02:01
/*
1901 Clark Gable, didn't give a damn about Scarlet O'Hara.
1867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days.
1920 the 1st armored car is introduced.
*/
02:02
/*
1754 Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat.
1848 Mexico sells US Texas, California, New Mexico & Arizona.
1848 1st shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco.
1876 National Baseball League formed with 8 teams.
1880 SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st successful shipment
     of frozen mutton from Australia.
1962 8 of the 9 planets aligned for the 1st time in 400 years.
     Groundhog Day
*/
02:03
/*
1811 Horace Greeley, told young men to go west
1821 Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman to get MD from a US Medical school.
1874 Gertrude Stein, beloved by Hemmingway.
     Joel Bartlett, KPIX (Channel 5) weatherman.
1918 Twin Peaks Tunnel, longest (11,920 feet) streetcar tunnel in
     the world, begins service with the K-Ingleside streetcar.
*/
02:04
/*
1902 Charles A. Lindburgh, 'Lucky Lindy'
1865 the Hawaiian Board of Education is formed.
1932 1st Winter Olympics held (At Lake Placid, NY).
1948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence.
     Independence Day, celebrated in Sri Lanka.
*/
02:05
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1840 John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire.
1878 Andre-Gustave Citroen, French automaker
1887 Snow falls on San Francisco.
*/
02:06
/*
1756 Aaron Burr
1885 George Herman Ruth ('Babe Ruth').
1911 Ronald Reagan, 40th President (1981-    )
     New Zealand Day, celebrated in (where else?) New Zealand
*/
02:07
/*
1804 John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements.
1812 Charles Dickens
1817 Frederick Douglas, 1st black to hold high rank in US government
1883 Eubie Blake, composer
1914 Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium.
*/
02:08
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1820 William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general.
1828 Jules Verne, pioneered what later became science fiction.
1906 Chester F. Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing)
1925 Jack Lemmon
1693 Charter granted for College of William & Mary, 2nd college in US.
1883 Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen.
1908 Boy Scouts of America founded.
1922 Radio arrives in the White House.
1957 Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall.
1977 Earthquake, at 5.0, strongest since 1966.
*/
02:09
/*
1773 William Henry Harrison, 9th President (March 4-April 4, 1841)
1877 U.S. Weather Service is founded.
1885 first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
1891 1st shipment of asparagus arrives from Sacramento.
1969 the Boeing 747 takes it's 1st commercial flight.
*/
02:10
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1870 City of Anaheim incorporated (first time).
1879 1st electric arc light used (in California Theater).
*/
02:11
/*
1847 Thomas Alva Edison, who lit up your life
1854 Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time.
1929 Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome.
1936 Pumping begins to build Treasure Island.
*/
02:12
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1802 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President (1861-1865)
1809 Charles Darwin
1893 General of the Army Omar Bradley, 'The GI General'
1541 Santiago, Chile founded.
1934 Export-Import Bank incorporated.
1945 San Francisco selected for site of United Nations Conference.
*/
02:13
/*
1805 David Dudley Field, lawyer whose advocacy of law codification
     had international effects.
1885 Bess Truman, married to President Harry Truman
1937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical
     detail and fine detail drawing.  Thanks Hal.
*/
02:14
/*
1894 Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny.  Oh, Rochester!
1876 Bell files an application for a patent for the telephone.
     St. Valentine's Day
*/
02:15
/*
1564 Galileo Galilei
1797 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker
1803 John Augustus Sutter
1861 Fort Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired it's
     cannon in anger).
1898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown.
1917 San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch at Civic Center) dedicated.
*/
02:16
/*
1884 Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film.
1883 Ladies Home Journal begins publication.
1914 1st airplane flight to Los Angeles from San Francisco.
1923 Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun.
1951 City Hall dome fire.
*/
02:17
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1844 A. Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business.
1876 Sardines were 1st canned, in Eastport, Maine.
1878 1st telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones.
*/
02:18
/*
1745 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented
     the electric battery.
1848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker
1849 1st regular steamboat service to California started with the
     arrival of the "California".
1850 Legislature creates the 9 Bay Area counties.
1899 San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transports.
1939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island
     (built for the occasion) in San Francisco Bay.
     National Bun Day -- Iceland
*/
02:19
/*
1473 Nicolaus Copernicus
1878 Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph.
1945 Marines land on Iwo Jima.
1977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose").
*/
02:20
/*
1902 Ansel Adams, knows how to handle a camera.
1873 University of California gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF).
1901 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes.
1902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks and damages Sutro Baths.
1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco.
1931 Congress allows California to build the Oakland-Bay Bridge.
1962 John Glenn is 1st American to orbit the Earth.
*/
02:21
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1804 1st self-propelled locomotive on rails demonstrated, in Wales.
1874 Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication.
1878 First Telephone book is issued, in New Haven, Conn.
*/
02:22
/*
1732 George Washington, Father figure for US, President (1789-1796)
1749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist & 1st biographer of Bach
1900 Hawaii becomes a US Territory.
1913 Lowell High School opens (on it's 1st campus).
*/
02:23
/*
1685 George Frideric Handel, Baroque composer
     F.W. Woolworth opens the 1st '5 & 10', in Utica, NY.
1887 Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco.
1900 Steamer "Rio de Janiero" sinks in San Francisco Bay.
1958 Last Municipal arc light, over intersection of Mission & 25th
     Street, removed (it had been installed in 1913).
*/
02:24
/*
1885 Admiral Chester Nimitz, in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII.
1955 Steven Jobs, Apple co-founder.
1857 Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized.
1942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German).
*/
02:25
/*
1873 Enrico Caruso, singer
1888 John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State for President Eisenhower
1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon).
*/
02:26
/*
1846 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
1852 John Harvey Kellogg, physician, inspired the flaked cereal industry.
1866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry
1863 President Lincoln signs the National Currency Act.
1891 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park.
1933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field.
*/
02:27
/*
1902 John Steinbeck
1934 Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan
1844 Dominican Republic gains it's independence.
     Independence Day, celebrated in the Dominican Republic
*/
02:28
/*
1849 1st steamship enters San Francisco Bay.
1883 1st vaudeville theater opens.
1888 Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes.
1914 Construction begins on the Tower of Jewels for the Exposition.
1956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory.
1970 Bicycles now permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge.
*/
02:29
/*
1860 Herman Hollerith, invented 1st electric tabulating machine.
Sadie Hawkins Day
Rare Day!
LEAP Year!
*/