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* Birthdays
B08011770 William Clark, explored Pacific Northwest with Lewis.
B08011779 Francis Scott Key, wrote the "Star-Spangled Banner."
B08011815 Richard Henry Dana, spent 2 years before the mast.
B08011922 Arthur Hill, Actor
B08011933 Dom De Luise, Comedian
B08011942 Karen Black in Illinois, actress
B08011973 Tempestt Bledsoe, Actress, "The Cosby Show"
B08021905 Myrna Loy, Actress, in Montana.
B08021924 Carroll O'Conner, Actor
B08021924 James Baldwin, Writer
B08021926 Betsy Bloomingdale, Department Store mogul.
B08021932 Peter O'Toole, Actor
B08021960 Apollonia Kotero, Actress
B08031811 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the safe elevator.
B08031901 Sen John Stennis, D-Miss
B08031905 Dolores Del Rio, Actress
B08031923 Anne Klein, Fashion designer
B08031926 Tony Bennett, Singer
B08031940 Martin Sheen, Actor
B08041755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, invented the modern pencil.
B08041792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet
B08041906 John Huston, Actor
B08041930 Neil Armstrong, Astronaut
B08041943 Tina Cole, in Hollywood California
B08041946 Loni Anderson, Actress
B08041958 Mary Decker Tabb Slaney, Track star
B08051850 Guy de Maupassant in France, writer
B08051930 Neil Armstrong, first Moonwalker.
B08051933 Joan Weldon, singer, "The GoGos."
B08051953 Samantha Sang, Singer
B08061809 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England
B08061881 Sir Alexander Fleming, cashed in on penicillin.
B08061911 Lucille Ball, Actress/Comedienne, in New York NY
B08061917 Robert Mitchum, Actor
B08061927 Rep William David Ford, D-Mich
B08061930 Abbey Lincoln
B08061947 Sally Eaton in Illinois
B08061952 Rep Carl C Perkins, D-Ky
B080619?? Stephane Krammer
B08071783 John Heathcoat, invented lace-making machinery.
B08071876 Mata Hari, spy
B08071904 Ralph J. Bunche, statesman
B08071923 Esther Williams, Swimmer/Actress
B08071929 Don Larsen, on what must have been a perfect day
B08071937 Dustin Hoffman, Actor
B08071943 Lana Cantrell in Sydney Australia
B08071944 Loni Anderson in St Paul Minnesota
B08081763 Charles Bullfinch, first US professional architect.
B08081884 Sara Teasdale, poet
B08081910 Sylvia Sydney
B08081922 Rudi Gernreich, designed first women's topless swimsuit.
B08081938 Connie Stevens in Brooklyn NY
B08091923 Rhonda Fleming, Actress
B08091928 Eddie Fisher, Actor
B08091928 Jimmy Dean, Actor
B08091942 David Steinberg, comedian
B08091957 Melanie Griffith
B08101874 Herbert Hoover, 31st President from 1929 - 1933.
B08101900 Norma Shearer
B08101911 Jane Wyatt in Campgaw NJ
B08101924 Martha Hyer
B08101925 Mike Douglas, TV Host
B08101933 Jerry Falwell, Evangelist
B08101938 Diana Muldaur
B08101942 Betsy Johnson
B08111833 Robert G. Ingersoll
B08111902 Lloyd Nolan, actor
B08111924 Arlene Dahl in Minnesota
B08111937 Anna Massey
B08121862 Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist.
B08121876 Mary Roberts Rinehart, mystery writer.
B08121881 Cecil B. deMille, directed God.
B08121911 Mario Moreno, Actor, alias Cantinflas.
B08121921 Majorie Reynolds in Buhl Idaho
B08121941 Deborah Walley in Bridgeport Ct
B08131655 Johann Christoph Denner, invented the clarinet.
B08131818 Lucy Stone, pioneer in Woman's Rights.
B08131860 Annie Oakley, sharpshooter.
B08131899 Alfred Hitchcock, Film Director
B08131912 Ben Hogan, Golfing Great
B08131927 Fidel Castro, Cuban political leader
B08131967 Quinn Cummings
B08141867 John Galsworthy in England, author
B08141926 Alice Ghostly in Montana
B08141941 Connie Smith in Elkhart, Indiana, singer
B08141946 Susan St. James, Actress, in Los Angeles Calif
B08141952 Debbie Meyer, Swimmer
B08151769 Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba.
B08151803 Sir James Douglas, father of British Columbia.
B08151888 T. E.  Lawrence, writer (aka Lawrence of Arabia)
B08151912 Julia Child in Pasadena Calif, Chef/TV Personality
B08151924 Phyllis Schlafly, News Correspondent, in St Louis
B08151925 Mike Conners, Actor
B08151931 Janice Rule in Norwood Ohio
B08151935 Abby Dalton in Las Vegas
B08161925 Fess Parker, Actor, "Davy Crockett."
B08161928 Ann Blyth in Mt Kisko NY
B08161930 Frank Gifford, Sportscaster
B08161930 Robert Culp, Actor
B08161932 Eydie Gorme in Bronx NY
B08161935 Julie Newmar
B08161936 Anita Gillette in Baltimore Md
B08161946 Leslie Ann Warren in New York City
B08161958 Madonna (Ciccone) in Bay City Michigan
B08171786 Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier.
B08171892 Mae West in Brooklyn NY. "Go up and see her sometime!"
B08171921 Maureen O'Hara, Actress, in Dublin Ireland
B08171943 Robert De Niro, Actor
B08171958 Belinda Carlisle (The GoGos lead singer)
B08181618 Virginia Dare, first child born in America of English parents.
B08181774 Merriwether Lewis, searched the Louisiana territory
B08181834 Marshall Field, founded a Chicago-based store chain.
B08181904 Max Factor Jr., Son of the make-up king
B08181922 Shelley Winters, Actress, in St Louis Mo
B08181927 Rosalynn Carter, First Lady
B08181933 Roman Polanski, Director
B08181935 Gail Fisher in Orange NJ
B08181937 Robert Redford, Actor
B08191646 John Flamsteed, first astronomer royal of England.
B08191765 Robert Fulton, inventor
B08191785 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks.
B08191871 Orville Wright, famed brother and aviator.
B08191902 Ogden Nash, poet
B08191931 Willie Shoemaker, Jockey
B08191933 Debra Paget
B08191940 Jill St. John, Actress, in Los Angeles California
B08191956 Sue Barker
B08201833 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President from 1889 - 1893.
B08201881 Edgar A. Guest, poet
B08201921 Jacqueline Susann, author of "Valley of the Dolls."
B08201925 Lola Albright in Ohio
B08201946 Connie Chung, NBC's news anchor.
B08211660 Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote first book on bridge building.
B08211906 Count Basie, musician
B08211930 Princess Margaret of England
B08211936 Mart Crowley, Playwright
B08211936 Wilt Chamberlain, Basketball Player
B08211938 Kenny Rogers, Singer
B08211944 Jackie DeShannon in Kentucky
B08211945 Patty McCormack
B08221862 Claude Debussy in France, composer
B08221920 Ray Bradbury, science fiction author.
B08221929 Honor Blackman in London England
B08221933 Sylvia Koscina
B08221934 Diana Sands
B08221940 Valerie Harper in Sufferin NY. "Rhoda."
B08221942 Kathy Lennon in Santa Monica
B08221948 Cindy Williams in Van Nuys California
B08221949 Diana Nyad, Swimmer
B08231785 Oliver Hazard Perry, naval leader
B08231869 Edgar Lee Masters, poet
B08231869 James "Sunny Jim" Rolph, S.F. Mayor (1912-1931), Muni backer.
B08231912 Gene Kelly, Dancer/Actor
B08231930 Vera Miles, Actress
B08231934 Barbara Eden, Arizona, I dream of Jeannie
B08231942 Patricia McBride
B08231948 Ron Blomberg future designated hitter
B08231949 Shelley Long in Fort Wayne Indiana
B08241816 Sir Daniel Gooch, laid first successful trans-Atlantic cables.
B08241872 Aubrey Beardsley, Artist
B08241872 Max Beerbohm, Writer
B08241886 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed the Liberty ships.
B08241956 Gerry Cooney, Boxer
B08251836 Bret Harte, western writer
B08251909 Michael Rennie, Actor
B08251910 Ruby Keeler, Dancer, in Halifax NS
B08251916 Van Johnson, Actor
B08251918 Leonard Bernstein, conductor-composer
B08251919 George Wallace, Governor
B08251927 Althea Gibson, first black tennis champion (in a major event.)
B08251930 Sean Connery, Actor
B08261873 Lee De Forest, invented the Audion vacuum tube (radio tube.)
B08261906 Dr Albert Sabin, polio vaccine discoverer
B08261927 Francois Leydet, Yosemite Calendar
B08261947 Candy Moore in Maplewood NJ
B08261948 Valerie Simpson in Bronx New York, singer, Ashford's partner
B08271871 Theodore Dreiser, author
B08271882 Samuel Goldwyn, pioneer filmmaker.
B08271899 C.S. Forester, historical novelist, created Horatio Hornblower
B08271899 C.S. Forester, historical novelist, created Horatio Hornblower.
B08271908 Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President from 1963 - 1969.
B08271916 Martha Raye, Comedienne/Actress/Denture wearer, in Butte, MT.
B08271943 Susan 'Tuesday' Weld in New York City.
B08281749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Germany, social philosopher
B08281921 Nancy Kulp in Pennsylvania
B08281925 Donald O'Connor, Comedian/Actor
B08281939 Cassie Mackin, NBC News reporter
B08281950 Ron 'Louisana Lightning' Guidry
B08281960 Emma Samms, The Colby's star
B08291809 Oliver Wendell Holmes, jurist
B08291912 Barry Sullivan, actor
B08291915 Ingrid Bergman in Sweden
B08291916 George Montgomery, Actor
B08291916 Ingrid Bergman, Actress
B08291938 Elliot Gould, Actor
B08291941 Robin Leach, TV's "Life Styles of the Rich and Famous"
B08291945 Wyomia Tyus, (Olympic Runner)
B08291958 Michael Jackson, Singer
B08301896 Raymond Massey, Actor
B08301907 Shirley Booth in New York - "Hazel."
B08301908 Fred MacMurray, Actor
B08301909 Shirley Booth, Actress
B08301918 Ted Williams, Baseball Player
B08301941 Elizabeth Ashley in Florida
B08301943 Jean-Claude Killy, Skier
B08301947 Peggy Lipton in New York City - The Mod Squad
B08311870 Maria Montessori, educator
B08311903 Arthur Godfrey, entertainer
B08311908 William Sarayon, writer
B08311918 Alan Jay Lerner, composer
B08311924 Buddy Hackett, Comedian
B08311928 James Coburn, Actor
B08311935 Eldridge Cleaver, Writer
* Events
E08011790 First U.S. Census is taken.
E08011794 Whisky Rebellion begins.
E08011873 San Francisco's first cable car begins service.
E08011876 Colorado becomes the 38th state.
E08011946 President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission.
E08011953 California introduces its Sales Tax (for Education.)
E08011958 First Class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years.)
E08011966 Charles Whitman climbs the U of Texas tower and shoots 12 dead.
E08011981 MTV premieres
E08021776 Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence.
E08021858 First street mailboxes - Boston, Mass.
E08021909 First Lincoln head pennies minted.
E08021923 President Harding dies at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
E08021934 Hitler takes over presidency when Paul Von Hindenburg dies at 86.
E08021965 Morley Safer's first Vietnam report, indicating we are losing.
E08021979 Thurmon Munson killed in a plane crash at Akron Ohio at age 32.
E08031492 Columbus sets sail from Spain for 'the Indies.'
E08031678 Robert LaSalle builds the first ship in America, the Griffon.
E08031958 First underwater crossing of North Pole completed, by Nautilus.
E08031984 365.7 million shares traded in the New York Stock Exchange.
E08041693 Champagne is invented by Dom Perignon.
E08041777 British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes the first circus.
E08041790 United States Coast Guard founded.
E08041927 Peace Bridge between US and Canada opened.
E08041958 Dumont TV Network crumbles.
E08041985 Phil Rizzuto day at Yankee Stadium retiring uniform #10.
E08051775 The first Spanish ship, 'San Carlos', enters San Francisco bay.
E08051861 US levies its first Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800.)
E08051884 Cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty laid.
E08051957 "American Bandstand" goes on network TV.
E08051962 Marilyn Monroe dies at age 36.
E08051963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed.
E08051966 Beatles release "Revolver" album.
E08061835 Bolivia gains its independence.
E08061926 The first American woman, Gertrude Ederle, swims the English Channel
E08061945 The Atom Bomb is dropped on Hiroshima by the 'Enola Gay.'
E08061961 Gherman S. Titov, second Russian in space aboard Vostok 2
E08061965 Beatles release "Help" album.
E08061985 Nineteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 returns to Earth.
E08071807 First serviceable steamboat, the Cleremont, goes on first voyage.
E08071888 Theophilus Van Kannel of Phila receives a patent for revolving door
E08071929 Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games.
E08071942 Marines land on Guadalcanal.
E08071959 First satellite to transmit photographs to Earth launched.
E08071964 Congress passes Tonkin Resolution, official start of Vietnam war.
E08071971 Apollo 15 returns to Earth.
E08081814 Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium.
E08081860 The Queen of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in New York
E08081900 First Davis Cup tennis matches, held in Boston.
E08081920 Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes.
E08081940 Battle of Britain begins as Germany launches air attacks.
E08081972 Yanks sign a 30 year lease with New York City.
E08091638 Jonas Bronck becomes the first European settler in the Bronx.
E08091803 First horses arrive in Hawaii.
E08091842 The US-Canada border defined by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
E08091945 Atom Bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
E08091956 First state-wide, state-supported educational TV network,in Alabama.
E08091969 The Manson family commits the Tate-LaBianca murders.
E08091974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency in wake of Watergate scandal.
E08101846 Smithsonian Institute established.
E08101866 Transatlantic cable laid President Buchanan speaks to Queen Victoria.
E08101900 First Davis Cup Tennis Tournament is held in Massachusetts.
E08101948 ABC enters network TV at 7 PM - WJZ, New York.
E08101973 First BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St. Station.
E08101986 Billy Martin day at Yankee Stadium, uniform #1 retired.
E08111866 The world's first roller rink opens its doors, in Newport, R.I.
E08111929 Babe Ruth hits his 500th homer.
E08111951 First color telecast of baseball game - NY city.
E08111962 Andrian G. Nikolayev, third Russian in space, aboard Vostok 3.
E08111965 Watts riots in Los Angeles, $200 million in damages.
E08111980 Reggie Jackson hits his 400th homer.
E08121851 Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine.
E08121959 First ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island.
E08121960 First communications satellite launched from Cape Canaveral.
E08121962 Pavel R. Popovich, fourth  Russian in space aboard Vostok 4.
E08121964 Mantle hits the longest shot in Yankee Stadium, 502 feet.
E08121972 Last combat troops leave Vietnam.
E08121977 First test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
E08131876 Reciprocity Treaty between US and Hawaii ratified.
E08131961 Berlin Wall erected in East Germany.
E08141846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance.
E08141893 France issues first driving licenses, including a required test.
E08141935 US Social Security Law enacted.
E08141945 VJ Day - Japan surrendered to end World War II.
E08151914 First ship through the Panama Canal.
E08151935 Will Rogers & Wiley Post die in a plane crash.
E08151945 South Korea liberated from Japanese rule.
E08151960 The Congo (Brazzaville) gains its independence.
E08161777 Britain loses Battle of Bennington.
E08161863 Emancipation Proclamation signed.
E08161896 GOLD !!!! is discovered in the Klondike.
E08161948 Baseball great Babe Ruth dies at age 53.
E08161969 Woodstock festival begins in New York.
E08171807 Fulton's first real steamboat trip, New York City to Albany,
E08171858 First bank in Hawaii opens.
E08171870 Mrs. Esther Morris becomes the first woman magistrate.
E08171950 Indonesia gains its independence.
E08171960 Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow.
E08171961 Alliance for Progress established.
E08181817 Gloucester, Mass newspapers carry accounts of a wild sea serpent.
E08181835 The last of the Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago.
E08181958 Investigation starts of TV Game show scandal.
E08181960 First photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
E08191826 Canada Co. chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario.)
E08191942 First American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal,Solomon Ils.
E08191942 First American pilot to shoot down German fighter plane, S.F. Junkin.
E08191950 ABC begins the tradition of Saturday morning kid shows.
E08191979 The crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34.
E08191982 Soyuz T-7 is launched.
E08201930 Dumont's first TV Broadcast for home reception, NY city.
E08201955 First airplane to exceed 1800 mph - HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca.
E08201977 Voyager II launched.
E08211841 John Hampson patents the venetian blind.
E08211858 First Lincoln-Douglas debate.
E08211887 Mighty (Dan) Casey STRIKES OUT in a game with the N.Y. Giants!
E08211959 Hawaii becomes the 50th state.
E08211965 Gemini V is launched.
E08211968 Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
E08211982 Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut.
E08221485 Richard III slain at Bosworth Field - Last of the Plantagenets.
E08221787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fultons
E08221851 The yacht 'America' wins the first Royal Yacht Squadron Cup.
E08231617 The first one-way streets are established -- in London.
E08231869 First carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in San Francisco.
E08231872 First Japanese commercial ship visits San Francisco
E08231889 First ship-to-shore wireless message received in US.
E08231927 Sacco and Vanzetti executed.
E08231963 Beatles release "She Loves You."
E08241814 British sack Washington, DC, White House burned
E08241869 The Waffle Iron is invented.
E08241909 Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
E08241932 First transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, AE Putnam.
E08241949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established.
E08241956 First non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight.
E08241989 Voyager II  flies past Neptune.
E08251804 Alice Meynell becomes the first woman jockey, in England.
E08251825 Uruguay gains its independence.
E08251929 Graf Zeppelin passes over San Francisco, headed for Los Angeles
E08251944 Paris is liberated from Nazi occupation in WWII.
E08251981 Voyager II flies past Saturn.
E08261791 John Fitch granted a US patent for his working steamboat.
E08261846 W. A. Bartlett appointed first US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF.)
E08261907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 seconds.
E08261920 19th Amendment passes - Women's Suffrage granted.
E08261937 Pumping to build Treasure Island finished.
E08261939 First televised Major league baseball game - Reds vs Dodgers.
E08271859 First successful oil well drilled near Titusville, Penn.
E08271883 Krakatoa, WEST of Java, blew apart (Top that, Mt. St. Helens.)
E08271909 Jack Chesbro's final game as a Yankee.
E08271912 Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes Tarzan.
E08271928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war.
E08281565 St Augustine, Florida established.
E08281837 Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins manufacture Worcester Sauce.
E08281963 200,000 march on Washington, DC in Civil Rights protest.
E08281974 Soyuz 15 returns to Earth.
E08291885 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle.
E08291896 Chop suey introduced in New York (not in China.)
E08291954 San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens.
E08291965 Gemini V returns to Earth.
E08291967 The final television episode of "The Fugitive."
E08301961 First Black judge of a District Court confirmed - JB Parsons.
E08301983 Eighth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 3 is launched.
E08301984 Twelfth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 1 is launched.
E08311850 The California Pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets.
E08311886 Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized.
E08311895 John Brailier becomes the first "pro" football player.
E08311955 First microwave television station operated - Lufkin, Texas
E08311955 First sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Il.
E08311980 Solidarity Labor Union in Poland is founded.
* Celebrations
C0801     Confederation Day, celebrated in Switzerland.
C0801-5   The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
C0806     Independence Day, celebrated in Bolivia.
C0810     Independence Day, celebrated in Ecuador.
C0813     International Left-handers Day.
C0815     Independence Day, celebrated in the Congo.
C0815     Liberation Day, celebrated in South Korea.
C0817     Independence Day, celebrated in Indonesia.
C0819     Aviation Day.
C0825     Independence Day, celebrated in Uruguay.
C0829     "According to Hoyle" Day.