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S01      The start of a new year... Enjoy the bowl games.
S01      Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, Calif
B01 1449 Lorenzo de'Medici (The Magnificent) of Florence
B01 1481 Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer
B01 1735 Paul Revere
B01 1745 General Anthony Wayne, military leader ("Mad Anthony")
B01 1752 Elizabeth Griscom (Betsy) Ross, flag maker
S01 1801 United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland established
S01 1801 Giuseppe Piazzi discoved 1st asteroid, later named Ceres
S01 1804 Haiti gains its independence
B01 1854 Sir James Frazer, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough)
S01 1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln.
B01 1864 Alfred Stieglitz, father of modern photography
B01 1873 Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (The Flies, The Bosses)
B01 1879 E.M. Forster, English novelist (Howard's End, A Passage to India)
S01 1892 Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY
S01      Ellis Island became reception center for new immigrants
B01 1895 J Edgar Hoover, Mr FBI
S01 1901 Commonwealth of Australia established
S01 1902 first Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California.
B01 1909 John Glenn, astronaut
S01 1912 first running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63 miles)
B01 1919 J. D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'.
S01 1934 Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison.
S01 1956 Sudan gains its independence
S01 1958 European Economic Community (EEC) starts operation.
S01 1971 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV
S01 1984 AT & T broken up into 8 companies.
S01 1986 Spain & Portugal become 11th & 12th members of Common Market
S02      Betsy Ross Day
S02      Earth at perihelion
S02      Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Boötes
S02 1776 first American revolutionary flag displayed.
S02 1788 Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
S02 1893 World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
B02 1920 Isaac Asimov, scientist-writer, The Laws of Robotics
S02 1921 DeYoung Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park opens.
S02 1936 first electron tube described, St Louis, Missouri
S02 1959 USSR launches Mechta, 1st lunar probe & artificial in solar orbit
S02 1968 Dr Christian Barnard performs 1st successful heart transplant
S02 1972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
S03      Congress assembles, according to 20th amendment to constitution
S03      Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Boötes
B03  106 Cicero, Roman statesman
S03 1521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
B03 1543 Juan Cabrillo, discoverer of California
S03 1777 Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, NJ
B03 1840 Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii.
S03 1852 First Chinese arrive in Hawaii.
S03 1870 Brooklyn Bridge begun, completed on May 24, 1883
S03 1888 1st drinking straw is patented.
B03 1892 J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings.
B03 1905 Ray Milland, actor (Dial M for Murder, The Lost Weekend)
B03 1909 Victor Borge, pianist, comedian, Denmark
S03 1957 first electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pennsylvania
S03 1959 Alaska becomes the 49th state.
S03 1977 Apple Computer incorporated.
S04      National Trivia Day.  Take your TODAY program out to lunch!
S04      Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Boötes
B04 1581 Bishop James Ussher, calculated that earth began Nov 23, 4004 BC
B04 1643 Sir Issac Newton
S04 1754 Columbia University openes
S04 1784 US treaty with Great Britain is ratified
B04 1785 Jacob Grimm, German librarian, philologist, fairy tale collector
S04 1790 President Washington delivers first "State of the Union" speech.
B04 1809 Louis Braille, developed reading system for the blind.
B04 1813 Sir Issac Pitman, shorthand inventor
B04 1838 Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person)
S04 1896 Utah becomes 45th state
S04 1948 Burma gains independence from Britain (National Day)
S04 1959 Soviet Luna 1 first craft to leave Earth's gravity
S04 1982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for the 3rd time by fierce storm.
S05      Twelfth Night, end of Christmas season
B05 1592 Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), builder of Taj Mah
B05 1779 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero
S05 1809 Treaty of Dardanelles was concluded between Britain & France
B05 1846 Rudolf Eucken, German Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908)
B05 1855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor
B05 1876 Konrad Adenauer, German Chancellor
B05 1895 Jeannette Piccard, balloonist, Episcopal priest
S05 1911 San Francisco has its first official airplane race.
S05 1933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side.
S05 1969 USSR Venera 5 launched.  1st successful planet landing - Venus
S05 1972 NASA announces development of Space Shuttle
S05 1975 Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
S06      Arizona becomes the 47th state.
S06      Feast of Epiphany  (Twelfth Night of Christmas in England)
B06 1412 Joan of Arc, martyr
S06 1663 Great earthquake in New England
B06 1811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator
B06 1823 Gustave Doré, illustrator (Inferno, Rime of Ancient Mariner)
S06 1838 first public demonstration of telegraph, by Samuel F. B. Morse
B06 1854 Sherlock Holmes, according to Arthur Conan Doyle
B06 1871 Aleksandr Scriabin, Russian composer
B06 1878 Carl Sandburg, poet, biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes)
B06 1880 Tom Mix, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin)
B06 1882 Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957)
B06 1883 Khalil Gibran, Lebanese mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings)
S06 1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
S06 1941 FDR names 4 freedoms (speech, religion; from want, from fear)
S06 1942 first around world flight by Pan Am "Pacific Clipper"
S07 1558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French
S07 1610 Galileo discovers 1st 3 moons of Jupiter, Io, Europa & Ganymede
S07 1714 The typewriter is patented (it was built years later)
S07 1785 1st balloon flight across the English Channel.
B07 1800 Millard Fillmore, 13th President (1850-1853)
S07 1822 Liberia colonized by Americans
B07 1911 Butterfly McQueen, actress (Gone with the Wind)
S07 1929 "Tarzan", one of the first adventure comic strips appears.
B07 1935 Valeri N. Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 6, 36, Apollo-Soyuz)
B07 1942 Vasili Alexeyev, world champion weight-lifter
S07 1963 First Class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents.
S07 1968 First Class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents.
B08 1587 Johannes Fabricius, Dutch astronomer who discovered sunspots
S08 1815 Battle of New Orleans, made a hero out of Andrew Jackson (the
S08      War of 1812 had ended on 12/24/1814, but nobody knew that).
B08 1823 Alfred Russel Wallace, codiscoverer of evolution
B08 1862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co.
B08 1867 Emily Balch, US sociologist, feminist, pacifist (Nobel 1946)
B08 1868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right: gravity bends light.
S08 1880 The passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of Mexico
B08 1891 Walther Bothe, German subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954)
B08 1912 José Ferrer, actor, director (Cyrano de Bergerac)
S08 1932 Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter.
B08 1935 Elvis Presley, singer.
S08 1935 Spectrophotometer patented, by AC Hardy
S08 1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
S08 1968 US Surveyor 7 lands near crater Tycho on moon
S08 1973 USSR launches Luna 21 for moon landing
B09 1728 Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy)
S09 1788 Conneticut becomes 5th state
S09 1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America
S09 1799 1st income tax imposed, in England.
S09 1839 The daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science
S09 1839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax Alpha Centauri
S09 1843 Caroline Herschel, "1st lady of astronomy," dies at 98 in Germany
S09 1847 first San Francisco paper, 'California Star', published.
B09 1870 Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer, builder of Golden Gate Bridge
B09 1901 Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip.
B09 1904 George Balanchine, dancer-choreographer
B09 1908 Simone de Beauvoir, French author (The Mandarins, The Second Sex)
B09 1913 Richard M. Nixon, 37th President (1968-1974) Beloved by Checkers.
B09 1914 Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque entertainer, actress
B09 1941 Joan Baez, folk singer, human rights advocate in Staten Island
S09 1978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
S09 1982 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855.
B10 1738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (led the Green Mtn Boys)
S10 1776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published.
S10 1840 The Penny Post mail system is started.
S10 1863 1st underground railway opens in London.
B10 1877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the electrostatic
B10      precipitator, used for pollution control and air ionizers.
B10 1904 Ray Bolger, dancer, actor (Once in Love with Amy, Wizard of Oz)
B10 1910 Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina
S10 1945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close.
S10 1946 UN General Assembly meets for first time
S10 1946 US Army establishes first radar contact with moon.  It's there.
S10 1949 first Jewish family show - The Goldberg's begin
S10 1951 first jet passenger trip made
S10 1969 USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
S10 1978 Soyuz 27 is launched
S11 1642 Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
B11 1755 Alexander Hamilton, the 1st Secretary of the US Treasury
S11 1787 Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel
B11 1807 Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell Univ.
S11 1813 First pineapples planted in Hawaii.
B11 1885 Alice Paul, founder of National Woman's Party, ERA advocate
B11 1903 Alan Paton, South African writer (Cry, the Beloved Country)
B11 1906 Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, discoverer of LSD
S11 1935 1st woman to fly solo across Pacific left Honolulu, AE Putnam
S11 1935 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California, non-stop
S11 1975 Soyuz 17 is launched
S12      Volunteer Fireman Day
B12 1588 John Winthrop, 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
B12 1737 John Hancock
S12 1777 Mission Santa Clara de Asis founded in California
S12 1820 Royal Astronomical Society, founded in England
B13 1832 Horatio Alger, Jr.
S13 1854 Anthony Foss obtains patent for the Accordion.
B12 1876 Jack London, writer (Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf)
S12 1986 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 is launched
S13 1610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter
S13 1630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
B13 1832 Horatio Alger, Jr., American clergyman, author of boys' books
S13 1854 Anthony Foss obtains patent for accordion
S13 1920 NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly.
S13 1930 Mickey Mouse comic strip first appears
S13 1971 Apollo 14 launched (what was that about rockets can't fly??)
B14 1741 Benedict Arnold, fink
S14 1784 Revolutionary War ends when Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris
B14 1791 Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm)
B14 1861 Mehmed VI, last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22)
B14 1875 Albert Schweitzer, doctor, humanitarian, organist (Nobel 1952)
B14 1892 Hal Roach, early film director and producer.
S14 1914 Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars.
S14 1936 L.M. "Mario" Giannini elected president of Bank of America.
S14 1939 All commercial ferry service to the East Bay ends.
S14 1969 Soyuz 4 is launched
S15 1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
S15 1759 British Museum opens
S15 1778 Nootka Sound discovered by Capt. Cook
B15 1850 Sofya Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician
S15 1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
B15 1906 Aristotle Onassis, industrialist
B15 1908 Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb.
B15 1918 Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian leader
B15 1926 Chuck Berry, singer (Johnny B. Goode)
S15 1927 Dunbarton Bridge, 1st bridge in Bay Area, opens.
B15 1929 Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer (Nobel Peace Prize 1964)
S15 1948 World's largest office building, The Pentagon, is completed.
S15 1968 Soyuz 5 launched
S16      National Hat Day
S16      National Nothing Day "My Kind of Day"
B16 1853 André Michelin, French industrialist, tire manufacturer
S16 1883 Pendleton Act creates basis of federal civil service system
S16 1887 Cliff House badly damaged when a cargo of gunpowder on the
S16      schooner "Parallel" explodes nearby.
B16 1909 Ethel Merman, everythings coming up roses
S16 1920 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933
B16 1934 Marilyn Horne in Pennsylvania
S16 1969 Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
S16 1973 USSR's Lunakhod begins radio-controlled exploration of moon
S16 1979 Iranian revolution overthrows shah.
S16 1991 US led air forces begin raids on Iraq in response to
S16      Iraq's August 1990 takeover of Kuwait.
B17 1706 Benjamin Franklin
B17 1771 Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel.
S17 1773 Capt James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66° 33' S)
S17 1852 British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
S17 1861 Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest!!).
S17 1871 1st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie.
B17 1880 Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops
S17 1893 Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic.
S17 1899 US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
B17 1942 Muhammed Ali, who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.
S17 1943 It was Tin Can Drive Day.
S17 1945 Liberation Day in Poland (end of Nazi occupation)
S17 1957 Nine county commission recommends creation of BART.
S17 1963 Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km
S17 1976 Hermes rocket launched by ESA
S18      National Clean Off Your Desk Day
S18 1644 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston.
S18 1778 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.
B18 1779 Peter Roget(of Thesaurus fame) invented slide rule, pocket chess
B18 1782 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician.
B18 1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented 1st useable barbed wire
B18 1854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell.
S18 1869 The elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco.
B18 1892 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.
B18 1904 Cary Grant, actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest)
S18 1911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (from Tanforan Park to the
S18      USS Pennsylvania).
B18 1913 Danny Kaye, comedian, actor, UNICEF
S18 1919 Versailles Peace Conference, ending World War I
S18 1956 Tunisian Revolution Day (National Day)
B19      Muhammad
S19      Confederate Heroes' Day
B19 1736 James Watt, made the steam engine workable.
B19 1749 Isaiah Thomas, American printer, editor, publisher, historian
B19 1807 Robert E. Lee, Leader of the Army of the Confederacy
B19 1809 Edgar Allen Poe, poet/writer (Annabelle Lee, The Raven)
B19 1839 Paul Cezanne, painter
S19 1903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England.
S19 1921 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union
B19 1946 Dolly Parton, country singer, bra buster in Tennessee
S20      Reindeer Day
S20 1265 1st English Parliament, called by the Earl of Leicester
B20 1775 André-Marie Ampère, founder of science of electromagnetism
S20 1872 California Stock Exchange Board organized.
B20 1873 Johannes V Jensen, Danish novelist, poet, essayist (Nobel 1944)
S20 1887 Pearl Harbor obtained by US from Hawaii for use as a naval base
B20 1896 Nathan Birnbaum (better known as George Burns)
B20 1920 Federico Fellini, director (8½, Satyricon)
S20 1929 1st talking motion picture taken outdoors "In Old Arizona"
S20 1937 Inauguration day, every 4th year
S20 1981 US embassy hostages freed in Tehran after 444 days.
S21      National Hugging Day
B21 1743 John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton.
B21 1813 John C Fremont, mapmaker & explorer of Western US
S21 1813 The pineapple is introduced to Hawaii.
B21 1815 Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia.
B21 1824 Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson, Confederate general
B21 1884 Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of American Civil Liberties Union
B21 1887 Wolfgang Köhler, Gestalt psychologist (The Mentality of Apes)
B21 1941 Placido Domingo, operatic tenor
S21 1954 The Nautilus launched, first nuclear submarine.
S21 1962 Snow falls in San Francisco, believe it or not.
S21 1979 Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer).
B22 1561 Francis Bacon, English statesman, essayist (Novum Organum)
B22 1788 George Gordon, Lord Byron, English Romantic poet
B22 1802 Richard Upjohn, American Gothic architect (Trinity Chapel, NY)
S22 1850 The Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif.
B22 1875 D.W. Griffith, movie producer (Birth of a Nation)
S22 1939 Aquatic Park dedicated.
S22 1968 Apollo 5 launched to moon, Unmanned lunar module tests made
S22 1975 Lansat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, is launched
S23      National Handwriting Day
S23 1579 Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic
B23 1832 Édouard Manet, French Impressionist painter
B23 1862 David Hilbert, mathematician
B23 1898 Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film maker (Battleship Potemkin)
B23 1899 Humphrey Bogart, actor
B23 1903 Randolph Scott, actor
B23 1919 Sergei Eisenstein, early film director
B23 1958 Princess Caroline of Monaco
S23 1964 24th Amendment ratified, Barred poll tax in federal elections
B24 1712 Frederick I (the Great), king of Prussia (1740-86)
S24 1848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, Calif
B24 1888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built 1st rocket-powered aircraft.
S24 1899 The rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan.
S24 1935 1st beer in cans is sold.
B24 1949 John Belushi, commedian, actor (Sat Night Live, Blues Brothers)
S24 1982 San Francisco 49'ers win their 1st Super Bowl, 26-21.
S24 1985 15th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 is launched
S24 1986 Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus finds new moons, rings
S25      Chinese New Year.
B25 1627 Robert Boyle, Irish physicist, chemist, author
B25 1736 Joseph-Louis, comte de Lagrange, mathematician
B25 1759 Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.
B25 1874 Somerset Maugham, novelist, poet (Of Human Bondage, Cakes & Ale)
B25 1882 Virginia Woolf, author.
S25 1915 Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
S25 1925 Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa
B25 1933 Corazon Aquino, president of Philippines (1986-  )
S25 1949 first popular elections in Israel.
S25 1949 first Emmy Awards are presented.
S25 1959 first transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301).
S25 1964 Echo 2, US communications satellite launched
S26      Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia.
S26 1788 1st settlement established by the English in Australia.
S26 1837 Michigan is admitted as the 26th of the United States
S26 1841 Hong Kong was proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
S26 1871 American income tax repealed.  Would that it had lasted!
B26 1880 Douglas MacArthur, he did return!
S26 1950 India becomes a republic ceasing to be a British dominion
S26 1954 Ground breaking begins on Disneyland
B27 1756 Wolfgang A Mozart, musical prodigy (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik)
B27 1832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll)
B27 1834 Dmitri Mendeleev, discoverer of periodic table (or 1919)
B27 1850 Samuel Gompers, 1st president of American Federation of Laborers
S27 1880 Thomas Edison granted patent for an electric incandescent lamp
B27 1885 Jerome Kern, Broadway composer
S27 1888 National Geographic Society founded in Washington, DC
S27 1926 1st public demonstration of television.
S27 1948 1st Tape Recorder is sold.
S27 1967 Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee
S27 1973 US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending the longest US war
B28 1611 Johannes Hevelius, Danzig star cataloguer
S28 1807 London's Pall Mall is the 1st street lit by gaslight.
S28 1821 Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica
B28 1853 José Martí, Cuban poet, essayist, politician
B28 1855 William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine.
B28 1869 Ozaki Koyo, Japanese novelist, essayist, haiku poet (The Heart)
S28 1878 George W. Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator.
B28 1884 Auguste & Jean Felix Piccard, Swiss scientists, explorers
B28 1887 Artur Rubinstein, pianist
S28 1915 US Coast Guard established, Semper Paratus
B28 1922 Robert Holley, American biochemist, worked with RNA (Nobel 1968).
S28 1938 1st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont).
B28 1948 Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer
S28 1958 Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
S28 1960 first photograph bounced off moon, Washington DC
S28 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, killing a brave crew and NASA.
B29 1688 Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish religious leader
B29 1737 Thomas Paine, political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason)
S29 1788 Australia Day
B29 1843 William McKinley, 25th President (1897-1901)
B29 1850 Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite
B29 1860 Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard)
S29 1861 Kansas becomes 34th state
B29 1862 Frederick Delius, English composer
B29 1880 Claude William Dukenfield (better known as W.C. Fields)
B29 1901 Allen B DuMont, perfected 1st practical cathode ray tube.
S29 1904 1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team.
S29 1920 Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist $40 week with KC Slide Co
S29 1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" is released
S30      World Law Day
S30      Holiday of Three Hierachs (Eastern Orthodox)
S30 1847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.
S30 1862 US Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched.
B30 1882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President (1933-1945)
S30 1917 1st jazz record in United States is cut.
B30 1937 Boris Spassky of USSR, world chess champion (1969-72)
S30 1969 US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
B31 1797 Franz Schubert, composer (Unfinished Symphony)
B31 1830 James G. Blaine, the 'Plumed Knight'.
S31 1851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California, founded.
S31 1862 Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius
S31 1871 Birds fly over the western part of San Francisco in such large
S31      numbers that they actually darken the sky.
B31 1872 Zane Gray, American West novelist
S31 1911 Congress passes resolution naming San Francisco as the site
S31      of the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal.
B31 1919 Jackie Robinson, 1st black major league baseball player
B31 1923 Normal Mailer, novelist, NYC mayoral candidate (Naked & the Dead)
B31 1938 Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, queen of Netherlands (1980-  )
S31 1950 Pres Truman authorized production of H-Bomb
S31 1958 James van Allen discovers radiation belt
S31 1958 1st U.S. satellite launched, Explorer I.
S31 1961 Ham the chimp is 1st animal sent into space by the US.
S31 1966 Luna 9 launched for moon
S31 1971 Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands.
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