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B01 1770 William Clark, explored Pacific Northwest with Lewis.
B01 1779 Francis Scott Key, wrote the 'Star-Spangled Banner'.
B01 1815 Richard Henry Dana, spent 2 years before the mast.
S01 1291 Everlasting League forms, the basis of the Swiss Confederation
S01 1790 First U.S. Census
S01 1794 Whisky Rebellion
S01 1852 Black Methodists establish 1st black SF church, Zion Methodist
S01 1901 Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited.
S01 1946 President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission.
S01 1953 California introduces its Sales Tax (for Education).
S01 1958 First Class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years
S01 The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
S01 Confederation Day, celebrated in Switzerland
B02 1986 Me! Do programs have life?
S02 1873 1st trial run of an SF cable car, on Clay Street between
S02 Kearny and Jones, downhill all the way, at 4AM.
S02 1877 San Francisco Public Library opens with 5000 volumes.
S02 1990 Saddam Hussein of Iraq invades neighboring Kuwait in the first
S02 act of the Persian Gulf War.
B03 1811 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the safe elevator.
S03 1492 Columbus sets sail for 'the Indies'.
B03 1924 Leon Uris, writer (Exodus, QB VII)
B03 1926 Tony Bennett singer, left his heart in San Francisco
B04 1755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, invented the modern pencil.
S04 1693 Champagne is invented by Dom Perignon.
B04 1790 The United States Coast Guard, Semper Paratus
B04 1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet
B05 1930 Neil Armstrong, X-15 pilot, the first man on the moon
S05 1775 The 1st Spanish ship, 'San Carlos', enters San Francisco bay.
S05 1861 US levies its first Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800).
S05 1864 Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati
S05 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed.
B06 1809 Lord Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate of England.
B06 1881 Alexander Fleming, cashed in on others' discovery of penicillin.
S06 1835 Bolivia gains its independence
S06 1926 The first woman swims the English Channel.
S06 1945 The first Atom Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by the 'Enola Gay'.
B06 1911 Lucille Ball, comedian, actress, "I Love Lucy"
B06 1917 Robert Mitchum, actor, "Heaven Knows Mr. Allison"
B06 1921 Ella Raines, actress
S06 Independence Day, celebrated in Bolivia.
B07 1783 John Heathcoat, invented lace-making machinery
B07 1886 Louis Alan Hazeltine, invented the neutrodyne circuit, making
B07 commercial radio possible.
S07 1807 1st servicable steamboat, the Cleremont, goes on 1st voyage.
B07 1942 Garrison Keillor, teller of tall tales
B07 1903 Louis Leakey, anthropologist
B07 1779 Carl Ritter, cofounder of modern science of geography
B08 1763 Charles Bullfinch, 1st US professional architect
B08 1922 Rudi Gernreich, designed the topless swimsuit & the miniskirt
B08 1923 Esther Williams, actress, swimmer in Inglewood Cal
B08 1902 Paul Dirac, British theoretical physicist
B08 1879 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader
B08 1930 Andy Warhol, artist, movie producer
B08 1948 Svetlana Y. Savitskaya, 2nd woman in space (Soyuz T-7, T-12)
B09 1930 Betty Boop, koo-koo-chee-koo
B09 1776 Amedeo Avogadro, Italian physicist (6.022 x 10 ^ 23)
B09 1593 Izaac Walton, fisherman, writer (Compleat Angler)
S09 1842 The US-Canada border defined by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
S09 1945 The 2nd Atom Bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
S09 1974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency.
B10 1874 Herbert Hoover, 31st President (1929-1933)
S10 1809 Ecuador gains its independence.
S10 1981 Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's record of 3630 hits.
S10 Independence Day, celebrated in Ecuador
S11 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
S11 Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
S11 1877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Deimos
S11 1929 Babe Ruth hits his 500th homer
S11 1933 Temp. hits 58°C (136°F) at San Luis Potosí, Mex. (world record)
B11 1902 Lloyd Nolan, actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place)
B11 1921 Alex Haley, American author (Roots)
B11 1950 Steve Wozniak, cofounded Apple Computer
S12 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
S12 Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
B12 1881 Cecil B. deMille, directed God.
B12 1911 Mario Moreno, alias Cantinflas.
S12 1851 Issac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine.
S12 1898 The peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
S12 1915 `Of Human Bondage,' by William Somerset Maugham, published.
S12 1934 Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand
S13 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
S13 Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
B13 1655 Johann Christoph Denner, invented the clarinet.
S13 1642 Christiaan Huygens discovers the Martian south polar cap
B13 1818 Lucy Stone, pioneer in Woman's Rights.
B13 1860 Annie Oakley, straight shooter.
S13 1961 Berlin Wall erected in East Germany
S13 1876 Reciprocity Treaty between US and Hawaii ratified.
S13 International Left-handers Day
S14 410 Alaric sacks Rome, he really was a Vandal.
S14 1457 Oldest exactly dated printed book (c. 3 years after Gutenberg)
S14 1848 Oregon Territory created
S14 1935 Social Security Act became law
S14 1941 Atlantic Charter signed by FDR & Churchill
S14 1846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance.
S14 1945 VJ Day - Japan surrendered to end World War II.
S14 1966 First US lunar orbiter does it.
B15 1769 Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba
B15 1803 Sir James Douglas, father of British Columbia.
B15 1912 Julia Child, chef.
S15 1901 Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of
S15 nitrogelatin (and that ain't jello).
S15 1945 Riot in San Francisco celebrating end of World War II.
S15 1945 South Korea liberated from Japanese rule.
S15 1960 The Congo (Brazzaville) gains its independence.
S15 Independence Day, celebrated in the Congo.
S15 Liberation Day, celebrated in South Korea.
S16 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
B16 1884 Hugo Gernsback, responsible for Science Fiction becoming an
B16 independent literary form.
B16 1892 Harold Foster, cartoonist, created "Prince Valiant", known for
B16 its fine drawing and historical detail.
S16 1969 Woodstock festival begins in New York.
S16 1970 Venera 7 launched by USSR for soft landing on Venus
S16 1863 Emancipation Proclamation signed
S17 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
B17 1786 Davy Crockett, grinned down bears.
B17 1892 Mae West. Go up and see her sometime.
S17 1807 R. Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
S17 1896 Gold discovered at Bonanza Creek, in Klondike region of the Yukon
S17 1950 Indonesia gains its independence.
S17 1939 "The Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY
S18 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
B18 1618 Virginia Dare, 1st child born in America of English parents.
B18 1834 Marshall Field, founded a Chicago-based store chain.
S18 1868 Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
S18 1914 Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality
S18 1963 James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate of Univ of Miss.
S18 1976 USSR's Luna 24 softlands on the Moon
S18 1991 Russian conservatives start a coup to eliminate Gorbachev,
S18 glasnost and perestroika. The second Russian revolution begins.
S19 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
S19 National Aviation Day
B19 1646 John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England.
B19 1785 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks.
B19 1871 Orville Wright, builder of bicycles and airplanes.
S19 1826 Canada Co. chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario).
S19 1891 William Huggins describes use of spectrum in astronomy.
S19 1960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
S19 1960 Sputnik 5 carries 3 dogs into orbit (recovered alive) Yeaaa!
S19 1979 The crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34
S19 1982 Soyuz T-7 is launched
S19 Admission Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
S20 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
B20 1833 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President (1889-1893)
S20 1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over
S20 1942 WW II dimout regulations implemented in San Francisco.
S20 1920 US's first radio broadcaster, 8MK later WWJ, Detroit
S20 begins daily broadcasting.
S20 1930 Dumont's 1st TV Broadcast for home reception, NY city
S20 1940 Churchill says of the Royal Air Force, "Never in the field
S20 of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
S20 1977 Voyager II launched.
S20 Admission Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
S21 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
B21 1660 Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building.
S21 1965 Gemini 5 launched into earth orbit (2 astronauts)
S21 1968 William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
S21 1972 US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus is launched
S21 1841 John Hampson patents the venetian blind
S21 1959 Hawaii became the 50th state.
S21 1968 Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
S21 1991 Second Russian revolution fails as coup leaders flee.
S21 Gorbachev returns to find Yeltsin a hero.
S22 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
B22 1862 Claude Debussy, composer
B22 1920 Ray Bradbury, science fiction author.
S22 1485 Richard III slain at Bosworth Field - Last of the Plantagenets
S22 1787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
S22 1851 Gold fields discovered in Australia
S22 1963 Joe Walker in a NASA X-15, reaches 106 km (67 miles)
S23 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S23 1833 Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
S23 1869 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in San Francisco,
S23 from Boston, after a 16-day rail trip.
S23 1919 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premiers in Chicago Tribune
S23 1957 Digital Equipment Corp. founded
S23 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of earth from the moon
S23 1973 First Intelsat communications satellite launched
S23 1977 1st man-powered flight (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
B24 1816 Sir Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful trans-Atlantic cables
B24 1886 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed Liberty Ships
S24 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S24 79 Mt. Vesuvius erupts; Pompeii & Herculaneum are buried
S24 1814 British sack Washington, DC. Please, it needs it again!
S24 1869 The Waffle Iron is invented.
S24 1909 Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
S24 1932 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, AE Putnam
S24 1989 Voyager II passes Neptune, Triton, finds rings here too.
S24 1956 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC
S24 1960 temp. drops to -88° (-127° F) at Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
S25 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S25 1689 Montreal taken by the Iroquois
B25 1927 Althea Gibson, 1st black tennis champion (in a major event)
S25 1825 Uruguay gains its independence.
S25 1929 Graf Zeppelin passes over San Francisco, headed for Los Angeles
S25 after trans-Pacific voyage from Tokyo.
S25 1981 Voyager II flies past Saturn.
S25 1981 Voyager 2 in its closest approach to Saturn,
S25 sees not a few, but thousands of rings.
S26 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S26 55 B.C. Roman forces under Julius Caesar invaded Britain.
S26 1346 English longbows defeat French in Battle of Crécy
B26 1873 Lee De Forest, invented the Audion vacuum tube (radio tube).
S26 1629 Cambridge Agreement pledged. Massachusetts Bay Co. stockholders
S26 agreed to emigrate to New England.
S26 1791 John Fitch granted a US patent for his working steamboat.
S26 1846 W. A. Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF).
S26 1907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at SF's Aquatic Park in
S26 57 seconds.
S26 1920 19th Amendment passes - Women's Suffrage granted (about time!)
S26 1952 Fluoridation of San Francisco water begins.
S26 1962 Mariner 2 launched for 1st planet flyby (Venus)
S26 1973 Women's Equality Day
S27 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S27 1883 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons
S27 1776 Americans defeated by British in Battle of Long Island
S27 1783 1st hydrogen-filled balloon ascent (unmanned)
S27 1859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn
B27 1882 Samuel Goldwyn, pioneer filmmaker
B27 1899 C.S. Forester, historical novelist, created Horatio Hornblower
B27 1908 Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President (1963-1969)
S27 1859 1st successful oil well drilled near Titusville, Penn.
S27 1883 Krakatoa, WEST of Java, blew apart (Top that, St Helens).
S27 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agreed to outlaw war.
S28 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S28 1565 St Augustine, Fla established
B28 1749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, social philosopher
S28 1609 Delaware Bay explored by Henry Hudson for the Netherlands
S28 1789 William Herschel discovers Enceladus, satellite of Saturn
S28 1828 Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was born near Tula.
S28 1965 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
S28 1917 10 suffragists were arrested as they picketed the White House
S28 1907 United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
S29 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S29 1526 Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Mohács
S29 1533 Last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa, killed by Spanish conquerors
S29 1896 Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
S29 1949 USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb
S29 1954 San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens.
S30 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
B30 1797 Mary Shelley, wrote Frankenstein
S30 1850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city.
S30 1979 1st recorded occurrance of a comet hitting the sun (the energy
S30 released was about equal to 1 million hydrogen bombs).
S30 1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 3 is launched
S30 1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 1 is launched
S31 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S31 1842 US Naval Observatory is authorized by an act of Congress
S31 1980 Solidarity Labor Union in Poland is founded.
S31 1977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets world aircraft altitude record of 38.26 km
S31 (125,524 ft) in a Mikoyan E-266M turbojet
S31 1955 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, IL
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