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S01 1772 Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in California
B01 1854 Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer
S01 1859 Carrington & Hodgson make first observation of a solar flare.
B01 1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist, Ah-ee-ah-ee-ah!
S01 1807 Aaron Burr aquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire.
S01 1849 California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey.
S01 1878 1st woman telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston).
S01 1905 Alberta and Saskatchewan become 8th and 9th Canadian provinces.
B01 1935 Seiji Ozawa, conductor
S01 1939 Germany invades Poland, starting World War II.
S01 1939 PHYSICAL REVIEW publishes first paper to deal with "black holes"
S01 1969 Moammar Gadhafi deposes Libya's King Idris
S01 1977 First TRS-80 Model I computer is sold.
S01 1979 Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings
S01 1983 A Korean Boeing 747, carrying 269 passengers, strays into Soviet
S01 air space and is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter.
S01 1985 SS Titanic, sunk in 1912, is found by French & American scientists
S02 31 BC At the Battle of Actium; Octavian defeats Antony,
S02 and becomes the Emporer Augustus.
S02 490 BC Phidippides runs the first marathon, seeking aid
S02 from Sparta against the Persians.
S02 1666 Great Fire of London starts; destroys St. Paul's Church
S02 1789 US Treasury Department established by Congress
S02 1804 Harding discovers Juno, the 3rd known asteroid
B02 1838 Queen Liliuokalani (last queen of Hawaii).
B02 1839 Henry George, land reformer, writer (Progress & Poverty)
B02 1853 Wilhelm Ostwald, German physical chemist (Nobel 1909)
B02 1866 Hiram Johnson, Calif governor, Progressive.
S02 1898 Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
S02 1945 V-J Day; Japan formally surrenders aboard the USS Missouri.
S02 1945 Vietnam declares independence from France (National Day)
B02 1952 Jimmy Connors, tennis brat
S02 1963 CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
S02 Great Britain adopts Gregorian calendar (1752)
B03 1596 Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker
B03 1856 Louis Sullivan, father of modern US architecture.
S03 1783 Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War, is signed.
S03 1849 California State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
S03 1900 British annex Natal (South Africa)
B03 1907 Andrew Brewin, Canadian lawyer, cofounder of New Democratic Party
B03 1913 Alan Ladd, actor
S03 1935 First automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell
S03 1939 Britain declared war on Germany. France followed six hours later,
S03 quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada
S03 1940 First showing of high definition color television
S03 1940 US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for military bases
S03 1976 US Viking 2 lands on Mars at Utopia
S03 1978 Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
S03 1985 20th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 6 returns to Earth
S04 476 Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in the west, is deposed.
S04 1609 Navigator Henry Hudson discovers the island of Manhattan.
B04 1768 François René de Chateaubriand, French poet, novelist, statesman
S04 1781 Los Angeles is founded in the Valley of Smokes (Indian Name).
B04 1810 Donald McKay, US naval architect, built fastest clipper ships.
B04 1824 Anton Bruckner, Wagner disciple
S04 1833 1st newsboy in the US hired (Barney Flaherty), by the NY Sun
B04 1846 Daniel Burnham, American architect, built skyscrapers
S04 1870 French republic proclaimed
B04 1872 Darius Milhaud, composer
S04 1882 First district lit by electricty (NY's Pearl Street Station)
S04 1886 Geronimo is captured, ending last major US-Indian war
S04 1888 George Eastman patents 1st rollfilm camera & registers "Kodak".
B04 1908 Richard Wright, American author (Native Son)
S04 1911 Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)
B04 1917 Henry Ford II, businessman
B04 1918 Paul Harvey, radio news commentator, "Goooood Day!"
S04 1918 US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
B04 1920 Craig Claiborne, gastronome
S04 1933 First airplane to exceed 300 mph, JR Wendell, Glenview, Illinois
S04 1950 First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.
S04 1951 First transcontinental TV broadcast, by President Truman
S04 1954 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed
S04 1957 Ford introduces the Edsel.
S04 1964 NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
S04 1972 US swimmer Mark Spitz is 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals
S04 1980 Iraqi troops seize Iranian territory in a border dispute.
B05 1735 Johann Christian Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach (English Bach)
S05 1774 First Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia
S05 1781 Battle of Virginia Capes, where the French Fleet defeats the
S05 British rescue fleet, trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown.
B05 1847 Jesse James in Missouri, outlaw
S05 1885 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer.
B05 1902 Darryl F. Zanuck, Hollywood producer & motion picture executive
B05 1923 Arthur C. Nielsen, market researcher (or 1897)
B05 1929 Andrian G. Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 3, Soyuz 9)
B05 1929 Bob Newhart, comedian, actor
B05 1940 Raquel Welch in Chicago Ill (Myra Breckenridge, 100 Rifles)
S05 1953 First privately operated atomic reactor - Raleigh NC
S05 1958 First color video recording on mag. tape shown, Charlotte NC
S05 1977 Voyager II launched towards Jupiter and Saturn.
S05 1978 Sadat, Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md.
S05 1980 World's longest auto tunnel, St. Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens.
S06 1628 Puritans land at Salem, form Massachusetts Bay Colony.
S06 1716 First lighthouse in US built, in Boston
B06 1757 Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary
B06 1766 John Dalton, developed the atomic theory of matter
B06 1811 James Melville Gilliss, founded Naval Observatory in Washington
B06 1860 Jane Addams, American pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel 1931)
S06 1869 First westbound train arrives in San Francisco.
B06 1888 Joseph P. Kennedy Financier-diplomat
S06 1909 Word received: Peary discovered the North Pole five months ago.
S06 1966 Star Trek appears on TV for the 1st time, on NBC. Beam me up!
S06 The National Holiday of Swaziland.
B07 1533 Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603), daughter of Henry VIII
B07 1707 George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, writer on natural history
B07 1726 François-André Philidor of France, chess champion & musician
S07 1822 Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day).
B07 1829 August von Stradonitz, discovered structure of the benzene ring.
B07 1860 Grandma Moses, artist
S07 1907 Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF is destroyed by fire.
B07 1908 Dr. Michael E. De Bakey, artificial heart pioneer
B07 1913 Anthony Quayle, actor (Anne of 1000 Days, Lawrence of Arabia)
B07 1914 James Van Allen, discovered Van Allen radiation belts.
B07 1936 Buddy Holly, singer (Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day)
S07 1948 First use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron OH
S07 1956 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000+
S07 Independence Day, celebrated in Brazil.
B08 1157 King Richard I of England, "The Lionhearted", crusader,
S08 1380 Russians defeat Tatars at Kulikovo, beginning decline of Tatars.
S08 1565 Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St. John.
S08 1565 1st permanent settlement in US founded at St Augustine, Florida
S08 1664 Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to English.
S08 1771 Mission San Gabriel Archangel founded in California.
B08 1830 Frédéric Mistral, Provençal poet (Nobel 1904)
B08 1841 Antonín Dvorák, Czech composer, (From The New World)
S08 1858 Lincoln makes a speech describing when you can fool people.
S08 1883 Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mo
S08 1920 1st US Air Mail service begins.
B08 1922 Sid Caesar, comedian
B08 1925 Peter Sellers, (not now, Kato)
S08 1943 Italy surrenders to the allies in WW II
S08 1945 US invades Japanese-held Korea.
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