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B04011883Lon Chaney, man of a thousand faces.
B04021875Walter Chrysler, founded a car company.
B04021914Sir Alec Guiness, thespian.
B04021920Jack Webb, dum-de-dum-dum.
B04021924Doris Day, girl next door.
B04031924Marlon Brando, godfather.
B04031949Lyle Alzado, Raider.
B04041792Thaddeus Stevens.
B04041802Dorothea Dix, social reformer.
B04051856Booker T. Washington.
B04051871Glenn "Pop" Warner.
B04051908Bette Davis.
B04061810Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium.
B04061866Lincoln Steffens, muckraker.
B04061890Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer.
B04061892Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company.
B04061892Lowell Thomas, journalist.
B04071860W.K. Kellogg, founded the cereal company.
B04071915Billie Holiday, blues singer.
B04071932Mark Russell, satirist.
B04071954Tony Dorsett.
B04081889Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra).
B04091830Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion in photography.
B04091865Charles Proteus Steinmetz.
B04091879W.C. Fields, Philadelphian, didn't like kids or dogs.
B04091919John Presper Eckert, co-inventor of 1st electronic computer (ENIAC).
B04101938Don Meredith, dandy.
B04111964Bret Saberhagen.
B04121777Henry Clay, 'The Great Compromiser'.
B04121791Francis P. Blair, helped found the Republican Party.
B04121913Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader & vibraphone improvisor.
B04131721John Hanson, 1st US President under the Articles of Confederation.
B04131743Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President (1801-1809).
B04131852F.W. Woolworth, the "five-and-ten" king.
B04141889Arnold Toynbee, historian.
B04141941Pete "Charlie Hustle" Rose.
B04151452Leonardo da Vinci, factotum.
B04151707Leonhard Euler, mathematician.
B04161867Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame.
B04161889Charlie Chaplin, tramp.
B04161947Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tall person.
B04171837J.P. Morgan, financed the US.
B04171897Thornton Wilder, American novelist.
B04181857Clarence Darrow, lawyer.
B04191877Ole Evinrude, invented the outboard marine engine.
B04201925Ernie Stautner.
B04201961Don Mattingly.
B04211838John Muir, naturalist.
B04211926Queen Elizabeth II.
B04221904J. Robert Oppenheimer.
B04231564William Shakespeare, bard.
B04231791James Buchanan, 15th President (1857-1861).
B04231813Stephen Douglas, the "Little Giant", debated Lincoln.
B04231928Shirley Temple, child.
B04241620John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of demography.
B04241942Barbra Streisand, profile.
B04251874Guglielmo Marconi, made radio possible.
B04251908Edward R. Murrow, set the standard for TV correspondents.
B04261785John James Audubon, birdwatcher.
B04261900Charles Richter, he tells us how bad the quakes are.
B04271791Samuel F. B. Morse.
B04271822Ulyssses S. Grant, 18th President (1869-1877).
B04271896Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon.
B04281758James Monroe, 5th President (1816-1824).
B04291863William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner).
B04291899Duke Ellington.
B04301777Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematician of all time.
B04301912Eve Arden, Our Miss Brooks.
E04011778Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans Businessman, creates the "$".
E04011845Duke of Wellington's pidgeon leaves W. Africa for London, arrives 6/1.
E04011960TIROS I (Television & Infra-Red Observation Satellite) launched to improve weather prediction.
E04021792Congress establishes Coin denominations of United States.
E04021935Watson Watt granted a patent for RADAR.
E040219351st woman licensed to train Thoroughbred racehorses, Mary Hirsch.
E04031868Largest wave ever surfed, 50', at Minole Hawaii.
E04031882Jesse James, bank robber, shot by member of his own gang.
E04041860Pony Express begins service, from St. Joseph, Missouri.
E040418771st private home telephone, Somerville Mass.
E04051614Pocahontas marries John Rolfe.
E04061862Battle of Shiloh.
E04061868Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife.
E04061906first animated cartoon is copyrighted.
E040619264 planes take off on 1st successful around-the-world flight.
E04061957New York City ends trolley car service.
E040619731st designated hitter in the AL, Ron Blomberg, Yankees.
E04071933Prohibition ends. (Don't drink and Drive.)
E04071948World Health Organization is established.
E04081513Ponce de Leon arrives in Florida.
E0408191317th Amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified.
E04081974Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record.
E04091865General Lee surrenders to General Grant at Appomattox.
E04091953TV Guide publishes their first issue.
E04091955United Nations Charter hearing.
E041018251st hotel in Hawaii opens.
E04101849Safety pin patented.
E04101882Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii).
E04101953House of Wax, first 3-D movie, released in New York.
E04111876Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized.
E04111947Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball.
E04121861Fort Sumter, S. C., shelled by Confederacy, starts Civil War.
E041219541st Rock 'N Roll hit, "Shake Rattle and Roll", Bill Haley & Comets.
E04121961Yuri A. Gagarin becomes 1st man to orbit Earth.
E04121962San Mateo County withdraws from BART district.
E041219811st launch of the space shuttle, Columbia.
E041319331st woman Foreign Minister, Ruth Bryan Owen, Denmark.
E04131976$2 bill re-introduced as United States currency.
E041418281st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.
E041418601st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri.
E04141865Abraham Lincoln assasinated in Ford's Theater.
E04151850City of San Francisco incorporated.
E04151895Most weight ever lifted by a woman, 3,564 lbs., Josephine Blatt.
E04151912Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM.
E04151923insulin becomes generally available for diabetics.
E04151931Plennie Wingo begins walk across US and Europe, backwards.
E04151955Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants.
E04161866Nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo & Co. office explodes.
E041619291st baseball team to number jerseys, Yankees.
E04171524New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.
E04171895Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95).
E04171941Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing).
E04171961Bay of Pigs, invasion.
E04181775'The British are Coming!' Paul Revere rides.
E041818691st International Cricket Match, held in SF, won by Californian.
E04181906San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.
E041819341st "Washateria" (laundromat) is opened, in Fort Worth, Texas.
E04191775at Lexington Common, the shot 'heard round the world'.
E04191892Charles Duryea takes the 1st American-made auto out for a spin.
E04191939Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights (only 148 years late).
E041919661st black pro team coach, Bill Russel, Boston Celtics.
E042019401st demonstration of electron microscope.
E04211862Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorado.
E04221959White Sox score 11 runs on 1 hit against Kansas City Athletics today.
E04231949Courtesy Mail Boxes for motorists started in San Francisco.
E04241800Library of Congress founded.
E042418331st soda fountain patented.
E04241865Fire Alarm & Police Telegraph system put into operation.
E04241900the passing of Andrew Halliday, Cable Car Pioneer.
E04251901New York becomes 1st state requiring license plates for cars.
E04251961Robert Noyce granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
E042616071st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va.
E042619061st motion pictures shown in Hawaii.
E04261954nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio begins.
E042715651st Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City, founded.
E042718901st artificial insemination, Cambridge Univ., rabbits.
E04271897Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) is dedicated.
E04271937US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment.
E04271945founding of the Second Republic, in Austria.
E042719811st woman soccer official, Betty Ellis, North American Soccer League.
E04281754Mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurs.
E042819191st successful parachute jump is made.
E04281967Muhammad Ali arrested for draft dodging.
E04291913the all-purpose zipper is patented.
E04291986Roger Clemens strikes out 20 in a 9 inning game. New record.
E04301789George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of the US.
E04301798Department of the Navy established.
E04301803US more than doubles its size thru the Louisiana Purchase.
E04301939NBC makes 1st US demo of TV at opening of NY World's Fair.
E04301945Adolf Hitler commits suicide. Wimp.
E043019701st US "incursion" into Cambodia.
E04301975Saigon falls, Vietnam War ends. It cost $141 billion, 58,000 US dead.
R04010000Twinkies were introduced in 1930.
R04050000In a regular workday a typist's fingers travel 12 miles.
R04100000The Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. (Six sextillion five hundred eighty-eight quintillion.)
R04150000An average 4 year child asks 437 questions a day.
R04200000The normal rate of speech is 350 spoken words per minute.
R04250000More than 18 billion hot dogs are eaten by Americans each year.
R04300000Only 14% of all paper clips are used to clip paper.