DP Tool Club 12/CD_ASCQ_12_0294.iso/vrac/fx2day12.zip/JAN.DAT

Text File | 1994-01-05 | 26KB | 514 lines

*Birthdays
B01011735 Paul Revere, US patriot. "The British are coming!"
B01011745 General Anthony Wayne, military leader ("Mad Anthony")
B01011752 Betsy Ross, flagmaker
B01011895 J. Edgar Hoover, Mr FBI
B01011900 Xavier Cugat, bandleader
B01011909 Barry Goldwater, U.S. Senator
B01011909 Dana Andrews, Actor
B01011909 John Glenn, astronaut
B01011911 Hank Greenberg - Detroit Tiger Hall of Famer
B01011919 Carole Landis
B01011919 J. D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye.'
B01021647 Nathaniel Bacon
B01021920 Isaac Asimov, Scientist/writer
B01021927 Rep Richard Belmont Ray, D-Ga
B0103 106 Cicero, Roman statesman
B01031793 Lucretia Coffin Mott, Woman's right leader
B01031840 Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii.
B01031883 Earl Clement Attlee, British statesman
B01031892 J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings.
B01031908 Ray Milland, Actor
B01031909 Victor Borge, pianist.
B01031916 Betty Furness in New York City
B01031918 Maxine Andrews of the singing Andrews Sisters.
B01031928 Jeanne Moreau in Paris France.
B01031939 Bobby Hull, hockey player
B01031947 Melanie (Safka) in Astoria Queens
B01031950 Victoria Principal, Actress
B01041643 Sir Isaac Newton, "inventor of gravity." (?)
B01041785 Jakob Grimm in Germany, Fairy tale writer
B01041809 Louis Braille, developed reading system for the blind.
B01041813 Sir Isaac Pitman, shorthand inventor
B01041838 Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person.)
B01041914 Jane Wyman, Actress
B01041914 The first Mrs Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman in St Joseph Missouri.
B01041930 Barbara Rush, in Denver Colorodo
B01041935 Floyd Patterson, boxer
B01041937 Dyan Cannon, Actress
B01041937 Dyan Cannon, Actress & Former Mrs. Cary Grant.
B0105     Sherlock Holmes, year unknown.  Later attended elementary school.
B01051779 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero.
B01051855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor.
B01051876 Konrad Adenauer, German Chancellor
B01051925 Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor of Wyoming
B01051928 Walter Mondale, Vice-President
B01051940 Dany Saval
B01051946 Diane Keaton, Actress
B01051954 Pamela Sue Martin in Connecticut
B01061412 Joan of Arc, martyr
B01061799 Jedediah Smith, Yosemite Calendar
B01061811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator.
B01061842 Clarence King, Yosemite Calendar
B01061878 Carl Sandburg, poet to the world.
B01061882 Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957.)
B01061914 Danny Thomas, Comedian/Entertainer
B01061920 Sun Myung Moon, Evangelist
B01061931 Loretta Young in Salt Lake City
B01061934 Sylvia Sims
B01061945 Bonnie Franklin, Actress
B01061957 Nancy Lopez, Golf pro.
B01071800 Millard Fillmore, 13th President from 1850 - 1853.
B01071948 Kenny Loggins, Singer
B01081786 Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US first effective central bank.
B01081862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co.
B01081868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity.
B01081904 Cartoonist Peter Arno
B01081926 Soupy Sales, Comedian
B01081935 Elvis Presley, singer, king.
B01081937 Shirley Bassey in Wales
B01081942 Yvette Mimieux in Hollywood Calif
B01081947 David Bowie, Singer/Actor
B010819?? Lauri Walter, Actress (8 is Enough)
B01091870 Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge.
B01091898 Gracie Fields
B01091901 Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip.
B01091902 Rudolph Bing, opera manager
B01091904 George Balanchine, dancer-choreographer
B01091913 Richard M. Nixon, 37th President from 1968 - 1974.
B01091941 Joan Baez, Folk Singer
B01091941 Susannah York, Actress
B01091951 Crystal Gale, Singer
B01091951 Rosalyn Kind, Singer
B01101738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys.)
B01101883 Florence Reed, Actress
B01101883 Francis X. Bushman, Actor
B01101887 Robinson Jeffers, poet
B01101904 Ray Bolger, Actor
B01101926 June Haver
B01101927 Gisele MacKenzie in Winnipeg Manitoba
B01101945 Rod Stewart, Singer
B01101953 Pat Benatar in Brooklyn, Hell is for Children
B01111755 Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the US Treasury.
B01111807 Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University.
B01111842 William James, Philospher
B01111926 Grant Tinker, Network Executive
B01121588 John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
B01121737 John Hancock, Signer of the Declaration of Independance
B01121876 Jack London, writer (Call of the Wild)
B01131808 Salmon P Chase, Chief Justice
B01131834 Horatio Alger Jr., author
B01131884 Sophie Tucker, entertainer
B01131913 Ralph Edwards, "This is Your Life" creator
B01131919 Robert Stack, actor
B01131925 Gwen Verdon, Actress/dancer
B01141741 Benedict Arnold, traitor and fink.
B01141875 Albert Schweitzer, doctor, humanitarian, organist
B01141892 Hal Roach, early film director and producer.
B01141919 Andy Rooney, humorist
B01141932 Catarina Valente in Paris France
B01141941 Faye Dunaway in Florida
B01141941 Faye Dunaway, Actress
B01151906 Aristotle Onassis, industrialist
B01151908 Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb.
B01151913 Lloyd Bridges, Actor
B01151918 Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian leader
B01151926 Chuck Berry, Singer
B01151926 Maria Schell in Vienna Austria - Space 1999
B01151929 Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer.
B01151937 Margaret O'Brien in San Diego Calif
B01151946 Janet Lennon in Culver City
B01151951 Charo in Spain
B01161909 Ethal Merman, Comedienne/Actress/Singer
B01161911 Dizzy Dean, baseball player
B01161924 Katy Jurado in Mexico
B01161934 Marilyn Horne in Pennsylvania
B01171706 Benjamin Franklin, author, poet, statesman, inventor.
B01171771 Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel.
B01171860 Anton Checkov in Russia, writer
B01171880 Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops
B01171924 Golden Girl Betty White in Oak Park Ill
B01171931 James Earl Jones, Actor
B01171933 Sheree North in Los Angeles
B01171934 Puppeteer Shari Lewis in Bronx NY
B01171942 Muhammed Ali, who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.
B01171949 Debbie Watson in Culver City California
B01181782 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician.
B01181854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Alexander Graham Bell.
B01181892 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.
B01181904 Cary Grant, Actor
B01181913 Danny Kaye, Comedian
B01181922 Constance Moore in Sioux City Iowa
B01191736 James Watt, made the steam engine workable.
B01191807 Robert E Lee, Confederate general
B01191809 Edgar Allen Poe, Writer/Poet
B01191813 Sir Henry Bessemer, engineer-inventor
B01191839 Paul Cezanne, painter.
B01191859 Alice Eastwood, Yosemite Calendar
B01191923 Jean Stapleton, Actress
B01191935 Tippi Hedren, Actress, (The Birds)
B01191943 Janis Joplin in Port Arthur Texas
B01191944 Shelly Fabraes in Santa Monica
B01191946 Dolly Parton, Singer/Actress
B01191947 Ann Compton, TV news reporter
B01191951 Linda Hayden
B01201891 Violinist Mischa Elman
B01201894 Harold L. Gray, creator of "Little Orphan Annie."
B01201896 George Burns, Comedian
B01201896 Nathan Birnbaum (better known as George Burns).
B01201926 Patricia Neal in Packard Kentucky
B01201930 Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin, Jr, astronaut
B01201937 Dorothy Provine in Deadwood SD
B01201937 Joan Rivers, Comedienne
B01211743 John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton.
B01211813 John C Fremont, mapmaker & explorer of Western US.
B01211815 Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia.
B01211824 General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, military leader
B01211924 Benny Hill, Comedian
B01211925 Telly Savalas, Actor
B01211940 Jack Nicklaus, golfer
B01211941 Placido Domingo, Operatic Tenor
B01221561 Francis Bacon, philosopher-essayist
B01221788 Lord Byron in England, poet
B01221909 Ann Sothern, voice of my mother the car
B01221909 U Thant, U.N. Official
B01221932 Piper Laurie in Detroit Michigan
B01221934 Bill Bixby, Actor
B01221937 Joseph Wambaugh, police writer
B01221959 Exorcist's Linda Blair in St Louis Mo
B01221959 Linda Blair, Actress
B01231737 John Hancock, Statesman, signer
B01231756 Wolfgang A. Mozart, musical prodigy.
B01231832 Edouard Manuet, French painter
B01231890 Humphrey Bogart, Actor
B01231903 Randolph Scott, actor
B01231933 Chita Rivera, Actress/singer/dancer
B01231943 Gil Gerard, Actor
B01231958 Princess Caroline of Monaco
B01241862 Novelist Edith Wharton, US
B01241888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built first rocket-powered aircraft.
B01241917 Ernst Borgnine, Actor
B01241918 Oral Roberts, Evangelist
B01241922 Ava Gardner
B01241925 Maria Tallchief in Fairfax Oklahoma
B01241941 Neil Diamond, Singer
B01241946 Barry Bostwick, Actor
B01241960 Nastassia Kinski in Berlin Germany
B01251759 Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.
B01251874 Somerset Maugham, poet.
B01251882 Virginia Woolf, author.
B01251919 Edwin Newman, Network News Correspondent
B01251934 Elizabeth Allen in New Jersey
B01251945 Leigh Taylor Young in Washington DC
B01261715 Claude Helvetius, French philosopher
B01261831 Mary Dodge, Writer  (`Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates')
B01261880 Gen. Douglas MacArthur. He did return!
B01261923 Anne Jeffereys in North Carolina
B01261925 Paul Newman, Actor, Racer, Popcorn mogul
B01261928 Eartha Kitt, Singer
B01261928 Roger Vadim, Film Director
B01261929 Jules Feiffer, Playwright
B01261935 Bob Uecker, Sports personality
B01261944 Angela Davis, Black activist
B01261961 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oiler's hockey player
B01271832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll.)
B01271850 Samuel Gompers, first president of the American Federation of Labor.
B01271885 Broadway composer Jerome Kern
B01271900 Admiral Hyman G Rickover, father of the modern nuclear navy
B01271918 Bandleader Skitch Henderson
B01271921 Donna Reed, Actress
B01271929 Ingrid Thulin in Sweden
B01271936 Troy Donahue, Actor
B01281855 William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine.
B01281887 Artur Rubinstein, pianist
B01281933 Susan Sontag, writer
B01281936 Alan Alda, Actor
B01281948 Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ballet Dancer
B012819?? Susan Howard in Marshall Texas
B01291737 Thomas Paine, Revolutionist
B01291756 Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee, cavalryman
B01291843 William McKinley, 25th President from 1897 - 1901.
B01291850 Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite.
B01291860 Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard.)
B01291874 John D Rockefeller Jr, financier
B01291880 Claude William Dukenfield (better known as WC Fields)
B01291901 Allen B DuMont, perfected first commercially practical Crt.
B01291915 Victor Mature, Actor
B01291918 John Forsythe, Actor
B01291939 Germaine Greer in Melbourne Australia
B01291942 Claudine Longet in France - Former Mrs. Andy Williams
B01291943 Katharine Ross in Hollywood California
B01291945 Tom Selleck, Actor
B01291951 Ann Jillian in Cambridge Mass
B01291953 Oprah Winfrey, Actress/TV Hostess
B01291958 Judy Norton-Taylor in Santa Monica, Calif of the Waltons
B01301882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President from 1933 - 1945.
B01301922 Barbara Hale in Dekalb Ill
B01301925 Dorothy Malone in Chicago, Illinois
B01301930 Gene Hackman, Actor
B01301935 Tammy Grimes, Actress
B01301937 Boris Spassky, Chess Player
B01301937 Vanessa Redgrave, Actress
B01301950 Victoria Principal, Actress
B01311797 Franz Shubert, composer
B01311830 James G. Blaine, the 'Plumed Knight.'
B01311872 Zane Gray, American West novelist.
B01311892 Eddie Cantor, comedian
B01311914 "Jersey Joe" Walcott, fighter
B01311919 Jackie Robinson, first black major league baseball player.
B01311923 Carol Channing, Actress
B01311923 Joanne Dru, Actress
B01311923 Norman Mailer, Writer
B01311929 Jean Simmons in London
B01311937 Suzanne Pleshette in New York City
B01311938 James Watt, Secretary Of Interior
B01311944 Jessica Walters in New York City
B01311957 Shirley Babashoff, US Olympic swimmer

* Events
E01011934 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation  takes effect.
E01011936 First newspaper to microfilm current issues, NY Herald Tribune
E01011948 First newsreel in color, Pasadena, Ca
E01011954 The Rose and Cotton Bowl are the first sport colorcasts
E01011958 European Economic Community (EEC) starts operation.
E01011962 Beatles Decca audition
E01011971 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV
E01011984 AT & T broken up into 8 companies.
E01021936 First electron tube described, St Louis, Mo
E01021942 Japanese occupied Manila
E01021942 Twenty-eight nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace
E01021955 President Jose Antonio Remon of Panama assassinated
E01021957 The San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.
E01021968 Christian Barnard performs the first successful heart transplant.
E01031521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church.
E01031777 Washington defeats British at Princeton, NJ.
E01031943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa.
E01031943 First missing persons telecast, NY city.
E01031946 William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) hanged in Britain, for treason.
E01031957 First electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pa
E01031958 Sir Edmund Hillary reached South Pole overland.
E01031973 George Steinbrenner III buys the Yankees from CBS for $12 million.
E01031977 Apple Computer incorporated.
E01041754 Columbia University opened.
E01041790 Pres Washington delivers the first "State of the Union" message.
E01041863 Four-wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of New York.
E01041896 Utah becomes the 45th state
E01041962 First subway train to run automatically (unmanned) - NY city.
E01051589 Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, died
E01051809 Treaty of Dardanelles was concluded between Britain and France
E01051850 The California Exchange opens.
E01051914 Henry Ford announces a minimum wage of $5 for an eight hour day.
E01051922 Sir Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, dies aboard his ship.
E01051925 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes first woman governor.
E01051933 Work on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge begins.
E01051964 Pope Paul VI visits Jordan and Israel.
E01061681 First recorded boxing match takes place in England.
E01061838 Samuel Morse makes first public demonstration of telegraph.
E01061884 Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk and heredity pioneer, dies.
E01061912 New Mexico becomes the 47th state.
E01061914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
E01061930 First diesel engine automobile trip completed
E01061936 Barbara Hanley becomes Canada's first woman mayor.
E01061941 "Four Freedoms" speech by FDR.
E01061942 First around the world flight by Pan Am "Pacific Clipper."
E01071610 Galileo discovers the 4 major moons of Jupiter.
E01071714 The typewriter is patented (it was built years later.)
E01071785 First balloon flight across the English Channel.
E01071789 First national presidental election - US.
E01071822 First printing in Hawaii.
E01071896 Fanny Farmer publishes her first cookbook.
E01071929 "Tarzan," one of the first adventure comic strips, appears.
E01071963 First Class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents.
E01071967 TV Show "The Newlywed Game" premieres.
E01071968 First Class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents.
E01081798 11th Amendment ratified, Judicial powers construed.
E01081880 The passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of Mexico.
E01081932 Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter.
E01081935 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy.
E01091788 Conneticut becomes the 5th state.
E01091793 First balloon flight in North America takes place in Philadelphia.
E01091799 First income tax imposed, in England.
E01091839 The daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science.
E01091847 First San Francisco paper, 'California Star', published.
E01091848 First commercial bank in San Francisco established.
E01091936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army.
E01091945 As he vowed, MacArthur returns to the Philippines.
E01091982 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855.
E01091982 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855.
E01101776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published.
E01101840 The Penny Post mail system is started.
E01101863 First underground railway opens in London.
E01101910 First international air meet is held in Los Angeles.
E01101920 League of Nations established.
E01101944 First mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia PA.
E01101945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close.
E01101946 First radar signal to moon, Belmar, NJ.
E01101949 The first Jewish family show - "The Goldbergs" premieres.
E01101951 First jet passenger trip made.
E01101964 "That Was The Week That Was" premieres.
E01101978 Russians' Soyuz 27 is launched.
E01110935 First woman to fly solo across Pacific left Honolulu, AE Putnam
E01111569 First lottery is held in England, at St. Paul's Cathedral.
E01111813 First pineapples planted in Hawaii.
E01111892 Hawaii Historical Society founded.
E01111935 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California.
E01111963 Beatles release "Please Please Me"  and "Ask Me Why."
E01111975 Russians' Soyuz 17 is launched.
E01111983 Billy Martin named Yankee manager for the 3rd time.
E01121922 Mrs. Hattie Caraway becomes first woman elected to U.S. Senate.
E01121945 US Navy destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea.
E01121971 Norman Lear's "All in the Family" premieres.
E01121986 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 is launched.
E01131906 First "radio set" advertised in Scientific American Price: $7.50.
E01131966 First black in presidental cabinet  Robert C Weaver.
E01131969 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album.
E01131971 Apollo 14 launched
E01131978 Yankee manager Joe McCarthy dies at 90
E01131985 Carol Wayne dies at age 42
E01141690 The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany.
E01141784 The Revolutionary War formally ends.
E01141914 Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars.
E01141936 L.M. "Mario" Giannini elected president of Bank of America.
E01141939 All commercial ferry service to the San Francisco East Bay ends.
E01141952 "Today" show premieres on NBC.
E01141969 Russians' Soyuz 4 is launched.
E01151861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis, forming his elevator company.
E01151870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly.
E01151927 Dunbarton Bridge, first bridge in S.F. Bay Area, opens.
E01151948 The Pentagon Building in Washington is completed.
E01151967 CBS and NBC both broadcast Super Bowl I.
E01151969 Russians' Soyuz 5 is launched.
E01151973 Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at the Vatican.
E01151974 "Happy Days" premieres.
E01151981 "Hill Street Blues" premieres.
E01161865 San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle started (San Francisco Chronicle.)
E01161920 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933.
E01161956 Egyptian President Nassar pledges to reconquer Palestine.
E01161978 Russians' Soyuz 27 returns to Earth.
E01171861 Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper.
E01171871 First Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie.
E01171893 The Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic.
E01171929 Popeye makes first appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theatre."
E01171943 It's Tin Can Drive Day -- an effort to conserve for the war.
E01171950 Great Brink's robbery in Boston, $28 million.
E01171977 Gary Gilmore executed in Utah, first since 1967.
E01181644 First UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston.
E01181777 San Jose, CA is founded.
E01181778 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.
E01181869 The elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco.
E01181913 Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole.
E01181919 Versailles Peace Conference.
E01181949 First US Congressional Committee headed by a black man - W Dawson.
E01181969 Russians' Soyuz 5 returns to Earth
E01181980 Barbara Britton dies
E01181986 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 returns to Earth.
E01191770 Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan.)
E01191886 The Aurora Ski Club, first in U.S., is founded in Minnesota.
E01191903 First regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England.
E01191955 "The Millionaire" TV program premieres.
E01201265 First English Parliament called into session by the Earl of Leicester.
E01201783 End of the Revolutionary War.
E01201872 California Stock Exchange Board organized.
E01201892 First basketball game played.
E01201953 First live coast-to-coast inauguration address.
E01201953 First telecast transmitted to Canada - from Buffalo NY.
E01201964 "Meet The Beatles" album released in US.
E01201981 The Iran hostages are freed after 444 days.
E01211813 The pineapple is introduced to Hawaii.
E01211908 NY City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public.
E01211954 First gas turbine automobile exhibited - NY city.
E01211954 Nautilus, first atomic powered submarine launched.
E01211967 Ann Sheridan dies at age 51
E01211979 Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer.)
E01221850 The Alta California becomes a daily paper, first such in Calif.
E01221901 Britain's Queen Victoria dies at age 82.
E01221943 The Battle of Anzio, Allies stopped on the beach.
E01221947 KTLA, Hollywood the first commercial TV station west of Mississippi.
E01221973 Supreme Court approves abortions.
E01231849 Mrs. Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first woman physician in U.S.
E01231909 First radio-assisted rescue at sea.
E01231964 24th Amendment ratified, Barred poll tax in federal elections.
E01231977 TV Mini-series "Roots" premieres.
E01231983 "The A-Team" (with Mr. T) premieres.
E01241848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California
E01241899 The rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan.
E01241922 Eskimo Pie invented in Iowa by Christian K. Nelson.
E01241935 First beer in cans placed on sale, Richmond, Va
E01241965 Sir Winston Churchill dies in England
E01241985 Fifteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 is launched.
E01241986 Voyager II flies past Uranus.
E01251915 Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
E01251949 First Emmy Awards are given out.
E01251949 First Israeli election.
E01251959 First transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301).
E01261788 First settlement established by the English in Australia.
E01261837 Michigan becomes the 26th state.
E01261841 Hong Kong is proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
E01261905 World's largest diamond found, the Cullinan diamond.
E01261926 Television is first demonstrated by J.L. Baird in London.
E01261950 India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion
E01261954 Ground breaking for Disneyland, the Magic Kingdom, in Anaheim.
E01261961 First woman `personal physician to the President' - JG Travell.
E01261976 Israel opens the "Good Fence" to Lebanon.
E01261979 Nelson Rockefeller former VP and 4 time governor of NY dies.
E01271870 Kappa Alpha Theta, first sorority, founded at DePauw University
E01271880 Thomas Edison granted patent for an electric incandescent lamp
E01271888 National Geographic Society founded in Washington, DC
E01271948 First tape recorder is sold.
E01271948 First locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds operated.
E01271964 "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US
E01271973 End of the military draft.
E01271973 US and North Vietnam sign a cease-fire agreement.
E01281878 Yale Daily News published, first college daily newspaper.
E01281915 US Coast Guard established.
E01281932 First US state unemployment insurance act enacted - Wisconsin
E01281938 First Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont).
E01281953 J. Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins the "Today" show.
E01281956 Elvis Presley's first TV appearance (Dorsey Bros Stage Show)
E01281958 Construction began on first private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor.
E01281960 First photograph bounced off moon.
E01281986 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, killing crew of seven
E01291845 Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" first published in New York.
E01291861 Kansas becomes the 34th state
E01291904 First athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team.
E01291955 William Cox buys Yankee Stadium.
E01291958 Charles Starkweather captured by police in Wyoming.
E01301847 Town of Yerba Buena is renamed San Francisco.
E01301862 US Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched.
E01301917 First jazz record in United States is cut.
E01301933 Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor.
E01301958 First 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Texas
E01311851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, first in California, founded.
E01311928 Scotch tape first marketed by 3-M Company.
E01311950 President Truman authorizes production of the H-Bomb.
E01311958 First U.S. satellite launched, Explorer I.
E01311961 Ham, the chimp, is first animal sent into space by the US.
E01311971 Apollo 14 launched, first landing in lunar highlands.
* Celebrations
C0101     Independence Day, celebrated in Haiti and Sudan
C0101     Mummers' Parade in Philadelphia, Pa
C0101     The start of a new year... Enjoy the bowl games.
C0101     Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, Calif
C0101     National Egg Month
C0102     Betsy Ross Day
C0104     National Trivia Day.
C0106     Feast of the Epiphany  (Twelfth Night in England)
C0108     Last day a ball club can re-sign their own free agent until May 1
C0115-1   Martin Luther King Day
C0116-1   Martin Luther King Day
C0116     National Nothing Day
C0116     National Hat Day
C0117-1   Martin Luther King Day
C0118-1   Martin Luther King Day
C0118     National Clean Off Your Desk Day
C0119-1   Martin Luther King Day
C0120     Reindeer Day.
C0120-1   Martin Luther King Day
C0121-1   Martin Luther King Day
C0121     National Hugging Day
C0123     National Handwriting Day.
C0125     The start of the Chinese New Year.
C0126     Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia.