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- *mmddyyyy Birthdays
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- B01011735 Paul Revere, midnight rider.
- 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 Isaac Newton, "inventor of gravity." (?)
- 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, year unknown. Attended elementary school.
- B01061811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator.
- B01061878 Carl Sandburg, poet to the world.
- B01061882 Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957.)
- B01071800 Millard Fillmore, 13th President from 1850 - 1853.
- B01081786 Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US first 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, king.
- 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 from 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 first Secretary of the US Treasury.
- B01111807 Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University.
- B01121588 John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- B01121737 John Hancock, famed calligrapher and insurance man. (?)
- B01131832 Horatio Alger, Jr.
- B01141741 Benedict Arnold, traitor and fink.
- B01141892 Hal Roach, early film director and producer.
- B01151908 Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb.
- B01151929 Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer.
- B01171706 Benjamin Franklin, author, poet, statesman, inventor.
- 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,
- B01181779Ccreated pocket chessboard.
- B01181782 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician.
- B01181813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented first commercially useable
- B01181813Cbarbed wire.
- B01181854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Alexander Graham Bell.
- B01181892 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.
- B01191736 James Watt, made the steam engine workable.
- B01191807 Robert E. Lee, southern legend.
- B01191809 Edgar Allen Poe, raven breeder.
- B01191839 Paul Cezanne, painter.
- B01201894 Harold L. Gray, creator of "Little Orphan Annie."
- 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.
- B01231756 Wolfgang A. Mozart, musical prodigy.
- B01251759 Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.
- B01241888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built first rocket-powered aircraft.
- B01251874 Somerset Maugham, poet.
- B01251882 Virginia Woolf, author.
- B01261880 Douglas MacArthur. He did return!
- B01271832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll.)
- B01271850 Samuel Gompers, first president of the American Federation of
- B01271850CLabor.
- B01281855 William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine.
- B01291843 William McKinley, 25th President from 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 first commercially practical
- B01291901Ccathode ray tube.
- B01301882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President from 1933 - 1945.
- B01311830 James G. Blaine, the 'Plumed Knight.'
- B01311872 Zane Gray, American West novelist.
- B01311919 Jackie Robinson, first black major league baseball player.
- *mmddyyyy Events
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- S01011772 First traveller's checks are issued in London.
- S01011804 Haiti gains its independence.
- S01011863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln.
- S01011902 First Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California.
- S01011912 First running of San Francisco's famed "Bay to Breakers" race.
- S01011934 Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison.
- S01011956 Sudan gains its independence.
- S01011958 European Economic Community (EEC) starts operation.
- S01011984 AT & T broken up into 8 companies.
- R0101 The start of a new year... Enjoy the bowl games.
- S01021890 Alice Sanger becomes first female Whiote House staffer.
- S01021957 The San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.
- S01031852 First Chinese arrive in Hawaii.
- S01031888 First drinking straw is patented by M.C. Stone in Washington, D.C.
- S01031959 Alaska becomes the 49th state.
- S01031977 Apple Computer incorporated.
- S01041863 Four-wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of New York.
- R0104 National Trivia Day.
- S01051850 The California Exchange opens.
- S01051925 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes first woman governor.
- S01051933 Work on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge begins,
- S01051933Con Marin County side.
- S01061681 First recorded boxing match takes place in England, between
- S01061681CDuke of Albemarle's butler and his butcher.
- S01061914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
- R0106 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 First balloon flight across the English Channel.
- S01071896 Fanny Farmer publishes her first cookbook.
- S01071929 "Tarzan", one of the first adventure comic strips appears.
- 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).
- S01081865 Sen. Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make the Marigold
- S01081865Cthe national flower. It doesn't pass.
- S01091793 First balloon flight in North America takes place in Philadelphia.
- S01091799 First income tax imposed, in England.
- S01091839 The daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science
- S01091847 First San Francisco paper, 'California Star', published.
- S01091848 First commercial bank in San Francisco established.
- 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 First underground railway opens in London.
- S01101910 First international air meet is held in Los Angeles.
- S01101945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close.
- S01111569 First lottery is held in England, at St. Paul's Cathedral.
- S01111813 First pineapples planted in Hawaii.
- S01111892 Hawaii Historical Society founded.
- S01111935 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California.
- S01121922 Mrs. Hattie Caraway becomes first woman elected to U.S. Senate.
- S01131854 Anthony Foss obtains patent for the Accordion.
- S01131906 First "radio set" advertised (in Scientific American) ... claimed
- S01131906Cto receive signals up to ONE MILE. Price: $7.50.
- S01131920 NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly.
- S01131971 Apollo 14 launched (what was that about rockets can't fly??)
- S01141690 The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany.
- S01141784 The Revolutionary War formally ends.
- S01141914 Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars.
- S01151861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis, forming base for his
- S01151861Celevator company.
- S01151870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly.
- S01151927 Dunbarton Bridge, first bridge in S.F. Bay Area, opens.
- S01151948 The Pentagon Building in Washington is completed.
- S01161865 San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle started (now called the
- S01161865CSan Francisco Chronicle)
- S01161887 San Francisco's Cliff House badly damaged when a cargo
- S01161887Cof gunpowder on the schooner "Parallel" explodes nearby.
- R0116 National Nothing Day
- S01171861 Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest!!).
- S01171871 First Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie.
- S01171893 The Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic.
- S01171929 Popeye makes first appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theatre."
- S01171943 It was Tin Can Drive Day.
- S01181644 First UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston.
- S01181777 San Jose, CA is founded.
- S01181778 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.
- S01181869 The elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco.
- S01181911 First shipboard landing of a plane (from Tanforan Park to the
- S01181911CUSS Pennsylvania).
- S01191886 The Aurora Ski Club, first in U.S., is founded in Minnesota.
- S01191903 First regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England.
- S01201265 First English Parliament called into session by the Earl of Leicester
- S01201872 California Stock Exchange Board organized.
- R0120 Reindeer Day.
- S01211908 New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke
- S01211908Cin public.
- S01211954 The submarine Nautilus launched.
- S01211979 Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer).
- S01221850 The Alta California becomes a daily paper, first such in Calif.
- S01221901 Britain's Queen Victoria dies at age 82.
- S01231849 Mrs. Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first woman physician in U.S.
- R0123 National Handwriting Day.
- S01241848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma.
- S01241899 The rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan.
- S01241922 Eskimo Pie invented in Iowa by Christian K. Nelson.
- S01241935 First beer in cans is sold.
- S01241986 Voyager II flies past Uranus.
- S01251858 Mendelssohn's Wedding March first played, at wedding of Queen
- S01251858CVictoria's daughter to the Crown Prince of Prussia.
- S01251915 Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
- S01251949 First Emmy Awards are given out.
- S01251959 First transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301).
- R0125 The start of the Chinese New Year.
- S01261788 First settlement established by the English in Australia.
- S01261926 Television first demonstrated by J.L. Baird in London.
- S01261950 India becomes a republic.
- R0126 Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia.
- S01271870 Kappa Alpha Theta, first sorority, founded at DePauw University
- S01271870Cin Greencastle, Indiana.
- S01271926 First public demonstration of television.
- S01271948 First Tape Recorder is sold.
- S01281807 London's Pall Mall becomes the first street lit by gaslight.
- S01281878 George W. Coy hired as first full-time telephone operator.
- S01281938 First Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont).
- S01291845 Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" first published in New York.
- S01291861 Kansas becomes a state.
- S01291904 First athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team.
- S01301847 Town of Yerba Buena is renamed San Francisco.
- S01301862 US Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched.
- S01301917 First jazz record in United States is cut.
- S01311851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, first in California, founded.
- S01311871 Birds fly over the western part of San Francisco in such large
- S01311871Cnumbers that they actually darken the sky.
- S01311928 Scotch tape first marketed by 3-M Company.
- S01311958 First U.S. satellite launched, Explorer I.
- S01311961 Ham the chimp is first animal sent into space by the US.
- S01311971 Apollo 14 launched, first landing in lunar highlands.
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