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*updated 03/22/88 MAC
*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.