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S0301     International Day of the Seal0322
S03011781 The Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress.
B03011810 Frederic Chopin
B03011848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor designed 1907 $20 gold piece
S03011859 Present seal of San Francisco adopted (2nd seal for city).
S03011864 Patent issued for taking & projecting motion pictures to Louis Ducos du Hauron (he never did build such a machine, though).
S03011867 Nebraska becomes a state.
S03011872 Yellowstone becomes world's first national park
S03011961 President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
S03011966 Venera 3 becomes the first manmade object to impact another planet - Venus.
S03011970 End of commercial whale hunting by the US.  Japan, stop it!
S03011982 Soviet Venera 13 makes a soft landing on Venus.
S03021836 Texas declares independence from Mexico.
S03021861 Congress creates the Territory of Nevada.
S03021917 Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted.
S03021929 US Court of Customs & Patent Appeals created by US Congress.
S03021949 First automatic street light installed. (In New Milford, CT)
S03021958 First surface crossing of the Antarctic continent ends.
S03021972 Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby.
S03021974 First Class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents.
S03021978 Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
S0303     Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival), celebrated in Japan.
S0303     Independence Day, celebrated in Morocco.
S03031791 Congress passed a resolution ordering U.S. Mint be established.
S03031812 Congress passes first foreign aid bill.
S03031845 Florida becomes 27th state
S03031849 Gold Coinage Act passed, allowing gold coins to be minted.
S03031851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin, the 3-cent piece.
S03031861 Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom
S03031863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
S03031875 A 20-cent coin was authorized by Congress (It lasted 3 years).
S03031878 Bulgaria liberated from Turkey
S03031885 American Telephone and Telegraph incorporated.
S03031923 Time magazine publishes its first issue.
S03031931 "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem.
S03031956 Morocco gains its independence.
S03031969 Apollo 9 launched
S03031972 Pioneer 10 launched thru asteroid belt & Jupiter
B03041394 Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsor of Portuguese exploration.
S03041675 John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal of England.
B03041678 Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso and composer.
S03041789 Congress declares the Constitution to be in effect.
S03041791 Vermont admitted as 14th state.
S03041792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii.
S03041793 Shortest inauguration speech, 133 words, Washington (2nd time).
S03041801 Jefferson is the first President inaugurated in Washington, DC.
S03041826 First US railroad chartered, the Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass.
S03041841 Longest inauguration speech, 8443 words, William Henry Harrison.
S03041861 Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag
S03041902 American Automobile Association (AAA) founded.
S03041933 Roosevelt inaugurated, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
S03041934 Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson dedicated.
S03041955 First radio facsimile transmission is sent across the continent.
S03041959 Pioneer 4 makes first US lunar flyby.
S03041968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
S03041977 First CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped to Los Alamos Labs, NM
S03041979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
S03051616 Corpernicus' DE REVOLUTIONIBUS placed on Catholic forbidden index
S03051770 Boston Massacre
B03051824 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives fame)
S03051845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US.
S03051908 1st ascent of Mt. Erebus, Antarctica
S03051933 FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday.
S03051946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
S03051979 Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter
B03061619 Cyrano de Bergerac
S03061665 "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" was first published, and is still published today.
B03061812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking.
S03061836 Alamo falls.  Remember it!
S03061857 Dred Scott decision rendered.
B03061937 Valentina Tereshkova, 1st woman cosmonaut
S03061986 Soviet Vega 1 probe passes within 10,000 km of Halley's comet
S03071778 James Cook first sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
S03071848 In Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed.
B03071849 Luther Burbank, plant breeder
B03071875 Maurice Ravel, "Bolero"
S03071876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
S03071912 Roald Amundsen announces the discovery of the South Pole
S03071926 First transatlantic telephone call (London-New York)
S03071933 The game "Monopoly" is invented.
S03071936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
S03071962 US Orbiting Solar Observatory is launched.
S03071981 Walter Cronkite's final CBS anchor appearance.  Still unequaled.
S0308     International Women's Day
B03081787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery
B03081859 Kenneth Grahame, author, "The Wind in the Willows"
S03081862 The Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched.
B03081879 Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
S03081917 US invades Cuba, for third time.  No wonder they're paranoid.
S03081934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
S03081965 First US forces arrive in Vietnam.  Oh unhappy day!
S03081976 Largest observed falling single stony meteorite (Jiling, China)
S03091497 Nicolaus Copernicus first recorded astronomical observation.
S03091796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais
S03091822 Charles Graham of NY granted patent for artificial teeth
B03091824 Leland Stanford, Governor, Senator, founded Stanford Univ.
S03091862 The ironclads "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads.  It was a standoff.
B03091934 Yuri Gagarin, the first man into space.
S03091954 Edward R. Murrow criticizes Senator McCarthy (See it Now)
S03091961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
S03091979 First extraterrestrial volcano found, (Jupiter's satellite Io).
S0310     World Culture Day
S03101847 First money minted in Hawaii.
S03101849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent, only US president to do so.
S03101876 First telephone call, made by Alexander Graham Bell
S03101933 Big earthquake in Long Beach (W.C. Fields was making a movie when it struck & the cameras kept running).
S03101977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occultation of SAO
S0311     Zeta Boötid meteor shower, radiant in Boötes
S03111810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
S03111861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
S03111867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii).
S03111892 First public game of basketball.
S03111938 Germany invades Austria.
S03111941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill with England.
S03111942 Gen MacArthur leaves Bataan for Australia.
S03111960 Pioneer 5 launched; orbits sun between Earth & Venus
S03111985 Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko.
S0312     Zeta Boötid meteor shower, radiant in Boötes
S0312     Commonwealth Day
B03121831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer.
B03121832 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts.
S03121850 First $20 Gold piece issued.
S03121868 Congress abolishes manufacturers tax
S03121912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savanah Ga
S03121925 First transatlantic radio broadcast.
S03121936 FDR conducts his first "Fireside Chat"
S03121981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
S03131639 Harvard University is named for clergyman John Harvard.
S03131677 Massachusets gains title to Maine for $6,000.
B03131733 Joseph Priestly, discoverer of oxygen, revolutionary
S03131852 Uncle Sam makes his debut in the New York "Lantern"
S03131877 Chester Greenwood patents ear muffler
S03131884 US adopts standard time
S03131925 Law passed in Tennessee prohibiting teaching evolution
S03131930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
S03131970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer.
S03131986 Soyuz T-15 launched
S03141629 Royal charter grants Massachusets Bay Colony
S03141644 Royal patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island).
B03141681 Georg Philipp Telemann, leading German late baroque composer.
S03141794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
B03141864 Casey Jones
S03141870 Legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible.
B03141879 Albert Einstein, relative
S03141896 Sutro Baths opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952).
S03141900 US currency goes on gold standard
S03141903 First national bird reserve established in Sebastian, Florida
S03141923 President Harding is the first president to file his income tax.
S03141948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco.
S03141965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with W Germany
S03141983 OPEC cuts oil prices for first time in 23 years.
S0315     The day the buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio.
S0315     Beware the Ides of March
S0315  44 Julius Cæsar assassinated in Roman Senate.  Et tu, Brute?
B03151767 Andrew Jackson, 7th President (1828-1836)
S03151820 Maine admitted as 23rd state
S03151913 Woodrow Wilson holds the first Presidential Press Conference.
S03151916 Pershing and 15,000 troops chase Pancho Villa into Mexico.
S03151917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates
S03151937 First blood bank established, Chicago, Illinois
S03151956 My Fair Lady opens in New York.
S03151960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (first underwater park)
S03151968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold.
S03151968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold.
S03151999 Pluto again becomes the outermost planet.
S0316     Return of long-billed curlews to Umatilla, Oregon
S03161621 First Indian appears at Plymouth, Massachusets
B03161751 James Madison, 4th President (1809-1817)
S03161802 Law signed to establish US Military Academy at West Point, NY
S03161827 First US black newspaper, Freedom's Journal, New York
B03161836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car.
S03161916 US and Canada sign Migratory Bird Treaty
S03161926 Robert Goddard launches first liquid fuel rocket - 184 feet
S03161935 Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
S03161966 Gemini 8 launched with 2 astronauts
S03161975 US Mariner 10 makes 3rd, and final, fly-by of Mercury.
S0317     St. Patrick's Day
S0317     Evacuation Day (celebrated in Boston)
S0317     World Maritime Day
B03171804 James Bridger, scout, fur trader, mountain man par excellance.
B03171834 Gottlieb Daimler, automobile pioneer
S03171906 President Theodore Roosevelt first uses the term "muckrake".
S03171910 Camp Fire Girls are organized.
B03171919 Nat King Cole, silky voice.
S03171941 National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, DC
S03171950 Element 98 (Californium) is announced.
S03171958 Vanguard 1 measures shape of Earth
S03171959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
S03171966 US sub locates missing hydrogen bomb in Mediterranean.
S03171969 Golda Meir becomes Israeli Prime Minister.
S03181541 de Soto is first European to record flooding of the Mississippi
S03181766 Britain repeals Stamp Act, partial cause of American Revolution.
B03181782 John C. Calhoun, statesman
B03181837 Grover Cleveland, President (1885-1889, 1893-1897)
S03181850 American Express founded
S03181850 American Express founded.
B03181858 Rudolf Diesel, invented an engine, heard of it?
S03181881 Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
S03181892 Lord Stanley proposes silver cup challenge for Hockey
S03181909 Einar Dessau of Denmark - first ham broadcaster.
S03181931 First electric razor marketed by Schick.
B03181932 John Updike, poet and novelist.
S03181938 Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties.
S03181952 First plastic lens for cataract patients fitted, Philadelphia.
S03181959 Pres Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
S03181965 Russia launches 2nd Voshkod, first spacewalk - Aleksei Leonov.
S0319     Canberra Day in Australia
S0319     The day the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano.
S03191822 Boston, Mass incorporated
S03191859 Faust by Charles Gounod premiers in Paris
B03191860 William Jennings Bryan, 'The Great Commoner'
S03191917 US Supreme Court upheld 8 hour work day for the railroads.
S03191918 Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight time
S03191920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time
S03191928 'Amos and Andy' debut on radio.
S03191928 Amos & Andy debuts on radio
S03191931 Nevada legalized gambling
S03191949 First museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, TN
R0320    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
S03201760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
S03201833 US and Siam conclude their first commercial treaty
S03201852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's `Uncle Tom's Cabin,' published
B03201856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management.
S03201886 First commercial AC-power plant begins operation
B03201904 BF Skinner, psychologist, pioneer in Behaviorism.
S03201942 MacArthur vowes to Phillipinos, "I shall return"
S0321     Earth Day
S0321     The First Day of Spring... Tra-la Tra-la
S0321     Natl Teen-Agers Day
S0321     Start of Persian and Bahá'í New Years
R0321    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
B03211685 Johann Sebastian Bach, gone for Baroque
B03211768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist
S03211851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California, paradise found.
B03211869 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame.
S03211965 Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery
S03211965 US Ranger 9 launched takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
R0322    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
S03221621 Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth)
S03221733 Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water.
S03221765 Britain enacts the now infamous Stamp Act
S03221778 Captain Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state
S03221882 Congress outlaws polygamy.  Male longevity increases.
S03221941 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state goes into operation
S03221945 Arab League is founded
S03221946 Jordan (formerly Transjordan) gains independence from Britain.
S03221957 Earthquake gives San Francisco the shakes.
S03221960 Schawlow and Townes obtain a patent for the laser.
S03221963 Beatles release their first album, Please Please Me
S03221968 President Johnson's daughter, Lynda, ordered off Cable Car because she was eating an ice cream cone (no food on cars!).
S03221977 Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
S03221978 Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, dedicated.
S03221981 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6.
S03221981 First Class Postage raised from 15 cents to 18 cents.
S03221982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 launched
S0323     World Meteorological Day
R0323    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
S03231743 George Frederic Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London.
S03231752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, dies 2 days later.
S03231775 Patrick Henry asks for Liberty or Death.
S03231806 Lewis the Clark reach the Pacific coast.
S03231840 First photo of moon is taken.
B03231912 Werner von Braun, rocketeer
S03231919 Benito Mussolini founds the Fascist movement in Milan, Italy.
S03231929 First telephone installed in the White House.
S03231933 German Reichstag grantes Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.
S03231944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute and lives.
S03231956 Pakistan becomes independent within British Commonwealth.
S03231962 President John F. Kennedy visits San Francisco.
S03231965 Gemini 3 blasts off, first US 2-man space flight.
S03231976 International Bill of Rights goes into effect, 35 nations ratify.
R0324    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
S03241765 Britain enacts Quartering Act
B03241874 Harry Houdini, escape artist extraordinaire
S03241882 German Robert Koch discovers bacillus, cause of Tuberculosis.
S03241882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
B03241930 Steve McQueen, actor, "Bullitt"
S03241934 FDR grants future independence to Philippines
S03241955 Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens on Broadway.
S03241965 US Ranger 9 strikes moon 10 miles NE of crater Alphonsus
S03241972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
S03241976 Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's miltitary.
S03241986 Libya attacks US forces in Gulf of Sidra.  US 2, Libya 0.
S0325     Global Understanding Day
R0325    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
S03251634 Maryland founded as a Catholic colony
S03251655 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satelite)
S03251821 Greece gains its independence.
S03251857 Frederick Laggenheim takes the 1st photograph of a solar eclipse
S03251951 Purcell and Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
S03251954 RCA manufactures the first COLOR television.
S03251955 East Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR
S03251960 First guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
S0326     Prince Kuhio Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
R0326    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
S03261845 Adhesive medicated plaster patented, precusor of bandaid.
B03261874 Robert Frost, poet
S03261878 Hastings College of Law founded.
S03261885 Eastman Film Company makes first commercial motion picture film
B03261911 Tennessee Williams, dramatist, "Streetcar Named Desire"
B03261925 Pierre Boulez, French composer.
B03261931 Leonard Nimoy, "That isn't logical Captain."
S03261937 Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye
S03261953 Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine against polio
S03261958 Army launched US's 3rd successful satellite Explorer III
S03261970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made a City Landmark.
S03261971 East Pakistan proclaimed independence taking name Bangladesh
S03261979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt
S03261982 Groundbreaking in Washington DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
S03271512 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Florida.
S03271625 Charles I King of England Scotland & Ireland ascends to throne
S03271794 The US Navy is founded.  Anchors Aweigh!
S03271802 Asteroid Pallas discovered by Heinrich Olbers
S03271807 Asteroid Vesta discovered by Olbers
B03271813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (of Currier & Ives)
S03271836 First Mormon temple dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio.
S03271855 Abraham Gesner receives a patent for kerosene
S03271860 ML Byrn patents the corkscrew.  Bless you sir!
B03271863 Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce.
S03271933 US Farm Credit Administration authorized.
S03271964 Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale.
S03271968 SF Japanese Trade and Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated.
S03271972 Soviet spacecraft Venera 8 launched to Venus
S03271980 Mount St. Helens becomes active after 123 years
R03280331 "Spring Forward" One hour at 2am, the first Sunday in April.
S03281794 Nathan Briggs gets patent for the washing machine.
S03281930 Constantinople and Angora change names to Istanbul and Ankara.
S03281939 Spanish Civil War ends, facist Francisco Franco wins
B03291790 John Tyler, 10th President (1841-1845)
B03291819 Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive oil well in US.
B03291867 Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever (509 wins, 1890-1911)
S03291871 Albert Hall opens it's doors in London.
S03291886 Coca-Cola is created (with cocaine).  It satisfies your craving.
S03291961 23rd Amendment ratified, Washington DC can vote for the president
S03291973 US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution
S03291974 Mariner 10's first fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
B03301719 Sir John Hawkins, wrote 1st history of music in English
S03301842 Dr. Crawford Long, first uses ether as an anesthetic.
B03301853 Vincent van Gogh, artist who always lent an ear
S03301853 Patent granted to Hyman Lipman for a pencil with an ERASER!
S03301867 US purchases Alaska for $7,200,000 (Seward's Folly)
S03301870 15th Amendment passed, guarantees right to vote to all races
S03301932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic solo
S03301950 Invention of the Phototransistor is announced at Murray Hill, NJ
B03311596 Rene Descartes, he thought, therefore he was
B03311732 Joseph Haydn, composer, helped develop the Classical style.
B03311809 Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
S03311854 Commodore Perry makes Japan opens its ports to foreign trade
B03311854 Sir Dugald Clerk, inventor of the 2-stroke motorcycle engine.
S03311870 Thomas P Mundy became 1st black to vote in US (Perth Amboy NJ)
S03311880 Wabash Ind - first town completely illuminated by electric light
S03311889 Eiffel Tower completed.
S03311932 Ford publicly unveils its first V-8 engine
S03311933 Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
S03311943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!" opens on Broadway
S03311949 Newfoundland becomes 10th Canadian province
S03311963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after nearly 90 years.
S03311966 USSR launches Luna 10, first spacecraft to orbit moon
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