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01011772 First traveller's checks are issued in London.
01011804 Haiti gains its independence.
01011863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln.
01011902 First Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California.
01011912 First running of San Francisco's famed "Bay to Breakers" race.
01011934 Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison.
01011956 Sudan gains its independence.
01011958 European Economic Community (EEC) starts operation.
01011984 AT & T broken up into 8 companies.
01021890 Alice Sanger becomes first female White House staffer.
01021957 The San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.
01031852 First Chinese arrive in Hawaii.
01031888 First drinking straw is patented by M.C. Stone in Washington, D.C.
01031959 Alaska becomes the 49th state.
01031977 Apple Computer incorporated.
01041863 Four-wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of New York.
01051850 The California Exchange opens.
01051925 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes first woman governor.
01051933 Work on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge begins,
0105     on Marin County side.
01061681 First recorded boxing match takes place in England, between
0106     Duke of Albemarle's butler and his butcher.
01061914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
01071610 Galileo discovers the 4 major moons of Jupiter.
01071714 The typewriter is patented (it was built years later)
01071785 First balloon flight across the English Channel.
01071896 Fanny Farmer publishes her first cookbook.
01071929 "Tarzan", one of the first adventure comic strips appears.
01081815 Battle of New Orleans, made a hero out of Andrew Jackson (the
0108     War of 1812 had ended on 12/24/1814, but nobody knew that).
01081865 Sen. Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make the Marigold
0108     the national flower.  It doesn't pass.
01091793 First balloon flight in North America takes place in Philadelphia.
01091799 First income tax imposed, in England.
01091839 The daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science
01091847 First San Francisco paper, 'California Star', published.
01091848 First commercial bank in San Francisco established.
01091982 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855.
01101776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published.
01101840 The Penny Post mail system is started.
01101863 First underground railway opens in London.
01101910 First international air meet is held in Los Angeles.
01101945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close.
01111569 First lottery is held in England, at St. Paul's Cathedral.
01111813 First pineapples planted in Hawaii.
01111892 Hawaii Historical Society founded.
01111935 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California.
01121922 Mrs. Hattie Caraway becomes first woman elected to U.S. Senate.
01131854 Anthony Foss obtains patent for the Accordion.
01131906 First "radio set" advertised (in Scientific American) ... claimed
0113     to receive signals up to ONE MILE. Price: $7.50.
01131920 NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly.
01131971 Apollo 14 launched (what was that about rockets can't fly??)
01141690 The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany.
01141784 The Revolutionary War formally ends.
01141914 Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars.
01151861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis, forming base for his
0115     elevator company.
01151870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly.
01151927 Dunbarton Bridge, first bridge in S.F. Bay Area, opens.
01151948 The Pentagon Building in Washington is completed.
01161865 San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle started (now called the
0116     San Francisco Chronicle)
01161887 San Francisco's Cliff House badly damaged when a cargo
0116     of gunpowder on the schooner "Parallel" explodes nearby.
01171861 Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest!!).
01171871 First Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie.
01171893 The Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic.
01171929 Popeye makes first appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theatre."
01171943 It was Tin Can Drive Day.
01181644 First UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston.
01181777 San Jose, CA is founded.
01181778 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.
01181869 The elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco.
01181911 First shipboard landing of a plane (from Tanforan Park to the
0118     USS Pennsylvania).
01191886 The Aurora Ski Club, first in U.S., is founded in Minnesota.
01191903 First regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England.
01201265 First English Parliament called into session
0120     by the Earl of Leicester
01201872 California Stock Exchange Board organized.
01211908 New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke
0121     in public.
01211954 The submarine Nautilus launched.
01211979 Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer).
01221850 The Alta California becomes a daily paper, first such in Calif.
01221901 Britain's Queen Victoria dies at age 82.
01231849 Mrs. Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first woman physician in U.S.
01241848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma.
01241899 The rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan.
01241922 Eskimo Pie invented in Iowa by Christian K. Nelson.
01241935 First beer in cans is sold.
01241986 Voyager II flies past Uranus.
01251858 Mendelssohn's Wedding March first played, at wedding of Queen
0125     Victoria's daughter to the Crown Prince of Prussia.
01251915 Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
01251949 First Emmy Awards are given out.
01251959 First transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301).
01261788 First settlement established by the English in Australia.
01261926 Television first demonstrated by J.L. Baird in London.
01261950 India becomes a republic.
01271870 Kappa Alpha Theta, first sorority, founded at DePauw University
0127     in Greencastle, Indiana.
01271926 First public demonstration of television.
01271948 First Tape Recorder is sold.
01281807 London's Pall Mall becomes the first street lit by gaslight.
01281878 George W. Coy hired as first full-time telephone operator.
01281938 First Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont).
01291845 Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" first published in New York.
01291861 Kansas becomes a state.
01291904 First athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team.
01301847 Town of Yerba Buena is renamed San Francisco.
01301862 US Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched.
01301917 First jazz record in United States is cut.
01311851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, first in California, founded.
01311871 Birds fly over the western part of San Francisco in such large
0131     numbers that they actually darken the sky.
01311928 Scotch tape first marketed by 3-M Company.
01311958 First U.S. satellite launched, Explorer I.
01311961 Ham the chimp is first animal sent into space by the US.
01311971 Apollo 14 launched, first landing in lunar highlands.
02011867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days.
02011892 Mrs. William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her
0201     mansion, thus beginning the use of the "400" to describe the
0201     socially elite.
02011920 The first armored car is introduced.
02021848 Mexico sells US Texas, California, New Mexico & Arizona.
02021848 First shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco.
02021876 National Baseball League formed with 8 teams.
02021880 SS Strathleven arrives in London with first successful shipment
0202     of frozen mutton from Australia.
02021962 8 of the 9 planets aligned for the first time in 400 years.
02031815 World's first commercial cheese factory established in Switzerland.
02031918 Twin Peaks Tunnel, longest (11,920 feet) streetcar tunnel in
0203     the world, begins service with the K-Ingleside streetcar.
02041824 J.W. Goodrich introduces robber galoshes to the public.
02041865 The Hawaiian Board of Education is formed.
02041932 First Winter Olympics held (At Lake Placid, NY).
02041948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence.
02051825 Hannah Lord Montague of New York grabs her scissors and creates
0205     the first detachable collar on one of her husband's shirts, in
0205     order to reduce her laundry load.
02061861 English Admiral Robert Ritzroy issues storm warnings for ships
0206     putting out to sea, creating the first "weather forecast."
02071827 Ballet introduced to the U.S. at Bowery Theatre, New York City.
02081693 Charter granted for College of William & Mary, 2nd college in US.
02081883 Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen.
02081908 Boy Scouts of America founded.
02081915 "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles.
02081922 Radio arrives in the White House.
02081957 Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall.
02081977 Earthquake, at 5.0, strongest since 1966.
02091877 U.S. Weather Service is founded.
02091885 First Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
02091895 Volleyball is invented by W.G. Morgan in Massachusetts.
02091891 First shipment of asparagus arrives from Sacramento.
02091969 The Boeing 747 takes its first commercial flight.
02101870 City of Anaheim incorporated (first time).
02101870 YWCA is founded in New York City.
02101879 First electric arc light used (in California Theater).
02111854 Major streets lit by coal gas for first time.
02111929 Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome.
02111936 Pumping begins to build Treasure Island.
02121541 Santiago, Chile founded.
02121934 Export-Import Bank incorporated.
02121945 San Francisco selected for site of United Nations Conference.
02121908 First New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska and Siberia)
0212     begins.  George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel.
02131867 "Blue Danube Waltz" first performed by composer Johann Strauss.
02131937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical
0213     detail and fine detail drawing.
02141876 Bell files an application for a patent for the telephone.
02141889 First trainload of oranges leaves Los Angeles for the east.
02151898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown.
02151903 First Teddy Bear introduced in America.  Made by Morris and
0215     Rose Michtom, Russian immigrants.
02161883 Ladies Home Journal begins publication.
02161914 First airplane flight to Los Angeles from San Francisco.
02161923 Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun.
02161951 City Hall dome fire.
02171876 Sardines were first canned, in Eastport, Maine.
02171878 First telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones.
02181849 First regular steamboat service to California started with the
0218     arrival of the "California".
02181850 California Legislature creates the 9 Bay Area counties.
02181930 A cow is flown (and milked in flight) for first time.  Her
0218     milk was sealed in paper containers and dropped by parachute
0218     over St. Louis, MO.  I knew you'd want to know ...
02181939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island
0218     (built for the occasion) in San Francisco Bay.
02191878 Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph.
02191864 The Knights of Pythias' first lodge was formed in Washington D.C.
02191945 Marines land on Iwo Jima.
02191977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose").
02201673 First recorded wine auction held in London.
02201873 University of California gets its first Med School (UC/SF).
02201901 First territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes.
02201902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks and damages Sutro Baths.
02201915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco.
02201931 Congress allows California to build the Oakland-Bay Bridge.
02201962 John Glenn is first American to orbit the Earth.
02211804 First self-propelled locomotive on rails demonstrated, in Wales.
02211858 First electric burglar alarm is installed in Boston, Mass.
02211874 Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication.
02211878 First Telephone book is issued, in New Haven, Conn.
02221630 Popcorn is introduced by an Indian named Quadequina to the
0222     English colonists at their first Thanksgiving dinner.
02221900 Hawaii becomes a US Territory.
02231887 Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco.
02231900 Steamer "Rio de Janiero" sinks in San Francisco Bay.
02231905 Rotary Club is founded by four men in Chicago.
02241857 Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized.
02241942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German).
02251838 A London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward and 20 miles forward
0225     in 8 hours.  Chuck Barris wasn't even born yet!
02251919 Oregon is first state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon).
02261863 President Lincoln signs the National Currency Act.
02261881 S.S. Ceylon begins first round-the-world cruise from Liverpool.
02261933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field.
02271844 Dominican Republic gains its independence.
02271883 Oscar Hammerstein patents first cigar-rolling machine.
02281849 First steamship enters San Francisco Bay.
02281854 Republican Party is organized, in Ripon, Wisconsin.
02281883 First vaudeville theater opens.
02281956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory.
02281970 Bicycles now permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge.
03011781 The Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress.
03011784 E. Kidner opens the first cooking school, in Great Britain.
03011864 Patent issued for taking & projecting motion pictures to Louis
0301     Ducos du Hauron (he never did build such a machine, though).
03011867 Nebraska becomes a state.
03011879 Library of Hawaii founded.
03011927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank.
03021861 Congress creates the Territory of Nevada.
03021901 First telegraph company in Hawaii opens.
03021929 US Court of Customs & Patent Appeals created by US Congress.
03021974 First Class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents.
03031634 First tavern in Boston is opened.
03031885 American Telephone and Telegraph incorporated.
03031923 Time magazine publishes their first issue.
03031956 Morocco gains its independence.
03031972 Pioneer 10 launched.
03041789 Congress declares the Constitution to be in effect.
03041792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii.
03041826 First railroad in US chartered, the Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass
03041930 Mrs. Charles Fahning of Buffalo, New York, becomes first woman to
0304     bowl a perfect game under sanctioned competition rules.
03041933 Roosevelt inaugurated, said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
03051770 Boston Massacre
03051845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US.
03051900 The American Hall of Fame is founded.
03051979 Voyager I flies past Jupiter.
03061665 "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" was first
0306     published, and is still published today.
03061836 The Alamo falls.  Remember it?
03061930 Clarence Birdseye puts the first individually packaged frozen
0306     foods on sale, in Springfield, Mass.
03071848 In Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed.
03071870 The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first pro baseball team,
0307     begins an 8 month tour of the Midwest and the East.
03071933 The game "Monopoly" is invented.
03081862 The Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched.
03081910 Baroness de Laroche of Paris becomes first licensed female pilot.
03091822 US grants first patent for artificial teeth to Charles Graham.
03091862 The ironclads "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle
0309     in Hampton Roads.  It was a standoff.
03101847 First money minted in Hawaii.
03101876 The first telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell.
03101888 The Salvation Army of England sends group to U.S. to begin
0310     welfare and religious activity here.
03101933 Big earthquake in Long Beach (W.C. Fields was making a movie when
0310     it struck & the cameras kept running).
03111302 According to Shakespeare, this was Romeo and Juliet's wedding day.
03111867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii).
03111892 First public game of basketball.
03121850 First $20 Gold piece issued.
03121912 The first Girl Scout troop was organized in Atlanta, GA.
03131852 The New York Lantern publishes the first cartoon showing the
0313     character "Uncle Sam," based on a real U.S. officer who served
0313     in the war of 1812, Samuel Wilson.
03131970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer.
03141743 America's first town meeting is held in Boston.
03141948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco.
03151913 Woodrow Wilson holds the first Presidential Press Conference.
03151968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold.
03151999 Pluto again becomes the outermost planet.
03161802 Congress establishes West Point Military Academy in New York.
03171756 St. Patrick's Day first celebrated in New York City, at the
0317     Crown and Thistle Tavern.
03181850 American Express founded.
03181881 Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison
0318     Square Garden in New York City.
03181919 The Order of DeMolay was established in Kansas City.
03191895 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service.
03191928 'Amos and Andy' debuts on radio.
03201852 "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published.
03211891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ending a long feud in W. VA.
03221733 Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water.
03221957 Earthquake gives San Francisco the shakes.
03231775 Patrick Henry asks for Liberty or Death.
03231901 Dame Nellie Melba, Australian Opera Singer, reveals secret
0323     of her now famous toast.
03231929 First telephone installed in the White House.
03231965 Gemini 3 launched, first US 2-man space flight.
03241860 Clipper "Andrew Jackson" arrives in 89 days from New York.
03241949 Walter Huston and son John become first father-and-son team
0324     to win Oscars as actor and director of "Treasure of Sierra Madre."
03251821 Greece gains its independence.
03251913 New York City's famed Palace Theatre opens its doors for the
0325     first time.
03251954 RCA manufactures the first COLOR television set.
03261878 Hastings College of Law founded.
03261953 Dr. Jonas Salk announces new vaccine to immunize people
0326     against polio.
03271917 The Seattle Metropolitans become the first U.S. hockey team
0327     to win the Stanley Cup, defeating the Montreal Canadiens.
03281794 Nathaniel Briggs gets patent for the washing machine.
03291848 Niagara Falls stops flowing -- for 1 day -- because of an ice jam.
03291886 Coca-Cola is created (with cocaine)(really!)
03301853 Patent granted to Hyman Lipman for a pencil with an ERASER!
03301870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race.
03301932 Amelia Earhart is first woman to make solo crossing of the Atlantic.
03311889 Eiffel Tower completed in Paris.
03311963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after nearly 90 years.
04011778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans Businessman, creates the "$" symbol.
04011889 The first dishwashing machine is marketed in Chicago.
04011941 Navy takes over San Francisco Bay's Treasure Island.
04011960 TIROS I (Television & Infra-Red Observation Satellite) launched
0401     to improve weather prediction.
04021792 Congress establishes Coin denominations of United States.
04021877 The first Easter Egg Roll is held on the White House lawn --
0402     Rutherford B. Hayes was president.
04021935 Watson Watt granted a patent for RADAR.
04031860 The first Pony Express riders simultaneously left Sacramento, CA
0403     and St. Joseph, MO.
04041914 The movie "The Perils of Pauline" was shown for the first time,
0404     in Los Angeles.
04051614 Pocahontas marries John Rolfe in Virginia.
04061862 Battle of Shiloh.
04061868 Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife.
04061896 The first modern Olympic Games were opened in Greece.
04061906 First animated cartoon is copyrighted.
04061926 4 planes take off on first successful around-the-world flight.
04061957 New York City ends trolley car service.
04071933 Prohibition ends.
04071948 World Health Organization is established.
04081513 Ponce de Leon arrives in Florida.
04081766 The first patent is granted for a fire escape ... a wicker
0408     basket on a pully and a chain, designed by a London watchmaker.
04081913 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified.
04081974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record.
04091865 Lee surrenders at Appomattox.
04091928 Mae West makes her New York City debut in a daring new play,
0409     "Diamond Lil."
04091953 TV Guide publishes its first issue.
04091955 United Nations Charter hearing.
04101825 First hotel in Hawaii opens.
04101849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt of New York City.  He
0410     immediately sold the patent rights for $100.
04101882 Matson founds his shipping company, serving San Francisco & Hawaii.
04101953 House of Wax, first 3-D movie, released in New York.
04111876 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized.
04111895 Anaheim completes its new electric light system.
04111947 Jackie Robinson becomes first black in major league baseball.
04121861 Fort Sumter, S. C., shelled by Confederacy, starts Civil War.
04121961 Yuri A. Gagarin becomes first man to orbit Earth.
04121981 First launch of the Space Shuttle  "Columbia."
04131796 The first elephant arrives in the U.S. from Bengal, India.
04131976 $2 bill is re-introduced as United States currency.
04141828 First edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.
04141860 First Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri.
04141865 Abraham Lincoln assasinated in Ford's Theater.
04141928 Regular air passenger flights between San Francisco and
0414     Los Angeles started, by Maddux Air Lines.
04151850 City of San Francisco incorporated.
04151912 Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM. And the band plays on  . . .
04151923 Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics.
04151928 Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf opens for business.
04151955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants.
04161866 Nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo & Co. office explodes.
04161926 The "Book-of-the-Month" Club opens for business.
04171524 New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.
04171875 The game of "snooker" -- a variation of pool -- is invented
0417     by Sir Neville Chamberlain, while on duty in India.
04171895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends first Sino-Japanese War (1894-95).
04171941 Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing)
04171961 U.S. invades Cuba's Bay of Pigs.
04181775 'The British are Coming!' declares Paul Revere from horseback.
04181906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.
04181934 First "Washateria" (laundromat) is opened, in Fort Worth, Texas.
04181936 Pan-Am's "Clipper" starts providing regular passenger flights
0418     between San Francisco and Honolulu.
04191775 At Lexington Common, they fired the shot 'heard round the world'.
04191852 California Historical Society founded.
04191892 Charles Duryea takes the first American-made auto out for a spin.
04191939 Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights . . .
0419     (only 148 years late).
04191956 American actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III.
04201902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the element Radium.
04201836 Territory of Wisconsin established by Congress.
04201879 The first "mobile home" (horse drawn) was used for a journey
0420     between London and Cyprus.
04201971 Supreme Court first upheld busing for school racial desegragation.
04201978 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace.
0421 756 B.C., that is! According to legend, Rome was founded.
04211836 Texans lead by Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto.
04211862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorado.
04211918 The Red Baron (von Richthofen) shot down and killed in air battle.
04211940 Quiz show "Take It or Leave It" first asked the $64 question on CBS.
04211972 Apollo 16's John Young & Charles Duke walked on the moon's surface.
04211975 South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned after 10 years.
04221769 Madame Du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress.
04231896 First "moving pictures" are shown on a public screen in New York.
04241800 Library of Congress founded.
04241833 A patent is granted for the first soda fountain.
04251684 A patent is granted for the thimble.
04251901 New York becomes first state requiring license plates for cars.
04251945 United Nations Conference starts.
04251961 Robert Noyce granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
04261607 First British to establish an American colony
0426     land at Cape Henry, Va.
04261906 First motion pictures shown in Hawaii.
04261954 Nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio begins.
04261986 Chernobyl Nuclear Plant disaster.
04271565 First Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City, founded.
04271897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) is dedicated.
04271937 US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment.
04271945 Founding of the Second Republic, in Austria.
04281754 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurs.
04281919 First successful parachute jump is made.
04281922 WOI, Ames, Iowa, becomes the country's first licensed
0428     educational radio station.
04281974 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon.
04291553 A Flemish woman introduces the practice of starching linen
0429     into England.
04291913 The all-purpose zipper is patented.
04301789 George Washington inaugurated as first president of the U.S.
04301798 Department of the Navy established.
04301803 US more than doubles its size thru the Louisiana Purchase.
04301808 The first practical typewriter was finished by Italian Pellegrini
0430     Turri.  He built it for a blind friend.
04301857 Founding of what would become San Jose State University.
04301869 The Hawaiian YMCA organized.
04301939 NBC makes first US demo of TV at opening of NY World's Fair.
05011840 First adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued.
05011850 John Geary becomes first mayor of City of San Francisco.
05011860 First school for the deaf founded.
05011869 Folies-Bergere opens in Paris.
05011884 Construction begins in Chicago on the first U.S. skyscraper.
05011928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
05021885 "Good Housekeeping" magazine is first published.
05021925 Kezar Stadium in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park opens.
05021939 Lou Gehrig sets record for being in most consecutive games (2130).
05031830 First regular steam train passenger service starts.
05031919 America's first passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City)
05031932 24 tourists begin the first air-charter holiday, from London
0503     to Basle, Switzerland for 7 days.
05031971 National noncommercial network radio begins programming.
05041626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons.
05041715 French manufacturer debuts first folding umbrella --
0504     in Paris, not Cherbourg!
05041878 Phonograph shown for first time at the Grand Opera House.
05051949 Council of Europe established.
05051961 Alan Shepard becomes first American in space (onboard Freedom 7).
05061851 Patent granted to Dr. John Farrie for a "refrigeration machine."
05061860 The Olympic Club, first athletic club in US, founded.
05071824 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony presented for first time.
05071945 World War II ends in Europe.
05071963 Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles).
05081541 Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River.
05081886 Coca-Cola is first sold, at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia.
05081945 Germany surrenders, ending World War II in Europe.
05091785 Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles.
05101775 Continental Congress issues paper currency for first time.
05101823 First steamboat to ascent the Mississippi River arrives at
0510     Fort Snelling, Minnesota.
05101869 The Driving of the Golden Spike, Promontory Point, Utah --
0510     The Transcontinential railroad is completed.
05101930 First US planetarium opens, in Chicago.
05111752 First US fire insurance policy is issued, in Philadelphia.
05111812 The Waltz is introduced into English ballrooms.  Most observers
0511     consider it disgusting and immoral. No wonder it caught on!
05111929 First regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week).
05111951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory.
05121789 Society of St. Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It
0512     later becomes an infamous group of New York City political bosses.
05131607 English land to found Jamestown (first permanent settlement)
05131835 First foreign embassy in Hawaii is established.
05131846 US declares war on Mexico.
05131884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded.
05131950 The Diner's Club issues its first credit cards.
05141804 Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis for the Pacific Coast.
05141811 Paraguay gains its independence.
05141853 Gail Borden applies for patent for making condensed milk.
05141948 State of Israel proclaimed.
05141973 United States launches space station "Skylab."
05151930 The first "air hostess," Ellen Church, welcomes passengers aboard
0515     a United Air Lines flight from Oakland, CA to Cheyenne, WY.
05151940 First nylon stockings are sold in America.
05151963 Last of the Mercury flights, the 'Faith 7', launched.
05161866 Congress authorizes nickel 5-cent piece (the silver half-dime
0516     was used up to this point).
05161929 First Oscars Awards are given:
0516           Best Film:    Wings.
0516           Best Actor:   Emil Jennings.
0516           Best Actress: Janey Gaynor.
05161971 First Class postage raised to 8 cents from 6 cents.
05171620 First merry-go-round seen at a fair in Philippapolis, Turkey.
05171792 24 brokers meet to found the New York Stock Exchange.
05171804 Lewis & Clark begin their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.
05171872 Bohemian Club incorporated.
05171921 President Harding opens (via telephone) first Valencia Orange
0517     Show in Anaheim.
05171954 Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education,
0517     overthrowing the principle of 'separate but equal.'
05181830 Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of
0518     his invention, the lawn mower.  Saturdays are destroyed forever.
05181933 TVA Act signed by President Roosevelt.
05181980 Mount St. Helens blew its top in Washington State.
05191862 The Homestead Act becomes law.
05191928 51 frogs enter first annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" at Angel's
0519     Camp in Calaveras County, California.
05201845 First legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii.
05201874 Levi Strauss markets his blue jeans with copper rivets, priced
0520     at $13.50 A DOZEN.
05201927 At 7:40am, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic.
05211846 First steamship arrives in Hawaii.
05211881 The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton.
05211927 Lindbergh lands in Paris, after first solo across Atlantic.
05211933 Mount Davidson Cross lit by President Roosevelt in
0521     Washington via Telegraph.
05221807 Townsend Speakman begins making and selling fruit-flavored
0522     carbonated drinks - in Philadelphia.
05231898 First Phillipine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco.
05231908 Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die.
05231921 "Shuffle Along," the first black musical comedy, opens in New
0523     York City.
05241844 Samual F.B. Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought?"
05241866 Berkeley named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne).
05241883 The Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres. Arthur & Gov. Cleveland.
05241899 In Boston, the first auto repair shop opens.
05251721 John Copson becomes America's first insurance agent.
05251787 Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia.
05251927 Henry Ford stops producing the Model T car (begins Model A).
05251978 "Star Wars" is released.
05251983 "Return of the Jedi" is released.
05261868 President Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote.
05261913 Actor's Equity is organized in New York City.
05261937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens.
05261946 Patent filed in US for the H-Bomb.
05271937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge dedicated.
05281742 First indoor swimming pool opens at Goodman's Fields, London.
05281926 United States Customs Court created by Congress.
05291453 Constantinople falls to the Turks (some believe this signalled
0529     the end of the Middle Ages).
05291912 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing the
0529     "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break.
05291953 Hillary & Norkay reach the top of Mount Everest.
05291978 First Class postage raised to 15 cents from 13 cents.
05301911 Indianapolis 500 car race run for first time. Winning driver
0530     Ray Harroun takes it with a blazing 75 mph.
05311433 Joan of Arc is burned at the stake . . .
05311678 Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry.
05311837 New York's Astor Hotel opens ... most elaborate in the U.S.
05311868 First recorded bicycle race, 2 kilometers in Paris.
05311879 First electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition.
05311889 Johnstown Flood occurs.
06011495 First written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in the
0601     Exchequer Rolls of Scotland.  Friar John Cor is the distiller.
06011925 Lou Gehrig starts in first of 2130 consecutive games, a record.
06021835 P.T. Barnum and his circus begin their first tour of the U.S.
06021858 The Donati Comet first seen, named after its discoverer.
06021873 Ground broken on San Francisco's Clay Street for world's first
0602     cable-powered railroad.
06031888 "Casey at the Bat" is first published (by the SF Examiner.)
06031937 The Duke of Windsor weds Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson in France.
06031949 "Dragnet" is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles.)
06041896 Road test of the first Ford car is delayed an hour because the
0604     car was wider than the door of the shed in which it was built.
0604     Remember, 'Ford has a better idea!"
06051833 Ada Lovelace (future first computer programmer) meets
0605     Charles Babbage.
06051849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
06051875 Formal opening of the Pacific Stock Exchange.
06061933 First drive-in theatre opens, in Camden, New Jersey.
06061944 D-Day.  World War II turns the corner.
06062012 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs.
06071839 The Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed.
06071860 First American 'dime novel' is published: "Malaseka, The
0607     Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs. Ann Stevens.
06081786 First commercially-made ice cream sold in New York.
06081869 Patent issued for first suction-principle vacuum cleaner.
06081889 Cable Cars begin service in Los Angeles.  Really!
06082004 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs again.
06091868 First meeting of the Board of Regents, University of California.
06091869 Charles Elmer Hires sells his first Root Beer, in Philadelphia.
06101720 Mrs. Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard.
06101772 Burning of the Gaspee, British revenue cutter by Rhode Islanders.
06101869 The 'Agnes' arrives in New Orleans with the first ever shipment
0610     of frozen beef.
06101898 US Marines land at Cuba in Spanish-American War.
06101977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II.
06111859 Claim is filed for the Comstock Lode.  The mine eventually
0611     produces more than $300 million in silver.
06111895 First auto race.
06121839 The first baseball game is played in America.  Thanks Abner!
06121898 Phillipines gains its independence from Spain.
06121923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended
0612     upside down, 40 feet above the ground.
06121981 The 3rd professional baseball players strike starts.
06131927 Charles Lindbergh honored in New York City for his trans-
0613     Atlantic flight.  750,000 pounds of confetti were showered down.
06131963 Vostok 6 launched, pilot is first woman cosmonaut.
06131983 Pioneer 10 is first man-made object to leave the Solar System.
06141623 Rev. Gerville Pooley of Virginia files first breach-of-promise
0614     lawsuit against Cicely Jordan.  He loses.
06141777 Stars and Stripes adopted as US flag, replacing Grand Union flag.
06141846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma.
06141847 Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide.
06141900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins.
06141919 First direct airplane crossing of the Atlantic.
06141952 Keel laid for first nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus.
06151215 King John signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede.
06151775 Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the American Army.
06151851 Jacob Fussell, a Baltimore dairyman, sets up the first
0615     ice-cream factory.
06151878 First attempt at motion pictures (using 12 cameras, each taking one
0615     picture (done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
0615     during a gallop. Leland Stanford bet they didn't. He lost).
06151940 France surrenders to Hitler.
06161775 The Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill).
06161879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at the Bowery Theatre
0616     in New York City.
06161963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space.
06171579 Sir Francis Drake lands on the coast of California.
06171944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland.
06171972 The Watergate Break-in.  How time flies . . .
06181583 Richard Martin of London takes out the first life insurance
0618     policy, on William Gibbons.  The premium was 383 pounds.
06181812 War of 1812 begins.
06181815 Battle of Waterloo.
06181872 Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall.
06181892 Macademia nuts first planted in Hawaii.
06191778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.
06191861 Anaheim Post Office established.
06191910 U.S. celebrates the first Father's Day.
06201782 The United States chooses the Eagle as its symbol.
06201855 Commissioners appointed to lay out streets west of Larkin.
06201893 Lizzie Borden found "Not Guilty" of taking an axe and
0620     giving her parents a combined total of 81 whacks.
06201948 Ed Sullivan has his first really big 'shoe' on Sunday night TV.
06201982 It's National Bald Eagle Day
06211879 F. W. Woolworth opens his first store (failed almost immediately,
0621     so he found a new location and you know the rest...)
06211893 The first Ferris wheel is premiered at Chicago's Columbian
0621     Exposition.
06211917 Hawaiian Red Cross founded.
06221808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak.
06221847 The doughnut is invented.
06221849 Stephen C. Massett opens at courthouse as first professional
0622     entertainer, using (allegedly) the only piano in California.
06221940 France falls to Nazi Germany.
06221957 Kansas City stops using streetcars in its transit system.
06221978 The planet Pluto's partner, Charon, is discovered.
06221983 First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle.
06231810 John Jacob Astor organizes the Pacific Fur Company at the town
0623     he names for himself, Astoria, Oregon.
06231868 Typewriter patented.
06241817 First coffee planted in Hawaii, on the Kona coast.
06241947 First reported signting of Flying Saucers, seen near Mt. Ranier,
0624     Washington by Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho.
06251178 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon (only
0625     known observation).  These monks have NO winery of their own.
06251630 The Fork is introduced to American dining by Gov. Winthrop.
06251835 Pueblo founded with construction of first building (start of
0625     Yerba Buena, later to be called San Francisco).
06261797 Charles Newbold patents an iron plow.  He can't sell it to
0626     farmers, though, because they fear the effects of iron on
0626     the soil!
06261934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions.
06261945 UN Charter written in San Francisco.
06271693 The first woman's magazine, "The Ladies' Mercury" is published
0627     in London.  It has the first advice column.
06271867 Bank of California opens its doors.
06281820 The tomato is proved to be nonpoisonous.
06281859 The first dog show is held, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.
06281918 In Hawaii, the first inter-island flight.
06281919 The Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, is signed.
06291776 Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay.
06291854 Congress ratifies Gadsden Purchase, adds parts of
0629     New Mexico, Arizona.
06291863 The very first first National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa.
06291927 First flight from the West Coast arrives in Hawaii.
06291939 The Dixie Clipper completes the first commercial plane
0629     flight to Europe.
06301893 The Excelsior diamond (blue-white, 995 carats) is discovered.
06301908 A giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (the Tunguska Event).
06301914 Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest, in campaign for Indian equal
0630     rights in South Africa.
06301936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, is first published.
06301960 Zaire gains its independence.
07011867 Dominion of Canada formed.
07011898 Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill.
07011899 San Francisco City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years
0701     of building.
07011919 First Class Postage DROPS to 2 cents from 3 cents.
07011931 Ice vending machines introduced in Los Angeles. 25 lbs, 15 cents.
07011944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing world-wide
0701     financial systems (like the IMF and the World Bank.)
07011961 Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii.
07021900 First flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1.)
07021940 The Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge was opened.
07021964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
07031608 Quebec is founded.
07031775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.
07031806 Michael Keens exhibits the first cultivated strawberry.
07031819 First savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors.
07031861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from New York.
07041054 Brightest known super-nova starts shining, for 23 days.
07041845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond.
07041863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho.)
07041873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens.
07041894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the first US autos.
07041903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens.
0704     President Roosevelt sends a message to the Phillipines,
0704     then a message around the world in 12 minutes.
07041933 Work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge.
07051811 Venezuela gains independence from Spain.
07051841 Thomas Cook opens first travel agency.  They were first involved
0705     in organizing trips for groups opposed to alchololic beverages.
07051865 William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England.
07051935 First 'Hawaii Calls' radio program is broadcast.
07061885 First inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur.
07061886 Horlick's of Wisconsin offers first malted milk to the public.
07061928 Preview of first all-talking motion picture took place in NYC.
07061932 First Class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents.
07061933 First All-Star baseball game.  American League won 5-2.
07071891 A patent was granted for the travelers' cheque.
07071898 Hawaii annexed to the US.
07071908 The Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay.
07081796 First American Passport issued by the US State Department.
07081835 The Liberty Bell cracks (again.)
07081889 Vol 1, No 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" published.
07081896 William Jennings Bryan makes his 'cross of gold' speech at the
0708     Democratic Convention in Chicago.
07081897 Harbor Hospital formally opens.
07081905 Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center.
07091800 Mt. Vernon Gardens becomes site of first summer theatre in U.S.
07091816 Argentina gains its independence.
07091846 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for the U.S.
07091979 Voyager II flies past Jupiter.
07101890 Wyoming becomes the 44th state.
07101892 First concrete-paved street built - in Bellefountaine, Ohio.
07101925 The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial starts.
07101962 Telstar, first geosynchonous communications satelite launched.
07111804 Burr and Hamilton duel.  Hamilton loses.
07111962 First transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I.)
07121543 Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th & last wife.)
07121812 US forces lead by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812.)
07121817 First flower show was held at Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland.
07121933 Congress passes first minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour.)
07121934 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned.
07131568 The Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer.
07131865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west."
07131898 SF Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street opens.
07141789 The citizens of Paris storm the Bastille prison.
07141850 First public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration.
07141853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese.
07141865 The first ascent of the Matterhorn.
07141868 Patent granted for a tape measure enclosed in a circular case.
07141927 First commercial airplane flight in Hawaii.
07151867 SF Merchant's Exchange opens.
07151869 Margarine is patented in Paris, for use in the French Navy.
07161769 Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, first mission in Calif.
07161790 Congress establishes the District of Columbia.
07161861 First major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run.
07161935 Oklahoma City becomes first in U.S. to use parking meters.
07161945 First atomic blast, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico.
07161946 Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (first time in SF history.)
07161969 Apollo 11, first manned ship to land on the moon, launched.
07171879 First railroad opens in Hawaii.
07171917 British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor.
07171954 Construction begins on Disneyland...
07171955 ...Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County.
0718  64 The Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle.)
07181872 Britain introduces voting by secret ballot.
07181938 Wrong Way Corrigan lands in Ireland (not California??.)
07181968 Intel Corporation is incorporated.
07191848 First Women's Rights Convention. Seneca Falls, NY ... featuring
0719     the introduction of the first Bloomers.
07191880 SF Public Library allows patrons to start borrowing books.
07191955 The "Balclutha" ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum.
07191961 First In-flight movie is shown (on TWA.)
07201810 Columbia gains its independence.
07201859 Admission fee first charged to see a baseball game (50 cents.)
07201872 Mahlon Loomis receives patent for wireless ... the radio is born.
07201878 First telephone introduced in Hawaii.
07201969 Man landed on the Moon, 4:18PM EDT.  (Armstrong, Aldrin walk
0720     while Collins orbits above.)
07201970 First baby born on Alcatraz Island.
07201976 First pictures from Mars surface received (courtesy Viking 2.)
07211831 Belgium gains its independence.
07211867 City Gardens on Folsom opens.
07211873 World's first train robbery, by Jesse James.
07211969 Neil Armstrong steps on the moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT.)
07221933 Wiley Post completes first round-the-world solo flight.
07231829 Typewriter is patented.
07231852 First interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio.
07231877 First telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii is completed.
07231904 The Ice Cream Cone is invented.
07241824 The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results
0724     of first public opinion poll.  Clear lead for Andrew Jackson.
07251903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes.
07251909 First airplane flight across the English Channel.
07251946 First bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show.
07261775 Benjamin Franklin becomes Postmaster General.
07261835 First sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii.
07261847 Liberia gains its independence.
07271586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia.
07271866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long.)
07271940 Billboard magazine starts publishing best-seller's charts.
07281821 Peru gains its independence.
07281849 "Memmon" is first clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out
0728     of New York Harbor.
07281900 The Hamburger is created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut.
07281914 The Foxtrot is first danced at the New Amsterdam Roof Garden.
0728     in New York City.  Music by Harry Fox (who else?)
07281931 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd National Anthem.
07281933 First Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee.)
07291835 First sugar plantation in Hawaii begun.
07291858 First commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
07291914 First transcontinental phone link made.  It's between NYC and
0729     San Francisco.
07291920 First transcontinental airmail flight from New York to
0729     San Francisco.
07291958 Southern Pacific Bay Ferries stop running.
07291981 The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana.
07301619 The House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed.  First elective
0730     governing body in a British colony.
07301733 Society of Freemasons opens its first American lodge in Boston.
07301836 First English newspaper published in Hawaii.
07311790 First US Patent granted (for a potash process.)
07311922 18 year old Ralph Samuelson rides world's first water skis
0731     at Lake City, Minnesota.
07311970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending 'Huntley-Brinkley Report'
0731     (No more "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet.")
08011291 The Everlasting League forms, the basis of the Swiss Confederation.
08011790 First U.S. Census is taken.
08011794 Whisky Rebellion begins.
08011852 Black Methodists in SF establish first black church, Zion Methodist.
08011873 San Francisco's first cable car begins service.
08011881 US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island.
08011901 Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited.
08011916 Hawaii National Park established.
08011946 President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission.
08011953 California introduces its Sales Tax (for Education.)
08011958 First Class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years.)
08011961 New San Francisco Hall of Justice opens.
08021876 Wild Bill Hickok is shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall.
0802     The poker hand he was holding has since been known as the
0802     Dead Man's Hand:  A pair of Aces, and a pair of 8's.
08031492 Columbus sets sail for 'the Indies.'
08041693 Champagne is invented by Dom Perignon.
08041777 Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes the
0804     first circus.
08041790 United States Coast Guard founded.
08051775 The first Spanish ship, 'San Carlos', enters San Francisco bay.
08051861 US levies its first Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800.)
08051864 The spectrum of a comet observed for first time, by Giovanni Donati.
08051963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed.
08061835 Bolivia gains its independence.
08061926 The first American woman, Gertrude Ederle, swims the
0806     English Channel in 14 hours, 34 minutes.
08061945 The Atom Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by the 'Enola Gay.'
08071807 First servicable steamboat, the Cleremont, goes on first voyage.
08071820 Potatoes first planted in Hawaii.
08071888 Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia receives a patent for
0807     his revolving door -- described as a storm door structure.
08081860 The Queen of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in New York
0808     City, the first queen to visit the United States.
08091638 Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes the first European settler
0809     in what is now known as the Bronx.
08091803 First horses arrive in Hawaii.
08091842 The US-Canada border defined by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
08091945 Atom Bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
08091974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency in wake of Watergate scandal.
08101809 Ecuador gains its independence.
08101900 First Davis Cup Tennis Tournament is held in Massachusetts.
0810     The U.S. defeats Great Britain.
08101981 Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's record of 3630 hits.
08111866 The world's first roller rink opens its doors, in Newport, R.I.
08121851 Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine.
08121888 Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes the first motor tour.
0812     Without her husband's knowledge, she borrow one of his cars and
0812     travels 180km to visit relatives for 5 days.
08131876 Reciprocity Treaty between US and Hawaii ratified.
08141846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance.
08141893 France issues first driving licenses, including a required test.
08141945 VJ Day - Japan surrendered to end World War II.
08151945 Riot in San Francisco celebrating end of World War II.
0815     South Korea liberated from Japanese rule.
08151960 The Congo (Brazzaville) gains its independence.
08161896 GOLD !!!! is discovered in the Klondike.
08161969 Woodstock festival begins in New York.
08171858 First bank in Hawaii opens.
08171870 Mrs. Esther Morris becomes the first woman magistrate --
0817     appointed Justice of the Peace in South Pass, Wyoming.
08171950 Indonesia gains its independence.
08181817 Gloucester, Massachussetts, newspapers carry accounts of a wild
0818     sea serpent seen offshore. 3 feet in diameter, 100 feet long.
08191826 Canada Co. chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario.)
08191888 The first beauty contest is held, in Spa, Belgium. The winner
0819     is an 18 year old girl from the West Indies.
08191960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident.)
0819     Powers later dies at the controls of the KNBC-TV helicopter in
0819     Los Angeles after running out of fuel returning from a fire.
08201940 Churchill utters famous line "Never before in the history of
0820     human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."  He was
0820     speaking about the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain.
08201977 Voyager II launched.
08211887 Mighty (Dan) Casey STRUCK OUT in a game with the N.Y. Giants!
08211959 Hawaii becomes the 50th state.
08211968 Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
08221787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before
0822     Fulton builds his steamboat.
08221851 The yacht 'America' wins the first Royal Yacht Squadron Cup, now
0822     known as the America's Cup, at a regatta in England.
08231617 The first one-way streets are established -- in London.
08231872 First Japanese commercial ship visits San Francisco
0823     with a cargo of tea.
08231889 First ship-to-shore wireless message received in US:
0823     'US lightship to Cliff House.'
08240079 Pompeii is buried.
08241814 British sack Washington, DC.
08241853 The first potato chips are prepared by Chef George Crum in
0824     Saratoga Springs, New York.  Nobody could eat just one!
08241869 The Waffle Iron is invented.
08241909 Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
08241989 Voyager II flies past Neptune.
08251804 Alice Meynell becomes the first woman jockey, in England.
08251825 Uruguay gains its independence.
08251981 Voyager II flies past Saturn.
08261629 Cambridge Agreement pledged.  Massachusetts Bay Co. stockholders
0826     agree to emigrate to New England.
08261791 John Fitch granted a US patent for his working steamboat.
08261846 W. A. Bartlett appointed first US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF.)
08261907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in
0826     57 seconds.
08261920 19th Amendment passes - Women's Suffrage granted.
08261973 University of Texas at Arlington becomes the first accredited
0826     school to offer a course in belly dancing.
08271859 First successful oil well drilled near Titusville, Penn.
08271883 Krakatoa, WEST of Java, blew apart (Top that, Mt. St. Helens.)
08271928 60 nations sign the Kellogg-Briand Pact, agreeing to outlaw war.
08281938 Northwestern University awards an honorary degree to Edgar
0828     Bergen's dummy Charlie McCarthy.
08291885 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle.
08291954 San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens.
08381837 Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins of Worcester, England
0838     begin the manufacture of Worcester Sauce.
08301850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city.
08301979 First recorded occurrance of a comet hitting the sun (the energy
0830     released was about equal to 1 million hydrogen bombs.)
08311850 The California Pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets.
08311886 Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized.
08311895 John Brailier becomes the first "pro" football player when he
0831     receives $10 for expenses in a game at Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
08311980 Solidarity Labor Union in Poland is founded.
09011807 Aaron Burr aquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire.
09011849 California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey.
09011878 First woman telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston.)
09011896 Chop Suey is devised to appeal to both American and Chinese
0901     tastes.  The word means 'hash' in Chinese.
09011939 Germany invades Poland, starts World War II.
09021620 The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth with 102 Pilgrims.
09021789 US Treasury Department established by Congress.
09021859 Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii.
09021924 Rudolf Friml's "Rose Marie" opens to rave reviews in New York
0902     City, including the fames "Indian Love Call."
09031783 Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War, is signed.
09031912 World's first cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy.
09031939 England declares war on Germany.
09041781 Los Angeles founded in the Bahia de las Fumas, (Bay of Smokes.)
09041833 The first newsboy in the US hired (Barney Flaherty), by the NY Sun.
09041866 First daily newspaper in Hawaii published.
09041885 The first cafeteria opens for business, in New York City.
09041888 George Eastman patents first rollfilm camera & registers "Kodak."
09051781 Battle of Virginia Capes, where the French Fleet defeats the
0905     British rescue fleet, trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown.
09051836 Sam Houston is elected president of the Republic of Texas.
09051885 First gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer.
09051977 Voyager II launched.
09061716 First lighthouse in US built, in Boston.
09061869 The first westbound train arrives in San Francisco.
09061876 Southern Pacific line from Los Angeles to San Francisco completed.
09061966 Star Trek appears on TV for the first time (on NBC.)
09071880 George Ligowsky of Cincinnati is granted a patent for his
0907     device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters.
09081565 First permanent settlement in US founded at St Augustine, Florida.
09081858 Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people.
09081920 First US Air Mail service begins.
09081924 Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes first woman ambassador.
09091776 Continental Congress authorizes the name "United States."
09091850 California becomes the 31st state.
09091895 The American Bowling Congress is formed in New York City.
09091926 NBC created by the Radio Corporation of America.
09091982 "Conestoga I", first private rocket, is launched.
09101608 John Smith elected president of the Jamestown colony council.
09101846 Elias Howe receives patent for his sewing machine.
09101847 First theater opens in Hawaii.
09101869 A Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
0910     to help his invalid wife get about.
09101913 Lincoln Highway opens as first paved coast-to-coast highway.
09101953 Swanson sells its first "TV Dinner." It tasted like a rerun!
09101955 "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS television.
09111850 Swedish Nightingale Jenny Lind gives her first concert.
09111853 First electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt. Lobos.
09111910 First commercially successful electric bus line opens, in
0911     Hollywood.
09111926 Aloha Tower dedicated (in Honolulu Harbor.)
09111929 Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system.
09121928 Katharine Hepburn makes her New York stage debut in
0912     "Night Hostess."
09131788 New York City becomes the capitol of the United States.
09141848 Alexander Stewart opens the first department store in the U.S.
09141716 First lighthouse in US is lit (in Boston Harbor.)
09141814 Francis Scott Key writes 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'
09141886 The typewriter ribbon is patented.
09141892 A.P. Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo.
09141899 While in New York, Henry Bliss becomes first automobile fatality.
09141940 Congress passes first peace time draft law.
09151821 Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatamala, Honduras & Nicaragua all
0915     gain their independence.
09151930 The first international bridge match is held in London. The
0915     U.S. team defeats Great Britain.
09161630 Shawmut, Massachussetts, changes its name to Boston.
09161782 Great Seal of the United States is used for first time.
09161857 Patent is issued for the typesetting machine.
09161919 The American Legion is incorporated.
09171776 The Presidio of San Francisco was founded as Spanish fort.
09171787 US Constitution is adopted.
09171819 First whaling ship arrives in Hawaii.
09171911 C.P. Rogers begins the first transcontinental airplane flight.
0917     He travels from New York City to Pasadena in 82 hours.
09181810 Chile gains its independence.
09181851 "The New York Times" goes on sale, at 2 cents a copy.
09181882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as the Local Security Board.)
09181895 D.D. Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes the first Chiropractor.
09181927 The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
09191849 First commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California.
09191873 Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co. fails, causing a securities panic.
09191928 Mickey Mouse makes his screen debut in  "Steamboat Willie."
09191968 Baby born on Golden Gate Bridge (those Marin County folk!)
09201519 Magellan starts first successful circumnavigation of the world.
09201797 US frigate "Constitution" (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston.
09201859 Patent granted on the electric range.
09201860 The Prince of Wales, later to become King Edward VII, becomes
0920     the first British royalty to visit the United States.
09201884 Equal Rights Party founding convention is held in San Francisco,
0920     and nominates female candidates for President, Vice President.
09211784 First daily newspaper in US begins publication in Pennsylvania.
09211895 First auto manufacturer opens -- Duryea Motor Wagon Company.
09211915 Those famous stones at Stonehenge, England, is sold at auction
0921     to C.H.E. Chubb of Salisbury, England for 6,600 pounds.
09211930 Johann Ostermeyer patents his invention, the flashbulb.
09211954 The nuclear submarine "Nautilus" is commissioned.
09221789 The US Post Office was established.
09221863 President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech.
09221893 First auto built in US runs in Springfield (built
0922     by Duryea brothers)
09221903 A Patent is granted for the Ice Cream Cone.
09231780 John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point.
09231779 Naval engagement between 'Bonhomme Richard' and 'HMS Serepis.'
0923     Capt. John Paul Jones declares "I have not yet begun to fight!"
09231912 First Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie is released.
09231952 First closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event.
09241845 First baseball team is organized.
09241852 A new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated.
09241853 First round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt.)
09241869 Black Friday: crashing gold prices causes stock market panic.
09241895 First round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle --
0924     (took 15 months.)
09241954 "The Tonight Show" premieres.
09241960 First atomic aircraft carrier, the "Enterprise", is launched.
09251513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa is the first European to see
0925     the Pacific Ocean.
09251789 Congress proposes the Bill of Rights.
09251890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park.
09261542 Cabrillo discovers California.
09261824 Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) and lives.
09271787 Constitution submitted to the states for ratification.
09271825 Railroad transportation is born with first track in England.
09281542 Juan Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay.
09281781 Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the the Revolution.
09291650 Henry Robinson opens the first marriage bureau, in England.
09301846 First tooth extraction under anesthetics, in Charlestown, Mass.
09301878 First immigrants from Portugal arrive in Hawaii.
10011851 First Hawaiian stamps issued.
10011869 First postcards are issued in Vienna.
10011896 Yosemite becomes a National Park.
10011898 Henry Huntington buys the Los Angeles Railway.
10011903 First World Series starts between the National & American Leagues/
10011908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car.
10011960 Nigeria gains its independence.
10011962 Johnny Carson hosts his first Tonight Show.
10011964 San Francisco's Cable Cars declared a National Landmark.
10011971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens.
10021608 Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch government a new invention --
1002     the telescope.
10021836 Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle.
10021958 Guinea gains its independence.
10031789 Washington proclaims the first national Thanksgiving Day
1003     will be observed on Nov 26.
10031863 Lincoln one-ups Washington, designates the last Thursday
1003     in November as Thanksgiving Day
10031913 Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%)
10031955 Captain Kangaroo premieres.  Good Morning, Captain!
10031960 San Francisco's White House department store is first to accept
1003     the BankAmericard in lieu of cash.
10041883 The 'Orient Express' begins its first run, linking Turkey to
1004     Europe by rail.
10041957 USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite.
10051921 First radio broadcast of the World Series.
10051970 PBS becomes a network.
10061889 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
10061927 "The Jazz Singer", first movie with a sound track, premieres.
10071826 Granite Railway (first chartered railway in US) begins
1007     operations.
10071916 Georgia Tech beats Cumberland University 222-0. (Football!)
10081840 First Hawaiian constitution proclaimed.
10081860 Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
10081871 The Great Fire destroys over 4 square miles of Chicago.
10081896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks.
10081906 Karl Nessler demonstrates the first 'permanent wave' for hair,
1008     in London.
10081933 San Francisco's Coit Tower dedicated.
10091000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England.)
10091855 Joshua Stoddard patents the first calliope.
10101886 Griswold Lorillard wears the first dinner jacket to the
1010     Autumn Ball in Tuxedo Park.  Thus the name 'tuxedo.'
10101911 The Manchu Dynasty is overthrown in China.
10101980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated.
10111890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded.
10111968 Apollo 7 launched, first manned flight of the Command & Service
1011     modules.
10121823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling the raincoats.
10121933 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially.)
10121957 First commercial flight between California and Antartica.
10131792 George Washington lays the cornerstone of the White House.
10141066 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England.
10141774 First declaration of colonial rights in America.
10141947 First supersonic flight (Mach 1.015 at 42,000 feet.)
10151520 King Henry Viii of England orders bowling lanes to be built
1015     at Whitehall, in London.
10151860 Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard.
10161829 The Tremont Hotel, the first modern hotel in the U.S., opens
1016     in Boston, featuring washbowls in each room, and 8 bathrooms
1016     in the basement!
10161859 John Brown attacks the armory at Harper's Ferry.
10161941 Gordo (by Gus Arriola) first appears in newspapers.
10171492 Columbus sights the isle of San Salvador.
10171781 Cornwallis is defeated at Yorktown.
10171860 First professional golf tournament is held, in Scotland.
10171904 Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors.
10181776 The back of a bar in New York is decorated with birds' tail
1018     feathers.  A customer jokingly asked for a glass of those
1018     "cock tails," and a tradition was born!
10181869 The United States take possession of Alaska.
10181892 First commercial long-distance phone line opens
1018     (Chicago - New York.)
10181922 British Broadcasting Corporation established.
10191781 Cornwallis surrenders at 2PM, the fighting is over.
10191845 Wagner's opera 'Tannhauser' is performed for first time.
10191853 First flour mill in Hawaii begins operations.
10191874 The Ivy League establishes rules for college football.
10201600 Battle of Sekigahara, which established the Tokugawa clan as
1020     rulers of Japan (SHOGUN) until 1865 (basis of Clavell's novel.)
10201817 The first "Showboat" leaves Nashville, Tennessee to give shows
1020     along the Mississippi.  It was a converted keelboat.
10201820 Spain gives Florida to the United States.
10201906 Dr Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube.
10211805 Battle of Trefalgar, where Nelson established British naval
1021     supremacy for the next century.
10211869 First shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore.
10211879 Thomas Edison commercially perfects the light bulb.
10221936 First commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii.
10221981 US National debt topped $1 TRILLION (nothing to celebrate.)
10231915 25,000 New York City women demonstrate, demanding voting rights.
10231956 The ill-fated revolt in Communist Hungary starts, later crushed
1023     by Soviet tanks.
10241945 United Nations Charter goes into effect.
10251415 Battle of Agincourt, where the Welsh longbow defeats the
1025     armored knight.
10251825 Erie Canal opens for business in New York.
10251854 The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava.)
10251939 Nylon stockings go on sale in the U.S. for the first time.
10261861 Telegraph service inaugurated in US (end of Pony Express.)
10261881 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Arizona.
10261956 International Atomic Energy Agency established.
10261970 The "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers.
10261972 Guided tours of Alcatraz Prison (by Park Service) begin.
10271787 The 'Federalist' letters started appearing in NY newspapers.
10271858 RH Macy & Co. opens first store, on 6th Avenue, New York City.
10271896 First Pali Road completed in Hawaii (the Pali is a cliff where
1027     the winds are so strong streams flow UP! Honest!)
10271904 New York opens first section of its subway system.
10271916 The first published reference to "jazz" appears in an article
1027     in "Variety" about the formation of "jazz bands" in Chicago.
10281492 Columbus discovers Cuba.
10281636 Harvard University founded.
10281886 Statue of Liberty dedicated.
10281904 St. Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints.
10281919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, starting Prohibition.
10281965 The Gateway Arch (630 feet high) completed in St. Louis, Missouri.
10291833 First College Fraternity founded.
10291863 International Committee of the Red Cross founded.
10291894 First election of the Hawaiian Republic.
10291904 The first intercity trucking service goes into business with
1029     a route between Colorado City and Snyder, Texas.
10291923 Turkey is proclaimed to have a republican government.
10291929 "Black Tuesday", the Stock Market crash.
10291939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (first closure.)
10291956 "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet" heard on NBC for first time.
1029     (Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up.)
10301864 Helena, capital of Montana, founded.
10301775 US Navy is created.
10301938 Orson Welles panics a nation with his broadcast of
1030     'War of the Worlds.'
10311815 Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents the miner's safety lamp.
10311956 Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service.
11011834 First published reference to the game of Poker describes it
1101     as a Mississippi riverboat game.
11011870 US Weather Bureau begins operations.
11011947 First Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii.
11011981 First Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents.
11021917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement is signed.
11021920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) on the air as first commercial radio station.
11021936 The world's first TV broadcasting service is inaugurated by
1102     the British Broadcasting Corporation in London.
11021947 Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for first (& last) time.
11021948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers.
11031900 The first national Automobile Show opens at Madison Square
1103     Garden in New York City.
11031903 Panama gains its independence from Columbia.
11031917 First Class Mail now costs 3 cents.
11031930 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America.
11031952 Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas.
11041854 Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island.
11041879 James Ritty patents the first cash register, to combat
1104     stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon.
11041922 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen.
11041924 First woman governor in US elected in Wyoming.
11051781 John Hanson elected first 'President of the United
1105     States in Congress assembled.'  This happened 8 years
1105     before Washington was elected.
11051895 First US patent granted for the automobile, to George B Selden.
11051935 The Parker Brothers launch the game of Monopoly.
11061850 First fire engine arrives in Hawaii.
11061862 Direct Telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco.
11061867 First Parliament of Canada opens in Ottawa
11061869 First intercollegiate football game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)
11061939 WGY-TV (Schenectady NY), first commercial station debuts.
11071805 Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean.
11071811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gives Harrison a presidential slogan.
11071874 First cartoon to use the elephant as the symbol of the
1107     Republican Party appears in Harper's Weekly. It was drawn
1107     by Thomas Nast.
11071875 Verney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa
1107     from sea to sea.
11071885 Canada completes its transcontinental railway.
11081789 Bourbon Whiskey is first distilled from corn by Reverend
1108     Elijah Craig in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
11081793 The Louvre, in Paris, is opened to the public.
11091965 Giant power failure in the New England States, & Ontario, Canada.
11091989 The WALL separating East Berlin from West Berlin started to fall.
11101871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa.
11101891 First Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held
1110     (in Boston.)
11101951 First Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance.
11101980 Voyager I flies past Saturn.
11111790 Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China --
1111     Spelling bee judges cheer!
11111889 Washington admitted as the 42nd state.
11111918 World War I ends.
11111982 Space Shuttle 'Columbia' makes first commercial flight.
11121859 Jules Leotard performs the first Flying Trapeze circus act
1112     in Paris.  He also designed the garment that bears his name.
11121933 First known photo of the Loch Ness monster is taken.
11121936 Oakland Bay Bridge opened.
11121946 The first "autobank" (banking by car) was established, in
1112     Chicago.
11121981 First time a spacecraft is launched twice -- the Space Shuttle
1112     "Columbia" lifts off again.
11131849 Peter Burnett is elected first governor of California.
11131895 First shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii.
11131921 "The Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, was released.
11141832 First streetcar appears, in New York.
11141851 "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville, is published.
11141889 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip around the
1114     world by 8 days (72 days.)
11141910 First airplane flight from the deck of a ship.
11141959 Kilauea Volcano's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii.)
11151763 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying the
1115     Mason-Dixon Line -- the southern boundary of Pennsylvania.
11151869 Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated.
11151926 National Broadcasting Company goes on-the-air, with 24 stations.
11151939 Social Security Administration sends first unemployment cheque.
11161841 N.E. Guerin of New York receives a patent for his cork filled
1116     life preserver.
11161933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the
1116     Soviet Union.
11171800 Congress convenes for its first Washington, DC session.
11171869 The Suez Canal opens.
11171913 Panama Canal opens for use.
11181889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii.
11181903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gives US exclusive canal rights
1118     through Panama.
11181820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer.
11181928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in
1118     "Steamboat Willie."
11181936 Main span of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge joined.
11191493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
11191863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg.
11191895 The pencil is invented. The eraser will have to wait.
11191903 Carrie Nation attempts to make her celebrated speech in the
1119     U.S. Senate and later tries to sell replicas of the hatchet.
11201888 William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
11201914 The State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
11201947 Princess Elizabeth of England and Lt. Phillip Mountbatten
1120     are married in London's Westminster Abbey.
11211794 Honolulu Harbor is discovered.
11211959 Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their
1121     famed duet.
11211964 The Verrazanno Narrows Bridge (Brooklyn to Staten Island) opens,
1121     becoming the world's longest suspension bridge.
11221906 The International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS"
1122     as the new universal call for help.
11221943 Lebanon gains its independence.
11221963 President John Kennedy assasinated in Dallas.
11231852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced
1123     to drop 30 feet.
11231863 patent granted for a process of making color photographs.
11231889 The first jukebox is installed, at a saloon in San Francisco.
11241874 A patent is granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.
11241952 Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens in London.  At last
1124     report, it was still running.
11261778 Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands.)
11261832 The first street car in the U.S. begins operation in New York
1126     City.  It's a horse-drawn trolley.
11261895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed.
11271926 The restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins.
11281520 Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean.
11281776 Washington and his troops cross the Delaware River.
11281895 America's auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner
1128     averages a blazing 7 MPH.
11291887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.
11291890 First Army-Navy football game.  Score: Navy 25, Army 0.
11291922 King Tut's Tomb is discovered in Egypt.
12011887 Sherlock Holmes first appears in print: "A Study In Scarlet."
12011913 First drive-up gasoline station opens, in Pittsburgh.
12011922 First skywriting over the US - "Hello U.S.A." - by Capt.
1201     Turner, RAF.
12021816 First savings bank in US opens as the Philadelphia Savings
1202     Fund Society.
12021823 President James Monroe declares his doctrine.
12021887 Charles Dickens' first public reading in U.S., in New York
1202     City.
12021942 First controlled nuclear reaction at University of Chicago.
12021982 First permanent artificial heart successfully implanted.
12031586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from
1203     Colombia.
12031621 Galileo invents the telescope.
12031952 First television broadcast in Hawaii.
12031954 Joseph McCarthy goes too far in his attacks and is condemned
1203     by the U.S. Senate.
12031967 First human heart transplant performed, in Capetown, South
1203     Africa.
12041674 Father Marquette builds first dwelling in what is now Chicago.
12041783 Gen. Washington bids his officers farewell at Fraunce's
1204     Tavern, New York City.
12041915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens.
12051776 Phi Beta Kappa, first American scholastic fraternity, founded.
12051933 Prohibition is ended in U.S. by ratification of 21st Amendment.
12061768 First edition of Encyclopaedia Brittanica is published in
1206     Scotland.
12061876 City of Anaheim incorporated for a second time.
12061917 Finland gains its independence.
12071787 Delaware is the first state to ratify the Constitution.
12071868 Pearshall Brothers open a school in New York City ... to teach
1207     the art of riding a bicycle!
12071941 Pearl Harbor is attacked.  A day that will live in infamy.
12071972 Apollo 17, last of the Apollo moon series, launched.
12081886 American Federation of Labor is organized in Columbus, Ohio.
12081987 President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a
1208     treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles.
12091640 Settler Hugh Bewitt is banished from colony of Massachusetts.
1209     when he declares himself to be free of original sin.
12091793 Noah Webster establishes New York's first daily newspaper.
12091907 First Christmas Seals sold, in the Wilmington, Delaware
1209     Post Office.
12101901 First awarding and distribution of Nobel Peace Prizes.
12101927 Grand Ole Opry makes its first radio broadcast, in
1210     Nashville, TN.
12111936 King Edward VIII of England abdicates, brother George VI
1211     ascends throne.
12121901 Marconi receives first trans-Atlantic radio signal from
1212     England to US.
12121925 Arthur Heinman coins the term "motel," opens one in
1212     San Luis Obispo.
12121963 Kenya gains its independence.
12131903 Wright brothers first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, NC.
12131903 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone ... in New Jersey.
12131918 Wilson becomes first to make a foreign visit while President.
12131978 Susan B. Anthony dollar, first US coin to honor a woman,
1213     issued.
12141656 Artificial pearls first manufactured by M. Jacquin in Paris,
1214     made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales.
12141819 Alabama admitted to the Union.
12141911 South Pole first reached by Amundsen.
12151791 Bill of Rights is ratified when Virginia gives its approval.
12151877 Patent granted to Mr. Edison for the phonograph.
12151939 World Premiere of "Gone With The Wind" in Atlanta, GA.
12151965 First rendevous in space: Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 link up.
12161773 Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor.  Indians welcome.
12161905 "Variety", covering all phases of show business, first
1216     published.
12161907 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on its World
1216     Cruise.
12171791 New York City traffic regulation creates the first one-way
1217     street.
12171843 "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published in London.
12171852 First Hawaiian cavalry organized.
12171860 Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County.
12171903 First sustained motorized aircraft flight by Wright Brothers.
1217     at 10:35AM, for 12 seconds.
12171933 First professional football game: Chicago Bears vs. NY Giants.
12181899 George Grant wins patent for his golf tee.
12191732 Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's
1219     Almanack."
12191777 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge for the winter.
12191889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii.
12201803 Louisiana Purchase officially transferred.
12201850 Hawaiian post office established.
12201880 New York's Broadway lighted by electricity, becomes known as
1220     the "Great White Way."
12211620 The Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock.
12211913 First crossword puzzle (with 32 clues), printed in New York
1221     World.
12211937 First feature-length cartoon with color and sound premieres.
1221     "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
12221850 Hawaiian Post Office established.
12221895 United States Golf Association is formed.
12231834 Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs.
12231947 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley in Bell
1223     Labs.
12241814 Treaty of Ghent signed, ending War of 1812 (this news did not
1224     arrive until after the Battle of New Orleans.)
12241906 First known radio program in US is broadcast.
12251776 Washington crosses the Delaware and surprises the Hessians.
12251843 First theatre matinee given at Olympic Theatre, New York City.
12261865 James Nason invents the first American coffee percolator.
12271831 Darwin begins his voyage onboard the HMS Beagle.
12271850 Hawaiian Fire Department established.
12271871 World's first Cat Show held at Crystal Palace in London.
12271903 "Sweet Adaline", a barbershop quartet favorite, is first sung.
12271932 Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens.
12281669 A patent for chewing gum is granted to William Semple.
12281849 Dry-cleaning process accidentally discovered when M. Jolly-Bellin,
1228     a tailor, upsets a lamp, containing turpentine and oil,
1228     on his clothing and noticed it had a cleaning effect.
12281902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US.
12291852 Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants!
12301817 First coffee planted in Hawaii.
12301853 Gadsden Purchase signed; U.S. acquires Arizona and New Mexico.
12311776 Rhode Island establishes wage & price controls to curb inflation:
1231     Limit is 70 cents a day for carpenters, 42 cents for tailors.
12311879 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US.)
12311879 Edison gives public demonstration of his incandescent lamp.
12311921 Last San Francisco Fire Dept. horses retired.