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S01 1638 First earthquake recorded in U.S., at Plymouth, Mass
S01 1792 Kentucky becomes 15th state
S01 1796 Tennessee becomes 16th state
B01 1801 Brigham Young, Mormon church leader, polygamist
B01 1804 Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer
S01 1813 Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto: 'Don't give up the ship'.
S01 1845 Homing pigeon ends an 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days.
S01 1925 Lou Gehrig starts in first of 2130 consecutive games, a record.
B01 1926 Marilyn Monroe, actress, (Some Like It Hot)
S01 1933 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
B01 1955 Chiyonofuji, sumo wrestler
S01 1965 Penzias and Wilson detect 3 degree Kelvin primordial background.
S01 1967 Beatles release "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
S02      Republic (Constitution) Day, celebrated in Italy
S02  455 Gaiseric sacks Rome, what a Vandal.
B02 1740 Marquis de Sade, should have married a masochist.
B02 1835 Pope Pius X
B02 1840 Thomas Hardy, English poet/novelist, (Mayor of Casterbridge).
B02 1857 Sir Edward Elgar, composer (Pomp and Circumstance)
S02 1858 Donati Comet first seen, named after it's discoverer
S02 1873 Construction of world's first cable car system, begins in SF.
B02 1904 Johnny Weissmuller swimmer-actor, the definitive Tarzan.
S02 1910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
B02 1930 Charles Conrad Jr., astronaut (Gemini 5,11, Apollo 12, Skylab 2).
S02 1936 Gen. Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
B02 1948 Jerry Mathers, "The Beaver", leave it to him.
S02 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
S02 1966 Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum first moon soft-landing.
S02 1977 New Jersey legalizes casino gambling in Atlantic City.
S02 1979 John Paul II first pope to visit a communist country - Poland.
S03      Egg Day
S03 1539 Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
S03 1621 Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands"
S03 1770 Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in California
S03 1789 Alex Mackenzie began exploration of Mackenzie River
B03 1808 Jefferson Davis, President of Confederacy (1861-1865)
B03 1864 Ransom Eli Olds, auto (Oldsmobile) and truck (REO) manufacturer.
B03 1865 George V, king of England (1910-36)
S03 1888 "Casey at the Bat" is first published (by the SF Examiner)
B03 1906 Josephine Baker, dancer, singer
B03 1911 Paulette Goddard, actress
B03 1926 Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet (Howl)
S03 1934 Dr Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin knighted.
S03 1935 French "Normandie" sets Atlantic crossing record: 1077 hours.
S03 1937 Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Warfield Simpson.
S03 1942 Battle of Midway begins: first major battle won by airpower.
S03 1948 200 inch Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory.
S03 1949 "Dragnet" is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles).
S03 1965 Gemini IV is launched Ed White first American to walk in space
S03 1976 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
S03 1980 Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
S04      Old Maid's Day
S04      UN International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression.
S04  780 BC first total solar eclipse reliably recorded by Chinese
B04 1738 George III, English king during American Revolution (1760-1820)
S04 1784 Mme. Thible becomes first woman to fly (in a balloon)
B04 1867 Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Finnish military hero, president (1944-46
S04 1896 Henry drives his first Ford through streets of Detroit.
B04 1926 Robert Earl Hughes, became heaviest known human (486 kg)
S04 1940 British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops
S04 1944 First submarine captured and boarded on high seas - German U 505
S04 1947 Taft-Hartley Act approved despite a Truman veto.
S04 1956 Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin is made public.
S04 1986 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty.
S05      Constitution Day, celebrated in Denmark
B05 1723 Adam Smith, economist
S05 1783 Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make first public balloon flight.
B05 1819 John Couch Adams, codiscoverer of Neptune
S05 1833 Ada Lovelace (future computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
S05 1849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
S05 1875 Formal opening of the Pacific Stock Exchange.
B05 1878 Francisco (Pancho) Villa, Mexican revolutionary, guerrilla leader
B05 1883 John Maynard Keynes, another economist
B05 1898 Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet and dramatist
B05 1900 Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography (3D laser photography)
S05 1947 Sec of State George C. Marshall outlines `The Marshall Plan'.
S05 1972 U.N. Conference on the Human Environment opens in Stockholm
S05 1975 Suez Canal reopens (after 6 Day War caused it to close)
S05 1980 Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
B06 1755 Nathan Hale, had but one life to give for his country.
B06 1756 John Trumbull, painter.
S06 1809 Swedish Constitution and Flag Day (National Day)
S06 1844 YMCA founded in London
B06 1850 Karl F. Braun, codeveloper of wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909)
B06 1875 Thomas Mann, German novelist (Magic Mountain) (Nobel 1929)
B06 1903 Aram Khachaturian, Russian musician, composer
B06 1925 Walter Percy Chrysler, automaker, inspiration for Lee Iacocca
B06 1932 David R. Scott, U.S. astronaut (Gemini 8, Apollo 9, 15)
S06 1932 US Federal gas tax enacted
S06 1933 First drive-in theatre opens, in Camden, New Jersey.
S06 1934 Securities and Exchange Commission established
B06 1935 Dalai Lama, Tibetan religious leader
S06 1944 D-Day, the Allied Invasion of "Festung Europa"
S06 1946 Henry Morgan is first to take off his shirt on TV.
B06 1956 Bjorn Borg, Racketeer
S06 1967 Six Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors begins.
S06 1971 Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
S06 1975 British voters decide to remain in the Common Market
S06 1977 Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws
S06 1978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%  Yipee!
S06 1982 Israel invades Lebanon to drive out PLO
S06 2012 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs.
B07 1502 Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced the Gregorian calendar in 1582
S07 1769 Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Kentucky.
S07 1776 Richard Lee of Virginia calls for Declaration of Independence.
B07 1778 Beau Brummel, the foremost man of fashion.
S07 1839 Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
S07 1839 The Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed.
B07 1848 Paul Gauguin, painter
B07 1896 Robert Mulliken, U.S. chemist, physicist (Nobel 1966)
B07 1897 George Szell conductor
S07 1905 Norway declares independence from Sweden
S07 1929 Vatican City becomes a soverign state
S07 1938 First Boeing 314 Clipper "Flying Boat" flown by Eddie Allen
S07 1948 Communists take over Czechoslovakia
S07 1953 First color network telecast from Boston, Massachusets.
S07 1965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
S07 1971 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes first transfer to orbiting Salyut
S07 1972 German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel
S07 1977 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay law
S07 1981 Israel bombs Iraqi plutonium production facility at Osirak.
B08  570 Mohammed, prophet of Islam
B08 1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, astronomer
S08 1786 First commercially made ice cream sold in New York.
B08 1810 Robert Schumann, German composer.
B08 1829 Sir John Everett Millais, English painter.
B08 1869 Frank Lloyd Wright, master builder
S08 1869 Ives McGaffey patents his vacuum cleaner.
B08 1916 Francis Crick, codiscoverer of DNA structure, (Nobel 1962)
B08 1917 Byron "Whizzer" White, football star, U.S. Supreme Court justice.
B08 1918 Robert Preston, actor (The Music Man, Victor Victoria)
S08 1918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's in 1604, is discovered
S08 1940 Discovery of element 93 "Neptunium"  is announced.
S08 1953 Supreme Court forbids segregated lunch counters in Washington DC.
S08 1975 Soviets launch Venera 9 to Venus
S08 1979 The Source, first public computer info. service, goes online.
S08 2004 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs.
S09 1732 Royal Charter for Georgia, granted to James Oglethorpe.
B09 1781 George Stephenson, principal inventor of the railroad locomotive
B09 1791 John Howard Payne, American author, actor, diplomat
B09 1843 Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist, pacifist (Nobel 1905)
S09 1860 First dime novel published.
B09 1865 Carl Nielsen, Danish composer
B09 1893 Cole Porter, composer, lyricist (Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate)
S09 1898 China leases Hong Kong's New Territories to Britain for 99 years.
B09 1915 Les Paul, guitarist
S09 1931 Goddard patents rocket-fueled aircraft design.
B09 1934 Donald Duck, famous fowl
S09 1959 First ballistic missile launched from sub "George Washington"
S10      National Day, celebrated in Portugal.
S10 1639 First American log cabin at Ft Christina (Wilmington, Del).
S10 1752 Ben Franklin flies a kite in a thunderstorm, shocking!
S10 1772 British revenue cutter "Gaspee" is burned by Rhode Islanders.
S10 1801 State of Tripoli declares war on the US
S10 1854 Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved
S10 1869 The 'Agnes' arrives in New Orleans with the first ever
S10      shipment of frozen beef.
B10 1895 Immanuel Velikovsky, psuedo-science writer, (Worlds in Collision)
S10 1898 US Marines land at Cuba in Spanish-American War.
B10 1904 Frederick Loewe, composer
B10 1921 Prince Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, Mr Elizabeth II
S10 1921 Babe Ruth becomes all time homerun champ with 120 of them.
B10 1922 Judy Garland, actress/singer, traveled over the rainbow.
B10 1928 Maurice Sendak, children's author, illustrator, set designer
B10 1929 James A. McDivitt, U.S. astronaut (Gemini 4, Apollo 9)
S10 1932 First demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass.
S10 1935 Alcoholics Anonymous formed in Akron by Dr Robert Smith
S10 1940 Italy declares war on France and Britain
S10 1954 PBS reaches San Francisco: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting.
S10 1977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II.
S11      Kamehameha Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
B11 1572 Ben Johnson, playwright
S11 1770 Capt Cook runs aground on Australian Great Barrier Reef
B11 1776 John Constable, English painter.
B11 1847 Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of English women's movement.
S11 1859 Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada.
B11 1864 Richard Strauss, German composer (Also Sprach Zarathrustra)
B11 1867 Charles Fabry, discovered ozone layer in the upper atmosphere.
B11 1880 Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to Congress (from Montana).
S11 1895 First auto race.
B11 1907 Paul Mellon, philanthropist.
B11 1910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, explorer, captain of the "Calypso".
S11 1942 US and USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II.
S11 1947 WW II sugar rationing finally ends.
S11 1955 First magnesium jet airplane is flown.
S11 1970 US leaves Wheelus Air Force Base in Libya.
S11 1982 Movie "E T, The Extra-Terrestrial" is released.
S12      Independence Day, celebrated in the Phillipines.
S12 1665 English rename New Amsterdam to New York after the Dutch leave.
S12 1776 Virginia is first to adopt the Bill of Rights.
S12 1812 Napoleon invades Russia.  Classic "what not to" lesson.
B12 1829 Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (Heidi)
S12 1838 Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass
S12 1839 The first baseball game is played in America.  Thanks Abner!
B12 1897 Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon, British prime minister (1955-57)
S12 1898 Phillipines gains its independence from Spain.
B12 1915 David Rockefeller, International Power Broker
B12 1924 George Herbert Walker Bush, 44th President of the US (1988- )
B12 1929 Anne Frank, diarist
B12 1963 Anita LaRive The Loving, Beautiful and Great Wife of mine, the Author
S12 1934 Black-McKeller Bill splits United Airlines from Boeing.
S12 1957 Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg.
S12 1967 Israel wins the Six Day War.
S12 1967 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
S12 1979 Bryan Allen flies the "Gossamer Albatross", the first
S12      man-powered aircraft, over the English Channel.
S13      Kitchen Klutzs of America Day
S13      The National Asparagus Festival
B13  823 Charles II (the Bald), king of France (843-77), emperor (875-77)
S13 1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) is signed
S13 1611 John Fabricius dedicates the earliest sunspot publication.
B13 1786 Winfield Scott, American army general, presidential candidate
B13 1831 James Clerk Maxwell, physicist, formulated electromagnetic theory
B13 1865 William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Wild Swans at Coole)(Nobel 1923
S13 1898 Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital.
S13 1900 China's Boxer Rebellion begins, against foreigners and Christians
B13 1903 Harold "Red" Grange, the "Galloping Ghost" of football.
B13 1935 Christo, artist
S13 1963 Valentina Tereshkova aboard Vostok 6, becomes the first woman
S13      in space.  You've come a long way, baby.
S13 1967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as first black Supreme Court justice.
S13 1983 Pioneer 10 is first man-made object to leave the Solar System.
S14      Flag Day
S14 1775 The US Army is founded.
S14 1777 Stars and Stripes adopted as US flag, replacing Grand Union flag.
B14 1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, authoress (Uncle Tom's Cabin).
B14 1820 John Bartlett, American editor, compiler of Familiar Quotations
S14 1846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma.
S14 1847 Bunson invents a gas burner.
B14 1864 Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, pathologist
B14 1868 Karl Landsteiner, immunologist, pathologist (Nobel 1930)
S14 1870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer first loss in 130 games.
S14 1900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins.
S14 1919 First direct airplane crossing of the Atlantic.
B14 1928 Ernesto (Che) Guevara, Latin American revolutionary
S14 1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin.  How'd he do that?
S14 1940 France falls to Nazi Germany.  Vichy water loses popularity.
S14 1942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released.  Thumper's first job.
S14 1948 TV Guide is first published.
S14 1951 UNIVAC 1, first commercial computer, is unveiled.
S14 1952 Keel laid for first nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus.
B14 1958 Eric Heiden, skater, FIVE Gold Medals at 1984 Winter Olympics.
S14 1967 Launch of Mariner V for Venus flyby
S14 1975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
S14 1982 Britain wins the 74 day war for the Falkland Islands.
S15 1215 King John reluctantly signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede.
B15 1330 Edward, the Black Prince
S15 1520 The pope threatens to toss Luther out of the Catholic Church.
S15 1664 The state of New Jersey is founded.
S15 1752 Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning, shocking!
S15 1775 Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the American Army.
S15 1836 Arkansas becomes 25th state
B15 1843 Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer
S15 1844 Goodyear patents the process for vulcanization of rubber.
S15 1846 Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49° North.
S15 1878 First attempt at motion pictures(using 12 cameras, each taking
S15      one picture (to see if all 4 horse's hooves leave the ground
S15      during a gallop.  Leland Stanford bet they didn't.  He lost).
S15 1919 First flight across Atlantic (Alcock and Brown).
S15 1940 France surrenders to Hitler.
S15 1951 First commercial electronic computer dedicated in Philadelphia.
S15 1975 Soyuz 19 launched
S15 1977 Spain's first free elections since 1936.
S15 1978 Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days.
S15 1982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat.
S15 1991 Mt Pinatubo, Philippines erupts: 20 million tons of sulfur
S15      dioxide will slightly cool the earth for several years.
S16 1567 Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison
S16 1775 The Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill).
S16 1858 "A house divided against itself cannot stand" - Abraham Lincoln.
B16 1895 Stan Laurel, of Laurel and Hardy fame
B16 1902 Barbara McClintock, U.S. cytogeneticist (Nobel 1983)
S16 1903 Ford Motor Company, a vehicle manufacturer, is founded.
B16 1920 John Howard Griffin, American photographer, author(Black Like Me)
S16 1933 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is created.
S16 1963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space.
S16 1977 Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR
S16 1984 Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race
S17      Republic Day, celebrated in Iceland.
B17 1239 Edward I, king of England (1272-1307)
B17 1703 John Wesley, cofounder of Methodist movement
B17 1742 William Hooper, signer of Declaration of Independence
B17 1818 Charles Gounod, composer
S17 1856 Republican Party opened its first convention in Philadelphia.
B17 1870 George Cormack, the inventor of "Wheaties" cereal.
B17 1882 Igor Stravinsky, has the rite of spring
S17 1885 Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC aboard French ship "Isere".
B17 1914 John Hersey, author (Hiroshima, A Bell for Adano)
S17 1944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland.
S17 1947 First around-the-world civil air service leaves New York.
S17 1963 Supreme Court strikes down Lord's Prayer recitation
S17 1971 US returns control of Okinawa to Japanese
S17 1972 Democratic HQ at Watergate is burglarized by the Republicans.
S17 1982 Ronald Reagan delivers "evil empire" speech.
S18 1178 Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno.
B18 1799 William Lassell, discoverer of satellites of Uranus and Neptune
S18 1812 War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain.
S18 1815 Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon defeated by Wellington and Blücher.
S18 1873 Susan B Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President.
B18 1877 James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, best known for his
B18      "I want you" Uncle Sam recruiting poster.
B18 1886 George Mallory, English mountain climber ("because it is there")
S18 1892 Macademia nuts first planted in Hawaii.
B18 1901 Jeanette MacDonald, singer/actress, (Indian Love Call, New Moon).
S18 1928 Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
B18 1942 Paul McCartney, Yah-Yah-Yah
S18 1953 Egypt is proclaimed a republic.
S18 1959 First television broadcast transmitted from England to US.
S18 1977 Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft
S18      for first time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
S18 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on the US Supreme Court.
S18 1983 Sally Ride becomes first US woman in space, aboard Challenger.
S19  240 BC - Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of the earth.
B19 1623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician.
S19 1756 146 English people imprisoned in Black Hole of Calcutta.
S19 1778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.
S19 1846 First baseball game: NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1 (Hoboken, NJ).
S19 1862 Slavery outlawed in US territories.
B19 1886 Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
B19 1902 Guy Lombardo, conductor
B19 1903 Henry Louis Gehrig, the "Iron Horse" of the Yankees.
B19 1909 Osamu Dazai, Japanese novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human)
S19 1910 Father's Day celebrated for first time in Spokane, Washington.
B19 1922 Aage "Nils" Bohr, Danish atomic physicist, (Nobel 1975)
S19 1931 First commercial photoelectric cell installed in West Haven Ct.
S19 1932 First concert given in San Francisco's Stern Grove.
B19 1933 Viktor I. Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
S19 1934 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
S19 1947 First plane to exceed 600 mph - Albert Boyd at Muroc, CA.
S19 1976 Viking 1 enters Martian orbit after 10 month flight from earth.
B19 1978 Garfield the cat. "Big fat hairy deal".
S19 1981 European Space Agency's Ariane carries two satellites into orbit.
R20      Patrick's (TODAY) birthday will be on the 28th, send him a card.
B20 1674 Nicholas Rowe, dramatist, English poet laureate
S20 1782 Congress approves Great Seal of US and the Eagle as it's symbol.
S20 1791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
B20 1819 Jacques Offenbach, composer
S20 1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of
S20      uncle King William IV. She ruled for 63 years, until 1901.
S20 1863 West Virginia became 35th state
B20 1907 Lillian Hellman, playwright (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes)
B20 1909 Errol Flynn, great Tasmanian actor (Robin Hood, Dodge City)
B20 1924 Audie Murphy, war hero, actor
B20 1946 André Watts, concert pianist
B20 1978 Christopher LaRive (Son of the Author of this Program) Love Ya!!
S20 1948 Ed Sullivan has his first really big 'shoe' on Sunday night TV.
S20 1963 US and USSR agree to set up a "Hot Line".
S20 1968 Jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 secs
S20 1977 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez.
S20 1982 National Bald Eagle Day was declared.
S21      The longest day of the year: Summer Solstice.
S21 1633 Galileo Galilei is forced by the Inquisition to "abjure, curse,
S21      and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views.  Still in effect!
B21 1732 Martha Washington, first lady.
S21 1788 US Constitution effective as NH is ninth state to ratify it.
S21 1834 Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine.
S21 1879 F. W. Woolworth opens his first store (failed almost immediately,
S21      so he found a new location and you know the rest...)
B21 1882 Rockwell Kent, artist
B21 1892 Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian
B21 1905 Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher/writer (Nobel 1964, declined
B21 1921 Jane Russell, full-figured gal, in Bemidji Minnesota, (Outlaw).
B21 1935 Françoise Sagan, French novelist
S21 1948 First stored computer program run, on the Manchester Mark I.
B21 1953 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani opposition leader
B21 1982 Laurie LaRive (Daughter of the Author of this program) Love Ya!!
S21 1963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII
S22 1611 Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay during mutiny.
S22 1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II.
S22 1772 Slavery is outlawed in England.
S22 1775 First Continental currency authorized
S22 1807 British board USS Chesapeake, leading to the War of 1812.
S22 1808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak, it was all downhill after that.
B22 1837 Paul Morphy, US, greatest chess player so far, champ (1857-61)
S22 1847 The doughnut is invented.
B22 1858 Giacomo Puccini, Italian operatic composer
B22 1887 Sir Julian Huxley, biologist and philosopher of science
B22 1898 Erich Maria Remarque, novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front)
B22 1906 Billy Wilder, film director
B22 1907 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American aviator/author (Gift from the Sea
S22 1910 First passenger carrying airship, the Zeppelin "Deutscheland".
S22 1911 King George V of England crowned
S22 1944 FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
S22 1978 The planet Pluto's partner, Charon, is discovered.
S22 1983 First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle.
S23 1683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians
S23      in Pennsylvania; the only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken".
S23 1757 Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal
B23 1846 George Sax, inventor of the saxophone.
S23 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents the typewriter.
B23 1894 Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII of England, briefly in 1936)
B23 1911 David Ogilvy advertising whiz
B23 1912 Alan Turing, mathematician, pioneer in computer theory.
B23 1927 Bob Fosse, choreographer, director (Cabaret, Damn Yankees)
S23 1955 Walt Disney's "Lady And The Tramp" is released
S23 1976 CN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555m) opens
S23 1986 Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House
S24      Midsummer Day, celebrated in Europe (quarter day in England)
S24      St. Jean Baptiste Day -- Canada
S24 1314 Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
S24 1441 Eton College founded by Henry VI
S24 1497 John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England
S24 1509 Henry VIII becomes King of England
S24 1817 First coffee planted in Hawaii, on the Kona coast.
B24 1839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift and Co.
B24 1842 Ambrose Bierce, satirist
B24 1895 Jack Dempsey, Heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26)
B24 1915 Fred Hoyle, cosmologist, proposed steady-state universe theory
B24 1916 John Ciardi, poet, critic, translator of Dante
S24 1930 First radar detection of aircraft, at Anacostia, DC.
B24 1932 David McTaggart, cofounder of Greenpeace
S24 1949 Cargo airlines first licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board.
S24 1949 Hopalong Cassidy becomes first network western.
S24 1963 First demonstration of home video recorder, BBC Studios, London.
S24 1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down in defeat.
S24 1982 Soyuz T-6 lifts 3 cosmonauts (1 French) to Salyut 7 space station
S24 1986 US Senate approves "tax reform" - taxes went up.
S25 1178 Five Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon
S25      (the only known observation of probable meteor strike).
S25 1630 The Fork is introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop.
S25 1835 Pueblo founded with construction of first building (start of
S25      Yerba Buena, later to be called San Francisco).
B25 1886 Henry "Hap" Arnold, commanding general, US Army Air Force in WW I
B25 1894 Hermann Oberth, founder of modern astronautics.
B25 1900 Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, royal relative
B25 1903 George Orwell, English satirist, author (Animal Farm)
B25 1907 J.H.D. Jensen, German physicist (atomic nuclei) (Nobel 1963)
S25 1938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40¢ per hour.
S25 1950 El Al begins air service.
S25 1950 Korean War begins; North Korea invades South.
S25 1951 1st color TV broadcast: CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities
S25 1953 First passenger flies commercially around the world < 100 hours.
S25 1977 Roy C Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightening for 7th time!
S26 1483 Richard III crowned King of England.  Villified by Thomas More.
B26 1730 Charles Messier, cataloguer of astronomical "M objects"
B26 1742 Arthur Middleton, signer of the Declaration of Independence
S26 1797 Charles Newbold patents first cast-iron plow.
B26 1819 Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing American Baseball
S26 1876 Custer's Last Stand
B26 1892 Pearl Buck, author, (The Good Earth)
S26 1900 Walter Reed begins research that beats yellow fever
B26 1904 Peter Lorre, actor, (M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers)
S26 1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 133 kph
B26 1913 Maurice Wilkes, invented stored program concept for computers.
B26 1925 Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut, (Voskhod 2)
S26 1934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions.
S26 1945 UN Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco.
S26 1948 US responses to Soviet blockade of Berlin with an airlift.
S26 1949 Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus INSIDE orbit of Mercury.
S26 1959 St Lawrence Seaway opens, linking Atlantic Ocean with Great Lakes
S26 1963 John F. Kennedy visits West Berlin, "Ich bin ein Berliner".
B26 1964 Zeng Jinlian, became tallest woman known (2.46 m, 8'1")
S26 1968 Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
S26 1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1 launched.
S27      National Fink Day
S27 1806 Buenos Aires captured by British
S27 1838 Queen Victoria is crowned
B27 1880 Helen Keller blind-deaf author-lecturer, more sense than many.
B27 1927 Bob Keeshan, aka Captain Kangaroo (Good Morning Captain!)
S27 1929 First color TV demo, in New York
B27 1930 H. Ross Perot, classy billionaire
B27 1934 Anna Moffo, soprano.
S27 1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off Long Island, NY.
S27 1950 President Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict.
S27 1955 First automobile seat belt legislation enacted Illinois
S27 1960 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized in Cambridge Mass
S27 1962 NASA X-15 flies at 4105 mph
S27 1963 Robert Rushworth in X-15 reaches 87 km
S27 1978 Soyuz 30 launched
S27 1982 4th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 4 launched
S27 1983 Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
S28      Pons-Winnecke meteor shower, radiant in Draco
B28 1491 Henry VIII of England.  Don't lose your head over him.
B28 1577 Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter
B28 1712 Jean Jacques Rousseau, social contractor
S28 1820 The tomato is proved to be nonpoisonous.
B28 1902 Richard Rodgers, composer, (South Pacific, Oklahoma)
S28 1919 The Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, was signed.
S28 1939 Pan Am begins transatlantic air service with the Dixie Clipper.
B28 1946 Gilda Radner, comedienne, (Saturday Night Live)
B28 1947 Patrick Kincaid, send him a card, he'll love it.
S28 1951 "Amos 'n Andy" show premiers on television (CBS).
S29 1776 Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay.
S29 1854 Congress ratifies Gadsden Purchase of parts of New Mexico, Ariz.
B29 1858 George Washington Goethals, engineer who built the Panama Canal.
B29 1861 William James Mayo, American surgeon
S29 1863 The very first First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa.
B29 1865 Shigechiyo Izumi, alive at 120 (greatest authenticated human age)
B29 1901 Nelson Eddy, baritone, duets with Jeanette MacDonald, (New Moon).
S29 1916 The first Boeing aircraft flies.
B29 1919 Slim Pickens, actor, (Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles)
S29 1929 First high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field, CA.
S29 1946 British arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists
S29 1952 First aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn - the Oriskany.
S29 1962 First flight of the Vickers VC-10 long-range airliner.
S29 1971 Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days
S30      Pons-Winnecke meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S30 1834 Congress creates Indian Territory
S30 1893 The Excelsior diamond (blue-white, 995 carats) discovered.
S30 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act adopted
S30 1908 Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (the Tunguska Event)
B30 1911 Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-American writer (Nobel 1980)
S30 1930 First round-the-world radio broadcast, from Schenectady NY.
B30 1934 Harry Blackstone Jr, magician
S30 1936 40 hour work week law approved in US.
S30 1948 Transistor demonstrated Murray Hill, NJ.
S30 1960 Zaire gains its independence.
S30 1972 Timekeeping adjusted with the first leap second.
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