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*mmddyyyy Birthdays
B05011769 Duke of Wellington, who made Napoleon very unhappy.
B05011830 Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), hellraiser.
B05011907 Kate Smith, Singer
B05011916 Glenn Ford, Actor
B05011917 Danielle Darieux in France
B05011939 Judy Collins in Seattle Wash
B05011945 Rita Coolidge in Tennessee
B05021837 Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order."
B05021903 Dr. Benjamin Spock, Baby Specialist
B05021904 Bing Crosby, crooner.
B05021946 Leslie Gore in Tenafly NJ, cries at her own party.
B05031874 Francois Coty, perfumemaker.
B05031898 Golda Meir, Israeli leader
B05031906 Mary Astor, New York Socialite
B05031919 Pete Seeger, folk singer.
B05031939 Samantha Eggar in England.
B05041796 Horace Mann, educator
B05041825 Biologist Thomas Huxley in England
B05041929 Audrey Hepburn in Brussels Belgium
B05041930 Roberta Peters, Opera singer, in New York City
B05041954 Julie Budd in Brooklyn NY
B05041961 Mary McDonough
B05051832 H. H. Bancroft, Yosemite Calendar
B05051867 Nellie Bly, name becomes a synonym for female star reporter.
B05051890 Christopher Morley, Author
B05051925 Monica Lewis
B05051926 Ann B. Davis in Schnectady NY - Brady Bunch maid
B05051927 Pat Carrol in Shrevport Louisiana
B05051942 Tammy Wynette, Country singer, Redbay Alabama
B0506     Daniel Gerber, beloved by babies at mealtime.
B05061818 Karl Marx, author of the Communist Manifesto
B05061843 Grove Karl Gilbert, Yosemite Calendar
B05061856 Robert Peary, Arctic Explorer.
B05061856 Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalyst
B05061870 A.P. Giannini, founder of Bank of America.
B05061895 Rudolph Valentino, Actor
B05061902 Harry Golden, Writer
B05061902 Max Ophulus, Film Director
B05061903 Aram Khachaturian, composer
B05061915 T. H. White, Writer
B05061924 Mimi Benzell in Bridgeport
B05061931 The 'Say Hey Kid', Willie Mays, baseball player
B05061942 Tammy Wynette, Singer
B05061962 Lori Singer, Actress, in Corpus Christi, Texas.
B05071812 Robert Browning, poet
B05071833 Johannes Brahms, enjoyed a good lullaby.
B05071840 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer.
B05071901 Gary Cooper, actor in 'High Noon' and 'The Plainsman.'
B05071909 Edwin Land, founded instant photography (Polaroid.)
B05071915 Orson Welles, Actor/Writer/Director
B05071919 Eva Peron, Argentine first lady.
B05071923 Anne Baxter in Michigan
B05071931 Teresa Brewer, Singer, in Toledo Ohio - "Put another nickel in"
B05071944 Sivi Aberg
B05071945 Robin Strasser in New York City
B05071951 Janis Ian (Fink) in New York
B05081737 Edward Gibbon, historian, "The History of the Decline & Fall
B05081737Cof the Roman Empire."
B05081786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry.
B05081828 Henri Dunant, founded Red Cross, YMCA.
B05081829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, first internationally recognized
B05081829CUS pianist.
B05081884 Harry S Truman, 32nd President.  The 'S' doesn't stand for
B05081884Canything (thus no period.)
B05081895 Fulton J. Sheen, bishop
B05081926 Comedian Don Rickles
B05081926 Environmentalist David Attenborough
B05081930 Gary Snyder, Yosemite Calendar
B05081935 Salome Jens in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
B05081937 Sen Dennis DeConcini D-Ariz
B05081940 Peter Benchley, Author of "Jaws."
B05081942 Jockey Angel Cordero
B05081943 Singer Toni Tennille, only female Beachboy in Montgomery Alabama
B05081964 Melissa Gilbert in Los Angeles
B05091800 John Brown, abolitionist.
B05091860 James M. Barrie, Author of "Peter Pan," in Scotland.
B05091873 Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamen.
B05091882 Henry J Kaiser, industrialist (built Liberty Ships, Jeeps)
B05091910 Barbara Woodhouse, dog training expert ... "Walkies ..."
B05091918 News correspondent Mike Wallace.
B05091926 Don Rickles, Comedian
B05091936 Albert Finney, Actor
B05091936 Terry Drinkwater, CBS newsman
B05091936 Glenda Jackson in Cheshire England
B05091940 James L. Brooks, Producer-director
B05091946 Candice Bergen in Beverly Hills, her father spoke to wood
B05091948 Billy Joel, Singer, in the Bronx, NY
B05101788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneered in optics.
B05101899 Fred Astaire, tapdancer.
B05101902 David O. Selznick, film producer.
B05101921 Nancy Walker, Actress,  in Philadelphia Pa
B05101936 Glenda Jackson, Actress
B05101946 Candice Bergen, Actress
B05111888 Irving Berlin, Composer, dreaming of a White Christmas
B05111899 Fred Astaire, Dancer
B05111904 Salvador Dali, artist
B05111912 Phil Silvers, entertainer
B05111916 Camilo Jose Cela in Spain, author
B05121812 Edward Lear in England, wrote in verse
B05121820 Florence Nightengale, inspiration to nurses everywhere.
B05121842 Jules Massenet, composer
B05121845 Gabriel Faure, composer.
B05121925 Yogi Barra, NY Yankee catcher
B05121929 Composer Burt Bacharach
B05121936 Tom Snyder, TV personality, nightcaster
B05121937 George Carlin, Comedian
B05121942 Susan Hampshire in London England
B05121950 Bruce Boxleitner
B05121968 Prince, Rock Singer
B05121969 Kim Fields in Los Angeles
B05131842 Sir Arthur Sullivan in England, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame
B05131856 Peter Henry Emerson, first photographer to promote
B05131856Cphotography as an independent art.
B05131914 Joe Louis, heavyweight.
B05131919 Betty Comden in Brooklyn NY
B05131926 Bea Arthur in New York, "Maude", "Golden Girls"
B05131929 Burt Bacharach, Composer
B05131950 Peter Gabriel, rocker
B05131950 Stevie Wonder, singer
B05141686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, physicist
B05141885 Otto Klemperer, conductor
B05141919 Heloise and her helpful hints
B05141925 Patrice Munsel in Spokane Wash
B05141928 Billy Martin, local boy who made good in baseball.
B05141944 George Lucas, skywalker.
B05141946 Robert Jarvik, inventor of the Jarvik 7 artificial heart.
B05141950 Stevie Wonder, Singer
B05141952 David Byrne in England, rocker
B05151859 Pierre Curie, physicist.
B05151905 Joseph Cotten
B05151910 Constance Cummings
B05151918 Eddy Arnold, Country singer
B05151919 Wladziu Valentino Liberace, pianist
B05151923 Richard Avedon
B05151924 Ursula Theiss
B05151926 Anthony and Peter Shaffer, twin brothers, Playwrights
B05151936 Actress-singer Anna Maria Alberghetti in Italy.
B05151936 Paul Zindel, Playwright
B05151937 Trini Lopez, Singer
B05151942 Lainie Kazan in Brooklyn, NY - Singer/actress
B05151948 Brian Eno, Singer-songwriter
B05151953 George Brett, Kansas City Royals Baseball player
B05151955 Lee Horsley, Actor
B05161801 William H. Seward, bought Alaska at $0.02/acre.
B05161905 Henry Fonda, Actor, in Grand Island Nebraska
B05161905 Joseph Cotten, Actor
B05161912 Studs Turkel, Author
B05161913 Woody Herman, Bandleader
B05161931 Sen. Lowell Weicker,  R-Connecticut
B05161940 Lainie Kazan, Singer-actress, in Brooklyn
B05161952 Pierce Brosnan in Israel.
B05161955 Debra Winger in Columbus Ohio
B05161955 Olga Korbut, gymnast, in Russia.
B05161966 Janet Jackson, Singer/Michael's Sister
B05171749 Edward Jenner in England, physician
B05171866 Erik Satie, composer.
B05171900 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's spiritual leader.
B05171911 Maureen O'Sullivan in Boyle Ireland
B05171912 Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor
B05171918 Birgit Nilsson, Opera singer
B05171936 Dennis Hopper, an easy rider
B05171956 Sugar Ray Leonard, World Boxing Council middleweight champion
B05181850 Oliver Heaviside, physicist who predicted the existance of
B05181850Cthe ionosphere, used to reflect radio waves.
B05181872 Bertand Russell, Philsopher and Mathematician, in England.
B05181902 Meredith Willson, musician-composer (The Music Man).
B05181913 Perry Como, singer
B05181917 Dame Margot Fonteyn
B05181918 Pope John Paul II.
B05181930 Pernell Roberts, Bonanza
B05181946 Reggie Jackson, Baseball superstar
B05191795 Johns Hopkins, Philanthropist
B05191890 Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer.
B05191935 David Hartman, Actor, TV host.
B05191941 Nora Ephron in New York, writer
B05191947 Glenn Close, actress
B05191952 Grace Jones in Jamaica, singer
B05201750 Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during the War of 1812.
B05201799 Honore de Balzac, novelist.
B05201818 William George Fargo, helped to found Wells, Fargo & Company
B05201882 Sigrid Undset in Norway, novelist.
B05201894 Journalist Adela Rogers St Johns
B05201908 James Stewart goes to Washington
B05201908 Jimmy Stewart, Actor
B05201913 William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co.
B05201915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general & politician.
B05201919 Comedian George Gobel
B05201933 Constance Towers, Actress/Singer.
B05201944 Joe Cocker, Singer, in England.
B05201946 Cher Bono in California, "I got you babe"
B05201958 Jane Wiedlin (The GoGos)
B05201958 Ron Reagan, son of President Reagan
B05201966 Mindy Cohn, Actress, in Los Angeles.
B05211471 Albrecht Durer, painter & printmaker, greatest German
B05211471CRenaissance artist.
B05211860 Willam Einthoven, invented the electrocardiograph.
B05211878 Glenn Curtis, aircraft pioneer.
B05211898 Armand Hammer, Chairman of the Board.
B05211904 Fats Waller, Jazz Musician
B05211904 Robert Montgomery, Actor
B05211917 Dennis Day, Singer
B05211917 Raymond Burr, Actor, "Perry Mason."
B05211952 Mr T.
B05221813 Richard Wagner, Composer, in Leipzig Germany
B05221828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon, founded modern ophthalmology.
B05221859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, brought Sherlock Holmes to life (twice).
B05221907 Sir Laurence Olivier, actor extrodinaire
B05221920 Thomas Gold, established the steady-state theory of the universe
B05221920Cof the universe.
B05221922 Judith Crist, Reviewer, in New York.
B05221924 Charles Aznavour, Singer
B05221927 Michael Constantine
B05221934 Peter Nero, Composer
B05221938 Frank Converse
B05221938 Richard Benjamin, actor
B05221938 Susan Strasberg in New York City, actress
B05221940 Michael Sarrazin
B05221941 Paul Winfield
B05221942 Barbara Parkins in England
B05221943 Tommy John, Baseball player
B05231707 Carolus Linnaeus, Botanist, in Sweden
B05231883 Douglas Fairbanks, first & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers.
B05231910 Artie Shaw, band leader.
B05231919 Betty Garrett in St Joseph Mo
B05231923 Alicia de Larrocha, Pianist
B05231928 Rosemary Clooney in Kentucky, singer
B05231931 Barbara Barrie in Chicago
B05231933 Joan Collins in London, actress
B05231952 Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Boxer, in New Jersey
B05241686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, invented the thermometer.
B05241819 Queen Victoria, British ruler
B05241934 Mayor Jane Byrne of Chicago
B05241941 Bob Dylan in Minnesota, Folk Singer Robert Zimmerman
B05241943 Gary Burghoff, Actor, M*A*S*H
B05241944 Patti Labelle, Singer
B05241945 Priscilla Presley, wife of Elvis
B05251803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher.
B05251889 Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter.
B05251898 Bennett Cerf, Publisher/TV Celebrity
B05251898 Gene Tunney, boxer
B05251918 Claude Akins
B05251925 Jeanne Crain in Barstow Calif
B05251926 Miles Davis, trumpeter, pioneered cool jazz.
B05251929 Beverly Sills in Brooklyn NY, soprano
B05251935 Barbara Harris in Illinois
B05251943 Leslie Uggams in New York City
B05251947 Jessi Colter in Phoenix Arizona
B05251947 Karen Valentine in Santa Rosa California
B05251955 Connie Sellecca in Bronx NY
B05261877 Isadora Duncan
B05261886 Al Jolson, jazz singer.
B05261907 John Wayne, Actor
B05261920 Peggy Lee in North Dakota, "Is that all there is?"
B05261923 James Arness, Actor
B05271818 Amelia Bloomer, suffragist known for her pantaloons.
B05271819 Julia Ward Howe, poet
B05271837 Wild Bill Hickock
B05271894 Dashiell Hammett, author who created the hard-boiled detective.
B05271907 Rachel Carson, ecologist.
B05271911 Hubert Humphrey, U.S. Senator/Vice-President
B05271911 Vincent Price, Actor
B05271912 John Cheever, Writer
B05271912 Sam Snead, Golfer
B05271923 Dr. Henry Kissinger, Secretary Of State
B05271935 Lee Merriweather, Miss America
B05271943 Cillia Black in Liverpool England
B05281738 Dr Joseph Guillotin, (guess what he invented?)
B05281807 Louis Agassiz, Switzerland
B05281886 Jim Thorpe, Olympian
B05281908 Ian Fleming, gave James Bond a job.
B05281931 Caroll Baker in Pennsylvania
B05281934 The Dionne quintuplets.
B05281944 Gladys Knight in Atlanta Ga
B05281946 Madeline LeRouix in Wyoming
B05281947 Sondra Locke in Shellyville Tennessee
B05291736 Patriot Patrick Henry, who put his life where his mouth was
B05291826 Ebenezer Butterick inventor of the tissue paper dress pattern
B05291874 GK Chesterton, English novelist
B05291897 Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Movie composer
B05291903 Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope, famous profile.
B05291917 John F. Kennedy, 35th President from 1960 - 1963.
B05291954 Reby Jackson, Singer
B05291956 LaToya Jackson, Singer
B05291963 Lisa Whelchel, Actress, in Ft Worth Texas.
B05301908 Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig.
B05301909 Bandleader Benny Goodman, swinger
B05301926 Pioneer transsexual Christine Jorgensen.
B05301927 Clint Walker, actor
B05301936 Keir Dullea, actor
B05301943 Gale Sayers, NFL Hall of Fame running back.
B05311819 Walt Whitman, Poet, in West Hills, NY
B05311898 Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Evangelist/Author
B05311908 Don Ameche, actor
B05311923 Prince Rainier of Monaco
B05311929 Elaine Stewart
B05311930 Clint Eastwood, Actor/Mayor
B05311931 Shirley Verrett, Opera singer, New Orleans La
B05311938 Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary
B05311939 Terry Waite, Church envoy and hostage.
B05311941 Johnny Paycheck, Country Singer
B05311943 Joe Namath, Football Player
B05311943 Sharon Gless in Los Angeles
B05311950 Gregory Harrison
B05311950 Tom Berenger
B05311965 Brooke Shields, Actress-model, in New York City
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*mmddyyyy Reminders
R0501     May Day
R0501     A baseball club can re-sign their own free agents
S0501     Law Day
R0501     National Tavern Month begins.
R0505     Cinco de Mayo
R0505     Tango-no-sekku (Boy's Festival) -- Japan
R0505     National Teacher's Day.
R0506     National Nurse's Day
R0508    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
R0509    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
R0510     Native American Day is observed.
R0510    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
R0511    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
R0512    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
R0512     National Limerik Day.
R0513     Leprechaun Day -- no blarney!
R0513    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
R0513     Preakness Frog Hop, Baltimore.
R0514     Independence Day (in Paraguay).
R0514    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
R0515     'Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean' Day.  Why?
R0515    CBecause it may be waving at you.
R0516     Armed Forces Day.
R0517     Norwegian Independence Day.
R0518     Visit Your Relatives Day.
R0521    2Victoria Day -- Canada
R0522    2Victoria Day -- Canada
R0523    2Victoria Day -- Canada
S0523     BJ & Peg Hunnicutt of Mill Valley's anniversary! (M*A*S*H)
R0524    2Victoria Day -- Canada
R0525    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
R0526    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
R0527    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
R0528    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
R0529    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
R0530     The REAL Memorial Day, no matter what day of the week!
R0531     Republic Day, celebrated in South Africa.
R0531    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
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*mmddyyyy Events
S05011701 England, Wales and Scotland form Great Britain.
S05011840 First adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued.
S05011841 First wagon train leaves Independance, Mo for California.
S05011850 John Geary becomes first mayor of City of San Francisco.
S05011860 First school for the deaf founded.
S05011869 Folies-Bergere opens in Paris.
S05011873 First US postal card issued.
S05011884 Construction begins in Chicago on the first U.S. skyscraper.
S05011892 US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island.
S05011926 Dodgers and Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings.
S05011928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration.)
S05011931 Empire State Building opened in NY City.
S05011932 Charles Lindbergh's baby was kidnapped.
S05011947 Radar for commercial and private planes first demonstrated.
S05011951 Mickey Mantle hits his first homer.
S05011960 Russia shoots down US spy plane U-2 with Francis
S05011960CGary Powers onboard.
S05011961 First hijacking of US airplane to Cuba.
S05011981 Harley Race defeats Tommy "Wildfire" Rich for the NWA World.
S05011981CHeavyweight Championship in Gainesville, GA.  This begins the
S05011981C6th of 8 NWA world title reigns for Race.
S05021670 Hudson Bay Company founded.
S05021881 President Garfield assassinated.
S05021885 "Good Housekeeping" magazine is first published.
S05021925 Kezar Stadium in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park opens.
S05021939 Lou Gehrig sets record for being in most consecutive games (2130).
S05021945 Russia takes Berlin.
S05021946 Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die.
S05021954 Stan Musial hits 5 homers in a doubleheader.
S05021960 Caryl Chessman executed in California for kidnapping.
S05021968 Israeli television begins.
S05031765 First US Medical school opened.
S05031830 First regular steam train passenger service starts.
S05031919 America's first passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City.)
S05031932 24 tourists begin the first air-charter holiday, from London
S05031932Cto Basle, Switzerland for 7 days.
S05031951 Gil McDougald ties record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning.
S05031952 First landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole.
S05031971 National Non-commercial Network Radio Begins Programming.
S05041626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons.
S05041715 French manufacturer debuts first folding umbrella --
S05041715Cin Paris, not Cherbourg!
S05041878 Phonograph shown for first time at the Grand Opera House.
S05041942 Battle of the Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air.)
S05041970 Four students killed by National Guard at Kent State University.
S05041973 First TV network female nudity - Steambath (PBS) - Valerie Perrine.
S05041988 Rocket fuel plant in Henderson, NV, explodes, shakes Las Vegas,
S05041988Cten miles away with 3.5 Richter scale shock wave.
S05041988 Los Angeles' worst high-rise fire claims one life as it
S05041988Cdestroys 12th through 16th floors of 62 story First
S05041988CInterstate Bank building on Wilshire Boulevard.
S05051891 Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor.
S05051922 Construction on Yankee Stadium begins.
S05051925 Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6.
S05051948 First air squadron of jets aboard a carrier.
S05051949 Council of Europe established.
S05051956 Jim Bailey - first 4 minute mile run in USA, Los Angeles, Ca.
S05051961 Alan Shepard becomes first American in space (onboard Freedom 7).
S05061527 Sack of Rome - End of the Renaissance.
S05061626 Peter Minuet purchases Manhattan Island for $24.
S05061851 Patent granted to Dr. John Farrie for a "refrigeration machine."
S05061860 The Olympic Club, first athletic club in US, founded.
S05061906 "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street
S05061906Callows United Railroads to run electric streetcars
S05061937 The dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ.
S05061954 Roger Bannister breaks the 4 min mile in 3:59:4.
S05061962 First nuclear warhead is fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen.)
S05061984 Kerry Adkinson (better known as "Kerry Von Erich") defeats Richard
S05061984CFliehr (better known as "Nature Boy Ric Flair") for the NWA World
S05061984CHeavyweight Championship in front of over 50,000 fans at Texas
S05061984CStadium.
S05061985 Seventeenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 7 returns to Earth.
S05071824 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony presented for first time.
S05071915 British ship "Lusitania" sunk by German submarine, 128 Americans die.
S05071927 San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated.
S05071945 Nazis surrender to General Eisenhower at Reims, Franceל
S05071945CWorld War II ends in Europe.
S05071947 "Kraft Television Theater" premieres.
S05071959 93,103, largest crowd in baseball history at LA Coliseum, Dodgers'
S05071959CSandy Koufax beat Yankees in exhibition 6-2.
S05071963 Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles.)
S05081541 Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River.
S05081846 First major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas.
S05081886 Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
S05081942 Battle of the Coral Sea ends.
S05081945 VE Day: Germany surrenders, ending World War II in Europe.
S05081951 Dacron men's suits introduced.
S05081954 First shot-put over 60 feet - Parry O'Brien, Los Angeles, Ca.
S05081958 VP Richard Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed, & spat upon by
S05081958Cprotesters in Peru.
S05081961 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington.
S05081961 First practical sea water conversion plant - Freeport Texas.
S05081970 Beatles release "Let it Be" album.
S05081971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Sq Garden.
S05081973 Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for ten weeks surrender.
S05081984 USSR announces it will not participate in the LA Summer Olympics.
S05091502 Columbus leaves Spain on his 4th and final trip to the New World.
S05091785 Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles.
S05091913 17th amendment providing for election of senators by popular vote.
S05091925 Cornerstone for Hebrew University layed.
S05091926 Americans Byrd & Bennett make first airplane flight over North Pole.
S05091936 Italy annexes Ethiopia.
S05091944 First eye bank opens in New York City.
S05091946 First TV Variety show - NBC's "Hour Glass" premieres.
S05091961 FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow calls TV a סvast wasteland.'
S05091974 House Judiciary Committee begins formal hearings on
S05091974CRichard Nixon impeachment.
S05101775 Col Ethan Allen captured Ft Ticonderoga, NY.
S05101775 Continental Congress issues paper currency for first time.
S05101775 Second Continental Congress convenes in Pennsylvania.
S05101823 First steamboat to ascent the Mississippi River arrives at
S05101823CFort Snelling, Minnesota.
S05101869 The Driving of the Golden Spike, Promontory Point, Utah --
S05101869CThe Transcontinential railroad is completed.
S05101923 J Edgar Hoover becomes head of the FBI.
S05101928 WGY Schenectady begins regular TV programming.
S05101930 First planetarium opens to the public - Adler Planetarium, Chicago.
S05101940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister.
S05101960 USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of the globe under water.
S05111752 First US fire insurance policy is issued, in Philadelphia.
S05111812 The Waltz is introduced into English ballrooms.  Most observers
S05111812Cconsider it disgusting and immoral. No wonder it caught on!
S05111858 Minnesota becomes the 32nd state.
S05111929 First regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week).
S05111947 BF Goodrich manufactures the 1st tubeless tire, Akron, Oh.
S05111949 By a vote of 37-12 Israel becomes the 59th member of the UN.
S05111951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory.
S05111960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.
S05111975 Israel signs an agreement with The European Economic Market.
S05121789 Society of St. Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It
S05121789Clater becomes an infamous group of New York City political bosses.
S05121926 Airship Norge is first vessel over the North Pole.
S05121940 Nazi blitz conquest of France begins by crossing the Muese River.
S05121949 First foreign woman ambassador received in US - SVL Pandit, India.
S05121960 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special.
S05131607 English land to found Jamestown (first permanent settlement.)
S05131804 Lewis & Clark begin expedition of La Purchase with Sacagawea.
S05131835 First foreign embassy in Hawaii is established.
S05131846 US declares war on Mexico.
S05131884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded.
S05131917 Three children see a vision of the Virgin Mary at Fatima, Portugal.
S05131950 The Diner's Club issues its first credit cards.
S05131955 Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive homers of at least 463 feet.
S05131982 Russians' Soyuz T-5 is launched.
S05141804 Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis for the Pacific Coast.
S05141811 Paraguay gains its independence.
S05141853 Gail Borden applies for patent for making condensed milk.
S05141942 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) founded.
S05141948 Prime Minster David Ben-Gurion establishes the State of Israel.
S05141973 United States launches space station "Skylab."
S05141981 Russians' Soyuz 40 is launched - First Rumanian in space.
S05151602 Cape Cod is discovered by the English navigator Batholomew Gosnold.
S05151886 American poet Emily Dickinson dies.
S05151911 Sup Court dissolves Standard Oil, saying it
S05151911Cviolates Sherman Antitrust Act.
S05151918 US Airmail begins between Wash DC, Philadelphia and New York.
S05151930 The first "air hostess," Ellen Church, welcomes passengers aboard
S05151930Ca United Air Lines flight from Oakland, CA to Cheyenne, WY.
S05151934 Dept of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive.
S05151940 Nylon stockings on sale for the 1st time in the United States
S05151957 18000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launches a crusade.
S05151958 The Soviet Union launched Sputnik III.
S05151963 Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper blasts off aboard Faith VII,
S05151963Clast Mercury flight.
S05151969 Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from the Supreme Court.
S05151972 George C. Wallace is shot and left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer.
S05161770 Marie Antoinette marries the future King Louis XVI of France
S05161866 Congress authorizes nickel 5-cent piece (the silver half-dime
S05161866Cwas used up to this point.)
S05161868 Senate fails by 1 vote to impeach President Andrew Johnson.
S05161920 Joan of Arc is canonized in Rome.
S05161929 First Oscars Awards are given:
S05161929C      Best Actor:   Emil Jennings.
S05161929C      Best Actress: Janey Gaynor.
S05161929C      Best Film:    "Wings"
S05161948 Israel issues its first stamps.
S05161955 American author and critic James Agee dies in New York.
S05161956 "Kraft Theatre" presents an act from "Profiles in Courage."
S05161971 First Class postage raised to 8 cents from 6 cents.
S05161975 Japanese Junko Tabei becomes first woman to reach
S05161975CMt. Everest's summit.
S05171620 First merry-go-round seen at a fair in Philippapolis, Turkey.
S05171792 24 merchants form the NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
S05171804 Lewis & Clark begin their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.
S05171814 Norway's constitution is signed providing for a limited monarchy.
S05171872 Bohemian Club incorporated.
S05171875 First Kentucky Derby run at Churchill Downs. Winner is Aristides.
S05171921 President Harding opens (via telephone) first Valencia Orange
S05171921CShow in Anaheim.
S05171938 Radio quiz show סInformation Please!' debuts on NBC Blue Network
S05171939 First sports telecast - Columbia vs Princeton - College baseball.
S05171940 Nazis occupy Brussels, Belgium.
S05171954 Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education,
S05171954Creversed 1896 סseparate but equal' Plessy Vs Ferguson decision.
S05171960 First atomic reactor system is patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park CA.
S05171973 The Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings.
S05171983 Israel and Lebanon sign a peace treaty.
S05181804 Napoleon becomes Emperor of France.
S05181830 Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of
S05181830Chis invention, the lawn mower.  Saturdays are destroyed forever.
S05181917 US passes Selective Service act.
S05181933 TVA Act signed by President Roosevelt.
S05181951 United Nations moves into its New York City headquarters.
S05181953 First woman pilot faster than speed of sound - Jacqueline Cochran
S05181969 Apollo 10 is launched.
S05181980 Mount St. Helens blew its top in Washington State.
S05191536 Anne Boleyn executed.
S05191856 Sen Charles Sumner, Mass, speaks out against the pro-slavery people.
S05191862 The Homestead Act becomes law.
S05191928 51 frogs enter first annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" at Angel's
S05191928CCamp in Calaveras County, California.
S05201506 Christopher Columbus dies in poverty in Spain.
S05201845 First legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii.
S05201861 NC secedes, Confederacy capital moves from Montgomery to Richmond
S05201874 Levi Strauss markets his blue jeans with copper rivets, priced
S05201874Cat $13.50 A DOZEN.
S05201902 The United States ends its occupation of Cuba
S05201926 Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies.
S05201927 At 7:40am, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic.
S05201932 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland, first woman fly solo across
S05201932Cthe Atlantic.
S05201939 Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger and air mail service.
S05201956 Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane -
S05201956Con the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
S05201961 White mob attacks סFreedom Riders' in Montgomery, Alabama
S05201974 Russians' Soyuz 14 returns to Earth
S05201985 FBI arrests John A. Walker Jr, convicted of spying for the USSR.
S05201985 The US begins broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti.
S05211832 First Democratic party national convention.
S05211846 First steamship arrives in Hawaii.
S05211881 The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton
S05211927 Lindbergh lands in Paris, after first solo across Atlantic.
S05211929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NY city.
S05211932 First transatlantic solo flight by a woman landed, AE Putnam
S05211941 First American ship sunk by a U-boat (Robin Moor.)
S05211955 First transcontinental round-trip solo flight - sunrise to sunset.
S05221761 First life insurance policy in the US,issued in Philadelphia
S05221807 Townsend Speakman begins making and selling fruit-flavored
S05221807Ccarbonated drinks - in Philadelphia.
S05221846 First steamer arrives in Hawaii
S05221856 Violence in Senate, SC rep Brooks uses a cane on Mass Sen Sumner.
S05221868 Great Train Robbery. Seven men make off with $98,000 in cash.
S05221939 Hitler and Mussolini sign סPact of Steel.'
S05221947 First ballistic missile fired.
S05221947 The "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect aiding Turkey & Greece.
S05221963 Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade
S05221967 Egyptian president Nassar closes the Straits of Tiran to Israel.
S05221970 Arab terrorists kill 9 children and 3 adults on a school bus.
S05221972 Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka.
S05221981 Russians' Soyuz 40 returns to Earth
S05231430 Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians who sell her to the English.
S05231533 Marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon
S05231533Cis declared null and void.
S05231701 Captain Kidd is hanged in London after being convicted of
S05231701Cpiracy and murder.
S05231788 South Carolina becomes the eighth state of the Union.
S05231873 Canada's North West Mounted Police force is established.
S05231873 Postal Cards are sold in San Francisco for first time.
S05231898 First Phillipine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco.
S05231903 First automobile trip across US from SF to New York, ended April 1.
S05231908 Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die.
S05231915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary in World War I.
S05231921 "Shuffle Along," the first black musical comedy, opens in New
S05231921CYork City.
S05231934 Bonnie and Clyde are shot in Louisana ambush.
S05231937 Industrialist John D Rockfeller dies in Ormond Beach Fla.
S05231945 Nazi Himmler commits suicide in prison at Luneburg, Germany.
S05231949 West Germany is proclaimed.
S05231960 Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
S05241844 Samual F.B. Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought?"
S05241866 Berkeley named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne).
S05241883 The Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres Arthur & Governor Cleveland.
S05241899 In Boston, the first auto repair shop opens.
S05241931 First air-conditioned train installed - B&O Railroad.
S05241935 First major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (vs Phila)
S05241954 First rocket to exceed 150 mile altitude - White Sands, NM.
S05241959 First house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited, Pleasant
S05241959CHills, Pa.
S05241962 Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter, aboard Aurora 7, is launched.
S05241964 Beatles third appearance on Ed Sullivan show.
S05241973 Harley Race defeats Dory Funk Jr. for NWA World Heavyweight Title
S05241973Cin Kansas City, Kansas. This began the 1st of 8 NWA world title
S05241973Creigns for Harley Race.
S05241975 Russians' Soyuz 18B is launched.
S05241984 Richard Fliehr (better known as "Nature Boy Ric Flair") defeats
S05241984CKerry Adkinson (better known as "Kerry Von Erich") for the NWA
S05241984CWorld Heavyweight Championship in Yokosuka, Japan.  This begins
S05241984CFliehr's 4th NWA title reign.
S05251721 John Copson becomes America's first insurance agent.
S05251787 Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia.
S05251927 Henry Ford stops producing the Model T car (begins Model A).
S05251935 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates.
S05251950 Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opens in New York City.
S05251953 First atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada.
S05251953 First noncommercial educational television station - Houston, TX.
S05251973 Skylab 2's first mission is launched.
S05251978 The movie "Star Wars" is released.
S05251979 Israel begins to return the Sinai to Egypt.
S05251983 Movie "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) is released.
S05261781 Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia.
S05261896 Dow Jones Industrial Average adopted.
S05261913 Actor's Equity is organized in New York City.
S05261937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens.
S05261946 Patent filed in US for the H-Bomb.
S05261969 Apollo 10 returns to Earth
S05261980 Russians' Soyuz 36 is launched.
S05261981 Russians' Soyuz T-4 returns to Earth
S05271907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco.
S05271931 First full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes,
S05271931CLangley Field Va.
S05271937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge dedicated.
S05271941 German battleship Bismark sunk by British naval force
S05271975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus and Mars."
S05281530 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida.
S05281742 First indoor swimming pool opens at Goodman's Fields, London.
S05281774 First Continental Congress convenes in Virginia.
S05281926 United States Customs Court created by Congress.
S05281929 First all color talking picture "On With The Show" exhibited, NYC
S05281946 First night game at Yankee stadium.
S05281953 Premier of first animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor - "Melody."
S05281959 First animals fired into space and rescued, Cape Canaveral.
S05291453 Constantinople falls to the Turks (some believe this signalled
S05291453Cthe end of the Middle Ages).
S05291790 Rhode Island becomes the last of original 13 to ratify the
S05291790CConstitution.
S05291848 Wisconsin becomes the 30th state.
S05291849 A patent for lifting vessels is granted to Abraham Lincoln.
S05291912 15 young women are fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing the
S05291912C"Turkey Trot" during their lunch break.
S05291951 First North Pole flight in single engine plane - CF Blair.
S05291953 Edmund Hillary & Norkay of NZ become 1st to reach top of
S05291953CMt. Everest.
S05291978 First Class postage raised to 15 cents from 13 cents.
S05301431 Joan of Arc is burned at the stake in Rouen France at age 19.
S05301778 The French philosopher Voltaire dies.
S05301911 Indianapolis 500 car race run for first time. Winning driver
S05301911CRay Harroun takes it with a blazing 75 mph.
S05301933 Patent on invisible glass installation.
S05301937 Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory.
S05301953 First major league network baseball game - Cleveland 7, Chicago 2.
S05301972 Terrorists kill 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lydda airport.
S05301982 Spain becomes the 16th member of North Atlantic Treaty Organization
S05311678 Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry.
S05311809 Composer Franz Josef Hayden dies in Vienna, Austria.
S05311837 New York's Astor Hotel opens ... most elaborate in the U.S.
S05311854 Kansas Territory established.
S05311868 First recorded bicycle race, 2 kilometers in Paris.
S05311879 First electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition.
S05311879 Madison Square Garden opens its doors.
S05311889 2000 people perish in a dam break in Johnstown Pa. flood
S05311889 Johnstown Flood occurs.
S05311910 Union of South Africa is founded.
S05311913 17th amendment providing popular election of US senators.
S05311916 During WW I British & German fleets fight the Battle of Jutland.
S05311956 Mickey Mantle homer just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof
S05311962 WW II Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann hanged in Israel.
S05311970 Tens of thousands of people in Peru die in an earthquake.
S05311974 Israel and Syria sign an agreement concerning the Golan Heights.
S05311976 Martha Mitchell, wife of former Attorney General John Mitchell,
S05311976Cdies in NY.
S05311988 Americans and Soviets ratify the INF treaty, agreeing to
S05311988Celiminate medium range nuclear warheads.
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