01:01
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1735 Paul Revere 
1919 J. D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'.
1804 Haiti gains it's independence
1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln.
1898 Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of San Francisco Bay.
1902 1st Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California.
1912 1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63 miles)
1934 Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison.
1956 Sudan gains it's independence
1958 European Economic Community (EEC) starts operation.
1984 AT & T broken up into 8 companies.
     The start of a new year... Enjoy the bowl games.
     Independence Day, celebrated in Haiti and Sudan
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01:02
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1921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens.
1957 the San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.
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01:03
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1840 Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii.
1892 J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings.
1852 first Chinese arrive in Hawaii.
1888 1st drinking straw is patented.
1912 Southern Pacific RR offers to bring the Liberty Bell to the
     Exposition without charge.
1959 Alaska becomes the 49th state.
1977 Apple Computer incorporated.
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01:04
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1809 Louis Braille, developed reading system for the blind.
1643 Sir Issac Newton
1838 Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person)
1982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for the 3rd time by fierce storm.
     National Trivia Day.
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01:05
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1779 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero
1855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor
???? Sherlock Holmes
1850 the California Exchange opens.
1911 San Francisco has it's 1st air meet.
1933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side.
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01:06
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1811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator
1878 Carl Sandburg
1882 Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957)
1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
     Arizona becomes the 47th state.
     Epiphany (Twelfth Night in England)
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01:07
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1800 Millard Fillmore, 13th President (1850-1853)
1610 Galileo discovers the 4 major moons of Jupiter.
1714 the typewriter is patented (it was built years later)
1785 1st balloon flight across the English Channel.
1822 first printing in Hawaii.
1929 "Tarzan", one of the first adventure comic strips appears.
1963 First Class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents.
1968 First Class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents.
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01:08
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1786 Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US 1st effective central bank.
1862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co.
1868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
1935 Elvis Presley, singer.
1946 Tod Brannan
1815 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).
1880 the passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of Mexico
1932 Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter.
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01:09
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1870 Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge.
1901 Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip.
1913 Richard M. Nixon, 37th President (1968-1974)
1793 1st balloon flight in North America.
1799 1st income tax imposed, in England.
1839 the daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science
1847 1st San Francisco paper, 'California Star', published.
1848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established.
1915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated.
1982 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855.
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01:10
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1738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys)
1877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the elecrostatic
     precipitator, used for polution control and air ionizers.
1776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published.
1840 the Penny Post mail system is started.
1863 1st underground railway opens in London.
1945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close.
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01:11
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1755 Alexander Hamilton, the 1st Secretary of the US Treasury
1807 Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University.
1813 first pineapples planted in Hawaii.
1892 Hawaii Historical Society founded.
1935 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California (non-stop, of course).
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01:12
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1588 John Winthrop, 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1737 John Hancock
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01:13
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1832 Horatio Alger, Jr.
1854 Anthony Foss obtains patent for the Accordion.
1920 NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly.
1971 Apollo 14 launched (what was that about rockets can't fly??)
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01:14
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1741 Benedict Arnold, fink
     Albert Schweitzer, doctor, humanitarian, organist.
1892 Hal Roach, early film director and producer.
1784 the Revolutionary War formally ends.
1914 Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars.
1936 L.M. "Mario" Giannini elected president of Bank of America.
1939 All commercial ferry service to the East Bay ends.
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01:15
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1908 Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb.
1929 Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer
1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis, forming base for his
     elevator company.
1927 Dunbarton Bridge, 1st bridge in Bay Area, opens.
1939 Municipal Railway and Market Street Railroad begin service to
     the Transbay Transit (East Bay) Terminal.
1948 The Pentagon Building in Washington is completed.
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01:16
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1865 San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle started (now San Francisco Chronicle)
1887 Cliff House badly damaged when a cargo of powder on the
     schooner "Parallel" explodes nearby.
     National Nothing Day
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01:17
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1706 Benjamin Franklin
1771 Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel.
1880 Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops
1942 Muhammed Ali, who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.
1861 Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest!!).
1871 1st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie.
1893 the Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic.
1943 It was Tin Can Drive Day.
1957 9-county commission recommends creation of BART.
*/
01:18
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1779 Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule, pocket chessboard
1782 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician.
1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented 1st commercially useable barbed wire
1854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell.
1892 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.
1644 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston.
1778 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.
1869 The elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco.
1911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (from Tanforan Park to the
     USS Pennsylvania).
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01:19
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1736 James Watt, made the steam engine workable.
1807 Robert E. Lee
1809 Edgar Allen Poe
1839 Paul Cezanne, painter
1903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England.
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01:20
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1896 Nathan Birnbaum (better known as George Burns)
1265 1st English Parliament called into session by the Earl of Leicester
1872 California Stock Exchange Board organized.
     Reindeer Day
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01:21
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1743 John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton.
1813 John C Fremont, mapmaker & explorer of Western US
1815 Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia.
1813 the pineapple is introduced to Hawaii.
1954 The submarine Nautilus launched.
1979 Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer).
*/
01:22
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1850 The Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif.
1939 Aquatic Park dedicated.
1949 Chinatown telephone exchange closed.
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01:23
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     National Handwriting Day
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01:24
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1888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built 1st rocket-powered aircraft.
1848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma.
1899 the rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan.
1935 1st beer in cans is sold.
1982 San Francisco 49'ers win their 1st Super Bowl, 26-21.
1986 Voyager II flies past Uranus.
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01:25
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1874 Somerset Maugham, poet
1759 Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.
1882 Virginia Woolf, author.
1915 Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1949 1st Emmy Awards are given out.
1959 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301).
     the start of the Chinese New Year.
*/
01:26
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1880 Douglas MacArthur, he did return!
1788 1st settlement established by the English in Australia.
1950 India becomes a republic.
     Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia.
*/
01:27
/*
1756 Wolfgang A. Mozart, musical prodigy
1832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll)
1850 Samuel Gompers, 1st president of the American Federation of Labor
1894 Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park.
1926 1st public demonstration of television.
1948 1st Tape Recorder is sold.
1965 Groundbreaking for the 'Dragon Gateway' at Grant Avenue.
1971 Montgomery St. Station, last link in BART, 'holed thru'.
*/
01:28
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1855 William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine.
1807 London's Pall Mall is the 1st street lit by gaslight.
1878 George W. Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator.
1938 1st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont).
1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, killing a brave crew and NASA
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01:29
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1843 William McKinley, 25th President (1897-1901)
1850 Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite
1860 Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard)
1880 Claude William Dukenfield (better known as W.C. Fields)
1901 Allen B DuMont, perfected 1st commercially practical cathode ray tube
1861 Kansas becomes a state.
1904 1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team.
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01:30
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1882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President (1933-1945)
1847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.
1862 US Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched.
1917 1st jazz record in United States is cut.
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01:31
/*
1830 James G. Blaine, the 'Plumed Knight'.
1872 Zane Gray, American West novelist
1919 Jackie Robinson, 1st black major league baseball player
1851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California, founded.
1871 Birds fly over the western part of San Francisco in such large
     numbers that they actually darken the sky.
1911 Congress passes resolution naming San Francisco as the site
     of the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal.
1958 1st U.S. satellite launched, Explorer I.
1961 Ham the chimp is 1st animal sent into space by the US.
1971 Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands.
*/