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National - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1219-06-15 |
Dannebrog - oldest national flag in the world - and flag of Denmark. According to legend, fell from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse (now Tallinn) in Estonia, and turned the Danes' luck. |
1524-07-15 |
Emperor Karel I bans German national synode |
1607-01-13 |
The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain. |
1636-12-13 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard. |
1638-02-28 |
Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convent, Greyfriars, Edinburgh |
1773-10-14 |
The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in Poland. |
1777-12-18 |
1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender |
1780-01-03 |
Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian...," 1st sung |
1789-06-17 |
3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly |
1789-07-15 |
Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris. |
1789-08-04 |
French National Meeting ending feudal system |
1789-08-27 |
French National Assembly issues "Declaration of Rights of Man & Citizen" |
1789-10-03 |
Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26 |
1789-11-05 |
French National Meeting declares all citizens equal under law |
1789-11-26 |
1st national Thanksgiving in USA |
1791-07-17 |
Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people. |
1791-09-03 |
French Constitution passed by French National Assembly |
1791-09-30 |
The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as incorruptible patriots. |
1792-07-30 |
500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time |
1792-09-21 |
Collot D'Herbois, first man to propose to abolish the monarchy in France at National Convention |
1792-09-22 |
French First Republic formed by the National Convention, stripping French King of his powers |
1793-01-16 |
French King Louis XVI sentenced to death by the National Convention during the French Revolution |
1794-02-04 |
French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery |
1795-07-09 |
James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt |
1795-07-15 |
"Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem |
1796-03-01 |
1st National Meeting in the Hague |
1797-09-01 |
2nd National Meeting in Hague |
1804-01-01 |
Haiti gains independence from France (National Day) |
1806-03-29 |
Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway. |
1809-08-10 |
Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day) |
1810-04-20 |
The Governors of Caracas declares the national sovereignty from Spain. |
1810-09-18 |
Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day) |
1811-05-14 |
Paraguay gains independence from Spain (National Day) |
1811-12-26 |
A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable. |
1814-05-17 |
Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (National Day) |
1821-03-25 |
Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day) |
1821-07-28 |
Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day) |
1822-01-13 |
The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus. |
1822-09-07 |
Pedro I, son of King Joao VI declares Brazil's independence from Portugal (National Day) |
1824-03-04 |
The "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" was founded in the United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858. |
1824-05-10 |
The National Gallery in London opens to the public in its temporary home in a townhouse on Pall Mall |
1825-08-06 |
Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day) |
1825-08-25 |
Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day) |
1830-09-15 |
1st National Negro Convention begins in Phila |
1831-06-04 |
National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen-Coburg as King of Belgium |
1831-06-06 |
2nd national black convention (Phila) |
1832-05-21 |
1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore) |
1832-06-04 |
3rd national black convention meets (Phila) |
1833-06-03 |
4th national black convention meets (Phila) |
1834-06-02 |
5th national black convention meets (NYC) |
1835-01-08 |
The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time. |
1835-06-01 |
6th national black convention (Philadelphia) |
1836-02-03 |
Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany NY) |
1836-12-04 |
Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Pa |
1838-04-09 |
UK National Gallery re-opens in its new dedicated building in Trafalgar Square, London |
1839-02-26 |
Jem Mason on Lottery wins 1st Grand National Steeplechase (Britain) |
1842-03-02 |
The Grand National steeplechase at Aintree near Liverpool England is won by Gaylad, ridden by Tom Olliver. |
1843-08-15 |
National black convention meets (Buffalo NY) |
1844-02-27 |
Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day) |
1848-05-13 |
First performance of Finland's national anthem. |
1848-05-18 |
Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany. |
1848-09-06 |
National Black Convention meets in Cleveland |
1849-06-05 |
Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy |
1850-08-23 |
1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass |
1852-01-01 |
National debt of Britain & Ireland is 765,126,582 pounds |
1852-07-23 |
1st interment in US National Cemetery at Presidio |
1853-07-06 |
National Black convention meets in Rochester NY, ex-slave Frederick Douglass attends |
1853-10-06 |
4th National Women's Rights Convention opens in Cleveland Ohio |
1854-08-24 |
National emigration convention meets in Cleveland |
1856-02-22 |
1st national meeting of Republican Party (Pittsburgh) |
1856-06-17 |
Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia |
1857-01-22 |
National Association of Baseball Players founded, NY |
1857-02-16 |
Gallaudet College (National Deaf Mute college) forms in Washington DC |
1859-03-21 |
Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh |
1863-02-25 |
Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency |
1863-02-26 |
Lincoln signs National Currency Act |
1863-03-03 |
Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences |
1863-05-01 |
Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars & Bars" |
1863-06-20 |
1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa) |
1863-06-29 |
Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa |
1864-10-04 |
National black convention meets (Syracuse NY) |
1864-10-20 |
US President Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday |
1865-02-01 |
13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day) |
1866-03-21 |
US Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes |
1866-09-06 |
Frederick Douglass is 1st US black delegate to a national convention |
1866-11-20 |
First national convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org) |
1867-10-22 |
Foundation of the National University of Colombia. |
1868-05-20 |
Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant |
1869-01-13 |
Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention meets in Wash DC |
1869-05-15 |
National Woman Suffrage Association forms in New York, founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
1870-02-09 |
US Army establishes US National Weather Service |
1870-03-18 |
1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland California) |
1870-11-27 |
NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game" |
1871-03-17 |
National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized |
1871-05-04 |
1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double |
1871-10-06 |
Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour |
1871-11-24 |
National Rifle Association organized (NYC) |
1872-02-22 |
1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio) |
1872-03-01 |
Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park |
1872-04-10 |
1st National black convention meets in New Orleans |
1872-06-05 |
Republican National Convention meets (Phila) |
1874-11-18 |
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland |
1875-11-13 |
National Bowling Association organized in NYC |
1876-02-02 |
Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis |
1876-05-02 |
Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League |
1876-06-02 |
Hristo Botev, a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary, is killed in Stara Planina |
1877-08-22 |
Nez Perce-indians flee into Yellowstone National Park |
1877-09-20 |
Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan) |
1879-01-23 |
US National Archery Association forms (Crawfordsville, Ind) |
1879-01-25 |
The Bulgarian National Bank is founded. |
1879-01-29 |
Custer Battlefield National Monument, Mont established |
1879-08-12 |
1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago) |
1880-02-12 |
US National Croquet League organizes (Phila) |
1880-06-24 |
First performance of "O Canada," the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. |
1881-08-03 |
US National Lawn Tennis Association removes "National" from its name |
1883-08-17 |
The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional. |
1883-09-24 |
National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky |
1884-04-24 |
National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta) |
1884-09-10 |
Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention |
1886-08-31 |
Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized |
1886-12-22 |
1st national accountants' society in US formed (NYC) |
1888-01-13 |
National Geographic Society founded (Washington, DC) |
1888-01-27 |
National Geographic Society organizes (Wash DC) |
1888-10-01 |
National Geographic magazine publishes for 1st time |
1888-10-03 |
New Zealand Natives, a privately organised and mainly Māori rugby team, plays first game in UK; the first national rugby team to wear the silver fern |
1889-04-30 |
1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration |
1889-05-14 |
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is launched in London. |
1890-01-25 |
National Afro-American League forms in Chicago |
1890-09-25 |
Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (California) |
1890-10-01 |
Yosemite National Park forms |
1891-06-29 |
US National Forest Service organized |
1892-05-19 |
National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded |
1892-08-20 |
The Transvaal National Union, a political organisation, is set up with J. Tudhope as president |
1892-10-10 |
Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan |
1893-01-06 |
The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison. |
1893-04-08 |
The Critic reports that ice cream soda is our national drink |
1893-11-28 |
Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election. |
1894-02-24 |
Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of) |
1894-10-17 |
Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man |
1895-01-12 |
The National Trust is founded in Britain. |
1895-01-22 |
National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati |
1896-01-04 |
AFL charters Actors' National Protective Union, NYC |
1896-07-21 |
National Federation of Afro-American Women & Colored Women's |
1896-11-01 |
First bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Magazine |
1897-01-08 |
Michael Eagan wins 1st US national amateur handball championship |
1897-02-17 |
National Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association) |
1898-06-07 |
Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chicago |
1898-09-15 |
National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY |
1899-07-19 |
National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers forms |
1900-08-23 |
National Negro Business League organizes (Boston) |
1900-12-12 |
National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice & Sing", composed |
1900-12-16 |
A National Civic Federation is formed in the US to arbitrate labor disputes |
1901-02-04 |
Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Joseph, gives a speech condemning the demands of national groups and calls for economic and social reform |
1901-02-27 |
A General Committee of National Liberal Federation meets and adopts a resolution deploring the continuation of the war in South Africa and condemning the British Government's insistence on unconditional surrender by the Boers |
1901-03-03 |
Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Dept of Commerce |
1901-05-31 |
At the opening of the Greek National Assembly, Prince George, High Commissioner of Crete, asks it to endorse the union of Crete with Greece; the proposal is later rejected |
1901-06-24 |
Jewish National Fund starts |
1901-09-05 |
National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms |
1901-11-01 |
Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA. |
1902-01-08 |
1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill) |
1902-11-21 |
Baseball's Phila Athletics & Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League |
1903-01-09 |
Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace |
1903-01-09 |
Wind Cave National Park, SD established |
1903-03-14 |
1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, FL |
1904-02-21 |
National Ski Association forms in Ishpeming Mich |
1904-06-06 |
National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, NJ |
1905-01-02 |
Japanese troops capture Port Arthur from Russia, a blow to national morale and causing further discontent within Russia |
1905-01-05 |
National Association of Audubon Society, a non-profit, environmental organization dedicated to conservation, incorporates |
1905-01-20 |
The US begins supervision of the Dominican Republic's national and international debts, testing Roosevelt's 'Corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine |
1905-02-17 |
Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall |
1905-09-05 |
50 prominent men meet in Sydney's Australia Hotel to found the National Defense League fueled by fear of Japan after it's victory over Russia |
1905-12-09 |
French Assembly National votes for separation of church & state |
1907-02-07 |
The Mud March was the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). |
1907-06-16 |
Tsar Nicolas II of Russia dissolves the Second Duma (parliament) and issues an edict that will increase representation of propertied classes while reducing that of peasants, workers and national minorities |
1907-09-29 |
Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral |
1908-01-09 |
Muir Woods National Monument, California established |
1908-01-16 |
Pinnacles National Monument, California established |
1908-04-16 |
Natural Bridges National Monument forms (Lake Powell, Utah) |
1908-08-25 |
National Association of Colored Nurses forms |
1908-11-14 |
Liberal candidate Jose Miguel Gomez wins national elections for president in Cuba |
1909-02-12 |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms |
1909-05-13 |
Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands |
1909-05-30 |
National Conference on the Negro is held |
1909-06-18 |
Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women |
1909-07-30 |
John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League |
1909-12-15 |
Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League |
1910-01-19 |
National Institute of Arts & Letters incorporated by Congress |
1910-05-11 |
Montana's Glacier National Park forms |
1911-03-20 |
National Squash Tennis Association forms (NYC) |
1911-06-11 |
The Greek national assembly adopts a more liberal constitution |
1912-01-05 |
1st National Hockey Association game (Victoria) |
1912-01-08 |
Chiefs, representatives of people's and church organisations, and other prominent individuals form the African National Congress and declare its aim to bring all Africans together as one people to defend their rights and freedoms |
1912-06-18 |
The Chicago national Republican Convention splits between President Taft and Theodore Roosevelt; after Taft is nominated, Roosevelt and progressive elements of the Party form the Progressive Party (also known as the 'Bull Moose Party') |
1912-07-15 |
British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect |
1912-11-27 |
Albanian National Flag adopted |
1912-12-28 |
National Council of Young Israel convenes |
1913-01-02 |
National Woman's Party forms |
1913-02-04 |
National Institute of Arts & Letters founded |
1913-07-25 |
A meeting in Johannesburg, called by the South African Native National Congress, now African National Congress, is attended by a large number of people from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland |
1913-12-09 |
John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League |
1914-07-01 |
Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog founds the Free State National Party |
1915-01-26 |
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo established |
1915-03-03 |
US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics(NACA) created, the predecessor of NASA |
1915-04-23 |
ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA) |
1915-05-17 |
National Baptist Convention chartered |
1915-10-04 |
Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established |
1915-10-23 |
1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa) |
1916-04-01 |
1st US national women's swiming championships held |
1916-06-03 |
US National Defense Act establishes Reserve Officers Training Corps |
1916-06-17 |
1st national congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java |
1916-08-01 |
Hawaii National Park forms |
1916-08-25 |
US Department of Interior forms National Park Service |
1916-09-03 |
US President Wilson signs Adamson Act, providing an 8-hour day on interstate railroads, preventing a national railroad strike |
1916-10-28 |
Australian government holds a national referendum seeking support for the proposal of compulsory conscription; it is rejected |
1917-11-22 |
NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands |
1917-12-06 |
Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day) |
1918-02-16 |
Lithuania declares independence from Russia & Germany (National Day) |
1918-04-23 |
National Urban League forms |
1918-07-22 |
Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park |
1918-12-10 |
John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League |
1919-01-05 |
National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party |
1919-02-21 |
German National Meeting accepts Anschluss: incorporation of Austria |
1919-02-26 |
Acadia National Park forms (as Lafayette N P), Maine |
1919-02-26 |
Congress forms Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona |
1919-03-12 |
Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany) |
1919-05-17 |
War Department (UK) orders use of National Star Insignia on all airplanes. |
1919-08-10 |
Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine |
1919-09-02 |
National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series |
1919-09-27 |
Democratic National Committee voted to allow female members |
1919-11-10 |
1st observance of National Book Week |
1919-11-10 |
American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis) |
1919-12-20 |
Canadian National Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM) |
1920-01-04 |
1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes |
1920-02-13 |
National Negro Baseball League organizes |
1920-04-23 |
Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara |
1920-04-23 |
The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution. |
1920-04-26 |
Harlow Shapley & Heber D. Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae, dalaxies and size of universe at US National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C. |
1920-05-02 |
1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis |
1920-09-17 |
National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Prof Football Association |
1921-03-04 |
Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas |
1921-05-12 |
National Hospital Day 1st observed |
1921-05-19 |
Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system |
1921-07-11 |
Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day) |
1921-07-29 |
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. |
1921-11-01 |
National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League |
1922-01-24 |
Lehman Caves National Monument established |
1922-01-28 |
American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League" |
1922-02-27 |
Commerce Sec Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference |
1922-03-24 |
Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish |
1922-08-12 |
Dedication of Frederick Douglas' home in Wash DC as national shrine |
1922-09-02 |
President Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem |
1922-11-18 |
Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdul Medjid kalief |
1922-11-30 |
Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich |
1923-01-24 |
Aztec Ruins National Monument, NM established |
1923-08-13 |
Turkish National Congress selects Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Pasja as president |
1924-04-19 |
"National Barn Dance" premieres on WLS Chicago |
1924-09-06 |
Charles Paddock captures 100 & 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track & field championships |
1924-10-15 |
Pres Calvin Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument |
1925-02-01 |
1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkämpferbund in Berlin |
1925-02-25 |
Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska |
1925-08-08 |
1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, DC |
1925-11-07 |
Italians liberal-national party joins fascist |
1925-11-09 |
Robert A. Millikan confirms the existence of cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences at Madison, Wisconsin |
1925-12-16 |
Alpha Phi Omega national service fraternity is founded at Lafayette College. |
1926-07-09 |
Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander |
1926-07-16 |
National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos |
1926-07-26 |
National Bar Association incorporates |
1926-09-09 |
National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America |
1926-09-09 |
The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed. |
1926-10-09 |
NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms |
1926-12-15 |
Facist national symbol elevated in Italy |
1927-01-21 |
1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago) |
1927-01-30 |
Left wins national election in Thuringen |
1927-04-27 |
Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created. |
1927-05-14 |
The University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under Illinois law as Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity. |
1928-06-14 |
Republican National Convention, meeting in KC, nominates Herbert Hoover for President |
1929-01-19 |
Acadia National Park, Maine established |
1929-01-26 |
Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence |
1929-02-26 |
US Pres Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park |
1929-03-22 |
66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes |
1930-01-23 |
George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Va established |
1931-02-04 |
National League adopts a deader baseball |
1931-03-03 |
"Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem by congressional resolution |
1931-03-20 |
Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin |
1932-04-24 |
German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia) |
1932-05-10 |
Government declares "Wilhelmus" as the Netherlands' national anthem |
1932-10-11 |
1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC |
1933-01-18 |
White Sands National Monument, NM established |
1933-04-07 |
'National Beer Day" Cullen-Harrison act comes into effect legalising sale of low alcohol beer |
1933-05-17 |
Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway. |
1933-05-22 |
World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated |
1933-06-16 |
National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down) |
1933-08-01 |
NRA (National Recovery Administration) forms |
1933-10-03 |
Gustave "Staf" de Clerq forms Flemish National Covenant |
1933-10-23 |
John Dillinger and his gang rob Central National Bank, in Greencastle, Indiana. They take $75, 000 |
1934-01-05 |
National & American baseball leagues select a uniform ball |
1934-01-15 |
While robbing the First National Bank in East Chicago, Indianapolis, Dillinger is shot several times by officer William O'Malley, but survives because he is wearing a bullet proof vest. |
1934-04-12 |
The US Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers. |
1934-05-23 |
The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers. |
1934-06-15 |
Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated |
1934-12-11 |
Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League |
1935-01-04 |
Ft Jefferson National Monument, Fla established |
1935-03-24 |
Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network |
1935-04-17 |
Provincial-National elections (Musserts NSB achieves 7.9%/44 chairs) |
1935-07-05 |
FDR signs National Labor Relations Act |
1935-08-31 |
1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis) |
1935-12-05 |
National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (NYC) |
1935-12-24 |
National Council of Negro Women forms |
1936-02-05 |
National Wildlife Federation forms |
1936-02-14 |
National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago |
1936-03-01 |
A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen's Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union. |
1936-05-22 |
Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland. |
1937-02-21 |
The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War. |
1937-03-24 |
National Gallery of Art established by Congress |
1937-09-02 |
US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act |
1938-01-11 |
Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a US national bank |
1938-01-14 |
National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY) |
1938-03-25 |
1st US bred and owned horse (Battleship) to win British Grand National Steeplechase |
1938-07-01 |
The South African Press Association (SAPA) is established as a non-governmental institution by South Africa's major newspapers to facilitate the sharing of news, both national and international |
1938-07-29 |
Olympic National Park forms |
1938-11-24 |
National Semi-Pro Basketball Congress authorizes yellow basketball |
1938-12-31 |
Dutch national debt hits ƒ3,986,629,805.70 |
1939-01-26 |
Federal Hall National Monument established |
1939-08-20 |
1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc) |
1939-09-08 |
FDR declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe |
1939-12-31 |
Dutch national debt hits ƒ4,218,553,180.99 |
1940-04-01 |
Filippino President Quezon officially authorizes the printing and publication of the grammar and dictionary prepared by the Institute of the National Language. |
1940-04-10 |
Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government" |
1940-08-31 |
US National Guard assembles |
1940-09-02 |
Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated |
1940-12-08 |
1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0 |
1941-03-16 |
National Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC |
1941-06-07 |
Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and Richard L. M. Synge give the first demonstration of partition chromatography (separation of mixtures) at a meeting of the Biochemical Society held at the National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead |
1941-09-17 |
The New Zealand Labour Party abolish the death penalty (It is reintroduced by the National government in 1950 before being finally removed from the statute book in 1961) |
1941-12-13 |
German occupiers forbid National Front & Netherland Union |
1942-01-12 |
National War Labor Board created |
1942-09-30 |
Admiral Nimitz's B-17 finds Guadalcanal using National Geographic map |
1942-11-25 |
National Organization for Aid to Underground, LO, forms |
1942-11-26 |
Anti-fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms |
1943-06-20 |
National Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes |
1943-06-20 |
Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in 5,000m at national AAU track & field championship in NY |
1943-06-22 |
W.E.B. Du Bois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters |
1943-07-12 |
National Committee Freies Deutschland forms |
1943-12-20 |
"Internationale" is no longer USSR National Anthem |
1944-07-22 |
Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation |
1944-09-09 |
Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day) |
1945-04-04 |
Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day) |
1945-06-17 |
Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day) |
1945-06-28 |
Polish Provisional government of National Unity set up by Soviets |
1945-09-02 |
Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day) |
1945-11-22 |
"Day before Spring" opens at National Theater NYC for 167 performances |
1946-01-01 |
National Assembly proclaims Hungary a republic |
1946-04-14 |
"Day Before Spring" closes at National Theater NYC after 167 perfs |
1946-04-18 |
"Call Me Mister" opens at National Theater NYC for 734 performances |
1946-05-11 |
United Malays National Organisation is created. |
1946-05-25 |
Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day); Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan |
1946-05-29 |
KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands |
1946-06-02 |
Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day) |
1946-10-27 |
Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%) |
1946-11-12 |
A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows. |
1947-07-26 |
National Security Act establishes CIA |
1947-08-08 |
Pakistan's National Flag is approved. |
1947-09-18 |
National Security Act passes |
1947-12-06 |
The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated. |
1947-12-14 |
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida. |
1948-01-10 |
"Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater NYC after 734 performances |
1948-06-12 |
"Hold It!" closes at National Theater NYC after 46 performances |
1948-06-18 |
National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time |
1948-07-05 |
Britain's National Health Service Act begins |
1948-08-08 |
"Hold It!" opens at National Theater NYC for 46 performances |
1948-08-15 |
Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day) |
1948-11-30 |
Baseball's Negro National League disbands |
1948-12-16 |
"Lend an Ear" opens at National Theater NYC for 460 performances |
1949-08-03 |
Basketball Association of America & National Basketball League merge to form National Basketball Association |
1949-08-04 |
NBL & NBAA merge into National Basketball Association |
1949-10-01 |
People's Republic of China proclaimed by Mao Zedong (National Day) |
1949-10-07 |
German Democratic Republic formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day). Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president, Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier |
1949-11-02 |
NL scheme for national distribution of textiles, meat and cheese disbands |
1950-01-15 |
4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Wash DC |
1950-01-21 |
"Lend an Ear" closes at National Theater NYC after 460 performances |
1950-03-01 |
Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of National China on Formosa |
1950-03-03 |
3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name |
1950-03-16 |
1st annual National Book Awards |
1950-08-22 |
Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competetor in a US national tennis competition |
1950-10-23 |
President Elpidio Quirino issued Executive Order No. 355 which replaced the National Land Settlement Administration with Land Settlement Development Corporation (LASEDECO) which takes over the responsibilities of the Agricultural Machinery Equipment Corporation and the Rice and Corn Production Administration |
1950-11-29 |
National Council of Church of Christ in US forms |
1950-12-03 |
Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast |
1950-12-28 |
The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park. |
1951-02-06 |
Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into Argonne National Laboratory, a nuclear test site located 20 miles (32 km) west of Chicago |
1951-06-14 |
"Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater NYC for 37 performances |
1951-07-14 |
"Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater NYC after 37 performances |
1951-10-08 |
Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League |
1951-11-20 |
Snowdonia becomes a British National Park |
1951-12-20 |
Walter Zinn's Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the first nuclear reactor to produce electric power, goes live at the Argonne National Laboratory, USA |
1952-01-12 |
NFL Pro Bowl: National Conference beats American Conference 30-13 |
1952-02-02 |
B. B. King's "3 O'Clock Blues" hits #1 on the US Billboard's R&B hit parade to become his first national hit |
1952-04-09 |
Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines |
1952-04-15 |
Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card |
1953-01-10 |
NFL Pro Bowl: National Conference beats American Conference 27-7 |
1953-01-23 |
NFL's National & American conference become Eastern & Western conf |
1953-02-18 |
"Maggie" opens at National Theater NYC for 5 performances |
1953-02-21 |
"Maggie" closes at National Theater NYC after 5 performances |
1953-04-15 |
Malans National Party wins South African elections |
1953-06-19 |
Albert W Dent elected president of US National Health Council |
1953-07-14 |
1st US National monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver |
1953-11-06 |
French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy |
1954-01-20 |
The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations. |
1954-05-13 |
Chinese Middle School students in Singapore take part in anti-National Service riots. |
1954-05-16 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA National Capital Golf Open |
1954-07-07 |
Formation of the TANU party (Tanganyika African National Union ) in Tanzania |
1954-08-04 |
The Government of Pakistan approves the National Anthem, written by Hafeez Jullundhry and composed by Ahmed G. Chagla. |
1954-09-20 |
1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution |
1955-01-18 |
Battle of Yijiangshan Islands between Chinese National Revolutionary Army and the People's Liberation Army |
1955-03-31 |
US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington closes Chase National (3rd largest bank) & Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan |
1955-11-19 |
National Review publishes its first issue. |
1956-01-18 |
German DR forms own army (National People's Army) |
1956-01-28 |
Elvis Presley's 1st appearance on National TV (Dorsey Bros Stage Show) |
1956-05-04 |
Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam |
1956-07-04 |
Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia |
1957-03-28 |
1st National Curling Championship held |
1957-04-06 |
Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines. |
1957-09-04 |
Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school |
1957-11-02 |
The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history. |
1957-12-17 |
The last episode of The Nat King Cole Show airs on NBC due to lack of national sponsorship |
1957-12-20 |
Elvis Presley given draft notice to join US Army for National Service |
1958-01-12 |
Syracuse National Dolph Schayes sets NBA record at 11,770 points |
1958-03-14 |
South Africa government prohibits the African National Congress |
1958-05-08 |
US President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock, Arkansas |
1958-06-17 |
The Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada opened, and is still open to this day |
1958-07-29 |
US President Eisenhower signs into law National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 |
1958-09-02 |
National Defense Education Act was signed |
1958-10-01 |
US space agency NASA begins operations incorporating earlier National Advisory Council on Aeronautics and other bodies |
1958-10-02 |
Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day) |
1958-12-10 |
1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111 |
1958-12-18 |
Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day) |
1958-12-31 |
Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X |
1959-06-01 |
Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day) |
1959-08-17 |
7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park |
1959-10-12 |
At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde. |
1960-01-12 |
Syracuse National Dolph Schayes is 1st NBA'er to score 15,000 points |
1960-03-15 |
National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated |
1960-07-28 |
Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate |
1960-08-17 |
Gabon gains independence from France (National Day) |
1960-10-01 |
Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1960-11-22 |
French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons |
1960-12-20 |
National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed. |
1961-07-01 |
Haleakala National Park forms in Hawaii |
1961-08-01 |
Whitney Young Jr named executive director of National Urban League |
1961-08-31 |
Amsterdam National Ballet forms |
1961-12-04 |
The female contraceptive 'pill' becomes available on the National Health Service in Britain |
1962-04-15 |
US national debt above $300,000,000,000 |
1962-07-01 |
Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days) |
1962-08-31 |
Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day) |
1962-09-26 |
Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day) |
1962-10-01 |
US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope |
1962-11-11 |
Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait. |
1963-01-08 |
"Mona Lisa," on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art |
1963-06-25 |
Curnick Ndlovu, South African Trade Unionist and African National Congress Leader, is arrested |
1963-07-03 |
In New Zealand, a National Airways Corporation Dakota DC-3 crashes in the Kaimai Ranges; all 23 passengers and crew are killed in what is still New Zealand's worst internal civil aviation accident |
1963-11-23 |
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1963-11-25 |
JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery |
1964-01-15 |
Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract |
1964-05-28 |
Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem |
1964-09-12 |
Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park. |
1964-10-01 |
San Francisco cable cars declared a national landmark |
1964-10-24 |
Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1965-05-11 |
Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument |
1965-07-03 |
Harold Strachan, member of the Communist Party of South Africa and Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress, is served with a restriction order in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act |
1965-08-09 |
Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day) |
1965-12-22 |
Great Britain sets national maximum road speed at 70 miles per hour |
1966-01-03 |
Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE |
1966-05-16 |
National Welfare Rights Organization organizes |
1966-07-05 |
National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioting |
1966-09-09 |
The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. |
1966-09-30 |
Botswana (formerly Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1966-10-04 |
Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1966-10-29 |
National Organization of Women founded |
1966-11-30 |
Barbados gains independence from Great Britain (National Day) |
1967-01-10 |
PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network |
1967-05-27 |
Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census. |
1967-06-11 |
Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes |
1968-02-29 |
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism & demands aid given to blacks |
1968-03-12 |
Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1968-05-27 |
The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety. |
1968-06-08 |
The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. |
1968-08-28 |
Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Demcratic National Convention |
1968-09-06 |
Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1968-11-14 |
"National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning |
1968-12-06 |
PBA National Championship won by Wayne Zahn |
1969-02-04 |
The Palestine National Congress appoints Yasser Arafat chairman of the PLO |
1969-03-22 |
31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years |
1969-07-31 |
National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, La |
1969-09-05 |
Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles national elections |
1969-10-21 |
Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day) |
1970-01-01 |
Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League |
1970-02-23 |
Guyana becomes a republic (National Day) |
1970-05-04 |
National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio |
1970-05-21 |
National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U |
1970-06-04 |
43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant |
1970-08-13 |
Pamphlet bombs which scatter revolutionary African National Congress propaganda leaflets explode in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
1970-10-10 |
Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1971-01-08 |
Voyageurs National Park, Minn established |
1971-02-04 |
National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC |
1971-03-31 |
South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion |
1971-04-14 |
Fort Point, SF dedicated as a national historic site |
1971-05-03 |
"All Things Considered" premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations |
1971-05-03 |
National Public Radio begins programming |
1971-05-21 |
National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn |
1971-06-10 |
44th National Spelling Bee: Jonathan Knisely wins spelling shalloon |
1971-06-15 |
Vernon E Jordan Jr, appointed exec director of National Urban League |
1972-03-25 |
UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title |
1972-08-27 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
1972-10-27 |
Golden Gate National Recreation Area created |
1973-04-01 |
John & Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence |
1973-06-14 |
46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe |
1973-07-12 |
A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States. |
1973-08-03 |
National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections |
1973-08-06 |
Roberto Clemente & Warren Spahn inducted into National Baseball Hall of Fame |
1973-08-12 |
WPBA National Championship won by Betty Morris |
1973-08-26 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
1973-08-31 |
PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony |
1973-10-25 |
Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship |
1974-02-07 |
Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1974-06-06 |
47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte |
1974-08-24 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
1974-09-12 |
Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day) |
1974-09-27 |
Austr National Gallery buys W de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000 |
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. |
1974-10-10 |
The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) and its political wing the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP)founded at the Spa Hotel in the village of Lucan near Dublin |
1974-10-15 |
National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing |
1975-02-20 |
A feud begains between the Official Irish Republican Army and the Irish National Liberation Army; the two groups assassinate a number of each other's volunteers until the feud ends in June 1975 |
1975-06-05 |
48th US National Spelling Bee: Hugh Tosteson wins spelling incisor |
1975-07-09 |
The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that paves way for a (albeit highly restricted) multi-party system. |
1975-08-24 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
1975-09-16 |
Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day) |
1975-11-11 |
Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day) |
1975-11-25 |
Netherlands grants Suriname independence (National Day) |
1975-12-02 |
Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day) |
1976-01-01 |
After 45 years of coaching, Paul Brown announces his retirement from the National Football League |
1976-03-29 |
8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students |
1976-04-25 |
Elections in Vietnam for a National Assembly to reunite the country |
1976-06-10 |
49th National Spelling Bee: Tim Kneale wins spelling narcolepsy |
1976-06-27 |
In South Africa, the National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots in Soweto have lead to a new era of political consciousness |
1976-07-19 |
Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created. |
1976-08-29 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
1976-12-17 |
Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national |
1977-06-05 |
Coup in Seychelles (National Day) |
1977-06-09 |
50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist |
1977-09-11 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
1977-09-18 |
Joanne Carner/Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Team Golf Championship |
1977-10-14 |
Linda Ronstadt sings national anthem at World Series |
1978-03-31 |
Red Rum wins 3rd consecutive Grand National & retires |
1978-04-27 |
Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup |
1978-06-08 |
51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins spelling deification |
1978-08-22 |
Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua, Nicaragua |
1978-08-29 |
USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing NY |
1978-09-10 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
1978-10-13 |
US President Jimmy Carter answers callers' questions on National Public Radio |
1978-12-01 |
Pres Carter more than doubles national park system size |
1979-02-18 |
Pres Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh |
1979-03-25 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
1979-03-30 |
Airey Neave, a British politician, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility. |
1979-05-21 |
National Volksraad installed in Namibia |
1979-06-07 |
52nd National Spelling Bee: Katie Kerwin wins spelling maculature |
1979-07-09 |
Dr Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab |
1979-07-21 |
National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, NY) dedicated |
1979-07-26 |
Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, TX (national record) |
1980-03-23 |
Donna Caponi Young Pro-Am wins LPGA National Golf Tournament |
1980-04-12 |
Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'etat, ending over 130 years of national democratic presidential succession. |
1980-04-29 |
Corazones Unidos Siempre Chi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority Inc. is founded. |
1980-05-29 |
53rd National Spelling Bee: Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate |
1980-05-29 |
Attempted assassination on Vernon Jordan Jr National Urban League pres |
1980-07-01 |
'O Canada' officially becomes the national anthem of Canada. |
1980-08-02 |
US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships |
1980-11-23 |
National Black Independent Party forms |
1981-06-04 |
54th National Spelling Bee: Paige Pipkin wins spelling sarcophagus |
1981-08-28 |
National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis & Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men |
1981-09-09 |
Vernon E Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League |
1981-10-22 |
US national debt tops $1 trillion |
1981-10-23 |
US national debt hits $1 trillion |
1981-11-01 |
Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1982-03-19 |
National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27 |
1982-06-03 |
55th National Spelling Bee: Molly Dieveney wins spelling psoriasis |
1982-07-01 |
ABC national music radio network scheduled premiere (never happened) |
1982-08-05 |
Stephabue Hix, of Alabama, 18, crowned Miss National Teen-Ager |
1982-09-30 |
National railroad strike in Belgium |
1982-10-17 |
1st live orch on commerical network since 1954 (National Symphony) |
1982-11-25 |
The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day Fire destroys an entire city block, including the Northwestern National Bank building and the recently closed Donaldson's Department Store. |
1982-12-06 |
Droppin Well bombing: 11 British soldiers and 6 civilians are killed by an Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) time bomb at the Droppin' Well Bar in Ballykelly, County Londonderry |
1983-01-02 |
Several African National Congress(ANC) members detained in Swaziland decide to leave the country voluntarily for Mozambique. |
1983-04-17 |
1st National Coin Week begins |
1983-05-25 |
1st US National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed |
1983-06-09 |
56th National Spelling Bee: Blake Giddens wins spelling purim |
1983-10-16 |
25th Ryder Cup: US, 14½-13½ at PGA National Golf Club (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, US) |
1983-12-31 |
Nigeria's National Assembly dissolves after military coup |
1984-03-09 |
Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections |
1984-03-12 |
National Union of Mine Workers in Britain begins a 51 week strike |
1984-05-17 |
Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture. |
1984-05-31 |
57th National Spelling Bee: Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge |
1984-08-04 |
Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Faso (National Day) |
1985-03-03 |
National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike |
1985-03-10 |
French socialists lose election (National Front 9%) |
1985-04-19 |
Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours. |
1985-06-06 |
58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu |
1985-08-25 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
1986-02-15 |
Philipines National Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos |
1986-03-05 |
"Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper) |
1986-04-03 |
US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000 |
1986-05-16 |
The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain. |
1986-05-29 |
59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia |
1986-06-12 |
P W Botha declares South African national emergency |
1986-06-24 |
In Britain, Foreign Office Minister Lynda Chalker, meets Oliver Tambo, president of the African National Congress to discuss means of ending Apartheid without violence |
1986-07-03 |
Kuwait's National Assembly (Majlis al Umma) dissolves |
1986-08-03 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA National Golf Pro-Am |
1986-09-23 |
Congress selects the rose as US national flower |
1986-12-11 |
A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League |
1987-01-22 |
Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism. |
1987-02-09 |
Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide |
1987-04-07 |
National Museum of Female Physician opens in Wash DC |
1987-05-16 |
Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show |
1987-05-28 |
60th National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci |
1987-07-18 |
Molly Yard elected new pres of National Organization for Women |
1987-08-02 |
chris johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am |
1987-08-09 |
The National Union of Mineworkers begin South Africa's longest wage strike |
1987-09-22 |
2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins |
1987-11-14 |
Sam's Town National Bowling Pro-Am won by Debbie Bennett |
1987-12-26 |
"Les Miserables" opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik |
1988-04-06 |
African American polar explorer Matthew Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington National Cemetery |
1988-06-02 |
61st National Spell Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal |
1988-08-01 |
Rush Limbaugh begins his national radio show. |
1988-08-20 |
"Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park |
1988-09-26 |
NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark |
1988-09-27 |
The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi is founded in Burma (Myanmar) |
1988-11-01 |
Chris Sabo, wins National League Rookie of Year award |
1989-02-02 |
FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader |
1989-02-14 |
African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam |
1989-06-01 |
62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator |
1989-06-29 |
The National Party adopts a five year programme of its objectives which included a political "reform" plan to give South Africa's Black majority a role in national as well as local government spheres; the African National Congress (ANC) said that it would consider nothing less than a one-man, one-vote system |
1989-09-21 |
Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki |
1990-01-31 |
1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing |
1990-03-17 |
PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak |
1990-04-08 |
New Democracy wins the national election in Greece. |
1990-04-21 |
National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards |
1990-05-02 |
South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid |
1990-05-06 |
Former president PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party |
1990-05-31 |
63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne |
1990-06-04 |
Dr Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die |
1990-06-11 |
Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress |
1990-06-23 |
African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, on a US tour, receives a tumultuous welcome in Boston. |
1990-06-25 |
African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets with President George Bush at the White House |
1990-06-29 |
Marla Maples father sues National Enquirer for $12M |
1990-07-12 |
"Les Miserables," opens at National Theatre, Washington |
1990-07-25 |
Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at Cincinnati Reds-San Diego Padres game |
1990-08-15 |
At least 150 people die in clashes between the African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party, South Africa |
1990-09-03 |
Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego) |
1990-09-29 |
Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years |
1991-01-02 |
Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll |
1991-03-30 |
PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller |
1991-05-30 |
64th National Spelling Bee: Joanne Lagatta wins spelling antipyretic |
1991-06-13 |
The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication |
1991-09-05 |
Nelson Mandela chosen as president of African National Congress |
1991-11-30 |
San Diego State's Marshall Faulk is 1st freshman to capture national rushing & scoring titles |
1992-01-22 |
Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation. |
1992-03-28 |
PBA National Championship Won by Eric Forkel |
1992-04-15 |
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy & DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame |
1992-04-15 |
The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. |
1992-05-28 |
65th National Spelling Bee: Amanda Goad wins spelling lyceum |
1992-07-07 |
South Africa's national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win South Africa's first ever FIFA sanctioned match |
1992-07-08 |
Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe creates the office of High Commissioner on National Minorities. |
1992-07-13 |
The Tripartite Alliance, consisting of the African National Congress, South African Communist Party and Congress of South African Trade Union, outlines a mass action plan for August |
1992-08-23 |
Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress |
1993-02-27 |
PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr |
1993-06-03 |
66th National Spelling Bee: Geoff Hooper wins spelling kamikaze |
1993-10-16 |
Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching British National Party headquarters |
1994-01-01 |
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican State of Chiapas. |
1994-03-05 |
PBA National Championship won by David Traber |
1994-06-02 |
67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian |
1994-09-24 |
National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar. |
1994-10-29 |
National Museum of American Indian opens (NYC) |
1995-01-30 |
Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease. |
1995-02-25 |
PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander |
1995-03-08 |
Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections |
1995-03-12 |
Congress party loses India national election |
1995-04-23 |
President Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City |
1995-06-01 |
68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis |
1995-08-09 |
South Africa celebrates the first National Women's Day |
1996-01-30 |
Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit. |
1996-05-30 |
69th National Spelling Bee: Wendy Guey wins spelling vivisepulture |
1996-06-08 |
PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper |
1996-09-02 |
A peace agreement is signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front in Malacañang Palace. |
1996-11-19 |
Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire. |
1996-12-10 |
Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down. |
1997-02-02 |
Mark O'Meara wins Pebble Beach National Golf Pro-am |
1997-02-09 |
Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Diet Dr Pepper National Pro-Am |
1997-02-09 |
Palm Beach National LPGA Pro-Am |
1997-03-29 |
PBA National Championship Won by Rick Steelsmith |
1997-05-29 |
70th National Spelling Bee: Rebecca Sealfon wins spelling euonym |
1997-06-21 |
Women's National Basketball Association begins as NY Liberty beats LA Sparks |
1997-08-16 |
The South African soccer team, Bafana Bafana wins against the national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at First National Bank stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa |
1998-02-06 |
Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport. |
1998-08-11 |
Palestine Liberation Organisation and Palestinian National Authority president, Yasser Arafat, arrives in Cape Town on his first state visit to South Africa at the invitation of President Nelson Mandela |
1998-08-28 |
Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate. |
1999-02-24 |
The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him. |
1999-04-08 |
Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress. |
1999-08-09 |
The Diet of Japan enacts a law establishing the Hinomaru and Kimi Ga Yo as the official national flag and national anthem. |
1999-12-26 |
Severe weather in France kills over 100 people and causes extensive damage to property, trees and the French national power grid (see Lothar). |
2001-01-10 |
The White House announces it will not designate the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a national monument; environmentalist groups had been pressing for national monument status for the ANWR to prevent oil drilling |
2001-02-19 |
An Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial. |
2001-09-14 |
Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital. |
2002-06-28 |
In South Africa, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Treatment Action Campaign table a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan in the National Economic, Development and Labour Council |
2002-08-18 |
84th PGA Championship: Rich Beem shoots a 278 at Hazeltine National Golf Club |
2002-10-27 |
The ITV Network aired a constant regional service for the last time in England and Wales, but LWT lost its identity completely. All companies (except UTV, Channel, Scottish TV & Grampian TV) formed the national ITV1 with regional references only before regional programmes. |
2003-03-28 |
In a "friendly fire" incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guard's 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull. |
2003-06-27 |
The United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolls almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day. |
2004-01-14 |
The national flag of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", was restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years. |
2004-03-07 |
New Democracy wins the national elections in Greece. |
2004-03-12 |
Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history. |
2004-04-08 |
U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testifies before the 9/11 Commission. |
2004-06-11 |
Ronald Reagan's funeral is held at Washington National Cathedral. |
2004-08-17 |
The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Boze Pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country. |
2004-11-11 |
New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington. |
2005-03-05 |
The Burkinabé Party for Democracy and Socialism holds its first National Convention. |
2005-03-07 |
Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for women's voting rights in Kuwait. |
2005-05-16 |
Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote. |
2005-07-03 |
The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain. |
2005-10-15 |
Riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested. |
2005-11-17 |
Italy's choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes official in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic. |
2005-11-25 |
Polish Minister of National Defence Radek Sikorski opens Warsaw Pact archives to historians. Maps of possible nuclear strikes against Western Europe, as well as the possible nuclear annihilation of 43 Polish cities and 2 million of its citizens by Soviet-controlled forces, are released. |
2006-09-30 |
the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Constitutional Act that proclaimed the new Constitution of Serbia. |
2006-10-22 |
A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama. |
2007-01-03 |
National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport. |
2007-02-11 |
A national referendum in Portugal legalises non-therapeutic abortion when requested by the woman during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. |
2007-05-04 |
The Scottish National Party wins the Scottish general election and becomes the largest party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time ever. |
2007-05-16 |
Alex Salmond is elected First Minister of Scotland. He is the first Scottish National Party leader to be elected as First Minister after winning a historic victory at the Scottish general election on the 3rd May. |
2007-06-29 |
Enya receives an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland, Galway |
2007-11-24 |
Australians elect the Kevin Rudd-led centre-left Australian Labor Party at the federal election, ending the eleven-year tenure of the John Howard-led centre-right Liberal/National coalition government. |
2008-02-10 |
The 2008 Namdaemun fire severely damages Namdaemun, the first National Treasure of South Korea. |
2008-12-01 |
The US economy has been in recession since December 2007, the National Bureau of Economic Research announces today |
2008-12-28 |
The Detroit Lions finished the season 0-16 with a 31-21 lost to the Green Bay Packers The first time in National Football League history that a team went winless in a 16-game season. |
2009-04-12 |
President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority makes a courtesy phone call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, restarting the Palestinian-Israeli dialogue |
2009-08-16 |
91st PGA Championship: Yang Yong-eun shoots a 280 at Hazeltine National Golf Club |
2009-09-05 |
Denmark celebrates the first national flagday, in memory of the fallen Danes in international operations since 1948. |
2009-09-14 |
David Attenborough and Prince William officially open the Darwin Centre at the National History Museum London, in what is the Museum's most significant expansion since 1881 |
2009-11-14 |
The National Statistical Service of Greece states that the country has been in recession since the beginning of the year |
2010-09-09 |
A court in the Philippines orders Imelda Marcos to repay the government almost $280,000 for funds taken from the National Food Authority by Ferdinand Marcos in 1983 |
2010-09-20 |
The National Bureau of Economic Research state today that the US left the recession in June 2009, with managing director Lakshman Achuthan of the Economic Cycle Research Institute saying GDP recovered to 70% of the pre-recession level |
2011-08-23 |
Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War. |
2012-04-04 |
Somalia's National Theatre is struck by a suicide bomber killing ten people including the presidents of the Somali Olympic Committee and Football Federation |
2012-09-11 |
50 Al-Shabaab fighters are killed in conflict with the Somali National Army |
2012-12-16 |
A gang rape of a woman on a bus in India that resulted in her death leads to national and international outrage |
2013-02-20 |
Estonia becomes the first country to establish a national system of fast chargers for electric cars |
2013-02-22 |
In its National Economic Report of Bermuda for 2012, the Bermudan Ministry of Finance expects GDP will decline by 0% to 1.5% in 2013 but five years of recession will end with "modest growth in 2014" |
2013-03-10 |
Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy |
2013-04-23 |
The French National Assembly passes an amended bill legalizing same-sex marriage |
2013-09-07 |
Tony Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Australia after a Liberal-National Coalitions wins the election |
2014-02-09 |
Australian National University scientists discover the oldest known star at 13.6 billion years old |
2014-05-10 |
The African National Congress wins the 2014 South African General Election |
2014-06-03 |
Hashim Amla becomes the first non-white captain of the South African national cricket team |
2014-09-20 |
New Zealand's National Government wins a 3rd term in the elections despite allegations of corruption and revelations about state surveillance |
2015-12-11 |
Honduras national soccer player Arnold Peralta shot dead at shopping mall |
2016-02-07 |
Lady Gaga sings national anthem at Super Bowl 50 |
2016-05-19 |
Trump pulls ahead of Clinton in new national poll |
2016-05-27 |
2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee crowns co-champions...again |
2016-06-09 |
Yellowstone National Park: Man dies after falling into hot spring |
2016-07-03 |
Argentines take to streets, demand Messi return to national team |
2016-07-26 |
Democratic National Committee apologizes to Sanders over emails |
2016-08-25 |
The National Park Service celebrates its 100th anniversary |
2016-09-15 |
Colin Powell calls Trump 'national disgrace' in email leak |
2016-12-29 |
Obama Designates Two New National Monuments, Protecting 1.35 Million Acres |
2017-02-21 |
Trump Chooses HR McMaster as National Security Adviser |
2017-04-04 |
Trump Donates First-Quarter Salary to National Park Service |
2017-08-12 |
Virginia governor orders National Guard on standby ahead of 'alt-right' rally |
2017-10-27 |
Trump declares opioid crisis a national public health emergency |
2018-04-05 |
Trump signs proclamation authorizing National Guard to southern border |
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National - Notable Birthdays
National - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1412-01-06 |
Joan of Arc, Domrémy, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431) |
1746-02-04 |
Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish, Lithuanian and American National hero and general (d. 1817) |
1749-06-19 |
Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, France, chairman (National Convention) |
1754-04-09 |
Pieter Paulus, Dutch lawyer/CEO (National Convention) |
1754-06-16 |
Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir national hero, poet (d. 1800) |
1757-09-22 |
Herman H Vitringa, politician (National Meetings) |
1798-12-24 |
Adam B Mickiewicz, Poland, national poet (Pan Tadeusz) |
1799-03-07 |
Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech poet (national anthem, folk song) |
1808-02-04 |
Josef Kajetán Tyl, Czech playwright, author of the Czech national anthem(d. 1856) |
1814-02-25 |
Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet/painter (3/9 NS) [OS] |
1814-03-09 |
Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, national poet/painter/prof of Kiev [NS] |
1822-09-09 |
Napoleon J K P Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention |
1833-01-26 |
Cornelius Bliss, Republican National Committee of 1900 |
1842-12-18 |
Nathan Bay Scott, Republican National Committee of 1900 |
1845-01-15 |
Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman pres (National Educational Association) |
1863-01-16 |
Alice Fischer, National Red Cross Pageant |
1867-07-04 |
Stephen Mather, organized US National Park Service |
1869-03-29 |
Ales Hrdlicka, US, anthropologist/curator (US National Museum) |
1871-11-09 |
Florence Sabin, American Scientist who was the first woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins and the first lifetime woman member of the National Academy of Sciences |
1871-11-23 |
Edith Wynne Matthison, National Red Cross Pageant |
1879-04-21 |
Kartini, Indonesian national figure (d. 1904) |
1879-09-25 |
Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (d. 1963) |
1880-08-12 |
Christy Mathewson, Christy Mathewson and the New York National League Team |
1880-10-08 |
Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, Dutch founder (National-India Party) |
1882-04-20 |
Ben Ali Haggin, National Red Cross Pageant |
1884-03-30 |
Alec Craig, National Velvet |
1885-01-11 |
Alice Paul, ERA advocate/founder (National Woman's Party) |
1885-09-05 |
John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (National monument on the Dam) |
1889-10-27 |
Enid Bagnold, National Velvet |
1892-06-26 |
Gerald Oliver Smith, National Velvet |
1894-04-19 |
Leonard Smith, National Velvet |
1895-02-20 |
Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping) |
1895-06-22 |
James Arthur Calata, Anglican clergyman and African National Congress (ANC) leader, Rabula, Keiskammahoek, Eastern Cape. |
1895-07-22 |
James Arthur Calata, African National Congress (ANC) leader and Anglican clergyman |
1896-05-28 |
Warren Giles, baseball's National League president |
1896-07-06 |
Thomas W McKnew, president (National Geographic Society) |
1899-08-31 |
Paul E Garber, US founder/1st curator of National Air & Space Museum |
1902-12-29 |
Nels Stewart, National Hockey League player (d. 1957) |
1905-05-05 |
Arnold Meijer, Dutch leader of fascist Dutch National/Black Front |
1906-03-04 |
Georges Ronsse, Belgian national cyclo-cross and world champion road bicycle racer (d. 1969) |
1906-03-21 |
Helen Deutsch, National Velvet |
1906-04-16 |
Marion Lloyd Vince, Brooklyn New York, American fencer (National champ 1928, 31) |
1907-06-11 |
Paul Mellon, US, oil magnate/pres (Washington National Gallery of Art) |
1907-07-22 |
Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (d. 1987) |
1908-02-06 |
Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, national Park Warden |
1908-06-10 |
Brinsley Ford, CEO (National Art Collections Fund) |
1908-11-18 |
Imogene Coca, National Lampoon's Vacation |
1908-9-13 |
Mae Questel, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation |
1909-01-01 |
Frank Kettering, National Barn Dance |
1910-10-10 |
Theodore Reeves, National Velvet |
1910-10-14 |
John Wooden, basketball coach (UCLA-10 national championships) |
1910-11-05 |
John Hackett, National Service |
1911-05-23 |
Melvin M Payne, president (National Geographic Society) |
1911-11-27 |
Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist |
1912-11-29 |
Alan Courtney, The National Pastime |
1913-06-11 |
John Elliott Terry, managing director (National Film Finance Corp) |
1913-08-31 |
Peter Stursberg, CTV National News |
1914-03-14 |
Lee Petty, Daytona 500/National Ski Jumping Championships |
1914-08-20 |
Brazilian National Soccer Team, O Dia em Que o Brasil Esteve Aqui |
1915-02-07 |
Eddie Bracken, National Lampoon's Vacation |
1915-05-29 |
David Jenklins, librarian (National Library of Wales) |
1916-05-31 |
Bert Haanstra, National Geographic Specials |
1917-10-27 |
Oliver Tambo, co-founder (African National Congress) |
1917-9-04 |
Larry Henderson, The National |
1917-9-11 |
Kay Dean, National Velvet |
1918-07-12 |
Alice Van Springsteen, National Velvet |
1918-09-27 |
James McCallion, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Mi Taylor-National Velvet) |
1919-03-30 |
McGeorge Bundy, Boston, national security adviser (JFK) |
1920-06-08 |
Bert Leysen, TV director (Belgian National TV) |
1921-01-03 |
Nagayoshi Akasaka, National Kid |
1921-01-18 |
Robert Glaser, Providence, Rhode Island, educational psychologist (National Assessment of Educational Progress), (d. 2012) |
1921-04-30 |
Dottie Green, The National Pastime |
1921-10-17 |
Pricilla Lanford Buckly, editor/columnist (National Review) |
1921-11-02 |
Bill Mosienko, National Hockey League player (d. 1994) |
1922-03-24 |
Dorothy Irene Height, president (national council of negro women) |
1922-06-26 |
Campbell Adamson, CEO (Abbey National Pictures) |
1923-03-04 |
Norbert Pawlicki, National Treasure |
1923-05-26 |
Oren Lee Staley, 1st pres of National Farmers Organization (1955-79) |
1924-07-03 |
Gail Ingram, National Velvet |
1924-12-03 |
Francisco Sionil José, Filipino novelist, Philippine National Artist for Literature |
1925-03-19 |
Brent Scowcroft, Ogden Utah, Lt Gen (USAF)/National Security Council |
1925-08-11 |
Floyd Curry, National Hockey League player (d. 2006) |
1925-11-04 |
Doris Roberts, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation |
1925-11-24 |
William F. Buckley Jr, New York, American conservative author and commentator (National Review, Firing Line) |
1926-01-31 |
Prunella Briance, founder (National Childbirth Trust) |
1926-06-19 |
Gaylin P. Schultz, National Lampoon's Vacation |
1927-05-08 |
Philip Wilkinson, deputy chairman (National Westminster Bank) |
1927-05-29 |
Trevor Holdsworth, CEO (National Power) |
1927-06-08 |
Michael Levey, director (British National Gallery) |
1927-11-12 |
Fritz Ford, National Lampoon's Vacation |
1928-03-28 |
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Warsaw, national security advisor (Carter) |
1928-04-02 |
Kaye Pownall, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation |
1928-06-20 |
Jean-Marie le Pen, France, leader (National Front party) |
1928-08-26 |
Mari Carmen Taibo, National Mechanics |
1928-12-10 |
Alexander Grasshoff, National Geographic Specials |
1929-01-20 |
Glen 'Fireball' Roberts, Daytona 500/National Ski Jumping Championships |
1930-06-24 |
William Gaskill, The National Theatre: Part One - The Dream |
1930-10-18 |
Frank Carlucci, National Security Adviser/Sec of Defense (1987-89) |
1931-01-11 |
Betty Churcher, director of the National Gallery of Australia |
1931-04-07 |
Daniel Ellsberg, War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State |
1931-04-22 |
Ronald Hynd, British choreographer (English National Ballet) |
1931-06-24 |
Juanita Quigley, National Velvet |
1931-10-03 |
Glenn Hall, Humboldt Saskatchewan, National Hockey League goaltender |
1931-10-15 |
Abdul Kalam, 50th National Film Awards |
1932-04-12 |
Jennifer Nicks, The National Skating Association Centenary Gala |
1932-10-12 |
Ned Jarrett, Conover, North Carolina, American race car driver and announcer (50 Grand National victories) |
1933-05-24 |
Tony Mullett, dir-general (National Criminal Intelligence Service) |
1933-07-19 |
Frank C. Decot, National Geographic Specials |
1934-07-15 |
Simon Gournlay, president (British National Farmer's Union) |
1934-10-02 |
Duncan Thompson, keeper (Scottish National Portrait Gallery) |
1934-10-08 |
J Carter Brown, Providence RI, art director (Wash National Gallery) |
1934-11-05 |
Terrence Currier, National Treasure |
1935-01-12 |
Robert Guenette, National Geographic Specials |
1935-02-15 |
Magdalena Ruiz Guiñazú, Aventura National Geographic |
1935-03-26 |
Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority |
1935-08-15 |
Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr, civil rights activist (National Urban League) |
1935-10-10 |
William Brayne, National Wealth |
1936-01-04 |
Scott Perry, National Lampoon's Vacation |
1936-10-26 |
Bruce Belland, National Lampoon's Vacation |
1936-12-28 |
Gail Peyton, National Velvet |
1937-04-08 |
Seymour Hersh, War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State |
1937-06-30 |
Larry Henley, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1937-07-23 |
Dave Webster, Led his football team to a National Championship in 1958 |
1937-08-29 |
Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins, National Velvet |
1938-01-18 |
Curt Flood, The National Pastime |
1939-07-21 |
John Negroponte, 1st United States Director of National Intelligence |
1939-07-30 |
Eleanor Smeal, leader (National Organization for Women) |
1940-03-26 |
Braulio Baeza, jockey (National Horse Racing Hall of Famer) |
1940-08-27 |
David Hart, gen-sect (National Association of Head Teachers) |
1940-10-02 |
Lord Davies, chairman (Welsh National Opera) |
1941-08-06 |
Lyle Berman, National Heads-Up Poker Championship |
1942-06-19 |
Neil Chalmers, director (National History Museum, London) |
1943-03-28 |
Richard Eyre, British director (National Theatre) |
1943-04-04 |
Ian Robertson, British museum director (National Army Museum) |
1943-10-08 |
Chevy Chase, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation |
1944-04-11 |
R J B Knight, deputy director (National Maritime Museum) |
1944-04-19 |
Margo MacDonald, Scotish national broadcaster |
1944-05-18 |
Peter Ryan, British national director (Police Training) |
1944-08-07 |
Robert S. Mueller III, National Geographic: The FBI |
1944-9-26 |
Anne Robinson, Test the Nation: The National IQ Test 2002 |
1945-04-22 |
Robert Key, MP/British undersecretary for National Heritage |
1945-10-19 |
Patricia Ireland, feminist/president (National Organization of Women) |
1946-01-26 |
Timothy Clifford, director (National Galleries of Scotland) |
1946-06-16 |
Neil MacGregor, director (British National Gallery) |
1947-04-18 |
Lori Martin, Glendale California, actress (Velvet-National Velvet) |
1947-05-06 |
Igor Dobryakov, Peculiarities of the National Hunt |
1947-05-21 |
Albert Miniaci, National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze |
1947-07-05 |
Todd Akin, Monumental: In Search of America's National Treasure |
1947-07-23 |
Conrad W. Denke, National Desk |
1948-04-26 |
Boyd Matson, TV host/correspondent (National Geographic Explorer) |
1948-05-20 |
James Staley, National Lampoon's Vacation |
1948-08-03 |
Pierre Lacroix, National Hockey League executive |
1948-10-10 |
David Tereshchuk, Spear of the Nation: The Story of the African National Congress |
1948-10-18 |
Hal Whitby, National Lampoon's Vacation |
1948-12-31 |
René Robert, National Hockey League player |
1949-09-04 |
Dean Pees, National Football League defensive coordinator |
1949-11-08 |
Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice Presidenf of the National Rifle Association. |
1950-01-23 |
John Greaves, English musician (Henry Cow, National Health) |
1950-04-09 |
Nathan Cook, National Lampoon's Vacation |
1950-07-28 |
Michael Kaufman, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation |
1950-08-24 |
Frank Murray, Australian field hockey national coach (Oly-sil-92, 96) |
1950-10-01 |
Natalija Nogulich, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation |
1951-02-27 |
Lee Atwater, Republican National Committee Chairman (1989-91) |
1951-03-26 |
Aleksey Buldakov, Peculiarities of the National Fishing |
1951-03-28 |
Chip Reese, National Heads-Up Poker Championship |
1951-07-24 |
Jim Kouf, National Treasure |
1951-11-15 |
Beverly D'Angelo, Columbus, Ohio, American actress (National Lampoon's Vacation) |
1952-06-02 |
Gary Bettman, American National Hockey League commissioner |
1952-08-13 |
John Wagner, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation |
1952-11-20 |
John Van Boxmeer, National Hockey League player |
1952-9-04 |
Sheila Scott-Wilkenson, The National Health |
1953-05-07 |
Pat McInally, American National Football League player |
1953-08-19 |
Andrew Barrett, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation |
1953-11-10 |
Les Miles, 2012 Allstate BCS National Championship Game |
1953-11-30 |
June Pointer, National Lampoon's Vacation |
1954-01-06 |
Nicolette Scorsese, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation |
1954-03-21 |
Mary Jane Smith, Van Nuys Ca, WPVA volleyballer (National-9th-1993) |
1954-05-20 |
Aleksandr Zavyalov, Peculiarities of the National Hunt |
1955-04-19 |
Dragoljub Denda, National Class Category Up to 785 ccm |
1955-05-05 |
Robert Feld, Nashville Tn, National Scrabble Champion (1990) |
1955-06-15 |
J.V. Martin, National Geographic: Hitler and the Occult |
1955-08-22 |
Sergey Russkin, Peculiarities of the National Hunt |
1955-10-07 |
Yo-Yo Ma, Paris, France, world famous cellist (2001 National Medal of Arts, 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom) |
1955-11-16 |
Pierre Larouche, Canadian National Hockey League player |
1955-12-23 |
Carol Ann Duffy, National Theatre Live: Everyman |
1956-06-23 |
Randy Jackson, The National Christmas Tree Lighting |
1956-12-09 |
Antony Alda, National Treasure |
1957-12-10 |
Semyon Strugachyov, Peculiarities of the National Hunt |
1957-9-07 |
Stewart Finlay-McLennan, National Treasure |
1958-12-20 |
Joseph Whelan, National Task Force |
1959-02-13 |
Gaston Gingras, National Hockey League defenceman |
1959-05-04 |
Randy Travis, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1959-10-28 |
Cormac Wibberley, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1959-12-24 |
Tom Schneider, National Heads-Up Poker Championship |
1960-02-15 |
Jeanne Goldsmith, Los Angeles California, WPVA volleyballer (National-5th-1987) |
1960-03-22 |
Christopher Jackson, National Lampoon's Vacation |
1960-05-13 |
Shannon Vessup-Millen, Los Angeles California, WPVA volleyballer (National-9th-1991) |
1960-07-06 |
Maja Lalevic, National Class Category Up to 785 ccm |
1961-05-19 |
Gregory Poirier, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1961-10-07 |
Amy Lavine, National Pornographic 3 |
1961-10-14 |
Marco Kyris, National Treasure |
1961-11-12 |
David Lawrence, Safe Haven: The Delmarva Fox Squirrel and Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge |
1961-12-28 |
Heather Hafner, Santa Barbara Ca, WPVA volleyballer (National-7th-90) |
1961-9-15 |
Oren Aviv, National Treasure |
1961-9-18 |
Mark Olson, National Lampoon's Senior Trip |
1962-04-01 |
Phillip Schofield, Test the Nation: The National IQ Test 2002 |
1962-05-05 |
Michael Stone Forrest, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1962-07-09 |
James Davidson Bennett, National Treasure |
1962-07-30 |
Jay Feaster, American National Hockey League executive |
1962-08-22 |
Melly Still, National Theatre Live: Nation |
1963-04-15 |
Charles Segars, National Treasure |
1963-08-08 |
Jon Turteltaub, National Treasure |
1963-11-25 |
Lorenzo Charles, Phi Slama Jama for Never Winning a National Championship |
1963-9-12 |
Thom Brenneman, 2009 FedEx BCS National Championship Game |
1964-07-10 |
Urban Meyer, 2013 Discover BCS National Championship Game |
1964-11-18 |
Rita Cosby, National Memorial Day Parade |
1965-02-11 |
Rob G. Kahn, National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze |
1965-06-12 |
Marianne Wibberley, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1966-03-03 |
Wendy Fletcher, Boston Mass, WPVA volleyballer (National-5th-1993) |
1966-04-09 |
Angus Mackechnie, The National Theatre: Part Two - War and Peace |
1966-11-11 |
Gina Pillitiere, Akron Oh, WPVA volleyballer (National-25th-1994) |
1967-03-17 |
Melissa Allen, Port OR, WPVA volleyballer (Reebok National-13th-1994) |
1967-04-13 |
Jonathan Emmett, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1967-08-09 |
Deborah Lee, Hamilton Ontario, LPGA golfer (1989 National Amat France) |
1967-08-31 |
Melanie Sullivan, Branford Ct, WPVA volleyballer (National-13th-1994) |
1967-12-05 |
Ann Schirman, San Diego, WPVA volleyballer (National-17th-1994) |
1968-02-17 |
Bryan Cox, National Football League player |
1968-05-03 |
Michael Drout, National Geographic: Beyond the Movie - The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King |
1968-07-24 |
John P. Navin Jr., National Lampoon's Vacation |
1968-08-23 |
Sam Hutchins, National Treasure |
1969-01-15 |
Marsha Miller, Rochester NY, WPVA volleyballer (National-17th-1995) |
1969-07-08 |
Lisa Arce, Manhattan Beach CA, WPVA volleyballer (National-4th-1995) |
1969-08-19 |
Kirk Herbstreit, 2012 Allstate BCS National Championship Game |
1969-12-19 |
Matthew Carrano, National Geographic: Dino Death Trap |
1969-12-31 |
Suzanne Barnes, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1969-9-26 |
Gary Preisler, National Lampoon's Gold Diggers |
1970-01-12 |
Jenny Griffith, Burbank California, WPVA volleyballer (National-13th-1995) |
1970-06-05 |
Deborah Yates, National Treasure |
1970-11-14 |
David Wesley, National Geographic: The Incredible Human Body |
1970-9-16 |
James Landrith, Documentary: National March on Washington Against the War on Iraq |
1971-03-20 |
Monique Kavelaars, National Lampoon's Senior Trip |
1971-05-06 |
Sergey Kupriyanov, Peculiarities of the National Hunt |
1971-08-09 |
Mary Joe Fernandez, Dom Rep, tennis player (US National 16s) |
1971-08-28 |
Todd Eldredge, Chatham Mass, figure skater (1997 National Sr champ) |
1971-10-27 |
Liz Pagano, Seattle Wash, WPVA volleyballer (National-13th-1994) |
1971-12-21 |
Michael S. Patterson, National Geographic Explorer |
1971-9-24 |
Es Devlin, National Theatre Live: Hamlet |
1972-01-11 |
Andrey Malakhov, Russian National Selections |
1972-05-12 |
Tamar Howard, National Lampoon's Movie Madness |
1973-01-04 |
Mike D. Anderson, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1973-01-19 |
Robert Barlow, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1973-02-07 |
Leanne Schuster, Mesa Az, WPVA volleyballer (National-9th-1995) |
1973-09-20 |
Ronald McKinnon, National Football League linebacker |
1973-10-02 |
Danny Smith, National Lampoon's Senior Trip |
1973-12-19 |
Joshua Bitton, National Treasure |
1974-12-01 |
Michael Maize, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1974-12-05 |
Charlie Batch, National Football League quarterback |
1974-9-26 |
Josh Arieh, National Heads-Up Poker Championship |
1975-01-24 |
Jason Pinardo, National Treasure |
1975-02-18 |
Jeff Shulman, National Heads-Up Poker Championship |
1975-04-27 |
Rabih Abdullah, former National Football League player |
1975-05-24 |
Hee-Jin Woo, National Security |
1975-09-24 |
Kyle Turley, former National Football League offensive lineman |
1976-08-06 |
Colleen Casey, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1977-01-31 |
Jim Kleinsasser, National Football League tight end |
1977-04-25 |
Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot National Final |
1977-04-26 |
Jason Earles, National Treasure |
1977-05-17 |
Jere Michael, Aspen Colo, figure skater (1994 National Jr champ) |
1977-09-15 |
Leander Jordan, National Football League offensive lineman |
1978-02-07 |
David Aebischer, National Hockey League goaltender |
1978-03-01 |
Alicia Leigh Willis, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1978-04-29 |
Mike Bryan, Oxnard California, tennis star (USTA National 18 doubles) |
1978-12-21 |
Amber Corwin, Harbor City Ca, figure skater (1997 National Sr - 5th) |
1978-9-23 |
Josh Miller, National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze |
1979-01-24 |
Tatyana Ali, National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze |
1979-02-02 |
Christine Bleakley, National Movie Awards |
1979-02-12 |
Antonio Chatman, National Football League runningback |
1979-03-16 |
Rashad Moore, National Football League player |
1979-06-30 |
Travis Minor, National Football League Runningback |
1979-11-25 |
Michael Lehan, American National Football League player |
1980-01-05 |
Bennie Joppru, National Football League tight end |
1980-01-21 |
Aubrie Rippner, Los Angeles California, tennis star (1995 USTA National Girls 18) |
1980-09-02 |
Dany Sabourin, French Canadian Goaltender in the National Hockey League |
1980-09-10 |
Timothy Goebel, Evanston Ill, figure skater (1996 National Jr champ) |
1980-10-02 |
Shane Andrus, National Football League kicker |
1981-01-05 |
Chandi Mason, National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze |
1981-01-06 |
Asante Samuel, National Football League Defensive Back |
1981-01-17 |
Cay Templeton, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1981-02-06 |
Ty Warren, National Football League defensive lineman |
1981-03-27 |
Carey Davis, National Football League fullback |
1981-04-13 |
Mike Costello, National Geographic: Inside 9/11 |
1981-04-17 |
John Greenewald Jr., National Geographic: Hitler and the Occult |
1981-04-25 |
Dwone Hicks, National Football League runningback |
1981-05-05 |
Danielle Fishel, National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze |
1981-09-24 |
Drew Gooden, National Basketball Association player |
1982-01-31 |
Jānis Sprukts, National Hockey League player |
1982-04-01 |
Daniel Millar, National Theatre Live: Frankenstein |
1982-04-26 |
Cooper Wallace, National Football League tight end |
1982-05-05 |
Randall Gay, National Football League player |
1982-05-20 |
Natalya Podolskaya, Russian National Selections |
1982-06-04 |
Ronnie Prude, National Football League player |
1982-08-07 |
Martin Vucic, Macedonian National Final |
1982-11-05 |
Gregory Allen Gabroy, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1982-11-15 |
D. J. Fitzpatrick, National Football League kicker |
1982-11-15 |
Lofa Tatupu, National Football League |
1982-12-07 |
David Spiegelman, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1982-12-16 |
Antrel Rolle, National Football League defensive back |
1982-12-17 |
Ryan Moats, National Football League runningback |
1982-12-26 |
Kenneth Darby, American National Football League player |
1983-02-03 |
Richard Bartel, National Football League quarterback |
1983-02-12 |
Carlton Brewster, National Football League player |
1983-04-25 |
DeAngelo Williams, National Football League runningback |
1983-08-04 |
Cody Burger, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation |
1983-09-09 |
Sam Hollenbach, National Football League quarterback |
1983-09-14 |
Frostee Rucker, National Football League defensive end |
1983-09-25 |
Terrance Pennington, National Football League guard |
1984-05-21 |
Brandon Fields, National Football League punter |
1984-10-04 |
Lindsey Tusing, National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze |
1984-11-17 |
Alex Ferguson, National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze |
1984-12-25 |
Alastair Cook, The National Television Awards 2011 |
1984-9-02 |
Michael B. Chait, A-10: Michigan Air National Guard |
1985-01-25 |
Acie Law IV, National Basketball Association player |
1985-03-29 |
Mickey Pimentel, National Football League linebacker |
1985-04-16 |
Timothy Baugh, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1985-09-13 |
Keyunta Dawson, National Football League player |
1985-11-24 |
Tony Hunt, National Football League player |
1986-06-19 |
Natasha Parnian, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1986-11-30 |
Jordan Farmar, National Basketball Association player |
1986-12-06 |
Matt Niskanen, American National Hockey League Player |
1987-02-25 |
Natalie Dreyfuss, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1987-04-03 |
Daniel Michael DeLuca, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1987-05-15 |
Chris Luensman, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1988-9-14 |
Kirsten Haglund, National Memorial Day Parade |
1991-11-23 |
Anurag Kashyap, 2005 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion |
1991-12-20 |
Hunter Gomez, National Treasure |
1992-08-13 |
Katharine Close, Scripps National Spelling Bee champion |
1994-03-23 |
Aaron Cornelison, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1995-10-15 |
Billy Unger, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1995-9-28 |
Ian Bodell, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
1999-9-11 |
Savannah French, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
National - Notable Weddings
National - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1940-01-02 |
Archibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer, linguist and academic and outspoken critic of the South African National Party government's Bantu Education policy, marries Priscilla Phyllis Ntantla. |
1976-06-21 |
Country singer Reba McEntire (21) weds national steer wrestling champion Charlie Battles |
1981-07-27 |
British television: On Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, proving to be a national event with massive viewer numbers |
1993-09-04 |
Five-time U.S. national champion figure pair skater Jerod Swallow (26) weds his partner Elizabeth Punsalen |
1997-12-29 |
Actress Cate Blanchett (28) weds screenwriter Andrew Upton (31) at Blue Mountains National Park in New South Wales, Australia |
2006-07-06 |
"National Treasure" director Jon Turteltaub (42) weds co-founder of Creative Visions Foundation Amy Eldon at Saddlerock Ranch and Vineyard in Malibu, California |
2006-07-07 |
"Extreme Makeover" Bill Dorfman (47) weds former contestant on "The Apprentice" and beauty queen Jennifer Murphy (27) at the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, California |
2007-08-06 |
NBA Houston Rockets center Yao Ming (27) weds Chinese women's national basketball team member Ye Li (26) at the Pudong Shangri-La hotel in Shanghai |
2008-09-14 |
Actor George Takei (68) weds Brad Altman at Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles |
2009-10-25 |
Socialite Ivanka Trump (27) weds New York Observer owner Jared Kushner (28) at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey |
2013-01-19 |
Figure skater five-time world champion Michelle Kwan (32) weds director of strategic planning on the National Security Clay Pell at the First Unitarian Church of Providence, Rhode Island |
National - Notable Divorces
National - Divorces
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
2013-06-07 |
Russian President Vladimir Putin announces his divorce with his wife on national TV |
National - Notable Deaths
National - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1580-06-10 |
Luis Vaz de Camoes, Portugal's national poet (Os Lusiados), dies |
1796-03-17 |
Pieter Paulus, lawyer/Dutch CEO (National Convention), dies at 41 |
1801-05-19 |
Herman H Vitringa, politician (National Meetings), dies |
1856-04-11 |
Juan Santamaría, national hero of Costa Rica (b. 1831) |
1857-02-09 |
Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798) |
1862-08-06 |
Francisco Acuna de Figueroa, Uruguay national anthem, dies at 71 |
1864-11-03 |
Antonio Goncalves Dias, Brazilian national poet, dies at sea |
1883-05-26 |
Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian leader, scholar and national hero (b.1808) |
1904-09-13 |
Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (b. 1879) |
1908-02-10 |
Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Egyptian lawyer, journalist, Nationalist and a founder of Egyptian National Party, dies at 33 |
1911-10-09 |
Cornelius Bliss, Republican National Committee of 1900 |
1924-01-02 |
Nathan Bay Scott, Republican National Committee of 1900 |
1925-10-07 |
Christy Mathewson, Christy Mathewson and the New York National League Team |
1934-02-23 |
Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by National Guard |
1938-04-21 |
Muhammad Iqbal, Brt E Indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, dies at 65 |
1943-04-08 |
Richard Sears, 1st to win US amateur national tennis match, dies at 81 |
1945-06-25 |
Alec Craig, National Velvet |
1945-09-16 |
John McCormack, Irish singer (Irish national anthem/folk songs), dies |
1946-03-02 |
Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian National socialist (b. 1895) |
1947-06-25 |
Alice Fischer, National Red Cross Pageant |
1947-10-20 |
Leonard Smith, National Velvet |
1949-05-24 |
Mildred Griffiths, National Velvet |
1950-08-08 |
Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, founder National-India Party, dies |
1950-10-09 |
George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender, dies in a car accident at 55 |
1951-09-02 |
Ben Ali Haggin, National Red Cross Pageant |
1955-09-23 |
Edith Wynne Matthison, National Red Cross Pageant |
1963-05-01 |
Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (b. 1879) |
1969-11-02 |
Marion Lloyd Vince, fencer (National champ 1928, 31), dies at 63 |
1970-05-04 |
4 students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard |
1971-02-11 |
Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria |
1971-03-11 |
Whitney M Young Jr, leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at 49 |
1973-06-09 |
Frank Kettering, National Barn Dance |
1980-05-18 |
Reid Blackburn, a photojournalist for National Geographic was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1952) |
1983-06-16 |
James Arthur Calata, African National Congress (ANC) leader and Anglican clergyman, at 87 |
1985-11-28 |
Geoffrey Grigson, Our National Heritage: The Living Pattern |
1987-08-17 |
Clarence Brown, National Velvet |
1987-11-16 |
Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (b. 1907) |
1988-06-11 |
Nathan Cook, National Lampoon's Vacation |
1988-10-03 |
Generoso Pope Jr, National Enquirer owner, dies at 61 |
1990-07-15 |
Norbert Pawlicki, National Treasure |
1990-12-18 |
Anne Revere, actress (National Velvet), dies of pneumonia at 87 |
1991-06-15 |
Albert 'Happy' Chandler, The National Pastime |
1992-03-15 |
Helen Deutsch, National Velvet |
1992-07-01 |
Mamie Ruth Moberly, A National Heirloom |
1992-10-26 |
Dottie Green, The National Pastime |
1993-04-24 |
Oliver R Tambo, chairman (African National Congress), dies at 75 |
1994-01-10 |
Charles "Chub" Feeney, baseball pres (National League), dies at 72 |
1994-04-25 |
George Gennimatas, Greek minister of National Economy, dies at 55 |
1994-06-26 |
Nagayoshi Akasaka, National Kid |
1994-07-13 |
Jimmie Reese, A National Heirloom |
1995-05-30 |
Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, Brit national park warden, dies at 87 |
1996-01-21 |
René Marc Jalbert, sergeant-at-Arms at the National Assembly of Quebec (b. 1921) |
1996-04-26 |
Milt Gaston, A National Heirloom |
1996-09-16 |
McGeorge Bundy, US national security advisor (1961-66), dies at 77 |
1997-01-20 |
Curt Flood, The National Pastime |
1997-09-10 |
John Hackett, National Service |
1997-09-11 |
Camille Henry, National Hockey League player (b. 1933) |
1997-10-23 |
Bert Haanstra, National Geographic Specials |
1998-01-04 |
Mae Questel, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation |
2000-04-05 |
Lee Petty, Daytona 500/National Ski Jumping Championships |
2000-09-03 |
Clyde Sukeforth, A National Heirloom |
2001-06-02 |
Imogene Coca, National Lampoon's Vacation |
2001-08-14 |
Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins, National Velvet |
2002-09-24 |
Mike Webster, National Football League player (b. 1952) |
2002-11-14 |
Eddie Bracken, National Lampoon's Vacation |
2003-10-31 |
Robert Guenette, National Geographic Specials |
2004-07-12 |
Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (b. 1918) |
2006-04-11 |
June Pointer, National Lampoon's Vacation |
2006-08-25 |
Fritz Ford, National Lampoon's Vacation |
2006-11-26 |
Larry Henderson, The National |
2007-02-19 |
Celia Franca, founder of National Ballet of Canada (b. 1921) |
2007-03-18 |
Bob Woolmer, South African cricketer and Pakistan national coach (b. 1948) |
2007-04-13 |
Gail Ingram, National Velvet |
2007-09-02 |
Max McNab, National Hockey League executive (b. 1924) |
2007-09-11 |
Ian Porterfield, Manager of Armenia National Football Club (b. 1946) |
2007-12-04 |
Chip Reese, National Heads-Up Poker Championship |
2007-12-28 |
Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iran national basketball team player (b. 1982) |
2008-04-05 |
Alexander Grasshoff, National Geographic Specials |
2008-07-01 |
Gaylin P. Schultz, National Lampoon's Vacation |
2008-09-13 |
Alice Van Springsteen, National Velvet |
2009-03-25 |
Frank C. Decot, National Geographic Specials |
2009-07-03 |
Antony Alda, National Treasure |
2010-04-08 |
Hal Whitby, National Lampoon's Vacation |
2010-11-08 |
Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer and National Reorganization Process figure (b. 1925) |
2011-06-27 |
Lorenzo Charles, Phi Slama Jama for Never Winning a National Championship |
2011-08-06 |
Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist (b. 1911) |
2011-10-20 |
Moatassem Gaddafi, Son of Moammar Gaddafi and National Security Adviser of Libya (b. 1977) |
2011-11-27 |
Gary Speed, Former Welsh international footballer and Wales national football team manager (b. 1969) |
2013-03-12 |
Christopher Jackson, National Lampoon's Vacation |
2014-04-01 |
William Brayne, National Wealth |
2014-08-31 |
Peter Stursberg, CTV National News |
2014-12-18 |
Larry Henley, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
2015-07-27 |
Abdul Kalam, 50th National Film Awards |
2015-10-01 |
Igor Dobryakov, Peculiarities of the National Hunt |
2015-12-02 |
Sandy Berger, National Security Adviser Under Bill Clinton, Dies |
2016-08-11 |
Sasi Shankar, National Award-winning Malayalam filmmaker, dies aged 58 |
2016-08-15 |
Na Muthukumar, national award-winning Tamil film lyricist, dies aged 41 |
2016-09-25 |
Ian Mercer, giant of national-park movement, dies aged 83 |
2016-12-23 |
Famous Grand National winning jockey John Buckingham dies, aged 76 |
2017-01-13 |
Brian Fletcher, rider of Grand National hero Red Rum, dies, aged 69 |
2017-05-27 |
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, dies aged 89 |
2017-05-28 |
Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski dies aged 89 |
