*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B10011881 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft company.
B10011924 Jimmy Carter, 39th President (1976-1980)
B10011933 George Peppard
B10021694 Lord Chesterfield
B10021830 Charles Pratt
B10021847 Paul von Hindenburg
B10021851 Ferdinand Foch, believed to be the leader responsible for
B10021851CAllies winning World War I.
B10021869 Mahatma Ghandi, pacifist.
B10021895 Groucho Marx
B10031803 John Gorrie, invented cold-air process of refrigeration
B10031804 Townsend Harris, 1st Western consul to reside in Japan
B10031925 Gore Vidal, writer.
B10031941 Chubby Checker
B10041182 Saint Francis of Assisi
B10041478 Cesare Borgia
B10041822 Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President (1877-1881)
B10041895 Buster Keaton
B10041924 Charlton Heston
B10041931 Dick Tracy (and his 2 way wrist TV)
B10041946 Susan Sarandon (Tell us about it, Janet!)
B10051829 Chester A. Arthur, 21st President (1881-1884)
B10051882 Robert Hutchings Goddard, father of modern rocketry
B10051905 Ray Kroc, who gave Ronald McDonald a job.
B10051943 Steve Miller (Keep on a rockin' me, baby)
B10051955 Sir Bob Geldof (Boomtown Rat cum Charity Concert Organiser)
B10051956 Wilbur Wilde (Ol'55 and Hey Hey)
B10061820 Jenny Lind, nightingale
B10061846 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US.
B10061866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice & music
B10061887 Le Crobusier
B10071885 Niels Bohr, physicist & Nobel laureate, expanded quantum physics.
B10071900 Heinrich Himmler
B10081772 Samuel Adams
B10081869 J. Frank Duryea, with his brother, invented 1st auto built &
B10081869Coperated in the US.
B10081895 Juan Peron
B10081941 Jesse Jackson
B10081943 Chevy Chase
B10091918 E. Howard Hunt
B10091948 Jackson Brown
B10101731 Henry Cavendish
B10101738 Benjamin West, painter.
B10101813 Giuseppe Verdi, composer of operas.
B10101900 Helen Hayes
B10101930 Adlai Stevenson
B10101946 Ben Vereen
B10111452 Richard III
B10111844 Henry John Heinz, founded a prepared-foods company
B10111884 Eleanor Roosevelt
B10121935 Luciano Pavarotti
B1013  70 BC Virgil
B10131769 Horace H. Hayden, cofounder of 1st dental college
B10131925 Lenny Bruce
B10131925 Margaret Thatcher, Tory
B10131959 Marie Osmond
B10141644 William Penn
B10141857 Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of the first US autos
B10141889 Katherine Mansfield
B10141890 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President (1953-1961)
B10141894 e.e. cummings, poet
B10141896 Lillian Gish, actress
B10141927 Roger Moore (007)
B10141938 James Dean III
B10151608 Torricelli
B10151829 Asaph Hall, astronomer, discovered the moons of Mars, Phobos & Deimos
B10151844 Friedrich Nietzsche, Ubermensch
B10151858 John L. Sullivan, famed pugelist.
B10151905 C. P. Snow, British novelist and scientist.
B10151920 Lee Iacocca
B10151921 Murio Puzo
B10161708 Albrecht von Haller, the father of experimental physiology
B10161785 Noah Webster (not sure about the spelling..).
B10161854 Oscar Wilde
B10161890 Paul Strand, photographer
B10161925 Angela Lansbury
B10161977 Simey Phillips - well known CAD and Sysop 
B10171915 Arthur Miller, playwright
B10171918 Rita Hayworth
B10171938 Evil Knievel
B10181919 Pierre Trudeau
B10181921 Jessie Helms and Chuck Berry
B10181927 George C. Scott
B10181939 Lee Harvey Oswald
B10191910 Robert Strauss
B10191937 Peter Max
B10201632 Sir Christopher Wren, astronomer, greatest English architect
B10201632Cof his time, built many of the cathedrals in London.
B10201812 Austin Flint, 19th century pioneer in US heart research
B10201874 Charles Ives, composer
B10201882 Bela Lagosi
B10201905 Ellery Queen
B10201931 Mickey Mantle
B10201935 Michael McClure
B10211772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B10211833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, created dynamite and Peace Prizes.
B10211917 Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
B10211940 Manfred Mann
B10221811 Franz Liszt
B10221920 Timothy Leary
B10221925 Robert Rauschenburg
B10221943 Catherine Deneuve
B10231835 Adlai Stevenson, Veep
B10231844 Sarah Bernhardt
B10231920 Frank Rizzo
B10231925 Johnny Carson
B10231931 Diana Dors
B10231940 Pele
B10231942 Michael Crichton
B10241632 Anton van Leeuwenhoek
B10241889 Arde Bulova (notice he's late now).
B10251825 Johann Strauss
B10251881 Pablo Picasso
B10251912 Minnie Pearl
B10251928 Tony Franciosa
B10251941 Hellen Reddy
B10261633 James II
B10261685 Domenico Scarlatti
B10261855 Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals.
B10261879 Leon Trotsky
B10261919 Shah Reza Pahlavi
B10271728 Captain James Cook, discovered the Sandwich Islands.
B10271782 Niccolo Paganini
B10271811 Issac Merrit Singer, invented 1st practical home sewing machine
B10271858 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President (1901-1909)
B10271914 Dylan Thomas
B10271923 Roy Lichtenstein
B10271946 Carrie Snodgrass
B10281466 Erasmus, scholar, author of "In Praise of Folly"
B10281846 Auguste Escoffier, "the king of chefs & the chef of kings"
B10281914 Dr. Jonas Salk, who made polio a fear of the past.
B10291740 James Boswell, Samuel Johnson's biographer.
B10291795 John Keats
B10291897 Joseph Goebbels
B10291947 Richard Dreyfuss
B10291949 Kate Jackson
B10301451 Christopher Columbus
B10301735 John Adams, 2nd President (1797-1801)
B10301775 US Navy
B10301885 Exra Pound
B10301939 Grace Slick
B10311632 Vermeer
B10311886 Chiang-Kai Shek
B10311912 Dale Evans
B10311922 King Sihanouk
*mmddyyyy Events
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S10011851 1st Hawaiian stamps issued.
S10011869 1st postcards are issued in Vienna.
S10011871 Brigham Young arrested for cohabitation with 16 women.
S10011896 Yosemite becomes a National Park.
S10011898 Henry Huntington buys the Los Angeles Railway.
S10011903 1st World Series starts between the National & American Leagues
S10011908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car.
S10011949 Mao Tse-tung takes office as chairman of People's Repub of China.
S10011960 Nigeria gains it's independence.
S10011962 Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show.
S10011964 Cable Cars declared a National Landmark.
S10011971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens.
S1002 322 BC Aristotle dies of indigestion.
S10021608 Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch government a new invention --
S10021608Cthe telescope.
S10021836 Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle.
S10021939 Birdbaths installed in Union Square.
S10021958 Guinea gains it's independence.
S10031226 Saint Francis of Assisi dies.
S10031789 Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
S10031863 Lincoln designates the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
S10031913 Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%).
S10031955 Captain Kangaroo premieres.  Good Morning, Captain!
S10031955 Mickey Mouse Club founded.
S10031960 San Francisco's White House department store is first to accept
S10031960Cthe BankAmericard in lieu of cash.
S10031962 U.S. closes all ports to ships bound for Cuba.
S10031967 Woodie Guthrie dies.
S10041535 Printing of 1st English-language Bible completed in London.
S10041916 Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time.
S10041926 The dahlia is officially designated as the City Flower.
S10041927 1st air-mail service in Canada inaugurated (still hasn't landed).
S10041933 Hitler suspends freedom of press (Germany).
S10041957 USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite.
S10041970 Janis Joplin Dies.
S10041977 Pier 39 opens.
S10051813 Shawnee Chief Tecumseh dies in battle - US soldiers skin
S10051813Cbody for for souvenir.
S10051877 Chief Joseph surrenders.
S10051921 1st radio broadcast of the World Series.
S10051963 Hyde St. Pier re-opens as State Historical Park.
S10051964 Fire Department Museum dedicated.
S10051969 Monty Python's Flying Circus first seen on BBCTV
S10051970 PBS becomes a network.
S1006     Universal Children's Day
S10061889 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
S10061927 "The Jazz Singer", 1st movie with a sound track, premieres.
S10061935 Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches.
S10061940 Zoological Gardens opens (on Sloat and Skyline).
S10071806 Carbon Paper patented.
S10071826 Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
S10071849 Edgar Allen Poe dies.
S10071957 American Bandstand premiers on tv.
S10081840 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed.
S10081860 Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
S10081871 The Great Fire destroys over 4 square miles of Chicago.
S10081896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks.
S10081933 Coit Tower dedicated.
S10081967 Che Guevara murdered by CIA in Bolivia.
S10091000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England)
S10091776 Mission Delores founded.
S10091876 First 2-way telephone conversation (1-way must have been boring).
S10091946 Electric blankets offered for sale for first time.
S10091975 Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco.
S1010     National Day, celebrated in Taiwan.
S10101911 the Manchu Dynasty is overthrown in China.
S10101980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated.
S10111890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded.
S10111910 Teddy Roosevelt 1st president to fly in an airplane.
S10111968 Apollo 7 launched, 1st manned flight of the Command & Service
S10111968Cmodules.
S10111976 Gang of four arrested in Peking.
S1012     the REAL Columbus Day
S10121492 Natives discover Christopher Columbus.
S10121870 General Robert Lee dies.
S10121933 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially).
S10121957 1st commercial flight between California and Antartica.
S10121960 Krushchev pounds desk at U.N. with his shoe.
S10131775 US Continental Congress orders construction of Naval Fleet.
S10131792 George Washington lays the cornerstone of the Executive Mansion
S10131886 Great Quebec fire.
S10141066 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England
S10141774 1st declaration of colonial rights in America.
S10141912 Teddy Roosevelt shot and wounded (Milwaukee).
S10141947 Chuck Yaeger breaks sound barrier in Glamorous Glennie, a Bell
S10141947CX-1 rocket powered plane (Mach 1.015 at 42,000 feet).
S10141977 Bing Crosby dies at age 73.
S1015     Mushroom Day
S1015     National Grouch Day
S10151860 Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard.
S10151863 Cliff House opens (1st of many on the site).
S10151917 Mata Hari executed outside Paris.
S10151946 Hermann Goering commits suicide.
S10151964 Brezhnew replaces Khrushev.
S10151965 1st draft card burned.
S10151969 Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated.
S10161834 House of Parliment burns (London).
S10161859 John Brown attacks the armory at Harper's Ferry.
S10161869 a hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing.
S10161916 Birth control clinic opens in New York city.
S10161934 Chinese communists start their "Long March".
S10161941 Gordo (by Gus Arriola) 1st appeared in newspapers.
S10161964 China announces testing of its 1st nuclear bomb.
S10161971 Amphitheater in McLaren Park dedicated.
S10171492 Columbus sights the isle of San Salvador.
S10171707 J.S. Bach marries.
S10171781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown.
S10171899 Sutro RR sold to Robert F. Morrow for $215,000.
S10171904 Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors.
S10171931 Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
S10171937 Bella Duck splits - leaves Huey, Dewey, and Louie with Uncle Donald.
S1018     the start of the Moslem New Year.
S1018 480 BC Greeks defeated by Persians in naval battle at Salamis.
S10181767 Mason-Dixon line settled.
S10181818 USA and Britain establish Canada-US boundary as 49th parallel.
S10181842 Morse lays first telegraph cable in New York Harbour.
S10181869 the United States take possession of Alaska.
S10181873 the Ivy League establishes rules for college football.
S10181892 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago - New York)
S10181913 Teddy Roosevelt dines with Booker T Washington at White House.
S10181922 British Broadcasting Corporation established.
S10181931 Thomas Alva Edison dies.
S10181945 Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon for Arab League to establish a
S10181945Cunited front against the establishment of a Jewish state in
S10181945CPalistine.
S10191747 Earl of Sandwich says that sandwiches should be eaten with
S10191747C"a civilized swallow and not a barbarous bolt".
S10191781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
S10191845 Wagner's opera 'Tannhauser' is performed for first time.
S10191853 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations.
S10191968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars.
S10201600 Battle of Sekigahara, which established the Tokugawa clan as
S10201600Crulers of Japan (SHOGUN) until 1865 (basis of Clavell's novel).
S10201820 Spain gives Florida to the United States.
S10201906 Dr Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube.
S10201922 First life saved by a parachute.
S10211805 Battle of Trefalgar, where Nelson established British naval
S10211805Csupremacy for the next century.
S10211869 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore.
S10211879 Thomas Edison commercially perfects the light bulb.
S10211969 Jack Kerouac dies.
S10211976 Americans win 5 Nobel prizes.
S10211979 1st bomb sniffing dog in New York retired after 8 years service
S10211979C(boy a dog's life is sure rough, talk about early retirement).
S10221911 First U.S. airplanes used in war (Tripoli).
S10221936 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii.
S10221962 Cuban missile crisis begins - Pres. Kennedy order quarantine.
S10221981 US National debt topped $1 TRILLION (nothing to celebrate).
S1023     United States Day
S10231956 the ill-fated revolt in Communist Hungary starts, later crushed
S10231956Cby Soviet tanks.
S1024     United Nations Day
S10241901 1st person to go over Niagra Falls in a barrel.
S10241939 Nylon women's hosiery sold for the 1st time.
S10241945 United Nations Charter goes into effect.
S10241955 18-day siege of smog ends in Los Angeles.
S1025     Saint Crispin's Day
S10251415 Battle of Agincourt, where the Welsh longbow defeats the
S10251415Carmored knight.
S10251825 Erie Canal opens for business in New York.
S10251854 Charge of the light brigade (Balaclava, Crimea).
S10251954 US Air Force conclude flying saucers are explainable illusions.
S10251971 U.N. votes to seat People's Republic of China.
S10261785 Mules imported into USA (now replaced with Republicans).
S10261861 Telegraph service inaugurated in US (end of Pony Express).
S10261881 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Arizona.
S10261903 the "Yerba Buena" is 1st Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay.
S10261956 International Atomic Energy Agency established.
S10261970 the "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
S10261972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin.
S10261979 World Health Organization announces eradication of
S10261979Csmallpox in Africa.
S10271787 The 'Federalist' letters started appearing in NY newspapers.
S10271858 RH Macy & Co. opens 1st store, on 6th Avenue, New York City.
S10271896 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (the Pali is a cliff where
S10271896Cthe winds are so strong streams flow UP! Honest!).
S10271904 1st subway opens in New York city.
S10271969 2nd Apollo mission lands on the moon.
S10271972 Golden Gate National Recreation Area created.
S10281492 Columbus discovers Cuba.
S10281636 Harvard University founded.
S10281793 Eli Whitney Patents the cotton gin.
S10281886 Statue of Liberty (gift to US from France) was unveiled.
S10281904 St. Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints.
S10281919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, starting Prohibition.
S10281940 Italy invaded Greece during 2nd World War.
S10281962 Khrushchev promises to dismantle Cuban missle bases.
S10281965 the Gateway Arch (630 feet high) completed in St. Louis, Missouri.
S10291618 Sir Walter Raleigh executed.
S10291833 1st College Fraternity founded.
S10291863 International Committee of the Red Cross founded.
S10291894 first election of the Hawaiian Republic.
S10291923 Republic of Turkey proclaimed.
S10291923 Turkey is proclaimed to have a republican government.
S10291929 "Black Tuesday", the Stock Market crash.
S10291939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure).
S10291956 "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet" heard on NBC for 1st time.
S10291956C(Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up).
S10291956 Israel attacks Egypt.
S10291961 Syria seceded from United Arab Republic to form Syrian Arab Republic.
S10301864 Helena, capital of Montana, founded.
S10301938 Orson Welles panics a nation with  'War of the Worlds'
S1031     All Hallows Eve (you know, Halloween)
S10311517 Martin Luther nails his 85 theses to door of church in Wittenburg.
S10311926 Harry Houdini dies.
S10311956 Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service.
S10311961 Stalin's body removed from display in Red Square.