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- 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.
- S08011291 Everlasting League forms, the basis of the Swiss Confederation
- S08011790 First U.S. Census
- S08011794 Whisky Rebellion
- S08011852 Black Methodists establish 1st black SF church, Zion Methodist
- S08011901 Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited.
- S08011946 President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission.
- S08011953 California introduces its Sales Tax (for Education).
- S08011958 First Class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years
- S0801 6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
- S0801 Confederation Day, celebrated in Switzerland
- B08021986 Me! Do programs have life?
- S08021873 1st trial run of an SF cable car, on Clay Street between Kearny and Jones, downhill all the way, at 4AM.
- S08021877 San Francisco Public Library opens with 5000 volumes.
- S08021990 Saddam Hussein of Iraq invades neighboring Kuwait in the first act of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
- B08031811 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the safe elevator.
- S08031492 Columbus sets sail for 'the Indies'.
- B08031924 Leon Uris, writer (Exodus, QB VII)
- B08031926 Tony Bennett singer, left his heart in San Francisco
- B08041755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, invented the modern pencil.
- S08041693 Champagne is invented by Dom Perignon.
- B08041790 The United States Coast Guard, Semper Paratus
- B08041792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet
- B08051930 Neil Armstrong, X-15 pilot, the first man on the moon
- S08051775 The 1st Spanish ship, 'San Carlos', enters San Francisco bay.
- S08051861 US levies its first Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800).
- S08051864 Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati
- S08051963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed.
- B08061809 Lord Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate of England.
- B08061881 Alexander Fleming, cashed in on others' discovery of penicillin.
- S08061835 Bolivia gains its independence
- S08061926 The first woman swims the English Channel.
- S08061945 The first Atom Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by the 'Enola Gay'.
- B08061911 Lucille Ball, comedian, actress, "I Love Lucy"
- B08061917 Robert Mitchum, actor, "Heaven Knows Mr. Allison"
- B08061921 Ella Raines, actress
- S0806 Independence Day, celebrated in Bolivia.
- B08071783 John Heathcoat, invented lace-making machinery
- B08071886 Louis Alan Hazeltine, invented the neutrodyne circuit, making commercial radio possible.
- S08071807 1st servicable steamboat, the Cleremont, goes on 1st voyage.
- B08071942 Garrison Keillor, teller of tall tales
- B08071903 Louis Leakey, anthropologist
- B08071779 Carl Ritter, cofounder of modern science of geography
- B08081763 Charles Bullfinch, 1st US professional architect
- B08081922 Rudi Gernreich, designed the topless swimsuit & the miniskirt
- B08081923 Esther Williams, actress, swimmer in Inglewood Cal
- B08081902 Paul Dirac, British theoretical physicist
- B08081879 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader
- B08081930 Andy Warhol, artist, movie producer
- B08081948 Svetlana Y. Savitskaya, 2nd woman in space (Soyuz T-7, T-12)
- B08091930 Betty Boop, koo-koo-chee-koo
- B08091776 Amedeo Avogadro, Italian physicist (6.022 x 10 ^ 23)
- B08091593 Izaac Walton, fisherman, writer (Compleat Angler)
- S08091842 The US-Canada border defined by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
- S08091945 The 2nd Atom Bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
- S08091974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency.
- B08101874 Herbert Hoover, 31st President (1929-1933)
- S08101809 Ecuador gains its independence.
- S08101981 Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's record of 3630 hits.
- S0810 Independence Day, celebrated in Ecuador
- S0811 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
- S0811 Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
- S08111877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Deimos
- S08111929 Babe Ruth hits his 500th homer
- S08111933 Temp. hits 58°C (136°F) at San Luis Potosí, Mex. (world record)
- B08111902 Lloyd Nolan, actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place)
- B08111921 Alex Haley, American author (Roots)
- B08111950 Steve Wozniak, cofounded Apple Computer
- S0812 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
- S0812 Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
- B08121881 Cecil B. deMille, directed God.
- B08121911 Mario Moreno, alias Cantinflas.
- S08121851 Issac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine.
- S08121898 The peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
- S08121915 `Of Human Bondage,' by William Somerset Maugham, published.
- S08121934 Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand
- S0813 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
- S0813 Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
- B08131655 Johann Christoph Denner, invented the clarinet.
- S08131642 Christiaan Huygens discovers the Martian south polar cap
- B08131818 Lucy Stone, pioneer in Woman's Rights.
- B08131860 Annie Oakley, straight shooter.
- S08131961 Berlin Wall erected in East Germany
- S08131876 Reciprocity Treaty between US and Hawaii ratified.
- S0813 International Left-handers Day
- S0814 410 Alaric sacks Rome, he really was a Vandal.
- S08141457 Oldest exactly dated printed book (c. 3 years after Gutenberg)
- S08141848 Oregon Territory created
- S08141935 Social Security Act became law
- S08141941 Atlantic Charter signed by FDR & Churchill
- S08141846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance.
- S08141945 VJ Day - Japan surrendered to end World War II.
- S08141966 First US lunar orbiter does it.
- B08151769 Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba
- B08151803 Sir James Douglas, father of British Columbia.
- B08151912 Julia Child, chef.
- S08151901 Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitrogelatin (and that ain't jello).
- S08151945 Riot in San Francisco celebrating end of World War II.
- S08151945 South Korea liberated from Japanese rule.
- S08151960 The Congo (Brazzaville) gains its independence.
- S0815 Independence Day, celebrated in the Congo.
- S0815 Liberation Day, celebrated in South Korea.
- S0816 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
- B08161884 Hugo Gernsback, responsible for Science Fiction becoming an independent literary form.
- B08161892 Harold Foster, cartoonist, created "Prince Valiant", known for its fine drawing and historical detail.
- S08161969 Woodstock festival begins in New York.
- S08161970 Venera 7 launched by USSR for soft landing on Venus
- S08161863 Emancipation Proclamation signed
- S0817 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
- B08171786 Davy Crockett, grinned down bears.
- B08171892 Mae West. Go up and see her sometime.
- S08171807 R. Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
- S08171896 Gold discovered at Bonanza Creek, in Klondike region of the Yukon
- S08171950 Indonesia gains its independence.
- S08171939 "The Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY
- S0818 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
- B08181618 Virginia Dare, 1st child born in America of English parents.
- B08181834 Marshall Field, founded a Chicago-based store chain.
- S08181868 Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
- S08181914 Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality
- S08181963 James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate of Univ of Miss.
- S08181976 USSR's Luna 24 softlands on the Moon
- S0819 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
- S0819 National Aviation Day
- B08191646 John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England.
- B08191785 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks.
- B08191871 Orville Wright, builder of bicycles and airplanes.
- S08191826 Canada Co. chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario).
- S08191891 William Huggins describes use of spectrum in astronomy.
- S08191960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
- S08191960 Sputnik 5 carries 3 dogs into orbit (recovered alive) Yeaaa!
- S08191979 The crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34
- S08191982 Soyuz T-7 is launched
- S0819 6Admission Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
- S0820 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
- B08201833 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President (1889-1893)
- S08201866 President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over
- S08201942 WW II dimout regulations implemented in San Francisco.
- S08201920 US's first radio broadcaster, 8MK later WWJ, Detroit begins daily broadcasting.
- S08201930 Dumont's 1st TV Broadcast for home reception, NY city
- S08201940 Churchill says of the Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
- S08201977 Voyager II launched.
- S0820 6Admission Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
- S0821 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- B08211660 Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building.
- S08211965 Gemini 5 launched into earth orbit (2 astronauts)
- S08211968 William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
- S08211972 US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus is launched
- S08211841 John Hampson patents the venetian blind
- S08211959 Hawaii became the 50th state.
- S08211968 Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
- S0822 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- B08221862 Claude Debussy, composer
- B08221920 Ray Bradbury, science fiction author.
- S08221485 Richard III slain at Bosworth Field - Last of the Plantagenets
- S08221787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
- S08221851 Gold fields discovered in Australia
- S08221963 Joe Walker in a NASA X-15, reaches 106 km (67 miles)
- S0823 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- S08231833 Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
- S08231869 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in San Francisco, from Boston, after a 16-day rail trip.
- S08231919 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premiers in Chicago Tribune
- S08231957 Digital Equipment Corp. founded
- S08231966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of earth from the moon
- S08231973 First Intelsat communications satellite launched
- S08231977 1st man-powered flight (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
- B08241816 Sir Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful trans-Atlantic cables
- B08241886 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed Liberty Ships
- S0824 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- S0824 79 Mt. Vesuvius erupts; Pompeii & Herculaneum are buried
- S08241814 British sack Washington, DC. Please, it needs it again!
- S08241869 The Waffle Iron is invented.
- S08241909 Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
- S08241932 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, AE Putnam
- S08241989 Voyager II passes Neptune, Triton, finds rings here too.
- S08241956 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC
- S08241960 temp. drops to -88° (-127° F) at Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
- S0825 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- S08251689 Montreal taken by the Iroquois
- B08251927 Althea Gibson, 1st black tennis champion (in a major event)
- S08251825 Uruguay gains its independence.
- S08251929 Graf Zeppelin passes over San Francisco, headed for Los Angeles after trans-Pacific voyage from Tokyo.
- S08251981 Voyager II flies past Saturn.
- S08251981 Voyager 2 in its closest approach to Saturn, sees not a few, but thousands of rings.
- S0826 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- S0826 55 B.C. Roman forces under Julius Caesar invaded Britain.
- S08261346 English longbows defeat French in Battle of Crécy
- B08261873 Lee De Forest, invented the Audion vacuum tube (radio tube).
- S08261629 Cambridge Agreement pledged. Massachusetts Bay Co. stockholders agreed to emigrate to New England.
- S08261791 John Fitch granted a US patent for his working steamboat.
- S08261846 W. A. Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF).
- S08261907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at SF's Aquatic Park in 57 seconds.
- S08261920 19th Amendment passes - Women's Suffrage granted (about time!)
- S08261952 Fluoridation of San Francisco water begins.
- S08261962 Mariner 2 launched for 1st planet flyby (Venus)
- S08261973 Women's Equality Day
- S0827 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- S08271883 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons
- S08271776 Americans defeated by British in Battle of Long Island
- S08271783 1st hydrogen-filled balloon ascent (unmanned)
- S08271859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn
- B08271882 Samuel Goldwyn, pioneer filmmaker
- B08271899 C.S. Forester, historical novelist, created Horatio Hornblower
- B08271908 Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President (1963-1969)
- S08271859 1st successful oil well drilled near Titusville, Penn.
- S08271883 Krakatoa, WEST of Java, blew apart (Top that, St Helens).
- S08271928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agreed to outlaw war.
- S0828 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- S08281565 St Augustine, Fla established
- B08281749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, social philosopher
- S08281609 Delaware Bay explored by Henry Hudson for the Netherlands
- S08281789 William Herschel discovers Enceladus, satellite of Saturn
- S08281828 Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was born near Tula.
- S08281965 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
- S08281917 10 suffragists were arrested as they picketed the White House
- S08281907 United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
- S0829 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- S08291526 Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Mohács
- S08291533 Last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa, murdered by Spanish conquerors
- S08291896 Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
- S08291949 USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb
- S08291954 San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens.
- S0830 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- B08301797 Mary Shelley, wrote Frankenstein
- S08301850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city.
- S08301979 1st recorded occurrance of a comet hitting the sun (the energy released was about equal to 1 million hydrogen bombs).
- S08301983 8th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 3 is launched
- S08301984 12th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 1 is launched
- S0831 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- S08311842 US Naval Observatory is authorized by an act of Congress
- S08311980 Solidarity Labor Union in Poland is founded.
- S08311977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets world aircraft altitude record of 38.26 km (125,524 ft) in a Mikoyan E-266M turbojet
- S08311955 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, IL
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