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- B01 1770 William Clark, explored Pacific Northwest with Lewis.
- B01 1779 Francis Scott Key, wrote the 'Star-Spangled Banner'.
- B01 1815 Richard Henry Dana, spent 2 years before the mast.
- S01 1291 Everlasting League forms, the basis of the Swiss Confederation
- S01 1790 First U.S. Census
- S01 1794 Whisky Rebellion
- S01 1852 Black Methodists establish 1st black SF church, Zion Methodist
- S01 1901 Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited.
- S01 1946 President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission.
- S01 1953 California introduces its Sales Tax (for Education).
- S01 1958 First Class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years
- S01 The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
- S01 Confederation Day, celebrated in Switzerland
- B02 1986 Me! Do programs have life?
- S02 1873 1st trial run of an SF cable car, on Clay Street between
- S02 Kearny and Jones, downhill all the way, at 4AM.
- S02 1877 San Francisco Public Library opens with 5000 volumes.
- S02 1990 Saddam Hussein of Iraq invades neighboring Kuwait in the first
- S02 act of the Persian Gulf War.
- B03 1811 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the safe elevator.
- S03 1492 Columbus sets sail for 'the Indies'.
- B03 1924 Leon Uris, writer (Exodus, QB VII)
- B03 1926 Tony Bennett singer, left his heart in San Francisco
- B04 1755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, invented the modern pencil.
- S04 1693 Champagne is invented by Dom Perignon.
- B04 1790 The United States Coast Guard, Semper Paratus
- B04 1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet
- B05 1930 Neil Armstrong, X-15 pilot, the first man on the moon
- S05 1775 The 1st Spanish ship, 'San Carlos', enters San Francisco bay.
- S05 1861 US levies its first Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800).
- S05 1864 Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati
- S05 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed.
- B06 1809 Lord Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate of England.
- B06 1881 Alexander Fleming, cashed in on others' discovery of penicillin.
- S06 1835 Bolivia gains its independence
- S06 1926 The first woman swims the English Channel.
- S06 1945 The first Atom Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by the 'Enola Gay'.
- B06 1911 Lucille Ball, comedian, actress, "I Love Lucy"
- B06 1917 Robert Mitchum, actor, "Heaven Knows Mr. Allison"
- B06 1921 Ella Raines, actress
- S06 Independence Day, celebrated in Bolivia.
- B07 1783 John Heathcoat, invented lace-making machinery
- B07 1886 Louis Alan Hazeltine, invented the neutrodyne circuit, making
- B07 commercial radio possible.
- S07 1807 1st servicable steamboat, the Cleremont, goes on 1st voyage.
- B07 1942 Garrison Keillor, teller of tall tales
- B07 1903 Louis Leakey, anthropologist
- B07 1779 Carl Ritter, cofounder of modern science of geography
- B08 1763 Charles Bullfinch, 1st US professional architect
- B08 1922 Rudi Gernreich, designed the topless swimsuit & the miniskirt
- B08 1923 Esther Williams, actress, swimmer in Inglewood Cal
- B08 1902 Paul Dirac, British theoretical physicist
- B08 1879 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader
- B08 1930 Andy Warhol, artist, movie producer
- B08 1948 Svetlana Y. Savitskaya, 2nd woman in space (Soyuz T-7, T-12)
- B09 1930 Betty Boop, koo-koo-chee-koo
- B09 1776 Amedeo Avogadro, Italian physicist (6.022 x 10 ^ 23)
- B09 1593 Izaac Walton, fisherman, writer (Compleat Angler)
- S09 1842 The US-Canada border defined by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
- S09 1945 The 2nd Atom Bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
- S09 1974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency.
- B10 1874 Herbert Hoover, 31st President (1929-1933)
- S10 1809 Ecuador gains its independence.
- S10 1981 Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's record of 3630 hits.
- S10 Independence Day, celebrated in Ecuador
- S11 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
- S11 Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
- S11 1877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Deimos
- S11 1929 Babe Ruth hits his 500th homer
- S11 1933 Temp. hits 58°C (136°F) at San Luis Potosí, Mex. (world record)
- B11 1902 Lloyd Nolan, actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place)
- B11 1921 Alex Haley, American author (Roots)
- B11 1950 Steve Wozniak, cofounded Apple Computer
- S12 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
- S12 Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
- B12 1881 Cecil B. deMille, directed God.
- B12 1911 Mario Moreno, alias Cantinflas.
- S12 1851 Issac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine.
- S12 1898 The peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
- S12 1915 `Of Human Bondage,' by William Somerset Maugham, published.
- S12 1934 Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand
- S13 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
- S13 Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
- B13 1655 Johann Christoph Denner, invented the clarinet.
- S13 1642 Christiaan Huygens discovers the Martian south polar cap
- B13 1818 Lucy Stone, pioneer in Woman's Rights.
- B13 1860 Annie Oakley, straight shooter.
- S13 1961 Berlin Wall erected in East Germany
- S13 1876 Reciprocity Treaty between US and Hawaii ratified.
- S13 International Left-handers Day
- S14 410 Alaric sacks Rome, he really was a Vandal.
- S14 1457 Oldest exactly dated printed book (c. 3 years after Gutenberg)
- S14 1848 Oregon Territory created
- S14 1935 Social Security Act became law
- S14 1941 Atlantic Charter signed by FDR & Churchill
- S14 1846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance.
- S14 1945 VJ Day - Japan surrendered to end World War II.
- S14 1966 First US lunar orbiter does it.
- B15 1769 Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba
- B15 1803 Sir James Douglas, father of British Columbia.
- B15 1912 Julia Child, chef.
- S15 1901 Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of
- S15 nitrogelatin (and that ain't jello).
- S15 1945 Riot in San Francisco celebrating end of World War II.
- S15 1945 South Korea liberated from Japanese rule.
- S15 1960 The Congo (Brazzaville) gains its independence.
- S15 Independence Day, celebrated in the Congo.
- S15 Liberation Day, celebrated in South Korea.
- S16 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
- B16 1884 Hugo Gernsback, responsible for Science Fiction becoming an
- B16 independent literary form.
- B16 1892 Harold Foster, cartoonist, created "Prince Valiant", known for
- B16 its fine drawing and historical detail.
- S16 1969 Woodstock festival begins in New York.
- S16 1970 Venera 7 launched by USSR for soft landing on Venus
- S16 1863 Emancipation Proclamation signed
- S17 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
- B17 1786 Davy Crockett, grinned down bears.
- B17 1892 Mae West. Go up and see her sometime.
- S17 1807 R. Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
- S17 1896 Gold discovered at Bonanza Creek, in Klondike region of the Yukon
- S17 1950 Indonesia gains its independence.
- S17 1939 "The Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY
- S18 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
- B18 1618 Virginia Dare, 1st child born in America of English parents.
- B18 1834 Marshall Field, founded a Chicago-based store chain.
- S18 1868 Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
- S18 1914 Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality
- S18 1963 James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate of Univ of Miss.
- S18 1976 USSR's Luna 24 softlands on the Moon
- S18 1991 Russian conservatives start a coup to eliminate Gorbachev,
- S18 glasnost and perestroika. The second Russian revolution begins.
- S19 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
- S19 National Aviation Day
- B19 1646 John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England.
- B19 1785 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks.
- B19 1871 Orville Wright, builder of bicycles and airplanes.
- S19 1826 Canada Co. chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario).
- S19 1891 William Huggins describes use of spectrum in astronomy.
- S19 1960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
- S19 1960 Sputnik 5 carries 3 dogs into orbit (recovered alive) Yeaaa!
- S19 1979 The crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34
- S19 1982 Soyuz T-7 is launched
- S19 Admission Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
- S20 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
- B20 1833 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President (1889-1893)
- S20 1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over
- S20 1942 WW II dimout regulations implemented in San Francisco.
- S20 1920 US's first radio broadcaster, 8MK later WWJ, Detroit
- S20 begins daily broadcasting.
- S20 1930 Dumont's 1st TV Broadcast for home reception, NY city
- S20 1940 Churchill says of the Royal Air Force, "Never in the field
- S20 of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
- S20 1977 Voyager II launched.
- S20 Admission Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
- S21 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- B21 1660 Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building.
- S21 1965 Gemini 5 launched into earth orbit (2 astronauts)
- S21 1968 William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
- S21 1972 US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus is launched
- S21 1841 John Hampson patents the venetian blind
- S21 1959 Hawaii became the 50th state.
- S21 1968 Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
- S21 1991 Second Russian revolution fails as coup leaders flee.
- S21 Gorbachev returns to find Yeltsin a hero.
- S22 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- B22 1862 Claude Debussy, composer
- B22 1920 Ray Bradbury, science fiction author.
- S22 1485 Richard III slain at Bosworth Field - Last of the Plantagenets
- S22 1787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
- S22 1851 Gold fields discovered in Australia
- S22 1963 Joe Walker in a NASA X-15, reaches 106 km (67 miles)
- S23 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- S23 1833 Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
- S23 1869 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in San Francisco,
- S23 from Boston, after a 16-day rail trip.
- S23 1919 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premiers in Chicago Tribune
- S23 1957 Digital Equipment Corp. founded
- S23 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of earth from the moon
- S23 1973 First Intelsat communications satellite launched
- S23 1977 1st man-powered flight (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
- B24 1816 Sir Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful trans-Atlantic cables
- B24 1886 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed Liberty Ships
- S24 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- S24 79 Mt. Vesuvius erupts; Pompeii & Herculaneum are buried
- S24 1814 British sack Washington, DC. Please, it needs it again!
- S24 1869 The Waffle Iron is invented.
- S24 1909 Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
- S24 1932 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, AE Putnam
- S24 1989 Voyager II passes Neptune, Triton, finds rings here too.
- S24 1956 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC
- S24 1960 temp. drops to -88° (-127° F) at Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
- S25 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- S25 1689 Montreal taken by the Iroquois
- B25 1927 Althea Gibson, 1st black tennis champion (in a major event)
- S25 1825 Uruguay gains its independence.
- S25 1929 Graf Zeppelin passes over San Francisco, headed for Los Angeles
- S25 after trans-Pacific voyage from Tokyo.
- S25 1981 Voyager II flies past Saturn.
- S25 1981 Voyager 2 in its closest approach to Saturn,
- S25 sees not a few, but thousands of rings.
- S26 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- S26 55 B.C. Roman forces under Julius Caesar invaded Britain.
- S26 1346 English longbows defeat French in Battle of Crécy
- B26 1873 Lee De Forest, invented the Audion vacuum tube (radio tube).
- S26 1629 Cambridge Agreement pledged. Massachusetts Bay Co. stockholders
- S26 agreed to emigrate to New England.
- S26 1791 John Fitch granted a US patent for his working steamboat.
- S26 1846 W. A. Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF).
- S26 1907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at SF's Aquatic Park in
- S26 57 seconds.
- S26 1920 19th Amendment passes - Women's Suffrage granted (about time!)
- S26 1952 Fluoridation of San Francisco water begins.
- S26 1962 Mariner 2 launched for 1st planet flyby (Venus)
- S26 1973 Women's Equality Day
- S27 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- S27 1883 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons
- S27 1776 Americans defeated by British in Battle of Long Island
- S27 1783 1st hydrogen-filled balloon ascent (unmanned)
- S27 1859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn
- B27 1882 Samuel Goldwyn, pioneer filmmaker
- B27 1899 C.S. Forester, historical novelist, created Horatio Hornblower
- B27 1908 Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President (1963-1969)
- S27 1859 1st successful oil well drilled near Titusville, Penn.
- S27 1883 Krakatoa, WEST of Java, blew apart (Top that, St Helens).
- S27 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agreed to outlaw war.
- S28 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- S28 1565 St Augustine, Fla established
- B28 1749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, social philosopher
- S28 1609 Delaware Bay explored by Henry Hudson for the Netherlands
- S28 1789 William Herschel discovers Enceladus, satellite of Saturn
- S28 1828 Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was born near Tula.
- S28 1965 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
- S28 1917 10 suffragists were arrested as they picketed the White House
- S28 1907 United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
- S29 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- S29 1526 Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Mohács
- S29 1533 Last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa, killed by Spanish conquerors
- S29 1896 Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
- S29 1949 USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb
- S29 1954 San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens.
- S30 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- B30 1797 Mary Shelley, wrote Frankenstein
- S30 1850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city.
- S30 1979 1st recorded occurrance of a comet hitting the sun (the energy
- S30 released was about equal to 1 million hydrogen bombs).
- S30 1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 3 is launched
- S30 1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 1 is launched
- S31 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
- S31 1842 US Naval Observatory is authorized by an act of Congress
- S31 1980 Solidarity Labor Union in Poland is founded.
- S31 1977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets world aircraft altitude record of 38.26 km
- S31 (125,524 ft) in a Mikoyan E-266M turbojet
- S31 1955 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, IL
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