The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

Every Year

• Human Rights Day

1810s

• 1817: Mississippi was admitted as the 20th state

1850s

• Born 1851: Melvil Dewey (librarian)

1890s

• Died 1896: Alfred Nobel (chemist, engineer, and the inventor of dynamite. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes.)

1900s

• 1901: The Nobel Prizes were awarded for the first time

• 1906: President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize

1930s

• 1930: Duke Ellington recorded "Mood Indigo"

1950s

• 1950: Ralph Bunche became the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize

• 1950: William Faulkner accepted his Nobel Prize in literature which was awarded to him in 1949

• Born 1952: Susan Dey (actress)

• 1954: Colonel John P. Stapp attained 632 mph on rocket sled

• Born 1957: Michael Clarke Duncan (actor)

1960s

• Born 1960: Kenneth Branagh (actor)

• Died 1967: Otis Redding (singer)

1970s

• Died 1978: Ed Wood (filmmaker)

1980s

• Born 1985: Raven-Symoné (actress & singer)

1990s

• Died 1990: Armand Hammer (industrialist)

• Died 1993: Alice Tully (philanthropist)

2000s

• Died 2005: Richard Pryor (comedian & actor)

2010s

• 2011: Total lunar eclipse