Today in United States of America History (Part 6)
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Related Topics: American Civil War - American Indian Wars - American Revolutionary War - Civil Rights - Cold War
Historical Events
Results 501 - 600 of 1,274
1913-03-10 - William Knox, becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300
1913-06-25 - American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
1913-07-10 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
1914-02-13 - American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-ASCAP forms in NYC
1914-05-16 - American Horseshoe Pitchers Assn organizes in Kansas City
1914-08-06 - Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I.
1914-08-15 - A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground.
1914-10-15 - ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded
1915-06-21 - The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1915-11-12 - Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry
1916-04-10 - The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
1916-05-13 - 1st observance of Indian (Native American) Day
1916-05-13 - Native American Day is 1st observed
1916-06-15 - Boys Scouts of America forms
1916-09-27 - 1st Native American Day celebrated, honoring American Indians
1917-05-21 - Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
1917-06-04 - American men begin registering for the draft
1917-10-21 - 1st Americans to see action on front lines of WW I
1917-12-26 - Fed govt took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I
1918-03-13 - American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms
1918-04-03 - House of Reps accepts American Creed written by William Tyler
1918-06-12 - 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France
1918-12-15 - American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting
1919-02-15 - American Legion organizes in Paris
1919-02-27 - American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (NYC)
1919-03-15 - American Legion forms (Paris)
1919-05-03 - America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
1919-08-18 - Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago Illinois
1919-08-31 - John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
1919-09-02 - Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago
1919-09-16 - American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress
1919-10-17 - Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created
1919-11-10 - American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis)
1919-12-19 - American Meteorological Society found
1919-12-20 - Canadian Natl Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM)
1920-01-20 - The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
1920-07-27 - Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America's Cup
1920-11-01 - American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
1920-12-18 - 1st US postage stamps printed without the words United States or US
1920-12-20 - Bob Hope became an American citizen
1921-05-06 - American Soccer League forms
1921-09-07 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
1921-09-08 - 1st Miss America crowned (Margaret Gorman of Washington DC)
1921-09-08 - Mary Gorman (Wash DC), 16, crowned 1st Miss America [or 9/14]
1921-11-01 - National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League
1922-05-10 - The United States annexes the Kingman Reef.
1923-02-02 - US signs friendship treaty with Central American countries
1923-04-07 - Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
1923-08-05 - 1st American to swim English Channel (Henry Sullivan)
1923-09-07 - Mary Katherine Campbell (Ohio), 16, crowned 2nd Miss America 1922-23
1924-05-07 - Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana
1924-06-02 - Snyder Act: US citizenship granted to all American Indians
1924-06-15 - Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens
1924-07-20 - Teheran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people.
1925-03-04 - Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US
1925-03-07 - American Negro Congress organizes
1925-04-15 - NHL's NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
1925-06-13 - 57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8
1925-11-16 - American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)
1925-12-15 - 1st hockey game at Madison Sq Garden, Mont Candiens 3, NY Americans 1
1925-12-26 - NHL record 141 shots as NY Americans (73) beat Pitt Pirates (68) 3-1
1926-03-26 - The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
1926-05-20 - Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies
1926-09-09 - National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America
1927-03-05 - 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property
1927-03-08 - Pan American Airlines incorporates
1927-08-27 - Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
1928-09-27 - The Republic of China is recognised by the United States.
1928-10-22 - Pres Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"
1928-12-13 - George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (NYC)
1929-02-20 - American Samoa organizes as territory of US
1929-03-04 - Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP
1929-12-05 - 1st US nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, NYC)
1930-03-26 - Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
1930-04-01 - "Blue Angel," starring unknown Marlene Dietrich, premieres in America
1930-09-18 - Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup
1930-11-03 - Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
1930-12-11 - Bank of the United States opens in NYC
1931-04-15 - 1st walk across American backwards begins
1932-01-01 - The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.
1932-02-09 - America enter Olympic 2-man bobsled competition for 1st time
1932-02-29 - TIME magazine features eccentric American politician William "Alfalfa" Murray on its cover after Murray stated his intention to run for President of the United States.
1932-06-06 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold.
1932-06-17 - Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
1933-01-03 - Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
1933-11-17 - United States recognizes Soviet Union.
1934-01-05 - National & American baseball leagues select a uniform ball
1934-08-19 - The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
1934-09-25 - Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup
1935-06-11 - Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey.
1935-12-09 - Walter Liggett American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder.
1936-01-14 - L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America
1936-02-18 - NHL record 32 points scored, NY Americans (28) & Mont Maroons (24)
1936-05-25 - The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
1936-06-11 - Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia
1936-06-18 - 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, WI
1936-08-14 - Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
1937-08-02 - The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
1937-08-05 - Ranger (US) beats Endeavour II (England) in 17th America's Cup
1937-12-16 - Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
Famous Birthdays
Results 501 - 600 of 9,097
1871-08-02 - John French Sloan, American artist (d. 1951)
1871-08-27 - Theodore Dreiser, US, novelist (Sister Carie, American Tragedy)
1871-09-01 - J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)
1871-09-26 - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (d. 1934)
1871-10-02 - Martha Brookes Hutcheson, American landscape architect (d. 1959)
1871-12-05 - Bill Pickett, American rodeo performer (d. 1932)
1872-01-11 - George Washington Pierce, American physicist (d. 1956)
1872-01-31 - Zane Grey, American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage)
1872-02-01 - Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (d. 1949)
1872-02-01 - Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (d. 1927)
1872-03-13 - Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist
1872-04-05 - Samuel Cate Prescott, American food scientist and microbiologist (d. 1962)
1872-04-29 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1930)
1872-07-29 - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (d. 1957)
1872-08-02 - George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946)
1872-12-06 - William S. Hart, American actor (d. 1946)
1873-01-11 - John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (d. 1949)
1873-03-03 - William Green, president of American Federation of Labor (1924-52)
1873-03-04 - Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet (d. 1904)
1873-03-07 - Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (d. 1959)
1873-04-13 - John W. Davis, American politician (d. 1955)
1873-07-01 - Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (d. 1968)
1873-08-17 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (d. 1946)
1873-08-26 - Lee DeForest, American inventor (d. 1961)
1873-09-21 - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (d. 1966)
1873-10-23 - William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (d. 1975)
1873-11-16 - W. C. Handy, American composer (d. 1958)
1873-12-18 - Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (d. 1957)
1873-12-25 - Otto Frederick Hunziker, Swiss-born American dairy educator (d. 1959)
1873-12-30 - Al Smith, American politician (d. 1944)
1874-01-01 - Frank Knox, American Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)
1874-01-22 - Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940)
1874-02-22 - Bill Klem, American baseball umpire (d. 1951)
1874-03-17 - Stephen Samuel Wise, US, pres of Zionist Org of America
1874-04-15 - George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist (d. 1954)
1874-08-06 - Charles Fort, American writer and researcher (d. 1932)
1874-08-10 - Bill Johnson, American musician (d. 1972)
1874-08-26 - Zona Gale, American novelist (d. 1938)
1874-09-13 - Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (d. 1962)
1874-11-25 - Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910)
1874-11-27 - Charles A Beard, American historian (American Continentalism)
1875-01-09 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942)
1875-01-15 - Tom Burke, American runner (d. 1929)
1875-04-15 - James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1953)
1875-05-11 - Harriet Quimby, American aviator (d. 1912)
1875-05-23 - Alfred P. Sloan, American long-time president and chairman of General Motors (d. 1966)
1875-08-27 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (d. 1967)
1875-10-23 - Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946)
1875-10-28 - Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, American geographer and editor (d. 1966)
1875-12-19 - Carter G Woodson, New Canton Va, American historian (black studies)
1876-01-12 - Jack London, American author (d. 1916)
1876-01-17 - Frank Hague, American politician (d. 1956)
1876-03-20 - Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1927)
1876-03-21 - John Tewksbury, American athlete (d. 1968)
1876-06-05 - Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)
1876-12-09 - Berton Churchill, American actor (d. 1940)
1877-01-12 - Frank J. Corr, American politician (d. 1934)
1877-02-27 - Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner (d. 1952)
1877-03-03 - Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor
1877-03-18 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (d. 1945)
1877-04-30 - Alice B. Toklas, American companion of Gertrude Stein (d. 1967)
1877-08-06 - Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (d. 1952)
1877-09-06 - Buddy Bolden, American musician (d. 1930)
1878-03-04 - Egbert Van Alstyne, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1951)
1878-04-27 - Frank Alvin Gotch, American professional wrestler (d. 1917)
1878-05-14 - James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
1878-07-29 - Don Marquis, American author (d. 1937)
1878-08-31 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (d. 1933)
1878-09-09 - Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
1878-10-16 - Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
1878-12-25 - W Starling Burgess, yacht designer (America Cup's Enterprise)
1879-01-12 - Ray Harroun, American race car driver (d. 1968)
1879-03-27 - Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography
1879-04-14 - James Branch Cabell, American novelist/essayist (Restless Heads)
1879-04-15 - Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer (d. 1980)
1879-05-02 - James F. Byrnes, American statesman, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1972)
1879-05-24 - H. B. Reese, American inventor of Reese's and founder (d. 1956)
1879-06-03 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940)
1879-08-08 - Bob Smith, American founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950)
1879-10-29 - Alva B. Adams, American politician (d. 1941)
1879-12-05 - Clyde Cessna, American airplane manufacturer (d. 1954)
1880-01-06 - Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940)
1880-01-20 - Walter W. Bacon, American politician (d. 1962)
1880-03-03 - Florence Auer, American actress (d. 1962)
1880-03-04 - Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (d. 1946)
1880-03-11 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenecist (d. 1943)
1880-03-12 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (d. 1952)
1880-03-21 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)
1880-03-22 - Ernie Quigley, Canadian-American sports official (d. 1960)
1880-06-17 - Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (d. 1964)
1880-06-21 - Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (d. 1961)
1880-07-12 - Tod Browning, American film director (d. 1962)
1880-08-10 - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1964)
1880-08-22 - George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
1880-09-14 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)
1880-09-20 - Louise Peete, American murderess (d. 1947)
1880-09-21 - Henry Louis Mencken, US essayist/critic (American Mercury)
1880-11-06 - Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (d. 1959)
1880-12-24 - Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist, children's book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann (d. 1939)
1881-01-08 - Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
Famous Deaths
Results 501 - 600 of 3,298
1936-12-02 - John Ringling, American circus owner (b. 1866)
1937-03-09 - Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist (b. 1864)
1937-03-11 - Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (b. 1860)
1937-03-15 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
1937-04-29 - William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)
1937-07-09 - Oliver Law, first African-American commander of U.S. troops (b. 1899)
1937-07-11 - George Gershwin, composer (American in Paris), dies at 38
1937-12-29 - Don Marquis, American author (b. 1878)
1938-02-07 - Harvey Firestone, American manufacturer (b. 1868)
1938-02-18 - David King Udall, American politician (b. 1851)
1938-03-02 - Ben Harney, American composer and pianist (b. 1871)
1938-03-04 - George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852)
1938-04-10 - Joe "King" Oliver, American musician (b. 1885)
1938-04-24 - George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
1938-07-09 - Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (b. 1870)
1938-07-21 - Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
1938-09-19 - Pauline Frederick, American actress (b. 1883)
1938-10-13 - E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (b. 1894)
1938-12-20 - Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (b. 1850)
1938-12-27 - Calvin Bridges, American geneticist (b. 1889)
1939-01-05 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator declared dead after disappearance in 1937. (b. 1897)
1939-03-19 - Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist
1939-03-27 - Constance Lindsay Skinner, author (Rivers of America), dies at 57
1939-06-04 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (b. 1900)
1939-06-16 - Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band leader (b. 1905)
1939-07-19 - Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (b. 1850)
1939-08-02 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosicrucian mystic (b. 1883)
1939-10-29 - Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864)
1940-03-04 - Hamlin Garland, American novelist (b. 1860)
1940-05-25 - Joe De Grasse, American film director (b. 1873)
1940-06-21 - Smedley Butler, American Marine general (b. 1881)
1940-08-08 - Johnny Dodds, American musician (b. 1892)
1940-08-18 - Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875)
1940-08-21 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)
1940-10-05 - Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (b. 1859)
1940-10-05 - Ballington Booth, Salvation Army Officer and co-founder of Volunteers of America (b. 1857)
1940-10-12 - Tom Mix, American actor (b. 1880)
1940-11-17 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
1941-03-13 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (b. 1881)
1941-03-17 - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (b. 1895)
1941-06-06 - Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878)
1941-06-11 - Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
1941-07-20 - Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)
1941-10-09 - Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
1941-11-21 - Henrietta Vinton Davis American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator, public speaker (b. 1860)
1941-12-07 - Mervyn S. Bennion, United States Navy Captain, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1887)
1941-12-07 - Herbert C. Jones, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1918)
1941-12-07 - Thomas J. Reeves, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1895)
1941-12-07 - Franklin Van Valkenburgh, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1888)
1941-12-10 - Colin Kelly, American pilot (b. 1915)
1941-12-11 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (b. 1922)
1942-01-08 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)
1942-02-12 - Grant Wood, US painter (American Gothic), dies at 49
1942-02-18 - Albert Payson Terhune, American author (b. 1872)
1942-02-19 - Frank Abbandando, American gangster (executed) (b. 1910)
1942-03-19 - Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist (b. 1855)
1942-04-18 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (b. 1875)
1942-09-14 - E.S. Gosney, American eugenicist (b. 1855)
1942-09-19 - Condé Nast, American publisher (b. 1873)
1942-11-17 - Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879)
1943-01-26 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (b. 1880)
1943-02-17 - Armand J. Piron, American jazz violinist and composer (b. 1888)
1943-03-13 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898)
1943-03-19 - Frank Nitti, American gangster (b. 1883)
1943-09-07 - J. P. Morgan, Jr., American financier (b. 1867)
1943-10-05 - Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902)
1943-11-24 - Doris Miller, American navy cook (b. 1919)
1944-01-06 - Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)
1944-01-12 - Lance C. Wade, American pilot (b. 1915)
1944-01-20 - James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860)
1944-03-04 - Emanuel Weiss, American hitman (b. 1906) (executed)
1944-03-04 - Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist (b. 1855)
1944-03-19 - William Hale Thompson, American mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
1944-05-16 - George Ade, American author (b. 1866)
1944-07-20 - Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901)
1944-10-04 - Al Smith, American politician (b. 1873)
1944-11-02 - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
1945-01-03 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
1945-03-04 - Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872)
1945-03-04 - Mark Sandrich, American film director, writer and producer (b. 1900)
1945-03-05 - Lena Baker, American murderer (b. 1901)
1945-04-18 - Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900)
1945-05-13 - Tubby Hall, American musician (b. 1895)
1945-05-17 - Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an, founder 1st Zen Institute of America, dies
1945-08-06 - Hiram Johnson, American politician (b. 1866)
1945-08-09 - Harry Hillman, American athlete (b. 1881)
1945-08-25 - John Birch, American intelligence officer and missionary (b. 1918)
1945-10-13 - Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (b. 1857)
1945-12-04 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)
1945-12-28 - Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74
1946-01-05 - Kitty Cheatham, American singer (b. 1864)
1946-01-26 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1884)
1946-03-02 - George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
1946-05-19 - Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
1946-06-24 - Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (b. 1857)
1946-08-26 - Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
1946-12-23 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (b. 1873)
1946-12-28 - Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85
1947-03-12 - "Winston Churchill the American", American novelist (b. 1871)
1947-03-18 - William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
