JANUARY
Jan
1, 4713BC New Years Day. First Day of the first year of the Gregorian
Calendar
(U.S.
and most other countries: Legal Holiday)
FEBRUARY
U.S.:
Black History month
U.S.: Mardi Gras (the Tuesday before
Ash Wednesday)
U.S.: President's Day (National Holiday) (the 3rd Monday in February)
Ash Wednesday (Ash Wednesday is 46 days before Easter Sunday)
Brazil: Carnival (begins Saturday night before Ash Wednesday)
Feb 1, 1895 John Ford's birthday
Feb 1, 1901 Clark Gable's birthday
Feb 1, 1982 "Late Night with David Letterman"
TV Premiere
Feb 1, 1942 Monty Python's Terry Jone's birthday
Feb 2, 1887 Ground Hog Day began
Feb 2, 1953 Christy Brinkley's birthday
Feb 2, 1947 Farrah Fawcett's birthday
Feb 3, 1865 Civil War Peace talks
Feb 3, 1959 "The Day The Music Died" - Buddy
Holly's plane crashed
Feb 3, 1913 U.S. Income Tax began (boooo, hissss)
Feb 3, 1894 Normal Rockwell's birthday
Feb 4, 1861 Apache Wars begin
Feb 4, 1947 Dan Quayle's birthday
Feb 4, 1948 Alice Cooper's birthday
Feb 5, 1906 John Carradine's birthday
Feb 5, 1917 Mexico Adopts Constitution embracing major social
reforms
Feb 5, 1934 Hank Aaron's birthday
Feb 6, 1756 Aaron Burr's birthday (the guy who shot
Alexander Hamilton, not "Ironside"!)
Feb 6, ----- New Zealand: Waitangi Day (National
Day)
Feb 6, 1911 Ronald Reagan's birthday
Feb 6, 1895 Babe Ruth's birthday
Feb 7, 1895 Charles Dicken's birthday
Feb 7, ----- Grenada: Independence Day (National
Day)
Feb 7, 1962 Garth Brooks' birthday
Feb 8, 1931 James Dean's birthday
Feb 8, 1974 "Good Times" TV Premiere
Feb 8, ----- Japan: Ha-Ri-Ku-Yo
Feb 8, 1587 Mary, Queen of Scots executed
Feb 8, 1828 Jules Vern's birthday
Feb 9, 1773 William Henry Harrison's birthday
Feb 10, 1893 Jimmy Durante's birthday
Feb 11, 1847 Thomas Alva Edison's birthday
Feb 11, 660BC Japan: National Foundation Day (National Day)
Feb 11, 1990 Nelson Mandela released from South African
prison
Feb 12, 1809 Charles Darwin's birthday
Feb 12, 1809 Abraham Lincoln's birthday
Feb 12, ----- Luxembourg: Burgsonndeg
Feb 13, 1944 Jerry Springer's birthday
Feb 13, 1964 Ed Blackman's birthday
Feb 14, 269AD Valentine's Day
Feb 14, 1894 Jack Benny's birthday
Feb 14, ----- Bulgaria: Viticulturists' Day
Feb 15, 1820 Susan B. Anthony's birthday
Feb 15, ----- Ancient Rome: Lupercalia
Feb 15, 1898 Remember The Main Day
Feb 16, 1903 Edgar Bergen's birthday
Feb 16, 1918 Lithuania: Independence Day (National Day)
Feb 16, 1935 Sonny Bono's birthday
Feb 17, 1909 Geronimo's death
Feb 18, 1965 Gambia: Independence Day (National Holiday)
Feb 18, 1546 Martin Luther's death
Feb 18, 1933 Yoko Ono's birthday
Feb 18, 1955 John Travolta's birthday
Feb 18, 1955 Vanna White's birthday
Feb 19, 1473 Nicolaus Copernicus' birthday
Feb 19, 1940 Smokey Robinson's birthday
Feb 20, 1967 Kurt Cobain's birthday
Feb 21, 1952 Bangladesh: Martyrs Day
Feb 21, 1965 Malcom X Assassination
Feb 21, 1885 Washington Monument dedicated
Feb 21, 1933 Nina Simone's birthday
Feb 22, 1732 George Washington's birthday
Feb 23, -----
Brunei Darussalam: National Day (National Holiday)
Feb 23, 1970 Guyana: Anniversary of Republic (National Holiday)
Feb 23, 1939 Peter Fonda's brithday
Feb 24, ----- Estonia: Independence Day (National Holiday)
Feb 24, 1582 Gregorian Calendar introduced
Feb 25, 1913 Jim Backus' birhday
Feb 25, 1873 Enrico Caruso's birthday
Feb 25, ----- Kuwait: National Day (National Holiday)
Feb 25, 1841 Pierre Renoir's birthday
Feb 26, 1916 Jackie Gleason's brithday
Feb 26, 1919 Grand Canyon National Park established
Feb 26, 1802 Victor Hugo's birthday
Feb 26, 1829 Levi Strauss' birthday
Feb 26, 1932 Johnny Cash's birthday
Feb 26, 1920 Tony Randall's birthday
Feb 27, 1902 John Steinbeck's birthday
Feb 27, 1807 Henry Wadsworth Lonfellow's birthday
Feb 27, 1932 Elizabeth Taylor's birthday
Feb 28, 1983 "Mash" - The Final Episode
Feb 28, 1944 Bernadette Peters' birthday
Feb 29, 1972 Antionio Sabato, Jr.'s birthday
MARCH
Easter
Sunday - the first Sunday following the first full moon on or
after the vernal equinox– always between Mar 22 and Apr 25.
Mar 17, 432AD St. Patrick's Day
APRIL
Apr
15 , ---- U.S.: Taxes due
MAY
Mother's
Day (Second Sunday in May. First
observed May 8, 1907)
U.S.: Memorial
Day (National Holiday) (the Last Monday in May. First observed
1865)
May 1, 1909 Kate Smith's birthday
May 2, 1904 Bing Crosby's birthday
May 2, 1519 Leonardo da Vinci died
May 2, 1903 Dr. Spock's birthday
May 3, 1934 James Brown's birthday
May 4, 1776 Rhode Island Independence Day
May 4, 1929 Audrey Hepburn's birthday
May 5, 1862 Cinco de Mayo - Mexico's Battle of Puebla
May 5, 1945 Netherlands Liberation Day from Nazi Germany
May 5, 1961 First U.S. Astronaut in space
May 6, 1937 Hindenburg exploded
May 6, 1895 Rudolph Valentino's birthday
May 6, 1931 Willie Mays' birthday
May 7, 1789 George Washington's Presedential Inaugural Ball
May 7, 1915 Lusitania sinks
May 8, 1884 Harry S. Truman's birthday
May 8, 1926 Don Rickles' birthday
May 9, 1946 Candice Bergen's birthday
May 9, 1960 Tony Gwynn's birthday
May 9, 1949 Billy Joel's birthday
May 10, 1869 Golden Spike joins Union and Central Pacific
rails
May 10, 1960 Bono's birthday
May 11, 1981 Bob Marley died
May 11, 1858 Minnesota became 32nd state
May 11, 1904 Salvador Dali's birthday
May 12, 1820 Florence Nightingale's birthday
May 12, 1925 Yogi Berra's birthday
May 12, 1937 George Carlin's birthday
May 13, 1914 Joe Louis' birthday
May 13, 1950 Peter Gabriel's birthday
May 13, 1951 Stevie Wonder's birthday
May 14, 1607 Jamestown, Virginia settled
May 14, 1811 Paraguay Independence Day
May 14, 1944 George Lucas' birthday
May 15, 1856 Lyman Frank Baum's birthday (Wizard of Oz author)
May 16, 1990 Sammy Davis Jr. died
May 16, 1905 Henry Fonda's birthday
May 16, 1919 Liberace's birthday
May 17, 1954 Supreme Court rules against segregation in
schools
May 17, 1875 First Kentucky Derby
May 17, 1792 NY Stock Exchange established
May 17, 1814 Norway Independence Day
May 17, 1936 Dennis Hopper's birthday
May 18, 1980 Mount Saint Helen erupted
May 18, 1920 Pope John Paul II birthday
May 18, 1912 Perry Como's birthday
May 19, 1997 Victoria Day in Canada
May 19, 1890 Ho Chi Minh's birthday
May 19, 1925 Malcolm X's birthday
May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic
May 20, 1932 Amelia Earhart crossed the Atlantic
May 20, 1946 Cher's birthday
May 20, 1908 Jimmy Stewart's birthday
May 21, 1917 Raymond Burr's birthday
May 21, 1997 National Employee Health & Fitness Day
May 21, 1881 Red Cross founded
May 21, 1952 Mr. T's birthday
May 22, 1967 "Mister Rogers Neighborhood" premiered
May 22, 1907 Laurence Olivier's birthday
May 23, 1928 Rosemary Clooney's birthday
May 23, 1933 Joan Collin's birthday
May 24, 1935 First lighted night baseball game
May 24, 1883 Brooklyn Bridge opened
May 24, 1543 Copernicus died
May 24, 1997 Independence Day in Eritrea
May 25, 1963 African Freedom Day in Chad, Zambia
May 25, 1810 Independence Day in Argentina
May 25, 1926 Miles Davis' birthday
May 25, 1946 Independence Day in Jordan
May 26, 1886 Al Jolson's birthday
May 26, 1907 John Wayne's birthday
May 27, 1837 Wild Bill Hickock's birthday
May 27, 1911 Vincent Price's birthday
May 27, 1936 Queen Mary maiden voyage
May 28, 1995 Sakhalin Island, Russia earthquake
May 28, 1944 Gladys Knight's birthday
May 29, 1917 John F. Kennedy's birthday
May 29, 1848 Wisconsin becomes 30th state
May 29, 1903 Bob Hope's birthday
May 30, 1901 Hall of Fame opened
May 30, 1672 Peter I (Peter the Great) birthday
May 31, 1990 "Seinfeld" TV Show Premier
May 31, 1965 Brooke Shield's birthday
May 31, 1930 Clint Eastwood's birthday
JUNE
Father's
Day (Third Sunday in June. First
observed June 19, 1910)
JULY
July
4, 1776 U.S.: Independence Day (National Holiday)
AUGUST
Aug
16, 1977 Elvis Presley's death
SEPTEMBER
U.S.: Labor Day (First Monday
in September. First declared 1883) (National
Holiday)
OCTOBER
Oct 31,
~600AD Halloween
NOVEMBER
U.S.: Thanksgiving Day (Fourth
Thursday in November. First observed November 26, 1789) (National
Holiday)
DECEMBER
Dec 25, ~400AD Christmas Day
(National
Holiday in many countries)
