| Lorenzo de'Medici (The Magnificent) of Florence | |
| Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer | |
| Paul Revere | |
| General Anthony Wayne, military leader ('Mad Anthony') | |
| Elizabeth Griscom (Betsy) Ross, flag maker | |
| Sir James Frazer, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough) | |
| Alfred Stieglitz, father of modern photography | |
| Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (The Flies, The Bosses) | |
| E.M. Forster, English novelist (Howard's End, A Passage to India) | |
| J Edgar Hoover, Mr FBI | |
| John Glenn, astronaut | |
| J. D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'. | |
| The start of a new year... Enjoy the bowl games. | |
| Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, Calif | |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland established | |
| Giuseppe Piazzi discoved 1st asteroid, later named Ceres | |
| Haiti gains its independence | |
| Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln. | |
| Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY | |
| Ellis Island became reception center for new immigrants | |
| Commonwealth of Australia established | |
| first Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California. | |
| first running of SF's famed 'Bay to Breakers' race (7.63 miles) | |
| Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison. | |
| Sudan gains its independence | |
| European Economic Community (EEC) starts operation. | |
| Cigarette advertisements banned on TV | |
| AT & T broken up into 8 companies. | |
| Spain & Portugal become 11th & 12th members of Common Market | |
By Scott Labrecque version 9.4.0.0