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*updated 3/22/88 MAC
*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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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.
B05071833 Johannes Brahms, enjoyed a good lullaby.
B05071840 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer.
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, first internationally recognized
B05081829CUS pianist.
B05081884 Harry S Truman, 32nd President.  The 'S' doesn't stand for
B05081884Canything (thus no period.)
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, composer, lover to the world.
B05111904 Salvador Dali, painter.
B05121820 Florence Nightengale, inspiration to nurses everywhere.
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, of CBS '60 minutes' fame.
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, first & 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 Hickox
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 from 1960 - 1963.
B05301909 Benny Goodman, swinger.
B05311819 Walt Whitman, poet.
*mmddyyyy Events
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S05011840 First adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued.
S05011850 John Geary becomes first mayor of City of San Francisco.
S05011860 First school for the deaf founded.
S05011869 Folies-Bergere opens in Paris.
S05011884 Construction begins in Chicago on the first U.S. skyscraper.
S05011928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
R0501     May Day
S05021885 "Good Housekeeping" magazine is first published.
S05021925 Kezar Stadium in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park opens.
S05021939 Lou Gehrig sets record for being in most consecutive games (2130).
S05031830 First regular steam train passenger service starts.
S05031919 America's first passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City)
S05031932 24 tourists begin the first air-charter holiday, from London
S05031932Cto Basle, Switzerland for 7 days.
S05031971 National noncommercial network radio begins programming.
S05041626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons.
S05041715 French manufacturer debuts first folding umbrella --
S05041715Cin Paris, not Cherbourg!
S05041878 Phonograph shown for first time at the Grand Opera House.
S05051949 Council of Europe established.
S05051961 Alan Shepard becomes first American in space (onboard Freedom 7).
R0505     Cinco de Mayo
R0505     Tango-no-sekku (Boy's Festival) -- Japan
S05061851 Patent granted to Dr. John Farrie for a "refrigeration machine."
S05061860 The Olympic Club, first athletic club in US, founded.
S05071824 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony presented for first time.
S05071945 World War II ends in Europe.
S05071963 Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles).
S05081541 Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River.
S05081886 Coca-Cola is first sold, at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia.
S05081945 Germany surrenders, ending World War II in Europe.
R0508    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
S05091785 Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles.
R0509    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
S05101775 Continental Congress issues paper currency for first time.
S05101823 First steamboat to ascent the Mississippi River arrives at
S05101823CFort Snelling, Minnesota.
S05101869 The Driving of the Golden Spike, Promontory Point, Utah --
S05101869CThe Transcontinential railroad is completed.
S05101930 First US planetarium opens, in Chicago.
R0510    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
R0510     Native American Day is observed.
S05111752 First US fire insurance policy is issued, in Philadelphia.
S05111812 The Waltz is introduced into English ballrooms.  Most observers
S05111812Cconsider it disgusting and immoral. No wonder it caught on!
S05111929 First regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week).
S05111951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory.
R0511    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
S05121789 Society of St. Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It
S05121789Clater becomes an infamous group of New York City political bosses.
R0512    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
S05131607 English land to found Jamestown (first permanent settlement)
S05131835 First foreign embassy in Hawaii is established.
S05131846 US declares war on Mexico.
S05131884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded.
S05131950 The Diner's Club issues its first credit cards.
R0513    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
R0513     Leprechaun Day -- no blarney!
S05141804 Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis for the Pacific Coast.
S05141811 Paraguay gains its independence.
S05141853 Gail Borden applies for patent for making condensed milk.
S05141948 State of Israel proclaimed.
S05141973 United States launches space station "Skylab."
R0514    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
R0514     Independence Day (in Paraguay).
S05151930 The first "air hostess," Ellen Church, welcomes passengers aboard
S05151930Ca United Air Lines flight from Oakland, CA to Cheyenne, WY.
S05151940 First nylon stockings are sold in America.
S05151963 Last of the Mercury flights, the 'Faith 7', launched.
R0515     'Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean' Day.  Why?
R0515    CBecause it may be waving at you.
S05161866 Congress authorizes nickel 5-cent piece (the silver half-dime
S05161866Cwas used up to this point).
S05161929 First Oscars Awards are given:
S05161929C      Best Film:    Wings.
S05161929C      Best Actor:   Emil Jennings.
S05161929C      Best Actress: Janey Gaynor.
S05161971 First Class postage raised to 8 cents from 6 cents.
R0516     Armed Forces Day.
S05171620 First merry-go-round seen at a fair in Philippapolis, Turkey.
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.
S05171921 President Harding opens (via telephone) first Valencia Orange
S05171921CShow in Anaheim.
S05171954 Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education,
S05171954Coverthrowing the principle of 'separate but equal.'
R0517     Norwegian Independence Day.
S05181830 Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of
S05181830Chis invention, the lawn mower.  Saturdays are destroyed forever.
S05181933 TVA Act signed by President Roosevelt.
S05181980 Mount St. Helens blew its top in Washington State.
S05191862 The Homestead Act becomes law.
S05191928 51 frogs enter first annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" at Angel's
S05191928CCamp in Calaveras County, California.
S05201845 First legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii.
S05201874 Levi Strauss markets his blue jeans with copper rivets, priced
S05201874Cat $13.50 A DOZEN.
S05201927 At 7:40am, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic.
S05211846 First steamship arrives in Hawaii.
S05211881 The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton.
S05211927 Lindbergh lands in Paris, after first solo across Atlantic.
S05211933 Mount Davidson Cross lit by President Roosevelt in
S05211933CWashington via Telegraph.
R0521    2Victoria Day -- Canada
S05221807 Townsend Speakman begins making and selling fruit-flavored
S05221807Ccarbonated drinks - in Philadelphia.
R0522    2Victoria Day -- Canada
S05231898 First Phillipine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco.
S05231908 Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die.
S05231921 "Shuffle Along," the first black musical comedy, opens in New
S05231921CYork City.
R0523    2Victoria Day -- Canada
S05241844 Samual F.B. Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought?"
S05241866 Berkeley named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne).
S05241883 The Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres. Arthur & Gov. Cleveland.
S05241899 In Boston, the first auto repair shop opens.
R0524    2Victoria Day -- Canada
S05251721 John Copson becomes America's first insurance agent.
S05251787 Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia.
S05251927 Henry Ford stops producing the Model T car (begins Model A).
S05251978 "Star Wars" is released.
S05251983 "Return of the Jedi" is released.
R0525    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
S05261868 President Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote.
S05261913 Actor's Equity is organized in New York City.
S05261937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens.
S05261946 Patent filed in US for the H-Bomb.
R0526    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
S05271937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge dedicated.
R0527    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
S05281742 First indoor swimming pool opens at Goodman's Fields, London.
S05281926 United States Customs Court created by Congress.
R0528    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
S05291453 Constantinople falls to the Turks (some believe this signalled
S05291453Cthe end of the Middle Ages).
S05291912 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing the
S05291912C"Turkey Trot" during their lunch break.
S05291953 Hillary & Norkay reach the top of Mount Everest.
S05291978 First Class postage raised to 15 cents from 13 cents.
R0529    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
S05301911 Indianapolis 500 car race run for first time. Winning driver
S05301911CRay Harroun takes it with a blazing 75 mph.
R0530     The REAL Memorial Day, no matter what day of the week!
S05311433 Joan of Arc is burned at the stake . . .
S05311678 Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry.
S05311837 New York's Astor Hotel opens ... most elaborate in the U.S.
S05311868 First recorded bicycle race, 2 kilometers in Paris.
S05311879 First electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition.
S05311889 Johnstown Flood occurs.
R0531    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
R0531     Republic Day, celebrated in South Africa.