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1291 the Everlasting League forms, the basis of the Swiss Confederation.
1734 Joseph Priestly discovers oxygen (wonder what he was breathing before).
1790 First U.S. Census
1794 Whisky Rebellion
1834 British Empire abolished slavery.
1852 Black Methodists in SF establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist.
1881 US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island.
1893 Shredded wheat patented.
1907 Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street.
1916 Hawaii National Park established.
1946 President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission.
1946 U.S. Atomic Energy Commission established.
1953 California introduces it's Sales Tax (for Education).
1957 Completion of first solar heated commercial building.
1958 First Class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years).
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1817 First steam boat embarks from St. Louis.
1873 1st trial run of an SF cable car, on Clay Street between
     Kearny and Jones, downhill all the way, at 4AM.
1876 Wild Bill Hickock shot dead.
1877 San Francisco Public Library opens with 5000 volumes.
1889 San Francisco invaded by millions of crickets.
1923 President Harding dies at the Palace Hotel.
1943 J.F.K's PT boat sunk by Japanese destroyer.
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1492 Columbus departs on his first voyage.
1880 American Canoe Association formed.
1921 First Aerial crop dusting.
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1693 Champagne is invented by Dom Perignon.
1735 U.S. Freedom of press established.
1782 Mozart marries.
1790 United States Coast Guard founded.
1893 Lizzie Borden "took an axe".
1944 Nazis capture Anne Frank.
1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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1775 the 1st Spanish ship, 'San Carlos', enters San Francisco bay.
1858 Undersea cable completed across Atlantic Ocean.
1861 US levies it's first Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800).
1864 The spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati.
1914 Traffic light installed in Cleveland
1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed.
1966 John Lennon claims Beatles more popular than Jesus.
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1727 First U.S. convent opens.
1806 Formal end of the Holy Roman Empire.
1835 Bolivia gains it's independence
1890 First person executed by electrocution in the U.S.
1926 the first woman swims the English Channel.
1945 the Atom Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by the 'Enola Gay'.
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1807 1st servicable steamboat, the Cleremont, goes on 1st voyage.
1820 Potatoes first planted in Hawaii.
1869 First photo of total solar eclipse taken.
1903 Calamity Jane dies.
1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
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1803 1st horses arrive in Hawaii.
1842 the US-Canada border defined by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
1848 Free Soil Party formed in U.S.
1942 Mohandis Gandhi arrested and imprisioned for 2 years.
1945 Nagasaki A-bomb detonated, 40,000 die.
1974 Nixon resigns and Gerald Ford sworn in as president.
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1809 Ecuador gains it's independence.
1833 Chicago population 300; incorporated as a village.
1842 Women and children banned from working underground in British mines.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell made 1st long-distance call from
     Brantford to Paris Ont. (13 km).
1933 Rin Tin Tin dies.
1973 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station.
1981 Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's record of 3630 hits.
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1888 The California Theatre closed (now a Pac Tel Phone Store).
1896 Electric light socket with pull chain patented.
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1581 End of Battle for Tiaxcala - Aztecs fought
     Cortez and lost 11,000 men.
1658 "Rattle Watch" first police force in America established.
1851 Issac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine.
1982 Henry Fonda dies.
1985 JAL airlines flight 123 crashes killing 520 people.
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     International Left-handers Day
1876 Reciprocity Treaty between US and Hawaii ratified.
1923 "Yes, We have no bannanas" number 1 song in N. America.
1946 H.G. Wells dies.
1961 East Germany closes border between East and West Berlin.
1978 Saskatchewan Power Corp blacks out entire province (twice!)
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1846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance.
1900 Boxer Rebellion ends (Peking China).
1912 U.S. Marines sent to Nicaragua.
1923 Felix the cat debuts in comics.
1945 VJ Day - Japan surrendered to end World War II.
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1901 Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of
     nitrogelatin (and that ain't jello).
1911 Shortening introduced.
1934 3,000 foot bathysphere descent in Bahamas.
1935 Will Rogers dies in airplane crash.
1945 Riot in San Francisco celebrating end of World War II.
     South Korea liberated from Japanese rule.
1960 the Congo (Brazzaville) gains it's independence.
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1896 Gold discovered in Klondike.
1932 Betsy Von Furstenberg dies.
1948 Babe Ruth dies.
1969 Woodstock festival begins in New York.
1977 Elvis Presely dies.
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1807 Robert Fulton's steam boat (Clermont) takes 1st trip up Hudson.
1858 1st bank in Hawaii opens.
1896 First motoring fatality.
1908 Bank of Italy opens it's new headquarters at Clay & Montgomery.
1915 1st automobile electric starter motor patented.
1950 Indonesia gains it's independence.
1961 Russians begin construction of Berlin wall.
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1227 Genghis Kahn dies.
1914 Germany declares war on Russia.
1938 Wizard of Oz premiers.
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     Aviation Day
     Admission Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
1692 5 people hanged for witchcraft (Salem Mass.).
1826 Canada Co. chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario).
1890 Daughter's of the American revolution organized.
1960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
1977 Groucho Marx dies.
1981 2 U.S. jets shoot down 2 Libyan jets.
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     Admission Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
1940 Exiled Leon Trotsky murdered (mexico).
1942 Dimout regulations implemented in San Francisco.
1956 Republicans start convention at the Cow Palace.
1977 Voyager II launched.
1979 Diana Nyad swims from Bahamas to Florida (89 miles).
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1959 Hawaii became the 50th state.
1968 Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
1971 George Jackson murdered.
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1692 8 more people hanged for witchcraft (Salem).
1787 John Fitch's steamboat completes it's tests, years before
     Fulton builds his steamboat.
1911 Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre.
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1500 Columbus accused of mistreating natives - sent back
     to Spain in chains.
1838 1st graduates get degree from women's college in U.S.
1869 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in San Francisco,
     from Boston, after a 16-day rail trip.
1872 1st Japanese commercial ship visits San Francisco with cargo of tea.
1889 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US.
1926 Rudolph Valentino dies.
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  79 Mt. Vesuvius erupts - Pompeii destroyed.
1814 British burn Washington D.C.
1869 Waffle Iron patented.
1909 Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
1954 Communist Control Act signed into law by Pres. Eisenhower.
1989 Voyager II flies past Neptune.
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1814 British destroy Liberty of Congress.
1829 Steam engine Tom Thumb races horse drawn car and loses.
1864 Combination rail & ferry service available from SF to Alameda.
1877 Only recorded pistol duel between women.
1929 Graf Zeppelin passes over San Francisco, headed for Los Angeles
     after trans-Pacific voyage from Tokyo.
1981 Voyager II flies past Saturn.
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1791 John Fitch granted a US patent for his working steamboat.
1846 W. A. Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF).
1883 Krakatoa; mightiest volcano ever, erupts.
1907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 seconds.
1920 19th Amendment passes - Women's Suffrage granted (about time!)
1937 Pumping to build Treasure Island finished.
1939 1st TV broadcast of a major league ball game (age of boredom begins).
1952 Fluoridation of San Francisco water begins.
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1664 Dutch surrender New Amsterdam to British. Name changed to New York City.
1859 1st successful oil well drilled near Titusville, Penn.
1883 Krakatoa, WEST of Java, blew apart (Top that, St Helens).
1904 1st car driver jailed for speeding.
1912 Tarzan first appears in print.
1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agreed to outlaw war
1979 Lord Mountbatten assassinated by IRA.
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1867 USA occupies Midway islands.
1906 1st electric car horn advertised
1920 19th Amendment takes effect - Women's suffrage.
1928 1st Commercial Radio airs.
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  30 John the Baptist beheaded.
1852 Brigham Young proclaims polygamy acceptable.
1914 'Arizonan' is the 1st vessel to arrive in SF via the Panama Canal.
1921 Ku Klux Klan tars 43 Texans.
1954 San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens.
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  30 BC Cleopatra commits suicide.
1780 Benidict Arnold betrays the revolution.
1850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city.
1963 USA - USSR hotline goes into operation.
1979 1st recorded occurrance of a comet hitting the sun (the energy
     released was about equal to 1 million hydrogen bombs).
1982 Ingrid Bergman dies.
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1290 King Edwared exiles all Jews from England.
1850 The California Pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets.
1881 1st US tennis championships played.
1886 Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized.
1955 GM demonstrates 1st solar powered car.
1969 Rocky Marciano dies in a plane crash.
1980 Solidarity Labor Union in Poland is founded.
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