Today in United States of America History (Part 10)
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Related Topics: American Civil War - American Indian Wars - American Revolutionary War - Civil Rights - Cold War
Historical Events
Results 901 - 1,000 of 1,274
1977-11-25 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
1978-01-16 - 5th American Music Award: Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac & C Twitty
1978-01-19 - The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003.
1978-02-08 - Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
1978-02-12 - Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic
1978-03-30 - "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 21 perfs
1978-04-16 - "History of the American Film" closes at ANTA NYC after 21 perfs
1978-04-23 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic
1978-05-03 - The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
1978-06-15 - Jordan's King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American
1978-07-09 - American Nazi Party, holds a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago
1978-08-17 - 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
1978-09-09 - Kylene Barker (Virginia), crowned 51st Miss America 1979
1979-01-12 - 6th American Music Award: Barry Manilow, Linda Ronstadt win
1979-01-18 - Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America," Florence Oregon
1979-02-14 - In Kabul, Muslims kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
1979-04-14 - Susan Horvath, of Penn, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year
1979-05-25 - American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275
1979-06-18 - SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
1979-08-05 - Varetta Shankle (Miss), crowned 12th Miss Black America
1979-09-08 - Cheryl Prewitt (Miss), 22, crowned 52nd Miss America 1980
1979-11-03 - 63 Americans taken hostage at US Embassy (Teheran, Iran)
1979-11-08 - ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to "Nightline")
1979-11-25 - American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275
1980-04-13 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic
1980-07-02 - Julie Marie Bryan, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Young Woman of Yr
1980-07-11 - American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran
1980-08-12 - Signature of the Montevideo Treaty establishing the Latin American Integration Association.
1980-09-06 - Susan Powell (Okla), 21, crowned 53rd Miss America 1981
1980-12-02 - 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
1980-12-24 - Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
1981-01-19 - US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages
1981-01-20 - 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed
1981-01-25 - 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US
1981-01-30 - 8th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers wins
1981-04-04 - Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio)
1981-04-12 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic
1981-06-18 - Kimberley Ann Smith, of NC, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss
1981-06-23 - Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition
1981-06-27 - Pamela Jenks, 21, crowned 14th Miss Black America
1981-08-24 - American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
1981-09-01 - RKO radio network premieres America Overnight talk show
1981-09-07 - West Tampa Fl defeats Rich Va, 6-4 to win American Legion World Series
1981-09-12 - Elizabeth Ward (Arkansas), 20, crowned 54th Miss America 1982
1981-10-05 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honarary American
1981-10-14 - Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
1981-11-30 - Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17).
1981-12-28 - The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
1982-01-17 - "Cold Sunday" in the United States would see temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities.
1982-01-25 - 9th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers win
1982-03-07 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA American Express Sun City Golf Classic
1982-03-10 - The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups.
1982-06-22 - Susan Lea Hammett, of Miss, 18, crowned 25th America's Junior Miss
1982-06-30 - NJ NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting, runner-up names are Blades, Meadowlanders & Americans
1982-07-19 - David S Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon
1982-09-01 - The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1982-09-11 - Debbie Maffett (Calif), 25, crowned 55th Miss America 1983
1982-11-01 - Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
1982-12-23 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
1983-01-17 - 10th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers
1983-02-23 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
1983-06-21 - Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
1983-07-21 - US announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge
1983-07-24 - Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America
1983-08-30 - Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space
1983-09-04 - Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship
1983-09-17 - Vanessa Williams (NY), 20, crowned 56th Miss America 1984, 1st black
1983-09-26 - Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-US winner)
1983-10-01 - Denise Wallace, 18, of Virginia crowned Miss Teen of America
1983-11-20 - "Marilyn: An American Fable" opens at Minskoff NYC for 16 perfs
1983-12-03 - "Marilyn: An American Fable" closes at Minskoff NYC after 16 perfs
1984-01-14 - Madonna 1st sings "Holiday" on American Bandstand
1984-01-16 - 11th American Music Award: Michael Jackson
1984-02-16 - Bill Johnson becomes 1st American to win Olympic downhill skiing gold
1984-03-07 - The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua.
1984-04-16 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive"
1984-06-20 - Amber Kvanli, of Minnesota, crowned America's Junior Miss
1984-06-25 - Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America
1984-07-20 - Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America
1984-07-23 - Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984
1984-07-23 - Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude
1984-09-15 - Sharlene Wells (Utah), 20, crowned 58th Miss America 1985
1984-11-02 - Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1984-11-28 - Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.
1985-01-14 - 16 indicted by US for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees
1985-01-28 - 12th American Music Award
1985-05-31 - 1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
1985-05-31 - Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States.
1985-06-09 - American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped & held hostage in Lebanon
1985-06-21 - American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
1985-07-21 - Amina Fakir (Detroit), 23, crowned 18th Miss Black America
1985-07-30 - Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
1985-09-14 - Susan Akin (Miss), 21, crowned 59th Miss America 1986
1985-12-20 - Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st)
1986-01-01 - Iowa's All-American running back, Ronnie Harmon, fumbles the ball 4 times in his last game-the Rose Bowl
1986-01-27 - 13th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis & C Gayle
1986-02-27 - The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
1986-04-15 - The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya.
1986-05-06 - Donald E Pelotte becomes 1st native American bishop
1986-05-25 - 7,000,000 Americans form "Hands Across America"
Famous Birthdays
Results 901 - 1,000 of 9,097
1897-02-27 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (d. 1993)
1897-03-15 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (d. 1986)
1897-03-17 - Jozef C. Mazur, American stained glass artist and painter (d. 1970)
1897-04-14 - Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972)
1897-04-26 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967)
1897-05-02 - J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (d. 1985)
1897-05-11 - Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961)
1897-05-14 - Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948)
1897-05-19 - Frank Luke, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
1897-06-16 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)
1897-06-19 - Moe Howard, American actor (d. 1975)
1897-06-22 - Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1973)
1897-06-24 - Daniel K. Ludwig, American shipping magnate (d. 1992)
1897-07-10 - Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director
1897-07-10 - Jack "Legs" Diamond", American bootlegger (d. 1931)
1897-07-11 - Bull Connor, American law enforcement official (d. 1973)
1897-08-09 - Ralph Wyckoff, American pioneer in x-ray crystallography
1897-08-10 - John Galbreath, American businessman (d. 1988)
1897-08-24 - Fred Rose, American songwriter and publishing executive (d. 1954)
1897-08-31 - Fredric March, American actor (d. 1975)
1897-09-03 - Sally Benson, American writer (d. 1972)
1897-09-29 - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (d. 1980)
1897-10-18 - Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist (d. 1980)
1897-10-30 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
1897-11-13 - Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (d. 1975)
1897-11-17 - Frank Fay, American actor (d. 1961)
1897-11-19 - Quentin Roosevelt, son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1918)
1897-11-27 - Vito Genovese, American mafioso (d. 1969)
1897-12-02 - Rewi Alley, NZ, writer (Americans in China)
1897-12-05 - Nunnally Johnson, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1977)
1897-12-18 - Fletcher Henderson, American arranger and composer (d. 1952)
1898-01-06 - Charles E. Pont, American artist (d. 1971)
1898-01-09 - Wally Baker, American supercentenarian
1898-01-16 - Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002)
1898-02-07 - Dock Boggs, American musician (d. 1971)
1898-02-15 - Allen Woodring, American runner (d. 1982)
1898-03-18 - Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (d. 1960)
1898-04-01 - William James Sidis, American genius (d. 1944)
1898-04-04 - Agnes Ayres, American actress (d. 1940)
1898-04-12 - Lily Pons, American soprano (d. 1976)
1898-05-23 - Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989)
1898-06-19 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (d. 1968)
1898-06-21 - Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (d. 1964)
1898-07-14 - A. B. "Happy" Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)
1898-07-22 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (d. 1943)
1898-07-23 - Jacob Marschak, American economist (d. 1977)
1898-07-28 - Lawrence Gray, American actor (d. 1970)
1898-08-30 - Shirley Booth, American actress (d. 1992)
1898-09-10 - Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999)
1898-09-16 - H.A. Rey, American children's author, creator of "Curious George" (d. 1977)
1898-09-22 - Katherine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981)
1898-09-25 - Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)
1898-10-03 - Leo McCarey, American film director (d. 1969)
1898-12-05 - Grace Moore, American soprano (d. 1947)
1898-12-24 - Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (d. 1959)
1899-01-11 - Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress (d. 1991)
1899-01-13 - Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)
1899-02-22 - George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
1899-02-23 - Norman Taurog, American film director (d. 1981)
1899-03-15 - George Brent, American film actor (d. 1979)
1899-03-28 - Harold B. Lee, American religious leader (d. 1973)
1899-03-28 - August Anheuser Busch, Jr., brewing magnate and American baseball executive (d. 1989)
1899-04-19 - George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
1899-05-08 - Arthur Q. Bryan, American voice actor (d. 1959)
1899-06-27 - Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d. 1981)
1899-06-30 - Madge Bellamy, American actress (d. 1990)
1899-07-10 - John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
1899-07-11 - E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985)
1899-10-01 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950)
1899-11-24 - Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (d. 1966)
1900-01-04 - James Bond, American ornithologist (d. 1989)
1900-01-09 - Richard Halliburton, American adventurer (presumed dead 1939)
1900-01-28 - Alice Neel, American artist (d. 1984)
1900-03-04 - Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)
1900-03-09 - Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973)
1900-05-14 - Hal Borland, American author (d. 1978)
1900-05-28 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939)
1900-07-06 - Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright
1900-07-07 - Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force general (d. 1990)
1900-07-10 - Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (d. 1993)
1900-07-13 - George Lewis, American musician (d. 1969)
1900-07-29 - Don Redman, American musician (d. 1964)
1900-08-06 - Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist (d. 2003)
1900-08-11 - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d. 1994)
1900-08-18 - Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964)
1900-08-23 - Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 1978)
1900-09-11 - D. W. Brooks, American farmer and businessman (d. 1999)
1900-09-17 - John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
1900-09-22 - William Spratling, American silversmith (d. 1967)
1900-09-22 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (d. 1985)
1900-09-24 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955)
1900-10-03 - Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (Look Homeward Angel)
1900-10-13 - Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (d. 1997)
1900-10-17 - Jean Arthur, New York, American actress (Shane, Mr Smith Goes to Washington) (d. 1991)
1900-11-05 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d. 1972)
1900-11-08 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete (d. 1943)
1900-11-13 - Edward Buzzell, American film director (d. 1985)
1900-11-14 - Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
1900-12-06 - Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974)
1900-12-09 - Albert Weisbord, American labor organizer (d. 1977)
Famous Deaths
Results 901 - 1,000 of 3,298
1970-08-30 - Del Moore, American comedian (b. 1916)
1970-10-17 - Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
1970-12-29 - Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (b. 1909)
1971-01-02 - Willard Maas, American educator and experimental filmmaker (b. 1906)
1971-01-04 - Arthur Ford, American clairaudient (b. 1896)
1971-01-19 - Harry Shields, American musician (b. 1899)
1971-01-24 - Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
1971-04-12 - Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (b. 1931)
1971-06-15 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1971-06-18 - Thomas Gomez, American actor (b. 1905)
1971-06-30 - Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
1971-07-04 - August Derleth, American writer and editor (b. 1909)
1971-07-07 - Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b1901)
1971-07-28 - Charles E. Pont, American artist (b. 1898)
1971-08-25 - Ted Lewis, American musician and entertainer (b. 1890)
1971-09-23 - J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (b. 1888)
1971-10-26 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)
1971-11-15 - Edie Sedgwick, American actress and model (b. 1943)
1971-11-16 - Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and heiress (b. 1940)
1971-12-11 - Maurice "Mac" McDonald, American fast-food pioneer (b. 1902)
1971-12-30 - Melba Rae, American actress (Search for Tomorrow) (b. 1922)
1971-12-31 - Pete Duel American actor (b. 1940)
1971-12-31 - Marin Sais, American actress (b. 1890)
1972-01-16 - Teller Ammons, American politician (b. 1895)
1972-01-17 - Betty Smith, American writer and singer (b. 1896)
1972-01-19 - Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)
1972-02-02 - Natalie Clifford Barney, American writer (b. 1876)
1972-02-19 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (b. 1906)
1972-02-27 - Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1972-03-27 - Sharkey Bonano, American musician (b. 1904)
1972-03-30 - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (b. 1890)
1972-04-12 - C W Ceram, [Kurt Marek], German/US writer (1st American), dies at 57
1972-05-04 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
1972-05-31 - Walter Freeman, American physician (b. 1895)
1972-07-09 - Robert Weede, American baritone (b. 1903)
1972-07-10 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887)
1972-07-21 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (b. 1889)
1972-07-28 - Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
1972-08-02 - Helen Hoyt, American poet (b. 1887)
1972-08-08 - Andrea Feldman, American actor (b. 1948)
1972-08-14 - Oscar Levant, actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life), dies at 65
1972-09-11 - Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883)
1972-10-17 - Billy Williams, American singer (b. 1910)
1972-11-14 - Martin Dies, (Rep)/1st chairman of House Un-American, dies
1972-11-29 - Carl Stalling, American composer (b. 1888)
1972-12-03 - Bill Johnson, American musician (b. 1872)
1972-12-09 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881)
1973-01-15 - Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919)
1973-01-23 - Kid Ory, American jazz trombonist (b. 1886)
1973-01-26 - Jay C. Higginbotham, American musician (b. 1906)
1973-02-23 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
1973-03-10 - Eugene 'Bull' Connor, American segregationist (b. 1897)
1973-05-11 - Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
1973-05-12 - Art Pollard, American racecar driver (b. 1927)
1973-07-20 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
1973-07-20 - Robert Smithson, American land artist (b. 1938)
1973-09-02 - Carl Dudley, American film director (b. 1910)
1973-10-14 - Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (b. 1897)
1973-10-18 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886)
1973-11-21 - Thomas Pelly, American politician (b. 1902)
1973-11-24 - John Neihardt, American writer (b. 1881)
1973-11-27 - Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1887)
1973-12-03 - Emile Christian, American musician (b. 1895)
1974-01-02 - Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
1974-02-22 - Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
1974-02-23 - Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b. 1895)
1974-03-01 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
1974-03-05 - Billy De Wolfe, American actor (b. 1907)
1974-06-30 - Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
1974-07-14 - Carl Spaatz, American Air Force general (b. 1891)
1974-08-06 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
1974-08-24 - Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (b. 1894)
1974-08-31 - William Pershing Benedict, American pilot
1974-09-03 - Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
1974-11-19 - George Brunies, American musician (b. 1902)
1974-11-29 - James J. Braddock, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1905)
1975-01-18 - Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
1975-01-19 - Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (b. 1889)
1975-01-27 - Bill Walsh, American producer and writer (b. 1913)
1975-02-03 - William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (b. 1873)
1975-02-04 - Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
1975-02-04 - Howard Hill, American archer (b. 1899)
1975-02-16 - Morgan Taylor, American athlete (b. 1903)
1975-02-16 - Norman Treigle, American bass-baritone (b. 1927)
1975-03-09 - Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (b. 1888)
1975-03-16 - Richard W. DeKorte, American politician (b. 1936)
1975-05-13 - Bob Wills, American musician (b. 1905)
1975-06-19 - Sam Giancana, American gangster (b. 1908)
1975-06-29 - Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
1975-07-06 - Ruffian, American racehorse (b. 1972)
1975-07-07 - Ruffian, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1972)
1975-07-19 - Lefty Frizzell, American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
1975-09-25 - Bob Considine, newscaster (Tonight! America After Dark), dies at 68
1975-10-21 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1887)
1975-10-27 - Rex Stout, American novelist (b. 1886)
1975-10-28 - Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (b. 1932)
1975-11-05 - Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1909)
1975-11-05 - Lionel Trilling, American critic and writer (b. 1905)
1975-11-10 - Ernest M. McSorley, American ship captain (b. 1912)
1975-11-19 - Roger D. Branigin, American politician (b. 1902)
