2013 Event The 150th Anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's 'Gettysburg Address' considered one of the greatest political speeches, is commemorated in the U.S. on the battlefield and by the Library of Congress 2013 Event Famous Chicago chef, Charlie Trotter dies of a brain aneurysm in his Lincoln Park hom at the age of 54 1996 Death Lincoln Kirstein, ballet administrator, dies at 88 1995 Death David Lincoln Lightbown, politician, dies at 63 1994 Event "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" closes at Beaumont New York City after 40 performances 1993 Event "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 40 performances 1993 Event Arab terror group planning bombing of Holland/Lincoln Tunnels caught 1992 Event Lincoln Hospital in Bronx loses its accreditation 1992 Death Dorothy Tree, actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Nazi Agent), dies 1991 Event Charles Keating, Jr. (Lincoln Savings and Loan fraud), found guilty 1991 Death Lincoln Demyan, dies at 66 1989 Event Lincoln Square in Bronx named 1986 Death Una Merkel, U.S. actress (Abraham Lincoln), dies at 82 1985 Death Stepin Fetchit, Lincoln Penny, 1st black star, dies of pneumonia 83 1978 Birthday Heather Brink, Lincoln, Nebraska, gymnast 1996 Olympics 1974 Event Bard's presentation of "Richard III" opens at Lincoln Center New York City 1974 Death Edgar Dearing, actor (Free and Easy, Abraham Lincoln), dies at 81 1974 Birthday Ben[jamin] Lincoln Holbrook, Hartland Wis, rower 1996 Olympics 1972 Death Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70 1972 Birthday Myra Katherine Hale, born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Miss America-Nebraska 1996 1972 Event "Hot Rod Lincoln," by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9 1971 Birthday Lincoln Kennedy, tackle for the Oakland Raiders 1970 Event The Who's "Tommy" is performed at New York's Lincoln Center 1970 Birthday Rob Gaudreau, Lincoln, NHL center, Ottawa Senators 1969 Birthday Lincoln Coleman, NFL running back for the Atlanta Falcons 1969 Birthday Jeremy Lincoln, NFL cornerback, Chicago Bears, Seattle Seahawks 1967 Death George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated 1967 Death Carl Sandburg, poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years), dies at 89 1966 Event Metropolitan Opera opens at New York's Lincoln Center 1966 Event Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center 1965 Birthday John Schofield, born in Barnsley, England, professional soccer player, midfielder, manager of Lincoln City, assistant manager, Cheltenham Town 1963 Event Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial 1962 Birthday Janine Turner, born in Lincoln, Nebraska, actress, Maggie-Northern Exposure 1962 Event NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center for Performing Arts 1961 Event "Young Abe Lincoln" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 27 performances 1961 Event "Young Abe Lincoln" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 27 performances 1961 Birthday Lucky Vanous, born in Lincoln, Nebraska, model, GQ, Diet Coke 1960 Birthday Blanche Lincoln, American Politician 1960 Event Charles Ives' "Lincoln, the Great Commoner," premieres 1959 Death Russell Simpson, actor (Abraham Lincoln), dies at 79 1959 Birthday Scott D. Altman, born in Lincoln, Illinois, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, sk: STS-90 1959 Birthday Glenn Dubis, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. 3x40 rifle, Olympics-1984, 88, 96 1956 Birthday Jim Barton, born Lincoln, Nebraska, soling yachter, won Olympic bronze in 1996 1955 Death Robert E Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois), dies at 59 1954 Event KUON TV channel 12 in Lincoln, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting 1954 Birthday Lincoln Diaz-Balart, born in Havana, Cuba, Representative-R-Florida 1993 - 1954 Birthday Phil Neale, born in Scunthorpe, England, cricketer, coach, team manager, played for Worcestershire, played football for Lincoln City, Scunthorpe United, 1989 Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1953 Birthday Lincoln Chafee, American Politician 1953 Event KOLN TV channel 10 in Lincoln, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting 1951 Death Lincoln Ellsworth, artic explorer, dies at 71 1946 Birthday Chelsea Brown, born in Chicago, Illinois, comedienne, Laugh-in, Matt Lincoln 1943 Birthday Lincoln Davis, American Politician 1941 Birthday Dick Cheney, born in Lincoln Nebraska, Representative-R-Wyoming 1979 - 1989, George H. W. Bush's Secretary of Defense, 1989 - 1993, vice president 2001 - 2009 1939 Event Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial 1938 Event Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premieres in New York City 1938 Birthday Niara Sudarkasa, Gloria M Clark, educator/president, Lincoln College 1937 Event Lincoln Tunnel, in New York City, opens to traffic 1936 Death Lincoln Steffens, American Journalist 1936 Birthday Maurice Shock, rector, Lincoln College in Oxford 1936 Birthday Edward Rell Madigan, born in Lincoln, Illinois, Representative-R-Illinois 1973 - 1983 1932 Birthday David Lincoln Lightbown, politician 1932 Birthday Lincoln Kilpatrick, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, BJ-Leslie Uggams Show 1930 Birthday Abbey Lincoln, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress and singer, Nothing But a Man 1929 Birthday Charles Wadsworth, Barnesville Georgia, pianist, Lincoln Center 1928 Birthday Jan Meyers, born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Representative-R-Kansas 1985 - 1997 1928 Birthday Vince Edwards, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Ben Casey, Matt Lincoln, Firehouse 1925 Birthday Gore Vidal, born in West Point, New York, author, Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln 1924 Birthday Neville Marriner, born in Lincoln, England, conductor, Minnesota Orchestra 1978 1923 Birthday Philip Abbott, born in Lincoln, Nebraska, actor, Arthur Ward-The FBI 1922 Event Lincoln Memorial dedicated 1915 Event Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. 1914 Birthday Fred Clark, born in Lincoln California, actor, Burns and Allen, Auntie Mame, Hazard 1913 Event Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego) 1913 Event 1st U.S. paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway, opens 1913 Event Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway 1913 Birthday Marjorie Weaver, born in Crossville, Tennessee, actress, Young Mr. Lincoln 1913 Birthday Edward Fiennes-Clinton, born in Australia, born Edward Horace Fiennes-Clinton, 18th Earl of Lincoln, engineer, landowner, inherited Earldom but formally did not prove his right to the title 1909 Birthday Samuel Yorty, Lincoln, Nebraska, Mayor-LA 1909 Event U.S. issues 1st Lincoln penny 1909 Event 1st Lincoln head pennies minted 1908 Birthday Max Abramovitz, U.S. architect, Lincoln Center, United Nations Building 1907 Birthday Jim Bishop, author, The Day Lincoln was Shot 1903 Birthday Una Merkel, Covington, Kentucky, actress, 42nd Street, Abraham Lincoln 1902 Birthday Stepin Fetchit, Lincoln Perry, Florida, actor, Miracle in Harlem 1901 Birthday Andre Kostelanetz, St. Petersburg Russia, conductor, Lincoln Portrari 1896 Birthday Robert Sherwood, dramatist, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Idiot's Delight 1895 Birthday Wallace K Harrison, Worcester Massachusetts, U.S. architect, UN, Lincoln Center 1893 Birthday Edgar Dearing, bron in Ceres, California, actor, Abraham Lincoln, Free and Easy 1891 Birthday Leslie Lincoln Henson, actor, Lady Luck, Funny Face, Harvey 1887 Event President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Illinois 1887 Birthday Ernest Holmes, born in Lincoln, Maine, author, teacher, spiritualist, founded Religious Science movement, considered 'Science of Mind', part of New Thought movement, wrote metaphysical books, including 'The Science of Mind', founded 'Science of Mind' magazine 1882 Birthday John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright, Abraham Lincoln 1880 Birthday Russell Simpson, actor, Abraham Lincoln 1880 Birthday Lincoln Ellsworth, led 1st transarctic, transantarctic flights 1878 Birthday Oscar Apfel, Cleveland, actor, Abraham Lincoln, Inspiration, Before Dawn 1878 Birthday Carl Sandburg, U.S., poet/biographer of Lincoln, The People, Yes 1876 Event 7th U.S. Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft. Lincoln 1867 Event Congress approves Lincoln Memorial 1866 Birthday Henry Bacon, architect, Lincoln Memorial 1866 Birthday Joseph Lincoln Steffens, muckraker and journalist, Shame of the Cities 1866 Birthday Lincoln Steffens, American Journalist 1865 Death Mary Surratt, and 3 other Lincoln conspirators, hanged 1865 Event 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty 1865 Event Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot 1865 Event Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington 1865 Event Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination 1865 Death Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at 7:22 am, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, 16th president 1861 - 1865 1865 Event President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth 1865 Event Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction 1865 Event President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as president 1865 Event Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln and Stephens reach an impasse 1864 Event Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as president 1864 Event Lincoln formaly establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday 1864 Event John S Staples is paid $500 as a substitute for President Lincoln 1864 Event President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service 1864 Death George Lincoln Prescott, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies of injuries 1864 Event Abe Lincoln renominated for President by Republican Party 1863 Event Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South 1863 Event President Lincoln offers amnesty for confederate deserters 1863 Event Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "4 score and 7 years..." 1863 Event Lincoln begins 1st draft of his Gettysburg Address 1863 Event Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day 1863 Event Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in New York 1863 Event President Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot 1863 Event Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences 1863 Event Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences 1863 Event Lincoln signs National Currency Act 1863 Event President Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful 1863 Event Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln 1862 Event President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to Union 1862 Event President Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians 1862 Event Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers 1862 Event President Lincoln, says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1 1862 Event Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with U.S. president 1862 Event Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief 1862 Event Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges 1862 Event Paper currency introduced in U.S. by President Abraham Lincoln 1862 Event Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order 1861 Event President Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy 1861 Event Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia and says Union troops will not enter that state 1861 Event In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troops 1861 Event Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers 1861 Death Stephen A Douglas, "Little Giant", senator (Lincoln Debates), dies 1861 Event Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers and another 18,000 seamen 1861 Event President Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory 1861 Event President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus 1861 Event Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War) 1861 Event U.S. president Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states 1861 Event Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by President Lincoln 1861 Event Lincoln's inaugurated as 16th president 1861 Event President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office 1861 Event President-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington D.C. to take office 1861 Event On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration 1861 Event Abraham Lincoln declared president 1861 Event President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield Illinois to Washington D.C. 1860 Event Abraham Lincoln, born in Kentucky, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, elected 16th president 1861 - 1865 1860 Event 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard 1860 Event Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president 1858 Event Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people 1858 Event Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand" 1854 Event Lincoln University founded as Ashmun Institute 1854 Event Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair 1854 Event Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in U.S. forms by Prebyts 1854 Event Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford, Penn) 1851 Birthday John Lincoln Clem, Drummer Union volunteers 1849 Event Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln 1849 Event Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and of people some of time, but you can't fool all of the people all of time" 1849 Event Abraham Lincoln patents a buoying device 1849 Event Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only U.S. president to do so 1844 Birthday Mary Johnson Lincoln, educator, Boston Cooking School 1843 Birthday Robert Todd Lincoln, Captain Union volunteers 1842 Event Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois 1838 Birthday John Wilkes Booth, actor/assassin, President Lincoln 1835 Death Ann Rutledge, said to be Lincoln's true love, dies in Illinois at 22 1832 Birthday John George Nicolay, U.S., author, Abe Lincoln's biographer 1831 Birthday Benjamin Hardin Helm, Brigadier General, Confederate, Lincoln's brother-in-law 1818 Birthday Mary Todd Lincoln, 1st lady, 1861-65 1813 Birthday Stephen Arnold Douglas, Little giant, U.S. senator, Lincoln debates 1809 Birthday Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky, R, 16th President, 1861 - 1865 1663 Death Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln (1660-63), dies 1563 Event William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral 1141 Event Battle at Lincoln: King Stephen captured 1092 Event Lincoln Cathedral consecrated
