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B10011730 Richard Stockton, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of
B10011730CIndependence, near Princeton, N.J.
B10011791 Sergey Aksakov, Russian novelist, "Chronicles of a Russian
B10011791CFamily".
B10011881 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft company, pioneer in
B10011881Caviation technology.
B10011904 Vladimir Horowitz, pianist.
B10011920 Walter Matthau, actor, "Odd Couple", New York, N.Y.
B10011921 James Whitmore, actor, "Black Like Me", "Tora! Tora! Tora!".
B10011924 James Earl Carter, Jr. (D), 39th President (1976-1980), Plains,
B10011924CGa.
B10011924 William Rehnquist, Supreme Court Chief Justice, Milwaukee, Wis.
B10011927 Tom Bosley, actor, "Happy Days", Chicago, Ill.
B10011928 George Peppard, actor, "Blue Max", Detroit, Mich.
B10011928 Laurence Harvey, actor, "Alamo".
B10011933 Richard Harris, actor, Co. Limerick, Ireland.
B10011935 Julie Andrews, singer, actress, "Mary Poppins", Walton, England.
B10011936 Charles G. Fullerton, astronaut (STS-3, 51F).
B10011936 Stella Stevens, actress, Yazoo City, Miss.
B10011945 Rod Carew, baseball slugger.
B10021851 Ferdinand Foch, believed to be the leader responsible for
B10021851CAllies winning World War I.
B10021852 Sir William Ramsey, English chemist, discovered neon, krypton and
B10021852Cxenon, co-discovered argon, radon, calcium and barium, 1904
B10021852CNobel.
B10021869 Mahatma Ghandi, pacifist, Kathiawad, India.
B10021890 Julius Henry (Groucho) Marx, comedian, "You Bet Your Life" host,
B10021890CNew York, N.Y.
B10021896 William A. "Bud" Abbott, comedian, partner of Lou Costello,
B10021896CAsbury Park, N.J.
B10021904 Graham Greene, British novelist.
B10021928 Spanky McFarland, child actor, Dallas, Tex.
B10021940 Rex Reed, movie critic.
B10021945 Don McLean, singer, songwriter, "American Pie".
B10021948 Donna Karan, actress.
B10021951 Sting (G. Sumner), rock singer, actor, Newcastle, England.
B10021971 Tiffany, singer, Norwalk, Ca.
B10031605 Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming
B10031605Cemperor.
B10031800 George Bancroft, historian.
B10031803 John Gorrie, invented cold-air process of refrigeration.
B10031804 Townsend Harris, first Western consul to reside in Japan.
B10031814 Mikhail Lermontov, leading Russian Romantic poet, novelist.
B10031857 Frank Nelson Wilcox, painter, printmaker, and college educator,
B10031857Cborn in Cleveland.
B10031888 Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist, pacifist, 1935 Nobel.
B10031897 Louis Aragon, French poet, leader of WW II resistance.
B10031899 Gertrude Berg - Molly Goldberg.
B10031900 Thomas Wolfe, novelist, Asheville, N.C.
B10031925 Gore Vidal, writer, "Myra Breckinridge", "Lincoln".
B10031935 Charles M. Duke, Jr, astronaut (Apollo 16).
B10031935 Eileen Brennan.
B10031938 Eddie Cochran, rock 'n roll singer.
B10031941 Chubby Checker, singer, "The Twist", Philadelphia, Pa.
B10031951 Dave Winfield, N.Y. Yankee and Toronto Blue Jay, first player
B10031951Cover 40 to drive in over 100 runs in a season (108 RBIs in 1992).
B10041626 Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England (1658-59).
B10041822 Rutherford Birchard Hayes (R), 19th President (1877-1881),
B10041822CDelaware, Ohio.
B10041862 Albert W. Smith, chemist, college professor and co-founder of the
B10041862CDow Chemical Company, born in Newark, Ohio.
B10041880 Damon Runyon, writer.
B10041895 Buster Keaton, comedian, "The General", The Navigator".
B10041896 Lillian Gish, silent film actress, Springfield, Ohio.
B10041931 Dick Tracy, crimestopper.
B10041934 Sam Huff, NFL linebacker (NY Giants, Washington Redskins).
B10041941 Lori Saunders, actress, in Kansas City Mo
B10041943 Owen Keir Davidson, Australian tennis pro.
B10041944 Patty LaBelle, singer.
B10041945 Charlton Heston, actor, Moses, Evanston, Ill.
B10041946 Susan Sarandon, actress, New York, NY.
B10041949 Armand Assante.
B10051713 Denis Diderot, encyclopedist.
B10051830 Chester Alan Arthur (R), 21st President (1881-1884), Fairfield,
B10051830CVermont.
B10051864 Louis Lumiere, French photography pioneer, with brother Auguste
B10051864Cmade first motion picture in 1895.
B10051882 Robert Hutchings Goddard, father of modern rocketry, Worcester,
B10051882CMass.
B10051887 René Cassin, Nobel Peace Prize 1968.
B10051905 Ray Kroc, who gave Ronald McDonald a job.
B10051908 Joshua Logan, Broadway producer.
B10051919 Donald Pleasance, actor, Worksop, England.
B10051921 Bill Willis, AAFC and NFL Hall of Fame tackle for the Cleveland
B10051921CBrowns, Columbus, Ohio.
B10051923 Philip Berrigan, militant priest.
B10051923 Glynis Johns, actress, Durban, South Africa.
B10051929 Richard F. Gordon, Jr., U.S. astronaut (Gemini 11, Apollo 12).
B10051951 Bob Geldof - Band Aid organizer.
B10051951 Karen Allen, actress, Carrollton, Illinois.
B10061820 Jenny Lind, nightengale.
B10061831 Richard Dedekind, mathematician.
B10061846 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in U.S.
B10061866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast first program of voice and
B10061866Cmusic.
B10061886 Edwin Fisher, noted Swiss pianist.
B10061887 Martín Luis Guzmán, Mexican novelist, "The Eagle & the Serpent".
B10061888 Li Ta-chao, co-founder with Mao Tse-tung of Chinese Communist
B10061888CParty.
B10061895 Caroline Gordon, novelist of the American South.
B10061906 Janet Gaynor, actress, Philadelphia.
B10061909 Carol Lombard, actress.
B10061914 Thor Heyerdahl, anthropologist, explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku).
B10061925 Shana Alexander, point-counterpoint journalist.
B10061936 Anna Quayle.
B10061942 Britt Ekland, actress, Stockholm, Sweden.
B10061956 Stephanie Zimbalist, actress, "Remington Steele", New York, N.Y.
B10071728 Caesar Rodney, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence,
B10071728CDover, Del.
B10071849 James Whitcomb Riley, American poet, "The Raggedy Man".
B10071885 Niels Bohr, physicist, expanded quantum physics, 1922 Nobel.
B10071895 Elijah Muhammad, American spiritual leader of the Black Muslims.
B10071916 Walt W. Rostow, economist.
B10071917 June Allyson, actress, New York, N.Y.
B10071926 Diana Lynn.
B10071927 Al Martino, singer
B10071931 Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1982 Nobel Peace Prize.
B10071943 Oliver North, colonel, Iran-contra affair.
B10071951 John "Cougar" Mellencamp, singer, Seymour, Ind.
B10071955 Yo-Yo Ma, cellist.
B10081869 J. Frank Duryea, with his brother, invented first auto built and
B10081869Coperated in the U.S.
B10081873 Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astronomer, Hertzsprung-Russell
B10081873Cdiagram.
B10081890 Eddie Rickenbacker, American World War I flying ace, race car
B10081890Cdriver.
B10081895 Juan Perón, president of Argentina (1946-55, 1973-74).
B10081897 Rouben Mamoulian, film director.
B10081919 Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canadian statesman.
B10081920 Frank Herbert, sci-fi writer, "Dune".
B10081936 Rona Barrett, gossip columnist.
B10081939 Paul Hogan, actor, Crocodile Dundee, New South Wales, Australia.
B10081940 David Carradine, actor, Grasshopper, Hollywood, Ca.
B10081941 Rev. Jesse Jackson, black politician, civil rights leader,
B10081941CGreenville, S.C.
B10081943 Chevy Chase, comedian/actor, "Fletch", New York, N.Y.
B10081949 Signourney Weaver, actress, "Alien", New York, N.Y.
B10091547 Miguel de Cervantes, novelist, "Don Quixote".
B10091835 Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer.
B10091890 Aimee Semple McPherson, Pentecostal evangelist, radio preacher.
B10091908 Jacques Tati, French film director.
B10091925 Robert Finch, actor.
B10091940 Joe Pepitone, baseball player.
B10091940 John (Winston) Lennon, composer, songwriter, singer, Beatle.
B10091945 Jeannie C. Riley, singer/actress, "Harper Valley PTA", "Hee-Haw"
B10091945Cin Texas.
B10091948 Jackson Brown, rocker, Germany.
B10091955 Steve Ovett, English track star.
B10091959 Mike Singletary, linebacker, Chicago Bears.
B10091963 Felix Jose Fermin, Indians' shortstop (1989-    ), Valverde,
B10091963CDominican Republic.
B10091967 Carling Bassett, tennis player, in Canada.
B10091975 Sean Lennon.
B10101731 Henry Cavendish, English physicist, chemist, discovered the
B10101731Celement of hydrogen.
B10101738 Benjamin West, painter.
B10101813 Giuseppe Verdi, composer of operas, "Rigoletto", "Aida",
B10101813C"Otello".
B10101830 Emily Dickinson, poet.
B10101861 Fridtjof Nansen, Norweg. Arctic explorer, humanitarian, 1922
B10101861CNobel.
B10101892 Ivo Andric, Yugoslav novelist, "Bridge on the Drina", 1961 Nobel.
B10101895 Lin Yü-t'ang, Chinese writer, "My Country and My People".)
B10101900 Helen Hayes, actress, Washington, D.C.
B10101924 James Clavell, author,  "Tai Pan", "Shogun".
B10101946 Ben Vereen, singer, actor, dancer, Miami, Fla.
B10101955 David Lee Roth, rock singer, Bloomington, Ind.
B10101958 Tanya Tucker, country singer, Seminole, Texas.
B10111758 Wilhelm Olbers, discoverer of the asteroids Pallas and Vesta.
B10111844 Henry John Heinz, founded a prepared-foods company.
B10111884 Eleanor Roosevelt, crusader, former first lady, envoy to the U.N.
B10111885 Francois Mauriac, French novelist, poet, playwright, 1952 Nobel.
B10111887 Wille Hoppe, legendary billiards player.
B10111897 George Preston Marshall, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins).
B10111910 Joseph Alsop, American journalist.
B10111918 Jerome Robbins, film director, New York, N.Y.
B10111932 Dottie West, country singer.
B10111937 Ron Leibman.
B10111949 Daryl Hall, rock singer, Pottstown, Pa.
B10121537 Edward VI, king of England (1547-53)
B10121860 Elmer Sperry, inventor of the gyrocompass.
B10121872 Ralph Vaughan Williams in England, composer.
B10121896 Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, translator, "Xenia", 1975 Nobel.
B10121923 Jean Nidetch in Brooklyn, founder of Weight Watchers.
B10121932 Dick Gregory, writer, comedian, civil rights activist.
B10121932 Jake Garn (R-Sen-Ut), astronaut (STS-51T).
B10121935 Luciano Pavarotti, tenor, Modena, Italy.
B10121936 Tony Kubek, Yankee shortstop.
B10121947 Chris Wallace, reporter.
B10121950 Susan Anton, actress, Oak Glen, Ca.
B10121962 Sid Fernandez, Met pitcher, Hawaii.
B10131769 Horace H. Hayden, co-founder of first dental college.
B10131823 James Henry Salisbury, physician and researcher, including the
B10131823Cstudy of germs as the cause of diseases, known for his beef dish
B10131823Cused in his cures: Salisbury steak.
B10131853 Lillie Langtry (the Jersey Lily), actress.
B10131909 Herblock (Herbert L. Block), political cartoonist.
B10131910 Art Tatum, American jazz pianist.
B10131917 Burr Tillstrom, creator of Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
B10131918 Cornell Wilde, actor.
B10131920 Laraine Day, actress.
B10131921 Yves Montand, French actor, singer.
B10131925 Margaret Thatcher, "Iron Lady", (Tory) British Prime Minister.
B10131925 Nipsey Russel, comedian, Atlanta, Ga.
B10131926 Lenny Bruce, controversial comedian.
B10131941 Art Garfunkel, singer, actor, New York, N.Y.
B10131942 Pamela Tiffin, actress, Oklahoma City, Okla.
B10131959 Marie Osmond, singer, Ogden, Utah.
B10141633 James II, king of England (1685-88).
B10141734 Francis Lightfoot Lee, farmer, signer of the Declaration of
B10141734CIndependence, Westmoreland County, Va.
B10141857 Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of the first U.S. autos.
B10141874 Raymond Ewry, American who won 10 Olympic gold medals for
B10141874Cjumping.
B10141882 Eamon De Valera, Ireland's first Prime minister, active
B10141882Crevolutionary, led 1916 Easter Rebellion, founded Fianna Fail
B10141882CParty, took Ireland out of Commonwealth and renamed Eire,
B10141882Cborn in New York, N.Y.
B10141888 Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp, author, "The Garden Party",
B10141888C"Bliss", Wellington, New Zealand.
B10141890 Dwight David Eisenhower (R), 34th President (1953-1961),
B10141890CCommander in Chief of Allies Forces during WW II, Denison, Tex.
B10141894 e.e. cummings, poet.
B10141896 Lillian Gish, silent film and stage actress, Springfield, Ohio.
B10141914 Dylan Thomas, poet, Swansea, Wales.
B10141927 Roger Moore, actor, James Bond (III), London, England.
B10141938 John Dean, III, former White House counsel.
B10141947 Charlie Joiner, NFL wide receiver (Houston, Cincinnati, San
B10141947CDiego).
B10141949 Harry Anderson, comedian, Newport, R.I.
B10141950 Sheila Young Ochowitz, U.S. Olympic speed skater.
B10141952 Nikolai Adrianov, Soviet Olympic gymnast.
B10151754 Molly Pitcher (born Molly Ludwig), Revolutionary War heroine,
B10151754CTrenton, N.J.
B10151829 Asaph Hall, astronomer, discovered the moons of Mars, Phobos and
B10151829CDeimos.
B10151844 Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, Ubermensch.
B10151858 John L. Sullivan, famed pugilist, heavyweight champ 1882-92.
B10151900 Mervyn Le Roy, movie producer.
B10151905 C. P. Snow, British novelist and physicist.
B10151908 John Kenneth Galbraith, economist.
B10151917 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian.
B10151920 Mario Puzo, author, "The Godfather".
B10151923 Italo Calvino, Italian novelist.
B10151924 Lee Iacocco, CEO of Chrysler Corp.
B10151926 Evan Hunter, American novelist, "The Blackboard Jungle".
B10151926 Jean Peters, actress.
B10151937 Linda Lavin, actress, Portland, Maine.
B10151943 Penny Marshall, actress and director, New York, N.Y..
B10151945 Jim Palmer, baseball player.
B10151946 Richard Carpenter, singer, Carpenters.
B10151959 Princess Sarah Ferguson (Fergie), the Duchess of York, London,
B10151959CEngland.
B1015     Mark Lenard, Sarek (Spock's father).
B10161708 Albrecht von Haller, the father of experimental physiology.
B10161758 Noah Webster, lexicographer.
B10161854 Oscar Wilde (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills), playwright, poet,
B10161854C"Picture of Dorian Gray", Dublin, Ireland.
B10161854 Karl Kaulsky, socialist theoretician.
B10161863 Sir Austen Chamberlain, British foreign secretary, 1925 Nobel.
B10161888 Eugene O'Neill, dramatist, "Desire Under the Elms", 1936 Nobel.
B10161890 Paul Strand, photographer.
B10161898 William O. Douglas, former Supreme Court justice.
B10161921 Linda Darnell, actress.
B10161925 Angela Lansbury, actress, "Murder She Wrote", London, England.
B10161927 Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, "The Tin Drum".
B10161931 Charles W. Colson, presidential adviser.
B10161946 Suzanne Somers, actress, "Three's Company", San Bruno, Ca.
B10171835 Alexandrine-Pieternella-Françoise Tinné, explored the White Nile.
B10171893 Spring Byington, actress.
B10171903 Irene Ryan,actress, El Paso, Texas.
B10171914 Jerome "Jerry" Siegel, co-creator of "Superman" which first
B10171914Cappeared in June 1938 Action Comics.
B10171915 Arthur Miller, playwright, "Death of a Salesman", "The Crucible".
B10171918 Rita Hayworth, actress, "I'LL Cry Tomorrow", NY.
B10171926 Beverly Garland, actress, Santa Cruz, California.
B10171927 Tom Poston, comedian, actor, Columbus, Ohio.
B10171930 Jimmy Breslin, newspaperman and raconteur.
B10171932 Paul Anderson, America's greatest weightlifter.
B10171933 William A. Anders, astronaut (Apollo 8).
B10171938 Robert 'Evel' Knievel, motorcycle daredevil.
B10171946 Bob Seagren, pole vaulter.
B10171948 Margot Kidder, actress, Superman's girlfriend, Yellowknife,
B10171948CN.W.T.
B10171948 George Wendt, actor, "Cheers", Chicago, Ill.
B10181777 Heinrich von Kleist, German dramatist, poet.
B10181859 Henri Bergson, French philosopher, "Creative Evolution",  1927
B10181859CNobel.
B10181878 James Truslow Adams, historian.
B10181919 Pierre Elliot Trudeau (L), 15th Canadian P.M. (1968-79, 1980-84).
B10181922 George C. Scott, actor, "Patton", Wise, Va.
B10181922 Richard Stankiewicz, U.S. sculptor.
B10181925 Melina Mercouri, Athens, Greece.
B10181926 Chuck Berry, musician, rock 'n roll great, St. Louis, Mo.
B10181928 Keith Jackson, sportscaster.
B10181930 Frank Carlucci, National Security Adviser.
B10181933 Forrest Gregg, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys),
B10181933Ccoach (Browns and Bengals).
B10181933 Peter Boyle, actor, Philadelphia, Pa.
B10181934 Inger Stevens, actress, Sweden.
B10181939 Mike Ditka, tight end for Bears, Cowboys; coach of Chicago Bears.
B10181947 John Johnson, Seattle SuperSonic.
B10181947 Laura Nyro, singer, Bronx, N.Y.
B10181951 Pam Dawber, actress, "Mork and Mindy", Farmington Hills, Mich.
B10181956 Martina Navratilova, Czech-American tennis star, Prague.
B10181961 Erin Moran, actress, "Happy Days", L.A., Ca.
B10191810 Cassuis M. Clay, American abolitionist.
B10191862 Auguste Lumière, made first movie, "Workers Leaving Lumière
B10191862CFactory".
B10191882 Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, Lithuanian poet, philologist,
B10191882Cplaywright.
B10191899 Miguel Asturias, Guatemalan poet, novelist, diplomat, Nobel 1967.
B10191909 Robert Beatty, actor.
B10191910 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian physicist, 1983 Nobel.
B10191920 LaWanda Page, actress, Aunt Esther in "Sanford & Sons",
B10191920CCleveland, Oh.
B10191922 Jack Anderson, columnist, investigative reporter.
B10191931 John Le Carré, English spy novelist, "Little Drummer Girl".
B10191932 Robert Reed, actor, Highland Park, Ill.
B10191945 John Lithgow, actor, Rochester, N.Y.
B10191964 Webster Slaughter, wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns and
B10191964CHouston Oilers, Stockton, Ca.
B10191967 Amy Carter, daughter of President Carter.
B10201632 Sir Christopher Wren, astronomer, greatest English architect
B10201632Cof his time, built many of the cathedrals in London.
B10201812 Austin Flint, 19th century pioneer in U.S. heart research.
B10201823 Thomas Hughes, British author, "Tom Brown's School Days".
B10201854 Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, adventurer, "Illuminations".
B10201859 John Dewey, philosopher.
B10201874 Charles Ives, composer.
B10201908 Arlene Francis, "What's My Line", Boston, Mass.
B10201911 Will Rogers, Jr., actor.
B10201923 Herschel Bernardi, actor.
B10201925 Art Buckwald, writer and columnist.
B10201931 Mickey Mantle, Hall of Fame baseball player.
B10201932 William Christopher, actor  "Father Mulcahy", Evanston, Ill.
B10201953 Tom Petty, rock singer, Gainesville, Fla.
B10201953 Keith Hernandez, baseball player.
B10211772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, England.
B10211833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite and Peace
B10211833CPrizes.
B10211912 Sir Georg Solti, conductor.
B10211914 Martin Gardner, Scientific American math and puzzles columnist.
B10211917 Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz.
B10211928 Edward Charles "Whitey" Ford, NY Yankee pitcher, New York, N.Y.
B10211929 Ursula Le Guin, writer, Hugo and Nebula winner.
B10211933 Georgia Brown.
B10211940 Manfred Mann, rocker.
B10211945 Kathy Young, singer, "A Thousand Stars".
B10211953 Charlotte Caffey, singer, GoGo's.
B10211956 Carrie Fisher, actress, "Star Wars", Beverly Hills, Ca.
B10211971 Jade Jagger, daughter of Mick Jagger
B10221811 Franz Liszt, Hungary, Romantic composer, virtuoso pianist.
B10221845 Sarah Bernhardt, actress.
B10221870 Ivan Bunin, Russian poet, novelist, "Gentleman from S.F.", Nobel
B10221870C1933.
B10221887 John Reed, journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian
B10221887Crevolutions.
B10221905 Karl Jansky, American engineer, initiated radio astronomy.
B10221906 Sidney Kingsley, author.
B10221917 Joan Fontaine, actress.
B10221919 Doris Lessing, novelist, "The Golden Notebook".
B10221920 Timothy Leary, drug culture hero.
B10221925 Robert Rauschenberg, painter.
B10221925 Dory Previn, songwriter.
B10221938 Christopher Lloyd, actor, Rev. Jim on "Taxi", Stamford, Conn.
B10221939 Tony Roberts.
B10221942 Annette Funicello, "Mickey Mouse Club", Utica, N.Y.
B10221943 Catherine Deneuve (born Dorleac), actress, model, Paris, France.
B10221952 Jeff Goldblum, actor, "The Fly II", Pittsburgh, Pa.
B10231752 Nicolas Appert, inventor of food canning, bouillon tablet.
B10231835 Adlai Ewing Stevenson, U.S. Vice President under Grover
B10231835CCleveland.
B10231844 Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England, "The Testament of
B10231844CBeauty".
B10231869 John W. Heisman, the innovative college football coach that the
B10231869Ctrophy is named after, born in Cleveland, Ohio.
B10231905 Felix Bloch, U.S.  physicist, 1952 Nobel.
B10231905 Karl Jansky, discoverer of cosmic radio emissions in 1932.
B10231925 Johnny Carson (John William Carson), comedian, entertainer, "The
B10231925CTonight Show", Corning, Iowa.
B10231931 Diana Dors, England.
B10231932 Jan Darby.
B10231940 Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pele), Brazilian soccer star.
B10231942 Michael Creighton, novelist, "Andromeda Strain".
B10231956 Darrell Pace, U.S. Olympic archer
B10241791 Irad Kelley, one of Cleveland's first merchants, a postmaster,
B10241632 Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch naturalist.
B10241791Cand co-owner of Kelley's Island.
B10241904 Moss Hart, playwright.
B10241911 Clarence M. Kelley, FBI head.
B10241926 Y.A. Tittle, AAFC, NFL QB (Baltimore, SF, NY Giants).
B10241936 David Nelson, actor.
B10241949 F. Murray Abraham, actor, "Amadeus", Pittsburgh, Pa.
B10241947 Kevin Kline, St. Louis, Mo.
B10251825 Johann Strauss the Younger (Waltz King).
B10251838 Georges Bizet, composer.
B10251843 Gleb Uspensky, Russian author, "Power of the Soil".
B10251877 Henry Norris Russell, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram).
B10251881 Pablo Picasso, artist, sculptor, printmaker, "Guernica", Malago,
B10251881CSpain.
B10251884 Eduardo Barrios, Chilean novelist, "The Love-Crazed Boy".
B10251888 Richard Byrd, U.S. explorer, first to fly over North and South
B10251888CPoles.
B10251889 Abel Gance, French film director, "Napoleon".
B10251902 Henry Steele Commager, historian.
B10251912 Minnie Pearl (born Sarah Ophelia Colley), Grand Old Oprey, "Hee
B10251912CHaw", Centerville, Tenn.
B10251926 Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano.
B10251927 Barbara Cook, actress, Atlanta, Ga.
B10251928 Marion Ross, actress, Happy Days, Albert Lea, Minn.
B10251931 Annie Giradot, born in Paris.
B10251935 Russell L. (Rusty) Schweickart, astronaut (Apollo 9).
B10251941 Helen Reddy, singer, Melbourne, Australia.
B10251967 Julie Roberts, actress, "Pretty Woman", Smyrna, Ga.
B10261466 Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch scholar, author, "The Praise of Folly".
B10261759 Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader.
B10261855 Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals.
B10261863 Ellsworth Statler, American hotel pioneer.
B10261911 Sid Gillman, NFL coach (LA, San Diego, Houston).
B10261911 Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer, New Orleans, La.
B10261914 Jackie Coogan, actor, "Little Rascals".
B10261916 Francois Mitterrand, French President.
B10261917 Felix the cat, cartoon character.
B10261919 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, shah of Iran (1941-79), Tehran, Iran.
B10261933 Suzy Parker, San Antonio, Texas
B10261947 Jaclyn Smith, actress, "Charlie's Angel", Houston, Texas.
B10261948 Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1st Lady, Park Ridge, Ill.
B10261949 Dudley Michael "Mike" Hargrove, player, coach and manager for the
B10261949CCleveland Indians, Perryton, Texas.
B10261954 Lauren Tewes, actress, "Love Boat".
B10261947 Pat Sajak, host of "Wheel of Fortune", Chicago, Ill.
B10271728 Captain James Cook, discovered the Sandwich Islands.
B10271782 Niccolò Paganini, composer, violin virtuoso
B10271811 Issac Merrit Singer, invented first practical home sewing
B10271811Cmachine.
B10271844 Klas Arnoldson, Swedish politician, pacifist, 1908 Nobel.
B10271858 Theodore Roosevelt (R), 26th President (1901-1909), 1906 Nobel,
B10271858CNew York City, New York.
B10271872 Emily Post, authority on social behavior, writer, "Etiquette".
B10271910 Freddie DeCordova, film and TV producer, "The Tonight Show".
B10271914 Dylan Thomas, poet, "A Child's Christmas in Wales", "Under
B10271914CMilkwood".
B10271918 Teresa Wright, actress, New York, N.Y.
B10271920 Nanette Fabray, actress, singer, San Diego, Calif.
B10271923 Ruby Dee, actress, Cleveland, Oh.
B10271926 H.R. Haldeman, former White House Chief of Staff, Watergate
B10271926Cfigure.
B10271930 Bill George, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears, LA Rams).
B10271939 John Cleese, British comedian, Monty Python.
B10271945 Carrie Snodgrass, actress, Park Ridge, Ill.
B10281466 Erasmus, scholar, author of "In Praise of Folly."
B10281846 Auguste Escoffier, "the king of chefs and the chef of kings."
B10281902 Elsa Lanchester, actress, "The Bride of Frankenstein", England.
B10281903 Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh, writer, satirist, "Vile Bodies",
B10281903CLondon, England.
B10281907 Edith Head, studio fashion designer.
B10281914 Dr. Jonas Salk, who made polio a fear of the past.
B10281926 Bowie Kuhn, former baseball commissioner.
B10281929 Dody Goodman, actress, Columbus, Ohio.
B10281929 Joan Plowright, English actress.
B10281936 Charlie Daniels, country music star.
B10281937 Lenny Wilkins, NBA player, coach (Seattle, Cleveland).
B10281939 Jane Alexander, actress, "Kramer vs. Kramer", Boston, Mass.
B10281944 Coluche, French comedian.
B10281948 Thelma Hopkins, backup singer for Tony Orlando, Louisville, Ky.
B10281949 Bruce Jenner, 1976 Olympic Gold decathlon winner.
B10291656 Edmond Halley, astronomer, London.
B10291740 James Boswell, Samuel Johnson's biographer, born in Scotland.
B10291815 Daniel Decatur Emmett, songwriter, "Dixie", Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
B10291858 Charles H. Ebbets, dean of organized baseball's leaders.
B10291873 Guillermo Valencia, Colombian poet, translator, statesman.
B10291882 Jean Giraudoux, French playwright, "The Madwoman of Chaillot".
B10291884 Bela Lugosi, horror actor, "Dracula", "Body Snatcher".
B10291891 Fanny Brice, singing comedienne, "Ziegeld Follies", "Baby
B10291891CSnooks".
B10291897 Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propagandist.
B10291910 Alfred J. Ayer, English Neopositivist philosopher, logician.
B10291921 Bill Mauldin, political cartoonist.
B10291925 Zoot Simms, American jazz saxophonist.
B10291926 Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor.
B10291945 Melba Moore, actress, New York, N.Y.
B10291947 Richard Dreyfuss, actor, "Jaws", Brooklyn, N.Y.
B10291948 Kate Jackson, actress, "Charley's Angels", Birmingham, Ala.
B10301632 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright, "Rivals", "School for
B10301632CScandal".
B10301735 John Adams (F), 2nd President (1797-1801), lawyer, signer of the
B10301735CDeclaration of Independence, Braintree (Quincy), Mass.
B10301871 Paul Valéry, French poet, essayist, critic.
B10301873 Francisco Madero, Mexican revolutionary, president (1911-13).
B10301885 Ezra Pound, poet, Hailey, Idaho.
B10301896 Ruth Gordon, actress, "Harold and Maude", "Rosemary's Baby", born
B10301896Cin Massachusetts.
B10301932 Louis Malle, film director.
B10301937 Claude Lelouch, film director.
B10301939 Grace Slick, rock singer, Jefferson Starship, Chicago, Ill.
B10301945 Henry Winkler, actor, film director, producer, New York, N.Y.
B10311632 Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter, "Procuress", "The Astronomer".
B10311740 William Paca, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence,
B10311740CAbingdon, Md.
B10311795 John Keats, Romantic poet.
B10311815 Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician, theory of functions.
B10311860 Andrew J. Valstead, father of the U.S. dry law.
B10311860 Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scout founder.
B10311873 Emily Post, grande dame of etiquette, Baltimore, Md.
B10311887 Chiang Kai-shek, Nationalist Chinese leader.
B10311900 Ethal Waters, Broadway actress, singer.
B10311912 Dale Evans aka Mrs. Roy Rogers, Uvalde, Texas.
B10311922 Barbara Bel Geddes, actress, "Dallas".
B10311929 Lee Grant, actress, New York, N.Y.
B10311930 Michael Collins, astronaut (Gemini 10, Apollo 11), Rome, Italy.
B10311936 Michael Landon, actor, an acting angel, "Bonanza".
B10311942 David Ogden Stiers, actor, M*A*S*H, Peoria, Ill.
B10311948 Deidra Hall, actress, Milwaukee, Wis.
B10311950 Dan Rather, television journalist, "60 Minutes", Wharton, Tex.
B10311950 Jane Pauley, TV journalist, "Good Morning", Indianapolis, Ind.
B10311950 John Candy, comedian, Toronto, Ont.
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S1001 331 BC, Macedonians and Greeks under Alexander the Great defeat the
S1001 331CPersians at Arbela.
S10011661 yachting in England begins with a race between King Charles II
S10011661Cand his brother, James, Duke of York, on the Thames.  (Of course
S10011661Che won!)
S10011847 Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet.
S10011851 the first Hawaiian stamps is issued.
S10011869 the first postcards are issued in Vienna.
S10011896 Yosemite becomes a National Park.
S10011898 Henry Huntington buys the Los Angeles Railway.
S10011903 the first World Series starts between the National and American
S10011903CLeagues.
S10011908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car, priced at $850.
S10011919 game one of the Black Sox Scandal World Series is played.
S10011921 the Yankees win their first pennant.
S10011932 Babe Ruth, during the third game of the World Series, points
S10011932Ctowards right-center field, then hits the next pitch into the
S10011932Cright field seats (off Chicago Cubs' Charlie Root).
S10011934 the New York Stock Exchange registers with the SEC.
S10011940 the Pennsylvania Turnpike, a pioneer toll thruway, opens.
S10011942 the first jet propelled airplane is tested.
S10011947 the first helicopter air mail and express service is established
S10011947Cin Los Angeles, Ca.
S10011947 the U.S. Air Force becomes independent of the Army.
S10011949 the People's (Communist) Republic of China is proclaimed; Chou
S10011949CEn-lai is appointed Premier.
S10011951 the first treaty is signed by a woman ambassador (Eugenie
S10011951CAnderson).
S10011958 the Vanguard Project is transferred from the military to NASA.
S10011960 Nigeria becomes an independent nation within the British
S10011960CCommonwealth.
S10011961 Roger Maris hits his record 61st homer of the season, the last
S10011961Coff of Tracy Sallard.
S10011962 Johnny Carson hosts his first "Tonight Show".
S10011962 the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory gets a 300' radio
S10011962Ctelescope.
S10011962 "The Lucy Show" premieres.
S10011962 James Meredith becomes the first black student at the University
S10011962Cof Mississippi after 3,000 troops put down riots.
S10011963 Nigeria is proclaimed a republic.
S10011964 San Francisco's Cable Cars are declared a National Landmark.
S10011971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens.
S10011974 the Watergate cover-up trial begins.
S10011975 during the "Thrilla in Manila", Muhammad Ali T.K.O.'s Joe Frazier
S10011975Cafter 14 rounds.
S10011978 Tuvala (formerly Ellice Islands) becomes independent.
S10011979 the U.S. returns the Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but
S10011979Cnot the canal).
S10011982 the EPCOT Center opens.
S10011982 the FDA warns against Tylenol capsules after seven die from its
S10011982Cuse in three days. (All capsules are recalled on the 5th.  The
S10011982Cincident results in regulations requiring tamper-resistant
S10011982Cpackaging for all over-the-counter medication, and for many other
S10011982Citems.)
S10011983 the Job Training Partnership (JTPA) is enacted, providing job
S10011983Ctraining and employment services to disadvantaged or dislocated
S10011983Cworkers.
S10011988 Mikhail Gorbachev became president of the U.S.S.R.
S10011992 the U.S. becomes a metric country with the official adoption of
S10011992Cthe International Unit of Measure by the 1991 Presidential
S10011992CExecutive Order 12770.
S1001     Feast of St. Remigius, bishop of Rheims, confessor.
S1001     Feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus--the Little Flower.
S1001     Fiscal year begins for Federal Government.
S1001     Independence Day, celebrated in Nigeria.
S1001     National Day in Cyprus and Tuvalu.
S1001     World Vegetarian Day.
S1001    1National Employ the Handicapped Week.
S1001    2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day.
S1002 322 BC Aristotle dies of indigestion.
S10021608 Johannes Lippershey offers the Dutch government a new invention,
S10021608Cthe prototype of modern telescopes.
S10021780 Major John Andre, Benedict Arnold's English accomplice, is
S10021780Changed.
S10021833 the New York Anti-Slavery Society is organized.
S10021836 Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle.
S10021870 Italy annexes Rome and the Papal States; Rome made Italian
S10021870Ccapital.
S10021889 the first Pan American conference opens.
S10021908 Cleveland's Addie Joss' perfect game, the fourth in major league
S10021908Chistory, stops Chicago's Ed Walsh 1-0 (Walsh had won 40 in a
S10021908Crow).
S10021935 the N.Y. Hayden Planetarium, the fourth in the U.S., opens.
S10021936 the first alcohol power plant is established in Atchison, Kansas.
S10021938 Indians' all-time pitching great Bob Feller sets club records for
S10021938Cthe most strikeouts in a game (18) and the most consecutive
S10021938Cstrikeouts (6).
S10021939 birdbaths are installed in Union Square in San Francisco.
S10021942 the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is demonstrated
S10021942Cin Chicago.
S10021947 Yogi Berra become the first player to pinch hit a world series
S10021947Chomer.
S10021950 the comic strip 'Peanuts' first appears, in 9 newspapers.
S10021950 Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD
S10021950Ccatches.
S10021954 West Germany joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
S10021955 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premieres.
S10021958 Guinea gains independence from France (National Day)
S10021959 Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS.
S10021961 "Ben Casey" premieres.
S10021967 Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black Supreme Court Justice.
S10021968 Bob Gibson sets a world series record of 17 strikeouts in opener.
S10021971 a homing pigeon averages 133 kph (record) in 1100-km Australian
S10021971Crace.
S10021986 the Senate overrides President Reagan's veto, and imposes
S10021986Csanctions on South Africa for its apartheid policy.
S10021992 Cleveland Indian Carlos Baerga becomes the first 2nd baseman in
S10021992CAmerican League history to bat .300, and have 200 hits, 100
S10021992CRBI's and 20 home runs (finished the season two days later with a
S10021992C.312 average, 205 hits, 105 RBIs and 2 home runs).
S1002     Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday, celebrated in India.
S1002     Feast of the Guardian Angels.
S1002     Independence Day, celebrated in Guinea.
S1002     Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Boötes.
S1002    1National Employ the Handicapped Week.
S1002    2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day.
S10031789 Washington proclaims the first national Thanksgiving Day on Nov.
S10031789C26.
S10031863 Lincoln designates the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving
S10031863CDay.
S10031888 the Cleveland Yachting Association is incorporated as the
S10031888CCleveland Yacht Club.
S10031906 the first conference on wireless telegraphy adopts SOS as a
S10031906Cwarning signal.
S10031913 the Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%), effective
S10031913COct.31, 1913.
S10031920 the NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays their
S10031920Cfirst games.
S10031940 the U.S. adopts parachute troops (paratroopers).
S10031941 "The Maltese Falcon" opens, starring Humphrey Bogart.  (It is
S10031941CJohn Huston's first directing job.)
S10031942 the first A-4/V-2 rocket is launched to an altitude of 53 miles.
S10031947 the first telescope lens 200 inches in diameter is completed.
S10031948 the NFL becomes the "sport of the week" for the first time.
S10031950 the first black lead (Ethel Waters) appears on TV - "Beulah".
S10031951 Bobby Thompson hits the "miracle home run" (also known as "the
S10031951Cshot heard round the world") giving the Giants a 5-4 victory of
S10031951Cthe Brooklyn Dodgers in the deciding game for the NL pennant.
S10031954 "Father Knows Best" premieres on TV.
S10031955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres.  Good Morning, Captain!
S10031955 "The Mickey Mouse Club" premieres.
S10031960 San Francisco's White House department store is first to accept
S10031960Cthe BankAmericard in lieu of cash.
S10031961 "The Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres.
S10031962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 is launched into earth orbit.
S10031972 Bloomingdale in New York City opens
S10031974 the Cleveland Indians name Frank Robinson manager, the first
S10031974Cblack manager in major league baseball.
S10031984 over 10,000 migrating caribou drown in the swollen Caniapiscau
S10031984Cand Koksoak Rivers.
S10031985 the space shuttle Atlantis makes its all-military maiden flight.
S10031990 the formal unification of East and West Germany takes place.
S10031991 it is announced that the bank that serves members of the House,
S10031991Cbecause of over-draft abuse, will close.
S1003     Feast of St. Francis Borgia, Confessor
S1003     Feast of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus
S1003    1National Employ the Handicapped Week
S1003    2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day
S10041636 the first code of law for Plymouth Colony is drafted.
S10041648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes America's first volunteer firemen.
S10041777 the British under Howe defeat Washington at Germantown (Pa.).
S10041824 Mexico becomes a republic.
S10041830 Belgium secedes from the Netherlands.
S10041883 the 'Orient Express' begins its first run, linking Turkey to
S10041883CEurope by rail.
S10041926 the dahlia is officially designated as the City Flower in S.F.
S10041931 the comic strip "Dick Tracy" debuts.
S10041934 Enrico Fermi measures the speed of a neutron.
S10041948 the Cleveland Indians play the first championship playoff game in
S10041948CA.L. history (and the second in M.L. history), beating the
S10041949CBoston Red Sox 8 -3.  They go on to win the World Series.
S10041955 the Brooklyn Dodgers win their only World Series, beating the
S10041955CYankees.
S10041957 U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik I, the first man-made earth satellite.
S10041957 "Leave It to Beaver" debuts on CBS.
S10041959 Cleveland Browns' Jim Brown makes 37 rushing attempts, a club
S10041959Crecord, Browns 34, Chicago 7.
S10041960 the U.S. launches the first active telecommunications satellite,
S10041960CCourier I-B.
S10041966 Lesotho (formerly Basutoland) gains independence from Britain
S10041966C(National Day).
S10041969 the U.N. starts issuing postage stamps at its Geneva
S10041969Cheadquarters.
S10041976 the Supreme Court lifts ban on the death penalty in murder cases
S10041976C(found death penalty unconstitutional on June 29, 1972).
S10041976 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns after a racial "joke".
S10041986 Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands opens Ooslerscheldedam, the most
S10041986Cadvance sea barrier in Europe.
S10041985 the 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis is launched on its
S10041985Cmaiden voyage.
S10041987 James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns
S10041987Cwithout making an interception.  (He scored on laterals.)
S10041991 24 countries sign an agreement barring mineral and oil
S10041991Cexploration in Antarctica for 50 years.
S10042363 the U.F.P. Starship Enterprise NCC 1701-D is commissioned.
S1004     Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, confessor
S1004    1National Employ the Handicapped Week
S1004    2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day
S10051582 the Gergorian calendar is introduced (Oct. 4 became Oct. 15).
S10051813 the Americans defeat the British at the Battle of the Thames,
S10051813Cbreaking the Indians allies of England and making the Detroit
S10051813Cfrontier safe.
S10051857 the First American Chess Congress is held in New York City.
S10051877 Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Percé War.
S10051892 the Dalton Gang ends in a shoot-out in a Coffeville, Kansas bank
S10051892Choldup.
S10051908 Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey
S10051910 Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic.
S10051921 the first radio broadcast of the World Series occurs.
S10051922 the Yankees and Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie world series
S10051922Cgame.
S10051923 Edwin Hubble identifies the Cepheid variable star.
S10051931 the first nonstop transpacific flight occurs, Japan to Wenatchee,
S10051931CWash.
S10051947 the first Presidential address televised from White House airs -
S10051947CH.S. Truman.
S10051949 the United Nations flag is raised over its new N.Y. headquarters.
S10051964 the San Francisco Fire Department Museum is dedicated.
S10051970 PBS becomes a network.
S10051980 the Yankees set the A.L. attendance mark at 2,627,417.
S10051982 an unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph (record) at White
S10051982CSands, New Mexico.
S10051982 Johnson and Johnson recalls all Tylenol capsules after the eighth
S10051982Cdeath caused by deliberate contamination.  (The incident results
S10051982Cin regulations requiring tamper-resistant packaging for all over-
S10051982Cthe-counter medications, and for many other items.)
S10051984 the 13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 is launched.
S10051986 Cleveland Browns' Gerald "The Ice Cube" McNeil sets a club record
S10051986Cfor the highest kickoff return average (48.3 yards in 3 returns),
S10051986CBrowns 27, Pittsburgh 24.
S1005     Feast of St. Flora of Beaulieu, Virgin, (A.D. 1347).
S1005     Feast of St. Placid and his companions, martyrs.
S1005    1National Employ the Handicapped Week.
S1005    2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day.
S10061781 the siege of Yorktown begins.
S10061863 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the first public bath, in Brooklyn.
S10061889 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
S10061927 "The Jazz Singer", the first movie with a sound track, premieres.
S10061935 Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches.
S10061939 the Main Avenue Bridge is opened in Cleveland.
S10061949 Tokyo Rose (Mrs. I. Toguri D'Aquino) is sentenced to ten years
S10061949Cand a $10,000 fine (paroled in 1956 and pardoned in 1977).
S10061965 Patricia Harris becomes the first U.S. black ambassador
S10061965C(Luxenbourgh).
S10061973 Egypt and Syria invade Israel -The Yom Kippur War.
S10061979 John Paul II becomes the first pope to be received at the White
S10061979CHouse.
S10061981 Anwar Sadat is assassinated; Hosnai Mubarak becomes Egyptian
S10061981Cpresident.
S10061990 the 36th Shuttle Mission, Discovery 11 is launched.
S10061991 Anita Hill submits an affidavit to the Judiciary Committee
S10061991Cconcerning sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas, associate
S10061991CSupreme Court justice nominee.
S1006     Universal Children's Day
S1006     Ivy Day (celebrated in Ireland.)
S1006     Feast of St. Bruno, Blsd. Marie-Rose Durocher.
S1006     St. Faith's Day (Anglican).
S1006    1National Employ the Handicapped Week.
S1006    2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day.
S10071765 delegates from 9 colonies meet in N.Y. at Stamp Act Congress,
S10071765Cadopting the Declaration of Rights that opposes taxation without
S10071765Crepresentation.
S10071777 frontiersmen with Kentucky rifles become the decisive factor in
S10071777Cthe American victory at the Battle of Saratoga.
S10071826 Granite Railway (first chartered railway in U.S.) begins
S10071826Coperations.
S10071908 Crete unites with Greece.
S10071913 Henry Ford establishes a moving assembly line.
S10071916 Georgia Tech's football team defeats Cumberland College of
S10071916CLebanon, Tennessee 222-0 (record).
S10071918 Lakewood High School on Bunts and Franklin is opened.  Classes
S10071918Care started 6 weeks later due to a flu epidemic.
S10071931 the first infra-red photograph is taken in Rochester, NY.
S10071949 the Democratic Republic of Germany (East) is formed.
S10071950 the U.S. forces invade North Korea by crossing the 38th parallel.
S10071954 IBM displays first all-transistor calculator.
S10071957 "American Bandstand" hosted by Dick Clark goes national on ABC.
S10071959 the first pictures of the moon's hidden side are taken by
S10071959CSoviets Lunik III.
S10071960 Kennedy and Nixon meet in second TV debate.
S10071960 "Route 66" premieres.
S10071963 a treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests is signed by the U.S.,
S10071963CBritain, and the U.S.S.R.
S10071965 Robert Mitera aces the 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha,
S10071965CNebr.
S10071968 the Motion Picture Association of America adopts a film rating
S10071968Csystem.
S10071979 Cleveland Browns' Dino Hall sets two club records with 9 kickoff
S10071979Creturns for 172 yards, and Pittsburgh rushes for 361 yards, the
S10071979Cmost rushing yards gained by an opponent in the Browns' history,
S10071979CBrowns 35, Pittsburgh 51.
S10071982 Lloyd Weber's "Cats" opens on Broadway.
S10071985 terrorists seize the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro at sea.
S1007     Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary and of St. Osith, Saxon virgin.
S1007     Feast of the Holy Rosary.
S1007    1National Employ the Handicapped Week.
S1007    2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day.
S10081604 the supernova called "Kepler's nova" is first sighted.
S10081840 the first Hawaiian constitution is proclaimed.
S10081860 telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
S10081871 The Great Fire destroys over 4 square miles of Chicago.
S10081896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks.
S10081906 Karl Nessler demonstrates the first 'permanent wave' for hair,
S10081906Cin London.
S10081918 Sgt. Alvin York single-handedly kills 25 Germans and captures
S10081918C132.  He is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
S10081933 Coit Tower is dedicated in San Francisco, a monument to
S10081933Cfirefighters.
S10081935 Ozzie and Harriet Nelson are married.
S10081944 the "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debut on CBS radio.
S10081956 Donald Larsen pitches the seventh perfect game in major league
S10081956Chistory, and the only World Series perfect game, Yankees 2,
S10081956CBrooklyn 0.
S10081957 the Brooklyn Dodgers announce they will move to Los Angeles.
S10081961 Cleveland Browns' Bobby Mitchell sets the club record for the
S10081961Cbest punt return average (27.7 yards in 3 returns), Browns 31,
S10081961CWashington 7.
S10081978 Kenneth Warby sets world speed record on water (514 kph).
S10081982 the Polish Parliament approves a law banning Solidarity.
S1008     Feast of St. Bridget, widow and St. Keyne, virgin (6th Century).
S1008    2Canadian Thanksgiving.
S1008    2Columbus Day.
S1008    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.)
S1008    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day.
S10091000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England).
S10091635 religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Mass Bay
S10091635CColony.
S10091701 the Collegiate School of Connecticut (Yale U), is chartered in
S10091701CNew Haven.
S10091776 Mission Delores is founded by San Francisco Bay.
S10091855 Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass. patents the first calliope.
S10091865 the first underground oil pipeline is laid between Oil Creek and
S10091865CPithole, Pa.
S10091876 the first 2-way telephone conversation occurs.
S10091888 the Washington Monument opens to the public.
S10091921 Babe Ruth hits his first World Series homer.
S10091922 President Harding establishes Fire Prevention Week.
S10091922 the first transcontinental flight by a woman (Lilian Gatlin)
S10091922Clands.
S10091938 the altimeter is first demonstrated in New York.
S10091947 the first telephone conversation between automobile and plane
S10091947Ctakes place.
S10091949 Harvard Law School begins to admit women.
S10091960 Dallas Cowboys' Eddie LeBaron throws the shortest touchdown pass,
S10091960C2 inches.
S10091961 New York Yankee Roger Maris hits his 61st homer (162-game
S10091961cseason.)
S10091962 Uganda gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S10091980 "Private Benjamin" opens with Goldie Hawn.
S10091983 James Watt resigns as Secretary of the Interior.
S10091992 the U.N. Security Council bans all military flights, a "no-fly
S10091992Czone, over Bosnia by Serbian warplanes (gives no orders to shoot
S10091992Cdown violators).
S1009    2Columbus Day.
S1009    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.)
S1009    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day.
S1009     Feast of St. John Leonardi, confessor.
S1009     Feast of St. Denis and Companions.
S1009     Giacobinid meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S1009     Leif Ericson Day.
S1009     St. Denys's Day (Anglican).
S10101845 the U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis) is founded as a Naval School.
S10101846 Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell.
S10101886 Griswold Lorillard wears the first dinner jacket to the
S10101886CAutumn Ball in Tuxedo Park.  Thus the name 'tuxedo.'
S10101911 the Manchu Dynasty is overthrown in China.
S10101913 the Pacific and the Atlantic mix as engineers blow Gamboa Dam,
S10101913Copening Panama Canal.
S10101920 Cleveland Indian Bill Wambsganss of Lakewood, Ohio makes the
S10101920Cfirst unassisted triple play in World Series history.
S10101930 Transcontinental and Western Air Inc. (TWA) forms through merger
S10101930Cof three airlines.
S10101933 the first synthetic detergent for home use is marketed.
S10101935 George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" opens in New York.
S10101943 Chiang Kai-shek takes the oath of office as president of China.
S10101947 the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) opens inquiry
S10101947Cinto the alleged radicalism in the film industry.
S10101948 86,288 fans watch Game 5 of the World Series, the largest crowd
S10101948Cfor a sporting event in Cleveland Stadium's history (M.L.
S10101948Crecord), Indians 5, Boston Braves 11.
S10101957 President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana,
S10101957CKomla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover,
S10101957CDelware restaurant.
S10101961 "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller is published.
S10101964 the 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo.
S10101970 the 800 islands of Fiji gain independence from Britain (National
S10101970CDay).
S10101971 the London Bridge, bought for Arizona's Lake Havasu City by
S10101971CRobert McCullock for $10 million, opens.
S10101973 Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns and avoids prison for tax
S10101973Cevasion.
S10101975 Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt.
S10101976 the $68 million Meadowlands Stadium (Giants) opens in N.J.
S10101976 an American student publishes an article detailing how to build
S10101976Can atomic bomb.
S10101978 President Carter signs the bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony
S10101978Cdollar.
S10101980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network is dedicated in
S10101980CN.M.
S10101982 Pope John Paul II proclaims Rev. M Kolbe, who volunteered to die
S10101982Cin place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a
S10101982Csaint.
S10101985 U.S. fighter jets force the Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers
S10101985Cof the Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy; gunmen are
S10101985Cplaced in custody.
S10101987 the Garfield Park Nature Center opens, the latest in the
S10101987CCleveland Metroparks.
S10101992 Cuyahoga County, Ohio declines to prosecute a woman who had
S10101992Cregistered her cat, Morris, to vote.
S1010    2Columbus Day.
S1010    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.)
S1010    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day.
S1010     National Day (celebrated in Taiwan.)
S1010     Feast of St. Francis Borgia, Confessor (A.D. 1572).
S1010     National Day in Taiwan.
S10111776 Gen. Benedict Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet is defeated at
S10111776CValcour, but the British returned to Canada.
S10111797 the British naval forces defeat the Dutch off Camperdown, the
S10111797CNetherlands.
S10111803 the first election under the Ohio Constitution is held in
S10111803CCleveland.
S10111811 the Juliana, the first steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation.
S10111890 the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
S10111890 John Owen breaks the 10 second mark for the first time in the 100
S10111890Cyard dash (9.8).
S10111899 the Boer War breaks out in South Africa between Britain and the
S10111899CDutch settlers (Boer).
S10111919 the first in-flight meal is served when lunch boxes are given out
S10111919Con a London-to-Paris flight.
S10111948 the Cleveland Indians win the World Series by defeating the
S10111948CBoston Braves in Game 6 (4 - 3).
S10111958 NASA launches its first spacecraft, the Pioneer I.
S10111968 Apollo 7 is launched, the first manned flight of the Command and
S10111968CService modules.
S10111975 "Saturday Night Live "premieres.
S10111984 Dr. Kathryn Sullivan becomes the first American woman to walk in
S10111984Cspace.
S1011    2Columbus Day.
S1011    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.)
S1011    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day
S1011     Feast of the Motherhood of Mary.
S1011     Feast of St. Mary Soledad, Foundress of Handmaidens of Mary.
S1011     General Pulaski Memorial Day (anniversary of his death in 1779).
S10121492 Christopher Columbus lands on the isle of San Salvador in the
S10121492Cpresent-day Bahamas.
S10121823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling the raincoats.
S10121891 Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated.
S10121910 the Detroit-Rocky River Bridge is dedicated.
S10121915 Edith Cavell, a British nurse at a Red Cross hospital, is
S10121915Cexecuted by a German firing squad for aiding POW's to escape.
S10121920 the Cleveland Indians win their first World Series, beating the
S10121920CBrooklyn Dodgers in Game 7 (3 - 0).
S10121920 Man O'War runs his last race.
S10121928 the first commercial iron lung is used at Children's Hospital
S10121928Cin Boston.
S10121929 the Cubs blow a 8-0 world series lead when the A's score 10 in 1
S10121929Cinning.
S10121933 Alcatraz becomes a federal maximum security prison
S10121933C(unofficially).
S10121933 John Dillinger escapes from the Allen County, OH, jail.
S10121943 the Blue Network (formerly NBC-Blue) becomes the American
S10121943CBroadcasting Company (ABC).
S10121949 Eugenie Anderson, the first woman ambassador, is appointed to
S10121949CDenmark.
S10121957 the first commercial flight between California and Antarctica
S10121957Coccurs.
S10121960 Nikita Khrushchev bangs his desk with his shoe at an U.N.
S10121960CGeneral Assembly session.
S10121963 at 4 A.M., the traffic on Bay Bridge becomes 1-way on each deck.
S10121967 Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in one world series.
S10121968 Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain.
S10121969 Sonja Henie wins her tenth individual figure skating title to
S10121969Cset the record for the most individual titles held by a woman.
S10121972 Mariner 9 takes pictures of the Martian north pole.
S10121973 Gerald Rudolph Ford becomes the first appointed vice president
S10121973Cunder the 25th Amendment (Spiro Agnew's successor).
S10121976 swine flu vaccinations are halted in nine states when three
S10121976Cpeople die after getting shots (suspended nationally December
S10121976C16).
S10121992 Art Monk of the Washington Redskins catches his 820th NFL pass,
S10121992Cbreaking Steve Largent's record.
S1012    The REAL Columbus Day.
S1012    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.)
S1012    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day.
S1012     Feast of St. Wilfrid, Bishop of York (A.D. 709).
S1012     Spanish National Day.
S10131775 the U.S. Navy is established.
S10131792 George Washington lays the cornerstone of the Executive Mansion.
S10131843 B'nai B'rith is founded in N.Y.
S10131860 the first successful aerial photograph in the U.S. is taken from
S10131860Ca balloon of Boston.
S10131880 the Boers (Dutch settlers in South Africa) declare independence
S10131880Cfrom Great Britain and proclaim the Transvaal Republic.
S10131903 the American League wins 3 - 0 (Boston vs Pittsburg) in the first
S10131903CWorld Series (5 games out of 8.)
S10131932 the cornerstone for the Supreme Court Building in Washington is
S10131932Claid.
S10131943 Italy declares war on its former ally, Germany.
S10131947 "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" premieres.
S10131953 the burglar alarm - ultrasonic or radio waves - is patented by
S10131953CSamuel Bagno.
S10131954 the U.S. Air Force authorizes the B-58, the first supersonic
S10131954Cbomber.
S10131960 Kennedy and Nixon meet in the third TV debate.
S10131960 Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats the Yankees
S10131960C10-9 in game 7 of World Series.
S10131968 Tinker Creek Gorge of the Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated as a
S10131968CNational Landmark.
S10131971 the first World Series night game is played (Pitts 4 - Balt 3).
S10131972 an Uruguayan plane crashes in the Andes where the 16 survivors,
S10131972Cduring the 69-day ordeal, resort to cannibalism.
S10131982 the International Olympic Committee restores 2 gold medals
S10131982Crevoked from Jim Thorpe in 1912 posthumously.  The medals were
S10131982Ctaken away because he played baseball for pay.
S10131984 John Henry becomes the first thoroughbred to win $6 million.
S10131985 the 11th Space Shuttle Mission -Challenger 6 is launched.
S10131985 the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, the
S10131985Cworld's largest atom smasher, opens.
S10131987 the first military use of trained dolphins takes place by the
S10131987CU.S. Navy in Persian Gulf.
S10131987 eighteen-month-old Jessica McClure falls down a Midland Texas
S10131987Cwell shaft (rescued 57 hours later).
S10131992 Cleveland sports bar owners vote to boycott Anheuser-Busch beer
S10131992Cin protest of the NFL blackout policy.
S1013    2Columbus Day.
S1013    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.)
S1013    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day
S1013     Feast of St. Edward the Confessor, English king (1042-66).
S1013    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
S10141066 the Battle of Hastings occurs, in which William the Conqueror
S10141066Cwins England.
S10141774 the first declaration of colonial rights in America is declared.
S10141843 the British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for
S10141843Cconspiracy.
S10141884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
S10141912 Theodore Roosevelt is shot in the chest in Milwaukee while
S10141912Ccampaigning for President with the Bull Moose Party.
S10141922 the first automated telephones, the Pennsylvania exchange in N.Y.
S10141922CCity, is established.
S10141944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than
S10141944Cface trial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Hitler.
S10141947 the first supersonic flight (Mach 1.015 at 42,000 feet) is
S10141947Cperformed in an U.S. Bell XS-1 rocket plane (Glamorous Glennis)
S10141947Cby Capt. Charles "Chuck" Yeagar.
S10141954 "White Christmas" starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye premieres.
S10141978 the first TV movie from a TV series, "Rescue from Gilligan's
S10141978CIsland", airs.
S10141983 the National Council of Churches release a new translation of
S10141983Ccertain Bible passages in which gender references to God are
S10141983Cblurred or omitted.
S10141984 Cleveland Browns' Ozzie Newsome, "The Wizard of Oz", sets two
S10141984Cclub records with 14 receptions for 191 yards, Browns 20,
S10141984CJets 24.
S10141992 for the first time in the history of major league baseball, a
S10141992Cteam goes from losing to winning a National League Championship
S10141992Cwith the final pitch, Braves 3, Pirates 2.
S1014    2Columbus Day.
S1014    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.)
S1014    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day.
S1014     Feast of St. Callistus I, pope (217-222), martyr.
S1014     People's Democratic Republic of Yemen's (South Yemen) National
S1014    CDay.
S10151520 King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes to be built
S10151520Cat Whitehall, in London.
S10151582 Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar, cutting 10 prior
S10151582Cdays (October 5 became October 15).
S10151783 Jean Pilâtre de Rozier makes a captive-balloon ascent, becoming
S10151583Cthe first man to leave the earth.
S10151815 Napoleon arrives at his final place of exile, St. Helena.
S10151860 Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln to tell him to grow a beard.
S10151878 Thomas Edison establishes the Edison Electric Light Company.
S10151914 the Clayton Act is enacted, giving organized labor the right to
S10151914Cstrike and picket.
S10151917 Mata Hari is shot by a French firing squad for espionage.
S10151923 the Yanks win their first world championship, beating the Giants.
S10151939 LaGuardia Airport opens in N.Y. City.
S10151946 Enos Slaughter scores from first on a single in the World Series.
S10151951 "I Love Lucy" premieres.
S10151957 the new Lakewood YMCA opens.
S10151959 "The Untouchables" premieres.
S10151964 Kosygin and Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.
S10151764 Edward Gibbon conceives "The Decline and Fall of the Roman
S10151764CEmpire" while in Rome (completes the classic June 27, 1787).
S10151966 the Department of Transportation is created.
S10151966 a 75-year-old man receives 10 traffic summonses when he drives on
S10151966Cthe wrong side of the road four times, commits four hit-and-run
S10151966Coffenses, and causes six accidents, all within 20 minutes, in
S10151966CMcKinney, Texas.
S10151969 the Vietnam Moratorium, the first nationally coordinated
S10151969Cdemonstration against the Vietnam War, is held.
S10151969 Congress votes to coin a new dollar honoring Eisenhower.
S10151991 despite the charges of sexual harassment brought by Anita Hill,
S10151991CClarence Thomas is confirmed as associate Supreme Court justice.
S1015     Mushroom Day.  Stay in the dark!
S1015     National Grouch Day. Cheer down!
S1015     Feast of St. Teresa of Avila, first woman doctor of the church.
S1015     White Cane Safety Day.
S1015     World Poetry Day.
S10161793 Maria Antoinette's last words before meeting the guillotine are,
S10161793C"Pardon, sir.  I did not do it on purpose."
S10161829 the Tremont Hotel, the first modern hotel in the U.S., opens
S10161829Cin Boston, featuring washbowls in each room, and 8 bathrooms
S10161829Cin the basement!
S10161846 dentist William T. Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of
S10161846Cether during a major surgical operation.
S10161859 John Brown seizes the U.S. armory at Harpers Ferry.
S10161861 the Confederacy starts selling postage stamps.
S10161869 a hotel in Boston becomes the first to have indoor plumbing.
S10161908 General Motors is organized by William Crapo Durant, combining
S10161908CBuick and Oldsmobile.
S10161916 Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn,
S10161916CNew York.
S10161917 E.G. Good of Cedar Falls, Iowa pays $47,500 for a 7-year-old
S10161917CBelgian stallion, "Farceur," the highest price for a draught
S10161917Chorse.
S10161923 the Disney Company is founded.
S10161941 Gordo (by Gus Arriola) first appears in newspapers.
S10161943 Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens the city's new subway system.
S10161961 the first nuclear-powered surface warship, the USS Long Beach, is
S10161961Cdisplayed.
S10161962 Cuban missile crisis begins as JFK becomes aware of missiles in
S10161962CCuba.
S10161964 Brezhnev and Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia (First
S10161964CSecretary and Soviet Premier).
S10161964 China becomes the world's 5th nuclear power.
S10161969 the N.Y. Mets win their first World Series (after 8 years in the
S10161969Cleague).
S10161978 Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pope since 1522.
S10161982 the Mt. Palomar Observatory is the first to detect Halley's comet
S10161982Con its 13th return.
S10161985 Intel introduces the 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
S10161987 18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued 57 hours after she fell
S10161987C22 feet into a well shaft in Midland, TX.
S10161988 the sculptured tree trunk in front of Lakewood's fire station on
S10161988CWarren Rd, honoring the firemen who have lost their lives saving
S10161988Cothers, is dedicated.
S10161992 the Burton (formerly the Main Avenue) Bridge reopens after a 18-
S10161992Cmonth overhaul.  Renamed Burton after a former mayor of
S10161992CCleveland, U.S. Senator and U.S. Supreme Court justice.
S10161992 Magic Johnson plays is first professional games since coming out
S10161992Cof retirement.
S1016     Feast of St. Margaret, St. Hedwig.
S1016     World Food Day.
S1016     National Boss Day.
S10171777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders to General Gates at
S10171777CSaratoga, N.Y.
S10171850 Knickerbocker Engine Co.  Number 5 is organized.
S10171860 the first professional golf tournament is held, in Scotland.
S10171894 an Ohio national guard unit kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a
S10171894Cblack man.
S10171899 Sutro RR is sold to Robert F. Morrow for $215,000.
S10171904 the Bank of Italy in San Francisco (now BankAmerica Corporation)
S10171904Copens its doors.
S10171919 RCA (Radio Corporation of America) is created.
S10171920 Michael Fitzgerald, after a 68-day fast, becomes the first hunger
S10171920Cstriker to die in prison.
S10171933 Albert Einstein arrives in the U.S., a refugee from Nazi Germany.
S10171941 the first American warship is torpedoed in WW 2, the USS Kearny
S10171941Coff the Iceland coast (11 killed).
S10171949 Northwest Airlines becomes the first in the U.S. to serve
S10171949Calcoholic beverages in flight.
S10171954 Pittsburgh intercepts 6 passes and scores 8 TD's against
S10171954CCleveland, the most ever made by opponents in Browns' history,
S10171954Cand Steelers' Ray Matthews scores 4 TD's, the most TD's and
S10171954Cpoints scored against the Browns by one player, Browns 27,
S10171954CSteelers 55.
S10171959 the Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River
S10171959CReservation is dedicated.
S10171971 Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River Nature Center opens.
S10171978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla is elected supreme pontiff - John
S10171978Paul II.
S10171987 the first World Series game is played in a covered stadium
S10171987C(Minnesota Metrodome).
S10171989 minutes before game 3 of the World series begins between the
S10171989CGiants and the Athletics, an earthquake strikes the Bay area.
S10171991 the U.S. Navy reverses its position on the cause of the explosion
S10171991Con the battleship Iowa, and apologizes to the Clayton Hartwig
S10171991Cfamily of Lakewood.
S1017     Feast of St. Ignatius of Antioch
S1017     Feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin.
S1017     St. Ethelred's Day (Anglican).
S10181776 the back of a bar in New York is decorated with birds' tail
S10181776Cfeathers.  A customer jokingly asked for a glass of those
S10181776C"cock tails," and a tradition was born!
S10181847 English astronomer J.K. Hind discovers Flor, his second asteroid.
S10181869 the United States takes possession of Alaska.
S10181873 the Ivy League establishes rules for college football.
S10181892 the first commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago -
S10181892CNew York).
S10181896 the earliest newspaper comic strip, "The Yellow Kid", is first
S10181896Cpublished in the New York Journal.
S10181922 the British Broadcasting Corporation is established.
S10181924 Harold "Red" Grange (the Galloping Ghost) returns the opening
S10181924Ckickoff 95 yards against the Wolverines (later scores 3 more TD's
S10181924C - final: Illinois 39, Michigan 14).
S10181953 Willie Thrower becomes the first black NFL quarterback in modern
S10181953Ctimes.
S10181955 a new atomic particle called a negative proton is found at the
S10181955CU.C. Berkeley.
S10181959 Lakewood's new Administration and Civic center opens.
S10181965 the first person, David Miller, is arrested for burning his draft
S10181965Ccard under a new federal law.
S10181967 Soviet Venera 4 becomes the first probe to send data back from
S10181967CVenus.
S10181967 the first space observatory, the U.S. Orbiting Solar observatory,
S10181967Cis launched.
S10181967 Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released.
S10181968 Tommie Smith and John Carlos are suspended by the U.S. Olympics
S10181968CCommittee for raising fists in the "black power" salute while
S10181968Creceiving their medals.
S10181968 Circus Circus in Las Vegas opens.
S10181969 the U.S. bans cyclamates as an artificial sweetener.
S10181971 the House orders President Nixon not to cut funds for school
S10181971Clunch programs.
S10181977 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu,
S10181977CSomalia, freeing  all 86 hostages aboard and killing three of the
S10181977Cfour hijackers.
S10181977 Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers, tying Ruth's World
S10181977CSeries record.
S10181977 the most distant asteroid, 2060 Chiron, is detected between
S10181977CSaturn and Uranus by Charles Kowal.
S10181989 the 31st Shuttle Mission, Atlantis 5 is launched.
S1018     The start of the Moslem New Year.
S1018     Feast of St. Luke, evangelist.
S1018     Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S10191781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 P.M.
S10191812 Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow.
S10191845 Wagner's opera 'Tannhauser' is performed for first time.
S10191853 first flour mill in Hawaii begins operations.
S10191859 Wilhelm Tempel discovers a diffuse nebula around the Pleid star
S10191859CMerope.
S10191950 the Bird Building at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated.
S10191953 singer Julius LaRosa is fired on television by Arthur Godfrey.
S10191959 Congress hears testimony that TV quiz shows have been fixed for
S10191959Cyears.
S10191963 the Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is released.
S10191967 Mariner 5 flies by Venus, its closest proximity.
S10191968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars.
S10191971 the final issue of "Look" magazine reaches the newsstands.
S10191973 the Arab oil embargo begins. It will last until March, 1974.
S10191975 Cleveland Browns' Don Cockroft kicks 5 field goals, a club
S10191975Crecord, Browns 15, Denver 16.
S10191978 President Carter orders production of elements of the neutron
S10191978Cbomb.
S10191987 the U.S. destroys three Iranian offshore oil platforms in
S10191987Cretaliation for attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf.
S10191987 Black Monday - the Dow Jones loses 508.32 points, more than 4½
S10191987Ctimes previous record.
S10191987 Bernhard Goetz is sentenced to six months in jail on a gun
S10191987Ccharge.
S1019     Feast of St. Peter of Alcantara, confessor.
S1019     Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S1019     Feast of North American Martyrs SS. J. de Brebeuf, I. Jogues, A.
S1019    CDaniel, G. Lalemand, C. Garnier, N. Chabanel, R. Goupil and J.
S1019    CLaliande, canonized in 1930.
S10201600 Battle of Sekigahara, which established the Tokugawa clan as
S10201600Crulers of Japan (SHOGUN) until 1865 (basis of Clavell's novel).
S10201817 the first "Showboat" leaves Nashville, Tennessee to give shows
S10201817Calong the Mississippi.  It is a converted keelboat.
S10201906 Dr. Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube.
S10201939 "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" starring James Stewart opens at
S10201939Cthe N.Y. Music Hall.
S10201944 Cleveland's most disastrous fire engulfs more than one-square
S10201944Cmile on the city's east side. The cause was an exploding natural
S10201944Cgas tank.
S10201944 Gen. MacArthur, fulfilling a 1942 promise, returns to the
S10201944CPhillippines.
S10201945 the Arab League is formed (Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon).
S10201947 the House Un-American Activities Committee opens hearings into
S10201947Callege Communist influence in the Hollywood movie industry.
S10201953 Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" is published.
S10201954 "Peter Pan" with Mary Martin opens on Broadway.
S10201960 the first fully mechanized post office opens in Providence, RI.
S10201961 the UAW ends the first company-wide strike against Ford after 17
S10201961CDays.
S10201967 the Shah of Iran is crowned.
S10201968 Jacqueline Kennedy weds shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
S10201970 after a three year absence, Muhammad Ali TKO's Jerry Quarry in
S10201970Cthe 3rd round.
S10201973 the Saturday Night Massacre -  Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox
S10201973Cis dismissed by President Nixon, Attorney General Richardson
S10201973Cresigns and Deputy Attorney General G. Ruckelshaus is fired.
S10201979 the John F. Kennedy Library is dedicated in Boston.
S10201980 the FDA asks mandatory labels on tampon packages warning of toxic
S10201980Cshock syndrome.
S10201984 Cleveland Metroparks' Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails are
S10201984Ccompleted.
S10201984 the world's largest aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, Ca.
S10201992 Blue Jays' Kelly Gruber ends the longest major league post-season
S10201992Cbatting drought, 0-23, with a home-run in game 3 against the
S10201992CBraves' Steve Avery.
S1020     Feast of St. John Cantius, Confessor and St. Bertilla Boscardin.
S1020     Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S10211520 Magellan enters the Magellan strait.
S10211805 during the Battle of Trafalgar,  Adm. Nelson defeats the combined
S10211805CFrench and Spanish fleet and establishes British naval supremacy
S10211805Cfor the next century.
S10211869 the first shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from
S10211869CBaltimore.
S10211879 Thomas A. Edison successfully demonstrates the first durable and
S10211879Ccommercially practical electric light bulb.
S10211948 facsimile high-speed radio transmission is demonstrated in
S10211948CWashington, D.C.
S10211959 the Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in
S10211959CN.Y.
S10211960 Kennedy and Nixon meet in their fourth and last TV debate.
S10211962 JFK and other high officials reveiw information on missile sites
S10211962Cin Cuba (U.S. force maneuvers off Puerto Rico).
S10211967 thousands opposing the Vietnam War try to storm the Pentagon.
S10211980 the Philadelphia Phillies win their first World Series in 98
S10211980Cyears.
S10211984 Cleveland Browns' Steve Cox sets a club record with a 60-yard
S10211984Cfield goal, Browns 9, Cincinnati 12.
S10211986 the Republic of the Marshall Islands enters a free association
S10211986Cwith the U.S. as a sovereign-self-governing state.
S10211992 rock singer Madonna's book, "Sex", is released under a flurry of
S10211992Ccontroversy.
S1021     Feast of St. Hilarion, an ascetic and lover of solitude and
S1021    Cpenance.
S1021     Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S1021     Somali National Day.
S10221746 Princeton University in New Jersey receives its charter.
S10221797 André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first parachute jump from a
S10221797Cballoon (Paris).
S10221836 Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first elected president of
S10221836Cthe Republic of Texas.
S10221883 the original Metropolitan Opera House in N.Y. holds its grand
S10221883Copening.
S10221934 Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd is shot dead by the FBI in Ohio.
S10221936 the first commercial flight from the mainland to Hawaii occurs.
S10221954 President Eisenhower approves plan for the intensive training of
S10221954Cthe South Vietnamese army.
S10221954 the governor shuts Los Angeles' oil refineries on the 16th day
S10221954Cof heavy smog (first time such action is taken in the world).
S10221960 Cassius Clay fights his first bout as a professional.
S10221962 President Kennedy reveals the presence of missile sites in Cuba;
S10221962Corders a Naval and Air quarantine of offensive military
S10221962Cequipment.
S10221975 the Soviet's Venera 9 lands on Venus and begins sending photos.
S10221976 the FDA bans the use of Red Dye #4.
S10221981 the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization is
S10221981Cdecertified.
S10221981 U.S. national debt tops $1 TRILLION (nothing to celebrate).
S1022     Feast of SS. Philip, Bishop of Heraclea, and his companions,
S1022    Cmartyrs.
S1022     Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S1022     Vatican City National Day.
S10234004 B.C. the universe was created at 8:00 PM, according to the 1650
S10234004Cpronouncement of Anglican archbishop James Ussher.
S10231894 Euclid Beach Park in Cleveland is incorporated.
S10231915 25,000 New York City women demonstrates, demanding voting rights.
S10231924 U.S. tax returns are first made public under a new law.
S10231929 the first train entered the Terminal Tower depot in Cleveland.
S10231941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" opens in New York.
S10231946 the U.N. General Assembly convenes for first time in Flushing
S10231946CMeadow, N.Y.
S10231956 the ill-fated revolt in Communist Hungary starts, later crushed
S10231956Cby Soviet tanks (Nov. 4).
S10231956 the first video recording on magnetic tape is televised coast-to-
S10231956Ccoast.
S10231962 U.S. orders the interception of 25 Soviet vessels in defiance of
S10231962CMoscow threat.
S10231973 President Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings.
S10231974 Lake Isaac in the Cleveland Metroparks' Big Creek Reservation is
S10231974Cdedicated.
S10231977 paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces discovery of one-celled
S10231977Cfossils 3.4 billion years old, earth's earliest life forms.
S10231980 the U.S. Open Pinball Championship (the first of its kind) begins
S10231980Cin Hartford, Conn.
S10231983 241 U.S. Marines and sailors, members of a U.N. peacekeeping
S10231983Cforce, die in a terrorist suicide attack in Beirut.
S10231989 Cleveland Browns' Bernie Kosar sets a club record with a
S10231989C97-yard TD pass to Webster Slaughter, Browns 27, Bears 7.
S10231991 despite the charges of sexual harassment brought by Anita Hill,
S10231991CClarence Thomas is sworn in as the nation's 106th Supreme Court
S10231991CJustice.
S1023     United States Day.
S1023     Feast of St. John of Capistrano (A.D. 1456)
S1023     Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S1023     St. James of Jerusalem Day (Orthodox, Anglican).
S1023     Swallows leave San Juan Capistrano.
S10241537 Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, dies.
S10241836 the match is patented.
S10241851 William Lassell discovers Ariel and Umbriel, satellites of
S10241851CUnranus.
S10241861 the Pony Express service ends when the first transcontinental
S10241861Ctelegraph line is completed.
S10241861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia and creates a new state,
S10241861Cfirst called Kanawha.
S10241901 Eastman Kodak Company incorporates.
S10241901 Anna Edson Taylor is the first person to go over Niagara Falls
S10241901Cin a barrel.
S10241929 the Stock Market collapses - Black Thursday.
S10241931 the George Washington Bridge in N.Y. opens.
S10241931 "Scarface" Al Capone is sentenced to eleven years in prison for
S10241931Ctax evasion.
S10241944 the Japanese battleship Musaski, one of the 2 largest battleships
S10241944Cever commissioned (sister-ship Yamato), is sunk.
S10241945 United Nations Charter goes into effect.
S10241964 Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) becomes an independent
S10241964Crepublic within the British Commonwealth.
S10241970 Nancy Walker creates her Ida Morgenstein role on the Mary Tyler
S10241970CMoore Show.
S10241973 Security Council Resolution 338, a cease fire, is observed,
S10241973Cending the Yom Kippur War (Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from
S10241973CDamascus).
S10261974 the Cleveland Cavaliers play their first game at the Richfield
S10261974CColiseum.
S10241976 Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets the club record for the highest
S10241976Cpassing percentage with 82.1%, Browns 24, San Diego 17.
S10241977 17-year-old Steve Cauthen becomes the first jockey to ride for $5
S10241977Cmillion in purses in a year.
S10241979 Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman.
S10241987 Bork's Supreme Court nomination is rejected by the Senate.
R1024    6set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time
R1024    6ends).
S1024     United Nations Day.
S1024     Feast of St. Raphael the Archangel and Feast of St. Anthony
S1024    CClaret.
S10251415 Battle of Agincourt, where the Welsh longbow defeats the
S10251415Carmored knight.
S10251415 King Henry V of England beats the French at Agincourt (where the
S10251415CWelsh longbow defeats the armored knight), opening the door to
S10251415Cthe conquest of Normandy.
S10251671 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, one of Saturn's moons.
S10251760 George III ascends the British throne.
S10251803 the Louisiana Purchase is ratified by Congress.
S10251854 at 11 AM the Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava during
S10251854Cthe Crimean War) because of a misunderstanding of orders.
S10251890 the first high school football game in Cleveland (University
S10251890CSchool 20, Central 0).
S10251923 the Senate begins investigating the Teapot Dome scandals of the
S10251923CHarding administration.
S10251939 nylon stockings go on sale in the U.S. for the first time.
S10251953 Cleveland Browns' QB Otto Graham sets a club record with 4
S10251953Cfumbles in the same game, Browns 7, Giants 0.
S10251954 the first televised Cabinet meeting occurs.
S10251960 the first electronic wrist watch goes on sale, N.Y. City.
S10251962 Stevenson demands U.S.S.R. ambassador Zorin answer regarding
S10251962Cmissile bases in Cuba, saying "I am prepared to wait for my
S10251962Canswer until hell freezes over."
S10251971 the U.N. General Assembly admits Mainland China and expels
S10251971CTaiwan.
S10251971 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World.
S10251974 the U.S. Air Force successfully fires the first ICBM from a
S10251974Cplane.
S10251980 the Pope says divorced Catholics who remarry can only receive
S10251980Ccommunion if they abstain from sex.
S10251983 U.S. Marines and Rangers, and a small force from six Caribbean
S10251983Cnations, invade Grenada.
S10251984 the Hepatitus virus is identified, a medical breakthrough.
S10251992 for the first time in baseball's history, the World Champions
S10251992Cbanner flies north of the border as the Toronto Blue Jays, in
S10251992Ctheir 16th year, beat the Atlanta Braves.
R1025    6set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time
R1025    6ends).
R1025    7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.)
S1025     Feast of Christ the King and Feast of St. Gaudentius, bishop of
S1025    CBrescia.
S1025     Feast of SS. Chrysanthus and Daria, martyrs.
S1025     St. Crispin's Day (Anglican).
S10261774 the first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
S10261825 the Erie Canal officially opens.
S10261863 soccer becomes standardized with the formation of the Football
S10261863CAssociation in England.
S10261881 shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Arizona.
S10261882 Adelbert College of Western Reserve University is dedicated.
S10261903 the "Yerba Buena" is the first Key System ferry to cross San
S10261903CFrancisco Bay.
S10261917 Felix the Cat debuts.
S10261931 Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra" opens in New York.
S10261936 Stalin says reports of his death are true and asks to be left
S10261936Cin peace.
S10261954 Chevrolet introduces the V-8 engines.
S10261956 the International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
S10261957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting.
S10261958 Pan American World Airways begins regular transatlantic jet
S10261958Cservice, New York to Paris.
S10261966 LBJ pays a surprize visit to Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam.
S10261969 Gen. Mohammed Siad Barre takes control of Samalia in a coup and
S10261969Csuspends the Constitution, renaming the country Somali Democratic
S10261969CRepublic.
S10261970 the "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers.
S10261972 guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begins.
S10261975 Anwar Sudat becomes the first Egyptian president to visit the
S10261975CU.S.
S10261976 Transkei, an unrecognized nation, is granted independence by
S10261976CSouth Africa.
S10261977 the fifth and Final test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise occurs.
S10261982 the Polish Parliament approves a measure outlawing Solidarity.
S10261982C(The U.S. responds by suspending Poland's most-favored-nation
S10261982Cstatus.)
S10261983 President Reagan bars reporters from covering Grenada.
S10261984 Baby Fae receives a baboon's heart in transplant operation.
R1026    6set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time
R1026    6ends).
R1026    7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.)
S1026     Austrian National Day.
S1026     Feast of St. Demetrios the Martyr (Orthodox).
S1026     Feast of St. Evaristus, 5th pope (c. 97-c. 107), martyr.
S10271787 the Federalist letters started appearing in N.Y. newspapers.
S10271836 the "Bridge War" between Cleveland and Ohio City over the
S10271836CColumbus Street Bridge culminates in violence.
S10271858 R.H. Macy & Co. opens first store, on 6th Avenue, New York City
S10271858C(gross receipts of $1106).
S10271896 the first Pali Road is completed in Hawaii (the Pali is a cliff
S10271896Cwherethe winds are so strong streams flow UP! Honest!).
S10271904 New York opens the first section of it's subway system.
S10271916 the first published reference to "jazz" appears in an article
S10271916Cin "Variety" about the formation of "jazz bands" in Chicago.
S10271927 Fox Movie-Tone News, the world's first sound news film, is
S10271927Creleased in New York.
S10271935 the Old Fort Hill Camp in the Rocky River Reservation is
S10271935Cdedicated (a Lakewood Girl Scouts project.)
S10271944 the U.S. destroys the Japanese navy at the Battle of Leyte Gulf,
S10271944Cthe largest naval battle in history.
S10271947 "You Bet Your Life", with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio.
S10271954 Walt Disney's "Wonderful World of Color" premieres on NBC.
S10271967 a Catholic priest, Father Berrigan, and two others pour blood on
S10271967CU.S. draft files in Baltimore in protest of the Vietnam War.
S10271971 the Congo is renamed the Republic of Zaire.
S10271972 the Golden Gate National Recreation Area is created.
S10271979 St. Vincent and the Grenadines gain independence from Britain.
R1027    6set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time
R1027    6ends).
R1027    7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.)
S1027     Feast of St. Frumentius, bishop and founder of Ethiopian church.
S10281492 Columbus discovers Cuba, believing, at first, it was China.
S10281636 Harvard College (now University) is founded, the oldest in the
S10281636Ccountry.
S10281776 the British forces under Howe defeats Washington at White Plains,
S10281776CNew York.
S10281790 N.Y. gives up claims to Vermont in exchange for $30,000.
S10281793 Eli Whitney gets a patent for the Cotton Gin.
S10281872 the Canadian horse epidemic, also known as epizootic catarrh,
S10281872Cstrikes Cleveland, closing several streetcar stables and forcing
S10281872Cthe fire department to use stricken horses at slow speeds.
S10281886 the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
S10281904 St. Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints.
S10281918 Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austria-Hungary.
S10281919 Volstead Act is passed by Congress, starting Prohibition.
S10281922 the first coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game airs.
S10281927 Pan Am Airways launches the first international flight - Key West
S10281927Cto Havana.
S10281929 the first child is born in an aircraft.
S10281953 Bud Grant of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes
S10281953C(record).
S10281954 New Jersey installs the first automatic toll collectors on its
S10281954Cturnpike.
S10281962 President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Khrushchev reach agreement
S10281962Con a formula to end the Cuban missile crisis.
S10281965 the Gateway to the West Arch (630 feet high) opens in St. Louis,
S10281965CMo.
S10281965 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for the
S10281965Ccrucifixion of Jesus.
S10281965 the Pentagon lowers standard for military induction.
S10281971 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in
S10281971Corbit.
S10281975 the Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for
S10281975Cthe Zoo.
S10281984 China announces plans for new economic reforms, including limited
S10281984Ccapitalist measures.
S10281986 the Justice Department opens an inquiry into the Iran-contra
S10281986Cfunding.
S10281989 Bay Village's 10-year-old Amy Mihaljevic disappears (her body is
S10281989Cfound Feb. 8, 1990).
R1028    6set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time
R1028    6ends).
R1028    7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.)
S1028     Feast of SS. Simon and Jude, Apostles.
S1029 539 BC Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia.
S10291682 Pennsylvania is granted to William Penn by King Charles II.
S10291811 the first Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans.
S10291863 the International Committee of the Red Cross is founded (Nobel
S10291863C1917, 1944, 1963).
S10291894 first election of the Hawaiian Republic takes place.
S10291904 the first intercity trucking service goes into business with
S10291904Ca route between Colorado City and Snyder, Texas.
S10291923 Turkey is proclaimed a republic (National Day).
S10291929 "Black Tuesday", the Stock Market crash occurs.
S10291950 Cleveland Browns' Marion Motley sets the record for the highest
S10291950Caverage gain in a game with 17.1 (in only 10 attempts).
S10291956 "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet" heard on NBC for first time.
S10291956C(Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, NBC News, team up).
S10291956 Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open Straits of
S10291956CTiran, the beginning of the Suez Canal War.
S10291958 the first coronary angiogram is performed by Dr. F. Mason Sones
S10291958Cat the Cleveland Clinic.
S10291964 the uninsured Star of India and other jewels are stolen from the
S10291964CAmerican Museum of Natural History in N.Y. (the alarm system and
S10291964Cnight guards were stopped years earlier for economic reasons).
S10291964CIt was recovered Jan. 8, 1965.
S10291964 Tanganyika and Zanzibar unite to form Tanzania (National Day).
S10291974 Muhammad Ali regains his heavyweight title, taken from him in
S10291974C1967 for refusing the draft, by knocking out George Foreman.
S10291982 the FDA approves marketing of human insulin made through gene
S10291982Csplicing.
S10291982 John DeLorean is indicted for drug trafficking (acquitted).
S10291983 millions in Europe protest the deployment of U.S. intermediate-
S10291983Crange missiles for NATO.
S10291989 Cleveland Browns' Webster Slaughter sets a club record for the
S10291989Chighest receiving average (46 yards, 4 for 184 yards), Browns 28,
S10291989CHouston 7.
R1029    6set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time
R1029    6ends).
R1029    7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.)
S1029     Feast of St. Theuderius, or Chef, Abbot (c. A.D. 575)
S1029     Republic Day, celebrated in Turkey.
S10301270 the 8th and last crusade is launched.
S10301775 the first U.S. Navy is created with assorted ships to aid in the
S10301775CRevolutionary War.  It all but disappears when the last ship is
S10301775Csold in 1785.
S10301829 the first fair is held in Cleveland on the Public Square.
S10301864 Helena, capital of Montana, founded.
S10301905 Tsar Nicholas II grants Russia a constitution (October
S10301905CManifesto) .
S10301922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government.
S10301925 Scotsman John L. Baird performs the first TV broadcast of moving
S10301925Cobjects.
S10301937 the closest approach to the earth by an asteroid, Hermes, is
S10301937Cmeasured (asteroid now lost).
S10301938 Orson Welles panics the nation with his broadcast of "War of the
S10301938CWorlds".
S10301941 the first American warship, the USS Ruebon James, is destroyed
S10301941Cin the Battle of the Atlantic.
S10301954 Swedish parliament approves national health care system.
S10301961 the Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution
S10301961Cremoving Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square.
S10301961 the U.S.S.R. detonates the most powerful man-made thermonuclear
S10301961Cdevice, 62 to 90 megatons.
S10301975 Mary Leakey announces the discovery of human remains dating back
S10301975C3.75 million-years.
S10301975 the N.Y. Daily News ran this headline, "Ford to City: Drop Dead".
S10301978 Laura Nickel and Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime,
S10301978C2 ^ 21701 -1.
S10301985 the 20nd Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 9 is launched.
S10301992 Magic Johnson plays his last game in the NBA before retiring for
S10301992Cthe second and last time against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
R1030    6Set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time
R1030    6ends).
R1030    7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.)
S1030     Feast of St. Alphonsus.
S10311517 Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses, begins Protestant Reformation
S10311815 Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents the miner's safety lamp.
S10311846 the Donner party begins building their winter camp at Truckee
S10311846C(now Donner) Lake, having failed to traverse the snow filled
S10311846CDonner Pass.
S10311861 under the protection of Confederate troops, secessionist members
S10311861Cof the Missouri legislation adopt a resolution of secession.
S10311864 Nevada becomes the 36th state.
S10311913 the U.S. Income Tax law goes into effect (at 1%).
S10311930 the first nature education program is offered in the Cleveland
S10311930CPark District.
S10311956 Brooklyn, N.Y. ends streetcar service.
S10311956 G.J. Dufek becomes the first American to land by air at South
S10311956CPole.
S10311959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to
S10311959CUnited States.
S10311969 a gunman takes a plane from San Francisco to Rome in the first
S10311969Ctransatlantic hijacking.
S10311980 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (55,137
S10311980Cfeet).
S10311984 India's prime minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated in New
S10311984CDelhi.
S1031     All Hallows Eve (you know, Halloween).
R1031    7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.)
S1031     National UNICEF Day.
S1031     Reformation Day.
S1031     Vigil of All Saints, Feast of St. Wolfgang, Benedictine bishop.
R1000     It's National Restaurant Month!
R1000     The gems for October are opal and tourmaline.
R1000     The hops is the flower of October.
R1000     October's name comes from the Latin word for eight.
R10011022 Libra is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R10011022   Symbol: The Balance.
R10011022   Ruling Planet: Venus.
R10011022   Element: Air.
R10011022   Traits: Charming, diplomatic, idealistic, indecisive.
R10011022   Body part associated with this sign: Reins.
R10011022   Occupations: Acting, the arts, law and legal activities,
R10011022    politics.
R10231031 Scorpio is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R10231031   Symbol: The Scorpion.
R10231031   Ruling Planet: Pluto.
R10231031   Element: Water.
R10231031   Traits: Passionate, intense, secretive, subtle.
R10231031   Body part associated with this sign: Secrets.
R10231031   Occupations: Teaching, work requiring concentration, training
R10231031    animals, psychiatry, surgery, detection.