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- B05011769 Duke of Wellington, who made Napoleon very unhappy.
- B05011830 Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), hellraiser
- B05021837 Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order"
- B05021904 Bing Crosby, crooner
- B05031874 Francois Coty, perfumemaker.
- B05031898 Golda Meir
- B05031919 Pete Seeger, folk singer.
- B05051867 Nellie Bly, name became a synonym for female star reporter.
- B05061818 Karl Marx
- B05061856 Sigmund Freud, cigar smoker
- B05061870 A.P. Giannini, founder of Bank of America.
- B05061895 Rudolph Valentino, sheik
- B05061915 Orson Welles, citizen
- B05061931 the 'Say Hey Kid', Willie Mays
- B0506 Daniel Gerber, beloved by babies at mealtime
- B05071833 Johannes Brahms, enjoyed a good lullaby.
- B05071840 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
- B05071901 Gary Cooper, actor in 'High Noon' and 'The Plainsman'.
- B05071909 Edwin Land, founded instant photography (Polaroid)
- B05081737 Edward Gibbon, historian, "The History of the Decline & Fall
- B05081737Cof the Roman Empire"
- B05081786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
- B05081828 Henri Dunant, founded Red Cross, YMCA.
- B05081829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist
- B05081884 Harry S. Truman, 32nd President
- B05091800 John Brown, abolitionist
- B05091873 Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamen
- B05091882 Henry J. Kaiser, built Liberty Ships, Jeeps
- B05101788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneered in optics.
- B05101899 Fred Astaire, tapdancer
- B05101902 David O. Selznick, film producer.
- B05111888 Irving Berlin
- B05111904 Salvador Dali
- B05121820 Florence Nightengale
- B05121845 Gabriel Faure, composer
- B05121925 Yogi Barra, catcher
- B05131842 Sir Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame.
- B05131856 Peter Henry Emerson, first photographer to promote
- B05131856Cphotography as an independent art.
- B05131914 Joe Louis, heavyweight
- B05141928 Billy Martin, local boy who made good in baseball.
- B05141944 George Lucas, skywalker
- B05151859 Pierre Curie, physicist
- B05161801 William H. Seward, bought Alaska at $0.02/acre.
- B05161919 Liberace, candelabrist
- B05171866 Erik Satie, composer
- B05181850 Oliver Heaviside, physicist who predicted the existance of
- B05181850Cthe ionosphere, used to reflect radio waves.
- B05181918 Pope John Paul II
- B05191890 Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer
- B05191918 Mike Wallace
- B05201750 Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during the War of 1812
- B05201799 Honore de Balzac, novelist
- B05201818 William George Fargo, helped to found Wells, Fargo & Co.
- B05201913 William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co.
- B05201915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general & politician
- B05211471 Albrecht Durer, painter & printmaker, greatest German
- B05211471CRenaissance artist.
- B05211860 Willam Einthoven, invented the electrocardiograph
- B05211878 Glenn Curtis, aircraft pioneer
- B05221828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon, founded modern ophthalmology
- B05221859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, brought Sherlock Holmes to life (twice)
- B05221907 Laurence Olivier, actor
- B05221920 Thomas Gold, astronomer, established the steady-state theory
- B05221920Cof the universe.
- B05231883 Douglas Fairbanks, 1st & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers.
- B05231910 Artie Shaw, band leader and husband
- B05241686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, invented the thermometer
- B05251803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher
- B05251889 Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter
- B05251926 Miles Davis, trumpeter, pioneered cool jazz
- B05251929 Beverly Sills, soprano
- B05261877 Isadora Duncan
- B05261886 Al Jolson, jazz singer
- B05261907 John Wayne, shootist
- B05271818 Amelia Bloomer, suffragist known for her pantaloons
- B05271837 Wild Bill Hickock
- B05271894 Dashiell Hammett, author who created the hard-boiled detective
- B05271907 Rachel Carson, ecologist
- B05281886 Jim Thorpe
- B05281908 Ian Fleming, gave James Bond a job.
- B05291903 Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope, famous profile
- B05291917 John F. Kennedy, 35th President (1960-1963)
- B05301909 Benny Goodman, swinger
- B05311819 Walt Whitman, poet
- *mmddyyyy Events
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- S05011840 1st adhesive postage stamps (English "Penny Blacks") issued.
- S05011850 John Geary becomes 1st mayor of City of San Francisco.
- S05011860 1st school for the deaf founded.
- S05011869 Folies-Bergere opens in Paris.
- S05011884 construction begins in Chicago on the 1st skyscraper.
- S05011892 US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island.
- S05011928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
- S0501 May Day
- S05021925 Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park opens.
- S05021939 Lou Gehrig sets record for being in most consecutive games (2130).
- S05021946 Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die.
- S05031830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts.
- S05031898 Camp Merriman established at the Presidio.
- S05031919 America's 1st passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City)
- S05031971 national noncommercial network radio begins programming.
- S05041626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons.
- S05041851 1st of the major San Francisco fires.
- S05041866 Woodward's Gardens opens to public.
- S05041878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at the Grand Opera House.
- S05051908 The Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco.
- S05051949 Council of Europe established.
- S05051961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (onboard Freedom 7).
- S0505 Cinco de Mayo
- S0505 Tango-no-sekku (Boy's Festival) -- Japan
- S05061851 Patent granted to Dr. John Farrie for a "refrigeration machine"
- S05061851 Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco starts.
- S05061860 the Olympic Club, 1st athletic club in US, founded.
- S05061906 "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street
- S05061906Callows United Railroads to run electric streetcars.
- S05071824 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony presented for first time.
- S05071927 San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated.
- S05071941 Cornerstone of BofA building at 300 Montgomery laid.
- S05071945 World War II ends in Europe.
- S05071963 Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles).
- S05081541 Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River.
- S05081945 Germany surrendered, ending World War II in Europe.
- S0508 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
- S05091882 Telegraph Hill Railroad Company organized.
- S0509 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
- S05101775 Continental Congress issues paper currency for 1st time.
- S05101869 the Driving of the Golden Spike, Promontory Point, Utah.
- S05101869CThe Transcontinential railroad is completed.
- S05101930 first US planetarium opens, in Chicago.
- S0510 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
- S0510 Native American Day
- S05111752 1st US fire insurance policy is issued, in Philadelphia.
- S05111850 Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco.
- S05111907 Bank of San Francisco incorporated.
- S05111929 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week).
- S05111951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory.
- S0511 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
- S05121901 President William McKinley visits San Francisco.
- S0512 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
- S05131607 English land to found Jamestown (1st permanent settlement)
- S05131835 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii is established.
- S05131846 US declares war on Mexico.
- S05131884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded
- S0513 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
- S0513 Leprechaun Day
- S05141811 Paraguay gains it's independence.
- S05141853 Gail Borden applies for patent for making condensed milk.
- S05141903 President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco.
- S05141948 State of Israel proclaimed.
- S05141973 United States launches space station "Skylab".
- S0514 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
- S0514 Independence Day (in Paraguay)
- S05151856 2nd San Francisco Vigilance Committee organized.
- S05151940 1st nylon stockings are sold in America.
- S05151963 last of the Mercury flights, the 'Faith 7', launched.
- S0515 Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean Day. Why?
- S0515 CBecause it may be waving at you.
- S05161866 Congress authorizes nickel 5-cent piece (the silver half-dime
- S05161866Cwas used up to this point).
- S05161872 Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time.
- S05161914 Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens.
- S05161929 1st Oscars announced (best film was 'Wings').
- S05161971 First Class Mail now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents).
- S0516 Armed Forces Day
- S05171792 24 brokers meet to found the New York Stock Exchange
- S05171804 Lewis & Clark begin their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase
- S05171872 Bohemian Club incorporated.
- S05171898 Camp Merritt established in the Presidio.
- S05171921 President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange
- S05171921CShow in Anaheim.
- S05171954 Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education,
- S05171954Coverthrowing the principle of 'separate but equal'.
- S05171962 Marin County withdraws from BART district.
- S0517 Norwegian Independence Day
- S05181933 TVA Act signed by President Roosevelt.
- S05181980 Mount St. Helens blew it's top in Washington State.
- S05191862 the Homestead Act becomes law.
- S05201845 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii.
- S05201927 at 7:40am, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic
- S05211846 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii.
- S05211881 the American Red Cross is founded.
- S05211927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo across Atlantic.
- S05211933 Mount Davidson Cross lit by President Roosevelt in
- S05211933CWashington via Telegraph.
- S0521 2Victoria Day -- Canada
- S05221846 first steamer arrives in Hawaii.
- S05221909 1st San Francisco fireboat, the "David Scannell", launched.
- S0522 2Victoria Day -- Canada
- S05231873 Postal Cards sold in San Francisco for 1st time.
- S05231898 1st Phillipine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco.
- S05231908 Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die.
- S05231956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building.
- A0523 BJ & Peg Hunnicutt of Mill Valley!
- S0523 2Victoria Day -- Canada
- S05241844 Samual F.B. Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought"
- S05241866 Berkeley named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne).
- S05241866CNever turn your back on it.
- S05241883 The Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres. Arthur & Gov. Cleveland.
- S05241899 in Boston, the 1st auto repair shop opens.
- S0524 2Victoria Day -- Canada
- S05251787 Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia.
- S05251940 Golden Gate International Exposition reopens.
- S05251927 Henry Ford stops producing the Model T car (begins Model A).
- S05251948 San Francisco receives its 1st telecast.
- S05251978 "Star Wars" is released.
- S05251983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) is released.
- S0525 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
- S05261868 President Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote.
- S05261898 San Francisco approves new City Charter, allowing Municipal
- S05261898Cownership of utiliies (charter effective Jan 1, 1900).
- S05261937 Golden Gate Bridge opens.
- S05261946 Patent filed in US for the H-Bomb.
- S05261958 Union Square becomes State Historical Landmark.
- S0526 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
- S05271854 Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Francisco completed.
- S05271896 Bay District Race Track closes.
- S05271907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco
- S05271937 Golden Gate Bridge dedicated.
- S05271951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park opens.
- S0527 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
- S05281926 United States Customs Court created by Congress.
- S0528 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
- S05291453 Constantinople falls to the Turks (some believe this signalled
- S05291453Cthe end of the Middle Ages).
- S05291953 Hillary & Norkay reach top of Mount Everest.
- S05291978 First Class postage now 15 cents (was 13 cents for 3 years).
- S0529 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
- S05301911 Indianapolis 500 car race run for 1st time.
- S0530 The REAL Memorial Day
- S05311433 Joan of Arc has a hot time at the stake...
- S05311678 Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry
- S05311868 1st recorded bicycle race, 2 kilometers in Paris.
- S05311879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition.
- S05311889 Johnstown Flood
- S0531 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
- S0531 Republic Day, celebrated in South Africa