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01-01-1804 Haiti gains it's independence
01-01-1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln.
01-01-1898 Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of San Francisco Bay.
01-01-1902 1st Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California.
01-01-1912 1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63 miles)
01-01-1934 Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison.
01-01-1956 Sudan gains it's independence
01-01-1958 European Economic Community (EEC) starts operation.
01-01-1984 AT & T broken up into 8 companies.
01-02-1921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens.
01-02-1957 the San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.
01-02-1993 The Silver Mage's Guild BBS Begins Daily Operations!
01-03-1852 first Chinese arrive in Hawaii.
01-03-1888 1st drinking straw is patented.
01-03-1912 Southern Pacific RR offers to bring the Liberty Bell to the
01-03-1912 Exposition without charge.
01-03-1959 Alaska becomes the 49th state.
01-03-1977 Apple Computer incorporated.
01-04-1982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for the 3rd time by fierce storm.
01-05-1850 the California Exchange opens.
01-05-1911 San Francisco has it's 1st air meet.
01-05-1933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side.
01-06-1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
01-07-1610 Galileo discovers the 4 major moons of Jupiter.
01-07-1714 the typewriter is patented (it was built years later)
01-07-1785 1st balloon flight across the English Channel.
01-07-1822 first printing in Hawaii.
01-07-1929 "Tarzan", one of the first adventure comic strips appears.
01-07-1963 First Class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents.
01-07-1968 First Class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents.
01-08-1815 Battle of New Orleans, made a hero out of Andrew Jackson (the
01-08-1815 War of 1812 had ended on 12/24/1814, but nobody knew that).
01-08-1880 the passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of Mexico
01-08-1932 Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter.
01-09-1793 1st balloon flight in North America.
01-09-1799 1st income tax imposed, in England.
01-09-1839 the daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science
01-09-1847 1st San Francisco paper, 'California Star', published.
01-09-1848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established.
01-09-1915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated.
01-09-1982 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855.
01-10-1776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published.
01-10-1840 the Penny Post mail system is started.
01-10-1863 1st underground railway opens in London.
01-10-1945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close.
01-11-1813 first pineapples planted in Hawaii.
01-11-1892 Hawaii Historical Society founded.
01-11-1935 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California (non-stop, of course).
01-13-1854 Anthony Foss obtains patent for the Accordion.
01-13-1920 NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly.
01-13-1971 Apollo 14 launched (what was that about rockets can't fly??)
01-14-1784 the Revolutionary War formally ends.
01-14-1914 Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars.
01-14-1936 L.M. "Mario" Giannini elected president of Bank of America.
01-14-1939 All commercial ferry service to the East Bay ends.
01-15-1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis, forming base for his
01-15-1861 elevator company.
01-15-1927 Dunbarton Bridge, 1st bridge in Bay Area, opens.
01-15-1939 Municipal Railway and Market Street Railroad begin service to
01-15-1939 the Transbay Transit (East Bay) Terminal.
01-15-1948 The Pentagon Building in Washington is completed.
01-16-1865 San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle started (now San Francisco Chronicle)
01-17-1861 Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest!!).
01-17-1871 1st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie.
01-17-1893 the Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic.
01-17-1943 It was Tin Can Drive Day.
01-17-1957 9-county commission recommends creation of BART.
01-18-1644 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston.
01-18-1778 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.
01-18-1869 The elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco.
01-18-1911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (from Tanforan Park to the
01-18-1911 USS Pennsylvania).
01-19-1903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England.
01-20-1265 1st English Parliament called into session by the Earl of Leicester
01-20-1872 California Stock Exchange Board organized.
01-21-1813 the pineapple is introduced to Hawaii.
01-21-1954 The submarine Nautilus launched.
01-21-1979 Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer).
01-22-1850 The Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif.
01-24-1848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma.
01-24-1899 the rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan.
01-24-1935 1st beer in cans is sold.
01-24-1982 San Francisco 49'ers win their 1st Super Bowl, 26-21.
01-24-1986 Voyager II flies past Uranus.
01-25-1915 Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
01-25-1949 1st Emmy Awards are given out.
01-25-1959 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301).
01-26-1788 1st settlement established by the English in Australia.
01-26-1950 India becomes a republic.
01-27-1926 1st public demonstration of television.
01-27-1948 1st Tape Recorder is sold.
01-28-1807 London's Pall Mall is the 1st street lit by gaslight.
01-28-1878 George W. Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator.
01-28-1938 1st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont).
01-28-1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, killing a brave crew.
01-29-1861 Kansas becomes a state.
01-29-1904 1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team.
01-30-1847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.
01-30-1862 US Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched.
01-30-1917 1st jazz record in United States is cut.
01-31-1851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California, founded.
01-31-1871 Birds fly over the western part of San Francisco in such large
01-31-1871 numbers that they actually darken the sky.
01-31-1911 Congress passes resolution naming San Francisco as the site
01-31-1911 of the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal.
01-31-1958 1st U.S. satellite launched, Explorer I.
01-31-1961 Ham the chimp is 1st animal sent into space by the US.
01-31-1971 Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands.
02-01-1920 the 1st armored car is introduced.
02-02-1848 Mexico sells US Texas, California, New Mexico & Arizona.
02-02-1848 1st shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco.
02-02-1962 8 of the 9 planets aligned for the 1st time in 400 years.
02-04-1932 1st Winter Olympics held (At Lake Placid, NY).
02-04-1948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence.
02-08-1693 Charter granted for College of William & Mary, 2nd college in US.
02-08-1883 Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen.
02-08-1908 Boy Scouts of America founded.
02-08-1922 Radio arrives in the White House.
02-08-1977 Earthquake, at 5.0, strongest since 1966.
02-09-1877 U.S. Weather Service is founded.
02-09-1885 first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
02-09-1891 1st shipment of asparagus arrives from Sacramento.
02-09-1969 the Boeing 747 takes it's 1st commercial flight.
02-10-1870 City of Anaheim incorporated (first time).
02-10-1879 1st electric arc light used (in California Theater).
02-11-1854 Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time.
02-11-1929 Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome.
02-11-1936 Pumping begins to build Treasure Island.
02-12-1541 Santiago, Chile founded.