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S01 Dominion Day -- Canada
B01 "Wolfman Jack", a howling success in radio
S01 1535 Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason
B01 1646 Gottfried W Leibnitz, mathematician-philosopher
B01 1804 George Sand, French Romantic novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro).
S01 1847 1st adhesive US postage stamps go on sale
S01 1850 At least 626 ships lying at anchor around San Francisco Bay.
B01 1853 Cecil John Rhodes, South African politician, diamond merchant.
S01 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, PA - Lee's northward advance halted.
S01 1867 Dominion of Canada formed.
S01 1873 Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province.
S01 1898 Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill.
S01 1899 SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building
B01 1916 Olivia DeHaviland, actress, in Tokyo, (Robin Hood)
S01 1919 First Class Postage DROPS to 2 cents from 3 cents.
B01 1941 Twyla Tharp, choreographer
S01 1941 1st TV licenses granted: W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), New York
S01 1943 first automatic withholding tax from paychecks
S01 1944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing world-wide
S01 financial systems (like the IMF and the World Bank).
B01 1952 Dan Akroyd, comedian, actor (Saturday Night Live)
S01 1960 Ghana becomes a republic.
S01 1960 Italian Somalia gains independence, unites with Somali Republic.
S01 1962 Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days).
S01 1966 Medicare goes into effect.
S01 1968 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Trea
S01 1969 Charles Philip Arthur George invested as the Prince of Wales
S01 1971 Golden Gate Bridge is paid off, so why is there still a toll?
S01 1982 Kosmos 1383, 1st search and rescue satellite, launched.
S02 Midpoint of the year (noon, or following midnight in leap year)
B02 419 Valentinian III, Roman emperor (425-55).
B02 1877 Hermann Hesse, Swiss novelist, poet (Steppenwolf) (Nobel 1946).
S02 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies.
S02 1900 first flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1).
B02 1906 Hans Bethe, physicist (Nobel 1967), peace worker.
S02 1926 US Army Air Corps created
S02 1937 Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean
S02 1957 1st submarine built to fire guided missiles launched, "Grayback"
S02 1964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
S02 1976 Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
S02 1985 Proto is launched on its way to Halley's Comet
S03 Dog Days begin.
B03 1567 Samuel de Champlain, explorer
S03 1608 City of Quebec founded by Samuel de Champlain
S03 1775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
S03 1819 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
S03 1861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from New York.
B03 1883 Franz Kafka, Czech, author (Metamorphosis, The Trial, Amerika)
S03 1890 Idaho becomes 43rd state.
S03 1898 US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in the harbor at Santiago Cuba
S03 1962 Algeria becomes independent after 132 years of French rule
S03 1983 Calvin Smith (US) becomes fastest man alive (36.25 kph for 100 m)
S03 1986 Renovated Statue of Liberty is rededicated with great ceremony.
S04 United States Independence Day
S04 1054 Brightest known supernova starts shining, for 23 days.
S04 1057 Crab Nebula supernova recorded by Chinese & Japanese astronomers.
B04 1753 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights.
S04 1776 Future U.S. issues the Declaration of Independence from Britain
S04 1802 US Military Academy officially opens at West Point, NY
B04 1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (The Scarlet Letter)
B04 1807 Giuseppe Garibaldi, unifier of Italy.
B04 1826 Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna"
S04 1828 first US passenger railroad started, The Baltimore & Ohio
S04 1845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond.
S04 1862 Lewis Carroll begins inventing "Alice in Wonderland" for
S04 his friend Alice Pleasance Liddell during a boating trip.
S04 1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho).
B04 1867 Stephen Mather, organizer of the US National Park Service.
B04 1872 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-1929)
S04 1876 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco.
B04 1878 George M. Cohan, American songwriter, playwright, producer.
S04 1882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens.
B04 1883 Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult.
S04 1884 Statue of Liberty is presented to the United States, in Paris.
S04 1894 Republic of Hawaii established.
S04 1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the first US autos
B04 1900 Louis Armstrong, "Satchmo"
S04 1903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens.
S04 President Roosevelt sends a message to the Phillipines,
S04 then a message around the world in 12 minutes.
B04 1916 Tokyo Rose, radio personality
S04 1933 Work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge.
S04 1946 Philippines gains independence from US
S04 1965 Mariner 4 flies past Mars, sends first close-up photos.
S04 1967 Freedom of Information Act goes into effect
S04 1976 Raid on Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
S05 Earth at aphelion.
S05 1687 Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England
B05 1794 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker
B05 1801 David G Farragut, American naval hero, in Knoxville Tenn
B05 1810 P.T. Barnum, showman.
S05 1811 Venezuela gains independence from Spain.
S05 1859 Captain N.C. Brooks discovers the Midway Islands.
S05 1865 William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England.
B05 1891 John Northrop, US biochemist, crystallized enzymes (Nobel 1946).
B05 1909 Andrei Gromyko, diplomat.
B05 1926 Janós Starker, Hungarian cellist.
S05 1935 first Hawaii Calls radio program is broadcast.
S05 1938 Herb Caen gets his first column in the S.F. Chronicle.
S05 1944 first rocket airplane flown
S05 1950 Law of Return passes allowing all Jews rights to live in Israel
S05 1951 Junction transistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ
S05 1975 Cape Verde Islands independent, 500 years under Portuguese rule
S05 1978 Soyuz 30 is launched
B06 1747 John Paul Jones, naval hero, "I have not yet begun to fight"
B06 1796 Nicholas I, tsar of Russia (1825-55).
S06 1885 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur
S06 1928 Preview of 1st all-talking motion picture took place in NYC
S06 1932 First Class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents.
S06 1933 1st All-Star baseball game. American League won 5-2.
B06 1937 Vladimir Ashkenazy, concert pianist.
S06 1964 Malawi (then Nyasaland) gains independence from Britain
S06 1975 Comoros Islands gain independence from France (most of them).
S06 1976 Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station.
B07 1752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented the programmable loom.
S07 1846 United States annexs California
B07 1860 Gustav Mahler, Bohemian composer
B07 1887 Marc Chagall in Vitebsk Russia, artist
S07 1891 A patent is granted for the travelers cheque.
S07 1898 Hawaii annexed to the United States.
B07 1907 Robert A. Heinlein, perhaps the greatest Science Fiction writer.
B07 1922 Pierre Cardin Fashion designer
S07 1930 Construction begins on Boulder (later Hoover) Dam
S07 1946 Mother Frances X Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
S07 1978 Solomon Islands gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S07 1980 first solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel.
S07 1990 The world's 3 greatest tenors: Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti
S07 appear together, for the only time, in Rome. Simply ahhhsome!
S08 1663 King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island
S08 1776 Col. John Nixon gives 1st public reading of Decl of Independence
S08 1796 1st American Passport issued by the US State Department.
S08 1835 The Liberty Bell cracks (again).
B08 1838 Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, inventor
B08 1839 John D. Rockefeller
S08 1889 Vol 1, No 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" published.
S08 1896 William Jennings Bryan makes his "cross of gold" s