07:01
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     "Wolfman Jack", a howling success in radio
1850 at least 626 ships lying at anchor around San Francisco Bay.
1867 Dominion of Canada formed.
1898 Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill.
1899 SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building.
1919 First Class Postage DROPS to 2 cents from 3 cents.
1944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing world-wide
     financial systems (like the IMF and the World Bank).
1966 Construction crews begin tearing up Market St. to build BART.
1971 Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?).
     Dominion Day -- Canada
*/
07:02
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1900 1st flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1).
1964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
*/
07:03
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1608 Quebec is founded.
1775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
1819 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
1861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from New York.
*/
07:04
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1753 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US
1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne
1826 Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna"
1872 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-1929)
1878 George M. Cohan
1883 Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult.
1900 Louis Armstrong, 'Satchmo'
1054 brightest known super-nova starts shining, for 23 days.
1845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond.
1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho).
1873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens.
1876 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco.
1882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens.
1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the 1st US autos
1903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens.
     President Roosevelt sends a message to the Phillipines,
     then a message around the world in 12 minutes.
1933 work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge.
     Independence Day - United States
*/
07:05
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1794 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker
1810 P.T. Barnum
1811 Venezuela gains independence from Spain.
1865 William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England.
1935 1st 'Hawaii Calls' radio program is broadcast.
1938 Herb Caen gets his 1st column in the S.F. Chronicle.
     Independence Day, celebrated in Venezuela
*/
07:06
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1747 John Paul Jones, "I have not yet begun to fight"
1885 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur
1928 preview of 1st all-talking motion picture took place in NYC
1932 First Class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents.
1933 1st All-Star baseball game.  American League won 5-2.
*/
07:07
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1752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented the programmable loom.
1907 Robert A. Heinlein, author who helped develop Science Fiction
     as a sophisticated mode of literary expression.
1891 a patent was granted for the travelers cheque.
1898 Hawaii annexed to the US.
1908 the Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay.
*/
07:08
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1839 John D. Rockefeller
1796 1st American Passport issued by the US State Department.
1835 the Liberty Bell cracks (again).
1889 Vol 1, No 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" published.
1896 William Jennings Bryan makes his 'cross of gold' speech at the
     Democratic Convention in Chicago.
1897 Harbor Hospital formally opens.
1905 Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center
*/
07:09
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1802 Thomas Davenport, invented 1st commercially successful electric motor
1816 Argentina gains it's independence.
1846 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for the U.S.
1979 Voyager II flies past Jupiter.
     National POW/MIA Recognition Day
     Independence Day, celebrated in Argentina
*/
07:10
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1834 James Whistler, mama's boy
1867 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist/humorist who created Mr. Dooley.
1890 Wyoming becomes the 44th state.
1925 the Scopes 'Monkey' Trial starts.
1962 Telstar, 1st geosynchonous communications satelite launched.
*/
07:11
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1767 John Quincy Adams, 6th President (1825-1829)
1804 Burr and Hamilton duel.
1962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I).
     National Holiday of the People's Republic of Outer Mongolia.
     (Celebrated mainly in Ulan Bator, yurt capital of Asia)
*/
07:12
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1817 Henry David Thoreau, always had Ralph Waldo Emerson
     around to bail him out of trouble.
1854 George Eastman, created the Kodak camera
1895 R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome
1895 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers
1908 Milton Berle, "Uncle Miltie"
1543 Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th & last wife).
1812 US forces lead by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812).
1933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour).
1934 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned.
*/
07:13
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1865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west".
1898 SF Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street opens.
     the start of the Bon Festival in Japan.
*/
07:14
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1912 Woodie Guthrie
1913 Gerald R. Ford, 38th President (1974-1976)
1918 Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory.
1789 the citizens of Paris storm the Bastille prison.
1850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration.
1853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese.
1865 the 1st ascent of the Matterhorn.
1927 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii.
     Bastille Day -- France
*/
07:15
/*
1606 Rembrandt, Dutch painter.
1867 SF Merchant's Exchange opens.
     National Ice Cream Day
     Saint Swithin's Day
*/
07:16
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1769 Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif.
1790 Congress establishes the District of Columbia.
1861 1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run.
1945 1st atomic blast, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1946 Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history).
1969 Apollo 11, 1st manned ship to land on the moon, launched.
     the National Blueberry Festival
*/
07:17
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1744 Elbridge Gerry, father of the "gerrymander"
1900 James Cagney, hold that grapefruit
1879 1st railroad opens in Hawaii.
1954 Construction begins on Disneyland...
1955 ...Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County.
     Constitution Day, celebrated in South Korea
*/
07:18
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1811 William Makepeach Thackeray, Victorian novelist, wrote 'Vanity Fair'.
1848 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer
1913 Red Skelton
1906 S. I. Hayakawa
1921 John Glenn, Jr., 1st American in orbit
     Horatio Alger, whose lads always had enough pluck to succeed.
  64 the Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle).
1872 Britain introduces voting by secret ballot.
1938 Wrong Way Corrigan lands in Ireland (not California??)
1968 Intel Corporation is incorporated.
     National Day, celebrated in Spain
*/
07:19
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1814 Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt Revolver.
1848 First Women's Rights Convention. Seneca Falls, NY
1880 SF Public Library allows patrons to start borrowing books.
1935 1st parking meters installed in the Oklahoma City business district.
1955 the "Balclutha" ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum.
1961 1st In-flight movie is shown (on TWA).
*/
07:20
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1810 Columbia gains it's independence.
1859 admission fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents).
1878 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii.
1969 Man landed on the Moon, 4:18PM EDT
1970 1st baby born on Alcatraz Island.
1976 1st pictures from Mars surface received (courtesy Viking 2).
     Independence Day, celebrated in Columbia
*/
07:21
/*
1899 Ernest Hemingway, never asked for whom the bell tolled...
1831 Belgium gains it's independence.
1867 City Gardens on Folsom opens.
1873 world's 1st train robbery, by Jesse James.
1969 Neil Armstrong steps on the moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT).
     Independence Day, celebrated in Belgium.
*/
07:22
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1844 Rev. William Archibald Spooner, invented 'spoonerisms'
1849 Emma Lazarus, whose poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty
1890 Rose Kennedy
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07:23
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1829 Typewriter is patented.
1852 first interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio.
1877 first telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii is completed.
1904 The Ice Cream Cone is invented.
     National Day, in Egypt.
*/
07:24
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1783 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule.
1802 Alexandre Dumas, told the Count of Monte Christo how to escape
1898 Amelia Earhart, into the wild blue yonder
*/
07:25
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1978 Louise Brown, 1st test-tube baby (born under the sign of Pyrex)
1903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes.
1909 1st airplane flight across the English Channel.
1967 Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway).
*/
07:26
/*
1856 George Bernard Shaw
1943 Mick Jagger, never gathers moss
1775 Benjamin Franklin becomes Postmaster General.
1835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii.
1847 Liberia gains it's independence.
     the start of the Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree in Athens, Texas
     Independence Day, celebrated in Liberia.
*/
07:27
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1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long).
1940 Billboard magazine starts publishing best-seller's charts.
*/
07:28
/*
1929 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, redecorator
1821 Peru gains it's independence.
1849 "Memmon" is 1st clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of NY
1900 the Hamburger is created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
1931 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd National Anthem.
1933 1st Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee).
     Independence Day, celebrated in Peru.
*/
07:29
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1869 Booth Tarkington, novelist
1907 Melvin Belli, San Francisco's 'King of Torts'
1835 first sugar plantation in Hawaii begun.
1858 1st commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
1914 1st transcontinental phone link made.  Between NYC and San Francisco
1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from New York to San Francisco
1958 Southern Pacific Bay Ferries stop running.
1981 the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana
*/
07:30
/*
1863 Henry Ford
1619 the House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed.  1st elective
     governing body in a British colony.
1836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii.
*/
07:31
/*
1790 1st US Patent granted (for a potash process).
1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending 'Huntley-Brinkley Report'
     (No more "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet")
*/