1999 Last upside down date until January 1, 6000
1998 Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs. President Clinton
1992 Target date for Europe's single market
1991 Date of Microsoft MS DOS 5.0
1986 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date - Philadelphia at Detroit
1985 Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)
1985 Largest NBA crowd to date, 43,816, sees Philadelphia at Detroit
1982 Urbe Blanca (cow) produces record 110 kg of milk, Cuba (approx date)
1978 Flora Campbell, actress (Faraway Hill, Date With Judy), dies at 67
1976 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth
1976 Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars
1970 Kimiko Date, Kyoto Japan, tennis star, 1996 Japan Open
1970 Bill Halley and Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia
1968 1st date in controversial Jim Bouton baseball diary "Ball Four"
1964 WMCA (New York City) plays Beatles' Hard Days Night Album (10 days prior to its scheduled release date), they decide to release it June 26th
1962 B D Wong, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Freshman, Mystery Date
1961 Expansion Washington Senators are 30-30, latest date an expansion team will be at .500, Washington will lose their next 10 games
1960 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"
1959 Michael E Knight, Princeton, New Jersey, actor, Date with Angel, All My Child
1957 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)
1955 Date returned to in "Back to the Future" and "Back to the Future II"
1954 Eugene Pallette, actor (It's a Date, My Man Godfrey), dies at 65
1954 Joseph Bottoms, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Surfacing, Blind Date
1953 Keizo Yamada runs fastest marathon to date, at Boston
1951 Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle
1950 Mark Blum, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Worth Winning, Blind Date, Presidio
1945 Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan)
1942 Bing Crosby records "White Christmas," greatest selling record to date
1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, a date that will live in infamy
1936 Yankees sweep Indians, New York clinches pennant on earliest date in history
1933 Floyd Cramer, Louisiana, cowboy singer, Last Date, On the Rebound
1933 Joseph Bottoms, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Blind Date, Braker
1933 20th amendment changes date of presidential inaugurations to 1/20
1927 Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards
1918 Peggy Moran, actress, Double Date, Horror Island
1916 Codell, Kansas hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 and 1918)
1916 Bill Williams, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Starlit Time, Date With the Angels
1909 Carmen Miranda, born in Brazil, vocalist/actress, Copacabana, Date With Judy
1907 Renzo Cesana, Rome, Italy, TV host, First Date, Continental
1906 Kathleen Kenyon, 1st person to place date on remains of Jericho
1904 Selena Royale, New York City, actress, Date With Judy, Misleading Lady
1901 Joseph Pasternak, film producer, Anchors Aweigh, Date With Judy
1900 Date of events in movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock"
1900 1st date in John dos Passos' USA trilogy (The 42nd Parallel)
1896 Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63
1875 Latest date for measurable snow in New York City (3")
1867 Alaska adopts Gregorian calendar, crosses International date line
1867 Faustin-Elie Soulouque, emperor of Haiti, dies (birth date unknown)
1841 1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan
1840 Records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date
1786 Patience Wright, 1st U.S. woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown)
1770 Date of action in the opera "Madeleine"
1769 Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)
1672 Anne Bradstreet, American poet, dies (birth date unknown)
1656 Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown)
1655 Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown)
1631 John Donne, Metaphysical poet, dies (birth date unknown)
1624 Jakob Bohme, German philosophical mystic, dies (birth date unknown)
1616 Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown)
1614 El Greco, Spanish painter (View of Toledo), dies (birth date unknown)
1612 Christopher Clavius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)
1600 1st date in James Clavell's novel Shogun
1593 Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1st surrealist painter, dies (birth date unkn)
1557 Jacques Cartier, French explorer, dies (birth date unknown)
1533 England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date)
1455 Johannes Gutenberg prints 1st book, Bible (estimated date)
810 Pepin, son of Charlemagne, King of Italy, dies (birth date unknown)
468 Pope Hilarius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)
352 1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
337 Earliest possible date that Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
143 Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed
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