Adam is created.
Seth is born to Adam and Eve.
Enos is born to Seth.
2611 BC - Cainan is born to Enos.
Mahalaleel is born to Cainan.
Jared is born.
Enoch is born to Jared.
Methuselah is born to Enoch.
Lamech is born to Methuselah.
Noah is born to Lamech.
Shem is born to Noah.
Arphaxad is born to Shem.
2611 BC - Cainan is born to Arphaxad.
2481 BC - Shelah is born to Cainan.
2451 BC - Eber is born to Salah.
2417 BC - Peleg is born to Eber.
2387 BC - Reu is born to Peleg.
2355 BC - Serug is born to Reu.
2325 BC - Nahor is born of Serug.
2296 BC - Terah is born to Nahor.
2166 BC - Abraham is born in Ur of the Chaldees to Terah.
Isaac is born to Abraham and Sarah.
Jacob is born to Isaac.
Judah is born to Jacob and Leah.
Perez is born to Judah and Tamar.
Hezron is born to Perez.
Arni/Aram is born.
Admin is born.
Amminadab, Prince of Judah is born.
Nahshon is born to Amminadab of Judah.
Sala/Salmon is born.
Boaz of Judah is born to Salmon and Rahab.
Obed is born to Boaz and Ruth.
Jesse is born to Obed.
David, King of Israel is born.
Nathan/Solomon is born to King David and Uriah.
Mattatha is born.
Menna is born.
Melea is born.
Eliakim is born.
Jonam/Joram is born.
Joseph is born.
Judah is born.
Simeon is born.
Levi is born.
Matthat is born.
Jorim is born.
Eliezer is born.
Joshua/Josiah is born.
Er is born.
Elmadam is born.
Cosam is born.
Addi is born.
Melchi is born.
Neri is born.
Shealtiel is born.
Zerubbabel is born to Shealtiel.
Rhesa is born.
Joanan is born.
Joda is born.
Josech is born.
Semein is born.
Mattathias is born.
Maath is born.
Naggai is born.
Esli is born.
Naum is born.
Amos is born.
Mattathias is born.
Joseph is born.
Jannai is born.
Melchi is born.
Levi is born.
Matthat is born.
Heli is born.
Joseph is born.
063 BC - Caesar Augustus is born in Rome.
045 BC - Julius Caesar reforms Roman calendar with astronomer Sosigenes; decrees 1 year as 445
days to return to seasonal, solar calendar.
044 - Marcus Junius Brutus with Gaius Cassius Longinus plot against Roman dictator Julius
Caesar, to strike blow for the restoration of the Roman Republic: Result was more civil wars,
with Republican forces of Brutus and Cassius vs. Octavian and Mark Antony.
042 - Oct. - Cassius kills self after defeat by Antony at 1st Battle of Philippi, Greece.
042 - Oct. 23 - Brutus commits suicide after crushing defeat by Octavian and Antony at 2nd
Battle of Philippi.
005 BC - Christ Jesus is born in Bethlehem to Mary and Joseph.
A.D.
054 - Oct. 13 - Roman Emperor Claudius I dies, poisoned by his wife, Agrippina.
747 - Sunday, April 2 - Charlemange is born.
758 - Hildegarde is born.
778 - Aug. - Louis, I(the Pious) is born to Charlemange and Hildegarde.
783 - Wed., April 30 - Hildegarde dies at age 25.
800 - Charlemange is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome.
814 - Sat., Jan. 28 - Charlemange dies at age 66.
? - Gisela is born to Louis, I and Ermengarde.
818 - Oct. - Ermengarde dies.
828 - Saxons rule England beginning with Egbert.
836 - Otto, the Great is born to Ludolphe, V and Princess Hedwige.
840 - Sunday, June 20 - Louis, I dies at age 61.
? - Ludolphe, V is born to Gisela and Eberhard.
864 - Wed., Sept. 6 - Ludolphe, V dies.
876 - Henry I is born to Otto and Hedwige.
912 - Mon., Nov. 30 - Otto dies at age 76.
915 - Hugh, the Great is born.
922 - Adelaide is born to Henry I and Matilda.
936 - Sat., July 2 - Henry I dies at age 60.
939 - Hugh Capet is born to Hugh, the Great and Adelaide.
945 - Adelheid is born.
956 - Mon., June 16 - Hugh, the Great dies at age 41.
965 - Sunday, May 14 - Adelaide dies at age 43.
970 - Robert II is born to Hugh Capet and Adelheid.
987 - Hugh Capet is King of France.
996 - Thurs., Oct. 29 - Hugh Capet dies at age 57.
1004 - Adelheid dies at age 58.
1006 - Fri., May 10 - Henry I is born to Robert II and Constance.
1016 - Danes rule England beginning with Canute.
1031 - Tues., July 20 - Robert II dies at age 61.
1032 - Tues., July 25 - Constance dies.
1040 - Hugh is born to Henry I and Anne.
1042 - Saxons again rule England beginning with Edward the Confessor.
1057 - Sir Robert I, de Beaumont is born.
- Aug. 15 - Macbeth, King of Scotland, is slain by King Duncan's son.
1060 - Fri., Aug. 4 - Henry I dies at age 54.
? - Isabel de VermanDois is born to Hugh and Adelaide of Vermandois.
1066 - Sat., Oct. 14 - Normans under William I, the Conqueror, conquer the British at the Battle of Hastings.
1095 - Pope Urban II calls for Crusades.
1101 - Hugh dies at age 61.
1118 - Thurs., June 6 - Sir Robert I de Beaumont dies at age 61.
1120 - Adelaide of Vermandois dies.
? - Elizabeth deBeaumont is born to Robert I deBeaumont and Isabel de Verman Dois.
1130 - Richard deClare is born to Gilbert deClare & Elizabeth deBeaumont.
? - Saire de Quincy is born.
1131 - Fri., Feb. 13 - Isabel de Verman Dois dies.
1146 - William Marshall is born.
? - Robert de Quincy is born to Saire de Quincy.
? - Isabel deClare is born to Richard deClare and Eva MacMurrough.
1147 - Jan. 6 - Gilbert de Clare dies.
1154 - Plantagenets begin ruling England.
1177 - Eva MacMurrough deClare dies.
1180 - Sir Gilbert de Clare II is born.
? - Isabel Marshal is born to William Marshal and Isabel de Clare.
1189 - Sept. 3 - King Richard I's coronation in Westminster.
1215 - Magna Charta signed by John.
1219 - Tues., May 14 - William Marshall dies at age 73.
1222 - Thurs., Aug. 4 - Sir Richard deClare II is born to Sir Gilbert deClare II and Isabel
Marshall.
? - Maud deLacie is born to Baron John deLacie and Margaret deQuincy.
1226 - Sat. Oct. 3 - Francis of Assisi, founder of Franciscan order, dies.
1228 - St. Francis of Assisi canonized.
1230 - Fri., Oct. 25 - Richard de Clare dies at age 100.
and - Sir Gilbert de Clare II dies at age 50.
1239 - Mon., Jan. 17 - Isabel Marshall dies.
? - Gov. Thomas deClare is born to Richard deClare II and Maud de Lacie.
? - Thomas deClare is born to Gov. Thomas deClare & Julianne FitzMaurice.
1262 - Sat., July 15 - Sir Richard de Clare II dies at age 39.
1271 - Marco Polo's first trip to Asia.
1273 - Thomas Aquinas writes 'Summa Theologica'.
1274 - April 1 - Baron Robert deClifford is born to Thomas deClare.
1287 - Gov. Thomas de Clare dies.
1288 - Wed., March 10 - Maud de Lacie dies.
1299 - Baron Henry de Percy is born.
? - Idonea Clifford is born to Baron Robert deClifford and Maud de Clare.
1314 - Mon., June 24 - Baron Robert de Clifford dies at age 40.
1324 - Feb. 1 - Maud de Clare dies.
1331 - Baron John de Neville is born.
? - Maud dePercy is born to Baron Henry dePercy and Idonea Clifford.
1352 - Henry de Percy dies at age 53.
1364 - Sir Ralph Neville is born to Baron John deNeville & Maud de Percy.
1365 - Sunday, Aug. 24 - Idonea Clifford dies.
1387 - Chaucer writes 'Canterbury Tales'.
1388 - Sat., Oct. 17 - John de Neville dies at age 57.
? - John Ludlow, Sr. is born to William Ludlow and Margaret Rymer.
? - Anne Neville is born to Ralph Neville and Joan de Beauford.
1399 - Lancasters begin ruling England.
1425 - Sunday, Oct. 21 - Sir Ralph Neville dies at age 61.
1440 - Sunday, Nov. 13 - Joan de Beauford Neville dies.
? - John Ludlow, Jr. is born to John Ludlow and Leonora Ringwood.
? - William Blount is born to Lord Walter Blount and Anne Neville.
? - William Ludlow is born to John Ludlow and Philippa Bulstrode.
? - Elizabeth Blount is born to William Blount and Margaret Echingham.
1455 - Gutenberg's 'movable-type' printing press mass-produces Bible.
1461 - House of York begins ruling England.
1475 - Sir Walter Blount dies.
? - George Ludlow is born to William Ludlow and Jane Moore.
? - Edith Windsor is born to Baron Andrews Wyndsore and Elizabeth Blount.
? - Thomas Ludlow is born to George Ludlow and Edith Windsor.
1483 - Nov. 10 - Martin Luther is born in Eisleben, Germany.
1485 - Aug. 22 - King Richard III is slain at Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the War of the
Roses.
and - House of Tudor begins ruling England.
1492 - Aug. 3 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos, in command of the 'Santa María', the
'Pinta', the 'Niña' to locate a western sea route to the East's treasures.
- Oct. 12, Columbus' sighted land, claiming it for Spain.
- Columbus' claimed Hispaniola, establishing small colony of 39 men
1493 - March - Columbus' returned home with gold, spices, 'Indian' captives to highest honors
of Spanish court.
1493 - Sept. 25 - Christopher Columbus sails from Cadiz, Spain, with flotilla of 17 ships on
his 2nd voyage to America.
1509 - Michelangelo begins painting of ceiling of Sistine Chapel, Rome.
1513 - Sept. 25 - Vasco Nunez de Balboa crosses the Isthmus of Panama to reach the Pacific
Ocean.
1517 - Martin Luther posts his points of Reformation.
1521 - Nov. 2 - Pope excommunicates Martin Luther.
1522 - Magellan circum-navigates the globe
1537 - Oct. 12 - Prince Edward is born to Jane Seymour and King Henry VIII.
- Oct. 24 - Jane Seymour dies.
1540 - July 28 - Thomas Cromwell is executed then Henry VIII marries Catherine Howard.
1543 - Copernicus postulates 'Heliocentric Universe'.
1545 - Council of Trent authorizes Pope Paul III to reform calendar with mathematical and
astronomical data of Father Christopher Clavius, S.J.
1565 - Sept. 8 - Spanish expedition establishes 1st permanent settlement at St. Augustine,
Florida.
1582 - Thurs., Oct 4 - last day of Julian calendar; decrees Pope Gregory XIII, with Father
Clavius's advice.
- Fri., Oct 15 (next day); calendar based on formula of Aloysius Giglio, Vatican's librarian,
where each 4th year is leap-year unless the century year is not divisible by 400.
1587 - Wed., July 22 - 2nd English colony is established on Roanoke Island.
- Tues., Aug. 18 - Virginia Dare is born on Roanoke Island, N.C.
1590 - Wed., March 7 - Roger Ludlow,Esq. is born to Thomas Ludlow and Jane Pyle.
? - Ralph Gorham is born to James Gorham.
? - Elizabeth Tilley is born to John Tilley.
? - Francis Brewster, Jr. is born to Francis Brewster, Sr.
1603 - House of Stuart begins ruling England.
1605 - Cervantes' 'Don Quixote' published.
1608 - Wed., Sept. 10 - John Smith is President of Jamestown Colony Council.
1609 - Galileo's 1st astronomical observations with his telescope.
- Fri., Aug. 28 - Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
- Sat., Sept. 12 - Henry Hudson sails into the Hudson river.
1612 - James Badcock(e) is born to James Babcock in England.
1618 - Thurs., Jan. 25 - William Jayne is born in Bristol, England.
1619 - Tues., July 30 - 1st representative assembly convenes in Jamestown.
1620 - Rev. Nathaniel Brewster is born to Francis Brewster, Jr. and Lucy.
1621 - Thurs., Jan. 28 - John Gorham is born to Ralph Gorham.
1625 - John Lewis is born in Wales.
1627 - Sat., May 22 - Sarah Brown is born in England.
and - Desire Howland is born to John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.
? - George Hazard is born to Thomas Hazard and Martha.
? - Sarah Ludlow is born to Roger Ludlow and Mary Endicott.
1635 - Oct. 9 - Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1636 - Oct. 28 - Harvard College is chartered in Massachusetts.
1637 - Descartes publishes 'Discours de la méthode'.
1642 - Sept. 23 - Harvard College holds 1st graduation.
1643 - Ralph Gorham dies.
1644 - John Babcock is born to James Badcock(e) and Sarah Brown in Portsmouth, R.I.
1646 - Francis Brewster, Jr. is lost at sea.
1648 - Oct. 24 - Peace of Westphalia is signed ending 30 Years War and Holy Roman Empire.
1649 - Commonwealth of England begins.
1653 - Capt. George Denison, Jr. is born to George Denison, Sr. in Stonington, Connecticut.
- Dec. 16 - Oliver Cromwell is Lord Protector of England-Scotland-Ireland.
? - Ursula Stanhope is born to Sir John Stanhope.
? - Mary Hazard is born to George Hazard and Elizabeth Lawton.
? - Samuel Thompson is born to Rev. William Thompson and Abigail Collins.
1654 - William Champlin is born.
1655 - Rev. Nathaniel Brewster marries Sarah Ludlow in Dublin.
to Wyndsore genealogy
1657 - Jonathan Lewis is born to John Lewis and Sarah in Westerly, R.I.
1658 - Sunday, Jan. 20 - Mercy Gorham is born to John Gorham and Desire Howland in Barnstable,
Massachusetts.
- Wed., Sept. 3 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, dies.
1660 - House of Stuarts returns to ruling England.
1662 - Tues., Oct. 31 - Daniel Brewster, Sr. is born to Rev. Nathaniel Brewster and Sarah
Ludlow.
1663 - John Babcock marries Mary Lawton in Westerly, R.I.
1664 - Newton postulates 'Universal Gravitional Theorem'.
- Wed., Sept. 8 - Holland surrenders New Amsterdam to Britain.
1665 - Roger Ludlow,Esq. dies at age 74.
- Sarah Brown dies at age 37.
- Dennis Heartt, Sr. is born.
1666 - Sat., Sept. 2 - Great Fire breaks out in London.
1668 - Capt. John Babcock is born to John Babcock and Mary Lawton in Westerly, R.I.
1669 - Mary Champlin is born to William Champlin in Westerly, R.I.
- Hannah Brewster is born to Rev. Nathaniel Brewster and Sarah Ludlow.
1675 - Tues., Feb. 5 - John Gorham dies at age 54.
1676 - Anna Jayne is born to William Jayne and Anna Biggs.
1679 - Mon., June 12 - James Badcock(e) dies at age 67.
1680 - Wed. Aug. 21 - Pueblo Indians take back Santa Fe, N.M. from Spanish.
1682 - Thurs., Oct. 29 - William Penn lands at Chester, Pennsylvania.
1683 - Wed., Oct. 13 - Desire Howland Gorham dies at age 56.
1684 - Tues., Sept. 26 - Christopher Champl(a)in, Jr. is born to Christopher Champl(a)in, Sr.
in Newport, R.I.
1685 - John Babcock dies at age 41 in Westerly, R.I.
1689 - Dennis Heartt, Sr. marries Mary SeverSmith in Huntington, N.Y.
- Sunday, Sept. 11 - Elizabeth Denison is born to George Denison, Jr. and Mercy Gorham.
1690 - George Walker, Jr. is born to George Walker,DD and Ursula Stanhope.
- John Lewis dies at age 65.
- Mon. Dec. 18 - Rev. Nathaniel Brewster dies at age 70 in Brookhaven, NY.
1693 - Daniel Lewis is born to Jonathan Lewis and Jemima Whitehead in Huntington, N.Y.
- Jemima Whitehead dies.
- Daniel Brewster, Sr. marries Anna Jayne.
1694 - Mon., Nov. 1 - Daniel Brewster, Jr. is born to Daniel Brewster, Sr.and Anna Jayne.
? - William Brinton, Jr. is born to William Brinton, Sr.
1695 - Dennis Heartt, Jr. is born to Dennis Heartt, Sr. & Mary SeverSmith.
1698 - Professor Erhard Weigel persuades Germany and the Netherlands to use the Gregorian
calendar.
- Fri., Sept. 5 - Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards in Russia.
1699 - Mercy is born.
1700 - Dennis Heartt, Sr. dies at age 34 in Huntington, N.Y.
- Capt. John Babcock marries Mary Champlin.
1701 - Sunday, Oct. 9 - Collegiate School is chartered in New Haven, Conn.
1705 - Sat., Dec. 5 - Christopher Champl(a)in, Jr. marries Elizabeth Denison in Westerly, R.I.
1706 - Sunday, May 2 - Stephen Babcock is born to Capt. John Babcock and Mary Champlin.
1707 - Sunday, Sept. 4 - Anna Thompson is born.
1710 - Jonathan Lewis dies at age 52 in Huntington, N.Y.
1711 - Sunday, Nov. 8 - Mary Lawton-Hazard Babcock dies in Westerly, R.I.
- Sun., Dec. 27 - George Denison, Jr. dies at age 58 in Narragansett, R.I.
1714 - Sat., March 24 - William Jayne dies at age 96.
- House of Hanover begins ruling England.
? - Mary Thompson is born to Samuel Thompson and Hannah Brewster.
1715 - Sunday, Dec. 1 - William Champlin dies at age 61.
1717 - Mon., April 19 - Nehemiah Heartt, Sr. is born to Dennis Heartt, Jr.
1718 - Sat., April 2 - Anna Sell is born.
1719 - Tues., Jan. 10 - Elizabeth Champl(a)in is born to Christopher Champl(a)in, Jr. and
Elizabeth Denison in Westerly, R.I.
1721 - Bach composes Brandenburg Concertos
- Sunday, Aug. 24 - Daniel Brewster IV is born to Daniel Brewster III and Anna Sell.
? - George Walker III is born to George Walker, Jr. and Isabella Maxwell.
? - Mary Brinton is born to William Brinton, Jr. and Jane Thatcher.
? - William Hall, Jr. is born to Judge William Hall.
? - Arnold Belcher is born to Benjamin Belcher and Sarah Collins.
1725 - Mon., Sept. 24 - Mercy Gorham dies at age 67 in Westerly, R.I.
1729 - Sat., July 30 - Baltimore is founded.
- Sat., Sept. 24 - Joseph Fisher is born.
1732 - Fri., Feb. 22 - George Washington is born in Virginia.
- Fri. Dec. 19 - Benjamin Franklin publishes 'Poor Richard's Almanac'.
1734 - Sat., Oct. 23 - Christopher Champl(a)in, Jr. dies at age 50 in Westerly, R.I.
1735 - Anna Jayne dies at age 58.
- Sun. Oct. 30 - President John Adams is born in Braintree, Massachusetts.
1738 - Sunday, July 27 - Rev. Oliver Babcock is born to Stephen Babcock and Anna Thompson in
Westerly, R.I.
1739 - V-President George Clinton is born in N.Y.
1742 - Daniel Brewster, Sr. dies at age 79.
- Mary Thompson dies.
1743 - Thurs., Jan. 24 - Nehemiah Heartt, Sr. marries Mercy Lewis in Huntington, N.Y.
- Sat., April 13 - Thomas Jefferson is born in Virginia.
1744 - Mon., June 1, 1744 - Ann Cary is born.
- V-President Elbridge Gerry is born in Massachusetts.
1745 - Wed., Oct. 27 - Nehemiah Heartt, Jr. is born to Nehemiah Heartt, Sr. and Mercy Lewis in
Huntington, N.Y.
1746 - Mary Champlin dies at age 76 in Westerly, R.I.
- Mon., March 28 - Capt. John Babcock dies at age 78 in Westerly, R.I.
- Sat., Oct. 22 - Princeton University is chartered in New Jersey.
1748 - Sat., Sept. 21 - Daniel Lewis dies at age 55 in Huntington, N.Y.
1749 - Arnold Belcher marries Elizabeth Champl(a)in.
- Sat., Nov. 22 - Elizabeth Denison dies at age 60 in Charlestown, R.I.
- Sylvia Belcher is born to Arnold Belcher and Elizabeth Champl(a)in.
1750 - Dennis Heartt, Jr. dies at age 54 in Huntington, N.Y.
1751 - Fri., March 16 - President James Madison is born in Virginia.
1752 - England shifts to Gregorian calendar.
1753 - James Benson is born in Ireland.
- Daniel Brewster, Jr. dies at age 58.
1754 - Tues., Dec. 10 - Mary Brewster is born to Daniel Brewster, III and Anna Sell in
Brochaven, N.Y.
? - George Brinton Walker is born to George Walker III and Mary Brinton.
? - Mary Hall is born to William Hall, Jr. and Elizabeth Smith.
? - James Tyler, Jr. is born to James Tyler.
1755 - Samuel Johnson publishes Dictionary of the English Language.
1756 - Vice-President Aaron Burr is born in New Jersey.
1758 - Sat., April 28 - President James Monroe is born in Virginia.
- Sat., Sept. 29 - Admiral Horatio Nelson is born.
- Sunday, Nov. 25 - British capture Fort Duquesne, Pittsburgh, as French-Indian War
continues.
1761 - Thurs., July 2 - Rev. Oliver Babcock marries Sylvia Belcher in Westerly, R.I.
- Mon., March 9 - Mary Taylor is born in Little York, Pennsylvania.
1762 - Thurs., Nov. 18 - Mercy dies at age 63 in Huntington, N.Y.
1766 - Tues., Sept. 9 - 2nd Continental Congress adopts 'United States' for 'United Colonies'.
1767 - Sunday, Mar 15 - President Andrew Jackson is born in South Carolina.
- Sat., July 11 - President John Quincy Adams is born in Massachusetts.
1769 -Watt patents steam engine.
- Fri., Aug. 15 - Napoleon Bonaparte is born on Corsica.
1770 - Sat., Aug. 1 - William Clark, explorer, is born.
- Wed., Dec. 16 - Ludwig van Beethoven is born in Bonn, Germany.
1773 - Fri., Feb 9 - President William Henry Harrison is born in Virginia.
- Sunday, Dec. 16 - Boston's Tea Party with American colonists on board British ship dumping
more than 300 chests of tea overboard to protest tea taxes.
1774 - V-President Daniel D. Thomkins is born in N.Y.
- Thurs. Sept. 5 - 1st Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
1775 - Tues., Jan. 10 - Anna Thompson Babcock dies at age 67.
- Tues., Aug. 22 - King George III proclaims American colonies in state of open rebellion.
- Mon., Sept. 25 - British capture Ethan Allen as he led attack on Montreal.
- Fri., Oct. 13 - Continental Congress orders construction of naval fleet.
- Fri., Nov. 10 - Continental Congress authorizes organization of U.S. Marines.
- Fri., Dec. 22 - Stephen Babcock dies at age 69.
and - Continental Naval fleet organized under Commander Ezek Hopkins.
1776 - United States' Declaration of Independence
written.
Adam Smith publishes 'Wealth of Nations.'
- Sunday, Sept. 15 - British troops occupy N.Y.C.
- Sunday, Sept. 22 - Nathan Hale is hanged as spy by the British.
- Wed., Oct. 9 - Spanish missionaries settle in San Francisco.
- Sunday, Dec. 8 - Gen. George Washington's Army retreats across Delaware River from N.J. to
Pennsylvania.
- Thurs., Dec. 19 - Thomas Paine publishes American Crisis writing, "These are the
times that try men's souls".
1777 - James Benson marries Mary Taylor in York County, Pennsylvania.
- Thurs., July 31 - The Marquis de Lafayette, at 19, is Major-General in the American Continental Army.
- Fri., Sept. 19 - American troops win 1st Battle of Saratoga.
- Fri., Sept. 26 - British troops occupy Philadelphia.
- Fri., Oct. 17 - British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrender to American troops in Saratoga, N.Y..
- Fri., Dec. 12 - Samuel Fisher is born to Joseph Fisher and Ann Cary.
- Wed., Dec. 17 - France recognizes American independence.
- Fri., Dec. 19 - Gen. George Washington leads Army of ca. 11,000 to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania for winter.
1778 - Sunday, March 22 - Nehemiah Heartt, Jr. marries Mary Brewster in Huntington, N.Y.
1779 - Sunday, Aug. 1 - Francis Scott Key, composer of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' is born.
- Thurs., Sept. 23 the American warship Bon Homme Richard defeats the HMS Serapis after
Commander John Paul Jones says, "I have not yet begun to fight!"
1780 - Wed., March 29 - Oliver Babcock, Jr. is born to Rev. Oliver Babcock and Sylvia Belcher
in Westerly, R.I.
- V-President Richard M. Johnson is born in Kentucky.
- Sat., Sept. 23 - British spy John Andre is captured with papers revealing Benedict Arnold's
plot to surrender West Point to the British.
1781 - Elizabeth Johnson is born.
- Tues., Sept. 4 - Spanish settlers found Los Angeles.
1782 - V-President John C. Calhoun is born in South Carolina.
- Wed., Aug. 7 - General George Washington creates 'Order of the Purple Heart' at his
headquarters, Newburgh, NY, as 'Badge for Military Merit,' a decoration consisting of a purple,
heart-shaped piece of silk, edged with a narrow binding of silver, with the word Merit
stitched across the face in silver, to be presented to soldiers for "any singularly meritorious action" and permitting its wearer to pass guards and sentinels without challenge. The honoree's name and regiment were to be inscribed in a "Book of Merit."
- Thurs., Dec. 5 - President Martin Van Buren is born in Kinderhook, N.Y.
1783 - Thurs., Jan. 23 - Anna/Annie Heart(t) is born to Nehemiah Heartt, Jr. and Mary Brewster in Troy, N.Y.
- Mon., March 31 - William Benson is born to James Benson and Mary Taylor in Miller's Station,
Kentucky.
- Thurs., Dec. 4 - General George Washington says farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in N.Y.
1784 - Fri., Feb. 13 - Rev. Oliver Babcock dies at age 45 in Westerly, R.I.
- Wed., Nov. 24 - President Zachary Taylor is born in Orange County, Virginia.
1786 - V-President William R. King is born in North Carolina.
1787 - United States' Constitution written.
- Sept. 17 - US Constitution signed by 38 of 41 delegates present at conclusion of Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia.
1788 - Tues., Dec. 23 - Maryland votes to cede 100-square-mile area for seat of the national
government; 2/3s is District of Columbia.
1789 - Wed., Sept. 2 - U.S. Treasury Department is established.
- Fri., Sept. 11 - Alexander Hamilton is appointed 1st Secretary of the Treasury.
- Tues., Sept. 15 - U.S. Dept. of Foreign Affairs is now Dept. of State.
- Tues., Sept. 22 - Congress authorizes office of Postmaster-General.
- Thurs., Sept. 24 - Congress passes the 1st Judiciary Act, establishing U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Supreme Court, tribunal of 6 justices to serve until death or retirement - President Washington nominates John Jay, chief justice, and John Rutledge, William Cushing, John Blair, Robert Harrison, James Wilson as associate justices.
- Fri., Sept. 25 - 1st U.S. Congress adopts 12 amendments, sending these to the states for
ratification.
- Sat., Sept. 26 - Thomas Jefferson is appointed 1st Secretary of State; John Jay 1st U.S. Chief Justice; Samuel Osgood 1st Postmaster-General; Edmund Jennings Randolph 1st Attorney General.
- Tues., Sept. 29 - U.S. War Dept. establishes Army with several hundred troops.
- Thurs., Nov. 26 - Day of Thanksgiving for the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
1790 - Feb. 1 - 1st session of US Supreme Court meets in Royal Exchange Building, Broad St., NYC, with Chief Justice John Jay presiding.
- Sunday, Mar 29 - President John Tyler is born in Virginia.
- Sylvia Belcher dies at age 50.
- Sun., Aug. 1 - First U.S. Census shows a 3,929,214 people in 17 states.
- Wed., Aug. 4 - Revenue Cutter Service begins.
1791 - Sat., April 23 - President James Buchanan is born in Pennsylvania.
- Fri., Sept. 30 - Mozart's 'The Magic Flute' premiers in Vienna.
- Mon., Dec. 5 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies at age 35 in Vienna.
- Thurs., Dec. 15 - Bill of Rights is law.
- V-President George M. Dallas is born in Pennsylvania.
- Sat., Oct. 13 - Cornerstone of Executive Mansion is laid during ceremony in D.C.
1793 - Wed., Sept. 18 - Washington lays cornerstone of U.S. Capitol.
- Mon., Oct. 28 - Eli Whitney applies for patent on cotton gin.
1794 - March - Eli Whitney receives patent on cotton gin.
- Wed., Sept. 10 - Blount as 1st commercial college is chartered.
1795 - James Benson dies at age 41 in Miller's Station, Kentucky.
- Sunday, Nov. 2 - President James Polk is born in North Carolina.
1796 - Fri., July 22 - Cleveland is founded by Gen. Moses Cleveland.
- Jenner discovers smallpox vaccine
- Mon., Sept. 19 - Washington's farewell address is published.
- Sunday, Nov. 20 - Nehemiah Heartt, Sr. dies at age 79.
1797 - Sat., Oct. 21 - U.S. Constitution, a.k.a. Old Ironsides, launches from Boston harbor.
- Sun. Oct. 22 - Andre-Jacques Garnerin parachutes from balloon at 3,000'.
1800 - Tues., Jan. 7 - President Millard Fillmore is born in N.Y.
- Wed., Oct. 1 - Spain secretly cedes Louisiana to France.
1803 - Wed., July 13 - Margaret Leach is born in Virginia.
- Thurs., Oct. 20 - U.S. Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
1804 - Fri., Oct. 19 - Oliver Babcock, Jr. marries Anna/Annie Heart(t) in Ithaca, N.Y.
- Fri., Nov. 23 - President James Pierce is born in New Hampshire.
- Sunday, Dec. 2 - Napoleon's Coronation as Emperor of France.
1805 - Mon., Oct. 21 - British fleet under Adm. Horatio Nelson defeats French-Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar; Nelson is killed.
1806 - March - Anna Sell dies at age 87.
- Tues., April 15 - Squire James Tyler Walker, Sr., is born to Capt. William Robert Walker and
Catherine Tyler in Salem, N.J.
- Tues., Sept. 23 - Lewis and Clark returns to St. Louis from Pacific NW.
1807 - Capt. William Robert Walker marries Catherine Tyler.
- Robert Fulton tests steamboat 'Clermont' on Hudson River.
1808 - Sat., Aug. 27 - Nehemiah Heartt, Jr. dies at age 62 in Troy, N.Y.
- Beethoven composes Fifth Symphony
- Thurs., Dec. 29 - President Andrew Johnson is born in North Carolina.
1809 - Sunday, Feb. 12 - Abraham Lincoln is born in Kentucky.
- V-President Hannibal Hamlin is born in Maine.
1811 - Wed., Oct. 30 - Mary Brewster dies at age 56 in Troy, N.Y.
1812 - V-President Henry Wilson is born in New Hampshire.
- Fri., Dec. 18 - Daniel Brewster III dies at age 91.
1813 - Rachel P. is born in Pennsylvania.
- Prudence Sharp is born to Benjamin Sharp and Elizabeth Wright.
- Fri., Sept. 10 - Oliver H. Perry sends, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours," after U.S. naval forces defeat Britain in Battle of Lake Erie as the War of 1812 continues.
- Sunday, Oct. 10 - Giuseppe Verdi, composer, is born in Le Roncole, Italy.
1814 - Cadwallader M. Griffith, Jr. is born to C.M. Griffith, Sr.
- Silas Pollard is born to William Pollard and Amite Clarke.
- Sunday, Sept. 11 - The U.S. fleet is victorious over the British in the Battle of Lake
Champlain as the War of 1812 continues.
- Sept. 14 - Francis Scott Key, an American lawyer, pens lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner"
after witnessing the US flag's survival following the British 1,800-bomb assault of Fort McHenry,
Maryland, during War of 1812, while detained on a British ship.
- Sept. 20 - After Francis Scott Key's lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner" circulated as a handbill, they're published in a Baltimore newspaper set to the tune of "To Anacreon in Heaven," an English drinking song composed by British composer John Stafford Smith.
1815 - Tues., Aug. 8 - Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for St. Helena after crushing defeat at Battle of Waterloo.
- Wed., Dec. 10 - Mississippi is admitted as the 20th state.
1816 - Wed., Dec. 11 - Indiana becomes the 19th state.
1818 - Thurs., Dec. 3 - Illinois is admitted as 21st state.
1819 - Queen Victoria is born.
- Tues., April 27 - William Benson marries Margaret Leach in Owensville, Indiana.
- V-President William A. Wheeler is born in N.Y.
- V-President Thomas A. Hendricks is born in Ohio.
- Sunday, Aug. 1 - Herman Melville, author, is born.
1820 - Florence Nightingale is born.
1821 - V-President John C. Breckinridge is born in Kentucky.
1822 - Ann(e) Charlotte Burtis is born to Jesse Burtis and Elizabeth in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- Mon., April 22 - Ullysses S. Grant is born in Ohio.
- Sat., July 20 - Henry Oliver Babcock is born to Oliver Babcock, Jr. and Anna Heart(t) in Troy, N.Y.
- Fri., Oct. 4 - President Rutherford B. Hayes is born in Ohio.
1823 -V-President Schuyler Colfax is born in N.Y.
- Tues., Dec. 2 - President Monroe outlines Doctrine opposing European expansion in the
Western Hemisphere.
- Tues., Dec. 23 - Clement C. Moore's A Visit from St. Nicholas is published in Troy, N.Y. Sentinel.
1824 - V-President Levi P. Morton is born in Vermont.
1826 - Sunday, Aug. 20 - James Allen Robinson is born to John Robinson in Warren Co., Kentucky.
- Niepce takes first photograph
1828 - Thurs., April 10 - Oliver Babcock, Jr. dies at age 48 in Troy, N.Y.
1829 - James Smithson, English scientist, dies in Italy, leaving will that if his only nephew died without issue, his estate would go to "the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase and diffusion of
knowledge."
- Thurs., July 23 - William Burt patents the 'typographer' in Mount Vernon, Michigan.
- Tues., Sept. 29 - Scotland Yard is created from London's police force.
1830 - John E. Martin is born in England.
- plans for the city of Chicago are laid out.
- Tues., Oct. 5 - President Chester A. Arther is born in Vermont.
1831 - Fri. Feb. 18 - Mary Elizabeth H(au)ser is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- Sat., Nov. 19 - President James A. Garfield is born in Ohio.
1832 - Thurs., July 19 - Anna/Annie Heart(t) Babcock dies at age 49 in Troy, N.Y.
- Mon., Nov. 26 - Streetcars begin in N.Y.C. for fare of 12 1-2 cents.
1833 - Louisa Benson is born to William Benson and Margaret Leach in Owensville, Indiana.
- Tues., Aug. 20 - President Benjamin Harrison is born in Ohio.
1834 - Father Marco Mastrofini suggests removing 1 day each non-leap-year year, 2 days each leap-year year, as holiday so each year would begin on Sunday.
- Fri., Aug. 22 - General H. Norman Schwarzkopf is born.
1835 - V-President Adlai E. Stevenson is born in Kentucky.
1836 - Mon., Sept. 5 - Sam Houston is President of Republic of Texas.
- Sat. Oct. 22 - Sam Houston is inaugurated President of Republic of Texas.
1837 - Sat., Mar. 18 - President Grover Cleveland is born in New Jersey.
1838 - Feb. 16 - Henry Adams born, Boston MA, 3rd son of Abigail (Brooks) & Charles Francis Adams, grandson of President John Quincy Adams, great-grandson of President John Adams.
1839 - Benjamin H. Griffith is born to Cadwallader M. Griffith & Rachel P.
1840 - Sunday, June 28 - Richard Paul McGinnis is born to Gilbert McGinnis and Anna Rocket in
Illinois.
1843 - Sunday, Jan. 29 - President William McKinley is born in Ohio.
- Tues., Dec. 19 - Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is published in England.
1844 - Auguste Comte, philosopher, suggests Marco Marcofini's 264-day calendar idea.
- Tues., Jan. 9 - Mary Taylor dies at age 82 in Indiana.
- Wed., Jan. 31 - Margaret Allen Pollard is born to Silas Pollard and Prudence Sharp.
- V-President Garrett A. Hobart is born in N.J.
- Tues., Oct. 22 - Sarah Bernhardt, actress, is born in Paris.
1845 - Fri., Oct. 10 - U.S. Naval Academy opens in Annapolis, Maryland.
- Mon., Oct. 13 - Texas ratifies state constitution.
1846 - Aug. 10 - President James K. Polk signs the Smithsonian Institution Act.
- Sat., Aug. 22 - U.S. annexes New Mexico.
- Thurs., Sept. 10 - Elias Howe receives patent for sewing machine in Spencer, Massachusetts.
- Wed., Sept. 23 - Johann Gottfried Galle, astronomer, discovers Neptune.
- Wed., Sept. 30 - William Morton,DDS uses ether on a patient in Boston.
1847 - Tues., Feb. 23 - Capt. William Robert Walker dies on battlefield in War with Mexico.
- Thomas Alva Edison born, Milan, Ohio.
- Sat., July 24 - Mormons, under Brigham Young, arrive in Salt Lake valley, Utah.
1848 - Tues., June 6 - Henry Oliver Babcock marries Mary Elizabeth H(au)ser in Jeffersonville,
Indiana.
- Tues., Dec. 5 - President Polk confirms gold was discovered in Cal.
1849 - Fri., Nov. 16 - James Allen Robinson marries Louisa Benson in Owensville, Indiana.
1850 - Mon., Sept. 9 - California becomes 31st state.
1851 - Fri., Aug. 22 - Schooner America outruns Aurora to win American Cup.
1852 - V-President Charles W. Fairbanks is born in Ohio.
1853 - Crimean war breaks out.
1854 - Florence Nightingale goes to Crimea, organizing nursing.
- V-President Thomas R. Marshall is born in Indiana.
1855 - Annie C. Martin is born to John E. Martin and Maria in Indiana.
- V-President James S. Sherman is born in N.Y.
- Wed., Oct. 22 - James Tyler Walker, Jr. is born to James Tyler Walker, Sr.,Squire and Ann(e)
Charlotte Burtis in Evansville, Indiana.
- Mon., Dec. 8 - Lucy Alice Babcock is born to Henry Oliver Babcock and Mary Elizabeth H(au)ser in Evansville, Indiana.
1856 - Crimean war ends.
- Sunday, Dec. 28 - Woodrow Wilson is born in Virginia.
1857 - Tues., Sept. 15 - President and former Chief Justice William Howard Taft is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1858 - Sat., Aug. 21 - Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas 1st debate.
- Wed., Oct. 27 - Theodore Roosevelt is born in N.Y.
1859 - Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of the Species.
- Lenoir constructs internal-combustion engine.
1860 - Cadwallader M. Griffith dies at age 45.
- Sat., Aug. 11 - 1st silver mill operates in Virginia City, Nevada.
- V-President Charles Curtis is born in Kansas.
- to mid-March - Henry Adams pens The Great Secession Winter, 1860-1861: pub. in
Proceedings, Mass. Historical Soc.: 1909-10.
- June - January 1862 - Henry Adams, The New York Times's London correspondent.
- Thurs., Oct. 24 - Justice Stephen J. Field sends 1st transcontinental telegraph from
California to President Lincoln.
1862 - Louis Pasteur postulates Germ Theorem.
- Mon., Sept. 22 - President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, effective as of Thurs. Jan. 1, 1863.
- Wed., Oct. 22 - Benjamin H. Griffith dies at age 23.
1863 - Thurs., Mar. 26 - Richard Paul McGinnis marries Margaret Allen Pollard.
- Sat., Oct. 3 - President Lincoln declares last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving.
1865 - V-President Charles G. Dawes is born in Ohio.
- Thurs., Nov. 2 - Warren G. Harding is born in Ohio.
1866 - Tues., July 24 - Tennessee re-admitted to Union.
- Fri., Aug. 3 - Margaret Leach Benson dies at age 63 in Owensville, Indiana.
1867 - Henry Adams publishes Captaine John Smith in North American Review,
refuting legend; British Finance in 1816; The Bank of England Restriction, on futility of inconvertible paper currency.
1868 - V-President John N. Garner is born in Texas.
- Henry Adams publishes review of Sir Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology 10th ed. in
North American Review, refuting current theories of glaciation, Darwin.
- Thurs., June 25 - Florida re-admitted to Union.
- Sat., July 4 - North Carolina re-admitted to Union.
- Thurs., July 9 - South Carolina re-admitted to Union.
and - Louisiana re-admitted to Union.
- Mon., July 13 - Alabama re-admitted to Union.
- Wed., July 22 - Arkansas re-admitted to Union.
- Sat., July 25 - Congress creates Wyoming Territory.
- Tues., July 28 - The 14th Amendment passes.
1869 - Henry Adams publishes The Session, Civil Service Reform articles in North American Review; American Finance, 1865-1869 in Edinburgh Review.
- Fri., Sept. 24 - Financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to corner the gold market
causing Wall Street to panic.
- Fri., Oct. 8 - President Franklin Pierce dies in Concord, N.H.
- Fri., Dec. 3 - Judge Orville Webster McGinnis is born to Richard Paul McGinnis and Margaret Allen Pollard in Owensville, Indiana.
1870 - Wed., Jan 26 - Virginia re-admitted to Union.
- Wed., Feb. 23 - Mississippi re-admitted to Union.
- Wed., Mar 30 - Texas re-admitted to Union.
- Henry Adams publishes with Francis A. Walker The Legal Tender Act, Session 2nd ed. in North American Review.
- Fri., Jul 15 - Georgia re-admitted to Union.
1871 - Henry Adams publishes with his brother Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Chapters of Erie.
- Sun. Oct. 8 - Great fires erupt in Chicago, Ill. & Peshtigo, Wisc.
- Fri., Nov. 10 - Journalist-Explorer Henry M. Stanley finds missing Scot missionary David Livingstone in Central Africa.
- Fri., Nov. 24 - National Rifle Association is incorporated with Major-General Ambrose E. Burnside as President.
1872 - June 27 - Henry Adams marries Marian Clover Hooper, daughter of Dr. Robert William
Hooper.
- Thurs., July 4 - President Calvin Coolidge is born in Vermont.
1874 - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill born, Blenheim Palace, England.
- Mon., Aug. 10 - President Herbert Hoover is born in Iowa.
- Sat., Nov. 7 - Republican Party is symbolized as anelephant in cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.
1875 - Wed., Aug. 25 - Capt. Matthew Webb swims English Channel in 22 hr.
- Mon., Oct. 18 - Anna Mary Robinson is born to James Allen Robinson and Louisa Benson in
Owensville, Indiana.
1876, March 7 - Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone.
- Tues., Aug. 8 - Thomas A. Edison receives patent for mimeograph.
1877 - Tues., May 1 - James Tyler Walker, Sr.,Squire dies at age 71 in Evansville, Indiana.
- V-President Alben W. Barkley is born in Kentucky.
- Nov. 21 - Thomas A. Edison invents the phonograph, to record and play back sound, Menlo Park, NJ.
1878 - Wed., Aug. 21 - American Bar Association created in Saratoga, N.Y.
- Mon., Sept. 23 - William Benson dies at age 95 in Owensville, Indiana.
1879 - Wed., Sept. 10 - Henry Oliver Babcock dies at age 57 in Evansville, Indiana.
- Tues., Oct. 21 - Thomas A. Edison invents workable electric light at his Menlo Park
laboratory in N.J.
1880 - Wed., May 5 - Benjamin H. Griffith marries Annie C. Martin.
1881 - Mon., Sept. 19 - President James A. Garfield dies from assassin's wounds.
- Fri., Nov. 25 - Pope John XXIII is born Angelo Roncalli near Bergamo, Italy.
1882 - Mon., Jan. 30 - FDR is born in N.Y.
- Tues., Feb. 28 - James Tyler Walker, Jr. marries Lucy Alice Babcock in Evansville,
Indiana.
- Tues., Sept. 5 - 1st Labor Day parade is held in New York.
1883 - Sat., June 30 - Dorothy Rach(a)el Griffith is born to Benjamin H. Griffith and Annie C. Martin in Evansville, Indiana.
1884 - Thurs., May 8 - President Harry S. Truman is born in Missouri.
1885 - Tues., Mar. 10 - Henry Babcock Walker is born to James Tyler Walker, Jr. and Lucy Alice
Babcock in Evansville, Indiana.
- 1st automobile built by Karl Benz.
- Thurs., Oct. 1 - Special Delivery mail service begins.
1886 - Sunday, Oct. 10 - The tuxedo dinner jacket debuts at the Autumn Ball in Tuxedo Park,
N.Y.
- Thurs., Oct. 28 - President Cleveland accepts Statue of Liberty from France.
- Wed., Dec. 8 - American Federation of Labor is created at Convention of Union Leaders in
Columbus, Ohio.
1888 - V-President Henry A. Wallace is born in Iowa.
- Irving Berlin, songwriter, is born.
- Tues., Sept. 4 - George Eastman receives patent for roll-film camera and registers trademark as 'Kodak'.
- Tues., Oct. 9 - Washington Monument opens for visitors.
1890 - Tues., Oct. 14 - Dwight David Eisenhower is born in Denison, Texas.
- Mon., Dec. 15 - Sioux Chief Sitting Bull and 11 other tribal leaders are slain in Grand River, S.D.
1892 - Thurs., Sept. 8 - 'The Pledge of Allegiance' appears in The Youth's Companion.
- Thurs., Oct. 20 - Chicago hosts World's Columbian Exposition.
- Sunday, Dec. 18 - Tchaikovsky's 'The Nutcracker Suite' premiers in St. Petersburg,
Russia.
1893 - 1st automobile built by Henry Ford.
- Sat., Sept. 9 - Esther is born to Frances and President Cleveland in the White House, the 1st child born in the Executive Mansion.
- Sat., Dec. 23 - Engelbert Humperdinck's 'Hansel und Gretel' premiers in Weimar, Germany.
1895 - Marconi sends 1st height="71" radio signals.
- Lumiére brothers introduce motion pictures
- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill joins British 4th Hussars, following his father's death. During next 5 years, he serves in India, the Sudan, South Africa, and distinguishes self in battle.
1896 - Tues., July 28 - Miami, Florida is incorporated.
- Thurs. Sept. 24 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, author, is born in St. Paul, Minn.
- Thurs., Oct. 1 - Rural Free Delivery begins in West Virginia.
1897 - Sat., Sept. 25 - William Faulkner, author, is born in New Albany, Miss.
- Wed., Oct. 13 - John E. Martin dies at age 67 in Evansville, Indiana.
- Sunday, Dec. 12 - Rudolph Dirks 'The Katzenjammer Kids', the pioneer comic strip, debuts in N.Y. Journal.
1899 - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, resigns military commission to concentrate on
literary and political career
1900 - Sigmund Freud publishes Interpretation of Dreams.
- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill elected to Parliament, a Conservative MP from Oldham.
- Wed., June 27 - Judge Orville Webster McGinnis marries Anna Mary Robinson in Owensville,
Indiana.
- Sat., Aug. 4 - Britain's Queen Mother, Elizabeth, is born.
- Tues., Aug. 14 - 2,000 U.S. Marines join European troops to capture Beijing, ending the
Boxer Rebellion.
1901 - House of Saxe-Coburg/Windsor begins ruling England.
- Wed., April 17 - Richard Robinson McGinnis is born to Judge Orville Webster McGinnis and Anna Mary Robinson in Evansville, Indiana.
- Sun. June 16 - Ann(e) Charlotte Burtis dies at age 79, Evansville, Ind.
- Mon., Sept. 2 - Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt speaks at Minnesota's State Fair,
advising, "Speak softly and carry a big stick".
- Thurs., Oct. 24 - Anna Edson Taylor survives rolling down Niagara Falls in a barrel.
- Thurs., Dec. 5 - Walt Disney is born in Chicago.
1902 - Sarah Fisher dies.
- Mon., Sept. 29 - David Belasco, impresario, opens 1st Broadway theater.
1903 - Tues., March 10 - James Allen Robinson dies at age 76 in Owensville, Indiana.
- Thurs., Dec. 17 - Orville and Wilbur Wright fly man-powered airplane near Kitty Hawk, N.C.
1904 - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill joins Liberals, serving in various posts.
- Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, author, is born.
- Bing Crosby is born.
1905 - Albert Einstein postulates Relativity Theorem.
- Fri., Sept. 15 - Richard Paul McGinnis dies at age 65 in Owensville, Indiana.
1906 - Mon., Dec. 10 - President Theodore Roosevelt receives Nobel Peace Prize for mediating
end to Russo-Japanese War.
1907 - Thurs., Aug. 1 - Aeronautical Division created in Army Signals Corps and buys 1st
airplane, built by the Wright brothers.
- Sunday, Sept. 29 - Gene Autry, singing cowboy, is born.
1908 - Thurs., Aug. 27 - President Lyndon B. Johnson is born in Texas.
- V-President Nelson A. Rockefeller is born in Maine.
- Thurs., Oct. 1 - Henry Ford introduces Model T for .
- Tues., Oct. 20 - Arlene Francis, radio-television personality, is born.
1909 - Thurs., June 17 - Henry Babcock Walker marries Dorothy Rach(a)el Griffith in Evansville, Indiana.
- Wed., Aug. 11 - SOS is used by U.S.S. Arapahoe off Cape Hatteras, N.C.
1911 - Tues., Jan. 17 - Mary Elizabeth H(au)ser dies at age 79 in Evansville, Indiana.
- Mon., Feb. 6 - Ronald Reagan is born in Illinois.
- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill appointed Britain's 1st Lord of the Admiralty
- V-President Hubert H. Humphrey is born in South Dakota.
- Rutherford discovers structure of atom.
- Tues., Oct. 10 - Sun Yat-sen's Revolutionaries overthrow China's Manchu Dynasty.
1912 - Thurs., Aug. 15 - Julia Child is born.
- Mon., Oct. 14 - Theodore Roosevelt is shot in the chest while campaigning in Milwaukee, but
continues with his scheduled speech.
1913 - Thurs., Jan. 9 - President Richard M. Nixon is born in California.
- Sat., July 14 - President Gerald R. Ford is born in Nebraska.
- Henry Ford develops assembly line.
- Mon., Dec. 1 - Drive-In automobile service station opens in Pittsburgh.
1914 - Aug. 1 - 4 days previous, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia; now, Germany vs. Russia, France orders general mobilization, 1st German army units enter Luxembourg.
- Tues. Aug. 4 - Russia, France, Belgium, Britain vs. Austria-Hungary, Germany, German army
invaded Belgium; WWI.
- Thurs., Sept. 3 - Kitty Carlisle (Hart) is born.
- Fri., Sept. 4 - Lucy Babcock Walker is born to Henry Babcock Walker and Dorothy Rach(a)el Griffith in Evansville, Indiana.
- Mon., Sept. 14 - Federal Trade Commission is established.
- Sat., Sept. 26 - Jack LaLanne, fitness expert, is born.
- Thurs., Oct. 15 - Clayton Anti-Trust Act passes.
- Wed., - Nov. 25 - Baseball Hall-of-Famer Joe DiMaggio is born.
1915 - May 7 - British steamship, Lusitania, sunk off coast of Ireland by German submarine; 1,198 drowned, including 114 Americans.
- Thurs., Oct. 28 - Comedian Morey Amsterdam is born.
1916 - Fri., Aug. 4 - U.S. purchases the Danish Virgin Islands for .
- Mon., Nov. 13 - Jack Elam, actor, is born.
- Sat., Dec. 16 - Gregory Rasputin, monk, is slain by group of noblemen.
1917 - April 4 - President Wilson calls Congressional Special Session to declare war on
Germany; Senate votes 82-6, House votes 373-50 in favor of war.
- Tues., May 29 - President John F. Kennedy is born in Massachusetts.
- Sat., Sept. 15 - Alexander Kerensky heads Russia's new provisional government.
- Henry Ford II is born.
- Tues., Nov. 6 - Forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrow Kerensky's government as Bolshevik Revolution continues.
- Wed., Dec. 12 - Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town, Omaha, Neb.
1918 - Russia shifts to Gregorian calendar after Revolution.
- V-President Spiro T. Agnew is born in Maryland.
- 'Spanish flu' epidemic worldwide
- Dorothy Lamour, actress, is born.
- Wed., Sept. 4 - Paul Harvey, actor, is born.
- Tues., Oct. 8 - Sgt. Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 German troops in Argonne Forest, France.
- Mon., Oct.14 - composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein is born.
- Thurs., Nov. 7 - Evangelist Billy Graham is born.
- Nov. 11 - WWI armistice signed.
- Wed., Dec. 11 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn is born.
1919 - Jan. 16 - 18th Amendment ratified.
- Mon., Aug. 25 - Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace is born.
- Wed., Sept. 10 - N.Y.C. welcomes home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 troops of the U.S. 1st Division.
- Fri., Oct. 17 - Radio Corporation of America is created.
- Tues., Oct. 28 - Congress enacts Volstead Act over President Wilson's veto.
- Tues. Dec. 23 -Margaret Allen Pollard dies at age 75 in Owensville,Ind.
1920 - Wed., Aug. 4 - Louisa Benson dies at age 87 in Owensville, Indiana.
- Thurs., Sept. 23 - Mickey Rooney, actor, is born.
- Yul Brynner, actor, is born.
- Fri., Oct. 1 - Walter Matthau, actor, is born.
1921 - Thurs., Sept. 8 - Margaret Gorman of D.C. is crowned first Miss America in Atlantic City, N.J.
- Sat., Sept. 24 - ABC-TV sportscaster Jim McKay is born.
- Fri., Sept. 30 - Deborah Kerr, actress, is born.
1922 - Mon., Aug. 28 - Radio station WEAF, in N.Y.C., airs 10-min. ad. for Queensboro Realty
Company for .
- Joyce publishes 'Ulysses'
- Sunday, Nov. 26 - Charles M. Schulz, 'Peanuts' cartoonist, is born.
1923 - Sat., Aug. 25 - Monty Hall, of television, is born.
- Mon., Sept. 3 - Mort Walker, 'Beetle Bailey' cartoonist, is born.
- Sun., Sept. 30 - Babe Ruth hits his 60th homerun of the season, breaking his own
major-league record.
- Dec. 6 - 1st Presidential address broadcast over radio.
1924 - Thurs., June 12 - George Bush is born in Massachusetts.
- Fri., Aug. 15 - Phyllis Schlafly is born.
- Thurs., Sept. 11 - Football Hall-of-Famer Tom Landry is born.
- Wed., Oct. 1 - President Jimmy Carter is born in Georgia.
1925 - July 10-21 - Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tenn.; John T. Scopes, arrested May 5 for teaching Evolution Theory, convicted, fined .
- Tues., Oct. 13 - Lady Thatcher, former British prime minister, is born.
- Fri., Oct. 16 - Angela Lansbury, actress, is born.
- Tues., Oct. 20 - Art Buchwald, columnist, is born.
- Fri., Oct. 23 - Johnny Carson is born.
- Sat., Dec. 12 - 1st motel, 'Motel Inn', opens in San Luis Obispo, Cal.
1926 - Thurs., Sept. 9 - National Broadcasting Co. is created from Radio Corporation of America.
1927 - May 20 - Charles Lindbergh, 25, pilot, flies, solo, 3,600 miles from Roosevelt Field, NY to Le Bourget, France in 33.5 hours.
- Lemaitre postulates Big Bang Theorem.
- Sunday, Sept. 18 - the Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System debuts with 16 radio stations.
- Thurs., Sept. 22 - Gene Tunney successfully defends his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the 'long-count' fight in Chicago.
and - Baseball manager Tommy Lasorda is born.
- Sat., Oct. 1 - Tom Bosley, actor, is born.
- Fri., Oct. 14 - Roger Moore, actor, is born.
- Fri., Dec. 2 - Ford unveils 'Model A' automobile.
1928 - V-President Walter F. Mondale is born in Minnesota.
- Mon., Oct. 15 - German dirigible Graf Zeppelin lands in Lakehurst, N.J. after flying 1st
commercial flight across the Atlantic.
- Fleming discovers penicillin
- Sat., Nov. 10 - Hirohito enthroned as Emperor of Japan.
1929 - Feb. 14 - Chicago, Al "Scarface" Capone emerges as top gangster; 7 members of "Bugs"
Moran's gang mass murdered, St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
- Wed. May 29 - Lucy Alice Babcock dies at age 72 in Evansville,Ind.
- Tues., Sept. 10 - Arnold Palmer, golfer, is born.
- Sept. 22 - Construction of Empire States Building begins, NYC.
- Tues., Sept. 24 - Lt. James H. Doolittle guides Consolidated NY2 instrument Biplane over
Mitchell Field in N.Y.
- Tues., Oct. 29 - 'Black' at N.Y.S E. prices crash and cause panic selling.
- Thurs., Nov. 7 - Museum of Modern Art in N.Y.C. opens.
- Hubble postulates Expanding Universe Theorem.
1930 - Thurs., Aug. 21 - Britain's Princess Margaret is born.
- Tues., Sept. 23 - Ray Charles, singer, is born.
1931 - Sat., Oct. 17 - Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion then sentenced to 11 years in prison with parole in 1939.
- Thomas Alva Edison dies, West Orange, NJ, at 84.
- Sat., Oct. 24 - George Washington Bridge, connecting N.Y.- N.J. opens.
- Thurs., Dec. 10 - Jane Addams receives Nobel Peace Prize.
1932 - Fri., July 22 - Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta is born.
- Thurs., July 28 - Federal troops forcibly disperse WWI's 'Bonus Army' veterans gathering in
D.C. to demand the money they are scheduled to receive in 1945.
- Tues., Dec. 5 - Albert Einstein, German Physicist, granted visa so he can escape to U.S.
1933 - Tues., Oct. 17 - Albert Einstein flees to U.S. escaping Nazis.
- Tues., Dec. 5 - National Prohibition ends.
1934 - Mon., Feb. 12 - Judge Orville Webster McGinnis dies at age 64 in Evansville, Indiana.
- Aug. 2 - German President Paul von Hindenburg dies; Chancellor Adolf Hitler assumes power as
Fuhrer when German army pledges him allegiance, dismantling remnants of democracy for 3rd Reich
and promising to last for a 1000 years.
- Sat., Aug. 25 - Regis Philbin, tv personality, is born.
- Wed., Sept. 19 - Bruno Hauptmann under arrest in N.Y. charged with kidnapping-murdering the
Lindbergh baby.
- Mon., Oct. 8 - Bruno Hauptmann indicted for murdering Lindbergh baby.
1935 - Wed., July 24 - Political cartoonist Pat Oliphant is born.
- Sunday, Sept. 8 - Sen. Huey P. Long, 'The Kingfish' of Louisiana is shot.
- Tues., Sept. 10 - Huey P. Long dies.
- Sunday, Sept. 15 - Nazi's Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship and set the
swastika as Germany's official symbol.
- Tues., Oct. 1 - Julie Andrews is born.
- Thurs., Oct. 10 - George Gershwin's 'Porgy and Bess' opens on Broadway.
1936 - Thurs., July 23 - Don Drysdale is born.
- Sat., Aug. 1 - French fashion designer Yves St.Laurent is born.
- Fri., Aug. 21 - Wilt Chamberlain is born.
- Sat., Oct. 24 - David Nelson, actor, is born.
- Keynes publishes The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.
1937 - Wed., Aug. 18 - Robert Redford, actor, is born.
- Mon. Nov. 22 - James Tyler Walker, Jr. dies at age 81 in Evansville,Ind.
- Sunday, Dec. 12 - Japanese aircraft sinks U.S. gunboat Panay on China's Yangtze
River; Japan will apologize paying .2M in reparations.
1938 - Sunday, Aug. 21 - Kenny Rogers, singer, is born.
- Mon., Oct. 17 - Daredevil Evel Knievel is born.
- Sunday, Oct. 30 - CBS-Radio panicks the nation with 'The War of the Worlds' starring Orson
Welles.
- Thurs. Dec. 15 - Groundbreaking Ceremony for Jefferson Memorial in D.C.
1939 - A. Hitler invades Poland starting World War II; U.S. remains neutral.
- Tues., Aug. 15 - MGM's 'The Wizard of Oz' premiers at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood.
- Sunday, Oct. 8 - Paul Hogan, actor, is born in Australia.
- Sat., Oct. 14 - Fashion designer Ralph Lauren is born.
<- Tues., Oct. 24 - nylon stockings are sold publicly in Wilmington, Del.
- Pope Pius XII becomes pontiff.
- Fri., Dec. 15 - 'Gone With the Wind' premieres in Atlanta.
1940 - Sunday, Sept. 15 - RAF inflicts heavy losses on the Luftwaffe at Battle of Britain.
- Thurs., Oct. 24 - Fair Labor Standards Act(1938) now stipulates 40-hr work week.
- Wed., Nov. 13 - Walt Disney premieres 'Fantasia in N.Y.
1941 - Wed., Oct. 8 - Rev. Jesse Jackson is born.
- Sunday, Dec. 7 - 7:55AM [Hawaiian time] 361 Japanese warplanes descend on US naval base,
Pearl Harbor. With diplomatic negotiations breaking down, President FDR, & advisers, had not
increased security; many military personnel had passes to attend church services off base. At
7:02AM, 2 radio operators spotted aircraft toward island from the north, but, due to B-17s expected from the US, were told to sound no alarm.
- Mon., Dec. 8 - Congress declares war on Japan.
1942 - Fri. Aug. 7 - Humorist Garrison Keillor is born.
- US 1st Marine Division storms Guadalcanal; bloody Battle lasts 6 months.
- Sat., Oct. 3 - President FDR establishes Office of Economic Stabilization, authorizing
controls on farm prices, rents, wages and salaries.
- Thurs., Oct. 22 - Annette Funicello, actress, is born.
- Thurs., Nov. 26 - 'Casablanca' premieres at Hollywood Theater in N.Y.
- Tues., Dec. 1 - Gas. rationing is nation-wide.
1943 - Wed. July 28 - President FDR announces the end to coffee rationing.
- Fri., Sept. 3 - Britain's 8th Army invades Italy and Italy secretly signs armistice with the
Allies.
- Sunday, Oct. 10 - Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as President of China.
1944 - Fri. Aug. 4 - Nazi's raid the secret annex in Amsterdam, arresting 8 people, including
Anne Frank.
1945 -1st electronic computer, ENIAC, built.
- Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- Wed. Aug. 15 - 'V-J Day' Japan surrenders unconditionally to Allies.
- Wed., Oct. 24 - UN charter accepted by heads of nations.
- Tues., Oct. 30 - Congress ends shoe rationing.
1946 - Mon., Aug, 19 - President Bill Clinton is born in Arkansas.
- Thurs., Dec. 12 - UN accepts 6-block tract of Manhattan real estate as a gift by John D.
Rockefeller,Jr as site for headquarters.
- Winston Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech starts Cold War.
1947 - V-President J. Danforth Quayle is born in Indiana.
- Thurs. Aug. 7 - Kon-Tiki crashes into a reef off Polynesia's archipelago.
- Sat., Sept. 6 - Richard Robinson McGinnis marries Lucy Babcock Walker in Evansville,
Indiana.
- Thurs. Sept. 18 - National Security Act unifies the Army, Navy and newly formed Air Force
into National Military Establishment.
- Tues., Oct. 14 - Air Force test pilot Charles E. (Chuck) Yeager is 1st to break the sound
barrier flying the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in
California.
- Mon., Oct. 20 - Congressional Un-American Activities Committee opens hearings into alleged
Communist influence and infiltration within the motion picture industry.
- Fri., Dec. 12 - United Mine Workers union withdraws from American Federation of Labor.
- Tues., Dec. 23 - Scientists at Bell Laboratories in N.J. invent a point-contact
transistor.
1948 - V-President Albert A. Gore, Jr. is born in D.C.
- Thurs., Sept. 2 - Football Hall-of-Famer Terry Bradshaw is born.
- Fri.. Sept. 10 - Mildred Gillars, Nazi's 'Axis Sally', indicted in D.C.
- Fri., Sept. 24 - Mildred Gillars pleads not guilty to charges of treason then sentenced to
12 years in prison.
1949 - Fri., Sept. 9 - Football commentator Joe Theismann is born.
- Mon., Sept. 19 - 'Twiggy' Lawson is born.
- Thurs., Sept. 22 - Soviets explode 1st atomic bomb.
- Fri. Oct. 28 - Olympic track and field gold medalist Bruce Jenner is born.
- Thurs., Dec. 8 - Chinese Nationalists flee to Formosa from the Mainland as Communists
continue pressing.
1950 - Mon., Aug. 14 - Gary Larson, 'The Far Side' cartoonist, is born.
- Tues., Aug. 15 - Britain's Princess Anne is born.
- Tues.,Sept. 5 - Cathy Guisewite, 'Cathy' cartoonist, is born.
1951 - Fri., Sept. 21 - Anna Mary Robinson dies at the age of 75 in Evansville, Indiana.
- Mon., Oct. 15 - CBS-TV premiers 'I Love Lucy'.
1952 - Wed., Jan. 2 - L. A. McGinnis is born to Richard Robinson McGinnis and Lucy Babcock
Walker in Evansville, Indiana.
- Fri., July 25 - Puerto Rico becames self-governing U.S. Commonwealth.
- Tues., Sept. 9 - Angela Cartwright, actress, is born.
- Thurs., Sept. 25 - Christopher Reeve, actor, is born.
and - Mark Hamill, actor, is born.
- Tues. Sept. 30 - Cinerama, using 3 cameras, 3 projectors and curved viewing screen, debuts
with the premiere of 'This Is Cinerama' at Broadway Theater in N.Y.C.
- Thurs., Oct. 30 - Dr. Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize.
1953 - Jan. 2 - GOP Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, Wisconsin, investigated by Senate Privileges &
Elections Sub-committee; finds political activities motivated by self-interest.
- Fri., Oct. 30 - Gen. George C. Marshall receives Nobel Peace Prize.
1954 - May 7 - French forces withdraw from Vietnam; country partitioned into north & south.
- May 17 - Brown v Board of Education.
- Sat., Sept. 11 - Miss America pageant debuts on ABC-TV and Miss California, Lee Ann Meriwether, is crowned.
- Thurs., Sept. 30 - Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered submarine, is commissioned by the Navy.
1955 - April 12 - Salk polio vaccine introduced.
- Sat., Sept. 10 - CBS-TV premiers 'Gunsmoke'.
- Sat. Sept. 24 -President Eisenhower suffers heart attack while in Denver.
- Fri., Oct. 28 - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is born.
- Wed., Dec. 5 - American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations merge
forming AFL-CIO under President George Meany.
1956 - Sunday, Sept. 9 - Elvis Presley debuts on 'The Ed Sullivan Show'.
- Sat., Sept. 22 - Debby Boone, singer, is born.
- Mon., Oct. 29 - NBC-TV premiers 'The Huntley-Brinkley Report' replacing 'The Camel News
Caravan'.
1957 - Wed., Sept. 4 - Ford's Edsel ready for sale.
- Mon., Sept. 9 - President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction.
- Thurs., Sept. 19 - U.S. conducts 1st underground nuclear test in Nevada desert.
- Thurs., Sept. 26 - 'West Side Story' opens on Broadway.
- Thurs., Oct. 24 - Teamsters Union expelled from AFL-CIO for refusing to answer allegations of corruption.
1958 - Thurs., Oct. 9 - Pope Pius XII dies.
- Tues., Oct. 28 - Roman Catholic Patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, becomes Pope
John XXIII.
- Tues., Dec. 9 - Robert H.Welch,Jr and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form the anti-Communist John Birch Society.
1959 - Fri., Aug. 7 - U.S. Explorer 6 sends back picture of the Earth.
- Fri., Aug. 14 - Earvin 'Magic' Johnson is born .
- Fri., Aug. 21 - President Eisenhower makes Hawaii the 50th U.S. state.
- Sat., Sept. 19 - Soviet's Nikita Khrushchev reacts angrily when during a visit to LA he's
told that for security reasons he won't be allowed to visit Disneyland.
- Tues., Oct. 13 - Marie Osmond, singer, is born.
- Wed., Oct. 21 - Guggenheim Museum opens in New York.
- Tues., Dec. 1 - U.S. and 11 other country's representatives sign Treaty in Washington
establishing Antarctica as a scientific preserve.
1960 - Sat., Sept. 24 - USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched at
Newport News, Virginia.
1961 - Mon., Sept. 11 - Kristy McNichols, actress, is born.
- Fri., Sept. 15 - Dan Marino, football quarterback, is born.
- Sunday, Oct. 1 - Roger Maris with the N.Y. Yankees hits his 61st homerun during 162-game
season, compared to Babe Ruth's 60 homeruns during 154-game season.
- Sat., Dec. 2 - Fidel Castro declares to lead Cuba to Communism.
1962 - Tues., Sept. 11 - Beatles record 1st single, 'Love Me Do' and 'P.S. I Love You', at EMI
studios in London.
- Sunday, Sept. 23 - New York's Philharmonic Hall formally opens.
- Mon., Oct. 1 - Johnny Carson succeeds Jack Paar on NBC-TV 'Tonight' show.
- Sat., Oct. 13 - Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' opens on Broadway.
- Tues., Oct. 16 - President Kennedy sees reconnaissance photographs revealing the presence of missile bases in Cuba.
- Mon., Oct. 22 - President Kennedy announces air and naval blockade of Cuba.
- Wed., Oct. 24 - President Kennedy signs official proclamation for U.S. Cuban blockade.
1963 - Thurs., Aug. 8 - Britain's 'Great Train Robbery' thieves take 2.6M Pound notes.
1964 - Fri., July 31 - U.S. Ranger 7 transmits pictures of moon's surface.
- Tues., Sept. 22 - 'Fiddler on the Roof' opens on Broadway.
- Thurs., Oct. 15 - Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev is removed from office as Premier by
Alexei N. Kosygin and as Communist Party Secretary by Leonid I. Brezhnev.
- Thurs., Dec. 10 - Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr receives Nobel Peace Prize in ceremony in Oslo,
Norway.
1965 - Jan. 24 - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill dies, London, at 90.
1966 - Sunday, Aug. 14 - U.S. Orbiter 1 begins orbiting the moon.
- Sat., Oct. 15 - President Johnson creates Department of Transportation.
- Thurs., Dec. 15 - Walt Disney dies in Los Angeles.
1967 - Sunday, Sept. 3 - CBS-TV's 'What's My Line?', hosted by John Charles Daly, broadcasts
its final episode after more than 17 years.
- Mon., Sept. 11 - 'The Carol Burnett Show' premiers on CBS-TV.
- Sunday, Oct. 29 - 'Hair' opens off-Broadway.
- Tues., Nov. 7 - President Johnson establishes Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1968 - Thurs., July 6 - Henry Babcock Walker dies at age 83.
1969 - Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the Moon.
- Internet (ARPA) goes online.
- Mon., Oct. 13 - Olympic silver-medal figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is born.
- Wed., Oct. 15 - peace demonstrators stage a candlelight vigil around the WhiteHouse as well
as activities across the country.
1970 - Thurs., Oct. 8 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn receives Nobel Prize for literature.
- Wed., Dec. 2 - Environmental Protection Agency starts under Director William Ruckelshaus.
1971 - Thurs., Sept. 9 - Dorothy Rach(a)el Griffith dies at the age of 88 in Evansville,
Indiana.
1972 - Mon., Sept. 4 - U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz wins record 7th Olympic gold medal at the
Munich Summer Olympics.
1973 - Wed., Oct. 17 - OPEC announces cutbacks on oil exports to Western nations and Japan.
1974 - Mar. - OPEC lifts the oil embargo.
- Wed., Aug. 7 - French stuntman Philippe Petit walks a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center.
- Wed., Oct. 30 - Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa, Zaire, to regain world heavyweight title.
1975 - Thurs., Oct. 16 - Kellie Martin, actress, is born.
1976 - Fri., Sept. 3 - U.S. Viking 2 lands on Mars taking close-up, color photographs of the
surface.
- Thurs., Sept. 9 - Communist Chinese's Mao Tse-tung dies in Beijing at 82.
1977 - Fri., Oct. 14 - Bing Crosby dies outside Madrid, Spain.
1978 - Mon., Sept. 3 Pope John Paul I installed as 264th pontiff.
- Mon., Oct. 16 - College of Cardinals choose Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, John Paul II.
1979 - Wed., Oct. 17 - Mother Teresa is awarded Nobel Peace Prize for her years of work on
behalf of the destitute in Calcutta.
- Mon., Oct. 22 - U.S. allows deposed Shah of Iran to enter N.Y. for medical treatment.
1980 - Fri., Oct. 24 - merchant freighter SS Poet departs Philadelphia bound for Port Said,
Egypt, with a crew of 34 and a cargo of grain - has never arrived anywhere.
1981 - scientists discover AIDS.
- Sat., Sept. 26 - Boeing's twin-engine 767 makes maiden flight in Everett, Washington.
1984 - Sat., Sept. 15 - Britain's Prince Harry, Prince of Wales, is born.
1985 - Mon., Sept. 2 - A U.S.-French expedition locates Titanic's wreckage about 560 miles
from Newfoundland.
1986 - Mon., July 7 - Richard Robinson McGinnis dies at age 85 in Laurel, Mississippi.
1987 - Thurs., Sept. 10 - Pope John Paul II arrives in Miami and is welcomed by President and
Mrs. Reagan preceding a 10-day tour of the U.S.
- Sat., Oct. 3 - U.S. and Canada agree to eliminate all tariffs between each other during
negotiations in D.C.
- Sat., Oct. 24 - Teamsters Union is welcomed back into the AFL-CIO by Labor Federation's
Executive Council meeting in Miami Beach, Florida.
1990 - Wed., Oct. 3 - Germany re-unites east with west.
- Sunday, Oct. 14 - composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein dies in New York.
- Sat., Dec. 1 - British and French connect Channel Tunnel.
1992 - Wed., Sept. 30 - George Brett, of Kansas City Royals, hit 3,000th homer.
1996 - Tues., Sept. 3 - U.S. launches 27 cruise missiles at 'selected air defense targets' in
Iraq when they invaded Kurdish safe havens.
- General Synod of Church of England rejects Biblical images of hell.
- Wed., Dec. 11 - Hong Kong committee of 400 elect Shipping Tycoon Tung Chee-hwa to be 1st
Post-Colonial Leader.
- Fri., Dec. 27 - Lucy Babcock Walker McGinnis dies at age 83.
1998 - Roman Catholics appoint 95 exorcists in France.
1999 - Jan. 27 - Vatican issued 1st, since 1614, up-date for exorcism.
- [May 4-Electronic Telegraph, England] - Dates of reference to Christ banned as 'politically
incorrect'.
- [May 12-Reuters] - The Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission states the Pope as
"a gift to be received by all churches" with a "specific ministry concerning the document of
truth".
- 2 Nov. - In Augsburg, Germany, Lutherans and Roman Catholics signed Doctrine of Justification stating that each church "can express the truth of their faith using different terms".
2000 - [Monday, April 3-The Age, Australia] - Jonathan Petre (London) writes 'Is there a Hell?
Yes, experts say, and it's awful'.
2001 - Sept. 11 - Bin Laden's taliban attacks America.
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