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S01 April Fool's Day
S01 Saint Stupid's Day (a San Francisco tradition since 1980).
R01 "Spring Forward" one hour at 2am for Daylight Savings Time.
S01 1778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans Businessman, creates the "$".
S01 1850 San Francisco County Government established.
S01 1853 Cincinnati became first US city with salaried firefighters
B01 1883 Lon Chaney, man of a thousand faces
S01 1918 Royal Air Force established
S01 1952 "Big Bang" theory published by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow
S01 1960 TIROS I (Television and Infra-Red Observation Satellite) launched
S01 to improve weather prediction.
S01 1964 USSR launches Zond 1 towards Venus
S01 1971 US/Canada ISIS II launched to study ionosphere
S01 1979 Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of the Shah
S02 International Children's Book Day
R02 "Spring Forward" one hour at 2am for Daylight Savings Time.
B02 742 Emperor Charlemagne
S02 1513 Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de León
S02 1792 Congress establishes Coin denominations and authorizes US Mint
B02 1875 Walter Chrysler, founded a car company.
B02 1914 Sir Alec Guiness, thespian
B02 1920 Jack Webb, "Just the facts ma'am."
B02 1924 Doris Day, girl next door
S02 1935 Watson Watt granted a patent for RADAR.
S02 1958 NACA renamed NASA
S02 1972 Apollo 16's Young and Duke land on the moon and hot-rod with
S02 the Boeing Lunar Rover #2
R03 "Spring Forward" one hour at 2am for Daylight Savings Time.
B03 1783 Washington Irving, writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
B03 1904 Sally Rand, actress, ecdysiast, fan dancer
S03 1910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley climbed
B03 1924 Marlon Brando, godfather
S03 1948 Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan (Aid to Europe)
S03 1966 USSR's Luna 10 becomes the first craft to orbit the Moon
S03 1982 UN Security Council demands Argentina withdraw from Falklands.
R04 "Spring Forward" one hour at 2am for Daylight Savings Time.
B04 1802 Dorothea Dix, social reformer
S04 1818 Congress decided US flag is 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars
B04 1823 Karl Wilhelm Siemens, inventor, laid undersea cables
B04 1826 Zénobe Théophile Gramme, invented electric motor
S04 1860 Pony Express begins service, from St. Joseph, Missouri.
S04 1870 Golden Gate Park established by City Order #800.
S04 1902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund established with $10 million
B04 1922 Elmer Bernstein, movie music composer
S04 1949 NATO established
S04 1983 Maiden voyage of STS Space shuttle Challenger
R05 "Spring Forward" one hour at 2am for Daylight Savings Time.
B05 1588 Thomas Hobbes, philosopher
S05 1614 Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
B05 1649 Elihu Yale, philanthropist who founded Yale
B05 1725 Casanova, beloved by many ladies
B05 1856 Booker T. Washington, influential Black educator.
B05 1908 Bette Davis, actress, (Jezebel)
B05 1908 Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic conductor
B05 1954 Michael W. Butler, creator of mainframe TODAY program.
S05 1973 Pioneer 11 blasts off toward Jupiter
S05 1991 Atlantis lifts off carrying the 17.5 ton Gamma Ray Observatory.
R06 "Spring Forward" one hour at 2am for Daylight Savings Time.
S06 648 BC Earliest total solar eclipse chronicled by Greeks is observed
B06 1483 Raffaello Santi (Raphael), Italian painter and architect
S06 1663 Kings Charles II signs Carolina Charter
B06 1773 James Mill, philosopher, historian, economist
B06 1810 Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium
S06 1862 Battle of Shiloh.
S06 1868 Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife.
B06 1890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer
B06 1892 Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company.
B06 1892 Lowell Thomas, journalist
S06 1896 First modern Olympics
B06 1903 Harold Edgerton, foremost high-speed photographer
S06 1906 First animated cartoon copyrighted
S06 1909 First credit union established in US
S06 1909 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson
S06 1917 US declares war on Germany (WWI)
S06 1926 4 planes take off on first successful around-the-world flight.
S06 1957 New York City ends trolley car service.
S06 1965 Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") first commercial geosynchronous
S06 communications satellite
S06 1973 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter and Saturn
R07 "Spring Forward" one hour at 2am for Daylight Savings Time.
B07 1770 William Wordsworth, English poet laureate (The Prelude)
B07 1859 Walter Camp, father of American football
B07 1860 W K Kellogg, a real corn flake
B07 1915 Billie Holiday, blues singer
S07 1931 Seals Stadium opens.
B07 1932 Mark Russell, satirist
S07 1933 Prohibition ends. "Gimme a beer, Mac."
S07 1948 World Health Organization is established.
S07 1953 First jet transatlantic non-stop flight (west to east)
S07 1959 NASA selects first seven astronauts
S07 1959 Radar first bounced off sun, from Stanford California.
S08 Kambutsue, celebration of Buddha's birthday, in Japan
S08 1513 Ponce de Leon arrives in Florida.
B08 1889 Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
B08 1893 Mary Pickford, actress
B08 1912 Sonja Henie, Oslo Norway, ice skater
S08 1913 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified
S08 1974 Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record.
S08 1986 Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California.
B09 1806 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of first transatlantic steamer
B09 1830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion in photography.
B09 1830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion, photography
S09 1831 Robert Jenkins loses an ear: war between Britain and Spain.
B09 1865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz, electrician.
B09 1865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz, electrical engineer
S09 1865 Lee surrenders at Appomattox, ending Civil War.
B09 1879 W.C. Fields, Philadelphian
B09 1879 Claude William Dukinfield aka W.C. Fields, Phila
B09 1919 John Presper Eckert, coinvented first electronic computer (ENIAC)
S09 1953 TV Guide publishes their first issue.
S09 1955 United Nations Charter hearing.
S10 1790 US Patent system established
S10 1825 First hotel in Hawaii opens.
S10 1849 Safety pin is patented by Walter Hunt.
S10 1866 ASPCA (Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) organized.
S10 1878 California Street Cable Car Railroad Company starts service.
S10 1882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco and Hawaii)
B10 1883 Kahlil Gibran, writer
S10 1912 RMS Titanic sets sail for its first and last voyage
S10 1930 Synthetic rubber first produced
S10 1953 House of Wax, first 3-D movie, released in New York.
S10 1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
B10 1984 Zoe, first frozen-embryo child, in Melbourne, Australia
S11 Barber Shop Quartet Day
S11 1876 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized.
B11 1942 Anatoli Berezovoi, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-5)
S11 1943 Frank Piasecki, flies his first single-rotor helicopter
S11 1947 Jackie Robinson becomes first black in major league baseball.
S11 1970 Apollo 13 launched to moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days
S12 1204 4th Crusade sacks Constantinople
B12 1777 Henry Clay, 'The Great Compromiser'
B12 1791 Francis P. Blair, helped found the Republican Party.
S12 1861 Fort Sumter, S. C., shelled by Confederacy, starts Civil War.
S12 1877 British annex Transvaal, in South Africa
S12 1898 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island to Navy.
B12 1913 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader and vibraphone improvisor
S12 1933 Moffatt Field (Naval Air Station) is commissioned.
S12 1938 First US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses, NY
S12 1955 Salk polio vaccine safe and effective; four billion dimes marched
S12 1961 Cosmonaut Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes first man in orbit.
S12 1981 Maiden voyage Space Transit System-space shuttle Columbia.
B13 1721 John Hanson, first US President under Articles of Confederation
B13 1732 Frederick, Lord North, British Prime Minister (1770-82)
B13 1743 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President (1801-1809)
S13 1796 First elephant brought to America
S13 1829 English Parliament grants freedom of religion to Catholics
B13 1852 F.W. Woolworth, the "five-and-ten" king.
B13 1963 Gary Kasparov, world chess champion from USSR (1985- )
S13 1976 $2 bill re-introduced as United States currency, failed again.
S14 Pan American Day
S14 1611 Word "telescope" is first used by Prince Federico Cesi
B14 1629 Christian Huygens, discovered Saturn's rings, Titan
S14 1817 First American school for deaf (Hartford, Conn)
S14 1828 First edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.
S14 1860 First Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri.
S14 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford's Theater.
B14 1889 Arnold Toynbee, historian
S14 1894 First public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures).
B14 1904 Sir John Gielgud, actor (Arthur, Ages of Man)
S14 1956 Ampex Co. demonstrates first commercial videotape recorder.
S14 1971 Fort Point dedicated as first National Park in SF Bay Area.
S14 1981 First Space Shuttle - Columbia 1 returns to Earth.
R15 Income Taxes are due today. Keep the IRS happy...
B15 1452 Leonardo da Vinci, visionary
S15 1598 Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots
B15 1684 Catherine I, empress of Russia (1725-27)
B15 1707 Leonhard Euler, mathematician
S15 1790 First US patent law passed
S15 1850 City of San Francisco incorporated.
B15 1889 Thomas Hart Benton, American painter and muralist
S15 1912 Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 AM.
S15 1923 Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics.
S15 1923 First talking picture is screened before a paying audience.
S15 1955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's fast food restaurants.
S15 1983 Tokyo Disneyland opens
B16 1660 Hans Sloane, British physician/naturalist; founded British Museum
S16 1705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College,
B16 1844 Anatole France, writer, (Thaïs), Nobel Prize in 1921
S16 1866 Nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo and Co. office explodes.
B16 1867 Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame
B16 1889 Charlie Chaplin, tramp
S16 1912 Harriet Quimby flies English Channel, first woman to do so
S16 1917 Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
B16 1947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tall person
S16 1972 Apollo 16 launched; 5th lunar landing at Decartes Highlands
S17 1492 Christopher Columbus contracts with Spain to find the Indies.
S17 1524 New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.
B17 1837 John Pierpoint (JP) Morgan, financed the US.
B17 1894 Nikita S Khrushchev, Soviet leader (1953-64)
S17 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki, ends first Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895).
B17 1897 Thornton Wilder, American novelist, playwright (Our Town).
B17 1911 Mikhail Botvinnik of USSR, world chess champion (1948-63)
B17 1916 Sirimavo Bandaranaike, world's first woman PM (Sri Lanka)
S17 1941 Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing)
S17 1946 France grants Syria independence (Natl Day)
S17 1961 Bay of Pigs, how not to run an invasion.
B18 1480 Lucrezia Borgia, patron of the arts.
S18 1775 'The British are Coming!' Paul Revere rides.
B18 1820 Franz von Suppe, composer
B18 1857 Clarence S Darrow, made evolution legal.
S18 1868 San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals born.
S18 1869 First International Cricket Match, held in SF, won by Californian
S18 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, "The Big One"
S18 1907 Fairmont Hotel opens.
S18 1934 First "Washateria" (laundromat) is opened, in Fort Worth, Texas
S18 1936 The Pan Am "Clipper" begins regular passenger flights from
S18 San Francisco to Honolulu.
S18 1946 League of Nations went out of business, replaced by UN
S18 1949 Irish Republic comes into existence
S18 1950 First transatlantic jet passenger trip
S18 1978 U S Senate approves transfer of Panama Canal to Panama
S19 Lyrid meteor shower, radiant in Hercules
S19 Patriot's Day
S19 1775 At Lexington Common, the shot 'heard round the world'.
S19 1852 California Historical Society founded.
B19 1877 Ole Evinrude, invented the outboard marine engine.
S19 1892 Charles Duryea takes the first American-made auto out for a spin.
B19 1932 Jayne Mansfield, actress
S19 1934 Shirley Temple appears in her first movie, "Stand Up and Cheer"
S19 1939 Connecticut approves the Bill of Rights (only 148 years late).
S19 1967 US Surveyor III lands on moon
S20 Lyrid meteor shower, radiant in Hercules
B20 121 Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor, philosopher
S20 1775 British begin siege of Boston
B20 1808 Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), emperor of France (1852-71)
B20 1889 Adolf Hitler, Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany
B20 1893 Harold Lloyd, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last), Burchard Neb
S20 1902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolated radioactive element radium
S20 1940 First electron microscope demonstrated, Philadelphia, Pa
S20 1973 Canadian ANIK A2 became first commercial satellite in orbit
S20 1978 Korean Air Lines 707 forced to land; violated Soviet airspace
S21 Lyrid meteor shower, radiant in Hercules
S21 753 BC - Rome founded.
B21 1816 Charlotte Brontë, English novelist (Jane Eyre)
S21 1828 Noah Webster publishes first American dictionary
B21 1838 John Muir, naturalist.
S21 1857 A. Douglas patents the bustle (it's all behind us now).
S21 1862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorado.
S21 1892 First buffalo born in Golden Gate Park.
S21 1898 Spanish American war begins (Remember the Maine).
B21 1926 Queen Elizabeth II
S21 1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalin's daughter) defected in NYC
S21 1972 Orbiting Astronomical Observer 4 (Copernicus) is launched
S21 1977 Broadway play "Annie" opens, first of 2377 performances
S21 1983 Soyuz T-8 is launched
S21 1984 Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph
S22 Lyrid meteor shower, radiant in Hercules
S22 Earth Day
B22 1451 Isabella of Castile, patron of Columbus
S22 1500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil
S22 1509 Henry VIII ascends to throne of England
S22 1529 Spain & Portugal divide eastern hemisphere in Treaty of Saragossa
B22 1724 Immanuel Kant, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason)
S22 1864 US Congress authorized "In God We Trust" on coinage
B22 1870 Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Bolshevik
S22 1889 Oklahoma land rush officially started; some were Sooner
B22 1904 J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, nuclear pioneer.
B22 1916 Yehudi Menuhin, violinist
S23 Lyrid meteor shower, radiant in Hercules
S23 National Secretary Day
B23 1564 William Shakespeare, bard
B23 1791 James Buchanan, 15th President (1857-1861)
B23 1813 Stephen Douglas, the "Little Giant", debated Lincoln
S23 1871 Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up.
B23 1891 Sergei Prokofiev, composer
B23 1928 Shirley Temple, child
B23 1943 Herve Villechaize "Da Plane, Boss! Da Plane!"
S23 1949 Courtesy Mail Boxes for motorists started in San Francisco.
S23 1962 First US satellite to reach moon launched from Cape Canaveral
S23 1965 Launch of first Soviet communications satelite
S23 1967 Soyuz 1 launched, Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st inflight casualty
S23 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface
B24 1620 John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of demography
S24 1800 Library of Congress founded with a $5000 allocation.
B24 1815 Anthony Trollope, England, novelist (Barchester Towers)
S24 1865 SF Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph system put into operation.
S24 1934 Wind gusts reach 372 kph at Mt Washington, NH
B24 1942 Barbra Streisand, profile
S24 1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
S24 1962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for first time: CA to MA
S24 1970 China launchs first satellite, transmitting song "East is Red".
S24 1981 The IBM Personal Computer (PC) is introduced.
S24 1990 Hubble Space Telescope put into orbit by shuttle Discovery.
S25 Arbor Day. Plant a tree.
B25 1599 Oliver Cromwell, British Puritan reformer, roundhead
B25 1874 Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna Italy, invented radio, (Nobel 1909)
S25 1901 New York becomes first state requiring license plates for cars
B25 1908 Edward R. Murrow, set the standard for TV correspondents.
S25 1945 United Nations Conference starts.
S25 1957 First experimental sodium nuclear reactor is operated.
S25 1959 St Lawrence Seaway opens to shipping
S25 1961 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin.
S25 1961 Robert Noyce granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
S25 1972 Glider pilot Hans Grosse flies a record 1461 km
S25 1975 First Boeing Jetfoil service, Hong Kong to Macao.
S26 1607 First British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry.
S26 1777 16 year old Sybil Ludington rode from NY to CT rallying her
S26 father's militia to fight British in Danbury.
B26 1785 John James Audubon, birdwatcher
B26 1875 Syngman Rhee South Korean statesman
B26 1888 Aleksandr Mikhailov, USSR astronomer
B26 1895 Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy Fuerher
B26 1900 Charles Richter, he tells us how bad the quakes are.
B26 1916 Morris L West, Australian novelist (Shoes of the Fisherman)
B26 1917 I.M. Pei, architect
S26 1920 Shapley and Curtis hold the "Great Debate" on nature of nebulae.
S26 1954 Nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio begins.
S26 1962 US/UK launched Ariel; first Intl payload.
S26 1971 San Francisco Lightship replaced by automatic buoy.
S26 1986 Chernobyl - world's worst nuclear power plant disaster.
S27 Union Day, celebrated in Tanzania.
S27 1565 First Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City.
B27 1791 Samuel F. B. Morse, dit-dah-dit
B27 1820 Herbert Spencer, English Victorian philosopher
B27 1822 Ulyssses S. Grant, 18th President (1869-1877)
B27 1896 Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon.
S27 1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song and legend) is dedicated.
B27 1900 Walter Lantz, Woody Woodpecker's creator
B27 1927 Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist
S27 1937 US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment.
S27 1945 Founding of the Second Republic, in Austria.
S27 1946 First radar installation aboard a commercial ship installed.
S27 1960 First atomic-electric drive submarine launched (Tullibee).
S27 1986 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO.
S27 4977 BC - Johannes Kepler's date for creation of universe.
S28 Kiss Your Mate Day
S28 585 War between Lydia and Media is ended by a solar eclipse.
B28 1442 Edward IV, king of England (1461-70, 1471-83)
S28 1686 First volume of Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA is published.
S28 1754 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurs.
B28 1758 James Monroe, 5th President (1816-1824)
B28 1900 Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer, (Oort Cloud)
S28 1914 W. H. Carrier patents air conditioner.
S28 1919 First successful parachute jump is made.
S28 1942 "WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll.
S28 1947 Thor Heyerdahl and Kon-Tiki sail from Peru to Polynesia.
S28 1952 WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect.
S28 1974 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon.
S28 1977 Christopher Boyce convicted for selling satellite secrets.
S29 The Emperor's Birthday, celebrated in Japan.
S29 1429 Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France, to victory over English.
B29 1818 Alexander II, Tsar of all Russia (1855-81)
B29 1830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels...
B29 1854 Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, astronomer, philosopher
B29 1863 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, Castle Builder
B29 1899 Duke Ellington, musician
B29 1901 Emperor Hirohito of Japan (1926-1990)
S29 1913 Gideon Sundback of Hoboken NJ patents the zipper.
B29 1936 Zubin Mehta, conductor
S29 1971 Salyut 1, world's First space station, launched into earth orbit.
S30 Walpurgis Night - Witches' Sabbath
B30 1777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician.
S30 1789 George Washington inaugurated as first president of the US
S30 1798 Department of the Navy established.
S30 1803 US more than doubles its size thru the Louisiana Purchase.
B30 1870 Franz Lehar, composer, (Merry Widow, Rose de Noel)
S30 1900 Hawaii becomes a US Territory
B30 1912 Eve Arden, Our Miss Brooks
S30 1939 NBC/RCA make first US demo of TV at opening of NY World's Fair.
S30 1942 First submarine built on the Great Lakes launched,
S30 the "Peto", from Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
S30 1947 Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover
S30 1948 Organization of American States (OAS) charter signed in Bogotá.
S30 1973 Nixon announces resigtration of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al
S30 1975 US forces evacuated Vietnam; Saigon surrenders
S30 1980 Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London
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