Historical clue formulations

• Item on a birthday cake — 2015-02-02
• Lightheaded one? — 2013-12-05
• Wick holder — 2013-01-14
• Thing to snuff — 2011-02-23
• Wick holder — 2006-09-18
• It may be brought out during a blackout — 2006-01-18
• There's one for every year — 2005-05-08
• Year, symbolically — 1996-02-24
• Rushlight — 1995-12-29
• Wicked one — 1994-08-04
• Part 3 of motto — 1994-06-07