Supreme Court rules in favor of busing to achieve racial integration in public schools, 1971
Don Mattingly's Birthday, 1962
Luther Vandross' Birthday, 1951
Discovery of cortisone announced, 1949
Jessica Lange's Birthday, 1949
Ryan O'Neal's Birthday, 1941
Harold Lloyd's Birthday, 1893
Gun turret explosion on U.S.S. Iowa, 1989
Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco, 1956
Dudley Moore's Birthday, 1935
Eliot Ness' Birthday, 1903
First Boston Marathon, 1897
Lincoln imposes blockade on southern ports to cut off exports and aid, 1861
The Netherlands formally recognize the U.S., 1782
American Revolution begins with Battle of Lexington and Concord, 1775
Solidarity Union legalized by Polish Government, 1989
Independence Day [Zimbabwe], 1980
Agreement to turn canal over to Panama by the year 2000 ratified by Senate, 1978
Carter calls for national energy conservation effort that is the "moral equivalent of war", 1977
Nate Archibald's Birthday, 1948
League of Nations dissolved, 1946
Jim "Catfish" Hunter's Birthday, 1946
First World War II U.S. aerial bomb raid on Japan, 1942
First laundromat in U.S. opens in Fort Worth [TX], 1934
Yankee Stadium first opens, 1922
Great San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
Clarence Darrow's Birthday, 1857
Paul Revere's "Midnight Ride", 1775
Pro-Democracy marches begin in Tiananmen Square [Beijing, China], 1989
Speaker of the House Jim Wright is charged with ethics violations by the House Ethics Committee, 1989
Julius Erving scores 38 points in his last regular season game, 1987
Sirhan Sirhan convicted of Robert Kennedy's murder, 1969
Bay Of Pigs Invasion, 1961
Boomer Esiason's Birthday, 1961
Independence Day [Syria], 1946
James Garner's Birthday, 1928
Harry Reasoner's Birthday, 1923
Flag Day [American Samoa], 1900
Thornton Wilder's Birthday, 1897
Nikita Khrushchev's Birthday, 1894
Virginia secedes from the Union, 1861
John Pierpont Morgan's Birthday, 1837
Samuel Chase's Birthday, 1741
Giovanni Verrazano discovers New York Harbor, 1524
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Birthday, 1947
Henry Mancini's Birthday, 1924
Peter Ustinov's Birthday, 1921
Charlie Chaplin's Birthday, 1889
Wilbur Wright's Birthday, 1867
Slavery abolished in the District of Columbia, 1862
USA Income Tax Day!
Evelyn Ashford's Birthday, 1957
Michael Cooper's Birthday, 1956
First bank credit card issued by Franklin National Bank of New York, 1952
Roy Clark's Birthday, 1933
Sir George Cadbury's Birthday, 1929
Titanic sinks, 1912
Henry James' Birthday, 1843
Leonardo da Vinci's Birthday, 1542
U.S. bombs Libya in retaliation for West Berlin Disco Bombing, 1986
Anthony Michael Hall's Birthday, 1968
Pete Rose's Birthday, 1941
Loretta Lynn's Birthday, 1935
Lt. Douglas Campbell shoots down his fifth German plane, and becomes America's first air ace, 1918
First public showing of motion pictures [Thomas Edison's kinetoscope], 1894
Abraham Lincoln assassinated, 1865
George Washington notified of his election as President, 1789
First ever baseball players' strike ends, 1972
Jefferson Memorial dedicated, 1943
George Westinghouse receives patent for air brake, 1869
F.W. Woolworth's Birthday, 1852
Thomas Jefferson's Birthday, 1743
Launch of first Space Shuttle ["Columbia"], 1981
U.S. Olympic Committee votes to boycott Moscow Summer Olympics due to Afghanistan invasion, 1980
President Johnson orders first strategic bombing raids of North Vietnam, 1966
Yuri Gagarin [U.S.S.R.] becomes first man to travel in space, 1961
Report shows Salk Vaccine to be safe and effective, 1955
David Cassidy's Birthday, 1950
David Letterman's Birthday, 1947
Herbie Hancock's Birthday, 1940
Tiny Tim's Birthday, 1922
Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. Territory, 1900
Civil War begins with attack on Fort Sumter (SC], 1861
Henry Clay's Birthday, 1777
Liberation Day [Uganda, 1979]
President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act, 1968
Bret Saberhagen's Birthday, 1964
Truman removes General Douglas MacArthur from command in Korea for insubordination, 1951
Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier in Major League Baseball, 1947
Ethel Kennedy's Birthday, 1928
Oleg Cassini's Birthday, 1913
Dean Acheson's Birthday, 1893
