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- *mmddyyyy Birthdays
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- B02011901 Clark Gable, didn't give a damn about Scarlet O'Hara.
- B02021754 Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat.
- B02031811 Horace Greeley, told young men to go west
- B02031821 Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman to get MD from a US Medical school.
- B02031874 Gertrude Stein, beloved by Hemmingway.
- B0203 Joel Bartlett, KPIX (Channel 5) weatherman.
- B02041902 Charles A. Lindburgh, 'Lucky Lindy'
- B02051840 John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire.
- B02051878 Andre-Gustave Citroen, French automaker
- B02061756 Aaron Burr
- B02061885 George Herman Ruth ('Babe Ruth').
- B02061911 Ronald Reagan, 40th President (1981- )
- B02071804 John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements.
- B02071812 Charles Dickens
- B02071817 Frederick Douglas, 1st black to hold high rank in US government
- B02071883 Eubie Blake, composer
- B02081820 William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general.
- B02081828 Jules Verne, pioneered what later became science fiction.
- B02081906 Chester F. Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing)
- B02081925 Jack Lemmon
- B02091773 William Henry Harrison, 9th President (March 4-April 4, 1841)
- B02111847 Thomas Alva Edison, who lit up your life
- B02121802 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President (1861-1865)
- B02121809 Charles Darwin
- B02121893 General of the Army Omar Bradley, 'The GI General'
- B02131805 David Dudley Field, lawyer whose advocacy of law codification
- B02131805Chad international effects.
- B02131885 Bess Truman, married to President Harry Truman
- B02141894 Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny. Oh, Rochester!
- B02151564 Galileo Galilei
- B02151797 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker
- B02151803 John Augustus Sutter
- B02161884 Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film.
- B02171844 A. Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business.
- B02181745 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented
- B02181745Cthe electric battery.
- B02181848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker
- B02191473 Nicolaus Copernicus
- B02201902 Ansel Adams, knows how to handle a camera.
- B02221732 George Washington, Father figure for US, President (1789-1796)
- B02221749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist & 1st biographer of Bach
- B02231685 George Frideric Handel, Baroque composer
- B02241885 Admiral Chester Nimitz, in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII.
- B02241955 Steven Jobs, Apple co-founder.
- B02251873 Enrico Caruso, singer
- B02251888 John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State for President Eisenhower
- B02261846 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
- B02261852 John Harvey Kellogg, physician, inspired the flaked cereal industry.
- B02261866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry
- B02271902 John Steinbeck
- B02271934 Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan
- B02291860 Herman Hollerith, invented 1st electric tabulating machine.
- *mmddyyyy Events
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- S02011867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days.
- S02011920 the 1st armored car is introduced.
- S02021848 Mexico sells US Texas, California, New Mexico & Arizona.
- S02021848 1st shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco.
- S02021876 National Baseball League formed with 8 teams.
- S02021880 SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st successful shipment
- S02021880Cof frozen mutton from Australia.
- S02021962 8 of the 9 planets aligned for the 1st time in 400 years.
- S0202 Groundhog Day
- S02031918 Twin Peaks Tunnel, longest (11,920 feet) streetcar tunnel in
- S02031918Cthe world, begins service with the K-Ingleside streetcar.
- S02041865 the Hawaiian Board of Education is formed.
- S02041932 1st Winter Olympics held (At Lake Placid, NY).
- S02041948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence.
- S0204 Independence Day, celebrated in Sri Lanka.
- S02051887 Snow falls on San Francisco.
- S0206 New Zealand Day, celebrated in (where else?) New Zealand
- S02071914 Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium.
- S02081693 Charter granted for College of William & Mary, 2nd college in US.
- S02081883 Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen.
- S02081908 Boy Scouts of America founded.
- S02081922 Radio arrives in the White House.
- S02081957 Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall.
- S02081977 Earthquake, at 5.0, strongest since 1966.
- S02091877 U.S. Weather Service is founded.
- S02091885 first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
- S02091891 1st shipment of asparagus arrives from Sacramento.
- S02091969 the Boeing 747 takes it's 1st commercial flight.
- S02101870 City of Anaheim incorporated (first time).
- S02101879 1st electric arc light used (in California Theater).
- S02111854 Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time.
- S02111929 Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome.
- S02111936 Pumping begins to build Treasure Island.
- S02121541 Santiago, Chile founded.
- S02121934 Export-Import Bank incorporated.
- S02121945 San Francisco selected for site of United Nations Conference.
- S02131937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical
- S02131937Cdetail and fine detail drawing. Thanks Hal.
- S02141876 Bell files an application for a patent for the telephone.
- S0214 St. Valentine's Day
- S02151861 Fort Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired it's
- S02151861Ccannon in anger).
- S02151898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown.
- S02151917 San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch at Civic Center) dedicated.
- S0215 2Washington's Birthday, a legal holiday
- S02161883 Ladies Home Journal begins publication.
- S02161914 1st airplane flight to Los Angeles from San Francisco.
- S02161923 Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun.
- S02161951 City Hall dome fire.
- S0216 2Washington's Birthday, a legal holiday
- S02171876 Sardines were 1st canned, in Eastport, Maine.
- S02171878 1st telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones.
- S0217 2Washington's Birthday, a legal holiday
- S02181849 1st regular steamboat service to California started with the
- S02181849Carrival of the "California".
- S02181850 Legislature creates the 9 Bay Area counties.
- S02181899 San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transports.
- S02181939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island
- S02181939C(built for the occasion) in San Francisco Bay.
- S0218 2Washington's Birthday, a legal holiday
- S0218 National Bun Day -- Iceland
- S02191878 Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph.
- S02191945 Marines land on Iwo Jima.
- S02191977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose").
- S0219 2Washington's Birthday, a legal holiday
- S02201873 University of California gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF).
- S02201901 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes.
- S02201902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks and damages Sutro Baths.
- S02201915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco.
- S02201931 Congress allows California to build the Oakland-Bay Bridge.
- S02201962 John Glenn is 1st American to orbit the Earth.
- S0220 2Washington's Birthday, a legal holiday
- S02211804 1st self-propelled locomotive on rails demonstrated, in Wales.
- S02211874 Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication.
- S02211878 First Telephone book is issued, in New Haven, Conn.
- S0221 2Washington's Birthday, a legal holiday
- S02221900 Hawaii becomes a US Territory.
- S02221913 Lowell High School opens (on it's 1st campus).
- S0223 F.W. Woolworth opens the 1st '5 & 10', in Utica, NY.
- S02231887 Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco.
- S02231900 Steamer "Rio de Janiero" sinks in San Francisco Bay.
- S02231958 Last Municipal arc light, over intersection of Mission & 25th
- S02231958CStreet, removed (it had been installed in 1913).
- S02241857 Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized.
- S02241942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German).
- S02251919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon).
- S02261863 President Lincoln signs the National Currency Act.
- S02261891 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park.
- S02261933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field.
- S02271844 Dominican Republic gains it's independence.
- S0227 Independence Day, celebrated in the Dominican Republic
- S02281849 1st steamship enters San Francisco Bay.
- S02281883 1st vaudeville theater opens.
- S02281888 Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes.
- S02281914 Construction begins on the Tower of Jewels for the Exposition.
- S02281956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory.
- S02281970 Bicycles now permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge.
- S0229 a LEAP Year!