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S09011772 Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in California
B09011854 Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer
S09011859 Carrington & Hodgson make first observation of a solar flare.
B09011875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist, Ah-ee-ah-ee-ah!
S09011807 Aaron Burr aquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire.
S09011849 California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey.
S09011878 1st woman telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston).
S09011905 Alberta and Saskatchewan become 8th and 9th Canadian provinces.
B09011935 Seiji Ozawa, conductor
S09011939 Germany invades Poland, starting World War II.
S09011939 PHYSICAL REVIEW publishes first paper to deal with "black holes"
S09011969 Moammar Gadhafi deposes Libya's King Idris
S09011977 First TRS-80 Model I computer is sold.
S09011979 Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings
S09011983 A Korean Boeing 747, carrying 269 passengers, strays into Soviet
S09011983Cair space and is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter.
S09011985 SS Titanic, sunk in 1912, is found by French & American scientists
S0901 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
S0902 31 BC At the Battle of Actium; Octavian defeats Antony,
S0902 31Cand becomes the Emporer Augustus.
S0902 490 BC Phidippides runs the first marathon, seeking aid
S0902 490Cfrom Sparta against the Persians.
S09021666 Great Fire of London starts; destroys St. Paul's Church
S09021789 US Treasury Department established by Congress
S09021804 Harding discovers Juno, the 3rd known asteroid
B09021838 Queen Liliuokalani (last queen of Hawaii).
B09021839 Henry George, land reformer, writer (Progress & Poverty)
B09021853 Wilhelm Ostwald, German physical chemist (Nobel 1909)
B09021866 Hiram Johnson, Calif governor, Progressive.
S09021898 Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
S09021945 V-J Day; Japan formally surrenders aboard the USS Missouri.
S09021945 Vietnam declares independence from France (National Day)
B09021952 Jimmy Connors, tennis brat
S09021963 CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
S0902 Great Britain adopts Gregorian calendar (1752)
S0902 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
B09031596 Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker
B09031856 Louis Sullivan, father of modern US architecture.
S09031783 Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War, is signed.
S09031849 California State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
S09031900 British annex Natal (South Africa)
B09031907 Andrew Brewin, Canadian lawyer, cofounder of New Democratic Party
B09031913 Alan Ladd, actor
S09031935 First automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell
S09031939 Britain declared war on Germany. France followed six hours later,
S09031939Cquickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada
S09031940 First showing of high definition color television
S09031940 US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for military bases
S09031976 US Viking 2 lands on Mars at Utopia
S09031978 Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
S09031985 20th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 6 returns to Earth
S0903 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
S0904 476 Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in the west, is deposed.
S09041609 Navigator Henry Hudson discovers the island of Manhattan.
B09041768 François René de Chateaubriand, French poet, novelist, statesman
S09041781 Los Angeles is founded in the Valley of Smokes (Indian Name).
B09041810 Donald McKay, US naval architect, built fastest clipper ships.
B09041824 Anton Bruckner, Wagner disciple
S09041833 1st newsboy in the US hired (Barney Flaherty), by the NY Sun
B09041846 Daniel Burnham, American architect, built skyscrapers
S09041870 French republic proclaimed
B09041872 Darius Milhaud, composer
S09041882 First district lit by electricty (NY's Pearl Street Station)
S09041886 Geronimo is captured, ending last major US-Indian war
S09041888 George Eastman patents 1st rollfilm camera & registers "Kodak".
B09041908 Richard Wright, American author (Native Son)
S09041911 Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)
B09041917 Henry Ford II, businessman
B09041918 Paul Harvey, radio news commentator, "Goooood Day!"
S09041918 US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
B09041920 Craig Claiborne, gastronome
S09041933 First airplane to exceed 300 mph, JR Wendell, Glenview, Illinois
S09041950 First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.
S09041951 First transcontinental TV broadcast, by President Truman
S09041954 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed
S09041957 Ford introduces the Edsel.
S09041964 NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
S09041972 US swimmer Mark Spitz is 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals
S09041980 Iraqi troops seize Iranian territory in a border dispute.
S0904 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
B09051735 Johann Christian Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach (English Bach)
S09051774 First Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia
S09051781 Battle of Virginia Capes, where the French Fleet defeats the
S09051781CBritish rescue fleet, trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown.
B09051847 Jesse James in Missouri, outlaw
S09051885 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer.
B09051902 Darryl F. Zanuck, Hollywood producer & motion picture executive
B09051923 Arthur C. Nielsen, market researcher (or 1897)
B09051929 Andrian G. Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 3, Soyuz 9)
B09051929 Bob Newhart, comedian, actor
B09051940 Raquel Welch in Chicago Ill (Myra Breckenridge, 100 Rifles)
S09051953 First privately operated atomic reactor - Raleigh NC
S09051958 First color video recording on mag. tape shown, Charlotte NC
S09051977 Voyager II launched towards Jupiter and Saturn.
S09051978 Sadat, Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md.
S09051980 World's longest auto tunnel, St. Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens.
S0905 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
S09061628 Puritans land at Salem, form Massachusetts Bay Colony.
S09061716 First lighthouse in US built, in Boston
B09061757 Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary
B09061766 John Dalton, developed the atomic theory of matter
B09061811 James Melville Gilliss, founded Naval Observatory in Washington
B09061860 Jane Addams, American pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel 1931)
S09061869 First westbound train arrives in San Francisco.
B09061888 Joseph P. Kennedy Financier-diplomat
S09061909 Word received: Peary discovered the North Pole five months ago.
S09061966 Star Trek appears on TV for the 1st time, on NBC. Beam me up!
S0906 The National Holiday of Swaziland.
S0906 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
B09071533 Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603), daughter of Henry VIII
B09071707 George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, writer on natural history
B09071726 François-André Philidor of France, chess champion & musician
S09071822 Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day).
B09071829 August von Stradonitz, discovered structure of the benzene ring.
B09071860 Grandma Moses, artist
S09071907 Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF is destroyed by fire.
B09071908 Dr. Michael E. De Bakey, artificial heart pioneer
B09071913 Anthony Quayle, actor (Anne of 1000 Days, Lawrence of Arabia)
B09071914 James Van Allen, discovered Van Allen radiation belts.
B09071936 Buddy Holly, singer (Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day)
S09071948 First use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron OH
S09071956 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000+
S0907 1National Grandparents' Day.
S0907 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
S0907 Independence Day, celebrated in Brazil.
B09081157 King Richard I of England, "The Lionhearted", crusader,
S09081380 Russians defeat Tatars at Kulikovo, beginning decline of Tatars.
S09081565 Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St. John.
S09081565 1st permanent settlement in US founded at St Augustine, Florida
S09081664 Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to English.
S09081771 Mission San Gabriel Archangel founded in California.
B09081830 Frédéric Mistral, Provençal poet (Nobel 1904)
B09081841 Antonín Dvorák, Czech composer, (From The New World)
S09081858 Lincoln makes a speech describing when you can fool people.
S09081883 Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mo
S09081920 1st US Air Mail service begins.
B09081922 Sid Caesar, comedian
B09081925 Peter Sellers, (not now, Kato)
S09081943 Italy surrenders to the allies in WW II
S09081945 US invades Japanese-held Korea.
S0908 1National Grandparents' Day.
S0908 International Literacy Day
S09091513 Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland.
B09091585 Cardinal de Richelieu, chief minister to Louis XIII of France
B09091754 William Bligh, nasty ship's captain
S09091776 Continental Congress authorizes the name "United States".
B09091789 William Cranch Bond, American astronomer, codiscover of Hyperion
S09091839 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph
B09091850 Harishchandra, Indian poet, dramatist, father of modern Hindi
S09091850 California becomes the 31st state.
S09091867 Luxembourg gains independence.
S09091892 E.E.Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th moon of Jupiter.
B09091925 Cliff Robertson, actor (Charly)
S09091926 NBC created by the Radio Corporation of America.
S09091942 First bombing of the continental US, at Mount Emily Oregon
S09091942Cby a Japanese plane launched from a submarine.
S09091967 First successful test flight of a Saturn V rocket.
S09091975 Viking 2 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing.
S09091982 "Conestoga I", the world's first private rocket, is launched.
S0909 1National Grandparents' Day.
S0909 Admission Day, a California Holiday.
B09101487 Julius III, Counter-Reformation pope (1550-55)
S09101608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va.
S09101813 Oliver H. Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie
B09101839 Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (Funk & Wagnalls)
S09101846 Elias Howe receives patent for his sewing machine.
B09101872 Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Indian cricketer, politician
B09101907 Fay Wray, in Alberta Canada, King Kong fell for her.
S09101919 NYC welcomes home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers
B09101927 Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer
B09101934 Charles Kuralt, "On the road..." for CBS.
S09101945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.
S09101953 Swanson sells its first "TV Dinner".
S09101955 "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS television.
S09101963 Twenty black students enter public schools in Alabama.
S09101974 Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
S0910 1National Grandparents' Day.
S09111777 Battle of Brandywine, PA - Americans lose to British.
S09111814 Battle of Lake Champlain, NY - British lose to Americans
S09111850 Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale", makes first US concert.
B09111862 O Henry, pen name of William Sidney Porter, short story writer.
B09111885 D.H. Lawrence, writer, (Lady Chatterly's Lover)
S09111910 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens, in Hollywood
B09111913 Bear Bryant, keeps the Crimson Tide winning...
B09111935 Gherman Titov, first man to spend a day in space (Vostok 2)
S09111936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
B09111937 Robert L. Crippen, astronaut (STS-1, 7, 41C, 41G)
B09111940 Brian De Palma, director (Dressed to Kill)
S09111944 FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at the second Quebec Conference
S09111946 First mobile long-distance, car-to-car telephone conversation.
S09111947 US Department of Defense is formed.
S09111950 First typesetting machine without metal type is exhibited.
S09111954 First Miss America TV broadcast
S09111967 US Surveyor 5 makes first chemical analysis of lunar material.
S09111972 BART begins service with a 26 mile line from Oakland to Fremont
S09111985 Pete Rose, Cincinnati Reds, gets hit 4,192 - eclipsing Ty Cobb.
S0911 1National Grandparents' Day.
S0912 490 BC Athenians defeat 2nd Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon.
S09121609 Henry Hudson discovers what is now called the Hudson River.
S09121758 Charles Messier observes the Crab Nebula and begins catalog.
B09121818 Richard Jordan Gatling, US inventor of hand-cranked machine gun
B09121880 H.L. Mencken, newspaperman, Baltimore's son.
B09121888 Maurice Chevalier, thanked heaven for little girls.
B09121892 Alfred A. Knopf, US publisher
B09121902 Margaret Hamilton, "Wicked Witch of the West"
B09121913 Jesse Owens, spoiled Hitler's Olympic plans in 1936.
B09121921 Stanislaw Lem, Polish science-fiction writer
S09121941 First German ship in WW II is captured by US ship (Busko)
S09121953 Khrushchev becomes First Secretary of the Communist Party
S09121959 Bonanza, horse opera, premiers on television
S09121959 Luna 1 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on the moon.
S09121966 Gemini XI launched
S09121970 Luna 16 launched; returns samples from Mare Fecunditatis
S09121974 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia overthrown.
S0912 1National Grandparents' Day.
B09131755 Oliver Evans, pioneered the high-pressure steam engine.
S09131788 New York City becomes the capitol of the United States.
B09131851 Walter Reed, who proved mosquitos transmit yellow fever.
B09131857 Milton S. Hershey, US chocolate manufacturer, philanthropist
B09131860 Gen. John J. (Blackjack) Pershing, US commander in World War I
B09131874 Arnold Schoenberg, composer
S09131906 First airplane flight in Europe.
B09131938 Judith Martin, Miss Manners
B09131946 Jacqueline Bisset in England, actress (The Deep)
S09131959 Soviet Lunik 2 becomes 1st human-made object to crash on moon.
S09131963 The Outer Limits premiers
S0913 1National Grandparents' Day.
S0913 6Friday the 13th! Beware!
S09141716 1st lighthouse in US is lit (in Boston Harbor).
S09141752 England and colonies adopt Gregorian calendar, 11 days disappear.
S09141812 Napoleon occupies Moscow.
S09141814 Francis Scott Key inspired to write 'The Star-Spangled Banner'.
S09141847 US troops capture Mexico City.
B09141849 Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, pioneer in psychology
B09141864 Lord Cecil of Chelwood, helped form League of Nations, Nobel 1937
B09141867 Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew "Gibson Girl"
B09141883 Margaret Sanger, feminist, nurse, birth control proponent
S09141886 The typewriter ribbon is patented.
S09141899 While in New York, Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality
B09141905 Clayton Moore, (Lone Ranger)
S09141940 Congress passes 1st peace time draft law.
S09141956 First prefrontal lobotomy performed in Washington DC. Common now.
S09141964 Walt Disney awarded the Medal of Freedom at the White House
S09141968 USSR's Zond 5 is launched on first circum lunar flight
S09141974 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter.
S0914 National Boss/Employee Exchange Day
S09151776 British forces occupy New York during the American Revolution.
B09151789 James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major American novelist.
S09151789 Department of Foreign Affairs is renamed the Department of State
B09151830 Porfirio Díaz, soldier, president of Mexico (1877-1911)
B09151857 William Howard Taft, 27th President (1909-1913)
B09151876 Bruno Walter, conductor
B09151881 Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, car builder
B09151890 Dame Agatha Christie, mysterious
B09151894 Jean Renoir, cineaste.
S09151821 Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatamala, Honduras & Nicaragua all
S09151821Cgain their independence.
B09151904 Umberto II, king of Italy (1946)
S09151917 Russia is proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
B09151929 Murray Gell-Mann, physicist who predicted quarks
B09151941 Miroslaw Hermaszewski, 1st Polish space traveler (Soyuz 30)
S09151947 First 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh
S09151950 UN forces land at Inchon during Korean conflict.
S09151959 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit
S09151976 Soyuz 22 carries two cosmonauts into earth orbit for 8 days.
B09151984 Prince Henry of Wales
S0915 Battle of Britain Day.
S0915 Felt Hat Day, when men of fashion put away their straw hats.
S09161620 The Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims.
S09161630 Massachusets village of Shawmut changes its name to Boston
S09161662 Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, 1st known astronomical observation
S09161795 British capture Capetown
B09161822 Charles S. Crocker, of Southern Pacific fame.
B09161888 Frans Sillanpää, Finnish writer (Meek Heritage) (Nobel 1939)
B09161893 Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian biochemist (Nobel 1937)
S09161893 Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opened to white settlement homesteaders
S09161908 William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors
B09161914 Allen Funt "Candid Camera" creator
B09161924 Lauren Bacall, whistler.
B09161925 B.B. King, singer, musician
S09161945 Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)
S09161857 Patent is issued for the typesetting machine.
S09161919 The American Legion is incorporated.
S09161966 Metropolitan Opera opens at New York's Lincoln Center
S09161968 Richard Nixon appears on Laugh-in
S09161972 First TV series about mixed marriage - Bridgit Loves Bernie.
S09161974 BART begins regular transbay service.
S09161974 Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for Vietnam deserters
S09161975 Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.
S09161976 Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop
S0916 Independence Day, celebrated in Mexico.
B0917 879 Charles III (The Simple), king of France (893-923)
B09171271 Wenceslas II, king of Bohemia & Poland (1278-1305)
B09171730 Baron Frederick von Steuben, made the Continental Army winners.
S09171776 The Presidio of San Francisco was founded as Spanish fort.
S09171787 The Constitution of The United States is adopted.
S09171789 William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn
S09171819 1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii.
B09171857 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket & space research
S09171908 Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight
B09171928 Roddy McDowall, actor (Planet of the Apes)
B09171930 Edgar Dean Mitchell, astronaut (Apollo 14)
B09171930 Thomas P Stafford, astronaut (Gemini 6, 9, Apollo 10)
S09171953 First successful separation of Siamese twins
S09171968 Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon
S09171972 BART begins passenger service
S09171978 Begin, Sadat and Carter sign the Camp David accord.
S09171985 Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
S0917 Citizenship Day
S0917 Constitution Day
B09181709 Samuel Johnson, Boswell's tour guide.
S09181755 Fort Ticonderoga, New York opened
S09181793 Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
S09181810 Chile gains its independence.
B09181819 Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault; his pendulum proved earth rotates
S09181851 The New York Times goes on sale, at 2 cents a copy.
B09181905 Claudette Colbert, in Paris, (Cleopatra)
B09181905 Greta Garbo, in Stockholm (Ninotchka, Blue Angel)
S09181927 Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
S09181966 Gemini X is launched
S09181977 US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of earth & moon together
S09181980 Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
S09181984 Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
S0918 Independence Day, celebrated in Chile.
S0918 The start of the Jewish New Year.
S09191356 English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers
B09191655 Jan Luyts, Dutch scholar, physicist, mathematician, astronomer
S09191796 George Washington's presidential farewell address
S09191812 Napoleon's retreat from Russia begins
S09191848 Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion
S09191849 First commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California.
S09191873 Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co. fails, causing a securities panic
B09191901 Joseph Pasternak, film producer
S09191968 Baby born on Golden Gate Bridge (those Marin County folk!).
S09191982 Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service
B0920 86 Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor
B0920 357 Alexander III the Great, king of Macedonia, emperor
B09201878 Upton Sinclair, writer
S09201519 Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of the world.
S09201797 US frigate "Constitution" (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston.
S09201859 Patent granted on the electric range.
S09201884 Equal Rights Party founding convention in San Francisco,
S09201884Cnominated female candidates for President, Vice President.
B09201934 Sophia Loren, Rome (Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid)
S09201945 German rocket engineers begin work in US
S09201951 First North Pole jet crossing
S09201954 First FORTRAN computer program is run
S09201970 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
B09211756 John Loudon McAdam, created macadam road surface (asphalt)
B09211866 H.G. Wells, futurist, writer, (War of the Worlds).
B09211874 Gustav Holst, composer, (The Planets)
S09211784 1st daily newspaper in US begins publication in Pennsylvania.
S09211895 1st auto manufacturer opens -- Duryea Motor Wagon Company.
S09211930 Johann Ostermeyer patents his invention, the flashbulb.
B09211947 Stephen King, suspense writer (Shining, Kujo)
S09211954 The nuclear submarine "Nautilus" is commissioned.
S09211958 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands at Dallas Texas
S09211964 Malta gains independence from Britain
S09211974 US Mariner 10 makes second fly-by of Mercury
S09211981 Sandra Day O'Conner becomes the 1st female Supreme Court Justice
S09211982 SF cable cars cease operations for 2 years of repairs
S0922 Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga
S0922 The Autumn Harvest Festival in Wheaton, Illinois.
S0922 6American Indian Day.
B09221694 Lord Chesterfield brings Gregorian calendar to England (1752)
B09221791 Michael Faraday, discovered principle of the electric motor.
B09221885 Erich von Stroheim, early film director
S09221789 The US Post Office was established.
S09221863 President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech.
S09221893 1st auto built in US (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield
S09221903 Italo Marchiony granted a patent for the ice cream cone
B09221922 Chen Ning Yang, Chinese physicist, disproved parity (Nobel 1957)
S09221980 War between Iran and Iraq begins, lasts eight years. No winner.
S0923 6American Indian Day.
B0923 63 Octavian (Augustus Cæsar), 1st Roman emperor
B0923 484 Euripides, ancient Greek playwright (Trojan Women) (or 480 BC)
B09231713 Ferdinand VI, king of Spain (1746-59)
S09231780 John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point.
S09231779 Naval engagement between 'Bonhomme Richard' and 'HMS Serepis'.
B09231800 William H McGuffey, educator (McGuffey Readers)
S09231846 Johann Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune
B09231852 William Stewart Halsted, established 1st surgical school in US
B09231880 John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO (Nobel 1949)
B09231898 Walter Pidgeon, actor (Madame Curie, Forbidden Planet)
S09231912 First Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie is released.
B09231920 Mickey Rooney, actor
B09231926 John Coltrane, saxophonist
B09231930 Ray Charles
S09231932 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia formed, (National Day)
S09231952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech
S09231952 First closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event.
S09231973 Largest known prime, 2 ^ 132,049 - 1, is calculated.
S0923 The first day of Fall.
S0924 6American Indian Day.
B09241717 Horace Walpole, English writer
B09241755 John Marshall Supreme Court Chief Justice
B09241870 Georges Claude, inventor of the neon light.
B09241936 Jim Hensen, who made Kermit & Miss Piggy what they are today.
S09241789 Congress creates the Post Office.
S09241845 1st baseball team is organized.
S09241852 A new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated.
S09241853 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt).
S09241869 Black Friday: crashing gold prices causes stock market panic.
S09241895 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months
S09241929 Lt James H Doolittle guided a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over
S09241929CMitchell Field in NY in the 1st all-instrument flight
B09241930 John W Young, astronaut (Gemini 3, 10, Apollo 10, 16, STS-1, 9)
S09241934 Babe Ruth makes his farewell appearance as a baseball player
S09241941 Nine Allied govts pledged adherence to the Atlantic Charter
S09241954 "The Tonight Show" premieres.
S09241957 Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
S09241960 USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launched
S09241963 Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing
S09241979 CompuServe system starts, first public computer info service.
S0925 6American Indian Day.
S09251493 Columbus sails on his second voyage to America
S09251639 First printing press in America goes to work.
B09251644 Olaus Roemer, first to accurately measured speed of light
B09251725 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built 1st automobile.
B09251897 William Faulkner, American author
S09251513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the 1st European to see the Pacific Ocean
S09251789 Congress proposes the Bill of Rights.
S09251890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park.
S09251926 Henry Ford announces the five day work week
S09251956 First transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation
S09251973 3-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown after 59 days.
S0926 6American Indian Day.
S09261542 Cabrillo discovers California
S09261687 Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks & Venetians
B09261774 John Chapman, alias Johnny Appleseed
S09261789 Jefferson appointed 1st Sec of State; John Jay 1st chief justice;
S09261789CSamuel Osgood 1st Postmaster & Edmund J Randolph 1st Attorney Gen
B09261888 T.S. Eliot, Anglican
S09261896 John Philip Sousa's Band's first performance in Plainfield, NJ
B09261898 George Gershwin, composer, "Rhapsody In Blue"
S09261914 Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
S09261824 Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) and lives.
S09261950 UN troops in Korean War recaptured South Korean capital of Seoul
S09261966 Japan launches its 1st satellite in to space
S09261966 The Staten Island is 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay
S09261983 Australia II wins The America's Cup yacht race
S09261983 Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
S0927 6American Indian Day.
S09271540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola
B09271722 Samuel Adams, revolutionary rabble rouser
S09271787 Constitution submitted to the states for ratification
B09271840 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America.
S09271825 Railroad transportation is born with 1st track in England.
B09271875 Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist (Old Man of the Mtn) (Nobel 1926
S09271941 First WWII liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, is launched
B09271947 Cheryl Tiegs, in Minnesota - a model figure
S09271964 Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Ha!
S09271973 Soyuz 12 launched
S0927 Ancestor Appreciation Day
S0928 6American Indian Day.
B0928 106 BC Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) in Rome
B0928 490 BC Greeks defeat Persians at Marathon
B0928 551 Confucius (as celebrated in Taiwan)
S09281066 William the Conqueror landed in England
S09281542 Juan Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay.
S09281781 Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the Revolutionary War
B09281820 Freidrich Engels German social philosopher
B09281839 Frances Willard, founded Women's Christian Temperance Union
B09281841 Georges Clemenceau French statesman
B09281852 Henri Moissan, French chemist; isolated fluorine (Nobel 1906)
S09281858 Donati's comet becomes the 1st to be photographed
B09281902 Ed Sullivan TV variety show host
B09281909 Al Capp, put Dogpatch, USA on the map
S09281920 Baseball's biggest scandal, grand jury indicts 8 White Sox for
S09281920Cthrowing the 1919 World Series with the Cincinnati Reds
B09281924 Marcello Mastroianni, actor (8½, La Dolce Vita)
S09281924 2 US Army planes completed 1st around the world flight
B09281925 Seymour Cray, inventor of Cray I computer
B09281934 Brigette Bardot, cute
B09281952 Sylvia Kristel, in Holland, (Emmanuelle)
S09281965 Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
S09281970 Anwar Sadat replaces Nassar as President of Egypt
B09291755 Robert, Lord Clive, founder of British empire in India
B09291758 Adm Horatio Nelson, British naval hero at Trafalgar
S09291829 Scotland Yard formed in London
S09291859 Spectacular auroral display visible over most of the US
B09291895 Joseph Rhine, parapsychologist
B09291901 Enrico Fermi, physicist, gone fission.
B09291912 Gene Autry, singing cowpoke.
S09291923 Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public.
B09291943 Lech Walesa, leader of Polish Solidarity movement (Nobel 1983)
S09291977 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into earth orbit
S0929 Michaelmas (Feast of St Michael), quarter day in medieval England
S09301452 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible
B09301627 Robinson Crusoe, according to Daniel Defoe
S09301659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
S09301781 siege of Yorktown begins
S09301846 William Morris 1st tooth extraction under anesthetics Charlestown
B09301870 Jean Perrin, French physicist, Brownian motion (Nobel 1926)
S09301880 Henry Draper takes the first photograph of the Orion Nebula
S09301898 City of New York is established
B09301921 Deborah Kerr, (King & I, Night of Iguana) in Helensburg Scotland
B09301924 Truman Capote, a short short story writer.
S09301939 1st manned rocket flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
S09301967 Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition)
S09301967 USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete the 1st automatic docking