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B01 1699 Martin Luther, protestant reformer
B01 1798 Sir Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer, Dublin mayor
S01 1870 US Weather Bureau begins operations.
B01 1871 Stephen Crane, poet/writer, (Red Badge of Courage)
B01 1878 Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936)
S01 1943 WW II Dimout ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area.
S01 1952 first hydrogen bomb exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
S01 1981 First Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents.
S02 North & South Dakota Admission Day
B02 1734 Daniel Boone, explorer, woodsman
B02 1755 Marie-Antoinette, "Let them eat cake!"
B02 1795 James K. Polk, 11th President (1845-1849)
B02 1815 George Boole, mathematician
B02 1865 Warren G. Harding, 29th President (1921-1923)
B02 1885 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer.
B02 1911 Odysseus Elytis, Greek poet (Nobel 1979)
S02 1917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement
S02 1920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) on the air as 1st commercial radio station.
S02 1947 Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for 1st (& last) time.
S02 1948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers.
S03 1620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
B03 1718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same.
B03 1794 William Cullen Bryant, poet (Thanatopsis)
B03 1801 Karl Baedeker, German publisher of travel books
S03 1903 Panama gains its independence from Columbia.
S03 1917 First Class Mail now costs 3 cents.
S03 1952 Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas.
S03 1956 the Wizard of Oz is first televised.
S03 1957 USSR launches the dog "Laika": the first animal in orbit
S03 1973 Mariner 10 launched-first Venus pics, first mission to Mercury
S03 1978 UK grants Dominica independence (National Day)
S03 1979 63 Americans taken hostage at American Embassy in Teheran, Iran
S03 1986 Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
S04 1854 Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island
B04 1879 Will Rogers, humorist.
B04 1916 Walter Cronkite, "...and that's the way it is"
S04 1922 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen.
S04 1924 1st woman governor in US elected in Wyoming.
S04 1984 Nicaragua holds 1st free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%
S05 Guy Fawkes Day, celebrated in England.
S05 1605 Plot to blow up British parliment fails - first Guy Fawkes day
S05 1781 John Hanson elected 1st "President of the United States in
S05 Congress assembled" (8 years before Washington was elected).
B05 1857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was VERY unhappy).
S05 1875 Susan B Anthony is arrested for attempting to vote
B05 1885 Will Durant, writer, historian (Story of Civilization)
S05 1895 1st US patent granted for the automobile, to George B Selden
B05 1912 Roy Rogers, Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger
S05 1967 ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disc
S06 Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
B06 1771 Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography.
B06 1814 Adolphe Sax, Belgian musician, saxophone inventor
B06 1851 Charles Henry Dow, founded Dow Jones & Co.
S06 1844 Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
B06 1854 John Phillip Souza, the undisputed march king
B06 1860 Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish composer, pianist, patriot
S06 1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president.
B06 1861 James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball.
S06 1862 1st Direct Telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco
S06 1869 1st intercollegiate football game played (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4
S06 1917 the Russian Bolshevik revolution begins.
S06 1939 WGY-TV (Schenectady NY), 1st commercial-license station begins
S06 1962 Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more
S07 National Day in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
B07 994 Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian, jurist, writer of Islamic Spain
S07 1805 Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean.
S07 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan.
B07 1867 Marie Sklodowska Curie, discovered radium (Nobel 1903 & 1911).
S07 1872 Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; found abandoned 4 weeks later
S07 1875 Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa from
S07 sea to sea.
B07 1879 Leon Trotsky, Russian Communist theorist, Bolshevik
S07 1885 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway.
B07 1903 Konrad Lorenz, zoologist, ethologist, writer (Nobel 1973)
S07 1917 October Revolution overthrows Russian Provisional Government
S07 1918 Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rocket
B07 1918 Billy Graham, evangelist
S07 1983 Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
S08 Punster's Day
B08 1656 Edmund Halley, astronomer, first to calculate a comet's orbit.
S08 1793 The Louvre, in Paris, is opened to the public.
S08 1889 Montana admitted as 41st state
S08 1895 Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x-rays
B08 1922 Christiaan Barnard, performed first human heart transplantation
S08 1923 Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" failed, In jail, writes "Mein Kampf"
S08 1939 Life with Father, opens on Broadway, closes in 1947, a record.
S08 1984 14th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 is launched
S09 1799 Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
B09 1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist, poet, playwright (Fathers & Sons
B09 1821 Charles Baudelaire, Poet
B09 1830 Eadweard Muybridge Pioneer Photographer
B09 1841 Edward VII, king of England (1901-10)
B09 1850 Lewis Lewin, German toxicologist, father of psychopharmacology
S09 1865 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox ending the US Civil War.
B09 1898 Paul Robeson actor and Singer
B09 1903 Gregory Pincus birth control pill inventor
B09 1915 Hedy Lamarr, sexy actress
B09 1926 Hugh Hefner, Publisher
B09 1934 Carl Sagan, cosmology spokesman
S09 1953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
S09 1965 at 5:16pm, a massive power failure blacks out New Engl. & Ontario
S09 1967 first unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
B10 1668 Francois Couperin, composer
B10 1697 William Hogarth, English satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progres
B10 1730 Oliver Goldsmith, Irish novelist, dramatist (She Stoops to Conque
B10 1759 Frederich von Schiller in Germany, poet
S10 1775 US Marine Corps established by Congress
B10 1793 Jared Kirtland, American physician, naturalist
B10 1794 Adm. Matthew Perry
S10 1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling
B10 1819 Cyrus West Field, financed first successful transatlantic cable.
B10 1829 William Booth founded Salvation Army
S10 1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico
S10 1871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa.
S10 1891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
B10 1895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer.
B10 1903 Clare Booth Luce Journalist and Diplomat
B10 1925 Richard Burton, Welsh actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf)
S10 1945 Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald is liberated by US troops.
S10 1951 1st Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance.
S10 1968 USSR launches Zond 6 to moon
S10 1969 Sesame Street premiers
S10 1970 Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
S10 1975 Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald lost in a storm on Lake Superior
S10 1980 Voyager I flies past Saturn, sees many rings, moons.
S11 The REAL Veteran's Day. They fought for your freedom.
S11 Martinmas, term day in Scotland (Feast of St Martin of Tours)
S11 Rememberance Day - Canada
S11 1620 41 Pilgrims sign a compact aboard the Mayflower
B11 1821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author, "Crime and Punishment"
B11 1885 General George S. Patton, fast mover.
S11 1889 Washington admitted as the 42nd state.
S11 1918 Armistice Day -- WW I ends (at 11AM on the Western Front)
B11 1922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr, author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan).
S11 1921 President Harding dedicates the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier.
S11 1924 Palace of Legion of Honor in San Francisco is dedicated.
S11 1939 Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"
S11 1965 Rhodesia proclaimes independence from Britain
S11 1966 Gemini 12 is lau