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- B04011883 Lon Chaney, man of a thousand faces
- B0402 742 Emperor Charlemagne
- B04021875 Walter Chrysler, founded a car company.
- B04021914 Sir Alec Guiness, thespian
- B04021920 Jack Webb, dum-de-dum-dum
- B04021924 Doris Day, girl next door
- B04031924 Marlon Brando, godfather
- B04041792 Thaddeus Stevens
- B04041802 Dorothea Dix, social reformer
- B04051856 Booker T. Washington
- B04051908 Bette Davis
- B04051954 Michael W. Butler, creator of mainframe TODAY program.
- B04061810 Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium
- B04061866 Lincoln Steffens, muckraker.
- B04061890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer
- B04061892 Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company.
- B04061892 Lowell Thomas, journalist
- B04071860 W.K. Kellogg, founded the cereal company.
- B04071915 Billie Holiday, blues singer
- B04071932 Mark Russell, satirist
- B04081889 Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
- B04091830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion in photography.
- B04091865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz
- B04091879 W.C. Fields, Philadelphian
- B04091919 John Presper Eckert, co-inventor of 1st electronic computer (ENIAC)
- B04121777 Henry Clay, 'The Great Compromiser'
- B04121791 Francis P. Blair, helped found the Republican Party.
- B04121913 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader & vibraphone improvisor
- B04131721 John Hanson, 1st US President under the Articles of Confederation
- B04131743 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President (1801-1809)
- B04131852 F.W. Woolworth, the "five-and-ten" king.
- B04141889 Arnold Toynbee, historian
- B04151452 Leonardo da Vinci, factotum
- B04151707 Leonhard Euler, mathematician
- B04161867 Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame
- B04161889 Charlie Chaplin, tramp
- B04161947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tall person
- B04171837 J.P. Morgan, financed the US.
- B04171897 Thornton Wilder, American novelist
- B04181857 Clarence Darrow, lawyer
- B04191877 Ole Evinrude, invented the outboard marine engine.
- B04211926 Queen Elizabeth II
- B04211838 John Muir, naturalist.
- B04221904 J. Robert Oppenheimer.
- B04231564 William Shakespeare, bard
- B04231791 James Buchanan, 15th President (1857-1861)
- B04231813 Stephen Douglas, the "Little Giant", debated Lincoln
- B04231928 Shirley Temple, child
- B04241620 John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of demography
- B04241942 Barbra Streisand, profile
- B04251874 Guglielmo Marconi, made radio possible
- B04251908 Edward R. Murrow, set the standard for TV correspondents.
- B04261785 John James Audubon, birdwatcher
- B04261900 Charles Richter, he tells us how bad the quakes are.
- B04271791 Samuel F. B. Morse
- B04271822 Ulyssses S. Grant, 18th President (1869-1877)
- B04271896 Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon.
- B04281758 James Monroe, 5th President (1816-1824)
- B04291830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels...
- B04291863 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner)
- B04291899 Duke Ellington
- B04301777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematician of all time.
- B04301912 Eve Arden, Our Miss Brooks
- *mmddyyyy Events
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- S04011778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans Businessman, creates the "$".
- S04011850 San Francisco County Government established.
- S04011941 Navy takes over Treasure Island.
- S04011960 TIROS I (Television & Infra-Red Observation Satellite) launched
- S04011960Cto improve weather prediction.
- S0401 April Fool's Day
- S0401 Saint Stupid's Day (a San Francisco tradition since 1980).
- S04021792 Congress establishes Coin denominations of United States.
- S04021935 Watson Watt granted a patent for RADAR.
- S0402 International Children's Book Day
- S04031848 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher.
- S04041860 Pony Express begins service, from St. Joseph, Missouri.
- S04041870 Golden Gate Park established by City Order #800.
- S04051614 Pocahontas marries John Rolfe.
- S04051941 Castro and Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses.
- S04061862 Battle of Shiloh.
- S04061868 Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife.
- S04061906 first animated cartoon is copyrighted.
- S04061926 4 planes take off on 1st successful around-the-world flight.
- S04061957 New York City ends trolley car service.
- S04071931 Seals Stadium opens.
- S04071933 Prohibition ends.
- S04071948 World Health Organization is established.
- S04081513 Ponce de Leon arrives in Florida.
- S04081913 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified
- S04081974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record.
- S0408 Kambutsue, celebration of Buddha's birthday, in Japan
- S04091865 Lee surrenders at Appomattox.
- S04091953 TV Guide publishes their first issue.
- S04091955 United Nations Charter hearing.
- S04101825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens.
- S04101849 Safety pin patented.
- S04101871 William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park
- S04101871Cofficially accepted.
- S04101878 California Street Cable Car Railroad Company starts service.
- S04101882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
- S04101953 House of Wax, first 3-D movie, released in New York.
- S04111876 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized.
- S04111895 Anaheim completes it's new electric light system.
- S04111947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball.
- S04111958 Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated.
- S0411 Barber Shop Quartet Day
- S04121859 Hibernia Savings & Loan Society of San Francisco incorporated.
- S04121861 Fort Sumter, S. C., shelled by Confederacy, starts Civil War.
- S04121898 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island to Navy.
- S04121933 Moffatt Field is commissioned.
- S04121961 Yuri A. Gagarin becomes 1st man to orbit Earth.
- S04121962 San Mateo County withdraws from BART district.
- S04121981 1st launch of the space shuttle, Columbia.
- S04131976 $2 bill re-introduced as United States currency.
- S04141828 1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.
- S04141860 1st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri.
- S04141865 Abraham Lincoln assasinated in Ford's Theater.
- S04141900 Veteran's Hospital at Fort Miley established.
- S04141928 regular air passenger flights between San Francisco and
- S04141928CLos Angeles started, by Maddux Air Lines.
- S04141971 Fort Point dedicated as 1st National Park in Bay Area.
- S04151850 City of San Francisco incorporated.
- S04151912 Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM.
- S04151922 the famed Poodle Dog Restaurant closes.
- S04151923 insulin becomes generally available for diabetics.
- S04151928 Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf is founded.
- S04151955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants.
- S0415 4the day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting.
- R0415 Income Taxes are due today. Keep the IRS happy...
- S04161866 Nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo & Co. office explodes.
- S0416 4the day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting.
- S04171524 New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.
- S04171853 US Marine Hospital at the Presidio established.
- S04171895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95).
- S04171941 Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing)
- S04171961 Bay of Pigs, invasion.
- S0417 4the day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting.
- S04181775 'The British are Coming!' Paul Revere rides.
- S04181868 San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed.
- S04181869 1st International Cricket Match, held in SF, won by Californian
- S04181906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
- S04181907 Fairmont Hotel opens.
- S04181934 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) is opened, in Fort Worth, Texas
- S04181936 "Clipper" starts providing regular passenger flights from
- S04181936CSan Francisco to Honolulu.
- S04181968 San Francisco's Old Hall of Justice demolished.
- S0418 4the day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting.
- S04191775 at Lexington Common, the shot 'heard round the world'.
- S04191852 California Historical Society founded.
- S04191874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire.
- S04191892 Charles Duryea takes the 1st American-made auto out for a spin.
- S04191939 Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights (only 148 years late)
- S0419 4the day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting.
- S0419 Patriot's Day
- S04201872 Bar Association of San Francisco organized.
- S04201958 Buses replace Key System trains at 3AM.
- S0420 4the day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting.
- S04211862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorado.
- S04211892 1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park.
- S0421 4the day of the AT&T Annual Shareholder meeting.
- R0421 6set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Sunday.
- S0422 Earth Day
- R0422 6set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Sunday.
- S04231871 Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up.
- S04231949 Courtesy Mail Boxes for motorists started in San Francisco.
- S0423 National Secretary Day
- R0423 6set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Sunday.
- S04241800 Library of Congress founded.
- S04241865 Fire Alarm & Police Telegraph system put into operation.
- S04241900 the passing of Andrew Halliday, Cable Car Pioneer.
- R0424 6set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Sunday.
- S04251891 President Benjamin Harrison visits San Francisco.
- S04251901 New York becomes 1st state requiring license plates for cars
- S04251945 United Nations Conference starts.
- S04251961 Robert Noyce granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
- S0425 Arbor Day. Plant a tree.
- R0425 6set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Sunday.
- S04261607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va.
- S04261906 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii.
- S04261954 nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio begins.
- S04261971 San Francisco Lightship replaced by automatic buoy.
- R0426 6set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Sunday.
- S04271565 1st Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City, founded.
- S04271897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) is dedicated.
- S04271937 US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment.
- S04271945 founding of the Second Republic, in Austria.
- S0427 Union Day, celebrated in Tanzania.
- R0427 6set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Sunday.
- S04281754 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurs.
- S04281919 1st successful parachute jump is made.
- S04281974 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon.
- S04291857 Headquarters for the US Army, Division of the Pacific,
- S04291857Cpermanently established at the Presidio.
- S04291913 the all-purpose zipper is patented.
- S0429 the Emperor's Birthday, celebrated in Japan.
- S04301789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of the US
- S04301798 Department of the Navy established.
- S04301803 US more than doubles its size thru the Louisiana Purchase.
- S04301857 founding of what would be San Jose State University.
- S04301869 the Hawaiian YMCA organized.
- S04301939 NBC makes 1st US demo of TV at opening of NY World's Fair.