04:01
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1883 Lon Chaney, man of a thousand faces
1778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans Businessman, creates the "$".
1850 San Francisco County Government established.
1941 Navy takes over Treasure Island.
1960 TIROS I (Television & Infra-Red Observation Satellite) launched
     to improve weather prediction.
     April Fool's Day
     Saint Stupid's Day (a San Francisco tradition since 1980).
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04:02
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 742 Emperor Charlemagne
1875 Walter Chrysler, founded a car company.
1914 Sir Alec Guiness, thespian
1920 Jack Webb, dum-de-dum-dum
1924 Doris Day, girl next door
1792 Congress establishes Coin denominations of United States.
1935 Watson Watt granted a patent for RADAR.
     International Children's Book Day
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04:03
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1924 Marlon Brando, godfather
1848 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher.
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04:04
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1792 Thaddeus Stevens
1802 Dorothea Dix, social reformer
1860 Pony Express begins service, from St. Joseph, Missouri.
1870 Golden Gate Park established by City Order #800.
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04:05
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1856 Booker T. Washington
1908 Bette Davis
1954 Michael W. Butler, creator of mainframe TODAY program.
1614 Pocahontas marries John Rolfe.
1941 Castro and Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses.
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04:06
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1810 Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium
1866 Lincoln Steffens, muckraker.
1890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer
1892 Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company.
1892 Lowell Thomas, journalist
1862 Battle of Shiloh.
1868 Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife.
1906 first animated cartoon is copyrighted.
1926 4 planes take off on 1st successful around-the-world flight.
1957 New York City ends trolley car service.
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04:07
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1860 W.K. Kellogg, founded the cereal company.
1915 Billie Holiday, blues singer
1932 Mark Russell, satirist
1931 Seals Stadium opens.
1933 Prohibition ends.
1948 World Health Organization is established.
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04:08
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1889 Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
1513 Ponce de Leon arrives in Florida.
1913 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified
1974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record.
     Kambutsue, celebration of Buddha's birthday, in Japan
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04:09
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1830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion in photography.
1865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz
1879 W.C. Fields, Philadelphian
1919 John Presper Eckert, co-inventor of 1st electronic computer (ENIAC)
1865 Lee surrenders at Appomattox.
1953 TV Guide publishes their first issue.
1955 United Nations Charter hearing.
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04:10
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1825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens.
1849 Safety pin patented.
1871 William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park
     officially accepted.
1878 California Street Cable Car Railroad Company starts service.
1882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
1953 House of Wax, first 3-D movie, released in New York.
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04:11
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1876 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized.
1895 Anaheim completes it's new electric light system.
1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball.
1958 Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated.
     Barber Shop Quartet Day
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04:12
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1777 Henry Clay, 'The Great Compromiser'
1791 Francis P. Blair, helped found the Republican Party.
1913 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader & vibraphone improvisor
1859 Hibernia Savings & Loan Society of San Francisco incorporated.
1861 Fort Sumter, S. C., shelled by Confederacy, starts Civil War.
1898 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island to Navy.
1933 Moffatt Field is commissioned.
1961 Yuri A. Gagarin becomes 1st man to orbit Earth.
1962 San Mateo County withdraws from BART district.
1981 1st launch of the space shuttle, Columbia.
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04:13
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1721 John Hanson, 1st US President under the Articles of Confederation
1743 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President (1801-1809)
1852 F.W. Woolworth, the "five-and-ten" king.
1976 $2 bill re-introduced as United States currency.
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04:14
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1889 Arnold Toynbee, historian
1828 1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.
1860 1st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri.
1865 Abraham Lincoln assasinated in Ford's Theater.
1900 Veteran's Hospital at Fort Miley established.
1928 regular air passenger flights between San Francisco and
     Los Angeles started, by Maddux Air Lines.
1971 Fort Point dedicated as 1st National Park in Bay Area.
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04:15
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1452 Leonardo da Vinci, factotum
1707 Leonhard Euler, mathematician
1850 City of San Francisco incorporated.
1912 Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM.
1922 the famed Poodle Dog Restaurant closes.
1923 insulin becomes generally available for diabetics.
1928 Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf is founded.
1955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants.
     Income Taxes are due today.  Keep the IRS happy...
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04:16
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1867 Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame
1889 Charlie Chaplin, tramp
1947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tall person
1866 Nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo & Co. office explodes.
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04:17
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1837 J.P. Morgan, financed the US.
1897 Thornton Wilder, American novelist
1524 New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.
1853 US Marine Hospital at the Presidio established.
1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95).
1941 Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing)
1961 Bay of Pigs, invasion.
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04:18
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1857 Clarence Darrow, lawyer
1775 'The British are Coming!' Paul Revere rides.
1868 San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed.
1869 1st International Cricket Match, held in SF, won by Californian
1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
1907 Fairmont Hotel opens.
1934 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) is opened, in Fort Worth, Texas
1936 "Clipper" starts providing regular passenger flights from
     San Francisco to Honolulu.
1968 San Francisco's Old Hall of Justice demolished.
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04:19
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1877 Ole Evinrude, invented the outboard marine engine.
1775 at Lexington Common, the shot 'heard round the world'.
1852 California Historical Society founded.
1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire.
1892 Charles Duryea takes the 1st American-made auto out for a spin.
1939 Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights (only 148 years late)
     Patriot's Day
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04:20
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1872 Bar Association of San Francisco organized.
1958 Buses replace Key System trains at 3AM.
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04:21
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1926 Queen Elizabeth II
1838 John Muir, naturalist.
1862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorado.
1892 1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park.
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04:22
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1904 J. Robert Oppenheimer.
     Earth Day
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04:23
/*
1564 William Shakespeare, bard
1791 James Buchanan, 15th President (1857-1861)
1813 Stephen Douglas, the "Little Giant", debated Lincoln
1928 Shirley Temple, child
1871 Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up.
1949 Courtesy Mail Boxes for motorists started in San Francisco.
     National Secretary Day
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04:24
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1620 John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of demography
1942 Barbra Streisand, profile
1800 Library of Congress founded.
1865 Fire Alarm & Police Telegraph system put into operation.
1900 the passing of Andrew Halliday, Cable Car Pioneer.
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04:25
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1874 Guglielmo Marconi, made radio possible
1908 Edward R. Murrow, set the standard for TV correspondents.
1891 President Benjamin Harrison visits San Francisco.
1901 New York becomes 1st state requiring license plates for cars
1945 United Nations Conference starts.
1961 Robert Noyce granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
     Arbor Day.  Plant a tree.
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04:26
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1785 John James Audubon, birdwatcher
1900 Charles Richter, he tells us how bad the quakes are.
1607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va.
1906 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii.
1954 nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio begins.
1971 San Francisco Lightship replaced by automatic buoy.
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04:27
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1791 Samuel F. B. Morse
1822 Ulyssses S. Grant, 18th President (1869-1877)
1896 Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon.
1565 1st Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City, founded.
1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) is dedicated.
1937 US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment.
1945 founding of the Second Republic, in Austria.
     Union Day, celebrated in Tanzania.
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04:28
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1758 James Monroe, 5th President (1816-1824)
1754 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurs.
1919 1st successful parachute jump is made.
1974 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon.
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04:29
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1830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels...
1863 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner)
1899 Duke Ellington
1857 Headquarters for the US Army, Division of the Pacific,
     permanently established at the Presidio.
1913 the all-purpose zipper is patented.
     the Emperor's Birthday, celebrated in Japan.
*/
04:30
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1777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematician of all time.
1912 Eve Arden, Our Miss Brooks
1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of the US
1798 Department of the Navy established.
1803 US more than doubles its size thru the Louisiana Purchase.
1857 founding of what would be San Jose State University.
1869 the Hawaiian YMCA organized.
1939 NBC makes 1st US demo of TV at opening of NY World's Fair.
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04:31
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