*REVISED/COMBINED 5/7/88 CONLEY *-------- ------------------------------------------------------------ *mmddyyyy Birthdays B03011810 Frederic Chopin, composer. B03011848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece. B03011910 David Niven, actor B03011917 Dinah Shore, Singer/Actress B03011917 Robert Lowell, Poet B03011927 Harry Belafonte, Singer B03011942 Joan Hackett, New York B03011954 Catherine Bach, Warren Ohio, oh those legs B03011954 Ron Howard, Actor/Director B03021793 Sam Houston, statesman-general B03021824 Bedrich Smetana, composer B03021904 Dr. Seuss, Author B03021917 Desi Arnaz, Singer/Actor B03021919 Jennifer Jones, Oklahoma B03021950 Karen Carpenter, Connecticut B030219?? Laraine Newman, Los Angeles, of Saturday Night Live B03031831 George M. Pullman, inventor-financier (Pullman Car) B03031847 Alexander Graham Bell, inventor B03031859 Shalom Alekhem, Russian author B03031895 General Matthew Ridgeway, military leader B03031911 Jean Harlow, Sex Goddess of the 30s B03031933 Princess Lee Radziwell, New York City B03031934 Gia Scala, Italy B03041394 Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsored Portuguese voyages B03041394Cof discovery. B03041678 Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso and composer. B03041888 Knute Rockne, Football Player/coach B03041921 Joan Greenwood, London, England B03041932 Miriam Makeba, African singer B03041934 Jane Goodall, Archeologist B03041939 Paula Prentiss, Actress B03041939 Barbara McNair, Singer/Actress, Chicago, Illinois B03041944 Susan Clark, Ontario Canada B03051824 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives fame.) B03051887 Hector Villa-Lobos, composer B03051908 Rex Harrison, Actor B03051939 Samantha Eggar, London, England B03051958 Andy Gibb, Singer B03061475 Michelangelo, artist B03061619 Cyrano de Bergerac. B03061756 Aaron Burr, dualist. B03061806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet B03061812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking. B03061831 General Philip H. Sheridan, military leader B03061923 Ed McMahon, Ë1 second banana B03061924 Sarah Caldwell, Conductor, Maryville Mo. B03061924 William Webster, FBI director B03061927 Gordon Cooper, Jr., astronaut B03061937 Merle Haggard, Singer B03061937 Valentina Tereshkova, first woman cosmonaut. B03061940 Joanna Miles in Nice France B03061942 Ben Murphy B03061944 Mary Wilson (Supremes) B03061945 Rob Reiner, Actor/Director B03061947 Kiki Dee, Yorkshire England B030619?? Jackie Zeman, General Hospitals' nurse Bobbie Spencer B03071849 Luther Burbank, Horticulturist, was born in Lancaster, Mass. B03071875 Maurice Ravel, Composer, was born in Cibourne, France. B03071909 Anna Magnani in Italy B03071930 Lord Snowdon B03071938 Janet Guthrie, race car driver B03071940 Daniel J. Travanti, Hill Street Blues, Capt. Furillo B03071945 John Heard B03071946 Peter Wolf, Rock singer B03071947 Donna Loren, Boston Mass B03071950 Franco Harris, Football player B03071952 Lynn Swann, Football player B03071960 Ivan Lendl, Tennis player B03081787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery. B03081841 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Supreme Court Justice B03081859 Kenneth Grahame, author, "The Wind in the Willows." B03081879 Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission. B03081909 Claire Trevor B03081923 Cyd Charisse, Comedienne/Dancer B03081943 Lynn Redgrave, Actress B03081947 Carole Bayer Sager, New York - Mrs. Burt Bachrach B03091454 Amerigo Vespucci. We could be called Vespucciland B03091824 Leland Stanford, Governor, Senator, founded Stanford University. B03091910 Samuel Barber, composer B03091918 Mickey Spillane, mystery writer B03091934 Joyce Van Patten, Actress B03091934 Yuri Gagarin, first man into space. B03091935 Keely Smith, Norfolk Virginia B03091943 Bobby Fischer, Chess Player B03091943 Trish Van Devere, Actress B03101892 Arthur Honegger, composer B03101922 Pamela Mason, London England B03101945 Katherine Houghton, Actress B03101964 Prince Edward of England B03111903 Lawrence Welk, Bandleader B03111916 Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister B03111926 Ralph D. Abernathy, Civil rights leader B03111931 Rupert Murdoch, Newspaper publisher B03111934 Sam Donaldson, ABC White House correspondent B03111934 Tina Louise, marooned with Gilligan, The professor and Mary Ann B031119?? Susan Richardson, in Bath Maine B03121831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer. B03121832 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts. B03121922 Lane Kirkland, AFL-CIO President B03121923 Wally Schirra, Astronaut B03121927 Raul Alfonsin, President of Argentina B03121928 Edward Albee, Playwright: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" B03121932 Andrew Young, Atlanta Mayor B03121936 Lloyd Dobyns, NBC newsman B03121940 Millie Perkins B03121941 Barbara Feldon, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Agent 99 B03121946 Liza Minnelli, Singer/Actress B03121947 Jill O'Hara in Warren Pennsylvania B03121948 James Taylor, Singer/Songwriter B03121949 Sara Lane, New York City B03121962 Darryl Strawberry, of the N.Y. Mets B03131914 Sammy Kaye, Bandleader B03131931 Rosalind Elias, Opera singer B03131939 Neil Sedaka, Singer/Songwriter B03131946 Steve Kanaly, Actor B03131953 Deborah Raffin in Los Angeles California B03141681 Georg Philipp Telemann, leading German late baroque composer. B03141804 Johann Strauss, composer B03141864 Casey Jones, famed railroad engineer. B03141879 Albert Einstein in Ulm, Germany, scientist B03141912 Les Brown, Bandleader B03141920 Hank Ketcham, Cartoonist: (Dennis the Menace) B03141922 Colin Fletcher, Yosemite Calendar B03141928 Frank Borman, Astronaut and Eastern Airlines President B03141933 Actor Michael Caine B03141933 Composer-conductor Quincy Jones B03141933 Michael Caine, Actor B03141933 Quincey Jones, Composer/singer B03141934 Eugene Cernan, Astronaut B03141942 Rita Tushingham, in Liverpool England B03141947 Billy Crystal, Comedian/Actor B03141958 Prince Albert of Monaco B03151767 Andrew Jackson, 7th President from 1828 - 1836. B03151916 Harry James, trumpeter B03151926 Jerry Lewis, French god and American Comedian. B03151935 Judd Hirsch, Actor B03151949 Erik Estrada, Actor B03161751 James Madison, 4th President from 1809 - 1817. B03161787 Georg Simon Ohm, scientist B03161836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car. B03161906 Henny Youngman, Comedian B03161912 Patricia Nixon, First Lady, born in Ely Nevada B03161932 R. Walter Cunningham, astronaut B03161951 Kate Nelligan, London, Ontario B03161954 Nancy Wilson, Singer San Francisco (Heart) B03171804 James Bridger, scout, fur trader, mountain man par excellance. B03171834 Gottlieb Daimler, automobile pioneer. B03171918 Mercedes McCambridge, Actress B03171919 Nat King Cole, crooner, (and Natalie's father.) B03171938 Rudolf Nureyev, Ballet Dancer B03171942 Paul Kantner (Jefferson Starship) B03171944 John Sebastian, Singer-songwriter B03171949 Patrick Duffy, Actor B03171951 Kurt Russell, Actor B03171954 Leslie-Anne Down, in London B03181782 John C. Calhoun, statesman. B03181837 Grover Cleveland, twice President, from 1885 - 1889, and again B03181837Cfrom 1893 - 1897. B03181844 Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov, composer B03181858 Rudolf Diesel, invented an engine. B03181926 Peter Graves, Actor: Mission Impossible B03181927 Author George Plimpton B03181927 Composer John Kander B03181932 John Updike, poet and novelist. B03181933 Kevin Dobson, Actor B03181939 Charley Pride, Singer B03181959 Irene Cara, New York B03181963 Vanessa Williams, Millwood NY B03191821 Sir Richard Burton, Actor B03191860 William Jennings Bryan, 'The Great Commoner.' B03191891 Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. B03191904 John J. Sirica, Watergate Judge B03191914 Patricia Morison, Peyton Place's B03191916 Author Irving Wallace, The People's Almanac B03191928 Patrick McGoohan, Actor-director B03191933 Philip Roth, Author: Portnoy's Complaint B03191935 Phyllis Newman, in Jersey City NJ B03191936 Ursula Andress, Actress, in Switzerland B03191944 Lynda Bird Johnson Robb B03191947 Glenn Close, Greenwich Connecticut B03191955 Bruce Willis, Actor: Moonlighting B03201856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management. B03201904 B. F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer in Behaviorism. B03201922 Carl Reiner, Comedian/Producer/Director B03201922 Ray Goulding, Comedian B03201922 Jack Kruschen, Actor B03201922 Ray Goulding, Comedian B03201925 John Ehrlichman, Former Nixon White House aide B03201928 Fred Rogers, It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood ... B03201931 Hal Linden, Actor, "Barney Miller" B03201936 Ted Bessell, Actor: That Girl's boyfriend B03201937 Jerry Reed, Singer B03201939 Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister of Canada B03201948 Bobby Orr, Hockey Hall of Famer B03211685 Johann Sebastian Bach, gone for Baroque. B03211768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist. B03211806 Benito Juarez, Mexician leader B03211839 Modest Moussorgsky, composer B03211869 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame. B03211923 Merv Griffin's Bandleader Mort Lindsey B03211930 James Coco, Actor/Comedian B03211934 Al Freeman Jr. B03211939 Kathleen Widdoes B03221913 Karl Malden, Actor B03221920 Werner Klemperer, Actor: Hogan's Heroes. Col. Klink B03221923 Marcel Marceau, Mime B03221930 Stephen Sondheim, Composer-lyricist B03221931 William Shatner, Capt. Kirk, himself B03221934 Sen. Orrin Hatch. R Utah B03221936 May Britt, German actress and former wife of Sammy Davis Jr. B03221942 Barbara Parkins, Actress: Peyton Place B03221943 George Benson, Singer-guitarist B03221948 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer B03231904 Joan Crawford, No wire hangers, ever! B03231910 Akira Kurosawa, Movie director B03231912 Wernher Von Braun, Rocket Scientist B03231922 Marty Allen, Comedian B03231926 Martha Wright, Seattle Washington B03231953 Chaka Khan, Rocker, Great Lakes Ill B03231954 Moses Malone, Basketball player B03241855 Andrew W. Mellon, financier B03241902 Thomas E. Dewey, Ohio politician B03241925 Norman Fell, Actor: 3's Company landlord, Mr. Roper B03241930 Steve McQueen, actor B03241940 Bob Mackie, Costume Designer B03241954 Robert Carradine, Actor B03251867 Arturo Toscanini, conductor B03251881 Bela Bartok, composer B03251920 Howard Cosell, Sportscaster B03251921 Nancy Kelly, Lowell Mass B03251921 Simone Signoret, Weisbaden Germany B03251934 Gloria Steinem, Feminist, Toledo, Ohio B03251940 Anita Bryant, Oklahoma, Former Miss America candidate B03251942 Aretha Franklin, Singer, in Memphis Tenn. B03251947 Elton John, Singer B03251948 Bonnie Bedelia, New York B03251953 Mary Gross of Saturday Night Live, Chicago Illinois B03261874 Robert Frost, poet. B03261911 Tennessee Williams, Playwright, in Columbus Miss. B03261914 Gen. William Westmoreland B03261924 Bob Elliott, Comedian, of Bob and Ray B03261925 Pierre Boulez, French composer. B03261930 Sandra Day O'Conner, Supreme Court Justice B03261931 Leonard Nimoy, Actor/Director B03261934 Alan Arkin B03261939 James Caan, Actor B03261942 Author Erica Jong New York City B03261943 Bob Woodward, Washington Post reporter B03261944 Diana Ross, Detroit Michigan, the Supremes B03261948 Steve Tyler, Rock singer B03261949 Vicki Lawrence, California, The Carol Burnette show B03261950 Teddy Pendergrass, Singer B03271813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (of Currier & Ives.) B03271863 Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce. B03271892 Ferde Grofe, composer B03271899 Gloria Swanson, Actress B03271912 James Callaghan, British Prime Minister B03271914 Snooky Lanson, Singer B03271917 Cyrus R. Vance, Secretary of State B03271924 Sarah Vaughn, Newark NJ B03271927 Anthony Lewis, Newspaper columnist B03271934 Arthur Mitchell, Dance company director B03271939 Cale Yarborough, Auto racer B03271942 Michael York, Actor B03271952 Maria Schneider, Actress: Last Tango in Paris B03281903 Rudolf Serkin, pianist B03281914 Edmund S. Muskie, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State B03281922 Dirk Bogarde, Actor B03281928 Zbigniew Brzezinski, National security adviser B03281933 Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) B03281944 Ken Howard, actor B03281955 Reba McEntire, Country singer B03281967 Jim Collins, Chairman of the Bored and Member of the Banned B03291790 John Tyler, 10th President from 1841 - 1845. B03291819 Edwin Drake, drilled first productive oil well in US. B03291867 Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever (509 wins, 1890-1911). B03291916 Eugene McCarthy, U.S. Senator B03291918 Pearl Bailey, Singer B03291919 Eileen Heckart, Colombus Ohio B03291939 Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong B03291956 Dianne Kay, Phoenix Arizona B03301719 Sir John Hawkins, wrote first history of music in English. B03301746 Francisco Jose de Goya, artist B03301853 Vincent van Gogh, artist who always lent an ear. B03301913 Frankie Laine, Singer B03301919 McGeorge Bundy, National security adviser B03301930 Peter Marshall, former host of "Hollywood Squares" B03301930 John Astin, Actor B03301937 Warren Beatty, Actor B03301945 Eric Clapton, Rocker B03311596 Rene Descartes, he thought, therefore he was. B03311732 Franz Josef Haydn, composer, helped develop the Classical style. B03311809 Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam." B03311811 Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, of burner fame B03311854 Sir Dugald Clerk, inventor of the 2-stroke motorcycle engine. B03311915 Henry Morgan, Actor B03311922 Richard Kiley, Actor B03311927 Cesar Chavez, Labor leader B03311927 William Daniels, St. Elsewhere's Dr. Mark Craig B03311928 Gordie Howe, hockey player B03311934 Shirley Jones, Pennsylvania. Head of the Partridge Family B03311935 Herb Alpert, A & M Music executive and Tijuana Brass leader B03311935 Richard Chamberlain, Dr. Kildare and mini series actor B03311940 Sen. Patrick Leahy D-Vt. B03311943 Christopher Walken, Actor B03311945 Gabe Kaplan, Actor: "Welcome Back Kotter" B03311948 Rhea Perlman, Actress, Brooklyn *-------- ------------------------------------------------------------ *mmddyyyy Reminders R0301 International Hamburger & Pickle Month. R0303 Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival), celebrated in Japan. R0303 Independence Day, celebrated in Morocco. R0311 Johnny Appleseed Day. R0315 The day the buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio. R0315 Beware the Ides of March! R0317 St. Patrick's Day R0317 Evacuation Day (celebrated in Boston) R0319 The day the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano, CA. R0320 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0320 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0320 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0321 The First Day of Spring... Tra-la Tra-la. R0321 The start of the Persian New Year. R0321 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0321 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0321 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0322 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0322 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0322 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0323 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0323 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0323 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0324 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0324 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0324 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0325 Independence Day, celebrated in Greece. R0325 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0325 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0325 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0326 Prince Kuhio Day (celebrated in Hawaii). R0326 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0326 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0326 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday. R0330 6Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins at 2AM Sunday. R0331 6Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins at 2AM Sunday. R0331 7Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins tomorrow morning. R0331 7Set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Tomorrow. *-------- ------------------------------------------------------------ *mmddyyyy Events S03011781 The Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress. S03011784 E. Kidner opens the first cooking school, in Great Britain. S03011790 First U.S. census begins. S03011803 Ohio becomes the 17th state. S03011864 Patent issued for taking & projecting motion pictures to Louis S03011864CDucos du Hauron (he never did build such a machine, though.) S03011867 Nebraska becomes the 37th state. S03011879 Library of Hawaii founded. S03011927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank. S03011937 First permanent automobile license plates issued, Ct. S03011947 International Monetary Fund begins operations. S03011969 Mickey Mantle announces his retirement. S03021861 Congress creates the Territory of Nevada. S03021901 First telegraph company in Hawaii opens. S03021923 Time magazine first published. S03021929 US Court of Customs & Patent Appeals created by US Congress. S03021949 First non-stop, round-the-world airplane flight completed S03021949 First street light on automatic system - New Milford, Conn. S03021974 First Class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents. S03021978 Russians' Soyuz 28 is launched. S03031634 First tavern in Boston is opened. S03031791 Congress passes a resolution ordering U.S. Mint be established. S03031812 Congress passes first foreign aid bill. S03031845 Florida becomes the 27th state. S03031849 Gold Coinage Act passed, allowing gold coins to be minted. S03031851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin, the 3-cent piece. S03031875 A 20-cent coin is authorized by Congress (It only lasted 3 years). S03031885 American Telephone and Telegraph incorporated. S03031923 Time magazine publishes their first issue. S03031931 "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes U.S. national anthem. S03031943 U.S. wins Battle of Bismark Sea over Japan. S03031945 U.S. and Philippine forces recapture Corregidor. S03031956 Morocco gains its independence. S03031969 Apollo 9 is launched. S03031972 Pioneer 10 launched. S03031985 TV Show "Moonlighting" premieres. S03041681 Pennsylvania is deeded to William Penn. S03041789 Congress declares the Constitution to be in effect. S03041791 Vermont becomes the 14th state. S03041792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii. S03041826 First railroad in US chartered, the Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass S03041861 Confederate States of America adopted "Stars and Bars" flag. S03041930 Mrs. Charles Fahning of Buffalo, New York, becomes first woman to S03041930Cbowl a perfect game under sanctioned competition rules. S03041933 Roosevelt inaugurated, says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" S03041954 First Black U.S. sub-cabinet member appointed - J.E. Wilkins S03041960 Lucille Ball files for divorce from Desi Arnaz. S03051770 Boston Massacre - 5 people killed. S03051845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US. S03051900 The American Hall of Fame is founded. S03051946 "Iron Curtain" speech by Winston Churchill. S03051956 King Kong first televised. S03051979 Voyager I flies past Jupiter. S03061665 "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" was first S03061665Cpublished, and is still published today. S03061836 The Alamo falls. Remember it! S03061930 Clarence Birdseye puts the first individually packaged frozen S03061930Cfoods on sale, in Springfield, Mass. S03061981 Russians' Soyuz 39 returns to Earth. S03071848 In Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed. S03071850 Daniel Webster endorses the Compromise of 1850 S03071870 The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first pro baseball team, S03071870Cbegins an 8 month tour of the Midwest and the East. S03071876 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his telephone. S03071911 US sends 20,000 troops to the Mexican border. S03071926 Transatlantic phone service begins between New York and London. S03071933 The game "Monopoly" is invented. S03071936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles by sending troops to Rhineland. S03071945 During World War II, U.S. forces cross the Rhine River. S03071955 Mary Martin as Peter Pan is televised. S03071959 First aviator to fly a million miles in a jet airplane - M.C. Garlow S03071965 March by civil rights demonstrators is broken up in Selma, Ala. S03071975 Senate revises filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate S03071977 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets with President Carter. S03071981 Walter Cronkite's final appearance as CBS anchor. S03071986 Former Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., dies in Palm Beach, Fla. S03081862 The Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched. S03081910 Baroness de Laroche of Paris becomes first licensed female pilot. S03081946 First helicopter licensed for commercial use - NY city S03081950 First woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel - B.R. Walters S03081959 Groucho, Chico and Harpo's final TV appearance together. S03091661 Cardinal Jules Mazarin, the chief minister of France, dies S03091796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais. S03091822 US grants first patent for artificial teeth to Charles Graham. S03091860 First Japanese ambassador to the US is appointed. S03091862 The ironclads "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle S03091862Cin Hampton Roads. It was a standoff. S03091954 Edward R. Murrow criticizes Sen McCarthy on "See it Now." S03101847 First money minted in Hawaii. S03101876 The first telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell. S03101888 The Salvation Army of England sends group to U.S. to begin S03101888Cwelfare and religious activity here. S03101933 Big earthquake in Long Beach (W.C. Fields is making a movie when S03101933Cit strikes & the cameras keep running). S03101948 First civilian to exceed speed of sound -H.H. Houver, Edwards AFB Ca S03101978 Russians' Soyuz 28 returns to Earth. S03111302 According to Shakespeare, this is Romeo and Juliet's wedding day. S03111810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise. S03111847 John Chapman 'Johnny Appleseed' dies in Allen County, Ind. S03111861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, Ala., adopts constitution. S03111865 Union forces under Gen. Sherman occupied Fayetteville, N.C. S03111867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii). S03111888 Blizzard strikes the northeastern United States. 400 people die. S03111892 First public game of basketball. S03111930 Former President & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington S03111941 Pres FDR signs into law the Lend Lease Bill. S03111942 Gen. Douglas MacArthur leaves Bataan for Australia. S03111953 First woman doctor commissioned in regular army - F.M. Adams S03111958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21." S03111985 Soviet Union announces death of its leader Konstantin Chernenko. S03111985CMikhail S. Gorbachev becomes Communist Party general secretary. S03121664 NJ becomes a British colony. S03121850 First $20 Gold piece issued. S03121912 The first Girl Scout troop is organized in Atlanta, GA. S03121925 Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen dies. S03121930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200-mile march protesting British salt tax S03121936 President Franklin Roosevelt holds his first "Fireside Chat." S03121938 Germany invades Austria. S03121939 Pope Pius XII is crowned in ceremonies at the Vatican. S03121940 Finland surrenders to the Soviet Union during World War II. S03121959 House joins the Senate in approving statehood for Hawaii. S03121963 Bob Dylan cancels appearance on Ed Sullivan. S03121969 Beatle Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman in London. S03121977 Sadat pledges to regain Arab terrority from Israel. S03121980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murders of 33 men and boys. S03121981 Russians' Soyuz T-4 is launched. S03131639 Harvard University is named for clergyman John Harvard. S03131781 Planet Uranus is discovered by Sir William Herschel. S03131852 The New York Lantern publishes the first cartoon showing the S03131852Ccharacter "Uncle Sam," based on a real U.S. officer who served S03131852Cin the war of 1812, Samuel Wilson. S03131868 Impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson begins in the Senate. S03131884 Standard Time is adopted throughout the United States. S03131901 Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president, dies in Indianapolis. S03131906 American suffragist Susan B. Anthony dies. S03131925 Tennessee law prohibits teaching of evolution. S03131928 400 people die in California after the St. Francis Dam bursts. S03131938 Famed attorney Clarence S. Darrow dies. S03131969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth. S03131970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer. S03131985 Funeral services held in Moscow for leader Konstantin Chernenko. S03141743 First town meeting in America was held at Boston's Faneuil Hall. S03141794 Eli Whitney receives patent for cotton gin. S03141883 German political philosopher Karl Marx dies. S03141923 President Harding becomes first chief executive to file S03141923Can income tax report. S03141931 First theatre built for rear projection of motion pictures, NY city S03141951 During the Korean War, United Nations forces recaptured Seoul. S03141964 Dallas Jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald. S03141965 Israel's cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany. S03141967 Body of JFK moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial. S03141975 Susan Hayward dies at age 56. S03141980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers.) S03141983 OPEC cut oil prices for the first time in 23 years. S03151820 Maine becomes the 23rd state. S03151892 NY State unveils the Automatic Ballot Cabinet (The Voting Machine.) S03151913 Woodrow Wilson holds the first Presidential Press Conference. S03151937 First blood bank established, Chicago, Ill. S03151937 First state contraceptive clinic opened, Raleigh, N.C. S03151960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park.) S03151968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold. S03151986 First all-color television station to televise live local programs. S03151999 Pluto again to become the outermost planet. S03161802 Congress establishes West Point Military Academy in New York. S03161945 U.S. forces defeat Japanese at Iwo Jima. S03161966 Gemini VIII is launched. S03161978 Russians' Soyuz 26 returns to Earth. S03170461 St. Patrick - the patron saint of Ireland - dies in Saul. S03171756 St. Patrick's Day first celebrated in New York City, at the S03171756CCrown and Thistle Tavern. S03171776 British forces evacuate Boston during the Revolutionary War. S03171905 Eleanor Roosevelt marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York. S03171906 President Theodore Roosevelt uses the term "muckrake." S03171910 Camp Fire Girls organization is formed. S03171941 National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C. S03171950 Element 98 - Californium, announced. S03171958 The U.S. Navy launches the Vanguard 1 satellite. S03171963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY is beatified. Later sainted in 1975. S03171966 US sub locates missing hydrogen bomb in Mediterranean. S03171969 Golda Meir becomes Prime Minister of Israel. S03171970 US casts first veto in UN Security Council. (Support England) S03171982 4 Dutch television crew members are shot dead in El Salvador S03181766 Britain repeals the Stamp Act. S03181850 American Express founded. S03181881 Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison S03181881CSquare Garden in New York City. S03181909 Einar Dessau of Denmark first broadcast by a "ham" operator. S03181919 The Order of DeMolay is established in Kansas City. S03181922 Mohandas K. Gandhi sentenced in India to six years' imprisonment. S03181931 First electric razor marketed by Schick, Inc. S03181937 400 people, mostly children, killed in a gas explosion in Texas. S03181938 Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties on its soil. S03181952 First plastic lens for cataract patients fitted, Philadelphia Pa. S03181959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Hawaii statehood bill. S03181962 France and Algerian rebels agree to a truce. S03181965 Russia launches 2nd & final Voshkoid-1st spacewalk-Aleksei Leonov. S03181974 Most Arab oil producing nations end US embargo. S03181977 Vietnam hands over MIA to a US delegation. S03181985 Capital Cities Communications Inc. acquires ABC. S03181986 Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money. S03191859 "Faust" by Charles Gounod premieres in Paris. S03191895 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service. S03191917 US Supreme Court upholds the eight-hour work day for railroads. S03191918 Congress approves daylight saving time. S03191920 US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for second time S03191928 'Amos and Andy' debuts on radio. S03191931 Nevada legalizes gambling. S03191942 FDR orders men between 45 and 64 register for non-military duty. S03191945 800 people killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan. S03191949 First museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tn S03191951 Herman Wouk's war novel The Caine Mutiny is published. S03191953 Academy Awards ceremony telecast for the first time. S03191954 First rocket-driven sled on rails tested, Alamogordo, N.M. S03191974 Anne Klein dies at age 50. S03191976 Buckingham Palace announces separation of Princess Margaret. S03191979 US House of Representatives begins TV broadcasts of its S03191979Cday-to-day business. C-SPAN is born. S03191981 2 workers killed in accident, testing space shuttle Columbia. S03191984 TV Show "Kate and Allie" premieres. S03191987 PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns. S03201727 Sir Isaac Newton dies in London. S03201815 Napoleon enters Paris, beginning his Hundred Days rule. S03201833 US and Siam conclude a commercial treaty. S03201852 "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published. S03201896 US Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens. S03201899 Martha Place of Brooklyn, becomes first woman to die S03201899Cby electrocution. S03201942 Gen. Douglas MacArthur vows, "I shall return!" S03201948 First live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90 S03201948Cminutes by second live televised musical Arturo Toscvanni on NBC S03201956 156-day strike against Westinghouse ends. S03201963 First "Pop Art" exhibition in New York City. S03201969 Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. S03201976 Patricia Hearst is convicted of armed robbery. S03201980 US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran. S03201981 Jean Harris sentenced 15 to life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr. S03211804 French civil code, the Code Napoleon, is adopted. S03211851 Yosemite Valley is discovered in California. S03211891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ending a long feud in W. VA. S03211918 During World War I Germany launches the Somme Offensive. S03211945 During WW II Allied bombers begin 4 days of raids over Germany. S03211946 UN sets up temporary headquarters at Hunter College in the Bronx. S03211963 Alcatraz federal pen in San Francisco Bay is closed. S03211965 Martin Luther King Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. S03211984 Harley Race defeats Richard Fliehr (better known as "Nature Boy S03211984CRic Flair") for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in S03211984CWellington, New Zealand. This begin Race's 8th NWA title reign. S03221638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from S03221638CMassachusetts Bay Colony. S03221733 Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water. S03221765 Britain enacts the Stamp Act. S03221820 US naval hero Stephen Decatur killed in a duel with Commander S03221820CJames Barron. S03221882 Congress outlaws polygamy. S03221929 USCG vessel sinks Canadian-reg schooner suspected of S03221929Ccarrying liquor. S03221941 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state goes into operation. S03221968 President Johnson's daughter, Lynda, ordered off Cable Car S03221968Cbecause she was eating an ice cream cone (no food on cars!). S03221972 Congress approves the Equal Rights Amendment, states never ratify. S03221977 Indira Gandhi resigns as prime minister of India. S03221979 Israel's parliament approves a peace treaty with Egypt. S03221981 First Class Postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents. S03221981 Russians' Soyuz 39 is launched - First Mongolian in space. S03221982 Third Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 is launched. S03221983 Chaim Herzog elected president of Israel. S03231743 George Frideric Handel's oratorio ÐÐMessiah'' London premiere. S03231752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, dies 2 days later. S03231775 Patrick Henry says "Give me liberty or give me death." S03231806 Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific coast. S03231901 Dame Nellie Melba, Australian Opera Singer, reveals secret S03231901Cof her now famous toast. S03231919 Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist movement in Milan Italy. S03231929 First telephone installed in the White House. S03231933 German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers. S03231942 US begins moving Japanese-Americans to detention centers. S03231956 Pakistan becomes independent within the British Commonwealth. S03231965 Gemini III is launched the first of the Gemini two-manned missions. S03231983 First Artificial heart recipient Dr. Barney Clark dies, S03231983Cafter 112 days S03231984 Richard Fliehr (better known as "Nature Boy Ric Flair") defeats S03231984CHarley Race for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in S03231984CSingapore. This begins Fliehr's 3rd NWA World Title reign. S03241765 Britain enacts the Quartering Act. S03241882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus, cause of TB. S03241934 FDR grants future independence to the Philippines. S03241944 In occupied Rome, the Nazis execute more than 300 civilians. S03241949 Walter Huston and son John become first father-and-son team S03241949Cto win Oscars as actor and director of "Treasure of Sierra Madre." S03241955 First oil drill seagoing rig is placed in service. S03241955 Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens on Broadway. S03241958 Elvis Presley is inducted into the Army in Memphis Tenn. S03241972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland. S03241976 Argentine pres. Isabel Peron is deposed by her country's military. S03241981 "Nightline" with Ted Koppel premieres. S03241986 US and Libya clash in the Gulf of Sidra. S03251821 Greece gains its independence. S03251913 New York City's famed Palace Theatre opens its doors for the S03251913Cfirst time. S03251913 The Great Dayton Flood. S03251954 RCA manufactures the first COLOR television set. S03251960 First guided missile launched from nuclear S03251960Cpowered submarine (Halibut) S03261804 La Purchase divided into Territory of Orleans & Dist of Louisiana. S03261827 Composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna. S03261878 Hastings College of Law founded. S03261885 Eastman Film Company manufacturs first commercial motion S03261885Cpicture film. S03261892 Poet Walt Whitman dies in Camden, New Jersey. S03261937 Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect a statue of Popeye. S03261951 U.S. Air Force flag approved. S03261953 Dr. Jonas Salk announces new vaccine to immunize people S03261953Cagainst polio. S03261958 Army launches US's third successful satellite, Explorer III. S03261962 Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats S03261962Cin State Legislatures. S03261971 E Pakistan proclaims independence, taking the name Bangladesh. S03261979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt is signed. S03261982 Groundbreaking in Washington DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial. S03271512 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Florida. S03271625 Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, ascends S03271625Cthe throne. S03271794 President Washington and Congress authorize creation of US Navy. S03271836 First Mormon temple is dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio. S03271860 M.L. Byrn of New York patents a corkscrew. S03271912 First Japanese cherry trees planted in Washington, D.C. S03271917 The Seattle Metropolitans become the first U.S. hockey team S03271917Cto win the Stanley Cup, defeating the Montreal Canadiens. S03271933 Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized. S03271945 Gen. Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken. S03271958 Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and first sect of S03271958CCommunist Party. S03271964 Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on the Richter scale, 100 killed. S03271968 Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, first man to orbit earth, dies in a S03271968Cplane crash. S03271977 582 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM 747 crashes into S03271977CPan Am 747 on a foggy runway. S03271977 Diana Hyland dies at age 40. S03281794 Nathaniel Briggs gets patent for the washing machine. S03281834 Senate censures President Jackson for taking federal deposits S03281834Cfrom Bank of US. S03281930 Cities of Constantinople & Angora changed to Istanbul & Ankara. S03281939 Spanish Civil War ends as Madrid falls to Francisco Franco. S03281941 Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf dies. S03281942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St. Nazaire. S03281943 Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff dies. S03281953 Athlete Jim Thorpe dies. S03281969 Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president, dies in Washington S03281969Cat age 78. S03281979 Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island near Middletown, Pa. S03291848 Niagara Falls stops flowing -- for 1 day -- because of an ice jam. S03291886 Coca-Cola is created (with cocaine) (really!) S03291961 23rd Amendment ratified, Pres. vote for District of Columbia. S03291973 Last U.S. troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs. after the Tonkin Resolution. S03301822 Florida becomes a United States territory. S03301842 Dr. C. Long first uses ether as an anesthetic during a S03301842Cminor operation. S03301853 Patent granted to Hyman Lipman for a pencil with an ERASER! S03301867 Secretary of State Seward purchases Alaska for $7.2 million. S03301870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race. S03301870 Texas is readmitted into the Union. S03301909 Queensboro Bridge is opened, linking Manhattan and Queens. S03301932 Amelia Earhart is first woman to make solo crossing of the Atlantic. S03301945 The Soviet Union invades Austria during World War II. S03301950 Invention of phototransistor announced, Murray Hill, N.J. S03301964 John Glenn withdraws from the Ohio race for the U.S. Senate. S03301973 Ellsworth Bunker resigned as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam. S03301981 President Reagan is shot and wounded by John W. Hinckley Jr. S03301982 Third Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 returns to Earth. S03301984 US ends participation in multinational peace force in Lebanon. S03301986 James Cagney dies at his farm in Stanfordville N.Y. at age 86. S03311831 Quebec and Montreal are incorporated as cities. S03311870 Thomas P. Mundy becomes the 1st black to vote in US (Perth S03311870CAmboy NJ) S03311880 Wabash Ind. becomes the first town completely illuminated S03311880Cwith electric light. S03311889 The Eiffel Tower in Paris is officially opened to the public. S03311917 US takes possession of the Virgin Islands from Denmark. S03311923 First dance marathon - NYC - Alma Cummings setting record of 27 hrs S03311932 Ford Motor Co. publicly unveils its V-8 engine. S03311933 Congress authorizes the Civilian Conservation Corps. S03311933 First newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Ga) S03311943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!" opens on Broadway. S03311949 Newfoundland enters confederation as Canada's 10th province. S03311953 UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjold secretary-general. S03311958 U.S. navy forms atomic submarine division. S03311968 Pres L. B. Johnson announces he will not seek re election. S03311976 Supreme Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected S03311976Cfrom respirator. S03311980 Jesse Owens of 1936 Berlin Olympics fame dies in Az. at 66. S03311986 167 die when a Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes in Los Angeles. END