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1851 1st Hawaiian stamps issued.
1869 1st postcards are issued in Vienna.
1871 Brigham Young arrested for cohabitation with 16 women.
1896 Yosemite becomes a National Park.
1898 Henry Huntington buys the Los Angeles Railway.
1903 1st World Series starts between the National & American Leagues
1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car.
1949 Mao Tse-tung takes office as chairman of People's Repub of China.
1960 Nigeria gains it's independence.
1962 Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show.
1964 Cable Cars declared a National Landmark.
1971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens.
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 322 BC Aristotle dies of indigestion.
1608 Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch government a new invention --
     the telescope.
1836 Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle.
1939 Birdbaths installed in Union Square.
1958 Guinea gains it's independence.
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1226 Saint Francis of Assisi dies.
1789 Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
1863 Lincoln designates the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
1913 Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%).
1955 Captain Kangaroo premieres.  Good Morning, Captain!
1955 Mickey Mouse Club founded.
1960 San Francisco's White House department store is first to accept
     the BankAmericard in lieu of cash.
1962 U.S. closes all ports to ships bound for Cuba.
1967 Woodie Guthrie dies.
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1535 Printing of 1st English-language Bible completed in London.
1916 Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time.
1926 The dahlia is officially designated as the City Flower.
1927 1st air-mail service in Canada inaugurated (still hasn't landed).
1933 Hitler suspends freedom of press (Germany).
1957 USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite.
1970 Janis Joplin Dies.
1977 Pier 39 opens.
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1813 Shawnee Chief Tecumseh dies in battle - US soldiers skin
     body for for souvenir.
1877 Chief Joseph surrenders.
1921 1st radio broadcast of the World Series.
1963 Hyde St. Pier re-opens as State Historical Park.
1964 Fire Department Museum dedicated.
1970 PBS becomes a network.
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     Universal Children's Day
1889 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
1927 "The Jazz Singer", 1st movie with a sound track, premieres.
1935 Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches.
1940 Zoological Gardens opens (on Sloat and Skyline).
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1806 Carbon Paper patented.
1826 Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
1849 Edgar Allen Poe dies.
1957 American Bandstand premiers on tv.
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1840 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed.
1860 Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
1871 The Great Fire destroys over 4 square miles of Chicago.
1896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks.
1933 Coit Tower dedicated.
1967 Che Guevara murdered by CIA in Bolivia.
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1000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England)
1776 Mission Delores founded.
1876 First 2-way telephone conversation (1-way must have been boring).
1946 Electric blankets offered for sale for first time.
1975 Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco.
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     National Day, celebrated in Taiwan.
1911 the Manchu Dynasty is overthrown in China.
1980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated.
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1890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded.
1910 Teddy Roosevelt 1st president to fly in an airplane.
1968 Apollo 7 launched, 1st manned flight of the Command & Service
     modules.
1976 Gang of four arrested in Peking.
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     the REAL Columbus Day
1492 Natives discover Christopher Columbus.
1870 General Robert Lee dies.
1933 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially).
1957 1st commercial flight between California and Antartica.
1960 Krushchev pounds desk at U.N. with his shoe.
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1775 US Continental Congress orders construction of Naval Fleet.
1792 George Washington lays the cornerstone of the Executive Mansion
1886 Great Quebec fire.
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1066 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England
1774 1st declaration of colonial rights in America.
1912 Teddy Roosevelt shot and wounded (Milwaukee).
1947 Chuck Yaeger breaks sound barrier in Glamorous Glennie, a Bell
     X-1 rocket powered plane (Mach 1.015 at 42,000 feet).
1977 Bing Crosby dies at age 73.
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     Mushroom Day
     National Grouch Day
1860 Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard.
1863 Cliff House opens (1st of many on the site).
1917 Mata Hari executed outside Paris.
1946 Hermann Goering commits suicide.
1964 Brezhnew replaces Khrushev.
1965 1st draft card burned.
1969 Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated.
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1834 House of Parliment burns (London).
1859 John Brown attacks the armory at Harper's Ferry.
1869 a hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing.
1916 Birth control clinic opens in New York city.
1934 Chinese communists start their "Long March".
1941 Gordo (by Gus Arriola) 1st appeared in newspapers.
1964 China announces testing of its 1st nuclear bomb.
1971 Amphitheater in McLaren Park dedicated.
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1492 Columbus sights the isle of San Salvador.
1707 J.S. Bach marries.
1781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown.
1899 Sutro RR sold to Robert F. Morrow for $215,000.
1904 Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors.
1931 Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
1937 Bella Duck splits - leaves Huey, Dewey, and Louie with Uncle Donald.
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     the start of the Moslem New Year.
 480 BC Greeks defeated by Persians in naval battle at Salamis.
1767 Mason-Dixon line settled.
1818 USA and Britain establish Canada-US boundary as 49th parallel.
1842 Morse lays first telegraph cable in New York Harbour.
1869 the United States take possession of Alaska.
1873 the Ivy League establishes rules for college football.
1892 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago - New York)
1913 Teddy Roosevelt dines with Booker T Washington at White House.
1922 British Broadcasting Corporation established.
1931 Thomas Alva Edison dies.
1945 Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon for Arab League to establish a
     united front against the establishment of a Jewish state in Palistine.
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1747 Earl of Sandwich says that sandwiches should be eaten with
     "a civilized swallow and not a barbarous bolt".
1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
1845 Wagner's opera 'Tannhauser' is performed for first time.
1853 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations.
1968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars.
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1600 Battle of Sekigahara, which established the Tokugawa clan as
     rulers of Japan (SHOGUN) until 1865 (basis of Clavell's novel).
1820 Spain gives Florida to the United States.
1906 Dr Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube.
1922 First life saved by a parachute.
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1805 Battle of Trefalgar, where Nelson established British naval
     supremacy for the next century.
1869 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore.
1879 Thomas Edison commercially perfects the light bulb.
1969 Jack Kerouac dies.
1976 Americans win 5 Nobel prizes.
1979 1st bomb sniffing dog in New York retired after 8 years service
     (boy a dog's life is sure rough, talk about early retirement).
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1911 First U.S. airplanes used in war (Tripoli).
1936 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii.
1962 Cuban missile crisis begins - Pres. Kennedy order quarantine.
1981 US National debt topped $1 TRILLION (nothing to celebrate).
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     United States Day
1956 the ill-fated revolt in Communist Hungary starts, later crushed
     by Soviet tanks.
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     United Nations Day
1901 1st person to go over Niagra Falls in a barrel.
1939 Nylon women's hosiery sold for the 1st time.
1945 United Nations Charter goes into effect.
1955 18-day siege of smog ends in Los Angeles.
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     Saint Crispin's Day
1415 Battle of Agincourt, where the Welsh longbow defeats the
     armored knight.
1825 Erie Canal opens for business in New York.
1854 Charge of the light brigade (Balaclava, Crimea).
1954 US Air Force conclude flying saucers are explainable illusions.
1971 U.N. votes to seat People's Republic of China.
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1785 Mules imported into USA (now replaced with Republicans).
1861 Telegraph service inaugurated in US (end of Pony Express).
1881 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Arizona.
1903 the "Yerba Buena" is 1st Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay.
1956 International Atomic Energy Agency established.
1970 the "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
1972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin.
1979 World Health Organization announces eradication of
     smallpox in Africa.
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1787 The 'Federalist' letters started appearing in NY newspapers.
1858 RH Macy & Co. opens 1st store, on 6th Avenue, New York City.
1896 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (the Pali is a cliff where
     the winds are so strong streams flow UP! Honest!).
1904 1st subway opens in New York city.
1969 2nd Apollo mission lands on the moon.
1972 Golden Gate National Recreation Area created.
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1492 Columbus discovers Cuba.
1636 Harvard University founded.
1793 Eli Whitney Patents the cotton gin.
1886 Statue of Liberty (gift to US from France) was unveiled.
1904 St. Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints.
1919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, starting Prohibition.
1940 Italy invaded Greece during 2nd World War.
1962 Khrushchev promises to dismantle Cuban missle bases.
1965 the Gateway Arch (630 feet high) completed in St. Louis, Missouri.
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1618 Sir Walter Raleigh executed.
1833 1st College Fraternity founded.
1863 International Committee of the Red Cross founded.
1894 first election of the Hawaiian Republic.
1923 Republic of Turkey proclaimed.
1923 Turkey is proclaimed to have a republican government.
1929 "Black Tuesday", the Stock Market crash.
1939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure).
1956 "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet" heard on NBC for 1st time.
     (Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up).
1956 Israel attacks Egypt.
1961 Syria seceded from United Arab Republic to form Syrian Arab Republic.
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1864 Helena, capital of Montana, founded.
1938 Orson Welles panics a nation with  'War of the Worlds'
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     All Hallows Eve (you know, Halloween)
1517 Martin Luther nails his 85 theses to door of church in Wittenburg.
1926 Harry Houdini dies.
1956 Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service.
1961 Stalin's body removed from display in Red Square.
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