S08011790 First U.S. Census
S08011794 Whisky Rebellion
S08011946 President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission.
S0801     Confederation Day, celebrated in Switzerland
S08021923 President Harding dies at the Palace Hotel.
S08031492 Columbus sets sail for 'the Indies'.
S08041693 Champagne is invented by Dom Perignon.
S08041790 United States Coast Guard founded.
S08051861 US levies it's first Income Tax.
S08051864 Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Donati.
S08051963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed.
S08061835 Bolivia gains it's independence
S08061926 the first woman swims the English Channel.
S08061945 the Atom Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
S0806     Independence Day, celebrated in Bolivia.
S08071807 1st servicable steamboat goes on 1st voyage.
S08071820 Potatoes first planted in Hawaii.
S08091803 1st horses arrive in Hawaii.
S08091842 the US-Canada border defined.
S08091945 Atom Bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
S08091974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency.
S08101809 Ecuador gains it's independence.
S08101981 Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's record of 3630 hits.
S0810     Independence Day, celebrated in Ecuador
S08111888 The California Theatre closed.
S08121851 Issac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine.
S08131876 Reciprocity Treaty between US and Hawaii ratified.
S08131989 International Left-handers Day
S08141846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance.
S08141945 VJ Day - Japan surrendered to end World War II.
S08151945 South Korea liberated from Japanese rule.
S08151960 the Congo (Brazzaville) gains it's independence.
S0815     Independence Day, celebrated in the Congo.
S0815     Liberation Day, celebrated in South Korea.
S08161969 Woodstock festival begins in New York.
S08171950 Indonesia gains it's independence.
S0817     Independence Day, celebrated in Indonesia
S08191826 Canada Co. chartered to colonize Upper Canada.
S08191960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR.
S0819     Aviation Day
S08201977 Voyager II launched.
S08211959 Hawaii became the 50th state.
S08211968 Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
S08221787 John Fitch's steamboat completes it's tests,
S08221787 years before Fulton builds his steamboat.
S08231872 1st Japanese commercial ship visits San Francisco.
S08231889 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US
S0824  79 Pompeii is buried.
S08241814 British sack Washington, DC.
S08241869 the Waffle Iron is invented.
S08241909 Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
S08241989 Voyager II flies past Neptune.
S08251825 Uruguay gains it's independence.
S08251929 Graf Zeppelin passes over San Francisco, headed for
S08251929 L.A. after trans-Pacific voyage from Tokyo.
S08251981 Voyager II flies past Saturn.
S0825     Independence Day, celebrated in Uruguay.
S08261791 John Fitch granted a US patent for his steamboat.
S08261920 19th Amendment passes - Women's Suffrage granted.
S08271859 1st successful oil well drilled in Penn.
S08271883 Krakatoa, WEST of Java, blew apart.
S08271928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, 60 nations agreed to outlaw war.
S08291914 1st vessel arrives in SF via the Panama Canal.
S08291954 San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens.
S08301850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city.
S08301979 1st recorded occurrance of a comet hitting the sun.
S08301979 was about equal to 1 million hydrogen bombs.
S08311886 Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized.
S08311980 Solidarity Labor Union in Poland is founded.
B08011770 William Clark, explored Pacific Northwest with Lewis.
B08011779 Francis Scott Key, wrote the 'Star-Spangled Banner'.
B08031811 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the safe elevator.
B08011815 Richard Henry Dana, spent 2 years before the mast.
B08041755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, invented the modern pencil.
B08051930 Neil Armstrong, 1st Moonwalker
B08061809 Lord Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate of England.
B08061881 Sir Alexander Fleming, cashed in on penicillin
B08071783 John Heathcoat, invented lace-making machinery
B08071886 Louis Alan Hazeltine, invented the neutrodyne
B0807     circuit, making commercial radio possible.
B08081763 Charles Bullfinch, 1st US professional architect
B08081922 Rudi Gernreich, designed topless swimsuit & miniskirt
B08091930 Betty Boop
B08101874 Herbert Hoover, 31st President (1929-1933)
B08121881 Cecil B. deMille, directed God.
B08121911 Mario Moreno, alias Cantinflas.
B08131655 Johann Christoph Denner, invented the clarinet.
B08131818 Lucy Stone, pioneer in Woman's Rights.
B08131860 Annie Oakley
B08151769 Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba
B08151803 Sir James Douglas, father of British Columbia.
B08151912 Julia Child, chef.
B08161884 Hugo Gernsback, science fiction writer.
B08161892 Harold Foster, cartoonist, created "Prince Valiant".
B08171786 Davy Crockett
B08171892 Mae West.  Go up and see her sometime.
B08181618 Virginia Dare, 1st foreign child born in America.
B08181834 Marshall Field, founded a Chicago-based store chain.
B08191646 John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England.
B08191785 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks.
B08191871 Orville Wright
B08201833 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President (1889-1893)
B08211660 Hubert Gautier, wrote 1st book on bridge building.
B08221862 Claude Debussy, composer
B08221920 Ray Bradbury, science fiction author.
B08241816 Sir Daniel Gooch, laid 1st trans-Atlantic cables
B08241886 William Francis Gibbs,  designed Liberty ships
B08261873 Lee De Forest, invented the radio tube.
B08271882 Samuel Goldwyn, pioneer filmmaker
B08271899 C.S. Forester, created Horatio Hornblower
B08271908 Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President (1963-1969)
B08281749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, social philosopher
B08301797 Mary Shelley, wrote Frankenstein
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