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*mmddyyyy Birthdays
B01011735 Paul Revere, US patriot. "The British are coming!"
B01011745 General Anthony Wayne, military leader ("Mad Anthony")
B01011752 Betsy Ross, flagmaker
B01011895 J. Edgar Hoover, Mr FBI
B01011900 Xavier Cugat, bandleader
B01011909 Barry Goldwater, U.S. Senator
B01011909 Dana Andrews, Actor
B01011909 John Glenn, astronaut
B01011911 Hank Greenberg - Detroit Tiger Hall of Famer
B01011919 Carole Landis
B01011919 J. D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye.'
B01021647 Nathaniel Bacon
B01021920 Isaac Asimov, Scientist/writer
B01021927 Rep Richard Belmont Ray, D-Ga
B0103 106 Cicero, Roman statesman
B01031793 Lucretia Coffin Mott, Woman's right leader
B01031840 Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii.
B01031883 Earl Clement Attlee, British statesman
B01031892 J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings.
B01031908 Ray Milland, Actor
B01031909 Victor Borge, pianist.
B01031916 Betty Furness in New York City
B01031918 Maxine Andrews of the singing Andrews Sisters.
B01031928 Jeanne Moreau in Paris France.
B01031939 Bobby Hull, hockey player
B01031947 Melanie (Safka) in Astoria Queens
B01031950 Victoria Principal, Actress
B01041643 Sir Isaac Newton, "inventor of gravity." (?)
B01041785 Jakob Grimm in Germany, Fairy tale writer
B01041809 Louis Braille, developed reading system for the blind.
B01041813 Sir Isaac Pitman, shorthand inventor
B01041838 Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person.)
B01041914 Jane Wyman, Actress
B01041914 The first Mrs Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman in St Joseph Missouri.
B01041930 Barbara Rush, in Denver Colorodo
B01041935 Floyd Patterson, boxer
B01041937 Dyan Cannon, Actress
B01041937 Dyan Cannon, Actress & Former Mrs. Cary Grant.
B0105     Sherlock Holmes, year unknown.  Later attended elementary school.
B01051779 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero.
B01051855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor.
B01051876 Konrad Adenauer, German Chancellor
B01051925 Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor of Wyoming
B01051928 Walter Mondale, Vice-President
B01051940 Dany Saval
B01051946 Diane Keaton, Actress
B01051954 Pamela Sue Martin in Connecticut
B01061412 Joan of Arc, martyr
B01061799 Jedediah Smith, Yosemite Calendar
B01061811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator.
B01061842 Clarence King, Yosemite Calendar
B01061878 Carl Sandburg, poet to the world.
B01061882 Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957.)
B01061914 Danny Thomas, Comedian/Entertainer
B01061920 Sun Myung Moon, Evangelist
B01061931 Loretta Young in Salt Lake City
B01061934 Sylvia Sims
B01061945 Bonnie Franklin, Actress
B01061957 Nancy Lopez, Golf pro.
B01071800 Millard Fillmore, 13th President from 1850 - 1853.
B01071948 Kenny Loggins, Singer
B01081786 Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US first effective central bank.
B01081862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co.
B01081868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity.
B01081904 Cartoonist Peter Arno
B01081926 Soupy Sales, Comedian
B01081935 Elvis Presley, singer, king.
B01081937 Shirley Bassey in Wales
B01081942 Yvette Mimieux in Hollywood Calif
B01081947 David Bowie, Singer/Actor
B010819?? Lauri Walter, Actress (8 is Enough)
B01091870 Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge.
B01091898 Gracie Fields
B01091901 Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip.
B01091902 Rudolph Bing, opera manager
B01091904 George Balanchine, dancer-choreographer
B01091913 Richard M. Nixon, 37th President from 1968 - 1974.
B01091941 Joan Baez, Folk Singer
B01091941 Susannah York, Actress
B01091951 Crystal Gale, Singer
B01091951 Rosalyn Kind, Singer
B01101738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys.)
B01101877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the elecrostatic
B01101877Cprecipitator, used for pollution control and air ionizers.
B01101883 Florence Reed, Actress
B01101883 Francis X. Bushman, Actor
B01101887 Robinson Jeffers, poet
B01101904 Ray Bolger, Actor
B01101926 June Haver
B01101927 Gisele MacKenzie in Winnipeg Manitoba
B01101945 Rod Stewart, Singer
B01101953 Pat Benatar in Brooklyn, Hell is for Children
B01111755 Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the US Treasury.
B01111807 Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University.
B01111842 William James, Philospher
B01111926 Grant Tinker, Network Executive
B01121588 John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
B01121737 John Hancock, Signer of the Declaration of Independance
B01121876 Jack London, writer (Call of the Wild)
B01131808 Salmon P Chase, Chief Justice
B01131834 Horatio Alger Jr., author
B01131884 Sophie Tucker, entertainer
B01131913 Ralph Edwards, "This is Your Life" creator
B01131919 Robert Stack, actor
B01131925 Gwen Verdon, Actress/dancer
B01141741 Benedict Arnold, traitor and fink.
B01141875 Albert Schweitzer, doctor, humanitarian, organist
B01141892 Hal Roach, early film director and producer.
B01141919 Andy Rooney, humorist
B01141932 Catarina Valente in Paris France
B01141941 Faye Dunaway in Florida
B01141941 Faye Dunaway, Actress
B01151906 Aristotle Onassis, industrialist
B01151908 Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb.
B01151913 Lloyd Bridges, Actor
B01151918 Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian leader
B01151926 Chuck Berry, Singer
B01151926 Maria Schell in Vienna Austria - Space 1999
B01151929 Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer.
B01151937 Margaret O'Brien in San Diego Calif
B01151946 Janet Lennon in Culver City
B01151951 Charo in Spain
B01161909 Ethal Merman, Comedienne/Actress/Singer
B01161911 Dizzy Dean, baseball player
B01161924 Katy Jurado in Mexico
B01161934 Marilyn Horne in Pennsylvania
B01171706 Benjamin Franklin, author, poet, statesman, inventor.
B01171771 Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel.
B01171860 Anton Checkov in Russia, writer
B01171880 Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops
B01171924 Golden Girl Betty White in Oak Park Ill
B01171931 James Earl Jones, Actor
B01171933 Sheree North in Los Angeles
B01171934 Puppeteer Shari Lewis in Bronx NY
B01171942 Muhammed Ali, who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.
B01171949 Debbie Watson in Culver City California
B01181779 Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule,
B01181779Ccreated pocket chessboard.
B01181782 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician.
B01181813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented first commercially useable
B01181813Cbarbed wire.
B01181854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Alexander Graham Bell.
B01181892 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.
B01181904 Cary Grant, Actor
B01181913 Danny Kaye, Comedian
B01181922 Constance Moore in Sioux City Iowa
B01191736 James Watt, made the steam engine workable.
B01191807 Robert E Lee, Confederate general
B01191809 Edgar Allen Poe, Writer/Poet
B01191813 Sir Henry Bessemer, engineer-inventor
B01191839 Paul Cezanne, painter.
B01191859 Alice Eastwood, Yosemite Calendar
B01191923 Jean Stapleton, Actress
B01191935 Tippi Hedren, Actress, (The Birds)
B01191943 Janis Joplin in Port Arthur Texas
B01191944 Shelly Fabraes in Santa Monica
B01191946 Dolly Parton, Singer/Actress
B01191947 Ann Compton, TV news reporter
B01191951 Linda Hayden
B01201891 Violinist Mischa Elman
B01201894 Harold L. Gray, creator of "Little Orphan Annie."
B01201896 George Burns, Comedian
B01201896 Nathan Birnbaum (better known as George Burns).
B01201926 Patricia Neal in Packard Kentucky
B01201930 Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin, Jr, astronaut
B01201937 Dorothy Provine in Deadwood SD
B01201937 Joan Rivers, Comedienne
B01211743 John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton.
B01211813 John C Fremont, mapmaker & explorer of Western US.
B01211815 Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia.
B01211824 General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, military leader
B01211924 Benny Hill, Comedian
B01211925 Telly Savalas, Actor
B01211940 Jack Nicklaus, golfer
B01211941 Placido Domingo, Operatic Tenor
B01221561 Francis Bacon, philosopher-essayist
B01221788 Lord Byron in England, poet
B01221909 Ann Sothern, voice of my mother the car
B01221909 U Thant, U.N. Official
B01221932 Piper Laurie in Detroit Michigan
B01221934 Bill Bixby, Actor
B01221937 Joseph Wambaugh, police writer
B01221959 Exorcist's Linda Blair in St Louis Mo
B01221959 Linda Blair, Actress
B01231737 John Hancock, Statesman, signer
B01231756 Wolfgang A. Mozart, musical prodigy.
B01231832 Edouard Manuet, French painter
B01231890 Humphrey Bogart, Actor
B01231903 Randolph Scott, actor
B01231933 Chita Rivera, Actress/singer/dancer
B01231943 Gil Gerard, Actor
B01231958 Princess Caroline of Monaco
B01241862 Novelist Edith Wharton, US
B01241888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built first rocket-powered aircraft.
B01241917 Ernst Borgnine, Actor
B01241918 Oral Roberts, Evangelist
B01241922 Ava Gardner
B01241925 Maria Tallchief in Fairfax Oklahoma
B01241941 Neil Diamond, Singer
B01241946 Barry Bostwick, Actor
B01241960 Nastassia Kinski in Berlin Germany
B01251759 Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.
B01251874 Somerset Maugham, poet.
B01251882 Virginia Woolf, author.
B01251919 Edwin Newman, Network News Correspondent
B01251934 Elizabeth Allen in New Jersey
B01251945 Leigh Taylor Young in Washington DC
B01261715 Claude Helvetius, French philosopher
B01261831 Mary Dodge, Writer  (`Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates')
B01261880 Gen. Douglas MacArthur. He did return!
B01261923 Anne Jeffereys in North Carolina
B01261925 Paul Newman, Actor, Racer, Popcorn mogul
B01261928 Eartha Kitt, Singer
B01261928 Roger Vadim, Film Director
B01261929 Jules Feiffer, Playwright
B01261935 Bob Uecker, Sports personality
B01261944 Angela Davis, Black activist
B01261961 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oiler's hockey player
B01271832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll.)
B01271850 Samuel Gompers, first president of the American Federation of
B01271850CLabor.
B01271885 Broadway composer Jerome Kern
B01271900 Admiral Hyman G Rickover, father of the modern nuclear navy
B01271918 Bandleader Skitch Henderson
B01271921 Donna Reed, Actress
B01271929 Ingrid Thulin in Sweden
B01271936 Troy Donahue, Actor
B01281855 William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine.
B01281887 Artur Rubinstein, pianist
B01281933 Susan Sontag, writer
B01281936 Alan Alda, Actor
B01281948 Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ballet Dancer
B012819?? Susan Howard in Marshall Texas
B01291737 Thomas Paine, Revolutionist
B01291756 Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee, cavalryman
B01291843 William McKinley, 25th President from 1897 - 1901.
B01291850 Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite.
B01291860 Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard.)
B01291874 John D Rockefeller Jr, financier
B01291880 Claude William Dukenfield (better known as WC Fields)
B01291901 Allen B DuMont, perfected first commercially practical
B01291901Ccathode ray tube.
B01291915 Victor Mature, Actor
B01291918 John Forsythe, Actor
B01291939 Germaine Greer in Melbourne Australia
B01291942 Claudine Longet in France - Former Mrs. Andy Williams
B01291943 Katharine Ross in Hollywood California
B01291945 Tom Selleck, Actor
B01291951 Ann Jillian in Cambridge Mass
B01291953 Oprah Winfrey, Actress/TV Hostess
B01291958 Judy Norton-Taylor in Santa Monica, Calif of the Waltons
B01301882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President from 1933 - 1945.
B01301922 Barbara Hale in Dekalb Ill
B01301925 Dorothy Malone in Chicago, Illinois
B01301930 Gene Hackman, Actor
B01301935 Tammy Grimes, Actress
B01301937 Boris Spassky, Chess Player
B01301937 Vanessa Redgrave, Actress
B01301950 Victoria Principal, Actress
B01311797 Franz Shubert, composer
B01311830 James G. Blaine, the 'Plumed Knight.'
B01311872 Zane Gray, American West novelist.
B01311892 Eddie Cantor, comedian
B01311914 "Jersey Joe" Walcott, fighter
B01311919 Jackie Robinson, first black major league baseball player.
B01311923 Carol Channing, Actress
B01311923 Joanne Dru, Actress
B01311923 Norman Mailer, Writer
B01311929 Jean Simmons in London
B01311937 Suzanne Pleshette in New York City
B01311938 James Watt, Secretary Of Interior
B01311944 Jessica Walters in New York City
B01311957 Shirley Babashoff, US Olympic swimmer
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*mmddyyyy Reminders
R0101     Independence Day, celebrated in Haiti and Sudan
R0101     Mummers' Parade in Philadelphia, Pa
R0101     The start of a new year... Enjoy the bowl games.
R0101     Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, Calif
R0101     National Egg Month
R0102     Betsy Ross Day
R0104     National Trivia Day.
R0106     Feast of the Epiphany  (Twelfth Night in England)
R0108     Last day a ball club can re-sign their own free agent until May 1
R0115    2Martin Luther King Day
R0116    2Martin Luther King Day
R0116     National Nothing Day
R0116     National Hat Day
R0117    2Martin Luther King Day
R0118    2Martin Luther King Day
R0118     National Clean Off Your Desk Day
R0119    2Martin Luther King Day
R0120     Reindeer Day.
R0120    2Martin Luther King Day
R0121    2Martin Luther King Day
R0121     National Hugging Day
R0123     National Handwriting Day.
R0125     The start of the Chinese New Year.
R0126     Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia.
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*mmddyyyy Events
S01011772 First traveller's checks are issued in London.
S01011804 Haiti gains its independence.
S01011863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln.
S01011892 Brooklyn merged with New York to form present City of New York.
S01011892 Ellis Island became the reception center for new immigrants.
S01011902 First Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California.
S01011912 First running of San Francisco's famed "Bay to Breakers" race.
S01011913 Post office begins parcel post deliveries
S01011934 Alcatraz Island officially becomes a Federal Prison.
S01011934 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (US bank guarantees)
S01011934Cfirst become effective.
S01011936 First newspaper to microfilm its current issues, NY Herald Tribune
S01011948 First newsreel in color, Pasadena, Ca
S01011954 The Rose and Cotton Bowl are the first sport colorcasts
S01011956 Sudan gains its independence.
S01011958 European Economic Community (EEC) starts operation.
S01011962 Beatles Decca audition
S01011971 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV
S01011984 AT & T broken up into 8 companies.
S01021788 Georgia becomes the 4th state
S01021890 Alice Sanger becomes first female Whiote House staffer.
S01021917 Royal Bank of Canada took over the Quebec Bank
S01021921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
S01021921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens.
S01021933 Bruins beat Rangers in NY 13-3
S01021935 Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for kidnap-murder of Charles
S01021936 First electron tube described, St Louis, Mo
S01021942 Japanese occupied Manila
S01021942 Twenty-eight nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace
S01021955 President Jose Antonio Remon of Panama assassinated
S01021957 The San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.
S01021968 Dr Christiaan Barnard performs the first successful heart
S01021968Ctransplant.
S01031521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church.
S01031777 Washington defeats British at Princeton, NJ.
S01031852 First Chinese arrive in Hawaii.
S01031870 Brooklyn Bridge begun, completed on May 24, 1883
S01031888 First drinking straw is patented by M.C. Stone in Washington, D.C.
S01031912 Southern Pacific RR offers to bring the Liberty Bell to the
S01031912CExposition without charge.
S01031920 NY Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from the Red Sox.
S01031921 Turkey makes peace with Armenia.
S01031929 27 year old William S. Paley becomes president of CBS.
S01031941 Canada and the US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)
S01031943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa.
S01031943 First missing persons telecast, NY city.
S01031946 William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) hanged in Britain, for treason.
S01031957 First electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pa
S01031958 Sir Edmund Hillary reached South Pole overland.
S01031959 Alaska becomes the 49th state.
S01031973 George Steinbrenner III buys the Yankees from CBS for $12 million.
S01031977 Apple Computer incorporated.
S01041754 Columbia University opened.
S01041790 Pres Washington delivers the first "State of the Union" message.
S01041863 Four-wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of New York.
S01041896 Utah becomes the 45th state
S01041962 First subway train to run automatically (unmanned) - NY city.
S01051589 Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, died
S01051809 Treaty of Dardanelles was concluded between Britain and France
S01051850 The California Exchange opens.
S01051914 Henry Ford announces a minimum wage of $5 for an eight hour day.
S01051922 Sir Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, dies aboard his ship.
S01051925 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes first woman governor.
S01051933 Work on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge begins,
S01051933Con Marin County side.
S01051962 Tony Sheridan and Beatles produce My Bonnie and The Saints.
S01051964 Pope Paul VI visits Jordan and Israel.
S01061681 First recorded boxing match takes place in England, between
S01061681CDuke of Albemarle's butler and his butcher.
S01061838 Samuel Morse makes first public demonstration of telegraph.
S01061884 Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk and heredity pioneer, dies.
S01061912 New Mexico becomes the 47th state.
S01061914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
S01061930 First diesel engine automobile trip completed
S01061936 Barbara Hanley becomes Canada's first woman mayor.
S01061941 "Four Freedoms" speech by FDR.
S01061942 First around the world flight by Pan Am "Pacific Clipper."
S01071610 Galileo discovers the 4 major moons of Jupiter.
S01071714 The typewriter is patented (it was built years later.)
S01071785 First balloon flight across the English Channel.
S01071789 First national presidental election - US.
S01071822 First printing in Hawaii.
S01071896 Fanny Farmer publishes her first cookbook.
S01071929 "Tarzan," one of the first adventure comic strips, appears.
S01071963 First Class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents.
S01071967 TV Show "The Newlywed Game" premieres.
S01071968 First Class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents.
S01081798 11th Amendment ratified, Judicial powers construed.
S01081815 Battle of New Orleans, made a hero out of Andrew Jackson (the
S01081815CWar of 1812 had ended on 12/24/1814, but nobody knew that.)
S01081865 Sen. Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make the Marigold
S01081865Cthe national flower.  It doesn't pass.
S01081880 The passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of Mexico.
S01081932 Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter.
S01081935 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy.
S01091788 Conneticut becomes the 5th state.
S01091793 First balloon flight in North America takes place in Philadelphia.
S01091799 First income tax imposed, in England.
S01091839 The daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science.
S01091847 First San Francisco paper, 'California Star', published.
S01091848 First commercial bank in San Francisco established.
S01091936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army.
S01091945 As he vowed, MacArthur returns to the Philippines.
S01091982 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855.
S01091982 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855.
S01101776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published.
S01101840 The Penny Post mail system is started.
S01101863 First underground railway opens in London.
S01101910 First international air meet is held in Los Angeles.
S01101920 League of Nations established.
S01101944 First mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia PA.
S01101945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close.
S01101946 First radar signal to moon, Belmar, NJ.
S01101949 The first Jewish family show - "The Goldbergs" premieres.
S01101951 First jet passenger trip made.
S01101964 "That Was The Week That Was" premieres.
S01101978 Russians' Soyuz 27 is launched.
S01110935 First woman to fly solo across Pacific left Honolulu, AE Putnam
S01111569 First lottery is held in England, at St. Paul's Cathedral.
S01111813 First pineapples planted in Hawaii.
S01111892 Hawaii Historical Society founded.
S01111935 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California.
S01111963 Beatles release "Please Please Me"  and "Ask Me Why."
S01111975 Russians' Soyuz 17 is launched.
S01111983 Billy Martin named Yankee manager for the 3rd time.
S01121922 Mrs. Hattie Caraway becomes first woman elected to U.S. Senate.
S01121945 US Navy destroys 41 Japanese ships in the Battle of
S01121945CSouth China Sea.
S01121971 Norman Lear's "All in the Family" premieres.
S01121986 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 is launched.
S01131854 Anthony Foss obtains patent for the Accordion.
S01131906 First "radio set" advertised (in Scientific American) ...
S01131906Cclaimed to receive signals up to ONE MILE. Price: $7.50.
S01131920 NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly.
S01131966 First black in presidental cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver.)
S01131969 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album.
S01131971 Apollo 14 launched (what was that about rockets can't fly??)
S01131978 Yankee manager Joe McCarthy dies at 90
S01131985 Carol Wayne dies at age 42
S01141690 The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany.
S01141784 The Revolutionary War formally ends.
S01141914 Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars.
S01141936 L.M. "Mario" Giannini elected president of Bank of America.
S01141939 All commercial ferry service to the San Francisco East Bay ends.
S01141952 "Today" show premieres on NBC.
S01141969 Russians' Soyuz 4 is launched.
S01151861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis, forming base for his
S01151861Celevator company.
S01151870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party,
S01151870Cin Harper's Weekly.
S01151927 Dunbarton Bridge, first bridge in S.F. Bay Area, opens.
S01151939 Municipal Railway and Market Street Railroad begin service to
S01151939Cthe Transbay Transit (East Bay) Terminal.
S01151948 The Pentagon Building in Washington is completed.
S01151967 CBS and NBC both broadcast Super Bowl I.
S01151969 Russians' Soyuz 5 is launched.
S01151973 Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at the Vatican.
S01151974 "Happy Days" premieres.
S01151981 "Hill Street Blues" premieres.
S01161865 San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle started (now the
S01161865CSan Francisco Chronicle.)
S01161887 San Francisco's Cliff House badly damaged when a cargo
S01161887Cof gunpowder on the schooner "Parallel" explodes nearby.
S01161920 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933.
S01161956 Egyptian President Nassar pledges to reconquer Palestine.
S01161978 Russians' Soyuz 27 returns to Earth.
S01171861 Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest!!.)
S01171871 First Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie.
S01171893 The Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic.
S01171929 Popeye makes first appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theatre."
S01171943 It's Tin Can Drive Day -- an effort to conserve for the war.
S01171950 Great Brink's robbery in Boston, $28 million.
S01171977 Gary Gilmore executed in Utah, first since 1967.
S01181644 First UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston.
S01181777 San Jose, CA is founded.
S01181778 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.
S01181869 The elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco.
S01181911 First shipboard landing of a plane (from Tanforan Park to the
S01181911CUSS Pennsylvania).
S01181913 Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole.
S01181919 Versailles Peace Conference.
S01181949 First US Congressional Standing Committee headed by
S01181949Ca black man - W Dawson.
S01181969 Russians' Soyuz 5 returns to Earth
S01181980 Barbara Britton dies
S01181986 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 returns to Earth.
S01191770 Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan.)
S01191886 The Aurora Ski Club, first in U.S., is founded in Minnesota.
S01191903 First regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England.
S01191955 "The Millionaire" TV program premieres.
S01201265 First English Parliament called into session by the
S01201265CEarl of Leicester.
S01201783 End of the Revolutionary War.
S01201872 California Stock Exchange Board organized.
S01201892 First basketball game played.
S01201929 First feature talking motion picture taken outdoors,
S01201929Ctitled "In Old Arizona."
S01201953 First live coast-to-coast inauguration address.
S01201953 First telecast transmitted to Canada - from Buffalo NY.
S01201964 "Meet The Beatles" album released in US.
S01201981 The Iran hostages are freed after 444 days.
S01211813 The pineapple is introduced to Hawaii.
S01211908 New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke
S01211908Cin public.
S01211954 First gas turbine automobile exhibited - NY city.
S01211954 Nautilus, first atomic powered submarine launched.
S01211967 Ann Sheridan dies at age 51
S01211979 Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer.)
S01221850 The Alta California becomes a daily paper, first such in Calif.
S01221901 Britain's Queen Victoria dies at age 82.
S01221943 The Battle of Anzio, Allies stopped on the beach.
S01221947 KTLA, the first commercial TV station west of Mississippi
S01221947Csigns on the air in Hollywood, CA.
S01221973 Supreme Court approves abortions.
S01231849 Mrs. Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first woman physician in U.S.
S01231909 First radio-assisted rescue at sea.
S01231964 24th Amendment ratified, Barred poll tax in federal elections.
S01231977 TV Mini-series "Roots" premieres.
S01231983 "The A-Team" (with Mr. T) premieres.
S01241848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California
S01241899 The rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan.
S01241922 Eskimo Pie invented in Iowa by Christian K. Nelson.
S01241935 First beer in cans placed on sale, Richmond, Va
S01241965 Sir Winston Churchill dies in England
S01241985 Fifteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 is launched.
S01241986 Voyager II flies past Uranus.
S01251858 Mendelssohn's Wedding March first played, at wedding of Queen
S01251858CVictoria's daughter to the Crown Prince of Prussia.
S01251915 Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
S01251949 First Emmy Awards are given out.
S01251949 First Israeli election.
S01251959 First transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301).
S01251961 First live, nationally televised, Presidential news
S01251961Cconference conducted by President John F. Kennedy.
S01261788 First settlement established by the English in Australia.
S01261837 Michigan becomes the 26th state.
S01261841 Hong Kong is proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
S01261905 World's largest diamond found, the Cullinan diamond.
S01261926 Television is first demonstrated by J.L. Baird in London.
S01261950 India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion
S01261954 Ground breaking for Disneyland, the Magic Kingdom, in Anaheim.
S01261961 First woman `personal physician to the President' - JG Travell.
S01261976 Israel opens the "Good Fence" to Lebanon.
S01261979 Nelson Rockefeller former VP and 4 time governor of NY dies.
S01271870 Kappa Alpha Theta, first sorority, founded at DePauw
S01271870CUniversity in Greencastle, Indiana.
S01271880 Thomas Edison granted patent for an electric incandescent lamp
S01271888 National Geographic Society founded in Washington, DC
S01271915 US Marines occupy Haiti.
S01271948 First tape recorder is sold.
S01271948 First locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds operated.
S01271964 "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US
S01271964 Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine tries for
S01271964CRepublican Presidential nomination.
S01271967 Fatal Apollo launch pad fire kills Astronauts
S01271967CGrissom, Chaffee, and White.
S01271973 End of the military draft.
S01271973 US and North Vietnam sign a cease-fire agreement.
S01271985 Fifteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 returns to Earth.
S01281807 London's Pall Mall becomes the first street lit by gaslight.
S01281878 First telephone exchange, New Haven, Connecticut.
S01281878 George W. Coy hired as first full-time telephone operator.
S01281878 Yale Daily News published, first college daily newspaper.
S01281915 US Coast Guard established.
S01281932 First US state unemployment insurance act enacted - Wisconsin
S01281938 First Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont).
S01281953 J. Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins the "Today" show.
S01281956 Elvis Presley's first TV appearance (Dorsey Bros Stage Show)
S01281958 Construction began on first private thorium-uranium
S01281958Cnuclear reactor.
S01281960 First photograph bounced off moon.
S01281986 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, killing a brave crew of
S01281986Cseven including volunteer school teacher Christa McAuliffe.
S01291845 Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" first published in New York.
S01291861 Kansas becomes the 34th state
S01291904 First athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team.
S01291955 William Cox buys Yankee Stadium.
S01291958 Charles Starkweather captured by police in Wyoming.
S01301847 Town of Yerba Buena is renamed San Francisco.
S01301862 US Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched.
S01301917 First jazz record in United States is cut.
S01301933 Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor.
S01301958 First 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Texas
S01311851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, first in California, founded.
S01311871 Birds fly over the western part of San Francisco in such large
S01311871Cnumbers that they actually darken the sky.
S01311911 Congress passes resolution naming San Francisco as the site
S01311911Cof the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal.
S01311928 Scotch tape first marketed by 3-M Company.
S01311950 President Truman authorizes production of the H-Bomb.
S01311958 First U.S. satellite launched, Explorer I.
S01311961 Ham, the chimp, is first animal sent into space by the US.
S01311971 Apollo 14 launched, first landing in lunar highlands.