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B0800
B08161868 Bernard MacFadden, publisher (Physical Culture, True Romances)
B08161884 Hugo Gernsback, science fiction writer
B08161892 Harold Foster, cartoonist, created "Prince Valiant"
B08161894 George Meany, labor leader, NYC
B08161904 Wendell Stanley, biochemist, 1st to crystallize a virus (Nobel '46)
B08161906 Franz Josef II, prince of Liechtenstein (1938- )
B08161913 Menachem Begin, Israeli PM (1977-83) (Nobel 1978)
B08161925 Fess Parker, actor (Davy Crockett)
B08161928 Ann Blyth, actress in Mt Kisko NY
B08161930 Frank Gifford, NFL halfback (NY Giants), sportscaster
B08161930 Robert Culp, actor (I Spy)
B08161930 Ted Hughes, English poet laureate (1984- )
B08161931 Betsy Von Furstenberg in Germany
B08161932 Eydie Gorme in Bronx NY
B08161933 Stuart (Smoky) Roosa, US astronaut (Apollo 14)
B08161935 Julie Newmar
B08161936 Anita Gillette in Baltimore Md
B08161939 Carole Shelley in London
B08161939 Valeri V. Ryumin, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 32)
B08161946 Leslie Ann Warren, NYC
B08161958 Madonna (Ciccone) in Bay City Michigan
B08161960 Timothy Hutton Actor
B08171601 Pierre de Fermat, mathematician who needed wider margins
B08171786 Davy Crockett, American frontiersman, adventurer, soldier
B08171876 Eric Drummond, 1st secretary-general, League of Nations (1919-33)
B08171882 Samuel Goldwyn, movie producer
B08171887 Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among US blacks
B08171892 Mae West, Bkln, actress. Go up & see her sometime
B08171914 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., son of FDR
B08171921 Maureen O'Hara in Dublin Ireland
B08171923 Larry Rivers, painter
B08171941 Boog Powell, baseball player
B08171943 Robert De Niro, actor
B08171958 Belinda Carlisle (GoGos lead singer)
B08171960 Sean Penn (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
B08181587 Virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents
B08181685 Brook Taylor, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem
B08181750 Antonio Salieri, Italian composer
B08181774 Meriwether Lewis, American explorer
B08181778 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen, 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica
B08181792 John, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig P.M. (1846-52, 1865-66)
B08181834 Marshall Field, founder of a Chicago-based store chain
B08181904 Max Factor Jr
B08181917 Caspar Weinberger, US secretary of defense (1981-87)
B08181922 Shelley Winters, St Louis Mo actress
B08181927 Rosalynn Carter, 1st lady, Pres Carter's main lust
B08181933 Roman Polanski, director (Knife in the Water, Repulsion)
B08181934 Roberto Clemente, pro baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates)
B08181935 Gail Fisher in Orange NJ
B08181935 Rafer Johnson, decathelete
B08181937 Robert Redford, actor (Sting, Natural, Great Gatsby)
B08181943 Martin Mull Actor-comedian
B08181970 Malcolm-Jamal Warner (Cosby Show)
B08191398 Iñigo López, marques de Santillana, Spanish poet
B08191631 John Dryden, 1st poet laureate of England (Absalom & Achitophel)
B08191646 John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England
B08191765 Robert Fulton, inventor
B08191785 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks
B08191844 Minna Canth, Finnish novelist & dramatist
B08191870 Bernard Baruch, financier, presidential adviser
B08191871 Orville Wright, an aviator
B08191878 Manuel Quezon, 1st president of Philippine Commonwealth (1935-42)
B08191889 Arthur Waley, sinologist, translator from Chinese & Japanese
B08191902 Ogden Nash, American humorous poet (I'm a Stranger Here Myself)
B08191907 Thurston Morton, former US senator from Kentucky
B08191931 Willie Shoemaker, jockey
B08191933 Debra Paget
B08191940 Jill St John in LA (Diamonds are Forever)
B08191956 Sue Barker
B08201778 Bernardo O'Higgins, won independence for Chile
B08201833 Benjamin Harrison (R), 23rd Pres (1889-1893) in North Bend, Ohio
B08201860 Raymond Poincaré, French prime minister (1912), president
B08201873 Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect
B08201881 Edgar A Guest, poet
B08201901 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet, critic, translator (Nobel 1959)
B08201921 Jacqueline Susann writer (Valley of the Dolls)
B08201925 Lola Albright in Ohio
B08201933 George Mitchell, (Sen-D-Me)
B08201938 Jean-Loup Chrétien, 1st French traveler in space (on Soyuz T-6)
B08201940 Sam Melville, actor
B08201942 Isaac Hayes, composer
B08201944 Rajiv Gandhi, PM of India (1984- )
B08201946 Connie Chung, TV newscaster (NBC)
B08201951 Guy Lafleur, NHL star
B08211165 Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)
B08211660 Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building
B08211765 William IV, king of England (1830-37)
B08211872 Aubrey Beardsley, English artist (or 0824)
B08211906 Count Basie, musician
B08211930 Princess Margaret of England
B08211936 Mart Crowley playwright
B08211936 Wilt Chamberlain, NBA great
B08211938 Kenny Rogers, singer
B08211939 Clarence Williams III (Mod Squad)
B08211944 Jackie DeShannon in Kentucky
B08211945 Patty McCormack, actress
B08211959 Jim McMahon Chicago Bears QB
B08211962 Matthew Broderick Actor (Ferris Buehler)
B08221836 Archibald M. Willard, American artist (Spirit of '76)
B08221862 Claude Debussy, composer (La Mer, Clair de lune)
B08221909 Mel Hein, NFL center (NY Giants)
B08221920 Ray Bradbury, sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451)
B08221928 Karlheinz Stockhausen, composer
B08221929 Honor Blackman in London
B08221932 Gerald P. Carr, US astronaut (Skylab 4)
B08221933 Sylvia Koscina
B08221934 Diana Sands
B08221940 Valerie Harper in Sufferin NY, (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Valerie)
B08221942 Kathy Lennon, singer in Santa Monica
B08221947 Cindy Williams, actress (Laverne & Shirley) in Van Nuys Cal
B08221949 Diana Nyad Swimmer
B08231754 Louis XVI, king of France (1774-92); guillotined
B08231785 Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander at Battle of Lake Erie
B08231869 Edgar Lee Masters, American poet (Spoon River Anthology)
B08231869 James (Sunny Jim) Rolph, SF mayor (1912-31), MUNI backer
B08231901 John Sherman Cooper, senator
B08231912 Gene Kelly dancer/actor
B08231930 Vera Miles, actress
B08231932 Mark Russell, raconteur
B08231934 Barbara Eden, Az (I dream of Jeannie)
B08231934 Sonny Jurgensen, NFL quarterback (Eagles, Redskins)
B08231942 Patricia McBride, ballerina
B08231948 Ron Blomberg future designated hitter
B08231949 Shelley Long in Fort Wayne Indiana
B08241591 Robert Herrick, English poet (Gather ye rosebuds) (baptized)
B08241816 Sir Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables
B08241872 Max Beerbohm writer
B08241886 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed Liberty ships
B08241898 Albert Claude, Belgian physician (Nobel 1974)
B08241899 Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer of fiction & essays
B08241902 Fernand Braudel, French historian
B08241956 Gerry Cooney, boxer
B08251530 Ivan IV (the Terrible), 1st tsar of Russia (1533-84)
B08251819 Allan Pinkerton, founder of Chicago detective agency
B08251836 Bret Harte, writer (Outcasts of Poker Flat)
B08251841 Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, thyroid specialist (Nobel 1909)
B08251845 Ludwig II, mad king of Bavaria (1864-86)
B08251909 Michael Rennie (Klatuu-Day the Earth Stood Still)
B08251909 Ruby Keeler, dancer in Halifax NS
B08251913 Walt Kelly, cartoonist, creator of "Pogo."
B08251916 Van Johnson, actor
B08251918 Leonard Bernstein, conductor-composer
B08251919 George C. Wallace (D-gov-Ala) pres candidate
B08251927 Althea Gibson, 1st black tennis champion in a major event
B08251930 Sean Connery, actor (James Bond, Man Who Would Be King)
B08261676 Sir Robert Walpole (Whig), British prime minister, 1721-42
B08261728 Johann Lambert, Swiss mathematician, proved π is irrational
B08261873 Lee De Forest, invented Audion vacuum (radio) tube in Council Bluffs
B08261880 Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet
B08261885 Jules Romains, French novelist, dramatist, poet (Men of Good Will)
B08261901 Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, former US Army chief of staff
B08261904 Christopher Isherwood, novelist, playwright (I Am a Camera)
B08261906 Dr Albert Sabin, polio vaccine discoverer
B08261914 Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (We Love Glenda So Much)
B08261917 William French Smith Former Attorney General
B08261921 Ben Bradlee, journalist (Wash Post)
B08261927 Francois Leydet
B08261932 Joseph H. Engle, X-15 pilot, astronaut (STS-2, 51I)
B08261935 Geraldine Ferraro (D), 1st female major-party VP candidate
B08261947 Candy Moore in Maplewood NJ
B08261948 Valerie Simpson in Bronx, singer, Ashford's partner
B08261952 John Kinsella, swimmer
B08271770 G.W.F. Hegel, invented dialectic
B08271809 Hannibal Hamlin (R), 15th VP (1861-65)
B08271865 Charles Gates Dawes (R), 30th VP (1925-29) (Nobel 1925)
B08271871 Theodore Dreiser, novelist (Sister Carie, An American Tragedy)
B08271899 C.S. Forester, historical novelist, created of Horatio Hornblower
B08271908 Lyndon B Johnson, 36th Pres (1963-1969)
B08271910 Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Nobel 1979)
B08271915 Walter Heller, economist
B08271916 Martha Raye in Butte Montana, denture wearer
B08271929 Ira Levin, author (Rosemary's Baby, Sleuth, This Perfect Day)
B08271937 Tommy Sands, singer
B08271941 Yuri V. Malyshev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz T-2, T-11)
B08271943 Susan 'Tuesday' Weld in NYC
B08281592 George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, royal minister to James I
B08281749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt, social philosopher (Faust)
B08281774 Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint
B08281828 Leo Tolstoy, writer, social philosopher (War & Peace)
B08281831 Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, 1st lady
B08281833 Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English Pre-Raphaelite painter, designer
B08281889 Charles Boyer, American film star
B08281906 Sir John Betjeman, poet laureate of England (Mt. Zion)
B08281921 Nancy Kulp in Penn
B08281925 Donald O'Connor, comedian, actor
B08281930 Ben Gazzara, actor (Run for Your Life)
B08281939 Cassie Mackin NBC Newswoman
B08281940 Richard Sanders Actor
B08281940 William Cohen,(Sen-R-Me)
B08281943 David Soul Actor
B08281943 Lou Piniella Baseball manager
B08281950 Ron 'Louisana Lightning' Guidry
B08281958 Scott Hamilton Skating champion
B08281960 Emma Samms (Samuels), (Colby's, General Hospital)
B082819?? Marla Adams
B08291632 John Locke, British empiricist philosopher
B08291780 Jean Ingres, French painter
B08291809 Oliver Wendell Holmes, American physician, author Cambridge, Mass
B08291815 Anna Ella Carroll, American writer
B08291862 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian Symbolist poet (Nobel 1911)
B08291881 Valery Nicolas Larbaud, French novelist, essayist, translator
B08291899 Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Marine Corps general
B08291912 Barry Sullivan, American actor
B08291915 Ingrid Bergman, actress (Casablanca) in Sweden
B08291916 George Montgomery, actor
B08291917 Isabel Sanford, actress
B08291923 Richard Attenborough, actor, director (Gandhi, Young Winston)
B08291934 David Pryor, (Sen-D-Ark)
B08291938 Elliot Gould, actor (M*A*S*H)
B08291938 Peter Jennings, ABC anchor
B08291939 William Friedkin director (Exorcist)
B08291940 Wilhelm Ruska, Neth, world judo champion
B08291941 Robin Leach (Life Styles of Rich & Famous)
B08291945 Wyomia Tyus, (Olympic Runner)
B08291958 Michael Jackson, singer (Thriller)
B08301748 Jacques-Louis David, French Neoclassical painter
B08301797 Mary Shelley, author (Frankenstein)
B08301837 Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, wife of president Chester A. Arthur
B08301871 Ernest Rutherford in Engl, phycist
B08301884 Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, worked with colloids (Nobel '26)
B08301893 Huey P. Long (gov-sen-La)
B08301896 Raymond Massey actor
B08301901 John Gunther, writer
B08301901 Roy Wilkins, director of NAACP
B08301907 Shirley Booth NY - Hazel
B08301908 Fred MacMurray, actor (Caine Mutiny, My Three Sons)
B08301909 Joan Blondell in NY
B08301918 Ted Williams Boston Red Sox
B08301922 Regina Resnik, mezzo-soprano
B08301931 John L. Swigert, Jr., US astronaut (Apollo 13)
B08301941 Elizabeth Ashley in Florida
B08301943 Jean-Claude Killy, skier
B08301943 R. Crumb cartoonist
B08301947 Peggy Lipton NYC (Mod Squad)
B08301951 Timothy Bottoms, actor
B08311870 Maria Montessori, educator
B08311903 Arthur Godfrey, radio, TV host
B08311903 Sir Bernard Lovell, English radio astronomer, founded Jodrell Bank
B08311908 William Saroyan, novelist, playwright (Time of Your Life)
B08311918 Alan Jay Lerner, composer
B08311924 Buddy Hackett, comedian
B08311928 James Coburn actor
B08311935 Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther turned Republican
B08311937 Warren Berlinger, actor
B08311945 Itzhak Perlman, violinist
B08311945 Leonid I. Popov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 35, 40, T-7)
B08311958 Edward Moses, track star
B0800
*mmddyyyy Events
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S0800
S0816 Feast of St. Joachim, father of Mary, confessor
S0816 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
S0816 6Admission Day celebrated in Hawaii
S08161777 Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
S08161780 British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, S.C
S08161812 Detroit fell to British & Indian forces in the War of 1812.
S08161819 Manchester Massacre; English police charge unemployed demonstrators
S08161829 Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston to be exhibited
S08161861 Pres Lincoln prohibit Union states from trading with Confederacy
S08161863 Emancipation Proclamation signed
S08161896 Gold found at Bonanza Creek, Ala
S08161903 Tigers play a home game in Toledo Ohio, Yanks win 12-8
S08161920 Norman Lockyer, editor of NATURE, discoverer of helium in sun, dies
S08161920 Yanks Carl Mays' pitch, hits Indian Ray Chapman in the head
S08161920CChapman dies the next day, the only major league fatality
S08161948 Baseball legend Babe Ruth died in NY at the age of 53
S08161956 Adlai E. Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate
S08161960 Britain grants independence to the crown colony of Cyprus
S08161960 Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon at 31,330 m (record)
S08161965 AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise, to Miami Dolphins
S08161969 Woodstock festival begins in NY
S08161970 Venera 7 launched by USSR for soft landing on Venus
S08161977 Elvis Presley, dies of heart ailment at Graceland at age 42
S08161977 Yanks blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th
S08161984 LA federal jury acquits automaker John Z. De Lorean
S08161987 Astrological Harmonic Convergence - Dawn of New Age
S0817 Feast of St. Ethelred
S0817 Feast of St. Hyacinth, confessor
S0817 Independence Day, celebrated in Indonesia
S0817 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
S0817 6Admission Day celebrated in Hawaii
S08171807 Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
S08171846 US takes LA
S08171858 1st bank in Hawaii opens
S08171863 Federal batteries & ships bombarded Ft Sumter in Charleston
S08171877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
S08171896 Gold discovered at Bonanza Creek, in Klondike region of the Yukon
S08171908 Bank of Italy opens it's new HQ at Clay & Montgomery
S08171915 Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Ga.,
S08171915Cafter death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life
S08171939 "The Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY
S08171940 FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission
S08171942 US bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France
S08171943 Allied forces gained completed control of Sicily
S08171944 Yanks Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 doubles in a game
S08171945 Indonesia declares independence from the Netherlands (National Day)
S08171948 Alger Hiss denied ever being a Communist agent
S08171950 Indonesia gains it's independence
S08171960 Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
S08171960 Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
S08171961 Alliance for Progress established
S08171962 E German border guards shot & mortally wounded Peter Fechter, 18,
S08171962Cwho attempted to cross the Berlin Wall into the western sector
S08171969 Hurricane Camille claimed more than 250 lives
S08171970 USSR launches Venera 7 to Venus
S08171978 1st manned balloon crossing of the Atlantic Ocean (Eagle II)
S08171987 Nazi Rudolph Hess dies at 93, after 46 years in Spandau Prison
S0818 Feast of St. Agapitus, martyr
S0818 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
S0818 6Admission Day celebrated in Hawaii
S08181227 Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died.
S08181587 Virginia Dare 1st child of English parents to be born in America
S08181835 The last of the Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
S08181846 US forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearney captured Santa Fe, NM
S08181868 Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
S08181914 Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality
S08181920 Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment
S08181920Cwhich guarantees the right of all American women to vote.
S08181938 FDR dedicates the Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada.
S08181954 Asst Sec of Labor James Wilkins became 1st black to attend Cabinet
S08181958 Investigation starts of TV Game show scandal
S08181958 `Lolita,' by Vladimir Nabokov, published.
S08181960 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
S08181963 James Meredith became 1st black graduate from U of Mississippi
S08181976 USSR's Luna 24 softlands on the Moon
S08181982 1st time, NYSE tops 100 million figure, 132.69 million shares traded
S08181986 Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
S0819 Feast of St. John Eudes, confessor
S0819 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
S0819 National Aviation Day
S0819 6Admission Day (celebrated in Hawaii)
S08191826 Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
S08191891 William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum
S08191942 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is
S08191950 ABC begins the tradition of Saturday morning kid shows
S08191960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
S08191960 Sputnik 5 carries 3 dogs into orbit (later recovered alive)
S08191977 Groucho Marx, died in LA at the age of 86.
S08191979 The crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34
S08191982 Soyuz T-7 is launched
S0820 Feast of St. Bernard, abbot, doctor
S0820 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
S0820 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
S0820 6Admission Day celebrated in Hawaii
S08201866 President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over
S08201914 German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during WW I.
S08201918 Britain opened its offensive on the Western front during WW I
S08201920 US's 1st coml radio, 8MK later WWJ, Detroit began daily broadcasting
S08201930 Dumont's 1st TV Broadcast for home reception, NY city
S08201940 British PM Churchill said of the Royal Air Force, `Never in the
S08201940Cfield of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'
S08201940 Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico City by agents of Stalin
S08201942 Dimout regulations implemented in SF
S08201953 Russia publicly acknowledges a test detonation of a hydrogen bomb.
S08201955 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph - HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca
S08201955 Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria
S08201956 Republicans convene at the Cow Palace
S08201960 Senegal gains independence from France
S08201964 LBJ signs an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion.
S08201968 650,000 Soviet-block troops invade Czechoslovakia
S08201975 Viking 1 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing
S08201977 Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
S08201980 UN Security Council votes 14-0, US abstains condemning Israel's
S08201980Cdeclaration that all of Jersualem was its capital.
S08201986 A mail carrier in Edmond, Okla., shot 14 fellow workers dead
S0821 Feast of St. Jane Frances Frémiot de Chantal, widow
S0821 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S0821 6Admission Day celebrated in Hawaii
S08211560 Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy
S08211680 Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa Fe,
S08211831 Former slave Nat Turner led a violent insurrection against slavery
S08211841 John Hampson patents the venetian blind
S08211858 1st Lincoln-Douglas debate in Illinois
S08211878 American Bar Association organized at Sarasota, N.Y
S08211933 Ruth homer leads the AL to a 4-2 win in the 1st All Star Game
S08211940 Leon Trotsky died of wounds inflicted by an assailant the day before
S08211945 Pres Truman ended the Lend-Lease program
S08211959 Hawaii becomes 50th US state
S08211963 Martial law declared in S Vietnam
S08211965 Gemini 5 launched into earth orbit (2 astronauts)
S08211968 William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
S08211972 US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus is launched
S08211982 Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut
S08211983 Opposition leader Begnigno S. Aquino, Jr. assassinated in Manila
S08211986 Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 2000
S08212017 Next total solar eclipse visible from North America
S0822 Death of King Richard III, 1485, last of the plantagenets
S0822 Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
S0822 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S08221485 Richard III slain at Bosworth Field - Last of the Plantagenets
S08221787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
S08221851 Gold fields discovered in Australia
S08221864 Geneva Convention signed, by 12 nations
S08221927 Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers
S08221961 Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers
S08221963 Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 106 km
S08221963 NASA's X-15 attains altitude of 67 miles
S0823 Feast of St. Philip Benizi, confessor
S0823 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S08231833 Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
S08231869 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF
S08231872 1st Japanese commercial ship visits SF, carrying tea
S08231889 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US: US lightship
S08231919 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premiers in Chicago Tribune
S08231927 Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed in Mass
S08231944 Rumania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
S08231957 Digital Equipment Corp. founded
S08231963 Beatles release "She Loves You"
S08231966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of earth from the moon
S08231968 Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
S08231973 Intelsat communications satellite launched
S08231977 1st man-powered flight (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
S08231977 Yanks leap frog over Red Soxs 1/2 game in 1st place to stay
S0824 Feast of St. Bartholomew, apostle
S0824 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S0824 79 Mt. Vesuvius erupts; Pompeii & Herculaneum are buried
S08241572 King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants
S08241583 St. Bartholomew's Day
S08241814 British sack Washington, DC, White House burned
S08241869 the waffle iron is invented
S08241909 Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal
S08241912 Territory of Alaska organized
S08241932 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, AE Putnam
S08241949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established
S08241950 1st US Negro delegate to United Nations appointed - ES Sampson
S08241956 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC
S08241960 temp. drops to -88° (-127° F) at Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
S08241964 2nd Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 6-4
S08241972 8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 2-1
S08241976 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
S08241989 Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
S0825 Feast of St. Louis IX, king of France, confessor
S0825 Independence Day, celebrated in Uruguay
S0825 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S08251689 Montreal taken by the Iroquois
S08251822 William Herschel, discoverer of Uranus, dies at age 85
S08251825 Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)
S08251830 Belgium begins revolt against the Netherlands
S08251835 NY Sun publishes moon hoax story about John Herschel
S08251864 Combination rail & ferry service available from SF to Alameda
S08251875 Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim the English Channel
S08251919 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
S08251921 Yankee Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying the record
S08251922 Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game
S08251929 Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
S08251944 Paris liberated from Nazi occupation
S08251952 Tiger's Virgil Trucks no hits the Yankees
S08251976 Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings
S08251981 Voyager 2 closest approach to Saturn & discovers thousands of rings
S08251987 Dow Jones average of industrial stocks reaches 2722.42, a record
S0826 Feast of St. Zephyrinus, pope (198-217), martyr
S0826 Women's Equality Day
S0826 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S0826 55 B.C. Roman forces under Julius Caesar invaded Britain.
S08261346 English longbows defeat French in Battle of Crécy
S08261629 Cambridge Agreement pledged. Massachusetts Bay Co. stockholders
S08261791 John Fitch granted a US patent for his working steamboat
S08261846 W A Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)
S08261847 Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.
S08261883 Krakatoa began erupting with increasingly large explosions.
S08261907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
S08261914 Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg
S08261916 Yanks turn a triple play & beat the Browns 10-6
S08261920 19th amendment passes -- women's suffrage granted (about time!)
S08261937 Pumping to build Treasure Island in S.F. Bay is finished
S08261939 1st major league baseball telecast - Reds at Bkln Dodgers (W2XBS NY)
S08261952 Fluoridation of SF water begins
S08261957 USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
S08261961 Official Intl Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto.
S08261962 Mariner 2 launched for 1st planet flyby (Venus)
S08261964 LBJ nominated at the Democratic convention in Atlantic City, N.J.
S08261972 Summer Olympics opened in Munich, West Germany.
S08261973 Women's Equality Day
S08261974 Charles Lindbergh, died at his home in Hawaii at 72.
S08261974 Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
S08261977 H.A. Rey, author of a popular constellation book, dies at age 78
S08261978 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
S08261978CSoyuz 31 is launched
S08261981 Voyager's closest approach to Saturn enroute to Uranus & Neptune
S0827 Feast of St. Joseph Calasanctius, confessor
S0827 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons (1883)
S0827 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S08271776 Americans defeated by British in Battle of Long Island
S08271783 1st hydrogen-filled balloon ascent (unmanned)
S08271859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn
S08271883 Krakatoa, west of Java, blew apart; top that, St. Helens!
S08271909 Jack Chesbro's final game as a Yankee
S08271912 Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes Tarzan
S08271921 Green Bay Packers granted NFL franchise
S08271928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agreed to outlaw war
S08271938 Yanks Monte Pearson no hits the Indians 13-0 DiMaggio hits 3 triples
S08271939 Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
S08271950 General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
S08271962 Launch of Mariner 2 which makes 1st Venus flyby
S08271977 Toby Harrah & Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers
S08271977Coff Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2
S08271978 Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 78
S08271982 Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
S08271985 20th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 6 launched
S0828 Feast of St. Augustine of Hippo, bishop, confessor, doctor
S0828 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S08281565 St Augustine, Fla established
S08281609 Delaware Bay explored by Henry Hudson for the Netherlands
S08281789 William Herschel discovers Enceladus, satellite of Saturn
S08281828 Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was born near Tula.
S08281867 US occupies Midway Islands in the Pacific
S08281884 Mickey Welsh strikesout the 1st 9 men he faces
S08281907 United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
S08281916 Italy's declares war against Germany during WW I
S08281917 10 suffragists were arrested as they picketed the White House
S08281922 WEAF in NYC aired the 1st radio commercial. Queensboro Realty
S08281922CCompany of Jackson Heights paid $100 for 10 minutes of air time
S08281957 Sen. Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
S08281963 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, D.C
S08281963 Martin Luther King Jr I have a dream speech at the Lincoln Memorial
S08281965 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
S08281968 Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Democratic
S08281968CNational Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president
S08281973 More than 520 die as a strong earthquake shook central Mexico
S08281974 Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
S08281977 NY Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland
S08281977COre., winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship.
S08281977CRon Guidry faces just 28 men & beats the Rangers 1-0
S08281981 John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill Pres Reagan
S08281983 Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation
S0829 According to Hoyle Day
S0829 Beheading of St. John the Baptist
S0829 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S08291526 Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Mohács
S08291533 Last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa, murdered by Spanish conquerors
S08291708 Haverhill, Mass. destroyed by French & Indians
S08291769 Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)
S08291786 Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass
S08291864 William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
S08291877 2nd president of the Mormon Church, Brigham Young, died.
S08291896 Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
S08291914 Arizonan is 1st vessel to arrive in S.F. via the Panama Canal
S08291949 USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb
S08291954 SF Intl Airport (SFO) opens
S08291957 Strom Thurmond D-SC, ends 24 hour filibuster against civil rights
S08291964 Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" is released
S08291965 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
S08291966 Beatles public concert, at Candlestick Park in SF.
S08291967 Final television episode of The Fugitive
S08291967 Yankees longest day, The Red Sox take the 1st game 2-1 in 9, the
S08291967CYanks win second game in 20, 4-3 a total of 8 hours & 19 minutes
S08291977 Lou Brock, Cardinals eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year old career stolen
S08291977Cbases record to a total to 893. The Padres won game, 4-3.
S08291981 Broadcaster Lowell Thomas, died in Pawling, N.Y., at age 89
S0830 Feast of St. Rose of Lima, virgin, patron of Latin America
S0830 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S08301645 treaty of peace between Dutch & Indians
S08301850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
S08301906 Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game
S08301910 Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no hit innings but loses 5-0 in the 11th
S08301961 1st Negro judge of a District Court confirmed - JB Parsons
S08301979 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
S08301983 8th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 3 is launched
S08301984 12th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 1 is launched
S0831 Feast of St. Raymund Nonnatus, confessor
S0831 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S08311842 US Naval Observatory is authorized by an act of Congress
S08311850 California Pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets
S08311886 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston, S.C
S08311886 Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized
S08311950 Gil Hodges hits 4 homers in 1 game
S08311955 1st microwave television station operated - Lufkin, Texas
S08311955 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Il
S08311957 Malaysia gains independence from Britain (National Day)
S08311962 Trinidad & Tobago gains independence from Britain (National Day)
S08311963 Malaysia Day
S08311977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets world aircraft altitude record of 38.26 km
S08311977C(125,524 ft) in a Mikoyan E-266M turbojet
S08311980 Poland's Solidarity labor union founded
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