- MERKEDAGER
- 2022
IHOP National Pancake Day
Let's All Eat Right Day
National Chocolate-Covered Peanuts Day
National Clam Chowder Day
Pistol Patent Day
Quiet Day
- VERDENS ELDSTE KJENDIS
- 1930 Erica Pedretti, forfatter og kunstner
- BURSDAGER
- 1841 Auguste Renoir, fransk maler († 03-12-1919)
- 1866 Benedetto Croce, italiensk filosof († 20-11-1952)
- 1901 Zeppo Marx († 29-11-1979)
- 1917 Anthony Burgess, britisk forfatter († 22-11-1993)
- 1920 Sun Myung Moon († 02-09-2012)
- 1926 Eva Bergh, skuespiller († 19-02-2013)
- 1932 Tony Brooks, racerbil-sjåfør
- 1935 Sally Jessy Raphaël
- 1943 George Harrison († 29-11-2001)
- 1946 Stig Holmås
- 1966 Nancy O'Dell
- 1973 Julio Iglesias, Jr.
- 1975 Chelsea Handler
- 1975 Afshan Rafiq, H-politiker
- 1976 Rashida Jones
- DØDSFALL
- 1864 Anna Harrison
- 1983 Tennessee Williams
- 2006 Darren McGavin
- 2017 Bill Paxton
- HISTORISKE HENDELSER
- 1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America in New York City (admission was 1 cent)
- 1814 Folkeeden til Christian Frederik som Norges regent ble avlagt i mange kirker - Utsendinger ble valgt til riksforsamlingen på Eidsvoll, som møttes 10. april
- 1836 Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver
- 1859 1st use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence
- 1862 Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
- 1901 J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation
- 1913 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax
- 1919 League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty
- 1919 Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax
- 1925 Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska
- 1932 Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident. (President of the Reich)
- 1933 The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier
- 1944 Island erklærte unionsavtalen med Danmark ugyldig
- 1948 Tsjekkoslovakia fikk kommunistisk regjering
- 1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
- 1981 Altautbyggingen stoppet, og samene avsluttet sultestreiken - Arbeidet fortsatte uhindret i september
- 1985 Rettssaken mot den spionsiktede Arne Treholt begynte - Dommen ble 20 års fengsel
- 1986 Filippinenes eks-president, Ferdinand Marcos, forlot landet etter omfattende valgfusk
- 1991 I Golfkrigen trakk Irak seg ut av Kuwait
- 2022 Lansering av godmorgenfrode.no
- MUSIKALSKE HENDELSER
- 1957 Buddy Holly & Crickets record That'll Be the Day
- 1963 Beatles release their 1st single in US Please Please Me
- 1965 The Seekers, a folk-pop group from Australia, hit #1 on the UK singles chart with I'll Never Find Another You
- 1981 Christopher Cross wins a Grammy for Best new artist and Best song for Sailing
- 1982 Final episode of The Lawrence Welk Show airs
- 1992 James Brown receives a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award
- 1998 Bo Diddley and Roy Orbison receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Grammy Awards
- 2003 Switchfoot releases The Beautiful Letdown, their fourth album that was eventually certified double platinum.
- SPORTSLIGE HENDELSER
- 1912 På Bunnefjorden utenfor Oslo ble Norges første billøp arrangert (på isen)
- 1951 The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 1952 6th Winter Olympic games close at Oslo, Norway
- 1964 Muhammad Ali, TKOs Sonny Liston in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1968 Fred Anton Maier vant skøyte-VM
- 1982 Oddvar Brå brakk staven i duell med Aleksandr Zavjalov på ankeretappen i stafetten under ski-VM i Oslo - De fikk dele gullet
- 1987 Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bull record 58 points in a game
- 1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1994 Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame