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S01      World Vegetarian Day
S01      Fiscal year begins for Federal Government
S01  331 BC Alexander of Macedon defeats Persian army at Gaugamela
B01 1207 Henry III, king of England (1216-72)
B01 1685 Charles VI, Holy Roman emperor (1711-40)
B01 1781 James Lawrence, naval hero ("Don't give up the ship!")
S01 1869 1st postcards are issued in Vienna.
B01 1881 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft company.
S01 1896 Yosemite becomes a National Park.
S01 1903 1st World Series starts between the National & American Leagues
B01 1904 Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
S01 1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car.
B01 1924 Jimmy Carter, 39th President (1976-1980)
B01 1935 Julie Andrews, actress & singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins)
S01 1940 Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens.
S01 1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed (National Day)
S01 1952 first Ultra High Frequency (UHF) TV station, in Portland, Oregon
S01 1958 Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA
S01 1960 Nigeria gains its independence.
S01 1962 Johnny Carson's Tonight Show and The Lucy Show both premier.
S01 1962 National Radio Astronomy Observatory gets a 300' radio telescope
S01 1964 Cable Cars declared a National Landmark.
S01 1971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens.
S01 1979 US returns Canal Zone, not the canal, to Panama after 75 years.
S02      Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Boötes
S02 1608 Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch a new invention - the telescope
S02 1836 Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle.
B02 1851 Ferdinand Foch, believed to be the leader responsible for
B02      Allies winning World War I.
B02 1869 Mahatma Ghandi, pacifist.
S02 1870 Italy annexes Rome & the Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
B02 1871 Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, lowered tariffs, (Nobel 1945)
S02 1889 first Pan American conference.
B02 1895 Groucho Marx, comedian
B02 1904 Graham Greene, prolific English novelist (Brighton Rock)
S02 1935 NY Hayden Planetarium, the 4th in the US, opens
S02 1936 first alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kansas
S02 1942 first self-sustaining nuclear reaction demonstrated, in Chicago.
S02 1950 The comic strip 'Peanuts' first appears, in nine newspapers.
S02 1958 Guinea gains its independence.
S02 1967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn as first black Supreme Court Justice
B03 1605 Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary, dethrones last Ming emperor
S03 1789 Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
B03 1803 John Gorrie, invented cold-air process of refrigeration
B03 1804 Townsend Harris, 1st Western consul to reside in Japan
S03 1863 Lincoln designates the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving
S03 1913 Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%).
B03 1925 Gore Vidal, writer.
S03 1932 Iraq gains full independence from Britain
B03 1941 Chubby Checker, singer
S03 1942 Launch of the first A-4 (V-2) rocket to altitude of 53 miles
S03 1947 first 200 inch telescope lens is completed.
S03 1955 Captain Kangaroo premieres.  Good Morning, Captain!
S03 1960 San Francisco's White House department store is first to accept
S03      the BankAmericard in lieu of cash.
S03 1962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into earth orbit
S03 1967 AF pilot Pete Knight flies the X-15 to a record 4,534 MPH.
B04 1289 Louis X (the Stubborn), king of France (1314-16)
B04 1626 Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England (1658-59)
S04 1636 first code of law for Plymouth Colony
B04 1822 Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President (1877-1881)
S04 1824 Mexico becomes a republic
B04 1895 Buster Keaton, the old Stoneface
S04 1926 The dahlia is officially designated as the SF City Flower.
B04 1931 Dick Tracy, supercop
S04 1957 USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite.
S04 1958 Transatlantic jet passenger service begins
S04 1959 USSR's Luna 3 sends back first photos of Moon's far side
S04 1960 Courier 1B Launched: first active repeater satellite in orbit
S04 1966 Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain
S04 1985 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 is launched
B05 1713 Denis Diderot, encyclopaedist
B05 1829 Chester A. Arthur, 21st President (1881-1884)
B05 1882 Robert Hutchings Goddard, father of modern rocketry
B05 1905 Ray Kroc, who gave Ronald McDonald a job.
B05 1908 Joshua Logan, Broadway producer
S05 1908 Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey
S05 1910 Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic
S05 1921 first radio broadcast of the World Series.
S05 1923 Edwin Hubble identifies the first Cepheid variable star
S05 1931 first nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Washington state
S05 1970 PBS becomes a network.  TV worth watching.
S05 1982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, N. Mexico
S05 1984 Challenger carries first Canadian, Marc Garneau, into orbit.
B06 1820 Jenny Lind, a Swedish nightingale
B06 1846 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US.
B06 1866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st voice & music program.
B06 1888 Li Ta-chao, cofounder with Mao Tse-tung of China's Communist Party
S06 1889 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
B06 1914 Thor Heyerdahl, anthropologist, explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku)
S06 1927 "The Jazz Singer", 1st movie with a sound track, premieres.
S06 1959 Soviet Luna 3, first successful photo spacecraft, impacts moon.
S06 1973 Egypt and Syria invade Israel - The Yom Kippur war
S07 1571 Turkish fleet defeated by Spanish & Italians in Battle of Lepanto
S07 1765 The Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York
S07 1777 British defeated by Americans at the Battle of Saratoga
S07 1826 Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
B07 1849 James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (The Raggedy Man)
B07 1879 Joe Hill, songwriter, IWW organizer, martyr
B07 1885 Niels Bohr, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922)
S07 1931 first infra-red photographis taken, in Rochester, NY
S07 1949 Democratic Republic of Germany (East) is formed.
B07 1955 Yo-Yo Ma, cellist
S07 1959 Luna 3 photographs the far side of the moon.
S07 1968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system.
S08 1604 The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is first sighted.
B08 1869 J Frank Duryea, invented first auto built & operated in the US
S08 1871 The Great Fire destroys over 4 square miles of Chicago.
B08 1873 Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astronomer, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
B08 1890 Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator
B08 1895 Juan Perón, president of Argentina (1946-55, 1973-74)
S08 1896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks
B08 1897 Rouben Mamoulian Movie director
B08 1920 Frank Herbert, science-fiction writer (Dune)
S08 1933 San Francisco's Coit Tower is dedicated to firefighters.
S08 1935 Ozzie & Harriet Nelson are married.
S08 1970 Alexander Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
S09      Giacobinid meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S09      Leif Ericson Day
S09 1000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England)
B09 1547 Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (Don Quixote)
S09 1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
S09 1776 Mission Delores is founded by San Francisco Bay.
B09 1835 Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer
S09 1888 Public admitted to Washington Monument.
B09 1890 Aimee Semple McPherson, Pentecostal evangelist, radio preacher
S09 1936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles
B09 1940 John Lennon, Beatle
S09 1962 Uganda gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S09 1975 Andrei Sakharov wins the Nobel Peace Prize
S10      National Day, celebrated in Taiwan.
B10 1731 Henry Cavendish, English physicist, chemist
B10 1738 Benjamin West, painter.
B10 1813 Giuseppe Verdi, operatic composer, (Rigoletto, Aida, Otello)
B10 1830 Emily Dickinson, poet
S10 1845 US Naval academy opens at Annapolis, Maryland
S10 1846 Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
B10 1861 Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, humanitarian, (Nobel 1922)
S10 1911 The Manchu Dynasty is overthrown in China.
S10 1933 first synthetic detergent for home use marketed
S10 1963 Nuclear Atmospheric Test Ban treaty is signed by US, UK, USSR.
S10 1964 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo.
S10 1970 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S10 1973 VP Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns.
S10 1975 Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
S10 1980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated.
S10 1985 US jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship
S10      Achille Lauro to land in Italy.  Gunmen are placed in custody.
B10 1979 Kim LaRive (Daughter of the Author of this program.) Love Ya!!
B11 1758 Wilhelm Olbers, discoverer of asteroids Pallas & Vesta
S11 1797 British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, Netherlands
S11 1811 "Juliana", the first steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation.
B11 1844 Henry John Heinz, founded a prepared-foods company
B11 1884 Eleanor Roosevelt, crusader
B11 1885 Francois Mauriac, French novelist, poet, playwright (Nobel 1952)
S11 1890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded.
S11 1958 Pioneer 1 launched; first spacecraft launched by NASA
S11 1968 Apollo 7 launched, first of the manned Apollo missions.
S11 1969 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next two days.
S11 1980 Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
S11 1984 Kathy Sullivan becomes first American woman to walk in space.
S11 1987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington.
S12 1492 Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day.
B12 1860 Elmer Sperry, inventor of the gyrocompass
B12 1872 Ralph Vaughan Williams, British composer
B12 1935 Luciano Pavarotti, silver voice
S12 1957 first commercial flight between California and Antartica.
S12 1960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session.
S12 1963 Archaeological dig begins at Masada, Israel
S12 1964 USSR launches first 3-man crew into space
S12 1968 Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain.
S12 1972 Mariner 9 takes pictures of the Martian north pole.  No Santa.
S12 1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
S12      get the Nobel Peace Prize.
B13 1769 Horace H. Hayden, cofounder of 1st dental college
S13 1775 Continental Congress establishes a navy
S13 1792 George Washington lays the cornerstone of the Executive Mansion
B13 1925 Margaret Thatcher, Iron Lady, British Prime Minister (1979-1990)
B13 1942 Art Garfunkel, built bridge over troubled waters
S13 1969 Soyuz 8 is launched
S13 1985 13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 is launched
S13 1987 1st military use of trained dolphins, by US Navy in Persian Gulf.
S14 1066 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England
S14 1774 1st declaration of colonial rights in America.
B14 1857 Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of the first US autos
B14 1874 Raymond Ewry of U.S., won 10 Olympic gold medals for jumping
B14 1890 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President (1953-1961)
B14 1894 e.e. cummings, poet
B14 1896 Lillian Gish, silent film & stage actress (Birth of a Nation)
S14 1947 Chuck Yeager makes 1st supersonic flight, Mach 1.015 at 12,800m.
S15      Mushroom Day
S15      National Grouch Day
S15      World Poetry Day.
B15   70 BC Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) Mantua, Italy (The Æneid)
B15 1829 Asaph Hall, astronomer, discovered the moons of Mars
B15 1844 Friedrich Nietzsche, Ubermensch
B15 1858 John L. Sullivan, famed pugelist.
S15 1860 Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard.
B15 1905 C. P. Snow, British novelist and scientist.
B15 1908 John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
S15 1914 ASCAP founded (American Soc of Composers, Authors & Publishers)
B15 1917 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian
B15 1921 Mario Puzo, author (Godfather)
B15 1924 Lee Iacocca, a very good new car salesman.
B15 1942 Penny Marshall, actress/director, (Awakenings), See it!
S15 1964 Kosygin & Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev
S16      World Food Day.
B16 1708 Albrecht von Haller, the father of experimental physiology
B16 1758 Noah Webster, lexicographer
B16 1854 Oscar Wilde, wit
S16 1846 Dentist William T. Morton demonstrates the effectiveness of ether
S16 1859 John Brown attacks the armory at Harper's Ferry.
S16 1869 A hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing.
B16 1888 Eugene O'Neill, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms) (Nobel 1936)
B16 1890 Paul Strand, photographer
S16 1916 Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic, in New York.
B16 1927 Günter Grass, German novelist, poet (The Tin Drum)
S16 1962 Cuban missile crisis begins: JFK learns of missiles in Cuba.
S16 1964 Brezhnev & Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia
S16 1964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
S16 1970 Anwar Sadat becomes president of Egypt, succeeds Gamal Nassar.
S16 1973 Henry Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize
S16 1978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul I
S16 1982 Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if it excludes Israel.
S16 1982 Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet 13th return
S16 1985 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
S17 1492 Columbus sights the isle of San Salvador.
S17 1777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, NY
S17 1781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown.
B17 1915 Arthur Miller, playwright (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible)
S17 1919 the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), is created.
B17 1919 Rita Hayworth, actress, Alzheimer's victim
S17 1931 Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion.
S17 1933 Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany.
B17 1938 Robert 'Evel' Knievel, motorcycle daredevil
S17 1941 1st American destroyer torpedoed in WW II, USS Kearny off Iceland
S17 1973 The Arab oil embargo begins. It will last until March, 1974.
S17 1977 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa plane in Mogadishu
S17      Somalia, freeing 86 hostages & kill three of the four hijackers.
S17 1979 Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
S17 1989 Destructive 7.1 earthquake strikes Northern California.
S18      Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S18      The start of the Moslem New Year.
S18 1685 Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism.
B18 1777 Heinrich von Kleist, German dramatist, poet
S18 1867 US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million).
S18 1869 The United States take possession of Alaska.
S18 1873 The Ivy League establishes rules for college football.
S18 1892 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago - NYC)
B18 1919 Pierre Trudeau, Canadien
S18 1922 British Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC, is established.
B18 1926 Chuck Berry Rock 'n' roll star
B18 1927 George C. Scott, actor (Patton)
B18 1956 Martina Navratilova, tennis champ, in Prague Czechoslovakia
S18 1962 Watson of US, Crick & Wilkins of Britain win Nobel Prize for
S18      Medicine for work in determining the structure of DNA.
S18 1967 Soviet Venera 4 is the first probe to send data back from Venus
S18 1968 Robert Beaman of US broad jumps a record 8.90 m.  Still stands.
S18 1968 US Olympic Committee suspended Tommie Smith & John Carlos, for
S18      giving `black power' salute as a protest during victory ceremony
S19      Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S19 1781 Cornwallis surrenders at 2PM, the fighting is over.
S19 1845 Wagner's opera Tannhäuser performed for the first time.
S19 1879 Thomas A. Edison successfully demenstrates the electric light
B19 1910 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian physicist (Nobel 1983)
S19 1967 Mariner 5 flies by Venus
S19 1968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars.
S20      Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S20 1600 Battle of Sekigahara, which established the Tokugawa clan as
S20      rulers of Japan (SHOGUN) until 1865 (basis of Clavell's novel).
B20 1632 Sir Christopher Wren, astronomer, greatest English architect
B20      of his time, built many of the cathedrals in London.
S20 1740 Maria Theresa becomes ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia
S20 1803 the Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
B20 1812 Austin Flint, 19th century pioneer in US heart research
S20 1818 US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country.
S20 1820 Spain gives Florida to the United States.
B20 1823 Thomas Hughes, British author (Tom Brown's School Days)
B20 1874 Charles Ives, composer
S20 1906 Dr Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube.
B20 1911 Will Rogers, Jr., actor, storyteller
S20 1944 MacArthur returns to the Phillipines, says "I have returned."
S20 1979 John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston.
S21      Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
B21 1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge in England, poet
S21 1797 US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston
S21 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, where Nelson established British naval
S21      supremacy for the next century.
B21 1833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, created dynamite and Peace Prizes.
S21 1868 Severe earthquake at 7:53AM.
S21 1879 Thomas Edison commercially perfects the light bulb.
S21 1897 Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated.
B21 1912 Sir Georg Solti, conductor
B21 1914 Martin Gardner, Scientific American math & puzzles columnist
B21 1917 Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
S21 1918 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min
S21 1923 Deutsches Museum, Walther Bauersfeld's first Zeiss Planetarium.
S21 1945 Women in France allowed to vote for the first time
S21 1975 Venera 9, 1st craft to orbit the planet Venus launched
S21 1976 Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
S21 1977 US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa
S22 1981 US National debt topped $1 TRILLION (nothing to celebrate).
S22      Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S22      Vatican City National Day.
S22 4004 B.C. Universe created at 8:00 PM, according to the 1650
S22      pronouncement of Anglican archbishop James Ussher.
S22 1746 Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter.
S22 1797 André-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute jump from balloon
B22 1811 Franz Liszt, Hungary, Romantic composer, virtuoso pianist
S22 1836 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas
B22 1845 Sarah Bernhardt, actress
B22 1870 Ivan Bunin, Russian poet/novelist (Gentleman from SF), Nobel 1933
S22 1953 Laos gains full independence from France.
S22 1962 JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis.
S22 1962 Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center.
S22 1975 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 lands on Venus
S22 1981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization is decertified.
S23      Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S23      United States Day
S23      Swallows leave San Juan Capistrano.
B23 1752 Nicolas Appert, inventor of food canning, bouillon tablet
B23 1835 Adlai Stevenson, Veep
B23 1905 Felix Bloch, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1952)
B23 1905 Karl Jansky, discoverer of cosmic radio emissions in 1932
S23 1910 Blanche Scott becomes first woman solo a public airplane flight
S23 1915 25,000 women march in New York, demanding the right to vote
B23 1925 Johnny Carson, host
B23 1940 Edison Pele, soccer player extraordinaire
S23 1941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" is released
B23 1942 Michael Crichton (Andromeda Strain)
S23 1946 UN Gen Assembly convenes in NY for 1st time in Flushing Meadow.
S23 1956 The ill-fated revolt in Communist Hungary starts, later crushed
S23      by Soviet tanks.
S23 1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
S23 1977 By 2/3 majority, Panamanians vote to approve a new Canal Treaty
S23 1980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness.
S24      United Nations Day
B24 1632 Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch naturalist
S24 1836 the match is patented.
S24 1851 William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Unranus.
S24 1901 Anna Taylor, first to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel & live
B24 1904 Moss Hart, playwright
S24 1929 "Black Thursday," the beginning of the stock market crash.
S24 1945 United Nations Charter goes into effect.
S24 1964 Zambia (Northern Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain
S24 1973 Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
S25      Saint Crispin's Day
S25 1415 Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight
S25 1671 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn.
S25 1675 Iapetus, moon of Saturn, Discovered by Giovanni Cassini
B25 1825 Johann Strauss the Younger (Waltz King)
S25 1825 Erie Canal opens for business in New York.
B25 1838 Georges Bizet, composer
S25 1854 The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War)
B25 1877 Henry Norris Russell, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
B25 1881 Pablo Picasso, doodler (Guernica) (or 10-05)
B25 1884 Eduardo Barrios, Chilean novelist (The Love-Crazed Boy)
B25 1888 Richard E Byrd, polar explorer
B25 1902 Henry Steele Commager, historian
S25 1903 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin
B25 1881 Pablo Picasso, doodler
S25 1960 first electronic wrist watch placed on sale, New York
S25 1971 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World
S25 1971 UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan.
S25 1975 USSR Venera 10 made day Venus landing
S25 1983 US invades Grenada, a country of 1/2000 its population.
B26 1466 Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch scholar, author of The Praise of Folly
B26 1759 Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader
S26 1825 Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened
B26 1855 Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals.
S26 1861 Telegraph service inaugurated in US (end of Pony Express).
S26 1863 Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game.
S26 1881 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Arizona.
S26 1903 "Yerba Buena" is 1st Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay.
B26 1916 Francois Mitterrand, French President
B26 1917 Felix the cat, cartoon character
B26 1919 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, shah of Iran (1941-79)
S26 1949 Pres Truman increases minimum wage - from 40 cents to 75 cents.
S26 1956 International Atomic Energy Agency established.
S26 1957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting
S26 1958 PanAm flies the first transatlantic jet trip: New York to Paris.
S26 1968 Soyuz 3 is launched
S26 1970 the "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
S26 1972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin.
S26 1979 St. Vincent & the Grenadines gains independence from Britain.
S26 1984 "Baby Fae" gets a baboon heart in an experimental transplant in
S26      Loma Linda, CA.  She will live for 21 days with the animal heart.
B27 1728 Captain James Cook, discovered the Sandwich Islands.
B27 1782 Niccolò Paganini, composer, violin virtuoso
S27 1787 The 'Federalist' letters started appearing in NY newspapers.
S27 1795 Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi
B27 1811 Issac Merrit Singer, invented 1st practical home sewing machine
B27 1858 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President (1901-1909)
S27 1858 RH Macy & Co. opens 1st store, on 6th Avenue, New York City.
B27 1872 Emily Post, authority on social behavior, writer (Etiquette)
S27 1896 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (the Pali is a cliff where
S27      the winds are so strong streams flow UP! Honest!).
B27 1914 Dylan Thomas, poet (A Child's Christmas in Wales, Under Milkwood)
S27 1938 DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called 'nylon'
S27 1961 first Saturn makes an unmanned flight test
S27 1971 Republic of the Congo becomes Zaire.
S27 1972 Golden Gate National Recreation Area created.
S27 1978 Menachim Begin & Anwar Sadat win the Nobel Peace Prize
B28 1466 Erasmus, scholar, author of "In Praise of Folly"
S28 1492 Columbus discovers Cuba.
S28 1636 Harvard University founded.
S28 1793 Eli Whitney applies for patent for the cotton gin.
B28 1846 Auguste Escoffier, "the king of chefs & the chef of kings"
S28 1886 Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
B28 1902 Elsa Lanchester in England - The Bride of Frankenstein
S28 1904 St. Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints.
B28 1914 Dr. Jonas Salk, who made polio a fear of the past.
S28 1918 Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austria.
S28 1919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, starting Prohibition.
S28 1922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government.
S28 1962 Krushchev orders withdrawal of Cuban missiles
S28 1965 Gateway Arch (190 meters high) completed in St. Louis, Missouri.
S28 1965 Pope Paul VI says Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion.
S28 1970 US/USSR signed an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
S28 1971 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbi
S29      Republic Day, celebrated in Turkey.
S29  539 BC Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia.
B29 1656 Edmund Halley in London
S29 1682 Pennsylvania granted to William Penn by King Charles II.
S29 1727 a severe earthquake strikes New England.
B29 1740 James Boswell, in Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer
S29 1833 1st College Fraternity founded.
S29 1863 Intl Comm. of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963).
S29 1863 International Committee of the Red Cross founded:
S29      It has been awarded Nobel Prizes in 1917, 1944 and 1963.
B29 1884 Bela Lugosi, horror actor (Dracula, Body Snatcher)
S29 1923 Turkey is proclaimed to have a republican government.
S29 1929 "Black Tuesday", the Stock Market crash.
S29 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure).
S29 1956 "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet" heard on NBC for 1st time.
S29      (Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, team up on NBC News).
S30 1270 the 8th and last crusade is launched.
B30 1735 John Adams, 2nd President (1797-1801)
S30 1864 Helena, capital of Montana, founded.
B30 1873 Francisco Madero, Mexican revolutionary, president (1911-13)
S30 1905 Tsar Nicholas II grants Russia a constitution.
S30 1938 Orson Welles panics nation with broadcast: "War of the Worlds"
B30 1939 Grace Slick, rock singer (Jefferson Airplane)
S30 1945 US govt announces end of shoe rationing.
S30 1953 Dr. Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize for 1952.
S30 1953 General George C. Marshall is awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
S30 1961 Soviet Union detonates a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
S30 1961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution
S30      removing Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square.
S30 1967 USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking
S30 1978 Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701 - 1.
S30 1985 space shuttle Challenger carries 8 crewmen (2 Germans, 1 Dutch).
S31      All Hallows Eve (you know, Halloween)
S31      National UNICEF Day.
S31      Reformation Day
S31 1517 Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses, begins Protestant Reformation
B31 1632 Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter (Procuress, The Astronomer)
B31 1795 John Keats, Romantic poet
B31 1860 Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scout founder
S31 1864 Nevada admitted as 36th state.
S31 1922 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy.
S31 1952 first thermonuclear bomb detonated - Marshall Islands
S31 1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
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