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S01      International Day of the Seal0322
S01 1781 The Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress.
B01 1810 Frederic Chopin
B01 1848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor designed 1907 $20 gold piece
S01 1859 Present seal of San Francisco adopted (2nd seal for city).
S01 1864 Patent issued for taking & projecting motion pictures to Louis
S01      Ducos du Hauron (he never did build such a machine, though).
S01 1867 Nebraska becomes a state.
S01 1872 Yellowstone becomes world's first national park
S01 1961 President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
S01 1966 Venera 3 becomes the first manmade object to impact
S01      another planet - Venus.
S01 1970 End of commercial whale hunting by the US.  Japan, stop it!
S01 1982 Soviet Venera 13 makes a soft landing on Venus.
S02 1836 Texas declares independence from Mexico.
S02 1861 Congress creates the Territory of Nevada.
S02 1917 Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted.
S02 1929 US Court of Customs & Patent Appeals created by US Congress.
S02 1949 First automatic street light installed. (In New Milford, CT)
S02 1958 First surface crossing of the Antarctic continent ends.
S02 1972 Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby.
S02 1974 First Class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents.
S02 1978 Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
S03      Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival), celebrated in Japan.
S03      Independence Day, celebrated in Morocco.
S03 1791 Congress passed a resolution ordering U.S. Mint be established.
S03 1812 Congress passes first foreign aid bill.
S03 1845 Florida becomes 27th state
S03 1849 Gold Coinage Act passed, allowing gold coins to be minted.
S03 1851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin, the 3-cent piece.
S03 1861 Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom
S03 1863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
S03 1875 A 20-cent coin was authorized by Congress (It lasted 3 years).
S03 1878 Bulgaria liberated from Turkey
S03 1885 American Telephone and Telegraph incorporated.
S03 1923 Time magazine publishes its first issue.
S03 1931 "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem.
S03 1956 Morocco gains its independence.
S03 1969 Apollo 9 launched
S03 1972 Pioneer 10 launched thru asteroid belt & Jupiter
B04 1394 Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsor of Portuguese exploration.
S04 1675 John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal of England.
B04 1678 Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso and composer.
S04 1789 Congress declares the Constitution to be in effect.
S04 1791 Vermont admitted as 14th state.
S04 1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii.
S04 1793 Shortest inauguration speech, 133 words, Washington (2nd time).
S04 1801 Jefferson is the first President inaugurated in Washington, DC.
S04 1826 First US railroad chartered, the Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass.
S04 1841 Longest inauguration speech, 8443 words, William Henry Harrison.
S04 1861 Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag
S04 1902 American Automobile Association (AAA) founded.
S04 1933 Roosevelt inaugurated, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
S04 1934 Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson dedicated.
S04 1955 First radio facsimile transmission is sent across the continent.
S04 1959 Pioneer 4 makes first US lunar flyby.
S04 1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
S04 1977 First CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped to Los Alamos Labs, NM
S04 1979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
S05 1616 Corpernicus' DE REVOLUTIONIBUS placed on Catholic forbidden index
S05 1770 Boston Massacre
B05 1824 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives fame)
S05 1845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US.
S05 1908 1st ascent of Mt. Erebus, Antarctica
S05 1933 FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday.
S05 1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
S05 1979 Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter
B06 1619 Cyrano de Bergerac
S06 1665 "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" was first
S06      published, and is still published today.
B06 1812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking.
S06 1836 Alamo falls.  Remember it!
S06 1857 Dred Scott decision rendered.
B06 1937 Valentina Tereshkova, 1st woman cosmonaut
S06 1986 Soviet Vega 1 probe passes within 10,000 km of Halley's comet
S07 1778 James Cook first sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
S07 1848 In Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed.
B07 1849 Luther Burbank, plant breeder
B07 1875 Maurice Ravel, "Bolero"
S07 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
S07 1912 Roald Amundsen announces the discovery of the South Pole
S07 1926 First transatlantic telephone call (London-New York)
S07 1933 The game "Monopoly" is invented.
S07 1936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
S07 1962 US Orbiting Solar Observatory is launched.
S07 1981 Walter Cronkite's final CBS anchor appearance.  Still unequaled.
S08      International Women's Day
B08 1787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery
B08 1859 Kenneth Grahame, author, "The Wind in the Willows"
S08 1862 The Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched.
B08 1879 Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
S08 1917 US invades Cuba, for third time.  No wonder they're paranoid.
S08 1934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
S08 1965 First US forces arrive in Vietnam.  Oh unhappy day!
S08 1976 Largest observed falling single stony meteorite (Jiling, China)
S09 1497 Nicolaus Copernicus first recorded astronomical observation.
S09 1796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais
S09 1822 Charles Graham of NY granted patent for artificial teeth
B09 1824 Leland Stanford, Governor, Senator, founded Stanford Univ.
S09 1862 The ironclads "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle
S09      in Hampton Roads.  It was a standoff.
B09 1934 Yuri Gagarin, the first man into space.
S09 1954 Edward R. Murrow criticizes Senator McCarthy (See it Now)
S09 1961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
S09 1979 First extraterrestrial volcano found, (Jupiter's satellite Io).
S10      World Culture Day
S10 1847 First money minted in Hawaii.
S10 1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent, only US president to do so.
S10 1876 First telephone call, made by Alexander Graham Bell
S10 1933 Big earthquake in Long Beach (W.C. Fields was making a movie
S10      when it struck & the cameras kept running).
S10 1977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occultation of SAO
S11      Zeta Boötid meteor shower, radiant in Boötes
S11 1810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
S11 1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
S11 1867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii).
S11 1892 First public game of basketball.
S11 1938 Germany invades Austria.
S11 1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill with England.
S11 1942 Gen MacArthur leaves Bataan for Australia.
S11 1960 Pioneer 5 launched; orbits sun between Earth & Venus
S11 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko.
S12      Zeta Boötid meteor shower, radiant in Boötes
S12      Commonwealth Day
B12 1831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer.
B12 1832 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts.
S12 1850 First $20 Gold piece issued.
S12 1868 Congress abolishes manufacturers tax
S12 1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savanah Ga
S12 1925 First transatlantic radio broadcast.
S12 1936 FDR conducts his first "Fireside Chat"
S12 1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
S13 1639 Harvard University is named for clergyman John Harvard.
S13 1677 Massachusets gains title to Maine for $6,000.
B13 1733 Joseph Priestly, discoverer of oxygen, revolutionary
S13 1852 Uncle Sam makes his debut in the New York "Lantern"
S13 1877 Chester Greenwood patents ear muffler
S13 1884 US adopts standard time
S13 1925 Law passed in Tennessee prohibiting teaching evolution
S13 1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
S13 1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer.
S13 1986 Soyuz T-15 launched
S14 1629 Royal charter grants Massachusets Bay Colony
S14 1644 Royal patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island).
B14 1681 Georg Philipp Telemann, leading German late baroque composer.
S14 1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
B14 1864 Casey Jones
S14 1870 Legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible.
B14 1879 Albert Einstein, relative
S14 1896 Sutro Baths opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952).
S14 1900 US currency goes on gold standard
S14 1903 First national bird reserve established in Sebastian, Florida
S14 1923 President Harding is the first president to file his income tax.
S14 1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco.
S14 1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with W Germany
S14 1983 OPEC cuts oil prices for first time in 23 years.
S15      The day the buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio.
S15      Beware the Ides of March
S15   44 Julius Cæsar assassinated in Roman Senate.  Et tu, Brute?
B15 1767 Andrew Jackson, 7th President (1828-1836)
S15 1820 Maine admitted as 23rd state
S15 1913 Woodrow Wilson holds the first Presidential Press Conference.
S15 1916 Pershing and 15,000 troops chase Pancho Villa into Mexico.
S15 1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates
S15 1937 First blood bank established, Chicago, Illinois
S15 1956 My Fair Lady opens in New York.
S15 1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (first underwater park)
S15 1968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold.
S15 1968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold.
S15 1999 Pluto again becomes the outermost planet.
S16      Return of long-billed curlews to Umatilla, Oregon
S16 1621 First Indian appears at Plymouth, Massachusets
B16 1751 James Madison, 4th President (1809-1817)
S16 1802 Law signed to establish US Military Academy at West Point, NY
S16 1827 First US black newspaper, Freedom's Journal, New York
B16 1836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car.
S16 1916 US and Canada sign Migratory Bird Treaty
S16 1926 Robert Goddard launches first liquid fuel rocket - 184 feet
S16 1935 Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
S16 1966 Gemini 8 launched with 2 astronauts
S16 1975 US Mariner 10 makes 3rd, and final, fly-by of Mercury.
S17      St. Patrick's Day
S17      Evacuation Day (celebrated in Boston)
S17      World Maritime Day
B17 1804 James Bridger, scout, fur trader, mountain man par excellance.
B17 1834 Gottlieb Daimler, automobile pioneer
S17 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt first uses the term "muckrake".
S17 1910 Camp Fire Girls are organized.
B17 1919 Nat King Cole, silky voice.
S17 1941 National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, DC
S17 1950 Element 98 (Californium) is announced.
S17 1958 Vanguard 1 measures shape of Earth
S17 1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
S17 1966 US sub locates missing hydrogen bomb in Mediterranean.
S17 1969 Golda Meir becomes Israeli Prime Minister.
S18 1541 de Soto is first European to record flooding of the Mississippi
S18 1766 Britain repeals Stamp Act, partial cause of American Revolution.
B18 1782 John C. Calhoun, statesman
B18 1837 Grover Cleveland, President (1885-1889, 1893-1897)
S18 1850 American Express founded
S18 1850 American Express founded.
B18 1858 Rudolf Diesel, invented an engine, heard of it?
S18 1881 Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison
S18      Square Garden in New York City.
S18 1892 Lord Stanley proposes silver cup challenge for Hockey
S18 1909 Einar Dessau of Denmark - first ham broadcaster.
S18 1931 First electric razor marketed by Schick.
B18 1932 John Updike, poet and novelist.
S18 1938 Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties.
S18 1952 First plastic lens for cataract patients fitted, Philadelphia.
S18 1959 Pres Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
S18 1965 Russia launches 2nd Voshkod, first spacewalk - Aleksei Leonov.
S19      Canberra Day in Australia
S19      The day the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano.
S19 1822 Boston, Mass incorporated
S19 1859 Faust by Charles Gounod premiers in Paris
B19 1860 William Jennings Bryan, 'The Great Commoner'
S19 1917 US Supreme Court upheld 8 hour work day for the railroads.
S19 1918 Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight time
S19 1920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time
S19 1928 'Amos and Andy' debut on radio.
S19 1928 Amos & Andy debuts on radio
S19 1931 Nevada legalized gambling
S19 1949 First museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, TN
R20      Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
S20 1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
S20 1833 US and Siam conclude their first commercial treaty
S20 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's `Uncle Tom's Cabin,' published
B20 1856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management.
S20 1886 First commercial AC-power plant begins operation
B20 1904 BF Skinner, psychologist, pioneer in Behaviorism.
S20 1942 MacArthur vowes to Phillipinos, "I shall return"
S21      Earth Day
S21      The First Day of Spring... Tra-la Tra-la
S21      Natl Teen-Agers Day
S21      Start of Persian and Bahá'í New Years
R21      Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
B21 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach, gone for Baroque
B21 1768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist
S21 1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California, paradise found.
B21 1869 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame.
S21 1965 Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery
S21 1965 US Ranger 9 launched takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
S22 1621 Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth)
S22 1733 Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water.
S22 1765 Britain enacts the now infamous Stamp Act
S22 1778 Captain Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state
S22 1882 Congress outlaws polygamy.  Male longevity increases.
S22 1941 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state goes into operation
S22 1945 Arab League is founded
S22 1946 Jordan (formerly Transjordan) gains independence from Britain.
S22 1957 Earthquake gives San Francisco the shakes.
S22 1960 Schawlow and Townes obtain a patent for the laser.
S22 1963 Beatles release their first album, Please Please Me
S22 1968 President Johnson's daughter, Lynda, ordered off Cable Car
S22      because she was eating an ice cream cone (no food on cars!).
S22 1977 Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
S22 1978 Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, dedicated.
S22 1981 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6.
S22 1981 First Class Postage raised from 15 cents to 18 cents.
S22 1982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 launched
S23      World Meteorological Day
R23      Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
S23 1743 George Frederic Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London.
S23 1752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, dies 2 days later.
S23 1775 Patrick Henry asks for Liberty or Death.
S23 1806 Lewis the Clark reach the Pacific coast.
S23 1840 First photo of moon is taken.
B23 1912 Werner von Braun, rocketeer
S23 1919 Benito Mussolini founds the Fascist movement in Milan, Italy.
S23 1929 First telephone installed in the White House.
S23 1933 German Reichstag grantes Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.
S23 1944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute and lives.
S23 1956 Pakistan becomes independent within British Commonwealth.
S23 1962 President John F. Kennedy visits San Francisco.
S23 1965 Gemini 3 blasts off, first US 2-man space flight.
S23 1976 International Bill of Rights goes into effect, 35 nations ratify.
S24 1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act
B24 1874 Harry Houdini, escape artist extraordinaire
S24 1882 German Robert Koch discovers bacillus, cause of Tuberculosis.
S24 1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
B24 1930 Steve McQueen, actor, "Bullitt"
S24 1934 FDR grants future independence to Philippines
S24 1955 Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens on Broadway.
S24 1965 US Ranger 9 strikes moon 10 miles NE of crater Alphonsus
S24 1972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
S24 1976 Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's miltitary.
S24 1986 Libya attacks US forces in Gulf of Sidra.  US 2, Libya 0.
S25      Global Understanding Day
S25 1634 Maryland founded as a Catholic colony
S25 1655 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satelite)
S25 1821 Greece gains its independence.
S25 1857 Frederick Laggenheim takes the 1st photograph of a solar eclipse
S25 1951 Purcell and Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
S25 1954 RCA manufactures the first COLOR television.
S25 1955 East Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR
S25 1960 First guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
S26      Prince Kuhio Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
S26 1845 Adhesive medicated plaster patented, precusor of bandaid.
B26 1874 Robert Frost, poet
S26 1878 Hastings College of Law founded.
S26 1885 Eastman Film Company makes first commercial motion picture film
B26 1911 Tennessee Williams, dramatist, "Streetcar Named Desire"
B26 1925 Pierre Boulez, French composer.
B26 1931 Leonard Nimoy, "That isn't logical Captain."
S26 1937 Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye
S26 1953 Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine against polio
S26 1958 Army launched US's 3rd successful satellite Explorer III
S26 1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made a City Landmark.
S26 1971 East Pakistan proclaimed independence taking name Bangladesh
S26 1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt
S26 1982 Groundbreaking in Washington DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
B26 2228 James T. Kirk, captain of the starship Enterprise
S27 1512 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Florida.
S27 1625 Charles I King of England Scotland & Ireland ascends to throne
S27 1794 The US Navy is founded.  Anchors Aweigh!
S27 1802 Asteroid Pallas discovered by Heinrich Olbers
S27 1807 Asteroid Vesta discovered by Olbers
B27 1813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (of Currier & Ives)
S27 1836 First Mormon temple dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio.
S27 1855 Abraham Gesner receives a patent for kerosene
S27 1860 ML Byrn patents the corkscrew.  Bless you sir!
B27 1863 Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce.
S27 1933 US Farm Credit Administration authorized.
S27 1964 Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale.
S27 1968 SF Japanese Trade and Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated.
S27 1972 Soviet spacecraft Venera 8 launched to Venus
S27 1980 Mount St. Helens becomes active after 123 years
R28 0331 "Spring Forward" One hour at 2am, the first Sunday in April.
S28 1794 Nathan Briggs gets patent for the washing machine.
S28 1930 Constantinople and Angora change names to Istanbul and Ankara.
S28 1939 Spanish Civil War ends, facist Francisco Franco wins
B29 1790 John Tyler, 10th President (1841-1845)
B29 1819 Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive oil well in US.
B29 1867 Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever (509 wins, 1890-1911)
S29 1871 Albert Hall opens it's doors in London.
S29 1886 Coca-Cola is created (with cocaine).  It satisfies your craving.
S29 1961 23rd Amendment ratified, Washington DC can vote for the president
S29 1973 US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution
S29 1974 Mariner 10's first fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
B30 1719 Sir John Hawkins, wrote 1st history of music in English
S30 1842 Dr. Crawford Long, first uses ether as an anesthetic.
B30 1853 Vincent van Gogh, artist who always lent an ear
S30 1853 Patent granted to Hyman Lipman for a pencil with an ERASER!
S30 1867 US purchases Alaska for $7,200,000 (Seward's Folly)
S30 1870 15th Amendment passed, guarantees right to vote to all races
S30 1932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic solo
S30 1950 Invention of the Phototransistor is announced at Murray Hill, NJ
B31 1596 Rene Descartes, he thought, therefore he was
B31 1732 Joseph Haydn, composer, helped develop the Classical style.
B31 1809 Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
S31 1854 Commodore Perry makes Japan opens its ports to foreign trade
B31 1854 Sir Dugald Clerk, inventor of the 2-stroke motorcycle engine.
S31 1870 Thomas P Mundy became 1st black to vote in US (Perth Amboy NJ)
S31 1880 Wabash Ind - first town completely illuminated by electric light
S31 1889 Eiffel Tower completed.
S31 1932 Ford publicly unveils its first V-8 engine
S31 1933 Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
S31 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!" opens on Broadway
S31 1949 Newfoundland becomes 10th Canadian province
S31 1963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after nearly 90 years.
S31 1966 USSR launches Luna 10, first spacecraft to orbit moon
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