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B01 1699 Martin Luther, protestant reformer
B01 1798 Sir Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer, Dublin mayor
S01 1870 US Weather Bureau begins operations.
B01 1871 Stephen Crane, poet/writer, (Red Badge of Courage)
B01 1878 Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936)
S01 1943 WW II Dimout ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area.
S01 1952 first hydrogen bomb exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
S01 1981 First Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents.
S02 North & South Dakota Admission Day
B02 1734 Daniel Boone, explorer, woodsman
B02 1755 Marie-Antoinette, "Let them eat cake!"
B02 1795 James K. Polk, 11th President (1845-1849)
B02 1815 George Boole, mathematician
B02 1865 Warren G. Harding, 29th President (1921-1923)
B02 1885 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer.
B02 1911 Odysseus Elytis, Greek poet (Nobel 1979)
S02 1917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement
S02 1920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) on the air as 1st commercial radio station.
S02 1947 Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for 1st (& last) time.
S02 1948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers.
S03 1620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
B03 1718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same.
B03 1794 William Cullen Bryant, poet (Thanatopsis)
B03 1801 Karl Baedeker, German publisher of travel books
S03 1903 Panama gains its independence from Columbia.
S03 1917 First Class Mail now costs 3 cents.
S03 1952 Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas.
S03 1956 the Wizard of Oz is first televised.
S03 1957 USSR launches the dog "Laika": the first animal in orbit
S03 1973 Mariner 10 launched-first Venus pics, first mission to Mercury
S03 1978 UK grants Dominica independence (National Day)
S03 1979 63 Americans taken hostage at American Embassy in Teheran, Iran
S03 1986 Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
S04 1854 Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island
B04 1879 Will Rogers, humorist.
B04 1916 Walter Cronkite, "...and that's the way it is"
S04 1922 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen.
S04 1924 1st woman governor in US elected in Wyoming.
S04 1984 Nicaragua holds 1st free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%
S05 Guy Fawkes Day, celebrated in England.
S05 1605 Plot to blow up British parliment fails - first Guy Fawkes day
S05 1781 John Hanson elected 1st "President of the United States in
S05 Congress assembled" (8 years before Washington was elected).
B05 1857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was VERY unhappy).
S05 1875 Susan B Anthony is arrested for attempting to vote
B05 1885 Will Durant, writer, historian (Story of Civilization)
S05 1895 1st US patent granted for the automobile, to George B Selden
B05 1912 Roy Rogers, Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger
S05 1967 ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disc
S06 Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
B06 1771 Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography.
B06 1814 Adolphe Sax, Belgian musician, saxophone inventor
B06 1851 Charles Henry Dow, founded Dow Jones & Co.
S06 1844 Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
B06 1854 John Phillip Souza, the undisputed march king
B06 1860 Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish composer, pianist, patriot
S06 1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president.
B06 1861 James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball.
S06 1862 1st Direct Telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco
S06 1869 1st intercollegiate football game played (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4
S06 1917 the Russian Bolshevik revolution begins.
S06 1939 WGY-TV (Schenectady NY), 1st commercial-license station begins
S06 1962 Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more
S07 National Day in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
B07 994 Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian, jurist, writer of Islamic Spain
S07 1805 Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean.
S07 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan.
B07 1867 Marie Sklodowska Curie, discovered radium (Nobel 1903 & 1911).
S07 1872 Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; found abandoned 4 weeks later
S07 1875 Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa from
S07 sea to sea.
B07 1879 Leon Trotsky, Russian Communist theorist, Bolshevik
S07 1885 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway.
B07 1903 Konrad Lorenz, zoologist, ethologist, writer (Nobel 1973)
S07 1917 October Revolution overthrows Russian Provisional Government
S07 1918 Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rocket
B07 1918 Billy Graham, evangelist
S07 1983 Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
S08 Punster's Day
B08 1656 Edmund Halley, astronomer, first to calculate a comet's orbit.
S08 1793 The Louvre, in Paris, is opened to the public.
S08 1889 Montana admitted as 41st state
S08 1895 Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x-rays
B08 1922 Christiaan Barnard, performed first human heart transplantation
S08 1923 Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" failed, In jail, writes "Mein Kampf"
S08 1939 Life with Father, opens on Broadway, closes in 1947, a record.
S08 1984 14th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 is launched
S09 1799 Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
B09 1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist, poet, playwright (Fathers & Sons
B09 1821 Charles Baudelaire, Poet
B09 1830 Eadweard Muybridge Pioneer Photographer
B09 1841 Edward VII, king of England (1901-10)
B09 1850 Lewis Lewin, German toxicologist, father of psychopharmacology
S09 1865 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox ending the US Civil War.
B09 1898 Paul Robeson actor and Singer
B09 1903 Gregory Pincus birth control pill inventor
B09 1915 Hedy Lamarr, sexy actress
B09 1926 Hugh Hefner, Publisher
B09 1934 Carl Sagan, cosmology spokesman
S09 1953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
S09 1965 at 5:16pm, a massive power failure blacks out New Engl. & Ontario
S09 1967 first unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
B10 1668 Francois Couperin, composer
B10 1697 William Hogarth, English satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progres
B10 1730 Oliver Goldsmith, Irish novelist, dramatist (She Stoops to Conque
B10 1759 Frederich von Schiller in Germany, poet
S10 1775 US Marine Corps established by Congress
B10 1793 Jared Kirtland, American physician, naturalist
B10 1794 Adm. Matthew Perry
S10 1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling
B10 1819 Cyrus West Field, financed first successful transatlantic cable.
B10 1829 William Booth founded Salvation Army
S10 1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico
S10 1871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa.
S10 1891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
B10 1895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer.
B10 1903 Clare Booth Luce Journalist and Diplomat
B10 1925 Richard Burton, Welsh actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf)
S10 1945 Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald is liberated by US troops.
S10 1951 1st Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance.
S10 1968 USSR launches Zond 6 to moon
S10 1969 Sesame Street premiers
S10 1970 Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
S10 1975 Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald lost in a storm on Lake Superior
S10 1980 Voyager I flies past Saturn, sees many rings, moons.
S11 The REAL Veteran's Day. They fought for your freedom.
S11 Martinmas, term day in Scotland (Feast of St Martin of Tours)
S11 Rememberance Day - Canada
S11 1620 41 Pilgrims sign a compact aboard the Mayflower
B11 1821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author, "Crime and Punishment"
B11 1885 General George S. Patton, fast mover.
S11 1889 Washington admitted as the 42nd state.
S11 1918 Armistice Day -- WW I ends (at 11AM on the Western Front)
B11 1922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr, author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan).
S11 1921 President Harding dedicates the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier.
S11 1924 Palace of Legion of Honor in San Francisco is dedicated.
S11 1939 Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"
S11 1965 Rhodesia proclaimes independence from Britain
S11 1966 Gemini 12 is launched on a four day flight.
S11 1975 Portugal grants independence to Angola (National Day).
S11 1980 Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37
S11 1982 Space Shuttle 'Columbia' makes the first commercial flight.
S11 1987 Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 million at auction
B12 1815 Elizabeth Stanton, early leader of women's rights movement.
B12 1817 Baha'Ullah (Mirza Husayn Ali), founded Bahá'í faith
B12 1833 Aleksandr Borodin, Russian composer (Prince Igor)
B12 1840 Auguste Rodin, sculptor (Kiss)
B12 1866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC).
B12 1908 Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court justice
S12 1918 Austria becomes a republic
S12 1927 Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin is now total dictator.
B12 1929 Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco
S12 1933 first known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
S12 1936 Oakland Bay Bridge opened.
S12 1946 First "autobank" (banking by car) was established, in Chicago
S12 1954 Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
S12 1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
B12 1961 Nadia Comaneci, Olympic gymnast, in Romania
S12 1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
S12 1980 US space probe Voyager I comes within 77,000 miles of Saturn
S12 1981 first balloon crossing of Pacific completed (Double Eagle V)
S12 1981 First time a spacecraft is launched twice -- the Space Shuttle
S12 "Columbia" lifts off again.
S12 1984 Space shuttle astronauts snare a satellite: first space salvage.
B13 354 St. Augustine of Hippo in Numidia, Algeria
B13 1833 Edwin Booth, American actor
S13 1849 Peter Burnett is elected 1st governor of California.
B13 1850 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (Treasure Island)
B13 1856 Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice (1916-39)
S13 1921 The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, was released.
S13 1937 NBC forms first full symphony orchestra exclusively for radio.
S13 1940 Walt Disney's "Fantasia" is released
S13 1956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation on public buses.
S13 1971 Mariner 9, is the first space ship to orbit another planet, Mars.
S13 1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
S14 Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo
S14 1666 Samuel Pepys reports the first blood transfusion (between dogs)
B14 1765 Robert Fulton, built first commercial steamboat.
B14 1776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis
S14 1792 George Vancouver is first Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay
S14 1832 first streetcar appears, in New York
B14 1840 Claude Monet, impressionist
S14 1851 "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville, is published.
B14 1889 Jawaharlal Nehru, first Indian Prime Minister (1947-64)
S14 1889 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip around the
S14 world by 8 days (72 days).
B14 1900 Aaron Copland, American composer, "Appalachian Spring"
S14 1910 1st airplane flight from the deck of a ship.
S14 1922 BBC begins domestic radio service
S14 1935 FDR proclaimes the Phillippines are a free commonwealth.
B14 1935 Hussein I, king of Jordan (1953- )
B14 1948 Prince Charles of Britain
S14 1959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii).
S14 1969 Apollo 12 is launched
S15 Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo
B15 1738 Sir William Herschel, astronomer discovered Uranus
S15 1777 Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation
B15 1862 Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer (Before Dawn) (Nobel 1912)
S15 1869 Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated.
S15 1881 American Federation of Labor (AFL) is founded in Pittsburgh
B15 1887 Georgia O'Keeffe in Sun Prairie, Wis, painter
B15 1891 Erwin Rommel, German field marshall, the "Desert Fox"
S15 1920 League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva
S15 1926 National Broadcasting Company goes on-the-air, with 24 stations
S15 1939 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check.
S15 1949 KRON (Channel 4, San Francisco) signs on, from 7 to 10 PM.
S16 Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo
S16 1532 Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa
S16 1864 Sherman begins his march to sea thru Georgia
B16 1873 William Handy, established the popularity of the blues
B16 1895 Paul Hindemith, German composer
B16 1901 George Gallop, what's your opinion?
S16 1907 Oklahoma becomes the 46th state
S16 1933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union
S16 1965 Venera 3 launched, 1st land on another planet (Crashes on Venus)
S16 1973 Skylab 4 launched into earth orbit. Look out Australia!
S17 Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo
S17 The day of the Great American Smoke Out.
S17 1558 Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary
B17 1717 Jean d'Alembert, French mathematician, scientist, philosopher
B17 1790 August Ferdinand Möbius, mathematician, inventor of Möbius strip
S17 1800 Congress convened for its 1st Washington, DC session.
S17 1869 Suez Canal opens.
S17 1913 Panama Canal opens for use.
S17 1970 Russia lands unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
S17 1977 Egyptian President Sadat accepts an invitation to visit Israel.
S18 Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo
S18 1497 Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope
B18 1789 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography
S18 1820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer.
B18 1836 Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame)
B18 1899 Eugene Ormandy, conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra)
S18 1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gave US canal rights thru Panama
S18 1913 Lincoln Deachey performs the first airplane loop-the-loop
S18 1918 Latvia declares independence from Russia
B18 1923 Alan Sheppard, first American into space (Freedom 7, Apollo 14)
B18 1928 Mickey Mouse, film star
S18 1928 Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat Willy"
S18 1936 Main span of the Golden Gate Bridge is joined.
S19 1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
S19 1620 Mayflower pilgrims reach Cape Cod
B19 1752 George Rogers Clark, frontier leader in Revolutionary War
B19 1805 Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat, built Suez Canal
B19 1831 James A. Garfield, 20th President (March 4-September 19, 1881)
S19 1863 Lincoln delivers his famous address in Gettysburg. Expecting a
S19 long speech, the photographer wasn't ready before Lincoln left.
B19 1888 José Raúl Capablanca of Cuba, world chess champion (1921-27)
S19 1895 The pencil is invented.
B19 1905 Tommy Dorsey, musician, band leader
B19 1917 Indira Gandhi, Indian prime minister (1966-77, 1980-84)
S19 1919 Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations rejected by US Senate
B19 1954 Kathleen Quinlan in Mill Valley Cal, (Rose Garden, Twilight Zone)
S19 1959 Ford cancels Edsel
S19 1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a State Historical Landmark
S19 1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel.
B20 1602 Otto von Guericke, invented the air pump
B20 1620 Peregrine White, born on Mayflower to William & Susanna White.
S20 1789 New Jersey becomes the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
B20 1858 Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish novelist (Tales of a Manor) (Nobel 1909)
B20 1866 Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge, first commissioner of baseball
B20 1886 Karl von Frisch, zoologist, bee expert (Nobel 1973)
S20 1888 William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
B20 1889 Edwin Hubble, US astronomer, discoverer of galaxies, red shift
B20 1900 Chester Gould, gave Dick Tracy a job
B20 1908 Alistair Cooke, raconteur
S20 1910 Revolution breaks out in Mexico, led by Francisco Madero.
S20 1914 The State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
S20 1931 Commercial teletype service began
S20 1947 Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten
S20 1953 first airplane to exceed 1300 mph - Scott Crossfield.
S20 1977 Egyptian Pres Sadat is 1st Arab leader to address Israel Knesset
S20 1980 Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
S20 1986 UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS.
B21 1694 Voltaire, thinker
B21 1787 Sir Samuel Cunard, founded 1st regular Atlantic steamship line
S21 1789 NC becomes 12th state
B21 1904 Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone for jazz
S21 1933 first US ambassador is sent to the USSR - WC Bullitt
B21 1940 Natalia Maskarova, in Lenningrad, ballerina
S21 1959 Jack Benny(Violin) & Richard Nixon(Piano) play their famed duet
S21 1964 the world's longest suspension bridge, Verrazano Narrows, opens.
B22 1710 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach
B22 1819 George Eliot in England, novelist (Silas Marner)
B22 1890 Charles de Gaulle, president of France (1958-1969)
B22 1898 Wiley Post, American aviator, parachutist
B22 1899 Hoagy Carmichael, composed 'Star Dust'.
S22 1906 The International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS"
S22 as the new call for help.
B22 1913 Benjamin Britten, English composer
S22 1943 Lebanon gains its independence (would that it could keep it)
S22 1963 President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
B23 1804 Franklin Pierce, 14th President (1853-1857)
S23 1852 Just past midnight an earthquake makes Lake Merced drop 30 feet
B23 1859 Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney), outlaw
B23 1860 Karl Branting, Swedish statesman, diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 192
S23 1863 Patent granted for a process of making color photographs.
B23 1887 Boris Karloff, bogeyman (Frankenstein, Isle of the Dead)
S23 1948 Lens to provide zoom effects patented - FG Back
S23 1948 a patent is granted for the first zoom lens to F.G. Back
B24 1632 Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
B24 1713 Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in California.
S24 1759 Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
B24 1784 Zachary Taylor, 12th President (1849-1850)
B24 1864 Henre de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter
B24 1868 Scott Joplin, entertainer
S24 1874 Patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.
B24 1888 Dale Carnegie, author (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
B24 1925 William F. Buckley, Jr., right-wing curmudgeon
S24 1963 first live murder on TV - Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald.
S24 1971 "D B Cooper" parachutes from a Northwest 727 with $200,000.
S25 1783 Britain evacuate New York, their last military position in US
B25 1835 Andrew Carnegie, steelman and librarian
B25 1846 Carry Nation, scrouge of barkeepers and drinkers.
S25 1866 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
S25 1884 John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
B25 1896 Virgil Thomson Composer and music critic
B25 1914 Joe DiMaggio, Yankee Clipper
B25 1920 Ricardo Montalban, Welcome to Fantasy Island, Khan
S25 1960 first atomic reactor for research & development, Richland WA.
B25 1960 John F. Kennedy Jr.,
B25 "Ask not what your country can do for you...
S25 1975 Netherlands grants Surinam independence (National Day)
S25 1983 Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off
B26 1607 John Harvard, clergyman, scholar, founder of Harvard University
S26 1716 first lion to be exhibited in America (Boston)
S26 1778 Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands).
S26 1789 first national celebration of Thanksgiving
B26 1832 Louisa May Alcott, little woman
S26 1865 Alice in Wonderland is published
B26 1876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment.
B26 1894 Norbert Wiener, inventor of cybernetics
B26 1922 Charles M Schultz, cartoonist (Peanuts)
S26 1949 India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
S26 1965 France launches first satellite, a 92-pound A1 capsule
S26 1966 first major tidal power plant opened at Rance estuary, France
S26 1985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 is launched
S27 1095 Pope Urban II preaches for the First Crusade
S27 1582 the first Advent Sunday
B27 1701 Anders Celsius, took temperatures
B27 1874 Charles A. Beard, American historian
B27 1874 Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman
S27 1895 Alfred Nobel establishes the Nobel Prize
S27 1910 New York's Penn Station opens - world's largest railway terminal
S27 1951 first rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM
S27 1971 Soviet Mars 2, is the first to crash land on Mars.
S27 1985 Space shuttle Atlantis carries the first Mexican astronaut.
S28 1520 Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean.
B28 1628 John Bunyan, English cleric, author (Pilgrim's Progress)
B28 1632 Jean Baptiste Lully, French composer, musician
B28 1757 William Blake, poet (Songs of Innocence and Experience)
B28 1881 Stefan Zweig, Austrian poet, essayist, dramatist, translator
S28 1895 America's auto race starts: 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avgd 7mph
S28 1912 Albania declares independence from Turkey
S28 1929 Admiral RE Byrd makes first flight over the South Pole
S28 1960 Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)
S28 1964 Mariner 4 launched; first probe to fly by Mars
S28 1983 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 is launched
S28 1986 Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms agreement for 1st time
B29 1803 Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (color shift)
B29 1811 Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage, antislavery, prison reformer
B29 1849 Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode.
S29 1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.
S29 1890 1st Army-Navy football game. Score: Navy 25, Army 0.
S29 1945 Yugoslav Republic Day is first proclamed.
S29 1951 first underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
S29 1961 Mercury 5 launches a chimp (Ham/Enos)
S29 1975 Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
B30 1667 Jonathan Swift, satirist, wrote "Gulliver's Travels"
B30 1793 Johann Lukas Schönlein, helped establish scientific medicine
B30 1810 Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker.
B30 1835 Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn)
B30 1863 Andres Bonifacio, leader of 1896 Phillippine revolt against Spain
B30 1874 Winston Churchill, cigar smoker, (Nobel 1953)
S30 1939 USSR invades Finland over a border dispute
S30 1954 first meteorite known to have struck a woman - Sylacauga Alabama
S30 1958 first guided missile destroyer launched, the "Dewey", Bath, ME
S30 1964 USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars
S30 1966 Barbados gains independence from Britain
S30 1967 South Yemen (then Aden) gains independence from Britain
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