S03011781 The Articles of Confederation adopted by Congress. S03011867 Nebraska becomes a state. S03021936 FDR conducts his first "Fireside Chat" S03021861 Congress creates the Territory of Nevada. S03021901 First telegraph company in Hawaii opens. S03021929 US Court of Customs & Patent Appeals created by Congress. S03021974 First Class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents. S03031791 Congress resolves that a U.S. Mint be established. S03031812 Congress passes 1st foreign aid bill. S03031849 Gold Coinage Act passed, allowing gold coins to be minted. S03031851 Congress authorizes smallest silver coin, the 3-cent piece. S03031875 A 20-cent coin was authorized by Congress. S03031885 American Telephone and Telegraph incorporated. S03031923 Time magazine publishes their 1st issue. S03031956 Morocco gains it's independence. S03031972 Pioneer 10 launched. S03041789 Congress declares the Constitution to be in effect. S03041792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii. S03041826 1st railroad in US, the Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass S03041933 Roosevelt inaugurated. S03041934 Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson dedicated. S03051770 Boston Massacre S03051845 Congress gets $30,000 to ship camels to western US. S03051979 Voyager I flies past Jupiter. S03061665 "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" S03061665 was first published, and is still published today. S03061836 Alamo falls. Remember it! S03071848 in Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed. S03071933 The game "Monopoly" is invented. S03081862 The Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched. S03091862 The ironclads "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) S0309 Battle in Hampton Roads. It was a standoff. S03101847 First money minted in Hawaii. S03101876 the 1st telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell S03101933 Big earthquake in Long Beach (W.C. Fields was making a S0310 movie when it struck & the cameras kept running). S03111867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii). S03111892 1st public game of basketball. S03121850 1st $20 Gold piece issued. S03131970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer. S03141948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco. S03151913 Woodrow Wilson holds the 1st Presidential Press Conference. S03151968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold. S03151999 Pluto again becomes the outermost planet. S0315 The day the buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio. S03171860 Japanese Embassy arrives aboard the "Candinmarruh" . S03171989 St. Patrick's Day S0317 Evacuation Day (celebrated in Boston) S03181850 American Express founded. S03181881 Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison S03181881 Square Garden in New York City. S03191928 'Amos and Andy' debut on radio. S0319 The day the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano. S0321 The First Day of Spring... Tra-la Tra-la S0321 The start of the Persian New Year. S03221733 Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water. S03221957 Earthquake gives San Francisco the shakes. S03221981 First Class Postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents. S03231775 Patrick Henry asks for Liberty or Death. S03231929 1st telephone installed in the White House. S03231965 Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight. S03241989 Good Friday. National Holiday S03241860 Clipper "Andrew Jackson" arrives in 89 days from N.Y. S03251821 Greece gains it's independence. S03251954 RCA manufactures the first COLOR television set. S0325 Independence Day, celebrated in Greece. S03261989 Easter Sunday. National Holiday S0326 Prince Kuhio Day (celebrated in Hawaii). S03271968 Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated. S03281794 Nathan Briggs gets patent for the washing machine. S03291886 Coca-Cola is created (with cocaine) S03301853 Patent granted to Hyman Lipman for pencil with ERASER! S03301870 15th Amendment (right to vote regardless of race) S03301932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman solo across Atlantic. S03311889 Eiffel Tower completed. B03011810 Frederic Chopin B03011848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, designed 1907 $20 gold piece. B03041394 Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese discoverer. B03041678 Antonio Vivaldi, violin virtuoso and composer. B03051824 James Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives fame) B03061619 Cyrano de Bergerac B03061756 Aaron Burr, dualist B03061812 Aaron Dennison, father of American watchmaking. B03061937 Valentina Tereshkova, 1st woman cosmonaut B03071849 Luther Burbank, plant breeder B03071875 Maurice Ravel B03081787 Karl von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery B03081859 Kenneth Grahame, author, "The Wind in the Willows" B03081879 Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission B03091824 Leland Stanford, founded Stanford Univ. B03091934 Yuri Gagarin, 1st man into space B03121831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer. B03121832 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts. B03141681 Georg Philipp Telemann, leading German composer. B03141864 Casey Jones B03141879 Albert Einstein, relative B03151767 Andrew Jackson, 7th President (1828-1836) B03161751 James Madison, 4th President (1809-1817) B03161836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car. B03171804 James Bridger, scout, fur trader. B03171834 Gottlieb Daimler, automobile pioneer B03171919 Nat King Cole B03181782 John C. Calhoun, statesman B03181837 Grover Cleveland, President (1885-1889, 1893-1897) B03181858 Rudolf Diesel, invented an engine. B03181932 John Updike, poet and novelist. B03191860 William Jennings Bryan, 'The Great Commoner' B03201856 Frederick Taylor, father of scientific management. B03201904 B. F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer in Behaviorism. B03211685 Johann Sebastian Bach, gone for Baroque B03211768 Jean-Baptiste Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist B03211869 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame. B03231912 Werner von Braun, rocketeer B03261874 Robert Frost, poet B03261911 Tennessee Williams B03261925 Pierre Boulez, French composer. B03261931 Leonard Nimoy, beam him up, Mr. Scott. B03271813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (of Currier & Ives) B03271863 Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce. B03291790 John Tyler, 10th President (1841-1845) B03291819 Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive oil well in US. B03291867 Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever, 509 wins. B03301719 Sir John Hawkins, wrote 1st history of music in English B03301853 Vincent van Gogh, artist who always lent an ear B03311596 Rene Descartes, he thought, therefore he was B03311732 Joseph Haydn, helped develop the Classical style. B03311809 Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" B03311854 Sir Dugald Clerk, invented 2-stroke motorcycle engine. *