11:01
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1863 Fortifications built on Angel Island by troops.
1870 US Weather Bureau begins operations.
1943 Dimout ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area.
1947 1st Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii.
1981 First Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents.
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11:02
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1734 Daniel Boone
1795 James K. Polk, 11th President (1845-1849)
1865 Warren G. Harding, 29th President (1921-1923)
1885 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer.
1854 Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts.
1917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement
1920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) on the air as 1st commercial radio station.
1947 Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for 1st (& last) time.
1948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers.
     North & South Dakota Admission Day
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11:03
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1718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same.
1903 Panama gains it's independence from Columbia.
1917 First Class Mail now costs 3 cents.
1930 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America.
1952 Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas.
     Independence Day, celebrated in Panama.
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11:04
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1879 Will Rogers
1916 Walter Cronkite, "...and that's the way it is"
1854 Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island.
1867 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall.
1922 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen.
1924 1st woman governor in US elected in Wyoming.
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11:05
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1857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was VERY unhappy).
1912 Roy Rogers, Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger
1781 John Hanson elected 1st 'President of the United States in Congress
     assembled' (8 years before Washington was elected).
1895 1st US patent granted for the automobile, to George B Selden
1973 BART starts San Francisco-Daly City train shuttle service.
     Guy Fawkes Day, celebrated in England.
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11:06
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1771 Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography.
1851 Charles Henry Dow, founded Dow Jones & Co.
1854 John Phillip Souza, the march king
1861 James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball.
1850 Yerba Buena & Angel Islands reserved for military use.
1850 1st fire engine arrives in Hawaii.
1862 Direct Telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco established
1869 1st intercollegiate football game played (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4).
1939 WGY-TV (Schenectady NY), 1st commercial-license station begins service
1962 BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote.
     Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
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11:07
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1867 Madame Marie Curie, discovered radium.
1805 Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean.
1811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan.
1875 Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa from
     sea to sea.
1885 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway.
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11:08
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1656 Edmond Halley, astronomer, 1st to calculate a comet's orbit.
1793 the Louvre, in Paris, was opened to the public.
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11:09
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1934 Carl Sagan
1848 Post Office at Clay & Pike opens.
1965 Giant power failure in New England & Ontario, Canada.
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11:10
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1668 Francois Couperin, composer
1819 Cyrus West Field, financier known for the success of the 1st
     transatlantic cable.
1895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer.
1871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa.
1891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
1951 1st Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance.
1980 Voyager I flies past Saturn.
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11:11
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1821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author, "Crime and Punishment"
1885 General George S. Patton
1922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author.
1889 Washington admitted as the 42nd state.
1918 World War I ends.
1924 Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated.
1931 Cornerstones laid for Opera House and Veteran's Building.
1957 Demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde.
1959 Seals Stadium demolished.
1982 Space Shuttle 'Columbia' makes 1st commercial flight.
The REAL Veteran's Day.  They fought for your freedom. Remember them!
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11:12
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1815 Elizabeth Stanton, early leader of women's rights movement.
1866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC).
1873 Bay District Race Track opens.
1933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken.
1936 Oakland Bay Bridge opened.
1946 the 1st "autobank" (banking by car) was established, in Chicago
1981 1st time a spacecraft is launched twice -- the Space Shuttle
     'Columbia' lifts off again.
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11:13
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1850 Robert Louis Stevenson
1856 Justice Louis Brandeis
1849 Peter Burnett is elected 1st governor of California.
1895 first shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii.
1921 The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, was released.
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11:14
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1765 Robert Fulton, built 1st commercial steamboat
1776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis
1840 Claude Monet, impressionist
1900 Aaron Copland, american composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring)
1792 Capt. George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay.
1832 1st streetcar appears, in New York
1851 "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville, is published.
1889 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip around the
     world by 8 days (72 days).
1910 1st airplane flight from the deck of a ship.
1959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii).
1981 The old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired & working again.
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11:15
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1869 Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated.
1926 National Broadcasting Company goes on-the-air, with 24 stations
1939 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check.
1941 Cow Palace opens.
1949 KRON (Channel 4, San Francisco) signs on, from 7 to 10 PM.
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11:16
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1873 William Handy, established the popularity of the blues in band music
1901 George Gallop, what's your opinion?
1933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
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11:17
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1800 Congress convened for its 1st Washington, DC session.
1853 Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections.
1869 Suez Canal opens.
1913 Panama Canal opens for use.
The day of the Great American Smoke Out.
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11:18
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1789 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography
1836 Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame)
1923 Alan Sheppard, 1st American into space.
1928 Mickey Mouse
1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii.
1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gave US exclusive canal rights thru Panama.
1820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer.
1928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat Willie"
1936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined.
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11:19
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1752 George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War.
1831 James A. Garfield, 20th President (March 4-September 19, 1881)
1905 Tommy Dorsey
1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
1863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg.
1895 the pencil is invented.
1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California State
     Historical Landmark.
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11:20
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1602 Otto von Guericke, invented the air pump
1900 Chester Gould, gave Dick Tracy a job
1908 Alistair Cooke, raconteur
1888 William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
1914 the State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
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11:21
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1694 Voltaire, thinker
1787 Sir Samuel Cunard, founded 1st regular Atlantic steamship line
1904 Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone for jazz
1794 Honolulu Harbor discovered.
1959 Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed duet.
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11:22
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1890 Charles de Gaulle
1899 Hoagy Carmichael, composed 'Star Dust'.
1906 the International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS"
     as the new call for help.
1943 Lebanon gains it's independence (would that it could keep it)
1963 President John Kennedy assasinated in Dallas.
Independence Day, celebrated in Lebanon.
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11:23
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1804 Franklin Pierce, 14th President (1853-1857)
1887 Boris Karloff, bogeyman
1852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet.
1863 patent granted for a process of making color photographs.
1911 Post Hospital at Presidio renamed Letterman General Hospital.
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11:24
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1713 Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in California.
1784 Zachary Taylor, 12th President (1849-1850)
1868 Scott Joplin, entertainer
1874 patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.
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11:25
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1835 Andrew Carnegie, steelman and librarian
1846 Carry Nation, scrouge of barkeepers and drinkers.
1948 Fort Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed.
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11:26
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1832 Louisa May Alcott, little woman
1876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment.
1778 Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands).
1895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed.
1868 1st baseball game played in enclosed field at 25th & Folsom.
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11:27
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1701 Anders Celsius
1890 1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation.
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11:28
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1520 Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean.
1895 America's auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averaged 7 MPH
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11:29
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1803 Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (color shift)
1849 Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode.
1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.
1890 1st Army-Navy football game.  Score: Navy 25, Army 0.
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11:30
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1667 Jonathan Swift, satirist, wrote "Gulliver's Travels"
1810 Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker.
1835 Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain
1874 Winston Churchill
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11:31
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