*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B04011815 Otto von Bismark
B04011883 Lon Chaney, man of a thousand faces
B0402 742 Emperor Charlemagne
B04021725 Cassanova (Bassanova's brother)
B04021875 Walter Chrysler, founded a car company.
B04021914 Sir Alec Guiness, thespian
B04021920 Jack Webb, dum-de-dum-dum
B04021924 Doris Day, girl next door
B04031924 Marlon Brando, godfather
B04041792 Thaddeus Stevens
B04041802 Dorothea Dix, social reformer
B04041915 Muddy Waters
B04051483 Raphael
B04051856 Booker T. Washington
B04051908 Bette Davis
B04051954 Michael W. Butler, creator of this TODAY program.
B04061810 Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium
B04061866 Butch Cassidy
B04061866 Lincoln Steffens, muckraker.
B04061874 Harry Houdini
B04061890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer
B04061892 Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company.
B04061892 Lowell Thomas, journalist
B04071506 Francis Xavier
B04071770 William Wordsworth
B04071860 W.K. Kellogg, founded the cereal company.
B04071915 Billie Holiday, blues singer
B04071931 Daniel Ellsberg
B04071932 Mark Russell, satirist
B04071939 Francis Ford Coppola
B04081889 Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
B04091830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion in photography.
B04091865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz
B04091879 W.C. Fields, Philadelphian
B04091919 John Presper Eckert, co-inventor of 1st electronic computer (ENIAC)
B04091932 Carl Perkins
B04101847 Joseph Pulitzer
B04111913 Oleg Cassini
B04121777 Henry Clay, 'The Great Compromiser'
B04121791 Francis P. Blair, helped found the Republican Party.
B04121913 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader & vibraphone improvisor
B04131721 John Hanson, 1st US President under the Articles of Confederation
B04131743 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President (1801-1809)
B04131852 F.W. Woolworth, the "five-and-ten" king.
B04131906 Samuel Beckett
B04141889 Arnold Toynbee, historian
B04151452 Leonardo Da Vinci
B04151707 Leonhard Euler, mathematician
B04161867 Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame
B04161889 Charlie Chaplin, tramp
B04161921 Peter Ustinov
B04161924 Henry Manchini
B04161947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tall person
B04171837 J.P. Morgan, financed the US.
B04171897 Thornton Wilder, American novelist
B04181857 Clarence Darrow, lawyer
B04191877 Ole Evinrude, invented the outboard marine engine.
B04201889 Adolf Hitler
B04201950 Peter Frampton
B04211838 John Muir, naturalist.
B04211864 Max Weber
B04211926 Queen Elizabeth II
B04221870 Nikolai Lenin
B04221904 J. Robert Oppenheimer.
B04221937 Jack Nicholson
B04221938 Glen Campbell
B04231564 William Shakespeare
B04231791 James Buchanan, 15th President (1857-1861)
B04231813 Stephen Douglas, the "Little Giant", debated Lincoln
B04231928 Shirley Temple, child
B04241620 John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of demography
B04241934 Shirley Maclaine
B04241942 Barbara Streisand
B04251599 Oliver Cromwell
B04251874 Guglielmo Marconi, made radio possible
B04251908 Edward R. Murrow, set the standard for TV correspondents.
B04260121 Marcus Aurelius
B04261785 John James Audubon, birdwatcher
B04261894 Rudolph Hess
B04261900 Charles Richter, he tells us how bad the quakes are.
B04271791 Samuel F. B. Morse
B04271822 Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President (1869-1877)
B04271896 Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon.
B04271959 Sheena Easton
B04281758 James Monroe, 5th President (1816-1824)
B04291830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels...
B04291863 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner)
B04291899 Duke Ellington
B04301777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematician of all time.
B04301912 Eve Arden, Our Miss Brooks
B04301933 Willie Nelson (.. Of all the Vaxes that I loved..).
B04011915 O. W. Fischer
B04011920 Toshiro Mifune
B04021914 Alec Guinness
B04031924 Marlon Brando
B04031924 Doris Day
B04031958 Alec Baldwin
B04031961 Eddie Murphy
B04041965 Robert Downey Jr.
B04051916 Gregory Peck
B04101951 Steven Segal
B04121956 Andy Garcia
B04141941 Julie Christie
B04151939 Claudia Cardinale
B04151959 Emma Thompson
B04161921 Peter Ustinov
B04161954 Ellen Barkin
B04161966 Kay Wiesinger
B04201949 Jessica Lange
B04211915 Anthony Quinn
B04211958 Andy MacDowall
B04221937 Jack Nicholson
B04241934 Shirley MacLaine
B04241942 Barbara Streisand

*mmddyyyy Events
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S0401     April Fool's Day
S04011778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans Businessman, creates the "$".
S04011850 San Francisco County Government established.
S04011866 US congress passes civil rights bill to all except Indians
S04011917 Scott Joplin dies
S04011941 Navy takes over Treasure Island.
S04011960 TIROS I (Television & Infra-Red Observation Satellite) launched
S04011960Cto improve weather prediction.
S0402     First man shot from a cannon
S0402     International Children's Book Day
S04021792 Congress establishes Coin denominations of United States.
S04021877 First Easter Egg roll on White House lawn
S04021896 Barnum and Bailey Circus open in New York
S04021902 First motion picture theater opens
S04021935 Watson Watt granted a patent for RADAR.
S04031848 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher.
S04031936 Bruno Hauptmann executed for Lindberg kidnapping
S04031980 Genuine Risk wins Kentucky Derby
S04041860 Pony Express begins service, from St. Joseph, Missouri.
S04041870 Golden Gate Park established by City Order #800.
S04041968 Martin Luther King shot in Memphis.
S04041969 Star Trek cancelled.
S04041974 Hank Aron beats Babe Ruth's batting record.
S04051614 Pocahontas marries John Rolfe.
S04051941 Castro and Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses.
S04051976 Howard Hughes dies.
S04052346 BC Noah's Ark grounded at Mt. Ararat
S04061862 Battle of Shiloh.
S04061868 Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife.
S04061906 first animated cartoon is copyrighted.
S04061917 USA declares war on Germany.
S04061926 4 planes take off on 1st successful around-the-world flight.
S04061957 New York City ends trolley car service.
S04061972 USA begins sustained bombing of Vietnam.
S04071652 Capetown South Africa established.
S04071832 An English farmer sells his wife for 20 shillings and a
S04071832CNewfoundland Dog.
S04071931 Seals Stadium opens.
S04071933 Prohibition ends.
S04071948 World Health Organization is established.
S0407  30 Crucifixion of Christ.
S0408     Kambutsue, celebration of Buddha's birthday, in Japan
S04081513 Ponce de Leon discovers Florida.
S04081913 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified
S04081947 Largest recorded sunspot - 7000 million square miles.
S04081954 Trans-Canada Airlines plane collides with RCAF trainer over
S04081954CMoose Jaw, killing all 36 persons and 1 woman on the ground.
S04081973 Pablo Picasso dies at age 91.
S04081974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record.
S04091865 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox.
S04091940 Germany carries out Blitzkrieg invasion of Denmark and Norway.
S04091953 TV Guide publishes their first issue.
S04091955 United Nations Charter hearing.
S04101825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens.
S04101849 Safety pin patented.
S04101871 William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park
S04101871Cofficially accepted.
S04101878 California Street Cable Car Railroad Company starts service.
S04101882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
S04101953 House of Wax, first 3-D movie, released in New York.
S04101963 US Navy announced submarine THRESHER lost with 129 aboard.
S04101979 Idi Amin flees Kampala Uganda.
S0411     Barber Shop Quartet Day
S04111814 Naploleon banished to Elba.
S04111868 Shogunate abolished in Japan.
S04111876 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized.
S04111895 Anaheim completes it's new electric light system.
S04111899 Control of Philippines transferred to USA from Spain.
S04111945 Buchenwald liberated by Allied forces.
S04111947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball.
S04111951 Gen. Douglas MacArthur removed from all military posts in Far East.
S04111958 Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated.
S04111974 Golda Meir announces her resignation from Israeli Parliament.
S04121859 Hibernia Savings & Loan Society of San Francisco incorporated.
S04121861 Confederates fire on Fort Sumter, US Civil War begins.
S04121861 Fort Sumter, S. C., shelled by Confederacy, starts Civil War.
S04121898 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island to Navy.
S04121933 Moffatt Field is commissioned.
S04121937 Nation wide student strike held to avow stand against all wars.
S04121945 F.D. Roosevelt dies - Truman sworn in as President.
S04121961 Yuri A. Gagarin becomes 1st man to orbit Earth.
S04121962 San Mateo County withdraws from BART district.
S04121981 1st launch of the space shuttle, Columbia.
S04131976 $2 bill re-introduced as United States currency.
S04141788 Doctor's riot Colombia university, because students and neighbors
S04141788Copposed the stealing of cadavers from local grave yards.
S04141828 1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.
S04141860 1st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri.
S04141865 Abraham Lincoln assasinated by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theater.
S04141894 First peep show opens (New York City).
S04141900 Veteran's Hospital at Fort Miley established.
S04141928 regular air passenger flights between San Francisco and
S04141928CLos Angeles started, by Maddux Air Lines.
S04141931 20 Millionth Ford rolls off the assembly line
S04141971 Fort Point dedicated as 1st National Park in Bay Area.
S04141986 At 7:00 EST USA attacks Lybian terrorist installations.
S04151850 City of San Francisco incorporated.
S04151865 Lincoln's heart stops beating at 7:22.
S04151877 First business telephone installed.
S04151912 Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM., 1517 people lost.
S04151922 the famed Poodle Dog Restaurant closes.
S04151923 insulin becomes generally available for diabetics.
S04151928 Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf is founded.
S04151955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants.
S04151959 Fidel Castro comes to USA.
S04161866 Nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo & Co. office explodes.
S04161947 Fertilizer ship explosion kills 500 in Texas City.
S04171524 New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.
S04171616 William Harvey discovers circulation of blood.
S04171853 US Marine Hospital at the Presidio established.
S04171895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95).
S04171941 Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing)
S04171961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
S04171969 Sirhan Sirhan convicted of assassinating Robert Kennedy.
S04181775 'The British are Coming!' Paul Revere rides.
S04181868 San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed.
S04181869 1st International Cricket Match, held in SF, won by Californian
S04181906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
S04181907 Fairmont Hotel opens.
S04181934 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) is opened, in Fort Worth, Texas
S04181936 "Clipper" starts providing regular passenger flights from
S04181936CSan Francisco to Honolulu.
S04181955 Albert Einstein dies.
S04181956 First time an umpire wears glasses at a baseball game.
S04181968 San Francisco's Old Hall of Justice demolished.
S0419     Patriot's Day
S04191775 at Lexington Common, the shot 'heard round the world'.
S04191852 California Historical Society founded.
S04191874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire.
S04191882 Charles Darwin dies.
S04191892 Charles Duryea takes the 1st American-made auto out for a spin.
S04191910 Halley's Comet reappears.
S04191919 Successful treatment for Syphillis announced.
S04191939 Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights (only 148 years late)
S04201676 Bacon's rebellion.
S04201769 Chief Pontiac assassinated.
S04201872 Bar Association of San Francisco organized.
S04201958 Buses replace Key System trains at 3AM.
S04211862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorado.
S04211892 1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park.
S04211910 Mark Twain dies.
S04211918 Red Baron shot down.
S0422     Earth Day
S04221915 First use of Posion gas by Germans (Belgium).
S04221946 Sniff-the-Breeze-Day (Egypt).
S0423     National Secretary Day
S04231616 Cervantes dies.
S04231850 Wordsworth dies.
S04231871 Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up.
S04231949 Courtesy Mail Boxes for motorists started in San Francisco.
S04231950 Nationalist Chinese abandon Hainan Island to the Communists.
S04231971 Soviets launch Soyuz 10.
S0423303  Crown of martyrdom given to St. George upon his beheading.
S04241731 Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, died.
S04241800 Library of Congress founded.
S04241865 Fire Alarm & Police Telegraph system put into operation.
S04241885 General Middleton met a force of Metis at Fish Creek, Sask.
S04241898 Spain declare war on the United States.
S04241900 the passing of Andrew Halliday, Cable Car Pioneer.
S04241915 Turkey begins mass deportation of Armenians.
S04241949 Candy rationing ended in Britain.
S04241986 Duchess of Windsor, Wallace Simpson dies.
S04241986 Howard Arlin, composer of music for The Wizard of Oz, dies.
S04241986C(Edward VIII abdicated for her)
S0425     Arbor Day.  Plant a tree.
S04251849 The Canadian Rebellion Losses bill becomes law.
S04251891 President Benjamin Harrison visits San Francisco.
S04251901 First automobile license plates (New York city).
S04251901 New York becomes 1st state requiring license plates for cars
S04251940 Bill granting women the vote in Quebec becomes law.
S04251945 United Nations Conference starts.
S04251961 Robert Noyce granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
S04251964 Statue LITTLE MERMAID (Copenhagen) loses head to theives.
S04251974 Military coup in Portugal overthrew authoritarian government in
S04251974Cpower since 1926.
S04251980 U.S. attempts rescue of hostages in Iran.
S04261607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va.
S04261906 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii.
S04261954 nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio begins.
S04261970 Radioactive rain falls on Troy N.Y.
S04261971 San Francisco Lightship replaced by automatic buoy.
S0427     Union Day, celebrated in Tanzania.
S04271565 1st Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City, founded.
S04271897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) is dedicated.
S04271932 Hart Crane get drunk and jump off ship, and is never seen again.
S04271937 US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment.
S04271945 founding of the Second Republic, in Austria.
S04271951 Iran nationalizes oil industry.
S04271979 USSR releases 5 dissedents to U.S. in exchange for 2 spies.
S04281754 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurs.
S04281919 1st successful parachute jump is made.
S04281937 First electrically animated cartoon appears (Times Square).
S04281945 Mussolini and Clara Petacci killed at Lake Como.
S04281965 U.S. Marines land in the Dominican Republic.
S04281974 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon.
S0429     the Emperor's Birthday, celebrated in Japan.
S04291857 Headquarters for the US Army, Division of the Pacific,
S04291857Cpermanently established at the Presidio.
S04291913 Zipper patented (Ziiiiiiiiipppp...).
S04291945 Dachau liberated.
S04291954 India recognized Tibet as part of Red China.
S04291980 Alfred Hitchcock dies.
S0430     *** Last Day to do Taxes ***
S04301789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st US president.
S04301798 Department of the Navy established.
S04301803 US more than doubles its size thru the Louisiana Purchase.
S04301857 founding of what would be San Jose State University.
S04301869 the Hawaiian YMCA organized.
S04301900 Casey Jones killed in the wreck of the Cannonball Express.
S04301939 NBC makes 1st US demo of TV at opening of NY World's Fair.