S11011863 Fortifications built on Angel Island by troops.
S11011870 US Weather Bureau begins operations.
S11011981 First Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents.
S11021917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement
S11021947 Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies.
S11021948 Truman beats Dewey.
S1102     North & South Dakota Admission Day
S11031903 Panama gains it's independence from Columbia.
S11031917 First Class Mail now costs 3 cents.
S11031930 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America.
S11031952 Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas.
S1103     Independence Day, celebrated in Panama.
S11041922 Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen.
S11041924 1st woman governor in US elected in Wyoming.
S11051781 John Hanson elected 1st President in Congress
S1105     (8 years before Washington was elected).
S11051895 Patent granted for  automobile, George Selden
S1105     Guy Fawkes Day, celebrated in England.
S11061850 1st fire engine arrives in Hawaii.
S11061869 1st intercollegiate football game played.
S1106     Sadie Hawkins Day.
S11071989 Election day
S11071805 Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean.
S11071811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a slogan.
S11071875 Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross
S11071875 Africa from sea to sea.
S11071885 Canada completes transcontinental railway.
S11081793 the Louvre, in Paris, opened to the public.
S11091965 Giant power failure in New England & Ontario.
S11101871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Africa.
S11101891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting.
S11101951 1st Long Distance telephone DDD call.
S11101980 Voyager I flies past Saturn.
S1111     Veteran's Day
S11111889 Washington admitted as the 42nd state.
S11111918 World War I ends.
S11111924 Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated.
S11111982 Space Shuttle 'Columbia' makes 1st flight.
S11121933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken.
S11121946 the 1st "autobank" was established, in Chicago
S11121981 1st time a spacecraft is launched twice -- the
S1112     Space Shuttle  Columbia' lifts off again.
S11131921 The Sheik,Rudolph Valentino, was released.
S11141832 1st streetcar appears, in New York
S11141851 "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville, is published.
S11141889 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip
S1114     around the world by 8 days (72 days).
S11141910 1st airplane flight from the deck of a ship.
S11141959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii).
S11151869 Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated.
S11151926 National Broadcasting Company goes on-the-air.
S11151939 Social Security approves 1st unemployment check.
S11151941 Cow Palace opens.
S11161933 Roosevelt establishes relations with U.S.S.R.
S11171800 Congress convened for its 1st DC session.
S11171869 Suez Canal opens.
S11171913 Panama Canal opens for use.
S11181903 Treaty gave US exclusive rights thru Panama.
S11181820 Antarctica discovered by Captain  Palmer.
S11181928 Mickey Mouse debuts in "Steamboat Willie"
S11191493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
S11191863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg.
S11191895 the pencil is invented.
S11201888 William Bundy invents first timecard clock.
S11201914 Govt starts requiring photographs for passports
S11211794 Honolulu Harbor discovered.
S11211959 Jack Benny (Violin) & Nixon (Piano) play duet.
S11221906 Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS"
S1122     as the new call for help.
S11221943 Lebanon gains it's independence.
S11221963 President John Kennedy assasinated in Dallas.
S1122     Independence Day, celebrated in Lebanon.
S11231989 Thanksgiving  National Holiday
S11231852 A sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet.
S11231863 patent granted for making color photographs.
S11241988 Thanksgiving Holiday
S11241874 patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.
S11251948 Fort Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed.
S11261778 Cook discovers Maui (in Sandwich Islands).
S11281520 Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean.
S11281895 America's first auto race; 6 cars, 55 miles.
S11291887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor.
S11291890 1st Army-Navy football game.  Navy wins.
B11021734 Daniel Boone
B11021795 James K. Polk, 11th President (1845-1849)
B11021865 Warren G. Harding, 29th President (1921-1923)
B11021885 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer.
B11031718 John Montague, Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same.
B11041879 Will Rogers
B11041916 Walter Cronkite, "...and that's the way it is"
B11051857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was VERY unhappy).
B11051912 Roy Rogers, Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger
B11061771 Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography.
B11061851 Charles Henry Dow, founded Dow Jones & Co.
B11061854 John Phillip Souza, the march king
B11061861 James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball.
B11071867 Madame Marie Curie, discovered radium.
B11081656 Edmond Halley, astronomer.
B11091934 Carl Sagan
B11101668 Francois Couperin, composer
B11101819 Cyrus West Field, financier known for the success
B11101819 of the first transatlantic cable.
B11101895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer.
B11111821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author, "Crime and Punishment"
B11111885 General George S. Patton
B11111922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author.
B11121815 Elizabeth Stanton, leader of women's rights movement.
B11121866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC).
B11131850 Robert Louis Stevenson
B11131856 Justice Louis Brandeis
B11141765 Robert Fulton, built 1st commercial steamboat
B11141776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis
B11141840 Claude Monet, impressionist
B11141900 Aaron Copland, american composer.
B11161873 William Handy, established popularity of blues.
B11161901 George Gallop, what's your opinion?
B11171932 Dan Davis, Hacker, wrote Supercal, RRL & others.
B11181789 Louis Daguerre, developed a method of photography
B11181836 Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (Gilbert & Sullivan)
B11181923 Alan Sheppard, 1st American into space.
B11181928 Mickey Mouse
B11191752 George Rogers Clark, leader in Revolutionary War.
B11191831 James A. Garfield, 20th President (3/4/81 - 9/19/81)
B11191905 Tommy Dorsey
B11201602 Otto von Guericke, invented the air pump
B11201900 Chester Gould, gave Dick Tracy a job
B11201908 Alistair Cooke, raconteur
B11211694 Voltaire, thinker
B11211787 Sir Samuel Cunard, founded  steamship line
B11211904 Coleman Hawkins, created jazz tenor saxophone.
B11221890 Charles de Gaulle
B11221899 Hoagy Carmichael, composed 'Star Dust'.
B11231804 Franklin Pierce, 14th President (1853-1857)
B11231887 Boris Karloff, bogeyman
B11241713 Father Junipero Serra, had a mission in California.
B11241784 Zachary Taylor, 12th President (1849-1850)
B11241868 Scott Joplin, entertainer
B11251835 Andrew Carnegie, steelman and librarian
B11251846 Carry Nation, scrouge of barkeepers and drinkers.
B11261832 Louisa May Alcott, little woman
B11261876 Willis Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment.
B11271701 Anders Celsius
B11291803 Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect.
B11291849 Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode.
B11301667 Jonathan Swift, satirist, wrote "Gulliver's Travels"
B11301810 Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker.
B11301835 Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain
B11301874 Winston Churchill
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