Author for children Beverly Cleary

Events in 1916 and 12-4

Events in US in the birth year of Beverly Cleary

• Congress authorizes a plan to expand the U.S. armed forces over the next five years (June).
• Montana voters elect 36-year-old Republican Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress.
• U.S. National Park Service in the Department of the Interior is created by act of Congress (Aug. 20).
• Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in the country at 46 Amboy St., Brooklyn.

Birthday Beverly Cleary (12-4) in history

• Day 12-4 year 1861: The Civil War began when Fort Sumter was attacked.
• Day 12-4 year 1862: James J. Andrews led the raiding party that stole the Confederate locomotive "The General," inspiring the 1926 Buster Keaton movie.
• Day 12-4 year 1945: President Franklin Roosevelt died.
• Day 12-4 year 1955: The polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was called "safe, effective, and potent."
• Day 12-4 year 1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin became the first human in space and also the first human to orbit the earth in a spacecraft.
• Day 12-4 year 1981: The first space shuttle, Columbia, took its first test flight.
• Day 12-4 year 1983: Harold Washington was elected Chicago’s first African-American mayor.
• Day 12-4 year 1999: Arkansas federal judge Susan Webber Wright found President Clinton in contempt of court for lying about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.