*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B02011901 Clark Gable, didn't give a damn about Scarlet O'Hara.
B02021754 Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat.
B02021882 James Joyce
B02021926 Valery Giscard D'Estaing
B0203     Joel Bartlett, KPIX (Channel 5) weatherman.
B02031811 Horace Greeley, told young men to go west
B02031821 Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman to get MD from a US Medical school.
B02031874 Gertrude Stein, beloved by Hemmingway.
B02031894 Norman Rockwell
B02031902 Charles Lindbergh
B02031907 James Michner
B02031918 Joey Bishop
B02031955 Wanda Perfect
B02041902 Charles A. Lindburgh, 'Lucky Lindy'
B02051840 John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire.
B02051878 Andre-Gustave Citroen, French automaker
B02051900 Adlai Stevenson
B02051934 Hank Aaron
B02061756 Aaron Burr
B02061885 George Herman Ruth ('Babe Ruth').
B02061911 Ronald Reagan, 40th President (1981-    )
B02061912 Eva Braun
B02071477 Thomas More
B02071804 John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements.
B02071812 Charles Dickens
B02071817 Frederick Douglas, 1st black to hold high rank in US government
B02071834 Mendeleev
B02071883 Eubie Blake, composer
B02071932 Elizabeth Taylor
B02071934 Ralph Nader
B02081820 William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general.
B02081828 Jules Verne, pioneered what later became science fiction.
B02081906 Chester F. Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing)
B02081925 Jack Lemmon
B02081931 James Dean
B02091773 William Henry Harrison, 9th President (March 4-April 4, 1841)
B02091914 Ernest Tubb
B02091928 Roger Mudd
B02091945 Mia Farrow
B02101892 Jimmy Durante
B02101930 Robert Wagner
B02101940 Roberta Flack
B02111847 Thomas Alva Edison, who lit up your life
B02121802 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President (1861-1865)
B02121809 Charles Darwin
B02121893 General of the Army Omar Bradley, 'The GI General'
B0213     Kim Novak
B02131805 David Dudley Field, lawyer whose advocacy of law codification
B02131805Chad international effects.
B02131885 Bess Truman, married to President Harry Truman
B02141894 Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny.  Oh, Rochester!
B02141913 Jimmy Hoffa
B02151564 Galileo Galilei
B02151797 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker
B02151803 John Augustus Sutter
B02151929 James Schlesinger
B02161884 Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film.
B02161903 Edgar Bergen
B02161935 Sonny Bono
B02161959 John McEnroe
B02171844 A. Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business.
B02181516 Mary Tudor
B02181745 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented
B02181745Cthe electric battery.
B02181848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker
B02181933 Yoko Ono
B02191473 Nicolaus Copernicus
B02191940 Smokey Robinson
B02201898 Enzo Ferrari
B02201902 Ansel Adams, knows how to handle a camera.
B02201937 Nancy Wilson
B02211924 Robert Mugabe
B02221732 George Washington, Father figure for US, President (1789-1796)
B02221749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist & 1st biographer of Bach
B02221857 Robert Baden-Powell
B02221932 Edward Kennedy
B02231685 George Frideric Handel, Baroque composer
B02231743 Meyer Rothschild
B02231939 Peter Fonda
B02231944 Johnny Winter
B02241500 Charles V
B02241885 Admiral Chester Nimitz, in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII.
B02241955 Steven Jobs, Apple co-founder.
B02251873 Enrico Caruso, singer
B02251888 John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State for President Eisenhower
B02251913 Jim Backus
B02251943 George Harrison
B02261802 Victor Hugo
B02261846 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
B02261852 John Harvey Kellogg, physician, inspired the flaked cereal industry.
B02261866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry
B02261916 Jackie Gleason
B02261928 Fats Domino
B02270274 Constantine
B02271807 Henry Longfellow
B02271902 John Steinbeck
B02271934 Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan
B02281516 Queen Mary I
B02291860 Herman Hollerith, invented 1st electric tabulating machine.
B02291920 James Mitchell
*mmddyyyy Events
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S02011790 First Supreme Court meeting.
S02011867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days.
S02011898 First Auto insurance policy written.
S02011920 the 1st armored car is introduced.
S02011958 United Arab Republic proclaimed.
S02011979 Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran.
S0202     Groundhog Day
S02021848 1st shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco.
S02021848 Mexico sells US Texas, California, New Mexico & Arizona.
S02021848 Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo signed.
S02021876 National Baseball League formed with 8 teams.
S02021880 SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st successful shipment
S02021880Cof frozen mutton from Australia.
S02021935 First lie detector test.
S02021962 8 of the 9 planets aligned for the 1st time in 400 years.
S02021982 Photo analysis from Voyager 2 indicates several new moons.
S02031861 60 soldiers enter Cochise's territory starting campaign against
S02031861Cthe Apaches.
S02031861 Confederate Congress organized.
S02031882 P.T. Barnum buys Jumbo the elephant.
S02031918 Twin Peaks Tunnel, longest (11,920 feet) streetcar tunnel in
S02031918Cthe world, begins service with the K-Ingleside streetcar.
S02031926 Charleston craze reaches its peak.
S02031957 First electric typewriter goes on sale.
S02031974 Patricia Hearst is kidnapped by SLA.
S02041865 the Hawaiian Board of Education is formed.
S02041932 1st Winter Olympics held (At Lake Placid, NY).
S02041948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence.
S02051887 Snow falls on San Francisco.
S02051892 Temperature in Siberia reaches 94 F.
S02051962 Conjunction of Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and
S02051962CMars. Will not occur again until May 5, 2000 AD.
S02051974 Apollo 14 moonshot launched.
S0206     New Zealand Day, celebrated in (where else?) New Zealand
S02061933 Highest wave recorded on open sea at 112 feet (Pacific).
S02061971 Alan Shepard hits 3 golf balls on moon.
S02071914 Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium.
S02071964 Beatles arrive in USA.
S02071965 George Harrison has his tonsils removed.
S02081587 Mary Queen of Scots beheaded.
S02081693 Charter granted for College of William & Mary, 2nd college in US.
S02081883 Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen.
S02081908 Boy Scouts of America founded.
S02081922 Radio arrives in the White House.
S02081957 Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall.
S02081973 Max Yasgur dies.
S02081977 Earthquake, at 5.0, strongest since 1966.
S02091870 U.S. Weather Bureau established.
S02091872 Search for Dr. Livingston begins.
S02091877 U.S. Weather Service is founded.
S02091885 first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
S02091891 1st shipment of asparagus arrives from Sacramento.
S02091969 the Boeing 747 takes it's 1st commercial flight.
S02101840 Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert.
S02101870 City of Anaheim incorporated (first time).
S02101879 1st electric arc light used (in California Theater).
S02101946 Lucky Luciano deported from USA.
S02111794 1st US treaty with 6 Nation Confederacy of the Iroquois signed by
S02111794CGeorge Washington to last forever (broken in 1960).
S02111854 Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time.
S02111919 Caterpillar Club begun for people whose lives saved by a parachute.
S02111927 Tutankhamen's casket opened.
S02111929 Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome.
S02111936 Pumping begins to build Treasure Island.
S02121541 Santiago, Chile founded.
S02121809 Lincoln's Birthday.
S02121870 All women in state of Utah get full vote.
S02121880 National Croquet League organized.
S02121912 China becomes a Republic as Manchu dynasty overthrown by Nationalists
S02121912Cled by Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
S02121934 Export-Import Bank incorporated.
S02121940 Superman begins as a serial on radio.
S02121945 San Francisco selected for site of United Nations Conference.
S02131866 James-Younger gang robs their 1st bank.
S02131933 Blondie and Dagwood married.
S02131937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical
S02131937Cdetail and fine detail drawing.  Thanks Hal.
S02131974 Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR.
S0214     St. Valentine's Day
S02141849 Polk first US president to have picture taken in office.
S02141876 Bell files an application for a patent for the telephone.
S02141886 West Coast citrus industry born.
S02141939 Bismark launched.
S02141940 1st porpoise born in captivity.
S02141945 Dresden firebombed, 200,000 people die.
S02151861 Fort Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired it's
S02151861Ccannon in anger).
S02151898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown.
S02151917 San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch at Civic Center) dedicated.
S02151964 World's record for going without sleep (276 hours).
S02151965 Nat King Cole dies.
S02161883 Ladies Home Journal begins publication.
S02161914 1st airplane flight to Los Angeles from San Francisco.
S02161923 Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun.
S02161951 City Hall dome fire.
S02171876 Sardines were 1st canned, in Eastport, Maine.
S02171878 1st telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones.
S02171897 National Congress of Mothers formed.
S02171909 Geronimo dies.
S02171979 Chinese troops invade Vietnam.
S0218     National Bun Day -- Iceland
S02181849 1st regular steamboat service to California started with the
S02181849Carrival of the "California".
S02181850 Legislature creates the 9 Bay Area counties.
S02181899 San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transports.
S02181930 Ollie becomes first cow to fly in airplane and be milked in flight.
S02181930 Planet Pluto found.
S02181939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island
S02181939C(built for the occasion) in San Francisco Bay.
S02181953 1st 3-D movie (Bwana Devil) shown.
S02191878 Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph.
S02191945 Marines land on Iwo Jima.
S02191977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose").
S02201775 1st known scalping of indians by white settlers; a bounty of
S02201775C100 pounds paid by Boston Treasurer.
S02201873 University of California gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF).
S02201901 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes.
S02201902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks and damages Sutro Baths.
S02201915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco.
S02201931 Congress allows California to build the Oakland-Bay Bridge.
S02201938 Swiss vote to make Romansh official 4th language.
S02201962 John Glenn is 1st American to orbit the Earth.
S0221    2Washington's Birthday, a legal holiday
S02211804 1st self-propelled locomotive on rails demonstrated, in Wales.
S02211828 Cherokee Phoenix 1st newspaper printed in an indian language.
S02211874 Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication.
S02211878 First Telephone book is issued, in New Haven, Conn.
S02211962 1st USA orbital flight. John Glenn circles earth 3 times.
S02211965 Malcom X assassinated.
S02221630 Indians treat colonists to popcorn.
S02221900 Hawaii becomes a US Territory.
S02221913 Lowell High School opens (on it's 1st campus).
S02231879 F.W. Woolworth opens the 1st '5 & 10', in Utica, NY.
S02231887 Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco.
S02231900 Steamer "Rio de Janiero" sinks in San Francisco Bay.
S02231958 Last Municipal arc light, over intersection of Mission & 25th
S02231958CStreet, removed (it had been installed in 1913).
S02241857 Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized.
S02241917 1st Jazz record recorded - Dixieland Jazz Band (Livery Stable Blues).
S02241938 Dupont begins production of Nylon toothbrush bristles.
S02241942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German).
S02241949 USA launches 1st rocket to reach outer space (German V-2 booster).
S02241983 Dow Jones closes over 1100 for first time ever.
S02241986 T.C. Douglas, first Canadian socialist premier (CCF), dies of cancer.
S02251745 Colonies pass legislation offering rewards for indian scalps.
S02251919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon).
S02251956 Hen lays 16 oz. egg.
S02251983 Tennessee Williams chokes to death on plastic bottle cap.
S02261832 Chopin gives his first concert at age 21 (Paris).
S02261863 President Lincoln signs the National Currency Act.
S02261891 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park.
S02261933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field.
S02271814 Beethoven's 8th Symphony premiers in Vienna.
S02271844 Dominican Republic gains it's independence.
S02271975 FDA recalls 1,241 already implanted pacemakers.
S02281258 Tartars sack Baghdad.
S02281849 1st steamship enters San Francisco Bay.
S02281883 1st vaudeville theater opens.
S02281888 Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes.
S02281901 Jupiter's red spot first observed.
S02281914 Construction begins on the Tower of Jewels for the Exposition.
S02281948 Bernadette Peters born.
S02281956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory.
S02281970 Bicycles now permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge.
S02281983 MASH series ends. Lasted 3 times longer than the military action it
S02281983Cwas about.
S02281984 Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau Resigns (February 29th)
S0229     a LEAP Year!
S02291968 Discovery of Pulsars announced.
S02291976 Lockheed bribes to Air Force disclosed.
S02291984 Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau resigns.
S02292028 Shrove Tuesday.
S02292096 Ash Wednesday.