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S01 1709 Alexander Selkirk (aka Robinson Crusoe) rescued from Juan Fernand
S01 1790 US Supreme Court convened for first time (NYC)
S01 1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
S01 1867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days.
B01 1901 Clark Gable, didn't give a damn about Scarlet O'Hara.
S01 1920 The first armored car is introduced.
S01 1958 Egypt & Syria join to form United Arab Republic
S01 1972 First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced
S02 Groundhog Day. Good Morning Punxatawney Phil!
B02 1754 Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat.
S02 1848 Mexico sells California, New Mexico and Arizona to the USA.
S02 1848 First shipload of Chinese immigrants arrive in San Francisco.
S02 1876 National Baseball League formed with 8 teams.
S02 1880 SS Strathleven arrives in London with first successful shipment
S02 of frozen mutton from Australia.
S02 1935 Lie detector first used in court in Portage, Wisconsin
S02 1962 Eight of the planets line up for the first time in 400 years.
B03 1811 Horace Greeley, told young men to go west
B03 1821 Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman to get MD from US Medical school
B03 1874 Gertrude Stein, beloved by Hemmingway.
S03 1918 Twin Peaks Tunnel, longest (11,920 feet) streetcar tunnel in
S03 the world, begins service in San Francisco.
S03 1945 Yalta Conference, Russia agrees to enter WWII against Japan
S03 1966 Soviet Luna 9 first spacecraft to soft-land on moon
S04 Independence Day, celebrated in Sri Lanka.
S04 1887 Interstate Commerce Act: Federal regulation of railroads
B04 1902 Charles A. Lindburgh, 'Lucky Lindy'
S04 1932 First Winter Olympics held (At Lake Placid, NY).
S04 1936 First radioactive substance produced synthetically - radium E
S04 1948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence.
S04 1957 First electric portable typewriter placed on sale, Syracuse NY
S04 1974 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
B05 1840 John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire.
B05 1878 Andre-Gustave Citroen, French automaker
S05 1887 Snow falls on San Francisco.
S05 1953 Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released
S05 1971 Apollo 14, 3rd manned expedition to moon, lands near Fra Mauro
S05 1974 Mariner 10 takes first close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure
S05 1979 According to Census Bureau, US population reaches 200 million
S06 New Zealand Day, celebrated in (where else?) New Zealand
S06 1693 College of William and Mary chartered in Williamsburg, Va
B06 1756 Aaron Burr, duelist.
B06 1885 George Herman Ruth ('Babe Ruth').
S06 1900 Spanish-American War ends
B06 1911 Ronald Reagan, 40th President (1981- )
S06 1922 US, UK, France, Italy & Japan sign Washington Naval Arms
S06 1922CLimitation Treaty
S06 1952 Elizabeth II becomes queen of Great Britain
S07 Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga
B07 1804 John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements.
B07 1812 Charles Dickens, "God bless us one and all."
B07 1817 Frederick Douglas, first black to hold high rank in US government
B07 1883 Eubie Blake, composer
S07 1889 Astronomical Society of Pacific holds first meeting in SF
S07 1940 Walt Disney's "Pinocchio" released
S08 Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga
S08 1693 Charter granted for College of William & Mary, 2nd college in US
B08 1820 William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general.
B08 1828 Jules Verne, pioneered what later became science fiction.
S08 1883 Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen.
B08 1906 Chester F. Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing)
S08 1908 Boy Scouts of America founded.
S08 1922 Radio arrives in the White House.
B08 1925 Jack Lemmon
S08 1977 Earthquake, at 5.0, strongest since 1966.
S09 Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga
B09 1773 William Henry Harrison, 9th President (March 4-April 4, 1841)
S09 1877 U.S. Weather Service is founded.
S09 1885 First Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
S09 1964 First appearance of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan
S09 1969 The Boeing 747 makes its first commercial flight.
S10 Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga
S10 1720 Edmund Halley is appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
S10 1763 Treaty of Paris ends French & Indian War
B10 1775 Charles Lamb, English critic, poet, essayist
S10 1870 City of Anaheim incorporated (first time).
S10 1879 First electric arc light used (in California Theater).
B10 1890 Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist, "Dr. Zhivago" (Nobel 1958)
B10 1893 Jimmy Durante, comedian
S11 660 Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno
B11 1847 Thomas Alva Edison, who lit up your life
S11 1854 Major streets lit by coal gas for first time.
S11 1929 Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) made an enclave of Rome
S11 1970 Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit
S12 1541 Santiago, Chile founded.
B12 1802 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President (1861-1865)
B12 1809 Charles Darwin
B12 1893 General of the Army Omar Bradley, 'The GI General'
S12 1924 Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premiers in Carnegie Hall
S12 1934 Export-Import Bank incorporated.
S12 1945 San Francisco selected for site of United Nations Conference.
S12 1947 A daytime fireball & meteorite fall is seen in eastern Siberia
S12 1961 USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
S13 1741 First magazine published in America (The American Magazine)
B13 1805 David Dudley Field, lawyer whose advocacy of law codification
B13 1805Chad international effects.
S13 1867 "Blue Danube" waltz premiers in Vienna
B13 1885 Bess Truman, married to President Harry Truman
S13 1937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical
S13 1937Cdetail and fine detail drawing. Thanks Hal.
S14 St. Valentine's Day
S14 1859 Oregon admitted as 33rd State
S14 1876 Alexander Graham Bell files for a patent on the telephone.
B14 1894 Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny. Oh, Rochester!
S14 1912 Arizona becomes 48th state
B14 1947 Pham Tuan, first Vietnamese space traveler (on board Soyuz 37)
S14 1961 Element 103, lawrencium, first produced in Berkeley California
S14 1980 Solar Maximum Mission Observatory launched to study solar flares.
S15 President's Day, a legal holiday
B15 1564 Galileo Galilei, astronomer
B15 1797 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker
B15 1803 John Augustus Sutter, gold found at his mill.
S15 1861 Fort Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired it's
S15 cannon in anger).
S15 1898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown.
S15 1917 San Francisco Public Library dedicated.
S15 1950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released
S15 1954 First bevatron in operation - Berkeley, California
S16 President's Day, a legal holiday
S16 1883 Ladies Home Journal begins publication.
B16 1884 Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film.
S16 1914 First airplane flight to Los Angeles from San Francisco.
S16 1918 Lithuania proclaims its short-lived independence.
S16 1923 Howard Carter finds the tomb of Pharoah Tutankhamun
S16 1937 Nylon patented, WH Carothers
S16 1946 First commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport Ct
S17 President's Day, a legal holiday
B17 1844 A. Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business.
S17 1870 Mississippi readmitted to U.S. after Civil War
S17 1876 Sardines were first canned, in Eastport, Maine.
S17 1878 First telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones.
S18 National Bun Day -- Iceland
S18 President's Day, a legal holiday
B18 1745 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented
B18 the electric battery.
B18 1848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker
S18 1850 Legislature creates the 9 San Francisco Bay Area counties.
S18 1930 Pluto, the ninth planet, is discovered by Clyde Tombaugh.
S18 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island
S18 (which was built for the occasion) in San Francisco Bay.
S19 President's Day, a legal holiday
B19 1473 Nicolaus Copernicus, earth revolves around the sun.
S19 1878 Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph.
S19 1945 Marines land on Iwo Jima.
S19 1977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose").
S20 President's Day, a legal holiday
S20 1873 University of California gets its first Medical School (UC/SF).
S20 1901 First territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes.
B20 1902 Ansel Adams, knew how to handle a camera and a darkroom.
S20 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco.
S20 1931 Congress allows California to build the Oakland-Bay Bridge.
S20 1962 John Glenn is first American to orbit the Earth.
S21 President's Day, a legal holiday
S21 1804 First self-propelled locomotive on rails demonstrated, in Wales.
S21 1878 First Telephone book is issued, in New Haven, Conn.
B22 1732 George Washington, Father figure for US, President (1789-1796)
B22 1749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist & first biographer of Bach.
B22 1810 Frederic Chopin, composer
B22 1857 Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
B22 1900 Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director (Exterminating Angel)
S22 1900 Hawaii becomes a US Territory.
S23 F.W. Woolworth opens the first '5 & 10', in Utica, NY.
B23 1685 George Frideric Handel, Baroque composer
S23 1887 Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco.
S23 1900 Steamer "Rio de Janiero" sinks in San Francisco Bay.
S23 1958 Last SF Municipal arc light, over intersection of Mission & 25th
S23 Street, removed (it had been installed in 1913).
S24 1857 Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized.
B24 1885 Admiral Chester Nimitz, in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII.
S24 1942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German).
B24 1955 Steven Jobs, Apple co-founder.
B25 1873 Enrico Caruso, singer
B25 1888 John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State for President Eisenhower
S25 1919 Oregon is first state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon).
B26 1846 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
B26 1852 John Harvey Kellogg, physician, inspired flaked cereals.
S26 1863 President Lincoln signs the National Currency Act.
B26 1866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry
S26 1933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony.
S27 Independence Day, celebrated in the Dominican Republic
S27 1844 Dominican Republic gains it's independence.
B27 1902 John Steinbeck, compassionate novelist.
B27 1934 Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan
S27 1991 President Bush declares a cease-fire, halting the Gulf War.
S28 1849 First steamship enters San Francisco Bay.
S28 1883 First vaudeville theater opens.
S28 1914 Construction begins on the Tower of Jewels for the Exposition.
S28 1956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory.
S29 It's a LEAP YEAR! Leaping Lizards Sandy!
B29 1860 Herman Hollerith, invented first electric tabulating machine.
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