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1776 San Juan Capistrano mission established.
1863 Fortifications built on Angel Island by troops.
1870 U.S. Weather bureau makes 1st observation (never been right since).
1943 Dimout ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area.
1947 1st Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii.
1950 C.H. Cooper 1st black to play in NBA.
1981 First Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents.
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     North & South Dakota Admission Day
1917 Great Britain issues Balfour Declaration in favor of establishment
1917 of a state of Palestine.
1920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) on the air as 1st commercial radio station.
1947 Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for 1st (& last) time.
1948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers.
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     Treasure Island published.
1883 U.S. Government decides an Indian is by birth an alien and is
1883 dependant on the government.
1903 Panama gains it's independence from Columbia.
1917 First Class Mail now costs 3 cents.
1930 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America.
1948 Chicago Tribune errs in announcing election results - Dewy Wins.
1952 Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas.
1952 Frozen bread goes on sale.
1979 5 demonstrators shot by Ku Klux Klan.
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     Cash Register patented.
1854 Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island.
1867 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall.
1922 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen.
1924 1st woman governor in US elected in Wyoming.
1979 US embassy takeover in Iran - 50 americans taken hostage.
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     Guy Fawkes Day, celebrated in England.
1781 John Hanson elected 1st 'President of the United States in Congress
1781 assembled' (8 years before Washington was elected).
1872 Susan B. Anthony arrested for attempting to vote.
1895 1st US patent granted for the automobile, to George B Selden
1955 First stereo radio broadcast.
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     Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
1796 Catherine the Great dies (Russia).
1850 1st fire engine arrives in Hawaii.
1850 Yerba Buena & Angel Islands reserved for military use.
1860 Abraham Lincoln elected 16th president of USA.
1862 Direct Telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco established
1869 1st intercollegiate football game played (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4).
1879 Thanksgiving day 1st observed in Canada.
1893 Tchaikovsky dies.
1923 Electric Shaver Patented.
1939 WGY-TV (Schenectady NY), 1st commercial radio station begins service
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1805 Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean.
1811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan.
1874 Thomas Nast creates a cartoon of Republican party elephant.
1875 Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa from
     sea to sea.
1885 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway.
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1793 the Louvre, in Paris, was opened to the public.
1974 National Gaurdsmen acquitted in Kent State killings.
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1848 Post Office at Clay & Pike opens.
1965 Giant power failure in New England & Ontario, Canada.
1977 U.S. Army admits to using LSD on witting and unwitting subjects.
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1871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa.
1891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
1898 White citizens (I hardly think so) massacre 100 blacks in Wilmington.
1951 1st Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance.
1980 Voyager I flies past Saturn.
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     the REAL Veteran's Day.  They fought for your freedom. Remember them!
1889 Washington admitted as the 42nd state.
1918 World War I ends.
1924 Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated.
1957 Demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde.
1959 Seals Stadium demolished.
1982 Space Shuttle 'Columbia' makes 1st commercial flight.
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1927 Stalin becomes Russian dictator, Trotsky expelled from the party.
1933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken.
1937 Japanese troops occupy Chinese city of Shanghai.
1942 Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France.
1946 the 1st "autobank" (banking by car) was established, in Chicago
1981 1st time a spacecraft is launched twice -- the Space Shuttle
     'Columbia' lifts off again.
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1849 Peter Burnett is elected 1st governor of California.
1895 first shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii.
1921 The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, was released.
1933 First sit down strike.
1939 First Sadie Hawkins day.
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1792 Capt. George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay.
1832 1st street car runs in New York city.
1851 "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville, is published.
1889 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip around the
     world by 8 days (72 days).
1910 1st airplane flight from the deck of a ship.
1917 U.S. Navy shuts down red-light district in New Orleans.
1959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii).
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1806 Zebulon Pike sights mountain later named Pike's Peak.
1848 Gold rush begins in California.
1869 Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated.
1920 First meeting of League of Nations (Geneva).
1926 National Broadcasting Company goes on-the-air, with 24 stations
1939 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check.
1969 400,000 peacefully protest Vietnam war.
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1907 Land to be indian territory forever is proclaimed State
     of Oklahoma.
1933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
1950 U.S. explodes first Hydrogen bomb.
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     the day of the Great American Smoke Out.
1800 Congress convened for its 1st Washington, DC session.
1869 Suez Canal opens.
1913 Panama Canal opens for use.
1941 Sam Gompers organizes Federation of Organized trade and labour
     unions.
1973 Nixon says he is not a crook.
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1247 Robin Hood dies.
1307 William Tell shoots apple off his son's head.
1820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer.
1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii.
1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gave US exclusive canal rights thru Panama.
1928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat Willie"
1936 Ella Fitzgerald cuts first album.
1936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined.
1966 Last meatless Friday for Roman Catholics.
1978 Mass suicide at Jonestown 900-die.
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1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
1703 Man in an Iron Mask dies in the Bastille.
1863 Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address
1895 the pencil is invented.
1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California State
     Historical Landmark.
1975 Franco dies (Spain).
1981 Saskatchewan Power Corp. blacks out entire province.
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1888 William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
1914 the State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
1962 Cuban Blockade lifted.
1979 Grand Mosque of Mecca seized by hundreds of Moslem fanatics.
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1794 Honolulu Harbor discovered.
1959 Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed duet.
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1906 the International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS"
     as the new call for help.
1943 Lebanon gains it's independence (would that it could keep it)
1963 President John Kennedy assasinated in Dallas.
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1852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet.
1863 patent granted for a process of making color photographs.
1911 Post Hospital at Presidio renamed Letterman General Hospital.
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1874 patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.
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1948 Fort Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed.
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1778 Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands).
1895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed.
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     Thanksgiving Day  Have a Happy One
1890 1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation.
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1520 Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean.
1895 America's auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averaged 7 MPH
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1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.
1890 1st Army-Navy football game.  Score Navy 25, Army 0.
1945 Yugoslavia becomes a federated republic.
1948 Untouchability officially abolished in India.
1951 First underground A-bomb test.
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1954 First reported impact between meteorite and a human.
1962 U Thant elected Secretary General of the United Nations.
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