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- B10011207 Henry III, king of England (1216-72)
- B10011685 Charles VI, Holy Roman emperor (1711-40)
- B10011781 James Lawrence, naval hero ("Don't give up the ship!")
- B10011791 Sergey Aksakov, Russian novelist (Chronicles of a Russian Family)
- B10011832 Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st wife of Benjamin Harrison
- B10011881 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft co
- B10011893 Faith Baldwin, author
- B10011904 Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
- B10011907 Hiram Fong, Sen
- B10011909 Sam Yorty, ex-mayor of LA
- B10011911 Edward P. Boland (D-Rep-Mass)
- B10011920 Walter Matthau, (Odd Couple, Bad News Bears)
- B10011921 James Whitmore, actor (Black Like Me, Tora! Tora! Tora!)
- B10011924 Jimmy Earl Carter,(D) 39th Pres (1977-1981)
- B10011924 William Rehnquist, chief justice, Supreme Court (1987- )
- B10011927 Tom Bosley, actor (Happy Days)
- B10011928 George Peppard, actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Blue Max)
- B10011928 Laurence Harvey, actor (Alamo, Romeo & Juliet)
- B10011930 Richard Harris
- B10011935 Julie Andrews, actress & singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins)
- B10011936 Charles G. Fullerton, astronaut (STS-3, 51F)
- B10011936 Edward Villella, American ballet dancer
- B10011936 Stella Stevens, actress (Girls! Girls!, Manitou) in Yazoo City Miss
- B10011945 Rod Carew, baseball slugger
- B10021851 Ferdinand Foch, believed to be responsible for Allies winning WW I
- B10021869 Mahatma K Ghandi, pacifist Porbandar, Kathiawad, India
- B10021871 Cordell Hull, sec of state, lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945)
- B10021895 Groucho Marx, comedian
- B10021904 Graham Greene, prolific English novelist (Brighton Rock)
- B10021921 Robert Runcie, archbishop of Canterbury
- B10021928 Little Rascal Spanky McFarland
- B10021932 Maury Wills Dodger shortstop
- B10021939 Yuri N. Glazkov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 24)
- B10021940 Rex Reed, movie critic
- B10021945 Don McLean, singer, songwriter (American Pie, Vincent)
- B10021948 Donna Karan, actress
- B10021951 Sting (Police)
- B100219?? Lani O'Grady
- B100219?? Randi Oakes in San Diego Calif
- B10031605 Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor
- B10031800 George Bancroft, historian
- B10031803 John Gorrie, invented cold-air process of refrigeration
- B10031804 Townsend Harris, 1st Western consul to reside in Japan
- B10031814 Mikhail Lermontov, leading Russian Romantic poet, novelist
- B10031859 Elenora Duse in Italy, actress
- B10031888 Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist, pacifist (Nobel 1935)
- B10031899 Gertrude Berg - Molly Goldberg
- B10031925 Gore Vidal, writer (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln)
- B10031935 Charles M. Duke, Jr, astronaut (Apollo 16)
- B10031935 Eileen Brennan
- B10031941 Chubby Checker, singer
- B10031950 Pamela Hensley in LA
- B10031951 Dave Winfield NY Yankee
- B10031959 Jack Wagner - General Hospital's rocker
- B10041289 Louis X (the Stubborn), king of France (1314-16)
- B10041626 Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England (1658-59)
- B10041822 Rutherford B. Hayes (R), 19th pres (1877-81)
- B10041850 John W. McGraw (R), governor of Wash (1893-97)
- B10041880 Damon Runyon, writer
- B10041895 Buster Keaton, actor (The Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr.)
- B10041923 Charlton Heston - Moses (Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes)
- B10041931 Dick Tracy, crimestopper
- B10041934 Sam Huff, NFL linebacker (NY Giants, Washington Redskins)
- B10041941 Lori Saunders in Kansas City Mo
- B10041944 Patty LaBelle, singer
- B10041946 Susan Sarandon, NYC (Atlantic City, Great Waldo Pepper)
- B10041949 Armand Assante
- B10051713 Denis Diderot, encyclopedist
- B10051829 Chester A Arthur, 21st Pres (1881-85)
- B10051864 Louis Lumière, with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895
- B10051882 Robert Hutchings Goddard, rocket pioneer, in Worcester, Mass
- B10051887 René Cassin (Nobel Peace Prize 1968)
- B10051905 Ray Kroc, who gave Ronald McDonald a job
- B10051908 Joshua Logan, Broadway producer
- B10051919 Donald Pleasance, Happy Halloween
- B10051921 Bill Willis, AAFC, NFL guard (Browns)
- B10051923 Glynis Johns in South Africa
- B10051923 Philip Berrigan, militant priest
- B10051929 Richard F. Gordon, Jr., U.S. astronaut (Gemini 11, Apollo 12)
- B10051930 Pavel R. Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 4, Soyuz 14)
- B10051933 Diane Cilento in Australia
- B10051951 Bob Geldof - Band Aid organizer
- B10051951 Karen Allen in Illinois
- B10061820 Jenny Lind in Sweden, soprano, nightingale
- B10061831 Richard Dedekind, mathematician
- B10061846 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US
- B10061866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice & music
- B10061887 Mart¡n Luis Guzmán, Mexican novelist (The Eagle & the Serpent)
- B10061888 Li Ta-chao, cofounder with Mao Tse-tung of Chinese Communist Party
- B10061906 Janet Gaynor in Phila (Sunrise, A Star Is Born)
- B10061909 Carol Lombard
- B10061914 Thor Heyerdahl, anthropologist, explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku)
- B10061925 Shana Alexander, point-counterpoint journalist
- B10061936 Anna Quayle
- B10061942 Britt Ekland in Sweden
- B10061956 Stephanie Zimbalist, NYC (Remington Steele)
- B10071849 James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (The Raggedy Man)
- B10071879 Joe Hill, songwriter, IWW organizer, martyr
- B10071885 Niels Bohr, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922)
- B10071888 Henry A. Wallace (D/P), 33rd VP, Progressive pres candidate
- B10071905 Jean Arthur (or 10-17-08)
- B10071916 Walt W. Rostow, economist
- B10071917 June Allyson, actress
- B10071926 Diana Lynn
- B10071927 Al Martino, singer
- B10071931 Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Nobel Peace Prize 1982)
- B10071931 Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of South Africa
- B10071943 Oliver North
- B10071951 John Cougar Mellencamp, singer
- B10071955 Yo-Yo Ma, cellist
- B10071959 Judy Landers
- B10081869 J Frank Duryea, invented 1st auto built & operated in the US
- B10081873 Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
- B10081890 Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator
- B10081895 Juan Perón, president of Argentina (1946-55, 1973-74)
- B10081897 Rouben Mamoulian Movie director
- B10081909 Bill Hewitt, NFL end (Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles)
- B10081916 Spark Matsunaga, D-Ha-Sen)
- B10081920 Frank Herbert, sci-fi writer (Dune)
- B10081930 James Olsen
- B10081936 Rona Barrett Gossip columnist & friend of Tom Snyder
- B10081940 David Carradine
- B10081941 Jesse Jackson (D), clergyman, presidential candidate
- B10081943 Chevy Chase, comedian, actor (SNL, Vacation, Fletch, Caddyshack)
- B10081949 Sigourney Weaver, LA (Alien)
- B10081951 Johnny Ramone, rock guitarist
- B10091547 Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (Don Quixote)
- B10091757 Charles X, reactionary king of France (1824-30); deposed
- B10091835 Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer
- B10091890 Aimee Semple McPherson, Pentecostal evangelist, radio preacher
- B10091906 Léopold Senghor, poet, president of Senegal (1960-80)
- B10091924 Robert Rushworth, X-15 pilot
- B10091925 Robert Finch, actor
- B10091940 Joe Pepitone, baseball player
- B10091940 John Lennon, Beatle
- B10091940 Gordon Humphrey, R-NH
- B10091945 Jeannie C Riley in Texas, Hee-Haw (Harper Valley PTA)
- B10091948 Jackson Brown, rocker, Germany
- B10091955 Steve Ovett, English track star
- B10091959 Mike Singletary
- B10091967 Carling Bassett in Canada Tennis player
- B10091975 Sean Lennon
- B10101731 Henry Cavendish, English physicist, chemist
- B10101738 Benjamin West, painter
- B10101813 Giuseppe Verdi, composer of operas (Rigoletto, Aida, Otello)
- B10101830 Emily Dickinson, poet
- B10101861 Fridtjof Nansen, Norweg. Arctic explorer, humanitarian (Nobel 1922)
- B10101892 Ivo Andric, Yugoslav novelist (Bridge on the Drina) (Nobel '61)
- B10101895 Lin Yü-t'ang, Chinese writer (My Country & My People)
- B10101900 Helen Hayes, actress (Caesar & Cleopatra, Happy Birthday)
- B10101924 James Clavell, author (Tai Pan, Shogun)
- B10101930 Adlai Stevenson III (D-Sen-Ill)
- B10101930 Harold Pinter, playwright
- B10101946 Ben Vereen, dancer, actor, singer
- B10101955 David Lee Roth, rocker
- B10101958 Tanya Tucker in Seminole Texas, country singer
- B10111758 Wilhelm Olbers, discoverer of asteroids Pallas & Vesta
- B10111844 Henry John Heinz, founded a prepared-foods company
- B10111884 Eleanor Roosevelt, crusader
- B10111885 Francois Mauriac, French novelist, poet, playwright (Nobel 1952)
- B10111897 George Preston Marshall, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins)
- B10111900 Cal Hubbard, NFL tackle (Giants, Packers, Pittsburgh Pirates)
- B10111906 Earl (Dutch) Clark, NFL quarterback (Portsmouth Spartans, Detroit)
- B10111910 Joseph Alsop, newspaper columnist
- B10111918 Jerome Robbins, choreographer
- B10111932 Dottie West, country singer
- B10111937 Ron Leibman
- B10111949 Daryl Hall, Rocker
- B10121537 Edward VI, king of England (1547-53)
- B10121798 Pedro I, 1st emperor of Brazil (1822-31), king of Portugal
- B10121860 Elmer Sperry, inventor of the gyrocompass
- B10121866 Ramsay MacDonald (Labour), British prime minister (1924, 1929-35)
- B10121872 Ralph Vaughan Williams in England, composer
- B10121896 Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, translator (Xenia) (Nobel 1975)
- B10121923 Jean Nidetch in Brooklyn, founder of Weight Watchers
- B10121928 Spankey McFarland, actor
- B10121932 Dick Gregory, comedian-activist
- B10121932 Jake Garn (R-Sen-Ut), astronaut (STS-51T)
- B10121933 Joan Rivers
- B10121935 Luciano Pavarotti, operatic tenor
- B10121936 Tony Kubek, Yankee shortstop
- B10121947 Chris Wallace, reporter
- B10121950 Susan Anton, actress-singer
- B10121962 Sid Fernandez Met Pitcher, Hawaii
- B10131769 Horace H Hayden, cofounder of 1st dental college
- B10131853 Lillie Langtry (the Jersey Lily), actress
- B10131909 Herblock (Herbert L. Block), political cartoonist
- B10131917 Burr Tillstrom, creator of Kukla, Fran & Ollie
- B10131918 Cornell Wilde, actor
- B10131920 Laraine Day
- B10131921 Yves Montand, French actor, singer
- B10131925 Margaret Thatcher (Tory), British PM (1979- ) Iron Lady
- B10131925 Nipsey Russel, comedian
- B10131942 Art Garfunkel, built bridge over troubled waters
- B10131942 Pamela Tiffin in Oklahoma City
- B10131959 Marie Osmond in Ogden Utah
- B10141633 James II, king of England (1685-88)
- B10141712 George Grenville, British prime minister (1763-65)
- B10141857 Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of the 1st US autos
- B10141874 Raymond Ewry of U.S., won 10 Olympic gold medals for jumping
- B10141890 Dwight D Eisenhower (R), 34th Pres (1953-1961)
- B10141894 E. E. Cummings, poet
- B10141896 Lillian Gish, silent film & stage actress (Birth of a Nation)
- B10141926 Roger Moore, the 'saintly' James Bond
- B10141938 John Dean, III, former White House counsel
- B10141947 Charlie Joiner, NFL wide receiver (Houston, Cincinnati, San Diego)
- B10141950 Sheila Young Ochowitz US Olympic speed skater
- B10141952 Nikolai Adrianov, Soviet Olympic gymnast
- B101419?? Harry Anderson (Night Court)
- B1015 70 BC Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) Mantua, Italy (Æneid)
- B10151542 Akbar, Indian Mughal emperor (1556-1605)
- B10151785 José Miguel Carrera, president of Chile (1811-14)
- B10151829 Asaph Hall, discoverer of the moons of Mars, Phobos & Deimos
- B10151844 Friedrich Nietzsche, Übermensch
- B10151858 John L. Sullivan, (heavyweight champ 1882-92)
- B10151900 Mervyn Le Roy, movie producer
- B10151905 C P Snow, British novelist & scientist
- B10151908 John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
- B10151917 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian
- B10151921 Mario Puzo, author (Godfather)
- B10151924 Lee Iacocca, CEO of Chrysler Corp
- B10151926 Jean Peters, actress
- B10151937 Linda Lavin in Portland Maine - Alice TV show
- B10151942 Penny Marshall, NYC (Laverne & Shirley) former Mrs Rob Reiner
- B10151945 Jim Palmer, baseball player
- B10151946 Richard Carpenter, (Carpenters)
- B10151959 Princess Sarah Ferguson (Fergie), the Duchess of York
- B10161708 Albrecht von Haller, the father of experimental physiology
- B10161758 Noah Webster, lexicographer
- B10161792 Francisco Morazán (Liberal), president of Central America (1830-40)
- B10161854 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde, Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray)
- B10161863 Sir Austen Chamberlain, British foreign secretary (Nobel 1925)
- B10161888 Eugene O'Neill, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms) (Nobel 1936)
- B10161890 Paul Strand, photographer
- B10161898 William O. Douglas, former Supreme Court justice
- B10161908 Enver Hoxha, post-war leader of Albania
- B10161921 Linda Darnell
- B10161925 Angela Lansbury, actress (Murder She Wrote)
- B10161927 Günter Grass, German novelist, poet (The Tin Drum)
- B10161931 Charles W. Colson pres adviser
- B10161946 Suzanne Somers, actress (3's Co) in San Bruno Calif
- B10171835 Alexandrine-Pieternella-Françoise Tinné, explored the White Nile
- B10171893 Spring Byington
- B10171903 Irene Ryan in El Paso Texas
- B10171915 Arthur Miller, playwright (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible)
- B10171919 Rita Hayworth in NY (Alzheimer victim)
- B10171921 Tom Poston, comedian, actor
- B10171928 Julie Adams in Iowa
- B10171929 Beverly Garland in Santa Cruz California
- B10171930 Jimmy Breslin, newspaperman & raconteur
- B10171933 William A. Anders, astronaut (Apollo 8)
- B10171938 Robert 'Evel' Knievel, motorcycle daredevil
- B10171945 Dave Cutler, CFL place kicker (Edmonton Eskimos)
- B10171946 Bob Seagren, pole vaulter
- B10171947 Charles A. Ingene, macromarketing researcher
- B10171948 Margot Kidder in Yellowknife - Lois Lane
- B10171949 George Wendt, cheers
- B10181777 Heinrich von Kleist, German dramatist, poet
- B10181859 Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Creative Evolution) (Nobel 1927)
- B10181878 James Truslow Adams, historian
- B10181919 Pierre Elliot Trudeau (L), 15th Canadian PM (1968-79, 1980-84)
- B10181921 Jesse Helms (R-NC-Sen), right-wing
- B10181922 Richard Stankiewicz, U.S. sculptor
- B10181925 Melina Mercouri in Athens Greece
- B10181926 Chuck Berry Rock 'n' roll star
- B10181927 George C. Scott, actor (Patton)
- B10181928 Keith Jackson Sportscaster
- B10181930 Frank Carlucci National Security Adviser
- B10181933 Forrest Gregg, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys)
- B10181933 Peter Boyle, actor
- B10181934 Inger Stevens in Sweden
- B10181939 Mike Ditka, tight end for Bears, Cowboys; coach of Chicago Bears
- B10181947 John Johnson, Seattle SuperSonic
- B10181947 Laura Nyro in Bronx
- B10181952 Pam Dawber, Detroit - Mindy of Mork & Mindy
- B10181956 Martina Navratilova, tennis champ Prague Czech
- B10181961 Erin Moran in LA (Happy Days)
- B10191632 Christopher Wren, English astronomer & architect
- B10191862 Auguste Lumière, made 1st movie (Workers Leaving Lumière Factory)
- B10191882 Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, Lithuanian poet, philologist, playwright
- B10191895 Louis Mumford, cultural historian, city planner
- B10191899 Miguel Asturias, Guatemalan poet, novelist, diplomat (Nobel 1967)
- B10191909 Robert Beatty, actor
- B10191910 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian physicist (Nobel 1983)
- B10191920 LaWanda Page in Cleve (Aunt Esther-Sanford & Sons)
- B10191922 Jack Anderson, columnist
- B10191931 John Le Carré, English spy novelist (Little Drummer Girl)
- B10191932 Robert Reed, actor
- B10191945 John Lithgow, actor
- B10191967 Amy Carter, daughter of Pres Carter
- B10201632 Sir Christopher Wren, astronomer, great English architect
- B10201812 Austin Flint, 19th century heart research. pioneer
- B10201819 Mirza Ali Mohammad (The Bab), forerunner of Baha'Ullah
- B10201823 Thomas Hughes, British author (Tom Brown's School Days)
- B10201854 Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, adventurer (Illuminations)
- B10201859 John Dewey, philosopher
- B10201874 Charles Ives, composer
- B10201900 Wayne Morse (R/D-Sen-Ore)
- B10201908 Arlene Francis in Boston Mass
- B10201911 Will Rogers, Jr., actor
- B10201923 Herschel Bernardi, actor
- B10201925 Art Buchwald, columnist
- B10201931 Mickey Mantle, NY Yankee, home run slugger
- B10201932 Roosevelt Brown, NFL offensive tackle (NY Giants)
- B10201932 William Christopher, actor "Father Mulcahy"
- B10201935 Jerry Orbach
- B10201937 Juan Marichal, baseball player
- B10201953 Keith Hernandez
- B10211772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge in England, poet
- B10211833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes
- B10211912 Sir Georg Solti, conductor
- B10211914 Martin Gardner, Scientific American math & puzzles columnist
- B10211917 Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
- B10211928 Whitey Ford, NY Yankee pitcher
- B10211933 Georgia Brown
- B10211940 Manfred Mann, rocker
- B10211945 Kathy Young
- B10211953 Charlotte Caffey (GoGos)
- B10211956 Carrie Fisher in Beverly Hills - Star Wars' Princess Lelia
- B10211971 Jade Jagger, daughter of Mick Jagger
- B102119?? Julie Parrish
- B102119?? Michael Landon
- B10221811 Franz Liszt, Hungary, Romantic composer, virtuoso pianist
- B10221845 Sarah Bernhardt, actress
- B10221870 Ivan Bunin, Russian poet, novelist (Gentleman from SF) (Nobel 1933)
- B10221880 Joe Carr, president of the NFL
- B10221887 John Reed, journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions
- B10221906 Sidney Kingsley, author
- B10221917 Joan Fontaine, actress
- B10221919 Doris Lessing, novelist (The Golden Notebook)
- B10221920 Mitzi Green
- B10221920 Timothy Leary
- B10221922 John Chafee, (R-RI-Sen)
- B10221923 Pete Pihos, NFL end (Phil Eagles)
- B10221925 Robert Rauschenberg, painter
- B10221929 Dory Previn, singer
- B10221938 Derek Jacobi
- B10221938 Christopher Lloyd, (Rev. Jim-Taxi, Star Trek III)
- B10221939 Tony Roberts
- B10221942 Annette Funichello in Utica NY
- B10221943 Catherine Deneuve in Paris (Repulsion)
- B10221952 Jeff Goldblum, actor
- B10231752 Nicolas Appert, inventor of food canning, bouillon tablet
- B10231835 Adlai Stevenson (D), 23rd VP (1893-97), US amb to UN
- B10231844 Louis Riel, leader of insurrection of Métis in Manitoba
- B10231844 Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England (The Testament of Beauty)
- B10231905 Felix Bloch, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1952)
- B10231905 Karl Jansky, discoverer of cosmic radio emissions in 1932
- B10231914 Frank (Bruiser) Kinard, NFL, AAFC tackle (Bkln, NY Yankees)
- B10231922 Coleen Gray in Staplehurst Nebraska
- B10231925 Johnny Carson, Tonight Show host
- B10231931 Diana Dors in England
- B10231938 John Heinz (R-Pa-Sen)
- B10231940 Edison Pele, soccer player extraordinaire
- B10231942 Michael Crichton (Andromeda Strain)
- B10231956 Darrell Pace, U.S. Olympic archer
- B10241632 Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch naturalist
- B10241904 Moss Hart, playwright
- B10241911 Clarence M. Kelley, FBI head
- B10241926 Y.A. Tittle, AAFC, NFL QB (Baltimore, SF, NY Giants)
- B10241936 David Nelson, actor
- B10241940 F. Murray Abraham, actor (Amadeus)
- B10241947 Kevin Kline
- B10251759 Baron Grenville (Whig), British PM (1806-07)
- B10251825 Johann Strauss the Younger (Waltz King)
- B10251838 Georges Bizet, composer
- B10251843 Gleb Uspensky, Russian author (Power of the Soil)
- B10251877 Henry Norris Russell, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
- B10251881 Pablo Picasso, doodler (Guernica) (or 10-05)
- B10251884 Eduardo Barrios, Chilean novelist (The Love-Crazed Boy)
- B10251888 Richard E Byrd, polar explorer
- B10251902 Henry Steele Commager, historian
- B10251909 Whit Bissell, actor
- B10251912 Minnie Pearl in Tenn (Grand Old Oprey, Hee-Haw)
- B10251912 Sarah Ophelia Colley, better known as Minnie Pearl
- B10251926 Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano
- B10251927 Barbara Cook in Atlanta Ga
- B10251928 Marion Ross in Minn (Happy Days)
- B10251928 Tony Franciosa, actor
- B10251931 Annie Giradot in Paris
- B10251935 Russell L. (Rusty) Schweickart, astronaut (Apollo 9)
- B10251941 Helen Reddy in Melbourne Australia (I am Woman)
- B10261466 Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch scholar, author of The Praise of Folly
- B10261759 Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader
- B10261855 Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals
- B10261911 Sid Gillman, NFL coach (LA, San Diego, Houston)
- B10261916 Francois Mitterrand, French President
- B10261917 Felix the cat, cartoon character
- B10261919 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, shah of Iran (1941-79)
- B10261933 Suzy Parker in San Antonio Texas
- B10261947 Lynn Anderson in North Dakota
- B10261948 Jaclyn Smith in Houston Texas (Charlie's Angel)
- B10261954 Lauren Tewes, (Love Boat)
- B102619?? Pat Sajak
- B10271728 Capt. James Cook, discovered Sandwich Islands
- B10271782 Niccolò Paganini, composer, violin virtuoso
- B10271811 Issac Merrit Singer, invented 1st practical home sewing machine
- B10271844 Klas Arnoldson, Swedish politician, pacifist (Nobel 1908)
- B10271858 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th Pres (1901-09) (Nobel 1906)
- B10271872 Emily Post, authority on social behavior, writer (Etiquette)
- B10271910 Freddie DeCordova, film & TV producer (The Tonight Show)
- B10271914 Dylan Thomas, poet (A Child's Christmas in Wales, Under Milkwood)
- B10271917 Oliver Tambo, leader of African National Congress
- B10271918 Teresa Wright in NYC
- B10271920 Nanette Fabray in San Diego Calif
- B10271924 Ruby Dee in Cleve
- B10271926 H.R. Haldeman, former White House Chief of Staff - Watergate figure
- B10271930 Bill George, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears, LA Rams)
- B10271939 John Cleese, (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers)
- B10271945 Carrie Snodgress in Park Ridge Illinois
- B10271951 Jayne Kennedy, entertainer
- B10271958 Simon Le Bon, disco king
- B10281017 Henry III, Holy Roman emperor (1046-56)
- B10281466 Erasmus, scholar, author of "In Praise of Folly"
- B10281585 Cornelius Otto Jansen of France, Roman Catholic reform leader
- B10281846 Auguste Escoffier, king of chefs & chef of kings
- B10281902 Elsa Lanchaster in England - The Bride of Frankenstein
- B10281907 Edith Head Fashion designer
- B10281914 Dr Jonas Salk, who made polio a fear of the past
- B10281926 Bowie Kuhn, former baseball commissioner
- B10281929 Dody Goodman in Columbus Ohio
- B10281929 Joan Plowright, English actress
- B10281936 Charlie Daniels, country music star
- B10281937 Lenny Wilkins, NBA player, coach (Seattle, Cleveland)
- B10281939 Jane Alexander, actress (The Betsy, Kramer vs. Kramer) in Mass
- B10281940 Gennadi M. Strekalov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11)
- B10281944 Coluche, French comedian
- B10281948 Thelma Hopkins in Lousiville Kentucky - Sung backup for Tony Orlando
- B10281949 Bruce Jenner, Decathalon champ
- B10281959 Walther Bauersfeld, 1919 invented 1st modern projection planetarium
- B10291656 Edmund Halley in London
- B10291740 James Boswell in Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer
- B10291873 Guillermo Valencia, Colombian poet, translator, statesman
- B10291875 Marie, queen consort of Ferdinand I of Rumania
- B10291884 Bela Lugosi, horror actor (Dracula, Body Snatcher)
- B10291891 Fanny Brice, singing comedienne (Ziegeld Follies, Baby Snooks)
- B10291897 Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propagandist
- B10291910 Alfred J. Ayer, English Neopositivist philosopher, logician
- B10291921 Bill Mauldin, political cartoonist
- B10291926 Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor
- B10291945 Melba Moore in NYC
- B10291947 Richard Dreyfuss, actor (Jaws, Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind)
- B10291948 Kate Jackson, Alabama (Charley's Angels, Making Love)
- B102919?? Finola Hughes (General Hospital)
- B10301632 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright (Rivals, School for Scandal)
- B10301735 John Adams (F), 2nd pres (1797-1801) in Braintree, Mass
- B10301871 Paul Valéry, French poet, essayist, critic
- B10301873 Francisco Madero, Mexican revolutionary, president (1911-13)
- B10301885 Ezra Pound in Hailey, Idaho
- B10301896 Ruth Gordon, Mass (Rosemary's Baby, Harold & Maude)
- B10301919 Jane Randolph - Sung backup for Tony Orlando
- B10301932 Louis Malle, film director
- B10301937 Claude Lelouch Movie director
- B10301939 Grace Slick, rock singer (Jefferson Starship), Chic
- B10301943 Talia Shire (Adrianne-Rocky)
- B10301945 Henry Winkler, TV actor (Fonz)
- B10311632 Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter (Procuress, The Astronomer)
- B10311795 John Keats, Romantic poet
- B10311815 Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician (theory of functions)
- B10311860 Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scout founder
- B10311897 Wilbur (Pete) Henry, NFL tackle (Canton, NY Giants, Pottsville)
- B10311912 Dale Evans in Uvalde Texas aka Mrs Roy Rodgers
- B10311922 Barbara Bel Geddes, (Dallas)
- B10311930 Michael Collins, astronaut (Gemini 10, Apollo 11)
- B10311931 Dan Rather, CBS anchorman (What's the frequency Kenneth?) Courage!
- B10311931 Lee Grant in NYC
- B10311936 Michael Landon, an acting angel
- B10311939 Melinda Dillon
- B10311942 David Ogden Stiers, actor
- B10311947 Frank Shorter, runner
- B10311950 Jane Pauley in Indianapolis Indiana - Good Morning
- B10??1936 Joan Kennedy in Bronxville NY - former wife of Ted Kennedy
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- S1001 Feast of St. Remigius, bishop of Rheims, confessor
- S1001 Feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus--the Little Flower
- S1001 Fiscal year begins for Federal Government
- S1001 Independence Day, celebrated in Nigeria
- S1001 National Day in Cyprus & Tuvalu
- S1001 World Vegetarian Day
- S1001 1National Employ the Handicapped Week
- S1001 2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day
- S1001 331 BC Alexander of Macedon defeats Persian army at Gaugamela
- S10011837 Treaty with Winnebago Indians
- S10011847 Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet
- S10011851 1st Hawaiian stamps issued
- S10011869 1st postcards are issued in Vienna
- S10011896 Yosemite becomes a National Park
- S10011898 Henry Huntington buys the LA Railway
- S10011903 1st Baseball World Series
- S10011908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car
- S10011908 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee victory, beats Walter Johnson 2-1
- S10011912 Yanks lose game #100 enroute to a 50-102 season
- S10011921 Yanks win their 1st pennant
- S10011932 Babe Ruth's famous homerun called off of Cubs Charlie Root
- S10011938 Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia)
- S10011940 Penn Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opened
- S10011942 1st jet propelled airplane tested
- S10011946 Bob Feller 348th strikeout of the season
- S10011947 1st helicopter air mail & express service, LA, Ca
- S10011949 People's Rep of China proclaimed (National Day)
- S10011951 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador - Eugenie Anderson
- S10011952 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or
- S10011958 Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA
- S10011960 Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- S10011961 Roger Maris sets record of 61 homers, last off of Tracy Sallard
- S10011962 Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show
- S10011962 The Lucy Show premiers
- S10011962 US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' radio telescope
- S10011964 SF cable cars declared a national landmark
- S10011971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens
- S10011975 Reunion Island no longer prints stamps, France takes over production
- S10011977 Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title
- S10011978 Yanks lose 9-2 to Indians setting up a play off game with Red Sox
- S10011979 US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal)
- S10011982 EPCOT Center opens
- S1002 Feast of the Guardian Angels
- S1002 Independence Day, celebrated in Guinea
- S1002 Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Boötes
- S1002 1National Employ the Handicapped Week
- S1002 2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day
- S10021608 Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch a new invention - the telescope
- S10021833 NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
- S10021836 Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle
- S10021870 Italy annexes Rome & the Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
- S10021889 1st Pan American conference
- S10021908 Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row
- S10021916 Grover Cleveland Alexanders 16th shutout of the year
- S10021932 Yanks sweep Cubs in the world series
- S10021935 NY Hayden Planetarium, the 4th in the US, opens
- S10021936 1st alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kansas
- S10021936 Tony Lazzeri becomes the 1st Yank to hit a world series grand slam
- S10021939 Birdbaths installed in Union Square
- S10021942 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago
- S10021946 1st network soap opera - Faraway Hill - Dumont
- S10021947 Yogi Berra become the 1st player to pinch hit a world series homer
- S10021949 Yanks & Red Sox tie for 1st place played the final game of the
- S10021949Cseason Yanks won 5-3 & clinched pennant #16
- S10021950 Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD catches
- S10021950 The comic strip 'Peanuts' 1st appears, in 9 newspapers
- S10021955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents premiers
- S10021956 1st atomic power clock exhibited - NYC
- S10021958 Guinea gains independence from France (National Day)
- S10021959 Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS
- S10021961 Ben Casey premiers
- S10021965 Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
- S10021967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
- S10021968 Bob Gibson sets a world series record of 17 strikeouts
- S10021970 Billy Martin named manager of the Tigers
- S10021971 homing pigeon averages 133 kph (record) in 1100-km Australian race
- S10021978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff
- S10021978Cgame. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding
- S10021984 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
- S1003 Feast of St. Francis Borgia, Confessor
- S1003 Feast of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus
- S1003 1National Employ the Handicapped Week
- S1003 2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day
- S10031264 The comet said to predict the death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
- S10031789 Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
- S10031863 Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
- S10031913 Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%)
- S10031920 NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
- S10031932 Iraq gains full independence from Britain
- S10031935 Italy invades Ethiopia
- S10031942 Launch of the 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles
- S10031947 1st telescope lens 200 inches in diameter completed
- S10031947 With only 1 out to go, Yank Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking
- S10031947Chis world series no hit bid, it scored 2 runs & he lost the game
- S10031948 NFL becomes 1st sport of the week
- S10031950 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV - Beulah
- S10031951 Bobby Thomson HR - The Giants win the pennant
- S10031952 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca
- S10031954 Father Knows Best premiers
- S10031955 Captain Kangaroo premieres Good Morning, Captain!
- S10031955 Mickey Mouse Club premiers
- S10031960 SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard
- S10031960 Yanks win 8-7 & end season on a 15 game win streak
- S10031961 Dick Van Dyke Show premiers
- S10031962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into earth orbit
- S10031965 Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher
- S10031967 AF pilot Pete Knight flies x-15 at a record 4,534 MPH
- S10031967 William Knight sets world speed record for fixed-wing craft of 7,297
- S10031967Ckph (Mach 6.72) in X-15
- S10031972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
- S10031985 Space shuttle Atlantis makes all-military maiden flight
- S1004 Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, confessor
- S1004 1National Employ the Handicapped Week
- S1004 2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day
- S10041636 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
- S10041648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
- S10041824 Mexico becomes a republic
- S10041916 Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time
- S10041926 the dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower
- S10041931 The comic strip Dick Tracy debuts
- S10041940 Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off
- S10041948 Indians beat Red Sox in 1st AL playoff game
- S10041955 Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees
- S10041957 Leave It to Beaver debuts on CBS
- S10041957 USSR launches Sputnik I, the 1st artificial earth satellite
- S10041958 Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began
- S10041959 USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
- S10041960 Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
- S10041962 Whitey Ford's world series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends
- S10041966 Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- S10041969 UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
- S10041976 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns after racial 'joke'
- S10041977 pier 39 opens in SF
- S10041984 Yanks clinch AL East
- S10041985 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 is launched
- S10041987 James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns
- S10041987Cwithout making an interception. (He scored on laterals.)
- S1005 Feast of St. Flora of Beaulieu, Virgin, (A.D. 1347)
- S1005 Feast of St. Placid & his companions, martyrs
- S1005 1National Employ the Handicapped Week
- S1005 2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day
- S10051813 Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
- S10051864 Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone
- S10051875 Palace Hotel on Market Street opens
- S10051877 Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Percé War
- S10051892 Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup
- S10051906 Giant's Henry Matthewson walks 14
- S10051907 Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8)
- S10051908 Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey
- S10051910 Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic
- S10051912 Yanks win final game at Hilltop stadium
- S10051921 1st Yank & radio broadcast of the World Series, beat Giants 3-0
- S10051922 Yanks & Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie world series game
- S10051923 Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
- S10051931 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wenatchee, Wash
- S10051941 Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely
- S10051947 1st Presidential address televised from White House - HS Truman
- S10051953 Billy Martin 12 hits sets record Yanks win record 5th straight WS
- S10051956 Yogi Berra becomes the 4th Yank to hit a World Series Grand Slam
- S10051963 Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park
- S10051964 SF Fire Department Museum is dedicated
- S10051970 PBS becomes a network
- S10051980 Yanks set AL attendence mark at 2,627,417
- S10051982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, N. Mex
- S10051984 41-G Challenger carried 1st Canadian, Marc Garneau, into orbit
- S10051985 13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 launched
- S1006 Feast of St. Bruno, Blsd. Marie-Rose Durocher
- S1006 St. Faith's Day (Anglican)
- S1006 Universal Children's Day
- S1006 1National Employ the Handicapped Week
- S1006 2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day
- S10061863 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
- S10061889 Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
- S10061908 Yanks lose 100th game of the year go 51-103 for season
- S10061926 Babe Ruth hits 3 homers in a world series game
- S10061927 The Jazz Singer, 1st movie with a sound track, premieres
- S10061935 Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches
- S10061936 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in the world series
- S10061940 Zoological Gardens opens (on Sloat & Skyline)
- S10061941 Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in the world series
- S10061947 Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in the world series
- S10061959 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts moon
- S10061973 Egypt & Syria invade Israel - The Yom Kippur war
- S10061978 Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5
- S10061981 Anwar Sadat assassinated, Hosnai Mubarak becomes Egytian president
- S10061983 Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick
- S1007 Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary & of St. Osith, Saxon virgin
- S1007 Feast of the Holy Rosary
- S1007 1National Employ the Handicapped Week
- S1007 2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day
- S10071571 Turkish fleet defeated by Spanish & Italians in Battle of Lepanto
- S10071765 The Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY
- S10071777 British defeated by Americans in Battle of Saratoga
- S10071826 Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
- S10071886 Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
- S10071908 Crete unites with Greece
- S10071915 Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record)
- S10071927 Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series
- S10071931 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY
- S10071949 Dem. Rep of Germany (East) formed
- S10071950 US forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel
- S10071950 Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping the Phillies
- S10071952 Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in the world series
- S10071959 Luna 3 photographs far side of moon
- S10071960 Route 66 premiers
- S10071965 Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr.
- S10071968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system.
- S10071972 1st regular gat at Coliseum, Flames - 3, Islanders - 2
- S10071981 In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3
- S10071985 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 returns to Earth
- S1008 Feast of St. Bridget, widow & St. Keyne, virgin (6th Century)
- S1008 2Canadian Thanksgiving - Columbus Day - Discoverer's Day in Hawaii
- S10081604 The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is 1st sighted.
- S10081840 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
- S10081860 Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
- S10081865 Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains.
- S10081871 nation's worst forest fire starts in Peshtigo, WI.
- S10081871CGreat Fire destroys over 4º miles of Chicago
- S10081896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks
- S10081918 Sgt. Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans.
- S10081927 Yanks sweep Pirates in the world series
- S10081933 Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters.
- S10081934 Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son
- S10081935 Ozzie & Harriet Nelson married
- S10081938 Yanks sweep Reds in the world series
- S10081944 `Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet' debut on CBS radio
- S10081945 Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada
- S10081956 Don Larsen's Perfect world series game beats Dodgers 2-0
- S10081957 Brooklyn Dodgers announced they would move to LA
- S10081960 Bobby Richarson hits a world series grand slammer
- S10081962 N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party.
- S10081970 Soviet author Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Lit
- S10081978 Kenneth Warby sets world speed record on water (514 kph).
- S10081978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship against Kansas City
- S10081981 Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and
- S10081981CRichard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
- S10081983 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
- S1009 Feast of St. John Leonardi, confessor.
- S1009 Feast of St. Denis & Companions
- S1009 Giacobinid meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
- S1009 Leif Ericson Day
- S1009 St. Denys's Day (Anglican).
- S1009 2Canadian Thanksgiving - Columbus Day - Discoverer's Day in Hawaii
- S10091000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England)
- S10091635 Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
- S10091701 Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven.
- S10091776 Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay.
- S10091855 Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass. receives patent for 1st calliope
- S10091876 1st 2-way telephone conversation
- S10091888 Public admitted to Washington Monument.
- S10091921 Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer Only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
- S10091928 Yanks sweep Cards in the world series
- S10091930 1st transcontinental flight by woman lands, Laura Ingalls
- S10091936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA
- S10091938 Yanks sweep Cubs in the world series
- S10091949 Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in the world series
- S10091951 Gil McDougald's World Series Grand Slam Yanks beat Giants 13-1
- S10091958 Yanks beat Braves 4 games to 3 in the world series
- S10091961 Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive inning
- S10091961Cworld series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1
- S10091962 Uganda gains independence from Britain (National Day).
- S10091967 Che Guevara executed in Bolivia.
- S10091975 Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
- S10091975 Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits SF
- S10091976 Yanks 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1
- S10091977 Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 5, but returned after failing to dock
- S10091977 Yanks beat Royals for pennant #31
- S10091984 Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st American woman to walk in space
- S10091986 Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E. Claiborne making him the
- S10091986C5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.
- S1010 Feast of St. Francis Borgia, Confessor (A.D. 1572)
- S1010 National Day in Taiwan
- S1010 2Canadian Thanksgiving - Columbus Day - Discoverer's Day in Hawaii
- S10101845 US Naval academy opens at Annapolis, Maryland
- S10101846 Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
- S10101886 1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY (the tuxedo)
- S10101904 Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader
- S10101904C41 game winner Chesbro loses the 1st game & chance at pennent
- S10101911 China Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew Manchu dynasty
- S10101913 Pacific & Atl mix as engineers blow Gamboa Dam, opening Panama Canal
- S10101920 Bill Wambsganns unassisted world series triple play
- S10101933 1st synthetic detergent for home use marketed
- S10101935 George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess opens in NY
- S10101937 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 1 in the world series
- S10101938 Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
- S10101943 Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.
- S10101951 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in the world series
- S10101956 On Skowron's grand slammer Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7
- S10101957 Braves Lew Burdette beats Yankees 3 times in 1 world series
- S10101957 Pres Eisenhower apologized to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli
- S10101957CGbdemah, after he was refused service in a Dover, Del., restaurant.
- S10101960 Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards.
- S10101963 treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US, UK, USSR.
- S10101964 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo.
- S10101970 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day).
- S10101973 VP Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns.
- S10101973 Vice-Pres. Agnew resigns after conviction for income-tax evasion.
- S10101975 Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
- S10101976 NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
- S10101978 Pres Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
- S10101978 Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series # 75
- S10101980 4,500 people die when a pair of earthquakes struck NW Algeria
- S10101980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated
- S10101980 Yanks lost 4-2 & are swept by Royals in the AL Championship series
- S10101985 US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian
- S10101985Cship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen were placed in custody
- S1011 Feast of the Motherhood of Mary.
- S1011 Feast of St. Mary Soledad, Foundress of Handmaidens of Mary
- S1011 General Pulaski Memorial Day (anniversary of his death in 1779).
- S1011 2Canadian Thanksgiving - Columbus Day - Discoverer's Day in Hawaii
- S10111797 British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, the Netherlands.
- S10111811 The Juliana, the 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation.
- S10111864 slavery abolished in Maryland.
- S10111890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded
- S10111927 Lou Gehrig elected MVP
- S10111943 Yanks beat Cards 4 games to 1 in the world series
- S10111958 Pioneer 1 launched; 1st spacecraft launched by NASA
- S10111962 21st Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican II, opens in Rome.
- S10111962 Pope John XXIII convenes Vatican II Council.
- S10111968 Apollo 7 launched, 1st of manned Apollo mission
- S10111968 Billy Martin named manager of Twins
- S10111969 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next two days.
- S10111975 Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick
- S10111975 Saturday Night Live premiers
- S10111977 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
- S10111980 Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
- S10111981 Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 & win only Eastern Championship Series
- S10111984 Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st American woman to walk in space.
- S10111987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington.
- S1012 Feast of St. Wilfrid, Bishop of York (A.D. 709)
- S1012 Man O'War's last race, 1920
- S1012 Spanish National Day.
- S1012 2Canadian Thanksgiving - Columbus Day - Discoverer's Day in Hawaii
- S10121492 Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day.
- S10121860 British & French troops capture Peking.
- S10121891 Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated.
- S10121923 NY Giant's Casey Stengel Hr beats Yanks 1-0 in the World Series
- S10121929 Cubs blow 8-0 world series lead A's score 10 in 1 inning
- S10121933 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
- S10121933 John Dillinger escapes from the Allen County, OH, jail.
- S10121948 Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager
- S10121949 Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US
- S10121957 1st coml flight between Cal & Antartica
- S10121960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session.
- S10121962 US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology
- S10121963 Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel
- S10121963 At 4 AM, traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck
- S10121964 USSR launches 1st 3-man crew into space
- S10121967 Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 world series
- S10121968 Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain.
- S10121969 Soyuz 7 is launched
- S10121972 Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot
- S10121972 Mariner 9 took pictures of Martian north pole
- S10121973 Gerald Ford named as Spiro Agnew's successor to vice presidency
- S10121977 'Throwaway Game' Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers
- S10121977 4th test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
- S10121985 Int'l Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize.
- S1013 Feast of St. Edward the Confessor, English king (1042-66).
- S1013 2Canadian Thanksgiving - Columbus Day - Discoverer's Day in Hawaii
- S1013 6Friday the 13th! Beware!
- S10131775 Continental Congress establishes a navy
- S10131792 Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House)
- S10131812 Battle of Queenstown Heights.
- S10131843 B'nai B'rith founded in NY.
- S10131845 Texas ratifies a state constitution.
- S10131943 Italy declares war on former ally Germany.
- S10131947 Kukla, Fran & Ollie premiers
- S10131953 Burglar alarm - ultrasonic or radio waves - patented - Samuel Bagno
- S10131960 Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats Yanks 10-9 in
- S10131960Cgame 7 of World Series
- S10131964 Voshkod 1 crew returns
- S10131969 Soyuz 8 is launched
- S10131971 1st World Series night game (Pitts 4 - Balt 3)
- S10131978 Graig Nettles at 3rd makes spectactular play after spectacular play
- S10131978CGuidry beats Dodgers after trailing 2 games to 0 Yanks win next 4
- S10131982 NJ Devils 1st short handed gaol - Don Lever
- S10131982 Intl Olympic Comm restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to
- S10131982CJim Thorpe. Medals taken away because he played baseball for pay
- S10131984 Blackhawk Bill Gardner scored on 10th penalty shot against Islanders
- S10131984 John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million.
- S10131985 13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 is launched
- S10131987 1st military use of trained dolphins, by US Navy in Persian Gulf.
- S1014 Battle of Hastings won by Normans & William the Conqueror (1066)
- S1014 Feast of St. Callistus I, pope (217-222), martyr.
- S1014 People's Dem Rep of Yemen (South Yemen) National Day.
- S1014 2Canadian Thanksgiving - Columbus Day - Discoverer's Day in Hawaii
- S10141066 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England
- S10141586 Mary, Qn of Scots conspiracy trial against Qn Elizabeth I begins
- S10141774 1st declaration of colonial rights in America
- S10141843 British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy.
- S10141884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
- S10141905 Giant's Christy Mathewson's 3rd straight world series shutout
- S10141912 Theodore Roosevelt is shot in the chest in Milwaukee while
- S10141912Ccampaigning for President with the Bull Moose Party.
- S10141922 1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC
- S10141944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face
- S10141944Ctrial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Hitler.
- S10141945 Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak, beat Bears.
- S10141947 Chuck Yeager 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015 at 12,800 m).
- S10141949 14 US Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition.
- S10141965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km.
- S10141976 Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homers gives Yanks pennant #30
- S10141976 Soyuz 23 launched to Salyut 6, but return without docking
- S10141978 1st TV movie from a TV series - Rescue from Gilligan's Island
- S10141978 Despite Denis Potvin hat trick in 3:21 Islanders lose 7-10
- S10141978Cmaking Islander record when scoring a hat trick - 22-2-1
- S10141982 Islanders assessed 108 penality minutes Penguins 125 (233 total)
- S1015 Feast of St. Teresa of Avila, 1st woman doctor of the church.
- S1015 Mushroom Day
- S1015 National Grouch Day
- S1015 White Cane Safety Day.
- S1015 World Poetry Day.
- S10151582 Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar cut 10 prior days.
- S10151783 Jean Pilâtre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent.
- S10151860 Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard.
- S10151863 Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on the site).
- S10151885 Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of the season
- S10151914 ASCAP founded (American Soc of Composers, Authers & Publishers)
- S10151917 Mata Hari executed by firing squad outside of Paris.
- S10151923 Yanks win 1st world shampionship Beating the Giants
- S10151939 LaGuardia Airport opened in NYC
- S10151946 Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in the World Series
- S10151946 Nazi Hermann Goering poisons himself in prison.
- S10151951 I Love Lucy premiers
- S10151959 Untouchables premier
- S10151964 Kosygin & Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev
- S10151969 Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated
- S10151981 Yanks defeat A's 4-0 & win 33 pennant
- S1016 Feast of St. Margaret, St. Hedwig, St. Mary Alacoque
- S1016 World Food Day.
- S10161775 Portland, Maine burned by British.
- S10161781 Washington takes Yorktown
- S10161793 Marie Antoinette beheaded in France.
- S10161846 Dentist William T. Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether
- S10161849 British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras.
- S10161859 John Brown leads group of 20 in a raid on Harper's Ferry, Va.
- S10161861 Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
- S10161869 Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing
- S10161916 Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (Bkln)
- S10161921 Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from
- S10161921CFrank Coughlin -- only mid-game coaching change in NFL history.
- S10161923 Disney Co founded
- S10161941 Gordo (by Gus Arriola) 1st appeared in newspapers
- S10161943 Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens the city's new subway system.
- S10161946 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials.
- S10161952 Woolworth's at Powell & Market (S.F.) opens.
- S10161957 Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip arrive in Virginia
- S10161962 Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
- S10161962 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 3 in the world series
- S10161964 Brezhnev & Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia
- S10161964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
- S10161969 Soyuz 6 returns to Earth
- S10161970 Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
- S10161971 Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in S.F.
- S10161973 Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
- S10161976 Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
- S10161978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II.
- S10161982 Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins
- S10161982 Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
- S10161982 Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel
- S10161984 Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu named Nobel Peace Prize winner
- S10161985 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
- S10161986 Armand Hammer arrives back in US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb
- S10161987 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England.
- S10161987 18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued 58 hours after she fell
- S10161987C22 feet into a well shaft in Midland, TX.
- S1017 Feast of St. Ignatius of Antioch
- S1017 Feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin.
- S1017 St. Ethelred's Day (Anglican).
- S10171492 Columbus sights the isle of San Salvador
- S10171691 new royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth.
- S10171777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, NY
- S10171781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
- S10171793 Marie Antoinette executed.
- S10171850 Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized
- S10171894 Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man.
- S10171899 Sutro railroad sold to Robert F. Morrow for $215,000.
- S10171904 Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors.
- S10171919 RCA created.
- S10171931 Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison
- S10171933 Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany.
- S10171941 1st American destroyer torpedoed in WW2, the Kearny off Iceland
- S10171945 Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina.
- S10171957 Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visits White House.
- S10171957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature.
- S10171962 Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship
- S10171964 Yanks fire Manager Yogi Berra
- S10171967 Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km.
- S10171969 Soyuz 7 returns to Earth
- S10171972 1st time Islanders shut-out - 5-0 vs Penguins
- S10171973 The Arab oil embargo begins. It will last until March, 1974.
- S10171977 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament.
- S10171977 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia
- S10171977Cfree all 86 hostages aboard & killing three of the four hijackers.
- S10171978 Islanders start 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8)
- S10171978 Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year
- S10171979 Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- S10171985 Lou Pinella named Yankee manager
- S10171986 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal
- S10171986Caliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982.
- S10171987 1st World Series game in a covered stadium (Minnesota Metrodome).
- S1018 Feast of St. Luke Evangelist
- S1018 Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
- S1018 Start of the Moslem New Year
- S10181685 Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism.
- S10181767 Boundary between Md & Pa, the Mason Dixon line, agreed upon.
- S10181847 English astronomer J.K Hind discovers Flor, his second asteroid
- S10181867 US took formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million)
- S10181873 Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football
- S10181892 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY).
- S10181898 American flag raised in Puerto Rico
- S10181917 Mata Hari was shot as a spy by French firing squad
- S10181922 British Broadcasting Corporation established
- S10181944 Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia during World War II.
- S10181950 Connie Mack, announced retirement as manager of the Phila Athletics
- S10181953 Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times.
- S10181962 Dr. Watson of US & Drs. Crick & Wilkins of Britain win Nobel Prize
- S10181962Cfor Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA
- S10181967 Soviet Venera 4 becomes the 1st probe to send data back from Venus
- S10181967 Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released
- S10181968 Robert Beaman of US broad jumps a record 8.90 m.
- S10181968 US Olympic Committee suspended Tommie Smith & John Carlos, for
- S10181968Cgiving `black power' salute as a protest during victory ceremony
- S10181969 Federal govt bans use of artificial sweeteners known as cyclamates
- S10181969 Soyuz 8 returns to Earth
- S10181977 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th
- S10181977 Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record
- S10181977 Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years
- S1019 Feast of St. Peter of Alcantara, confessor.
- S1019 Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
- S1019 Feast of N Am Martyrs SS. J de Brebeuf, I Jogues, A Daniel,
- S1019 CG Lalemand, C Garnier, N Chabanel, R Goupil & J Laliande, canonized
- S1019 C1930 & Feast of St. Peter of Alcantra, Confessor
- S10191781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 p.m.; the fighting is over.
- S10191812 Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow.
- S10191845 Wagner's opera Tannhäuser performed for 1st time.
- S10191853 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations
- S10191859 Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope.
- S10191872 world's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales.
- S10191879 Thomas A. Edison successfully demenstrates the electric light
- S10191936 H.R. Ekins of the "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters
- S10191936Cin a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18 1/2 days.
- S10191949 Yanks trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds
- S10191953 1st jet transcontinental non-stop scheduled service
- S10191953 Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on television by Arthur Godfrey.
- S10191960 The US imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba.
- S10191963 Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
- S10191967 Mariner 5 flew by Venus
- S10191968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars
- S10191987 "Black Monday" - Dow Jones down 508.32 points worst day on Wall St
- S10191987 Billy Martin hired as manager of N.Y. Yankees for 5th time.
- S10191987 Dow-Jones loses 508.32 points, more than 4½ times previous record.
- S1020 Feast of St. John Cantius, Confessor & St. Bertilla Boscardin
- S1020 Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
- S10201600 Battle of Sekigahara establishes Tokugawa clan as rulers of Japan
- S10201600C(shoguns) until 1865 (basis of Clavell's novel).
- S10201740 Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia
- S10201803 Senate ratifies La Purchase.
- S10201813 Kingdom of Westphalia abolished.
- S10201818 US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country.
- S10201820 Spain sells (east) Florida to US for $5 million.
- S10201903 US wins disputed boundary between the District of Alaska & Canada.
- S10201906 Dr Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube
- S10201929 Bayshore Highway opens (SF).
- S10201944 During WWII, MacArthur goes to Phillipines saying `I have returned'
- S10201946 Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs. N.Y. Giants.
- S10201947 The House Un-American Activities Committee opens hearings into
- S10201947Calleged Communist influence in the Hollywood movie industry.
- S10201960 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI
- S10201960 Ralph Houk replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager
- S10201968 Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.
- S10201973 Sat Night Massacre, Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox dismissed by
- S10201973CSolicitor Gen Bork. AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned
- S10201979 John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston.
- S10201982 Billy Martin fired as manager of the Oakland A's
- S10201984 Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick - 4 goals
- S10201987 Bernhard Goetz sentenced to six months in jail
- S1021 Feast of St. Hilarion, an ascetic & lover of solitude & penance
- S1021 Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
- S1021 Somali National Day.
- S10211797 US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston
- S10211805 Battle of Trafalgar Adm Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet
- S10211868 Severe earthquake at 7:53 a.m., centered in Hayward, Calif.
- S10211869 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
- S10211879 Thomas Edison perfects the light bulb.
- S10211897 Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated.
- S10211918 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min.
- S10211923 Deutsches Museum, Munich, 1st Walther Bauersfeld's Zeiss Planetarium.
- S10211944 During WWII, US troops captured Aachen, 1st large German city to fall
- S10211945 Women in France allowed to vote for the 1st time
- S10211948 Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated, Washington DC
- S10211959 Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in NY
- S10211960 JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final pres debate
- S10211967 Thousands opposing Vietnam War tried to storm the Pentagon
- S10211971 Nixon nominates Lewis F. Powell & William H. Rehnquist to US Supreme
- S10211971CCourt, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
- S10211974 1st Islander shut-out opponent - Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps
- S10211975 Venera 9, 1st craft to orbit the planet Venus launched
- S10211976 Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
- S10211977 US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa
- S10211984 Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2 h 8 m 5 s.
- S1022 Feast of SS. Philip, Bishop of Heraclea, & his companions, martyrs
- S1022 Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
- S1022 Vatican City National Day.
- S10224004 B.C. Universe created at 8:00 PM, according to the 1650
- S10224004Cpronouncement of Anglican archbishop James Ussher.
- S10221746 Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter.
- S10221797 André-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute jump from balloon (Paris)
- S10221836 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas
- S10221883 Original Metropolitan Opera House in NY held its grand opening
- S10221928 Pres Hoover spoke of `American system of rugged individualism.'
- S10221934 Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd shot dead by FBI in Ohio.
- S10221936 1st coml flight from mainland to Hawaii.
- S10221936 Apollo 7 crew returns
- S10221939 1st TV NFL game - Eagles vs Dodgers
- S10221953 Laos gains full independence from France.
- S10221954 West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
- S10221962 JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis.
- S10221962 Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center.
- S10221968 Apollo 7 returns to Earth
- S10221973 Security Council Resol 338 - a cease fire to the Yom Kippur War
- S10221974 Yanks trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds
- S10221975 Cincinnati Reds win 1st World Series in 35 years
- S10221975 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 lands on Venus
- S10221979 Deposed Shah of Iran arrived in NY for medical treatment
- S10221979 WDW's 100-millionth guest
- S10221981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified
- S10221981 US national debt tops $1 trillion
- S1023 Feast of St. John of Capistrano (A.D. 1456)
- S1023 Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
- S1023 St. James of Jerusalem Day (Orthodox, Anglican).
- S1023 Swallows leave San Juan Capistrano.
- S1023 United States Day
- S10231679 Meal Tub Plot against James II of England.
- S10231790 Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed).
- S10231864 Union Gen. Samuel R. Curtis defeats Conf Gen. Stirling Price
- S10231910 Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
- S10231915 25,000 women marched in NYC, demanding the right to vote
- S10231941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" is released
- S10231942 During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
- S10231946 UN Gen Assembly convenes in NY for 1st time in Flushing Meadow.
- S10231956 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
- S10231956 Revolt against Stalinist policies began in Hungary
- S10231958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
- S10231973 President Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings
- S10231975 Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent - Flyers 3-0
- S10231977 By 2/3 majority, Panamanians vote to approve the new Canal treaties
- S10231980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness.
- S10231983 241 US Marines & sailors die in a terrorist suicide attack in Beriut
- S1024 Feast of St. Raphael the Archangel & Feast of St. Anthony Claret
- S1024 UN Day.
- S10241795 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia.
- S10241836 the match is patented.
- S10241846 Ariel & Umbriel, moons of Uranus, discovered by Lassell
- S10241851 William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Unranus.
- S10241861 1st transcontinental telegram sent
- S10241871 mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese.
- S10241901 Anna Taylor, 1st to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel & live
- S10241929 "Black Thursday," the beginning of the stock market crash.
- S10241945 United Nations Charter goes into effect
- S10241951 UN publishes its 1st postage stamps
- S10241960 Disaster on USSR launch pad killed missle expert Nedelin & team
- S10241960C(unconfirmed); USSR claims he was killed in plane crash
- S10241964 Zambia (N. Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day).
- S10241970 Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show
- S10241970 Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile.
- S10241973 Yom Kippur War ends - Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
- S10241974 Billy Martin named A.L. Manager of the Year (Texas Rangers)
- S10241976 1st Jewish film & TV festival
- S10241979 Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman
- S10241984 Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after failed
- S10241987 Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate
- S10241987 NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike
- S1025 Feast of Christ the King & Feast of St. Gaudentius bishop of Brescia
- S1025 Feast of SS. Chrysanthus & Daria, martyrs.
- S1025 St. Crispin's Day (Anglican).
- S10251415 Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight
- S10251671 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn.
- S10251675 Iapetus, moon of Saturn, Discovered by Giovanni Cassini
- S10251760 George III ascends the British throne.
- S10251825 Erie Canal opens for business in NY
- S10251854 The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War)
- S10251903 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin.
- S10251930 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
- S10251960 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC
- S10251962 Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missle bases
- S10251962Csaying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over."
- S10251971 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World
- S10251971 UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan.
- S10251975 USSR Venera 10 made day Venus landing
- S10251983 US invades Grenada, a country 1/2000 its population.
- S10251984 Rangers beat Devils 11-2
- S1026 Austrian National Day.
- S1026 Feast of St. Demetrios the Martyr (Orthodox).
- S1026 Feast of St. Evaristus, 5th pope (c. 97-c. 107), martyr.
- S10261774 1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
- S10261825 Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened
- S10261861 Telegraph service inaugurated in US (end of Pony Express)
- S10261863 Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game.
- S10261881 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Az
- S10261903 Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross SF Bay.
- S10261941 US Savings Bonds go on sale
- S10261949 Pres Truman increases minimum wage - from 40 cents to 75 cents.
- S10261956 International Atomic Energy Agency established
- S10261957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting
- S10261958 PanAm flies the 1st transAtlantic jet trip - NY to Paris.
- S10261968 Soyuz 3 is launched
- S10261970 "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers.
- S10261971 UN votes to replace Taiwan with China
- S10261972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin
- S10261976 according to South Africa, Transkei gains independence. Not
- S10261976Crecognized as an independent country outside of South Africa.
- S10261977 Fifth & Final test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
- S10261979 S Korean Pres Park Chung-hee is assassinated.
- S10261979 St. Vincent & the Grenadines gains independence from Britain.
- S10261984 "Baby Fae" gets a baboon heart in an experimental transplant in
- S10261984CLoma Linda, CA. She will live for 21 days with the animal heart.
- S10261987 head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm. assassinated by death squads.
- S1027 Feast of St. Frumentius, bishop & founder of Ethiopian church
- S10271553 Michael Servetus burned at the stake for heresy in Geneva, Switz.
- S10271787 Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers.
- S10271795 Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi
- S10271810 US annexes West Florida from Spain.
- S10271858 RH Macy & Co opens 1st store, NYC Gross receipts $1106
- S10271871 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall,
- S10271871Carrested after NY Times exposed his corruption
- S10271880 Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee, on his 22nd birthday.
- S10271896 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!)
- S10271904 NY opens 1st section of its subway system.
- S10271938 DuPont announces that its new synthetic fiber will be called 'nylon'
- S10271947 "You Bet Your Life", with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio.
- S10271954 Walt Disney's 1st TV show, Disneyland, premiers on ABC.
- S10271961 1st Saturn Made a unmanned flight test
- S10271969 St. Vincent & the Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
- S10271971 Rep of Congo becomes Zaire.
- S10271972 Golden Gate Natl Recreation Area created
- S10271973 1st time Islanders beat the Rangers - 3-2
- S10271978 Begin & Sadat with the Nobel Peace prize
- S10271979 Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds
- S10271980 Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph.
- S1028 Eli Whitney gets a patent for the Cotton Gin
- S1028 Feast of SS. Simon & Jude Apostles
- S10281492 Columbus discovers Cuba
- S10281636 Harvard College, 1st US college founded.
- S10281776 Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ
- S10281790 NY gives up claims to Vermont in exchange for $30,000.
- S10281793 Eli Whitney applies for patent for the cotton gin.
- S10281886 Pres Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
- S10281904 St Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints
- S10281918 Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austria.
- S10281919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, starting Prohibition
- S10281922 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game.
- S10281922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government.
- S10281929 1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl
- S10281946 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
- S10281948 Flag of Israel is adopted
- S10281953 Bud Grant of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record).
- S10281962 Krushchev orders withdrawal of Cuban missiles
- S10281965 Gateway Arch (190 meters high) completed in St. Louis, Missouri.
- S10281965 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion.
- S10281965 The Gateway Arch (630 feet high) completed in St Louis, Missouri
- S10281970 US/USSR signed an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
- S10281971 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit.
- S10281973 Elmore Smith of the Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record).
- S10281974 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game - MacMillian & Westfall
- S10281976 Billy Martin named A.L. Manager of the Year (NY Yankees)
- S10281977 TV's Rhoda gets married
- S10281979 Dick Howser (Best Yank mngr win-lost pct 636) replaces Billy Martin
- S1029 Feast of St. Theuderius, or Chef, Abbot (c. A.D. 575)
- S1029 Republic Day, celebrated in Turkey
- S1029 539 BC Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia.
- S10291618 Sir Walter Raleigh is executed in London.
- S10291682 Pennsylvania granted to William Penn by King Charles II.
- S10291727 Severe earthquake in New England.
- S10291811 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans.
- S10291833 1st College Fraternity founded
- S10291863 Intl Comm. of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963).
- S10291894 1st election of the Hawaiian Republic
- S10291901 Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is executed.
- S10291920 Edward Barrow named Yankee general manager
- S10291923 Turkey proclaimed a republic (National Day).
- S10291929 "Black Tuesday," the Stock Market crash.
- S10291939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
- S10291956 Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open Straits of Tiran
- S10291956 Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up
- S10291964 Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY.
- S10291979 Billy Martin fired as Yankee Manager (2nd time)
- S10291982 John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, will be acquitted.
- S1030 Feast of St. Alphonsus
- S10301270 8th & last crusade is launched.
- S10301775 US Navy founded
- S10301864 Helena, Montana's capital, founded.
- S10301905 Tsar Nicholas II grants Russia a constitution.
- S10301922 Mussolini forms cabinet in Italy
- S10301938 Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of War of the Worlds.
- S10301941 US Navy destroyer Reuben James torpedoed by Germany
- S10301945 US govt announces end of shoe rationing.
- S10301953 Dr. Albert Schweitzer received Nobel Peace Prize for 1952.
- S10301953 Gen. George C. Marshall awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
- S10301961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution
- S10301961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
- S10301961Cremoving Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square.
- S10301967 USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch
- S10301972 Worst US rail accident in 14 years occurred
- S10301974 Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa, Zaire
- S10301975 NY Daily News ran headline `Ford to City: Drop Dead'
- S10301978 Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701 - 1.
- S10301985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 9 is launched
- S10301985 space shuttle Challenger carries 8 crewmen (2 Germans, 1 Dutch).
- S1031 All Hallows Eve (you know, Halloween)
- S1031 National UNICEF Day.
- S1031 Reformation Day
- S1031 Vigil of All Saints, Feast of St. Wolfgang, Benedictine bishop
- S10311517 Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses, begins Protestant Reformation
- S10311793 Execution of the Girondins at Paris, during the Reign of Terror.
- S10311864 Nevada admitted as 36th state.
- S10311922 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy.
- S10311952 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated - Marshall Islands
- S10311956 1st American to land by air at South Pole - GJ Dufek
- S10311956 Bkln, NY ends streetcar service
- S10311959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
- S10311968 President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam.
- S10311980 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m).
-