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*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B04011883 Lon Chaney, man of a thousand faces
B0402 742 Emperor Charlemagne
B04021875 Walter Chrysler, founded a car company.
B04021914 Sir Alec Guiness, thespian
B04021920 Jack Webb, dum-de-dum-dum
B04021924 Doris Day, girl next door
B04031924 Marlon Brando, godfather
B04041792 Thaddeus Stevens
B04041802 Dorothea Dix, social reformer
B04051856 Booker T. Washington
B04051908 Bette Davis
B04051954 Michael W. Butler, creator of this TODAY program.
B04061810 Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium
B04061866 Lincoln Steffens, muckraker.
B04061890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer
B04061892 Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company.
B04061892 Lowell Thomas, journalist
B04071860 W.K. Kellogg, founded the cereal company.
B04071915 Billie Holiday, blues singer
B04071932 Mark Russell, satirist
B04081889 Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
B04091830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion in photography.
B04091865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz
B04091879 W.C. Fields, Philadelphian
B04091919 John Presper Eckert, co-inventor of 1st electronic computer (ENIAC)
B04121777 Henry Clay, 'The Great Compromiser'
B04121791 Francis P. Blair, helped found the Republican Party.
B04121913 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader & vibraphone improvisor
B04131721 John Hanson, 1st US President under the Articles of Confederation
B04131743 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President (1801-1809)
B04131852 F.W. Woolworth, the "five-and-ten" king.
B04141889 Arnold Toynbee, historian
B04151452 Leonardo da Vinci, factotum
B04151707 Leonhard Euler, mathematician
B04161867 Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame
B04161889 Charlie Chaplin, tramp
B04161947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tall person
B04171837 J.P. Morgan, financed the US.
B04171897 Thornton Wilder, American novelist
B04181857 Clarence Darrow, lawyer
B04191877 Ole Evinrude, invented the outboard marine engine.
B04201889 Adolph Hitler, Fascist Dictator
B04211926 Queen Elizabeth II
B04211838 John Muir, naturalist.
B04221904 J. Robert Oppenheimer.
B04231564 William Shakespeare, bard
B04231791 James Buchanan, 15th President (1857-1861)
B04231813 Stephen Douglas, the "Little Giant", debated Lincoln
B04231928 Shirley Temple, child
B04241620 John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of demography
B04241942 Barbra Streisand, profile
B04251874 Guglielmo Marconi, made radio possible
B04251908 Edward R. Murrow, set the standard for TV correspondents.
B04261785 John James Audubon, birdwatcher
B04261900 Charles Richter, he tells us how bad the quakes are.
B04271791 Samuel F. B. Morse
B04271822 Ulyssses S. Grant, 18th President (1869-1877)
B04271896 Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon.
B04281758 James Monroe, 5th President (1816-1824)
B04291830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels...
B04291863 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner)
B04291899 Duke Ellington
B04301777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematician of all time.
B04301912 Eve Arden, Our Miss Brooks
*mmddyyyy Events
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S04011778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans Businessman, creates the "$".
S04011960 TIROS I (Television & Infra-Red Observation Satellite) launched
S04011960Cto improve weather prediction.
S0401 1Daylight Savings Time begins.
S0401 April Fool's Day
S04021792 Congress establishes Coin denominations of United States.
S04021935 Watson Watt granted a patent for RADAR.
S0402 1Daylight Savings Time begins.
S0402 International Children's Book Day
S04041860 Pony Express begins service, from St. Joseph, Missouri.
S0403 1Daylight Savings Time begins.
S0404 1Daylight Savings Time begins.
S04051614 Pocahontas marries John Rolfe.
S0405 1Daylight Savings Time begins.
S04061862 Battle of Shiloh.
S04061868 Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife.
S04061906 first animated cartoon is copyrighted.
S04061926 4 planes take off on 1st successful around-the-world flight.
S04061957 New York City ends trolley car service.
S0406 1Daylight Savings Time begins.
S04071933 Prohibition ends.
S04071948 World Health Organization is established.
0407 1Daylight Savings Time begins.
S04081513 Ponce de Leon arrives in Florida.
S04081913 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified
S04081974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record.
S0408 Kambutsue, celebration of Buddha's birthday, in Japan
S04091865 Lee surrenders at Appomattox.
S04091953 TV Guide publishes their first issue.
S04091955 United Nations Charter hearing.
S04101825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens.
S04101849 Safety pin patented.
S04101953 House of Wax, first 3-D movie, released in New York.
S04111876 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized.
S0411 Barber Shop Quartet Day
S04121861 Fort Sumter, S. C., shelled by Confederacy, starts Civil War.
S04121961 Yuri A. Gagarin becomes 1st man to orbit Earth.
S04121981 1st launch of the space shuttle, Columbia.
S04131976 $2 bill re-introduced as United States currency.
S04141828 1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.
S04141860 1st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri.
S04141865 Abraham Lincoln assasinated in Ford's Theater.
S04151850 City of San Francisco incorporated.
S04151912 Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM.
S04151923 insulin becomes generally available for diabetics.
S04151955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants.
R0415 Income Taxes are due today. Keep the IRS happy...
S04171524 New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.
S04171895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95).
S04171941 Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing)
S04171961 Bay of Pigs, invasion.
S04181775 'The British are Coming!' Paul Revere rides.
S04181906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
S04181934 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) is opened, in Fort Worth, Texas
S04191775 at Lexington Common, the shot 'heard round the world'.
S04191892 Charles Duryea takes the 1st American-made auto out for a spin.
S04191939 Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights (only 148 years late)
S0419 Patriot's Day
S04211862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorado.
S0422 Earth Day
S0423 National Secretary Day
S04241800 Library of Congress founded.
S04241865 Fire Alarm & Police Telegraph system put into operation.
S0424 Arbor Day. Plant a tree.
S04251901 New York becomes 1st state requiring license plates for cars
S04251945 United Nations Conference starts.
S04251961 Robert Noyce granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
S04261607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va.
S04261954 nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio begins.
S04271565 1st Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City, founded.
S04271897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) is dedicated.
S04271937 US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment.
S04271945 founding of the Second Republic, in Austria.
S0427 Union Day, celebrated in Tanzania.
S04281754 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurs.
S04281919 1st successful parachute jump is made.
S04281974 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon.
S04291913 the all-purpose zipper is patented.
S0429 the Emperor's Birthday, celebrated in Japan.
S04301789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of the US
S04301798 Department of the Navy established.
S04301803 US more than doubles its size thru the Louisiana Purchase.
S04301939 NBC makes 1st US demo of TV at opening of NY World's Fair.