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*mmddyyyy Birthdays
B07011646 Gottfried Leibnitz, mathematician-philosopher
B07011912 David Brower, Yosemite Calendar
B07011916 Olivia De Havilland, Actress, in Toyko, Japan
B07011925 Farley Granger, Actor
B07011931 Leslie Caron, Actress, in Paris, France
B07011934 Jamie Farr, Actor
B07011934 Jean Marsh in London England
B07011934 Sydney Pollack, Movie director
B07011941 Sally Quinn, CBS News reporter
B07011941 Twyla Tharp, Choreographer, in Indiana
B07011942 Karen Black, Actress
B07011942 Genevieve Bujold, Actress, in Montreal Canada
B07011952 Dan Aykroyd, Actor-comedian
B07011956 Lorna Patterson, in Whittier Calif
B07011960 Evelyn 'Champagne' King, Singer
B07011961 Princess Diana, Prince Charles' wife
B07011937 "Wolfman Jack", a howling success in radio
B07021908 Thurgood Marshall, first black Supreme Court Justice
B07021922 Dan Rowan, comedian
B07021931 Emelda Marcos, wife of former Phillipine president Ferdinand.
B07021935 Kaye Stevens, in Pittsburgh Pa
B07021937 Polly Holliday, Actress
B07021947 Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, daughter of Pres LBJ.
B07021951 Cheryl Ladd, Actress, in South Dakota
B07021961 Jimmy McNichol, Actor
B07031567 Samuel de Champlain, explorer
B07031883 Franz Kafka in Czechoslavakia, author
B07031913 Dorothy Kilgallen
B07031927 Ken Russell, Movie director
B07031930 Pete Fountain, Jazz musician
B07031937 Tom Stoppard, Playwright
B07031947 Betty Buckley, Broadway actress
B07031951 Jean-Claude Duvalier, Former Haitian President-for-Life
B07031957 Laura Branigan, Singer
B07041753 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, first balloon flights
B07041753Cin England and US.
B07041804 Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer
B07041826 Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna."
B07041867 Stephen Mather, Yosemite Calendar
B07041872 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President from 1923 - 1929.
B07041878 George M Cohan, entertainer
B07041883 Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult.
B07041900 Louis Armstrong, 'Satchmo.'
B07041902 George Murphy, Actor
B07041911 Mitch Miller, "sing-along" conductor.
B07041912 Virginia Graham, TV personality
B07041916 Tokyo Rose
B07041918 Abigail Van Buren and Ann Landers
B07041918C - Advice columnists and twin sisters.
B07041924 Eva Marie Saint, Actress
B07041927 Neil Simon, playwright
B07041928 Gina Lollobrigida, Actress/photographer, in Italy
B07041928 Steven Boyd, Actor
B07041930 George Steinbrenner, Yankee owner
B07041962 Pam Shriver, Tennis player
B07051794 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker.
B07051801 David G. Farragut, American naval hero, in Knoxville, Tenn.
B07051810 Phineas T. Barnum, Showman, is born in Bethel Conn.
B07051934 Katherine Helmond in Texas
B07051936 Shirley Knight, Actress
B07051946 Sylvester Stallone, Actor
B07051948 Julie Nixon Eisenhower in Washington DC
B07051951 Richard 'Goose' Gossage - Baseball relieve pitcher
B07051951 Huey Lewis, Rock star
B07061747 John Paul Jones, naval officer ("I have not yet begun to fight")
B07061915 Laverne Andrews, Singer, one of the Andrews Sisters.
B07061923 Nancy Davis Reagan in New York, First Lady
B07061927 Janet Leigh in California, Maybe I won't take a shower with her
B07061932 Della Reese, Singer, in Detroit
B07061940 Ringo Starr, Musician
B07061952 Shelly Hack, Actress, "Charlie's Angels"
B07071752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented the programmable loom.
B07071860 Gustav Mahler, Bohemian composer
B07071907 Robert A Heinlein, author of Science Fiction classics.
B07071911 Gian Carlo Menotti, composer
B07071927 Doc Severinson, Musician
B07081838 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, inventor
B07081839 John D Rockefeller, financier
B07081937 Barbara Ann Loden
B07081946 Cynthia Gregory, Dancer, in Los Angeles.
B07081948 Kim Darby, Actress, in North Hollywood, CA.
B07091802 Thomas Davenport, invented first commercially successful
B07091802Celectric motor.
B07091819 Elias Howe, inventor of sewing machine.
B07091947 O.J. Simpson, Football Player, Actor
B07101509 John Calvin, theologian
B07101834 James Whistler, artist, mama's boy.
B07101867 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist/humorist who created Mr. Dooley.
B07101915 Saul Bellow, Writer
B07101920 David Brinkley, Newscaster
B07101943 Arthur Ashe, Tennis Player
B07101946 Sue Lyon, Actress, in Iowa
B07111767 John Quincy Adams, 6th President from 1825 - 1829.
B07111838 John Wanamaker, merchant
B07111920 Yul Brynner, Actor/Singer
B07111931 Tab Hunter, Actor
B07121730 Josiah Wedgwood, pottery manufacturer
B07121817 Henry David Thoreau, always had Ralph Waldo Emerson
B07121817Caround to bail him out of trouble.
B07121854 George Eastman, inventor (created the Kodak camera)
B07121895 Buckminster Fuller, Engineer/writer
B07121895 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers.
B07121895 R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome.
B07121908 Milton Berle, "Uncle Miltie" - Mr Television
B07121937 Bill Cosby, Actor/comedian
B07121944 Denise Nichols in Detroit Michigan
B07131863 Mary Emma Wooley, educator
B07131942 Harrison Ford, actor - Indiana Jones
B07141912 Woodie Guthrie, singer
B07141913 Gerald R. Ford, 38th President from 1974 - 1976.
B07141918 Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory.
B07141924 Eva Marie Saint, Actress, in Newark NJ
B07141927 John Chancellor, NBC News journalist
B07141930 Polly Bergen, Actress, in Tennessee
B07141943 Lynn Loring  in New York City
B07151606 Rembrandt, Dutch painter.
B07151779 Clement Moore, poet
B07151850 Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini, church leader
B07151932 Nina Van Pallandt in Coopenhagen Denmark
B07151936 Joan Rivers in Brooklyn NY - "Can we talk?"
B07151946 Linda Ronstadt, Singer, in Tucson Arizona.
B07151960 Kim Alexis in Lockport NY - Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover
B07161821 Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science movement.
B07161907 Barbara Stanwyck, Actress
B07161909 Ginger Rogers, Dancer/Actress, in Independence Mo.
B07161915 Laverne Andrews in Minneapolis - one of the Andrews Sisters.
B07161942 Margaret Court Smith, Tennis great
B07171674 Isaac Watts in England, writer and preacher
B07171744 Elbridge Gerry, statesman (father of the "gerrymander")
B07171763 John Jacob Astor, merchant
B07171889 Erle Stanley Gardner, writer, created Perry Mason
B07171900 James Cagney, actor.
B07171917 Phyllis Diller, Comedienne
B07171935 Diahann Carroll, Actress, in Bronx NY
B07171951 Lucie Arnaz, Actress, in California
B07181811 William Makepeach Thackeray, Victorian novelist, wrote
B07181811C 'Vanity Fair.'
B07181848 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer.
B07181906 Clifford Odets, Dramatist
B07181906 Dr. S. I. Hayakawa, U.S. Senator/Educator
B07181913 Red Skelton, clown to the world.
B07181916 Harriet Nelson, Actress/Singer with Ozzie's band.
B07181921 John Glenn, Jr, astronaut (first American in orbit)/Senator.
B07181941 Martha Reeves, Singer, in Detroit Michigan.
B07181961 Elizabeth McGovern, in Evanston Illinois
B07191814 Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt Revolver.
B07191834 Edgar Degas in France, artist.
B07191865 Charles H Mayo, doctor
B07191922 George McGovern, U.S. Senator
B07191942 Vicki Carr, Singer, in El Paso Texas.
B07201304 Petrarch in Italy, poet.
B07201919 Sir Edmund Hillary, explorer, conqueror of Mt. Everest.
B07201925 Lola Albright
B07201934 Sally Ann Howes in London England.
B07201938 Diana Rigg in Doncaster England, an "Avenger."
B07201938 JoAnn Campbell in Florida - Lawrence Welk's champagne lady
B07201938 Natalie Wood, Actress, in San Francisco.
B07201947 Carlos Santana, Musician
B07211899 Ernest Hemingway, writer (never asked for whom the bell tolled)
B07211899 Hart Crane, Writer
B07211920 Isaac Stern, violinist
B07211924 Don Knotts, Comedian/Actor
B07211943 Christie McVie (Fleetwood Mac)
B07211952 Robin Williams, Actor/Comedian
B07221844 Rev. William Archibald Spooner, invented 'spoonerisms.'
B07221849 Emma Lazarus, whose poem is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.
B07221890 Rose Kennedy, mother of Jack, Robert, and Ted.
B07221898 Alexander Calder, Sculptor
B07221898 Stephen Vincent Benet, poet
B07221932 Oscar De La Renta, Designer
B07231834 James Cardinal Gibbons
B07231925 Gloria DeHaven in Los Angeles, actress
B07231936 Don Drysdale, Ball Player
B07241783 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule.
B07241802 Alexandre Dumas, told the Count of Monte Christo how to escape.
B07241870 Fred Law Olmsted Jr.,  Yosemite Calendar
B07241898 Amelia Earhart, pilot, into the wild blue yonder.
B07241920 Bella Abzug in NY.
B07241936 Ruth Buzzi in Rhode Island. "Laugh-in"
B07241951 Lynda Carter in Pheonix Az, Miss USA and Wonder Woman
B072419?? Dany Savlia in Oakland California
B07251907 Jack Gilford, Actor
B07251943 Janet Margolin
B07251978 Louise Brown, first test-tube baby (born under the sign of Pyrex.)
B07261856 George Bernard Shaw, writer, "Youth is wasted on the young."
B07261922 Jason Robards, Actor
B07261922 Marjorie Lord, Make Room For Daddy - The mommy
B07261940 Mary Jo Kopechne, former friend of Ted Kennedy.
B07261943 Mick Jagger, never gathers moss.
B07261944 Micki King, Olympic diver.
B07261945 Linda Harrison in Berlin.
B07261950 Susan George in England.
B07261956 Dorothy Hamill in Connecticut, Olympic Gold medal ice skater
B07271916 Keenan Wynn, actor
B07271922 Norman Lear, Writer
B07271938 Shirley Ann Field in England
B07271942 Barbara Ferris in London England
B07271944 Bobbie Gentry, Singer, in Mississippi.
B07271947 Betty Thomas in St Louis. Hill St Blues' Sgt Lucy Bates
B07271948 Peggy Fleming in San Jose California, Olympic gold medal
B07271948Cice skater
B07271948 Sally Struthers in Portland Oregon. (Archie's little girl)
B07271949 Maureen McGovern in Youngstown Ohio, singer.
B07281929 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former first lady, redecorator
B07281943 Bill Bradley, Basketball Player
B07281943 Mike Bloomfield, Blues Musician
B07281967 Lori Loughlin in New York
B07291869 Booth Tarkington, novelist.
B07291871 Rasputin, the mad Russian monk.
B07291883 Benito Mussolini, Italian facist dictator.
B07291890 Theda Bara, silent picture star.
B07291905 Clara Bow, silent picture star
B07291905 Dag Hammarskjold, U.N. Secretary-General
B07291905 Thelma Todd, Actress
B07291907 Melvin Belli, San Francisco's 'King of Torts.'
B07301863 Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer
B07301890 Casey Stengel, NY Yankee and Met manager
B07301929 Chris McGuirre
B07301939 Peter Bogdanovich, Actor
B07301941 Paul Anka, Singer
B07311763 James Kent, legal scholar
B07311939 France Nuyen in Marselles France
B07311944 Geraldine Chaplin
B07311951 Evonne Goolagong in Australia, Tennis player
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*mmddyyyy Reminders
R0701     Dominion Day -- Canada.
R0701     Hot Dog Month
R0704     Independence Day. Are fireworks legal where YOU live?
R0705     Independence Day, celebrated in Venezuela.
R0707     Annual Running of the Bulls at Pamplona, Spain.
R0709     Independence Day, celebrated in Argentina.
R0709     National POW/MIA Recognition Day.
R0711     National Holiday of the People's Republic of Outer Mongolia.
R0711    C(Celebrated mainly in Ulan Bator, yurt capital of Asia.)
R0713     The start of the Bon Festival in Japan.
R0714     Bastille Day -- France.
R0715     National Ice Cream Day.
R0715     Saint Swithin's Day.
R0716     The National Blueberry Festival.
R0717     Constitution Day, celebrated in South Korea.
R0718     National Day, celebrated in Spain.
R0720     Independence Day, celebrated in Columbia.
R0721     Independence Day, celebrated in Belgium.
R0723     National Day, in Egypt.
R0726     Independence Day, celebrated in Liberia.
R0726     The start of the Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree in Athens, Texas.
R0728     Independence Day, celebrated in Peru.
R0729    6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
R0730    6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
R0731    6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
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*mmddyyyy Events
S07011535 Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason.
S07011690 England's Protestant King William III defeats former Roman
S07011690CCatholic King James II in the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
S07011776 First vote on the Declaration of Independence.
S07011847 First adhesive US postage stamps go on sale.
S07011863 Battle of Gettysburg, ended on July 3.
S07011867 Canada becomes a self-governing dominion of Great Britain.
S07011898 Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill.
S07011899 San Francisco City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years
S07011899Cof building.
S07011916 Eisenhower marries Mary ססMamie'' Geneva Doud in Denver Colo
S07011919 First Class Postage DROPS to 2 cents from 3 cents.
S07011931 Ice vending machines introduced in Los Angeles. 25 lbs, 15 cents.
S07011941 First coml TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), NYC
S07011943 First withholding tax from paychecks.
S07011944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing world-wide
S07011944Cfinancial systems (like the IMF and the World Bank.)
S07011961 Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii.
S07011963 Beatles record "She Loves You."
S07011966 Medicare established to help elderly with health care costs
S07011968 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation
S07011968CTreaty.
S07011969 Charles Philip Arthur George invested as the Prince of Wales.
S07011971 Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?)
S07011982 More than 2000 Unification Church couples married at New York's
S07011982CMadison Square Garden.
S07011987 NYC radio station WFAN-AM becomes the first 24 hour
S07011987Call sports radio, replacing WHN's country music.
S07021566 French astrologer physician and prophet Nostradamus dies.
S07021776 Continental Congress passes resolution saying סthese
S07021776CUnited Colonies are and of right ought to be Free and
S07021776CIndependent States.'
S07021881 Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed
S07021881Coffice-seeker.  Garfield dies the following September.
S07021890 Sherman Antitrust Act passed.
S07021900 First flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1.)
S07021926 United States Army Air Corps created.
S07021937 Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean.
S07021940 The Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge is opened.
S07021955 סLawrence Welk Show' premieres on ABC television
S07021957 First sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor
S07021957Ccompleted - The Seawolf.
S07021957 First submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched,
S07021957C the Grayback.
S07021961 Ernest Hemingway shoots himself to death in Ketchum Idaho.
S07021964 LBJ signs into law sweeping civil rights act passed by Congress.
S07021976 Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual.
S07021982 Russians' Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth.
S07021986 The Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings.
S07021987 Accused Nazi Karl Linnas dies of heart failure in Russia.
S07021987 "A Chorus Line" Director Michael Bennett dies of Aids at 44.
S07031608 City of Quebec founded by Samuel de Champlain.
S07031775 Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge Mass
S07031806 Michael Keens exhibits the first cultivated strawberry.
S07031819 First savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors.
S07031861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from New York.
S07031863 Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends in a major victory for the North.
S07031890 Idaho becomes the 43rd state of the Union.
S07031898 US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in the harbor at Santiago Cuba.
S07031939 Lou Gehrig day, Gehrig makes 'luckiest man' speech.
S07031950 First time American and North Korean forces clash in the
S07031950CKorean War.
S07031962 Algeria becomes independent after 132 years of French rule.
S07031976 Israel launches rescue of passengers and Air France crew
S07031976Cmembers, being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by
S07031976Cpro-Palestinian hijackers.
S07031984 Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women
S07031984Cas members.
S07031985 CBS announces it will buy back 21 percent of its own stock.
S07031986 President Reagan re-lights the renovated Statue of Liberty.
S07041054 Brightest known super-nova starts shining, for 23 days.
S07041802 US Military Academy officially opens at West Point NY.
S07041826 Second and third presidents-John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die
S07041826Con the same Independence Day.
S07041828 First US passenger railroad is begun, Baltimore & Ohio.
S07041831 James Monroe, the fifth president, dies.
S07041845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond.
S07041862 Lewis Carroll begins inventing the story of Alice in
S07041862CWonderland for his friend Alice Pleasance Liddell during
S07041862Ca boating trip.
S07041863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho.)
S07041884 Statue of Liberty is presented to US in Paris.
S07041894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the first US autos.
S07041903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens.
S07041903 President Roosevelt sends a message to the Phillipines,
S07041903Cthen a message around the world in 12 minutes.
S07041933 Work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge.
S07041939 Yankees retire first uniform י4, Lou Gehrig first Old Timers Day.
S07041942 First American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW2)
S07041946 The Philippines becomes independent of US sovereignty
S07041959 America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled.
S07041960 America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled.
S07041966 LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act.
S07041976 Raid on Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers.
S07041982 Fourth Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 4 returns to Earth.
S07041987 Martina Navaratalova wins her 6th straight Wimbeldon.
S07051811 Venezuela gains independence from Spain.
S07051830 The French occupy the North African city of Algiers
S07051841 Thomas Cook opens first travel agency.  They are first involved
S07051841Cin organizing trips for groups opposed to alchololic beverages.
S07051865 William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England.
S07051935 First 'Hawaii Calls' radio program is broadcast.
S07051935 President FDR signs into law the National Labor Relations Act.
S07051938 Herb Caen gets his first column in the S.F. Chronicle.
S07051940 Diplomatic relations broken between Britain & Vichy govt in France.
S07051944 First rocket airplane flown.
S07051946 Louis Reard's Bikini swimsuit design debuts in Paris.
S07051948 Carole Landis dies at age 29.
S07051950 Law of Return passes allowing all Jews rights to live in Israel.
S07051950 Pvt. Kenneth Shadrick of Skin Fork WVa is the first US fatality
S07051950Cin Korean War.
S07051951 Junction transistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ.
S07051971 Amendment 26 to the US Constitution lowers voting age to 18.
S07051975 Cape Verdes Islands independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule.
S07051978 Russians' Soyuz 30 is launched.
S07051984 Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old סexclusionary rule.'
S07051984CEvidence seized with defective court warrants can now be
S07051984Cused in criminal trials.
S07051986 Nancy Reagan cuts red white & blue ribbon reopening
S07051986CStatue of Liberty.
S07061854 First Republican state convention.
S07061885 First inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur.
S07061886 Horlick's of Wisconsin offers first malted milk to the public.
S07061919 R-34 lands in NY, first airship to make the Atlantic crossing.
S07061920 Yanks score team record 14 runs in 1 inning vs Senators.
S07061928 Preview of first all-talking motion picture takes place in NYC.
S07061932 First Class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents.
S07061933 First All-Star baseball game.  American League wins 5-2.
S07061976 Russians' Soyuz 21 is launched.
S0718  64 The Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero doesn't fiddle.)
S07071891 A patent is granted for the travelers' cheque.
S07071898 Hawaii annexed to the US as a territory.
S07071967 Vivian Leigh dies at age 53.
S07071973 Veronica Lake dies at age 58.
S07081796 First American Passport issued by the US State Department.
S07081835 The Liberty Bell cracks (again.)
S07081889 Vol 1, No 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" published.
S07081896 William Jennings Bryan makes his 'cross of gold' speech at the
S07081896CDemocratic Convention in Chicago.
S07081950 Leroy Deans awarded first Order of the Purple Heart in Korea.
S07081990 Sting defeats "Nature Boy" Ric Flair for NWA World Heavyweight
S07081990CChampionship.  (Sting's first title reign begins)
S07091800 Mt. Vernon Gardens becomes site of first summer theatre in U.S.
S07091816 Argentina gains its independence.
S07091846 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for the U.S.
S07091953 First helicopter passenger service, NY city.
S07091957 Announcement of discovery of element 102 - Nobelium.
S07091979 Voyager II flies past Jupiter.
S07101890 Wyoming becomes the 44th state.
S07101892 First concrete-paved street built - in Bellefountaine, Ohio.
S07101925 the Scopes 'Monkey' Trial starts.
S07101932 Jack Burnett gets 9 hits in 1 18 inning game.
S07101933 First police radio system operated, Eastchester Twp, NY.
S07101943 US & British invade Sicily in WWII.
S07101949 First practical rectangular TV tube announced - Toledo, Oh.
S07101962 Telstar, first geosynchonous communications satelite launched.
S07111804 Aaron Burr fatally wounds Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
S07111936 Triborough Bridge links Manhattan, the Bronx & Queens.
S07111962 First transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I.)
S07121543 Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th & last wife.)
S07121689 Orangeman's Day-Battle of the Boyne, Protestant victory in Ireland.
S07121812 US forces lead by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812.)
S07121817 First flower show is held at Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland.
S07121933 Congress passes first minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour.)
S07121957 First President to fly in helicopter - Dwight Eisenhower.
S07121979 Minnie Ripperton dies of cancer at 30.
S07121992 Leon "Big Van Vader" White defeats Sting for NWA World
S07121992CHeavyweight Championship - Albany, GA.
S07121992 Terry "BAMM BAMM" Gordy & Steve "Dr. Death" Williams win 16
S07121992Cteam tournament for vacant NWA World Tagteam Title - Albany, GA.
S07131568 The Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer.
S07131787 Ordinance of 1787 establishing that each territory can become
S07131787C3 to 5 states and reach statehood at 60,000 population
S07131865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west."
S07141789 The citizens of Paris storm the Bastille prison.
S07141850 First public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration.
S07141853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese.
S07141865 The first ascent of the Matterhorn. (not Disneyland's!)
S07141868 Patent granted for a tape measure enclosed in a circular case.
S07141881 Billy the Kid is killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Ft Sumner, NM.
S07141927 First commercial airplane flight arrives in Hawaii.
S07141950 RE Wayne awarded first Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea.
S07141951 Citation first horse to win $1,000,000 in races.
S07141953 First national monument dedicated to a Black - GW Carver.
S07141959 First atomic powered cruiser, the Long Beach, Quincy Mass.
S07141966 Richard Speck kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory.
S07141991 Lex Luger defeats Barry Windham for vacant NWA World Heavyweight
S07141991CChampionship - Baltimore, MD.
S07151869 Margarine is patented in Paris, for use in the French Navy.
S07151929 First airport hotel opens - Oakland Ca.
S07151940 First betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Il.
S07151943 Diligenti quintuplets born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
S07151952 First helicopter transatlantic flight begins.
S07151954 First commercial jet transport airplane built in US tested.
S07151975 Apollo 18 is launched to link-up with Cosmonauts.
S07161769 Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, first mission in Calif.
S07161790 Congress establishes the District of Columbia.
S07161861 First major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run.
S07161935 Oklahoma City becomes first in U.S. to use parking meters.
S07161945 First atomic blast, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico.
S07161969 Apollo 11, first manned ship to land on the moon, launched.
S07171821 US gets Florida from Spain.
S07171879 First railroad opens in Hawaii.
S07171917 British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor.
S07171938 "Wrong Way" Corrigan flies from New York to Dublin.
S07171941 Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak ends.
S07171954 Construction begins on Disneyland ...
S07171955 ... Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County.
S07181872 Britain introduces voting by secret ballot.
S07181931 First air-conditioned ship launched - "Mariposa."
S07181938 Wrong Way Corrigan lands in Ireland (not California??)
S07181940 First successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct.
S07181955 First electric power generated from atomic energy sold
S07181955Ccommercially.
S07181968 Intel Corporation is incorporated.
S07181969 Mary Jo Kopechne and Sen Ted Kennedy plunge off bridge in a car.
S07191848 First Women's Rights Convention. Seneca Falls, NY ... featuring
S07191848Cthe introduction of the first Bloomers.
S07191939 First use of Fiberglas sutures, RP Scholz, St Louis, Mo.
S07191957 First rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada.
S07191961 First In-flight movie is shown (on TWA.)
S07191969 Mary Jo Kopechne dies at age 28.
S07201810 Columbia gains its independence.
S07201859 Admission fee first charged to see a baseball game (50 cents.)
S07201872 Mahlon Loomis receives patent for wireless ... the radio is born.
S07201878 First telephone introduced in Hawaii.
S07201944 US invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WWII.
S07201949 Israel's 19 month war of independence ends.
S07201960 First submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile,
S07201960Cthe George Washington.
S07201969 Man lands on the Moon, 4:18PM EDT.  (Armstrong, Aldrin walk
S07201969Cwhile Collins orbits above.)
S07201970 First baby born on Alcatraz Island.
S07201973 Jack Brisco defeats Harley Race for the NWA World Heavyweight
S07201973CChampionship in Houston, TX.
S07201976 First pictures from Mars surface received (courtesy Viking 2.)
S07211831 Belgium gains its independence.
S07211861 First battle of Bull Run.
S07211873 World's first train robbery, by Jesse James.
S07211925 John Scopes found guilty for teaching evolution.
S07211955 First sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor is launched,
S07211955Cthe Seawolf.
S07211959 First atomic merchant ship, Savannah, christened, Camden NJ.
S07211961 Gus Grissom aboard Liberty Bell 7 is launched .
S07211966 Gemini X returns to Earth.
S07211976 "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Philadelphia, Pa.
S07221933 Wiley Post completes first round-the-world solo flight.
S07221934 John Dillinger shot and killed in Chicago movie theatre.
S07221955 First US Vice-President is called on to preside over a
S07221955Ccabinet meeting - Richard Nixon.
S07231829 The typewriter is patented.
S07231852 First interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio.
S07231877 First telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii is completed.
S07231904 The Ice Cream Cone is invented.
S07231937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced.
S07231944 US forces invaded japanese-held Tinian in WWII .
S07231947 First (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, RI.
S07231968 PLO's first hijacking of an EL AL plane.
S07231980 Russians' Soyuz 37 is launched.
S07241704 Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain.
S07241824 The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of
S07241824Cfirst public opinion poll.  Clear lead for Andrew Jackson.
S07241925 Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined
S07241925C$100 and costs.
S07241969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth.
S07241975 Apollo 18 returns to Earth.
S07241978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after 'the one is
S07241978Ca born liar the other a convicted one' comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson
S07241978CSteinbrenner and Jackson.
S07251909 First airplane flight across the English Channel.
S07251946 First bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show.
S07251952 Puerto Rico becomes a commonwealth of the US.
S07251966 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to the Hall of Fame.
S07261775 Benjamin Franklin becomes Postmaster General.
S07261788 New York becomes the 11th state.
S07261835 First sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii.
S07261847 Liberia gains its independence.
S07261908 Federal Bureau of Investigation established.
S07261947 Department of Defense established.
S07261948 First black host of a network show - CBS' Bob Howard Show.
S07261952 Eva Peron, Argentine first lady, dies at age 33.
S07261952 Mickey Mantle hits his first grand slammer.
S07261953 Korean War Armistice.
S07261956 Egypt seizes the Suez Canal.
S07261971 Apollo 15 is launched.
S07261975 Russians' Soyuz 18B returns to Earth.
S07261984 Russians' Soyuz T-12 is launched with a female cosmonaut.
S07271586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia.
S07271866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long.)
S07271940 Billboard magazine starts publishing best-seller's charts.
S07271953 Korean War ends.
S07281821 Peru gains its independence.
S07281849 "Memmon" is first clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out
S07281849Cof New York Harbor.
S07281868 14th Amendment ratified, due process of law.
S07281900 The Hamburger is created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut.
S07281914 Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia - World War I begins.
S07281914 The Foxtrot is first danced at the New Amsterdam Roof Garden
S07281914Cin New York City.  Music by Harry Fox (who else?)
S07281931 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our second
S07281931CNational Anthem.
S07281933 First Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee), NY City
S07281973 Skylab 3's astronauts are is launched.
S07291858 First commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
S07291914 First transcontinental phone link made.  It's between NYC and
S07291914CSan Francisco.
S07291920 First transcontinental airmail flight from New York to
S07291920CSan Francisco.
S07291952 First transpacific non-stop flight by jet.
S07291957 Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres.
S07291958 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) authorized.
S07291978 At Old Timers Day, Yanks announce Billy Martin to return
S07291978Cas manager.
S07291981 The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana.
S07291985 Nineteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 is launched.
S07301619 The House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed.  First elective
S07301619Cgoverning body in a British colony.
S07301733 Society of Freemasons opens its first American lodge in Boston.
S07301836 First English newspaper published in Hawaii.
S07301946 First rocket to attain 100-mile altitude, White Sands, NM.
S07301956 Motto of US "In God We Trust" authorized.
S07311588 English fleet attacks the Spanish armada.
S07311790 First US Patent granted (for a potash process.)
S07311922 18 year old Ralph Samuelson rides world's first water skis
S07311922Cat Lake City, Minnesota.
S07311970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending 'Huntley-Brinkley Report'
S07311970C(No more "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet.")
S07311980 The crew of Russians' Soyuz 37 returns to Earth aboard
S07311980CRussians' Soyuz 36.
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