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- *mmddyyyy Birthdays
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- B03011810 Frederic Chopin
- B03011848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece.
- B03041394 Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsored Portuguese voyages of discovery
- B03041678 Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso and composer.
- B03051824 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives fame)
- B03061619 Cyrano de Bergerac
- B03061756 Aaron Burr, dualist
- B03061812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking.
- B03061937 Valentina Tereshkova, 1st woman cosmonaut
- B03071849 Luther Burbank, plant breeder
- B03071875 Maurice Ravel
- B03081787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery
- B03081859 Kenneth Grahame, author, "The Wind in the Willows"
- B03081879 Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
- B03091824 Leland Stanford, Governor, Senator, founded Stanford Univ.
- B03091934 Yuri Gagarin, 1st man into space
- B03121831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer.
- B03121832 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts.
- B03141681 Georg Philipp Telemann, leading German late baroque composer.
- B03141864 Casey Jones
- B03141879 Albert Einstein, relative
- B03151767 Andrew Jackson, 7th President (1828-1836)
- B03161751 James Madison, 4th President (1809-1817)
- B03161836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car.
- B03171804 James Bridger, scout, fur trader, mountain man par excellance.
- B03171834 Gottlieb Daimler, automobile pioneer
- B03171919 Nat King Cole
- B03181782 John C. Calhoun, statesman
- B03181837 Grover Cleveland, President (1885-1889, 1893-1897)
- B03181858 Rudolf Diesel, invented an engine.
- B03181932 John Updike, poet and novelist.
- B03191860 William Jennings Bryan, 'The Great Commoner'
- B03201856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management.
- B03201904 B. F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer in Behaviorism.
- B03211685 Johann Sebastian Bach, gone for Baroque
- B03211768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist
- B03211869 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame.
- B03231912 Werner von Braun, rocketeer
- B03261874 Robert Frost, poet
- B03261911 Tennessee Williams
- B03261925 Pierre Boulez, French composer.
- B03261931 Leonard Nimoy, beam him up, Mr. Scott.
- B03271813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (of Currier & Ives)
- B03271863 Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce.
- B03291790 John Tyler, 10th President (1841-1845)
- B03291819 Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive oil well in US.
- B03291867 Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever (509 wins, 1890-1911).
- B03301719 Sir John Hawkins, wrote 1st history of music in English
- B03301853 Vincent van Gogh, artist who always lent an ear
- B03311596 Rene Descartes, he thought, therefore he was
- B03311732 Joseph Haydn, composer, helped develop the Classical style.
- B03311809 Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
- B03311854 Sir Dugald Clerk, inventor of the 2-stroke motorcycle engine.
- *mmddyyyy Events
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- S03011781 the Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress.
- S03011859 Present seal of San Francisco adopted (2nd seal for city).
- S03011864 patent issued for taking & projecting motion pictures to Louis
- S03011864CDucos du Hauron (he never did build such a machine, though).
- S03011867 Nebraska becomes a state.
- S03011879 Library of Hawaii founded.
- S03011927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank.
- S03121936 FDR conducts his first "Fireside Chat"
- S03021861 Congress creates the Territory of Nevada.
- S03021901 first telegraph company in Hawaii opens.
- S03021929 US Court of Customs & Patent Appeals created by US Congress.
- S03021974 First Class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents.
- S03031791 Congress passed a resolution ordering U.S. Mint be established.
- S03031812 Congress passes 1st foreign aid bill.
- S03031849 Gold Coinage Act passed, allowing gold coins to be minted.
- S03031851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin, the 3-cent piece.
- S03031875 a 20-cent coin was authorized by Congress (It only lasted 3 years).
- S03031885 American Telephone and Telegraph incorporated.
- S03031923 Time magazine publishes their 1st issue.
- S03031956 Morocco gains it's independence.
- S03031972 Pioneer 10 launched.
- S0303 Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival), celebrated in Japan.
- S0303 Independence Day, celebrated in Morocco.
- S03041789 Congress declares the Constitution to be in effect.
- S03041792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii.
- S03041826 1st railroad in US chartered, the Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass
- S03041933 Roosevelt inaugurated, said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
- S03041934 Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson dedicated.
- S03051770 Boston Massacre
- S03051845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US.
- S03051979 Voyager I flies past Jupiter.
- S03061665 "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" was 1st
- S03061665Cpublished, and is still published today.
- S03061836 Alamo falls. Remember it!
- S03071848 in Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed.
- S03071933 the game "Monopoly" is invented.
- S03081862 the Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched.
- S03091862 the ironclads "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle
- S03091862Cin Hampton Roads. It was a standoff.
- S03101847 First money minted in Hawaii.
- S03101876 the 1st telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell
- S03101933 Big earthquake in Long Beach (W.C. Fields was making a movie when
- S03101933Cit struck & the cameras kept running).
- S03111867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii).
- S03111892 1st public game of basketball.
- S03121850 1st $20 Gold piece issued.
- S03121966 Pioneer Plaza dedicated.
- S03131970 4-day strike by SF city employees starts.
- S03131970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer.
- S03141870 Legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible.
- S03141896 Sutro Baths opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952).
- S03141935 the 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars.
- S03141948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco.
- S03151913 Woodrow Wilson holds the 1st Presidential Press Conference.
- S03151968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold.
- S03151999 Pluto again becomes the outermost planet.
- S0315 The day the buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio.
- S0315 SBeware the Ides of March
- S03171860 Japanese Embassy arrives aboard the "Candinmarruh" <sic>.
- S0317 St. Patrick's Day
- S0317 Evacuation Day (celebrated in Boston)
- S03181850 American Express founded.
- S03181881 Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison
- S03181881CSquare Garden in New York City.
- S03191895 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service.
- S03191928 'Amos and Andy' debut on radio.
- S0319 The day the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano.
- R0320 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
- S0321 The First Day of Spring... Tra-la Tra-la
- S0321 The start of the Persian New Year.
- R0321 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
- S03221733 Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water.
- S03221957 Earthquake gives San Francisco the shakes.
- S03221968 President Johnson's daughter, Lynda, ordered off Cable Car
- S03221968Cbecause she was eating an ice cream cone (no food on cars!).
- S03221978 Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, dedicated.
- S03221981 First Class Postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents.
- R0322 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
- S03231775 Patrick Henry asks for Liberty or Death.
- S03231929 1st telephone installed in the White House.
- S03231937 Los Angeles Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars.
- S03231962 President John F. Kennedy visits San Francisco.
- S03231965 Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight.
- R0323 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
- S03241860 Clipper "Andrew Jackson" arrives in 89 days from New York.
- R0324 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
- S03251821 Greece gains it's independence.
- S03251954 RCA manufactures the first COLOR television set.
- S0325 Independence Day, celebrated in Greece.
- R0325 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
- S03261878 Hastings College of Law founded.
- S03261970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made a City Landmark.
- S0326 Prince Kuhio Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
- R0326 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
- S03271968 Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated.
- S03281794 Nathan Briggs gets patent for the washing machine.
- S03281871 San Francisco Art Association holds opening reception at 430 Pine.
- S03291886 Coca-Cola is created (with cocaine)
- S03301853 Patent granted to Hyman Lipman for a pencil with an ERASER!
- S03301870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race.
- S03301932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to make solo crossing of the Atlantic.
- S03311849 Col. John W. Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of San Francisco.
- S03311868 Chinese Embassy arrives aboard the steamship "China".
- S03311889 Eiffel Tower completed.
- S03311941 Ground broken for Union Square Garage.
- S03311963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after nearly 90 years.