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*Last updated 6/7/88 CONLEY
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*mmddyyyy Birthdays
B06011801 Brigham Young, Mormon leader
B06011878 John Masefield in England, poet
B06011898 Molly Picon
B06011921 Alexis Smith, Actress, in British Columbia, Canada
B06011926 Andy Griffith, Actor
B06011926 Norma Jean Baker, better known as Marilyn Monroe
B06011934 Pat Boone, Singer
B06011945 Linda Scott
B06021740 Marquis de Sade, entertainer. (?)
B06021835 Pope Pius X, church leader
B06021840 Thomas Hardy, English novelist
B06021857 Sir Edward Elgar, composer (Pomp and Circumstance.)
B06021890 Hedda Hopper, gossip columnist
B06021904 Johnny Weissmuller, swimmer-actor (Tarzan)
B06021927 Phillip Burton, Yosemite Calendar
B06021937 Sally Kellerman in California
B06021940 King Constantine of Greece
B06021941 Charlie Watts, Rock Musician
B06021941 Stacy Keach, Actor
B06031808 Jefferson Davis, President of Confederacy from 1861 - 1865.
B06031864 Ransom Eli Olds, auto manufacturer.
B06031911 Paulette Goddard
B06031913 Ellen Corby
B06031925 Tony Curtis, Actor
B06031926 Allen Ginsberg, Poet
B06031926 Collen Dewhurst, Actress
B06031950 Suzi Quatro, Rocker, in Detroit Michigan - Happy Days
B06041738 King George III of England
B06041908 Roselind Russell
B06041919 Robert Merrill, opera singer
B06041936 Bruce Dern, Actor
B06041946 Bettina Gregory, News reporter
B06041948 Rosemary Joyce
B06041965 Andrea Jagger, Tennis player, in Chicago Ill
B06051723 Adam Smith, economist
B06051883 John Maynard Keynes, Economist, in Cambridge England
B06051900 Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography (3D laser photography.)
B06051929 Robert Lansing, Actor
B06051934 Bill Moyers, Newscaster
B06051934 Broadcast journalist Bill Moyers
B06061755 Nathan Hale, had but one life to give for his country.
B06061756 John Trumbull, painter.
B06061875 Thomas Mann in Germany, author
B06061907 Bill Dickey, Baseball hall-of-famer
B06061932 Billie Whitelaw, Actress
B06061935 Dalai Lama, religious leader
B06061939 Gary סUS' Bonds, Singer-songwriter
B06061954 Harvey Fierstein, Playwright-actor
B06061956 Bjorn Borg, Tennis Player
B06061961 Sydney Walsh
B06071778 Beau Brummel, English Dandy, man of fashion
B06071848 Paul Gauguin, painter.
B06071897 George Szell, conductor
B06071909 Jessica Tandy in London England
B06071922 Rocky Graziano, Boxer
B06071930 Dolores Gray
B06071940 Tom Jones, Singer
B06071947 Thurman Munson, Yankee Captain
B0608 570 Mohammed, prophet.
B06081625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, astronomer
B06081810 Robert Schumann in Germany, composer
B06081869 Frank Lloyd Wright, master builder.
B06081918 Robert Preston, Actor/Singer
B06081930 Dana Wynter in London England
B06081934 Millicent Martin
B06081940 Nancy Sinatra in Jersey City, NJ
B06091781 George Stephenson, principal inventor of the railroad locomotive.
B06091892 Cole Porter, composer
B06091900 Fred Waring, musician-conductor
B06091916 Les Paul, Guitarist/Arranger
B06091916 Robert McNamara, U.S. Government
B06091934 Donald Duck, famous fowl
B06101904 Frederick Loewe, composer.
B06101921 Prince Phillip, "Mr. Queen Elizabeth II"
B06101922 Judy Garland, somewhere over the rainbow.
B06101933 F. Lee Bailey, Attorney
B06101965 Andrew Stevens, Actor
B06111572 Ben Johson, playwright
B06111776 John Constable in England, painter
B06111847 Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of English women's movement.
B06111864 Richard Strauss in Germany, composer
B06111867 Charles Fabry, discovered the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere.
B06111907 Paul Mellon, Philanthropist
B06111910 Jacques Cousteau, diver and environmentalist.
B06111935 Gene Wilder, Comedic actor
B06111937 Chad Everett
B06111945 Adrienne Barbeau, Actress, wife of John Carpenter
B06121819 Charles Kingsley in England, author
B06121915 David Rockefeller, International Power Broker.
B06121916 Irwin Allen, Disaster Movie producer
B06121919 Uta Hagen
B06121924 George Bush, Vice President
B06121928 Vic Damone, Singer
B06121929 Anne Frank, diarist.
B06121932 Jim Nabors, Actor-singer  (Gomer Pyle)
B06121941 Chick Corea, Jazz musician
B06131865 William Butler Yeats in Ireland, writer
B06131903 Harold "Red" Grange, the "Galloping Ghost" of football.
B06131951 Richard Thomas
B06131962 Ally Sheedy in New York
B06131963 Bettina Bunge, Tennis player
B06141811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin).
B06141909 Burl Ives, folksinger-actor
B06141918 Dorothy McGuirre of the McGuirre sisters
B06141919 Sam Wanamaker, Actor-director
B06141921 Gene Barry, Actor
B06141925 Pierre Salinger, ABC newsman, former White House news secretary
B06141931 Marla Gibbs, Actress, in Chicago Ill
B06141933 Jerzy Kosinski, Author
B06141946 Joan Van Ark in New York City
B06141952 Eddie Mekka
B06141958 Eric Heiden, Olympic speed skater
B06141961 Boy George Dowd, Singer
B06141969 Steffi Graff, Tennis player, in West Germany
B06151843 Edvard Grieg, composer
B06151937 Waylon Jennings, singer
B06151945 Nicola Pagett
B06151946 Judy Pace in Los Angeles
B06161895 Stan Laurel, file comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
B06161903 Helen Traubel, opera singer
B06171818 Charles Gounod in France, composer
B06171870 George Cormack, the inventor of "Wheaties" cereal.
B06171882 Igor Stravinsky, composer (The Rite of Spring.)
B06171904 Ralph Bellamy, Actor
B06171914 John Hersey, Author
B06171917 Dean Martin, Singer/Actor
B06171917 Lena Horne in Brooklyn NY
B06171920 Beryl Reid
B06171946 Barry Manilow, Singer who writes the songs.
B06171948 Phylicia Rashad in Houston Texas
B06171951 Joe Piscopo, Comedian/Actor
B06181877 James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, best known for his
B06181877C"I want you" Uncle Sam recruiting poster.
B06181901 Jeanette MacDonald - 'When I'm calling you'
B06181910 E. G. Marshall, Actor
B06181929 Eva Bartok, Budapest Hungry
B06181942 Paul McCartney, Singer
B06181947 Linda Thorson, in Canada
B06181952 Carol Kane, in Cleveland Ohio - Taxi's Simpka
B06181952 Isabella Rossellini - Star of cult classic Blue Velvet
B06191623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician.
B06191856 Elbert Hubbard, Essayist
B06191886 Duchess of Windsor, divorcee.
B06191902 Guy Lombardo, conductor
B06191903 Henry Louis Gehrig, the "Iron Horse" of the Yankees.
B06191908 Mildred Natwick, Actress
B06191908 Senator Quentin N. Burdick,  D-NC
B06191914 Senator Alan Cranston D-Calif
B06191919 Pauline Kael, Movie critic
B06191921 Louis Jourdan, Actor
B06191921 Senator Howell Heflin D-Ala
B06191928 Nancy Marchand, Actress
B06191932 Pier Angeli in Italy
B06191936 Gena Rowlands, Actress, in Cambria Wisconsin
B06191951 Ann Wilson, Rocker,  in San Diego (Heart)
B06191954 Kathleen Turner, Actress
B06191978 Garfield the cat. "Big fat hairy deal."
B06201819 Jacques Offenbach in France, composer
B06201907 Lillian Hellman, Writer
B06201909 Errol Flynn, actor
B06201924 Audie Murphy, Actor
B06201924 Chet Atkins, Guitarist
B06201942 Brian Wilson, Singer,  songwriter, Beachboy
B06201945 Anne Murray, Singer, in Nova Scotia
B06201947 Candy Clark, Actress
B06201953 Cyndi Lauper, Singer,  in Brooklyn
B06201960 John Taylor, Rock musician
B06211732 Martha Washington, the first, first lady
B06211882 Rockwell Kent, artist
B06211903 Al Hirschfeld, Cartoonist
B06211912 Mary McCarthy, Author
B06211921 Jane Russell, Actress
B06211922 Judy Holliday
B06211925 Maureen Stapleton, Actress
B06211931 Lawrence K Grossman, NBC News President
B06211933 Bernie Kopell, Actor
B06211935 Monte Markham, Actor
B06211938 Ron Ely, Actor
B06211940 Mariette Hartley, Actress
B06211940 Joe Flaherty, Comedian
B06211940 Mariette Hartley, Actress
B06211944 Ray Davies, Rock singer-musician
B06211947 Michael Gross, Actor
B06211947 Meredith Baxter-Birney, Actress, in California
B06211982 Prince William of Wales
B06221906 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author
B06221906 Billy Wilder, Film Director
B06221922 Eleanor Parker
B06221933 Dianne Feinstein, Mayor of San Francisco
B06221936 Kris Kristofferson, Singer
B06221949 Lindsay Wagner in Los Angeles Calif
B06221949 Meryl Streep in Summit NJ
B06231846 George Sax, inventor of the saxophone.
B06231894 Alfred Kinsey, Sexologist
B06231912 Alan Turing, mathematician, pioneer in computer theory.
B06231916 Irene Worth in Nebraska
B06231927 Bob Fosse, Director/Choreographer/Dancer/Actor
B06231929 June Carter in Virginia
B06241813 Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman
B06241839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift & Company
B06241842 Ambose Bierce, Yosemite Calendar
B06241895 Jack Dempsey, boxer (The Manassa Mauler)
B06241942 Michele Lee in Los Angeles - Falcon's Crest
B06241950 Nancy Allen, actress
B06241965 Danielle Spencer in Bronx NY
B06251887 George Abbott, Broadway producer
B06251894 Hermann Oberth, founder of modern astronautics.
B06251924 Sidney Lumet, Movie director
B06251925 June Lockhart in New York City - Lassie's mom
B06251942 Willis Reed, Basketball hall-of-famer
B06251945 Carly Simon in New York City - "You're so vain."
B06251949 Phyllis George in Denton Texas - Miss America
B06251963 George Michael, Rock singer, in England.
B06261819 Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing American Baseball.
B06261892 Pearl S. Buck, author (The Good Earth.)
B06261913 Maurice Wilkes, invented the stored program concept for computers.
B06261922 Eleanor Parker, Actress
B06261940 Billy Davis, Singer
B06261951 Pamela Bellwood
B06271880 Helen Keller, blind-deaf author-lecturer.
B06271920 IAL Diamond, Screenwriter, worked with Billy Wilder.
B06271927 Bob Keeshan, a.k.a. Captain Kangaroo (Good Morning, Captain.)
B06271934 Anna Moffo, Opera singer, in Wayne Penn
B06271952 Julia Duffy in Minneapolis Mn - The Newhart Show
B06281491 Henry VIII of England.  Don't lose your head over him.
B06281712 Jean Jacques Rousseau in France, social contractor
B06281902 Richard Rogers, composer
B06281926 Mel Brooks, Comedian/Actor/Director
B06281946 Gilda Radner Detroit Michigan. Saturday Night Live's Baba Wawa.
B06281947 Patrick Kincaid, created "Today-PC" program.
B06281969 Danielle Briesbois, Actress - Archie Bunker's girl
B06291577 Peter Paul Rubens, artist
B06291858 George Washington Goethals, engineer who built the Panama Canal.
B06291901 Nelson Eddy, baritone, great duets with Jeanette MacDonald
B06291909 LeRoy Anderson, composer
B06291915 Ruth Warwick in St Joseph Missouri
B06291919 Slim Pickens, Singer
B06291925 Cara Williams
B06301917 Buddy Rich, Drummer
B06301917 Lena Horne, Singer
B06301918 Susan Hayward in Flatbush Brooklyn
B06301934 Harry Blackstone Jr, magician
B06301936 Nancy Dussault in Florida
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*mmddyyyy Reminders
R0601     National Adopt-a-Cat Month
R0602     Republic (Constitution) Day, celebrated in Italy.
R0603     Egg Day (now, how will we celebrate ??)
R0604     Old Maid's Day.  If you already knew it, don't admit it.
R0605     Constitution Day, celebrated in Denmark.
R0610     National Day, celebrated in Portugal.
R0611     Kamehameha Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
R0612     Independence Day, celebrated in the Phillipines.
R0613     Kitchen Klutzs of America Day.
R0613     The National Asparagus Festival.
R0614     Flag Day.
R0615    1Father's Day.  Remind the guy how much you care.
R0616    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.
R0617     Republic Day, celebrated in Iceland.
R0617    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.
R0618    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.
R0619    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.
R0620    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.
R0621     The longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice.
R0621    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.
R0624     Midsummer Day, celebrated in Europe.
R0624     St. Jean Baptiste Day -- Canada.
R0627     National Fink Day. Reach out and tweak someone.
R0630     Independence Day, celebrated in Zaire.
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*mmddyyyy Events
S06011495 First written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in the
S06011495CExchequer Rolls of Scotland.  Friar John Cor is the distiller.
S06011792 Kentucky becomes the 15th state.
S06011796 Tennessee becomes the 16th state.
S06011813 Capt John Lawrence utters the Navy motto 'Don't give up
S06011813Cthe ship.'
S06011861 US and Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange.
S06011925 Lou Gehrig starts in first of 2130 consecutive games, a record.
S06011939 First televised heavyweight boxing match - Max Baer vs Lou Nova.
S06011949 First magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers - Newsweek.
S06011951 First self-contained titanium plant opened, Henderson Nevada.
S06011957 First American runner to break 4 minute mile - Don Bowden.
S06011967 Beatles release "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."
S06011970 Russians' Soyuz 9 is launched.
S06011971 Ed Sullivan's final show.
S06021835 P.T. Barnum and his circus begin their first tour of the U.S.
S06021858 The Donati Comet first seen, named after its discoverer.
S06021873 Ground broken on San Francisco's Clay Street for world's first
S06021873Ccable-powered railroad.
S06021883 First regular night baseball game under lights in Ft Wayne, Ind.
S06021886 First president to wed during presidency - Grover Cleveland.
S06021910 Pygmies are discovered in Dutch New Guinea.
S06021941 Yankee great Lou Gehrig dies at age 37.
S06021946 Italy, in first election where women can vote, becomes a republic.
S06021953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of England.
S06021979 John Paul, first Pope to visit a communist country, Poland.
S06031539 Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain.
S06031621 The Dutch West Indies company is founded.
S06031789 Alexander Mackenzie begins exploration of Mackenzie River.
S06031888 "Casey at the Bat" is first published (by the SF Examiner.)
S06031916 ROTC established by Act of Congress.
S06031934 Dr Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted.
S06031937 King Edware VIII, the Duke of Windsor, weds Mrs. Wallis
S06031937CWarfield Simpson in France.
S06031942 The Battle of Midway, turning point in war in Pacific, begins.
S06031948 Dedication of the 200 inch telescope at Palomar Observatory.
S06031949 "Dragnet" is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles.)
S06031957 Howard Cosell's first TV show.
S06031959 First US Air Force Academy graduation.
S06031965 Gemini IV is launched.
S06031966 Gemini IX is launched.
S06031980 The crew of Russians' Soyuz 36 returns to Earth
S06031980Caboard Russians' Soyuz 35
S06041896 Road test of the first Ford car is delayed an hour because the
S06041896Ccar is wider than the door of the shed in which it is built.
S06041896CRemember, "Ford has a better idea!"
S06041940 British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops.
S06041944 First submarine captured and boarded on high seas - U 505.
S06041957 First commercial coal pipeline is placed in operation.
S06051783 First demonstration of the hot air balloon in a 10 minute
S06051783Cflight.
S06051833 Ada Lovelace (future first computer programmer) meets
S06051833CCharles Babbage.
S06051849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
S06051855 Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's
S06051855Cfirst convention.
S06051875 Formal opening of the Pacific Stock Exchange.
S06051917 10 million American men begin registering for the draft in WW I.
S06051933 The United States leaves the gold standard.
S06051940 First synthetic rubber tire exhibited, Akron, Oh.
S06051940 The Battle of France begins during World War II.
S06051947 Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlines
S06051947C"The Marshall Plan."
S06051967 Israel and its Arab neighbors erupt into the Six-Day War.
S06051967 Richard Speck is sentenced to death in the electric chair.
S06051968 Sen Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles, at the
S06051968CAmbassador Hotel, after winning the Democratic Primary.
S06051975 Egypt reopens the Suez Canal to international shipping.
S06051980 Russians' Soyuz T-2 is launched.
S06061809 Sweden's constitution is adopted.
S06061844 The Young Men's Christian Association is founded in London.
S06061918 Battle of Belleau Wood, first US victory of WWI.
S06061925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded the Chrysler Corp.
S06061932 US Federal gasoline tax enacted.
S06061933 First drive-in motion picture theatre opens in Camden, NJ.
S06061933 US Employment Service created.
S06061934 The Securities and Exchange Commission is established.
S06061936 Aviation gasoline first produced commercially, Paulsboro, NJ
S06061941 First navy vessel constructed as mine layer, Terror, launched.
S06061942 First nylon parachute jump, Hartford Ct, Adeline Gray.
S06061942 Japanese forces retreat in the World War II Battle of Midway.
S06061944 D-Day invasion of Europe, Allies storm Normandy France
S06061946 Henry Morgan is first to take off his shirt on TV.
S06061966 Gemini IX returns to Earth.
S06061971 Russians' Soyuz 11 is launched.
S06061977 Israel invades Lebanon to drive PLO out.
S06061985 A body is exhumed, later to be identified as Dr Josef Mengele.
S06062012 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) will occur.
S06071769 Daniel Boone begins his exploration of Kentucky.
S06071839 The Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed.
S06071860 First American 'dime novel' is published: "Malaseka, The
S06071860CIndian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs. Ann Stevens.
S06071953 First network telecast in "compatible color," Boston Mass.
S06071954 First microbiology laboratory dedicated - New Brunswick NJ.
S06071955 First President appears on television in color - Eisenhower.
S06071965 Gemini IV returns to Earth.
S06071965 Judy Holiday dies at age 42.
S06071967 Israel captures the wailing wall.
S06071972 German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel.
S06081786 First commercially-made ice cream sold in New York.
S06081869 IW McGaffey receives patent for vacuum cleaner.
S06081889 Cable Cars begin service in Los Angeles.  Really!
S06081940 Discovery of atomic element 93, Neptunium, is announced.
S06081959 First official סmissile mail' landed, Jacksonville Florida.
S06081968 Don Drysdale pitches a record 68th consecutive scoreless
S06081968Cinning.
S06081969 Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw י7 retired.
S06082004 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) will occur.
S06091868 First meeting of the Board of Regents, University of California.
S06091869 Charles Elmer Hires sells his first Root Beer, in Philadelphia.
S06091959 First ballistic missile submarine launched, "George Washington."
S06091963 The movie "Cleopatra" opens in New York.
S06091969 Warren E. Burger becomes Supreme Court Chief Justice.
S06091980 Russians' Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth.
S06101639 First American log cabin, at Fort Christina (Wilmington, Del.)
S06101720 Mrs. Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard.
S06101772 Burning of the Gaspee, British revenue cutter, by
S06101772CRhode Islanders.
S06101869 The 'Agnes' arrives in New Orleans with the first ever shipment
S06101869Cof frozen beef.
S06101898 US Marines land at Cuba in Spanish-American War.
S06101921 Babe Ruth becomes all time home run champ with 120.
S06101943 Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes first US president to visit
S06101943Ca foreign country during wartime.
S06101954 PBS reaches San Francisco: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting.
S06101955 First virus separated into component parts - reported.
S06101977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II.
S06101983 Harley Race defeats Richard Fliehr (better known as "Nature Boy
S06101983CRic Flair") for the NWA World Heavyweight Title in St. Louis, MO.
S06101983CThis was the seventh time Harley Race held the NWA title.
S06111859 Claim is filed for the Comstock Lode.  The mine eventually
S06111859Cproduces more than $300 million in silver.
S06111895 First auto race.
S06111919 Sir Barton becomes the first horse to win the Triple Crown.
S06111955 First magnesium jet airplane flown.
S06121665 English rename New Amsterdam, "New York."
S06121776 Virginia becomes first to adopt the Bill of Rights.
S06121838 Iowa Territory is organized.
S06121839 The first baseball game is played in America.  Thanks Abner!
S06121898 Philippine nationalists declare their independence from Spain.
S06121917 Secret Service extends protection of president to his
S06121917Cfamily as well.
S06121923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended
S06121923Cupside down, 40 feet above the ground.
S06121936 First radio station with 500,000 watt power, Pittsburgh, Pa.
S06121937 Soviet Union executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge
S06121937Ccontinues.
S06121939 Baseball Hall of Fame is opened in Cooperstown, NY.
S06121963 Civil rights leader Medgar Evers of Mississippi is shot
S06121963Cto death.
S06121967 Israel wins six day war.
S06121971 Tricia Nixon and Edward F. Cox marry in a White House ceremony.
S06121972 John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released
S06121972Cincluding "Woman is the Nigger of the World", "Attica State"
S06121972C& "Luck of the Irish."
S06121977 Ground-breakng ceremonies for President Kennedy library.
S06121979 Bryan Allen flies man-powered Gossamer Albatross over
S06121979Cthe English Channel.
S06121981 The 3rd professional baseball players strike starts.
S06131886 King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowns.
S06131898 Yukon Territory of Canada is organized with Dawson chosen as
S06131898Ccapital.
S06131900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Christians.
S06131927 Charles Lindbergh honored in New York City for his trans-
S06131927CAtlantic flight.  750,000 lbs of confetti shower down.
S06131933 Federal Savings and Loan Association authorized.
S06131933 First sodium vapor lamps installed, Schenectady, NY.
S06131944 WWII Germany begins launching flying-bomb attacks
S06131944Cagainst Britain
S06131948 Babe Ruth's י3 is retired.
S06131963 Russians' Vostok 6 launched, pilot is first woman cosmonaut.
S06131966 Supreme court hands down Miranda vs. Arizona decision.
S06131966CDeclares a suspect must be informed of rights.
S06131967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as first black Supreme Court justice.
S06131971 NY Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers.
S06131977 Convicted ML King assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured.
S06131977 Former Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark died in NY at 77.
S06131980CAbscam sting operation.
S06131981 A teen-ager fires six blanks at Queen Elizabeth II.
S06131982 Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
S06131983 Pioneer 10 is first man-made object to leave the Solar System.
S06131986 Benny Goodman, the clarinet playing King of Swing, dies.
S06131987 Geraldine Page dies.
S06141623 Rev. Gerville Pooley of Virginia files first breach-of-promise
S06141623Clawsuit against Cicely Jordan.  He loses.
S06141775 United States Army is founded.
S06141777 Continental Congress in Philadelphia  adopts Stars and
S06141777CStripes as the US flag, replacing Grand Union flag.
S06141801 Former Revolutionary War Gen. Benedict Arnold dies in London.
S06141841 The first Canadian parliament opens in Kingston.
S06141846 Settlers proclaim the free republic of California at Sonoma,
S06141846Cadopting the California Bear Flag.
S06141847 Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide.
S06141900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins.
S06141917 Gen Pershing and his HQ staff arrive in Paris during World War I.
S06141919 First direct airplane crossing of the Atlantic.
S06141922 Harding becomes first president to be heard on radio
S06141922Con Baltimore station WEAR.
S06141938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin.
S06141940 German forces occupy Paris during World War II.
S06141942 First bazooka rocket gun produced, Bridgeport Ct.
S06141948 TV Guide is first published.
S06141952 Keel laid for first nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus.
S06141954 President Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to
S06141954Cthe Pledge of Allegiance.
S06141963 Valery F Bykovsky, fifth Russian in space, aboard Vostok 5.
S06141967 Mariner V launched from Cape Kennedy on a flight past Venus.
S06141976 "The Gong Show" premieres.
S06141982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Island,
S06141982Cending 74-day conflict.
S06141985 Lebanese Shiite Moslem gunmen hijack TWA flight 847 after
S06141985CAthens' takeoff.
S06141986 Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges in Geneva dies at age 86.
S06141986 Death claims Broadway librettist Alan Jay Lerner in NY.
S06141986 "Wild Kingdom" host Marlin Perkins dies near St Louis.
S06151215 King John signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede.
S06151664 New Jersey established.
S06151752 Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning, What a shock.
S06151775 Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the American Army.
S06151804 12th Amendment ratified, manner of choosing President & VP.
S06151836 Arkansas becomes the 25th state.
S06151851 Jacob Fussell, a Baltimore dairyman, sets up the first
S06151851Cice-cream factory.
S06151878 First attempt at motion pictures (using 12 cameras, each
S06151878Ctaking one picture (done to see if all 4 of a horse's
S06151878Chooves leave the ground during a gallop. Leland Stanford
S06151878Cbets they don't. He loses).
S06151919 First flight across the Atlantic (Alcock and Brown.)
S06151940 France surrenders to Hitler.
S06151951 First commercial electronic computer dedicated, Philadelphia Pa.
S06151975 Russians' Soyuz 19 is launched.
S06151978 Russians' Soyuz 29 is launched.
S06161775 the Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it is Breed's Hill.)
S06161879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at the Bowery
S06161879CTheatre in New York City.
S06161933 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (US) created.
S06161941 First US federally owned airport opened, Washington DC.
S06161947 First network news - Dumont's "News from Washington."
S06161949 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie, Pa.
S06161963 Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli Prime Minister.
S06161963 Valentina V. Tereshkova, becomes the first woman in space
S06161963Caboard Vostok 6.
S06161987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession
S06161987Gcharges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him
S06171579 Sir Francis Drake lands on the coast of California.
S06171789 Third Estate in France declares itself a national assembly.
S06171856 Republican Party opens its first convention in Philadelphia.
S06171885 Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC aboard the French ship סIsere.'
S06171940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in World War II.
S06171942 First American expeditionary force to land in Africa (WW2.)
S06171944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland.
S06171947 First round-the-world civil air service, leaves NY city.
S06171953 Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas stays executions
S06171953Cof spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for the next
S06171953Cday because it's their 14th anniversary.  Awwwwww.
S06171954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings end.
S06171963 Supreme Court strikes down rule requiring recitation of
S06171963Cthe Lord's Prayer or reading of Biblical verses in public
S06171963Cschools.
S06171971 United States returns control of Okinawa to the Japanese.
S06171972 Arrest of burglars starts the Watergate affair.
S06171985 Eighteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 5 is launched.
S06171986 Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns.
S06171986 Singer Kate Smith dies in Raleigh NC at age 79.
S06171987 NY Yankee and KC Royal Mgr Dick Howser dies at 51 of
S06171987Cbrain cancer.
S06181583 Richard Martin of London takes out the first life insurance
S06181583Cpolicy, on William Gibbons.  The premium is 383 pounds.
S06181812 War of 1812 begins - US vs Great Britain
S06181815 Battle of Waterloo - Napoleon defeated
S06181872 Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall.
S06181892 Macademia nuts first planted in Hawaii.
S06181928 Amelia Earhart is first woman to cross the Atlantic.
S06181934 US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized.
S06181959 First telecast transmitted from England to the USA.
S06181977 Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson infamous dugout argument.
S06181983 First woman astronaut Sally Ride is launched aboard the
S06181983C7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2.
S06191586 English colonists sail from Roanoke Island NC.
S06191778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.
S06191846 First baseball game-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1 in 1 inning.
S06191861 Anaheim Post Office established.
S06191862 Slavery is outlawed in US territories.
S06191867 Mexico's deposed emperor Maximilian is executed.
S06191910 Father's Day is celebrated for the first time in Spokane Wash.
S06191917 After WW I King George V orders members of British royal
S06191917Cfamily to dispense with German titles & surnames.
S06191917CThey take the name Windsor.
S06191931 First photoelectric cell installed commercially, West Haven, Ct.
S06191934 US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created.
S06191946 First TV sports spectacular - Joe Louis vs Billy Conn.
S06191947 First plane to exceed 600 mph - Albert Boyd, Muroc, Ca.
S06191953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed at Sing Sing Prison.
S06191961 US Supreme Court strikes down a provision in Maryland's
S06191961Cconstitution requiring state office holders to believe
S06191961Cin the existence of God.
S06191963 Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova returns to earth.
S06191964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 survives an 83-day Senate filibuster.
S06191970 Russians' Soyuz 9 returns to Earth.
S06191977 Pope Paul VI makes 19th-century bishop John Neumann
S06191977Cfirst US male saint.
S06191986 Artificial heart recipient Murray P. Haydon dies in Louisville Ky.
S06191986 Len Bias, first pick of Celtics, suffers fatal cocaine-induced
S06191986Cseizure.
S06201632 Britain grants Second Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area.
S06201756 British soldiers are imprisoned in India, in the Black Hole of
S06201756CCalcutta. Most of them die.
S06201782 Congress approves Great Seal of the US & the Eagle as it's symbol.
S06201791 King Louis XVI of France attempts to flee but is caught.
S06201837 Queen Victoria at age 18, ascends British throne following
S06201837Cdeath of her uncle,  King William IV. She rules for 63 years
S06201837Cending in 1901.
S06201863 West Virginia becomes the 35th state admitted to the Union.
S06201867 President Andrew Johnson announces the purchase of Alaska.
S06201893 Lizzie Borden found "Not Guilty" of taking an axe and
S06201893Cgiving her parents a combined total of 81 whacks.
S06201947 Gangster Benjamin סBuggsy' Siegel shot dead in Beverly Hills.
S06201947 President Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act.
S06201948 Ed Sullivan has his first really big 'shoe' on Sunday night TV.
S06201948CIt's called סToast of the Town' on CBS.
S06201963 US and Soviet Union sign an agreement to set up a סhot line.'
S06201967 Boxer Muhammad Ali convicted of violating Selective Service
S06201967Claws by refusing to be drafted. Conviction is later struck
S06201967Cdown by Supreme Court.
S06201982 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington.
S06201982 It's National Bald Eagle Day.
S06201987 Johnny Carson marries 4th wife, in Alexis, Mass.
S06211788 US Constitution goes into effect as New Hampshire is the
S06211788C9th state to ratify it.
S06211805 Great Stoneface Mountain found in New Hampshire.
S06211834 Cyrus Hall McCormick receives a patent for his reaping machine.
S06211879 F. W. Woolworth opens his first store (fails almost immediately,
S06211879Cso he finds a new location, and you know the rest...)
S06211887 Britain celebrates the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria.
S06211893 The first Ferris wheel is premiered at Chicago's Columbian
S06211893CExposition.
S06211917 Hawaiian Red Cross founded.
S06211939 Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic laterial sclerosis.
S06211943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit, 30 dead.
S06211945 Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to the US during  WW II,
S06211948 Dr. Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrates the 'long playing record.'
S06211963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII.
S06211964 Three civil rights workers, Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman,
S06211964Cand James E. Chaney, disappear after release from a Mississippi
S06211964Cjail.
S06211968 Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns.
S06211975 Russians' Soyuz 19 returns to Earth.
S06211977 Former White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman enters prison.
S06211981 Virgil Runnels (better known as Dusty Rhodes) defeats Harley
S06211981CRace for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in Atlanta,
S06211981CGA.  This begins Rhodes' 2nd of 3 world title reigns.
S06211982 Washington DC jury finds John Hinckley Jr. innocent by insanity
S06211982Cfor attempting to assasinate President Reagan.
S06211985 American, Brazilian and West German scientists announce skeletal
S06211985Cremains exhumed in Brazil are Nazi war criminal Dr Josef Mengele.
S06211988 L.A. Lakers become first NBA team in 19 years to win back-to-back
S06211988CChampionships, beating Detroit Pistons 108-105 in 7th game.
S06221808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak.
S06221847 The doughnut is invented.
S06221849 Stephen C. Massett opens at San Francisco courthouse as first
S06221849Cprofessional entertainer, using the (allegedly) only piano
S06221849Cin California.
S06221910 First airship passengers fly aboard the zeppelin Deutscheland.
S06221940 France falls to Nazi Germany.
S06221941 Germany declares war on Russia.
S06221957 Kansas City stops using streetcars in its transit system.
S06221973 Skylab 2's astronauts land.
S06221978 The planet Pluto's partner, Charon, is discovered.
S06221979 Julius Sommer dies of heart failure, buried in Dayton, Oh.
S06221982 Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes.
S06221983 First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle.
S06221987 Actor/Dancer Fred Astaire dies.
S06231683 The Friendship treaty is signed between William Penn and
S06231683Cthe Indians.
S06231810 John Jacob Astor organizes the Pacific Fur Company at the town
S06231810Che names for himself, Astoria, Oregon.
S06231868 The typewriter is patented.
S06231938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) created.
S06231938 Marineland opens in Florida - first aquarium for
S06231938Cmonsters of the deep.
S06231947 Congress overrides President Truman's veto of the
S06231947CTaft-Hartley Act.
S06241817 First coffee planted in Hawaii, on the Kona coast.
S06241901 The Jewish National Fund is started.
S06241930 First radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC.
S06241947 First reported sighting of Flying Saucers, near Mt. Rainier,
S06241947CWashington by Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho.
S06241949 Cargo airlines first licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board.
S06241949 Hopalong Cassidy becomes first network western.
S06241982 Russians' Soyuz T-6 is launched.
S06241983 Seventh Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 2 returns to Earth.
S06241985 Eighteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 5 returns to Earth.
S06251178 Five Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon
S06251178C(only known observation).  These monks have NO winery
S06251178Cof their own.
S06251630 The Fork is introduced to American dining by Gov. Winthrop.
S06251788 Virginia becomes the 10th state.
S06251835 Pueblo founded with construction of first building (start of
S06251835CYerba Buena, later to be called San Francisco).
S06251868 Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and
S06251868CSouth Carolina are re-admitted to the Union.
S06251876 Lt. Col. Custer and 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux
S06251876Cand Cheyenne Indians.
S06251906 Architect Stanford White shot dead atop Madison Square
S06251906CGarden, which he designed, by Harry Thaw, the jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit
S06251906Chusband of Evelyn Nesbit.
S06251929 President Hoover authorizes construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam.
S06251942 British RAF stage a thousand-bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II.)
S06251950 El Al begins air service.
S06251950 North Korea invades South Korea - Korean War begins.
S06251951 First color TV broadcast - CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC.
S06251951CFour cities see the show in color.
S06251953 First passenger to fly commercially around the world
S06251953 in less than 100 hours.
S06251962 Supreme Court rules use of unofficial non denominational
S06251962Cprayer in New York State public schools is unconstitutional.
S06251973 John Dean begins testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee.
S06251981 Supreme Court says male-only draft registration is constitutional.
S06251982 Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr. resigns.
S06261797 Charles Newbold patents an iron plow.  He can't sell it to
S06261797Cfarmers, though, because they fear the effects of iron on
S06261797Cthe soil!
S06261870 First section of the boardwalk in Atlantic City NJ is opened.
S06261900 Dr Walter Reed begins the fight against yellow fever.
S06261917 First American Expeditionary Force arrives in France during WW I.
S06261919 First issue of the New York Daily News published.
S06261934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions.
S06261945 United Nations charter signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.
S06261948 US responds to the Soviet blockade of Berlin.
S06261959 President Eisenhower joins Queen Elizabeth opening St.
S06261959CLawrence Seaway.
S06261963 President Kennedy visits West Berlin, declares סIch bin
S06261963Cein Berliner (I am a Berliner.)'
S06261964 Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album.
S06261975 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency.
S06261977 Fire set by inmate kills 42 at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn.
S06261982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal
S06261982Cfrom Beirut of Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization forces.
S06261992 Former NWA World Heavyweight Champion "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers
S06261992Cdies at the age of 71 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
S06271693 The first woman's magazine, "The Ladies' Mercury" is published
S06271693Cin London.  It has the first advice column.
S06271844 Mormon leaders Joseph and Hyrum Smith killed by a mob in Carthage,
S06271844CIll. Brigham Young becomes Mormon leader.
S06271847 New York and Boston are linked by telegraph wires
S06271929 First television demonstration, NY city.
S06271934 Federal Savings and Loan Association created.
S06271942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island.
S06271950 First jet plane combat victor in Korea - RJ Brown.
S06271950 Pres Truman orders Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict.
S06271955 First automobile seat belt legislation enacted, Illinois.
S06271957 500 people killed by Hurricane Audrey in Louisiana and Texas.
S06271960 Chlorophyll "A" is synthesized, Cambridge Mass.
S06271963 President Kennedy spends his first full day in Ireland.
S06271973 John W. Dean tells Watergate Committee of Nixon's "enemies list."
S06271977 Supreme Court decides lawyers may advertise, in a 5-4 decision.
S06271978 Russians' Soyuz 30 is launched.
S06271982 Fourth Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 4 is launched.
S06271983 Balloonists Maxie Anderson and Don Ida die during a race.
S06271983 Russians' Soyuz T-9 is launched.
S06271984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts.
S06271987 Supreme Court Justice Powell retires.
S06281778 Mary Ludwig Hays סMolly Pitcher' aids US forces during Revolution.
S06281820 The tomato is proved to be non-poisonous.
S06281836 James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, dies.
S06281838 Britain's Queen Victoria is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
S06281859 The first dog show is held, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.
S06281914 Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife Sofia assasinated
S06281918 In Hawaii, the first inter-island flight.
S06281919 Carl Mazes pitches a complete double header against the Yankees.
S06281919 Harry S Truman marries Elizabeth Wallace in Independence.
S06281919 the Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, is signed.
S06281939 Pan Am begins transatlantic air service, Dixie Clipper.
S06281942 The Dumont TV network begins (WABD, New York.)
S06281950 North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.
S06281956 First atomic reactor for private research opens, Chicago Il.
S06281978 Supreme Court orders Cal medical school to admit Allan Bakke,
S06281978Ca white man claiming reverse discrimination when application
S06281978Cis rejected.
S06281983 Bridge section along I-95 in Conn collapses,killing 3 people.
S06291776 Virginia state constitution adopted, and Patrick Henry
S06291776Cmade first governor.
S06291854 Congress ratifies Gadsden Purchase, adds parts of
S06291854CNew Mexico, Arizona.
S06291863 The very first first National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa.
S06291927 First flight from the West Coast arrives in Hawaii.
S06291929 First high-speed jet wind tunnel completed, Langley Field, Ca.
S06291936 Empire State Building eminates "high definition" TV - 343 lines.
S06291939 The Dixie Clipper completes the first commercial plane
S06291939Cflight to Europe.
S06291941 Polish statesman pianist Ignace Paderewski diee in New York.
S06291946 British authorities arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine.
S06291949 South Africa implements policy of racial segregation סapartheid.'
S06291952 First aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn - the Oriskany.
S06291954 Atomic Energy Commission votes against reinstating Dr J.
S06291954CRobert Oppenheimer.
S06291956 Charles Dumas - first high jump over 7 feet - Los Angeles, Ca.
S06291966 US bombs fuel storage facilities near North Vietnamese cities.
S06291967 Jayne Mansfield dies at age 34 in car crash.
S06291967 Jerusalem reunified,Israel removes barricades separating Old City.
S06291970 US ends a two-month military offensive into Cambodia.
S06291972 The US Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is usually
S06291972Cסcruel & unusual punishment.'
S06291977 Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adults.
S06301859 Charles Blondin walks across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
S06301870 Ada Kepley becomes the first female law college graduate.
S06301893 The Excelsior diamond (blue-white, 995 carats) is discovered.
S06301906 Pure Food and Drug Act becomes law.
S06301908 A giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (the Tunguska Event.)
S06301914 Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest, in campaign for Indian equal
S06301914Crights in South Africa.
S06301930 First round-the-world radio broadcast, Schenectady, NY.
S06301936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, is first published.
S06301936 Forty hour work week law approved in US (federal law.)
S06301948 Transistor demonstrated, Murray Hill, NJ.
S06301950 President Truman orders American troops into Korea.
S06301960 Zaire gains its independence.
S06301971 26th Amendment ratified, giving vote to 18 year olds.
S06301971 Russians' Soyuz 11 returns to Earth.
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