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S0501 Loyalty Day,
S0501 May Day
S0501 May Day,
B05011769 Duke of Wellington, who made Napoleon very unhappy.
B05011830 Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), hellraiser
S05011840 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued.
S05011850 John Geary becomes 1st mayor of City of San Francisco.
S05011860 1st school for the deaf founded.
S05011869 Folies-Bergere opens in Paris.
S05011884 construction begins in Chicago on the 1st skyscraper.
S05011892 US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island.
B05011909 Kate Smith
B05011917 Danielle Darieux France
S05011928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
B05011939 Judy Collins Seattle Wash
B05011945 Rita Coolidge Tennessee
S05011947 Radar for commercial and private planes first demonstrated
S05011975 Islander Parise and Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs
S05011980 Sabres and Islanders play to 1:20 of fifth period in a playoff
S05011982 Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT) - Semi-Finals- Isles hold 3-0 lead
B05021837 Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order"
B05021902 Brian Ahern,
B05021903 Benjamin Spock, Baby Specialist
B05021904 Bing Crosby, crooner
B05021924 Theodore Bikel, Folk Singer
S05021925 Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park opens.
S05021939 Lou Gehrig sets record for being in most consecutive games (2130).
B05021946 Leslie Gore Tenafly NJ
S05021946 Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die.
S05021968 Israelltelevision begins
S05031830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts.
B05031874 Francois Coty, perfumemaker.
S05031898 Camp Merriman established at the Presidio.
B05031898 Golda Meir
B05031906 Mary Astor, Actress
S05031919 America's 1st passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City)
B05031919 Betty Comden
B05031919 Pete Seeger, folk singer.
B05031937 Franki Valli, Singer
B05031939 Samantha Eggar England
S05031952 First landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
S05031971 national noncommercial network radio begins programming.
S05031983 Bruins 3-Isles 8 - Wales Conf Championship- Isles hold 3-1 lead
S05041626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons.
S05041851 1st of the major San Francisco fires.
S05041866 Woodward's Gardens opens to public.
S05041878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at the Grand Opera House.
B05041929 Audrey Hepburn Brussels Belgium
B05041930 Roberta Peters, Opera Singer
S05041942 Battle of the Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
B05041954 Julie Budd Brooklyn NY
B05041961 Mary McDonough
S05041973 First TV network female nudity - Steambath (PBS) - Valerie Perrine
S05041975 Flyers 1-Isles 0 - Semi Finals- Flyers hold 3-0 lead
S05041982 Nordiques 2-Isles 4 - Semi-Finals- Isles win series 4-0
S0505 Cinco de Mayo
S0505 Tango-no-sekku (Boy's Festival) -- Japan
B05051867 Nellie Bly, name became a synonym for female star reporter.
S05051908 The Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco.
B05051925 Monica Lewis
B05051926 Ann B Davis Schnectady NY
B05051927 Pat Carrol Shrevport Louisiana
B05051942 Tammy Wynette, Singer
S05051948 First air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
S05051949 Council of Europe established.
S05051956 Jim Bailey - first 4 minute mile run in U.S.A., Los Angeles, Ca.
S05051961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (onboard Freedom 7).
S05051983 Bruins 5-Isles 1 - Wales Conf Championship- Isles hold 3-2 lead
B0506 Daniel Gerber, beloved by babies at mealtime
B05061818 Karl Marx
S05061851 Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco starts.
S05061851 Patent granted to Dr. John Farrie for a "refrigeration machine"
B05061856 Sigmund Freud, cigar smoker
S05061860 the Olympic Club, 1st athletic club in US, founded.
B05061870 A.P. Giannini, founder of Bank of America.
B05061888 Emmanuel Celler, Former Congressman
B05061895 Rudolph Valentino, sheik
B05061905 Toots Shor, Raconteur & Restauranteur
S05061906 "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street
S05061906Callows United Railroads to run electric streetcars.
B05061915 Orson Welles, Actor
B05061915 Theodore White, Author
B05061924 Mimi Benzell Bridgeport
B05061926 Marguerite Piazza, Opera Singer
B05061931 Willie Mays, Baseball Player - Say Hey
S05061962 First nuclear warhead is fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
B05061962 Lori Singer Chorpus Christi Texas
S05061985 Seventeenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 7 returns to Earth.
S05071824 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony presented for first time.
B05071833 Johannes Brahms, enjoyed a good lullaby.
B05071840 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
B05071892 Archibald Macleish, Political Essayist
B05071901 Gary Cooper, actor in 'High Noon' and 'The Plainsman'.
B05071909 Edwin Land, founded instant photography (Polaroid)
B05071919 Eva Peron
B05071922 Darren Mc Gavin, Actor
B05071923 Anne Baxter, Actress
B05071926 Val Bisoglio, Actor
S05071927 San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated.
B05071931 Teresa Brewer Toledo Ohio
B05071932 Pete Domeneci, Congressman
B05071933 John Unitas, Football Player
S05071941 Cornerstone of BofA building at 300 Montgomery laid.
B05071944 Sivi Aberg
B05071945 Robin Strasser New York City
S05071945 World War II ends in Europe.
S05071947 Kraft Television Theater premiers.
B05071951 Janis Ian (Fink) New York
S05071963 Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles).
S05071975 Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT) - Semi Finals- Flyers hold 3-1 lead
S05071983 Bruins 4-Isles 8 - Wales Conf Championship- Isles win series 4-2
S0508 Harry Truman's Birthday,
S0508 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
S05081541 Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River.
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, 1st internationally recognized US pianist
B05081884 Harry S. Truman, 32nd President
B05081895 Fulton J. Sheen, T V Religion Lecturer
B05081926 Don Rickles, Comedian
B05081928 Theodore Sorenson, Former Presidential Advisor
B05081935 Salome Jens Milwaukee Wisconsin
B05081940 Peter Benchley, Author - Jaws & The Deep
S05081942 Battle of the Coral Sea ends
B05081943 Toni Tennille Montgomery Alabama
S05081945 Germany surrendered, 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.
S05081961 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
S05081961 First practical sea water conversion plant - Freeport Texas
B05081964 Melissa Gilbert Los Angeles
S05081980 Sabres only take 15 shots, Islanders - 22 in a playoff
S05081982 Canucks 5-Isles 6 (OT) - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 1-0 lead
S0509 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
B05091800 John Brown, abolitionist
B05091873 Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamen
B05091882 Henry J. Kaiser, built Liberty Ships, Jeeps
S05091882 Telegraph Hill Railroad Company organized.
B05091914 Theodore Kheel, Labor Negotiator
B05091918 Mike Wallace, Host Of 60 Minutes
S05091925 Cornerstone for Hebrew University layed
B05091936 Glenda Jackson Cheshire England
S05091944 First eye bank opened, NY city
S05091946 1st Variety show - NBC's Hour Glass premiers
B05091946 Candice Bergen, Actress
S05091961 FCC's Newton Minow says "TV is a vast wasteland"
S0510 Confederate Memorial Day,
S0510 Native American Day
S0510 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
S05101775 Continental Congress issues paper currency for 1st time.
B05101788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneered in optics.
S05101869 the Driving of the Golden Spike, Promontory Point, Utah.
S05101869CThe Transcontinential railroad is completed.
B05101899 Fred Astaire, tapdancer
B05101902 David O. Selznick, film producer.
B05101908 Carl Albert, Speaker Of The House
B05101918 Margo, Singer
B05101921 Nancy Walker, Actress
S05101928 WGY Schenectady began regular TV programming
S05101930 First planetarium to open to the public - Adler Planetarium, Chicago
S05101983 Oilers 0-Isles 2 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 1-0 lead
S0511 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
S05111752 1st US fire insurance policy is issued, in Philadelphia.
S05111850 Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco.
B05111888 Irving Berlin
B05111904 Salvador Dali
S05111907 Bank of San Francisco incorporated.
B05111927 Mort Sahl, Comedian
S05111929 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week).
B05111938 Doug McClure, Actor
S05111947 Tubeless automobile tires announced, Akron, Oh.
S05111949 Israel is admitted to the UN
S05111951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory.
S05111975 Flyers 1-Isles 2 - Semi Finals- Series tied at 3 games
S05111975 Israel signs an agreement with The European Economic Market
S05111982 Canucks 4-Isles 6 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 2-0 lead
S0512 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
B05121820 Florence Nightengale
B05121845 Gabriel Faure, composer
S05121901 President William McKinley visits San Francisco.
B05121914 Howard K Smith, T V Newsperson
B05121925 Yogi Barra, catcher
B05121939 Ronald Ziegler, Press Secretary To Nixon
B05121942 Susan Hampshire London England
S05121949 First foreign woman ambassador received in US - S.V.L. Pandit, India
B05121950 Bruce Boxleitner, Actor
S05121960 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
B05121969 Kim Fields Los Angeles
S05121981 Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd. vs Minn
S05121983 Oilers 3-Isles 6 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 2-0 lead
S0513 Leprechaun Day
S0513 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
S05131607 English land to found Jamestown (1st permanent settlement)
S05131835 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii is established.
B05131842 Sir Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame.
S05131846 US declares war on Mexico.
B05131856 Peter Henry Emerson, first photographer to promote
B05131856Cphotography as an independent art.
S05131884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded
B05131914 Joe Louis, Former Heavyweight Champion
B05131919 Betty Comden Brooklyn NY
B05131923 Beatrice Arthur, Actress
B05131950 Stevie Wonder, Singer
S05131975 Flyers 4-Isles 1 - Semi Finals- Flyers win semi finals 4-3
S05131982 Canucks 0-Isles 3 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 3-0 lead
S05131982 Soyuz T-5 is launched.
S0514 Independence Day (in Paraguay)
S0514 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
S05141811 Paraguay gains it's independence.
S05141853 Gail Borden applies for patent for making condensed milk.
S05141903 President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco.
B05141919 Heloise
B05141925 Patrice Munsel Spokane Wash
B05141928 Billy Martin, local boy who made good in baseball.
B05141944 George Lucas, skywalker
S05141948 Prime Minster David Ben-Gurion establishes the State of Israel
S05141948 State of Israel proclaimed.
S05141973 United States launches space station "Skylab".
S05141981 Soyuz 40 is launched. - First Rumanian in space.
S05141983 Oilers 1-Isles 5 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 3-0 lead
S0515 Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean Day. Why?
S0515 CBecause it may be waving at you.
S05151856 2nd San Francisco Vigilance Committee organized.
B05151859 Pierre Curie, physicist
B05151894 Katherine Ann Porter, Author
B05151902 Richard Daley, Mayor Of Chicago
B05151918 Joseph Wiseman, Actor
B05151924 Ursula Theiss
S05151930 First flight by an air stewardess
B05151936 Anna Marie Alberghetti, Actress
B05151937 Trini Lopez, Singer
S05151940 1st nylon stockings are sold in America.
S05151940 First nylon hose placed on sale
S05151963 last of the Mercury flights, the 'Faith 7', launched.
S05151980 Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in the playoffs
S0516 Armed Forces Day
B05161801 William H. Seward, bought Alaska at $0.02/acre.
S05161866 Congress authorizes nickel 5-cent piece (the silver half-dime
S05161866Cwas used up to this point).
S05161872 Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time.
B05161912 Studs Terkel, Author
S05161914 Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens.
B05161919 Liberace, Entertainer
S05161929 1st Oscars announced (best film was 'Wings').
B05161931 Lowell Weicker, Senator Of Connecticut
B05161940 Lainie Kazan Brooklyn
S05161948 Israel issues its first stamps
B05161955 Debra Winger Columbus Ohio
S05161956 Kraft Theatre presented an act from Profiles in Courage
S05161971 First Class Mail now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents).
S05161982 Canucks 1-Isles 3 - Stanley Cup- Isles win cup 4-0 (15-4)
S0517 Armed Forces Day,
S0517 Norwegian Independence Day
S05171792 24 brokers meet to found the New York Stock Exchange
S05171804 Lewis & Clark begin their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase
B05171866 Erik Satie, composer
S05171872 Bohemian Club incorporated.
S05171898 Camp Merritt established in the Presidio.
B05171911 Maureen O'Sullivan Boyle Ireland
B05171912 Archibald Cox, Special Prosecutor
S05171921 President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange
S05171921CShow in Anaheim.
B05171935 Ivan Slone, World-Famous Watchmaker
S05171939 First sports telecast - Columbia vs Princeton - College baseball
S05171954 Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education,
S05171954Coverthrowing the principle of 'separate but equal'.
S05171960 1st atomic reactor system to be patented, J.W. Flora, Canoga Park CA
S05171962 Marin County withdraws from BART district.
S05171981 Islanders score 5 power play goals against the Flyers in a playoff
S05171983 Israel and Lebanon sign a peace treaty
S05171983 Oilers 2-Isles 4 - Stanley Cup- Isles win cup 4-0 (15-5)
B05181850 Oliver Heaviside, physicist who predicted the existance of
B05181850Cthe ionosphere, used to reflect radio waves.
B05181904 Jacob K. Javits, Former Senator -New York
B05181918 Pope John Paul II
B05181922 Bill Macy, Actor
B05181930 Pernell Roberts, Actor
S05181933 TVA Act signed by President Roosevelt.
S05181953 First woman pilot faster than speed of sound - Jacqueline Cochran
S05181969 Apollo 10 is launched.
S05181980 Mount St. Helens blew it's top in Washington State.
S05191536 Anne Boleyn Executed
S05191862 the Homestead Act becomes law.
B05191890 Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer
B05191911 Nora Ephron
B05191918 Mike Wallace
B05191935 David Hartman, T V Personality
B05191941 Nora Ephron, Author
B05191948 Rick Bartho, Communications Expert
B05191952 Grace Jones Jamaica
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 & Co.
S05201845 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii.
B05201913 William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co.
B05201915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general & politician
S05201927 at 7:40am, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic
S05201939 Transatlantic air mail service inaugurated
B05201946 Cher Bono California
S05201956 Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane - Bikini Atoll
B05201958 Jane Wiedlin (The GoGos)
B05201966 Mindy Cohn Los Angeles
S05201974 Soyuz 14 returns to Earth.
S0521 2Victoria Day -- Canada
B05211471 Albrecht Durer, painter & printmaker, greatest German
B05211471CRenaissance artist.
S05211846 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii.
B05211860 Willam Einthoven, invented the electrocardiograph
B05211878 Glenn Curtis, aircraft pioneer
S05211881 the American Red Cross is founded.
B05211898 Armand Hammer, Millionaire Industrialist
B05211912 Harold Robbins, Author -The Moneychangers
S05211927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo across Atlantic.
S05211929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NY city
S05211932 First transatlantic solo flight by a woman landed, A.E. Putnam
S05211933 Mount Davidson Cross lit by President Roosevelt in
S05211933CWashington via Telegraph.
S05211941 First American ship sunk by a U-boat (Robin Moor)
S05211955 First transcontinental round-trip solo flight - sunrise to sunset
S0522 National Maritime Day,
S0522 2Victoria Day -- Canada
B05221828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon, founded modern ophthalmology
S05221846 first steamer arrives in Hawaii.
B05221859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, brought Sherlock Holmes to life (twice)
B05221907 Laurence Olivier, actor
S05221909 1st San Francisco fireboat, the "David Scannell", launched.
B05221920 Thomas Gold, astronomer, established the steady-state theory
B05221920Cof the universe.
B05221922 Judith Crist, Movie Critic
B05221924 Charles Aznavour, Singer
B05221938 Richard Benjamin, Actor
B05221938 Susan Strasberg New York City
B05221940 Michael Sarrazin, Actor
S05221947 First ballistic missile fired
S05221967 Egyptian president Nassar closes the Straits of Tiran to Israel
S05221970 Arab terrorists kill 9 children and 3 adults on a school bus
S05221981 Soyuz 40 returns to Earth.
A0523 BJ & Peg Hunnicutt of Mill Valley!
S0523 2Victoria Day -- Canada
S05231873 Postal Cards sold in San Francisco for 1st time.
B05231883 Douglas Fairbanks, 1st & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers.
S05231898 1st Phillipine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco.
S05231908 Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die.
B05231910 Artie Shaw, band leader and husband
B05231919 Betty Garrett St. Joseph Mo
B05231928 Rosemary Clooney Kentucky
B05231931 Barbara Barrie Chicago
B05231933 Joan Collins London
S05231956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building.
S05231960 Adolf Eichmann is sent to Israel to stand trial for Nazi crimes
S0524 2Victoria Day -- Canada
B05241686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, invented the thermometer
B05241819 Queen Victoria
S05241844 Samual F.B. Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought"
S05241866 Berkeley named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne).
S05241866CNever turn your back on it.
S05241883 The Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres. Arthur & Gov. Cleveland.
S05241899 in Boston, the 1st auto repair shop opens.
B05241909 Wilbur Mills, Former Congressman
B05241918 Coleman Young, Civil Rights Leader
S05241931 First air-conditioned train installed - B&O Railroad
B05241932 Elaine Malbin, Opera Singer
B05241934 Mayor Jane Byrne of Chicago
S05241935 First major league baseball game at night, Cincinnati, Oh.
B05241945 Priscilla Presley, Actress
S05241954 First rocket to exceed 150 mile altitude - White Sands, N.M.
S05241959 First house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited, Pleasant Hills, Pa
S05241962 M. Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 is launched.
S05241975 Soyuz 18B is launched.
S05241980 Flyers 4-Isles 5 (OT)- Stanley Cup- Isles win cup 4-2 (15-6)
S0525 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
S05251787 Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia.
B05251803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher
B05251889 Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter
B05251898 Gene Tunney, Former Heavyweight Champion
B05251917 Theodore Hesburgh, Ex-President Notre Dame
B05251918 Claude Aikins, Actor
B05251925 Jeanne Crain Barstow Calif
B05251926 Miles Davis, trumpeter, pioneered cool jazz
S05251927 Henry Ford stops producing the Model T car (begins Model A).
B05251927 Robert Ludlum, Spy Novelist
B05251929 Beverly Sills, soprano
B05251935 Barbara Harris Illinois
S05251940 Golden Gate International Exposition reopens.
B05251943 Leslie Uggams, Singer
B05251947 Jessi Colter Phoenix Arizona
B05251947 Karen Valentine, Actress
S05251948 San Francisco receives its 1st telecast.
S05251953 First atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
S05251953 First noncommercial educational television station - Houston, Texas
B05251955 Connie Sellecca Bronx NY
S05251973 Skylab 2's first mission is launched.
S05251978 "Star Wars" is released.
S05251983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) is released.
S0526 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
S05261868 President Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote.
B05261877 Isadora Duncan
B05261886 Al Jolson, jazz singer
S05261898 San Francisco approves new City Charter, allowing Municipal
S05261898Cownership of utiliies (charter effective Jan 1, 1900).
B05261907 John Wayne, shootist
B05261910 Laurance Rockefeller, Chairman - Chase Manhattan
B05261920 Peggy Lee, Singer
B05261923 James Arness, Actor
S05261937 Golden Gate Bridge opens.
B05261939 Teresa Stratas Toronto Ontario
S05261943 First president of Negro country to visit US - E. Barclay, Liberia
S05261946 Patent filed in US for the H-Bomb.
B05261947 Sherry Bain California
B05261949 Dale Haddon Montrael Canada
B05261949 Hank Williams, Jr, Country Singer
B05261949 Pam Grier
S05261958 Union Square becomes State Historical Landmark.
B05261962 Genie Francis Los Angeles
S05261969 Apollo 10 returns to Earth.
S05261980 Soyuz 36 is launched
S05261981 Soyuz T-4 returns to Earth.
S0527 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
B05271818 Amelia Bloomer, suffragist known for her pantaloons
B05271837 Wild Bill Hickox
S05271854 Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Francisco completed.
B05271878 Isadora Duncan
B05271894 Dashiell Hammett, author who created the hard-boiled detective
S05271896 Bay District Race Track closes.
S05271907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco
B05271907 Rachel Carson, ecologist
B05271911 Hubert Humphrey, Vice President 1964-68
B05271911 Vincent Price, Actor
B05271915 Herman Wouk, Author -The Caine Mutiny
B05271922 Christopher Lee, Actor
B05271923 Henry Kissinger, Former Secretary Of State
S05271931 First full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va
B05271935 Lee Merriweather
S05271937 Golden Gate Bridge dedicated.
B05271943 Cillia Black Liverpool England
B05271944 Christopher Dodd, Former Gov Of Conn
S05271951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park opens.
S0528 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
B05281886 Jim Thorpe
B05281906 Phil Regan, Singer
B05281908 Ian Fleming, gave James Bond a job.
S05281926 United States Customs Court created by Congress.
S05281929 First talking picture show entirely in color exhibited, NY city
S05281929C"On With The Show"
B05281931 Carroll Baker,
B05281944 Gladys Knight Atlanta Ga
B05281946 Madeline LeRouix Wyoming
B05281947 Sondra Locke Shellyville Tennessee
S05281953 Premier of first animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor - "Melody"
S05281959 First animals fired into space and rescued, Cape Canaveral
S0529 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
S05291453 Constantinople falls to the Turks (some believe this signalled
S05291453Cthe end of the Middle Ages).
B05291894 Bea Lillie, Comedienne
B05291903 Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope, famous profile
B05291917 John F. Kennedy, 35th President (1960-1963)
S05291951 First North Pole flight in single engine plane - C.F. Blair
S05291953 Hillary & Norkay reach top of Mount Everest.
B05291963 Lisa Whelchel Ft Worth Texas
S05291978 First Class postage now 15 cents (was 13 cents for 3 years).
S0530 The REAL Memorial Day
S05301431 Joan of Arc Executed
B05301888 James A. Farley, Postmaster General 1932-1938
B05301908 Mel Blanc,
B05301909 Benny Goodman, swinger
S05301911 Indianapolis 500 car race run for 1st time.
S05301933 Patent on invisible glass installation
S05301953 First major league network baseball game - Cleveland 7, Chicago 2
S05301972 The PFL kills 24 and wounds 72 at Israel's Lydda airport
S0531 Republic Day, celebrated in South Africa
S0531 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
S05311433 Joan of Arc has a hot time at the stake...
S05311678 Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry
B05311819 Walt Whitman, poet
S05311868 1st recorded bicycle race, 2 kilometers in Paris.
S05311879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition.
S05311889 Johnstown Flood
B05311898 Norman Vincent Peale, How To Win Friends ...
B05311908 Don Ameche, Actor - Cocoon
B05311912 Henry Jackson, Senator From Washington
B05311920 Edward Bennett Williams, Attorney
B05311929 Elaine Stewart
B05311931 Shirley Verrett New Orleans La
B05311938 Peter Yarrow, Singer
B05311943 Sharon Gless Los Angeles
S05311962 Adolf Eichmann executed in Israel
B05311965 Brooke Shields New York City
S05311974 Israel and Syria sign an agreement concerning the Golan Heights