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     The start of a new year...
1840 First Bowling tournament.
1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln.
1898 Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of San Francisco Bay.
1902 1st Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California.
1912 1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63 miles)
1934 Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison.
1953 Hank Williams dies in the back of his Cadillac.
1958 European Economic Community (EEC) starts operation.
1979 China and U.S. establish full diplomatic relations.
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1883 Tom Thumb dies.
1921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens.
1957 the San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.
1968 First successful human heart transplant.
1975 Elizabeth Domitien named first female premier in Central African Rep.
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1521 Martin Luther excommunicated.
1847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.
1852 first Chinese arrive in Hawaii.
1870 Brooklyn Bridge construction begins.
1888 1st drinking straw is patented.
1912 Southern Pacific RR offers to bring the Liberty Bell to the
     Exposition without charge.
1961 Atomic Reactor blows up in Idaho Falls.
1977 Apple Computer incorporated.
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     National Trivia Day.
1493 Columbus returns to Europe taking 6 indian captives.
1885 First appendectomy.
1936 First pop music chart based on record sales published.
1948 Burma becomes independent.
1982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for the 3rd time by fierce storm.
1983 Spiro Agnew pays Maryland $268,482 - alleged kickbacks + interest.
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1780 Benedict Arnold helps British plunder and burn Richmond Va.
1850 the California Exchange opens.
1889 Iroquois petition Canadian government to keep traditional system of
     chiefs.
1911 San Francisco has it's 1st air meet.
1928 First women sworn in as govenor (Wyoming).
1933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side.
1938 When You're Smiling recorded by Billie Holiday.
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     Epiphany (Twelfth Night in England)
     Arizona becomes the 47th state.
1838 Telegraph demonstrated publically for first time.
1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
1918 Passenger in WW1 airplane falls out and back in at lower altitude.
1930 Sherlock Holmes dies (according to fan club).
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1610 Galileo discovers the 4 major moons of Jupiter.
1714 the typewriter is patented (it was built years later)
1785 1st balloon flight across the English Channel.
1799 First U.S. presidential election.
1822 first printing in Hawaii.
1929 "Tarzan", one of the first adventure comic strips appears.
1943 Nikola Tesla dies.
1953 Truman announces U.S. has developed Hydrogen bomb.
1980 Nun elected mayor of Dubuque Iowa.
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1815 Battle of New Orleans, made a hero out of Andrew Jackson (the
     War of 1812 had ended on 12/24/1814, but nobody knew that).
1880 the passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of Mexico
1916 British forces evacuate Gallipoli.
1925 Texas appoints all women state supreme court.
1932 Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter.
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1793 1st balloon flight in North America.
1799 1st income tax imposed, in England.
1839 the daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science
1847 1st San Francisco paper, 'California Star', published.
1848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established.
1894 First telephone switchboard put into operation.
1915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated.
1982 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855.
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1645 Archbishop of Canterbury beheaded.
1776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published.
1840 the Penny Post mail system is started.
1863 1st underground railway opens in London.
1882 Barbed wire patented.
1928 Leon Trotsky ordered into exile.
1945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close.
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1693 Mount Etna erupts.
1813 first pineapples planted in Hawaii.
1892 Hawaii Historical Society founded.
1935 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California (non-stop, of course).
1963 1st discotheque (Whiskey A-GO-GO) opens in USA.
1964 Surgeon General reports smoking is a definite "health hazard".
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1854 Anthony Foss obtains patent for the Accordion.
1898 Henry Ford patents plastic automobile.
1920 NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly.
1942 First use of an emergency ejection seat (Germany).
1971 Apollo 14 launched (what was that about rockets can't fly??)
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1784 the Revolutionary War formally ends.
1794 First successful cesarean delivery.
1863 First publication on paper made from wood pulp in USA.
1914 Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars.
1936 L.M. "Mario" Giannini elected president of Bank of America.
1939 All commercial ferry service to the East Bay ends.
1953 Tito elected president of Yugoslavia.
1969 Explosions kill 10 sailors on USS Enterprise.
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1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis, forming base for his
     elevator company.
1870 Cartoon Donkey first appears symbolizing Democratic Party.
1890 Sleeping Beauty ballet opens (St. Petersburg).
1892 Official Basketball rules published.
1927 Dunbarton Bridge, 1st bridge in Bay Area, opens.
1939 Municipal Railway and Market Street Railroad begin service to
     the Transbay Transit (East Bay) Terminal.
1948 The Pentagon Building in Washington is completed.
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     National Nothing Day
1547 Ivan the Terrible crowned as Czar of Russia.
1865 San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle started (now San Francisco Chronicle)
1866 Clamp on roller skates patented.
1887 Cliff House badly damaged when a cargo of powder on the
     schooner "Parallel" explodes nearby.
1973 Final episode of Bonanza airs on TV.
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1806 First baby born in White House.
1861 Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest!!).
1871 1st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie.
1893 the Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic.
1943 It was Tin Can Drive Day.
1957 9-county commission recommends creation of BART.
1963 Ten contestants on a rigged quiz show receive suspended sentences.
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1535 Pizaro founds Lima Peru.
1644 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston.
1777 San Jose Calif. founded.
1778 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.
1869 The elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco.
1911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (from Tanforan Park to the
     USS Pennsylvania).
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1903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England.
1915 Neon sign patented.
1977 Tokyo Rose pardoned by President Ford.
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     Reindeer Day
1265 1st English Parliament called into session by the Earl of Leicester
1872 California Stock Exchange Board organized.
1986 First national holiday honouring Dr. Martin Luther King.
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1813 the pineapple is introduced to Hawaii.
1908 Sullivan Ordinace prohibiting women from smoking in New York passed.
1930 First Buck Rogers comic strip appears.
1954 Nautilis first US atomic powered submarine launched.
1977 Carter pardons Vietnam era draft evaders who did not commit crimes.
1979 Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer).
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1444 Johann Gutenberg listed as eligible for military service.
1789 First american novel published (The Power of Sympathy).
1850 The Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif.
1901 Queen Victoria dies.
1939 Aquatic Park dedicated.
1949 Chinatown telephone exchange closed.
1973 USA Supreme Court legalizes abortion.
1980 First college basketball game refereed by a woman.
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     National Handwriting Day
1696 Cotton Mather notes extreme cold.
1950 Price of New York Times rises from 3 cents to 5 cents.
1960 Bathyscape "Trieste" descends 35,802 feet (Mariana's trench).
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1848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma.
1888 Typewriter ribbon patented.
1899 the rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan.
1922 Eskimo Pie patented.
1935 1st beer in cans is sold.
1936 Benny Goodman records "Stompin at the Savoy".
1982 San Francisco 49'ers win their 1st Super Bowl, 26-21.
1986 Voyager II flies past Uranus.
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     the start of the Chinese New Year.
1787 Shay's Rebellion.
1915 Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1949 1st Emmy Awards are given out.
1959 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301).
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     Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia.
1788 1st settlement established by the English in Australia.
1926 First public demonstration of television by Scottish inventor John
     Baird (Soho, London).
1950 India becomes a republic.
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1894 Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park.
1927 Harlem Globetrotters founded.
1933 Hitler suspends freedom of the press.
1948 1st Tape Recorder is sold.
1962 Goodman band leaves to play in USSR.
1965 Groundbreaking for the 'Dragon Gateway' at Grant Avenue.
1967 3 American Astronauts die in Apollo spacecraft fire.
1971 Montgomery St. Station, last link in BART, 'holed thru'.
1982 Flood in Peru kills up to 2500 people.
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1807 London's Pall Mall is the 1st street lit by gaslight.
1878 George W. Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator.
1938 1st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont).
1945 Burma road opens.
1948 First Emmy awards.
1981 First test tube baby born.
1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes a minute after launch killing
     all 7 crew members.
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1861 Kansas becomes a state.
1886 Internal Combustion engine motorcar patented (Karl Benz).
1900 American Baseball League organized.
1904 1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team.
1982 Philidelphia Bulletin ceases publication after 134 years.
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1847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.
1862 US Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched.
1917 1st jazz record in United States is cut.
1948 Gandhi assassinated.
1969 Beatles play together live for the last time on the root of Apple
     Records.
1982 British tanker spills 4.8 million gallons of oil of coast of Lithuania.
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1606 Guy Fawkes and other executed in London for conspiracy.
1615 Cape Horn discovered.
1851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California, founded.
1871 Birds fly over the western part of San Francisco in such large
     numbers that they actually darken the sky.
1911 Congress passes resolution naming San Francisco as the site
     of the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal.
1936 Green Hornet premiers on Radio.
1950 Truman orders AEC to develop Hydrogen Bomb.
1958 1st U.S. satellite launched, Explorer I.
1961 Ham the chimp is 1st animal sent into space by the US.
1971 Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands.
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