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

Every Year

• Hawaii: Regatta Day

1640s

• Died 1649: John Winthrop (founder of Mass. Bay Colony)

1800s

• 1804: Congress created the Territory of Orleans

1820s

• 1821: North West Company merged with Hudson's Bay Company

• Died 1827: Ludwig van Beethoven (composer)

1870s

• 1872: An estimated 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurred in Owens Valley, California

• Born 1874: Robert Frost (writer)

1890s

• Died 1892: Walt Whitman (poet)

1910s

• Born 1911: Tennessee Williams (playwright)

• Born 1914: Gen. William Westmoreland (military commander)

1920s

• Died 1923: Sarah Bernhardt (actress)

• Born 1923: Bob Elliot (comedian)

1930s

• Born 1930: Sandra Day O'Connor (first female U.S. Supreme Court justice)

• Born 1931: Leonard Nimoy (actor)

• Born 1934: Alan Arkin (actor)

• 1937: Popeye statue unveiled during spinach festival, Crystal City, Texas

• Born 1939: James Caan (actor)

1940s

• 1942: Deadly dynamite explosion in quarry, Sandts Eddy, Pennsylvania

• Born 1943: Bob Woodward (journalist)

• Born 1944: Diana Ross (singer)

• 1946: The U.N. Security Council met for the first time in New York

• Born 1948: Steven Tyler (musician; lead singer of Aerosmith)

• Born 1949: Vicki Lawrence (actress)

1950s

• Born 1950: Martin Short (actor)

• 1953: Dr. Jonas Salk announced development of polio vaccine

• Born 1954: Curtis Sliwa (founder of the Guardian Angels)

1960s

• 1964: Perpetrators of the Great Train Robbery were convicted in London

• Born 1968: Kenny Chesney (country singer)

1970s

• 1975: North Vietnamese took Hue (Vietnam War)

1980s

• 1982: Groundbreaking took place in Washington, D.C., for a memorial to honor American armed forces members killed in Vietnam

• Born 1985: Keira Knightley (actress)

• 1987: The U.S. government sold its 85% ownership of Conrail, one of the nation's largest rail systems, and earned $1.6 billion in one of the largest stock offerings in history

• 1989: The post-perestroika Soviet Union held its first nationwide multiparty, multicandidate elections

1990s

• Died 1994: Margaret Millar (Canadian author)

• 1999: "Melissa" macro computer virus released, disrupting systems worldwide

2000s

• Died 2004: Jan Sterling (star of Hollywood's film noir movies in the 1940s and 1950s)

• Died 2005: Paul Hester (drummer)

• Died 2005: A black spider monkey believed to be the world's oldest monkey other than apes died at age 53

• Died 2006: Paul Dana (race car driver)

2010s

• Died 2011: Harry Wesley Coover Jr. (inventor of Super Glue)

• Died 2011: Geraldine Ferraro (in 1984 became the first woman vice presidential candidate on a major U.S. party ticket)