*UPDATED 03/23/88 MAC
*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B11011500 Benevenuto Cellini
B11011925 Richard Burton, actor in Pontrhgydfen, Wales
B11011935 Gary Player, South African Golfer of note.
B11021734 Daniel Boone, coonskin cap model and hunter.
B11021755 Marie Antoinette, lover of 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 in New York City
B11031718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same.
B11031922 Charles Bronson (born Charles Bruchinski), actor in Ehrenfield, Pa
B11041879 Will Rogers, who never met Richard Nixon.
B11041916 Walter Cronkite, "...and that's the way it is."
B11041918 Art Carney, actor in Mt Vernon, NY
B11051857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was VERY unhappy.)
B11051912 Roy Rogers, Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger. And Dale, too.
B11051942 Elke Sommer (born Elke Schletz) in Berlin
B11051963 Tatum O'Neal. Actress, Superbrat's other half.
B11061771 Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography.
B11061814 Adolphe Sax, inventor of the Saxophone
B11061851 Charles Henry Dow, founded Dow Jones & Co.
B11061854 John Phillip Souza, the march king.
B11061861 James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball.
B11061916 Ray Conniff, band leader in Attleboro, Mass
B11061946 Sally Field, Flying Nun and Smoky-hater.
B11071867 Madame Marie Curie, discovered radium.
B11071918 Billy Graham, evangelist in Charlotte, NC
B11071922 Al Hirt, trumpeter in New Orleans
B11071941 William Owens (Billy-boy) Kennedy
B11081656 Edmond Halley, astronomer, first to calculate a comet's orbit.
B11081909 Katherine Hepburn, Bogey's co-star, and still in work today.
B11091905 Tommy Dorsey, 40's Big Band Leader.
B11091918 Spiro Agnew. Is that his real name?
B11091934 Carl Sagan, who has BILLIONS and BILLIONS of admirers.
B11101668 Francois Couperin, composer.
B11101819 Cyrus West Field, financier known for the success of the first
B11101819Ctransatlantic cable.
B11101895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer.
B11111821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author, "Crime and Punishment."
B11111885 General George S. Patton. "Old Blood and Guts."
B11111922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author.
B11111925 commedian Johnathan Winters in Dayton, Oh
B11121815 Elizabeth Stanton, early leader of women's rights movement.
B11121866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC.)
B11121922 Kim Hunter (born Janet Cole), actress in Detroit, Mich
B11121929 Grace Kelly, actress/princess
B11121945 Neil Young, Pitch-perfect singer.
B11121961 Nadia Comaneci, 10/10 Gymnast.
B1113 354 St. Augustine, proved God existed in 12 ways.
B11131717 Thomas Chippendale, had a way with chairs.
B11131831 James Maxwell, renknowned physicist.
B11131850 Robert Louis Stevenson, author, adventurer.
B11131856 Justice Louis Brandeis.
B11141765 Robert Fulton, built first commercial steamboat.
B11141776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis.
B11141840 Claude Monet, impressionist.
B11141900 Aaron Copland, american composer (Billy the Kid,
B11141900CAppalachian Spring)
B11141929 actor McLean Stevenson in Bloomington, Ind
B11141935 King Hussein, without whom the world would be dull.
B11141948 Prince Charles. Yep Di's 18 years younger than him.
B11151905 Annunzio Mantovani, Band leader.
B11151929 Edward Asner, actor in Kansas City, Mo
B11151932 Petula Clark (sings!).
B11161873 William C Handy, established the popularity of the blues
B11161873Cin band music.
B11161901 George Gallop, what's your opinion?
B11161908 actor Burgess Meredith in Cleveland, Oh
B11171790 August Mobius. Possibly the world's first 'stripper'!
B11171925 Rock Hudson. Actor, tough guy.
B11171938 Gordon Lightfoot. If you could read his mind...
B11181789 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography.
B11181836 Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame.)
B11181908 Imogene Coca, commedianne in Philadelphia, Pa
B11181923 Alan Sheppard, first American into space.
B11181928 Mickey Mouse, sired by Walt Disney's pen.
B11181939 Margaret Atwood
B11191600 Charles I
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, peaceful non-co-operation.
B11191936 Dick Cavett, TV Entertainer in Gibbon, Neb
B11201602 Otto von Guericke, invented the air pump.
B11201889 Edwin Hubble, Astronomer, cosmologist.
B11201900 Chester Gould, gave Dick Tracy a job.
B11201908 Alistair Cooke, raconteur.
B11201925 Robert Kennedy, another one of them.
B11201939 commedian Dick Smothers in Governors Island, NY
B11211694 Voltaire, thinker.
B11211787 Sir Samuel Cunard, founded first regular Atlantic
B11211787Csteamship line.
B11211904 Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone
B11211904Cfor jazz.
B11221888 Tarzan of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel.
B11221890 Charles de Gaulle, French President.
B11221899 Hoagy Carmichael, composed 'Star Dust.'
B11231804 Franklin Pierce, 14th President from 1853 - 1857.
B11231887 Boris Karloff, bogeyman.
B11241713 Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in California.
B11241784 Zachary Taylor, 12th President from 1849 - 1850.
B11241868 Scott Joplin, entertainer.
B11241925 William F. Buckley Jr, journalist in New York City
B11251835 Andrew Carnegie, steelman and librarian.
B11251846 Carry Nation, scourge of barkeepers and drinkers.
B11251920 actor Ricardo Montalban in Mexico City, Mexico
B11261832 Louisa May Alcott, little woman.
B11261876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment.
B11271701 Anders Celsius, scientist.
B11280000 Nobody. Not a popular birthday, today.
B11291803 Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (phase shift.)
B11291849 Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode.
B11301667 Jonathan Swift, satirist, wrote "Gulliver's Travels."
B11301810 Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker.
B11301835 Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain.
B11301874 Winston Churchill, patriot, Prime Minister.
B11301929 Dick Clark, TV Personality in Mount Vernon, NY
*mmddyyyy Events
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S11011776 San Juan Capistrano mission established.
S11011834 First published reference to the game of Poker describes it
S11011834Cas a Mississippi riverboat game.
S11011863 Fortifications built on Angel Island by troops.
S11011870 US Weather Bureau begins operations.
S11011947 First Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii.
S11011950 C.H. Cooper 1st black to play in NBA.
S11011981 First Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents.
R1102     North & South Dakota Admission Day.
S11021917 Great Britain issues Balfour Declaration in favor of establishment
S11021917Cof a state of Palestine.
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.
R1103     Independence Day, celebrated in Panama.
S1103     'Treasure Island' published. Yo-ho-ho.
S11031883 U.S. Government decides an Indian is by birth an alien and is
S11031883Cdependant on the government.
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.
S11031952 Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas.
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 US elected in Wyoming.
R1105     Guy Fawkes Day, celebrated in England.
S11051781 John Hanson elected first 'President of the United
S11051781CStates in Congress assembled.'  This happened 8 years
S11051781Cbefore Washington was elected.
S11051895 First US patent granted for the automobile, to George B Selden.
S11051935 The Parker Brothers launch the game of Monopoly.
S11051955 First stereo radio broadcast.
R1106     Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
S11061850 First fire engine arrives in Hawaii.
S11061860 Abraham Lincoln elected 16th president of USA.
S11061862 Direct Telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco.
S11061869 First intercollegiate football game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4.)
S11061893 Tchaikovsky dies.
S11061923 Electric Shaver Patented.
S11061939 WGY-TV (Schenectady NY), first commercial station debuts.
S11071805 Lewis and Clark first sighted 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 was 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.
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.
S11081974 National Guardsmen acquitted in Kent State killings.
S11091965 Giant power failure in New England & Ontario, Canada.
S11091977 U.S. Army admits to using LSD on witting and unwitting subjects.
S11101871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa.
S11101891 First Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held
S11101891C(in Boston.)
S11101898 Ku Klux Clan massacre 100 blacks in Wilmington.
S11101951 First Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance.
S11101980 Voyager I flies past Saturn.
R1111     Rememberance day. Where we remember wars we should try to forget.
S11111790 Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China --
S11111790CSpelling bee judges cheer!
S11111854 The Eureka Stockade took place, in Ballarat.
S11111880 Ned Kelly hanged in Melbourne.
S11111918 World War I ends.
S11111975 Sir John Kerr removes Gough Whitlam from office. 'Well may
S11111975Csay God Save the Queen, because nothing will save the
S11111975CGovernor-General.'
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.
S11121927 Stalin becomes Russian dictator, Trotsky expelled from the party.
S11121933 First known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken.
S11121936 Oakland Bay Bridge opened.
S11121937 Japanese troops occupy Chinese city of Shanghai.
S11121942 Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France.
S11121946 The first "autobank" (banking by CAR) was established, in
S11121946CChicago.
S11121981 First time a spacecraft is launched twice -- the Space Shuttle
S11121981C"Columbia" lifts off again.
S11131895 First shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii.
S11131921 "The Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, was released.
S11131933 First sit-in strike held.
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.)
S11151763 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying the
S11151763CMason-Dixon Line -- the southern boundary of Pennsylvania.
S11151848 Gold rush begins in California.
S11151869 Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated.
S11151926 National Broadcasting Company goes on-the-air, with 24 stations.
S11151939 Social Security Administration sends first unemployment check.
S11151969 400,000 peacefully protest Vietnam war.
S11161841 N.E. Guerin of New York receives a patent for his cork filled
S11161841Clife preserver.
S11161933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the
S11161933CSoviet Union.
S11161950 U.S. explodes first Hydrogen bomb.
S11171800 Congress convenes for its first Washington, DC session.
S11171869 The Suez Canal opens.
S11171913 Panama Canal opens for use.
S11171941 Sam Gompers organizes Federation of Organized trade and labour
S11171941Cunions.
S11171973 Nixon says he is not a crook.
S11181247 Robin Hood dies.
S11181307 William Tell shoots apple off his son's head.
S11181820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer.
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.
S11181966 Last meatless Friday for Roman Catholics.
S11181978 Mass suicide at Jonestown 900-die.
S11191493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
S11191703 Man in the Iron Mask dies in the Bastille.
S11191863 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.
S11191975 Franco dies (Spain).
S11191981 Saskatchewan Power Corp. blacks out the entire province.
S11201888 William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
S11201914 The State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
S11201947 Princess Elizabeth of England and Lt. Phillip Mountbatten
S11201947Care married in London's Westminster Abbey.
S11201962 Cuban Blockade lifted.
S11201979 Grand Mosque of Mecca seized by hundreds of Moslem fanatics.
S11211794 Honolulu Harbor is discovered.
S11211959 Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their
S11211959Cfamed duet.
S11211964 The Verrazanno Narrows Bridge (Brooklyn to Staten Island) opens,
S11211964Cbecoming the world's longest suspension bridge.
R1122     Independence Day, celebrated in Lebanon.
S11221906 The International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS"
S11221906Cas the new universal call for help.
S11221943 Lebanon gains its independence.
S11221963 Pres John Kennedy killed by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
S11231852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 10m.
S11231863 Patent granted for a process of making color photographs.
S11231889 The first jukebox is installed, at a saloon in San Francisco.
S11241874 A patent is granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.
S11241952 Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens in London.  At last
S11241952Creport, it was still running (Yep even 1990!)
S11251948 Fort Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed.
S11261778 Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands.)
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.
S11271890 1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation.
S11271926 The restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins.
S11281520 Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean.
S11281776 Washington and his troops cross the Delaware River.
S11281895 America's auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner
S11281895Caverages a blazing 7 MPH.
S11291887 US 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.
S11291945 Yugoslavia becomes a federated republic.
S11291948 Untouchability officially abolished in India.
S11291951 First underground A-bomb test.
S11301954 First reported impact between meteorite and a human.
S11301962 U Thant elected Secretary General of the United Nations.