We have catalogued significant historical events, with special emphasis on weddings and anniversaries. Today’s events special events are:
- Birthdays
- 1665 Queen Anne, last Stuart ruler of Britain
- 1895 Babe Ruth (George Herman) American baseball player. Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time.
- 1911 Ronald Reagan, American politician and actor who served as the 40th US president from 1981 to 1989. Survived an Assassination attempt in 1981.
- 1913 Mary Leakey, British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape believed to be a human ancestor.
- 1919 Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American socialite and actress.
- 1931 Rip Torn, American actor whose career spanned 60 years from the 1956 film Baby Doll to Zed in the Men in Black films.
- 1931 Mamie Van Doren, American actress. She is one of the "Three M's" along with Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield, who were friends and contemporaries.
- 1939 Mike Farrell, American actor
- 1945 Bob Marley, Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Considered a pioneer of reggae.
- 1950 Natalie Cole, American singer, songwriter, and actress. She was the daughter of Nat King Cole.
- 1962 Axl Rose, (born William Bruce Rose Jr.) American singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the band Guns N' Roses.
- 1966 Rick Astley, British singer, songwriter, radio DJ and podcaster.
- Name Days
- Feast Day of Dorothy, from the Greek, 'gift of God'. The martyr of the Diocletian persecution is a Christian heroine of a romance. The story goes that she was a beautiful girl of Cappadocia (Thrkey) who was sentenced to death. As she was being led out to execution, a lawyer, Theophilus, jeered at her, asking her to send him fruit and flowers from the heavenly garden. After her death, a child appeared to him with a basket of roses and apples, adding - ominously - that Dorothy was waiting for him in the garden. Theophilus was converted, and immediately executed too
- Dodie, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- Dolly, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- Dora, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- Doreen, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- Dorinda, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- Dorothea, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- Dorothy, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- Dorrit, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- Dory, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- Dot, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- Dottie, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
Tomorrow’s notable events
Below are the events we have shown for tomorrow:
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 07-02-1478 | Sir Thomas More, English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, Lord Chancellor and theologian. Executed by Henry VIII for refusing to deny the authority of the Pope. |
| 07-02-1812 | Charles Dickens, English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. Notable works include: The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations. |
| 07-02-1867 | Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author, teacher, and journalist. Wrote the children's book series Little House on the Prairie. |
| 07-02-1870 | Alfred Adler, Austrian psychoanalyst who introduced the concept of an inferiority complex |
| 07-02-1908 | Larry 'Buster' Crabbe, American two-time Olympic swimmer and film and television actor. Starred in Tarzan, Flash Gordon and Buck Rodgers. |
| 07-02-1962 | Garth Brooks, American country singer and songwriter. |
| 07-02-1965 | Chris Rock, American comedian, actor, and filmmaker. |
| 07-02-1978 | Ashton Kutcher, American actor, film producer and businessman. |
| 07-02-1985 | Tina Majorino, American actress |
