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S01 1640 Portugal becomes independent of Spain
S01 1821 Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
B01 1886 Rex Stout, mystery writer
B01 1912 Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (World Trade Center, NY)
S01 1913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens, in Pittsburgh.
B01 1913 Mary Martin, actress/singer (Peter Pan, South Pacific)
S01 1917 Father Edward Flanagan founds Boys Town
S01 1918 Iceland becomes independent state under the Danish crown
S01 1922 first skywriting over the US: "Hello USA" by Capt Turner, RAF.
S01 1929 Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe
B01 1935 Woody Allen, actor, director (Manhatten, Annie Hall)
S01 1951 Golden Gate Bridge closed because of high winds.
S01 1958 Central African Republic established (National Day)
S01 1959 first color photograph of Earth is received from outer space.
S01 1967 Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch Isaac Newton Telescope
S02 Pan American Health Day
S02 1804 Napoleon becomes the first French emperor, crowning himself.
S02 1805 Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
S02 1816 1st savings bank in US opens as the Philadelphia Savings Fund
S02 1823 President James Monroe declares his doctrine.
B02 1859 Georges Seurat, French painter, pointillist
B02 1885 George Minot, US physician, worked on anemia (Nobel 1934)
B02 1885 Níkos Kazantazakís, Greek writer (Zorba the Greek)
B02 1906 Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records.
B02 1914 Ray Walston, actor (South Pacific, The Sting)
B02 1915 Will Randolph Hearst, publisher, castle builder
B02 1923 Maria Callas, NY opera singer
S02 1942 1st controlled nuclear reaction at University of Chicago.
S02 1957 first commercial atomic electric power plant goes to work in PA.
S02 1971 Soviet Mars 3 is first to soft land on Mars
S02 1975 Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
S02 1982 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted.
S03 1621 Galileo invents the telescope.
B03 1729 Antonio Soler, famed late 18th century Spanish composer.
B03 1924 John Backus, inventor of FORTRAN computer language
B03 1930 Jean-Luc Godard, film maker
S03 1954 Joseph McCarthy goes too far in his attacks and is condemned
S03 by the U.S. Senate. Not well remembered.
S03 1967 1st human heart transplant performed, in Capetown, South Africa
S03 1973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (first fly-by of an outer planet).
S03 1985 23rd Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 returns to Earth
S04 1783 Gen. Washington bids his officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern,
S04 1912 Roald Amundsen reaches South pole
S04 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens.
S04 1965 Gemini 7 launched with 2 astronauts
S05 1492 Columbus discovers Hispaniola
S05 1776 Phi Beta Kappa, 1st American scholastic fraternity, founded.
B05 1782 Martin Van Buren, 8th President (1837-1841)
B05 1839 George Armstrong Custer of Little Big Horn fame
B05 1901 Werner Heisenberg, discoverer of uncertainty (Nobel 1932)
B05 1901 Walter Elias Disney, father of Mickey Mouse.
S05 1978 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
S06 1492 Haiti discovered by Columbus
S06 1534 Quito, Ecuador is founded by the Spanish
S06 1631 first predicted transit of Venus is observed, by Kepler.
B06 1822 John Eberhard, built 1st large scale pencil factory in US.
B06 1870 William S. Hart, star of silent Western movies
S06 1882 Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
B06 1886 Joyce Kilmer, American poet (Trees)
S06 1917 Finland gains its independence, from Russia.
S06 1957 1st US attempt to launch a satellite - Vanguard rocket blows up.
B07 1761 Madame Marie Tussaud, created wax museum
S07 1787 Delaware ratifies the Constitution, becomes the first state.
S07 1842 the New York Philharmonic plays its first concert.
S07 1941 Pearl Harbor is attacked ("A day that will live in infamy.")
S07 1941 first Japanese submarine sunk by American ship (USS Ward)
S07 1960 France grants the Ivory Coast independence (National Day)
S07 1972 Apollo 17, last of the Apollo moon series, launched.
B08 65 BC Horace in Rome, poet
B08 1861 William Durant, founded General Motors Corp.
B08 1865 Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (Finlandia, Valse triste)
B08 1886 Diego Rivera, Mexican muralist
B08 1894 James Thurber
B08 1927 Vladimir A. Shatalov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10)
S08 1931 Coaxial cable is patented
B09 1594 Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a big power (1611-32)
S09 1792 the first cremation in the US
S09 1793 Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper.
B09 1848 Joel Chandler Harris, created the Uncle Remus stories
B09 1886 Clarence Birdseye, king of the frozen vegetables.
S09 1907 1st Christmas Seals sold, in the Wilmington Post Office.
B09 1909 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
B09 1918 Kirk Douglas, actor (Gunfight at the OK Corral, 7 Days in May)
S09 1961 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain
S09 1978 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
S10 Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
S10 Human Rights Day, a United Nations observance.
S10 1520 Martin Luther publicly burns the papal edict demanding he recant.
S10 1817 Mississippi becomes 20th state
B10 1830 Emily Dickinson, poet
B10 1851 Melvil Dewey, created the Dewey Decimal System for libraries
S10 1869 Women granted right to vote in Wyoming Territory
S10 1898 Spanish-American War ends - US acquires Guam from Spain
S10 1901 first Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frédéric Passy).
S10 1906 Theodore Roosevelt (first American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
S10 1920 President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize.
S10 1948 UN Genl Assembly adopts Universal Declaration on Human Rights
S10 1950 Ralph J. Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
S10 1963 Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
S10 1975 A. Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize.
S10 1982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
S10 1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
S11 Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
B11 1781 Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist, inventor of kaleidoscope
B11 1803 Hector Berlioz in France, composer
S11 1816 Indiana becomes 19th state
S11 1917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
B11 1918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writer, "Cancer Ward", Nobel 1970
B11 1931 Rita Moreno, actress (West Side Story), in Puerto Rico
S11 1932 Snow falls in San Francisco.
S11 1946 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
S11 1958 Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France
S11 1975 First Class Mail now costs 13 cents (had been 10 cents).
S12 Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
S12 National Ding-a-ling Day
S12 1787 Pennsylvania becomes the 2nd state
B12 1805 Henry Wells, founded American Express Co. and Wells Fargo & Co.
B12 1821 Gustave Flaubert, novelist, 'Madame Bovary'.
B12 1852 Henri Becquerel, discoverer of radioactivity (Nobel 1903)
S12 1871 Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
S12 1901 Marconi receives 1st trans-Atlantic radio signal: England to US.
B12 1915 Old Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra. Notorious for bad manners.
S12 1937 The first mobile TV unit, in New York.
S12 1963 Kenya gains its independence from Britain (National Day).
S12 1964 Russia launches Voshkod I, 1st multi-crew in space (3 men)
S13 Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
B13 1835 Phillips Brooks, clergyman, composer (O Little Town of Bethlehem)
S13 1903 Wright brothers first airplane flight at Kittyhawk.
S13 1918 Wilson becomes 1st to make a foreign visit while President.
S13 1920 Interferometer used to measure 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
S13 1974 Maltese Republic Day is declared.
S13 1978 Susan B. Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued.
S13 1981 Solidarity Day, in Poland.
S14 Halcyon Days begin
B14 1503 Nostradamus, astrologer and physician
B14 1546 Tycho Brahe, astronomer
S14 1819 Alabama becomes 22nd state
B14 1896 James H. Doolittle, sinker of ships and self
S14 1911 South Pole 1st reached by Amundsen.
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