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*Updated 3/22/88 MAC
*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B03011810 Frederic Chopin, composer.
B03011848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece.
B03011910 actor David Niven in Kirriemuir, Scotland
B03011917 singer Dinah Shore (born Francis Rose Shore) in Winchester,Tenn
B03011927 Harry Belafonte, singer + actor in New York City
B03041394 Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsored Portuguese voyages
B03041394Cof discovery.
B03041678 Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso and composer.
B03051824 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives fame.)
B03051908 Rex Harrison (born Reginald Carey), actor in Huyton, England
B03061619 Cyrano de Bergerac.
B03061756 Aaron Burr, dualist.
B03061812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking.
B03061923 TV personallity Ed McMahon in Detroit, Mich
B03061937 Valentina Tereshkova, first woman cosmonaut.
B03071849 Luther Burbank, plant breeder.
B03071875 Maurice Ravel, and was Bo grateful!
B03081787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery.
B03081859 Kenneth Grahame, author, "The Wind in the Willows."
B03081879 Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission.
B03081943 actress Lynn Redgrave in London, England
B03091824 Leland Stanford, Governor, Senator, founded Stanford University.
B03091934 Yuri Gagarin, first man into space.
B03121831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer.
B03121832 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts.
B03141681 Georg Philipp Telemann, leading German late baroque composer.
B03141864 Casey Jones, famed engineer.
B03141879 Albert Einstein, relative, wizard.
B03151767 Andrew Jackson, 7th President from 1828 - 1836.
B03161751 James Madison, 4th President  from 1809 - 1817.
B03161836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car.
B03161926 Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch), commedian and director in Newark, NJ
B03171804 James Bridger, scout, fur trader, mountain man par excellance.
B03171834 Gottlieb Daimler, automobile pioneer.
B03171919 Nat King Cole, crooner, (and Natalie's father.)
B03181782 John C. Calhoun, statesman.
B03181837 Grover Cleveland, twice President, from 1885 - 1889, and again
B03181837Cfrom 1893 - 1897.
B03181858 Rudolf Diesel, invented an engine.
B03181926 Peter Graves (born Peter Arness), actor in Minneapolis, Minn
B03181927 author George Plimpton in New York City
B03181932 John Updike, poet and novelist.
B03191860 William Jennings Bryan, 'The Great Commoner.'
B03191938 Ursula Andress, actress in Switzerland
B03201856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management.
B03201904 B. F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer in Behaviorism.
B03201931 Hal Linden, actor in New York City
B03211685 Johann Sebastian Bach, gone for Baroque.
B03211768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist.
B03211869 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame.
B03221913 Karl Malden (born Mladen Sekulovich), actor in Chicago, Ill
B03221920 Werner Klemperer, actor (born Klink on 'Hogans Heroes') in Cologne,Germany
B03221923 Marcel Marceau, mime in Strasburg, France
B03221931 actor William Shatner in Montreal, Canada
B03231912 Werner von Braun, rocketeer.
B03251940 Anita Bryant, singer in Barnsdall, Ca
B03251942 Aretha Franklin, singer in Memphis, tenn
B03261874 Robert Frost, poet.
B03261911 Tennessee Williams, author.
B03261925 Pierre Boulez, French composer.
B03261929 James Caan, actor in The Bronx, NY
B03261931 actor Leonard Nimoy in Boston, Mass
B03261931 Leonard Nimoy, beam him up, Mr. Scott.
B03271813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (of Currier & Ives.)
B03271863 Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce.
B03281921 Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Van den Boraerde), actor + director in London,England
B03291790 John Tyler, 10th President from 1841 - 1845.
B03291819 Edwin Drake, drilled first productive oil well in US.
B03291867 Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever (509 wins, 1890-1911).
B03301719 Sir John Hawkins, wrote first history of music in English.
B03301853 Vincent van Gogh, artist who always lent an ear.
B03301937 Warren Beatty, actor + producer in Richmond, Va
B03311596 Rene Descartes, he thought, therefore he was.
B03311732 Joseph Haydn, composer, helped develop the Classical style.
B03311809 Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam."
B03311854 Sir Dugald Clerk, inventor of the 2-stroke motorcycle engine.
B03311935 Herb Alpert, band leader in Los Angeles, Ca
B03311935 Richard Chamberlain, actor in Los Angeles, Ca
S03121936 President Franklin Roosevelt holds his first "Fireside Chat."
*mmddyyyy Events
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S03011781 The Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress.
S03011784 E. Kidner opens the first cooking school, in Great Britain.
S03011864 Patent issued for taking & projecting motion pictures to Louis
S03011864CDucos du Hauron (he never did build such a machine, though).
S03011867 Nebraska becomes a state.
S03011879 Library of Hawaii founded.
S03011927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank.
S03021861 Congress creates the Territory of Nevada.
S03021901 First telegraph company in Hawaii opens.
S03021929 US Court of Customs & Patent Appeals created by US Congress.
S03021974 First Class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents.
R0303     Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival), celebrated in Japan.
R0303     Independence Day, celebrated in Morocco.
S03031634 First tavern in Boston is opened.
S03031791 Congress passed a resolution ordering U.S. Mint be established.
S03031812 Congress passes first foreign aid bill.
S03031849 Gold Coinage Act passed, allowing gold coins to be minted.
S03031851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin, the 3-cent piece.
S03031875 a 20-cent coin was authorized by Congress (It only lasted 3 years).
S03031885 American Telephone and Telegraph incorporated.
S03031923 Time magazine publishes their first issue.
S03031956 Morocco gains its independence.
S03031972 Pioneer 10 launched.
S03041789 Congress declares the Constitution to be in effect.
S03041792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii.
S03041826 First railroad in US chartered, the Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass
S03041930 Mrs. Charles Fahning of Buffalo, New York, becomes first woman to
S03041930Cbowl a perfect game under sanctioned competition rules.
S03041933 Roosevelt inaugurated, said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
S03051770 Boston Massacre
S03051845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US.
S03051900 The American Hall of Fame is founded.
S03051979 Voyager I flies past Jupiter.
S03061665 "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" was first
S03061665Cpublished, and is still published today.
S03061836 The Alamo falls.  Remember it?
S03061930 Clarence Birdseye puts the first individually packaged frozen
S03061930Cfoods on sale, in Springfield, Mass.
S03071848 In Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed.
S03071870 The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first pro baseball team,
S03071870Cbegins an 8 month tour of the Midwest and the East.
S03071933 The game "Monopoly" is invented.
S03081862 The Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched.
S03081910 Baroness de Laroche of Paris becomes first licensed female pilot.
S03091822 US grants first patent for artificial teeth to Charles Graham.
S03091862 The ironclads "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle
S03091862Cin Hampton Roads.  It was a standoff.
S03101847 First money minted in Hawaii.
S03101876 The first telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell.
S03101888 The Salvation Army of England sends group to U.S. to begin
S03101888Cwelfare and religious activity here.
S03101933 Big earthquake in Long Beach (W.C. Fields was making a movie when
S03101933Cit struck & the cameras kept running).
S03111302 According to Shakespeare, this was Romeo and Juliet's wedding day.
S03111867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii).
S03111892 First public game of basketball.
S03121850 First $20 Gold piece issued.
S03121912 The first Girl Scout troop was organized in Atlanta, GA.
S03131852 The New York Lantern publishes the first cartoon showing the
S03131852Ccharacter "Uncle Sam," based on a real U.S. officer who served
S03131852Cin the war of 1812, Samuel Wilson.
S03131970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer.
S03141743 America's first town meeting is held in Boston.
S03141948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco.
R0315     The day the buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio.
R0315    SBeware the Ides of March!
S03151913 Woodrow Wilson holds the first Presidential Press Conference.
S03151968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold.
S03151999 Pluto again becomes the outermost planet.
S03161802 Congress establishes West Point Military Academy in New York.
R0317     Evacuation Day (celebrated in Boston)
S03171756 St. Patrick's Day first celebrated in New York City, at the
S03171756CCrown and Thistle Tavern.
S03181850 American Express founded.
S03181881 Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison
S03181881CSquare Garden in New York City.
S03181919 The Order of DeMolay was established in Kansas City.
R0319     The day the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano, CA.
S03191895 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service.
S03191928 'Amos and Andy' debuts on radio.
R0320    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
S03201852 "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published.
R0321     The First Day of Spring... Tra-la Tra-la.
R0321     The start of the Persian New Year.
R0321    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
S03211891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ending a long feud in W. VA.
R0322    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
S03221733 Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water.
S03221957 Earthquake gives San Francisco the shakes.
R0323    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
S03231775 Patrick Henry asks for Liberty or Death.
S03231901 Dame Nellie Melba, Australian Opera Singer, reveals secret
S03231901Cof her now famous toast.
S03231929 First telephone installed in the White House.
S03231965 Gemini 3 launched, first US 2-man space flight.
R0324    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
S03241860 Clipper "Andrew Jackson" arrives in 89 days from New York.
S03241949 Walter Huston and son John become first father-and-son team
S03241949Cto win Oscars as actor and director of "Treasure of Sierra Madre."
R0325     Independence Day, celebrated in Greece.
R0325    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
S03251821 Greece gains its independence.
S03251913 New York City's famed Palace Theatre opens its doors for the
S03251913Cfirst time.
S03251954 RCA manufactures the first COLOR television set.
R0326     Prince Kuhio Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
R0326    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
S03261878 Hastings College of Law founded.
S03261953 Dr. Jonas Salk announces new vaccine to immunize people
S03261953Cagainst polio.
S03271917 The Seattle Metropolitans become the first U.S. hockey team
S03271917Cto win the Stanley Cup, defeating the Montreal Canadiens.
S03281794 Nathaniel Briggs gets patent for the washing machine.
S03291848 Niagara Falls stops flowing -- for 1 day -- because of an ice jam.
S03291886 Coca-Cola is created (with cocaine)(really!)
S03301853 Patent granted to Hyman Lipman for a pencil with an ERASER!
S03301870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race.
S03301932 Amelia Earhart is first woman to make solo crossing of the Atlantic.
S03301981 Pres Ronald Reagan wounded by John Hinckley Jr in Washington DC
R0331    7Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins tomorrow morning.
S03311889 Eiffel Tower completed.
S03311963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after nearly 90 years.