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J A N U A R Y
- 1st
- New Year's Day
- Birthday of Elizabeth 'Betsy' Griscom Ross Ashburn Claypoole [1752-1836] who is said by American myth to have
sewed the first U.S. flag, in 1776.
- Birthday of movie producer William Fox [1879-1952], founder of 20th Century-Fox Studios
[est. 1915]
- Birthday of reclusive author J.D. Salinger [1919-2010] in New York City
- Birth of the Internet, when ARPANET switched to the TCP/IP protocol [1983]
- 2nd = Birthday of author Isaac
Asimov [1920-92] in Petrovichi, Smolensk Oblast, Russia
- 2nd = Birthday of pioneer
filmmaker Oscar Micheaux [1884-1951] in Metropolis, Illinois
- 3rd = Birthday of actress Marion
Davies [1897-1961] in Brooklyn, New York City
- 4th = National Spaghetti Day in U.S.A. (which is January 17th in U.K.).
- 5th = Birthday of master animator
Hayao Miyazaki [1941] in Tokyo, Japan
- 6th
- 7th = Birthday of movie producer Adolph Zukor [1873-1976], co-founder of Paramount Pictures
[est. 1912]
- 8th = Birthday of rock'n'roll legend Elvis Presley [1935-77] in Tupelo, Mississippi; he died at age 42 at
Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee
- 8th = Birthday of quantum physicist
Stephen W. Hawking [1942] in Oxford, England
- 9th = Birthday of Richard M. Nixon
[1913-94] in Yorba Linda, California; he was the 37th President of the United States.
- 10th = Birthday of poet Robinson
Jeffers [1887-1962] in Allegheny, Pennsylvania; he died alone at Tor House in Carmel, California.
- 14th = Birthday of movie
producer Hal Roach [1892-1992] in Elmira, New York
- 15th = Birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. [1929-68] in Atlanta, Georgia
- Third Monday_15th-21st): Martin Luther
King, Jr. Holiday [U.S.A.]
- 17th
- 18th
- 19th
- Birthday of Gen. Robert E. Lee [1807-70] in rural Virginia
- Birthday of author Edgar Allan Poe [1809-49] in Boston, Massachusetts
- Birthday of Kathy Kohner Zuckerman, the real-life 'Gidget' [1941] in Los Angeles,
California
- National Popcorn Day
- 20th = Birthday of cinema master
Federico Fellini [1920-93] in Rimini, Italy
- 21st = National Hugging Day [est. 1986]:
begun in Clio, Michigan and since spread to Australia, Canada, England, Germany & Poland
- 22nd = Birthday of cinema pioneer D.W. Griffith [1875-1948] in La Grange, Kentucky
- 22nd = Birthday of author Robert
E. Howard [1906-36], creator of 'Conan The Cimmerian'
- Fourth Week (22nd-28th-ish) = National 'No Name-Calling'
Week
- 23rd
- 24th
- 27th = Birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [1756-91] in Salzburg, Austria
- 28th
- 29th = Birthday of vaudeville &
movie comedian W.C. Fields [1880-1946] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 29th = Birthday of eco-activist / author Edward Abbey [1927-89] in Indiana, Pennsylvania
- 30th
- 31st = Birthday of Western author
Zane Grey [1872-1939] in Zanesville, Ohio
- 31st = Birthday of baseball great Jack Roosevelt 'Jackie' Robinson [1919-72]
F E B R U A R Y
- Chinese Lunar New Year / Vietnamese Tet Holiday
- Black History Month [U.S.A.]
- Heart Month
- Bob Marley Day Festivals
[Feb 2010 = #29]
- 1st = Birthday of film director
John Ford [1894-1973] in Cape Elizabeth, Maine
- 1st = Birthday of actor Clark
Gable [1901-60] in Cadiz, Ohio
- 2nd
- Groundhog Day in U.S.A. (an ancient tradition based on the relationship of Candlemas to the Vernal Equinox).
- Birthday of author Johnston McCulley [1883-1958], creator of
El Zorro (in 1918)
- Birthday of Objectivist philosopher Ayn
Rand [1905-82] in Petrograd, Russia
- 3rd
- 4th = Birthday of aviator Charles Lindbergh [1902-74] in Detroit, Michigan.
- 4th = Birthday of civil rights activist Rosa Parks
[1913-2005] in Tuskegee, Alabama
- 5th = Birthday of Beat writer Wm. S. Burroughs [1914-97] in St. Louis, Missouri
- 5th = Founding of United Artists
Pictures by actor-director
Charles Chaplin, actor Douglas Fairbanks, director D. W. Griffith, and actress Mary Pickford
[1919]
- 6th
- 8th = The Confederate States of America declared itself into
existence [1861]
- 8th = Birthday of movie director
King Vidor [1894-1982] in Galveston, Texas
- 10th = Birthday of New Mexico
lawman Elfego Baca [1865-1945] in Socorro, New Mexico Territory
- 11th = Birthday of inventor Thomas
Alva Edison [1847-1931] in Milan, Ohio
- 11th = National Inventor's Day in U.S.A. (on Edison's birthday), designated by Act of Congress in January 1982.
- 12th = Birthday of Abraham Lincoln [1809-65]; date declared a national holiday 12 February 1892
- 12th = Birthday of scientist
Charles Darwin [1809-82] in England
- 14th = Valentine's Day
- 15th
- Birthday of civil rights & women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony [1820-1906] in Adams, Massachusetts; the
'Susan B.' U.S. dollar coin was first struck in 1979.
- Birthday of author Sax Rohmer [1883-1959], creator of the
Fu Manchu mysteries
- Battleship U.S.S. Maine mysteriously blew up in the harbor at Havana, Cuba [1898]
- Third Monday {15th to 21st}:
Presidents Day holiday [U.S.A.]
- 16th = Founding of the Studebaker Corporation in South Bend, Indiana in 1852 (the company folded in March 1966)
- 19th
- 20th = National Cherry Pie Day in U.S.A.
- 21st = Birthday of film director
Sam Peckinpah [1925-84] in Fresno, California
- 22nd = Birthday of master
filmmaker Luis Buñuel [1900-83] in Spain
- 24th = Birthday of actor-director
Edward James Olmos [1947] in East Los Angeles, California
- 24th = National Pancake Day, a children's charity
fundraiser sponsored by I.H.O.P.
- 25th = Birthday of Herbert Manfred 'Zeppo' Marx [1901-79], member of 'The Marx Brothers' comedy
team
- 26th
- 27th = Birthday of author John
Steinbeck [1902-68] in Salinas, California
- 27th = Birthday of actress
Elizabeth Taylor [1932-2011] in London, England
- 28th = Birthday of Smokey Bear
- 29th = Leap Year Day, a function of the Gregorian Calendar established in 1582.
M A R C H
- National Peanut Butter
Month
- American Red Cross [est. 1881] Month
- 1st
- 2nd = Birthday of children's author
Dr. Seuss [1904-91] in Springfield, Massachusetts
- 3rd = Birthday of Alexander Graham Bell [1847-1922], inventor of the telephone, in Edinburgh, Scotland
- 3rd = Birthday of actress Jean
Harlow [1911-37] in Kansas City, Missouri; she died at the age of 26 of kidney failure
- 4th = Official beginning of the government of the United States under the new Constitution, in 1789 in New York
City.
- 5th = Boston Massacre of 1770: five
civilians were killed by British redcoats firing into the crowd.
- 6th = Birthday of fiddler & bandleader James Robert 'Bob' Wills [1905-75] near Kosse, in East Texas; the 'King of Western Swing' and
his Texas Playboys band still influence the music business.
- 6th = Birthday of Alan
Greenspan [1926], former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, 1987-2006
- 9th = Birthday of tough-guy author Mickey Spillane [1918-2006] in Brooklyn, New York
- 9th = Birthday of Barbie™
- Second Friday? = biannual Comic Relief Red Nose Day
charity events in U.K. {next is 2013}
- 11th = Birthday of movie director
Raoul Walsh [1887-1980] in New York City
- 12th = Birthday of Beat writer Jack
Kerouac [1922-69] in Lowell, Massachusetts
- 14th = Birthday of physicist
Albert Einstein [1879-1955] in Ulm, Germany
- 14th = Pi Day [est. 2001] – because the base value of
π is 3.14
- 15th = Buzzard Day in Hinckley,
Ohio: A mass of turkey vultures has been returning to Hinckley Ridge every year since before the White Man,
with the modern celebration usually on the following Sunday.
- 16th = Birthday of comedian Jerry
Lewis [1926] in Newark, New Jersey
- 17th = St. Patrick's Day
- 17th = Birthday of Shemp Howard [1895-1955], member of 'The Three Stooges' comedy team
- 18th = Birthday of author John Updike [1932-2009] in Reading, Pennsylvania
- 18th = Birthday of the Pillsbury Doughboy [1965]
- 19th
- Birthday of lawman Wyatt Earp
[1848-1929] in Monmouth, Illinois
- Birthday of Western artist Charles M. Russell [1864-1926] in St. Louis, Missouri
- Birthday of jazz musician Ornette Coleman [1930] in Fort Worth, Texas
- Birthday of author Philip Roth [1933] in Newark, New Jersey
- 20th = Birthday of the Afro-American
filmmaker Spike Lee [1957] in Atlanta, Georgia
- 20th = Birthday of Big Bird, a Muppet and star of Sesame Street.
- 21st = Birthday of Maxwell Henry Aronson [1880-1971] in Little Rock, Arkansas; he later became famous as
silent movie cowboy
star 'Broncho Billy' Anderson
- 22nd
- 23rd = Birthday of cinema
master Akira Kurosawa [1910-98] in Tokyo, Japan
- 24th
- 25th = Birthday of author Flannery O'Connor [1925-64] in Savannah, Georgia
- 26th
- 31st = Birthday of activist
Cesar E. Chavez [1927-93] outside Yuma, Arizona
- 31st = Birthday of politician &
eco-activist Al Gore, Jr. [1948] in Washington, DC
A P R I L
- National Poetry Month [USA]
- 2nd = Birthday of Danish children's author Hans Christian Andersen [1805-75]
- 3rd = Birthday of British primatologist Dame Jane Morris Goodall [1934] in London, U.K.
- 4th
- Birthday of Afro-American author Maya Angelou [1928] in St. Louis, Missouri
- Assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968.
- Founding of megacorporation Microsoft, Inc. in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Annual "We Are One Day" [est. 2011] confirming the stand
of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. for solidarity with all labor unions (on the anniversary of his assassination
during the sanitation workers' strike in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968).
- 5th = Birthday of Afro-American educator Booker T. Washington [1856-1915] at Hale's Ford, Virginia
- 6th = Birthday of country music legend Merle Haggard [1937] in Oildale, California
- 7th = Birthday of 'Pentagon Papers'
whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg [1931] in Chicago, Illinois
- 7th = Birthday of movie director
Francis Ford Coppola [1939] in Detroit, Michigan
- 8th = Birthday of actress Mary
Pickford [1892-1979] in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- 8th = Birthday of author John Fante
[1909-83] in Denver, Colorado
- 9th = Birthday of author Leonard
Wibberley [1915-83] in Dublin, Ireland
- Second Week = National Library Week [USA; est 1958] sponsored by
The American
Library Assn. and The Campaign
for America's Libraries
- 12th = Birthday of author Tom Clancy [1947] in Baltimore County, Maryland
- 13th = Birthday of revolutionary
Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826] at Shadwell Plantation, Virginia
- 13th = Birthday of Southern author Eudora Welty [1909-2001] in Jackson, Mississippi
- 16th = Birthday of silent movie
comedy star Charles Chaplin [1889-1977] in London, England
- Third Week: Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising; in Hebrew, it is called
Yom Hashoah, and falls on the 27th day of Nisan of the Hebrew calendar.
- 19th = Birthday of covert C.I.A. agent Valerie Plame Wilson [1963], principal figure in the
TreasonGate Scandal
- 19th = Oklahoma City bombing: 168
dead [1995]
- 20th = Birthday of silent movie
comedy star Harold Lloyd [1893-1971] in Burchard, Nebraska
- 20th = G.O.P. / B.P. Megaspill
Disaster [2010] along the Gulf Coast
- 22nd
- 23rd
- 24th = Birthday of mystery
author Sue Grafton [1940] in Louisville, Kentucky
- 25th = Birthday of broadcaster Edward R. Murrow [1908-65] near Greensboro, North Carolina
- 28th = Birthday of Harper Lee [1926] in Monroeville, Alabama; she is the author of "To Kill A Mockingbird"
[Pulitzer-winning novel 1960, movie 1962]
- 29th = Birthday of media mogul
William Randolph Hearst [1863-1951] in San Francisco, California
- Last Friday: Arbor Day [U.S.A,; est. 1872]
- 30th = Birthday of performer Willie Nelson [1933] in Abbott, Texas
M A Y
- National Train Day in USA; see also the
American Railroads Pages at
Spirit of America Bookstore
- 1st = Birthday of author Joseph Heller
- 2nd = Birthday of master
filmmaker Satyajit Ray [1921-92] in Kolkata (Calcutta), Bengal, India
- 4th = Ohio National Guardsmen at Kent State
University opened fire on antiwar protesters, killing four students and wounding nine others [1970]
- 4th = National Star Wars Day: "May The Fourth Be With You."
- 5th
- Birthday of Karl Marx
- Birthday of journalist Nelly Bly
- Cinco de Drunko, which uses an obscure military victory in Puebla, Mexico in 1862 as excuse to
'celebrate' Mexican heritage by drinking alcohol to excess.
- First printing of a color Sunday comic strip, "Hogan's Alley" starring the Yellow Kid, in
Joseph Pulitzer's New York World newspaper [1895]. For several years [ended 2007], this was celebrated
by members of the National Cartoonists Society as [U.S.]
National Cartoonists Day, where cartoonists drew strips in the style of other cartoonists, past & present.
- 6th
- 8th = Birthday of Harry S. Truman
[1884-1972] in Lamar, Missouri
- 8th = Birthday of author Thomas Pynchon
- 10th
- Completion of the U.S. transcontinental railroad: driving of the 'Golden Spike' at Promontory, Utah [1869]
- Birthday of movie producer David O. Selznick [1902-65] in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Birthday of Eric Berne [1910-70], creator of Transactional Analysis psychotherapy
- 11th = Birthday of composer Irving Berlin
- 11th = Birthday of quantum
physicist Richard P. Feynman [1918-88] in Queens, New York
- 15th = Birthday of author L.
Frank Baum [1856-1919], creator of "The Wizard of Oz"
- Third Weekend: National Polka Festival in Ennis,
Texas
- Third Saturday: Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Day [2012 = #15]
- 18th = Birthday of philosopher Bertrand Russell [1872-1970] in Monmouthshire, Wales
- 18th = Birthday of movie producer-director Frank Capra [1897-1991] in Bisacquino, Sicily, Italy
- 19th
- Birthday of activist Malcolm X [1925-65] in Omaha, Nebraska
- Birthday of Afro-American author Lorraine Vivian Hansberry
- Birthday of author Nora Ephron
- 22nd = Birthday of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1859-1930], creator of detective Sherlock Holmes
- 23rd = Birthday of silent
movie star Douglas Fairbanks [1883-1939] in Denver, Colorado
- 24th = Birthday of musician Bob Dylan {nee Robert Zimmerman} [1941] in Duluth, Minnesota
- 25th
- 26th = Birthday of actor John
Wayne [1907-79] in Winterset, Iowa
- 27th = Birthday of mystery author
Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961] in St. Mary's County, Maryland
- 27th = Birthday of mystery
author Tony Hillerman [1925-2008] in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma
- 28th = Birthday of British
author Ian Fleming [1908-64], creator of
Agent 007 James Bond
- 29th = Birthday of Frederick Schiller Faust [1892-1944] in Seattle, Washington; his primary pen name was
Western author Max Brand
- 30th = Birthday of movie
director Howard Hawks [1896-1977] in Goshen, Indiana
- Last Monday: Memorial Day [U.S.A.]: Hug a military
veteran (any war, any country), or thank two veterans.
- 31st = Birthday of poet Walt
Whitman [1819-92] in Huntington, Long Island, New York
- 31st = Birthday of movie star
Clint Eastwood [1930] in San Francisco, California
J U N E
- Audio Book Month: "Embrace The Spoken Word"
- 3rd = Birthday of Beat poet Allen
Ginsberg [1926-97] in Newark, New Jersey
- 3rd = Birthday of author Larry
McMurtry [1936] in Archer City, Texas
- 4th = Chinese army troops stormed Beijing's Tiananmen Square to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations,
killing unknown thousands. [1989]
- 5th = Birthday of economist John
Maynard Keynes [1883-1946] in Cambridge, England
- 5th = Journalist John Keenan photographed an unarmed Chinese civilian facing down army tanks in Tiananmen
Square. [1989]
[ photo ]
- 6th = 'Operation Overlord', the WWII invasion of Normandy's beaches, began; the day is referred to as
'D-Day' [1944]
- 8th = Birthday of architect Frank
Lloyd Wright [1867-1959] in Richland Center, Wisconsin
- 8th = World Oceans Day [est. 1992]: visit World Ocean
Network or The Ocean Project
- 15th = Birthday of silent movie
comedy star Harry Langdon [1884-1944] in Council Bluffs, Iowa
- 16th = Birthday of economist Adam
Smith [1723-90] in Scotland
- 16th = Birthday of movie
comedian Stan Laurel [1890-1965] in Ulverston, Cumbria, England
- 17th = Five burglars were arrested inside the Watergate Building in Washington DC, leading to the resignation of President Nixon twenty-six
months later. [1972]
- 19th = Birthday of Moe Howard [1897-1975], member of 'The Three Stooges' comedy team
- 20th = Birthday of actor Errol
Flynn [1909-59] in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- 21st = Birthday of existentialist
philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre [1905-80] in Paris, France
- Third Sunday: Father's Day holiday in U.S.A. [est. 1910]; the local celebration in Spokane, Washington is credited
to Sonora Louise Smart Dodd, and later went national.
- Third Weekend: Winlock, Washington Egg Days Festival [2010 = #74]
- 22nd = Birthday of bank robber John
Dillinger [1903-34] in Indianapolis, Indiana
- 22nd = Birthday of movie writer-director Billy Wilder [1906-2002] in Austria-Hungary
- 27th = Birthday of economist
Ravi Batra [1943] in India
- 28th = Birthday of comedy
writer-director-actor Mel Brooks [1926] in Brooklyn, New York
- 29th = Birthday of special-effects maestro Ray Harryhausen [1920] in Los Angeles, California
- 29th = Birthday of French
political economist Frédéric Bastiat [1801-50]; also the deadline for entries in the annual Bastiat Prize for exconomics journalism
[est. 2002].
J U L Y
- National Hot Dog Month
- 1st = Birthday of French
cinema pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché [1873-1968] in Paris, France
- 1st = Birthday of author
James M. Cain [1892-1977] in Annapolis, Maryland
- 4th = Independence Day [U.S.A.]: July 4th Fireworks
Shows site • fireworks safety site
- 4th = Birthday of movie mogul Louis B. Mayer [1884-1957], head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
[est. 1924]
- 6th = Birthday of Mexican artist
Frida Kahlo [1907-54] in Coyoacán, DF, Mexico
- 6th = Birthday of George W. Bush
[1946] in New Haven, Connecticut
- 7th = Birthday of movie director
George Cukor [1899-1983] in New York City
- 7th = Birthday of scifi author
Robert A. Heinlein [1907-88] in Butler, Missouri
- 9th/10th = Birthday of genius inventor
Nikola Tesla [1856-1943] in Smiljan, Croatia
- 10th = Global Energy Independence Day declared by Los Angeles County Supervisors in 2005, in honor of Nikola
Tesla's birthday.
- 12th
- 14th = Birthday of cinema master
Ingmar Bergman [1918-2007] in Uppsala, Sweden
- 17th = Birthday of mystery author
Erle Stanley Gardner [1889-1970], creator of lawyer Perry Mason
- 18th = Birthday of gonzo
journalist Hunter S. Thompson [1937-2005] in Louisville, Kentucky
- 19th = Birthday of animator Max Fleischer [1883-1972], head of Fleischer Studios
[1921-1942]
- Third Saturday: National Woodie
Wagon Day
- 21st = Birthday of author Ernest
Hemingway [1899-1961] in Oak Park, Illinois
- 21st = Birthday of mystery
author Michael Connelly [1956] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 22nd = Birthday of painter Edward
Hopper [1882-1967] in Upper Nyack, New York
- 22nd = National Hot Dog Day
- 23rd = Birthday of mystery
author Raymond Chandler [1888-1959] in Chicago, Illinois
- 23rd = Birthday of movie mogul Harry Cohn [1891-1958], co-founder of Columbia Pictures [est. 1919]
- Fourth Saturday = National Day of The American Cowboy
[2011 = #8]
and-or the competing National Day of The
Cowboy [2011 = #7]
- 24th = Birthday of mystery
author John D. MacDonald [1916-86] in Sharon, Pennsylvania
- 29th
- 30th = Birthday of sociologist /
economist Thorstein B. Veblen [1857-1929] in Cato, Wisconsin
A U G U S T
- 1st = Birthday of author Herman Melville [1819-91] in New York City
- 2nd = Birthday of movie mogul Jacob Leonard 'Jack L.' Warner [1892-1978], head of Warner Bros. Studios
[est. 1923]
- 2nd = Birthday of author James Baldwin [1924-87] in Harlem, New York City
- 3rd = Birthday of journalist Ernie Pyle [1900-45] in Dana, Indiana
- 4th = Birthday of musician Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong [1901-71] in New Orleans, Louisiana
- 4th = Birthday of Barack Obama
[1961], 44th President of the United States, in Honolulu, Hawai'i
- 5th = Birthday of movie
writer-director John Huston [1906-87] in Nevada, Missouri
- 9th = Henry David Thoreau
published "Walden". [1854]
- 2nd Weekend: Kool-Aid® Days in Hastings, Nebraska
– where Edwin E. Perkins invented the powdered drink in 1927.
- 10th = Pueblo Independence Day, the anniversary of the successful 1680 revolt of the Native Americans of New Mexico
against the Spanish colonists, who retreated to El Paso.
- 12th
- 13th = Birthday of movie director
Alfred Hitchcock [1899-1980] in London, England
- 16th = Birthday of poet & author
Charles Bukowski [1920-94] in Andernach, Germany
- 19th = Birthday of inventor of television Philo T. Farnsworth [1906-71] near Beaver, Utah
- 22nd
- 23rd = Birthday of movie cowboy
star Hoot Gibson [1892-1962] in Tekamah, Nebraska
- 24th = Birthday of author Earl Derr Biggers [1884-1933], creator of police detective Charlie
Chan
- 28th
- 29th
- 30th = Birthday of capitalist Warren E. Buffett [1930] in Omaha, Nebraska
- 31st = Birthday of author William
Saroyan [1908-81] in Fresno, California
- Aug-Sept: The Burning Man Project in the Nevada desert
[est. 1986]
S E P T E M B E R
- Hunger Action Month [est. 2009] sponsored by
Feeding America [est. 2005]
- First Monday: Labor Day [U.S.A.]
- 1st = Birthday of author Edgar
Rice Burroughs [1875-1950], creator of Tarzan
- 2nd = 'Atlas Shrugged' Celebration Day in Ouray, Colorado
- 4th = Birthday of movie
director Edward Dmytryk [1908-99] in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada
- 5th = Birthday of philosopher Werner
Erhard [1935] in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
- 7th = Birthday of independent movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn [1882-1974] in Warsaw, Poland
- 8th = Birthday of rock legend Elvis Presley [1935-77] in Tupelo, Mississippi.
- 8th = International Literacy Day was first
celebrated in 1966.
- First Sunday after Labor Day (8th-15th): National
Grandparents Day [USA; est. 1978]
- 11th = Birthday of author William Sydney Porter [1862-1910] in Greensboro, NC; used pen name O. Henry
- 11th = New York World Trade Center attacked: 3,056 dead [9-11-01]; see
headlines from Sept. 12th
- 12th = Birthday of author /
curmudgeon H.L. Mencken [1880-1956] in Baltimore, Maryland
- 13th = Birthday of movie producer Jesse L. Lasky [1880-1958], co-founder of Paramount Pictures
[est. 1912]
- 15th
- 16th = Mexico Independence Day: The first event of the decade-long Mexican War of Independence, when Padre Miguel
Hidalgo y Costilla called for independence from Spain (1810); Spain conceded Mexico's independence in the
Treaty of Córdoba on 24 August 1821.
- 17th
- 18th = Birthday of actress &
recluse Greta Garbo [1905-90] in Stockholm, Sweden
- 19th = International 'Talk Like A Pirate' Day
{see also Magic Lantern's Pirate
Film Festival Page}
- 20th = Birthday of muckraker
Upton Sinclair [1878-1968] in Baltimore, Maryland
- 20th = Birthday of animator Jay
Ward [1920-89], creator of 'Rocky & Bullwinkle'
- 21st = Birthday of visionary
auto-maker Preston Tucker [1903-56] near Capac, Michigan
- 21st = Birthday of filmmaker
Ethan Coen [1957] in St. Louis Park, Minnesota
- Last Week: American Library Association's Banned Books
Week: Celebrating The Freedom To Read [est. 1982]
- 23rd = Philo T. Farnsworth
[1906-71] invented all-electronic television [1927]
- 23rd = Birthday of Bruce Springsteen [1949] in Long
Branch, New Jersey
- Fourth Saturday: U.S. National Punctuation Day
[Sept 2011 = #8]
- Fourth Sunday: U.S. National Museum Day -
free admission! [Sept 2010 = #6]
- Fourth Sunday: National Public Lands Day [Sept 2011 = #18]
- 24th = Birthday of author
F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940] in St. Paul, Minnesota
- 25th = Birthday of Pulitzer- &
Nobel-winning author William Faulkner [1897-1962] in New Albany, Mississippi
- 26th
- 28th = Birthday of Confucius / Kong Qiu [551 B.C.E.] in Shandong, China
- 29th = National Coffee Day in the U.S.A.
- 29th = Birthday of mystery
author Stuart M. Kaminsky [1934-2009] in Chicago, Illinois
- Last Saturday: National Public Lands Day [est. 1994]
O C T O B E R
- National Popcorn Poppin' Month [official 1999] • see also Magic Lantern's Movie Palaces / Snack Bar Section
- 1st = Mensa Pride Day in U.S.A. (begun in 2012)
- 2nd = Birthday of peace activist Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948] in Porbandar, Gujarat, India
- 2nd = Birthday of Julius Henry 'Groucho' Marx [1890-1977], member of 'The Marx Brothers' comedy
team
- 3rd = Birthday of author Thomas Wolfe [1900-38] in Asheville, North Carolina
- 3rd = Birthday of author Gore Vidal [1925] in West Point, New York
- 4th = Birthday of Western
painter Frederick Remington [1861-1909] in Canton, New York
- 4th = Birthday of film comic Buster
Keaton [1895-1966] in Piqua, Kansas
- 5th = Birthday of Larry Fine [1902-75], member of 'The Three Stooges' comedy team
- 7th = Official launch of the 1950s Beat Movement: The seminal "Six Gallery" reading in San Francisco, California which featured Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Philip Lamantia, Kenneth Rexroth, and Philip Whalen, and was attended by Jack Kerouac; Allen Ginsberg recited his epic poem "Howl" for the first time publicly. [1955]
- 8th = Birthday of movie
director Rouben Mamoulian [1897-1987] in Tiflis, Russian Georgia; he died in Hollywood, California
at age 90
- 9th = Birthday of filmmaker
Jacques Tati [1907-82] near Paris, France
- Second Week: Chicago Ideas Week [Oct 2011 = #1] in
Chicago, Illinois
- 10th (10/10) = National Metric Day, as part of National Metric Week [est. 1976]
- 12th = Birthday of author Lester
Dent [1904-59], originator of the Doc Savage pulp stories
- 13th = Birthday of Leonard Alfred Schneider [1925-1966], who became the
comic Lenny Bruce
- 14th = Birthday of economist W.
Edwards Deming [1900-93] in Sioux City, Iowa
- 15th = Birthday of economist
John Kenneth Galbraith [1908-2006] in Ontario, Canada
- 16th = Birthday of playwright
Eugene O'Neill [1888-1953] in New York City
- 17th = Birthday of author /
playwright Arthur Miller [1915-2005] in New York City
- 20th = Birthday of silent movie
comedy star Charley Chase [1893-1940] in Baltimore, Maryland
- 20th = Birthday of movie director
Jean-Pierre Melville [1917-73] in Paris, France
- 22nd = Birthday of counterculture visionary Timothy Leary, PhD [1920-96] in Springfield, Massachusetts
- 22nd = Birthday of Curly Howard [1903-52], member of 'The Three Stooges' comedy team
- 23rd = Birthday of Milton 'Gummo' Marx [1892-1977], member of 'The Marx Brothers' comedy
team
- 24th = 'Take Back Your Time' Day [est. 2005]
- Fourth Saturday = Make A Difference Day
[2011 = #21]
- 26th = The Gunfight at The O.K. Corral [1881], an essential element of the legends of lawman Wyatt Earp [1848-1929] and
'Doc' Holliday [1851-87].
- 27th = Birthday of Theodore
Roosevelt [1858-1919] in New York City
- 29th = Birthday of animator
Ralph Bakshi [1938] in Haifa, Israel
- 30th = Birthday of author Rudolfo
Anaya [1937] in Pastura, New Mexico
- 31st = Hallowe'en
- 31st = Birthday of Juliette Gordon Low [1860-1927] in Savannah, Georgia; she founded the Girls Scouts of the USA
in 1912.
N O V E M B E R
- 1st = National Family Literacy Day
- 1st = Cleanup Hallowe'en Day
- First Tuesday: U.S. National Election: visit
Working Minds U.S. Politics & Elections Page or the current Working Minds Election Page
- 5th = Birthday of Leonard Franklin Slye [1911-98] in Cincinnati, Ohio; he later became famous as singing cowboy
Roy Rogers.
- 6th = Birthday of American bandleader
John Philip Sousa [1854-1932] in Washington, DC
- 6th = Birthday of movie producer
& studio head Thomas H. Ince [1882-1924] in Newport, Rhode Island
- 7th = Birthday of existentialist
philosopher Albert Camus [1913-60] in Algeria
- 11th = Holiday celebrating the end of World War I, as Veterans Day [U.S.A.] or Armistice Day [elsewhere]
- 11th = Birthday of author Kurt
Vonnegut, Jr. [1922-2007] in Indianapolis, Indiana
- 12th = Birthday of songwriter-musician Neil Young [1945] in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- 13th = Birthday of author
Robert Louis Stevenson [1850-94] in Edinburgh, Scotland
- 14th
- 15th
- 17th = Birthday of movie director
Martin Scorsese [1942] in Queens, New York
- 19th = Execution by firing squad of labor leader Joe Hill [1879-1915] in Utah
- 19th = Birthday of actress Jodie
Foster [1962] in Los Angeles, California
- 20th = Birthday of outlaw William
Bonney aka 'Billy the Kid' [1859-81] in New York City
- 20th = Universal Children's Day [est. 1954]
of the United Nations
- Fourth Thursday: Thanksgiving [U.S.A.]
- Day After Thanksgiving: The giant Xmas shopping day where many retailers slip into proverbial black ink (profit)
for the year, thus called 'Black Friday'.
- Saturday After Thanksgiving: Good citizens visit their local small retailers to shop for Xmas gifts; event
established in 2010 and called Small
Business Saturday®.
- Monday After Thanksgiving: Called 'Cyber Monday' because consumers purchase lots of Xmas gifts online that they
were unable to find on Black Friday.
- 23rd = Birthday of Arthur Adolph 'Harpo' Marx [1888-1964], member of 'The Marx Brothers' comedy
team
- 24th = The House Un-American Activities Committee cited a group of writers, producers & directors –
later known as the
'Hollywood Ten' – for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about alleged Communist
influence in the motion picture industry. [1947]
- 24th = National Espresso Day in the U.S.A.
- 25th = Birthday of author W.R.
Burnett [1899-1982] in Springfield, Ohio
- 27th = Birthday of cinema
historian Robert Youngson [1917-74] in Brooklyn, New York
- 29th = Birthday of Shintaro Katsu [1931-97], producer-actor-director of the Zatô-Ichi Samurai Films Series
- 29th = Birthday of filmmaker
Joel Coen [1954] in St. Louis Park, Minnesota
- 30th
D E C E M B E R
- 1st = Birthday of mystery author
Rex Stout [1886-1975], creator of detective Nero Wolfe
- 1st = Birthday of comedian
Woody Allen [1935] in Brooklyn, New York
- 3rd = Birthday of author Joseph
Conrad [1857-1924] in Berdychiv, Ukraine
- 3rd = Birthday of cinema
auteur Jean-Luc Godard [1930] in Paris, France
- 5th
- 6th = Birthday of silent movie
cowboy star William S. Hart [1864-1946] in Newburgh, New York
- 7th = Pearl Harbor, Hawaii attacked by Japanese
aircraft at dawn: 2,340 military personnel & 48 civilians killed; declared the next day by President Roosevelt
'a Day of Infamy' [1941]
- 8th = Birthday of humorist James
Thurber [1894-1961] in Columbus, Ohio
- 9th = Birthday of actor
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. [1909-2000] in New York City
- 10th = Intl. Human Rights Day [est. 1948]
- 12th = Birthday of cinema master
Yasujiro Ozu [1903-63] in Tokyo, Japan
- 13th = Birthday of mystery
author Ross Macdonald [1915-83] in Los Gatos, California
- 16th = Birthday of French silent
movie comedy star Max Linder [1883-1925] in France
- 16th = Birthday of author Philip
K. Dick [1928-82] in Chicago, Illinois
- 17th = The Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur) flew the first successful powered & manned heavier-than-air
aeroplane flights at Kitty Hawk, NC [1903] { link }
- Third Sunday = World Snowboard Day
[Dec 2011 = #6]
- 22nd = Birthday of author Myron
Brinig [1896-1991] in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- 24th
- 25th
- 26th = Birthday of entertainer
Steve Allen [1921-2000] in New York City
- 26th to January 1 = Kwanzaa Holiday [est. 1966]
- 27th = National Fruitcake Day
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