Quia - Famous Dates in History (2024)

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December 1, 1955	Rosa Parks arrested for not moving to the back of the bus
December 4, 1973	Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter
December 5, 1933	Prohibition ends
December 7, 1941	Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
December 8, 1980	John Lennon shot and killed in NYC
December 11. 1941	US declares war on Germany and Italy
December 14, 1911	South Pole first reached by Roald Amundsen
December 15, 1791	U.S. Bill of Rights signed
December 16, 1773	The Boston Tea Party
December 17, 1770	Ludwig Von Beethoven is born
December 20, 1998	U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton is impeached
December 21, 1898	Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium
December 22, 1865	General Sherman takes Savannah
December 23, 1888	Dutch Painter Vincent Van Gogh cuts off his own ear
December 24, 1814	War of 1812 Peace Treaty signed
December 25, 1776	General George Washington and his troops cross the Delaware River
December 28, 1895	World's first movie theater opens in Paris
December 29, 1890	The Battle of Wounded Knee, S.D.
January 2, 1968	First successful human heart transplant performed
January 3, 1959	Alaska becomes 49th U.S. state
Januay 4, 1642	Sir Isaac Newton is born
January 5, 1920	Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to NY Yankees
January 6, 1412	French heroine Joan of Arc born
January 8, 1935	Elvis Presly is born
January 13, 1930	First Mickey Mouse comic strip appears
January 17, 1706	Benjamin Franklin is born
January 18, 1778	Capt. James Cook finds Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands
January 21, 1799	Edward Jenners smallpox vaccine introduced
January 24, 1924	St. Petersburg, Russia renamed Leningrad
January 25, 1915	Alexander Graham Bell makes 1st transcontinental phone call
January 26, 1875	Dentist's electric drill patented
January 27, 1967	Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee
January 30, 1933	The Lone Ranger premieres on ABC radio
January 31, 1865	Congress passes 13th Amendment abolishing slavery
February 2, 1848	Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo end U.S-Mexican War
February 8, 1587	Mary Queen of Scots beheaded
February 13, 1866	Jesse James hold up his first bank in Liberty, MO
February 16, 1923	Tutankhamen's burial chamber is opened
February 19, 1878	Edison patents the gramophone
February 20, 1792	U.S. Postal Service is created
February 23, 1945	U.S. Marines raise the flag on Iwo Jima
February 24, 1821	Mexico gains independence from Spain
February 26, 1870	First NYC subway line opens
February 28, 1854	Republican Party formally organized
March 1, 1790	First U.S. census authorized
March 2, 1973	Vietnam peace treaty signed in Paris
March 3, 1931	The Star Spangled Banner become the U.S. national athem
March 7, 1926	First transatlantic telephone call
March 8, 1965	First U.S. troops arrive in Vietnam
March 10, 1862	First U.S. paper currency is issued
March 11, 1953	Nuclear bomb accidentally dropped on North Carolina
March 16, 1830	Slowest day ever for NY Stock Exchange
March 18, 1949	NATO is formed
March 21, 1965	Martin Luther King Jr. leads march from Selma to Montgomery, AL
March 22, 1903	Niagra Falls runs dry due to drought
March 24, 1837	Canada grants blacks the right to vote
March 25, 1911	Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 145, only 13 girls survive
March 27, 1914	First successful blood transfusion
March 29, 1932	Jack Benny debuts on radio
March 30, 1932	Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
April 2, 1978	Velcro is first sold
April 3, 1882	Jesse James is killed
April 4. 1581	Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world
April 8, 1513	Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain
April 9, 1865	Gen. Lee surrenders to Gen. Grant at Appomattox
April 10, 1849	The safety pin is patented
April 14, 1614	Pochahontas marries John Rolfe
April 15, 1452	Leonardo da Vinci is born
April 16, 1922	Annie Oakley shoot a record 100 clay targets in a row
April 19, 1906	The Great San Francisco Earthquake
April 19, 1956	Grace Kelley marries Prince Ranier III of Monaco
April 20, 1889	Adolf Hitler was born
April 23, 1564	WIlliam Shakespeare was born
April 26, 1986	The Chernobyl nuclear disaster
April 28, 1789	Fletcher Christian leads mutiny on HMS Bounty
April 29, 1913	The zipper is patented
April 30, 1803	U.S. purchased Louisiana Territory
May 2, 1945	Berlin surrenders to the Russian army
May 4, 1970	Four students killed by National Guard at Kent State University
May 5, 1961	Alan Shepard is first American in space
May 6, 1915	Ocean liner Lusitania sunk by German submarines
May 10, 1994	Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's first black president
May 17, 1845	The rubber band was patented
May 18, 1804	Napoleon became Emperor of France
May 21, 1881	Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross
May 23, 1945	British Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigns
May 24,1884	Samuel Morse send the first telegraph message
May 26, 1896	Nicholas II crowned Czar of Russia
May 28, 1934	The Dionne quintuplets were born
May 27, 1923	Henry Kissenger was born
May 31, 1962	Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann executed
June 2, 1924	U.S. Congress grants Native Americans citizenship
June 4, 1940	German forces invade Paris
June 5, 1967	Six Day War begins between Isreal and it's Arab neighbors
June 12, 1939	Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown
June 18, 1815	Wellington defeats Napolean at Waterloo
June 22, 1970	26th Amendment lowers voting age to 18
June 24, 1948	Soviet Union begins the Berlin Blockade
June 28, 1919	Treaty of Versailles signed, ending WWI
June 29, 1854	Gadsen Purchase--U.S. aquires parts of present day AZ & NM
June 30, 1936	Gone With the Wind is published
July 1, 1963	U.S. Postal Service starts using ZIP code system
July 4, 1997	Mars Pathfinder lands on Mars
July 6, 1933	First all star game is played at Chicago's Wrigley Field
July 8, 1835	The Libery Bell cracks
July 11, 1804	Alexander Hamilton shot by V.P. Aaron Burr in a duel
July 13, 1977	New York City paralyzed by 25 hour black-out
July 15, 1099	Crusaders take control of Jerusalem
July 16, 1945	First atomic bomb detonated in NM
July 17, 1998	Nicholas II of Russia and family buried 80 years after they are assasinated
July 18, 1921	Black Sox trial begins in Chicago
July 20, 1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated for a fourth term as U.S. President
July 22, 1934	Public Enemy #1 John Dillinger killed by FBI agents in Chicago
July 23, 1935	An airplane crashes into the Empire State Building
July 25, 1952	Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S.
July 26, 1946	President Truman orders desegregation of all U.S. forces
July 27, 1940	Bugs Bunny makes his debut
July 28, 1959	Hawaii's first U.S. election send first Asian American to Congress
July 29, 1957	Pres. Eisenhower signs legislation creating NASA
July 30, 1830	Henry Ford born in Dearborn, MI
August 1, 1291	Republic of Switerland founded, the oldest republic still existing
August 2, 1990	Iraq invades Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia
August 3, 1492	Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain
August 4, 1914	England declares war on Germany; U.S. declares neutrality
August 5, 1936	Jesse Owens wins his third gold medal at Berlin Olympics
August 6, 1926	Warner Bros. Studios premieres first talking pictures
August 7, 1942	Battle of Guadalcanal
August 13, 1521	Spanish conqerors take Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) from the Aztecs
August 14, 1935	Social Security Law is established
August 15, 1057	Macbeth killed by Duncan, his rival for the Scottish throne
August 16, 1969	Woostock rock festival begins
August 26, 1920	19th Amendment ratified, giving women the right to vote
August 30, 1967	Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black Supreme Court Justice
September 1, 1939	WWII begins as Germany invades Poland
September 3, 1888	George Eastman patents roll film and registers the Kodak name
September 4, 1781	Villiage of Los Angeles was founded
September 5, 1997	Mother Theresa dies in Calcutta at age 87
September 6, 1966	Star Trek television program premieres
September 7, 1533	England's Elizabeth I is born
September 8, 1565	St. Augustine, FL founded, first permanent European settlement in North America
September 12, 1953	Nikita Khrushcheb becomes Soviet Prime Minister
September 13, 1788	New York City becomes the first U.S. capital
September 14, 1814	Francis Scott Key writes the Star Spangled Banner
September 15, 1890	Mystery writer Agatha Christie was born
September 18, 1851	First issue of the New York Times is published
September 20, 1932	Gandhi begins a hunger strike protesting treatment of India's untouchables
September 21, 1981	Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice
September 22, 1789	The U.S. Postal Service is established
October 1, 1908	Henry Ford introduces the Model T car, selling for $825
October 2, 1944	Nazis crush the Warsaw uprising, killing 250,000 people
October 3, 1974	The Watergate trial began
October 4, 1957	The Soviet Sputnik satellite is the first to orbit the earth
October 14, 1947	U.S. Air Force Capt. Chuch Yeager is first pilot to exceed the speed of sound
October 17, 1933	Albert Einstein emigrates to U.S. from Germany
October 21, 1879	Thomas Edison demonstrates his incandescent electric lamp
October 1918	Great Influenza Epidemic begins, killing over 18 million
October 25, 1854	Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War
October 26, 1881	Wyatt Earp & Doc Holliday face the Clanton gang at the OK Corral
October 27, 1938	Dupont announces invention of Nylon, named for New York and London
October 28, 1886	The Statue of Liberty is dedicated
October 31, 1517	Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses, triggering the Protestant Reformation
November 5, 1895	George Selden receives the first U.S. patent for an automobile
November 6, 1869	Rutgers and Princeton play the first intercollegiate football game
November 8, 1731	Benjamin Franklin opens the first public library in Philadelphia
November 9, 1906	Theodore Roosevelt is the first U.S. president to visit other countries (Puerto Rico and Panama)
November 10, 1926	Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan
November 11, 1939	God Bless America is publicly sung for the first time by Kate Smith
November 12, 1954	Ellis Island immigration station in NY Harbor is closed
November 16, 1532	Inca Empire falls to Spaniard Pizarro
November 17, 1868	Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking Mediterranean and Red Seas
Nobember 18, 1928	Mickey Mouse makes his animated debut in Steamboat Willie
November 20, 1945	International War Crimes Tribunal begins trials in Neuremburg, Germany
November 21, 1620	The Mayflower Compact was signed
November 22, 1962	President John F. Kennedy was assasinated
November 29, 1929	Commander Richard E. Byrd flies over the South Pole
December 1, 1880	The White House has its first telephone installed
December 2, 1823	The Monroe Doctrine declares European powers must stay out of the Western Hemisphere
December 7, 1787	Delaware is the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution
December 8, 1941	U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan
December 11, 1620	103 pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
December 12, 1800	Washington, D.C. is established as the U.S. capital
January 1, 1863	Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation ending slavery
January 19, 1793	French King Louis XVI sentenced to death
January 24, 1848	Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill starts California Gold Rush
January 28, 1986	Space Shuttle Chanlleger explodes killing all on board
January 29, 1886	First successful gasoline driven car patented by Karl Benz in Germany

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