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S01      Dominion Day -- Canada
B01     "Wolfman Jack", a howling success in radio
S01 1535 Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason
B01 1646 Gottfried W Leibnitz, mathematician-philosopher
B01 1804 George Sand, French Romantic novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro).
S01 1847 1st adhesive US postage stamps go on sale
S01 1850 At least 626 ships lying at anchor around San Francisco Bay.
B01 1853 Cecil John Rhodes, South African politician, diamond merchant.
S01 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, PA - Lee's northward advance halted.
S01 1867 Dominion of Canada formed.
S01 1873 Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province.
S01 1898 Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill.
S01 1899 SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building
B01 1916 Olivia DeHaviland, actress, in Tokyo, (Robin Hood)
S01 1919 First Class Postage DROPS to 2 cents from 3 cents.
B01 1941 Twyla Tharp, choreographer
S01 1941 1st TV licenses granted: W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), New York
S01 1943 first automatic withholding tax from paychecks
S01 1944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing world-wide
S01      financial systems (like the IMF and the World Bank).
B01 1952 Dan Akroyd, comedian, actor (Saturday Night Live)
S01 1960 Ghana becomes a republic.
S01 1960 Italian Somalia gains independence, unites with Somali Republic.
S01 1962 Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days).
S01 1966 Medicare goes into effect.
S01 1968 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Trea
S01 1969 Charles Philip Arthur George invested as the Prince of Wales
S01 1971 Golden Gate Bridge is paid off, so why is there still a toll?
S01 1982 Kosmos 1383, 1st search and rescue satellite, launched.
S02      Midpoint of the year (noon, or following midnight in leap year)
B02  419 Valentinian III, Roman emperor (425-55).
B02 1877 Hermann Hesse, Swiss novelist, poet (Steppenwolf) (Nobel 1946).
S02 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies.
S02 1900 first flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1).
B02 1906 Hans Bethe, physicist (Nobel 1967), peace worker.
S02 1926 US Army Air Corps created
S02 1937 Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean
S02 1957 1st submarine built to fire guided missiles launched, "Grayback"
S02 1964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
S02 1976 Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
S02 1985 Proto is launched on its way to Halley's Comet
S03      Dog Days begin.
B03 1567 Samuel de Champlain, explorer
S03 1608 City of Quebec founded by Samuel de Champlain
S03 1775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
S03 1819 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
S03 1861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from New York.
B03 1883 Franz Kafka, Czech, author (Metamorphosis, The Trial, Amerika)
S03 1890 Idaho becomes 43rd state.
S03 1898 US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in the harbor at Santiago Cuba
S03 1962 Algeria becomes independent after 132 years of French rule
S03 1983 Calvin Smith (US) becomes fastest man alive (36.25 kph for 100 m)
S03 1986 Renovated Statue of Liberty is rededicated with great ceremony.
S04      United States Independence Day
S04 1054 Brightest known supernova starts shining, for 23 days.
S04 1057 Crab Nebula supernova recorded by Chinese & Japanese astronomers.
B04 1753 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights.
S04 1776 Future U.S. issues the Declaration of Independence from Britain
S04 1802 US Military Academy officially opens at West Point, NY
B04 1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (The Scarlet Letter)
B04 1807 Giuseppe Garibaldi, unifier of Italy.
B04 1826 Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna"
S04 1828 first US passenger railroad started, The Baltimore & Ohio
S04 1845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond.
S04 1862 Lewis Carroll begins inventing "Alice in Wonderland" for
S04      his friend Alice Pleasance Liddell during a boating trip.
S04 1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho).
B04 1867 Stephen Mather, organizer of the US National Park Service.
B04 1872 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-1929)
S04 1876 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco.
B04 1878 George M. Cohan, American songwriter, playwright, producer.
S04 1882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens.
B04 1883 Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult.
S04 1884 Statue of Liberty is presented to the United States, in Paris.
S04 1894 Republic of Hawaii established.
S04 1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the first US autos
B04 1900 Louis Armstrong, "Satchmo"
S04 1903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens.
S04      President Roosevelt sends a message to the Phillipines,
S04      then a message around the world in 12 minutes.
B04 1916 Tokyo Rose, radio personality
S04 1933 Work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge.
S04 1946 Philippines gains independence from US
S04 1965 Mariner 4 flies past Mars, sends first close-up photos.
S04 1967 Freedom of Information Act goes into effect
S04 1976 Raid on Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
S05      Earth at aphelion.
S05 1687 Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England
B05 1794 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker
B05 1801 David G Farragut, American naval hero, in Knoxville Tenn
B05 1810 P.T. Barnum, showman.
S05 1811 Venezuela gains independence from Spain.
S05 1859 Captain N.C. Brooks discovers the Midway Islands.
S05 1865 William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England.
B05 1891 John Northrop, US biochemist, crystallized enzymes (Nobel 1946).
B05 1909 Andrei Gromyko, diplomat.
B05 1926 Janós Starker, Hungarian cellist.
S05 1935 first Hawaii Calls radio program is broadcast.
S05 1938 Herb Caen gets his first column in the S.F. Chronicle.
S05 1944 first rocket airplane flown
S05 1950 Law of Return passes allowing all Jews rights to live in Israel
S05 1951 Junction transistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ
S05 1975 Cape Verde Islands independent, 500 years under Portuguese rule
S05 1978 Soyuz 30 is launched
B06 1747 John Paul Jones, naval hero, "I have not yet begun to fight"
B06 1796 Nicholas I, tsar of Russia (1825-55).
S06 1885 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur
S06 1928 Preview of 1st all-talking motion picture took place in NYC
S06 1932 First Class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents.
S06 1933 1st All-Star baseball game.  American League won 5-2.
B06 1937 Vladimir Ashkenazy, concert pianist.
S06 1964 Malawi (then Nyasaland) gains independence from Britain
S06 1975 Comoros Islands gain independence from France (most of them).
S06 1976 Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station.
B07 1752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented the programmable loom.
S07 1846 United States annexs California
B07 1860 Gustav Mahler, Bohemian composer
B07 1887 Marc Chagall in Vitebsk Russia, artist
S07 1891 A patent is granted for the travelers cheque.
S07 1898 Hawaii annexed to the United States.
B07 1907 Robert A. Heinlein, perhaps the greatest Science Fiction writer.
B07 1922 Pierre Cardin Fashion designer
S07 1930 Construction begins on Boulder (later Hoover) Dam
S07 1946 Mother Frances X Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
S07 1978 Solomon Islands gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S07 1980 first solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel.
S07 1990 The world's 3 greatest tenors: Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti
S07      appear together, for the only time, in Rome.  Simply ahhhsome!
S08 1663 King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island
S08 1776 Col. John Nixon gives 1st public reading of Decl of Independence
S08 1796 1st American Passport issued by the US State Department.
S08 1835 The Liberty Bell cracks (again).
B08 1838 Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, inventor
B08 1839 John D. Rockefeller
S08 1889 Vol 1, No 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" published.
S08 1896 William Jennings Bryan makes his "cross of gold" speech at the
S08      Democratic Convention in Chicago.
S08 1905 Part of Angel Island (in SF bay ) becomes an Immigration
S08      Detention Center (port of entry for immigrants).
S08 1907 Florenz Ziegfeld stages 1st "Follies" on NY Theater roof
S08 1947 Demolition begins in New York for headquarters of United Nations
S08 1977 Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs).
S08 1978 Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus.
S09      National POW/MIA Recognition Day
S09      Independence Day, celebrated in Argentina
S09 1540 Henry VIII's 6-month marriage to Anne of Cleves is annulled.
B09 1802 Thomas Davenport, invented 1st successful electric motor.
S09 1816 Argentina gains its independence.
B09 1819 Elias Howe, invented sewing machine, in Spencer Mass.
S09 1846 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for the U.S.
B09 1858 Franz Boas, anthropologist, linguist.
B09 1879 Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Pines of Rome).
S09 1953 first helicopter passenger service, in New York
S09 1957 Announcement of discovery of element 102 - nobelium
S09 1979 Voyager II flies past Jupiter sending home great snapshots.
B10 1509 John Calvin, theologian
B10 1723 Sir William Blackstone, English jurist, Blackstone's Commentaries
B10 1834 James Whistler, artist, mama's boy
B10 1856 Nikola Tesla, physicist/visionary, developed alternating current.
B10 1867 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist/humorist who created Mr. Dooley.
B10 1871 Marcel Proust, French novelist (Remembrance of Things Past).
S10 1890 Wyoming becomes the 44th state.
B10 1915 Saul Bellow, US novelist (Herzog, Dangling Man) (Nobel 1976).
B10 1920 Owen Chamberlain, codiscoverer of the antiproton (Nobel 1959).
S10 1925 USSR's official news agency TASS established.
S10 1925 The Scopes "Monkey Trial" on evolution, starts.
S10 1940 Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces attack by air.
B10 1947 Arlo Guthrie, singer (Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans).
S10 1962 Telstar, 1st communications satelite launched.
S10 1966 Orbiter 1 Launched to moon.
S10 1980 Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I. Queen
S10 1985 French agents sink Greenpeace "Rainbow Warrior" in New Zealand.
S11      National Holiday of the People's Republic of Outer Mongolia.
S11      (Celebrated mainly in Ulan Bator, yurt capital of Asia)
S11 1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII
B11 1754 Thomas Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare.
B11 1767 John Quincy Adams, 6th President (1825-1829)
S11 1798 US Marine Corps is created by an act of Congress
S11 1804 Burr and Hamilton duel.  Burr won.
S11 1864 Confederate forces, led by Gen J Early, invade Washington DC
B11 1899 E.B. White, writer (Charlotte's Web, The Elements of Style).
B11 1899 Yasonari Kawabata, Japanese novelist (Thousand Cranes)
B11 1920 Yul Brynner, actor (The King and I, The Ten Commandments).
S11 1955 USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado
S11 1962 Cosmonaut Micolaev set longevity space flight record-4 days
S11 1962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I).
S11 1977 Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Martin Luther King
S11 1979 US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates.
S11 1986 Mary Beth Whitehead christens her surrogate "Baby M", Sara.
B12  100 B.C. Julius Cæsar.  (Gallic Commentaries) "Veni, Vidi, Vici."
S12 1543 Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th & last wife).
B12 1730 Josiah Wedgewood, English pottery designer, manufacturer.
S12 1812 US forces lead by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812).
B12 1817 Henry David Thoreau, always had Ralph Waldo Emerson
B12      around to bail him out of trouble.
B12 1854 George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera, in Waterville NY
S12 1862 Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
B12 1895 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers
B12 1895 R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome
B12 1895 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers
B12 1904 Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (Residence on Earth) (Nobel 1971).
B12 1908 Milton Berle, "Uncle Miltie"
S12 1933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour).
B12 1934 Van Cliburn Pianist
S12 1960 Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched.
S12 1960 USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs.
S12 1962 Cosmonaut Popovich in space 1st time 2, manned craft in space
S12 1977 first free flight test of Space Shuttle Enterprise.
S12 1979 Kiribati (Gilbert & Ellice Is.) gains independence from Britain.
S12 1984 Geraldine Ferraro, Democrat, becomes the first woman
S12      to be a major-party candicate for Vice President.
S13      Start of the Bon Festival in Japan.
S13 1865 Horace Greeley advises readers to "Go west". He meant Michigan.
S13 1919 First lighter-than-air transatlantic flight completed.
S13 1977 New York City experiences a 25 hr black-out
S13 1984 Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m.
S14      Alpha Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus.
S14      Bastille Day -- France
S14 1771 Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
S14 1789 Citizens of Paris storm the (near empty) Bastille prison.
S14 1850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration.
S14 1865 1st ascent of the Matterhorn.
B14 1912 Woodie Guthrie, folk singer, common man.
B14 1913 Gerald R. Ford, 38th President (1974-1976)
B14 1918 Ingmar Bergman, film maker (Through a Glass Darkly).
B14 1918 Jay Wright Forrester, invented the computer magnetic core memory
S14 1953 first national monument dedicated to a Negro - GW Carver
S14 1958 Iraqi army Iraq overthrew monarchy, a Colonel Saddam Hussein.
S14 1959 first atomic powered cruiser, the Long Beach, Quincy Mass
S14 1965 US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles
S14 1987 Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
S15      National Ice Cream Day
S15      Saint Swithin's Day
B15 1573 Inigo Jones, English architect.
B15 1606 Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch painter.
S15 1662 Charles II grants a charter to establish Royal Society in London.
B15 1779 Clement Moore, American author, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
S15 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte captured.
B15 1850 St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (Mother Cabrini), first US saint.
S15 1870 NW Territories created & Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province.
S15 1940 first betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Illinois
S15 1954 first US passenger jet transport airplane tested (Boeing 707).
S15 1975 Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later.
S16      the National Blueberry Festival
S16      Start of SPACEWEEK.
S16 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain.
S16 1548 La Paz, Bolivia is founded.
B16 1723 Sir Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter.
B16 1746 Giuseppe Piazzi, discovered 1st asteroid, Ceres.
S16 1769 Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif.
S16 1790 Congress establishes the District of Columbia.
S16 1861 1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run.
B16 1872 Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, discoverer of South Pole.
B16 1888 Frits Zernike, inventor of phase-contrast microscope (Nobel 1953)
B16 1911 Ginger Rogers, danced beautifully with Fred Astaire
S16 1935 1st automatic parking meter in US installed: Oklahoma City, OK
S16 1945 1st atomic blast, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico.
B16 1948 Pinchas Zukerman, violinist.
S16 1969 Apollo 11, first manned ship to land on the moon is launched
S16      with astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins.
S16 1992 Ross Perot abandons presidential race.  Goes home to pout.
S17      Constitution Day, celebrated in South Korea
S17      Iraqi National Day.
S17 1966 Pioneer 7 research robot is launched into solar orbit.
B17 1744 Elbridge Gerry, father of the "gerrymander"
B17 1763 John Jacob Astor, merchant
S17 1821 Spain ceded Florida to US
S17 1841 British humor magazine `Punch' 1st published.
S17 1850 Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
B17 1859 Muñoz Rivera, Puerto Rican patriot, journalist.
B17 1888 Shmuel Agnon, Israeli novelist (Day Before Yesterday) (Nobel 1966
B17 1889 Erle Stanley Gardner, created Perry Mason.
S17 1898 Spanish American War ends, in Santiago, Cuba.
B17 1900 James Cagney, great tough guy and dancer.
S17 1917 British royal family adopts the name `Windsor.'
B17 1934 Donald Sutherland, (M*A*S*H)
B17 1935 P.D.Q. Bach (Peter Schickele), composer.
S17 1945 Potsdam Conference. FDR, Stalin, Churchill hold first meeting.
S17 1948 Republic of Korea founded.
S17 1954 Construction begins on Disneyland...
S17 1955 ... Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County.
S17 1959 Tibet abolishes serfdom
S17 1962 Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft).
B17 1963 Matti Nykänen, world's best ski jumper
S17 1969 Apollo/Soyuz, the first US/USSR linkup in space
S17 1984 Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7.
S18      National Day, celebrated in Spain
S18   64 The Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle).
S18 1536 Pope's authority declared void in England.
B18 1811 William Makepeace Thackeray, Victorian novelist, "Vanity Fair"
B18 1832 Horatio Alger, whose lads always had enough pluck to succeed.
B18 1848 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer
B18 1853 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1902).
S18 1872 Britain introduces voting by secret ballot.
B18 1906 Clifford Odets dramatist
B18 1906 S. I. Hayakawa, educator, politician, sleeper
B18 1911 Hume Cronyn, stage actor
B18 1913 Red Skelton, humorist
B18 1921 John Glenn, Jr., first American in orbit
S18 1931 First air-conditioned ship launched - "Mariposa"
B18 1933 Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (Bratsk Station).
S18 1936 Spanish Civil War begans, Francisco Franco leads uprising.
S18 1938 Douglas `Wrong Way' Corrigan lands in Ireland-left NY for Calif
S18 1955 First electric power generated from atomic energy sold.
S18 1966 Carl Sagan turns one billion seconds old
S18 1966 Gemini 10 launched.
S18 1968 Intel Corporation, inventor of the microchip, is incorporated.
S18 1980 Rohini 1, first Indian satellite, is launched.
S18 1984 Svetlana Savitskaya accompanies Vladimir Dzhanibekov on EVA
S18      outside Salyut 7, becoming first woman to walk in space.
S18 1986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
B19 1814 Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt Revolver.
B19 1834 Edgar Degas, French impressionist painter.
B19 1846 Charles Edward Pickering, pioneer American spectroscopist
S19 1848 First Women's Rights Convention. Seneca Falls, NY
B19 1865 Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, cofounder of Mayo Clinic.
S19 1880 SF Public Library allows patrons to start borrowing books.
B19 1896 A.J. Cronin, English author.
S19 1955 "Balclutha" ties up at SF Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum.
S19 1961 1st In-flight movie is shown (on TWA).
S20      Independence Day, celebrated in Columbia
B20 1304 Petrarch, poet, in Italy.
S20 1810 Columbia gains its independence.
S20 1859 admission fee first charged to see a baseball game (50 cents).
S20 1871 British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province.
B20 1919 Sir Edmund Hillary, one of 1st two men to scale Mt. Everest.
S20 1960 1st submerged submarine fires Polaris missile: George Washington
S20 1960 USSR recoveres 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space.
S20 1969 first men land on the moon, aboard Apollo 11 at 09:18 GMT.
S20      Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin establish Tranquility Base
S20 1976 First pictures from Mars surface received (courtesy Viking 2).
S20 1977 Voyager 2 launched to the outer solar system.
S21 1831 Belgium gains its independence.
S21 1873 World's 1st train robbery, by Jesse James.
B21 1899 Ernest Hemingway, never asked for whom the bell tolled...
B21 1911 Marshall McLuhan, writer (The Medium is the Massage).
B21 1920 Isaac Stern, violinist
S21 1940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
B21 1952 Robin Williams, actor, comedian (Good Morning Vietnam, Mork).
S21 1959 First atomic powered merchant ship, Savannah, christened.
S21 1961 Mercury 4 is launched into sub-orbital flight
S21 1965 Gemini 5 launched atop Titan V with Cooper and Conrad
S21 1969 Independence Day, celebrated in Belgium.
S21 1969 Neil Armstrong steps onto the moon at 02:56:15 GMT.
S21      "It's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
B22 1822 Gregor Mendel, geneticist who discovered laws of heredity.
B22 1844 Rev. William Archibald Spooner, invented 'spoonerisms'
B22 1849 Emma Lazarus, whose poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty
B22 1887 Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist (Nobel 1925).
B22 1890 Rose Kennedy, mother of John and Robert.
B22 1898 Steven Vincent Benét, writer (The Devil and Daniel Webster).
S22 1933 Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight.
S22 1972 Venera 8 makes a soft landing on Venus.
S23      National Day, in Egypt.
S23 1798 Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt.
S23 1829 Typewriter is patented.
B23 1834 James Cardinal Gibbons
B23 1892 Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74).
S23 1904 The Ice Cream Cone is invented.
S23 1937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced
S23 1968 PLO's 1st hijacking of an EL AL plane
S23 1972 ERTS 1 (Earth Resources Technology Satellite) later called
S23      LANDSAT, is launched to start its multi-spectral scans of Earth
S23 1980 Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6.
S24      Pioneer Day in Utah.
S24 1701 French make 1st landing at site of Detroit.
S24 1704 Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain
B24 1783 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from the Spanish
B24 1802 Alexandre Dumas, told the Count of Monte Christo how to escape
S24 1847 Mormon leader Brigham Young & followers arrive at Salt Lake City,
B24 1895 Robert Graves, British poet, historical novelist (I, Claudius).
B24 1898 Amelia Earhart, into the wild blue yonder
S24 1929 Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounced war
S24 1946 US detonates atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll.  See film Radio Bikini.
S24 1959 Nixon has the `Kitchen Debate' with Khrushchev
B25 1902 Eric Hoffer, US longshoreman, author (The True Believer).
B25 1905 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian writer (Nobel 1981).
S25 1909 first airplane flight across the English Channel.
S25 1952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created.
S25 1956 Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after collision with Stockholm.
S25 1963 US Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty
S25 1973 USSR launches Mars 5
B25 1978 Louise Brown, 1st test-tube baby (born under the sign of Pyrex)
S25 1981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn, "thousands of rings".
S25 1987 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton earth-study satellite.
S26      Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S26      The start of the Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree in Athens, Texas
S26      Independence Day, celebrated in Liberia.
S26 1775 Benjamin Franklin becomes the first Postmaster General.
S26 1847 Liberia gains its independence.
B26 1856 George Bernard Shaw, dramatist (Pygmalion) (Nobel 1925) in Dublin
B26 1875 Carl Jung, founded analytic psychology.
S26 1887 first book published in Esperanto.  Not a hit.
B26 1894 Aldous Huxley, author (Brave New World).
S26 1908 Federal Bureau of Investigation established
B26 1928 Stanley Kubrick, director (2001, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange)
B26 1943 Mick Jagger, never gathers moss
S26 1947 Department of Defense established
S26 1953 Fidel Castro begins revolution against Batista
S26 1953 Korean War Armistice is signed.
S26 1956 Egypt seizes the Suez Canal
S26 1957 USSR launchs 1st intercontinental multi-stage ballistic missle.
S26 1963 US launches Syncom 2, the first geosynchronous satellite
S26 1965 Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day).
S26 1971 US launches Apollo 15 to the Moon
S26 1982 Canada's Anik D1 comsat launched by US delta rocket.
S27      Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S27 1501 Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
S27 1694 Bank of England is chartered.
B27 1824 Alexandre Dumas fils, French playwright, novelist.
B27 1835 Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet (Nobel 1906).
S27 1836 Adelaide, South Australia founded.
S27 1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long).
S27 1940 Billboard magazine starts publishing best-seller's charts.
B27 1948 Peggy Fleming, Olympic gold medalist in figure skating
S27 1955 Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation.
S27 1962 Mariner 2 launched on a flyby mission to venus
S27 1969 Pioneer 10 Launched.
S28      Capricornid meteor shower, radiant in Capricorn.
S28      Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
B28 1165 Ibn al-'Arabi, Muslim mystic, philosopher.
S28 1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe.
S28 1821 Peru gains its independence.
S28 1849 "Memmon" is first clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of NY
S28 1851 total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
B28 1866 Beatrix Potter, English children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit).
S28 1866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US
S28 1868 14th Amendment ratified, citizenship to exslaves.
S28 1900 The Hamburger is created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
B28 1907 Earl S. Tupper, inventor of Tupperware.
S28 1914 Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia - World War I begins.
B28 1929 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
S28 1931 Congress makes The Star-Spangled Banner our 2nd National Anthem
S28 1932 President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment.
S28 1933 1st Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee).
B28 1958 Terry Fox, runs "Marathon of Hope" across Canada.
S28 1964 Ranger 7 launched to the moon; sends back 4308 TV pictures.
S28 1973 Skylab 3's astronauts are launched
S28 1976 Eldon Joersz & Geo. Morgan set world airspeed record of 3,530 kph
S29      Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S29 1858 1st commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
B29 1869 Booth Tarkington, American novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons).
B29 1883 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce), Italian dictator.
B29 1905 Clara Bow, silent screen actress (It, Saturday Night Kid).
B29 1905 Dag Hammarskjöld, 2nd UN sec-gen (1953-61) (Nobel 1961).
B29 1907 Melvin Belli, San Francisco's 'King of Torts'
S29 1914 1st transcontinental phone link.  Between NYC and San Francisco.
S29 1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight: New York to San Francisco
S29 1957 International Atomic Energy Agency established by UN
S29 1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings.
S29 1981 The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana "Didn't Last"
S29 1985 19th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 is launched
S30      Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S30 1619 The House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed.  1st elective
S30      governing body in a British colony.
B30 1818 Emily Brontë, English novelist (Wuthering Heights).
S30 1836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii.
B30 1863 Henry Ford, began automobile revolution
B30 1889 Vladimir Zworykin, electronics engineer, inventor, father of TV.
B30 1909 C. Northcote Parkinson, naval historian.
S30 1946 1st rocket to attain 100-mile altitude, White Sands, NM
S30 1956 Motto of US "In God We Trust" authorized
S30 1971 US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium.
S30 1980 Vanuatu (then New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain, Fran
S30 1983 STS-8 3rd flight of Challenger. 1st night launch & land.
S30 1984 STS-14 first flight of the shuttle Discovery.
S31      Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S31 1498 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad.
S31 1588 English fleet attacks Spanish armada
S31 1790 1st US Patent granted (for a potash process).
B31 1841 Herman Melville, American author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd).
B31 1912 Milton Friedman, economist.
S31 1948 President Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), NY
S31 1964 Ranger 7 transmits the 1st lunar close-up photos before impact
S31 1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending 'Huntley-Brinkley Report'
S31      (No more "Goodnight, David", "Goodnight, Chet")
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