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What is the worlds #1 most populous city = seoul
What is the worlds #2 most populous city = sao paulo, brazil
What is the worlds #3 most populous city = bombay
What is the worlds #4 most populous city = jakarta
What is the worlds #5 most populous city = moscow
What is the worlds #6 most populous city = istanbul
What is the worlds #7 most populous city = mexico city
What is the worlds #8 most populous city = shanghai
What is the worlds #9 most populous city = tokyo
What is the worlds #10 most populous city = new york city
What is the worlds #11 most populous city = beijing
What is the worlds #12 most populous city = delhi, india
What is the worlds #13 most populous city = london
What is the worlds #14 most populous city = cairo
What is the worlds #15 most populous city = teheran
What is the worlds #16 most populous city = hong kong
What is the worlds #17 most populous city = bangkok
What is the worlds #18 most populous city = tianjin
What is the worlds #19 most populous city = lima
What is the worlds #20 most populous city = rio de janeiro
What is the worlds #21 most populous city = santafe de bogota, colombia
What is the worlds #22 most populous city = shenyang
What is the worlds #23 most populous city = santiago, chile
What is the worlds #24 most populous city = calcutta
What is the worlds #25 most populous city = st. petersburg
What is the worlds #26 most populous city = wuhan
What is the worlds #27 most populous city = guangzhou
What is the worlds #28 most populous city = madras
What is the worlds #29 most populous city = baghdad
What is the worlds #30 most populous city = pusan, south korea
Who isolated adrenaline in 1897 = john jacob abel
In what year did John Jacob Abel isolate adrenalin = 1897
Who invented the aerosol can = erik rotheim
In what year did Erik Rotheim invent the aerosol can = 1926
In what country was Erik Rotheim, the inventor of the aerosol can, born = norway
Who invented the air brake = george westinghouse
In what year did George Westinghouse invent the air brake = 1868
Who invented the air conditioner = willis carrier
In what year did Willis Carrier invent air conditioning = 1911
Who invented aluminum manufacture, (by electrolytic action) = charles hall
In what year did Charles M. Hall invent aluminum manufacture, (by electrolytic action) = 1866
Who invented anesthetic: (first use of anesthetic-ether-on humans) = crawford long
In what year was anesthetic (ether) first used on humans = 1842
Who invented the electric fan = schuyler wheeler
In what year did Schuyler Wheeler invent the electric fan = 1882
Who invented the electric flatiron = henry seely
In what year did Henry Seely invent the electric flat iron = 1882
Who invented the electric washing machine = alva fisher
In what year did Alvin Fisher invent the electric washing machine = 1906
Who invented aspirin = dr  felix hoffman
In what year did Dr Felix Hoffman invent aspirin = 1899
Who first proposed the concept of atomic structure in 1911 = ernest rutherford
The first internal combustion engine was developed in 1885 by = karl benz
Who discovered bacteria in 1683 = anton van leeuwenhoek
In what year did Anton van Leeuwenhoek discover bacteria = 1683
Who invented barbed wire in 1873 = joseph e. glidden
In what year did Joseph E. Glidden invent barbed wire = 1873
Who invented the barometer in 1643 = evangelista torricelli
In what year did Evangelista Torricelli invent the barometer = 1643
Who invented the first MODERN bicycle in 1884 = james starley
Who founded the FIRST "Big Bang" theory in 1927 (the universe originated with a huge explosion) = george lemaitre1927
Who founded the knowledge of blood circulation = william harvey
In what year did William Harveyfound the knowledge of blood circulation = 1628
Who invented braille in 1829 = louis braille
In what year was braille invented = 1829
Who invented the conical bullet = claude minie
In what year did Claude Minie invent the conical bullet = 1849
Who was the inventor of the calculating machine in  1614 = john napier
Who was the inventor of the slide rule in 1632 = william oughtred
Who was the inventor of the digital calculator in 1642 = blaise pascal
In what year did John Napier invent the calculating machine = 1614
In what year did William Oughtred invent the slide rule = 1632
In what year did Blaise Pascal invent the digital calculator = 1642
Who invented the carpet sweeper in 1876 = melville r bissell
In what year did Melville R Bissell invent the carpet sweeper = 1876
In what year was the car radio invented by William Lear and Elmer Wavering = 1929
Who invented cement in 1824 = joseph aspdin
In what year did Joseph Aspdin invent cement = 1824
Who invented chewing gum in 1848 = john curtis
In what year did John Curtis invent chewing gum = 1848
Who invented the pendulum clock in 1656 = christian huygens
In what year did Christian Huygens invent the pendulum clock = 1656
What company invented the compact disk in 1972 = rca
In what year did RCA invent the compact disk = 1972
Who invented condensed milk in 1853 = gail borden
In what year did Gail Borden invent condensed milk = 1853
Who defined the contagion theory (infectious diseases caused by living agent transmitted from person to person) in 1546 = girolamo Fracastoro
In what year did Girolamo Fracastoro define the contagion theory = 1546
Who defined the continental drift theory in 1858 = antonio snider-pellegrini
In what year did Antonio Snider-Pellegrini define the continental drift theory = 1858
In what country were cosmetics first used = egypt
In what year were cosmetics first used = 4000 b c
Who first postulated the cosamic string theory = thomas kibble
In what year did Thomas Kibble first postulate the cosamic theory = 1976
Where was the crossbow invented = china
In what year was the crossbow invented = 300 b c
The elevator was invented by  = elisha otis
In what year did Elisha Otis invent the elevator = 1852
Who discovered the fermentation process in 1860 = louis pasteur
In what year was the fermentation process discovered by Louis Pasteur = 1860
Who invented fiber optics = narinder kapany
In what year was fiber optics discovered by Narinder Kapany = 1955
Frozen food was first developed by = clarence birdseye
Gunpowder was invented in = china
In what year was gunpowder invented = 700
The gyrocompass was invented by = elmer sperry
In what year did Elmer Sperry invent the gyrocompass = 1905
After whom was Halley's Comet named = edmund halley
Who invented the holograph = dennis gabor
In what year was the holograph invented = 1947
Who developed the Ice age theory in 1840 = louis agassiz
Who developed the LCD (liquid crystal display) = hoffmann-la roche
In what year was the LCD first developed = 1970
Who invented the first  bifocal lens = benjamin franklin
In what year was the first bifocal lens developed = 1760
Who developed the first  cylinder lock = linus yale
In what year was the first cylinder lock developed = 1851
Who invented the 1st generation machine gun in 1718 = james puckle
Who invented the 2nd generation machine gun in 1861 = richard j gatling
In what year did James Puckle invent the first generation machine gun = 1718
In what year did Richard J Gatling invent the second generation machine gun = 1861
Who was the inventor of the phosphorus match = francois derosne
In what year did Francois Derosne invent the phosphorus match = 1816
Who invented the microphone = charles wheatstone
In what year did Charles Wheatstone invent the microphone = 1827
Who invented the microwave oven = percy spencer
In what year was the microwave oven invented = 1947
Who invented the moving assembly line in 1913 = henry ford
IN what year did Henry Ford invent the moving assembly line = 1913
Who first discovered the existence of Neptune = johann galle
In what year did Johann Galle first discover the existence of Neptune = 1846
Who discovered the neutron = james chadwick
In what year was the neurton first discovered = 1932
Nitroglycerin was developed by = ascanio sobrero
In what year did Ascanio Sobrero develop nitroglycerin = 1846
Who developed the first nuclear reactor = enrico fermi
In what year did Enrico Fermi develop the first nuclear reactor = 1942
Who invented the first oil well = edwin drake
In what year was the first oil well invented = 1859
Who discovered the ozone = christian schonbein
In what year did Christian Schonbein discover the ozone = 1839
Who developed the first internal pacemaker = clarence  lillehie
In what year did Clarence Lillehie invent the first internal pacemaker = 1957
Paper was invented in  China in = 100 a d
The parachute was invented in 1783 by = louis lenormand
In what year did Louis Lenormand invent the parachute = 1783
Who developed the laws of planetary motion = johannes kepler
Who invented plate tectonics = alfred wegener
Where was the forked plow invented = mesopotamia
When was the forked plow invented = before 3000 b c
Who discovered the positron in 1932 = carl anderson
In what year did Carl Anderson discover the positron = 1932
Who invented the pressure cooker (early version) = denis papin
In what year did Denis Papin invent the pressure cooker = 1679
Who discovered the proton in England in 1919 = ernest rutherford
What year did Ernest Rutherford discover the proton = 1919
Who invented rabies immunization = louis pasteur
In what year did Louis Pasteur invent rabies immunization = 1885
Who invented the first practical radar = sir robert watson-watt
In what year did Sir Robert Watson-Watt invent the first practical radar = 1934
Who discovered radiocarbon dating = willard libby
In what year did Willard Libby discover radiocarbon dating = 1947
In what year did Willard Libby first demonstrate radiocarbon dating = 1950
Who was the first person to receive radio noise signals from outside our galaxy = karl jansky
In what year did Karl Jansky receive the first radio noise signals from outer space = 1931
Who successfully marketed the first safety razor = king gillette
In what year was the first safety razor successfully marketed = 1901
Who invented the revolver = samuel colt
In what year did Samuel Colt invent the revolver = 1835
Name the inventor of the Richter scale = charles richter
In what year did Charles Richter invent the Richter scale = 1935
Who invented the automatic rifle = john browning
In what year did John Browning invent the automatic rifle = 1918
Who invented the liquid-fuelled rocket = robert goddard
In what year did Robert GToddard invent the liquid-fuelled rocket = 1926
Who invented the vulcanizationprocess of rubber = charles goodyear
In what year did Charles Goodyear invent the vulcanization process of rubber = 1839
Who invented the safety pin = walter hunt
In what year did Walter Hunt invent the safety pin = 1849
Who invented the first accurate seismograph = john milne
In what year did John Milne invent the first accurate seismograph = 1880
Who invented the first sewing machine = elias howe
In what year was the first sewing machine invented = 1846
Who invented the first continuous stitch sewing machine = isaac singer
In what year was the first continuous stitch sewing machine invented = 1851
Who was the first person to make the first realistic application of solar energy using parabolic solar reflector to drive caloric engine on steam boiler = john ericsson
In what year did John Ericsson make the first realistic application of solar energy using parabolic solar reflector to drive caloric engine on steam boiler = 1860
Last names of the two men who invented spectrum analysis = kirchhoff & bunsen = bunsen & kirchhoff
In what year did Kirchhoff & Bunsen invent spectrum analysis = 1859
Who invented the stethoscope = rene laennec
In what year did Rene Laennec invent the stethoscope = 1819
Who invented the military tank = sir ernest swinton
In what year did Sir Ernest Swinton invent the military tank = 1914
Who invented the tape recorder (magnetic steel tape) = valdemar poulsen
In what year was the tape recorder invented = 1899
Who invented teflon = dupont
In what year was teflon invented = 1943
Who invented the electric transformer = william stanley
In what year was the electric transformer invented = 1885
What is the element symbol for Actinium = ac
What is the element symbol for Aluminum = al
What is the element symbol for Americum = am
What is the element symbol for Antimony = sb
What is the element symbol for Argon = ar
What is the element symbol for Arsenic (gray) = as
What is the element symbol for Astatine = at
What is the element symbol for Barium = ba
What is the element symbol for Berkelium = bk
What is the element symbol for Berylium = be
What is the element symbol for Bismuth = bi
What is the element symbol for Bohrium = bh
What is the element symbol for Boron = b
What is the element symbol for Bromine = br
What is the element symbol for Cadmium = cd
What is the element symbol for Calcium = ca
What is the element symbol for Californium = cf
What is the element symbol for Carbon = c
What is the element symbol for Cerium = ce
What is the element symbol for Cesium = cs
What is the element symbol for Chlorine = cl
What is the element symbol for Chromium = cr
What is the element symbol for Cobalt = co
What is the element symbol for Copper = cu
What is the element symbol for Curium = cm
What is the element symbol for Dubnium = db
What is the element symbol for Dysprosium = dy
What is the element symbol for Einsteinium = es
What is the element symbol for Erbium = er
What is the element symbol for Europium = eu
What is the element symbol for Fermium = fm
What is the element symbol for Fluorine = f
What is the element symbol for Francium = fr
What is the element symbol for Gadolinium = gd
What is the element symbol for Gallium = ga
What is the element symbol for Germanium = ge
What is the element symbol for Gold = au
What is the element symbol for Hafnium = hf
What is the element symbol for Hassium = hs
What is the element symbol for Helium = he
What is the element symbol for Holmium = ho
What is the element symbol for Hydrogen = h
What is the element symbol for Indium = in
What is the element symbol for Iodine = i
What is the element symbol for Iridium = ir
What is the element symbol for Iron = fe
What is the element symbol for Krypton = kr
What is the element symbol for Lanthanum = la
What is the element symbol for Lawrencium = lr
What is the element symbol for Lead = pb
What is the element symbol for Lithium = li
What is the element symbol for Lutetium = lu
What is the element symbol for Magnesium = mg
What is the element symbol for Manganese = mn
What is the element symbol for Meitnerium = mt
What is the element symbol for Mendelevium = md
What is the element symbol for Mercury = hg
What is the element symbol for Molybdenum = mo
What is the element symbol for Neodymium = nd
What is the element symbol for Neon = ne
What is the element symbol for Neptunium = np
What is the element symbol for Nickel = ni
What is the element symbol for Niobium (Columbium) = nb
What is the element symbol for Nitrogen = n
What is the element symbol for Osmium = os
What is the element symbol for Palladium = pd
What is the element symbol for Phosphorous  (white) = p
What is the element symbol for Platinum = pt
What is the element symbol for Plutonium = pu
What is the element symbol for Polonium = po
What is the element symbol for Potassium = k
What is the element symbol for Praseodymium = pr
What is the element symbol for Promethium = pm
What is the element symbol for Protactinium = pa
What is the element symbol for Radium = ra
What is the element symbol for Radon = rn
What is the element symbol for Rhenium = re
What is the element symbol for Rhodium = rh
What is the element symbol for Rubidium = rb
What is the element symbol for Rutherfordium = rf
What is the element symbol for Ruthenium = ru
What is the element symbol for Samarium = sm
What is the element symbol for Scandium = sc
What is the element symbol for Seaborgium = sg
What is the element symbol for Selenium (gray) = se
What is the element symbol for Silicon = si
What is the element symbol for Silver = ag
What is the element symbol for Sodium = na
What is the element symbol for Strontium = sr
What is the element symbol for Sulfur = s
What is the element symbol for Tantalum = ta
What is the element symbol for Technetium = tc
What is the element symbol for Tellurium = te
What is the element symbol for Terbium = tb
What is the element symbol for Thallium = tl
What is the element symbol for Thorium = th
What is the element symbol for Thulium = tm
What is the element symbol for Tin (white) = sn
What is the element symbol for Titanium = ti
What is the element symbol for Tungsten = w
What is the element symbol for Uranium = u
What is the element symbol for Vanadium = v
What is the element symbol for Xenon = xe
What is the element symbol for Ytterbium = yb
What is the element symbol for Yttrium = y
What is the element symbol for Zinc = zn
What is the element symbol for Zirconium = zr
Category: Definitions: A harmful deviation from the normal structural or functional state of an organism = disease
Category: Definitions: The training of the body to improve its function and enhance its fitness... = excercise
Category: Definitions: In human beings, the extent of an individual's continuing physical, emotional, mental, and social ability to cope with his environment = health
Category: Definitions: The physical substance of the human organism, composed of living cells and extracellular materials and organized into tissues, organs, and systems = human body
Category: Definitions: The practice concerned with the maintenance of health and the prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease = medicine
Category: Definitions: The process by which an organism absorbs and utilizes food substances = nutrition
Category: Definitions: The process involved in knowing, or the act of knowing, which in its completeness includes perception and judgment = cognition
Category: Definitions: Discipline that is concerned, in this context, mainly with methods of teaching and learning = education
Category: Definitions: Traditionally, a collection of books used for reading or study, or the building or room in which such a collection is kept = library
Category: Definitions: The study of the surface of the Earth = geography
Category: Definitions: Graphic representation, drawn to scale and usually on a flat surface, of features--for example, geographical, geological, or geopolitical--of an area of the Earth or of any other celestial body = map
Category: Definitions: The scientific study of the material remains of past human life and activities = archeology
True or False: No matter where you are in Australia you are never more than 1000 kilometers from the ocean = true
True or False: All owls lay white eggs = true
True or False: It takes a week to make a jelly bean = true
True or False: You can't tickle yourself = true
True or False: The University of Texas system is the third-largest landowner in the United States = true
Who was the LAST man to walk on the moon = gene cernan
How many stars are there in the Paramount movie logo = twenty two = 22
True or False: You can't trademark surnames = true
What are the names of the two stone lions in front of  the New York Public Library = patience & fortitude
What is Tennessee Williams' real name = thomas lanier williams
What is the scent on the artificial rabbit that is used in greyhound races = anise
Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor -- the European Space Agency's ______ = olympus
In what year was the European Space Agency's satellite destoyed by a meteor = 1993
What is the Western-most point in continental Europe = cabo de rocha, portugal
What is the largest breed of domesticated cat in the world = ragdoll
What is the oldest city in the US = st  augustine, florida
What is the second oldest city in the US = st. mary's, georgia
what is the Latin name for moose = alces alces
There are two years that will look the same when written right side up and upside down. The first is 1961. What is the other = 6009
What was the name of the plane to drop the SECOND atomic bomb on Japan in WW II = bock's car
True or False: Kermit the Frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck = true
True or False: Harvard uses "Yale" brand locks on their buildings = true
True or False: Yale uses "Best" brand locks on their building = true
True or False: There are more Samoans in Los Angeles than on American Samoa = true
Whats is soccer legend Pele's real name = edson arantes do nascimento
True or False: Both Fleet Commanders in the Pacific Theater of World War II Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto for the Japanese, and Admiral Chester Nimitz for theUnited States were each missing 3 fingers as a result of accidents while younger officers onboard ship = false, 2
On March 29, 1848, Niagara Falls stopped flowing for 30 hours. What caused this = ice jam blocking the niagara river
Where is America's largest rosary is located = fatima shrine in holliston, massachusetts
What was the first product to have a UPC bar code on its packaging = wrigley's gum
What is the "you are here" arrow on maps called = ideo locator
WHat does the "J.R.R." in J.R.R.Tolkien stand for = john ronald reuel
What is the country with the biggest percentage of female heads of household = botswana
In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its = value
On the London Underground, one station has adifferent name on two of its platforms. They are = bank & monument
A pregnant goldfish is called a = twit
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered = blood donors
The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is called a = harp
The metal part at the end of a pencil is twenty percent = sulfur
A pig's penis is shaped like a = corkscrew
The most sensitive finger is the = forefinger
Dublin comes from the Irish Dubh Linn which means = blackpool
Scottish is the language called Gaelic, whereas Irish is actually called = gaeilge
There is actually a word for a 64th note -- a = hemidemisemiquaver
True or False: No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple = true
When is it impossible to sneeze = with your eyes open
Paul McCartney's mother was a = midwife
A baby eel is called an = elver
A baby oyster is called a = spat
There are only how many letters in the Hawaiian alphabet = twelve = 12
Fossilized dinosaur droppings are called = coprolites
Rabbits love this black stuff = licorice
Ogdensburg, New York is the only city in the United States situated what river = st lawrence
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was = willy
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to = speak
What color do turnips turn when sunburnt = green
A flamingo can eat only when its head is = upside down
An elephant can be pregnant for up to how many years = two = 2
Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your = heart
Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by = bayer
One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a = elephant
A game of pool is referred to as a = frame
The Soviet Sukhoi-34 is the first strike fighter with a _____ in it = toilet
During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to = drop bombs
Swahili is a combination of African tribal languages = arabic & portuguese
An enneahedron is solid with ho many faces = nine = 9
There are more _____ than any other kind of creature in the world = beetles
Jean Harlow was the first actress to appear on the cover of ____ magazine = life
Shrimps' hearts are in their = heads
Charlie Brown's father was a = barber
The most common name in the world is = mohammed
Pickled herrings were invented in what year = 1375
Bank robber John Dillinger played professional = baseball
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of = f
The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one endpoint is = p
The longest time someone has typed on a typewriter continuously is ____ hours, set by Violet Gibson Burns = 264
Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest = anagrams
Only one person in two billion will live to be ___ or older = 116
A cat has __ muscles in each ear = thirty two = 32
Tigers have striped ____, not just striped fur = skin
Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of = treason
The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie = barbarella
A Laforte fracture is a fracture of all _____ bones = facial
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times = indivisibility
Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of = sonny & cher
Genghis Khan's original name was = temujin
Genghis Khan started out as a = goatherd
The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the = philtrum
The dirt road that General Washington and his soldiers took to fight off General Clinton during the Battle of Monmouth was called the = burlington path
Lucifer is latin for = light bringer
Satan means = adversary
Devil means = liar
The "wild" horses of western North America are actually _____, not wild = feral
When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a = portmanteau
Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by = harold edgerton
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is = thirteen seconds = 13 seconds
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint -- no two lions have the same pattern of = whiskers
Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was = wilma slaghoopal
Betty Rubble's Maiden name was = betty jean mcbricker
When ocean tides are at their highest, they are called = spring tides
When ocean tides are at their lowest, they are call = neap tides
Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven = neck vertebra
Sunbeams that shine down through the clouds are called = crepuscular rays
Very small clouds that look like they have been broken off of bigger clouds are called = scuds
The poisonous copperhead smells like fresh cut = cucumbers
In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is Disney spelt backwards = yensid
When angered, the ears of Tazmanian devils turn what color = pinkish red
The roads on the island of Guam are made with = coral
The sand on the beaches of Guam is actually = ground coral
What country is the world leader in cobalt mining, producing two-thirds of the world's cobalt supply = zaire
The only person ever to decline a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was Sinclair Lewis for his book = arrowsmith
A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an = epithalamium
These letters define what - AA = alcoholics anonymous
These letters define what - AI = artificial intelligence
These letters define what - AKA = also known as
These letters define what - ASAP = as soon as possible
These letters define what - ATM = automated teller machine
These letters define what - AT&T = american telephone and telegraph
These letters define what - AWOL = absent without leave
These letters define what - BBC = british broadcasting corporation
These letters define what - BLT = bacon, lettuce, tomato
These letters define what - BYOB = bring your own beer
These letters define what - CB = citizen's band
These letters define what - CBS = columbia broadcasting system
These letters define what - CPR = cardiopulmonary resuscitation
These letters define what - DOA = dead on arrival
These letters define what - ER = emergency room
These letters define what - ETA = estimated time of arrival
These letters define what - FAQ = frequently asked questions
These letters define what - GPS = global positioning system
These letters define what - HIV = human immunodefficiency virus
These letters define what - IRA = irish republican army
These letters define what - KIA = killed in action
These letters define what - LCD = liquid crystal display
These letters define what - LED = light emitting diode
These letters define what - MASH = mobile army surgical hospital
These letters define what - MIA = missing in action
These letters define what - MIT = massachusetts institute of technology
These letters define what - MO = modus operandi
These letters define what - MP = military police
These letters define what - NATO = north atlantic treaty organization
These letters define what - NBA = national basketball association
These letters define what - NBC = national broadcasting company
These letters define what - NFL = national football league
These letters define what - NHL = national hockey league
These letters define what - NOW = national organization of women
These letters define what - PBS = public broadcasting system
These letters define what - PDQ = pretty damned quick
These letters define what - POTUS = president of the united states
These letters define what - POW = prisoner of war
These letters define what - PSI = pounds per square inch
These letters define what - PVC = polyvinyl chloride
These letters define what - RCA = radio corporation of america
These letters define what - RDA = recommended daily allowance
These letters define what - RNA = ribonucleic acid
These letters define what - ROM = read only memory
These letters define what - ROTC = reserve officers training corps
These letters define what - SPF = sun protection factor
These letters define what - SRO = standing room only
These letters define what - STD = sexually transmitted disease
These letters define what - SWAK = sealed with a kiss
These letters define what - SWAT = special weapons and tactics
These letters define what - TGIF = thank god it's friday
These letters define what - UHF = ultra high frequency
These letters define what - UNESCO = united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization
These letters define what - UNICEF = united nations international children's emergency fund
These letters define what - URL = uniform resource locator
These letters define what - VCR = video cassette recorder
These letters define what - VHF = very high frequency
These letters define what - VHS = video home system
These letters define what - WAC = women's army corps
These letters define what - WC = water closet
These letters define what - WYSIWYG = what you see is what you get
These letters define what - Y2K = year 2000
These letters define what - ZIP = zone improvement plan
These letters define what - ASCII = american standard code for information exchange
These letters define what - AMOCO = american oil company
These letters define what - BB = ball bearing
These letters define what - DEW = distant early warning
These letters define what - ESPN = entertainment and sports programming network
These letters define what - FORTRAN = formula translation
These letters define what - GATT = general agreement on tariffs and trade
These letters define what - GIGO = garbage in, garbage out
These letters define what - HDL = high density lipoprotein
These letters define what - LDL = low density lipoprotein
These letters define what - HUMVEE = high mobility multi purpose wheeled vehicle
These letters define what - ICBM = inter continental ballistics missile
These letters define what - JPL = jet propulsion laboratory
These letters define what - LASER = light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
These letters define what - MASER = microwave amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation
These letters define what - MG = morris & garash
These letters define what - NEC = nippon electronics corporation
These letters define what - NSA = national security administration
These letters define what - NORAD = north american air defense command
These letters define what - OCR = optical character recognition
These letters define what - OSHA = occupational safety and health administration
These letters define what - Parsec = parallax second
These letters define what - PPP = point to point protocol
These letters define what - PT = patrol torpedo
These letters define what - SAR = search and rescue
These letters define what - SOP = standard operating procedure
These letters define what - TIFF = tag image file format
These letters define what - TTY = teletypewriter
These letters define what - WAVES = women accepted for volunteer emergency service
These letters define what - WNL = within normal limits
These letters define what - CAT = computerized axial tomography
These letters define what - COBOL = common business oriented language
These letters define what - CONUS = continental united states
These letters define what - GAF = general aniline and film
These letters define what - HDPE = high density polyethylene
These letters define what - JVC = japan victor company
These letters define what - LDPE = low density polyethylene
These letters define what - MCI = microwave communications of america
These letters define what - M&M = mars & murray
These letters define what - MRI = magnetic resonance imaging
These letters define what - MIDI = musical instrument digital interface
These letters define what - SCSI = small computer serial interface
These letters define what - TDK = tokyo denki kogaku
North American Indians ate Watercress to dissolve gravel and stones in the _______ = bladder
In Russia, suppositories cut from fresh potatoes were used for quick relief of ______ = haemorrhoids
A salt enema used to be given to children to rid them of _______ = threadworms
Powdered Tea was once used as a snuff to stop bleeding _______ = noses
A decoction of dandelion roots and leaves is an old remedy for dissolving urinary _______ = stones
Comfrey (herb) baths were popular before the wedding night to attempt to repair the hymen and thereby apparently restore _______ = virginity
The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the _____ = adam's apple
Stroking the sole of the foot is used by doctor's to produce _______ = the babinski effect
Insulin is produced in the _________ = pancreas
Acute hasopharyngitis is more commonly known as a ______ = cold
Keratitis is an inflammation of the cornea which may lead to _________ = blindness
Oophorectomy is the surgical removal of the ______ = ovaries
Sperm is the smallest single ____ in a mans body = cell
Estragon protects against _____ disease = heart
Hair, prompted by testosterone, grows faster in men in anticipation of _____ = sex
An average, in America, three sex change operations are performed _______ = every day
In 1977, Napoleon's _____ was sold in Paris for about US $3 800 to an American urologist = penis
The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the ____ = spine
In 1855, dentist Robert Arthur was the first to use ____ to fill cavities = gold
The fleshy muscular organ joined to the hyoid bone is the ____ = tongue
Quinine is an alkaloid extract of the bark of the _______ tree = cinchona
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in ________ = quicksand
An Eskimo would be ingesting toxic doses of Vitamin A if he ate a polar bears ______ = liver
Smallpox is also known as _______ = variola
The disease Tuberculosis, is best known as ________ = consumption
Victorian women tried to enlarge their breasts by bathing in _______ = strawberries
The fissure of Rolando, would be found in the ________ = human brain
Iron deficiency causes the most common form of _________ = anaemia
Red blood cells are produced in the ________ = bone marrow
The smallest bone in the body is the ______ = stirrup
The Mount of Jupiter and the Girdle of Venus are found on the _________ = palm of your hand
The Auricularis muscles are used to move the____  = ears
The vaccine for ________ was developed in 1798 = smallpox
In the United States, 1982, the painkiller 'Tylenol' was spiked with = cyanide
The normal body temperature in ___ degrees Celsius = thirty seven = 37
In 1982, Englishman William Hall committed suicide by drilling holes into his head with a power drill . . . it took ___ holes = eight = 8
The rate of Quadruplets are 1 (set) in every  __________ births = 490,000
A person suffering from polythelia has 3 _______ = nipples
Clinophobia is a fear of = beds
The human brain is __% water = eighty = 80
The brain uses more than __% of the oxygen used by the human body = twenty five = 25
The nose continues to _____ throughout your life = grow
Blonde beards grow ______ than darker beards = faster
The left side of the brain is usually responsible for the control of = speech
The space between two adjacent neurones is called the = synapse
The crystalline quartz, Amethyst was once believed to prevent = drunkenness
Sigmund Freud brought his first sample of _______ for $1.27 per gram = coccaine
The septum linguae is found on the = tongue
Stroking the sole of the foot produces the ______ reflex = babinski
During a orchidectomy, a man has a  _______  removed = testicle
The medical term for a black eye is = circumorbital haematoma
Medical experts say you should sleep on your right side to improve _____ = digestion
The largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive cell = the ovum
The smallest cell in the human body is the = male sperm
There are over 100 million light sensitive cells in the = retina
The opposite of 'cross-eyed' is = wall eyed
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to ______ in size = shrink
A tincture of opium, was a common sedative in Victorian times = laudanum
In the early Twentieth century, rattlesnake venom was used to treat _____ = epilepsy
The human body contains about sixthy thousand miles of _____ _______ = blood vessels
The surface area of a human lung is equal to a = tennis court
The human body transmits nerve impulses at about __ metres a second = ninety = 90
Spread out, the walls of the human intestines would cover an area of about = one hundred square feet
The hydrochloric acid in the human stomach is strong enough to dissolve a = nail
There are ______  phalanges (finger bones) in a human hand = fourteen = 14
In 1979 Dr. Christian Barnard was offered ________ by the American National Enquirer to perform a human head transplant = $250,000
Most people have lost fifty per cent of their taste buds by the time they reach the age of = sixty = 60
The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about _____ 'lead' pencils = 9,000
Cancer claims ____ victims an hour in America = forty = 40
In the English hospitals of the seventeenth century, children were entitled to ___  gallons of beer as part of their weekly diet = two = 2
Podobromhidrosis is more commonly known as = smelly feet
If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were = cut off
Men have on average __% more red blood cells than women = ten = 10
New Zealand's first hospital was opened in = 1843
One square inch of human skin contains ___ sweat glands = 625
When you blush, your  also ___________ reddens = stomach lining
The largest muscle in the human body is the = buttock muscle
The Islands of Langerhans won't be found on a map, they're a group of cells located in the = pancreas
Every time you step forward, you use ________ muscles = fifty four = 54
A Rhinologist specialises in the human = nose
If you could remove all the space from the atoms that make up your body, you could walk through the = eye of a needle
A chromosome is large than a = gene
The average human brain weighs ___ kg = 1.3
Eighty per cent of all body heat escapes through the = head
The Black Death claimed roughly __________ lives in the thirteenth century = forty million = 40,000,000
The human wrist contains more bones than the = ankle
Someone who grinds their teeth is a = bruxomaniac
If the present birth rate continues, New York city will have a black majority by the = end of the century
In 1562 a man was dug up six hours after his burial, after he had been seen breathing by someone at the funeral - he lived for another ___ years = seventy five = 75
Physcrophilia is the sexual arousal by = cold
If __% of the human liver was removed, it could still function and would eventually restore itself to its original size = eighty = 80
There is more pigment in ______ eyes than blue = brown
Nearly a quarter of all human bones can be found in the = feet
The ' funny bone' is not a bone but a = nerve
Most people blink about ______ times a day = 25,000
The human body has enough fat to produce ___ bars of soap = seven = 7
The human head is a quarter of our total length at birth, but only an eighth of our total length by the time we reach = adulthood
There is no single word given to describe the back of the = knee
From fertilisation to birth, a baby's weigh increase ________ times = five billion
The woman of the Brazilin Apinaly Tribe bite their mates eyebrows during = intercourse
Thomas Wedders, the English circus freak, had a _____ which was seven and a half inches long = nose
The human body has less muscles in it than a = caterpillar
Men are ten times more likely to be ________ than women = color blind
An eighteenth century woman used only lard to 'wash' her face and hands and lived to the age of = one hundred & sixteen = 116
The liver is the largest internal organ weighing about ____ kilograms = 10.5
Human adults breathe about _____ time a day = 23,000
It requires __ muscles to raise your eyebrows = thirty = 30
The most common form of cancer is _____ cancer = skin
The Middle ear and the Pharynx are joined with the ________ tube = eustachian
The Extensor digiti minimi manus is used to extend the = little finger
If you are a universal donor your blood group is = type o
When recognising someone's face, you use the ___ side of your brain = right
When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand = german
St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was not = irish
The lance ceased to be an official battle weapon in the British Army in = 1927
St. John was the only one of the 12 _____ to die a natural death = apostles
Many sailors used to wear ____ earrings so that they could afford a proper burial when they died = gold
Some very Orthodox Jew refuse to speak Hebrew, believing it to be a language reserved only for the = prophets
A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of _______ during World War I = corporal
Because they had no proper rubbish disposal system, the streets of ancient ___________ became literally knee-deep in rubbish = mesopotamia
The _______, Seventh-century native Mexicans, went into battle with wooden swords so as not to kill their enemies = toltecs
China banned the pigtail in 1911 as it was seen as a symbol of = feudalism
The Amayra guides of Bolivia are said to be able to keep pace with a trotting horse for a distance of = 100 kilometres
Sliced bread was patented by Mrs P. Ride, a mother of 5, on 1 April = 1954
Ivan the terrible claimed to have 'deflowered thousands of virgins and butchered a similar number of resulting = offspring
Before the Second World War, it was considered a sacrilege to even touch an = emperor of japan
An American aircraft in Vietnam shot ______ down with one of its missiles = itself
Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by _____ their cups = clinking
The cost of the first pay-toilets installed in England was = tuppence
Pogonophobia is the fear of = beards
In 1647 the English Parliament abolished = christmas
King George III was declared violently insane in ___, 9 years before he died = 1811
In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' _______, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man = potato
When George I became King of England in 1714, his wife did not become Queen. He placed her under house arrest for ____ years = thirty two = 32
The richest 10 per cent of the French people are approximately _____ times better off than the poorest 10 per cent = fifty
Henry VII was the only British King to be crowned on the = field of battle
During World War One, the future Pope John XXIII was a _______ in the Italian Army = sergeant
Richard II died aged __ in 1400. A hole was left in the side of his tomb so people could touch his royal head, but 376 years later some took advantage of this and stole his ______ = 33 & jawbone
The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing = hay fever
The Puritans forbade the singing of ______ ______, judging them to be out of keeping with the true spirit of Christmas = christmas Carols
Albert Einstein was once offered the Presidency of _____. He declined saying he had no head for problems = israel
Uri Geller, the professional psychic was born on December 20 ____ = 1946
As to the origin of his alleged powers, Uri Geller maintains that they come from the distant planet of = hoova
Ralph and Carolyn Cummins had ____ children between 1952 and 1966, all were born on the 20 February = five = 5
John D. Rockefeller gave away over US$ _________ during his lifetime = 500,000,000
In the 1970's, the Rhode Island Legislature in the US entertained a proposal that there be a $2 tax on every act of _____ ____ in the State = sexual intercourse
Widows in equatorial ____ actually wear sackcloth and ashes when attending a funeral = africa
The British did not release the body of Napoleon Bonaparte to the French until _____ days after his death = twenty = 20
John Glenn, the American who first orbited the Earth, was showered with ______ tonnes of ticker tape when he got back = 3,529
American Red Indians used to name their children after the first thing they saw as they left their _____ subsequent to the birth. Hence such strange names as Sitting Bull and Running Water = tepees
Catherine the First of Russia, made a rule that no man was allowed to get drunk at one of her parties before ____ o'clock = nine = 9
Queen Elizabeth I passed a law which forced everyone except for the rich to wear a flat cap on = sundays
In 1969 the shares of the Australian company 'Poseidon' were worth $1, one year later they were worth $___ each = 280
Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath to cover the onset of = baldness
Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour during World War II, left school at the age of = eleven = 11
It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena,Italy, if your name is = mary
The Turk's consider it considered unlucky to step on a = piece of bread
The authorities do not allow tourists to take pictures of ______ in Zambia = pygmies
The Dutch in general prefer their french fries with = mayonnaise
Sir Isaac Newton was obsessed with the = occult and supernatural
One of Queen Victoria's wedding gifts was a 3 metre diameter, half tonne = cheese
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phones his wife or his mother, they were both = deaf
It was considered unfashionable for Venetian women, during the Renaissance to have anything but _____ _____ hair = silvery blonde
Queen Victoria was one of the first women ever to use ________ to combat pain during childbirth = chloroform
Atilla the Hun is thought to have been a = dwarf
The warriors tribes of ________ used to hang the testicles of those they killed in battle on the ends of their spears = ethiopia
There are over _____ religious denominations in the United States = two hundred = 200
Eau de Cologne was originally marketed as a way of protecting yourself against the = plague
Charles the Simple was the grandson of Charles the Bald, both were rulers of = france
Gabriel and Michael are the only 2 angels to be named in the = bible
The women of an African tribe make themselves more attractive by permanently ______ their faces = scaring
Some moral purists in the Middle Ages believed that women's ____ ought to be covered up because the Virgin Mary had conceived a child through them = ears
Hindus don't like dying in bed, they prefer to die beside a = river
While at Havard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a _____ exam = spanish
It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in = russia
The mad Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with the Roman God of the sea, Poseidon, and ordered his soldiers to throw their spears into the _____  at random = water
The Ecuadorian poet, Jos Olmedo, has a statue in his honour in his home country. But, unable to commission a sculptor, due to limited funds, the government brought a second-hand statue .. Of the English poet = lord byron
In ______, at only 7 years old, Charles Sauson inherited the post of official executioner = 1726
In parts of _____, the women keep harems of men = malaya
The childrens' nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses' actually refers to the Black Death which killed about ______ people in the fourteenth-century = 30,000,000
During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax put on men's = beards
Idi Amin, one of the most ruthless tyrants in the world, before coming to power, served in the = british army
Some Eskimos have been known to use _________ to keep their food from freezing = refrigerators
It is illegal to play tennis in the streets of = cambridge
Custer was the youngest General in US history, he was promoted at the age of = twenty three = 23
It costs more to send someone to reform school than it does to send them to = eton
The American pilot Charles Lindbergh received the Service Cross of the German Eagle from _____ _____ in 1938 = hermann goering
The active ingredient in Chinese Bird's nest soup is = saliva
It was quite common for the men of Ancient Greece to exercise in public ...... = naked
John Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, had a ______ in his mansion = payphone
Iceland is the world's oldest functioning = democracy
The national flag of _____ was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte = italy
The Matami Tribe of West Africa play a version of football, the only difference being that they use a ____ ____ instead of a more normal ball = human skull
John Winthrop introduced the fork to the American dinner table for the first time on 25 June = 1630
Abraham Lincoln was shot with a = derringer
When shipped to the US, the London bridge ( thought by the new owner to be the more famous Tower Bridge ) was classified by US customs to be a 'large  = antique
Sir Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' cloakroom after his mother went into labour during a dance at = blenheim palace
In _____, David Atchison became President of the United States for just one day, and he spent most of the day sleeping = 1849
Between the two World War's, France was controlled by ___ different governments = forty
The 'Crystal Palace' at the Great Exhibition of 1851, contained ______ square metres of glass = 92,900
It was the custom in Ancient Rome for the men to place their right hand on their testicles when taking an oath. The modern term _______ is derived from this tradition = testimony
Sir Winston Churchill's mother was descended from a = red indian
The study of stupidity is called = monology
More money is spent each year on alcohol and cigarettes than on = life insurance
In ____ - 3 men were hung for the murder of Sir Edmund Berry at Greenbury Hill, their last names were Green, Berry , and Hill = 1911
A firm in Britain sold fall-out shelters for = pets
During the seventeen century , the Sultan of Turkey ordered his entire harem of women _____, and replace with a new one = drowned
There are no clocks in Las Vegas _____ = casinos
The Great Pyramid of Giza consists of _________ blocks each weighing 2.5 tons = 2,300,000
On 9 February ____, soap rationing began in Britain = 1942
Paul Revere was a = dentist
A parthenophobic has a fear of = virgins
South American gauchos were known to put raw steak under their saddles before starting a day's riding, in order to ______ the meat = tenderise
There are _______ white dots in a Pacman arcade game = two hundred & forty = 240
In 1939 the US political party 'The American Nazi Party' had _________ members = 200,000
King Solomon of Israel had about ______ wives as well as hundreds of mistresses = seven hundred = 700
Urine was once used to = wash clothes
North American Indian, Sitting Bull, died on 15 December = 1890
St Nicholas, the original Father Christmas, is the patron saint of thieves, virgins and communist = russia
______ is home of the Fairy Investigation Society = dublin
People in Siberia often buy ____ frozen on a stick = milk
Princess Ann was the only competitor at the 1976 Montreal Olympics that did not have to undergo a ____ test = sex
Coffins which are due for cremation are usually made with ______ handles = plastic
Blackbird, who was the chief of _______ Indians, was buried sitting on his favourite horse = omaha
The two highest IQ's ever recorded (on a standard test) both belong to = women
The Imperial Throne of Japan has been occupied by the same family for the last ______ _________ years = thirteen hundred = 1300
In the seventeenth-century a Boston man was sentenced to two hours in the stocks for obscene behaviour, his crime, kissing his wife in a public place on a = sunday
President Kaunda of ______ once threatened to resign if his fellow countrymen didn't stop drinking so much alcohol = zambia
Due to staggering inflation in the 1920's, 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 ____ _______ were worth 1 US dollar = german marks
The city of ____ ____ contains a district called 'Hell's Kitchen' = new york
The city of ______ left the Industrial Promotion Centre standing as a monument the atomic bombing = hiroshima
During the Medieval Crusades, transporting bodies off the battlefield for burial was a major problem, this was solved by carrying a huge cauldron into the Holy wars, boiling down the bodies, and taking only the _____ with them = bones
A Cicada passes eggs through its = ovipositor
A pigs snout is called a = gruntle
When they mate, a yak and a cow produce a = dzo
A cat's whiskers are called = vibrissae
Goats produce = cashmere
The common term for a member of the bee genus 'Bombus' is the = bumblebee
A turkey's furcula better known as a = wishbone
A 'geep' is the resulting offspring of a sheep and a = goat
The typical housefly cruses at ___ km/hr = eight = 8
The chemical ______, found in ripe fruit, causes jam to set when cooling = pectin
In 1876, Sir Henery Wickham transported _______ rubber tree seeds from Brazil to Kew Gardens in London = 70,000
The compound carotene gives the _______ its colour = carrot
Bananas grow pointing = upwards
Kiwi eggs, when not completely white, are tinged with = green
The cucumber is a _____, not a vegetable = fruit
The flying fish has been known to glide up to _____ metres = ninety = 90
A starfish can turn its ______ inside out = stomach
Sea otters have ______ coats of fur = two = 2
Hummingbirds can't = walk
A moth has no = stomach
Lobsters have blue = blood
Despite the hump, a camels spine is = straight
1 kg of lemons contain more sugar than 1 kg of = strawberries
The largest eggs in the world are laid by a = shark
Oranges cease to _____ after picking = ripen
More people are killed each year from _____ than snakes = bees
The Siberian ____ accounts for more than 20% of all the worlds trees = larch
Midges beat their wings about ______ time every second = 1,000
A ____ can last longer without water than a camel can = rat
A mole can dig over ____ feet of tunnel in a single night = 250
The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the = ant
Peanuts are used in the production of = dynamite
What nuts are used in the production of dynamite = peanuts
A crocodiles ______ is attached to the roof of its mouth = tongue
Sharks are immune to = cancer
The blood of a grasshopper is = white
Golden ____ are so rare that a biological reserve has been specifically created for them = toads
The walking  _______ can live on land = catfish
96% of a _____ is water = cucumber
The _____ got its name from the corruption of the words ' Day's eye' = daisy
Crocodiles swallow ______ to help them dive deeper = stones
When a rabbit scratches its dowsets, it has itchy = testicles
Mexican jumping beans jump because of a ____ ______ inside the bean = moth larva
A 6 pound sea-hare can lay ______ eggs in a single minute = 40,000
In 1978 the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation estimated that 'all the tea in China' amounted to approx. _______ tonnes = 356,000
The ________ is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court = bloodhound
Only the _____ nightingale sings = male
A chameleon's _____ is twice the length of its body = tongue
The black widow spider can devour as many as _______ 'mates' in a single day = twenty = 20
A woodchuck breathes only ___ times during hibernation = ten = 10
Goldfish can suffer _____ sickness = motion
When young, black sea basses are mostly female, but at the age of _____ years many switch sexes to male = five = 5
Gorillas often sleep for up to _______ hours a day = fourteen = 14
Giraffes are unable to = cough
A 2 year old horse has ___incisors = six = 6
The last of a cat's senses to develop is = sight
The Ancient Egyptians trained ______ to wait at their tables = baboons
In relation to its size, the ordinary house spider is ______ times faster than an Olympic sprinter = eight = 8
A millipede has ____ legs on each segment of its body = four = 4
Sloths spend ____% of their lives asleep = seventy five = 75
During its lifetime an ______ changes its sex from male to female and back several times = oyster
The ____ was wrongly named after what was thought to be its country of origin = turkey
About 70% of all living organisms in the world are = bacteria
Camels are born without = humps
Many male fish blow bubbles when they want to = copulate
Crocodiles are ______ blind = colour
Snails mate only once in their lifetime, but it can take up to ____ hours = twelve = 12
Dogs are ________ blind = colour
Anteaters prefer _______ to ants = termites
Baby eels are = elvers
Whales increase in weight 30,000,000,000 times in their first ___ years = two = 2
There are more ____ in the world than all other animals together = insects
On average, elephants sleep for about ________ per day = two hours = 2 hours
A giraffe's neck contains the same number of ________ as a human = vertebrae
An electric eel produces an average of ____________ volts = four hundred = 400
Spiders' webs are a traditional natural ______ _______, when applied to a cut they quickly stop the flow of blood = clotting agent
The orang-utan's warning signal to would be aggressors is a loud = belch
The Emu gets its name from the ______  word for ostrich = portuguese
Squid can commit suicide by eating their own = tentacles
A cheetah can accelerate from 0 to _____ in 2 seconds = seventy km/h = 70 km/h
Although Cleopatra was meant to have died after a bite from an ____, the species does not exist in Egypt = asp
The 'Alligator Pear' is better known as the = avocado
Snails can sleep for _____ without eating = three years = 3 years
An Elephant's trunk can hold over _____ litres of water = five = 5
The largest shark ever caught with a rod was just less than ______ feet long = seventeen = 17
Bees have ___ eyes = five = 5
The mullet fish only turns _____ after death = red
The Goliath frog of West Africa is nearly _____ feet long = three = 3
To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over ___ _______ individual flowers = two million = 2,000,000
Vampire Bats can hear sound frequencies which are over _____ times higher than any picked up by the human ear = eight = 8
The male Californian sea-otter grips the nose of the female with his teeth during = mating
The heart of giraffe is two feet long, and can weigh as much as ____ ____ pounds = twenty four = 24
The smallest trees in the world are Greenland = dwarf willows
A myrmecologist studies = ants
The original source of the dye 'sepia' was the = cuttlefish
Dogs ______ through the pads of their feet = sweat
Only male canaries can = sing
The Kiwi is the only bird with _____ at the end of its bill = nostrils
Shark's teeth are literally as hard as = steel
Turkey's often look up at the sky during a = rainstorm
The only wild camels in the world are found in = australia
At full tilt, Pumas can leap a distance of about ____ feet = sixty = 60
Crocodiles carry their ____ in their mouths = young
Tarantula's can survive ______ years without food = two & half = 2.5
It has been estimated that there are something like ____ _____ million cats in the U.S = twenty three = 23
A sloth can move ______ as fast in water as it can on land = twice
India has a Bill of Rights for = cows
What can run faster uphill than they can (or want to) downhill, because of the bone structure of their legs = bulls
99% of all life forms to exist on Earth are now = extinct
The sperm of a _____ is longer than the sperm of an elephant = mouse
A dog has = elbows
Whales can't swim = backwards
Penguins can jump over ____ feet = six = 6
Lions have been exported to _____ by Windsor Safari Park in England = africa
An Elephant has the world's largest penis, weighing about _____ kg = twenty seven = 27
The aquatic animal, the Red Sponge, can be broken into a thousand pieces and still _______ itself = reconstitute
The Moa bird of New Zealand, which became extinct four hundred years ago, was over ____ feet tall = ten = 10
Australian termites have been known to build mounds ______ feet high = twenty = 20
Australian termites have been known to build mounds at least ____ feet wide = one hundred = 100
The ________ is born under water = hippopotamus
Catgut comes from _____ not cats = sheep
Male cats have _____ on their genitals, which cause the females to cry out in pain on withdrawal = barbs
The average porcupine has about _______ quills = 30,000
Cats have no facility for tasting = sugar
Only ___ mosquitoes bite = female
It takes _______ to hardboil an ostrich egg = four hours = 4 hours
The nerve fibres in the squid are ____  times thicker than a humans' = five hundred = 500
A shark must keep ___ ____  to stay alive = moving forward
Fish are the only vertebrates that outnumber = birds
Some snakes can take as long as ______ _______ hours to copulate = twenty four = 24
Polar bears can run as fast as _______ km/h = forty = 40
A ______ is capable of devouring a pig whole = python
The ordinary house-fly beats its wings nearly ____ _______ times a second = two hundred = 200
Rhinoceros horn, when powered, is believed in some countries to increase a persons = sexual potency
A mosquito has _____ teeth = forty seven = 47
An anencephalous creature has no = brain
A large whale needs more than _____ tonnes of food a day = two = 2
Pedals were added to the bicycle in = 1839
The early personal computer, the Sinclair ZX80, had _________ of internal memory = 1 kilobyte
Allied bombers were issued with Biro pens as  pens leaked at high altitude = fountain
The Dotmatrix printer was developed for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games by the Japanese company = seiko
The worlds longest escalator is in Leningrad Metro, ______ metres long = one hundred & twenty = 120
The fluorescent tube uses ___% of the power to produce an equal amount of light as a tungsten filament bulb = twenty = 20
The tip of a rotary mower travels at over _____ km/hr = two hundred = 200
In an atom, the electron weighs _________ th of the weight of the proton = 1/2000
The world's oldest man-made alloy is = bronze
Rainfall is measured with a = ombrometer
The 'screwdriver' was invented by _______, who used the tool to stir the drink = oilmen
Polytetrafluoroethylene is more commonly known as = teflon
Ammonia is the active ingredient in = smelling salts
When hydrogen burns in the air, _______ is formed = water
Near-sighted model, Grace Robin was the first to show off contact lenses in = 1930
The diameter of wool is measured in = microns
Gunpowder is formed after mixing charcoal, ______ and sulphur = saltpetre
Gunpowder is formed after mixing charcoal, saltpetre and _______ = sulphur
Plutonium was developed by deuteron bombardment of uranium-238 in a = cyclotron
Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up ______% of the human body = ninety = 90
The revolving door was invented in = 1888
Cars were first started with ignition keys in = 1949
The three primary colours are red, yellow and blue. The three secondary colours are = green, orange & purple
The first washing machine was marketed by Hurley Machine Co in = 1907
Pearls melt in = vinegar
Twenty two carat gold has _____ parts per thousand pure gold = 916
A shadow of a four-dimensional object would have _____ dimensions = three = 3
What color light has the greatest wavelength = red
Brimstone, referred to in the Bible and some Alchemy text, is = sulphur
Nicotinic acid is listed on breakfast cereal boxes as = niacin
The hottest flame known is produced with carbon subnitride (C4N2), which can generate a temperature of ____C = 4988
Ninety eight per cent of the weight of water is made up from = oxygen
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, _____ kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off = 530
Sugar was first added to chewing gum in ____ . . . by a dentist ( William Semple) = 1869
A full loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least ______ minutes to stop = twenty = 20
Paper money was first used in = china
Some soft drinks are made sweeter by adding = coal
Albert Einstein was thought to be suffering from dyslexia, as he couldn't speak properly until he was _____ years old = nine = 9
The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification as far back as AD = seven hundred = 700
Sir Isaac Newton was only _______ ______  years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation = twenty three = 23
A flush toilet exists that dates back to = 2000 bc
No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than ______ times = seven = 7
Just after the first moon walk, Pan-American Airlines announced that they were willing to take enquires about future commercial flights to the moon. They received ________ requests almost immediately = 80,000
When cutting a diamond with a laser, _______ dust is formed = graphite
The metal ______ will melt in the heat of your hands = gallium
A Boeing 707 uses _____ _____ gallons of petrol in its take-off climb = four thousand = 4000
The study of soil is = paedology
The Lie Detector was invented by John Augustus Larson in = 1921
Another term for pure china clay is = kaolin
Soap was originally made by boiling fat and adding ____ to it = lye
The active ingredient in smelling salts is = ammonia
Light is ______ ______ radiation = electro magnetic
Minus ______ degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus _____ degrees Fahrenheit = forty = 40
The screwdriver was invented before the = screw
The first taxi with metered fares were operational in = 1907
Rubber is an impertinent ingredient in the manufacture of = bubble gum
The zeppelin 'The Hindenburg' which exploded in a huge fireball, was filled with = hydrogen
Speleology is the study of = caves
The wristwatch was invented by Louis Cartier in = 1904
The stratosphere is higher than the = troposphere
It snowed in the Sahara desert on 18 February = 1979
On average, an iceberg weighs __________ tons = twenty million = 20,000,000
The far side of the moon was first photographed by a Russian satellite in = 1959
Captain Cook was the first man to set foot on all continents except = antarctica
The diameter of the Moon is ______ km = 3,476
200 million years ago Earth contained 1 land mass called = pangaea
The largest wave ever recorded was near the Japanese Island of Ishigaki in 1971. It was recorded at ______metres high = eighty five = 85
The largest iceberg recorded ( in 1956 ) was 200 miles long and 60 miles wide, larger that the country of = belgium
The surface of the Dead Sea is _______ metres below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, which is only 75 km away = four hundred = 400
The country of Benin changed its name from Dahomey in = 1975
The Nova Zemlya Glacier in the (former) USSR is over _____ km long = four hundred = 400
The coldest temperature ever recorded was ____ deg Celsius, in Siberia = -70
The US state of Florida first saw the cultivation of oranges in = 1539
The world's largest exporter of sugar is = cuba
There are no rivers in = saudi arabia
England's Stonehenge is ______ years older than Rome's Colosseum = fifteen hundred = 1500
In 1896, Britain and Zanzibar were at war for _____ minutes = thirty eight = 38
Numbering houses in London streets only began in = 1764
More than 75% of all the countries in the world are _____ of the equator = north
Less than 1% of the ________ Islands are inhabited = caribbean
On average, an iceberg weighs __________ tons = twenty million = 20,000,000
Fulgurite is formed when lightning strikes = sand
Mountains are formed by a process called = orogeny
Obsidian, used by American Indians for tools, weapons and ornaments, is dark _______ glass = volcanic
It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the ____ to earth = volcanic
82% of the workers on the Panama Canal suffered from = malaria
The tree dictated on the Lebanese flag is a = cedar
The _____ Ocean covers the world's longest mountain range = atlantic
In 1825 Upper Peru became = bolivia
New York City contains ________ kilometres of shoreline = nine hundred & twenty = 920
There are 3 Great pyramids at = giza
The world's largest delta was created by the river = ganges
60% of all US potato products originate in = idaho
The northern most country claiming part of Antarctica is = norway
The inhabitants of ________ are known as 'Monegasques' = monaco
New York's Central Park opened in = 1876
The city of Istanbul straddles two separate continents, ______ & _______  = europe & asia
At the nearest point , Russia and America are less than ____ km apart = four = 4
99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the = sun
The furthest point from any ocean would be in = china
The Tibetan Mountain people use yak's milk as their form of = currency
The Spanish Inquisition once condemned the entire _______ to death for heresy = netherlands
Earth is the only planet not named after a = god
The Angel falls in Venezuela are nearly _________ times taller than Niagara falls = twenty = 20
The Channel between England and France grows about ______ millimetres each year = three hundred = 300
Until the 18th century ____  produced almost all the worlds diamonds = india
As the Pacific plate moves under its coast, the ______ Island of New Zealand is getting larger = north
If you travel from east to west across the Soviet Union, you will cross _____ time zones = seven = 7
Sahara mean _______ in Arabic = desert
Every litre of water taken from the Red Sea would contain about _____ grams of salt = two hundred = 200
Lighting strikes the Earth about ______ times a second = two hundred = 200
Very hard rain would pour down at the rate of about _____ miles per hour = twenty = 20
No rain has ever been recorded falling in the Atacama desert in = chile
The background radiation in ________ is twice that of the rest of Great Britain = aberdeen
The southern most tip of Africa is not the 'Cape of Good Hope' but = cape agulhas
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly = overhead
The tower of London, during its lifetime has served many purposes, including a = zoo
There is a village near the Somme in ______ which is simply called Y = france
In the north of _______, the sun shines constantly for about 14 weeks each summer = norway
The Polynesian country of _______ is a 170 square kilometre limestone rock emerging 60 metres from the Pacific = niue
Yugoslavia is bordered by _____ other countries = seven = 7
Within a few years of Columbus' discovery of America, the ______ had killed one and a half million Indians = spaniards
Hawaii officially became apart of the US on June 14, = 1900
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of = reproduction
The earth's average velocity orbiting the sun is _________ km per hour = 107,220
The sun has a core temperature of ________ Kelvin = 154,000,000
A day on Jupiter is about ____ hours, 50 minutes, 30 seconds at the equator = nine = 9
Carolyn Shoemaker has discovered 32 comets and approximately  ______ asteroids = eight hundred = 800
The Earth is pear shaped, the North Pole radius being ____ mm longer than the South Pole radius = forty four = 44
'Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu'  is the name of a hill in = new Zealand
The book by Copernicus, which suggested that the Sun and not the Earth was the centre of the solar system, was banned officially banned by the Papacy until = 1835
A quarter of Russia is covered by = forest
South Africa produces two-thirds of the world's = gold
What is the densest planet in the solar system = earth
There is no point in England more than _____ miles from the ocean = seventy five = 75
The ____ sea is not mentioned in the Bible = red
England is smaller than = new england
The number of UFO sightings constantly increase when _____ is nearest the Earth = mars
The first city in the world to have a population of over one million was = london
New York was once = new amsterdam
The fastest tectonic movement on earth is 240 mm per year, at the Tonga micro-plate near = samoa
In 1980 Rhodesia became independent = zimbabwe
The model ape used in the 1933 movie ' King Kong ' was ______ inches tall = eighteen = 18
There are over ______ verses in the Bible = 30,000
The tablecloth in da Vinci's Last supper was = white
World heavyweight boxing champion, Gene Tunney also lectured on Shakespeare at _____ University later in his life = yale
William Shakespeare's father's first name was = john
Elzie Crisler Segar created the comic strip character Popeye in = 1919
The 'Thing', from the movie of the same name, had ___ blood = green
Charles Dickens was an insomniac, who believed his best chance of sleeping was in the centre of a bed facing directly = north
The writer, Rudyard Kipling, only ever used _____ ink = black
John Lennon's middle name was = winston
Over ________ different languages are spoken throughout what used to be known as the Soviet Union = two hundred = 200
The 3 largest newspaper circulations are = russian
There are ______ semihemidemisemiquavers in a breve = 256
The subject of the first printed book in England was = chess
Composer Ludwig van Beethoven was once arrested for = vagrancy
Monaco's national _______ is bigger than its army = orchestra
Of the two chipmunks, Chip and Dale, ____ has the black nose = chip
Charlie Chaplain's cane was made of = bamboo
Colophony is a = bow resin
A Penny whistle has ____ finger holes = six = 6
Turkey has a ban on _______ in films = kissing
EMI stands for = electrical and musical instruments
Leonardo da Vinci played the = viola
Some hotels in Las Vegas have _________ floating in their swimming pools = gambling tables
A hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica is a variety of = musical glasses
The first recorded reference to cricket dates back to = 1272
The highjump method of jumping head first and landing on their back is called the = fosbury flop
Orienteering originated in = sweden
Snooker originated in = india
A soccer ball has _____ panels = thirty two = 32
To a yachtsman, a fresh breeze is about _____ knots = twenty = 20
The collecting of Beer mats is called = tegestology
Grabatology is the collecting of = ties
The Australian term for extras in cricket are = sundries
When kicked in the groin, a soccer player has been = banjoed
What is the middle name of Cassius Clay = marcellus
Pistols were first used in the Olympic games shooting events in = 1984
Cystallite is the material _________ are made from = snooker balls
How many million kilometres from the Sun is Saturn = 1427
Saturn is __________ kilometres in diameter = 119,000
Saturn is __________ miles in diameter = 74,000
In what year was Pluto discovered = 1930
Pluto is __________ kilometres in diameter = 6,000
Pluto is __________ miles in diameter = 3,728
Mercury is __________ kilometres in diameter = 4,880
Mercury is __________ miles in diameter = 3,032
Venus is __________ kilometres in diameter = 12,000
Venus is __________ miles in diameter = 7,456
Mars is __________ kilometres in diameter = 6,790
Mars is __________ miles in diameter = 4,219
One day on Mercury lasts  _____ Earth days = fifty eight = 58
Venus is ____ million kilometres from the Sun = one hundred & eight = 108
Mars is ____ million kilometres from the Sun = two hundred & twenty eight = 228
Jupiter is _________ kilometres in diameter = 143,000
Jupiter is _________ miles in diameter = 89,000
Jupiter is ____ million kilometres from the Sun = seven hundred & seventy eight = 778
Neptune is _________ million kilometres from the Sun = 4,500
Uranus is ______ kilometres in diameter = 52,000
Uranus is ______ miles in diameter = 32,000
Uranus is ______ million kilometres from the Sun = 2,870
Earth is ______ kilometres in diameter = 3,476
Earth is ______ miles in diameter = 2,160
Earth is ______ million kilometres from the Sun = one hundred & fifty = 150
One "day" on Mercury lasts more than ___ Earth days = fifty eight = 58
Venus takes nearly ___ Earth days to circle the Sun = two hundred & twenty five = 225
Mars is sometimes called the ___ planet = red
Mars takes ______ Earth days to circle the sun = six hundred & eighty seven = 687
Saturn takes just over ____ Earth years to circle the Sun = twenty nine = 29
When was the last Supernova in our galaxy = 1604
Gas from a Supernova can travel up to _________ kilometres per second = 10,000
Gas from a Supernova can travel up to _________ miles per second = 6,000
One light year is equivalent to how many million kilometres = 9,460,000
One light year is equivalent to how many million miles = 5,912,500
When was the first space shuttle launched = april, 1981
How many signs in the Zodiac = twelve = 12
What is the Zodiac sign of the scorpion = scorpio
What is the Zodiac sign of the scales = libra
What is the Zodiac sign of the virgin = virgo
What is the Zodiac sign of the lion = leo
What is the Zodiac sign of the crab = cancer
What is the Zodiac sign of the twins = gemini
What is the Zodiac sign of the bull = taurus
What is the Zodiac sign of the ram = aries
What is the Zodiac sign of the water carrier = aquarius
What is the Zodiac sign of the archer = sagittarius
What is the Zodiac sign of the goat = capricorn
What is the Zodiac sign of the fish = pisces
What is the largest of the dinosaur family = brachiosaurus
What does the name "Brachiosaurus" mean = arm lizard
Approximately how tall was the Brachiosaurus, in metres = twelve = 12
Approximately how long was the Brachiosaurus, in metres = twenty four = 24
Approximately how long was the Diplodocus, in metres = twenty seven = 27
While the earth's atmosphere is divided into 4 main zones, which is the highest zone = exosphere
The main elements of the Exosphere are hydrogen and ______ = helium
The Exosphere merges with the _______  = ionosphere
The four main elements of eath's atmosphere are exosphere, ionosphere, stratosphere and __________  = troposphere
What is the largest ocean on earth = pacific
What type of rock is sandstone = sedimentary
Sedimentary rocks are usually formed in _______ = layers
Sedimentary rocks often contain ______ = fossils
Where are metamorphic rocks usually found = mountain ranges
An example of a metamorphic rock is ____ = slate = marble
There are three types of rock - metamorphic, sedimentary and ______ = igneous
An example of an igneous rock is____  = granite = quartz
What is mercury also known as = quicksilver
What is the hardest mineral = diamond
What is the second hardest mineral = corundum
What is one of the softest minerals = aluminite = talc
Most precious stones are minerals, though some come from animals or plants, one of these is = pearl = amber = coral
Gemstones are formed from slowly cooling __________ rocks = igneous
Where are icebergs usually larger = antarctica
What is the monetary unit of Algeria = dinar
What is the monetary unit of Angola = kwanza
What is the monetary unit of Botswana = pula
What is the monetary unit of Cameroon = franc
What is the monetary unit of Chad = franc
What is the monetary unit of Egypt = egyptian pound
What is the monetary unit of Ethiopia = birr
What is the monetary unit of Gambia = dalasi
What is the monetary unit of Ghana = cedi
What is the monetary unit of Kenya = shilling
In ancient Rome, auburn-haired puppies were sacrificed to ensure a plentiful ______ crop = corn
Ostriches live about ____ years and can reproduce for 50 years = seventy five = 75
In England, the most commonly used guide dog for the blind is the__________ = yellow labrador retriever
Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating. They sweat through the____________ = pads of their feet
In Korea, the _____ is a symbol of long life, and is often portrayed in the company of immortals = deer
Cougars can kill animals ______ times their size = eight = 8
The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that one gram of it can kill ______ people = one hundred and fifty = 150
The Virginia opossum is the only marsupial (pouched mammal) indigenous to __________ = north america
The Virginia opossum have a litter size of up to ____ = twenty two = 22
The opossum offspring say in their mothers pouch for the first __________ days = sixty = 60
The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured _______ feet = thirty seven = 37
The largest Great White Shark ever caught weighed ________ pounds = 24,000
The largest jellyfish in the world has a bell that can reach _______ feet across = eight = 8
The burrowing boodie of Australia is the only kangaroo in the world that lives _________ = underground
The whistling swan has more than __________ feathers on its body = 25,000
Pandas spend about _____ hours a day eating bamboo = twelve = 12
The white elephant is the sacred animal of _______ = thailand
The largest order of mammals, with about _____ species, is rodents = 1,700
Bats are second largest order of mammals, with about ______ species = nine hundred and fifty = 950
In one year, hens in America lay enough eggs to encircle the globe  _____ times = one hundred = 100
The woolly mammoth, extinct since the Ice Age, had tusks almost _____ feet high = sixteen = 16
The largest species of seahorse measures _____ inches = eight = 8
In Pakistan, goats are often sacrificed to improve the performance of the________ = stock market
The word "puppy" comes from the French poupee, meaning = doll
The leech has 32 _______ = brains
In Russia, dogs have been trained to sniff out ore deposits that contain _________ = iron sulfides
The word "struthious" refers to something that resembles or is related to ______ = ostriches
The leech will gorge itself up to _____ times its body weight and then just fall off its victim = five = 5
The chameleon has a tongue that is _______ times the length of its body = 1.5
In the air, puffins are powerful flyers, beating their wings 300 to 400 times a minute to achieve speeds up to _____ miles per hour = forty = 40
The world's fastest reptile (measured on land) is the spiny-tailed iguana of Costa Rica. It has been clocked at nearly _____ miles per hour = twenty two = 22
The life expectancy of the average mockingbird is ____ years = 10
Pigs, walruses, and light-colored horses can be = sunburned
The lungfish can live out of water in a state of suspended animation for _____ years = three = 3
The chicken can travel up to _____ miles per hour = nine = 9
Pink elephants? In regions of India where the soil is red, elephants take on a permanent pink tinge because they regularly spray dust over their bodies to protect themselves against ________ = insects
It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as ________ insects in the course of a summer = 10,000
Prior to migration a goose will consume the equivalent of up to ____ percent of its body weight per day, accumulating large amounts of fat = twenty five = 25during the migration, geese may cover up to ____ miles per day = six hundred = 600
It is estimated that manatees live a maximum of ___ years = sixty = 60
A "winkle" is an edible = sea snail
A 42-foot sperm whale has about _____ tons of oil in it = seven = 7
A 4-inch-long abalone can grip a rock with a force of ______ pounds = four hundred = 400
A baby giraffe is about _____ feet tall at birth = 6
A baby gray whale drinks enough milk to fill more than ______ bottles a day = 2,000
A bear in hibernation loses up to _____ percent of its body weight = twenty five = 25
The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs _____ tons at birth = fifty = 50
 Fully grown, a blue whale can weigh as much as ______ tons = one hundred and fifty = 150
There are ________ known species of starfishes in the world = 1,600
The color of the blood of an octopus is = bluish green
A bison can jump ___ feet = 6
There are _____ species of parrotsthree hundred and twenty eight = 328
Racehorses have been known to wear out new ______ in one race = shoes
There are ________ muscles and tendons in an elephant's trunk = 40,000
Rats can swim for a 1/2 mile without resting, and they can tread water for _____ days straight = three = 3
There are ______ known species of bats = six hundred and ninety = 690
The massive skeleton of the African elephant accounts for about _______ percent of the body weight = fifteen = 15
The crayfish isn't a fish at all - it is related to the = lobster
There are about _____ species of owl = one hundred and thirty = 130
It takes a lobster approximately ________ years to grow to be one pound = seven = 7
It takes about _______ hours for a snake to digest one frog = fifty = 50
There are about _______ species of coral known = 5,000
The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to _______ eggs at one time = five million = 5,000,000
Researchers don't know why killer whales like to rub their sensitive stomachs on the bottom of shallow beaches, but they think it may be a form of = grooming
There are about 500 different kinds of cone snails around the world. All have a sharp, modified tooth that stabs prey with venom like a harpoon. Most cone snails hunt worms and other snails, but some eat fish. These are the ones most dangerous to people. The nerve toxin that stops a fish is powerful enough to also kill a = human
The crocodile is surprisingly fast on land. If pursued by a crocodile, a person should run in a ______ motion, for the crocodile has little or no ability to make sudden changes of direction = zigzag
What city has more homeless cats per square mile than any other city in the world = rome
It takes approximately ____ venom extractions from the coral snake to fill a 1-pint container = 69,000
The most carnivorous of all bears is the ______ bear = polar
It would require an average of ____ hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce = eighteen = 18
The digestive juices of crocodiles contain so much __________ that they have dissolved iron spearheads and 6-inch steel hooks that the crocodiles have swallowed = hydrochloric acid
Seals can withstand water pressure of up to _________ pounds per square inch = eight hundred and fifty = 850
Jackrabbits are powerful jumpers. A 20-inch adult can leap ___ feet in a single bound = twenty = 20
Javelinas are very noisy animals among each other and squeal, snort, woof, and click their teeth to = communicate
There are close to ______ known species of frogs, including toads = 4,000
The most venomous of all snakes, known as the _____, has enough venom in one bite to kill more than 200,000 mice = taipan
There are fewer than _____ Bactrian camels left in the wild = one thousand = 1,000
Bactrian camels have survived in a land with no water in an area used for nuclear testing. Their numbers, however, are falling dramatically as humans encroach farther and farther into China's ______ Desert = gobi
The dog and the turkey were the only two domesticated animals in ancient = mexico
The ________ is a fish that can actually walk on land = mudskipper
Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in = 1982
A 1999 survey of 25,500 standard English-language dictionary words found that ______ percent of them have been registered as .coms = ninety three = 93
A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of = rubber
A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of = glass
A chest X-ray is comprised of 90,000 to 130,000 ______ volts = electron
A NUKE InterNETWORK poll found that ________ percent of Internet users have cut back on watching TV in order to spend more time online; 12 percent have cut back on seeing friends = fifty two = 52
A standard 747 Jumbo Jet has ______ seats = four hundred and twenty = 420
After his death in 1937, Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the ___________ was honored by broadcasters worldwide as they let the airwaves fall silent for two minutes in his memory = wireless telegraph
Artificial rain was first used near _______, New Hampshire, in 1947 to fight a forest fire = concord
At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale. True or False = true
At a jet plane's speed of  ______ miles per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length = six hundred and twenty = 620
Bill Gates formed a company to sell a computerized traffic counting system to cities, which made $20,000 its first year. Business dropped sharply when customers learned Gates was only _______ years old = fourteen = 14
Colonel Waring, New York City Street Cleaning Commissioner, was responsible for organizing the first rubbish-sorting plant for recycling in the United States in = 1898
Cooking and salad _____ could lubricate machinery, such as cars and boats, according to Penn State chemical engineers = oils
Dating back to the 1600s, thermometers were filled with ______ instead of mercury = brandy
Early models of vacuum cleaners were powered by = gasoline
Focus group information compiled by CalComp revealed that 50 percent of computer users do not like using a = mouse
From 9,000 pounds of roses, which totals about 55,000 blossoms, ___ pounds of costly rose essence can be extracted to be used as a component in fragrances = two = 2
The condensed water vapor trail left behind by jets and rockets is called a = contrail
The first automobile to cross the United States took ______ days in 1903 to travel from San Francisco to New York = fifty two = 52
The first commercial passenger airplane began flying in = 1914
The first commercial passenger airplane with a bathroom began flying in = 1919
The first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in = 1935
The first video game was _____, introduced in 1972 by Noel Bushnell, who then created Atari = pong
The highest man-made temperature - _____ million degrees Celsius - was generated at Princeton University in a fusion power experiment in 1978 = seventy = 70
The last 12-cylinder car produced in the United States was the 1948 __________ = lincoln continental
Gold salts are sometimes injected into the muscles to relieve = arthritis
What is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures = honey
Horn & Hardart opened the first U.S. automat in Philadelphia in = 1902
IBM was incorporated in 1911 as the Computer-Tabulating-Recording Co. with a product line that included time clocks, scales and punch card tabulators. The name was changed in _____ = 1924
In 1878, Wanamaker's of Philadelphia was the first U.S. department store to install = electric lighting
In 1900, there were _______ cars in the United States = 8,000
By 1919, there were _________ cars in the U.S = six million = 6,000,000
The little "m's" on "M&M's"(r) Chocolate Candies weren't printed on the candies until ____ = 1950
The maximum flight speed of a Boeing 747-300 jetliner is __________ miles per hour = five hundred and eighty three = 583
The ______ is the U.S. Marine tilt-rotor transport that takes off and lands like a helicopter, but flies like an airplane = osprey
The Osprey is also known as the = v-22
The rare metal gallium melts at _________ degrees Fahrenheit. It is safe to touch; if you hold a piece of it in your hand and wait, it will melt = eighty six = 86
The Studebaker auto company produced a car called the "_____" from 1927-1936 = dictator
The Times Square "time ball" for the year 2000 was named the = star of hope
The Times Square "time ball" for the year 2000 was specially made by _________ in Ireland = waterford crystal
The Times Square "time ball" for the year 2000 contained _____ glass crystals cut into triangles = five hundred and four = 504
The Times Square "time ball" for the year 2000 contained _______ light bulbs = six hundred = 600
The Times Square "time ball" for the year 2000 contained _______ big lights = ninety six = 96
The Times Square "time ball" for the year 2000 contained _______ mirrors = ninety two = 92
In 1995, the average U.S. public school contained _____ computers = seventy two = 72
In computer-ese, "wysiwyg" is an acronym for = what you see is what you get
In December of 1957 -- Shippingport, Pennsylvania became the site of the first full-scale ______ power plant in the U.S = nuclear
In July of 1955 - Arco, Idaho, with a population of 1,000, became the first U.S. town powered by nuclear energy. The town's energy was supplied by an experimental boiling-water reactor called the = borax iii
Half a byte is called a = nybble
There are five types of simple machines: the _____, the pulley, the inclined plane, the screw, and the wheel and axle = lever
There are five types of simple machines: the lever, the _____, the inclined plane, the screw, and the wheel and axle = pulley
There are five types of simple machines: the lever, the pulley, the _________, the screw, and the wheel and axle = inclined plane
There are five types of simple machines: the lever, the pulley, the inclined plane, the _____, and the wheel and axle = screw
There are five types of simple machines: the lever, the pulley, the inclined plane, the screw, and the__________ = wheel and axle
There are hefty pricetags on some Internet domain names. The highest-selling domain name to date, business.com, went for ________ in 1999 = $7.5 million
There are more than ____ satellites orbiting earth solely for the purpose of private communications services, including pagers, telephones, and computers = two hundred = 200
Thirty-two percent of computer data loss cases are due to ______ error = human
In Rome, the world's first paved streets were laid out in _____ B.C = one hundred and seventy = 170
In the military world, EGADS is an acronym for = electronic ground automatic destruct system
In web site addresses on the Internet, "http" stands for = hypertext transfer protocol
In years past, spermaceti oil - from the sperm whale - was used as _________ in Rolls-Royce automobiles = transmission oil
Indonesia is the world's largest producer of = liquefied natural gas
ISBN stands for = international standard book number
It is estimated that ________ light bulbs are manufactured each year in the United States = 1.8 billion
To make a daguerreotype, an early photograph, required a 15-minute average _______ time = exposure
What cities expressways, built on a radial pattern dating from the eighteenth century, are so overloaded that traffic often grinds to a halt for 30 to 40 miles outside the city = tokyo
A device invented as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero, about the time of the birth of Christ, is used today as a = rotating lawn sprinkler
During the U.S. Civil War, telegraph wires were strung to follow and report on the action on the battlefield. But there was no telegraph office in the White House, so President Lincoln trekked across the street to the ___________ to get the news = war department
In ___, Namco released Pac-Man, the most popular arcade game of all time = 1979
WD-40 Company products are sold in more than ________ countries around the world = one hundred and fifty = 150
When the first escalator, or "inclined elevator," was installed in the department store Harrod's in London (near the turn of the century), ________ was served to passengers who felt faint = brandy
It takes _____ watts to run an electric toaster = 1,100
It took Henry Ford's Motor Company seven years to manufacture 1 million automobiles. One hundred thirty-two working days after this figure was reached (in 1924), the company had made ______  more cars = nine million = 9,000,000
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, launched his business career in 1969, at age 14 by forming a company named Lakeside Programming Group. Gates and his friend ______ signed an agreement with Computer Center Corporation to report bugs in PDP-10 software, in exchange for computer time = paul allen
Nanotechnology has produced a guitar no bigger than a ______  = blood cell
The smallest guitar made by Nanotechnology is _________ long, has six strummable strings = 10 micrometers
Natural gas has no = smell
Penicillin causes about ________ deaths in the United States every year = three hundred = 300
Forget-me-not pollen grains are so small that _______ of them can fit on the head of a pin = ten thousand = 10,000
The sale of lawn mowers got a great boost when lawn tennis came into vogue in England in = 1870
Skydivers accelerate to a terminal velocity of ______ mph = one hundred and twenty = 120
Some Chinese typewriters have ______ characters = 5,700
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are best known as the creators of the _____ computer = apple
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak designed a popular arcade game for Atari called = breakout
An estimated __________ lab mistakes are made in the 100,000 laboratories in the U.S. every day = two million
The average 60-minute audio cassette tape has _______ feet of tape in it = 562.5
The B-2 Stealth Bomber is designed to fly undetected by = radar
In Milwaukee during the 1900s, ______ horses in the city left an estimated 133 tons of manure and urine on the streets per year = 12,500
In Milwaukee during the 1900s, 12,500 horses in the city left an estimated ____ tons of manure and urine on the streets per year = 133
Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that cannot succumb to cancer. Scientists believe this is related to the fact that they have no bone - only = cartilage
The duckbill platypus of Australia can store up to _____ worms in its large cheek pouches = six hundred = 600
There are more than ____ species of finches throughout the world = four hundred and fifty = 450
The ears of the Asiatic _____ bears are larger than those of other bear species = black
Sharks can travel up to _____ miles per hour = forty = 40
The Nile crocodile averages about 45 years in the wild, and may live up to ____ years in captivity = eighty = 80
Sheep will not drink from __________. Hence, the line in the Twenty-third Psalm: "He leadeth me beside the still waters" = running water
There are no wild deer of any kind in Australia, and the small red deer is the only one found in = africa
The normal body temperature of the Clydesdale horse is ________ degrees Fahrenheit = one hundred and one = 101
There are _______ distinctive types of combs on chickens = seven = 7
The now-extinct ancestor of the horse, _______, had a short neck, a pug muzzle, and stood no higher than a medium-sized dog = eohippus
The electric eel is the most shocking animal on Earth - no other animal packs such a big charge. If attacking a large prey, a 9-foot-long eel can discharge about _____ volts = eight hundred = 800
Since white tigers have pigmented stripes and blue eyes, they are not = albinos
There are some _____ different species of sea snakes, and all of them are venomous = fifty = 50
The once popular dog name "Fido" is from Latin and means = fidelity
Most lipstick contains = fish scales
What is the longest word that alternates hands = skepticisms
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than _____ times in half = seven = 7
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a = skein
Over _______ left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people = 2500
There are more than _______ bricks in the Empire State Building = 10 million
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take ______ years to reach one trillion = 31,688
A crocodile always grows new _____ to replace the old ones = teeth
The sun is _______ times larger than the earth = 330,330
Clinophobia is the fear of = beds
A _____ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second = jiffy
Porcupines ______ in water = float
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is = thirteen seconds = 13 seconds
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1 = humans
The electric chair was invented by a = dentist
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in = ireland
A hedgehog's heart beats ______ times a minute on average = three hundred = 300
Camels have three ______ to protect themselves from blowing sand = eyelids
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all it's ___ at all times = feet
A mole can dig a tunnel ________ feet long in just one night = three hundred = 300
A hummingbird weighs less than a = penny
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as = tennessee
The Earth weighs around _____________ tons = 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
A cockroach can live several weeks with its _______ cut off - it dies from starvation = head
Every time you lick a _____, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie = stamp
The average person has over ________ dreams a year = 1,460
One in every _____ Americans has appeared on television = four = 4
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of _______ per year = cereal
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in = omaha, nebraska
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have = two hundred and six = 206
Human thigh bones are stronger than = concrete
Over _________ birds a year die from smashing into windows = ten thousand = 10,000
The state of Florida is bigger than = england
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in = iceland
Your heart beats over _________ times a day = one hundred thousand = 100,000
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the = dark
Some ribbon worms will eat _______ if they cant find any food = themselves
Dolphins ________ with one eye open = sleep
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over _____ years old = nine thousand = 9000
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no ________, so the tears can't flow = gravity
There are more ______ flamingos in the U.S, than real ones = plastic
About 3000 years ago, most _____ died by the time they were 30 = egyptians
More people use ______ toothbrushes, than red ones = blue
More people use blue toothbrushes, than ____ ones = red
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over ______ m.p.h. = one hundred = 100
Your ribs move about _______ times a year, every time you breathe = five million
In the White House, there are _______ knives, forks and spoons = 13,092
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for ________ hours = three = 3
Lightning strikes about _______ times per minute on this planet = six thousand = 6,000
The average American/Canadian drinks about _______ sodas a year = six hundred = 600
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in = switzerland
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just = horses
Honeybees have a type of _______ on their eyes = hair
A jellyfish is 95 percent = water
In _______, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals = bangladesh
The katydid bug hears through holes in its ____ legs = hind
A company in _______ makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate = taiwan
More ______ money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world = monopoly
The elephant is the only mammal that can't = jump
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not = fly
What is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States! = q
One quarter of the bones in your body are in your = feet
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in ______, by Charles Jung = 1918
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for _________ years = sixty nine = 69
A giraffe can clean its ears with its _____-inch tongue = twenty one = 21
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from = crying
How many pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S = 166,875,000,000
How many miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S = 1,525,000,000
How many cars are being driven down the U.S's highways = 123,000,000
How many tons of paper are used each year in the U.S = 85,000,000
How many people go to Major League baseball each year = 56,000,000
Bats always turn _____ when exiting a cave = left
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its = head
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for = dogs
There are over _______ dogs in the U.S = fifty eight million = 58,000,000
Dogs and cats consume over ________ worth of pet food a year = $11,000,000,000
You blink over _______ times a year = 10,000,000
Baby robins eat _____ feet of earthworms every day = fourteen = 14
In England, in the 1880's, ______ was considered a dirty word = pants
Most dust particles in your house are made from = dead skin
The blesbok, a South African ______, is almost the same color as grapejuice = antelope
The average person laughs _______ times a day = thirteen = 13
Dogs can hear _______ that humans cant = sounds
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by _______ than women = lighting
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by _______ who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them = squirrels
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter = e
A toothpick is the object most often _______ on by Americans = choked
There are more than ________ earthquakes throughout the world every year = fifty thousand = 50,000
The original name for the butterfly was = flutterby
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to = seven = 7
Nose prints are used to identify = dogs
Bulls are _______  = colorblind
Apples are more efficient than ______ in keeping people awake in the mornings = caffeine
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose = weight
A hard working adult sweats up to ______ gallons per day = four = 4
The average ice berg weighs ___________ tons = 20,000,000
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about _______ people = 2,200
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a = tennis court
After eating, a _______ regurgitates its food and then eats it again = housefly
Which are the most used muscles in the body = eye muscles = eye
Which Australian animal rolls into a spiky ball when in danger = echidna
Which author wrote the Belgariad Series = david eddings
Which blood vessels carry blood from the heart to the various parts of the body = arteries
Which book has to do with instructions about sacrificial worship = leviticus
Which book, first published in 1949, begins with the words:  "it was a bright cold day in april &  the clocks were striking thirteen" = 1984
Which boxer is heaviest   a bantamweight, middleweight or welterweight = middleweight
Which British sports car took its name from the Morris garages where it was developed = the mg
Which Canadian province extends farthest north = quebec
Which Canadian province has the largest population = ontario
Which canary sings   the male or female = the male
Which capital city has a statue of a mermaid in its harbour = copenhagen
Which cicada is the noisy one   the male or the female = male
Which city 50 miles from the coast is America's eighth busiest port = houston
Which city does Orly airport serve = paris
Which city has the famous opera house La Scala = milan
Which city has the largest rodeo in the world = calgary
Which city has the two steepest streets in the usa = san francisco
Which city hosted the 1952 winter olympics = oslo
Which city hosted the 1956 summer olympics = melbourne
Which city hosted the 1968 summer olympics = mexico city
Which city hosted the 1988 summer olympics = seoul
Which city hosted the first modern olympics in 1896 = athens
Which city hosted the first winter olympics in 1924 = chamonix
Which city hosted the olympics in 1920 = antwerpen
Which city hosted the second olympics in 1900 = paris
Which city hosted the third olympics 1904 = st louis
Which city is home to the White City tennis courts = sydney
Which city is known as the windy city = chicago, illinois = chicago
Which city is sacred to Jews, Christians, &  Muslims = jerusalem
Which city is the home of the sundae = two rivers
Which colour goes before angel &  bayou on Roy Orbison's singles = blue
Which colourless, odourless light gas is used to lift airships = helium
Which comes first in a butteryfly's life   being a caterpillar or being a pupa = caterpillar
Which comic strip was banned from "Stars &  Stripes" = beetle bailey
Which company made magic carpet = bullfrog
Which company released it's first personal computer on august 12, 1981 = ibm
Which continent stretches further Aouth Africa or South America = south america
Which continent was the original home to the humble potato = south america
Which countries occupy the Iberian Peninsula = spain &  portugal
Which countries occupy the Scandinavian Peninsula = norway &  sweden
Which country (as of 2000) has the lowest crime rate in the world = togo
Which country are the Galapagos Islands part of = ecuador
What geometric shape is a stop sign = octagon
What geometric shape is a tennis court = rectangular
What German military leader of the Afrika Korps was known as 'The Desert Fox' = erwin rommel = rommel
What gland is found just below the optic chiasma of your brain = pituitary gland
What gods are the planets of our solar system named after  = roman gods = roman
What goes with ruby, emerald & sapphire to make up the world's most valuable gems = diamond
What golfer was nicknamed "super mex" = lee trevino
What golfer was nicknamed 'the golden bear' = jack nicklaus
What grain is Australia's most important crop = wheat
What grain is used to make spaghetti = wheat
What grass is the favourite food of pandas = bamboo
What green vegetable comes in varieties such as cos & mignonette = lettuce
What group landed in America in 1620 = pilgrims
What group of superheroes display the number 4 on their chests = the fantastic four
What gun cannot be silenced, due to all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel = revolver
What habit forming plant did Columbus find on his first new world trip = tobacco
What hair color of people do mosquitoes seem to be the most attracted to = blonde
What hall of fame was opened in 1990 in Canastota, New York = boxing
What Hans Christian andersen fairy tale character is immortalized in a famous statue in Copenhagen's Harbor = the little mermaid
What happens to male ants soon after they mate = they die
What happens when reverse peristalsis takes place = you puke
What has a bitch done if she has just whelped = given birth
What has been called "the land of frozen time" = antarctica
What has been clinically demonstrated to work twice as well as dramamine for fighting motion sickness, with no side effects = ginger
What has to be missing out of anhydrous compounds = water
What Hawaii town lies very close to Volcanoes National Park = hilo
What heavyweight boxing champion was nicknamed the Manassa Mauler = jack dempsey
What hemisphere are you in if your water drains clockwise = southern
What herb is most often used as a garnish = parsley
What herb is used in the sauce traditionally served with roast lamb = mint
What hip russian word means "giving voice to something"  = glasnost
What hobby was developed by the Palmer Paint Company of Detriot = paint by numbers
What holiday is held on April 25 in Australia & New Zealand = anzac day
What hormone is produced by the adrenal glands = adrenaline
What household appliance has a tube & an agitator = washing machine
What human organ does a pacemaker pace = heart
What ice cream company registered the slogan "dedicated to perfection" = haagen daas
What ill fated auto bit the dust in 1959 after losses of millions = edsel
What illness is controlled by taking insulin = diabetes
What important historic artifact was found in November of 1922 = king tuts tomb = king tutankhamun's tomb
What indian tribe did Custer encounter at the Battle of Little Big Horn = sioux
What indoor track milestone was Jim Beatty the first to break in 1962 = four minute mile
What inert gas is used in fluorescent lights = argon
What insect has a king as well as a queen = termites
What instrument is used for measuring the distance between two points on a curved surface = caliper
What instrument is used to measure the pressure of gases = manometer
What instruments are used to measure air pressure = barometers
What is "Banda Oriental" known as today = uruguay
What is 113 in Roman numerals = cxiii
What is 2 + 3 = 5
What is 30% of 90 = twenty seven
What is 99% of 200 = one hundred & ninety eight = 198
What is a 300th anniversary called = tercentenary
What is a artificial egg hatching device called = incubator
What is a baby frog called = tadpole
What is a baby goose called = gosling
What is a baby kangaroo called = a joey
What is a baby owl called = an owlet = owlet
What is a baby rooster = cockerel
What is a baby seal called = pup
What is a baby swan called = cygnet
What is a baby whale called = calf
What is a bone specialist = osteopath
What is a bowler credited with when no runs are scored off his over = maiden over
What is a buckey ball made of = carbon
What is a 'bunker' in a game of golf = sand trap
What is a calm ocean region near the equator = doldrums
What is a camberwell beauty = butterfly
What is a cancer causing substance = carcinogen
What is a cancerous tumour  = malignant
What is a castrated shy sheep called = wether
What is a cob & a pen = swan
What is a 'colander' = sieve
What is a corrosive substance = acid
What is a crime worse than a misdemeanor = felony
What is a dactyologram = fingerprint
What is a dried plum called = a prune
What is a fear of germs = spermophobia
What is a female bear = sow
What is a female fox called = vixen
What is a female swan called = pen
What is a french policeman called = gendarme
What is a group kangaroos = troop
What is a group of baboons = troop
What is a group of badgers called = cete
What is a group of bears called = sleuth
What is a group of cockroaches = intrusion
What is a group of curs  = cowardice
What is a group of donkeys called = herd
What is a group of elks called = gang
Which railway station in London is known by two names = bank &  monument
Which religious group grew out of the Watch Tower Society = jehovah's witnesses
Which river contains the most fresh water = amazon
Which Russian city used to be called Leningrad &  Petrograd = st petersburg
Which saint has the deer as his iconographical emblem = st francis
Which saying is attributed to author Henry David Thoreau = any fool can make a rule
Which science fiction author used the penname Edward Powys Bradbury = michael moorcock
Which science fiction novel has its title from the flash point of paper = farenheit 451
Which science fiction writer penned "The Martian Chronicles" &  "Farenheit 451" = ray bradbury
Which science studies weather = meteorology
Which Scottish born machinist became America's first environmentalist = john muir
Which sea is between Australia &  Tasmania = tasman sea
Which sea is the city of Beirut on = mediterranean
Which shoulder go superstitious people throw salt over = left
Which shoulder should you throw spilled salt over = left
Which side of a book are the even numbered pages usually on = left
Which side of a commercial jet does the pilot sit on = left
Which side of the human body is controlled by the left side of the brain = right side
Which side of the road do people drive on in France = right
Which side of the road would be travel on if you were driving in Japan = left
Which small animals reportedly march to the sea to drown = lemmings
Which son of Zeus was a messenger &  herald of the gods = hermes
Which sport do Australia &  NZ play when battling for the manning cup = hockey
Which sport has a movement called a 'telemark' = skiing
Which state has Cape Hatteras = north carolina
Which state has the most hospitals = california
Which state is called the pelican state = louisiana
Which state is the wolverine state = michigan
Which state of Australia lays claim to Lizard &  Heron Islands  = queensland
Which state's official flag is in the shape of a pennant = ohio
Which strong wine gets its name from a city in Northern Portugal = port
Which superhero loves peace enough to kill for it = peacemaker
Which terminal of a battery is indicated by a plus sign = positive
Which town is the birthplace of Jesus Christ = bethlehem
Which tree has the same name as a part of your hand = palm
Which two countries became independent in 1957 = ghana &  malaysia
Which two countries form what used to be called Patagonia = chile &  argentina
Which two sports do you go backwards to win  = rowing &  tug of war
Which type of paint dries faster   oil or acrylic = acrylic
Which tyre company withdrew from Formula 1 at the end of 1986 = pirelli
Which US city is known as Beantown = boston
Which US city is known as the biggest little city in the world = reno, nevada
Which US city was named after the only person to be governor of 2 states = houston
Which US coin has 118 ridges around the edge = dime
Which US gangster town gave its name to the group who had a no 1 with 'if you leave me now'  = chicago
Which US government branch includes the president &  vice president = executive branch
Which US president lead his "rough riders" up San Juan hill = theodore roosevelt
Which US president received &  10% of the profits when he was interviewed by david frost = richard nixon
Which US president said, "the buck stops here" = harry truman
Which US state borders a canadian territory = alaska
Which US state is known as the "last frontier" = alaska
Which US state was the 50th = hawaii
Which was the first apostle to be stoned to death = stephen
Which was the first book to tell the story of the lioness Elsa = born free
Which was the first Japanese city bombed in 1945 = hiroshima
Which was the sacred animal of ancient Egypt = cat
Which was the second Japanese city bombed in 1945 = nagasaki
Which was the world's first space station  = salyut 1
Which weighs more   hot water or cold water = hot water
Which word is related to these three: rat, blue, cottage = cheese
Which would usually live longer, a giraffe or a zebra = zebra
Which writer &  illustrator was fired in july 1992 by King Features over an abortion rights story line in his daily comic strip Popeye = bobby london
Which writer said "a little learning is a dangerous thing" = alexander pope
Which writer's widow changed the family's name to Holland after his death to avoid scandal = oscar wilde
Which zodiacal sign is represented by a goat = capricorn
While sleeping, one man in eight does what = snores
While sleeping, one man in ten does what = grinds his teeth
White, crystalline solid that has the formula c6h4(oh)cooh = salicylic acid
Who abolished Christmas in 1647 = english parliament
Who allegedly killed officer J D Tippett = lee harvey oswald
Who allowed the bugging of the Democratic committee headquarters. = richard nixon
Who always ended his show in a white e type jaguar = simon dee
Who always tried to kill Krazy Kat = captain marvel
Who appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875 = pocahontas
Who appears when Aladdin rubs the lamp = genie
Who are the Bronte Sisters in alphabetical order = anne, charlotte, emily
Who assassinated President Kennedy = lee harvey oswald
Who baptised Jesus = john the baptist
Who beat Captain Robert Scott in the race to the south pole in 1912 = roald amundsen
Who became famous for photographing the civil war = mathew brady
Who became the first englishman to win the Nobel prize for literature in 1907 = rudyard kipling
Who betrayed Jesus to the Romans = judas iscariot
Who built Camelot = king arthur
Who buys corner blocks = stamp collectors
Who 'came whiffling through the tulgey wood' = jabberwock
Who camped by a billabong = swagman
Who carried on Charles Babbages work when he died = his son
Who carved the worlds tallest totem pole out of one log = mungo martin
Who claimed "Rosencrantz & Gguildenstern are dead" = tom stoppard
Who climbed Mt Fuji at age 99 = teiichi igarashi
Who coached the Celtics to 6 NBA championships = bob cousy
Who coined the term, 'the evil empire' = ronald reagan
Who coined the word 'bourgeoise'  = karl marx
Who collects coins or medals = numismatist
Who collects match box labels = philluminist
Who collects stamps = philatelist
Who comes hopping down the bunny trail = peter cottontail
Who commanded the rough riders in Cuba in the Spanish American War = leonard wood
Who commanded the Russian navy on the Black Sea from 1788 1789 = john paul jones
Who composed the music for Apollo 13 = james horner
Who controls more than 80% of the world's rough diamond supply = de beers
Who could distinguish 140 forms of tobacco ash = sherlock holmes
Who counted himself out on march 31, 1968 = lyndon johnson
Who created detective Nero Wolfe = rex stout
Who created Jergens Lotion = andrew jergens
Who created John Blackthorne = james clavell
Who created master spy George Smiley = john le carre
Who created Miss Marple = agatha christie
Who created 'Peter Rabbit' = beatrix potter
Who created the first flavored soda pop = townsend speakman
Who created Winnie the Pooh = a a milne
Who deciphered the Rosetta stone = jean champollion
Who define heat in ergs per calorie = james joule
Who denied Jesus three times = peter
Who described the moon during Apollo 11 as "magnificent desolation" = buzz aldrin
Who designed the uniforms for the Vatican City's Swiss guards = michelangelo
Who designed the union buildings = sir herbert baker
Who detailed her romance with Bill Clinton in the December Penthouse = jennifer flowers
Who did Adolf Hitler marry = eva braun
Who did Adolph Hitler keep a framed photograph on his desk of = henry ford
Who did always rescue sweet Polly Purebred = underdog
Who did Anne Boleyn lose her head over = henry viii
Who did David kill = goliath
Who did Joseph Stalin succeed as premier of Russia = lenin
Who did Louis XVI give the Hope diamond to = marie antoinette
Who did New York's Cosmos buy for $4.5 million in 1975 = pele
Who did pussy cat go to see in London = queen
Who did Queen Elizabeth II marry = prince phillip
Who did Samson fall in love with = delilah
Who did Simple Simon meet on the way to the fair = pieman
Who did the Miracle Mets defeat to win the 1969 world series = thailand
Who discovered Florida = ponce de leon
Who discovered morphine = friedrich saturner
Who discovered natural radioactivity = antoine becquerel
Who discovered that galaxies were all red shifted i.e the universe was expanding = edwin hubble
Who discovered the Mississippi River = hernando de soto
Who discovered the neutron in 1932 = sir james chadwick
Who discovered the planet Uranus = william herschel
Who discovered x rays = wilhelm roentgen
Who do Brazilians call Huguinho, Zezinho &  Luisinho = huey  dewey louie
Who do the Japanese call Miki Mauso = mickey mouse
Who dreamed about the sun, moon &  stars bowing down to him = job
Who edited the Joy of Sex = alex comfort
Who ended his news broadcasts with "glad we could get together" = john cameron swayze
Who fiddled while Rome burned = nero
Who first calculated 'pi' around 250 bc = archimedes
Who flew the rocket powered Bell X IAa at a record mach 2.5 = chuck yaeger
Who followed Alexander Haig as US foreign secretary in 1982 = george schultz
Who fought professionally in Roman arenas = gladiators
Who founded Atari = nolan bushnell
Who founded histology = marie bichat
Who founded mormonism = joseph smith
Who founded the boy scout movement = robert baden powell
Who founded the boy scouts of America = daniel beard
Who founded the foundation for infantile paralysis = franklin roosevelt
Who founded the Persian empire = king cyrus
Who gather together in covens = witches
Who gave Joseph Keaton his nickname of "Buster" = harry houdini
Who gave the U. S.A. the Statue of Liberty = france
Who ghost wrote Xaviera Hollanders "The Happy Hooker" = yvonne dunleavy
Who got his name because of a yellow &  black striped shirt he wore until it literally fell apart = sting
Who got the worlds worst circumcision = john bobbit
Who had over 1000 patents registered to him when he died = thomas edison
Who had six fingernails on one hand , but only five fingers on that hand = anne boleyn
Who had teenage sidekicks Zan, Wendy, Jayna &  Marvin = super friends
Who had the vision that resulted in the book of Revelations = john
Who has been nicknamed Dr Death in the 1990s = dr jack kevorkian
Who has more chromosomes, Tarzan or Cheetah  = cheetah
Who has the biggest percentage of female heads of household = botswana
Who hid in a house at 263 Princengracht, Amsterdam, for two years = anne frank
Who hit a homerun in his first at bat in college, the olympics, &  the major leagues = will clark
Who holds the record for most touchdown passes in one season = dan marino
Who hosts the Monza grand prix  = italy
Who in baseball was known as king kong = dave kingman
What is this short for - HiOAg = hi ho silver
What are u doing here - |r|e|a|d|i|n|g| = reading between the lines
Einstein gave this successful prediction of the stock market when asked what it would do in the next year. He said = it would fluctuate
Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with _________ = bacteria
If you sneeze too hard, you can = fracture a rib
If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a _________ in your head or neck and die = blood vessel
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over ________ descendents = one million = 1,000,000
The average chocolate bar has ____ insects' legs in it = eight = 8
The average human eats __________ spiders in their lifetime at night = eight = 8
The shortest war in history was between ___________ in 1896 = zanzibar & england
The shortest war in history Zanzibar surrendered after _______ minutes = thirty eight = 38
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually = clear
Elvis had a twin brother named ____, who died at birth = garon
Donald Duck comics were banned in ______ because he doesn't wear pants = finland
More people are killed by _______ annually than are killed in plane crashes = donkeys
What is the longest word typed with only the left hand = stewardesses
Shakespeare invented the words _________ & _______ = assassination & bump
Marilyn Monroe had six = toes
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn = white
Women blink nearly ______ as much as men = twice
Right handed people live, on average, ______ years longer than left handed people do = nine = 9
The name of all the _______ end with the same letter that they start with = continents
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to _______ the word you want = remember
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would  never end because of the rate of = reproduction
The words _____ &  _____ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left = racecar & kayak
A snail can sleep for _____ years = three = 3
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one _______ from each salad served in first-class = olive
How many World Championship points are awarded to a winning Grand Prix driver = ten = 10
In French what country is Ecosse = scotland
Which Daniel Defoe character was born in Newgate Prison = moll flanders
Why is Caspian Sea a misnomer = its a lake
Which two ballet dancers were Marguerite and Armand created for = fonteyn and nureyev
What fruit do viticulturists grow = grapes
In which year did it become illegal to beat your sernants to death in the Mississippi basin area = 1985
What was the capital of Kenya prior to Nairobi = mombassa
Which country supplies almost 80% of the worlds jute = bangladesh
What was the nationality of the very first man to stand on the sumit of Mount Everest = new zealander
What is added to chalk to produce cement = clay
What part of the body does a cytologist study = cells
Which language do Walloons speak a version of = french
How did Eva Peron die = cancer
What three words follow Shakespeare's Now is the winter of our discontent = made glorious summer
What is a planet's apogee = furthest point from the earth
What is the Russian word for citadel = kremlin
What common word used by road users is derived from the Hindu god Jagganath = juggernaut
Of which country is the flower the French Marigold a native = mexico
Which country originated the Carpetbag Steak = australia
Which former racing driver owns Austria's second largest airline company = niki lauda
What nationality is Salman Rushdie = british
What is a satellite's perigee = closest point to the earth
What natural materials are tussah and habutai types of = silk
Who won 4 tennis grand slams before she was 18 = monica seles
Which town would you be leaving if you were sailing away from the capital of the Flemish coast = dunkirk
Which 937 foot tanker caused the worlds worst oil pollution disaster in 1989 = the exxon valdez
Where do hikers sleep, was founded by George Williams and sung about by Village People = ymca
Which Richard Adams book featured a fox terrier called Snitter = the plague dogs
Which of the American Marshal Islands became famous as a nuclear test site = bikini atoll
A glow worm isn't a worm, its a  = beetle
Which river flows over the Victoria Falls = zambezi
Which sci-fi author predicted artificial satellites in 1945 = arthur c clark
Which writer became a Governor General of Canada = john buchan
What was the original name of the communications satellite Intelsat = early bird
Into which ocean does the Zambezi river flow into = indian
What was the former name of Zambia = northern rhodesia
Who led the unsuccessful Roman slave revolt in73 BC = spartacus
Who was the famous son of Philip II of Macedonia = alexander the great
What is the second most frequently used letter in the English language = t
Where did Laika the first dog in space die = in space
What was the former name of Zimbabwe = southern rhodesia
Which Greek island was the home of the Minoan bull culture = crete
What writer said "Youth is wasted on the young" = george bernard shaw
What does the term Honking mean to a cyclist = standing out of the saddle
What is the largest city in Switzerland = zurich
Who said "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke" = rudyard kipling
Which sport is Wayne Gretzky famous for = ice hockey
Which city was the seat of the Holy Roman Emperors in the 17th century = vienna
Which pharaoh built the great temple at Abu Simbel = ramses ii
Which poet first said "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" = keats
In which country did Alexander the Great mount his great campaign of 327-325 BC = india
What words from Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade follow "Theirs is not to reason why = theirs is but to do or die
What title is given to the head of state in Brunei = sultan
Which London club saw the start of Phileas Fogg's journey = the reform club
What do Americans call the silencer on a car = muffler
What did Japanese athlete Suburaya do after failing to win in the 1964 Olympics = committed hari-kiri
What was removed from Mussolini's body before it was buried = brain
Who wrote Death of a Salesman = arthur miller
Why was a last minute decision made to bomb Nagasaki rather than the chosen target of kokura = because it was obscured by cloud
To which family of birds does the robin belong = thrush
Who was the most senior serving Nazi to be tried at Nuremberg = hermann goering
Which is the only city still in existence that is mentioned in Genesis = damascus
Where did Anne Frank die = belsen
Which city is the setting for Bizet's Carmen = seville
What is the common name for Seborrheic Dermatitis = dandruff
Which major planet spins in the opposite direction to the rest = venus
What is the main river to flow through Hamburg = elbe
What do architects claim Chicago's Tacoma Building to be the first of = skyscraper
On which ship did Sir Francis Drake receive his knighthood = the golden hind
Which country is called Misr by its natives = egypt
What are a whales breathing organs called = lungs
Which power station in Pennsylvania was the scene of a 1979 nuclear accident = three mile island
How many cards are dealt to each player in gin rummy = ten = 10
What is made from a tree bark that turns a gin pink = angostura bitters
Who said he could distinguish between 140 different types of tobacco ash = sherlock holmes
Before 1992 what 4 letters were on Soviet Olympic vests = cccp
Which country can be reached by bridge from Singapore = malaysia
What material did cordwainers work with = leather
What kind of dance is the Blue Danube = waltz
What colour are blue tit's breasts = yellow
Who cut off Van Gogh's ear = himself
What city was called 'The Rose red city, half as old as time = petra
In 1995 what nation restarted its nuclear weapon testing programme = france
Why do woodpeckers peck trees = to catch insects
What nationality was Mata Hari = javanese
Which organ of the body produces bile = liver
How many red stripes are there on the US flag = seven
Which planets year is shorter than its day = venus
Which South American city is built in the shape of an aeroplane = brasilia
What 18th century tourist attraction is at the end of berlins Unter den Linden = brandenburg gate
Who is the most widely translated French author = jules verne
What is rust on copper called = verdigris
Which country is part of ANZUS security alliance along with New Zealand & the USA = australia
Which is the worlds second largest French speaking city = montreal
What name is given to grotesquely carved church water spouts = gargoyles
Where do gallinaceous birds nest = on the ground
Which is the worlds hottest capital city = khartoum
What was another name for the Atlantic Penguin which became extinct in 1844 = great auk
How many pounds does the Olympic hammer weigh = sixteen
Who built Peking's Winter Palace = kubla khan
Which Italian tourist attraction was exposed as a mediaeval fake in 1988 = turin shroud
In which country is the Atacama Desert where rain has never fallen = chile
What was Moonie leader-Reverend Moon jailed for in 1976 = tax fraud
In what year was the last manned moon landing = 1972
What was the real name of malcolm X = malcolm little
Which of Arthurs knights undertook the Seige Perilous = galahad
How many of the United States don't border the main land mass = two
For which product was Millais' painting Bubbles used to advertise = pear's soap
How many letters are there in the french alphabet = twenty five
Who wrote the book the Jewel in the Crown = paul scott
What kind of stick does an artist rest his brush on = maulstick
Which organisation killed Aldo Moro = the red brigade
What rare water creature gives its name to a river in Florida = manatee
Who discovered gamma rays = ernest rutherford
Who succeedeed president Marcos = mrs corazon aquino
What did Disraeli refer to as a 'milestone round our necks' = colonies
Whats the maximum number of wives permitted at any one time under Islamic law = four
Which Paris building has a glass pyramid in its forecourt = the louvre
By what name was Cambodian leader Saloth Sar better known = pol pot
What was banned in bermuda until 1946 = cars
What is the largest structure ever made by living creatures = great barrier reef
In 1950 Stevie---------- , singer/songwriter (You are The Sunshine of My Love), born. = wonder
In 1961 Gary---------- , 2 time Academy award winning actor, dies at 60. = cooper
In 1965 Rolling Stones record "---------- ". = satisfaction
In 1966 Rolling Stones release "---------- ". = paint it black
In 1970 Beatles movie "---------- " premiers. = let it be
In 1981 Pope John ---------- shot, wounded by assailant in St Peter's Square. = paul ii
In 1988 Chet ---------- jazz trumpeter fell to death out of a hotel window at 59. = baker
In 1989 Approx ---------- students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China. = 2,000
In 1944 George ---------- director (Star Wars), born.  = lucas
In 1952 David ---------- Dunbartin Scotand, rocker (Talking Heads-Psycho Killer) , born.  = byrne
In 1973 ---------- launched, the 1st Space Station.  = skylab
In 1987 Rita ---------- actress, dies at 68 of Alzheimer's disease.  = hayworth
In 1602 Cape Cod was discovered by the English navigator ---------- Gosnold.  = batholomew
In 1753 ---------- Term Day.  = whitsunday
In 1886 American poet Emily ---------- died.  = dickinson
In 1918 US Airmail begins between Wash DC, ---------- and New York.  = philadelphia
In 1919 Wladziu Valentino---------- , pianist, born  = liberace
In 1930 A United Air Lines flight from---------- , CA to Cheyenne, WY carried the first airline "air hostess" (stewardess) -- Ellen Church.  = oakland
In 1934 US Dept of Justice offers ---------- reward for Dillinger, dead or alive.  = $25,000
In 1936 Paul---------- , playwright, born  = zindel
In 1940 Nylon ---------- on sale for the first time in the United States.  = stockings
In 1948 Brian---------- , singer, songwriter, born  = eno
In 1955 Lee---------- , actor, born  = horsley
In 1958 The Soviet Union launched---------- .  = sputnik iii
In 1770 Marie ---------- married the future King Louis XVI of France.  = antoinette
In 1801 William H.---------- , who bought Alaska at $0.02/acre, born.  = seward
In 1905 Henry ---------- (in Grand Island, Nebraska), actor, born.  = fonda
In 1920 Joan of Arc was ---------- in Rome.  = canonized
In 1929 First Academy Awards were given out. '---------- ' won best picture. Best Actor went to Emil Jennings; Best Actress, Janet Gaynor.  = wings
In 1952 Pierce ---------- (in Israel), actor (current James Bond), born.  = brosnan
In 1955 Debra ---------- (in Columbus, Ohio), actor, born.  = winger
In 1955 Olga ---------- (in Russia), gymnast, born.  = korbut
In 1966 Janet---------- , singer, Michael's sister, born.  = jackson
In 1969---------- , Venus landing. First successful landing on another planet.  = venera 5
In 1970 Gabriela---------- , tennis professional, raqueteer, born.  = sabatini
In 1975 Japanese Junko ---------- became first woman to reach Mt Everest's summit.  = tabei
In 1990 Sammy---------- , Jr., "The Complete Entertainer", dies of throat cancer.  = davis
In 218 7th recorded ---------- passage of Halley's Comet. = perihelion
In 352 ---------- begins his reign as Catholic Pope. = liberius
In 884 St ---------- begins his reign as Catholic Pope. = adrian iii
In 1444 Sandro---------- , Italian painter (Birth of Venus), born. = botticelli
In 1620 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis,---------- ). = turkey
In 1630 Italian Jesuit Niccolo---------- , 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface. = zucchi
In 1672 Frontenac becomes governor of ---------- (Canada). = new france
In 1809 Papal States annexed by---------- . = france
In 1836 Joseph Norman ---------- discovered Helium/founded Nature magazine, born. = lockyer
In 1900 Ayatollah Ruhollah ---------- Iran's spiritual leader, born. = khomeini
In 1928 ---------- modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam. = 9th
In 1936 Dennis ---------- actor (True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider), born. = hopper
In 1940 Germany occupies---------- , Belgium & begins invasion of France. = brussels
In 1942 Taj ---------- NYC, singer/songwriter (The Real Thing), born. = mahal
In 1950 Christian---------- , French couturier, born. = lacroix
In 1956 "Sugar" Ray ---------- welter/middle/light-heavyweight boxing champion, born. = leonard
In 1963 Brigitte ---------- actress (Red Sonja, Rocky IV, Domino), born. = nielsen
In 1970 Thor ---------- crosses the Atlantic on reed raft 'Ra'. = heyerdahl
In 1975 ---------- releases "I'm Not in Love". = 10cc
In 1983 Israel & ---------- sign a peace treaty. = lebanon
In 1989 Nelson ---------- recieves a BA from University of South Africa. = mandela
In 526 St ---------- ends his reign as Catholic Pope. = john i
In 1830 Edwin ---------- of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, the lawn mower. = budding
In 1868 ---------- last Russian tsar (1894-1917), born. = nicholas ii
In 1872 Bertrand ---------- England, mathematician/philosopher (Nobel 1950), born. = russell
In 1897 Frank ---------- movie director (Its a Wonderful Life, Arsenic & Old Lace), born. = capra
In 1900 Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of---------- . = tonga
In 1910 Passage of ---------- through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic. = earth
In 1912 Perry ---------- singer/TV (Perry Como Show, What did Delaware?), born. = como
In 1919 Dame Margot ---------- England, ballerina (partner of Nureyev), born. = fonteyn
In 1960 Yannick ---------- France, tennis player (French 1983), born. = noah
In 1965 Gene ---------- suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Captain. = roddenberry
In 1980 Ian ---------- musician (Joy Division), dies. = curtis
In 1980 Mount ---------- blows its top in Washington State. = st helens
In 715 St ---------- begins his reign as Catholic Pope. = gregory ii
In 1536 Anne ---------- wife of Henry VIII, beheaded. = boleyn
In 1588 Spanish Armada sets sail for---------- , bound to England. = lisbon
In 1611 Innocent XI ---------- Roman Catholic pope (1676-89), born. = 240th
In 1890 ---------- trail blazer/leader of Vietnam (1946, 1969), born. = ho chi minh
In 1925 ---------- Omaha NB, assassinated leader of black muslims, born. = malcolm x
In 1928 "Firedamp" explodes in ---------- Pa coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners. = mather
In 1935 T.E. ---------- (of Arabia) dies in a motorcycle crash. = lawrence
In 1945 Peter ---------- singer (Who-Tommy), born. = townsend
In 1964 US diplomats find at least 40 secret mics in the ---------- embassy. = moscow
In 1966 Tortoise reportedly given to Tonga's king by Capt. ---------- (1773), dies. = cook
In 1971 Ogden ---------- poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 68. = nash
In 1971 USSR launches---------- , 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars. = mars 2
In 1976 ---------- ownership legalized in Australia. = gold
In 1979 Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti---------- . = boyd
Nicosia is the capital of which island  = cyprus
The musician Stephane Grappelli was famous for playing which instrument = violin
Of which country was Anwar Sadat the president = egypt
Ferdinand Marcos was the president of which country = philippines
The Dead Sea lies on the border of Israel and which other country = jordan
Which character was played by Roger Mooore in 'The Saint' = simon templar
The Golden Temple at Amritsar is sacred to which religion = sikhism
In which field were the Boulting Brothers famous = cinema
A yarmulka is a skullcap worn by followers of which religion = judaism
What is a yarmulka = a skullcap
TV /Movies:Hugo Drax was the villian of which James Bond book and film = moonraker
TV /Movies:The song 'Evergreen' features in which Barbra Streisand film = a star is born
The Ural mountains are mainly in which country = russia
In which country are the Southern Alps = new zealand
The Santa Maria was the ship of which explorer = christopher columbus
What kind of bird is a macaw = parrot
Typically, which type of literary form is an elegy = poem
What is the modern name for Petrograd = st. petersburg
What are seraphim and cherubim = ranks of angels
A popular climbing plant with sweet smelling flowers = sweet pea
On which continent is the Limpopo River = africa
What is a bantam = chicken
Where in the world is El Salvador = central america
Complete the title of the Charles Dickens novel 'Martin = chuzzlewit
TV /Movies:Who was the male star in the film The Beach = leonardo dicaprio
What term is applied to the widow of a king = queen dowager
Which car manufaturer produces a model called the 'Laguna' = renault
What type of creature is a pollack = fish
TV /Movies:What type of dog is Lady in the cartoon 'Lady and the Tramp' = cocker spaniel
Which US state has the postal abbreviation IN = indiana
Which Shakespeare play features the line 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark = hamlet
What is dermatophobia the fear of = skin
In which century was the first skyscraper built = 19th
What nationality is the novelist Norman Mailer = american
What is the maximum number of consecutive terms that a US president can now serve = two
TV /Movies:Who played the title roll in the 1938 film 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' = errol flynn
TV /Movies:Who played the suave thief,Sir Charles Lytton, in the film The Pink Panther = david niven
What nationality is the artist Jackson Pollock = american
Andalusia is a region located in the south of which country = spain
What is the technical name for the collarbone = clavicle
Jupiter is the Roman name for which god of Greek mythology = zeus
Which planet in our solar system was discovered most recently = pluto
Which musical term means a mass for the dead = requiem
The Greek warrior Odysseus played a major role in which war = trojan
What type of creature is a basilisk = lizard
In which European country do one hundred grochen equal one schilling = austria
TV /Movies:Which film actor began his climb to stardom in the TV cowboy series 'Rawhide' = clint eastwood
Charcoal is made by heating what = wood
Instruments made from tea chests and washboards were a feature of which specific type of music = skiffle
Sephardim are followers of which religion = judaism
Which ballet company is based at the Maryinsky Theatre = kirov ballet
In German towns, what is the S-bahn = railway
A 'schipperke' is a breed of which animal = dog
TV /Movies:Who is the star of the 2000 film 'The Patriot' = mel gibson
In yoga how is the lotus position performed = sitting cross-legged
What does the word 'maudlin' mean = self-pitying
The cap and bells formed the insignia of which group of people = jesters
TV /Movies:The song 'A Whole New World' comes from which Disney film = aladdin
In the abbreviation P & O, what does the O stand for = oriental
What type of book is a 'cahier' = note book
Who wrote the novel the Valley of the Dolls = jaqueline susann
Which American footballer won four Super Bowls with the San Francisco 49ers = joe montana
Which country was once ruled by a Mikado = japan
In literature who has a servant called Sanch Panza = don quixote
The book "Cry the Beloved Country' was set in which country = south africa
Who adopted the title 'Il Caudillo' = franco
Tristan da Cunha is an island group in which ocean = atlantic
What is the name of the hammer used by doctors to test a patient's reflexes = plexor
Which canal was nationalised in 1956 = suez
What is the name for a line of longitude on a map = meridian
Which term connects a type of match and a nickname for the Devil = lucifer
Which fish is pickled to make rollmops = herring
A rune is a letter of what ancient alphabet = germanic
What is the back of a ship called = stern
The name Felicity means what = happiness
What is a 'shillelagh' = cudgel
Which dog name is a slang term for a detective = bloodhound
Who would be described as a 'sophomore' = student
What name is given to young herrings = whitebait
Pitcairn Island was settled by crew members of which ship = bounty
What was the favourite colour of the novelist Barbra Cartland = pink
What type of drug would be used to treat hay fever = antihistamine
What name is given to an army chaplain = padre
Which compny makes the perfume 'Coco' = chanel
Geographically, what is an eddy = whirlpool
Paul Newman married which actress = joanne woodward
Fianna Fail is a political party in which country = ireland
What nationality is the singer/actress Bjork = icelandic
The Rialto Bridge is associated with which canal = grand
Complete the title of this Travis song 'Why Does it Always.... = rain on me
What is the name for the load line on a ship = plimsoll line
What is the smallest independent country in South America = surinam
Who married the actor Liam Neeson = natasha richardson
The word 'bus' is shortened from which other word = omnibus
What was the last name of Isadora, the famous dancer = duncan
Which 20th century king reigned for less than a year = edward viii
Nantucket Island is part of which American state = massachusetts
Sepia is obtained from which sea creature = cuttlefish
What is the name given to a type of fossil resin = amber
What was the first name of Baden-Powell the founder of the Scout movement = robert
Mir is the highest point in which mountain range = hindu kush
Peter Sellers had a top ten hit in 1960 with which other film star = sophia loren
Which oscar winning actress married media mogul Ted Turner in 1991 = jane fonda
Who won the 1980 Pullitzer prize for literature for 'The Executioner's Song' = norman mailer
Jazz musician Bud Powell was best known for playing what instrument = piano
A Victoria Cross is struck from gun metal of Russian cannons captured at which battle = sebastopol
What is an 'ocarina' = wind instrument
What is the largest species of toad = cane toad
Albert Einstein worked at which American university = princeton
Which New Mexico town adopted the name of a radio quiz show = truth or consequences
In which year was the sculptor and painter Alberto Giacommetti born = 1901
Bougainville is part of which island group = solomon
How many novels did Anthony Trollope write = 47
Papeete is the capital of which overseas area of France = french polynesia
In which year was prohibition repealed in the USA = 1933
What nationality was the playwright August Strindberg = swedish
What does the constellation Vulpecula represent = fox
What kind of creature is a 'hoatzin' = bird
A marigraph is an instrument which records what = tide level
What kind of animal is a 'margay' = cat
Bodrum in Turkey is on the site of which famous city = halicarnassus
A 'dybbuk' is an evil spirit in which folklore = jewish
The Admiralty islands are part of which country = papua new guinea
The Cassini division is associated with which planet = saturn
What was the real first name of Tennessee Williams = thomas
Burke and Wills are most associated with the exploration of which continent = australia
Nephrite is a variety of which substance = jade
The conqueror Temujin was better known by what name = genghis khan
In which country is the city of Samarkand = uzbekistan
What is the birthstone of someone born on Christmas Day = turquoise
The extinct elephant bird was native to which island = madagascar
The coelacanth, once thought to be extinct,  is what kind of creature = fish
In mythology who continued to weep after she had been turned to stone = niobe
In the Bible who was the mother of Ishmael = hagar
Who wrote the novel 'King Solomon's Mines' =  h rider haggard
In India who or what is a 'dacoit' = robber
What kind of creatures are 'ratites' = birds
What nationality was the artist Hieronymus Bosch = dutch
Which part of the body is affected by the condition "blepharism' = eyelid
Who wrote the poem 'Hudibras' = samuel butler
Malcolm Cooper is an Olympic gold medal winner in which sport = shooting
Which island is called Kalaallit Nunaat in its own language = greenland
King Ludwig of Bavaria was patron of which composer = wagner
Which Pacific republic was formerly known as the New Hebrides = vanuatu
Which musical instrument has a mouthpiece called a 'fipple' = recorder
Which palace was built by Henry VIII on the site of a leper hospital = saint james's
Worn in ancient Greece what was a 'petasus' = hat
What does 'll Trovatore', as in the opera, mean = the troubador
In which city would you find the Hancock Tower and Filene's bargain basement = boston, mass
By what name is Jacopo Robusti better known = tintoretto
Which two US Presidents shared 1924 as the year of their birth = george bush & jimmy carter
Whose latest bestseller is entitled' look to Windward' = lain m banks
Place the following musical terms in order of increasing speed Lento, Largo, Andante, Allegro and Presto = lento, largo, andante, allegro and presto
Which Gilbert and Sullivan Opera is subtitled The Slave of Duty = pirates of penzance
Where would you find the volcano loki = on jupiter's moon i0
What is the opening line of the Star Spangled Banner = oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What was Winston Churchill's only novel = savrola
Westminster Abbey was originally a monastery of which order of monks = benedictines
Which word can precede the following; -count -bath -bank = blood
Where would you find tricounis, clinkers and muggers = on the soles of old hiking boots
Written by Richard Ford, and made into a box office smash at the cinema, which book won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction = independence day
Which German City is the home to the Becks brewery = bremen
What was set up in 1792 due to the treat of a French Invasion, and published its first official series in 1805 = ordnance survey
What is meant by the cookery term ' A La Crecy' = served with carrots
Madonna has had 8 number 1 's in the UK singles chart, yet her best selling single only reached number 3. Name it = like a virgin
Which polar explorer died in a plane crash, while searching for a missing Italian airship = ronald amundsen
Known as 'England's Darling' who led a resistance against William the Conqueror, on the Isle of Ely in 1070 = hereward the wake
Which beer was first brewed in Leuven in 1366 = stella artois
Which American author wrote the million pound sellers 'The Witches of Eastwick' and 'The Poorhouse Fair' = john updike
What was the name of the company founded by Prince Rupert in 1670 to trade furs with the North American Indians = hudson bay company
Who succeeded U Thant as Secretary General of the United Nations in 1972 = kurt waldheim
Which John Wayne film was a hit for Ultravox in 1982 = reap the wild wind
At which sport did Yvonne McGregor win a bronze medal for Great Britain at the Sydney Olympics = cycling
Which fictional character first appeared in 194 i, when she came to America from her Amazon homeland of Paradise Island to help the US defeat the Nazis = diana prince = wonder woman
In which US City is the TV programme' Ali McBeal' based = boston
Two islands are situated in San Francisco harbour. One is Alcatraz, name the other = angel island
Which comic book hero, with an alter ego of Steve Rogers, did Joe Simon and Jack Kirby create = captain america
Which railway station in London, designed by Edward Wilson and opened in 1874, serves East Anglia = :liverpool street
From which London jail did Ronnie Biggs escape in 1965 = wandsworth
Harrison Ford's performance in which film earned him his only Best Actor nomination = witness
In the Bible, who is recorded in' Acts' as purchasing a plot of land known as Potter's Field = judas iscariot
Which British animal has the scientific name Meles Meles = badger
Who led the revolt against Henry III during the Baron Wars of 1264 to 1267 = simon de montfort
Prior to their 1999 UK number 1 hit 'Maria', which record was Blondie's last number 1 in the UK singles chart = the tide is high
Which band were named after a 1950 film starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders and Celeste Holm = all about eve
Which mythical land was supposed to lie between Cornwall and the Scilly Isles = l yonesse
Which car manufacturer takes its name from the Latin for 'I roll' = volvo
The battlefield of Austerlitz is in which modern day country = czech republic
In which Isle of Wight town would you find the History of Smuggling Museum = ventnor
Mentioned in many westerns, which Texan city, situated at the base of the Franklin Mountains, stands on the Rio Grande = el paso
The roadrunner, found in the deserts of North America, is a member of which bird family = cuckooo
In film, collectively, how were Gabriel Byme, Stephen Baldwin, Benico Del Toro, Kevin Pollock and Kevin Spacey known in 1995 = usual suspects
What creature is the subject of Roald Dahl's children's book Esio Trot = tortoise
Name the year. South African police kill 56 people in Shatpeville, Israeli intelligence agents capture Adolf Eichmann, and Nigeria gains its independence. = 1960
A bottle of wine originating from the Mondavi coastal vineyard is produced in which country = u s a
Which British animal has the scientific name Lutra Lutra = otter
In children's literature what was the name that appeared over the door of 'Winnie the Pooh's house = mr sanders
During the time of the Roman occupation it was known as Lutetia. How is it known today = paris
Name the year. Walt Disney dies, Hastings Banda becomes Malawi's first President, and Nelson's pillar in O'Connell Street, Dublin is blown up = 1966
The Romans called it Venta Belgarum. What is it called today = winchester
According to the song, in which city was 'The House of the Rising Sun' = new orleans
A bottle of wine originating from the 'Nobilo' vineyards, is produced in which country = new zealand
In the Old Testament, who consulted the Witch of Endor = king saul
Which one word links a Scottish river, the captain of the New Zealand Rugby Union team, and a BBC comedy programme = blackadder
In which battle of 1571 did the combined Spanish and Venetian forces defeat the Turkish navy = lepanto
Which is the largest member of the kingfisher family = kookaburra
Which one word connects Illinois, Mary O'Brien and 'The Simpsons' = springfield
In Greek mythology, who turned Odysseus's men into pigs = circe
In which battle of 1709 did the allied English army under Marlborough defeat French force led by Marshal Villars = malplaquet
The pop star 'Moby' is the great-grandson ofwhich famous author = herman mel ville
Which Marx Brothers film features a bunch of Nazis trying to make off with stolen treasure = a night in casablanca
What term can describe a cheap disreputable nightclub, and a style of ragtime piano playing = honky tonk
76. The first UK Top 10 chart appeared in November 1952 when A1 Martino was No 1 with 'Here in my Heart'. Who had three songs in that first top 10 chart = vera lynn
Which fishing port in California was the setting for Steinbeck's novels 'Cannery Row' and 'Tortilla Flat' = monterrey
Fu Manchu was the adversary of which Scotland Yard detective = nayland smith
What was the name given to the 3rd Indian Division that operated under the command of Brigadier Wingate during World War II = chindits
Which gangster was shot dead by the FBI on 22 July 1934 as he came out of the Biograph cinema in Chicago = john dillinger
Prior to David Coulthard this year, who was the last British driver to win the Monaco Grand Prix = jackie stewart
Bill Clinton is the first Democrat to be elected to two terms in office since which American President = franklin d roosevelt
Which Turkish town was the birthplace of St Paul = tarsus
What kind of animal is a civet = cat
Outside which building in London was Charles I executed = the banqueting house
What is the fruit of the 'Rubus fructicosus' = blackberry
What is the currency of Israel = shekel
Which country has the e-mail address '.ie' = republic of ireland
Who wrote the opera Rodelinda = handel
Which saint's emblem is two breasts on a dish = st agatha
Who carried the Union Jack at the opening ceremony in the Sydney Olympics = matthew pinsent
In which South/Central American country is the active volcano Arenal = costa rica
Whose debut album is named Hot = melanie b
Which bird family are the Anserinae = geese
Which Shakespeare play has only two female characters, Portia and Calpurnia = julius caesar
What is the common name of the plant Myosotis = forget me not
Where was the first beachhead established in the Falklands' War = san carlos
Who wrote From this Moment On = cole porter
What shape is the pasta conciglie = shell-shaped
The word ghetto is derived from the area in Venice where the Jews were confined. What does ghetto mean in Venetian dialect = foundry
In which opera do Ping, Pang and Pong appear = turandot
What can be described as a Flemish Bond = brickwork
Who in the 60s produced the 'Space Age' collection = pierre cardin
Who invented the World Wide Web = tim berners-lee
In which part of Britain did Boadicea's Iceni live = east anglia
An emmet is which type of a creature in old language = ant
In which city is the Grosvenor Museum situated = chester
What is the title of Geri Halliwell's recent book = if only = 
Which London house was the home of the Duke Of Wellington.  It was also known as No. 1 London. = apsley house
What kind of animal is a peccary = pig
What is the fruit of the Prunus Armeniaca = apricot
What is the currency of Holland = guilder
What country has the e-mail address '.za' = south africa
Who wrote the opera Fortinbras = schubert
Which saint's emblem is two eyes in a dish = st lucy
Who lit the Olympic flame at Sydney = cathy freeman
In which South/Central American country is the active volcano Cotopaxi = ecuador
Whose recent album is called Painting It Red = beautiful south
Who discovered the cholera micro-organism = koch
Whose last words were: 'Die, my dear Doctor, that is the last thing I shall do!' = lord palmerston
Which bird family are the Columbidae = doves and pigeons
Which Shakespeare play has female characters, Bianca and Katherine = the taming of the shrew
What is the common name of the plant Nigella = love in a mist
Name the British nuclear submarine that sank the General Belgrano = hms conqueror
Who wrote Mountain Greenery = rodgers and hart
What shape is the pasta Farfalle = butterfly-shaped
Which two of New York's boroughs are actually islands = manhattan & staten island
What colour is the left hand circle of the Olympic rings = blue
For which state was Al Gore a senator = tennessee
Which knight of the Round Table fought the Green Knight = sir gawain
In which musical is the song Day by Day = godspell
In which country is Bukhara = usbekistan
In which palace was Queen Elizabeth I born = greenwich
What is the name of the straits that separate Sicily from Italy = messina
According to the Old Testament, who was the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac = sarah
Who is the new President of Yugoslavia = vojislav kostunica
Which eponymous animal in a children's story had friends called Merrylegs and Ginger = black beauty
Don John of Austria, the victorious admiral at Lepanto, was the illegitimate son of which Holy Roman Emperor = charles v
If a dish is described as "a la forestiere" which ingredient must it contain = mushrooms
Name Dolly Parton's Smokey Mountain theme park = dollywood
Name the fourth book of the Old Testament = numbers
What type of fruit are "Lancashire Lad"  & "Langley Gage" = gooseberries
In the key of D major, which note is "Me" = f sharp
What is the capital of Slovenia = ljubljana
What is the main grape used in Chianti = sangiovese
What structure consisting of many blood cells, feeds the foetus during pregnancy = placenta
Which inert gas is a fission product of uranium nuclear reactors = xenon
Mexico shares a southern border with Guatamala and which other country = belize
Who makes the last speech in Shakespeare's "Macbeth" = malcolm
Traditionally what anniversary is your 55th = emerald
What car did Caractacus Potts drive = chitty chitty bang bang
Which European capital city has a bridge called the "Halfpenny Bridge" = dublin
What is the name of the staff carried by a bishop = crosier
Which British town did the Romans call DUBRIS = dover
Who composed "Ein Heldenleben" = richard strauss
Which Gilbert & Sullivan operetta contains the aria "The moon and I" = mikado
How many BTU's in a therm = 100,000
The love story of which writer is portrayed in the film ""Shadowlands" = c s lewis
Which two cities are linked by the M8 = glasgow & edinburgh
Which South American national flag consists of nine blue and white horizontal stripes with a golden sun in the top left corner = uruguay
Name 10 CC's first UK No 1 = rubber bullets
Who painted "Van Gogh painting sunflowers" = paul gauguin
What was the then title of the man who married Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923 = duke of york
The common garden flower TAGETES is a variety of which popular plant = marigold
Ramon Mercador assassinated whom = leon trotsky
Who makes the last speech in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" = octavian
Which Roman fortification ran from the Firth of Clyde to the Firth of Forth = antonine wall
Which Gilbert & Sullivan operetta contains the aria "Oh, Foolish Fay" = iolanthe
What is the capital of Macedonia = skopje
Why was Naga Jolokia in the news in August this year = the hottest chilli known
A dish described as "Lyonnaise" has which ingredient = onions
Don Carlos, subject of an opera by Verdi, was the half brother of which king of Spain = philip iii
What name is given to the small sac or cavity from which a hair grows = follicle
Which father and daughter starred in the film "Tiger Bay" = john & hayley mills
Which European city has a bridge called the "Donkey Bridge" = amsterdam
Name the fifth largest of the Channel Islands. = herm
The Timor sea and the Arafura sea are off the north coast of which country = australia
By what name was Robert Stroud better known = birdman of alcatraz
Which nation recently won the Alfred Dunhill Cup at St. Andrews = spain
What name is given to the cap worn by a cardinal = biretta
Which birth sign precedes Cancer = gemini
Who composed "Emilia de Liverpool" = donizetti
What is the key signature of E flat major = 3 flats
How many inches in a cubit = eighteen = 18
In country music, who is the "Coalminer's Daughter" = loretta lynn
What type of fruit are "Malling Jet" & "Wellington XXX" = blackcurrants
What is the main grape used in Barolo and Barbaresco = nebbiolo
What food did Tigga in Winnie the Pooh finally find he liked = extract of malt
Who is the second highest wicket taker in Test Cricket history = kapil dev
In which American state is the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor = pennysilvania
Which group's first album was called "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" = pink floyd
To which instrument does an orchestra normally tune = oboe
How precisely is the bird CYGNUS CYGNUS better known = whooper swan
Who in 1497 established the first Portuguese colony in India = vasco da gama
In Greek myth how were the children of Uranus & Gaea collectively known = the titans
Who wrote in 'Sonnets from the Portuguese "How do I love thee = let me count the ways."' = elizabeth browning
Which German city was the target of the first 'thousand bomber raid = cologne
Which battle took place in Leicestershire in 1485 = bosworth field
Oberon is a moon of which planet = uranus
Who was the husband of Jennie Van Westphalen = karl marx
On which Spanish costa would you find the resort of Alicante = costa blanca
Which king was known as 'The Hammer of the Scots' = edward i
Who wrote "The Nine Tailors" = dorothy l sayers
Which element, atomic number 74, takes its name from the Swedish for Heavy Stone = tungsten
Which holiday company is currently using the song "The Time of My Life" from "Dirty Dancing" to advertise its holidays = sandals
Fort Baxter, Kansas was the fictional setting for  which TV series = seargant bilko = phil silvers show
As at 29 October 2000 who is the Prime Minister of Canada = jean chretien
Which part of the body is affected by the condition stomatitis = mouth
In which town does the comic hero Desperate Dan live = cactusville
Which crime fiction writer's titles have an alphabetical theme. e.g A is for Alibi and E is for evidence. = sue grafton
In the Bible, who sold his birthright for a mess of potage = esau
A radian is a unit used to measure what = angle
As at 29 October 2000 who is the Prime Minister of Australia = john howard
Which film role links Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Olivia de Havilland and Audrey Hepburn = maid marian
Which crime fiction writer's titles have a numerical theme. e.g. 1 for the money, 2 for the Dough = janet evanovich
Name the English king who met King Francis 1st of  France on the Field of the Cloth of Gold. = henry vii
Circle, Parabola and Hyperbola are three 3 of the four curves known as the conic sections. Name the fourth. = ellipse
In which U.S. state is Fort Knox = kentucky
In the Bible, who built the Golden Calf for the Israelites to worship = aaron
Which part of the body is affected by the condition nephritis = kidneys
Which element, atomic number 55, takes its name from the Greek for heavy = barium
Who wrote "The Four Just Men" = edgar wallace
Charter 77 was an association of individuals devoted to the assertion of lost human rights in which European country = czechoslovakia
Which internet company is currently using the song "Puppy Love" to advertise its search engine = lycos
Which film and TV role links, Leslie Howard, David Niven, Barry K Barnes and Anthony Andrews = the scarlet pimpernel
Which European city is served by Cointrin airport = geneva
Where would you find the only freshwater seals in the world = lake baikal
What is the common name of the herb Melissa Officanalis = lemon balm
The Beach Boys had two British number one hits, "Good Vibrations" and which other = do it again
Who painted " Girl with Red Scarf and Black Trousers" = l s lowry
In which county is the National Trust property "Cotehele" = cornwall
Whose face was described as being "like a woollen mat" = noel coward
Name the seaport of Tokyo = yokohama
The prefix 'thio' in chemical compounds indicates the presence of which element = sulphur
Which actress appeared in "A Handful of Dust", "The English Patient" and "The Horse Whisperer" = kirstin scott thomas
Who designed the Palace of Westminster = sir charles barry
According to the Beatles, how many holes are there in Blackburn = 4000
Whose recent biography is entitled "Out of the Frying Pan" = keith floyd
Which Planet is 228 million kilometres from the Sun and has an orbital time of 1.88 years = mars
The English translation is "Ocean of Wisdom". How do we know the more common original = dalai lama
What was the pen-name of Eric Arthur Blair = george orwell
Who painted Six Bells, Abertillery, Rhondda = l s lowry
What does the SI prefix 'pico' mean = one millionth millionth
In which county is the National Trust property "Arlington Court" = devon
The United Nations building in New York was designed by whom = le corbusier
Which actor appeared in "Pulp Fiction", Reservoir Dogs" and "The Piano" = harvey keitel
According to the Beatles, upon what will there be a show for the benefit of Mr. Kite = trampoline
What is the name of the seaport of Perth, Western Australia = freemantle
An English translation is "Wind and Water". How do we know the more common original = feng shui
Which Planet is 2872 million kilometres from the Sun and has an orbital time of 84 years = uranus
Whose recent biography is entitled "Life in the Jungle" = michael hezeltine
Who was the last Danish king of England = hardicanute
Who directed John Wayne's last film "The Shootist" = don siegel
In what year was Joan of Arc burned at the stake = 1431
With what branch of the arts is Rudolf Von Laban associated = dance = ballet
Who won this year's Nobel peace prize = kim dae jung
Who was known as "The King of Swing" = benny goodman
In Greek mythology who was the wife of Orpheus, the subject of the earliest surviving opera by Peri = eurydice
Name The Year: Pres. Reagan shot and wounded by John W. Hinckley Jr. = 1981
Name The Year: Third Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 returns to Earth. = 1982
Name The Year: U.S. ends participation in multinational peace force in Lebanon. = 1984
Name The Year: Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule. = 1640
Name The Year: Charles and M.N. Roberts ascend 2,000' in a hydrogen balloon. = 1783
Name The Year: Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain. = 1821
Name The Year: Dom Pedro crowned emperor of Brazil. = 1822
Name The Year: Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao. = 1887
Name The Year: Continuous moving assembly line introduced by Ford (1 car every 2.5 minutes). = 1913
Name The Year: Iceland becomes independent state under the Danish crown. = 1918
Name The Year: Lady Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament. = 1919
Name The Year: BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe. = 1929
Name The Year: Sergei Kirov Josef Stalin's collaborator, assassinated in Leningrad. = 1934
Name The Year: Woody Allen [Allen Stuart Konigsberg] (Zelig, Annie Hall, Manhattan Murder Mystery), born. = 1935
Name The Year: Lee Trevino, golfer (US Open 1968,71), born. = 1939
Name The Year: Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use. = 1936
Name The Year: Richard Pryor, comedian/actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy), born. = 1940
Name The Year: Bette Midler, singer/actress (Do You Want to Dance?), born. = 1945
Name The Year: Aleister Crowley, occultist dies at 74. = 1947
Name The Year: Central African Rep made autonomous member of French Commonwealth (Nat'l Day). = 1958
Name The Year: 12 nations sign a treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica. = 1959
Name The Year: 1st color photograph of Earth from outer space. = 1959
Name The Year: Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea. = 1973
Name The Year: David Ben-Gurion founding father of Israel dies in Tel Aviv at 87. = 1973
Name The Year: Digging begins to link England and France under the English Channel. = 1987
Name The Year: Benazir Bhutto named 1st female PM of a Moslem country (Pakistan). = 1988
Name The Year: East Germany drops the communist monopoly from its constitution. = 1989
Name The Year: USSR Pres Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. = 1989
Name The Year: British and French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel). = 1990
Name The Year: Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks. = 1990
Name The Year: Lithauania, Estonia and Latvia hold their 1st joint session. = 1990
Name The Year: Inaugural AIDS awareness day. = 1991
Name The Year: Ukranian people vote for independence. = 1991
Name The Year: Napoleon becomes 1st French emperor, placing crown on his own head. = 1804
Name The Year: Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz. = 1805
Name The Year: Franz Josef I becomes emperor of Austria and King of Hungary. = 1848
Name The Year: 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor. = 1852
Name The Year: Georges Seurat France, painter/pointillist (Grande Jatte), born. = 1859
Name The Year: Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records, born. = 1906
Name The Year: The opera "Samson et Dalila" is produced (Rouen). = 1877
Name The Year: Gillette patents 1st disposable razor. = 1901
Name The Year: Randolph Hearst newspaper publisher, born. = 1915
Name The Year: 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction (University of Chicago). = 1942
Name The Year: Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg. = 1958
Name The Year: Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, & will lead Cuba to Communism. = 1961
Name The Year: Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars. = 1971
Name The Year: Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm ak Qiwain form the United Arab Emirates. = 1971
Name The Year: Monica Seles tennis star (French Open-1990), born. = 1973
Name The Year: Laos People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day). = 1975
Name The Year: 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (U of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with the Jarvic-7 heart. = 1982
Name The Year: Desi Arnaz actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), dies at 69. = 1986
Name The Year: "Naked Gun" premieres, a movie based on TV's "Police Squad". = 1988
Name The Year: 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany. = 1990
Name The Year: Charles VI [the Well-Beloved], king of France (1380-1422), born. = 1368
Name The Year: Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia. = 1586
Name The Year: Galileo perfects the telescope. = 1621
Name The Year: Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford. = 1678
Name The Year: Ludvig Baron Holberg, a founder of Danish & Norwegian literature, born. = 1684
Name The Year: Sir Rowland Hill introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840). = 1795
Name The Year: John Backus, inventor (FORTRAN computer language), born. = 1924
Name The Year: Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire", opens. = 1947
Name The Year: Ozzy Osbourne heavy metal musician, born. = 1948
Name The Year: Mel Smith author/comedian, born. = 1952
Name The Year: 1st human heart transplant performed (Dr Christian Barnard, S Africa). = 1967
Name The Year: Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet). = 1973
Name The Year: 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India. = 1984
Name The Year: A new war government takes office in France. = 1793
Name The Year: The Bulgarian Government adopts a Communist Constitution. = 1947
Name The Year: (AUSTRIA) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, dies aged 37. = 1791
Name The Year: (USA) Walt Disney born. = 1901
Name The Year: (FRANCE) Claude Monet, imperssionist painter, dies. = 1926
Name The Year: (USA) Ira Gershwin, composer, born. = 1896
Name The Year: NASA launch Pioneer III. = 1958
Name The Year: The Roman politician, Cicero, is slain. = 43BC
Name The Year: USA declares war on the Prussian-Hungarian forces, joining World War One on the side of the Allies. = 1917
Name The Year: Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour. The USA join Allies in fighting the Axis forces soon after. = 1941
Name The Year: (USA) Rube Goldberg, inventor and cartoonist, dies. = 1971
Name The Year: Weekly airmail route starts between Australia and the United Kingdom. = 1934
Name The Year: The Allies, along with Free France declare war on Japan. = 1941
Name The Year: Saidi, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden) dies. = 1292
Name The Year: Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32) = 1594
Name The Year: John Milton, poet and puritan (Paradise Lost) born. = 1608
Name The Year: Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willie) born. = 1898
Name The Year: Margaret Hamilton, actor (Wizard of Oz -- Wicked Witch of the West) born. = 1902
Name The Year: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, actor (Ghost Story) born. = 1909
Name The Year: Kirk Douglas, actor (Gunfight at the OK Corral, 7 Days in May) = 1918
Name The Year: Redd Foxx, actor (Sanford and Son), comedian, born. = 1922
Name The Year: Robert J.L. Hawke (Labor), prime minister of Australia (1983-1991) born. = 1929
Name The Year: Donny Osmond, singer born. = 1957
Name The Year: UN Gen Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide. = 1948
Name The Year: Tanganyika gains independence from Britain. = 1961
Name The Year: Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus. = 1978
Name The Year: Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demanding that he recant. = 1520
Name The Year: Thomas H. Gallaudet, pioneer of educating the deaf, born. = 1787
Name The Year: Cesar Franck (in Belgium), composer, born. = 1822
Name The Year: George Macdonald, Scottish novelist (Lilith), born. = 1824
Name The Year: Emily Dickinson (in Amherst, Mass), poet, born. = 1830
Name The Year: Melvil Dewey, created the Dewey Decimal System for libraries = 1851
Name The Year: Alfred Nobel dies; Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date. = 1896
Name The Year: Spanish-American War ends -- U.S. acquires Guam, Puerto Rico, the Phillipines, and Cuba from Spain. = 1898
Name The Year: First Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy). = 1901
Name The Year: Pres. Theodore Roosevelt (first American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize. = 1906
Name The Year: Dorothy Lamour (in New Orleans, LA), actor (Road to Bali), born. = 1914
Name The Year: UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration on Human Rights. = 1948
Name The Year: First Human Rights Day. = 1949
Name The Year: Susan Dey, actor (First Love, LA Law), born. = 1952
Name The Year: Nia Peeples born. = 1961
Name The Year: Zanzibar gains independence from Britain. = 1963
Name The Year: Israeli hmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature. = 1966
Name The Year: Singer Otis Redding dies in plane crash at 26. = 1967
Name The Year: Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station. = 1977
Name The Year: Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off. = 1982
Name The Year: South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize. = 1984
Name The Year: (US) Gugliemo Marconi sends the first wireless message across the Atlantic. = 1911
Name The Year: (Ireland) Martial Law Declared. = 1920
Name The Year: A general election results in a hung Parliament in the UK. James MacDonald, of the UK Labor Party wins the follow-up election next year. = 1923
Name The Year: (UK) King George V crowned Emperor of India and founds New Dehli to replace Calcutta as the capital. = 1911
Name The Year: (Germany) Hugo Junkers completes the first all metal airplane. = 1915
Name The Year: The first "motel" opens in California's San Luis Obispo. = 1925
Name The Year: Kenyan Independance Day. = 1964
Name The Year: US, Japan, UK & France sign a treaty aimed at controlling naval build-up in the Pacific Ocean. = 1921
Name The Year: Lebanon and Syria are made independent. = 1945
Name The Year: Amundsen of Norway reaches the south pole. = 1911
Name The Year: Women get the vote in Turkey = 1934
Name The Year: Portugese President Sidonio Paes is assassinated. = 1918
Name The Year: (Geneva, Switzerland) China and Austria added to Leauge of Nations = 1920
Name The Year: Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII, born. = 1485
Name The Year: English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Cromwell's Revolution. = 1689
Name The Year: Ludwig von Beethoven (in Bonn, Germany), composer, born. = 1770
Name The Year: Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor. Indians welcome. British unwelcome. = 1773
Name The Year: Jane Austen (in England), novelist (Pride and Prejudice), born. = 1775
Name The Year: George Santayana, philosopher, poet, humanist, born. = 1863
Name The Year: Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres. = 1893
Name The Year: Sir Noel Coward, playwright, born. = 1899
Name The Year: "Variety", covering all phases of show business, first published. = 1905
Name The Year: South Pole first reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen. = 1911
Name The Year: Arthur C. Clarke, science-fiction author (2001, Childhood's End), born. = 1917
Name The Year: Liv Ullman (in Tokyo, Japan), actor (Cries and Whispers), born. = 1939
Name The Year: Battle of the Bulge begins. = 1944
Name The Year: Gemini VI returns to Earth. = 1965
Name The Year: Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII. = 1538
Name The Year: France recognizes the independance of the 13 US colonies. = 1777
Name The Year: Sir Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements = 1778
Name The Year: Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City. = 1790
Name The Year: New York City traffic regulation creates the first one-way street. = 1791
Name The Year: "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published in London. = 1843
Name The Year: Violent bread riots at Montreal. = 1875
Name The Year: At 10:35AM, for 12 seconds, first sustained motorized aircraft flight (36 meters) by Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, NC. = 1903
Name The Year: Willard Frank Libby, invented carbon-14 "atomic clock", born. = 1908
Name The Year: Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands. = 1920
Name The Year: First movie opening simultaneously in major cities "On The Beach". = 1959
Name The Year: Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle). = 1979
Name The Year: Charles Wesley, cofounder of Methodist movement = 1707
Name The Year: Elizabeth, empress of Russia (to Peter the Great and Catherine I) = 1709
Name The Year: Antonio Stradivari, violin maker, dies. = 1737
Name The Year: Joseph Grimaldi, English pantomimist, "greatest clown in history" = 1779
Name The Year: William Bond obtains first photograph of moon through a telescope. = 1849
Name The Year: Paul Klee, Swiss abstract painter = 1879
Name The Year: Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (invented FM) = 1890
Name The Year: Auto speed record set -- 63 kph. = 1898
Name The Year: George Grant wins patent for his golf tee. = 1899
Name The Year: Willy Brandt (SD), chancellor of West Germany (1969-74) (Nobel '71) = 1913
Name The Year: Betty Grable (in St. Louis, MO), actor = 1916
Name The Year: Mohammed Ali, boxer = 1942
Name The Year: Keith Richard, guitarist (Rolling Stones) = 1943
Name The Year: Uruguay joined the United Nations. = 1945
Name The Year: Steven Spielberg, director (Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc.) = 1947
Name The Year: Japan admitted to the United Nations. = 1956
Name The Year: Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day). = 1958
Name The Year: India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu. = 1961
Name The Year: Borman and Lovell Splash down in Atlantic. Ends two week Gemini VII flight. = 1965
Name The Year: The British parliament voted for the abolition of death penalty. = 1969
Name The Year: US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam. = 1972
Name The Year: Soyuz 13 launched into earth orbit for 8 days. = 1973
Name The Year: Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin suffered a fatal heart attack at 76. = 1980
Name The Year: UN Security Council unanimously condemns 'acts of hostage-taking'. = 1985
Name The Year: Philip V, first Bourbon king of Spain (1700-46) = 1683
Name The Year: Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe). = 1686
Name The Year: Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack". = 1732
Name The Year: Vitus Bering, Dutch navigator and explorer, died. = 1741
Name The Year: Thomas Paine publishes his first 'American Crisis' essay. = 1776
Name The Year: Sir William Parry, British Arctic explorer = 1790
Name The Year: Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer, women's suffrage leader = 1821
Name The Year: Leonid Brezhnev (in Ukraine), Soviet statesman, in the Ukraine = 1906
Name The Year: Jean Genet, French novelist and playwright (The Blacks) = 1910
Name The Year: British Broadcasting Corp. began transmitting overseas. = 1932
Name The Year: War broke out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacked the French. = 1946
Name The Year: Jennifer Beals (in Chicago), actor (Flashdance) = 1963
Name The Year: Alyassa Milano, actor (Who's the Boss) = 1972
Name The Year: Apollo 17 returns to Earth. = 1972
Name The Year: USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile. = 1986
Name The Year: Russian calendar adjusted so Russian New Year occurs on January 1st, instead of September 1st. = 1699
Name The Year: Turkey cedes the island of Crete to the Egyptians. = 1832
Name The Year: Assorted Russian republics form together to found the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. = 1922
Name The Year: (USA) John Steinbeck, author, died. = 1968
Name The Year: Five year truce between England and Scotland began. = 1491
Name The Year: Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman, born. = 1804
Name The Year: Josef Stalin, Russian dictator, born. = 1879
Name The Year: (England) F. Scott Fitzgerald, author, died. = 1940
Name The Year: Ecuador and Iraq join the United Nations. = 1945
Name The Year: N.A.S.A. launch Apollo 8 to fly around the moon. = 1968
Name The Year: Dominican Order of Friars confirmed by the Pope. = 1216
Name The Year: J. Arthur Rank, USA filmmaker, born. = 1888
Name The Year: Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, died. = 1913
Name The Year: Coelacanth, a fish thought to have been extinct for 65 million years caught of the coast of South Africa. = 1938
Name The Year: St. Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible. = 1569
Name The Year: (Italy) Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn. = 1672
Name The Year: (England) John Flamsteed observes Uranus but doesn't realize it's undiscovered. = 1690
Name The Year: (Scotland) Richard Arkwright, invented spinning frame. = 1732
Name The Year: Alexander I, tsar of Russia (1801-25), born. = 1777
Name The Year: George Washington resigned as US Army's commander-in-chief. = 1783
Name The Year: Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics. = 1790
Name The Year: (USA) Joesph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, born. = 1805
Name The Year: Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs. = 1834
Name The Year: (Italy) Jose Greco, dancer, born. = 1918
Name The Year: Ireland divided into two parts, each with its own parliament. = 1920
Name The Year: (USA) Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley in Bell Labs. = 1947
Name The Year: PM Tojo, 6 other Japanese hung for war crimes by US. = 1948
Name The Year: Borman, Lovell and Anders first men to orbit moon. = 1968
Name The Year: Earthquake destroys central Managua, Nicaragua. = 1972
Name The Year: Six Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices. = 1973
Name The Year: (USA) Rutan and Yeager make first around-the-world flight without refueling. = 1986
Name The Year: Vasco da Gama Portuguese navigator dies in Cochin, India. = 1524
Name The Year: "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day. = 1818
Name The Year: James Prescott Joule, physicist, born. = 1818
Name The Year: Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening. = 1871
Name The Year: Bicycle with a back-pedal brake patented. = 1889
Name The Year: Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire/inventor, born. = 1905
Name The Year: Fritz Leiber, writer, born. = 1910
Name The Year: Anwar El Sadat, president of Egypt, born. = 1918
Name The Year: Ava Gardner, actress, born. = 1922
Name The Year: Albania becomes a republic. = 1924
Name The Year: FDR appoints Gen Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces. = 1943
Name The Year: 4th French republic established. = 1946
Name The Year: United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via the UN. = 1951
Name The Year: Laos gains its independence. = 1954
Name The Year: Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek. = 1964
Name The Year: Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target. = 1990
Name The Year: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Soviet Union. = 1991
Name The Year: 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded by Columbus = 1492
Name The Year: Charles Babbage, English inventor (calculating machine), born = 1792
Name The Year: Jimmy Connors, tennis player, born = 1952
Name The Year: Lars Ulrich, Danish/US heavy metal drummer (Metallica-Kill 'em All), born = 1963
Name The Year: Beatles release "I Want To Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There" = 1963
Name The Year: Harry Truman, 33rd US Pres (1945-53), dies in KC Mo at 88 = 1972
Name The Year: 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours = 1973
Name The Year: (USA) Plane broke height altitude record at 11474 feet. = 1910
Name The Year: (England) Charles Babbage, mathematician and developer of the speedometer, born. = 1791
Name The Year: (USA) Coffee Percolator invented. = 1865
Name The Year: Louis Pasteur, French bacteriologist, born. = 1822
Name The Year: (France) Ether first used as an anasthetic in childbirth = 1845
Name The Year: (Germany) Marlene Dietrich, actress, born. = 1901
Name The Year: (France) Gerard Depardieu, actor, born. = 1948
Name The Year: Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II = 1170
Name The Year: Bowling ball invented = 1862
Name The Year: Mary Tyler Moore, Brooklyn, actress (Mary Tyler Moore, Ordinary People), born = 1937
Name The Year: Jon Voight, Yonkers, NY, actor (Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy), born = 1938
Name The Year: Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II) = 1940
Name The Year: Ted Danson, SD Calif, actor (Sam Malone-Cheers, 3 Men & a Baby), born = 1947
Name The Year: Nikolai Andrianov, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1972, 76, 80), born = 1952
Name The Year: Star Trek's "Trouble With Tribbles" 1st airs = 1967
Name The Year: Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director (Stalker), dies at 54 = 1986
Name The Year: Frank Thring, Australian actor (El Cid, Ben-Hur), dies at 68 = 1994
Name The Year: Shane Warne takes a hat-trick v England at cricket MCG = 1994
Name The Year: (USA) Richard Clayderman, pianist, born. = 1953
Name The Year: (USA) Denzel Washington, actor, born. = 1954
Name The Year: (Messina, Italy) Earthquake (nearly 80,000 died). = 1908
Name The Year: Chinese troops crossed the 38th Parallel in Korea. = 1950
Name The Year: John Wycliffe English religious reformer, bible translator, dies. = 1384
Name The Year: (France) Henri Matisse, impressionist painter, born. = 1869
Name The Year: (USA) Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp. = 1879
Name The Year: (USA) The opera "The Pirates of Penzance" is produced (NYC). = 1879
Name The Year: Ellis Island (NYC) opens as a US immigration depot. = 1890
Name The Year: Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898). = 1897
Name The Year: (USA) For the 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal the new year. = 1907
Name The Year: (Wales) Anthony Hopkins, actor, born. = 1937
Name The Year: (England) Ben Kingsley, Scarborough, actor, born. = 1943
Name The Year: (USA) John Denver singer, born. = 1943
Name The Year: (USA) Ratification of UN Charter completed. = 1945
Name The Year: (USA) President Truman officially proclaims end of WW-II. = 1946
Name The Year: (USA) 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced. = 1951
Name The Year: (USA) Val Kilmer, actor, born. = 1959
Name The Year: (USA) 1st performance of the Beach Boys. = 1961
Name The Year: Katanga becomes part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. = 1962
Name The Year: Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa. = 1977
Name The Year: Brunei gains complete independence from Britain. = 1983
Name The Year: Clark Gable, actor (didn't give a damn about Scarlet O'Hara) = 1901
Name The Year: The first armored car is introduced. = 1920
Name The Year: First telecast of atomic explosion. = 1951
Name The Year: First X-ray moving picture process demonstrated. = 1951
Name The Year: Rick James, musician = 1952
Name The Year: Princess Stephanie of Monaco = 1965
Name The Year: Lisa Marie Presley, actress = 1968
Name The Year: Sonny and Cher resumes on TV despite real life divorce. = 1976
Name The Year: Talleyrand, French statesman and diplomat, born. = 1754
Name The Year: First shipload of Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco, CA. = 1848
Name The Year: Mexico sells U.S. Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona. = 1848
Name The Year: National Baseball League formed with 8 teams. = 1876
Name The Year: S.S. Strathleven arrives in London with first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia. = 1880
Name The Year: James Joyce, writer, born. = 1882
Name The Year: Lie detector first used in court at Portage, WI. = 1935
Name The Year: Farrah Fawcett-Major (in Texas), actress (Charlie's Angels), born. = 1947
Name The Year: Christie Brinkley, model, born. = 1954
Name The Year: 8 of the 9 planets aligned for the first time in 400 years. = 1962
Name The Year: "Late Night with David Letterman" premiers. = 1981
Name The Year: Horace Greeley, editor (told young men to go west), born. = 1811
Name The Year: World's first commercial cheese factory is established in Switzerland. = 1815
Name The Year: Gertrude Stein, writer, born. = 1874
Name The Year: Norman Rockwell, artist, born. = 1894
Name The Year: James Michener, writer, born. = 1907
Name The Year: Yalta Conference agreed that Russia would enter WWII against Japan. = 1945
Name The Year: Morgan Fairchild (in Dallas, TX), actress, born. = 1950
Name The Year: "Meet the Beatles" goes gold. = 1964
Name The Year: Luna 9, first lunar landing. = 1966
Name The Year: Tenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 4 is launched. = 1984
Name The Year: J.W. Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to the public. = 1824
Name The Year: At Montgomery, Alabama, the Confederate States are organized. = 1861
Name The Year: Charles A. Lindburgh, 'Lucky Lindy', born. = 1902
Name The Year: First Winter Olympics held at Lake Placid, NY. = 1932
Name The Year: First radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E). = 1936
Name The Year: Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin began a conference at Yalta. = 1945
Name The Year: Dan Quayle, U.S. Vice-president (1989-1992), alleged twit, born. = 1947
Name The Year: Alice Cooper, musician, born. = 1948
Name The Year: Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from Britain. = 1948
Name The Year: The Reshef - Israel's missile boat - is unveiled. = 1973
Name The Year: Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was installed as president of Iran. = 1980
Name The Year: Dwight Lyman Moody, evangelist, born. = 1837
Name The Year: John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire, born. = 1840
Name The Year: Belle Starr, entertainer of the wild west, born. = 1848
Name The Year: Andre-Gustave Citroen, French automaker, born. = 1878
Name The Year: Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premiers. = 1887
Name The Year: Adlai E. Stevenson, statesman, born. = 1900
Name The Year: Red Buttons, comedian, actor, born. = 1919
Name The Year: N.Y. Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium. = 1921
Name The Year: FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, plan failed because critics feared it would allow "court packing" in his favor. = 1937
Name The Year: Charlotte Rampling (in England), actress, born. = 1946
Name The Year: Barbara Hershey (in Atlanta, Georgia), actress, born. = 1948
Name The Year: Bobby Brown, singer, married to Whitney Houston, born. = 1969
Name The Year: New Zealand Day = 1840
Name The Year: English Admiral Robert Fitzroy issues storm warnings for ships putting out to sea, creating the first "weather forecast." = 1861
Name The Year: George Herman 'Babe' Ruth, born. = 1895
Name The Year: Spanish-American War ends. = 1900
Name The Year: Ronald Reagan, 40th President (1981-1989), born. = 1911
Name The Year: Zsa Zsa Gabor (in Budapest), actress, ex-con, born. = 1919
Name The Year: Tom Brokaw, journalist, born. = 1940
Name The Year: Natalie Cole (in Los Angeles, CA), singer, born. = 1950
Name The Year: Elizabeth II becomes queen of Great Britain. = 1952
Name The Year: Jean-Claude "Papa Doc" Duvalier is forced to leave Haiti. = 1986
Name The Year: John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements, born. = 1804
Name The Year: Charles Dickens (in England), author, born. = 1812
Name The Year: Ballet introduced to the U.S. at Bowery Theatre, New York City. = 1827
Name The Year: Last bare knuckle champion John L. Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss. = 1882
Name The Year: The assault on Anzio begins. = 1944
Name The Year: Garth Brooks, C&W singer, born. = 1962
Name The Year: Soyuz 24 is launched. = 1977
Name The Year: Mary Queen of Scots executed. = 1587
Name The Year: Jules Verne (in France), author who pioneered what later became science fiction, born. = 1828
Name The Year: Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen. = 1883
Name The Year: Chester F. Carlson, invented xerography, born. = 1906
Name The Year: Gypsy Rose Lee (in Seattle, WA), stripper, born. = 1914
Name The Year: Lana Turner (in Wallace, Idaho), actress, born. = 1920
Name The Year: Radio arrives in the White House. = 1922
Name The Year: Jack Lemmon, actor, born. = 1925
Name The Year: James Dean, actor (Rebel Without a Cause), born. = 1931
Name The Year: Nick Nolte, actor, born. = 1940
Name The Year: Mia Farrow (in Los Angeles, CA), actress, born. = 1945
Name The Year: Gary Coleman, actor, born. = 1968
Name The Year: Skylab 4's astronauts land. = 1974
Name The Year: Soyuz T-10 is launched. = 1984
Name The Year: Christian V became King of Denmark and Norway. = 1670
Name The Year: Russian cruisers Variag and Korietz sunk off Korean coast by Japanese. = 1904
Name The Year: (USA) Gypsy Rose Lee, stripper, born. = 1914
Name The Year: Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War. = 1763
Name The Year: Charles Lamb (in England), writer, born. = 1775
Name The Year: YWCA is founded in New York City. = 1870
Name The Year: Jimmy Durante, comedian, born. = 1893
Name The Year: Bertolt Brecht, born. = 1898
Name The Year: Robert Wagner, actor, born. = 1930
Name The Year: Roberta Flack (in North Carolina), singer, born. = 1940
Name The Year: Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga Choo Choo" goes gold. = 1942
Name The Year: Mark Spitz, swimmer, born. = 1950
Name The Year: Greg Norman, golfer, born. = 1955
Name The Year: Thomas Alva Edison (in New Jersey), inventor who lit up your life, born. = 1847
Name The Year: Major streets lit by coal gas for first time. = 1854
Name The Year: Eva Gabor (Budapest, Hungary), actress (Green Acres), born. = 1921
Name The Year: Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome. = 1929
Name The Year: Pumping begins to build Treasure Island, San Francisco. = 1936
Name The Year: Burt Reynolds, actor, born. = 1936
Name The Year: Sergio Mendes, artist, born. = 1941
Name The Year: Tenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 4 returns to Earth. = 1984
Name The Year: Santiago, Chile founded. = 1541
Name The Year: Abraham Lincoln, 16th President (1861-1865), born. = 1802
Name The Year: Charles Darwin, evolutionist, born. = 1809
Name The Year: First New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska and Siberia) begins. George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel. = 1908
Name The Year: Lorne Greene, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), born. = 1915
Name The Year: Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. = 1915
Name The Year: Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premieres in Carnegie Hall. = 1924
Name The Year: Maud Adams (in Sweden), born. = 1946
Name The Year: Joanna Kerns, actress, born. = 1953
Name The Year: "Blue Danube" waltz premiers in Vienna. = 1867
Name The Year: Emanuel Ungaro, fashion designer, born. = 1933
Name The Year: George Segal, actor, banjo player, born. = 1934
Name The Year: "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail and fine detail drawing. Thanks Hal. = 1937
Name The Year: Stockard Channing (in New York), born. = 1944
Name The Year: Israel acquires 4 of the 7 dead sea scrolls = 1955
Name The Year: Alexander Graham Bell files an application for a patent for the telephone. = 1876
Name The Year: John Barrymore, actor, born. = 1882
Name The Year: Benjamin Kubelski (AKA Jack Benny), actor, comedian, born. = 1894
Name The Year: James Pike, clergyman, born. = 1913
Name The Year: Jimmy Hoffa, missing labor leader, born. = 1913
Name The Year: USSR calendar conversion. = 1918
Name The Year: St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed by rivals disguised as cops (The Night Chicago Died). = 1929
Name The Year: Florence Henderson (in Indiana), actress (Alice in The Brady Bunch), born. = 1934
Name The Year: Gregory Hines, actor, dancer, born. = 1946
Name The Year: Element 103, lawrencium, first produced in Berkeley, California lab. = 1961
Name The Year: Mrs. Kennedy gives the TV audience a tour of the White House. = 1962
Name The Year: John and Yoko guest-host The Mike Douglas Show for the entire week. = 1972
Name The Year: Galileo Galilei, astronomer, born. = 1564
Name The Year: English standing army first founded. = 1645
Name The Year: Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker, born. = 1797
Name The Year: Susan B. Anthony, Woman's suffaregette, born. = 1820
Name The Year: John Barrymore, actor, born. = 1882
Name The Year: First Teddy Bear introduced in America. Made by Morris and Rose Michtom, Russian immigrants. = 1903
Name The Year: Cesar Romero, actor who played the Joker in the TV version of Batman, born. = 1907
Name The Year: Yuan Shik-K'ai elected the first President of the Republic of China. = 1912
Name The Year: Harvey Korman, actor, born. = 1927
Name The Year: Jane Seymour [Joyce Frankenberg], Middlesex England, actress (Dr Quinn, East of Eden, Lassiter), born. = 1951
Name The Year: Production announced-first pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds. = 1955
Name The Year: Li Hung Chang, chinese statesman, born. = 1823
Name The Year: Ladies Home Journal begins publication. = 1883
Name The Year: Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film, born. = 1884
Name The Year: First airplane flight to Los Angeles from San Francisco. = 1914
Name The Year: Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun. = 1923
Name The Year: First radio-telescope news messages transmitted from U.S. to England. = 1923
Name The Year: Nylon patented by W. H. Carothers. = 1937
Name The Year: US forces land on Corregidor (complete conquest on March 3). = 1945
Name The Year: First commercially designed helicopter tested at Bridgeport, CT. = 1946
Name The Year: James Ingram. actor, born. = 1956
Name The Year: Fidel Castro became Premier of Cuba. = 1959
Name The Year: John McEnroe, tennis player, brat, born. = 1959
Name The Year: Andy Taylor, guitarist with Duran Duran, born. = 1961
Name The Year: First all solid propellant rocket put into orbit from Wallops Island, VA. = 1961
Name The Year: Beatles second appearance on Ed Sullivan. = 1964
Name The Year: Heathen religions banned in Poland. = 1387
Name The Year: Moliere, French Dramatist, died = 1673
Name The Year: Frederick Krupp, Arms manufacturer, born = 1854
Name The Year: Samuel S. McClure, organizer of the first news syndicate, born = 1857
Name The Year: Sardines were first canned, in Eastport, Maine. = 1876
Name The Year: First telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones. = 1878
Name The Year: Geronimo, Apache Indian Chief, died = 1909
Name The Year: Battle of Eniwetok Atoll (U.S. victory on Feb 22). = 1944
Name The Year: St. Clare of Assissi declared patron saint of television. = 1958
Name The Year: Hal Holbrook, actor, born. = 1925
Name The Year: Alan Bates, actor, born. = 1934
Name The Year: Pat Morrow (in Los Angeles), actor (Peyton Place), born. = 1945
Name The Year: Lou Diamond Philips, actor, born. = 1962
Name The Year: Michael Jordan, gravity-defying hoopster, born. = 1963
Name The Year: Queen Mary I, first reigning queen of Great Britain, born. = 1516
Name The Year: Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented the electric battery, born. = 1745
Name The Year: Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker, born. = 1848
Name The Year: C.S.A. President Jefferson Davis is inaugurated at Montgomery, AL. = 1861
Name The Year: Andres Segovia, guitarist, born. = 1894
Name The Year: Jack Palance, actor (Believe It......Or Not), born. = 1920
Name The Year: Helen Gurly Brown in Portland Maine, publisher (Cosmopolitan), born. = 1922
Name The Year: Planet Pluto discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh. = 1930
Name The Year: Yoko Ono (in Tokyo, Japan), singer, wife of John Lennon, born. = 1933
Name The Year: Kim Novak (in Chicago, Illinois), actress, born. = 1933
Name The Year: Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island (built for the occasion) in San Francisco Bay. = 1939
Name The Year: Cybill Shepherd (in Memphis, TN), actress (Moonlighting, Sybil), born. = 1950
Name The Year: Premier of first 3-D feature film, "Bwana Devil", at NY city. = 1953
Name The Year: John Travolta, actor, born. = 1954
Name The Year: Vanna White (in South Carolina), game show hostess (Wheel of Fortune), born. = 1957
Name The Year: Matt Dillon, actor, born. = 1964
Name The Year: Gambian National Day = 1965
Name The Year: Molly Ringwald (in Los Angeles, CA), actress (Pretty in Pink), born. = 1968
Name The Year: Nicolaus Copernicus (in Poland), astronomer, born. = 1473
Name The Year: Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph. = 1878
Name The Year: Merle Oberon (in Tasmania), born. = 1911
Name The Year: Lee Marvin, actor, born. = 1924
Name The Year: Smokey Robinson, singer, born. = 1940
Name The Year: Marines land on Iwo Jima. = 1945
Name The Year: Margaux Hemingway (in Portland, Oregon), actress, daughter of Ernest, born. = 1955
Name The Year: Prince Andrew, Second eldest son of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, born. = 1960
Name The Year: Hana Mandlikova, tennis player, born. = 1962
Name The Year: Justine Bateman (in Rye, NY), actress (Family Ties), born. = 1966
Name The Year: President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose"). = 1977
Name The Year: Enzo Ferrari, car designer and manufacturer, born. = 1898
Name The Year: Ansel Adams, knows how to handle a camera, born. = 1902
Name The Year: Alexei Kosygin, Soviet Premier, born. = 1904
Name The Year: Gloria Vanderbilt, fashion designer (Don't my jeans look great!), born. = 1924
Name The Year: Sydney Poitier, actor, born. = 1924
Name The Year: Robert Altman, director (M = A = S = H), born. = 1925
Name The Year: Bobby Unser, auto racer, born. = 1934
Name The Year: First automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, Ca = 1937
Name The Year: John Glenn aboard Friendship 7, is first American to orbit the Earth. = 1962
Name The Year: Charles Barkley, Star player for the Pheonix Suns and Houston Rockets basketball teams, born. = 1963
Name The Year: President Nixon visits China. = 1972
Name The Year: Clarence Nash, the voice of Donald Duck, died. = 1985
Name The Year: First self-propelled locomotive on rails demonstrated, in Wales. = 1804
Name The Year: First electric burglar alarm is installed in Boston, Mass. = 1858
Name The Year: First Telephone book is issued, in New Haven, Conn. = 1878
Name The Year: WW I Battle of Verdun begins. = 1916
Name The Year: Larry Hagman, actor, born. = 1931
Name The Year: Camera exposure meter patented, W. N. Goodwin. = 1932
Name The Year: Nina Simone (in Tyron, NC), born. = 1933
Name The Year: David Geffen, record company president, born. = 1943
Name The Year: Tyne Daly (in Madison, WI), actress (Cagney and Lacey), born. = 1946
Name The Year: First instant develop camera demonstrated in NY City by E. H. Land. = 1947
Name The Year: Malcolm X assassinated. = 1965
Name The Year: Richard Nixon first American president to visit China. = 1972
Name The Year: Charles Rocket clearly says a four-letter word on Saturday Night Live. = 1981
Name The Year: Popcorn is introduced by an Indian named Quadequina to the English colonists at their first Thanksgiving dinner. = 1630
Name The Year: George Washington, father figure for U.S., President (1789-1796), born. = 1732
Name The Year: Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist and first biographer of Bach, born. = 1749
Name The Year: Empress of China sets sail on first New York to China route. = 1784
Name The Year: Frederic Chopin, composer, born. = 1810
Name The Year: Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, born. = 1857
Name The Year: Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet, born. = 1892
Name The Year: Hawaii becomes a U.S. territory. = 1900
Name The Year: Julius "Magic" Erving, basketball player, born. = 1950
Name The Year: Drew Barrymore, actress, member of the Barrymore clan, born. = 1975
Name The Year: USA beats the Russians in Olympic Hockey (4-3). = 1980
Name The Year: Gutenberg Day = 1584
Name The Year: George Frideric Handel, Baroque composer in Germany, born. = 1685
Name The Year: Alamo is besieged by Santa Anna, entire garrison eventually killed. = 1836
Name The Year: Rotary Club is founded by four men in Chicago. = 1905
Name The Year: First rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, NY. = 1935
Name The Year: Peter Fonda, actor, son of Henry, born. = 1940
Name The Year: US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo and statue. = 1945
Name The Year: Howard Jones, musician, born. = 1955
Name The Year: Wilhelm Karl Grimm, story teller, born. = 1786
Name The Year: Admiral Chester Nimitz, in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII, born. = 1885
Name The Year: First rocket to reach outer space launched at White Sands, NM. = 1949
Name The Year: Steven Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer, born. = 1955
Name The Year: Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship. = 1964
Name The Year: USA beats Finland and wins the Olympic Gold Medal (4-2). = 1980
Name The Year: Voyager 2, first Uranus flyby. = 1986
Name The Year: Funeral for Japan's Emperor Hirohito costs his government $80-billion dollars, attracts all major world leaders. = 1989
Name The Year: United Airlines 747 jet rips open in flight from Honolulu to New Zealand, 9 passengers sucked out of plane, many injuries. = 1989
Name The Year: A London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward and 20 miles forward in 8 hours. = 1838
Name The Year: Renoir, painter, born. = 1841
Name The Year: Enrico Caruso (in Italy), singer, born. = 1873
Name The Year: First aircraft carrier "Ranger" launched. = 1933
Name The Year: George Harrison, singer (Beatles), born. = 1943
Name The Year: Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single. = 1972
Name The Year: Soyuz 24 returns to Earth. = 1977
Name The Year: Soyuz 32 is launched. = 1979
Name The Year: Victor Hugo, French author, born. = 1802
Name The Year: William "Buffalo Bill" Cody (near Davenport, Iowa), frontiersman, born. = 1846
Name The Year: Second French Republic was proclaimed. = 1848
Name The Year: John Harvey Kellogg, English Corn Flake inventor. = 1852
Name The Year: First New York City subway line was opened to the public. = 1870
Name The Year: S.S. Ceylon begins first round-the-world cruise from Liverpool. = 1881
Name The Year: Jackie Gleason, Comedian, born. = 1916
Name The Year: U.S. Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. = 1919
Name The Year: Tony Randall, actor (The Odd Couple), born. = 1920
Name The Year: Fats Domino, singer, born. = 1928
Name The Year: Johnny Cash, singer, The Man in Black, born. = 1932
Name The Year: Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field. = 1933
Name The Year: PM Winston Churchill announced that Britain had its own atomic bomb. = 1952
Name The Year: First typesetting machine (photo engraving) used at Quincy, Mass. = 1954
Name The Year: First aviator to bail out at supersonic speed - G. F. Smith. = 1955
Name The Year: Levi Eshkol dies, Golda Meir becomes premier of Israel. = 1969
Name The Year: Beatles release "Beatles Again" a.k.a. "Hey Jude" album. = 1970
Name The Year: Philippines President Ferdinand E. Marcos flees in defeat, takes up residence in Hawaii with wife Imelda. = 1986
Name The Year: Barings Bank disaster. Nick Leeson loses billions of Pounds Sterling in offshore investments, ruining Barings Bank. = 1995
Name The Year: Constantine = 1583
Name The Year: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (in Portland, Maine), poet, born. = 1807
Name The Year: Dominican Republic gains it's independence. = 1844
Name The Year: Oscar Hammerstein patents first practical cigar-rolling machine. = 1883
Name The Year: John Steinbeck, writer, born. = 1902
Name The Year: U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment (woman's right to vote). = 1922
Name The Year: Joanne Woodward (in Thomasville, GA), actress, wife of Paul Newman, born. = 1930
Name The Year: Elizabeth Taylor (in London, England), actress, had many husbands, born. = 1932
Name The Year: Reichstag building in Berlin was set afire, Nazis blame Communists. = 1933
Name The Year: Chaim Weizmann becomes the first Israeli president. = 1949
Name The Year: President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued the Shanghai Communique. = 1972
Name The Year: American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota. = 1973
Name The Year: American Republican Party formed at Ripon, Wisconsin. = 1854
Name The Year: First vaudeville theater opens. = 1883
Name The Year: Zero Mostel, actor (Fiddler on the Roof), born. = 1915
Name The Year: Svetlana Stalina, daughter of Josef Stalin, born. = 1926
Name The Year: Gavin MacLeod, actor (Love Boat, Mary Tyler Moore Show), born. = 1930
Name The Year: Stephane Beacham, actrss, born. = 1947
Name The Year: Bernadette Peters (in Queens, New York), actress, Tony winner, born. = 1948
Name The Year: Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory. = 1956
Name The Year: The final episode of TV show "M_A_S_H." = 1983
Name The Year: It was made legal in Scotland for women to propose to men. = 1288
Name The Year: Pope Paul III, born. = 1468
Name The Year: Pope Hilarius, born. = 1584
Name The Year: Britian and US signed treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea. = 1892
Name The Year: Jimmy Dorsey, bandleader, born. = 1904
Name The Year: Howard Nemerov, poet, born. = 1916
Name The Year: Al Rosen, baseball player and executive, born. = 1924
Name The Year: Arthur Wellsley Duke of Wellington, British PM (C) (1828-30), born. = 1769
Name The Year: Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premiers in Wien (Vienna). = 1786
Name The Year: Chardonnet, France inventor (rayon), born. = 1839
Name The Year: 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued. = 1840
Name The Year: 1st International Workers Day, according to the 2nd International. = 1889
Name The Year: Walter Susskind, Praha (Prague) Czechoslovakia, conductor, born. = 1913
Name The Year: Harry Belefonte calypso singer (The Banana Boat Song), born. = 1927
Name The Year: Paul Doumer Pres of France, assassinated by Russia's Paul Gargalov. = 1932
Name The Year: Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence. = 1934
Name The Year: Batman Comics hit the street. = 1939
Name The Year: Judy Collins, singer (Send in the Clowns, Clouds), born. = 1939
Name The Year: "Citizen Kane," directed & starring Orson Welles, premiers in NY. = 1941
Name The Year: Joanna Lumley, Kashmir India, actress (Absolutely Fabulous, The Avengers), born. = 1946
Name The Year: Ray Parker Jr rocker (Ghostbusters theme), born. = 1954
Name The Year: Oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies. = 1959
Name The Year: Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk. = 1960
Name The Year: Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba. = 1961
Name The Year: Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain. = 1961
Name The Year: Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands. = 1963
Name The Year: 1st BASIC program run on a computer (Dartmouth). = 1964
Name The Year: Priscilla & Elvis Presley wed. = 1967
Name The Year: Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel. = 1979
Name The Year: Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland). = 1979
Name The Year: Marshall Islands (in the Pacific) become self-governing. = 1979
Name The Year: 135 acre Disney's MGM studio officially opens to the public. = 1989
Name The Year: Leonardo Da Vinci artist/scientist, dies at 67. = 1519
Name The Year: Alessandro Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane), born. = 1660
Name The Year: Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Devolution. = 1668
Name The Year: Catherine II (the Great) empress of Russia (1762-96), born. = 1729
Name The Year: France & Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels. = 1776
Name The Year: William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris. = 1780
Name The Year: Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid. = 1808
Name The Year: Leo XIII, 257th Roman Catholic pope (1878-1903), born. = 1810
Name The Year: Theodor Herzl, founded Zionist movement, born. = 1840
Name The Year: Congo Free State established by King Leopold II of Belgium. = 1885
Name The Year: Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen [the Red Baron], German WW I ace, born. = 1892
Name The Year: Benjamin Spock, pediatrician/author (Common Sense Book of Baby Care), born. = 1903
Name The Year: Bing Crosby (claimed this to be his Birthdate: True Date May 3 1903), crooner/actor (Going My Way), born. = 1904
Name The Year: Faisal II, King of Iraq, born. = 1935
Name The Year: Russia takes Berlin. = 1945
Name The Year: Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die. = 1946
Name The Year: 1st commercial jet plane, BOAC Comet. = 1952
Name The Year: US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus. = 1956
Name The Year: Joseph McCarthy commie hunting senator, dies at 47. = 1957
Name The Year: Beatles' Second album goes #1 & stays #1 for for 5 weeks. = 1964
Name The Year: Apple records closes down (Beatles first record company). = 1975
Name The Year: "Quadrophenia" premieres in London. = 1979
Name The Year: Joseph Doherty & 3 other IRA men arrested for murder. = 1980
Name The Year: David Rappaport 3'11' actor (wizard), shoots himself at 38. = 1990
Name The Year: First regular steam train passenger service starts. = 1830
Name The Year: Francois Coty, perfumemaker, born = 1874
Name The Year: Golda Meir, Israeli leader, born = 1898
Name The Year: James Brown, singer (I Feel Good . . . HEH!), born. = 1933
Name The Year: Frankie Valli, seasonal singer, born = 1947
Name The Year: First landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole. = 1952
Name The Year: Alexander VI divides non-Christian world between Spain & Portugal. = 1493
Name The Year: Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons. = 1626
Name The Year: French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris). = 1715
Name The Year: Thomas Henry Huxley scientist/humanist/Darwinist, born. = 1825
Name The Year: War of the Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz. = 1858
Name The Year: Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen. = 1886
Name The Year: Sherlock Holmes "dies" at Reichenbach Falls. = 1891
Name The Year: Kakuei Tanaka Japanese PM convicted of bribe-taking, born. = 1918
Name The Year: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences forms. = 1927
Name The Year: Audrey Hepburn (Hepburn-Ruston Edda van Heemstra), Brussels, Belguim (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady), born. = 1929
Name The Year: Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire. = 1938
Name The Year: Keith Haring Kutztown Pa, graffiti artist (Vanity Fair, Paris Review), born. = 1958
Name The Year: Randy Travis country singer (Always & Forever), born. = 1959
Name The Year: 4 students at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard during anti-war protest. = 1970
Name The Year: Kiss performs their 1st concert. = 1976
Name The Year: Margaret Thatcher becomes prime minister of England. = 1979
Name The Year: Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger. = 1990
Name The Year: Latvia's parliment votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence. = 1990
Name The Year: Pres Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat. = 1991
Name The Year: 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens. = 553
Name The Year: Leopold I Emperor of Holy Roman Empire, dies at 64. = 1705
Name The Year: Sren Kierkegaard Denmark, philosopher, founded Existentialism, born. = 1813
Name The Year: Karl Marx philospher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital), born. = 1818
Name The Year: Battle of Puebla; Mexicans defeat Maximilian's forces (Cinco de Mayo). = 1867
Name The Year: Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor. = 1891
Name The Year: Spencer Tracy actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), born. = 1900
Name The Year: Rex Harrison England, actor (My Fair Lady, Cleopatra), born. = 1908
Name The Year: 5th modern Olympic games opens in Stockholm. = 1912
Name The Year: Tyrone Power actor (Mark of Zorro, Alexander's Ragtime Band), born. = 1913
Name The Year: John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee. = 1925
Name The Year: 1st woman to fly solo from England to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson). = 1930
Name The Year: Michael Palin comedian (Monty Python, Fish Called Wanda), born. = 1943
Name The Year: Netherlands & Denmark liberated from Nazi control. = 1945
Name The Year: 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam. = 1965
Name The Year: Bobby Sands IRA activists dies in his 66th day of his hunger strike. = 1981
Name The Year: Paul Hogan & Linda Koslowski wed in Byron Bay, Eastern Australia. = 1990
Name The Year: conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon. = 2000
Name The Year: Sack of Rome - End of the Renaissance. = 1527
Name The Year: Karl Marx, author of the Communist Manifesto, born = 1818
Name The Year: Patent granted to Dr. John Farrie for a "refrigeration machine". = 1851
Name The Year: Sigmund Freud, cigar smoker, psychiatrist, born = 1856
Name The Year: Rudolph Valentino, silent film star, sheik = 1895
Name The Year: T. H. White, writer, born = 1915
Name The Year: Orson Welles, actor (Citizen Kane), director, genius, born = 1915
Name The Year: The dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ. = 1937
Name The Year: Roger Bannister breaks the 4 min mile in 3:59:4 = 1954
Name The Year: Seventeenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 7 returns to Earth. = 1985
Name The Year: Robert Browning, poet, born. = 1812
Name The Year: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony presented for first time. = 1824
Name The Year: Johannes Brahms, composer, born. = 1833
Name The Year: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, composer, born. = 1840
Name The Year: Gary Cooper, actor (High Noon, The Plainsman), born. = 1901
Name The Year: Edwin Land, founded instant photography (Polaroid), born. = 1909
Name The Year: Eva Peron, Argentine first lady, born = 1919
Name The Year: World War II ends in Europe. Nazis surrender to General Eisenhower at Reims, France. = 1945
Name The Year: Traci Lords, actress, born. = 1968
Name The Year: John II ends his reign as Catholic Pope. = 535
Name The Year: St Boniface IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope. = 615
Name The Year: St Benedict II ends his reign as Catholic Pope. = 685
Name The Year: Jack Cade's Rebellion-Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI. = 1450
Name The Year: Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River. = 1541
Name The Year: Edward Gibbon England, historian (Decline & Fall of Roman Empire), born. = 1737
Name The Year: Miguel Hidalgo father of Mexican independence, born. = 1753
Name The Year: William Walker filibuster, president of Nicaragua (1856-57), born. = 1824
Name The Year: Jean Henri Dunant Switzerland, founded Red Cross, YMCA (Nobel 1901), born. = 1828
Name The Year: Australian Rules Football is created. = 1866
Name The Year: Harry S Truman Missouri, 33rd US President (D) (1945-1949), born. = 1884
Name The Year: Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola. = 1886
Name The Year: China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki. = 1895
Name The Year: Richard F Attenborough environmentalist/zoologist/filmmaker (BBC), born. = 1926
Name The Year: Gary Snyder beat poet (Rip Rap & Cold Mountain Poems), born. = 1930
Name The Year: Gary Glitter [Paul Gadd] England, rocker (Rock & Roll Part II), born. = 1944
Name The Year: Nazi General Von Keitel surrenders to Russian Marshal Zhukov near Berlin. = 1945
Name The Year: V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WW II ends in Europe. = 1945
Name The Year: Beatles release "Let it Be" album. = 1970
Name The Year: USSR announces it will not participate in LA Summer Olympics. = 1984
Name The Year: Robert A Heinlein sci-fi writer, dies of heart failure at 80. = 1988
Name The Year: Columbus left Spain on his 4th and final trip to the New World. = 1502
Name The Year: James M. Barrie (in Scotland), Author (Peter Pan) = 1860
Name The Year: Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamen = 1873
Name The Year: Albert Finney, actor (Oliver, The Twelve Chairs) = 1936
Name The Year: Italy annexed Ethiopia. = 1936
Name The Year: Czechoslovak National Day. = 1945
Name The Year: Candice Bergen (in Beverly Hills), actor (Murphy Brown) = 1946
Name The Year: Billy Joel (in the Bronx, NY), singer, pianoman = 1949
Name The Year: EEC Anniversary. = 1950
Name The Year: House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment. = 1974
Name The Year: John Wilkes Booth assassin of Abraham Lincoln, born. = 1838
Name The Year: Sir Thomas Lipton tea magnate (Lipton Tea), born. = 1850
Name The Year: Gen Stonewall Jackson dies from wounds received at Chancellorsville. = 1863
Name The Year: Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for US president. = 1872
Name The Year: Meteor falls near Estherville, Iowa. = 1879
Name The Year: Fred Astaire Omaha Neb, tap dancer/actor (Easter Parade, Swingtime), born. = 1899
Name The Year: David O Selznick Pittsburgh Pa, producer (Gone With the Wind), born. = 1902
Name The Year: 1st Mother's Day held (Phila). = 1908
Name The Year: Comet Halley's closest approach to Earth. = 1910
Name The Year: William Huggins discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies. = 1910
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Name The Year: Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British PM. = 1940
Name The Year: England's House of Commons detroyed in a blitz. = 1941
Name The Year: Donovan (Leitch) Scotland, rock singer (Mellow Yellow), born. = 1943
Name The Year: Mark David Chapman assassin of John Lennon, born. = 1955
Name The Year: Sid Vicious [John Beverly], bassist (Sex Pistols), born. = 1957
Name The Year: Bono aka Paul Hauson, rocker (U2), born. = 1960
Name The Year: Decca signs the Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison. = 1963
Name The Year: Tommy Lee drummer of Motley Crue marries Heather Locklear. = 1986
Name The Year: Constantinople (later Istanbul) founded. = 330
Name The Year: Waltz introduced into English ballrooms. Most observers consider it disgusting & immoral. No wonder it caught on! = 1812
Name The Year: Irving Berlin [Isadore Balin], Temun, Russia, composer (White Xmas), born. = 1888
Name The Year: Dame Margaret Rutherford, England, actress (Murder Most Foul), born. = 1892
Name The Year: Salvador Dali, Spain, surrealist artist (Crucifixion), born. = 1904
Name The Year: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented. = 1916
Name The Year: Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand. = 1917
Name The Year: Jackie Milburn, English soccer star (Newcastle United). = 1924
Name The Year: Mort Sahl comedian/political satirist/beatnik (Big Party). = 1927
Name The Year: Eric Burdon, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun). = 1941
Name The Year: Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy. = 1947
Name The Year: By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of UN. = 1949
Name The Year: Siam renames itself Thailand. = 1949
Name The Year: Jay Forrester patents computer core memory. = 1951
Name The Year: Elvis Presley's 1st entry on UK charts with "Heartbreak Hotel". = 1959
Name The Year: Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires. = 1960
Name The Year: John D Rockefeller Jr philanthropist, dies at 86. = 1960
Name The Year: Bob Marley reggae singer, dies at 36 of brain & lung cancer. = 1981
Name The Year: Emilio Estevez actor (Breakfast Club, Young Guns). = 1962
Name The Year: Bangladesh windstorm kills 17,000. = 1965
Name The Year: Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market. = 1975
Name The Year: Ted Turner manages an Atlanta Braves game. = 1977
Name The Year: St Stephen I begins his reign as Catholic Pope. = 254
Name The Year: Edward Lear England, landscape painter, writer of nonsense verse, born. = 1812
Name The Year: Florence Nightingale Florence, Italy, nurse (Crimean War), born. = 1820
Name The Year: Treaty of Bardo, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate. = 1881
Name The Year: Burt Bacharach composer (I'll Never Fall in Love Again), born. = 1929
Name The Year: George VI's coronation in Great Britain. = 1936
Name The Year: Beryl Burton UK, won record (7) women's cycling titles, born. = 1937
Name The Year: Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River. = 1940
Name The Year: Axis forces in North Africa surrender. = 1943
Name The Year: Steve Winwood England, rocker (A Higher Love), born. = 1948
Name The Year: West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade. = 1949
Name The Year: Shozo Fujii judo champion, born. = 1950
Name The Year: Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra TV special. = 1960
Name The Year: Emilio Estevez actor (Young Guns), born. = 1962
Name The Year: Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show. = 1963
Name The Year: Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations. = 1965
Name The Year: Paul McCartney & Wings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb". = 1972
Name The Year: 1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London). = 1977
Name The Year: In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior to his attempt to attack Pope John Paul II. = 1982
Name The Year: South African prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years. = 1984
Name The Year: Nora Dunn & Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting. = 1990
Name The Year: St Agapitus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope. = 535
Name The Year: Innocent XIII, 244th Roman Catholic pope (1721-24), born. = 1655
Name The Year: Empress Maria Theresa, Austria (Wife of Napolean), born. = 1717
Name The Year: Sir Arthur Sullivan, London, England, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame, born. = 1842
Name The Year: Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art, born. = 1856
Name The Year: Brazil abolishes slavery. = 1888
Name The Year: Daphne du Maurier novelist (Rebecca, The Parasites), born. = 1907
Name The Year: Royal Flying Corps established in England. = 1912
Name The Year: 1st 4 engine aircraft built & flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia). = 1913
Name The Year: Jim Jones, reverend, poisoned over 100 in Guyana, born. = 1931
Name The Year: Churchill says "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat". = 1940
Name The Year: Ritchie Valens, singer (Donna, La Bamba), born. = 1941
Name The Year: Peter Gabriel, rocker (Genesis-Against All Odds), born. = 1950
Name The Year: Diner's Club issues its 1st credit cards. = 1950
Name The Year: Stevie Wonder, singer/songwriter (You are The Sunshine of My Love), born. = 1950
Name The Year: Gary Cooper, 2 time Academy award winning actor, dies at 60. = 1961
Name The Year: Rolling Stones record "Satisfaction". = 1965
Name The Year: Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black". = 1966
Name The Year: Beatles movie "Let it Be" premiers. = 1970
Name The Year: Pope John Paul II shot, wounded by assailant in St Peter's Square. = 1981
Name The Year: Chet Baker jazz trumpeter fell to death out of a hotel window at 59. = 1988
Name The Year: Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China. = 1989
Name The Year: George Lucas director (Star Wars), born. = 1944
Name The Year: David Byrne Dunbartin Scotand, rocker (Talking Heads-Psycho Killer) , born. = 1952
Name The Year: Skylab launched, the 1st Space Station. = 1973
Name The Year: Rita Hayworth actress, dies at 68 of Alzheimer's disease. = 1987
Name The Year: Cape Cod was discovered by the English navigator Batholomew Gosnold. = 1602
Name The Year: Whitsunday Term Day. = 1753
Name The Year: American poet Emily Dickinson died. = 1886
Name The Year: US Airmail begins between Wash DC, Philadelphia and New York. = 1918
Name The Year: Wladziu Valentino Liberace, pianist, born = 1919
Name The Year: US Dept of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive. = 1934
Name The Year: Paul Zindel, playwright, born = 1936
Name The Year: Nylon stockings on sale for the first time in the United States. = 1940
Name The Year: Brian Eno, singer, songwriter, born = 1948
Name The Year: Lee Horsley, actor, born = 1955
Name The Year: The Soviet Union launched Sputnik III. = 1958
Name The Year: Marie Antoinette married the future King Louis XVI of France. = 1770
Name The Year: William H. Seward, who bought Alaska at $0.02/acre, born. = 1801
Name The Year: Henry Fonda (in Grand Island, Nebraska), actor, born. = 1905
Name The Year: Joan of Arc was canonized in Rome. = 1920
Name The Year: Pierce Brosnan (in Israel), actor (current James Bond), born. = 1952
Name The Year: Debra Winger (in Columbus, Ohio), actor, born. = 1955
Name The Year: Olga Korbut (in Russia), gymnast, born. = 1955
Name The Year: Janet Jackson, singer, Michael's sister, born. = 1966
Name The Year: Venera 5, Venus landing. First successful landing on another planet. = 1969
Name The Year: Gabriela Sabatini, tennis professional, raqueteer, born. = 1970
Name The Year: Japanese Junko Tabei became first woman to reach Mt Everest's summit. = 1975
Name The Year: Sammy Davis, Jr., "The Complete Entertainer", dies of throat cancer. = 1990
Name The Year: Later that day, Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, dies from pneumonia and complications. = 1990
Name The Year: 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. = 218
Name The Year: Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope. = 352
Name The Year: St Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope. = 884
Name The Year: Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus), born. = 1444
Name The Year: 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey). = 1620
Name The Year: Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface. = 1630
Name The Year: Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada). = 1672
Name The Year: Edward Jenner England, physician, started vaccination, born. = 1749
Name The Year: Papal States annexed by France. = 1809
Name The Year: Joseph Norman Lockyer discovered Helium/founded Nature magazine, born. = 1836
Name The Year: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Iran's spiritual leader, born. = 1900
Name The Year: 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam. = 1928
Name The Year: Dennis Hopper actor (True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider), born. = 1936
Name The Year: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France. = 1940
Name The Year: Taj Mahal NYC, singer/songwriter (The Real Thing), born. = 1942
Name The Year: Christian Lacroix, French couturier, born. = 1950
Name The Year: "Sugar" Ray Leonard welter/middle/light-heavyweight boxing champion, born. = 1956
Name The Year: Brigitte Nielsen actress (Red Sonja, Rocky IV, Domino), born. = 1963
Name The Year: Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Atlantic on reed raft 'Ra'. = 1970
Name The Year: 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love". = 1975
Name The Year: Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty. = 1983
Name The Year: Nelson Mandela recieves a BA from University of South Africa. = 1989
Name The Year: St John I ends his reign as Catholic Pope. = 526
Name The Year: Napoleon became Emperor of France. = 1804
Name The Year: Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, the lawn mower. = 1830
Name The Year: Nicholas II last Russian tsar (1894-1917), born. = 1868
Name The Year: Bertrand Russell England, mathematician/philosopher (Nobel 1950), born. = 1872
Name The Year: Frank Capra movie director (Its a Wonderful Life, Arsenic & Old Lace), born. = 1897
Name The Year: Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga. = 1900
Name The Year: Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic. = 1910
Name The Year: Perry Como singer/TV (Perry Como Show, What did Delaware?), born. = 1912
Name The Year: Pope John Paul II 264th Roman Catholic pope (1978- ), born. = 1918
Name The Year: Dame Margot Fonteyn England, ballerina (partner of Nureyev), born. = 1919
Name The Year: Yannick Noah France, tennis player (French 1983), born. = 1960
Name The Year: Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Captain. = 1965
Name The Year: Ian Curtis musician (Joy Division), dies. = 1980
Name The Year: Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State. = 1980
Name The Year: St Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope. = 715
Name The Year: Anne Boleyn wife of Henry VIII, beheaded. = 1536
Name The Year: Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England. = 1588
Name The Year: Innocent XI 240th Roman Catholic pope (1676-89), born. = 1611
Name The Year: About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day it's cause is still unexplained. = 1780
Name The Year: Ho Chi Minh trail blazer/leader of Vietnam (1946, 1969), born. = 1890
Name The Year: Malcolm X Omaha NB, assassinated leader of black muslims, born. = 1925
Name The Year: "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pa coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners. = 1928
Name The Year: T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) dies in a motorcycle crash. = 1935
Name The Year: Peter Townsend singer (Who-Tommy), born. = 1945
Name The Year: US diplomats find at least 40 secret mics in the Moscow embassy. = 1964
Name The Year: Tortoise reportedly given to Tonga's king by Capt. Cook (1773), dies. = 1966
Name The Year: Ogden Nash poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 68. = 1971
Name The Year: USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars. = 1971
Name The Year: Gold ownership legalized in Australia. = 1976
Name The Year: Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd. = 1979
Name The Year: NASA launches Intelsat V. = 1983
Name The Year: Syzygy: 8 of 9 planets aligned on same side of sun. = 2161
Name The Year: Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria. = 526
Name The Year: Christopher Colombus explorer, dies in poverty in Spain at 55. = 1506
Name The Year: England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II. = 1690
Name The Year: Honore de Balzac France, novelist (Pere Goriot), born. = 1799
Name The Year: John Stuart Mill philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian, born. = 1806
Name The Year: Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz. = 1874
Name The Year: 2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris (lasted 5 months). = 1900
Name The Year: Jimmy Stewart, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Wash, Wonderful Life), born. = 1908
Name The Year: Moshe Dayan Israeli general/politician, born. = 1915
Name The Year: Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies. = 1926
Name The Year: Great Britain via treaty grants Saudi Arabia's kingdom independence. = 1927
Name The Year: Joe Cocker England, rock musician (You can leave your hat on), born. = 1944
Name The Year: Cher, rocker/actress (I got you babe, Jack Lalane, Mask), born. = 1946
Name The Year: Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll. = 1956
Name The Year: BBC bans Beatle's "A Day in the Life" (drug references). = 1967
Name The Year: The Beatles' "Let it Be" movie premiers in UK. = 1970
Name The Year: Republic of Cameroon declared as constitution is ratified. = 1972
Name The Year: 1st western pop star to tour the USSR-Elton John. = 1979
Name The Year: FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR. = 1985
Name The Year: China declares martial law in Beijing. = 1989
Name The Year: Gilda Radner comedienne (Sat Night Live), dies at 42 of cancer. = 1989
Name The Year: B.C. Plato (Aristocles), philosopher/writer, Athens, born. = 427
Name The Year: Albrecht Drer Nrnberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker, born. = 1471
Name The Year: Philip II king of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98), born. = 1527
Name The Year: Alexander Pope England, poet, born. = 1688
Name The Year: Fats Waller jazz pianist, composer (Ain't Misbehavin'), born. = 1904
Name The Year: Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), Soccer's World governing body forms. = 1904
Name The Year: Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic. = 1927
Name The Year: Leo Sayer [Gerard], England, singer (When I Need Love), born. = 1948
Name The Year: Mr T [Lawrence Tero], Chicago, actor, (A-Team, Rocky III, T & T), born. = 1952
Name The Year: "Empire Strikes Back" premieres. = 1980
Name The Year: David Bowie's "Let's Dance" single goes #1. = 1983
Name The Year: Rajiv Gandhi Indian Prime Minster, assassinated. = 1991
Name The Year: 14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. = 760
Name The Year: Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Phila). = 1807
Name The Year: Richard Wagner Leipsig Germany, composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman, Ride of the Valkries), born. = 1813
Name The Year: Confederacin Granadina (now Colombia) forms. = 1858
Name The Year: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle UK, brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice, born. = 1859
Name The Year: Great Train Robbery; 7 men make off with $98,000 in cash. = 1868
Name The Year: Charles Aznavour Paris France, singer (Monsieur Carnavel), born. = 1924
Name The Year: Hitler & Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel". = 1939
Name The Year: Morrissey, (Steven Patrick) British rocker (The Smiths & solo artist), born. = 1959
Name The Year: Beatles' "Ticket to Ride," single goes #1. = 1965
Name The Year: Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel. = 1967
Name The Year: Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified. = 1972
Name The Year: Final European scheduled run of the Orient Express (94 years). = 1977
Name The Year: Rocky Graziano boxer, dies at 71, of heart failure. = 1990
Name The Year: Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians who sold her to the English. = 1430
Name The Year: King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null and void by the newly formed Church of England. = 1533
Name The Year: Captain Kidd is hanged in London after convicted of piracy and murder. = 1701
Name The Year: Douglas Fairbanks, first and greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers, born = 1883
Name The Year: Canada's North West Mounted Police force (The Mounties) first established. = 1873
Name The Year: Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War I. = 1915
Name The Year: Joan Collins (in London), actor, born = 1933
Name The Year: Bonnie and Clyde shot in Louisana ambush. = 1934
Name The Year: Industrialist John D. Rockfeller died in Ormond Beach, FL. = 1937
Name The Year: Nazi Himmler committed suicide while in prison at Luneburg, Germany. = 1945
Name The Year: West Germany was proclaimed. = 1949
Name The Year: 'Marvelous' Marvin Hagler (in New Jersey), boxer, born = 1952
Name The Year: Israel announced capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. = 1960
Name The Year: Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, invented the thermometer = 1686
Name The Year: Jean-Paul Marat, philosopher = 1743
Name The Year: Queen Victoria, British ruler = 1819
Name The Year: Samuel F.B. Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought". = 1844
Name The Year: The first auto repair shop opens in Boston, MA. = 1899
Name The Year: Robert Zimmerman (a.k.a. Bob Dylan) (in Minnesota), folk singer = 1941
Name The Year: Patti Labelle, singer = 1944
Name The Year: Priscilla Presley, actor, wife of Elvis = 1945
Name The Year: First rocket to exceed 150 mile altitude - White Sands, NM. = 1954
Name The Year: First house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited, Pleasant Hills, Pa. = 1959
Name The Year: M. Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 is launched. = 1962
Name The Year: Beatles' third appearance on Ed Sullivan. = 1964
Name The Year: Soyuz 18B is launched. = 1975
Name The Year: B.C. 1st known prediction of a solar eclipse. = 585
Name The Year: St Gregory VII, pope (1073-85), dies (birth date unknown). = 1085
Name The Year: Alfonso VI of Castile captured Toledo, Spain, and brought the Moorish center of science into Christian hands. = 1085
Name The Year: Ralph Waldo Emerson US, essayist/philosopher, born. = 1803
Name The Year: Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (Natl Day). = 1810
Name The Year: Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, actor (Stormy Weather, Little Colonel), born. = 1878
Name The Year: Igor Sikorsky developed a working helicopter, born. = 1889
Name The Year: Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Diaz. = 1911
Name The Year: British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule. = 1914
Name The Year: Miles Davis trumpeter; pioneered cool jazz (Porgy & Bess), born. = 1926
Name The Year: Robert Ludlum spy novelist (Bourne Identity), born. = 1927
Name The Year: Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A). = 1927
Name The Year: Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour. = 1935
Name The Year: 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India. = 1941
Name The Year: Sally Jesse Raphael TV talk show host (Sally), born. = 1943
Name The Year: Frank Oz Heresford England, puppeteer (Sesame St, Muppet Show), born. = 1944
Name The Year: Arther C Clarke proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit. = 1945
Name The Year: Jordan gains independence from Britain (Natl Day). = 1946
Name The Year: Paul Weller guitar (Jam-This is the Modern World, Style Council), born. = 1958
Name The Year: John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce. = 1967
Name The Year: "Star Wars" released. = 1978
Name The Year: "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released. = 1983
Name The Year: William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII. = 1328
Name The Year: Abraham De Moivre French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem), born. = 1667
Name The Year: Alexander S Pushkin Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin), born. = 1799
Name The Year: Al Jolson jazz singer/silent film actor (Mamie, Swanee), born. = 1886
Name The Year: Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned. = 1896
Name The Year: John Wayne "Duke", [Marion Michael Morrison] actor (True Grit), born. = 1907
Name The Year: Peter Cushing England, actor (Hound of the Baskervilles), born. = 1913
Name The Year: Georgian Social Democratic Republic declared independence from Russia. = 1918
Name The Year: 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance was run. = 1923
Name The Year: San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens. = 1937
Name The Year: Patent filed in US for H-Bomb. = 1946
Name The Year: Stevie Nicks Phoenix Az, rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Bella Donna), born. = 1946
Name The Year: South Africa elects a nationalist govt with apartheid policy. = 1948
Name The Year: Siouxsie [Susan Ballion], (Siouxsie & the Bandshee-Wild Thing), born. = 1957
Name The Year: British Guiana gains independence, takes the name Guyana. = 1966
Name The Year: Apollo 10 returns to Earth. = 1969
Name The Year: John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal). = 1969
Name The Year: Achsah Young becomes 1st woman known to be executed as a witch (MA). = 1647
Name The Year: Wild Bill Hickok cowboy, born. = 1837
Name The Year: Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line. = 1844
Name The Year: Vincent Price St Louis Mo, actor (The Fly, Laura), born. = 1911
Name The Year: Ropert L Ripley cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY. = 1949
Name The Year: Neil Finn rocker (Split Enz-I Got You, Crowded House), born. = 1958
Name The Year: Pat Cash tennis player (Wimbeldon 1987), born. = 1965
Name The Year: Dr. Joseph Guillotin, guess what he invented, born. = 1738
Name The Year: First indoor swimming pool opens at Goodman's Fields, London. = 1742
Name The Year: Jim Thorpe, Olympic athlete, born. = 1886
Name The Year: Ian Fleming, writer (James Bond series) = 1908
Name The Year: First all color talking picture "On With The Show" exhibited, NYC. = 1929
Name The Year: Gladys Knight, singer, born. = 1944
Name The Year: Premier of first animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor - "Melody". = 1953
Name The Year: First animals fired into space and rescued, Cape Canaveral. = 1959
Name The Year: Amnesty International Anniversary. = 1961
Name The Year: Mars 3 launched. First spacecraft to soft land on Mars. = 1971
Name The Year: St Paul I begins his reign as Catholic Pope. = 757
Name The Year: Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire. Also considered the end of the Middle Ages. = 1453
Name The Year: Charles II king of England (1660-85), born. = 1630
Name The Year: Ebenezer Butterick inventor (tissue paper dress pattern), born. = 1826
Name The Year: Birth of Charles W. Fry, the English musician who, along with his three sons, formed the first Salvation Army brass band. = 1837
Name The Year: Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co.. = 1900
Name The Year: 1st running of the Indianapolis 500. = 1911
Name The Year: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th U.S. President (1961-1963), born. = 1917
Name The Year: Ecuador becomes independent. = 1922
Name The Year: Al Unser, auto racer (Indianapolis 500-1970, 71), born. = 1939
Name The Year: Hillary & Tenzing become 1st humans to reach top of Mt Everest. = 1953
Name The Year: Annette Bening, actress (Bugsy, Valmont), born. = 1958
Name The Year: Sue Press is 1st woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one. = 1977
Name The Year: Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year. = 1980
Name The Year: Eric Morecambe comedian (Morecambe & Wise), dies at 58. = 1984
Name The Year: 35 die in rioting between British & Italians at European Cup soccer. = 1985
Name The Year: Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains. = 1987
Name The Year: Joan of Arc burned at the stake in Rouen, France at age 19. = 1431
Name The Year: The French philosopher Voltaire died. = 1778
Name The Year: Benny Goodman, bandleader, king of swing, born = 1909
Name The Year: Indianapolis 500 car race run for first time. Winning driver Ray Harroun takes it with a blazing 75 mph. = 1911
Name The Year: Christine Jorgensen, pioneer transsexual, born = 1926
Name The Year: Mariner 9 launched. = 1971
Name The Year: Three Japanese PFL terrorists kill 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lydda airport. = 1972
Name The Year: Spain became the 16th member of North Atlantic Treaty Organization . = 1982
Name The Year: Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry. = 1678
Name The Year: Composer Franz Josef Hayden died in Vienna, Austria. = 1809
Name The Year: Walt Whitman (in West Hills, NY), poet, born. = 1819
Name The Year: First recorded bicycle race, 2 kilometers in Paris. = 1868
Name The Year: First electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition. = 1879
Name The Year: Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon, Trading Places), born. = 1908
Name The Year: Union of South Africa was founded. = 1910
Name The Year: During WW I British and German fleets fought the Battle of Jutland. = 1916
Name The Year: Prince Rainier of Monaco, born. = 1923
Name The Year: Clint Eastwood, actor (Dirty Harry, Heartbreak Ridge, City Heat), born. = 1930
Name The Year: Tom Berenger, actor, born. = 1950
Name The Year: South Africa became an independent republic. = 1961
Name The Year: WW II Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann hung in Israel. = 1962
Name The Year: Brooke Shields (in New York City), actor, model, born. = 1965
Name The Year: Tens of thousands of people in Peru died in an earthquake . = 1970
Name The Year: Israel and Syria sign an agreement concerning the Golan Heights. = 1974
Name The Year: Martin Luther, protestant reformer = 1699
Name The Year: Spencer Perceval (Tory), British PM (1809-12) = 1762
Name The Year: Viscount Goderich (Tory), British PM (1827-28) = 1782
Name The Year: Sir Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer, Dublin mayor = 1798
Name The Year: First published reference to the game of Poker describes it as a Mississippi riverboat game. = 1834
Name The Year: Jose' Santos Zelaya (L), ruler of Nicaragua (1893-1910) = 1853
Name The Year: Stephen Crane, poet (Red Badge of Courage) = 1871
Name The Year: Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936) = 1878
Name The Year: Sholem Asch, Yiddish novelist, playwright (Three Cities) = 1880
Name The Year: Hermann Broch, Austrian novelist (Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment) = 1886
Name The Year: Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman, disarmament advocate (Nobel '59) = 1889
Name The Year: Alexander Alekhine of Russia, world chess champion (1927-46) = 1892
Name The Year: Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program. = 1932
Name The Year: Gary Player (in South Africa), golfer = 1935
Name The Year: Larry Flint, publisher (Hustler) = 1942
Name The Year: First black player in National Basketball Association, Fort Wayne, IN. = 1950
Name The Year: First atomic explosion witnessed by troops, NM. = 1951
Name The Year: First hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific. = 1952
Name The Year: Daniel Boone frontiersman/explorer, born. = 1734
Name The Year: Marie-Antoinette Queen of France, born. = 1755
Name The Year: Burt Lancaster NYC, actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry), born. = 1913
Name The Year: Ken Rosewall, Sydney, Australia, tennis star (US Open 1956), born. = 1934
Name The Year: Montgomery (Br) defeats Rommel (Ger) in battle of Alamein (WW II). = 1942
Name The Year: Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" flies for 1st (and last) time. = 1947
Name The Year: Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion. = 1956
Name The Year: Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31. = 1978
Name The Year: President Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin Luther King day. = 1983
Name The Year: Mexican radio station erronously reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash. = 1988
Name The Year: Jermaine Jackson releases "Word to the Badd!!" anti Michael song. = 1991
Name The Year: Great panic occurs in Europe over the close approach of a comet. = 1679
Name The Year: John Montague 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of sandwich, born. = 1718
Name The Year: 1st opium war-2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks. = 1839
Name The Year: Jack the Ripper kills last victim. = 1888
Name The Year: Columbia grants Panama independence. = 1903
Name The Year: Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves. = 1918
Name The Year: Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I. = 1918
Name The Year: Charles Bronson Penns, actor (Death Wish, Dirty Dozen), born. = 1922
Name The Year: Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet. = 1928
Name The Year: 1st commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured. = 1931
Name The Year: George II returns to Greece and regains monarchy. = 1935
Name The Year: Roy Emerson Australia, tennis player (Wimbeldon '64, '65), born. = 1936
Name The Year: Lulu, Glasgow, Scotland, singer/actress (To Sir With Love), born. = 1948
Name The Year: Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas. = 1952
Name The Year: Roseanne Barr Arnold Salt Lake City, comedienne/TV star (Roseanne), born. = 1952
Name The Year: Adam Ant [Stuart Goddard], punk rocker (If I Strip For You), born. = 1954
Name The Year: Australia takes control of the Cocos Islands. = 1955
Name The Year: USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit. = 1957
Name The Year: Dolph Lundgren actor, born. = 1959
Name The Year: Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated. = 1984
Name The Year: Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran. = 1986
Name The Year: Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew. = 1988
Name The Year: Bill Clinton elected US President. = 1992
Name The Year: King William III of Orange = 1650
Name The Year: Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island. = 1854
Name The Year: Eden Phillpotts, English novelist, poet, playwright = 1862
Name The Year: Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia. = 1866
Name The Year: James Ritty patents the first cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon. = 1879
Name The Year: Art Carney, actor (Honeymooners, Harold and Maude) = 1918
Name The Year: Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen. = 1922
Name The Year: Loretta Swit (in Passaic, NJ), actor (M = A = S = H) = 1937
Name The Year: First air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, IL. = 1939
Name The Year: UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization formed. (UNESCO) = 1946
Name The Year: Israeli troops reach the Suez Canal for the first time. = 1956
Name The Year: Nicaragua holds first free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%. = 1984
Name The Year: Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from the Indians of Cuba. = 1492
Name The Year: Gunpowder Plot; Catholics try to blow up English Parliament. Plot uncovered & leader Guy Fawkes hanged. = 1605
Name The Year: El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence. = 1811
Name The Year: Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation. = 1838
Name The Year: Italy attacks Turkey, takes Tipoli & Cyrenaica. = 1911
Name The Year: Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria. = 1913
Name The Year: Vivien Leigh, actress (Gone With Wind), born. = 1913
Name The Year: Britain annexes Cyprus. = 1914
Name The Year: Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly. = 1935
Name The Year: Art Garfunkel, singer/actor (Sounds of Silence, Carnal Knowledge), born. = 1942
Name The Year: US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned. = 1964
Name The Year: Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. = 1978
Name The Year: Jacques Tati actor/director, dies of pulmonary embolism. = 1982
Name The Year: Iceberg twice the size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic. = 1987
Name The Year: Charles II, last Habsburg king of Spain (1665-1700) = 1661
Name The Year: Colley Cibber, English dramatist, poet laureate (Love's Last Shift) = 1671
Name The Year: Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography = 1771
Name The Year: Spain grants Dominican Rep independence. = 1844
Name The Year: Charles Henry Dow, co-founder of Dow Jones, first editor of the Wall Street Journal = 1851
Name The Year: John Phillip Souza, march king (Stars and Stripes Forever, etc) = 1854
Name The Year: Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish composer, pianist, patriot = 1860
Name The Year: James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball = 1861
Name The Year: Marie Curie, discoverer of radium = 1867
Name The Year: Heinrich Himmler, Nazi SS leader = 1900
Name The Year: Bolshevik revolution begins. = 1917
Name The Year: Joan Sutherland, opera star = 1926
Name The Year: Joni Mitchell, singer = 1943
Name The Year: Sally Field (in Pasadena, CA), actor (Flying Nun, Norma Rae) = 1946
Name The Year: US explodes world's first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll. = 1952
Name The Year: Maria Shriver, Newscaster, married to Arnold Schartznegger = 1955
Name The Year: Pres Reagan was elected to a second term, winning 49 states. = 1984
Name The Year: 22nd Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 9 returns to Earth. = 1985
Name The Year: Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian, jurist, writer of Islamic Spain = 994
Name The Year: Francisco de Zurbarin, Spanish Baroque painter = 1598
Name The Year: Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy murdered by mob at Alton, Ill. = 1837
Name The Year: London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded. = 1865
Name The Year: Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie, discovered radium (Nobel 1903, 1911) = 1867
Name The Year: Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; found abandoned 4 weeks later. = 1872
Name The Year: Verney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea. = 1875
Name The Year: Leon Trotsky, Russian Communist theorist, Bolshevik = 1879
Name The Year: Konrad Lorenz, zoologist, ethologist, writer (Nobel 1973) = 1903
Name The Year: Bolsheviks overthrew Russian govt in St Petersburg. = 1914
Name The Year: October Revolution overthrows Russian Provisional Government. = 1917
Name The Year: Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets. = 1918
Name The Year: Al Hirt, trumpet player = 1922
Name The Year: Richard Nixon's first time quiting politics - "You won't have Nixon to kick around", he tells the press. = 1962
Name The Year: Dana Plato (in Maywood, CA) = 1964
Name The Year: "Gone With the Wind" is shown on TV. = 1976
Name The Year: Bomb explodes in U.S. Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries. = 1983
Name The Year: Colombian troops ends 27-hour siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice. = 1985
Name The Year: Sir Edmond Halley, astronomer, first to calculate a comet's orbit = 1656
Name The Year: Bourbon Whiskey is first distilled from corn by Reverend Elijah Craig in Bourbon County, Kentucky. = 1789
Name The Year: The Louvre, in Paris, was opened to the public. = 1793
Name The Year: Gottlob Frege, German mathematician, logician, philosopher = 1848
Name The Year: Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as President. = 1864
Name The Year: Wilhelm Rintgen discovers x-rays. = 1895
Name The Year: Margaret Mitchell, author (Gone With the Wind) = 1900
Name The Year: Katherine Hepburn (in Connecticut), actor (African Queen, On Golden Pond) = 1909
Name The Year: Peter Weiss, German dramatist, novelist (Marat/Sade) = 1916
Name The Year: Dr. Christiaan Barnard, performed first human heart transplantation = 1922
Name The Year: Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" failed; writes "Mein Kampf" while in jail. = 1923
Name The Year: Edward G. Gibson, astronaut (Skylab 4) = 1936
Name The Year: "Life with Father", longest running Broadway drama, opens (closes in 1947). = 1939
Name The Year: Allied forces invade North Africa. = 1942
Name The Year: Bonnie Raitt (in Los Angeles, CA), guitarist, singer = 1949
Name The Year: Christie Hefner, daughter of Hugh Hefner = 1952
Name The Year: Rickie Lee Jones (in Chicago), singer = 1954
Name The Year: Walt Disney's "Robin Hood" is released. = 1973
Name The Year: Fourteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 is launched. = 1984
Name The Year: Judge overturned Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's conviction. (The case that inspired Bob Dylan's song "The Story Of The Hurricane") = 1985
Name The Year: George Bush becomes the first sitting vice-president of the U.S. in 150 years to win a presidential election. = 1988
Name The Year: Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France = 1799
Name The Year: Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers and Sons), born. = 1818
Name The Year: Edward VII, king of England (1901-10), born. = 1841
Name The Year: Israel Bak created 1st hebrew printing press, dies. = 1874
Name The Year: Hedy Lamarr, actress (Ecstacy, Samson and Delilah), born. = 1913
Name The Year: Bavaria proclaims itself a republic. = 1918
Name The Year: Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I. = 1918
Name The Year: Carl Sagan, NYC, astronomer/author/professor (Cosmos, Broca's Brain), born. = 1934
Name The Year: "Kristallnacht" (Crystal Night)-Nazi stormtroopers attacked Jews. = 1938
Name The Year: Germany invades Norway and Denmark in WW II. = 1940
Name The Year: Chaim Weizmann 1st pres of Israel, dies at 57. = 1952
Name The Year: Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud founder of Saudi Arabia, dies (born c 1880). = 1953
Name The Year: Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union. = 1953
Name The Year: Dylan Thomas author-poet, dies in NY at 39. = 1953
Name The Year: Charles DeGaulle French pres, dies at 79. = 1970
Name The Year: Gary Kasparov (USSR) becomes World Chess Champion at age of 22. = 1985
Name The Year: East Berlin opens its borders. = 1989
Name The Year: President Bush announces DOUBLING of US forces in Gulf. = 1990
Name The Year: Yves Montand actor, dies at 70 from a heart attack. = 1991
Name The Year: Martin Luther, Eisleben, Germany, founded Protestantism, born. = 1483
Name The Year: George II king of England (1727-60), born. = 1683
Name The Year: Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico. = 1864
Name The Year: Claude Rains London, actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca), born. = 1889
Name The Year: 41 suffragists are arrested in front of the White House. = 1917
Name The Year: Independence of Poland proclaimed by Jozef Pilsudski. = 1918
Name The Year: Moise Tshombe, president of Katanga, then premier of the Congo (Zaire), born. = 1919
Name The Year: Richard Burton, Wales, actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf), born. = 1925
Name The Year: Hirohito enthroned as Emperor of Japan. = 1928
Name The Year: Roy Scheider Orange NJ, actor (All That Jazz, Jaws), born. = 1935
Name The Year: Kemal Atarok 1st pres of Turkey, dies. = 1938
Name The Year: 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance. = 1951
Name The Year: "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV. = 1969
Name The Year: Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet 1st sectretary, dies of a heart attack at 75. = 1982
Name The Year: River Rhine (Germany) polluted by chemical spill. = 1986
Name The Year: Berlin Wall opens in East Germany. = 1989
Name The Year: Guerrillas battle with government forces in El Salvador. = 1989
Name The Year: Germans begin punching holes in the Berlin Wall. = 1989
Name The Year: Transit of Earth as seen from Mars. = 2084
Name The Year: Henry IV, Holy Roman emperor (1036-1106) = 1050
Name The Year: 41 Pilgrims signed a compact aboard Mayflower. = 1620
Name The Year: Yen Jo-chu, Chinese scholar of Ch'ing dynasty = 1636
Name The Year: Dutch and French agree to divide St. Maarten, Leeward Islands. = 1648
Name The Year: Charles IV, king of Spain (1788-1808) = 1748
Name The Year: Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China. = 1790
Name The Year: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (in Russia), author (Crime and Punishment) = 1821
Name The Year: George S. Patton, U.S. military leader = 1885
Name The Year: Armistice Day -- WW I ends (at 11AM on Western Front). = 1918
Name The Year: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan) = 1922
Name The Year: During WWII Germany completed their occupation of France. = 1942
Name The Year: Daniel Ortega Saavedra, president of Nicaragua (1984- ) = 1945
Name The Year: Jigme Singye Wangchuk, king of Bhutan (1972- ) = 1955
Name The Year: Demi Moore, actor (Ghost) = 1963
Name The Year: Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by PM Ian D. Smith. = 1965
Name The Year: Gemini XII launched on four-day flight (the final Gemini flight). = 1966
Name The Year: John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "Two Virgins" album. = 1968
Name The Year: US Army turned over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army. = 1972
Name The Year: Portugal grants Angola independence (Natl Day). = 1975
Name The Year: The crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37. = 1980
Name The Year: 5th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 5 is launched (first commercial flight). = 1982
Name The Year: Rev Martin Luther King Sr, dies in Atlanta at 84. = 1984
Name The Year: Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 million at auction. = 1987
Name The Year: Baha'Ullah (Mirza Husayn Ali), founded Baha'i faith = 1817
Name The Year: Aleksandr Borodin, Russian composer = 1833
Name The Year: Auguste Rodin, sculptor (Kiss) = 1840
Name The Year: Jules Leotard performs the first Flying Trapeze circus act in Paris. He also designed the garment that bears his name. = 1859
Name The Year: Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC) = 1866
Name The Year: Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court justice = 1908
Name The Year: Austria becomes a republic. = 1918
Name The Year: Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator. = 1927
Name The Year: Grace Kelly (in Philadelphia, PA), actor, Princess of Monaco = 1929
Name The Year: First Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal). = 1933
Name The Year: First known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken. = 1933
Name The Year: Richard H. Truly, U.S. astronaut (STS-2, 8) = 1937
Name The Year: Stefanie Powers (in Hollywood, CA), actor (Hart to Hart) = 1942
Name The Year: German battleship Tirpitz was sunk off Norway. = 1944
Name The Year: Neil Young, singer/songwriter = 1945
Name The Year: The first "autobank" (banking by car) was established, in Chicago. = 1946
Name The Year: Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" released. = 1946
Name The Year: Japanese premier Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal. = 1948
Name The Year: Nadia Comaneci (in Romania), Olympic gymnist = 1961
Name The Year: Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus. = 1965
Name The Year: New Orleans elects first black mayor, Ernest `Dutch' Morial. = 1977
Name The Year: US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000 miles of Saturn. = 1980
Name The Year: First balloon crossing of Pacific completed (Double Eagle V). = 1981
Name The Year: Second Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 2 is launched. First time a spacecraft is launched twice. = 1981
Name The Year: Yuri V. Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev. = 1982
Name The Year: Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite first space salvage. = 1984
Name The Year: St. Augustine of Hippo (in Numidia, Algeria) = 354
Name The Year: St Nicholas I (the Great), pope (858-67) dies. = 867
Name The Year: English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers. = 1002
Name The Year: Edward III, king of England (1327-77) = 1312
Name The Year: Edward John Trelawney, English traveler, author = 1792
Name The Year: Edwin Booth, American actor = 1833
Name The Year: Robert Louis Stevenson (in Scotland), writer (Treasure Island) = 1850
Name The Year: First shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii. = 1895
Name The Year: 250 miners die in a fire at St. Paul Mine at Cherry, Ill. = 1909
Name The Year: "The Sheik", starring Rudolph Valentino, is released. = 1921
Name The Year: The Holland Tunnel, first underwater vehicular tunnel, opened between New York and New Jersey. = 1927
Name The Year: NBC forms first full sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio. = 1937
Name The Year: Walt Disney's "Fantasia" is released. = 1940
Name The Year: British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sank in Mediterranean. = 1941
Name The Year: U.S. Supreme Court struck down segregation of races on public buses. = 1956
Name The Year: Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Bangladesh. = 1970
Name The Year: Mariner 9, first orbit of another planet, first orbit of Mars. = 1971
Name The Year: Karen Silkwood killed in a car crash. = 1974
Name The Year: First manned balloon flight across Pacific Ocean ended. = 1981
Name The Year: Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini. = 1982
Name The Year: Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington, DC. = 1982
Name The Year: Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000. = 1985
Name The Year: Soviets launch first unmanned Space Shuttle in two-day test. = 1988
Name The Year: Samuel Pepys reports on first blood transfusion (between dogs). = 1666
Name The Year: William Pitt the Elder (Whig), British PM (1756-61, 1766-68) = 1708
Name The Year: Robert Fulton, built first commercial steamboat = 1765
Name The Year: Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis = 1776
Name The Year: Sir Charles Lyell, geologist = 1797
Name The Year: Claude Monet, impressionist painter = 1840
Name The Year: "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville, is published. = 1851
Name The Year: Jawaharlal Nehru, first Indian PM (1947-64), made fashion statement = 1889
Name The Year: Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation. = 1896
Name The Year: Louise Brooks, silent screen star (American Venus, Pandora's Box) = 1906
Name The Year: Rosemary DeCamp (in Arizona) = 1910
Name The Year: First airplane flight from the deck of a ship. = 1910
Name The Year: Barbara Hutton, actress = 1912
Name The Year: Veronica Lake, actress = 1919
Name The Year: Brian Keith, actor = 1921
Name The Year: BBC began domestic radio service. = 1922
Name The Year: McLean Stevenson, actor (M = A = S = H) = 1929
Name The Year: Edward H. White II, astronaut (Gemini 4) = 1930
Name The Year: Fred Haise, astronaut (Apollo 13) = 1933
Name The Year: Hussein I, king of Jordan (1953- ) = 1935
Name The Year: During WW II, German planes destroyed most of Coventry, England. = 1940
Name The Year: Charles Phillip Arthur George Windsor, Prince of Wales = 1948
Name The Year: Kilauea Volcano's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii). = 1959
Name The Year: Apollo 12 is launched. = 1969
Name The Year: Dow Jones closes above 1,000 for first time (1003.16). = 1972
Name The Year: Britain's Princess Anne marries a commoner, Capt. Mark Phillips. = 1973
Name The Year: Second Space Shuttle Mission, Columbia 2, returns to Earth. = 1981
Name The Year: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission imposes a record $100 million penalty against inside-trader Ivan Boesky. = 1986
Name The Year: Johannes Kepler, planetary law-maker, dies. = 1630
Name The Year: Sir William Herschel, astronomer discovered Uranus = 1738
Name The Year: Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer (Before Dawn) (Nobel 1912) = 1862
Name The Year: Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed. = 1889
Name The Year: Erwin Rommel, German field marshall, brilliant tactician = 1891
Name The Year: League of Nations holds first meeting, in Geneva. = 1920
Name The Year: Ed Asner, actor (Lou Grant) = 1929
Name The Year: Petula Clark (in England), singer = 1932
Name The Year: Walt Disney Art School created. = 1932
Name The Year: Anni-Frid (in Lyngsdtad, Sweden), singer (ABBA) = 1945
Name The Year: Actor Tyrone Power dies of a heart attack at 44. = 1958
Name The Year: Gemini XII returns to Earth. = 1966
Name The Year: Michael Adams in X-15 reaches altitude of 80 km. = 1967
Name The Year: 250,000 protesters peacefully demonstrate against Vietnam War. = 1969
Name The Year: President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran. = 1977
Name The Year: Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany. = 1980
Name The Year: Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I. Brezhnev. = 1982
Name The Year: Baby Fae, who received a baboon's, heart died at a California medical center. = 1984
Name The Year: Soviet unmanned Space Shuttle completes 2 day test, lands just 8 miles from launch site in central Asia. = 1988
Name The Year: Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa. = 1532
Name The Year: Rodolphe Kreutzer, French composer, virtuoso violinist = 1766
Name The Year: N.E. Guerin of New York receives a patent for his cork filled life preserver. = 1841
Name The Year: William Handy, blues musician, established the popularity of the blues in band music = 1873
Name The Year: 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan. = 1894
Name The Year: Paul Hindemith (in Germany), composer = 1895
Name The Year: Burgess Meredith, actor (Batman, Rocky) = 1908
Name The Year: Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. = 1933
Name The Year: Donna McKechnie (in Pontiac, Michigan) = 1942
Name The Year: The United Nations gets approval from the U.S. government for issuing postage stamps. = 1950
Name The Year: First speed-boat to exceed 200 miles per hour (D.M. Campbell, pilot). = 1955
Name The Year: First public announcement about Walt Disney World. = 1965
Name The Year: Venera 3 launched. (Later, the first man-made object to land on another planet when it crashed into Venus.) = 1965
Name The Year: Dr. Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury. = 1966
Name The Year: Lisa Bonet (in San Francisco, CA), actor (Cosby Show) = 1967
Name The Year: Donald Wolf, computer game creator = 1971
Name The Year: Skylab 4 and its crew are launched into earth orbit (The final Skylab mission). = 1973
Name The Year: Fifth Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 5 returns to Earth. = 1982
Name The Year: Fourteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 returns to Earth. = 1984
Name The Year: Il Bronzino, Florentine painter = 1503
Name The Year: Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary. = 1558
Name The Year: Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet, dramatist = 1587
Name The Year: Jean d'Alembert, French mathematician, scientist, philosopher = 1717
Name The Year: Louis XVIII, first post-revolutionary king of France (1814-24) = 1755
Name The Year: August Ferdinand Mobius, mathematician, inventor of Mobius strip = 1790
Name The Year: The Suez Canal opens. = 1869
Name The Year: Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (in Moville, Ireland) = 1887
Name The Year: Isamu Noguchi, sculptor = 1904
Name The Year: The Panama Canal opens for use. = 1913
Name The Year: Sculptor August Rodin died in Meudon, France. = 1917
Name The Year: Rock Hudson (in Winnetka, Ill), actor (Pillow Talk, A Farewell to Arms, McMillan and Wife) = 1925
Name The Year: Peter Cook, British actor, comedian = 1937
Name The Year: Gordon Lightfoot, folksinger = 1938
Name The Year: Martin Scorsese, director (Mean Streets, NY, NY) = 1942
Name The Year: Lauren Hutton (in South Carolina), model, actor (American Gigolo, Lassiter) = 1943
Name The Year: Danny DeVito, actor (Taxi, Ruthless People, Twins), director (War of the Roses) = 1944
Name The Year: Britain's House of Commons voted to nationalize steel industry. = 1948
Name The Year: Jeff Buckley (singer, son of Tim Buckley) = 1966
Name The Year: Russia lands unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon. = 1970
Name The Year: Pres Nixon told AP "...people have got to know whether or not their pres is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook." = 1973
Name The Year: Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel. = 1977
Name The Year: South Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim was legally declared dead. = 1982
Name The Year: Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope. = 1497
Name The Year: Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography = 1789
Name The Year: Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French. = 1803
Name The Year: Antarctica discovered by U.S. Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer. = 1820
Name The Year: Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame) = 1836
Name The Year: U.S. and Canada begin the use of standard time zones (standard time zones established by the railroads in both countries). = 1883
Name The Year: Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii. = 1889
Name The Year: George H. Gallop, pollster (what's your opinion?) = 1901
Name The Year: Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gives US exclusive canal rights through Panama. = 1903
Name The Year: U.S. invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya. = 1909
Name The Year: Lincoln Deachey performs first airplane loop-the-loop. = 1913
Name The Year: Latvia declares independence from Russia. = 1918
Name The Year: Alan B. Shepard, Jr., first American in space (Freedom 7, Apollo 14) = 1923
Name The Year: Mickey Mouse, cartoon character, sired by Walt Disney's pen = 1928
Name The Year: Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat Willie". = 1928
Name The Year: William "Pete" Knight, X-15 pilot, born. = 1929
Name The Year: Brenda Vaccaro (in Brooklyn, NY) actor (Midnight Cowboy) = 1939
Name The Year: "Flowers and Trees" awarded first Academy Award for a cartoon. = 1932
Name The Year: Main span of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge joined. = 1936
Name The Year: Linda Evans, actor (Dynasty), born. = 1942
Name The Year: First ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated. = 1943
Name The Year: Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico. = 1493
Name The Year: Puerto Rico Discovery Day. = 1582
Name The Year: Charles I, king of England (1625-49); later executed by Parliament = 1600
Name The Year: Pilgrims reach Cape Cod on the Mayflower. = 1620
Name The Year: First protestant ministry society in New England. = 1644
Name The Year: Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat, built Suez Canal = 1805
Name The Year: President Lincoln delivers his famous address at Gettysburg, PA. = 1863
Name The Year: Jose Raul Capablanca of Cuba, world chess champion (1921-27) = 1888
Name The Year: The pencil is invented. = 1895
Name The Year: Tommy Dorsey, band leader = 1905
Name The Year: Indira Gandhi, Indian prime minister (1966-77, 1980-84) = 1917
Name The Year: Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations rejected by U.S. Senate. = 1919
Name The Year: Dan Haggerty, actor (Grizzly Adams) = 1941
Name The Year: Calvin Klein, clothes designer = 1942
Name The Year: Kathleen Quinlan (in Mill Valley, CA), actor (Twilight Zone) = 1954
Name The Year: Ford Motor Company cancels the Edsel. = 1959
Name The Year: Jodie Foster (in Los Angeles, CA), actor (Silence of the Lambs, Nell, The Accused) = 1962
Name The Year: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel. = 1977
Name The Year: Rev Jim Jones leads 911 people in suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. = 1978
Name The Year: Otto von Guericke, invented the air pump. = 1602
Name The Year: Britain declares war against Holland. = 1780
Name The Year: Andres Bello, Venezuelan diplomat, author, humanist = 1781
Name The Year: William Bundy invents the first timecard clock. = 1888
Name The Year: Edwin Hubble, US astronomer, discoverer of galaxies, red shift = 1889
Name The Year: Chester Gould, cartoonist (gave Dick Tracy a job) = 1900
Name The Year: Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I. Madero. = 1910
Name The Year: The U.S. State Department starts requiring photographs for passports. = 1914
Name The Year: Maya Plisetkaya, prima ballerina = 1925
Name The Year: Robert Kennedy (in Brookline, Mass), Democratic Senator from New York, U.S. Attorney General; later assassinated = 1925
Name The Year: Veronica Hamel (in Philadelphia, PA), actor (Hill Street Blues) = 1943
Name The Year: International War Crimes Tribunal opens trial of Nazi leaders in Nuremberg. = 1945
Name The Year: Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten in London's Westminster Abbey. = 1947
Name The Year: Bo Derek (in Long Beach, CA), actor? (10; Tarzan, Ape Man) = 1956
Name The Year: Spain's Gen. Francisco Franco dies in Madrid at 82. = 1975
Name The Year: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became first Arab leader to address Israel's Knesset. = 1977
Name The Year: Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes first solar-powered flight. = 1980
Name The Year: Anatoly Karpov, USSR retains world chess championship. = 1981
Name The Year: UN's WHO announces first global effort to combat AIDS. = 1986
Name The Year: Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Providencetown, MA harbor. = 1620
Name The Year: Jakob Bohme, German philosophical mystic, dies (birth date unknown). = 1624
Name The Year: Voltaire, thinker = 1694
Name The Year: Pilftre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes make first free balloon flight. = 1783
Name The Year: William Beaumont, surgeon, studied digestion = 1785
Name The Year: Sir Samuel Cunard, founded first regular Atlantic steamship line = 1787
Name The Year: Benedict XV, 258th Roman Catholic pope (1914-22) = 1854
Name The Year: Rene Magritte, painter (This is Not a Pipe) = 1898
Name The Year: Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone for jazz = 1904
Name The Year: Vivian Blaine, actor (Guys and Dolls) = 1923
Name The Year: Henry W. "Hank" Hartsfield, U.S. astronaut (STS-4, 41D, 61A) = 1933
Name The Year: First US ambassador to the USSR (W.C. Bullitt). = 1933
Name The Year: Marlo Thomas (in Detroit, Michigan), actor (That Girl) = 1938
Name The Year: Natalia Maskarova (in Lenningrad), ballerina = 1940
Name The Year: Juliet Mills (in London, England) = 1941
Name The Year: Goldie Hawn (in Washington, DC), actor (Butterflies Are Free, Foul Play, Private Benjamin) = 1945
Name The Year: Jack Benny (Violin) and Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed duet. = 1959
Name The Year: The Verrazanno Narrows Bridge (Brooklyn to Staten Island) opens, becoming the world's longest suspension bridge. = 1964
Name The Year: The "Who Shot JR" episode of "Dallas" begins the tradition of season-ending cliff-hangers. = 1980
Name The Year: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach = 1710
Name The Year: George Eliot (in England), novelist (Silas Marner) = 1819
Name The Year: Tarzan of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel. = 1888
Name The Year: Charles de Gaulle, pres of France (1958-69), general = 1890
Name The Year: International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS" as new call for help. = 1906
Name The Year: Benjamin Britten, English composer = 1913
Name The Year: Geraldine Page (in Kirksville, MO), actor (Trip to Bountiful) = 1924
Name The Year: Owen K. Garriott, astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-9) = 1930
Name The Year: Robert Vaughn, actor (Man from U.N.C.L.E) = 1932
Name The Year: Billie Jean King (in California), tennis pro = 1943
Name The Year: Lebanon gains independence from France (National Day). = 1943
Name The Year: Jamie Lee Curtis (in Los Angeles, CA), actor, (Halloween, Trading Places, True Lies), Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh's daughter = 1958
Name The Year: Mariel Hemingway (in Ketchum, Idaho), actor (Star 80, Manhattan, Personal Best) = 1961
Name The Year: President John Kennedy assasinated in Dallas; Lee Harvey Oswald is assumed to have been the assasin. = 1963
Name The Year: UN Security council passes resolution 242, declaring that Israel must give back land won in the 6 day war. = 1967
Name The Year: Beatles release "The Beatles", their only double album. = 1968
Name The Year: Otto I (the Great), German king, Holy Roman emperor (962-73) = 912
Name The Year: Alfonso X (the Wise), king of Castile and Leon (1252) = 1221
Name The Year: Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet. = 1852
Name The Year: Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney), criminal = 1859
Name The Year: Karl Branting, Swedish statesman, diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921) = 1860
Name The Year: Battle of Chattanooga begins. = 1863
Name The Year: Patent granted for a process of making color photographs. = 1863
Name The Year: Boris Karloff, actor (Frankenstein, Isle of the Dead) = 1887
Name The Year: The first jukebox is installed, at a saloon in San Francisco. = 1889
Name The Year: Post Hospital at Presidio renamed Letterman General Hospital. = 1911
Name The Year: Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer (Hiroshima Threnody) = 1933
Name The Year: Vladislav N. Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11) = 1935
Name The Year: Lens to provide zoom effects patented (F.G. Back). = 1948
Name The Year: Francie Larrieu, track runner = 1952
Name The Year: Merle Oberon dies at age 68. = 1979
Name The Year: Mae West dies at age 88. = 1980
Name The Year: 25th Anniversary of "Dr. Who" - And still going strong. "Anyone seen a Tardis around here?" = 1988
Name The Year: Destructive eruption of Vesuvius. = 1759
Name The Year: South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification. = 1832
Name The Year: Henre de Toulouse-Lautrec (in France), painter = 1864
Name The Year: Dale Carnegie, author (How to Win Friends and Influence People) = 1888
Name The Year: Charles Schultz, Peanuts Creator = 1922
Name The Year: Oscar "Big O" Robertson, basketball player = 1938
Name The Year: Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens in London. At last report, it is still running. = 1952
Name The Year: First US Presidential airplane christened. = 1954
Name The Year: First and only live murder on TV - Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald. = 1963
Name The Year: Apollo 12 returns to Earth. = 1969
Name The Year: Britain evacuated New York, their last military position in U.S. = 1783
Name The Year: Andrew Carnegie, steel industrialist, library builder = 1835
Name The Year: Carry Nation, scourge of barkeepers and drinkers = 1846
Name The Year: Alfred Nobel invents dynamite. = 1867
Name The Year: John XXIII (born Angelo Roncalli near Bergamo, Italy), 261st pope (1958-63) = 1881
Name The Year: John B. Meyenberg of St Louis patented evaporated milk. = 1884
Name The Year: Ricardo Montalban, actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II) = 1920
Name The Year: First Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261 ft. = 1933
Name The Year: John Larroquette, actor (Night Court, Star Trek III) = 1937
Name The Year: Tina Turner (in Brownsville, Texas), singer, actor = 1941
Name The Year: John F. Kennedy, Jr. = 1960
Name The Year: First atomic reactor for research and development, Richland, Wa. = 1960
Name The Year: Greek Pres George Papadopoulos ousted in a bloodless military coup. = 1973
Name The Year: UN Secretary-General U Thant dies in NY of cancer at 65. = 1974
Name The Year: Netherlands grants Surinam independence (Natl Day). = 1975
Name The Year: O.J. Simpson gains 273 yards for Buffalo vs. Detroit. = 1976
Name The Year: Sugar Ray Leonard regains WBC welterweight championship. = 1980
Name The Year: Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off. = 1983
Name The Year: William Schroeder, becomes second to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart. = 1984
Name The Year: John Harvard, English clergyman, scholar, founder of Harvard U. = 1607
Name The Year: First lion to be seen in America was exhibited in Boston. = 1716
Name The Year: William Cowper, English poet = 1731
Name The Year: Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands). = 1778
Name The Year: Sarah Moore Grimke, American antislavery, women's rights advocate = 1792
Name The Year: Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France. = 1793
Name The Year: Louisa May Alcott, author (Little Women) = 1832
Name The Year: "Alice in Wonderland" is published. = 1865
Name The Year: The first baseball game played in enclosed field in San Francisco, at 25th and Folsom. = 1868
Name The Year: Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment = 1876
Name The Year: First Meteor photograph. = 1885
Name The Year: Norbert Wiener, inventor of cybernetics, absentminded-professor = 1894
Name The Year: Eugene Ionesco, French dramatist (Rhinoceros) = 1912
Name The Year: Robert Goulet (in Canada), singer, actor = 1933
Name The Year: Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut (Voskhod 1) = 1937
Name The Year: Rich Little (in Canada), impressionist = 1938
Name The Year: Nazis force 4.5 mil Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto. = 1940
Name The Year: India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic. = 1949
Name The Year: China enters Korean conflict. = 1950
Name The Year: The fab fours' first recording session under the name Beatles (they were formerly the Silver Beatles). = 1962
Name The Year: France launches first satellite, a 92-pound A1 capsule. = 1965
Name The Year: First major tidal power plant opened at Rance estuary, France. = 1966
Name The Year: Federal jury found Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination. = 1975
Name The Year: Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki. = 1982
Name The Year: 23rd Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 is launched. = 1985
Name The Year: Pope Urban II preaches first Crusade. = 1095
Name The Year: Anders Celsius, scientist, invented centigrade temperature scale = 1701
Name The Year: Sir Julius Benedict, composer = 1804
Name The Year: Cracow declared a free republic. = 1815
Name The Year: Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman = 1874
Name The Year: Charles A. Beard, American historian = 1874
Name The Year: Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel prize. = 1895
Name The Year: NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal. = 1910
Name The Year: Alexander Dubcek, head of Czech Communist Party (1968-69) = 1921
Name The Year: Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader; assassinated = 1932
Name The Year: Eddie Rabbitt, singer = 1941
Name The Year: Jimi Hendrix, guitarist = 1942
Name The Year: French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships and submarines to prevent them from falling into hands of Nazis. = 1942
Name The Year: Gen George C. Marshall named special U.S. envoy to China. = 1945
Name The Year: First rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM. = 1951
Name The Year: Playwright Eugene O'Neill dies in Boston at 65. = 1953
Name The Year: Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour." = 1967
Name The Year: George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass." = 1970
Name The Year: Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest. = 1970
Name The Year: Mars 2, Mars landing. First crash landing on Mars. = 1971
Name The Year: San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk shot by Dan White. = 1978
Name The Year: Soyuz T-3 is launched. = 1980
Name The Year: Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland. = 1985
Name The Year: Space shuttle Atlantis makes second flight, carries 7 (1 Mexican). = 1985
Name The Year: Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean. = 1520
Name The Year: John Bunyan, English cleric, author (Pilgrim's Progress) = 1628
Name The Year: Jean Baptiste Lully, French composer, musician = 1632
Name The Year: William Blake, poet (Songs of Innocence and Experience) = 1757
Name The Year: Washington and his troops cross the Delaware River. = 1776
Name The Year: Friedrich Engels, Marx's collaborator = 1820
Name The Year: America's first auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averages a blazing 7 MPH. = 1895
Name The Year: Claude Levi-Strauss, Belgian social anthropologist = 1908
Name The Year: Admiral R.E. Byrd makes first South Pole flight. = 1929
Name The Year: Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met at Tehran. = 1943
Name The Year: Randy Newman, singer (Raindrops), songwriter = 1943
Name The Year: Alexander Godunov, composer = 1949
Name The Year: Paul Schaeffer, musician (Saturday Night Live, David Letterman), actor (This Is Spinal Tap), Thunder Bay, Ont. = 1949
Name The Year: Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day). = 1960
Name The Year: Mariner 4 launched. First spacecraft to fly by Mars. = 1964
Name The Year: Ninth Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 is launched. = 1983
Name The Year: Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for first time. = 1986
Name The Year: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey adviser to England's King Henry VIII, died. = 1530
Name The Year: Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (color shift) = 1803
Name The Year: Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode = 1849
Name The Year: Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians. = 1864
Name The Year: Antonio Egas Moniz, Portuguese lobotomist (Nobel 1949) = 1874
Name The Year: U.S. receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii. = 1887
Name The Year: U.S. declares martial law in Dominican Republic. = 1916
Name The Year: King Tut's Tomb is discovered in Egypt. = 1922
Name The Year: Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels. = 1924
Name The Year: Richard Byrd and crew flies over the South Pole. = 1929
Name The Year: Diana Ladd = 1932
Name The Year: John Mayall, blues singer = 1933
Name The Year: Chuck Mangione, jazz musician, composer = 1940
Name The Year: Albania liberated from Nazi control (National Day). = 1944
Name The Year: Yugoslav Republic Day. = 1945
Name The Year: U.N. General Assmebly allows for a Jewish state in Palestine. = 1947
Name The Year: First underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada. = 1951
Name The Year: President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess the war. = 1952
Name The Year: Howie Mandel, actor (St Elsewhere, Walk Like a Man), comedian = 1955
Name The Year: Mercury 5 launches a chimp (Ham/Enos). = 1961
Name The Year: Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand." = 1963
Name The Year: LBJ sets up Warren comm to investigate assassination of JFK. = 1963
Name The Year: Actor Natalie Wood drowns off Santa Catalina, Calif., at 43. = 1981
Name The Year: Cary Grant, dies in Davenport, Iowa, at 82. = 1986
Name The Year: .C. Cleopatra died = 30 B
Name The Year: Andrea Doria, Genovese statesman, admiral = 1466
Name The Year: Jonathan Swift, satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal) = 1667
Name The Year: Johann Lukas Schonlein, helped establish scientific medicine = 1793
Name The Year: Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker = 1810
Name The Year: Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) (at Hannibal, MO), author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn) = 1835
Name The Year: Sir Winston Churchill (C), Brit. PM (1940-45, 1951-55) (Nobel 1953) = 1874
Name The Year: Virginia Mayo (in St Louis, MO) = 1920
Name The Year: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., actor (77 Sunset Strip, The Untouchables) = 1923
Name The Year: Richard Crenna, actor = 1927
Name The Year: Dick Clark, America's oldest teenager (American Bandstand) = 1929
Name The Year: G. Gordon Liddy, tough guy, Watergate celebrity = 1930
Name The Year: Abbie Hoffman, inventor of LSD = 1936
Name The Year: The Soviet Union invades Finland over a border dispute. = 1939
Name The Year: Only one day after the U.N. decrees Israel's right to exist, Jewish settlements are attacked. = 1947
Name The Year: First meteorite known to have struck a woman - Sylacauga, Alabama. = 1954
Name The Year: Billy Idol, rocker (White Wedding) = 1955
Name The Year: First guided missile destroyer launched, the Dewey, Bath, Me. = 1958
Name The Year: USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars. = 1964
Name The Year: Barbados gains independence from Britain (National Day). = 1966
Name The Year: BC Alexander of Macedon defeats Persian army at Gaugamela. = 331
Name The Year: Henry III, king of England (1216-72) = 1207
Name The Year: Charles VI, Holy Roman emperor (1711-40) = 1685
Name The Year: Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet. = 1847
Name The Year: First postcards are issued in Vienna. = 1869
Name The Year: William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft company = 1881
Name The Year: Vladimir Horowitz, pianist = 1904
Name The Year: Walter Matthau, actor (Odd Couple, Bad News Bears, Hopscotch) = 1920
Name The Year: Tom Bosley, actor (Happy Days, Murder She Wrote) = 1927
Name The Year: George Peppard, actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Blue Max, A-Team) = 1928
Name The Year: Start of USSR experimental calender. = 1929
Name The Year: Julie Andrews, actor, singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, S.O.B.) = 1935
Name The Year: Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia). = 1938
Name The Year: First jet propelled airplane tested. = 1942
Name The Year: People's Rep of China proclaimed (National Day). = 1949
Name The Year: First treaty signed by female ambassador - Eugenie Anderson. = 1951
Name The Year: First ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland, OR. = 1952
Name The Year: Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day). = 1960
Name The Year: France, the U.S.S.R., Great Britain, and the U.S. signed away their control over a partitioned Germany. = 1990
Name The Year: BC Aristotle dies of indigestion = 322
Name The Year: Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch government a new invention -- the telescope. = 1608
Name The Year: Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle. = 1836
Name The Year: Ferdinand Foch, believed to be the leader responsible for Allies winning World War I = 1851
Name The Year: Mahatma K. Ghandi (at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India), pacifist = 1869
Name The Year: Italy annexes Rome and the Papal States; Rome made Italian capital. = 1870
Name The Year: Groucho Marx, comedian = 1895
Name The Year: Graham Greene, prolific English novelist (Brighton Rock) = 1904
Name The Year: Robert Runcie, archbishop of Canterbury = 1921
Name The Year: Spanky McFarland, actor, little rascal = 1928
Name The Year: Yuri N. Glazkov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 24) = 1939
Name The Year: Don McLean, singer, songwriter (American Pie, Vincent) = 1945
Name The Year: First self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated in one of the squash court under Stagg Field, University of Chicago. = 1942
Name The Year: First "Peanuts" Comic Strip featuring Charlie Brown and Snoopy appears, in 9 newspapers = 1950
Name The Year: Sting, musician (Police), actor (Dune) = 1951
Name The Year: "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premiers. = 1955
Name The Year: First atomic power clock exhibited -- New York City. = 1956
Name The Year: Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS. = 1959
Name The Year: Chubby Check (musician) born. = 1941
Name The Year: John Lennon's "Imagine" documentary premieres. = 1988
Name The Year: Louis X (the Stubborn), king of France (1314-16) = 1289
Name The Year: Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England (1658-59) = 1626
Name The Year: Mexico becomes a republic. = 1824
Name The Year: Battle of Corinth ends. = 1862
Name The Year: The 'Orient Express' begins its first run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail. = 1883
Name The Year: Charlton Heston, actor (Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes) = 1923
Name The Year: The comic strip "Dick Tracy" debuts. = 1931
Name The Year: Patty LaBelle, singer = 1944
Name The Year: Susan Sarandon (in New York City), actor (Great Waldo Pepper) = 1946
Name The Year: Armand Assante, actor (Q&A, Judge Dredd) = 1949
Name The Year: "Leave It to Beaver" debuts on CBS. = 1957
Name The Year: USSR launches Sputnik I, the first artificial earth satellite. = 1957
Name The Year: USSR Luna 3 sent back first photos of Moon's far side. = 1959
Name The Year: Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day). = 1966
Name The Year: Janis Joplin dies at age 27. = 1970
Name The Year: 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 is launched. = 1985
Name The Year: Graham Chapman, member of the Monty Python team, dies from cancer. = 1989
Name The Year: Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries. = 1582
Name The Year: Louis Lumiere with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895, born. = 1864
Name The Year: Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska. = 1867
Name The Year: Ray Kroc Illinois, founder of MacDonalds/baseball team owner (San Diego Padres), born. = 1902
Name The Year: Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar. = 1908
Name The Year: Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic. = 1910
Name The Year: Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect. = 1921
Name The Year: Sir Bob Geldof pop musician (Boomtown Rats, Band Aid), born. = 1951
Name The Year: Clive Barker, novelist (Hell Raiser) = 1952
Name The Year: Michael Andretti Indy-car racer/Auto Hall of Fame (elected 1986), born. = 1962
Name The Year: Lech Walesa wins the Nobel Peace Prize. = 1983
Name The Year: Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obsentity (Mappelthorpe photos). = 1990
Name The Year: Li Ta-chao cofounder with Mao Tse-tung of Chinese Communist Party, born. = 1888
Name The Year: Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture. = 1889
Name The Year: Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina. = 1908
Name The Year: Thor Heyerdahl Norway, anthropologist/explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku), born. = 1914
Name The Year: USSR adopts experimental calendar. = 1923
Name The Year: Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China. = 1928
Name The Year: Hitler announces he has no intention of war with Britain and France. = 1939
Name The Year: Stephanie Zimbalist NYC, actress (Remington Steele, Centennial), born. = 1956
Name The Year: Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon. = 1959
Name The Year: Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel. = 1973
Name The Year: John Hathaway completes a bicycle tour of every continent in the world and cycling 50,600 miles. = 1976
Name The Year: Pres Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe". = 1976
Name The Year: Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit the White House. = 1979
Name The Year: Anwar Sadat assassinated. = 1981
Name The Year: Bette Davis dies at 81. = 1989
Name The Year: Elizabeth Taylor weds for the 8th time (Larry Fortensky). = 1991
Name The Year: Turkish fleet defeated by Spanish and Italians in Battle of Lepanto. = 1571
Name The Year: Edgar Allen Poe dies in Baltimore at 40. = 1849
Name The Year: Niels Bohr, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922), born. = 1885
Name The Year: Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba. = 1886
Name The Year: Crete unites with Greece. = 1908
Name The Year: Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in gridiron (record). = 1915
Name The Year: Al Martino, singer, born. = 1927
Name The Year: First infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY. = 1931
Name The Year: Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of South Africa (Nobel Peace Prize 1982), born. = 1931
Name The Year: Oliver North, arms dealer, born. = 1943
Name The Year: Dem. Rep of Germany (East) formed (National Day). = 1949
Name The Year: U.S. forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel. = 1950
Name The Year: John Cougar Mellencamp, singer, born. = 1951
Name The Year: Yo-Yo Ma, cellist, born. = 1955
Name The Year: "Route 66" premiers. = 1960
Name The Year: Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system. = 1968
Name The Year: 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 returns to Earth. = 1985
Name The Year: The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is first sighted. = 1604
Name The Year: J. Frank Duryea, with his brother, invented first auto built and operated in the US. = 1869
Name The Year: Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram), born. = 1873
Name The Year: Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator, born. = 1890
Name The Year: Juan Peron, president of Argentina (1946-55, 1973-74), born. = 1895
Name The Year: Rouben Mamoulian, movie director, born. = 1897
Name The Year: Karl Nessler demonstrates the first 'permanent wave' for hair, in London. = 1906
Name The Year: Sgt. Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans. = 1918
Name The Year: Frank Herbert, sci-fi writer (Dune), born. = 1920
Name The Year: Ozzie and Harriet Nelson married. = 1935
Name The Year: David Carradine, actor (Kung fu, Death Race 2000), born. = 1940
Name The Year: Chevy Chase, comedian, actor (SNL, Vacation, Fletch, Caddyshack), born. = 1943
Name The Year: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debut on CBS radio. = 1944
Name The Year: President Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada. = 1945
Name The Year: Sigourney Weaver (in Los Angeles), actor (Aliens, GhostBusters), born. = 1949
Name The Year: Johnny Ramone, rock guitarist, born. = 1951
Name The Year: N. Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party. = 1962
Name The Year: Soviet author Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Lit. = 1970
Name The Year: Kenneth Warby sets world speed record on water (514 kph). = 1978
Name The Year: Pres. Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and Richard Nixon before their trip to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral. = 1981
Name The Year: OJ Simpson acquitted for double murder of his Ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. = 1995
Name The Year: Husain ibn 'Ali, Shi'i religious leader, enters martyrdom. = 680
Name The Year: Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly America). = 1000
Name The Year: Korean Hangual alphabet devised. = 1446
Name The Year: Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (Don Quixote), born. = 1547
Name The Year: Charles X, king of France (1824-30); deposed, born. = 1757
Name The Year: Jacques Tati, director (Traffic, Playtime, My Uncle), born. = 1908
Name The Year: John Lennon, rocker/Beatle, born. = 1940
Name The Year: John Entwistle, rocker (The Who), born. = 1944
Name The Year: Peter Tosh, Jamaica, reggae musician, born. = 1944
Name The Year: 1st electric blanket manufactured; sold for US$39.50. = 1946
Name The Year: Scott Bakula, actor (Quantum Leap, The Invaders), born. = 1954
Name The Year: Tanganyika becomes independent within the British Commonwealth. = 1961
Name The Year: Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic). = 1961
Name The Year: Uganda becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth. = 1963
Name The Year: Che Guevara executed in Bolivia. = 1967
Name The Year: Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence. = 1970
Name The Year: Elvis and Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years. = 1973
Name The Year: Saddam threatens to hit Israel with a new missile. = 1990
Name The Year: Henry Cavendish, English physicist, chemist = 1731
Name The Year: Giuseppe Verdi, composer of operas (Rigoletto, Aida, Otello), born. = 1813
Name The Year: Emily Dickinson, poet, born. = 1830
Name The Year: Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell. = 1846
Name The Year: Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer, humanitarian (Nobel 1922), born. = 1861
Name The Year: Griswold Lorillard wears the first dinner jacket to the Autumn Ball in Tuxedo Park. Thus the name 'tuxedo.' = 1886
Name The Year: Ivo Andric, Yugoslav novelist (Bridge on the Drina) (Nobel '61), born. = 1892
Name The Year: Lin Yi-t'ang, Chinese writer (My Country and My People), born. = 1895
Name The Year: China Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew Manchu dynasty. = 1911
Name The Year: Pacific and Atlantic mix as engineers blow Gamboa Dam, opening the Panama Canal. = 1913
Name The Year: James Clavell, author (Shogun, Tai Pan, King Rat, Noble House, Whirlwind), born. = 1924
Name The Year: Harold Pinter, playwright, born. = 1930
Name The Year: First synthetic detergent for home use marketed. = 1933
Name The Year: George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" opened in New York City. = 1935
Name The Year: Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. = 1938
Name The Year: Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China. = 1943
Name The Year: Ben Vereen, dancer, actor, singer, born. = 1946
Name The Year: David Lee Roth, rocker, born. = 1955
Name The Year: Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US, UK, USSR. = 1963
Name The Year: 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo. = 1964
Name The Year: Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day). = 1970
Name The Year: Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt. = 1975
Name The Year: 4,500 people die when a pair of earthquakes struck NW Algeria. = 1980
Name The Year: Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated. = 1980
Name The Year: Pope John Paul II proclaimed Rev. M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint. = 1982
Name The Year: U.S. fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen were placed in custody. = 1985
Name The Year: Wilhelm Olbers, discoverer of asteroids Pallas and Vesta, born. = 1758
Name The Year: The Juliana, the first steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation. = 1811
Name The Year: Henry John Heinz, founded a prepared-foods company, born. = 1844
Name The Year: Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), born. = 1919
Name The Year: Pioneer 1 launched; first spacecraft launched by NASA. = 1958
Name The Year: Pope John XXIII convenes 21st Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican II, in Rome. = 1962
Name The Year: "Saturday Night Live" premiers. = 1975
Name The Year: Soyuz 25 returns to Earth. = 1977
Name The Year: Cosmonauts Popov and Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days. = 1980
Name The Year: 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington. = 1987
Name The Year: Edward VI king of England (1547-53), born. = 1537
Name The Year: Pedro I 1st emperor of Brazil (1822-31), king of Portugal, born. = 1798
Name The Year: Elmer A Sperry inventor (gyrocompass), born. = 1860
Name The Year: Matsuo Basho greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies. = 1694
Name The Year: Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats (Macs). = 1823
Name The Year: Robert E Lee General of the Confederate Army, dies at 63. = 1870
Name The Year: Luciano Pavarotti Moderna Italy, operatic tenor (Oh Giorgio), born. = 1935
Name The Year: Launch of Voskhod 1, 1st 3 man crew (Komarov, Feokistov, Yegorov). = 1964
Name The Year: 19th modern Olympic games opens in Mexico City. = 1968
Name The Year: Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain (National Day). = 1968
Name The Year: Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party. = 1976
Name The Year: Representatives of Israel and Egypt open talks in Washington. = 1978
Name The Year: IRA bombs hotel where Margaret Thatcher is staying. = 1984
Name The Year: Ed Sullivan TV host (Ed Sullivan Show), dies at 73. = 1974
Name The Year: Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House). = 1792
Name The Year: Yves Montand, France, actor/singer (Z, Napoleon), born. = 1921
Name The Year: Lenny Bruce comedian, arrested on obsenity charges, born. = 1925
Name The Year: Margaret Thatcher, (Tory) British PM (1979-90), Iron Lady, born. = 1925
Name The Year: Paul Simon, singer (Kodachrome, Graceland), born. = 1942
Name The Year: Italy declares war on former ally Germany. = 1943
Name The Year: US 1st army begins battle of Aachen. = 1944
Name The Year: "Beatlemania" is coined after the Beatles appear at the Palladium. = 1963
Name The Year: Soyuz 8 is launched. = 1969
Name The Year: 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf). = 1987
Name The Year: Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England. = 1066
Name The Year: Trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I, begins. = 1586
Name The Year: James II, king of England (1685-88), born. = 1633
Name The Year: George Grenville, British prime minister (1763-65), born. = 1712
Name The Year: British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy. = 1843
Name The Year: George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film. = 1884
Name The Year: e e cummings, poet, born. = 1894
Name The Year: Lillian Gish, silent film and stage actor (Birth of a Nation), born. = 1896
Name The Year: Theodore Roosevelt is shot in the chest in Milwaukee while campaigning for President with the Bull Moose Party. = 1912
Name The Year: Roger Moore, actor, (The Saint, numerous James Bond movies), born. = 1926
Name The Year: German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face trial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Hitler. = 1944
Name The Year: Chuck Yeager pilots the world's first supersonic flight (Mach 1.015 at 12,800 m) at Muroc, CA. = 1947
Name The Year: 14 US Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition. = 1949
Name The Year: Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km. = 1965
Name The Year: Soyuz 23 launched to Salyut 6, but return without docking. = 1976
Name The Year: Bing Crosby dies in Madrid, Spain. = 1977
Name The Year: First TV movie from a TV series - "Rescue from Gilligan's Island". = 1978
Name The Year: C Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (Mantua, Italy), poet (Aeneid), born. = 70 B
Name The Year: King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes to be built at Whitehall, in London. = 1520
Name The Year: Akbar, Indian Mughal emperor (1556-1605), born. = 1542
Name The Year: Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar cut 10 prior days. = 1582
Name The Year: Jean Pilftre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent. = 1783
Name The Year: Jose Miguel Carrera, president of Chile (1811-14), born. = 1785
Name The Year: Asaph Hall, astronomer, discovered the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, born. = 1829
Name The Year: Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher, Ubermensch, born. = 1844
Name The Year: John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, born. = 1908
Name The Year: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian, born. = 1917
Name The Year: Mata Hari executed by firing squad outside of Paris. = 1917
Name The Year: Mario Puzo, author (Godfather), born. = 1921
Name The Year: LaGuardia Airport opened in New York City. = 1939
Name The Year: Penny Marshall (in New York City), actor (Laverne and Shirley), born. = 1943
Name The Year: Richard Carpenter, musician (Carpenters), born. = 1946
Name The Year: Nazi Hermann Goering poisons himself in prison. = 1946
Name The Year: "I Love Lucy" premiers. = 1951
Name The Year: Princess Sarah 'Fergie' Ferguson, the Duchess of York, born. = 1959
Name The Year: "The Untouchables" premiers. = 1959
Name The Year: Kosygin and Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev. = 1964
Name The Year: Albrecht von Haller, the father of experimental physiology = 1708
Name The Year: Noah Webster, lexicographer = 1758
Name The Year: Marie Antoinette beheaded in France. = 1793
Name The Year: Dentist William T. Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether. = 1846
Name The Year: Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde (Dublin, Ireland), author (Picure of Dorian Gray), wit, dandy. = 1854
Name The Year: Sir Austen Chamberlain, British foreign secretary (Nobel 1925) = 1863
Name The Year: A hotel in Boston becomes the first to have indoor plumbing. = 1869
Name The Year: Eugene O'Neill, playwright (Desire Under the Elms) (Nobel 1936) = 1888
Name The Year: Enver Hoxha, post-war leader of Albania = 1908
Name The Year: Margaret Sanger opens the first public birth control clinic (Brooklyn, NY). = 1916
Name The Year: Disney Co. founded. = 1923
Name The Year: Angela Lansbury, actor (Sweeney Todd; Murder, She Wrote) = 1925
Name The Year: Gunter Grass, German novelist, poet (The Tin Drum) = 1927
Name The Year: World Food Day. = 1945
Name The Year: Ten Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials. = 1946
Name The Year: Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba. = 1962
Name The Year: China becomes world's 5th nuclear power. = 1964
Name The Year: Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser. = 1970
Name The Year: Kissinger and Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize. = 1973
Name The Year: Soyuz 23 returns to Earth. = 1976
Name The Year: Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-Pope John Paul II. = 1978
Name The Year: Israel's General Moshe Dayan dies at 66. = 1981
Name The Year: Mt Palomar Observatory first to detect Halley's comet on 13th return. = 1982
Name The Year: Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel. = 1982
Name The Year: Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu named Nobel Peace Prize winner. = 1984
Name The Year: Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip. = 1985
Name The Year: 18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued 58 hours after she fell 22 feet into a well shaft in Midland, TX. = 1987
Name The Year: 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England. = 1987
Name The Year: Jazz drummer Art Blakey dies. = 1990
Name The Year: Columbus sights the isle of San Salvador. = 1492
Name The Year: Marie Antoinette executed. = 1793
Name The Year: Alexandrine-Pieternella-Franoise Tinn, explored the White Nile, born. = 1835
Name The Year: Gustav Kirchoff, discoverer of the laws of spectroscopy, dies. = 1887
Name The Year: Arthur Miller, playwright (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible), born. = 1915
Name The Year: Rita Hayworth (in New York), actor, alzheimer victim, born. = 1919
Name The Year: Tom Poston, comedian, actor (Newhart), born. = 1921
Name The Year: Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison. = 1931
Name The Year: Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany. = 1933
Name The Year: William A. Anders, astronaut (Apollo 8), born. = 1933
Name The Year: Robert 'Evel' Knievel, motorcycle daredevil, born. = 1938
Name The Year: Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina. = 1945
Name The Year: Margot Kidder (in Yellowknife), actor (Superman), born. = 1948
Name The Year: George Wendt, actor (Cheers), born. = 1949
Name The Year: Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit the White House. = 1957
Name The Year: Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km about Earth. = 1967
Name The Year: Soyuz 7 returns to Earth. = 1969
Name The Year: The Arab oil embargo begins. It will last until March, 1974. = 1973
Name The Year: Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. = 1979
Name The Year: Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon). = 1016
Name The Year: Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism, hastens onset of French Revolution. = 1685
Name The Year: Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession. = 1748
Name The Year: In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail". = 1776
Name The Year: US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million). = 1867
Name The Year: Belgium annexes Congo Free State. = 1908
Name The Year: Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m. = 1909
Name The Year: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) established. = 1922
Name The Year: Chuck Berry, St Louis, USA, rocker (Roll over Beethoven), born. = 1926
Name The Year: Thomas Alva Edison inventor, dies in West Orange, NJ, at 84. = 1931
Name The Year: Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK's assassin, born. = 1939
Name The Year: Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II. = 1944
Name The Year: Pam Dawber Detroit, actress (Mindy-Mork and Mindy), born. = 1951
Name The Year: Martina Navratilova, Prague, Czech Republic, tennis champion (Wimbeldon 1989,79,82-87), born. = 1956
Name The Year: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgium, actor (Kickboxer, No Retreat) = 1958
Name The Year: Wynton Marsalis, New Orleans La, jazz trumpeter (Grammy 1983), born. = 1961
Name The Year: I.O.C. votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics. = 1963
Name The Year: Soviet Venera 4 becomes the 1st probe to send data back from Venus. = 1967
Name The Year: Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released. = 1967
Name The Year: Police find 219 grains of cannabis resin in John and Yoko's apartment. = 1968
Name The Year: US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving "black power" salute as a protest during victory ceremony. = 1968
Name The Year: Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow. = 1812
Name The Year: Wagner's opera Tannhauser performed for 1st time. = 1845
Name The Year: Auguste Lumiere, made 1st movie (Workers Leaving Lumiere Factory), born. = 1862
Name The Year: World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales. = 1872
Name The Year: Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control. = 1912
Name The Year: Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead) film actor, born. = 1945
Name The Year: John Lithgow, actor (Harry and the Hendersons, 3rd Rock From The Sun), born. = 1945
Name The Year: UN forces entered Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. = 1950
Name The Year: Pres Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany. = 1951
Name The Year: France grants Mauritania independence. = 1960
Name The Year: Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta sit-in. = 1960
Name The Year: The US imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba. = 1960
Name The Year: Evander Hollyfield, 2-time Heavyweight boxing champ, born. = 1962
Name The Year: Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand". = 1963
Name The Year: Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus. = 1967
Name The Year: US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf. = 1987
Name The Year: Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members. = 1988
Name The Year: Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns). = 1600
Name The Year: Sir Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/great architect, born. = 1632
Name The Year: Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia. = 1740
Name The Year: German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished. = 1813
Name The Year: Arthur Rimbaud, France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations), born. = 1854
Name The Year: Margaret Dumont, actress-Marx Brothers' foil, born. = 1889
Name The Year: Mickey Mantle, NY Yankee home run slugger, born. = 1931
Name The Year: William Christopher, actor (Father Mulcahy-M = A = S = H), born. = 1932
Name The Year: Martin Landau, actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Tucker), born. = 1934
Name The Year: Revolution by workers and students in Guatemala. = 1944
Name The Year: Tom Petty, Florida, USA, singer, born. = 1953
Name The Year: South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela and 8 others on conspiracy. = 1963
Name The Year: Herbert Hoover 31st president of US, dies in NY at 90. = 1964
Name The Year: Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis. = 1968
Name The Year: Harlow Shapley discoverer of the Sun's position in the galaxy, dies. = 1972
Name The Year: Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA. = 1988
Name The Year: 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida. = 1990
Name The Year: Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq). = 1990
Name The Year: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (in England), poet, born. = 1772
Name The Year: U.S. Navy frigate USS Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston. = 1797
Name The Year: Alfred Bernhard Nobel (in Stockholm, Sweden), created dynamite and Peace Prizes, born. = 1833
Name The Year: Severe earthquake at 7:53 a.m., centered in Hayward, Calif. = 1868
Name The Year: Thomas Edison commercially perfects the light bulb. = 1879
Name The Year: Sir Georg Solti, conductor, born. = 1912
Name The Year: Martin Gardner, Scientific American math and puzzles columnist, born. = 1914
Name The Year: Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz, born. = 1917
Name The Year: Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min. = 1918
Name The Year: Deutsches Museum, Munich, first Walther Bauersfeld's Zeiss Planetarium. = 1923
Name The Year: Manfred Mann, musician, born. = 1940
Name The Year: US troops captured Aachen, first large German city to fall (WW II). = 1944
Name The Year: Women in France allowed to vote for the first time. = 1945
Name The Year: Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated, Washington DC. = 1948
Name The Year: Carrie Fisher (in Beverly Hills), actor (Star Wars, Blues Brothers), born. = 1956
Name The Year: Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York. = 1959
Name The Year: JFK and Nixon clashed in 4th and final pres debate. = 1960
Name The Year: Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astrophysicist dies at 94. = 1967
Name The Year: Thousands opposing Vietnam War tried to storm the Pentagon. = 1967
Name The Year: Venera 9, first craft to orbit the planet Venus launched. = 1975
Name The Year: US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa. = 1977
Name The Year: Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2 h 8 m 5 s. = 1984
Name The Year: B.C. Universe created at 8:00 PM, according to the 1650 pronouncement of Anglican archbishop James Usher. = 4004
Name The Year: Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first parachute jump from a balloon (Paris, France). = 1797
Name The Year: Franz Liszt (in Hungary), Romantic composer, virtuoso pianist, born. = 1811
Name The Year: John Reed, journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions, born. = 1887
Name The Year: Timothy Leary, psychologist, drug testing advocate, born. = 1920
Name The Year: Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd shot dead by FBI in Ohio. = 1934
Name The Year: Christopher Lloyd, actor (Taxi, Star Trek III, Back to the Future, Addams Family), born. = 1938
Name The Year: Annette Funichello (in Utica, NY), mouseketeer, actor, born. = 1942
Name The Year: Catherine Deneuve (in Paris, France), (Repulsion), born. = 1943
Name The Year: Jeff Goldblum, actor (The Fly, Silverado, Buckaroo Bonzai, ID4), born. = 1952
Name The Year: Laos gains full independence from France. = 1953
Name The Year: West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). = 1954
Name The Year: JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis. = 1962
Name The Year: Apollo 7 returns to Earth. = 1968
Name The Year: Security Council Resol 338 - a cease fire to the Yom Kippur War. = 1973
Name The Year: Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 lands on Venus. = 1975
Name The Year: Deposed Shah of Iran arrived in NY for medical treatment. = 1979
Name The Year: Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest. = 1979
Name The Year: Nicolas Appert, inventor of food canning, bouillon tablet, born. = 1752
Name The Year: Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed). = 1790
Name The Year: Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England (The Testament of Beauty), born. = 1844
Name The Year: Felix Bloch, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1952), born. = 1905
Name The Year: Karl Jansky, discoverer of cosmic radio emissions in 1932, born. = 1905
Name The Year: 25,000 women marched in NYC, demanding the right to vote. = 1915
Name The Year: Johnny Carson, pundit (Tonight Show), born. = 1925
Name The Year: Edison Pele, soccer player extraordinaire, born. = 1940
Name The Year: Walt Disney's "Dumbo" is released. = 1941
Name The Year: Michael Crichton, author (Andromeda Strain, Jurrasic Park, Rising Sun), born. = 1942
Name The Year: During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt. = 1942
Name The Year: United Nations General Assembly convenes in New York for first time in Flushing Meadow. = 1946
Name The Year: First video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast. = 1956
Name The Year: The ill-fated revolt in Communist Hungary starts -- The Prague Spring. It was later crushed by Soviet tanks. = 1956
Name The Year: Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature. = 1958
Name The Year: President Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings. = 1973
Name The Year: By 2/3 majority, Panamanians vote to approve the new Canal treaties. = 1977
Name The Year: Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness. = 1980
Name The Year: 241 US Marines and sailors die in a terrorist suicide attack on their barracks in Beriut. = 1983
Name The Year: 33 years after Soviet tanks crushed the Prague Spring, Hungary declares itself a republic. = 1989
Name The Year: Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII, dies. = 1537
Name The Year: Third partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia. = 1795
Name The Year: The match is patented. = 1836
Name The Year: William Lassell discovers Ariel and Umbriel, satellites of Unranus. = 1851
Name The Year: First transcontinental telegram sent. = 1861
Name The Year: Anna Taylor, first to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and live. = 1901
Name The Year: Moss Hart, playwright, born. = 1904
Name The Year: "Black Thursday", the beginning of the stock market crash. = 1929
Name The Year: F. Murray Abraham, actor (Amadeus, Name of the Rose), born. = 1940
Name The Year: United Nations Charter goes into effect. = 1945
Name The Year: Kevin Kline, actor, born. = 1947
Name The Year: Disaster on USSR launch pad killed missle expert Nedelin and team (unconfirmed); USSR claims he was killed in plane crash. = 1960
Name The Year: Zambia (N. Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day). = 1964
Name The Year: Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile. = 1970
Name The Year: Yom Kippur War ends - Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus. = 1973
Name The Year: The first Jewish film and TV festival. = 1976
Name The Year: Author Geoffrey Chaucer dies in London. = 1400
Name The Year: Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight. = 1415
Name The Year: Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn. = 1671
Name The Year: George III ascends the British throne. = 1760
Name The Year: Johann Strauss the Younger, composer, Waltz King = 1825
Name The Year: Georges Bizet, composer = 1838
Name The Year: Henry Norris Russell, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram) = 1877
Name The Year: Pablo Picasso, doodler (Guernica) (or 10-05) = 1881
Name The Year: Eduardo Barrios, Chilean novelist (The Love-Crazed Boy) = 1884
Name The Year: Richard E. Byrd, polar explorer = 1888
Name The Year: Marion Ross (in Minnesota), actor (Played Mrs. Cunningham in Happy Days) = 1928
Name The Year: Russell L. (Rusty) Schweickart, astronaut (Apollo 9) = 1935
Name The Year: Nylon stockings go on sale in the U.S. for the first time. = 1939
Name The Year: Helen Reddy (in Melbourne, Australia), singer (I am Woman) = 1941
Name The Year: First electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NY city. = 1960
Name The Year: UN General Assembly admits Mainland China and expels Taiwan. = 1971
Name The Year: USSR Venera 10 made day Venus landing. = 1975
Name The Year: US invades Grenada, a country with 1/2000 its population. = 1983
Name The Year: King Alfred the Great, dies. = 901
Name The Year: Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva. = 1863
Name The Year: Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer. = 1863
Name The Year: Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet), born. = 1879
Name The Year: Prince Ito of Japan is assassinated by a Korean. = 1909
Name The Year: Felix the Cat, cartoon character, born. = 1917
Name The Year: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Aryamehr, Shah of Iran (1941-79), born. = 1919
Name The Year: Bob Hoskins, Suffolk, England, actor (Brazil, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?), born. = 1942
Name The Year: Jaclyn Smith, actress (Charlie's Angel, Nightkill), born. = 1947
Name The Year: Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as president. = 1955
Name The Year: USSR fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov (Zhukov lead USSR into Berlin during WW2). = 1957
Name The Year: Cary Elwes, actor (Glory, Princess Bride, Robin Hood - Men In Tights), born. = 1962
Name The Year: Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne. = 1967
Name The Year: Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin. = 1972
Name The Year: Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit the US. = 1975
Name The Year: Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa. = 1976
Name The Year: Trinidad and Tobago becomes a republic. = 1976
Name The Year: Park Chung-hee South Korean President is assassinated. = 1979
Name The Year: Head of El Salvadoran Human Rights Comm assassinated by death squads. = 1987
Name The Year: US-Soviet effort free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic. = 1988
Name The Year: James Cook, captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands and led First Fleet to Australia, born. = 1728
Name The Year: Niccolo Paganini, Genoa, Italy, composer/violin virtuoso (Princess Lucca), born. = 1782
Name The Year: Theodore Roosevelt 26th President of US (1901-09) (Nobel 1906), born. = 1858
Name The Year: Emily Post authority on social behavior, writer (Etiquette), born. = 1872
Name The Year: Dylan Thomas, Swansea, Wales, poet (Child's Christmas in Wales), born. = 1914
Name The Year: Roy Lichtenstein, Pop art painter; painted comic book panels, born. = 1923
Name The Year: The Uzbek SSR forms. = 1924
Name The Year: DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon". = 1938
Name The Year: John Cleese comedian/actor (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers), born. = 1939
Name The Year: "You Bet Your Life", with Groucho Marx, premieres on American ABC radio. = 1947
Name The Year: Simon Le Bon, rocker (Duran Duran), born. = 1958
Name The Year: Outer Mongolia and Mauritania become the 102nd and 103rd members of UN. = 1961
Name The Year: St Vincent and the Grenadines gains associated status with Britain. = 1969
Name The Year: Republic of the Congo becomes Republic of Zaire. = 1971
Name The Year: St Vincent and the Grenadines becomes independent of UK (Nat'l Day). = 1979
Name The Year: Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide. = 1979
Name The Year: China announces its population at 1 billion people plus. = 1982
Name The Year: South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution. = 1987
Name The Year: Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione and Sinatra. = 1988
Name The Year: Henry III, Holy Roman emperor (1046-56) = 1017
Name The Year: Columbus arrives in Cuba. = 1492
Name The Year: Cornelius Otto Jansen of France, Roman Catholic reform leader = 1585
Name The Year: Harvard College, first US college founded. = 1636
Name The Year: Eli Whitney applies for patent for the cotton gin. = 1793
Name The Year: Cornelius Otto Jansen of France, Roman Catholic reform leader = 1585
Name The Year: St. Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints. = 1904
Name The Year: Dr. Jonas Salk, who made polio a fear of the past = 1914
Name The Year: Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austria. = 1918
Name The Year: Walther Bauersfeld, invented first modern projection planetarium = 1919
Name The Year: Volstead Act passed by U.S. Congress, starting Prohibition. = 1919
Name The Year: Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government. = 1922
Name The Year: First child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl. = 1929
Name The Year: Gennadi M. Strekalov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11) = 1940
Name The Year: German rocket engineers begin work in USSR. = 1946
Name The Year: The flag of Israel is adopted. = 1948
Name The Year: Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion. = 1965
Name The Year: US/USSR signed an agreement to discuss joint space efforts. = 1970
Name The Year: England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit. = 1971
Name The Year: BC Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia. = 539
Name The Year: Sir Walter Raleigh is executed in London. = 1618
Name The Year: Edmund Halley (in London), sky watcher, namesake of Halley's Comet, born. = 1656
Name The Year: Pennsylvania granted to William Penn by King Charles II. = 1682
Name The Year: Severe earthquake in New England. = 1727
Name The Year: James Boswell (in Scotland), Samuel Johnson's biographer, born. = 1740
Name The Year: International Committee of the Red Cross is founded (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963). = 1863
Name The Year: Guillermo Valencia, Colombian poet, translator, statesman, born. = 1873
Name The Year: Marie, queen consort of Ferdinand I of Rumania, born. = 1875
Name The Year: Bela Lugosi, horror actor (Dracula, Body Snatcher), born. = 1884
Name The Year: Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propagandist, born. = 1897
Name The Year: Turkey is proclaimed to have a republican government. = 1923
Name The Year: "Black Tuesday", the Stock Market crash. = 1929
Name The Year: Golden Gate International Exposition closes (first closure). = 1939
Name The Year: Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open Straits of Tiran. = 1956
Name The Year: Richard Dreyfuss, actor (Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind), born. = 1947
Name The Year: Kate Jackson (in Alabama), actor (Charley's Angels, Making Love), born. = 1948
Name The Year: Star of India and other jewels are stolen in NY. = 1964
Name The Year: 8th and last crusade is launched. = 1270
Name The Year: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright (Rivals, School for Scandal) = 1632
Name The Year: US Navy is created. = 1775
Name The Year: Francisco Madero, Mexican revolutionary, president (1911-13) = 1873
Name The Year: Ezra Pound (in Hailey, Idaho) = 1885
Name The Year: Ruth Gordon (in Mass.), actor (Rosemary's Baby, Harold and Maude) = 1896
Name The Year: Tsar Nicholas II grants Russia a constitution. = 1905
Name The Year: Fyodor Dostoevsky, author = 1918
Name The Year: Mussolini forms cabinet in Italy. = 1922
Name The Year: Orson Welles panics a nation with his broadcast of H. G. Wells' "War of the Worlds". = 1938
Name The Year: Grace Slick (in Chicago, IL), singer (Jefferson Airplane/Starship) = 1939
Name The Year: Talia Shire, actor (Rocky (as Adrian)) = 1943
Name The Year: Henry Winkler, actor (Happy Days as the Fonz) = 1945
Name The Year: Dr. Albert Schweitzer received Nobel Peace Prize for 1952. = 1953
Name The Year: Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square. = 1961
Name The Year: USSR Kosmos 186 and 188 make first automatic docking. Also, Venera 13 is launched. = 1967
Name The Year: Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa, Zaire. = 1974
Name The Year: 22nd Space Shuttle Mission, Challenger 9, is launched carrying eight crewmen (2 Germans, 1 Dutch). = 1985
Name The Year: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses, begins Protestant Reformation. = 1517
Name The Year: Jan Vermeer (in Holland), painter (Procuress, The Astronomer) = 1632
Name The Year: John Keats, Romantic poet = 1795
Name The Year: Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents the miner's safety lamp. = 1815
Name The Year: William Parson, third Earl of Rosse and maker of large telescopes dies. = 1865
Name The Year: Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy. = 1922
Name The Year: Erich Weiss, better known as Magician Harry Houdini, dies. = 1926
Name The Year: Michael Collins, astronaut (Gemini 10, Apollo 11) = 1930
Name The Year: Michael Landon, actor = 1936
Name The Year: Jane Pauley (in Indianapolis, IN), newcaster for CNN = 1950
Name The Year: John Candy, actor (Second City TV, Splash, Blues Brothers) = 1950
Name The Year: First thermonuclear bomb detonated - Marshall Islands. = 1952
Name The Year: Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to U.S. = 1959
Name The Year: U.S. President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam. = 1968
Name The Year: Adrian IV only English pope (1154-59), dies (birth date unknown). = 1159
Name The Year: Jacques Cartier French explorer, dies (birth date unknown). = 1557
Name The Year: Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed. = 1666
Name The Year: Louis XIV the great, king of France (1643-1715), dies at 76. = 1715
Name The Year: RC Carrington and R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare. = 1859
Name The Year: Napoleon III captured at Sedan. = 1870
Name The Year: Sydney General Post Office opens. = 1874
Name The Year: Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist (Tarzan, John Carter Of Mars Saga), born. = 1875
Name The Year: St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd. = 1914
Name The Year: Yvonne De Carlo, Vancouver BC, actress (Lily Munster in the Munsters), born. = 1922
Name The Year: Rocky Marciano, heavyweight champion boxer (1952-56), born. = 1923
Name The Year: Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king. = 1928
Name The Year: Physical Review publishes 1st paper to deal with black holes. = 1939
Name The Year: WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig. = 1939
Name The Year: Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan). = 1945
Name The Year: UN's World Health Organization forms. = 1948
Name The Year: US, Australia and New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty. = 1951
Name The Year: Gloria Estefan, Cuba, singer, born. = 1957
Name The Year: 10,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran. = 1962
Name The Year: UN announces Earth population has hit 3 billion. = 1962
Name The Year: Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris. = 1969
Name The Year: Qatar declares independence from Britain. = 1971
Name The Year: Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings. = 1979
Name The Year: Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon. = 1982
Name The Year: Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet. = 1983
Name The Year: BC Phidippides runs first marathon, to announce the victory of Sparta over Persia. = 490
Name The Year: C Battle of Actium; Octavian defeats Mark Antony and becomes Emperor Augustus. = 31 B
Name The Year: The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth with 102 Pilgrims. = 1620
Name The Year: Great Fire of London starts; destroys St. Paul's Church. = 1666
Name The Year: Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies. = 1752
Name The Year: K. L. Harding discovers Juno, third known asteroid. = 1804
Name The Year: Queen Liliuokalani, last queen of Hawaii (1891-93) = 1838
Name The Year: Wilhelm Ostwald, German physical chemist (Nobel 1909) = 1853
Name The Year: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain. = 1898
Name The Year: First transatlantic round-trip air flight. = 1936
Name The Year: Vietnam declares independence from France (National Day). = 1945
Name The Year: V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri. = 1945
Name The Year: Jimmy Connors, tennis player = 1952
Name The Year: St Gregory I begins his reign as Catholic Pope. = 590
Name The Year: England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster. = 1189
Name The Year: Nicolo Amati, Italy, violin maker (Stradivari and Guarneri), born. = 1596
Name The Year: James I king of England (1603-25), dies at 92. = 1658
Name The Year: Lord Oliver Cromwell British king (1653-58), dies at 59. = 1658
Name The Year: Charles X, Versailles, France, Duke of Prussia, born. = 1757
Name The Year: British annex Natal (South Africa). = 1900
Name The Year: Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV. = 1914
Name The Year: Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun. = 1916
Name The Year: Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada. = 1939
Name The Year: Pauline Collins, London England, actress (Shirley Valentine), born. = 1940
Name The Year: US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease. = 1940
Name The Year: Allies invade Italy. = 1943
Name The Year: Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to Allies. = 1945
Name The Year: Pope Pius X canonized a saint. = 1954
Name The Year: e. e. cummings poet, dies at 67. = 1962
Name The Year: Charlie Sheen, actor (Wall St, Platoon), born. = 1965
Name The Year: Ho Chi Minh North Vietnamese president, dies. = 1969
Name The Year: Qatar regains complete independence from Britain. = 1971
Name The Year: Viking 2 soft lands on Mars (Utopia), returns photos. = 1976
Name The Year: Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29. = 1978
Name The Year: Frank Capra director (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 94. = 1991
Name The Year: Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in west, is deposed. = 476
Name The Year: Navigator Henry Hudson discovered the island of Manhattan. = 1609
Name The Year: Francois Ren, de Chateaubriand, French poet, novelist, statesman = 1768
Name The Year: Los Angeles founded in the Valley of Smokes (Indian Name). = 1781
Name The Year: Marcus Whitman, missionary = 1802
Name The Year: Anton Bruckner (in Austria), Wagner disciple = 1824
Name The Year: The first newsboy in the US hired (Barney Flaherty), by the NY Sun. = 1833
Name The Year: Daniel Burnham, American architect, built skyscrapers = 1846
Name The Year: French republic proclaimed. = 1870
Name The Year: Darius Milhaud, composer = 1872
Name The Year: Geronimo, Apache indian, finally surrenders ending last major US-Indian war. = 1886
Name The Year: George Eastman patents first rollfilm camera and registers Kodak. = 1888
Name The Year: Paul Osborn, playwright = 1901
Name The Year: Richard Wright, American author (Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children) = 1908
Name The Year: Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft). = 1911
Name The Year: Henry Ford II, businessman = 1917
Name The Year: Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria). = 1920
Name The Year: Tom Watson, Golfer = 1949
Name The Year: Ford Motor Co. introduced the Edsel! (Oh boy !) = 1957
Name The Year: NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1) = 1964
Name The Year: George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single. = 1970
Name The Year: American swimmer Mark Spitz becomes the first athlete to win seven olympic gold medals. = 1972
Name The Year: Iraqi troops seized Iranian territory in a border dispute. = 1980
Name The Year: Louis VIII [Coeur-de-Lion] king of France (1223-26), born. = 1187
Name The Year: Louis XIV the great, king of France (1643-1715), born. = 1638
Name The Year: Jesse James Missouri, outlaw, born. = 1847
Name The Year: Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas. = 1836
Name The Year: France proclaims a protectorate over Chad. = 1900
Name The Year: Raquel Welch Chic (Myra Breckenridge, 1,000,000 BC, 100 Rifles), born. = 1940
Name The Year: Freddie Mercury, singer, born. = 1946
Name The Year: 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte North Carolina, USA. = 1958
Name The Year: Cassius Clay captures the olympic light heavyweight gold medal. = 1960
Name The Year: 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics. = 1972
Name The Year: Iraqi Pres Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West. = 1990
Name The Year: US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins. = 1991
Name The Year: Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth England to the New World. = 1620
Name The Year: James II king of England (1685-88), dies at 68. = 1701
Name The Year: Pres William McKinley assassinated by Leon Czologosz in Buffalo, New York. = 1901
Name The Year: Roger Waters, singer (Pink Floyd), born. = 1947
Name The Year: Juliana becomes queen of the Netherlands. = 1948
Name The Year: Michael Winslow, actor/comedian (Police Academy), born. = 1960
Name The Year: "Star Trek" premiers on NBC TV. = 1966
Name The Year: Dr Verwoerd South African PM, assassinated in assembly. = 1966
Name The Year: Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day). = 1968
Name The Year: USSR recognizes independence of the 3 Baltic republics (Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia). = 1991
Name The Year: Queen Elizabeth I England, (1558-1603) daughter of Henry VIII, born. = 1533
Name The Year: Treaty of Baden-French retain Alsace, Austria gets right bank of Rhine. = 1714
Name The Year: Francois-Andre Philidor, France, chess champion/musician, born. = 1726
Name The Year: Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day). = 1822
Name The Year: Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters. = 1880
Name The Year: Anthony Quayle England, actor (Anne of 1000 Days, Lawrence of Arabia), born. = 1913
Name The Year: James Van Allen, discovered Van Allen radiation belts, born. = 1914
Name The Year: Buddy Holly singer (Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day), born. = 1936
Name The Year: Gloria Gaynor Newark NJ, disco singer (I Will Survive), born. = 1949
Name The Year: Chrissie Hynde, rocker (Pretenders), born. = 1950
Name The Year: Corbin Bernsen North Hollywood Calif, actor (Arnie Becker-LA Law), born. = 1954
Name The Year: Desmond Tutu installed to lead south African Anglican Church. = 1986
Name The Year: Monica Seles wins the US Open. = 1991
Name The Year: Clement III 1st antipope (1084-1100), dies (birth date unknown). = 1100
Name The Year: Richard I [Richard the Lion Hearted], King of England (1189-99), born. = 1157
Name The Year: Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completes 1st circumnavigation of globe, expedition begins under Ferdinand Magellan. = 1522
Name The Year: City of Lichfield, England established. = 1553
Name The Year: 1st permanent settlement in US forms (St Augustine, Florida). = 1565
Name The Year: Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese and Knights of St John. = 1565
Name The Year: Antonin Dvorak, Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia, composer (New World Symphony), born. = 1841
Name The Year: Peter Sellers England, actor (Pink Panther, Being There, Goon Show), born. = 1925
Name The Year: 1st Miss America crowned (Margaret Gorman of Washington DC). = 1921
Name The Year: Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador. = 1924
Name The Year: 1st appearance of the comic strip "Blondie". = 1930
Name The Year: Patsy Cline Va, country singer (Walkin' After Midnight), born. = 1932
Name The Year: Franklin D. Roooseveldt declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe. = 1939
Name The Year: Italy surrenders to the allies in WW II. = 1943
Name The Year: Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man and the Sea" published. = 1952
Name The Year: NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. = 1960
Name The Year: "Star Trek" premiers on NBC-TV. = 1966
Name The Year: Uganda abolishes traditional tribal kingdoms, becomes a republic. = 1967
Name The Year: 1st all Australian women's US Open final, (Margaret Court beats Yvonne Goolagong). = 1973
Name The Year: Ellis Island Historical Site opens on Eliis Island, NYC. = 1990
Name The Year: St Sergius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope. = 701
Name The Year: William I The Conqueror, King of England and Duke of Normandy, dies. = 1087
Name The Year: Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland. = 1513
Name The Year: Cardinal A Jean de Plessicide de Richelieu, King Louis XIII of France's chief minister, born. = 1585
Name The Year: William Bligh nasty ship's captain and New South Wales governor (HMS Bounty), born. = 1754
Name The Year: Continental Congress renames "United Colonies", "United States". = 1776
Name The Year: Leo Tolstoy Russia, novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina), born. = 1828
Name The Year: Frederick R Spofforth Australia, cricketer (Demon), born. = 1853
Name The Year: Luxembourg gains independence. = 1867
Name The Year: Harland Sanders, Kentucky Fried Chicken founder/colonel, born. = 1890
Name The Year: EE Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon. = 1892
Name The Year: James Hilton, hotel magnate (Hilton Hotels), born. = 1900
Name The Year: Otis Redding, Georgia, rocker (Sitting on the Dock of the Bay), born. = 1941
Name The Year: Roger Waters, (Pink Floyd-The Wall), born. = 1943
Name The Year: Allied forces liberate Luxembourg from Nazis. = 1944
Name The Year: Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day). = 1944
Name The Year: Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies. = 1945
Name The Year: People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed. = 1948
Name The Year: Michael Keaton, actor (Pacific Heights, Batman, Multiplicity), born. = 1951
Name The Year: Dave Stewart, rocker (Eurythmics-Here Comes the Rain Again), born. = 1952
Name The Year: Elvis Presley appears on national TV for 1st time (Ed Sullivan). = 1956
Name The Year: Tibet is made an autonomous region of China. = 1965
Name The Year: 1st successful test flight of a Saturn V. = 1967
Name The Year: John Lennon releases the "Imagine" album. = 1971
Name The Year: Viking 2 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing. = 1975
Name The Year: Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese communist party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82. = 1976
Name The Year: 1st TRS-80 computer sold. = 1977
Name The Year: Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (the Coco2). = 1983
Name The Year: Bush and Gorbachev meet in Helsinki and urge Iraq to leave Kuwait. = 1990
Name The Year: Julius III Counter-Reformation pope (1550-55), born. = 1487
Name The Year: Simon Bolivar named president of Peru. = 1823
Name The Year: Isaac Kauffman Funk US, publisher (Funk and Wagnalls), born. = 1839
Name The Year: Elias Howe patents the sewing machine. = 1846
Name The Year: Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji India, cricketer/politician, born. = 1872
Name The Year: Fay Wray Alberta Canada, actress-King Kong's main squeeze, born. = 1907
Name The Year: NYC welcomes home Gen John J Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers. = 1919
Name The Year: Arnold Palmer golfer (PGA Golfer of the Year 1960, 1962), born. = 1929
Name The Year: Yevgeny V Khrunov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5), born. = 1933
Name The Year: Jose Feliciano, singer/songwriter (Light my Fire), born. = 1945
Name The Year: Siobhan Fahey rocker (Bananarama), born. = 1957
Name The Year: Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British. = 1967
Name The Year: Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal. = 1974
Name The Year: East Germans begin their flight to the west (via Hungary and Czech). = 1989
Name The Year: 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win the US Open. = 1990
Name The Year: Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas Nevada. = 1990
Name The Year: Samuel Kanyon Doe president of Liberia, assassinated. = 1990
Name The Year: Iran agrees to resume dimplomatic ties with Iraq. = 1990
Name The Year: Yves Montand actor (Lets Make Love, Z), dies at 70. = 1991
Name The Year: Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan island. = 1609
Name The Year: English, Dutch and Austrians defeat French in Battle of Malplaquet. = 1709
Name The Year: 1st newspaper cartoon strip. = 1875
Name The Year: David Herbert "DH" Lawrence England, writer (Lady Chatterly's Lover), born. = 1885
Name The Year: Ferdinand Marcos Philippines Pres (1965-86), born. = 1917
Name The Year: Valentino, Milan Italy, fashion designer (Jacquline Kennedy Onasis), born. = 1932
Name The Year: Gherman Titov USSR, 1st man to spend a day in space (Vostok 2), born. = 1935
Name The Year: FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight. = 1941
Name The Year: The 17th Olympic games close in Rome. = 1960
Name The Year: Virginia Madsen Chicago Ill, actress (Dune, Highlander, Class), born. = 1961
Name The Year: Bob Dylan's 1st NY performance. = 1961
Name The Year: Beatles' "Help!", album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks. = 1965
Name The Year: Nikita Khrushchev dies of a heart attack at 77. = 1971
Name The Year: Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup. = 1973
Name The Year: Lorne Greene actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), dies at 72. = 1987
Name The Year: Peter Tosh reggae singer shot dead at 43 in Jamacia. = 1988
Name The Year: B.C. Athenians defeat second Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon. = 490
Name The Year: English explorer Henry Hudson enters the Hudson River = 1609
Name The Year: Drogheda, Ireland falls to Puritan troops; inhabitants massacred. = 1649
Name The Year: Charles Messier observes the Crab Nebula and begins catalog. = 1758
Name The Year: Richard Jordan Gatling, US inventor of hand-cranked machine gun, born. = 1818
Name The Year: Charles Dudley Warner, US newspaperman, author, born. = 1829
Name The Year: H.H. Asquith (Liberal), British prime minister (1908-16), born. = 1852
Name The Year: Henry L. Mencken, newspaperman, critic, Baltimore's son, born. = 1880
Name The Year: Maurice Chevalier, actor, singer (Gigi), ultimate Frenchman, born. = 1888
Name The Year: Margaret Hamilton, actor (Wizard of Oz), played Wicked Witch of the West, born. = 1902
Name The Year: Jesse Owens, athlete, spoiled Hitler's Olympic plans in 1936, born. = 1913
Name The Year: Amilcar Cabral, worked for independence of Portuguese Africa, born. = 1921
Name The Year: Stanislaw Lem, Polish science-fiction writer, born. = 1921
Name The Year: Katharine Hepburn makes her New York stage debut in "Night Hostess." = 1928
Name The Year: First German ship in WW2 captured by US ship (Busko). = 1941
Name The Year: Barry White, singer, born. = 1944
Name The Year: Khrushchev becomes First Secretary of the Communist Party. = 1953
Name The Year: "Bonanza" premieres -- in Color. = 1959
Name The Year: Luna 1 launched by USSR; first spacecraft to impact on the moon. = 1959
Name The Year: "The Monkees" premieres. = 1966
Name The Year: Gemini XI is launched. = 1966
Name The Year: USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility. = 1970
Name The Year: Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day). = 1974
Name The Year: Death of Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine Comedy. = 1321
Name The Year: Dante Alighieri Day. = 1583
Name The Year: Oliver Evans, pioneered the high-pressure steam engine, born. = 1755
Name The Year: Wolfe defeats Montcalm on Plains of Abraham; Canada becomes English. = 1759
Name The Year: New York City becomes the capitol of the United States. = 1788
Name The Year: Clara Wieck Schumann, German pianist, composer, born. = 1819
Name The Year: Walter Reed, who proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever, born. = 1851
Name The Year: Milton S. Hershey, US chocolate manufacturer, philanthropist, born. = 1857
Name The Year: Arnold Schoenberg, composer, born. = 1874
Name The Year: Britain invades Egypt. = 1882
Name The Year: First airplane flight in Europe. = 1906
Name The Year: Barbara Bain (in Chicago, IL), actor (Mission Impossible, Space: 1999), born. = 1934
Name The Year: Judith Martin, etiquet authority, "Miss Manners", born. = 1938
Name The Year: Jaqueline Bisset (in England), actor (Deep), born. = 1941
Name The Year: Oscar Arias Sanchez, president of Costa Rica (1986- ) (Nobel 1987), born. = 1941
Name The Year: Soviet Lunik 2 becomes first human-made object to crash on moon. = 1959
Name The Year: "Car 54 Where are You?" premieres. = 1961
Name The Year: "The Outer Limits" premieres. = 1963
Name The Year: Beatles release "Yesterday." = 1965
Name The Year: IBM announces System 370 computer. = 1970
Name The Year: 9 hostages and 28 prisoners die in take over a Attica State Prison. = 1971
Name The Year: First TV viewer discretion warning - "Soap". = 1977
Name The Year: Second test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise. = 1977
Name The Year: According to South Africa, Venda gains independence. Not recognized as an independent country outside of South Africa. = 1979
Name The Year: Princess Grace of Monaco dies at 52 in a car crash. = 1982
Name The Year: England and colonies adopt Gregorian calendar, 11 days disappear, rioting ensues. = 1752
Name The Year: Napoleon occupies Moscow. = 1812
Name The Year: Ivan Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology, born. = 1849
Name The Year: Arthur Wellesley General/Duke of Wellington, dies at 83. = 1852
Name The Year: Lord Cecil of Chelwood, UK, helped form League of Nations (early version of the UN), born. = 1864
Name The Year: Hal Wallis movie producer (Maltese Falcon, Barefoot in the Park), born. = 1899
Name The Year: Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality. = 1899
Name The Year: Provisional government of Russia established, Republic proclaimed. = 1917
Name The Year: Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight. = 1938
Name The Year: Walter Koenig Chicago Ill, actor (Chekov-Star Trek), born. = 1938
Name The Year: Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s. = 1973
Name The Year: Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter. = 1974
Name The Year: Grace Kelly princess of Monaco, dies at 52 in a car crash. = 1982
Name The Year: Calagary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2. = 1989
Name The Year: rajan, 13th Roman emperor (98-117), conqueror of Ctesiphon, born. = 53 T
Name The Year: Francoise duc de la Rochefoucald Paris France, writer (Memoires), born. = 1613
Name The Year: Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims. = 1620
Name The Year: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua gain independence. = 1821
Name The Year: Dame Agatha Christie mystery writer (Murder on the Orient Express), born. = 1890
Name The Year: Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang. = 1894
Name The Year: Umberto II king of Italy (1946), born. = 1904
Name The Year: Fay Wray, actress (King Kong), born. = 1907
Name The Year: Battle of Aisne begins between Germans and French during WW I. = 1914
Name The Year: Margaret Lockwood actress (Lady Vanishes), born. = 1916
Name The Year: Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky. = 1917
Name The Year: Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship and makes the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany. = 1935
Name The Year: British PM Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden. = 1938
Name The Year: Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe. = 1940
Name The Year: Oliver Stone NYC, director (Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon), born. = 1946
Name The Year: Tommy Lee Jones actor (Volcano, Batman Forever, Under Siege), born. = 1946
Name The Year: UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia. = 1952
Name The Year: Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit. = 1959
Name The Year: Dan Marino NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins), born. = 1961
Name The Year: "Lost in Space" premiers. = 1965
Name The Year: Gemini XI returns to Earth. = 1966
Name The Year: Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million. = 1970
Name The Year: Muhammad Ali beats WBA heavyweight champion Leon Spinks. = 1978
Name The Year: Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut. = 1982
Name The Year: Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales, 3rd in British sucession, born. = 1984
Name The Year: Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics. = 1988
Name The Year: France announce it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf. = 1990
Name The Year: Henry V, king of England (1413-22), born. = 1387
Name The Year: Death of Tomas de Torquemada, inquisitor who burned 10,000 people. = 1498
Name The Year: The Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims headed for the 'New World'. = 1620
Name The Year: Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, first known astronomical observation. = 1662
Name The Year: Mexico first declares independence from Spain (National Day). = 1810
Name The Year: Fire of Moscow. = 1812
Name The Year: A. Bonar Law (C), British prime minister (1922-23), born. = 1858
Name The Year: James J. Jeans, cosmologist and astrophysicist, born. = 1877
Name The Year: William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors. = 1908
Name The Year: Wilfred Burchett, Australian Communist, journalist, writer, born. = 1911
Name The Year: Allen Funt, voyuer, 'Candid Camera' creator, born. = 1914
Name The Year: Lauren Bacall (in Staten Island, NY), actor, whistler (Dark Passage, Key Largo, Always), born. = 1924
Name The Year: B. B. King, singer, musician, born. = 1925
Name The Year: Charlie Byrd, guitarist, born. = 1925
Name The Year: Peter Falk, actor (Colombo, Princess Bride, In-Laws), born. = 1927
Name The Year: Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low). = 1945
Name The Year: James J. Jeans, astrophysicist, dies on his 69th birthday. = 1946
Name The Year: First automobile to exceed 400 mph, John Cobb, Bonneville Salt Flats. = 1947
Name The Year: Ed Begley, Jr., actor (St. Elsewhere, Real Genius, Spinal Tap), born. = 1949
Name The Year: Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in". = 1968
Name The Year: Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day). = 1975
Name The Year: Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests and bishop. = 1976
Name The Year: Maria Callas American-born prima donna dies in Paris at 53. = 1977
Name The Year: "Miami Vice" premieres. = 1984
Name The Year: Charles III [The Simple], king of France (893-923), born. = 879
Name The Year: Wenceslas II king of Bohemia and Poland (1278-1305), born. = 1271
Name The Year: Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti, Cardinal/linguist (understood 70 languages), born. = 1774
Name The Year: William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn. = 1789
Name The Year: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket and space research, born. = 1857
Name The Year: Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight. = 1908
Name The Year: Anne Bancroft AKA Mrs Mel Brooks, Bronx, actress (Graduate), born. = 1931
Name The Year: 1st 33 1/3 rpm recording released (Beethoven's 5th). = 1934
Name The Year: Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II. = 1939
Name The Year: 1st successful separation of Siamese twins. = 1953
Name The Year: Rita Rudner comedienne, born. = 1955
Name The Year: "The Fugitive" premiers on TV in the USA. = 1963
Name The Year: "Bewitched" premiers on TV in the USA. = 1964
Name The Year: Supremes release "Baby Love". = 1964
Name The Year: "Mission Impossible" premieres on TV in the USA. = 1967
Name The Year: "M = A = S = H" premiers on TV. = 1972
Name The Year: Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties. = 1990
Name The Year: North and South Korea joins the UN. = 1991
Name The Year: Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day). = 1810
Name The Year: "The New York Times" goes on sale at 2 cents a copy. = 1851
Name The Year: Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as the Local Security Board). = 1882
Name The Year: D.D. Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes the first Chiropractor. = 1895
Name The Year: Greta Garbo (in Stockholm, Sweden), actor (Ninotchka, Grand Hotel), born. = 1905
Name The Year: Jack Warden, actor (Verdict, Brian's Song), born. = 1920
Name The Year: Nikolai N. Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 10, 16, 33), born. = 1932
Name The Year: Robert Blake, actor (Little Rascals, Baretta), born. = 1933
Name The Year: Frankie Avalon, singer (Four Seasons), born. = 1940
Name The Year: "Get Smart" premiers. = 1965
Name The Year: U.S. Voyager I takes the first space photograph of the earth and moon together. = 1977
Name The Year: Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station. = 1980
Name The Year: Joe Kittinger completes first solo balloon crossing of Atlantic. = 1984
Name The Year: English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers. = 1356
Name The Year: Jan Luyts, Dutch scholar, physicist, mathematician, astronomer, born. = 1655
Name The Year: Napoleon's retreat from Russia begins. = 1812
Name The Year: Bond (U.S.) and Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion. = 1848
Name The Year: William Golding, English novelist (Lord of the Flies) (Nobel 1983), born. = 1911
Name The Year: Mickey Mouse makes his screen debut in "Steamboat Willie." = 1928
Name The Year: David McCallum, actor (Ilya Kuryakin in Man from U.N.C.L.E.), born. = 1933
Name The Year: Al Oerter, US discus thrower, born. = 1936
Name The Year: Paul Williams, singer, composer, actor, born. = 1940
Name The Year: Jeremy Irons, English actor (French Lieutenant's Woman), born. = 1948
Name The Year: Twiggy (Leslie Hornby) (in England), model, actor (Blues Brothers), born. = 1949
Name The Year: "Mary Tyler Moore Show" premiers. = 1970
Name The Year: St Christopher-Nevis gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day). = 1983
Name The Year: Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor = 0086
Name The Year: Alexander III the Great, king of Macedonia, emperor = 0357
Name The Year: Magellan starts first successful circumnavigation of the world. = 1519
Name The Year: Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian journalist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907) = 1833
Name The Year: Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue. = 1850
Name The Year: British and French defeat Russians at Alma, in the Crimea. = 1854
Name The Year: Patent granted on the electric range. = 1859
Name The Year: The Prince of Wales, later to become King Edward VII, becomes the first British royalty to visit the United States. = 1860
Name The Year: Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga, Tenn, ended. = 1863
Name The Year: Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, jazz pianist, composer, singer = 1885
Name The Year: Sophia Loren (in Rome, Italy), actor (Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid) = 1934
Name The Year: German rocket engineers begin work in U.S. = 1945
Name The Year: First North Pole jet crossing = 1951
Name The Year: First FORTRAN computer program run. = 1954
Name The Year: Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample. = 1970
Name The Year: Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match. = 1973
Name The Year: Walt Disney World's 200-millonth guest. = 1985
Name The Year: Edward II king of England (1307-1327), dies at 43. = 1327
Name The Year: Frederick III Innsbruck Austria, German Emperor (1440-1493), born. = 1415
Name The Year: John Loudon McAdam created macadam road surface (asphalt), born. = 1756
Name The Year: 1st French Republic declared. = 1792
Name The Year: H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells Bromley, England (War of the Worlds), born. = 1866
Name The Year: Teiichi Igarashi Japan, climed Mt Fuji at age 99, born. = 1886
Name The Year: NY Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial. = 1897
Name The Year: Chuck Jones animator (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck), born. = 1912
Name The Year: Larry Hagman Fort Worth Tx, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, JR-Dallas), born. = 1931
Name The Year: Stones at Stonehenge, England, sold at auction for 6,600. = 1915
Name The Year: Leonard Cohen, Montreal, singer/songwriter (Death of Ladies Man), born. = 1934
Name The Year: J.R.R. Tolkein, publishes "The Hobbit". = 1937
Name The Year: Stephen King suspense writer (Shining, Kujo), born. = 1947
Name The Year: Federal Republic of [West] Germany created under 3-power occupation. = 1949
Name The Year: Peoples Rebulic of China proclaimed. = 1949
Name The Year: Bill Murray Evanston Ill, comedian (SNL, What About Bob, Stripes), born. = 1950
Name The Year: Nuclear submarine "Nautilus" is commissioned. = 1954
Name The Year: Haakon VII king of Norway, dies, Olaf succeeds him. = 1957
Name The Year: Malta gains independence from Britain. = 1964
Name The Year: Ricki Lake actress (Hairspray, Ricki Lake Show), born. = 1968
Name The Year: Luna 16 leaves the Moon. = 1970
Name The Year: Belize gains independence from Britain (National Day). = 1981
Name The Year: Armenia votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union. = 1991
Name The Year: Bilbo Baggins (in Shire Reconning), born. = 1290
Name The Year: Lord Chesterfield letter writer; introduced Gregorian calendar (1752), born. = 1694
Name The Year: Michael Faraday discovered principle of electric motor, born. = 1791
Name The Year: Shigeru Yoshida Japanese PM (most of 1946-54), born. = 1878
Name The Year: Italo Marchiony granted patent for the ice cream cone. = 1903
Name The Year: Junko Tabei Japan, 1st woman to climb Mount Everest, born. = 1939
Name The Year: USSR detonates its 1st atomic bomb. = 1949
Name The Year: Commercial TV begins in England. = 1955
Name The Year: Mali (without Senegal) gains independence from France (National Day). = 1960
Name The Year: Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins. = 1980
Name The Year: California University makes the Dead Sea Scrolls public. = 1991
Name The Year: BC Euripides, ancient Greek playwright (Trojan Women) (or 480 BC), born. = 484
Name The Year: C Octavian (Augustus Caesar), first Roman emperor, born. = 63 B
Name The Year: Ferdinand VI, king of Spain (1746-59), born. = 1713
Name The Year: Johann Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest find the planet Neptune. = 1846
Name The Year: Urbain J.J. Leverrier, codiscoverer of Neptune, dies. = 1877
Name The Year: First Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie is released. = 1912
Name The Year: Mickey Rooney, actor (too many credits to mention), born. = 1920
Name The Year: Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey for world heavyweight boxing title. = 1926
Name The Year: John Coltrane, saxophonist, born. = 1926
Name The Year: Ray Charles, entertainer extraordinaire, born. = 1930
Name The Year: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia formed (National Day). = 1932
Name The Year: Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen, rock musician (Born in the USA), born. = 1949
Name The Year: Jason Alexander (George in Seinfeld), born. = 1959
Name The Year: First movie to become a TV series -- "How to Marry a Millionaire". = 1961
Name The Year: ABC's first color TV series -- "The Jetsons". = 1962
Name The Year: Soyuz 22 returns to Earth. = 1976
Name The Year: Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on "Charlie's Angels". = 1977
Name The Year: Third test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise. = 1977
Name The Year: First round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt). = 1853
Name The Year: Black Friday -- Wall Street panics after Gould and Fisk attempt to corner gold. = 1869
Name The Year: Georges Claude, inventor of the neon light, born. = 1870
Name The Year: First round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months). = 1895
Name The Year: F. Scott Fitzgerald (in St. Paul, MN), writer (Great Gatsby), born. = 1896
Name The Year: John W. Young, astronaut (Gemini 3, 10, Apollo 10, 16, STS-1, 9), born. = 1930
Name The Year: John Brunner, British sci-fi author (Sheep Look Up), born. = 1934
Name The Year: Jim Henson, creater of the Muppets, "our era's Charlie Chaplin, Mae West, W. C. Fields, and Marx Brothers", born. = 1936
Name The Year: Linda Eastman McCartney, singer, born. = 1942
Name The Year: Pres Eisenhower suffered a heart attack on vacation in Denver. = 1955
Name The Year: Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools. = 1957
Name The Year: First atomic aircraft carrier, the "USS Enterprise", is launched. = 1960
Name The Year: "The Munsters" premier. = 1964
Name The Year: "60 Minutes" premiers. = 1968
Name The Year: First Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16. = 1970
Name The Year: Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal. = 1974
Name The Year: Vasco Nuez de Balboa is the first European to see the Pacific Ocean. = 1513
Name The Year: First printing press in America. = 1639
Name The Year: Olaus Roemer, first to accurately measured speed of light, born. = 1644
Name The Year: Jean Phillippe Rameau, French composer (baptized), born. = 1683
Name The Year: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed and built first automobile, born. = 1725
Name The Year: Mark Rothko, painter, born. = 1903
Name The Year: Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer, born. = 1906
Name The Year: Henry Ford announces the five day work week. = 1926
Name The Year: Michael Douglas, actor, producer, born. = 1944
Name The Year: Christopher Reeve, actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time), born. = 1952
Name The Year: Mark Hamill, actor (Star Wars), born. = 1952
Name The Year: First transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation. = 1956
Name The Year: Heather Locklear, actor, born.. = 1961
Name The Year: Three-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days. = 1973
Name The Year: Pacific SW Airlines Boeing 727 and a Cessna private plane collide. = 1978
Name The Year: Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks and Venetians. = 1687
Name The Year: Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher, critic, Bible translator, born. = 1729
Name The Year: John Chapman, alias Johnny Appleseed, born. = 1774
Name The Year: Frontiersman Daniel Boone died in Missouri at the age of 85. = 1820
Name The Year: Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) and lives. = 1824
Name The Year: T.S. Eliot, Anglican, playwright (Waste Land) (Nobel 1948), born. = 1888
Name The Year: Paul VI, 262nd Roman Catholic pope (1963-78), born. = 1897
Name The Year: George Gershwin, (in Brooklyn, NY), composer (Rhapsody in Blue), born. = 1898
Name The Year: Meuse-Argonne offensive against the Germans began during WWI. = 1918
Name The Year: Julio Iglesias, singer, born. = 1941
Name The Year: Olivia Newton-John (in Cambridge, England), singer, born. = 1948
Name The Year: Vladimir Remek, first Czechoslovakian space traveler (Soyuz 28), born. = 1948
Name The Year: UN troops in Korean War recaptured South Korean capital of Seoul. = 1950
Name The Year: Musical "West Side Story", opened on Broadway. = 1957
Name The Year: TV comedy "The Beverly Hillbillies" premiered on CBS. = 1962
Name The Year: Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day). = 1962
Name The Year: Japan launches its first satellite in to space. = 1966
Name The Year: Beatles release "Abbey Road" album. = 1969
Name The Year: Soyuz 38 returns to Earth. = 1980
Name The Year: Australia II won the America's Cup yacht race. = 1983
Name The Year: Cosmonauts Titov and Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10. = 1983
Name The Year: Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola. = 1540
Name The Year: Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43), born. = 1601
Name The Year: Sophia, regent of Russia (1682-89), born. = 1657
Name The Year: Agustin I de Iturbide, emperor of Mexico (1822-23), born. = 1783
Name The Year: Railroad transportation is born with first track in England. = 1825
Name The Year: Sir Martin Ryle, British radio astronomer, astronomer royal 1972-82, born. = 1918
Name The Year: Arthur Penn, stage and film director, born. = 1922
Name The Year: The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth was launched at Glasgow. = 1938
Name The Year: Actors Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy are married. = 1942
Name The Year: Dumitru Prunariu, first Rumanian space traveler (on board Soyuz 40), born. = 1952
Name The Year: Cheryl Tiegs (in Minnesota), model and actor, born. = 1957
Name The Year: Shaun Cassidy, singer, born. = 1958
Name The Year: US sells Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel. = 1962
Name The Year: Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. = 1964
Name The Year: Soyuz 12 is launched. = 1973
Name The Year: B.C. Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) Rome, warrior, born. = 106
Name The Year: B.C. Confucius (as celebrated in Taiwan), born. = 551
Name The Year: William the Conqueror lands in England. = 1066
Name The Year: Caravaggio Italy, painter (or 1573), born. = 1573
Name The Year: Edward Thompson US archeologist who explored Mayan ruins, born. = 1856
Name The Year: Donati's comet becomes the 1st to be photographed. = 1858
Name The Year: Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France. = 1868
Name The Year: The city of Sydney inaugurates steam motor tram route. = 1879
Name The Year: Marcello Mastroianni actor (La Dolce Vita), born. = 1924
Name The Year: Seymour Cray inventor (Cray I computer), born. = 1925
Name The Year: Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) and gives Lithuania to the USSR. = 1939
Name The Year: Phil Hartman comedian (SNL, Newsradio, Simpsons (Voice of Troy McLure)), born. = 1948
Name The Year: Albert Ascoli Italian developed anti-tuberculosis vaccine, dies. = 1957
Name The Year: Guinea votes for independence from France. = 1958
Name The Year: Explorer VI reveals an intense radation belt around the Earth. = 1959
Name The Year: Harpo Marx comedian (Marx Bros), dies at 75. = 1964
Name The Year: Beatles' "Hey Jude", single goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks = 1968
Name The Year: Pope John Paul I dies after 33 days as pope. = 1978
Name The Year: Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City). = 1986
Name The Year: Ferdinand Marcos deposed president of Phillipines, dies. = 1989
Name The Year: Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame. = 1990
Name The Year: Miles Davis jazz musician, dies at 65 from pneumonia. = 1991
Name The Year: Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French at Brittany. = 1364
Name The Year: Robert Lord Clive, founded British empire in India, born. = 1755
Name The Year: Horatio Nelson Burnham Thorpe, Britain, naval hero at Trafalgar, born. = 1758
Name The Year: Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine. = 1793
Name The Year: Scotland Yard formed in London. = 1829
Name The Year: Louis Pasteur dies. = 1895
Name The Year: Enrico Fermi, Italy, nuclear physicist, born. = 1901
Name The Year: Gene Autry, singer/actor/Calif Angels owner, born. = 1907
Name The Year: Bob Newhart Oak Park Ill, actor/comedian (Bob Newhart Show), born. = 1929
Name The Year: Richard Bonynge, Sydney Australia, conductor (Australian Orchestra Sydney-1976), born. = 1930
Name The Year: Anita Ekberg, Sweden, actress (La Dolce Vita, War and Peace), born. = 1931
Name The Year: Jerry Lee Lewis, singer (Great Balls of Fire, Breathless), born. = 1935
Name The Year: Lech Walesa, Popowo Poland, leads Polish Solidarity (Nobel 1983), born. = 1943
Name The Year: Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice. = 1943
Name The Year: Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia. = 1944
Name The Year: Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution. = 1959
Name The Year: Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley and Everly Bros). = 1963
Name The Year: Bechuanaland gains independence from England, becomes Botswana. = 1966
Name The Year: Erika Eleniak, actress (Under Siege, Beverly Hillbillies), born. = 1969
Name The Year: Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit. = 1977
Name The Year: Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland. = 1979
Name The Year: USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges. = 1986
Name The Year: Charles Addams cartoonist (Addams Family), dies at 76 of heart attack. = 1988
Name The Year: 26th Space Shuttle mission, Discovery 7 launched. = 1988
Name The Year: First book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible. = 1452
Name The Year: Robinson Crusoe, according to Daniel Defoe = 1627
Name The Year: Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe). = 1659
Name The Year: William Morris first uses ether in the first tooth extraction under anesthesia at Charlestown, Mass. = 1846
Name The Year: Jean Perrin, French physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926) = 1870
Name The Year: Deborah Kerr (in Helensburg, Scotland), actor (King and I, Night of the Iguana) = 1921
Name The Year: Truman Capote, a short short story writer (In Cold Blood) = 1924
Name The Year: Elie Wiesel, author (Souls on Fire), Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986) = 1928
Name The Year: Angie Dickinson (in Kulm, ND), actor = 1931
Name The Year: Johnny Mathis, singer = 1935
Name The Year: Munich Agreement-forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany. = 1938
Name The Year: First manned rocket flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel). = 1939
Name The Year: Calais reoccupied by Allies. = 1944
Name The Year: James Dean, actor, died in a car crash (born Feb 08, 1931) = 1955
Name The Year: "The Flintstones" premieres. Yabba Dabba Doo! = 1960
Name The Year: Botswana gains independence from Britain (National Day). = 1966
Name The Year: USSR's Kosmos 186 and 188 complete the 1st automatic docking. = 1967