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S1001     World Vegetarian Day
S1001    1National Employ the Handicapped Week
S1001     Fiscal year begins for Federal Government
S1001    2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day
S1001 331 BC Alexander of Macedon defeats Persian army at Gaugamela
B10011207 Henry III, king of England (1216-72)
B10011685 Charles VI, Holy Roman emperor (1711-40)
B10011781 James Lawrence, naval hero ("Don't give up the ship!")
S10011869 1st postcards are issued in Vienna.
B10011881 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft company.
S10011896 Yosemite becomes a National Park.
S10011903 1st World Series starts between the National & American Leagues
B10011904 Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
S10011908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car.
B10011924 Jimmy Carter, 39th President (1976-1980)
B10011935 Julie Andrews, actress & singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins)
S10011940 Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens.
S10011949 People's Republic of China proclaimed (National Day)
S10011952 first Ultra High Frequency (UHF) TV station, in Portland, Oregon
S10011958 Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA
S10011960 Nigeria gains its independence.
S10011962 Johnny Carson's Tonight Show and The Lucy Show both premier.
S10011962 National Radio Astronomy Observatory gets a 300' radio telescope
S10011964 Cable Cars declared a National Landmark.
S10011971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens.
S10011979 US returns Canal Zone, not the canal, to Panama after 75 years.
S1002     Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Boötes
S1002    1National Employ the Handicapped Week
S1002    2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day
S10021608 Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch a new invention - the telescope
S10021836 Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle.
B10021851 Ferdinand Foch, believed to be the leader responsible for
B10021851CAllies winning World War I.
B10021869 Mahatma Ghandi, pacifist.
S10021870 Italy annexes Rome & the Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
B10021871 Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, lowered tariffs, (Nobel 1945)
S10021889 first Pan American conference.
B10021895 Groucho Marx, comedian
B10021904 Graham Greene, prolific English novelist (Brighton Rock)
S10021935 NY Hayden Planetarium, the 4th in the US, opens
S10021936 first alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kansas
S10021942 first self-sustaining nuclear reaction demonstrated, in Chicago.
S10021950 The comic strip 'Peanuts' first appears, in nine newspapers.
S10021958 Guinea gains its independence.
S10021967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn as first black Supreme Court Justice
S1003    1National Employ the Handicapped Week
S1003    2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day
B10031605 Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary, dethrones last Ming emperor
S10031789 Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
B10031803 John Gorrie, invented cold-air process of refrigeration
B10031804 Townsend Harris, 1st Western consul to reside in Japan
S10031863 Lincoln designates the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving
S10031913 Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%).
B10031925 Gore Vidal, writer.
S10031932 Iraq gains full independence from Britain
B10031941 Chubby Checker, singer
S10031942 Launch of the first A-4 (V-2) rocket to altitude of 53 miles
S10031947 first 200 inch telescope lens is completed.
S10031955 Captain Kangaroo premieres.  Good Morning, Captain!
S10031960 San Francisco's White House department store is first to accept
S10031960Cthe BankAmericard in lieu of cash.
S10031962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into earth orbit
S10031967 AF pilot Pete Knight flies the X-15 to a record 4,534 MPH.
S1004    1National Employ the Handicapped Week
S1004    2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day
B10041289 Louis X (the Stubborn), king of France (1314-16)
B10041626 Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England (1658-59)
S10041636 first code of law for Plymouth Colony
B10041822 Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President (1877-1881)
S10041824 Mexico becomes a republic
B10041895 Buster Keaton, the old Stoneface
S10041926 The dahlia is officially designated as the SF City Flower.
B10041931 Dick Tracy, supercop
S10041957 USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite.
S10041958 Transatlantic jet passenger service begins
S10041959 USSR's Luna 3 sends back first photos of Moon's far side
S10041960 Courier 1B Launched: first active repeater satellite in orbit
S10041966 Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain
S10041985 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 is launched
S1005    1National Employ the Handicapped Week
S1005    2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day
B10051713 Denis Diderot, encyclopaedist
B10051829 Chester A. Arthur, 21st President (1881-1884)
B10051882 Robert Hutchings Goddard, father of modern rocketry
B10051905 Ray Kroc, who gave Ronald McDonald a job.
B10051908 Joshua Logan, Broadway producer
S10051908 Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey
S10051910 Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic
S10051921 first radio broadcast of the World Series.
S10051923 Edwin Hubble identifies the first Cepheid variable star
S10051931 first nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Washington state
S10051970 PBS becomes a network.  TV worth watching.
S10051982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, N. Mexico
S10051984 Challenger carries first Canadian, Marc Garneau, into orbit.
S1006    1National Employ the Handicapped Week
S1006    2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day
B10061820 Jenny Lind, a Swedish nightingale
B10061846 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US.
B10061866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st voice & music program.
B10061888 Li Ta-chao, cofounder with Mao Tse-tung of China's Communist Party
S10061889 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
B10061914 Thor Heyerdahl, anthropologist, explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku)
S10061927 "The Jazz Singer", 1st movie with a sound track, premieres.
S10061959 Soviet Luna 3, first successful photo spacecraft, impacts moon.
S10061973 Egypt and Syria invade Israel - The Yom Kippur war
S1007    1National Employ the Handicapped Week
S1007    2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day
S10071571 Turkish fleet defeated by Spanish & Italians in Battle of Lepanto
S10071765 The Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York
S10071777 British defeated by Americans at the Battle of Saratoga
S10071826 Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
B10071849 James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (The Raggedy Man)
B10071879 Joe Hill, songwriter, IWW organizer, martyr
B10071885 Niels Bohr, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922)
S10071931 first infra-red photographis taken, in Rochester, NY
S10071949 Democratic Republic of Germany (East) is formed.
B10071955 Yo-Yo Ma, cellist
S10071959 Luna 3 photographs the far side of the moon.
S10071968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system.
S1008    2Columbus Day.
S1008    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
S1008    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day
S10081604 The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is first sighted.
B10081869 J Frank Duryea, invented first auto built & operated in the US
S10081871 The Great Fire destroys over 4 square miles of Chicago.
B10081873 Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astronomer, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
B10081890 Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator
B10081895 Juan Perón, president of Argentina (1946-55, 1973-74)
S10081896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks
B10081897 Rouben Mamoulian Movie director
B10081920 Frank Herbert, science-fiction writer (Dune)
S10081933 San Francisco's Coit Tower is dedicated to firefighters.
S10081935 Ozzie & Harriet Nelson are married.
S10081970 Alexander Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
S1009     Giacobinid meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S1009     Leif Ericson Day
S1009    2Columbus Day.  Join the parade down on Columbus Blvd.
S1009    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
S1009    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day
S10091000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England)
B10091547 Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (Don Quixote)
S10091635 Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
S10091776 Mission Delores is founded by San Francisco Bay.
B10091835 Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer
S10091888 Public admitted to Washington Monument.
B10091890 Aimee Semple McPherson, Pentecostal evangelist, radio preacher
S10091936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles
B10091940 John Lennon, Beatle
S10091962 Uganda gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S10091975 Andrei Sakharov wins the Nobel Peace Prize
S1010     National Day, celebrated in Taiwan.
S1010    2Columbus Day.  Join the parade down on Columbus Blvd.
S1010    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
S1010    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day
B10101731 Henry Cavendish, English physicist, chemist
B10101738 Benjamin West, painter.
B10101813 Giuseppe Verdi, operatic composer, (Rigoletto, Aida, Otello)
B10101830 Emily Dickinson, poet
S10101845 US Naval academy opens at Annapolis, Maryland
S10101846 Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
B10101861 Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, humanitarian, (Nobel 1922)
S10101911 The Manchu Dynasty is overthrown in China.
S10101933 first synthetic detergent for home use marketed
S10101963 Nuclear Atmospheric Test Ban treaty is signed by US, UK, USSR.
S10101964 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo.
S10101970 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S10101973 VP Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns.
S10101975 Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
S10101980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated.
S10101985 US jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship
S10101985CAchille Lauro to land in Italy.  Gunmen are placed in custody.
S1011    2Columbus Day.  Join the parade down on Columbus Blvd.
S1011    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
S1011    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day
B10111758 Wilhelm Olbers, discoverer of asteroids Pallas & Vesta
S10111797 British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, Netherlands
S10111811 "Juliana", the first steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation.
B10111844 Henry John Heinz, founded a prepared-foods company
B10111884 Eleanor Roosevelt, crusader
B10111885 Francois Mauriac, French novelist, poet, playwright (Nobel 1952)
S10111890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded.
S10111958 Pioneer 1 launched; first spacecraft launched by NASA
S10111968 Apollo 7 launched, first of the manned Apollo missions.
S10111969 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next two days.
S10111980 Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
S10111984 Kathy Sullivan becomes first American woman to walk in space.
S10111987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington.
S1012    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
S1012    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day
S10121492 Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day.
B10121860 Elmer Sperry, inventor of the gyrocompass
B10121872 Ralph Vaughan Williams, British composer
B10121935 Luciano Pavarotti, silver voice
S10121957 first commercial flight between California and Antartica.
S10121960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session.
S10121963 Archaeological dig begins at Masada, Israel
S10121964 USSR launches first 3-man crew into space
S10121968 Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain.
S10121972 Mariner 9 takes pictures of the Martian north pole.  No Santa.
S10121985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
S10121985Cget the Nobel Peace Prize.
S1013    2Columbus Day.  Join the parade down on Columbus Blvd.
S1013    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
S1013    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day
S1013    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
B10131769 Horace H. Hayden, cofounder of 1st dental college
S10131775 Continental Congress establishes a navy
S10131792 George Washington lays the cornerstone of the Executive Mansion
B10131925 Margaret Thatcher, Iron Lady, British Prime Minister (1979-1990)
B10131942 Art Garfunkel, built bridge over troubled waters
S10131969 Soyuz 8 is launched
S10131985 13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 is launched
S10131987 1st military use of trained dolphins, by US Navy in Persian Gulf.
S1014    2Columbus Day.
S1014    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
S1014    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day
S10141066 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England
S10141774 1st declaration of colonial rights in America.
B10141857 Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of the first US autos
B10141874 Raymond Ewry of U.S., won 10 Olympic gold medals for jumping
B10141890 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President (1953-1961)
B10141894 e.e. cummings, poet
B10141896 Lillian Gish, silent film & stage actress (Birth of a Nation)
S10141947 Chuck Yeager makes 1st supersonic flight, Mach 1.015 at 12,800m.
S1015     Mushroom Day
S1015     National Grouch Day
S1015     World Poetry Day.
B1015  70 BC Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) Mantua, Italy (The Æneid)
B10151829 Asaph Hall, astronomer, discovered the moons of Mars
B10151844 Friedrich Nietzsche, Ubermensch
B10151858 John L. Sullivan, famed pugelist.
S10151860 Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard.
B10151905 C. P. Snow, British novelist and scientist.
B10151908 John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
S10151914 ASCAP founded (American Soc of Composers, Authors & Publishers)
B10151917 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian
B10151921 Mario Puzo, author (Godfather)
B10151924 Lee Iacocca, a very good new car salesman.
B10151942 Penny Marshall, actress/director, (Awakenings), See it!
S10151964 Kosygin & Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev
S1016     World Food Day.
B10161708 Albrecht von Haller, the father of experimental physiology
B10161758 Noah Webster, lexicographer
B10161854 Oscar Wilde, wit
S10161846 Dentist William T. Morton demonstrates the effectiveness of ether
S10161859 John Brown attacks the armory at Harper's Ferry.
S10161869 A hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing.
B10161888 Eugene O'Neill, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms) (Nobel 1936)
B10161890 Paul Strand, photographer
S10161916 Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic, in New York.
B10161927 Günter Grass, German novelist, poet (The Tin Drum)
S10161962 Cuban missile crisis begins: JFK learns of missiles in Cuba.
S10161964 Brezhnev & Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia
S10161964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
S10161970 Anwar Sadat becomes president of Egypt, succeeds Gamal Nassar.
S10161973 Henry Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize
S10161978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul I
S10161982 Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if it excludes Israel.
S10161982 Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet 13th return
S10161985 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
S10171492 Columbus sights the isle of San Salvador.
S10171777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, NY
S10171781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown.
B10171915 Arthur Miller, playwright (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible)
S10171919 the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), is created.
B10171919 Rita Hayworth, actress, Alzheimer's victim
S10171931 Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion.
S10171933 Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany.
B10171938 Robert 'Evel' Knievel, motorcycle daredevil
S10171941 1st American destroyer torpedoed in WW II, USS Kearny off Iceland
S10171973 The Arab oil embargo begins. It will last until March, 1974.
S10171977 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa plane in Mogadishu
S10171977CSomalia, freeing 86 hostages & kill three of the four hijackers.
S10171979 Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
S10171989 Destructive 7.1 earthquake strikes Northern California.
S1018     Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S1018     The start of the Moslem New Year.
S10181685 Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism.
B10181777 Heinrich von Kleist, German dramatist, poet
S10181867 US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million).
S10181869 The United States take possession of Alaska.
S10181873 The Ivy League establishes rules for college football.
S10181892 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago - NYC)
B10181919 Pierre Trudeau, Canadien
S10181922 British Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC, is established.
B10181926 Chuck Berry Rock 'n' roll star
B10181927 George C. Scott, actor (Patton)
B10181956 Martina Navratilova, tennis champ, in Prague Czechoslovakia
S10181962 Watson of US, Crick & Wilkins of Britain win Nobel Prize for
S10181962CMedicine for work in determining the structure of DNA.
S10181967 Soviet Venera 4 is the first probe to send data back from Venus
S10181968 Robert Beaman of US broad jumps a record 8.90 m.  Still stands.
S10181968 US Olympic Committee suspended Tommie Smith & John Carlos, for
S10181968Cgiving `black power' salute as a protest during victory ceremony
S1019     Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S10191781 Cornwallis surrenders at 2PM, the fighting is over.
S10191845 Wagner's opera Tannhäuser performed for the first time.
S10191879 Thomas A. Edison successfully demenstrates the electric light
B10191910 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian physicist (Nobel 1983)
S10191967 Mariner 5 flies by Venus
S10191968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars.
S1020     Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S10201600 Battle of Sekigahara, which established the Tokugawa clan as
S10201600Crulers of Japan (SHOGUN) until 1865 (basis of Clavell's novel).
B10201632 Sir Christopher Wren, astronomer, greatest English architect
B10201632Cof his time, built many of the cathedrals in London.
S10201740 Maria Theresa becomes ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia
S10201803 the Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
B10201812 Austin Flint, 19th century pioneer in US heart research
S10201818 US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country.
S10201820 Spain gives Florida to the United States.
B10201823 Thomas Hughes, British author (Tom Brown's School Days)
B10201874 Charles Ives, composer
S10201906 Dr Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube.
B10201911 Will Rogers, Jr., actor, storyteller
S10201944 MacArthur returns to the Phillipines, says "I have returned."
S10201979 John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston.
S1021     Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
B10211772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge in England, poet
S10211797 US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston
S10211805 Battle of Trafalgar, where Nelson established British naval
S10211805Csupremacy for the next century.
B10211833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, created dynamite and Peace Prizes.
S10211868 Severe earthquake at 7:53AM.
S10211879 Thomas Edison commercially perfects the light bulb.
S10211897 Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated.
B10211912 Sir Georg Solti, conductor
B10211914 Martin Gardner, Scientific American math & puzzles columnist
B10211917 Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
S10211918 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min
S10211923 Deutsches Museum, Walther Bauersfeld's first Zeiss Planetarium.
S10211945 Women in France allowed to vote for the first time
S10211975 Venera 9, 1st craft to orbit the planet Venus launched
S10211976 Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
S10211977 US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa
S10221981 US National debt topped $1 TRILLION (nothing to celebrate).
S1022     Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S1022     Vatican City National Day.
S10224004 B.C. Universe created at 8:00 PM, according to the 1650
S10224004Cpronouncement of Anglican archbishop James Ussher.
S10221746 Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter.
S10221797 André-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute jump from balloon
B10221811 Franz Liszt, Hungary, Romantic composer, virtuoso pianist
S10221836 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas
B10221845 Sarah Bernhardt, actress
B10221870 Ivan Bunin, Russian poet/novelist (Gentleman from SF), Nobel 1933
S10221953 Laos gains full independence from France.
S10221962 JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis.
S10221962 Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center.
S10221975 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 lands on Venus
S10221981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization is decertified.
S1023     Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S1023     United States Day
S1023     Swallows leave San Juan Capistrano.
R1023    6Set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time)
B10231752 Nicolas Appert, inventor of food canning, bouillon tablet
B10231835 Adlai Stevenson, Veep
B10231905 Felix Bloch, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1952)
B10231905 Karl Jansky, discoverer of cosmic radio emissions in 1932
S10231910 Blanche Scott becomes first woman solo a public airplane flight
S10231915 25,000 women march in New York, demanding the right to vote
B10231925 Johnny Carson, host
B10231940 Edison Pele, soccer player extraordinaire
S10231941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" is released
B10231942 Michael Crichton (Andromeda Strain)
S10231946 UN Gen Assembly convenes in NY for 1st time in Flushing Meadow.
S10231956 The ill-fated revolt in Communist Hungary starts, later crushed
S10231956Cby Soviet tanks.
S10231958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
S10231977 By 2/3 majority, Panamanians vote to approve a new Canal Treaty
S10231980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness.
S1024     United Nations Day
R1024    6Set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time)
B10241632 Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch naturalist
S10241836 the match is patented.
S10241851 William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Unranus.
S10241901 Anna Taylor, first to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel & live
B10241904 Moss Hart, playwright
S10241929 "Black Thursday," the beginning of the stock market crash.
S10241945 United Nations Charter goes into effect.
S10241964 Zambia (Northern Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain
S10241973 Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
S1025     Saint Crispin's Day
R1025    6Set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time)
S10251415 Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight
S10251671 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn.
S10251675 Iapetus, moon of Saturn, Discovered by Giovanni Cassini
B10251825 Johann Strauss the Younger (Waltz King)
S10251825 Erie Canal opens for business in New York.
B10251838 Georges Bizet, composer
S10251854 The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War)
B10251877 Henry Norris Russell, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
B10251881 Pablo Picasso, doodler (Guernica) (or 10-05)
B10251884 Eduardo Barrios, Chilean novelist (The Love-Crazed Boy)
B10251888 Richard E Byrd, polar explorer
B10251902 Henry Steele Commager, historian
S10251903 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin
B10251881 Pablo Picasso, doodler
S10251960 first electronic wrist watch placed on sale, New York
S10251971 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World
S10251971 UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan.
S10251975 USSR Venera 10 made day Venus landing
S10251983 US invades Grenada, a country of 1/2000 its population.
R1026    6Set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time)
B10261466 Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch scholar, author of The Praise of Folly
B10261759 Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader
S10261825 Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened
B10261855 Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals.
S10261861 Telegraph service inaugurated in US (end of Pony Express).
S10261863 Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game.
S10261881 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Arizona.
S10261903 "Yerba Buena" is 1st Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay.
B10261916 Francois Mitterrand, French President
B10261917 Felix the cat, cartoon character
B10261919 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, shah of Iran (1941-79)
S10261949 Pres Truman increases minimum wage - from 40 cents to 75 cents.
S10261956 International Atomic Energy Agency established.
S10261957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting
S10261958 PanAm flies the first transatlantic jet trip: New York to Paris.
S10261968 Soyuz 3 is launched
S10261970 the "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
S10261972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin.
S10261979 St. Vincent & the Grenadines gains independence from Britain.
S10261984 "Baby Fae" gets a baboon heart in an experimental transplant in
S10261984CLoma Linda, CA.  She will live for 21 days with the animal heart.
R1027    6Set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time)
B10271728 Captain James Cook, discovered the Sandwich Islands.
B10271782 Niccolò Paganini, composer, violin virtuoso
S10271787 The 'Federalist' letters started appearing in NY newspapers.
S10271795 Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi
B10271811 Issac Merrit Singer, invented 1st practical home sewing machine
B10271858 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President (1901-1909)
S10271858 RH Macy & Co. opens 1st store, on 6th Avenue, New York City.
B10271872 Emily Post, authority on social behavior, writer (Etiquette)
S10271896 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (the Pali is a cliff where
S10271896Cthe winds are so strong streams flow UP! Honest!).
B10271914 Dylan Thomas, poet (A Child's Christmas in Wales, Under Milkwood)
S10271938 DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called 'nylon'
S10271961 first Saturn makes an unmanned flight test
S10271971 Republic of the Congo becomes Zaire.
S10271972 Golden Gate National Recreation Area created.
S10271978 Menachim Begin & Anwar Sadat win the Nobel Peace Prize
R1028    6Set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time)
B10281466 Erasmus, scholar, author of "In Praise of Folly"
S10281492 Columbus discovers Cuba.
S10281636 Harvard University founded.
S10281793 Eli Whitney applies for patent for the cotton gin.
B10281846 Auguste Escoffier, "the king of chefs & the chef of kings"
S10281886 Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
B10281902 Elsa Lanchester in England - The Bride of Frankenstein
S10281904 St. Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints.
B10281914 Dr. Jonas Salk, who made polio a fear of the past.
S10281918 Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austria.
S10281919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, starting Prohibition.
S10281922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government.
S10281962 Krushchev orders withdrawal of Cuban missiles
S10281965 Gateway Arch (190 meters high) completed in St. Louis, Missouri.
S10281965 Pope Paul VI says Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion.
S10281970 US/USSR signed an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
S10281971 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbi
S1029     Republic Day, celebrated in Turkey.
R1029    6Set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time)
S1029 539 BC Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia.
B10291656 Edmund Halley in London
S10291682 Pennsylvania granted to William Penn by King Charles II.
S10291727 a severe earthquake strikes New England.
B10291740 James Boswell, in Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer
S10291833 1st College Fraternity founded.
S10291863 Intl Comm. of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963).
S10291863 International Committee of the Red Cross founded:
S10291863CIt has been awarded Nobel Prizes in 1917, 1944 and 1963.
B10291884 Bela Lugosi, horror actor (Dracula, Body Snatcher)
S10291923 Turkey is proclaimed to have a republican government.
S10291929 "Black Tuesday", the Stock Market crash.
S10291939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure).
S10291956 "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet" heard on NBC for 1st time.
S10291956C(Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, team up on NBC News).
S10301270 the 8th and last crusade is launched.
B10301735 John Adams, 2nd President (1797-1801)
S10301864 Helena, capital of Montana, founded.
B10301873 Francisco Madero, Mexican revolutionary, president (1911-13)
S10301905 Tsar Nicholas II grants Russia a constitution.
S10301938 Orson Welles panics nation with broadcast: "War of the Worlds"
B10301939 Grace Slick, rock singer (Jefferson Airplane)
S10301945 US govt announces end of shoe rationing.
S10301953 Dr. Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize for 1952.
S10301953 General George C. Marshall is awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
S10301961 Soviet Union detonates a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
S10301961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution
S10301961Cremoving Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square.
S10301967 USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking
S10301978 Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701 - 1.
S10301985 space shuttle Challenger carries 8 crewmen (2 Germans, 1 Dutch).
S1031     All Hallows Eve (you know, Halloween)
S1031     National UNICEF Day.
S1031     Reformation Day
S10311517 Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses, begins Protestant Reformation
B10311632 Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter (Procuress, The Astronomer)
B10311795 John Keats, Romantic poet
B10311860 Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scout founder
S10311864 Nevada admitted as 36th state.
S10311922 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy.
S10311952 first thermonuclear bomb detonated - Marshall Islands
S10311959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US