*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B04101920 David Brinkley
B04101942 James Brolin
B04101947 Arlo Guthrie
B0701     "Wolfman Jack", a howling success in radio
B07021877 Hermann Hess
B07041753 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US
B07041804 Nathaniel Hawthorne
B07041826 Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna"
B07041872 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-1929)
B07041878 George M. Cohan
B07041883 Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult.
B07041900 Louis Armstrong, 'Satchmo'
B07041918 Ann Landers
B07051794 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker
B07051810 P.T. Barnum
B07061747 John Paul Jones, "I have not yet begun to fight"
B07061909 Andrei Gromyko
B07061925 Bill Haley
B07071752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented the programmable loom.
B07071907 Robert A. Heinlein, author who helped develop Science Fiction
B07071907Cas a sophisticated mode of literary expression.
B07071922 Pierre Cardin
B07081621 Fontaine
B07081839 John D. Rockefeller
B07081908 Nelson Rockefeller
B07081948 Kim Darby
B07091802 Thomas Davenport, invented 1st commercially successful electric motor
B07091819 Elias Howe
B07091947 O.J. Simpson
B07101834 James Whistler, mama's boy
B07101867 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist/humorist who created Mr. Dooley.
B07111767 John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. President (1825-1829).
B07111897 Blind Lemon Jefferson
B07111920 Yul Brynner
B07111931 Tab Hunter
B07121817 Henry David Thoreau, always had Ralph Waldo Emerson
B07121817Caround to bail him out of trouble.
B07121854 George Eastman, created the Kodak camera
B07121895 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers
B07121895 R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome
B07121908 Milton Berle, "Uncle Miltie"
B07141912 Woodie Guthrie
B07141913 Gerald R. Ford, 38th President (1974-1976)
B07141918 Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory.
B07141933 Premier Robert Bourassa
B07151606 Rembrandt, Dutch painter.
B07171744 Elbridge Gerry, father of the "gerrymander"
B07171900 James Cagney
B0718     Horatio Alger, whose lads always had enough pluck to succeed.
B07181811 William Makepeach Thackeray, Victorian novelist, wrote 'Vanity Fair'.
B07181848 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer
B07181906 S. I. Hayakawa
B07181913 Red Skelton
B07181921 John Glenn, Jr., 1st American in orbit
B07191814 Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt Revolver
B07211899 Ernest Hemingway, never asked for whom the bell tolled...
B07221844 Rev. William Archibald Spooner, invented 'spoonerisms'
B07221849 Emma Lazarus, whose poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty
B07221883 Gregor Mendel
B07221890 Rose Kennedy
B07221940 Valarie Harper
B07241783 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule.
B07241802 Alexandre Dumas, told the Count of Monte Christo how to escape
B07241898 Amelia Earhart, into the wild blue yonder
B07251978 Louise Brown, first test tube baby born (England)
B07261856 George Bernard Shaw
B07261928 Stanley Kubrik
B07261943 Mick Jagger
B0727 550 BC Confuscius
B07281929 Jacqueline Onassis
B07291869 Booth Tarkington, novelist
B07291883 Benito Mussolini
B07291907 Melvin Belli, San Francisco's 'King of Torts'
B07301863 Henry Ford
*mmddyyyy Events
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S0701     the creation of the 1st adhesive U.S. Postage Stamps
S07011867 Canada's Confederation formed.
S07011898 Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill.
S07011899 SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building.
S07011919 First Class Postage DROPS to 2 cents from 3 cents.
S07011941 Bulova Watch company sponsors first TV commercial.
S07011944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing world-wide
S07011944Cfinancial systems (like the IMF and the World Bank).
S07011951 First community A-bomb shelter completed (Boise Idaho).
S07011961 Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii.
S07011966 Construction crews begin tearing up Market St. to build BART.
S07011971 Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?).
S07021566 Nostradamus dies.
S07021900 1st flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1).
S07021937 Amelia Earhart lost.
S07021961 Ernest Hemingway dies.
S07021964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
S07031608 City of Quebec founded by Samuel de Champlain.
S07031775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
S07031819 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
S07031861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from New York.
S07031965 Trigger the horse dies.
S0704     Independence Day in U.S.
S07041054 Previously brightest known super-nova starts shining, for 23 days.
S07041826 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (2nd & 3rd presidents) die.
S07041845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond.
S07041863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho).
S07041873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens.
S07041876 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco.
S07041882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens.
S07041894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the 1st US autos
S07041903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens.
S07041903CPresident Roosevelt sends a message to the Phillipines,
S07041903Cthen a message around the world in 12 minutes.
S07041928 First person to go over Niagra Falls in rubber ball.
S07041933 work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge.
S07041973 Ziggy Elephant unchained for the first time in 30 years.
S07051811 Venezuela gains independence from Spain.
S07051865 William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England.
S07051935 1st 'Hawaii Calls' radio program is broadcast.
S07051938 Herb Caen gets his 1st column in the S.F. Chronicle.
S07051946 First bikini modelled.
S07051950 First U.S. soldier killed in Korea.
S07061535 Thomas Moore beheaded.
S07061885 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur
S07061917 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aquaba.
S07061928 Preview of 1st all-talking motion picture took place in NYC
S07061932 First Class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents.
S07061933 1st All-Star baseball game.  American League won 5-2.
S07071863 First draft call under conscription law (U.S.A.).
S07071891 A patent was granted for the travelers cheque.
S07071898 Hawaii annexed to the US.
S07071908 the Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay.
S07071978 Morris the cat dies (Meow-Meow...Meow-Meow).
S07081796 1st American Passport issued by the US State Department.
S07081835 Liberty Bell cracks while ringing during funeral for
S07081835C1st Chief Justice.
S07081889 Vol 1, No 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" published.
S07081896 William Jennings Bryan makes his 'cross of gold' speech at the
S07081896CDemocratic Convention in Chicago.
S07081897 Harbor Hospital formally opens.
S07081905 Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center
S07081951 City of Paris celebrates 2,000th anniversary.
S07081978 Nixon disbarred in New York.
S0709     National POW/MIA Recognition Day
S07091816 Argentina gains it's independence.
S07091846 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for the U.S.
S07091878 Corncob pipe patented.
S07091979 Voyager II flies past Jupiter.
S07101220 "London Bridge is Falling Down" - catches fire
S07101220Cand collapses 3000 die.
S07101890 Wyoming becomes the 44th state.
S07101913 Death Valley records 134 deg F.
S07101925 The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial starts.
S07101938 Howard Hughes completes round the world flight.
S07101962 Telstar, the 1st geosynchonous communications satelite, launched.
S07101973 The Bahamas gains independence.
S07101982 Miguel Vasquez first aerialist to achieve quadruple somersault.
S0711     National Holiday of the People's Republic of Outer Mongolia.
S0711    C(Celebrated mainly in Ulan Bator, yurt capital of Asia)
S07111804 Burr and Hamilton duel.
S07111937 George Gershwin dies.
S07111962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I).
S07111979 Skylab returns to earth - crashes in Austrailia.
S07121543 Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th & last wife).
S07121812 U.S. forces lead by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812).
S07121933 U.S. Congress passes 1st minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour).
S07121934 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned.
S0713     the start of the Bon Festival in Japan.
S07131865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west".
S07131898 SF Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street opens.
S0714     Alexander Mackenzie reached shores of the Atlantic Ocean.
S0714     Bastille Day -- France
S07141789 The citizens of Paris storm the Bastille prison.
S07141850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration.
S07141853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese.
S07141865 The 1st ascent of the Matterhorn.
S07141927 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii.
S0715     Saint Swithin's Day
S0715     U.S. National Ice Cream Day
S07151685 The Duke of Monmouth, Jack Scott executed for treason.
S07151857 200 European women and children massacred in Cawnpore India.
S07151867 SF Merchant's Exchange opens.
S0716     the National Blueberry Festival
S07161769 Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif.
S07161790 U.S. Congress establishes the District of Columbia.
S07161861 1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run.
S07161945 1st atomic blast, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico.
S07161946 Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history).
S07161969 Apollo 11, 1st manned ship to land on the moon, launched.
S0717     Constitution Day, celebrated in South Korea
S07171745 The fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island taken from
S07171745CFrench by the British.
S07171879 1st railroad opens in Hawaii.
S07171932 Explosion aboard and oil tanker in Montreal harbour killed 30.
S07171954 Construction begins on Disneyland...
S07171955 ...Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County.
S07171974 Irish terrorists explode bomb in Britain's House of Commons.
S0718     National Day, celebrated in Spain
S0718  64 the Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle).
S07181872 Britain introduces voting by secret ballot.
S07181938 Wrong Way Corrigan lands in Ireland (not California??)
S07181968 Intel Corporation is incorporated.
S07191848 First Women's Rights Convention. Seneca Falls, N.Y.
S07191880 SF Public Library allows patrons to start borrowing books.
S07191935 1st parking meters installed in the Oklahoma City business district.
S07191955 the "Balclutha" ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum.
S07191961 1st In-flight movie is shown (on TWA).
S07201810 Columbia gains it's independence.
S07201837 Queen Victoria ascended to the throne.
S07201859 Admission fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents).
S07201878 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii.
S07201942 Japanese submarine shells Estevan Point, B.C. during WWII.
S07201969 Man landed on the Moon (Apollo 11) at 4:18PM EDT.
S07201970 1st baby born on Alcatraz Island.
S07201976 1st pictures from Mars surface received (courtesy Viking 2).
S07211796 Poet Robert Burns dies.
S07211831 Belgium gains it's independence from Holland.
S07211867 City Gardens on Folsom opens.
S07211873 World's 1st train robbery, by Jesse James.
S07211959 1st atomic-powered passenger ship (Savannah) launched by USA.
S07211969 Neil Armstrong steps on the moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT).
S07221932 Hoover and FBI gun down John Dillinger.
S07221933 1st round the world solo flight.
S07221982 Worst flood in 25 years hits Nagasaki - 245 killed.
S0723     National Day, in Egypt.
S07231829 Typewriter is patented.
S07231852 first interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio.
S07231877 first telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii is completed.
S07231904 The Ice Cream Cone is invented.
S07231974 Greek dictatorship falls.
S07231979 Ayatollah Khomeini bans non-religious music in Iran.
S07231984 First Miss USA forced to relequish crown (Vanessa Williams).
S07231986 Prince (Randy Andy) Andrew weds Sarah (the Hips) Ferguson.
S07241847 Brigham Young and Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City.
S07241910 First Paul Bunyan stories published.
S07251871 Carousel patented.
S07251903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes.
S07251909 1st airplane flight across the English Channel.
S07251923 First Home movies shown.
S07251967 Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway).
S0726     the start of the Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree in Athens, Texas
S07261775 Ben Franklin appointed Postmaster General.
S07261835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii.
S07261847 Liberia gains it's independence.
S07261956 Suez Canal Nationalized.
S07261964 Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud.
S07263113 BC Mayan calendar starts.
S07271586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings tobacco to England.
S07271866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long).
S07271940 Billboard magazine starts publishing best-seller's charts.
S07271974 House judiciary committee votes Articles of Impeachment for Nixon.
S07271980 Shah dies in Egypt.
S07281821 Peru gains it's independence.
S07281849 "Memmon" is 1st clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of NY
S07281866 Metric system legalized in U.S.
S07281900 The Hamburger is created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
S07281928 An egg is fried on the steps of the Capitol building in Washington.
S07281931 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" 2nd U.S. National Anthem.
S07281933 1st Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee).
S07281976 Worst disaster of modern times - 700,000 die in Chinese earthquake.
S0729     The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
S07291835 first sugar plantation in Hawaii begun.
S07291858 1st commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
S07291914 1st transcontinental phone link made.  Between NYC and San Francisco
S07291920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from New York to San Francisco
S07291958 Southern Pacific Bay Ferries stop running.
S07291974 11 women ordained as Episcopal priests.
S07291981 Prince Charles marries Lady Di.
S07301619 the House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed.  1st elective
S07301619Cgoverning body in a British colony.
S07301836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii.
S07311790 1st US Patent granted (for a potash process).
S07311970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending 'Huntley-Brinkley Report'
S07311970C(No more "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet")