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S06011638 First earthquake recorded in U.S., at Plymouth, Mass
S06011792 Kentucky becomes 15th state
S06011796 Tennessee becomes 16th state
B06011801 Brigham Young, Mormon church leader, polygamist
B06011804 Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer
S06011813 Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto: 'Don't give up the ship'.
S06011845 Homing pigeon ends an 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days.
S06011925 Lou Gehrig starts in first of 2130 consecutive games, a record.
B06011926 Marilyn Monroe, actress, (Some Like It Hot)
S06011933 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
B06011955 Chiyonofuji, sumo wrestler
S06011965 Penzias and Wilson detect 3 degree Kelvin primordial background.
S06011967 Beatles release "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
S0602     Republic (Constitution) Day, celebrated in Italy
S0602 455 Gaiseric sacks Rome, what a Vandal.
B06021740 Marquis de Sade, should have married a masochist.
B06021835 Pope Pius X
B06021840 Thomas Hardy, English poet/novelist, (Mayor of Casterbridge).
B06021857 Sir Edward Elgar, composer (Pomp and Circumstance)
S06021858 Donati Comet first seen, named after it's discoverer
S06021873 Construction of world's first cable car system, begins in SF.
B06021904 Johnny Weissmuller swimmer-actor, the definitive Tarzan.
S06021910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
B06021930 Charles Conrad Jr., astronaut (Gemini 5,11, Apollo 12, Skylab 2).
S06021936 Gen. Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
B06021948 Jerry Mathers, "The Beaver", leave it to him.
S06021953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
S06021966 Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum first moon soft-landing.
S06021977 New Jersey legalizes casino gambling in Atlantic City.
S06021979 John Paul II first pope to visit a communist country - Poland.
S0603     Egg Day
S06031539 Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
S06031621 Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands"
S06031770 Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in California
S06031789 Alex Mackenzie began exploration of Mackenzie River
B06031808 Jefferson Davis, President of Confederacy (1861-1865)
B06031864 Ransom Eli Olds, auto (Oldsmobile) and truck (REO) manufacturer.
B06031865 George V, king of England (1910-36)
S06031888 "Casey at the Bat" is first published (by the SF Examiner)
B06031906 Josephine Baker, dancer, singer
B06031911 Paulette Goddard, actress
B06031926 Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet (Howl)
S06031934 Dr Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin knighted.
S06031935 French "Normandie" sets Atlantic crossing record: 1077 hours.
S06031937 Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Warfield Simpson.
S06031942 Battle of Midway begins: first major battle won by airpower.
S06031948 200 inch Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory.
S06031949 "Dragnet" is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles).
S06031965 Gemini IV is launched Ed White first American to walk in space
S06031976 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
S06031980 Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
S0604     Old Maid's Day
S0604     UN International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression.
S0604 780 BC first total solar eclipse reliably recorded by Chinese
B06041738 George III, English king during American Revolution (1760-1820)
S06041784 Mme. Thible becomes first woman to fly (in a balloon)
B06041867 Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Finnish military hero, president (1944-46
S06041896 Henry drives his first Ford through streets of Detroit.
B06041926 Robert Earl Hughes, became heaviest known human (486 kg)
S06041940 British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops
S06041944 First submarine captured and boarded on high seas - German U 505
S06041947 Taft-Hartley Act approved despite a Truman veto.
S06041956 Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin is made public.
S06041986 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty.
S0605     Constitution Day, celebrated in Denmark
B06051723 Adam Smith, economist
S06051783 Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make first public balloon flight.
B06051819 John Couch Adams, codiscoverer of Neptune
S06051833 Ada Lovelace (future computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
S06051849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
S06051875 Formal opening of the Pacific Stock Exchange.
B06051878 Francisco (Pancho) Villa, Mexican revolutionary, guerrilla leader
B06051883 John Maynard Keynes, another economist
B06051898 Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet and dramatist
B06051900 Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography (3D laser photography)
S06051947 Sec of State George C. Marshall outlines `The Marshall Plan'.
S06051972 U.N. Conference on the Human Environment opens in Stockholm
S06051975 Suez Canal reopens (after 6 Day War caused it to close)
S06051980 Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
B06061755 Nathan Hale, had but one life to give for his country.
B06061756 John Trumbull, painter.
S06061809 Swedish Constitution and Flag Day (National Day)
S06061844 YMCA founded in London
B06061850 Karl F. Braun, codeveloper of wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909)
B06061875 Thomas Mann, German novelist (Magic Mountain) (Nobel 1929)
B06061903 Aram Khachaturian, Russian musician, composer
B06061925 Walter Percy Chrysler, automaker, inspiration for Lee Iacocca
B06061932 David R. Scott, U.S. astronaut (Gemini 8, Apollo 9, 15)
S06061932 US Federal gas tax enacted
S06061933 First drive-in theatre opens, in Camden, New Jersey.
S06061934 Securities and Exchange Commission established
B06061935 Dalai Lama, Tibetan religious leader
S06061944 D-Day, the Allied Invasion of "Festung Europa"
S06061946 Henry Morgan is first to take off his shirt on TV.
B06061956 Bjorn Borg, Racketeer
S06061967 Six Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors begins.
S06061971 Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
S06061975 British voters decide to remain on Common Market
S06061977 Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws
S06061978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%  Yipee!
S06061982 Israel invades Lebanon to drive out PLO
S06062012 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs.
B06071502 Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced the Gregorian calendar in 1582
S06071769 Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Kentucky.
S06071776 Richard Lee of Virginia calls for Declaration of Independence.
B06071778 Beau Brummel, the foremost man of fashion.
S06071839 Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
S06071839 The Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed.
B06071848 Paul Gauguin, painter
B06071896 Robert Mulliken, U.S. chemist, physicist (Nobel 1966)
B06071897 George Szell conductor
S06071905 Norway declares independence from Sweden
S06071929 Vatican City becomes a soverign state
S06071938 First Boeing 314 Clipper "Flying Boat" flown by Eddie Allen
S06071948 Communists take over Czechoslovakia
S06071953 First color network telecast from Boston, Massachusets.
S06071965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
S06071971 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes first transfer to orbiting Salyut
S06071972 German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel
S06071977 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay law
S06071981 Israel bombs Iraqi plutonium production facility at Osirak.
B0608 570 Mohammed, prophet of Islam
B06081625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, astronomer
S06081786 First commercially made ice cream sold in New York.
B06081810 Robert Schumann, German composer.
B06081829 Sir John Everett Millais, English painter.
B06081869 Frank Lloyd Wright, master builder
S06081869 Ives McGaffey patents his vacuum cleaner.
B06081916 Francis Crick, codiscoverer of DNA structure, (Nobel 1962)
B06081917 Byron "Whizzer" White, football star, U.S. Supreme Court justice.
B06081918 Robert Preston, actor (The Music Man, Victor Victoria)
S06081918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's in 1604, is discovered
S06081940 Discovery of element 93 "Neptunium"  is announced.
S06081953 Supreme Court forbids segregated lunch counters in Washington DC.
S06081975 Soviets launch Venera 9 to Venus
S06081979 The Source, first public computer info. service, goes online.
S06082004 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs.
S06091732 Royal Charter for Georgia, granted to James Oglethorpe.
B06091781 George Stephenson, principal inventor of the railroad locomotive
B06091791 John Howard Payne, American author, actor, diplomat
B06091843 Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist, pacifist (Nobel 1905)
S06091860 First dime novel published.
B06091865 Carl Nielsen, Danish composer
B06091893 Cole Porter, composer, lyricist (Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate)
S06091898 China leases Hong Kong's New Territories to Britain for 99 years.
B06091915 Les Paul, guitarist
S06091931 Goddard patents rocket-fueled aircraft design.
B06091934 Donald Duck, famous fowl
S06091959 First ballistic missile launched from sub "George Washington"
S0610     National Day, celebrated in Portugal.
S06101639 First American log cabin at Ft Christina (Wilmington, Del).
S06101752 Ben Franklin flies a kite in a thunderstorm, shocking!
S06101772 British revenue cutter "Gaspee" is burned by Rhode Islanders.
S06101801 State of Tripoli declares war on the US
S06101854 Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved
S06101869 The 'Agnes' arrives in New Orleans with the first ever
S06101869Cshipment of frozen beef.
B06101895 Immanuel Velikovsky, psuedo-science writer, (Worlds in Collision)
S06101898 US Marines land at Cuba in Spanish-American War.
B06101904 Frederick Loewe, composer
B06101921 Prince Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, Mr Elizabeth II
S06101921 Babe Ruth becomes all time homerune champ with 120 of them.
B06101922 Judy Garland, actress/singer, traveled over the rainbow.
B06101928 Maurice Sendak, children's author, illustrator, set designer
B06101929 James A. McDivitt, U.S. astronaut (Gemini 4, Apollo 9)
S06101932 First demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass.
S06101935 Alcoholics Anonymous formed in Akron by Dr Robert Smith
S06101940 Italy declares war on France and Britain
S06101954 PBS reaches San Francisco: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting.
S06101977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II.
S0611     Kamehameha Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
B06111572 Ben Johnson, playwright
S06111770 Capt Cook runs aground on Australian Great Barrier Reef
B06111776 John Constable, English painter.
B06111847 Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of English women's movement.
S06111859 Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada.
B06111864 Richard Strauss, German composer (Also Sprach Zarathrustra)
B06111867 Charles Fabry, discovered ozone layer in the upper atmosphere.
B06111880 Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to Congress (from Montana).
S06111895 First auto race.
B06111907 Paul Mellon, philanthropist.
B06111910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, explorer, captain of the "Calypso".
S06111942 US and USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II.
S06111947 WW II sugar rationing finally ends.
S06111955 First magnesium jet airplane is flown.
S06111970 US leaves Wheelus Air Force Base in Libya.
S06111982 Movie "E T, The Extra-Terrestrial" is released.
S0612     Independence Day, celebrated in the Phillipines.
S06121665 English rename New Amsterdam to New York after the Dutch leave.
S06121776 Virginia is first to adopt the Bill of Rights.
S06121812 Napoleon invades Russia.  Classic "what not to" lesson.
B06121829 Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (Heidi)
S06121838 Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass
S06121839 The first baseball game is played in America.  Thanks Abner!
B06121897 Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon, British prime minister (1955-57)
S06121898 Phillipines gains its independence from Spain.
B06121915 David Rockefeller, International Power Broker
B06121924 George Herbert Walker Bush, 44th President of the US (1988- )
B06121929 Anne Frank, diarist
S06121934 Black-McKeller Bill splits United Airlines from Boeing.
S06121957 Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg.
S06121967 Israel wins the Six Day War.
S06121967 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
S06121979 Bryan Allen flies the "Gossamer Albatross", the first
S06121979Cman-powered aircraft, over the English Channel.
S0613     Kitchen Klutzs of America Day
S0613     The National Asparagus Festival
B0613 823 Charles II (the Bald), king of France (843-77), emperor (875-77)
S06131373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) is signed
S06131611 John Fabricius dedicates the earliest sunspot publication.
B06131786 Winfield Scott, American army general, presidential candidate
B06131831 James Clerk Maxwell, physicist, formulated electromagnetic theory
B06131865 William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Wild Swans at Coole)(Nobel 1923
S06131898 Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital.
S06131900 China's Boxer Rebellion begins, against foreigners and Christians
B06131903 Harold "Red" Grange, the "Galloping Ghost" of football.
B06131935 Christo, artist
S06131963 Valentina Tereshkova aboard Vostok 6, becomes the first woman
S06131963Cin space.  You've come a long way, baby.
S06131967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as first black Supreme Court justice.
S06131983 Pioneer 10 is first man-made object to leave the Solar System.
S0614     Flag Day
S06141775 The US Army is founded.
S06141777 Stars and Stripes adopted as US flag, replacing Grand Union flag.
B06141811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, authoress (Uncle Tom's Cabin).
B06141820 John Bartlett, American editor, compiler of Familiar Quotations
S06141846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma.
S06141847 Bunson invents a gas burner.
B06141864 Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, pathologist
B06141868 Karl Landsteiner, immunologist, pathologist (Nobel 1930)
S06141870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer first loss in 130 games.
S06141900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins.
S06141919 First direct airplane crossing of the Atlantic.
B06141928 Ernesto (Che) Guevara, Latin American revolutionary
S06141938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin.  How'd he do that?
S06141942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released.
S06141948 TV Guide is first published.
S06141951 UNIVAC 1, first commercial computer, is unveiled.
S06141952 Keel laid for first nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus.
B06141958 Eric Heiden, skater, FIVE Gold Medals at 1984 Winter Olympics.
S06141967 Launch of Mariner V for Venus flyby
S06141975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
S06141982 Britain wins the 74 day war for the Falkland Islands.
S0615    1Father's Day
S06151215 King John reluctantly signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede.
B06151330 Edward, the Black Prince
S06151520 The pope threatens to toss Luther out of the Catholic Church.
S06151664 The state of New Jersey is founded.
S06151752 Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning, shocking!
S06151775 Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the American Army.
S06151836 Arkansas becomes 25th state
B06151843 Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer
S06151844 Goodyear patents the process for vulcanization of rubber.
S06151846 Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49° North.
S06151878 First attempt at motion pictures(using 12 cameras, each taking
S06151878Cone picture (to see if all 4 horse's hooves leave the ground
S06151878Cduring a gallop.  Leland Stanford bet they didn't.  He lost).
S06151919 First flight across Atlantic (Alcock and Brown).
S06151940 France surrenders to Hitler.
S06151951 First commercial electronic computer dedicated in Philadelphia.
S06151975 Soyuz 19 launched
S06151977 Spain's first free elections since 1936.
S06151978 Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days.
S06151982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat.
S0616    1Father's Day
S06161567 Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison
S06161775 The Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill).
S06161858 "A house divided against itself cannot stand" - Abraham Lincoln.
B06161895 Stan Laurel, of Laurel and Hardy fame
B06161902 Barbara McClintock, U.S. cytogeneticist (Nobel 1983)
S06161903 Ford Motor Company, a vehicle manufacturer, is founded.
B06161920 John Howard Griffin, American photographer, author(Black Like Me)
S06161933 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is created.
S06161963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space.
S06161977 Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR
S06161984 Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race
S0617     Republic Day, celebrated in Iceland.
S0617    1Father's Day
B06171239 Edward I, king of England (1272-1307)
B06171703 John Wesley, cofounder of Methodist movement
B06171742 William Hooper, signer of Declaration of Independence
B06171818 Charles Gounod, composer
S06171856 Republican Party opened its first convention in Philadelphia.
B06171870 George Cormack, the inventor of "Wheaties" cereal.
B06171882 Igor Stravinsky, has the rite of spring
S06171885 Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC aboard French ship "Isere".
B06171914 John Hersey, author (Hiroshima, A Bell for Adano)
S06171944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland.
S06171947 First around-the-world civil air service leaves New York.
S06171963 Supreme Court strikes down Lord's Prayer recitation
S06171971 US returns control of Okinawa to Japanese
S06171972 Democratic HQ at Watergate burglarized by Republicans.
S06171982 Ronald Reagan delivers "evil empire" speech.
S0618    1Father's Day
S06181178 Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno.
B06181799 William Lassell, discoverer of satellites of Uranus and Neptune
S06181812 War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain.
S06181815 Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon defeated by Wellington and Blücher.
S06181873 Susan B Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President.
B06181877 James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, best known for his
B06181877C"I want you" Uncle Sam recruiting poster.
B06181886 George Mallory, English mountain climber ("because it is there")
S06181892 Macademia nuts first planted in Hawaii.
B06181901 Jeanette MacDonald, singer/actress, (Indian Love Call, New Moon).
S06181928 Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
B06181942 Paul McCartney, Yah-Yah-Yah
S06181953 Egypt is proclaimed a republic.
S06181959 First television broadcast transmitted from England to US.
S06181977 Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft
S06181977Cfor first time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
S06181981 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on the US Supreme Court.
S06181983 Sally Ride becomes first US woman in space, aboard Challenger.
S0619    1Father's Day
S0619 240 BC - Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of the earth.
B06191623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician.
S06191756 146 English people imprisoned in Black Hole of Calcutta.
S06191778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.
S06191846 First baseball game: NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1 (Hoboken, NJ).
S06191862 Slavery outlawed in US territories.
B06191886 Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
B06191902 Guy Lombardo, conductor
B06191903 Henry Louis Gehrig, the "Iron Horse" of the Yankees.
B06191909 Osamu Dazai, Japanese novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human)
S06191910 Father's Day celebrated for first time in Spokane, Washington.
B06191922 Aage "Nils" Bohr, Danish atomic physicist, (Nobel 1975)
S06191931 First commercial photoelectric cell installed in West Haven Ct.
S06191932 First concert given in San Francisco's Stern Grove.
B06191933 Viktor I. Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
S06191934 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
S06191947 First plane to exceed 600 mph - Albert Boyd at Muroc, CA.
S06191976 Viking 1 enters Martian orbit after 10 month flight from earth.
B06191978 Garfield the cat. "Big fat hairy deal".
S06191981 European Space Agency's Ariane carries two satellites into orbit.
R0620     Patrick's (TODAY) birthday will be on the 28th, send him a card.
S0620    1Father's Day
B06201674 Nicholas Rowe, dramatist, English poet laureate
S06201782 Congress approves Great Seal of US and the Eagle as it's symbol.
S06201791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
B06201819 Jacques Offenbach, composer
S06201837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of
S06201837Cuncle King William IV. She ruled for 63 years, until 1901.
S06201863 West Virginia became 35th state
B06201907 Lillian Hellman, playwright (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes)
B06201909 Errol Flynn, great Tasmanian actor (Robin Hood, Dodge City)
B06201924 Audie Murphy, war hero, actor
B06201946 André Watts, concert pianist
S06201948 Ed Sullivan has his first really big 'shoe' on Sunday night TV.
S06201963 US and USSR agree to set up a "Hot Line".
S06201968 Jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 secs
S06201977 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez.
S06201982 National Bald Eagle Day was declared.
S0621     The longest day of the year: Summer Solstice.
S0621    1Father's Day
S06211633 Galileo Galilei is forced by the Inquisition to "abjure, curse,
S06211633Cand detest" his Copernican heliocentric views.  Still in effect!
B06211732 Martha Washington, first lady.
S06211788 US Constitution effective as NH is ninth state to ratify it.
S06211834 Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine.
S06211879 F. W. Woolworth opens his first store (failed almost immediately,
S06211879Cso he found a new location and you know the rest...)
B06211882 Rockwell Kent, artist
B06211892 Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian
B06211905 Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher/writer (Nobel 1964, declined
B06211921 Jane Russell, full-figured gal, in Bemidji Minnesota, (Outlaw).
B06211935 Françoise Sagan, French novelist
S06211948 First stored computer program run, on the Manchester Mark I.
B06211953 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani opposition leader
S06211963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII
S06221611 Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay during mutiny.
S06221675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II.
S06221772 Slavery is outlawed in England.
S06221775 First Continental currency authorized
S06221807 British board USS Chesapeake, leading to the War of 1812.
S06221808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak, it was all downhill after that.
B06221837 Paul Morphy, US, greatest chess player so far, champ (1857-61)
S06221847 The doughnut is invented.
B06221858 Giacomo Puccini, Italian operatic composer
B06221887 Sir Julian Huxley, biologist and philosopher of science
B06221898 Erich Maria Remarque, novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front)
B06221906 Billy Wilder, film director
B06221907 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American aviator/author (Gift from the Sea
S06221910 First passenger carrying airship, the Zeppelin "Deutscheland".
S06221911 King George V of England crowned
S06221944 FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
S06221978 The planet Pluto's partner, Charon, is discovered.
S06221983 First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle.
S06231683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians
S06231683Cin Pennsylvania; the only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken".
S06231757 Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal
B06231846 George Sax, inventor of the saxophone.
S06231868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents the typewriter.
B06231894 Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII of England, briefly in 1936)
B06231911 David Ogilvy advertising whiz
B06231912 Alan Turing, mathematician, pioneer in computer theory.
B06231927 Bob Fosse, choreographer, director (Cabaret, Damn Yankees)
S06231955 Walt Disney's "Lady And The Tramp" is released
S06231976 CN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555m) opens
S06231986 Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House
S0624     Midsummer Day, celebrated in Europe (quarter day in England)
S0624     St. Jean Baptiste Day -- Canada
S0624     Midsummer Day, celebrated in Europe.
S06241314 Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
S06241441 Eton College founded by Henry VI
S06241497 John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England
S06241509 Henry VIII becomes King of England
S06241817 First coffee planted in Hawaii, on the Kona coast.
B06241839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift and Co.
B06241842 Ambrose Bierce, satirist
B06241895 Jack Dempsey, Heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26)
B06241915 Fred Hoyle, cosmologist, proposed steady-state universe theory
B06241916 John Ciardi, poet, critic, translator of Dante
S06241930 First radar detection of aircraft, at Anacostia, DC.
B06241932 David McTaggart, cofounder of Greenpeace
S06241949 Cargo airlines first licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board.
S06241949 Hopalong Cassidy becomes first network western.
S06241963 First demonstration of home video recorder, BBC Studios, London.
S06241982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down in defeat.
S06241982 Soyuz T-6 lifts 3 cosmonauts (1 French) to Salyut 7 space station
S06241986 US Senate approves "tax reform" - taxes went up.
S06251178 Five Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon
S06251178C(the only known observation of probable meteor strike).
S06251630 The Fork is introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop.
S06251835 Pueblo founded with construction of first building (start of
S06251835CYerba Buena, later to be called San Francisco).
B06251886 Henry "Hap" Arnold, commanding general, US Army Air Force in WW I
B06251894 Hermann Oberth, founder of modern astronautics.
B06251900 Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, royal relative
B06251903 George Orwell, English satirist, author (Animal Farm)
B06251907 J.H.D. Jensen, German physicist (atomic nuclei) (Nobel 1963)
S06251938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40¢ per hour.
S06251950 El Al begins air service.
S06251950 Korean War begins; North Korea invades South.
S06251951 1st color TV broadcast: CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities
S06251953 First passenger flies commercially around the world < 100 hours.
S06251977 Roy C Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightening for 7th time!
S06261483 Richard III crowned King of England.  Villified by Thomas More.
B06261730 Charles Messier, cataloguer of astronomical "M objects"
B06261742 Arthur Middleton, signer of the Declaration of Independence
S06261797 Charles Newbold patents first cast-iron plow.
B06261819 Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing American Baseball
S06261876 Custer's Last Stand
B06261892 Pearl Buck, author, (The Good Earth)
S06261900 Walter Reed begins research that beats yellow fever
B06261904 Peter Lorre, actor, (M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers)
S06261911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 133 kph
B06261913 Maurice Wilkes, invented stored program concept for computers.
B06261925 Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut, (Voskhod 2)
S06261934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions.
S06261945 UN Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco.
S06261948 US responses to Soviet blockade of Berlin with an airlift.
S06261949 Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus INSIDE orbit of Mercury.
S06261959 St Lawrence Seaway opens, linking Atlantic Ocean with Great Lakes
S06261963 John F. Kennedy visits West Berlin, "Ich bin ein Berliner".
B06261964 Zeng Jinlian, became tallest woman known (2.46 m, 8'1")
S06261968 Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
S06261978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1 launched.
S0627     National Fink Day
S06271806 Buenos Aires captured by British
S06271838 Queen Victoria is crowned
B06271880 Helen Keller blind-deaf author-lecturer, more sense than many.
B06271927 Bob Keeshan, aka Captain Kangaroo (Good Morning Captain!)
S06271929 First color TV demo, in New York
B06271930 H. Ross Periot, classy billionaire
B06271934 Anna Moffo, soprano.
S06271942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off Long Island, NY.
S06271950 President Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict.
S06271955 First automobile seat belt legislation enacted Illinois
S06271960 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized in Cambridge Mass
S06271962 NASA X-15 flies at 4105 mph
S06271963 Robert Rushworth in X-15 reaches 87 km
S06271978 Soyuz 30 launched
S06271982 4th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 4 launched
S06271983 Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
S0628     Pons-Winnecke meteor shower, radiant in Draco
B06281491 Henry VIII of England.  Don't lose your head over him.
B06281577 Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter
B06281712 Jean Jacques Rousseau, social contractor
S06281820 The tomato is proved to be nonpoisonous.
B06281902 Richard Rodgers, composer, (South Pacific, Oklahoma)
S06281919 The Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, was signed.
S06281939 Pan Am begins transatlantic air service with the Dixie Clipper.
B06281946 Gilda Radner, comedienne, (Saturday Night Live)
B06281947 Patrick Kincaid, send him a card, he'll love it.
S06281951 "Amos 'n Andy" show premiers on television (CBS).
S06291776 Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay.
S06291854 Congress ratifies Gadsden Purchase of parts of New Mexico, Ariz.
B06291858 George Washington Goethals, engineer who built the Panama Canal.
B06291861 William James Mayo, American surgeon
S06291863 The very first First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa.
B06291865 Shigechiyo Izumi, alive at 120 (greatest authenticated human age)
B06291901 Nelson Eddy, baritone, duets with Jeanette MacDonald, (New Moon).
S06291916 The first Boeing aircraft flies.
B06291919 Slim Pickens, actor, (Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles)
S06291929 First high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field, CA.
S06291946 British arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists
S06291952 First aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn - the Oriskany.
S06291962 First flight of the Vickers VC-10 long-range airliner.
S06291971 Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days
S0630     Pons-Winnecke meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S06301834 Congress creates Indian Territory
S06301893 The Excelsior diamond (blue-white, 995 carats) discovered.
S06301906 Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act adopted
S06301908 Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (the Tunguska Event)
B06301911 Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-American writer (Nobel 1980)
S06301930 First round-the-world radio broadcast, from Schenectady NY.
B06301934 Harry Blackstone Jr, magician
S06301936 40 hour work week law approved in US.
S06301948 Transistor demonstrated Murray Hill, NJ.
S06301960 Zaire gains its independence.
S06301972 Timekeeping adjusted with the first leap second.