S02011867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days.
S02011920 the 1st armored car is introduced.
S02021848 Mexico sells US Texas, California, New Mexico & Arizona.
S02021876 National Baseball League formed with 8 teams.
S02021962 8 of the 9 planets aligned for the 1st time in 400 years.
S02031918 Twin Peaks Tunnel, longest (11,920 feet) streetcar tunnel
S02031918 in the world, begins service.
S02041932 1st Winter Olympics held (At Lake Placid, NY).
S02041948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence.
S02051887 Snow falls on San Francisco.
S0206     New Zealand Day, celebrated in New Zealand
S02081693 Charter granted for College of William & Mary.
S02081883 Louis Waterman begins experiments for the fountain pen.
S02081908 Boy Scouts of America founded.
S02081922 Radio arrives in the White House.
S02091877 U.S. Weather Service is founded.
S02091885 First Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
S02091969 the Boeing 747 takes it's 1st commercial flight.
S02101879 1st electric arc light used (in California Theater).
S02111929 Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is chartered.
S02111936 Pumping begins to build Treasure Island.
S02121541 Santiago, Chile founded.
S02131937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for
S02131937  fine detail drawing.  Thanks Hal.
S02141876 Bell files an application for a patent for the telephone.
S0214     St. Valentine's Day
S02151898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown.
S02161883 Ladies Home Journal begins publication.
S02161914 1st airplane flight to Los Angeles from San Francisco.
S02161923 Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun.
S02171876 Sardines were 1st canned, in Eastport, Maine.
S02171878 1st telephone exc. in San Francisco opens with 18 phones.
S02181849 1st regular steamboat service to California started with
S02181849 the arrival of the "California".
S0218     National Bun Day -- Iceland
S02191878 Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph.
S02191945 Marines land on Iwo Jima.
S02191977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose").
S02201989 Presidents Day. 1989 National Holiday
S02201901 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes.
S02201962 John Glenn is 1st American to orbit the Earth.
S02211804 1st self-propelled locomotive demonstrated, in Wales.
S02211878 First Telephone book is issued, in New Haven, Conn.
S02221900 Hawaii becomes a US Territory.
S02231900 Steamer "Rio de Janiero" sinks in San Francisco Bay.
S02241942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German).
S02251919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon).
S02261863 President Lincoln signs the National Currency Act.
S02261933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony.
S02271844 Dominican Republic gains it's independence.
S02281883 1st vaudeville theater opens.
S02281956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory.
S02281970 Bicycles now permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge.
B02011901 Clark Gable, didn't give a damn about Scarlet O'Hara.
B02021754 Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat.
B02031811 Horace Greeley, told young men to go west
B02031821 Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st U.S. woman MD.
B02031874 Gertrude Stein, beloved by Hemmingway.
B02041902 Charles A. Lindburgh, 'Lucky Lindy'
B02051840 John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire.
B02051878 Andre-Gustave Citroen, French automaker
B02061756 Aaron Burr
B02061885 George Herman Ruth ('Babe Ruth').
B02061911 Ronald Reagan, 40th President (1981-1988)
B02071804 John Deere, manufacturer of agricultural implements.
B02071812 Charles Dickens
B02071883 Eubie Blake, composer
B02081820 William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general.
B02081828 Jules Verne, pioneered what later became science fiction.
B02081906 Chester F. Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing)
B02081925 Jack Lemmon
B02091773 William Henry Harrison, 9th President.
B02111847 Thomas Alva Edison, who lit up your life
B02121802 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President (1861-1865)
B02121809 Charles Darwin
B02121893 General of the Army Omar Bradley, 'The GI General'
B02131885 Bess Truman, married to President Harry Truman
B02141894 Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny.  Oh, Rochester!
B02151564 Galileo Galilei
B02151797 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker
B02151803 John Augustus Sutter
B02161884 Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film.
B02171844 A. Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business.
B02181745 Count Alessandro Volta, invented electric battery.
B02181848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker
B02191473 Nicolaus Copernicus
B02201902 Ansel Adams, knows how to handle a camera.
B02221732 George Washington, President (1789-1796)
B02221749 Johann Forkel, musicologist & 1st biographer of Bach
B02231685 George Frideric Handel, Baroque composer
B02241885 Admiral Chester Nimitz, in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII.
B02241955 Steven Jobs, Apple co-founder.
B02251873 Enrico Caruso, singer
B02251888 John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State for Eisenhower
B02261846 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
B02261852 John Kellogg, inspired the flaked cereal industry.
B02261866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry
B02271902 John Steinbeck
B02271934 Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan
B02291860 Herman Hollerith, invented electric tabulating machine.
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