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- B01 1699 Martin Luther, protestant reformer
- B01 1798 Sir Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer, Dublin mayor
- S01 1870 US Weather Bureau begins operations.
- B01 1871 Stephen Crane, poet/writer, (Red Badge of Courage)
- B01 1878 Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936)
- S01 1943 WW II Dimout ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area.
- S01 1952 first hydrogen bomb exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
- S01 1981 First Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents.
- S02 North & South Dakota Admission Day
- B02 1734 Daniel Boone, explorer, woodsman
- B02 1755 Marie-Antoinette, "Let them eat cake!"
- B02 1795 James K. Polk, 11th President (1845-1849)
- B02 1815 George Boole, mathematician
- B02 1865 Warren G. Harding, 29th President (1921-1923)
- B02 1885 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer.
- B02 1911 Odysseus Elytis, Greek poet (Nobel 1979)
- S02 1917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement
- S02 1920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) on the air as 1st commercial radio station.
- S02 1947 Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for 1st (& last) time.
- S02 1948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers.
- S03 1620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
- B03 1718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same.
- B03 1794 William Cullen Bryant, poet (Thanatopsis)
- B03 1801 Karl Baedeker, German publisher of travel books
- S03 1903 Panama gains its independence from Columbia.
- S03 1917 First Class Mail now costs 3 cents.
- S03 1952 Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas.
- S03 1956 the Wizard of Oz is first televised.
- S03 1957 USSR launches the dog "Laika": the first animal in orbit
- S03 1973 Mariner 10 launched-first Venus pics, first mission to Mercury
- S03 1978 UK grants Dominica independence (National Day)
- S03 1979 63 Americans taken hostage at American Embassy in Teheran, Iran
- S03 1986 Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
- S04 1854 Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island
- B04 1879 Will Rogers, humorist.
- B04 1916 Walter Cronkite, "...and that's the way it is"
- S04 1922 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen.
- S04 1924 1st woman governor in US elected in Wyoming.
- S04 1984 Nicaragua holds 1st free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%
- S05 Guy Fawkes Day, celebrated in England.
- S05 1605 Plot to blow up British parliment fails - first Guy Fawkes day
- S05 1781 John Hanson elected 1st "President of the United States in
- S05 Congress assembled" (8 years before Washington was elected).
- B05 1857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was VERY unhappy).
- S05 1875 Susan B Anthony is arrested for attempting to vote
- B05 1885 Will Durant, writer, historian (Story of Civilization)
- S05 1895 1st US patent granted for the automobile, to George B Selden
- B05 1912 Roy Rogers, Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger
- S05 1967 ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disc
- S06 Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
- B06 1771 Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography.
- B06 1814 Adolphe Sax, Belgian musician, saxophone inventor
- B06 1851 Charles Henry Dow, founded Dow Jones & Co.
- S06 1844 Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
- B06 1854 John Phillip Souza, the undisputed march king
- B06 1860 Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish composer, pianist, patriot
- S06 1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president.
- B06 1861 James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball.
- S06 1862 1st Direct Telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco
- S06 1869 1st intercollegiate football game played (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4
- S06 1917 the Russian Bolshevik revolution begins.
- S06 1939 WGY-TV (Schenectady NY), 1st commercial-license station begins
- S06 1962 Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more
- S07 National Day in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
- B07 994 Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian, jurist, writer of Islamic Spain
- S07 1805 Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean.
- S07 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan.
- B07 1867 Marie Sklodowska Curie, discovered radium (Nobel 1903 & 1911).
- S07 1872 Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; found abandoned 4 weeks later
- S07 1875 Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa from
- S07 sea to sea.
- B07 1879 Leon Trotsky, Russian Communist theorist, Bolshevik
- S07 1885 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway.
- B07 1903 Konrad Lorenz, zoologist, ethologist, writer (Nobel 1973)
- S07 1917 October Revolution overthrows Russian Provisional Government
- S07 1918 Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rocket
- B07 1918 Billy Graham, evangelist
- S07 1983 Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
- S08 Punster's Day
- B08 1656 Edmund Halley, astronomer, first to calculate a comet's orbit.
- S08 1793 The Louvre, in Paris, is opened to the public.
- S08 1889 Montana admitted as 41st state
- S08 1895 Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x-rays
- B08 1922 Christiaan Barnard, performed first human heart transplantation
- S08 1923 Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" failed, In jail, writes "Mein Kampf"
- S08 1939 Life with Father, opens on Broadway, closes in 1947, a record.
- S08 1984 14th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 is launched
- S09 1799 Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
- B09 1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist, poet, playwright (Fathers & Sons
- B09 1821 Charles Baudelaire, Poet
- B09 1830 Eadweard Muybridge Pioneer Photographer
- B09 1841 Edward VII, king of England (1901-10)
- B09 1850 Lewis Lewin, German toxicologist, father of psychopharmacology
- S09 1865 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox ending the US Civil War.
- B09 1898 Paul Robeson actor and Singer
- B09 1903 Gregory Pincus birth control pill inventor
- B09 1915 Hedy Lamarr, sexy actress
- B09 1926 Hugh Hefner, Publisher
- B09 1934 Carl Sagan, cosmology spokesman
- S09 1953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
- S09 1965 at 5:16pm, a massive power failure blacks out New Engl. & Ontario
- S09 1967 first unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
- B10 1668 Francois Couperin, composer
- B10 1697 William Hogarth, English satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progres
- B10 1730 Oliver Goldsmith, Irish novelist, dramatist (She Stoops to Conque
- B10 1759 Frederich von Schiller in Germany, poet
- S10 1775 US Marine Corps established by Congress
- B10 1793 Jared Kirtland, American physician, naturalist
- B10 1794 Adm. Matthew Perry
- S10 1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling
- B10 1819 Cyrus West Field, financed first successful transatlantic cable.
- B10 1829 William Booth founded Salvation Army
- S10 1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico
- S10 1871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa.
- S10 1891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
- B10 1895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer.
- B10 1903 Clare Booth Luce Journalist and Diplomat
- B10 1925 Richard Burton, Welsh actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf)
- S10 1945 Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald is liberated by US troops.
- S10 1951 1st Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance.
- S10 1968 USSR launches Zond 6 to moon
- S10 1969 Sesame Street premiers
- S10 1970 Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
- S10 1975 Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald lost in a storm on Lake Superior
- S10 1980 Voyager I flies past Saturn, sees many rings, moons.
- S11 The REAL Veteran's Day. They fought for your freedom.
- S11 Martinmas, term day in Scotland (Feast of St Martin of Tours)
- S11 Rememberance Day - Canada
- S11 1620 41 Pilgrims sign a compact aboard the Mayflower
- B11 1821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author, "Crime and Punishment"
- B11 1885 General George S. Patton, fast mover.
- S11 1889 Washington admitted as the 42nd state.
- S11 1918 Armistice Day -- WW I ends (at 11AM on the Western Front)
- B11 1922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr, author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan).
- S11 1921 President Harding dedicates the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier.
- S11 1924 Palace of Legion of Honor in San Francisco is dedicated.
- S11 1939 Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"
- S11 1965 Rhodesia proclaimes independence from Britain
- S11 1966 Gemini 12 is launched on a four day flight.
- S11 1975 Portugal grants independence to Angola (National Day).
- S11 1980 Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37
- S11 1982 Space Shuttle 'Columbia' makes the first commercial flight.
- S11 1987 Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 million at auction
- B12 1815 Elizabeth Stanton, early leader of women's rights movement.
- B12 1817 Baha'Ullah (Mirza Husayn Ali), founded Bahá'í faith
- B12 1833 Aleksandr Borodin, Russian composer (Prince Igor)
- B12 1840 Auguste Rodin, sculptor (Kiss)
- B12 1866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC).
- B12 1908 Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court justice
- S12 1918 Austria becomes a republic
- S12 1927 Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin is now total dictator.
- B12 1929 Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco
- S12 1933 first known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
- S12 1936 Oakland Bay Bridge opened.
- S12 1946 First "autobank" (banking by car) was established, in Chicago
- S12 1954 Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
- S12 1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
- B12 1961 Nadia Comaneci, Olympic gymnast, in Romania
- S12 1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
- S12 1980 US space probe Voyager I comes within 77,000 miles of Saturn
- S12 1981 first balloon crossing of Pacific completed (Double Eagle V)
- S12 1981 First time a spacecraft is launched twice -- the Space Shuttle
- S12 "Columbia" lifts off again.
- S12 1984 Space shuttle astronauts snare a satellite: first space salvage.
- B13 354 St. Augustine of Hippo in Numidia, Algeria
- B13 1833 Edwin Booth, American actor
- S13 1849 Peter Burnett is elected 1st governor of California.
- B13 1850 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (Treasure Island)
- B13 1856 Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice (1916-39)
- S13 1921 The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, was released.
- S13 1937 NBC forms first full symphony orchestra exclusively for radio.
- S13 1940 Walt Disney's "Fantasia" is released
- S13 1956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation on public buses.
- S13 1971 Mariner 9, is the first space ship to orbit another planet, Mars.
- S13 1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
- S14 Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo
- S14 1666 Samuel Pepys reports the first blood transfusion (between dogs)
- B14 1765 Robert Fulton, built first commercial steamboat.
- B14 1776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis
- S14 1792 George Vancouver is first Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay
- S14 1832 first streetcar appears, in New York
- B14 1840 Claude Monet, impressionist
- S14 1851 "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville, is published.
- B14 1889 Jawaharlal Nehru, first Indian Prime Minister (1947-64)
- S14 1889 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip around the
- S14 world by 8 days (72 days).
- B14 1900 Aaron Copland, American composer, "Appalachian Spring"
- S14 1910 1st airplane flight from the deck of a ship.
- S14 1922 BBC begins domestic radio service
- S14 1935 FDR proclaimes the Phillippines are a free commonwealth.
- B14 1935 Hussein I, king of Jordan (1953- )
- B14 1948 Prince Charles of Britain
- S14 1959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii).
- S14 1969 Apollo 12 is launched
- S15 Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo
- B15 1738 Sir William Herschel, astronomer discovered Uranus
- S15 1777 Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation
- B15 1862 Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer (Before Dawn) (Nobel 1912)
- S15 1869 Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated.
- S15 1881 American Federation of Labor (AFL) is founded in Pittsburgh
- B15 1887 Georgia O'Keeffe in Sun Prairie, Wis, painter
- B15 1891 Erwin Rommel, German field marshall, the "Desert Fox"
- S15 1920 League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva
- S15 1926 National Broadcasting Company goes on-the-air, with 24 stations
- S15 1939 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check.
- S15 1949 KRON (Channel 4, San Francisco) signs on, from 7 to 10 PM.
- S16 Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo
- S16 1532 Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa
- S16 1864 Sherman begins his march to sea thru Georgia
- B16 1873 William Handy, established the popularity of the blues
- B16 1895 Paul Hindemith, German composer
- B16 1901 George Gallop, what's your opinion?
- S16 1907 Oklahoma becomes the 46th state
- S16 1933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union
- S16 1965 Venera 3 launched, 1st land on another planet (Crashes on Venus)
- S16 1973 Skylab 4 launched into earth orbit. Look out Australia!
- S17 Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo
- S17 The day of the Great American Smoke Out.
- S17 1558 Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary
- B17 1717 Jean d'Alembert, French mathematician, scientist, philosopher
- B17 1790 August Ferdinand Möbius, mathematician, inventor of Möbius strip
- S17 1800 Congress convened for its 1st Washington, DC session.
- S17 1869 Suez Canal opens.
- S17 1913 Panama Canal opens for use.
- S17 1970 Russia lands unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
- S17 1977 Egyptian President Sadat accepts an invitation to visit Israel.
- S18 Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo
- S18 1497 Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope
- B18 1789 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography
- S18 1820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer.
- B18 1836 Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame)
- B18 1899 Eugene Ormandy, conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra)
- S18 1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gave US canal rights thru Panama
- S18 1913 Lincoln Deachey performs the first airplane loop-the-loop
- S18 1918 Latvia declares independence from Russia
- B18 1923 Alan Sheppard, first American into space (Freedom 7, Apollo 14)
- B18 1928 Mickey Mouse, film star
- S18 1928 Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat Willy"
- S18 1936 Main span of the Golden Gate Bridge is joined.
- S19 1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
- S19 1620 Mayflower pilgrims reach Cape Cod
- B19 1752 George Rogers Clark, frontier leader in Revolutionary War
- B19 1805 Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat, built Suez Canal
- B19 1831 James A. Garfield, 20th President (March 4-September 19, 1881)
- S19 1863 Lincoln delivers his famous address in Gettysburg. Expecting a
- S19 long speech, the photographer wasn't ready before Lincoln left.
- B19 1888 José Raúl Capablanca of Cuba, world chess champion (1921-27)
- S19 1895 The pencil is invented.
- B19 1905 Tommy Dorsey, musician, band leader
- B19 1917 Indira Gandhi, Indian prime minister (1966-77, 1980-84)
- S19 1919 Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations rejected by US Senate
- B19 1954 Kathleen Quinlan in Mill Valley Cal, (Rose Garden, Twilight Zone)
- S19 1959 Ford cancels Edsel
- S19 1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a State Historical Landmark
- S19 1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel.
- B20 1602 Otto von Guericke, invented the air pump
- B20 1620 Peregrine White, born on Mayflower to William & Susanna White.
- S20 1789 New Jersey becomes the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
- B20 1858 Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish novelist (Tales of a Manor) (Nobel 1909)
- B20 1866 Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge, first commissioner of baseball
- B20 1886 Karl von Frisch, zoologist, bee expert (Nobel 1973)
- S20 1888 William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
- B20 1889 Edwin Hubble, US astronomer, discoverer of galaxies, red shift
- B20 1900 Chester Gould, gave Dick Tracy a job
- B20 1908 Alistair Cooke, raconteur
- S20 1910 Revolution breaks out in Mexico, led by Francisco Madero.
- S20 1914 The State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
- S20 1931 Commercial teletype service began
- S20 1947 Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten
- S20 1953 first airplane to exceed 1300 mph - Scott Crossfield.
- S20 1977 Egyptian Pres Sadat is 1st Arab leader to address Israel Knesset
- S20 1980 Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
- S20 1986 UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS.
- B21 1694 Voltaire, thinker
- B21 1787 Sir Samuel Cunard, founded 1st regular Atlantic steamship line
- S21 1789 NC becomes 12th state
- B21 1904 Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone for jazz
- S21 1933 first US ambassador is sent to the USSR - WC Bullitt
- B21 1940 Natalia Maskarova, in Lenningrad, ballerina
- S21 1959 Jack Benny(Violin) & Richard Nixon(Piano) play their famed duet
- S21 1964 the world's longest suspension bridge, Verrazano Narrows, opens.
- B22 1710 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach
- B22 1819 George Eliot in England, novelist (Silas Marner)
- B22 1890 Charles de Gaulle, president of France (1958-1969)
- B22 1898 Wiley Post, American aviator, parachutist
- B22 1899 Hoagy Carmichael, composed 'Star Dust'.
- S22 1906 The International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS"
- S22 as the new call for help.
- B22 1913 Benjamin Britten, English composer
- S22 1943 Lebanon gains its independence (would that it could keep it)
- S22 1963 President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
- B23 1804 Franklin Pierce, 14th President (1853-1857)
- S23 1852 Just past midnight an earthquake makes Lake Merced drop 30 feet
- B23 1859 Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney), outlaw
- B23 1860 Karl Branting, Swedish statesman, diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 192
- S23 1863 Patent granted for a process of making color photographs.
- B23 1887 Boris Karloff, bogeyman (Frankenstein, Isle of the Dead)
- S23 1948 Lens to provide zoom effects patented - FG Back
- S23 1948 a patent is granted for the first zoom lens to F.G. Back
- B24 1632 Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
- B24 1713 Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in California.
- S24 1759 Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
- B24 1784 Zachary Taylor, 12th President (1849-1850)
- B24 1864 Henre de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter
- B24 1868 Scott Joplin, entertainer
- S24 1874 Patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.
- B24 1888 Dale Carnegie, author (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
- B24 1925 William F. Buckley, Jr., right-wing curmudgeon
- S24 1963 first live murder on TV - Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald.
- S24 1971 "D B Cooper" parachutes from a Northwest 727 with $200,000.
- S25 1783 Britain evacuate New York, their last military position in US
- B25 1835 Andrew Carnegie, steelman and librarian
- B25 1846 Carry Nation, scrouge of barkeepers and drinkers.
- S25 1866 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
- S25 1884 John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
- B25 1896 Virgil Thomson Composer and music critic
- B25 1914 Joe DiMaggio, Yankee Clipper
- B25 1920 Ricardo Montalban, Welcome to Fantasy Island, Khan
- S25 1960 first atomic reactor for research & development, Richland WA.
- B25 1960 John F. Kennedy Jr.,
- B25 "Ask not what your country can do for you...
- S25 1975 Netherlands grants Surinam independence (National Day)
- S25 1983 Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off
- B26 1607 John Harvard, clergyman, scholar, founder of Harvard University
- S26 1716 first lion to be exhibited in America (Boston)
- S26 1778 Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands).
- S26 1789 first national celebration of Thanksgiving
- B26 1832 Louisa May Alcott, little woman
- S26 1865 Alice in Wonderland is published
- B26 1876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment.
- B26 1894 Norbert Wiener, inventor of cybernetics
- B26 1922 Charles M Schultz, cartoonist (Peanuts)
- S26 1949 India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
- S26 1965 France launches first satellite, a 92-pound A1 capsule
- S26 1966 first major tidal power plant opened at Rance estuary, France
- S26 1985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 is launched
- S27 1095 Pope Urban II preaches for the First Crusade
- S27 1582 the first Advent Sunday
- B27 1701 Anders Celsius, took temperatures
- B27 1874 Charles A. Beard, American historian
- B27 1874 Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman
- S27 1895 Alfred Nobel establishes the Nobel Prize
- S27 1910 New York's Penn Station opens - world's largest railway terminal
- S27 1951 first rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM
- S27 1971 Soviet Mars 2, is the first to crash land on Mars.
- S27 1985 Space shuttle Atlantis carries the first Mexican astronaut.
- S28 1520 Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean.
- B28 1628 John Bunyan, English cleric, author (Pilgrim's Progress)
- B28 1632 Jean Baptiste Lully, French composer, musician
- B28 1757 William Blake, poet (Songs of Innocence and Experience)
- B28 1881 Stefan Zweig, Austrian poet, essayist, dramatist, translator
- S28 1895 America's auto race starts: 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avgd 7mph
- S28 1912 Albania declares independence from Turkey
- S28 1929 Admiral RE Byrd makes first flight over the South Pole
- S28 1960 Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)
- S28 1964 Mariner 4 launched; first probe to fly by Mars
- S28 1983 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 is launched
- S28 1986 Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms agreement for 1st time
- B29 1803 Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (color shift)
- B29 1811 Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage, antislavery, prison reformer
- B29 1849 Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode.
- S29 1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.
- S29 1890 1st Army-Navy football game. Score: Navy 25, Army 0.
- S29 1945 Yugoslav Republic Day is first proclamed.
- S29 1951 first underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
- S29 1961 Mercury 5 launches a chimp (Ham/Enos)
- S29 1975 Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
- B30 1667 Jonathan Swift, satirist, wrote "Gulliver's Travels"
- B30 1793 Johann Lukas Schönlein, helped establish scientific medicine
- B30 1810 Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker.
- B30 1835 Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn)
- B30 1863 Andres Bonifacio, leader of 1896 Phillippine revolt against Spain
- B30 1874 Winston Churchill, cigar smoker, (Nobel 1953)
- S30 1939 USSR invades Finland over a border dispute
- S30 1954 first meteorite known to have struck a woman - Sylacauga Alabama
- S30 1958 first guided missile destroyer launched, the "Dewey", Bath, ME
- S30 1964 USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars
- S30 1966 Barbados gains independence from Britain
- S30 1967 South Yemen (then Aden) gains independence from Britain
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