Current Shareware 1994 January/SHAR194.ISO/deskutil/ealst101.zip/MAR.TOD

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1761 American colonies adopt "Articles of Confederation"
1859 Present seal of San Francisco adopted (2nd seal for city).
1864 patent issued for taking & projecting motion pictures to Louis
     Ducos du Hauron (he never did build such a machine, though).
1867 Nebraska becomes a state.
1879 Library of Hawaii founded.
1927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank.
1932 Lindbergh baby kidnapped.
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1818 Sedon pyramid of Gizah opened.
1861 Congress creates the Territory of Nevada.
1889 Several calfs and a horse electrocuted to test equipment for electric
     chair.
1901 U.S. Forest Service formed.
1901 first telegraph company in Hawaii opens.
1929 US Court of Customs & Patent Appeals created by US Congress.
1974 First Class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents.
1985 Bob Jackson gets married.
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     Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival), celebrated in Japan.
     Independence Day, celebrated in Morocco.
1582 Pope Gregory's calendar begins.
1791 Congress passed a resolution ordering U.S. Mint be established.
1812 Congress passes 1st foreign aid bill.
1849 Gold Coinage Act passed, allowing gold coins to be minted.
1851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin, the 3-cent piece.
1863 America's first conscription law passed.
1923 Time magazine publishes their 1st issue.
1931 Star Spangled banner becomes U.S. Anthem.
1956 Morocco gains it's independence.
1972 Pioneer 10 launched.
1976 Largest recorded meteorite recorded falls in Kirin China.
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1789 Congress declares the Constitution to be in effect.
1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii.
1826 1st railroad in US chartered, the Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass
1841 William Harrison catches cold during a drizzle at his inauguration
     and becomes first U.S. president to die in office.
1861 Lincoln inaugurated.
1933 Roosevelt inaugurated, said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
1934 Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson dedicated.
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1770 Boston Massacre
1845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US.
1979 Voyager I flies past Jupiter.
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1665 "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" was 1st
     published, and is still published today.
1836 "Remember the Alamo"
1857 Supreme court (U.S.) declares blacks as citizens.
1886 First A.C. power plant begins operation.
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1848 in Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed.
1870 First male/female grand jury impanelled (U.S.).
1906 U.S. Marines wipe out an entire Moro tribe and are congratulated by
     Pres. Teddy Roosevelt.
1933 the game "Monopoly" is invented.
1967 Jimmy Hoffa goes to jail.
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1618 Kepler discovers "Third law of Planetary Motion".
1862 the Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched.
1894 New York becomes first state to license dogs.
1911 Finger printing used for the 1st time in a criminal conviction.
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1796 Napoleon marries Josephine.
1822 Artificial teeth patented.
1862 the ironclads "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle
     in Hampton Roads.  It was a standoff.
1961 Russia first to send a dog into space.
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1410 Wire invented.
1847 First money minted in Hawaii.
1849 Lincoln applies for patent for "bouying vessels over shoals"
1876 the 1st telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell
1933 Big earthquake in Long Beach (W.C. Fields was making a movie when
     it struck & the cameras kept running).
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1302 Romeo marries Juliet.
1779 Army Corps of Engineers established.
1867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii).
1892 1st public game of basketball.
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1850 1st $20 Gold piece issued.
1930 Gandhi begins 200 mile salt march to the sea to protest salt tax.
1936 FDR conducts his first "Fireside Chat"
1966 Pioneer Plaza dedicated.
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1877 Earmuffs Patented.
1884 Standard time established in U.S.A.
1964 Kitty Genovese stabbed to death on a New York street as 37 people
     stand idly by.
1970 4-day strike by SF city employees starts.
1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer.
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1794 Eli Whitney patents cotton gin.
1870 Legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible.
1896 Sutro Baths opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952).
1903 First U.S. game preserve established.
1935 the 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars.
1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco.
1950 New York hires an official rainmaker after a prolonged drought.
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     The day the buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio.
     Beware the Ides of March
1913 Woodrow Wilson holds the 1st Presidential Press Conference.
1934 U.S. information service opens.
1968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold.
1999 Pluto again becomes the outermost planet.
44BC Julius Caesar assassinated
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1964 347 Vietnamese civilians massacred at My Lai.
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     Evacuation Day (celebrated in Boston)
     St. Patrick's Day
1845 Stephen Perry invents rubber bands.
1860 Japanese Embassy arrives aboard the "Candinmarruh" <sic>.
1938 Franco bombs Barcelona.
1959 Dalai Lama flees from Tibet to India.
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1850 American Express founded.
1881 Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison
     Square Garden in New York City.
1965 First walk in space.
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     The day the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano.
1895 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service.
1920 U.S. Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles.
1928 'Amos and Andy' debut on radio.
1950 Edgar Rice Burroughs died.
1986 Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Prince Andrew and
     Sarah Freguseon.
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     Vernal Equinox, Spring Begins 10:03 Universal Time.
1751 Act of Parliment changes calendar - new year to begin on Jan 1.
1899 First woman executed in the United States.
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     The First Day of Spring... Tra-la Tra-la
     The start of the Persian New Year.
1891 Hatfields and McCoys end feud with intermarriage after 150 members
     of both families killed.
1907 U.S. Marines land in Honduras to protect American plantations.
1935 Persia renamed Iran by Reza Shah.
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1733 Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water.
1765 Stamp Act becomes law.
1841 Cornstarch patented.
1934 U.S. grants Phillipines independance.
1957 Earthquake gives San Francisco the shakes.
1968 President Johnson's daughter, Lynda, ordered off Cable Car
     because she was eating an ice cream cone (no food on cars!).
1978 Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, dedicated.
1981 First Class Postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents.
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1752 First newspaper printed in Canada (Halifax Gazette).
1775 Patrick Henry asks "Give me Liberty or give me death."
1794 Rivet patented.
1901 Melba toast recipie disclosed by Nellie Melba.
1929 1st telephone installed in the White House.
1937 Los Angeles Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars.
1962 President John F. Kennedy visits San Francisco.
1965 Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight.
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1860 Clipper "Andrew Jackson" arrives in 89 days from New York.
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1821 Greece gains it's independence.
1900 Socialist party organized in U.S.
1943 Jimmy Durante Show premiers on radio.
1953 Polio Vaccine announced by Dr. Salk.
1954 RCA manufactures the first COLOR television set.
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     Prince Kuhio Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
1827 Beethoven dies in Vienna.
1878 Hastings College of Law founded.
1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made a City Landmark.
1979 Egypt and Israel sign peace treaty in Washington D.C.
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1855 Kerosene patented.
1917 Hockey team from Seattle wins first U.S. Stanley Cup.
1964 Alaska earthquake kills 114.
1968 Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated.
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1794 Nathan Briggs gets patent for the washing machine.
1871 San Francisco Art Association holds opening reception at 430 Pine.
1969 Ike dies.
1979 Emmett Kelly dies, Three Mile Island nuclear plant develops trouble.
1980 Mt. St. Helens Volcano in Washington erupts for the first time in
     more than a century.
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1848 Niagara Falls dries up for 30 hours because of ice jam on the river.
1886 Coca-Cola is created (with cocaine)
1968 3,000 Hippies take over New York's Grand Central Station.
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1853 Patent granted to Hyman Lipman for a pencil with an attached ERASER!
1870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race.
1932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to make solo crossing of the Atlantic.
1981 President Reagan wounded in assassination attempt (Washington D.C.).
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1849 Col. John W. Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of San Francisco.
1868 Chinese Embassy arrives aboard the steamship "China".
1870 First Black votes after the passage of the 15th amendment.
1889 Eiffel Tower completed.
1941 Ground broken for Union Square Garage.
1959 Dalai Lama granted political asylum in India.
1963 First Black selected for astronaut training.
1963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after nearly 90 years.
1976 Court rules that Karen Quinlan may die.
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