B01011735 Paul Revere, midnight rider. B01011909 Barry Goldwater, senator. B01011909 Dana Andrews, actress. B01011919 J. D. Salinger, author of "Catcher in the Rye." B01021920 Issac Asimov, famous science fiction author. B01031840 Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii. B01031892 J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings. B01031908 Ray Milland B01031950 Victoria Principal, actress. B01041809 Louis Braille, developed reading system for the blind. B01041643 Sir Isaac Newton, discovered gravity, the Earth DOES NOT suck! B01041838 Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person.) B01041914 Jane Wyman, actress. B01041937 Dyan Cannon, actress. B01051779 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero. B01051855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor. B01051928 Walter Mondale, politician. B01051946 Diane Keaton, actress. B0105 Sherlock Holmes, year unknown. Attended ELEMENTARY school. B01061799 Jedediah Smith B01061811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator. B01061842 Clarence King B01061878 Carl Sandburg, poet to the world. B01061882 Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957). B01061914 Danny Thomas, actor, comedian. B01061920 Sun Myung Moon B01061945 Bonnie Franklin B01071800 Millard Fillmore, 13th President from (1850 - 1853). B01071948 Kenny Loggins, singer, (he's alright!) B01081786 Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US first effective central bank. B01081862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co. B01081868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity. B01081926 Soupy Sales, comedian. B01081935 Elvis Presley, singer, king (Still alive?) B01081947 David Bowie, singer. B01091870 Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge. B01091901 Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip. B01091913 Richard M. Nixon, 37th President from (1968 - 1974). B01091935 Dick Enberg B01091941 Joan Baez, singer. B01091941 Susanna York, actress. B01091951 Crystal Gale, singer. B01101738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys.) B01101877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the electrostatic precipitator, used for pollution control and air ionizers. B01101883 Florence Reed B01101883 Francis X. Bushman B01101887 Robinson Jeffers B01101904 Ray Bolger B01101945 Rod Stewart, singer. B01111755 Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the US Treasury. B01111807 Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University. B01111926 Grant Tinker B01121588 John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. B01121737 John Hancock, famed calligrapher and insurance man. B01121876 Jack London, author. B01121912 Luise Rainer B01131832 Horatio Alger, Jr. B01131913 Ralph Edwards, host of the "Grand Ole' Opry". B01131925 Gwen Verdon B01141741 Benedict Arnold, traitor and fink. B01141892 Hal Roach, early film director and producer. B01141919 Andy Rooney, columnist. B01141941 Faye Dunaway, actress. B01151908 Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb. B01151913 Lloyd Bridges, actor. B01151926 Chuck Berry, singer, songwriter. B01151929 Martin Luther King, Jr. B01161909 Ethel Merman, singer. B01171706 Benjamin Franklin, author, poet, statesman, inventor. B01171771 Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel. B01171880 Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops B01171931 James Earl Jones, actor, man with the golden voice. B01171942 Muhammed Ali, who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee. B01181779 Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule, created pocket chessboard. B01181782 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician. B01181813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented first commercially usable barbed wire. B01181854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Alexander Graham Bell. B01181892 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy. B01181904 Cary Grant, actor. B01181913 Danny Kaye, singer, actor, dancer. B01191736 James Watt, made the steam engine workable. B01191807 Robert E. Lee, southern legend. B01191809 Edgar Allen Poe, author, poet, raven breeder. B01191839 Paul Cezanne, painter. B01191859 Alice Eastwood B01191923 Jean Stapleton, actress. B01191946 Dolly Parton, singer, actress. B01201894 Harold L. Gray, creator of "Little Orphan Annie." B01201896 Nathan Birnbaum (better known as George Burns). B01201937 Joan Rivers, can we talk? 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 anesthesia. B01211924 Benny Hill, comedian. B01211925 Telly Savalas, actor (who loves you baby?) B01211941 Placido Domingo, opera singer. B01221909 Ann Southern B01221934 Bill Bixby, actor. B01221959 Linda Blair, actress. B01271756 Wolfgang A. Mozart, musical prodigy. B01231933 Chita Rivera B01231943 Gil Gerard, actor. B01241888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built first rocket-powered aircraft. B01241917 Ernest Borgnine, actor. B01241918 Oral Roberts, evangelist. B01241941 Neil Diamond, singer. B01241946 Barry Bostwick, actor. B01241949 John Belushi, actor, comedian, Blues Brother! B01251759 Robert Burns, the Scottish poet. B01251874 Somerset Maugham, poet. B01251882 Virginia Woolf, author, and someone to be afraid of. B01251919 Edwin Newman B01261880 Douglas MacArthur. He did return! B01261925 Paul Newman, actor. B01261928 Eartha Kitt B01261957 Eddie Van Halen, guitar player for (What else?) Van Halen! B01271832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll.) B01271850 Samuel Gompers, first president of the American Federation of Labor. B01271921 Donna Reed, actress. B01271936 Troy Donahue B01281855 William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine. B01281936 Alan Alda, actor, comedian. B01281948 Mikhail Baryshinkov, dancer. B01291843 William McKinley, 25th President from (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 B DuMont, perfected first commercially practical cathode ray tube. B01291945 Tom Selleck, actor, P.I. B01291953 Oprah Winfrey, talk show hostess. B01301882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President from (1933 - 1945). B01301930 Gene Hackman, actor. B01301935 Tammy Grimes B01301937 Boris Spassky B01301937 Venessa Redgrave, actress. B01311830 James G. Blaine, the "Plumed Knight." B01311872 Zane Gray, American West novelist. B01311919 Jackie Robinson, first black major league baseball player. B01311923 Carol Channing, actress. B01311923 Joanne Dru B01311923 Norman Mailer S01011772 First traveller's checks are issued in London. S01011804 Haiti gains its independence. S01011863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln. S01011902 First Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California. S01011912 First running of San Francisco's famed "Bay to Breakers" race. S01011934 Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison. S01011956 Sudan gains its independence. S01011958 European Economic Community (EEC) starts operation. S01011984 AT & T broken up! into 8 companies. S01021921 DeYoung Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park opens. S01031852 First Chinese arrive in Hawaii. S01031888 First drinking straw is patented by M.C. Stone in Washington, D.C. S01031959 Alaska becomes the 49th state. S01031977 Apple Computer incorporated. S01031991 Super Soakers appears on the market. S01041863 Four-wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of New York. S01041910 The blender is invented. Mixed drinks anyone? S01041982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm. S01051850 The California Exchange opens. S01051911 San Francisco has its 1st official airplane race. S01051925 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes first woman governor. S01051933 Work on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge begins, Con Marin County side. S01051987 Tony Ferko sets a world record by juggling 7 ping pong balls with his mouth. S01061681 First recorded boxing match takes place in England, between Duke of Albemarle's butler and his butcher. S01061914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded. S01061956 Dorm room refrigerator is invented (college beer cooler!) S01071610 Galileo discovers the 4 major moons of Jupiter. S01071714 The typewriter is patented (it was built years later) S01071785 First balloon flight across the English Channel. S01071896 Fanny Farmer publishes her first cookbook. S01071929 "Tarzan", one of the first adventure comic strips appears. S01071948 First ant farm is sold in the United States. S01071963 First Class postage is raised from 4 cents to 5 cents. S01071968 First Class postage is raised again from 5 cents to 6 cents. S01081815 Battle of New Orleans, made a hero out of Andrew Jackson (the War of 1812 had ended on 12/24/1814, but nobody knew that). S01081865 Sen. Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make the Marigold the national flower. It doesn't pass. S01081880 The passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of Mexico. S01081932 Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter. S01091793 First balloon flight in North America takes place in Philadelphia. S01091799 First income tax imposed, in England. S01091839 The daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science S01091847 First San Francisco paper, "California Star", published. S01091848 First commercial bank in San Francisco established. S01091982 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada, last one was in 1855. S01101776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published. S01101840 The Penny Post mail system is started. S01101863 First underground railway opens in London. S01101910 First international air meet is held in Los Angeles. S01101945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close. S01101984 Wendy's spokesperson Clara Peller first asks: "Where's The Beef?" S01111569 First lottery is held in England, at St. Paul's Cathedral. S01111813 First pineapples planted in Hawaii. S01111892 Hawaii Historical Society founded. S01111935 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California. S01121922 Mrs. Hattie Caraway becomes first woman elected to U.S. Senate. S01121967 First Super Bowl occurs. Green Bay Packers win against the Kansas City Chiefs (35 to 10). S01131854 Anthony Foss obtains patent for the Accordion. S01131906 First "radio set" advertised (in Scientific American) ... claimed to receive signals up to ONE MILE. Price: $7.50. S01131920 New York Times Editorial says rockets can never fly. S01131971 Apollo 14 launched (what was that about rockets can't fly??) S01141690 The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany. S01141784 The Revolutionary War formally ends. S01141914 Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars. S01141936 L.M. "Mario" Giannini elected president of Bank of America. S01141939 All commercial ferry service to the East Bay ends. S01141990 The Simpsons first premiers on FOX. S01151861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis, forming base for his elevator company. S01151870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly. S01151927 Dunbarton Bridge, first bridge in San Francisco Bay Area, opens. S01151948 The Pentagon Building in Washington is completed. S01161865 San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle started (now called the San Francisco Chronicle) S01161887 San Francisco's Cliff House badly damaged when a cargo of gunpowder on the schooner "Parallel" explodes nearby. S01161991 The U.S. let the air force begin massive attacks on Iraq, in response to Iraq's takeover of Kuwait in August of 1990. S01171861 Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest!!). S01171871 First Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie. S01171893 The Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic. S01171929 Popeye makes first appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theatre." S01171943 It was Tin Can Drive Day. S01171957 Nine county commission recommends creation of BART. S01171973 Final episode of "BONANZA" airs. S01181644 First UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston. S01181777 San Jose, CA is founded. S01181778 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands. S01181869 The elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco. S01181911 First shipboard landing of a plane (from Tanforan Park to the USS Pennsylvania). S01181975 The original Morris The Cat dies. Finniky Pussy Cat! S01191886 The Aurora Ski Club, first in U.S., is founded in Minnesota. S01191903 First regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England. S01191951 The front hook bra is invented, makes things easier doesn't it? S01201265 First English Parliament called into session by the Earl of Leicester. S01201872 California Stock Exchange Board organized. S01211813 The pineapple is introduced to Hawaii. S01211908 New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public. S01211954 The first nuclear submarine "Nautilus" is launched. S01211967 The microwave oven is invented. S01211979 Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer). S01221850 The Alta California becomes a daily paper, first such in California. S01221901 Britain's Queen Victoria dies at age 82. S01221939 Aquatic Park is dedicated. S01221949 Chinatown's telephone exchange is closed. S01221952 First NUDE beach opens in the United States (Yeah!) S01231849 Mrs. Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first woman physician in U.S. S01231942 Tupperware is invented. S01241848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma. S01241899 The rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan. S01241922 Eskimo Pie invented in Iowa by Christian K. Nelson. S01241935 First beer in cans is sold. S01241982 San Francisco 49'ers win their first Super Bowl (Score: 26 to 21). S01241986 Voyager II flies past Uranus. S01251858 Mendelssohn's Wedding March first played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter to the Crown Prince of Prussia. S01251915 Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco. S01251945 Grand Rapids, MI. becomes first city to add flouride to its water supply. S01251949 First Emmy Awards are given out. S01251959 First transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301). S01261788 First settlement established by the English in Australia. S01261926 Television first demonstrated by J.L. Baird in London. S01261950 India becomes a republic. S01271870 Kappa Alpha Theta, first sorority, founded at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. S01271926 First public demonstration of television. S01271948 First Tape Recorder is sold. S01271976 Laverne & Shirley premiers. S01281807 London's Pall Mall becomes the first street lit by gaslight. S01281878 George W. Coy hired as first full-time telephone operator. S01281938 First Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont). S01281985 We Are The World raises hundreds of millions of dollars for starving Africans. S01281986 Space Shuttle "Challenger" exploded, killing 6 astronaughts, including Christa McAuliffe (teacher in space). S01291845 Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" first published in New York. S01291861 Kansas becomes a state. S01291904 First athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team. S01291978 Sweden becomes the first nation to curb use of aerosol cans. S01301798 First fist fight in the U.S. House of Representatives occurs. S01301847 Town of Yerba Buena is renamed to San Francisco. S01301862 US Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched. S01301917 First jazz record in United States is cut. (Not with a knife). S01311851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, first in California, founded. S01311871 Birds fly over the western part of San Francisco in such large numbers that they actually darken the sky. S01311911 Congress passes resolution naming San Francisco as the site of the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal. S01311928 Scotch tape first marketed by 3-M Company. S01311956 The twist off bottle cap is invented. (Where's that DAMN opener?) S01311958 First U.S. satellite launched, Explorer I. S01311961 Ham the chimp is first animal sent into space by the US. S01311971 Apollo 14 launched, first landing in lunar highlands. R0101 Independence day in Haiti. R0101 The start of a new year... Enjoy the bowl games. R0102 Maui International surf championship begins today! Surf's up Dude! R0104 National Trivia Day. R0106 Epiphany (Twelfth Night in England) R0111 Annual snow shovel riding competition in Ambridge PA begins. R0116 National Nothing Day R0120 Reindeer Day. R0123 National Handwriting Day. R0125 The start of the Chinese New Year. R0126 Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia. B0201 Fred Flintstone is born (2 Million B.C.) Yabba Dabba Doo! B02011901 Clark Gable, didn't give a damn about Scarlet O'Hara. B02021754 Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat. B02021923 James Dickey B02021938 Tom Smothers B02021947 Farrah Fawcett, actress. B02031811 Horace Greeley, told young men to go west. B02031821 Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman to receive a medical degree. B02031874 Gertrude Stein, beloved by Hemmingway. B02031918 Joey Bishop B02031940 Fran Tarkenton, football player. B02041902 Charles A. Lindburgh, "Lucky Lindy" B02041921 Betty Friedan B02041947 Dan Quayle, Mr. Potato Head, (or is that Potatoe?) B02041948 Alice Cooper, singer. B02051840 John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire. B02051878 Andre-Gustave Citroen, French auto maker. B02051919 Red Buttons, vaudeville comedian. B02051934 Hank Aaron, baseball legend. B02061756 Aaron Burr, duelist with Alexander Hamilton. B02061885 George Herman Ruth (The Babe!) B02061911 Ronald Reagan, 40th President from (1981 - 1988). B02061940 Tom Brokow, news anchor. B02071804 John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements. B02071812 Charles Dickens, author. B02071817 Frederick Douglas, first black to hold high rank in US government 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) B02081920 Lana Turner, actress. B02081925 Jack Lemmon, actor. B02081931 James Dean, singer. B02081940 Ted Koppel, news anchor. B02081949 Brook Adams B02081968 Gary Coleman, actor. (whatyoutalkinabout?) B02091773 William Henry Harrison, 9th President served only from March 4 - April 4, 1841. B02091914 Carmen Miranda, (you have the right to remain silent...) B02091914 Ernest Tubb, singer. B02091928 Roger Mudd B02091946 Mia Farrow, actress. B02101893 Bill Tilden B02101893 Jimmy Durante, (Mr. Nose!). B02101930 Robert Wagner, actor. B02101940 Roberta Flack B02111847 Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the light bill, (I meant bulb)! among other things. B02111925 Eva Gabor, actress. B02111925 Virginia E. Johnson B02111934 Tina Louise, actress, (friend of Gilligan!) B02111936 Burt Reynolds, actor. B02121809 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President from (1861 - 1865). B02121809 Charles Darwin B02121893 General of the Army Omar Bradley, "The GI General" B02121915 Lorne Greene, actor, owner of "The Ponderosa". B02121926 Joe Garagiola B02131805 David Dudley Field, lawyer whose advocacy of law codification had international effects. B02131885 Bess Truman, married to President Harry S Truman. B02131919 Ernie Ford, better known as "Tennesse Ernie Ford", singer. B02131933 Emanuel Ungaro B02131934 George Segal, actor. B02141894 Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny. Oh, Rodchester! B02141913 James Pike B02141913 Jimmy Hoffa, (have you found him yet?) B02141913 Mel Allen B02141934 Florence Henderson, actress. B02141944 Carl Burnstein B02151564 Galileo Galilei, star gazer. B02151797 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker B02151803 John Augustus Sutter B02151927 Harvey Corman, comedian. B02151951 Jane Seymour, actress. B02161884 Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film. B02161959 John McEnroe, Tennis star. B02171844 A. Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business. B02171925 Hal Holbrook, actor. B02171934 Alan Bates B02171963 Michael Jordan, basketball legend, minor league baseball player. B02181745 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented the electric battery. B02181848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker B02181909 Wallace Stegner B02181920 Bill Cullen B02181920 Jack Palance, actor, bad guy, and one hand push up king! B02181954 John Travolta, actor. B02181957 Vanna White, Wheel of Fortune letter turner. B02191473 Nicolaus Copernicus B02191960 Prince Andrew. B02201902 Ansel Adams, landscape photographer extraordinaire! B02201927 Sidney Poitier, actor. B02211931 Larry Hagman, actor. B02211946 Tricia Nixon Cox B02221732 George Washington, Father figure for US, President from (1789 - 1796) B02221749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist & first biographer of Bach B02221932 Edward Kennedy B02221950 Julius Irving, better known as Dr. J. another basketball legend. B02231685 George Frideric Handel, Baroque composer B02231940 Peter Fonda B02241787 Wilhelm Grimm, collector of fairy tales. B02241885 Admiral Chester Nimitz, in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII. B02241938 James Farentino B02241955 Steven Jobs, Apple Computer Company co-founder. B02251873 Enrico Caruso, singer B02251888 John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State for President Eisenhower B02251910 Millicent Fenwick B02251943 George Harrison, singer, Beatle B02261846 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody. B02261852 John Harvey Kellogg, physician, inspired the flaked cereal industry. B02261866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry B02261916 Jackie Gleason, the great one! B02261920 Tony Randall, actor. B02261927 Tom Kennedy B02271902 John Steinbeck B02271930 Joanne Woodward, actress. B02271932 Elizabeth Taylor, actress. B02271934 Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan B02271942 Elodie E. Akerman B02291860 Herman Hollerith, invented first electric tabulating machine. S02011867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days. S02011892 Mrs. William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion, thus beginning the use of the "400" to describe the socially elite. S02011920 The first armored car is introduced. S02021848 Mexico sells Texas, California, New Mexico & Arizona, to the U.S. S02021848 First shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco. S02021876 National Baseball League formed with 8 teams. S02021880 SS Strathleven arrives in London with first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia. S02021962 8 of the 9 planets aligned for the first time in 400 years. S02031815 World's first commercial cheese factory established in Switzerland. S02031918 Twin Peaks Tunnel, longest (11,920 feet) streetcar tunnel in the world, begins service with the K-Ingleside streetcar. S02031937 Thomas Crapper invents the first flush toilet. (Honest!) S02041824 J.W. Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to the public. S02041865 The Hawaiian Board of Education is formed. S02041932 First Winter Olympics held (At Lake Placid, New York). S02041948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence. S02051825 Hannah Lord Montague of New York grabs her scissors and creates the first detachable collar on one of her husband's shirts, in order to reduce her laundry load. S02051887 Snow falls on San Francisco. S02051952 New York becomes first city to adopt 3 color traffic lights. S02061861 English Admiral Robert Ritzroy issues storm warnings for ships putting out to sea, creating the first "weather forecast." S02071827 Ballet introduced to the U.S. at Bowery Theatre, New York City. S02081693 Charter granted for College of William & Mary, 2nd college in US. S02081883 Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen. S02081908 Boy Scouts of America founded. S02081915 "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles. S02081922 Radio arrives in the White House. S02081957 Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall. S02081977 Earthquake, at 5.0, strongest since 1966. S02091877 U.S. Weather Service is founded, (and they still can't predict the weather). S02091885 First Japanese arrive in Hawaii. S02091895 Volleyball is invented by W.G. Morgan in Massachusetts. S02091891 First shipment of asparagus arrives from Sacramento. S02091964 G.I. Joe doll is introduced. S02091969 The Boeing 747 takes its first commercial flight. S02101870 City of Anaheim incorporated (first time). S02101870 YWCA is founded in New York City. S02101879 First electric arc light used (in California Theater). S02101957 Styrofoam cooler is invented. S02111854 Major streets lit by coal gas for first time. S02111929 Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome. S02111936 Robert Louis Stevenson begins to build Treasure Island. S02111948 The Lazy-Boy chair is invented. S02121541 Santiago, Chile founded. S02121934 Export-Import Bank incorporated. S02121945 San Francisco selected for site of United Nations Conference. S02121908 First New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska and Siberia) begins. George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel. S02131867 "Blue Danube Waltz" first performed by composer Johann Strauss. S02131937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail and fine detail drawing. S02131990 VJ Martha Quinn appears on The Brady's as Bobby's fiancee. S02141876 Bell files an application for a patent for the telephone. He'd better hury, a man named Gray will file for it 2 hours later. S02141889 First trainload of oranges leaves Los Angeles for the east. S02151861 Fort Point completed and garrisoned, but has never fired its cannon in anger. S02151898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown. S02151903 First Teddy Bear introduced in America. Made by Morris and Rose Michtom, Russian immigrants. S02151917 San Francisco public library is dedicated. S02161883 Ladies Home Journal begins publication. S02161914 First airplane flight to Los Angeles from San Francisco. S02161923 Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun. S02161951 City Hall dome fire. S02171876 Sardines were first canned, in Eastport, Maine. S02171878 First telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones. S02181849 First regular steamboat service to California started with the arrival of the "California". S02181850 California Legislature creates the 9 Bay Area counties. S02181899 San Francisco is named as a port of dispatch for Army transports. S02181930 A cow is flown (and milked in flight) for first time. Her milk was sealed in paper containers and dropped by parachute over St. Louis, MO. I knew you'd want to know ... S02181939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island (built for the occasion) in San Francisco Bay. S02181995 "World Champion Houston Rockets" are honored at The White House. S02191878 Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph. S02191864 The Knights of Pythias' first lodge was formed in Washington D.C. S02191913 First prize is inserted into Cracker Jacks box. S02191945 Marines land on Iwo Jima. S02191977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose"). S02201673 First recorded wine auction held in London. S02201873 University of California gets its first Med School (UC/SF). S02201901 First territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes. S02201902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks and damages Sutro Baths. S02201915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco. S02201931 Congress allows California to build the Oakland-Bay Bridge. S02201962 John Glenn is first American to orbit the Earth. S02201968 Peter Falk cracks his first case as "Lt. Columbo". S02211804 First self-propelled locomotive on rails demonstrated, in Wales. S02211858 First electric burglar alarm is installed in Boston, Mass. S02211870 First telephone book issued in New Haven, CT. S02211874 Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication. S02211878 First Telephone book is issued, in New Haven, Conn. S02211931 Alka-Seltzer is introduced. Plop-Plop, Fizz-Fizz... S02221630 Popcorn is introduced by an Indian named Quadequina to the English colonists at their first Thanksgiving dinner. S02221900 Hawaii becomes a US Territory. S02231887 Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco. S02231896 The Tootsie Roll is introduced. S02231900 Steamer "Rio de Janiero" sinks in San Francisco Bay. S02231905 Rotary Club is founded by four men in Chicago. S02231958 Last San Francisco municiple arc light over intersection of Mission and 25th street is removed. It was installed in 1913. S02241857 Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized. S02241942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German). S02241992 Wayne's World opens in American theatres - NOT! S02251838 A London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward and 20 miles forward in 8 hours. Chuck Barris wasn't even born yet! S02251919 Oregon is first state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon). S02251990 Millie Vanilli wins a grammy, for best new artist (OOPS!). S02261863 President Lincoln signs the National Currency Act. S02261881 S.S. Ceylon begins first round-the-world cruise from Liverpool. S02261909 The first cartoon is shown in movie theatres. S02261933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field. S02271844 Dominican Republic gains its independence. S02271883 Oscar Hammerstein patents first cigar-rolling machine. S02281849 First steamship enters San Francisco Bay. S02281854 Republican Party is organized, in Ripon, Wisconsin. S02281883 First vaudeville theater opens. S02281914 Construction begins on The Tower of Jewels for the exposition. S02281956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory. S02281970 Bicycles now permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge. S02281983 The last episode of M.A.S.H airs with over 121 million viewers. S02281994 ATF agents unsuccessfully raid the Davidian Compound. R0202 Groundhog Day. R0204 Independence Day, celebrated in Sri Lanka. R0206 New Zealand Day, celebrated in (where else?) New Zealand. R0207 National hangover awareness day. What's the matter? To much blood in the alcohol system? R0214 St. Valentine's Day. R0215 2President's Day, A legal holiday R0215 Valentines Day candy goes on sale. R0216 National Slap A Cop Day! founded by Zsa Zsa Gabor. R0216 2President's Day, A legal holiday R0217 2President's Day, A legal holiday R0218 2President's Day, A legal holiday R0218 National Bun Day -- Iceland. R0219 2President's Day, A legal holiday R0220 2President's Day, A legal holiday R0220 Northern Hemisphere Hoodie-Hoo Day when citizens are asked to go outside at noon and yell Hoodie-Hoo! to chase winter away. R0221 2President's Day, A legal holiday R0227 Independence day in the Dominican Republic. R0229 A LEAP Year! People born this day become the brunt of dumb birthday jokes. B03011810 Frederic Chopin, composer. B03011848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece. B03011917 Dinah Shore, chef, talk show hostess. B03011917 Robert Lowell B03011927 Harry Belafonte B03011944 Roger Daltry, lead singer for The Who? B03011954 Ron Howard, actor, director, producer. B03021904 Dr. Seuss, author of "Green Eggs & Ham". B03021917 Desi Arnez, actor. B03031847 Alexandar Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone (BILL)! B03031933 Lee Radziwill B03041394 Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsored Portuguese voyages of discovery. B03041678 Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso and composer. B03041888 Newt Rockne B03041939 Paula Prentiss B03051824 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives fame.) B03051908 Rex Harrison, actor. B03051958 Andy Gibb, singer. B03061619 Cyrano de Bergerac, romantic with a long nose. B03061756 Aaron Burr, dualist. B03061812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking. B03061923 Ed McMahon, Heeeerrrreeeee's Johnny! B03061937 Valentina Tereshkova, first woman cosmonaut. B03061937 Merle Haggard, singer. B03061945 Rob Reiner, actor, director, producer, "Meat Head!" B03071849 Luther Burbank, plant breeder. B03071875 Maurice Ravel, and was Bo grateful! B03071950 Franco Harris B03081787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery. B03081859 Kenneth Grahame, author, "The Wind in the Willows." B03081879 Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission. B03081923 Syd Charisse B03081939 Jim Bouton B03081943 Lynn Redgrave, actress. B03091824 Leland Stanford, Governor, Senator, founded Stanford University. B03091918 Mickey Spillane, author. B03091934 Yuri Gagarin, first man into space. B03091943 Bobby Fischer, damn good chess player! B03111903 Lawrence Welk, ANA 1, ANA 2... B03121831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer. B03121832 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts. B03121941 Barbara Feldon, actress (Agent 99). B03121946 Liza Minnelli, actress, singer. B03121948 James Taylor B03131939 Neil Sadaka, singer. B03131960 Adam Clayton, of the band U2. B03141681 Georg Philipp Telemann, leading German late baroque composer. B03141864 Casey Jones, famed engineer. B03141879 Albert Einstein, relative wizard. B03141922 Collin Fletcher B03141933 Michael Caine, actor. B03141933 Quincy Jones B03141947 Billy Crystal, comedian, actor. B03151767 Andrew Jackson, 7th President from (1828 - 1836). B03151935 Judd Hirsch, actor, taxi driver. B03161751 James Madison, 4th President from (1809 - 1817). B03161836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car. B03161906 Henny Youngman, comedian, take his wife - please. B03161912 Pat Nixon B03161926 Jerry Lewis, comedian, actor, father of Jerry's Kids. B03161949 Eric Estrada, actor, CHIP. B03171804 James Bridger, scout, fur trader, mountain man par excellance. B03171834 Gottlieb Daimler, automobile pioneer. B03171919 Nat King Cole, crooner, (and Natalie's father.) B03171938 Rudolph Nureyev B03181782 John C. Calhoun, statesman. B03181837 Grover Cleveland, twice President, from (1885 - 1889), and again from (1893 - 1897). B03181858 Rudolf Diesel, invented the diesel engine. B03181926 Peter Graves, actor. B03181927 George Plimpton B03181932 John Updike, poet and novelist. B03181939 Charlie Pride, singer. B03191821 Sir Richard Burton, actor. B03191860 William Jennings Bryan, "The Great Commoner." B03191937 Ursula Andres, actress. B03201856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management. B03201904 B. F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer in Behaviorism. B03201922 Carl Reiner, actor. B03201922 Ray Goulding B03201931 Hal Linden, actor. B03201948 Bobby Orr B03211685 Johann Sebastian Bach, gone for Baroque. B03211768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist. B03211869 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame. B03211930 James Coco B03221913 Carl Malden, actor. B03221923 Marcel Marceau, A mime is a terrible thing to waste! B03231912 Werner von Braun, rocketeer. B03231931 William Shatter, actor, captain. B03251920 Howard Cosell, sports announcer. B03251942 Aretha Franklin, singer. B03251947 Reginald K. Dwight. Better known as singer/songwriter Elton John. B03261874 Robert Frost, poet. B03261911 Tennessee Williams, author. B03261925 Pierre Boulez, French composer. B03261930 Sandra Day O'Conner B03261931 Leonard Nimoy, beam him up, Mr. Scott. B03261939 James Caan, actor. B03261944 Diana Ross, singer. B03261949 Vicki Lawrence, actress, comedienne. B03261950 Martin Short, actor, comedian, (Da Short Guy)... B03271813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (of Currier & Ives.) B03271863 Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce. B03281967 The Puppet Master, creator of this Today In History Perl script. B03291790 John Tyler, 10th President from (1841 - 1845). B03291819 Edwin Drake, drilled first productive oil well in US. B03291867 Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever (509 wins, 1890-1911). B03291916 Eugene McCarthy B03291918 Pearl Bailey B03301719 Sir John Hawkins, wrote first history of music in English. B03301853 Vincent van Gogh, artist who always lent an ear. B03301913 Frankie Lane B03301927 Peter Marshall B03301937 Warren Beatty, actor. B03301945 Eric Clapton, singer, songwriter. B03311596 Rene Descartes, he thought, therefore he was. B03311732 Joseph Haydn, composer, helped develop the Classical style. B03311809 Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam." B03311854 Sir Dugald Clerk, inventor of the 2-stroke motorcycle engine. B03311935 Herbert Alpert B03311935 Richard Chamberlin, actor. S03011781 The Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress. S03011784 E. Kidner opens the first cooking school, in Great Britain. S03011859 Present seal of San Francisco is adopted, 2nd for the city. S03011864 Patent issued for taking & projecting motion pictures to Louis Ducos du Hauron (he never did build such a machine, though). S03011867 Nebraska becomes a state. S03011879 Library of Hawaii founded. S03011927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank. S03021861 Congress creates the Territory of Nevada. S03021901 First telegraph company in Hawaii opens. S03021929 US Court of Customs & Patent Appeals created by US Congress. S03021962 Wilt Chamberlin scores 100 points in one basketball game. S03021974 First Class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents. S03031634 First tavern in Boston is opened. S03031791 Congress passed a resolution ordering U.S. Mint be established. S03031812 Congress passes first foreign aid bill. S03031849 Gold Coinage Act passed, allowing gold coins to be minted. S03031851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin, the 3-cent piece. S03031875 a 20-cent coin was authorized by Congress (It only lasted 3 years). S03031885 American Telephone and Telegraph incorporated. S03031923 Time magazine publishes their first issue. S03031956 Morocco gains its independence. S03031959 Harvard Freshman Lothrop Withington Jr. becomes the country's first goldfish swallower. S03031972 Pioneer 10 launched. S03041789 Congress declares the Constitution to be in effect. S03041792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii. S03041826 First railroad in US chartered, the Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass. S03041930 Mrs. Charles Fahning of Buffalo, New York, becomes first woman to bowl a perfect game under sanctioned competition rules. S03041933 Roosevelt inaugurated, said "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself" S03041934 Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson is dedicated. S03041938 Toothbrush bristles are changed from badger hair to nylon. S03051770 Boston Massacre S03051845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US. S03051900 The American Hall of Fame is founded. S03051972 First breeding of a Great Dane and a Dachshund is performed, creating a Great Dachshund. S03051979 Voyager I flies past Jupiter. S03061665 "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" was first published, and is still published today. S03061836 The Alamo falls. Remember it? S03061930 Clarence Birdseye puts the first individually packaged frozen foods on sale, in Springfield, Mass. S03071848 In Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed. S03071870 The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first pro baseball team, begins an 8 month tour of the Midwest and the East. S03071933 The game "Monopoly" is invented. S03081862 The Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched. S03081910 Baroness de Laroche of Paris becomes first licensed female pilot. S03091822 US grants first patent for artificial teeth to Charles Graham. S03091862 The ironclads "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads. It was a standoff. S03091981 The Department of Agriculture, declares ketchup a vegetable. S03101847 First money minted in Hawaii. S03101876 The first telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell. S03101888 The Salvation Army of England sends group to U.S. to begin welfare and religious activity here. S03101933 Big earthquake in Long Beach (W.C. Fields was making a movie when it struck & the cameras kept running). S03101967 The first confirmed octuplets are born in Mexico (That's 8 babies). S03111302 According to Shakespeare, this was Romeo and Juliet's wedding day. S03111867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii). S03111892 First public game of basketball. S03121850 First $20 Gold piece issued. S03121912 The first Girl Scout troop was organized in Atlanta, GA. S03121936 President Franklin Roosevelt holds his first "Fireside Chat." S03121948 The Hells Angels are created. (Heaven's Devils comes next!) S03131852 The New York Lantern publishes the first cartoon showing the character "Uncle Sam," based on a real U.S. officer who served in the war of 1812, Samuel Wilson. S03131970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer. S03141743 America's first town meeting is held in Boston. S03141860 The baseball cap is invented. S03141870 Legislature approves act to make Golden Gate Park possible. S03141896 Sutro Bath's opens by Cliff House, closed on September 1, 1952. S03141948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco. S03151860 The first baseball cap is worn backwards. S03151913 Woodrow Wilson holds the first Presidential Press Conference. S03151968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold. S03151999 Pluto again becomes the outermost planet. S03161802 Congress establishes West Point Military Academy in New York. S03171756 St. Patrick's Day first celebrated in New York City, at the Crown and Thistle Tavern. S03181850 American Express founded. S03181881 Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison Square Garden in New York City. S03181919 The Order of DeMolay was established in Kansas City. S03181992 Leona Helmsley, is sentenced to 4 years in prison for tax evasion. S03191871 Chewing gum is invented. S03191895 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service. S03191928 "Amos and Andy" debuts on radio. S03191973 POW's return from Vietnam. S03201852 "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published. S03201980 The first official sighting of Elvis occurs in Butte, Montana. S03211891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ending a long feud in W. VA. S03221733 Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water. S03221945 The Slinky is invented. (fun for a girl and a boy) S03221957 Earthquake gives San Francisco the shakes. S03221968 President Johnson's daugher, ordered off of cable car, because she was eating an ice cream cone, where no food was allowed. S03221978 Robert Frost Plaza at California Drumm & Market is dedicated. S03221981 First class postage is raised from 15 cents to 18 cents. S03221990 New Kids On The Block & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles doll sales exceed 1.8 Billion dollars. (Who would want to buy them?) S03231775 Patrick Henry asks for Liberty or Death. S03231901 Dame Nellie Melba, Australian Opera Singer, reveals secret of her now famous toast. S03231912 The Dixie Cup is invented. S03231929 First telephone installed in the White House. S03221962 President John F. Kennedy visits San Francisco. S03231965 Gemini 3 launched, first US 2-man space flight. S03241860 Clipper "Andrew Jackson" arrives in 89 days from New York. S03241949 Walter Huston and son John become first father-and-son team to win Oscars as actor and director of "Treasure of Sierra Madre." S03241971 The first Pine Tree Air Freshner is introduced, in Watertown, NY. S03251821 Greece gains its independence. S03251913 New York City's famed Palace Theatre opens its doors for the first time. S03251954 RCA manufactures the first COLOR television set. S03261878 Hastings College of Law founded. S03261953 Dr. Jonas Salk announces new vaccine to immunize people against polio. S03261970 Golden Gate Park controversy made a city landmark. S03271917 The Seattle Metropolitans become the first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup, defeating the Montreal Canadians. S03281794 Nathaniel Briggs gets patent for the washing machine. S03291848 Niagara Falls stops flowing -- for 1 day -- because of an ice jam. S03291886 Coca-Cola is created (with cocaine) (Really!) S03301853 Patent granted to Hyman Lipman for a pencil with an ERASER! S03301870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race. S03301932 Amelia Earhart is first woman to make solo crossing of the Atlantic. S03311889 Eiffel Tower completed. S03311963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after nearly 90 years. S03311978 An easy listening radio station, in Anadale, VA, is blown up. R0303 Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival), celebrated in Japan. R0303 Independence Day, celebrated in Morocco. R0307 The Fourth of July in (where else?) Warsaw, Poland! R0308 National Girl Scout week begins. R0308 National Women's Day R0315 The day the buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio. R0315 Beware the Ides of March! R0317 St. Patricks Day R0317 Evacuation Day (celebrated in Boston) R0319 The day the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano, CA. R0320 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts tomorrow. R0321 The First Day of Spring... Tra-la Tra-la. R0321 The start of the Persian New Year. R0321 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts tomorrow. R0322 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts tomorrow. R0323 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts tomorrow. R0324 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts tomorrow. R0325 Independence Day, celebrated in Greece. R0325 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts tomorrow. R0326 Prince Kuhio Day (celebrated in Hawaii). R0326 6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts tomorrow. R0327 Liz Taylor's wedding anniversary (Wait, there'll be more...) R0328 Liz Taylor's wedding anniversary (Again!) R0329 Liz Taylor's wedding anniversary (Last time! - NOT!) R0331 7Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins tomorrow morning. B04011883 Lon Chaney, man of a thousand faces B04011929 Jane Powell B04011932 Debbie Reynolds, dancer. B04011939 Lee MacGraw B0402 742 Emperor Charlemagne B04021875 Walter Chrysler, founded a car company. B04021908 Buddy Ebsen, actor. B04021914 Sir Alec Guiness, thespian, "Jedi Knight" B04021920 Jack Webb, dum-de-dum-dum B04031924 Doris Day, girl next door B04031837 John Burroughs B04031898 George Jessel B04031898 Henry R. Luce B04031924 Marlon Brando, godfather B04031942 Marsha Mason B04031942 Wayne Newton, dankeshoen... B04031961 Eddie Murphy, comedian, actor, buckwheat. B04041792 Thaddeus Stevens B04041802 Dorothea Dix, social reformer B04041932 Tony Perkins B04051856 Booker T. Washington B04051908 Bette Davis, actress. B04051908 Mary Hemmingway B04051916 Gregory Peck, actor. B04061810 Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium B04061866 Butch Cassidy, outlaw. B04061866 Lincoln Steffens, muckraker. B04061890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer B04061892 Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company. B04061892 Lowell Thomas, journalist B04061945 Bob Marley. B04071860 W.K. Kellogg, founded the cereal company. B04071915 Billie Holiday, blues singer B04071927 James Gardner, actor. B04071932 Mark Russell, satirist B04071939 David Frost B04071939 Francis Ford Coppola, director, producer. B04081889 Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra) B04081918 Betty Ford, founded drug/alcohol abuse clinic for the rich & famous. B04081963 Julian Lennon, singer, son of a Beatle. B04091830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion in photography. B04091865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz B04091879 W.C. Fields, Philadelphian B04091895 Mance Lipscomb B04091905 J. William Fulbright B04091905 Ward Bond B04091919 John Presper Eckert, co-inventor of first electronic computer, it was called, the ENIAC. B04091954 Dennis Quaid, actor, comedian. B04101847 Joseph Pulitzer B04101915 Harry Morgan, actor. B04101921 Chuck Conners, actor. B04101932 Omar Sharif, actor. B04101938 Don Merridith B04111866 Carla Ford B04111938 Ethel Kennedy B04121777 Henry Clay, "The Great Compromiser" B04121791 Francis P. Blair, helped found the Republican Party. B04121913 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader & vibraphone improvisor B04121947 David Letterman, founder of Top 10 Lists, and Stupid Pet Tricks. B04131721 John Hanson, first US President under the Articles of Confederation. B04131743 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President from (1801 - 1809). B04131852 F.W. Woolworth, the "five-and-ten" king. B04141889 Arnold Toynbee, historian B04141904 Sir John Gielgud, actor. B04141935 Lorretta Lynn, queen of country music. B04141941 Julie Christie B04141941 Pete Rose, baseball player, gambler. B04151452 Leonardo da Vinci, factotum B04151707 Leonhard Euler, mathematician B04151933 Roy Clark, "Hee Haw" B04161867 Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame B04161889 Charlie Chaplin, tramp B04161904 Clifford Case B04161904 Lilly Ponds B04161921 Peter Ustinov, actor. B04161947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tall person B04171837 J.P. Morgan, financed the US. B04171897 Thornton Wilder, American novelist B04171923 Harry Reasoner B04181857 Clarence Darrow, lawyer B04181947 James Woods, actor B04181954 Rick Moranis, comedian, actor B04181956 Eric Roberts, actor B04181964 Conan O'Brien, night time talk show host. B04191877 Ole Evinrude, invented the outboard marine engine. B04191935 Dudley Moore, actor. B04201889 Adolf Hitler, in Braunau, Austria. B04201893 Harold Lloyd, early film comedian. B04201941 Ryan O'Neal, actor. B04201949 Jessica Lange, actress. B04211838 John Muir, naturalist. B04211916 Anthony Quinn, actor. B04211926 Queen Elizabeth II of Britain. B04211947 Iggy Pop's. B04221904 J. Robert Oppenheimer. B04221937 Jack Nicholson, actor, The Joker! B04231564 William Shakespeare, bard B04231791 James Buchanan, 15th President from (1857 - 1861). B04231813 Stephen Douglas, the "Little Giant", debated Lincoln B04231928 Shirley Temple, child actress B04231940 Lee Majors, six million dollar actor. B04231950 Joyce DeWitt, actress. B04231960 Valerie Bertinelle, actress. B04241620 John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of demography B04241934 Shirley MacLaine, had out of body experience. B04241942 Barbra Streisand, profile B04251874 Guglielmo Marconi, made radio possible B04251908 Edward R. Murrow, set the standard for TV correspondents. B04251918 Ella Fitzgerald B04251940 Al Pachino, actor. B04261785 John James Audubon, birdwatcher B04261822 Frederick L. Olmstead B04261900 Charles Richter, he tells us how bad the quakes are. B04261936 Carol Burnett, comedienne, actress. B04271791 Samuel F. B. Morse, invented Morse Code (-- --- .-. ... .) B04271822 Ulyssses S. Grant, 18th President from (1869 - 1877). B04271896 Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon. B04271922 Jack Klugman, actor, "Odd Roommate". B04271927 Corretta Scott King B04281758 James Monroe, 5th President from (1816 - 1824). B04281941 Ann Margaret, actress. B04281950 Jay Leno, host of the Tonight Show (Where's Johnny?) B04291830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels... B04291863 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner) B04291899 Duke Ellington B04291919 Celeste Holm B04291947 Jim Ryun B04291947 Johnny Miller B04291962 Michelle Pfeiffer, actress, Catwoman! B04301777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. B04301912 Eve Arden, Our Miss Brooks B04301933 Willie Nelson, singer, "IRS magnet" B04301944 Jill Clayburgh, actress. B04301949 Perry King, actor. S04011778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans Businessman, creates the "$" symbol. S04011850 San Francisco County Government is established. S04011889 The first dishwashing machine is marketed in Chicago. S04011941 Navy takes over San Francisco Bay's Treasure Island. S04011960 TIROS I (Television & Infra-Red Observation Satellite) launched to improve weather prediction. S04011963 The Soap Opera "General Hospital" airs for the first time. S04011963 Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" is released. S04021792 Congress establishes coin denominations of United States. S04021877 The first Easter Egg Roll is held on the White House lawn -- Rutherford B. Hayes was president. S04021935 Watson Watt was granted a patent for RADAR. S04021974 A streaker is seen running across the stage behind David Niven at the Oscar awards ceremony. S04021978 Velcro is introduced. S04031860 The first Pony Express riders simultaneously left Sacramento, CA. and St. Joseph, MO. S04041860 Pony Express begins service, from St. Joseph, Missouri. S04041870 Golden Gate Park is established by city order #800. S04041914 The movie "The Perils of Pauline" was shown for the first time, in Los Angeles. S04051614 Pocahontas marries John Rolfe in Virginia. S04051953 First issue of TV Guide goes on the market. S04061862 Battle of Shiloh. S04061868 Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife. S04061896 The first modern Olympic Games were opened in Greece. S04061906 First animated cartoon is copyrighted. S04061926 4 planes take off on first successful around-the-world flight. S04061957 New York City ends trolley car service. S04061931 Seals Stadium opens. S04071933 Prohibition ends. S04071948 World Health Organization is established. (WHO) S04071969 Final Episode of Star Trek (Not the Next Generation, duh) airs. S04081513 Ponce de Leon arrives in Florida. S04081766 The first patent is granted for a fire escape ... a wicker basket on a pully and a chain, designed by a London watchmaker. S04081913 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified. S04081974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record. S04091865 Lee surrenders at Appomattox. S04091928 Mae West makes her New York City debut in a daring new play, "Diamond Lil." S04091953 TV Guide publishes its first issue. S04091955 United Nations Charter hearing. S04101825 First hotel in Hawaii opens. S04101849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt of New York City. He immediately sold the patent rights for $100. S04101878 California Street Cablecar Railroad Company, starts service. S04101882 Matson founds his shipping company, serving San Francisco & Hawaii. S04101953 House of Wax, first 3-D movie, released in New York. S04101992 Worlds Grits Festival, in St. George, SC. S04111876 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized. S04111895 Anaheim completes its new electric light system. S04111947 Jackie Robinson becomes first black in major league baseball. S04111958 Brooks Hall in Civic Center is dedicated. S04111980 The equal opportunity commission regulates that sexual harassment of women in the work place is illegal. S04121859 Hibernia Savings & Loan Society of San Francisco is incorporated. S04121861 Fort Sumter, S. C., shelled by Confederacy, starts Civil War. S04121898 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island to the Navy. S04121933 Moffatt Field is commissioned. S04121961 Yuri A. Gagarin becomes first man to orbit Earth. S04121962 San Mateo County withdraws from BART district. S04121981 First launch of the Space Shuttle "Columbia." S04131796 The first elephant arrives in the U.S. from Bengal, India. S04131976 $2 bill is re-introduced as United States currency. S04131995 Former Houston Rocket player Otis Thorpe, plays in Houston for 1st time after being traded to the Portland Trailblazers. S04141828 First edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published. S04141860 First Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri. S04141865 Abraham Lincoln assasinated in Ford's Theater. S04141928 Regular air passenger flights between San Francisco and Los Angeles started, by Maddux Air Lines. S04141974 Dungeon's & Dragon's is invented. S04151738 The bottle opener is invented, (when was the bottle invented?) S04151850 City of San Francisco incorporated. S04151912 Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM. And the band plays on . . . S04151922 The famed "Poodle Dog" restaurant closes. S04151923 Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics. S04151928 Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf opens for business. S04151955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants. S04161866 Nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo & Co. office explodes. S04161926 The "Book-of-the-Month" Club opens for business. S04161986 First test tube baby is born. S04171524 New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano. S04171853 US Marine Hospital at the Presidio is established. S04171875 The game of "snooker" -- a variation of pool -- is invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain, while on duty in India. S04171895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends first Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895). S04171941 Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing) S04171961 U.S. invades Cuba's Bay of Pigs. S04171964 The Ford Mustang makes its debut. S04181775 "The British are Coming!" declares Paul Revere from horseback. S04181868 San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is born. S04181869 First International Cricket Match is held in San Francisco. S04181906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. S04181907 Fairmont Hotel opens. S04181934 First "Washateria" (laundromat) is opened, in Fort Worth, Texas. S04181936 Pan-Am's "Clipper" starts providing regular passenger flights between San Francisco and Honolulu. S04181955 The first WALK/DON'T WALK signs are installed in a city. S04181968 San Francisco's Old Hall of Justice is demolished. S04191775 At Lexington Common, they fired the shot "heard round the world". S04191852 California Historical Society founded. S04191874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island are destroyed in fire. S04191892 Charles Duryea takes the first American-made auto out for a spin. S04191939 Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights . . . (only 148 years late). S04191956 American actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III. S04191993 The siege at the Davidian Compound in Waco, Tx. ends in disaster. S04191995 A terrorist bomb explodes in Oklahoma City destroying the Murah Building, and killing 168 people, including 19 children. S04201902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the element Radium. S04201836 Territory of Wisconsin established by Congress. S04201879 The first "mobile home" (horse drawn) was used for a journey between London and Cyprus. S04201971 Supreme Court first upheld busing for school racial desegragation. S04201978 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace. S0421 756 B.C., that is! According to legend, Rome was founded. S04211836 Texans lead by Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto. S04211862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorado. S04211892 First buffalo is born in Golden Gate Park. S04211918 The Red Baron (von Richthofen) shot down and killed in air battle. S04211940 Quiz show "Take It or Leave It" first asked the $64 question on CBS. S04211972 Apollo 16's John Young & Charles Duke walked on the moon's surface. S04211975 South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned after 10 years. S04221769 Madame Du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress. S04231871 "Blossom Rock" in San Francisco Bay is blown up. S04231896 First "moving pictures" are shown on a public screen in New York. S04231949 Courtesy mail boxes for motorists started in San Francisco. S04241800 Library of Congress founded. S04241833 A patent is granted for the first soda fountain. S04241865 Fire and police telegraph system is put into place. S04241990 "Hubble" space telescope is put into orbit by shuttle "Discovery". S04251684 A patent is granted for the thimble. S04251901 New York becomes first state requiring license plates for cars. S04251945 United Nations Conference starts. S04251956 Elvis Preley hits #1 with "Heart Break Hotel" S04251961 Robert Noyce granted a patent for the integrated circuit. S04261607 First British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Virginia. S04261906 First motion pictures shown in Hawaii. S04261954 Nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio vaccine begins. S04261971 San Francisco light ship is replaced by automatic buoy. S04261981 The largest bank robbery in the U.S. (3.3 Million) occurs in Tucson, AZ. S04271565 First Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City, founded. S04271897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) is dedicated. S04271937 US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment. S04271945 Founding of the Second Republic, in Austria. S04271961 Wide World of Sports premiers on TV. S04281754 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurs. S04281919 First successful parachute jump is made. S04281922 WOI, Ames, Iowa, becomes the country's first licensed educational radio station. S04281974 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon. S04291553 A Flemish woman introduces the practice of starching linen into England. S04291857 Headquarters for the US Army division of the Pacific is permanently established at "The Presidio". S04291913 The all-purpose zipper is patented. S04301789 George Washington inaugurated as first president of the U.S. S04301798 Department of the Navy established. S04301803 US more than doubles its size thru the Louisiana Purchase. S04301808 The first practical typewriter was finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri. He built it for a blind friend. S04301857 Founding of what would become San Jose State University. S04301869 The Hawaiian YMCA organized. S04301939 NBC makes first US demo of TV at opening of NY World's Fair. R0401 April Fool's Day... but you knew that! R0401 7Set your clocks ahead 1 hour tonight (Daylight savings time begins) R0402 International Children's Book Day observed. R0402 7Set your clocks ahead 1 hour tonight (Daylight savings time begins) R0403 7Set your clocks ahead 1 hour tonight (Daylight savings time begins) R0404 7Set your clocks ahead 1 hour tonight (Daylight savings time begins) R0404 Tator Tot Day, a day that celebrates the potato in Benton, KY. R0405 7Set your clocks ahead 1 hour tonight (Daylight savings time begins) R0406 7Set your clocks ahead 1 hour tonight (Daylight savings time begins) R0408 Kambutsue, celebration of Buddha's birthday, in Japan R0411 Barber Shop Quartet Day. R0413 World cow chip throwing championship, in Beaver, OK begins today. R0415 Income Taxes are due today. Keep the IRS happy... R0418 Seems like a lot happened in San Francisco on this day! R0419 Patriot's Day. R0419 Reading Is Fun week begins today. R0420 National Lingerie Week, begins today. R0422 Earth Day. R0423 National Secretary Day. R0423 Summer begins in Ireland. R0424 Rattle snake derby, a snake racing contest, begins in Mangum, OK. R0425 Arbor Day. Plant a tree. R0427 Union Day, celebrated in Tanzania. R0429 The Emperor's Birthday, celebrated in Japan. R0430 Hair Dresser's Day. R0430 National Honesty Day. B05011769 Duke of Wellington, who made Napoleon very unhappy. B05011830 Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), hellraiser. B05011907 Kate Smith B05011916 Glenn Ford, actor. B05021837 Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order." B05021903 Dr. Benjamin Spock, leading authority on children. B05021904 Bing Crosby, crooner. B05021936 Engelbert Humperdink. B05031874 Francois Coty, perfume maker. B05031898 Golda Meir B05031906 Mary Astor B05031919 Pete Seeger, folk singer. B05031934 James Brown, singer. B05041929 Audrey Hepburn, actress. B05051832 H. H. Bancroft B05051867 Nellie Bly, name became a synonym for female star reporter. B05061818 Karl Marx B05061856 Sigmund Freud, psycologist, cigar smoker. B05061870 A.P. Giannini, founder of Bank of America. B05061895 Rudolph Valentino, sheik. B05061903 Daniel Gerber, founder of "Strained Peas" and other flavors of baby food. B05061915 Orson Welles, citizen. B05061931 The "Say Hey Kid", Willie Mays. B05061942 Tammy Wynette, singer. B05071833 Johannes Brahms, enjoyed a good lullaby. B05071840 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer. B05071901 Gary Cooper, actor in "High Noon" and "The Plainsman." B05071909 Edwin Land, founded instant photography (Polaroid). B05081737 Edward Gibbon, historian, "The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire." B05081786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry. B05081828 Henri Dunant, founded Red Cross, YMCA. B05081829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, first internationally recognized U.S. pianist. B05081884 Harry S Truman, 32nd President. The "S" doesn't stand for anything (thus no period). B05081895 Fulton J. Sheen B05081926 Don Rickles, comedian. B05081930 Gary Schneider B05081943 Jim Morrison, Door. B05081954 David Keith, actor. B05081964 Melissa Gilbert, actress. B05091800 John Brown, abolitionist. B05091873 Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamen. B05091882 Henry J. Kaiser, built Liberty Ships, Jeeps. B05091936 Albert Finney, actor. B05101788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneered in optics. B05101899 Fred Astaire, tap dancer. B05101902 David O. Selznick, film producer. B05101936 Glenda Jackson B05101946 Candice Bergen, the dime lady. B05101949 Billy Joel, "Piano Man" B05101960 Bono, (B. Paul Hewson), of U2. B05111888 Irving Berlin, composer, lover to the world. B05111904 Salvador Dali, painter. B05121820 Florence Nightengale, inspiration to nurses everywhere. B05121845 Gabriel Faure, composer. B05121925 Yogi Barra, catcher. B05121937 George Carlin, comedian, actor. B05121958 Cathy L. Green B05131842 Sir Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame. B05131856 Peter Henry Emerson, first photographer to promote. photography as an independent art. B05131914 Joe Louis, heavyweight. B05131929 Burt Bacharach B05141926 Bea Arthur, actress. B05141928 Billy Martin, local boy who made good in baseball. B05141944 George Lucas, producer, director, star gazer. B05141950 Stevie Wonder, singer. B05141952 David Byrne. B05151859 Pierre Curie, physicist. B05161801 William H. Seward, bought Alaska at $0.02/acre. B05161905 Joseph Cotton B05161919 Liberace, candelabrist. B05161966 Janet Jackson, sister to the gloved one. B05171866 Erik Satie, composer. B05171911 Maureen O'Sullivan, actress. B05181850 Oliver Heaviside, physicist who predicted the existance of the ionosphere, used to reflect radio waves. B05181918 Pope John Paul II. B05181956 Sugar Ray Leonard, boxer. B05191890 Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer. B05191912 Perry Como, crooner. B05191918 Mike Wallace, of CBS "60 minutes" fame. B05191946 Reggie Jackson, baseball player. B05201750 Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during the War of 1812. B05201799 Honore de Balzac, novelist. B05201818 William George Fargo, helped to found Wells, Fargo & Co. B05201908 Jimmy Stewart, actor. B05201913 William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co. B05201915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general & politician. B05201946 Cher, actress, singer, Sonny's Ex! B05211471 Albrecht Durer, painter & printmaker, greatest German Renaissance artist. B05211860 Willam Einthoven, invented the electrocardiograph. B05211878 Glenn Curtis, aircraft pioneer. B05211904 Fats Waller B05211904 Robert Montgomery B05211917 Dennis Day B05211917 Raymond Burr, actor, "Perry Mason". B05211952 Mr. T, actor (of sorts). B05221828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon, founded modern ophthalmology. B05221859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, brought Sherlock Holmes to life (twice). B05221907 Laurence Olivier, actor. B05221920 Thomas Gold, astronomer, established the steady-state theory of the universe. B05231883 Douglas Fairbanks, first & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers. B05231910 Artie Shaw, band leader and husband. B05231933 Joan Collins, actress, BITCH! B05241686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, invented the thermometer. B05241940 Bob Dylan, singer. B05251803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher. B05251889 Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter. B05251898 Bennett Cerf B05251898 Gene Tunney B05251926 Miles Davis, trumpeter, pioneered cool jazz. B05251929 Beverly Sills, soprano. B05261877 Isadora Duncan B05261886 Al Jolson, jazz singer. B05261907 John Wayne, shootist, duke. B05261920 Peggy Lee B05261923 James Arness, actor. B05271818 Amelia Bloomer, suffragist known for her pantaloons. B05271837 Wild Bill Hickock B05271894 Dashiell Hammett, author who created the hard-boiled detective. B05271907 Rachel Carson, ecologist. B05271911 Hubert Humphrey B05271911 Vincent Price, actor, always had the evil eye. B05271912 John Cheever B05271912 Sam Sneede B05271923 Henry Kissinger, politician. B05281886 Jim Thorpe B05281908 The name is Flemming, Ian Fleming. Gave James Bond a job. B05281944 Gladys Knight, singer. B05291903 Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope, famous profile. B05291917 John F. Kennedy, 35th President from (1960 - 1963). B05291947 Anthony Geary, actor. B05291958 Annette Benning, actress. B05301672 Peter I (the Great) czar of Russia B05301265 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet B05301908 Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs, Elmer, Porky, and Daffy. B05301909 Benny Goodman, swinger. B05301916 Dr. Joseph W. Kennedy, scientist, discoverer of plutonium. B05301926 Johnny Gimble, Country musician. B05301927 Clint Walker, Actor. B05301936 Ruta Lee, Actress. B05301939 Michael J. Pollard, Actor. B05301951 Stephen Tobolowsky, Actor. B05301953 Colm Meaney, Actor (Chief O'Brien). B05301958 Ted McGinley, Actor. B05301961 Ralph Carter, Actor. B05301964 Country singer Wynonna. B05301964 Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine), musician. B05301971 Patrick Dahlheimer, musician. B05301972 Trey Parker, Actor. B05301974 Cee-Lo (Goodie Mob), rapper. B05311819 Walt Whitman, poet. B05311857 Pope Pius XI (Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti) 259th pope of the Roman Catholic Church [1922-1939] B05311894 Fred Allen, Comedian, radio star. B05311898 Norman Vincent Peale B05311908 Don Ameche, Actor. B05311922 Denholm Elliott, Actor. B05311930 Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry. B05311933 Shirley Verrett, opera singer. B05311938 Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary. B05311941 Johnny Paycheck, country singer. B05311943 Joe Namath, athlete. B05311950 Tom Berenger, Actor. B05311950 Gregory Harrison, Actor. B05311961 Lea Thompson, Actress. B05311965 Brooke Shields, Actress. S05011840 First adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued. S05011850 John Geary becomes first mayor of City of San Francisco. S05011860 First school for the deaf founded. S05011869 Folies-Bergere opens in Paris. S05011884 Construction begins in Chicago on the first U.S. skyscraper. S05011892 U.S. quarantine station opens on Angel Island. S05011928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration) S05021885 "Good Housekeeping" magazine is first published. S05021925 Kezar Stadium in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park opens. S05021939 Lou Gehrig sets record for being in most consecutive games (2130). S05021957 Elvis records "Jail House Rock". S05021996 Houston Rockets advance to the second round of the NBA Finals. S05031830 First regular steam train passenger service starts. S05031919 America's first passenger flight (New York to Atlantic City) S05031932 24 tourists begin the first air-charter holiday, from London to Basle, Switzerland for 7 days. S05031971 National noncommercial network radio begins programming. S05041626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons. S05041715 French manufacturer debuts first folding umbrella -- in Paris, not Cherbourg! S05041851 First of the major San Francisco fires. S05041878 Phonograph shown for first time at the Grand Opera House. S05041983 The final episode of Laverne & Shirley airs. S05041908 The Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco. S05051939 The worlds largest pig "Big Boy" is born. S05051949 Council of Europe established. S05051961 Alan Shepard becomes first American in space (onboard Freedom 7). S05061851 Patent granted to Dr. John Farrie for a "refrigeration machine." S05061851 Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco starts. S05061860 The Olympic Club, first athletic club in US, founded. S05061906 Temporary permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street which allowed "United Railroads" to run electric street cars. S05061915 Babe Ruth hits first major league home run. S05071824 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony presented for first time. S05071927 San Francisco municiple airport "Mills Field" is dedicated. S05071945 World War II ends in Europe. S05071963 Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles). S05081541 Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River. S05081886 Coca-Cola is first sold, at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia. S05091785 Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles. S05091960 The FDA approves first public sale of contraceptive pills. S05101775 Continental Congress issues paper currency for the first time. S05101823 First steamboat to ascent the Mississippi River arrives at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. S05101869 The Driving of the Golden Spike, Promontory Point, Utah -- The Transcontinential railroad is completed. S05101930 First US planetarium opens, in Chicago. S05111752 First US fire insurance policy is issued, in Philadelphia. S05111812 The Waltz is introduced into English ballrooms. Most observers consider it disgusting and immoral. No wonder it caught on! S05111929 First regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week). S05111951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory. S05112181 (B.C. That Is), The chair is invented. S05121789 Society of St. Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of New York City political bosses. S05131607 English land to found Jamestown (first permanent settlement) S05131835 First foreign embassy in Hawaii is established. S05131846 US declares war on Mexico. S05131873 U.S. Postal Service introduces post cards. S05131884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded. S05131950 The Diner's Club issues its first credit cards. S05141804 Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis for the Pacific Coast. S05141811 Paraguay gains its independence. S05141853 Gail Borden applies for patent for making condensed milk. S05141948 State of Israel proclaimed. S05141973 United States launches space station "Skylab". S05151930 The first "air hostess," Ellen Church, welcomes passengers aboard a United Air Lines flight from Oakland, CA to Cheyenne, WY. S05151940 First nylon stockings are sold in America. S05151963 Last of the Mercury flights, the "Faith 7", launched. S05161866 Congress authorizes nickel 5-cent piece (the silver half-dime was used up to this point). S05161929 First Oscar Awards are given: Best Film: Wings. Best Actor: Emil Jennings. Best Actress: Janey Gaynor. S05161971 First Class postage raised to 8 cents from 6 cents. S05171620 First merry-go-round seen at a fair in Philippapolis, Turkey. S05171792 24 brokers meet to found the New York Stock Exchange. S05171804 Lewis & Clark begin their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase. S05171845 the rubber band is invented. S05171872 Bohemian Club incorporated. S05171921 President Harding opens (via telephone) first Valencia Orange Show in Anaheim. S05171954 Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, overthrowing the principle of "separate but equal." S05181830 Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, the lawn mower. Saturdays are destroyed forever. S05181933 TVA Act signed by President Roosevelt. S05181980 Mount St. Helens blew its top in Washington State. S05191848 First department store opens. S05191862 The Homestead Act becomes law. S05191928 51 frogs enter first annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" at Angel's Camp in Calaveras County, California. S05201845 First legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii. S05201874 Levi Strauss markets his blue jeans with copper rivets, priced at $13.50 A DOZEN. S05201927 At 7:40am, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic. S05211846 First steamship arrives in Hawaii. S05211881 The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton. S05211927 Lindbergh lands in Paris, after first solo flight across Atlantic. S05211933 Mount Davidson Cross lit by President Roosevelt in Washington via Telegraph. S0522 600 (B.C. Again), The lucky rabbits foot is first used. (I'll bet the rabbit didn't feel so lucky!). S05221807 Townsend Speakman begins making and selling fruit-flavored carbonated drinks - in Philadelphia. S05231898 First Phillipine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco. S05231908 Dirigible (a blimp) explodes over San Francisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die. S05231921 "Shuffle Along," the first black musical comedy, opens in New York City. S05231953 The first "Cliff's Notes" appear in schools. (Thanks Cliff). S05241830 "Mary Had A Little Lamb", is written. S05241844 Samual F.B. Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought?" S05241866 Berkeley named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne). S05241883 The Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur & Governor Cleveland. S05241899 In Boston, the first auto repair shop opens. S05251721 John Copson becomes America's first insurance agent. S05251787 Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia. S05251927 Henry Ford stops producing the Model T car (begins Model A). S05251940 Golden Gate International Exposition re-opens. S05251977 "Star Wars" is released. S05251983 "Return of the Jedi" is released. S05261868 President Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote. S05261913 Actor's Equity is organized in New York City. S05261937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens. S05261946 Patent filed in US for the H-Bomb. S05271907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco. S05271937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge dedicated. S05271961 The first black light is sold in a novelty shop. S05281742 First indoor swimming pool opens at Goodman's Fields, London. S05281926 United States Customs Court created by Congress. S05281939 First "BATMAN" comic book is introduced, by Bob Kane. S05291453 Constantinople falls to the Turks (some believe this signaled the end of the Middle Ages). S05291912 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing the "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break. S05291953 Hillary & Norkay reach the top of Mount Everest. S05291978 First Class postage raised to 15 cents from 13 cents. S05301431 Joan of Arc burned at the stake for being a heretic. S05301539 Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto landed in Florida. S05301854 The territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established. S05301883 12 people were trampled when rumors that the Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing. S05301911 Indianapolis 500 car race run for first time. Winning driver Ray Harroun takes it with a blazing 75 mph. S05301922 The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., by Chief Justice William Howard Taft. S05301937 10 people were killed when police fired on steelworkers demonstrating near the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago. S05301943 American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese during World War II. S05301958 Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery. S05301971 The American space probe Mariner IX blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., on a journey to Mars. S05301980 Pope John Paul II arrived in France on the first visit by the head of the Roman Catholic Church since the early 19th century. S05301981 The compact disk is introduced. S05301981 Tommy Lee Jones marries Kimberlea Gayle Cloughley. S05301982 Spain became NATO's 16th member. S05301982 Kelsey Grammer marries Doreen Alderman. S05301996 Britain's Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their 10-year marriage. S05311678 Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry. S05311837 New York's Astor Hotel opens ... most elaborate in the U.S. S05311859 Town Ball was created, which became baseball 20 years later. S05311868 First recorded bicycle race, 2 kilometers in Paris. S05311870 Asphalt pavement is patented by E.J. DeSemdt. S05311879 First electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition. S05311880 Leage of American Wheelman is formed in Rhode Island. S05311889 Johnstown Flood occurs, killing 2,300 people. S05311907 Taxis arrive in New York City. S05311929 First reindeer born in the United States (Not the North Pole). S05311941 First issue of Parade magazine is published. S05311976 The Who puts on the loudest concert in recorded history with 76,000 watts at 120 decibels. R0501 May Day R0505 Cinco de Mayo (Roughly translated to The Fifth of May!) R0505 Tango-no-sekku (Boy's Festival) -- Japan R0507 The "Hard Rock Cafe's" world cup of windsurfing championships begins in Maui, Hawaii. R0508 1Mother's Day Send flowers! R0509 1Mother's Day. Send flowers! R0510 1Mother's Day. Send flowers! R0510 Native American Day is observed. R0511 1Mother's Day. Send flowers! R0512 1Mother's Day. Send flowers! R0513 1Mother's Day. Send flowers! R0513 Leprechaun Day -- no blarney! R0514 1Mother's Day. Send flowers! R0514 Independence Day (in Paraguay). R0515 "Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean" Day. Why? Because it may be waving at you. R0516 Armed Forces Day. R0517 Norwegian Independence Day. R0518 National "Visit Your Relatives Day", (Yes, including Mother In-Law) R0519 2Victoria Day -- Canada R0520 2Victoria Day -- Canada R0521 2Victoria Day -- Canada R0522 2Victoria Day -- Canada R0523 2Victoria Day -- Canada R0524 2Victoria Day -- Canada R0524 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday. R0525 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday. R0526 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday. R0527 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday. R0528 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday. R0529 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday. R0530 The REAL Memorial Day, no matter what day of the week! R0531 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday. R0531 Republic Day, celebrated in South Africa. B06011926 Andy Griffith, actor. B06011926 Marilyn Monroe, actress. B06011934 Pat Boone, singer. B06021491 King Henry the VIII (Never lost his head)... B06021740 Marquis de Sade B06021835 Pope Pius X. B06021840 Thomas Hardy, English poet and novelist. B06021857 Sir Edward Elgar, composer (Pomp and Circumstance.) B06021904 Johnny Weissmuller (The original Tarzan). B06021927 Phillip Burton B06021941 Charlie Watts B06021941 Stacey Keach, actor. B06021948 Jerry Mathers, The Beaver (leave it to him...) B06021955 Dana Carvey, of Saturday Night Live fame (The Church Lady...) B06021978 Nikki Cox, actress ("Unhappily Ever After"). B06031808 Jefferson Davis, President of Confederacy from (1861 - 1865). B06031864 Ransom Eli Olds, auto manufacturer. B06031925 Tony Curtis B06031926 Allen Ginsberg B06031926 Colleen Duhurst, actress. B06041924 Dennis Weaver, Actor. B06041928 Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sexologist :) B06041936 Bruce Dern B06041937 Freddy Fender, Country singer. B06041952 Parker Stevenson, actor. B06041968 Scott Wolf, actor. B06041971 Noah Wyle, actor, (he's not a doctor, but he plays one on TV). B06051723 Adam Smith, economist B06051883 John Maynard Keynes, another economist. B06051900 Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography (3D laser photography.) B06051934 Bill Moyers B06061755 Nathan Hale, had but one life to give for his country. B06061756 John Trumbull, painter. B06061956 Bjorn Borg, Racketeer extraordinaire. B06061975 Stacie Keenan, actress. B06071778 Beau Brummel, English Dandy. B06071848 Paul Gauguin, painter. B06071922 Rocky Graziano B06071948 Tom Jones, singer. B06071956 Liam Neeson, actor. B06071958 The Artist (formally known as) Prince, Purple Rain. B0608 570 Mohammed, prophet. B06081625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, astronomer. B06081869 Frank Lloyd Wright, master builder. B06081918 Robert Preston, actor. B06091781 George Stephenson, principal inventor of the railroad locomotive. B06091915 Les Paul, inventor of the Les Paul Guitar. B06091916 Robert McNamara, actor. B06091934 Donald Duck, famous fowl mouth. B06101904 Frederick Loewe, composer. B06101966 Doug McKean, actor. B06101966 Elizabeth Hurly, Hugh Grants Main Squeeze. B06101926 June Haver, actress. B06111572 Ben Johnson, playwright. B06111847 Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of English women's movement. B06111867 Charles Fabry, discovered the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere. B06111907 Paul Mellon B06111910 Jacques Cousteau, diver and environmentalist. B06121915 David Rockefeller, International Power Broker. B06121924 (1989-1993) Forty-first president of the United States of America. B06121929 Anne Frank, diarist. B06121932 Rona Jaffe. B06121933 Jim Nabors, Surprise, Surprise, Surprise. B06121941 Marv Albert, sportscaster, and ... B06121957 Timothy Busfield, actor. B06121959 Jenilee Harrison, actress. B06121962 Ally Sheedy, actress. B06131903 Harold "Red" Grange, the "Galloping Ghost" of football. B06131913 Ralph Edwards B06131943 Malcolm McDowell, actor. B06131953 Tim Allen, comedian, actor, "Tool Man". B06131951 Richard Thomas, actor "Happy Birthday John Boy!" B06131962 Alley Sheedy, actress, part of the original "Brat Pack". B06131986 Mary Kate & Ashley Olson, twins. B06141811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin.) B06151950 Jim Varney, actor (know what I mean Vern?). B06151954 Jim Belushi, actor, comedian. B06151955 Julie Haggerty, actress. B06151963 Helen Hunt, actress. B06151964 Courtney Cox, actress (FRIEND). B06151973 Neal Patrick Harris, actor Doogie Houser M.D. B06161890 Stan Laurel, other half of Oliver Hardy. B06161955 Laurie Metcalf, actress. B06171870 George Cormack, the inventor of "Wheaties" cereal. B06171882 Igor Stravinsky, composer (The Rite of Spring.) B06171904 Ralph Bellamy B06171917 Dean Martin, actor, straight man. B06171946 Barry Manalow, singer, songwriter. B06171951 Joe Piscopo, actor, comedian. B06171954 Mark Linn-Baker, actor. B06171963 Greg Kinnear, actor. B06181877 James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, best known for his "I want you" Uncle Sam recruiting poster. B06181910 E.G. Marshall, actor. B06181942 Paul McCartney, Beatle B06181942 Roger Ebert, movie critic. B06181952 Isabella Rossellini B06181952 Carol Kane, actress. B06191623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician, invented PASCAL computer language. B06191897 Moe Howard, a Stooge. B06191886 Duchess of Windsor, divorcee. B06191903 Henry Louis Gehrig, the "Iron Horse" of the Yankees. B06191919 Louis Jourdan, actor. B06191943 Malcolm McDowell, actor. B06191948 Phylicia Rashad, actress. B06191951 Ann Wilson, from "HEART". B06191954 Kathleen Turner, actress. B06191963 Paula Abdul, singer, dancer. B06191967 Mia Sara, actress. B06191978 Garfield the cat. "Big fat hairy deal." B06201907 Lillian Hellman B06201924 Audie Murphy B06201924 Chet Atkins, singer. B06201931 Olympia Dukakis, actress. B06201945 Anne Murray, singer. B06201952 John Goodman, actor. B06201967 Nichole Kidman, actress. B06211732 Martha Washington, George's Mrs. B06211924 Jane Russell, full-figured gal. B06211925 Maureen Stapleton, actress. B06211940 Mariette Hartley B06211947 Michael Gross, actor. B06211964 Doug Savant, actor. B06221906 Billy Wilder B06221936 Kris Kristopherson, song writer, (not a singer). B06231846 George Sax, inventor of the saxophone. B06231894 Alfred Kinsey B06231894 Duke of Windsor B06231912 Alan Turing, mathematician, pioneer in computer theory. B06231927 Bob Fosse B06241839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift & Co. B06241842 Ambose Bierce B06241942 Michele Lee B06241947 Peter Weller, actor, Robocop! B06241956 Joe Penny, actor. B06241942 Mick Fleetwood, drummer for Fleetwood Mac. B06251894 Hermann Oberth, founder of modern astronautics. B06251925 June Lockhart, actress, (Timmy's Mom). B06251945 Carley Simon, singer. B06251963 George Michael, singer, Wham artist. B06261819 Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing American Baseball. B06261892 Pearl Buck, authoress (The Good Earth.) B06261913 Maurice Wilkes, invented the stored program concept for computers. B06261966 Chris Issack, singer. B06261970 Chris O'Donnel, actor. B06271880 Helen Keller, a portrait of courage. B06271927 Bob Keeshan, a.k.a. Captain Kangaroo (Good Morning, Captain.) B06271951 Julia Duffy, actress. B06281491 Henry VIII of England. Don't lose your head over him. B06281577 Peter Paul Rubens, flemish baroque painter. B06281712 Jean Jacques Rousseau, social contractor. B06281902 Richard Rogers, composer of "South Pacific" & "Oklahoma". B06281926 Mel Brooks, comedian, actor, director, producer. B06281946 Gilda Radner, actress, comedienne. B06291858 George Washington Goethals, engineer who built the Panama Canal. B06291901 Nelson Eddy, baritone great duets with Janet McDonald. B06291919 Slim Pickens B06301917 Buddy Rich, drummer. B06301917 Lena Horne, singer. B06301966 Mike Tyson, (Ex - Prisoner # 316394), boxer. S06011495 First written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cor is the distiller. S06011925 Lou Gehrig starts in first of 2,130 consecutive games, a record. S06011938 First Superman comic book is published. S06021835 P.T. Barnum and his circus begin their first tour of the U.S. S06021851 Maine enacts a law prohibiting alcohol. S06021883 First baseball game played under electric lights in Fort Wayne, IN. S06021897 Mark Twain is quoted as saying "The report of my death was an exaggeration. S06021858 The Donati Comet first seen, named after its discoverer. S06021873 Ground broken on San Francisco's Clay Street for world's first cable-powered railroad. S06021910 Charles Stewart Roll flies across the English Channel. S06021924 Congress grants U.S. Citizenship to all American Indians. S06021941 Lou Gehrig dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. S06021953 Queen Elizabeth II is crowned 16 months after the death of her father King George VI. S06021966 U.S. Space Probe Surveyor I lands on the moon. S0603 208 Worlds first tattoo is performed. S06031888 "Casey at the Bat" is first published (by the SF Examiner.) S06031937 The Duke of Windsor weds Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson in France. S06031949 "Dragnet" is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles.) S06041647 The English army seized King Charles I as a hostage. S06041812 Louisiana Territory is re-named the Missouri Territory. S06041896 Road test of the first Ford car is delayed an hour because the car was wider than the door of the shed in which it was built. Remember, "Ford has a better idea!" S06041911 Gold is discovered in Alaska's Indian Creek. S06041988 The world record for "Hacky-Sacking" is set, 48,825 consecutive times. S06041989 Chinese army troops stormed Beijing to crush the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement. S06051783 Joseph & Jacques Montgolifier demonstrate their hot-air balloon in a 10 minute flight. S06051833 Ada Lovelace (future first computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage. S06051849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy. S06051875 Formal opening of the Pacific Stock Exchange. S06051884 Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman refused presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated nor serve if elected." S06051933 U.S. abandons Gold standard. S06051940 Battle of France begun. S06051947 Secretary of State George C. Marshall gives speech at Harvard oulining what became "The Marshall Plan". S06051967 War erupted in the Middleeast with Israel. S06051975 Egypt re-opens Suez Canal to international shipping 8 years after closing it because of the 1967 war with Israel. S06051986 Ronald W. Pelton is convicted of selling secrets to the Soviet Union. He received 3 life terms plus 10 years. S06051993 Mariah Carey marries Tommy Mottoler. S06061933 First drive-in theatre opens, in Camden, New Jersey. S06061944 D-Day. World War II turns the corner. S06062012 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs again. S06071839 The Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed. S06071860 First American "dime novel" is published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs. Ann Stevens. S06081786 First commercially-made ice cream sold in New York. S06081869 Patent issued for first suction-principle vacuum cleaner. S06081889 Cable Cars begin service in Los Angeles. Really! S06081896 The first stolen car is reported. S06082004 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs. S06091868 First meeting of the Board of Regents, University of California. S06091869 Charles Elmer Hires sells his first Root Beer, in Philadelphia. S06091966 The NFL and the AFL merge. S06101720 Mrs. Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard. S06101772 Burning of the Gaspee, British revenue cutter by Rhode Islanders. S06101869 The "Agnes" arrives in New Orleans with the first ever shipment of frozen beef. S06101898 US Marines land at Cuba in Spanish-American War. S06101952 The first drive thru restaurant opens in America. S06101954 PBS reaches San Francisco, KQED Channel 9 starts broadcasting. S06101977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II. S06111859 Claim is filed for the Comstock Lode. The mine eventually produces more than $300 million in silver. S06111895 First auto race. S06111952 First teenager, drives backward through the first drive-through restaurant. S06121838 Iowa Territory was organized. S06121839 The first baseball game is played in America. Thanks Abner! S06121849 Gas mask is patented by L.P. Haslett. S06121898 Phillipines gains its independence from Spain. S06121923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet above the ground. S06121931 Gangster Al Capone indicted for violating Prohibition laws. S06121963 Cleopatra starring Liz Taylor, Richard Burton, and Rex Harrison premiers in New York. S06121964 Judy Garland (who's not in Kansas anymore) marries Mark Herron. S06121977 David Berkowitz gets 25 to life for "Son of Sam" Murders in New York. S06121981 The 3rd professional baseball players strike starts. S06121987 President Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." S06121994 Nichole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman found murdered. L.A. Police dept. arrest O.J. Simpson as their #1 suspect. S06131927 Charles Lindbergh honored in New York City for his trans- Atlantic flight. 750,000 pounds of confetti were showered down. S06131951 The Ford Foundation, launches a study, to raise the culture level of Television shows. S06131963 Vostok 6 launched, pilot is first woman cosmonaut. S06131983 Pioneer 10 is first man-made object to leave the Solar System. S06131996 A group of people known as The Freeman, surrender peacefully to the FBI after an 81 day stand off in Montana. S06141623 Rev. Gerville Pooley of Virginia files first breach-of-promise lawsuit against Cicely Jordan. He loses. S06141777 Stars and Stripes adopted as US flag, replacing Grand Union flag. S06141846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma. S06141847 Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide. S06141876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Company gets it franchise S06141900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins. S06141919 First direct airplane crossing of the Atlantic. S06141951 Mr. Ed premiers, (A horse is a horse of course). S06141952 Keel laid for first nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus. S06151215 King John signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede. S06151775 Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the American Army. S06151836 Arkansas became the 25th state in the Union. S06151844 Charles Goodyear receives patent for his process to strengthen rubber. S06151851 Jacob Fussell, a Baltimore dairyman, sets up the first ice-cream factory. S06151878 First attempt at motion pictures (using 12 cameras, each taking one picture (done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground during a gallop. Leland Stanford bet they didn't. He lost). S06151928 Fay Wray marries John Monk Saunders. S06151940 France surrenders to Hitler. S06151916 Boy Scouts of America is incorporated. S06161775 The Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill). S06161846 First baseball game is played. S06161879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at the Bowery Theatre in New York City. S06161903 Ford Motor Company is incorporated. S06161963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space. S06161972 Natalie Wood marries Robert Wagner. S06171579 Sir Francis Drake lands on the coast of California. S06171775 British take Bunker Hill outside of Boston. S06171885 Statue of Liberty arrives in New York. S06171912 German Zeppelin SZ 111 burns in its hanger at Friedrichshafen. S06171931 Indochinese Communist Leader Ho Chi Mihn is arrested by The British. S06171944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland. S06171969 The broadway musical "Old Calcutta" opens using the naked human body for the first time as a stage costume. S06171972 The Watergate Break-in. How time flies . . . S06171994 O.J. Simpson and Al Cowlings take a slow trip down the Los Angelas freeway (They interrupted the Damn NBA Playoffs!). S06171997 Robert De Niro marries Grace Hightower. S06181583 Richard Martin of London takes out the first life insurance policy, on William Gibbons. The premium was 383 pounds. S06181812 War of 1812 begins. S06181815 Battle of Waterloo. S06181872 Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall. S06181873 Susan B. Anthony was fined $100.00 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election. The fine was never paid. S06181892 Macademia nuts first planted in Hawaii. S06181928 Amelia Earhart became first woman to fly across the Atlantic. S06181959 Jacques Charrier marries Brigitte Bardot. S06181964 Harrison Ford marries Mary Marquardt. S06181983 Sally Ride, becomes the first American woman in space. S06191778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge. S06191861 Anaheim Post Office established. S06191862 Slavery is outlawed in U.S. Territories. S06191910 U.S. celebrates the first Father's Day. S06191931 Clark Gable marries Rhea Langham. S06191932 First concert given in San Francisco's Stern Grove. S06191934 The FCC is created. S06191986 Murry Haydon dies after 16 months of being on an artificial heart. S06191992 "Batman Returns" opens in U.S. theatres. S06201782 The United States chooses the Eagle as its symbol. S06201855 Commissioners appointed to lay out streets west of Larkin. S06201893 Lizzie Borden found "Not Guilty" of taking an axe and giving her parents a combined total of 81 whacks. S06201914 Noxema, is named because it "knocks eczema" out. S06201948 Ed Sullivan has his first really big "shoe" on Sunday night TV. S06201982 National Bald Eagle Day was declared. S06211879 F. W. Woolworth opens his first store (failed almost immediately, so he found a new location and you know the rest...) S06211893 The first Ferris wheel is premiered at Chicago's Columbian Exposition. S06211917 Hawaiian Red Cross founded. S06211948 CBS, itroduces the first long playing, (LP), record. S06221808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak. S06221847 The doughnut is invented, police officers everywhere rejoice. S06221849 Stephen C. Massett opens at courthouse as first professional entertainer, using (allegedly) the only piano in California. S06221940 France falls to Nazi Germany. S06221957 Kansas City stops using streetcars in its transit system. S06221978 The planet Pluto's partner, Charon, is discovered. S06221979 The day DISCO officially died, (Yeah!) S06221983 First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle. S06231810 John Jacob Astor organizes the Pacific Fur Company at the town he names for himself, Astoria, Oregon. S06231868 Typewriter patented. S06231974 The day DISCO should have died. S06241817 First coffee planted in Hawaii, on the Kona coast. S06241947 First reported signting of Flying Saucers, seen near Mt. Ranier, Washington by Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho. S06241989 A new world record is set for spitting a water melon seed. The distance is 68' 9.5" (Hope no one got hurt...) S06251178 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon (only known observation). These monks have NO winery of their own. S06251630 The Fork is introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop. S06251835 Pueblo founded with construction of first building (start of Yerba Buena, later to be called San Francisco). S06251947 The tennis shoe is invented. S06261797 Charles Newbold patents an iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, because they fear the effects of iron on the soil! S06261896 The first movie theatre is opened in the U.S. with 10 cent movies. S06261934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions. S06261945 UN Charter written in San Francisco. S06271693 The first woman's magazine, "The Ladies' Mercury" is published in London. It has the first advice column. S06271867 Bank of California opens its doors. S06271947 The first sighting of a flying saucer is reported in the U.S. S06281820 The tomato is proved to be nonpoisonous. S06281859 The first dog show is held, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. S06281918 In Hawaii, the first inter-island flight. S06281919 The Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, is signed. S06281951 The "Amos & Andy" show premiers on CBS television. S06291776 Mission Dolores founded in San Francisco Bay. S06291854 Congress ratifies Gadsden Purchase, adds parts of New Mexico and Arizona. S06291863 The very first "First National Bank" opens in Davenport, Iowa. S06291927 First flight from the West Coast arrives in Hawaii. S06291939 The Dixie Clipper completes the first commercial plane flight to Europe. S06291964 First remote control is sold with a TV. S06301893 The Excelsior diamond (blue-white, 995 carats) is discovered. S06301908 A giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (the Tunguska Event). S06301914 Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest, in campaign for Indian equal rights in South Africa. S06301936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, is first published. S06301960 Zaire gains its independence. R0602 Republic (Constitution) Day, celebrated in Italy. R0603 Egg Day (now, how will we celebrate ??) R0604 Old Maid's Day. If you already knew it, don't admit it. R0605 Constitution Day, celebrated in Denmark. R0610 National Day, celebrated in Portugal. R0611 Kamehameha Day (celebrated in Hawaii). R0612 Independence Day, celebrated in the Phillipines. R0613 Kitchen Klutz's of America Day. R0613 The National Asparagus Festival. R0614 Flag Day. R0615 1Father's Day Remind the guy how much you care. R0616 1Father's Day Remind the guy how much you care. R0617 Republic Day, celebrated in Iceland. R0617 1Father's Day Remind the guy how much you care. R0618 1Father's Day Remind the guy how much you care. R0619 1Father's Day Remind the guy how much you care. R0620 1Father's Day Remind the guy how much you care. R0620 National Bald Eagle Day. R0621 The longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice. R0621 1Father's Day Remind the guy how much you care. R0624 St. Jean Baptiste Day -- Canada. R0624 Midsummer Day, celebrated in Europe. R0627 National Fink Day. Reach out and tweak someone. R0630 Independence Day, celebrated in Zaire. B07011912 David Brower B07011916 Olivia De Havilland, actress. B07011936 Jamie Farr, actor. B07011942 Genevieve Bujold B07011942 Karen Black B07011945 Debbie Harry, singer (better known as Blondie). B07011952 Dan Aykroyd, actor, comedian. B07011961 Princess Diana B07011961 Carl Lewis B07011967 Pamela Anderson Lee, lifeguard. B07011977 Liv Tyler B07011946 Ron Silver, actor. B07021932 Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's. B07021952 Cheryl Ladd, angel. B07021956 Jerry Hall B07031937 Tom Stoppard B07031947 Betty Buckley B07031956 Montel Williams, talk show host. B07031957 Laura Branigan B07031962 Tom Cruise, actor. B07041753 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, first balloon flights in England, US. B07041804 Nathaniel Hawthorne. B07041826 Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna." B07041872 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President from (1923 - 1929). B07041878 George M. Cohan, "Yankee Doodle Dandy". B07041883 Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult. B07041900 Louis Armstrong, "Satchmo." B07041920 Sisters Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren, advice givers. B07041924 Eva Marie Saint, actress. B07041927 Neil Simon, director, producer. B07041928 Gina Lolabrigida, actress. B07041943 Geraldo Rivera, talk show host. B07041966 George Steinbrenner, owner of "The Yankees". B07051794 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker. B07051810 P.T. Barnum, circus ringmaster, and not a "Sucker"! B07051923 Nancy Reagan, former First Lady. B07051927 Janet Leigh B07051937 Shirley Knight B07051951 Huey Lewis, singer, songwriter, always in the "The News". B07051972 Michael Bays B07061747 John Paul Jones, "I have not yet begun to fight." B07061946 Sylvestor Stallone, "Yo!" B07061952 Shelly Hack, actress, angel. B07061954 Allyce Beasley, actress. B07071752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented the programmable loom. B07071907 Robert A. Heinlein, author who helped develop Science Fiction. As a sophisticated mode of literary expression. B07071927 Doc Severinson, musician. B07071940 Ringo Starr, Beatle. B07071949 Shelley Duvall, actress. B07071959 Jessica Hahn B07081839 John D. Rockefeller. B07081951 Angelica Houston, actress. B07081958 Kevin Bacon, actor. B07081973 Kathleen Robinson, actress. B07091802 Thomas Davenport, invented 1st commercially successful electric motor B07091947 O.J. Simpson, Ex football player, and .... ???? B07091956 Tom Hanks, actor. B07101834 James Whistler, mama's boy. B07101867 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist/humorist who created Mr. Dooley. B07101915 Saul Bellow B07101920 David Brinkley, famous anchor, (news that is...) B07101926 Fred Gwynne, AKA: Herman Munster. B07101943 Arthur Ashe, tennis player. B07111767 John Quincy Adams, 6th President from (1825 - 1829). B07111899 Eb White B07111920 Yul Bryner, actor, famous bald person. B07111931 Tab Hunter B07121817 Henry David Thoreau, always had Ralph Waldo Emerson. Around to bail him out of trouble, also invented raisen bread. B07121854 George Eastman, created the Kodak camera. B07121895 R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome. B07121895 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers. B07121908 Milton Berle, "Uncle Miltie." B07121937 Bill Cosby, hey, hey, hey... B07121948 Richard Simmons, YRUFAT? B07131942 Harrison Ford, actor. B07141912 Woodie Guthrie. B07141913 Gerald R. Ford, 38th President from (1974 - 1976). B07141918 Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory. B07151606 Rembrandt, Dutch painter. B07151946 Linda Ronstadt, singer. B07151960 Kim Alexis, super model. B07151961 Lolita Davidovich, actress. B07151961 Forrest Whitaker, actor. B07151973 Brian-Austin Green, actor. B07161907 Barbara Stanwyck, actress. B07161909 Ginger Rogers, Fred Aistaire's dancing partner. B07171744 Elbridge Gerry, father of the "gerrymander." B07171900 James Cagney, hold that grapefruit. B07171917 Phyllis Diller, face lift queen, comedienne. B07171935 Donald Sutherland, actor. B07171935 Diane Carroll, singer, actress. B07171951 Lucie Arnez B07171952 David Hassellhoff, actor, "Bay Watcher!" B07181811 William Makepeach Thackeray, Victorian novelist, wrote "Vanity Fair" B07181848 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer. B07181906 Clifford Odets B07181906 S. I. Hayakawa, sleeper. B07181913 Red Skelton, clown to the world. B07181916 Harriet Nelson, Ozzie's better half. B07181921 John Glenn, Jr., first American in orbit. B07191814 Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt Revolver. B07191922 George McGovern B07191961 Anthony Edwards, actor. B07201938 Diana Rigg B07201938 Natalie Wood, actress. B07201947 Carlos Santana, singer, song writer. B07211899 Ernest Hemingway, never asked for whom the bell tolled... B07211899 Hart Crane B07211924 Don Knots, actor, comedian. B07211952 Robin Williams, comedian, actor. B07221844 Rev. William Archibald Spooner, invented "spoonerisms." B07221849 Emma Lazarus, whose poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. B07221890 Rose Kennedy, mother of Jack, Robert, and Ted. B07221898 Alexander Calder B07221898 Steven Vincent Bennet B07221932 Oscar De La Renta B07221947 Danny Glover, actor. B07221955 William Dafoe, actor. B07231936 Don Drysdale B07231951 Edie McClurg, actress. B07231961 Woody Harrelson, actor. B07231962 Eriq LaSalle, actor. B07231968 Stephanie Seymour B07231970 Charisma Carpenter, actress (Cordelia on Buffy)... B07241783 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule. B07241802 Alexandre Dumas, told the Count of Monte Christo how to escape. B07241870 Fred Law Olhmstead Jr. B07241898 Amelia Earhart, into the wild blue yonder. B07241949 Michael Richards, actor. (Kramer) B07241951 Lynda Carter, actress, Wonder Woman. B07241957 Pam Tillis, singer. B07241965 Kadeem Hardison, actor. B07251907 Jack Gilford B07251955 IMAN, model. B07251967 Matt LeBlanc, actor. B07251978 Louise Brown, first test-tube baby (born under the sign of Pyrex.) B07261856 George Bernard Shaw. B07261922 Jason Robards, actor. B07261943 Mick Jagger, never gathers moss, mr. lips. B07261959 Kevin Spacey, actor. B07261965 Sandra Bullock, actress. B07271922 Norman Lear, sitcom creator. B07271931 Jerry Van Dyke, actor. B07271967 Sasha Mitchell, actor. B07281929 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, redecorator. B07281943 Bill Bradley B07281943 Mike Bloomfield B07281948 Sally Struthers, actress. B07281964 Lori Loughlin, actress. B07281972 Elizabeth Berkley, actress. B07291869 Booth Tarkington, novelist. B07291871 Rasputin, the mad Russian monk. B07291905 Clara Bow B07291905 Thelma Todd B07291907 Melvin Belli, San Francisco's "King of Torts." B07301863 Henry Ford. B07301939 Peter Bogdanovich B07301941 Paul Anka, singer. B07311938 Thomas M. Ackermann B07311956 Michael Beian B07311962 Wesley Snipes, actor. B07311966 Dean Cain, actor. S07011850 At least 626 lay anchor around San Francisco Bay - Why? S07011867 Dominion of Canada formed. S07011898 Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill. S07011899 San Francisco City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building. S07011919 First Class Postage DROPS to 2 cents from 3 cents. S07011931 Ice vending machines introduced in Los Angeles. 25 lbs, 15 cents. S07011944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing world-wide financial systems (like the IMF and the World Bank.) S07011961 Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii. S07011971 Golden Gate Bridge is paid for. (So why is there still a toll?) S07021900 First flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1.) S07021940 The Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge was opened. S07021964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act. S07021988 A new record is set for throwing a frisbee, 623.6 feet. S07031608 Quebec is founded. S07031775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass. S07031806 Michael Keens exhibits the first cultivated strawberry. S07031819 First savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors. S07031861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from New York. S07031972 The last episode of "Bewitched" airs. S07041054 Brightest known super-nova starts shining, for 23 days. S07041845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond. S07041863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho.) S07041873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens. S07041876 First public exhibiton of electric light in San Francisco. S07041894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the first US autos. S07041903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens. President Roosevelt sends message to the Phillipines, then a message around the World in 12 minutes, almost as fast as the internet. S07041933 Work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge. S07051811 Venezuela gains independence from Spain. S07051841 Thomas Cook opens first travel agency. They were first involved in organizing trips for groups opposed to alchololic beverages. S07051865 William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England. S07051935 First "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast. S07051938 Herb Caen gets his first column in The San Francisco Chronicle. S07051945 The bikini, makes it's debut at a fashion show in Paris. S07061885 First inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur, who also invented pasteurization to prevent food from spoiling. S07061886 Horlick's of Wisconsin offers first malted milk to the public. S07061928 Preview of first all-talking motion picture took place in NYC. S07061932 First Class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents. S07061933 First All-Star baseball game. American League won 5-2. S07061954 Elvis Presley, makes his first record at age 19. S07071891 A patent was granted for the travelers' cheque. S07071898 Hawaii annexed to the US. S07071908 The Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay. S07071960 Roger Woodward (age 7), falls out of a boat, and becomes first person to survive going over Niagara Falls. S07081796 First American Passport issued by the US State Department. S07081835 The Liberty Bell cracks (again.) S07081889 Vol 1, No 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" published. S07081896 William Jennings Bryan makes his "cross of gold" speech at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. S07081897 Harbor Hospital formally opens. S07081905 Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center. S07081992 Annual Chesapeke turtle derby, (turtle races Baltimore, MD.) S07091800 Mt. Vernon Gardens becomes site of first summer theatre in U.S. S07091816 Argentina gains its independence. S07091846 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for the U.S. S07091979 Voyager II flies past Jupiter. S07101890 Wyoming becomes the 44th state. S07101892 First concrete-paved street built - in Bellefountaine, Ohio. S07101925 The Scopes "Monkey" Trial starts. S07101962 Telstar, first geosynchronous communications satelite launched. S07111804 Burr and Hamilton duel. Hamilton looses. S07111864 Confederate forces invade Washington DC. led by General J. Early. S07111955 U.S.A.F. Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado. S07111962 First transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I.) S07111985 Nolan Ryan, first major league pitcher, to strike out 4000 batters. S07121543 Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th & last wife.) S07121812 US forces lead by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812.) S07121817 First flower show was held at Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland. S07121933 Congress passes first minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour.) S07121934 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned. S07121981 First time a woman is ordered, to pay alimony to her husband. S07131568 The Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer. S07131865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go West." S07131898 San Francisco Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street opens. S07131985 Live Aid raises money for Africa's starving people. S07141789 The citizens of Paris storm the Bastille prison. S07141850 First public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration. S07141853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese. S07141865 The first ascent of the Matterhorn. S07141868 Patent granted for a tape measure enclosed in a circular case. S07141927 First commercial airplane flight in Hawaii. S07141977 Lightning strikes New York City power lines, and leaves the city in total darkness for 25 hours. S07151867 San Francisco's Merchant's Exchange opens. S07151869 Margarine is patented in Paris, for use in the French Navy. S07151965 Law is passed, requiring health warnings on cigarette packages. S07161769 Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, first mission in California. S07161790 Congress establishes the District of Columbia. S07161849 Safety pin is invented. S07161861 First major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run. S07161935 Oklahoma City becomes first in U.S. to use parking meters. S07161945 First atomic blast, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico. S07161946 Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (first time in SF history.) S07161969 Apollo 11, first manned ship to land on the moon, is launched, with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, & Michael Collins. S07161973 A major development in the Watergate scandal is announced. S07171879 First railroad opens in Hawaii. S07171917 British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor. S07171954 Construction begins on Disneyland... S07171955 ...Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County. S07171975 Soviet and American astronaughts, meet in space to shake hands. S07171996 TWA Flight #800 explodes in mid-air, just outside of Long Island. 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 (not California??.) S07181968 Intel Corporation is incorporated. S07181990 A world record is set for catching a grape in mouth, 319' 8". S07191695 First personal ad, looking for a spouse is printed. S07191848 First Women's Rights Convention. Seneca Falls, NY ... featuring the introduction of the first Bloomers. S07191880 San Francisco Public Library allows patrons to start borrowing books. S07191935 First parking meters installed in Oklahoma City business district. S07191955 The "Balclutha" ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum. S07191961 First In-flight movie is shown (on TWA.) S07201810 Columbia gains its independence. S07201859 Admission fee first charged to see a baseball game (50 cents.) S07201872 Mahlon Loomis receives patent for wireless ... the radio is born. S07201878 First telephone introduced in Hawaii. S07201969 Man landed on the Moon, 4:18PM EDT. (Armstrong, Aldrin walk while Collins orbits in Apollo 11 above.) S07201970 First baby born on Alcatraz Island. S07201976 First pictures from Mars surface received (courtesy Viking 2.) S07201992 Madonna poses nude in Playboy. (Big HAIRY deal). S07211831 Belgium gains its independence. S07211867 City Gardens on Folsom opens. S07211873 World's first train robbery, by Jesse James. S07211969 Neil Armstrong steps on the moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT.) S07221933 Wiley Post completes first round-the-world solo flight. S07221979 First Sony Walkman goes on sale. S07231829 Typewriter is patented. S07231852 First interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio. S07231865 Salvation Army is founded. S07231877 First telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii is completed. S07231903 Ford sells its first car, the "Model A". S07231904 The ice cream cone is invented. S07231960 Mel Gibson decides to become an actor. S07231984 Vanessa Williams resigns as Miss America. S07241824 The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of first public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson. S07241938 Instant coffee is invented. S07251903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes. S07251909 First airplane flight across the English Channel. S07251946 First bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show. S07251983 The lowest temperature ever recorded is noted, -129 degrees in Antarctica. S07261775 Benjamin Franklin becomes Postmaster General. S07261835 First sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii. S07261847 Liberia gains its independence. S07261958 The Hoola-Hoop becomes popular. S07271586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia. S07271866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long.) S07271940 Billboard magazine starts publishing best-seller's charts. S07271983 Last episode of "TAXI" airs. S07281821 Peru gains its independence. S07281849 "Memmon" is first clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of New York Harbor. S07281900 The Hamburger is created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut. S07281914 The Foxtrot is first danced at the New Amsterdam Roof Garden, in New York City. Music by Harry Fox (who else?) S07281931 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd National Anthem. S07281933 First Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee.) S07281975 The "Hustle" hits #1 on disco charts. S07281996 Charles Austin wins first Gold Medal for the United States since 1968 in the high jump competition. S07291835 First sugar plantation in Hawaii begun. S07291858 First commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed. S07291914 First transcontinental phone link made. It's between NYC and San Francisco. S07291920 First transcontinental airmail flight from New York to San Francisco. S07291926 Don Juan opens with the most kisses, 127 in a single movie. S07291958 Southern Pacific Bay Ferries stop running. S07291981 The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. S07291996 Carl Lewis wins his 9th Gold Medal in the 1996 Olympics. S07301619 The House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed. First elective governing body in a British colony. S07301733 Society of Freemasons opens its first American lodge in Boston. S07301836 First English newspaper published in Hawaii. S07301975 The last reported sighting of Jimmy Hoffa is reported. S07311790 First US Patent granted (for a potash process.) S07311922 18 year old Ralph Samuelson rides world's first water skis at Lake City, Minnesota. S07311970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending "Huntley-Brinkley Report" (No more "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet.") S07311988 America's last Playboy Club closes, in Lansing, MI. (Awww!) R0701 Dominion Day -- Canada. R0704 Independence Day. Are fireworks legal where YOU live? R0705 Independence Day, celebrated in Venezuela. R0707 Annual Running of the Bulls at Pamplona, Spain. R0709 National POW/MIA Recognition Day. R0709 Independence Day, celebrated in Argentina. R0711 National Holiday of the People's Republic of Outer Mongolia. (Celebrated mainly in Ulan Bator, yurt capital of Asia.) R0713 The start of the Bon Festival in Japan. R0714 Bastille Day -- France. R0715 National Ice Cream Day. R0715 Saint Swithin's Day. R0716 The National Blueberry Festival. R0717 Constitution Day, celebrated in South Korea. R0718 National Day, celebrated in Spain. R0720 Independence Day, celebrated in Columbia. R0721 Independence Day, celebrated in Belgium. R0723 National Day, in Egypt. R0726 The start of the Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree in Athens, Texas. R0726 Independence Day, celebrated in Liberia. R0728 Independence Day, celebrated in Peru. R0729 6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California. R0730 There's a full moon tonight! R0730 6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California. R0731 6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California. B08011770 William Clark, explored Pacific Northwest with Lewis. B08011779 Francis Scott Key, wrote the "Star-Spangled Banner". B08031811 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the safe elevator. B08011815 Richard Henry Dana, spent 2 years before the mast. B08011922 Arthur Hill B08011933 Dom De Luise, big guy! B08021905 Myrna Loy B08021924 Carroll O'Conner, better known as Archie Bunker. B08021924 James Baldwin, actor B08021932 Peter O'Toole, actor B08031811 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the "SAFE" elevator (was it unsafe before???). B08031924 Leon Uris B08031926 Tony Bennett, singer. B08031940 Martin Sheen, actor. B08031952 Jay North, Dennis the Menace. B08041755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, invented the modern pencil. B08041906 John Huston, actor. B08041946 Loni Anderson, actress. B08051930 Neil Armstrong, first Moonwalker. B08061809 Lord Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate of England. B08061881 Sir Alexander Fleming, cashed in on penicillin. B08061911 Lucille Ball, actress who has some 'splainin to do! B08061917 Robert Mitchum, actor. B08071783 John Heathcoat, invented lace-making machinery. B08071886 Louis Alan Hazeltine, invented the neutrodyne circuit, making commercial radio possible. B08071923 Ester Williams B08071937 Dustin Hoffman, actor, "Rainman". B08081763 Charles Bullfinch, first US professional architect. B08081922 Rudi Gernreich, designed first women's topless swimsuit & the miniskirt. B08091923 Rhonda Flemming B08091928 Eddie Fisher B08091928 Jimmy Dean B08091930 Betty Boop. B08091940 Irene J. Gurney B08101874 Herbert Hoover, 31st President from (1929 - 1933). B08101925 Mike Douglas, actor. B08101933 Jerry Falwell, televangelist. B08101960 Antonio Banderas, actor. B08111953 Hulk Hogan, wrestler. B08121881 Cecil B. deMille, directed God. B08121911 Mario Moreno, alias Cantinflas. B08131655 Johann Christoph Denner, invented the clarinet. B08131818 Lucy Stone, pioneer in Woman's Rights. B08131860 Annie Oakley, sharpshooter. B08131899 Alfred Hitchcock, creator of "Norman Bates". B08131912 Ben Hogan B08131926 Fidel Castro, dictator. B08141946 Susan St. James B08141959 Irving "Magic" Johnson. B08151769 Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba. B08151803 Sir James Douglas, father of British Columbia. B08151912 Julia Child, chef. B08151912 Wendy Hiller B08151924 Phyllis Schalfly B08151925 Mike Conners B08151935 Jim Dale B08161884 Hugo Gernsback, responsible for science fiction becoming an independent literary form. B08161892 Harold Foster, cartoonist, created "Prince Valiant", known for its fine drawing and historical detail. B08161930 Frank Gifford, sports personality. B08161930 Robert Culp, actor. B08161946 Leslie Ann Warren, actress. B08161952 Reginald Vel Johnson, actor. B08161953 Kathie Lee Gifford B08161958 Angela Bassett B08161959 "Madonna" Louise Veronica Ciccone. B08161960 Timothy Hutton, actor. B08171786 Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier. B08171892 Mae West. Go up and see her sometime. B08171921 Maureen O'Hara B08171943 Robert Diniro, actor. B08181618 Virginia Dare, first child born in America of English parents. B08181834 Marshall Field, founded a Chicago-based store chain. B08181904 Max Factor Jr., make up artist. B08181922 Shelley Winters, actress. B08181927 Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady. B08181933 Roman Polanski, novelist. B08181937 Robert Redford, actor. B08191646 John Flamsteed, first astronomer royal of England. B08191785 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks. B08191871 Orville Wright, famed brother and aviator. B08191931 Willie Shoemaker B08191940 Jill St. John B08191946 Bill Clinton, president from (1992-1996). B08191965 Kyra Sedgwick, actress. B08201833 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President from (1889-1893). B08201942 Issac Hayes B08201948 Robert Plant, singer, songwriter. B08211660 Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote first book on bridge building. B08211936 Mart Crowley B08211936 Wilt Chamberlain, very tall basketball player. B08211938 Kenny Rogers, singer, songwriter, sometime actor. B08221862 Claude Debussy, composer B08221920 Ray Bradbury, science fiction author. B08221940 Valerie Harper, actress. B08231869 James "Sunny Jim" Rolph, Mayor (1912-1931), Muni backer. B08231912 Gene Kelly, dancer, singer in the rain. B08231930 Vera Miles B08241816 Sir Daniel Gooch, laid first successful trans-Atlantic cables. B08241872 Aubrey Beardsley B08241872 Max Beerbohm B08241886 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed the Liberty ships. B08241917 Dennis James B08241956 Garry Cooney B08251836 Brett Harte B08251909 Michael Rennie B08251909 Ruby Keeler B08251916 Van Johnson B08251918 Leonard Bernstein B08251919 George Wallace B08251923 Monty Hall, "Let's Make A Deal!" B08251927 Althea Gibson, first black tennis champion (in a major event.) B08251930 Sean Connery, actor, spy. B08251954 Elvis Costello, singer, songwriter. B08261873 Lee De Forest, invented the Audion vacuum tube (radio tube.) B08261927 Francois Leydet B08271882 Samuel Goldwyn, pioneer filmmaker. B08271899 C.S. Forester, historical novelist, created Horatio Hornblower. B08271908 Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President from (1963-1969). B08271916 Martha Raye, wanted you to buy "Coronet". B08271943 Tuesday Weld, actress. B08281749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, social philosopher. B08281925 Donald O'Conner B08291916 George Montgomery B08291916 Ingrid Bergman, actress. B08291938 Elliot Ghould, actor. B08291941 Robin Leech, "I don't know why!" B08291958 Michael Jackson, "Just Beat It!" B08301797 Mary Shelley, author of "Frankenstein", in 1910 B08301896 Raymond Massey B08301901 John Gunther B08301901 Roy Wilkins B08301908 Fred Macmurry, actor. B08301909 Shirley Booth, actress. B08301918 Ted Williams B08301943 Jean Claude Killy B08301943 R. Crumb B08311918 Alan Jay Lerner B08311924 Buddy Hackett, comedian, actor. B08311928 James Coburn, actor. B08311935 Eldridge Cleaver, (No relation to "The Beaver") S08011291 The Everlasting League forms, the basis of the Swiss Confederation. S08011790 First U.S. Census is taken. S08011794 Whisky Rebellion begins. S08011852 Black Methodists in SF establish first black church, Zion Methodist. S08011873 San Francisco's first cable car begins service. S08011877 The song "Chop Sticks" is written. S08011881 US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island. S08011901 Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited. S08011916 Hawaii National Park established. S08011946 President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission. S08011953 California introduces its Sales Tax (for Education.) S08011958 First Class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years.) S08011961 New San Francisco Hall of Justice opens. S08021743 The elevator is invented. S08021876 Wild Bill Hickok is shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall. The poker hand he was holding has since been known as the Dead Man's Hand: A pair of Aces, and a pair of 8's. S08031492 Columbus sets sail for "The Indies." S08031984 Mary Lou Retten scores a "10". S08041693 Champagne is invented by Dom Perignon. S08041777 Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes the first circus. S08041790 United States Coast Guard founded. S08041862 Federal Income Tax is collected. (The taxman cometh!!!) S08051775 The first Spanish ship, "San Carlos", enters San Francisco bay. S08051861 US levies its first Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800.) S08051864 The spectrum of a comet observed for first time, by Giovanni Donati. S08051957 American Bandstand premiers, hosted by Dick Clark, the man that never ages. S08051963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed. S08061835 Bolivia gains its independence. S08061926 The first American woman, Gertrude Ederle, swims the English Channel in 14 hours, 34 minutes. S08061945 The Atom Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by the "Enola Gay." S08071807 First servicable steamboat, the Cleremont, goes on first voyage. S08071820 Potatoes first planted in Hawaii. S08071888 Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia receives a patent for his revolving door -- described as a storm door structure. S08071982 Borden is sued, for a Cracker Jacks box, containing no prize. S08081860 The Queen of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in New York City, the first queen to visit the United States. S08081982 The All American Polka festival occurs in Vernon, NJ. S08091638 Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes the first European settler in what is now known as the Bronx. S08091803 First horses arrive in Hawaii. S08091842 The US-Canada border defined by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. S08091945 Atom Bomb dropped on Nagasaki. S08091955 The first Guiness Book of World Records is released. S08091974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency in wake of Watergate scandal. S08101809 Ecuador gains its independence. S08101900 First Davis Cup Tennis Tournament is held in Massachusetts. The U.S. defeats Great Britain. S08101955 Minimum wage jumps from 75 cents to a dollar an hour. S08101981 Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's record of 3630 hits. S08111866 The world's first roller rink opens its doors, in Newport, R.I. S08121851 Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine. S08121888 Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes the first motor tour. Without her husband's knowledge, she borrow one of his cars and travels 180km to visit relatives for 5 days. S08121954 First issue of Sports Illustrated is published. S08131876 Reciprocity Treaty between US and Hawaii ratified. S08131981 A world records is set for throwing a cow chip (266 feet). S08141846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax evasion. S08141893 France issues first driving licenses, including a required test. S08141945 VJ Day - Japan surrendered to end World War II. S08151945 Riot in San Francisco celebrating end of World War II. South Korea liberated from Japanese rule. S08151960 The Congo (Brazzaville) gains its independence. S08151969 The Woodstock Festival begins (Peace Man). S08161896 GOLD !!!! is discovered in the Klondike. S08161969 Woodstock festival begins in New York. S08171858 First bank in Hawaii opens. S08171870 Mrs. Esther Morris becomes the first woman magistrate -- appointed Justice of the Peace in South Pass, Wyoming. S08171950 Indonesia gains its independence. S08171969 Woodstock Festival ends. S08181817 Gloucester, Massachussetts, newspapers carry accounts of a wild sea serpent seen offshore. 3 feet in diameter, 100 feet long. S08181969 People who passed out at Woodstock, realize the festival ended yesterday. (Must have been some party!) S08191826 Canada Co. chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario.) S08191888 The first beauty contest is held, in Spa, Belgium. The winner is an 18 year old girl from the West Indies. S08191960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident.) Powers later dies at the controls of the KNBC-TV helicopter in Los Angeles after running out of fuel returning from a fire. S08201940 Churchill utters famous line "Never before in the history of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." He was speaking about the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain. S08201977 Voyager II launched. S08211887 Mighty (Dan) Casey STRUCK OUT in a game with the N.Y. Giants! S08211959 Hawaii becomes the 50th state. S08211968 Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia. S08211973 First house made entirely out of recycled products is finished, in Richmond, VA. S08221787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton builds his steamboat. S08221851 The yacht "America" wins the first Royal Yacht Squadron Cup, now known as the America's Cup, at a regatta in England. S08221989 Nolan Ryan, is the first major league pitcher to strke out five thousand batters. S08231617 The first one-way streets are established -- in London. S08231872 First Japanese commercial ship visits San Francisco with a cargo of tea. S08231889 First ship-to-shore wireless message received in US: "US lightship to Cliff House." S08231989 Super model, Pauline, marries Rick Ocasek, (Go Figure). S0824 79 Pompeii is buried. S08241814 British sack Washington, DC. S08241853 The first potato chips are prepared by Chef George Crum in Saratoga Springs, New York. Nobody could eat just one! S08241869 The Waffle Iron is invented. S08241909 Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal. S08241981 Music videos, are now on Mtv. (I don't want my Mtv!). S08241989 Voyager II flies past Neptune. S08251804 Alice Meynell becomes the first woman jockey, in England. S08251825 Uruguay gains its independence. S08251981 Voyager II flies past Saturn. S08261629 Cambridge Agreement pledged. Massachusetts Bay Co. stockholders agree to emigrate to New England. S08261791 John Fitch granted a US patent for his working steamboat. S08261846 W. A. Bartlett appointed first US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF.) S08261907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 seconds. S08261920 19th Amendment passes - Women's Suffrage granted. S08261929 First roller coaster is built in America. S08261973 University of Texas at Arlington becomes the first accredited school to offer a course in belly dancing. S08271859 First successful oil well drilled near Titusville, Penn. S08271883 Krakatoa, WEST of Java, blew apart (Top that, Mt. St. Helens.) S08271928 60 nations sign the Kellogg-Briand Pact, agreeing to outlaw war. S08271929 First American vomits after riding roller coaster. S08281938 Northwestern University awards an honorary degree to Edgar Bergen's dummy Charlie McCarthy. S08281990 Cher gets third tattoo, location unknown. (Who Cares?) S08291885 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle. S08291954 San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens. S08301837 Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins of Worcester, England begin the manufacture of Worcester Sauce. S08301850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city. S08301974 Last episode of Brady Bunch airs. S08301979 First recorded occurrance of a comet hitting the sun (the energy released was about equal to 1 million hydrogen bombs.) S08311850 The California Pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets. S08311886 Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized. S08311895 John Brailier becomes the first "pro" football player when he receives $10 for expenses in a game at Latrobe, Pennsylvania. S08311966 The Beatles make their last concert appearance. S08311980 Solidarity Labor Union in Poland is founded. S08311997 Princess Diana dies in a fatal car crash in Paris France. R0801 6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California. R0801 Confederation Day, celebrated in Switzerland. R0801 National breast-feeding day! (Cool!) R0806 Santa Monica skateboard championship begins today. R0806 Independence Day, celebrated in Bolivia. R0810 Independence Day, celebrated in Ecuador. R0813 International Left-handers Day. R0815 Independence Day, celebrated in the Congo. R0815 Liberation Day, celebrated in South Korea. R0817 Independence Day, celebrated in Indonesia. R0819 Aviation Day. R0819 6Admission Day (celebrated in Hawaii.) R0820 6Admission Day (celebrated in Hawaii.) R0825 Independence Day, celebrated in Uruguay. R0831 Summer Bank Holiday in England, Wales & Northern Ireland. B09011875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist, (Tarzan's father so to speak). B09021838 Queen Liliuokalani (last queen of Hawaii.) B09021866 Hiram Johnson, Calif governor, Progressive. B09021952 Jimmy Connors, tennis brat. B09031856 Louis Sullivan, father of modern US architecture. B09041824 Anton Bruckner, Wagner disciple. B09041928 Dick York, the first Darren Stevens on the Bewitched show. B09051902 Darryl F. Zanuck, Hollywood producer & motion picture executive. B09061766 John Dalton, developed the atomic theory of matter. B09061811 James Melville Gilliss, founded Naval Observatory in Washington. B09071533 Queen Elizabeth I. B09071860 Grandma Moses. B09071914 James Van Allen, discovered Van Allen radiation belts. B09081841 Anton Dvorak, composer. B09081925 Peter Sellers, (not now, Kato.) B09101934 Charles Kuralt, "On the road..." for CBS. B09111862 O Henry, pen name of William Sidney Porter, short story writer. B09111885 D.H. Lawrence, Taos pioneer. B09111913 Bear Bryant, keeps the Crimson Tide winning... B09121818 Richard Jordan Gatling, US inventor of hand-cranked machine gun. B09121880 H.L. Mencken, Baltimore's son. B09121888 Maurice Chevalier, thanked heaven for little girls. B09131755 Oliver Evans, pioneered the high-pressure steam engine. B09121913 Jesse Owens, spoiled Hitler's Olympic plans in 1936. B09131851 Walter Reed, who proved mosquitos transmit yellow fever. B09141867 Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew the "Gibson Girl." B09141883 Margaret Sanger, feminist. B09151789 James Fenimore Cooper, first major American novelist. B09151857 William Howard Taft, 27th President from (1909 - 1913). B09151881 Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, car builder. B09151890 Dame Agatha Christie, novelist. B09151894 Jean Renoir, cineaste. B09161822 Charles S. Crocker, of Southern Pacific fame. B09161924 Lauren Bacall, whistler. B09171730 Baron Frederick von Steuben, made the Continental Army winners. B09181709 Samuel Johnson, Boswell's tour guide. B09181928 Adam West, television's first Batman (Holy Birthdate Robin!) B09201878 Upton Sinclair, author. B09211756 John Loudon McAdam, created macadam road surface (asphalt.) B09211866 H.G. Wells, futurist. B09211874 Gustav Holst, composer of "The Planets." B09211950 Bill Murray, actor, comedian. B09221791 Michael Faraday, discovered principle of the electric motor. B09221885 Erich von Stroheim, early film director. B09231852 William Stewart Halsted, established first surgical school in US. B09231926 John Coltrane, saxophonist. B09231930 Ray Charles, singer. B09241870 Georges Claude, inventor of the neon light. B09241936 Jim Hensen, who made Kermit & Miss Piggy what they are today. B09251725 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built first automobile. B09251897 William Faulkner, American author. B09251961 Heather Locklear, actress. B09261774 John Chapman, alias Johnny Appleseed. B09261888 T.S. Eliot, Anglican poet. B09261898 George Gershwin, composer. B09271722 Samuel Adams, revolutionary rabble rouser. B09271840 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America. B09281909 Al Capp, put Dogpatch, USA on the map. B09291901 Enrico Fermi, physicist, gone fission. B09291912 Gene Autry, cowpoke and enterpreneur. B09301924 Truman Capote, a short short story writer. S09011807 Aaron Burr aquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire. S09011849 California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey. S09011878 First woman telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston.) S09011896 Chop Suey is devised to appeal to both American and Chinese tastes. The word means "hash" in Chinese. S09011939 Germany invades Poland, starts World War II. S09011952 Sutro Bath by Cliff House closes. S09021620 The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth with 102 Pilgrims. S09021789 US Treasury Department established by Congress. S09021859 Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii. S09021921 Bowling shirt is invented, (what, before the shoes?). S09021924 Rudolf Friml's "Rose Marie" opens to rave reviews in New York City, including the fames "Indian Love Call." S09031783 Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War, is signed. S09031912 World's first cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy. S09031921 First bowling league is formed in America, (Barefoot I'll bet!) S09031939 England declares war on Germany. S09041781 Los Angeles founded in the Bahia de las Fumas, (Bay of Smokes.) S09041833 The first newsboy in the US hired (Barney Flaherty), by the NY Sun. S09041866 First daily newspaper in Hawaii published. S09041885 The first cafeteria opens for business, in New York City. S09041888 George Eastman patents first rollfilm camera & registers "Kodak." S09051781 Battle of Virginia Capes, where the French Fleet defeats the British rescue fleet, trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown. S09051836 Sam Houston is elected president of the Republic of Texas. S09051885 First gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer. S09051961 Hijacking planes becomes illegal. (No duh!). S09051977 Voyager II launched. S09061620 The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth Rock with 102 Pilgrims. S09061716 First lighthouse in US is built, in Boston. S09061869 The first westbound train arrives in San Francisco. S09061876 Southern Pacific line from Los Angeles to San Francisco completed. S09061965 Last episode of the Alfred Hitchcock show airs, (Good Evening!). S09061966 Star Trek appears on TV for the first time (on NBC.) S09071880 George Ligowsky of Cincinnati is granted a patent for his device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters. S09071971 The last episode of The Beverly Hillbillies airs, (well doggie). S09081565 First permanent settlement in US founded at St Augustine, Florida. S09081858 Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people. S09081920 First US Air Mail service begins. S09081921 The first Miss America Pagent takes place. S09081924 Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes first woman ambassador. S09091776 Continental Congress authorizes the name "United States." S09091850 California becomes the 31st state. S09091895 The American Bowling Congress is formed in New York City. S09091926 NBC created by the Radio Corporation of America. S09091956 Elvis sings on the Ed Sullivan show, but is only shown from the waste up. (Figure it out!). S09091982 "Conestoga I", first private rocket, is launched. S09101608 John Smith elected president of the Jamestown colony council. S09101846 Elias Howe receives patent for his sewing machine. S09101847 First theater opens in Hawaii. S09101869 A Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan to help his invalid wife get about. S09101913 Lincoln Highway opens as first paved coast-to-coast highway. S09101953 Swanson sells its first "TV Dinner." It tasted like a rerun! S09101955 "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS television. S09101965 Last episode of Mr. Ed airs, (Come on Wilber!). S09111850 Swedish Nightingale Jenny Lind gives her first concert. S09111853 First electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt. Lobos. S09111910 First commercially successful electric bus line opens, in Hollywood. S09111926 Aloha Tower dedicated (in Honolulu Harbor.) S09111929 Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system. S09111972 BART begins service with a 26 mile line from Oakland to Freemont. S09111978 Mork & Mindy premiers, (Na Nu, Na Nu). S09121928 Katharine Hepburn makes her New York stage debut in "Night Hostess." S09121956 The Monkee's television show debuts. "Hey Hey We're The Monkees" S09121959 First episode of Bonanza premiers. S09121963 The last episode of Leave it to Beaver airs, (Golly Gee Wally). S09131788 New York City becomes the capitol of the United States. S09131972 M.A.S.H premiers. S09141848 Alexander Stewart opens the first department store in the U.S. S09141716 First lighthouse in US is lit (in Boston Harbor.) S09141814 Francis Scott Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner." S09141886 The typewriter ribbon is patented. S09141892 A.P. Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo. S09141899 While in New York, Henry Bliss becomes first automobile fatality. S09141940 Congress passes first peace time draft law. S09141972 Pope John IV, abolishes the fifteen hundred year old custom of the circular haircuts for monks. S09151821 Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatamala, Honduras & Nicaragua all gain their independence. S09151930 The first international bridge match is held in London. The U.S. team defeats Great Britain. S09151968 Presidential candidate, Richard Nixon, goes on Laff-In and says, "Sock It To Me!". S09161630 Shawmut, Massachussetts, changes its name to Boston. S09161782 Great Seal of the United States is used for first time. S09161857 Patent is issued for the typesetting machine. S09161919 The American Legion is incorporated. S09161984 First baboon heart is transplanted into a human. S09161984 Miami Vice premiers. S09171776 The Presidio of San Francisco was founded as Spanish fort. S09171787 US Constitution is adopted. S09171819 First whaling ship arrives in Hawaii. S09171911 C.P. Rogers begins the first transcontinental airplane flight. He travels from New York City to Pasadena in 82 hours. S09171964 Gilligan's Island Premiers. (Are you okay, Little Buddy?). S09181810 Chile gains its independence. S09181851 "The New York Times" goes on sale, at 2 cents a copy. S09181882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as the Local Security Board.) S09181895 D.D. Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes the first Chiropractor. S09181927 The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. S09191849 First commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California. S09191873 Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co. fails, causing a securities panic. S09191928 Mickey Mouse makes his screen debut in "Steamboat Willie." S09191968 Baby born on Golden Gate Bridge (those Marin County folk!) S09191982 Street cars stop running on Market Street after 122 years of service. S09201519 Magellan starts first successful circumnavigation of the world. S09201797 US frigate "Constitution" (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston. S09201859 Patent granted on the electric range. S09201860 The Prince of Wales, later to become King Edward VII, becomes the first British royalty to visit the United States. S09201884 Equal Rights Party founding convention is held in San Francisco, and nominates female candidates for President, Vice President. S09201964 The Addams Family premiers. (Capital Idea!) S09201984 The Cosby Show premiers. S09211784 First daily newspaper in US begins publication in Pennsylvania. S09211895 First auto manufacturer opens -- Duryea Motor Wagon Company. S09211915 Those famous stones at Stonehenge, England, is sold at auction to C.H.E. Chubb of Salisbury, England for 6,600 pounds. S09211930 Johann Ostermeyer patents his invention, the flashbulb. S09211954 The nuclear submarine "Nautilus" is commissioned. S09211993 N.Y.P.D. Blues premiers. S09221789 The US Post Office was established. S09221863 President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech. S09221893 First auto built in US runs in Springfield (built by Duryea brothers) S09221903 A Patent is granted for the Ice Cream Cone. S09231779 Naval engagement between "Bonhomme Richard" and "HMS Serepis." Capt. John Paul Jones declares "I have not yet begun to fight!" S09231780 John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point. S09231912 First Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie is released. S09231952 First closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event. S09241845 First baseball team is organized. S09241852 A new invention, the dirigible, (a blimp) is demonstrated. S09241853 First round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt.) S09241869 Black Friday: crashing gold prices causes stock market panic. S09241895 First round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle -- (took 15 months.) S09241954 "The Tonight Show" premieres. S09241960 First atomic aircraft carrier, the "Enterprise", is launched. S09241984 A world record is set, for the longest kiss. (17 days, 10.5 hours) Pucker Up! S09251513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa is the first European to see the Pacific Ocean. S09251789 Congress proposes the Bill of Rights. S09251890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park. S09261824 Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) and lives. S09261969 Brady Bunch premiers. (here's the story...). S09271787 Constitution submitted to the states for ratification. S09271825 Railroad transportation is born with first track in England. S09271950 The answering machine is invented, (at the tone, please...). S09281542 Juan Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay. S09281781 Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the the Revolution. S09281962 The Beverly Hillbillies premiers. (Well I'll Be!). S09291650 Henry Robinson opens the first marriage bureau, in England. S09291923 Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to the public. S09291964 The Munsters premier. S09301846 First tooth extraction under anesthetics, in Charlestown, Mass. S09301878 First immigrants from Portugal arrive in Hawaii. S09301960 The Flintstones Premier, (Yabba Dabba Doo!). R0901 National Chicken Month begins today. (no clucking). R0901 2Labor Day, a legal holiday R0902 2Labor Day, a legal holiday. R0903 2Labor Day, a legal holiday. R0904 2Labor Day, a legal holiday. R0905 2Labor Day, a legal holiday. R0906 The National Holiday of Swaziland. R0906 2Labor Day, a legal holiday. R0907 2Labor Day, a legal holiday. R0907 Independence Day, celebrated in Brazil. R0908 International Literacy Day. R0909 Admission Day, a California Holiday. R0915 Independence Day, for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatamala, Honduras and Nicaragua. R0915 Felt Hat Day, when men of fashion put away their straw hats. R0916 Independence Day, celebrated in Mexico. R0917 Constitution Day. R0918 Independence Day, celebrated in Chile. R0918 The start of the Jewish New Year. R0919 National Singles Week begins today. R0922 The Autumn Harvest Festival is held in Wheaton, Illinois. R0923 The first full day of Fall. B10011881 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft company. B10011920 Walter Matthau, actor. B10011924 Jimmy Carter, (Mr. Peanut) 39th President from (1976 - 1980). B10011928 George Peppard, actor (I love it when a plan comes together). B10011928 Lawrence Harvey B10011935 Julie Andrews, actress. B10021851 Ferdinand Foch, believed to be the leader responsible for Allies winning World War I. B10021869 Mahatma Ghandi, pacifist. B10021948 Donna Karan B10031803 John Gorrie, invented cold-air process of refrigeration. B10031804 Townsend Harris, first Western consul to reside in Japan. B10031925 Gore Vidal, writer. B10031941 Chubby Checker, blues singer. B10041822 Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President from (1877 - 1881). B10041895 Buster Keaton, clown. B10041924 Charlton Heston, actor. B10041931 Dick Tracy, private dick. B10041946 Susan Sarandon, actress. B10051829 Chester A. Arthur, 21st President from (1881 - 1884). B10051882 Robert Hutchings Goddard, father of modern rocketry. B10051905 Ray Kroc, who gave Ronald McDonald a job. B10051919 Allen Ludden B10051923 Glynis Johns B10051923 Phillip Berrigan B10061820 Jenny Lind, nightingale. B10061846 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US. B10061866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcasted first program of voice & music. B10061906 Janet Gaynor B10071885 Niels Bohr, physicist & Nobel laureate, expanded quantum physics. B10081869 J. Frank Duryea, with his brother, invented first auto built & operated in the US. B10081939 Paul Hogan, actor from Down Under. B10081941 Jesse Jackson, reverend, politician - NOT! B10081943 Chevy Chase, actor, comedian. B10081949 Sigourney Weaver, actress, alien chaser. B10091940 Joe Pepitone B10091940 John Lennon, singer, Beatle. B10091948 Jackson Brown, singer. B10101738 Benjamin West, painter. B10101813 Giuseppe Verdi, composer of operas. B10101900 Helen Hayes B10101930 Harold Pinter B10101946 Ben Vereen, actor. B10101955 David Lee Roth, singer, songwriter. B10101958 Tanya Tucker, singer. B10111844 Henry John Heinz, founded a prepared-foods company. B10111884 Eleanor Roosevelt, crusader. B10111918 Jerome Robbins B10111949 Daryl Hall, singer. B10121932 Dick Gregory B10121935 Luciano Pavarotti, tenor. B10131769 Horace H. Hayden, co-founder of first dental college. B10131925 Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister. B10131949 Sammy Hagar, singer, songwriter, redhead. B10131959 Marie Osmond, singer, actress. B10141857 Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of the first US autos. B10141890 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President from (1953 - 1961). B10141894 E.E. Cummings, poet. B10141896 Lillian Gish, actress. B10141924 Moore, Roger Moore, ex 007. B10151829 Asaph Hall, astronomer, discovered the moons of Mars, Phobos & Deimos. B10151844 Friedrich Nietzsche, Uebermensch. B10151858 John L. Sullivan, famed pugelist. B10151905 C. P. Snow, British novelist and scientist. B10151908 John Kenth Galbraitch B10151924 Lee Iacocca, Chrysler magnate. B10161708 Albrecht von Haller, the father of experimental physiology. B10161854 Oscar Wilde, wit. B10161890 Paul Strand, photographer. B10161925 Angela Lansbury, actress. B10171915 Arthur Miller, playwright. B10171918 Rita Hayworth, actress. B10171948 George Wendt, of Cheers fame, (NORM!). B10181919 Pierre Trudeau, Canadian Prime Minister. B10181927 George C. Scott, actor. B10181956 Martina Navratilova B10201632 Sir Christopher Wren, astronomer, greatest English architect of his time, built many of the cathedrals in London. B10201812 Austin Flint, 19th century pioneer in US heart research. B10201874 Charles Ives, composer. B10201925 Art Buchwald B10201931 Mickey Mantle, baseball legend. B10211833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, created dynamite and Peace Prizes. B10211917 Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz. B10211956 Carrie Fisher, actress, princess. B10221917 Joan Fontaine B10221942 Annette Funicello, actress, mouseketeer. B10221943 Catherine Deneuve B10231835 Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Vice President. B10231925 Johnny Carson, bedtime storyteller. B10231941 Pele, soccer legend. B10241940 F. Murry Abraham B10251881 Pablo Picasso, doodler. B10251912 Minnie Pearl, Bet I can tell how much she paid for the hat! B10261855 Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals. B10261947 Pat Sajack, "Give that wheel a final spin!" B10261948 Jacklyn Smith, actress, angel. B10271728 Captain James Cook, discovered the Sandwich Islands. B10271811 Isaac Merrit Singer, invented first practical home sewing machine. B10271858 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President from (1901 - 1909). B10271920 Nanette Fabray B10271923 Ruby Dee B10281466 Erasmus, scholar, author of "In Praise of Folly." B10281846 Auguste Escoffier, "the king of chefs & the chef of kings." B10281914 Dr. Jonas Salk, who made polio a fear of the past. B10281939 Jane Alexander B10281949 Bruce Jenner, athlete, who liked his Wheaties. B10291740 James Boswell, Samuel Johnson's biographer. B10291947 Richard Dreyfuss, actor. B10291948 Kate Jackson, actress, angel. B10301735 John Adams, 2nd President from (1797 - 1801). B10301896 Ruth Gordon B10311931 Dan Rather, news anchor. B10311950 Jane Pauley, another news anchor. S10011851 First Hawaiian stamps issued. S10011869 First postcards are issued in Vienna. S10011896 Yosemite becomes a National Park. S10011898 Henry Huntington buys the Los Angeles Railway. S10011903 First World Series starts between the National & American Leagues. S10011908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car. S10011960 Nigeria gains its independence. S10011962 Johnny Carson hosts his first Tonight Show. S10011964 San Francisco's Cable Cars declared a National Landmark. S10011971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens. S10021608 Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch government a new invention -- the telescope. S10021836 Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle. S10021896 The first cartoon strip appears in a newspaper. S10021958 Guinea gains its independence. S10031789 Washington proclaims the first national Thanksgiving Day will be observed on Nov 26. S10031863 Lincoln one-ups Washington, designates the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day S10031913 Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%) S10031955 Captain Kangaroo premieres. Good Morning, Captain! S10031960 San Francisco's White House Department Store is first to accept the BankAmericard in lieu of cash. S10031988 A 327 gallon pina-colada, becomes the worlds largest cocktail. S10041883 The "Orient Express" begins its first run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail. S10041926 The Dahlia is officially designated as the San Francisco City Flower. S10041957 USSR launches "Sputnik", the first artificial earth satellite. S10041957 Leave it to Beaver premiers. S10051921 First radio broadcast of the World Series. S10051970 PBS becomes a network. S10061889 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture. S10061927 "The Jazz Singer", first movie with a sound track, premieres. S10061989 Reverend Jim Baker is found guilty. S10071826 Granite Railway (first chartered railway in US) begins operations. S10071916 Georgia Tech beats Cumberland University 222-0. (Football!) S10071956 The first perfect World Series game is pitched by Don Larson of The New York Yankee's. S10081840 First Hawaiian constitution proclaimed. S10081860 Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens. S10081871 The Great Fire destroys over 4 square miles of Chicago. S10081896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks. S10081906 Karl Nessler demonstrates the first "permanent wave" for hair, in London. S10081933 San Francisco's Coit Tower dedicated. S10091000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England.) S10091776 Mission Delores is founded. S10091855 Joshua Stoddard patents the first calliope. S10091956 Clearance Birdseye, inventer of frozen dinners, dies. S10101886 Griswold Lorillard wears the first dinner jacket to the Autumn Ball in Tuxedo Park. Thus the name "tuxedo." S10101911 The Manchu Dynasty is overthrown in China. S10101980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated. S10111890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded. S10111968 Apollo 7 launched, first manned flight of the Command & Service modules. S10111975 Saturday Night Live premiers. S10121823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling the raincoats. S10121933 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially.) S10121957 First commercial flight between California and Antartica. S10131792 George Washington lays the cornerstone of the White House. S10141066 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England. S10141774 First declaration of colonial rights in America. S10141947 First supersonic flight (Mach 1.015 at 42,000 feet.) The sound barrier is broken by Chuck Yeager. S10151520 King Henry Viii of England orders bowling lanes to be built at Whitehall, in London. S10151860 Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard. S10151953 The first televised weather report airs. S10161829 The Tremont Hotel, the first modern hotel in the U.S., opens in Boston, featuring washbowls in each room, and 8 bathrooms in the basement! S10161859 John Brown attacks the armory at Harper's Ferry. S10161869 A hotel in Boston becomes the first to have indoor plumbing. S10161941 Gordo (by Gus Arriola) first appears in newspapers. S10161953 The first CORRECT weather report airs. S10171492 Columbus sights the isle of San Salvador. S10171781 Cornwallis is defeated at Yorktown. S10171860 First professional golf tournament is held, in Scotland. S10171904 Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors. S10171989 Destructive earthquake strikes northern California (7.1). S10181776 The back of a bar in New York is decorated with birds' tail feathers. A customer jokingly asked for a glass of those "cock tails," and a tradition was born! S10181869 The United States takes possession of Alaska. S10181873 The Ivey League establishes rules for college football. S10181892 First commercial long-distance phone line opens between Chicago and New York. S10181922 British Broadcasting Corporation established. S10181967 The FDA declares marijuana, to be as dangerous as alcohol. S10181988 The first episode of Roseanne premiers. S10191781 Cornwallis surrenders at 2PM, the fighting is over. S10191845 Wagner's opera "Tannhauser" is performed for the first time. S10191853 First flour mill in Hawaii begins operations. S10191874 The Ivy League establishes rules for college football. S10191968 Golden Gate Bridge charges a toll for South bound cars only! S10201600 Battle of Sekigahara, which established the Tokugawa clan as rulers of Japan (SHOGUN) until 1865 (basis of Clavell's novel.) S10201817 The first "Showboat" leaves Nashville, Tennessee to give shows along the Mississippi. It was a converted keelboat. S10201820 Spain gives Florida to the United States. S10201906 Dr. Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube. S10201975 The worlds largest popsicle is assembled, (5,750 lbs.). S10211805 Battle of Trefalgar, where Nelson established British naval supremacy for the next century. S10211868 Severe earthquake hits California at 7:53 am. S10211869 First shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore. S10211879 Thomas Edison commercially perfects the light bulb. S10221897 First used car dealership opens, London. S10221936 First commercial flight from The Mainland to Hawaii. S10221981 US National debt topped $1 TRILLION (nothing to celebrate.) S10231915 25,000 New York City women demonstrate, demanding voting rights. S10231956 The ill-fated revolt in Communist Hungary starts, later crushed by Soviet tanks. S10241945 United Nations Charter goes into effect. S10241992 International red beans and rice festival, Jackson MI. S10251415 Battle of Agincourt, where the Welsh longbow defeats the Armored Knight. S10251825 Erie Canal opens for business in New York. S10251854 The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava.) S10251939 Nylon stockings go on sale in the U.S. for the first time. S10251959 Twilight Zone premiers (do do do do, do do do do...). S10261861 Telegraph service inaugurated in US (end of Pony Express.) S10261881 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Arizona. S10261903 The Yerba Buena is first key system ferry to cross San Francisco. S10261949 Minimum wage is raised from 40 cents to 74 cents an hour. S10261956 International Atomic Energy Agency is established. S10261970 The "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers. S10261972 Guided tours of Alcatraz Prison (by Park Service) began. S10271787 The "Federalist" letters started appearing in NY newspapers. S10271858 RH Macy & Co. opens first store, on 6th Avenue, New York City. S10271896 First Pali Road completed in Hawaii (the Pali is a cliff where the winds are so strong streams flow UP! Honest!) S10271901 The first American ball-point pen goes on sale, New York City. S10271904 New York opens first section of its subway system. S10271916 The first published reference to "jazz" appears in an article in "Variety" about the formation of "jazz bands" in Chicago. S10271972 Golden Gate National Recreation Area is created. S1027 Eli Whitney gets a patend for the Cotton Gin (Year Unknown). S10281492 Columbus discovers Cuba. S10281636 Harvard University founded. S10281886 Statue of Liberty dedicated. S10281904 St. Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints. S10281919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, starting Prohibition. S10281965 The Gateway Arch (630 feet high) completed in St. Louis, Missouri. S10291833 First College Fraternity founded. S10291863 International Committee of the Red Cross founded. S10291894 First election of the Hawaiian Republic. S10291904 The first intercity trucking service goes into business with a route between Colorado City and Snyder, Texas. S10291923 Turkey is proclaimed to have a republican government. S10291929 "Black Tuesday", the Stock Market crash. S10291939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (first closure.) S10291956 "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet" heard on NBC for first time. (Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up.) S10291974 Muhammad Ali defeats George Foreman. S10301864 Helena, capital of Montana, founded. S10301775 US Navy is created. S10301938 Orson Welles panics a nation with his broadcast of "War of the Worlds." S10301992 Worlds ugliest pick-up truck parade occurs, in Chadron, NE. S10311815 Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents the miner's safety lamp. S10311956 Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service. R1001 NASA discloses, that each astronaut suit costs 3.4 Million, (Yeah, and I bet they bought the hammer for $900 too!) R1001 Independence Day, celebrated in Nigeria. R1002 Independence Day, celebrated in Guinea. R1005 Ashley-Whippet dog frisbee championships start in Washington DC. R1006 Universal Children's Day R1008 2Columbus Day. Join the parade. R1008 2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.) R1008 2Canadian Thanksgiving Day. R1009 2Columbus Day. Join the parade. R1009 2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.) R1009 2Canadian Thanksgiving Day R1010 2Columbus Day. Join the parade. R1010 2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.) R1010 2Canadian Thanksgiving Day. R1010 National Day, celebrated in Taiwan. R1011 2Columbus Day. Join the parade. R1011 2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.) R1011 2Canadian Thanksgiving Day. R1012 The REAL Columbus Day. R1012 2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.) R1012 2Canadian Thanksgiving Day. R1013 2Columbus Day. Join the parade. R1013 2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.) R1013 2Canadian Thanksgiving Day. R1014 2Columbus Day. Join the parade. R1014 2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.) R1014 2Canadian Thanksgiving Day. R1015 Mushroom Day. Stay in the dark. R1015 National Grouch Day. Cheer down! R1016 Boss's Day! R1018 The start of the Moslem New Year. R1019 End of huricane season celebration, in the Virgin Islands. R1021 The annual 48-hour Marx Brothers film festival, Tampa, FL. begins. R1023 United States Day. R1024 7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.) R1024 United Nations Day. R1025 7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.) R1025 Saint Crispin's Day. R1026 7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.) R1027 7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.) R1028 7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.) R1029 Republic Day, celebrated in Turkey. R1029 7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.) R1030 7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.) R1031 All Hallows Eve (you know, Halloween.) B11021734 Daniel Boone, coonskin cap model and hunter. B11021795 James K. Polk, 11th President from (1845 - 1849). B11021865 Warren G. Harding, 29th President from (1921 - 1923). B11021885 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer. B11021913 Burt Lancaster, actor. B11021936 Rose Bird B11031718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same. B11031922 Charles Bronson, actor, vigilante. B11031949 Larry Holmes B11031952 Rosanne Barr-Arnold-?, comedienne, actress, (yeah right!). B11041879 Will Rogers, who never met a man he didn't like. B11041916 Walter Cronkite, "...and that's the way it is." B11041918 Art Carney, actor, comedian. B11051857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was VERY unhappy.) B11051912 Roy Rogers, Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger. And Dale, too. B11051941 Art Garfunkel, singer, songwriter, Paul's partner. B11051941 Elke Sommer, actress. B11051963 Tatum O'Neal, actress. 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. B11061946 Sally Field, actress. B11071867 Madame Marie Curie, discovered radium. B11071918 Billy Graham, televangelist. B11071922 Al Hirt B11071943 Joni Mitchell B11081656 Edmond Halley, astronomer, first to calculate a comet's orbit. B11081909 Katherine Hepburn, actress. B11081927 Patti Page B11091918 Florence Chadwick B11091918 Spiro Agnew, vice president. B11091934 Carl Sagan, who has BILLIONS and BILLIONS of admirers. B11091952 Lou Ferrigno, weightlifter, HULK! B11101668 Francois Couperin, composer. B11101819 Cyrus West Field, financier known for the success of the first transatlantic cable. B11101895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer. B11111821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author, "Crime and Punishment." B11111885 General George S. Patton. "Old Blood and Guts." B11111904 Alger Hiss B11111904 Sam Spiegel B11111922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author. B11111925 Johnathon Winters, actor, comedian. B11111962 Demi Moore, actress. B11121815 Elizabeth Stanton, early leader of women's rights movement. B11121866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC.) B11121942 Stephanie Powers, actress. B11131850 Robert Louis Stevenson, author, adventurer. B11131856 Justice Louis Brandeis. B11141765 Robert Fulton, built first commercial steamboat. B11141776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis. B11141840 Claude Monet, impressionist. B11141900 Aaron Copeland, american composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring) B11141921 Brian Keith, actor. B11141929 Mclean Stevenson, actor. B11141948 Prince Charles, royalty. B11151887 Georgia O'Keefe B11151887 Marianne Moore B11151891 Erwin Rommel B11151891 W. Averell Harriman B11151929 Ed Asner, actor. B11161873 William Handy, established the popularity of the blues in band music. B11161901 George Gallop, what's your opinion? B11161908 Bergess Meredith, actor. B11171925 Rock Hudson, actor. B11171938 Gordon Lightfoot, singer. B11171943 Lauren Hutton, actress. B11171944 Danny Devito, actor, comedian, director/producer. B11181789 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography. B11181836 Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame.) B11181908 Imogene Coca B11181923 Alan Sheppard, first American into space. B11181928 Mickey Mouse, sired by Walt Disney's pen. B11181939 Brenda Vaccaro, actress. B11191752 George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in the Revolutionary War. B11191831 James A. Garfield, 20th President, served only from March 4 to September 19, 1881. B11191905 Tommy Dorsey, bandleader. B11191936 Dick Cavett, actor. B11191942 Calvin Klein, fasion designer. B11191962 Jodi Foster, actress, director, producer. B11201602 Otto von Guericke, invented the air pump. B11201900 Chester Gould, gave Dick Tracy a job. B11201908 Alistair Cooke, raconteur. B11201925 Maya Plisetkaya B11201925 Robert Kennedy, politician (What else!) B11201939 Dick Smothers, brother. B11201956 Bo Derek, actress, "10". B11211694 Voltaire, thinker. B11211787 Sir Samuel Cunard, founded first regular Atlantic steamship line. B11211904 Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone for jazz. B11221943 Billie Jean King B11221943 Marlo Thomas, actress. B11221945 Goldie Hawn, actress, comedienne. B11221958 Jamie Lee Curtis, actress. B11221888 Tarzan of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel. B11221890 Charles de Gaulle, French President. B11221899 Hoagy Carmichael, composed "Star Dust." B11221921 Rodney Dangerfield, (Who gets no respect). B11221961 Mariel Hemmingway, actress. B11231804 Franklin Pierce, 14th President from (1853 - 1857). B11231887 Boris Karloff, boogey-man. B11241713 Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in California. B11241784 Zachary Taylor, 12th President from (1849 - 1850). B11241868 Scott Joplin, entertainer. B11241912 Eric Serveride B11241922 Charles Schultz, creator the Peanuts comic strip. B11241925 William F. Buckley Jr. B11241938 Rich Little, man of many voices. B11251835 Andrew Carnegie, steelman and librarian. B11251846 Carry Nation, scourge of barkeepers and drinkers. B11251972 Christina Applegate. B11261832 Louisa May Alcott, little woman. B11261876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment. B11261938 Tina Turner, actress, singer. B11271701 Anders Celsius, scientist. B11291803 Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (phase shift.) B11291849 Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode. B11291933 David Reuben B11291933 John Mayall B11291962 Andrew McCarthy, actor. B11291961 Kim Delany, actress. B11291955 Howie Mandell, comedian, actor. B11291949 Garry Schandling, comedian. B11291946 Suzy Chaffee, skier and "Chapstick" promotor. 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, patriot, Prime Minister. B11301924 Allan Sherman B11301924 Shirley Chisholm B11301929 Dick Clark, host of American Bandstand, man that just won't age. S11011834 First published reference to the game of Poker describes it as a Mississippi riverboat game. S11011870 US Weather Bureau begins operations. S11011943 World War II dimout ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area. S11011947 First Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii. S11011953 First issue of Playboy is published in Chicago, (Way to go Hugh!). S11011981 First Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents. S11021917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement is signed. S11021920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) on the air as first commercial radio station. S11021936 The world's first TV broadcasting service is inaugurated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in London. S11021947 Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for first (& last) time. S11021948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers. S11031900 The first national Automobile Show opens at Madison Square Garden in New York City. S11031903 Panama gains its 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. S11041854 Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island. S11041879 James Ritty patents the first cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon. S11041922 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen. S11041924 First woman governor in US elected in Wyoming. S11041957 "Laika", becomes first dog to be lauched into space. S11051781 John Hanson elected first "President of the United States in Congress assembled." This happened 8 years before Washington was elected. S11051895 First US patent granted for the automobile, to George B Selden. S11051935 The Parker Brothers launch the game of Monopoly. S11051984 A world record is set for belly dancing (106 hours). S11061850 First fire engine arrives in Hawaii. S11061862 Direct Telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco. S11061869 First intercollegiate football game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4.) S11061939 WGY-TV (Schenectady NY), first commercial station debuts. S11071805 Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean. S11071811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gives Harrison a presidential slogan. S11071874 First cartoon to use the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party appears in Harper's Weekly. It was drawn by Thomas Nast. S11071875 Verney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea. S11071885 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway. S11081789 Bourbon Whiskey is first distilled from corn by Reverend Elijah Craig in Bourbon County, Kentucky. S11081793 The Louvre, in Paris, is opened to the public. S11081975 The tube-top is invented. S11091965 Giant power failure in New England & Ontario, Canada. S11091989 The Berlin Wall is opened, hundreds of thousands of East Germans, run into West Germany. S11101871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa. S11101891 First Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held in Boston. S11101951 First Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance. S11101969 Sesame Street makes its debut. S11101980 Voyager I flies past Saturn. S11111790 Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China -- Spelling bee judges cheer! S11111889 Washington admitted as the 42nd state. S11111918 World War I ends. S11111924 Palace of Legion of Honor is dedicated. S11111982 Space Shuttle "Columbia" makes first commercial flight. S11121745 The first known happy hour is held in Ireland. S11121859 Jules Leotard performs the first Flying Trapeze circus act in Paris. He also designed the garment that bears his name. S11121933 First known photo of the Loch Ness monster is taken. S11121936 Oakland Bay Bridge opened. S11121946 The first "autobank" (banking by car) was established, in Chicago. S11121981 First time a spacecraft is launched twice -- the Space Shuttle "Columbia" lifts off again. S11131849 Peter Burnett is elected first governor of California. S11131895 First shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii. S11131921 "The Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, was released. S11131952 Press On Fingernails are introduced. S11141792 George Vancouver is first English man to enter San Francisco Bay. S11141832 First streetcar appears, in New York. S11141851 "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville, is published. S11141883 The Jukebox is invented. S11141889 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip around the world by 8 days (72 days.) S11141910 First airplane flight from the deck of a ship. S11141959 Kilauea Volcano's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii.) S11151763 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying the Mason-Dixon Line -- the southern boundary of Pennsylvania. S11151869 Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated. S11151926 National Broadcasting Company goes on-the-air, with 24 stations. S11151939 Social Security Administration sends first unemployment check. S11151949 KRON Channel 4 San Francisco signs on from 7 to 10 PM. S11161841 N.E. Guerin of New York receives a patent for his cork filled life preserver. S11161933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. S11161963 The touch tone phone is introduced. S11171800 Congress convenes for its first Washington, DC session. S11171869 The Suez Canal opens. S11171913 Panama Canal opens for use. S11181889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii. S11181903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gives US exclusive canal rights through Panama. S11181820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer. S11181928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat Willie". S11181936 Main span of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge joined. S11191493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico. S11191863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg. S11191895 The pencil is invented. The eraser will have to wait. S11191903 Carrie Nation attempts to make her celebrated speech in the U.S. Senate and later tries to sell replicas of the hatchet. S11191928 Mickey Mouse makes his first silver screen appearance in Walt Disney's full talking animated cartoon, Steamboat Willie. S11191965 The Pop-Tart is invented. S11201888 William Bundy invents the first timecard clock. S11201914 The State Department starts requiring photographs for passports S11201947 Princess Elizabeth of England and Lt. Phillip Mountbatten are married in London's Westminster Abbey. S11211794 Honolulu Harbor is discovered. S11211871 Emilio Onra, the first human cannon ball is lauched. S11211959 Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed duet. S11211964 The Verrazanno Narrows Bridge (Brooklyn to Staten Island) opens, becoming the world's longest suspension bridge. S11221906 The International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS" as the new universal call for help. S11221943 Lebanon gains its independence. S11221963 President John Kennedy assasinated in Dallas. S11231852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet. S11231863 patent granted for a process of making color photographs. S11231889 The first jukebox is installed, at a saloon in San Francisco. S11231986 Vincent Paxton, sets a new world record, by playing his guitar for 300 consecutive hours. S11241874 A patent is granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire. S11241952 Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens in London. At last report, it was still running. B11241963 Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald. S11241980 The "Who Shot JR" episode of Dallas, airs to an audience of 83 Million viewers. S11261778 Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands.) S11261832 The first street car in the U.S. begins operation in New York City. It's a horse-drawn trolley. S11261895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed. S11271926 The restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins. S11271952 The first 3D movie, "Bwana Devil", airs. S11281520 Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean. S11281776 Washington and his troops cross the Delaware River. S11281895 America's auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averages a blazing 7 MPH. S11281954 Enrico Fermi, inventor of the atom bomb dies. S11291887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii. S11291890 First Army-Navy football game. Score: Navy 25, Army 0. S11291922 King Tut's Tomb is discovered in Egypt. S11291927 Dr. Seuss marries Helen Palmer (Green Eggs & Ham was served). R1102 North & South Dakota Admission Day. R1102 3Election Day. Have you voted today? R1103 3Election Day. Have you voted today? R1103 Independence Day, celebrated in Panama. R1104 3Election Day. Have you voted today? R1105 3Election Day. Have you voted today? R1105 Guy Fawkes Day, celebrated in England. R1106 Saxaphone Day. R1106 3Election Day. Have you voted today? R1107 Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!) R1107 3Election Day. Have you voted today? R1108 3Election Day. Have you voted today? R1111 The REAL Veteran's Day. They fought for your freedom. Remember them! R1115 The annual 3-Stooges festifal begins in Harrisburg, PA. R1117 The annual Great American Smoke Out, (Put that cigarette down!) R1122 5Thanksgiving Day. R1122 Independence Day, celebrated in Lebanon. R1123 5Thanksgiving Day. R1124 5Thanksgiving Day. R1125 5Thanksgiving Day. R1126 5Thanksgiving Day. R1127 5Thanksgiving Day. R1128 5Thanksgiving Day. B12011935 Lou Rawls B12011935 Woody Allen, actor, director. B12021906 Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records. B12021915 Adolph Green B12021915 Will Randolph Hearst B12031729 Antonio Soler, famed late 18th century Spanish composer. B12031930 Andy Williams B12031930 Jean-Luc Godard B12041922 Deanna Durbin B12041934 Wink Martindale, game show host. B12041949 Jeff Bridges, actor. B12051782 Martin Van Buren, 8th President from (1837 - 1841). B12051839 General George A. Custer, lost to Indians. B12051901 Walter Elias Disney, father of Mickey Mouse. B12051902 Strom Thermond B12051906 Otto Perminger B12061822 John Eberhard, built first large scale pencil factory in US. B12061870 William S. Hart, star of silent Western movies. B12061920 Dave Brubeck B12071923 Ted Knight, actor. B12071932 Ellen Burstyn B12071942 Peter Tomarken B12081861 William Durant, founded General Motors Corp. B12081865 Jean Sibelius, major Scandinavian composer. B12081894 James Thurber, humorist. B12081925 Sammy Davis Jr. entertainer. B12081933 Flip Wilson B12081953 Kim Basinger, actress. B12091848 Joel Chandler Harris, created the Uncle Remus stories. B12091886 Clarence Birdseye, became the frozen vegatable king. B12091911 Broderick Crawford B12091911 Lee J. Cobb B12091918 Kirk Douglas, actor. B12091957 Donny Osmond, singer. B12101830 Emily Dickinson, poet. B12101851 Melvil Dewey, created the Dewey Decimal System for libraries. B12101914 Dorothy Lamour B12101952 Susan Dey, actress. B12111918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. B12111931 Rita Moreno B12121805 Henry Wells, founded American Express Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. B12121821 Gustave Flaubert, novelist, "Madame Bovary." B12121915 Old Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra. B12121923 Bob Barker, of The Price Is Right!. B12121938 Connie Francis B12131925 Dick Van Dyke, actor. B12131927 Christopher Plummer, actor. B12131941 John Davidson, game show host. B12141503 Michel de Notredame (Nostradamus), famous prophet. B12141546 Tycho Brahe, astronomer B12141914 Morey Amsterdam, comedian, songwriter, actor. B12141935 Abbe Lane B12141935 Lee Remick B12141946 Patty Duke Austin, actress. B12151832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, built a tower in Paris. B12151861 Charles Edgar Duryea, with his brother, invented first auto to be built and operated in US. B12151933 Tim Conway, comedian, actor, "Scuse Me!" B12151935 Helen Slater, actress. B12161770 Ludwig von Beethoven B12161863 George Santayana, philosopher, poet, humanist. B12161899 Sir Noel Coward, playwright B12161917 Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author ("2001".) B12161939 Liv Ullmann B12171778 Sir Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements. B12171929 William Safire B12181886 Ty Cobb B12181890 Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (invented FM.) B12181947 Steven Spielberg, director, producer, E.T.'s father! B12181987 The Perl language is born (created) by Larry Wall. Thanks Larry! B12191849 Henry Clay Frick, industrialist; worked for Carnegie. B12191933 Cicely Tyson B12191945 Elaine Joyce B12201805 Thomas Graham, the father of colloid chemistry. B12201819 John Geary, first Postmaster, first Mayor (May 1, 1850.) B12201868 Harvey Firestone B12211911 Josh Gibson, in professional baseball, the "Negro Babe Ruth." B12211935 Phil Donahue, talk show host. B12211937 Jane Fonda, actress, Aerobics Instructor. B12211954 Chris Everet Lloyd, tennis star. B12221858 Giacomo Puccini, opera composer. B12221912 Lady Bird Johnson B12221917 Gene Rayburn B12231790 Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics. B12231918 Jose Greco B12241809 Kit Carson, Western scout. B12241905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire. B12241922 Eva Gardner, actress. B12241959 Madonna, singer. B12251899 Humphrey Bogart. Here's looking at you, kid. B12251907 Cab Calloway B12251918 Anwar Sadat B12251948 Barbara Mandrell, singer. B12251949 Sissy Spacek, actress, "Coal Miner's Daughter". B12261914 Richard Widmark B12261921 Steve Allen, songwriter, comedian. B12261927 Alan King B12271571 Johannes Kepler, discovered planets travel in eliptical orbits. B12271901 Marlene Dietrich B12281856 Woodrow Wilson, 28th President from (1912 - 1921). B12281934 Maggie Smith B12291800 Charles Goodyear, created a reliable tire, and the blimp. B12291808 Andrew Johnson, 17th President from (1865 - 1869). B12291809 William Ewart Gladstone, british statesman. B12291876 Pablo Casals, cellist. B12291937 Mary Tyler Moore, actress. B12291938 Jon Voight B12291952 Gelsey Kirkland B12311943 John Denver, singer, songwriter, actor. B12311948 Donna Summer, singer. S12011887 Sherlock Holmes first appears in print: "A Study In Scarlet." S12011913 First drive-up gasoline station opens, in Pittsburgh. S12011922 First skywriting over the US - "Hello U.S.A." - by Capt. Turner, RAF. S12011951 Golden Gate Bridge closed because of high winds. S12011966 The Pope declares, that catholics are allowed to eat meat on Fridays, except during Lent. (Wow Man!) S12021816 First savings bank in US opens as the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society. S12021823 President James Monroe declares his doctrine. S12021887 Charles Dickens' first public reading in U.S., in New York City. S12021942 First controlled nuclear reaction at University of Chicago. S12021982 First permanent artificial heart successfully implanted into Barney Clark. S12031586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia. S12031621 Galileo invents the telescope. S12031829 Worlds largest bar opens. S12031952 First television broadcast in Hawaii. S12031954 Joseph McCarthy goes too far in his attacks and is condemned by the U.S. Senate. S12031967 First human heart transplant performed, in Capetown, South Africa. S12041674 Father Marquette builds first dwelling in what is now Chicago. S12041783 Gen. Washington bids his officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, New York City. S12041915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens. S12041982 "Deely Boppers", become one of the holidays hottest selling items, (What the heck is a "Deely Bopper?"). S12051776 Phi Beta Kappa, first American scholastic fraternity, founded. S12051880 Blue Jeans are invented. S12051933 Prohibition is ended in U.S. by ratification of 21st Amendment. S12061768 First edition of Encyclopaedia Brittanica is published in Scotland. S12061876 City of Anaheim incorporated for a second time. S12061917 Finland gains its independence. S12061983 World record set for continuous whistling, (45 hours, 20 minutes). S12071787 Delaware is the first state to ratify the Constitution. S12071868 Pearshall Brothers open a school in New York City ... to teach the art of riding a bicycle! S12071941 Pearl Harbor is attacked. A day that will live in infamy. S12071963 The first instant replay airs, during a TV sports event. S12071972 Apollo 17, last of the Apollo moon series, launched. S12081886 American Federation of Labor is organized in Columbus, Ohio. S12081987 President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles. S12091640 Settler Hugh Bewitt is banished from colony of Massachusetts. when he declares himself to be free of original sin. S12091793 Noah Webster establishes New York's first daily newspaper. S12091907 First Christmas Seals sold, in the Wilmington, Delaware Post Office. S12091977 Houston Rocket Rudy Tomjanoviche suffers multiple injuries from an on court punch by LA Lakers player Kermit Washington. S12091992 A total lunar eclipse occurs, (go moon somebody!). S12101901 First awarding and distribution of Nobel Peace Prizes. S12101927 Grand Ole Opry makes its first radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN. S12101955 the Mighty Mouse show premiers, (Here I come, to save the day!). S12111932 Snow falls in San Francisco. S12111936 King Edward VIII of England abdicates, brother George VI ascends throne. S12111975 First Class mail is raised from 10 cents to 13 cents. S12111990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, becomes one of the top money making films of the year, (Go figure!). S12121901 Marconi receives first trans-Atlantic radio signal from England to US. S12121925 Arthur Heinman coins the term "motel," opens one in San Luis Obispo. S12121963 Kenya gains its independence. S12131903 Wright brothers first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, NC. S12131903 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone ... in New Jersey. S12131918 Wilson becomes first to make a foreign visit while President. S12131928 The clip on tie in invented. S12131978 Susan B. Anthony dollar, first US coin to honor a woman is issued. S12141656 Artificial pearls first manufactured by M. Jacquin in Paris, made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales. S12141819 Alabama admitted to the Union. S12141911 South Pole first reached by Amundsen. S12151791 Bill of Rights is ratified when Virginia gives its approval. S12151877 Patent granted to Mr. Edison for the phonograph. S12151939 World Premiere of "Gone With The Wind" in Atlanta, GA. S12151952 Christine Jorgensen, becomes first person in history to have a sex change operation. S12151965 First rendevous in space: Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 link up. S12161773 Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor. Indians welcome. S12161905 "Variety", covering all phases of show business, is first published. S12161907 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on its World Cruise. S12161953 The first color TV program, goes on the air. S12171791 New York City traffic regulation creates the first one-way street. S12171843 "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published in London. S12171852 First Hawaiian cavalry organized. S12171860 Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County. S12171903 First sustained motorized aircraft flight by Wright Brothers. at 10:35AM, for 12 seconds. S12171933 First professional football game: Chicago Bears vs. NY Giants. S12181899 George Grant wins patent for his golf tee. S12191732 Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack". S12191777 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge for the winter. S12191889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii. S12191985 The "I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up" commercial first airs. S12201803 Louisiana Purchase officially transferred. S12201850 Hawaiian post office established. S12201880 New York's Broadway lighted by electricity, becomes known as the "Great White Way." S12211620 The Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock. S12211913 First crossword puzzle (with 32 clues), printed in New York World. S12211937 First feature-length cartoon with color and sound premieres. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." S12221850 Hawaiian Post Office established. S12221895 United States Golf Association is formed. S12221956 "Colo" becomes the first gorilla to be born in captivity. S12231834 Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs. S12231947 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs. S12231985 Congress passes a tax simplification guide, which is 1,379 pages in length, (Sounds simplified to me, how about you?). S12241814 Treaty of Ghent signed, ending War of 1812 (this news did not arrive until after the Battle of New Orleans.) S12241906 First known radio program in the United States is broadcast. S12251776 Washington crosses the Delaware and surprises the Hessians. S12251843 First theatre matinee given at Olympic Theatre, New York City. S12261865 James Nason invents the first American coffee percolator. S12271831 Darwin begins his voyage onboard the HMS Beagle. S12271850 Hawaiian Fire Department established. S12271871 World's first Cat Show held at Crystal Palace in London. S12271903 "Sweet Adaline", a barbershop quartet favorite, is first sung. S12271932 Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens. S12271981 The last pair of bell bottoms is sold in Wichita, KS. S12281669 A patent for chewing gum is granted to William Semple. S12281849 Dry-cleaning process accidentally discovered when M. Jolly-Bellin, a tailor, upsets a lamp, containing turpentine and oil, on his clothing and noticed it had a cleaning effect. S12281902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to the United States. S12281912 San Francisco Municiple railway starts operation at Geary Street (MUNI was the first municiply owned transit system). S12291852 Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants! S12291862 The bowling ball is invented. S12291911 San Francisco Symphony is formed. S12291937 Pan Am starts service between San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand. S12301817 First coffee planted in Hawaii. S12301853 Gadsden Purchase signed; U.S. acquires Arizona and New Mexico. S12301976 The leisure suit officially goes out of style. S12311776 Rhode Island establishes wage & price controls to curb inflation: Limit is 70 cents a day for carpenters, 42 cents for tailors. S12311879 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US.) S12311879 Edison gives public demonstration of his incandescent lamp. S12311921 Last San Francisco Fire Dept. horses retired. R1206 Independence Day, celebrated in Finland. R1210 Human Rights Day, a United Nations observance. R1212 National Ding-a-ling Day (honest!) R1212 Independence Day, celebrated in Kenya. R1215 Bill of Rights Day. R1218 Hanukkah R1219 Underdog Day. Awwwwww . . . R1221 The Winter Solstice, shortest day of the year. R1224 Christmas Eve. No fair peeking 'till morning. R1225 Christmas Day. Peace on Earth, good will toward all men. R1225 Constitution Day, celebrated in Republic of China (Taiwan.) R1226 National Return All Of Your Ugly Christmas Gifts day. R1226 Boxing Day, celebrated in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland.) R1228 Snow boarding championships begin today in White Bluff Mtn, CO. R1231 New Year's Eve.