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- B01011735 Paul Revere
- B01011919 J. D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'.
- B01031840 Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii.
- B01031892 J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings.
- B01041809 Louis Braille, developed reading system for the blind.
- B01041643 Sir Issac Newton
- B01041838 Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person)
- B01051779 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero
- B01051855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor
- B0105 Sherlock Holmes
- B01061811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator
- B01061878 Carl Sandburg
- B01061882 Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957)
- B01071800 Millard Fillmore, 13th President (1850-1853)
- B01081786 Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US 1st effective central bank.
- B01081862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co.
- B01081868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
- B01081935 Elvis Presley, singer.
- B01081946 Tod Brannan
- B01091870 Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge.
- B01091901 Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip.
- B01091913 Richard M. Nixon, 37th President (1968-1974)
- B01101738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys)
- B01101877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the elecrostatic
- B01101877Cprecipitator, used for polution control and air ionizers.
- B01111755 Alexander Hamilton, the 1st Secretary of the US Treasury
- B01111807 Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University.
- B01121588 John Winthrop, 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- B01121737 John Hancock
- B01131832 Horatio Alger, Jr.
- B01141741 Benedict Arnold, fink
- B0114 Albert Schweitzer, doctor, humanitarian, organist.
- B01141892 Hal Roach, early film director and producer.
- B01151908 Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb.
- B01151929 Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer
- B01171706 Benjamin Franklin
- B01171771 Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel.
- B01171880 Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops
- B01171942 Muhammed Ali, who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.
- B01181779 Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule, pocket chessboard
- B01181782 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician.
- B01181813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented 1st commercially useable barbed wire
- B01181854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell.
- B01181892 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.
- B01191736 James Watt, made the steam engine workable.
- B01191807 Robert E. Lee
- B01191809 Edgar Allen Poe
- B01191839 Paul Cezanne, painter
- B01201896 Nathan Birnbaum (better known as George Burns)
- B01211743 John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton.
- B01211813 John C Fremont, mapmaker & explorer of Western US
- B01211815 Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia.
- B01251759 Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.
- B01241888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built 1st rocket-powered aircraft.
- B01251874 Somerset Maugham, poet
- B01251882 Virginia Woolf, author.
- B01261880 Douglas MacArthur, he did return!
- B01271756 Wolfgang A. Mozart, musical prodigy
- B01271832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll)
- B01271850 Samuel Gompers, 1st president of the American Federation of Labor
- B01281855 William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine.
- B01291843 William McKinley, 25th President (1897-1901)
- B01291850 Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite
- B01291860 Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard)
- B01291880 Claude William Dukenfield (better known as W.C. Fields)
- B01291901 Allen B DuMont, perfected 1st commercially practical cathode ray tube
- B01301882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President (1933-1945)
- B01311830 James G. Blaine, the 'Plumed Knight'.
- B01311872 Zane Gray, American West novelist
- B01311919 Jackie Robinson, 1st black major league baseball player
- *mmddyyyy Events
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- S01011804 Haiti gains it's independence
- S01011863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln.
- S01011898 Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of San Francisco Bay.
- S01011902 1st Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California.
- S01011912 1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63 miles)
- S01011934 Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison.
- S01011956 Sudan gains it's independence
- S01011958 European Economic Community (EEC) starts operation.
- S01011984 AT & T broken up into 8 companies.
- S0101 The start of a new year... Enjoy the bowl games.
- S0101 Independence Day, celebrated in Haiti and Sudan
- S01021921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens.
- S01021957 the San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.
- S01031852 first Chinese arrive in Hawaii.
- S01031888 1st drinking straw is patented.
- S01031912 Southern Pacific RR offers to bring the Liberty Bell to the
- S01031912CExposition without charge.
- S01031959 Alaska becomes the 49th state.
- S01031977 Apple Computer incorporated.
- S01041982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for the 3rd time by fierce storm.
- S0104 National Trivia Day.
- S01051850 the California Exchange opens.
- S01051911 San Francisco has it's 1st air meet.
- S01051933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side.
- S01061914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
- S0106 SArizona becomes the 47th state.
- S0106 Epiphany (Twelfth Night in England)
- S01071610 Galileo discovers the 4 major moons of Jupiter.
- S01071714 the typewriter is patented (it was built years later)
- S01071785 1st balloon flight across the English Channel.
- S01071822 first printing in Hawaii.
- S01071929 "Tarzan", one of the first adventure comic strips appears.
- S01071963 First Class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents.
- S01071968 First Class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents.
- S01081815 Battle of New Orleans, made a hero out of Andrew Jackson (the
- S01081815CWar of 1812 had ended on 12/24/1814, but nobody knew that).
- S01081880 the passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of Mexico
- S01081932 Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter.
- S01091793 1st balloon flight in North America.
- S01091799 1st income tax imposed, in England.
- S01091839 the daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science
- S01091847 1st San Francisco paper, 'California Star', published.
- S01091848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established.
- S01091915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated.
- S01091982 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855.
- S01101776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published.
- S01101840 the Penny Post mail system is started.
- S01101863 1st underground railway opens in London.
- S01101945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close.
- S01111813 first pineapples planted in Hawaii.
- S01111892 Hawaii Historical Society founded.
- S01111935 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California (non-stop, of course).
- S01131854 Anthony Foss obtains patent for the Accordion.
- S01131920 NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly.
- S01131971 Apollo 14 launched (what was that about rockets can't fly??)
- S01141784 the Revolutionary War formally ends.
- S01141914 Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars.
- S01141936 L.M. "Mario" Giannini elected president of Bank of America.
- S01141939 All commercial ferry service to the East Bay ends.
- S01151861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis, forming base for his
- S01151861Celevator company.
- S01151927 Dunbarton Bridge, 1st bridge in Bay Area, opens.
- S01151939 Municipal Railway and Market Street Railroad begin service to
- S01151939Cthe Transbay Transit (East Bay) Terminal.
- S01151948 The Pentagon Building in Washington is completed.
- S01161865 San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle started (now San Francisco Chronicle)
- S01161887 Cliff House badly damaged when a cargo of powder on the
- S01161887Cschooner "Parallel" explodes nearby.
- S0116 National Nothing Day
- S01171861 Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest!!).
- S01171871 1st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie.
- S01171893 the Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic.
- S01171943 It was Tin Can Drive Day.
- S01171957 9-county commission recommends creation of BART.
- S01181644 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston.
- S01181778 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.
- S01181869 The elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco.
- S01181911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (from Tanforan Park to the
- S01181911CUSS Pennsylvania).
- S01191903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England.
- S01201265 1st English Parliament called into session by the Earl of Leicester
- S01201872 California Stock Exchange Board organized.
- S0120 Reindeer Day
- S01211813 the pineapple is introduced to Hawaii.
- S01211954 The submarine Nautilus launched.
- S01211979 Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer).
- S01221850 The Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif.
- S01221939 Aquatic Park dedicated.
- S01221949 Chinatown telephone exchange closed.
- S0123 National Handwriting Day
- S01241848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma.
- S01241899 the rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan.
- S01241935 1st beer in cans is sold.
- S01241982 San Francisco 49'ers win their 1st Super Bowl, 26-21.
- S01241986 Voyager II flies past Uranus.
- S01251915 Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
- S01251949 1st Emmy Awards are given out.
- S01251959 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301).
- S0125 the start of the Chinese New Year.
- S01261788 1st settlement established by the English in Australia.
- S01261950 India becomes a republic.
- S0126 Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia.
- S01271894 Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park.
- S01271926 1st public demonstration of television.
- S01271948 1st Tape Recorder is sold.
- S01271965 Groundbreaking for the 'Dragon Gateway' at Grant Avenue.
- S01271971 Montgomery St. Station, last link in BART, 'holed thru'.
- S01281807 London's Pall Mall is the 1st street lit by gaslight.
- S01281878 George W. Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator.
- S01281938 1st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont).
- S01281986 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, killing a brave crew and NASA
- S01291861 Kansas becomes a state.
- S01291904 1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team.
- S01301847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.
- S01301862 US Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched.
- S01301917 1st jazz record in United States is cut.
- S01311851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California, founded.
- S01311871 Birds fly over the western part of San Francisco in such large
- S01311871Cnumbers that they actually darken the sky.
- S01311911 Congress passes resolution naming San Francisco as the site
- S01311911Cof the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal.
- S01311958 1st U.S. satellite launched, Explorer I.
- S01311961 Ham the chimp is 1st animal sent into space by the US.
- S01311971 Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands.