(Obviously, I haven't worried about Julian v. Gregorian calendars, etc. So sue me.)
January
3 Eric
Voegelin, 1901
10 Lord
Acton, 1834
12 Edmund
Burke, 1729
17 George
Stigler, 1911
18 Oliver
Hardy, 1892
21 V.I. Lenin dies, 1924
28 Thomas
Aquinas (feast day)
29 W.C.
Fields, 1880
February
3 Walter
Bagehot, 1826
16th
Amendment ratified, 1913
4 Britain declares formal cessation
of hostilities in America, 1783
Interstate Commerce
Commission established, 1887
5 John
Witherspoon, 1723
6 Ronald
Reagan, 1911
7 Thomas
More, 1478
8 Joseph
Schumpeter, 1883
11 English Parliament convenes for the
first time, 1254
Thomas
Edison, 1847
15 Jeremy
Bentham, 1748
19 Battle
of Iwo Jima begins, 1945
22 George
Washington, 1732
March
2 Tom
Wolfe, 1931
4 U.S.
Constitution comes into force, 1789
6 Josef Stalin's death announced,
1953
8 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,
1841
9 Wealth
of Nations published, 1776
14 Karl Marx dies, 1883
16 James
Madison, 1751
20 Ray
Goulding, 1922
24 Malcolm
Muggeridge, 1903
April
1 Tax
Freedom Day in Alabama, 2004. Alabama is the second-earliest
TFD in the country; only Alaska (March 26) is earlier. The median
date nationally is April 11. The latest dates are Connecticut (April
28) and New York (April 27).
6 National
Tartan Day "The national holiday for all Scottish Americans"
9 Dietrich Bonhoeffer (feast
day)
19 American
Revolution begins (the Battle
of Lexington), 1775
23 William
Shakespeare, 1564 (also died this date, 1616)
26 David
Hume, 1711
28 Benito Mussolini executed, 1945
30 Adolph Hitler suicide, 1945
May
3 Niccolo
Machiavelli, 1469
Jacob
Viner, 1892
8 Friedrich
Hayek, 1899
VE
Day, 1945
10 Churchill becomes Prime Minister,
1940
19 Milton
Friedman Day
20 John
Stuart Mill, 1806
25 Constitution Convention begins, 1787
The
Venerable Bede (feast day)
27 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Schechter
Poultry, 1934
28 Walker
Percy, 1916
29 G.K.
Chesterton, 1874
June
3 Richard
Cobden, 1804
5 Adam
Smith, 1723
John
Maynard Keynes, 1883
6 D-Day,
1944
8 Frank
Lloyd Wright, 1867
15 King
John signs Magna
Carta, 1215
16 Stan
Laurel, 1890 (1895?)
21 U.S.
Constitution receives necessary ratification, 1788
22 Germany
invades the Soviet Union, 1941
25 George
Orwell, 1903
29 Frederic
Bastiat, 1801
30 Thomas
Sowell, 1930 (or July 30?)
July
3 Tom
Stoppard, 1937
4 Declaration
of Independence approved, 1776
Calvin
Coolidge, 1872
8 John
D. Rockefeller, 1839
10 William
Blackstone, 1723
15 Vilfredo
Pareto, 1848
22 Edward
Hopper, 1882
26 Alfred
Marshall, 1842
29 Alexis
de Tocqueville, 1805
31 Milton
Friedman, 1912
August
13 Alfred
Hitchcock, 1899
14 VJ
Day, 1945
20 Leon Trotsky executed, 1940
24 Jorge
Luis Borges, 1899
28 Augustine
of Hippo (feast day)
29 John
Locke, 1632
September
9 Mao dies, 1976
12 H.L.
Mencken, 1880
17 U.S.
Constitution completed and signed, 1787
25 William
Faulkner, 1897
26 T.S.
Eliot, 1888
29 Ludwig
von Mises, 1881
Harold
Hotelling, 1895
October
2 Groucho
Marx, 1890
3 James
Buchanan, 1919
6 William Tyndale (feast day)
13 Margaret
Thatcher, 1925
14 Battle
of Hastings, 1066
Chuck
Yeager breaks the sound barrier, 1947
15 P.G.
Wodehouse, 1881
16 Hugh
Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, Thomas Cranmer (feast day)
19 Cornwallis surrenders, 1781
23 Johnny
Carson, 1925
29 Black
Tuesday (NY Stock Exchange crashes), 1929
31 Martin Luther posts his 95
Theses at Wittenburg Cathedral, 1517
November
3 Richard
Hooker (feast day)
7 Bolshevik
Revolution begins, 1917
Frank
Knight, 1885
9 Border
between East and West Germany opened, 1989
11 Berlin
Wall falls, 1989
25 Andrew
Carnegie, 1846
29 C.S.
Lewis, 1898
30 Mark
Twain, 1835
Winston
Churchill, 1874
Bernard
Mandeville, 1670
December
11 Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, 1918
17 Wright
brothers' first flight, 1903
20 Knut
Wicksell, 1851
25 Christmas
Dissolution
of the Soviet Union (Gorbachev
resigns; Russian flag raised over the Kremlin), 1991
29 Ronald
Coase, 1910
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