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     April Fool's Day
1778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans Businessman, creates the "$".
1850 San Francisco County Government established.
1866 US congress passes civil rights bill to all except Indians
1917 Scott Joplin dies
1941 Navy takes over Treasure Island.
1960 TIROS I (Television & Infra-Red Observation Satellite) launched
     to improve weather prediction.
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     First man shot from a cannon
     International Children's Book Day
1792 Congress establishes Coin denominations of United States.
1877 First Easter Egg roll on White House lawn
1896 Barnum and Bailey Circus open in New York
1902 First motion picture theater opens
1935 Watson Watt granted a patent for RADAR.
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1848 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher.
1936 Bruno Hauptmann executed for Lindberg kidnapping
1980 Genuine Risk wins Kentucky Derby
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1860 Pony Express begins service, from St. Joseph, Missouri.
1870 Golden Gate Park established by City Order #800.
1968 Martin Luther King shot in Memphis.
1969 Star Trek cancelled.
1974 Hank Aron beats Babe Ruth's batting record.
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1614 Pocahontas marries John Rolfe.
1941 Castro and Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses.
1976 Howard Hughes dies.
2346 BC Noah's Ark grounded at Mt. Ararat
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1862 Battle of Shiloh.
1868 Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife.
1906 first animated cartoon is copyrighted.
1917 USA declares war on Germany.
1926 4 planes take off on 1st successful around-the-world flight.
1957 New York City ends trolley car service.
1972 USA begins sustained bombing of Vietnam.
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1652 Capetown South Africa established.
1832 An English farmer sells his wife for 20 shillings and a
     Newfoundland Dog.
1931 Seals Stadium opens.
1933 Prohibition ends.
1948 World Health Organization is established.
  30 Crucifixion of Christ.
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     Kambutsue, celebration of Buddha's birthday, in Japan
1513 Ponce de Leon discovers Florida.
1913 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified
1947 Largest recorded sunspot - 7000 million square miles.
1954 Trans-Canada Airlines plane collides with RCAF trainer over
     Moose Jaw, killing all 36 persons and 1 woman on the ground.
1973 Pablo Picasso dies at age 91.
1974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record.
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1865 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox.
1940 Germany carries out Blitzkrieg invasion of Denmark and Norway.
1953 TV Guide publishes their first issue.
1955 United Nations Charter hearing.
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1825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens.
1849 Safety pin patented.
1871 William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park
     officially accepted.
1878 California Street Cable Car Railroad Company starts service.
1882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
1953 House of Wax, first 3-D movie, released in New York.
1963 US Navy announced submarine THRESHER lost with 129 aboard.
1979 Idi Amin flees Kampala Uganda.
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     Barber Shop Quartet Day
1814 Naploleon banished to Elba.
1868 Shogunate abolished in Japan.
1876 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized.
1895 Anaheim completes it's new electric light system.
1899 Control of Philippines transferred to USA from Spain.
1945 Buchenwald liberated by Allied forces.
1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball.
1951 Gen. Douglas MacArthur removed from all military posts in Far East.
1958 Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated.
1974 Golda Meir announces her resignation from Israeli Parliament.
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1859 Hibernia Savings & Loan Society of San Francisco incorporated.
1861 Confederates fire on Fort Sumter, US Civil War begins.
1861 Fort Sumter, S. C., shelled by Confederacy, starts Civil War.
1898 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island to Navy.
1933 Moffatt Field is commissioned.
1937 Nation wide student strike held to avow stand against all wars.
1945 F.D. Roosevelt dies - Truman sworn in as President.
1961 Yuri A. Gagarin becomes 1st man to orbit Earth.
1962 San Mateo County withdraws from BART district.
1981 1st launch of the space shuttle, Columbia.
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1976 $2 bill re-introduced as United States currency.
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1828 1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.
1860 1st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri.
1865 Abraham Lincoln assasinated by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theater.
1894 First peep show opens (New York City).
1900 Veteran's Hospital at Fort Miley established.
1928 regular air passenger flights between San Francisco and
     Los Angeles started, by Maddux Air Lines.
1931 20 Millionth Ford rolls off the assembly line
1971 Fort Point dedicated as 1st National Park in Bay Area.
1986 At 7:00 EST USA attacks Lybian terrorist installations.
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1850 City of San Francisco incorporated.
1865 Lincoln's heart stops beating at 7:22.
1877 First business telephone installed.
1912 Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM., 1517 people lost.
1922 the famed Poodle Dog Restaurant closes.
1923 insulin becomes generally available for diabetics.
1928 Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf is founded.
1955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants.
1959 Fidel Castro comes to USA.
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1866 Nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo & Co. office explodes.
1947 Fertilizer ship explosion kills 500 in Texas City.
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1524 New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.
1616 William Harvey discovers circulation of blood.
1853 US Marine Hospital at the Presidio established.
1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95).
1941 Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing)
1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
1969 Sirhan Sirhan convicted of assassinating Robert Kennedy.
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1775 'The British are Coming!' Paul Revere rides.
1868 San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed.
1869 1st International Cricket Match, held in SF, won by Californian
1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
1907 Fairmont Hotel opens.
1934 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) is opened, in Fort Worth, Texas
1936 "Clipper" starts providing regular passenger flights from
     San Francisco to Honolulu.
1955 Albert Einstein dies.
1956 First time an umpire wears glasses at a baseball game.
1968 San Francisco's Old Hall of Justice demolished.
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     Patriot's Day
1775 at Lexington Common, the shot 'heard round the world'.
1852 California Historical Society founded.
1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire.
1882 Charles Darwin dies.
1892 Charles Duryea takes the 1st American-made auto out for a spin.
1910 Halley's Comet reappears.
1919 Successful treatment for Syphillis announced.
1939 Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights (only 148 years late)
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1676 Bacon's rebellion.
1769 Chief Pontiac assassinated.
1872 Bar Association of San Francisco organized.
1958 Buses replace Key System trains at 3AM.
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1862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorado.
1892 1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park.
1910 Mark Twain dies.
1918 Red Baron shot down.
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     Earth Day
1915 First use of Posion gas by Germans (Belgium).
1946 Sniff-the-Breeze-Day (Egypt).
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     National Secretary Day
1616 Cervantes dies.
1850 Wordsworth dies.
1871 Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up.
1949 Courtesy Mail Boxes for motorists started in San Francisco.
1950 Nationalist Chinese abandon Hainan Island to the Communists.
1971 Soviets launch Soyuz 10.
303  Crown of martyrdom given to St. George upon his beheading.
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1731 Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, died.
1800 Library of Congress founded.
1865 Fire Alarm & Police Telegraph system put into operation.
1885 General Middleton met a force of Metis at Fish Creek, Sask.
1898 Spain declare war on the United States.
1900 the passing of Andrew Halliday, Cable Car Pioneer.
1915 Turkey begins mass deportation of Armenians.
1949 Candy rationing ended in Britain.
1986 Duchess of Windsor, Wallace Simpson dies.
1986 Howard Arlin, composer of music for The Wizard of Oz, dies.
     (Edward VIII abdicated for her)
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     Arbor Day.  Plant a tree.
1849 The Canadian Rebellion Losses bill becomes law.
1891 President Benjamin Harrison visits San Francisco.
1901 First automobile license plates (New York city).
1901 New York becomes 1st state requiring license plates for cars
1940 Bill granting women the vote in Quebec becomes law.
1945 United Nations Conference starts.
1961 Robert Noyce granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
1964 Statue LITTLE MERMAID (Copenhagen) loses head to theives.
1974 Military coup in Portugal overthrew authoritarian government in
     power since 1926.
1980 U.S. attempts rescue of hostages in Iran.
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1607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va.
1906 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii.
1954 nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio begins.
1970 Radioactive rain falls on Troy N.Y.
1971 San Francisco Lightship replaced by automatic buoy.
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     Union Day, celebrated in Tanzania.
1565 1st Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City, founded.
1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) is dedicated.
1932 Hart Crane get drunk and jump off ship, and is never seen again.
1937 US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment.
1945 founding of the Second Republic, in Austria.
1951 Iran nationalizes oil industry.
1979 USSR releases 5 dissedents to U.S. in exchange for 2 spies.
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1754 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurs.
1919 1st successful parachute jump is made.
1937 First electrically animated cartoon appears (Times Square).
1945 Mussolini and Clara Petacci killed at Lake Como.
1965 U.S. Marines land in the Dominican Republic.
1974 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon.
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     the Emperor's Birthday, celebrated in Japan.
1857 Headquarters for the US Army, Division of the Pacific,
     permanently established at the Presidio.
1913 Zipper patented (Ziiiiiiiiipppp...).
1945 Dachau liberated.
1954 India recognized Tibet as part of Red China.
1980 Alfred Hitchcock dies.
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1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st US president.
1798 Department of the Navy established.
1803 US more than doubles its size thru the Louisiana Purchase.
1857 founding of what would be San Jose State University.
1869 the Hawaiian YMCA organized.
1900 Casey Jones killed in the wreck of the Cannonball Express.
1939 NBC makes 1st US demo of TV at opening of NY World's Fair.
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