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B01011735Paul Revere.
B01011919J. D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'.
B01011922Rocky Graziano.
B01021927Gino Marchetti, loved the end zone.
B01031840Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii.
B01031892J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings.
B01031939Bobby Hull, slapshooter.
B01041643Sir Issac Newton.
B01041809Louis Braille, developed reading system for the blind.
B01041838Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person).
B01041935Floyd Patterson, boxer.
B01051779Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero.
B01051855King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor.
B01051932Chuck Noll, invented the Steel Curtain.
B01061811Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator.
B01061878Carl Sandburg.
B01061882Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957).
B01071800Millard Fillmore, 13th President (1850-1853).
B01081786Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US 1st effective central bank.
B01081862Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co.
B01081868Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity.
B01081935Elvis Presley, singer.
B01091870Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge.
B01091901Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip.
B01091913Richard M. Nixon, 37th President (1968-1974).
B01091934Bart Starr.
B01101738Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys).
B01101877Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the elecrostatic precipitator, used for pollution control and air ionizers.
B01101938Willie McCovey.
B01111755Alexander Hamilton, the 1st Secretary of the US Treasury.
B01111807Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University.
B01121588John Winthrop, 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
B01121737John Hancock.
B01121944Smokin' Joe Frazier.
B01131832Horatio Alger, Jr.
B01141741Benedict Arnold, fink.
B01141892Hal Roach, early film director and producer.
B01151908Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb.
B01151929Martin Luther King, Jr., he had a dream.
B01161935Anthony Joseph "AJ" Foyt Jr.
B01171706Benjamin Franklin.
B01171771Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel.
B01171880Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops.
B01171942Muhammed Ali, who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.
B01181779Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule, pocket chessboard.
B01181782Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician.
B01181813Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented 1st commercially useable barbed wire.
B01181854Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell.
B01181892Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.
B01191736James Watt, made the steam engine workable.
B01191807Robert E. Lee.
B01191809Edgar Allen Poe.
B01191839Paul Cezanne, painter.
B01201896Nathan Birnbaum (better known as George Burns).
B01211743John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton.
B01211813John C Fremont, mapmaker & explorer of Western US.
B01211815Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia.
B01211940Jack Nicklaus, golfer.
B01221948George Foreman.
B01231969Jerry Kramer.
B01241888Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built 1st rocket-powered aircraft.
B01251759Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.
B01251874Somerset Maugham, poet.
B01251882Virginia Woolf, author.
B01261880Douglas MacArthur, he did return!
B01261961Wayne Gretzky.
B01271756Wolfgang A. Mozart, musical prodigy.
B01271832Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll).
B01271850Samuel Gompers, 1st president of the American Federation of Labor.
B01281855William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine.
B01291843William McKinley, 25th President (1897-1901).
B01291850Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite.
B01291860Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard).
B01291880Claude William Dukenfield (better known as W.C. Fields).
B01291901Allen B DuMont, perfected 1st commercially practical cathode ray tube.
B01301882Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President (1933-1945).
B01311830James G. Blaine, the 'Plumed Knight'.
B01311872Zane Gray, American West novelist.
B01311919Jackie Robinson, 1st black major league baseball player.
E01011804Haiti gains it's independence.
E010118551st US oil business, founded by two lawyers.
E01011863Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln.
E010119021st Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California.
E01011912The bra is invented by Otto Titzling.
E01011934Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison.
E01011956Sudan gains it's independence.
E01011958European Economic Community (EEC) starts operation.
E01011984AT&T broken up into 8 companies. Thanks, MCI.
E010120001st day of the new century.
E01031852first Chinese arrive in Hawaii.
E010318881st drinking straw is patented.
E01031959Alaska becomes the 49th state.
E01031977Apple Computer incorporated.
E01041970Kansas City Chiefs defeat Oakland Raiders 17-7, final AFL game ever.
E01061914Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
E01071610Galileo discovers the 4 major moons of Jupiter.
E01071714the typewriter is patented (it was built years later).
E010717851st balloon flight across the English Channel.
E01071822first printing in Hawaii.
E01071929"Tarzan", one of the first adventure comic strips appears.
E01071963First Class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents.
E01071968First Class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents.
E010719781st person born in Antarctica.
E01081815Battle of New Orleans, made a hero out of Andrew Jackson (the War of 1812 had ended on 12/24/1814, but nobody knew that.)
E01081880the passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of Mexico.
E010917931st balloon flight in North America.
E010917991st income tax imposed, in England.
E01091839the daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science.
E010919411st public color TV demonstration, CBS.
E010919825.9 earthquake in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855.
E01101776"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published.
E01101840the Penny Post mail system is started.
E011018631st underground railway opens in London.
E01101988Walter Payton's last game, Redskins beat Bears 21-17.
E011117701st shipment to US of rhubarb, ordered by Ben Franklin, from London.
E011117751st Jew to be elected to public office, Francis Salvador.
E01111813first pineapples planted in Hawaii.
E01111935Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California (non-stop, of course).
E01111973the designated-hitter rule is instituted in the American League.
E011119741st modern sextuplets born to Sue & Colin Rosenkowitz.
E011217731st public museum, in Charleston S.C.
E01131854Anthony Foss obtains patent for the Accordion.
E01131920NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly.
E011319661st black Cabinet member, Dr. Robert Weaver.
E01131971Apollo 14 launched (what was that about rockets can't fly??).
E01141784the Revolutionary War formally ends.
E01141914Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars.
E01141936L.M. "Mario" Giannini elected president of Bank of America.
E01151861Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis, forming base for his elevator company.
E01151948The Pentagon Building in Washington is completed.
E01151988Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder comments on blacks, sports, and breeding, and is fired the next day by CBS.
E011619021st hormone discovered, Ernest Starling.
E01171861Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest!!).
E011718711st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie.
E01171893the Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic.
E011816441st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston.
E01181778Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.
E011819111st shipboard landing of a plane (from Tanforan Park to the USS Pennslyvania).
E011919031st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England.
E012012651st English Parliament called into session by the Earl of Leicester.
E01201964Shortest fight ever, John Hodges KO's opponent in 1st sec. of 1st rnd.
E01201980President Carter announces boycott of Summer Olympics.
E01211954The submarine Nautilus launched.
E012119681st Superbowl: Packers (NFL) 33 - Raiders (AFL) 14.
E01211979Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer).
E012219881st indoor Grand Slam, Steffi Graf defeats Chris Evert, Australia.
E01241848James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma.
E01241899the rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan.
E012419351st beer in cans is sold.
E01241982San Francisco 49'ers win their 1st Super Bowl, 26-21.
E01241986Voyager II flies past Uranus.
E01251915Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
E012519241st Winter Olympics is held, Chamonix France.
E012519451st fluoride added to city water, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
E012519491st Emmy Awards are given out.
E012519591st transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301).
E012617881st settlement established by the English in Australia.
E01261950India becomes a republic.
E012719261st public demonstration of television.
E012719481st Tape Recorder is sold.
E01281807London's Pall Mall is the 1st street lit by gaslight.
E01281878George W. Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator.
E012819381st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont).
E01281986Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, killing a brave crew and crippling NASA.
E01291861Kansas becomes a state.
E01291900baseball's American League is formed, 24 years after the National.
E012919041st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team.
E01301847Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.
E01301862US Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched.
E013019171st jazz record in United States is cut.
E013019331st Lone Ranger show, radio.
E01311871Birds fly over the western part of San Francisco in such large numbers that they actually darken the sky.
E013119581st U.S. satellite launched, Explorer I.
E01311961Ham the chimp is 1st animal sent into space by the US.
E013119661st soft landing on Moon, Lunik 9.
E01311971Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands.
E013119771st time it snowed in all 49 continental States.
R01050000The paper bag, and the machine used to make them, were invented by Luther Crowell in 1872.
R01100000The 1st Kleenex was made in 1924 and was called a "Celluwipe."
R01150000Band-Aids were first introduced in 1920.
R01200000Alka Seltzer was first introduced in 1931.
R01250000The 1st mouthwash, Listerine, was introduced in 1880.
R01300000The first Kotex was introduced in 1921.