S07011867 Dominion of Canada formed. S07011898 Teddy Roosevelt charges up San Juan Hill. S07011919 First Class Postage DROPS to 2 cents. S07011971 Golden Gate Bridge paid for. S0701 Dominion Day -- Canada S07021900 1st flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1). S07021964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act. S07031608 Quebec is founded. S07031775 Washington takes command of Continental Army. S07031819 1st savings bank in US opens its doors. S0704 Independence Day. National Holiday S07041054 brightest known supernova starts. S07041845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond. S07041863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho). S07041894 Elwood Haynes tests one of the 1st US autos S07051811 Venezuela gains independence from Spain. S07051865 William Booth founds the Salvation Army. S07051935 1st 'Hawaii Calls' radio program is broadcast. S0705 Independence Day, celebrated in Venezuela S07061885 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being. S07061928 1st all-talking motion picture took place in NYC S07061932 First Class postage back up to 3 cents. S07061933 1st All-Star baseball game. American League won. S07071891 a patent was granted for the travelers cheque. S07071898 Hawaii annexed to the US. S07071908 the Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay. S07081796 1st American Passport issued. S07081835 the Liberty Bell cracks (again). S07081889 First "Wall Street Journal" published. S07091816 Argentina gains it's independence. S07091979 Voyager II flies past Jupiter. S0709 Independence Day, celebrated in Argentina S07101890 Wyoming becomes the 44th state. S07101925 the Scopes 'Monkey' Trial starts. S07101962 Telstar, 1st geo. comm. satelite launched. S07111804 Burr and Hamilton duel. S07111962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite. S0711 National Holiday of Republic of Outer Mongolia. S07121543 Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr S07121812 US forces invade Canada (War of 1812). S07121933 1st minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour). S07131865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west". S0713 the start of the Bon Festival in Japan. S07141789 the citizens of Paris storm the Bastille prison. S07141850 1st demonstration of ice made by refrigeration. S07141853 Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese. S07141865 the 1st ascent of the Matterhorn. S0714 Bastille Day -- France S0715 National Ice Cream Day S07161790 Congress establishes the District of Columbia. S07161861 1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run. S07161945 1st atomic blast, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, N.M. S07161969 Apollo 11, 1st manned ship to the moon, launched. S07171954 Construction begins on Disneyland... S07171955 Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County. S0717 Constitution Day, celebrated in South Korea S0718 64 the Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle). S07181872 Britain introduces voting by secret ballot. S07181938 Wrong Way Corrigan lands in Ireland. S07181968 Intel Corporation is incorporated. S0718 National Day, celebrated in Spain S07191848 First Women's Rights Convention. Seneca Falls, NY S07191935 1st parking meters installed in Oklahoma City. S07191961 1st In-flight movie is shown (on TWA). S07201810 Columbia gains it's independence. S07201859 Admission fee 1st charged to see a baseball game. S07201878 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii. S07201969 Man landed on the Moon, 4:18PM EDT S07201970 1st baby born on Alcatraz Island. S07201976 1st pictures from Mars surface received. S0720 Independence Day, celebrated in Columbia S07211831 Belgium gains it's independence. S07211873 world's 1st train robbery, by Jesse James. S07211969 Neil Armstrong steps on the moon at 2:56 AM (GMT). S0721 Independence Day, celebrated in Belgium. S07231829 Typewriter is patented. S07231877 first telephone line in Hawaii is completed. S07231904 The Ice Cream Cone is invented. S0723 National Day, in Egypt. S07251909 1st airplane flight across the English Channel. S07261775 Benjamin Franklin becomes Postmaster General. S07261847 Liberia gains it's independence. S0726 Independence Day, celebrated in Liberia. S07271866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid. S07271940 Billboard magazine starts publishing. S07281821 Peru gains it's independence. S07281900 the Hamburger is created by Louis Lassing in Conn. S07281931 Congress adopts Star-Spangled Banner. S07281933 1st Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee). S0728 Independence Day, celebrated in Peru. S07291858 1st commercial treaty between US and Japan signed. S07291914 1st transcontinental phone link made. S07291920 1st transcontinental airmail flight. S07291981 the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana S07301619 the House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed. S07301836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii. S07311790 1st US Patent granted (for a potash process). S07311970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC. B07041753 Jean-Pierre Blanchard, 1st balloon flights. B07041804 Nathaniel Hawthorne B07041826 Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna" B07041872 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-1929) B07041878 George M. Cohan B07041883 Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult. B07041900 Louis Armstrong, 'Satchmo' B07051794 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker B07051810 P.T. Barnum B07061747 John Paul Jones, "I have not yet begun to fight" B07071752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented programmable loom. B07071907 Robert A. Heinlein, Science Fiction author. B07081839 John D. Rockefeller B07091802 Thomas Davenport, invented 1st electric motor B07101834 James Whistler, mama's boy B07101867 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist/humorist. B07111767 John Quincy Adams, 6th President (1825-1829) B07121817 Henry David Thoreau B07121854 George Eastman, created the Kodak camera B07121895 R.Buckminster Fuller, invented the geodesic dome B07121895 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist. B07121908 Milton Berle, "Uncle Miltie" B07141912 Woodie Guthrie B07141913 Gerald R. Ford, 38th President (1974-1976) B07141918 Jay Wright Forrester, invented magnetic core memory. B07151606 Rembrandt, Dutch painter. B07171744 Elbridge Gerry, father of the "gerrymander" B07171900 James Cagney, hold that grapefruit B07181811 William Thackeray, novelist, wrote Vanity Fair. B07181848 William Grace, England's greatest cricketer B07181913 Red Skelton B07181906 S. I. Hayakawa B07181921 John Glenn, Jr., 1st American in orbit B07191814 Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt Revolver. B07211899 Ernest Hemingway. B07221844 Rev. William Spooner, invented 'spoonerisms' B07221849 Emma Lazarus, poem on the Statue of Liberty B07221890 Rose Kennedy B07241783 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics. B07241802 Alexandre Dumas, Wrote The Count of Monte Christo. B07241898 Amelia Earhart, into the wild blue yonder B07251978 Louise Brown, 1st test-tube baby. B07261856 George Bernard Shaw B07261943 Mick Jagger, never gathers moss B07281929 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, redecorator B07291869 Booth Tarkington, novelist B07291907 Melvin Belli, San Francisco's 'King of Torts' B07301863 Henry Ford *