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*UPDATED 03/22/88 MAC
*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B06011926 Marilyn Monroe, actress.
B06011934 Pat Boone(born Charles), singer in Jacksonville, Fla
B06021740 Marquis de Sade, entertainer. (?)
B06021835 Pope Pius X.
B06021857 Sir Edward Elgar, composer (Pomp and Circumstance.)
B06021941 Stacy Keach, actor in Savannah, Ga
B06031808 Jefferson Davis, President of Confederacy from 1861 - 1865.
B06031864 Ransom Eli Olds, auto manufacturer.
B06031926 Allen Ginsburg, poet in Newark, NJ
B06051723 Adam Smith, economist
B06051883 John Maynard Keynes, another economist.
B06051900 Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography (3D laser photography.)
B06061755 Nathan Hale, had but one life to give for his country.
B06061756 John Trumbull, painter.
B06061956 Bjorn Borg, Racketeer extraordinaire.
B06071778 Beau Brummel, English Dandy.
B06071848 Paul Gauguin, painter.
B06071940 Tom Jones, singer in Pontypridd, Wales
B0608 570 Mohammed, prophet.
B06081625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, astronomer.
B06081869 Frank Lloyd Wright, master builder.
B06091781 George Stephenson, principal inventor of the railroad locomotive.
B06091910 Robert Cummings, actor in Joplin, Mo
B06091915 Les Paul, guitarist, inventor.
B06091934 Donald Duck, famous fowl mouth.
B06101904 Frederick Loewe, composer.
B06111572 Ben Johnson, playwright.
B06111847 Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of English women's movement.
B06111867 Charles Fabry, discovered the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere.
B06111910 Jacques Cousteau, diver and environmentalist.
B06111910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, marine explorer in St Andre-de-Cubzac, France
B06121915 David Rockefeller, International Power Broker.
B06121928 Vic Damone (born Vito Farinola), singer in Brooklyn, NY
B06121929 Anne Frank, diarist.
B06131903 Harold "Red" Grange, the "Galloping Ghost" of football.
B06141811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin.)
B06171870 George Cormack, the inventor of "Wheaties" cereal.
B06171882 Igor Stravinsky, composer (The Rite of Spring.)
B06171904 Ralph Bellamy, actor in Chicago, Ill
B06171917 Dean Martin (born Dino Crocetti), singer and actor in Stubenville, Ohio
B06181877 James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, best known for his
B06181877C"I want you" Uncle Sam recruiting poster.
B06181910 E.G. Marshall, actor in Owatonna, Minn
B06181942 Paul McCartney, Yah-Yah-Yah
B06191623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician.
B06191886 Duchess of Windsor, divorcee.
B06191903 Henry Louis Gehrig, the "Iron Horse" of the Yankees.
B06191978 Garfield the cat. "Big fat hairy deal."
B06201924 Chet Atkins, guitarist in Luttrell, Tenn
B06211732 Martha Washington, George's Mrs.
B06211921 Jane Russell, full-figured gal.
B06221922 Bill Blass, fashion designer in Fort Wayne, Ind
B06231846 George Sax, inventor of the saxophone.
B06231912 Alan Turing, mathematician, pioneer in computer theory.
B06241839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift & Co.
B06251894 Hermann Oberth, founder of modern astronautics.
B06251925 June Lockhart, actress in New York City
B06261819 Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing American Baseball.
B06261892 Pearl Buck, authoress (The Good Earth.)
B06261913 Maurice Wilkes, invented the stored program concept for computers.
B06271880 Helen Keller, a portrait of courage.
B06271927 Bob Keeshan, a.k.a. Captain Kangaroo (Good Morning, Captain.)
B06281491 Henry VIII of England.  Don't lose your head over him.
B06281712 Jean Jacques Rousseau, social contractor.
B06281947 Patrick Kincaid, creator of this 'TODAY' file structure.
B06291858 George Washington Goethals, engineer who built the Panama Canal.
B06301917 Lena Horne, singer in Brooklyn, NY
*mmddyyyy Events
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S06011495 First written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in the
S06011495CExchequer Rolls of Scotland.  Friar John Cor is the distiller.
S06011925 Lou Gehrig starts in first of 2130 consecutive games, a record.
R0602     Republic (Constitution) Day, celebrated in Italy.
S06021835 P.T. Barnum and his circus begin their first tour of the U.S.
S06021858 The Donati Comet first seen, named after its discoverer.
S06021873 Ground broken on San Francisco's Clay Street for world's first
S06021873Ccable-powered railroad.
R0603     Egg Day (now, how will we celebrate ??)
S06031888 "Casey at the Bat" is first published (by the SF Examiner.)
S06031937 The Duke of Windsor weds Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson in France.
S06031949 "Dragnet" is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles.)
R0604     Old Maid's Day.  If you already knew it, don't admit it.
S06041896 Road test of the first Ford car is delayed an hour because the
S06041896Ccar was wider than the door of the shed in which it was built.
S06041896CRemember, 'Ford has a better idea!"
R0605     Constitution Day, celebrated in Denmark.
S06051833 Ada Lovelace (future first computer programmer) meets
S06051833CCharles Babbage.
S06051849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
S06051875 Formal opening of the Pacific Stock Exchange.
S06051968 Senator(D-NY) John Kenedy killed by Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles
S06061933 First drive-in theatre opens, in Camden, New Jersey.
S06061944 D-Day.  World War II turns the corner.
S06062012 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs.
S06071839 The Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed.
S06071860 First American 'dime novel' is published: "Malaseka, The
S06071860CIndian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs. Ann Stevens.
S06081786 First commercially-made ice cream sold in New York.
S06081869 Patent issued for first suction-principle vacuum cleaner.
S06081889 Cable Cars begin service in Los Angeles.  Really!
S06082004 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs again.
S06091868 First meeting of the Board of Regents, University of California.
S06091869 Charles Elmer Hires sells his first Root Beer, in Philadelphia.
R0610     National Day, celebrated in Portugal.
S06101720 Mrs. Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard.
S06101772 Burning of the Gaspee, British revenue cutter by Rhode Islanders.
S06101869 The 'Agnes' arrives in New Orleans with the first ever shipment
S06101869Cof frozen beef.
S06101898 US Marines land at Cuba in Spanish-American War.
S06101977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II.
R0611     Kamehameha Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
S06111859 Claim is filed for the Comstock Lode.  The mine eventually
S06111859Cproduces more than $300 million in silver.
S06111895 First auto race.
R0612     Independence Day, celebrated in the Phillipines.
S06121839 The first baseball game is played in America.  Thanks Abner!
S06121898 Phillipines gains its independence from Spain.
S06121923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended
S06121923Cupside down, 40 feet above the ground.
S06121981 The 3rd professional baseball players strike starts.
R0613     Kitchen Klutzs of America Day.
R0613     The National Asparagus Festival.
S06131927 Charles Lindbergh honored in New York City for his trans-
S06131927CAtlantic flight.  750,000 pounds of confetti were showered down.
S06131963 Vostok 6 launched, pilot is first woman cosmonaut.
S06131983 Pioneer 10 is first man-made object to leave the Solar System.
R0614     Flag Day.
S06141623 Rev. Gerville Pooley of Virginia files first breach-of-promise
S06141623Clawsuit against Cicely Jordan.  He loses.
S06141777 Stars and Stripes adopted as US flag, replacing Grand Union flag.
S06141846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma.
S06141847 Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide.
S06141900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins.
S06141919 First direct airplane crossing of the Atlantic.
S06141952 Keel laid for first nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus.
R0615    1Father's Day.  Remind the guy how much you care.
S06151215 King John signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede.
S06151775 Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the American Army.
S06151851 Jacob Fussell, a Baltimore dairyman, sets up the first
S06151851Cice-cream factory.
S06151878 First attempt at motion pictures (using 12 cameras, each taking one
S06151878Cduring a gallop. Leland Stanford bet they didn't. He lost).
S06151878Cpicture (done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
S06151940 France surrenders to Hitler.
R0616    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.
S06161775 The Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill).
S06161879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at the Bowery Theatre
S06161879Cin New York City.
S06161919 1st TransAtlantic non-stop flight by J. Alcott and A. Brown
S06161963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space.
R0617     Republic Day, celebrated in Iceland.
R0617    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.
S06171579 Sir Francis Drake lands on the coast of California.
S06171944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland.
S06171972 The Watergate Break-in.  How time flies . . .
R0618    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.
S06181583 Richard Martin of London takes out the first life insurance
S06181583Cpolicy, on William Gibbons.  The premium was 383 pounds.
S06181812 War of 1812 begins.
S06181815 Battle of Waterloo.
S06181872 Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall.
S06181892 Macademia nuts first planted in Hawaii.
R0619    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.
S06191778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.
S06191861 Anaheim Post Office established.
S06191910 U.S. celebrates the first Father's Day.
R0620    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.
S06201782 The United States chooses the Eagle as its symbol.
S06201855 Commissioners appointed to lay out streets west of Larkin.
S06201893 Lizzie Borden found "Not Guilty" of taking an axe and
S06201893Cgiving her parents a combined total of 81 whacks.
S06201948 Ed Sullivan has his first really big 'shoe' on Sunday night TV.
S06201982 It's National Bald Eagle Day
R0621     The longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice.
R0621    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.
S06211879 F. W. Woolworth opens his first store (failed almost immediately,
S06211879Cso he found a new location and you know the rest...)
S06211893 The first Ferris wheel is premiered at Chicago's Columbian
S06211893CExposition.
S06211917 Hawaiian Red Cross founded.
S06221808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak.
S06221847 The doughnut is invented.
S06221849 Stephen C. Massett opens at courthouse as first professional
S06221849Centertainer, using (allegedly) the only piano in California.
S06221940 France falls to Nazi Germany.
S06221957 Kansas City stops using streetcars in its transit system.
S06221978 The planet Pluto's partner, Charon, is discovered.
S06221983 First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle.
S06231810 John Jacob Astor organizes the Pacific Fur Company at the town
S06231810Che names for himself, Astoria, Oregon.
S06231868 Typewriter patented.
R0624     Midsummer Day, celebrated in Europe.
R0624     St. Jean Baptiste Day -- Canada.
S06241817 First coffee planted in Hawaii, on the Kona coast.
S06241947 First reported signting of Flying Saucers, seen near Mt. Ranier,
S06241947CWashington by Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho.
S06251178 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon (only
S06251178Cknown observation).  These monks have NO winery of their own.
S06251630 The Fork is introduced to American dining by Gov. Winthrop.
S06251835 Pueblo founded with construction of first building (start of
S06251835CYerba Buena, later to be called San Francisco).
S06261797 Charles Newbold patents an iron plow.  He can't sell it to
S06261797Cfarmers, though, because they fear the effects of iron on
S06261797Cthe soil!
S06261934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions.
S06261945 UN Charter written in San Francisco.
R0627     National Fink Day. Reach out and tweak someone.
S06271693 The first woman's magazine, "The Ladies' Mercury" is published
S06271693Cin London.  It has the first advice column.
S06271867 Bank of California opens its doors.
S06281820 The tomato is proved to be nonpoisonous.
S06281859 The first dog show is held, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.
S06281918 In Hawaii, the first inter-island flight.
S06281919 The Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, is signed.
S06291776 Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay.
S06291854 Congress ratifies Gadsden Purchase, adds parts of
S06291854CNew Mexico, Arizona.
S06291863 The very first first National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa.
S06291927 First flight from the West Coast arrives in Hawaii.
S06291939 The Dixie Clipper completes the first commercial plane
S06291939Cflight to Europe.
R0630     Independence Day, celebrated in Zaire.
S06301893 The Excelsior diamond (blue-white, 995 carats) is discovered.
S06301908 A giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (the Tunguska Event).
S06301914 Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest, in campaign for Indian equal
S06301914Crights in South Africa.
S06301936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, is first published.
S06301960 Zaire gains its independence.