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- B11021734 Daniel Boone, coonskin cap model and hunter.
- B11021795 James K. Polk, 11th President from 1845 - 1849.
- B11021865 Warren G. Harding, 29th President from 1921 - 1923.
- B11021885 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer.
- B11031718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same.
- B11041879 Will Rogers, who never met Richard Nixon.
- 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. And Dale, too.
- 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, first to calculate a comet's orbit.
- B11091934 Carl Sagan, who has BILLIONS and BILLIONS of admirers.
- B11101668 Francois Couperin, composer.
- B11101819 Cyrus West Field, financier known for the success of the first
- B11101819Ctransatlantic cable.
- B11101895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer.
- B11111821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author, "Crime and Punishment."
- B11111885 General George S. Patton. "Old Blood and Guts."
- 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, author, adventurer.
- B11131856 Justice Louis Brandeis.
- B11141765 Robert Fulton, built first commercial steamboat.
- B11141776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis.
- B11141840 Claude Monet, impressionist.
- B11141900 Aaron Copland, american composer (Billy the Kid,
- B11141900CAppalachian Spring)
- B11161873 William Handy, established the popularity of the blues
- B11161873Cin 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, first American into space.
- B11181928 Mickey Mouse, sired by Walt Disney's pen.
- B11191752 George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in the
- B11191752CRevolutionary War.
- B11191831 James A. Garfield, 20th President, served only from March 4
- B11191831Cto September 19, 1881.
- B11191905 Tommy Dorsey, bandleader.
- 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 first regular Atlantic
- B11211787Csteamship line.
- B11211904 Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone
- B11211904Cfor jazz.
- B11221888 Tarzan of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel.
- B11221890 Charles de Gaulle, French President.
- B11221899 Hoagy Carmichael, composed 'Star Dust.'
- B11231804 Franklin Pierce, 14th President from 1853 - 1857.
- B11231887 Boris Karloff, bogeyman.
- B11241713 Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in California.
- B11241784 Zachary Taylor, 12th President from 1849 - 1850.
- B11241868 Scott Joplin, entertainer.
- B11251835 Andrew Carnegie, steelman and librarian.
- B11251846 Carry Nation, scourge of barkeepers and drinkers.
- B11261832 Louisa May Alcott, little woman.
- B11261876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment.
- B11271701 Anders Celsius, scientist.
- B11291803 Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (phase 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, patriot, Prime Minister.
- *mmddyyyy Events
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- S11011834 First published reference to the game of Poker describes it
- S11011834Cas a Mississippi riverboat game.
- S11011870 US Weather Bureau begins operations.
- S11011947 First Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii.
- S11011981 First Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents.
- S11021917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement is signed.
- S11021920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) on the air as first commercial radio station.
- S11021936 The world's first TV broadcasting service is inaugurated by
- S11021936Cthe British Broadcasting Corporation in London.
- S11021947 Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for first (& last) time.
- S11021948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers.
- S11031900 The first national Automobile Show opens at Madison Square
- S11031900CGarden in New York City.
- S11031903 Panama gains its 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.
- S11041854 Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island.
- S11041879 James Ritty patents the first cash register, to combat
- S11041879Cstealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon.
- S11041922 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen.
- S11041924 First woman governor in US elected in Wyoming.
- S11051781 John Hanson elected first 'President of the United
- S11051781CStates in Congress assembled.' This happened 8 years
- S11051781Cbefore Washington was elected.
- S11051895 First US patent granted for the automobile, to George B Selden.
- S11051935 The Parker Brothers launch the game of Monopoly.
- S11061850 First fire engine arrives in Hawaii.
- S11061862 Direct Telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco.
- S11061869 First intercollegiate football game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4.)
- S11061939 WGY-TV (Schenectady NY), first commercial station debuts.
- S11071805 Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean.
- S11071811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gives Harrison a presidential slogan.
- S11071874 First cartoon to use the elephant as the symbol of the
- S11071874CRepublican Party appears in Harper's Weekly. It was drawn
- S11071874Cby Thomas Nast.
- S11071875 Verney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa
- S11071875Cfrom sea to sea.
- S11071885 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway.
- S11081789 Bourbon Whiskey is first distilled from corn by Reverend
- S11081789CElijah Craig in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
- S11081793 The Louvre, in Paris, is opened to the public.
- S11081737 Larry Peterson (Stoneage BBS) starts the first BBS using an Abacus.
- S11091965 Giant power failure in New England & Ontario, Canada.
- S11101871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa.
- S11101891 First Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held
- S11101891C(in Boston.)
- S11101951 First Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance.
- S11101980 Voyager I flies past Saturn.
- S11111790 Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China --
- S11111790CSpelling bee judges cheer!
- S11111889 Washington admitted as the 42nd state.
- S11111918 World War I ends.
- S11111982 Space Shuttle 'Columbia' makes first commercial flight.
- S11121859 Jules Leotard performs the first Flying Trapeze circus act
- S11121859Cin Paris. He also designed the garment that bears his name.
- S11121933 First known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken.
- S11121936 Oakland Bay Bridge opened.
- S11121946 The first "autobank" (banking by car) was established, in
- S11121946CChicago.
- S11121981 First time a spacecraft is launched twice -- the Space Shuttle
- S11121981C"Columbia" lifts off again.
- S11131849 Peter Burnett is elected first governor of California.
- S11131895 First shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii.
- S11131921 "The Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, was released.
- S11141832 First 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 First airplane flight from the deck of a ship.
- S11141959 Kilauea Volcano's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii.)
- S11151763 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying the
- S11151763CMason-Dixon Line -- the southern boundary of Pennsylvania.
- S11151869 Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated.
- S11151926 National Broadcasting Company goes on-the-air, with 24 stations.
- S11151939 Social Security Administration sends first unemployment check.
- S11161841 N.E. Guerin of New York receives a patent for his cork filled
- S11161841Clife preserver.
- S11161933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the
- S11161933CSoviet Union.
- S11171800 Congress convenes for its first Washington, DC session.
- S11171869 The Suez Canal opens.
- S11171913 Panama Canal opens for use.
- S11181889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii.
- S11181903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gives US exclusive canal rights
- S11181903Cthrough Panama.
- S11181820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer.
- S11181928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in
- S11181928C"Steamboat Willie."
- S11181936 Main span of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge joined.
- S11191493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
- S11191863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg.
- S11191895 The pencil is invented. The eraser will have to wait.
- S11191903 Carrie Nation attempts to make her celebrated speech in the
- S11191903CU.S. Senate and later tries to sell replicas of the hatchet.
- S11201888 William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
- S11201914 The State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
- S11201947 Princess Elizabeth of England and Lt. Phillip Mountbatten
- S11201947Care married in London's Westminster Abbey.
- S11211794 Honolulu Harbor is discovered.
- S11211959 Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their
- S11211959Cfamed duet.
- S11211964 The Verrazanno Narrows Bridge (Brooklyn to Staten Island) opens,
- S11211964Cbecoming the world's longest suspension bridge.
- S11221906 The International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS"
- S11221906Cas the new universal call for help.
- S11221943 Lebanon gains its independence.
- S11221963 President John Kennedy assasinated in Dallas.
- S11231852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet.
- S11231863 patent granted for a process of making color photographs.
- S11231889 The first jukebox is installed, at a saloon in San Francisco.
- S11241874 A patent is granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.
- S11241952 Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens in London. At last
- S11241952Creport, it was still running.
- S11261778 Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands.)
- S11261832 The first street car in the U.S. begins operation in New York
- S11261832CCity. It's a horse-drawn trolley.
- S11261895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed.
- S11271926 The restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins.
- S11281520 Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean.
- S11281776 Washington and his troops cross the Delaware River.
- S11281895 America's auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner
- S11281895Caverages a blazing 7 MPH.
- S11291887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.
- S11291890 First Army-Navy football game. Score: Navy 25, Army 0.
- S11291922 King Tut's Tomb is discovered in Egypt.
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