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

Eclipse Dates for 2020

Advent Sunday

Advent Sunday is a liturgical period preceding Christmas, beginning in Western churches on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and observed by many as a season of prayer, fasting, and penitence. Advent Sunday is also called the First Sunday of Advent by Western Christian Churches. It is the first day of the liturgical year and the start of the season of Advent.

Every Year

• Electronic Greeting Day

• US (Wyoming): Nellie Tayloe Ross's birthday celebrated

1770s

• 1775: Committee of Secret Correspondence organized by 2nd Continental Congress

1810s

• Born 1811: Wendell Phillips (abolitionist crusader)

• Born 1816: Morrison Remick Waite (Chief Justice)

1830s

• Born 1832: Louisa May Alcott (author)

1840s

• Born 1849: Sir John Ambrose Fleming (physicist)

1890s

• Died 1894: Sir Charles Stanley (4th Viscount Monck; first governor-general of Canada)

• Born 1898: C. S. Lewis (novelist)

1910s

• 1912: Fire destroyed much of Maryland Agricultural College, in College Park, Maryland

• Born 1917: Merle Travis (musician)

1920s

• Born 1926: Dilhan Eryurt (Turkish astrophysicist)

• 1929: Richard E. Byrd and pilot Bernt Balchen, in the Floyd Bennett, were first to fly over the South Pole

1930s

• Born 1933: John Mayall (musician)

1940s

• Born 1940: Chuck Mangione (musician)

• 1944: Doctors Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas performed the first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome

• 1945: The first helicopter hoist rescue took place, at Penfield Reef, Connecticut

• Born 1946: Suzy Chaffee (Olympic skier)

• 1948: Kukla, Fran and Ollie debuted on television

• Born 1949: Garry Shandling (comedian)

1950s

• Born 1954: Joel Coen (director, producer, & writer)

• Born 1955: Howie Mandel (comedian, actor, & television host)

1960s

• 1961: Enos became the first chimp to orbit Earth

• Born 1962: Andrew McCarthy (actor)

• 1963: President Lyndon B. Johnson established the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy

• Born 1964: Don Cheadle (actor)

• 1964: English was used for the first time during a U.S. Catholic mass

1970s

• 1972: Pong, a coin-operated video game, debuted

• Born 1976: Anna Faris (actress)

1980s

• Died 1981: Natalie Wood (actress)

• 1984: Megamouth shark caught off Catalina Island, California

• Died 1986: Cary Grant (actor)

2000s

• Died 2001: George Harrison (musician; member of The Beatles)

• Died 2004: John D. Barrymore (actor)

• Died 2005: Wendie Jo Sperber (actress)

2020s

• 2020: Penumbral Eclipse of the Moon.