S12011913 1st drive-up gas station opens, in Pittsburgh.
S12011922 1st skywriting over US - by Capt Turner, RAF
S12021816 1st savings bank in US opens in Philadelphia.
S12021823 President James Monroe declares his doctrine.
S12021942 1st cont. nuclear reaction at U.of Chicago.
S12021982 1st permanent artificial heart implanted.
S12031621 Galileo invents the telescope.
S12031952 1st television broadcast in Hawaii.
S12031954 Joseph McCarthy is condemned by Senate.
S12031967 1st human heart transplant performed.
S12041783 Washington bids his officers farewell.
S12041915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens.
S12051776 Phi Beta Kappa, 1st US fraternity, founded.
S12061917 Finland gains it's independence.
S12071787 Delaware is first state to ratify Constitution.
S12071941 Pearl Harbor was attacked.
S12071972 Apollo 17, last of Apollo moon series launched.
S12091793 Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st newspaper.
S12091907 1st Christmas Seals sold, in the Wilmington P.O.
S12101901 1st distribution of Nobel Peace Prizes
S1210     Human Rights Day, a United Nations observance.
S12111975 First Class Mail now costs 13 cents (was 10 cents).
S12121901 Marconi receives 1st trans-Atlantic radio signal.
S12121963 Kenya gains it's independence.
S12131903 Wright brothers first airplane flight at Kittyhawk.
S12131918 Wilson is 1st president to make a foreign visit.
S12131978 Susan B. Anthony dollar issued.
S12141819 Alabama admitted to the Union.
S12141911 South Pole 1st reached by Amundsen.
S12151791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia signed.
S12151877 Patent granted to Mr. Edison for the phonograph.
S12151965 1st rendevous in space: Gemini 6 and 7 link up.
S1215     Bill of Rights Day
S12161773 Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor.  Indians welcome.
S12161905 "Variety", 1st published.
S12171791 New York City creates the 1st one-way street
S12171852 first Hawaiian cavalry organized.
S12171903 for 12 seconds, 1st sustained motorized aircraft
S1217     flight by Wright Brothers.
S12171933 1st professional football game: Chicago vs. NY.
S12181974 San Francisco Visitors Center at City Hall opens.
S12191732 Benjamin Frankin begins "Poor Richard's Almanack"
S12191777 Washington settles troops at Valley Forge for winter.
S12191889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii.
S12201803 Louisiana Purchase officially transferred.
S12201850 Hawaiian post office established.
S12211620 the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock
S12211913 1st crossword puzzle  printed in New York World
S12211937 1st feature-length cartoon with color and sound
S1221     premieres, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
S12211952 Broadway Tunnel opens.
S1221     the Winter Solstice , shortest day of the year.
S12221850 Hawaiian Post Office established.
S12231947 transistor invented in Bell Labs
S12241814 Treaty of Ghent signed, ending War of 1812.
S12241906 1st known radio program in US is broadcast.
S1224     Christmas Eve
S12251776 Washington crosses the Delaware.
S1225     Christmas Day.
S1225     Constitution Day, celebrated in Taiwan.
S12261865 James Mason invents the 1st American percolator.
S12261925 1st East-West football game.
S12271831 Darwin begins his voyage onboard the HMS Beagle.
S12271850 Hawaiian Fire Department established.
S12271903 "Sweet Adaline", a quartet favorite, is 1st sung.
S12271932 Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens.
S12281669 patent for chewing gum granted to William Semple.
S12281902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US.
S12291937 Pan Am starts San Francisco to Auckland, N.Z.
S12301817 first coffee planted in Hawaii.
S12301853 Gadsden Purchase signed.
S12311879 Edison gives demonstration of his incandescent lamp.
B12021906 Peter Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records.
B12031729 Antonio Soler, famed 18th century Spanish composer.
B12051782 Martin Van Buren, 8th President (1837-1841)
B12051839 General George A. Custer
B12051901 Walter Elias Disney, father of Mickey Mouse.
B12061822 John Eberhard, built 1st pencil factory in US.
B12061870 William S. Hart, star of silent Western movies
B12081861 William Durant, founded General Motors Corp.
B12081865 Jean Sibelius, major Scandinavian composer.
B12081894 James Thurber
B12091848 Joel Harris, created Uncle Remus stories
B12091886 Clarence Birdseye, became frozen vegatable king.
B12101830 Emily Dickinson, poet
B12101851 Melvil Dewey, created the Dewey Decimal System.
B12111918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
B12121805 Henry Wells, founded Am.Express & Wells Fargo.
B12121821 Gustave Flaubert, novelist, 'Madame Bovary'.
B12121915 Old Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra.
B12141546 Tycho Brahe, astronomer
B12151832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, built a tower in Paris.
B12151861 Charles Edgar Duryea, with his brother, invented
B12151861 first auto to be built and operated in US.
B12161770 Ludwig von Beethoven
B12161863 George Santayana, philosopher, poet, humanist.
B12161899 Sir Noel Coward, playwright
B12161917 Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author ('2001').
B12171778 Sir Humphry Davy, discovered several elements .
B12181886 Ty Cobb
B12181890 Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (invented FM).
B12191849 Henry Frick, industrialist; worked for Carnegie.
B12201805 Thomas Graham, the father of colloid chemistry
B12201868 Harvey Firestone
B12221858 Giacomo Puccini, composer
B12231790 Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics
B12241809 Kit Carson, Western scout.
B12241905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire.
B12251899 Humphrey Bogart.  Here's looking at you, kid.
B12251918 Anwar Sadat
B12271571 Johannes Kepler, planetary mathematics.
B12281856 Woodrow Wilson, 28th President (1912-1921)
B12291800 Charles Goodyear, invented vulcanization process.
B12291808 Andrew Johnson, 17th President (1865-1869)
B12291809 William Ewart Gladstone, British statesman
B12291876 Pablo Casals, cellist
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