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Birthdays
B10011881 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft company.
B10011904 Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
B10011920 Walter Matthau, Actor
B10011924 Jimmy Earl Carter, 39th President from 1976 - 1980.
B10011928 George Peppard, Actor
B10011928 Laurence Harvey, Actor
B10011935 Julie Andrews in England - Mary Poppins
B10011936 Stella Stevens in Yazoo City Mississippi
B10021869 Mahatma Ghandi, pacifist.
B10021895 Groucho Marx, comedian
B10021948 Donna Karan, Actress
B10031800 George Bancroft, historian
B10031803 John Gorrie, invented cold-air process of refrigeration.
B10031804 Townsend Harris, first Western consul to reside in Japan.
B10031859 Elenora Duse in Italy, actress
B10031899 Gertrude Berg - Molly Goldberg
B10031925 Gore Vidal, Author/Playwright
B10031941 Chubby Checker, Rock Singer
B10031950 Pamela Hensley in Los Angeles
B10041822 Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President from 1877 - 1881.
B10041880 Damon Runyon, writer
B10041895 Buster Keaton, Silent movie comedian
B10041924 Charlton Heston, Actor
B10041931 Dick Tracy, comic strip character
B10041941 Lori Saunders in Kansas City Mo
B10041944 Patty LaBelle, singer
B10041946 Susan Sarandon, Actress, in New York City.
B10051829 Chester A. Arthur, 21st President from 1881 - 1884.
B10051882 Robert Hutchings Goddard, father of modern rocketry.
B10051905 Ray Kroc, who gave Ronald McDonald a job.
B10051923 Glynis Johns, Actress, in South Africa
B10051923 Philip Berrigan, Militant Priest
B10051933 Diane Cilento in Australia
B10051951 Karen Allen in Illinois
B10061820 Jenny Lind in Sweden, soprano, nightingale
B10061846 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US.
B10061866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice & music
B10061906 Janet Gaynor, Actress, in Philadelphia
B10061909 Carol Lombard
B10061914 Thor Heyerdahl, explorer
B10061936 Anna Quayle
B10061942 Britt Ekland in Sweden
B10061956 Stephanie Zimbalist in New York City
B10071849 James Whitcomb Riley, poet
B10071885 Niels Bohr, physicist & Nobel laureate, expanded quantum physics.
B10071905 Jean Arthur
B10071923 June Allyson
B10071926 Diana Lynn
B10081890 Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator
B10081936 Rona Barrett, Gossip columnist
B10081941 Jesse Jackson, Presidential Candidate
B10081943 Chevy Chase, Actor/Comedian
B10081949 Sigourney Weaver in Los Angeles, star of Aliens
B10091835 Camille Saint-Saens, composer
B10091940 Joe Pepitone, Baseball Player
B10091940 John Lennon, Rock Musician
B10091945 Jeannie C. Riley in Texas, Hee-Haw
B10091948 Jackson Brown, Singer
B10091967 Carling Bassett,Tennis player, in Canada
B10101738 Benjamin West, painter.
B10101813 Giuseppe Verdi, composer of operas.
B10101900 Helen Hayes, Actress
B10101924 James Clavell, author
B10101930 Adlai Stevenson III, U.S. Senator
B10101930 Harold Pinter, Playwright/Actor
B10101946 Ben Vereen, Actor/Dancer/Singer
B10101958 Tanya Tucker, in Seminole Texas, country singer
B10111844 Henry John Heinz, founded a prepared-foods company.
B10111884 Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady and crusader.
B10111918 Jerome Robbins, Composer
B10111937 Dottie West, singer.
B10111949 Daryl Hall, Singer/Songwriter
B10121872 Ralph Vaughan Williams, in England, composer
B10121923 Jean Nidetch in Brooklyn, founder of Weight Watchers
B10121932 Dick Gregory, Comedian/Actor
B10121935 Luciano Pavarotti, Operatic Tenor
B10121936 Tony Kubek, Yankee shortstop.
B10121950 Susan Anton, Actress.
B10131769 Horace H. Hayden, cofounder of first dental college.
B10131920 Laraine Day
B10131925 Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister.
B10131942 Pamela Tiffin in Oklahoma City
B10131959 Marie Osmond, Singer, in Ogden Utah.
B10141857 Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of the first US autos.
B10141890 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President from 1953 - 1961.
B10141894 e.e. cummings, poet. (lower case letters HIS choice!)
B10141896 Lillian Gish, actress.
B10141927 Roger Moore, Actor
B10141950 Sheila Young Ochowitz, US Olympic speed skater
B1015  70 BC. Virgil, poet of Rome
B10151844 Friedrich Nietzsche, Ubermensch, philosopher.
B10151858 John L. Sullivan, famed pugelist.
B10151905 C. P. Snow, British novelist and scientist.
B10151908 John Kenneth Galbraith
B10151924 Lee A. Iacocca, businessman
B10151937 Linda Lavin in Portland Maine - "Alice" TV show
B10151943 Penny Marshall in New York City - former Mrs Rob Reiner.
B10151959 Princess Sarah Ferguson of England
B10161708 Albrecht von Haller, the father of experimental physiology.
B10161758 Noah Webster, of dictionary fame
B10161854 Oscar Wilde in Ireland, wit
B10161888 Eugene O'Neill, playwright
B10161890 Paul Strand, photographer.
B10161921 Linda Darnell
B10161925 Angela Lansbury, Actress
B10161946 Suzanne Somers in San Bruno Calif
B10171893 Spring Byington, Actress "December Bride" (early sitcom.)
B10171903 Irene Ryan in El Paso Texas
B10171908 Jean Arthur.
B10171915 Arthur Miller, playwright.
B10171919 Rita Hayworth in New York, Actress.
B10171928 Julie Adams in Iowa.
B10171929 Beverly Garland in Santa Cruz California
B10171948 Margot Kidder in Yellowknife - Lois Lane
B10181878 James Truslow Adams, historian
B10181919 Pierre Trudeau, Canadian Prime Minister.
B10181925 Melina Mercouri in Athens Greece
B10181927 George C. Scott, Actor
B10181934 Inger Stevens in Sweden
B10181947 Laura Nyro, Singer,  in Bronx
B10181952 Pam Dawber, Detroit - Mindy of Mork and Mindy
B10181956 Martina Navratilova, in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Tennis Pro
B10181961 Erin Moran in Los Angeles California - Happy Days
B10191920 LaWanda Page in Cleveland - Aunt Esther on "Sanford and Son."
B10191932 Robert Reed, actor, dad on "Brady Bunch."
B10191967 Amy Carter, daughter of President Jimmy Carter
B10201812 Austin Flint, 19th century pioneer in US heart research.
B10201859 John Dewey, philosopher
B10201874 Charles Ives, composer.
B10201908 Arlene Francis in Boston Mass
B10201925 Art Buchwald, Columnist/Author
B10201931 Mickey Mantle, Baseball great
B10211772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge in England, poet
B10211833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, created dynamite and Peace Prizes.
B10211917 Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz.
B10211928 Whitey Ford, NY Yankee pitcher.
B10211933 Georgia Brown.
B10211945 Kathy Young.
B10211953 Charlotte Caffey (GoGos)
B10211956 Carrie Fisher in Beverly Hills - Star Wars' Princess Lelia
B10211971 Jade Jagger, daughter of Mick Jagger
B10221811 Franz Liszt in Hungary, composer
B10221917 Joan Fontaine, Actress
B10221920 Mitzi Green
B10221942 Annette Funicello, Actress, in Utica, NY
B10221943 Catherine Deneuve in Paris France
B10231835 Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Vice President.
B10231922 Coleen Gray in Staplehurst Nebraska
B10231925 Johnny Carson, TV Host, businessman
B10231931 Diana Dors in England
B10231941 Pele, Soccer great
B10241926 Y.A. Tittle, football player
B10241940 F. Murray Abraham, Actor
B10251825 Johann Strauss (the younger), composer
B10251838 Georges Bizet, composer
B10251881 Pablo Picasso, painter.
B10251888 Richard E. Byrd, explorer
B10251912 Minnie Pearl, Comedienne.  "How-deeeeee!!!"
B10251927 Barbara Cook in Atlanta Ga
B10251928 Marion Ross in Minnesota - "Happy Days"
B10251931 Annie Giradot in Paris France
B10251941 Helen Reddy, Singer, in Melbourne Australia - "I am Woman."
B10261855 Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals.
B10261933 Suzy Parker in San Antonio Texas
B10261947 Lynn Anderson in North Dakota
B10261948 Jaclyn Smith in Houston Texas - "Charlie's Angels."
B10261954 Lauren Tewes, aboard the "Love Boat."
B10271728 Captain James Cook, discovered the Sandwich Islands.
B10271811 Isaac Merrit Singer, invented first home sewing machine.
B10271858 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President from 1901 - 1909.
B10271918 Teresa Wright in New York City
B10271920 Nanette Fabray, Actress, in San Diego Calif
B10271943 Ruby Dee in Cleveland Ohio
B10271945 Carrie Snodgress in Park Ridge Illinois
B10281466 Erasmus, scholar, author of "In Praise of Folly."
B10281846 Auguste Escoffier, "the king of chefs & the chef of kings."
B10281902 Elsa Lanchaster in England - "The Bride of Frankenstein."
B10281907 Edith Head, Costume designer.
B10281914 Dr. Jonas Salk, Creator of Polio Vaccine
B10281929 Dody Goodman in Columbus Ohio
B10281939 Jane Alexander, Actress
B10281948 Thelma Hopkins, sung backup for Tony Orlando
B10281949 Bruce Jenner, Athlete/Actor.
B10291740 James Boswell in Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer
B10291897 Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propagandist.
B10291945 Melba Moore in New York City.
B10291947 Richard Dreyfuss, Actor.
B10291949 Kate Jackson in Alabama - "Charlie's Angels."
B10301735 John Adams, 2nd President from 1797 - 1801.
B10301896 Ruth Gordon, Actress/Comedienne
B10301919 Jane Randolph - Sang backup for Tony Orlando
B10301939 Grace Slick in Chicago Illinois - Jefferson Airplane/Starship
B10301943 Talia Shire
B10311632 Jan Vermeer in Holland, painter
B10311860 Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scout founder
B10311912 Dale Evans in Uvalde Texas aka Mrs Roy Rogers
B10311922 Barbara Bel Geddes
B10311931 Dan Rather, TV News Commentator
B10311931 Lee Grant in New York City
B10311939 Melinda Dillon
B10311950 Jane Pauley in Indianapolis Indiana - "Today" show.
B10??1936 Joan Kennedy in Bronxville NY - former wife of Ted Kennedy

*Events
S10011851 First Hawaiian stamps issued.
S10011869 First postcards are issued in Vienna.
S10011896 Yosemite becomes a National Park.
S10011898 Henry Huntington buys the Los Angeles Railway.
S10011903 First World Series starts between the National & American Leagues.
S10011908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car.
S10011932 Babe Ruth's famous homerun called off of Cubs Charlie Root.
S10011940 Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opened.
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.
S10011960 Nigeria gains its independence.
S10011962 Johnny Carson hosts his first "Tonight Show."
S10011962 "The Lucy Show" premieres.
S10011964 San Francisco's Cable Cars declared a National Landmark.
S10011971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens.
S10011975 Reunion no longer prints stamps, France takes over production.
S10021608 Hans Lippershey invets the telescope.
S10021836 Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle.
S10021889 First Pan American conference.
S10021936 First alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kansas.
S10021942 First self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction done in chicago.
S10021946 First network soap opera - "Faraway Hill" - Dumont Network.
S10021947 Yogi Berra the first player to pinch hit a world series homer.
S10021950 First Peanuts Comic Strip featuring Charlie Brown and Snoopy.
S10021955 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premieres.
S10021956 First atomic power clock exhibited - NY city.
S10021958 Guinea gains its independence.
S10021959 "The Twilight Zone" premieres.
S10021961 "Ben Casey" premieres.
S10031789 Washington proclaims the first national Thanksgiving Day
S10031913 Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%.)
S10031947 First telescope lens 200 inches in diameter completed.
S10031948 NFL becomes first sport of the week.
S10031950 First black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV - "Beulah."
S10031952 First video recording on magnetic tape, Los Angeles, Ca.
S10031954 "Father Knows Best" premieres.
S10031955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres.  Good Morning, Captain!
S10031955 "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres.
S10031961 "Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres.
S10031962 Walter M. Schirra aboard Sigma 7, the final Mercury mission.
S10031965 Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher.
S10041648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes America's first volunteer firemen.
S10041883 The 'Orient Express' begins its first run.
S10041940 Wrestling returns to Madison Square Garden after 12 year layoff.
S10041955 Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees.
S10041957 USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite.
S10041958 Transatlantic commercial jet passenger service begins.
S10041969 UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters.
S10041970 Janis Joplin dies at age 27.
S10041985 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 is launched.
S10051921 First radio broadcast of the World Series Yankees beat Giants.
S10051922 Yanks and Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie world series game.
S10051931 First transpacific non-stop flight landed, Wenatchee, Wa.
S10051947 First Presidential address televised live from White House
S10051970 PBS becomes a network.
S10051985 Thirteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 is launched.
S10061863 Dr. Charles H. Sheppard opens the first public bath, in Brooklyn
S10061889 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
S10061927 "The Jazz Singer," first movie with a sound track, premieres.
S10061973 Egypt and Syria invade Israel - The Yom Kippur war.
S10061981 Anwar Sadat is assassinated, Hosnai Mubarak becomes Egytian Pres.
S10071826 Granite Railway (first chartered railway in US)
S10071916 Georgia Tech beats Cumberland University 222-0. (Football!)
S10071931 First infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY.
S10071950 US forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel.
S10071960 "Route 66" premieres.
S10071985 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 returns to Earth.
S10081840 First Hawaiian constitution proclaimed.
S10081860 Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
S10081871 The Great Fire destroys over 4 square miles of Chicago.
S10081896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks.
S10081906 Karl Nessler demonstrates the first 'permanent wave' for hair.
S10081933 San Francisco's Coit Tower dedicated.
S10091000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England.)
S10091776 California's Mission Delores founded.
S10091855 Joshua Stoddard patents the first calliope.
S10091930 First transcontinental flight by a woman pilot, Laura Ingalls.
S10091977 Soyuz 25 is launched.
S10101845 US Naval academy opens at Annapolis, Maryland.
S10101886 Griswold Lorillard wears the first dinner jacket to the autumn ball
S10101911 the Manchu Dynasty is overthrown in China.
S10101933 First synthetic detergent for home use marketed.
S10101935 "Porgy and Bess" opens in New York City.
S10101973 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice President because of tax evasion.
S10101980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated.
S10111890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded.
S10111968 Apollo 7 launched, first manned flight.
S10111969 Soyuz 6 is launched.
S10111975 "Saturday Night Live" premieres.
S10111977 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth.
S10121492 Christopher Columbus and crew sight land in present-day Bahamas.
S10121823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling the raincoats.
S10121933 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially.)
S10121949 Eugenie Anderson becomes first woman ambassador nominated in US.
S10121957 First commercial flight between California and Antartica.
S10121963 Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel.
S10121969 Soyuz 7 is launched.
S10121973 Gerald Ford named as Spiro Agnew's successor to vice presidency.
S10121977 Fourth test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
S10131775 Continental Congress establishes a navy.
S10131792 George Washington lays the cornerstone of the White House.
S10131947 "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" premieres.
S10131953 Burglar alarm detecting ultrasonic or radio waves is patented
S10131969 Soyuz 8 is launched.
S10131971 First World Series night game (Pitts 4 - Balt 3.)
S10131985 Thirteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 is launched.
S10141066 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England.
S10141774 First declaration of colonial rights in America.
S10141884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
S10141922 First automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC.
S10141947 First airplane breaks sound barrier, over Muroc, Ca
S10141976 Soyuz 23 is launched.
S10141978 First TV movie from a series - "Rescue from Gilligan's Island."
S10151520 King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes to be built
S10151860 Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard.
S10151914 ASCAP founded (American Society of Composers, Authors and publshrs)
S10151939 LaGuardia Airport opens in New York City.
S10151951 "I Love Lucy" premieres.
S10151959 "Untouchables" premieres.
S10161781 Washington takes Yorktown.
S10161829 The Tremont Hotel, the first modern hotel in the U.S., opens
S10161859 John Brown attacks the armory at Harper's Ferry.
S10161861 Confederacy starts selling postage stamps.
S10161916 First public birth control clinic opened in Brooklyn, NY.
S10161941 "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) first appears in papers.
S10161964 Brezhnev and Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia.
S10161969 Soyuz 6 returns to Earth.
S10161976 Soyuz 23 returns to Earth.
S10161981 Israel's General Moshe Dayan dies at 66.
S10171492 Columbus sights the isle of San Salvador.
S10171777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga.
S10171781 Cornwallis is defeated at Yorktown.
S10171860 First professional golf tournament is held, in Scotland.
S10171904 Bank of Italy (later Bank of America) opens its doors.
S10171941 First American destroyer torpedoed in WW2, the Kearny.
S10171969 Soyuz 7 returns to Earth.
S10181767 Mason-Dixon line becomes border between Maryland and Penna.
S10181869 the United States take possession of Alaska.
S10181873 the Ivy League establishes rules for college football.
S10181892 First commercial long-distance phone line opens,Chicago-New York.
S10181917 Mata Hari is shot as a spy by French firing squad.
S10181922 British Broadcasting Corporation established.
S10181969 Soyuz 8 returns to Earth.
S10191781 Cornwallis surrenders at 2PM, the fighting is over.
S10191845 Wagner's opera 'Tannhauser' is performed for first time.
S10191853 First flour mill in Hawaii begins operations.
S10191879 Thomas A. Edison successfully demenstrates the electric light.
S10191953 Arthur Godfrey fires Julius LaRosa on the air.
S10191953 First jet transcontinental non-stop scheduled service.
S10191963 Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand."
S10191968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars.
S10191987 Stock market plunges more than 500 points, worst since 1929.
S10201817 The first "Showboat" leaves Nashville, Tennessee
S10201817 The Showboat gives shows along the Mississippi.
S10201820 Spain gives Florida to the United States.
S10201906 Dr Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube.
S10201944 US forces landed on Leyte, Philippines.
S10201960 First fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI.
S10211797 The US Constitution, Old Ironsides, put into commission.
S10211869 First shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore.
S10211879 Thomas Edison commercially perfects the light bulb.
S10211948 Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated,
S10221797 First parachute descent from a balloon, Paris.
S10221934 Gangster "Pretty Boy" Floyd shot by the FBI in Ohio.
S10221936 First commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii.
S10221962 Cuban Missle Crisis.
S10221968 Apollo 7 returns to Earth.
S10221981 US National debt tops $1 TRILLION (nothing to celebrate.)
S10231915 25,000 New York City women demonstrate, demanding voting rights.
S10231956 First video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast.
S10241861 First transcontinental telegram sent.
S10241945 United Nations Charter goes into effect.
S10241951 UN publishes its first postage stamps.
S10241970 Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role (Rhoda's mother)
S10241973 Yom Kippur War ends - Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus.
S10241976 The first Jewish film and TV festival.
S10241979 Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman.
S10251854 The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War)
S10251930 First scheduled transcontinental air service begins.
S10251939 Nylon stockings go on sale in the U.S. for the first time.
S10251960 First electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NY city.
S10251983 Invasion of Granada by US Troops.
S10261825 Erie Canal between Hudson River and Lake Erie opened.
S10261861 Telegraph service inaugurated in US (end of Pony Express.)
S10261881 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Arizona.
S10261941 US Savings Bonds go on sale.
S10261956 International Atomic Energy Agency established.
S10261957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting.
S10261968 Soyuz 3 is launched.
S10261970 The "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers.
S10261971 UN votes to replace Taiwan with China.
S10261972 Guided tours of Alcatraz Prison (by Park Service) begin.
S10261977 Fifth and Final test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
S10271787 The 'Federalist' letters started appearing in NY newspapers.
S10271858 R.H. Macy & Co. opens first store, on 6th Avenue, New York City.
S10271896 First Pali Road completed in Hawaii
S10271904 New York opens first section of its subway system.
S10271954 "Disneyland" TV program premieres.
S10271978 Begin and Sadat with the Nobel Peace prize.
S10281492 Columbus discovers Cuba.
S10281636 Harvard University founded.
S10281886 Statue of Liberty dedicated.
S10281904 St. Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints.
S10281919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, starting Prohibition.
S10281929 First child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl.
S10281948 The flag of Israel is adopted.
S10281965 The Gateway Arch (630 feet high) completed in St. Louis, Missouri.
S10281977 TV's Rhoda gets married.
S10291833 First college fraternity founded.
S10291863 International Committee of the Red Cross founded.
S10291894 First election of the Hawaiian Republic.
S10291923 Turkey is proclaimed to have a republican government.
S10291929 "Black Tuesday," the Stock Market crash.
S10291956 Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open Straits of Iran.
S10301775 US Navy is created.
S10301864 Helena, capital of Montana, founded.
S10301922 Mussolini forms cabinet in Italy.
S10301938 Orson Welles panics nation with his broadcast of War of the Worlds
S10301985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 9 is launched.
S10311815 Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents the miner's safety lamp.
S10311864 Nevada becomes the 36th state.
S10311952 First thermonuclear bomb detonated - Marshall Islands.
S10311956 Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service.
S10311956 First American to land by air at South Pole - GJ Dufek.