*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B05011769 Duke of Wellington, who made Napoleon very unhappy.
B05011830 Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), hellraiser
B05021729 Catherine the Great
B05021837 Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order"
B05021903 Bing Crosby
B05031284 King Edward II
B05031469 Niccolo Machiavelli
B05031874 Francois Coty, perfumemaker.
B05031898 Golda Meir
B05031906 Mary Astor
B05031919 Pete Seeger, folk singer.
B05041932 Tammy Wynette
B0505 570 Mohammed
B05051818 Karl Marx
B05051867 Nellie Bly, name became a synonym for female star reporter.
B0506     Daniel Gerber, beloved by babies at mealtime
B05061818 Karl Marx
B05061856 Sigmund Freud
B05061870 A.P. Giannini, founder of Bank of America.
B05061895 Rudolph Valentino
B05061915 Orson Wells
B05061931 Willy Mays
B05071833 Johannes Brahms
B05071840 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
B05071901 Gary Cooper, actor in 'High Noon' and 'The Plainsman'.
B05071909 Edwin Land, founded instant photography (Polaroid)
B05081737 Edward Gibbon, historian, "The History of the Decline & Fall
B05081737Cof the Roman Empire"
B05081786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
B05081828 Henri Dunant, founded Red Cross, YMCA.
B05081829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist
B05081884 Harry S. Truman, 32nd President
B05091800 John Brown, abolitionist
B05091873 Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamen
B05091882 Henry J. Kaiser,  built Liberty Ships, Jeeps
B05091918 Mike Wallace
B05091928 Pancho Gonzales
B05091949 Billy Joel
B05101602 William Lilly
B05101788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneered in optics.
B05101899 Fred Astaire, tapdancer
B05101902 David O. Selznick, film producer.
B05101912 Phil Silvers
B05101946 Dave Mason
B05101957 Sid Vicious
B05111838 John Wilkes Booth
B05111888 Irving Berlin
B05111899 Fred Astaire
B05111904 Salvador Dali
B05111941 Eric Burdon (the Animal)
B0512 467 BC Socrates
B05121820 Florence Nightingale
B05121845 Gabriel Faure, composer
B05121925 Yogi Barra, catcher
B05121928 Burt Bacharach
B05121937 George Carlin
B05131842 Sir Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame.
B05131856 Peter Henry Emerson, first photographer to promote
B05131856Cphotography as an independent art.
B05131914 Joe Louis, heavyweight
B05131926 Beatrice Arthur
B05131933 Jim Jones
B05131950 Stevie Wonder
B05141727 Thomas Gainsborough
B05141928 Billy Martin, local boy who made good in baseball.
B05141936 Bobby Darin
B05141944 George Lucas, skywalker
B05151859 Pierre Curie, physicist
B05151902 Richard Daley
B05151918 Eddie Arnold
B05151936 Wavy Gravy
B05161801 William H. Seward, bought Alaska at $0.02/acre.
B05161905 Henry Fonda
B05161912 Studs Terkel
B05161919 Liberace, candelabrist
B05171866 Erik Satie, composer
B05171900 Ayatollah Khomeini
B05171912 Archibald Cox
B05171936 Dennis Hopper
B05171942 Taj Mahal
B05181850 Oliver Heaviside, physicist who predicted the existance of
B05181850Cthe ionosphere, used to reflect radio waves.
B05181872 Bertrand Russell
B05181897 Frank Capra
B05181913 Perry Como
B05181918 Pope John Paul II
B05181937 Brooks Robinson
B05181947 Reggie Jackson
B05191890 Ho Chi Minh
B05191918 Mike Wallace
B05191925 Malcom X
B05191928 Pol Pot
B05191945 Peter Townshend (The Who).
B05201750 Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during the War of 1812
B05201799 Honore de Balzac, novelist
B05201818 William George Fargo, helped to found Wells, Fargo & Co.
B05201913 William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co.
B05201915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general & politician
B05201944 Joe Cocker
B05201946 Cher
B0521 427 BC Plato
B05211471 Albrecht Durer, painter & printmaker, greatest German
B05211471CRenaissance artist.
B05211688 Alexander Pope
B05211828 Albrecht Grafe (founder of modern ophthalmology).
B05211860 Willam Einthoven (inventor of the electrocardiograph).
B05211878 Glenn Curtis (aircraft pioneer).
B05211916 Harold Robbins
B05211921 Andri Sakharov
B05211925 Peggy Cass
B05221828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon, founded modern ophthalmology
B05221859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, brought Sherlock Holmes to life (twice)
B05221907 Sir Laurence Olivier
B05221914 Vance Packard
B05221920 Thomas Gold, astronomer, established the steady-state theory
B05221920Cof the universe.
B05231717 Linnaeus
B05231883 Douglas Fairbanks, 1st & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers.
B05231910 Artie Shaw, band leader and husband
B05241544 William Gilbert
B05241686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, invented the thermometer
B05241744 Jean Paul Marat
B05241941 Bob Dylan
B05251803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher
B05251889 Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter
B05251892 Marshall Tito
B05251918 Claude Akins
B05251926 Miles Davis, trumpeter, pioneered cool jazz
B05251929 Beverly Sills, soprano
B05261877 Isadora Duncan
B05261886 Al Jolson, jazz singer
B05261907 John Wayne (Hi Yaaaaah Pillllgriiim...)
B05261909 Aldo Gucci
B05271818 Amelia Bloomer, suffragist known for her pantaloons
B05271837 Wild Bill Hickock
B05271878 Isadora Duncan
B05271894 Dashiell Hammett, author who created the hard-boiled detective
B05271907 Rachel Carson, ecologist
B05271911 Hubert Humphrey
B05271923 Henry Kissenger
B05281738 Joseph Guillotin (lot a people lost their head over it).
B05281759 William Pitt
B05281886 Jim Thorpe
B05281908 Ian Fleming, gave James Bond a job.
B05281934 Dionne quintuplets
B05281944 Gladys Knight
B05291903 Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope, famous profile
B05291917 John F. Kennedy, 35th President (1960-1963)
B05301901 Cornellia Otis Skinner
B05301908 Mel Blanc
B05301909 Benny Goodman
B05311819 Walt Whitman, poet
B05311908 Don Ameche
B05311931 Clint Eastwood (Make My Day...).
B05311943 Joe Namath
*mmddyyyy Events
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S0501     May Day
S05011704 1st add in US newspaper appears (Moffat selling his car).
S05011840 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued.
S05011850 John Geary becomes 1st mayor of City of San Francisco.
S05011860 1st school for the deaf founded.
S05011869 Folies-Bergere opens in Paris.
S05011884 construction begins in Chicago on the 1st skyscraper.
S05011892 US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island.
S05011928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
S05011961 1st hijacking to Havana Cuba.
S05011965 Highest air speed record set 2070 mph by Bob Stephens.
S05011975 Smokey the bear retires.
S05021519 Leonardo da Vinci dies.
S05021536 Henry VIII arrests his wife Anne Boleyn.
S05021919 A general strike is called in Winnipeg.
S05021925 Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park opens.
S05021939 Lou Gehrig sets record for being in most consecutive games (2130).
S05021945 Soviet army announces the fall of Berlin.
S05021946 Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die.
S05021957 Joseph McCarthy dies.
S05021972 J. Edgar Hoover dies.
S05031375 BC Earliest recorded eclipse of sun (Usarit, Syria).
S05031830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts.
S05031898 Camp Merriman established at the Presidio.
S05031919 Airline passenger service begins.
S05031919 America's 1st passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City)
S05031971 national noncommercial network radio begins programming.
S05041626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons.
S05041626 Manhattan Island purchased for $24 by Peter Minuit.
S05041851 1st of the major San Francisco fires.
S05041866 Woodward's Gardens opens to public.
S05041878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at the Grand Opera House.
S05041886 Haymarket riot in Chicago.
S05041970 US National Gaurd murders 4 students at Kent State.
S0505     Cinco de Mayo
S0505     Tango-no-sekku (Boy's Festival) -- Japan
S05051809 1st woman to receive patent for "new and useful improvement in
S05051809Cweaving straw with silk or thread".
S05051821 Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on St. Helena.
S05051908 The Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco.
S05051925 Biology teacher John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution.
S05051936 Italy proclaimed the conquest of Ethiopia.
S05051949 Council of Europe established.
S05051961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (onboard Freedom 7).
S05052000 Conjunction of Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
S05061851 Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco starts.
S05061851 Patent granted to Dr. John Farrie for a "refrigeration machine"
S05061851 Yale patents lock.
S05061860 the Olympic Club, 1st athletic club in US, founded.
S05061877 Crazy Horse surrenders.
S05061906 "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street
S05061906Callows United Railroads to run electric streetcars.
S05061937 Hindenberg blows up.
S05061954 Roger Bannister first person to break 4 minute mile.
S05061957 John Kennedy awarded Pulitzer Prize for Profiles in Courage.
S05071789 1st Presidential Inaugural Ball.
S05071824 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony presented for first time.
S05071915 Lusitania sinks.
S05071927 San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated.
S05071941 Cornerstone of BofA building at 300 Montgomery laid.
S05071945 World War II ends in Europe.
S05071963 Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles).
S05071974 Planet patent issued for hybrid rose named Pat Nixon.
S05081541 Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River.
S05081886 First Coca Cola sold (Jacob's Pharmacy, Atlanta).
S05081911 England and China sign treaty to trade Opium.
S05081945 Germany surrendered, ending World War II in Europe.
S05091754 1st US newspaper cartoon appears - Join or Die by Ben Franklin.
S05091882 Telegraph Hill Railroad Company organized.
S0510     Native American Day
S05101775 Continental Congress issues paper currency for 1st time.
S05101869 the Driving of the Golden Spike, Promontory Point, Utah.
S05101869CThe Transcontinential railroad is completed.
S05101930 first US planetarium opens, in Chicago.
S05101954 Bill Haley releases Rock around the Clock.
S05111752 1st US fire insurance policy is issued, in Philadelphia.
S05111850 Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco.
S05111869 US transcontinental railroad finished.
S05111872 First women nominated for President of USA - Victoria Woodhull.
S05111885 Metis under Louis Riel defeated by militia at Batoche during 2nd
S05111885CNorthwest Rebellion.
S05111907 Bank of San Francisco incorporated.
S05111929 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week).
S05111951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory.
S05121901 President William McKinley visits San Francisco.
S05121933 Emergency Relief Admin. created in USA.
S05121973 Guillotine used for last time in France.
S05121980 Kitty Hawk completes first transcontinental ballon flight.
S0513     Leprechaun Day
S05131607 English land to found Jamestown (1st permanent settlement)
S05131835 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii is established.
S05131846 US declares war on Mexico.
S05131884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded
S05131961 Gary Cooper dies.
S05131981 Pope John Paul shot (St. Peter's Square, Rome).
S05141811 Paraguay gains it's independence.
S05141853 Gail Borden applies for patent for making condensed milk.
S05141878 Vaseline trademarked.
S05141903 President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco.
S05141948 State of Israel proclaimed.
S05141973 United States launches space station "Skylab".
S0515     Humphrey Bogart expelled from Phillips Academy at age 18.
S0515     Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean Day.  Why?
S0515    CBecause it may be waving at you.
S05151856 2nd San Francisco Vigilance Committee organized.
S05151940 1st nylon stockings are sold in America.
S05151941 1st work camp for Conscientious Objectors opens.
S05151963 last of the Mercury flights, the 'Faith 7', launched.
S0516     Armed Forces Day
S05161763 Samuel Johnson meets his biographer (James Boswell).
S05161866 Congress authorizes nickel 5-cent piece (the silver half-dime
S05161866Cwas used up to this point).
S05161872 Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time.
S05161914 Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens.
S05161914 National Horseshoe Pitcher's Assoc. formed.
S05161929 1st Oscars announced (best film was 'Wings').
S05161969 Russian Space vechicle lands on Mars.
S05161971 First Class Mail now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents).
S0517     Norwegian Independence Day
S05171642 Montreal founded.
S05171792 24 brokers meet to found the New York Stock Exchange
S05171804 Lewis & Clark begin their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase
S05171872 Bohemian Club incorporated.
S05171875 1st Kentucy Derby run.
S05171898 Camp Merritt established in the Presidio.
S05171921 President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange
S05171921CShow in Anaheim.
S05171954 Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education,
S05171954Coverthrowing the principle of 'separate but equal'.
S05171961 Castro offers exchange of 11 Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500
S05171961CTractors (US refuses).
S05171962 Marin County withdraws from BART district.
S05171974 SLA hideout burned to ground in L.A. killing 6.
S05181919 Nabokov learns to foxtrot.
S05181933 TVA Act signed by President Roosevelt.
S05181980 Mt. St. Helens volcano explosion devastates 3 states with ash -
S05181980Ckilling 14 with over 40 missing.
S0519     1st frog jumping contest at Angles Camp Calif.
S05191536 Anne Boleyn wife of Henry VIII beheaded.
S05191862 the Homestead Act becomes law.
S05191935 Lawrence of Arabia dies in motorcylce accident.
S05191982 450,000 marooned by flood in Guangdang Province (China).
S05201506 Columbus dies in Spain.
S05201727 Isaac Newton dies in England.
S05201830 Fountain Pen patented.
S05201845 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii.
S05201899 1st driver arrested for speeding in an automobile.
S05201927 at 7:40am, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic
S05211819 1st bicycle is ridden in the streets of New York City (probably
S05211819Cstolen 5 minutes later).
S05211846 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii.
S05211881 the American Red Cross is founded.
S05211927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo across Atlantic.
S05211933 Mount Davidson Cross lit by President Roosevelt in
S05211933CWashington via Telegraph.
S05211968 U.S. Nuclear Submarine Scorpion lost at sea.
S05221846 first steamer arrives in Hawaii.
S05221865 US Civil War ends.
S05221868 World's 1st robbery of a railroad train.
S05221909 1st San Francisco fireboat, the "David Scannell", launched.
S05221927 Lindbergh completes 1st transatlantic flight - ate 1-1/2 of
S05221927Chis 5 sandwiches in 33-1/2 hrs.
S05221947 1st Ballistic Missile fired in USA (New Mexico).
S05221954 Bob Dylan celebrates his Bar Mizvah.
S05221968 USSR invades Czechoslovakia.
A0523     BJ & Peg Hunnicutt of Mill Valley!
S05231533 Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon divorce.
S05231701 William Henry Kidd hanged.
S05231785 Ben Franklin invents bifocals.
S05231873 Postal Cards sold in San Francisco for 1st time.
S05231898 1st Phillipine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco.
S05231904 Steamship companies announce they will carry European immigrant
S05231904Cfor $10/person.
S05231908 Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die.
S05231956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building.
S05241844 Samual F.B. Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought"
S05241866 Berkeley named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne).
S05241866CNever turn your back on it.
S05241869 Powell begins exploration of Grand Canyon.
S05241883 The Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres. Arthur & Gov. Cleveland.
S05241899 in Boston, the 1st auto repair shop opens.
S05241935 1st major league baseball game played at night.
S05241965 Humphrey B Bear first appears on Sydney television
S0525     1st Helicopter (autogyro) delivery of mail.
S05251787 Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia.
S05251927 Henry Ford stops producing the Model T car (begins Model A).
S05251935 1st national narcotic sanitarium dedicated (Lexington Ken.)
S05251940 Golden Gate International Exposition reopens.
S05251948 San Francisco receives its 1st telecast.
S05251978 "Star Wars" is released.
S05251979 DC-10 drops engine over O'Hare Airport (Chicago) killing 275.
S05251983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) is released.
S05261868 President Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote.
S05261898 San Francisco approves new City Charter, allowing Municipal
S05261898Cownership of utiliies (charter effective Jan 1, 1900).
S05261937 Golden Gate Bridge opens.
S05261946 Patent filed in US for the H-Bomb.
S05261954 Funeral ship of Egyptian Pharaoh Cheops unearthed in
S05261954CGreat Pyramid of Giza.
S05261958 Union Square becomes State Historical Landmark.
S05261972 1st Watergate break-in attempt.
S05261977 George Willis fined $1.10 for climbing 110 stories of
S05261977CWorld Trade Center.
S05271854 Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Francisco completed.
S05271896 Bay District Race Track closes.
S05271907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco
S05271937 Golden Gate Bridge dedicated.
S05271941 British sink the BISMARK.
S05271951 China announces the liberation of Tibet.
S05271951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park opens.
S05271972 2nd break-in attempt at Watergate.
S05281734 New York City passes law protecting fish.
S05281926 United States Customs Court created by Congress.
S05291453 Constantinople falls to the Turks (some believe this signalled
S05291453Cthe end of the Middle Ages).
S05291868 Gen. Grant accepts republican nomination for Presidency.
S05291912 Ladies Home Journal fires 15 women for dancing the Turkey Trot
S05291912Cduring lunch hour.
S05291953 Mount Everest climbed by 1st westerner - Edmond Hillary with
S05291953CTensing Norkay from Nepal.
S05291978 First Class postage now 15 cents (was 13 cents for 3 years).
S05291979 Israeli ships pass through Suez Canal for 1st time.
S0530     The REAL Memorial Day
S05301431 Joan of Arc burned at stake.
S05301896 1st automobile accident - car hits bicycle.
S05301911 Indianapolis 500 car race run for 1st time.
S0531     Republic Day, celebrated in South Africa
S05311678 Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry
S05311819 Johnstown Flood kill 2300 (Pennsylvania).
S05311868 1st recorded bicycle race, 2 kilometers in Paris.
S05311879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition.
S05311889 Johnstown Flood
S05311962 Adolph Eichmann hanged.