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- *mmddyyyy Birthdays
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- B03011810 Frederic Chopin, composer.
- B03011848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece.
- B03041394 Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsored Portuguese voyages
- B03041394Cof 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, first woman cosmonaut.
- B03071849 Luther Burbank, plant breeder.
- B03071875 Maurice Ravel, and was Bo grateful!
- 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 University.
- B03091934 Yuri Gagarin, first man into space.
- B03121831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer.
- B03121832 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts.
- S03121936 President Franklin Roosevelt holds his first "Fireside Chat."
- B03141681 Georg Philipp Telemann, leading German late baroque composer.
- B03141864 Casey Jones, famed engineer.
- B03141879 Albert Einstein, relative, wizard.
- B03151767 Andrew Jackson, 7th President from 1828 - 1836.
- B03161751 James Madison, 4th President from 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, crooner, (and Natalie's father.)
- B03181782 John C. Calhoun, statesman.
- B03181837 Grover Cleveland, twice President, from 1885 - 1889, and again
- B03181837Cfrom 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, author.
- 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 from 1841 - 1845.
- B03291819 Edwin Drake, drilled first productive oil well in US.
- B03291867 Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever (509 wins, 1890-1911).
- B03301719 Sir John Hawkins, wrote first 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.
- S03011784 E. Kidner opens the first cooking school, in Great Britain.
- 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.
- 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.
- S03031634 First tavern in Boston is opened.
- S03031791 Congress passed a resolution ordering U.S. Mint be established.
- S03031812 Congress passes first 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 first issue.
- S03031956 Morocco gains its independence.
- S03031972 Pioneer 10 launched.
- R0303 Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival), celebrated in Japan.
- R0303 Independence Day, celebrated in Morocco.
- S03041789 Congress declares the Constitution to be in effect.
- S03041792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii.
- S03041826 First railroad in US chartered, the Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass
- S03041930 Mrs. Charles Fahning of Buffalo, New York, becomes first woman to
- S03041930Cbowl a perfect game under sanctioned competition rules.
- S03041933 Roosevelt inaugurated, said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
- S03051770 Boston Massacre
- S03051845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US.
- S03051900 The American Hall of Fame is founded.
- S03051979 Voyager I flies past Jupiter.
- S03061665 "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" was first
- S03061665Cpublished, and is still published today.
- S03061836 The Alamo falls. Remember it?
- S03061930 Clarence Birdseye puts the first individually packaged frozen
- S03061930Cfoods on sale, in Springfield, Mass.
- S03071848 In Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed.
- S03071870 The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first pro baseball team,
- S03071870Cbegins an 8 month tour of the Midwest and the East.
- S03071933 The game "Monopoly" is invented.
- S03081862 The Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched.
- S03081910 Baroness de Laroche of Paris becomes first licensed female pilot.
- S03091822 US grants first patent for artificial teeth to Charles Graham.
- S03091862 The ironclads "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle
- S03091862Cin Hampton Roads. It was a standoff.
- S03101847 First money minted in Hawaii.
- S03101876 The first telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell.
- S03101888 The Salvation Army of England sends group to U.S. to begin
- S03101888Cwelfare and religious activity here.
- S03101933 Big earthquake in Long Beach (W.C. Fields was making a movie when
- S03101933Cit struck & the cameras kept running).
- S03111302 According to Shakespeare, this was Romeo and Juliet's wedding day.
- S03111867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii).
- S03111892 First public game of basketball.
- S03121850 First $20 Gold piece issued.
- S03121912 The first Girl Scout troop was organized in Atlanta, GA.
- S03131852 The New York Lantern publishes the first cartoon showing the
- S03131852Ccharacter "Uncle Sam," based on a real U.S. officer who served
- S03131852Cin the war of 1812, Samuel Wilson.
- S03131970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer.
- S03141743 America's first town meeting is held in Boston.
- S03141948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco.
- S03151913 Woodrow Wilson holds the first Presidential Press Conference.
- S03151968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold.
- S03151999 Pluto again becomes the outermost planet.
- R0315 The day the buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio.
- R0315 SBeware the Ides of March!
- S03161802 Congress establishes West Point Military Academy in New York.
- S03171756 St. Patrick's Day first celebrated in New York City, at the
- S03171756CCrown and Thistle Tavern.
- R0317 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.
- S03181919 The Order of DeMolay was established in Kansas City.
- S03191895 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service.
- S03191928 'Amos and Andy' debuts on radio.
- R0319 The day the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano, CA.
- S03201852 "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published.
- R0320 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
- S03211891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ending a long feud in W. VA.
- R0321 The First Day of Spring... Tra-la Tra-la.
- R0321 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.
- R0322 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
- S03231775 Patrick Henry asks for Liberty or Death.
- S03231901 Dame Nellie Melba, Australian Opera Singer, reveals secret
- S03231901Cof her now famous toast.
- S03231929 First telephone installed in the White House.
- S03231965 Gemini 3 launched, first 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.
- S03241949 Walter Huston and son John become first father-and-son team
- S03241949Cto win Oscars as actor and director of "Treasure of Sierra Madre."
- R0324 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
- S03251821 Greece gains its independence.
- S03251913 New York City's famed Palace Theatre opens its doors for the
- S03251913Cfirst time.
- S03251954 RCA manufactures the first COLOR television set.
- R0325 Independence Day, celebrated in Greece.
- R0325 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
- S03261878 Hastings College of Law founded.
- S03261953 Dr. Jonas Salk announces new vaccine to immunize people
- S03261953Cagainst polio.
- R0326 Prince Kuhio Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
- R0326 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
- S03271917 The Seattle Metropolitans become the first U.S. hockey team
- S03271917Cto win the Stanley Cup, defeating the Montreal Canadiens.
- S03281794 Nathaniel Briggs gets patent for the washing machine.
- S03291848 Niagara Falls stops flowing -- for 1 day -- because of an ice jam.
- S03291886 Coca-Cola is created (with cocaine)(really!)
- 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 first woman to make solo crossing of the Atlantic.
- S03311889 Eiffel Tower completed.
- S03311963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after nearly 90 years.
- R0331 7Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins tomorrow morning.
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