06:01
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1926 Marilyn Monroe
1925 Lou Gehrig starts in 1st of 2130 consecutive games, a record.
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06:02
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1740 Marquis de Sade
1835 Pope Pius X
1857 Sir Edward Elgar, composer (Pomp and Circumstance)
1858 the Donati Comet 1st seen, named after it's discoverer.
1873 Ground broken on Clay Street for world's 1st cable railroad.
     Republic (Constitution) Day, celebrated in Italy
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06:03
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1808 Jefferson Davis, President of Confederacy (1861-1865)
1864 Ransom Eli Olds, auto manufacturer.
1888 "Casey at the Bat" is 1st published (by the SF Examiner)
1949 "Dragnet" is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles).
     Egg Day
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06:04
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1850 Empire Engine Company No. 1 organized.
     Old Maid's Day
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06:05
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1723 Adam Smith, economist
1883 John Maynard Keynes, another economist
1900 Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography (3D laser photography)
1833 Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage.
1849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1875 formal opening of the Pacific Stock Exchange.
1920 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell.
1981 TODAY ran for 1st time
     Constitution Day, celebrated in Denmark
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06:06
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1755 Nathan Hale, had but one life to give for his country.
1756 John Trumbull, painter.
1956 Bjorn Borg, Racketeer
1933 1st drive-in theatre opens, in Camden, New Jersey.
1944 D-Day
2012 transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs.
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06:07
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1778 Beau Brummel, English Dandy.
1848 Paul Gauguin, painter
1839 the Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed.
1860 workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad.
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06:08
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 570 Mohammed, prophet
1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, astronomer
1869 Frank Lloyd Wright, master builder
1786 1st commercially-made ice cream sold in New York.
1889 Cable Cars begin service in Los Angeles.
2004 transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs.
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06:09
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1781 George Stephenson, principal inventor of the railroad locomotive.
1915 Les Paul, guitarist
1934 Donald Duck, famous fowl
1851 the San Francisco Committee of Vigilence forms.
1868 1st meeting of the Board of Regents, University of California.
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06:10
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1904 Frederick Loewe, composer
1772 Burning of the Gaspee, British revenue cutter by Rhode Islanders
1869 The 'Agnes' arrives in New Orleans with the 1st ever shipment
     of frozen beef.
1898 US Marines land at Cuba in Spanish-American War.
1954 PBS reaches San Francisco: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting.
1977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II.
     National Day, celebrated in Portugal.
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06:11
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1572 Ben Johson, playwright
1847 Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of English women's movement
1867 Charles Fabry, discovered the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere
1910 Jacques Cousteau
1864 300 feet of Meigg's Wharf washed away in storm.
1895 1st auto race.
1980 K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service.
     Kamehameha Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
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06:12
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1915 David Rockefeller, International Power Broker
1929 Anne Frank, diarist
1839 the 1st baseball game is played in America.  Thanks Abner!
1898 Phillipines gains its independence from Spain
1981 the 3rd baseball strike starts.
     Independence Day, celebrated in the Phillipines.
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06:13
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1903 Harold "Red" Grange, the "Galloping Ghost" of football.
1963 Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut.
1983 Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave the Solar System.
     Kitchen Klutzs of America Day
     The National Asparagus Festival
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06:14
/*
1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, authoress (Uncle Tom's Cabin).
1777 Stars and Stripes adopted as US flag, replacing Grand Union flag.
1846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma.
1847 Bunson invents a gas burner.
1850 Fire destroys part of San Francisco.
1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co. gets it's franchise.
1900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins.
1919 1st direct airplane crossing of the Atlantic.
1952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus.
     Flag Day
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06:15
/*
1215 King John signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede.
1775 Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the American Army.
1857 San Francisco Water Works organized.
1878 1st 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).
1940 France surrendered to Hitler.
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06:16
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1775 the Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill).
1963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space.
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06:17
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1870 George Cormack, the inventor of "Wheaties" cereal.
1882 Igor Stravinsky, has the rite of spring
1944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland.
1972 the Watergate Break-in.
     Republic Day, celebrated in Iceland.
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06:18
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1877 James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, best known for his
     I want you" Uncle Sam recruiting poster.
1942 Paul McCartney, Yah-Yah-Yah
1812 War of 1812 begins.
1815 Battle of Waterloo.
1872 Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall.
1892 Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii.
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06:19
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1623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician.
1886 Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
1903 Henry Louis Gehrig, the "Iron Horse" of the Yankees.
1978 Garfield the cat. "Big fat hairy deal".
1778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.
1861 Anaheim Post Office established.
1875 formal opening of US Marine Hospital at the Presidio.
1932 1st concert given in San Francisco's Stern Grove.
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06:20
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1782 The United States chooses the Eagle as it's symbol.
1855 Commissioners appointed to lay out streets west of Larkin.
1948 Ed Sullivan has his first really big 'shoe' on Sunday night TV.
1982 It's National Bald Eagle Day
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06:21
/*
1732 Martha Washington
1921 Jane Russell, full-figured gal
1879 F. W. Woolworth opens his 1st store (failed almost immediately,
     so he found a new location and you know the rest...)
1917 Hawaiian Red Cross founded.
     the longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice.
*/
06:22
/*
1808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak.
1847 the doughnut is invented.
1849 Stephen C. Massett opens at courthouse as 1st professional
     entertainer, using the (allegedly) only piano in California.
1851 Fire destroys part of San Francisco.
1940 France falls to Nazi Germany.
1957 Kansas City stops using streetcars in it's transit system.
1978 the planet Pluto's partner, Charon, is discovered.
1983 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle.
*/
06:23
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1846 George Sax, inventor of the saxophone.
1912 Alan Turing, mathematician, pioneer in computer theory.
1868 Typewriter patented
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06:24
/*
1839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift & Co.
1817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii, on the Kona coast.
1947 Flying Saucers sighted
     St. Jean Baptiste Day -- Canada
     Midsummer Day, celebrated in Europe.
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06:25
/*
1894 Hermann Oberth, founder of modern astronautics.
1178 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon
     (only known observation).
1630 The Fork is introduced to American dining by Gov. Winthrop.
1835 Pueblo founded with construction of 1st building (start of
     Yerba Buena, later to be called San Francisco).
1982 San Francisco holds its 1st County Fair.
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06:26
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1819 Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing American Baseball
1892 Pearl Buck, authoress (The Good Earth)
1913 Maurice Wilkes, invented the stored program concept for computers.
1934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions.
1945 UN Charter written in San Francisco.
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06:27
/*
1880 Helen Keller
1927 Bob Keeshan, a.k.a. Captain Kangaroo (Good Morning Captain)
1867 Bank of California opens its doors.
     National Fink Day
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06:28
/*
1491 Henry VIII of England.  Don't lose your head over him.
1712 Jean Jacques Rousseau, social contractor
1947 Patrick Kincaid, send him a card.
1820 the tomato is proved to be nonpoisonous.
1918 in Hawaii, the 1st inter-island flight.
1919 the Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, was signed.
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06:29
/*
1858 George Washington Goethals, engineer who built the Panama Canal
1901 Nelson Eddy, baritone, great duets with Jeanette MacDonald
1776 Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay.
1854 Congress ratifies Gadsden Purchase, adds parts of New Mexico, Arizona
1863 the very first 1st National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa.
1927 first flight from the West Coast arrives in Hawaii.
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06:30
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1893 the Excelsior diamond (blue-white, 995 carats) discovered.
1908 a giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (the Tunguska Event).
1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, in campaign for Indian equal
     rights in South Africa.
1960 Zaire gains it's independence.
     Independence Day, celebrated in Zaire.
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06:31
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