S0101     New Years Day. National Holiday
S01011804 Haiti gains it's independence
S01011863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln.
S01011902 1st Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California.
S01011956 Sudan gains it's independence
S01011984 AT & T broken up into 8 companies.
S01021921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens.
S01021957 San Francisco, Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.
S01031888 1st drinking straw is patented.
S01031959 Alaska becomes the 49th state.
S01031977 Apple Computer incorporated.
S01041982 Golden Gate Bridge closed by fierce storm.
S01051911 San Francisco has it's 1st air meet.
S01051933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins.
S01061914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
S01071610 Galileo discovers the 4 major moons of Jupiter.
S01071714 The typewriter is patented.
S01071785 1st balloon flight across the English Channel.
S01071929 "Tarzan", adventure comic strip appears.
S01071963 First Class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents.
S01071968 First Class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents.
S01081815 Battle of New Orleans. Actually the
S01081815 War of 1812 had ended on 12/24/1814.
S01091793 1st balloon flight in North America.
S01091799 1st income tax imposed, in England.
S01091982 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada.
S01101776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published.
S01101840 the Penny Post mail system is started.
S01101863 1st underground railway opens in London.
S01111813 First pineapples planted in Hawaii.
S01111892 Hawaii Historical Society founded.
S01111935 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California.
S01131854 Anthony Foss obtains patent for the Accordion.
S01131920 NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly.
S01131971 Apollo 14 launched.
S01141784 The Revolutionary War formally ends.
S01141914 Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars.
S01151948 The Pentagon Building in Washington is completed.
S01161865 San Francisco Chronicle started.
S01161887 Cliff House badly damaged when a cargo of powder on
S01161887 the schooner "Parallel" explodes nearby.
S01171861 Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (NO ____).
S01171871 1st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie.
S01171893 the Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic.
S01181644 1st UFO sighting in America, by Pilgrims in Boston.
S01181778 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.
S01181911 First shipboard landing of a plane.
S01191903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast, US-England.
S01201265 1st English Parliament called into session.
S01211813 The pineapple is introduced to Hawaii.
S01211954 The submarine Nautilus launched.
S01211979 Neptune becomes the outermost planet.
S01221949 Chinatown telephone exchange closed.
S01241848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma.
S01241899 the rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan.
S01241935 1st beer in cans is sold.
S01241982 San Francisco 49'ers win their 1st Super Bowl, 26-21.
S01241986 Voyager II flies past Uranus.
S01251915 Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in S.F.
S01251949 1st Emmy Awards are given out.
S01251959 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight.
S01261788 1st settlement established by the English in Australia.
S01261950 India becomes a republic.
S01271926 1st public demonstration of television.
S01271948 1st Tape Recorder is sold.
S01281807 London's Pall Mall is the 1st street lit by gaslight.
S01281878 George W. Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator.
S01281938 1st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont).
S01281986 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, killing a brave crew.
S01291861 Kansas becomes a state.
S01291904 1st athletic letters given:Univ of Chicago football team.
S01301847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.
S01301862 US Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched.
S01301917 1st jazz record in United States is cut.
S01311958 1st U.S. satellite launched, Explorer I.
S01311961 Ham the chimp is 1st animal sent into space by the US.
S01311971 Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands.
B01011735 Paul Revere
B01011919 J. D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'.
B01031840 Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii.
B01031892 J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings.
B01041809 Louis Braille, developed reading system for blind.
B01041643 Sir Issac Newton
B01041838 Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person)
B01051779 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero
B01051855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor
B01061811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator
B01061878 Carl Sandburg
B01061882 Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957)
B01071800 Millard Fillmore, 13th President (1850-1853)
B01081862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher of Doubleday & Co.
B01081868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved that gravity bends light.
B01081935 Elvis Presley, singer.
B01091870 Joseph Strauss,  builder of Golden Gate Bridge.
B01091901 Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip.
B01091913 Richard M. Nixon, 37th President (1968-1974)
B01101738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys)
B01101877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the elecrostatic
B01101877 precipitator, used for polution control and air ionizers.
B01111755 Alexander Hamilton, the 1st Secretary of the US Treasury
B01111807 Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union & Cornell.
B01121588 John Winthrop, 1st governor of the Mass.Bay Colony.
B01121737 John Hancock
B01131832 Horatio Alger, Jr.
B01141741 Benedict Arnold, fink
B01141892 Hal Roach, early film director and producer.
B01151908 Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb.
B01151929 Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer
B01171706 Benjamin Franklin
B01171771 Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel.
B01171880 Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops
B01171942 Muhammed Ali
B01181779 Peter Roget,invented Slide Rule, pocket chessboard
B01181782 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician.
B01181813 Joseph Glidden, invented 1st commercial barbed wire
B01181854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell.
B01181892 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.
B01191736 James Watt, made the steam engine workable.
B01191807 Robert E. Lee
B01191809 Edgar Allen Poe
B01191839 Paul Cezanne, painter
B01201896 Nathan Birnbaum (better known as George Burns)
B01211743 John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton.
B01211813 John C Fremont, mapmaker & explorer of Western US
B01211815 Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia.
B01251759 Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.
B01241888 Ernst Heinkel, built 1st rocket-powered aircraft.
B01251874 Somerset Maugham, poet
B01251882 Virginia Woolf, author.
B01261880 Douglas MacArthur, he did return!
B01271756 Wolfgang A. Mozart, musical prodigy
B01271832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll)
B01271850 Samuel Gompers, 1st president of AFL.
B01281855 William Burroughs, invented recording adding machine.
B01291843 William McKinley, 25th President (1897-1901)
B01291850 Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite
B01291860 Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard)
B01291880 Claude William Dukenfield (better known as W.C. Fields)
B01291901 Allen DuMont, 1st  practical cathode ray tube.
B01301882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President (1933-1945)
B01311830 James G. Blaine, the 'Plumed Knight'.
B01311872 Zane Gray, American West novelist
B01311919 Jackie Robinson, 1st black major league baseball player
*