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     May Day
1704 1st add in US newspaper appears (Moffat selling his car).
1840 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued.
1850 John Geary becomes 1st mayor of City of San Francisco.
1860 1st school for the deaf founded.
1869 Folies-Bergere opens in Paris.
1884 construction begins in Chicago on the 1st skyscraper.
1892 US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island.
1928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
1961 1st hijacking to Havana Cuba.
1965 Highest air speed record set 2070 mph by Bob Stephens.
1975 Smokey the bear retires.
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1519 Leonardo da Vinci dies.
1536 Henry VIII arrests his wife Anne Boleyn.
1919 A general strike is called in Winnipeg.
1925 Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park opens.
1939 Lou Gehrig sets record for being in most consecutive games (2130).
1945 Soviet army announces the fall of Berlin.
1946 Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die.
1957 Joseph McCarthy dies.
1972 J. Edgar Hoover dies.
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1375 BC Earliest recorded eclipse of sun (Usarit, Syria).
1830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts.
1898 Camp Merriman established at the Presidio.
1919 Airline passenger service begins.
1919 America's 1st passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City)
1971 national noncommercial network radio begins programming.
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1626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons.
1626 Manhattan Island purchased for $24 by Peter Minuit.
1851 1st of the major San Francisco fires.
1866 Woodward's Gardens opens to public.
1878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at the Grand Opera House.
1886 Haymarket riot in Chicago.
1970 US National Gaurd murders 4 students at Kent State.
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     Cinco de Mayo
     Tango-no-sekku (Boy's Festival) -- Japan
1809 1st woman to receive patent for "new and useful improvement in
     weaving straw with silk or thread".
1821 Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on St. Helena.
1908 The Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco.
1925 Biology teacher John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution.
1936 Italy proclaimed the conquest of Ethiopia.
1949 Council of Europe established.
1961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (onboard Freedom 7).
2000 Conjunction of Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
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1851 Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco starts.
1851 Patent granted to Dr. John Farrie for a "refrigeration machine"
1851 Yale patents lock.
1860 the Olympic Club, 1st athletic club in US, founded.
1877 Crazy Horse surrenders.
1906 "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street
     allows United Railroads to run electric streetcars.
1937 Hindenberg blows up.
1954 Roger Bannister first person to break 4 minute mile.
1957 John Kennedy awarded Pulitzer Prize for Profiles in Courage.
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1789 1st Presidential Inaugural Ball.
1824 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony presented for first time.
1915 Lusitania sinks.
1927 San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated.
1941 Cornerstone of BofA building at 300 Montgomery laid.
1945 World War II ends in Europe.
1963 Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles).
1974 Planet patent issued for hybrid rose named Pat Nixon.
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1541 Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River.
1886 First Coca Cola sold (Jacob's Pharmacy, Atlanta).
1911 England and China sign treaty to trade Opium.
1945 Germany surrendered, ending World War II in Europe.
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1754 1st US newspaper cartoon appears - Join or Die by Ben Franklin.
1882 Telegraph Hill Railroad Company organized.
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     Native American Day
1775 Continental Congress issues paper currency for 1st time.
1869 the Driving of the Golden Spike, Promontory Point, Utah.
     The Transcontinential railroad is completed.
1930 first US planetarium opens, in Chicago.
1954 Bill Haley releases Rock around the Clock.
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1752 1st US fire insurance policy is issued, in Philadelphia.
1850 Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco.
1869 US transcontinental railroad finished.
1872 First women nominated for President of USA - Victoria Woodhull.
1885 Metis under Louis Riel defeated by militia at Batoche during 2nd
     Northwest Rebellion.
1907 Bank of San Francisco incorporated.
1929 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week).
1951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory.
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1901 President William McKinley visits San Francisco.
1933 Emergency Relief Admin. created in USA.
1973 Guillotine used for last time in France.
1980 Kitty Hawk completes first transcontinental ballon flight.
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     Leprechaun Day
1607 English land to found Jamestown (1st permanent settlement)
1835 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii is established.
1846 US declares war on Mexico.
1884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded
1961 Gary Cooper dies.
1981 Pope John Paul shot (St. Peter's Square, Rome).
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1811 Paraguay gains it's independence.
1853 Gail Borden applies for patent for making condensed milk.
1878 Vaseline trademarked.
1903 President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco.
1948 State of Israel proclaimed.
1973 United States launches space station "Skylab".
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     Humphrey Bogart expelled from Phillips Academy at age 18.
     Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean Day.  Why?
     Because it may be waving at you.
1856 2nd San Francisco Vigilance Committee organized.
1940 1st nylon stockings are sold in America.
1941 1st work camp for Conscientious Objectors opens.
1963 last of the Mercury flights, the 'Faith 7', launched.
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     Armed Forces Day
1763 Samuel Johnson meets his biographer (James Boswell).
1866 Congress authorizes nickel 5-cent piece (the silver half-dime
     was used up to this point).
1872 Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time.
1914 Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens.
1914 National Horseshoe Pitcher's Assoc. formed.
1929 1st Oscars announced (best film was 'Wings').
1969 Russian Space vechicle lands on Mars.
1971 First Class Mail now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents).
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     Norwegian Independence Day
1642 Montreal founded.
1792 24 brokers meet to found the New York Stock Exchange
1804 Lewis & Clark begin their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase
1872 Bohemian Club incorporated.
1875 1st Kentucy Derby run.
1898 Camp Merritt established in the Presidio.
1921 President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange
     Show in Anaheim.
1954 Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education,
     overthrowing the principle of 'separate but equal'.
1961 Castro offers exchange of 11 Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500
     Tractors (US refuses).
1962 Marin County withdraws from BART district.
1974 SLA hideout burned to ground in L.A. killing 6.
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1919 Nabokov learns to foxtrot.
1933 TVA Act signed by President Roosevelt.
1980 Mt. St. Helens volcano explosion devastates 3 states with ash -
     killing 14 with over 40 missing.
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     1st frog jumping contest at Angles Camp Calif.
1536 Anne Boleyn wife of Henry VIII beheaded.
1862 the Homestead Act becomes law.
1935 Lawrence of Arabia dies in motorcylce accident.
1982 450,000 marooned by flood in Guangdang Province (China).
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1506 Columbus dies in Spain.
1727 Isaac Newton dies in England.
1830 Fountain Pen patented.
1845 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii.
1899 1st driver arrested for speeding in an automobile.
1927 at 7:40am, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic
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1819 1st bicycle is ridden in the streets of New York City (probably
     stolen 5 minutes later).
1846 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii.
1881 the American Red Cross is founded.
1927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo across Atlantic.
1933 Mount Davidson Cross lit by President Roosevelt in
     Washington via Telegraph.
1968 U.S. Nuclear Submarine Scorpion lost at sea.
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1846 first steamer arrives in Hawaii.
1865 US Civil War ends.
1868 World's 1st robbery of a railroad train.
1909 1st San Francisco fireboat, the "David Scannell", launched.
1927 Lindbergh completes 1st transatlantic flight - ate 1-1/2 of
     his 5 sandwiches in 33-1/2 hrs.
1947 1st Ballistic Missile fired in USA (New Mexico).
1954 Bob Dylan celebrates his Bar Mizvah.
1968 USSR invades Czechoslovakia.
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     BJ & Peg Hunnicutt of Mill Valley!
1533 Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon divorce.
1701 William Henry Kidd hanged.
1785 Ben Franklin invents bifocals.
1873 Postal Cards sold in San Francisco for 1st time.
1898 1st Phillipine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco.
1904 Steamship companies announce they will carry European immigrant
     for $10/person.
1908 Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die.
1956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building.
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1844 Samual F.B. Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought"
1866 Berkeley named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne).
     Never turn your back on it.
1869 Powell begins exploration of Grand Canyon.
1883 The Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres. Arthur & Gov. Cleveland.
1899 in Boston, the 1st auto repair shop opens.
1935 1st major league baseball game played at night.
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     1st Helicopter (autogyro) delivery of mail.
1787 Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia.
1927 Henry Ford stops producing the Model T car (begins Model A).
1935 1st national narcotic sanitarium dedicated (Lexington Ken.)
1940 Golden Gate International Exposition reopens.
1948 San Francisco receives its 1st telecast.
1978 "Star Wars" is released.
1979 DC-10 drops engine over O'Hare Airport (Chicago) killing 275.
1983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) is released.
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1868 President Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote.
1898 San Francisco approves new City Charter, allowing Municipal
     ownership of utiliies (charter effective Jan 1, 1900).
1937 Golden Gate Bridge opens.
1946 Patent filed in US for the H-Bomb.
1954 Funeral ship of Egyptian Pharaoh Cheops unearthed in
     Great Pyramid of Giza.
1958 Union Square becomes State Historical Landmark.
1972 1st Watergate break-in attempt.
1977 George Willis fined $1.10 for climbing 110 stories of
     World Trade Center.
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1854 Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Francisco completed.
1896 Bay District Race Track closes.
1907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco
1937 Golden Gate Bridge dedicated.
1941 British sink the BISMARK.
1951 China announces the liberation of Tibet.
1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park opens.
1972 2nd break-in attempt at Watergate.
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1734 New York City passes law protecting fish.
1926 United States Customs Court created by Congress.
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1453 Constantinople falls to the Turks (some believe this signalled
     the end of the Middle Ages).
1868 Gen. Grant accepts republican nomination for Presidency.
1912 Ladies Home Journal fires 15 women for dancing the Turkey Trot
     during lunch hour.
1953 Mount Everest climbed by 1st westerner - Edmond Hillary with
     Tensing Norkay from Nepal.
1978 First Class postage now 15 cents (was 13 cents for 3 years).
1979 Israeli ships pass through Suez Canal for 1st time.
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     The REAL Memorial Day
1431 Joan of Arc burned at stake.
1896 1st automobile accident - car hits bicycle.
1911 Indianapolis 500 car race run for 1st time.
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     Republic Day, celebrated in South Africa
1678 Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry
1819 Johnstown Flood kill 2300 (Pennsylvania).
1868 1st recorded bicycle race, 2 kilometers in Paris.
1879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition.
1889 Johnstown Flood
1962 Adolph Eichmann hanged.
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