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     the creation of the 1st adhesive U.S. Postage Stamps
1867 Canada's Confederation formed.
1898 Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill.
1899 SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building.
1919 First Class Postage DROPS to 2 cents from 3 cents.
1941 Bulova Watch company sponsors first TV commercial.
1944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing world-wide
     financial systems (like the IMF and the World Bank).
1951 First community A-bomb shelter completed (Boise Idaho).
1961 Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii.
1966 Construction crews begin tearing up Market St. to build BART.
1971 Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?).
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1566 Nostradamus dies.
1900 1st flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1).
1937 Amelia Earhart lost.
1961 Ernest Hemingway dies.
1964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
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1608 City of Quebec founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
1819 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
1861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from New York.
1965 Trigger the horse dies.
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     Independence Day in U.S.
1054 Previously brightest known super-nova starts shining, for 23 days.
1826 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (2nd & 3rd presidents) die.
1845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond.
1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho).
1873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens.
1876 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco.
1882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens.
1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the 1st US autos
1903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens.
     President Roosevelt sends a message to the Phillipines,
     then a message around the world in 12 minutes.
1928 First person to go over Niagra Falls in rubber ball.
1933 work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge.
1973 Ziggy Elephant unchained for the first time in 30 years.
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1811 Venezuela gains independence from Spain.
1865 William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England.
1935 1st 'Hawaii Calls' radio program is broadcast.
1938 Herb Caen gets his 1st column in the S.F. Chronicle.
1946 First bikini modelled.
1950 First U.S. soldier killed in Korea.
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1535 Thomas Moore beheaded.
1885 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur
1917 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aquaba.
1928 Preview of 1st all-talking motion picture took place in NYC
1932 First Class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents.
1933 1st All-Star baseball game.  American League won 5-2.
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1863 First draft call under conscription law (U.S.A.).
1891 A patent was granted for the travelers cheque.
1898 Hawaii annexed to the US.
1908 the Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay.
1978 Morris the cat dies (Meow-Meow...Meow-Meow).
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1796 1st American Passport issued by the US State Department.
1835 Liberty Bell cracks while ringing during funeral for
1835 1st Chief Justice.
1889 Vol 1, No 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" published.
1896 William Jennings Bryan makes his 'cross of gold' speech at the
     Democratic Convention in Chicago.
1897 Harbor Hospital formally opens.
1905 Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center
1951 City of Paris celebrates 2,000th anniversary.
1978 Nixon disbarred in New York.
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     National POW/MIA Recognition Day
1816 Argentina gains it's independence.
1846 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for the U.S.
1878 Corncob pipe patented.
1979 Voyager II flies past Jupiter.
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1220 "London Bridge is Falling Down" - catches fire
     and collapses 3000 die.
1890 Wyoming becomes the 44th state.
1913 Death Valley records 134 deg F.
1925 The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial starts.
1938 Howard Hughes completes round the world flight.
1962 Telstar, the 1st geosynchonous communications satelite, launched.
1973 The Bahamas gains independence.
1982 Miguel Vasquez first aerialist to achieve quadruple somersault.
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     National Holiday of the People's Republic of Outer Mongolia.
     (Celebrated mainly in Ulan Bator, yurt capital of Asia)
1804 Burr and Hamilton duel.
1937 George Gershwin dies.
1962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I).
1979 Skylab returns to earth - crashes in Austrailia.
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1543 Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th & last wife).
1812 U.S. forces lead by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812).
1933 U.S. Congress passes 1st minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour).
1934 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned.
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     the start of the Bon Festival in Japan.
1865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west".
1898 SF Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street opens.
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     Alexander Mackenzie reached shores of the Atlantic Ocean.
     Bastille Day -- France
1789 The citizens of Paris storm the Bastille prison.
1850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration.
1853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese.
1865 The 1st ascent of the Matterhorn.
1927 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii.
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     Saint Swithin's Day
     U.S. National Ice Cream Day
1685 The Duke of Monmouth, Jack Scott executed for treason.
1857 200 European women and children massacred in Cawnpore India.
1867 SF Merchant's Exchange opens.
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     the National Blueberry Festival
1769 Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif.
1790 U.S. Congress establishes the District of Columbia.
1861 1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run.
1945 1st atomic blast, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1946 Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history).
1969 Apollo 11, 1st manned ship to land on the moon, launched.
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     Constitution Day, celebrated in South Korea
1745 The fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island taken from
     French by the British.
1879 1st railroad opens in Hawaii.
1932 Explosion aboard and oil tanker in Montreal harbour killed 30.
1954 Construction begins on Disneyland...
1955 ...Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County.
1974 Irish terrorists explode bomb in Britain's House of Commons.
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     National Day, celebrated in Spain
  64 the Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle).
1872 Britain introduces voting by secret ballot.
1938 Wrong Way Corrigan lands in Ireland (not California??)
1968 Intel Corporation is incorporated.
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1848 First Women's Rights Convention. Seneca Falls, N.Y.
1880 SF Public Library allows patrons to start borrowing books.
1935 1st parking meters installed in the Oklahoma City business district.
1955 the "Balclutha" ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum.
1961 1st In-flight movie is shown (on TWA).
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1810 Columbia gains it's independence.
1837 Queen Victoria ascended to the throne.
1859 Admission fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents).
1878 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii.
1942 Japanese submarine shells Estevan Point, B.C. during WWII.
1969 Man landed on the Moon (Apollo 11) at 4:18PM EDT.
1970 1st baby born on Alcatraz Island.
1976 1st pictures from Mars surface received (courtesy Viking 2).
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1796 Poet Robert Burns dies.
1831 Belgium gains it's independence from Holland.
1867 City Gardens on Folsom opens.
1873 World's 1st train robbery, by Jesse James.
1959 1st atomic-powered passenger ship (Savannah) launched by USA.
1969 Neil Armstrong steps on the moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT).
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1932 Hoover and FBI gun down John Dillinger.
1933 1st round the world solo flight.
1982 Worst flood in 25 years hits Nagasaki - 245 killed.
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     National Day, in Egypt.
1829 Typewriter is patented.
1852 first interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio.
1877 first telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii is completed.
1904 The Ice Cream Cone is invented.
1974 Greek dictatorship falls.
1979 Ayatollah Khomeini bans non-religious music in Iran.
1984 First Miss USA forced to relequish crown (Vanessa Williams).
1986 Prince (Randy Andy) Andrew weds Sarah (the Hips) Ferguson.
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1847 Brigham Young and Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City.
1910 First Paul Bunyan stories published.
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1871 Carousel patented.
1903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes.
1909 1st airplane flight across the English Channel.
1923 First Home movies shown.
1967 Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway).
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     the start of the Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree in Athens, Texas
1775 Ben Franklin appointed Postmaster General.
1835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii.
1847 Liberia gains it's independence.
1956 Suez Canal Nationalized.
1964 Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud.
3113 BC Mayan calendar starts.
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1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings tobacco to England.
1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long).
1940 Billboard magazine starts publishing best-seller's charts.
1974 House judiciary committee votes Articles of Impeachment for Nixon.
1980 Shah dies in Egypt.
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1821 Peru gains it's independence.
1849 "Memmon" is 1st clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of NY
1866 Metric system legalized in U.S.
1900 The Hamburger is created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
1928 An egg is fried on the steps of the Capitol building in Washington.
1931 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" 2nd U.S. National Anthem.
1933 1st Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee).
1976 Worst disaster of modern times - 700,000 die in Chinese earthquake.
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     The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
1835 first sugar plantation in Hawaii begun.
1858 1st commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
1914 1st transcontinental phone link made.  Between NYC and San Francisco
1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from New York to San Francisco
1958 Southern Pacific Bay Ferries stop running.
1974 11 women ordained as Episcopal priests.
1981 Prince Charles marries Lady Di.
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1619 the House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed.  1st elective
     governing body in a British colony.
1836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii.
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1790 1st US Patent granted (for a potash process).
1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending 'Huntley-Brinkley Report'
     (No more "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet")
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