• 1786: Davy Crocket is born
• 1807: The first commercial steamboat sailed in New York
• 1893: Mae West is born
• 1907: Pike’s Place Market opens in Seattle
• 1915: A category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas
• 1943: Robert De Niro is born
• 1953: The first meeting of Narcotic’s Anonymous is held
• 1958: Belinda Carlisle is born
• 1960: Sean Penn is born
• 1969: Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast
• 1979: Vivian Vance dies
• 1980: Infant Araria Chamberlin disappears in Australia, taken by a dingo
• 1982: The first compact discs are released to the public in Germany
• 1983: Ira Gershwin dies
• 1998: President Clinton admits that he had an affair with Monica Lewinsky
• 2008: Michael Phelps becomes the 1st to win 8 gold medals in one Olympics
• 2012: Rick has his surgery

I don’t know if my thing will make Wikipedia, but I think it should.