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

1560s

• 1562: The play entitled Gorboduc, written by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville, was presented before Queen Elizabeth I. It was the first real English tragedy.

1640s

• 1644: John Winthrop documented the first known unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings in North America

• 1644: Two lights formed a manlike shape and arose out of the water in Boston

1780s

• Born 1782: Daniel Webster (statesman)

1860s

• Died 1862: John Tyler (10th U.S. president)

• Born 1867: Ruben Dario (poet)

1880s

• Born 1882: A. A. Milne (author)

1890s

• Born 1892: Oliver Hardy (comedian)

1900s

• Born 1904: Cary Grant (actor)

1910s

• 1911: Eugene Ely proved that planes could land safely on ships

• Born 1913: Danny Kaye (actor)

• 1919: The first session of the Paris Peace Conference to end WWI was held

1920s

• 1926: NY Daily Mirror columnist Walter Winchell debuted on radio

1930s

• Died 1936: Rudyard Kipling (author)

• Born 1938: Curt Flood (baseball player)

1940s

• Born 1941: Bobby Goldsboro (singer)

1950s

• Died 1952: Curly Howard (actor, best known as one of The Three Stooges)

• Born 1955: Kevin Costner (actor)

• 1957: First around-the-world, nonstop flight by jet concluded

1960s

• 1966: The Dow Jones industrial stock average first passed the 1,000 mark

• 1967: Yellowknife became capital of the Northwest Territories

1970s

• 1977: The cause of Legionnaires' disease (Legionellosis) identified as bacteria

1990s

• 1996: 211-pound striped marlin caught near Red Hill, Hawaii

2000s

• 2005: 4-lb. 8-oz. Heller's barracuda caught, Molokai, Hawaii

2010s

• Died 2010: Robert B. Parker (author of mysteries; Mr. Parker died at his writing desk, working on a book)

• 2010: A half pound meteorite crashed through the office of Dr. Frank Ciampi, Lorton, Virginia

• Died 2016: Glenn Frey (musician; founding member of The Eagles)