Today in United States of America History (Part 7)
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Related Topics: American Civil War - American Indian Wars - American Revolutionary War - Civil Rights - Cold War
Historical Events
Results 601 - 700 of 1,274
1938-03-03 - American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors)
1938-03-13 - World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
1938-05-26 - House on un-American Activities forms
1938-11-13 - America's 1st saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, beatified
1939-01-21 - George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "American Way," premieres in NYC
1939-03-16 - NHL record 10 goals in 1 period-NY Rangers (7), NY Americans (3) & a record 26 points in the 3rd period
1939-05-09 - Catholic church beatified the 1st Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha
1939-11-11 - Kate Smith 1st sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"
1939-12-27 - 1st American skimobiles (North Conway, NH)
1940-06-05 - American Negro Theater organizes
1940-10-07 - World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
1941-02-26 - Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (Calif)
1941-03-01 - "Captain America" appears in a comic book
1941-05-26 - American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila
1941-09-11 - FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight
1941-11-01 - American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
1941-12-09 - 300 Montgomery, SF opens as new Bank of America HQ
1941-12-15 - The American Federation of Labor adopts a no-strike policy in war industries.
1941-12-20 - World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.
1941-12-23 - American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
1942-01-02 - The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1942-01-03 - American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms
1942-01-06 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
1942-02-02 - LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans
1942-02-08 - Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort
1942-02-19 - FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
1942-02-20 - Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
1942-02-22 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapses.
1942-02-24 - Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
1942-05-12 - Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River
1942-06-13 - The United States opens its Office of War Information.
1942-06-17 - 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)
1942-07-04 - 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
1942-08-07 - 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is
1942-09-01 - Fed judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans
1942-09-28 - NY Americans NHL team folded
1942-10-23 - All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in Bloom", "Blue Hawaii").
1943-02-20 - Phil Wrigley & B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League
1943-02-20 - American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
1943-05-17 - The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
1943-08-12 - Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge.
1943-11-16 - World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
1944-01-30 - World War II: United States troops land on Majuro.
1944-02-03 - World War II: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.
1944-02-20 - World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
1944-06-30 - World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
1944-07-11 - Franklin D. Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States.
1944-08-29 - 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
1944-12-17 - Japanese-Americans released from detention camps
1944-12-17 - US Army announces end of excluding Jap-Americans from West Coast
1944-12-22 - Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
1945-03-30 - World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans.
1945-04-14 - American planes bombed Tokyo & damaged the Imperial Palace
1945-05-09 - World War II: Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army.
1946-01-25 - United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor
1946-03-28 - Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
1946-05-01 - Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of Year"
1946-06-06 - 11 Basketball of America Assn teams meet to schedule 1st season
1946-06-06 - The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City.
1946-07-07 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
1946-08-18 - Golf Writers Associaton of America forms
1947-02-17 - Voice of America begins broadcasting to USSR
1947-03-21 - Pres Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States
1947-06-12 - Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win Brit Women's Amateur Golf Champ
1947-11-24 - Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists
1948-04-30 - Org of American States charter signed at Bogota, Colombia
1948-06-18 - American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights
1948-11-27 - Honda 1st opens in America
1949-01-17 - The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, first airs.
1949-05-18 - Antiquarian Booksellers Assoc of America incorporates
1949-08-03 - Basketball Assoc of America & National Basketball League merge to form National Basketball Association
1949-09-13 - Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in NYC
1949-10-04 - American Contract Bridge League votes 58½% to keep blacks out
1950-08-01 - American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule
1950-08-08 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
1950-09-04 - 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines
1950-09-21 - George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States.
1950-12-10 - Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
1951-01-14 - NFL Pro Bowl: 1st since 1942, Americans beat Nationals 28-27
1951-02-25 - 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)
1951-04-07 - American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament
1951-10-14 - Organization of Central American States forms
1952-03-20 - 24th Academy Awards - "American in Paris," H Bogart & Vivian Leigh win
1952-04-25 - American Bowling Congress approves use of an automatic pinsetter
1952-07-07 - SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40
1952-07-14 - SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)
1952-08-10 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Women Golf Tournament
1952-09-17 - "I am an American Day" & "Constitution Day" renamed "Citizenship Day"
1952-09-19 - The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
1953-01-23 - NFL's National & American conference become Eastern & Western conf
1953-06-23 - Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Women Golf Tournament
1953-11-29 - American Airlines begins 1st regular coml NY-LA air service
1954-01-14 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
1954-04-24 - 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina
1954-09-11 - 1st Miss America TV broadcast
1954-09-11 - Lee Meriwether (Calif), 19, crowned 27th Miss America 1955 (1st on TV)
1954-09-27 - 1st African American Supreme Court page is CV Bush
1954-10-24 - Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
1954-10-27 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
1955-03-25 - United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as obscene.
Famous Birthdays
Results 601 - 700 of 9,097
1881-02-22 - Joseph B. Ely, American politician (d. 1956)
1881-03-04 - Maude Fealy, American actor (d. 1971)
1881-03-04 - Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (d. 1965)
1881-03-04 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d. 1948)
1881-05-14 - G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)
1881-06-29 - Harry Frazee, American baseball team owner (d. 1929)
1881-07-02 - Royal H. Weller, American politician (d. 1929)
1881-07-04 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (d. 1968)
1881-07-30 - Smedley Butler, American Marine general (d. 1940)
1881-08-06 - Leo Carrillo, LA CA, actor (American Empire, Cisco Kid)
1881-08-06 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (d. 1972)
1881-08-14 - Francis Ford, American actor (d. 1953)
1881-08-15 - Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (d. 1956)
1881-09-08 - Harry Hillman, American athlete (d. 1945)
1881-09-26 - Hiram Wesley Evans, American member of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 1966)
1881-10-15 - P G Wodehouse, British-American writer (Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves)
1881-10-22 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1881-10-30 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941)
1881-11-01 - Edward Van Sloan, American actor (d. 1964)
1881-11-05 - George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (d. 1961)
1881-12-14 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress and film producer (d. 1956)
1881-12-29 - Jess Willard, American boxer (d. 1968)
1882-01-12 - Milton Sills, American actor (d. 1930)
1882-01-14 - Hendrik W van Loon, Netherland, commentator/writer (Story of America)
1882-02-14 - George Jean Nathan, US, editor/author/critic (American Mercury)
1882-02-26 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968)
1882-02-28 - Geraldine Farrar, US soprano/actress (Story of American Singer)
1882-03-06 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980)
1882-03-15 - Jim Lightbody, American runner (d. 1953)
1882-04-21 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
1882-05-09 - George Barker, American painter (d. 1965)
1882-05-25 - Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
1882-07-04 - Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (d. 1957)
1882-09-09 - Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
1883-01-04 - Max Eastman, American writer (d. 1969)
1883-01-08 - Patrick J. Hurley, United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)
1883-05-05 - Charles Bender, only American Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame
1883-05-26 - Mamie Smith, American singer (d. 1946)
1883-07-31 - Fred Quimby, American film producer (d. 1965)
1883-08-12 - Pauline Frederick, American actress (d. 1938)
1883-08-19 - Elsie Ferguson, American film actress (d. 1961)
1883-10-08 - Dick Burnett, American musician (d. 1977)
1883-10-26 - Napoleon Hill, American Writer and Philosopher (Think and Grow Rich)(d. 1970)
1883-10-26 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (d. 1958)
1883-11-25 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic (d. 1939)
1883-12-11 - Victor McLaglen, English-born American actor (d. 1959)
1883-12-13 - Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer and archivist (d. 1950)
1883-12-27 - Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American financier, industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1979)
1884-01-12 - Texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)
1884-01-21 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (American Civil Liberties Union)
1884-01-23 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1956)
1884-02-13 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American athlete, inventor, and businessman (d. 1961)
1884-03-17 - Alcide Nunez, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1934)
1884-03-31 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1946)
1884-04-17 - Leo Frank, American convict (d. 1915)
1884-06-22 - James Rector, American athlete (d. 1949)
1884-07-06 - Harold Vanderbilt, NY, America Cup (1930,34,37)/inv contract bridge
1884-08-23 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949)
1884-09-20 - Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher (d. 1947)
1884-12-14 - Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (d. 1950)
1884-12-25 - Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (d. 1967)
1885-01-11 - Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer (d. 1965)
1885-03-14 - Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
1885-04-03 - Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1954)
1885-05-02 - Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (d. 1966)
1885-07-29 - Theda Bara, American film actress (d. 1955)
1885-08-12 - Marion Lorne, American actress (d. 1968)
1885-09-27 - Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (d. 1965)
1885-10-03 - Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (d. 1970)
1885-10-19 - Charles Merrill, American investment banker (d. 1956)
1885-12-19 - Joe "King" Oliver, American jazz musician (d. 1938)
1886-01-24 - Henry King, American film director (d. 1982)
1886-03-02 - Willis O'Brien, American animator (d. 1962)
1886-03-24 - Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)
1886-03-26 - Hugh Mulzac, America military officer (d. 1971)
1886-04-26 - Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
1886-05-09 - Francis Biddle, United States Attorney General (d. 1968)
1886-05-28 - Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (d. 1954)
1886-05-30 - Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918)
1886-06-18 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (d. 1978)
1886-07-31 - Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American organized crime figure (d. 1931)
1886-10-30 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)
1886-11-24 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher (d. 1973)
1886-12-01 - Rex Stout, American author (d. 1975)
1886-12-25 - Kid Ory, American musician (d. 1973)
1887-01-22 - Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
1887-02-07 - Eubie Blake, American musician and composer (d. 1983)
1887-02-16 - Kathleen Clifford, American actress (d. 1962)
1887-02-26 - William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966)
1887-03-04 - Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress (d. 1953)
1887-03-11 - Raoul Walsh, American film director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry), (d. 1980)
1887-03-14 - Sylvia Beach, American publisher (d. 1962)
1887-03-15 - Marjorie Merriweather Post, American socialite and businesswoman (d. 1973)
1887-04-12 - Harold Lockwood, American actor (d. 1918)
1887-04-21 - Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (d. 1978)
1887-06-02 - Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
1887-08-13 - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (d. 1952)
1887-08-15 - Edna Ferber, US, author (American Beauty, Cimarron)
1887-09-03 - Frank Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
1887-09-09 - Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
Famous Deaths
Results 601 - 700 of 3,298
1947-04-11 - Louise Peete, American murderess (b. 1880)
1947-04-24 - Willa Cather, American writer (b. 1873)
1947-05-08 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-born department store founder (b. 1858)
1947-07-12 - Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
1947-07-15 - Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
1947-11-01 - Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1917)
1947-12-07 - Nicholas M. Butler, American university president, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
1948-02-02 - Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father or Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (b. 1870)
1948-03-06 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (b. 1914)
1948-03-10 - Zelda Fitzgerald, American artist, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1900)
1948-05-15 - Edward Flanagan, American priest and founder of Boys Town (b. 1886)
1948-08-13 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (b. 1897)
1948-08-31 - Billy Laughlin, American actor (b. 1932)
1948-09-02 - Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
1948-09-05 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
1948-10-15 - Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
1949-01-22 - William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)
1949-03-10 - James Rector, American athlete (b. 1884)
1949-03-14 - John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (b. 1873)
1949-05-20 - Randolph West, American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1890)
1949-06-03 - Amedos Peter Giannine, founder of Bank of America dies at 79
1949-07-07 - Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889)
1949-09-19 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
1949-11-02 - Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (b. 1872)
1950-02-25 - George Minot, American physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
1950-03-10 - Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (b. 1902)
1950-03-24 - James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)
1950-04-03 - Carter G Woodson, American historian (black studies), dies at 74
1950-04-26 - G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881)
1950-07-12 - Elsie de Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (b. 1865)
1950-08-22 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
1950-10-13 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)
1950-11-16 - Bob Smith, American doctor, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879)
1951-02-09 - Eddy Duchin, American musician (b. 1910)
1951-02-13 - Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877)
1951-03-26 - James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (d. 1864)
1951-04-23 - Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865)
1951-06-06 - Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
1951-06-21 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
1951-09-06 - James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (b. 1867)
1951-09-17 - Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
1951-09-29 - Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (b. 1864)
1951-10-04 - Willie Moretti, American gangster (b. 1894)
1951-10-06 - Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (b. 1860)
1951-12-06 - Harold Ross, American magazine editor (b. 1892)
1951-12-12 - Mildred Bailey, American jazz singer (b. 1907)
1952-01-18 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)
1952-02-10 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1880)
1952-03-22 - Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)
1952-03-31 - Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (b. 1877)
1952-04-23 - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (b. 1887)
1952-06-16 - Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, first to map the entire San Andreas Fault (b. 1861)
1952-06-17 - Jack Parsons, American rocket-fuel pioneer and renegade occultist (b. 1914)
1952-07-18 - Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (b. 1906)
1952-08-16 - Lydia Field Emmet, American painter (b. 1866)
1952-10-26 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer and actress (b. 1895)
1952-12-28 - Fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897)
1953-01-07 - Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
1953-03-02 - Jim Lightbody, American runner (b. 1882)
1953-03-03 - James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1875)
1953-03-05 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
1953-03-28 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
1953-05-29 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891)
1953-05-30 - Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b. 1886)
1953-10-29 - William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)
1953-11-21 - Larry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1893)
1953-11-29 - Sam De Grasse, American actor (b. 1875)
1953-11-29 - Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (b. 1895)
1953-12-29 - Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress(b. 1887)
1954-05-15 - William March, American writer (b. 1893)
1954-06-21 - Gideon Sundback, American inventor, perfected the zipper (b. 1880)
1954-07-14 - Jackie Saunders, American silent screen actress (b. 1892)
1954-07-18 - Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895)
1954-08-11 - Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (b. 1886)
1954-09-07 - Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885)
1954-10-12 - George Welch, American pilot (b. 1918)
1954-11-29 - Dink Johnson, American musician (b. 1892)
1954-12-01 - Fred Rose, American songwriter and music publishing executive (b. 1897)
1954-12-13 - John Raymond Hubbell, American writer (b. 1879)
1955-01-15 - Yves Tanguy, French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies
1955-01-21 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880)
1955-01-24 - Ira Hayes, American World War II hero (b. 1923)
1955-03-11 - Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American meat packer (b. 1859)
1955-06-03 - Barbara Graham, American murderer (b. 1923)
1955-08-12 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
1955-09-07 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
1955-10-01 - Charles Christie, American film studio owner (b. 1880)
1955-11-01 - Dale Carnegie, American writer (b. 1888)
1955-12-03 - Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (b. 1894)
1956-01-08 - Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)
1956-03-31 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (b. 1884)
1956-04-21 - Charles MacArthur, American writer (b. 1895)
1956-05-16 - H. B. Reese, American founder of Reese's (b. 1876)
1956-06-04 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress (b. 1881)
1956-06-17 - Bob Sweikert, American racing driver (b. 1926)
1956-06-19 - Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (IBM) (b. 1874)
1956-08-26 - Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (b. 1881)
1956-10-07 - Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)
1956-10-09 - Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
1956-10-19 - Isham Jones, American musician (b. 1894)
