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*mmddyyyy Birthdays
B11011929 Betsy Palmer in Chicago Illinois, actress
B11011935 Gary Player, golfer
B11011939 Barbara Bossom in Pennsylvania - Hill St Blues
B11021734 Daniel Boone, coonskin cap model and hunter.
B11021755 Marie Antoinette - "Let them eat cake."
B11021795 James K. Polk, 11th President from 1845 - 1849.
B11021865 Warren G. Harding, 29th President from 1921 - 1923.
B11021885 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer.
B11021913 Burt Lancaster, Actor
B11021917 Ann Rutherford
B11021936 Rose Bird, Ousted California Supreme Court Justice
B11021942 Shere Hite, sex therapist
B11031718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same.
B11031794 William Cullen Bryant, poet
B11031922 Charles Bronson, Actor
B11031933 Monica Vitti in Rome Italy
B11031937 Paula Wayne
B11031948 Lulu McLulu, in Glasgow Scotland - "To Sir With Love."
B11031949 Larry Holmes, Boxer
B11041879 Will Rogers, who never met Richard Nixon.
B11041916 Walter Cronkite, newsman ("and that's the way it is")
B11041918 Art Carney, Actor
B11041930 Doris Roberts in St Louis.
B11041930 Kate Reid in London England.
B11041937 Loretta Swit in Passaic NJ - Hot Lips on M*A*S*H
B11051857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil is VERY unhappy), writer
B11051885 Will Durant, poet
B11051912 Roy Rogers, Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger. And Dale, too.
B11051913 Vivien Leigh, Actress, "Gone With The Wind."
B11051941 Art Garfunkel, Singer
B11051941 Elke Sommer, Actress, in Berlin Germany
B11051941 Patricia Hardy
B11051963 Andrea McArdle in Philadelphia - Broadway's "Annie."
B11051963 Tatum O'Neal in Los Angeles aka Mrs John Macenroe
B11061771 Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography.
B11061814 Adolph Sax, inventor of musical instruments.
B11061851 Charles Henry Dow, founded Dow Jones & Co.
B11061854 John Phillip Souza, the march king.
B11061861 James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball.
B11061946 Sally Field in Pasadena California.
B11071867 Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie, discovered radium
B11071913 Albert Camus in France, poet
B11071918 Billy Graham, Evangelist
B11071922 Al Hirt, Musician
B11071926 Joan Sutherland in Sydney Australia
B11071943 Joni Mitchell, Singer/Songwriter, in Alberta Canada
B11071943 Judith Frost in British Columbia
B11071964 Dana Plato in Maywood California
B11081656 Edmond Halley, astronomer, first to calculate a comet's orbit.
B11081909 Katharine Hepburn, Actress, in Connecticut
B11081927 Patti Page in Claremont Oklahoma
B11081933 Esther Rolle in Pompano Florida
B11081947 Minnie Ripperton in Chicago Illinois
B11081949 Bonnie Raitt in Los Angeles California
B11081952 Christie Hefner, daughter of Hugh Hefner
B11081954 Rickie Lee Jones in Chicago
B11091841 King Edward VII of England
B11091915 Hedy Lamarr (not Hedley.)
B11091918 Florence Chadwick, Channel Swimmer
B11091918 Spiro Agnew, Vice-President
B11091934 Carl Sagan, who has BILLIONS and BILLIONS of admirers.
B11091936 Mary Travers in Louisville Ky
B11091952 Lou Ferrigno, Actor
B11101483 Martin Luther, protestant reformer
B11101668 Francois Couperin, composer.
B11101759 Frederich von Schiller in Germany, poet
B11101819 Cyrus West Field, financier known for the success of the first
B11101819Ctransatlantic cable.
B11101895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer.
B11101949 Ann Reinking in Seattle Washington
B11101949 Donna Fargo in North Carolina
B11101959 MacKenzie Phillips in Alexandra Va, "One Day at a Time."
B11111821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky in Russia, author, "Crime and Punishment"
B11111885 General George S. Patton. "Old Blood and Guts."
B11111904 Alger Hiss, U.S. Government Official
B11111904 Sam Spiegel, Film Producer
B11111920 Gene Tierney in Brooklyn NY
B11111922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author.
B11111925 Jonathan Winters, Comedian/Actor
B11111934 Bibi Andersson in Sweden
B11111936 Susan Kohner
B11111945 Denise Alexander in New York City
B11111963 Demi Moore
B11121815 Elizabeth Stanton, early leader of women's rights movement.
B11121834 Alexander Borodin, composer
B11121866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC.)
B11121922 Kim Hunter
B11121929 Grace Kelly in Philadelphia
B11121937 Ina Ballin
B11121942 Stefanie Powers in Hollywood Calif - "Hart to Hart."
B11121961 Nadia Comaneci in Romania, Olympic gymnist
B11131850 Robert Louis Stevenson in Scotland, writer
B11131856 Justice Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice
B11131923 Linda Christian in Mexico
B11131933 Monica Vitti
B11131938 Jean Seberg in Marshaltown
B11131942 Beth Brickell in Arkansas
B11141765 Robert Fulton, built first commercial steamboat.
B11141776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis.
B11141840 Claude Monet, impressionist painter.
B11141889 Jawahal Nehru. prime minster of India, Nehru suit's namesake.
B11141900 Aaron Copland, american composer (Billy the Kid,
B11141900CAppalachian Spring, Fanfare for the Common Man.)
B11141910 Rosemary DeCamp in Arizona
B11141912 Barbara Hutton
B11141919 Veronica Lake
B11141921 Brian Keith, Actor
B11141929 McLean Stevenson, Actor
B11141948 Prince Charles, British Royalty
B11151887 Georgia O'Keefe, Painter
B11151887 Marianne Moore, Poet
B11151891 Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshall
B11151891 Field Marshall Erwin K Rommel, military leader
B11151891 W. Averell Harriman, U.S. Government Official
B11151919 Carol Bruce in Great Neck
B11151929 Ed Asner, Actor
B11151932 Petula Clark in England
B11151945 Anni-Frid in Lyngsdtad Sweden (ABBA)
B11161873 William Handy, established the popularity of the blues
B11161873Cin band music.
B11161895 Paul Hindemith in Germany, composer
B11161896 Jim Jordan, radio comic (Fibber McGee of Fibber McGee & Molly)
B11161901 George Gallop, what's your opinion?
B11161908 Burgess Meredith, Actor
B11161942 Donna McKechnie in Pontiac Michigan
B11161967 Lisa Bonet in San Francisco, California
B11171887 Field Marshall Lord Montgomery, military leader
B11171925 Rock Hudson, Actor
B11171938 Gordon Lightfoot, Singer
B11171943 Lauren Hutton in South Carolina
B11171961 Merette Von Kemp in Denmark
B11181789 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography.
B11181836 Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame)
B11181908 Imogene Coca in Philadelphia - Sid Caeser's sidekick
B11181923 Alan Sheppard, first American into space.
B11181926 Dorothy Collins in Ontario Canada
B11181928 Mickey Mouse, sired by Walt Disney's pen.
B11181939 Brenda Vaccaro, Actress, in Brooklyn NY
B11181943 Susan Sullivan in New York City
B11181944 Linda Evans
B11191752 George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in the
B11191752CRevolutionary War.
B11191831 James A. Garfield, 20th President, served only from March 4
B11191831Cto September 19, 1881.
B11191905 Tommy Dorsey, bandleader.
B11191917 Indira Ghandi
B11191936 Dick Cavett, TV Host
B11191942 Calvin Klein, Clothes Designer
B11191954 Kathleen Quinlan in Mill Valley California.
B11191956 Glynnis O'Connor in New York City
B11191962 Jodie Foster, Actress,  in Los Angeles
B11201602 Otto von Guericke, invented the air pump.
B11201858 Selma Lagerlof of Sweden, novelist.
B11201866 Baseball Czar/commisioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis
B11201900 Chester Gould, cartoonist (gave Dick Tracy a job)
B11201908 Alistair Cooke, raconteur.
B11201916 Judy Canova in Florida
B11201921 Phyllis Thaxter in Portland Maine
B11201925 Maya Plisetkaya, Prima Ballerina
B11201925 Robert Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General
B11201926 Kaye Ballard in Ohio
B11201939 Dick Smothers, Comedian
B11201943 Veronica Hamel in Philadelphia
B11201956 Bo Derek in Long Beach Cal - A perfect 10
B11211694 Voltaire of France, thinker
B11211787 Sir Samuel Cunard, founded first regular Atlantic
B11211787Csteamship line.
B11211904 Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone
B11211904Cfor jazz.
B11211912 Eleanor Powell in Springfield Mass
B11211924 Vivian Blaine
B11211937 Marlo Thomas in Detroit Michigan (aka Mrs. Phil Donahue)
B11211940 Natalia Maskarova in Lenningrad
B11211941 Juliet Mills in London England
B11211943 Billie Jean King, Tennis pro
B11211945 Goldie Hawn, Comedienne/Actress,  in Washington DC
B11211958 Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress
B11221819 George Eliot in England, novelist
B11221888 Tarzan of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel.
B11221890 General Charles de Gaulle, Former president of France
B11221899 Hoagy Carmichael, composed 'Star Dust.'
B11221913 Benjamin Britten, composer
B11221924 Geraldine Page in Kirksville Mo
B11221961 Mariel Hemingway in Ketchum Idaho
B11231804 Franklin Pierce, 14th President from 1853 - 1857.
B11231887 Boris Karloff, actor - "Frankenstein."
B11231930 Vera Miles in Oklahoma
B11231952 Francie Larrieu, Track star.
B11241713 Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in California.
B11241784 Zachary Taylor, 12th President from 1849 - 1850.
B11241864 Henre de Toulouse-Lautrec in France, painter
B11241868 Scott Joplin, entertainer.
B11241912 Eric Severeid, CBS News Correspondent
B11241922 Charles Schultz, Peanuts Creator
B11241925 William F. Buckley Jr., Commentator
B11241938 Rich Little, Impressionist
B11241938 Tina Turner, Singer, in Brownsville Texas
B11251835 Andrew Carnegie, steelman and librarian.
B11251846 Carry Nation, scourge of barkeepers and drinkers.
B11251914 Joe DiMaggio, the Yankee clipper
B11251920 Ricardo Montalban, "Welcome to Fantasy Island."
B11251933 Kathryn Grant Crosby in Houston
B11251966 Stacy Lattislaw
B11261832 Louisa May Alcott, author, "Little Women."
B11261876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment.
B11261925 Lois Hunt in Morriston NJ
B11261933 Robert Goulet in Canada
B11261935 Marian Mercer
B11261938 Rich Little, Impressionist, in Canada
B11271701 Anders Celsius, scientist.
B11271746 Robert Livingston, gave oath of office to George Washington
B11271937 Gail Sheehy, Writer
B11271951 Jayne Kennedy in Washington DC
B11281929 Gloria Grahame
B11281933 Hope Lange in London England
B11281949 Alexander Godunov, composer
B11291803 Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (phase shift.)
B11291849 Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode.
B11291932 Diana Ladd
B11291933 David Reuben, Physician/writer
B11291933 John Mayall, Blues Singer
B11291955 Howie Mandel, "St Elsewhere's" Dr. Fiscus.
B11301667 Jonathan Swift, satirist, wrote "Gulliver's Travels."
B11301810 Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker.
B11301835 Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain.
B11301874 Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
B11301920 Virginia Mayo, in St Louis Mo
B11301924 Allan Sherman, Comedian
B11301924 Shirley Chisholm, U.S. Representative
B11301929 Dick Clark, the oldest teenager
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*mmddyyyy Reminders
R1101     National Raisin Bread Month
R1102     North & South Dakota Admission Day.
R1102    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
R1103     Independence Day, celebrated in Panama.
R1103    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
R1104    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
R1105     Guy Fawkes Day, celebrated in England.
R1105    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
R1106     Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
R1106    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
R1107    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
R1108    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
R1108     Punster's Day
R1111     The REAL Veteran's Day.  They fought for your freedom.
R1111    CRemember them!
R1117     The annual Great American Smoke Out.
R1122     Independence Day, celebrated in Lebanon.
R1122    5Thanksgiving Day.
R1123    5Thanksgiving Day.
R1124    5Thanksgiving Day.
R1125    5Thanksgiving Day.
R1126    5Thanksgiving Day.
R1127    5Thanksgiving Day.
R1128    5Thanksgiving Day.
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*mmddyyyy Events
S11011834 First published reference to the game of Poker describes it
S11011834Cas a Mississippi riverboat game.
S11011870 US Weather Bureau begins operations.
S11011913 Knute Rockne leads underdog Notre Dame to 35-13 win over Army.
S11011940 First US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa.
S11011947 First Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii.
S11011950 First black player in National Basketball Association,
S11011950CFort Wayne In.
S11011951 First atomic explosion witnessed by troops, NM.
S11011952 First hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
S11011981 First Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents.
S11021889 North Dakota becomes 39th, South Dakota becomes 40th state.
S11021917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement is signed.
S11021917 The Balfour Declaration calls for a Jewish homeland.
S11021920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) on the air as first commercial radio station.
S11021936 The world's first TV broadcasting service is inaugurated by
S11021936Cthe British Broadcasting Corporation in London.
S11021947 Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for first (& last) time.
S11021948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers.
S11021954 JS Thurmond first senator elected by write-in vote - SC.
S11021957 First titanium mill opened, Toronto Ohio.
S11021959 Charles Van Doren confesses TV Show "21" is rigged.
S11021964 CBS purchases the Yankees.
S11021978 The crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31.
S11021980 TV Character Edith Bunker dies.
S11031900 The first national Automobile Show opens at Madison Square
S11031900CGarden in New York City.
S11031903 Panama gains its independence from Columbia.
S11031917 First Class Mail now costs 3 cents.
S11031930 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America.
S11031930 Detroit-Windsor tunnel opens. It's the first vehicular
S11031930Ctunnel from the U.S. to a foreign country (Canada.)
S11031952 Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas.
S11031953 First live color coast-to-coast telecast, NY city.
S11031955 First virus crystallized (announced.)
S11031956 "Wizard of Oz" first shown on TV (on CBS.)
S11031979 63 Americans taken hostage at American Embassy in Teheran, Iran.
S11041854 Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island.
S11041879 James Ritty patents the first cash register, to combat
S11041879Cstealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon.
S11041922 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen.
S11041924 First woman governor in U.S. elected in Wyoming.
S11041939 First air conditioned car (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Il
S11041956 Israeli troops reach the Suez Canal for the first time.
S11051605 Plot to blow up British parliment fails - first Guy Fawkes day.
S11051781 John Hanson elected first 'President of the United
S11051781CStates in Congress assembled.'  This happened 8 years
S11051781Cbefore Washington is elected.
S11051895 First US patent granted for the automobile, to George B Selden.
S11051935 The Parker Brothers launch the game of Monopoly.
S11051973 BART starts San Francisco-Daly City train shuttle service.
S11061850 First fire engine arrives in Hawaii.
S11061862 Direct Telegraphic link between NY and San Francisco
S11061862Cestablished.
S11061869 First intercollegiate football game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4.)
S11061939 WGY-TV (Schenectady NY), first commercial station debuts.
S11061985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 9 returns to Earth.
S11071805 Lewis and Clark first sight the Pacific Ocean.
S11071811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gives Harrison a presidential slogan.
S11071874 First cartoon to use the elephant as the symbol of the
S11071874CRepublican Party appears in Harper's Weekly. It is drawn
S11071874Cby Thomas Nast.
S11071875 Verney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa
S11071875Cfrom sea to sea.
S11071885 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway.
S11071962 Richard Nixon first quits politics - "You won't have
S11071962CNixon to kick around," he tells the press.
S11071976 "Gone With the Wind" is shown on TV.
S11081789 Bourbon Whiskey is first distilled from corn by Reverend
S11081789CElijah Craig in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
S11081793 the Louvre, in Paris, is opened to the public.
S11081889 Montana becomes the 41st state.
S11081923 Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" fails. In jail, writes "Mein Kampf."
S11081932 FDR elected president, Lehman NY governor and O'Brien NY mayor.
S11081942 Britain and US invade North Africa.
S11081984 Fourteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 is launched.
S11091934 Committee for Industrial Organization formed in an effort
S11091934Cto expand industrial unions' strength.
S11091965 Giant power failure in New England & Ontario, Canada.
S11101775 US Marine Corps established by Congress.
S11101871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa.
S11101891 First Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held
S11101891C(in Boston.)
S11101951 First Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance.
S11101969 "Sesame Street" premieres.
S11101975 PLO leader Yasser Arafat speaks at the UN.
S11101980 Voyager I flies past Saturn.
S11111790 Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China --
S11111790CSpelling bee judges cheer!
S11111889 Washington admitted as the 42nd state.
S11111918 Armistice Day - World War I ends.
S11111924 San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor is dedicated.
S11111959 Seals Stadium demolished.
S11111966 Gemini XII is launched. It's the final Gemini flight.
S11111968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of
S11111968C"Two Virgins" album.
S11111980 The crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37.
S11111982 Space Shuttle 'Columbia' makes first commercial flight.
S11121859 Jules Leotard performs the first Flying Trapeze circus act
S11121859Cin Paris.  He also designed the garment that bears his name.
S11121933 First known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken.
S11121936 First TV Gardening show.
S11121936 Oakland Bay Bridge opened.
S11121946 The first "autobank" (banking by car) is established, in
S11121946CChicago.
S11121981 Second Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 2 is launched. It's
S11121981Cthe first time a space vehicle has ever been used twice.
S11131849 Peter Burnett is elected first governor of California.
S11131895 First shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii.
S11131921 "The Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released.
S11131927 The Holland Tunnel opens between New York and New Jersey.
S11131955 First live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country
S11131955C- Havana, Cuba.
S11131970 Vice President Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs."
S11141666 First use of the blood transfusion.
S11141832 First streetcar appears, in New York.
S11141851 "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, is published.
S11141889 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip around the
S11141889Cworld by 8 days (72 days.)
S11141910 First airplane flight from the deck of a ship.
S11141959 Kilauea Volcano's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii.)
S11141969 Apollo 12 is launched.
S11141981 Second Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 2 returns to Earth.
S11151763 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying the
S11151763CMason-Dixon Line -- the southern boundary of Pennsylvania.
S11151806 Zebulon Pike sighted Pike's Peak.
S11151869 Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated.
S11151926 National Broadcasting Company goes on-the-air, with 24 stations.
S11151937 First congressional session in air-conditioned chambers.
S11151939 Social Security Administration sends first unemployment check.
S11151941 San Francisco's Cow Palace opens.
S11151950 First black player in organized hockey - Arthur Dorrington.
S11151954 Flight over North Pole on regularly scheduled commercial
S11151954Croute begins.
S11151966 Gemini XII returns to Earth.
S11161841 N.E. Guerin of New York receives a patent for his cork filled
S11161841Clife preserver.
S11161864 Sherman begins his march to the sea thru Georgia.
S11161907 Oklahoma becomes the 46th state.
S11161933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the
S11161933CSoviet Union.
S11161950 The United Nations gets approval from the U.S. government
S11161950Cfor issuing postage stamps.
S11161955 First speed-boat to exceed 200 miles per hour - DM Campbell.
S11161966 Dr. Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury.
S11161973 Skylab 4's astronauts are is launched.  The final Skylab mission.
S11161982 Fifth Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 5 returns to Earth.
S11161984 Fourteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 returns to Earth.
S11171800 Congress convenes for its first Washington, DC session.
S11171869 The Suez Canal opens.
S11171884 Cops arrest John L. Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel."
S11171913 The Panama Canal opens for use.
S11171968 The Heidi Bowl - NBC bails out of the lengthy Jets-Raiders
S11171968Cgame to begin "Heidi."  Fans are outraged.
S11181820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer.
S11181883 U.S. adopts standard time.
S11181889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii.
S11181903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gives US exclusive canal rights
S11181903Cthrough Panama.
S11181928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in
S11181928C"Steamboat Willie."
S11181936 Main span of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge joined.
S11181943 First ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated.
S11191493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
S11191620 Pilgrims reach Cape Cod on the Mayflower.
S11191863 President Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg
S11191895 The pencil is invented. The eraser will have to wait.
S11191903 Carrie Nation attempts to make her celebrated speech in the
S11191903CU.S. Senate and later tries to sell replicas of the hatchet.
S11191970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California State
S11191970CHistorical Landmark.
S11191977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel.
S11201789 Bill of Rights ratified.
S11201888 William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
S11201914 The State Department starts requiring photographs for passports.
S11201931 Commercial teletype service begins.
S11201942 NHL abolishes regular season overtime.
S11201945 International War Crimes Tribunal opens trial of Nazi
S11201945Cleaders in Nuremberg.
S11201947 "Meet the Press" makes its network debut.
S11201947 Princess Elizabeth of England and Lt. Phillip Mountbatten
S11201947Care married in London's Westminster Abbey.
S11201947 UN General assembly looks into printing its own postage stamps.
S11201953 First airplane to exceed 1300 mph - Scott Crossfield.
S11211789 North Carolina becomes the 12th state.
S11211794 Honolulu Harbor is discovered.
S11211933 First US ambassador to the USSR - WC Bullitt.
S11211952 First US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced.
S11211959 Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their
S11211959Cfamed duet.
S11211964 The Verrazanno Narrows Bridge (Brooklyn to Staten Island)
S11211964Copens, becoming the world's longest suspension bridge.
S11211980 The "Who Shot JR" episode of "Dallas" begins the tradition
S11211980Cof season-ending cliff-hangers.
S11221906 The International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS"
S11221906Cas the new universal call for help.
S11221943 Lebanon gains its independence.
S11221963 President John F. Kennedy assasinated in Dallas.
S11221967 UN Security council passes resolution 242, declaring that
S11221967CIsrael must give back land won in the 6 day war.
S11221968 Beatles release "The Beatles," their only double album.
S11231852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to
S11231852Cdrop 30 feet.
S11231863 Patent granted for a process of making color photographs.
S11231889 The first jukebox is installed, at a saloon in San Francisco.
S11231948 Lens to provide zoom effects patented - FG Back.
S11231979 Merle Oberon dies at age 68.
S11231980 Mae West dies at age 88.
S11241874 A patent is granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.
S11241952 Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens in London.  At last
S11241952Creport, it is still running.
S11241954 First U.S. Presidential airplane christened
S11241963 First live murder on TV - Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald.
S11241969 Apollo 12 returns to Earth.
S11251960 First atomic reactor for research and development, Richland Wa
S11251983 Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off.
S11261716 First lion to be seen in America is exhibited in Boston.
S11261778 Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands.)
S11261789 First national celebration of Thanksgiving.
S11261832 The first street car in the U.S. begins operation in New York
S11261832CCity.  It's a horse-drawn trolley.
S11261895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed.
S11261962 Those kids from Liverpool do their first recording session
S11261962Cunder the name "The Beatles."
S11261980 Rachael Roberts dies at age 53.
S11261985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 is launched.
S11271926 The restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins.
S11271937 "Pins and Needles" opens on Broadway.
S11271951 First rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM.
S11271967 Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour."
S11271970 George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass."
S11271980 Soyuz T-3 is launched.
S11281520 Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean.
S11281776 Washington and his troops cross the Delaware River.
S11281895 America's first auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner
S11281895Caverages a blazing 7 MPH.
S11281929 Admiral R.E. Byrd makes first South Pole flight
S11281974 Commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years.
S11281976 Rosalind Russell dies at age 68.
S11281983 Ninth Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 is launched.
S11291887 U.S. receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.
S11291890 First Army-Navy football game.  Score: Navy 25, Army 0.
S11291922 King Tut's Tomb is discovered in Egypt.
S11291947 U.N. General Assmebly allows for a Jewish state in Palestine.
S11291951 First underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada.
S11291963 Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand."
S11301939 The Soviet Union invades Finland over a border dispute.
S11301947 Only one day after the U.N. decrees Israel's right to exist,
S11301947CJewish settlements are attacked.
S11301954 First meteorite known to have struck a woman - Sylacauga, Ala.
S11301958 First guided missile destroyer launched, the Dewey, Bath, Me.