B
0101
1449
Lorenzo de'Medici (The Magnificent) of Florence
1481
Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer
1735
Paul Revere, US patriot, The British are coming
1745
General Anthony Wayne, military leader ("Mad Anthony")
1752
Elizabeth Griscom (Betsy) Ross, flag maker
1819
Arthur Hugh Clough, poet, friend of Matthew Arnold
1854
Sir James Frazer, British anthropologist, author (The Golden Bough)
1864
Alfred Stieglitz, father of modern photography
1867
Lew Fields, comedian (of Weber & Fields)
1873
Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (The Flies, The Bosses)
1879
E.M. Forster, English novelist (Howard's End, A Passage to India)
1895
J Edgar Hoover, Mr FBI
1900
Xavier Cugat, bandleader
1909
Barry Goldwater (R), former US senator from Az
Dana Andrews, actor (Battle of the Bulge, Laura)
John Glenn, astronaut
1911
Hank Greenberg - Detroit Tiger Hall of Famer
1919
Carole Landis
J D Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'
1922
Ernest Hollings (D), US senator from SC
1925
George Conner, NFL tackle, linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1927
Yuri Grigorovich, Russian choreographer
1932
Terry Moore in Los Angeles Calif
1942
Country Joe McDonald
Gennadi V. Sarafanov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 15)
0102
1647
Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va. (1676)
1727
James Wolfe, commander of British Army at capture of Qubec
1861
Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady
1863
Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)
1920
Isaac Asimov, scientist-writer
Renata Tebaldi, lyric soprano
Gino Marchetti, NFL defensive end (Dallas Texans, Baltimore Colts)
Rep Richard Belmont Ray, D-Ga
1936
Roger Miller, singer (King of the Road)
0103
106
Cicero, Roman statesman
1543
Juan Cabrillo, discoverer of California
1793
Lucretia Coffin Mott, Woman's right leader
1840
Father Damien, helped lepers in Hawaii
1870
Henry Handel Richardson, Australian novelist (Richard Mahoney)
Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady
1883
Clement R. Attlee (Labour), British prime minister (1945-51)
1892
J.R.R. Tolkien,REAL Lord of the Rings
1905
Ray Milland, actor (Dial M for Murder, The Lost Weekend)
Victor Borge, pianist, comedian, Denmark
1916
Betty Furness in NYC
1918
Maxine Andrews of singing Andrew Sister
1928
Jeanne Moreau in Paris France
1930
Robert Loggia, actor (1st Love, An Officer & a Gentleman)
1939
Bobby Hull, hockey player
1945
Stephen Stills, singer, songwriter
1947
Melanie (Safka) in Astoria Queens
1950
Victoria Principal, actress (Earthquake, Dallas) in Japan
0104
1581
Bishop James Ussher, calculated that earth began Nov. 23, 4004 BC
1643
Sir Issac Newton, scientist (Whatever goes up)
1785
Jacob Grimm, German librarian, philologist, fairy tale collector
1789
Benjamin Lundy, philanthropist, abolitionist
1797
Wilhelm Beer, German amateur who helps to construct 1st moon map
1809
Louis Braille, developed reading system for blind
1813
Sir Issac Pitman, shorthand inventor
1838
Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person)
1914
Jane Wyman in St Joseph Missouri 1st Mrs Ronald Reagan
Don Shula, NFL coach (Miami Dolphins)
Sorrell Brooke, actor
Barbara Rush in Denver Colorodo (Hombre, When Worlds Collide)
1935
Floyd Patterson, world heavyweight champ (1956-59, 1960-62)
1937
Dyan Cannon Former Mrs Cary Grant, actress in Tacoma Wash
1943
Tom Wilkinson, CFL quarterback (Edmonton Eskimos)
0105
Sherlock Holmes Fictional detective
1592
Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), builder of Taj Mahal
1779
Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero
1846
Rudolf Eucken, German Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908)
1855
King Camp Gillette, inventor of safety razor
1876
Konrad Adenauer, German Chancellor
Jeannette Piccard, balloonist, Episcopal priest
Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (Cat & Mouse, Happy Hooker)
1921
Jean, grand duke of Luxembourg (1964-  )
Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor of Wyoming
Walter Mondale (D), 42nd US vp (1977-81)
1938
Jim Otto, NFL center (Oakland Raiders)
Juan Carlos I, king of Spain (1975-  )
1940
Dany Saval
1946
Diane Keaton, actress (Annie Hall, Little Drummer Girl) LA
1954
Pamela Sue Martin in Conn
0106
1412
Joan of Arc, martyr
1799
Jedediah Smith, fur trader, explorer
1811
Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator
1823
Gustave Dor, illustrator (Inferno, Rime of Ancient Mariner)
Max Bruch, German composer
1842
Clarence King, geologist, mining engineer
Sherlock Holmes, according to Arthur Conan Doyle
1871
Aleksandr Scriabin, Russian composer
1878
Carl Sandburg, poet, biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes)
1880
Tom Mix, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin)
1882
Samuel Rayburn (D), speaker of House (1940-57)
Khalil Gibran, Lebanese mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings)
Joey Adams, comedian
1913
Loretta Young, (Farmer's Daughter, Stranger) in Salt Lake City
Danny Thomas, comedian, actor
1915
Don Edwards (D), US representative from California
Sun Myung Moon, evangelist (Unification Church)
1924
Earl Scruggs, bluegrass musician
1934
Sylvia Sims
Bonnie Franklin, TV actress (One Day at a Time) in Santa Monica
1957
Nancy Lopez Golf pro
0107
1800
Millard Fillmore (Whig), 13th US pres (1850-53)
1845
Louis III, last king of Bavaria (1913-18)
Butterfly McQueen, actress (Gone with the Wind)
Gerald Durrell, British zoologist, writer, broadcaster
Valeri N. Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 6, 36, Apollo-Soyuz)
Vasili Alexeyev, world champion weight-lifter
1948
Kenny Loggins, singer
0108
1587
Johannes Fabricius, Dutch astronomer who discovered sunspots
1786
Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US 1st effective central bank
Alfred Russel Wallace, codiscoverer of evolution
1862
Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co
William Wilkie Collins, English novelist (The Moonstone)
Emily Balch, US sociologist, feminist, pacifist (Nobel 1946)
1868
Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
1891
Walther Bothe, German subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954)
1902
Carl R. Rogers, psychologist
1904
Peter Arno Cartoonist
1912
Jos Ferrer, actor, director (Cyrano de Bergerac)
1923
Joseph Wiezenbaum, artificial intelligence pioneer
1926
Milton Hines AKA Soupy Sales
Jacques Anquetil, 5-time winner of Tour de France bicycle race
Elvis Presley, singer (Blue Suede Shoes, Hounddog)
Shirley Bassey in Wales
Vyacheslav D. Zudov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
Yvette Mimieux in Hollywood Cal (Time Machine, Where the Boys Are)
Tod Brannan
David Bowie, singer, actor
19??
Lauri Walter, 8 is Enough
0109
1728
Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy)
1859
Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, founder of League of Women Voters
Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge
1898
Gracie Fields
1901
Chic Young, creator of "Blondie" comic strip
Rudolph Bing, opera manager
George Balanchine, dancer-choreographer
1908
Simone de Beauvoir, French author (The Mandarins, The Second Sex)
Richard Milhous Nixon (R), 36th pres (1968-74) (I am not a crook!)
Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque entertainer, actress
Lee Van Cleef, actor (For a Few Dollars More, Escape from NY)
Bart Starr, NFL quarterback, coach (Green Bay)
1941
Joan Baez, folk singer, human rights advocate in Staten Island
Susannah York, actress (A Man for All Seasons, Tom Jones) in London
1951
Crystal Gale in Kentucky
Rosalyn Kind, singer in Bkln
0110
1738
Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys)
1877
Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented elecrostatic precipitator
Manuel Aza¤a y D¡az, P.M., president of 2nd Spanish republic
Francis X. Bushman, silent film actor (The Spy's Defeat)
Florence Reed, silent film actress (The Dancing Girl)
1887
Robinson Jeffers, American poet, playwright (Tamar & Other Poems)
1888
Grock, Swiss clown
Ray Bolger, dancer, actor (Once in Love with Amy, Wizard of Oz)
1910
Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina
June Haver
Johnnie Ray, pop singer
Gisele MacKenzie in Winnipeg Manitoba
Willie McCovey, baseball player
Rod Stewart, singer
1949
George Foreman, world heavyweight boxing champ (1973-74)
1953
Pat Benatar in Brooklyn, Hell is for Children
0111
1755
Alexander Hamilton, 1st Sec of US Treasury
1807
Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University
1815
Sir John A. MacDonald (C), 1st prime minister of Canada (1867-73)
1839
Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican patriot, scholar
William James, American psychologist, philosopher
1850
Philipp la Renotiere von Ferrary, famous philatelist
1885
Alice Paul, founder of National Woman's Party, ERA advocate
1896
Eva Le Gallienne, actress
Paddy Driscoll, NFL quarterback, coach (Chic Cardinals, Bears)
1903
Alan Paton, South African writer (Cry, the Beloved Country)
1906
Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, discoverer of LSD
Grant Tinker, broadcasting executive
Lev S. Demin, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 15)
Rod Taylor, actor
Madeline Manning, runner
1974
Rosenkowitz sextuplets (1st known to have survived infancy)
0112
1588
John Winthrop, 1st gov of Mass Bay Colony
1729
Edmund Burke, famous Whig
1737
John Hancock, Decl of Ind signer (or 0123)
1856
John Singer Sargent, American painter
Jack London, writer (Call of the Wild)
Luise Rainer, actress
Edward Gurney, senator
James Farmer, black activist
Ray Price, country singer
Glenn Yarborough, singer
0113
1808
Salmon P. Chase (R), senator, cabinet member, 6th chief justice
1832
Horatio Alger, Jr., American clergyman, author of boys' books
1884
Sophie Tucker, last red hot mamma
Ralph Edwards (This is your life)
Jesse White, actor (Maytag repairman)
Robert Stack, TV & film actor (Elliot Ness)
Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer (Cotton Club) in LA
1931
Charles Nelson Reilly, comedian
0114
1730
William Whipple, Decl of Ind signer
1741
Gen Benedict Arnold, fink
1791
Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm)
Mehmed VI, last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22)
1875
Albert Schweitzer, doctor, humanitarian, organist (Nobel 1952)
Hal Roach, early film director & producer
John dos Passos, novelist (1919, Big Money, 42nd Parallel)
Andy Rooney, TV commentator (60 Minutes)
Thomas Tryon, actor, novelist
Catarina Valenti, singer in Paris France
Julian Bond (D), civil rights leader, Georgia legislator
Faye Dunaway, actress (Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde) in Fla
0115
1622
Molire, French dramatist (baptized)
1716
Philip Livingston, merchant, signer of Declaration of Independence
Pierre Joseph Proudhon, French libertarian socialist
Sofya Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician
1866
Nathan Sderblom, Lutheran archbishop, internationalist (Nobel '30)
1899
Goodman Ace, radio & TV writer, actor, columnist, humorist
Aristotle Onassis, industrialist
Edward Teller, fathered H-bomb
Lloyd Bridges, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane)
Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian leader
S. Kovalevskaya
Chuck Berry, singer (Johnny B. Goode)
Maria Schell in Vienna Austria - Space 1999
1929
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer (Nobel Peace Prize 1964)
Margaret O'Brien in San Diego Calif
Janet Lennon in Culver City
Charo in Spain
0116
1853
Andr Michelin, French industrialist, tire manufacturer
1874
Robert Service, Canadian poet (Cremation of Sam McGee)
1894
Guy Chamberlin, early NFL end, coach
Ethel Merman, everythings coming up roses
Dizzy Dean, baseball player (St Louis Cardinals)
Katy Jurado in Mexico
Allard Lowenstein, Students for Democratic Action
Norman Podhoretz, author
1933
Oleg G Makarov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18-1, 27, T-3)
Marilyn Horne in Pennsylvania
A.J. Foyt, auto race driver
0117
1706
Benjamin Franklin, Boston, kite flyer, statesman, wit
1732
Stanislaw II, last king of Poland (1764-95)
1771
Charles Brockden Brown, father of American novel
1818
Sir Antoine Dorion (L), joint premier of Canada (1858, 1863-64)
1857
Eugene Augustin Lauste, developed 1st sound-on-film recording
David Lloyd George (Liberal), prime minister of Britain (1916-22)
Konstantin Stanislavsky, actor, director, producer, methodist
Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops
Robert Maynard Hutchins, American educator, civil libertarian
A Chekhov
Betty White, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Golden Girls) in Oak Pk
Moira Shearer, Scottish ballerina
James Earl Jones, actor (Darth Vader)
Sheree North in Los Angeles
Shari Lewis, puppeteer in Bronx NY
1944
Joe Frazier, heavyweight champion boxer (1968-73)
Debbie Watson in Culver City California
0118
Peter Roget of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule, pocket chessboard
1782
Daniel Webster, early American orator & politician
Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented 1st coml useable barbed wire
1849
Sir Edmund Barton, 1st prime minister of Australia (1900-03)
Thomas A Watson, needed by Bell
Rubn Dar¡o, national poet of Nicaragua
A.A. Milne, author of Winnie-the-Pooh
Oliver Hardy, of comedy team Laurel & Hardy
Cary Grant, actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest)
Danny Kaye, comedian, actor, UNICEF
Constance Moore in Sioux City Iowa
Muhammad Ali (aka Cassius Clay), boxer
0119
Muhammad
1095
St Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester, ended sale of slaves at Bristol
1736
James Watt, made steam engine workable (or 1753)
1749
Isaiah Thomas, American printer, editor, publisher, historian
1798
Auguste Comte, philosopher, founder of sociology & Positivism
Robert E Lee, Confederate gen
Edgar Allen Poe, author (The Pit & the Pendulum)
Sir Henry Bessemer, engineer-inventor
Paul Czanne, painter
Alice Eastwood
Lanny Ross, singer
1917
John Raitt, singer
Guy Madison, actor (Computer Wizard, Jet over the Atlantic)
Jean Stapleton, actress (Damn Yankees, Klute) in NYC
Fritz Weaver, actor (Day of the Dolphin, Demon Seed)
Joe Schmidt, NFL linebacker (Detroit)
Tippi Hedren in Minnesota, The Birds
Janis Joplin in Port Arthur Texas
Shelly Fabraes in Santa Monica
Dolly Parton, country singer, bra buster in Tennessee
Ann Compton, TV news reporter
Linda Hayden
Desi Arnez, Jr, actor
0120
1760
Charles III, king of Spain (1759-88)
1775
Andr-Marie Ampre, founder of science of electromagnetism
Johannes V Jensen, Danish novelist, poet, essayist (Nobel 1944)
Mischa Elman Violinist
Nathan Birnbaum (better known as George Burns)
Leon Ames, actor
Federico Fellini, director (8«, Satyricon
Patricia Neal, actress (Hud, The Subject Was Roses) in Packard Ky
Edwin E (Buzz) Aldrin Jr, US astronaut (Gemini 12, Apollo 11)
Dorothy Provine in Deadwood SD
1956
John Naber, swimmer
0121
1338
Charles V (the Wise), king of France (1364-80)
1743
John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton
John C Frmont, map maker & explorer of western US
Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia
1821
John Cabell Breckinridge (D), 14th US vice-president (1857-61)
1824
Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson, Confederate gen
Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of American Civil Liberties Union
Wolfgang Khler, Gestalt psychologist (The Mentality of Apes)
Barney Clark, 1st person to receive a permanent artificial heart
Paul Scofield, author
Benny Hill, British comedian
Telly Savalas, actor, "Who Loves Ya Baby?"
Boris Shakhlin, Soviet Olympic gymnast
Jack Nicklaus, golfer
Placido Domingo, operatic tenor
1955
Robby Bensen, actor (One on One, Running Brave)
0122
1440
Ivan III (the Great), grand prince of Russia
1561
Francis Bacon, English statesman, essayist (Novum Organum)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German critic, dramatist
1788
George Gordon, Lord Byron, English Romantic poet
1802
Richard Upjohn, American Gothic architect (Trinity Chapel, NY)
August Strindberg, Swedish dramatist, novelist
D.W. Griffith, movie producer (Birth of a Nation)
Ann Sothern, voice of my mother the car
U Thant, 3rd secretary-general of UN (1962-72), Burma
William Warfield, singer (Show Boat)
Birch Bayh (D), former US senator from Indiana
Piper Laurie in Detroit Michigan
Bill Bixby, actor (Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian)
Joseph Wambaugh, police writer (The Onionfields)
1959
Linda Blair, actress (The Exorcist) in St Louis Mo
0123
Joseph Hewes, Decl of Ind signer
1756
Wolfgang A Mozart, musical prodigy
1783
Marie-Henri Beyle, aka Stendhal, French novelist
douard Manet, French Impressionist painter
Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian geologist (Moho discontinuity)
David Hilbert, mathematician
Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film maker (Battleship Potemkin)
Humphrey Bogart, actor
Randolph Scott, actor
Potter Stewart, US Supreme Court justice
Eisenstein
William R Pogue, US astronaut (Skylab 4)
Arlene Golonka
Chita Rivera, actress (West Side Story) in Washington DC
Jerry Kramer, Green Bay Packer, author
Gil Gerard
1958
Princess Caroline of Monaco
0124
1712
Frederick I (the Great), king of Prussia (1740-86)
1746
Gustav III, king during Swedish Enlightenment (1771-92)
Edith Wharton, Novelist US
Elisabeth Achelis, inventor of World Calendar
Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built 1st rocket-powered aircraft
Ernest Borgnine, actor (Ice Station Zebra, Young Warriors)
Oral Roberts, Evangelist
Ava Gardner
Maria Tallchief, ballerina in Fairfax Ok
Paula Hawkins (R-sen-Fla)
Neil Diamond, Jazz-Singer
Barry Bostwick, actor
Giorgio Chinaglia, soccer star (Lazio of Italy, NY Cosmos)
John Belushi, commedian, actor (Sat Night Live, Blues Brothers)
1960
Nastassia Kinski in Berlin Germany
0125
749
Leo IV (the Khazar), Byzantine emperor (775-80)
1627
Robert Boyle, Irish physicist, chemist, author
Joseph-Louis, comte de Lagrange, mathematician
1759
Robert Burns, Scottish poet
1860
Charles Curtis (R), 31st US vice-president (1929-33)
Somerset Maugham, novelist, poet (Of Human Bondage, Cakes & Ale)
Virginia Woolf, author (Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse)
Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian statesman, leader in European integration
Edwin Newman, newscaster
Lou (the Toe) Groza, AAFC, NFL tackle, kicker (Cleveland Browns)
Corazon Aquino, president of Philippines (1986-  )
Elizabeth Allen in New Jersey
Dean Jones, actor (Love Bug, That Darn Cat)
Leigh Taylor Young in Washington DC
0126
1715
French philosopher Claude Helvetius
1763
Charles XIV, French marshall, king of Sweden & Norway (1818-44)
1826
Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady
1831
Writer Mary Dodge (`Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates')
Gen Douglas MacArthur, he did return!
Sean MacBride, Irish statesman, minister (Nobel Peace Prize 1974)
Jimmy Van Heusen, songwriter
Nicolae Ceausescu, Rumanian president
Anne Jeffereys in North Carolina
Joan Leslie, actress
Paul Newman, actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler), racer & popcorn mogul
Eartha Kitt in South Carolina
Roger Vadim, Director
Jules Feiffer, cartoonist (Passionella)
Mary Murphy
Bob Uecker, Sports personality
Angela Davis, black activist
1961
Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oiler
0127
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, musical prodigy, Salzburg Austria
douard Lalo, French composer (Symphonie espagnole)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll)
1834
Dmitri Mendeleev, discoverer of periodic table (or 1919)
Samuel Gompers, 1st pres of AFL
Jerome Kern, Broadway composer
Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet writer
Fritz Pollard, early black NFL star (1920-26)
Admiral Hyman G Rickover, father of modern nuclear navy
Art Rooney, NFL team owner (Pittsburgh)
Benay Venuta, actress
Skitch Henderson Bandleader
Donna Reed in Denison Iowa
Joe Perry, AAFC, NFL fullback (SF 49ers, Baltimore Colts)
Ingrid Thulin in Sweden
Troy Donahue, actor (Cockfighter, Grandview USA)
0128
1457
Henry VII, king of England (1485-1509)
1611
Johannes Hevelius, Danzig star cataloguer
1822
Alexander MacKenzie (L), 2nd prime minister of Canada (1873-78)
1841
Henry Stanley, explorer who found Livingstone
Jos Mart¡, Cuban poet, essayist, politician
William Seward Burroughs, inventor of recording adding machine
1869
Ozaki Koyo, Japanese novelist, essayist, haiku poet (The Heart)
Auguste & Jean Felix Piccard, Swiss scientists, explorers
Artur Rubinstein, pianist
Robert W Holley, American biochemist, worked with tRNA (Nobel '68)
Claes Oldenburg, sculptor
Susan Sontag, author, film director
Alan Alda, actor (Hawkeye Pierce)
Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer
Susan Howard in Marshall Texas
0129
1688
Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish religious leader
Thomas Paine, political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason)
Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee, cavalryman
1843
William McKinley (R), 24th US pres (1897-1901)
Lawrence Hargrave, invented box kite
Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard)
Frederick Delius, English composer
Romain Rolland, French writer (Jean-Christophe) (Nobel 1915)
John D Rockefeller Jr, financier
Claude William Dukenfield (better known as WC Fields)
Allen B DuMont-perfected 1st coml practical cathode ray tube
Victor Mature actor (One Million BC, Robe)
John Forsythe actor
Germaine Greer in Melbourne Australia
Claudine Longet in France - Former Mrs Andy Williams
Katharine Ross in Hollywood Cal
Tom Selleck, actor (Magnum PI)
Ann Jillian in Cambridge Mass
Oprah Winfrey, actress, TV host (The Color Purple)
Judy Norton-Taylor in Santa Monica, Cal (Waltons)
Gregory Louganis, champion diver
0130
Franklin D Roosevelt, 32nd Pres (1933-1945) in New Hyde Park NY
Boris III, tsar of Bulgaria (1918-43)
Barbara Tuchman, historian, author (The Guns of August)
David Wayne, actor
Dick Martin, actor, comedian (Laugh-In)
Barbara Hale in Dekalb Ill
Dorothy Malone, actress (At Gunpoint!, Night & Day) in Chic
Harold Prince, stage producer
Gene Hackman, actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Under Fire)
Tammy Grimes in Lynn Mass
Boris Spassky of USSR, world chess champion (1969-72)
Vanessa Redgrave, actress (Blow-Up, Julia, Orient Express) in London
Tony O'Dell
0131
Franz Schubert, composer (Unfinished Symphony)
1830
James G Blaine, 'Plumed Knight'
1872
Zane Gray, American West novelist
1881
Irving Langmuir, physical chemist/colloid researcher (Nobel '32)
Eddie Cantor, comedian
Alva Myrdal, Swedish pacifist (Nobel 1981)
Don Hutson, NFL end (Packers)
Wayne Millner, NFL end (Boston/Washington Redskins)
Jersey Joe Walcott, heavyweight boxing champ (1951-52)
Jackie Robinson, 1st black major league baseball player
Carol Channing in Seattle Wash - Diamonds are her best friend
Joanne Dru in West Virginia
Normal Mailer, novelist, NYC mayoral candidate (Naked & the Dead)
Jean Simmons, actress in London
Rudolf Mssbauer, German physicist (Nobel 1961)
Suzanne Pleshette, actress (The Birds, Bob Newhart Show) in NYC
Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, queen of Netherlands (1980-  )
James G Watt, former sect of interior
Jessica Walters in NYC
Nolan Ryan, baseball player
Shirley Babashoff, US Olympic swimmer
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Start of a new year Enjoy the bowl games
Commemoration of Circumcision of Jesus
Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Botes
St. Basil's Day (Orthodox)
Independence Day, celebrated in Haiti & Sudan
Mummers' Parade in Philadelphia, Pa
Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, Calif
4713
B.C. Julian calendar begins at Greenwich mean noon
Isaac Newton baptized in St. John's Church in Colsterworth, England
1801
United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland established
Giuseppe Piazzi discoved 1st asteroid, later named Ceres
1804
Haiti gains independence from France (National Day)
Congress prohibits importation of slaves
1848
Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua
Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln
Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY
C
Ellis Island became reception center for new immigrants
Manchester Ship Canal in England opened to traffic
Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of SF Bay
Cuba liberated from Spain by US (National Day)
Commonwealth of Australia established
1st Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California
1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (763 miles)
Post office begins parcel post deliveries
Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantees) effective
1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, NY Herald Tribune
Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god
1st newsreel in color, Pasadena, Ca
Rose & Cotton Bowl are 1st sport colorcasts
Sudan gains independence from Britain (National Day)
International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6/30/1958
European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation
Cameroon gains independence from France
1962
Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand
Beatles Decca audition
1965
International Cooperation Year
1971
Cigarette advertisements banned on TV
1972
International Book Year
1973
Britain, Ireland & Denmark join Common Market
World Population Year
1975
International Women's Year
1978
Pres. Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
1979
International Year of the Child
1980
Decade of Water & Sanitation
1981
Palau (Trust Territory of Pacific Is.) becomes self-governing
International Year for Disabled
1983
World Communications Year
1984
AT & T broken up into 8 companies
Brunei gains complete independence from Britain
1985
International Youth Year
1986
Spain & Portugal become 11th & 12th members of Common Market
International Peace Year
1987
Internat'l Year of Shelter
1988
NY Carnegie Deli's owner Leo Steiner dies
2304
Mid- CALENDAR day
Ancestor's (or Hero's) Day in Haiti
Betsy Ross Day
Earth at perihelion
1776
1st revolutionary flag displayed
Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
1893
World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
Royal Bank of Canada took over Quebec Bank
DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
Bruins beat Rangers in NY 13-3
Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for kidnap-murder of Charles
1st electron tube described, St Louis, Mo
28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace
Japanese occupied Manila
President Jose Antonio Remon of Panama assassinated
SF & Los Angeles stock exchanges merge
USSR launches Mechta, 1st lunar probe & artificial in solar orbit
1968
Dr Christian Barnard performs 1st successful heart transplant
Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes
191.66 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
Congress assembles, according to 20th amendment to constitution
1521
Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
Juan Cabrillo, conqueror of Cen. America, discoverer of Calif, dies
1641
Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomical prodigy dies at 22
1777
Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, NJ
1852
1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
Brooklyn Bridge begun, completed on May 24, 1883
1st drinking straw is patented
Perihelion Passage
S Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition free
Turkey made peace with Armenia
27 year old William S Paley becomes president of CBS
Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)
Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa
1st missing persons telecast, NYC
William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) hanged in Britain, for treason
1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pa
Sir Edmund Hillary reached South Pole overland
Alaska becomes 49th state
1977
Apple Computer incorporated
National Trivia Day
1754
Columbia University opened
1784
US treaty with Great Britain ratified
1790
Pres Washington delivers 1st "State of the Union"
Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) formed
Utah becomes 45th state
Burma gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Luna 1 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity
1st unmanned subway train to run automatically - NYC
1982
Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm
Feast of St. Telesphorus, 8th pope (c. 125-c. 136), martyr
Twelfth Night, end of Christmas season
1589
Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, died
Treaty of Dardanelles was concluded between Britain & France
Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire
Calif Exchange opens
Steamship SF wrecked
C Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara
SF has it's 1st air meet
Henry Ford announced a minimum wage of $5 for an eight hour day
Sir Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, died aboard his ship
Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman gov in USA
James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hr day & $5 daily minimum wage
Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side
Tony Sheridan & Beatles produce My Bonnie & The Saints
1964
Pope Paul VI visits Jordan & Israel
1969
USSR Venera 5 launched.  1st successful planet landing - Venus
NASA announces development of Space Shuttle
Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, NJ
Arizona becomes 47th state
Feast of Epiphany  (Twelfth Night of Christmas in England)
1663
Great earthquake in New England
1753
Epiphany
Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk & heredity pioneer, died
Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
New Mexico becomes 47th state
Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
1st diesel engine automobile trip completed
Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario)
FDR names 4 freedoms (freedom of speech, religion; from want, fear)
1st around world flight by Pan Am "Pacific Clipper"
Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes
100th US Congress convenes
St. John the Baptist Day (Orthodox)
2
Plough Monday
1558
Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French
1610
Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede
1714
Typewriter patented (built years later)
1st balloon flight across English Channel
1st natl presidental election - US
1st printing in Hawaii
Liberia colonized by Americans
"Tarzan", one of the 1st adventure comic strips appears
1963
1st class postage raised from 4 to 5.
1967
Newlywed Game premiers
1st class postage raised from 5 to 6
LA Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record)
Feast of St. Gudula, patron of Brussels
St. Dominique's Day (Orthodox)
Anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans
Last day a ball club can re-sign their own free agent until May 1
1336
Giotto, Italian Renaissance painter, dies (birth date unknown)
1583
Iotto Day
1642
Galileo Galilei dies at 78 in Arceti, Italy
11th Amendment ratified, Judicial powers construed
Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew
Passing of Norton I, Emperor of US, Protector of Mexico
Ratification of present SF City Charter
Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy
1952
Antonia Maury, discoverer of supergiant, giant & dwarf stars, dies
Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
US Surveyor 7 lands near crater Tycho on moon
USSR launches Luna 21 for moon landing
Conneticut becomes 5th state
Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America
1st income tax imposed, in England
Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax Alpha Centauri
Daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science
Caroline Herschel, "1st lady of astronomy," dies at 98 in Germany
1847
1st SF paper, 'California Star', published
1st commercial bank in SF established
Astor Library opened in NY
Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede from US
AL Baltimore baseball team bought, to move to NY for $18,000
US marines invade Honduras
Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated
Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
As vowed, MacArthur returned to Philippines
Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855
New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" published
1806
Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
Penny Post mail system is started
Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US
1st underground railway opens in London
Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
League of Nations established
Mickey Mouse & Silly Symphony comics syndicated
1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Phila
Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
UN General Assembly meets for 1st time
US Army establishes 1st radar contact with moon, Belmar, NJ
1st Jewish family show - The Goldberg's begin
1st jet passenger trip made
That Was The Week That Was premiers
USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
1970
Preview Center Opens
Pedro Joaqu¡n Chamorro of La Prensa assassinated in Managua
Soyuz 27 is launched
Feast of St. Hyginus, 9th pope (c. 136-c. 140), martyr
0935
1st woman to fly solo across Pacific left Honolulu, AE Putnam
Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
1787
Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel
1805
Michigan Territory organized
1st pineapples planted in Hawaii
Alabama becomes 4th state to secede from US
Mexico City captured by Juarez
Hawaiian Historical Society founded
French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations
Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California (non-stop, of course)
Beatles release Please Please Me & Ask Me Why
Soyuz 17 is launched
Gov. Askew dedicates the RCUC solar office building
Volunteer Fireman Day
Mission Santa Clara de Asis founded in Cal
1820
Royal Astronomical Society, founded in England
1836
Battle of Wetumka, Fla
US Navy destroys 41 Jap ships in Battle of S China Sea
AFC wins its 1st Super Bowl (III) (NY Jets 16, Balt Colts 7)
All in the Family premiers
24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 is launched
Commemoration of Baptism of Jesus
6
Friday the 13th!  Beware!
Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter
1630
Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
Anthony Foss obtains patent for accordion
Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops
NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly
Mickey Mouse comic strip first appears
1966
1st black in presidental cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver)
Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album
Apollo 14 launched
Carol Wayne dies at 42
Feast of St. Hilary, bishop of Poitiers
Julian calendar New Year's Day in 20th, 21st centuries
1742
Edmund Halley, genius eclipsed by Newton, dies at 86
Revolutionary War ends when Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris
Conspiracy in New Mexico against US
Henry Ford introduces assembly line for cars
L.M. (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America
All coml ferry service to East Bay ends
Today show premiers
Soyuz 4 is launched
Feast of St. Paul of Thebes, 1st hermit
Martin Luther King Day
1535
Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
British Museum opens
1778
Nootka Sound discovered by Capt. Cook
Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
Dunbarton Bridge, 1st bridge in Bay Area, opens
Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed
Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs 35-10 in Super Bowl I (NBC & CBS)
Soyuz 5 launched
Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican
Happy Days premiers
Space Mountain opens
Hill Street Blues premiers
Living Seas opens
Feast of St Marcellus I, pope (308-09), martyr
National Hat Day
National Nothing Day
Vermont declares independence from NY
1865
SF Dramatic Chronicle started
Virginia readmitted to US after Civil War
Pendleton Act creates basis of federal civil service system
Cliff House damaged when schooner "Parallel"'s powder cargo explodes
David, Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole
18th Amendment, prohibition, went into effect; repealed in 1933
William Pickering, pioneer American stellar spectroscopist, dies
Egyptian President Nassar pledges to reconquer Palestine
Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
USSR's Lunakhod begins radio-controlled exploration of moon
Soyuz 27 returns to Earth
Iranian revolution overthrows shah
Feast of St Anthony, abbot, patron of cenobites, domestic animals
355
Death of St Anthony of Egypt, founder of Christian monasticism
Battle of Falkirk, Scotland
1773
Capt James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66ø 33' S)
British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
Flush toilet is patented by Mr Thomas Crapper (Honest!)
1st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S Hallidie
Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
Thomas Crapper, inventor of flush toilet, dies
Tin Can Drive Day
Liberation Day in Poland (end of Nazi occupation)
Great Brink's robbery in Boston, $28 million
9-county commission recommends creation of BART
Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km
Soyuz 4 & 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft
1976
Hermes rocket launched by ESA
Gary Gilmore executed in Utah, 1st since 1967
Confession of St Peter (Anglican)
Feast of St Peter's Chair at Rome
National Clean Off Your Desk Day
1644
1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston
Capt James Cook stumbles over Hawaiian Islands
1817
San Mart¡n leads a revolutionary army over Andes
Elegant Calif Theatre opens in SF
German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I
1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches South Pole
Versailles Peace Conference
1st US Congressional Standing Committee headed by Negro -W Dawson
Tunisian Revolution Day (National Day)
Soyuz 5 returns to Earth
Barbara Britton dies
US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous agreement
24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 returns to Earth
Confederate Heroes' Day
Feast of SS Marius, Martha, Audifax & Abachum, martyrs
1747
Johann Bode, founder of "Bode's Law," dies
1770
Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)
Aden conquered by East India Company
Georgia becomes 5th state to secede from US
1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union
Millionaire TV program premiers
Feast of St Fabian, 20th pope (236-50), & St Sebastian, martyrs
Reindeer Day
1265
1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester
End of Revolutionary War
Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends
Calif Stock Exchange Board organized
Pearl Harbor obtained by US from Hawaii for use as a naval base
1st basketball game played
1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors "In Old Arizona"
Inauguration day, every 4th year
1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address
"Meet The Beatles" album released in US
US embassy hostages freed in Tehran
Iran hostages are freed after 444 days
Feast of St Agnes, virgin & martyr
National Hugging Day
King Louis XVI beheaded by French revolutionaries
Pineapple introduced to Hawaii
John Couch Adams, English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies
1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched
1st gas turbine automobile exhibited - NYC
Snow falls in SF
Ann Sheridan dies at 51
Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
Feast of SS Vincent, patron of wine growers, & Anastasius, martyrs
Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada
New Zealand settled by British
Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif
Bloody Sunday; Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
Aquatic Park dedicated
Battle of Anzio, Allies stopped on the beach
1st coml TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood Ca
Chinatown telephone exchange closed
Apollo 5 launched to moon, Unmanned lunar module tests made
Supreme Court approves abortions
Lansat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, is launched
Feast of St Raymond of Pe¤afort, confessor
National Handwriting Day
1579
Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic
2nd partition of Poland, between Prussia & Russia
Steamer Pacific lost
1st radio rescue at sea
Red Wings beat Rangers 15-0
Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts)
Piccard & Walsh in bathyscaph reach 10,900 m in Mariana Trench
24th Amendment ratified, Barred poll tax in federal elections
Miniseries Roots premiers
A-Team with Mr T premiers
Feast of St Timothy, bishop & martyr
1556
Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China
1639
Connecticut colony organized under Fundamental Orders
1764
Gov Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire
James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, Calif
Arsenal at Augusta, Ga seized by Confederacy
Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
Beer 1st sold in cans, Richmond, Va
Sir Winston Churchill died in England
SF 49'ers win their 1st Super Bowl, 26-21
15th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 is launched
Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons
Feast of Conversion of Paul
Start of Chinese New Year
Anti-slavery society formed in NY
Alexander Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF
Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa
1st Emmy Awards
1st Israeli election
1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301)
1st live, nationally televised, Presidential news conference (JFK)
Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" is released
Echo 2, US communications satellite launched
Feast of St Polycarp, bishop & martyr
Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia
1697
Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time limit
problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
1st settlement established by English in Australia (Sydney)
1837
Mich admitted as 26th US state
Hong Kong was proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede from US
American income tax repealed
Gen Gordon & troops slain by Sudanese in Khartoum
World's largest diamond found, Cullinan diamond
Indian Republic Day
India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion
Ground breaking begins on Disneyland
1st woman `personal physician to President' - JG Travell
Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon
Nelson Rockefeller former VP & 4 time governor of NY died
Feast of St John Chrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople
Abdication of Stanislas, King of Poland
Thomas Edison granted patent for an electric incandescent lamp
National Geographic Society founded in Washington, DC
Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park
US Marines occupy Haiti
1st public TV demonstration
1st Tape Recorder is sold
1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds operated
"Introducing the Beatles" album released in US
Sen Margaret Chase Smith of Maine tried for Republican Pres bid
Groundbreaking for 'Dragon Gateway' at Grant Avenue
Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee
Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space is signed
Montgomery St Station, last link in BART, 'holed thru'
US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war & milt draft
Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)
Fifteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 returns to Earth
Feast of St Peter Nolasco
Presentation in the Temple
1613
Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune
1687
Johannes Hevelius dies
London's Pall Mall is 1st st lit by gaslight
Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica
Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua
Paris surrenders to Germans
1st telephone exchange, New Haven, Connecticut
George W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator
Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
US milt forces leave Cuba for 2nd time
US Coast Guard established
1st US state unemployment insurance act enacted - Wisconsin
1st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont)
J Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins Today show
Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Bros Stage Show)
Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
1st photograph bounced off moon, Washington DC
25th Space Shuttle - Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff
Feast of St Francis of Sales, bishop of Geneva, confessor, doctor
Australia Day
Kansas becomes 34th state
American (baseball) League formed, with 8 teams
1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team
Prohibition goes into effect (18th amendment)
Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist $40 week with KC Slide Co
Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved
1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Charles Starkweather captured by police in Wyoming
Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" is released
41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
Feast of SS Basil, Gregory & John Chrysostom (Orthodox)
Feast of St Martina, virgin & martyr
World Law Day
Holiday of Three Hierachs (Eastern Orthodox)
1487
Bell chimes invented
1649
King Charles I of Great Britain executed by Parliament
1774
Capt Cook reaches 71ø 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record)
Yerba Buena renamed SF
1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast
US Navy's 1st ironclad warship, "Monitor", launched
1889
John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48-inch telescope
US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham
1st jazz record in US cut
Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor
Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Texas
US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
Feast of St John Bosco, confessor
Corn Laws abolished in Britain
1851
SF Orphan's Asylum, 1st in Calif founded
Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius
Birds fly over SF in such large numbers they actually darken sky
Congress names SF as Panama Canal opening celebration site
Eddie Slovik, 1st American executed for desertion since Civil War
Pres Truman authorized production of H-Bomb
1st US satellite launched, Explorer I from Cape Canaveral
James van Allen discovers radiation belt
US launches 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1
Ham is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2
Luna 9 launched for moon
Nauru gains independence from Australia
Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32"), at Agata, USSR
Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands
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0100
National Egg Month
That's all for TODAY
0201
Auguste Blanqui, French revolutionary workers' leader
Victor Herbert, composer
Louis St. Laurent (L), 12th Canadian prime minister (1948-57)
Clark Gable, didn't give a damn about Scarlet O'Hara
Langston Hughes, poet, translator (The Weary Blues)
S.J. Perelman, author & humorist
Sir Stanley Matthews, 1st British soccer player to be knighted
Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist
Vladimir V. Aksyonov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 22, T-2)
Lisa Marie Presley (Elvis' daughter)
0202
Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat
Havelock Ellis, American physician, sex researcher
Fritz Kreisler, Austrian virtuoso violinist, composer
James Joyce, Irish novelist, poet (Dubliners, Ulysses)
George S. Halas (Papa Bear), end & coach for Chicago Bears
Jascha Heifetz, violin virtuoso
Dr. An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories
James Dickey writer
Valry Giscard d'Estaing, president of France (1974-81)
Elaine Stritch, actress
Tom Smothers, comedian
Martina Arroyo Opera singer
Tricia Nixon Cox, daughter of Richard Milhaus (or 0221)
Farrah Fawcett-Major in Texas, Charlie's Angels
0203
Joel Bartlett, KPIX (Channel 5) weatherman
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer
Horace Greeley, editor (told young men to go west)
Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman to get MD from a US Medical school
Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (C), British P.M. (1885-1902)
Sidney Lanier, poet
Gertrude Stein, beloved by Hemmingway
Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers)
1907
James A. Mitchner, U.S. writer (South Pacific, Hawaii, Space)
Joey Bishop comedian
Shelley Berman, comedian
Peggy Ann Garner in Canton Ohio
Fran Tarkenton, NFL quarterback (Minnesota Vikings)
Blythe Danner in Philadelphia
Bridget Handley in Budapest
Melanie (Safka), singer, songwriter
Morgan Fairchild in Dallas Texas
Brenda Dickson (Young & Restless)
0204
Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist, father of aerodynamics
Charles A. (Lucky Lindy) Lindbergh, 1st to fly solo across Atlantic
Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto
Erich Leinsdorf, musical conductor (or 0203)
Ida Lupino, actress
Betty Friedan, feminist, writer (The Feminine Mystique)
Conrad Bain, actor
Isabel Per¢n, Argentine president
Martti Talvela, Finnish operatic basso
Cheryl Miller in Sherman Oaks
Florence LaRue in Gordon Pennsylvania, one of 5th Dimension
Alice Cooper, singer
Pamela Franklin
Lisa Eichhorn
Lawrence Taylor, NY Giants linebacker
Pamela Ferdin
0205
1723
John Witherspoon, clergyman, signer of Declaration of Independence
1744
John Jeffries, colonial physician, meteorologist
Sir Robert Peel (C), British P.M. (1834-46), founder of Tories
Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody
John Boyd Dunlop, developed pneumatic rubber tire
Belle Starr of the wild west
Andr-Gustave Citron, French auto maker
Adlai Stevenson (D), Ill gov, pres candidate
John Carradine, actor
Norton Simon, business executive
William Burroughs, U.S. novelist (Naked Lunch)
Red Buttons comedian/Actor
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher (NY Times)
Hank Aaron, baseball player (record 755 HR's)
Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster
Charlotte Rampling in England
Barbara Hershey in Atlanta Georgia
Elizabeth Swados, American composer, playwright
0206
1637
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, unifier of Japan
1665
Queen Anne of England (1702-14)
Aaron Burr (D-R), 3rd US VP (1801-05), dueler
George Herman (Babe) Ruth, baseball great
Louis Nizer, lawyer, author
Ronald Reagan (R), actor, 40th US pres (1981-89)
Zsa Zsa Gabor in Budapest
Rip Torn, actor
Franois Truffaut, French director (Jules & Jim, Fahrenheit 451)
Mamie Van Doren in Rowena SD
Tom Brokaw, newscaster (NBC)
Fabian, singer
Bob Marley, reggae musician
Barbara Hancock in Atlanta
Natalie Cole in Los Angeles
0207
1478
Sir Thomas More, lawyer, lord chancellor of England, saint
John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements
1812
Charles Dickens, novelist (Oliver Twist, Tale of Two Cities)
Frederick Douglas, 1st black to hold high rank in US government
William Higgins, discoverer of nature of spiral "nebulae,"
Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist
Godfrey H. Hardy, English number theorist
Eubie Blake, composer (I'm Just Wild About Harry, Memories of You)
Sinclair Lewis, novelist, social critic (Main Street) (Nobel 1930)
Ulf Svante von Euler, Swedish physiologist (Nobel 1970)
Buster Crabbe, Olympic swimmer, actor (Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers)
Eddie Bracken, actor
Alfred M. Worden, U.S. astronaut (Apollo 15)
0208
1612
Samuel Butler, English poet, satirist (Hudibras)
John Ruskin, writer, critic, artist, Gothic Revivalist
William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general ("War is hell")
1828
Jules Verne in France, pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon)
Dame Edith Evans
Chester F Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing)
Gypsy Rose Lee in Seattle Washington, the stripper
Lana Turner, actress in Wallace Idaho
Jack Lemmon, actor (Days of Wine & Roses, Missing)
James Dean, stage & film actor (Giant, Rebel Without a Cause)
Ted Koppel, newscaster (ABC)
Brook Adams actress
Gary Coleman actor
0209
William Henry Harrison, 9th President (March 4-April 4, 1841)
George Ade, American journalist, playwright, humorist
Amy Lowell, American critic, Imagist poet (Patterns)
Dean Rusk, former Sec of State
Bill Veeck, baseball club owner
Carmen Miranda, singer
Ernest Tubb, singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You)
Brendan Behan, Irish author (The Hostage)
Kathryn Grayson
Roger Mudd newscaster
Carole King in Brooklyn NY singing about her tapestry
Mia Farrow, actress (Rosemary's Baby) LA
Andrew N. Meltzoff, developmental psychologist
Judith Light in Trenton NJ - Who's the Boss
0210
Charles Lamb, English critic, poet, essayist
William Allen White, editor
1890
Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist, poet (Dr. Zhivago) (Nobel 1958)
Jimmy Durante, comedian
William (Bill) Tilden, tennis player
Harold Macmillan (C), British Prime Minister (1957-63)
Bertolt Brecht, German playwright (Mother Courage)
Dame Judith Anderson, actress
Dominique Pire, Belgian educator, aided WW II refugees (Nobel 1958)
Larry Adler, actor
Harold Hughes, ex-Governor of New Jersey
Neva Patterson
Cesare Siepi, Italian basso
Leontyne Price, operatic soprano
Robert Wagner, actor (Hart to Hart)
Singer Roberta Flack in North Carolina
Peter Allen, singer
Mark Spitz, U.S. Olympic swimmer
0211
1833
Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice, U.S. Supreme Court
J. Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist & chemist
Thomas Alva Edison, NJ, lit up your life (held 1200 patents)
Leo Szilard, Hungarian physicist, A-bomb worker, peace activist
Sir Keith Holyoake, New Zealand prime minister (1960-72)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, film writer, director
Max Baer, boxer
Lloyd Bentsen (D), U.S. senator from Texas
Eva Gabor, Budapest, actress (Green Acres)
Dr Virginia E. Johnson, sexologist (of Masters & Johnson)
Kim Stanley, actress in New Mexico
Mary Quant in England
Tina Louise, NYC, actress (Gilligan's Island)
Burt Reynolds, actor (Deliverance, The End, Smokey & the Bandit)
Sergio Mendes, jazz musician (Brazil 66, 77, 88)
0212
Thaddeus Kosciusko, Polish patriot
Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams
Abraham Lincoln (R), 16th U.S. president (1861-65)
Charles Darwin, Evolutionist, Shrewsbury, England
John L. Lewis, leader of United Mine Workers of America
General of Army Omar Bradley, 'GI General'
Lorne Greene, actor (Ben Cartwright on Bonanza), Canada
Forrest Tucker, actor
Franco Zefferelli, motion picture director
Joe Garagiola, baseball player, announcer
Bill Russell, basketball player, coach
Joe Don Baker, actor
Judy Blume, author
Maud Adams, actress in Sweden
0213
1542
Catherine Howard, 5th wife of Henry VIII
1682
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Venetian painter
Talleyrand in France, statesman
David Dudley Field, lawyer, law codifier
Peter Dirichlet, German number theorist, analysist
D Field, lawyer whose advocacy of law codification had intl effects
Randolph Churchill, English politician, father of William
Bess Truman, married to President Harry Truman
1886
Ricardo Giraldes, Argentine novelist, poet (Don Segundo Sombra)
Grant Wood, painted American Gothic
Georges Simenon, Belgian mystery writer (The Snow Was Black)
Tennessee Ernie Ford, singer
Eileen Farrell in Willimantic Conn
Dorothy McGuirre, of McGuirre sisters
Emanuel Ungaro fashion designer
George Segal, actor, banjo player
Sigmund Jhn, 1st German space traveler (on board Soyuz 31)
Valeri I. Rozhdestvensky, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
Carol Lynley, actress, NYC
Stockard Channing in New York
0214
1766
Thomas Malthus, population expert
Frank Harris, English journalist, writer (My Life & Loves)
George Washington Ferris, engineer invented Ferris Wheel
Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny  Oh, Rochester!
Edmund George Love, American teacher, historian, author
Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters leader who disappeared
James Pike, bishop
Phyllis McGuirre, of McGuirre sisters
Florence Henderson in Indiana, keeps Brady Bunch in line
Carl Bernstein, investigative reporter (Watergate)
Pham Tuan, 1st Vietnamese space traveler (on board Soyuz 37)
Ewa Aulin
0215
1483
Babur, founder of Mughal dynasty in India (1526-30)
1497
Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant reformer
1519
Pedro Menendez de Aviles, explored Florida, founded St. Augustine
1564
Galileo Galilei, astronomer in Pisa, Italy
1710
Louis XV, king of France (1710-74)
1726
Abraham Clark, farmer/lawyer, signer of Declaration of Independence
1748
Jeremy Bentham, Utilitarian philosopher & economist
Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker
1803
John Augustus Sutter, of gold rush fame
Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor
Susan B Anthony, Woman's suffragette
Elihu Root (R), U.S. secretary of state (Nobel Peace Prize 1912)
Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician, philosopher
John Barrymore, actor (or 0215)
Christmas Humphreys, British lawyer, writer, Buddhist
Cesar Romero, actor (Ocean's 11)
Leonard Woodcock, labor leader
Kevin McCarthy, actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Howling)
Harvey Korman, actor (Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles)
James Schlesinger, former U.S. secretary of defense
Claire Bloom, actress (Charly, Look Back in Anger) in London England
Susan Brownmiller
Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer programmer, inventor of PASCAL
Florinda Bolkan
Alexander A. Serebrov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz T-7, T-8)
Marisa Berenson in New York
Jane Seymour in Middlesex England, actress (East of Eden, Lassiter)
Melissa Manchester, singer in Bronx NY
0216
Henry Wilson (R), 18th VP (1873-75)
Henry Adams, historian
G.M. Trevelyan, historian
Robert Flaherty, father of documentary film (Nanook of the North)
Writer Van Wyck Brooks
Ivor Armstrong Richards, English literary critic
Wayne King, saxophonist, band leader (the Waltz King)
Edgar Bergen, talks to wood
Jeffrey Lynn, actor
Hal Porter, Australian writer (The Tilted Cross, The Paper Chase)
Patty Andrews, singer -- Andrews Sisters in Minneapolis
Sonny Bono, singer
John McEnroe tennis player
0217
Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination
Raphael Peale, American painter
1781
Ren-Thophile-Hyacinthe Lannec, invented stethoscope
1844
A Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business
Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor, publisher
Thomas J. Watson, Sr., founder of IBM
Otto Stern, physicist (Nobel 1943)
Marian Anderson, operatic contralto
Red (Walter L) Barber, sports announcer
Margaret Truman, daughter of Harry S
Hal Holbrook actor
Chaim Potok, novelist
Alan Bates, actor (Zorba the Greek)
Jim Brown, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns)
Huey Newton, Black Panther leader
Pat Morrow in Los Angeles - Peyton Place
Dodie Stevens
0218
1516
Queen Mary I (Bloody Mary) (1553-58), 1st reigning queen of GB
Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented battery
1795
George Peabody, American merchant, philanthropist
Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker
Sholem Aleichem (Solomon Rabinowitz), author (Jewish Mark Twain)
Wendell Wilke, presidential candidate
Andres Segovia, guitarist
Wallace Stegner, novelist, critic
Bill Cullen, TV gameshow host
Jack Palance, actor (Ripley's Believe It or Not)
Helen Gurley Brown, author, publisher (Cosmopolitan) in Portland Me
Len Ford, NFL end (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers)
Kim Novak in Chicago Illinois
Mary Ure
Yoko Ono aka Mrs John Lennon in Tokyo Japan
Cybill Shepherd in Memphis Tenn (Moonlighting)
John Travolta, actor (Saturday Night Fever)
Vanna White in SC, Wheel of Fortune's hostess
Molly Ringwald in Los Angeles California, Pretty in Pink
0219
1473
Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer in Torun, Poland
1717
David Garrick, actor, producer, writer
lie Ducommun, Swiss writer & pacifist (Nobel 1902)
Adelina Patti, Spanish operatic coloratura
Svante August Arhenius, founder of physical chemistry (Nobel 1903)
Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer of Tibet, scientist
Jos Eustasio Rivera, Colombian poet, novelist (The Vortex)
Merle Oberon in Tasmania
Stan Kenton, band leader
Eddie Arcaro, jockey
Lee Marvin, actor
Joseph P. Kerwin, U.S. astronaut (Skylab 2)
Smokey Robinson, singer
Margaux Hemingway in Portland Oregon
Prince Andrew of Britain
Justine Bateman in Rye NY - Family Ties
0220
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (statistical mechanics)
Bla Kun, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)
Car manufacturer Enzo Ferrari
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, US sportsman
Ansel Adams, knows how to handle a camera
Joseph A. Walker, X-15 pilot
Gloria Vanderbilt, Don't my jeans look great
Director Robert Altman, M*A*S*H
Sidney Poitier, actor (Porgy & Bess, A Raisin in the Sun)
Amanda Blake, actress (Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke)
Bobby Unser, auto racer
Nancy Wilson, jazz singer in Chillicothe Ohio
Buffy Sainte-Marie, folk singer in Maine
Phil Esposito, NHL player
Sandy Duncan in Texas
Jennifer O'Neill, actress (Summer of '42) in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Patty Hearst in San Francisco, famous kidnap hostage
0221
1794
Antonio L¢pez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico (1833-36)
Andrs Segovia, Spanish classical guitarist
Pudovkin V. Illarionovich, Russian film director (Mother, Deserter)
W.H. Auden, American poet
Ann Sheridan
Sam Peckinpah, film director (The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs)
Erma Bombeck in Ohio, humorist
Larry Hagman, TV actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas)
Nina Simone, singer, pianist in Tyron NC
Barbara Jordan (D), former rep. Houston, Texas
Tyne Daily in Madison Wisconsin
0222
1403
Charles VII, king of France (1422-61), drove out English
George Washington, Father figure, President (1789-1796)
Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist & 1st biographer of Bach
Rembrandt Peale, U.S. portrait & historical painter
Arthur Schopenhauer (the Great Pessimist), German philosopher
1810
Frederic Chopin, composer
James Russell Lowell, poet, critic, diplomat, abolitionist
Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Boy Scouts, Girl Guides
Jules Renard, French writer
Pauline Musters, became shortest adult known (58.9 cm, 1' 11.2")
David Dubinsky, labor leader
Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet, dramatist
Giorgios Seferis, Greek poet (Nobel 1963)
Luis Bu¤uel, Spanish film director (Exterminating Angel, Viridiana)
Robert Young, actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby)
Sheldon Leonard, actor & producer
John Mills, English actor
R¢mulo Betancourt, president of Venezuela (1945-48, 1958-64)
Charles O. Finley, baseball team owner (Oakland A's)
Robert Wadlow, became tallest known human (2.72 m, 8' 11.1")
Edward M. Kennedy (D), senator from Mass
Sparky Anderson, Cincinnati Reds manager
Julius (Dr. J) Erving, NBA player
0223
1633
Samuel Pepys, diarist
1685
George Friderick Handel, Baroque composer in Germany
Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of House of Rothschild
W.E.B. DuBois, civil rights leader, writer
William L. Shirer, historian (Rise & Fall of the Third Reich)
Vasili G. Lazarev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18-1)
Peter Fonda actor
Fred Biletnikoff, NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders)
Johnny Winter, guitarist
0224
1304
Muhammad ibn Battutah, Arab traveler & travel writer
1463
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian scholar, Platonist
1500
Emperor Charles V (1519-56), king of Spain (1516-56)
Wilhelm Karl Grimm, story teller
Winslow Homer, painter
Honus Wagner, HOF shortstop for Pittsburgh Pirates (1900-17)
Admiral Chester Nimitz, in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII
Marjorie Main
Abe Vigoda, actor (Fish on Barney Miller)
Barbara Lawrence
Bettino Craxi, Italy's 1st Socialist premier
James Farentino actor
Sheila Larkin in NYC
Steven Jobs, Apple co-founder
Phil McConkey NY Giant wide receiver
0225
1707
Carlo Goldoni, Italian dramatist (The Love of the Three Oranges)
Jos de San Mart¡n, liberator of Argentina, Chile & Peru
Pierre Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist painter
Enrico Caruso, operatic tenor in Italy
Charles Lang Freer, art collector who endowed Freer Gallery
John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State for President Eisenhower
Bert Bell, commissioner of NFL, team owner
John J. McClellan, former U.S. senator from Arkansas
Adelle Davis, nutritionist, author (Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit)
Frank Slaughter, author
Millicebt Fenwick, ex-congresswoman
Jim Backus, actor (voice of Mr. Magoo)
Anthony Burgess, essayist, short story writer (A Clockwork Orange)
Linda Cristal in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Diane Baker in Hollywood Calif
George Harrison, Beatle
Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul, Trinidad novelist, essayist
0226
Christopher Marlowe, dramatist (Dr. Faustus) (baptized)
Victor Hugo, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame) in France
Honor Daumier, French painter, lithographer, caricaturist
Camille Flammarion, Mars researcher & popularizer of astronomy
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody near Davenport Iowa, frontiersman
John Harvey Kellogg, physician, inspired flaked cereal industry
Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry
Grover Cleveland Alexander, HOF baseball pitcher (Phillies, Cubs)
Robert Alda, actor (Bittersweet Love, House of Excorcism)
Jackie Gleason, actor (Honeymooners, Smokey & the Bandit)
Robert Taft, Jr. (R), former senator from Ohio
Mason Adams, actor
Tony Randall, actor (The Odd Couple)
Betty Hutton
Noboru Takeshita, Japanese prime minister (1987-  )
Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (Voskhod 1)
Anatoli V. Filipchenko, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 16)
Fats Domino, singer
Robert Novak
Johnny Cash, Country singer the Man in Black
Priscilla Lopez in NY
0227
289
Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (312-37), adopted Christianity
Constantine
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet in Portland Maine
Sveinn Bjrnsson, 1st president of Republic of Iceland (1944-52)
William Demarest, actor (Uncle Charlie on My Three Sons)
John Steinbeck, U.S. author (The Grapes of Wrath) (Nobel 1962)
James T. Farrell, American author (Studs Lonigan trilogy)
Joan Bennett, actress, NJ
Peter De Vries, author
Irwin Shaw, U.S. novelist (Rich Man, Poor Man)
John Connally Tx Gov
Guy Mitchell, actor
Joanne Woodward, actress (Long Hot Summer) in Thomasville Ga
Elizabeth Taylor, actress (Cleopatra) in London, violet eyes
Raymond Berry, NFL end (Baltimore Colts)
Sen Malcolm Wallop R-Wyo
Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan, Consumer advocate
Jay Silvester, discus thrower
Barbara Babcock
Howard Hesseman, WKRP's Johnny Fever
Mary Frann
0228
1533
Michel de Montaigne, French essayist, philosopher
1683
Ren-Antoine de Raumur, French biologist, engineer.
John Tenniel, English cartoonist, illustrator (Alice in Wonderland)
Charles Blondin, French acrobat & aerialist.
Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian Symbolist poet (Pilot Stars)
Ben Hecht, novelist, playwright, screenwriter (The Front Page)
Linus Pauling, chemist, peace worker (Nobel 1954, 1962)
Stephen Spender, English poet
Vincente Minnelli, film director
Sir Peter Medawar, British zoologist, immunologist (Nobel 1953)
Zero Mostel, actor, if I were a rich man
John B. Connally (D), former governor of Texas
Svetlana Stalina, daughter of Josef Stalin (or 1906)
Betty Ackermann, Ben Casey's friend
Gavin MacLeod, love boat captain
Tommy Tune, U.S. dancer, choreographer
Charles (Bubba) Smith, NFL player
Mimsy Farmer in Chicago Ill
Stephane Beacham
Bernadette Peters in Queens NY, TONY winner
Olympian Melissa Babish in SC, Olympian
0229
1468
Paul III, last of Renaissance popes (1534-49)
1792
Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer (Barber of Seville)
Herman Hollerith, invented 1st electric tabulating machine
Jack R. Lousma, astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-3)
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Feast of St. Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, martyr
National Freedom Day
1709
Alexander Selkirk (aka Robinson Crusoe) rescued from Juan Fernandez
William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex
US Supreme Court convened for 1st time (NYC)
13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
Sherman's march through SC
Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
1st armored car introduced
1st telecast of atomic explosion
1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
1st Negro pilot on scheduled passenger airline - PH Young
Egypt & Syria join to form United Arab Republic
4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro Woolworth's
Nicholas Piantanida sets unofficial world altitude record for manned
balloon flight (123,800 ft or 37,700 m), but dies in descent
1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced
Sonny & Cher resumes on TV despite real life divorce
Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)
Candlemas or Feast of Presentation (Scottish term day)
Groundhog Day
Candlemas
1st shipload of Chinese arrive in SF
Mexico sells US; Texas, California, New Mexico & Az for $15 million
National Baseball League formed with 8 teams
SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton
US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef
Lie detector 1st used in court, Portage Wi
8 of the 9 planets aligned for 1st time in 400 years
Late Night with David Letterman premiers
Feast of St. Blaise, bishop of Sebaste, Armenia, martyr
Territory of Illinois organized
Sherman's march through Mississippi
Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet)
Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920 ft) streetcar tunnel begins service
Walt Disney's "The Three Caballeros" released
Yalta Conference agreed that Russia would enter WWII against Japan
Meet the Beatles goes Gold
Soviet Luna 9 1st spacecraft to soft-land on moon
10th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 4 is launched
Feast of St. Andrew Corsini, bishop of Fiesole, confessor
Independence Day, celebrated in Sri Lanka
1600
Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time outside of Prague
1st US Telegraph Company established in Maryland
Hawaiian Board of Education is formed
Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
Revolt against US occupation of Philippines
1st Winter Olympics held at Lake Placid, NY
1st radioactive substance produced synthetically - radium E
Roosevelt, Stalin & Churchill meet in Yalta, USSR
Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale, Syracuse NY
Amendment 24 banning poll tax
Reshef - Israel's missile boat - is unveiled
Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
"Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore
20 countries (not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
Feast of St. Agatha, virgin & martyr
Earthquake in Canada
Snow falls on SF
Present Mexican constitution adopted
FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, plan failed "court packing"
Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released
Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
US Apollo 14, 3rd manned expedition to moon, lands near Fra Mauro
US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus's cloud structure
According to Census Bureau, US population reaches 200 million
Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga
Feast of St. Titus, bishop of Crete, confessor
SS. Amandus' & Vedastus' Day (Anglican)
New Zealand Day, celebrated in (where else?) New Zealand
1693
College of William & Mary chartered in Williamsburg, Va
Mass becomes 6th state to ratify constitution
Waitangi Day; treaty signed between European & Natives of N Zealand
Spanish-American War ends
1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike
US, UK, France, Italy & Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation
20th amendment changes date of presidential inaugurations
Elizabeth II becomes queen of Great Britain
Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow
Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole in one
Feast of St. Romuald, abbot
Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in SF
Dominican Rep. signs treaty turning over customs collection to U.S
Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium
Walt Disney's "Pinocchio" released
US begins regular bombing & strafing of N Vietnam
Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)
World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation in USSR
Soyuz 24 launched
Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk
Haitians overthrow dictator, "Baby Doc" Duvalier
Feast of St. John of Matha, confessor
Mary, Queen of Scots beheaded
1672
Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
Charter granted for College of William & Mary, 2nd college in US
Confederate States of America organized in Montgomery, Ala
Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen
Boy Scouts of America founded
US helps to overthrow Miguel D vila, president of Honduras
Radio arrives in the White House
Walt Disney Studios formed
SF Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall
Meteorite weighing over one ton is recovered in Chihuahua, Mexico
Skylab 4's astronauts land
Earthquake in SF, at 5.0, strongest since 1966
Soyuz T-10 is launched
Feast of St. Cyril of Alexandria, bishop, confessor, doctor
Nevill Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal of England dies
US Weather Service is founded
1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
1st shipment of asparagus arrives in SF from Sacramento
Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prision for fraud.
Snow on Mauna Loa
Japanese evacuated Guadalcanal, ending epic battle
Superman TV series premiers
1st appearance of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan
Boeing 747 makes its 1st coml flight
Apollo 14 returns to Earth
Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
Halley's Comet reaches perihelion (closest approach to sun)
Feast of St. Scholastica, virgin
1720
Edmund Halley is appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
Treaty of Paris ends French & Indian War
Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert
City of Anaheim incorporated (1st time)
1st electric arc light used (in California Theater)
Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Choo Choo goes gold
25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect
Feast of Apparition of Virgin at Lourdes
660
Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno
1575
King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe
1650
Rene Descartes, "I think therefore I am", dies
Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
Leon Foucault discovers 1st physical proof of earth's rotation, dies
Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome
Pumping begins to build Treasure Island
44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Mich. ends
1st flight with Negro stewardess, RC Taylor, Ithaca NY
Jack Paar walks off his show
Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens
Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit
Tenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 4 returns to Earth
Feast of Founders of the Servite Order
1541
Santiago, Chile founded
1733
Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe
Anna Jeanes bequests $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all girl
Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC
"Rhapsody In Blue" premiers in Carnegie Hall
Export-Import Bank incorporated
SF selected for site of UN Conference
A daytime fireball & meteorite fall is seen in eastern Siberia
Pres Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to S Vietnam
USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
1678
Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" idea of solar system
1st magazine published in America (The American Magazine)
"Blue Danube" waltz premiers in Vienna
"Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail
Los Angeles Rams formed (then in Cleveland)
Fire-bombing of Dresden begins; c. 50,000 killed
Israel acquires 4 of the 7 dead sea scrolls
France explodes its 1st atomic bomb, in Algerian desert
Race Relations Day
St. Valentine's Day
Viticulturists' Day in Bulgaria, derived from cult of Dionysus
Valentine's Day
Oregon admitted as 33rd State
Alexander Graham Bell files application for patent on the telephone
Arizona becomes 48th state
USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar
Skeezix of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallet's doorstep
St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed
Karl Jansky, discoverer of cosmic radio sources, dies
Sen John Kennedy appears on Meet the Press
Element 103, lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley California
Mrs Kennedy gives TV audience a tour of the White House
USSR launches Luna 20; unmanned probe soft-lands on moon, returns
John & Yoko guest host Mike Douglas Show for the entire week
US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
Feast of SS. Faustinus & Jovita, martyrs
Lupercalia, ancient Roman fertility festival
President's Day, a legal holiday
Lupercalia
St. Louis founded
William Parsons, the Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72-inch reflector
Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)
Historic Elm at Boston blown down
USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown
SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated
Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released
1st bevatron in operation - Berkeley, California
Production announced-1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds
Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory & plurality
of worlds, is burned at the stake by the Inquisition in Rome
Ft. Donelson captured by Gen. Grant
Ladies Home Journal begins publication
1st airplane flight to LA from SF
Lithuania declares independence from Germany
Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun
Nylon patented, WH Carothers
US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized
US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3
1st commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport Ct
SF City Hall dome fire
1st all solid propellant rocket put in orbit-Wallops Island, Va
Beatles second appearance on Ed Sullivan
Flight into Egypt
Giordano Bruno burned in Rome as a heretic
British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)
Mississippi readmitted to U.S. after Civil War
Sardines were 1st canned, in Eastport, Maine
1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones
Geronimo, Apache hero, dies (birth date unknown)
1st regular steamboat service to California started with the
arrival of the "California".
Legislature creates the 9 Bay Area counties.
San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transports.
Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island
(built for the occasion) in San Francisco Bay.
Washington's Birthday, a legal holiday
National Bun Day -- Iceland
Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph.
Marines land on Iwo Jima.
President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose").
University of California gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF).
1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes.
Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks and damages Sutro Baths.
Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco.
Congress allows California to build the Oakland-Bay Bridge.
John Glenn is 1st American to orbit the Earth.
1st self-propelled locomotive on rails demonstrated, in Wales.
Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication.
First Telephone book is issued, in New Haven, Conn.
Hawaii becomes a US Territory.
Lowell High School opens (on it's 1st campus).
F.W. Woolworth opens the 1st '5 & 10', in Utica, NY.
Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco.
Steamer "Rio de Janiero" sinks in San Francisco Bay.
Last Municipal arc light, over intersection of Mission & 25th
Street, removed (it had been installed in 1913).
Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized.
Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German).
Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon).
President Lincoln signs the National Currency Act.
1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park.
Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field.
Dominican Republic gains it's independence.
Independence Day, celebrated in the Dominican Republic
1st steamship enters San Francisco Bay.
1st vaudeville theater opens.
Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes.
Construction begins on the Tower of Jewels for the Exposition.
Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory.
Bicycles now permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge.
a LEAP Year!
0200
0301
Frdric Chopin, composer
William Dean Howells, novelist
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece
Lytton Strachey, critic
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japan, writer (Rashomon in Kappa)
David Niven, Britian (Around the World in 80 Days)
Dinah Shore, Winchester Tenn, singer
Robert Lowell, poet, pacifist (Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean)
Richard Wilbur, poet (Ceremony, Walking to Sleep)
Terrence 'Cardinal' Cooke, NY
Donald (Deke) Slayton, astronaut
Pete Rozelle, NFL commissioner
Harry Belafonte, singer, actor
Joan Hackett, NY
Lana Wood, Santa Monica Cal
Catherine Bach, Warren Oh, oh those legs
Ron Howard, actor (American Graffiti, Happy Days)
Alan Thicke (Growing Pains)
0302
Sam Houston, Tx pres (1836-38, 1841-44)
Leo XIII, 256th pope (1878-1903)
Bedrich Smetana, Czech composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau)
1829
Carl Schurz, Civil War gen
Pius XII, 260th pope (1939-58)
Theodore Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), author (Horton Hears a Who!)
Mel Ott, 1st NLer to hit 500 HRs
Desi Arnaz, Cuba (Ricky Ricardo)
Jennifer Jones, Okla
Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader
Tom Wolfe, journalist (Right Stuff)
Karen Carpenter, Ct, drummer
Laraine Newman, LA, TV (SNL)
0303
William Godwin, political writer (Caleb Williams)
George M. Pullman, invented sleeping car
Georg Cantor, discovered transfinite numbers (or 1918)
Alexander Graham Bell, telephone inventor
Shalom Alekhem, Russian author
Norman Bethune, Canadian Dr, Spain, China
Gen Matthew Ridgeway, milt leader
Jean Harlow, 30s' Sex Goddess
Joe Stydahar, Chicago Bears tackle
Princess Lee Radziwell, NYC
Gia Scala, Italy
Vladimir V. Kovalyonok, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 29, T-4)
Herschel Walker, NJ Generals, Dal Cowboys running back
0304
1394
Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsors Portuguese voyages
Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso
Casimir Pulaski, Amer Rev War gen
Knute Rockne, football player/coach
George Gamow, nuclear physicist, cosmologist
Lili Krus, Hungarian pianist
Joan Greenwood, London
Patrick Moore, English astronomer
Alan Sillitoe, Br. writer (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner)
Miriam Makeba, S African singer
Jane Goodall, Archeologist
Barbara McNair, Chic Ill, Singer/Actress
Paula Prentiss, San Antonio Tx, actress
Susan Clark, Ontario Canada
0305
1326
Louis I (the Great), king of Hungary (1342-82), Poland (1370-82)
1512
Gerhardus Mercator, geographer & map maker (or 1583)
James Merritt Ives, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
Heitor Villa-Lobos, composer
Rex Harrison, actor
Lorin Maazel, conductor
Samantha Eggar, London
Randy Matson, shot putter
Andy Gibb singer, Australia
0306
1475
Michelangelo Buonarroti, artist (David)
1619
Cyrano de Bergerac, famous nose
Aaron Burr, dualist
Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist, studied sun's spectrum
Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet
Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking
Gen Philip H Sheridan, milt leader
Julius Rudel, conductor
Ed McMahon, TV host (Tonight Show, Star Search)
Sarah Caldwell Conductor, Maryville Mo
William H. Webster, headed FBI & CIA
Alan Greenspan, economist
Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., astronaut (Faith 7, Gemini 5)
Gabriel Garc¡a M rquez, Colombian novelist (Nobel 1982)
Merle Haggard, country singer
Valentina Tereshkova, Russia, 1st woman in space (Vostok 6)
Joanna Miles, Nice France
Ben Murphy
Kiri Te Kanawa, operatic soprano
Mary Wilson (Supremes)
Rob Reiner, actor (All in the Family)
Kiki Dee, Yorkshire Engl
Jackie Zeman, General Hospital (Bobbie Spencer Meyers)
0307
Stephen Hopkins, RI gov, signed Decl of Ind
John Herschel, William Herschel's son, Slough, Eng
Luther Burbank Horticulturist, Lancaster, Mass
Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Austria, psychiatrist (Nobel 1927)
Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie)
Maurice Ravel, composer (Bolro), Cibourne, France
Anna Magnani, Italy
Kobo Abe, Japan, playwright (Woman, the Dunes)
Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon, photographer
Janet Guthrie, race car driver
Daniel J Travanti (Hill St Blues, Capt Furillo)
Viktor P. Savinykh, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-4)
John Heard
Peter Wolf Rock singer
Donna Loren, Boston Mass
Franco Harris, NFL fullback (Pitts Steelers)
Lynn Swann, Football player
Ivan Lendl Tennis player, Czech
0308
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach
Hannah Hoes Van Buren, 1st lady
Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create plastic surgery
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Supreme Court Justice
Kenneth Grahame, author (The Wind, Willows)
Otto Hahn, co-discovered nuclear fission
Edward Kendall, chemist, isolated cortisone (Nobel 1950)
Sam Jaffe, actor (Gunga Din, Dr. Zorba on Ben Casey)
Claire Trevor, actress
Cyd Charisse, dancer, Amarillo Tx
George Reed, astronomy writer & cartoonist
Mike Lowry (D-Wash.), Rep
Lynn Redgrave, London, actress (Georgie Girl)
Carole Bayer Sager, NY - Mrs Burt Bachrach
Mickey Dolenz (Monkees)
0309
1454
Amerigo Vespucci, This could be Vespucciland
Leland Stanford, Gov, Sen, found Stanford U
V.M. Molotov, Soviet foreign minister
Edward Durell Stone, architect (US Embassy, New Delhi)
Samuel Barber, composer
Mickey Spillane, mystery writer (I, the Jury)
James Buckley (R), former NY sen
Joyce Van Patten
Yuri Gagarin, 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1)
Keely Smith, Norfolk Va
Bobby Fischer, world chess champion (1972-75)
Trish Van Devere, actress
Emmanuel Lewis, TV (Webster)
0310
Alexander III, Russian tsar (1881-94)
Lillian D. Wald, US, sociologist
Sergey Diaghilev, ballet producer
Arthur Honegger, composer
Pamela Mason, actress, London
Ron Mix, NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders)
David Rabe, playwright
Katherine Houghton
Linda Jezek, Cal
Prince Edward, England
0311
1544
Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet
1731
Robert Treat Paine, judge, signed Decl of Ind
Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, co-discovered Neptune
Malcolm Campbell, 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/min
Dorothy Gish, silent film actress (Orphans of the Storm)
Dorothy Schiff (NY Post)
Lawrence Welk, conductor (champagne bubbles)
Ralph Ellison, writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Act)
Sir Harold Wilson (Labour), British PM (1964-70, 1974-76)
Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader
Rupert Murdoch, publisher, Australia
George Stamatoyannopoulos, geneticist
Sam Donaldson, ABC correspondent
Tina Louise, marooned with Gilligan, professor & Mary Ann
Antonin Scalia, Trenton NJ, Supreme Court Justice
Susan Richardson, Bath Maine
0312
George Berkeley, Irish philosopher & Bishop of Cloyne
Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady
Sir John Abbott (C), 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92)
Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer
Charles Boycott, estate manager, Ireland, caused boycotts
Gordon MacRae, singer
Jack Kerouac, Beat writer (Dharma Bums, On the Road)
Lane Kirkland, AFL-CIO head
Wally M. Schirra, Jr., astronaut (Sigma 7, Gemini 6, Apollo 7)
Rep Wil G Whitehurst, R-Va
George R Ariyoshi, Hawaii Gov
Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist, conductor
Raul Alfonsin, Pres of Argentina
Edward Albee, playwright
Andrew Young (D), Atlanta mayor
Lloyd Dobyns NBC newsman
Millie Perkins
Barbara Feldon, Pitts Pa (Agent 99-Get Smart)
Bert Campaneris, baseball player
Liza Minnelli, singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret), LA
Jill O'Hara, Warren Penn
James Taylor, singer
Sara Lane, NYC
Darryl Strawberry, NY Met
0313
Joseph Priestly, Engl, clergyman, discovered oxygen
Charles, Earl Grey (Whig), British PM (1830-34)
Daniel Lambert, English giant (weighed 334 kg at death)
Johann Wyss, Switz, Author
Abigail Powers Fillmore, 1st lady
Percival Lowell, predicted discovery of Pluto
L. Ron Hubbard, scientologist
William J. Casey, headed CIA during Iran-contra scandal
Sammy Kaye Bandleader
George McAfee, NFL halfback (Chicago Bears)
Ra£l Alfons¡n, Argentine pres (1983-  )
Rosalind Elias Opera singer
Neil Sedaka, singer, Bkln
Steve Kanaly
Deborah Raffin, LA
0314
1681
Georg Philipp Telemann, German late baroque composer
Johann Strauss, composer
Jens Worsaae, Denmark, archeologist
Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st American woman dentist
1835
Giovanni Schiaparelli, discovered Martian canals
Thomas Riley Marshall (D), 28th VP (1913-21)
Casey Jones, RR engineer
Albert Einstein, relative, E = mcý (Nobel 1921), Ulm, Germany
Les Brown Bandleader
Max Shulman, novelist
Cartoonist Hank Ketcham (Dennis the Menace)
Colin Fletcher
Frank Borman, astronaut (Gemini 7, Apollo 8), Eastern Airline pres
Michael Caine, Engl actor (Blame it on Rio)
Quincy Jones, composer, singer (We are the World)
Eugene A. Cernan, astronaut (Gemini 9, Apollo 10, 17)
Rita Tushingham, actress, Liverpool
Billy Crystal, comedian (SNL)
Prince Albert, Monaco
0315
1713
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
1767
Andrew Jackson (D), 7th pres (1928-37)
William Lamb (Whig), Viscount Melbourne, British PM (1834, 1835-41)
Paul von Heyse, German writer (Nobel 1910)
Harry James, trumpeter
Norm Van Brocklin, NFL QB, coach (LA Rams)
Alan Lavern Bean, astronaut (Apollo 12, Skylab 3)
Judd Hirsch, actor (Alex Reiger-Taxi)
0316
1739
George Clymer, signed Decl of Ind, Constitution
1750
Caroline Lucretia Herchel, 1st mod woman astronomer, Hanover, Germany
1751
James Madison (D-R), 4th pres (1809-17)
Georg Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law
Andrew S Hallidie, cable car inventor
Sully Prudhomme, French poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.), Sen majority whip
Henny Youngman, comedian
Pat Nixon, 1st lady, Ely Nev
Lloyd McBride, United Steelworkers pres
Jerry Lewis, entertainer, fund raiser, loved in France
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D), NY sen
Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1, Soyuz 1)
R Walter Cunningham, astronaut (Apollo 7)
Erik Estrada, actor (CHiPs)
Kate Nelligan, London Ontario
Nancy Wilson, SF, rocker (Heart)
0317
Edmund Kean, England, tragic actor
James Bridger, scout, fur trader
Gottlieb Daimler, auto pioneer
Margaret Bondfield, Brit union leader, 1st woman cabinet member
Bobby Jones, 1st pro golfer to win 4 grand slams
Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader
Sammy Baugh, NFL QB (Wash Redskins)
Mercedes McCambridge, actress
Nat King Cole, singer
James B. Irwin, astronaut (Apollo 15)
Thomas K. Mattingly, astronaut (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C)
Rudolf Nureyev, ballet dancer, Russia
Paul Kantner (Jefferson Starship)
John Sebastian, American composer
Robert Braunwart, added dates to TODAY
Patrick Duffy (Dallas)
Kurt Russell, actor
Leslie-Anne Down, London
0318
John C Calhoun, statesman
Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th Pres (1885-1889, 1893-1897)
Sir Randal Cremer, British trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
Stphane Mallarm, French poet
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (Scheherazade)
1858
Rudolf Diesel, engine inventor
Neville Chamberlain (C), British PM (1937-40)
Kurt Koffka, German Gestalt psychologist
Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet
Wilfred Owen, English anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth)
Mollie Parnis, fashion designer
Peter Graves, actor (Mission Impossible)
John Kander Composer
George Plimpton, sports writer (Paper Lion)
John Updike, poet & novelist (Rabbit Run)
Kevin Dobson
Charley Pride, country singer
Ingemar Stenmark, Swedish Alpine skiier
Irene Cara, NY (Fame)
Vanessa Williams, Millwood NY - 1st black Miss America
0319
William Bradford, gov of Plymouth Colony (baptized)
David Livingstone, found by Stanley in Africa
Sir Richard Burton, explorer, translator (The Arabian Nights)
Roque S enz Pe¤a, pres of Argentina (1910-14)
William Jennings Bryan, 'The Great Commoner', orator-statesman
Earl Warren, Supreme Court chief justice
John J Sirica, Watergate Judge
Patricia Morison (Peyton Place)
Irving Wallace, Author (People's Almanac)
Patrick McGoohan, actor (Secret Agent, Prisoner)
Philip Roth, novelist (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint)
Phyllis Newman, Jersey City NJ
Ursula Andress, actress (She), Switzerland
Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, LBJ's daughter
Glenn Close, Greenwich Conn
Bruce Willis (Moonlighting)
0320
Napoleon II, king of Rome
Henrik Ibsen, dramatist (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler), Norway
Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management
B.F. Skinner, Behaviorist
Abraham Beame, NYC mayor
Frank Stanton, broadcasting exec
Sir Michael Redgrave, actor (Browning Version, The Lady Vanishes)
Sviatosiav Richter, pianist
Carl Reiner, comedian
Jack Kruschen
Ray Goulding, comedian (Bob & Ray)
John Ehrlichman, Watergate conspirator
Fred Rogers, lovely day in the neighborhood
Hal Linden, actor (Barney Miller)
Ted Bessell, (That Girl)
Jerry Reed, Singer
Brian Mulroney (P-C), 18th PM of Canada (1984-  )
Bobby Orr, hockey hall-of-famer (Boston Bruins)
0321
Johann Sebastian Bach, Eisenach, Germany, Composer
Francis Lewis, signed Decl of Ind
1768
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist
Benito Ju rez, pres of Mexico (1858-72)
James Jesse Strang, king of Mormons on Beaver Is, MI (1850-56)
Modest Mussorgsky, composer (Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mtn.)
Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury, astronomer
Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame
John D. Rockefeller, III, billionaire
Mort Lindsey, band leader
James Coco, actor
Al Freeman Jr
Kathleen Widdoes
Lorene Yarnell, LA, mime, (Shields & Yarnell)
0322
Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor
Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter
Randolph Caldecott, England, Illustrater
James Gavin, genl
Maurice Stans, sec of commerce
Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist (The Tin Flute)
Nicholas Monsarrat, English writer
Karl Malden, don't leave home without it (St of SF)
Werner Klemperer Hogan's Heroes Col Klink
Marcel Marceau, mime, France
Stephen Sondheim, US composer
William Shatner, Mont, (Capt. Kirk, T J Hooker)
Orrin Hatch (R), Utah sen
May Britt, German actress & former wife of Sammy Davis Jr
Barbara Parkins, Engl (Peyton Place)
George Benson, singer-guitarist
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer
0323
1699
John Bartram, naturalist, explorer, botanist
Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician, astronomer, physicist
Schuyler Colfax (R), 17th VP (1869-73)
Fannie Farmer
Sir Muirhead Bone, etcher, engraver
Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist, dramatist (Nobel 1937)
Daniel Bovet, Swiss pharmacologist (Nobel 1957)
Joan Crawford, No wire hangers, ever! (Mildred Pierce)
Akira Kurosawa, film director
Wernher von Braun, Wirsitz, Germany, rocket expert
Marty Allen, Comedian (Allen & Rossi)
Martha Wright, Seattle Wash
Teofilo Stevenson, Cuba, Olympic boxer
Chaka Khan, Great Lakes Ill rocker
Moses Malone Basketball player
0324
Rufus King (F), framer of US constitution, sen
John Wesley Powell, geologist
William Morris, Engl, artist
Andrew W. Mellon, financier
Harry Houdini, escape artist
Peter Debye, Dutch physical chemist (Nobel 1936)
Thomas E Dewey, Oh, Pres candidate
Malcolm Muggeridge, English writer
Norman Fell, (Mr Roper - 3s Company)
Roger Bannister, English runner; 1st 4-min mile
Steve McQueen, actor
Bob Mackie, designer
Robert Carradine
Renaldo Nehemiah, track star
Donna Pescow
0325
Arturo Toscanini, Italy, conductor
Gutzon Borglum, sculpted Mt. Rushmore
Bla Bart¢k, Hungary, composer, pianist
Bella Spewack, Hungary, playwright
Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte, Brit theater & hotel director
David Lean, director (Dr. Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter)
Howard Cosell, sportscaster
Nancy Kelly, Lowell Mass
Simone Signoret, (Casque d'Or, Room at the Top), Weisbaden Germany
James A. Lovell, Jr, astronaut (Gemini 7, 12, Apollo 8, 13)
Gloria Steinhem, feminist, Toledo Oh
Anita Bryant, Okla, Miss America candidate
Aretha Franklin, Memphis Tenn Soul Sister #1
Elton John, singer, Engld
Bonnie Bedelia, NY
Mary Gross, Chicago Ill (SNL)
0326
Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician, astronomer, author
Edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward)
Jane Delano, nurse, teacher
A.E. Housman, Engl, poet (Shropshire Lad)
Robert Frost, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken), SF
James B. Connant, Yale pres
Tennessee Williams, (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Columbus Miss
William Westmoreland, army genl
Bob Elliott, Comedian (Bob & Ray)
Pierre Boulez, France, composer
Gregory Corso, Beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man)
Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman Supreme Court justice
Leonard Nimoy, (Spock)
Alan Arkin, actor
Gino Cappelletti, AFL running back
James Caan, actor (Brian's Song)
Erica Jong, NYC. author (Fear of Flying)
Robert Woodward, reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes)
Diana Ross, (Lady Sings the Blues), Detroit Mich, Supremes
Steve Tyler Rock singer
Vicki Lawrence, Cal (Carol Burnette show, Mama's Family)
Teddy Pendergrass, singer
0327
Louis XVII, pretender to the throne during French Rev
Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
Wilhelm Rntgen, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901)
Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910)
Sir Henry Royce, Rolls-Royce founder
Heinrich Mann, German novelist & essayist
Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography
Ferde Grofe, composer
Gloria Swanson, actress (Sadie Thomson, Queen Kelly)
Sato Eisaku (Lib), Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
James Callaghan (Labour), British PM (1976-79)
Budd Schulberg, author
Snooky Lanson
Cyrus R. Vance, Sec of State
Sarah Vaughn, Newark NJ, jazz singer
Anthony Lewis Newspaper columnist
Arthur Mitchell, choreographer
Cale Yarborough, auto racer
Michael York, actor (Cabaret)
Maria Schneider, Last Tango in Paris
Annemarie Proell, Alpine skier
Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
Surrogate baby M (Sara Whitehead / Melissa Stern)
0328
1472
Fra Bartolomeo, monk, Florentine Renaissance painter
Aristide Briand, French premier (1909-22) (Nobel 1926)
Aleksey Peshikov (pen name Maksim Gorky), Russia
Spencer W. Kimball, 12th prophet of Mormon church
Rudolf Serkin, pianist
Edmund S. Muskie (D), Sec of State, Maine sen
Dirk Bogarde, actor
Freddie Bartholomew, actor
Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor
Sen Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska)
Ken Howard, actor
Rick Barry, NBA star (Golden State Warriors)
Reba McEntire, Country singer
0329
John Tyler, 10th Pres (1841-1845)
Edward Stanley, Earl Derby (C), British PM (1852, 1858-59, 1866-68)
Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive oil well, US
Cy Young, winningest pitcher (509 wins, 1890-1911)
Lou Henry Hoover, 1st lady
James E. Casey, founded UPS
Sir William Walton, English composer
Eugene McCarthy (D), Minn sen
Pearl Bailey, jazz singer
Eileen Heckart, Colombus Ohio
Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong
Karen Ann Quinlan
Earl Campbell, NFL running back (Houston, New Orleans)
Dianne Kay, Phoenix Az
0330
1222
Nichiren, Japanese Buddhist priest, saint
1719
Sir John Hawkins, wrote 1st history of music, English
Francisco Jose de Goya, Spanish painter, etcher
Paul Verlaine, French lyric poet
Vincent Van Gogh, artist
Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright
Stanislaw Lesniewski, Polish logician, mathematician
Frankie Laine, singer
Richard Helms, former CIA head
McGeorge Bundy Natl security adviser
Peter Marshall (Hollywood Squares)
John Astin, actor
Warren Beatty, actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Reds)
Eric Clapton, musician
0331
1596
Ren Descartes, he thought, therefore he was
1621
Andrew Marvell, English poet
Franz Josef Haydn, composer, helped develop Classical style
Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
Nikolai Gogol, father of 19th-century Russian realism (Dead Souls)
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, German chemist
Sir Dugald Clerk, invented 2-stroke motorcycle engine
John J. McCloy, lawyer, banker
Henry Morgan
Richard Kiley
Csar Chavez, labor leader (United Farm Workers)
William Daniels, (St Elsewhere-Dr Mark Craig, 1776)
Gordie Howe, Redwings right wing
Shirley Jones, Penn, (Partridge Family)
Herb Alpert, band leader (Tijuana Brass), A&M music exec
Richard Chamberlain, TV (Dr. Kildare, Shogun, Thornbirds)
Sen Patrick Leahy D-Vt
Christopher Walken
Gabe Kaplan (Welcome Back Kotter)
Rhea Perlman, Bkln (Taxi & Cheer's)
Feast of St. David, patron of Wales
3
Vermont Town Meeting Day
International Day of the Seal
St. David's Day
Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation
1st US census began
Ohio becomes 17th state
Present seal of SF adopted (its 2nd)
Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
Rebecca Lee becomes 1st black woman MD in US
Nebraska becomes 37th state
Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park
Library of Hawaii founded
Korean independence Demonstrations from Japan begin
Bank of Italy becomes a Natl Bank
Charles Lindbergh Jr. kidnapped in NJ; found dead May 12
1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Ct)
Intl Monetary Fund began operations
22nd amendment limits president to 2 terms
Pres Kennedy establishes Peace Corps
Venera 3 becomes 1st manmade object to impact on a planet (Venus)
Mickey Mantle announces retirement
End of coml whale hunting in the US
White govt of Rhodesia declares ind from Britain
Soviet Venus 13 soft lands on Venus
1
Save Your Vision Week begins
Vt Town Meeting Day
US slave importation forbidden
Ark territory organized
Tx declares independence from Mexico
Heinrich Olbers, discoverer of comets & asteroids, dies
Washington territory organized
Congress creates Dakota & Nevada territories
Congress abolishes peonage in NM
Hawaii's 1st telegraph co opens
Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted
Time mag 1st published
Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals
1st automatic st light (New Milford, Ct)
1st non-stop, round-the-world airplane flight completed
1st surface crossing of the Antarctic continent is completed
Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 pts in an NBA game
American Airlines 1st flight of Boeing 747
Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby
1st class postage raised to 10 from 8
Walt Disney World's 50-millionth guest
Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival) in Japan
Morocco Independence Day
1703
Robert Hooke, scientific genius, dies in London
US Mint established
Congress passes 1st foreign aid bill
Alabama territory organized
Missouri compromise passes
Florida becomes 27th state
Gold Coinage Act passed
Minn Territory organized
Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3 piece)
Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom
Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
Congress authorizes 20 coin lasts only 3 years
Bulgaria liberated from Turkey
A T & T incorporated
Russia signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, withdraws from WW I
Time mag's 1st issue
"Star Spangled Banner" officially became US national anthem
US wins Battle of Bismark Sea over Japan
US & Philippine forces recapturedsCorregidor
Morocco gains independence from France (National Day)
Apollo 9 launched
Pioneer 10 launched thru asteroid belt & Jupiter
Moonlighting premiers
Feast of St. Casimir, confessor
1675
John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of GB
King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn
1st Congress declares constitution in effect
Vt admitted as 14th state
Oranges introduced to Hawaii
Washington's 2nd inaugration, shortest speech 133 words
1st pres inaugration in Wash DC (Thomas Jeffersin)
1st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass
Longest inaugration speech - 8443 words - William Henry Harrison
Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag
Idaho Territory established
Great fire in Shanghai 1,000 buildings destroyed
American Automobile Association opens
Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece
FDR inaugurated, says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson (SF) dedicated
1st black US sub-cabinet member appointed - JE Wilkins
1st radio facsimile transmission is sent across the continent
Pioneer 4 makes 1st US lunar flyby
Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, NM
US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
Equatorial Guinea Natl Day
1616
Corpernicus' DE REVOLUTIONIBUS placed on Catholic Forbidden index
Boston Massacre - 5 die
Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US
1st ascent of Mt. Erebus, Antarctica
US marines land in China to protect American property
FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday
Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
Josef V Stalin died
King Kong 1st televised
Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter
Feast of SS. Perpetua & Felicitas, martyrs (Mar. 7 for Anglicans)
Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society published
Alamo falls. Remember it!
Dred Scott decision
Nora Blatch becomes 1st woman elected to Am Soc of Civil Engineers
Bkln's Clarence Birdseye developes quick freezing food method
Gold Coast (Ghana) gains independence
Soyuz 39 returns to Earth
Soviet Vega 1 probe passes within 10,000 km of Halley's comet
322
BC  Aristotle died
1321
Thomas Aquinas, philosopher & saint, dies
Thomas Aquinas Day
British close Boston port to commerce
Capt. James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
Roald Amundsen announces the discovery of the South Pole
1st transatlantic telephone call (London-New York)
"Monopoly" invented
Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
During WW II, US crosses Rhine River
Mary Martin as Peter Pan televised
1st aviator to fly a million miles in a jet (MC Garlow)
US Orbiting Solar Observatory launched
March by civil rights demonstrators broken in Selma, Ala
Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter
Walter Cronkite's final CBS anchor appearance
Sen Jacob K Javits, R-NY, dies in Palm Beach, Fla
Feast of St. John of God, confessor
Intl Women's Day
Confederate ironclad Merrimack launched
US invades Cuba for 3rd time
Edwin Hubble photograph shows as many galaxies as Milky Way stars
1st helicopter licensed for coml use - NYC
1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel - BR Walters
Groucho, Chico & Harpo's final TV appearance together
Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day
1st US forces arrive in Vietnam
Largest observed falling single stony meteorite (Jiling, China)
Feast of St. Frances of Rome, patron of motorists, housewives
Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation,
1661
Cardinal Jules Mazarin, chief minister of France, died
1796
Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais
Charles Graham of NY granted patent for artificial teeth
1st Japanese-US ambassador
"Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads
Edward R Murrow criticizes Sen McCarthy (See it Now)
Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io)
Feast of the 40 Holy Martyrs
World Culture Day
1st money minted in Hawaii
Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent, only US president to do so
1st telephone call
Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies
Earthquake in Long Beach
1st civilian to exceed speed of sound -HH Houver, Edwards AFB Ca
Rings of Uranus discovered during occultation of SAO
Soyuz 28 returns to Earth
Johnny Appleseed Day
Zeta Botid meteor shower, radiant in Botes
1702
1st London daily newspaper
Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
John Chapman `Johnny Appleseed' dies in Allen County, Ind
Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC
Great Mauna Loa volcano erupts
Blizzard struck NE US, 400 die
1st public basketball game (Springfield, Mass)
Pres & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington
Germany invades Austria
FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill
Gen MacArthur left Bataan for Australia
1st woman army Dr commissioned (FM Adams)
Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV's 21
Pioneer 5 launched; orbits sun between Earth & Venus
Rings of Uranus are discovered
Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko
187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
Commonwealth Day (formerly British Empire Day)
Feast of St. Gregory I the Great, pope (590-604), confessor, dr
Gabon Natl Day
1664
NJ became a British colony
Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif
1st $20 gold piece issued
Congress abolishes manufactures tax
British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa
Great blizzard of '88 kill 400 in NE US
Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savanah Ga
Chinese rev leader Sun Yat-Sen died
1st transatlantic radio broadcast
Mohandas Gandhi began 200-mile march protesting British salt tax
FDR's 1st "Fireside Chat"
Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II
British Empire Day
Commonwealth Day
House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
Bob Dylan cancels Ed Sullivan appearance
Pioneer Plaza dedicated
Mauritius gains ind from Britain (Natl Day)
Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman in London
Sadat pledges to regain arab terrority from Israel
Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33
Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA
210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
Harvard U named for clergyman John Harvard
1677
Mass gains title to Maine for $6,000
Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really Uranus)
Uncle Sam debuts in NY Lantern
Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
Chester Greenwood patents ear muffler
Tsar Alexander II of Russia assassinated
US adopts standard time
Benjamin Harrison, 23rd pres, dies in Indianapolis
American suffragist Susan B Anthony dies
Tenn law prohibits teaching evolution
400 die in St Francis Dam burst (Calif)
Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
Anschluá -- Austria joins Nazi Germany
Attorney Clarence S Darrow dies
Kitty Genovese stabbed dead, 40 witness attack in Queens
Apollo 9 returns to Earth
SF city employees start 4 day strike
Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
Soyuz T-15 launched
1629
Royal charter grants Mass Bay Colony
England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now RI)
1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
Eli Whitney patents cotton gin
1st train crosses Niagara suspension bridge
Calif legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
Karl Marx dies
Sutro Baths opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952)
US currency goes on gold standard
1st natl bird reservation established in Sebastian, FL
Pres Harding became 1st pres filing income tax report
1st theatre built for rear movie projection (NYC)
36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars
Freedom Train arrives in SF
During Korean War, UN forces recaptured Seoul
Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of Lee Harvey Oswald murder
Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with W Germany
JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
Susan Hayward dies at 56
Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (540 km)
Beware the Ides of March
Feast of St. Louise de Marillac, widow
Buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio
44
Julius Csar assassinated in Roman Senate
Maine admitted as 23rd state
NY State unveals Automatic Ballot Cabinet (The Voting Machine)
Woodrow Wilson holds 1st Pres Press Conference
Gen. Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stay 10 mo
Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates
1st state contraceptive clinic opens, Raleigh, NC
1st blood bank established, Chicago, Ill
Greatest 24-hour rainfall begins: 29 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean
My Fair Lady opens (NY)
Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
US Mint stops buying & selling gold
Wrestler Antonino Rocca dies at 49
Israel invades Lebanon to rid area of Palestine guerrillas
1st all-color TV station televising live local programs
1999
Pluto again becomes outermost planet
Feast of St. Urho, patron of Finland
Return of long-billed curlews to Umatilla, Ore
1st Indian appears at Plymouth, Mass
Law signed to establish US Milt Academy at West Point, NY
1827
1st US black newspaper, Freedom's Journal (NYC)
US & Canada sign Migratory bird treaty
Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket 184 feet
Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima
1.87m rain fall at Cilaos, La Runion in 24 hrs (world record)
Gemini 8 launched with 2 astronauts
My-Lai massacre occurs
US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
Evacuation Day in Boston
St. Patrick's Day, Irish National Day
World Maritime Day
461
St Patrick  - patron saint of Ireland - died in Saul
1st official St. Patrick's Day
British forces evacuated Boston during Revolutionary War
FW Bessel, measurer of distance to 61 Cygni, dies
Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]
Eleanor Roosevelt married FDR in NY
Pres Theodore Roosevelt used term "muckrake"
Camp Fire Girls organize
Natl Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC
Element 98 (Californium) announced
Vanguard 1 measures shape of Earth
Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (sainted in 1975)
US sub locates missing hydrogen bomb in Mediterranean
Golda Meir became Israeli PM
US casts 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
Aruba Flag Day (Natl Holiday)
Feast of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop, confessor, doctor
978
St. Edward the Martyr, king of Anglo-Saxons (975-78) dies
de Soto becomes 1st European to record flooding of Mississippi River
Britain repeals Stamp Act
American Express founded
Vera Cruz, Mexico besieged by Miramon
Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in MSG
Lord Stanley proposes silver cup challenge for Hockey
Einar Dessau of Denmark-1st ham broadcast
Mohandas K Gandhi sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment
1st electric razor marketed by Schick
Tx gas explosion kills 400
Mexico took control of foreign-owned oil properties
1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted, Phila
Pres Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
French & Algerian rebels agree to a truce
Russia launches 2nd & final Voshkod-1st spacewalk-Aleksei Leonov
Most Arab oil producing nations end US embargo
Vietnam hands over MIA to US
Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC
Treasury Dept announces plans to alter paper money
Canberra Day in Australia
Feast of St. Joseph, stepfather of Jesus
Swallows return to San Juan Capistrano
Boston, Mass incorporated
Faust by Charles Gounod premiers in Paris
LA Railway established
US Supreme Court upheld 8 hour work day for RR
Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight time
US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time
Amos & Andy debuts on radio
Nevada legalized gambling
FDR orders men between 45 & 64 register for non military duty
800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan
1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tn
Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny published
Academy Awards ceremony (1st telecast)
1st rocket-driven sled on rails tested, Alamogordo, NM
Anne Klien dies at 50
Buckingham Palace announces separation of Princess Margaret
House of Reps begin day-to-day TV broadcasts
2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
Kate & Allie premiers
PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns
Sir Isaac Newton dies in London at 84
Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
Napoleon enters Paris, begins 100 day rule
US & Siam conclude coml treaty
Harriet Beecher Stowe's `Uncle Tom's Cabin,' published
1st AC commercial power plant begins operation
Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens
Martha Place of Bkln, became 1st woman to die by electrocution
Gen MacArthur vowed, "I shall return"
1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90
minutes by 2nd live televised musical Arturo Toscvanni on NBC
156-day strike against Westinghouse ended
Tunisia gains independence from France
1st "Pop Art" exhibition in NYC
Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery
US appeals to Intl Court on hostages in Iran
Jean Harris sentenced 15 to life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr
Earth Day
Feast of St. Benedict
1st Day of Spring
Natl Agriculture Day
Natl Teen-Agers Day
Start of Persian & Bah '¡ New Years
French civil Code of Napoleon adopted
Bah '¡ New Year
Yosemite Valley discovered in Cal
US extradition treaty with Sweden
US invades Honduras
During WW I Germany launchs Somme Offensive,
During WW II Allied bombers begin 4 day raid over Germany
UN set up temporary hq at Hunter College (Bronx)
S African authorities kill 69 demonstrators at Sharpeville
Alcatraz fed pen in SF Bay closed
Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery
US Ranger 9 launched takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
199.22 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
Feast of St. Isidore the Farm-Laborer, confessor
Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth)
1638
Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony
Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water
1765
Britain enacts Stamp Act
Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Wash state
F.W.A. Argelander, cataloguer of 324,000 stars, dies
Stephen Decatur killed in a duel with Com James Barron
Congress outlaws polygamy
Montreal AAA beats Ottawa Capitals 3-2 & wins 1st Stanley Cup
USCG vessel sank Canadian-reg schooner suspected of carrying liquor
Grand Coulee Dam in Wash went into operation
Arab League founded
Jordan (then Transjordan) gains independence from Britain
Earthquake gives SF shakes
AL Schawlow & C H Townes obtain patent for the laser
Beatles release 1st album, Please Please Me
Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali's 1st MSG fight
Lynda Johnson ordered off Cable Car for eating an ice cream cone
Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
Robert Frost Plaza, at Calif, Drumm & Market, dedicated
Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
1st class postage raised to 18 from 15
3rd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 launched
Chaim Herzog elected Israeli pres
World Meteorological Day
George Frideric Handel's oratorio `Messiah' London premiere
Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later
Patrick Henry asks for liberty or death
Lewis & Clark reached Pacific coast
1st photo of moon taken
Benito Mussolini founded Fascist movement in Milan Italy
Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
1st telephone installed in White House
German Reichstag granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
LA Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars
All-India-Muslim league calls for a Muslim Homeland
US began moving Japanese-Americans to detention centers
Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute & lives
UN World Meteorological Org established
Pakistan became independent within British Commonwealth
JFK visits SF
Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight
Intl Bill of Rights goes into effect, 35 nations ratify
1st Artificial heart recipient Dr Barney Clark died after 112 days
Feast of St. Gabriel, patron of postmen, telephone workers
Britain enacts Quartering Act
Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY
British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
37 miners die at Franklin, Wash
FDR grants future independence to Philippines
In occupied Rome, Nazis executed more than 300 civilians
1st oil drill seagoing rig placed in service
Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens on Broadway
Elvis Presley inducted into Army in Memphis Tenn
US Ranger 9 strikes moon 10 miles NE of crater Alphonsus
Great Britain imposed direct rule over N Ireland
Argentine pres Isabel Peron deposed by country's milt
Salvadoran death squads assassinate Archbishop Oscar Romero
Nightline with Ted Koppel premiers
US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
Annunciation Day (Lady Day), quarter day in medieval England
Global Understanding Day
Independence Day, celebrated in Greece
New Year's Day observed in England, 1155-1752
1634
Maryland founded as a Catholic colony
1655
Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satelite)
Annunciation Day
Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
Frederick Laggenheim takes the 1st photograph of a solar eclipse
Great Dayton Flood
Greek Independence Day
E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
RCA manufactures 1st COLOR TV set
E Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR
1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day in Hawaii
1668
Bombay, India transferred to England
Orleans territoy organized in La Purchase
Composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna
Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid
Hastings College of Law founded
Eastman Film Company manufactured 1st coml motion picture film
Poet Walt Whitman dies in Camden NJ
Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye
USAF flag approved
Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine against polio
Army launched US's 3rd successful satellite Explorer III
Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state leg
Golden Gate Park Conservatory made a City Landmark
E Pakistan proclaimed independence taking name Bangladesh
Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
Groundbreaking in Wash DC for Vietnam Vet Memorial
Feast of St. John Damascene, confessor, dr
Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Fla
1625
Charles I King of England Scotland & Ireland ascends to throne
Pres Washington & Congress creates US Navy
Pallas (asteroid) discovered by Heinrich Olbers
Vesta (asteroid) discovered by OLbers
1st Mormon temple dedicated in Kirtland Ohio
Abraham Gesner receives a patent for kerosene
ML Byrn patents corkscrew (NY)
1st Japanese cherry trees planted in Wash DC
Seattle Metropolitans 1st US team to win Stanley Cup beat Canadiens
Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
Gen Eisenhower declared German defenses on Western Front broken
Khrushchev became Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Party
Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale, 100 die
Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated
Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth & Seryogin died in a plane crash
Venera 8 launched to Venus
582 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM 747-Pan Am 747 crash
Diana Hyland dies at 40
Mt. St. Helens becomes active after 123 years
Disney-MGM Studio Tour groundbreaking
Feast of St. John of Capistrano, confessor
193
Roman Emperor Pertinax assassinated
Jan Amos Komensky, Moravian educational reformer
Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine
Heinrich Olbers discovers 2nd asteroid, later called Pallas
Heinrich Olbers discovers 4th asteroid (Vesta)
Senate censure Pres Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US
SF Art Assn holds open reception at 430 Pine
Constantinople & Angora change to Istanbul & Ankara
Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid fell to Francisco Franco
Novelist & critic Virginia Woolf dies
British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire
Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff dies
Athlete Jim Thorpe dies
Eisenhower the 34th pres dies in Washington at 78
Nuclear accident at 3 Mile Is, Middletown, Pa
Vera Cruz, Mexico falls to Americans
Albert Hall opens in London
Coca-Cola created (with cocaine)
Jack Benny debuts on radio
23rd Amendment ratified, Wash DC can vote for pres.
1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My-Lai massacre
US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution
Mariner 10's 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
Fla became a US territory
Dr. Crawford Long, 1st physician to use ether as anesthetic
Hyman Lipman of Phila patents a pencil with attached eraser
US purchases Alaska for $7,200,000 (Seward's Folly)
15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race
Tx readmitted to US after Civil War
Queensboro Bridge opens linking Manhattan & Queens
Amelia Earhart 1st woman to solo cross the Atlantic
USSR invades Austria during WW II
Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ
P.J Melotte, discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies
John Glenn withdrew from Ohio senate race
Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to S Vietnam
Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley Jr
3rd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 returns to Earth
US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
James Cagney dies at his Stanfordville NY farm at 86
Malta Republic Day (Natl Day)
1814
Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris
Quebec & Montreal incorporated
Col John W Geary 1st postmaster of SF
Japan opens ports to foreign trade by Commodore Perry
Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
Thomas P Mundy became 1st black to vote in US (Perth Amboy NJ)
Wabash Ind - 1st town completely illuminated by electric light
Eiffel Tower in Paris officially opened
US purchases Virgin Is from Denmark for $25 million
1st US daylight savings time goes into effect
1st dance marathon - NYC - Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hrs
Ford publicly unveiled its V-8 engine
Congress authorized Civilian Conservation Corps
1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Ga)
Ground broken for Union Sq Garage
Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! opens on Broadway
Newfoundland becomes 10th Canadian province
UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjold secretary-general
US Navy forms atomic sub division
LA ends streetcar service after 90 years
USSR launches Luna 10, 1st spacecraft to orbit moon
LBJ announces he would not seek re-election
Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan could be disc from respirator
Jesse Owens of 1936 Berlin Olympics fame dies in Az at 66
167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes
0300
Intl Hamburger & Pickle Month - Red Cross Month
7
W Europe Daylight Time starts tomorrow
Set clock ahead--Daylight Time starts Tomorrow
0401
1578
William Harvey, physician, discovered blood circulation
Otto von Bismarck, statesman
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Novgorod Province Russia composer
Edgar Wallace, novelist, playwright, journalist
Lon Chaney, man of 1000 faces
Toshire Mifune
William Manchester, historian
George Grizzard, actor
Grace Lee Whitney, Capt Kirk's Yeoman Rand
Debbie Reynolds, El Paso Tx
Gordon Jump, WKRP
Ali MacGraw, (Love Story, Goodbye Columbus), Pound Ridge NY
Samuel R Delany, sci-fi author (Dhalgren)
Carol White, England
Heather Young, Wash
David Eisenhower, Grandson of Pres Dwight
Annette O'Toole, Houston Texas
0402
742
Charlemagne, 1st Holy Roman emperor (800-14)
1725
Giacomo Casanova, Italian writer, philanderer, adventurer
Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author of 150 fairy tales
Frdric-Auguste Bertholdi, Statue of Liberty sculptor
mile Zola, French novelist (Nana)
Nicholas M Butler, US educator, pacifist (Nobel 1931)
Walter Chrysler, founded car company
Buddy Ebsen, (Davy Crockett, Beverly Hillbillies)
Irene Mayer Selznick Producer
Sir Alec Guiness, thespian
Jack Webb, actor (dum-de-dum-dum), just the facts
Joseph Bernardin Chicago Cardinal
Sharon Acker
Leon Russell, pianist, singer
Emmylou Harris, singer, Alabama
Debralee Scott
Ron Palillo
0403
1245
Philip III, king of France (1270-85)
Washington Irving, writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
Boss Tweed, corrupt NYC political boss
John Burroughs, writer, nature enthusiast
George Jessel, Toastmaster
Henry R Luce, Publisher
Sally Rand, actress, ecdysiast, fan dancer
Jan Sterling, actress NYC
Doris Day, girl next door, Cincinatti Oh
Marlon Brando, godfather
Miyoshi Umeki
Sen Lawton Chiles D-Fl
Marsha Mason, St Louis Mo
Wayne Newton, singer
Tony Orlando, Tie a yellow ribbon
Lyle Alzado, retired Raider
Eddie Murphy, actor (48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop)
0404
Thaddeus Stevens, (R-Rep)
Dorothea Dix, social reformer
Linus Yale, American portrait painter, invented Yale lock
Karl Wilhelm Siemens, inventor, laid undersea cables
Znobe Thophile Gramme, invented electric motor
Margaret Oliphant Oliphant, Scottish novelist, biographer
Arthur Murray, dance instructor
John Cameron Swayze, Timex licker & ticker
Nathan M Pusey, educator
Muddy Waters, blues guitarist, singer (Hoochie Coochie Man)
Antony Tudor, English choreographer
Elmer Bernstein, movie music composer
Maya Angelou Author-poet
Sen Richard Lugar (Ind)
Tony Perkins (Norman Bates-Psycho)
Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter
JoAnne Carner, LPGA golfer
Catherine Spaak
Evelyn Hart, prima ballerina (Royal Winnipeg Ballet)
Nancy McKeon, Queens NY
0405
Thomas Hobbes, 1588, philosopher
Elihu Yale, philanthropist founded Yale
Casanova
Joseph Lister, English physician, founder of aseptic surgery
Algernon Swinburne, English poet (Atalanta in Calydon)
Booker T Washington, pioneering educator
Chester Bowles, ambassador, writer
Bette Davis, Lowell Mass, famous eyes (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel)
Mary Hemingway writer
Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic conductor
Gregory Peck, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Arthur Halley, author (Hotel, Airport)
Gale Storm, Bloomington Texas, actress
Nguyen Van Thieu, president of South Vietnam
Aliza Kashi
Jane Asher, former Paul McCartney girlfriend
Agnetha Faltskog Stockholm (ABBA)
Michael W Butler, creator of this TODAY program
0406
Raffaello Santi (Raphael), Italian painter & architect
James Mill, philosopher, historian, economist
Philip Henry Gosse, invented institutional aquarium
Joseph Medill, Newspaper editor
Butch Cassidy, outlaw
Lincoln Steffens, muckraker, journalist (Shame of the Cities)
Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, Dutch aircraft pioneer
Donald Wills Douglas, American aircraft pioneer
Lowell Thomas, journalist ("So long until tomorrow")
Harold Edgerton, foremost high-speed photographer
James Watson, codiscovered structure of DNA
Andr Previn, composer, conductor
Billy Dee Williams, actor (Lady Sings the Blues)
Susan Tolsky, Houston Texas
Michelle Phillips, Long Beach Cal (Mamas & Papas)
Marilu Henner, Chicago, Taxi
Janet Lynn, Olympic ice skater
0407
1506
St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan
William Wordsworth, English poet laureate (The Prelude)
Francis C Lowell, founder of 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill
William Rufus DeVane King (D), 13th VP (1853)
Walter Camp, father of American football
W K Kellogg, a real corn flake
David Grandison Fairchild, American botanist, explorer
Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Desolaci¢n, Tenderness) (Nobel '45)
1897
Walter Winchell, columnist
Percy Faith, musician
Billie Holiday, blues singer
Ravi Shankar, sitar player
James Garner, actor (Maverick, Rockford Files)
Daniel Ellsberg
Mark Russell, satirist
Wayne Rogers, actor (Trapper John of TV's M*A*S*H)
Edmund (Jerry) Brown Jr (D-gov-Cal), Linda Ronstadt's boyfriend
David Frost, TV personality
Francis Ford Coppola, film maker (Cotton Club)
John Oates
Janis Ian, trials & tribulations of being 17
Tony Dorsett, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
0408
563
Gautama Buddha (as celebrated in Japan -- Kambutsue)
1605
Philip IV, king of Spain & Portugal (1621-65)
Lewis Morris, signed Decl of Ind
William Williams, signed Decl of Ind
Edmund Husserl, German, founder of Phenomenology
Sir Adrian Boult, BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor
Mary Pickford
Sonja Henie, Oslo Norway, ice skater
Betty Ford, first lady
John Havlicek, Celtics hoop star
Peggy Lennon, LA singer
Jim (Catfish) Hunter, big-league pitcher
Steve Howe  Yes, he plays the guitar
John Schneider, hazardous to Hazzard County
Gary Carter, catches whatever NY throws
Julian Lennon john's son
0409
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of 1st transatlantic steamer
Charles Baudelaire, French Symbolist poet (Flowers of Evil)
Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion, photography
Charles Proteus Steinmetz, electrical engineer
Claude William Dukinfield aka W.C. Fields, Phila
Mance Lipscomb, blues musician
Paul Robeson, singer, actor, football player
Efrem Zimbalist, Sr, concert violinist
J William Fulbright (D-sen-Ark)
Ward Bond, (Wagon Train)
Abe Ribicoff, (Ct-sen)
John Presper Eckert, coinventor of 1st electronic computer (ENIAC)
Hugh Hefner, Playboy publisher
Tom Lehrer, proposed poisoning pigeons
Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor
Michael Learned, Washington
Seve Ballesteros, a young old duffer
Paulina Porizkova, Sports Illustrated swimsuit covergirl
0410
1701
Hugorotius, father of intl law
William Hazlitt, writer
Commodore Matthew Perry, opened Japan
Lewis Wallace, soldier, lawyer, diplomat, author (Ben Hur)
William Booth founder of Salvation Army
Joseph Pulitzer, publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World)
Henry Ernest Dudeney, mathematician & puzzle maker
Frances Perkins, 1st woman cabinet-level position
Kahlil Gibran
Clare Booth Luce, former ambassador
Harry Morgan, actor (Col Potter M*A*S*H)
Robert Burns Woodward, organic chemist (Nobel 1965)
Chuck Conners, actor (Rifleman)
Max Von Sydow, actor (Hawaii)
Omar Sharif, actor (Dr Zhivago)
John Madden sports commentator
Dandy Don Meredith, Cowboy & sportscaster
Zoe, 1st frozen-embryo child, in Melbourne, Australia
Claudette Nevins, Birmingham Al
0411
George Canning (C), British PM (1827)
Edward Everett, statesman, orator
Charles Evans Hughs, 11th Supreme Court chief justice
Carla Ford, Henry's wife
Dean Acheson, statesman
Cameron Mitchell, actor
Ethel Kennedy, wife of Bobby
Joel Grey, actor (Cabaret)
Michael Deaver, politician, influence peddler
Louise Lasser, NYC - Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!
Anatoli Berezovoi, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-5)
0412
Henry Clay, 'Great Compromiser'
Francis P Blair, helped found Republican Party
John Shaw Billings, US librarian, army physician
Imogen Cunningham, photographer
Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader, vibraphone improviser
Ann Miller, dancer, actress, Houston Tx
Tiny Tim, singer (Tiptoe Through the Tulips)
Jane Withers, Atlanta Ga - Josephine the plumber
David Letterman, TV host
David Cassidy, Shirley Jones' kid on TV & real life
0413
Catherine de'Medici, queen consort of Henry II of France
1721
John Hanson, 1st US Pres under Articles of Confederation
Frederick, Lord North (C), British PM (1770-82)
Thomas Jefferson (D-R), 3rd pres (1801-09)
Frank W Woolworth, 5 & 10 king
Alfred Butts, invented `Scrabble'
Samuel Beckett, playwright (Waiting for Godot) (Nobel 1969)
Harold Stassen, perennial pres candidate, Minn Gov
Eudora Welty, novelist
Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Athiest
Howard Keel Actor-singer
Stanley Donen Film director producer
Bradford Dillman
Shani Wallis, Ireland, singer
Lyle Waggoner, actor
Lanford Wilson Playwright
Gary Kasparov, world chess champion from USSR (1985-  )
Ricky Schroder, kid actor
0414
Philip III, king of Spain & Portugal (1598-1621)
Christian Huygens, disc Saturn's rings & Titan
Duck of Portland (C), British PM (1783, 1807-09)
Antole France, France, novelist
Arnold Toynbee, English historian (A Study of History)
Sir John Gielgud, actor (Arthur, Ages of Man)
Mary Healy, New Orleans
Rod Steiger, actor (Illustrated Man, Pawnbroker)
Loretta Lynn, Kentucky, a coal miner's daughter
Julie Christie, Assam India
Pete Rose, Cincinatti Reds, Charlie hustle
Valentin V Lebedev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 35, T-5)
0415
1452
Leonardo da Vinci, painter & visionary
1469
Nanak, 1st guru of Sikhs
1684
Catherine I, empress of Russia (1725-27)
Leonhard Euler, mathematician
Charles Wilson Peale, American portrait painter
Friedrich Struve, founder of a dynasty of astronomers, Germany
John Munroe Longyear, American capitalist, bank president
A Philip Randolph, labor leader
Thomas Hart Benton, American painter & muralist
Bessie Smith, Empress of Blues
Nikolaas Tinbergen, zoologist, ethologist (Nobel 1973)
Georgi T Beregovoi, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3)
Harold Washington (D), mayor of Chicago
Neville Marriner, conductor
Elizabeth Montgomery, Hollywood Cal, Bewitching
Roy Clark, country singer
Claudia Cardinale, Tunisia
Samantha Fox, England Singer
Julie Sommers, Fremont Nebraska
0416
1660
Hans Sloane, British physician, naturalist; founded British Museum
Anatole France, writer (Thas, Wickerwork Woman) (Nobel 1921)
Jos de Diego, Puerto Rican patriot, political leader
Wilbur Wright, of aeronautical fame
John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist, poet (Riders to the Sea)
Charlie Chaplin, tramp (City Lights), retired PC salesman
Clifford Case Sen
Lily Pons opera diva
Peter Ustinov, actor
Henry Mancini, composer, conductor
Edie Adams, Kingston Pa
Dick (Night Train) Lane, NFL defensive back (Rams, Cards, Lions)
Herbie Mann, jazz musician
Bobby Vinton, Polish prince of song
Dusty Springfield, London England
Margrethe II, queen of Denmark (1972-  )
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tall person
0417
1586
John Ford, English dramatist ('Tis Pity She's a Whore)
Samuel Chase, signed Decl of Ind, judge
John Pierpont Morgan, financed US
Ian Hay, Scottish novelist, playwright
Nikita S Khrushchev, Soviet leader (1953-64)
Thornton Wilder, American novelist, playwright (Our Town)
Mikhail Botvinnik of USSR, world chess champion (1948-63)
Sirimavo Bandaranaike, world's 1st woman PM (Sri Lanka)
Harry Reasoner, newscaster (CBS)
Genevieve
Monique Van Vooren, Brussels Belgium
Rock & Roll producer Don Kirshner, invented bubblegum music
Olivia Hussey, Buenos Aires
0418
1480
Lucrezia Borgia
Franz von Suppe, composer
Clarence S Darrow, Scopes monkey trial DA
Leopold Stokowski, virtuoso conductor (Cincinnati Symphony)
Barbara Hale
Hayley Mills, London England, actress (Parent Trap)
Catherine Malfilano, New York
0419
Roger Sherman, signer of Declaration of Independence, Constitution
Jos Echegaray y Eizaguirre, mathematician, dramatist (Nobel 1904)
Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, first lady
Ole Evinrude, invented outboard marine engine
Get£lio Vargas, president of Brazil (1930-45, 1951-54), modernizer
Don Adams, secret agent 86 on Get Smart
Hugh O'Brian, actor
Jayne Mansfield, Pennsylvania
Dudley Moore, actor (10)
Paloma Picasso
0420
121
Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor, philosopher
Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), emperor of France (1852-71)
Daniel Chester French, American sculptor
W.H. Davies, poet
Adolf Hitler, Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany
Harold Lloyd, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last), Burchard Neb
Joan Mir¢, Spanish painter
Robert F Wagner (D), NY mayor
John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice
Tito Puente, band leader
Nina Foch, Netherlands
Ernie Stautner, NFL defensive tackle (Pittsburgh)
Ryan O'Neal, actor (Peyton Place, Paper Moon)
Jessica Lange, Cloquet Minnesota, actress
0421
1816
Charlotte Bront, English novelist (Jane Eyre)
Fredrik Bajer, Danish politican, feminist, pacifist (Nobel 1908)
John Muir, naturalist
Oskar Hertwig, German embryologist, discovered fertilization
Rollo May, psychologist
Anthony Quinn, actor (Zorba the Greek)
Elizabeth II, queen of England (1952-  )
Silvana Mangano, Italian actress
Elaine May, Phila
0422
1451
Isabella of Castile, patron of Columbus
1690
John Carteret, Earl Granville (C), English chief minister (1722-42)
Henry Fielding, novelist (Tom Jones)
1724
Immanuel Kant, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason)
Jean Poiseuille, physician, physiologist
Henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgian international lawyer (Nobel 1913)
Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Bolshevik
O.E. Rlvaag, Norwegian-American novelist (Giants in the Earth)
Robert B r ny, Swedish otologist, vestibular expert (Nobel 1914)
J Robert Oppenheimer, headed Manhattan (A-bomb) Project
Eddie Albert, actor (Green Acres)
Yehudi Menuhin, violinist
Charolette Rae
Jack Nicholson, actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Shining)
Glen Campbell
Lauri Hendler
0423
1484
Julis Caesar Scaliger, Italian scholar (On the Subtlety of Things)
1547
Miguel DeCervantes Saavedra - Man Of LaMancha
William Shakespeare, bard (Hamlet, MacBeth, Julius Csar)
Boris Godunov, tsar of Muscovy (1598-1605) in Time of Troubles
James Buchanan (D), 15th pres (1857-61)
Stephen Douglas, debated Lincoln
Sergei Prokofiev, composer
Lester B Pearson (L), 14th Canadian PM (1963-68) (Nobel 1957)
Lucius D Clay, general
Dame Ngaio Marsh, Kiwi mystery writer & actress
Halld¢r Laxness, Icelandic novelist (Salka Valka) (Nobel 1955)
Simone Simon, French actress
Bud Wilkinson, college football coach (Oklahoma)
Janet Blair, Altoona Pa
Virgil I (Gus) Grissom, astronaut (Liberty Bell 7, Gemini 3)
Shirley Temple Black, Santa Monica Calif, child actress & ambassador
Halston, fashion designer
Jim Fixx, jogger
Roy Orbison, sings about his Little Woman
David Birney, actor
Lee Majors, actor ($6,000,000 Man)
Sandra Dee, Bayonne NJ
Herve Villechaize "Da Plane!  Da Plane!"
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Ireland, political activist (or 1940)
Joyce DeWitt, Wheeling WV (3s Company)
Valerie Bertinelli aka Mrs Eddie Van Halen, Wilmington Del
0424
1620
John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography
Edmund Cartwright, English cleric, invented power loom
Robert Bailey Thomas, founder of Farmer's Almanac
Benjamin Lee Whorf, linguist
Anthony Trollope, England, poet (Barchester Towers)
Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus) (Nobel 1919)
Robert Penn Warren, author (All the King's Men)
Shirley MacLaine, actress, mystic, Richmond Va
Jill Ireland, London
Barbra Streisand, Bkln NY, singer/actress/award winner
0425
1214
Louis IX, king of France (1226-70)
1284
Edward II, king of England (1307-27)
1599
Oliver Cromwell, lord protector of England (1653-58)
Guglielmo Marconi, invented radio (Nobel 1909), Bologna Italy
William J Brennan Jr Supreme Court justice
Edward R Murrow, set TV correspondents standard, Pole Creek NC
Ella Fitzgerald, singer
Anita Bjorak
Melissa Hayden, Toronto
Paul Mazursky
Meadowlark Lemon Harlem Globetrotter (or 0421)
Al Pacino, actor (Godfather)
Talia Shire, NYC (Rocky's wife)
0426
1711
David Hume, English empiricists
John James Audubon, bird watcher, artist
Frederick L Olmsted, landscape architect, writer
Syngman Rhee South Korean statesman
Aleksandr Mikhailov, USSR astronomer
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher (Tractatus)
Anita Loos, author
Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy Fuerher, only one at Spandau prison
Vincente Aleixandre, Spanish writer (Nobel 1977)
Charles Richter, seismologist measures earthquakes
Gracie Allen
Bernard Malamud, American novelist (Fixer, The Natural)
Morris L West, Australian novelist (Shoes of the Fisherman)
I.M. Pei, architect
Carol Burnett, comedian, actress San Antonio Tx
Bobby Rydell, singer, Phila
Gary Wright, dream weaver
Stevie Nicks, Calif of Fleetwood Mac
Andrea Temesvari, tennis player
0427
Edward Gibson, England, historian
M Wollstonecraft
Samuel F.B. Morse, invented telegraph
Herbert Spencer, English Victorian philosopher
Ulysses S Grant (R), 18th pres (1869-77)
Edward Whymper, 1st to climb Matterhorn (1865)
Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon
Walter Lantz, Woody Woodpecker's creator
Arthur F Burns, economist
Cecil Day-Lewis, English poet laureate, detective novelist
John Scali, newspaperman
Jack Klugman, actor (Odd Couple)
Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist
Aimee Anouk, France
Sandy Dennis, Nebraska
Earl Anthony, pro bowling champion
Judy Carne, England
Sheena Easton, Glascow Scotland, singer/Jack LaLane spokesperson
0428
1442
Edward IV, king of England (1461-70, 1471-83)
1758
James Monroe (D-R), 5th pres (1817-25)
Francis Baily, describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse
Charles Sturt, Australian explorer
Tobias Asser, Dutch advocate of world law (Nobel Peace Prize 1911)
Jay Leno, New Rochelle
Lionel Barrymore, actor
Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer
Kurt Gdel, famous mathematician (Incompleteness Theorem)
Robert Anderson, playwright
James Baker III, Reagan's Treasury Secretary
Carolyn Jones, Amarillo Tx
Ann-Margret, actress (Carnal Knowledge, Tommy), Valsjobya Sweden
Marcia Strassman, NYC
0429
Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd chief justice Supreme Court (1796-1800)
Alexander II, tsar of Russia (1855-81)
Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels
Henri Poincar, French mathematician, astronomer, philosopher
William Randolph Hearst, publisher (SF Examiner, Seattle P-I)
Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
Duke Ellington, musician
Emperor Hirohito of Japan (1926-  )
Movie director Fred Zinnemann
Tom Ewell
Celeste Holm
George Allen Football coach
Alexei A Gubarev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 28)
Rod McKuen, singer, composer, versifier
Zubin Mehta, conductor
Jim Ryun runner
Johnny Miller, golfer
Tommy James, cri-im-son & clo-o-ver o-o-ver & o-o-ver
Kate Mulgrew, Dubuque Iowa
0430
1602
William Lilly, English astrologer, author, almanac compiler
Karl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematicians
Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, first lady
Franz Lehar, composer
Queen Juliana of Netherlands (1948-80)
Eve Arden, actress (Our Miss Brooks), Calif
Robert Shaw, chorale conductor
Bea Wain, actress
Cloris Leachman, Des Moines Iowa
Corinne Calvet
Willie Nelson, on the road again
Zohra Lampert
Jill Clayburgh, NY (Unmarried Woman)
Carl XVI Gustav, king of Sweden (1973-  )
Donald Schollander, swimmer
Perry King actor
April Fool's Day
Feast of St Lasarus
Saint Stupid's Day (a SF tradition since 1980)
Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$"
House of Reps 1st full meeting, NYC, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker
SF County Govt established
Cincinnati became 1st US city to pay firefighters a regular salary
1st wartime conscription law in US went into effect
Royal Air Force established
Nazi Germany began persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses
1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY
US recognized Franco govt in Spain at end of Spanish civil war
Navy takes over Treasure Island (SF Bay)
American forces launched invasion of Okinawa during WW II
strike by 400,000 mine workers
Big Bang theory proposed in PHYSICAL REVIEW by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow
1st army helicopter battalion formed, Fort Bragg, NC
RCA (TV & Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched
USSR launches Zond 1 towards Venus
US/Canada ISIS II launched to study ionosphere
Pioneer Hall opens
Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of the Shah
Marvin Gaye shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in LA
Feast of St Francis of Paula, confessor
International Children's Book Day
1513
Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Le¢n
Congress establishes Coin denominations & authorizes US Mint
H.L. Fizeau & J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of the sun
1st Italian Parliament met at Turin
Conf Pres Jefferson Davis fled Confederate capital of Richmond Va
Samuel F.B. Morse developer of electric telegraph died
Pres Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany
Lindbergh turned over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son
Sir Watson-Watt granted a patent for RADAR
Bernard Lyot, inventor of chronograph, dies
Plans to build Disneyland first announced
As the World Turns & The Edge of Night premiered
NACA renamed NASA
Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, TX (record)
Yuri A Gagarin, 1st man in orbit
USSR Luna 10, 1st to orbit the moon
Qatar gains independence from Britain
Prime Minister Begin visits Cairo
TV show Dallas premiers
Arganat Comm publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War
French president Georges Pompidou died in Paris
Argentina seizes Malvinas (Falklands) Is
Soyuz T-11 launched
George Corley Wallace announces retirement plans
1679
Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig
Washington recd an honorary dr of laws degree from Harvard College
Thomas Douglas becomes 1st SF public teacher
Pony Express began between St Joseph Mo & Sacramento Calif
Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Va
Jesse James shot dead in St Joseph Mo by Robert Ford
Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley climbed
Bruno Hauptmann, convicted Lindbergh baby killer, executed
Lt Gen Masaharu Homma was executed
Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan (Aid to Europe)
D.C. residents given presidential vote by 23rd amendment
US & Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations
USSR's Luna 10 becomes the 1st craft to orbit the Moon
N Vietnam agreed to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks
Soyuz 14 is launched
Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter
UN Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands
Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
Feast of St Isidore, archbishop of Seville, confessor, doctor
St Ambrose Day (Anglican)
1617
John Napier, inventor of logarithms, dies (birth date unknown)
John Napier Day
Congress decided US flag is 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars
William Henry Harrison becomes 1st pres to die in office
City of Los Angeles incorporated
Pony Express begins service, from St Joseph, Missouri
Golden Gate Park established by City Order #800
Susan Salter (Argonia, KS), 1st U S woman mayor
Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund established with $10 million
Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
International Civil Aviation Org, UN agency, formed
NATO established
Fed of Mali, consisting of Senegal & French Sudan (dissolved 1960)
Proj Ozma begins at Green Bank National Radio Astronomy
Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
Rev Martin Luther King Jr assassinated in Memphis
Dr Denton Cooley implants 1st temporary artificial heart
Maiden voyage of STS Space shuttle Challenger
Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984 begins his secret diary
Feast of St Vincent Ferrer, confessor
1242
Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights
1614
Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
Pocahontas marries John Rolfe
Mayflower leaves on return trip to England
1762
British take Grenada, West Indies, from French
George Washington casts 1st Presidential veto ever
Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn
Jess Willard defeats Jack Johnson for heavyweight crown
in SF, Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
ATS II launched but failed to reach orbit
Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter
World Trade Center opens in NY
Soyuz 18A aborted lift-off
Taiwan's leader Chang Kai-Shek dies
Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire, dies at 72
Sixth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 1 is launched
648
BC Earliest total solar eclipse chronicled by Greeks is observed
Kings Charles II signs Carolina Charter
Joseph Smith organized Mormon Church in Fayette, NY
Union defeats Confederacy in Battle of Shiloh, SW Tennessee
Brigham Young marries 27th & final wife
1st modern Olympics
1st animated cartoon copyrighted
1st credit union established in US
North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
US declares war on Germany (WWI)
4 planes take off on 1st successful around-the-world flight
NYC ends trolley car service
Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st coml geosynchronous comm satellite
Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter & Saturn
Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek died at 87
11th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 5 is launched
0030
Scholars' reckon Jesus was crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem
1652
Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, S Africa
1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
Mississippi Territory organized
Grant defeats Confederates at Shiloh Tenn
Using phone lines TV was sent from Wash DC to NYC
SF Seals Stadium opens
Prohibition ends, Utah 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
Italy annexes Albania
UN establishes World Health Org
1st jet transatlantic non-stop flight (west to east)
NASA announces the 1st astronauts with the right stuff
Radar 1st bounced off sun, Stanford Calif
US recovers lost H-bomb (whoops!)
Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant
Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk
1st live telecast of Easter Parade
Ponce de Leon arrives in Florida
1st Jewish congregation in US consecrates synagogue
17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified
Works Progress Administration approved by Congress
Largest recorded sunspot (7,000) is observed
President Harry Truman seizes steel industry to avoid a strike
Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
Discovery Island opens
Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record
Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California  Make his day
Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain and Spain
1st tax-supported public library, at Peterborough, NH
Robert E Lee surrenders at Appomattox
Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial
American & Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan
Atomic Energy Commission confirmed
Bob Hope 1st TV appearance
TV Guide publishes 1st issue
UN Charter hearing
Boston Celtics win 8th consecutive NBA championship (record)
NASA names 1st seven astronauts for Project Mercury
Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen (posthumously)
1st Boeing 737 rolls out
Soyuz 35 launched
6th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 1 returns to Earth
It is announced that killed Patrick Duffy will be back on Dallas
US Patent system established
2nd Bank of US chartered
1825
1st hotel in Hawaii opens
Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt
Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico
ASPCA organized
William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park
Arbor Day 1st observed in Nebraska
Cal St Cable Car RR Co starts service
Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st & last voyage
1st professional golf tournament held
Synthetic rubber 1st produced
Paul von Hindenburg elected German president (Hitler was second)
Patrolling the Ether is shown on 3 TV stations simltaneously
Jewish Martyrs Day
Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald
House of Wax, 1st 3-D movie, released in NY
Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
US nuclear sub Thresher went down 220 miles east of Boston
US table tennis team arrived in China
Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Prime Minister Golda Meir
Soyuz 33 launched
Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded
Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
Barber Shop Quartet Day
Feast of St Leo I, pope (440-61), doctor
Napoleon's 1st abdication exiled to Elba
Heinrich Schwabe, discoverer of 11-year sunspot cycle, dies
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized
Anaheim completes it's new electric light system
President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration
Iowa imposed 1st state cigarette tax
Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft
Jackie Robinson, 1st Negro major league baseball player, NYC
President Truman fires General Douglas McArthur
Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st at Health, Education, & Welfare
Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated (SF)
Israel begins Adolf Eichmann trial
President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
Apollo 13 launched to moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days
Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown
Ronald Reagan gets home from hospital after Hinkley shot him
Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth
Halley's Comet closest to earth
1204
4th Crusade sacks Constantinople
Charles Messier, "comet ferret" & catalogs famous "M objects," dies
Hibernia Savings & Loan Society of SF incorporated
Civil War begins as Southern army tries to take Fort Sumter, SC
James Andrews stole Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, Ga
British annex Transvaal, in South Africa
Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in SF Bay to Navy
Moffatt Field is commissioned
Highest velocity wind ever recorded on Mt Washington, 231 mph
1st US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses, NY
FDR dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga
Salk polio vaccine safe & effective; four billion dimes marched
Cosmonaut Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes 1st man to orbit
San Mateo County withdraws from BART district
Linda Darnell dies
Soyuz 33 returns to Earth
Maiden voyage Space Transit System-space shuttle Columbia launched
16th Shuttle Mission-Discovery 4 is launched-with Senator Jake Garn
Chad Natl Day
Feast of St Hermenegild, martyr
1st elephant brought to America
English Parliament grants freedom of religion to Catholics
Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" mirror for telescope
Hungarian Republic proclaimed
Sherman's march through Georgia begins
JC Penney opened his 1st store in Kemmerer, Wyo
At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout
4.7 million American families reported receiving welfare payments
1st pole vaulter to clear 15 feet, C Warmerdam, Berkeley, Ca
FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial
Allies occupy Vienna
UN General Assembly condemns South Africa for apartheid
Sidney Poitier became 1st black man to win Oscar for best actor
Lawrence Bradford Jr, 16 of NYC became 1st black congressional page
Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747's
Apollo 13's Beech-built oxygen tank explodes
Jack Nicklaus wins Masters for 5th time
$2 bill re-introduced as US currency
Ugandan Martyrs Day
Christopher Wilder, FBI's `most wanted man' accidentally killed self
11th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 5 returns to Earth
Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue
Feast of St Justin, philosopher, martyr
Pan American Day
Word "telescope" is 1st used by Prince Federico Cesi
1st American school for deaf (Hartford, Conn)
1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published
1st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St Joseph, Mo
Abraham Lincoln assasinated in Ford's Theater
1st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
Veteran's Hospital at Ft Miley established
Maddus AL starts 1st regular passenger flights between SF & LA
Spain becomes republic with overthrow of Alfonso XIII
Tokyo incendiary raids, using B-29's, damage Imperial Palace
Ampex Corporation demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
Armand Spitz, developer of small educational planetarium, dies
Ft Point, SF dedicated as Natl Historic Site
1st Space Shuttle - Columbia 1 returns to Earth
African Freedom Day
Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today
4
AT & T Annual Shareholder meeting
1598
Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots
1st US patent law passed
San Francisco incorporated
Yankee aggressor army mobilized by Yankee President Lincoln
Pres Lincoln dies, 7:22 am, John Wilkes Booth responsible
Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 1620 kg (record)
Titanic sinks in N Atlantic at 2:20AM
1st talking picture is screened before a paying audience
Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics
Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf is founded
1st helicopter flight of one hour duration, Stratford, Ct
FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home
Jackie Robinson became 1st black in professional baseball
1st B-52 prototype test flight
McDonalds Corporation, restaurant chain started by Ray Kroc
Walt Disney Story opens
Janet Cooke says Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story a lie
Tokyo Disneyland opens
Feast of St Bernadette of Lourdes
1705
Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College,
George Washington heads off for 1st Presidential inauguration
Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot ammendment (unarmed US-Canada border)
MDeGasparis discovers 10th asteroid, Hygia
San Salvador destroyed by earthquake
District of Columbia outlaws slavery
Nitroglycerine at Wells Fargo & Co office explodes
Harriet Quimby flies English Channel, 1st woman to do so
Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
1st broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"
Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated, NYC
Massive explosion & fire kills 500 in Texas City, Texas
Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS news
Apollo 16 launched; 5th lunar landing at Decartes Highlands
Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia
Columbia returned
Feast of St Anicetus, pope (150-66), martyr
1492
Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find the Indies
1524
New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano
Battle of Warsaw
US Marine Hospital at Presidio established
Virginia becomes 8th state to secede from US
1st pro baseball games - Cin Reds 24, Cin amateurs 15
Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing)
France grants Syria independence (Natl Day)
US Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba fails
Surveyor 3 launched; makes soft landing on moon April 20
Apollo 13 limps back safely, Beech-built oxygen tank no help
Paul McCartney's 1st solo album "McCartney"
Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea Nat Day)
India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket
1676
Sudbury, Mass attacked by Indians
'British are Coming!' Paul Revere rides
Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails
SF ASPCA formed
1st Intl Cricket Match, held in SF, won by Californian
SF Earthquake & Fire, 700 die
Fairmont Hotel opens
1st "Washateria" (laundromat) is opened, in Ft Worth, Texas
Clipper begins regular passenger flights from SF to Honolulu
James H Doolittle bombed Tokyo & other Japanese cities
'Stars & Stripes' paper started for U S Armed Forces
League of Nations went out of business, replaced by UN
Irish Republic comes into existence
1st transatlantic jet passenger trip
Albert Einstein, developer of relativity theory, dies
Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco (civil ceremony)
SF's Old Hall of Justice demolished
U S Senate approves transfer of Panama Canal to Panama
Real People premier
Rhodesia becomes Zimbabwe
Pawtuckett & Rochester become involved in a 33 inning game
Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act
Lyrid meteor shower, radiant in Hercules
St Alphege's Day (bishop, martyr) (Anglican)
Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot 'heard round the world'
Netherlands recognizes US
Calif Historical Society founded
Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
Charles Duryea takes 1st American-made auto out for a spin
1st American marathon ran John J McDermott wins in 2:55:10 (Boston)
U S leaves gold standard
Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up & Cheer"
Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)
Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto
Rogers & Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway
Grace Kelly marries Price Rainier of Monaco (in church)
US Surveyor III lands on moon
Sierra Leone becomes a republic (Natl Day)
USSR Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit
India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR
Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel
Sally Ride announced as America's 1st woman astronaut
USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit
Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery
16th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 4 returns to Earth
1314
Clement V, pope (1305-14) who moved papacy to Avignon, dies
British begin siege of Boston
4th US VP George Clinton died at 73 1st VP to die in office
Territory of Wisconsin created
SF Bar Association organized
246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India
Marie & Pierre Curie isolated radioactive element radium
1st electron microscope demonstrated, Philadelphia, Pa
US 7th Army captured German city of Nuremberg
1st baseball broadcast in Chicago, Cards vs Cubs
Walter P Reuther UAW pres shot & wounded at his home in Detroit
Buses replace Key System trains at 3AM
American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
NO Citizens Council gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North
Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn in as prime minister of Canada
US Supreme Court upheld use of busing to achieve racial desegregation
Apollo 16's Young & Duke land on the moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
Canadian ANIK A2 became 1st commercial satellite in orbit
Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on licenses
Woody Allen's film `Annie Hall' premiered
Korean Air Lines 707 forced to land; violated Soviet airspace
Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule failed to dock
Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
Feast of St Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, confessor, doctor
753
BC--City of Rome founded
Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
John Adams sworn in as 1st U S Vice President
Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary
Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from Mexico
1st train crosses Miss River's 1st bridge, Rock Is Il-Davenport Ia
A Douglas patents Bustle
Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Co
1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park
Spanish American war begins
Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (He didn't)
Halley's Comet passes last perihelion at distance of 54.6 million
US marines occupy Veracruz, Mexico, stay 6 months
"Red" Baron, Manfred von Richtofen, killed in WW I
1st $64 Question, "Take It or Leave It", on CBS Radio
1211-kg great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod
Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalin's daughter) defected in NYC
John Young, Charles Duke explore Moon on Apollo XVI
Orbiting Astronomical Observer 4 (Copernicus) is launched
Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnamese President, resigns
Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing
Broadway play "Annie" opens, 1st of 2377 performances
Soyuz T-8 is launched
Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph (130 mph)
Arbor Day
Feast of SS Soter, pope (?166-175) & Caius, pope (283-96), martyrs
Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil
1509
Henry VIII ascended to throne of England
1529
Spain and Portugal divide eastern hemisphere in Treaty of Saragossa
US Congress authorized "In God We Trust" on coinage
Oklahoma land rush officially started; some were Sooner
1st Spanish-American War action:  USS Nashville, took enemy ship
1st use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I
meeting in London, US, Britain & Japan agree to reduce naval forces
1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada
World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY) starts
1st Earth Day
Soyuz 10 is launched
Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor
Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth
Consumer Price Index drops .04% for second month in a row
Feast of St George, martyr, dragon slayer, patron of England
Natl Secretary Day
St George's Day
President George Washington moves into Franklin House, NY
Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up
VITASCOPE system of movie projection 1st demonstrated
A.C.A. became Natl Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)
Courtesy mail boxes for motorists started in SF
1st American satellite to reach moon launched from Cape Canaveral
Launch of 1st Soviet communications satelite
Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty
United Methodist Church founded
Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy
Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station
Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface
New Coke debuts
Grand Floridan Beach Resort groundbreaking
Feast of St Fidelis of Sigmaringen, martyr
Stockholders Meeting, Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
1704
Boston News Letter 1st American newspaper printed regularly
`La Marseillaise' composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Library of Congress founded with $5000 allocation
Fire Alarm & Police Telegraph system put into operation
Troops ordered out of N Orleans end North's post-Civil War rule
1st reporter, William Price, assigned to White House
Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer
Massacre of Armenians by Turks (Armenian Martyrs Day)
Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
Wind gusts reach 372 kph (231 mph) at Mt Washington, NH
1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump"
Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1st American civilian pilot wounded in Indo China - PR Holden
JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time:  CA to MA
Cosmonaut Komarov is 1st to die in space aboard Soyuz 1
China PR launchs 1st satellite transmitting song `East is Red'
Soyuz 10 returns to Earth
IBM-PC introduced
Arbor Day-Plant a tree
Confederate Memorial Day
Feast of St Mark, evangelist
Highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier 1st person executed by guillotine
Graham discovers 9th asteroid, Metis
Ground broken for Suez Canal
Pres Benjamin Harrison visits SF
US declares war on Spain
NY 1st state requiring automobile license plates Fee was $1
ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli
Delegates from 45 countries met in SF organizing UN
Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
US & Soviet forces met at Torgau Germany on Elbe River
Bell labs announces 1st solar battery
1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated
St Lawrence Seaway opens to shipping
1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton)
Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin
Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit
Seattle World's Fair opens
Glider pilot Hans Grosse flies a record 1461 km (908 mi)
Dictator Ant¢nio Salazar overthrown in Portugal
1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao
Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran
In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawl
Feast of SS Cletus, pope (76-88) and Marcellinus, pope (296-304)
Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo and kill Giuliano de'Medici
1607
1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va
16 year old Sybil Ludington rode from NY to Ct rallying her fathers
militia to fight British in Danbury
Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France
John Wilkes Booth is killed
Huntsville Electric Company established to sell electricity
1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii
H Shapley & H.D. Curtis hold "Great Debate" on nature of nebulae
German-made planes destroy Basque town of Guernica in Spain
1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
US/UK launched Ariel; 1st Intl payload
Tanganyika and Zanzibar unite to form Tanzania (Natl Day)
US underground nuclear test, "Boxcar", 1 megaton device
Gypsy Rose Lee dies at age 56
SF Lightship replaced by automatic buoy
Argentina surrender to Britain on S Georgia near Falkland Island
Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 1200 for 1st time
Jazz piano great Count Basie died at age 79
Chernobyl world's worst nuclear power plant disaster
Feast of St Peter Canisius, confessor, doctor, Apostle of Germany
Union Day, celebrated in Tanzania
4977
BC Johannes Kepler's date for creation of universe
Ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives
1565
1st Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City
US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
Americans under Gen Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed
Fire destroys half of Charleston
W Va secedes from Va as Va secedes from US
Steamer Sultana, explodes (1450 Union prisoners dies)
Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated
Apollo asteroid discovered with a perigee of 2 million miles
US Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment
2nd Republic of Austria found
1st radar installation aboard a coml ship installed
Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River
1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)
France grants Togo independence (Natl Day)
UK grants Sierra Leone independence
Tanzanian Union Day
RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper
Apollo 16 returns to Earth
Afghanistan revolution (Natl Day)
Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO
Feast of St Paul of Cross, confessor
Kiss Your Mate Day
585
War between Lydia and Media (in Asia Minor) ended by solar eclipse
1686
1st volume of Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA is published
Mutiny on HMS Bounty
Maryland becomes 7th state
W H Carrier patents air conditioner
1st successful parachute jump
Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced
1st animated cartoon electric sign displayed, NYC
"WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
Fascist leader Mussolini & mistress captured, tried, & shot
Thor Heyerdahl & Kon-Tiki sail from Peru to Polynesia
WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect
Marines evacuate Americans during Dominican Rep revolution
Muhammad Ali refuses induction into Army
French Pres Charles de Gaulle retires
Last Americans evacuated from Saigon
Christopher Boyce convicted for selling secrets
Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns
Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
Development worker Ben Linder murdered by contras in Nicaragua
Emperor's Birthday in Japan
Feast of St Peter of Verona, martyr
1429
Joan of Arc lead Orleans, France, to victory over English
Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan
John Flamsteed observes Uranus for 6th time
peace between England and Russia
US Army, Div Pacific HQ permanently established at Presidio
Md's House of Delegates voted against seceding from Union
New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War
Japanese Natl Day
Coxey's Army arrives in Wash, DC
Casey Jones rode to his death on Cannonball Express
Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents zipper
America liberates Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany
28 former Jap leaders were indicted in Tokyo as war criminals
1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va
Maryland voted to remain a Yankee state
Earthquake hits Seattle; 5 die
Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration
Salyut 1, world's 1st space station, launched into earth orbit
17th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 7 is launched
Space shuttle Challenger makes 7th flight into orbit
Feast of St Catherine of Siena, patron of Italy
Queen's official birthday in the Netherlands (Natl Day)
Walpurgis Night - Witches' Sabbath
Stockholders Meeting, Boeing Co, Seattle, WA
George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US
Dept of Navy established
US doubles in size through La Purchase ($15 million)
La becomes 18th state
Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation
San Jose State U founded
Hawaiian YMCA organized
John Luther ("Casey") Jones dies in train wreck
Hawaii becomes a US Territory
NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with FDR at opening of NY World's Fair
1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, "Peto", Manitowoc, Wi
Adolph Hitler & wife Eva Braun commit suicide
Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover
Org of American States charter signed at Bogot , Colombia
Element mendelevium announced - element 101
Inger Stevens dies at 35
US troops invade Cambodia
Gia Scala dies at 38
Nixon announces resigtration of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al
Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including "My Love"
US forces evacuated Vietnam; Saigon surrenders
Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London
Queen Beatrix of Netherlands ascends to throne
0400
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0501
Joseph Addison, English essayist (Spectator)
1769
Duke of Wellington (C), victor at Waterloo, British PM (1828-30)
Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), hell-raiser
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French philosopher, paleontologist
Ignazio Silone, Italian novelist, politician (Bread and Wine)
Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America)
Glenn Ford, actor (Big Heat, Midway)
Danielle Darieux in France
Jack Paar, Tonight Show host
Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Mercury astronaut (Aurora 7)
Judy Collins in Seattle Wash
Rita Coolidge in Tennessee
Doug Barr
0502
Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer
Catherine II (the Great), empress of Russia (1762-96)
Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order"
Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionist movement
Sir D'Arcy Thompson, zoologist, classicist (On Growth and Form)
Brian Aherne, actor
Benjamin Spock, pediatrician
Bing Crosby, crooner, actor (Going My Way)
Theodore Bikel, folk singer
Leslie Gore in Tenafly NJ, cries at her own party
0503
Niccol Machiavelli, politician (The Prince)
Richard D'Oyly Carte, impresario
Francois Coty, perfumemaker
Sir George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937)
V.K. Krishna Menon, Indian nationalist, statesman
Golda Meir, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74)
Mary Astor, actress
Betty Comden, song writer, Bkln
Pete Seeger, folk singer
Sugar Ray Robinson, boxer
Franki Valli, singer
Samantha Eggar in England
Nona Gaprindasvili of USSR, world women's chess champ (1962-78)
Vera Caslavska-Odlozilova, Czechoslovak Olympic gymnast
0504
Horace Mann, educator
Joseph Whitaker, English publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack
Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of President John Tyler
Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist and humanist
Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese prime minister convicted of bribe-taking
Audrey Hepburn Brussels Bel (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady)
Roberta Peters, operatic soprano, NYC
Julie Budd, Bkln
Mary McDonough
0505
Síren Kierkegaard, founder of Existentialism
Karl Marx
H.H. Bancroft, historian, publisher
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author (Quo Vadis) (Nobel 1905)
Nellie Bly, name became a synonym for female star reporter
Author Christopher Morley
F.F. Gosden (Amos)
Spencer Tracy, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
James Beard, American culinary expert and author
Richard H. Rovere, journalist
Monica Lewis
Ann B Davis in Schnectady NY - Brady Bunch maid
Pat Carrol in Shrevport Louisiana
Michael J. Adams, X-15 pilot
Tammy Wynette, country singer, Redbay Alabama
0506
Daniel Gerber, beloved by babies at mealtime
973
Henry II, Holy Roman emperor (1014-24)
1740
John Penn, signer of the Declaration of Independence
Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader
Grove Karl Gilbert, geologist, investigated Lake Bonneville, Utah
Robert Peary artic explorer
Sigmund Freud, cigar smoker
Luis Mar¡a Drago, Argentine statesman, anti-interventionist
Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet, mystic, composer (Nobel 1913)
AP Giannini, founder of Bank of America
Emmanuel Celler, former congressman
Rudolph Valentino, sheik
Harry Golden writer
Max Ophulus film director
Aram Khachaturian, composer
Harry Martinson, Swedish novelist, poet (Trade Wind) (Nobel 1974)
Toots Shor, raconteur, restaurateur
Weeb Ewbank, NFL coach (Baltimore Colts, New York Jets)
Orson Welles, actor (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds, Third Man)
Theodore H. White, historian, writer
Mimi Benzell in Bridgeport
Marguerite Piazza, operatic soprano
Willie Mays, baseball player, the "Say Hey Kid."
Lori Singer in Chorpus Christi Texas
Dana Hill
0507
Sir Francis Beaufort, naval officer who devised scale of wind force
Robert Browning, English poet
Johannes Brahms, enjoys a good lullaby
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1812 Overture)
Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (Lib), British P.M. (1894-95)
Josip Broz Tito, WW II partisan, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80)
Gary Cooper, actor (High Noon, The Plainsman)
Edwin Land, founded instant photography (Polaroid)
Eva Per¢n, Argentine 1st lady
Darren McGavin, actor (Night Stalker)
Anne Baxter, Mich (Razor's Edge, All About Eve)
Val Bisoglio, actor
Teresa Brewer in Toledo Oh - Put another nickel it
Pete Domeneci (R), NM sen
Johnny Unitas, NFL quarterback (Baltimore Colts, San Diego)
Sivi Aberg
Robin Strasser in NYC
Janis Ian (Fink) in NYC
0508
Edward Gibbon, historian (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)
Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
William Walker, filibuster, president of Nicaragua (1856-57)
Henri Dunant of Switzerland, founded Red Cross, YMCA (Nobel 1901)
Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist
Harry S Truman, 32nd President (1945-1949)
Fulton J Sheen, bishop
Jos G¢mez (Joselito el Gallo), bullfighter
Sloan Wilson, American novelist
Don Rickles, comedian
David Attenborough Environmentalist
Theodore Sorenson, former presidential advisor
Gary Snyder, beat poet (Rip Rap and Cold Mountain Poems)
Salome Jens in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Sen Dennis DeConcini D-Ariz
Peter Benchley, author (Jaws, The Deep)
Ricky Nelson, rock star (Hello Mary Lou, It's Late, Garden Party)
Angel Cordero Jockey
Toni Tennille, only female Beachboy in Montgomery Ala
Melissa Gilbert, LA
0509
John Brown, abolitionist, leader of attack on Harpers Ferry
Belle Boyd, Confederate spy, actress, lecturer
James M Barrie, Scotland
Sir James Barrie, Scottish author (Peter Pan, The Little Minister)
Howard Carter, Egyptologist found King Tut
Henry J Kaiser (built Liberty Ships, Jeeps)
Jos Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (Revolt of the Masses)
Barbara Woodhouse Dog training expert
Theodore Kheel, labor negotiator
Mike Wallace, host of 60 Minutes (or 0519)
Pancho Gonzales, U.S. tennis champion
Vance D. Brand, U.S. astronaut (Apollo-Soyuz, STS-5, 41B)
Albert Finney, actor (The Dresser, Under the Volcano)
Terry Drinkwater CBS newsman
Glenda Jackson in Cheshire England
James L Brooks Producer-director
Candice Bergen in Beverly Hills, her father spoke to wood
Billy Joel, Bronx (Pianoman)
0510
George Ross, lawyer, signed Decl of Ind
Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneer in optics
Benito Prez Gald¢s, Spanish novelist (Fountain of Gold, Nazarin)
Kaufmann Kohler, Reform rabbi, theologian
Sir Thomas Lipton, tea magnate
Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (1923) (Nobel 1926)
Olaf Stapleton, British religious sci-fi writer (Star Maker)
Ariel Durant, writer (The Story of Civilization)
Fred Astaire, tapdancer
David O Selznick, film producer
Carl Albert (D), speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Nancy Walker in Phila, actress (Rhoda)
Phillip Mahre, World Cup ski champion
0511
1722
Peter Camper, anatomist
Charles Warren Fairbanks (R), 26th U.S. vice-president (1905-09)
Irving Berlin, dreaming of a white Christmas
Dame Margaret Rutherford, British actress (Murder Most Foul)
Bid£ Sayao, Brazilian soprano
Salvador Dal¡, surrealist
Phil Silvers, U.S. comedian, actor
Camilo Jose Cela in Spain, author
Mort Sahl, comedian
Doug McClure, actor
0512
Edward Lear in England, wrote in verse
Florence Nightingale, nurse, Florence, Italy
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter, Pre-Raphaelite
Jules Massenet, composer
Gabriel Faure, composer
Lincoln Ellsworth, led 1st transarctic, transantarctic flights
Robert Baldwin (L), helped establish cabinet government in Canada
Howard K. Smith, TV newsperson (ABC)
Yogi Berra, NY Yankee catcher
Burt Bacharach, composer
Tom Snyder, TV host (Tomorrow Show)
George Carlin, Comedian
Ronald Ziegler, Nixon's press secretary
Susan Hampshire in London
Bruce Boxleitner
Shozo Fujii, judo champion
Prince, rock singer
Kim Fields LA (Facts of Life)
Mackenzie Astin
0513
Empress Maria Theresa of Austria
Marquess of Rockingham (Whig), British PM (1765-66, 1782)
Sir Arthur Sullivan in England, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame
Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art
Sir Frank Brangwyn, Welsh painter, muralist
Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49)
Bea Arthur, (Maude, Golden Girls), NY
Vladimir A. Dzhanibekov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 27/39/T6/T12/T13)
Peter Gabriel, rocker
Stevie Wonder, singer
0514
1316
Charles IV, king of Bohemia (1346-78), emperor (1355-78)
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, physicist (or 0524)
Robert Owen, English factory owner, socialist
Thomas Gainsborough, English landscape, portrait painter (Blue Boy)
Otto Klemperer, German conductor
Heloise and her helpful hints
Patrice Munsel in Spokane Wash
George Lucas, skywalker
Robert Jarvik, invented Jarvik 7 artificial heart
David Byrne in England, rocker
0515
L. Frank Baum, children's book author (Wizard of Oz)
Pierre Curie, French physicist (Nobel 1903)
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, 1st wife of Woodrow Wilson
Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian playwright, novelist
Katherine Anne Porter, U.S. novelist (Ship of Fools)
Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian playwright, novelist, short-story writer
Richard Daley (D), former mayor of Chicago
Joseph Cotten
James Mason, actor (Lolita)
Constance Cummings
Eddy Arnold Country singer
Joseph Wiseman, actor
Wladziu Valentino Liberace, pianist
Richard Avedon
Ursula Theiss
Anthony Shaffer and Peter Shaffer twin brothers Playwrights
Anna Marie Alberghetti, actress, Italy
Paul Zindel Playwright
Trini Lopez, singer
Lainie Kazan, Bkln, Singer/actress
Brian Eno. singer
George Brett, KC Royals
Lee Horsley, actor
0516
Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist, discoverer of chromium, beryllium
William H. Seward, bought Alaska at 2/acre
Levi Parsons Morton (R), 22nd US VP (1889-93)
Henry Fonda, actor (Mr. Roberts) Grand Is Nebraska
Studs Terkel, author (Working)
Woody Herman Bandleader
Liberace (Wladziu Liberace), candelabrist
Frank F. Mankiewicz, columnist
Billy Martin, baseball manager (NY Yankees, Oakland A's)
Lowell Weicker R-Conn, Sen
Pierce Brosnan in Israel
Debra Winger in Columbus Oh (Officer & Gentleman)
Olga Korbut, Soviet Olympic gymnast
Janet Jackson singer/Michael's sister
0517
Edward Jenner, English physician, discovered vaccination
Joseph Norman Lockyer, astroarchaeologist, founded NATURE magazine
Erik Satie, composer
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Iran's spiritual leader
Maureen O'Sullivan in Boyle Ireland
Archibald Cox, 1st Watergate special prosecutor
Birgit Nilsson, soprano
Dennis Hopper, an easy rider
Sugar Ray Leonard, boxer
0518
Karl Goldmark, Hungarian composer
Wilhelm Steinitz of Austria, world chess champion (1866-94)
Oliver Heaviside, physicist predicted existance of ionosphere
William Heinemann, English publisher
Nicholas II, the last Russian tsar (1894-1917)
Bertrand Russell, British mathematician, philosopher (Nobel 1950)
Walter Gropius, German Bauhaus architect
Eurico Gaspar Dutra, president of Brazil (1945-50)
Rudolf Carnap, German Logical Positivist philosopher
Sarah Miriam Peale, American portrait painter
Meredith Willson, musician-composer (The Music Man)
Jacob K. Javits (R), NY Sen
Perry Como, singer
Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballerina
John Paul II 264th Roman Catholic pope (1978-  )
Bill Macy, actor
Pernell Roberts, actor (Adam Cartwright, Trapper John)
Reggie Jackson, (Yankees, A's)
Rodney Milburn, Jr., hurdler
Sugar Ray Leonard boxer
0519
John Hopkins, Philanthropist
Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer
Malcolm X, Muslim
David Hartman, TV personality
Nora Ephron, NY, writer
Glenn Close, actress
Grace Jones in Jamaica, singer
0520
Stephen Girard, bailed out U.S. bonds during War of 1812
Dolly Dandridge Payne Madison, first lady
Honor de Balzac, French novelist (Pere Goriot)
John Stuart Mill, philosopher, political economist, Utilitarian
William George Fargo, helped to found Wells, Fargo & Co
Frdric Passy, cowinner of 1st Nobel Peace Prize (1901)
Sigrid Undset, Norweg. novelist (Kristin Lavransdatter) (Nobel '28)
Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor
Adela Rogers St. Johns, journalist, author
Max Euwe of the Netherlands, world chess champion (1935-37)
Jimmy Stewart, actor
William Hewlett, cofounder of Hewlett-Packard Co
Moshe Dayan, Israeli general & politician
George Gobel Comedian
Constance Towers
Alexei A. Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut (Voskhod 2, ApolloteiSoyuz)
Sadaharu Oh of Yomiuri Giants (Japan), hit 868 career HR
Joe Cocker in Engl
Cher Bono Cal, I got you babe
Jane Wiedlin (GoGos)
Ron Reagan Jr., Pres son
Mindy Cohn, LA (Facts of Life)
0521
Plato (Aristocles) in Athens(?) (427 bc)
1471
Albrecht Drer, great German Renaissance painter, print maker
1527
Philip II, king of Spain (1556-98) and Portugal (1580-98)
1584
A. Drer
Alexander Pope, poet (The Rape of the Lock)
1780
Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister, prison reformer, nurse
Charles-Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, lawyer, author (Nobel 1902)
Henri Rousseau, French nave painter
Lon Bourgeois, French politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920)
Willam Einthoven, invented the electrocardiograph
C.J. Thomsen, Danish archeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages
Glenn Curtis, aircraft pioneer
Armand Hammer, millionaire industrialist
Fats Waller, jazz pianist, composer (Ain't Misbehavin')
Robert Montgomery actor
Harold Robbins, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers)
Dennis Day singer
Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides)
Andrey Sakharov, Soviet physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75)
Mr T
0522
Johann Sebastian Bach in Eisenach, Germany
Richard Wagner, composer (The Ring, Flying Dutchman) Leipzig Germ
Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon, founded modern ophthalmology
Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist painter
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian spiritual philosopher, writer
Lord Laurence Olivier, stage & screen actor (Rebecca)
Thomas Gold, established the steady-state theory of the universe
Judith Crist, critic, NY
Satyajat Ray, Indian film director
Charles Aznavour, singer
Michael Constantine
Peter Nero, pianist
Frank Converse
Richard Benjamin, actor
Susan Strasberg in NYC, actress
Michael Sarrazin, actor
Paul Winfield
Barbara Parkins in England
Tommy John Yankee & Dodger pitcher
0523
Carolus Linnus, biological classifier, sweden
1734
Friedrich Anton Mesmer, German physician, hypnotist
'Abdu'l-Bah , early Bah '¡ leader
Douglas Fairbanks, 1st & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers
Pr Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, poet, dramatist (Nobel 1951)
Walter Reisch, US screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic)
John Bardeen, physicist (Nobel 1956, 1972)
Artie Shaw (Arthur Arshawsky), band leader and husband
Betty Garrett in St Joseph Mo
Alicia de Larrocha Pianist
Rosemary Clooney in Kentucky, singer
Barbara Barrie in Chicago
Joan Collins in London, actress
John Newcombe, Australian tennis pro
Alan Garc¡a Prez, pres of Peru (1985-  )
Anatoliy Karpov of USSR, world chess champion (1975-85)
Boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler, in NJ
0524
William Gilbert, pioneer researcher into magnetism
Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionist
Emanuel Leutze, American painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware)
Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
Samuel I. Newhouse, American millionaire publisher
Mikhail Sholokhov, novelist (And Quiet Flows the Don) (Nobel 1965)
Wilbur Mills, former U.S. congressman
Lilli Palmer, German actress (The Gentle Sex, Lotte in Weimar)
Coleman Young, civil rights leader
Siobhan McKenna, Irish stage actress (Saint Joan)
Elaine Malbin, opera singer
Mayor Jane Byrne of Chicago
Bob Dylan in Minnesota, Folk Singer Robert Zimmerman
Gary Burghoff, M*A*S*H
Patti Labelle
Priscilla Presley, wife of Elvis
0525
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, philosopher
John Alexander Dowie (Elijah the Restorer), American evangelist
John R. Mott, worked in internat'l church movements (Nobel 1946)
Philip Murray, founder of Congress of Industrial Organizations
Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter
Bennett Cerf publisher
Gene Tunney, world heavyweight boxing champion (1926-30)
Theodore Hesburgh, ex-president of Notre Dame
Claude Aikins, actor
Jeanne Crain in Barstow Calif
Miles Davis, trumpeter, pioneered cool jazz (Porgy and Bess)
Robert Ludlum, spy novelist
Beverly Sills in Brooklyn NY, soprano
Georgi M. Grechko, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 26, T-14)
Barbara Harris in Illinois
Leslie Uggams, singer NYC
Jessi Colter in Phoenix Arizona
Karen Valentine in Santa Rosa California
Connie Sellecca in Bronx
0526
1689
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English essayist, feminist, eccentric
Alexandr Pushkin, Russian writer (Eugene Onegin)
Al Jolson, jazz singer, silent film actor
John Wayne, shootist
Robert Morley, English actor
Laurance Rockefeller, chairman, Chase Manhattan
A. Pushkin
Peggy Lee in ND (is that all there is)
James Arness, actor (Matt Dillon of Gunsmoke)
Teresa Stratas in Toronto Ontario
Sherry Bain in California
Dale Haddon in Montrael Canada
Hank Williams, Jr., country singer
Pam Grier
Sally K. Ride, 1st American woman in space (STS-7, 41G)
Genie Francis in Los Angeles
Robyn Bernard (General Hospital)
Philip Michael Thomas (Starsky & Hutch)
0527
1332
Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian, sociologist
1626
William II, prince of Orange
Amelia Bloomer, suffragette known for her pantaloons
Julia Ward Howe, author, lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic)
Jay Gould, American railroad executive, financier
Wild Bill Hickok
Arnold Bennett, English novelist, playwright, critic
Isadora Duncan, US interpretive dancer
Dashiell Hammett, author who created the hard-boiled detective
Rachel Carson, ecologist, writer (Silent Spring)
Harold Rome, composer
Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.), Sen, 38th V-P (1965-69)
Vincent Price, actor (The Fly, Laura)
John Cheever, writer (Wapshot Chronicle)
Sam Snead, pro golfer
Herman Wouk, American author (Caine Mutiny)
Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese PM (1982-87)
Christopher Lee, actor
Henry Kissinger secretary of state
Lee Merriweather, Miss America
Cilia Black in Liverpool England
Christopher J. Dodd (D), senator from Conn
Bruce Weitz (Moonlighting)
0528
George I, king of England (1714-27)
Dr Joseph Guillotin, guess what he invented
William Pitt the Younger (C), English PM (1783-1801, 1804-06)
Louis Agassiz, Swiss naturalist, geologist, teacher
Jim Thorpe, chosen greatest U.S. athlete of the 1st half century
Phil Regan, singer
Ian Fleming, gave James Bond a job (Goldfinger, Dr. No)
Patrick White, Australian novelist (Happy Valley) (Nobel 1973)
Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian film star, politician
Caroll Baker in Pennsylvania
Dionne quintuplets (Annette, Ccile, milie, Marie, Yvonne)
Gladys Knight in Atlanta Ga
Madeline LeRouix in Wyoming
Sondra Locke in Shellyville Tennessee
0529
Charles II, king of England (1660-85)
Patrick Henry, American revolutionary leader, orator
Ebenezer Butterick inventor of the tissue paper dress pattern
English novelist GK Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton, English writer
Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (The Decline of the West)
Bea Lillie, comedian
Movie composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope, entertainer (famous prrofile), England
John F Kennedy, 35th President (1961-1963)
Yannis Xenakis, Rumanian composer, architect, mathematician
Al Unser, auto racer
Reby Jackson, Singer
LaToya Jackson, Singer
Lisa Whelchel in Ft Worth Tx (Facts of Life)
0530
Peter I (the Great), tsar of Russia (1682-1725)
1757
Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (C), British PM (1801-04)
Alfred Austin, poet laureate of England
Peter Carl Faberg, Russian goldsmith, jeweler
James A. Farley, U.S. postmaster general (1932-38)
Stepin Fetchit, actor (In Old Kentucky, Miracle in Harlem)
Ernesto de la Guardia, Jr., president of Panama (1956-60)
Mel Blanc the voice of Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig
Benny Goodman, swinger, clarinetist, "the King of Swing."
Christine Jorgensen Pioneer transsexual
Clint Walker, actor
Keir Dullea, actor (2001, 2010)
Michael J. Pollard, actor
Gale Sayers, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
Ted McGinley
0531
Manuel I, king of Portugal (1495-1521) during era of exploration
Walt Whitman, American poet (Leaves of Grass) in West Hills, NY
Pius XI, 259th Roman Catholic pope (1922-39)
Heath Robinson, English illustrator, cartoonist
Saint-John Perse, French poet, diplomat (Nobel 1960)
Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman
Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon)
Henry Jackson (D, sort of), former U.S. senator from Washington
Edward Bennett Williams, attorney
Rainier III, prince of Monaco (1949-  )
Elaine Stewart
Clint Eastwood, actor/mayor (Dirty Harry)
Shirley Verrett, American mezzotsoprano New Orleans La
Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary
Terry Waite Church envoy
Johnny Paycheck Country Singer
Joe Namath, NY Jets QB
Sharon Gless in LA
Gregory Harrison
Tom Berenger
Brooke Shields, actress/model NYC
05??
Deanna Lund in Chicago Ill - Land of the Giants
Baseball club can re-sign their own free agents
Feast of St Joseph the Workman, stepfather of Jesus
Law Day
May Day, Intl Workers Day, Law Day, Loyalty Day, Bird Day
SS Philip & James Day (apostles) (Anglican)
Kentucky Derby
1006
Supernova observed in Lupus the Wolf constellation
Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory
England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain
1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
1st wagon train leaves Independance, Mo for Cal
John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor
1st school for deaf founded
Folies-Bergre opens in Paris
1st US postal card issued
Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper
May Day
Angel Is US Quarantine Station opens
Dogers & Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings
Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League
Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
Empire State Building opens in NYC
Charles Lindbergh's baby kidnapped
Radar for coml & private planes 1st demonstrated
Dem People's Rep of Korea (N Korea) established
Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)
Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' US spy plane
1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
1st BASIC program run on a computer (Dartmouth)
Empress Lilly dedicated
Marshall Islands becomes self-governing
Feast of St Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, confessor, doctor
May Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius
Leonardo da Vinci dies (birth date unknown)
Leonardo da Vinci Day
1670
Hudson Bay Company founded
William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris
South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville, Va
Pres Garfield assassinated
Congo Free State established by King Leopold II of Belgium
Okla Territory created
Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park opens
Russia takes Berlin
Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die
US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus
Caryl Chessman executed in Calif for kidnapping
Israelli television begins
Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver, BC
Finding of the Cross
Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
1662
Royal charter granted Conn
Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"
1st US Medical school opened
Jamaica discovered by Columbus
1st regular steam train passenger service starts
Camp Merriman established at Presidio
British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed
US marines land in Nicaragua, stay until 1933
Gil McDougald ties record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
Natl non-coml Network Radio Begins Programming
Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
Feast of St Monica, mother of St Augustine
Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
Rhode Island declares independence from England
Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
Bourbon reign restored in France
1st major SF fire
Woodward's Gardens opens to public
1st pro baseball game played (Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0)
Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather set altitude record for manned balloon
flight, 34,668 m, over Gulf of Mexico
4 students at Kent State U killed by Ohio Natl Guard
1st TV network female nudity - Steambath (PBS) - Valerie Perrine
Cinco de Mayo celebrated in Mexico
Feast of St Pius V, pope (1566-72)
Natl Teacher's Day
Tango-no-sekku (Boy's Festival) -- Japan
British attack Ft Ontario, Oswego, NY
Battle of Puebla-Mexicans defeat Maximilian's forces (Cinco de Mayo)
Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Philadelphia
Great White Fleet arrives in SF
US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
Netherlands liberated from Nazi control
1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
Council of Europe established
West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers
Jim Bailey - 1st 4 minute mile run in USA, Los Angeles, Ca
Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
Feast of St John Before the Latin Gate
Natl Nurse's Day
Sack of Rome - End Renaissance
Peter Minuet purchases Manhattan Island for $24
Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France
1st postage stamps issued, by Britain
SF Chamber of Commerce starts
Dr John Farrie Patents a "refrigeration machine"
SF Olympic Club, 1st US athletic club founded
Arkansas becomes 9th state to secede from US
Lord Cavendish assassinated at Dublin, Ireland
Mormon Church renounces polygamy
"Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street
Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ (36 die)
Roger Bannister breaks 4 min mile (3:59:4)
1st nuclear warhead is fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
17th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 7 returns to Earth
Beaufort Scale Day-measures wind force (scale 0 calm to 12 hurricane)
Feast of St Stanislaus, bishop, martyr, patron of Poland
English siege of Orlans broken by Joan of Arc
Capt Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
Indiana Territory organized
Beethoven's 9th Symphony performed for 1st time
Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
SF Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated
World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines
Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid
Nazis surrender to Gen Eisenhower at Reims, France
Kraft Television Theater premiers
French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dienbienphu
Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles)
Apparition of St Michael the Archangel
Mother's Day  Give her a call today
Native American Day
Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River
British Capt George Vancouver sights, names Mt Rainier, Wash
1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas
Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola
Mt Pele erupts, wipes out St Pierre, Martinique
1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)
Battle of Coral Sea ends
VE Day - Germany surrendered, WW II ends in Europe
Dacron men's suits introduced
1st shot-put over 60 feet - Parry O'Brien, Los Angeles, Ca
VP Nixon was shoved stoned booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru
Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
1st practical sea water conversion plant - Freeport Texas
Beatles release "Let it Be" album
Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Sq Garden
Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for ten weeks surrendered
USSR announces it would not participate in LA Summer Olympics
Feast of St Gregory Nazianzen, bishop, confessor, doctor
Victory Day (in WW II) celebrated in USSR
1502
Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to the New World
1st newspaper cartoon in America Divided snake `Join or die'
Telegraph Hill RR Co organized
17th amendment providing for election of senators by popular vote
Cornerstone for Hebrew University layed
Americans Byrd & Bennett make 1st airplane flight over North Pole
Italy annexed Ethiopia
Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)
1st Variety show - NBC's Hour Glass premiers
Robert Schuman announces Plan for European integration
FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a `vast wasteland'
House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record)
Confederate Memorial Day in North & SC
Feast of St Antoninus, bishop of Florence, confessor
2nd Cont Congress convened in Pa issues paper currency for 1st time
Col Ethan Allen captured Ft Ticonderoga, NY
George Vancouver, British explorer dies (birth date unknown)
Golden Spike driven, Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinential RR complete
William Huggins, discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies
J Edgar Hoover became head of FBI
WGY Schenectady began regular TV programming
1st US (Adler) planetarium opens, in Chicago
Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as PM
USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water
US Special delivery rates go from 45 cents to 60
Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing
Feast of SS Philip & James
Mother's Day
330
Constantinople founded
1st US fire insurance policy is issued, in Philadelphia
Columbia River discovered & named by American Capt Robert Gray
Work starts on 1st brick building in SF
Minnesota becomes 32nd state
John Herschel, cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79
Wash Senator Charlie Farrell throws out 8 attempted stealers
Bank of SF incorporated
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented
1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
BF Goodrich manufactures 1st tubeless tire, Akron, Oh
By a vote of 37-12 Israel became 59th member of UN
Jay Forrester patents computer core memory
Israelli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market
Feast of SS Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, & Pancras, martyrs
Natl Limerik Day
Pres McKinley visits SF
Airship Norge is 1st vessel over North Pole
Chicago's Adler Planetarium opens, 1st in US
Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River
Axis forces in North Africa surrender
1st foreign woman ambassador received in US - SVL Pandit, India
Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
USSR launches 3-man crew in Voskhod I
World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans
Feast of St Robert Bellarmine, bishop, confessor, doctor
Leprechaun Day
Preakness Frog Hop, Baltimore
English found Jamestown (1st permanent settlement)
Lewis & Clark begin expedition of La Purchase with Sacagawea
1st foreign embassy in Hawaii established
US declares war on Mexico
Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded
Brazil abolishes slavery
3 children see a vision of Virgin Mary at Fatima, Portugal
Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas
Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi & Lebedev for 211 days in space
Feast of St Boniface, martyr
Independence Day (in Paraguay)
1st English NA settlement (Jamestown, Va)
Paraguay gains independence from Spain (Natl Day)
Gail Borden applies for patent for condensed milk
Harvard & McGill play 1st game of American football
President Theodore Roosevelt visits SF
LA's Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US
US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) founded
PM David Ben-Gurion establishes State of Israel
Warsaw Pact formed
US launches space station Skylab 1
Soyuz 40 is launched - 1st Rumanian in space
Feast of St John Baptist de la Salle, confessor
Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean Day It may be waving at you
Whitsunday Term Day (Scotland)
Armed Forces Day
Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Batholomew Gosnold
1618
Johannes Kepler discovers his harmonics law
Whitsunday Term Day
Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse
2nd SF Vigilance Committee organized
American poet Emily Dickinson died
Sup Court dissolves Standard Oil violates Sherman Antitrust Act
US Airmail service begins (Wash DC, Philadelphia & NY)
Ellen Church 1st airline stewardess United flight SF to Cheyenne
Dept of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive
1st nylon stockings sold in US
18,000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade
USSR launched Sputnik III
Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, end US Project Mercury
Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigned from Supreme Court
George C Wallace shot & left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer
Ryukyu Islands returned to Japan after 27 years of US control
Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6
Feast of St Ubaldus, bishop, confessor
1571
Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM
James Boswell meets Samuel Johnson, in London
Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of France
Congress authorizes nickel 5 piece (replaces silver half-dime)
President Johnson acquitted in Senate, by 1 vote
Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens
Joan of Arc was canonized in Rome
Bob Meusel steals 2nd 3rd & Home
1st Academy Awards (Best film is Wings)
Israel issues its 1st stamps
American author & critic James Agee died in NY
Kraft Theatre presented an act from Profiles in Courage
Gordon Cooper completes 22 Earth orbits in Faith 7
Venera 5 lands on Venus
1st class postage now costs 8 (was 6)
Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt Everest's summit
Feast of St Paschal Baylon, confessor
Norwegian Independence Day
World Telecommunications Day (UN observance)
Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface
24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
Lewis & Clark begin exploration of La Purchase
Papal States annexed by France
Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day)
Bohemian Club incorporated
1st Kentucky Derby run at Churchill Downs Winner was Aristides
Camp Merritt established in Presidio
Pres Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show
Radio quiz show `Information Please!' debuts on NBC Blue Network
1st sports telecast - Columbia vs Princeton - College baseball
Nazis occupied Brussels Belgium
Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Ed
reversed 1896 `separate but equal' Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
1st atomic reactor system to be patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park CA
Marin County withdraws from BART district
European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite
Senate Watergate Committee began its hearings
Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty
Feast of St Venantius, bishop, martyr
Intl Museum Day
Visit Your Relatives Day
World Good-Will Day
Victoria Day -- Canada
England decares war on France
Napoleon became Emperor of France
World Good-Will Day -  26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference
Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
US passes Selective Service act
TVA Act signed by FDR
UN moves HQ to NYC
1st woman pilot faster than speed of sound (Jacqueline Cochran)
Apollo 10 launched toward lunar orbit
India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
Mt St Helens blows its top in Washington State
Feast of St Celestine V, pope (1294)
St Dunstan Day (Anglican)
1536
Anne Boleyn Executed
George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley
About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England
Sen Charles Sumner, Mass, spoke out against proslavery people
Homestead Act becomes law
Simplon Tunnel opens from Brig, Switzerland to Iselle, Italy
USSR Mars 2 launched  1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
Cameroon Natl Day
Feast of St Bernardine of Siena, confessor
325
1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea, Asia Minor
Christopher Columbus died in poverty in Spain
Mecklenburg County, NC citizens declare independence from England
1st railroad timetable published in newspaper -`Baltimore American'
1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii
NC becomes 10th state to secede from US
Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of West
Intl Bureau of Weights & Measures established by treaty
US ends occupation of Cuba
Thomas Edison said Americans preferred silent movies over talkies
Lindbergh flew NY-Paris, 1st solo flight across Atlantic
Earhart left Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic
Pan Am began transatlantic passenger & air mail service
Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane - Bikini Atoll
White mob attacks `Freedom Riders' in Montgomery, Alabama
Republic of Cameroon declared
Soyuz 14 returns to Earth
Viking 1, Mars landing
US Launches Pioneer Venus 1-produces 1st global radar map of Venus
Cambodian Martyrs Day
Dow Jones Avg closes above 1300 for 1st time
FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR
US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti
Feast of SS Constantine & Helen (Orthodox)
1st Democratic party natl convention
1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
Lawrence, Kans captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces
American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton
Yerkes Obsrvatory 40-inch refractor is used for 1st time
FIFA, soccer's intl governing body, is formed
Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo across Atlantic
Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman landed, AE Putnam
Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
1st American ship sunk by a U-boat (Robin Moor)
1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight - sunrise to sunset
Natl Maritime Day
World Trade Day
12
BC A daytime meteor shower, possibly Zeta Perseid observed in China
1761
1st life insurance policy in US,issued in Phila
1st steamer arrives in Hawaii
Violence in Senate, SC rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner
Great Train Robbery seven men made off with $98000 in cash
1st SF fireboat, David Scannell, is launched
in Chicago, Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks
Hitler & Mussolini sign `Pact of Steel'
1st ballistic missile fired
"Truman Doctrine" went into effect aiding Turkey & Greece
Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel
Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus
Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11 but wins 2-0
Ceylon became Republic of Sri Lanka
Soyuz 40 returns to Earth
BJ & Peg Hunnicutt of Mill Valley's anniversary!
1430
Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians who sold her to English
1498
Italian preacher Savonarola tortured & executed in Florence
King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null & void
1576
Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory
Capt Kidd hung in London after convicted of piracy & murder
SC becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution
Decl of Bab (Bah '¡ festival)
Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established
Postal Cards sold in SF for 1st time
1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from SF
1st direct primary election law adopted, by Wisconsin
1st automobile trip across US from SF to NY, ended April 1
Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die
NY Public Library building at Fifth Avenue dedicated by Pres Taft
Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in WW I
Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
Bonnie & Clyde shot in Louisana ambush
Industrialist John D Rockfeller died in Ormond Beach Fla
Nazi Himmler committed suicide while in prison at Luneburg Germany
West Germany was proclaimed
World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building
Israel announced capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
Scott Carpenter orbits Earth three times in US Aurora 7
Copernicus allegedly sees 1st copy of DE REVOLUTIONIBUS & dies
English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants
at Battle of Pichincha, Bol¡var secures independence of Quito
Samual FB Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought"
Berkeley named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne)
Bkln Bridge opened by Pres Arthur & Gov Cleveland
1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
Britain annexes Orange Free State (South Africa)
1st air-conditioned train installed - B&O Railroad
1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (vs Phila)
HMS Hood sunk by German battleship Bismarck
1st rocket to exceed 150 mile altitude - White Sands, NM
1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited, Pleasant Hills, Pa
Scott Carpenter & Aurora 7 launched into earth orbit
Beatles third appearance on Ed Sullivan
Soyuz 18B is launched
African Unity Day, also observed as African Freedom Day
Deposition of St Aldelmus, bishop & confessor (Anglican)
Memorial Day, a legal holiday
1085
St Gregory VII, pope (1073-85), dies (birth date unknown)
Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia
Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (Nat'l Day)
American Unitarian Assn founded
Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)
Golden Gate Intl Exposition reopens
Arther C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
Jordan gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
SF receives its 1st telecast
Bkln-Battery Tunnel opened in NYC
1st noncommercial educational television station - Houston, Texas
1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
JFK sets goal of putting a man on moon
African Unity Day
Org for African Unity formed
US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz
"Star Wars" released
Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
Return of the Jedi (Star Wars 3) released
Feast of St Philip Neri, confessor
William of Ockham Day
Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia
Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress
Montana Territory organized
President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote
Dow Jones Industrial Average adopted
SF approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utiliies
Golden Gate Bridge opens
1st president of Negro country to visit US - E Barclay, Liberia
Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
Union Square becomes State Historical Landmark
Apollo 10 returns to Earth
Venera 8 launched toward Venus
George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center
Soyuz 36 is launched
Soyuz T-4 returns to Earth
Feast of St Bede the Venerable, confessor, doctor, writer
S.F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line
Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to SF completed
Bay District Race Track closes
Bubonic Plague breaks out in SF
1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days
1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va
Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon
Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released
Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional
RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage
Golden Gate Bridge dedicated
German battleship Bismark sunk by British naval force
Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, SF opens
Permission granted to Dogers & Giants to leave NY
WDW construction begins
Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"
Inaugural Bands Parade for President Reagan
Norway Showcase groundbreaking
Feast of St Augustine, 1st Archbishop of Canterbury, confessor
Feast of St Bernard of Montjoux, patron of mountain climbers
BC Thales Miletus predicts solar eclispe Persian-Lydian battle ends
1530
Hernando de Soto lands in Fla
1st Baptist Church organized in Boston
1st Continental Congress convened in Virginia
US Customs Court created by Congress
1st all color talking picture "On With The Show" exhibited, NYC
Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor - "Melody"
Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles into space on Jupiter missle
Amnesty Intl founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
USSR Mars 3 launched  1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
Feast of St Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi, virgin
1453
Constantinople falls to Turks (Signaled end of Middle Ages)
Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth
SC formally incorporated as a royal colony
Rhode Is became last of original 13 ratifing Constitution
Wisconsin becomes 30th state
A patent for lifting vessels was granted to Abraham Lincoln
Mexican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz
Death of prophet Baha'Ullah (Ascension of Baha'Ullah)
US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
Einstein's light-bending prediction is confirmed by Arthur Eddington
1st North Pole flight in single engine plane - CF Blair
Edmund Hillary & Norgay of NZ become 1st to reach top of Mt Everest
Actor, Kirk & Anne Douglas married
1st class postage now 15 (13 for 3 years)
Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m
Eta Pegasid meteor shower, radiant in Pegasus
Feast of St Felix, pope (268-73), martyr
Feast of St Jean d'Arc, Maid of Orleans
Real Memorial Day (Decoration Day)
1431
Joan of Arc burned at stake in Rouen France at 19
U of Marburg (Germany) founded
French philosopher Voltaire died
1st Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's 1st abdication
Territories of Kansas & Nebraska created
Indianapolis 500 car race run for 1st time
Joan d'Arc Day
Patent on invisible glass installation
US launches Surveyor 1 to the Moon
US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
3 Jap PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lydda airport
Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
Spain became 16th member of North Atlantic Treaty Org
Feast of Queenship of Mary (Visitation)
Republic Day, celebrated in South Africa
1433
Joan of Arc has a hot time at stake
Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry
Composer Franz Josef Hayden died in Vienna Austria
Kansas Territory established
Battle of Fair Oaks, Va; North defeats South
1st recorded bicycle race, 2 kilometers in Paris
1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition
Madison Square Garden opens its doors
Johnstown Flood; 2,000 die in Penn
US troops arrive in Peking, help put down Boxer Rebellion
Union of South Africa formed
17th amendment providing popular election of senators
During WW I British & German fleets fought Battle of Jutland
Construction begins on cosmodrome launch facilities
South Africa becomes a republic (Natl Day)
WW II Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann hung in Israel
Tens of thousands in Peru die in an earthquake
Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights
Martha Mitchell wife of former Att General John Mitchell dies in NY
0500
National Tavern Month
0601
1563
Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English chief minister (1598-1625)
Brigham Young, Mormon church leader, polygamist
Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer
John Masefield Engld poet
Molly Picon, actress
Frank Whittle, inventor of a jet engine
Nelson Riddle, musical conductor
Andy Griffith (Matlock, sheriff of Mayberry)
Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Baker), actress (Some Like It Hot)
Georgi T. Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
Pat Boone singer
Cleavon Little, actor
Frederica von Stade opera singer
Linda Scott
Ron Wood rock guitarist (Faces/Rolling Stones)
Tom Sneva, US auto racer
Chiyonofuji, sumo wrestler
0602
Marquis de Sade 1st known sadist
St. Pius X, 257th Roman Catholic pope (1903-14)
English novelist Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, English poet and novelist (Mayor of Casterbridge)
Karl Gjellerup, Danish poet, novelist (Nobel 1917)
Sir Edward Elgar composer (Pomp & Circumstance)
Hedda Hopper
Johnny Weissmuller swimmer-actor (Tarzan)
Brock Peters, actor, singer
Phillip Burton
Chuck Barris TV producer
Charles Conrad, Jr., astronaut (Gemini 5, 11, Apollo 12, Skylab 2)
Sally Kellerman in California
King Constantine of Greece
Charlie Watts Rolling Stones drummer
Stacy Keach, actor
Charles Haid, actor (Hill Street Blues)
Garo Yepremian, NFL place kicker (Miami Dolphins)
Marvin Hamlisch
Jerry Mathers the "Beaver"
0603
William Hone, English author, bookseller (The Every-Day Book)
Jefferson Davis Pres of Confederacy (1861-1865)
Garret Augustus Hobart (R), 24th U.S. vice-president (1897-99)
Ransom Eli Olds auto (Oldsmobile) & truck (REO) manufacturer
George V, king of England (1910-36)
Josephine Baker, dancer, singer
Paulette Goddard
Ellen Corby
Alain Resnais, French film director
Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz), actor (Some Like It Hot, Trapeze)
Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet (Howl)
Collen Dewhurst, actress
Curtis Mayfield musician
Suzi Quatro, Detroit (Happy Days)
Deneice Williams singer
0604
1694
Franois Quesnay, French economist, leader of the Physiocrats
George III, English king during American Revolution (1760-1820)
Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Finnish military hero, president (1944-46)
Roselind Russell
Howard Metzenbaum (D), Ohio sen
Robert Merrill, baritone
Gene Barry, actor (Bat Masterson)
Dennis Weaver, actor (Chester in Gunsmoke, Duel)
Robert Earl Hughes, became heaviest known human (486 kg)
John Barrymore, Jr., actor
Bruce Dern, actor (Coming Home, Silent Running, Tatoo)
Freddie Fender country singer
Bettina Gregory News woman
Rosemary Joyce
Parker Stevenson
Andrea Jagger in Chicago Tennis player
0605
Adam Smith, economist (Wealth of Nations) (baptized) Kirkcaldy Scot
John Couch Adams, codiscoverer of Neptune
Francisco (Pancho) Villa, Mexican revolutionary, guerrilla leader
John Maynard Keynes in Cambridge England Economist
Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (Patterns of Culture)
Federico Garc¡a Lorca, Spanish poet and dramatist
Dennis Gabor invented holography
Tony Richardson, English director (Delicate Balance, Hotel N.H.)
Robert Lansing
Bill Moyers, news commentator
Charles Joseph Clark (P-C), 16th Canadian prime minister (1979-80)
0606
1436
Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), prepares astronomical tables
Diego Vel zquez, Spanish painter
Nathan Hale patriot
John Trumbull painter
Karl F. Braun, codeveloper of wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909)
Thomas Mann, German novelist (Magic Mountain) (Nobel 1929)
Paul Dudley White, heart specialist
Walter Abel, actor
Aram Khachaturian, Russian musician, composer
Bill Dickey, Baseball hall-of-famer
Kathran Graham, publisher (Washington Post)
Walter Percy Chrysler, cars
Billie Whitelaw, actrees
David R. Scott, U.S. astronaut (Gemini 8, Apollo 9, 15)
Bobby Mitchell, NFL running back, wide receiver (Browns, Redskins)
Dalai Lama religious leader
Gary "US" Bonds singer & songwriter
Playwright Harvey Fierstein
Bjorn Borg Racketeer
Sydney Walsh
0607
Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced the Gregorian calendar in 1582
Earl of Liverpool (C), British prime minister (1812-27)
Beau Brummel, English dandy
(Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin French post-impressionist painter
Robert Mulliken, U.S. chemist, physicist (Nobel 1966)
George Szell conductor
Jessica Tandy, actress in London
Peter Rodino (D), NJ Rep
Rocky Graziano pugilist
John Turner (L), 17th Canadian prime minister (1984)
Dolores Gray
Tom Jones, singer
Thurman Munson Yankee Capt
Prince, rocker
0608
570
Mohammed prophet of Islam
Giovanni Domenico Cassini, discovered 4 satellites of Saturn
Robert Schumann in Germany composer
Sir John Everett Millais, English painter
Ida Sazton McKinley, first lady
Frank Lloyd Wright, master builder in Richland Center, Wisc
Francis Crick, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA (Nobel 1962)
Byron R. (Whizzer) White, football star, U.S. Supreme Court justice
Robert Preston actor
Alexis Smith, actress BC Canada
Jerry Stiller, comedian
Dana Wynter in London
Joan Rivers, comedian
Millicent Martin
Herb Adderley, NFL defensive back (Green Bay, Dallas)
Nancy Sinatra in Jersey City er boots were made for walkin'
Boz Scaggs, rocker
Griffin Dunne
0609
George Stephenson principal RR locomotive inventor
John Howard Payne, American author, actor, diplomat
Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist, pacifist (Nobel 1905)
Carl Nielsen, Danish composer
Cole Porter, composer, lyricist (Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate)
Fred Waring musician-conductor
Les Paul guitarist
Robert S. McNamara, former U.S. secretary of defense
Marvin Kalb Newsman
Donald Duck famous fowl
Dave Parker baseball player
Bonnie Tyler Singer
Michael J Fox (Family Ties, Teen Wolf)
0610
John Dollond, owner of 1st patent for achromatic lens
Immanuel Velikovsky, writer (Worlds in Collision)
Frederick Loewe, composer
Prince Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, Mr Elizabeth II
Judy Garland (Frances Gumm) not in Kansas any more (Wizard of Oz)
Maurice Sendak, children's author, illustrator, set designer
James A. McDivitt, U.S. astronaut (Gemini 4, Apollo 9)
F. Lee Bailey, American attorney
Andrew Stevens
0611
Queen's Birthday
1572
Ben Jonson, English playwright, poet (Volpone, The Alchemist)
J G Palitzsch, 1st saw Halley's comet on return, in Prolitz
John Constable in England painter
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of English women's movement
Richard Strauss, German composer (Till Eulenspiegel)
Charles Fabry found ozone layer in upper atmosphere
Jeannette Rankin, 1st woman elected to US Congress (from Montana)
Y. Kawabata
Paul Mellon philanthropist
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, oceanic explorer aboard calypso, France
Ris Stevens, mezzo-soprano
Vince Lombardy, NFL coach (Green Bay Packers)
William Styron Author
Richard Todd, actor
William Styron, novelist (Confessions of Nat Turner)
Gene Wilder, actor (Young Frankenstein, Silver Streak)
Chad Everett acted like a doctor
Jackie Stewart fast driver
Adrienne Barbeau wife of John Carpenter (Maude)
Joe Montana signal caller
0612
Charles Kingsley, English clergyman, novelist (Westward Ho!)
Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (Heidi)
Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon (C), British prime minister (1955-57)
David Rockefeller Intl Power Broker
Irwin Allen Movie disaster producer
Uta Hagen
Vera Ralston, actress
George Herbert Walker Bush (R), 43rd VP (1981-89)
Vic Damone
Anne Frank, diarist
Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle) Actor-singer
Rona Jaffe Author
Chick Corea a funky jazz musician
Marv Albert - Yes! Sportscaster
0613
823
Charles II (the Bald), king of France (843-77), emperor (875-77)
Winfield Scott, American army general, presidential candidate
James Clerk Maxwell, physicist, formulated electromagnetic theory
William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Wild Swans at Coole) (Nobel 1923)
mile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
Harold "Red" Grange "Galloping Ghost" of football
Ralph Edwards (This is your Life)
Christo, artist
Richard Thomas, AKA John Boy
Ally Sheedy, NY
Bettina Bunge Tennis player
0614
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist, formulated Coulomb's Law
Harriet Beecher Stowe authoress (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
John Bartlett, American editor, compiler of Familiar Quotations
Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician
Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, pathologist
Karl Landsteiner, immunologist, pathologist (Nobel 1930)
Burl Ives folk singer-actor
Dorothy McGuirre of McGuirre sisters
Sam Wanamaker Actor-director
Pierre Salinger ABC newsman former White House press sect
Ernesto (Che) Guevara, Latin American revolutionary
Marla Gibbs in Chicago Ill
Jerzy Kosinski Author
Joan Van Ark in NYC (or 06-16)
Donald Trump Master Builder
Bob Frankston, VisiCalc programmer
Eddie Mekka
Eric Heiden zooms across Olympic ice
Boy George Dowd androgynous rock musician & druggie
Steffi Graff in W Germany Tennis player
0615
1330
Edward, the Black Prince
Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson, 1st lady
Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer
Morris K. Udall (D-Az-Rep)
Mario Cuomo (D-NY-gov)
Waylon Jennings singer of innumerable country songs
Harry Nilsson laid-back singer & songwriter
Nicola Pagett
Judy Pace in LA
Tom Forzani, CFL wide receiver (Calgary Stampeders)
0616
Arthur Meighen (C), 9th prime minister of Canada (1920-21, 1926)
Stan Laurel file comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
Barbara McClintock, U.S. cytogeneticist (Nobel 1983)
Helen Traubel opera singer
Enoch Powell, British Conservative, racist
Katharine Graham newspaper publisher ("Washington Post")
John Howard Griffin, American photographer, author (Black Like Me)
Erich Segal, author (Love Story)
Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights)
0617
1239
Edward I, king of England (1272-1307)
John Wesley, cofounder of Methodist movement
William Hooper, signed Decl of Ind
Charles Gounod in France composer
George Cormack invented "Wheaties" cereal
Igor Stravinsky invented Rite of Spring
Ralph Bellamy, actor
John Hersey, author (Hiroshima, A Bell for Adano)
Dean Martin, singer, actor
Kingman Brewster, Yale pres
Beryl Reid
Franois Jacob, French biologist, bacteriologist (Nobel 1965)
Elroy (Crazylegs) Hirsch, AAFC, NFL halfback, end (L.A. Rams)
Tigran Petrosyan of USSR, world chess champion (1963-69)
Bobby Bell, NFL linebacker (Kansas City)
Barry Manilow, singer
Phylicia Allen Ayers Rashad in Houston Tx (Cosby)
Joe Piscopo, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
0618
William Lassell, discoverer of satellites of Uranus and Neptune
Ivan Goncharov, Russian novelist, travel writer (Oblomov)
Henry Clay Folger, Jr., American businessman, Shakespeare fan
James Montgomery Flagg illustrator "I want you" recruiting poster
George Mallory, English mountain climber ("because it is there")
Jeanette MacDonald - 'When I'm calling you'
Kay Kyser, radio and film personality (Three Little Fishes)
E.G. Marshall (Defenders)
Sylvia Porter financial writer
Tom Wicker, (NY Times)
Eva Bartok, actress Budapest Hungry
Vitali M. Zholobov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 21)
Paul McCartney Yeah-Yeah-Yeah
Linda Thorson in Canada
Carol Kane in Cleveland Ohio (Taxi-Simpka)
Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet)
Janice Merrill, track star
0619
James VI of Scotland (1567-1625)/James I of England (1603-25)
1623
Blaise Pascal, mathematician, physicist, religious writer
Elbert Hubbard Essayist
Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
Guy Lombardo conductor
Henry Louis Gehrig Yankees "Iron Horse"
Mildred Natwick Actress
Quentin N Burdick (Sen-D-NC)
Osamu Dazai, Japanese novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human)
Alan Cranston (Seb-D-CA) Pres candidate
Pauline Kael Movie critic
Louis Jourdan, France
Howell Heflin (Sen-D-AL)
Aage N. Bohr, Danish physicist, studied atomic nucleus (Nobel 1975)
Leo Nomellini, NFL defensive tackle (San Francisco 49ers)
Nancy Marchand, actress
Pier Angeli in Italy
Viktor I. Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
Gena Rowlands in Cambria Wisc
Malcolm McDowell (Clockwork Orange)
Kathleen Turner (Peggy Sue got Married)
Ann Wilson in San Diego (Heart)
Mark DeBarge Rocker
Garfield the cat "Big fat hairy deal"
0620
1674
Nicholas Rowe, dramatist, English poet laureate
Jacques Offenbach in France composer
Lillian Hellman, playwright (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes)
Errol Flynn actor
Audie Murphy, war hero, actor
Chet Atkins Country Guitar Player
Brian Wilson (Beachboy)
Anne Murray in Nova Scotia singer
Andr Watts, concert pianist
Candy Clark Actress
Lionel Richie, singer
Cyndi Lauper in Bkln - A fun girl
John Taylor, rocker
0621
Martha Washington-1st, 1st lady
Daniel D. Tompkins (D-R), 6th VP (1817-25)
Rockwell Kent artist
Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian
Al Hirschfeld Cartoonist
Dorothy Stickney, actress
Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, writer (Nobel 1964; declined)
Mary McCarthy, American novelist (Group)
Jane Russell full-figured gal Bemidji Minn  (Outlaw)
Judy Holliday
Maureen Stapleton in Troy NY
Carl Stokes, mayor of Cleveland
Lawrence K Grossman NBC News president
Margaret Heckler, former HEW secretary
Bernie Kopell (Love Boat)
Monte Markham Actor
Franoise Sagan, French novelist
Ron Ely (Tarzan)
Mariette Hartley (Poloroid spokesperson)
Joe Flaherty Comedian (2nd City)
Ray Davies a kinky singer
Meredith Baxter-Birney in Cal (Family Ties)
Michael Gross (Family Ties)
Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani opposition leader
Prince William of Wales Prince Chuck & Lady Di's baby
0622
George Vancouver, surveyed Pacific coast from S.F. to Vancouver I
Paul Morphy, US, greatest chess player of all time champ (1857-61)
Giacomo Puccini, Italian operatic composer
Sir Julian Huxley, biologist and philosopher of science
Erich Maria Remarque, novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Billy Wilder movie director
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American aviator, author (Gift from the Sea)
Katherine Dunham, American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist
Peter Pears, tenor
Joseph Papp, stage producer and director
Bill Blass, fashion designer
Dianne Feinstein (D-mayor-SF)
Kris Kristofferson, singer/actor (Amerika)
Ed Bradley CBS News somewhere
Todd Rundgren (Hello, it's Me)
Lindsey Wagner, LA (Bionic Woman)
Meryl Streep, NJ (French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choice)
0623
Josphine, empress of France
George Sax inventor of saxophone
Irvin S. Cobb, American writer, humorist
Alfred Kinsey, sexologist
Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII of England, briefly in 1936)
David Ogilvy advertising whiz
Alan Turing mathematician pioneer in computer theory
William P. Rogers, former sec of state
Irene Worth in Nebraska
Bob Fosse, choreographer, director (Cabaret, Damn Yankees)
June Carter Cash country singer & Johnny's wife in Virginia
Donn F. Eisele, astronaut (Apollo 7)
Bert Convy, game show host
Wilma Rudolph retired Olympic athlete
James Levine musical conductor
Ted Shackelford
0624
Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman, orator
Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift & Co
Ambrose Bierce, satirist
Jack Dempsey, Heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26) (Manassa Mauler)
Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review)
Sir Fred Hoyle, cosmologist, proposed steady-state universe theory
John Ciardi, poet, critic, translator of Dante
Sibohan McKenna, actress
Jack Carter
David McTaggart, cofounder of Greenpeace
Michele Lee, LA (Falcon's Crest)
Nancy Allen actress
Danielle Spencer in Bronx
0625
Henry (Hap) Arnold, commanding general, US Army Air Force in WW II
George Abbott, Broadway luminary
Hermann Oberth, founder of modern astronautics
Earl Mountbatten of Burma, royal relative
George Orwell, English satirist, author (Animal Farm, 1984)
J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (atomic nuclei) (Nobel 1963)
Sidney Lumet, movie director
June Lockhart in NYC - Lassie's mom
Robert Venturi, American architect
Willis Reed Basketball hall-of-famer
Carly Simon, NYC (You're So Vain)
Phyllis George in Denton Tx - Miss America
George Michael in England
Hermann Oberth, father of German rocketry
0626
Dr. Philip Doddridge, English Nonconformist clergyman
Charles Messier, cataloguer of "M objects"
Arthur Middleton, signer of the Declaration of Independence
George Morland, English artist
Abner Doubleday credited with inventing American Baseball
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, engineer, mathematician, physicist
Sir Robert Laird Borden (C), 8th Canadian prime minister (1911-20)
Pearl S. Buck, author (The Good Earth) (Nobel 1938)
Stuart Symington (D), former U.S. senator from Missouri
Peter Lorre, actor (M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers)
Maurice Wilkes, invented the stored program concept for computers
Eleanor Parker, actress
Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (Voskhod 2)
Billy Davis singer
Pamela Bellwood
Mick Jones, rocker
Zeng Jinlian, became tallest woman known (2.46 m, 8' 1")
0627
1462
Louis XII (the Just), king of France (1498-1515)
1550
Charles IX, king of France (1560-74)
Charles XII, king of Sweden (1697-1718)
Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist
Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian poet, novelist, playwright (Under the Yoke)
Lafcadio Hearn, American journalist, author (Chita)
Emma Goldman, anarchist
Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet and short story writer
Helen Keller blind-deaf author-lecturer had more sense than many
Willie Mosconi, world champion pool player
IAL Diamond Screenwriter
Bob Keeshan aka Capt Kangaroo (Good Morning Captain)
H Ross Periot Billionaire
Anna Moffo, soprano in Wayne Penn
Bruce E. Babbitt (Gov-D-AL)
Norma Kamali
Julia Duffy in Minneapolis Mn (Newhart Show)
Isabelle Adjani
0628
1491
Henry VIII of England (1509-47).  Don't lose your head over him
1577
Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter
Jean Jacques Rousseau in France social contractor
Paul Broca, French brain surgeon, anthropologist
Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (6 Characters) (Nobel 1934)
Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, sociologist, biologist (Nobel 1912)
Richard Rogers composer
Mel Brooks, comedian, actor, director (To Be or Not to Be)
Gilda Radner, comedian (Saturday Night Live - Baba Wawa) Detroit
Patrick Kincaid send him a card author of TODAY
Danielle Briesbois - Archie Bunker's girl
0629
George Washington Goethals built Panama Canal
William James Mayo, American surgeon
Shigechiyo Izumi, alive at 120 (greatest authenticated human age)
Antoine Saint-Exupry, French aviator, writer (Wind, Sand & Stars)
Nelson Eddy singer
LeRoy Anderson composer
Ruth Warwick in St Joseph Missouri
Slim Pickens, actor (Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles)
Cara Williams
Robert Evans
Carl Levin (Sen-D-MI)
Harmon Killebrew, baseball player
Gary Busey
Fred Grandy - Love Boats Gopher
0630
1470
Charles VIII, king of France (1483-98), invaded Italy
Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, first lady
William A. Wheeler (R), 19th U.S. vice-president (1877-81)
Jan Peerce, tenor
Juan Bosch, poet, president of the Dominican Republic (1962-63)
Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-American writer (Nobel 1980)
Dan Reeves, NFL team owner (Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams)
Buddy Rich, drummer
Lena Horne singer Bkln NY
Susan Hayward in Flatbush Bkln
Harry Blackstone Jr magician
Nancy Dussault in Fla
All Saint's Day (Eastern Orthodox)
Feast of St. Angela Merici, virgin
Western Samoa National Day
International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward Howe)
1st earthquake recorded in U.S., at Plymouth, Mass
Kentucky becomes 15th state
Tennessee becomes 16th state
Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto 'Don't give up the ship'
Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
US adventurer Wm. Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery
Renegade Irish Fenians invade Fort Erie Ontario from US
U.S. troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico
Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp starts 2130 game streak
Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
1st TV heavyweight boxing match - Max Baer vs Lou Nova
1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers - Newsweek
1st self-contained titanium plant opened Henderson Nevada
1st US runner breaks 4 minute mile - Don Bowden
constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
A Penzias and R. Wilson detect 3 degree Kelvin primordial background
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, by the Beatles, is released
Beatles release "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
Soyuz 9 launched into earth orbit for 18 days
Ed Sullivan's final show
weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg
Feast of SS. Marcellinus, Peter, martyrs, & Erasmus, bishop, martyr
Republic (Constitution) Day celebrated in Italy
455
Gaiseric and the Vandals sack Rome
1st Prohibition law enacted in Maine
Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer
Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
Ground broken on Clay Street for world's 1st cable railroad
ground broken on Clay Street for world's 1st cable railroad
1st night baseball under lights Ft Wayne IN
1st to wed during presidency-Grover Cleveland
1st statewide initiative and referendum law adopted, in Oregon
Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
US citizenship granted to all American Indians
Gen. Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
Yankee great Lou Gehrig dies at 37
Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum 1st moon soft-landing
Sgt Pepper album released in US
NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
John Paul II 1st pope to visit a communist country Poland
Toilet catches fire in Douglas DC-9 23 die at Cincinnati
Actress Jill Ireland had a radical masectomy
Egg Day
1539
Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands"
Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in California
Alex Mackenzie began exploration of Mackenzie River
"Casey at the Bat" published (SF Examiner)
ROTC established by Act of Congress
Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin knighted
Atlantic crossing record French "Normandie":  1077 hours
Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor married Wallis Warfield Simpson
Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
200 inch Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory
Dragnet's 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in LA)
Howard Cosell's 1st TV show
1st US Air Force Academy graduation
Gemini IV is launched Ed White 1st American to walk in space
Gemini 9 launched; 7th U.S. 2-man flight
US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled
Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination
Pope John Paul II released from hospital after attempt on life
Feast of St. Francis Caracciolo, confessor
Old Maid's Day
UN's Intl Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
780
BC 1st total solar eclipse reliably recorded by Chinese
British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner
Mme. Thible becomes 1st woman to fly (in a balloon)
Capt. George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain
La Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"
Empire Engine Company No 1 organized
Henry takes his 1st Ford through sts of Detroit
US marines invade Costa Rica
British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops
Battle of Midway begins 1st naval battle won in air
1st submarine captured & boarded on high seas - U 505
Rome liberated from Mussolini's Fascist armies
Largest solar prominence (300,000 miles) is observed
Taft-Hartley Act approved despite Truman veto
Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public
1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation
Tonga gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills two
Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon
Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
Jonathan Pollard spy for Israel pleads guilty
Constitution Day celebrated in Denmark
Feast of St. Boniface, bishop of Mainz, martyr, Apostle of Germany
Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
Adam Smith Day
Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight
Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
Danish National Day - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention
Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens
10 million American men began registering for draft in WW I
1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell
US goes off gold standard
1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh
Battle of France begins in WW II
1st B-29 bombing raid 1 plane lost; engine failure
Sec of State George C Marshall outlines `The Marshall Plan'
Israel Syria Jordan Iraq & Egypt begin 6-Day War
Richard Speck sentenced to death in the electric chair
Sen Robert F Kennedy assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan
"If You Had Wings" opens
U.N. Conference on the Human Environment opens in Stockholm
Suez Canal reopens (after 6 Day War caused it to close)
Revolution in Seychelles Islands
Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
TODAY/PC ran for 1st time
Conquistador Cielo wins Belmont Stakes by 14 1/2 lengths
Feast of St. Norbert, archbishop of Magdeburg, confessor
Swedish Constitution and Flag Day (National Day)
YMCA founded in London
Great Fire in Seattle
Alaska Yukon and Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to U.S. (not ratified)
Battle of Belleau Wood 1st US victory of WWI
Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp
US Federal gas tax enacted
1st drive-in theatre opens in Camden NJ
US Employment Service created
Securities & Exchange Commission established
Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro NJ
1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
1st nylon parachute jump Hartford Ct Adeline Gray
Japanese forces retreated in WW II Battle of Midway
D-Day invasion of Europe Allies storm Normandy France
Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
Activist James Meredith shot in Mississippi
Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with 'angry alligator'
6 day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin
Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
British voters decide to remain on Common Market
Supreme Court tossed out automatic death penalty laws
Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
Israel invades Lebanon to drive out PLO
1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
Body of Dr Josef Mengele Nazi criminal located & exhumed
Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
2012
transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs
Chad National Day
1654
Louis XIV crowned king of France
Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Ky
Richard Lee Virginia calls for Declaration of Independence
Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
Workmen start laying Market Street RR track
Mexico City captured by French troops
Abe Lincoln renominated for Pres by Republican Party
Norway declares independence from Sweden
Vatican City becomes a soverign state
Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown by Eddie Allen
Communists take over Czechoslovakia
1st color network telecast in compatible color Boston Mass
1st microbiology laboratory dedicated - New Brunswick NJ
1st President to appear on television in color - DD Eisenhower
Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
Judy Holiday dies at 42
Israel captures Wailing Wall
Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination
Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut
German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel
Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay law
Temperance Hill wins Belmont Stakes (50:1 long shot)
Israel destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility
Pres Reagan meets Pope John Paul II & Queen Elizabeth
Queen's official birthday; Great Britain's National Day
632
Prophet Mohammed died
Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
1st commercially-made ice cream sold in NY
Tennessee secedes from Union
Ives McGaffey patents his vacuum cleaner  (It sucks)
Cable Cars begin service in LA
William Jennings Bryan quits as Sec of State
Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
Element 93 Neptunium - discovery announced
Segregated lunch counters in D C forbidden by Supreme Court
Tornadoes kills 110 in Mich & Ohio
1st official `missile mail' landed Jacksonville Fla
NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970
Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34
Soviets launch Venera 9 to Venus
The Source, 1st computer public information service, goes online
Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament
Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria
2004
Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
Feast of SS. Primus and Felician, martyrs
68
Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide
royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe
SF Committee of Vigilance forms
1st dime novel published
1st meeting of Board of Regents U of Cal
Alvin Graham Clark dies 3 weeks after 1st use of Yerkes 40-inch lens
China leases Hong Kong's New Territories to Britain for 99 years
Goddard patents rocket-fueled aircraft design
About 100 die in Worcester MA tornado
1st ballistic missile sub launched "George Washington"
"Cleopatra" opens in NY
Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice
First All-Nite Grad Parties
Secretariat wins Belmont Stakes & Triple Crown
Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks
Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth
Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley
Laserphonic Fantasy premieres
Rogers Commission report released blame on Morton Thiokol
1997
British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires
Feast of St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland, widow
Portuguese National Day
1580
Lu¡s Vaz de Camoes, Portugal's national poet, dies
1st American log cabin at Ft Christina (Wilmington Del)
Ben Franklin flies kit in storm
1772
Burning of the Gaspee British revenue cutter by Rhode Islanders
State of Tripoli declares war on the US
Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany
Agnes arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
US Marines land at Cuba in Spanish-American War
Portuguese Natl Day
1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass
Alcoholics Anonymous formed in Akron by Dr Robert Smith
Italy declares war on France & Britain
Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia) Gestapo kills 173
Nazis exterminate village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia
FDR 1st US pres to visit foreign country during wartime
Joe Nuxhall at 15 became youngest ML baseball player
Establishment of Italian Republic
PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting
1st virus separated into component parts - reported
Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked
Israel Syria Jordan Iraq Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help
Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II
James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 2.39 m
Feast of St Barnabas, apostle
King Kamehameha I Day in Hawaii (1737-1819)
1488
Battle of Sauchieburn, Scotland
Capt Cook runs aground on Australian Great Barrier Reef
Iowa Territory organized
Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada
300' of Meigg's Wharf washed away in storm
1st auto race
Sir Barton 1st horse to win the Triple Crown
Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released
US & USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II
WW II sugar rationing finally ends
1st jet magnesium airplane flown
George Wallace backs down at Alabama schoolhouse door
US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya
Main Street Electrical Parade premieres
Train & school hostage incident in Netherlands ends
Seattle Slew won Belmont Stakes & Triple Crown
K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service SF
Israel & Syria stop fighting in Lebanon
Larry Holmes defeats Gerry Cooney retains WBC heavyweight crown
Movie "E T The Extra-Terrestrial" released
Feast of St John of San Facondo, confessor
Independence Day celebrated in Phillipines
English rename New Amsterdam NY after Dutch pull out
Va 1st to adopt Bill of Rights
Senators must be at least 30
Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins
Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass
1st baseball game played in America
Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain
Secret Service extend protection of pres to his family
Farmer Labor Party organized
Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up
into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] & United Air Lines
1st 50KW radio station, Pittsburgh Pa
USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued
Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY
Philippines National Day
Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg
Medgar Evers, NAACP official, murdered in Jackson, Miss
Israel wins 6 day war
USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
Tricia Nixon & Edward F Cox marry at White House
John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released including "Woman
is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" & "Luck of the Irish"
Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library
Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel
750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators in Central Park NYC
P W Botha declares South African national emergency
Feast of St Anthony of Padua, patron of lovers, illiterate, poor
Kitchen Klutzes of America Day
National Asparagus Festival, Shelby, Mich
323
BC Alexander the great dies of fever at Babylon
1373
Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed
John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowns
Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital
China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians
Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
1st sodium vapor lamps installed Schenectady NY
Federal Savings & Loan Association authorized
Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks
Vostok 6 launched Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman cosmonaut
Miranda vs Az decision-Suspect must be informed of rights
Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice
NY Times began publishing Pentagon Papers
Convicted assassin James Earl Ray recaptured
Former Supreme Court Justice Tom C Clark died in NY at 77
Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation
A teen-ager fired six blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave Solar System
Benny Goodman the clarinet playing King of Swing died in NY at 77
Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
Geraldine Page dies
Feast of St Basil the Great, bishop, confessor, doctor
Flag Day
US Army founded
Continental Congress in Phila adopts Stars & Stripes as flag
Former Revolutionary War Gen Benedict Arnold died in London
1st Canadian parliament opened in Kingston
California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma
Bunsen invents a gas burner
Fire destroys part of SF
All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games
California St Cable Car RR Co gets it's franchise
Hawaiian Territorial Government begins
Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
1st direct airplane crossing of Atlantic
Baltimore radio station WEAR 1st to put on a President (Harding)
Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
German forces occupied Paris during WW II
Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS
1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct
Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released
1st B-29 raid against Mainland Japan
TV Guide is published
UNIVAC 1, 1st commercial computer, unveiled
Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub the Nautilus
Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words `under God' to the Pledge
Valery F Bykovsky 5th cosmonaut, first woman in space (Vostok 5)
Launch of Mariner V for Venus flyby
USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
Gong Show premiers
M L King killer James Earl Ray recaptured after prison break
Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is ending 74-day conflict
Lebanese Shiite Moslem gunmen hijack TWA 847 after Athens' takeoff
Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges in Geneva dies at 86
Death claimed Broadway librettist Alan Jay Lerner in NY at 67
`Wild Kingdom' host Marlin Perkins dies near St Louis at 81
Feast of SS Vitus, Modestus, Crescentia, martyrs
USAF launches first "Big Bird" reconnaissance satellites
Father's Day
763
BC Assyrians record total solar eclipse event on clay tablet
1215
King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede England
1389
Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs, Bosnians
1520
Pope threatens to toss Luther out of Catholic Church
NJ established
Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-What a shock
Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army
2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident
12th Amendment ratified manner of choosing President & VP
Arkansas becomes 25th state
Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber
Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49ø N
SF Water Works organized
Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington Va) turned into a milt cemetery
1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras taking 1
picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
"General Slocum" boat catches fire; over a thousand die
44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference
1st flight across Atlantic (Alcock & Brown)
Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens
France surrenders to Hitler
American forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific
1st coml  electronic computer dedicated Phila
Gov Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill
Soyuz 19 launched
Spain's 1st free elections since 1936
Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days
Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat
Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity
UN's Internatl Day of Solidarity with People of South Africa
1567
Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison
BC Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon
Battle of Bunker Hill (actually Breed's Hill)
Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Ill
"A house divided against itself cannot stand" Abraham Lincoln
Ford Motor Company vehicle manufacturer
Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses)
1st nonstop transatlantic flight completed
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (US) created (FDIC)
National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)
Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA
1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC
1st network news - Dumont's "News from Washington"
Pravda denounces Marshall Plan
Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated Erie Pa
Rudolf Nureyev Soviet ballet dancer defects to West
Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM
Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6
Soweto Day Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa
US ambassador to Lebanon kidnapped & killed
Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR
Wernher von Braun dies at 65 from smoking
Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners
Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race
One-day general strike in South Africa
Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession
charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him
Republic Day celebrated in Iceland
St Alban's Day (Anglican)
Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)
3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly
Republican Party opened its 1st convention in Phila
Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'
Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in NY
France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
1st American expeditionary force to land in Africa (WW2)
Rep of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir
German Fed Rep National Day
1st round-the-world civil air service left NYC
Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius &
Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for the next day their 14th anniversary
Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ended
Supreme Court strikes down Lord's Prayer recitation
US returns control of Okinawa to Japanese
Democratic HQs at Watergate burglarized, wire-tapped
President Galtieri resigns in Argentina
Ronald Reagan's "evil empire" speech
18th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 5 is launched
Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated
Singer Kate Smith dies in Raleigh NC at 79
NY Yankee & KC Royal Mgr Dick Howser dies at 51 of brain cancer
Feast of St Ephrem, confessor, doctor
1178
Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno
British Redcoats evacuate Phila
War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain
Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington & Blcher
Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall
Susan B Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President
Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
Amusement pier opens, Atlantic City, NJ
Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to cross Atlantic
US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
Winston Churchill urged perseverance so that future generations
would remember that "this was their finest hour"
William Joyce-Lord Haw-Haw Brit radio traitor charged with treason
Egypt proclaimed a republic
1st telecast transmitted from England to US
118 die in crash of British European Airways jet
Saudi Prince Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz beheaded in Riyadh
shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king
Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation
Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft
for 1st time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced
by Sandra Day O'Connor 1st woman on high court)
Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st US woman
52 die in plane/helicopter collision over Grand Canyon
Feast of St Juliana Falconieri, virgin
240
BC Eratosthenes estimates circumference of earth
English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island NC
146 English people imprisoned in Black Hole of Calcutta
Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge
US declares war on England
Anaheim PO established
Slavery outlawed in US territories
Mexican Emperor Maximilian executed, Mexican republic restored
Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio
Father's Day celebrated for 1st time in Spokane Wash
After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to
dispense with German titles & surnames They took the name Windsor
1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct
1st concert given in SF's Stern Grove
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
1st TV sports spectacular - Joe Louis vs Billy Conn
1st plane to exceed 600 mph - Albert Boyd Muroc Ca
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg executed at Sing Sing Prison Ossining NY
(Julius takes 3 tries, Ethel 5)
Kuwait gains independence from Britain
US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution
requiring state office holders to belief in existence of God
Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to earth
Civil Rights Act of 1964 survived an 83-day filibuster in Senate
A Nikolayev and V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9
US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from earth
Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cent bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint
Boeing Coml Chinook two-rotor helicopter gets certified
European Space Agency's Ariane carries two satellites into orbit
Artificial heart recipient Murray P Haydon died in Louisville Ky
Len Bias 1st pick of Celtics suffers fatal cocaine-induced seizure
Feast of St Silverius, pope (536-37), martyr
1632
Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
British soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most died
Battle of Stone Ferry
Congress approves Great Seal of US & the Eagle as it's symbol
King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of
uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
Comm appoints to lay out streets west of Larkin, SF
West Virginia became 35th state
Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
Lizzie Borden found innocent in New Bedford Mass
Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
Gangster Benjamin `Buggsy' Siegel shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
Pres Truman vetoed Taft-Hartley Act
`Toast of the Town' hosted by Ed Sullivan premier on CBS-TV
US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"
Georges Lemaitre, originator of "big bang" theory, dies at 71
Muhammad Ali convicted of violating draft law in Houston
Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds
River Country opens
Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington
It's National Bald Eagle Day
Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan
Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass
Feast of St Aloysius Gonzaga, confessor
Longest day of the year the Summer Solstice
Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse,
& detest" his Copernican heliocentric views
US Constitution went into effect as NH is 9th state to ratify it
Great Stoneface Mt found in NH
Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine
F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately)
Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
Hawaiian Red Cross founded
Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic laterial sclerosis
Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead
Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to US during WW II
1st stored computer program run, on the Manchester Mark I
Dr Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrated 'long playing record'
Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII
3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner Andrew Goodman &
James E Chaney-disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail
Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns
Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison
Wash DC jury finds John Hinckley Jr innocent by insanity
American Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists announce
skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
Pres Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
Feast of St Paulinus, bishop of Nola, confessor
Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay during mutiny
Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
slavery outlawed in England
1st Continental currency authorized
British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812
Zebulon Pike reaches his peak
2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)
Doughnut invented
Stephen C Massett opens at courthouse as 1st professional
entertainer using (allegedly) only piano in Cal
Arkansas reenters US
Dept of Justice cabinet-level federal agency founded
1st airship passengers - Zeppelin Deutscheland
King George V of England crowned
Joe Lewis wins world heavyweight title from James Braddock by KO
Joe Lewis knocks out Max Schmeling in 1st round
France falls to Nazi Germany
Germany declares war on Russia during WW II
FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands
KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system
Pres Nixon signs 26th Amendment (voting age 18)
Skylab 2's astronauts land
Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in AL prison
Walt Disney's "The Rescuers" is released
Pluto's moon Charon discovered by James Christy
Julius Sommer dies of heart failure buried in Dayton, Ohio
Pro Football Researchers Association founded at Canton, Ohio
Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing Beatle John Lennon
Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes
Prince Chuck & Lady Di take Prince William home from hospital
1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle
Actor/Dancer Fred Astaire dies
Discovery Day in Newfoundland
Official birthday of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg (National Day)
William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians
in Penn; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"
Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal
Battle of Landshut, Silesia
Christopher Latham Sholes patents Typewriter
Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) created
Marineland opens in Fla - 1st aquarium
Vetoed Taft-Hartley Act overriden by congress
Walt Disney's "Lady And The Tramp" is released
Senator Dodd (D-CT) censured for misusing campaign funds
President Johnson & Premier Kosygin (USSR) meet in NJ
Warren Burger sworn in as US Chief Justice
Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched
CN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens
Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air, 329 die
Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House
Feast of St John the Baptist
Midsummer Day, celebrated in Europe (quarter day in England)
St Jean Baptiste Day -- Canada
Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
Scotland under King Robert I defeats England
1441
Eton College founded by Henry VI
John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England
Henry VIII becomes King of England
Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council
Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day)
David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Phila
1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
Tennessee becomes 11th (and last) state to secede from US
Jewish Natl Fund started
1st radar detection of planes Anacostia DC
Flying Saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by Airline pilot Ken Arnold
Berlin Blockade & Berlin Airlift begin
Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board
Hopalong Cassidy becomes 1st network western
1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
113 killed in Eastern Boeing 727 crash at JFK
IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
Jean-Loup Chretien, first spacionaut, lifts off (Soyuz T-16)
Soyuz T-6 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 French) to Salyut 7 space station
7th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 2 returns to Earth
18th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 5 returns to Earth
Disputed Ala Dem Gov runoff lets Guy Hunt win (1st Repub in 112 yrs)
US Senate approves "tax reform"
Feast of St William, abbot
5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon
Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop
A lunar eclipse becomes the known astronomical event recorded
Va becomes 10th state
1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF)
FL AL LA GA NC SC readmitted to US
Lt Col Custer & 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux & Cheyenne
Architect Stanford White shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which
he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit
1st flight Junkers F13 advanced monoplane airliner
Pres Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 per hour
British RAF staged a thousand-bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)
El Al begins air service
Korean Conflict begins; N Korea invades S Korea
1st color TV broadcast - CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities
1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
Walter Baade, astronomer, dies
Supreme Court rules NY school prayer unconstitutional
John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee
Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m
Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
Report of LBJ having cancer operation while Pres denied
Roy C Sullivan of Va is struck by lightening for 7th time!
Supreme Court held male-only draft registration, constitutional
SF holds its 1st County Fair
Sec of State Alexander Haig Jr resigns Schultz replaces
Feast of SS John and Paul, martyrs in Rome about 362
Richard III usurps the English throne
Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow
1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens
Custer's Last Stand
Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats yellow fever
Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 133 kph
1st American Expeditionary Force arrived in France during WW I
1st issue of NY Daily News published
FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act establishing Credit Unions
UN Charter signed by 50 nations in SF
US responses to Soviet blockade of Berlin
Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury
Pres Eisenhower joins Queen Elizabeth opening St Lawrence Seaway
St Lawrence Seaway opens, linking Atlantic Ocean with Great Lakes
British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)
Kennedy visits W Berlin `Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)'
Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album
Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency
42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
1st dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1 launched
US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal
from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces
1st flight of Shuttle Discovery scrubbed at T-4
Feast of St Ladislas I, King of Hungary
National Fink Day
Pons-Winnecke meteor shower, radiant in Draco
Buenos Aires captured by British
Queen Victoria is crowned
Mormon leaders Joseph & Hyrum Smith killed by a mob in Carthage
NY & Boston linked by telegraph wires
Bank of Calif opens doors
1st color TV demo, NYC
Federal Savings & Loan Association created
End of USSR experimental calendar
FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
Cherbourg, France captured by Allies
Pres Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict
CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala
1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted Illinois
500 people killed by Hurricane Audrey in coastal La & Tx
Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass
NASA X-15 flies at 4105 mph
Pres Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland
Robert Rushworth in X-15 reaches 87 km
John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's `enemies list'
5-4 decision Supreme Court decides to let lawyers advertise
Djibouti gains independence from France (National Day)
Soyuz 30 launched
4th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 4 launched
Balloonists Maxie Anderson & Don Ida died during a race
Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
Supreme Court Justice Powell retires
Feast of St Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons, martyr
Battle of Monmouth
Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" helped American patriots
Tomato is proved to be nonpoisonous
James Madison 4th US pres died
Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey
Leipzig Obs discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) comet d'Arrest
Maria Mitchell, 1st American woman astronomer, dies at 71
Aust Archduke Ferdinand & wife Sofia assassinated (starts WW I)
1st flight between Hawaiian Islands
Harry S Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence
Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed
Queen Victoria ascends to British throne
Pan Am begins transatlantic air service Dixie Clipper
Dumont TV network begins (WABD NY)
N Korean forces captured Seoul S Korea
1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Il
1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson
Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers
Supreme Court orders Cal medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white
man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected
Prince Chuck & Lady Di name their baby "William"
Bridge section along I-95 in Conn collapsed kills 3
Kenneth & Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick
Feast of SS Peter and Paul, apostles
Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
Va state constitution adopted & Patrick Henry made governor
Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az, NM) from Mexico for $10 million
very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed
Chicago beats Louisville 36-7
Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
Empire State Building eminates high definition TV - 343 lines
Polish statesman pianist Ignace Paderewski died in NY at 80
British arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists
South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn - the Oriskany
Atomic Energy Comm voted against reinstating Dr J Robert Oppenheimer
Charles Dumas - 1st high jump over 7 feet - LA Cal
1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner
Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 85 km
US bombs fuel storage facilities near N Vietnamese cities
Israel removes barricades separating city of Jerusalem
Jayne Mansfield dies at 34
US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia
Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days
Supreme Court-death penalty usually was `cruel & unusual punishment'
Seychelles gains independence from Britain
Supreme Court ruled out death penalty for rapists of adults
Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI
Commemoration of St Paul, apostle
Independence Day celebrated in Zaire
Battle of Ft Recovery, Ohio
Congress creates Indian Territory
Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope
Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate
Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act adopted
Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (Tunguska Event)
Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest campaign for Indian rights in S Africa
New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY
Adolf Hitler begins pogrom against his enemies
Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions
"Gone With the Wind" is published
40 hour work week law approved (federal)
Transistor demonstrated Murray Hill NJ
Pres Truman orders American troops into Korea
"The Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV
US ground forces enter Korean conflict
Zaire (then Belgian Congo) gains ind
Pope Paul VI crowned in St Peter's Square
26th Amendment ratified gives vote to 18 year olds-Ohio ratifies
3 cosmonauts die as Soyuz XI depressurizes during reentry
1st leap second, day
Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
New Jersey NHL Franchise named the Devils
Equal Rights Amendment dies without ratification
39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed
Georgia sodomy law upheld by the Supreme Court
0600
National Adopt-a-Cat Month
0701
1646
Gottfried W Leibnitz, mathematician-philosopher
Jean-Victor Poncelet, mathematician, founder of projective geometry.
George Sand, French Romantic novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro).
Thomas Green Clemson, mining engineer, endowed Clemson University.
Cecil John Rhodes, South African politician, diamond merchant.
Louis Blriot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel.
Lon Jouhaux, French socialist, cofounder of UN's ILO (Nobel 1951).
William Wyler, motion picture director (Mrs. Miniver).
David Brower
Olivia DeHaviland in Tokyo Japan
Farley Granger Actor
Leslie Caron in Paris France
Jean Marsh in London England
Sydney Pollack Movie director
Jamie Farr, actor (Cpl. Klinger of TV's M*A*S*H).
Sally Quinn CBS News reporter
Twyla Tharp in Indiana Choreographer
Genevieve Bujold in Montreal Canada, actress.
Karen Black, actress.
Dan Akroyd, comedian, actor (SNL)
Lorna Patterson in Whittier Calif
Singer Evelyn 'Champagne' King
Carl Lewis, US track and field star.
Lady Diane Spencer in England
"Wolfman Jack", a howling success in radio
0702
419
Valentinian III, Roman emperor (425-55).
1489
Thomas Cranmer, English archbishop, reformer, martyr.
Sir Charles Tupper (C), 6th Canadian prime minister (1896).
Hermann Hesse, Swiss novelist, poet (Steppenwolf) (Nobel 1946).
Olav V, king of Norway (1957-  ).
Sir Alex Douglas-Home (C), British prime minister (1963-64).
Hans Bethe, physicist (Nobel 1967), peace worker.
Thurgood Marshall, 1st black Supreme Court justice.
Dan Rowan, comedian (Laugh In).
Brock Peters, actor.
Emelda Marcos Former Phillipine leader's wife
Kaye Stevens in Pitts
Polly Holliday (Alice)
Richard Petty, auto race driver.
Georgi Ivan Ivanov, 1st Bulgarian space traveler (Soyuz 33).
Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, Daughter of Pres LBJ
Cheryl Ladd in SD
Jimmy McNichol Actor
0703
1423
Louis XI, king of France (1461-83).
Samuel de Champlain, explorer
Samuel Huntington, governor of Conn., pres. of Continental Congress.
Richard B. Bennett (C), 11th Canadian prime minister (1930-35).
Franz Kafka, Czech, author (Metamorphosis, The Trial, Amerika)
Francis Steegmuller, biographer.
Earl Butz, former US secretary of agriculture.
Dorothy Kilgallen
Ken Russell Movie director
Pete Fountain Jazz musician
Harrison H. (Jack) Schmitt, US astronaut (Apollo 17).
Playwright Tom Stoppard
Gerry Rivers aka Newsman Geraldo Rivera
Betty Buckley, Broadway actress
Jean-Claude Duvalier Former Haitian President-for-Life
Laura Branigan Singer
0704
Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US
Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (The Scarlet Letter).
Giuseppe Garibaldi, unifier of Italy.
Stephen Foster, American composer (Oh, Susanna, Swanee River).
Stephen Mather, organizer of the US National Park Service.
Calvin Coolidge (R), 30th pres (1923-29)
George M Cohan, entertainer
Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult.
Louis Armstrong, 'Satchmo'
George Murphy, actor, dancer, Calif Sen
Meyer Lansky mobster
Mitch Miller
Virginia Graham TV personality
Tokyo Rose
Abigail Van Buren & Ann Landers-twin sisters, advice columnists
Gerard Debreu, French economist (Nobel 1983).
Eva Marie Saint, actress Newark
Neil Simon, playwright
Gina Lollobrigida, actress/photographer, Italy
Steven Boyd actor
George Steinbrenner, NY Yankees owner.
Pam Shriver, Tennis player
0705
Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore.
Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker.
David G Farragut in Knoxville Tenn American naval hero
Phineas T. Barnum, circus promoter in Bethel Conn
Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate.
John Northrop, US biochemist, crystallized enzymes (Nobel 1946).
Henry Cabot Lodge (R), politician.
Andrei Gromyko, diplomat.
Jan¢s Starker, Hungarian cellist.
Katherine Helmond in Texas
Shirley Knight
Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Wash DC, daughter of Richard Milhaus.
Richard 'Goose' Gossage - Baseball relieve pitcher
Huey Lewis (& the News)
0706
John Paul Jones, naval hero ("I have not yet begun to fight").
Nicholas I, tsar of Russia (1825-55).
Adolf Anderssen of Prussia, world chess champion (1851-66).
Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish poet, novelist (Nobel 1916).
Axel Theorell, Swedish biochemist, studied enzymes (Nobel 1955).
Nancy Davis Reagan in NY, 1st Lady (1981-89).
Robert M. White, X-15 pilot.
Merv Griffin
Janet Leigh in Calif, Maybe I won't take a shower with her
Della Reese, singer in Detroit
Ned Beatty, actor.
Vladimir Ashkenazy, concert pianist.
Sylvester Stallone (Rocky, Rambo)
Shelly Hack, Charlie's Angel
0707
Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented the programmable loom
Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, cytologist (Nobel 1906).
Gustav Mahler, Bohemian composer
Marc Chagall in Vitebsk Russia, artist
Satchel Paige, never look back.
Robert A Heinlein, Sci-Fi author
Gian Carlo Menotti, composer (Amahl and the Night Visitors).
Lawrence F. O'Brien (Watergate conspirators broke into his office).
William Kunstler Attorney
Ezzard Charles, world heavyweight boxing champion (1950-51).
Pierre Cardin Fashion designer
Jean Kerr, novelist (Please Don't Eat the Daisies).
Carl (Doc) Severinson, band leader, trumpet player.
Alan Dixon (Sen-D-Ill)
Ringo Starr, Beatle.
Joe Spano (Hill St Blues-Det Goldblum)
Joe LeClerc
Fred Brown, Seattle SuperSonic.
Shelley Duvall
0708
Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, inventor
John D Rockefeller, financier
George W. Romney, Mich gov, housing secretary.
Nelson A. Rockefeller (R-NY-gov) 41st VP (1974-77).
Billy Eckstein Singer
Jerry Vale, singer.
Roone Arledge, TV executive (ABC).
Steve Lawrence
Vitali I. Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 9, 18).
Barbara Ann Loden
Marcia Rodd
Cynthia Gregory, LA, Ballerina
Kim Darby in North Hollywood
0709
Ann Ward Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (The Italian).
Thomas Davenport, inventor of 1st commercial electric motor.
Elias Howe, invented sewing machine in Spencer Mass.
Franz Boas, anthropologist, linguist.
Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Pines of Rome).
Edward Heath (C), British prime minister (1970-74).
Ed Ames, singer (Johnny Carson's hatchet man)
Red Kelly, hockey star.
Hassan II, king of Morocco (1961-  ).
James Hampton
Karin von Aroldingen, German ballet dancer.
Orenthal James (O.J.) Simpson, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills).
Tom Hanks Actor
0710
John Calvin, theologian
Sir William Blackstone, English jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries).
George Mifflin Dallas (D), 11th VP (1845-49).
James Whistler, artist, mama's boy
Nikola Tesla, physicist who developed alternating current.
Finley Peter Dunne, journalist, humorist, created Mr. Dooley.
Marcel Proust, French novelist (Remembrance of Things Past).
Giorgio De Chirico, Italian painter.
Saul Bellow, US novelist (Herzog, Dangling Man) (Nobel 1976).
David Brinkley, newscaster (NBC, ABC).
Owen Chamberlain, codiscoverer of the antiproton (Nobel 1959).
Jake LaMotta Boxer
Fred Gwynne, Herman Munster
Del Insko, harness racer.
Jerry Herman Broadway composer
Pyotr I. Klimuk, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18, 30).
Arthur Ashe, tennis pro.
Virginia Wade tennis star
Sue Lyon in Iowa
Arlo Guthrie, singer (Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans).
0711
Thomas Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare.
John Quincy Adams, 6th Pres (D) (1825-1829) in Braintree, Mass
John Wanamaker, merchant
E.B. White, writer (Charlotte's Web, The Elements of Style).
Yasonari Kawabata, Japanese novelist (Thousand Cranes) (Nobel 1968).
Yul Brynner, actor (The King and I, The Ten Commandments).
Tab Hunter, actor.
Singer Bonnie Pointer
Leon Spinks, world heavyweight boxing champ (1978).
0712
100
B.C. - Roman Emperor Julius Csar.
Josiah Wedgewood, English pottery designer, manufacturer.
Henry David Thoreau, Naturalist-author in Concord Mass
Sir William Osler, Canadian physician, teacher, author.
George Eastman invented Kodak camera in Waterville NY
Stefan George, German lyric poet.
Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers
R Buckminster Fuller, architect (invented geodesic dome)
Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (Residence on Earth) (Nobel 1971).
Milton Berle (Uncle Miltie-Mr Television)
Andrew Wyeth, American painter.
Mark Hatfield (R-Ore-Sen)
Van Cliburn Pianist
Bill Cosby, actor, comedian.
Denise Nichols in Detroit
0713
John Clare, the Northamptonshire peasant poet.
Mary Emma Wooley, educator
Alexei S. Yeliseyev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 8, 10).
Jack Kemp (R-NY-Rep), right-wing
Harrison Ford (Star Wars, Indiana Jones).
Cheech Marin, comedian (of Cheech and Chong).
0714
1486
Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter.
Irving Stone, author.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish novelist (Enemies) (Nobel 1978).
Tom Carvel, Ice Cream Mogul
Terry-Thomas, English actor.
Woodie Guthrie, US folk singer.
Gerald R. Ford (R), 41st VP (1973-74), 38th pres (1974-77).
Douglas Edwards CBS newscaster
Ingmar Bergman, film maker (Through a Glass Darkly).
Jay Wright Forrester, invented RAM
Dale Robertson, actor.
John Chancellor, TV journalist (NBC).
Polly Bergen in Tennessee
Rosey Grier Football player-turned-actor
Lynn Loring, NYC
0715
1573
Inigo Jones, English architect.
1606
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch painter.
Clement Clarke Moore, American author ('Twas the Night Before Xmas).
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (Mother Cabrini), 1st US saint.
Jean Rey, of Belgium, president of European Commission (1967-70).
Iris Murdoch, Irish novelist.
Nina Van Pallandt in Coopenhagen Denmark
Alex Karras
Ken Kercheval
Joan Rivers in Bkln - Can we talk
Jan-Michael Vincent, actor.
Linda Ronstadt in Tucson Arizona - A different beat
Kim Alexis in Lockport NY - Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover
0716
John Kay, English machinist, inventor of the flying shuttle.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter.
Giuseppe Piazzi, discovered 1st asteroid, Ceres.
Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science (Science and Health).
Eugne Ysae, Belgian violinist, conductor, composer.
Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, discoverer of South Pole.
Frits Zernike, inventor of phase-contrast microscope (Nobel 1953).
Trygve Lie, 1st sec-general of UN (1946-52).
Barbara Stanwyck, actress
Orville Redenbacher, popcorn king
Ginger Rogers (Virginia McMath), dancer, actress in Independence Mo
Bernard Hughes
Laverne Andrews in Minneapolis -  Andrew Sister (or 0706)
Bess Myerson in NY, Miss America 1944
Milly Vitale
Margaret Smith Court, Australian tennis pro.
Pinchas Zukerman, violinist.
Ruben Blades Singer
Stewart Copeland
0717
Isaac Watts in England, writer & preacher
Elbridge Gerry (DR), 5th VP, gov. of Mass., invented gerrymandering.
John Jacob Astor, merchant
Mu¤oz Rivera, Puerto Rican patriot, journalist.
Shmuel Agnon, Israeli novelist (Day Before Yesterday) (Nobel 1966).
Erle Stanley Gardner, created Perry Mason.
James Cagney, hold that grapefruit.
Art Linkletter, TV host.
Phyllis Diller, comedien
Donald Sutherland (M*A*S*H)
Pat McCormick Comedy writer
P.D.Q. Bach (Peter Schickele), composer.
Diahann Carroll Bronx NY
Daryle Lamonica, Oakland Raiders quarterback.
Lucie Arnaz in California
David Hasselhoff
Phoebe Snow Singer
0718
Horatio Alger, whose lads always had enough pluck to succeed
Gilbert White, "the father of British naturalists."
William Makepeace Thackeray, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair).
William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1902).
Clifford Odets dramatist
S.I. Hayakawa (R), educator, US senator from California.
Hume Cronyn
Red Skelton, comedian
Harriet Hilliard Nelson, singer, actress.
Pamela Brown
Sen John Glenn, Jr, astronaut (1st American in orbit) D-Ohio
Dick Button Skating champion & commentator
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (Bratsk Station).
Marcia Jones Smoke, canoer.
Martha Reeves in Detroit Michigan & the Vandellas
Elizabeth McGovern in Evanston Illinois
James Brolin (Marcus Welby, Hotel)
0719
Samuel Colt, invented Colt Revolver
Edgar Degas, French impressionist painter.
Charles Edward Pickering, pioneer American spectroscopist
Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, cofounder of Mayo Clinic.
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet poet.
A.J. Cronin, English author.
William W. Scranton (R-Gov-Pa)
George McGovern (D-Sen-SD), pres candidate
Pat Hingle
Vicki Carr in El Paso Texas
Dennis Cole
Ilie Nastase, Tennis player
0720
Petrarch in Italy, poet
Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan, Westernizer, reformer.
Erik Karlfeldt, Swedish poet (Nobel 1918-refused; 1931-posthumous).
Theda Bara, actress (Under Two Flags, Cleopatra). (or 0729)
Sir Edmund Hillary, one of 1st two men to scale Mt. Everest.
Elliot L. Richardson, former US attorney general.
Lola Albright, actress.
Sally Ann Howes in London England
Nelson Doubleday Publisher
Diana Rigg in Doncaster Engl, (Mrs. Peele in The Avengers).
JoAnn Campbell in Fla - Lawrence Welk's champagne lady
Natalie Wood, actress in SF
Vladimir A. Lyakhov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 32, T-9).
T. J. Shephard Country singer
Kim Carnes
Carlos Santana, musician.
Donna Dixon
0721
Paul Julius, Baron von Reuter, founder of Reuters news service.
Frances Folsom Cleveland, first lady.
Ernest Hemingway, asked for whom the bell tolled... (Nobel 1954).
Hart Crane, American poet (The Bridge).
Marshall McLuhan, writer (The Medium is the Massage).
Isaac Stern, violinist
Kay Starr, American singer.
Don Knotts, comedian, actor.
John Gardner, scholar, writer (Grendel, Sunlight Dialogues).
Christie McVie (Fleetwood Mac)
Cat Stevens aka Joseph Islam, rocker (Peace Train)
Robin Williams, actor, comedian (Mork).
0722
Philip I (the Handsome), 1st Habsburg king of Spain (1506).
Gregor Mendel, geneticist who discovered laws of heredity.
Rev William Archibald Spooner, invented 'spoonerisms'
Emma Lazarus, whose poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty
Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist (Nobel 1925).
Rose Kennedy, mother of JFK.
Alexander Calder, sculptor (mobiles, stabiles).
Steven Vincent Bent, writer (The Devil and Daniel Webster).
Lucia Albanese, opera singer.
Robert Dole (R-Sen-Ks)
Margaret Whiting, singer.
Orson Bean, actor.
Yuri P. Artyukhin, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 14).
Oscar de la Renta, designer
Terrance Stamp
0723
James Cardinal Gibbons
Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74).
Pee Wee Reese, baseball player.
Gloria DeHaven in Los Angeles, actress
Don Drysdale, Dodger pitcher
0724
Sim¢n Bol¡var, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule.
Alexandre Dumas pre, French author.
Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish Realist writer (Nobel 1971).
Fred. Law Olmsted Amer
Robert Graves, British poet, historical novelist (I, Claudius).
Amelia Earhart, into the wild blue yonder
Bella Abzug (D-NY-Rep)
William Ruckelshaus, head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Willie Davis, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay).
Adnan Khashnoggi
Ruth Buzzi in RI (Laugh-in)
Bob Lilly, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys).
Chris Sarandon
Lynda Carter, Pheonix Az, Miss USA (Wonder Woman)
Dany Savlia in Oakland Cal
0725
Anna Symmes Harrison, first lady.
Arthur, Earl Balfour (C), British prime minister (1902-05).
Eric Hoffer, US longshoreman, author (The True Believer).
Elias Canetti, Bulgarian writer (Nobel 1981).
Jack Gilford
Estelle Getty
Frank Church (D), former US senator from Idaho.
Paul J. Weitz, US astronaut (Skylab 2, STS-6).
Barbara Harris
Janet Margolin Actress (Take the Money and Run)
Donna Theodore Bdwy singer
Walter Payton, NFL running back (Chicago Bears).
World's 1st `test tube baby' Louise Brown in Lancashire England.
0726
George Clinton (D-R), 4th VP (1805-12).
Isaac Babbitt, US inventor of babbitt's metal for bearings.
George Bernard Shaw, dramatist (Pygmalion) (Nobel 1925) in Dublin
Carl Jung, founded analytic psychology.
Aldous Huxley, author (Brave New World).
Salvador Allende Gossens, Chile's last elected president (1970-73).
Bob Waterfield, NFL quarterback (Rams).
Jason Robards, Jr., actor (A Thousand Clowns).
Marjorie Lord, Make Room For Daddy - The mommy
Blake Edwards Movie director (10)
Stanley Kubrick, director (2001, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange).
Mary Jo Kopechne, Ted Kennedy's driving buddy
Mick Jagger, never gathers moss
Micki King, Olympic diver
Linda Harrison in Berlin
Susan George in England
Vitas Gerulaitis Tennis player
Dorothy Hamill in Ct, Olympic Gold medal ice skater
0727
Charlotte Corday, assassin of Jean-Paul Marat.
George Biddle Airyy, seventh Astronomer Royal
Alexandre Dumas fils, French playwright, novelist.
Giosu Carducci, Italian poet (Nobel 1906).
Jos Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican physician, patriot.
Hilaire Belloc, English author.
Leo Durocher, baseball coach.
Keenan Wynn, actor
Leonard Rose, concert cellist.
Norman Lear, TV writer, producer (All in The Family)
Jerry Van Dyke, actor.
Shirley Ann Field in England
Barbara Ferris in London England
Bobbie Gentry in Mississippi, What did Billi-Jo throw off the bridge
Betty Thomas, St Louis (Hill St Blues'-Sgt Lucy Bates)
Peggy Fleming in San Jose Cal, Olympic gold medal ice skater
Sally Struthers in Portland Oregon, (Gloria Stivic)
Maureen McGovern in Youngstown Ohio, singer
0728
1165
Ibn al-'Arabi, Muslim mystic, philosopher.
Thomas Heyward, soldier, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Beatrix Potter, English children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit).
Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher, educator (Essay on Man).
Marcel Duchamp, painter (Nude Descending a Staircase).
Rudy Vallee, band leader, singer (My Time Is Your Time).
Earl S. Tupper, inventor of Tupperware.
Jacques Piccard, Swiss undersea explorer (bathyscaph Trieste).
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Bill Bradley (D-Sen-NJ), NY Knick
Mike Bloomfield blues musician
Vida Blue, major-league pitcher.
Terry Fox, ran "Marathon of Hope" across Canada.
Lori Loughlin in NY
0729
Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt.
Booth Tarkington, American novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons).
Benito Mussolini (Il Duce), Italian dictator.
Tim Mara, NFL team owner (NY Giants).
William Powell, actor (the Thin Man).
I.I. Rabi, Polish physicist.
Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist (Return to Ithaca) (Nobel 1974).
Clara Bow, silent screen actress (It, Saturday Night Kid).
Dag Hammarskjld, 2nd UN sec-gen (1953-61) (Nobel 1961).
Thelma Todd actress
Melvin Belli in SF's 'King of Torts'
Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer.
Elizabeth Dole, US secretary of transportation.
0730
1511
Giorgio Vasari, painter, architect, art historian (Vasari's Lives).
Emily Bront, English novelist (Wuthering Heights).
Thorstein Veblen, economist (Theory of the Leisure Class).
Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer
Vladimir Zworykin, electronics engineer, inventor, father of TV.
Casey Stengel NY Yankee & Met manager
Henry Moore, English sculptor.
C. Northcote Parkinson, historian.
Chris McGuirre
Ben Piazza, actor.
Eleanor Smeal, head of National Organization for Women.
Peter Bogdanovich, director, producer.
Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo-Rep)
Paul Anka singer (Put your head on my Shoulder)
0731
James Kent, legal scholar
Melville
Jean Dubuffet, French painter.
Milton Friedman, economist.
Whitney Young, Jr., civil rights leader, head of Urban League.
France Nuyen, actress (St. Elsewhere) in Marselles France
Geraldine Chaplin
Evonne Goolagong in Australia, Tennis player
Dominion Day -- Canada
Feast of the Precious Blood of Jesus.
Caribbean Day celebrated by members of the Caribbean Common Market.
Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason
Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats former Roman
Catholic king James II in the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland
1st vote on the Declaration of Independence
United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico.
1st adhesive US postage stamps go on sale
Amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers his second asteroid Hebe
US issues its 1st postage stamps.
At least 626 ships lying at anchor around SF Bay
1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington and Mason Streets, S.F.
Congress outlaws polygamy; bad news for Utah.
Battle of Gettysburg, Pa.; Lee's northward advance halted.
Dominion of Canada formed from N.Bruns., N.Scotia, Ontario & Qubec.
Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province.
Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building
Eisenhower married Mary ``Mamie'' Geneva Doud in Denver Colo
1st class postage drops to 2 from 3.
NY Gov FDR nominated for president at the Dem Convention in Chicago
1st coml TV license granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), NYC
1st withholding tax from paychecks
Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF and World Bank.
World Refugee Year
Ghana becomes a republic.
Italian Somalia gains independence, unites with Somali Republic.
Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii
Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days).
Beatles record "She Loves You"
Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART
Medicare goes into effect.
US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
Charles Philip Arthur George invested as the Prince of Wales
Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?)
Caribbean Day
WEDway PeopleMover inaugurated
Virginia Wade beats Betty Stove for Wimbeldon's woman's singles
Kosmos 1383, 1st search and rescue satellite, launched.
More than 2000 Unification Church couples married at NY MSG
NYC radio station WFAN-AM becomes the 1st 24 hour all sports radio
replacing WHN's country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format
Midpoint of the year (at noon, or following midnight in leap years).
Visitation of Mary.
1566
French astrologer physician & prophet Nostradamus dies in Salon
Battle of Marston Moor; Parliamentary forces defeat royalists.
William Gascoigne, introducer of telescopic sights, is killed at 24
Continental Congress passes resolution saying these United Colonies
are & of right ought to be Free & Independent States'
partial emancipation of Russian serfs.
Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker
Garfield died the following September
Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies.
1st flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1).
US Army Air Corps created
Carl Hubbell shutsout Cards 1-0 in 18 innings
Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean
`Lawrence Welk Show' premiers on ABC television
1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor completed-The Seawolf
1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback
Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death in Ketchum Idaho
Pres Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
Sweden's Bjorn Borg won Wimbeldon men's singles over Jimmy Connors
Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth
Proto launched on its way to Halley's Comet
The Supreme Court upheld affirmative action in 2 rulings
Accused Nazi Karl Linnas died of heart failure in Russia
Chorus Line Director Michael Bennet dead of aids at 44
Dog Days begin.
Feast of St. Leo II, pope (681-83).
1608
City of Quebec founded by Samuel de Champlain
Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.
1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown
planet by the irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus.
slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands).
Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY
Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends in a major victory for the North
Idaho becomes 43rd state.
US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in the harbor at Santiago Cuba
US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934.
Lou Gehrig day, Gehrig makes 'luckiest man' speech
1st time American & North Korean forces clash in the Korean War
Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule
Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3.
Israel launches rescue of passengers & Air France crew members,
being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers
Martina Navratilova deats Chris Evert Lloyd at Wimbeldon
Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (36.25 kph for 100 m).
Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island.
Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
CBS announced it would buy back 21 percent of its own stock
Pres Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty
Dog Days.
Independence Day
1054
Brightest known super-nova starts shining, for 23 days
1057
Crab Nebula supernova recorded by Chinese & Japanese astronomers.
Declaration of Independence -- US gains independence from Britain.
US Milt Academy officially opened at West Point NY
William Herschel makes last telescopic observation comet of 1819.
2nd & 3rd presidents-John Adams & Thomas Jefferson die
1st US passenger railroad was begun, Baltimore & Ohio
James Monroe the fifth president died
Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
Lewis Carroll began inventing the story of Alice in Wonderland for
his friend Alice Pleasance Liddell during a boating trip
Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens
1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF.
Statue of Liberty was presented to US in Paris
Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting.
Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the 1st US autos
Republic of Hawaii established.
Aphelion Passage
Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, FDR sends message
Work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge
1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW2)
Philippines gains independence from US
America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled
America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
Mariner 4 flies past Mars, sends 1st close-up photos.
LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
Freedom of Information Act goes into effect
Raid on Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
Fourth Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 4 returns to Earth
Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe for championship at Wimbeldon
Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m.
Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
Martina Navaratalova wins her 6th straight Wimbeldon
Earth at aphelion.
Feast of St. Anthony-Mary Zaccaria, confessor.
Independence Day, celebrated in Venezuela
Mariner 5 flew by Mars
Caribbean Day celebrated by members of Caribbean Common Market.
1266
Tynwald Day on Isle of Man.
Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA is published by Royal Society in England.
Tynwald Day (Isle of Man)
Battle of Buenos Aires.
Venezuela-1st South American country to gain independence from Spain
France invades Algeria, begins a 40 year conquest
Capt. N.C. Brooks discovers Midway Islands.
William Booth founded Salvation Army in London
1st Hawaii Calls radio program is broadcast.
President FDR signs Natl Labor Relations Act
Joe DiMaggio 1st grand slammer
Herb Caen's 1st column in SF Chronicle
Diplomatic relations broken between Britain & Vichy govt in France
1st rocket airplane flown
Louis Reard's Bikini swimsuit design debuts at a fashion show, Paris
Larry Doby signs with Cleveland Indians-1st black player in AL
Carole Landis dies at age 29
Law of Return passes allowing all Jews rights to live in Israel
Pvt Kenneth Shadrick of Skin Fork WVa-1st US fatality in Korean War
Junction transistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ
Voting age lowered to 18 by 26th amendment.
Cape Verdes Islands independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule
Soyuz 30 is launched
Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old `exclusionary rule'-evidence seized
with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials
Nancy Reagan cuts red white & blue ribbon reopening Statue of Liberty
Australian Pat Cash wins Wimbledon-upsets No 1 seed Ivan Lendl
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Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller of Konigsberg), dies.
Newton publishes 'Principia'
Capt. William Kidd arrested in Boston.
1st Republican state convention
1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur
Striking steelworkers in Homestead, Pa. fire on scabs, killing 7.
R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic
1st all-talking motion picture shown, in NY (Lights of NY).
1st class postage back up to 3 from 2.
1st All-Star baseball game  AL wins 5-2
Soviets launch Titov in Vostok 2; 17 orbits; 25hr/18 min.
Malawi (then Nyasaland) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day).
Comoros gain independence from France (most of them).
Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station.
Feast of Cyril & Methodius, converted Slavs, devised Cyrillic alpha
Isaac Newton receives his M.Afrom Trinity College, Cambridge.
Kings College in NYC opens. School later renamed Columbia College
Central American federation is dissolved.
US annexs Calif
4 people hunged in Wash DC convicted of conspiring with John W Booth
Travelers cheque patented
US annexes Hawaii
Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay
Construction began on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
Mother Frances X Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
`Dragnet' premiers on NBC radio. A TV series in 1951 & in 1967
Pres Eisenhower signs Alaska statehood bill
Vivian Leigh dies at 53
Apollo 15 returned 12d /7 hr/11 min/53 sec.
Veronica Lake dies at 58
Solomon Is gains independence from Britain (National Day).
1st solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel.
Az Judge Sandra Day O'Connor 1 female nominated on Supreme Court
Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition vote to admit women
Feast of St. Elizabeth of Portugal, widow.
King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island
Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes.
Col. John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Dec of Ind
Vt becomes 1st state abolishing slavery, adopts male sufferage
1st American Passport issued by US State Dept
Liberty Bell cracks (again).
John L. Sullivan wins by KO in 75 rounds in last bareknuckle bout.
Vol 1, # 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" published
Future president Harding marries Florence K. DeWolfe in Marion Ohio
William Jennings Bryan 'cross of gold' speech at Dem convention
Harbor Hospital formally opens
Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center
Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof
1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under lights.
Pitcher Rube Marquard loses after winning 19 straight games
Demolition began in NYC for new permanent headquarters of UN
Gen. Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, UN forces in Korea
Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea
Maj. Dale & Master Sgt Ovnand 1st American fatalities in Vietnam War
Pres Ford announced he'd seek Republican nomination for pres
Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs).
Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus.
Feast of St. Maria Goretti, virgin, martyr.
Argentine Independence Day
National POW/MIA Recognition Day
1540
England's King Henry VIII 6-month marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled
1595
Johannes Kepler discovers inscribed perfect geometric solid
"construction of universe."
Dec of Ind read aloud to Gen. Washington's troops in NY
Argentina declares independence from Spain.
Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (SF) for US
Bab (Bah '¡ prophet) executed in Tabriz, Iran.
Zachary Taylor, 12th pres of US died in White House served 16 months
101 killed in  worst US train wreck in Nashville Tenn
Washington Redskins (then Boston Braves) formed.
Frankford Yellowjackets sold, rechristened Philadelphia Eagles.
Pres Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
1st helicopter passenger service, NY city
Announcement of discovery of element 102 - nobelium
Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe
Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter.
Walt Disney's "The Fox & The Hound" is released
Feast of the 7 Brothers and SS. Rufina and Secunda, virgins.
Pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US
Urbain J.J. Leverrier & John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune
meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel.
VP Fillmore becomes pres following Zachary Taylor's death
Wyoming becomes 44th state.
Johann Galle, discoverer of Neptune with telescope, dies.
Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate
Jury selection took place in John T. Scopes evolution trial
USSR's official news agency TASS established
1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Twp, NY
Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air
US & Britain invade Sicily in WWII
Robert Goddard died.
1st practical rectangular TV tube announced - Toledo, Oh
Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched.
Orbiter 1 Launched to moon.
Bahamas became independent after 3 centuries of British rule
Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I. Queen
Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze.
Coca-Cola Co. announces it would resume selling old formula Coke
French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand.
Feast of St. Pius I, pope (141-55), martyr.
Feast of St. Olga, 1st Russian saint of Orthodox Church.
National Holiday of People's Republic of Outer Mongolia
Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
US Marine Corps was created by an act of Congress
VP Aaron Burr kills Alex Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken
Confederate forces led by Gen J Early begin invasion of Wash D.C.
Simon Newcomb, celestial mechanics authority, dies.
Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day).
Pres FDR became 1st pres to travel through Panama Canal
Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx & Queens opened
New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colo
1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
Cosmonaut Micolaev set longevity space flight record-4 days
House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
World Football League plays 1st games.
Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates.
American hostage Richard I. Queen freed by Iran
Italain soccer team wins 1st World Cup in 44 years
Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara.
Feast of St. John Gualbert, abbot.
England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th & last wife).
Orangeman's Day-Battle of Boyne, Protestant victory in Ireland
US forces led by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812).
Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
1st televised tennis match.
Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 per hour).
US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
1st President to fly in helicopter - Dwight Eisenhower
Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched.
USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs.
Cosmonaut Popovich in space 1st time 2, manned craft in space
Sao Tom e Pr¡ncipe gains independence from Portugal (Nat'l Day).
1st free flight test of Enterprise.
Sun Bank Building opens
Kiribati (Gilbert & Ellice Is.) gains independence from Britain.
Minnie Ripperton dies of cancer at 30
Geraldine Ferraro, NY became 1st woman major-party VP candidate
Drs discover a cancerous growth in Pres Reagan's large intestine
Feast of St. Anacletus I, pope (c. 76-c. 88), martyr.
Start of Japan's Bon Festival
James Bradley, 3rd Astronomer Royal dies.
Congress establishes NW Territory.
Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop
US forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua
Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west"
SF Ferry Building at foot of Market Street opens
1st lighter-than-air transatlantic flight completed.
NYC experiences a 25 hr black-out
Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m.
Alpha Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus.
Bastille Day -- France
Feast of St. Bonaventure, bishop, confessor, Dr
Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in Cal
Bastille Day - citizens of Paris storm Bastille prison
Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous & malicious" writing
against US govt
1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
Com Perry requests trade relations with Japan
1st ascent of Matterhorn
Billy the Kid killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Ft Sumner, NM
Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in Dedham Mass.
1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
Citation 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races
1st national monument dedicated to a Negro - GW Carver
Iraqi army Iraq overthrew monarchy
1st atomic powered cruiser, the Long Beach, Quincy Mass
US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles
Richard Speck kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
Houston Astro Don Wilson strikesout 18, beats Reds 6-1
"Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins.
EPCOT Center plans announced
Reps. Daniel Crane R Ill. & Gerry Studds D-Mass. admitted
having had sexual relations with congressional pages.
Richard W. Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
Feast of St. Henry II, Holy Roman emperor (1014-24), confessor.
National Ice Cream Day
St. Swithin's Day (Anglican).
Charles II grants a charter to establish Royal Society in London.
Napoleon Bonaparte captured.
SF Merchant's Exchange opens
Georgia readmitted to US after Civil War.
NW Territories created & Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province.
St. Vladimir's Day
1st airport hotel opens - Oakland Ca
1st betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Il
Diligenti quintuplets born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Greenwich Observatory is damaged by World War II flying bomb.
1st helicopter transatlantic flight began
1st coml jet transport airplane built in US tested (Boeing 707)
US troops occupy Lebanon, stay 3 months.
Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle
Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later.
National Blueberry Festival, Montrose, Mich.
Start of SPACEWEEK.
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Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain.
1548
La Paz, Bolivia is founded.
Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif
Congress establishes Dist of Columbia
1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run
many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners.
Augusto Sandino begins war against US occupation of Nicaragua.
1st automatic parking meter in US installed, Oklahoma City, Ok
1st atomic blast, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, NM
Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history)
Apollo 11, 1st manned ship to land on the moon, is launched.
Constitution Day in South Korea.
Feast of St. Alexius, confessor.
Iraqi National Day.
Pioneer 7 launched.
Spain ceded Florida to US
British humor magazine `Punch' 1st published.
Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
1st railroad opens in Hawaii
Spanish American War-Spaniards surrender to US at Santiago Cuba.
British royal family adopts the name `Windsor.'
Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians
Variety's famous headline `Sticks Nix Hick Pix.'
Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for Los Angeles.
Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting.
Rep of Korea founded.
construction begins on Disneyland....
....Disneyland opens its doors in Anaheim Cal
Tibet abolishes serfdom
Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft).
Apollo-Soyus; 1st US/USSR linkup in space
Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president
Humbar Estuary Bridge, UK, world's longest span (1.4 km), is opened.
Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse kill 114, injure 200
Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7.
Feast of St. Camillus de Lellis, confessor.
National Day, celebrated in Spain
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Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle)
Pope's authority declared void in England.
Britain introduces secret ballot voting
1st air-conditioned ship launched - "Mariposa"
US & Canada signed a treaty to develop St. Lawrence Seaway.
Spanish Civil War begans, Gen. Francisco Franco led uprising
Douglas `Wrong Way' Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif
1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct
US receives UN trusteeship over Pacific Is
Joe Adcock records 18 total bases (4 homers & a double)
1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
Carl Sagan turns one billion seconds old
Gemini 10 launched.
Intel is incorporated.
Mary Jo Kopechne & Sen Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge
Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, is launched.
Gunman opens fire at McDonald's in San Ysidro Cal killing 21
Walter F. Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF
Svetlana Savitskaya accompanies Vladimir Dzhanibekov on EVA outside
Salyut 7, becoming 1st woman to walk in space.
Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
Feast of St. Vincent de Paul, confessor.
1st Women's Rights Convention Seneca Falls, NY
1st Wimbledon tennis championships held.
SF Public Library starts lending books
Neil Ball turns an unassisted triple play at 1st
1st parking meters installed, in Oklahoma City.
1st use of Fiberglas sutures, RP Scholz, St Louis, Mo
Laos becomes associated state within French Union.
Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum.
1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
1st in-flight movie is shown (on TWA).
Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km.
Mary Jo Kopechne dies at 28
Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza.
Commemoration of St. Margaret, virgin, martyr.
Feast of St. Jerome Emiliani, confessor.
Independence Day, celebrated in Columbia
Columbia gains independence
Admission fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50)
British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province.
1st telephone introduced in Hawaii.
US invaded Japanese-occupied Guam in WWII
Israel's 19 month war of independence ends
1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)
USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space.
1st men on the Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
1st baby born on Alcatraz Island
US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing.
Voyager 2 launched.
Uwe Hohn of E Germany throws javelin a record 104.80 m.
Feast of St. Laurence of Brindisi, confessor, doctor.
Independence Day, celebrated in Belgium
Belgium gains independence from Netherlands (Natl Day).
1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run, Va.; South wins.
City Gardens on Folsom opens
World's 1st train robbery, by Jesse James
Spain cedes Guam to US
John Scopes found guilty in Tenn for teaching evolution
Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
US forces return to Guam after Japanese occupation.
at Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam.
1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched - Seawolf
1st atomic powered merchant ship, Savannah, christened, Camden NJ
Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty bell) with Grissom.
Gemini 5 launched atop Titan V with Cooper & Conrad
Gemini X returns to Earth
Neil Armstrong steps on the moon at 2:56:15 a.m. (GMT).
"Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Phila
1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US
Pleasure Island plans unveiled
Feast of St. Mary Magdalen, penitent.
Apollo/Soyuz, the 1st US/USSR linkup in space
Mercury 4 is launched into sub-orbital flight
1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
USSR launches Mars 5
US launches Sycom 2, the 1st geosynchronous satellite
US launches Apollo 15 to the Moon
US launches Ranger 7 to the Moon
Ranger 7 transmits the 1st lunar close-up photos before impact
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English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk.
Giuseppe Piazzi, discoverer of 1st asteroid, dies.
Battle of Atlanta; Gen. Sherman defeats Confederate defenders.
Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight.
John Dillinger shot & killed in Chicago movie theatre
Polish constitution adopted (National Day).
1st US Vice-President to preside over cabinet meeting - R Nixon
Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus.
Feast of St. Apollinaris, 1st bishop of Ravenna, martyr.
National Day, in Egypt
Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt.
Robert Emmett's insurrection in Dublin.
Typewriter patented
1st interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio
Cincinatti Baseball club (The Reds) established
1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii is completed
Ice cream cone invented
Isolation of pituitary hormone announced
US forces invaded japanese-held Tinian in WWII
1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, RI
Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day).
PLO's 1st hijacking of an EL AL plane
ERTS 1 (Earth Resources Technology Satellite) later called LANDSAT
launched to start its multi-spectral scans of Earth
Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6.
Feast of St. Christina, virgin, martyr.
Pioneer Day in Utah.
V-2/WAC Corporal combination launched, 1st launch from Cape Canaveral.
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Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate.
French make 1st landing at site of Detroit.
Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain
Mormon leader Brigham Young & followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Ut
Martin Van Buren, 8th pres dies in Kinderhook N.Y.
Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union.
Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs
Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounced war
Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro
US detonates atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll
Pres Truman announced a settlement in a 53-day steel strike.
VP Nixon argued with Khrushchev known as the `Kitchen Debate'
Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Quebec libre! Long live free Quebec!'
Apollo 11 returns to Earth
Apollo 18 returns to Earth
Feast of St. James, apostle, and Commemoration of St. Christopher.
1593
France's King Henri IV a Protestant converted to Roman Catholicism.
NC becomes royal colony.
Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British.
US Grant named 1st general of Army
Wyoming Territory created.
Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
Louis Blriot makes 1st airplane flight across the English Channel.
Benito Mussolini was dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created.
Andrea Dorea sinks off Nantucket Island after collision.
Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after collided with the Stockholm
US Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty
Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)
Voyager 2 encounters Saturn.
Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became 1st woman to walk in space
Movie director Vincente Minnelli died in Los Angeles at age 76.
USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton earth-study satellite.
Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
Feast of St. Anne, mother of Mary.
Independence Day, celebrated in Liberia
Start of Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree in Athens, Texas
Benjamin Franklin becomes 1st Postmaster General.
NY becomes 11th state to ratify constitution.
Sydney, Australia settled by British colonists.
1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society
1st Esperanto book published.
Federal Bureau of Investigation established
Churchill resigns as Britain's prime minister
Department of Defense established
1st black host of a network show - CBS' Bob Howard Show
Argentina's 1st lady Eva Peron dies in Buenos Aires at 33
Fidel Castro began revolution against Batista
Korean War Armistice
Egypt seizes Suez Canal
USSR launchs 1st intercontinental multi-stage ballistic missle.
US Syncom 2, 1st synchronous communications satellite, launched
Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy
Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day).
Apollo 15 launched to the moon.
USSR's Soyuz failed to dock with Salyut 3.
Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
Canada's Anik D1 comsat launched by US delta rocket.
Soyuz T-12? is launched with a female cosmonaut
Feast of St. Pantaleon, martyr.
1501
Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
Jacobite Scottish Highlanders defeat royal force at Killiecrankie.
Bank of England is chartered.
Adelaide, South Australia founded.
Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)
Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts.
Korean War ends
Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation.
Mariner 2 launched to venus; flyby mission.
Pioneer 10 Launched.
Capricornid meteor shower, radiant in Capricorn.
Feast of SS. Nazarius, Celsus, Victor I, Innocent I.
Independence Day, celebrated in Peru
Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe.
Bach dies
Peru gains independence
revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe.
Memmon is 1st clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of N.Y.
total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo.
Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US
14th Amendment ratified, citizenship to exslaves.
Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Conn
Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia - World War I began
US forces invade Haiti, stay until 1924.
Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd National Anthem
President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment.
1st Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee), NYC
Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
Ranger 7 launched toward the moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures.
US Ranger 7 launched for lunar impact between Mare Nubium
Skylab 3's astronauts are launched
Eldon Joersz & Geo. Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph.
242,000 killed in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) earthquake.
Feast of St. Martha, virgin.
Start of Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
Peruvian National Day
1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begun.
1st commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, N.Y.
Italian king Umberto I assassinated.
1st transcontinental phone link made  Between NYC & SF
US marines land in Haiti, stay until 1924.
1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF
Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
1st transpacific non-stop flight by jet
International Atomic Energy Agency established by UN
Jack Paar's Tonight show premiers
Pres Eisenhower signs into law NASA & Space Act of 1958.
Southern Pacific Bay Ferries stop running
Gemini 5 returned after 12 d/7 hr/11 min/53 sec.
Pioneer 11 transmitted images of Saturn & its rings.
Prince Charles & Lady Diana wed
19th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 is launched
Feast of SS. Abdon and Sennen, martyrs.
House of Burgesses Virginia formed  1st elective US governing body
1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
1st rocket to attain 100-mile altitude, White Sands, NM
Motto of US "In God We Trust" authorized
US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium.
Vanuatu (then New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain, France.
STS-8 3rd flight of Challenger. 1st night launch & land.
Weightlifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg.
STS-14 1st flight of Discovery.
Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Jesuits.
Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad.
St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus died in Rome.
English fleet attacks Spanish armada
Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army
1st US patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
British invade Plattsburgh, NY
17th pres Andrew Johnson dies in Tennessee at 66
President Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), NY
US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on moon.
Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending 'Huntley-Brinkley Report'
Democratic VP candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew
Son of Sam shot to death 20-year-old Stacy Moskowitz
Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36
7-week-old major league baseball strike ended.
Leader of Panama Gen. Omar Torrijos killed in a plane crash.
US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics
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Baked Beans Month - Hot Dog Month - Ice Cream Month
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, believed in inheritance of acquired traits
William Clark, explored Pacific Northwest with Lewis
Francis Scott Key, wrote 'Star-Spangled Banner'
Richard Henry Dana, spent 2 years before mast
Maria Mitchell, America's 1st woman astronomer on Nantucket Island
Herman Melville, American author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd)
Arthur Hill, actor (Defenders, Andromeda Strain)
Dom DeLuise, comedian, actor (End)
Yves Saint-Laurent, fashion designer
Karen Black in Illinois, actress
Yuri V. Romanenko, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 26, 38)
Tempestt Bledsoe, (Cosby Show)
0802
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Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan, fought Austrians & Russians
R¢mulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist (Do¤a B rbara), pres. (1948)
Myrna Loy, actress (Rebound, Emma) in Montana
Gary Merrill, actor
Paul Laxalt (R-Sen-Nev)
Carroll O'Conner, aka Archie Bunker
James Baldwin, American novelist (Another Country)
Betsy Bloomingdale Dept Store mogul
Lamar Hunt, owner of NFL Kansas City Chiefs
Peter O'Toole, actor (Lord Jim, Beckett)
Valery Bykovsky, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, 31)
Bob Beamon, long jumper
Bertalan Farkas, 1st Hungarian space traveler (Soyuz 36)
Linda Fratianne, figure skater
Apollonia (Kotero) Prince's main squeeze
0803
John Carlin (Gov-KS)
Richard Lamm (Gov-Col)
Elisha Graves Otis, invented safe elevator
Stanley, Earl Baldwin (C), British PM (1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37)
Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (1914)
John T. Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution
John Stennis (D-sen-Miss)
Habib Bourguiba, 1st president of Tunisia
Dolores Del Rio, Mexican actress (What Price Glory?)
Mariyln Maxwell
Anne Klein Fashion designer
Leon Uris, writer (Exodus, QB VII)
Tony Bennett singer
Georgi S. Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 6)
Lance Alworth, NFL wide receiver (San Diego, Dallas)
Martin Sheen, actor (Subject Was Roses)
0804
Nicolas-Jacque Conte, invented modern pencil
Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet
Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, Nazi (Hunger) (Nobel 1920)
Arturo Umberto Illia, president of Argentina (1963-66)
William Schuman, composer
Helen Thomas, journalist
David Russell Lange, Labour prime minister of New Zealand (1984-  )
Tina Cole in Hollywood California
Mary Decker Tabb Slaney Track star
0805
Joseph Scaliger, proposed Julian dating
1604
John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator
Thomas Lynch, signed Dec of Ind
Guy de Maupassant, French author
Mary R. Beard, historian
Conrad Aiken, American poet, short story writer, critic
John Huston, film director & writer
Richard Kleindienst, former attorney general
Neil Armstrong, X-15 pilot, 1st moonwalker (Gemini 8, Apollo 11)
Joan Weldon, Gogo's singer
Leonid D. Kizim, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-10, T-15)
Samantha Sang Singer
Erika Slezak in Hollywood California
Jo Collins in Oregon Playboy playmate
0806
Charles VII, Holy Roman emperor (1742-45)
Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt
Sir Alexander Fleming, cashed in on penicillin (Nobel 1954)
Scott Nearing, American sociologist, pacifist, author
Lucille Ball, NY, comedian, actress
Robert Mitchum, actor
Ella Raines, actress
William David Ford, (D-Mich-Rep)
Abbey Lincoln
Ken Norton, heavyweight boxer (or 0809)
Sally Eaton in Ill
Rep Carl C Perkins, D-Ky
Stephane Krammer
0807
317
Constantius II, Roman emperor (337-61)
Carl Ritter, cofounder of modern science of geography
John Heathcoat, invented lace-making machinery
Mata Hari, dancer, courtesan, spy
Louis Hazeltine invented neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible
Louis Leakey, anthropologist
Ralph J Bunche, a founder & diplomat of UN (Nobel 1950)
Stan Freberg Writer-producer
Don Larsen on what must have been a perfect day
Ann Harding
Anjanette Comer in Dawson Tx
B.J. Thomas, singer (Raindrops)
Garrison Keillor
Lana Cantrell in Sydney Australia
Loni Anderson in St Paul Minn (WKRP in Cincinnati)
Alberto Salazar, marathoner
0808
Charles Bullfinch, 1st US professional architect
Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader
Sara Teasdale, poet
Paul Dirac, British theoretical physicist
Arthur Goldberg, former Supreme Court justice
Sylvia Sidney, actress
Rudi Gernreich, designer of 1st women's topless swimsuit, miniskirt
Esther Williams, actress, swimmer in Inglewood Cal
Jim Weaver (D-rep-Ore)
Andy Warhol, artist, movie producer
Mel Tillis, singer
Dustin Hoffman (Graduate, Death of a Salesman) LA
Connie Stevens, Bkln
Svetlana Y. Savitskaya, 2nd woman in space (Soyuz T-7, T-12)
0809
Izaac Walton, fisherman, writer (Compleat Angler)
Amedeo Avogadro, 6.022 x 10 ^ 23
Elisha Ferry (R), governor of Wash. terr., state (1872-80, 1889-93)
Jean Piaget, pioneer developmental psychologist
Ralph Wyckoff, American pioneer in x-ray crystallography
William A. Fowler, US astrophysicist (Nobel 1983)
Herman Talmadge (Sen-D-Ga)
Ralph Houk, baseball manager
J. James Exon (D-Neb-Sen)
Bob Cousy, NBA star
Jimmy Dean actor
Betty Boop, animation
Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence worker
David Steinberg Comedian-director
Sam Elliott Actor
Melanie Griffith Actress
Whitney Houston  Singer
0810
Herbert Hoover (R) 31st Pres (1929-1933)
Norma Shearer
Angus Campbell, psychologist, sociologist
Noah Beery, Jr., actor (Tugboat Annie)
Rhonda Fleming in Hollywood Calif
Martha Hyer
Mike Douglas TV Host
Eddie Fisher, singer
Jerry Falwell Evangelist
Diana Muldaur
Betsy Johnson
Ronnie Spector, NYC
0811
Robert Green Ingersol, American author, politician, agnostic
Sadi Carnot, engineer, French president (1887-94); assassinated
Joseph Weber, comedian (of Weber & Fields)
Lloyd Nolan, actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place)
Alex Haley, American author (Roots)
Arlene Dahl in Minnesota
Anna Massey
Elizabeth Holtzman Bkln AG (D-Rep-NY)
Steve Wozniak, cofounded Apple Computer
0812
Thomas Bewick, English artist (British Birds, Aesop's Fables)
George IV, king of England (1820-30)
Robert Southey, English poet laureate, biographer of Nelson
Juluis Rosenwald, philanthropist
Jacinto Benavente y Mart¡nez, Spanish dramatist (Nobel 1922)
Mary Roberts Rinehart, mystery writer
Christy Mathewson, HOF baseball pitcher
Cecil B deMille, directed God
Erwin Schrdinger, Austrian physicist (had a cat)
Mario Moreno, alias Cantinflas, Mexican entertainer
Jane Wyatt - Mom knows best - Spock's mother in Campgaw NJ
Michael Kidd Choreographer
Majorie Reynolds in Buhl Idaho
Dale Bumpers, (Sen-D-Ark)
John Derek Actor-director
Buck Owens, country singer
William Goldman, author (Lord of the Flies) (Nobel 1983)
George Hamilton Actor
Deborah Walley in Bridgeport Ct
0813
1422
William Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)
Johann Christoph Denner, clarinet inventor
Anders Jonas ngstrm, physicist, founder of spectroscopy
Lucy Stone, pioneer in Woman's Rights
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, physicist, mathematician
Annie Oakley, frontier woman
Alfred Hitchcock, director (Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window)
Felix Wankel, German inventor (Wankel rotary-piston engine)
Regis Toomey, actor
Charles (Buddy) Rodgers, actor
Gene Raymond, actor
John Beal, actor
Ben Hogan, golfer
Frederick Sanger, British chemist (Nobel 1958, 1980)
George Shearing, pianist
Neville Brand, actor
Fidel Castro Ruz, Cuban political leader
Quinn Cummings
0814
Hans Christian Oersted, physicist, chemist
John Galsworthy, English author (Forsyte Saga) (Nobel 1932)
Sir James Pitman, English educator, publisher, phonetic speller
John Ringling North, circus director
Nehemiah Persoff, actor
Maurice Richard, NHL player
Russell Baker, columnist
Alice Ghostly in Montana
Buddy Greco Singer
Connie Smith in Elkhart, Indiana, singer
David Crosby rocker
Robyn Smith, jockey
Susan St. James (MacMillan & Wife, Kate & Allie) LA
Princess Anne of England
Deborah Meyer, swimmer in Annapolis Maryland
Earvin (Magic) Johnson, NBA star (LA Lakers)
0815
1432
Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (Morgante)
Frederick William I, king of Prussia
Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba (emperor 1804-13, 1814-15)
Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, poet (Lady of Lake)
Sir James Douglas, father of British Columbia
Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1st lady
Ethel Barrymore, American stage, screen, TV actress
TE Lawrence, writer (aka Lawrence of Arabia)
Bill Baird, puppeteer
Julia Child in Pasadena Calif, chef
Wendy Hiller, actress
Phyllis Schlafly, right-winger, St. Louis
Robert Bolt Playwright
Rose Marie Actress
Mike Conners, actor
Janice Rule Actress in Norwood Ohio
Lori Nelson
Abby Dalton in Las Vegas
Vernon Jordan Civil rights activist
Jim Dale, musical entertainer
Barbara Bouchet
Linda Ellerbee Broadcast journalist & author
0816
Bernard MacFadden, publisher (Physical Culture, True Romances)
Hugo Gernsback, science fiction writer
Harold Foster, cartoonist, created "Prince Valiant"
George Meany, labor leader, NYC
Wendell Stanley, biochemist, 1st to crystallize a virus (Nobel '46)
Franz Josef II, prince of Liechtenstein (1938-  )
Menachem Begin, Israeli PM (1977-83) (Nobel 1978)
Fess Parker, actor (Davy Crockett)
Ann Blyth, actress in Mt Kisko NY
Frank Gifford, NFL halfback, sportscaster
Robert Culp, actor (I Spy)
Ted Hughes, English poet laureate (1984-  )
Betsy Von Furstenberg in Germany
Eydie Gorme in Bronx NY
Stuart (Smoky) Roosa, US astronaut (Apollo 14)
Julie Newmar
Anita Gillette in Baltimore Md
Carole Shelley in London
Valeri V. Ryumin, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 32)
Leslie Ann Warren, NYC
Madonna (Ciccone) in Bay City Michigan
Timothy Hutton Actor
0817
1601
Pierre de Fermat, mathematician who needed wider margins
Davy Crockett, American frontiersman, adventurer, soldier
Eric Drummond, 1st secretary-general, League of Nations (1919-33)
Samuel Goldwyn, movie producer
Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among US blacks
Mae West, Bkln, actress.  Go up & see her sometime
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., son of FDR
Maureen O'Hara in Dublin Ireland
Larry Rivers, painter
Boog Powell, baseball player
Robert De Niro, actor
Belinda Carlisle (GoGos lead singer)
Sean Penn (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
0818
Virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents
Brook Taylor, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem
Antonio Salieri, Italian composer
Meriwether Lewis, American explorer
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen, 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica
John, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig P.M. (1846-52, 1865-66)
Marshall Field, founder of a Chicago-based store chain
Max Factor Jr
Caspar Weinberger, US secretary of defense (1981-87)
Shelley Winters, St Louis Mo actress
Rosalynn Carter, 1st lady, Pres Carter's main lust
Roman Polanski, director (Knife in the Water, Repulsion)
Roberto Clemente, pro baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates)
Gail Fisher in Orange NJ
Rafer Johnson, decathelete
Robert Redford, actor (Sting, Natural, Great Gatsby)
Martin Mull Actor-comedian
Malcolm-Jamal Warner (Cosby Show)
0819
1398
I¤igo L¢pez, marques de Santillana, Spanish poet
1631
John Dryden, 1st poet laureate of England (Absalom & Achitophel)
John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England
Robert Fulton, inventor
Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks
Minna Canth, Finnish novelist & dramatist
Bernard Baruch, financier, presidential adviser
Orville Wright, an aviator
Manuel Quezon, 1st president of Philippine Commonwealth (1935-42)
Arthur Waley, sinologist, translator from Chinese & Japanese
Ogden Nash, American humorous poet (I'm a Stranger Here Myself)
Thurston Morton, former US senator from Kentucky
Willie Shoemaker, jockey
Debra Paget
Jill St John in LA (Diamonds are Forever)
Sue Barker
0820
Bernardo O'Higgins, won independence for Chile
Benjamin Harrison (R), 23rd Pres (1889-1893) in North Bend, Ohio
Raymond Poincar, French prime minister (1912), president
Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect
Edgar A Guest, poet
Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet, critic, translator (Nobel 1959)
Jacqueline Susann writer (Valley of the Dolls)
Lola Albright in Ohio
George Mitchell, (Sen-D-Me)
Jean-Loup Chrtien, 1st French traveler in space (on Soyuz T-6)
Sam Melville, actor
Isaac Hayes, composer
Rajiv Gandhi, PM of India (1984-  )
Connie Chung, TV newscaster (NBC)
Guy Lafleur, NHL star
0821
Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)
Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building
William IV, king of England (1830-37)
Aubrey Beardsley, English artist (or 0824)
Count Basie, musician
Princess Margaret of England
Mart Crowley playwright
Wilt Chamberlain, NBA great
Kenny Rogers, singer
Clarence Williams III (Mod Squad)
Jackie DeShannon in Kentucky
Patty McCormack, actress
Jim McMahon Chicago Bears QB
Matthew Broderick Actor (Ferris Buehler)
0822
Archibald M. Willard, American artist (Spirit of '76)
Claude Debussy, composer (La Mer, Clair de lune)
Mel Hein, NFL center (NY Giants)
Ray Bradbury, sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451)
Karlheinz Stockhausen, composer
Honor Blackman in London
Gerald P. Carr, US astronaut (Skylab 4)
Sylvia Koscina
Diana Sands
Valerie Harper in Sufferin NY, (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Valerie)
Kathy Lennon, singer in Santa Monica
Cindy Williams, actress (Laverne & Shirley) in Van Nuys Cal
Diana Nyad Swimmer
0823
Louis XVI, king of France (1774-92); guillotined
Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander at Battle of Lake Erie
Edgar Lee Masters, American poet (Spoon River Anthology)
James (Sunny Jim) Rolph, SF mayor (1912-31), MUNI backer
John Sherman Cooper, senator
Gene Kelly dancer/actor
Vera Miles, actress
Mark Russell, raconteur
Barbara Eden, Az (I dream of Jeannie)
Sonny Jurgensen, NFL quarterback (Eagles, Redskins)
Patricia McBride, ballerina
Ron Blomberg future designated hitter
Shelley Long in Fort Wayne Indiana
0824
1591
Robert Herrick, English poet (Gather ye rosebuds) (baptized)
Sir Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables
Max Beerbohm writer
William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed Liberty ships
Albert Claude, Belgian physician (Nobel 1974)
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer of fiction & essays
Fernand Braudel, French historian
Gerry Cooney, boxer
0825
Ivan IV (the Terrible), 1st tsar of Russia (1533-84)
Allan Pinkerton, founder of Chicago detective agency
Bret Harte, writer (Outcasts of Poker Flat)
Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, thyroid specialist (Nobel 1909)
Ludwig II, mad king of Bavaria (1864-86)
Michael Rennie (Klatuu-Day the Earth Stood Still)
Ruby Keeler, dancer  in Halifax NS
Walt Kelly, cartoonist, creator of "Pogo."
Van Johnson, actor
Leonard Bernstein, conductor-composer
George C. Wallace (D-gov-Ala) pres candidate
Althea Gibson, 1st black tennis champion in a major event
Sean Connery, actor (James Bond, Man Who Would Be King)
0826
Sir Robert Walpole (Whig), British prime minister, 1721-42
Johann Lambert, Swiss mathematician, proved ã is irrational
Lee De Forest, invented Audion vacuum (radio) tube in Council Bluffs
Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet
Jules Romains, French novelist, dramatist, poet (Men of Good Will)
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, former US Army chief of staff
Christopher Isherwood, novelist, playwright (I Am a Camera)
Dr Albert Sabin, polio vaccine discoverer
Julio Cort zar, Argentine writer (We Love Glenda So Much)
William French Smith Former Attorney General
Ben Bradlee, journalist (Wash Post)
Francois Leydet
Joseph H. Engle, X-15 pilot, astronaut (STS-2, 51I)
Geraldine Ferraro (D), 1st female major-party VP candidate
Candy Moore in Maplewood NJ
Valerie Simpson in Bronx, singer, Ashford's partner
John Kinsella, swimmer
0827
G.W.F. Hegel, invented dialectic
Hannibal Hamlin (R), 15th VP (1861-65)
Charles Gates Dawes (R), 30th VP (1925-29) (Nobel 1925)
Theodore Dreiser, novelist (Sister Carie, An American Tragedy)
C.S. Forester, historical novelist, created of Horatio Hornblower
Lyndon B Johnson, 36th Pres (1963-1969)
Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Nobel 1979)
Walter Heller, economist
Martha Raye in Butte Montana, denture wearer
Ira Levin, author (Rosemary's Baby, Sleuth, This Perfect Day)
Tommy Sands, singer
Yuri V. Malyshev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz T-2, T-11)
Susan 'Tuesday' Weld in NYC
0828
George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, royal minister to James I
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt, social philosopher (Faust)
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint
Leo Tolstoy, writer, social philosopher (War & Peace)
Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, 1st lady
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English Pre-Raphaelite painter, designer
Charles Boyer, American film star
Sir John Betjeman, poet laureate of England (Mt. Zion)
Nancy Kulp in Penn
Donald O'Connor, comedian, actor
Ben Gazzara, actor (Run for Your Life)
Cassie Mackin NBC Newswoman
Richard Sanders Actor
William Cohen,(Sen-R-Me)
David Soul Actor
Lou Piniella Baseball manager
Ron 'Louisana Lightning' Guidry
Scott Hamilton Skating champion
Emma Samms (Samuels), (Colby's, General Hospital)
Marla Adams
0829
John Locke, British empiricist philosopher
Jean Ingres, French painter
Oliver Wendell Holmes, American physician, author Cambridge, Mass
Anna Ella Carroll, American writer
Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian Symbolist poet (Nobel 1911)
Valery Nicolas Larbaud, French novelist, essayist, translator
Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Marine Corps general
Barry Sullivan, American actor
Ingrid Bergman, actress (Casablanca) in Sweden
George Montgomery, actor
Isabel Sanford, actress
Richard Attenborough, actor, director (Gandhi, Young Winston)
David Pryor, (Sen-D-Ark)
Elliot Gould, actor (M*A*S*H)
Peter Jennings, ABC anchor
William Friedkin director (Exorcist)
Wilhelm Ruska, Neth, world judo champion
Robin Leach (Life Styles of Rich & Famous)
Wyomia Tyus, (Olympic Runner)
Michael Jackson, singer (Thriller)
0830
Jacques-Louis David, French Neoclassical painter
Mary Shelley, author (Frankenstein)
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, wife of president Chester A. Arthur
Ernest Rutherford in Engl, phycist
Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, worked with colloids (Nobel '26)
Huey P. Long (gov-sen-La)
Raymond Massey actor
John Gunther, writer
Roy Wilkins, director of NAACP
Shirley Booth NY - Hazel
Fred MacMurray, actor (Caine Mutiny, My Three Sons)
Joan Blondell in NY
Ted Williams Boston Red Sox
Regina Resnik, mezzo-soprano
John L. Swigert, Jr., US astronaut (Apollo 13)
Elizabeth Ashley in Florida
Jean-Claude Killy, skier
R. Crumb cartoonist
Peggy Lipton NYC (Mod Squad)
Timothy Bottoms, actor
0831
Maria Montessori, educator
Arthur Godfrey, radio, TV host
Sir Bernard Lovell, English radio astronomer, founded Jodrell Bank
William Saroyan, novelist, playwright (Time of Your Life)
Alan Jay Lerner, composer
Buddy Hackett, comedian
James Coburn actor
Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther turned Republican
Warren Berlinger, actor
Itzhak Perlman, violinist
Leonid I. Popov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 35, 40, T-7)
Edward Moses, track star
Confederation Day, celebrated in Switzerland
Dog Days
Feast of St. Peter's Chains
Lammas Day, term day in Scotland
American Family Day in Arizona, Michigan
Colorado Day, commemorating Colorado statehood in 1876
Independence Day celebrated in Jamaica
Start of Garlic Festival in Gilroy, Calif
1291
Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Nat'l Day)
Swiss Confederation Day
Lammas Day
Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
1st US census
Whiskey Rebellion
Battle of Nile
SF Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist
1st voyage down Colorado River
Colorado becomes 38th state
US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, SF Bay
Burial within SF City limits prohibited
1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF
Hawaii Natl Park established
Pres Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission
Guam Territory created
Cal introduces it's Sales Tax (for Education)
1st coml building heated by sun, Albuquerque NM
1st Class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years)
Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
New SF Hall of Justice opens
Charles Whitman climbs U of Texas tower & shoots 12 dead
CBS presents 6 Wives of Henry VIII
Munson & Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park
Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager
Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations
MTV premiers
Feast of St. Alphonsus Mary de Liguori, bishop of Agata dei Goti
St. Elias Day (Orthodox)
Formal signing of Dec of Ind
1st street mailboxes - Boston, Mass
1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones
SF Public Library opens with 5000 volumes
Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey
1st Lincoln head pennies minted
Pres Harding dies at Palace Hotel, SF
Hitler takes over presidency when Paul Von Hindenburg died at 86
Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
Thurmon Munson killed in a plane crash at Akron Ohio at age 32
TODAY/PC born today
Finding of Body of St. Stephen, 1st martyr
American Family Day in Az, Mich
Colorado Day, commemorating Colo statehood in 1876
Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for "Indies."
David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira
Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon
USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap
Niger gains independence from France
John Sain of South Bend, Ind. builds 3.91 m house of cards
365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
Feast of St. Dominic, confessor
Dom Perignon invents champagne
US Coast Guard founded
US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
Peace Bridge between US & Canada opened
Dumont TV Network crumbles
Jamaica gains independence from Britain
US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day)
Dedication of Basilica of Our Lady of the Snow, Rome
Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America)
1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters SF Bay
Oregon country divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel
1st transatlantic telegraph cable completed by Cyrus W. Field
US levies it's 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800)
spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati
Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid
US, Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US
1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8, Phillies-0 (KDKA)
Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
American Bandstand goes on network TV
48ø C (118ø F) at Ice Harbor Dam, Washington
Marilyn Monroe dies at 36
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
US begins bombing N Vietnam
Beatles release "Revolver" album
Mariner 7 flies past Mars
USSR launches Mars 6
Feast of the Transfiguration
Independence Day, celebrated in Bolivia
Peace Festival at Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima, Japan
1181
Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers
Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
Bolivia gains independence from Spain (National Day)
Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim the English Channel
US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915
Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the 'Enola Gay'
US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
Gherman S Titov, second Russian in space aboard Vostok 2
Beatles release "Help" album
Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash
203.05 million shares traded in the NY Stock Exchange
Nineteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 returns to Earth
Feast of the Name of Jesus (Anglican)
Feast of St. Cajetan, confessor
George Washington creates the Order of the Purple Heart
US War Department established.
1st servicable steamboat, the Cleremont, goes on 1st voyage
Battle of Boyac ; Bol¡var defeats Spanish in Colombia
1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
Feud between the Hatfield family of southern WV & McCoys of eastern
Kentucky broke out. About 100 either killed or wounded.
Progressive Party nominated Theodore Roosevelt for president.
Peace Bridge between US & Canada dedicated
US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down govt's
attempt to ban the controversial James Joyce novel `Ulysses'
US marines land in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashed into a Polynesian archipelago reef
Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of earth from space
Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution
1st computer chess tournament
Apollo 15 returns to Earth
Joi Lansing dies at 43
Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between the twin towers
US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from earth
5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 4ø C (39ø F) Bering Sea
Feast of SS. Cyriacus, Largus, Smaragdus, martyrs
Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory
1609
Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope
1st known ascent in a hot-air balloon, by Father Bartolomeu de
Gusmao of Portugal (indoors!)
Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium
Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony
Red Cross Anniversary
1st Davis Cup tennis matches, held in Boston
Salem Oregon airport dedicated
Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River begins producing power
Battle of Britain began as Germany launched air attacks
Great Train Robbery in England
US launches Pioneer Venus probe
LBV Conference Center & Club Lake Villas open
Feast of St. Denys
Feast of St. John-Mary Vianney
Persia defeats Spartan king Leonidas at Thermopylae (480 bc)
Battle of Dupplin Moor (in Scotland)
Capt. Cook passes through Bering Strait
1st ascent of Mt. Blanc
1st horses arrive in Hawaii
US-Canada border defined by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Free-Soil Party nominates Martin Van Buren for president
Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia
Henry David Thoreau published `Walden'
Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria.
Betty Boop debutes in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes.
Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal of the Berlin Olympics
Britain arrested Indian nationalist Mohandas K. Gandhi
US drops 2nd atomic bomb on Japan destroying part of Nagasaki
1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama
South African women demonstrate against pass laws
Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day)
The Manson family commits the Tate-LaBianca murders
USSR launches Mars 7
Richard Nixon resigns presidency
Feast of St. Laurence, martyr
Independence Day, celebrated in Ecuador
Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
Missouri becomes 24th state
Smithsonian Institute established
Transatlantic cable laid - Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria
Robert Goddard, father of American rocketry, dies
ABC enters network TV at 7 PM - WJZ, NY
Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
Lunar Orbiter 1 launched
1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
Feast of SS. Tiburtius & Susanna, martyrs
George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal
Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Deimos
California Theatre closed (now a Pac Tel Phone Store)
Green Bay Packers founded
temp. reaches 58ø (136ø F) at San Luis Potos¡, Mex. (world record)
1st color baseball game telecast
Chad gains independence from France
Andrian G Nikolayev,third Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
Vostok 3 launched; rendezvous with Vostok 4 next day
Watts riots begin in LA, last 6 days
Feast of St. Clare, virgin
Issac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine
Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton
Hawaii formally annexed to the US
The peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
`Of Human Bondage,' by William Somerset Maugham, published.
K Reinmuth discovers 1,000th asteroid, names it Giuseppe Piazzi
Diver Marjorie Gestring becomes youngest Olympic gold medalist (13)
French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany.
Ann Davidson -1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic arrived Miami
Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb.
Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour
1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island
Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched
Russia launches Pavel Popovich. He lands safely Aug. 15.
Last American combat ground troops left Vietnam.
1st test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
World's worst single aircraft disaster-Japan Boeing 747 (520 die)
Feast of SS. Hippolytus & Cassian, martyrs
International Left-handers Day
3114
BC The Mayan "long count" calendar system begins
Christiaan Huygens discovers the Martian south polar cap
English defeat French at Battle of Blenheim
Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
English astronomer J.R. Hind discovers asteroid Iris
Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
Central African Republic proclaims independence from France
Berlin Wall erected in East Germany
410
Alaric sacks Rome
1248
Construction of Cologne Cathedral is begun
1385
Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence
Oldest exactly dated printed book (c. 3 years after Gutenberg)
French capture Ft. Oswego, N.Y
Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
Oregon Territory created
Construction of Cologne Cathedral is completed
Intl forces including US Marines enter Beijing to put down
the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at ridding China of foreigners.
2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I
Social Security Act became law
Atlantic Charter signed by FDR & Churchill
VJ Day - Japan unconditionally surrendered to end WW II
Pakistan gains independence from Britain
Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst died in Beverly Hills
Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)
US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
1st US lunar orbiter
British troops intervened militarily in Northern Ireland
US bombs Cambodia
Dog Days end
Feast of St. Mary the Virgin (Anglican)
Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin
Independence Day, celebrated in the Congo
Liberation Day, celebrated in South Korea
Admission Day celebrated in Hawaii
Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by the son of King Duncan
Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
Guy Hecker scores seven times in 1 game
Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro
Panama Canal opens
US & Russia severed diplomatic ties
Wiley Post & Will Rogers killed in plane crash in Alaska
"The Wizard of Oz" premiers at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood
Riot in SF celebrating end of WW II
South Korea liberated from Japanese rule
US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ended
India & Pakistan granted independence within British Commonwealth
Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)
Congo (Brazzaville) gains independence from France (Nat'l Day)
Beatle's Shea Stadium concert
Woodstock Music & Art Fair opened in NY State
Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
Bahrain gains independence from Britain
Pres Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents
South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escaped an assassination
Robin Leamy of US swims a record 7.98 kph for 50 m
Feast of St. Joachim, father of Mary, confessor
Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, S.C
Detroit fell to British & Indian forces in the War of 1812.
Manchester Massacre; English police charge unemployed demonstrators
Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston to be exhibited
Pres Lincoln prohibit Union states from trading with Confederacy
Emancipation Proclamation signed
Gold found at Bonanza Creek, Ala
Norman Lockyer, editor of NATURE, discoverer of helium in sun, dies
Adlai E. Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate
Britain grants independence to the crown colony of Cyprus
Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon at 31,330 m (record)
Woodstock festival begins in upstate NY
Venera 7 launched by USSR for soft landing on Venus
Elvis Presley, dies of heart ailment at Graceland at age 42
LA federal jury acquits automaker John Z. De Lorean
Astrological Harmonic Convergence - Dawn of New Age
Feast of St. Ethelred
Feast of St. Hyacinth, confessor
Independence Day, celebrated in Indonesia
Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
US takes LA
1st bank in Hawaii opens
Federal batteries & ships bombarded Ft Sumter in Charleston
Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
Gold discovered at Bonanza Creek, in Klondike region of the Yukon
Bank of Italy opens it's new HQ at Clay & Montgomery
Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Ga.,
after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life
"The Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY
FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission
US bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France
Allied forces gained completed control of Sicily
Indonesia declares independence from the Netherlands (National Day)
Alger Hiss denied ever being a Communist agent
Indonesia gains it's independence
Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
Alliance for Progress established
E German border guards shot & mortally wounded Peter Fechter, 18,
who attempted to cross the Berlin Wall into the western sector
Hurricane Camille claimed more than 250 lives
USSR launches Venera 7 to Venus
1st manned balloon crossing of the Atlantic Ocean (Eagle II)
Nazi Rudolph Hess dies at 93, after 46 years in Spandau Prison
Feast of St. Agapitus, martyr
1227
Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died.
Virginia Dare 1st child of English parents to be born in America
The last of the Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
US forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearney captured Santa Fe, NM
Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality
Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment
which guarantees the right of all American women to vote.
FDR dedicates the Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada.
Asst Sec of Labor James Wilkins became 1st black to attend Cabinet
Investigation starts of TV Game show scandal
`Lolita,' by Vladimir Nabokov, published.
1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
James Meredith became 1st black graduate from U of Mississippi
USSR's Luna 24 softlands on the Moon
1st time, NYSE tops 100 million figure, 132.69 million shares traded
Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
Feast of St. John Eudes, confessor
National Aviation Day
Admission Day (celebrated in Hawaii)
Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum
1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is
ABC begins the tradition of Saturday morning kid shows
Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
Sputnik 5 carries 3 dogs into orbit (later recovered alive)
Groucho Marx, died in LA at the age of 86.
The crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34
Soyuz T-7 is launched
Feast of St. Bernard, abbot, doctor
Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over
German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during WW I.
Britain opened its offensive on the Western front during WW I
US's 1st coml radio, 8MK later WWJ, Detroit began daily broadcasting
Dumont's 1st TV Broadcast for home reception, NY city
British PM Churchill said of the Royal Air Force, `Never in the
field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'
Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico City by agents of Stalin
Dimout regulations implemented in SF
Russia publicly acknowledges a test detonation of a hydrogen bomb.
1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph - HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca
Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria
Republicans convene at the Cow Palace
Senegal gains independence from France
LBJ signs an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion.
650,000 Soviet-block troops invade Czechoslovakia
Viking 1 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing
Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
UN Security Council votes 14-0, US abstains condemning Israel's
declaration that all of Jersualem was its capital.
A mail carrier in Edmond, Okla., shot 14 fellow workers dead
Feast of St. Jane Frances Frmiot de Chantal, widow
Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
1560
Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy
1680
Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa Fe,
Former slave Nat Turner led a violent insurrection against slavery
John Hampson patents the venetian blind
1st Lincoln-Douglas debate in Illinois
American Bar Association organized at Sarasota, N.Y
Ruth homer leads the AL to a 4-2 win in the 1st All Star Game
Leon Trotsky died of wounds inflicted by an assailant the day before
Pres Truman ended the Lend-Lease program
Hawaii becomes 50th US state
Martial law declared in S Vietnam
Gemini 5 launched into earth orbit (2 astronauts)
William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus is launched
Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut
Opposition leader Begnigno S. Aquino, Jr. assassinated in Manila
Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 2000
2017
Next total solar eclipse visible from North America
Death of King Richard III, 1485, last of the plantagenets
Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
1485
Richard III slain at Bosworth Field - Last of the Plantagenets
John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
Gold fields discovered in Australia
Geneva Convention signed, by 12 nations
Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers
Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers
Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 106 km
NASA's X-15 attains altitude of 67 miles
Feast of St. Philip Benizi, confessor
Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF
1st Japanese commercial ship visits SF, carrying tea
1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US:  US lightship
"Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premiers in Chicago Tribune
Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed in Mass
Rumania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
Digital Equipment Corp. founded
Beatles release "She Loves You"
Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of earth from the moon
Intelsat communications satellite launched
1st man-powered flight (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
Feast of St. Bartholomew, apostle
79
Mt. Vesuvius erupts; Pompeii & Herculaneum are buried
King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants
St. Bartholomew's Day
British sack Washington, DC, White House burned
the waffle iron is invented
Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal
Territory of Alaska organized
1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, AE Putnam
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established
1st US Negro delegate to United Nations appointed - ES Sampson
1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC
temp. drops to -88ø (-127ø F) at Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
1989
Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
Feast of St. Louis IX, king of France, confessor
Independence Day, celebrated in Uruguay
Montreal taken by the Iroquois
William Herschel, discoverer of Uranus, dies at age 85
Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)
Belgium begins revolt against the Netherlands
NY Sun publishes moon hoax story about John Herschel
Combination rail & ferry service available from SF to Alameda
Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim the English Channel
1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game
Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
Paris liberated from Nazi occupation
Voyager 2 closest approach to Saturn & discovers thousands of rings
Dow Jones average of industrial stocks reaches 2722.42, a record
Feast of St. Zephyrinus, pope (198-217), martyr
Women's Equality Day
55
B.C. Roman forces under Julius Caesar invaded Britain.
1346
English longbows defeat French in Battle of Crcy
Cambridge Agreement pledged.  Massachusetts Bay Co. stockholders
John Fitch granted a US patent for his working steamboat
W A Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)
Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.
Krakatoa began erupting with increasingly large explosions.
Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg
19th amendment passes -- women's suffrage granted (about time!)
Pumping to build Treasure Island in S.F. Bay is finished
Fluoridation of SF water begins
USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
Official Intl Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto.
Mariner 2 launched for 1st planet flyby (Venus)
LBJ nominated at the Democratic convention in Atlantic City, N.J.
Summer Olympics opened in Munich, West Germany.
Charles Lindbergh, died at his home in Hawaii at 72.
Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
H.A. Rey, author of a popular constellation book, dies at age 78
Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
Soyuz 31 is launched
Voyager's closest approach to Saturn enroute to Uranus & Neptune
Feast of St. Joseph Calasanctius, confessor
Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons (1883)
Americans defeated by British in Battle of Long Island
1st hydrogen-filled balloon ascent (unmanned)
1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn
Krakatoa, west of Java, blew apart; top that, St. Helens!
Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes Tarzan
Green Bay Packers granted NFL franchise
Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agreed to outlaw war
Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
Launch of Mariner 2 which makes 1st Venus flyby
Toby Harrah & Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers
Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
20th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 6 launched
Feast of St. Augustine of Hippo, bishop, confessor, doctor
St Augustine, Fla established
Delaware Bay explored by Henry Hudson for the Netherlands
William Herschel discovers Enceladus, satellite of Saturn
Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was born near Tula.
US occupies Midway Islands in the Pacific
Mickey Welsh strikesout the 1st 9 men he faces
United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
Italy's declares war against Germany during WW I
10 suffragists were arrested as they picketed the White House
WEAF in NYC aired the 1st radio commercial. Queensboro Realty
Company of Jackson Heights paid $100 for 10 minutes of air time
Sen. Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, D.C
Martin Luther King Jr I have a dream speech at the Lincoln Memorial
Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Democratic
National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president
More than 520 die as a strong earthquake shook central Mexico
Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
Ore., winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship.
Ron Guidry faces just 28 men & beats the Rangers 1-0
John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill Pres Reagan
Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation
According to Hoyle Day
Beheading of St. John the Baptist
1526
Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Moh cs
Last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa, murdered by Spanish conquerors
1708
Haverhill, Mass. destroyed by French & Indians
Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)
Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass
William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
2nd president of the Mormon Church, Brigham Young, died.
Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
Arizonan is 1st vessel to arrive in S.F. via the Panama Canal
USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb
SF Intl Airport (SFO) opens
Strom Thurmond D-SC, ends 24 hour filibuster against civil rights
Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" is released
Beatles public concert, at Candlestick Park in SF.
Final television episode of The Fugitive
Lou Brock, Cardinals eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year old career stolen
bases record to a total to 893. The Padres won game, 4-3.
Broadcaster Lowell Thomas, died in Pawling, N.Y., at age 89
Feast of St. Rose of Lima, virgin, patron of Latin America
1645
treaty of peace between Dutch & Indians
Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
1st Negro judge of a District Court confirmed - JB Parsons
1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
8th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 3 is launched
12th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 1 is launched
Feast of St. Raymund Nonnatus, confessor
US Naval Observatory is authorized by an act of Congress
California Pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets
1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston, S.C
Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized
Gil Hodges hits 4 homers in 1 game
1st microwave television station operated - Lufkin, Texas
1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Il
Malaysia gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Trinidad & Tobago gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Malaysia Day
Aleksandr Fedotov sets world aircraft altitude record of 38.26 km
(125,524 ft) in a Mikoyan E-266M turbojet
Poland's Solidarity labor union founded
0800
Sandwich Month
0901
Lydia Sigourney, American religious author (How to Be Happy)
Engelbert Humperdinck German opera composer
James `Gentleman Jim' Corbett Prize fighter
Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist (Tarzan)
Ray Flaherty, AFL, NFL, AAFC coach
Walter Reuther, labor leader, president of UAW & CIO
Melvin Laird (R-Rep), sec of defense
Vittorio Gassman actor
Yvonne De Carlo, (Ten Commandments) in Vancouver BC
Rocky Marciano Boxer
Conway Twitty, country singer
Seiji Ozawa Japanese orchestra conductor
Lily Tomlin, Detroit (Laugh In, 9 to 5, All of Me)
Barry Gibb, singer
Gloria Estefan (Miami Sound Machine)
0902
Queen Liliuokalani, last queen of Hawaii (1891-93)
Henry George, land reformer, writer (Progress & Poverty)
Wilhelm Ostwald, German physical chemist (Nobel 1909)
Hiram Johnson, Calif governor, Progressive
Allan Drury, author
Martha Mitchell, wife of Attorney General
Peter Ueberroth, baseball commissioner
Terry Bradshaw, NFL quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
Mark Harmon
Jimmy Connors, tennis brat
Linda Purl
0903
Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker
Prudence Crandall, founder of school for "young ladies of colour."
Sarah Orne Jewett, author
Louis Sullivan, father of modern US architecture
Edward A. Filene, merchant, established US credit union movement
Andrew Brewin, Canadian lawyer, cofounder of New Democratic Party
Alan Ladd
Kitty Carlisle-Hart, game show panelist
Anne Jackson in Penn
Eileen Brennan in LA
Valerie Perrine in Galveston Tx, (Lenny, Slaughterhouse 5)
Charlie Sheen
0904
Franois Ren de Chateaubriand, French poet, novelist, statesman
Marcus Whitman, missionary
Sarah Childress Polk, 1st lady
Donald McKay, US naval architect, builder of fastest clipper ships
Anton Bruckner in Austria, Wagner disciple
Daniel Burnham, American architect, built skyscrapers
Darius Milhaud, composer
Paul Osborn, playwright
Richard Wright, American author (Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children)
Henry Ford II, businessman
Paul Harvey Radio news commentator
Howard Morris
Craig Claiborne, food columnist, NY Times
Rep Robert J Lagomarsino, R-Calif
Thomas Eagleton (D-Sen-Mo)
Mitzi Gaynor in Chicago Ill
Tom Watson, Golfer
Judith Ivey
Danny Ponce
0905
1187
Louis VIII (Coeur-de-Lion), king of France (1223-26)
Louis XIV (Sun King), king of France (1643-1715)
Johann Christian Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach (English Bach)
Jesse James in Missouri, outlaw
Darryl F Zanuck, Hollywood producer & motion picture executive
Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born writer (Darkness at Noon)
John Cage, composer (Silence)
Arthur C. Nielsen, market researcher (or 1897)
Paul Volcker, Federal Reserve chairman
Andrian G. Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 3, Soyuz 9)
Bob Newhart, comedian, actor
Carol Lawrence in Illinois, dancer & actress
William Devane
Raquel Welch in Chicago Ill (Myra Breckenridge, 100 Rifles)
0906
Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary
John Dalton, chemist, developed atomic theory of matter
Horatio Greenough, American neoclassical sculptor, writer
James Melville Gilliss, founded Naval Observatory in Washington
Sir George Cartier (C), Canadian co-prmie minister (1858-62)
Jane Addams, American pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel 1931)
Joseph P. Kennedy Financier-diplomat
Billy Rose Theatrical producer
Jo Anne Worley Lowell Indiana, (Laugh-in)
Linda Kaye Henning in Cal (Petticoat Junction)
Swoosie Kurtz
Jane Curtin in Cambridge Mass (SNL, Kate & Allie
0907
Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603), daughter of Henry VIII
Catherine Parr, 6th & last wife of Henry VIII
George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, writer on natural history
Franois-Andr Philidor of France, chess champion & musician
August Kekule von Stradonitz, discovered structure of benzene ring
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Liberal), British P.M. (1905-08)
Grandma Moses, American primitive painter
Dr. Michael E. De Bakey, artificial heart pioneer
Paul Brown, coach of Cleveland Browns (1946-62), Cincinnati
Elia Kazan
Anthony Quayle, actor (Anne of 1000 Days, Lawrence of Arabia)
James Van Allen, discovered radiation belts
Peter Lawford, actor (Mrs. Miniver, Little Women)
Daniel Inouye (D-Hi.), US senator, chair of Iran-Contra hearings
Baudouin I, king of Belgium (1951-  )
Sonny Rollins, saxophonist
Buddy Holly, singer (Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day)
Richard Roundtree, actor (Shaft, Earthquake)
Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders)
Judy Kavner in LA
Linda Kaye Miller
Corbin Bernsen (LA Law)
0908
1157
King Richard I of England
Frdric Mistral, Provenal poet (Nobel 1904)
Anton¡n Dvor k in Nelahozeves, Czech, composer (New World Symphony)
Robert A. Taft (sen)
Claude D. Pepper (D-Fla.), US congressman
Hillary Brooke - Abbott & Costello's neighbor
Sid Caesar comedian
Denise Darcel in Paris France
Peter Sellers, (not now, Kato)
Virna Lisi, actress
Sam Nunn (D-Ga-Sen)
Frankie Avalon, (Beach movies)
Heather Thomas in Greenwich Ct
0909
1585
Cardinal de Richelieu, chief minister to Louis XIII of France
William Bligh, nasty ship's captain
William Cranch Bond, American astronomer, codiscover of Hyperion
Harishchandra, Indian poet, dramatist, father of modern Hindi
Frederick R. Spofforth, Australian cricketer (Demon)
Mary Austin, feminist, nature writer
Alfred Landon, (R) pres candidate (1932)
Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, lay you 5 to 1
Cliff Robertson, actor (Charly)
Sylvia Miles in NYC, actress (Midnight Cowboy, Farewell My Lovely)
Billy Preston, singer
Joe Theismann, NFL QB (Redskins)
Tom Wopat
Angela Cartwright in England (Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space)
Dave Stewart Rocker
Scott DeFreitas (As The World Turns)
0910
Julius III, Counter-Reformation pope (1550-55)
Carter Braxton, signed Decl of Ind
Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (Funk & Wagnalls)
Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Indian cricketer, politician
Franz Werfel, Austrian author (40 Days of Musa Dagh)
Fay Wray in Alberta Canada - King Kong's main squeeze
Robert Wise Movie director
Edmond O'Brien, actor (Birdman of Alcatraz)
Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer
Arnold Palmer, golfer
Yevgeni V. Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 5)
Charles Kuralt, "On the road" for CBS
Roger Maris, Yankee outfielder, HR champ (61 in 1961)
Greg Mullavey, Actor
Jos Feliciano, singer
Judy Geeson in England
Margaret Trudeau in Vancouver - Former Canadian 1st lady
Amy Irving in Palo Alto Cal
0911
O. Henry, pen name of William Sidney Porter, short story writer
D.H. Lawrence in Eastwood, Eng, (Lady Chatterly's Lover)
Anne Seymour in England, actress
William Natcher, (D-Ky-Rep)
Bear Bryant, keeps Crimson Tide winning
Ferdinand Marcos Former Philippines Pres
Charles Evers, civil rights leader
Betsy Drake, physical fitness expert
Daniel Kahikina Akaka (D-Hawaii-Rep)
Tom Landry, NFL player (NY Giants), coach (Dallas Cowboys)
Earl Holliman (Police Woman)
Reubin Askew, (Gov-Fla)
Herbert (Sonny) Leon Callahan, (R-Ala-Rep)
Robert Packwood, (R-Ore-Sen)
Gherman Titov, 1st man to spend a day in space (Vostok 2)
Robert L. Crippen, astronaut (STS-1, 7, 41C, 41G)
Brian De Palma director (Dressed to Kill)
Lola Falona in Phila, Singer/dancer
Elizabeth Daily
Kristy McNichol, actress, LA (Family)
0912
Richard Jordan Gatling, US inventor of hand-cranked machine gun
Charles Dudley Warner, US newspaperman, author
H.H. Asquith (Liberal), British prime minister (1908-16)
Henry L. Mencken, newspaperman, critic, Baltimore's son
Maurice Chevalier, thanked heaven for little girls (Gigi)
Alfred A. Knopf, US publisher
Margaret Hamilton, wicked witch of the west
Jesse Owens, spoiled Hitler's 1936 Olympics
Irene Daily ( Another World)
Am¡lcar Cabral, worked for independence of Portuguese Africa
Stanislaw Lem, Polish science-fiction writer
Howard Curtis Nelson, (R-Ut-Rep)
George Jones Country singer
Linda Gray in Santa Monica
Stephen J. Solarz (D-NY-Rep)
Maria Muldaur in Greenwich Village (Midnight at the Oasis)
Barry White, singer
0913
Oliver Evans, pioneered high-pressure steam engine
Clara Wieck Schumann, German pianist, composer
Walter Reed, who proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever
Milton S. Hershey, US chocolate manufacturer, philanthropist
Gen. John J. (Blackjack) Pershing, US commander in World War I
Arthur Henderson, British socialist, disarmament worker (Nobel '34)
Arnold Schoenberg, composer
Sherwood Anderson, American author, publisher (Winesburg, Ohio)
Mel Torm, singer (Velvet Fog)
Eileen Fulton
Barbara Bain in Chicago Ill - Mission Impossible
Fred Silverman, broadcasting executive (NBC)
Judith Martin, Miss Manners
Oscar Arias S nchez, president of Costa Rica (1986-  ) (Nobel 1987)
Jacqueline Bisset in England, actress (Deep)
Nell Carter
Karen Wyman in Bronx NY
0914
Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, pioneer in psychology
Lord Cecil of Chelwood, helped form League of Nations (Nobel 1937)
Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew "Gibson Girl"
Margaret Sanger, feminist, nurse, birth control proponent
Hal Wallis, movie producer
Clayton Moore, (Lone Ranger)
Jacobo Arbenz, president of Guatemala (1951-54); overthrown by CIA
Kay Medford in NY
Albert Shanker, American labor leader
Zoe Caldwell
Kate Millett, writer, feminist (Sexual Politics)
Nicol Williamson
Merlin Olsen, NFL defensive tackle (Rams), sportscaster, actor
Joey Heatherton in Rockville Center NY
0915
James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major American novelist (Prairie)
Porfirio D¡az, soldier, president of Mexico (1877-1911)
William Howard Taft (R), 27th pres (1909-13), chief justice in Cin
Bruno Walter, conductor
Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, car builder
Dame Agatha Christie, mystery writer (Murder on the Orient Express)
Jean Renoir, cineaste (Grand Illusion)
Milton Eisenhower, Dwight's brother
Roy Acuff, country & western singer
Umberto II, king of Italy (1946)
Kathryn Murray in New Jersey
Penny Singleton
John Mitchell, attorney general who went to jail
Creighton Abrams, Army general
Jackie Cooper, actor
Bobby Short, singer, pianist
Norm Crosby Comedian
Murray Gell-Mann, physicist who predicted quarks
Gaylord Perry, baseball player
Miroslaw Hermaszewski, 1st Polish space traveler (Soyuz 30)
Tommy Lee Jones Actor
Oliver Stone Director
Dan Marino (Dolphin QB)
Prince Henry of Wales
0916
1387
Henry V, king of England (1413-22)
Charles S Crocker, of Southern Pacific fame
Francis Parkman, American historian, author (Oregon Trail)
James J Hill RR entrepreneur
A Bonar Law (C), British prime minister (1922-23)
James J Jeans, cosmologist & astrophysicist
Nadia Boulanger in Paris Music teacher
Frans Sillanp, Finnish writer (Meek Heritage) (Nobel 1939)
Albert Szent-Gyrgyi, Hungarian biochemist (Nobel 1937)
Wilfred Burchett, Australian Communist, journalist, writer
Allen Funt `Candid Camera' creator
Janis Paige in Tacoma Washington
Bess Myerson, Miss America 1945
Lauren Bacall in Staten Island (Dark Passage, Key Largo)
B.B. King, singer, musician
Charlie Byrd guitarist
Robert Schuller, televangelist
Peter Falk, actor (Colombo)
Anne Francis in Ossining NY
Elgin Baylor, NBA star
Rosemary Casals Tennis Player
Ed Begley Jr (St Elsewhere)
Shalane McCall
0917
879
Charles III (The Simple), king of France (893-923)
1271
Wenceslas II, king of Bohemia & Poland (1278-1305)
Baron Frederick von Steuben, made Continental Army winners
Marquis de Condorcet, French Enlightenment philosopher
Thomas A Hendricks (D), 21st US vice-president; died in office
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket & space research
Christian Lange, Norwegian pacifist, internationalist (Nobel 1921)
Warren E Burger, ex-Supreme Court chief justice
Virgilio Barco Vargas, president of Colombia (1986-90)
Hank Williams, country singer (Cold, Cold Heart, Hey Good Lookin')
George Blanda, NFL quarterback, place kicker (Oakland Raiders)
Roddy McDowall, actor (Planet of the Apes)
Edgar Dean Mitchell, astronaut (Apollo 14)
Thomas P Stafford, astronaut (Gemini 6, 9, Apollo 10)
Anne Bancroft aka Mrs Mel Broks, Bronx (Graduate)
Dorothy Louden, actress
Pat Crowley, actress
John Ritter (3's Company)
0918
Dr Samuel Johnson, Boswell's tour guide, writer
George Read, lawyer, signer of Declaration of Independence
Adrien-Marie Lagendre, mathematician, worked on elliptic integrals
Joseph Story, US Supreme Court justice
Jean-Bernard-Lon Foucault; his pendulum proved earth rotates
John G Diefenbaker (P-C), 13th Canadian PM (1957-63)
Claudette Colbert in Paris France (Lily Chauchoin)
Eddie Anderson, actor
Greta Garbo in Stockholm (Ninotchka, Grand Hotel)
Jack Warden, actor (Verdict, Brian's Song)
Phyllis Kirk in NJ
Nikolai N Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 10, 16, 33)
Robert Blake, actor (Baretta)
0919
Jan Luyts, Dutch scholar, physicist, mathematician, astronomer
Charles Carroll, signed Decl of Ind
Joseph Pasternak, film producer
Lewis F Powell, Jr, former US Supreme Court justice
William Golding, English novelist (Lord of the Flies) (Nobel 1983)
Rogers Morton, politician
Blanche Thebom, mezzo-soprano
Duke Snyder baseball player
Lurieen Wallace (D-Gov-Ala)
Rosemary Harris in England
David McCallum, actor (Ilya Kuryakin)
Al Oerter, US discus thrower
Paul Williams, singer, composer, actor
Freda Payne in Detroit Michigan - Sung about a Band of Gold
Jane Blalock LPGA Golfer
Jeremy Irons, English actor (French Lieutenant's Woman)
Twiggy (Leslie Hornby) in England, model, actress
0920
86
Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor
357
Alexander III the Great, king of Macedonia, emperor
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian journalist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907)
Upton Sinclair, novelist (Jungle)
Ferdinand (Jelly Roll) Morton, jazz pianist, composer, singer
Alexander Thereat
James Galanos
Rachael Roberts
Anne Meara in NYC
Sophia Loren, Rome (Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid)
Allanah Currie (Thompson Twins')
0921
Girolamo Savonarola, Florentine monk, preacher, reformer
John Loudon McAdam, created macadam road surface (asphalt)
Margaret Smith Taylor, 1st lady
H.G. (Herbert George) Wells in Bromley, Eng, (War of the Worlds)
Gustav Holst, composer (Planets)
Hugh (Shorty) Ray, supervisor of NFL officials
Dawn Addams in England
Larry Hagman, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas)
Melvin Van Peebles, American playwright
Henry Gibson, Laugh-in's poet
Fanny Flagg in Alabama - Candid Camera
Stephen King, suspense writer (Shining, Kujo)
Bill Murray - Saturday Night Live's 1st replacement
0922
Lord Chesterfield, introduced Gregorian calendar to Eng (1752)
Michael Faraday, discovered principle of electric motor
Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese PM (most of 1946-54)
Erich von Stroheim, early film director
John Houseman, actor (Paperchase, Ghost Story)
Alfred G Vanderbilt, sportsman
Martha Scott, actress
Chen Ning Yang, Chinese physicist, disproved parity (Nobel 1957)
Tom Lasorda, baseball manager (LA Dodgers)
Anna Karina
Harold Carmichael, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
Shari Belafonte-Harper in NY
Debby Boone in Hackensack NJ - had her life lit up
Joan Jett in Phila (Blackhearts)
Scott Baio (Joanie loves Chachi)
Catherine Oxenberg
0923
63
Octavian (Augustus Csar), 1st Roman emperor
484
Euripides, ancient Greek playwright (Trojan Women) (or 480 BC)
Augustus
Ferdinand VI, king of Spain (1746-59)
William H McGuffey, educator (McGuffey Readers)
Victoria Chaflin Woodhull, American feminist, reformer
William Stewart Halsted, established 1st US surgical school
John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO (Nobel 1949)
Walter Lippmann, journalist, political writer
Walter Pidgeon, actor (Mrs Miniver, Madame Curie)
Louise Nevelson, sculptor
Elliot Roosevelt, son of FDR
Mickey Rooney, actor
John Coltrane, saxophonist
Ray Charles, Sings Georgia, entertainer
Romy Schneider in Vienna Austria
Bruce (Boss) Springsteen, rock musician (Born in the USA)
0924
Horace Walpole, English writer
John Marshall Supreme Court Chief Justice,
Georges Claude, invented neon light
Sir Alan Herbert, English journalist & writer
F Scott Fitzgerald in St Paul, Minn (Great Gatsby)
Jim McKay ABC Sportscaster
Sheila MacRae in London, Actress
John W Young, astronaut (Gemini 3, 10, Apollo 10, 16, STS-1, 9)
Anthony Newley, actor, song writer
John Brunner, British sci-fi author (Sheep Look Up)
Jim Hensen, who made Kermit & Miss Piggy what they are today
Linda Eastman McCartney
0925
Olaus Roemer, 1st to accurately measured speed of light
1657
Imre Thkly, Hungarian patriot, opposed Habsburg rule
Jean Phillippe Rameau, French composer (baptized)
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built 1st automobile
Armand-Emmanuel, duc de Richelieu, French PM (1815-18, 1820-21)
Plutarco El¡as Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28)
William Faulkner, US author (Sound & the Fury) (Nobel 1949)
Mark Rothko, painter
Red Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist, reporter
Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer
Aldo Ray, actor
Barbara Walters in Boston Mass - 1st Network news anchor woman
Juliet Prowse in Bombay India
Robert Walden, actor
Michael Douglas Actor-producer
Cathy Burns
Mimi Kennedy in Rochester NY
Christopher Reeve, actor (Superman)
Mark Hamill (Star Wars)
Heather Locklear - Jack LaLanne spokesperson
0926
Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher, critic, Bible translator
John Chapman AKA Johnny Appleseed
T.S. Eliot in St Louis, Anglican (Waste Land) (Nobel 1948)
Martin Heidegger, German Existentialist (Being & Time)
Paul VI, 262nd Roman Catholic pope (1963-78)
George Gershwin, Bkln, composer (Rhapsody in Blue)
Jack LaLanne Exercise mogul
Barbara Britton
Julie London in Cal, singer
Patrick O'Neal Actor
Julio Iglesias, singer
Kent McCord Actor
Mary Beth Hurt
Lynn Anderson Singer
Olivia Newton-John in Cambridge England - Lets Get Physical
Vladimir Remek, 1st Czechoslovakian space traveler (in Soyuz 28)
Melissa Sue Anderson in Cal
0927
Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43)
Sophia, regent of Russia (1682-89)
Samuel Adams, revolutionary rabble rouser
Agust¡n I de Iturbide, emperor of Mexico (1822-23)
George Cruikshank, English illustrator
Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America
Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist (Old Man of the Mtn) (Nobel 1926)
Sam Ervin (D-Sen), Watergate Committee chairman
Sir Martin Ryle, British radio astronomer, astronomer royal 1972-82
Charles H Percy (R-Sen-Ill)
Arthur Penn, stage & film director
Jane Meadows AKA Mrs Steve Allen in Wu Chang China
Sada Thompson in Des Moines Iowa
Kathy Nolan in St Louis Mo
Barbara Hower - Washington Post writer
Cheryl Tiegs in Minnesota - A model's figure
Dumitru Prunariu, 1st Rumanian space traveler (on board Soyuz 40)
Shaun Cassidy
0928
490
BC Greeks defeat Persians at Marathon
BC Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) in Rome
551
Confucius (as celebrated in Taiwan)
Michelangelo Buanarroti in Caprese, Italy
Caravaggio, Italian painter (or 1573)
Freidrich Engels German social philosopher
Frances Willard, founded Women's Christian Temperance Union
Georges Clemenceau French statesman
Henri Moissan, French chemist; isolated fluorine (Nobel 1906)
Kate Douglas Wiggins, author
William S Paley, CBS Chairman
Ed Sullivan TV variety show host
Max Schmeling of Germany, world heavyweight boxing champ (1930-32)
Al Capp, cartoonist, (`Li'l Abner')
Confucius
Harold Taylor, Canadian educator
Michael Somes, English ballet dancer
William Windom, actor
Marcello Mastroianni, actor (8«, La Dolce Vita)
Seymour Cray, inventor of Cray I computer
Brigette Bardot in Paris France
Alexander S Ivanchenkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 29, T-6)
Charley Taylor, NFL wide receiver, running back (Redskin)
Fiona Lewis
Sylvia Kristel in Holland, Emmanuelle
Steve Largent, wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
0929
Robert, Lord Clive, founder of British empire in India
Adm Horatio Nelson, British naval hero at Trafalgar
Caroline Ardelia Yale, American educator of deaf
Joseph B Rhine, parapsychologist
Enrico Fermi, physicist, gone fission
Miguel Alem n, president of Mexico (1946-52)
Gene Autry, cowpoke/singer/actor/Calif Angels owner
Greer Garson in North Ireland
Virginia Bruce
Lizabeth Scott
John Tower (R-Sen-Tx)
Anita Ekberg in Sweden
Jerry Lee Lewis, singer (Great Balls of Fire, Breathless)
Bill Nelson (D-Fla-Rep), astronaut (STS 61C)
Madeline Kahn in Mass, actress (Paper Moon, Blazing Saddles)
Lech Walesa, leader of Polish Solidarity movement (Nobel 1983)
Bryant Gumbel, (Today)
Sebastian Coe, British distance runner
0930
Robinson Crusoe, according to Daniel Defoe
Jean Perrin, French physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926)
Kenny Baker, radio singer
Lester Maddox, former governor of Georgia
Deborah Kerr, (King & I, Night of Iguana) in Helensburg Scotland
Truman Capote, a short short story writer (In Cold Blood)
Elie Wiesel, author (Souls on Fire), Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986)
Angie Dickinson in Kulm ND - best looking legs on a Police officer
Johnny Mathis singer
Marilyn McCoo in Jersey City NJ - Solid Gold host
Beginning of Orthodox church year
Feast of St. Drithelm of Northumbria, c. 700
Feast of St. Giles, abbot
Labor Day, a legal holiday
1159
Adrian IV, only English pope (1154-59), dies (birth date unknown)
1557
Jacques Cartier, French explorer, dies (birth date unknown)
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in California
Aaron Burr aquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire
California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey
1st pullman sleeping car in service
R.C.Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare
RR & ferry connection between SF & Oakland inaugurated
Sherman's march through Georgia
Napoleon III captured at Sedan
1st woman telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)
Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces
M. Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km
Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo
US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920
Earthquake struck Tokyo, estimated 74,000 people died
Germany invades Poland, starting WW II
PHYSICAL REVIEW publishes paper 1st to deal with "black holes."
1st network dective series - Private Eyes, premeirs
Sutro Baths, SF purchased by George Whitney
Col Moammar Gadhafi rose to power deposed Libya's King Idris
Libyan revolution (National Day)
NJ Meadowlands racetrack opens
1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold
Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings
Korean Boeing 747 strayed into Soviet air space & was
shot down by a Soviet jet fighter. All 269 people aboard died
Titanic, sunk in 1912, found by French & American scientists
Feast of St. William, c. 1070, English bishop, apostle to Danes
Feast of St. Stephen, 1st King of Hungary
Great Britain adopts Gregorian calendar (1752)
31
BC Battle of Actium; Octavian defeats Antony, becomes Emp Augustus
BC Phidippides runs 1st marathon, seeking aid from Sparta vs. Persia
Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth with 102 Pilgrims
1666
Great Fire of London starts; destroys St. Paul's Church
Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies
US Treasury Department established by Congress
K L Harding discovers Juno, 3rd known asteroid
Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
Rumour starts that Gehrig will be traded to Tigers
1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri
Vietnam declares independence from France (National Day)
Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
Feast of St. Pius X, pope (1903-14)
Qatar National Day
Treaty of Paris, ending Revolutionary War, is signed
Cal State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
British annex Natal (South Africa)
Allies turned back Germans in World War I's Battle of Verdun
1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell
Britain declared war on Germany. France followed six hours later,
quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada
1st showing of high definition color TV
US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for military bases
Allied troops invade Italy
US Viking 2 lands on Mars at Utopia
Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storms kills over 1,000
28 year old Chicagoan won $40 million in Illinois state lottery
20th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 6 returns to Earth
476
Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in west, is deposed
Navigator Henry Hudson discovered island of Manhattan
LA founded in Valley of Smokes (Indian Name)
1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty-NY Sun)
North Beach & Mission Railway Company organized in S.F
1st daily newspaper in Hawaii published
French republic proclaimed
1st district lit by electricty (NY's Pearl Street Station)
Geronimo is captured, ending last major US-Indian war
George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak."
Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)
US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
1st airplane to exceed 300 mph, JR Wendell, Glenview, Il
1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines
1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by Pres. Truman
NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network
1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed
Ford Motor Co. introduced Edsel
NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single
American swimmer Mark Spitz 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals
Ron Guidry wins his 20th
Iraqi troops seized Iranian territory in a border dispute
189.42 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
Albert Schweitzer died
Be Late For Something Day
Feast of St. Laurence Justinian, bishop of Venice, confessor
1st Continental Congress assembles, in Phila
Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat Britain trapping Cornwallis
rescue fleet, trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown.
10,000 workers marched in the 1st Labor Day parade in NYC
1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer
Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously.
1st privately operated atomic reactor - Raleigh NC
1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC
11 Israeli athletes are slained at the Munich Olympics
Voyager 1 launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn.
Sadat, Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md.
World's longest auto tunnel, St. Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens.
8th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 3 returns to Earth
12th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 1 returns to Earth
Feast of the Transfiguration.
National Holiday of Swaziland
149 Pilgrims set sail from England aboard the Mayflower
1628
Puritans land at Salem, form Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1st lighthouse in US built, in Boston
Great fire in NY.
1st westbound train arrives in SF.
Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
Southern Pacific line from Los Angeles to SF completed
Pres William McKinley assassinated in Buffalo, N.Y.
Word received, Adm. Peary discovered the North Pole five months ago
Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughriders formed.
Battle of the Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris.
All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev. 44, Miami 0).
Star Trek appears on TV for the 1st time (on NBC)
Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day).
John & Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
Polish dissidents seized the Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland,
Independence Day, celebrated in Brazil
National Grandparents' Day.
Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day).
James J. Corbett kayos John L. Sullivan in round 21 at New Orleans.
1st closed-circuit auto race, at Cranston, R.I.
Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF destroyed by fire.
1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron Oh
Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000+ ft
32nd Emmy Awards shown despite boycott
Feast of the Nativity of Mary.
International Literacy Day
1100
Clement III, 1st antipope (1084-1100), dies (birth date unknown).
1380
Russians defeat Tatars at Kulikovo, beginning decline of Tatars.
1st permanent settlement in US founded at St Augustine, Florida
Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St. John.
Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to English.
Mission San Gabriel Archangel founded in California.
Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people
Loss of steamer Lady Elgin.
Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mont.
1st US Air Mail service begins
Senator Huey P. Long assassinated at Baton Rouge.
Italy surrenders to the allies in WW II
US invades Japanese-held Korea.
Pres Gerald Ford pardons former Pres Richard Nixon
Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy
Jean Seberg dies at age 40
Admission Day, a California Holiday
Feast of St. Gorgonius, martyr.
National Day in North Korea.
Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland.
Continental Congress authorizes the name "US"
John Herschel takes the 1st glass plate photograph
California becomes the 31st state
Territory of New Mexico, Territory of Utah created.
Luxembourg gains independence.
Lotta's Fountain (Kearny & Market) dedicated
President Hayes visits SF
E.E.Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon
NBC created by RCA
Frank Crosetti ties record, strikes out twice in 1 inning
1st bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Or (WW2)
Italy surrenders to the Allies
Allied forces liberate Luxembourg.
Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day).
1st use of TV laugh track - Hank McCune
4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10).
1st successful test flight of a Saturn V.s
John Lennon releases the "Imagine" album
Viking 2 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing.
Chinese communist party chairman Mao TseTung dies at 82
1st TRS-80 computer sold.
"Conestoga I", 1st private rocket, is launched
Feast of St. Nicholas of Tolentino, confessor.
John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va.
Comm Oliver H. Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie
Elias Howe patents the sewing machine.
1st theater opens in Hawaii
Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
NYC welcomes home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers
Leopold and Loeb found guilty of murder
2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0).
Canada declares war on Germany
Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.
Swanson sells it's 1st "TV Dinner"
"Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS television
20 black students entered public schools in Alabama
Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, killing all 176 people
Convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi, last to die in the guillotine
Feast of SS. Protus and Hyacinth, martyrs.
Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan island
English, Dutch & Austrians defeat French in Battle of Malplaquet.
French astronomer G.D Cassini, dies
Battle of Brandywine, Pa.; Americans lose to British.
Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of the Treasury.
Battle of Lake Champlain, N.Y.; Americans defeat British.
`Swedish Nightingale,' Jenny Lind, 1st US concert
Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R.
1st electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos
1st commercially successful electric bus line opens, in Hollywood.
US marines invade Honduras.
Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu.
1st TV drama - WGY's The Queens Messenger
Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
Charles Lindbergh, charges `the British, the Jewish and the
Roosevelt administration' were trying to get the US into WW II
FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at the second Quebec Conference
1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
US Defense Department formed
Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
1st Miss America TV broadcast
US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material
Nikita Khrushchev dies of a heart attack at age 77
BART begins service with a 26 mile line from Oakland to Fremont
Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup
TV's Rhoda gets divorced
Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered biggest one-day decline ever,
plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
Lorne Green dies at 72
Cape Verde National Day.
Feast of the Holy Name of Mary.
BC Athenians defeat 2nd Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon.
Henry Hudson discovers Hudson River.
Drogheda, Ireland falls to Puritan troops; inhabitants massacred.
Charles Messier observes the Crab Nebula and begins catalog.
1st German ship in WW2 captured by US ship (Busko)
Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of the Communist Party
Bonanza premiers
Luna 1 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on the moon.
Gemini XI launched
The Monkees premiers
USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility.
coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day).
240.49 million shares traded in the NY Stock Exchange
death of Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine Comedy.
Dante Alighieri Day
Wolfe defeats Montcalm on Plains of Abraham; Canada becomes English.
NYC becomes the capitol of the US
Britain invades Egypt.
1st airplane flight in Europe.
Soviet Lunik 2 becomes 1st human-made object to crash on moon.
Car 54 Where are You? premiers
The Outer Limits premiers
Beatles release "Yesterday"
IBM announces System 370 computer.
9 hostages and 28 prisoners die in take over a Attica State Prison
1st TV viewer discretion warning - Soap
2nd test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
According to South Africa, Venda gains independence.  Not recognized
as an independent country outside of South Africa.
Princess Grace of Monaco dies at 52 in a car crash
Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.
National Boss/Employee Exchange Day
Salem, Mass. is founded.
1st lighthouse in US is lit (in Boston Harbor)
England and colonies adopt Gregorian calendar, 11 days disappear.
Napoleon occupies Moscow.
Francis Scott Key inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner."
US troops capture Mexico City.
Typewriter ribbon patented
AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo
Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality (NY)
Congress passes 1st peace time draft law
Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater
1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC
Walt Disney awarded the Medal of Freedom at the White House
F-Troop premiers
Denny McLain 30th victory of the season
USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circum lunar flight
Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter.
Entertainment Tonight premiers
Battle of Britain Day.
Feast of the 7 Sorrows of Mary.
Felt Hat Day, when men of fashion put away their straw hats
Independence Day, for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatamala,
Honduras and Nicaragua
Intl Day of Peace (UN observance).
British forces occupy NYC during the American Revolution
Dept of Foreign Affairs, renamed the Dept of State
Costa Rica El Salvador Guatamala Honduras & Nicaragua gain independ
Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang.
Russia was proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of citizenship and made the
swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany.
WPA extends the L-Taraval streetcar to the Zoo (at Sloat Blvd)
3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw. 14, Columbus 2).
Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe.
1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh
During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in the south
Bachelor Father with John Forsythe premiers
SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit
4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham
Lost in Space premiers
Gemini XI returns to Earth
Soyuz 22 carries two cosmonauts into earth orbit for 8 days.
Intl Peace Day
Morocco Showcase opens
Feast of SS Cornelius, pope (251-53), & Cyprian, bishop, martyrs
Independence Day, celebrated in Mexico
International Day of Peace (UN observance)
Death of Tomas de Torquemada, inquisitor who burned 10,000 people
Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims
Mass village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston
Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, 1st known astronomical observation
Great Seal of US used for 1st time
British capture Capetown
Mexico 1st declares independence from Spain (National Day)
Fire of Moscow
Typesetting machine patent
1st overland mail for California
Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opened to white settlement homesteaders
William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors
US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years
American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress
Cardinal Jim Bottomley bats in 12 RBIs in 1 game
1st US peace-time draft in US enacted
Samuel T Rayburn of Tx elected speaker of the House
Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)
James Jeans dies
1st automobile to exceed 400 mph, John Cobb, Bonneville Salt Flats
Shindig premiers
Metropolitan Opera opens at NY's Lincoln Center
Richard Nixon appears on Laugh-in
1st TV series about mixed marriage - Bridgit Loves Bernie
BART begins regular transbay service
Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for Vietnam deserters
Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day)
Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop
Maria Callas American-born prima donna dies in Paris at 53
massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila & Sabra begins
Miami Vice premiers
Citizenship Day
Constitution Day
Impression of the Stigmata of St Francis
St Lambert's Day (Anglican)
International Day of Peace (United Nations observance)
Boston founded
Presidio of SF founded as Spanish fort
US Constitution is adopted & formally signed
William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn
1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii
Battle of Antietam, Md; Confederate forces retreat
Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight
1st transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min
National Football League formed in Canton, Ohio
Charles Lindbergh in SF
1st succesSFul separation of Siamese twins
The Fugitive premiers
Bewitched premiers
Mission Impossible premiers
Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon
BART begins passenger service
Begin, Sadat & Carter sign the Camp David accord
Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
Feast of St Joseph of Cupertino, confessor
Independence Day, celebrated in Chile
Fort Ticonderoga, NY opened
Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
NY Times starts publishing, at 2 a copy
Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as the Local Security Board)
the Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air
Wagon Train premiers
Get Smart premiers
Gemini X is launched
US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of earth & moon together
Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
Feast of St Januarius & his companions, martyrs
1356
English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers
George Washington's farewell address as president
Napoleon's retreat from Russia begins
Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion
1st commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California
Battle of Chickamauga, Tenn; Union forces retreat
Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic
Pres Garfield dies of gunshot wound
Baby born on Golden Gate Bridge (those Marin County folk!)
Mary Tyler Moore show premiers
Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service
St Christopher-Nevis gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
Captain EO permieres
Feast of St Eustace & his companions, martyrs
Magellan starts 1st succesSFul circumnavigation of the world
Paoli massacre
US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
British & French defeat Russians at Alma, in the Crimea
Patent granted on the electric range
Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga, Tenn, ended
US Grants come to SF for elaborate extended visit
Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP
German rocket engineers begin work in US
1st North Pole jet crossing
1st FORTRAN computer program run
Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
WDW's 200-millonth guest
Feast of St Matthew, apostle, evangelist
great fire in NY
1st daily newspaper in US begins publication in Penn
1st French Republic declared
1st auto manufacturer opens -- Duryea Motor Wagon Company
Johann Ostermeyer patents his invention, the flashbulb
the nuclear submarine "Nautilus" is commissioned
Perry Mason premiers
1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, landed, Dallas Texas
Malta gains independence from Britain
Monday Night Football on ABC premiers - Jets vs Browns
John Lennon & Yoko Ono were Dick Cavett's only guest
Diana Sands dies at 39
Jaqueline Susann dies at 53
US Mariner 10 makes second fly-by of Mercury
Richard Todd of the Jets completes 42 passes in a game (NFL record)
Belize gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Sandra Day O'Conner becomes the 1st female Supreme Court Justice
SF cable cars cease operations for 2 years of repairs
Autumn Harvest Festival in Wheaton, Illinois
Feast of St Thomas of Villanova, bishop of Valencia, confessor
President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
Nassau Hall opens at Princeton University
Nathan Hale is executed as a spy by the British
The US Post Office was established
Origin of French Republican Era
President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech
1st auto built in US (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield
Italo Marchiony granted a patent for the ice cream cone
Ice Cream Cone patented
Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney)
Boulogne reoccupied by Allies
Mali gains independence from France (National Day)
The Man from UNCLE premiers
Zond 5 completes flight
War between Iran & Iraq begins
Feast of St Linus, 2nd pope (c 67-c 76), martyr
1st day of Fall
BC - Augustus, 1st Roman Emperor
Naval engagement 'Bonhomme Richard' defeats 'HMS Serepis'
John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point
Johann Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune
Urbain J.J. Leverrier, codiscoverer of Neptune, dies
Ed Cartwright bats in 7 RBIs in 1 inning
1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie is released
Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey for world heavyweight boxing title
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia formed (National Day)
1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event
Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech
1st movie to become a TV series - How to Marry a Millionaire
ABC's 1st color TV series - The Jetsons
Largest known prime, 2 ^ 132,049 - 1, is discovered
Ford-Carter TV debate
Soyuz 22 returns to Earth
Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels
3rd test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens
Feast of Our Lady of Ransom
Congress creates the Post Office
Congress' 1st Judiciary Act, for Attorney General & Supreme Court
1st baseball team organized
Battle of Monterey
a new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated
1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)
James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF
Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
Lt James H Doolittle guided a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over
Mitchell Field in NY in the 1st all-instrument flight
9 Allied govts pledged adherence to the Atlantic Charter
Tonight Show premieres on NBC
Pres Eisenhower suffered a heart attack on vacation in Denver
Bkln Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0
Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia
1st atomic powered aircraft carrier, the Enterprise, is launched
USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launched
Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing
The Munsters premier
60 Minutes premiers
That's Life premiers - A Broadway musical type TV show
Trial of `Chicago 8' began
1st Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16
Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal
Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part
in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter
Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0 rasing his record to 23-3 ERA 174
CompuServe system started
1493
Columbus sailed on his second voyage to America
Vasco Nu¤ez de Balboa is the 1st European to see the Pacific Ocean
1st printing press in America
Publick Occurrences, 1st American newspaper, publish 1st & last ed
American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured
Congress proposes the Bill of Rights
12th amendment to the US constitution, regulating judicial power
Congress establishes Yosemite National Park
Mormon pres Woodruff issued a Manifesto formally renouncing polygamy
Pres Wilson became seriously ill & collapsed after a speech
Henry Ford announces the five day work week
Lou Gehrig plays in his 1500th consecutive game
1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation
3-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
Pacific SW Airlines Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide
Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice
Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
Feast of SS Cyprian & Justina, martyrs
Feast of St Cosmas & Damian
Cabrillo discovers California
Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks & Venetians
British troops occupied Philadelphia in the American Revolution
Jefferson appointed 1st Sec of State; John Jay 1st chief justice;
Samuel Osgood 1st Postmaster & Edmund J Randolph 1st Attorney Genl
Frontiersman Daniel Boone died in Missouri at the age of 85
Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives
John Philip Sousa led band's 1st performance in Plainfield, NJ
Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
Meuse-Argonne offensive against the Germans began during WWI
UN troops in Korean War recaptured South Korean capital of Seoul
Musical West Side Story, opened on Broadway
1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place in Chicago
TV comedy The Beverly Hillbillies premiered on CBS
Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day)
Japan launches its 1st satellite in to space
The Staten Island is 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay
Beatles release "Abbey Road" album
Anna Magnani dies at age 64
Sir Freddie Laker began cut-rate `Skytrain' service London to NY
Soyuz 38 returns to Earth
Australia II won the America's Cup yacht race
Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
Ancestor Appreciation Day
Feast of SS Cosmas & Damian, martyrs
Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola
Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by the British
Constitution submitted to the states for ratification
Railroad transportation is born with 1st track in England
Steamer Arctic is lost
Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small "crowd" of 12
Democratic National Committee voted to admit women
The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth was launched at Glasgow
Floyd Giebells, 1st game, 2-0 pennent clinching beating Bob Feller
1st WWII liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched
Steve Allen's Tonight Show premiers
US sells Israel, Hawk anti-aircraft missiles
Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
Soyuz 12 launched
Confucius' Birthday, celebrated in the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Feast of St Wenceslas, duke & patron of Bohemia, martyr
1066
William the Conqueror landed in England
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay
Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the the Revolutionary War
Donati's comet becomes the 1st to be photographed
US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909
2 US Army planes completed 1st around the world flight
End of 1st around-the-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops
Lou Gehrig'error ends his errorless streak at 885 consecutive games
1st TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise)
Edwin Hubble dies
Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates a record 41.5 kph for 440 yds
Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
Sadat replaces Egyptian Pres Nassar who died of a heart attack at 52
1st Lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy
Pope John Paul I died of a heart attack at 65
1st reports appeared of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
Feast of the Archangels SS Michael, Gabriel,And Raphael
Michaelmas (Feast of St Michael), quarter day in medieval England
Michaelmas
Scotland Yard formed in London
great auroral display in US
major league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning
Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public
S Nicholson discovers 4th & 12th satellite of Jupiter
Stan Musial's last game, gets hit 3,629 & 3,630
Love American Style premiers
Soyuz 12 returns to Earth
Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into earth orbit
Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules killed seven in Chicago
Feast of St Jerome, doctor, patron of scholars, librarians
1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible
1659
Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
siege of Yorktown begins
William Morris 1st tooth extraction under anesthetics Charlestown
1st immigrants from Portugal arrive in Hawaii
Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of the Orion Nebula
City of NY established
Giants lose ending 26 straight winning streak
FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
"Porgy & Bess" premiers in Boston
Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany
1st manned rocket flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
Calais reoccupied by Allies
On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"
Flintstones premiers
Botswana gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition)
USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete the 1st automatic docking
Tuvalu (Ellice Islands) gains independence from Britain
0900
Bourbon Month
1001
1207
Henry III, king of England (1216-72)
Charles VI, Holy Roman emperor (1711-40)
James Lawrence, naval hero ("Don't give up the ship!")
Sergey Aksakov, Russian novelist (Chronicles of a Russian Family)
Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st wife of Benjamin Harrison
William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft co
Faith Baldwin, author
Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
Hiram Fong, Sen
Sam Yorty, ex-mayor of LA
Edward P. Boland (D-Rep-Mass)
Walter Matthau, (Odd Couple, Bad News Bears)
James Whitmore, actor (Black Like Me, Tora! Tora! Tora!)
Jimmy Earl Carter,(D) 39th Pres (1977-1981)
William Rehnquist, chief justice, Supreme Court (1987-  )
Tom Bosley, actor (Happy Days)
George Peppard, actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Blue Max)
Laurence Harvey, actor (Alamo, Romeo & Juliet)
Richard Harris
Julie Andrews, actress & singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins)
Charles G. Fullerton, astronaut (STS-3, 51F)
Edward Villella, American ballet dancer
Stella Stevens, actress (Girls! Girls!, Manitou) in Yazoo City Miss
Rod Carew, baseball slugger
1002
Ferdinand Foch, believed to be responsible for Allies winning WW I
Mahatma K Ghandi, pacifist Porbandar, Kathiawad, India
Cordell Hull, sec of state, lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945)
Groucho Marx, comedian
Graham Greene, prolific English novelist (Brighton Rock)
Robert Runcie, archbishop of Canterbury
Little Rascal Spanky McFarland
Maury Wills Dodger shortstop
Yuri N. Glazkov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 24)
Rex Reed, movie critic
Don McLean, singer, songwriter (American Pie, Vincent)
Donna Karan, actress
Sting (Police)
Lani O'Grady
Randi Oakes in San Diego Calif
1003
Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor
George Bancroft, historian
John Gorrie, invented cold-air process of refrigeration
Townsend Harris, 1st Western consul to reside in Japan
Mikhail Lermontov, leading Russian Romantic poet, novelist
Elenora Duse in Italy, actress
Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist, pacifist (Nobel 1935)
Gertrude Berg - Molly Goldberg
Gore Vidal, writer (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln)
Charles M. Duke, Jr, astronaut (Apollo 16)
Eileen Brennan
Chubby Checker, singer
Pamela Hensley in LA
Jack Wagner - General Hospital's rocker
1004
1289
Louis X (the Stubborn), king of France (1314-16)
Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England (1658-59)
Rutherford B. Hayes (R), 19th pres (1877-81)
John W. McGraw (R), governor of Wash (1893-97)
Damon Runyon, writer
Buster Keaton, actor (The Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr.)
Charlton Heston - Moses (Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes)
Dick Tracy, crimestopper
Lori Saunders in Kansas City Mo
Patty LaBelle, singer
Susan Sarandon, NYC (Atlantic City, Great Waldo Pepper)
Armand Assante
1005
Denis Diderot, encyclopedist
Chester A Arthur, 21st Pres (1881-85)
Louis Lumire, with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895
Robert Hutchings Goddard, rocket pioneer, in Worcester, Mass
Ren Cassin (Nobel Peace Prize 1968)
Ray Kroc, who gave Ronald McDonald a job
Joshua Logan, Broadway producer
Donald Pleasance, Happy Halloween
Bill Willis, AAFC, NFL guard (Browns)
Glynis Johns in South Africa
Philip Berrigan, militant priest
Richard F. Gordon, Jr., U.S. astronaut (Gemini 11, Apollo 12)
Pavel R. Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 4, Soyuz 14)
Diane Cilento in Australia
Bob Geldof - Band Aid organizer
Karen Allen in Illinois
Jenny Lind in Sweden, soprano, nightingale
Richard Dedekind, mathematician
George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice & music
Mart¡n Luis Guzm n, Mexican novelist (The Eagle & the Serpent)
Li Ta-chao, cofounder with Mao Tse-tung of Chinese Communist Party
Janet Gaynor in Phila (Sunrise, A Star Is Born)
Carol Lombard
Thor Heyerdahl, anthropologist, explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku)
Shana Alexander, point-counterpoint journalist
Anna Quayle
Britt Ekland in Sweden
Stephanie Zimbalist, NYC (Remington Steele)
1007
James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (The Raggedy Man)
Joe Hill, songwriter, IWW organizer, martyr
Niels Bohr, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922)
Henry A. Wallace (D/P), 33rd VP, Progressive pres candidate
Jean Arthur (or 10-17-08)
Walt W. Rostow, economist
June Allyson, actress
Diana Lynn
Al Martino, singer
Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Nobel Peace Prize 1982)
Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of South Africa
Oliver North
John Cougar Mellencamp, singer
Yo-Yo Ma, cellist
Judy Landers
1008
J Frank Duryea, invented 1st auto built & operated in the US
Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator
Juan Per¢n, president of Argentina (1946-55, 1973-74)
Rouben Mamoulian Movie director
Bill Hewitt, NFL end (Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles)
Spark Matsunaga, D-Ha-Sen)
Frank Herbert, sci-fi writer (Dune)
James Olsen
Rona Barrett Gossip columnist & friend of Tom Snyder
David Carradine
Jesse Jackson (D), clergyman, presidential candidate
Chevy Chase, comedian, actor (SNL, Vacation, Fletch, Caddyshack)
Sigourney Weaver, LA (Alien)
Johnny Ramone, rock guitarist
1009
Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (Don Quixote)
Charles X, reactionary king of France (1824-30); deposed
Camille Saint-Sans, French composer
Aimee Semple McPherson, Pentecostal evangelist, radio preacher
Lopold Senghor, poet, president of Senegal (1960-80)
Robert Rushworth, X-15 pilot
Robert Finch, actor
Joe Pepitone, baseball player
John Lennon, Beatle
Gordon Humphrey, R-NH
Jeannie C Riley in Texas, Hee-Haw (Harper Valley PTA)
Jackson Brown, rocker, Germany
Steve Ovett, English track star
Mike Singletary
Carling Bassett in Canada Tennis player
Sean Lennon
1010
Henry Cavendish, English physicist, chemist
Benjamin West, painter
Giuseppe Verdi, composer of operas (Rigoletto, Aida, Otello)
Emily Dickinson, poet
Fridtjof Nansen, Norweg. Arctic explorer, humanitarian (Nobel 1922)
Ivo Andric, Yugoslav novelist (Bridge on the Drina) (Nobel '61)
Lin Y-t'ang, Chinese writer (My Country & My People)
Helen Hayes, actress (Caesar & Cleopatra, Happy Birthday)
James Clavell, author (Tai Pan, Shogun)
Adlai Stevenson III (D-Sen-Ill)
Harold Pinter, playwright
Ben Vereen, dancer, actor, singer
David Lee Roth, rocker
Tanya Tucker in Seminole Texas, country singer
1011
Wilhelm Olbers, discoverer of asteroids Pallas & Vesta
Henry John Heinz, founded a prepared-foods company
Eleanor Roosevelt, crusader
Francois Mauriac, French novelist, poet, playwright (Nobel 1952)
George Preston Marshall, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins)
Cal Hubbard, NFL tackle (Giants, Packers, Pittsburgh Pirates)
Earl (Dutch) Clark, NFL quarterback (Portsmouth Spartans, Detroit)
Joseph Alsop, newspaper columnist
Jerome Robbins, choreographer
Dottie West, country singer
Ron Leibman
Daryl Hall, Rocker
1012
1537
Edward VI, king of England (1547-53)
Pedro I, 1st emperor of Brazil (1822-31), king of Portugal
Elmer Sperry, inventor of the gyrocompass
Ramsay MacDonald (Labour), British prime minister (1924, 1929-35)
Ralph Vaughan Williams in England, composer
Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, translator (Xenia) (Nobel 1975)
Jean Nidetch in Brooklyn, founder of Weight Watchers
Spankey McFarland, actor
Dick Gregory, comedian-activist
Jake Garn (R-Sen-Ut), astronaut (STS-51T)
Joan Rivers
Luciano Pavarotti, operatic tenor
Chris Wallace, reporter
Susan Anton, actress-singer
Sid Fernandez Met Pitcher, Hawaii
1013
Horace H Hayden, cofounder of 1st dental college
Lillie Langtry (the Jersey Lily), actress
Herblock (Herbert L. Block), political cartoonist
Burr Tillstrom, creator of Kukla, Fran & Ollie
Cornell Wilde, actor
Laraine Day
Yves Montand, French actor, singer
Margaret Thatcher (Tory), British PM (1979-  ) Iron Lady
Nipsey Russel, comedian
Art Garfunkel, built bridge over troubled waters
Pamela Tiffin in Oklahoma City
Marie Osmond in Ogden Utah
1014
James II, king of England (1685-88)
George Grenville, British prime minister (1763-65)
Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of the 1st US autos
Raymond Ewry of U.S., won 10 Olympic gold medals for jumping
Dwight D Eisenhower (R), 34th Pres (1953-1961)
E. E. Cummings, poet
Lillian Gish, silent film & stage actress (Birth of a Nation)
Roger Moore, the 'saintly' James Bond
John Dean, III, former White House counsel
Charlie Joiner, NFL wide receiver (Houston, Cincinnati, San Diego)
Sheila Young Ochowitz US Olympic speed skater
Nikolai Adrianov, Soviet Olympic gymnast
Harry Anderson (Night Court)
1015
70
BC Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) Mantua, Italy (neid)
Akbar, Indian Mughal emperor (1556-1605)
Jos Miguel Carrera, president of Chile (1811-14)
Asaph Hall, discoverer of the moons of Mars, Phobos & Deimos
Friedrich Nietzsche, bermensch
John L. Sullivan, (heavyweight champ 1882-92)
Mervyn Le Roy, movie producer
C P Snow, British novelist & scientist
John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian
Mario Puzo, author (Godfather)
Lee Iacocca, CEO of Chrysler Corp
Jean Peters, actress
Linda Lavin in Portland Maine - Alice TV show
Penny Marshall, NYC (Laverne & Shirley) former Mrs Rob Reiner
Jim Palmer, baseball player
Richard Carpenter, (Carpenters)
Princess Sarah Ferguson (Fergie), the Duchess of York
1016
Albrecht von Haller, the father of experimental physiology
Noah Webster, lexicographer
Francisco Moraz n (Liberal), president of Central America (1830-40)
Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde, Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray)
Sir Austen Chamberlain, British foreign secretary (Nobel 1925)
Eugene O'Neill, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms) (Nobel 1936)
Paul Strand, photographer
William O. Douglas, former Supreme Court justice
Enver Hoxha, post-war leader of Albania
Linda Darnell
Angela Lansbury, actress (Murder She Wrote)
Gnter Grass, German novelist, poet (The Tin Drum)
Charles W. Colson pres adviser
Suzanne Somers, actress (3's Co) in San Bruno Calif
1017
Alexandrine-Pieternella-Franoise Tinn, explored the White Nile
Spring Byington
Irene Ryan in El Paso Texas
Arthur Miller, playwright (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible)
Rita Hayworth in NY (Alzheimer victim)
Tom Poston, comedian, actor
Julie Adams in Iowa
Beverly Garland in Santa Cruz California
Jimmy Breslin, newspaperman & raconteur
William A. Anders, astronaut (Apollo 8)
Robert 'Evel' Knievel, motorcycle daredevil
Dave Cutler, CFL place kicker (Edmonton Eskimos)
Bob Seagren, pole vaulter
Charles A. Ingene, macromarketing researcher
Margot Kidder in Yellowknife - Lois Lane
George Wendt, cheers
1018
Heinrich von Kleist, German dramatist, poet
Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Creative Evolution) (Nobel 1927)
James Truslow Adams, historian
Pierre Elliot Trudeau (L), 15th Canadian PM (1968-79, 1980-84)
Jesse Helms (R-NC-Sen), right-wing
Richard Stankiewicz, U.S. sculptor
Melina Mercouri in Athens Greece
Chuck Berry Rock 'n' roll star
George C. Scott, actor (Patton)
Keith Jackson Sportscaster
Frank Carlucci National Security Adviser
Forrest Gregg, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys)
Peter Boyle, actor
Inger Stevens in Sweden
Mike Ditka, tight end for Bears, Cowboys; coach of Chicago Bears
John Johnson, Seattle SuperSonic
Laura Nyro in Bronx
Pam Dawber, Detroit - Mindy of Mork & Mindy
Martina Navratilova, tennis champ Prague Czech
Erin Moran in LA (Happy Days)
1019
Christopher Wren, English astronomer & architect
Auguste Lumire, made 1st movie (Workers Leaving Lumire Factory)
Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, Lithuanian poet, philologist, playwright
Louis Mumford, cultural historian, city planner
Miguel Asturias, Guatemalan poet, novelist, diplomat (Nobel 1967)
Robert Beatty, actor
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian physicist (Nobel 1983)
LaWanda Page in Cleve (Aunt Esther-Sanford & Sons)
Jack Anderson, columnist
John Le Carr, English spy novelist (Little Drummer Girl)
Robert Reed, actor
John Lithgow, actor
Amy Carter, daughter of Pres Carter
1020
Sir Christopher Wren, astronomer, great English architect
Austin Flint, 19th century heart research. pioneer
Mirza Ali Mohammad (The Bab), forerunner of Baha'Ullah
Thomas Hughes, British author (Tom Brown's School Days)
Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, adventurer (Illuminations)
John Dewey, philosopher
Charles Ives, composer
Wayne Morse (R/D-Sen-Ore)
Arlene Francis in Boston Mass
Will Rogers, Jr., actor
Herschel Bernardi, actor
Art Buchwald, columnist
Mickey Mantle, NY Yankee, home run slugger
Roosevelt Brown, NFL offensive tackle (NY Giants)
William Christopher, actor  "Father Mulcahy"
Jerry Orbach
Juan Marichal, baseball player
Keith Hernandez
1021
Samuel Taylor Coleridge in England, poet
Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes
Sir Georg Solti, conductor
Martin Gardner, Scientific American math & puzzles columnist
Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
Whitey Ford, NY Yankee pitcher
Georgia Brown
Manfred Mann, rocker
Kathy Young
Charlotte Caffey (GoGos)
Carrie Fisher in Beverly Hills - Star Wars' Princess Lelia
Jade Jagger, daughter of Mick Jagger
Julie Parrish
Michael Landon
1022
Franz Liszt, Hungary, Romantic composer, virtuoso pianist
Sarah Bernhardt, actress
Ivan Bunin, Russian poet, novelist (Gentleman from SF) (Nobel 1933)
Joe Carr, president of the NFL
John Reed, journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions
Sidney Kingsley, author
Joan Fontaine, actress
Doris Lessing, novelist (The Golden Notebook)
Mitzi Green
Timothy Leary
John Chafee, (R-RI-Sen)
Pete Pihos, NFL end (Phil Eagles)
Robert Rauschenberg, painter
Dory Previn, singer
Derek Jacobi
Christopher Lloyd, (Rev. Jim-Taxi, Star Trek III)
Tony Roberts
Annette Funichello in Utica NY
Catherine Deneuve in Paris (Repulsion)
Jeff Goldblum, actor
1023
Nicolas Appert, inventor of food canning, bouillon tablet
Adlai Stevenson (D), 23rd VP (1893-97), US amb to UN
Louis Riel, leader of insurrection of Mtis in Manitoba
Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England (The Testament of Beauty)
Felix Bloch, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1952)
Karl Jansky, discoverer of cosmic radio emissions in 1932
Frank (Bruiser) Kinard, NFL, AAFC tackle (Bkln, NY Yankees)
Coleen Gray in Staplehurst Nebraska
Johnny Carson, Tonight Show host
Diana Dors in England
John Heinz (R-Pa-Sen)
Edison Pele, soccer player extraordinaire
Michael Crichton (Andromeda Strain)
Darrell Pace, U.S. Olympic archer
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Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch naturalist
Moss Hart, playwright
Clarence M. Kelley, FBI head
Y.A. Tittle, AAFC, NFL QB (Baltimore, SF, NY Giants)
David Nelson, actor
F. Murray Abraham, actor (Amadeus)
Kevin Kline
1025
Baron Grenville (Whig), British PM (1806-07)
Johann Strauss the Younger (Waltz King)
Georges Bizet, composer
Gleb Uspensky, Russian author (Power of the Soil)
Henry Norris Russell, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
Pablo Picasso, doodler (Guernica) (or 10-05)
Eduardo Barrios, Chilean novelist (The Love-Crazed Boy)
Richard E Byrd, polar explorer
Henry Steele Commager, historian
Whit Bissell, actor
Minnie Pearl in Tenn (Grand Old Oprey, Hee-Haw)
Sarah Ophelia Colley, better known as Minnie Pearl
Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano
Barbara Cook in Atlanta Ga
Marion Ross in Minn (Happy Days)
Tony Franciosa, actor
Annie Giradot in Paris
Russell L. (Rusty) Schweickart, astronaut (Apollo 9)
Helen Reddy in Melbourne Australia (I am Woman)
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1466
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch scholar, author of The Praise of Folly
Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader
Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals
Sid Gillman, NFL coach (LA, San Diego, Houston)
Francois Mitterrand, French President
Felix the cat, cartoon character
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, shah of Iran (1941-79)
Suzy Parker in San Antonio Texas
Lynn Anderson in North Dakota
Jaclyn Smith in Houston Texas (Charlie's Angel)
Lauren Tewes, (Love Boat)
Pat Sajak
1027
Capt. James Cook, discovered Sandwich Islands
Niccol Paganini, composer, violin virtuoso
Issac Merrit Singer, invented 1st practical home sewing machine
Klas Arnoldson, Swedish politician, pacifist (Nobel 1908)
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th Pres (1901-09) (Nobel 1906)
Emily Post, authority on social behavior, writer (Etiquette)
Freddie DeCordova, film & TV producer (The Tonight Show)
Dylan Thomas, poet (A Child's Christmas in Wales, Under Milkwood)
Oliver Tambo, leader of African National Congress
Teresa Wright in NYC
Nanette Fabray in San Diego Calif
Ruby Dee in Cleve
H.R. Haldeman, former White House Chief of Staff - Watergate figure
Bill George, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears, LA Rams)
John Cleese, (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers)
Carrie Snodgress in Park Ridge Illinois
Jayne Kennedy, entertainer
Simon Le Bon, disco king
1028
Henry III, Holy Roman emperor (1046-56)
Erasmus, scholar, author of "In Praise of Folly"
Cornelius Otto Jansen of France, Roman Catholic reform leader
Auguste Escoffier, king of chefs & chef of kings
Elsa Lanchaster in England - The Bride of Frankenstein
Edith Head Fashion designer
Dr Jonas Salk, who made polio a fear of the past
Bowie Kuhn, former baseball commissioner
Dody Goodman in Columbus Ohio
Joan Plowright, English actress
Charlie Daniels, country music star
Lenny Wilkins, NBA player, coach (Seattle, Cleveland)
Jane Alexander, actress (The Betsy, Kramer vs. Kramer) in Mass
Gennadi M. Strekalov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11)
Coluche, French comedian
Thelma Hopkins in Lousiville Kentucky - Sung backup for Tony Orlando
Bruce Jenner, Decathalon champ
Walther Bauersfeld, 1919 invented 1st modern projection planetarium
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1656
Edmund Halley in London
James Boswell in Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer
Guillermo Valencia, Colombian poet, translator, statesman
Marie, queen consort of Ferdinand I of Rumania
Bela Lugosi, horror actor (Dracula, Body Snatcher)
Fanny Brice, singing comedienne (Ziegeld Follies, Baby Snooks)
Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propagandist
Alfred J. Ayer, English Neopositivist philosopher, logician
Bill Mauldin, political cartoonist
Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor
Melba Moore in NYC
Richard Dreyfuss, actor (Jaws, Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind)
Kate Jackson, Alabama (Charley's Angels, Making Love)
Finola Hughes (General Hospital)
1030
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright (Rivals, School for Scandal)
John Adams (F), 2nd pres (1797-1801) in Braintree, Mass
Paul Valry, French poet, essayist, critic
Francisco Madero, Mexican revolutionary, president (1911-13)
Ezra Pound in Hailey, Idaho
Ruth Gordon, Mass (Rosemary's Baby, Harold & Maude)
Jane Randolph - Sung backup for Tony Orlando
Louis Malle, film director
Claude Lelouch Movie director
Grace Slick, rock singer (Jefferson Starship), Chic
Talia Shire (Adrianne-Rocky)
Henry Winkler, TV actor (Fonz)
1031
Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter (Procuress, The Astronomer)
John Keats, Romantic poet
Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician (theory of functions)
Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scout founder
Wilbur (Pete) Henry, NFL tackle (Canton, NY Giants, Pottsville)
Dale Evans in Uvalde Texas aka Mrs Roy Rodgers
Barbara Bel Geddes, (Dallas)
Michael Collins, astronaut (Gemini 10, Apollo 11)
Dan Rather, CBS anchorman (What's the frequency Kenneth?) Courage!
Lee Grant in NYC
Michael Landon, an acting angel
Melinda Dillon
David Ogden Stiers, actor
Frank Shorter, runner
Jane Pauley in Indianapolis Indiana - Good Morning
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Joan Kennedy in Bronxville NY - former wife of Ted Kennedy
Feast of St. Remigius, bishop of Rheims, confessor
Feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus--the Little Flower
Fiscal year begins for Federal Government
Independence Day, celebrated in Nigeria
National Day in Cyprus & Tuvalu
World Vegetarian Day
National Employ the Handicapped Week
Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day
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BC Alexander of Macedon defeats Persian army at Gaugamela
Treaty with Winnebago Indians
Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet
1st Hawaiian stamps issued
1st postcards are issued in Vienna
Yosemite becomes a National Park
Henry Huntington buys the LA Railway
1st Baseball World Series
Henry Ford introduces the Model T car
Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia)
Penn Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opened
1st jet propelled airplane tested
1st helicopter air mail & express service, LA, Ca
People's Rep of China proclaimed (National Day)
1st treaty signed by woman ambassador - Eugenie Anderson
1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or
Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA
Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show
The Lucy Show premiers
US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' radio telescope
SF cable cars declared a national landmark
Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens
Reunion Island no longer prints stamps, France takes over production
US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal)
EPCOT Center opens
Feast of the Guardian Angels
Independence Day, celebrated in Guinea
BC Aristotle dies of indigestion
Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch a new invention - the telescope
NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle
Italy annexes Rome & the Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
1st Pan American conference
Grover Cleveland Alexanders 16th shutout of the year
NY Hayden Planetarium, the 4th in the US, opens
1st alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kansas
Birdbaths installed in Union Square
1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago
1st network soap opera - Faraway Hill - Dumont
The comic strip 'Peanuts' 1st appears, in 9 newspapers
Alfred Hitchcock Presents premiers
1st atomic power clock exhibited - NYC
Guinea gains independence from France (National Day)
Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS
Ben Casey premiers
Thurgood Marshall is sworn as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
Homing pigeon averages 133 kph (record) in 1100-km Australian race
3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
Feast of St. Francis Borgia, Confessor
Feast of St. Thrse of the Child Jesus
1264
The comet said to predict the death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%)
NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
Iraq gains full independence from Britain
Italy invades Ethiopia
Launch of the 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles
1st telescope lens 200 inches in diameter completed
1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV - Beulah
1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca
Father Knows Best premiers
Captain Kangaroo premieres  Good Morning, Captain!
Mickey Mouse Club premiers
SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard
Dick Van Dyke Show premiers
Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into earth orbit
AF pilot Pete Knight flies x-15 at a record 4,534 MPH
William Knight sets world speed record for fixed-wing craft of 7,297
kph (Mach 6.72) in X-15
Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
Space shuttle Atlantis makes all-military maiden flight
Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, confessor
1636
1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
1648
Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
Mexico becomes a republic
Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time
the dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower
The comic strip Dick Tracy debuts
Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off
Leave It to Beaver debuts on CBS
USSR launches Sputnik I, the 1st artificial earth satellite
Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began
USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
Janis Joplin dies at 27
Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns after racial 'joke'
pier 39 opens in SF
21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 is launched
Feast of St. Flora of Beaulieu, Virgin, (A.D. 1347)
Feast of St. Placid & his companions, martyrs
Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone
Palace Hotel on Market Street opens
Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Perc War
Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup
Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8)
Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey
Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic
Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wenatchee, Wash
1st Presidential address televised from White House - HS Truman
Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park
SF Fire Department Museum is dedicated
PBS becomes a network
Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, N. Mex
41-G Challenger carried 1st Canadian, Marc Garneau, into orbit
13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 launched
Feast of St. Bruno, Blsd. Marie-Rose Durocher
St. Faith's Day (Anglican)
Universal Children's Day
Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
The Jazz Singer, 1st movie with a sound track, premieres
Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches
Zoological Gardens opens (on Sloat & Skyline)
Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts moon
Egypt & Syria invade Israel - The Yom Kippur war
Anwar Sadat assassinated, Hosnai Mubarak becomes Egytian president
Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary & of St. Osith, Saxon virgin
Feast of the Holy Rosary
Turkish fleet defeated by Spanish & Italians in Battle of Lepanto
The Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY
British defeated by Americans in Battle of Saratoga
Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
Edgar Allen Poe dies in Balt at 40
Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
Crete unites with Greece
Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record)
1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY
Dem. Rep of Germany (East) formed
US forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel
Luna 3 photographs far side of moon
Route 66 premiers
Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr.
Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system.
21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 returns to Earth
Feast of St. Bridget, widow & St. Keyne, virgin (6th Century)
Canadian Thanksgiving - Columbus Day - Discoverer's Day in Hawaii
The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is 1st sighted.
1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains.
Franklin Peirce 14th president of US, died in Concord, N.H.
Nation's worst forest fire starts in Peshtigo, WI.
Great Fire destroys over 4ý miles of Chicago
Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks
Sgt. Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans.
Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters.
Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son
Ozzie & Harriet Nelson married
`Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet' debut on CBS radio
Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada
Brooklyn Dodgers announced they would move to LA
N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party.
Soviet author Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Lit
Kenneth Warby sets world speed record on water (514 kph).
Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and
Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
Feast of St. John Leonardi, confessor.
Feast of St. Denis & Companions
Giacobinid meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
Leif Ericson Day
St. Denys's Day (Anglican).
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Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England)
1635
Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven.
Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay.
Benjamin Banneker, black American astronomer, dies.
Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass. receives patent for 1st calliope
1st 2-way telephone conversation
Public admitted to Washington Monument.
1st transcontinental flight by woman lands, Laura Ingalls
Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA
Pope Pius XII died, 19 years after he was elevated to the papacy.
Uganda gains independence from Britain (National Day).
Che Guevara executed in Bolivia.
Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits SF
Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 5, but returned after failing to dock
Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st American woman to walk in space
Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E. Claiborne making him the
5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.
Feast of St. Francis Borgia, Confessor (A.D. 1572)
National Day in Taiwan
US Naval academy opens at Annapolis, Maryland
Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY (the tuxedo)
China Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew Manchu dynasty
Pacific & Atl mix as engineers blow Gamboa Dam, opening Panama Canal
1st synthetic detergent for home use marketed
George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess opens in NY
Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.
Pres Eisenhower apologized to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli
Gbdemah, after he was refused service in a Dover, Del., restaurant.
Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards.
treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US, UK, USSR.
18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo.
Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day).
VP Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns.
Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
Pres Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
4,500 people die when a pair of earthquakes struck NW Algeria
Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated
Pope John Paul II proclaimed Rev. M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in
place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint
US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian
ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen were placed in custody
Feast of the Motherhood of Mary.
Feast of St. Mary Soledad, Foundress of Handmaidens of Mary
General Pulaski Memorial Day (anniversary of his death in 1779).
British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, the Netherlands.
The Juliana, the 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation.
slavery abolished in Maryland.
Daughters of the American Revolution founded
Lou Gehrig elected MVP
Pioneer 1 launched; 1st spacecraft launched by NASA
21st Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican II, opens in Rome.
Pope John XXIII convenes Vatican II Council.
Apollo 7 launched, 1st of manned Apollo mission
Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next two days.
Saturday Night Live premiers
Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st American woman to walk in space.
200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington.
Feast of St. Wilfrid, Bishop of York (A.D. 709)
Man O'War's last race, 1920
Spanish National Day.
Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day.
British & French troops capture Peking.
General Robert E. Lee dies in Lexington, VA at age 63.
Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated.
Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
John Dillinger escapes from the Allen County, OH, jail.
Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US
1st coml flight between Cal & Antartica
Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session.
US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology
Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel
At 4 AM, traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck
USSR launches 1st 3-man crew into space
Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain.
Soyuz 7 is launched
Mariner 9 took pictures of Martian north pole
Gerald Ford named as Spiro Agnew's successor to vice presidency
4th test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
Int'l Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize.
Feast of St. Edward the Confessor, English king (1042-66).
Tycho Brahe, greatest naked-eye observer, dies in Prague.
Continental Congress establishes a navy
Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House)
Battle of Queenstown Heights.
B'nai B'rith founded in NY.
Texas ratifies a state constitution.
Italy declares war on former ally Germany.
Kukla, Fran & Ollie premiers
Burglar alarm - ultrasonic or radio waves - patented - Samuel Bagno
Voshkod 1 crew returns
Soyuz 8 is launched
Graig Nettles at 3rd makes spectactular play after spectacular play
NJ Devils 1st short handed gaol - Don Lever
Intl Olympic Comm restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to
Jim Thorpe.  Medals taken away because he played baseball for pay
John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million.
13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 is launched
1st military use of trained dolphins, by US Navy in Persian Gulf.
Battle of Hastings won by Normans & William the Conqueror (1066)
Feast of St. Callistus I, pope (217-222), martyr.
People's Dem Rep of Yemen (South Yemen) National Day.
Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England
Mary, Qn of Scots conspiracy trial against Qn Elizabeth I begins
1st declaration of colonial rights in America
British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy.
George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
Theodore Roosevelt is shot in the chest in Milwaukee while
campaigning for President with the Bull Moose Party.
1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face
trial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Hitler.
Chuck Yeager 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015 at 12,800 m).
14 US Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition.
Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km.
Soyuz 23 launched to Salyut 6, but return without docking
Bing Crosby dies in Madrid, Spain.
1st TV movie from a TV series - Rescue from Gilligan's Island
Feast of St. Teresa of Avila, 1st woman doctor of the church.
Mushroom Day
National Grouch Day
White Cane Safety Day.
World Poetry Day.
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Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar cut 10 prior days.
Jean Piltre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent.
Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard.
Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on the site).
ASCAP founded (American Soc of Composers, Authers & Publishers)
Mata Hari executed by firing squad outside of Paris.
LaGuardia Airport opened in NYC
Nazi Hermann Goering poisons himself in prison.
I Love Lucy premiers
Untouchables premier
Kosygin & Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev
Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated
Feast of St. Margaret, St. Hedwig, St. Mary Alacoque
World Food Day.
Portland, Maine burned by British.
Washington takes Yorktown
Marie Antoinette beheaded in France.
Dentist William T. Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether
British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras.
John Brown leads group of 20 in a raid on Harper's Ferry, Va.
Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing
Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (Bkln)
Disney Co founded
Gordo (by Gus Arriola) 1st appeared in newspapers
Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens the city's new subway system.
10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials.
Woolworth's at Powell & Market (S.F.) opens.
Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip arrive in Virginia
Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
Brezhnev & Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia
China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
Soyuz 6 returns to Earth
Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in S.F.
Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II.
Israel's General Moshe Dayan dies at 66
Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins
Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel
Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu named Nobel Peace Prize winner
Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
Armand Hammer arrives back in US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb
175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England.
18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued 58 hours after she fell
22 feet into a well shaft in Midland, TX.
Feast of St. Ignatius of Antioch
Feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin.
St. Ethelred's Day (Anglican).
Columbus sights the isle of San Salvador
1691
New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth.
British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, NY
Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
Marie Antoinette executed.
Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized
Gustav Kirchoff, discoverer of the laws of spectroscopy, dies.
Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man.
Sutro railroad sold to Robert F. Morrow for $215,000.
Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors.
RCA created.
Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison
Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany.
1st American destroyer torpedoed in WW2, the Kearny off Iceland
Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visits White House.
French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature.
Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km.
Soyuz 7 returns to Earth
The Arab oil embargo begins. It will last until March, 1974.
Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament.
West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia
free all 86 hostages aboard & killing three of the four hijackers.
Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal
aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982.
Feast of St. Luke Evangelist
Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
Start of the Moslem New Year
Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism.
Boundary between Md & Pa, the Mason Dixon line, agreed upon.
English astronomer J.K Hind discovers Flor, his second asteroid
US took formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million)
Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football
1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY).
American flag raised in Puerto Rico
Mata Hari was shot as a spy by French firing squad
British Broadcasting Corporation established
Inventor Thomas Alva Edison died in West Orange, N.J., at age 84.
Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia during World War II.
Connie Mack, announced retirement as manager of the Phila Athletics
Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times.
Dr. Watson of US & Drs. Crick & Wilkins of Britain win Nobel Prize
for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA
Soviet Venera 4 becomes the 1st probe to send data back from Venus
Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released
Robert Beaman of US broad jumps a record 8.90 m.
US Olympic Committee suspended Tommie Smith & John Carlos, for
giving `black power' salute as a protest during victory ceremony
Federal govt bans use of artificial sweeteners known as cyclamates
Soyuz 8 returns to Earth
Former 1st lady Bess Truman, died in Independence, Mo. at age 97
Feast of St. Peter of Alcantara, confessor.
Feast of N Am Martyrs SS. J de Brebeuf, I Jogues, A Daniel,
G Lalemand, C Garnier, N Chabanel, R Goupil & J Laliande, canonized
1930 & Feast of St. Peter of Alcantra, Confessor
Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 p.m.; the fighting is over.
Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow.
Wagner's opera Tannhuser performed for 1st time.
1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations
Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope.
World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales.
Thomas A. Edison successfully demenstrates the electric light
H.R. Ekins of the "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters
in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18 1/2 days.
1st jet transcontinental non-stop scheduled service
Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on television by Arthur Godfrey.
The US imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba.
Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
Mariner 5 flew by Venus
Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars
"Black Monday" - Dow Jones down 508.32 points worst day on Wall St
Dow-Jones loses 508.32 points, more than 4« times previous record.
Feast of St. John Cantius, Confessor & St. Bertilla Boscardin
Battle of Sekigahara establishes Tokugawa clan as rulers of Japan
(shoguns) until 1865 (basis of Clavell's novel).
Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia
Senate ratifies La Purchase.
Kingdom of Westphalia abolished.
US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country.
Spain sells (east) Florida to US for $5 million.
US wins disputed boundary between the District of Alaska & Canada.
Dr Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube
Bayshore Highway opens (SF).
During WWII, MacArthur goes to Phillipines saying `I have returned'
Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs. N.Y. Giants.
The House Un-American Activities Committee opens hearings into
alleged Communist influence in the Hollywood movie industry.
1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI
31st president of US, Herbert Hoover, died in NY at age 90.
Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.
Harlow Shapley, discoverer of the sun's position in the galaxy, dies.
Sat Night Massacre, Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox dismissed by
Solicitor Gen Bork. AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned
70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince
John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston.
Bernhard Goetz sentenced to six months in jail
Feast of St. Hilarion, an ascetic & lover of solitude & penance
Somali National Day.
US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston
Battle of Trafalgar Adm Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet
Severe earthquake at 7:53 a.m., centered in Hayward, Calif.
1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
Thomas Edison perfects the light bulb.
Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated.
Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min.
Deutsches Museum, Munich, 1st Walther Bauersfeld's Zeiss Planetarium.
During WWII, US troops captured Aachen, 1st large German city to fall
Women in France allowed to vote for the 1st time
Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated, Washington DC
Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in NY
JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final pres debate
Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astrophysicist dies at 94.
Thousands opposing Vietnam War tried to storm the Pentagon
Nixon nominates Lewis F. Powell & William H. Rehnquist to US Supreme
Court, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
Venera 9, 1st craft to orbit the planet Venus launched
Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa
Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2 h 8 m 5 s.
Feast of SS. Philip, Bishop of Heraclea, & his companions, martyrs
Vatican City National Day.
4004
B.C. Universe created at 8:00 PM, according to the 1650
pronouncement of Anglican archbishop James Ussher.
Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter.
Andr-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute jump from balloon (Paris)
Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas
Original Metropolitan Opera House in NY held its grand opening
Pres Hoover spoke of `American system of rugged individualism.'
Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd shot dead by FBI in Ohio.
1st coml flight from mainland to Hawaii.
Apollo 7 crew returns
1st TV NFL game - Eagles vs Dodgers
Laos gains full independence from France.
West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis.
Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center.
Apollo 7 returns to Earth
Security Council Resol 338 - a cease fire to the Yom Kippur War
Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 lands on Venus
Deposed Shah of Iran arrived in NY for medical treatment
WDW's 100-millionth guest
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified
US national debt tops $1 trillion
Feast of St. John of Capistrano (A.D. 1456)
St. James of Jerusalem Day (Orthodox, Anglican).
Swallows leave San Juan Capistrano.
United States Day
Meal Tub Plot against James II of England.
Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed).
Union Gen. Samuel R. Curtis defeats Conf Gen. Stirling Price
Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
25,000 women marched in NYC, demanding the right to vote
Walt Disney's "Dumbo" is released
During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
UN Gen Assembly convenes in NY for 1st time in Flushing Meadow.
1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
Revolt against Stalinist policies began in Hungary
Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
President Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings
By 2/3 majority, Panamanians vote to approve the new Canal treaties
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness.
241 US Marines & sailors die in a terrorist suicide attack in Beriut
Feast of St. Raphael the Archangel & Feast of St. Anthony Claret
UN Day.
Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII, dies.
3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia.
the match is patented.
Ariel & Umbriel, moons of Uranus, discovered by Lassell
William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Unranus.
1st transcontinental telegram sent
mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese.
Anna Taylor, 1st to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel & live
"Black Thursday," the beginning of the stock market crash.
United Nations Charter goes into effect
UN publishes its 1st postage stamps
Disaster on USSR launch pad killed missle expert Nedelin & team
ending the chance of a Soviet manned lunar landing
USSR later claims he was killed in plane crash
Zambia (N. Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day).
Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show
Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile.
Yom Kippur War ends - Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
1st Jewish film & TV festival
Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after failed
Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate
NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike
Feast of Christ the King & Feast of St. Gaudentius bishop of Brescia
Feast of SS. Chrysanthus & Daria, martyrs.
St. Crispin's Day (Anglican).
1400
Author Geoffrey Chaucer dies in London.
1415
Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight
1671
Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn.
Iapetus, moon of Saturn, Discovered by Giovanni Cassini
George III ascends the British throne.
Erie Canal opens for business in NY
The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War)
Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin.
1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC
Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missle bases
saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over."
Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World
UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan.
USSR Venera 10 made day Venus landing
US invades Grenada, a country 1/2000 its population.
Austrian National Day.
Feast of St. Demetrios the Martyr (Orthodox).
Feast of St. Evaristus, 5th pope (c. 97-c. 107), martyr.
1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened
Telegraph service inaugurated in US (end of Pony Express)
Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game.
Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Az
Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross SF Bay.
US Savings Bonds go on sale
Pres Truman increases minimum wage - from 40 cents to 75 cents.
International Atomic Energy Agency established
Vatican Radio begins broadcasting
PanAm flies the 1st transAtlantic jet trip - NY to Paris.
Soyuz 3 is launched
"Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers.
UN votes to replace Taiwan with China
Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin
According to South Africa, Transkei gains independence.  Not
recognized as an independent country outside of South Africa.
Fifth & Final test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
S Korean Pres Park Chung-hee is assassinated.
St. Vincent & the Grenadines gains independence from Britain.
"Baby Fae" gets a baboon heart in an experimental transplant in
Loma Linda, CA.  She will live for 21 days with the animal heart.
head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm. assassinated by death squads.
Feast of St. Frumentius, bishop & founder of Ethiopian church
1553
Michael Servetus burned at the stake for heresy in Geneva, Switz.
Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers.
Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi
US annexes West Florida from Spain.
RH Macy & Co opens 1st store, NYC Gross receipts $1106
Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall,
arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption
Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee, on his 22nd birthday.
1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!)
NY opens 1st section of its subway system.
DuPont announces that its new synthetic fiber will be called 'nylon'
"You Bet Your Life", with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio.
Walt Disney's 1st TV show, Disneyland, premiers on ABC.
1st Saturn Made a unmanned flight test
St. Vincent & the Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
Rep of Congo becomes Zaire.
Golden Gate Natl Recreation Area created
Begin & Sadat with the Nobel Peace prize
Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph.
Eli Whitney gets a patent for the Cotton Gin
Feast of SS. Simon & Jude Apostles
Columbus discovers Cuba
Harvard College, 1st US college founded.
Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ
NY gives up claims to Vermont in exchange for $30,000.
Eli Whitney applies for patent for the cotton gin.
Pres Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
St Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints
Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austria.
Volstead Act passed by Congress, starting Prohibition
1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game.
Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government.
1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl
German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
Flag of Israel is adopted
Bud Grant of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record).
Krushchev orders withdrawal of Cuban missiles
Gateway Arch (190 meters high) completed in St. Louis, Missouri.
Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion.
The Gateway Arch (630 feet high) completed in St Louis, Missouri
US/USSR signed an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit.
TV's Rhoda gets married
Feast of St. Theuderius, or Chef, Abbot (c. A.D. 575)
Republic Day, celebrated in Turkey
539
BC Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia.
Sir Walter Raleigh is executed in London.
Pennsylvania granted to William Penn by King Charles II.
Severe earthquake in New England.
1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans.
1st College Fraternity founded
Intl Comm. of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963).
1st election of the Hawaiian Republic
Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is executed.
Turkey proclaimed a republic (National Day).
"Black Tuesday," the Stock Market crash.
Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open Straits of Tiran
Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up
Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY.
John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, will be acquitted.
Feast of St. Alphonsus
1270
8th & last crusade is launched.
US Navy founded
Helena, Montana's capital, founded.
Tsar Nicholas II grants Russia a constitution.
Mussolini forms cabinet in Italy
Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of War of the Worlds.
US Navy destroyer Reuben James torpedoed by Germany
US govt announces end of shoe rationing.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer received Nobel Peace Prize for 1952.
Gen. George C. Marshall awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution
Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
USSR removes Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square.
USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch
Worst US rail accident in 14 years occurred
Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa, Zaire
NY Daily News ran headline `Ford to City: Drop Dead'
Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701 - 1.
22nd Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 9 is launched
space shuttle Challenger carries 8 crewmen (2 Germans, 1 Dutch).
All Hallows Eve (you know, Halloween)
National UNICEF Day.
Reformation Day
Vigil of All Saints, Feast of St. Wolfgang, Benedictine bishop
1517
Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses, begins Protestant Reformation
Execution of the Girondins at Paris, during the Reign of Terror.
Nevada admitted as 36th state.
William Parson, 3rd Earl of Rosse & maker of large telescopes dies
Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy.
Erich Weiss, better known as Magician Harry Houdini, dies.
1st thermonuclear bomb detonated - Marshall Islands
1st American to land by air at South Pole - GJ Dufek
Bkln, NY ends streetcar service
Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam.
Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m).
National Restaurant Month
Set clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time ends)
1101
Martin Luther, protestant reformer
Spencer Perceval (Tory), British PM (1809-12)
Viscount Goderich (Tory), British PM (1827-28)
Sir Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer, Dublin mayor
Jos Santos Zelaya (L), ruler of Nicaragua (1893-1910)
Stephen Crane, poet (Red Badge of Courage)
Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936)
Sholem Asch, Yiddish novelist, playwright (Three Cities)
Hermann Broch, Austrian novelist (Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment)
Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman, disarmament advocate (Nobel '59)
Alexander Alekhine of Russia, world chess champion (1927-46)
Betsy Palmer in E Chicago Illinois, actress
Gary Player, South African golfer
Barbara Bossom in Penn (Hill St Blues)
Larry Flint, publisher (Hustler)
Fernando Valenzuela, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1102
Daniel Boone, frontiersman, explorer
Marie-Antoinette, let them eat cake
James Knox Polk, 11th Pres (1845-1849)
George Boole, mathematician
Warren Gamaliel Harding (R), 28th pres (1921-23)
Harlow Shapley, US astronomer
Odysseus Elytis, Greek poet (Nobel 1979)
Burt Lancaster, actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry)
Ann Rutherford, actress
Rose Bird Calif Supreme Court Judge
Patrick Buchanan, political columnist
David Hemmings, English actor
Shere Hite, sex therapist
1103
1718
John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same
William Cullen Bryant, poet (Thanatopsis)
Karl Baedeker, German publisher of travel books
Andr Malraux, French novelist and art historian
Bronko Nagurski, NFL fullback (Chicago Bears)
James Reston, columnist (NY Times)
Bob Feller, pitcher
Russell B. Long (D-Sen-La)
Charles Bronson actor
William H. Dana, X-15 pilot
Ken Berry, actor, dancer, TV personality
Michael S. Dukakis (D-Gov-Mass)
Monica Vitti in Rome Italy
Paula Wayne
Lulu in Glasgow Scotland - To Sir With Love
Larry Holmes, boxer
Adam Ant, punk rocker
Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV)
Roseanna Barr, Comedian, Salt Lake City
1104
King William III of Orange (1650)
Eden Phillpotts, English novelist, poet, playwright
Will Rogers, humorist, never met Hitler
Bob Considine, sports columnist
Ciro Alegr¡a, Peruvian novelist (Golden Serpent)
Walter Cronkite, newsman ("and that's the way it is")
Art Carney, actor (Honeymooners, Harold and Maude)
Martin Balsam, actor
Doris Roberts in St Louis
Kate Reid in London England
Loretta Swit in Passaic NJ - Hot Lips on M*A*S*H
1105
Eugene V. Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was very unhappy)
Raymond Duchamp-Villon, cubist sculptor
Will Durant, writer, historian (Story of Civilization)
Earle (Greasy) Neale, NFL coach (Philadelphia Eagles)
Joel McCrea, actor
Roy Rogers, cowboy (Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger)
Vivien Leigh, Frankly my dear I don't give a damn
Ike Turner, AKA Mr. Tina Turner!
Art Garfunkel singer
Patricia Hardy
Elke Sommer in Berlin Germany
Paul Simon, singer, songwriter (Bridge Over Troubled Waters)
Sam Shepard, American playwright
Patricia K. Kuhl, speech and hearing scientist
Bill Walton, NBA star (Portland Trail Blazers, Boston Celtics)
Andrea McArdle in Phila - Sun will come out tommorrow
Tatum O'Neal in LA aka Mrs John Macenroe (Paper Moon)
1106
Charles II, last Habsburg king of Spain (1665-1700)
Colley Cibber, English dramatist, poet laureate (Love's Last Shift)
Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography
Adolphe Sax, Belgian musician, saxophone inventor
Charles H Dow, co-founder of Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St Journal
John Phillip Souza, march king (Stars and Stripes Forever)
Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish composer, pianist, patriot
James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball
Marie Curie, discoverer of radium
Walter Johnson, Hall of Fame pitcher (Wash. Senators 1907-27)
Fibber McGee, early radio comedian
Heinrich Himmler Nazi SS leader
Francis Lederer, actor
French novelist Albert Camus
James Jones, author
Al Hirt Jazz trumpeter
J
oan Sutherland Australian opera star
Mike Nichols, stage and film director
Johnny Rivers
Joni Mitchell
Sally Field in Pasadena Cal - we really like her (Flying Nun)
Maria Shriver (Newscaster)
Lori Singer
1107
994
Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian, jurist, writer of Islamic Spain
Francisco de Zurbar n, Spanish Baroque painter
Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie, discovered radium (Nobel 1903, 1911)
Leon Trotsky, Russian Communist theorist, Bolshevik
Konrad Lorenz, zoologist, ethologist, writer (Nobel 1973)
Albert Camus, French novelist, playwright (Plauge) (Nobel 1957)
Billy Graham, evangelist
Al Hirt, trumpet player
Joan Sutherland in Sydney Australia
Joni Mitchell in Alberta Canada, singer (Clouds)
Judith Frost in British Columbia
Joe Niekro
Kathy McMillan, track star
Dana Plato in Maywood California
1108
Sir Edmond Halley, astronomer, 1st to calculate a comet's orbit
Gottlob Frege, German mathematician, logician, philosopher
Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind)
Katherine Hepburn in Conn (African Queen, On Golden Pond)
Peter Weiss, German dramatist, novelist (Marat/Sade)
Dr. Christiaan Barnard, performed 1st human heart transplantation
Patti Page in Claremont Oklahoma
Morley Safer, TV newscaster (60 Minutes)
Esther Rolle in Pompano Florida (Good Times)
Edward G. Gibson, astronaut (Skylab 4)
Minnie Ripperton in Chic
Bonnie Raitt in LA, singer
Christie Hefner, daughter of Hugh Hefner
Rickie Lee Jones in Chicago
1109
Elijah P. Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher, abolitionist
Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist, poet, playwright (Fathers & Sons)
Charles Baudelaire Poet
Eadweard Muybridge Pioneer Photographer
Edward VII, king of England (1901-10)
Lewis Lewin, German toxicologist, father of psychopharmacology
Paul Robeson actor and Singer
Gregory Pincus birth control pill inventor
Ward Bond
James William Fulbright (Sen-Mo)
Hedy Lamarr
Sargent Shriver (Peace Corp)
Florence Chadwick swimmer
Spiro Agnew (R), 39th VP (1973-77), crook
Hugh Hefner Publisher
Carl Perkins
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Carl Sagan, astronomer, author (Cosmos, Broca's Brain)
Mary Travers in Louisville Ky  (Peter Paul & Mary)
Mikhail N. Tal of USSR, world chess champion (1960-61)
Michael Learned
Lou Ferrigno, actor (Incredible Hulk)
1110
Martin Luther in Eisleben, Germany, founder of Protestantism
Franois Couperin, composer
George II, king of England (1727-60)
William Hogarth, English satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progress)
Oliver Goldsmith, Irish novelist, dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer)
Frederich von Schiller in Germany, poet
Jared Kirtland, American physician, naturalist
Adm. Matthew Perry
Cyrus West Field, financier, success of 1st transatlantic cable
Soldier diplomat and novelist Lewis Wallace (`Ben Hur')
William Booth founded Salvation Army
Sir John S.D. Thompson (C), 4th prime minister of Canada (1892-94)
Joseph Pulitzer Journalist and publisher
Frances Perkins 1st woman Cabinet member
John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer
Clare Booth Luce Journalist and Diplomat
Clyde (Bulldog) Turner, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
Chuck Connors
Richard Burton, Welsh actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf)
Max von Sydow
Omar Sharif
Ronald E. Evans, astronaut (Apollo 17)
John Madden
David Stockman, ex-budget director
Ann Reinking in Seattle Washington
Donna Fargo in North Carolina
MacKenzie Phillips in Alexandra Va (One Day at a Time)
1111
1050
Henry IV, Holy Roman emperor (1036-1106)
Yen Jo-ch, Chinese scholar of Ch'ing dynasty
Abigail Smith Adams, 2nd 1st lady
Charles IV, king of Spain (1788-1808)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian author (Crime and Punishment)
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American author, editor (Story of a Bad Boy)
Alfred Hermann Fried, German pacifist (Nobel 1911)
Gen George S Patton
Pat O'Brien, U.S. actor (Knute Rockne, Angels with Dirty Faces)
Sam Spiegel, film producer
Alger Hiss, hid papers in a pumpkin
Sam Spiegel film producer
Howard Fast, screenwriter
William Proxmire (D-Wis-Sen), (Golden Fleece Awards)
Gene Tierney in Bkln
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan)
Jonathan Winters, comedian
Bibi Andersson in Sweden
Susan Kohner
Daniel Ortega Saavedra, president of Nicaragua (1984-  )
Denise Alexander in NYC
Fuzzy Zoeller Golfer
Jigme Singye Wangchuk, king of Bhutan (1972-  )
Demi Moore
Philip McKeon Actor
1112
Letitia Christian Tyler, 1st wife of President Tyler
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Johnstown, NY, suffragist
Baha'Ullah (Mirza Husayn Ali), founded Bah '¡ faith
Aleksandr Borodin, Russian composer
Auguste Rodin, sculptor (Kiss)
Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC)
Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court justice
Kim Hunter Actress
Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco in Phila
Ina Ballin
Richard H. Truly, U.S. astronaut (STS-2, 8)
Stefanie Powers in Hollywood Cal (Hart to Hart)
Neil Young, Canadian singer, songwriter
Nadia Comaneci in Romania, Olympic gymnist
1113
354
St. Augustine of Hippo in Numidia, Algeria
1312
Edward III, king of England (1327-77)
Augustine
Edward John Trelawney, English traveler, author
Edwin Booth, American actor
Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (Treasure Island)
Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice (1916-39)
Hermione Baddeley, actress
Jack Elam, American actor
Madeleine Sherwood Actress
Oskar Werner, film actor, director
Linda Christian in Mexico
Richard Mulligan Actor
Monica Vitti
Garry Marshall Producer
Jean Seberg in Marshaltown
Dack Rambo, actor
Beth Brickell in Arkansas
1114
William Pitt the Elder (Whig), British PM (1756-61, 1766-68)
Robert Fulton, built 1st coml steamboat
Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis
Sir Charles Lyell, geologist
Claude Monet, French Impressionist
Frederick Jackson Turner, historian, educator
Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Indian PM (1947-64)
Mamie Doud Eisenhower, 1st lady
Aaron Copland, American composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring)
Marya Mannes, writer
Louise Brooks, silent screen star (American Venus, Pandora's Box)
Harrison E. Salisbury, journalist, writer
Rosemary DeCamp in Az
Barbara Hutton
Veronica Lake
Brian Keith, actor
Leonie Rysanek, dramatic soprano
McLean Stevenson, actor (TV's M*A*S*H)
Edward H. White II, astronaut (Gemini 4)
Fred Haise, astronaut (Apollo 13)
Don Stewart
Hussein I, king of Jordan (1953-  )
Prince Charles of Britain
1115
Sir William Herschel, astronomer discovered Uranus
Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer (Before Dawn) (Nobel 1912)
Georgia O'Keeffe in Sun Prairie, Wis, painter
Marianne Moore, poet in St. Louis
Erwin Rommel, German field marshall
W. Averell Harriman, governor, cabinet member
Carol Bruce in Great Neck
Joseph Albert Wapner, La (People's Court)
Howard Baker, senator from Tennessee, presidential chief of staff
Ed Asner, actor (Lou Grant)
Petula Clark in England
Joanna Barnes Actress
Sam Waterston Actor
Anni-Frid in Lyngsdtad Sweden (ABBA)
Janet Lennon, (Lennon Sisters)
1116
Rodolphe Kreutzer, French composer, virtuoso violinist
William Handy, blues musician
Paul Hindemith in Germany, composer
Jim Jordan, radio comic (Fibber McGee of Fibber McGee & Molly)
George Gallup, what's your opinion?
Burgess Meredith, actor
Donna McKechnie in Pontiac Michigan
Martine van Hamel, Belgian ballerina
Lisa Bonet in SF, Cal (Cosby Show)
Donald Wolf, computer game creator
Debbie Allen in Houston
1117
1503
Il Bronzino, Florentine painter
Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet, dramatist
Jean d'Alembert, French mathematician, scientist, philosopher
Louis XVIII, 1st post-revolutionary king of France (1814-24)
August Ferdinand Mbius, mathematician, inventor of Mbius strip
Titian Ramsey Peale, American artist, naturalist
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein in Moville, Ireland
Jack Cusack, pioneer in pro football, with Canton Bulldogs
Isamu Noguchi, sculptor
Rock Hudson in Winnetka, Ill, (Pillow Talk, A Farewell to Arms)
Bob Mathias Olympian-turned-politician
Peter Cook, British actor, comedian
Gordon Lightfoot, folksinger
Martin Scorsese, director (Mean Streets, NY, NY)
Lauren Hutton in SC, model, actress (American Gigolo, Lassiter)
Danny DeVito, actor (Taxi, Ruthless People)
Tom Seaver (NY Met Pitcher)
Elvin Hayes, NBA star
Merette Von Kemp in Denmark
1118
Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography
Sir WS Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame)
Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian operatic soprano
Eugene Ormandy, conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra)
George H. Gallop, what's your opinion?
Imogene Coca in Phila, actress (Your Show of Shows)
Alan B. Shepard, Jr., 1st American in space (Freedom 7, Apollo 14)
Dorothy Collins in Ontario Canada
Mickey Mouse, cartoon character
William (Pete) Knight, X-15 pilot
Brenda Vaccaro Bkln, (Midnight Cowboy, Airport '77)
Linda Evans, (Dynasty)
Susan Sullivan in NYC
Linda Evans
1119
Charles I, king of England (1625-49); executed by Parliament
George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War
Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat, built Suez Canal
James A Garfield, 20th Pres (March 4-Sept 19, 1881)
Jos Ra£l Capablanca of Cuba, world chess champion (1921-27)
Tommy Dorsey, band leader
Indira Gandhi, Indian prime minister (1966-77, 1980-84)
Alan Young, English actor
Roy Campanella, baseball player
Jeane Kirkpatrick, US ambassador to UN
Larry King, radio talk show host
Dick Cavett, TV talk show host
Ted Turner, broadcasting mogul
Dan Haggerty, actor (Grizzly Adams)
Calvin Klein clothes designer
Ahmad Rashad (Bobby Moore), NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
Kathleen Quinlan in Mill Valley Cal, (Rose Garden, Twilight Zone)
Glynnis O'Connor in NYC
Jodie Foster, LA (Bugsy Malone) - Pulls Hinckley's string
1120
Otto von Guericke, invented air pump
Peregrine White son of William & Susanna White, born aboard Mayflower
Oliver Wolcott, governor of Conn., signer of Declaration of Indep
Andres Bello, Venezuelan diplomat, author, humanist
Sir Wilfrid Laurier (L), 7th Canadian prime minister (1896-1911)
Selma Lagerlf, Swedish novelist (Tales of a Manor) (Nobel 1909)
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge, 1st commissioner of baseball
Karl von Frisch, zoologist, bee expert (Nobel 1973)
Edwin Hubble, US astronomer, discoverer of galaxies, red shift
Chester Gould, cartoonist (gave Dick Tracy a job)
Alistair Cooke, raconteur (Masterpiece Theatre)
Emilio Pucci, fashion designer
Judy Canova in Fla
Robert A. Bruce, pioneer in exercise cardiology
Robert Byrd (D-Sen-WV) majority leader
Evelyn Keyes, actress
Gene Tierney, actress (Laura, Razor's Edge)
Phyllis Thaxter in Portland Maine
Nadine Gordimer, South African writer (Lying Days)
Maya Plisetkaya, prima ballerina
Robert Kennedy in Brookline, Mass (D-Sen-NY) AG; assassinated
Kaye Ballard in Ohio Actress-comedian
Estelle Parsons, actress (Rachel, Rachel, Bonnie and Clyde)
Richard Dawson, (Family Feud, Hogan's Heroes)
Dick Smothers comedian
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-Sen-Del)
Veronica Hamill, Phila (Hill Street Blues)
Judy Woodruff, newscaster
Bo Derek, Long Beach Cal (10, Tarzan, Ape Man)
1121
Voltaire of France, thinker
William Beaumont, surgeon, studied digestion
Sir Samuel Cunard, founded 1st regular Atlantic steamship line
Benedict XV, 258th Roman Catholic pope (1914-22)
Ren Magritte, painter (This is Not a Pipe)
Coleman Hawkins, virtually created tenor saxophone for jazz
Jim Bishop, author
Eleanor Powell in Springfield Mass
Sid Luckman, NFL quarterback (Chicago Bears)
Ralph Meeker, actor (Anderson Tapes, Night Stalker)
Stan Musial, baseball player
Vivian Blaine, actress (Guys and Dolls)
Jim Ringo, NFL center (Green Bay, Philadelphia)
Henry W. (Hank) Hartsfield, U.S. astronaut (STS-4, 41D, 61A)
Marlo Thomas in Detroit Michigan aka Mrs Phil Donahue
Natalia Maskarova in Lenningrad ballerina
Juliet Mills in London England
Larry Mahan, rodeo champ
Marlo Thomas, actress (That Girl!, Jenny)
Goldie Hawn, Wash DC (Butterflies Are Free, Foul Play)
Jamie Lee Curtis, actress (Halloween, Trading Places)
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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach
George Eliot in England, novelist (Silas Marner)
John Nance Garner (D), 32nd VP (1933-41)
Andr Gide, French novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures) (Nobel 1947)
Charles de Gaulle, pres of France (1958-69)
Wiley Post, American aviator, parachutist
Hoagie Carmichael, American actor, songwriter (Stardust, Lazybones)
Benjamin Britten, English composer
Geraldine Page, Kirksville Mo (Interiors, Trip to Bountiful)
Owen K. Garriott, astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-9)
Robert Vaughn, actor (Napoleon Solo of I Spy)
Billie Jean King, tennis pro Cal
Jamie Lee Curtis in LA, Cal - Tony Curtis & Janet Leigh's daughter
Mariel Hemingway in Ketchum Idaho (Manhattan, Personal Best)
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912
Otto I (the Great), German king, Holy Roman emperor (962-73)
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Alfonso X (the Wise), king of Castile and Leon (1252)
Gov. Edward Rutledge of S.C., signer of Declaration of Independence
Franklin Pierce, 14th Pres (1853-1857)
Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney), criminal
Karl Branting, Swedish statesman, diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921)
Boris Karloff, bogeyman (Frankenstein, Isle of the Dead)
Vera Miles in Okla
William Brock, Sen
Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer (Hiroshima Threnody)
Vladislav N. Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11)
Track runner Francie Larrieu
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Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
1700
Benjamin Spinoza
Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in Cal
Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist, satirist (Tristram Shandy)
Zachary Taylor (Whig), 12th Pres (Mar 5,1849-July 9,1850)
Henre de Toulouse-Lautrec in France, painter
Scott Joplin, American musician, composer
Alben W. Barkley (D), 35th U.S. vice-president (1949-53)
Dale Carnegie, author (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
Eric Severide
John V. Lindsay (R-NY-mayor)
William F. Buckley, Jr., right-wing curmudgeon
Dante Lavelli, AAFC, NFL end (Cleveland Browns)
Oscar Robertson (Big O), basketball player
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Andrew Carnegie, steel industrialist, library builder
Carry Nation, scourge of barkeepers and drinkers
John XXIII, 261st pope (1958-63), (Angelo Roncalli) near Bergamo, It
Virgil Thomson Composer and music critic
Joe DiMaggio, Yankee Clipper
Ricardo Montalban, Welcome to Fantasy Island, Khan
Kathryn Grant Crosby in Houston
Lenny Moore, NFL back (Baltimore Colts)
John Larroquette
Martin Feldstein, economist
Tina Turner in Brownsville Tx
John F. Kennedy Jr
Stacy Lattislaw
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John Harvard, English clergyman, scholar, founder of Harvard Univ
William Cowper, English poet
Sarah Moore Grimk, American antislavery, women's rights advocate
Louisa May Alcott, little woman
Mary Edwards Walker, American doctor, women's rights leader
Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist
Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment
Joe Guyon, NFL halfback (Canton, Cleveland, Oorang, Rock I., etc.)
Norbert Wiener, inventor of cybernetics
Emlyn Williams, actor, playwright
Eric Sevareid, newscaster
Eugne Ionesco, French dramatist (Rhinoceros)
Charles M Schultz, cartoonist (Peanuts)
Lois Hunt in Morriston NJ
Robert Goulet Singer in Canada
Marian Mercer Actress-singer
Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut (Voskhod 1)
Rich Little Impressionist in Canada
Tina Turner Singer
Jan Stenerud, NFL place kicker (Kansas City Chiefs)
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Anders Celsius, invented centigrade temperature scale
Robert Livingston, delivered oath of office to George Washington
Sir Julius Benedict, composer
Fanny Kemble, English actress
Charles A. Beard, American historian
Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman
John McNally, a.k.a. Johnny Blood, early NFL halfback
Mona Washbourne Actress
David Merrick Bdwy producer
Buffalo Bob Smith
Alexander Dubcek, head of Czech Communist Party (1968-69)
Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader; assassinated
Writer Gail Sheehy
Eddie Rabbitt, singer
Jimi Hendrix, guitarist
Jayne Kennedy in Wash DC
Caroline Kennedy
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John Bunyan, English cleric, author (PiManogrim's Progress)
Jean Baptiste Lully, French composer, musician
William Blake, poet (Songs of Innocence and Experience)
Friedrich Engels, Marx's collaborator
Stefan Zweig, Austrian poet, essayist, dramatist, translator
Claude Lvi-Strauss, Belgian social anthropologist
Gloria Grahame
Hope Lange in London
Gary Hart (D-Sen-Colo)
Paul Warfield, NFL, WFL wide receiver (Cleveland, Miami, Memphis)
Randy Newman, singer (Raindrops)
Alexander Godunov, composer
Paul Schaeffer (David Letterman)
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Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (color shift)
Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage, antislavery, prison reformer
George Brown (L), Canadian publisher (Toronto Globe), PM (1858)
Louisa May Alcott, American author (Little Women)
Sir Ambrose Fleming, invented diode
Ant¢nio Egas Moniz, Portuguese lobotomist (Nobel 1949)
William V.S. Tubman (Whig), 17th Liberian president (1943-70)
Merle Travis, U.S. country singer (Sixteen Tons)
Vin Scully Sportscaster
Paul Simon (Sen-D-Ill), pres candidate
Diana Ladd
David Reuben physician/Writer
John Mayall blues singer
Chuck Mangione, jazz musician, composer
Suzy Chaffee Skier
Howie Mandel, (St Elsewhere's-Dr Fiscus)
Cathy Moriarty Actress
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Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman, admiral
1554
Philip Sidney, English poet, statesman, soldier (Arcadia)
1667
Jonathan Swift, satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal)
Johann Lukas Schnlein, helped establish scientific medicine
Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker
Theodor Mommsen, German historian, writer (Nobel 1902)
Samuel Clemens, AKA Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn)
Andres Bonifacio, leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain
Sir Winston Churchill (C), Brit. PM (1940-45, 1951-55) (Nobel 1953)
Roy (Link) Lyman, NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
Gordon Parks, film director
Henry Taube, chemist (Nobel 1983)
Virginia Mayo in St Louis Mo
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., actor (77 Sunset Strip)
Allan Sherman comedian
Shirley Chisholm (D-Rep), pres candidate
Richard Crenna
Dick Clark, oldest teenager (American Bandstand)
G Gordon Liddy
Abbie Hoffman, Yippie
Billy Idol, rocker (White Wedding)
Sherilyn Wolter
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Pia Lindstrom in Stockholm Sweden
Sandahl Bergman
All Saints' Night
All Saints' Day
Fortifications built on Angel Island by troops
US Weather Bureau begins operations
Knute Rockne leads underdog Notre Dame to 35-13 win over Army
Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program
1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa
Dimout ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area
1st Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii
1st negro player in National Basketball Association, Fort Wayne In
1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, NM
1st hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific
1st Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents
All Souls' Day
North & South Dakota Admission Day
Election Day  Have you voted today?
Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts
North Dakota becomes 39th and South Dakota becomes the 40th state
Lansing-Ishii Agreement
The Balfour Declaration calls for a Jewish homeland
KDKA (Pittsburgh) on the air as 1st commercial radio station
Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for 1st (& last) time
Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers
JS Thurmond 1st senator elected by write-in vote - SC
1st titanium mill opened, Toronto Ohio
Charles Van Doren confesses 21 was fixed
Ed Giacomin return to Mad Sq Garden as a Red Wing beats Rangers 6-4
Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
Edith Bunker dies
Japan Culture Day
Feast of Blessed Martin de Porres, confessor
Independence Day, celebrated in Panama
Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing spacedog Laika
Election Day
World Community Day (pray for peace)
Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
Columbia grants Panama independence
1st Class Mail now costs 3
Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
Detroit-Windsor tunnel opens-1st vehicular tunnel to foreign country
Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
1st live color coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)
1st virus crystallized (announced)
Wizard of Oz 1st televised
USSR launches Laika 1st animal in orbit
Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury
UK grants Dominica independence (Natl Day)
63 Americans taken hostage at American Embassy (Teheran, Iran)
Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
Feast of St Charles Borromeo, archbishop of Milan, confessor
Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island
Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia
90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall
1st cash register patented (James & John Ritty)
Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen
Nellie Tayloe Ross elected 1st US female gov (Wyoming)
1st air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Il
World Community Day
UN Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Org formed
Israeli troops reach Suez Canal
500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy, take 90 hostages
Nicaragua holds 1st free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%
Feast of Holy Relics
Guy Fawkes Day
Plot to blow up British parliment fails - 1st Guy Fawkes day
John Hanson elected 1st 'Pres of the US in Congress assembled'
Susan B Anthony arrested for attempting to vote
1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden)
1st coast-to-coast airplane flight (NY-Pasadena, with many stops)
ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disc
BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service
Ella Grasso, Ct elected 1st woman US gov not related to previous gov
Sadie Hawkins Day (ladies take initiative!)
St Leonard's Day (abbot) (Anglican)
Adolphe Sax, invents saxophone
Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
1st Hawaiian fire engine
Yerba Buena & Angel Islands reserved for military use
Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th pres
NY-SF direct telegraphic link established
1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)
Bolshevik revolution begins
WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st coml TV station
US explodes world's 1st hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll
BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote
Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more
Nixon elected 37th pres of US, defeating Hubert Humphrey
Pres Reagan was elected to a second term, winning 49 states
22nd Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 9 returns to Earth
Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
Lewis & Clark 1st sights Pacific Ocean
Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presial slogan
Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy murdered by mob at Alton, Ill
London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded
Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; found abandoned 4 weeks later
1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol
Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa
Canada completes its own transcontinental railway
Bolsheviks overthrew Russian govt in St Petersburg;
Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana 1st women Representative
October Revolution overthrows Russian Provisional Govt
Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
USSR Natl Day
Galloping Gertie bridge collapses, Tacoma, Wash
Richard Nixon quits politics - You won't have Nixon to kick around
Republican Nixon re-elected to 2nd term defeating George McGovern
Gone With the Wind televised
Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
Colombian troops ends 27-hour siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice
Feast of Holy 4 Crowned Martyrs
Punster's Day
Louvre, in Paris, opens
Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women
US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent
Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as pres
Montana admitted as 41st state
Wilhelm Rntgen discovers x-rays
Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" failed, In jail, writes "Mein Kampf"
FDR elected pres, Lehman NY governor & O'Brien NY mayor
Life with Father, longest running Brdway drama, opens (closes 1947)
Allied forces invade North Africa
Tom Dempsey of New Orleans kicks NFL-record 63-yard field goal
Walt Disney's "Robin Hood" is released
Smoky fire set by a prisoner in a Biloxi, Miss 28 killed
14th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 is launched
Judge overturned Rubin ``Hurricane'' Carter's conviction
Feast of Dedication of Church of the Lateran, Rome
Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
PO at Clay & Pike opens
Battle of Piketon, Ky
Conf Gen Lee surrenders to Union Gen Grant at Appomattox
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
Congress of Industrial Org formed (CIO)
Germany invaded Norway & Denmark in WW II
Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
5:16PM, massive power failure in New Engl, & Ontario (NY blackout)
1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
Feast of St Andrew Avellino, confessor
US Marine Corps established by Congress
Kentucky outlaws dueling
Louis Napoleon banished to America
Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa
1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by US
Jacobo Arbenz Guzm n elected pres of Guatemala
1st Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance
Nuclear sub Thresher went down 220 miles east of Boston
USSR launches Zond 6 to moon
Sesame Street premiers
Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
PLO leader Yasser Arafat speaks at UN
Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald lost in a storm on Lake Superior
Voyager I flies past Saturn
Martinmas, term day in Scotland (Feast of St Martin of Tours)
Rememberance Day - Canada
REAL Veteran's Day  They fought for your freedom Remember them!
41 Pilgrims signed a compact aboard Mayflower
Dutch & French agree to divide St Maarten, Leeward Islands
Iroquois Indians in NY killed 40 people in Cherry Valley Mass
Former slave Nat Turner, who led a violent insurrection, executed
Washington admitted as 42nd state
Armistice Day -- WW I ends (at 11AM on Western Front)
Pres Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier
Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated (SF)
Cornerstones laid for Opera House & Veteran's Building
Kate Smith 1st sang Irving Berlin's `God Bless America'
During WWII Germany completed their occupation of France
Demolition begins on cable car barn at Calif & Hyde
Seals Stadium demolished
Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by PM Ian D Smith
Gemini 12 launched on 4-day flight
John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "Two Virgins" album
US Army turned over Long Bihn base to S Vietnamese army
Portugal grants Angola independence (Natl Day)
Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37
5th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 5 is launched 1st coml flight
Rev Martin Luther King Sr, dies in Atlanta at 84
Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 million at auction
Feast of St Martin I, pope (649-55), martyr
Bay District Race Track opens
Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
Austria becomes a republic
Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator
1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
1st TV Gardening show
Oakland Bay Bridge opens
German battleship Tirpitz was sunk off Norway
Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" released
1st "autobank" (banking by car) established (Chic)
Japanese premier Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years
New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest `Dutch' Morial
US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000 miles of Saturn
1st time a spacecraft is launched twice (space shuttle Columbia)
1st balloon crossing of Pacific completed (Double Eagle V)
2nd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 2 is launched
Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev
Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
Van Gogh's `Irises' sells for $53,900,000 - Rec amount for a painting
Feast of St Didacus, confessor
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St Nicholas I (the Great), pope (858-67) dies
English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers
American Revolutionary forces captured Montreal
Peter Burnett elected 1st gov of Calif
Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
250 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry, Ill
Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, released
NY-NJ Holland Tunnel, 1st underwater vehicular tunnel, opens
NBC forms 1st full sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
Walt Disney's "Fantasia" is released
British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sank in Mediterranean
Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country - Havana Cuba
Supreme Court struck down segregation of races on public buses
VP Spiro T Agnew accused network TV news depts of bias & distortion
Vice Pres Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"
Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Bangladesh
Mariner 9, 1st orbit of another planet, (Mars)
Karen Silkwood killed in a car crash
1st manned balloon flight across Pacific Ocean ended
Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini
Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000
Feast of St Josaphat, archbishop of Polotsk, martyr
Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo
Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)
Capt George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter SF Bay
1st streetcar-horsedrawn vehicle called John Mason debuts in NYC
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, published
Charles J Guiteau went on trial for Pres Garfield's assassination
NY World's Nellie Bly (Liz Cochrane) begins 72 day world trip
Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
1st airplane flight from deck of a ship
BBC began domestic radio service
FDR proclaimed Philippine Is a free commonwealth
During WW II, German planes destroyed most of Coventry, England
Bears' Sid Luckman throws 7 TD passes (NFL record)
Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii)
Apollo 12 launched
Dow Jones closes above 1,000 for 1st time (1003.16)
Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner, Capt Mark Phillips
Egypt Pres Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite
2nd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 2 returns to Earth
Old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired & working again
Sec & Exch Comm impose a record $100 million penalty against Boesky
Feast of St Albert the Great, bishop, confessor, doctor
Johannes Kepler dies
Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation
Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak
Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated
American Federation of Labor founded in Pitts (AFL)
Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed
League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva
NBC on-air debut with a radio network of 24 stations
Walt Disney Art School created
1st congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
Social Security Adm approves 1st unemployment check
1st 75,000 men were called to armed forces duty during peacetime
Cow Palace opens in SF
William Lyon Mackenzie King retired as prime minister of Canada
KRON (Channel 4, SF) signs on, from 7 to 10 PM
1st Negro player in organized hockey - Arthur Dorrington signed
Flight over North Pole on regularly scheduled commercial route began
Actor Tyrone Power dies of a heart attack at 44
Mickey Wright shoots a 62, lowest golf score for a woman pro
Gemini XII returns to Earth
Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km
250,000 protesters peacefully demonstrate against Vietnam War
Pres Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany,
Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev
Baby Fae, who received a baboon's heart dies at Calif medical center
Feast of St Gertrude, virgin
Natl Children's Book Week Begins
1532
Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa
Sherman begins his march to sea thru Georgia
6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan
Okla becomes 46th state
Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR
UN gets US govt approval to issing postage stamps
1st speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (DM Campbell)
1st public announcement about Walt Disney World
Venera 3 launched  1st land on another planet (Crashed into Venus)
Dr Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury
Skylab 4 launched into earth orbit
5th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 5 returns to Earth
14th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 returns to Earth
Feast of St Gregory the Wonderworker, bishop, confessor
St Anianus' Day (bishop, martyr) (Anglican)
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Great American Smoke Out
Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary
John Peter Zenger, newspaper editor, arrested for libel against NY
colonial governor; later acquitted
Congress held 1st session in Washington
Street signs authorized at SF intersections
Suez Canal opens
Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel"
Sculptor August Rodin died in Meudon, France
Lyndon B Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor
Britain's House of Commons voted to nationalize steel industry
fullback Jim Brown, Syracuse, scores 43 pts (NCAA rec) vs. Colgate
Dulles Intl Airport outside Wash DC, dedicated by Pres Kennedy
Heidi bowl-NBC misses Oakland rally to beat Jets, 43-32
Russia lands unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
Pres Nixon told AP "...people have got to know whether or not their
pres is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."
Egyptian Pres Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel
S Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim was legally declared dead
Feast of Dedication of Basilicas of Peter & Paul, Rome
Oman Natl Day
Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope
Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French
Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B Palmer
Standard time zones established by railroads in US, Canada
Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows Pres Zelaya
Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop
Latvia declares independence from Russia
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in "Steamboat Willie"
"Flowers & Trees" awarded 1st Academy Award for a cartoon
Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
1st ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated
Feast of St Elizabeth, widow
Monaco Natl Day
Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico Discovery Day
Mayflower pgrims reach Cape Cod
1st protestant ministry society in New England
Lincoln delivers Gettysburg address
Pencil invented
Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations rejected by US Senate
Ford cancels Edsel
Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Cal State Historical Landmark
Ft Wilderness opens
Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel
Rev Jim Jones leads 911 people in suicide in Jonestown, Guyana
Feast of St Felix of Valois, confessor
Britain declares war against Holland
NJ became 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights.
William Bundy invents 1st timecard clock
US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua
Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I. Madero.
US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
Commercial teletype service began
NHL abolishes regular season overtime
American forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Is.
24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany.
Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten
Meet the Press makes network TV debut on NBC.
UN General assembly looks into printing their own stamps
1st airplane to exceed 1300 mph - Scott Crossfield
At 11 AM, Census Clock at Dept of Commerce ticks past 200 million.
Spain's Gen. Francisco Franco dies in Madrid at 82
Egyptian Pres Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israel Knesset
Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
UA withdraws $44 million movie `Heaven's Gate' for reediting.
Anatoly Karpov, USSR retains world chess championship
100 million watch ABC-TV movie `The Day After'
UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS
Feast of the Presentation of Mary
Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Providencetown, MA harbor
1624
Jakob Bhme, German philosophical mystic, dies (birth date unknown)
Piltre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight
NC becomes 12th state
Honolulu Harbor discovered
Phoenix is lost on Lake Michigan
1st US ambassador to USSR - WC Bullitt
1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed duet
World's longest suspension bridge Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened
Who Shot JR episode of Dallas
Feast of St Cecilia, virgin, martyr, patron of music, musicians
Independence Day, celebrated in Lebanon
Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald (1963)
Thanksgiving
Intl Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS" as new call for help
Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college
Lebanon gains independence from France (Natl Day)
Arthur S Eddington dies
Mickey Mantle beats Ted Williams by 1 vote for MVP
JFK assasinated in Dallas
UN Security council passes resol 242 - Israel must give back land
Beatles release "The Beatles" there only double album
Lake Buena Vista Club opens
Feast of St Clement I, 4th pope (c 88-c 97), martyr
just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet
Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
Post Hospital at Presidio, SF renamed Letterman General Hospital
Lens to provide zoom effects patented - FG Back
Merle Oberon dies at 68
Mae West dies at 88
Feast of St John of the Cross, confessor, doctor
Natl Day in Zaire
Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
SC passes Ordinance of Nullification
Patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire
1st US Presial airplane christened
1st live murder on TV - Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
Apollo 12 returns to Earth
"D B Cooper" parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200,000
Alfred Nobel invents dynamite (1867)
Feast of St Catherine, patron of maidens, mechanics & philosophers
Britain captures Ft Duquesne (Pittsburgh)
Britain evacuated NY, their last military position in US
John B Meyenberg of St Louis patented evaporated milk
VP Thomas A Hendricks died at 66, 8 months after taking office
1st Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261 ft
Ft Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed
Agatha Christie's "Mouse Trap" opens in London
Pres Eisenhower suffered a slight stroke
1st atomic reactor for research & development, Richland Wa
Greek Pres George Papadopoulos ousted in a bloodless military coup
UN Secretary-General U Thant dies in NY of cancer at 65
Netherlands grants Surinam independence (Natl Day)
O.J. Simpson gains 273 yards for Buffalo vs. Det
Sugar Ray Leonard regains WBC welterweight championship
Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off
William Schroeder, becomes 2nd to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart
Feast of St Sylvester, abbot
1st lion to be exhibited in America (Boston)
Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands)
1st natl celebration of Thanksgiving
Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
1st fraternity, Kappa Alpha, formed at Union College (Schenectady)
1st horse drawn American street car -NYC- fare: 12
Alice in Wonderland published
1st baseball game played in enclosed field in SF, at 25th & Folsom
Sojourner Truth, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, dies
1st Meteor photograph
Hawaiian Sugar Planters Assn formed
Nazis force 4.5 mil Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto
India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
China enters Korean conflict
1st recording session under the name Beatles
France launches 1st satellite, a 92-pound A1 capsule
1st major tidal power plant opened at Rance estuary, France
Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court she
accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape
Fed jury found Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
Rachael Roberts dies at age 53
Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
23rd Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 is launched
Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel prize (1895)
Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas)
Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade
Advent Sunday
Cracow declared a free republic
1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation
Army War College was established in Wash DC
NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
Pro-labor musical revue `Pins & Needles'opens, produced by ILGWU
French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships & submarines to prevent
them from falling into hands of Nazis
Gen George C Marshall named special US envoy to China
Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP beating Ted Williams by 1 vote
1st rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM
Playwright Eugene O'Neill dies in Boston at 65
Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"
George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass"
Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines
by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
Mars 2, 1st crash land on Mars
Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP
SF Mayor George Moscone & City Sup Harvey Milk shot by Dan White
Soyuz T-3 is launched
Singer-actress Lotte Lenya dies in NY at 83
Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland
Space shuttle Atlantis makes 2nd flight, carries 7 (1 Mexican)
Feast of St Catherine Labour, virgin
Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean
Olympia established as capital of Washington Territory
America's auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH
Albania declares independence from Turkey
Adm RE Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight
Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin met at Tehran
Mauritania gains independence from France (Natl Day)
Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars
Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years
Rosalind Russell dies at age 68
9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 is launched
Reagan adm exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time
Feast of St Saturninus, martyr
Intl Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People (UN)
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey adviser to England's King Henry VIII, died.
Indians kill Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, 11 settle in Walla Walla Ore
Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians
US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
1st Army-Navy football game  Score: Navy 24, Army 0
US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels
Richard Byrd & crew flies over South Pole
Albania liberated from Nazi control (Natl Day)
Yugoslav Republic Day
UN Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
1st underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
Pres-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess the war.
Mercury 5 launches a chimp (Ham/Enos)
Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
LBJ sets up Warren comm to investigate assassination of JFK
US Sec of Def McNamara becomes president of the World Bank.
1st Prof Golf Championship at Walt Disney World
Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
Actress Natalie Wood drowns off Santa Catalina, Calif., at 43
Cary Grant, dies in Davenport, Iowa, at 82
Benin Natl Day
Feast of St Andrew, apostle, patron of Scotland
30
BC  Cleopatra died
St Andrew's Day
Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
USSR invades Finland over a border dispute
Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements are attacked
1st meteorite known to have struck a woman - Sylacauga Ala
1st guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me
USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars
Barbados gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
South Yemen (then Aden) gains independence from Britain
National Raisin Bread Month
1201
Mih ly Vrsmarty, Hungarian poet, dramatist
Rex Stout, mystery writer
Robert Welch, founded John Birch Society
Morris (Red) Badgro, NFL end (Yankees, Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers)
Walter Alston, baseball manager
Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (World Trade Center, NY)
Mary Martin Weatherford Tx (Peter Pan) Larry Hagman's mom
Lou Rawls, singer
Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) Bkln (Zelig, Annie Hall)
Lee Trevino, pro golfer
Dianne Lennon, singer
Richard Pryor, comedian, actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy)
Bette Midler in Patterson NJ
Charlene Tilton in San Diego Calif
1202
Georges Seurat, French painter, pointillist
George Minot, US physician, worked on anemia (Nobel 1934)
N¡kos Kazantazak¡s, Greek writer (Zorba the Greek)
Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records
Ray Walston, actor (South Pacific, Sting)
Adolph Green songwriter (married to Phyllis Newman)
Will Randolph Hearst publisher
Ezra Stone, American actor, producer
Maria Callas, NY opera singer
Alexander Haig (R) sec of state
Julie Harris in Michigan
Edwin Meese III, AG
Willie Brown, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders)
Cathy Lee Crosby in LA
Tracy Austin, tennis pro
1203
1368
Charles VI (the Well-Beloved), king of France (1380-1422)
Antonio Soler, Spain composer
Gilbert Stuart, American portrait painter, painted Washington
Joseph Conrad in Poland, novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness)
Sir Rowland Hill, introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp
Anton von Webern, Austrian 12-tone composer
Anna Freud, Sigmund's daughter
Richard Kuhn, Austrian biochemist, worked with vitamins (Nobel '38)
Tom Fears, NFL end (LA Rams)
John Backus, inventor of FORTRAN computer language
Ferlin Husky Country singer
Andy Williams singer (Moon River)
Jean-Luc Godard, film maker
Phyllis Curtin in West Virginia
Jaye P Morgan in Mancos Cal
Viktor V. Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 8, 24, 37)
Jim Morrison, rock musician (Doors)
Ozzy Osbourne, eat a bat
1443
Pope Julius II (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael
Samuel Butler, English author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh)
Lillian Russell, American singer, actress (The Great Mogul)
Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet (Duino Elegies)
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, historian (or 1795)
A.D. Hershey, US biologist, worked with bacteriophages (Nobel 1969)
Deanna Durbin, actress (100 Men and a Girl)
Patti Chandler in Cal
Dennis Wilson, drummer, Beach Boys
Jeff Bridges, actor (Stay Hungry)
1205
Martin Van Buren (D), 8th pres (1837-41)
George Armstrong Custer of Little Big Horn fame
Walter Elias Disney, father of Mickey Mouse
Werner Heisenberg, discoverer of uncertainty (Nobel 1932)
Strom Thurmond (D/R-Sen-SC)
Cecil Frank Powell, English physicist, discovered pion (Nobel 1950)
Otto Preminger, movie director, producer (Laura, Exodus)
Jim Plunkett, NFL quarterback
Jugderdemidyin Gurragcha, 1st Mongolian space traveler (Soyuz 39)
Morgan Brittany
1206
1421
Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71)
John Eberhard, built 1st large US pencil factory
William S Hart, star of silent Westerns
Joyce Kilmer, poet (Trees)
Lynn Fontanne, Bdwy actress (Dulcy, Arms and the Man)
George Trafton, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
Ira Gershwin, lyricist, ('S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm)
Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist, economist
Agnes Moorehead (Endorra-Bewitched)
Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist
Otto Graham, AAFC, NFL quarterback (Cleveland Browns)
Andy Robustelli, NFL defensive end (LA Rams, NY Giants)
Chelsea Brown in Chicago Ill
Mary Queen of Scots
Gian Bernini, baroque sculptor
Madame Marie Tussaud, created wax museum
Willa Cather, American author (My Antonia)
Akiko Yosano, Japanese poet
Joyce Cary, writer
Gerard Kuiper, US astronomer, discovered moons of Uranus, Neptune
Eli Wallach, actor
Ted Knight, actor (Ted Baxter, anchorman)
M rio Soares (Socialist), premier of Portugal (1976-78, 1983-  )
Noam Chomsky, linguist, founder of transformational grammar
Ellen Burstyn in Det
Gregg Allman, singer
Johnny Bench, baseball catcher
Yoko Morishita, prima ballerina
Larry Bird, (Boston Celtics)
Priscilla Barnes (3's Company)
1208
65
BC Horace in Rome, poet
Christina, queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic
Eli Whitney, inventor
Bjírnstjerne Bjírnson, Norwegian writer (Nobel 1903)
Aristide Maillol, French painter, sculptor
William Crapo Durant, founded GM
Jean Sibelius, major Scandinavian composer
Diego Rivera, Mexican muralist
James  (Grover) Thurber in Columbus, Oh (Men, Women and Dogs)
Adele Simpson, fashion designer
Richard Llewellyn, Welsh novelist (How Green Was My Valley)
John Volpe, former governor of Massachusetts, cabinet officer
John B. (Jack) McKay, X-15 pilot
Sammy Davis, Jr, singer, actor (Ocean's 11)
Vladimir A. Shatalov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10)
Maximilian Schell, actor (Odessa File, Julia)
Flip Wilson, comedian, actor (The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh)
David Carradine, actor (Kung Fu, Mean Streets)
James MacArthur, actor -- "Book 'Em Danno!"
Kim Basinger in Athens Ga (9 1/2 Weeks, Man Who Loved Women)
Billy Hulsey
1209
Edwin Sandys, a founder of Va colony
1594
Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32)
John Milton, poet and puritan (Paradise Lost)
Joel Chandler Harris, created Uncle Remus stories
Clarence Birdseye, frozen vegatable king
Hermione Gingold
Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willie)
Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch of the West)
Dalton Trumbo, writer, film director (Johnny Got His Gun)
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, actor (Ghost Story)
Broderick Crawford, actor (All the King's Men, Highway Patrol)
Lee J. Cobb, actor (The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing)
Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass-Rep) Speaker of the House
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Kirk Douglas, actor (Gunfight at the OK Corral, 7 Days in May)
Redd Foxx, actor and comedian (Sanford and Son)
Dina Merrill in NYC
Luis Miguel Domingu¡n, matador
Dick Van Patten, actor (Eight Is Enough)
Robert J.L. Hawke (Labor), prime minister of Australia (1983-  )
David (Deacon) Jones, NFL defensive end (LA, SD, Washington)
Dick Butkus, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears)
Donny Osmond singer
Allison Smith
1210
Thomas H. Gallaudet, pioneer of educating the deaf
Cesar Franck in Belgium, composer
George Macdonald, Scottish novelist (Lilith)
Melvil Dewey, creator of Dewey Decimal System for libraries
Nelly Sachs, German poet O the Chimneys) (Nobel 1966)
Una Merkel, actress (The Parent Trap)
Dorothy Lamour in New Orleans (Road to Bali, Greatest Show on Earth)
Gloria Loring in NYC
Susan Hallock Dey in Ill (First Love, LA Law)
Nia Peeples
1211
Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist, inventor of kaleidoscope
Hector Berlioz in France, composer
Annie Jump Cannon, American stellar spectroscopist
Fiorello La Guardia (R), mayor of NYC (1933-45)
Max Born, German physicist (Nobel 1954)
Gilbert Roland, actor (Barbarosa)
Carlo Ponti, director
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (Cancer Ward) (Nobel 1970)
Rita Moreno, actress (The King and I, West Side Story) in Puerto Rico
Anne Heywood
Brenda Lee in Atlanta Georgia
Donna Mills in Chicago Illinois
Lynda Day-George in Tennessee
Elizabeth Baur in Cal
Christine Onasis in NYC
Kim Linehan, swimmer
John Jay, diplomat
Henry Wells, founded Am Expr & Wells Fargo
Gustave Flaubert, novelist (Madame Bovary)
Henri Becquerel, discoverer of radioactivity (Nobel 1903)
Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and print maker (The Scream)
Frank Sinatra, singer, actor (Old Blue Eyes)
Joe Williams, jazz singer
Bob Barker, game show host
Edward Koch, mayor of NYC
John Osborne, playwright
Connie Francis in Newark NJ
Dionne Warwick in East Orange NJ
Holly Gagnier in LA
1213
Heinrich Heine, German poet
Mary Todd Lincoln, 1st lady
Phillips Brooks, clergyman, composer (O Little Town of Bethlehem)
Russell Porter
Carlos Montoya, guitarist
Archie Moore, light-heavyweight boxing champ
Ross Macdonald, detective novelist
George Schultz, secof state
Dick Van Dyke, actor (Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Poppins)
Christopher Plummer, actor
Genevieve Page
John Davidson, TV host
Kathy Garver in Cal
Nostradamus, astrologer and physician
1546
Tycho Brahe at Knudstrup, Denmark, astronomer
George VI, king of England (1936-52)
James H. Doolittle, former Air Force general
Margaret Chase Smith (R-Sen-Maine)
Edward L. Tatum, American molecular geneticist (Nobel 1958)
Morey Amsterdam, actor
Charley Trippi, NFL halfback (Chicago Cardinals)
Abbe Lane in Bkln
Charlie Rich, singer
Lee Remick in Boston Mass (Days of Wine and Rose, Long Hot Summer)
Janette Scott
Jane Birkin
Joyce Wilson (Dawn) in Detroit Michigan
Patty Duke in Bkln  (Miracle Worker)
Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, built a tower in Paris
Ludwik Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto
Charles Edgar Duryea, invented 1st auto built and operated in US
J. Paul Getty, business tycoon
Tim Conway, comedian (Carol Burnett Show)
Helen Slater, actress (Supergirl)
Don Johnson (Miami Vice, Harrad Experiment)
1216
Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of Henry VIII
Ludwig von Beethoven Bonn Germany, composer
Jane Austen, English novelist (Pride and Prejudice)
George Santayana, philosopher, poet, humanist
Sir Nol Coward, playwright
V.S. Pritchett, literary critic
Margaret Mead, anthropologist (Coming of Age in Samoa)
Arthur C. Clarke, science-fiction author (2001, Childhood's End)
James McCracken, dramatic tenor
Liv Ullman in Tokyo Japan (Cries and Whispers)
Leslie Stahl, TV newsperson
Elayne Boosler Comedian
William Perry, Chicago Bears (The Refrigerator)
1217
Sir Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements
Joseph Henry, American scientist and inventor
John Greenleaf Whittier, poet
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor, theater manager
William Lyon Mackenzie King (L), 10th Canadian PM (1921-30, 1935-48)
Arthur Fiedler, Boston Pops conductor
Erskine Caldwell, author (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre)
Willard Frank Libby, invented carbon-14 "atomic clock"
Patrice Wymore
William Safire, political columnist
Julia Meade
Tommy Steele, singer
1218
Charles Wesley, cofounder of Methodist movement
Elizabeth, empress of Russia (to Peter the Great and Catherine I)
Joseph Grimaldi, English pantomimist, "greatest clown in history"
Carl Maria von Weber, German Romantic composer
Edward MacDowell, composer
Paul Klee, Swiss abstract painter
Ty Cobb, played in 3000 games, batted .367, stole 892 bases
Robert Moses, power broker (built Long Island & NYC parks & roads)
Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (invented FM)
Abe Burrows, Broadway impresario
Willy Brandt (SD), chancellor of West Germany (1969-74) (Nobel '71)
Betty Grable in St Louis
Lynn Bari, actress
Ossie Davis
Ramsey Clark, Attorney General
Boris V. Volynov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 21)
Keith Richard, singer (Rolling Stones)
Steven Spielberg, director (Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Arc)
Leonard Maltin Movie reviewer
1219
Philip V, 1st Bourbon king of Spain (1700-46)
Sir William Parry, British Arctic explorer
Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer, women's suffrage leader
Henry Clay Frick, industrialist; worked for Carnegie
Minnie Maddern Fiske, American stage actress
H. Allen Smith, author
Leonid Brezhnev, Ukraine
Jean Genet, French novelist and playwright (The Blacks)
David Susskind, TV producer
Bobby Layne, pro quarterback (Detroit Lions)
Galt MacDermot, Canadian composer
Cicely Tyson in NYC (Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman)
Maurice White, Singer
Tim Reid, Actor (WKRP)
Elaine Joyce, Actress (Dating Game)
Robert Urich, Actor  (Starman, Vega$, Spencer for Hire)
Janie Fricke, Singer
Claudia Kolb, swimmer
Jennifer Beals in Chicago (Flashdance)
Alyassa Milano (Who's the Boss)
1220
Thomas Graham, Father of colloid chemistry
John Geary, 1st SF postmaster, 1st mayor (May 1, 1850)
Dr Samuel A. Mudd, convicted of giving medical aid to J.W. Booth
Ferdinand-douard Buisson, French educator (Nobel Peace Prize 1927)
Harvey S Firestone, where the rubber meets the road
Sir Robert Menzies, Australian PM (1939-41, 1949-66)
Susanne Langer, US philosopher, educator (Philosophy in a New Key)
Irene Dunne in Louisville Ky
George Roy Hill, Movie director
Dr Joyce Brothers
Jack Christiansen, NFL defensive back (Det Lions)
Jenny Agutter in London
Benjamin Disraeli (Tory), British prime minister (1868, 1874-80)
Juan Bautista Sacasa, president of Nicaragua (1932-36)
Joseph Stalin Russian dictator
John W McCormack (D), Speaker of the House (1962-70)
George Ball, former undersecretary of state
Josh Gibson, pro baseball player, "Negro Babe Ruth"
Heinrich Bll, German writer (Group Portrait with Lady) (Nobel '72)
Donald Regan, White House staffer
Kurt Waldheim, 4th UN sec-gen (1972-81), Austrian Pres, Nazi
Paul Winchell, ventriloquist
Phil Donahue, TV host
Jane Fonda NYC, actress (Barbarella, Klute)
Diane Lennon in LA
Frank Zappa, rock singer (Grateful Dead)
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Dave Kingman Baseball player
Chris Evert Lloyd Ft Lauderdale, tennis pro 'Miss pokerface'
Khrystyne Haje
James Oglethorpe, English general, author, colonizer of Georgia
William Ellery, signed Decl of Ind
Frank Kellogg, sec of state, tried to outlaw war (Nobel 1929)
Giacomo Puccini, Italian operatic composer (La Bohme, Tosca)
Connie Mack, HOF baseball manager, executive (Phil A's)
Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet
H Keffer Hartline, US biophysicist (Nobel 1967)
Claudia (Lady Bird) Johnson, 1st lady
Gene Rayburn, game show host
James C Wright Jr (D-Texas), Speaker of the House (1987-  )
Steve Carlton, baseball player
Diane Sawyer, TV news personality
Maurice and Robin Gibb, (Beegees)
Jan Stephenson in Australia golfer
1223
Sir Richard Arkwright, invented spinning frame
Alexander I, tsar of Russia (1801-25)
Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics
Joesph Smith, founded Mormon church
Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer (Self-Help, Character, Duty)
Harriet Monroe, American poet, editor of Poetry magazine
Jos Greco, dancer
Ruth Roman in Boston Mass
Harry Guardino, actor (Hill Street Blues)
Paul Hornung, Green Bay Packer (the Golden Boy)
Elizabeth Hartman in Youngstown Ohio
Susan Lucci, soap star
Corey Haim
1224
Benjamin Rush, American physician, patriot, humanitarian
Kit Carson, Western scout
James Prescott Joule, physicist, discovered conservation of energy
Matthew Arnold, English poet (Dover Beach)
Emanuel Lasker of Germany, world chess champion (1894-21)
Juan Ram¢n Jimnez, Spanish poet (Distant Gardens) (Nobel 1956)
Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire
I.F. Stone, American journalist, told it like it was
Bill Dudley, NFL halfback (Pittsburgh, Detroit, Washington)
Ava Gardner, actress (On the Beach, Night of the Iguana)
Robert Joffrey, Choreographer
Madonna, rock singer, actress (Desperately Seeking Susan)
1225
0000
Jesus Christ, Savior, philosopher
Isaac Newton (sir) in Grantham, England
Mithra
Clara Barton, American Red Cross founder in Oxford, Mass
Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army general
Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan
Maurice Utrillo, French painter
Conrad Hilton, hotelman
Dame Rebecca West, author, critic, feminist (or 12-21-81)
Humphrey Bogart, actor  Here's looking at you, kid
Raphael Soyer, painter
Gerhard Herzberg, Can physicist (molecular structure) (Nobel 1971)
Lord Grade
Cab Calloway, bandleader
Mike Mazurki, actor, wrestler
Tony Martin, singer
Anwar Sadat, Egyptian pres (1970-81) (Nobel 1978)
Phil Spector, rock producer
Gary Sandy  Actor
Kenny Stabler, NFL QB (Oakland Raiders)
Larry Csonka Former football player
Barbara Mandrell in Houston Tx
Sissy Spacek in Quitman Tx (Badlands, Coal Miner's Daughter)
Annie Lennox Singer (Eurithemics)
Rickey Henderson, baseball player
1226
1194
Frederick II Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman emperor
Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard)
Thomas Nelson, merchant, signed Decl of Ind
Juan Lovera, Venezuelan artist
Charles Babbage, invented calculating machine
Adm. George Dewey, the American naval hero of Manila
Henry Miller, author (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer)
Mao Tse-tung, of little red book fame
Richard Widmark, actor (Alamo, Judgement at Nuremberg)
Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary, keep her away from your tapes
Steve Allen, comedian
Alan King comedian
Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arvalo, president of Guatemala (1986-  )
Johannes Kepler, at Weil-der-Stadt, Germany, Astronomer
George Cayley founder of the science of aerodynamics
Louis Pasteur French bacteriologist
Marlene Dietrich in Berlin Germany (Blue Angel)
John Amos, actor
Tovah Feldsuh in NYC
1228
John Molson, founder of a Montreal brewery
Woodrow Wilson (D), 28th pres (1912-21) (Nobel 1919)
Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist and cosmologist
Sir Arthur Eddington, astronomer, physicist, mathematician
Ed Healey, NFL tackle (Rock Island Independents, Chicago Bears)
Roger Sessions, American composer
John Von Neumann
Earl `Fatha' Hines jazz pianist
Lew Ayres, actor (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Steve Van Buren, NFL halfback (Eagles)
Heldegarde Neff in Ulm Germany
Owen Bieber, president of United Auto Workers
Martin Milner (Adam-12)
Maggie Smith in Ilford Eng (Death on the Nile, Clash of Titans)
1229
Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th
Charles Macintosh, Scotland, patented waterproof fabric
Charles Goodyear, invented vulcanization process for rubber
Andrew Johnson (Unionist), 17th pres (1865-69)
William Ewart Gladstone (Lib), British PM (1868-74, '80-86, '92-94)
Venustiano Carranza, president of Mexico (1915-20)
Billy Mitchell WW I aviation hero Gen
Tom Bradley LA Mayor
Viveca Lindfors, actress (The Way We Were, Welcome to LA)
Marla Powers
Inga Swenson in Omaha Nebraska
Ray Nitschke, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers)
Mary Tyler Moore in Bkln (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ordinary People)
Barbara Steele
Jon Voight, actor (Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy)
Marianne Faithful Rocker
Ted Danson (Cheers)
Angel Tompkins
Gelsey Kirkland, ballerina
1230
Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola
Rudyard Kipling, author who coined "White man's burden" (Nobel '07)
Simon Guggenheim, sen
Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist, humorist
Pablo Casals, Spanish violinist, conductor, composer
Tojo Hideki, Japanese PM in WWII
Jeanette Nolan
Bert Parks, Miss America emcee
Jo Van Fleet, actress (Gunfight at the OK Corral, East of Eden)
Bo Diddley Rock `n' roll pioneer
Jack Lord (Hawaii 5-0)
Barbara Nichols
Skeeter Davis in Dry Ridge Ky
Sandy Koufax, Dodger pitcher
Mike Nesmith (Monkees)
Tracy Ullman
Davy Jones (Monkees)
1231
Henri Matisse, French Impressionist painter
George C Marshall, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953)
Nathan Milstein, concert violinist
Jule Styne, English songwriter
Odetta, folk singer
George Schlatter TV producer
Anthony Hopkins Actor
Sarah Miles in England
John Denver (Thank God he's a country boy)
Ben Kingsley Actor
Diane von Frstenberg, fashion designer in Brussels Belgium
Patty Smith in Chic
Tim Matheson, actor (Animal House, To Be or Not to Be)
Donna Summer in Boston (On the Radio)
Deidra Hall
1640
Portugal becomes independent of Spain
Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
1st drive-up gasoline station opens, in Pitts
Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town
Iceland becomes independent state under the Danish crown
1st skywriting over US - "Hello USA" - by Capt Turner, RAF
Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe
Bernard Schmidt, invented Schmidt camera, dies
Golden Gate Bridge closed because of high winds
Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to move to back of the bus
Central African Republic established (National Day)
1st color photograph of Earth from outer space
International Antarctic Treaty signed in Washington
Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch Isaac Newton Telescope
Feast of St Bibiana, virgin and martyr
Pan American Health Day
Napoleon becomes 1st French emperor, placing crown on his own head
Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
1st savings bank in US opens as Phila Savings Fund Society
In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US
Pres Monroe declares his doctrine
French monarchy restored; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor
John Brown hung
US & Germany agree to divide Samoa between them
1st Model A Fords sold, for $385
1st controlled nuclear reaction at University of Chicago
1st human birth televised to public, Denver, Co
US Senate censures Joe McCarthy for his conduct
1st full-scale atomic electric power plant - power generated, Pa
Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
United Arab Emirates gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Soyuz 16 launched
Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
Moscone Convention Center in SF opens
1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted
Feast of St Francis Xavier, apostle of India & Japan
Galileo invents telescope
Edmund Halley receives  MA from Queen's College, Oxford
Ill admitted as 21st state
Illinois becomes 21st state
Andrew Jackson elected pres
Oberlin College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens
Paid Fire Dept takes over from volunteer companies
Tennessee Williams play `A Streetcar Named Desire,' opens
`Pumpkin Papers' came to light
1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
Joseph McCarthy condemned by Senate
Police arrests 800 at U of Cal at Berkeley
1st human heart transplant performed (Capetown, South Africa)
`20th Century Ltd,' famed NY-Chic luxury train final run
Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet)
11 die at Riverfront Coliseum, Cin at a Who concert
NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy, D-NY, guilty
2000 die in Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India
23rd Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 returns to Earth
Feast of St Peter Chrysologus, bishop of Ravenna
America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va)
A hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with figure of great
comet 1st seen on December 16, 1680
1st Gen Assembly in Penn (Chester)
Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC
Roald Amundsen reaches South pole
Panama Pacific International Exposition opens
1st edition of Chase's Annual Events published
Gemini 7 launched with 2 astronauts
South Africa grants Transkei independence
Feast of St Sabbas, abbot
King's Birthday in Thailand (National Day)
Columbus discovers Hispaniola
Phi Beta Kappa, 1st American scholastic fraternity, founded
Mozart dies
Daniel C Stillson patents pipe wrench
21st Amendment ratified, 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed
1st coml hydroponics operation established, Montebello Ca
Joe Wolcott beats Joe Louis
Dragnet premiers
AFL & CIO merge
Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album
Seattle Seahawks formed
Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
University Baptist Church, Seattle, declares sanctuary for refugees
Feast of St Nicholas, archbishop of Myra
Finland's Independence Day
Haiti discovered by Columbus
1534
Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish
1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory
City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time
Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361
Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)
Irish Free State gains independence from Britain
1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
Gerald Ford becomes 1st unelected VP
South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence
Feast of St Ambrose, governor & bishop of Milan
Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
George Darwin, theorized moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean, dies
Winnipeg Blue Bombers become 1st western team to win Grey Cup
Pearl Harbor attacked (a day that will live in infamy)
1st Japanese submarine sunk by American ship (Ward)
Israel's PM Ben-Gureon retires
France grants Ivory Coast independence (National Day)
Apollo 17, last of Apollo moon series, launched
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full prof at Harvard U, dies
Feast of Immaculate Conception
James Hoban, White House designer, dies
German amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 5th asteroid, Astra
Fire in Santiago, Chile kills 2,000
20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions
Enlightment of Buddha
Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF
Coaxial cable patented
SF 1st blackout, at 6:15PM
US declares war on Japan
1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
John Lennon assassinated in NY by David Mark Chapman
9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 returns to Earth
1292
Sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden) dies
1st cremation in US
Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
1st Christmas Seals sold, in Wilmington PO
300 Montgomery opens as new Bank of America HQ
UN Gen Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
Tanganyika gains independence from Britain
Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
Feast of St Melchiades, pope (311-14) & martyr
Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
Human Rights Day, a UN observance
Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demanding that he recant
Mississippi becomes 20th state
Poet Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Mass
Women granted right to vote in Wyoming Territory
Alfred Nobel dies; Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date
Spanish-American War ends - US acquires Guam from Spain
1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frdric Passy)
Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize
Harold Gould (Rhoda
Jane Addams, 1st US woman named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
UN Genl Assembly adopts Universal Declaration on Human Rights
Ralph J. Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years
Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
Israeli hmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
Singer Otis Redding dies in plane crash at 26
Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
Feast of St Damasus, pope (366-384)
Indiana becomes 19th state
French Panama Canal company fails
Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed
German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
King Edward VIII of England abdicates for woman he loves
Japanese occupy Guam
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
KTVA, Anchorage becomes Alaska's 1st TV station
USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va
Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France
JFK provides US milt helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
John Lennon release an album that contains songs with word "fuck"
1st class postage rises from 10 to 13
Feast of Dark Virgin of Guadalupe, patron of Mexico
Independence Day, celebrated in Kenya
National Ding-a-ling Day
Penns becomes 2nd state
Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
George F Grant patents golf tee
Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US
Henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies
1st mobile TV unit (NYC)
Kenya gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Russia launches Voshkod I, 1st multi-crew in space (3 men)
Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record
Feast of St Lucy (St Lucia Day in Sweden)
Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world
Battle of Fredericksburg, Va; South beats North
Wright brothers 1st airplane flight at Kittyhawk
Wilson, 1st to make a foreign visit as Pres
Interferometer used to measure 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres
Playland at the Beach reopens
Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager
Maltese Republic Day
Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur
Susan B Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued
Solidarity Day
Devil's 1st hat trick - Steve Tambellini
Halcyon Days begin
Charleston, SC evacuated by British
George Washington died at Mt Vernon, Va
Alabama becomes 22nd state
South Pole 1st reached by Roald Amundsen
Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
Mariner 2 makes 1st US visit to another planet (Venus)
Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night from power failure
Roger Maris dies at 51
US Bill of Rights Day
Underdog Day
Simon Marius, namer of Jupiter's 4 inner satellites,
is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
Bill of Rights ratified when Va gave its approval
Patent Office burns in Wash, DC
G.R. Kirchoff describes chemical composition of sun
Thomas Edison patents phonograph
1st coml manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware
Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel
American Radio Relay League founded
1st rendevous in space: Gemini 6 & Gemini 7 link up
Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
Walt Disney passes away
SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
USSR's Venera 7 becomes the 1st craft to land on Venus
Golf Resort (The Disney Inn) opens
Pirates of Caribbean opens
USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielson wed
Bahrain National Day
Feast of St Eusebius, bishop of Vercelli
English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor  Indians welcome
Earthquake in Naples, Italy
Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres
"Variety", covering all phases of show business, 1st published
Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise
US pressure forces Nicaraguan Pres Jos Santos Zelaya from office
South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
Battle of the Bulge began
Gemini VI returns to Earth
1st day of Saturnalia, Roman festival honoring Saturn
Bhutan National Day
1538
Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
France recognizes independance of the 13 colonies
Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City
Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city
Charles Dickens's classic: A Christmas Carol published
1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
Anaheim Township created in LA County
Violent bread riots at Montreal
At 10:35AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight, by Wright Bros
Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
M-OceanView streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St
1st fully automated railroad freight yard - Gary In
1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities - On The Beach
Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
Feast of Our Lady of Solitude, patron of lonely
Saturnalia, celebrated with gifts, lights, closing of business
Antonio Stradivari, violin maker, dies
NJ becomes 3rd state
British take Fort Niagara in the War of 1812
William Bond obtains 1st photograph of moon through a telescope
13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished
Auto speed record set -- 63 kph
Pres Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt
Uruguay joined UN
Japan admitted to the UN
1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip
1st voice from space:  recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
Borman & Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII
Britain abolished death penalty
1st Candlelight Processional
Diana Lynn dies at 45
US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
Soyuz 13 launched into earth orbit for 8 days
SF Visitors Center at City Hall opens
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin suffered a fatal heart attack at 76
UN Security Council unanimously condemns `acts of hostage-taking'
Saturnalia
Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
Vitus Bering, Dutch navigator & explorer died
Thomas Paine publishes his 1st `American Crisis' essay
Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for the winter
US recognized independence of Hawaii
Charles Dickens publishes `A Christmas Carol,' in England
Grading started for Market Street RR
Battle of Black Water
Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Penn
British Broadcasting Corp. began transmitting overseas
Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc, authorized
War broke out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacked French
Gen. Eisenhower named NATO commander
`The Music Man,' starring Robert Preston, opens on Broadway
Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
Apollo 17 returns to Earth
Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st VP
Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor dies at 101
Fire at the Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
Va Co settlers leave London to establish Jamestown
Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed - Sept 1 to Jan 1
1st successful US cotton mill (Pawtucket, RI)
Louisiana Purchase was formally transferred from France to US
Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark, dies
Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50
Hawaiian PO established
SC becomes 1st state to secede from US
Union Gen. Sherman continued his `march to the sea.' Savannah, Ga
Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park
Intl cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls
Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne
Pneumatic automobile tire patented
Canadian National Railways established (longest on continent
with more than 50,000 kilometers of track in US & Canada)
14 republics formed USSR
Mt Davidson dedicated as city park
Radio Australia starts shortwave service
Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surrounded 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
Berlin Wall opened for 1st time to West Berliners
Author John Steinbeck dies in NY at 66
Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley dies at 74
Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns
1st Space walk made by G. Grechko from Salyut
Arthur Rubinstein, pianists dies in Geneva, Switzerland, at 95
Feast of St. Thomas the apostle
Ursid meteor shower
Winter Solstice, shortest day of the year
1375
Boccaccio, author of Decameron, dies
Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
Samuel Slater opens 1st textile factory in US, in Rhode Island
U of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole
1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World
1st group hospital insurance plan effected, Dallas Tx
Human blood serum 1st prepared
1st feature-length cartoon with color & sound premieres (Snow White)
Broadway Tunnel opens in SF
Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn was murdered
Apollo 8 (Frank Borman Jim Lovell Bill Anders) 1st manned moon voyage
Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva
Feast of St Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin
International Arbor Day
Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
Washington resigns his milt commission
US deports 250 alien radicals
Lincoln Tunnel opened to traffic
Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 teenagers on a subway train
Last day of Saturnalia
1569
St Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
John Flamsteed observes Uranus but doesn't realize its undiscovered
Washington resigns as US Army's commander-in-chief
US Federal Reserve system authorized
Ireland divided into two parts, each with its own parliament
Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs
PM Tojo, 6 other Japanese hung for war crimes by US
Borman, Lovell & Anders 1st men to orbit moon
Earthquake destroys central Managua, Nicaragua
6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
Rutan & Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
Christmas Eve
Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama dies in Cochin, India
Vasco daGama Day
Treaty of Ghent signed, ending War of 1812 (This news did not
arrive until after Battle of New Orleans)
"Silent Night" composed by Franz Gruber, sung next day
Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash, destroys 35,000 volumes
Several Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn
Giuseppe Verdi's `Aida' premiere in Cairo, at Suez canal opening
1st radio program broadcast, in Brant Rock, Mass
Reginald A. Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio
Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain
Enrico Caruso gave his last public performance
1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca
FDR appoints Gen Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
Libya gains independence from Italy
Luna 13 lands on moon
Apollo 8 astronauts, read Old Testament Book of Genesis passages
Walt Disney's "The Aristocats" is released
Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
Christmas Day Peace on Earth, good will towards men
Constitution Day in Rep of China (Taiwan)
New Year's Day observed in England before 1068
336
1st recorded celebration of Christmas on Dec. 25 took place in Rome
William the Conqueror was crowned king of England
Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return
Washington crosses Delaware & surprises Hessians
Silent Night by Franz Joseph Gruber & Joseph Mohr sung for 1st time
Despite bitter opposition, Pres Johnson grants unconditional pardon
to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion (the Civil War)
Hirohito became emperor of Japan
NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio
Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
Walt Disney's "The Sword In The Stone" is released
Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting moon
Charlie Chaplin died in Switzerland at 88
Israeli PM Menachem Begin met in Egypt with Egyptian Pres Sadat
1st live telecast of Christmas Parade
Boxing Day, celebrated in Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland)
Feast of St Stephen, martyr
National Whiner's Day
1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus
Expulsion of tea ships from Phila
1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF
Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
James Mason patents 1st American coffee percolator
Fed govt took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I
US foreswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere
Harry Truman, 33rd US Pres dies at 88
Soyuz 13 returns to Earth
Feast of St John, apostle & evangelist
Prussian forces took Olmutz, Czechoslovakia
1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England
Darwin begins his voyage onboard HMS Beagle
Hawaiian Fire Department established
Ontario & Quebec legislatures held 1st meeting
"Sweet Adaline," a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung
"Show Boat" opens in NYC
Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled
Radio City Music Hall opens in NY
1st youth hostel opened, Northfield, Mass
Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an `open city'
International Monetary Fund established-World Bank founded
1st `Howdy Doody' show, (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC
Apollo 8 returns to Earth
Lester Pearson, Canadian PM (Nobel-1956)
Soviet troops invade Afghanistan
Propane gas fire devastated 16 square blocks of Buffalo
Terrorists kill 20 & wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome & Vienna
airports. President Reagan blamed Libyaner Moammar Gadhafi
Feast of the Holy Innocents, martyrs (Childermas)
Halcyon Days end
1669
William Semple patents chewing gum
John Calhoun, became the 1st Vice-president to resign
Iowa becomes 29th state
Battle of Wounded Knee, SD - Last major conflict with Indians
Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy; 80,000 die
SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St. (MUNI)
SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea
Warring Lebanese Moslem and Christian leaders sign peace agreement
Feast of St Thomas of Canterbury (Thomas  Beckett)
1170
Archbishop Thomas A Becket, murdered by King Henry II supporters
Texas becomes 28th state
Gas lights installed at White House for 1st time
1st Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened in Boston
Fire Dept celebrates 1st annual ball
Federal troops massacre 300 captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD
SF Symphony formed
Death of Rasputin
William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM
Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey
Pan Am starts SF to Auckland, New Zealand service
1st UHF television station operating regular basis, Bridgeport Ct
Hungary nationalized its industries
1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale, Elmsford NY
11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC
US announced withdrawal from UNESCO
Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
1st coffee planted in Hawaii
Gadsden Purchase 45,000 sq miles by Gila River from Mexico
for $10 million. Area is now southern Arizona & New Mexico
602 die as flames swept through Iroquois Theater in Chicago
Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk, advisor to tsarina, is assassinated
USSR organized as a federation
Edwin Hubble announces existence of other Milky Way systems
Italian bombers destroyed Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
Electronic television system patented, VK Zworykin
Pres Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
Democratic Republic of Madagascar founded
Feast of St Sylvester I, pope (314-35)
Make Up Your Mind Day
New Year's Eve
1384
John Wycliffe, English religious reformer, died
British East India Company chartered
John Flamsteed, 1st Astronomer Royal, dies at 73
James Bradley announces discovery of earth's motion of nutation
Battle of Qubec
End of French Republican calendar
Future Pres & Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes marry
Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as new capital of Canada
Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank at Cape Hatteras, NC
Pres Lincoln signs an act admitting West Virginia to the Union
Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US)
Edison gives public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
Ellis Is opens as a US immigration depot
Last SF firehorses retired
NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater
48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah
Pres Truman officially proclaims end of WW II
1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced
Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X
Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
US citizens allowed to buy & own gold for 1st time in 40 years
Lt Rawlings stages coup in Ghana
Rajiv Gandhi took office as India's 6th PM
Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH
Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama
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