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- *mmddyyyy Birthdays
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- B0701 "Wolfman Jack", a howling success in radio
- B07041753 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US
- B07041804 Nathaniel Hawthorne
- B07041826 Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna"
- B07041872 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-1929)
- B07041878 George M. Cohan
- B07041883 Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult.
- B07041900 Louis Armstrong, 'Satchmo'
- B07051794 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker
- B07051810 P.T. Barnum
- B07061747 John Paul Jones, "I have not yet begun to fight"
- B07071752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented the programmable loom.
- B07071907 Robert A. Heinlein, author who helped develop Science Fiction
- B07071907Cas a sophisticated mode of literary expression.
- B07081839 John D. Rockefeller
- B07091802 Thomas Davenport, invented 1st commercially successful electric motor
- B07101834 James Whistler, mama's boy
- B07101867 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist/humorist who created Mr. Dooley.
- B07111767 John Quincy Adams, 6th President (1825-1829)
- B07121817 Henry David Thoreau, always had Ralph Waldo Emerson
- B07121817Caround to bail him out of trouble.
- B07121854 George Eastman, created the Kodak camera
- B07121895 R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome
- B07121895 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers
- B07121908 Milton Berle, "Uncle Miltie"
- B07141912 Woodie Guthrie
- B07141913 Gerald R. Ford, 38th President (1974-1976)
- B07141918 Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory.
- B07151606 Rembrandt, Dutch painter.
- B07171744 Elbridge Gerry, father of the "gerrymander"
- B07171900 James Cagney, hold that grapefruit
- B07181811 William Makepeach Thackeray, Victorian novelist, wrote 'Vanity Fair'.
- B07181848 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer
- B07181913 Red Skelton
- B07181906 S. I. Hayakawa
- B07181921 John Glenn, Jr., 1st American in orbit
- B0718 Horatio Alger, whose lads always had enough pluck to succeed.
- B07191814 Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt Revolver.
- B07211899 Ernest Hemingway, never asked for whom the bell tolled...
- B07221844 Rev. William Archibald Spooner, invented 'spoonerisms'
- B07221849 Emma Lazarus, whose poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty
- B07221890 Rose Kennedy
- B07241783 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule.
- B07241802 Alexandre Dumas, told the Count of Monte Christo how to escape
- B07241898 Amelia Earhart, into the wild blue yonder
- B07251978 Louise Brown, 1st test-tube baby (born under the sign of Pyrex)
- B07261856 George Bernard Shaw
- B07261943 Mick Jagger, never gathers moss
- B07281929 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, redecorator
- B07291869 Booth Tarkington, novelist
- B07291907 Melvin Belli, San Francisco's 'King of Torts'
- B07301863 Henry Ford
- *mmddyyyy Events
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- S07011850 at least 626 ships lying at anchor around San Francisco Bay.
- S07011861 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington and Mason Streets.
- S07011867 Dominion of Canada formed.
- S07011898 Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill.
- S07011899 SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building.
- S07011919 First Class Postage DROPS to 2 cents from 3 cents.
- S07011944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing world-wide
- S07011944Cfinancial systems (like the IMF and the World Bank).
- S07011961 Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii.
- S07011966 Construction crews begin tearing up Market St. to build BART.
- S07011971 Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?).
- S0701 Dominion Day -- Canada
- A0701 the creation of the 1st adhesive U.S. Postage Stamps
- S07021900 1st flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1).
- S07021964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
- S07031608 Quebec is founded.
- S07031775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
- S07031819 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
- S07031861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from New York.
- S07041054 brightest known super-nova starts shining, for 23 days.
- S07041845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond.
- S07041863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho).
- S07041873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens.
- S07041876 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco.
- S07041882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens.
- S07041894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the 1st US autos
- S07041903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens.
- S07041903CPresident Roosevelt sends a message to the Phillipines,
- S07041903Cthen a message around the world in 12 minutes.
- S07041933 work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge.
- S0704 Independence Day
- S07051811 Venezuela gains independence from Spain.
- S07051865 William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England.
- S07051935 1st 'Hawaii Calls' radio program is broadcast.
- S07051938 Herb Caen gets his 1st column in the S.F. Chronicle.
- S0705 Independence Day, celebrated in Venezuela
- S07061885 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur
- S07061928 preview of 1st all-talking motion picture took place in NYC
- S07061932 First Class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents.
- S07061933 1st All-Star baseball game. American League won 5-2.
- S07071891 a patent was granted for the travelers cheque.
- S07071898 Hawaii annexed to the US.
- S07071908 the Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay.
- S07081796 1st American Passport issued by the US State Department.
- S07081835 the Liberty Bell cracks (again).
- S07081889 Vol 1, No 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" published.
- S07081896 William Jennings Bryan makes his 'cross of gold' speech at the
- S07081896CDemocratic Convention in Chicago.
- S07081897 Harbor Hospital formally opens.
- S07081905 Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center
- S07091816 Argentina gains it's independence.
- S07091846 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for the U.S.
- S07091979 Voyager II flies past Jupiter.
- S0709 National POW/MIA Recognition Day
- S0709 Independence Day, celebrated in Argentina
- S07101890 Wyoming becomes the 44th state.
- S07101925 the Scopes 'Monkey' Trial starts.
- S07101962 Telstar, 1st geosynchonous communications satelite launched.
- S07111804 Burr and Hamilton duel.
- S07111962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I).
- S0711 National Holiday of the People's Republic of Outer Mongolia.
- S0711 C(Celebrated mainly in Ulan Bator, yurt capital of Asia)
- S07121543 Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th & last wife).
- S07121812 US forces lead by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812).
- S07121933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour).
- S07121934 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned.
- S07131865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west".
- S07131898 SF Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street opens.
- S0713 the start of the Bon Festival in Japan.
- S07141789 the citizens of Paris storm the Bastille prison.
- S07141850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration.
- S07141853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese.
- S07141865 the 1st ascent of the Matterhorn.
- S07141927 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii.
- S0714 Bastille Day -- France
- S07151867 SF Merchant's Exchange opens.
- S0715 National Ice Cream Day
- S0715 Saint Swithin's Day
- S07161769 Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif.
- S07161790 Congress establishes the District of Columbia.
- S07161861 1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run.
- S07161945 1st atomic blast, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico.
- S07161946 Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history).
- S07161969 Apollo 11, 1st manned ship to land on the moon, launched.
- S0716 the National Blueberry Festival
- S07171879 1st railroad opens in Hawaii.
- S07171954 Construction begins on Disneyland...
- S07171955 ...Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County.
- S0717 Constitution Day, celebrated in South Korea
- S0718 64 the Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle).
- S07181872 Britain introduces voting by secret ballot.
- S07181938 Wrong Way Corrigan lands in Ireland (not California??)
- S07181968 Intel Corporation is incorporated.
- S0718 National Day, celebrated in Spain
- S07191848 First Women's Rights Convention. Seneca Falls, NY
- S07191880 SF Public Library allows patrons to start borrowing books.
- S07191935 1st parking meters installed in the Oklahoma City business district.
- S07191955 the "Balclutha" ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum.
- S07191961 1st In-flight movie is shown (on TWA).
- S07201810 Columbia gains it's independence.
- S07201859 admission fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents).
- S07201878 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii.
- S07201969 Man landed on the Moon, 4:18PM EDT
- S07201970 1st baby born on Alcatraz Island.
- S07201976 1st pictures from Mars surface received (courtesy Viking 2).
- S0720 Independence Day, celebrated in Columbia
- S07211831 Belgium gains it's independence.
- S07211867 City Gardens on Folsom opens.
- S07211873 world's 1st train robbery, by Jesse James.
- S07211969 Neil Armstrong steps on the moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT).
- S0721 Independence Day, celebrated in Belgium.
- S07231829 Typewriter is patented.
- S07231852 first interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio.
- S07231877 first telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii is completed.
- S07231904 The Ice Cream Cone is invented.
- S0723 National Day, in Egypt.
- S07251903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes.
- S07251909 1st airplane flight across the English Channel.
- S07251967 Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway).
- S07261775 Benjamin Franklin becomes Postmaster General.
- S07261835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii.
- S07261847 Liberia gains it's independence.
- S0726 the start of the Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree in Athens, Texas
- S0726 Independence Day, celebrated in Liberia.
- S07271866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long).
- S07271940 Billboard magazine starts publishing best-seller's charts.
- S07281821 Peru gains it's independence.
- S07281849 "Memmon" is 1st clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of NY
- S07281900 the Hamburger is created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
- S07281931 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd National Anthem.
- S07281933 1st Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee).
- S0728 Independence Day, celebrated in Peru.
- S07291835 first sugar plantation in Hawaii begun.
- S07291858 1st commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
- S07291914 1st transcontinental phone link made. Between NYC and San Francisco
- S07291920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from New York to San Francisco
- S07291958 Southern Pacific Bay Ferries stop running.
- A07291981 the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana
- S0729 6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
- S07301619 the House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed. 1st elective
- S07301619Cgoverning body in a British colony.
- S07301836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii.
- S0730 6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
- S07311790 1st US Patent granted (for a potash process).
- S07311970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending 'Huntley-Brinkley Report'
- S07311970C(No more "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet")
- S0731 6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
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