Dept. of Agriculture bans use of DDT insecticide in residential areas, 1969
Bo Derek's Birthday, 1956
Mark Gastineau's Birthday, 1956
U.S. troops reach the Yalu River [border of North Korea and China], 1950
Philip Mountbatten marries Princess Elizabeth, 1947
Nuremberg War Crimes Trial begin, 1945
Dick Smothers' Birthday, 1938
Richard Dawson's Birthday, 1932
Robert F. Kennedy's Birthday, 1925
Alistair Cooke's Birthday, 1908
Chester Gould's Birthday, 1900
Kenesaw Landis' Birthday, 1866
New Jersey is first State to ratify Bill of Rights, 1789
Iran-Contra scandal breaks, 1986
Reagan and Gorbachev begin their first summit meeting [in Geneva], 1985
Jim Jones / Jonestown Massacre, 1978
Charles Conrad and Alan Bean become 3rd and 4th men to walk on moon, 1969
Jodi Foster's Birthday, 1962
Calvin Klein's Birthday, 1942
Garrick Utley's Birthday, 1939
Ted Turner's Birthday, 1938
Dick Cavett's Birthday, 1936
Jeane Kirkpatrick's Birthday, 1926
Roy Campanella's Birthday, 1921
World War I Versailles Treaty, including League of Nations, rejected by the Senate, 1919
Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address, 1863
James A. Garfield's Birthday, 1831
Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, 1493
Touch-tone telephone introduced, 1963
Tony Franklin's Birthday, 1956
Warren Moon's Birthday, 1956
Linda Evans' Birthday, 1942
Mickey Mouse makes first appearance, 1928
Alan Shepard's Birthday, 1923
U.S. and Panama sign Canal Treaty, 1903
George Gallup's Birthday, 1901
U.S. railroads adopt time zone system, 1883
Sir William Gilbert's Birthday, 1836
Louis DaGuerre's Birthday, 1789
Nixon declares "I am not a crook", 1973
NBC cuts short NFL Broadcast to show the film "Heidi", 1968
Nikita Khrushchev claims that "history is on our side, we will bury you", 1956
Danny Devito's Birthday, 1944
Lauren Hutton's Birthday, 1944
Tom Seaver's Birthday, 1944
Martin Scorsese's Birthday, 1942
Gordon Lightfoot's Birthday, 1939
Bob Mathias' Birthday, 1930
Rock Hudson's Birthday, 1925
Suez Canal officially opens, 1869
August Mobius' Birthday, 1790
Lisa Bonet's Birthday, 1967
Dwight Gooden's Birthday, 1964
U.S. officially recognizes the Soviet Union, 1933
Bob Gibson's Birthday, 1931
Burgess Meredith's Birthday, 1909
Oklahoma admitted as 46th State, 1907
Cork life preserver patented, 1841
Over a quarter of a million anti-war demonstrators march on Washington, DC, 1969
Ed Asner's Birthday, 1929
Howard Baker's Birthday, 1925
Erwin Rommel's Birthday, 1891
Felix Frankfurter's Birthday, 1882
American Federation of Labor founded, 1881
Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress, 1777
Children's Day [India]
Ivan Boesky pleads guilty, and is barred for life from trading securities and fined $100 million, 1986
Lech Walesa released after almost a year in jail, 1982
Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 1000, 1972
Prince Charles' Birthday, 1948
King Hussein of Jordan's Birthday, 1935
Mamie Eisenhower's Birthday, 1896
Jawaharlal Nehru's Birthday, 1889
Claude Monet's Birthday, 1840
Robert Fulton's Birthday, 1765
Vinnie Testaverde's Birthday, 1963
Premier of first film to feature stereo sound [Walt Disney's "Fantasia"], 1940
Gary Marshall's Birthday, 1934
Holland Tunnel opens to traffic, 1927
Louis Brandeis' Birthday, 1856
Robert Louis Stevenson's Birthday, 1850
James Maxwell's Birthday, 1831
Nadia Comaneci's Birthday, 1961
Ellis Island closes as an immigrant processing center, 1954
First drive-thru bank teller windows, 1946
Neil Young's Birthday, 1945
Stefanie Powers' Birthday, 1942
Draft age lowered to 18, 1942
Grace Kelly's Birthday, 1929
Judge Kenesaw Landis is named as first Baseball Commisioner, 1920
Harry A. Blackmun's Birthday, 1908
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Birthday, 1815
Veterans Day
Independence Day [Angola], 1975
Demi Moore's Birthday, 1962
"Fuzzy" Zoeller's Birthday, 1951
Puerto Rican Nationalists nearly assassinate President Truman in Washington, DC, 1950
Daniel Ortega's Birthday, 1945
"God Bless America" first sung [by Kate Smith], 1938
Richard F. Celeste's Birthday, 1937
Jonathan Winters' Birthday, 1925
Kurt Vonnegut's Birthday, 1922
Armistice ending World War I is signed, 1918
William Proxmire's Birthday, 1915
Washington admitted as 42nd State, 1889
George S. Patton's Birthday, 1885
Stanford University is founded, 1885
Abigail Adams' Birthday, 1744
