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*REVISED/COMBINED 5/7/88 CONLEY
*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B02011859 Victor Herbert, composer
B02011901 Clark Gable, didn't give a damn about Scarlet O'Hara.
B02011904 SJ Perelman, humorist
B02021754 Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat.
B02021875 Fritz Kreisler, violinist
B02021882 James Joyce, writer
B02021901 Jascha Heifetz, violinist
B02021923 James Dickey, Writer
B02021928 Elaine Stritch
B02021937 Martina Arroyo, Opera singer
B02021938 Tom Smothers, Comedian
B02021946 Patricia Nixon-Cox, Pres Nixon's daughter
B02021947 Farrah Fawcett-Major in Texas, "Charlie's Angels."
B02031809 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer
B02031811 Horace Greeley, editor (told young men to go west)
B02031821 Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman to get MD from a US
B02031821CMedical school.
B02031842 Sidney Lanier, Poet
B02031874 Gertrude Stein, beloved by Hemmingway.
B02031894 Norman Rockwell, artist
B02031907 James Michener, writer
B02031912 Erich Leinsdorf, conductor
B02031918 Joey Bishop, Comedian
B02031932 Peggy Ann Garner in Canton Ohio
B02031940 Fran Tarkenton, Football Player
B02031943 Blythe Danner in Philadelphia
B02031944 Bridget Handley in Budapest
B02031950 Morgan Fairchild in Dallas Texas
B02041902 Charles A. Lindburgh, 'Lucky Lindy'
B02041921 Betty Friedan, Activist/writer
B02041943 Cheryl Miller in Sherman Oaks
B02041944 Florence LaRue in Gordon Pennsylvania, one of the Fifth Dimension
B02041948 Alice Cooper, Singer
B02041950 Pamela Franklin
B02041952 Lisa Eichhorn
B02041960 Pamela Ferdin
B02051837 Dwight Lyman Moody, Evangelist
B02051840 John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire.
B02051848 Belle Starr of the wild west
B02051878 Andre-Gustave Citroen, French automaker.
B02051900 Adlai E. Stevenson, statesman
B02051919 Red Buttons, Comedian/Actor
B02051934 Hank Aaron, Baseball Player
B02051946 Charlotte Rampling in England
B02051948 Barbara Hershey in Atlanta Georgia
B02061756 Aaron Burr, political leader
B02061885 George Herman Ruth (The Babe!)
B02061911 Ronald Reagan, 40th President from 1981 - 1989.
B02061919 Zsa Zsa Gabor in Budapest
B02061933 Mamie Van Doren in Rowena SD
B02061940 Tom Brokaw, Newscaster
B02061948 Barbara Hancock in Atlanta
B02061950 Natalie Cole in Los Angeles
B02071804 John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements.
B02071812 Charles Dickens, Author, in England
B02071817 Frederick Douglas, first black to hold high rank in US
B02071817Cgovernment.
B02071883 Eubie Blake, composer.
B02071885 Sinclair Lewis, writer.
B02081820 William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general.
B02081828 Jules Verne, pioneered what later became science fiction.
B02081885 Dame Edith Evans
B02081906 Chester F. Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing.)
B02081914 Gypsy Rose Lee in Seattle Washington, the stripper
B02081920 Lana Turner, Actress, in Wallace Idaho
B02081925 Jack Lemmon, Actor
B02081940 Ted Koppel, Newscaster
B02081945 Mia Farrow in Los Angeles California
B02081949 Brook Adams, Actress
B02081968 Gary Coleman, Actor
B02091773 William Henry Harrison, 9th President served only from
B02091773CMarch 4 - April 4, 1841.
B02091847 Amy Lowell, Poet
B02091909 Dean Rusk, statesman
B02091914 Carmen Miranda, Singer
B02091914 Ernest Tubb, Singer
B02091923 Kathryn Grayson
B02091928 Roger Mudd, Newscaster
B02091942 Carole King in Brooklyn NY singing about her tapestry
B02091950 Judith Light in Trenton NJ - "Who's the Boss."
B02101775 Charles Lamb in England, writer
B02101868 William Allen White, editor
B02101893 Bill Tilden, Tennis Player
B02101893 Jimmy Durante, Comedian
B02101894 Harold Macmillan, statesman
B02101898 Judith Anderson
B02101922 Neva Patterson
B02101927 Leontyne Price, singer
B02101930 Robert Wagner, Actor
B02101939 Roberta Flack, Singer, in North Carolina
B02111847 Thomas Alva Edison, in New Jersey, who lit up your life
B02111909 Max Baer, boxer
B02111921 Eva Gabor, Budapest
B02111925 Dr. Virginia Johnson, Sex therapist
B02111925 Kim Stanley in New Mexico
B02111925 Virginia E. Johnson, Sexologist
B02111934 Mary Quant in England
B02111934 Tina Louise, Actress, in New York City
B02111936 Burt Reynolds, Actor
B02121802 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President from 1861 - 1865.
B02121809 Charles Darwin, evolutionist
B02121880 John L. Lewis, labor leader
B02121893 General of the Army Omar Bradley, 'The GI General.'
B02121915 Lorne Greene, Actor, dog lover.
B02121926 Joe Garagiola, Baseball great/sportscaster
B02121934 Bill Russell, basketball player
B02121946 Maud Adams in Sweden
B02131764 Talleyrand in France, statesman
B02131805 David Dudley Field, lawyer whose advocacy of law codification
B02131805Chad international effects.
B02131885 Bess Truman, First lady, married to President Harry S Truman.
B02131892 Grant Wood, painter of the American Gothic.
B02131919 Ernie Ford, Singer/Comedian
B02131920 Eileen Farrell in Willimantic Conn.
B02131931 Dorothy McGuirre, of the McGuirre sisters
B02131933 Emanuel Ungaro, Fashion Designer
B02131934 George Segal, Actor
B02131942 Carol Lynley in New York City
B02131944 Stockard Channing in New York
B02141882 John Barrymore, actor
B02141894 Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny.  Oh, Rochester!
B02141913 James Pike, Clergyman
B02141913 Jimmy Hoffa, Labor Leader, murder victim?
B02141913 Mel Allen, Sportscaster
B02141931 Phyllis McGuirre, of the McGuirre sisters
B02141934 Florence Henderson, Actress, in Indiana. "Brady Bunch" mom.
B02141949 Ewa Aulin
B02151564 Galileo Galilei, astronomer
B02151797 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker
B02151803 John Augustus Sutter, of gold rush fame
B02151809 Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor
B02151820 Susan B. Anthony, Woman's suffaregette
B02151882 John Barrymore, actor
B02151927 Harvey Korman, Actor/comedian
B02151931 Claire Bloom in London England
B02151933 Susan Brownmiller
B02151943 Florinda Bolkan
B02151947 Marisa Berenson in New York
B02151951 Jane Seymour in Middlesex England
B02151951 Melissa Manchester in Bronx NY
B02161838 Henry Adams, historian
B02161884 Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film.
B02161886 Van Wyck Brooks, Writer
B02161903 Edgar Bergen, talks to wood.
B02161920 Patty Andrews in Minneapolis
B02161959 John McEnroe, Tennis Player
B02171766 Thomas Malthus, econimist in England
B02171844 A. Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business.
B02171902 Marian Anderson, singer
B02171908 Red (Walter L.) Barber, sports announcer
B02171925 Hal Holbrook, Actor
B02171934 Alan Bates, Actor
B02171945 Pat Morrow in Los Angeles - "Peyton Place"
B02171947 Dodie Stevens
B02181516 Queen Mary I, first reigning queen of Great Britain.
B02181745 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented
B02181745Cthe electric battery.
B02181848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker
B02181892 Wendell Wilke, presidential candidate
B02181894 Andres Segovia, guitarist
B02181909 Wallace Stegner, Yosemite Calendar
B02181920 Bill Cullen, TV Personality
B02181920 Jack Palance, Actor
B02181922 Helen Gurly Brown in Portland Maine, Cosmopolitan's publisher
B02181933 Kim Novak in Chicago Illinois
B02181933 Mary Ure
B02181933 Yoko Ono in Tokyo Japan
B02181950 Cybill Shepherd in Memphis Tennesee, of "Moonlighting."
B02181954 John Travolta, Actor
B02181957 Vanna White in South Carolina, Wheel of Fortune's hostess
B02181968 Molly Ringwald in Los Angeles California, Pretty in Pink
B02191473 Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer in Poland
B02191911 Merle Oberon in Tasmania
B02191912 Stan Kenton, band leader
B02191916 Eddie Arcaro, jockey
B02191924 Lee Marvin, actor
B02191955 Margaux Hemingway in Portland Oregon
B02191960 Prince Andrew, British royalty
B02191966 Justine Bateman in Rye NY - Family Ties
B02201898 Enzo Ferrari, Car manufacturer
B02201902 Ansel Adams, landscape photographer extraordinaire!
B02201924 Gloria Vanderbilt, Don't my jeans look great?
B02201925 Robert Altman, Director, M*A*S*H
B02201927 Sidney Poitier, Actor
B02201931 Amanda Blake
B02201934 Bobby Unser, Auto Racer
B02201937 Nancy Wilson in Chillicothe Ohio
B02201941 Buffy Sainte-Marie in Maine
B02201946 Sandy Duncan in Texas
B02201949 Jennifer O'Neill in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
B02201954 Patty Hearst in San Francisco, famous kidnap hostage
B02211915 Ann Sheridan
B02211927 Erma Bombeck in Ohio, humorist
B02211931 Larry Hagman, Actor
B02211933 Nina Simone in Tyron NC
B02211936 Barbara Jordan in Houston Texas - politician
B02211946 Tricia Nixon Cox, Daughter of Richard Nixon
B02211947 Tyne Daily in Madison Wisconsin
B02221732 George Washington, Father figure for US, President from 1789 -
B02221732C1796.
B02221749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist & first biographer of Bach
B02221810 Frederic Chopin, composer
B02221857 Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts.
B02221892 Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.
B02221907 Robert Young, actor (Dr. Marcus Welby)
B02221932 Edward Kennedy, U.S. Senator
B02231685 George Friderick Handel, Baroque composer in Germany
B02231904 William Shirer, historian
B02231940 Peter Fonda, Actor
B02241786 Wilhelm Karl Grimm, fairy tale teller.
B02241836 Winslow Homer, painter
B02241885 Admiral Chester Nimitz, in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII.
B02241890 Marjorie Main
B02241930 Barbara Lawrence
B02241938 James Farentino, Actor
B02241944 Sheila Larkin in New York City
B02241955 Steven Jobs, Apple co-founder.
B02251873 Enrico Caruso in Italy, singer
B02251888 John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State for President Eisenhower.
B02251904 Adele Davis, health proponent.
B02251936 Linda Cristal in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
B02251938 Diane Baker in Hollywood Calif.
B02251943 George Harrison, Singer.
B02261802 Victor Hugo, Author, in France
B02261846 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody near Davenport Iowa, frontiersman
B02261852 John Harvey Kellogg, physician, inspired the flaked
B02261852Ccereal industry.
B02261866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry.
B02261916 Jackie Gleason, Actor/Comedian
B02261919 Mason Adams
B02261920 Tony Randall, Actor
B02261921 Betty Hutton
B02261928 Fats Domino, Singer
B02261931 Robert Novak
B02261932 Johnny Cash, Country singer
B02261948 Priscilla Lopez in New York
B02271807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet, in Portland Maine
B02271902 John Steinbeck, writer
B02271910 Joan Bennett in New Jersey
B02271917 John Connally, Texas Governor
B02271930 Joanne Woodward, Actress, in Thomasville Georgia
B02271932 Elizabeth Taylor in London England, Violet Eyes
B02271933 Sen Malcolm Wallop R-Wyo
B02271934 Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan, consumer advocate.
B02271939 Barbara Babcock
B02271940 Howard Hesseman, "WKRP's" Johnny Fever
B02271943 Mary Frann
B02281894 Ben Hecht, author
B02281915 Zero Mostel, actor
B02281926 Svetlana Stalina, daughter of Josef Stalin
B02281928 Betty Ackermann, Ben Casey's friend
B02281930 Gavin MacLeod, love boat captain
B02281945 Mimsy Farmer in Chicago Ill
B02281947 Stephane Beacham
B02281948 Bernadette Peters in Queens New York, TONY winner
B02281952 Melissa Babish, Olympian, in South Carolina
B02291792 Gioacchino Rossini in Italy, composer
B02291860 Herman Hollerith, invented first electric tabulating machine.
*mmddyyyy Reminders
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R0202     Groundhog Day.
R0204     Independence Day, celebrated in Sri Lanka.
R0206     New Zealand Day, celebrated in (where else?) New Zealand.
R0214     St. Valentine's Day.
R0215    2President's Day, a legal holiday
R0216    2President's Day, a legal holiday
R0217    2President's Day, a legal holiday
R0218     National Bun Day -- Iceland.
R0218    2President's Day, a legal holiday
R0219    2President's Day, a legal holiday
R0220    2President's Day, a legal holiday
R0221    2President's Day, a legal holiday
R0227     Independence Day, celebrated in the Dominican Republic
R0229     A LEAP Year!  People born this day become the brunt of
R0229    Cdumb birthday jokes.
*mmddyyyy Events
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S02011790 US Supreme Court convenes for the first time in New York City.
S02011867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days.
S02011892 Mrs. William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her
S02011892Cmansion, thus beginning the use of the "400" to describe the
S02011892Csocially elite.
S02011920 The first armored car is introduced.
S02011951 First telecast of atomic explosion.
S02011951 First X-ray moving picture process demonstrated.
S02011957 First black pilot on scheduled passenger airline - PH Young.
S02011976 "Sonny and Cher" resumes on TV despite real life divorce.
S02021848 First shipload of Chinese emigrants arrives in San Francisco.
S02021848 Mexico sells Texas, California, New Mexico & Arizona to the US.
S02021876 National Baseball League formed with 8 teams.
S02021880 SS Strathleven arrives in London with first successful shipment
S02021880Cof frozen mutton from Australia.
S02021935 Lie detector first used in court, Portage WI.
S02021962 8 of the 9 planets aligned for the first time in 400 years.
S02021981 "Late Night with David Letterman" premieres on NBC.
S02031815 World's first commercial cheese factory established
S02031815Cin Switzerland.
S02031869 Booth theatre at 23rd and 6th opens in NYC (Romeo and Juliet)
S02031918 Twin Peaks Tunnel, longest (11,920 feet) streetcar tunnel in
S02031918Cthe world, begins service with the K-Ingleside streetcar.
S02031945 Yalta Conference agreed that Russia would enter WWII against Japan.
S02031964 Album "Meet the Beatles" goes Gold.
S02031984 Tenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 4 is launched.
S02041824 J.W. Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to the public.
S02041847 First US Telegraph Company established in Maryland.
S02041865 The Hawaiian Board of Education is formed.
S02041932 First Winter Olympics held (At Lake Placid, NY.)
S02041936 First radioactive substance produced synthetically - radium E.
S02041948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence.
S02041957 First electric portable typewriter placed on sale, Syracuse NY.
S02041964 Amendment 24 bans the poll tax.
S02041973 The Reshef - Israel's missile boat - is unveiled.
S02051825 Hannah Lord Montague of New York grabs her scissors and creates
S02051825Cthe first detachable collar on one of her husband's shirts, in
S02051825Corder to reduce her laundry load.
S02051921 Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium.
S02051937 FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, plan failed because
S02051937Ccritics feared it would allow "court packing" in his favor.
S02061693 College of William and Mary chartered in Williamsburg, VA.
S02061788 Massachusetts becomes the 6th state.
S02061861 English Admiral Robert Ritzroy issues storm warnings for ships
S02061861Cputting out to sea, creating the first "weather forecast."
S02061900 Spanish-American War ends.
S02061933 20th Amendment ratified, "Lame Duck", Jan start for office terms.
S02061952 Elizabeth II becomes queen of Great Britain.
S02061959 Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R. Murrow.
S02061968 Former President Dwight Eisenhower shoots a hole in one.
S02071827 Ballet introduced to the U.S. at Bowery Theatre, New York City.
S02071882 Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
S02071977 Russians' Soyuz 24 is launched.
S02081587 Mary, Queen of Scots is executed.
S02081861 Confederate States of America formed.
S02081883 Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen.
S02081910 Boy Scouts of America founded.
S02081915 "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles.
S02081922 Radio arrives in the White House.
S02081974 Skylab 4's astronauts land.
S02081984 Russians' Soyuz T-10 is launched.
S02091877 U.S. Weather Service is founded.
S02091885 First Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
S02091895 Volleyball is invented by W.G. Morgan in Massachusetts.
S02091943 Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ending epic WW II battle.
S02091953 The movie "Superman" premieres.
S02091964 First appearance of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan show.
S02091969 The Boeing 747 takes its first commercial flight.
S02091971 Apollo 14 returns to Earth.
S02091975 Russians' Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
S02101763 Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War.
S02101870 City of Anaheim incorporated (first time).
S02101870 YWCA is founded in New York City.
S02101879 First electric arc light used (in California Theatre).
S02101942 Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga Choo Choo" goes gold.
S02101967 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability and Succession)
S02101967Cput into effect.
S02111854 Major streets lit by coal gas for first time.
S02111929 Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome.
S02111936 Pumping begins to build San Francisco's Treasure Island.
S02111958 First flight with Negro stewardess, RC Taylor, Ithaca NY.
S02111960 Jack Paar walks off as host of "The Tonight Show."
S02111968 Madison Square Garden III closes,  MSG IV opens.
S02111984 Tenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 4 returns to Earth.
S02121541 Santiago, Chile founded.
S02121908 Anna Jeanes bequests $1,000,000 to Swarthmore on the
S02121908Ccondition that it becomes an all-girl college.
S02121908 First New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska and Siberia)
S02121908Cbegins.  George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel.
S02121915 Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
S02121924 Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premieres in Carnegie Hall.
S02121934 Export-Import Bank incorporated.
S02121945 San Francisco selected for site of United Nations Conference.
S02131867 "Blue Danube Waltz" first performed by composer Johann Strauss.
S02131937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical
S02131937Cdetail and fine detail drawing.
S02131955 Israel acquires 4 of the 7 dead sea scrolls.
S02141859 Oregon becomes the 33rd state.
S02141876 Bell files an application for a patent for the telephone.
S02141889 First trainload of oranges leaves Los Angeles for the east.
S02141912 Arizona becomes the 48th state.
S02141929 St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed.
S02141954 Sen. John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press."
S02141961 Element 103, Lawrencium, first produced in Berkeley CA.
S02141962 Mrs. Kennedy gives the TV audience a tour of the White House.
S02141972 John and Yoko guest host "Mike Douglas Show" for a week.
S02151861 Fort Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired it's
S02151861Ccannon in anger).
S02151898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown.
S02151903 First Teddy Bear introduced in America.  Made by Morris and
S02151903CRose Michtom, Russian immigrants.
S02151954 First Bevatron in operation - Berkeley, California.
S02151955 Production announced-first pilot plant to produce
S02151955Cman-made diamonds
S02161883 "Ladies Home Journal" begins publication.
S02161914 First airplane flight to Los Angeles from San Francisco.
S02161923 Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun.
S02161937 Nylon patented, WH Carothers.
S02161938 US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized.
S02161945 US troops land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3.
S02161946 First commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport Ct.
S02161961 First all-solid-propellant rocket put into orbit.
S02161964 Beatles' second appearance on Ed Sullivan show.
S02171876 Sardines were first canned, in Eastport, Maine.
S02171878 First telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones.
S02171944 Battle of Eniwetok Atoll, US victory on Feb 22.
S02171985 First Class Postage rises from 20 cents to 22 cents.
S02181849 First regular steamboat service to California started with the
S02181849Carrival of the "California".
S02181850 California Legislature creates the 9 Bay Area counties.
S02181861 Jefferson Davis inaugurated as President of Confederate States.
S02181930 A cow is flown (and milked in flight) for first time.  Her
S02181930Cmilk was sealed in paper containers and dropped by parachute
S02181930Cover St. Louis, MO.  I knew you'd want to know ...
S02181930 Planet Pluto discovered by Clyde W Tombaugh.
S02181939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island
S02181939C(built for the occasion) in San Francisco Bay.
S02181953 Premiere of first 3-D feature film - "Bwana Devil", NY city.
S02191864 The Knights of Pythias' first lodge was formed in Washington D.C.
S02191878 Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph.
S02191945 Marines land on Iwo Jima.
S02191977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose".)
S02201673 First recorded wine auction held in London.
S02201873 University of California gets its first Med School (UC/SF).
S02201901 First territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes.
S02201915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco.
S02201931 Congress allows California to build the Oakland-Bay Bridge.
S02201937 First automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, Ca.
S02201962 John Glenn aboard Friendship 7, is 1st American to orbit the Earth
S02201972 President Nixon visits China.
S02211804 First self-propelled locomotive on rails demonstrated, in Wales.
S02211858 First electric burglar alarm is installed in Boston, Mass.
S02211874 Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication.
S02211878 First Telephone book is issued, in New Haven, Conn.
S02211885 Washington Monument dedicated in Washington, DC.
S02211916 WW I Battle of Verdun begins.
S02211932 Camera exposure meter patented, WN Goodwin.
S02211947 First instant develop camera demonstrated in NYC by EH Land
S02211965 Malcolm X assassinated.
S02221630 Popcorn is introduced by an Indian named Quadequina to the
S02221630CEnglish colonists at their first Thanksgiving dinner.
S02221784 Empress of China sets sail on first NY to China route.
S02221879 First 5 & 10 cent store opened by FW Woolworth in Utica, NY.
S02221900 Hawaii becomes a US Territory.
S02221980 USA beats the Russians in Olympic Hockey (4-3).
S02231836 Alamo is besieged by Santa Anna, entire garrison eventually killed
S02231905 Rotary Club is founded by four men in Chicago.
S02231936 First rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, NY.
S02231945 US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo and statue.
S02241942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German.)
S02241949 First rocket to reach outer space, White Sands, NM.
S02241964 Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship.
S02251838 A London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward and 20 miles forward
S02251838Cin 8 hours.  Chuck Barris wasn't even born yet!
S02251913 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax.
S02251919 Oregon is first state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon.)
S02251930 Bank check photographing device patented.
S02251933 First aircraft carrier "Ranger" launched.
S02251940 First televised hockey game, NY city.
S02251972 Paul McCartney release "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single.
S02251977 Russians' Soyuz 24 returns to Earth.
S02251979 Russians' Soyuz 32 is launched.
S02261815 Napoleon escapes from Elba to begin second conquest of France
S02261848 Second French Republic is proclaimed.
S02261863 President Lincoln signs the National Currency Act.
S02261870 First New York City subway line is opened to the public.
S02261881 S.S. Ceylon begins first round-the-world cruise from Liverpool.
S02261891 First buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park.
S02261919 Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.
S02261933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field.
S02261935 Yanks release Babe Ruth.
S02261942 WW II Navy flier Don Mason sent message `Sighted sub sank same.'
S02261951 22nd Amendment ratified, limiting President to two terms.
S02261952 Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that Britain
S02261952Chas its own atomic bomb.
S02261954 First typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Mass.
S02261955 First aviator to bail out at supersonic speed - GF Smith.
S02261969 Levi Eshkol dies, Golda Meir becomes premier of Israel.
S02261970 Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album.
S02261986 Philippines President Ferdinand E. Marcos flees in defeat,
S02261986Ctakes up residence in Hawaii with wife Imelda.
S02271700 Pacific island of New Britain discovered.
S02271801 Washington DC placed under Congressial jurisdiction.
S02271844 Dominican Republic gains its independence.
S02271883 Oscar Hammerstein patents first cigar-rolling machine.
S02271922 Supreme Court unanimously upholds the 19th Amendment,
S02271922Cguaranteeing a woman's right to vote.
S02271933 Reichstag building in Berlin is set afire, Nazis blame Communists.
S02271939 Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes.
S02271949 Chaim Weizmann becomes the first Israeli president.
S02271972 President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issue joint
S02271972CShanghai Communique.
S02271973 American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee in South Dakota.
S02281827 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) charter granted.
S02281849 First steamship enters San Francisco Bay.
S02281854 Republican Party is organized, in Ripon, Wisconsin.
S02281883 First vaudeville theater opens.
S02281940 First televised basketball game, NY city.
S02281956 Forrester is issued a patent for computer core memory.
S02281983 The final episode of TV show "M*A*S*H."
S02291892 Britain and US sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea.