Today in United States of America History (Part 9)
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Related Topics: American Civil War - American Indian Wars - American Revolutionary War - Civil Rights - Cold War
Historical Events
Results 801 - 900 of 1,274
1967-04-01 - The United States Department of Transportation begins operation.
1967-04-24 - Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily."
1967-09-09 - Debra Dene Barnes (Kansas), 20, crowned 40th Miss America 1968
1967-09-18 - Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Aust) in 21st America's Cup
1967-10-23 - NJ Americans (later NY/NJ Nets) play 1st ABA game
1967-11-21 - Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
1968-07-15 - NJ Americans moved to Comack & become NY Nets (ABA)
1968-08-21 - After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio
1968-08-22 - 1st papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)
1968-09-08 - Saundra Williams wins 1st Miss Black America pageant
1968-10-07 - Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
1968-11-01 - Motion Picture Assn of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)
1969-01-28 - Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in N America
1969-04-03 - Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
1969-04-14 - Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College
1969-07-14 - The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
1969-08-22 - Gloria O Smith, (NY), crowned 2nd Miss Black America
1969-08-23 - France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)
1969-09-02 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
1969-09-29 - "Love American Style," premieres on ABC-TV
1969-10-15 - Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated
1969-11-20 - Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans
1970-01-01 - Afro-American Historical Calendar Series Established
1970-01-16 - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
1970-02-21 - Jackson 5 make TV debut on "American Bandstand"
1970-03-02 - American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747
1970-05-07 - "Long & Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release
1970-07-04 - Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio
1970-09-12 - Phyllis Ann George (Texas), 21, crowned 43rd Miss America 1971
1970-09-28 - Intrepid (US) beats Gretel II (Aust) in 22nd America's Cup
1970-09-30 - New American Bible published
1970-10-20 - American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1971-02-10 - American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in NY
1971-08-10 - 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research
1971-09-11 - Laurel Lea Schaefer (Ohio), 22, crowned 44th Miss America 1972
1971-12-03 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
1971-12-11 - The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed.
1971-12-16 - Don McLean's 8+ minute version of "American Pie" released
1972-03-25 - America's LP "America" goes #1
1972-06-07 - Hsan Hua, Zen teacher, conducted 1st ordination ceremony in America
1972-06-23 - Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history
1972-08-12 - Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
1972-09-09 - Terry Anne Meeuwsen (Wisc), 23, crowned 45th Miss America 1973
1972-09-26 - American Museum of Immigration dedicated
1973-01-11 - American League adopts designated hitter rule
1973-02-27 - Members of American Indian Movement begin occupation of Wounded Knee
1973-03-04 - 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
1973-04-03 - The first portable cell phone call is made in New York City, United States.
1973-05-06 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic
1973-06-15 - "American Graffiti" opens in NYC
1973-07-12 - A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
1973-09-07 - Mike Storen becomes American Basketball Assn's 4th commissioner
1973-09-08 - Rebecca Ann King (Colo), 23, crowned 46th Miss America 1974
1973-09-19 - Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May NJ) forms
1973-09-22 - Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America's 1st Jewish Secretary of State
1973-09-29 - "We're An American Band" by Grand Funk peaks at #1
1973-11-02 - OLADE (Latin American Energy Organization) forms
1973-11-03 - Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault)
1973-11-24 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
1973-12-15 - American Psychiatric Assn declares homosexuality is not mental illness
1974-01-06 - In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
1974-01-11 - ABC airs final episode of "Love, American Style"
1974-02-05 - John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States.
1974-02-09 - "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24
1974-02-19 - 1st American Music Award:
1974-04-10 - American Boccaccio Association forms
1974-05-12 - Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic
1974-08-10 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-European American Golf Open
1974-09-07 - Shirley Cothran (Texas), 21, crowned 47th Miss America 1975
1974-09-24 - Clarence Jones of Kintetsu Buffaloes hits his 38th HR, 1st American to win a Japanese HR title
1974-10-08 - Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
1974-11-30 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
1975-01-06 - "AM America," premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host
1975-02-18 - 2nd American Music Award:
1975-02-23 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States.
1975-02-26 - "Night... Made America Famous" opens at Barrymore NYC for 75 perfs
1975-04-06 - "Night... Made America Famous" closes at Barrymore NYC after 75 perfs
1975-05-25 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA American DefenderGolf Classic
1975-06-10 - Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans
1975-06-26 - Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1975-09-06 - Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976
1975-09-29 - Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster.
1975-10-26 - Mary Bea Porter wins LPGA Golf Inns of America
1975-11-15 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
1975-11-28 - As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes.
1976-01-26 - David Mamet's "American Buffalo," premieres in NYC
1976-05-16 - Sue Roberts wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic
1976-07-10 - One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
1976-09-11 - Dorothy Kathleen Benham (Minn), 20, crowned 49th Miss America 1977
1976-09-18 - Rev Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention
1976-10-21 - American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1976-11-27 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
1976-12-10 - Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
1977-02-13 - Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship
1977-02-13 - Pam Higgins wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic
1977-03-01 - Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards
1977-04-24 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA American Defender Golf Tournament
1977-08-03 - United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA.
1977-09-10 - Susan Perkins (Ohio), crowned 50th Miss America 1978
1977-09-18 - Courageous (US) sweeps Australia (Aust) in 24th America's Cup
Famous Birthdays
Results 801 - 900 of 9,097
1892-11-06 - Harold Ross, American editor (d. 1951)
1892-12-17 - Sam Barry, American basketball coach (d. 1950)
1893-02-20 - Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (d. 1993)
1893-03-01 - Mercedes de Acosta, American socialite (d. 1968)
1893-03-07 - Milton Avery, American artist (d. 1965)
1893-03-23 - Cedric Gibbons, American art director (d. 1960)
1893-03-25 - Edward Hart, (Rep-D-NJ)/1st chairman of Com on Un-American Activities
1893-03-28 - Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive (d. 1971)
1893-04-07 - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)
1893-04-20 - Edna Parker, American supercentenarian
1893-05-09 - William Moulton Marston, American psychologist, writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman) (d. 1947)
1893-05-23 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977)
1893-08-06 - Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976)
1893-08-17 - Mae West, American actress (d. 1980)
1893-08-25 - Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (d. 1962)
1893-09-06 - Claire Chennault, American pilot (d. 1958)
1893-09-13 - Larry Shields, American musician (d. 1953)
1893-09-30 - Lansdale Sasscer, American politician (d. 1964)
1893-10-01 - Cliff Friend, American songwriter (d. 1974)
1893-10-12 - Velvalee Dickinson, American spy (d. 1980)
1893-10-14 - Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993)
1893-10-20 - Charley Chase, American comedian (d. 1940)
1893-10-23 - Gummo Marx, American actor (d. 1977)
1893-11-07 - Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
1893-11-08 - Clarence Williams, American composer (d. 1965)
1893-11-10 - John P. Marquand, American writer (d. 1960)
1893-11-22 - Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (d. 1969)
1894-01-03 - ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d. 1963)
1894-01-16 - Irving Mills, American jazz music publisher (d. 1985)
1894-01-31 - Isham Jones, American musician (d. 1956)
1894-02-01 - James P. Johnson, American composer (d. 1955)
1894-03-14 - Osa Johnson, American explorer (d. 1953)
1894-04-06 - Gertrude Baines, American Supercentarian
1894-04-23 - Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (d. 1955)
1894-06-13 - Dr. Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician (d. 1981)
1894-07-15 - Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer and inventor (d. 1989)
1894-09-09 - Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)
1894-09-24 - Tommy Armour, Anglo-American golfer (d. 1968)
1894-09-27 - Olive Tell, American actress (d. 1951)
1894-10-03 - Elmer Robinson, American politician (d. 1982)
1894-10-07 - Del Lord, American director (d. 1970)
1894-10-12 - Charles Hodge, Calif, NYU professor (Answers for Americans)
1894-10-18 - H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960)
1894-10-20 - Olive Thomas, American actress (d. 1920)
1894-11-29 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (d. 1970)
1894-12-08 - E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (d. 1938)
1894-12-26 - Jean Toomer, American writer (d. 1967)
1895-01-04 - Leroy Grumman, American industrialist (d. 1982)
1895-01-05 - Elizabeth Cotten, American musician (d. 1987)
1895-01-16 - Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)
1895-01-27 - Harry Ruby, American composer (d. 1974)
1895-01-29 - Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965)
1895-03-04 - Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (d. 1953)
1895-04-16 - Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer (d. 1948)
1895-04-20 - Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
1895-05-02 - Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (d. 1943)
1895-05-08 - Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore)
1895-05-08 - James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (d. 1962)
1895-05-11 - William Grant Still, Woodville Mississippi, composer (Afro-American)
1895-07-18 - George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (d. 1954)
1895-07-23 - Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989)
1895-07-30 - Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)
1895-08-03 - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (d. 1941)
1895-09-29 - Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (d. 1970)
1895-10-19 - Frank Durbin, last American veteran of the Battle of Verdun (d.1999)
1895-10-30 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1895-11-05 - Charles MacArthur, American author (d. 1956)
1895-11-14 - Walter Freeman, American physician (d. 1972)
1895-11-14 - Louise Huff, American actress (d. 1973)
1895-11-16 - Michael Arlen, Armenia, English author (An American Verdict)
1895-11-19 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989)
1895-11-25 - Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (d. 1986)
1895-12-05 - Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician (d. 1969)
1895-12-24 - E. Roland Harriman, American financier (d. 1978)
1896-01-04 - Everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969)
1896-01-08 - Arthur Ford, American psychic (d. 1971)
1896-01-12 - David Wechsler, American psychologist (d.1981)
1896-01-16 - Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978)
1896-01-18 - C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (d. 1967)
1896-01-20 - Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
1896-04-08 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (d. 1981)
1896-05-01 - Mark Wayne Clark, American general (d. 1984)
1896-05-01 - J. Lawton Collins, American general (d. 1987)
1896-06-07 - Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d. 1990)
1896-06-16 - Murray Leinster, American author (d. 1976)
1896-06-21 - Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (d. 1967)
1896-07-25 - Jack Perrin, American actor (d. 1967)
1896-07-28 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (d. 1926)
1896-08-17 - Leslie Groves, American military engineer (d. 1970)
1896-09-08 - Howard Dietz, American lyricist and librettist (d. 1983)
1896-09-10 - Adele Astaire, American dancer and entertainer (d. 1981)
1896-09-27 - Sam Ervin, American politician (d. 1985)
1896-10-01 - Ted Healy, American actor and comedian (d. 1937)
1896-11-28 - Dawn Powell, American writer (d. 1965)
1896-11-29 - Yakima Canutt, American actor and stuntman (d. 1986)
1896-12-15 - Betty Smith, American author (d. 1972)
1897-02-02 - Howard Johnson, American hotelier (d. 1972)
1897-02-06 - Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (d. 1944)
1897-02-12 - Vola Vale, American actress (d. 1970)
1897-02-19 - Alma Rubens, American actress (d. 1931)
Famous Deaths
Results 801 - 900 of 3,298
1965-09-15 - Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890)
1965-10-11 - Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
1965-10-17 - Barton King, cricketer (America's greatest cricket all-rounder), dies
1965-10-26 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (b. 1949)
1965-10-28 - Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
1965-11-08 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913)
1965-12-05 - Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1965-12-09 - Branch Rickey, American baseball executive (b. 1884)
1966-01-14 - Bill Carr, American athlete (b. 1909)
1966-02-18 - Robert Rossen, American screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1908)
1966-02-25 - James D. Norris, American sports businessman (b. 1906)
1966-03-30 - Newbold Morris, American politician (b. 1902)
1966-04-30 - Richard Farina, American writer and folk rocker, dies on his birthday in a motorcycle accident
1966-06-01 - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (b. 1873)
1966-08-05 - Austin Diamond, cricketer (Australian capt to America 1913), dies
1966-08-06 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913)
1966-09-11 - C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate (b. 1889)
1966-10-16 - George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899)
1966-10-18 - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart) (b. 1867)
1966-12-08 - Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (b. 1899)
1967-01-07 - David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
1967-01-31 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)
1967-02-05 - Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872)
1967-02-21 - Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
1967-02-28 - Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)
1967-03-07 - Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
1967-03-27 - Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared) (b. 1906)
1967-03-30 - Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)
1967-04-04 - Al Lewis, American songwriter (b. 1901)
1967-04-05 - Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1890)
1967-04-17 - Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1908)
1967-04-29 - J.B. Lenoir, American Blues Musician (b. 1929)
1967-05-31 - Billy Strayhorn, American composer, pianist and arranger (b. 1915)
1967-06-14 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897)
1967-07-28 - Karl W. Richter, Lieutenant, USAF, American aviator (b. 1942)
1967-08-22 - Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)
1967-08-25 - George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated
1967-11-21 - C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (b. 1896)
1967-11-24 - Louis Fratto, American gangster (b. 1908)
1967-12-03 - Harry Wismer, American original owner of the New York Jets (b. 1913)
1967-12-08 - John Mills, Sr., American singer (Mills Brothers) (b. 1889)
1967-12-17 - Jack Perrin, American actor (b. 1896)
1967-12-23 - Ruth Fuller Sasaki, head of 1st Zen Institute of America, dies at 75
1967-12-28 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (b. 1875)
1968-01-11 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
1968-01-19 - Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b. 1879)
1968-01-21 - Will Lang Jr., American magazine executive (b. 1914)
1968-01-26 - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1883)
1968-01-26 - Yvor Winters, American poet (b. 1900)
1968-02-04 - Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)
1968-02-22 - Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904)
1968-03-24 - Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (b. 1873)
1968-03-30 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937)
1968-04-16 - Edna Ferber, author (American Beauty), dies at 78
1968-04-22 - Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (b. 1911)
1968-04-25 - John Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
1968-05-09 - Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b. 1893)
1968-06-19 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (b. 1898)
1968-08-05 - Luther Perkins American guitarist
1968-08-12 - Esther Forbes, American novelist (b. 1891)
1968-08-26 - Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1899)
1968-08-29 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881)
1968-09-03 - Isabel Withers, American actress (b. 1896)
1968-11-25 - Paul Siple, American explorer of the Antarctic. (b. 1908)
1969-02-19 - Madge Blake, American actress (b. 1899)
1969-03-25 - Max Eastman, American writer (b. 1883)
1969-04-05 - Shelby Storck, American television producer (b. 1917)
1969-04-10 - Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (b. 1893)
1969-05-08 - Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (b. 1892)
1969-05-26 - Allan H. Loughead, American aviation pioneer (Lockheed Corporation; b. 1889)
1969-07-05 - Leo McCarey, American film director (b. 1898)
1969-07-20 - Roy Hamilton, American singer (b. 1929)
1969-08-09 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (murdered) (b. 1933)
1969-08-09 - Steven Parent, American student (murdered) (b. 1951)
1969-08-10 - Leno LaBianca, American businessman (murdered) (b. 1925)
1969-08-10 - Rosemary LaBianca, American housewife (murdered) (b. 1930)
1969-09-03 - John Lester, American cricketer (b. 1871)
1969-10-03 - Skip James, American blues musician (b. 1902)
1969-10-30 - Pops Foster, American musician (b. 1892)
1969-12-01 - Magic Sam, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1937)
1969-12-13 - Spencer Williams, Jr., American actor (b. 1893)
1970-01-17 - Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist (b. 1890)
1970-01-24 - Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891)
1970-02-02 - Lawrence Gray, American actor (b.1898)
1970-02-20 - Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885)
1970-02-23 - Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (b. 1904)
1970-03-01 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
1970-03-29 - Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist (b. 1885)
1970-04-05 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891)
1970-04-06 - Sam Sheppard, American accused murderer (b. 1923)
1970-04-16 - Richard Neutra, American architect (b. 1892)
1970-05-11 - Johnny Hodges, American musician (b. 1906)
1970-06-08 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
1970-06-11 - Earl Grant, American musician and singer (b. 1931)
1970-06-11 - William 'Billy Batts' Devino, American crime figure (b. 1921)
1970-06-23 - Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (b. 1895)
1970-06-27 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
1970-07-04 - Harold Vanderbilt, America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85
1970-07-04 - Barnett Newman, American artist (b. 1905)
1970-07-31 - Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (b. 1912)
