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1913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens, in Pittsburgh.
1917 Boy's Town founded.
1922 1st skywriting over the US - "Hello U.S.A." - by Capt Turner, RAF
1951 Golden Gate Bridge closed because of high winds.
1970 Divorce approved in Italy
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1816 First deposit made into a savings account.
1934 Mt. Palomar's 200-inch telescope mirror cast by Corning Glass.
1942 1st sustained controlled release of nuclear energy (Univ. of Chic.)
1957 1st electricity generated by commercial nuclear power plant.
1816 1st savings bank in US opens as the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society
1823 President James Monroe declares his doctrine.
1982 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted.
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1621 Galileo invents the telescope.
1952 1st television broadcast in Hawaii.
1954 Joseph McCarthy goes too far in his attacks and is condemned
     by the U.S. Senate.
1967 1st human heart transplant performed, in Capetown, South Africa
1979 11 persons die waiting for a rock concert by the WHO.
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1783 Gen. Washington bids his officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC
1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens.
1961 Matisse painting discovered hanging upside down
     (Museum of Modern Art)
1964 Free speech movement begins at Berkeley. 769 students arrested.
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1776 Phi Beta Kappa, 1st American scholastic fraternity, founded.
1854 Folding chair patented.
1876 Pipe Wrench patented.
1929 National League of Nudists organized.
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1876 City of Anaheim incorporated for a second time.
1877 First sound recording made by Edison.
1889 Jefferson Davis dies.
1917 Finland gains it's independence.
1957 AFL-CIO ousts Teamsters Union.
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1787 Delaware is the first state to ratify the Constitution.
1911 Pig tails abolished in China.
1941 U.S. military delays broadcasting of messages warning of
     Pearl Harbour attack.
1972 Apollo 17, last of the Apollo moon series, launched.
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1660 1st actress appeared on the English stage.
1913 Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts.
1941 San Francisco has 1st blackout, at 6:15PM.
1941 U.S. declare war on Japan.
1949 Chinese Nationalists move from mainland to Formosa.
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1755 First post office in Canada opened in Halifax
     (1st letter mailed is still in circulation).
1793 Noah Webster establishes the American Minerva, 1st paper in New York
1905 Separation of church and state decreed in France.
1907 1st Christmas Seals sold, in the Wilmington Post Office.
1956 Trans-Canada Airlines flight crashes in the mountains in B.C.
     killing all 62 on board including 4 Saskatchewan Roughriders.
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     Human Rights Day, a United Nations observance.
1817 Mississippi became the 20th state.
1901 1st distribution of Nobel Peace Prizes
1962 Hunters Point jitney ends service after 50 years.
1967 Otis Redding dies in a plane crash.
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1816 Indiana becomes 19th state.
1844 Laughing gas 1st used for a tooth extraction.
1914 Stockton Street Tunnel completed.
1919 Momument dedicated to the Boll Weevil (Alabama).
1932 Snow falls in San Francisco.
1937 Italy withdraws from the League of Nations.
1941 U.S. declares war on Germany and Italy.
1969 Army's Chemical Warfare Center abandonded (Dugway Utah).
1975 First Class Mail now costs 13 cents (had been 10 cents).
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     Independence Day, celebrated in Kenya
     National Ding-a-ling Day
1899 Golf Tee Patented
1901 Marconi receives 1st trans-Atlantic radio signal from England to US.
1963 Kenya gains it's independence.
1294 Pope Celestine V forced to abdicate.
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1789 The Austrian Netherlands declares its independance.
1903 Wright brothers first airplane flight at Kittyhawk.
1918 Wilson becomes 1st to make a foreign visit while President.
1930 Pavlova dances for the last time.
1961 Grandma Moses dies.
1963 Medgar Evars murdered.
1968 Playland at the Beach reopens.
1978 Susan B. Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued.
1979 Joe Clark's Conservative government loses a vote of confidence
     on its first budget.
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1799 George Washington dies.
1819 Alabama admitted to the Union.
1911 South Pole 1st reached by Amundsen.
1971 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night from power failure.
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1791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval.
1877 Patent granted to Mr. Edison for the phonograph.
1965 1st rendevous in space Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 link up.
1966 Walt Disney dies.
1969 SF Fire Dept. replaces leather helmets with plastic ones.
1979 City of Cleveland defaults on $14 million in loans.
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1773 Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor.  Indians welcome.
1809 Napoleon divorced from Josephine.
1811 30,000 sq. miles in Ohio and Mississipi Valley affected by earthquake.
1905 "Variety", covering all phases of show business, 1st published.
1907 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise
1916 Rasputine murdered.
1944 Glenn Miller's plane disappears over English Channel.
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1791 New York City traffic regulation creates the 1st one-way street
1852 first Hawaiian cavalry organized.
1860 Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County.
1903 at 10:35AM, for 12 seconds, 1st sustained motorized aircraft
     flight by Wright Brothers.
1933 1st professional football game Chicago Bears vs. NY Giants.
1935 First DC-3 (Douglas Commercial - 3) rolls off assembly line.
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1936 First Panda imported to U.S. from China.
1963 500 African students riot in Moscow's Red Square.
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     Underdog Day
1666 Robinson Crusoe rescued.
1732 Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
1777 George Washington and troops begin encampment at Valley Forge.
1889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii.
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1803 Louisiana Purchase officially transferred.
1850 Hawaiian post office established.
1963 Berlin Wall temporarily opened.
1968 John Steinbeck dies.
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     the Winter Solstice (at 2:21 PM PDT), shortest day of the year.
1620 the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock
1913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues), printed in New York World
1937 1st feature-length cartoon with color and sound premieres...
     "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
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1650 Size of a loaf of bread standardized in New England.
1850 Hawaiian Post Office established.
1877 American Bicycling Journal published.
1920 First prize fight broadcast from ringside.
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1776 First loan for war purposes authorized
1852 First chinese theater opens in U.S. opens in San Fran.
1862 America's largest execution - 38 Sioux hanged at Mankato.
1938 Boogie Woogie introduced at Carnegie Hall.
1947 transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs
1972 Earth quake devastates Managua Nicaragua.
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1814 Treaty of Ghent signed, ending War of 1812 (this news did not
     arrive until after the Battle of New Orleans).
1889 Pedal Brake for bicycle Patented.
1906 1st known radio program in US is broadcast.
1910 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain.
1948 People move into first solar heated house in U.S.A.
1959 Police in New York City no longer required to carry whistles.
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     Constitution Day, celebrated in Republic of China (Taiwan).
1758 Comet appears as predicted by Edmund Halley.
1776 Washington crosses the Delaware and surprises the Hessians.
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     Boxing Day, celebrated in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland)
1865 James Mason invents the 1st American coffee percolator.
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1831 Darwin begins his voyage onboard the HMS Beagle.
1845 First Ether used in childbirth.
1850 Hawaiian Fire Department established.
1903 "Sweet Adaline", a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung.
1932 Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens.
1967 Columbian Cowboys lure a group of native people to dinner and
     slaughter all but 2. They were later aquitted because they
     didn't know it was wrong to kill indians.
1979 Russians invade Afghanistan.
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     Roentgen discovers X-rays.
1669 a patent for chewing gum is granted to William Semple.
1895 First public cinema showing in Paris.
1902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US.
1912 San Francisco begins street car operation.
     (MUNI was the 1st municpally-owned transit system)
1974 Pakistan earthquake kills 5000.
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1170 Thomas Becket murdered.
1782 First nautical almanac published.
1890 Wounded Knee massacre.
1911 San Francisco Symphony formed.
1931 Heavy Water discovered.
1937 Pan Am starts San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand service.
1974 Terrorist bomb at La Guardia Airport (New York) kill 11 wounds 78.
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1817 first coffee planted in Hawaii.
1853 Gadsden Purchase signed.
1854 First oil company incorporated.
1911 Sun Yat-sen elected 1st president of the Republic of China.
1922 USSR formed.
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1879 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US).
1879 Edison gives public demonstration of his incandescent lamp.
1879 Pirates of Penzance premiers (New York City).
1921 Last San Francisco firehorses retired.
1946 World War II offically ends.
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