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- B04011578 William Harvey, physician, discovered blood circulation
- B04011815 Otto von Bismarck, statesman
- B04011873 Sergei Rachmaninoff, Novgorod Province Russia composer
- B04011875 Edgar Wallace, novelist, playwright, journalist
- B04011883 Lon Chaney, man of 1000 faces
- B04011920 Toshire Mifune
- B04011922 William Manchester, historian
- B04011928 George Grizzard, actor
- B04011928 Herbert Klein, newscaster
- B04011929 Jane Powell, Portland Ore
- B04011930 Grace Lee Whitney, Capt Kirk's Yeoman Rand
- B04011932 Debbie Reynolds, El Paso Tx
- B04011932CGordon Jump, WKRP
- B04011934 Don Hastings
- B04011939 Ali MacGraw, (Love Story, Goodbye Columbus), Pound Ridge NY
- B04011942 Samuel R Delany, sci-fi author (Dhalgren)
- B04011944 Carol White, England
- B04011945 Heather Young, Wash
- B04011947 David Eisenhower, Grandson of Pres Dwight
- B04011952 Annette O'Toole, Houston Texas
- B0402 742 Charlemagne, 1st Holy Roman emperor (800-14)
- B04021725 Giacomo Casanova, Italian writer, philanderer, adventurer
- B04021805 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author of 150 fairy tales
- B04021834 Frédéric-Auguste Bertholdi, Statue of Liberty sculptor
- B04021840 Èmile Zola, French novelist (Nana)
- B04021862 Nicholas M Butler, US educator, pacifist (Nobel 1931)
- B04021875 Walter Chrysler, founded car company
- B04021908 Buddy Ebsen, (Davy Crockett, Beverly Hillbillies)
- B04021910 Arnie Herber, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers, NY Giants)
- B04021910 Irene Mayer Selznick Producer
- B04021914 Sir Alec Guiness, thespian
- B04021920 Jack Webb, actor (dum-de-dum-dum), just the facts
- B04021928 Joseph Bernardin Chicago Cardinal
- B04021935 Sharon Acker
- B04021941 Leon Russell, pianist, singer
- B04021948 Emmylou Harris, singer, Alabama
- B04021953 Debralee Scott
- B04021954 Ron Palillo
- B04031245 Philip III, king of France (1270-85)
- B04031783 Washington Irving, writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
- B04031823 Boss Tweed, corrupt NYC political boss
- B04031837 John Burroughs, writer, nature enthusiast
- B04031898 George Jessel, Toastmaster
- B04031898 Henry R Luce, Publisher
- B04031904 Sally Rand, actress, ecdysiast, fan dancer
- B04031923 Jan Sterling, actress NYC
- B04031924 Doris Day, girl next door, Cincinatti Oh
- B04031924 Marlon Brando, godfather
- B04031929 Miyoshi Umeki
- B04031930 Sen Lawton Chiles D-Fl
- B04031934 Jim Parker, NFL guard, tackle (Baltimore Colts)
- B04031942 Marsha Mason, St Louis Mo
- B04031942 Wayne Newton, singer
- B04031944 Tony Orlando, Tie a yellow ribbon
- B04031949 Lyle Alzado, retired Raider
- B04031961 Eddie Murphy, actor (48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop)
- B04041792 Thaddeus Stevens, (R-Rep)
- B04041802 Dorothea Dix, social reformer
- B04041821 Linus Yale, American portrait painter, invented Yale lock
- B04041823 Karl Wilhelm Siemens, inventor, laid undersea cables
- B04041826 Zénobe Théophile Gramme, invented electric motor
- B04041828 Margaret Oliphant Oliphant, Scottish novelist, biographer
- B04041895 Arthur Murray, dance instructor
- B04041906 John Cameron Swayze, Timex licker & ticker
- B04041907 Nathan M Pusey, educator
- B04041915 Muddy Waters, blues guitarist, singer (Hoochie Coochie Man)
- B04041919 Antony Tudor, English choreographer
- B04041922 Elmer Bernstein, movie music composer
- B04041928 Maya Angelou Author-poet
- B04041932 Sen Richard Lugar (Ind)
- B04041932 Tony Perkins (Norman Bates-Psycho)
- B04041938 A Bartlett Giamatti Baseball's NL pres
- B04041939 Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter
- B04041939 JoAnne Carner, LPGA golfer
- B04041945 Catherine Spaak
- B04041956 Evelyn Hart, prima ballerina (Royal Winnipeg Ballet)
- B04041966 Nancy McKeon, Queens NY
- B04051588 Thomas Hobbes, 1588, philosopher
- B04051649 Elihu Yale, philanthropist founded Yale
- B04051725 Casanova
- B04051827 Joseph Lister, English physician, founder of aseptic surgery
- B04051837 Algernon Swinburne, English poet (Atalanta in Calydon)
- B04051856 Booker T Washington, pioneering educator
- B04051901 Chester Bowles, ambassador, writer
- B04051908 Bette Davis, Lowell Mass, famous eyes (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel)
- B04051908 Mary Hemingway writer
- B04051908CHerbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic conductor
- B04051916 Gregory Peck, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird)
- B04051920 Arthur Halley, author (Hotel, Airport)
- B04051922 Gale Storm, Bloomington Texas, actress
- B04051923 Nguyen Van Thieu, president of South Vietnam
- B04051940 Aliza Kashi
- B04051946 Jane Asher, former Paul McCartney girlfriend
- B04051950 Agnetha Faltskog Stockholm (ABBA)
- B04051954 Michael W Butler, creator of this TODAY program
- B04061483 Raffaello Santi (Raphael), Italian painter & architect
- B04061773 James Mill, philosopher, historian, economist
- B04061810 Philip Henry Gosse, invented institutional aquarium
- B04061823 Joseph Medill, Newspaper editor
- B04061866 Butch Cassidy, outlaw
- B04061866 Lincoln Steffens, muckraker, journalist (Shame of the Cities)
- B04061890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, Dutch aircraft pioneer
- B04061892 Donald Wills Douglas, American aircraft pioneer
- B04061892 Lowell Thomas, journalist ("So long until tomorrow")
- B04061903 Harold Edgerton, foremost high-speed photographer
- B04061928 James Watson, codiscovered structure of DNA
- B04061929 André Previn, composer, conductor
- B04061937 Merle Haggard, country singer
- B04061938 Billy Dee Williams, actor (Lady Sings the Blues)
- B04061943 Susan Tolsky, Houston Texas
- B04061944 Michelle Phillips, Long Beach Cal (Mamas & Papas)
- B04061952 Marilu Henner, Chicago, Taxi
- B04061953 Janet Lynn, Olympic ice skater
- B04071506 St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan
- B04071770 William Wordsworth, English poet laureate (The Prelude)
- B04071775 Francis C Lowell, founder of 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill
- B04071786 William Rufus DeVane King (D), 13th VP (1853)
- B04071859 Walter Camp, father of American football
- B04071860 W K Kellogg, a real corn flake
- B04071869 David Grandison Fairchild, American botanist, explorer
- B04071889 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Desolación, Tenderness) (Nobel '45)
- B04071897 Walter Winchell, columnist
- B04071908 Percy Faith, musician
- B04071915 Billie Holiday, blues singer
- B04071920 Ravi Shankar, sitar player
- B04071928 James Garner, actor (Maverick, Rockford Files)
- B04071931 Daniel Ellsberg
- B04071932 Mark Russell, satirist
- B04071933 Wayne Rogers, actor (Trapper John of TV's M*A*S*H)
- B04071938 Edmund (Jerry) Brown Jr (D-gov-Cal), Linda Ronstadt's boyfriend
- B04071939 David Frost, TV personality
- B04071939 Francis Ford Coppola, film maker (Cotton Club)
- B04071949 John Oates
- B04071951 Janis Ian, trials & tribulations of being 17
- B04071954 Tony Dorsett, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
- B0408 563 Gautama Buddha (as celebrated in Japan -- Kambutsue)
- B04081605 Philip IV, king of Spain & Portugal (1621-65)
- B04081726 Lewis Morris, signed Decl of Ind
- B04081731 William Williams, signed Decl of Ind
- B04081859 Edmund Husserl, German, founder of Phenomenology
- B04081889 Sir Adrian Boult, BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor
- B04081893 Mary Pickford
- B04081910 George Musso, NFL guard (Chicago Bears)
- B04081912 Sonja Henie, Oslo Norway, ice skater
- B04081918 Betty Ford, first lady
- B04081940 John Havlicek, Celtics hoop star
- B04081941 Peggy Lennon, LA singer
- B04081946 Jim (Catfish) Hunter, big-league pitcher
- B04081947 Steve Howe Yes, he plays the guitar
- B04081954 John Schneider, hazardous to Hazzard County
- B04081954CGary Carter, catches whatever NY throws
- B04081963 Julian Lennon john's son
- B04091806 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of 1st transatlantic steamer
- B04091821 Charles Baudelaire, French Symbolist poet (Flowers of Evil)
- B04091830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion, photography
- B04091865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz, electrical engineer
- B04091879 Claude William Dukinfield aka W.C. Fields, Phila
- B04091895 Mance Lipscomb, blues musician
- B04091898 Earl (Curly) Lambeau, NFL coach (GB Packers)
- B04091898 Paul Robeson, singer, actor, football player
- B04091899 Efrem Zimbalist, Sr, concert violinist
- B04091905 J William Fulbright (D-sen-Ark)
- B04091905 Ward Bond, (Wagon Train)
- B04091910 Abe Ribicoff, (Ct-sen)
- B04091919 John Presper Eckert, coinventor of 1st electronic computer (ENIAC)
- B04091926 Hugh Hefner, Playboy publisher
- B04091928 Tom Lehrer, proposed poisoning pigeons
- B04091933 Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor
- B04091939 Michael Learned, Washington
- B04091957 Seve Ballesteros, a young old duffer
- B04091965 Paulina Porizkova, Sports Illustrated swimsuit covergirl
- B04101701 Hugorotius, father of intl law
- B04101778 William Hazlitt, writer
- B04101794 Commodore Matthew Perry, opened Japan
- B04101827 Lewis Wallace, soldier, lawyer, diplomat, author (Ben Hur)
- B04101829 William Booth founder of Salvation Army
- B04101847 Joseph Pulitzer, publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World)
- B04101857 Henry Ernest Dudeney, mathematician & puzzle maker
- B04101880 Frances Perkins, 1st woman cabinet-level position
- B04101883 Kahlil Gibran
- B04101903 Clare Booth Luce, former ambassador
- B04101912 Clarke Hinkle, NFL fullback (Green Bay Packers)
- B04101915 Harry Morgan, actor (Col Potter M*A*S*H)
- B04101917 Robert Burns Woodward, organic chemist (Nobel 1965)
- B04101921 Chuck Conners, actor (Rifleman)
- B04101929 Max Von Sydow, actor (Hawaii)
- B04101932 Omar Sharif, actor (Dr Zhivago)
- B04101936 John Madden sports commentator
- B04101938 Dandy Don Meredith, Cowboy & sportscaster
- B04101984 Zoe, 1st frozen-embryo child, in Melbourne, Australia
- B041019?? Claudette Nevins, Birmingham Al
- B04111770 George Canning (C), British PM (1827)
- B04111794 Edward Everett, statesman, orator
- B04111862 Charles Evans Hughs, 11th Supreme Court chief justice
- B04111866 Carla Ford, Henry's wife
- B04111893 Dean Acheson, statesman
- B04111916 Dan Fortmann, NFL guard (Chicago Bears)
- B04111918 Cameron Mitchell, actor
- B04111925 Ethel Kennedy, wife of Bobby
- B04111932 Joel Grey, actor (Cabaret)
- B04111938 Michael Deaver, politician, influence peddler
- B04111939 Louise Lasser, NYC - Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!
- B04111942 Anatoli Berezovoi, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-5)
- B04121777 Henry Clay, 'Great Compromiser'
- B04121791 Francis P Blair, helped found Republican Party
- B04121838 John Shaw Billings, US librarian, army physician
- B04121883 Imogen Cunningham, photographer
- B04121913 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader, vibraphone improviser
- B04121923 Ann Miller, dancer, actress, Houston Tx
- B04121925 Tiny Tim, singer (Tiptoe Through the Tulips)
- B04121927 Jane Withers, Atlanta Ga - Josephine the plumber
- B04121947 David Letterman, TV host
- B04121950 David Cassidy, Shirley Jones' kid on TV & real life
- B04131519 Catherine de'Medici, queen consort of Henry II of France
- B04131721 John Hanson, 1st US Pres under Articles of Confederation
- B04131732 Frederick, Lord North (C), British PM (1770-82)
- B04131743 Thomas Jefferson (D-R), 3rd pres (1801-09)
- B04131852 Frank W Woolworth, 5 & 10 king
- B04131899 Alfred Butts, invented `Scrabble'
- B04131906 Samuel Beckett, playwright (Waiting for Godot) (Nobel 1969)
- B04131907 Harold Stassen, perennial pres candidate, Minn Gov
- B04131909 Eudora Welty, novelist
- B04131909 Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Athiest
- B04131917 Howard Keel Actor-singer
- B04131924 Stanley Donen Film director producer
- B04131930 Bradford Dillman
- B04131933 Shani Wallis, Ireland, singer
- B04131935 Lyle Waggoner, actor
- B04131937 Lanford Wilson Playwright
- B04131963 Gary Kasparov, world chess champion from USSR (1985- )
- B04131970 Ricky Schroder, kid actor
- B04141578 Philip III, king of Spain & Portugal (1598-1621)
- B04141629 Christian Huygens, disc Saturn's rings & Titan
- B04141738 Duck of Portland (C), British PM (1783, 1807-09)
- B04141844 Antole France, France, novelist
- B04141889 Arnold Toynbee, English historian (A Study of History)
- B04141904 Sir John Gielgud, actor (Arthur, Ages of Man)
- B04141918 Mary Healy, New Orleans
- B04141925 Rod Steiger, actor (Illustrated Man, Pawnbroker)
- B04141935 Loretta Lynn, Kentucky, a coal miner's daughter
- B04141941 Julie Christie, Assam India
- B04141941 Pete Rose, Cincinatti Reds, Charlie hustle
- B04141942 Valentin V Lebedev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 35, T-5)
- B04151452 Leonardo da Vinci, painter & visionary
- B04151469 Nanak, 1st guru of Sikhs
- B04151684 Catherine I, empress of Russia (1725-27)
- B04151707 Leonhard Euler, mathematician
- B04151741 Charles Wilson Peale, American portrait painter
- B04151793 Friedrich Struve, founder of a dynasty of astronomers, Germany
- B04151850 John Munroe Longyear, American capitalist, bank president
- B04151889 A Philip Randolph, labor leader
- B04151889 Thomas Hart Benton, American painter & muralist
- B04151898 Bessie Smith, Empress of Blues
- B04151907 Nikolaas Tinbergen, zoologist, ethologist (Nobel 1973)
- B04151921 Georgi T Beregovoi, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3)
- B04151922 Harold Washington (D), mayor of Chicago
- B04151924 Neville Marriner, conductor
- B04151933 Elizabeth Montgomery, Hollywood Cal, Bewitching
- B04151933 Roy Clark, country singer
- B04151939 Claudia Cardinale, Tunisia
- B04151955 McDonalds Corporation, restaurant chain started by Ray Kroc
- B04151966 Samantha Fox, England Singer
- B041519?? Julie Sommers, Fremont Nebraska
- B04161660 Hans Sloane, British physician, naturalist; founded British Museum
- B04161844 Anatole France, writer (Thaîs, Wickerwork Woman) (Nobel 1921)
- B04161867 José de Diego, Puerto Rican patriot, political leader
- B04161867 Wilbur Wright, of aeronautical fame
- B04161871 John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist, poet (Riders to the Sea)
- B04161889 Charlie Chaplin, tramp (City Lights), retired PC salesman
- B04161904 Clifford Case Sen
- B04161904 Lily Pons opera diva
- B04161921 Peter Ustinov, actor
- B04161924 Henry Mancini, composer, conductor
- B04161925 Edie Adams, Kingston Pa
- B04161928 Dick (Night Train) Lane, NFL defensive back (Rams, Cards, Lions)
- B04161930 Herbie Mann, jazz musician
- B04161935 Bobby Vinton, Polish prince of song
- B04161939 Dusty Springfield, London England
- B04161940 Margrethe II, queen of Denmark (1972- )
- B04161947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tall person
- B04171586 John Ford, English dramatist ('Tis Pity She's a Whore)
- B04171741 Samuel Chase, signed Decl of Ind, judge
- B04171837 John Pierpont Morgan, financed US
- B04171876 Ian Hay, Scottish novelist, playwright
- B04171894 Nikita S Khrushchev, Soviet leader (1953-64)
- B04171897 Thornton Wilder, American novelist, playwright (Our Town)
- B04171911 Mikhail Botvinnik of USSR, world chess champion (1948-63)
- B04171916 Sirimavo Bandaranaike, world's 1st woman PM (Sri Lanka)
- B04171923 Harry Reasoner, newscaster (CBS)
- B04171930 Genevieve
- B04171933 Monique Van Vooren, Brussels Belgium
- B04171934 Rock & Roll producer Don Kirshner, invented bubblegum music
- B04171951 Olivia Hussey, Buenos Aires
- B04181480 Lucrezia Borgia
- B04181820 Franz von Suppe, composer
- B04181857 Clarence S Darrow, Scopes monkey trial DA
- B04181882 Leopold Stokowski, virtuoso conductor (Cincinnati Symphony)
- B04181922 Barbara Hale
- B04181946 Hayley Mills, London England, actress (Parent Trap)
- B04181948 Catherine Malfilano, New York
- B04191721 Roger Sherman, signer of Declaration of Independence, Constitution
- B04191832 José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, mathematician, dramatist (Nobel 1904)
- B04191832 Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, first lady
- B04191877 Ole Evinrude, invented outboard marine engine
- B04191883 Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil (1930-45, 1951-54), modernizer
- B04191926 Don Adams, secret agent 86 on Get Smart
- B04191930 Hugh O'Brian, actor
- B04191932 Jayne Mansfield, Pennsylvania
- B04191935 Dudley Moore, actor (10)
- B04191949 Paloma Picasso
- B0420 121 Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor, philosopher
- B04201808 Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), emperor of France (1852-71)
- B04201850 Daniel Chester French, American sculptor
- B04201871 W.H. Davies, poet
- B04201889 Adolf Hitler, Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany
- B04201893 Harold Lloyd, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last), Burchard Neb
- B04201893 Joan Miró, Spanish painter
- B04201910 Robert F Wagner (D), NY mayor
- B04201920 John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice
- B04201923 Tito Puente, band leader
- B04201924 Nina Foch, Netherlands
- B04201925 Ernie Stautner, NFL defensive tackle (Pittsburgh)
- B04201941 Ryan O'Neal, actor (Peyton Place, Paper Moon)
- B04201949 Jessica Lange, Cloquet Minnesota, actress
- B04201961 Don Mattingly, Indiana, Yankee hitman
- B04211816 Charlotte Brontë, English novelist (Jane Eyre)
- B04211837 Fredrik Bajer, Danish politican, feminist, pacifist (Nobel 1908)
- B04211838 John Muir, naturalist
- B04211849 Oskar Hertwig, German embryologist, discovered fertilization
- B04211898 Steve Owen, NFL tackle, coach (NY Giants)
- B04211909 Rollo May, psychologist
- B04211916 Anthony Quinn, actor (Zorba the Greek)
- B04211926 Elizabeth II, queen of England (1952- )
- B04211930 Silvana Mangano, Italian actress
- B04211932 Elaine May, Phila
- B04221451 Isabella of Castile, patron of Columbus
- B04221690 John Carteret, Earl Granville (C), English chief minister (1722-42)
- B04221707 Henry Fielding, novelist (Tom Jones)
- B04221724 Immanuel Kant, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason)
- B04221799 Jean Poiseuille, physician, physiologist
- B04221854 Henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgian international lawyer (Nobel 1913)
- B04221870 Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Bolshevik
- B04221876 O.E. Rölvaag, Norwegian-American novelist (Giants in the Earth)
- B04221876 Robert Bárány, Swedish otologist, vestibular expert (Nobel 1914)
- B04221904 J Robert Oppenheimer, headed Manhattan (A-bomb) Project
- B04221908 Eddie Albert, actor (Green Acres)
- B04221916 Yehudi Menuhin, violinist
- B04221926 Charolette Rae
- B04221937 Jack Nicholson, actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Shining)
- B04221938 Glen Campbell
- B042219?? Lauri Hendler
- B04231484 Julis Caesar Scaliger, Italian scholar (On the Subtlety of Things)
- B04231547 Miguel DeCervantes Saavedra - Man Of LaMancha
- B04231564 William Shakespeare, bard (Hamlet, MacBeth, Julius Cæsar)
- B04231605 Boris Godunov, tsar of Muscovy (1598-1605) in Time of Troubles
- B04231791 James Buchanan (D), 15th pres (1857-61)
- B04231813 Stephen Douglas, debated Lincoln
- B04231891 Sergei Prokofiev, composer
- B04231897 Lester B Pearson (L), 14th Canadian PM (1963-68) (Nobel 1957)
- B04231897 Lucius D Clay, general
- B04231899 Dame Ngaio Marsh, Kiwi mystery writer & actress
- B04231902 Halldór Laxness, Icelandic novelist (Salka Valka) (Nobel 1955)
- B04231914 Simone Simon, French actress
- B04231916 Bud Wilkinson, college football coach (Oklahoma)
- B04231921 Janet Blair, Altoona Pa
- B04231921 Warren Spahn, left-handed pitcher (Boston/Milwaukee Braves)
- B04231926 Virgil I (Gus) Grissom, astronaut (Liberty Bell 7, Gemini 3)
- B04231928 Shirley Temple Black, Santa Monica Calif, child actress & ambassador
- B04231932 Halston, fashion designer
- B04231932 Jim Fixx, jogger
- B04231936 Roy Orbison, sings about his Little Woman
- B04231939 David Birney, actor
- B04231940 Lee Majors, actor ($6,000,000 Man)
- B04231942 Sandra Dee, Bayonne NJ
- B04231943 Herve Villechaize "Da Plane! Da Plane!"
- B04231947 Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Ireland, political activist (or 1940)
- B04231949 Joyce DeWitt, Wheeling WV (3s Company)
- B04231960 Valerie Bertinelli aka Mrs Eddie Van Halen, Wilmington Del
- B04241620 John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography
- B04241743 Edmund Cartwright, English cleric, invented power loom
- B04241766 Robert Bailey Thomas, founder of Farmer's Almanac
- B04241797 Benjamin Lee Whorf, linguist
- B04241815 Anthony Trollope, England, poet (Barchester Towers)
- B04241845 Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus) (Nobel 1919)
- B04241903 Mike Michalske, NFL guard (NY Yankees, Green Bay Packers)
- B04241905 Robert Penn Warren, author (All the King's Men)
- B04241934 Shirley MacLaine, actress, mystic, Richmond Va
- B04241936 Jill Ireland, London
- B04241942 Barbra Streisand, Bkln NY, singer/actress/award winner
- B04251214 Louis IX, king of France (1226-70)
- B04251284 Edward II, king of England (1307-27)
- B04251599 Oliver Cromwell, lord protector of England (1653-58)
- B04251874 Guglielmo Marconi, invented radio (Nobel 1909), Bologna Italy
- B04251906 William J Brennan Jr Supreme Court justice
- B04251908 Edward R Murrow, set TV correspondents standard, Pole Creek NC
- B04251918 Ella Fitzgerald, singer
- B04251923 Anita Bjorak
- B04251923 Melissa Hayden, Toronto
- B04251930 Paul Mazursky
- B04251932 Meadowlark Lemon Harlem Globetrotter (or 0421)
- B04251940 Al Pacino, actor (Godfather)
- B04251946 Talia Shire, NYC (Rocky's wife)
- B04261711 David Hume, English empiricists
- B04261785 John James Audubon, bird watcher, artist
- B04261822 Frederick L Olmsted, landscape architect, writer
- B04261875 Syngman Rhee South Korean statesman
- B04261888 Aleksandr Mikhailov, USSR astronomer
- B04261889 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher (Tractatus)
- B04261893 Anita Loos, author
- B04261895 Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy Fuerher, only one at Spandau prison
- B04261898 Vincente Aleixandre, Spanish writer (Nobel 1977)
- B04261900 Charles Richter, seismologist measures earthquakes
- B04261906 Gracie Allen
- B04261914 Bernard Malamud, American novelist (Fixer, The Natural)
- B04261916 Morris L West, Australian novelist (Shoes of the Fisherman)
- B04261917 I.M. Pei, architect
- B04261936 Carol Burnett, comedian, actress San Antonio Tx
- B04261942 Bobby Rydell, singer, Phila
- B04261943 Gary Wright, dream weaver
- B04261948 Stevie Nicks, Calif of Fleetwood Mac
- B04261966 Andrea Temesvari, tennis player
- B04271737 Edward Gibson, England, historian
- B04271759 M Wollstonecraft
- B04271791 Samuel F.B. Morse, invented telegraph
- B04271820 Herbert Spencer, English Victorian philosopher
- B04271822 Ulysses S Grant (R), 18th pres (1869-77)
- B04271840 Edward Whymper, 1st to climb Matterhorn (1865)
- B04271896 Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon
- B04271900 Walter Lantz, Woody Woodpecker's creator
- B04271904 Arthur F Burns, economist
- B04271904 Cecil Day-Lewis, English poet laureate, detective novelist
- B04271918 John Scali, newspaperman
- B04271922 Jack Klugman, actor (Odd Couple)
- B04271927 Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist
- B04271932 Aimee Anouk, France
- B04271937 Sandy Dennis, Nebraska
- B04271938 Earl Anthony, pro bowling champion
- B04271939 Judy Carne, England
- B04271959 Sheena Easton, Glascow Scotland, singer/Jack LaLane spokesperson
- B04281442 Edward IV, king of England (1461-70, 1471-83)
- B04281758 James Monroe (D-R), 5th pres (1817-25)
- B04281774 Francis Baily, describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse
- B04281795 Charles Sturt, Australian explorer
- B04281838 Tobias Asser, Dutch advocate of world law (Nobel Peace Prize 1911)
- B04281950 Jay Leno, New Rochelle
- B04281878 Lionel Barrymore, actor
- B04281900 Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer
- B04281906 Kurt Gödel, famous mathematician (Incompleteness Theorem)
- B04281917 Robert Anderson, playwright
- B04281930 James Baker III, Reagan's Treasury Secretary
- B04281932 Carolyn Jones, Amarillo Tx
- B04281941 Ann-Margret, actress (Carnal Knowledge, Tommy), Valsjobya Sweden
- B042819?? Marcia Strassman, NYC
- B04291745 Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd chief justice Supreme Court (1796-1800)
- B04291818 Alexander II, tsar of Russia (1855-81)
- B04291830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels
- B04291854 Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, astronomer, philosopher
- B04291863 William Randolph Hearst, publisher (SF Examiner, Seattle P-I)
- B04291897 Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
- B04291899 Duke Ellington, musician
- B04291901 Emperor Hirohito of Japan (1926- )
- B04291907 Movie director Fred Zinnemann
- B04291909 Tom Ewell
- B04291919 Celeste Holm
- B04291922 George Allen Football coach
- B04291932 Alexei A Gubarev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 28)
- B04291933 Rod McKuen, singer, composer, versifier
- B04291936 Zubin Mehta, conductor
- B04291947 Jim Ryun runner
- B04291947 Johnny Miller, golfer
- B04291947 Tommy James, cri-im-son & clo-o-ver o-o-ver & o-o-ver
- B04291955 Kate Mulgrew, Dubuque Iowa
- B04301602 William Lilly, English astrologer, author, almanac compiler
- B04301777 Karl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematicians
- B04301858 Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, first lady
- B04301870 Franz Lehar, composer
- B04301909 Queen Juliana of Netherlands (1948-80)
- B04301912 Eve Arden, actress (Our Miss Brooks), Calif
- B04301916 Robert Shaw, chorale conductor
- B04301917 Bea Wain, actress
- B04301925 Cloris Leachman, Des Moines Iowa
- B04301926 Corinne Calvet
- B04301933 Willie Nelson, on the road again
- B04301936 Zohra Lampert
- B04301944 Jill Clayburgh, NY (Unmarried Woman)
- B04301946 Carl XVI Gustav, king of Sweden (1973- )
- B04301946 Donald Schollander, swimmer
- B04301949 Perry King actor
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- S0401 April Fool's Day
- S0401 Feast of St Lasarus
- S0401 Saint Stupid's Day (a SF tradition since 1980)
- S04011753 Christmas Eve
- S04011778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$"
- S04011789 House of Reps 1st full meeting, NYC, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker
- S04011850 SF County Govt established
- S04011853 Cincinnati became 1st US city to pay firefighters a regular salary
- S04011863 1st wartime conscription law in US went into effect
- S04011918 Royal Air Force established
- S04011933 Nazi Germany began persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses
- S04011935 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY
- S04011939 US recognized Franco govt in Spain at end of Spanish civil war
- S04011941 Navy takes over Treasure Island (SF Bay)
- S04011945 American forces launched invasion of Okinawa during WW II
- S04011946 strike by 400,000 mine workers
- S04011952 Big Bang theory proposed in PHYSICAL REVIEW by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow
- S04011954 1st army helicopter battalion formed, Fort Bragg, NC
- S04011960 RCA (TV & Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched
- S04011963 NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike
- S04011964 USSR launches Zond 1 towards Venus
- S04011971 US/Canada ISIS II launched to study ionosphere
- S04011974 Pioneer Hall opens
- S04011979 Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of the Shah
- S04011984 Marvin Gaye shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in LA
- S0402 Feast of St Francis of Paula, confessor
- S0402 International Children's Book Day
- S04021513 Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de León
- S04021792 Congress establishes Coin denominations & authorizes US Mint
- S04021845 H.L. Fizeau & J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of the sun
- S04021860 1st Italian Parliament met at Turin
- S04021865 Conf Pres Jefferson Davis fled Confederate capital of Richmond Va
- S04021917 Pres Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany
- S04021932 Lindbergh turned over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son
- S04021935 Sir Watson-Watt granted a patent for RADAR
- S04021954 Plans to build Disneyland first announced
- S04021956 As the World Turns & The Edge of Night premiered
- S04021958 NACA renamed NASA
- S04021958 Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, TX (record)
- S04021961 Yuri A Gagarin, 1st man in orbit
- S04021966 USSR Luna 10, 1st to orbit the moon
- S04021970 Qatar gains independence from Britain
- S04021972 Prime Minister Begin visits Cairo
- S04021972 TV show Dallas premiers
- S04021974 Arganat Comm publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War
- S04021982 Argentina seizes Malvinas (Falklands) Is
- S04021984 Soyuz T-11 launched
- S04021986 George Corley Wallace announces retirement plans
- S04031679 Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig
- S04031776 Washington recd an honorary dr of laws degree from Harvard College
- S04031848 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st SF public teacher
- S04031860 Pony Express began between St Joseph Mo & Sacramento Calif
- S04031865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Va
- S04031882 Jesse James shot dead in St Joseph Mo by Robert Ford
- S04031910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley climbed
- S04031936 Bruno Hauptmann, convicted Lindbergh baby killer, executed
- S04031946 Lt Gen Masaharu Homma was executed
- S04031948 Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan (Aid to Europe)
- S04031961 D.C. residents given presidential vote by 23rd amendment
- S04031964 US & Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations
- S04031966 USSR's Luna 10 becomes the 1st craft to orbit the Moon
- S04031968 N Vietnam agreed to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks
- S04031974 Soyuz 14 is launched
- S04031977 Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter
- S04031982 UN Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands
- S04031984 Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
- S0404 Feast of St Isidore, archbishop of Seville, confessor, doctor
- S0404 St Ambrose Day (Anglican)
- S04041753 John Napier Day
- S04041818 Congress decided US flag is 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars
- S04041850 City of Los Angeles incorporated
- S04041860 Pony Express begins service, from St Joseph, Missouri
- S04041870 Golden Gate Park established by City Order #800
- S04041887 Susan Salter (Argonia, KS), 1st U S woman mayor
- S04041902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund established with $10 million
- S04041945 Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
- S04041947 International Civil Aviation Org, UN agency, formed
- S04041949 NATO established
- S04041959 Fed of Mali, consisting of Senegal & French Sudan (dissolved 1960)
- S04041960 Proj Ozma begins at Green Bank National Radio Astronomy
- S04041968 Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
- S04041968 Rev Martin Luther King Jr assassinated in Memphis
- S04041969 Dr Denton Cooley implants 1st temporary artificial heart
- S04041974 Hank Aaron tied Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th
- S04041983 Maiden voyage of STS Space shuttle Challenger
- S04041984 Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984 begins his secret diary
- S0405 Feast of St Vincent Ferrer, confessor
- S04051242 Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights
- S04051614 Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
- S04051614 Pocahontas marries John Rolfe
- S04051621 Mayflower leaves on return trip to England
- S04051762 British take Grenada, West Indies, from French
- S04051792 George Washington casts 1st Presidential veto ever
- S04051881 Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
- S04051887 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
- S04051894 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn
- S04051915 Jess Willard defeats Jack Johnson for heavyweight crown
- S04051941 in SF, Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses
- S04051951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
- S04051967 ATS II launched but failed to reach orbit
- S04051973 Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter
- S04051974 World Trade Center opens in NY
- S04051975 Soyuz 18A aborted lift-off
- S04051983 Sixth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 1 is launched
- S0406 648 BC Earliest total solar eclipse chronicled by Greeks is observed
- S04061663 Kings Charles II signs Carolina Charter
- S04061830 Joseph Smith organized Mormon Church in Fayette, NY
- S04061862 Union defeats Confederacy in Battle of Shiloh, SW Tennessee
- S04061868 Brigham Young marries 27th & final wife
- S04061896 1st modern Olympics
- S04061906 1st animated cartoon copyrighted
- S04061909 1st credit union established in US
- S04061909 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
- S04061917 US declares war on Germany (WWI)
- S04061926 4 planes take off on 1st successful around-the-world flight
- S04061957 NYC ends trolley car service
- S04061965 Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st coml geosynchronous comm satellite
- S04061973 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter & Saturn
- S04061973 Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walked
- S04061974 Yankees 1st home game at Shea, beat Indians 6-1
- S04061983 Caps 2-Isles 5 - Patrick Div Semi Finals- Isles hold 1-0 lead
- S04061984 11th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 5 is launched
- S0407 30 Scholars' reckon Jesus was crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem
- S04071652 Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, S Africa
- S04071788 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
- S04071798 Mississippi Territory organized
- S04071862 Grant defeats Confederates at Shiloh Tenn
- S04071927 Using phone lines TV was sent from Wash DC to NYC
- S04071931 SF Seals Stadium opens
- S04071933 Prohibition ends, Utah 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
- S04071939 Italy annexes Albania
- S04071948 UN establishes World Health Org
- S04071953 1st jet transatlantic non-stop flight (west to east)
- S04071959 NASA selects 1st astronauts
- S04071959 Radar 1st bounced off sun, Stanford Calif
- S04071966 US recovers lost H-bomb (whoops!)
- S04071977 Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant
- S04071979 Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers
- S04071980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
- S04071982 Penguins 1-Isles 8 - Preliminary- Isles hold 1-0 lead
- S04071983 Caps 4-Isles 2 - Patrick Div Semi Finals- series tied 1-1
- S04071983 STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk
- S04071985 1st live telecast of Easter Parade
- S0408 Feast of Blessed Julia Billiart, virgin
- S0408 Kambutsue, celebration of Buddha's birthday, in Japan
- S04081513 Ponce de Leon arrives in Florida
- S04081730 1st Jewish congregation in US consecrates synagogue
- S04081913 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified
- S04081935 Works Progress Administration approved by Congress
- S04081947 Largest recorded sunspot (7,000) is observed
- S04081952 President Harry Truman seizes steel industry to avoid a strike
- S04081964 Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
- S04081974 Discovery Island opens
- S04081974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record
- S04081980 Islander Potvin's 2 shorthanded goals tie NHL record vs Kings
- S04081980Cset NHL rec of 2 shorthanded playoff goals in 1 period
- S04081981 Islanders scored 9 goals against Toronto in playoffs
- S04081982 Penguins 2-Isles 4 - Preliminary- Isles hold 2-0 lead
- S04081986 Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California Make his day
- S04091831 Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain and Spain
- S04091833 1st tax-supported public library, at Peterborough, NH
- S04091865 Robert E Lee surrenders at Appomattox
- S04091925 Babe Ruth rushed to hospital
- S04091939 Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial
- S04091942 American & Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan
- S04091947 Atomic Energy Commission confirmed
- S04091950 Bob Hope 1st TV appearance
- S04091953 TV Guide publishes 1st issue
- S04091955 UN Charter hearing
- S04091959 Boston Celtics win 8th consecutive NBA championship (record)
- S04091959 NASA names 1st seven astronauts for Project Mercury
- S04091963 Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen (posthumously)
- S04091965 1st game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition
- S04091967 1st Boeing 737 rolls out
- S04091980 Kings tie NHL rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Isles
- S04091980 Soyuz 35 launched
- S04091983 Caps 2-Isles 6 -Patrick Semis-Denis Potvin fails on penality shot
- S04091983 6th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 1 returns to Earth
- S04091986 It is announced that killed Patrick Duffy will be back on Dallas
- S04101790 US Patent system established
- S04101816 2nd Bank of US chartered
- S04101825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens
- S04101849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt
- S04101864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico
- S04101866 ASPCA organized
- S04101871 William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park
- S04101872 Arbor Day 1st observed in Nebraska
- S04101878 Cal St Cable Car RR Co starts service
- S04101882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
- S04101912 RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st & last voyage
- S04101916 1st professional golf tournament held
- S04101930 Synthetic rubber 1st produced
- S04101932 Paul von Hindenburg elected German president (Hitler was second)
- S04101944 Patrolling the Ether is shown on 3 TV stations simltaneously
- S04101945 Jewish Martyrs Day
- S04101945 Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald
- S04101953 House of Wax, 1st 3-D movie, released in NY
- S04101960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
- S04101963 US nuclear sub Thresher went down 220 miles east of Boston
- S04101971 US table tennis team arrived in China
- S04101974 Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Prime Minister Golda Meir
- S04101975 Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in the playoffs
- S04101976 Brewers' Don Money's grand slammer disallowed - Yanks win 9-7
- S04101979 Soyuz 33 launched
- S04101981 Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded
- S04101982 Penguins 2-Isles 1 (OT) - Preliminary- Isles hold 2-1 lead
- S04101983 Caps 3-Isles 6 - Patrick Div Semi Finals- Isle win series 3-2
- S04101984 Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
- S04101985 Caps 4-Isles 3 (OT) - Patrick Div Semi Finals- Caps hold 1-0 lead
- S0411 Barber Shop Quartet Day
- S0411 Feast of St Leo I, pope (440-61), doctor
- S04111814 Napoleon's 1st abdication exiled to Elba
- S04111876 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized
- S04111895 Anaheim completes it's new electric light system
- S04111898 President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration
- S04111921 Iowa imposed 1st state cigarette tax
- S04111943 Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft
- S04111947 Jackie Robinson, 1st Negro major league baseball player, NYC
- S04111951 President Truman fires General Douglas McArthur
- S04111953 Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st at Health, Education, & Welfare
- S04111958 Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated (SF)
- S04111961 Israel begins Adolf Eichmann trial
- S04111968 President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
- S04111970 Apollo 13 launched to moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days
- S04111975 JP Parise 11 sec OT goal-Isles 1st playoff advance eliminates Rangers
- S04111979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown
- S04111981 Ronald Reagan gets home from hospital after Hinkley shot him
- S04111982 Penguins 5-Isles 2 - Preliminary- Series tied at 2-2
- S04111984 Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth
- S04111985 Caps 2-Isles 1 (OT) - Patrick Div Semi Finals- Caps hold 2-0 lead
- S04111986 Halley's Comet closest to earth
- S04111987 Yankees score 12 runs in 7th inning vs KC Royals
- S04121204 4th Crusade sacks Constantinople
- S04121859 Hibernia Savings & Loan Society of SF incorporated
- S04121861 Civil War begins as Southern army tries to take Fort Sumter, SC
- S04121862 James Andrews stole Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, Ga
- S04121877 British annex Transvaal, in South Africa
- S04121898 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in SF Bay to Navy
- S04121931 Joe McCarthy becomes Yankee manager
- S04121933 Moffatt Field is commissioned
- S04121934 Highest velocity wind ever recorded on Mt Washington, 231 mph
- S04121938 1st US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses, NY
- S04121955 Salk polio vaccine safe & effective; four billion dimes marched
- S04121961 Cosmonaut Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes 1st man to orbit
- S04121962 San Mateo County withdraws from BART district
- S04121970 Yankees dedicate plaques to Mantle & DiMaggio
- S04121979 Soyuz 33 returns to Earth
- S04121981 Maiden voyage Space Transit System-space shuttle Columbia launched
- S04121985 16th Shuttle Mission-Discovery 4 is launched-with Senator Jake Garn
- S0413 Chad Natl Day
- S0413 Feast of St Hermenegild, martyr
- S0413 6Friday the 13th! Beware!
- S04131796 1st elephant brought to America
- S04131829 English Parliament grants freedom of religion to Catholics
- S04131842 Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" mirror for telescope
- S04131849 Hungarian Republic proclaimed
- S04131865 Sherman's march through Georgia begins
- S04131902 JC Penney opened his 1st store in Kemmerer, Wyo
- S04131926 At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout
- S04131934 4.7 million American families reported receiving welfare payments
- S04131940 1st pole vaulter to clear 15 feet, C Warmerdam, Berkeley, Ca
- S04131943 FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial
- S04131945 Allies occupy Vienna
- S04131961 UN General Assembly condemns South Africa for apartheid
- S04131964 Sidney Poitier became 1st black man to win Oscar for best actor
- S04131965 Lawrence Bradford Jr, 16 of NYC became 1st black congressional page
- S04131966 Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747's
- S04131970 Apollo 13's Beech-built oxygen tank explodes
- S04131975 Jack Nicklaus wins Masters for 5th time
- S04131975 Penguins 5-Isles 4 - Quarter Finals- Penguins hold 1-0 lead
- S04131976 $2 bill re-introduced as US currency
- S04131979 Ugandan Martyrs Day
- S04131982 Penguins 3-Isles 4 (OT) - Preliminary- Isles win series (3-2)
- S04131984 Christopher Wilder, FBI's `most wanted man' accidentally killed self
- S04131984 11th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 5 returns to Earth
- S04131985 Caps 1-Isles 2 - Patrick Div Semi Finals- Caps hold 2-1 lead
- S04131986 Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue
- S0414 Feast of St Justin, philosopher, martyr
- S0414 Pan American Day
- S04141611 Word "telescope" is 1st used by Prince Federico Cesi
- S04141817 1st American school for deaf (Hartford, Conn)
- S04141828 1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published
- S04141860 1st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St Joseph, Mo
- S04141865 Abraham Lincoln assasinated in Ford's Theater
- S04141890 Pan American Day
- S04141894 1st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
- S04141900 Veteran's Hospital at Ft Miley established
- S04141928 Maddus AL starts 1st regular passenger flights between SF & LA
- S04141931 Spain becomes republic with overthrow of Alfonso XIII
- S04141945 Tokyo incendiary raids, using B-29's, damage Imperial Palace
- S04141956 Ampex Corporation demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
- S04141971 Ft Point, SF dedicated as Natl Historic Site
- S04141981 1st Space Shuttle - Columbia 1 returns to Earth
- S04141983 Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Ranger
- S04141983CRangers 1-Isles 4 - Patrick Div Finals- Isles hold 1-0 lead
- S04141985 Caps 4-Isles 6 - Patrick Div Semi Finals- Series tied at 2-2
- S0415 African Freedom Day
- S0415 Income Taxes are due today Keep IRS happy
- S0415 2Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
- S0415 4AT & T Annual Shareholder meeting
- S04151598 Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots
- S04151790 1st US patent law passed
- S04151850 SF incorporated
- S04151861 Yankee aggressor army mobilized by Yankee President Lincoln
- S04151895 Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 1620 kg (record)
- S04151912 Titanic sinks in N Atlantic at 2:20AM
- S04151922 Poodle Dog Restaurant closes
- S04151923 1st talking picture is screened before a paying audience
- S04151923 Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics
- S04151928 Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf is founded
- S04151941 1st helicopter flight of one hour duration, Stratford, Ct
- S04151945 FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home
- S04151947 Jackie Robinson became 1st black in professional baseball
- S04151952 1st B-52 prototype test flight
- S04151954 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Edward Barrow
- S04151955 Ray Kroc starts McDonald's
- S04151973 Walt Disney Story opens
- S04151975 Penguins 3-Isles 1 - Quarter Finals- Penguins hold 2-0 lead
- S04151976 Yankee stadium reopened, Yanks beat Twins after trailing 4-0
- S04151981 Janet Cooke says Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story a lie
- S04151983 Rangers 0-Isles 5 - Patrick Div Finals- Isles hold 2-0 lead
- S04151983 Tokyo Disneyland opens
- S0416 Feast of St Bernadette of Lourdes
- S0416 2Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
- S0416 4AT & T Annual Shareholder meeting
- S04161705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College,
- S04161789 George Washington heads off for 1st Presidential inauguration
- S04161818 Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot ammendment (unarmed US-Canada border)
- S04161849 MDeGasparis discovers 10th asteroid, Hygia
- S04161854 San Salvador destroyed by earthquake
- S04161862 District of Columbia outlaws slavery
- S04161866 Nitroglycerine at Wells Fargo & Co office explodes
- S04161912 Harriet Quimby flies English Channel, 1st woman to do so
- S04161917 Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
- S04161929 Yankees become 1st team to use numbers on uniforms
- S04161935 1st broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"
- S04161940 Bob Feller hurls an opening day no-hitter
- S04161947 Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated, NYC
- S04161947 Massive explosion & fire kills 500 in Texas City, Texas
- S04161959 Yankees unveil their 1st message scoreboard
- S04161962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS news
- S04161967 Yankees beat Boston 7-6 in 18 innings
- S04161972 Apollo 16 launched; 5th lunar landing at Decartes Highlands
- S04161977 Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia
- S04161979 15th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks & Mets tie 1-1
- S04161981 Columbia returned
- S04161985 Caps 1-Isles 2 - Patrick Div Semi Finals- Isle win series 3-2
- S0417 Feast of St Anicetus, pope (150-66), martyr
- S0417 2Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
- S0417 4AT & T Annual Shareholder meeting
- S04171492 Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find the Indies
- S04171524 New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano
- S04171793 Battle of Warsaw
- S04171853 US Marine Hospital at Presidio established
- S04171861 Virginia becomes 8th state to secede from US
- S04171869 1st pro baseball games - Cin Reds 24, Cin amateurs 15
- S04171895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
- S04171941 Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing)
- S04171946 France grants Syria independence (Natl Day)
- S04171953 Mickey Mantle hits a 565' HR in Wash DC
- S04171961 US Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba fails
- S04171967 Surveyor 3 launched; makes soft landing on moon April 20
- S04171970 Apollo 13 limps back safely, Beech-built oxygen tank no help
- S04171970 Paul McCartney's 1st solo album "McCartney"
- S04171975 Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea Nat Day)
- S04171975 Penguins 6-Isles 4 - Quarter Finals- Penguins hold 3-0 lead
- S04171981 Isle Potvin's 3 playoff power play goals tie NHL record vs Oilers
- S04171983 India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket
- S04171983 Islanders tie NHL record with 3 shorthanded playoff goals vs Rangers
- S04171983CRangers 7-Isles 6 - Patrick Div Finals- Isles hold 2-1 lead
- S0418 2Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
- S0418 4AT & T Annual Shareholder meeting
- S04181676 Sudbury, Mass attacked by Indians
- S04181775 'British are Coming!' Paul Revere rides
- S04181838 Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails
- S04181868 SF ASPCA formed
- S04181869 1st Intl Cricket Match, held in SF, won by Californian
- S04181907 Fairmont Hotel opens
- S04181923 74,000 on hand for Opening of Yankee Stadium, 62,281 paid
- S04181934 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) is opened, in Ft Worth, Texas
- S04181936 Clipper begins regular passenger flights from SF to Honolulu
- S04181942 James H Doolittle bombed Tokyo & other Japanese cities
- S04181942C'Stars & Stripes' paper started for U S Armed Forces
- S04181946 League of Nations went out of business, replaced by UN
- S04181949 Irish Republic comes into existence
- S04181950 1st transatlantic jet passenger trip
- S04181950 Yankees win 15-10 after trailing Red Sox 9-0 in 6th
- S04181956 Don Larsen 1st to pitch a perfect World Series game
- S04181956 Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco (civil ceremony)
- S04181968 SF's Old Hall of Justice demolished
- S04181978 U S Senate approves transfer of Panama Canal to Panama
- S04181979 Real People premier
- S04181980 Rhodesia becomes Zimbabwe
- S04181981 Pawtuckett & Rochester become involved in a 33 inning game
- S04181982 Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act
- S04181983 Rangers 3-Isles 1 - Patrick Div Finals- Series tied at 2-2
- S04181985 Flyers 3-Isles 0 - Patrick Div Finals- Flyers hold 1-0 lead
- S0419 Lyrid meteor shower, radiant in Hercules
- S0419 St Alphege's Day (bishop, martyr) (Anglican)
- S0419 2Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
- S0419 4AT & T Annual Shareholder meeting
- S04191775 Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot 'heard round the world'
- S04191782 Netherlands recognizes US
- S04191852 Calif Historical Society founded
- S04191874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
- S04191892 Charles Duryea takes 1st American-made auto out for a spin
- S04191897 1st American marathon ran John J McDermott wins in 2:55:10 (Boston)
- S04191933 U S leaves gold standard
- S04191934 Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up & Cheer"
- S04191939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)
- S04191943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto
- S04191945 Rogers & Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway
- S04191946 Yankees witch from 3rd base to 1st base dug out
- S04191949 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Babe Ruth
- S04191956 Grace Kelly marries Price Rainier of Monaco (in church)
- S04191967 US Surveyor III lands on moon
- S04191971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic (Natl Day)
- S04191971 USSR Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit
- S04191973 Steinbrenner replaces Mike Burke with Gabe Paul as Yankee president
- S04191975 India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR
- S04191978 Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel
- S04191982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut
- S04191982 USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit
- S04191982CRosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery
- S04191985 16th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 4 returns to Earth
- S0420 Lyrid meteor shower, radiant in Hercules
- S0420 2Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
- S0420 4AT & T Annual Shareholder meeting
- S04201775 British begin siege of Boston
- S04201836 Territory of Wisconsin created
- S04201872 SF Bar Association organized
- S04201888 246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India
- S04201902 Marie & Pierre Curie isolated radioactive element radium
- S04201912 Fenway Park opens, Red Sox beat Yankees 7-6 in 11
- S04201939 Ted Williams 1st hit, off of Yankee's Red Ruffing, a double
- S04201940 1st electron microscope demonstrated, Philadelphia, Pa
- S04201945 US 7th Army captured German city of Nuremberg
- S04201946 1st baseball broadcast in Chicago, Cards vs Cubs
- S04201948 Walter P Reuther UAW pres shot & wounded at his home in Detroit
- S04201957 Yankee Bill Skowron became 3rd player to hit a ball out of Fenway
- S04201958 Buses replace Key System trains at 3AM
- S04201961 American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
- S04201962 NO Citizens Council gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North
- S04201968 Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn in as prime minister of Canada
- S04201971 US Supreme Court upheld use of busing to achieve racial desegregation
- S04201972 Apollo 16's Young & Duke land on the moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
- S04201973 Canadian ANIK A2 became 1st commercial satellite in orbit
- S04201975 Penguins 1-Isles 3 - Quarter Finals- Penguins hold 3-1 lead
- S04201977 Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on licenses
- S04201977 Woody Allen's film `Annie Hall' premiered
- S04201978 Korean Air Lines 707 forced to land; violated Soviet airspace
- S04201983 Rangers 2-Isles 7 - Patrick Div Finals- Isles hold 3-2 lead
- S04201983 Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule failed to dock
- S04201986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
- S0421 Feast of St Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, confessor, doctor
- S0421 Lyrid meteor shower, radiant in Hercules
- S0421 2Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
- S0421 4AT & T Annual Shareholder meeting
- S0421 753 BC--City of Rome founded
- S04211649 Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
- S04211789 John Adams sworn in as 1st U S Vice President
- S04211828 Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary
- S04211836 Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from Mexico
- S04211855 1st train crosses Miss River's 1st bridge, Rock Is Il-Davenport Ia
- S04211857 A Douglas patents Bustle
- S04211862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Co
- S04211892 1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park
- S04211898 Spanish American war bewgins
- S04211908 Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (He didn't)
- S04211910 Halley's Comet passes last perihelion at distance of 54.6 million
- S04211914 US marines occupy Veracruz, Mexico, stay 6 months
- S04211918 "Red" Baron, Manfred von Richtofen, killed in WW I
- S04211940 1st $64 Question, "Take It or Leave It", on CBS Radio
- S04211959 1211-kg great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod
- S04211967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalin's daughter) defected in NYC
- S04211972 John Young, Charles Duke explore Moon on Apollo XVI
- S04211972 Orbiting Astronomical Observer 4 (Copernicus) is launched
- S04211975 Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnamese President, resigns
- S04211976 Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing
- S04211977 Billy Martin pulls Yankee line-up out of a hat, beat Blue Jay 8-6
- S04211977 Broadway play "Annie" opens, 1st of 2377 performances
- S04211983 Soyuz T-8 is launched
- S04211984 Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph
- S04211985 Flyers 5-Isles 2 - Patrick Div Finals- Flyers hold 2-0 lead
- S0422 Arbor Day
- S0422 Earth Day
- S0422 Feast of SS Soter, pope (?166-175) & Caius, pope (283-96), martyrs
- S0422 Lyrid meteor shower, radiant in Hercules
- S04221500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil
- S04221509 Henry VIII ascended to throne of England
- S04221529 Spain and Portugal divide eastern hemisphere in Treaty of Saragossa
- S04221864 US Congress authorized "In God We Trust" on coinage
- S04221889 Oklahoma land rush officially started; some were Sooner
- S04221898 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, took enemy ship
- S04221903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) 1st game, Senators win 3-1 before 11,950
- S04221915 1st use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I
- S04221915 Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time
- S04221930 meeting in London, US, Britain & Japan agree to reduce naval forces
- S04221952 1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada
- S04221959 Yankee White Ford strikes out 15 Senators, & win 1-0 in 14 innings
- S04221964 World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY) starts
- S04221970 1st Earth Day
- S04221970 Senators beat Yankees 2-1 in 18 innings
- S04221971 Soyuz 10 is launched
- S04221975 Penguins 2-Isles 4 - Quarter Finals- Penguins hold 3-2 lead
- S04221976 Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor
- S04221983 Rangers 2-Isles 5 - Patrick Div Finals- Isles win series 4-2
- S04221983 Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth
- S04221986 Consumer Price Index drops .04% for second month in a row
- S0423 Feast of St George, martyr, dragon slayer, patron of England
- S0423 Lyrid meteor shower, radiant in Hercules
- S0423 Natl Secretary Day
- S04231753 St George's Day
- S04231789 President George Washington moves into Franklin House, NY
- S04231871 Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up
- S04231896 VITASCOPE system of movie projection 1st demonstrated
- S04231915 A.C.A. became Natl Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)
- S04231940 Yanks dedicate a plaque to Jacob Rupert
- S04231949 Courtesy mail boxes for motorists started in SF
- S04231954 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers
- S04231962 1st American satellite to reach moon launched from Cape Canaveral
- S04231965 Launch of 1st Soviet communications satelite
- S04231967 Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty
- S04231968 United Methodist Church founded
- S04231969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy
- S04231971 Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station
- S04231972 Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface
- S04231985 Flyers 5-Isles 3 - Patrick Div Finals- Flyers hold 3-0 lead
- S04231985 New Coke debuts
- S04231986 Grand Floridan Beach Resort groundbreaking
- S0424 Feast of St Fidelis of Sigmaringen, martyr
- S0424 3Stockholders Meeting, Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
- S04241704 Boston News Letter 1st American newspaper printed regularly
- S04241792 `La Marseillaise' composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
- S04241800 Library of Congress founded with $5000 allocation
- S04241865 Fire Alarm & Police Telegraph system put into operation
- S04241877 Troops ordered out of N Orleans end North's post-Civil War rule
- S04241897 1st reporter, William Price, assigned to White House
- S04241898 Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
- S04241900 Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer
- S04241905 Senators execute a triple play & beat Yankees 4-3
- S04241915 Massacre of Armenians by Turks (Armenian Martyrs Day)
- S04241916 Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
- S04241917 Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway
- S04241934 Wind gusts reach 372 kph at Mt Washington, NH
- S04241944 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump"
- S04241953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
- S04241954 1st American civilian pilot wounded in Indo China - PR Holden
- S04241961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
- S04241962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA
- S04241962 Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18 strikeout game
- S04241970 China PR launchs 1st satellite transmitting song `East is Red'
- S04241971 Soyuz 10 returns to Earth
- S04241975 Penguins 1-Isles 4 - Quarter Finals- series tied at 3-3
- S04241981 IBM-PC introduced
- S0425 Arbor Day-Plant a tree
- S0425 Confederate Memorial Day
- S0425 Feast of St Mark, evangelist
- S0425 3Stockholders Meeting, Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
- S04251792 Highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier 1st person executed by guillotine
- S04251848 Graham discovers 9th asteroid, Metis
- S04251859 Ground broken for Suez Canal
- S04251891 Pres Benjamin Harrison visits SF
- S04251898 US declares war on Spain
- S04251901 NY 1st state requiring automobile license plates Fee was $1
- S04251904 Yankee Jack Chesbro's 1st of 41 wins that year
- S04251915 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli
- S04251945 Delegates from 45 countries met in SF organizing UN
- S04251945CLast Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
- S04251945CUS & Soviet forces met at Torgau Germany on Elbe River
- S04251954 Bell labs announces 1st solar battery - NYC
- S04251957 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated
- S04251959 St Lawrence Seaway opens to shipping
- S04251960 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton)
- S04251961 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin
- S04251961 Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit
- S04251962 Seattle World's Fair opens
- S04251972 Glider pilot Hans Grosse flies a record 1461 km
- S04251974 Dictator António Salazar overthrown in Portugal
- S04251975 1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao
- S04251980 Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran
- S04251982 In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawl
- S04251985 Flyers 2-Isles 6 - Patrick Div Finals- Flyers hold 3-1 lead
- S0426 Feast of SS Cletus, pope (76-88) and Marcellinus, pope (296-304)
- S0426 3Stockholders Meeting, Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
- S04261478 Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo and kill Giuliano de'Medici
- S04261607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va
- S04261777 16 year old Sybil Ludington rode from NY to Ct rallying her fathers
- S04261777Cmilitia to fight British in Danbury
- S04261803 Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France
- S04261865 John Wilkes Booth is killed
- S04261887 Huntsville Electric Company established to sell electricity
- S04261906 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii
- S04261920 H Shapley & H.D. Curtis hold "Great Debate" on nature of nebulae
- S04261937 German-made planes destroy Basque town of Guernica in Spain
- S04261944 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
- S04261954 Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
- S04261961 Roger Maris' 1st of 61 homers that year
- S04261962 US/UK launched Ariel; 1st Intl payload
- S04261964 Tanganyika and Zanzibar unite to form Tanzania (Natl Day)
- S04261968 US underground nuclear test, "Boxcar", 1 megaton device
- S04261971 SF Lightship replaced by automatic buoy
- S04261974 Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline & Buskey to Indians for
- S04261974CChambliss, Tidrow & Upshaw
- S04261975 Penguins 0-Isles 1 - Quarter Finals- Isles win series 4-3
- S04261982 Argentina surrender to Britain on S Georgia near Falkland Island
- S04261983 Bruins 2-Isles 5 - Wales Conf Championship- Isles hold 1-0 lead
- S04261983 Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 1200 for 1st time
- S04261986 Chernobyl world's worst nuclear power plant disaster
- S0427 Feast of St Peter Canisius, confessor, doctor, Apostle of Germany
- S0427 Union Day, celebrated in Tanzania
- S0427 3Stockholders Meeting, Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
- S04274977 BC Johannes Kepler's date for creation of universe
- S04271521 Ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives
- S04271565 1st Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City
- S04271805 US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
- S04271813 Americans under Gen Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed
- S04271838 Fire destroys half of Charleston
- S04271861 W Va secedes from Va as Va secedes from US
- S04271865 Steamer Sultana, explodes (1450 Union prisoners dies)
- S04271897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated
- S04271903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out, Phila A's win 6-0
- S04271932 Apollo asteroid discovered with a perigee of 2 million miles
- S04271935 Yanks pull a 1st inning Triple play, beat Phila A's 9-8
- S04271937 US Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment
- S04271945 2nd Republic of Austria found
- S04271946 1st radar installation aboard a coml ship installed
- S04271947 Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium
- S04271948 Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River
- S04271960 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)
- S04271960 France grants Togo independence (Natl Day)
- S04271961 UK grants Sierra Leone independence
- S04271964 Tanzanian Union Day
- S04271965 RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper
- S04271972 Apollo 16 returns to Earth
- S04271978 14th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 4-3 in 11
- S04271978 Afghanistan revolution (Natl Day)
- S04271982 Nordiques 1-Isles 4 - Semi-Finals- Isles hold 1-0 lead
- S04271986 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO
- S0428 Feast of St Paul of Cross, confessor
- S0428 Kiss Your Mate Day
- S0428 3Stockholders Meeting, Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
- S0428 585 war between Lydia and Media (in Asia Minor) ended by solar eclipse
- S04281686 1st volume of Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA is published
- S04281754 Mutiny on HMS Bounty
- S04281788 Maryland becomes 7th state
- S04281914 W H Carrier patents air conditioner
- S04281919 1st successful parachute jump
- S04281932 Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced
- S04281937 1st animated cartoon electric sign displayed, NYC
- S04281942 "WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
- S04281945 Fascist leader Mussolini & mistress captured, tried, & shot
- S04281947 Thor Heyerdahl & Kon-Tiki sail from Peru to Polynesia
- S04281952 WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect
- S04281961 Warren Spahn pitches a no hitter at 41
- S04281965 Marines evacuate Americans during Dominican Rep revolution
- S04281967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into Army
- S04281969 French Pres Charles de Gaulle retires
- S04281974 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon
- S04281977 Christopher Boyce convicted for selling secrets
- S04281980 Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns
- S04281983 Bruins 4-Isles 1 - Wales Conf Championship- Series tied 1-1
- S04281985 Billy Martin named Yankee manager for 4th time
- S04281985 Flyers ?-Isles 1 - Patrick Div Finals- Flyers win series 4-1
- S04281986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
- S04281987 Development worker Ben Linder murdered by contras in Nicaragua
- S0429 Emperor's Birthday in Japan
- S0429 Feast of St Peter of Verona, martyr
- S0429 3Stockholders Meeting, Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
- S04291429 Joan of Arc lead Orleans, France, to victory over English
- S04291661 Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan
- S04291715 John Flamsteed observes Uranus for 6th time
- S04291856 peace between England and Russia
- S04291857 US Army, Div Pacific HQ permanently established at Presidio
- S04291861 Md's House of Delegates voted against seceding from Union
- S04291862 New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War
- S04291868 Japanese Natl Day
- S04291894 Coxey's Army arrives in Wash, DC
- S04291900 Casey Jones rode to his death on Cannonball Express
- S04291913 Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents zipper
- S04291945 America liberates Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany
- S04291946 28 former Jap leaders were indicted in Tokyo as war criminals
- S04291957 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va
- S04291961 Maryland voted to remain a Yankee state
- S04291965 Earthquake hits Seattle; 5 die
- S04291971 Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration
- S04291971 Salyut 1, world's 1st space station, launched into earth orbit
- S04291975 Flyers 4-Isles 0 - Semi Finals- Flyers hold 1-0 lead
- S04291982 Nordiques 2-Isles 5 - Semi-Finals- Isles hold 2-0 lead
- S04291985 17th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 7 is launched
- S04291985 Space shuttle Challenger makes 7th flight into orbit
- S0430 Feast of St Catherine of Siena, patron of Italy
- S0430 Queen's official birthday in the Netherlands (Natl Day)
- S0430 Walpurgis Night - Witches' Sabbath
- S0430 3Stockholders Meeting, Boeing Co, Seattle, WA
- S04301789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US
- S04301798 Dept of Navy established
- S04301803 US doubles in size through La Purchase ($15 million)
- S04301812 La becomes 18th state
- S04301838 Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation
- S04301857 San Jose State U founded
- S04301869 Hawaiian YMCA organized
- S04301900 Hawaii becomes a US Territory
- S04301903 Highlander (Yankees) 1st Home opener Chesbro beats Senators 6-2
- S04301922 Charlie Robertson of Chicago pitches perfect game vs Detroit
- S04301939 NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with FDR at opening of NY World's Fair
- S04301942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, "Peto", Manitowoc, Wi
- S04301944 NY Giant, Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game
- S04301945 Adolph Hitler & wife Eva Braun commit suicide
- S04301946 Cleveland's Bob Feller no hits Yanks
- S04301947 Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover
- S04301948 Org of American States charter signed at Bogotá, Colombia
- S04301955 Element mendelevium announced - element 101
- S04301962 Willie Mays hits 4 HRs
- S04301970 US troops invade Cambodia
- S04301973 Nixon announces resigtration of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al
- S04301973 Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including "My Love"
- S04301975 US forces evacuated Vietnam; Saigon surrenders
- S04301980 Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London
- S04301980CQueen Beatrix of Netherlands ascends to throne
-