S0701     Dominion Day -- Canada
B0701     "Wolfman Jack", a howling success in radio
S07011535 Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason
B07011646 Gottfried W Leibnitz, mathematician-philosopher
B07011804 George Sand, French Romantic novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro).
S07011847 1st adhesive US postage stamps go on sale
S07011850 At least 626 ships lying at anchor around San Francisco Bay.
B07011853 Cecil John Rhodes, South African politician, diamond merchant.
S07011863 Battle of Gettysburg, PA - Lee's northward advance halted.
S07011867 Dominion of Canada formed.
S07011873 Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province.
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
B07011916 Olivia DeHaviland, actress, in Tokyo, (Robin Hood)
S07011919 First Class Postage DROPS to 2 cents from 3 cents.
B07011941 Twyla Tharp, choreographer
S07011941 1st TV licenses granted: W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), New York
S07011943 first automatic withholding tax from paychecks
S07011944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing world-wide financial systems (like the IMF and the World Bank).
B07011952 Dan Akroyd, comedian, actor (SNL)
S07011960 Ghana becomes a republic.
S07011960 Italian Somalia gains independence, unites with Somali Republic.
S07011962 Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days).
S07011966 Medicare goes into effect.
S07011968 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Trea
S07011969 Charles Philip Arthur George invested as the Prince of Wales
S07011971 Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?).
S07011982 Kosmos 1383, 1st search and rescue satellite, launched.
S0702     Midpoint of the year (noon, or following midnight in leap year)
B0702 419 Valentinian III, Roman emperor (425-55).
B07021877 Hermann Hesse, Swiss novelist, poet (Steppenwolf) (Nobel 1946).
S07021890 Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies.
S07021900 first flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1).
B07021906 Hans Bethe, physicist (Nobel 1967), peace worker.
S07021926 US Army Air Corps created
S07021937 Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean
S07021957 1st submarine built to fire guided missiles launched, "Grayback"
S07021964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
S07021976 Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
S07021985 Proto launched on its way to Halley's Comet
S0703     Dog Days begin.
B07031567 Samuel de Champlain, explorer
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.
B07031883 Franz Kafka, Czech, author (Metamorphosis, The Trial, Amerika)
S07031890 Idaho becomes 43rd state.
S07031898 US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in the harbor at Santiago Cuba
S07031962 Algeria becomes independent after 132 years of French rule
S07031983 Calvin Smith (US) becomes fastest man alive (36.25 kph for 100 m)
S07031986 Renovated Statue of Liberty is rededicated with great ceremony.
S0704     United States Independence Day
S07041054 Brightest known super-nova starts shining, for 23 days.
S07041057 Crab Nebula supernova recorded by Chinese & Japanese astronomers.
B07041753 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights.
S07041776 Declaration of Independence - US gains independence from Britain
S07041802 US Military Academy officially openes at West Point, NY
B07041804 Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (The Scarlet Letter)
B07041807 Giuseppe Garibaldi, unifier of Italy.
B07041826 Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna"
S07041828 first US passenger railroad started, The Baltimore & Ohio
S07041845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond.
S07041862 Lewis Carroll begins inventing "Alice in Wonderland" for his friend Alice Pleasance Liddell during a boating trip
S07041863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho).
B07041867 Stephen Mather, organizer of the US National Park Service.
B07041872 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-1929)
S07041876 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco.
B07041878 George M. Cohan, American songwriter, playwright, producer.
S07041882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens.
B07041883 Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult.
S07041884 Statue of Liberty is presented to theUnited States, in Paris.
S07041894 Republic of Hawaii established.
S07041894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the first US autos
B07041900 Louis Armstrong, 'Satchmo'
S07041903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens. President Roosevelt sends a message to the Phillipines, then a message around the world in 12 minutes.
B07041916 Tokyo Rose, radio personality
S07041933 Work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge.
S07041946 Philippines gains independence from US
S07041965 Mariner 4 flies past Mars, sends first close-up photos.
S07041967 Freedom of Information Act goes into effect
S07041976 Raid on Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
S0705     Earth at aphelion.
S07051687 Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA is published by Royal Society in England
B07051794 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker
B07051801 David G Farragut, American naval hero, in Knoxville Tenn
B07051810 P.T. Barnum, showman.
S07051811 Venezuela gains independence from Spain.
S07051859 Captain N.C. Brooks discovers Midway Islands.
S07051865 William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England.
B07051891 John Northrop, US biochemist, crystallized enzymes (Nobel 1946).
B07051909 Andrei Gromyko, diplomat.
B07051926 Jan˘s Starker, Hungarian cellist.
S07051935 first Hawaii Calls radio program is broadcast.
S07051938 Herb Caen gets his first column in the S.F. Chronicle.
S07051944 first rocket airplane flown
S07051950 Law of Return passes allowing all Jews rights to live in Israel
S07051951 Junction transistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ
S07051975 Cape Verde Islands independent, 500 years under Portuguese rule
S07051978 Soyuz 30 is launched
B07061747 John Paul Jones, "I have not yet begun to fight"
B07061796 Nicholas I, tsar of Russia (1825-55).
S07061885 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur
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.
B07061937 Vladimir Ashkenazy, concert pianist.
S07061964 Malawi (then Nyasaland) gains independence from Britain
S07061975 Comoros Islands gain independence from France (most of them).
S07061976 Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station.
B07071752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented the programmable loom.
S07071846 United States annexs California
B07071860 Gustav Mahler, Bohemian composer
B07071887 Marc Chagall in Vitebsk Russia, artist
S07071891 A patent was granted for the travelers cheque.
S07071898 Hawaii annexed to the United States.
B07071907 Robert A. Heinlein, who helped develop Science Fiction as a sophisticated mode of literary expression.
B07071922 Pierre Cardin Fashion designer
S07071930 Construction began on Boulder (later Hoover) Dam
S07071946 Mother Frances X Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
S07071978 Solomon Islands gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S07071980 first solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel.
S07071990 The world's 3 greatest tenors: Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti appear together, for the only time, in Rome.  Simply ahhhsome!
S07081663 King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island
S07081776 Col. John Nixon gives 1st public reading of Decl of Independence
S07081796 1st American Passport issued by the US State Department.
S07081835 The Liberty Bell cracks (again).
B07081838 Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, inventor
B07081839 John D. Rockefeller
S07081889 Vol 1, No 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" published.
S07081896 William Jennings Bryan makes his 'cross of gold' speech at the Democratic Convention in Chicago.
S07081905 Part of Angel Island (in SF bay ) becomes an Immigration Detention Center (port of entry for immigrants).
S07081907 Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof
S07081947 Demolition begins in New York for headquarters of United Nations
S07081977 Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs).
S07081978 Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus.
S0709     National POW/MIA Recognition Day
S0709     Independence Day, celebrated in Argentina
S07091540 Henry VIII's 6-month marriage to Anne of Cleves is annulled.
B07091802 Thomas Davenport, invented 1st successful electric motor.
S07091816 Argentina gains its independence.
B07091819 Elias Howe, invented sewing machine, in Spencer Mass.
S07091846 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for the U.S.
B07091858 Franz Boas, anthropologist, linguist.
B07091879 Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Pines of Rome).
S07091953 first helicopter passenger service, in New York
S07091957 Announcement of discovery of element 102 - nobelium
S07091979 Voyager II flies past Jupiter.
B07101509 John Calvin, theologian
B07101723 Sir William Blackstone, English jurist, Blackstone's Commentaries
B07101834 James Whistler, artist, mama's boy
B07101856 Nikola Tesla, physicist/visionary, developed alternating current.
B07101867 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist/humorist who created Mr. Dooley.
B07101871 Marcel Proust, French novelist (Remembrance of Things Past).
S07101890 Wyoming becomes the 44th state.
B07101915 Saul Bellow, US novelist (Herzog, Dangling Man) (Nobel 1976).
B07101920 Owen Chamberlain, codiscoverer of the antiproton (Nobel 1959).
S07101925 USSR's official news agency TASS established.
S07101925 The Scopes 'Monkey Trial' on evolution, starts.
S07101940 Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attack by air.
B07101947 Arlo Guthrie, singer (Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans).
S07101962 Telstar, 1st communications satelite launched.
S07101966 Orbiter 1 Launched to moon.
S07101980 Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I. Queen
S07101985 French agents sink Greenpeace "Rainbow Warrior" in New Zealand.
S0711     National Holiday of the People's Republic of Outer Mongolia. (Celebrated mainly in Ulan Bator, yurt capital of Asia)
S07111533 Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII
B07111754 Thomas Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare.
B07111767 John Quincy Adams, 6th President (1825-1829)
S07111798 US Marine Corps is created by an act of Congress
S07111804 Burr and Hamilton duel.  Burr won.
S07111864 Confederate forces, led by Gen J Early, invade Washington DC
B07111899 E.B. White, writer (Charlotte's Web, The Elements of Style).
B07111899 Yasonari Kawabata, Japanese novelist (Thousand Cranes) (Nobel 196
B07111920 Yul Brynner, actor (The King and I, The Ten Commandments).
S07111955 USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado
S07111962 Cosmonaut Micolaev set longevity space flight record-4 days
S07111962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I).
S07111977 Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Martin Luther King
S07111979 US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates.
S07111986 Mary Beth Whitehead christens her surrogate "Baby M", Sara.
B0712 100 B.C. - Roman Emperor Julius C‘sar.  Veni, Vidi, Vici.
S07121543 Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th & last wife).
B07121730 Josiah Wedgewood, English pottery designer, manufacturer.
S07121812 US forces lead by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812).
B07121817 Henry David Thoreau, always had Ralph Waldo Emerson around to bail him out of trouble.
B07121854 George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera, in Waterville NY
S07121862 Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
B07121895 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers
B07121895 R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome
B07121895 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers
B07121904 Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (Residence on Earth) (Nobel 1971).
B07121908 Milton Berle, "Uncle Miltie"
S07121933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour).
B07121934 Van Cliburn Pianist
S07121960 Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched.
S07121960 USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs.
S07121962 Cosmonaut Popovich in space 1st time 2, manned craft in space
S07121977 first free flight test of Space Shuttle Enterprise.
S07121979 Kiribati (Gilbert & Ellice Is.) gains independence from Britain.
S07121984 Geraldine Ferraro, Democrat, becomes the first woman to be a major-party candicate for Vice President.
S0713     Start of the Bon Festival in Japan.
S0713    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
S07131865 Horace Greeley advises readers to "Go west". He meant Michigan.
S07131919 first lighter-than-air transatlantic flight completed.
S07131977 New York City experiences a 25 hr black-out
S07131984 Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m.
S0714     Alpha Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus.
S0714     Bastille Day -- France
S07141771 Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
S07141789 Citizens of Paris storm the (near empty) Bastille prison.
S07141850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration.
S07141853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese.
S07141865 1st ascent of the Matterhorn.
B07141912 Woodie Guthrie, folk singer, common man.
B07141913 Gerald R. Ford, 38th President (1974-1976)
B07141918 Ingmar Bergman, film maker (Through a Glass Darkly).
B07141918 Jay Wright Forrester, invented the computer magnetic core memory
S07141953 first national monument dedicated to a Negro - GW Carver
S07141958 Iraqi army Iraq overthrew monarchy, a Colonel Saddam Hussein.
S07141959 first atomic powered cruiser, the Long Beach, Quincy Mass
S07141965 US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles
S07141987 Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
S0715     National Ice Cream Day
S0715     Saint Swithin's Day
B07151573 Inigo Jones, English architect.
B07151606 Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch painter.
S07151662 Charles II grants a charter to establish Royal Society in London.
B07151779 Clement Moore, American author, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
S07151815 Napoleon Bonaparte captured.
B07151850 St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (Mother Cabrini), first US saint.
S07151870 NW Territories created & Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province.
S07151940 first betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Illinois
S07151954 first US passenger jet transport airplane tested (Boeing 707).
S07151975 Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later.
S0716     the National Blueberry Festival
S0716     Start of SPACEWEEK.
S07161212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain.
S07161548 La Paz, Bolivia is founded.
B07161723 Sir Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter.
B07161746 Giuseppe Piazzi, discovered 1st asteroid, Ceres.
S07161769 Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif.
S07161790 Congress establishes the District of Columbia.
S07161861 1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run.
B07161872 Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, discoverer of South Pole.
B07161888 Frits Zernike, inventor of phase-contrast microscope (Nobel 1953)
B07161911 Ginger Rogers, danced beautifully with Fred Astaire
S07161935 1st automatic parking meter in US installed, Oklahoma City, OK
S07161945 1st atomic blast, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico.
B07161948 Pinchas Zukerman, violinist.
S07161969 Apollo 11, first manned ship to land on the moon is launched with astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins.
S0717     Constitution Day, celebrated in South Korea
S0717     Iraqi National Day.
S0717197? Pioneer 7 launched.
B07171744 Elbridge Gerry, father of the "gerrymander"
B07171763 John Jacob Astor, merchant
S07171821 Spain ceded Florida to US
S07171841 British humor magazine `Punch' 1st published.
S07171850 Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
B07171859 Mu¤oz Rivera, Puerto Rican patriot, journalist.
B07171888 Shmuel Agnon, Israeli novelist (Day Before Yesterday) (Nobel 1966
B07171889 Erle Stanley Gardner, created Perry Mason.
S07171898 Spanish American War ends, in Santiago, Cuba.
B07171900 James Cagney, great tough guy and dancer.
S07171917 British royal family adopts the name `Windsor.'
B07171934 Donald Sutherland, (M*A*S*H)
B07171935 P.D.Q. Bach (Peter Schickele), composer.
S07171945 Potsdam Conference. FDR, Stalin, Churchill hold first meeting.
S07171948 Republic of Korea founded.
S07171954 Construction begins on Disneyland...
S07171955 ... Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County.
S07171959 Tibet abolishes serfdom
S07171962 Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft).
S07171969 Apollo/Soyuz, the first US/USSR linkup in space
S07171984 Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7.
S0718     National Day, celebrated in Spain
S0718  64 The Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle).
S07181536 Pope's authority declared void in England.
B07181811 William Makepeace Thackeray, Victorian novelist, "Vanity Fair"
B07181832 Horatio Alger, whose lads always had enough pluck to succeed.
B07181848 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer
B07181853 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1902).
S07181872 Britain introduces voting by secret ballot.
B07181906 Clifford Odets dramatist
B07181906 S. I. Hayakawa, educator, politician, sleeper
B07181911 Hume Cronyn, stage actor
B07181913 Red Skelton, humorist
B07181921 John Glenn, Jr., first American in orbit
S07181931 first air-conditioned ship launched - "Mariposa"
B07181933 Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (Bratsk Station).
S07181936 Spanish Civil War begans, Francisco Franco leads uprising.
S07181938 Douglas `Wrong Way' Corrigan lands in Ireland-left NY for Calif
S07181955 first electric power generated from atomic energy sold.
S07181966 Carl Sagan turns one billion seconds old
S07181966 Gemini 10 launched.
S07181968 Intel Corporation is incorporated.  Made first microchip.
S07181980 Rohini 1, first Indian satellite, is launched.
S07181984 Svetlana Savitskaya accompanies Vladimir Dzhanibekov on EVA outside Salyut 7, becoming first woman to walk in space.
S07181986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
B07191814 Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt Revolver.
B07191834 Edgar Degas, French impressionist painter.
B07191846 Charles Edward Pickering, pioneer American spectroscopist
S07191848 First Women's Rights Convention. Seneca Falls, NY
B07191865 Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, cofounder of Mayo Clinic.
S07191880 SF Public Library allows patrons to start borrowing books.
B07191896 A.J. Cronin, English author.
S07191935 1st parking meters installed in Oklahoma City business district.
S07191955 "Balclutha" ties up at SF Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum.
S07191961 1st In-flight movie is shown (on TWA).
S0720     Independence Day, celebrated in Columbia
B07201304 Petrarch, poet, in Italy.
S07201810 Columbia gains its independence.
S07201859 admission fee first charged to see a baseball game (50 cents).
S07201871 British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province.
B07201919 Sir Edmund Hillary, one of 1st two men to scale Mt. Everest.
S07201960 1st submerged submarine fires Polaris missile, George Washington
S07201960 USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space.
S07201969 first men land on the moon, aboard Apollo 11 at 09:18 GMT. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin establish Tranquility Base
S07201976 first pictures from Mars surface received (courtesy Viking 2).
S07201977 Voyager 2 launched to the outer solar system.
S07211831 Belgium gains its independence.
S07211873 World's 1st train robbery, by Jesse James.
B07211899 Ernest Hemingway, never asked for whom the bell tolled...
B07211911 Marshall McLuhan, writer (The Medium is the Massage).
B07211920 Isaac Stern, violinist
S07211940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
B07211952 Robin Williams, actor, comedian (Good Morning Vietnam, Mork).
S07211959 first atomic powered merchant ship, Savannah, christened.
S07211961 Mercury 4 is launched into sub-orbital flight
S07211965 Gemini 5 launched atop Titan V with Cooper and Conrad
S07211969 Independence Day, celebrated in Belgium.
S07211969 Neil Armstrong steps onto the moon at 02:56:15 GMT. "It's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
B07221822 Gregor Mendel, geneticist who discovered laws of heredity.
B07221844 Rev. William Archibald Spooner, invented 'spoonerisms'
B07221849 Emma Lazarus, whose poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty
B07221887 Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist (Nobel 1925).
B07221890 Rose Kennedy, mother of John and Robert.
B07221898 Steven Vincent Ben‚t, writer (The Devil and Daniel Webster).
S07221933 Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight.
S07221972 Venera 8 makes a soft landing on Venus.
S0723     National Day, in Egypt.
S07231798 Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt.
S07231829 Typewriter is patented.
B07231834 James Cardinal Gibbons
B07231892 Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74).
S07231904 The Ice Cream Cone is invented.
S07231937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced
S07231968 PLO's 1st hijacking of an EL AL plane
S07231972 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
S07231972 ERTS 1 (Earth Resources Technology Satellite) later called LANDSA launched to start its multi-spectral scans of Earth
S07231980 Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6.
S0724     Pioneer Day in Utah.
S07241701 French make 1st landing at site of Detroit.
S07241704 Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain
B07241783 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from the Spanish
B07241802 Alexandre Dumas, told the Count of Monte Christo how to escape
S07241847 Mormon leader Brigham Young & followers arrive at Salt Lake City,
B07241895 Robert Graves, British poet, historical novelist (I, Claudius).
B07241898 Amelia Earhart, into the wild blue yonder
S07241929 Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounced war
S07241946 US detonates atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll.  See film Radio Bikini.
S07241959 Nixon has the `Kitchen Debate' with Khrushchev
B07251902 Eric Hoffer, US longshoreman, author (The True Believer).
B07251905 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian writer (Nobel 1981).
S07251909 first airplane flight across the English Channel.
S07251952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created.
S07251956 Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after collision with Stockholm.
S07251963 US Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty
S07251973 USSR launches Mars 5
B07251978 Louise Brown, 1st test-tube baby (born under the sign of Pyrex)
S07251981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn, "thousands of rings".
S07251987 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton earth-study satellite.
S0726     Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S0726     The start of the Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree in Athens, Texas
S0726     Independence Day, celebrated in Liberia.
S07261775 Benjamin Franklin becomes the first Postmaster General.
S07261847 Liberia gains its independence.
B07261856 George Bernard Shaw, dramatist (Pygmalion) (Nobel 1925) in Dublin
B07261875 Carl Jung, founded analytic psychology.
S07261887 first book published in Esperanto.  Not a hit.
B07261894 Aldous Huxley, author (Brave New World).
S07261908 Federal Bureau of Investigation established
B07261928 Stanley Kubrick, director (2001, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange)
B07261943 Mick Jagger, never gathers moss
S07261947 Department of Defense established
S07261953 Fidel Castro begins revolution against Batista
S07261953 Korean War Armistice is signed.
S07261956 Egypt seizes the Suez Canal
S07261957 USSR launchs 1st intercontinental multi-stage ballistic missle.
S07261963 US launches Syncom 2, the first geosynchronous satellite
S07261965 Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day).
S07261971 US launches Apollo 15 to the Moon
S07261982 Canada's Anik D1 comsat launched by US delta rocket.
S0727     Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S07271501 Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
S07271694 Bank of England is chartered.
B07271824 Alexandre Dumas fils, French playwright, novelist.
B07271835 GiosuŠ Carducci, Italian poet (Nobel 1906).
S07271836 Adelaide, South Australia founded.
S07271866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long).
S07271940 Billboard magazine starts publishing best-seller's charts.
B07271948 Peggy Fleming, Olympic gold medalist in figure skating
S07271955 Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation.
S07271962 Mariner 2 launched on a flyby mission to venus
S07271969 Pioneer 10 Launched.
S0728     Capricornid meteor shower, radiant in Capricorn.
S0728     Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
B07281165 Ibn al-'Arabi, Muslim mystic, philosopher.
S07281586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe.
S07281821 Peru gains its independence.
S07281849 "Memmon" is first clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of NY
S07281851 total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
B07281866 Beatrix Potter, English children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit).
S07281866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US
S07281868 14th Amendment ratified, citizenship to exslaves.
S07281900 The Hamburger is created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
B07281907 Earl S. Tupper, inventor of Tupperware.
S07281914 Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia - World War I begins.
B07281929 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
S07281931 Congress makes The Star-Spangled Banner our 2nd National Anthem
S07281932 President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment.
S07281933 1st Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee).
B07281958 Terry Fox, runs "Marathon of Hope" across Canada.
S07281964 Ranger 7 launched to the moon; sends back 4308 TV pictures.
S07281973 Skylab 3's astronauts are launched
S07281976 Eldon Joersz & Geo. Morgan set world airspeed record of 3,530 kph
S0729     Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S0729    6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
S07291858 1st commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
B07291869 Booth Tarkington, American novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons).
B07291883 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce), Italian dictator.
B07291905 Clara Bow, silent screen actress (It, Saturday Night Kid).
B07291905 Dag Hammarskj”ld, 2nd UN sec-gen (1953-61) (Nobel 1961).
B07291907 Melvin Belli, San Francisco's 'King of Torts'
S07291914 1st transcontinental phone link.  Between NYC and San Francisco.
S07291920 1st transcontinental airmail flight: New York to San Francisco
S07291957 International Atomic Energy Agency established by UN
S07291978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings.
A07291981 The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana
S07291985 19th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 is launched
S0730     Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S0730    6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
S07301619 The House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed.  1st elective governing body in a British colony.
B07301818 Emily Bront‰, English novelist (Wuthering Heights).
S07301836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii.
B07301863 Henry Ford, began automobile revolution
B07301889 Vladimir Zworykin, electronics engineer, inventor, father of TV.
B07301909 C. Northcote Parkinson, naval historian.
S07301946 1st rocket to attain 100-mile altitude, White Sands, NM
S07301956 Motto of US "In God We Trust" authorized
S07301971 US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium.
S07301980 Vanuatu (then New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain, Fran
S07301983 STS-8 3rd flight of Challenger. 1st night launch & land.
S07301984 STS-14 first flight of the shuttle Discovery.
S0731     Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S0731    6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
S07311498 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad.
S07311588 English fleet attacks Spanish armada
S07311790 1st US Patent granted (for a potash process).
B07311841 Herman Melville, American author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd).
B07311912 Milton Friedman, economist.
S07311948 President Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), NY
S07311964 Ranger 7 transmits the 1st lunar close-up photos before impact
S07311970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending 'Huntley-Brinkley Report' (No more "Goodnight, David", "Goodnight, Chet")