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*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B02011901 Clark Gable, didn't give a damn about Scarlet O'Hara.
B02021754 Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat.
B02031811 Horace Greeley, told young men to go west
B02031821 Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman to get MD from a US Medical school.
B02031874 Gertrude Stein, beloved by Hemmingway.
B02041902 Charles A. Lindburgh, 'Lucky Lindy'
B02051840 John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire.
B02051878 Andre-Gustave Citroen, French automaker
B02061756 Aaron Burr
B02061885 George Herman Ruth ('Babe Ruth').
B02061911 Ronald Reagan, 40th President (1981- )
B02071804 John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements.
B02071812 Charles Dickens
B02071817 Frederick Douglas, 1st black to hold high rank in US government
B02071883 Eubie Blake, composer
B02081820 William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general.
B02081828 Jules Verne, pioneered what later became science fiction.
B02081906 Chester F. Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing)
B02081925 Jack Lemmon
B02091773 William Henry Harrison, 9th President (March 4-April 4, 1841)
B02111847 Thomas Alva Edison, who lit up your life
B02121802 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President (1861-1865)
B02121809 Charles Darwin
B02121893 General of the Army Omar Bradley, 'The GI General'
B02131805 David Dudley Field, lawyer whose advocacy of law codification
B02131805Chad international effects.
B02131885 Bess Truman, married to President Harry Truman
B02141894 Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny. Oh, Rochester!
B02151564 Galileo Galilei
B02151797 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker
B02151803 John Augustus Sutter
B02161884 Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film.
B02171844 A. Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business.
B02181745 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented
B02181745Cthe electric battery.
B02181848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker
B02191473 Nicolaus Copernicus
B02201902 Ansel Adams, knows how to handle a camera.
B02221732 George Washington, Father figure for US, President (1789-1796)
B02221749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist & 1st biographer of Bach
B02231685 George Frideric Handel, Baroque composer
B02241885 Admiral Chester Nimitz, in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII.
B02241955 Steven Jobs, Apple co-founder.
B02251873 Enrico Caruso, singer
B02251888 John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State for President Eisenhower
B02261846 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
B02261852 John Harvey Kellogg, physician, inspired the flaked cereal industry.
B02261866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry
B02271902 John Steinbeck
B02271934 Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan
B02291860 Herman Hollerith, invented 1st electric tabulating machine.
*mmddyyyy Events
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S02011867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days.
S02011920 the 1st armored car is introduced.
S02021848 Mexico sells US Texas, California, New Mexico & Arizona.
S02021876 National Baseball League formed with 8 teams.
S02021880 SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st successful shipment
S02021880Cof frozen mutton from Australia.
S02021962 8 of the 9 planets aligned for the 1st time in 400 years.
S0202 Groundhog Day
S02041948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence.
S0204 Independence Day, celebrated in Sri Lanka.
S0206 New Zealand Day, celebrated in (where else?) New Zealand
S02081693 Charter granted for College of William & Mary, 2nd college in US.
S02081883 Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen.
S02081908 Boy Scouts of America founded.
S02081922 Radio arrives in the White House.
S02091877 U.S. Weather Service is founded.
S02091969 the Boeing 747 takes it's 1st commercial flight.
S02101992 U.S. starts massive airlift of food/medicine to CIS from the Rheine
S02101992C Main airport in Germany, once used to break USSR blockaid of Berlin.
S02111929 Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome.
S02121541 Santiago, Chile founded.
S02121934 Export-Import Bank incorporated.
S02131937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical
S02131937Cdetail and fine detail drawing. Thanks Hal.
S02141876 Bell files an application for a patent for the telephone.
S0214 St. Valentine's Day
S02151861 Fort Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired it's
S02151861Ccannon in anger).
S02151898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown.
S0215 2Presidents' Day
S02161883 Ladies Home Journal begins publication.
S02161923 Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun.
S0216 2Presidents' Day
S02171876 Sardines were 1st canned, in Eastport, Maine.
S0217 2Presidents' Day
S0218 2Presidents' Day
S0218 National Bun Day -- Iceland
S02191878 Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph.
S02191945 Marines land on Iwo Jima.
S02191977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose").
S0219 2Presidents' Day
S02201962 John Glenn is 1st American to orbit the Earth.
S0220 2Presidents' Day
S02211804 1st self-propelled locomotive on rails demonstrated, in Wales.
S02211878 First Telephone book is issued, in New Haven, Conn.
S0221 2Presidents' Day
S02221900 Hawaii becomes a US Territory.
S0223 F.W. Woolworth opens the 1st '5 & 10', in Utica, NY.
S02241942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German).
S02241991 U.S., Coalition forces invade Iraq/Kuwait in the "100-hour" battle,
S02241991C successfully driving Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Thousands surrender.
S02251919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon).
S02261863 President Lincoln signs the National Currency Act.
S02271844 Dominican Republic gains it's independence.
S0227 Independence Day, celebrated in the Dominican Republic
S02281883 1st vaudeville theater opens.
S02281956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory.
S0229 a LEAP Year!