03:01
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1810 Frederic Chopin
1848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece.
1781 the Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress.
1859 Present seal of San Francisco adopted (2nd seal for city).
1864 patent issued for taking & projecting motion pictures to Louis
     Ducos du Hauron (he never did build such a machine, though).
1867 Nebraska becomes a state.
1879 Library of Hawaii founded.
1927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank.
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03:02
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1861 Congress creates the Territory of Nevada.
1901 first telegraph company in Hawaii opens.
1929 US Court of Customs & Patent Appeals created by US Congress.
1974 First Class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents.
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03:03
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1791 Congress passed a resolution ordering U.S. Mint be established.
1812 Congress passes 1st foreign aid bill.
1849 Gold Coinage Act passed, allowing gold coins to be minted.
1851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin, the 3-cent piece.
1875 a 20-cent coin was authorized by Congress (It only lasted 3 years).
1885 American Telephone and Telegraph incorporated.
1923 Time magazine publishes their 1st issue.
1956 Morocco gains it's independence.
1972 Pioneer 10 launched.
     Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival), celebrated in Japan.
     Independence Day, celebrated in Morocco.
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03:04
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1394 Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsored Portuguese voyages of discovery
1678 Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso and composer.
1789 Congress declares the Constitution to be in effect.
1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii.
1826 1st railroad in US chartered, the Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass
1933 Roosevelt inaugurated, said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
1934 Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson dedicated.
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03:05
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1824 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives fame)
1770 Boston Massacre
1845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US.
1979 Voyager I flies past Jupiter.
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03:06
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1619 Cyrano de Bergerac
1756 Aaron Burr, dualist
1812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking.
1937 Valentina Tereshkova, 1st woman cosmonaut
1665 "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" was 1st
     published, and is still published today.
1836 Alamo falls.  Remember it!
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03:07
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1849 Luther Burbank, plant breeder
1875 Maurice Ravel
1848 in Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed.
1933 the game "Monopoly" is invented.
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03:08
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1787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery
1859 Kenneth Grahame, author, "The Wind in the Willows"
1879 Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
1862 the Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched.
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03:09
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1824 Leland Stanford, Governor, Senator, founded Stanford Univ.
1934 Yuri Gagarin, 1st man into space
1862 the ironclads "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle
     in Hampton Roads.  It was a standoff.
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03:10
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1847 First money minted in Hawaii.
1876 the 1st telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell
1933 Big earthquake in Long Beach (W.C. Fields was making a movie when
     it struck & the cameras kept running).
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03:11
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1867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii).
1892 1st public game of basketball.
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03:12
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1831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer.
1832 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts.
1936 FDR conducts his first "Fireside Chat"
1850 1st $20 Gold piece issued.
1966 Pioneer Plaza dedicated.
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03:13
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1970 4-day strike by SF city employees starts.
1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer.
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03:14
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1681 Georg Philipp Telemann, leading German late baroque composer.
1864 Casey Jones
1879 Albert Einstein, relative
1870 Legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible.
1896 Sutro Baths opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952).
1935 the 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars.
1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco.
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03:15
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1767 Andrew Jackson, 7th President (1828-1836)
1913 Woodrow Wilson holds the 1st Presidential Press Conference.
1968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold.
1999 Pluto again becomes the outermost planet.
     The day the buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio.
     Beware the Ides of March
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03:16
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1751 James Madison, 4th President (1809-1817)
1836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car.
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03:17
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1804 James Bridger, scout, fur trader, mountain man par excellance.
1834 Gottlieb Daimler, automobile pioneer
1919 Nat King Cole
1860 Japanese Embassy arrives aboard the "Candinmarruh" <sic>.
     St. Patrick's Day
     Evacuation Day (celebrated in Boston)
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03:18
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1782 John C. Calhoun, statesman
1837 Grover Cleveland, President (1885-1889, 1893-1897)
1858 Rudolf Diesel, invented an engine.
1932 John Updike, poet and novelist.
1850 American Express founded.
1881 Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison
     Square Garden in New York City.
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03:19
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1860 William Jennings Bryan, 'The Great Commoner'
1895 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service.
1928 'Amos and Andy' debut on radio.
     The day the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano.
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03:20
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1856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management.
1904 B. F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer in Behaviorism.
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03:21
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1685 Johann Sebastian Bach, gone for Baroque
1768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist
1869 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame.
     The First Day of Spring... Tra-la Tra-la
     The start of the Persian New Year.
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03:22
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1733 Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water.
1957 Earthquake gives San Francisco the shakes.
1968 President Johnson's daughter, Lynda, ordered off Cable Car
     because she was eating an ice cream cone (no food on cars!).
1978 Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, dedicated.
1981 First Class Postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents.
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03:23
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1912 Werner von Braun, rocketeer
1775 Patrick Henry asks for Liberty or Death.
1929 1st telephone installed in the White House.
1937 Los Angeles Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars.
1962 President John F. Kennedy visits San Francisco.
1965 Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight.
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03:24
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1860 Clipper "Andrew Jackson" arrives in 89 days from New York.
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03:25
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1821 Greece gains it's independence.
1954 RCA manufactures the first COLOR television set.
     Independence Day, celebrated in Greece.
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03:26
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1874 Robert Frost, poet
1911 Tennessee Williams
1925 Pierre Boulez, French composer.
1931 Leonard Nimoy, beam him up, Mr. Scott.
1878 Hastings College of Law founded.
1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made a City Landmark.
     Prince Kuhio Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
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03:27
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1813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (of Currier & Ives)
1863 Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce.
1968 Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated.
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03:28
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1794 Nathan Briggs gets patent for the washing machine.
1871 San Francisco Art Association holds opening reception at 430 Pine.
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03:29
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1790 John Tyler, 10th President (1841-1845)
1819 Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive oil well in US.
1867 Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever (509 wins, 1890-1911).
1886 Coca-Cola is created (with cocaine)
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03:30
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1719 Sir John Hawkins, wrote 1st history of music in English
1853 Vincent van Gogh, artist who always lent an ear
1853 Patent granted to Hyman Lipman for a pencil with an ERASER!
1870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race.
1932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to make solo crossing of the Atlantic.
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03:31
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1596 Rene Descartes, he thought, therefore he was
1732 Joseph Haydn, composer, helped develop the Classical style.
1809 Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
1854 Sir Dugald Clerk, inventor of the 2-stroke motorcycle engine.
1849 Col. John W. Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of San Francisco.
1868 Chinese Embassy arrives aboard the steamship "China".
1889 Eiffel Tower completed.
1941 Ground broken for Union Square Garage.
1963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after nearly 90 years.
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