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S01 1709 Alexander Selkirk (aka Robinson Crusoe) rescued from Juan Fernand
S01 1790 US Supreme Court convened for first time (NYC)
S01 1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
S01 1867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days.
B01 1901 Clark Gable, didn't give a damn about Scarlet O'Hara.
S01 1920 The first armored car is introduced.
S01 1958 Egypt & Syria join to form United Arab Republic
S01 1972 First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced
S02 Groundhog Day. Good Morning Punxatawney Phil!
B02 1754 Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat.
S02 1848 Mexico sells California, New Mexico and Arizona to the USA.
S02 1848 First shipload of Chinese immigrants arrive in San Francisco.
S02 1876 National Baseball League formed with 8 teams.
S02 1880 SS Strathleven arrives in London with first successful shipment
S02 of frozen mutton from Australia.
S02 1935 Lie detector first used in court in Portage, Wisconsin
S02 1962 Eight of the planets line up for the first time in 400 years.
B03 1811 Horace Greeley, told young men to go west
B03 1821 Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman to get MD from US Medical school
B03 1874 Gertrude Stein, beloved by Hemmingway.
S03 1918 Twin Peaks Tunnel, longest (11,920 feet) streetcar tunnel in
S03 the world, begins service in San Francisco.
S03 1945 Yalta Conference, Russia agrees to enter WWII against Japan
S03 1966 Soviet Luna 9 first spacecraft to soft-land on moon
S04 Independence Day, celebrated in Sri Lanka.
S04 1887 Interstate Commerce Act: Federal regulation of railroads
B04 1902 Charles A. Lindburgh, 'Lucky Lindy'
S04 1932 First Winter Olympics held (At Lake Placid, NY).
S04 1936 First radioactive substance produced synthetically - radium E
S04 1948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence.
S04 1957 First electric portable typewriter placed on sale, Syracuse NY
S04 1974 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
B05 1840 John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire.
B05 1878 Andre-Gustave Citroen, French automaker
S05 1887 Snow falls on San Francisco.
S05 1953 Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released
S05 1971 Apollo 14, 3rd manned expedition to moon, lands near Fra Mauro
S05 1974 Mariner 10 takes first close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure
S05 1979 According to Census Bureau, US population reaches 200 million
S06 New Zealand Day, celebrated in (where else?) New Zealand
S06 1693 College of William and Mary chartered in Williamsburg, Va
B06 1756 Aaron Burr, duelist.
B06 1885 George Herman Ruth ('Babe Ruth').
S06 1900 Spanish-American War ends
B06 1911 Ronald Reagan, 40th President (1981- )
S06 1922 US, UK, France, Italy & Japan sign Washington Naval Arms
S06 1922CLimitation Treaty
S06 1952 Elizabeth II becomes queen of Great Britain
S07 Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga
B07 1804 John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements.
B07 1812 Charles Dickens, "God bless us one and all."
B07 1817 Frederick Douglas, first black to hold high rank in US government
B07 1883 Eubie Blake, composer
S07 1889 Astronomical Society of Pacific holds first meeting in SF
S07 1940 Walt Disney's "Pinocchio" released
S08 Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga
S08 1693 Charter granted for College of William & Mary, 2nd college in US
B08 1820 William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general.
B08 1828 Jules Verne, pioneered what later became science fiction.
S08 1883 Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen.
B08 1906 Chester F. Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing)
S08 1908 Boy Scouts of America founded.
S08 1922 Radio arrives in the White House.
B08 1925 Jack Lemmon
S08 1977 Earthquake, at 5.0, strongest since 1966.
S09 Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga
B09 1773 William Henry Harrison, 9th President (March 4-April 4, 1841)
S09 1877 U.S. Weather Service is founded.
S09 1885 First Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
S09 1964 First appearance of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan
S09 1969 The Boeing 747 makes its first commercial flight.
S10 Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga
S10 1720 Edmund Halley is appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
S10 1763 Treaty of Paris ends French & Indian War
B10 1775 Charles Lamb, English critic, poet, essayist
S10 1870 City of Anaheim incorporated (first time).
S10 1879 First electric arc light used (in California Theater).
B10 1890 Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist, "Dr. Zhivago" (Nobel 1958)
B10 1893 Jimmy Durante, comedian
S11 660 Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno
B11 1847 Thomas Alva Edison, who lit up your life
S11 1854 Major streets lit by coal gas for first time.
S11 1929 Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) made an enclave of Rome
S11 1970 Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit
S12 1541 Santiago, Chile founded.
B12 1802 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President (1861-1865)
B12 1809 Charles Darwin
B12 1893 General of the Army Omar Bradley, 'The GI General'
S12 1924 Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premiers in Carnegie Hall
S12 1934 Export-Import Bank incorporated.
S12 1945 San Francisco selected for site of United Nations Conference.
S12 1947 A daytime fireball & meteorite fall is seen in eastern Siberia
S12 1961 USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
S13 1741 First magazine published in America (The American Magazine)
B13 1805 David Dudley Field, lawyer whose advocacy of law codification
B13 1805Chad international effects.
S13 1867 "Blue Danube" waltz premiers in Vienna
B13 1885 Bess Truman, married to President Harry Truman
S13 1937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical
S13 1937Cdetail and fine detail drawing. Thanks Hal.
S14 St. Valentine's Day
S14 1859 Oregon admitted as 33rd State
S14 1876 Alexander Graham Bell files for a patent on the telephone.
B14 1894 Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny. Oh, Rochester!
S14 1912 Arizona becomes 48th state
B14 1947 Pham Tuan, first Vietnamese space traveler (on board Soyuz 37)
S14 1961 Element 103, lawrencium, first produced in Berkeley California
S14 1980 Solar Maximum Mission Observatory launched to study