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

Every Year

• Doctor's Day

1130s

• Born 1135: Moses Maimonides (rabbi)

1790s

• 1791: President Washington proclaimed boundary of new capital city on Potomac River

1820s

• Born 1820: Anna Sewell (author)

1840s

• 1842: Dr. Crawford Long of Jefferson, GA, placed an ether-soaked towel over the face of James Venable and removed a tumor from his neck. This was the first recorded use of anesthesia

1850s

• Born 1853: Vincent van Gogh (artist)

• 1858: H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, patented the first pencil with eraser

1860s

• 1867: America bought Alaska from Russia due to pressure from Secretary of State William Seward ("Seward's Folly"). The price was $7.2 million, or slightly more than $0.02 an acre

• 1868: Impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began

1870s

• 1870: Texas readmitted to the Union

1880s

• Born 1880: Sean O'Casey (playwright)

• Born 1883: Jo Davidson (sculptor)

1900s

• 1909: Queensboro Bridge, the first double-decker, opened in New York City

1930s

• Born 1937: Warren Beatty (actor)

1940s

• Born 1945: Eric Clapton (musician)

1950s

• 1954: Official opening of Canada's first subway (Toronto)

• 1956: Woody Guthrie's song This Land is Your Land copyrighted

1960s

• 1964: Jeopardy! game show made its television debut

• Born 1964: Tracy Chapman (musician)

• Born 1968: Celine Dion (singer)

1970s

• Born 1970: Secretariat (racehorse)

• 1972: Canadian navy stopped issuing rum rations

• Born 1979: Norah Jones (singer)

1980s

• 1981: President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded outside a Washington, D.C., hotel

• Born 1983: Scott Moffatt (musician, of The Moffatts)

• Born 1984: Anna Nalick (musician)

• 1987: An anonymous buyer paid over $39 million for Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers

2000s

• 2000: Possible UFO seen, Little Fox Lake, Yukon Territory

• Died 2002: Queen Mother Elizabeth (Britain's beloved "Queen Mum")

• Died 2004: Timi Yuro (singer)

• 2007: Superathletes Kirill Shimko and Pavel Soroka pulled five railway cars more than 20 feet