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*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B08021986 TODAY/PC born today.
B12171874 William Lyon Mackenzie, Canadian Prime Minister (1921-30
B12171874Cand 1935-48), in Kitchener, Ontario
B12181709 Elizabeth, empress of Russia (to Peter the Great and
B12181709CCatherine I)
B12181942 Boxer Mohammed Ali
B12191906 Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet statesman, in the Ukraine
B12271822 Louis Pasteur, French chemist and bacteriologist
B12301865 Rudyard Kipling, English poet and novelist, in India
B12311969 Henri Matisse, French painter
B06021840 English novelist Thomas Hardy
B06021940 King Constantine of Greece

*mmddyyyy Reminders
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R0700     Leave for vacation on the 30th!

*mmddyyyy Events
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S01011934 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (US bank guarantees) effective
S01011936 First newspaper to microfilm its current issues, NY Herald Tribune
S01011948 First newsreel in color, Pasadena, Ca.
S01021917 Royal Bank of Canada took over the Quebec Bank
S01021935 Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for kidnap-murder of Charles
S01021935CLindbergh Jr.
S01021936 First electron tube described, St. Louis, Mo.
S01021942 Japanese occupied Manila
S01021942 Twenty-eight nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace
S01021955 President Jose Antonio Remon of Panama assassinated
S01031521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
S01031921 Turkey made peace with Armenia
S01031941 Canada and the U.S. acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr. lease)
S01031943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa
S01031943 First missing persons telecast, NY city
S01031946 William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) hanged in Britain, for treason
S01031957 First electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pa
S01031958 Sir Edmund Hillary reached South Pole overland
S01031959 Alaska becomes the 49th state
S01041962 First subway train to run automatically (unmanned) - NY city
S01051589 Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, died
S01051809 Treaty of Dardanelles was concluded between Britain and France
S01051922 Sir Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, died aboard his ship
S01051925 Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman gov. in USA
S01061838 Samuel Morse made first public demonstration of telegraph
S01061884 Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk and heredity pioneer, died
S01061930 First diesel engine automobile trip completed
S01061936 Barbara Hanley became Canada's first woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario)
S01081935 Spectrophotometer patented, A.C. Hardy
S01091936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by U.S. army
S01101944 First mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia Pa.
S01101946 First radar signal to moon, Belmar, N.J.
S01101951 First jet passenger trip made
S01110935 First woman to fly solo across Pacific left Honolulu, A.E. Putnam
S01181949 First US Congressional Standing Committee headed by Negro -W. Dawson
S01201929 First feature talking motion picture taken outdoors "In Old Arizona"
S01201953 First telecast transmitted to Canada - from Buffalo N.Y.
S01211954 First gas turbine automobile exhibited - NY city
S01211954 Nautilus, first atomic powered submarine launched - Groton Conn.
S01221947 First commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood Ca.
S01241935 First beer in cans placed on sale, Richmond, Va.
S01251961 First live, nationally televised, Presidential news conference
S01251961CJohn F. Kennedy, Washington D.C.
S01261961 First woman `personal physician to the President' - J.G. Travell
S01271948 First locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds operated
S01271948 Magnetic tape recorder announced
S01281932 First US state unemployment insurance act enacted - Wisconsin
S01281958 Construction began on first private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
S01281960 First photograph bounced off moon, Washington D.C.
S01301958 First 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Texas
S01311958 First satellite placed in orbit launched from Cape Canaveral
S02011951 First X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
S02011951 First telecast of atomic explosion
S02011957 First Negro pilot on scheduled passenger airline - P.H. Young
S02021935 Lie detector first used in court, Portage Wi.
S02041936 First radioactive substance produced synthetically - radium E
S02041957 First electric portable typewriter placed on sale, Syracuse N.Y.
S02111958 First flight with Negro stewardess, R.C. Taylor, Ithaca N.Y.
S02141961 Element 103, lawrencium, first produced in Berkeley California
S02151954 First bevatron in operation - Berkeley, California
S02151955 Production announced - first pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds
S02161937 Nylon patented, W.H. Carothers
S02161938 US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized
S02161946 First commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport Ct.
S02161961 First satellite placed in orbit by all solid propellant rocket
S02161961CWallops Island, Va.
S02181930 Planet Pluto discovered
S02181953 Premier of first 3-D feature film - "Bwana Devil", NY city
S02201937 First automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, Ca.
S02201962 John Glenn is first American astronaut to orbit earth
S02211932 Camera exposure meter patented, W.N. Goodwin
S02211947 First camera to take, develop and print pictures on photographic
S02211947Cdemonstrated in NY city ny E.H. Land
S02231936 First rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, NY
S02241949 First rocket to reach outer space, White Sands, N.M.
S02251930 Check photographing device patented
S02251933 First aircraft carrier "Ranger" launched
S02251940 First televised hockey game, NY city
S02261954 First typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Mass.
S02261955 First aviator to bail out at supersonic speed - G.F. Smith
S02281940 First televised basketball game, NY city
S03011937 First permanent automobile license plates issued, Ct.
S03011947 International Monetary Fund began operations
S03021949 First non-stop, round-the-world airplane flight completed
S03021949 First street light on automatic system - New Milford, Conn.
S03031931 Star Spangled Banner officially designated
S03041954 First Negro U.S. sub-cabinet member appointed - J.E. Wilkins
S03071959 First aviator to fly a million miles in a jet airplane - M.C. Garlow
S03081946 First helicopter licensed for commercial use - NY city
S03081950 First woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel - B.R. Walters
S03101948 First civilian to exceed speed of sound -H.H. Houver, Edwards AFB Ca
S03111930 W.H. Taft - first US president buried in Arlington National Cemetery
S03111953 First woman doctor commissioned in regular army - F.M. Adams
S03141931 First theatre built for rear projection of motion pictures, NY city
S03151937 First blood bank established, Chicago, Il.
S03151937 First state contraceptive clinic opened, Raleigh, N.C.
S03151960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
S03151986 First all-color television station to televise live local programs
S03171950 Element 98 - californium announced
S03181952 First plastic lens for cataract patients fitted, Philadelphia Pa.
S03191949 First museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tn
S03191954 First rocket-driven sled on rails tested, Alamogordo, N.M.
S03241955 First oil drill seagoing rig placed in service
S03251960 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered submarine (Halibut)
S03261951 U.S. Air Force flag approved
S03271933 Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
S03301950 Invention of phototransistor announced, Murray Hill, N.J.
S03311933 First newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Ga)
S03311958 U.S. navy forms atomic submarine division
S04011935 First radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY
S04011954 First army helicopter battalion formed, Fort Bragg, N.C.
S04071953 First jet transatlantic non-stop flight (west to east)
S04071959 First astronauts - selection announced by NASA
S04071959 Radar first bounced off sun, Stanford California
S04091947 Atomic Energy Commission confirmed
S04101930 Synthetic rubber first produced
S04101953 Premier of first 3-D feature color film - "The House of Wax", NY
S04111947 Jackie Robinson, first Negro major league baseball player, NY city
S04121938 First US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses, NY
S04131940 First pole vaulter to clear 15 feet, C. Warmerdam, Berkeley, Ca.
S04141956 Commercial magnetic tape recording of sound and picture demonstrated
S04151941 First helicopter flight of one hour duration, Stratford, Ct.
S04161947 Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated, NY city
S04181934 First washing machine for public use installed, Fort Worth, Texas
S04181950 First transatlantic jet passenger trip
S04181956 Don Larsen first baseball pitcher to pitch perfect World Series game
S04201940 First electron microscope demonstrated, Philadelphia, Pa.
S04221952 First atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada
S04231962 First American satellite to reach moon launched from Cape Canaveral
S04241954 First American civilian pilot wounded in Indo China - P.R. Holden
S04241962 First transcontinental television telecast via satellite
S04251954 First solar battery announced - NY city
S04251957 First experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated
S04251959 Saint Lawrence Seaway opened
S04251960 First submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton)
S04271946 First radar installation aboard a commercial ship installed
S04271960 First atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)
S04281932 Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced
S04281937 First animated cartoon electric sign displayed, NY city
S04291957 First military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va
S04301939 F.D. Roosevelt is first US President to appear on TV
S04301942 First submarine built on Great Lakes launched, "Peto", Manitowoc, Wi
S04301955 Element mendelevium announced - element 101
S05011947 Radar for commercial and private planes first demonstrated
S05031952 First landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
S05041942 Battle of the Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
S05051948 First air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
S05051956 Jim Bailey - first 4 minute mile run in U.S.A., Los Angeles, Ca.
S05051961 Alan Shepard is first American in space - launched Cape Canaveral
S05061962 First nuclear warhead is fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
S05081942 Battle of the Coral Sea ends
S05081951 Dacron men's suits introduced
S05081954 First shot-put over 60 feet - Parry O'Brien, Los Angeles, Ca.
S05081961 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
S05081961 First practical sea water conversion plant - Freeport Texas
S05091944 First eye bank opened, NY city
S05101930 First planetarium to open to the public - Adler Planetarium, Chicago
S05111947 Tubeless automobile tires announced, Akron, Oh.
S05121949 First foreign woman ambassador received in US - S.V.L. Pandit, India
S05151930 First flight by an air stewardess
S05151940 First nylon hose placed on sale
S05171960 1st atomic reactor system to be patented, J.W. Flora, Canoga Park CA
S05181953 First woman pilot faster than speed of sound - Jacqueline Cochran
S05201939 Transatlantic air mail service inaugurated
S05201956 Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane - Bikini Atoll
S05211929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NY city
S05211932 First transatlantic solo flight by a woman landed, A.E. Putnam
S05211941 First American ship sunk by a U-boat (Robin Moor)
S05211955 First transcontinental round-trip solo flight - sunrise to sunset
S05221947 First ballistic missile fired
S05241931 First air-conditioned train installed - B&O Railroad
S05241935 First major league baseball game at night, Cincinnati, Oh.
S05241954 First rocket to exceed 150 mile altitude - White Sands, N.M.
S05241959 First house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited, Pleasant Hills, Pa
S05251953 First atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
S05251953 First noncommercial educational television station - Houston, Texas
S05261943 First president of Negro country to visit US - E. Barclay, Liberia
S05271931 First full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va
S05281929 First talking picture show entirely in color exhibited, NY city
S05281929C"On With The Show"
S05281953 Premier of first animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor - "Melody"
S05281959 First animals fired into space and rescued, Cape Canaveral
S05291951 First North Pole flight in single engine plane - C.F. Blair
S05301933 Patent on invisible glass installation
S06011949 First magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers - Newsweek
S06011951 First self-contained titanium plant opened, Henderson Nevada
S06011957 First American runner to break 4 minute mile - Don Bowden
S06021946 Italy in first election where women could vote became a republic
S06021953 Queen Elizabeth II of England was coronated
S06021979 Pope John Paul became first Roman Catholic pontiff to visit a
S06021979Ccommunist country with a return to his native Poland
S06031621 The Dutch West Indies company was founded
S06031789 Alexander Mackenzie began exploration of Mackenzie River
S06031934 Dr. Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, was knighted
S06031937 Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor married Wallis Warfield Simpson
S06031942 The Battle of Midway, turning point in war in Pacific, began
S06031959 First U.S. Air Force Academy graduation
S06041944 First submarine captured and boarded on high seas - U 505
S06041957 First commercial coal pipeline placed in operation
S06051933 Enactment of gold standard abrogation
S06051940 First synthetic rubber tire exhibited, Akron, Oh.
S06061932 U.S. Federal gasoline tax enacted
S06061933 First drive-in motion picture theatre, Camden, N.J.
S06061933 U.S. Employment Service created
S06061934 US Securities and Exchange Commission created
S06061936 Aviation gasoline first produced commercially, Paulsboro, N.J.
S06061941 First navy vessel constructed as mine layer, Terror, launched
S06061942 First nylon parachute jump, Hartford Ct., Adeline Gray
S06071953 First color network telecast in compatible color, Boston Mass.
S06071954 First microbiology laboratory dedicated - New Brunswick N.J.
S06071955 First President to appear on television in color - D.D. Eisenhower
S06081940 Element 93, neptunium - discovery announced
S06081959 First official `missile mail' landed, Jacksonville Florida
S06091959 First ballistic missile submarine launched, "George Washington"
S06101932 First demonstration of artificial lightning, Pittsfield, Mass.
S06101943 F.D. Roosevelt is first U.S. president to visit foreign country
S06101943Cduring wartime
S06101955 First virus separated into component parts - reported
S06111955 First jet magnesium airplane flown
S06121936 First radio station with 500,000 watt power, Pittsburgh, Pa.
S06131933 Federal Savings and Loan Association authorized
S06131933 First sodium vapor lamps installed, Schenectady, NY
S06141938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
S06141942 First bazooka rocket gun produced, Bridgeport Ct.
S06151951 First commercial electronic computer dedicated, Philadelphia Pa.
S06161933 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (US) created
S06161941 First US federally owned airport opened, Washington DC
S06161949 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie, Pa.
S06171942 First American expeditionary force to land in Africa (WW2)
S06171947 First round-the-world civil air service, left NY city
S06181934 US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
S06181959 First telecast transmitted from England to the U.S.A.
S06191931 First photoelectric cell installed commercially, West Haven, Ct.
S06191934 US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
S06191947 First plane to exceed 600 mph - Albert Boyd, Muroc, Ca.
S06211948 First long playing micro-groove records introduced, NY city
S06231938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (U.S.) created
S06231938 Marineland opens in Florida - 1st aquarium for monsters of the deep
S06241930 First radar detection of planes, Anacostia D.C.
S06241949 Cargo airlines first licensed by U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board
S06251951 First commercial color program telecast, NY city
S06251953 First passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
S06271929 First color television demonstration, NY city
S06271934 Federal Savings and Loan Association created
S06271950 First jet plane combat victor in Korea - R.J. Brown
S06271955 First automobile seat belt legislation enacted, Illinois
S06271960 Chlorophyll "a" synthesized, Cambridge Mass.
S06281939 Transatlantic commercial airplane service inaugurated
S06281956 First atomic reactor built for private research operates, Chicago Il
S06291929 First high-speed jet wind tunnel completed, Langley Field, Ca.
S06291952 First aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn - the Oriskany
S06291956 Charles Dumas - first high jump over 7 feet - Los Angeles, Ca.
S06301930 First round-the-world radio broadcast, Schenectady, NY
S06301936 Forty hour work week law approved in U.S. (federal)
S06301948 Transistor demonstrated, Murray Hill, N.J.
S07011941 First commercial TV license granted - W2XBS, NY city
S07021957 First submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback
S07021957 First submarine to be powered by liquid metal cooled reactor,
S07021957Ccompleted, the Seawolf
S07041942 First American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW2)
S07051944 First rocket airplane flown
S07051951 Junction transistor invention announced, Murray Hill, N.J.
S07081950 Leroy Deans awarded first Order of the Purple Heart in Korea
S07091953 First helicopter passenger service, NY city
S07091957 Announcement of discovery of element 102 - nobelium
S07101933 First police radio system operated, Eastchester Twp, NY
S07101949 First practical rectangular TV tube announced - Toledo, Oh
S07121957 First President to fly in helicopter - Dwight Eisenhower
S07141950 R.E. Wayne awarded first Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
S07141951 Citation first horse to win $1,000,000 in races
S07141953 First national monument dedicated to a Negro - G.W. Carver
S07141959 First atomic powered cruiser, the Long Beach, Quincy Mass.
S07151929 First airport hotel opens - Oakland Ca.
S07151940 First betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Il.
S07151952 First helicopter transatlantic flight began
S07151954 First jet transport commercial airplane built in U.S. tested
S07151954C- Renton Washington
S07161935 First automatic parking meter in US installed, Oklahoma City, Ok
S07181931 First air-conditioned ship launched - "Mariposa"
S07181940 First successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct.
S07181955 First electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
S07191939 First use of Fiberglas sutures, R.P. Scholz, St. Louis, Mo.
S07191957 First rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
S07201960 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)
S07211955 First submarine powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched
S07211955CSeawolf
S07211959 First atomic powered merchant ship, Savannah, christened, Camden NJ
S07221933 First solo flight around world returns
S07221955 First U.S. Vice-President to preside over cabinet meeting - R. Nixon
S07231937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced
S07231947 First (U.S. Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, R.I.
S07281933 First singing telegram, NY city
S07291952 First transpacific non-stop flight by jet
S07291958 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) authorized
S07301946 First rocket to attain 100-mile altitude, White Sands, N.M.
S07301956 Motto of U.S. "In God We Trust" authorized
S08011957 First commercial building heated by sun, Albuquerque NM
S08031958 1st underwater crossing of North Pole completed, submarine Nautilus
S08071946 First coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
S08071959 First satellite to transmit photographs to Earth launched, Canaveral
S08091956 First state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama
S08111951 First color telecast of baseball game - NY city
S08121953 Ann Davidson -first woman to sail solo across Atlantic arrived Miami
S08121959 First ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island
S08121960 First communications satellite launched from Cape Canaveral
S08141935 U.S. Social Security Act approved
S08181960 First photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
S08191942 First American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is
S08191942 First American pilot to shoot down German fighter plane, S.F. Junkin
S08201930 First demonstration of home reception of television, NY city
S08201955 First airplane to exceed 1800 m.p.h. - H.A. Hanes, Palmdale Ca
S08211959 Hawaii becomes the 50th state
S08241932 First transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, A.E. Putnam
S08241950 First U.S. Negro delegate to United Nations appointed - E.S. Sampson
S08241956 First non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash. D.C.
S08261939 First televised major league baseball game, NY city
S08301961 First Negro judge of a District Court confirmed - J.B. Parsons
S08311955 First microwave television station operated - Lufkin, Texas
S08311955 First sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Il.
S09021936 First transatlantic round-trip air flight
S09031935 First automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell
S09041933 First airplane to exceed 300 mph, J.R. Wendell, Glenview, Il.
S09041950 First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines
S09051953 First privately operated atomic reactor - Raleigh N.C.
S09051958 First color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC
S09071948 First use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron Oh
S09091942 First bombing on continental U.S. soil, Mount Emily Or (WW2)
S09111946 First mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
S09111947 U.S. Defense Department formed
S09111950 First typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
S09121941 First German ship in WW2 captured by U.S. ship (Busko)
S09141940 U.S. Peacetime conscription bill passed
S09141956 First prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington D.C.
S09151947 First 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh.
S09161947 First automobile to exceed 400 mph, John Cobb, Bonneville Salt Flats
S09171953 First successful separation of Siamese twins
S09201951 First North Pole jet crossing
S09211958 First airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, landed, Dallas Texas
S09241958 First welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia
S09241960 Air Craft Carrier Enterprise launched (1st atomic powered)
S09251956 First telephone conversation over transatlantic cables
S09291951 First color telecast of football game on network, Philadelphia Pa.
S09301947 First baseball World Series game telecast, N.Y. city
S10011942 First jet propelled airplane tested
S10011947 First helicopter air mail and express service, Los Angeles, Ca.
S10011951 First treaty signed by woman ambassador - Eugenie Anderson
S10011952 First ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or.
S10021936 First alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kansas
S10021942 First self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago
S10021956 First atomic power clock exhibited - NY city
S10031947 First telescope lens 200 inches in diameter completed
S10031952 First video recording on magnetic tape, Los Angeles, Ca.
S10041958 Transatlantic commercial jet passenger service began
S10051931 First transpacific non-stop flight landed, Wenatchee, Wa.
S10051947 First Presidential address televised from White House - H.S. Truman
S10071931 First infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY
S10091930 First transcontinental flight by woman lands, Laura Ingalls
S10101933 First synthetic detergent for home use marketed
S10121949 Eugenie Anderson becomes first woman ambassador nominated in U.S.
S10131953 Burglar alarm - ultrasonic or radio waves - patented - Samuel Bagno
S10141947 First airplane to exceed speed of sound, Muroc, Ca.
S10171941 First American destroyer torpedoed in WW2, the Kearny
S10191953 First jet transcontinental non-stop scheduled service
S10201960 First fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, R.I.
S10211948 Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated, Washington DC
S10221939 First televised professional football game, Brooklyn, NY
S10231956 First video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
S10251930 First scheduled transcontinental air service began
S10251960 First electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NY city
S10281929 First child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl.
S10311952 First thermonuclear bomb detonated - Marshall Islands
S10311956 First American to land by air at South Pole - G.J. Dufek
S11011940 First U.S. air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa.
S11011950 First Negro player in National Basketball Association, Fort Wayne In
S11011951 First atomic explosion witnessed by troops, N.M.
S11021954 J.S. Thurmond first senator elected by write-in vote - S.C.
S11021957 First titanium mill opened, Toronto Ohio
S11031930 Detroit-Windsor tunnel opens - first vehicular tunnel to foreign
S11031930Ccountry
S11031952 First frozen bread marketed
S11031953 First live color coast-to-coast telecast, NY city
S11031955 First virus crystallized (announced)
S11041939 First air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Il.
S11101951 First coast-to-coast dial telephone service without operators
S11131955 First live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country - Havana Cuba
S11151937 First congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
S11151950 First Negro player in organized hockey - Arthur Dorrington signed
S11151954 Flight over North Pole on regularly scheduled commercial route began
S11161955 First speed-boat to exceed 200 miles per hour - D.M. Campbell
S11181943 First ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated
S11201931 Commercial teletype service began
S11201953 First airplane to exceed 1300 m.p.h. - Scott Crossfield
S11211933 First US ambassador to the USSR - W.C. Bullitt
S11211952 First U.S. postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
S11231948 Lens to provide zoom effects patented - F.G. Back
S11241954 First U.S. Presidential airplane christened
S11251960 First atomic reactor for research and development, Richland Wa.
S11271951 First rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, N.M.
S11281929 Admiral R.E. Byrd makes first South Pole flight
S11291951 First underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
S11301954 First meteorite known to have struck a woman - Sylacauga Ala.
S11301958 First guided missile destroyer launched, the Dewey, Bath, Me
S12011959 First color photograph of Earth from outer space
S12021952 First human birth televised to public, Denver, Co.
S12021957 First full-scale atomic electric power plant - power generated, Pa
S12051935 First commercial hydroponics operation established, Montebello Ca.
S12071941 First Japanese submarine sunk by American ship (Ward)
S12071941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
S12081931 Coaxial cable patented
S12101950 First Negro to win Nobel Peace Prize - R.J. Bunche
S12121937 First mobile television unit, NY city
S12151939 First commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware
S12171538 Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
S12171792 Opening of first legislative assembly of Lower Canada
S12171792Cin Quebec city
S12171843 Charles Dickens's classic: A Christmas Carol published
S12171903 at 10:35AM, for 12 seconds, 1st sustained motorized aircraft
S12171903Cflight by Wright Brothers - 36 meters in Kitty Hawk N.C.
S12171954 First fully automated railroad freight yard - Gary In.
S12171959 First motion picture opening simultaneously in major cities
S12171959Cthroughout the world - On The Beach
S12181945 Uruguay joined the United Nations
S12181969 The British parliament voted for the abolition of death penalty
S12191741 Vitus Bering, Dutch navigator and explorer died
S12191842 United States recognized independence of Hawaii
S12191933 Electric Home and Farm Authority Inc., authorized
S12191946 War broke out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacked the French
S12201699 Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed - Sept. 1 to Jan 1
S12201883 International cantilever railway bridge opened at Niagara Falls
S12201919 Canadian National Railways established (longest on continent
S12201919Cwith more than 50,000 kilometers of track in U.S. and Canada)
S12201922 Fourteen republics of Russia formed U.S.S.R.
S12201968 American novelist John Steinbeck died
S12211929 First group hospital insurance plan effected, Dallas Texas
S12211933 Human blood serum first prepared
S12211937 First feature-length animated cartoon in color with sound, exhibited
S12231569 St. Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
S12231783 George Washington resigned as U.S. Army's commander-in-chief
S12231973 Six Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
S12241936 First radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca.
S12271741 Prussian forces took Olmutz, Czechoslovakia
S12271867 Ontario and Quebec legislatures held first meeting
S12271927 Joseph Stalin's faction won at the All-Union Congress in the Soviet
S12271927CUnion and Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist party
S12271934 First youth hostel opened, Northfield, Mass.
S12271945 International Monetary Fund established
S12271972 Lester Pearson, former Canadian Prime Minister and winner of
S12271972CNobel Peace Prize for his work in the Suez Crisis of 1956, died
S12291170 Thomas A. Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, murdered by supporters
S12291170Cof King Henry II
S12291845 Texas became a state
S12291921 William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian
S12291921CPrime Minister
S12291931 Identification of heavy water publicly announced, H.C. Urey
S12291949 First UHF television station operating regular basis, Bridgeport Ct
S12291949 Hungary nationalized its industries
S12291952 First transistorized hearing aid offered for sale, Elmsford N.Y.
S12301809 Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
S12301935 Italian bombers destroyed Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
S12301938 Electronic television system patented, V.K. Zworykin
S12311384 John Wycliffe, English religious reformer, died
S12311600 British East India Company chartered
S12311719 John Flamsteed, father of modern astronomy, died
S12311857 Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as the new capital of Canada
S12311890 Ellis Island opened as a U.S. immigration depot
S12311951 First battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced
S12311958 Willie Shoemaker first jockey to win national riding championship 4X