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*mmddyyyy Birthdays
B12011886 Rex Stout, mystery writer
B12011913 Mary Martin in Weatherford Texas - Peter Pan, Larry Hagman's mom
B12011935 Lou Rawls, Singer
B12011935 Woody Allen, Comedian/Actor
B12011940 Richard Pryor
B12011945 Bette Midler in Patterson NJ
B12011958 Charlene Tilton in San Diego Calif
B12021906 Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records.
B12021915 Adolph Green, Songwriter
B12021915 William Randolph Hearst, Publisher
B12021923 Maria Callas, soprano
B12021925 Julie Harris in Michigan
B12021949 Cathy Lee Crosby in Los Angeles
B12031729 Antonio Soler, famed late 18th century Spanish composer.
B12031857 Joseph Conrad in Poland, author
B12031930 Andy Williams, Singer
B12031930 Jean-Luc Godard, Filmmaker
B12031930 Phyllis Curtin in West Virginia
B12031931 Jaye P. Morgan in Mancos Cal
B12041795 Thomas Carlyle in Scotland, author
B12041922 Deanna Durbin, Actress
B12041943 Patti Chandler in California
B12041949 Jeff Bridges, Actor
B12051782 Martin Van Buren, 8th President from 1837 - 1841.
B12051839 General George A. Custer, lost to Indians.
B12051901 Walter Elias Disney, father of Mickey Mouse.
B12051902 Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator
B12051906 Otto Preminger, Film Producer
B12051951 Morgan Brittany
B12061822 John Eberhard, built first large scale pencil factory in US.
B12061870 William S. Hart, star of silent Western movies.
B12061886 Joyce Kilmer, poet, wrote about trees.
B12061896 Ira Gershwin, lyricist
B12061906 Agnes Moorehead
B12061920 Dave Brubeck, Jazz great
B12061947 Chelsea Brown in Chicago Ill
B12071542 Mary, Queen of Scots
B12071888 Joyce Cary, writer
B12071923 Ted Knight, Actor/Comedian
B12071932 Ellen Burstyn, Actress, in Detroit Michigan
B12071956 Priscilla Barnes
B1208  65 BC Horace in Rome, poet
B12081608 John Milton in England, author of "Paradise Lost."
B12081765 Eli Whitney, inventor
B12081848 Joel Chandler Harris, created the Uncle Remus stories
B12081861 William Durant, founded General Motors Corp.
B12081865 Jean Sibelius, major Scandinavian composer.
B12081894 James Thurber, humorist.
B12081925 Sammy Davis Jr., Actor/singer
B12081933 Flip Wilson, Comedian
B12081953 Kim Basinger, Actress, in Athens Georgia
B12081953 Sam Kinison, Comedian, in Peoria Illinois
B12091886 Clarence Birdseye, becomes the frozen vegatable king.
B12091897 Hermione Gingold
B12091911 Broderick Crawford, Actor
B12091911 Lee J. Cobb, Actor
B12091918 Kirk Douglas, Actor
B12091925 Dina Merrill in New York City
B12091957 Donny Osmond, Singer
B12101822 Cesar Franck in Belgium, composer
B12101830 Emily Dickinson, poet.
B12101851 Melvil Dewey, created the Dewey Decimal System for libraries.
B12101914 Dorothy Lamour, Actress, in New Orleans La
B12101946 Gloria Loring in New York City
B12101952 Susan Dey, Actress, in Illinois
B12111803 Hector Berlioz in France, composer
B12111918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writer
B12111931 Rita Moreno, Actress/Dancer, in Puerto Rico
B12111937 Anne Heywood
B12111944 Brenda Lee in Atlanta Georgia
B12111944 Donna Mills in Chicago Illinois
B12111945 Lynda Day-George in Tennessee
B12111947 Elizabeth Baur in California
B12111950 Christine Onassis in New York City
B12121745 John Jay, diplomat
B12121805 Henry Wells, founded American Express Co. and Wells Fargo & Co.
B12121821 Gustave Flaubert in France, novelist, 'Madame Bovary'
B12121915 Frank Sinatra, Singer
B12121938 Connie Francis, Singer, in Newark NJ
B12121941 Dionne Warwick in East Orange NJ
B12121962 Tracy Austin, Tennis player
B12131797 Heinrich Heine in Germany, poet
B12131925 Dick Van Dyke, Actor
B12131930 Genevieve Page
B12131941 John Davidson, Singer/TV Game show host
B12131948 Kathy Garver in California
B12141503 Nostradamus, prophet
B12141546 Tycho Brahe, astronomer
B12141896 James H. Doolittle, aviator
B12141914 Morey Amsterdam, Actor/Comedian
B12141932 Abbe Lane, Singer, in Brooklyn NY
B12141935 Lee Remick, Actress, in Boston Mass
B12141938 Janette Scott
B12141946 Jane Birkin
B12141946 Joyce Wilson (Dawn) in Detroit Michigan
B12141946 Patty Duke Astin, Actress, in Brooklyn NY
B12151832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, built a tower in Paris.
B12151861 Charles Edgar Duryea, with his brother, invented first auto
B12151861Cto be built and operated in US.
B12151933 Tim Conway, Comedian/Actor
B12151965 Helen Slater, Actress
B12161770 Ludwig von Beethoven in Germany, composer
B12161775 Jane Austen in England, novelist
B12161863 George Santayana, philosopher, poet, humanist.
B12161899 Sir Noel Coward, playwright
B12161901 Margaret Mead, anthropologist
B12161917 Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author ('2001')
B12161939 Liv Ullman, Actress, in Tokyo Japan
B12161952 Elayne Boosler, Comedien
B12171778 Sir Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements.
B12171807 John Greenleaf Whittier, poet
B12171874 William Lyon Mackenzie, twice Canadian Prime Minister
B12171874C(1921-30 & 1935-48.)
B12171894 Arthur Fiedler, Boston Pops conductor
B12171926 Patrice Wymore
B12171930 Julia Meade
B12181709 Elizabeth, empress of Russia (to Peter the Great and Catherine I)
B12181786 Carl Maria von Weber, composer
B12181861 Edward MacDowell, composer
B12181886 Ty Cobb, Baseball great.
B12181888 Robert Moses, power broker (built Long Island & NYC parks
B12181888Cand roads.)
B12181890 Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (invented FM.)
B12181916 Betty Grable in St Louis.
B12181942 Mohammed Ali, Boxer
B12181947 Steven Spielberg, Film Director/Producer
B12191849 Henry Clay Frick, industrialistל worked for Carnegie.
B12191906 Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet statesman, in the Ukraine.
B12191933 Cicely Tyson, Actress, in New York City
B12201805 Thomas Graham, the father of colloid chemistry.
B12201819 John Geary, San Francisco's first Postmaster, and first
B12201819CMayor (May 1, 1850.)
B12201868 Harvey Firestone, where the rubber meets the road.
B12201904 Irene Dunne in Louisville Ky
B12201928 Dr. Joyce Brothers
B12201952 Jenny Agutter in London
B12211879 Joseph Stalin, Russian dictator
B12211935 Phil Donahue, TV Host
B12211937 Jane Fonda in New York City - Workout videos with Barbarella
B12211939 Diane Lennon in Los Angeles
B12211954 Chris Evert Lloyd, Tennis great
B12221858 Giacomo Puccini in Italy, opera composer
B12221869 Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet
B12221912 Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady
B12221951 Jan Stephenson in Australia, Golfer
B12231790 Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics.
B12231805 Joesph Smith, founder of the Mormon church.
B12231918 Jose Greco
B12231924 Ruth Roman in Boston Mass
B12231941 Elizabeth Hartman in Youngstown Ohio
B12231949 Susan Lucci, soap star
B12241809 Kit Carson, Western scout.
B12241905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire.
B12241922 Ava Gardner, Actress
B12241959 Madonna, Rock Singer/Actress
B12250000 Jesus Christ, Savior, philosopher
B12251642 Sir Isaac Newton, scientist
B12251821 Clara Barton, philanthropist (founded the Red Cross)
B12251887 Conrad Hilton, hotelman
B12251899 Humphrey Bogart, Actor.  "Here's looking at you, kid."
B12251907 Cab Calloway, Vaudeville great
B12251918 Anwar Sadat, Egyptian president
B12251948 Barbara Mandrell, Singer, in Houston Texas
B12251949 Sissy Spacek in Quitman Texas
B12261716 Thomas Gray in England, poet
B12261837 Admiral George Dewey, military leader
B12261914 Richard Widmark, Actor
B12261917 Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary, keep her away from your tapes.
B12261921 Steve Allen, Comedian
B12261927 Alan King, Comedian
B12271571 Johannes Kepler, discovered planets travel in eliptical
B12271571Corbits.
B12271822 Louis Pasteur, French chemist and bacteriologist.
B12271901 Marlene Dietrich, Actress, in Berlin Germany.
B12271952 Tovah Feldsuh in New York City
B12271957 Caroline Kennedy
B12281856 Woodrow Wilson, 28th President from 1912 - 1921.
B12281925 Heldegarde Neff in Ulm Germany
B12281934 Maggie Smith, Actress, in Ilford England
B12291800 Charles Goodyear, invented vulcanization process for rubber.
B12291808 Andrew Johnson, 17th President from 1865 - 1869.
B12291809 William Ewart Gladstone, British statesman.
B12291876 Pablo Casals, cellist.
B12291921 Marla Powers
B12291934 Inga Swenson in Omaha Nebraska
B12291937 Mary Tyler Moore, Actress/Comedienne,  in Brooklyn NY
B12291938 Barbara Steele
B12291938 Jon Voight, Actor
B12291946 Marianne Faithful, Singer
B12301865 Rudyard Kipling, English poet and novelist, in India.
B12301867 Senator Simon Guggenheim, philanthropist.
B12301911 Jeanette Nolan
B12301919 Jo Van Fleet
B12301929 Barbara Nichols
B12301931 Skeeter Davis in Dry Ridge Kentucky
B12311869 Henri Matisse in France, artist
B12311941 Sarah Miles in England
B12311943 John Denver, Actor/Singer
B12311946 Diane Von Furstenberg in Brussels Belgium
B12311946 Patty Smith in Chicago Illinois
B12311948 Donna Summer, Singer, in Boston Mass
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*mmddyyyy Reminders
R1201     National Indigestion Season
R1206     Independence Day, celebrated in Finland.
R1208     Feast of the Immaculate Conception
R1210     Human Rights Day, a United Nations observance.
R1212     Independence Day, celebrated in Kenya
R1212     National Ding-a-ling Day (honest!)
R1215     Bill of Rights Day.
R1219     Underdog Day.  Awwwwww . . .
R1221     The Winter Solstice, shortest day of the year.
R1224     Christmas Eve.  No fair peeking 'till morning.
R1225     Christmas Day. Peace on Earth, good will toward all men.
R1225     Constitution Day, celebrated in Republic of China (Taiwan.)
R1226     National Whiner's Day
R1226    1Boxing Day, in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland.)
R1226    2Boxing Day, in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland.)
R1226    3Boxing Day, in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland.)
R1226    4Boxing Day, in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland.)
R1226    5Boxing Day, in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland.)
R1227    1Boxing Day, in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland.)
R1228    1Boxing Day, in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland.)
R1231     Happy New Year!!! (tonight at midnight.)
R1231     Make Up Your Mind Day
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*mmddyyyy Events
S12011887 Sherlock Holmes first appears in print: "A Study In Scarlet."
S12011913 First drive-up gasoline station opens, in Pittsburgh.
S12011917 Father Edward Flanagan founds Boys Town.
S12011922 First skywriting over the US - "Hello U.S.A." - by Capt.
S12011922CTurner, RAF.
S12011929 Bingo invented by Edwin S. Lowe.
S12011959 First color photograph of Earth from outer space.
S12021816 First savings bank in US opens as the Philadelphia Savings
S12021816CFund Society.
S12021823 President James Monroe declares his doctrine.
S12021859 John Brown executed.
S12021887 Charles Dickens' first public reading in U.S., in New York
S12021887CCity.
S12021942 First controlled nuclear reaction at University of Chicago.
S12021952 First human birth televised to public, Denver, Co.
S12021954 US Senate censures Joe McCarthy for his conduct.
S12021957 First full-scale atomic electric power plant goes online in
S12021957CPennsylvania.
S12021974 Shohei "Giant" Baba defeats Jack Brisco for NWA World
S12021974CHeavyweight Championship in Kagoshimi, Japan.  This begins the
S12021974Cfirst of three title reigns for Baba.
S12021974 Soyuz 16 is launched.
S12021982 First permanent artificial heart successfully implanted.
S12031586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from
S12031586CColombia.
S12031621 Galileo invents the telescope.
S12031818 Illinois becomes the 21st state.
S12031952 First television broadcast in Hawaii.
S12031954 Joseph McCarthy goes too far in his attacks and is condemned
S12031954Cby the U.S. Senate.
S12031967 First human heart transplant performed, in Capetown, South
S12031967CAfrica.
S12031985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 returns to Earth.
S12041619 America's first Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in Virginia.
S12041674 Father Marquette builds first dwelling in what is now Chicago.
S12041783 Gen. Washington bids his officers farewell at Fraunce's
S12041783CTavern, New York City.
S12041912 Roald Amundsen reaches the South pole.
S12041915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens.
S12041965 Gemini VII is launched.
S12051776 Phi Beta Kappa, first American scholastic fraternity, founded.
S12051933 Prohibition is ended in U.S. by ratification of 21st Amendment.
S12051935 First commercial hydroponics operation established,
S12051935CMontebello Ca.
S12051951 "Dragnet" premieres.
S12051955 AFL and CIO merge.
S12051973 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album.
S12061768 First edition of Encyclopaedia Brittanica is published in
S12061768CScotland.
S12061876 City of Anaheim incorporated for a second time.
S12061907 Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kill 361 men.
S12061917 Finland gains its independence.
S12061973 Gerald Ford becomes the first unelected vice president.
S12071787 Delaware is the first state to ratify the Constitution.
S12071842 New York Philharmonic gives its first concert.
S12071868 Pearshall Brothers open a school in New York City ... to teach
S12071868Cthe art of riding a bicycle!
S12071941 Pearl Harbor is attacked.  A day that will live in infamy.
S12071941CFirst Japanese submarine sunk by American ship (Ward.)
S12071953 Prime Minister of Israel Ben-Gureon retires.
S12071972 Apollo 17, last of the Apollo moon series, launched.
S12081886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions,
S12081886Cin Columbus, Ohio.
S12081931 Coaxial cable patented.
S12081952 First TV acknowledgement of pregnancy - "I Love Lucy."
S12081974 Soyuz 16 returns to Earth.
S12081983 Ninth Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 returns to Earth.
S12081987 President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev
S12081987Csign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles.
S12091640 Settler Hugh Bewitt is banished from colony of Massachusetts
S12091640Cwhen he declares himself to be free of original sin.
S12091793 Noah Webster establishes New York's first daily newspaper.
S12091907 First Christmas Seals sold, in the Wilmington, Delaware
S12091907CPost Office.
S12091974 Jack Brisco defeats Shohei "Giant" Baba for NWA World
S12091974CHeavyweight Championship in Tokyo, Japan.  This begins
S12091974Cworld title reign #2 for Jack Brisco.
S12101817 Mississippi becomes the 20th state.
S12101901 First awarding and distribution of Nobel Peace Prizes.
S12101927 Grand Ole Opry makes its first radio broadcast, in
S12101927CNashville, TN.
S12101975 Terry Funk defeats Jack Brisco for the NWA World Heavyweight
S12101975CChampionship in Miami, FL.
S12101977 Soyuz 26 is launched.
S12101980 Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth.
S12101982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off.
S12111816 Indiana becomes the 19th state.
S12111936 King Edward VIII of England abdicates for the woman
S12111936Che loves, brother George VI ascends throne.
S12111954 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va.
S12111970 John Lennon releases an album that contains songs with
S12111970Cthe word "fuck."
S12111975 First Class Mail now costs 13 cents (had been 10 cents).
S12121787 Pennsylvania becomes the 2nd state.
S12121901 Marconi receives first trans-Atlantic radio signal from
S12121901CEngland to US.
S12121925 Arthur Heinman coins the term "motel," opens one in
S12121925CSan Luis Obispo.
S12121937 First mobile television unit, NY city.
S12121963 Kenya gains its independence.
S12121964 Russia launches Voshkod I, first multi-crew in space (3 men.)
S12131577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world.
S12131903 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone ... in New Jersey.
S12131903 Wright brothers first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, NC.
S12131918 Wilson becomes first to make a foreign visit while President.
S12131928 George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres.
S12131978 Susan B. Anthony dollar, first US coin to honor a woman,
S12131978Cissued.  It doesn't catch on, and fades from circulation.
S12141656 Artificial pearls first manufactured by M. Jacquin in Paris,
S12141656Cmade of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales.
S12141799 George Washington dies at Mt Vernon, Va.
S12141819 Alabama becomes the 22nd state.
S12141911 South Pole first reached by Roald Amundsen.
S12141985 Roger Maris dies at age 51.
S12151791 Bill of Rights is ratified when Virginia gives its approval.
S12151877 Patent granted to Mr. Edison for the phonograph.
S12151939 First commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware.
S12151939 World Premiere of "Gone With The Wind" in Atlanta, GA.
S12151944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over the English Channel.
S12151964 American Radio Relay League founded.
S12151965 First rendevous in space: Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 link up.
S12161773 Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor.  British unwelcome.
S12161893 Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres.
S12161905 "Variety", covering all phases of show business, first
S12161905Cpublished.
S12161907 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on its World
S12161907CCruise.
S12161944 Battle of the Bulge begins.
S12161965 Gemini VI returns to Earth.
S12171538 Pope Paul III excommunicates England's King Henry VIII.
S12171777 France recognizes the independence of the 13 colonies.
S12171791 New York City traffic regulation creates the first one-way
S12171791Cstreet.
S12171792 Opening of first legislative assembly of Lower Canada in
S12171792CQuebec city.
S12171843 "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published in London.
S12171852 First Hawaiian cavalry organized.
S12171860 Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County.
S12171903 First sustained motorized aircraft flight by Wright Brothers,
S12171903Cat 10:35AM, for 12 seconds and a distance of 36 meters in
S12171903CKitty Hawk NC.
S12171933 First professional football game: Chicago Bears vs. NY Giants.
S12171954 First fully automated railroad freight yard - Gary In.
S12171959 First movie opening simultaneously in major cities -
S12171959C"On The Beach."
S12181787 New Jersey becomes the 3rd state.
S12181865 13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished.
S12181899 George Grant wins patent for his golf tee.
S12181945 Uruguay joins the United Nations.
S12181965 Gemini VII returns to Earth,
S12181969 The British parliament votes for the abolition of death penalty.
S12181971 Diana Lynn dies at age 45.
S12181973 Soyuz 13 is launched.
S12191732 Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's
S12191732CAlmanack."
S12191741 Vitus Bering, Dutch navigator and explorer dies.
S12191777 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge for the winter.
S12191842 United States recognizes independence of Hawaii.
S12191889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii.
S12191933 Electric Home and Farm Authority Inc, authorized.
S12191946 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks the French.
S12191972 Apollo 17 returns to Earth.
S12201699 Peter the Great orders Russian New Year changed from Sept 1
S12201699Cto Jan 1.
S12201803 Louisiana Purchase officially transferred.
S12201850 Hawaiian post office established.
S12201880 New York's Broadway lighted by electricity, becomes known as
S12201880Cthe "Great White Way."
S12201883 International cantilever railway bridge opened at Niagara Falls.
S12201919 Canadian National Railways established (longest on continent
S12201919Cwith more than 50,000 kilometers of track in US and Canada.)
S12201922 Fourteen republics of Russia form USSR.
S12201939 Radio Australia starts shortwave service.
S12201944 Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surrounded 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
S12201968 American novelist John Steinbeck dies.
S12201976 Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin resigns.
S12211620 The Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock, Mass
S12211909 University of Copenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he
S12211909Cis first to North Pole.
S12211913 First crossword puzzle (with 32 clues), printed in New York
S12211913CWorld.
S12211929 First group hospital insurance plan offered, Dallas Texas.
S12211933 Human blood serum first prepared.
S12211937 First feature-length cartoon with color and sound premieres...
S12211937C"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
S12211954 Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered.
S12211968 Apollo 8 is launched.
S12211973 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US and USSR meet in Geneva.
S12221772 Moravian missionaries begin construction of the first schoolhouse
S12221772Cwest of the Allegheny Mountains, at Schoenbrunn, Pa
S12221895 United States Golf Association is formed.
S12221937 New York's Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic.
S12231569 St. Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible.
S12231783 George Washington resigns as US Army's commander-in-chief.
S12231834 Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs.
S12231947 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley in Bell
S12231947CLabs.
S12231973 Six Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices.
S12231975 Metric Conversion Act.  Yeah, sure!
S12241814 Treaty of Ghent signed, ending War of 1812 (this news did not
S12241814Carrive until after the Battle of New Orleans.)
S12241818 "Silent Night" composed by Franz Gruber, sung the next day.
S12241906 First known radio program in US is broadcast.
S12241910 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain.
S12241936 First radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca
S12251776 Washington crosses the Delaware and surprises the Hessians.
S12251843 First theatre matinee given at Olympic Theatre, New York City.
S12251939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the ninth reindeer.
S12251968 Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting the moon.
S12261865 James Nason invents the first American coffee percolator.
S12261973 Soyuz 13 returns to Earth.
S12271741 Prussian forces take Olmutz, Czechoslovakia.
S12271831 Darwin begins his voyage onboard the HMS Beagle.
S12271850 Hawaiian Fire Department established.
S12271867 Ontario and Quebec legislatures hold first meeting.
S12271871 World's first Cat Show held at Crystal Palace in London.
S12271903 "Sweet Adaline", a barbershop quartet favorite, is first sung.
S12271927 "Show Boat" opens in New York City.
S12271927 Joseph Stalin's faction wins at the All-Union Congress
S12271927Cin the Soviet Union and Leon Trotsky is expelled
S12271927Cfrom the Communist party.
S12271932 Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens.
S12271934 First youth hostel opened, Northfield, Mass.
S12271945 International Monetary Fund established.
S12271947 "Howdy Doody" premieres.
S12271968 Apollo 8 returns to Earth.
S12271972 Lester Pearson, former Canadian Prime Minister and winner of
S12271972CNobel Peace Prize for his work in the Suez Crisis of 1956, dies.
S12281669 A patent for chewing gum is granted to William Semple.
S12281846 Iowa becomes the 29th state.
S12281849 Dry-cleaning accidentally discovered when M. Jolly-Bellin,
S12281849Ca tailor, upsets a lamp, containing turpentine and oil,
S12281849Con his clothing and noticed it had a cleaning effect.
S12281890 Battle of Wounded Knee, SD - Last major conflict with Indians.
S12281902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US.
S12281992 NWA World Heavyweight champ Masahiro Chono successfully defends
S12281992Cagainst Keiji Muta in Atlanta, GA.  This is 1st time in the
S12281992C100+ year history of the NWA that 2 Japanese fight for the world
S12281992Cheavyweight title on American soil.
S12291170 Archbishop Thomas A. Becket is murdered by supporters of
S12291170CKing Henry II.
S12291845 Texas becomes the 28th state.
S12291852 Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants!
S12291911 San Francisco Symphony formed.
S12291916 Death of Rasputin, the monk.
S12291921 William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeds Arthur Meighen
S12291921Cas Canadian Prime Minister.
S12291931 Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey.
S12291937 Pan Am starts San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand service.
S12291949 First UHF television station operating regular basis,
S12291949CBridgeport Ct.
S12291949 Hungary nationalizes its industries.
S12291952 First transistorized hearing aid sold, Elmsford NY
S12301809 Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston.
S12301817 First coffee planted in Hawaii, in Kona.
S12301853 Gadsden Purchase signedל U.S. acquires Arizona and New Mexico.
S12301935 Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia.
S12301938 Electronic television system patented, VK Zworykin.
S12311384 John Wycliffe, English religious reformer, dies.
S12311600 British East India Company chartered.
S12311719 John Flamsteed, father of modern astronomy, dies.
S12311776 Rhode Island establishes wage & price controls to curb inflation:
S12311776CLimit is 70 cents a day for carpenters, 42 cents for tailors.
S12311857 Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as the new capital of Canada.
S12311862 The Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sinks at Cape Hatteras, NC.
S12311879 Cornerstone laid for Honolulu's Iolani Palace (only royal
S12311879Cpalace in US.)
S12311879 Edison gives public demonstration of his incandescent lamp.
S12311890 Ellis Island opens as a US immigration depot.
S12311921 Last San Francisco Fire Dept. horses retired.
S12311951 First battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical
S12311951Cannounced.
S12311958 Willie Shoemaker becomes first jockey to win national
S12311958Criding championship 4 times.
S12311974 Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3 million Yank contract.
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