B01011735 Paul Revere, midnight rider.  
B01011909 Barry Goldwater, senator.  
B01011909 Dana Andrews, actress.  
B01011919 J. D. Salinger, author of "Catcher in the Rye."  
B01021920 Issac Asimov, famous science fiction author.  
B01031840 Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii.  
B01031892 J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings.  
B01031908 Ray Milland  
B01031950 Victoria Principal, actress.  
B01041809 Louis Braille, developed reading system for the blind.  
B01041643 Sir Isaac Newton, discovered gravity, the Earth DOES NOT suck!  
B01041838 Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person.)  
B01041914 Jane Wyman, actress.  
B01041937 Dyan Cannon, actress.  
B01051779 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero.  
B01051855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor.  
B01051928 Walter Mondale, politician.  
B01051946 Diane Keaton, actress.  
B0105     Sherlock Holmes, year unknown.  Attended ELEMENTARY school.  
B01061799 Jedediah Smith  
B01061811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator.  
B01061842 Clarence King  
B01061878 Carl Sandburg, poet to the world.  
B01061882 Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957).  
B01061914 Danny Thomas, actor, comedian.  
B01061920 Sun Myung Moon  
B01061945 Bonnie Franklin  
B01071800 Millard Fillmore, 13th President from (1850 - 1853).  
B01071948 Kenny Loggins, singer, (he's alright!)  
B01081786 Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US first effective central bank.  
B01081862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co.  
B01081868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity.  
B01081926 Soupy Sales, comedian.  
B01081935 Elvis Presley, singer, king (Still alive?)  
B01081947 David Bowie, singer.  
B01091870 Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge.  
B01091901 Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip.  
B01091913 Richard M. Nixon, 37th President from (1968 - 1974).  
B01091935 Dick Enberg  
B01091941 Joan Baez, singer.  
B01091941 Susanna York, actress.  
B01091951 Crystal Gale, singer.  
B01101738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys.)  
B01101877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the electrostatic precipitator, used for pollution control and air ionizers.  
B01101883 Florence Reed  
B01101883 Francis X. Bushman  
B01101887 Robinson Jeffers  
B01101904 Ray Bolger  
B01101945 Rod Stewart, singer.  
B01111755 Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the US Treasury.  
B01111807 Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University.  
B01111926 Grant Tinker  
B01121588 John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  
B01121737 John Hancock, famed calligrapher and insurance man.   
B01121876 Jack London, author.  
B01121912 Luise Rainer  
B01131832 Horatio Alger, Jr.  
B01131913 Ralph Edwards, host of the "Grand Ole' Opry".  
B01131925 Gwen Verdon  
B01141741 Benedict Arnold, traitor and fink.  
B01141892 Hal Roach, early film director and producer.  
B01141919 Andy Rooney, columnist.  
B01141941 Faye Dunaway, actress.  
B01151908 Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb.  
B01151913 Lloyd Bridges, actor.  
B01151926 Chuck Berry, singer, songwriter.  
B01151929 Martin Luther King, Jr.  
B01161909 Ethel Merman, singer.  
B01171706 Benjamin Franklin, author, poet, statesman, inventor.  
B01171771 Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel.  
B01171880 Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops  
B01171931 James Earl Jones, actor, man with the golden voice.  
B01171942 Muhammed Ali, who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.  
B01181779 Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule, created pocket chessboard.  
B01181782 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician.  
B01181813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented first commercially usable barbed wire.  
B01181854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Alexander Graham Bell.  
B01181892 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.  
B01181904 Cary Grant, actor.  
B01181913 Danny Kaye, singer, actor, dancer.  
B01191736 James Watt, made the steam engine workable.  
B01191807 Robert E. Lee, southern legend.  
B01191809 Edgar Allen Poe, author, poet, raven breeder.  
B01191839 Paul Cezanne, painter.  
B01191859 Alice Eastwood  
B01191923 Jean Stapleton, actress.  
B01191946 Dolly Parton, singer, actress.  
B01201894 Harold L. Gray, creator of "Little Orphan Annie."  
B01201896 Nathan Birnbaum (better known as George Burns).  
B01201937 Joan Rivers, can we talk?  
B01211743 John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton.  
B01211813 John C Fremont, mapmaker & explorer of Western US.  
B01211815 Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anesthesia.  
B01211924 Benny Hill, comedian.  
B01211925 Telly Savalas, actor (who loves you baby?)   
B01211941 Placido Domingo, opera singer.  
B01221909 Ann Southern  
B01221934 Bill Bixby, actor.  
B01221959 Linda Blair, actress.  
B01271756 Wolfgang A. Mozart, musical prodigy.  
B01231933 Chita Rivera  
B01231943 Gil Gerard, actor.  
B01241888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built first rocket-powered aircraft.  
B01241917 Ernest Borgnine, actor.  
B01241918 Oral Roberts, evangelist.  
B01241941 Neil Diamond, singer.  
B01241946 Barry Bostwick, actor.  
B01241949 John Belushi, actor, comedian, Blues Brother!  
B01251759 Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.  
B01251874 Somerset Maugham, poet.  
B01251882 Virginia Woolf, author, and someone to be afraid of.  
B01251919 Edwin Newman  
B01261880 Douglas MacArthur. He did return!  
B01261925 Paul Newman, actor.  
B01261928 Eartha Kitt  
B01261957 Eddie Van Halen, guitar player for (What else?) Van Halen!  
B01271832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll.)  
B01271850 Samuel Gompers, first president of the American Federation of Labor.  
B01271921 Donna Reed, actress.  
B01271936 Troy Donahue  
B01281855 William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine.  
B01281936 Alan Alda, actor, comedian.  
B01281948 Mikhail Baryshinkov, dancer.  
B01291843 William McKinley, 25th President from (1897 - 1901).  
B01291850 Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite.  
B01291860 Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard.)  
B01291880 Claude William Dukenfield (better known as W.C. Fields.)  
B01291901 Allen B DuMont, perfected first commercially practical cathode ray tube.  
B01291945 Tom Selleck, actor, P.I.  
B01291953 Oprah Winfrey, talk show hostess.  
B01301882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President from (1933 - 1945).  
B01301930 Gene Hackman, actor.  
B01301935 Tammy Grimes  
B01301937 Boris Spassky  
B01301937 Venessa Redgrave, actress.  
B01311830 James G. Blaine, the "Plumed Knight."  
B01311872 Zane Gray, American West novelist.  
B01311919 Jackie Robinson, first black major league baseball player.  
B01311923 Carol Channing, actress.  
B01311923 Joanne Dru  
B01311923 Norman Mailer  
S01011772 First traveller's checks are issued in London.  
S01011804 Haiti gains its independence.  
S01011863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln.  
S01011902 First Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California.  
S01011912 First running of San Francisco's famed "Bay to Breakers" race.   
S01011934 Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison.  
S01011956 Sudan gains its independence.  
S01011958 European Economic Community (EEC) starts operation.  
S01011984 AT & T broken up! into 8 companies.  
S01021921 DeYoung Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park opens.  
S01031852 First Chinese arrive in Hawaii.  
S01031888 First drinking straw is patented by M.C. Stone in Washington, D.C.  
S01031959 Alaska becomes the 49th state.  
S01031977 Apple Computer incorporated.  
S01031991 Super Soakers appears on the market.  
S01041863 Four-wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of New York.  
S01041910 The blender is invented.  Mixed drinks anyone?  
S01041982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm.  
S01051850 The California Exchange opens.  
S01051911 San Francisco has its 1st official airplane race.  
S01051925 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes first woman governor.  
S01051933 Work on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge begins, Con Marin County side.  
S01051987 Tony Ferko sets a world record by juggling 7 ping pong balls with his mouth.  
S01061681 First recorded boxing match takes place in England, between Duke of Albemarle's butler and his butcher.  
S01061914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.  
S01061956 Dorm room refrigerator is invented (college beer cooler!)  
S01071610 Galileo discovers the 4 major moons of Jupiter.  
S01071714 The typewriter is patented (it was built years later)  
S01071785 First balloon flight across the English Channel.  
S01071896 Fanny Farmer publishes her first cookbook.  
S01071929 "Tarzan", one of the first adventure comic strips appears.  
S01071948 First ant farm is sold in the United States.  
S01071963 First Class postage is raised from 4 cents to 5 cents.  
S01071968 First Class postage is raised again from 5 cents to 6 cents.  
S01081815 Battle of New Orleans, made a hero out of Andrew Jackson (the War of 1812 had ended on 12/24/1814, but nobody knew that).  
S01081865 Sen. Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make the Marigold the national flower.  It doesn't pass.  
S01081880 The passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of Mexico.  
S01081932 Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter.  
S01091793 First balloon flight in North America takes place in Philadelphia.  
S01091799 First income tax imposed, in England.  
S01091839 The daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science  
S01091847 First San Francisco paper, "California Star", published.  
S01091848 First commercial bank in San Francisco established.  
S01091982 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada, last one was in 1855.  
S01101776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published.  
S01101840 The Penny Post mail system is started.  
S01101863 First underground railway opens in London.  
S01101910 First international air meet is held in Los Angeles.  
S01101945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close.  
S01101984 Wendy's spokesperson Clara Peller first asks: "Where's The Beef?"  
S01111569 First lottery is held in England, at St. Paul's Cathedral.  
S01111813 First pineapples planted in Hawaii.  
S01111892 Hawaii Historical Society founded.  
S01111935 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California.  
S01121922 Mrs. Hattie Caraway becomes first woman elected to U.S. Senate.  
S01121967 First Super Bowl occurs. Green Bay Packers win against the Kansas City Chiefs (35 to 10).  
S01131854 Anthony Foss obtains patent for the Accordion.  
S01131906 First "radio set" advertised (in Scientific American) ... claimed to receive signals up to ONE MILE. Price: $7.50.  
S01131920 New York Times Editorial says rockets can never fly.  
S01131971 Apollo 14 launched (what was that about rockets can't fly??)  
S01141690 The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany.  
S01141784 The Revolutionary War formally ends.  
S01141914 Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars.  
S01141936 L.M. "Mario" Giannini elected president of Bank of America.  
S01141939 All commercial ferry service to the East Bay ends.  
S01141990 The Simpsons first premiers on FOX.  
S01151861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis, forming base for his elevator company.  
S01151870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly.  
S01151927 Dunbarton Bridge, first bridge in San Francisco Bay Area, opens.  
S01151948 The Pentagon Building in Washington is completed.  
S01161865 San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle started (now called the San Francisco Chronicle)  
S01161887 San Francisco's Cliff House badly damaged when a cargo of gunpowder on the schooner "Parallel" explodes nearby.  
S01161991 The U.S. let the air force begin massive attacks on Iraq, in response to Iraq's takeover of Kuwait in August of 1990.  
S01171861 Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest!!).  
S01171871 First Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie.  
S01171893 The Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic.  
S01171929 Popeye makes first appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theatre."  
S01171943 It was Tin Can Drive Day.  
S01171957 Nine county commission recommends creation of BART.  
S01171973 Final episode of "BONANZA" airs.  
S01181644 First UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston.  
S01181777 San Jose, CA is founded.  
S01181778 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.  
S01181869 The elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco.  
S01181911 First shipboard landing of a plane (from Tanforan Park to the USS Pennsylvania).  
S01181975 The original Morris The Cat dies.  Finniky Pussy Cat!  
S01191886 The Aurora Ski Club, first in U.S., is founded in Minnesota.  
S01191903 First regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England.  
S01191951 The front hook bra is invented, makes things easier doesn't it?  
S01201265 First English Parliament called into session by the Earl of Leicester.  
S01201872 California Stock Exchange Board organized.  
S01211813 The pineapple is introduced to Hawaii.  
S01211908 New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public.  
S01211954 The first nuclear submarine "Nautilus" is launched.  
S01211967 The microwave oven is invented.    
S01211979 Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer).  
S01221850 The Alta California becomes a daily paper, first such in California.  
S01221901 Britain's Queen Victoria dies at age 82.  
S01221939 Aquatic Park is dedicated.  
S01221949 Chinatown's telephone exchange is closed.  
S01221952 First NUDE beach opens in the United States (Yeah!)  
S01231849 Mrs. Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first woman physician in U.S.  
S01231942 Tupperware is invented.  
S01241848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma.  
S01241899 The rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan.  
S01241922 Eskimo Pie invented in Iowa by Christian K. Nelson.  
S01241935 First beer in cans is sold.  
S01241982 San Francisco 49'ers win their first Super Bowl (Score: 26 to 21).  
S01241986 Voyager II flies past Uranus.  
S01251858 Mendelssohn's Wedding March first played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter to the Crown Prince of Prussia.  
S01251915 Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.  
S01251945 Grand Rapids, MI. becomes first city to add flouride to its water supply.  
S01251949 First Emmy Awards are given out.  
S01251959 First transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301).  
S01261788 First settlement established by the English in Australia.  
S01261926 Television first demonstrated by J.L. Baird in London.  
S01261950 India becomes a republic.  
S01271870 Kappa Alpha Theta, first sorority, founded at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.  
S01271926 First public demonstration of television.  
S01271948 First Tape Recorder is sold.  
S01271976 Laverne & Shirley premiers.  
S01281807 London's Pall Mall becomes the first street lit by gaslight.  
S01281878 George W. Coy hired as first full-time telephone operator.  
S01281938 First Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont).  
S01281985 We Are The World raises hundreds of millions of dollars for starving Africans.  
S01281986 Space Shuttle "Challenger" exploded, killing 6 astronaughts, including Christa McAuliffe (teacher in space).  
S01291845 Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" first published in New York.  
S01291861 Kansas becomes a state.  
S01291904 First athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team.  
S01291978 Sweden becomes the first nation to curb use of aerosol cans.  
S01301798 First fist fight in the U.S. House of Representatives occurs.  
S01301847 Town of Yerba Buena is renamed to San Francisco.  
S01301862 US Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched.  
S01301917 First jazz record in United States is cut. (Not with a knife).  
S01311851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, first in California, founded.  
S01311871 Birds fly over the western part of San Francisco in such large numbers that they actually darken the sky.  
S01311911 Congress passes resolution naming San Francisco as the site of the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal.  
S01311928 Scotch tape first marketed by 3-M Company.  
S01311956 The twist off bottle cap is invented. (Where's that DAMN opener?)  
S01311958 First U.S. satellite launched, Explorer I.  
S01311961 Ham the chimp is first animal sent into space by the US.  
S01311971 Apollo 14 launched, first landing in lunar highlands.  
R0101     Independence day in Haiti.  
R0101     The start of a new year... Enjoy the bowl games.  
R0102     Maui International surf championship begins today! Surf's up Dude!  
R0104     National Trivia Day.  
R0106     Epiphany (Twelfth Night in England)  
R0111     Annual snow shovel riding competition in Ambridge PA begins.  
R0116     National Nothing Day  
R0120     Reindeer Day.  
R0123     National Handwriting Day.  
R0125     The start of the Chinese New Year.  
R0126     Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia.  
B0201     Fred Flintstone is born (2 Million B.C.)  Yabba Dabba Doo!  
B02011901 Clark Gable, didn't give a damn about Scarlet O'Hara.  
B02021754 Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat.  
B02021923 James Dickey  
B02021938 Tom Smothers  
B02021947 Farrah Fawcett, actress.  
B02031811 Horace Greeley, told young men to go west.  
B02031821 Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman to receive a medical degree.  
B02031874 Gertrude Stein, beloved by Hemmingway.  
B02031918 Joey Bishop  
B02031940 Fran Tarkenton, football player.  
B02041902 Charles A. Lindburgh, "Lucky Lindy"  
B02041921 Betty Friedan  
B02041947 Dan Quayle, Mr. Potato Head, (or is that Potatoe?)  
B02041948 Alice Cooper, singer.  
B02051840 John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire.  
B02051878 Andre-Gustave Citroen, French auto maker.  
B02051919 Red Buttons, vaudeville comedian.  
B02051934 Hank Aaron, baseball legend.  
B02061756 Aaron Burr, duelist with Alexander Hamilton.  
B02061885 George Herman Ruth (The Babe!)  
B02061911 Ronald Reagan, 40th President from (1981 - 1988).  
B02061940 Tom Brokow, news anchor.  
B02071804 John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements.  
B02071812 Charles Dickens, author.  
B02071817 Frederick Douglas, first black to hold high rank in US government  
B02071883 Eubie Blake, composer  
B02081820 William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general.  
B02081828 Jules Verne, pioneered what later became science fiction.  
B02081906 Chester F. Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing)  
B02081920 Lana Turner, actress.  
B02081925 Jack Lemmon, actor.  
B02081931 James Dean, singer.  
B02081940 Ted Koppel, news anchor.  
B02081949 Brook Adams  
B02081968 Gary Coleman, actor. (whatyoutalkinabout?)  
B02091773 William Henry Harrison, 9th President served only from March 4 - April 4, 1841.  
B02091914 Carmen Miranda, (you have the right to remain silent...)  
B02091914 Ernest Tubb, singer.  
B02091928 Roger Mudd  
B02091946 Mia Farrow, actress. 
B02101893 Bill Tilden 
B02101893 Jimmy Durante, (Mr. Nose!).  
B02101930 Robert Wagner, actor.  
B02101940 Roberta Flack  
B02111847 Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the light bill, (I meant bulb)! among other things.  
B02111925 Eva Gabor, actress.  
B02111925 Virginia E. Johnson  
B02111934 Tina Louise, actress, (friend of Gilligan!)  
B02111936 Burt Reynolds, actor.  
B02121809 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President from (1861 - 1865).  
B02121809 Charles Darwin  
B02121893 General of the Army Omar Bradley, "The GI General"  
B02121915 Lorne Greene, actor, owner of "The Ponderosa".  
B02121926 Joe Garagiola  
B02131805 David Dudley Field, lawyer whose advocacy of law codification had international effects.  
B02131885 Bess Truman, married to President Harry S Truman.  
B02131919 Ernie Ford, better known as "Tennesse Ernie Ford", singer.  
B02131933 Emanuel Ungaro  
B02131934 George Segal, actor.  
B02141894 Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny.  Oh, Rodchester!  
B02141913 James Pike  
B02141913 Jimmy Hoffa, (have you found him yet?)  
B02141913 Mel Allen  
B02141934 Florence Henderson, actress.  
B02141944 Carl Burnstein  
B02151564 Galileo Galilei, star gazer.  
B02151797 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker  
B02151803 John Augustus Sutter  
B02151927 Harvey Corman, comedian.  
B02151951 Jane Seymour, actress.  
B02161884 Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film.  
B02161959 John McEnroe, Tennis star.  
B02171844 A. Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business.  
B02171925 Hal Holbrook, actor.  
B02171934 Alan Bates  
B02171963 Michael Jordan, basketball legend, minor league baseball player.  
B02181745 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented the electric battery.  
B02181848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker  
B02181909 Wallace Stegner  
B02181920 Bill Cullen  
B02181920 Jack Palance, actor, bad guy, and one hand push up king!  
B02181954 John Travolta, actor.  
B02181957 Vanna White, Wheel of Fortune letter turner.  
B02191473 Nicolaus Copernicus  
B02191960 Prince Andrew.  
B02201902 Ansel Adams, landscape photographer extraordinaire!  
B02201927 Sidney Poitier, actor.  
B02211931 Larry Hagman, actor.  
B02211946 Tricia Nixon Cox  
B02221732 George Washington, Father figure for US, President from (1789 - 1796)  
B02221749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist & first biographer of Bach  
B02221932 Edward Kennedy  
B02221950 Julius Irving, better known as Dr. J. another basketball legend.  
B02231685 George Frideric Handel, Baroque composer  
B02231940 Peter Fonda  
B02241787 Wilhelm Grimm, collector of fairy tales.  
B02241885 Admiral Chester Nimitz, in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII.  
B02241938 James Farentino  
B02241955 Steven Jobs, Apple Computer Company co-founder.  
B02251873 Enrico Caruso, singer  
B02251888 John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State for President Eisenhower  
B02251910 Millicent Fenwick  
B02251943 George Harrison, singer, Beatle  
B02261846 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody.  
B02261852 John Harvey Kellogg, physician, inspired the flaked cereal industry.  
B02261866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry  
B02261916 Jackie Gleason, the great one!  
B02261920 Tony Randall, actor.  
B02261927 Tom Kennedy  
B02271902 John Steinbeck  
B02271930 Joanne Woodward, actress.  
B02271932 Elizabeth Taylor, actress.  
B02271934 Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan  
B02271942 Elodie E. Akerman  
B02291860 Herman Hollerith, invented first electric tabulating machine.  
S02011867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days.  
S02011892 Mrs. William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion, thus beginning the use of the "400" to describe the socially elite.  
S02011920 The first armored car is introduced.  
S02021848 Mexico sells Texas, California, New Mexico & Arizona, to the U.S.  
S02021848 First shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco.  
S02021876 National Baseball League formed with 8 teams.  
S02021880 SS Strathleven arrives in London with first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia.  
S02021962 8 of the 9 planets aligned for the first time in 400 years.  
S02031815 World's first commercial cheese factory established in Switzerland.  
S02031918 Twin Peaks Tunnel, longest (11,920 feet) streetcar tunnel in the world, begins service with the K-Ingleside streetcar.  
S02031937 Thomas Crapper invents the first flush toilet.  (Honest!)  
S02041824 J.W. Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to the public.  
S02041865 The Hawaiian Board of Education is formed.  
S02041932 First Winter Olympics held (At Lake Placid, New York).  
S02041948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence.  
S02051825 Hannah Lord Montague of New York grabs her scissors and creates the first detachable collar on one of her husband's shirts, in order to reduce her laundry load.  
S02051887 Snow falls on San Francisco.  
S02051952 New York becomes first city to adopt 3 color traffic lights.  
S02061861 English Admiral Robert Ritzroy issues storm warnings for ships putting out to sea, creating the first "weather forecast."  
S02071827 Ballet introduced to the U.S. at Bowery Theatre, New York City.  
S02081693 Charter granted for College of William & Mary, 2nd college in US.  
S02081883 Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen.  
S02081908 Boy Scouts of America founded.  
S02081915 "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles.  
S02081922 Radio arrives in the White House.  
S02081957 Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall.  
S02081977 Earthquake, at 5.0, strongest since 1966.  
S02091877 U.S. Weather Service is founded, (and they still can't predict the weather).  
S02091885 First Japanese arrive in Hawaii.  
S02091895 Volleyball is invented by W.G. Morgan in Massachusetts.  
S02091891 First shipment of asparagus arrives from Sacramento.  
S02091964 G.I. Joe doll is introduced.  
S02091969 The Boeing 747 takes its first commercial flight.  
S02101870 City of Anaheim incorporated (first time).  
S02101870 YWCA is founded in New York City.  
S02101879 First electric arc light used (in California Theater).  
S02101957 Styrofoam cooler is invented.  
S02111854 Major streets lit by coal gas for first time.  
S02111929 Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome.  
S02111936 Robert Louis Stevenson begins to build Treasure Island.  
S02111948 The Lazy-Boy chair is invented.  
S02121541 Santiago, Chile founded.  
S02121934 Export-Import Bank incorporated.  
S02121945 San Francisco selected for site of United Nations Conference.  
S02121908 First New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska and Siberia) begins.  George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel.  
S02131867 "Blue Danube Waltz" first performed by composer Johann Strauss.  
S02131937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail and fine detail drawing.  
S02131990 VJ Martha Quinn appears on The Brady's as Bobby's fiancee.  
S02141876 Bell files an application for a patent for the telephone. He'd better hury, a man named Gray will file for it 2 hours later.  
S02141889 First trainload of oranges leaves Los Angeles for the east.  
S02151861 Fort Point completed and garrisoned, but has never fired its cannon in anger.  
S02151898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown.  
S02151903 First Teddy Bear introduced in America.  Made by Morris and Rose Michtom, Russian immigrants.  
S02151917 San Francisco public library is dedicated.  
S02161883 Ladies Home Journal begins publication.  
S02161914 First airplane flight to Los Angeles from San Francisco.  
S02161923 Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun.  
S02161951 City Hall dome fire.  
S02171876 Sardines were first canned, in Eastport, Maine.  
S02171878 First telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones.  
S02181849 First regular steamboat service to California started with the arrival of the "California".  
S02181850 California Legislature creates the 9 Bay Area counties.  
S02181899 San Francisco is named as a port of dispatch for Army transports.  
S02181930 A cow is flown (and milked in flight) for first time.  Her milk was sealed in paper containers and dropped by parachute over St. Louis, MO.  I knew you'd want to know ...  
S02181939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island (built for the occasion) in San Francisco Bay.  
S02181995 "World Champion Houston Rockets" are honored at The White House.  
S02191878 Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph.  
S02191864 The Knights of Pythias' first lodge was formed in Washington D.C.  
S02191913 First prize is inserted into Cracker Jacks box.  
S02191945 Marines land on Iwo Jima.  
S02191977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose").  
S02201673 First recorded wine auction held in London.  
S02201873 University of California gets its first Med School (UC/SF).  
S02201901 First territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes.  
S02201902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks and damages Sutro Baths.  
S02201915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco.  
S02201931 Congress allows California to build the Oakland-Bay Bridge.  
S02201962 John Glenn is first American to orbit the Earth.  
S02201968 Peter Falk cracks his first case as "Lt. Columbo".  
S02211804 First self-propelled locomotive on rails demonstrated, in Wales.  
S02211858 First electric burglar alarm is installed in Boston, Mass.  
S02211870 First telephone book issued in New Haven, CT.  
S02211874 Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication.  
S02211878 First Telephone book is issued, in New Haven, Conn.  
S02211931 Alka-Seltzer is introduced.  Plop-Plop, Fizz-Fizz...  
S02221630 Popcorn is introduced by an Indian named Quadequina to the English colonists at their first Thanksgiving dinner.  
S02221900 Hawaii becomes a US Territory.  
S02231887 Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco.  
S02231896 The Tootsie Roll is introduced.  
S02231900 Steamer "Rio de Janiero" sinks in San Francisco Bay.  
S02231905 Rotary Club is founded by four men in Chicago.  
S02231958 Last San Francisco municiple arc light over intersection of Mission and 25th street is removed.  It was installed in 1913.  
S02241857 Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized.  
S02241942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German).  
S02241992 Wayne's World opens in American theatres - NOT!  
S02251838 A London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward and 20 miles forward in 8 hours.  Chuck Barris wasn't even born yet!  
S02251919 Oregon is first state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon).  
S02251990 Millie Vanilli wins a grammy, for best new artist (OOPS!).  
S02261863 President Lincoln signs the National Currency Act.  
S02261881 S.S. Ceylon begins first round-the-world cruise from Liverpool.  
S02261909 The first cartoon is shown in movie theatres.  
S02261933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field.  
S02271844 Dominican Republic gains its independence.  
S02271883 Oscar Hammerstein patents first cigar-rolling machine.  
S02281849 First steamship enters San Francisco Bay.  
S02281854 Republican Party is organized, in Ripon, Wisconsin.  
S02281883 First vaudeville theater opens.  
S02281914 Construction begins on The Tower of Jewels for the exposition.  
S02281956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory.  
S02281970 Bicycles now permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge.  
S02281983 The last episode of M.A.S.H airs with over 121 million viewers.  
S02281994 ATF agents unsuccessfully raid the Davidian Compound.  
R0202     Groundhog Day.  
R0204     Independence Day, celebrated in Sri Lanka.  
R0206     New Zealand Day, celebrated in (where else?) New Zealand.  
R0207     National hangover awareness day.  What's the matter?  To much blood in the alcohol system?  
R0214     St. Valentine's Day.  
R0215    2President's Day, A legal holiday  
R0215     Valentines Day candy goes on sale.  
R0216     National Slap A Cop Day! founded by Zsa Zsa Gabor.           
R0216    2President's Day, A legal holiday  
R0217    2President's Day, A legal holiday  
R0218    2President's Day, A legal holiday  
R0218     National Bun Day -- Iceland.  
R0219    2President's Day, A legal holiday  
R0220    2President's Day, A legal holiday  
R0220     Northern Hemisphere Hoodie-Hoo Day when citizens are asked to go outside at noon and yell Hoodie-Hoo! to chase winter away.  
R0221    2President's Day, A legal holiday  
R0227     Independence day in the Dominican Republic.  
R0229     A LEAP Year!  People born this day become the brunt of dumb birthday jokes.  
B03011810 Frederic Chopin, composer.  
B03011848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece.  
B03011917 Dinah Shore, chef, talk show hostess.  
B03011917 Robert Lowell  
B03011927 Harry Belafonte  
B03011944 Roger Daltry, lead singer for The Who?  
B03011954 Ron Howard, actor, director, producer.  
B03021904 Dr. Seuss, author of "Green Eggs & Ham".  
B03021917 Desi Arnez, actor.  
B03031847 Alexandar Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone (BILL)!  
B03031933 Lee Radziwill  
B03041394 Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsored Portuguese voyages of discovery.  
B03041678 Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso and composer.  
B03041888 Newt Rockne   
B03041939 Paula Prentiss  
B03051824 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives fame.)  
B03051908 Rex Harrison, actor.  
B03051958 Andy Gibb, singer.  
B03061619 Cyrano de Bergerac, romantic with a long nose.  
B03061756 Aaron Burr, dualist.  
B03061812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking.  
B03061923 Ed McMahon, Heeeerrrreeeee's Johnny!  
B03061937 Valentina Tereshkova, first woman cosmonaut.  
B03061937 Merle Haggard, singer.  
B03061945 Rob Reiner, actor, director, producer, "Meat Head!"  
B03071849 Luther Burbank, plant breeder.  
B03071875 Maurice Ravel, and was Bo grateful!  
B03071950 Franco Harris  
B03081787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery.  
B03081859 Kenneth Grahame, author, "The Wind in the Willows."  
B03081879 Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission.  
B03081923 Syd Charisse  
B03081939 Jim Bouton  
B03081943 Lynn Redgrave, actress.  
B03091824 Leland Stanford, Governor, Senator, founded Stanford University.  
B03091918 Mickey Spillane, author.  
B03091934 Yuri Gagarin, first man into space.  
B03091943 Bobby Fischer, damn good chess player!  
B03111903 Lawrence Welk, ANA 1, ANA 2...  
B03121831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer.  
B03121832 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts.  
B03121941 Barbara Feldon, actress (Agent 99).  
B03121946 Liza Minnelli, actress, singer.  
B03121948 James Taylor  
B03131939 Neil Sadaka, singer.  
B03131960 Adam Clayton, of the band U2.  
B03141681 Georg Philipp Telemann, leading German late baroque composer.  
B03141864 Casey Jones, famed engineer.  
B03141879 Albert Einstein, relative wizard.  
B03141922 Collin Fletcher  
B03141933 Michael Caine, actor.  
B03141933 Quincy Jones  
B03141947 Billy Crystal, comedian, actor.  
B03151767 Andrew Jackson, 7th President from (1828 - 1836).  
B03151935 Judd Hirsch, actor, taxi driver.  
B03161751 James Madison, 4th President  from (1809 - 1817).  
B03161836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car.  
B03161906 Henny Youngman, comedian, take his wife - please.  
B03161912 Pat Nixon  
B03161926 Jerry Lewis, comedian, actor, father of Jerry's Kids.  
B03161949 Eric Estrada, actor, CHIP.  
B03171804 James Bridger, scout, fur trader, mountain man par excellance.  
B03171834 Gottlieb Daimler, automobile pioneer.  
B03171919 Nat King Cole, crooner, (and Natalie's father.)  
B03171938 Rudolph Nureyev  
B03181782 John C. Calhoun, statesman.  
B03181837 Grover Cleveland, twice President, from (1885 - 1889), and again from (1893 - 1897).  
B03181858 Rudolf Diesel, invented the diesel engine.  
B03181926 Peter Graves, actor.  
B03181927 George Plimpton  
B03181932 John Updike, poet and novelist.  
B03181939 Charlie Pride, singer.  
B03191821 Sir Richard Burton, actor.  
B03191860 William Jennings Bryan, "The Great Commoner."  
B03191937 Ursula Andres, actress.  
B03201856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management.  
B03201904 B. F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer in Behaviorism.  
B03201922 Carl Reiner, actor.  
B03201922 Ray Goulding  
B03201931 Hal Linden, actor.  
B03201948 Bobby Orr  
B03211685 Johann Sebastian Bach, gone for Baroque.  
B03211768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist.  
B03211869 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame.  
B03211930 James Coco  
B03221913 Carl Malden, actor.  
B03221923 Marcel Marceau, A mime is a terrible thing to waste!  
B03231912 Werner von Braun, rocketeer.  
B03231931 William Shatter, actor, captain.  
B03251920 Howard Cosell, sports announcer.  
B03251942 Aretha Franklin, singer.  
B03251947 Reginald K. Dwight.  Better known as singer/songwriter Elton John.  
B03261874 Robert Frost, poet.  
B03261911 Tennessee Williams, author.  
B03261925 Pierre Boulez, French composer.  
B03261930 Sandra Day O'Conner  
B03261931 Leonard Nimoy, beam him up, Mr. Scott.  
B03261939 James Caan, actor.  
B03261944 Diana Ross, singer.  
B03261949 Vicki Lawrence, actress, comedienne.  
B03261950 Martin Short, actor, comedian, (Da Short Guy)...  
B03271813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (of Currier & Ives.)  
B03271863 Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce.  
B03281967 The Puppet Master, creator of this Today In History Perl script.   
B03291790 John Tyler, 10th President from (1841 - 1845).  
B03291819 Edwin Drake, drilled first productive oil well in US.  
B03291867 Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever (509 wins, 1890-1911).  
B03291916 Eugene McCarthy  
B03291918 Pearl Bailey  
B03301719 Sir John Hawkins, wrote first history of music in English.  
B03301853 Vincent van Gogh, artist who always lent an ear.  
B03301913 Frankie Lane  
B03301927 Peter Marshall  
B03301937 Warren Beatty, actor.  
B03301945 Eric Clapton, singer, songwriter.  
B03311596 Rene Descartes, he thought, therefore he was.  
B03311732 Joseph Haydn, composer, helped develop the Classical style.  
B03311809 Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam."  
B03311854 Sir Dugald Clerk, inventor of the 2-stroke motorcycle engine.  
B03311935 Herbert Alpert  
B03311935 Richard Chamberlin, actor.  
S03011781 The Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress.  
S03011784 E. Kidner opens the first cooking school, in Great Britain.  
S03011859 Present seal of San Francisco is adopted, 2nd for the city.  
S03011864 Patent issued for taking & projecting motion pictures to Louis Ducos du Hauron (he never did build such a machine, though).  
S03011867 Nebraska becomes a state.  
S03011879 Library of Hawaii founded.  
S03011927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank.  
S03021861 Congress creates the Territory of Nevada.  
S03021901 First telegraph company in Hawaii opens.  
S03021929 US Court of Customs & Patent Appeals created by US Congress.  
S03021962 Wilt Chamberlin scores 100 points in one basketball game.  
S03021974 First Class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents.  
S03031634 First tavern in Boston is opened.  
S03031791 Congress passed a resolution ordering U.S. Mint be established.  
S03031812 Congress passes first foreign aid bill.  
S03031849 Gold Coinage Act passed, allowing gold coins to be minted.  
S03031851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin, the 3-cent piece.  
S03031875 a 20-cent coin was authorized by Congress (It only lasted 3 years).  
S03031885 American Telephone and Telegraph incorporated.  
S03031923 Time magazine publishes their first issue.    
S03031956 Morocco gains its independence.  
S03031959 Harvard Freshman Lothrop Withington Jr. becomes the country's first goldfish swallower.  
S03031972 Pioneer 10 launched.  
S03041789 Congress declares the Constitution to be in effect.  
S03041792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii.  
S03041826 First railroad in US chartered, the Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass.  
S03041930 Mrs. Charles Fahning of Buffalo, New York, becomes first woman to bowl a perfect game under sanctioned competition rules.  
S03041933 Roosevelt inaugurated, said "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself"  
S03041934 Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson is dedicated.  
S03041938 Toothbrush bristles are changed from badger hair to nylon.  
S03051770 Boston Massacre  
S03051845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US.  
S03051900 The American Hall of Fame is founded.  
S03051972 First breeding of a Great Dane and a Dachshund is performed, creating a Great Dachshund.  
S03051979 Voyager I flies past Jupiter.  
S03061665 "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" was first published, and is still published today.  
S03061836 The Alamo falls.  Remember it?  
S03061930 Clarence Birdseye puts the first individually packaged frozen foods on sale, in Springfield, Mass.  
S03071848 In Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed.  
S03071870 The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first pro baseball team, begins an 8 month tour of the Midwest and the East.  
S03071933 The game "Monopoly" is invented.  
S03081862 The Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched.  
S03081910 Baroness de Laroche of Paris becomes first licensed female pilot.  
S03091822 US grants first patent for artificial teeth to Charles Graham.  
S03091862 The ironclads "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads.  It was a standoff.  
S03091981 The Department of Agriculture, declares ketchup a vegetable.  
S03101847 First money minted in Hawaii.  
S03101876 The first telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell.  
S03101888 The Salvation Army of England sends group to U.S. to begin welfare and religious activity here.  
S03101933 Big earthquake in Long Beach (W.C. Fields was making a movie when it struck & the cameras kept running).  
S03101967 The first confirmed octuplets are born in Mexico (That's 8 babies).  
S03111302 According to Shakespeare, this was Romeo and Juliet's wedding day.  
S03111867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii).  
S03111892 First public game of basketball.  
S03121850 First $20 Gold piece issued.  
S03121912 The first Girl Scout troop was organized in Atlanta, GA.  
S03121936 President Franklin Roosevelt holds his first "Fireside Chat."  
S03121948 The Hells Angels are created.  (Heaven's Devils comes next!)  
S03131852 The New York Lantern publishes the first cartoon showing the character "Uncle Sam," based on a real U.S. officer who served in the war of 1812, Samuel Wilson.  
S03131970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer.  
S03141743 America's first town meeting is held in Boston.  
S03141860 The baseball cap is invented.  
S03141870 Legislature approves act to make Golden Gate Park possible.  
S03141896 Sutro Bath's opens by Cliff House, closed on September 1, 1952.  
S03141948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco.  
S03151860 The first baseball cap is worn backwards.  
S03151913 Woodrow Wilson holds the first Presidential Press Conference.  
S03151968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold.  
S03151999 Pluto again becomes the outermost planet.  
S03161802 Congress establishes West Point Military Academy in New York.  
S03171756 St. Patrick's Day first celebrated in New York City, at the Crown and Thistle Tavern.  
S03181850 American Express founded.  
S03181881 Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison Square Garden in New York City.  
S03181919 The Order of DeMolay was established in Kansas City.  
S03181992 Leona Helmsley, is sentenced to 4 years in prison for tax evasion.    
S03191871 Chewing gum is invented.  
S03191895 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service.  
S03191928 "Amos and Andy" debuts on radio.  
S03191973 POW's return from Vietnam.  
S03201852 "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published.  
S03201980 The first official sighting of Elvis occurs in Butte, Montana.  
S03211891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ending a long feud in W. VA.  
S03221733 Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water.  
S03221945 The Slinky is invented.  (fun for a girl and a boy)  
S03221957 Earthquake gives San Francisco the shakes.  
S03221968 President Johnson's daugher, ordered off of cable car, because she was eating an ice cream cone, where no food was allowed.  
S03221978 Robert Frost Plaza at California Drumm & Market is dedicated.  
S03221981 First class postage is raised from 15 cents to 18 cents.  
S03221990 New Kids On The Block & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles doll sales exceed 1.8 Billion dollars.  (Who would want to buy them?)  
S03231775 Patrick Henry asks for Liberty or Death.  
S03231901 Dame Nellie Melba, Australian Opera Singer, reveals secret of her now famous toast.  
S03231912 The Dixie Cup is invented.  
S03231929 First telephone installed in the White House.  
S03221962 President John F. Kennedy visits San Francisco.  
S03231965 Gemini 3 launched, first US 2-man space flight.  
S03241860 Clipper "Andrew Jackson" arrives in 89 days from New York.  
S03241949 Walter Huston and son John become first father-and-son team to win Oscars as actor and director of "Treasure of Sierra Madre."  
S03241971 The first Pine Tree Air Freshner is introduced, in Watertown, NY.  
S03251821 Greece gains its independence.  
S03251913 New York City's famed Palace Theatre opens its doors for the first time.  
S03251954 RCA manufactures the first COLOR television set.  
S03261878 Hastings College of Law founded.  
S03261953 Dr. Jonas Salk announces new vaccine to immunize people against polio.  
S03261970 Golden Gate Park controversy made a city landmark.  
S03271917 The Seattle Metropolitans become the first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup, defeating the Montreal Canadians.  
S03281794 Nathaniel Briggs gets patent for the washing machine.  
S03291848 Niagara Falls stops flowing -- for 1 day -- because of an ice jam.  
S03291886 Coca-Cola is created (with cocaine) (Really!)  
S03301853 Patent granted to Hyman Lipman for a pencil with an ERASER!  
S03301870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race.  
S03301932 Amelia Earhart is first woman to make solo crossing of the Atlantic.  
S03311889 Eiffel Tower completed.  
S03311963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after nearly 90 years.  
S03311978 An easy listening radio station, in Anadale, VA, is blown up.  
R0303     Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival), celebrated in Japan.  
R0303     Independence Day, celebrated in Morocco.  
R0307     The Fourth of July in (where else?) Warsaw, Poland!  
R0308     National Girl Scout week begins.  
R0308     National Women's Day  
R0315     The day the buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio.  
R0315     Beware the Ides of March!  
R0317     St. Patricks Day  
R0317     Evacuation Day (celebrated in Boston)  
R0319     The day the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano, CA.  
R0320    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts tomorrow.  
R0321     The First Day of Spring... Tra-la Tra-la.  
R0321     The start of the Persian New Year.  
R0321    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts tomorrow.  
R0322    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts tomorrow.  
R0323    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts tomorrow.  
R0324    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts tomorrow.  
R0325     Independence Day, celebrated in Greece.  
R0325    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts tomorrow.  
R0326     Prince Kuhio Day (celebrated in Hawaii).  
R0326    6Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts tomorrow.  
R0327     Liz Taylor's wedding anniversary (Wait, there'll be more...)  
R0328     Liz Taylor's wedding anniversary (Again!)  
R0329     Liz Taylor's wedding anniversary (Last time! - NOT!)  
R0331    7Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins tomorrow morning.  
B04011883 Lon Chaney, man of a thousand faces  
B04011929 Jane Powell  
B04011932 Debbie Reynolds, dancer.  
B04011939 Lee MacGraw  
B0402 742 Emperor Charlemagne  
B04021875 Walter Chrysler, founded a car company.  
B04021908 Buddy Ebsen, actor.  
B04021914 Sir Alec Guiness, thespian, "Jedi Knight"  
B04021920 Jack Webb, dum-de-dum-dum  
B04031924 Doris Day, girl next door  
B04031837 John Burroughs  
B04031898 George Jessel  
B04031898 Henry R. Luce  
B04031924 Marlon Brando, godfather  
B04031942 Marsha Mason  
B04031942 Wayne Newton, dankeshoen...  
B04031961 Eddie Murphy, comedian, actor, buckwheat.  
B04041792 Thaddeus Stevens  
B04041802 Dorothea Dix, social reformer  
B04041932 Tony Perkins  
B04051856 Booker T. Washington  
B04051908 Bette Davis, actress.  
B04051908 Mary Hemmingway  
B04051916 Gregory Peck, actor.  
B04061810 Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium  
B04061866 Butch Cassidy, outlaw.  
B04061866 Lincoln Steffens, muckraker.  
B04061890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer  
B04061892 Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company.  
B04061892 Lowell Thomas, journalist  
B04061945 Bob Marley.  
B04071860 W.K. Kellogg, founded the cereal company.  
B04071915 Billie Holiday, blues singer  
B04071927 James Gardner, actor.  
B04071932 Mark Russell, satirist  
B04071939 David Frost  
B04071939 Francis Ford Coppola, director, producer.  
B04081889 Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra)  
B04081918 Betty Ford, founded drug/alcohol abuse clinic for the rich & famous.  
B04081963 Julian Lennon, singer, son of a Beatle.  
B04091830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion in photography.  
B04091865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz  
B04091879 W.C. Fields, Philadelphian  
B04091895 Mance Lipscomb  
B04091905 J. William Fulbright  
B04091905 Ward Bond  
B04091919 John Presper Eckert, co-inventor of first electronic computer, it was called, the ENIAC.  
B04091954 Dennis Quaid, actor, comedian.  
B04101847 Joseph Pulitzer  
B04101915 Harry Morgan, actor.  
B04101921 Chuck Conners, actor.  
B04101932 Omar Sharif, actor.  
B04101938 Don Merridith  
B04111866 Carla Ford  
B04111938 Ethel Kennedy  
B04121777 Henry Clay, "The Great Compromiser"  
B04121791 Francis P. Blair, helped found the Republican Party.  
B04121913 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader & vibraphone improvisor  
B04121947 David Letterman, founder of Top 10 Lists, and Stupid Pet Tricks.  
B04131721 John Hanson, first US President under the Articles of Confederation.  
B04131743 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President from (1801 - 1809).  
B04131852 F.W. Woolworth, the "five-and-ten" king.  
B04141889 Arnold Toynbee, historian  
B04141904 Sir John Gielgud, actor.  
B04141935 Lorretta Lynn, queen of country music.  
B04141941 Julie Christie  
B04141941 Pete Rose, baseball player, gambler.  
B04151452 Leonardo da Vinci, factotum  
B04151707 Leonhard Euler, mathematician  
B04151933 Roy Clark, "Hee Haw"  
B04161867 Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame  
B04161889 Charlie Chaplin, tramp  
B04161904 Clifford Case  
B04161904 Lilly Ponds  
B04161921 Peter Ustinov, actor.  
B04161947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tall person  
B04171837 J.P. Morgan, financed the US.  
B04171897 Thornton Wilder, American novelist  
B04171923 Harry Reasoner  
B04181857 Clarence Darrow, lawyer  
B04181947 James Woods, actor  
B04181954 Rick Moranis, comedian, actor  
B04181956 Eric Roberts, actor  
B04181964 Conan O'Brien, night time talk show host.  
B04191877 Ole Evinrude, invented the outboard marine engine.  
B04191935 Dudley Moore, actor.  
B04201889 Adolf Hitler, in Braunau, Austria.  
B04201893 Harold Lloyd, early film comedian.  
B04201941 Ryan O'Neal, actor.  
B04201949 Jessica Lange, actress.  
B04211838 John Muir, naturalist.  
B04211916 Anthony Quinn, actor.  
B04211926 Queen Elizabeth II of Britain.  
B04211947 Iggy Pop's.  
B04221904 J. Robert Oppenheimer.  
B04221937 Jack Nicholson, actor, The Joker!  
B04231564 William Shakespeare, bard  
B04231791 James Buchanan, 15th President from (1857 - 1861).  
B04231813 Stephen Douglas, the "Little Giant", debated Lincoln  
B04231928 Shirley Temple, child actress  
B04231940 Lee Majors, six million dollar actor.  
B04231950 Joyce DeWitt, actress.  
B04231960 Valerie Bertinelle, actress.  
B04241620 John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of demography  
B04241934 Shirley MacLaine, had out of body experience.  
B04241942 Barbra Streisand, profile  
B04251874 Guglielmo Marconi, made radio possible  
B04251908 Edward R. Murrow, set the standard for TV correspondents.  
B04251918 Ella Fitzgerald  
B04251940 Al Pachino, actor.  
B04261785 John James Audubon, birdwatcher  
B04261822 Frederick L. Olmstead  
B04261900 Charles Richter, he tells us how bad the quakes are.  
B04261936 Carol Burnett, comedienne, actress.  
B04271791 Samuel F. B. Morse, invented Morse Code (-- --- .-. ... .)  
B04271822 Ulyssses S. Grant, 18th President from (1869 - 1877).  
B04271896 Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon.  
B04271922 Jack Klugman, actor, "Odd Roommate".  
B04271927 Corretta Scott King  
B04281758 James Monroe, 5th President from (1816 - 1824).  
B04281941 Ann Margaret, actress.  
B04281950 Jay Leno, host of the Tonight Show (Where's Johnny?)  
B04291830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels...  
B04291863 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner)  
B04291899 Duke Ellington  
B04291919 Celeste Holm  
B04291947 Jim Ryun  
B04291947 Johnny Miller  
B04291962 Michelle Pfeiffer, actress, Catwoman!  
B04301777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.  
B04301912 Eve Arden, Our Miss Brooks  
B04301933 Willie Nelson, singer, "IRS magnet"  
B04301944 Jill Clayburgh, actress.  
B04301949 Perry King, actor.  
S04011778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans Businessman, creates the "$" symbol.  
S04011850 San Francisco County Government is established.  
S04011889 The first dishwashing machine is marketed in Chicago.  
S04011941 Navy takes over San Francisco Bay's Treasure Island.  
S04011960 TIROS I (Television & Infra-Red Observation Satellite) launched to improve weather prediction.  
S04011963 The Soap Opera "General Hospital" airs for the first time.  
S04011963 Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" is released.  
S04021792 Congress establishes coin denominations of United States.  
S04021877 The first Easter Egg Roll is held on the White House lawn -- Rutherford B. Hayes was president.  
S04021935 Watson Watt was granted a patent for RADAR.  
S04021974 A streaker is seen running across the stage behind David Niven at the Oscar awards ceremony.  
S04021978 Velcro is introduced.  
S04031860 The first Pony Express riders simultaneously left Sacramento, CA. and St. Joseph, MO.  
S04041860 Pony Express begins service, from St. Joseph, Missouri.  
S04041870 Golden Gate Park is established by city order #800.  
S04041914 The movie "The Perils of Pauline" was shown for the first time, in Los Angeles.  
S04051614 Pocahontas marries John Rolfe in Virginia.  
S04051953 First issue of TV Guide goes on the market.  
S04061862 Battle of Shiloh.  
S04061868 Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife.  
S04061896 The first modern Olympic Games were opened in Greece.  
S04061906 First animated cartoon is copyrighted.  
S04061926 4 planes take off on first successful around-the-world flight.  
S04061957 New York City ends trolley car service.  
S04061931 Seals Stadium opens.  
S04071933 Prohibition ends.  
S04071948 World Health Organization is established.  (WHO)  
S04071969 Final Episode of Star Trek (Not the Next Generation, duh) airs.  
S04081513 Ponce de Leon arrives in Florida.  
S04081766 The first patent is granted for a fire escape ... a wicker basket on a pully and a chain, designed by a London watchmaker.  
S04081913 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified.  
S04081974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record.  
S04091865 Lee surrenders at Appomattox.  
S04091928 Mae West makes her New York City debut in a daring new play, "Diamond Lil."  
S04091953 TV Guide publishes its first issue.  
S04091955 United Nations Charter hearing.  
S04101825 First hotel in Hawaii opens.  
S04101849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt of New York City.  He immediately sold the patent rights for $100.  
S04101878 California Street Cablecar Railroad Company, starts service.  
S04101882 Matson founds his shipping company, serving San Francisco & Hawaii.  
S04101953 House of Wax, first 3-D movie, released in New York.  
S04101992 Worlds Grits Festival, in St. George, SC.  
S04111876 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized.  
S04111895 Anaheim completes its new electric light system.  
S04111947 Jackie Robinson becomes first black in major league baseball.  
S04111958 Brooks Hall in Civic Center is dedicated.  
S04111980 The equal opportunity commission regulates that sexual harassment of women in the work place is illegal.  
S04121859 Hibernia Savings & Loan Society of San Francisco is incorporated.  
S04121861 Fort Sumter, S. C., shelled by Confederacy, starts Civil War.  
S04121898 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island to the Navy.  
S04121933 Moffatt Field is commissioned.  
S04121961 Yuri A. Gagarin becomes first man to orbit Earth.  
S04121962 San Mateo County withdraws from BART district.  
S04121981 First launch of the Space Shuttle  "Columbia."  
S04131796 The first elephant arrives in the U.S. from Bengal, India.  
S04131976 $2 bill is re-introduced as United States currency.  
S04131995 Former Houston Rocket player Otis Thorpe, plays in Houston for 1st time after being traded to the Portland Trailblazers.  
S04141828 First edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.  
S04141860 First Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri.  
S04141865 Abraham Lincoln assasinated in Ford's Theater.  
S04141928 Regular air passenger flights between San Francisco and Los Angeles started, by Maddux Air Lines.  
S04141974 Dungeon's & Dragon's is invented.    
S04151738 The bottle opener is invented, (when was the bottle invented?)  
S04151850 City of San Francisco incorporated.  
S04151912 Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM. And the band plays on  . . .  
S04151922 The famed "Poodle Dog" restaurant closes.  
S04151923 Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics.  
S04151928 Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf opens for business.  
S04151955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants.  
S04161866 Nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo & Co. office explodes.  
S04161926 The "Book-of-the-Month" Club opens for business.  
S04161986 First test tube baby is born.  
S04171524 New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.  
S04171853 US Marine Hospital at the Presidio is established.  
S04171875 The game of "snooker" -- a variation of pool -- is invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain, while on duty in India.  
S04171895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends first Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895).  
S04171941 Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing)  
S04171961 U.S. invades Cuba's Bay of Pigs.  
S04171964 The Ford Mustang makes its debut.  
S04181775 "The British are Coming!" declares Paul Revere from horseback.  
S04181868 San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is born.  
S04181869 First International Cricket Match is held in San Francisco.  
S04181906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.  
S04181907 Fairmont Hotel opens.  
S04181934 First "Washateria" (laundromat) is opened, in Fort Worth, Texas.  
S04181936 Pan-Am's "Clipper" starts providing regular passenger flights between San Francisco and Honolulu.  
S04181955 The first WALK/DON'T WALK signs are installed in a city.  
S04181968 San Francisco's Old Hall of Justice is demolished.  
S04191775 At Lexington Common, they fired the shot "heard round the world".  
S04191852 California Historical Society founded.  
S04191874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island are destroyed in fire.  
S04191892 Charles Duryea takes the first American-made auto out for a spin.  
S04191939 Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights . . . (only 148 years late).  
S04191956 American actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III.  
S04191993 The siege at the Davidian Compound in Waco, Tx. ends in disaster.  
S04191995 A terrorist bomb explodes in Oklahoma City destroying the Murah Building, and killing 168 people, including 19 children.  
S04201902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the element Radium.  
S04201836 Territory of Wisconsin established by Congress.  
S04201879 The first "mobile home" (horse drawn) was used for a journey between London and Cyprus.  
S04201971 Supreme Court first upheld busing for school racial desegragation.  
S04201978 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace.  
S0421 756 B.C., that is! According to legend, Rome was founded.  
S04211836 Texans lead by Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto.  
S04211862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorado.  
S04211892 First buffalo is born in Golden Gate Park.  
S04211918 The Red Baron (von Richthofen) shot down and killed in air battle.  
S04211940 Quiz show "Take It or Leave It" first asked the $64 question on CBS.  
S04211972 Apollo 16's John Young & Charles Duke walked on the moon's surface.  
S04211975 South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned after 10 years.  
S04221769 Madame Du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress.  
S04231871 "Blossom Rock" in San Francisco Bay is blown up.  
S04231896 First "moving pictures" are shown on a public screen in New York.  
S04231949 Courtesy mail boxes for motorists started in San Francisco.  
S04241800 Library of Congress founded.  
S04241833 A patent is granted for the first soda fountain.  
S04241865 Fire and police telegraph system is put into place.  
S04241990 "Hubble" space telescope is put into orbit by shuttle "Discovery".  
S04251684 A patent is granted for the thimble.  
S04251901 New York becomes first state requiring license plates for cars.  
S04251945 United Nations Conference starts.  
S04251956 Elvis Preley hits #1 with "Heart Break Hotel"  
S04251961 Robert Noyce granted a patent for the integrated circuit.  
S04261607 First British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Virginia.  
S04261906 First motion pictures shown in Hawaii.  
S04261954 Nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio vaccine begins.  
S04261971 San Francisco light ship is replaced by automatic buoy.  
S04261981 The largest bank robbery in the U.S. (3.3 Million) occurs in Tucson, AZ.  
S04271565 First Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City, founded.  
S04271897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) is dedicated.  
S04271937 US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment.  
S04271945 Founding of the Second Republic, in Austria.  
S04271961 Wide World of Sports premiers on TV.  
S04281754 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurs.  
S04281919 First successful parachute jump is made.  
S04281922 WOI, Ames, Iowa, becomes the country's first licensed educational radio station.  
S04281974 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon.  
S04291553 A Flemish woman introduces the practice of starching linen into England.  
S04291857 Headquarters for the US Army division of the Pacific is permanently established at "The Presidio".  
S04291913 The all-purpose zipper is patented.  
S04301789 George Washington inaugurated as first president of the U.S.  
S04301798 Department of the Navy established.  
S04301803 US more than doubles its size thru the Louisiana Purchase.  
S04301808 The first practical typewriter was finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri.  He built it for a blind friend.  
S04301857 Founding of what would become San Jose State University.  
S04301869 The Hawaiian YMCA organized.  
S04301939 NBC makes first US demo of TV at opening of NY World's Fair.  
R0401     April Fool's Day... but you knew that!  
R0401    7Set your clocks ahead 1 hour tonight (Daylight savings time begins)  
R0402     International Children's Book Day observed.  
R0402    7Set your clocks ahead 1 hour tonight (Daylight savings time begins)  
R0403    7Set your clocks ahead 1 hour tonight (Daylight savings time begins)  
R0404    7Set your clocks ahead 1 hour tonight (Daylight savings time begins)  
R0404     Tator Tot Day, a day that celebrates the potato in Benton, KY.  
R0405    7Set your clocks ahead 1 hour tonight (Daylight savings time begins)  
R0406    7Set your clocks ahead 1 hour tonight (Daylight savings time begins)  
R0408     Kambutsue, celebration of Buddha's birthday, in Japan  
R0411     Barber Shop Quartet Day.  
R0413     World cow chip throwing championship, in Beaver, OK begins today.  
R0415     Income Taxes are due today.  Keep the IRS happy...  
R0418     Seems like a lot happened in San Francisco on this day!  
R0419     Patriot's Day.  
R0419     Reading Is Fun week begins today.  
R0420     National Lingerie Week, begins today.  
R0422     Earth Day.  
R0423     National Secretary Day.  
R0423     Summer begins in Ireland.  
R0424     Rattle snake derby, a snake racing contest, begins in Mangum, OK.  
R0425     Arbor Day.  Plant a tree.  
R0427     Union Day, celebrated in Tanzania.  
R0429     The Emperor's Birthday, celebrated in Japan.  
R0430     Hair Dresser's Day.  
R0430     National Honesty Day.  
B05011769 Duke of Wellington, who made Napoleon very unhappy.  
B05011830 Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), hellraiser.  
B05011907 Kate Smith  
B05011916 Glenn Ford, actor.  
B05021837 Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order."  
B05021903 Dr. Benjamin Spock, leading authority on children.  
B05021904 Bing Crosby, crooner.  
B05021936 Engelbert Humperdink.  
B05031874 Francois Coty, perfume maker.  
B05031898 Golda Meir  
B05031906 Mary Astor  
B05031919 Pete Seeger, folk singer.  
B05031934 James Brown, singer.  
B05041929 Audrey Hepburn, actress.  
B05051832 H. H. Bancroft  
B05051867 Nellie Bly, name became a synonym for female star reporter.  
B05061818 Karl Marx  
B05061856 Sigmund Freud, psycologist, cigar smoker.  
B05061870 A.P. Giannini, founder of Bank of America.  
B05061895 Rudolph Valentino, sheik.  
B05061903 Daniel Gerber, founder of "Strained Peas" and other flavors of baby food.  
B05061915 Orson Welles, citizen.  
B05061931 The "Say Hey Kid", Willie Mays.  
B05061942 Tammy Wynette, singer.  
B05071833 Johannes Brahms, enjoyed a good lullaby.  
B05071840 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer.  
B05071901 Gary Cooper, actor in "High Noon" and "The Plainsman."  
B05071909 Edwin Land, founded instant photography (Polaroid).  
B05081737 Edward Gibbon, historian, "The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire."  
B05081786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry.  
B05081828 Henri Dunant, founded Red Cross, YMCA.  
B05081829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, first internationally recognized U.S. pianist.  
B05081884 Harry S Truman, 32nd President.  The "S" doesn't stand for anything (thus no period).   
B05081895 Fulton J. Sheen  
B05081926 Don Rickles, comedian.  
B05081930 Gary Schneider  
B05081943 Jim Morrison, Door.  
B05081954 David Keith, actor.  
B05081964 Melissa Gilbert, actress.  
B05091800 John Brown, abolitionist.  
B05091873 Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamen.  
B05091882 Henry J. Kaiser,  built Liberty Ships, Jeeps.  
B05091936 Albert Finney, actor.  
B05101788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneered in optics.  
B05101899 Fred Astaire, tap dancer.  
B05101902 David O. Selznick, film producer.  
B05101936 Glenda Jackson  
B05101946 Candice Bergen, the dime lady.  
B05101949 Billy Joel, "Piano Man"  
B05101960 Bono, (B. Paul Hewson), of U2.  
B05111888 Irving Berlin, composer, lover to the world.  
B05111904 Salvador Dali, painter.  
B05121820 Florence Nightengale, inspiration to nurses everywhere.  
B05121845 Gabriel Faure, composer.  
B05121925 Yogi Barra, catcher.  
B05121937 George Carlin, comedian, actor.  
B05121958 Cathy L. Green  
B05131842 Sir Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame.  
B05131856 Peter Henry Emerson, first photographer to promote. photography as an independent art.  
B05131914 Joe Louis, heavyweight.  
B05131929 Burt Bacharach  
B05141926 Bea Arthur, actress.  
B05141928 Billy Martin, local boy who made good in baseball.  
B05141944 George Lucas, producer, director, star gazer.  
B05141950 Stevie Wonder, singer.  
B05141952 David Byrne.  
B05151859 Pierre Curie, physicist.  
B05161801 William H. Seward, bought Alaska at $0.02/acre.  
B05161905 Joseph Cotton  
B05161919 Liberace, candelabrist.  
B05161966 Janet Jackson, sister to the gloved one.  
B05171866 Erik Satie, composer.  
B05171911 Maureen O'Sullivan, actress.  
B05181850 Oliver Heaviside, physicist who predicted the existance of the ionosphere, used to reflect radio waves.  
B05181918 Pope John Paul II.  
B05181956 Sugar Ray Leonard, boxer.  
B05191890 Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer.  
B05191912 Perry Como, crooner.  
B05191918 Mike Wallace, of CBS "60 minutes" fame.  
B05191946 Reggie Jackson, baseball player.  
B05201750 Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during the War of 1812.  
B05201799 Honore de Balzac, novelist.  
B05201818 William George Fargo, helped to found Wells, Fargo & Co.  
B05201908 Jimmy Stewart, actor.  
B05201913 William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co.  
B05201915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general & politician.  
B05201946 Cher, actress, singer, Sonny's Ex!  
B05211471 Albrecht Durer, painter & printmaker, greatest German Renaissance artist.  
B05211860 Willam Einthoven, invented the electrocardiograph.  
B05211878 Glenn Curtis, aircraft pioneer.  
B05211904 Fats Waller  
B05211904 Robert Montgomery  
B05211917 Dennis Day  
B05211917 Raymond Burr, actor, "Perry Mason".  
B05211952 Mr. T, actor (of sorts).  
B05221828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon, founded modern ophthalmology.  
B05221859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, brought Sherlock Holmes to life (twice).  
B05221907 Laurence Olivier, actor.  
B05221920 Thomas Gold, astronomer, established the steady-state theory of the universe.  
B05231883 Douglas Fairbanks, first & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers.  
B05231910 Artie Shaw, band leader and husband.  
B05231933 Joan Collins, actress, BITCH!  
B05241686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, invented the thermometer.  
B05241940 Bob Dylan, singer.  
B05251803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher.  
B05251889 Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter.  
B05251898 Bennett Cerf  
B05251898 Gene Tunney  
B05251926 Miles Davis, trumpeter, pioneered cool jazz.  
B05251929 Beverly Sills, soprano.  
B05261877 Isadora Duncan  
B05261886 Al Jolson, jazz singer.  
B05261907 John Wayne, shootist, duke.  
B05261920 Peggy Lee  
B05261923 James Arness, actor.  
B05271818 Amelia Bloomer, suffragist known for her pantaloons.  
B05271837 Wild Bill Hickock  
B05271894 Dashiell Hammett, author who created the hard-boiled detective.  
B05271907 Rachel Carson, ecologist.  
B05271911 Hubert Humphrey  
B05271911 Vincent Price, actor, always had the evil eye.  
B05271912 John Cheever  
B05271912 Sam Sneede  
B05271923 Henry Kissinger, politician.  
B05281886 Jim Thorpe  
B05281908 The name is Flemming, Ian Fleming.  Gave James Bond a job.  
B05281944 Gladys Knight, singer.  
B05291903 Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope, famous profile.  
B05291917 John F. Kennedy, 35th President from (1960 - 1963).  
B05291947 Anthony Geary, actor.  
B05291958 Annette Benning, actress.  
B05301672 Peter I (the Great) czar of Russia 
B05301265 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet
B05301908 Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs, Elmer, Porky, and Daffy.  
B05301909 Benny Goodman, swinger.  
B05301916 Dr. Joseph W. Kennedy, scientist, discoverer of plutonium.  
B05301926 Johnny Gimble, Country musician.
B05301927 Clint Walker, Actor.
B05301936 Ruta Lee, Actress.
B05301939 Michael J. Pollard, Actor.
B05301951 Stephen Tobolowsky, Actor.
B05301953 Colm Meaney, Actor (Chief O'Brien).  
B05301958 Ted McGinley, Actor.
B05301961 Ralph Carter, Actor.
B05301964 Country singer Wynonna.
B05301964 Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine), musician.
B05301971 Patrick Dahlheimer, musician.
B05301972 Trey Parker, Actor.
B05301974 Cee-Lo (Goodie Mob), rapper.
B05311819 Walt Whitman, poet.  
B05311857 Pope Pius XI (Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti) 259th pope of the Roman Catholic Church [1922-1939]  
B05311894 Fred Allen, Comedian, radio star.  
B05311898 Norman Vincent Peale  
B05311908 Don Ameche, Actor.  
B05311922 Denholm Elliott, Actor.  
B05311930 Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry.  
B05311933 Shirley Verrett, opera singer.  
B05311938 Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary.  
B05311941 Johnny Paycheck, country singer.  
B05311943 Joe Namath, athlete.  
B05311950 Tom Berenger, Actor.  
B05311950 Gregory Harrison, Actor.  
B05311961 Lea Thompson, Actress.  
B05311965 Brooke Shields, Actress.  
S05011840 First adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued.  
S05011850 John Geary becomes first mayor of City of San Francisco.  
S05011860 First school for the deaf founded.  
S05011869 Folies-Bergere opens in Paris.  
S05011884 Construction begins in Chicago on the first U.S. skyscraper.  
S05011892 U.S. quarantine station opens on Angel Island.  
S05011928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)  
S05021885 "Good Housekeeping" magazine is first published.  
S05021925 Kezar Stadium in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park opens.  
S05021939 Lou Gehrig sets record for being in most consecutive games (2130).  
S05021957 Elvis records "Jail House Rock".  
S05021996 Houston Rockets advance to the second round of the NBA Finals.  
S05031830 First regular steam train passenger service starts.  
S05031919 America's first passenger flight (New York to Atlantic City)  
S05031932 24 tourists begin the first air-charter holiday, from London to Basle, Switzerland for 7 days.  
S05031971 National noncommercial network radio begins programming.  
S05041626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons.  
S05041715 French manufacturer debuts first folding umbrella -- in Paris, not Cherbourg!  
S05041851 First of the major San Francisco fires.  
S05041878 Phonograph shown for first time at the Grand Opera House.  
S05041983 The final episode of Laverne & Shirley airs.  
S05041908 The Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco.  
S05051939 The worlds largest pig "Big Boy" is born.  
S05051949 Council of Europe established.  
S05051961 Alan Shepard becomes first American in space (onboard Freedom 7).  
S05061851 Patent granted to Dr. John Farrie for a "refrigeration machine."  
S05061851 Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco starts.  
S05061860 The Olympic Club, first athletic club in US, founded.  
S05061906 Temporary permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street which allowed "United Railroads" to run electric street cars.  
S05061915 Babe Ruth hits first major league home run.  
S05071824 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony presented for first time.  
S05071927 San Francisco municiple airport "Mills Field" is dedicated.  
S05071945 World War II ends in Europe.  
S05071963 Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles).  
S05081541 Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River.  
S05081886 Coca-Cola is first sold, at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia.  
S05091785 Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles.  
S05091960 The FDA approves first public sale of contraceptive pills.  
S05101775 Continental Congress issues paper currency for the first time.  
S05101823 First steamboat to ascent the Mississippi River arrives at Fort Snelling, Minnesota.  
S05101869 The Driving of the Golden Spike, Promontory Point, Utah -- The Transcontinential railroad is completed.  
S05101930 First US planetarium opens, in Chicago.  
S05111752 First US fire insurance policy is issued, in Philadelphia.  
S05111812 The Waltz is introduced into English ballrooms.  Most observers consider it disgusting and immoral. No wonder it caught on!  
S05111929 First regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week).  
S05111951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory.  
S05112181 (B.C. That Is), The chair is invented.           
S05121789 Society of St. Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of New York City political bosses.  
S05131607 English land to found Jamestown (first permanent settlement)  
S05131835 First foreign embassy in Hawaii is established.  
S05131846 US declares war on Mexico.  
S05131873 U.S. Postal Service introduces post cards.  
S05131884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded.  
S05131950 The Diner's Club issues its first credit cards.  
S05141804 Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis for the Pacific Coast.  
S05141811 Paraguay gains its independence.  
S05141853 Gail Borden applies for patent for making condensed milk.  
S05141948 State of Israel proclaimed.  
S05141973 United States launches space station "Skylab".  
S05151930 The first "air hostess," Ellen Church, welcomes passengers aboard a United Air Lines flight from Oakland, CA to Cheyenne, WY.  
S05151940 First nylon stockings are sold in America.  
S05151963 Last of the Mercury flights, the "Faith 7", launched.  
S05161866 Congress authorizes nickel 5-cent piece (the silver half-dime was used up to this point).  
S05161929 First Oscar Awards are given: Best Film:    Wings. Best Actor:   Emil Jennings. Best Actress: Janey Gaynor.  
S05161971 First Class postage raised to 8 cents from 6 cents.  
S05171620 First merry-go-round seen at a fair in Philippapolis, Turkey.  
S05171792 24 brokers meet to found the New York Stock Exchange.  
S05171804 Lewis & Clark begin their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.  
S05171845 the rubber band is invented.  
S05171872 Bohemian Club incorporated.  
S05171921 President Harding opens (via telephone) first Valencia Orange Show in Anaheim.  
S05171954 Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, overthrowing the principle of "separate but equal."  
S05181830 Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, the lawn mower.  Saturdays are destroyed forever.  
S05181933 TVA Act signed by President Roosevelt.  
S05181980 Mount St. Helens blew its top in Washington State.  
S05191848 First department store opens.  
S05191862 The Homestead Act becomes law.  
S05191928 51 frogs enter first annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" at Angel's Camp in Calaveras County, California.  
S05201845 First legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii.  
S05201874 Levi Strauss markets his blue jeans with copper rivets, priced at $13.50 A DOZEN.  
S05201927 At 7:40am, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic.  
S05211846 First steamship arrives in Hawaii.  
S05211881 The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton.  
S05211927 Lindbergh lands in Paris, after first solo flight across Atlantic.  
S05211933 Mount Davidson Cross lit by President Roosevelt in Washington via Telegraph.  
S0522 600 (B.C. Again), The lucky rabbits foot is first used.  (I'll bet the rabbit didn't feel so lucky!).  
S05221807 Townsend Speakman begins making and selling fruit-flavored carbonated drinks - in Philadelphia.  
S05231898 First Phillipine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco.  
S05231908 Dirigible (a blimp) explodes over San Francisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die.  
S05231921 "Shuffle Along," the first black musical comedy, opens in New York City.  
S05231953 The first "Cliff's Notes" appear in schools. (Thanks Cliff).  
S05241830 "Mary Had A Little Lamb", is written.  
S05241844 Samual F.B. Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought?"  
S05241866 Berkeley named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne).  
S05241883 The Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur & Governor Cleveland.  
S05241899 In Boston, the first auto repair shop opens.  
S05251721 John Copson becomes America's first insurance agent.  
S05251787 Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia.  
S05251927 Henry Ford stops producing the Model T car (begins Model A).  
S05251940 Golden Gate International Exposition re-opens.  
S05251977 "Star Wars" is released.  
S05251983 "Return of the Jedi" is released.  
S05261868 President Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote.  
S05261913 Actor's Equity is organized in New York City.  
S05261937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens.  
S05261946 Patent filed in US for the H-Bomb.  
S05271907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco.  
S05271937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge dedicated.  
S05271961 The first black light is sold in a novelty shop.  
S05281742 First indoor swimming pool opens at Goodman's Fields, London.  
S05281926 United States Customs Court created by Congress.  
S05281939 First "BATMAN" comic book is introduced, by Bob Kane.  
S05291453 Constantinople falls to the Turks (some believe this signaled the end of the Middle Ages).  
S05291912 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing the "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break.  
S05291953 Hillary & Norkay reach the top of Mount Everest.  
S05291978 First Class postage raised to 15 cents from 13 cents.  
S05301431 Joan of Arc burned at the stake for being a heretic.  
S05301539 Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto landed in Florida. 
S05301854 The territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established. 
S05301883 12 people were trampled when rumors that the Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing.  
S05301911 Indianapolis 500 car race run for first time. Winning driver Ray Harroun takes it with a blazing 75 mph.  
S05301922 The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., by Chief Justice William Howard Taft. 
S05301937 10 people were killed when police fired on steelworkers demonstrating near the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago. 
S05301943 American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese during World War II. 
S05301958 Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery. 
S05301971 The American space probe Mariner IX blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., on a journey to Mars. 
S05301980 Pope John Paul II arrived in France on the first visit by the head of the Roman Catholic Church since the early 19th century. 
S05301981 The compact disk is introduced.  
S05301981 Tommy Lee Jones marries Kimberlea Gayle Cloughley.  
S05301982 Spain became NATO's 16th member. 
S05301982 Kelsey Grammer marries Doreen Alderman.  
S05301996 Britain's Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their 10-year marriage. 
S05311678 Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry.  
S05311837 New York's Astor Hotel opens ... most elaborate in the U.S.  
S05311859 Town Ball was created, which became baseball 20 years later.  
S05311868 First recorded bicycle race, 2 kilometers in Paris.  
S05311870 Asphalt pavement is patented by E.J. DeSemdt.  
S05311879 First electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition.  
S05311880 Leage of American Wheelman is formed in Rhode Island.  
S05311889 Johnstown Flood occurs, killing 2,300 people.  
S05311907 Taxis arrive in New York City.  
S05311929 First reindeer born in the United States (Not the North Pole).  
S05311941 First issue of <i>Parade</i> magazine is published.  
S05311976 The Who puts on the loudest concert in recorded history with 76,000 watts at 120 decibels.  
R0501     May Day  
R0505     Cinco de Mayo (Roughly translated to The Fifth of May!)  
R0505     Tango-no-sekku (Boy's Festival) -- Japan  
R0507     The "Hard Rock Cafe's" world cup of windsurfing championships begins in Maui, Hawaii.  
R0508    1Mother's Day   Send flowers!        
R0509    1Mother's Day.  Send flowers!        
R0510    1Mother's Day.  Send flowers!        
R0510     Native American Day is observed.  
R0511    1Mother's Day.  Send flowers!      
R0512    1Mother's Day.  Send flowers!        
R0513    1Mother's Day.  Send flowers!         
R0513     Leprechaun Day -- no blarney!  
R0514    1Mother's Day.  Send flowers!          
R0514     Independence Day (in Paraguay).  
R0515     "Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean" Day.  Why? Because it may be waving at you.  
R0516     Armed Forces Day.  
R0517     Norwegian Independence Day.  
R0518     National "Visit Your Relatives Day", (Yes, including Mother In-Law)  
R0519    2Victoria Day -- Canada  
R0520    2Victoria Day -- Canada  
R0521    2Victoria Day -- Canada  
R0522    2Victoria Day -- Canada  
R0523    2Victoria Day -- Canada  
R0524    2Victoria Day -- Canada  
R0524    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.  
R0525    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.  
R0526    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.  
R0527    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.  
R0528    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.  
R0529    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.  
R0530     The REAL Memorial Day, no matter what day of the week!  
R0531    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.  
R0531     Republic Day, celebrated in South Africa.  
B06011926 Andy Griffith, actor.  
B06011926 Marilyn Monroe, actress.  
B06011934 Pat Boone, singer.  
B06021491 King Henry the VIII (Never lost his head)...   
B06021740 Marquis de Sade  
B06021835 Pope Pius X.  
B06021840 Thomas Hardy, English poet and novelist.  
B06021857 Sir Edward Elgar, composer (Pomp and Circumstance.)    
B06021904 Johnny Weissmuller (The original Tarzan).
B06021927 Phillip Burton  
B06021941 Charlie Watts  
B06021941 Stacey Keach, actor.  
B06021948 Jerry Mathers, The Beaver (leave it to him...)  
B06021955 Dana Carvey, of Saturday Night Live fame (The Church Lady...)  
B06021978 Nikki Cox, actress ("Unhappily Ever After").  
B06031808 Jefferson Davis, President of Confederacy from (1861 - 1865).  
B06031864 Ransom Eli Olds, auto manufacturer.  
B06031925 Tony Curtis  
B06031926 Allen Ginsberg  
B06031926 Colleen Duhurst, actress.  
B06041924 Dennis Weaver, Actor.   
B06041928 Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sexologist :)  
B06041936 Bruce Dern  
B06041937 Freddy Fender, Country singer.  
B06041952 Parker Stevenson, actor.  
B06041968 Scott Wolf, actor.  
B06041971 Noah Wyle, actor, (he's not a doctor, but he plays one on TV).   
B06051723 Adam Smith, economist  
B06051883 John Maynard Keynes, another economist.  
B06051900 Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography (3D laser photography.)  
B06051934 Bill Moyers  
B06061755 Nathan Hale, had but one life to give for his country.  
B06061756 John Trumbull, painter.  
B06061956 Bjorn Borg, Racketeer extraordinaire.  
B06061975 Stacie Keenan, actress.  
B06071778 Beau Brummel, English Dandy.  
B06071848 Paul Gauguin, painter.  
B06071922 Rocky Graziano  
B06071948 Tom Jones, singer.  
B06071956 Liam Neeson, actor.  
B06071958 The Artist (formally known as) Prince, Purple Rain.  
B0608 570 Mohammed, prophet.  
B06081625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, astronomer.  
B06081869 Frank Lloyd Wright, master builder.  
B06081918 Robert Preston, actor.  
B06091781 George Stephenson, principal inventor of the railroad locomotive.  
B06091915 Les Paul, inventor of the Les Paul Guitar.  
B06091916 Robert McNamara, actor.  
B06091934 Donald Duck, famous fowl mouth.  
B06101904 Frederick Loewe, composer.  
B06101966 Doug McKean, actor.  
B06101966 Elizabeth Hurly, Hugh Grants Main Squeeze.  
B06101926 June Haver, actress.  
B06111572 Ben Johnson, playwright.  
B06111847 Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of English women's movement.  
B06111867 Charles Fabry, discovered the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere.  
B06111907 Paul Mellon  
B06111910 Jacques Cousteau, diver and environmentalist.  
B06121915 David Rockefeller, International Power Broker.  
B06121924 (1989-1993) Forty-first president of the United States of America.  
B06121929 Anne Frank, diarist.  
B06121932 Rona Jaffe.  
B06121933 Jim Nabors, Surprise, Surprise, Surprise.    
B06121941 Marv Albert, sportscaster, and ...   
B06121957 Timothy Busfield, actor.       
B06121959 Jenilee Harrison, actress.  
B06121962 Ally Sheedy, actress.  
B06131903 Harold "Red" Grange, the "Galloping Ghost" of football.  
B06131913 Ralph Edwards  
B06131943 Malcolm McDowell, actor.  
B06131953 Tim Allen, comedian, actor, "Tool Man".  
B06131951 Richard Thomas, actor "Happy Birthday John Boy!"  
B06131962 Alley Sheedy, actress, part of the original "Brat Pack".  
B06131986 Mary Kate & Ashley Olson, twins.  
B06141811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin.)  
B06151950 Jim Varney, actor (know what I mean Vern?).  
B06151954 Jim Belushi, actor, comedian.  
B06151955 Julie Haggerty, actress.   
B06151963 Helen Hunt, actress.   
B06151964 Courtney Cox, actress  (FRIEND).  
B06151973 Neal Patrick Harris, actor  Doogie Houser M.D.  
B06161890 Stan Laurel, other half of Oliver Hardy.  
B06161955 Laurie Metcalf, actress.  
B06171870 George Cormack, the inventor of "Wheaties" cereal.  
B06171882 Igor Stravinsky, composer (The Rite of Spring.)  
B06171904 Ralph Bellamy  
B06171917 Dean Martin, actor, straight man.  
B06171946 Barry Manalow, singer, songwriter.  
B06171951 Joe Piscopo, actor, comedian.  
B06171954 Mark Linn-Baker, actor.  
B06171963 Greg Kinnear, actor.  
B06181877 James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, best known for his "I want you" Uncle Sam recruiting poster.  
B06181910 E.G. Marshall, actor.  
B06181942 Paul McCartney, Beatle  
B06181942 Roger Ebert, movie critic.   
B06181952 Isabella Rossellini  
B06181952 Carol Kane, actress.    
B06191623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician, invented PASCAL computer language.  
B06191897 Moe Howard, a Stooge.   
B06191886 Duchess of Windsor, divorcee.  
B06191903 Henry Louis Gehrig, the "Iron Horse" of the Yankees.  
B06191919 Louis Jourdan, actor.  
B06191943 Malcolm McDowell, actor.   
B06191948 Phylicia Rashad, actress.   
B06191951 Ann Wilson, from "HEART".    
B06191954 Kathleen Turner, actress.   
B06191963 Paula Abdul, singer, dancer.  
B06191967 Mia Sara, actress.   
B06191978 Garfield the cat. "Big fat hairy deal."  
B06201907 Lillian Hellman  
B06201924 Audie Murphy  
B06201924 Chet Atkins, singer.  
B06201931 Olympia Dukakis, actress.  
B06201945 Anne Murray, singer.  
B06201952 John Goodman, actor.  
B06201967 Nichole Kidman, actress.  
B06211732 Martha Washington, George's Mrs.  
B06211924 Jane Russell, full-figured gal.  
B06211925 Maureen Stapleton, actress.  
B06211940 Mariette Hartley  
B06211947 Michael Gross, actor.  
B06211964 Doug Savant, actor.  
B06221906 Billy Wilder  
B06221936 Kris Kristopherson, song writer, (not a singer).  
B06231846 George Sax, inventor of the saxophone.  
B06231894 Alfred Kinsey  
B06231894 Duke of Windsor  
B06231912 Alan Turing, mathematician, pioneer in computer theory.  
B06231927 Bob Fosse  
B06241839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift & Co.  
B06241842 Ambose Bierce  
B06241942 Michele Lee  
B06241947 Peter Weller, actor, Robocop!  
B06241956 Joe Penny, actor.  
B06241942 Mick Fleetwood, drummer for Fleetwood Mac.  
B06251894 Hermann Oberth, founder of modern astronautics.  
B06251925 June Lockhart, actress, (Timmy's Mom).  
B06251945 Carley Simon, singer.  
B06251963 George Michael, singer, Wham artist.  
B06261819 Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing American Baseball.  
B06261892 Pearl Buck, authoress (The Good Earth.)  
B06261913 Maurice Wilkes, invented the stored program concept for computers.  
B06261966 Chris Issack, singer.  
B06261970 Chris O'Donnel, actor.  
B06271880 Helen Keller, a portrait of courage.  
B06271927 Bob Keeshan, a.k.a. Captain Kangaroo (Good Morning, Captain.)  
B06271951 Julia Duffy, actress.  
B06281491 Henry VIII of England.  Don't lose your head over him.  
B06281577 Peter Paul Rubens, flemish baroque painter.  
B06281712 Jean Jacques Rousseau, social contractor.  
B06281902 Richard Rogers, composer of "South Pacific" & "Oklahoma".  
B06281926 Mel Brooks, comedian, actor, director, producer.  
B06281946 Gilda Radner, actress, comedienne.  
B06291858 George Washington Goethals, engineer who built the Panama Canal.  
B06291901 Nelson Eddy, baritone great duets with Janet McDonald.  
B06291919 Slim Pickens  
B06301917 Buddy Rich, drummer.  
B06301917 Lena Horne, singer.  
B06301966 Mike Tyson, (Ex - Prisoner # 316394), boxer.  
S06011495 First written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland.  Friar John Cor is the distiller.  
S06011925 Lou Gehrig starts in first of 2,130 consecutive games, a record.  
S06011938 First Superman comic book is published.  
S06021835 P.T. Barnum and his circus begin their first tour of the U.S.  
S06021851 Maine enacts a law prohibiting alcohol.  
S06021883 First baseball game played under electric lights in Fort Wayne, IN.  
S06021897 Mark Twain is quoted as saying "The report of my death was an exaggeration.  
S06021858 The Donati Comet first seen, named after its discoverer.  
S06021873 Ground broken on San Francisco's Clay Street for world's first cable-powered railroad.  
S06021910 Charles Stewart Roll flies across the English Channel.  
S06021924 Congress grants U.S. Citizenship to all American Indians.  
S06021941 Lou Gehrig dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.  
S06021953 Queen Elizabeth II is crowned 16 months after the death of her father King George VI.  
S06021966 U.S. Space Probe Surveyor I lands on the moon.  
S0603 208 Worlds first tattoo is performed.  
S06031888 "Casey at the Bat" is first published (by the SF Examiner.)  
S06031937 The Duke of Windsor weds Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson in France.  
S06031949 "Dragnet" is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles.)  
S06041647 The English army seized King Charles I as a hostage.
S06041812 Louisiana Territory is re-named the Missouri Territory.  
S06041896 Road test of the first Ford car is delayed an hour because the car was wider than the door of the shed in which it was built. Remember, "Ford has a better idea!"  
S06041911 Gold is discovered in Alaska's Indian Creek.  
S06041988 The world record for "Hacky-Sacking" is set, 48,825 consecutive times.    
S06041989 Chinese army troops stormed Beijing to crush the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement.  
S06051783 Joseph & Jacques Montgolifier demonstrate their hot-air balloon in a 10 minute flight.  
S06051833 Ada Lovelace (future first computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage.  
S06051849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.  
S06051875 Formal opening of the Pacific Stock Exchange.  
S06051884 Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman refused presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated nor serve if elected."  
S06051933 U.S. abandons Gold standard. 
S06051940 Battle of France begun.  
S06051947 Secretary of State George C. Marshall gives speech at Harvard oulining what became "The Marshall Plan".  
S06051967 War erupted in the Middleeast with Israel.  
S06051975 Egypt re-opens Suez Canal to international shipping 8 years after closing it because of the 1967 war with Israel.  
S06051986 Ronald W. Pelton is convicted of selling secrets to the Soviet Union.  He received 3 life terms plus 10 years.  
S06051993 Mariah Carey marries Tommy Mottoler.  
S06061933 First drive-in theatre opens, in Camden, New Jersey.  
S06061944 D-Day.  World War II turns the corner.  
S06062012 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs again.  
S06071839 The Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed.  
S06071860 First American "dime novel" is published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs. Ann Stevens.  
S06081786 First commercially-made ice cream sold in New York.  
S06081869 Patent issued for first suction-principle vacuum cleaner.  
S06081889 Cable Cars begin service in Los Angeles.  Really!  
S06081896 The first stolen car is reported.  
S06082004 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs.  
S06091868 First meeting of the Board of Regents, University of California.  
S06091869 Charles Elmer Hires sells his first Root Beer, in Philadelphia.  
S06091966 The NFL and the AFL merge.  
S06101720 Mrs. Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard.  
S06101772 Burning of the Gaspee, British revenue cutter by Rhode Islanders.  
S06101869 The "Agnes" arrives in New Orleans with the first ever shipment of frozen beef.  
S06101898 US Marines land at Cuba in Spanish-American War.  
S06101952 The first drive thru restaurant opens in America.  
S06101954 PBS reaches San Francisco, KQED Channel 9 starts broadcasting.  
S06101977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II.  
S06111859 Claim is filed for the Comstock Lode.  The mine eventually produces more than $300 million in silver.  
S06111895 First auto race.  
S06111952 First teenager, drives backward through the first drive-through restaurant.  
S06121838 Iowa Territory was organized.
S06121839 The first baseball game is played in America.  Thanks Abner!  
S06121849 Gas mask is patented by L.P. Haslett.  
S06121898 Phillipines gains its independence from Spain.  
S06121923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet above the ground.  
S06121931 Gangster Al Capone indicted for violating Prohibition laws.  
S06121963 Cleopatra starring Liz Taylor, Richard Burton, and Rex Harrison premiers in New York.  
S06121964 Judy Garland (who's not in Kansas anymore) marries Mark Herron.  
S06121977 David Berkowitz gets 25 to life for "Son of Sam" Murders in New York.  
S06121981 The 3rd professional baseball players strike starts.  
S06121987 President Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to "tear down this wall."
S06121994 Nichole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman found murdered.  L.A.  Police dept. arrest O.J. Simpson as their #1 suspect.  
S06131927 Charles Lindbergh honored in New York City for his trans- Atlantic flight.  750,000 pounds of confetti were showered down.  
S06131951 The Ford Foundation, launches a study, to raise the culture level of Television shows.  
S06131963 Vostok 6 launched, pilot is first woman cosmonaut.  
S06131983 Pioneer 10 is first man-made object to leave the Solar System.  
S06131996 A group of people known as The Freeman, surrender peacefully to the FBI after an 81 day stand off in Montana.  
S06141623 Rev. Gerville Pooley of Virginia files first breach-of-promise lawsuit against Cicely Jordan.  He loses.  
S06141777 Stars and Stripes adopted as US flag, replacing Grand Union flag.  
S06141846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma.  
S06141847 Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide.  
S06141876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Company gets it franchise  
S06141900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins.  
S06141919 First direct airplane crossing of the Atlantic.  
S06141951 Mr. Ed premiers, (A horse is a horse of course).  
S06141952 Keel laid for first nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus.  
S06151215 King John signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede.  
S06151775 Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the American Army.  
S06151836 Arkansas became the 25th state in the Union.  
S06151844 Charles Goodyear receives patent for his process to strengthen rubber.   
S06151851 Jacob Fussell, a Baltimore dairyman, sets up the first ice-cream factory.  
S06151878 First attempt at motion pictures (using 12 cameras, each taking one picture (done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground during a gallop. Leland Stanford bet they didn't. He lost).  
S06151928 Fay Wray marries John Monk Saunders.   
S06151940 France surrenders to Hitler.  
S06151916 Boy Scouts of America is incorporated.   
S06161775 The Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill).  
S06161846 First baseball game is played.  
S06161879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at the Bowery Theatre in New York City.  
S06161903 Ford Motor Company is incorporated.  
S06161963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space.  
S06161972 Natalie Wood marries Robert Wagner.  
S06171579 Sir Francis Drake lands on the coast of California.  
S06171775 British take Bunker Hill outside of Boston.  
S06171885 Statue of Liberty arrives in New York.  
S06171912 German Zeppelin SZ 111 burns in its hanger at Friedrichshafen.   
S06171931 Indochinese Communist Leader Ho Chi Mihn is arrested by The British.  
S06171944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland.  
S06171969 The broadway musical "Old Calcutta" opens using the naked human body for the first time as a stage costume.  
S06171972 The Watergate Break-in.  How time flies . . .   
S06171994 O.J. Simpson and Al Cowlings take a slow trip down the Los Angelas freeway (They interrupted the Damn NBA Playoffs!).  
S06171997 Robert De Niro marries Grace Hightower.   
S06181583 Richard Martin of London takes out the first life insurance policy, on William Gibbons.  The premium was 383 pounds.  
S06181812 War of 1812 begins.  
S06181815 Battle of Waterloo.  
S06181872 Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall.  
S06181873 Susan B. Anthony was fined $100.00 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.  The fine was never paid.   
S06181892 Macademia nuts first planted in Hawaii.  
S06181928 Amelia Earhart became first woman to fly across the Atlantic.   
S06181959 Jacques Charrier marries Brigitte Bardot.  
S06181964 Harrison Ford marries Mary Marquardt.   
S06181983 Sally Ride, becomes the first American woman in space.  
S06191778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.  
S06191861 Anaheim Post Office established.  
S06191862 Slavery is outlawed in U.S. Territories.   
S06191910 U.S. celebrates the first Father's Day.  
S06191931 Clark Gable marries Rhea Langham.   
S06191932 First concert given in San Francisco's Stern Grove.  
S06191934 The FCC is created.    
S06191986 Murry Haydon dies after 16 months of being on an artificial heart.   
S06191992 "Batman Returns" opens in U.S. theatres.  
S06201782 The United States chooses the Eagle as its symbol.  
S06201855 Commissioners appointed to lay out streets west of Larkin.  
S06201893 Lizzie Borden found "Not Guilty" of taking an axe and giving her parents a combined total of 81 whacks.  
S06201914 Noxema, is named because it "knocks eczema" out.  
S06201948 Ed Sullivan has his first really big "shoe" on Sunday night TV.  
S06201982 National Bald Eagle Day was declared.  
S06211879 F. W. Woolworth opens his first store (failed almost immediately, so he found a new location and you know the rest...)  
S06211893 The first Ferris wheel is premiered at Chicago's Columbian Exposition.  
S06211917 Hawaiian Red Cross founded.  
S06211948 CBS, itroduces the first long playing, (LP), record.  
S06221808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak.  
S06221847 The doughnut is invented, police officers everywhere rejoice.  
S06221849 Stephen C. Massett opens at courthouse as first professional entertainer, using (allegedly) the only piano in California.  
S06221940 France falls to Nazi Germany.  
S06221957 Kansas City stops using streetcars in its transit system.  
S06221978 The planet Pluto's partner, Charon, is discovered.  
S06221979 The day DISCO officially died, (Yeah!)  
S06221983 First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle.  
S06231810 John Jacob Astor organizes the Pacific Fur Company at the town he names for himself, Astoria, Oregon.  
S06231868 Typewriter patented.  
S06231974 The day DISCO should have died.  
S06241817 First coffee planted in Hawaii, on the Kona coast.  
S06241947 First reported signting of Flying Saucers, seen near Mt. Ranier, Washington by Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho.  
S06241989 A new world record is set for spitting a water melon seed. The distance is 68' 9.5" (Hope no one got hurt...)  
S06251178 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon (only known observation).  These monks have NO winery of their own.  
S06251630 The Fork is introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop.  
S06251835 Pueblo founded with construction of first building (start of Yerba Buena, later to be called San Francisco).  
S06251947 The tennis shoe is invented.  
S06261797 Charles Newbold patents an iron plow.  He can't sell it to farmers, though, because they fear the effects of iron on the soil!  
S06261896 The first movie theatre is opened in the U.S. with 10 cent movies.  
S06261934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions.  
S06261945 UN Charter written in San Francisco.  
S06271693 The first woman's magazine, "The Ladies' Mercury" is published in London.  It has the first advice column.  
S06271867 Bank of California opens its doors.  
S06271947 The first sighting of a flying saucer is reported in the U.S.  
S06281820 The tomato is proved to be nonpoisonous.  
S06281859 The first dog show is held, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.  
S06281918 In Hawaii, the first inter-island flight.  
S06281919 The Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, is signed.  
S06281951 The "Amos & Andy" show premiers on CBS television.  
S06291776 Mission Dolores founded in San Francisco Bay.  
S06291854 Congress ratifies Gadsden Purchase, adds parts of New Mexico and Arizona.  
S06291863 The very first "First National Bank" opens in Davenport, Iowa.  
S06291927 First flight from the West Coast arrives in Hawaii.  
S06291939 The Dixie Clipper completes the first commercial plane flight to Europe.  
S06291964 First remote control is sold with a TV.  
S06301893 The Excelsior diamond (blue-white, 995 carats) is discovered.  
S06301908 A giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (the Tunguska Event).  
S06301914 Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest, in campaign for Indian equal rights in South Africa.  
S06301936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, is first published.  
S06301960 Zaire gains its independence.  
R0602     Republic (Constitution) Day, celebrated in Italy.  
R0603     Egg Day (now, how will we celebrate ??)  
R0604     Old Maid's Day.  If you already knew it, don't admit it.  
R0605     Constitution Day, celebrated in Denmark.  
R0610     National Day, celebrated in Portugal.  
R0611     Kamehameha Day (celebrated in Hawaii).  
R0612     Independence Day, celebrated in the Phillipines.  
R0613     Kitchen Klutz's of America Day.  
R0613     The National Asparagus Festival.  
R0614     Flag Day.  
R0615    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.  
R0616    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.  
R0617     Republic Day, celebrated in Iceland.  
R0617    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.  
R0618    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.  
R0619    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.  
R0620    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.  
R0620     National Bald Eagle Day.  
R0621     The longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice.  
R0621    1Father's Day  Remind the guy how much you care.  
R0624     St. Jean Baptiste Day -- Canada.  
R0624     Midsummer Day, celebrated in Europe.  
R0627     National Fink Day. Reach out and tweak someone.  
R0630     Independence Day, celebrated in Zaire.  
B07011912 David Brower  
B07011916 Olivia De Havilland, actress.  
B07011936 Jamie Farr, actor.  
B07011942 Genevieve Bujold  
B07011942 Karen Black  
B07011945 Debbie Harry, singer (better known as Blondie).  
B07011952 Dan Aykroyd, actor, comedian.  
B07011961 Princess Diana  
B07011961 Carl Lewis  
B07011967 Pamela Anderson Lee, lifeguard.  
B07011977 Liv Tyler  
B07011946 Ron Silver, actor.  
B07021932 Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's.  
B07021952 Cheryl Ladd, angel.  
B07021956 Jerry Hall  
B07031937 Tom Stoppard  
B07031947 Betty Buckley  
B07031956 Montel Williams, talk show host.  
B07031957 Laura Branigan  
B07031962 Tom Cruise, actor.  
B07041753 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, first balloon flights in England, US.  
B07041804 Nathaniel Hawthorne.  
B07041826 Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna."  
B07041872 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President from (1923 - 1929).  
B07041878 George M. Cohan, "Yankee Doodle Dandy".  
B07041883 Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult.  
B07041900 Louis Armstrong, "Satchmo."  
B07041920 Sisters Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren, advice givers.  
B07041924 Eva Marie Saint, actress.  
B07041927 Neil Simon, director, producer.  
B07041928 Gina Lolabrigida, actress.  
B07041943 Geraldo Rivera, talk show host.  
B07041966 George Steinbrenner, owner of "The Yankees".  
B07051794 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker.  
B07051810 P.T. Barnum, circus ringmaster, and not a "Sucker"!  
B07051923 Nancy Reagan, former First Lady.  
B07051927 Janet Leigh  
B07051937 Shirley Knight  
B07051951 Huey Lewis, singer, songwriter, always in the "The News".  
B07051972 Michael Bays  
B07061747 John Paul Jones, "I have not yet begun to fight."  
B07061946 Sylvestor Stallone, "Yo!"  
B07061952 Shelly Hack, actress, angel.  
B07061954 Allyce Beasley, actress.  
B07071752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented the programmable loom.  
B07071907 Robert A. Heinlein, author who helped develop Science Fiction. As a sophisticated mode of literary expression.  
B07071927 Doc Severinson, musician.  
B07071940 Ringo Starr, Beatle.  
B07071949 Shelley Duvall, actress.  
B07071959 Jessica Hahn  
B07081839 John D. Rockefeller.  
B07081951 Angelica Houston, actress.  
B07081958 Kevin Bacon, actor.  
B07081973 Kathleen Robinson, actress.  
B07091802 Thomas Davenport, invented 1st commercially successful electric motor  
B07091947 O.J. Simpson, Ex football player, and .... ????    
B07091956 Tom Hanks, actor.  
B07101834 James Whistler, mama's boy.  
B07101867 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist/humorist who created Mr. Dooley.  
B07101915 Saul Bellow  
B07101920 David Brinkley, famous anchor, (news that is...)  
B07101926 Fred Gwynne, AKA: Herman Munster.  
B07101943 Arthur Ashe, tennis player.  
B07111767 John Quincy Adams, 6th President from (1825 - 1829).  
B07111899 Eb White  
B07111920 Yul Bryner, actor, famous bald person.  
B07111931 Tab Hunter  
B07121817 Henry David Thoreau, always had Ralph Waldo Emerson. Around to bail him out of trouble, also invented raisen bread.  
B07121854 George Eastman, created the Kodak camera.  
B07121895 R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome.  
B07121895 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers.  
B07121908 Milton Berle, "Uncle Miltie."  
B07121937 Bill Cosby, hey, hey, hey...  
B07121948 Richard Simmons, YRUFAT?  
B07131942 Harrison Ford, actor.  
B07141912 Woodie Guthrie.  
B07141913 Gerald R. Ford, 38th President from (1974 - 1976).  
B07141918 Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory.  
B07151606 Rembrandt, Dutch painter.  
B07151946 Linda Ronstadt, singer.  
B07151960 Kim Alexis, super model.  
B07151961 Lolita Davidovich, actress.  
B07151961 Forrest Whitaker, actor.  
B07151973 Brian-Austin Green, actor.  
B07161907 Barbara Stanwyck, actress.  
B07161909 Ginger Rogers, Fred Aistaire's dancing partner.  
B07171744 Elbridge Gerry, father of the "gerrymander."  
B07171900 James Cagney, hold that grapefruit.  
B07171917 Phyllis Diller, face lift queen, comedienne.  
B07171935 Donald Sutherland, actor.  
B07171935 Diane Carroll, singer, actress.  
B07171951 Lucie Arnez  
B07171952 David Hassellhoff, actor, "Bay Watcher!"  
B07181811 William Makepeach Thackeray, Victorian novelist, wrote "Vanity Fair"  
B07181848 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer.  
B07181906 Clifford Odets  
B07181906 S. I. Hayakawa, sleeper.  
B07181913 Red Skelton, clown to the world.  
B07181916 Harriet Nelson, Ozzie's better half.  
B07181921 John Glenn, Jr., first American in orbit.  
B07191814 Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt Revolver.  
B07191922 George McGovern  
B07191961 Anthony Edwards, actor.  
B07201938 Diana Rigg  
B07201938 Natalie Wood, actress.  
B07201947 Carlos Santana, singer, song writer.  
B07211899 Ernest Hemingway, never asked for whom the bell tolled...  
B07211899 Hart Crane  
B07211924 Don Knots, actor, comedian.  
B07211952 Robin Williams, comedian, actor.  
B07221844 Rev. William Archibald Spooner, invented "spoonerisms."  
B07221849 Emma Lazarus, whose poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.  
B07221890 Rose Kennedy, mother of Jack, Robert, and Ted.  
B07221898 Alexander Calder  
B07221898 Steven Vincent Bennet  
B07221932 Oscar De La Renta  
B07221947 Danny Glover, actor.  
B07221955 William Dafoe, actor.  
B07231936 Don Drysdale  
B07231951 Edie McClurg, actress.  
B07231961 Woody Harrelson, actor.  
B07231962 Eriq LaSalle, actor.  
B07231968 Stephanie Seymour  
B07231970 Charisma Carpenter, actress (Cordelia on Buffy)...  
B07241783 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule.  
B07241802 Alexandre Dumas, told the Count of Monte Christo how to escape.  
B07241870 Fred Law Olhmstead Jr.  
B07241898 Amelia Earhart, into the wild blue yonder.  
B07241949 Michael Richards, actor. (Kramer)  
B07241951 Lynda Carter, actress, Wonder Woman.  
B07241957 Pam Tillis, singer.  
B07241965 Kadeem Hardison, actor.   
B07251907 Jack Gilford  
B07251955 IMAN, model.  
B07251967 Matt LeBlanc, actor.  
B07251978 Louise Brown, first test-tube baby (born under the sign of Pyrex.)  
B07261856 George Bernard Shaw.  
B07261922 Jason Robards, actor.  
B07261943 Mick Jagger, never gathers moss, mr. lips.  
B07261959 Kevin Spacey, actor.  
B07261965 Sandra Bullock, actress.  
B07271922 Norman Lear, sitcom creator.  
B07271931 Jerry Van Dyke, actor.  
B07271967 Sasha Mitchell, actor.  
B07281929 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, redecorator.  
B07281943 Bill Bradley  
B07281943 Mike Bloomfield  
B07281948 Sally Struthers, actress.  
B07281964 Lori Loughlin, actress.  
B07281972 Elizabeth Berkley, actress.  
B07291869 Booth Tarkington, novelist.  
B07291871 Rasputin, the mad Russian monk.  
B07291905 Clara Bow  
B07291905 Thelma Todd  
B07291907 Melvin Belli, San Francisco's "King of Torts."  
B07301863 Henry Ford.  
B07301939 Peter Bogdanovich  
B07301941 Paul Anka, singer.  
B07311938 Thomas M. Ackermann  
B07311956 Michael Beian  
B07311962 Wesley Snipes, actor.  
B07311966 Dean Cain, actor.  
S07011850 At least 626 lay anchor around San Francisco Bay - Why?  
S07011867 Dominion of Canada formed.  
S07011898 Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill.  
S07011899 San Francisco City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building.  
S07011919 First Class Postage DROPS to 2 cents from 3 cents.  
S07011931 Ice vending machines introduced in Los Angeles. 25 lbs, 15 cents.  
S07011944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing world-wide financial systems (like the IMF and the World Bank.)  
S07011961 Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii.  
S07011971 Golden Gate Bridge is paid for.  (So why is there still a toll?)  
S07021900 First flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1.)  
S07021940 The Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge was opened.  
S07021964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.  
S07021988 A new record is set for throwing a frisbee, 623.6 feet.  
S07031608 Quebec is founded.  
S07031775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.  
S07031806 Michael Keens exhibits the first cultivated strawberry.  
S07031819 First savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors.  
S07031861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from New York.  
S07031972 The last episode of "Bewitched" airs.  
S07041054 Brightest known super-nova starts shining, for 23 days.  
S07041845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond.  
S07041863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho.)  
S07041873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens.  
S07041876 First public exhibiton of electric light in San Francisco.  
S07041894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the first US autos.  
S07041903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens. President Roosevelt sends message to the Phillipines, then a message around the World in 12 minutes, almost as fast as the internet.  
S07041933 Work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge.  
S07051811 Venezuela gains independence from Spain.  
S07051841 Thomas Cook opens first travel agency.  They were first involved in organizing trips for groups opposed to alchololic beverages.  
S07051865 William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England.  
S07051935 First "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast.  
S07051938 Herb Caen gets his first column in The San Francisco Chronicle.  
S07051945 The bikini, makes it's debut at a fashion show in Paris.  
S07061885 First inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur, who also invented pasteurization to prevent food from spoiling.  
S07061886 Horlick's of Wisconsin offers first malted milk to the public.  
S07061928 Preview of first all-talking motion picture took place in NYC.  
S07061932 First Class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents.  
S07061933 First All-Star baseball game.  American League won 5-2.  
S07061954 Elvis Presley, makes his first record at age 19.  
S07071891 A patent was granted for the travelers' cheque.  
S07071898 Hawaii annexed to the US.  
S07071908 The Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay.  
S07071960 Roger Woodward (age 7), falls out of a boat, and becomes first person to survive going over Niagara Falls.  
S07081796 First American Passport issued by the US State Department.  
S07081835 The Liberty Bell cracks (again.)  
S07081889 Vol 1, No 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" published.  
S07081896 William Jennings Bryan makes his "cross of gold" speech at the Democratic Convention in Chicago.  
S07081897 Harbor Hospital formally opens.  
S07081905 Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center.  
S07081992 Annual Chesapeke turtle derby, (turtle races Baltimore, MD.)  
S07091800 Mt. Vernon Gardens becomes site of first summer theatre in U.S.  
S07091816 Argentina gains its independence.  
S07091846 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for the U.S.  
S07091979 Voyager II flies past Jupiter.  
S07101890 Wyoming becomes the 44th state.  
S07101892 First concrete-paved street built - in Bellefountaine, Ohio.  
S07101925 The Scopes "Monkey" Trial starts.  
S07101962 Telstar, first geosynchronous communications satelite launched.  
S07111804 Burr and Hamilton duel.  Hamilton looses.  
S07111864 Confederate forces invade Washington DC. led by General J. Early.  
S07111955 U.S.A.F. Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado.  
S07111962 First transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I.)  
S07111985 Nolan Ryan, first major league pitcher, to strike out 4000 batters.  
S07121543 Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th & last wife.)  
S07121812 US forces lead by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812.)  
S07121817 First flower show was held at Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland.  
S07121933 Congress passes first minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour.)  
S07121934 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned.  
S07121981 First time a woman is ordered, to pay alimony to her husband.  
S07131568 The Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer.  
S07131865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go West."  
S07131898 San Francisco Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street opens.  
S07131985 Live Aid raises money for Africa's starving people.  
S07141789 The citizens of Paris storm the Bastille prison.  
S07141850 First public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration.  
S07141853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese.  
S07141865 The first ascent of the Matterhorn.  
S07141868 Patent granted for a tape measure enclosed in a circular case.  
S07141927 First commercial airplane flight in Hawaii.  
S07141977 Lightning strikes New York City power lines, and leaves the city in total darkness for 25 hours.  
S07151867 San Francisco's Merchant's Exchange opens.  
S07151869 Margarine is patented in Paris, for use in the French Navy.  
S07151965 Law is passed, requiring health warnings on cigarette packages.  
S07161769 Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, first mission in California.  
S07161790 Congress establishes the District of Columbia.  
S07161849 Safety pin is invented.  
S07161861 First major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run.  
S07161935 Oklahoma City becomes first in U.S. to use parking meters.  
S07161945 First atomic blast, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico.  
S07161946 Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (first time in SF history.)  
S07161969 Apollo 11, first manned ship to land on the moon, is launched, with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, & Michael Collins.  
S07161973 A major development in the Watergate scandal is announced.  
S07171879 First railroad opens in Hawaii.  
S07171917 British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor.  
S07171954 Construction begins on Disneyland...  
S07171955 ...Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County.  
S07171975 Soviet and American astronaughts, meet in space to shake hands.  
S07171996 TWA Flight #800 explodes in mid-air, just outside of Long Island.  
S0718  64 The Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle.)  
S07181872 Britain introduces voting by secret ballot.  
S07181938 Wrong Way Corrigan lands in Ireland (not California??.)  
S07181968 Intel Corporation is incorporated.  
S07181990 A world record is set for catching a grape in mouth, 319' 8".  
S07191695 First personal ad, looking for a spouse is printed.  
S07191848 First Women's Rights Convention. Seneca Falls, NY ... featuring the introduction of the first Bloomers.  
S07191880 San Francisco Public Library allows patrons to start borrowing books.  
S07191935 First parking meters installed in Oklahoma City business district.  
S07191955 The "Balclutha" ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum.  
S07191961 First In-flight movie is shown (on TWA.)  
S07201810 Columbia gains its independence.  
S07201859 Admission fee first charged to see a baseball game (50 cents.)  
S07201872 Mahlon Loomis receives patent for wireless ... the radio is born.  
S07201878 First telephone introduced in Hawaii.  
S07201969 Man landed on the Moon, 4:18PM EDT.  (Armstrong, Aldrin walk while Collins orbits in Apollo 11 above.)  
S07201970 First baby born on Alcatraz Island.  
S07201976 First pictures from Mars surface received (courtesy Viking 2.)  
S07201992 Madonna poses nude in Playboy.  (Big HAIRY deal).  
S07211831 Belgium gains its independence.  
S07211867 City Gardens on Folsom opens.  
S07211873 World's first train robbery, by Jesse James.  
S07211969 Neil Armstrong steps on the moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT.)  
S07221933 Wiley Post completes first round-the-world solo flight.  
S07221979 First Sony Walkman goes on sale.  
S07231829 Typewriter is patented.  
S07231852 First interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio.  
S07231865 Salvation Army is founded.   
S07231877 First telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii is completed.  
S07231903 Ford sells its first car, the "Model A".   
S07231904 The ice cream cone is invented.  
S07231960 Mel Gibson decides to become an actor.  
S07231984 Vanessa Williams resigns as Miss America.   
S07241824 The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of first public opinion poll.  Clear lead for Andrew Jackson.  
S07241938 Instant coffee is invented.  
S07251903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes.  
S07251909 First airplane flight across the English Channel.  
S07251946 First bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show.  
S07251983 The lowest temperature ever recorded is noted, -129 degrees in Antarctica.  
S07261775 Benjamin Franklin becomes Postmaster General.  
S07261835 First sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii.  
S07261847 Liberia gains its independence.  
S07261958 The Hoola-Hoop becomes popular.  
S07271586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia.  
S07271866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long.)  
S07271940 Billboard magazine starts publishing best-seller's charts.  
S07271983 Last episode of "TAXI" airs.  
S07281821 Peru gains its independence.  
S07281849 "Memmon" is first clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of New York Harbor.  
S07281900 The Hamburger is created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut.  
S07281914 The Foxtrot is first danced at the New Amsterdam Roof Garden, in New York City.  Music by Harry Fox (who else?)  
S07281931 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd National Anthem.  
S07281933 First Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee.)  
S07281975 The "Hustle" hits #1 on disco charts.  
S07281996 Charles Austin wins first Gold Medal for the United States since 1968 in the high jump competition.  
S07291835 First sugar plantation in Hawaii begun.  
S07291858 First commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.  
S07291914 First transcontinental phone link made.  It's between NYC and San Francisco.  
S07291920 First transcontinental airmail flight from New York to San Francisco.  
S07291926 Don Juan opens with the most kisses, 127 in a single movie.  
S07291958 Southern Pacific Bay Ferries stop running.  
S07291981 The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana.  
S07291996 Carl Lewis wins his 9th Gold Medal in the 1996 Olympics.  
S07301619 The House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed.  First elective governing body in a British colony.  
S07301733 Society of Freemasons opens its first American lodge in Boston.  
S07301836 First English newspaper published in Hawaii.  
S07301975 The last reported sighting of Jimmy Hoffa is reported.  
S07311790 First US Patent granted (for a potash process.)  
S07311922 18 year old Ralph Samuelson rides world's first water skis at Lake City, Minnesota.  
S07311970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending "Huntley-Brinkley Report" (No more "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet.")  
S07311988 America's last Playboy Club closes, in Lansing, MI.  (Awww!)  
R0701     Dominion Day -- Canada.  
R0704     Independence Day. Are fireworks legal where YOU live?  
R0705     Independence Day, celebrated in Venezuela.  
R0707     Annual Running of the Bulls at Pamplona, Spain.  
R0709     National POW/MIA Recognition Day.  
R0709     Independence Day, celebrated in Argentina.  
R0711     National Holiday of the People's Republic of Outer Mongolia. (Celebrated mainly in Ulan Bator, yurt capital of Asia.)  
R0713     The start of the Bon Festival in Japan.  
R0714     Bastille Day -- France.  
R0715     National Ice Cream Day.  
R0715     Saint Swithin's Day.  
R0716     The National Blueberry Festival.  
R0717     Constitution Day, celebrated in South Korea.  
R0718     National Day, celebrated in Spain.  
R0720     Independence Day, celebrated in Columbia.  
R0721     Independence Day, celebrated in Belgium.  
R0723     National Day, in Egypt.  
R0726     The start of the Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree in Athens, Texas.  
R0726     Independence Day, celebrated in Liberia.  
R0728     Independence Day, celebrated in Peru.  
R0729    6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.  
R0730     There's a full moon tonight!  
R0730    6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.  
R0731    6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.  
B08011770 William Clark, explored Pacific Northwest with Lewis.  
B08011779 Francis Scott Key, wrote the "Star-Spangled Banner".  
B08031811 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the safe elevator.  
B08011815 Richard Henry Dana, spent 2 years before the mast.  
B08011922 Arthur Hill  
B08011933 Dom De Luise, big guy!  
B08021905 Myrna Loy  
B08021924 Carroll O'Conner, better known as Archie Bunker.  
B08021924 James Baldwin, actor  
B08021932 Peter O'Toole, actor  
B08031811 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the "SAFE" elevator (was it unsafe before???).  
B08031924 Leon Uris  
B08031926 Tony Bennett, singer.  
B08031940 Martin Sheen, actor.  
B08031952 Jay North, Dennis the Menace.  
B08041755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, invented the modern pencil.  
B08041906 John Huston, actor.  
B08041946 Loni Anderson, actress.  
B08051930 Neil Armstrong, first Moonwalker.  
B08061809 Lord Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate of England.  
B08061881 Sir Alexander Fleming, cashed in on penicillin.  
B08061911 Lucille Ball, actress who has some 'splainin to do!  
B08061917 Robert Mitchum, actor.  
B08071783 John Heathcoat, invented lace-making machinery.  
B08071886 Louis Alan Hazeltine, invented the neutrodyne circuit, making commercial radio possible.  
B08071923 Ester Williams  
B08071937 Dustin Hoffman, actor, "Rainman".  
B08081763 Charles Bullfinch, first US professional architect.  
B08081922 Rudi Gernreich, designed first women's topless swimsuit & the miniskirt.  
B08091923 Rhonda Flemming  
B08091928 Eddie Fisher  
B08091928 Jimmy Dean  
B08091930 Betty Boop.  
B08091940 Irene J. Gurney  
B08101874 Herbert Hoover, 31st President from (1929 - 1933).  
B08101925 Mike Douglas, actor.  
B08101933 Jerry Falwell, televangelist.  
B08101960 Antonio Banderas, actor.  
B08111953 Hulk Hogan, wrestler.  
B08121881 Cecil B. deMille, directed God.  
B08121911 Mario Moreno, alias Cantinflas.  
B08131655 Johann Christoph Denner, invented the clarinet.  
B08131818 Lucy Stone, pioneer in Woman's Rights.  
B08131860 Annie Oakley, sharpshooter.  
B08131899 Alfred Hitchcock, creator of "Norman Bates".  
B08131912 Ben Hogan  
B08131926 Fidel Castro, dictator.  
B08141946 Susan St. James  
B08141959 Irving "Magic" Johnson.  
B08151769 Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba.  
B08151803 Sir James Douglas, father of British Columbia.  
B08151912 Julia Child, chef.  
B08151912 Wendy Hiller  
B08151924 Phyllis Schalfly  
B08151925 Mike Conners  
B08151935 Jim Dale  
B08161884 Hugo Gernsback, responsible for science fiction becoming an independent literary form.  
B08161892 Harold Foster, cartoonist, created "Prince Valiant", known for its fine drawing and historical detail.  
B08161930 Frank Gifford, sports personality.  
B08161930 Robert Culp, actor.  
B08161946 Leslie Ann Warren, actress.  
B08161952 Reginald Vel Johnson, actor.  
B08161953 Kathie Lee Gifford  
B08161958 Angela Bassett  
B08161959 "Madonna" Louise Veronica Ciccone.  
B08161960 Timothy Hutton, actor.  
B08171786 Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier.  
B08171892 Mae West.  Go up and see her sometime.  
B08171921 Maureen O'Hara  
B08171943 Robert Diniro, actor.  
B08181618 Virginia Dare, first child born in America of English parents.  
B08181834 Marshall Field, founded a Chicago-based store chain.  
B08181904 Max Factor Jr., make up artist.  
B08181922 Shelley Winters, actress.  
B08181927 Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady.   
B08181933 Roman Polanski, novelist.  
B08181937 Robert Redford, actor.  
B08191646 John Flamsteed, first astronomer royal of England.  
B08191785 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks.  
B08191871 Orville Wright, famed brother and aviator.  
B08191931 Willie Shoemaker  
B08191940 Jill St. John  
B08191946 Bill Clinton, president from (1992-1996).  
B08191965 Kyra Sedgwick, actress.  
B08201833 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President from (1889-1893).  
B08201942 Issac Hayes  
B08201948 Robert Plant, singer, songwriter.  
B08211660 Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote first book on bridge building.  
B08211936 Mart Crowley  
B08211936 Wilt Chamberlain, very tall basketball player.  
B08211938 Kenny Rogers, singer, songwriter, sometime actor.  
B08221862 Claude Debussy, composer  
B08221920 Ray Bradbury, science fiction author.  
B08221940 Valerie Harper, actress.  
B08231869 James "Sunny Jim" Rolph, Mayor (1912-1931), Muni backer.  
B08231912 Gene Kelly, dancer, singer in the rain.  
B08231930 Vera Miles  
B08241816 Sir Daniel Gooch, laid first successful trans-Atlantic cables.  
B08241872 Aubrey Beardsley  
B08241872 Max Beerbohm  
B08241886 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed the Liberty ships.  
B08241917 Dennis James  
B08241956 Garry Cooney