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

Full Sturgeon Moon

Some Native American tribes knew that the sturgeon of the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain were most readily caught during this full Moon. Others called it the Green Corn Moon or the Grain Moon.

Every Year

• Women's Equality Day

• Women's Equality Day

1660s

• Died 1666: Frans Hals (painter)

1820s

• 1826: Quincy Market opened, Boston, Massachusetts

1830s

• 1839: Amistad captured off Long Island

1850s

• Died 1850: Louis-Philippe of France

1870s

• Born 1873: Lee DeForest (inventor)

1880s

• 1883: Krakatoa, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Rakata, erupted. The explosions heard in the eruption remain the loudest noise on human record. The sound was heard across the Indian Ocean as far away as Rodriguez Island and Australia

• 1883: Krakatoa, a volcano on an Indonesian island, began to erupt. Over this and the next day, the eruption caused tsunamis that killed 36,000 people. Particles from the eruption were released into the stratosphere, causing the average temperature of Earth to lower by one degree for the next two years.

1890s

• Died 1894: Celia Thaxter (poet)

1900s

• Born 1909: Frank F. Gasparro (designed the Lincoln Memorial reverse on the penny)

1910s

• Born 1910: Mother Teresa (missionary)

1920s

• 1920: The Nineteenth Amendment was adopted, granting women the right to vote. It was nicknamed the "Anthony" amendment in recognition of the lobbying efforts of suffragette Susan B. Anthony.

• Born 1921: Benjamin Bradlee (journalist)

• Born 1922: Irving Levine (broadcast journalist)

1930s

• 1930: Philo Farnsworth patented a television

• Born 1935: Geraldine Ferraro (politician)

• 1939: WXBS televised the first major-league baseball games, a double-header between Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers

1940s

• 1946: Norma Jeane Baker was signed to a contract with 20th Century Fox--her first studio contract

1950s

• Born 1952: Will Shortz (puzzle creator and editor)

• 1957: The first Ford Edsel was produced

1960s

• Born 1960: Branford Marsalis (musician)

• Born 1969: Melissa McCarthy (actress)

1970s

• 1970: Guitarist Jimi Hendrix made his last public appearance in the UK

• Died 1974: Charles Lindbergh (aviator)

• 1977: Bill 101 took effect in Quebec

1980s

• Born 1980: Macaulay Culkin (actor)

• Born 1980: Chris Pine (actor)

• Died 1986: Ted Knight (actor)

1990s

• Born 1993: Keke Palmer (actress)

2000s

• Died 2004: Laura Branigan (Grammy-nominated pop singer best known for her hit Gloria)

• Died 2009: Dominick Dunne (American writer and investigative journalist)

2010s

• Died 2018: Neil Simon (Pulitzer prize-winning playwright)