*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B12011935 Woody Allen
B12011940 Richard Pryor
B12021906 Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records.
B12031729 Antonio Soler, famed late 18th century Spanish composer.
B12031895 Anna Freud
B12031930 Andy Williams, singer.
B12041842 Crazy horse
B12041892 Francisco Franco
B12041933 Horst Buckholz, actor in Berlin
B12051782 Martin Van Buren, 8th President (1837-1841)
B12051839 General George A. Custer, lost to Indians
B12051901 Walter Elias Disney, father of Mickey Mouse.
B12051906 Anastasio Samoza
B12061822 John Eberhard, built 1st large scale pencil factory in US.
B12061870 William S. Hart, star of silent Western movies
B12061927 Patsy Mink
B12061920 Dave Brubeck, musician in Concord, Ca
B12071542 Mary Queen of Scots
B12071912 Rod Cameron (born Rod Cox), actor in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
B12071915 actor Eli Wallach in Brooklyn NY
B12071942 Harry Chapin
B1208  65 BC Horace
B12081542 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
B12081765 Eli Whitney
B12081861 William Durant, founded General Motors Corp.
B12081865 Jean Sibelius, major Scandinavian composer.
B12081894 James Thurber, humourist.
B12081930 Maximillin Schell
B12081943 Jim Morrison
B12081947 Gregg Allman
B12091608 John Milton
B12091848 Joel Chandler Harris, created the Uncle Remus stories
B12091886 Clarence Birdseye, became the frozen vegatable king.
B12091909 Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
B12091911 Broderick Crawford
B12091911 Lee J. Cobb
B12091912 Tip O'Neill
B12091916 Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch), actor in Amsterdam, NY
B12091922 Redd Foxx (born John Elroy Sanford), actor and commedian in St Louis
B12091929 John Cassavetes
B12101554 Philip Sidney
B12101805 William Lloyd Garrison
B12101830 Emily Dickinson, poet
B12101851 Melvil Dewey, librarian and inventor of the Dewey decimal system
B12101930 Emily Dickinson
B12111843 Robert Koch
B12111882 Fiorello de la Gaurdia
B12111882 Max Born
B12111918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
B12111944 Brenda Lee
B12121805 Henry Wells, founded American Express Co. and Wells Fargo & Co.
B12121821 Gustave Flaubert, novelist, 'Madame Bovary'.
B12121893 Edward G. Robinson
B12121915 Old Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra.
B12121924 Edward Koch
B12121938 Connie Francis (born Concettta Franconero), Singer.
B12121940 Dionne Warwick
B12131797 Heinrich Heine
B12131818 Mary Todd Lincoln
B12131871 Canadian painter and writer Emily Carr
B12131910 Lillian Roth
B12141503 Michael de Nostradamus
B12141546 Tycho Brahe, astronomer
B12141897 Margaret Chase Smith (did she..)
B12141911 Spike Jones
B12141914 Morey Amsterdam, actor in Chicago, Il
B12141919 Shirely Jackson
B12141946 Patty Duke, actress in New York City
B1215  37 Emperor Nero
B12151770 Ludwig von Beethoven
B12151832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, built a tower in Paris.
B12151861 Charles Edgar Duryea, with his brother, invented 1st auto to be
B12151861Cbuilt and operated in US.
B12151888 Maxwell Anderson
B12151921 Alan Freed
B12151933 Tim Conway, actor in Chagrin Falls, Ohio
B12161770 Ludwig von Beethoven
B12161863 George Santayana, philosopher, poet, humanist.
B12161882 Zoltan Kodaly
B12161899 Sir Noel Coward, playwright
B12161901 Margaret Mead
B12161917 Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author ('2001').
B12161939 Liv Ullman
B12171778 Sir Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements
B12171894 Arthur Fiedler
B12171930 Bob Guccione
B12181886 Ty Cobb
B12181890 Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (invented FM).
B12181916 Betty Grable
B12181947 Steven Spielberg, filmmaker.
B12191849 Henry Clay Frick, industrialist; worked for Carnegie.
B12191906 Leonid Brezhnev, Communist Party Secretary.
B12191944 Richard Leakey
B12201805 Thomas Graham, the father of colloid chemistry
B12201819 John Geary, 1st Postmaster, 1st Mayor (May 1, 1850).
B12201868 Harvey Firestone
B12201901 Robert van de Graff
B12211911 Josh Gibson, in professional baseball, the "Negro Babe Ruth".
B12211935 Phil Donahue, television personality.
B12211937 Jane Fonda, actress in New York City.
B12221639 Jean Baptiste Racine
B12221842 Joseph Bloomingdale
B12221858 Giacomo Puccini, composer
B12221912 Lady Bird Johnson
B12221917 TV personallity Gene Reyburn
B12231790 Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics.
B12231918 Helmut Schmidt
B12231925 Harry Guardino, actor in New York City.
B12241491 Ignatius of Loyola
B12241809 Kit Carson, Western scout.
B12241818 James Joule
B12241905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire.
B12241922 Ava Gardner
B1225 4BC Jesus Christ, biblical savior in Bethlehem
B12251642 Isaac Newton
B12251870 Helena Rubinstein
B12251899 Humphrey Bogart.  Here's looking at you, kid.
B12251907 Cab Calloway (born Cabell), band leader in Rochester, NY
B12251918 Anwar Sadat
B12251924 Rod Sterling
B12251935 Little Richard
B12251949 Sissy Spacek
B12261891 Henry Miller
B12261893 Mao Tse-Tung
B12261914 Richard Widmark, actor.
B12261921 Steve Allen
B12261927 Alan King, entertainer.
B12271571 Johannes Kepler, discovered planets travel in eliptical orbits.
B12271822 Louis Pasteur
B12271906 Marlene Dietrich
B12271941 Howdy & Double Doody, in Doodyville Texas.
B12281856 Woodrow Wilson, 28th President (1912-1921)
B12291800 Charles Goodyear, invented vulcanization process for rubber
B12291808 Andrew Johnson, 17th President (1865-1869)
B12291809 William Ewart Gladstone, British statesman
B12291876 Pablo Casals, cellist
B12291937 Mary Tyler Moore
B12291938 John Voight
B12301865 Rudyard Kipling
B12301867 Simon Gugenheim
B12301869 Steven Leacock
B12301914 entertainer Burt Parks (born Burt Jacobson).
B12301928 Bo Diddley
B12301930 Jack Lord (book..em Danno...).
B12311514 Andreas Vesalius
B12311869 Henri Matisse
B12311905 Julie Styne
B12311943 John Denver
B12311946 Dianne Von Furstenberg
B12311948 Donna Summer
*mmddyyyy Events
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S12011887 Sherlock Holmes first appears in print: "A Study In Scarlet."
S12011913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens, in Pittsburgh.
S12011917 Boy's Town founded.
S12011922 1st skywriting over the US - "Hello U.S.A." - by Capt Turner, RAF
S12011951 Golden Gate Bridge closed because of high winds.
S12011970 Divorce approved in Italy
S12021816 First savings bank in US opens as the Philadelphia Savings
S12021816CFund Society.
S12021823 President James Monroe declares his doctrine.
S12021887 Charles Dickens' first public reading in U.S., in New York
S12021887CCity.
S12021934 Mt. Palomar's 200-inch telescope mirror cast by Corning Glass.
S12021942 1st sustained controlled release of nuclear energy (Univ. of Chic.)
S12021957 1st electricity generated by commercial nuclear power plant.
S12021972 Gough Whitlam wins Federal Election. It's Time!
S12021982 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted.
S12031586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from
S12031586CColombia.
S12031621 Galileo invents the telescope.
S12031952 1st television broadcast in Hawaii.
S12031954 Joseph McCarthy goes too far in his attacks and is condemned
S12031954Cby the U.S. Senate.
S12031967 1st human heart transplant performed, in Capetown, South Africa
S12031979 11 persons die waiting for a rock concert by the WHO.
S12041674 Father Marquette builds first dwelling in what is now Chicago.
S12041783 Gen. Washington bids his officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC
S12041915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens.
S12041961 Matisse painting discovered hanging upside down
S12041961C(Museum of Modern Art)
S12041964 Free speech movement begins at Berkeley. 769 students arrested.
S12051776 Phi Beta Kappa, 1st American scholastic fraternity, founded.
S12051854 Folding chair patented.
S12051876 Pipe Wrench patented.
S12051929 National League of Nudists organized.
S12051933 Prohibition is ended in U.S. by ratification of 21st Amendment.
S12061768 First edition of Encyclopaedia Brittanica is published in
S12061768CScotland.
S12061876 City of Anaheim incorporated for a second time.
S12061877 First sound recording made by Edison.
S12061889 Jefferson Davis dies.
S12061917 Finland gains its independence.
S12061957 AFL-CIO ousts Teamsters Union.
S1206     Independence Day, celebrated in Finland.
S12071787 Delaware is the first state to ratify the Constitution.
S12071868 Pearshall Brothers open a school in New York City ... to teach
S12071868Cthe art of riding a bicycle!
S12071911 Pig tails abolished in China.
S12071941 U.S. military delays broadcasting of messages warning of
S12071941CPearl Harbour attack.
S12071941 Pearl Harbor is attacked.  A day that will live in infamy.
S12071972 Apollo 17, last of the Apollo moon series, launched.
S12081660 1st actress appeared on the English stage.
S12081886 American Federation of Labor is organized in Columbus, Ohio.
S12081913 Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts.
S12081941 San Francisco has 1st blackout, at 6:15PM.
S12081941 U.S. declare war on Japan.
S12081949 Chinese Nationalists move from mainland to Formosa.
S12081987 President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a
S12081987Ctreaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles.
S12091640 Settler Hugh Bewitt is banished from colony of Massachusetts.
S12091640Cwhen he declares himself to be free of original sin.
S12091755 First post office in Canada opened in Halifax
S12091755C(1st letter mailed is still in circulation).
S12091793 Noah Webster establishes the American Minerva, 1st paper in New York
S12091905 Separation of church and state decreed in France.
S12091907 1st Christmas Seals sold, in the Wilmington Post Office.
S12091956 Trans-Canada Airlines flight crashes in the mountains in B.C.
S12091956Ckilling all 62 on board including 4 Saskatchewan Roughriders.
S1210     Human Rights Day, a United Nations observance.
S12101817 Mississippi became the 20th state.
S12101901 1st distribution of Nobel Peace Prizes
S12101927 Grand Ole Opry makes its first radio broadcast, in Nashville.
S12101962 Hunters Point jitney ends service after 50 years.
S12101967 Otis Redding dies in a plane crash.
S12111816 Indiana becomes 19th state.
S12111844 Laughing gas 1st used for a tooth extraction.
S12111914 Stockton Street Tunnel completed.
S12111919 Momument dedicated to the Boll Weevil (Alabama).
S12111932 Snow falls in San Francisco.
S12111936 King Edward VIII of England abdicates, brother George VI
S12111936Cascends throne.
S12111937 Italy withdraws from the League of Nations.
S12111941 U.S. declares war on Germany and Italy.
S12111969 Army's Chemical Warfare Center abandonded (Dugway Utah).
S12111975 First Class Mail now costs 13 cents (had been 10 cents).
S1212     Independence Day, celebrated in Kenya
S1212     National Ding-a-ling Day (honestly!)
S12121899 Golf Tee Patented
S12121901 Marconi receives 1st trans-Atlantic radio signal from England to US.
S12121925 Arthur Heinman coins the term "motel," when he opens one in
S12121925CSan Luis Obispo.
S12121963 Kenya gains its independence.
S12131294 Pope Celestine V forced to abdicate.
S12131789 The Austrian Netherlands declares its independance.
S12131903 Wright brothers first airplane flight at Kittyhawk.
S12131903 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone ... in New Jersey.
S12131918 Wilson becomes 1st to make a foreign visit while President.
S12131930 Pavlova dances for the last time.
S12131961 Grandma Moses dies.
S12131963 Medgar Evars murdered.
S12131968 Playland at the Beach reopens.
S12131975 Malcolm Fraser Wins Federal election. Largest ever majority.
S12131978 Susan B. Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued.
S12131979 Joe Clark's Conservative government loses a vote of confidence
S12131979Con its first budget.
S12141656 Artificial pearls first manufactured by M. Jacquin in Paris,
S12141656Cmade of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales.
S12141799 George Washington dies.
S12141819 Alabama admitted to the Union.
S12141911 South Pole 1st reached by Amundsen.
S12141971 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night from power failure.
S12151791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval.
S12151877 Patent granted to Mr. Edison for the phonograph.
S12151939 World Premiere of "Gone With The Wind" in Atlanta, GA.
S12151965 1st rendevous in space Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 link up.
S12151966 Walt Disney dies.
S12151969 SF Fire Dept. replaces leather helmets with plastic ones.
S12151979 City of Cleveland defaults on $14 million in loans.
S12161773 Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor.  Indians welcome.
S12161809 Napoleon divorced from Josephine.
S12161811 30,000 sq. miles in Ohio and Mississipi Valley affected
S12161811Cby earthquake.
S12161905 "Variety", covering all phases of show business, 1st published.
S12161907 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on its World Cruise
S12161916 Rasputin murdered.
S12161944 Glenn Miller's plane disappears over English Channel.
S12171791 New York City traffic regulation creates the 1st one-way street
S12171843 "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published in London.
S12171852 first Hawaiian cavalry organized.
S12171860 Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County.
S12171903 at 10:35AM, for 12 seconds, 1st sustained motorized aircraft
S12171903Cflight by Wright Brothers.
S12171933 1st professional football game Chicago Bears vs. NY Giants.
S12171935 First DC-3 (Douglas Commercial - 3) rolls off assembly line.
S12181936 First Panda imported to U.S. from China.
S12181963 500 African students riot in Moscow's Red Square.
S1219     Underdog Day
S12191666 Robinson Crusoe rescued.
S12191732 Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
S12191777 George Washington and troops begin encampment at Valley Forge.
S12191889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii.
S12201803 Louisiana Purchase officially transferred.
S12201850 Hawaiian post office established.
S12201880 New York's Broadway lighted by electricity, becomes known as
S12201880Cthe "Great White Way."
S12201963 Berlin Wall temporarily opened.
S12201968 John Steinbeck dies.
S1221     Summer Solstice (at 2:21 PM EST), longest day of the year.
S12211620 the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock
S12211913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues), printed in New York World
S12211937 1st feature-length cartoon with color and sound premieres...
S12211937C"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
S12221650 Size of a loaf of bread standardized in New England.
S12221850 Hawaiian Post Office established.
S12221877 American Bicycling Journal published.
S12221895 United States Golf Association is formed.
S12221920 First prize fight broadcast from ringside.
S12231776 First loan for war purposes authorized
S12231834 Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs.
S12231852 First chinese theater opens in U.S. opens in San Fran.
S12231862 America's largest execution - 38 Sioux hanged at Mankato.
S12231938 Boogie Woogie introduced at Carnegie Hall.
S12231947 transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs
S12231972 Earth quake devastates Managua Nicaragua.
S12241974 Cyclone Tracy strikes Darwin, killing 65 and decimating the city.
S1224     Christmas Eve
S12241814 Treaty of Ghent signed, ending War of 1812 (this news did not
S12241814Carrive until after the Battle of New Orleans).
S12241889 Pedal Brake for bicycle Patented.
S12241906 1st known radio program in US is broadcast.
S12241910 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain.
S12241948 People move into first solar heated house in U.S.A.
S12241959 Police in New York City no longer required to carry whistles.
S1225     Christmas Day. Peace on Earth, good will towards men.
S1225     Constitution Day, celebrated in Republic of China (Taiwan).
S12251758 Comet appears as predicted by Edmund Halley.
S12251776 Washington crosses the Delaware and surprises the Hessians.
S12251843 First theatre matinee given at Olympic Theatre, New York City.
S1226     Boxing Day.
S12261865 James Nason invents the 1st American coffee percolator.
S12271831 Darwin begins his voyage onboard the HMS Beagle.
S12271845 First Ether used in childbirth.
S12271850 Hawaiian Fire Department established.
S12271871 World's first Cat Show held at Crystal Palace in London.
S12271903 "Sweet Adaline", a barbershop quartet favourite, is 1st sung.
S12271932 Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens.
S12271967 Columbian Cowboys lure a group of native people to dinner and
S12271967Cslaughter all but 2. They were later aquitted because they
S12271967Cdidn't know it was wrong to kill indians.
S12271979 Russians invade Afghanistan.
S12281669 a patent for chewing gum is granted to William Semple.
S12281849 Dry-cleaning process accidentally discovered when M. Jolly-Bellin,
S12281849Ca tailor, upsets a lamp, containing turpentine and oil,
S12281849Con his clothing and noticed it had a cleaning effect.
S12281895 First public cinema showing in Paris.
S12281902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US.
S12281912 San Francisco begins street car operation.
S12281912C(MUNI was the 1st municpally-owned transit system)
S12281974 Pakistan earthquake kills 5000.
S12291170 Thomas Becket murdered.
S12291782 First nautical almanac published.
S12291852 Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants!
S12291890 Wounded Knee massacre.
S12291911 San Francisco Symphony formed.
S12291931 Heavy Water discovered.
S12291937 Pan Am starts San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand service.
S12291974 Terrorist bomb at La Guardia Airport (New York) kill 11 wounds 78.
S12301817 first coffee planted in Hawaii.
S12301853 Gadsden Purchase signed.
S12301854 First oil company incorporated.
S12301911 Sun Yat-sen elected 1st president of the Republic of China.
S12301922 USSR formed.
S12311776 Rhode Island establishes wage & price controls to curb inflation:
S12311776CLimit is 70 cents a day for carpenters, 42 cents for tailors.
S12311879 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US).
S12311879 Edison gives public demonstration of his incandescent lamp.
S12311879 Pirates of Penzance premiers (New York City).
S12311921 Last San Francisco Fire Department horses retired.
S12311946 World War II offically ends.