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American Book of Days

Table of Contents

Preface




A Note on Movable Feasts




January




January 1




New Year's Day




The Emancipation Proclamation




First National Flag




Barry Goldwater's Birthday




J. Edgar Hoover's Birthday




College Football Bowl Games




Tournament of Roses




Paul Revere's Birthday




January 2




Georgia Ratifies the Constitution




Speed Limit of 55 Miles an Hour Is Imposed




Senator John F. Kennedy Announces His Candidacy for the 1960 Democratic Presidential Nomination




January 3




Alaska Admitted to the Union




Battle of Princeton




Lucretia C. Mott's Birthday




Congress Meets




Joseph Rauh's Birthday




January 4




Feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton




Utah Admitted to the Union




Don Shula's Birthday




January 5




Twelfth Night, or Epiphany Eve




Feast of St. John Neumann, the First American Male Saint




Henry Ford Institutes the $5.00 a Day Minimum Wage




Walter Mondale's Birthday




Stephen Decatur's Birthday




January 6




Sam Rayburn's Birthday




Carl Sandburg's Birthday




The Feast of the Epiphany




New Mexico Admitted to the Union




The “Four Freedoms” Enunciated




Charles Sumner's Birthday




John DeLorean's Birthday




January 7




Millard Fillmore's Birthday




Panama Canal Traversed




Russian Orthodox Christmas




First Transatlantic Telephone Service




First Commercial Bank Established in the United States




January 8




Eleventh Amendment Declared Ratified




Battle of New Orleans




Elvis Presley's Birthday




AT&T Agrees to Split Up Its Telephone Monopoly




No Child Left Behind Act Signed Into Law




January 9




First Successful Balloon Flight in the United States




Connecticut Ratifies the Constitution




Richard M. Nixon's Birthday




Joan Baez's Birthday




Carrie Catt's Birthday




George Balanchine's Birthday




January 10




League of Nations Established




Publication of Common Sense by Thomas Paine




The United States Establishes Diplomatic Relations with the Vatican




January 11




Alexander Hamilton's Birthday




Surgeon General Issues First Report on the Dangers of Smoking




Alice Paul's Birthday




First Detainees Taken to Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp




January 12




John Hancock's Birthday




John Winthrop's Birthday




Jeff Bezos's Birthday




January 13




Salmon P. Chase's Birthday




Horatio Alger's Birthday




Stephen Foster Memorial Day




January 14




Benedict Arnold's Birthday




Ratification of the Treaty of Paris




January 15




Edward Teller's Birthday




Vermont Declares Independence from the British




January 16




Operation Desert Storm Begins




Eighteenth Amendment Ratified




January 17




Benjamin Franklin's Birthday




Feast of St. Anthony the Great




Michelle Obama's Birthday




Muhammad Ali's Birthday




January 18




Daniel Webster's Birthday




January 19




Robert E. Lee's Birthday




Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday




Isaiah Thomas's Birthday




January 20




Martin Luther King Day




Inauguration Day




Leon Ames's Birthday




January 21




Stonewall Jackson's Birthday




John Breckinridge's Birthday




Wolfman Jack's Birthday




Feast of St. Agnes




Jack Nicklaus's Birthday




January 22




The Supreme Court Holds That Abortion Is a Constitutional Right




Frederick Moore Vinson's Birthday




Kmart Corp. Becomes Largest Retailer in U.S. History to File for Bankruptcy




January 23




Twenty-Fourth Amendment Ratified




Elizabeth Blackwell, First Woman in the United States to Receive a Medical Degree




Kenneth L. Lay Resigns From Enron During Accounting Scandal




U.S. Forces Overturns 1994 Ban on Women Serving in Combat




January 24




California Gold Rush




Edith Wharton's Birthday




January 25




Robert Burns's Birthday




Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul




Florence Mills's Birthday




January 26




Douglas MacArthur's Birthday




Michigan Admitted to the Union




Angela Davis's Birthday




Paul Newman's Birthday




Condolezza Rice is Sworn in as First Female, African American Secretary of State




January 27




Samuel Gompers's Birthday




Hyman G. Rickover's Birthday




January 28




Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes




The United States Withdraws from Cuba




January 29




Kansas Admitted to the Union




William McKinley's Birthday




Thomas Paine's Birthday




Clinton Administration Announces New Policy Concerning Gays in the Military




Oprah Winfrey's Birthday




President George W. Bush's First State of the Union Address to Fight the “Evil Axis”




January 30




Franklin D. Roosevelt's Birthday




Gene Hackman's Birthday




January 31




Jackie Robinson's Birthday




Norman Mailer's Birthday




James G. Blaine's Birthday




February




February 1




John Ford's Birthday




Clark Gable's Birthday




Victor Herbert's Birthday




American Lutheran Church Merger Completed




Columbia Spacecraft Disaster




“Battle Hymn of the Republic”




February 2




Groundhog Day




Dartmouth College Case Decided




Candlemas, or The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord




Wystan Hugh Auden's Birthday




Bell South Leaves the Payphone Business Because of Competition From Cell Phones




February 3




Illinois Becomes a Territory




Gertrude Stein's Birthday




Buddy Holly Killed in Plane Crash




February 4




Betty Friedan's Birthday




Impeachment Trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase Begins




Mark Hopkins's Birthday




February 5




Roger Williams Arrives in America




Adlai Stevenson's Birthday




Dwight L. Moody's Birthday




Charro Days Fiesta




February 6




Ronald Reagan's Birthday




Aaron Burr's Birthday




Massachusetts Ratifies the Constitution




France Recognizes the United States




Twentieth Amendment Ratified




Chinese New Year




February 7




John Deere's Birthday




The Beatles Arrive in the United States




The Baltimore Fire




February 8




James Dean's Birthday




Boy Scouts of America Founded




February 9




William Henry Harrison's Birthday




Gasparilla Festival




February 10




Mardi Gras, or Shrove Tuesday




Twenty-fifth Amendment Ratified




First Medal of Honor in World War II




Treaty of Paris Becomes Effective




February 11




Ash Wednesday




Thomas Alva Edison's Birthday




Melville W. Fuller's Birthday




Nelson Mandela Released After Years of U.S. Pressure




February 12




Abraham Lincoln's Birthday




Senate Acts to Preserve Political Balance




Founding of the Georgia Colony




February 13




International Slave Trade Outlawed




Anchorage Fur Rendezvous




First Fugitive Slave Law




First American Magazine




February 14




St. Valentine's Day




Frederick Douglass's Birthday




Arizona Admitted to the Union




Oregon Admitted to the Union




February 15




Susan B. Anthony's Birthday




Battleship Maine Memorial Day




Cyrus McCormick's Birthday




Russell H. Conwell's Birthday




Elihu Root's Birthday




February 16




Cushing Eells's Birthday




Kyoto Treaty Enters Into Force




February 17




Thomas J. Watson, Sr.'s Birthday




Presidents' Day




Michael Jordan's Birthday




February 18




Helen Gurley Brown's Birthday




Jefferson Davis Inaugurated




February 19




Franklin D. Roosevelt Orders Japanese American Internment




Supreme Court Declares Initiatives and Referendums Valid




February 20




John Glenn Orbits the Earth




Joseph Jefferson's Birthday




February 21




President Nixon Goes to China




Washington Monument Dedicated




February 22




George Washington's Birthday




James Russell Lowell's Birthday




Adams-Onis Florida Purchase Treaty Signed




February 23




The Lend-Lease Agreement




Emma Willard's Birthday




The Battle of Buena Vista




February 24




Supreme Court Decides Marbury v. Madison, Establishing the Doctrine of Judicial Review




Chester Nimitz's Birthday




Arizona Territory Established




February 25




Sixteenth Amendment Ratified




National Bank Act




February 26




Grand Canyon National Park Established




Buffalo Bill's Birthday




February 27




Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Birthday




Twenty-second Amendment Ratified




State Department Blames Vietnam War on Communist Aggression




February 28




Explosion of the “Peacemaker”




Linus Pauling's Birthday




R. J. Reynolds Abandons “Smokeless” Cigarette Project




February 29




Leap Year




Ann Lee's Birthday




March




March 1




Nebraska Admitted to the Union




Ohio Admitted to the Union




St. David's Day




Texas Annexed by the United States




March 2




Texas Independence Day




Sam Houston's Birthday




Pioneer 10 Launched; First Probe to Leave the Solar System




March 3




Free Speech Is Limited by “Clear and Present Danger”




Alexander Graham Bell's Birthday




Florida Admitted to the Union




March 4




Vermont Admitted to the Union




Casimir Pulaski's Birthday




First Meeting of the First Congress




March 5




The Boston Massacre




Winston Churchill Makes His “Iron Curtain” Speech in the US




March 6




The Fall of the Alamo




Marion Barry's Birthday




President Obama Announces Sanctions Against Russia Over Ukraine




March 7




Salvador Dali Museum Opens in St. Petersburg, Florida




Luther Burbank's Birthday




March 8




Simon Cameron's Birthday




Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s Birthday




Battle of Pea Ridge




March 9




Supreme Court Expands Freedom of the Press




Edwin Forrest's Birthday




March 10




Death of Harriet Tubman




Albany Becomes the Capital of New York




March 11




Worldwide Influenza Epidemic Strikes the United States




The Blizzard of 1888




Internet Bubble Bursts




March 12




Girl Scouts Founded




President Truman Announces the “Truman Doctrine”




Mitt Romney's Birthday




March 13




L. Ron Hubbard's Birthday




Discovery of Pluto Announced




March 14




Albert Einstein's Birthday




Eli Whitney Patents the Cotton Gin




Union Forces take New Berne, North Carolina




March 15




Andrew Jackson's Birthday




Maine Admitted to the Union




Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Birthday




March 16




James Madison's Birthday




United States Military Academy Founded




My Lai Massacre




March 17




St. Patrick's Day




British Troops Evacuate Boston




Roger Brooke Taney's Birthday




US Government Intervenesin Economy to Halt Financial Crisis




March 18




John C. Calhoun's Birthday




Grover Cleveland's Birthday




The Supreme Court Expands the Right to Counsel




March 19




William Jennings Bryan's Birthday




Earl Warren's Birthday




Bruce Willis's Birthday




US and Britain Launch War on Iraq




March 20




Burrhus F. Skinner's Birthday




Neal Dow's Birthday




March 21




Spring Begins




Earth Day




March 22




The First Native American Treaty




Palm Sunday




Purim (Feast of Lots)




Stamp Act Signed




March 23




Wernher Von Braun's Birthday




Patrick Henry's Speech for Liberty




Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Signed Into Law




March 24




NATO Intervenes in Kosovo




John Wesley Powell's Birthday




Peyton Manning's Birthday




March 25




Gloria Steinem's Birthday




Greek Independence Day




First Colonists Arrive in Maryland




The Feast of the Annunciation




March 26




Robert Frost's Birthday




Sandra Day O'Connor's Birthday




Holy or Maundy Thursday




Prince Kuhio Day in Hawaii




March 27




1964 Alaska Earthquake




Good Friday




March 28




Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island




Holy Saturday




March 29




Easter




John Tyler's Birthday




First Colonists In Delaware




Twenty-third Amendment Ratified




March 30




Easter Monday




Seward's Day in Alaska




Fifteenth Amendment Ratified




March 31




Virgin Islands Transfer Day




Al Gore's Birthday




April




April 1




April Fools' Day




First Speaker of the House is Chosen




April 2




United States Mint Established




President Wilson Urges Congress to Approve the U.S. Entry into World War I




April 3




Washington Irving's Birthday




The XYZ Affair




April 4




Martin Luther King, Jr., Assassinated




Puyallup Valley Daffodil Festival




Flag Act of 1818




Maya Angelou's Birthday




April 5




Booker T. Washington's Birthday




Elihu Yale's Birthday




First Presidential Veto Cast




Bette Davis's Birthday




April 6




The United States Enters World War I




Mormon Church Formally Organized




North Pole Discovered




April 7




National Cherry Blossom Festival




The Alabama Claims




April 8




Ponce de León Claims Florida for Spain




John Randolph and Henry Clay Fight a Duel




Death of Kurt Cobain




April 9




Hugh Hefner's Birthday




Lee Surrenders at Appomattox




La Salle Reaches the Mouth of the Mississippi River




April 10




Salvation Army Founder's Day




April 11




Charles Evans Hughes's Birthday




Congress Proclaims Cessation of American Revolution Hostilities




Civil Rights Act of 1968




April 12




The Civil War Begins




Henry Clay's Birthday




Halifax Independence Day




ABT-450, a New Regimen for Treating Hepatitis C Virus




April 13




Thomas Jefferson's Birthday




Jefferson Memorial Dedicated




Fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group III, Report Released




April 14




Abraham Lincoln Assassinated




Pan American Day




April 15




Federal Income Tax Deadline




Thomas H. Gallaudet Starts the First School for the Deaf




Bombs Explode at the Boston Marathon




April 16




Washington Departs for His Inauguration




Virginia Tech Massacre with 33 Fatalities Renews Gun Control Debate




April 17




J. P. Morgan's Birthday




The Bay of Pigs Invasion




April 18




Clarence Darrow's Birthday




The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fires




World War II: Lieutenant Colonel James “Jimmy” Doolittle's Bombing Raid on Japan




April 19




Battles of Lexington and Concord (“Patriots' Day”)




Attack on the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco, Texas




Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City




General Douglas MacArthur's “Old Soldiers Never Die” Address




April 20




Death of Pontiac, Ottawa Chieftain




Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill




The Hague Peace Palace




April 21




Passover (Pesach)




Texas Wins Independence From Mexico




Spanish-American War Begins




John Muir's Birthday




April 22




President George Washington Issues Neutrality Proclamation




Oklahoma Land Rush Begins




Arbor Day




Earth Day




April 23




James Buchanan's Birthday




St. George's Day




William Shakespeare's Birthday




United Methodist Church Formed




Opposition to the Vietnam War Intensifies




April 24




Library of Congress Created




Hubble Space Telescope Deployed




April 25




Edward R. Murrow's Birthday




Feast of St. Mark




April 26




John James Audubon's Birthday




Confederate Memorial Day




Frederick Law Olmsted's Birthday




Cape Henry Day




April 27




Ulysses S. Grant's Birthday




“Fast Day” in New Hampshire




April 28




James Monroe's Birthday




Maryland Ratifies the Constitution




Washington State Apple Blossom Festival




Abu Ghraib Prison Abuse Is Revealed




Elena Kagan's Birthday




April 29




Oliver Ellsworth's Birthday




Andre Agassi's Birthday




April 30




Fall of Saigon




Louisiana Admitted to the Union




Congress Establishes the United States Navy




Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival




Walpurgis Night or Spring Festival




May




May 1




May Day




Labor Observances




Spanish-American War: Battle of Manila Bay




Loyalty Day




Law Day




Lei Day in Hawaii




Death of Osama bin Laden




May 2




Kentucky Derby




May 3




First Medical School in the United States




Rural Life Sunday (also known as Soil Stewardship Sunday)




May 4




Horace Mann's Birthday




Rhode Island Independence Day




Last Major German Contingents Surrender




May 5




Battle of the Wilderness




Cinco de Mayo




May 6




The Hindenburg Disaster at Lakehurst, New Jersey




Congress Passes First Legislation




Civil Rights Act of 1960




George Clooney's Birthday




May 7




Twenty-Seventh Amendment Ratified




Sinking of the Lusitania




Ascension Day




May 8




Victory in Europe (V-E) Day




Harry S. Truman's Birthday




May 9




John Brown's Birthday




May 10




Mother's Day




The First Transcontinental Railroad




The Methodist Church Merger Becomes Effective




Fort Ticonderoga Falls




May 11




Minnesota Admitted to the Union




Colonies of Connecticut and New Haven Unite




May 12




Florence Nightingale's Birthday




May 13




Jamestown Colony Founded




Mexican War Begins




Tulip Time Festival




May 14




United States Recognizes Israel




Antioch College Chartered




Congress Attempts to Protect Native American Territories




Lewis and Clark Depart on Their Expedition




George Lucas's Birthday




Mark Zuckerberg's Birthday




May 15




Destruction of the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto




Continental Congress Resolves to Put Colonies in State of Defense




Human Stem Cells Are Succesfully Cloned




May 16




Official Apology Issued for Tuskegee Experiments




Armed Forces Day




May 17




Supreme Court Orders School Desegregation




Pentecost




Norwegian Constitution Day




May 18




The Supreme Court Approves Segregation




Rhode Island Colony Acts to Prohibit Perpetual Slavery




May 19




Malcolm X's Birthday




William Bradford's Death




The New England Colonies Form the New England Confederation




May 20




Dolley Madison's Birthday




Mecklenburg Independence Day




May 21




Lindbergh Lands in Paris




May 22




National Maritime Day




President Lyndon Johnson Promotes the “Great Society”




May 23




South Carolina Ratifies the Constitution




Captain Kidd Hanged




May 24




Bob Dylan's Birthday




Samuel F. B. Morse Opens the First U.S. Telegraph Line




Russia and the United States Sign the Moscow Treaty




May 25




Ralph Waldo Emerson's Birthday




Indianapolis 500




Constitutional Convention Opens




May 26




Montana Becomes a Territory




May 27




Cornelius Vanderbilt's Birthday




Rachel Carson's Birthday




Hubert Humphrey's Birthday




Feast of St. Augustine of Canterbury




May 28




Louis Agassiz's Birthday




United Presbyterian Church Formed




May 29




John F. Kennedy's Birthday




Wisconsin Admitted to the Union




Rhode Island Ratifies the Constitution




Patrick Henry's Birthday




May 30




Memorial Day




May 31




Seventeenth Amendment Proclaimed Ratified




Walt Whitman's Birthday




Hillary Rodham Clinton's Graduation Address from Wellesley College




June




June 1




Kentucky Admitted to the Union




Tennessee Admitted to the Union




Jacques Marquette's Birthday




Morgan Freeman's Birthday




June 2




John Randolph's Birthday




June 3




Jefferson Davis's Birthday




June 4




Jack Jouett's Ride




Angelina Jolie's Birthday




Churchill Addresses the British after Dunkirk




June 5




Gold Clause Repealed




Portland Rose Festival




June 6




D-Day




Confederate Memorial Day in Winchester, Virginia




YMCA Founded




June 7




Daniel Boone Reaches Kentucky




Liberty Bell Hung in Independence Hall




June 8




Frank Lloyd Wright's Birthday




Tim Berners-Lee's Birthday




June 9




Siege of Petersburg, Virginia




June 10




Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous




Shavuot (Jewish Feast of Weeks)




June 11




President Kennedy Addresses the Nation on Civil Rights




King Kamehameha Day in Hawaii




June 12




George H. W. Bush's Birthday




Philippine Independence Day




June 13




Supreme Court Expands Right Against Self-Incrimination in Miranda v. Arizona




Feast of St. Anthony of Padua




June 14




Flag Day




Harriet Beecher Stowe's Birthday




The Continental Congress Establishes the Continental Army




June 15




Arkansas Admitted to the Union




Oregon Treaty Ratified




June 16




Phil Mickelson's Birthday




Franklin D. Roosevelt's Hundred Days




June 17




Newt Gingrich's Birthday




Battle of Bunker Hill




The Supreme Court Expands Fair Housing Rights




June 18




Susan B. Anthony Fined for Voting




War of 1812 Begins




June 19




French and Indian War: The Albany Congress Convenes




June 20




West Virginia Admitted to the Union




First Thanksgiving Day Proclamation




June 21




Summer Begins




The Constitution Ratified




New Hampshire Ratifies the Constitution




Father's Day




June 22




HMS Leopard Fires on the USS Chesapeake




June 23




Midsummer Eve




Unto These Hills Cherokee Historical Drama




June 24




Midsummer Day




Henry Ward Beecher's Birthday




Berlin Airlift of 1948 Begins




Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist




June 25




Custer's Last Stand




Korean War Begins




Virginia Ratifies the Constitution




United Church of Christ Formed




Michael Jackson's Death




Sonya Sotomayor's Birthday




June 26




President Kennedy Speaks in West Berlin




Supreme Court Declares the Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional




American Troops Land in France




June 27




H. Ross Perot's Birthday




Helen Keller's Birthday




Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival




National “Do Not Call” Registry Enrolls 750,000 On Its First Day




June 28




Archduke Francis Ferdinand Assassinated




Treaty of Versailles Signed




Lutheran Church in America Organized




Elon Musk's Birthday




June 29




Atlantis-Mir Docking




Official Report on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings Issued




Feast of Saints Peter and Paul




June 30




The “Pentagon Papers” Case is Decided




Twenty-sixth Amendment Ratified




July




July 1




Battle of Gettysburg Begins




The Bretton Woods Conference Begins




July 2




Thurgood Marshall's Birthday




President James A. Garfield Shot




Civil Rights Act of 1964




Hussey's Reaper First Exhibited




July 3




Idaho Admitted to the Union




Death of Jim Morrison




John Singleton Copley's Birthday




July 4




Independence Day




Calvin Coolidge's Birthday




Nathaniel Hawthorne's Birthday




July 5




Admiral Farragut's Birthday




P. T. Barnum's Birthday




July 6




John Paul Jones's Birthday




Republican Party Founded




George W. Bush's Birthday




July 7




California Proclaimed Part of the United States




Group of 8 Sets Goal to Reduce Greenhouse Emissions by Half by 2050




July 8




John D. Rockefeller Sr.'s Birthday




American Revolution: Olive Branch Petition




Atlantis Launched in Last Space Shuttle Flight




July 9




French and Indian War: Braddock's Defeat at the Battle of the Monongahela




O.J. Simpson's Birthday




Tom Hanks's Birthday




July 10




Scopes “Monkey Trial” Begins




Allied Troops Land in Sicily




James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Birthday




Wyoming Admitted to the Union




July 11




John Quincy Adams's Birthday




The Chester Gillette Murder




July 12




George Washington Carver's Birthday




Henry David Thoreau's Birthday




July 13




Northwest Ordinance Enacted




Patrick Stewart's Birthday




July 14




Gerald R. Ford's Birthday




July 15




Birthday of the First American Saint, Mother Frances Cabrini




First United States-Soviet Joint Space Mission




July 16




Birthday of Mary Baker Eddy, Founder of the Christian Science Church




The Starting Date of the Islamic Calendar




July 17




John Jacob Astor's Birthday




Florida Ceded to the United States




Columbia University Opens




July 18




John Rutledge's Death




The Presidential Succession Act of 1947




Detroit Files for Bankruptcy, the Largest Municipal Bankruptcy Filing in U.S. History




July 19




First Women's Rights Convention: Seneca Falls, New York




George McGovern's Birthday




Worldcom Files for Bankruptcy




July 20




First Manned Landing on the Moon




The American Space Program Since the First Moon Landing




July 21




Ernest Hemingway's Birthday




July 22




Robert Dole's Birthday




July 23




James Cardinal Gibbons's Birthday




July 24




Mormon Pioneer Day in Utah




Pioneer Day in other Western States




July 25




Puerto Rican Constitution Day




Thomas Eakins's Birthday




July 26




New York Ratifies the Constitution




Sandra Bullock's Birthday




July 27




First Permanent Transatlantic Cable Completed




July 28




Fourteenth Amendment Proclaimed Ratified




“Bonus Army” Evicted From Washington, D.C.




July 29




Pony Penning on Chincoteague Island




Alexis de Tocqueville's Birthday




Elizabeth Dole's Birthday




July 30




Henry Ford's Birthday




Arnold Schwarzenegger's Birthday




July 31




Milton Friedman's Birthday




J. K. Rowling's Birthday




August




August 1




Colorado Admitted to the Union




Herman Melville's Birthday




Francis Scott Key's Birthday




John Alden Day




August 2




James Baldwin's Birthday




August 3




Columbus Departs For The New World




The USS Nautilus Cruises Under The North Pole




Martha Stewart's Birthday




August 4




John Peter Zenger Acquitted




President Barack Obama's Birthday




August 5




John Eliot Baptized




Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Signed




August 6




United States Uses Atomic Bombs Against Japan




Voting Rights Act of 1965




First Evidence of Extraterrestrial Life Announced




August 7




Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Approved




George Washington Issues Whiskey Rebellion Proclamation




August 8




Charles A. Dana's Birthday




The Wilmot Proviso of 1846




WHO Categorizes West African Ebola Outbreak as International Concern




August 9




Free-Soil Party Organized




Webster-Ashburton Treaty Signed




August 10




Herbert Hoover's Birthday




Missouri Admitted to the Union




August 11




Alex Haley's Birthday




Tishah B'Av




August 12




Hawaii Annexed to the United States




Cecil B. DeMille's Birthday




Whitey Bulger found Guilty on 31 of 32 Counts, was Involved in 11 Murders




August 13




Lucy Stone's Birthday




Annie Oakley's Birthday




Janet Yellen's Birthday




August 14




Victory over Japan (V-J) Day




The Atlantic Charter




August 15




Woodstock Begins




August 16




American Revolution: Battle of Bennington




Madonna's Birthday




August 17




Davy Crockett's Birthday




Fulton's Steamboat Sails




Marcus Garvey's Birthday




August 18




First United States Government Maritime Expedition Sets Sail




Marshall Field's Birthday




Timothy Geithner's Birthday




August 19




William Jefferson Clinton's Birthday




The USS Constitution Engages the British




National Aviation Day




Operation Iraqi Freedom Ends




August 20




Benjamin Harrison's Birthday




First Viking Probe Is Launched Towards Mars




August 21




Hawaii Admitted to the Union




American Bar Association Formed




August 22




First America's Cup Race




Mormon Tabernacle Choir Gives First Performance




August 23




Oliver Hazard Perry's Birthday




Great Britain Issues The Proclamation of Rebellion




August 24




The British Burn Washington, D.C.




Feast of St. Bartholomew




August 25




George C. Wallace's Birthday




August 26




Nineteenth Amendment Proclaimed Ratified




France Adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man




Women's Equality Day




August 27




Lyndon B. Johnson's Birthday




Kellogg-Briand Pact “To Outlaw War” Signed




August 28




Commercial Radio Broadcasting Begins




Feast of St. Augustine




August 29




Oliver Wendell Holmes's Birthday




The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England




Hurricane Katrina




John McCain's Birthday




August 30




Huey P. Long's Birthday




Gabriel Prosser's Slave Revolt




Warren Buffet's Birthday




August 31




James Coburn's Birthday




The Charleston Earthquake




President Barack Obama Announces the End of Operation Iraqi Freedom




September




September 1




World War II Begins




Walter Reuther's Birthday




Operation New Dawn Begins




September 2




Andrew Grove's Birthday




Japan Surrenders




September 3




Henry Hudson Enters New York Harbor




Britain and France Declare War on Germany




September 4




Founding of Los Angeles




The Santa Fe Fiesta




September 5




The First Continental Congress Convenes




September 6




President William McKinley Assassinated




Lafayette's Birthday




Jane Addams's Birthday




September 7




Labor Day




The Miss America Pageant




September 8




The Galveston Hurricane of 1900




Founding of St. Augustine, Florida, the Nation's Oldest City




First Broadcast of Star Trek




September 9




California Admitted to the Union




Civil Rights Act of 1957




September 10




John Smith Assumes Jamestown Council Presidency




Beginning of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)




September 11




Battle of Brandywine




The Navajo Nation Fair




Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon




September 12




Battle of North Point, Maryland




Jesse Owens's Birthday




September 13




Death of John Barry




John J. Pershing's Birthday




Hurricane Ike Makes Landfall




September 14




American Forces Capture Mexico City




Margaret Sanger's Birthday




September 15




James Fenimore Cooper's Birthday




William Howard Taft's Birthday




Collapse of Lehman Brothers




September 16




Cherokee Land Rush in Oklahoma, 1893




September 17




Warren E. Burger's Birthday




American Revolution: Baron von Steuben's Birthday




Citizenship Day




September 18




Cornerstone of the Capitol Laid




The Air Force Becomes an Equal Branch of the Military




Lance Armstrong's Birthday




September 19




George Washington's Farewell Address




First Battle of Saratoga




September 20




Panic of 1873




Upton Sinclair's Birthday




U.S.'s Military's “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” Policy Ends




September 21




Autumn Begins




Delaware Organized as a State




September 22




Nathan Hale Hanged




Peace Corps Created




September 23




Lewis and Clark Expedition Completed




Victoria C. Woodhull's Birthday




September 24




John Marshall's Birthday




F. Scott Fitzgerald's Birthday




September 25




Balboa Discovers the Pacific Ocean




Twelfth Amendment Proclaimed Ratified




Oracle Team USA Defeats New Zealand, Winning America's Cup




September 26




John “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman's Birthday




George Gershwin's Birthday




September 27




Warren Commission Report Released




Samuel Adams's Birthday




September 28




Frances E. Willard's Birthday




Cabrillo Day in California




September 29




Tokyo Rose is Convicted of Treason




September 30




Feast of St. Jerome




Truman Capote's Birthday




October




October 1




Jimmy Carter's Birthday




William Rehnquist's Birthday




Rosh Hashanah




Treaty of San Ildefonso




October 2




Major John André Hanged as a Spy




First Pan American Conference Convenes




Sting's Birthday




October 3




George Bancroft's Birthday




Bank Bailout Bill Passed




October 4




Rutherford B. Hayes's Birthday




Soviets Launch Sputnik I




October 5




Chester A. Arthur's Birthday




Tecumseh's Death




Robert Goddard's Birthday




Steve Jobs's Death




October 6




British Capture the Forts Clinton and Montgomery




Beginning of the Stock Market Crash and Housing/Banking Crisis of 2008




October 7




James Whitcomb Riley's Birthday




Elijah Muhammad's Birthday




Second Battle of Saratoga




US and British Bombing Campaign Against Taliban Government and al Qaeda Terrorist Camps in Afghanistan Begins




October 8




John Clarke's Birthday




Jesse Jackson's Birthday




October 9




The Chicago Fire




Leif Erikson Day




October 10




Yom Kippur




Oklahoma Historical Day




October 11




Eleanor Roosevelt's Birthday




Harlan Fiske Stone's Birthday




October 12




Columbus Day




First Use of the Pledge of Allegiance




U.S.S. Cole Attacked in the Port of Aden, Yemen




October 13




White House Cornerstone Laid




Battle of Queenston Heights




October 14




Dwight David Eisenhower's Birthday




William Penn's Birthday




October 15




Sukkot




John Kenneth Galbraith's birthday




October 16




Noah Webster's Birthday




Million Man March




October 17




American Revolution: British Surrender at Saratoga




The Federalist Papers Are First Published




October 18




Anniversary of the Transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States




Thomas B. Reed's birthday




Feast of St. Luke




October 19




The North American Martyrs




The Peggy Stewart Incident




British Surrender at Yorktown




October 20




General Douglas MacArthur returns to the Philippines




Convention of 1818 Signed




October 21




Electric Light Bulb Perfected




October 22




Cuban Missile Crisis




Birthday of Timothy Leary




October 23




Francis Hopkinson Smith's Birthday




Hungary Declares Independence




October 24




The United Nations Formally Comes into Existence




War Powers Resolution




President Barack Obama Declares Swine Flu a National Emergency




October 25




Richard E. Byrd's Birthday




October 26




Erie Canal Opens




Hillary Rodham Clinton's Birthday




Patriot Act Is Signed




October 27




Theodore Roosevelt's Birthday




October 28




Statue of Liberty Dedicated




Bill Gates's Birthday




Julia Roberts's Birthday




October 29




Stock Market Crash of 1929




The Stock Market in American History: Bull and Bear Market Cycles




Hurricane Sandy Makes Landfall




October 30




John Adams's Birthday




Moscow Conference




October 31




Halloween




Admission of Nevada to the Union




November




November 1




All Saints Day




November 2




Warren G. Harding's Birthday




James K. Polk's Birthday




North Dakota Admitted to the Union




South Dakota Admitted to the Union




November 3




Edward Douglass White's Birthday




General Election Day




November 4




Will Rogers's Birthday




Robert Mapplethorpe's Birthday




Laura Bush's Birthday




November 5




John Dickinson Writes the First of the “Farmer's Letters”




Eugene Debs's Birthday




November 6




John Carroll Appointed First Roman Catholic Bishop in the United States




First College Football Game




November 7




Harvard Established




Battle of Tippecanoe




November 8




Founding of Mount Holyoke College, the First American College For Women




US Troops Land in North Africa




Montana Admitted to the Union




US Presidential Election Florida Recount




November 9




The Great Northeast Power Failure




November 10




American Revolution: First Marine Corps Units Formed




Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions




November 11




Veterans Day




Admission of Washington State to the Union




November 12




Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Birthday




The Washington Conference Begins




November 13




Edwin Booth's Birthday




Louis Brandeis's Birthday




November 14




Samuel Seabury Appointed First Protestant Bishop in the United States




The Apollo 12 Mission to the Moon is Launched




November 15




Articles of Confederation Adopted




Georgia O'Keeffe's Birthday




November 16




Oklahoma Admitted to the Union




November 17




Congress Finds a Permanent Home




Anne Hutchinson Banished From Colonial Massachusetts




November 18




Asa Gray's Birthday




End of the Monroe Doctrine




November 19




President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address




James A. Garfield's Birthday




November 20




Robert F. Kennedy's Birthday




November 21




North Carolina Ratifies the Constitution




November 22




President John F. Kennedy Assassinated




November 23




Federalist Number Ten is Published




Franklin Pierce's Birthday




November 24




Zachary Taylor's Birthday




November 25




Andrew Carnegie's Birthday




Evacuation of the British Troops from New York




Creation of the Department of Homeland Security




November 26




Thanksgiving Day




Death of Sojourner Truth




November 27




Robert R. Livingston's Birthday




November 28




The Teheran Conference




November 29




Morrison Remick Waite's Birthday




Marcus Whitman's Death




Advent Begins




United Nations Approves International Coalition for Operation Desert Storm




November 30




Mark Twain's Birthday




Shirley Chisholm's Birthday




December




December 1




Presidential Elections of 1824 Deadlocked




The Tehran Conference




Montgomery Bus Boycott Starts




December 2




The Monroe Doctrine Promulgated




First Nuclear Chain Reaction Achieved




December 3




Gilbert Stuart's Birthday




Illinois Admitted to the Union




December 4




George Washington Takes Leave of his Officers




The American Anti-Slavery Society Is Organized




December 5




Twenty-First Amendment Proclaimed Ratified




Martin Van Buren's Birthday




December 6




The Everglades Become a National Park




Feast of St. Nicholas




December 7




Delaware ratifies the Constitution




The Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor




December 8




Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary




United States Enters World War II




December 9




American Revolution: Battle of Great Bridge, Virginia




Tip O'Neill's Birthday




December 10




Emily Dickinson's Birthday




Human Rights Day and Week




Mississippi Admitted to the Union




Wyoming Passes the First Law Giving Women the Right to Vote




Mary Barra of General Motors Becomes First Female CEO of a Major Automotive Company




December 11




Indiana Admitted to the Union




John Kerry's Birthday




December 12




John Jay's Birthday




Pennsylvania Ratifies the Constitution




North Korean Crisis Begins When New Satellite Is Launched




December 13




War: North Korea and South Korea Finally Execute a Peace Treaty




Ben Bernanke's Birthday




Saddam Hussein Captured by US Troops




December 14




Alabama Admitted to the Union




George Washington's Death




December 15




Ratification of the Bill of Rights




December 16




Boston Tea Party




The New Madrid, Missouri Earthquake




December 17




Wright Brothers' First Flight




John Greenleaf Whittier's Birthday




December 18




New Jersey Ratifies the Constitution




Lyman Abbott's Birthday




Thirteenth Amendment Proclaimed Ratified




Steven Spielberg's Birthday




December 19




American Revolution: George Washington Camps at Valley Forge




December 20




Louisiana Purchased




American Poet Laureate Established




December 21




Winter Begins




Forefathers' Day




December 22




James Oglethorpe's Birthday




December 23




Hanukkah




Birthday of Joseph Smith Jr., Founder of the Mormon Faith




Federal Reserve System Established




December 24




Christmas Eve




Treaty of Ghent Signed




December 25




Christmas




Clara Barton's Birthday




Gorbachev Resigns and the Soviet Union Dissolves




December 26




Battle of Trenton




Feast of St. Stephen




Kwanzaa Begins




December 27




The Soviet Union Installs a Puppet Government in Afghanistan




Feast of St. John




December 28




Iowa Admitted to the Union




Feast of the Holy Innocents (Childermas)




Denzel Washington's Birthday




December 29




Andrew Johnson's Birthday




Woodrow Wilson's Birthday




Massacre at Wounded Knee




Texas Admitted to the Union




December 30




The Gadsden Purchase




Tiger Woods's Birthday




December 31




New Year's Eve




George Marshall's Birthday




Beginning of Ramadan, the Islamic Month of Fasting




Appendix A: The Calendar




Appendix B: The Era




Appendix C: The Days of the Week




Appendix D: Signs of the Zodiac




Appendix E: United States Constitution




Appendix F: Declaration of Independence




Appendix G: Articles of Confederation




Appendix H: Mayflower Compact of 1620




Appendix I: Important Public Holidays and Events