Nelson Mandela begins his visit to the U.S., 1990
Cindy Lauper's Birthday, 1953
Lionel Richie's Birthday, 1949
Anne Murray's Birthday, 1945
Alice Robertson becomes first woman to preside over the House of Representatives, 1921
Errol Flynn's Birthday, 1909
Caroline Baldwin becomes first woman to receive Doctor of Science Degree, 1895
West Virginia admitted as 35th State, 1863
Samuel Morse receives patent for the Telegraph, 1840
Great Seal of the United States adopted, 1782
Maryland basketball star Len Bias, top draft pick of Boston Celtics, dies of drug overdose, 1986
Garfield the Cat first appears in print, 1978
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed for espionage, 1953
Kathleen Turner's Birthday, 1949
Alan Cranston's Birthday, 1914
Fathers Day first celebrated, 1910
Lou Gehrig's Birthday, 1903
Blaise Pascal's Birthday, 1623
Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space, 1983
Carter and Brezhnev sign Salt II Treaty in Vienna, 1979
Carol Kane's Birthday, 1952
Isabella Rossellini's Birthday, 1952
United Nations adopts its International Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
Roger Ebert's Birthday, 1942
Paul McCartney's Birthday, 1942
Lou Brock's Birthday, 1939
George Mikan's Birthday, 1924
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo, 1815
In response to blockade, U.S. declares war on Britain, 1812
Independence Day [Iceland]
Watergate break-in, 1972
China detonates its first hydrogen bomb, 1967
Disneyland [CA] opens, 1955
Joe Piscopo's Birthday, 1951
Dave Concepcion's Birthday, 1948
Phylicia Rashad's Birthday, 1948
Barry Manilow's Birthday, 1946
Hawley-Smoot Tariff raises barriers to world trade, worsening the Great Depression, 1930
Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch's Birthday, 1923
Dean Martin's Birthday, 1917
Igor Stravinsky's Birthday, 1882
Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775
Bernhard Goetz acquitted of attempted murder, 1987
Supreme Court rules that organisms created by genetic engineering can be patented, 1980
Student uprising in Soweto [South Africa] begins, 1976
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar traded to L. A. Lakers, 1975
Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space, 1963
Roberto Duran's Birthday, 1951
Joan Van Ark's Birthday, 1943
John Howard Griffin's Birthday, 1920
Stan Laurel's Birthday, 1890
Abraham Lincoln delivers his "A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand" Speech, 1858
Wade Boggs' Birthday, 1958
Jim Belushi's Birthday, 1954
Waylon Jennings' Birthday, 1937
Mario Cuomo's Birthday, 1932
Congress passes law making all Indians citizens, 1924
Erik Erikson's Birthday, 1902
Lord Louis Mountbatten's Birthday, 1900
Arkansas admitted as 25th State, 1836
Balloon catches fire, leads to first fatal accident in aviation history, 1785
George Washington appointed Commander-in-Chief of Continental Army, 1775
With his famous kite experiment, Benjamin Franklin proves lightning is electricity, 1752
Magna Carta completed and sealed, 1215
Flag Day [USA]
Argentina surrenders to Britain in Falklands War, 1982
Steffi Graf's Birthday, 1969
Boy George's Birthday, 1961
Eric Heiden's Birthday, 1958
First commercial computer introduced [UNIVAC I], 1951
Phillies' first baseman Eddie Waitkus shot, 1949
German troops enter Paris, 1940
Pierre Salinger's Birthday, 1925
Alois Alzheimer's Birthday, 1864
John Bartlett's Birthday, 1820
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Birthday, 1811
John Adams introduces resolution to Continental Congress for U.S. Flag of 13 stars and stripes, 1777
Congress establishes U.S. Army, 1775
Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, becomes first man-made object to leave the solar system, 1983
First classified "Pentagon Papers" on U.S. involvement in Vietnam printed in New York Times, 1971
Supreme Court issues Miranda Decision, 1966
George Orwell's "1984" published, 1949
Silver Anniversary Day at Yankee Stadium ["House that Ruth Built"], Babe Ruth's number [3] is retired, 1948
Malcolm McDowell's Birthday, 1943
Office of Strategic Services [OSS] established, 1942
Paul Lynde's Birthday, 1926
Red Grange's Birthday, 1903
Winfield Scott's Birthday, 1786
Baseball players begin first mid-season strike, 1981
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" released, 1981
First man-powered flight across English Channel [the "Gossamer Albatross"], 1979
Girls permittted to play in Little League Baseball, 1974
Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment, 1964
Ally Sheedy's Birthday, 1962
Marv Albert's Birthday, 1943
Dedication of Baseball Hall of Fame, 1939
George Herbert Walker Bush's Birthday, 1924
James Houston's Birthday, 1921
David Rockefeller's Birthday, 1915
Jim Nabors' Birthday, 1912
Independence Day [Philippines], 1898
Anthony Eden's Birthday, 1897
"E.T. - The Extraterrestrial" released, 1982
First oil flows from Britain's North Sea oil fields, 1975
Joe Montana's Birthday, 1956
Gary Fencik's Birthday, 1954
Adrienne Barbeau's Birthday, 1945
Jackie Stewart's Birthday, 1939
Gene Wilder's Birthday, 1939
Vince Lombardi's Birthday, 1913
Jacques Cousteau's Birthday, 1910
Jeannette Rankin's Birthday, 1880
Richard Strauss' Birthday, 1864
