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'
- 1000 Dolly, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- 1000 Dora, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- 1000 Doreen, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- 1000 Dorinda, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- 1000 Dorothea, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- 1000 Dorothy, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- 1000 Dorrit, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- 1000 Dory, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- 1000 Dot, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
- 1000 Dottie, from the Greek, 'gift of God'
Tomorrow’s notable events
Below are the events we have shown for tomorrow:
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 07-02-1812 | Charles Dickens |
| 07-02-1867 | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| 07-02-1885 | Sinclair Lewis |
| 07-02-1908 | Larry 'Buster' Crabbe |
| 07-02-1920 | Eddie Bracken |
| 07-02-1962 | Garth Brooks |
| 07-02-1965 | Chris Rock |
| 07-02-1978 | Ashton Kutcher |
| 07-02-1985 | Tina Majorino |
