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*mmddyyyy Birthdays
B04011815 Otto von Bismarck, statesman
B04011873 Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff in Novgorod Province Russia
B04011883 Lon Chaney, man of a thousand faces
B04011920 Toshire Mifune, Actor
B04011922 William Manchester, wrote about Death of a President
B04011928 George Grizzard, Actor
B04011929 Jane Powell, Actress, in Portland Oregon
B04011930 Grace Lee Whitney, Capt Kirk's Yeoman Rand
B04011932 Debbie Reynolds, Actress, in El Paso Tx
B04011932CGordon Jump, Actor, WKRP
B04011934 Don Hastings, Actor
B04011939 Ali MacGraw, Actress, in Pound Ridge NY
B04011944 Carol White, Actress, in England
B04011945 Heather Young, Actrss, in Washington
B04011947 David Eisenhower, Grandson of President Dwight
B04011952 Annette O'Toole, Actress, in Houston Texas
B0402 742 Emperor Charlemagne
B04021805 Hans Christian Andersen, fairy tale writer
B04021834 Frederic Bartholdi, Statue of Liberty sculptor
B04021873 Sergei Rachmaninoff, pianist-composer
B04021875 Walter Chrysler, founded a car company.
B04021908 Buddy Ebsen, Actor
B04021914 Sir Alec Guiness, thespian
B04021920 Jack Webb, actor (dum-de-dum-dum), just wants the facts
B04021924 Doris Day, girl next door, in Cincinnati, Ohio
B04021948 Emmylou Harris, singer, in Alabama
B04031783 Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle's biographer
B04031837 John Burroughs, Yosemite Calendar
B04031898 George Jessel, Actor
B04031898 Henry R. Luce, Publisher
B04031923 Jan Sterling, Actress,  in New York City
B04031924 Marlon Brando, Actor
B04031942 Marsha Mason, Actrss, in St Louis Mo
B04031942 Wayne Newton, singer
B04031944 Tony Orlando, Singer, knocked three times (or twice on the pipe)
B04031949 Lyle Alzado, retired athlete
B04031961 Eddie Murphy, Actor/Comedian
B04041792 Thaddeus Stevens
B04041802 Dorothea Dix, social reformer
B04041895 Arthur Murray, dance instructor
B04041906 John Cameron Swayze, Timex licker and ticker
B04041932 Senator Richard Lugar, influential Hoosier politician
B04041932 Tony Perkins, Actor/Director
B04041949 NATO ("OTAN" in French), European defense alliance
B04041966 Nancy McKeon, Actress, in Queens NY
B04051649 Elihu Yale, philanthropist who founded Yale University
B04051827 Sir Joseph Lister, scientist
B04051856 Booker T Washington, pioneering educator
B04051908 Bette Davis, Actress, in Lowell, Mass, has famous eyes
B04051908 Mary Hemingway, Writer
B04051908 Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic conductor
B04051916 Gregory Peck, Actor
B04051922 Gale Storm, Actress, in Bloomington Texas
B04051940 Aliza Kashi
B04051946 Jane Asher, former Paul McCartney girlfriend
B04051950 Agnetha Faltskog Stockholm (ABBA)
B04051954 Michael W. Butler, original creator of this TODAY
B04051954Ccomputer program.
B04061810 Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium
B04061866 Butch Cassidy, Outlaw
B04061866 Lincoln Steffens, journalist, muckraker
B04061890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, Dutch aircraft pioneer
B04061892 Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company.
B04061892CLowell Thomas, journalist
B04061937 Merle Haggard, Singer
B04061943 Susan Tolsky, in Houston Texas
B04061944 Michelle Phillips, in Long Beach Calif
B04061952 Marilu Henner, in Chicago
B04061953 Janet Lynn, olympic ice skater
B04071770 William Wordsworth, Poet, in England
B04071860 W.K. Kellogg, founded the cereal company.
B04071897 Walter Winchell, columnist
B04071908 Percy Faith, musician
B04071915 Billie Holiday, blues singer
B04071927 James Garner, Actor
B04071932 Mark Russell, satirist
B04071938 Jerry Brown, California governor.
B04071939 David Frost, TV Personality
B04071939 Francis Ford Coppola, Filmmaker
B04071951 Janis Ian, trials and tribulations of being at seventeen
B04081889 Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
B04081893 Mary Pickford
B04081912 Sonja Henie, Ice skater, in Oslo Norway
B04081918 Betty Ford, First Lady
B04081940 John Havlicek, Celtics hoop star
B04081941 Peggy Lennon in Los Angeles
B04081947 Steve Howe.  Yes, he plays the guitar
B04081954 John Schneider, hazardous to Hazzard County
B04081954 Gary Carter, catches whatever New York throws
B04081963 Julian Lennon, Singer/John Lennon's Son
B04091830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion in photography.
B04091865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz, electronics pioneer
B04091879 W.C. Fields, Philadelphian
B04091895 Mance Lipscomb, Blues Musician
B04091905 J. William Fulbright, U.S. Senator
B04091905 Ward Bond, Actor
B04091919 John Presper Eckert, co-inventor of first electronic computer (ENIAC)
B04091926 Hugh Hefner, made bunnies famous
B04091928 Tom Lehrer, satirist, proposed poisoning pigeons in the park
B04091939 Michael Learned, Actress, in Washington
B04091957 Seve Ballesteros, a young old duffer
B04091965 Paulina Porizkova, Sports Illustrated swimsuit covergirl
B04101794 Commodore Matthew C. Perry, naval leader
B04101829 William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army
B04101847 Joseph Pulitzer, Publisher
B04101880 Frances Perkins, first woman in a Cabinet-level position
B04101915 Harry Morgan, Actor
B04101924 Chuck Connors, blasts his way across your TV screen
B04101932 Omar Sharif, Actor
B04101938 Dandy Don Meredith
B041019?? Claudette Nevins, in Birmingham Al
B04111862 Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice
B04111866 Carla Ford, Henry Ford's Wife
B04111893 Dean Acheson, statesman
B04111925 Ethel Kennedy, wife of Bobby
B04111932 Joel Grey, entertainer
B04111939 Louise Lasser in New York City - Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!
B04121777 Henry Clay, 'The Great Compromiser'
B04121791 Francis P. Blair, helped found the Republican Party.
B04121913 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader & vibraphone improvisor
B04121923 Ann Miller, Singer/Dancer, in Houston, Texas
B04121927 Jane Withers in Atlanta Georgia - Josephine the plumber
B04121947 David Letterman, TV Host
B04121950 David Cassidy, Shirley Jones' kid on TV and real life
B04131721 John Hanson, first US President under the Articles of Confederation.
B04131743 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President from 1801 - 1809.
B04131852 F.W. Woolworth, the "five-and-ten" king.
B04131907 Harold Stassen, perpetual candidate for President
B04131909 Madalyn Murray O'Hair
B04131933 Shani Wallis in Ireland, singer
B04131970 Ricky Schroder, Actor "Silver Spoons"
B04141844 Antole France in France, novelist
B04141889 Arnold Toynbee, historian
B04141904 Sir John Gielgud, British actor and singer
B04141918 Mary Healy in New Orleans
B04141925 Rod Steiger, actor
B04141935 Loretta Lynn, Singer, in Kentucky, a coal miner's daughter
B04141941 Julie Christie, Actress, in Assam India
B04141941 Pete Rose, manager for Cincinnati baseball team, Charlie hustle
B04151452 Leonardo da Vinci, painter and visionary
B04151707 Leonhard Euler, mathematician
B04151922 Harold Washington, mayor of Chicago, Illinois
B04151933 Elizabeth Montgomery in Hollywood California, Bewitching
B04151933 Roy Clark, country singer
B04151939 Claudia Cardinale in Tunisia
B04151966 Samantha Fox, Singer, in England
B04161867 Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame
B04161889 Charlie Chaplin, comedian, movie director, retired PC salesman
B04161904 Clifford Case, U.S. Senator
B04161904 Lily Pons, Opera Diva
B04161921 Peter Ustinov, Actor
B04161924 Henry Mancini, master of mellow music
B04161925 Edie Adams in Kingston Pa
B04161930 Herbie Mann, Jazz great
B04161935 Bobby Vinton, The Polish prince of song
B04161939 Dusty Springfield in London England
B04161947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Basketball Player
B04171837 John Pierpont Morgan, finances the US
B04171897 Thornton Wilder, American novelist
B04171923 Harry Reasoner, CBS News correspondent
B04171930 Genevieve
B04171933 Monique Van Vooren in Brussels Belgium
B04171934 Don Kirshner, inventor of bubblegum music
B04171951 Olivia Hussey in Buenos Aires
B04181820 Franz von Suppe, composer
B04181857 Clarence Darrow, lawyer
B04181882 Leopold Stokowski, conductor
B04181922 Barbara Hale, Actress, William Katt's mom.
B04181946 Hayley Mills in London England, actress
B04181948 Catherine Malfilano in New York
B04191877 Ole Evinrude, invented the outboard marine engine.
B04191930 Hugh O'Brian, Actor
B04191932 Jayne Mansfield in Pennsylvania
B04191935 Dudley Moore, Actor
B04191949 Paloma Picasso
B04201850 Daniel French, sculptor
B04201889 Adolf Hitler in Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany
B04201893 Harold Lloyd, early film comedian.
B04201914 Lionel Hampton, musician
B04201920 John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice
B04201924 Nina Foch in Netherlands
B04201941 Ryan O,Neal, actor
B04201949 Jessica Lange in Cloquet Minnesota, actress
B04201961 Don Mattingly in Indiana, Yankee hitman
B04211816 Charlotte Bronte, author of "Jane Eyre"
B04211838 John Muir, naturalist.
B04211916 Anthony Quinn, Actor/Sculptor
B04211918 Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer
B04211926 Elizabeth II, Queen of England
B04211930 Sylvana Mangana
B04211932 Elaine May in Philadelphia
B04211932 Meadowlark Lemon, retired Harlem Globetrotter
B04221451 Queen Isabella I, funded Christopher Columbus
B04221724 Immanuel Kant, Philospher, in Germany
B04221870 Vladimir I Lenin, Soviet revolutionary
B04221904 J Robert Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project physicist
B04221908 Eddie Albert, Actor, farmed the Haney Place
B04221916 Yehudi Menuhin, violinist
B04221926 Charlette Rae, Actress
B04221937 Jack Nicholson, Actor
B04221938 Glen Campbell, the Wichita Lineman that dreamed of Galveston
B04231547 Miguel DeCervantes Saavedra - The Man Of LaMancha
B04231564 William Shakespeare, bard
B04231791 James Buchanan, 15th President from 1857 - 1861.
B04231813 Stephen Douglas, the "Little Giant", debated Lincoln
B04231891 Sergei Prokofiev, composer
B04231921 Janet Blair in Altoona Pa
B04231928 Shirley Temple Black, Santa Monica Calif, child actress & ambassador
B04231932 Halston, fashion designer
B04231936 Roy Orbison, sings about his Little Woman
B04231940 Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Irish nationalist
B04231940 Lee Majors, washed hands of Farrah Fawcett
B04231942 Sandra Dee in Bayonne NJ
B04231943 Herve Villechaize, "Da Plane!  Da Plane!"
B04231947 Bernadette Devlin in Ireland, political activist
B04231949 Joyce DeWitt in Wheeling WV
B04231960 Valerie Bertinelli aka Mrs Eddie Van Halen in Wilmington Delaware
B04241620 John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of demography
B04241815 Anthony Trollope in England, poet
B04241934 Shirley MacLaine, Actress, in Richmond Virginia (this time)
B04241936 Jill Ireland in London England
B04241942 Barbra Streisand, Singer/Actress
B04251599 Sir Oliver Cromwell, statesman
B04251874 Guglielmo Marconi, made radio possible
B04251906 William Brennan, Supreme Court Justice
B04251908 Edward R. Murrow, set the standard for TV correspondents.
B04251918 Ella Fitzgerald, Singer
B04251923 Anita Bjorak
B04251923 Melissa Hayden in Toronto
B04251930 Paul Mazursky
B04251932 Meadowlark Lemon, Harlem Globetrotter
B04251940 Al Pacino, Actor
B04251946 Talia Shire in New York City
B04261785 John James Audubon, Naturalist
B04261822 Frederick L. Olmsted, Yosemite Calendar
B04261875 Syngman Rhee, South Korean statesman
B04261893 Anita Loos, Author
B04261895 Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy Fuerher, only one at Spandau prison
B04261900 Charles Richter (Richter Scale of earthquake measurement)
B04261906 Gracie Allen, Comedienne
B04261914 Bernard Malamud, Novelist
B04261917 I.M. Pei, Architect
B04261936 Carol Burnett, Comedienne/Actress, in San Antonio
B04261942 Bobby Rydell, Singer
B04261943 Gary Wright, the dream weaver
B04261948 Stevie Nicks in California of Fleetwood Mac
B04261966 Andrea Temesvari
B04271737 Edward Gibson in England, historian
B04271791 Samuel F. B. Morse, invented a data-transmission code
B04271822 Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President from 1869 - 1877.
B04271896 Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon.
B04271900 Walter Lantz, Woody Woodpecker's creator
B04271922 Jack Klugman, Actor
B04271927 Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King
B04271932 Aimee Anouk in France
B04271937 Sandy Dennis in Nebraska
B04271939 Judy Carne in England
B04271959 Sheena Easton in Glascow Scotland, rides the morning train
B04281758 James Monroe, 5th President from 1816 - 1824.
B04281878 Lionel Barrymore, actor
B04281930 James Baker III, Reagan's Treasury Secretary
B04281932 Carolyn Jones in Amarillo Tx
B04281941 Ann-Margaret, Actress, in Valsjobya Sweden
B042819?? Marcia Strassman in New York City
B04291830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels...
B04291863 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner)
B04291897 Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
B04291899 Duke Ellington, musician
B04291901 Emperor Hirohito, Japanese leader
B04291907 Movie director Fred Zinnemann
B04291909 Tom Ewell
B04291919 Celeste Holm, Actress
B04291922 George Allen, Football coach
B04291933 Rod McKuen, poet and owner of over a thousand Compact Discs
B04291936 Zubin Mehta, Conductor
B04291947 Jim Ryun, Runner
B04291947 Johnny Miller, Golfer
B04291947 Tommy James, cri-im-son and clo-o-ver o-o-ver and o-o-ver
B04291955 Kate Mulgrew in Dubuque Iowa
B04301777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematician of all time.
B04301870 Franz Lehar, composer
B04301912 Eve Arden, "Our Miss Brooks," in California, actress
B04301925 Cloris Leachman, Actress, in Des Moines Iowa
B04301926 Corinne Calvet
B04301933 Willie Nelson, Singer, "On the Road Again"
B04301936 Zohra Lampert
B04301944 Jill Clayburgh, Actress
B04301949 Perry King, Actor
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*mmddyyyy Reminders
R0401     America's Heartland Development Month
R0401     April Fool's Day... but you knew that!
R0401    6Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins at 2AM Sunday.
R0401    7Set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Tomorrow
R0401     Saint Stupid's Day (a San Francisco tradition since 1980).
R0402     International Children's Book Day observed.
R0402    6Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins at 2AM Sunday.
R0402    7Set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Tomorrow
R0403    6Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins at 2AM Sunday.
R0403    7Set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Tomorrow
R0404    6Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins at 2AM Sunday.
R0404    7Set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Tomorrow
R0405    6Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins at 2AM Sunday.
R0405    7Set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Tomorrow
R0406    7Set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Tomorrow
R0408     Kambutsue, celebration of Buddha's birthday, in Japan
R0411     Barber Shop Quartet Day.
R0415     Income Taxes are due today.  Keep the IRS happy...
R0415     African Freedom Day
R0415    2Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
R0415    4The day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting.
R0416    2Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
R0416    4The day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting
R0417    2Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
R0417    4The day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting
R0418    2Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
R0418    4The day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting
R0419    2Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
R0419    4The day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting
R0420    2Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
R0420    4The day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting
R0421    2Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
R0421    4The day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting
R0422     Earth Day.
R0423     National Secretary Day.
R0424    3Stockholders Meeting, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
R0425     Confederate Memorial Day  The South shall rise again!
R0425    3Stockholders Meeting, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
R0425     Arbor Day.  Plant a tree.
R0426    3Stockholders Meeting, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
R0427    3Stockholders Meeting, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
R0427     Union Day, celebrated in Tanzania.
R0428     Kiss Your Mate Day
R0428    3Stockholders Meeting, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
R0429     The Emperor's Birthday, celebrated in Japan
R0429    3Stockholders Meeting, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
R0429     The Emperor's Birthday, celebrated in Japan.
R0430    3Stockholders Meeting, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
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*mmddyyyy Events
S04011778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans Businessman, creates the "$" symbol.
S04011789 House of Representatives first full meeting in New York City.
S04011789CF. Muhlenberg is the first Speaker of the House.
S04011850 San Francisco County Government established.
S04011853 Cincinnati becomes first US city to pay firefighters a
S04011853Cregular salary,
S04011863 First wartime conscription law in US goes into effect.
S04011889 The first dishwashing machine is marketed in Chicago.
S04011918 Royal Air Force is established in Britain.
S04011933 Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish
S04011933Cbusinesses.
S04011935 First radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY.
S04011939 US recognizes Franco govt in Spain at end of the Spanish civil war.
S04011941 Navy takes over San Francisco Bay's Treasure Island.
S04011945 American forces launch the invasion of Okinawa during WW II.
S04011954 First army helicopter battalion formed, Fort Bragg, NC
S04011960 TIROS I (Television & Infra-Red Observation Satellite) launched
S04011960Cto improve weather prediction. Built by RCA.
S04011963 NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike.
S04011979 Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following the fall of the Shah.
S04011984 Marvin Gaye shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in LA.
S04021513 Ponce de Leon lands near what is now St Augustine, Fla.
S04021792 Congress establishes Coin denominations & authorizes US Mint
S04021865 Jefferson Davis flees Yankee aggressors at Richmond, Virginia
S04021877 The first Easter Egg Roll is held on the White House lawn --
S04021877CRutherford B. Hayes is president.
S04021935 Sir Watson-Watt granted a patent for RADAR
S04021956 TV Soaps,  "As the World Turns" and "Edge of Night" premieree.
S04021972 Argentina seizes the Malvinas (Falklands) Islands.
S04021972 Prime Minister Begin visits Cairo.
S04021972 TV show "Dallas" premieres.
S04021974 Arganat Comm publishes report concerning the Yom Kippur War.
S04021984 Russians' Soyuz T-11 is launched.
S04021986 George Corley Wallace announces retirement plans.
S04031848 Thomas Douglas becomes first San Francisco public teacher.
S04031860 The first Pony Express riders simultaneously left Sacramento, CA
S04031860Cand St. Joseph, MO.
S04031865 Yankee aggressors occupy Richmond, Virginia.
S04031882 Jesse James is shot to death in Saint Joseph, Missouri.
S04031910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt. McKinley climbed.
S04031936 Bruno Hauptmann, convicted Lindbergh baby killer, executed.
S04031948 Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan (Aid to Europe.)
S04031974 Russians' Soyuz 14 is launched.
S04041818 Congress mandates 13 stripes for  US flag.
S04041841 William Henry Harrison, President, dies of pneumonia.
S04041887 Susan Salter (Argonia, KS), first U S woman mayor.
S04041902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund established with $10 million.
S04041914 The movie "The Perils of Pauline" is shown for the first time,
S04041914Cin Los Angeles.
S04041968 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
S04041969 Dr Denton Cooley implants first temporary artificial heart.
S04041974 Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home run record.
S04051614 Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
S04051621 Mayflower leaves on return trip to England.
S04051792 George Washington casts first Presidential veto ever.
S04051887 Anne Sullivan teaches the word "water" to Helen Keller.
S04051915 Jess Willard defeats Jack Johnson for heavyweight crown.
S04051951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death.
S04051975 Russians' Soyuz 18A tries to lift-off.
S04051975 Taiwan's leader Chang Kai-shek dies.
S04051976 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire, dies at 72.
S04051983 Sixth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 1 is launched.
S04061663 Kings Charles II signs the Carolina Charter.
S04061830 Joseph Smith organizes the Mormon Church in Fayette, NY.
S04061862 Battle of Shiloh.
S04061868 Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife.
S04061896 The first modern Olympic Games are opened in Greece.
S04061906 First animated cartoon is copyrighted.
S04061909 Perry and Henson reach the North Pole.
S04061917 US declares war on Germany (WWI.)
S04061926 Four planes take off on first successful around-the-world flight.
S04061957 New York City ends trolley car service.
S04061973 Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes first designated hitter. He walked.
S04061984 Eleventh Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 5 is launched.
S04071862 Grant and Yankee aggressors rout valiant Southern army at Shiloh.
S04071927 Using phone lines, TV is sent from Washington DC to New York City.
S04071933 Prohibition ends, Utah(!) 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
S04071948 World Health Organization is established.
S04071953 First jet transatlantic non-stop flight (west to east.)
S04071959 First astronauts - selection announced by NASA.
S04071959 Radar first bounced off sun, Stanford California.
S04071966 United States recovers a H-bomb that it lost off the coast
S04071966Cof Spain.  (whoops!)
S04071977 Consumer Product Safety Commission bans "TRIS" flame-retardant.
S04071980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis.
S04081513 Ponce de Leon arrives in Florida.
S04081730 First Jewish congregation in United States consecrates synagogue.
S04081766 The first patent is granted for a fire escape ... a wicker
S04081766Cbasket on a pully and a chain, designed by a London watchmaker.
S04081913 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified.
S04081935 Works Progress Administration approved by Congress.
S04081952 President Harry Truman seizes steel industry to avoid a strike.
S04081974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record.
S04081986 Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California.  Make his day.
S04091833 First tax-supported public library, at Peterborough, NH.
S04091865 Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox
S04091928 Mae West makes her New York City debut in a daring new play,
S04091928C"Diamond Lil."
S04091942 American and Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan.
S04091947 Atomic Energy Commission confirmed.
S04091950 Bob Hope makes his first TV appearance.
S04091953 TV Guide publishes their first issue.
S04091955 United Nations Charter hearing.
S04091965 First game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition.
S04091967 First Boeing 737 rolls out in Seattle.
S04091980 Russians' Soyuz 35 is launched.
S04091983 Sixth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 1 returns to Earth.
S04091986 It is announced that Patrick Duffy's character, thought to have
S04091986Cbeen killed off, will be back on "Dallas."
S04101790 US Patent system established.
S04101825 First hotel in Hawaii opens.
S04101849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt of New York City.  He
S04101849Cimmediately sells the patent rights for $100.
S04101866 American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals organized.
S04101882 Matson founds his shipping company, serving San Francisco & Hawaii.
S04101912 RMS Titanic sets sail for its first and last voyage.
S04101916 First professional golf tournament held.
S04101930 Synthetic rubber first produced.
S04101932 Paul von Hindenburg elected German president (Hitler is second.)
S04101944 "Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simltaneously
S04101953 House of Wax, first feature-length 3-D movie, released in New York.
S04101963 Nuclear submarine USS Thresher sinks, claiming 129 lives.
S04101974 Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Prime Minister Golda Meir.
S04101979 Russians' Soyuz 33 is launched.
S04101981 Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded.
S04101992 Comedian Sam Kinison killed in a traffic accident on a
S04101992CCalifornia desert highway.
S04111814 Napoleon Bonaparte thrown out, banished to island of Elba.
S04111876 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized.
S04111895 Anaheim completes its new electric light system.
S04111898 President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration.
S04111921 Iowa imposes first state cigarette tax.
S04111943 Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his first
S04111943C(single-rotor) craft.
S04111947 Jackie Robinson becomes first black in major league baseball.
S04111951 President Truman fires General Douglas McArthur.
S04111953 Oveta Culp Hobby becomes first at Health, Education, and Welfare.
S04111961 Israel begins the Adolf Eichmann trial.
S04111970 Apollo 13 blasts off with defective Beech-built oxygen tank.
S04111979 Idi Amin thrown out, no longer president of Uganda.
S04111981 Ronald Reagan gets home from the hospital after Hinkley shot him.
S04111984 Russians' Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth.
S04121861 Civil War begins as Southern army tries to take Fort Sumter.
S04121862 James Andrews steals Confederate train (The General) at
S04121862CKennesaw, Ga.
S04121898 Army transfers San Francisco's Yerba Buena Island to Navy.
S04121934 Highest velocity wind ever recorded on San Francisco's Mt.
S04121934CWashington, 231 mph.
S04121938 First US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses, NY.
S04121945 FDR dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga.
S04121955 Salk polio vaccine safe and effectiveל four billion dimes marched.
S04121961 Yuri A. Gagarin becomes the first man to orbit Earth, aboard
S04121961CVostok 1.  He later dies in a plane crash.
S04121962 San Mateo County withdraws from BART district.
S04121970 Yankees dedicate plaques to Mantle and DiMaggio.
S04121979 Russians' Soyuz 33 returns to Earth.
S04121981 First launch of the Space Shuttle  "Columbia."
S04121985 16th Shuttle Mission-Discovery 4 is launched-with Senator
S04121985CJake Garn aboard.
S04131796 The first elephant arrives in the U.S. from Bengal, India.
S04131865 Sherman's march through Georgia begins.
S04131902 JC Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyo.
S04131940 First pole vaulter to clear 15 feet, C Warmerdam, Berkeley, Ca.
S04131943 FDR dedicates the Jefferson Memorial.
S04131961 UN General Assembly condemns South Africa for apartheid.
S04131966 Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747's.
S04131970 Apollo 13's Beech-built oxygen tank explodes.
S04131975 Jack Nicklaus wins the Masters for the fifth time.
S04131976 $2 bill is re-introduced as United States currency.
S04131984 Eleventh Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 5 returns to Earth.
S04141817 First American school for the deaf (Hartford, Connecticut)
S04141828 First edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.
S04141860 First Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri.
S04141865 Abraham Lincoln is assasinated in Ford's Theater.
S04141894 First motion picture is shown in NY City.
S04141928 Regular air passenger flights between San Francisco and
S04141928CLos Angeles started, by Maddux Air Lines.
S04141945 Tokyo incendiary raids, using B-29's, damage Imperial Palace.
S04141956 Ampex Corporation demonstrates first commercial videotape
S04141956Crecorder.  It's a unit the size of a deep-freeze, with an
S04141956Cadditional 5 6-foot racks of circuitry.
S04141981 First Space Shuttle - Columbia 1 returns to Earth.
S04151850 City of San Francisco incorporated.
S04151861 Yankee aggressor army mobilized by Yankee President Lincoln.
S04151865 President Lincoln dies, 7:22 am, John Wilkes Booth responsible.
S04151912 "Unsinkable" RMS Titanic sinks at 2:20 am, iceberg blamed.
S04151912CAnd the band plays on  . . .
S04151923 insulin becomes generally available for diabetics.
S04151928 Alioto's on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf opens for business.
S04151941 First helicopter flight of one hour duration, Stratford, Ct.
S04151945 FDR is buried on the grounds of his Hyde Park home.
S04151952 First B-52 prototype test flight.
S04151955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants.
S04151981 Writer Janet Cooke says the story that won her a Pulitzer award,
S04151981Cabout an 8-year-old heroin addict, is a lie.
S04161789 George Washington heads off for first Presidential inauguration.
S04161818 Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot ammendment (unarmed US-Canada border.)
S04161862 District of Columbia outlaws slavery.
S04161866 Nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo & Co. office in San Francisco
S04161866Cexplodes.
S04161912 Harriet Quimby flies the English Channel, first woman to do so.
S04161917 Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution.
S04161926 The "Book-of-the-Month" Club opens for business.
S04161929 Yankees become first team to use numbers on uniforms.
S04161935 First broadcast of "Fibber McGee and Molly."
S04161947 Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated, NY city.
S04161947 Massive explosion and fire kills 500 in Texas City, Texas.
S04161959 Yankees unveil their first message scoreboard.
S04161962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS news.
S04161972 Apollo 16 takes off for the Moon.
S04161977 Author Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia.
S04171492 Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find the Indies.
S04171524 New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.
S04171861 Virginia votes to leave the Yankee United States.
S04171869 First pro baseball games - Cin Reds 24, Cin amateurs 15.
S04171875 The game of "snooker" -- a variation of pool -- is invented
S04171875Cby Sir Neville Chamberlain, while on duty in India.
S04171895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends first Sino-Japanese
S04171895CWar (1894-95).
S04171941 Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing.)
S04171961 US invades Cuba's Bay of Pigs, ends in failure.
S04171970 Apollo 13 limps back safely after on-board explosion.
S04171970 Paul McCartney's first solo album "McCartney."
S04181775 'The British are Coming!' declares Paul Revere from horseback.
S04181869 First International Cricket Match, held in SF, won by Californian
S04181906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 700 die
S04181923 74,000 on hand for Opening of Yankee Stadium, 62,281 paid.
S04181934 First "Washateria" (laundromat) is opened, in Fort Worth, Texas.
S04181936 Pan-Am's "Clipper" starts providing regular passenger flights
S04181936Cbetween San Francisco and Honolulu.
S04181942 Gen. James H. Doolittle bombs Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
S04181942C'The Stars and Stripes' paper is started for US Armed Forces.
S04181946 League of Nations goes out of business, replaced by the UN.
S04181949 Irish Republic comes into existence.
S04181950 First transatlantic jet passenger trip.
S04181956 Don Larsen first baseball pitcher to pitch perfect
S04181956CWorld Series game.
S04181956 Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco (civil ceremony.)
S04181978 US Senate approves transfer of Panama Canal to Panama.
S04181979 TV Show "Real People" premieres.
S04181980 Nation of Zimbabwe founded, formerly Rhodesia.
S04191775 At Lexington Common, they fire the shot 'heard round the world,'
S04191775Cbeginning the revolutionary war.
S04191782 The Netherlands recognizes the new United States.
S04191852 California Historical Society founded.
S04191892 Charles Duryea takes the first American-made auto out for a spin.
S04191897 First American marathon is run. John J. McDermott wins in 2:55:10.
S04191933 U S leaves the gold standard.
S04191934 Shirley Temple appears in her first movie, "Stand Up And Cheer."
S04191939 Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights . . .
S04191939C(only 148 years late).
S04191943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at the Warsaw Ghetto.
S04191945 Rogers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway.
S04191949 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Babe Ruth.
S04191956 American actress Grace Kelly marries Price Rainier of Monaco
S04191956C(in church, this time)
S04191975 India launches first satellite with help of the USSR.
S04191978 Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel.
S04191982 Sally Ride is announced as first woman astronaut.
S04191982 Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery.
S04191985 Sixteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 4 returns to Earth.
S04201812 Vice President George Clinton dies at age 73, becoming the
S04201812Cfirst VP to die while in office.
S04201836 Territory of Wisconsin established by an act of Congress
S04201879 The first "mobile home" (horse drawn) is used for a journey
S04201879Cbetween London and Cyprus.
S04201902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element Radium.
S04201912 Fenway Park opens, Red Sox beat Yankees 7-6 in 11.
S04201940 First electron microscope demonstrated, Philadelphia, Pa.
S04201945 US 7th Army captures German city of Nuremberg.
S04201948 United Auto Workers president Walter P. Reuther is shot and
S04201948Cwounded at his home in Detroit.
S04201962 New Orleans Citizens' Council offers free one-way ride to
S04201962Cblacks to move North.
S04201968 Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn in as prime minister of Canada.
S04201971 Supreme Court first upholds busing for school racial
S04201971Cdesegragation.
S04201972 Apollo 16's Astronauts Young & Duke land on the moon with
S04201972CBoeing Lunar Rover י2.
S04201977 Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on plates.
S04201977 Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premieres.
S04201978 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in
S04201978CRussian airspace.
S04201986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland.
S0421 756 B.C., that is! According to legend, Rome is founded.
S04211649 Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship.
S04211789 John Adams sworn in as first U S Vice President.
S04211828 Noah Webster publishes first American dictionary.
S04211836 Texans lead by Sam Houston defeat the Mexicans at San Jacinto.
S04211855 First train crosses Miss River's first bridge, Rock Island,
S04211855CIllinois to Davenport, Louisiana.
S04211862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorado.
S04211892 First buffalo born in Golden Gate Park.
S04211898 Spanish American war begins.
S04211908 Frederick A Cook claims to reach the North Pole (He didn't.)
S04211918 The Red Baron (von Richthofen) shot down and killed in
S04211918CWorld War I air battle.
S04211940 Quiz show "Take It or Leave It" first asked the $64
S04211940Cquestion on CBS.
S04211967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalin's daughter) defects in NYC.
S04211972 Apollo 16's John Young & Charles Duke walk on the moon.
S04211975 Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnamese President, resigns.
S04211975Cafter 10 years.
S04211976 Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing.
S04211977 Broadway play "Annie," opens, first of 2377 performances.
S04211983 Russians' Soyuz T-8 is launched
S04221509 Henry VIII ascends the throne of England.
S04221769 Madame Du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress.
S04221864 U S Congress authorize "In God We Trust" on coinage.
S04221889 Oklahoma land rush officially startsל some were Sooner.
S04221898 First Spanish-American War action:  USS Nashville, takes
S04221898Cenemy ship,
S04221915 First use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in World War I.
S04221915 Yankees don the pinstripes and hat-in-the-ring logo for
S04221915Cfirst time.
S04221952 First atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada.
S04221964 New York World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY) opens.
S04221970 First Earth Day.
S04221971 Russians' Soyuz 10 is launched
S04221976 Barbara Walters becomes first female nightly network news anchor.
S04221983 Russians' Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth.
S04231789 President George Washington moves into Franklin House, New York.
S04231896 First "moving pictures" are shown on a public screen in New York
S04231896Ccalled the VITASCOPE system.
S04231954 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits the first of his 755 homers.
S04231962 First American satellite to reach moon launched from
S04231962CCape Canaveral
S04231967 Russia launches first Soyuz mission.
S04231968 The United Methodist Church founded.
S04231969 Sirhan B. Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy.
S04231985 New Coke debuts, many say it tastes too much like Pepsi.
S04241704 Boston News Letter first American newspaper printed regularly.
S04241792 סLa Marseillaise' composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
S04241800 Library of Congress founded with $5000 allocation
S04241833 A patent is granted for the first soda fountain.
S04241877 Troops ordered out of New Orleans end North's
S04241877Cpost-Civil War rule.
S04241897 First reporter, William Price, assigned to White House.
S04241898 Spain declares war on US, rejecting ultimatum to
S04241898Cwithdraw from Cuba.
S04241900 The passing of Andrew Halliday, Cable Car Pioneer.
S04241915 Turkish Ottoman Emp begins brutal deportation of Armenians.
S04241944 First Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump."
S04241953 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
S04241954 First American civilian pilot wounded in Indo China - PR Holden.
S04241961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following the Bay of Pigs.
S04241962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for the first time:  CA to MA.
S04241967 Cosmonaut Komarov is the first to die in space
S04241967Caboard Russians' Soyuz I.
S04241970 China PR launchs first satellite transmitting song
S04241970CסThe East is Red.'
S04241971 Russians' Soyuz 10 returns to Earth.
S04251684 A patent is granted for the thimble.
S04251792 Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier first person executed
S04251792Cby guillotine.
S04251859 Ground broken for the Suez Canal.
S04251898 U S declares war on Spain, reciprocating from the day before.
S04251901 New York becomes first state requiring license plates for
S04251901Ccars.  The fee is $1.
S04251945 Delegates from 45 countries meet in San Francisco,
S04251945Corganizing the UN.
S04251945CLast Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany.
S04251945 US and Soviet forces meet at Torgau Germany on the Elbe River
S04251954 Bell labs announces the first solar battery - NY city.
S04251957 First experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated.
S04251959 Saint Lawrence Seaway opens to shipping.
S04251960 First submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton.)
S04251961 Robert Noyce granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
S04251962 Seattle World's Fair opens.
S04251975 First Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao.
S04251980 Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran.
S04251982 In accordance with Camp David accord, Israel completes Sinai
S04251982Cwithdrawal.
S04261607 First British to establish an American colony land at
S04261607CCape Henry, Va.
S04261777 16 year old Sybil Ludington rode from NY to Ct rallying
S04261777Cher father's militia to fight the British in Danbury.
S04261865 John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, killed.
S04261887 Huntsville Electric Company established to sell electricity.
S04261906 First motion pictures shown in Hawaii.
S04261937 German-made planes destroy Basque town of Guernica in Spain.
S04261944 First B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down.
S04261954 Nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio vaccine begins.
S04261968 U S underground nuclear test, "Boxcar", 1 megaton device.
S04261970 Gypsy Rose Lee dies at age 56.
S04261982 Argentina surrender to Britain on South Georgia,
S04261982Cnear Falkland Island.
S04261983 Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 1200 for the first time.
S04261984 Jazz piano great Count Basie dies at age 79.
S04261986 World's worst nuclear power plant disaster, at Chernobyl,
S04261986Cin Russia.
S04271521 Ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino
S04271521Cnatives.
S04271565 First Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City, founded.
S04271805 United States Marines attack the shores of Tripoli.
S04271865 Steamer Sultana, explosion kills 1450 Union prisoners.
S04271897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) is dedicated.
S04271937 US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment.
S04271945 founding of the Second Republic, in Austria.
S04271946 First radar installation aboard a commercial ship completed.
S04271947 Babe Ruth day celebrated at Yankee Stadium.
S04271948 Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River.
S04271960 First atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched,
S04271960Cnamed the Tullibee.
S04271965 R. C. Duncan patents the "Pampers" brand disposable diaper.
S04271972 Apollo 16 returns to Earth.
S04271981 Tommy "Wildfire" Rich defeats Harley Race for the NWA World.
S04271981CHeavyweight Championship in Augusta, GA.
S04271986 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO.
S04281754 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurs - Captain Bligh adrift
S04281788 Maryland becomes the 7th state.
S04281914 W.H. Carrier patents the design of his air conditioner.
S04281919 First successful parachute jump is made.
S04281922 WOI, Ames, Iowa, becomes the country's first licensed
S04281922Ceducational radio station.
S04281932 Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced.
S04281937 First animated cartoon electric sign displayed, NY city.
S04281942 "World War II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll.
S04281945 Fascist leader Mussolini & mistress captured, tried, and shot.
S04281947 Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki sail from Peru to Polynesia.
S04281952 World War II Pacific peace treaty takes effect.
S04281961 Warren Spahn pitches a no hitter at age 41.
S04281965 Marines evacuate Americans during Dominican Republic revolution.
S04281967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U S Army.
S04281969 French President Charles de Gaulle retires.
S04281974 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon.
S04281977 Christopher Boyce convicted for selling secrets.
S04281980 Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns.
S04281985 Billy Martin for the 4th time is named Yankee manager.
S04291429 Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France, to victory over the
S04291429CEnglish.
S04291553 A Flemish woman introduces the practice of starching linen
S04291553Cinto England.
S04291857 Headquarters for the US Army, Division of the Pacific,
S04291857Cpermanently established at the San Francisco Presidio.
S04291861 Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding
S04291861Cfrom the Union.
S04291862 New Orleans falls to Union forces during the Civil War.
S04291894 "Coxey's Army", of the unemployed, invade Washington, DC.
S04291900 Casey Jones rides to his death on the Cannonball Express.
S04291913 Gideon Sundback of Hoboken NJ patents the zipper.
S04291945 America liberates Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany.
S04291946 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted in Tokyo as
S04291946Cwar criminals.
S04291957 First military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va.
S04291971 Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration.
S04291985 17th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 7 is launched.
S04301789 George Washington inaugurated as first president of the U.S.
S04301798 Department of the Navy established.
S04301803 US more than doubles its size thru the Louisiana Purchase.
S04301808 The first practical typewriter is finished by Italian Pellegrini
S04301808CTurri.  He built it for a blind friend.
S04301812 Louisiana becomes the 18th state.
S04301857 Founding of what would become San Jose State University.
S04301869 The Hawaiian YMCA organized.
S04301900 Hawaii becomes a US Territory
S04301939 NBC/RCA first public TV demo with President Franklin Roosevelt
S04301939Cat the opening of the New York World's Fair.
S04301942 First submarine built on Great Lakes launched, "Peto",
S04301942CManitowoc, Wi.
S04301945 Adolf Hitler and wife Eva Braun commit suicide.
S04301947 Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover.
S04301948 Organization of American States (OAS) founded.
S04301955 Element Mendelevium announced - element 101.
S04301970 Inger Stevens dies at age 35.
S04301973 Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al.
S04301973 Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including
S04301973C"My Love."
S04301980 Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London.
S04301980CQueen Beatrix of the Netherlands ascends the throne.
S04301972 Gia Scala dies at age 38.
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