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- B06011926 Marilyn Monroe
- B06021740 Marquis de Sade
- B06021835 Pope Pius X
- B06021857 Sir Edward Elgar, composer (Pomp and Circumstance)
- B06031808 Jefferson Davis, President of Confederacy (1861-1865)
- B06031864 Ransom Eli Olds, auto manufacturer.
- B06051723 Adam Smith, economist
- B06051883 John Maynard Keynes, another economist
- B06051900 Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography (3D laser photography)
- B06061755 Nathan Hale, had but one life to give for his country.
- B06061756 John Trumbull, painter.
- B06061956 Bjorn Borg, Racketeer
- B06071778 Beau Brummel, English Dandy.
- B06071848 Paul Gauguin, painter
- B0608 570 Mohammed, prophet
- B06081625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, astronomer
- B06081869 Frank Lloyd Wright, master builder
- B06091781 George Stephenson, principal inventor of the railroad locomotive.
- B06091915 Les Paul, guitarist
- B06091934 Donald Duck, famous fowl
- B06101904 Frederick Loewe, composer
- B06111572 Ben Johson, playwright
- B06111847 Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of English women's movement
- B06111867 Charles Fabry, discovered the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere
- B06111910 Jacques Cousteau
- B06121915 David Rockefeller, International Power Broker
- B06121929 Anne Frank, diarist
- B06131903 Harold "Red" Grange, the "Galloping Ghost" of football.
- B06141811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, authoress (Uncle Tom's Cabin).
- B06171870 George Cormack, the inventor of "Wheaties" cereal.
- B06171882 Igor Stravinsky, has the rite of spring
- B06181877 James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, best known for his
- B06181877C"I want you" Uncle Sam recruiting poster.
- B06181942 Paul McCartney, Yah-Yah-Yah
- B06191623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician.
- B06191886 Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
- B06191903 Henry Louis Gehrig, the "Iron Horse" of the Yankees.
- B06191978 Garfield the cat. "Big fat hairy deal".
- B06211732 Martha Washington
- B06211921 Jane Russell, full-figured gal
- B06231846 George Sax, inventor of the saxophone.
- B06231912 Alan Turing, mathematician, pioneer in computer theory.
- B06241839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift & Co.
- B06251894 Hermann Oberth, founder of modern astronautics.
- B06261819 Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing American Baseball
- B06261892 Pearl Buck, authoress (The Good Earth)
- B06261913 Maurice Wilkes, invented the stored program concept for computers.
- B06271880 Helen Keller
- B06271927 Bob Keeshan, a.k.a. Captain Kangaroo (Good Morning Captain)
- B06281491 Henry VIII of England. Don't lose your head over him.
- B06281712 Jean Jacques Rousseau, social contractor
- B06281947 Patrick Kincaid, send him a card.
- B06291858 George Washington Goethals, engineer who built the Panama Canal
- B06291901 Nelson Eddy, baritone, great duets with Jeanette MacDonald
- *mmddyyyy Events
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- S06011925 Lou Gehrig starts in 1st of 2130 consecutive games, a record.
- S06021858 the Donati Comet 1st seen, named after it's discoverer.
- S06021873 Ground broken on Clay Street for world's 1st cable railroad.
- S0602 Republic (Constitution) Day, celebrated in Italy
- S06031888 "Casey at the Bat" is 1st published (by the SF Examiner)
- S06031949 "Dragnet" is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles).
- S0603 Egg Day
- S06041850 Empire Engine Company No. 1 organized.
- S0604 Old Maid's Day
- S06051833 Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage.
- S06051849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
- S06051875 formal opening of the Pacific Stock Exchange.
- S06051920 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell.
- S06051981 TODAY ran for 1st time
- S0605 Constitution Day, celebrated in Denmark
- S06061933 1st drive-in theatre opens, in Camden, New Jersey.
- S06061944 D-Day
- S06062012 transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs.
- S06071839 the Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed.
- S06071860 workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad.
- S06081786 1st commercially-made ice cream sold in New York.
- S06081889 Cable Cars begin service in Los Angeles.
- S06082004 transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs.
- S06091851 the San Francisco Committee of Vigilence forms.
- S06091868 1st meeting of the Board of Regents, University of California.
- S06101772 Burning of the Gaspee, British revenue cutter by Rhode Islanders
- S06101869 The 'Agnes' arrives in New Orleans with the 1st ever shipment
- S06101869Cof frozen beef.
- S06101898 US Marines land at Cuba in Spanish-American War.
- S06101954 PBS reaches San Francisco: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting.
- S06101977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II.
- S0610 National Day, celebrated in Portugal.
- S06111864 300 feet of Meigg's Wharf washed away in storm.
- S06111895 1st auto race.
- S06111980 K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service.
- S0611 Kamehameha Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
- S06121839 the 1st baseball game is played in America. Thanks Abner!
- S06121898 Phillipines gains its independence from Spain
- S06121981 the 3rd baseball strike starts.
- S0612 Independence Day, celebrated in the Phillipines.
- S06131963 Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut.
- S06131983 Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave the Solar System.
- S0613 Kitchen Klutzs of America Day
- S0613 The National Asparagus Festival
- S06141777 Stars and Stripes adopted as US flag, replacing Grand Union flag.
- S06141846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma.
- S06141847 Bunson invents a gas burner.
- S06141850 Fire destroys part of San Francisco.
- S06141876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co. gets it's franchise.
- S06141900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins.
- S06141919 1st direct airplane crossing of the Atlantic.
- S06141952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus.
- S0614 Flag Day
- S06151215 King John signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede.
- S06151775 Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the American Army.
- S06151857 San Francisco Water Works organized.
- S06151878 1st attempt at motion pictures (using 12 cameras, each taking one
- S06151878Cpicture (done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
- S06151878Cduring a gallop. Leland Stanford bet they didn't. He lost).
- S06151940 France surrendered to Hitler.
- S0615 1Father's Day
- S06161775 the Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill).
- S06161963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space.
- S0616 1Father's Day
- S06171944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland.
- S06171972 the Watergate Break-in.
- S0617 Republic Day, celebrated in Iceland.
- S0617 1Father's Day
- S06181812 War of 1812 begins.
- S06181815 Battle of Waterloo.
- S06181872 Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall.
- S06181892 Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii.
- S0618 1Father's Day
- S06191778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.
- S06191861 Anaheim Post Office established.
- S06191875 formal opening of US Marine Hospital at the Presidio.
- S06191932 1st concert given in San Francisco's Stern Grove.
- S0619 1Father's Day
- S06201782 The United States chooses the Eagle as it's symbol.
- S06201855 Commissioners appointed to lay out streets west of Larkin.
- S06201948 Ed Sullivan has his first really big 'shoe' on Sunday night TV.
- S06201982 It's National Bald Eagle Day
- S0620 1Father's Day
- S06211879 F. W. Woolworth opens his 1st store (failed almost immediately,
- S06211879Cso he found a new location and you know the rest...)
- S06211917 Hawaiian Red Cross founded.
- S0621 the longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice.
- S0621 1Father's Day
- S06221808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak.
- S06221847 the doughnut is invented.
- S06221849 Stephen C. Massett opens at courthouse as 1st professional
- S06221849Centertainer, using the (allegedly) only piano in California.
- S06221851 Fire destroys part of San Francisco.
- S06221940 France falls to Nazi Germany.
- S06221957 Kansas City stops using streetcars in it's transit system.
- S06221978 the planet Pluto's partner, Charon, is discovered.
- S06221983 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle.
- S06231868 Typewriter patented
- S06241817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii, on the Kona coast.
- S06241947 Flying Saucers sighted
- S0624 St. Jean Baptiste Day -- Canada
- S0624 Midsummer Day, celebrated in Europe.
- S06251178 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon
- S06251178C(only known observation).
- S06251630 The Fork is introduced to American dining by Gov. Winthrop.
- S06251835 Pueblo founded with construction of 1st building (start of
- S06251835CYerba Buena, later to be called San Francisco).
- S06251982 San Francisco holds its 1st County Fair.
- S06261934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions.
- S06261945 UN Charter written in San Francisco.
- S06271867 Bank of California opens its doors.
- S0627 National Fink Day
- S06281820 the tomato is proved to be nonpoisonous.
- S06281918 in Hawaii, the 1st inter-island flight.
- S06281919 the Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, was signed.
- S06291776 Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay.
- S06291854 Congress ratifies Gadsden Purchase, adds parts of New Mexico, Arizona
- S06291863 the very first 1st National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa.
- S06291927 first flight from the West Coast arrives in Hawaii.
- S06301893 the Excelsior diamond (blue-white, 995 carats) discovered.
- S06301908 a giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (the Tunguska Event).
- S06301914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, in campaign for Indian equal
- S06301914Crights in South Africa.
- S06301960 Zaire gains it's independence.
- S0630 Independence Day, celebrated in Zaire.