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- B11021734 Daniel Boone
- B11021795 James K. Polk, 11th President (1845-1849)
- B11021865 Warren G. Harding, 29th President (1921-1923)
- B11021885 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer.
- B11031718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same.
- B11041879 Will Rogers
- B11041916 Walter Cronkite, "...and that's the way it is"
- B11051857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was VERY unhappy).
- B11051912 Roy Rogers, Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger
- B11061771 Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography.
- B11061851 Charles Henry Dow, founded Dow Jones & Co.
- B11061854 John Phillip Souza, the march king
- B11061861 James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball.
- B11071867 Madame Marie Curie, discovered radium.
- B11081656 Edmond Halley, astronomer, 1st to calculate a comet's orbit.
- B11091934 Carl Sagan
- B11101668 Francois Couperin, composer
- B11101819 Cyrus West Field, financier known for the success of the 1st
- B11101819Ctransatlantic cable.
- B11101895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer.
- B11111821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author, "Crime and Punishment"
- B11111885 General George S. Patton
- B11111922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author.
- B11121815 Elizabeth Stanton, early leader of women's rights movement.
- B11121866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC).
- B11131850 Robert Louis Stevenson
- B11131856 Justice Louis Brandeis
- B11141765 Robert Fulton, built 1st commercial steamboat
- B11141776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis
- B11141840 Claude Monet, impressionist
- B11141900 Aaron Copland, american composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring)
- B11161873 William Handy, established the popularity of the blues in band music
- B11161901 George Gallop, what's your opinion?
- B11181789 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography
- B11181836 Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame)
- B11181923 Alan Sheppard, 1st American into space.
- B11181928 Mickey Mouse
- B11191752 George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War.
- B11191831 James A. Garfield, 20th President (March 4-September 19, 1881)
- B11191905 Tommy Dorsey
- B11201602 Otto von Guericke, invented the air pump
- B11201900 Chester Gould, gave Dick Tracy a job
- B11201908 Alistair Cooke, raconteur
- B11211694 Voltaire, thinker
- B11211787 Sir Samuel Cunard, founded 1st regular Atlantic steamship line
- B11211904 Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone for jazz
- B11221890 Charles de Gaulle
- B11221899 Hoagy Carmichael, composed 'Star Dust'.
- B11231804 Franklin Pierce, 14th President (1853-1857)
- B11231887 Boris Karloff, bogeyman
- B11241713 Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in California.
- B11241784 Zachary Taylor, 12th President (1849-1850)
- B11241868 Scott Joplin, entertainer
- B11251835 Andrew Carnegie, steelman and librarian
- B11251846 Carry Nation, scrouge of barkeepers and drinkers.
- B11261832 Louisa May Alcott, little woman
- B11261876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment.
- B11271701 Anders Celsius
- B11291803 Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (color shift)
- B11291849 Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode.
- B11301667 Jonathan Swift, satirist, wrote "Gulliver's Travels"
- B11301810 Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker.
- B11301835 Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain
- B11301874 Winston Churchill
- *mmddyyyy Events
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- S11011863 Fortifications built on Angel Island by troops.
- S11011870 US Weather Bureau begins operations.
- S11011943 Dimout ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area.
- S11011947 1st Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii.
- S11011981 First Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents.
- S11021854 Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts.
- S11021917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement
- S11021920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) on the air as 1st commercial radio station.
- S11021947 Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for 1st (& last) time.
- S11021948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers.
- S1102 North & South Dakota Admission Day
- S1102 3Election Day. Have you voted today?
- S11031903 Panama gains it's independence from Columbia.
- S11031917 First Class Mail now costs 3 cents.
- S11031930 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America.
- S11031952 Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas.
- S1103 3Election Day. Have you voted today?
- S1103 Independence Day, celebrated in Panama.
- S11041854 Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island.
- S11041867 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall.
- S11041922 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen.
- S11041924 1st woman governor in US elected in Wyoming.
- S1104 3Election Day. Have you voted today?
- S11051781 John Hanson elected 1st 'President of the United States in Congress
- S11051781Cassembled' (8 years before Washington was elected).
- S11051895 1st US patent granted for the automobile, to George B Selden
- S11051973 BART starts San Francisco-Daly City train shuttle service.
- S1105 3Election Day. Have you voted today?
- S1105 Guy Fawkes Day, celebrated in England.
- S11061850 Yerba Buena & Angel Islands reserved for military use.
- S11061850 1st fire engine arrives in Hawaii.
- S11061862 Direct Telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco established
- S11061869 1st intercollegiate football game played (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4).
- S11061939 WGY-TV (Schenectady NY), 1st commercial-license station begins service
- S11061962 BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote.
- S1106 3Election Day. Have you voted today?
- S1106 Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
- S11071805 Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean.
- S11071811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan.
- S11071875 Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa from
- S11071875Csea to sea.
- S11071885 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway.
- S1107 3Election Day. Have you voted today?
- S11081793 the Louvre, in Paris, was opened to the public.
- S1108 3Election Day. Have you voted today?
- S11091848 Post Office at Clay & Pike opens.
- S11091965 Giant power failure in New England & Ontario, Canada.
- S11101871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa.
- S11101891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
- S11101951 1st Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance.
- S11101980 Voyager I flies past Saturn.
- S11111889 Washington admitted as the 42nd state.
- S11111918 World War I ends.
- S11111924 Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated.
- S11111931 Cornerstones laid for Opera House and Veteran's Building.
- S11111957 Demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde.
- S11111959 Seals Stadium demolished.
- S11111982 Space Shuttle 'Columbia' makes 1st commercial flight.
- S1111 The REAL Veteran's Day. They fought for your freedom. Remember them!
- S11121873 Bay District Race Track opens.
- S11121933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken.
- S11121936 Oakland Bay Bridge opened.
- S11121946 the 1st "autobank" (banking by car) was established, in Chicago
- S11121981 1st time a spacecraft is launched twice -- the Space Shuttle
- S11121981C'Columbia' lifts off again.
- S11131849 Peter Burnett is elected 1st governor of California.
- S11131895 first shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii.
- S11131921 The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, was released.
- S11141792 Capt. George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay.
- S11141832 1st streetcar appears, in New York
- S11141851 "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville, is published.
- S11141889 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip around the
- S11141889Cworld by 8 days (72 days).
- S11141910 1st airplane flight from the deck of a ship.
- S11141959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii).
- S11141981 The old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired & working again.
- S11151869 Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated.
- S11151926 National Broadcasting Company goes on-the-air, with 24 stations
- S11151939 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check.
- S11151941 Cow Palace opens.
- S11151949 KRON (Channel 4, San Francisco) signs on, from 7 to 10 PM.
- S11161933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
- S11171800 Congress convened for its 1st Washington, DC session.
- S11171853 Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections.
- S11171869 Suez Canal opens.
- S11171913 Panama Canal opens for use.
- S1117 the day of the Great American Smoke Out.
- S11181889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii.
- S11181903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gave US exclusive canal rights thru Panama.
- S11181820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer.
- S11181928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat Willie"
- S11181936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined.
- S11191493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
- S11191863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg.
- S11191895 the pencil is invented.
- S11191970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California State
- S11191970CHistorical Landmark.
- S11201888 William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
- S11201914 the State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
- S11211794 Honolulu Harbor discovered.
- S11211959 Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed duet.
- S11221906 the International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS"
- S11221906Cas the new call for help.
- S11221943 Lebanon gains it's independence (would that it could keep it)
- S11221963 President John Kennedy assasinated in Dallas.
- S1122 5Thanksgiving
- S1122 Independence Day, celebrated in Lebanon.
- S11231852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet.
- S11231863 patent granted for a process of making color photographs.
- S11231911 Post Hospital at Presidio renamed Letterman General Hospital.
- S1123 5Thanksgiving
- S11241874 patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.
- S1124 5Thanksgiving
- S11251948 Fort Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed.
- S1125 5Thanksgiving
- S11261778 Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands).
- S11261895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed.
- S11261868 1st baseball game played in enclosed field at 25th & Folsom.
- S1126 5Thanksgiving
- S11271890 1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation.
- S1127 5Thanksgiving
- S11281520 Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean.
- S11281895 America's auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averaged 7 MPH
- S1128 5Thanksgiving
- S11291887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.
- S11291890 1st Army-Navy football game. Score: Navy 25, Army 0.