ball

1933 Event - Gustave "Staf" de Clerq forms Flemish National Covenant

1933 Event - National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law, later struck down

1933 Birthday - Tony Mullett, dir-general, National Criminal Intelligence Service

1933 Event - World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated

1933 Birthday - Darijan Bozic, born in Slavonski Brod, Croatia, composer, conductor, manager, artistic director of The Slovene National Theater Opera and Ballet Ljubljana

1933 Birthday - Craig L. Thomas, born in Wyoming, United States Senator from Wyoming, protected America's national parks

1933 Event - White Sands National Monument, New Mexico established

1932 Birthday - Ned Jarrett, auto racer/announcer, 50 Grand National victories

1932 Event - 1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, New York City

1932 Birthday - Elizabeth Southey, British CEO, National Federation of Women's Institutes

1932 Event - Government declares "Wilhelmus" Netherlands national anthem

1932 Event - German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)

1931 Event - Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish National Solidarists)

1931 Event - Congress makes "Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem

1931 Birthday - Ronald Hynd, British choreographer, English National Ballet

1931 Event - "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes U.S. national anthem

1931 Event - National League adopts a deader baseball

1931 Birthday - Nigel Vinson, born in England, Baron Vinson, businessman, served in Queen's Royal Regiment, Member of National Parks and Countryside Committee, Member of Foundation of Science and Technology

1930 Birthday - Clayton K. Yeutter, Nebraska, U.S. trade rep/Republican National chairman

1930 Birthday - Frank Carlucci, National Security Adviser and Secretary of Defense, 1987 - 1989

1930 Event - USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine

1930 Event - George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia established

1929 Event - 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes

1929 Event - President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park

1929 Event - Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence

1929 Event - Acadia National Park, Maine established

1928 Birthday - Jean-Marie le Pen, born in France, leader, National Front party

1928 Event - Republican National Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover

1928 Birthday - Zbigniew Brzezinski, born in Warsaw, national security advisor, Carter

1927 Birthday - Don Revie, English soccer coach, Leeds, National team

1927 Birthday - Michael Levey, director, British National Gallery

1927 Birthday - Trevor Holdsworth, CEO, National Power

1927 Birthday - Philip Wilkinson, deputy chairman, National Westminster Bank

1927 Event - Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank

1927 Event - Left wins national election in Thuringen

1927 Event - 1st national opera broadcast from a U.S. opera house (Faust, Chicago)

1926 Event - Facist national symbol elevated in Italy

1926 Event - NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms

1926 Event - National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America

1926 Birthday - Betsy Jolas, born in Paris, France, composer, studied at the Conservatoire national superieur de Musique, wrote vocal music, works recorded on EMI, Erato, performed by London Sinfonietta

1926 Event - National Bar Association incorporates

1926 Event - National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos

1926 Birthday - Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist, National Welfare Rights Association

1926 Birthday - Prunella Briance, founder, National Childbirth Trust

1925 Birthday - William F. Buckley, Jr., born in New York City, conservative author, commentator, founded 'The National Review'

1925 Birthday - Justin Kaplan, born in New York, New York, writer, editor, Pulitzer-prize winner and National Book Award-winner for biography on Mark Twain, edited Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition

1925 Event - 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, D.C.

1925 Birthday - Anne Harris, CEO, National Federation of Women's Institutes

1925 Birthday - Charles Henry Plumb, born in England, Charles Henry Plumb, Lord Plumb, Baron Plumb of Coleshill, County of Warwickshire, Conservative Party, politician, leading figure, National Farmers Union

1925 Birthday - Brent Scowcroft, born in Ogden, Utah, Lieutenant General, USAF, National Security Council

1925 Event - Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska

1925 Event - 1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkampferbund in Berlin

1924 Event - President Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument

1924 Event - Charles Paddock captures 100 and 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track and field championships

1924 Event - "National Barn Dance" premieres on WLS Chicago

1924 Birthday - Ikuma Dan, born in Tokyo, Japan, composer, graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, studied under famous opera composer Kosaku Yamada

1923 Event - Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president

1923 Birthday - Oren Lee Staley, 1st President of National Farmers Organization, 1955-79

1923 Event - Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico established

1922 Event - Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdul Medjid kalief

1922 Event - President Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem

1922 Event - Dedication of Frederick Douglas' home in Washington D.C. as national shrine

1922 Birthday - Campbell Adamson, CEO, Abbey National Pictures

1922 Event - Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish

1922 Event - Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference

1922 Birthday - Andre Asriel, born in Germany, composer, winner of 1951 National Prize for East Germany

1922 Event - American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League"

1922 Event - Lehman Caves National Monument established

1921 Birthday - Dobrica Cosic, born in Velika Drenova, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, now Serbia, writer, political, national theorist, first president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1992 - 1993, called 'Father of the Nation'

1921 Event - National Birth Control League and Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League

1921 Birthday - Pricilla Lanford Buckly, editor/columnist, National Review

1921 Event - Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)

1921 Event - Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system

1921 Event - National Hospital Day 1st observed

1921 Birthday - Kan Ishii, born in Tokyo, Japan, composer, famous for Symphonia Ainu, inspired by national primitivism, wrote orchestral and vocal music for film and stage, including music for science-fiction film Gorath

1921 Event - Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas

1920 Event - National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Professional Football Association

1920 Birthday - Bert Leysen, TV director, Belgian National TV

1920 Event - Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara

1919 Event - Canadian National Railways established (North America's longest, 50,000 KM)

1919 Event - 1st observance of National Book Week

1919 Event - American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis)

1919 Event - Democratic National Committee voted to allow female members

1919 Event - National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series

1919 Event - Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine

1919 Birthday - Lady Ricketts, CEO, National Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux

1919 Birthday - McGeorge Bundy, born in Boston, national security adviser, John F. Kennedy

1919 Event - Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)

1919 Event - Acadia National Park forms (as Lafayette N P), Maine

1919 Event - Congress forms Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona

1919 Event - German National Meeting accepts Anschluss: incorporation of Austria

1919 Event - National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party

1918 Event - John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League

1918 Event - Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park

1918 Event - National Urban League forms

1918 Event - Lithuania declares independence from Russia and Germany (National Day)

1917 Event - Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)

1917 Event - NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators and Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands

1917 Birthday - Oliver Tambo, co-founder, African National Congress

1916 Event - Department of Interior forms National Park Service

1916 Event - Hawaii National Park forms

1916 Event - 1st national congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java

1916 Event - National Defense Act establishes ROTC

1916 Event - 1st U.S. national women's swiming championships held

1915 Event - 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)

1915 Event - Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah is established

1915 Birthday - David Jenklins, librarian, National Library of Wales

1915 Event - National Baptist Convention chartered

1915 Event - ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)

1915 Event - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created

1915 Event - Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established

1913 Event - John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League

1913 Birthday - John Elliott Terry, managing director, National Film Finance Corp

1913 Birthday - Gyula David, born in Hungary, composer, violinist, conductor, studied at the Liszt academy, conducted for the National Theatre 1945 - 1949, wrote folk song music and 12 tone serial music

1913 Event - National Institute of Arts and Letters founded

1913 Event - National Woman's Party forms

1912 Event - National Council of Young Israel convenes

1912 Event - Albanian National Flag adopted

1912 Event - British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect

1912 Event - 1st National Hockey Association game (Victoria)

1911 Event - National Hockey Association forms with New Westminister, Vancouver and Victoria

1911 Event - Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan National Day)

1911 Birthday - Melvin M Payne, president, National Geographic Society

1911 Event - National Squash Tennis Association forms (New York City)

1910 Birthday - John Wooden, basketball coach, UCLA-10 national championships

1910 Birthday - Baroness Phillips, president and general secretary, National Association of Women

1910 Event - Montana's Glacier National Park forms

1910 Event - National Institute of Arts and Letters incorporated by Congress

1909 Event - Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League

1909 Birthday - Cleo Brown, born in Mississippi, pianist, vocalist, stage name Cleo Patra Brown, performed on National Public Radio, stride piano playing was compared to Fats Waller

1909 Birthday - Bukka White, born in Houston, Mississippi, Booker T. Washington White, gave cousin B.B. King his first guitar, celebrated as National steel guitarist, wrote "Parchman Farm Blues"

1909 Event - John A. Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League

1909 Event - Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women

1909 Event - Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands

1909 Event - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms

1908 Event - National Association of Colored Nurses, forms

1908 Birthday - Brinsley Ford, CEO, National Art Collections Fund

1908 Event - Natural Bridges National Monument forms near Lake Powell, Utah

1908 Birthday - Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, national Park Warden

1908 Event - Pinnacles National Monument, California established

1908 Event - Muir Woods National Monument, California established

1907 Event - Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral

1907 Birthday - Paul Mellon, U.S., oil magnate/president, Washington National Gallery of Art

1907 Birthday - Nathan M. Pusey, born in Iowa, educator, National Association for Social Sciences-1963

1907 Birthday - Ralph F. Marston, born in Malden, Massachusetts, Ralph Fulsom Marston, professional football player, played with National Football League's Boston Bulldogs, 1929

1907 Event - Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to National Inst of Arts and Letters

1906 Event - Washington National's pitcher Tom Hughes hits home run to win his own game 1-0 in 10th

1906 Birthday - Marion Lloyd Vince, born in Brooklyn, New York, fencer, National champ 1928, 31

1905 Event - French Assembly National votes for separation of church and state

1905 Birthday - Arnold Meijer, Dutch leader of fascist Dutch National/Black Front

1905 Event - Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall

1905 Event - National Association of Audubon Society incorporates

1904 Event - National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, New Jersey

1904 Event - J. M. Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish National Theater Society

1904 Event - National Ski Association forms in Ishpeming, Michigan

1903 Birthday - Glenna Collett Vare, born in Rhode Island, National Am Golf champ, 1922, 25, 28-30, 35

1903 Event - 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida

1903 Event - Baseball's National and American Leagues make peace

1903 Event - Wind Cave National Park, SD established

1902 Event - Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League

1902 Event - 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill)

1901 Event - National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms

1901 Event - Jewish National Fund starts

1901 Event - Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce

1899 Birthday - Paul E Garber, U.S. founder/1st curator of National Air and Space Museum

1899 Event - National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, forms

1899 Event - President McKinley signs bill creating Mount Rainier National Park (5th in U.S.)

1899 Event - Cuba liberated from Spain by U.S., known as National Day, U.S. occupies until 1902

1898 Event - National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY

1898 Event - Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chic

1897 Event - National Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association)

1897 Event - Michael Eagan wins 1st U.S. national amateur handball championship

1896 Event - 1st bare women breast (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Mag

1896 Event - Yosemite becomes a National Park

1896 Event - National Federation of Afro-American Women and Colored Women's

1896 Birthday - Thomas W. McKnew, president, National Geographic Society

1896 Birthday - Warren Giles, baseball's National League president

1896 Event - AFL charters Actors' National Protective Union, New York City

1895 Birthday - Freida Geiken, autobiographer, National Historic Taping

1895 Event - National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati

1894 Event - Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man

1894 Event - Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of)

1893 Birthday - Adriaan F. Dussenbroek, Dutch family dr/co-founder, Union National Arubano

1893 Event - The Critic reports that ice cream soda is our national drink

1892 Event - Entire Hong Kong national cricket team, die in shipwreck off Taiwan

1892 Event - National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded

1891 Event - National Forest Service organized

1891 Event - 1st motion picture shown to National Federation of Women's Clubs

1891 Death - Napoleon JKP Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention, dies at 68

1890 Event - Yosemite National Park forms

1890 Event - Congress establishes Yosemite National Park

1890 Birthday - Lauritz Melchior, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, baritone tenor, National Symphony

1890 Event - National Afro-American League forms in Chicago

1889 Birthday - Ralph W. Sockman, born in New York, New York, Protestant pastor, author, successful radio show, National Radio Pulpit, considered by Time magazine as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S.

1889 Event - 1st U.S. national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration

1888 Event - National Geographic magazine publishes for 1st time

1888 Event - National Geographic Society organizes in Washington D.C.

1888 Event - National Geographic Society founded in Washington, D.C.

1887 Birthday - Max Trapp, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement

1887 Event - To avoid disputed national elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act

1886 Event - 1st national accountants' society in U.S. formed (New York City)

1886 Event - Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized

1885 Birthday - John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor, National monument on the Dam

1885 Birthday - Alice Paul, ERA advocate/founder, National Woman's Party

1884 Event - Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention

1884 Event - John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party national convention chair

1884 Event - National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes in Atlanta

1883 Event - National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky

1880 Event - National Croquet League organizes in Philadelphia

1879 Event - National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter

1879 Event - 1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)

1879 Event - Custer Battlefield National Monument, Montana established

1879 Event - National Archery Association forms (Crawfordsville Ind)

1877 Event - Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention

1877 Event - Chase National Bank opens in New York City (later merges into Chase Manhattan)

1877 Event - Nez Perce-indians flee into to Yellowstone National Park

1876 Event - Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League

1876 Event - Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis

1875 Event - National Bowling Association organized in New York City

1874 Event - National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland

1872 Event - Republican National Convention meets, Philadelphia

1872 Event - 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans

1872 Event - Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park

1872 Event - 1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio)

1871 Event - National Rifle Association organized in New York City

1871 Event - Philadelphia Athletics beat Chicago for 1st National Association baseball pennant

1871 Event - Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour

1871 Event - 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft. Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double

1871 Event - National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized

1870 Event - New York Times dubs baseball "The National Game"

1870 Event - 1st U.S. National Wildlife Preserve, Lake Meritt in Oakland California

1870 Event - U.S. Army establishes U.S. National Weather Service

1869 Event - National Woman Suffrage Association forms

1869 Birthday - Ales Hrdlicka, U.S., anthropologist and curator, US National Museum

1869 Event - Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention

1869 Event - National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.

1868 Event - Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant

1867 Birthday - Stephen Mather, organized U.S. National Park Service

1867 Birthday - Ruben Dario, national poet, Nicaragua

1866 Event - 1st national convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org)

1866 Event - Frederick Douglass is 1st U.S. black delegate to a national convention

1866 Event - Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes

1865 Event - 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)

1864 Death - Antonio Gonalves Dias, Brazilian national poet, dies at sea

1864 Event - Lincoln formaly establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday

1864 Event - National black convention meets (Syracuse New York)

1863 Event - Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa

1863 Event - 1st bank chartered in U.S., National Bank of Davenport, Iowa

1863 Event - Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars and Bars"

1863 Event - Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences

1863 Event - Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences

1863 Event - Lincoln signs National Currency Act

1863 Event - Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency

1862 Death - Francisco Acuna de Figueroa, Uruguay national anthem, dies at 71

1859 Event - Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh

1857 Event - Gallaudet College (National Deaf Mute college) forms (Washington D.C.)

1857 Event - National Association of Baseball Players founded, New York

1856 Event - Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia

1856 Event - 1st national meeting of Republican Party in Pittsburgh

1854 Event - National emigration convention meets in Cleveland

1853 Event - National Black convention meets, Rochester New York

1852 Event - 1st interment in U.S. National Cemetery at Presidio

1850 Event - 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass

1849 Birthday - Elizabeth Harrison, U.S., educator, National Congress of Parents and Teachers

1849 Event - Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy

1848 Event - National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)

1845 Birthday - Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman President, National Educational Association

1844 Event - Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day)

1843 Event - 1st blacks participation in national political convention (Liberty Party)

1843 Event - National black convention meets (Buffalo New York)

1839 Event - Jem Mason on Lottery wins 1st Grand National Steeplechase (Britain)

1838 Event - National Galley opens in London

1836 Event - Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Pa

1836 Event - Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany New York)

1835 Event - 6th national black convention in Philadelphia

1834 Event - 5th national black convention meet, New York City

1833 Event - 4th national black convention meets in Philadelphia

1832 Event - 3rd national black convention meets, Philadelphia

1832 Event - 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore)

1831 Event - 2nd national black convention, Philadelphia

1831 Event - National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen-Coburg as King of Belgium

1825 Event - Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)

1825 Event - Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)

1822 Birthday - Napoleon J K P Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention

1822 Event - Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day)

1821 Event - Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)

1821 Event - Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)

1814 Event - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (National Day)

1814 Birthday - Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, national poet, painter and professor of Kiev

1814 Birthday - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet/painter, 3/9 NS,

1811 Event - Paraguay gains independence from Spain (National Day)

1810 Event - Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)

1810 Event - Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (National Day)

1809 Event - Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)

1804 Event - Haiti gains independence from France (National Day)

1801 Death - Herman H Vitringa, politician (National Meetings), dies

1799 Birthday - Frantisek L. Celakovsky, Czechoslovakian poet, national anthem, folk song

1798 Birthday - Adam B Mickiewicz, Poland, national poet, Pan Tadeusz

1797 Event - 2nd National Meeting in Hague

1796 Death - Pieter Paulus, lawyer/Dutch CEO (National Convention), dies at 41

1796 Event - 1st National Meeting in the Hague

1796 Death - Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, French National Convention chairman, dies at 46

1795 Event - "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem

1795 Event - James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 U.S. national debt

1794 Event - French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery

1792 Event - 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time

1791 Event - French Constitution passed by French National Assembly

1789 Event - 1st national Thanksgiving

1789 Event - French National Meeting declares all citizens equal under law

1789 Event - Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day

1789 Event - French National Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man and Citizen"

1789 Event - French National Meeting ending feudal system

1789 Event - 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly

1780 Event - Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian...," 1st sung

1779 Birthday - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager, Denmark, poet, National Poet 1849

1777 Event - 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender

1757 Birthday - Herman H Vitringa, politician, National Meetings

1754 Birthday - Pieter Paulus, Dutch lawyer/CEO, National Convention

1749 Birthday - Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, France, chairman, National Convention

1638 Event - Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convent, Greyfriars, Edinburgh

1580 Death - Luis Vaz de Camoes, Portugal's national poet (Os Lusiados), dies

1563 Death - John Bull, composer of British national anthem (God Save The King), dies

1524 Event - Emperor Karel I bans German national synode

1523 Event - Gustavus I becomes king of Sweden (Swedish National Day)

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