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S01 1640 Portugal becomes independent of Spain
S01 1821 Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
B01 1886 Rex Stout, mystery writer
B01 1912 Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (World Trade Center, NY)
S01 1913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens, in Pittsburgh.
B01 1913 Mary Martin, actress/singer (Peter Pan, South Pacific)
S01 1917 Father Edward Flanagan founds Boys Town
S01 1918 Iceland becomes independent state under the Danish crown
S01 1922 first skywriting over the US: "Hello USA" by Capt Turner, RAF.
S01 1929 Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe
B01 1935 Woody Allen, actor, director (Manhatten, Annie Hall)
S01 1951 Golden Gate Bridge closed because of high winds.
S01 1958 Central African Republic established (National Day)
S01 1959 first color photograph of Earth is received from outer space.
S01 1967 Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch Isaac Newton Telescope
S02 Pan American Health Day
S02 1804 Napoleon becomes the first French emperor, crowning himself.
S02 1805 Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
S02 1816 1st savings bank in US opens as the Philadelphia Savings Fund
S02 1823 President James Monroe declares his doctrine.
B02 1859 Georges Seurat, French painter, pointillist
B02 1885 George Minot, US physician, worked on anemia (Nobel 1934)
B02 1885 Níkos Kazantazakís, Greek writer (Zorba the Greek)
B02 1906 Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records.
B02 1914 Ray Walston, actor (South Pacific, The Sting)
B02 1915 Will Randolph Hearst, publisher, castle builder
B02 1923 Maria Callas, NY opera singer
S02 1942 1st controlled nuclear reaction at University of Chicago.
S02 1957 first commercial atomic electric power plant goes to work in PA.
S02 1971 Soviet Mars 3 is first to soft land on Mars
S02 1975 Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
S02 1982 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted.
S03 1621 Galileo invents the telescope.
B03 1729 Antonio Soler, famed late 18th century Spanish composer.
B03 1924 John Backus, inventor of FORTRAN computer language
B03 1930 Jean-Luc Godard, film maker
S03 1954 Joseph McCarthy goes too far in his attacks and is condemned
S03 by the U.S. Senate. Not well remembered.
S03 1967 1st human heart transplant performed, in Capetown, South Africa
S03 1973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (first fly-by of an outer planet).
S03 1985 23rd Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 returns to Earth
S04 1783 Gen. Washington bids his officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern,
S04 1912 Roald Amundsen reaches South pole
S04 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens.
S04 1965 Gemini 7 launched with 2 astronauts
S05 1492 Columbus discovers Hispaniola
S05 1776 Phi Beta Kappa, 1st American scholastic fraternity, founded.
B05 1782 Martin Van Buren, 8th President (1837-1841)
B05 1839 George Armstrong Custer of Little Big Horn fame
B05 1901 Werner Heisenberg, discoverer of uncertainty (Nobel 1932)
B05 1901 Walter Elias Disney, father of Mickey Mouse.
S05 1978 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
S06 1492 Haiti discovered by Columbus
S06 1534 Quito, Ecuador is founded by the Spanish
S06 1631 first predicted transit of Venus is observed, by Kepler.
B06 1822 John Eberhard, built 1st large scale pencil factory in US.
B06 1870 William S. Hart, star of silent Western movies
S06 1882 Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
B06 1886 Joyce Kilmer, American poet (Trees)
S06 1917 Finland gains its independence, from Russia.
S06 1957 1st US attempt to launch a satellite - Vanguard rocket blows up.
B07 1761 Madame Marie Tussaud, created wax museum
S07 1787 Delaware ratifies the Constitution, becomes the first state.
S07 1842 the New York Philharmonic plays its first concert.
S07 1941 Pearl Harbor is attacked ("A day that will live in infamy.")
S07 1941 first Japanese submarine sunk by American ship (USS Ward)
S07 1960 France grants the Ivory Coast independence (National Day)
S07 1972 Apollo 17, last of the Apollo moon series, launched.
B08 65 BC Horace in Rome, poet
B08 1861 William Durant, founded General Motors Corp.
B08 1865 Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (Finlandia, Valse triste)
B08 1886 Diego Rivera, Mexican muralist
B08 1894 James Thurber
B08 1927 Vladimir A. Shatalov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10)
S08 1931 Coaxial cable is patented
B09 1594 Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a big power (1611-32)
S09 1792 the first cremation in the US
S09 1793 Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper.
B09 1848 Joel Chandler Harris, created the Uncle Remus stories
B09 1886 Clarence Birdseye, king of the frozen vegetables.
S09 1907 1st Christmas Seals sold, in the Wilmington Post Office.
B09 1909 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
B09 1918 Kirk Douglas, actor (Gunfight at the OK Corral, 7 Days in May)
S09 1961 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain
S09 1978 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
S10 Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
S10 Human Rights Day, a United Nations observance.
S10 1520 Martin Luther publicly burns the papal edict demanding he recant.
S10 1817 Mississippi becomes 20th state
B10 1830 Emily Dickinson, poet
B10 1851 Melvil Dewey, created the Dewey Decimal System for libraries
S10 1869 Women granted right to vote in Wyoming Territory
S10 1898 Spanish-American War ends - US acquires Guam from Spain
S10 1901 first Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frédéric Passy).
S10 1906 Theodore Roosevelt (first American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
S10 1920 President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize.
S10 1948 UN Genl Assembly adopts Universal Declaration on Human Rights
S10 1950 Ralph J. Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
S10 1963 Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
S10 1975 A. Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize.
S10 1982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
S10 1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
S11 Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
B11 1781 Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist, inventor of kaleidoscope
B11 1803 Hector Berlioz in France, composer
S11 1816 Indiana becomes 19th state
S11 1917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
B11 1918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writer, "Cancer Ward", Nobel 1970
B11 1931 Rita Moreno, actress (West Side Story), in Puerto Rico
S11 1932 Snow falls in San Francisco.
S11 1946 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
S11 1958 Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France
S11 1975 First Class Mail now costs 13 cents (had been 10 cents).
S12 Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
S12 National Ding-a-ling Day
S12 1787 Pennsylvania becomes the 2nd state
B12 1805 Henry Wells, founded American Express Co. and Wells Fargo & Co.
B12 1821 Gustave Flaubert, novelist, 'Madame Bovary'.
B12 1852 Henri Becquerel, discoverer of radioactivity (Nobel 1903)
S12 1871 Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
S12 1901 Marconi receives 1st trans-Atlantic radio signal: England to US.
B12 1915 Old Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra. Notorious for bad manners.
S12 1937 The first mobile TV unit, in New York.
S12 1963 Kenya gains its independence from Britain (National Day).
S12 1964 Russia launches Voshkod I, 1st multi-crew in space (3 men)
S13 Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
B13 1835 Phillips Brooks, clergyman, composer (O Little Town of Bethlehem)
S13 1903 Wright brothers first airplane flight at Kittyhawk.
S13 1918 Wilson becomes 1st to make a foreign visit while President.
S13 1920 Interferometer used to measure 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
S13 1974 Maltese Republic Day is declared.
S13 1978 Susan B. Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued.
S13 1981 Solidarity Day, in Poland.
S14 Halcyon Days begin
B14 1503 Nostradamus, astrologer and physician
B14 1546 Tycho Brahe, astronomer
S14 1819 Alabama becomes 22nd state
B14 1896 James H. Doolittle, sinker of ships and self
S14 1911 South Pole 1st reached by Amundsen.
S14 1962 Mariner 2 makes 1st US visit to another planet (Venus)
S15 Bill of Rights Day
S15 1791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval.
B15 1832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, built a tower in Paris.
S15 1859 G.R. Kirchoff describes chemical composition of sun
B15 1861 Charles Edgar Duryea, with his brother, invented 1st auto to be
B15 built and operated in US.
S15 1877 Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
S15 1939 the first commercial manufacture of nylon yarn.
S15 1964 American Radio Relay League, is founded. Dit-Dah.
S15 1965 first rendevous in space: Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 link up.
S15 1971 USSR's Venera 7 becomes the first craft to land on Venus.
S15 1984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
B16 1485 Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of Henry VIII
S16 1689 English Parlimnt adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
B16 1770 Ludwig von Beethoven, invented the classical symphony
S16 1773 Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor. Indians most welcome.
B16 1863 George Santayana, philosopher, poet, humanist.
S16 1893 Antonin Dvorák's New World Symphony premieres
B16 1899 Sir Noel Coward, playwright
S16 1905 "Variety", covering all phases of show business, 1st published.
S16 1907 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on its World Cruise
B16 1917 Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author (Childhood's End, 2001).
S16 1965 Gemini VI returns to Earth
B17 Arthur Fiedler, conductor.
S17 first day of Saturnalia, Roman festival honoring Saturn
S17 1538 Pope Paul III excommunicates England's King Henry VIII
S17 1777 France recognizes independance of the 13 colonies in America.
B17 1778 Sir Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements
S17 1790 an Aztec calendar stone is discovered in Mexico City.
S17 1791 New York City traffic regulation creates the 1st one-way street
S17 1843 Charles Dickens's classic, "A Christmas Carol" is published.
S17 1903 1st sustained motorized air flight at 10:35AM, for 12 seconds,
S17 by the Wright Brothers (of course).
S17 1933 1st professional football game: Chicago Bears vs. NY Giants.
S17 1969 Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki are married on network television
S17 1969Cin front of 50 million underwhelmed viewers.
S17 1979 Budweiser rocket car hits 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
S18 Saturnalia, celebrated with gifts, lights, closing of business
S18 1787 New Jersey becomes the 3rd state
S18 1849 William Bond takes first photograph of moon through a telescope
S18 1865 13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished
B18 1886 Ty Cobb, baseball player.
B18 1890 Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (invented FM).
B18 1913 Willy Brandt, chancellor of West Germany (1969-74) (Nobel '71)
B18 1943 Keith Richard, singer (Rolling Stones)
B18 1947 Steven Spielberg, director (Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Arc)
B18 1950 Leonard Maltin, movie reviewer
S18 1958 first voice from space: Christmas message by Eisenhower
S18 1958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
S18 1961 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
S18 1965 Borman & Lovell splash down, ending 2 week Gemini VII orbit.
S18 1969 Britain abolishes the death penalty
S18 1985 UN Security Council unanimously condemns acts of hostage-taking
S18 Saturnalia, celebrated with gifts, lights, closing of business
S19 Underdog Day
S19 1686 Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
S19 1732 Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
S19 1777 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge for the winter.
B19 1790 Sir William Parry, British Arctic explorer
S19 1842 US recognizes the independence of Hawaii
B19 1849 Henry Clay Frick, industrialist; worked for Carnegie.
B19 1852 Albert Michelson, took the measure of light, (Nobel 1907).
S19 1889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii.
S19 1932 the BBC begins transmitting overseas.
S19 1946 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks the French.
S19 1971 NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
S19 1986 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
S20 1606 Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown
S20 1699 Peter the Great orders Russian New Year changed: Sept 1 to Jan 1
S20 1790 first successful US cotton mill, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
S20 1803 Louisiana Purchase officially transferred from France to the US.
B20 1805 Thomas Graham, the father of colloid chemistry
S20 1820 Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men from 21-50
B20 1833 Dr Samuel A. Mudd, convicted of giving medical aid to J.W. Booth
S20 1860 South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the union.
B20 1868 Harvey Firestone, tiremaker
S20 1892 Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne
S20 1892 The pneumatic automobile tire is patented
B20 1904 Irene Dunne, actress, "Life With Father"
S20 1919 Canadian National Railways established (longest on continent
S20 with more than 50,000 kilometers of track in US & Canada)
S20 1922 14 states form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
S20 1939 Radio Australia starts shortwave service
S21 Ursid meteor shower
S21 Winter Solstice (at 2:21 PM PDT), shortest day of the year.
S21 1620 The pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock.
B21 1911 Josh Gibson, in professional baseball, the "Negro Babe Ruth"
S21 1913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues), printed in New York World
S21 1937 The first feature-length cartoon with color and sound premieres,
S21 "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". Still one of the best.
B21 1940 Frank Zappa, rock singer (Grateful Dead)
B21 1944 Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
S21 1968 Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell, Anders), first manned moon voyage
S21 1973 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva: peace?
S22 International Arbor Day
B22 1696 James Oglethorpe, English general, author, colonizer of Georgia
B22 1727 William Ellery, signed Declaration of Independence
B22 1856 Frank Kellogg, Sec. of State, tried to outlaw war (Nobel 1929)
B22 1858 Giacomo Puccini, composer
S22 1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
S23 1672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
S23 1690 John Flamsteed sees Uranus but doesn't realize it's undiscovered
B23 1790 Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics
B23 1805 Joesph Smith, founded Mormon church
S23 1920 Ireland is divided into two parts, each with its own parliament
S23 1947 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley at Bell Labs
S23 1968 Borman, Lovell & Anders are the first men to orbit the moon.
S23 1973 six Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
S23 1975 Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
S23 1986 Rutan & Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
S24 Christmas Eve
S24 1582 Vasco daGama Day
B24 1809 Kit Carson, Western scout.
S24 1814 Treaty of Ghent signed, ending War of 1812 (this news did not
S24 arrive until after the Battle of New Orleans).
S24 1818 "Silent Night" is composed by Franz Gruber and sung next day
S24 1851 Library of Congress burns, 35,000 volumes are destroyed.
S24 1865 Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, TN
S24 1871 Giuseppe Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening
B24 1905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire, moviemaker, plane builder.
S24 1906 the first radio program is broadcast, in Brant Rock, Mass
S24 1920 Enrico Caruso gave his last public performance
B24 1930 Robert Joffrey, Choreographer
S24 1936 first radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, CA
S24 1951 Libya gains independence from Italy
S24 1966 Soviet Luna 13 lands on moon
S24 1968 Apollo 8 astronauts broadcast seasons greetings from the moon.
S25 Christmas Day. Peace on Earth, good will towards men.
B25 0000 Jesus Christ, Savior, philosopher
S25 New Year's Day observed in England before 1068
S25 336 first recorded celebration of Christmas on Dec. 25: in Rome
S25 1066 William the Conqueror was crowned king of England
B25 1642 Isaac Newton in Grantham, England
S25 1776 Washington crosses the Delaware and surprises the Hessians.
S25 1868 Despite bitter opposition, Johnson grants unconditional pardons
S25 to everyone involved in the Southern rebellion (the Civil War).
B25 1899 Humphrey Bogart. Here's looking at you, kid.
B25 1918 Anwar Sadat, great Egyptian leader.
S25 1926 Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan
S25 1939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
S26 Boxing Day, celebrated in Canada and the United Kingdom
S26 National Whiner's Day
S26 1492 first Spanish settlement in the new world founded, by Columbus.
B26 1792 Charles Babbage, invented the calculating machine
B26 1837 Adm. George Dewey, the American naval hero of Manila
S26 1865 James Mason invents the 1st American coffee percolator.
B26 1891 Henry Miller, author (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer)
B26 1893 Mao Tse-tung, of little red book fame
S26 1933 US foreswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere. Ha!
B27 1571 Johannes Kepler, discovered planets travel in eliptical orbits.
S27 1825 first public steam railroad completed in England.
S27 1831 Darwin begins his voyage onboard the HMS Beagle.
S27 1903 "Sweet Adaline", a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung.
S27 1932 Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens.
S27 1934 the first youth hostel is opened, in Northfield, Mass
S27 1945 International Monetary Fund established-World Bank founded
S27 1979 Soviet troops invade Afghanistan
S28 Halcyon Days end
S28 1669 A patent for chewing gum is granted to William Semple.
S28 1846 Iowa becomes the 29th state
B28 1856 Woodrow Wilson, 28th President (1912-1921)
S28 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee, SD - Last major conflict with Indians
S28 1902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US.
S28 1912 San Francisco Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St.
S28 (MUNI was the 1st municpally-owned transit system)
S29 Feast of St Thomas of Canterbury (Thomas à Beckett)
B29 1800 Charles Goodyear, invented vulcanization process for rubber
B29 1808 Andrew Johnson, 17th President (1865-1869)
B29 1809 William Ewart Gladstone, British statesman
S29 1845 Texas becomes the 28th state
S29 1848 Gas lights installed at White House for 1st time
B29 1876 Pablo Casals, cellist
S29 1911 San Francisco Symphony formed.
S29 1931 Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey
S29 1937 Pan Am starts San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand service.
S29 1949 first UHF TV station operating regular basis, Bridgeport CT
S29 1952 first transistorized hearing aid offered for sale, Elmsford NY
S30 1809 Wearing masks at balls is forbidden in Boston
S30 1817 first coffee planted in Hawaii
B30 1851 Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola
S30 1853 Gadsden Purchase 45,000 sq miles by Gila River from Mexico
S30 for $10 million. Area is now southern Arizona & New Mexico
B30 1865 Rudyard Kipling, author, loved India, (Nobel 1907)
B30 1884 Tojo Hideki, Japanese Prime Minister in WWII
S30 1924 Edwin Hubble announces existence of other Milky Way systems
S30 1938 Electronic television system patented, VK Zworykin
S30 1975 Democratic Republic of Madagascar founded
S31 Make Up Your Mind Day
S31 New Year's Eve
S31 1600 British East India Company chartered
S31 1744 James Bradley announces earth's motion of nutation (wobbling).
S31 1857 Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada
S31 1862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sinks off Cape Hatteras, NC
B31 1869 Henri Matisse, French Impressionist painter
S31 1879 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US).
S31 1879 Edison gives public demonstration of his incandescent lamp.
B31 1880 George C Marshall, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953)
S31 1890 Ellis Island opens as a US immigration depot
S31 1946 President Truman officially proclaims the end of World War II
S31 1961 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
S31 1974 US citizens allowed to buy & own gold for 1st time in 40 years
S31 1999 Control of the Panama Canal reverts to Panama
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