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

1780s

• 1787: The American Continental Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance, establishing the procedure for the creation of new states

1790s

• Born 1793: John Clare (poet)

1810s

• Born 1816: Gustav Freytag (novelist)

1830s

• 1836: Current U.S. patent numbering system began

1870s

• 1871: The first official cat show took place, in London

1900s

• 1900: Theodore Roosevelt laid the corner stone for a new county courthouse in Mineola, New York, and spoke of the need for honesty in government. While he was talking, one man had his pockets picked of $140 and another man lost $103

• 1908: Women competed in modern Olympics for the first time

• 1909: Gold discovered near Cochrane, Ontario

1910s

• Born 1913: David Garroway (television personality)

1920s

• Died 1921: Gabriel Lippmann (physicist)

• Born 1928: Bob Crane (actor)

1930s

• Born 1931: Frank Ramsey (basketball player)

1940s

• Born 1940: Patrick Stewart (actor)

• Born 1942: Harrison Ford (actor)

1950s

• 1953: Stratford Festival's first production, Ontario

• Born 1957: Cameron Crowe (film director & writer)

1960s

• Born 1963: Bobby Carpenter (hockey player)

1970s

• 1977: Blackout strikes NYC at 9:34 P.M. and lasts until the next day. The sweltering evening turn into a night of near total chaos. Police arrest some 3,200 looters

1980s

• 1982: Montreal hosted the first baseball All-Star Game outside the U.S.

1990s

• Died 1993: Davey Allison (race car driver)

2000s

• Died 2002: Yousuf Karsh (photographer)

• 2004: Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, won his 30th straight game on Jeopardy! which brought his earnings to $1,004,960. He was the first contestant to pass the $1 million mark.

• Died 2006: Red Buttons (actor)

• 2006: A Maine fisherman caught a half-brown, half-orange lobster. The odds of catching this kind of lobster are 1 in 50 million

2010s

• 2018: Partial Eclipse of the Sun.