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*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B09011875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist, Ah-ee-ah-ee-ah!
B09021838 Queen Liliuokalani (last queen of Hawaii).
B09021853 Wilhelm Ostwald, German physical chemist (Nobel 1909)
B09021866 Hiram Johnson, Calif governor, Progressive.
B09021952 Jimmy Connors, tennis brat
B09031856 Louis Sullivan, father of modern US architecture.
B09041824 Anton Bruckner, Wagner disciple
B09051902 Darryl F. Zanuck, Hollywood producer & motion picture executive
B09061766 John Dalton, developed the atomic theory of matter
B09061811 James Melville Gilliss, founded Naval Observatory in Washington
B09071533 Queen Elizabeth I
B09071860 Grandma Moses
B09071914 James Van Allen, discovered Van Allen radiation belts.
B09081157 King Richard I of England, "The Lionhearted", crusader,
B09081841 Anton Dvorak, composer
B09081922 Sid Caesar, comedian
B09081925 Peter Sellers, (not now, Kato)
B09091754 William Bligh, nasty ship's captain
B09091789 William Cranch Bond, American astronomer, codiscover of Hyperion
B09101934 Charles Kuralt, "On the road..." for CBS.
B09111862 O Henry, pen name of William Sidney Porter, short story writer.
B09111885 D.H. Lawrence, Taos pioneer
B09111913 Bear Bryant, keeps the Crimson Tide winning...
B09121818 Richard Jordan Gatling, US inventor of hand-cranked machine gun
B09121880 H.L. Mencken, Baltimore's son.
B09121888 Maurice Chevalier, thanked heaven for little girls.
B09121902 Margaret Hamilton, "Wicked Witch of the West"
B09121913 Jesse Owens, spoiled Hitler's Olympic plans in 1936.
B09131755 Oliver Evans, pioneered the high-pressure steam engine.
B09131851 Walter Reed, who proved mosquitos transmit yellow fever.
B09131857 Milton S. Hershey, US chocolate manufacturer, philanthropist
B09131860 Gen. John J. (Blackjack) Pershing, US commander in World War I
B09131938 Judith Martin, Miss Manners
B09131946 Jacqueline Bisset in England, actress (The Deep)
B09141849 Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, pioneer in psychology
B09141864 Lord Cecil of Chelwood, helped form League of Nations, Nobel 1937
B09141867 Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew the "Gibson Girl"
B09141883 Margaret Sanger, feminist.
B09141905 Clayton Moore, (Lone Ranger)
B09151789 James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major American novelist.
B09151857 William Howard Taft, 27th President (1909-1913)
B09151881 Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, car builder
B09151890 Dame Agatha Christie
B09151894 Jean Renoir, cineaste.
B09161822 Charles S. Crocker, of Southern Pacific fame.
B09161914 Allen Funt "Candid Camera" creator
B09161924 Lauren Bacall, whistler.
B09161925 B.B. King, singer, musician
B09171271 Wenceslas II, king of Bohemia & Poland (1278-1305)
B09171730 Baron Frederick von Steuben, made the Continental Army winners.
B09171928 Roddy McDowall, actor (Planet of the Apes)
B09171930 Edgar Dean Mitchell, astronaut (Apollo 14)
B09171930 Thomas P Stafford, astronaut (Gemini 6, 9, Apollo 10)
B09181709 Samuel Johnson, Boswell's tour guide.
B09181819 Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault; his pendulum proved earth rotates
B09181905 Claudette Colbert, in Paris, (Cleopatra)
B09181905 Greta Garbo, in Stockholm (Ninotchka, Blue Angel)
B09191655 Jan Luyts, Dutch scholar, physicist, mathematician, astronomer
B09201878 Upton Sinclair
B09201934 Sophia Loren, Rome (Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid)
B09211756 John Loudon McAdam, created macadam road surface (asphalt)
B09211866 H.G. Wells, futurist.
B09211874 Gustav Holst, composer of 'The Planets'
B09211947 Stephen King, suspense writer (Shining, Kujo)
B09221791 Michael Faraday, discovered principle of the electric motor.
B09221885 Erich von Stroheim, early film director
B09231852 William Stewart Halsted, established 1st surgical school in US
B09231926 John Coltrane, saxophonist
B09231930 Ray Charles
B09241870 Georges Claude, inventor of the neon light.
B09241936 Jim Hensen, who made Kermit & Miss Piggy what they are today.
B09251725 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built 1st automobile.
B09251897 William Faulkner, American author
B09261774 John Chapman, alias Johnny Appleseed
B09261888 T.S. Eliot, Anglican
B09261898 George Gershwin
B09271722 Samuel Adams, revolutionary rabble rouser
B09271840 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America.
B09281902 Ed Sullivan TV variety show host
B09281909 Al Capp, put Dogpatch, USA on the map
B09281925 Seymour Cray, inventor of Cray I computer
B09281934 Brigette Bardot, cute
B09281952 Sylvia Kristel, in Holland, (Emmanuelle)
B09291901 Enrico Fermi, physicist, gone fission.
B09291912 Gene Autry, cowpoke.
B09291943 Lech Walesa, leader of Polish Solidarity movement (Nobel 1983)
B09301924 Truman Capote, a short short story writer.
*mmddyyyy Events
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S09011807 Aaron Burr aquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire.
S09011878 1st woman telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston).
S09011939 Germany invades Poland, starts World War II.
S0901 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
S09021620 The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth with 102 Pilgrims.
S09021789 US Treasury Department established by Congress.
S09021859 gas lighting introduced to Hawaii.
S09021898 Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
S09021945 V-J Day; Japan formally surrenders aboard the USS Missouri.
S09021945 Vietnam declares independence from France (National Day)
S0902 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
S09031783 Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War, is signed.
S09031935 First automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell
S09031939 England declares war on Germany.
S0903 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
S09041781 Los Angeles founded in the Valley of Smokes (Indian Name)
S09041833 the 1st newsboy in the US hired (Barney Flaherty), by the NY Sun.
S09041888 George Eastman patents 1st rollfilm camera & registers "Kodak".
S0904 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
S09051781 Battle of Virginia Capes, where the French Fleet defeats the
S09051781CBritish rescue fleet, trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown.
S09051885 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer.
S09051977 Voyager II launched.
S0905 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
S09061716 1st lighthouse in US built, in Boston.
S09061966 Star Trek appears on TV for the first time (on NBC)
S0906 the National Holiday of Swaziland.
S0906 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
S0907 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
S0907 Independence Day, celebrated in Brazil.
S09081380 Russians defeat Tatars at Kulikovo, beginning decline of Tatars.
S09081565 Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St. John.
S09081565 1st permanent settlement in US founded at St Augustine, Florida
S09081858 Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people.
S09081920 1st US Air Mail service begins.
S0908 International Literacy Day
S09091776 Continental Congress authorizes the name "United States".
S09091850 California becomes the 31st state.
S09091926 NBC created by the Radio Corporation of America.
S09091942 First bombing of the continental US, at Mount Emily Oregon
S09091942Cby a Japanese plane launched from a submarine.
S09091967 First successful test flight of a Saturn V rocket.
S09091975 Viking 2 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing.
S09091982 "Conestoga I", 1st private rocket, is launched.
S09091990 Bush, Gorbachev meet at Helsinki to discuss Iraq invasion of Kuwait.
S09101608 John Smith elected president of the Jamestown colony council.
S09101846 Elias Howe receives patent for his sewing machine.
S09101913 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway.
S09101953 Swanson sells it's first "TV Dinner".
S09101955 "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS television.
S09111777 Battle of Brandywine, PA - Americans lose to British.
S09111814 Battle of Lake Champlain, NY - British lose to Americans
S09111850 Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale", makes first US concert.
S09111853 1st electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos.
S09111936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
S09111944 FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at the second Quebec Conference
S09111946 First mobile long-distance, car-to-car telephone conversation.
S09111947 US Department of Defense is formed.
S09111950 First typesetting machine without metal type is exhibited.
S09111954 First Miss America TV broadcast
S09111967 US Surveyor 5 makes first chemical analysis of lunar material.
S09111985 Pete Rose, Cincinnati Reds, gets hit 4,192 - eclipsing Ty Cobb.
S0912 490 BC Athenians defeat 2nd Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon.
S09121609 Henry Hudson discovers what is now called the Hudson River.
S09121758 Charles Messier observes the Crab Nebula and begins catalog.
S09121941 First German ship in WW II is captured by US ship (Busko)
S09121953 Khrushchev becomes First Secretary of the Communist Party
S09121959 Bonanza, horse opera, premiers on television
S09121959 Luna 1 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on the moon.
S09121966 Gemini XI launched
S09121970 Luna 16 launched; returns samples from Mare Fecunditatis
S09121974 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia overthrown.
S09131788 New York City becomes the capitol of the United States.
S09131959 Soviet Lunik 2 becomes 1st human-made object to crash on moon.
S09131963 The Outer Limits premiers
S0913 6Friday the 13th!
S09141716 1st lighthouse in US is lit (in Boston Harbor).
S09141814 Francis Scott Key inspired to write 'The Star-Spangled Banner'.
S09141886 the typewriter ribbon is patented.
S09141899 While in New York, Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality
S09141940 Congress passes 1st peace time draft law.
S09141956 First prefrontal lobotomy performed in Washington DC. Common now.
S09141964 Walt Disney awarded the Medal of Freedom at the White House
S09141968 USSR's Zond 5 is launched on first circum lunar flight
S09141974 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter.
S09151821 Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatamala, Honduras & Nicaragua all
S09151821Cgain their independence.
S09151937 WPA extends the L-Taraval streetcar to the Zoo (at Sloat Blvd).
S0915 Independence Day, for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatamala,
S0915 CHonduras and Nicaragua.
S0915 Felt Hat Day, when men of fashion put away their straw hats.
S09161620 the Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims.
S09161782 Great Seal of the United States is used for 1st time.
S09161857 Patent is issued for the typesetting machine.
S09161919 the American Legion is incorporated.
S09161945 Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)
S09161968 Richard Nixon appears on Laugh-in
S09161972 First TV series about mixed marriage - Bridgit Loves Bernie.
S09161974 Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for Vietnam deserters
S09161975 Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.
S0916 Independence Day, celebrated in Mexico.
S09171787 US Constitution is adopted.
S09171789 William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn
S09171819 1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii.
S09171978 Begin, Sadat and Carter sign the Camp David accord.
S09171985 Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
S0917 Constitution Day
S09181810 Chile gains it's independence.
S09181851 "The New York Times" goes on sale, at 2 cents a copy.
S09181882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as the Local Security Board).
S09181927 the Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
S0918 Independence Day, celebrated in Chile.
S0918 the start of the Jewish New Year.
S09191796 George Washington's presidential farewell address
S09191812 Napoleon's retreat from Russia begins
S09191848 Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion
S09191849 First commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California.
S09191873 Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co. fails, causing a securities panic
S09201519 Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of the world.
S09201797 US frigate "Constitution" (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston.
S09201859 Patent granted on the electric range.
S09201945 German rocket engineers begin work in US
S09201951 First North Pole jet crossing
S09201954 First FORTRAN computer program is run
S09201970 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
S09211784 1st daily newspaper in US begins publication in Pennsylvania.
S09211895 1st auto manufacturer opens -- Duryea Motor Wagon Company.
S09211930 Johann Ostermeyer patents his invention, the flashbulb.
S09211954 the nuclear submarine "Nautilus" is commissioned.
S09211981 Sandra Day O'Conner becomes the 1st female Supreme Court Justice
S09221789 the US Post Office was established.
S09221863 President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech.
S09221893 1st auto built in US runs in Springfield (built by Duryea brothers)
S09221903 Patent is granted for the Ice Cream Cone.
S09221980 War between Iran and Iraq begins, lasts eight years. No winner.
S0922 the Autumn Harvest Festival in Wheaton, Illinois.
S09231780 John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point.
S09231779 Naval engagement between 'Bonhomme Richard' and 'HMS Serepis'.
S09231912 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie is released.
S09231952 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event.
S0923 the first day of Fall.
S09241789 Congress creates the Post Office.
S09241845 1st baseball team is organized.
S09241852 a new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated.
S09241853 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt).
S09241869 Black Friday: crashing gold prices causes stock market panic.
S09241895 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months).
S09241954 "The Tonight Show" premieres.
S09241960 1st atomic powered aircraft carrier, the "Enterprise", is launched.
S09241963 Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing
S09241979 CompuServe system starts, first public computer info service.
S09251513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa is the 1st European to see the Pacific Ocean.
S09251789 Congress proposes the Bill of Rights.
S09251890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park.
S09251926 Henry Ford announces the five day work week
S09251956 First transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation
S09251973 3-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown after 59 days.
S09261542 Cabrillo discovers California.
S09261824 Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) and lives.
S09261914 Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
S09261824 Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) and lives.
S09261950 UN troops in Korean War recaptured South Korean capital of Seoul
S09261966 Japan launches its 1st satellite in to space
S09261966 The Staten Island is 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay
S09261983 Australia II wins The America's Cup yacht race
S09261983 Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
S09271787 Constitution submitted to the states for ratification
S09271825 Railroad transportation is born with 1st track in England.
S09271964 Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
S09271973 Soyuz 12 launched
S09281542 Juan Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay.
S09281781 Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the the Revolutionary War.
S09281965 Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
S09281970 Anwar Sadat replaces Nassar as President of Egypt
S0928 Confucius' Birthday, celebrated in the Republic of China (Taiwan).
S09291977 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into earth orbit
S09291989 Hurricane Hugo strikes S. Carolina.
S0929 Michaelmas (Feast of St Michael), quarter day in medieval England
S09301452 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible
S09301659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
S09301781 siege of Yorktown begins
S09301846 1st tooth extraction under anesthetics, in Charlestown, Mass.
S09301880 Henry Draper takes the first photograph of the Orion Nebula
S09301898 City of New York is established