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S01 May Day
B01 1769 Duke of Wellington, who made Napoleon very unhappy.
B01 1830 Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), hellraiser
S01 1840 1st adhesive postage stamps (English "Penny Blacks") issued.
S01 1850 John Geary becomes 1st mayor of City of San Francisco.
S01 1860 1st school for the deaf founded.
S01 1869 Folies-Bergere opens in Paris.
S01 1884 Construction begins in Chicago on the 1st skyscraper.
S01 1892 US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island.
S01 1928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
B02 1837 Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order"
B02 1904 Bing Crosby, crooner
S02 1925 Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park opens.
S02 1939 Lou Gehrig sets record for most consecutive games (2130)
S03 1830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts.
B03 1874 Francois Coty, perfume maker.
B03 1898 Golda Meir
B03 1919 Pete Seeger, folk singer.
S03 1919 America's 1st passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City)
S03 1971 national noncommercial network radio begins programming.
S04 1626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons.
S04 1851 1st of the major San Francisco fires.
S04 1878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at the Grand Opera House.
S05 Cinco de Mayo
S05 Tango-no-sekku (Boy's Festival) -- Japan
B05 1867 Nellie Bly, name became a synonym for female star reporter.
S05 1908 The Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco.
S05 1949 Council of Europe established.
S05 1961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (onboard Freedom 7).
B06 Daniel Gerber, beloved by babies at mealtime
B06 1818 Karl Marx, forgot human nature
S06 1851 Patent granted to Dr. John Farrie for a "refrigeration machine"
B06 1856 Sigmund Freud, insecure cigar smoker
S06 1860 The Olympic Club, 1st athletic club in US, founded in SF.
B06 1870 A.P. Giannini, founder of Bank of America.
B06 1895 Rudolph Valentino, sheik
B06 1915 Orson Welles, citizen and observer of Martians
B06 1931 The 'Say Hey Kid', Willie Mays
S07 1824 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony presented for first time.
B07 1833 Johannes Brahms, enjoyed a good lullaby.
B07 1840 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, composer.
B07 1901 Gary Cooper, actor in 'High Noon' and 'The Plainsman'.
B07 1909 Edwin Land, founded instant photography (Polaroid)
S07 1927 San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated.
S07 1945 World War II ends in Europe.
S07 1963 Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles).
S08 1541 Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River.
B08 1737 Edward Gibbon, historian, "The History of the Decline & Fall
B08 1737 of the Roman Empire"
B08 1786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
B08 1828 Henri Dunant, founded Red Cross, YMCA.
B08 1829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, first great US pianist.
B08 1884 Harry S. Truman, 32nd President
S08 1945 Germany surrenders, ending World War II in Europe.
B09 1800 John Brown, abolitionist
B09 1873 Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found tomb of Pharoah Tutankhamen
B09 1882 Henry J. Kaiser, built Liberty Ships, Jeeps
S10 Native American Day
S10 1775 Continental Congress issues paper currency for 1st time.
B10 1788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneered in optics.
S10 1869 The Driving of the Golden Spike, Promontory Point, Utah:
S10 The Transcontinential railroad is completed.
B10 1899 Fred Astaire, tapdancer
B10 1902 David O. Selznick, film producer.
S10 1930 The first US planetarium opens, in Chicago.
S11 1752 1st US fire insurance policy is issued, in Philadelphia.
B11 1888 Irving Berlin, composer.
B11 1904 Salvador Dali
S11 1929 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week).
S11 1951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory.
B12 1820 Florence Nightengale, famous nurse.
B12 1845 Gabriel Faure, composer
B12 1925 Yogi Barra, catcher, philosopher.
S13 Leprechaun Day
S13 1607 English land to found Jamestown (1st permanent settlement)
B13 1842 Sir Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame.
S13 1846 US declares war on Mexico.
B13 1856 Peter Henry Emerson, first photographer to promote
B13 photography as an independent art.
S13 1884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded
B13 1914 Joe Louis, heavyweight
S14 Independence Day (in Paraguay)
S14 1811 Paraguay gains its independence.
S14 1853 Gail Borden applies for patent for making condensed milk.
B14 1928 Billy Martin, local boy who made good in baseball.
B14 1944 George Lucas, skywalker
S14 1948 State of Israel proclaimed.
S14 1973 United States launches space station "Skylab".
S15 Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean Day. Why?
S15 Because it may be waving at you.
B15 1859 Pierre Curie, physicist
S15 1940 1st nylon stockings are sold in America.
S15 1963 Last of the Mercury flights, the "Faith 7", launched.
S16 Armed Forces Day
B16 1801 William H. Seward, bought Alaska at $0.02/acre.
S16 1866 Congress authorizes nickel 5-cent piece (the silver half-dime
S16 was used up to this point).
B16 1919 Liberace, candelabrist
S16 1929 1st Oscars announced (best film was 'Wings').
S16 1971 First Class Mail now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents).
S17 Norwegian Independence Day
S17 1792 24 brokers meet to found the New York Stock Exchange
S17 1804 Lewis & Clark begin their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase
B17 1866 Erik Satie, composer
S17 1954 Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education,
S17 overthrowing the principle of 'separate but equal'.
B18 1850 Oliver Heaviside, physicist who predicted the existance of
B18 the ionosphere, which is used to reflect radio wave