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*updated 12/08/90 HALEY
*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B04011883 Lon Chaney, man of a thousand faces
B0402 742 Emperor Charlemagne
B04021875 Walter Chrysler, founded a car company.
B04021914 Sir Alec Guiness, thespian
B04021920 Jack Webb, dum-de-dum-dum
B04021924 Doris Day, girl next door
B04031924 Marlon Brando, godfather
B04041792 Thaddeus Stevens
B04041802 Dorothea Dix, social reformer
B04051856 Booker T. Washington
B04051908 Bette Davis
B04061810 Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium
B04061866 Lincoln Steffens, muckraker.
B04061890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer
B04061892 Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company.
B04061892 Lowell Thomas, journalist
B04071860 W.K. Kellogg, founded the cereal company.
B04071915 Billie Holiday, blues singer
B04071932 Mark Russell, satirist
B04081889 Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
B04091830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion in photography.
B04091865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz
B04091879 W.C. Fields, Philadelphian
B04091919 John Presper Eckert, co-inventor of first electronic computer
B04091919C(ENIAC)
B04121777 Henry Clay, 'The Great Compromiser'
B04121791 Francis P. Blair, helped found the Republican Party.
B04121913 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader & vibraphone improvisor
B04131721 John Hanson, first US President under the Articles of Confederation.
B04131743 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President from 1801 - 1809.
B04131852 F.W. Woolworth, the "five-and-ten" king.
B04141889 Arnold Toynbee, historian
B04151452 Leonardo da Vinci, factotum
B04151707 Leonhard Euler, mathematician
B04161867 Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame
B04161889 Charlie Chaplin, tramp
B04161947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tall person
B04171837 J.P. Morgan, financed the US.
B04171897 Thornton Wilder, American novelist
B04181857 Clarence Darrow, lawyer
B04191877 Ole Evinrude, invented the outboard marine engine.
B04201889 Adolf Hitler, in Braunau, Austria.
B04201893 Harold Lloyd, early film comedian.
B04211926 Queen Elizabeth II of Britain.
B04211838 John Muir, naturalist.
B04221904 J. Robert Oppenheimer.
B04231564 William Shakespeare, bard
B04231791 James Buchanan, 15th President from 1857 - 1861.
B04231813 Stephen Douglas, the "Little Giant", debated Lincoln
B04231928 Shirley Temple, child actress
B04241620 John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of demography
B04241942 Barbra Streisand, profile
B04251874 Guglielmo Marconi, made radio possible
B04251908 Edward R. Murrow, set the standard for TV correspondents.
B04261785 John James Audubon, birdwatcher
B04261900 Charles Richter, he tells us how bad the quakes are.
B04271791 Samuel F. B. Morse
B04271822 Ulyssses S. Grant, 18th President from 1869 - 1877.
B04271896 Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon.
B04281758 James Monroe, 5th President from 1816 - 1824.
B04291830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels...
B04291863 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner)
B04291899 Duke Ellington
B04301777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians.
B04301912 Eve Arden, Our Miss Brooks
*mmddyyyy Events
*-------- ------------------------------------------------------------
S04011778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans Businessman, creates the "$" symbol.
S04011889 The first dishwashing machine is marketed in Chicago.
S04011941 Navy takes over San Francisco Bay's Treasure Island.
S04011960 TIROS I (Television & Infra-Red Observation Satellite) launched
S04011960Cto improve weather prediction.
R0401 April Fool's Day... but you knew that!
S04021792 Congress establishes Coin denominations of United States.
S04021877 The first Easter Egg Roll is held on the White House lawn --
S04021877CRutherford B. Hayes was president.
S04021935 Watson Watt granted a patent for RADAR.
R0402 International Children's Book Day observed.
S04031860 The first Pony Express riders simultaneously left Sacramento, CA
S04031860Cand St. Joseph, MO.
S04041914 The movie "The Perils of Pauline" was shown for the first time,
S04041914Cin Los Angeles.
S04051614 Pocahontas marries John Rolfe in Virginia.
S04061862 Battle of Shiloh.
S04061868 Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife.
S04061896 The first modern Olympic Games were opened in Greece.
S04061906 First animated cartoon is copyrighted.
S04061926 4 planes take off on first successful around-the-world flight.
S04061957 New York City ends trolley car service.
S04071933 Prohibition ends.
S04071948 World Health Organization is established.
S04081513 Ponce de Leon arrives in Florida.
S04081766 The first patent is granted for a fire escape ... a wicker
S04081766Cbasket on a pully and a chain, designed by a London watchmaker.
S04081913 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified.
S04081974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record.
R0408 Kambutsue, celebration of Buddha's birthday, in Japan
S04091865 Lee surrenders at Appomattox.
S04091928 Mae West makes her New York City debut in a daring new play,
S04091928C"Diamond Lil."
S04091953 TV Guide publishes its first issue.
S04091955 United Nations Charter hearing.
S04101825 First hotel in Hawaii opens.
S04101849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt of New York City. He
S04101849Cimmediately sold the patent rights for $100.
S04101882 Matson founds his shipping company, serving San Francisco & Hawaii.
S04101953 House of Wax, first 3-D movie, released in New York.
S04111876 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized.
S04111895 Anaheim completes its new electric light system.
S04111947 Jackie Robinson becomes first black in major league baseball.
R0411 Barber Shop Quartet Day.
S04121861 Fort Sumter, S. C., shelled by Confederacy, starts Civil War.
S04121961 Yuri A. Gagarin becomes first man to orbit Earth.
S04121981 First launch of the Space Shuttle "Columbia."
S04131796 The first elephant arrives in the U.S. from Bengal, India.
S04131976 $2 bill is re-introduced as United States currency.
S04141828 First edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.
S04141860 First Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri.
S04141865 Abraham Lincoln assasinated in Ford's Theater.
S04141928 Regular air passenger flights between San Francisco and
S04141928CLos Angeles started, by Maddux Air Lines.
S04151850 City of San Francisco incorporated.
S04151912 Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM. And the band plays on . . .
S04151923 Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics.
S04151928 Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf opens for business.
S04151955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants.
R0415 Income Taxes are due today. Keep the IRS happy...
S04161866 Nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo & Co. office explodes.
S04161926 The "Book-of-the-Month" Club opens for business.
S04171524 New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.
S04171875 The game of "snooker" -- a variation of pool -- is invented
S04171875Cby Sir Neville Chamberlain, while on duty in India.
S04171895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends first Sino-Japanese War (1894-95).
S04171941 Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing)
S04171961 U.S. invades Cuba's Bay of Pigs.
S04181775 'The British are Coming!' declares Paul Revere from horseback.
S04181906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.
S04181934 First "Washateria" (laundromat) is opened, in Fort Worth, Texas.
S04181936 Pan-Am's "Clipper" starts providing regular passenger flights
S04181936Cbetween San Francisco and Honolulu.
S04191775 At Lexington Common, they fired the shot 'heard round the world'.
S04191852 California Historical Society founded.
S04191892 Charles Duryea takes the first American-made auto out for a spin.
S04191939 Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights . . .
S04191939C(only 148 years late).
S04191956 American actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III.
R0419 Patriot's Day.
S04201902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the element Radium.
S04201836 Territory of Wisconsin established by Congress.
S04201879 The first "mobile home" (horse drawn) was used for a journey
S04201879Cbetween London and Cyprus.
S04201971 Supreme Court first upheld busing for school racial desegragation.
S04201978 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace.
S0421 756 B.C., that is! According to legend, Rome was founded.
S04211836 Texans lead by Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto.
S04211862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorado.
S04211918 The Red Baron (von Richthofen) shot down and killed in air battle.
S04211940 Quiz show "Take It or Leave It" first asked the $64 question on CBS.
S04211972 Apollo 16's John Young & Charles Duke walked on the moon's surface.
S04211975 South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned after 10 years.
S04221769 Madame Du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress.
R0422 Earth Day.
S04231896 First "moving pictures" are shown on a public screen in New York.
R0423 National Secretary Day.
S04241800 Library of Congress founded.
S04241833 A patent is granted for the first soda fountain.
S04251684 A patent is granted for the thimble.
S04251901 New York becomes first state requiring license plates for cars.
S04251945 United Nations Conference starts.
S04251961 Robert Noyce granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
R0425 Arbor Day. Plant a tree.
S04261607 First British to establish an American colony
S04261607Cland at Cape Henry, Va.
S04261906 First motion pictures shown in Hawaii.
S04261954 Nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio begins.
S04261986 Chernobyl Nuclear Plant disaster.
S04271565 First Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City, founded.
S04271897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) is dedicated.
S04271937 US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment.
S04271945 Founding of the Second Republic, in Austria.
R0427 Union Day, celebrated in Tanzania.
S04281754 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurs.
S04281919 First successful parachute jump is made.
S04281922 WOI, Ames, Iowa, becomes the country's first licensed
S04281922Ceducational radio station.
S04281974 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon.
S04291553 A Flemish woman introduces the practice of starching linen
S04291553Cinto England.
S04291913 The all-purpose zipper is patented.
R0429 The Emperor's Birthday, celebrated in Japan.
S04301789 George Washington inaugurated as first president of the U.S.
S04301798 Department of the Navy established.
S04301803 US more than doubles its size thru the Louisiana Purchase.
S04301808 The first practical typewriter was finished by Italian Pellegrini
S04301808CTurri. He built it for a blind friend.
S04301857 Founding of what would become San Jose State University.
S04301869 The Hawaiian YMCA organized.
S04301939 NBC makes first US demo of TV at opening of NY World's Fair.
*mmddyyyy Log-off messages
*-------- ------------------------------------------------------------
L0401 The more help a person has in his garden,
L0401 Cthe less it belongs to him.
L0402 We are all descendants of successful hunters.
L0403 You are young as long as you keep one reason for living.
L0403 CToday we have a thousand reasons to live.
L0404 People who gossip usually end up in their own mouth traps.
L0405 Character is like the foundation of a house
L0405 Cit is below the surface.
L0406 Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth or a wig.
L0406 CBut how many will own up to a lack of humour.
L0407 The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible
L0407 Cworlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
L0408 Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
L0409 Baseball games are like snowflakes
L0409 Cno two are the same.
L0410 It is better to have one person working with you
L0410 Cthan three people working for you.
L0411 Facing it - always facing it - that's the way to get through.
L0412 We have become economic hypochondriacs. You get a wiggle in
L0412 Cstatistic, and everyone runs to get the thermometer.
L0413 People change and forget to tell each other.
L0414 A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
L0415 Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting
L0415 Cis the great magic trick of human existence.
L0416 A good indignation makes an excellent speech.
L0417 Youth would be an ideal state if it came later in life.
L0418 It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe,
L0418 Cwith one exception, is composed of others.
L0419 Anything scarce is valuable - PRAISE for example.
L0420 So long as a woman has twinkles in her eyes,
L0420 Cno man notices whether she has wrinkles under them.
L0421 CLASSIC: A book which people praise but do not read.
L0422 The only way to have a friend is to be one.
L0423 There is no cure for birth and death,
L0423 Csave to enjoy the interval.
L0424 It is not the Minister of Culture that you worry about.
L0424 CIt is the culture of the minister.
L0425 A gossip is one who talks to you about others.
L0425 CA bore is one who talks to you about himself.
L0425 CA brilliant conversationalist is one
L0425 Cwho talks to you about yourself.
L0426 The love of truth lies in the root of humour.
L0427 It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy,
L0427 Cthat makes happiness.
L0428 For every gift or sacrifice, there are two kinds of gratitude.
L0428 CThe sudden kind we feel for what we take.
L0428 CThe larger kind we feel for what we give.
L0429 We have been so anxious to give our children what we didn't have
L0429 Cthat we neglected to give them what we did have.
L0430 When you try to make an impression, the chances are
L0430 Cthat is the impression you will make.