*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B01011735 Paul Revere
B01011752 Betsy Ross
B01011895 J. Edgar Hoover
B01011909 Dana Andrews, actor in Collins, Mississippi
B01011919 J. D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'.
B01021920 Isaac Asimov
B01031840 Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii.
B01031892 J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings.
B01031909 Victor Borge, pianist + comedian in Copenhagan
B01031945 Stephen Stills
B01041119 Thomas Beckett
B01041643 Sir Issac Newton "inventor of gravity." (?)
B01041809 Louis Braille, developed reading system for the blind.
B01041838 Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person)
B0105???? Sherlock Holmes - Attended elementary school.
B01051209 Richard of Cornwall
B01051779 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero
B01051855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor
B01061412 Joan of Arc
B01061811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator
B01061878 Carl Sandburg, poet to the world.
B01061882 Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957)
B01061914 entertainer Danny Thomas (born Amos Jacobs) in Deerfield, Mich
B01071800 Millard Fillmore, 13th President (1850-1853)
B01081786 Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US 1st effective central bank.
B01081862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co.
B01081868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
B01081931 Bill Graham
B01081935 Elvis Presley, singer.
B01081941 Yvette Mimieux, actress in Hollywood, Ca
B01081946 Tod Brannan
B01081947 David Bowie (born David Jones).
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 (1968-1974)
B01101738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys)
B01101877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the elecrostatic
B01101877Cprecipitator, used for polution control and air ionizers.
B01101904 Ray Bolger, dancer + actor in Dorchester, Mass
B01111755 Alexander Hamilton, the 1st Secretary of the US Treasury
B01111807 Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University.
B01111930 actor Rod Taylor in Sydney, Australia
B01111942 Jim Croce, If only he could have saved time in his bottle.
B01121588 John Winthrop, 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
B01121737 John Hancock, famed calligrapher and insurance man. (?)
B01121893 Hermann Goering
B01121906 Tex Ritter
B01131832 Horatio Alger, Jr.
B01131919 Robert Stack
B0114     Albert Schweitzer, doctor, humanitarian, organist.
B01141741 Benidict Arnold
B01141892 Hal Roach, early film director and producer.
B01151908 Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb.
B01151929 Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer
B01161874 Robert Service
B01161901 Batista
B01161909 singer Ethel Merman (born Ethel Zimmerman) in Astoria, Queens NY.
B01171706 Benjamin Franklin
B01171771 Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel.
B01171880 Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops
B01171931 James Earl Jones, actor in Arlabutla, Miss
B01171942 Muhammed Ali, who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.
B01171965 Peter Deane born in Manly, NSW. See I can edit these!
B01181779 Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule,
B01181779Ccreated pocket chessboard
B01181782 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician.
B01181813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented 1st commercially useable
B01181813Cbarbed wire.
B01181854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Alexander Graham Bell.
B01181892 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.
B01181904 Cary Grant (born  Alexandar Archabald Leach), actor.
B01191736 James Watt, made the steam engine workable.
B01191807 Robert E. Lee, southern legend.
B01191809 Edgar Allen Poe
B01191839 Paul Cezanne, painter
B01191943 Janis Joplin
B01201875 Andre Ampere
B01201896 Nathan Birnbaum (better known as George Burns)
B01201920 Fredrico Fellini, film director in Rimmini, Italy
B01201930 Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
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 anethesia.
B01211924 Telly Savalas (born Aristoteles) in Garden City,NJ
B01221561 Francis Bacon
B01221934 Bill Bixby, actor in San Francisco, Ca.
B01231756 Wolfgang A. Mozart, musical prodigy
B01231899 Humphrey Bogart
B01241712 Frederick the Great
B01241888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built 1st rocket-powered aircraft.
B01241948 John Belushi
B01251759 Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.
B01251874 Somerset Maugham, poet
B01251882 Virginia Woolf, author.
B01251919 Edwin Newman
B01261880 Douglas MacArthur, he did return!
B01261925 Paul Newman
B01261944 Angela Davis
B01271756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
B01271832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll)
B01271850 Samuel Gompers, 1st president of the American Federation of Labor
B01271859 Kaiser Willhelm II
B01271931 Mordecai Richler
B01281457 Henry VII
B01281855 William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine.
B01281936 Alan Alda
B01291737 Thomas Paine
B01291843 William McKinley, 25th President (1897-1901)
B01291850 Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite
B01291860 Anton Chekhov, playwright. (The Cherry Orchard)
B01291880 Claude William Dukenfield (better known as W.C. Fields)
B01291880 W.C. Fields
B01291901 Allen B DuMont, perfected 1st commercially practical 
B01291901Ccathode ray tube.
B01301882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President (1933-1945)
B01301931 Gene Hackman
B01301937 Vanessa Redgrave
B01311830 James G. Blaine, the 'Plumed Knight'.
B01311872 Zane Gray, American West novelist
B01311919 Jackie Robinson, 1st black major league baseball player
B01311923 Norman Mailer, novelist in Long Branch, NJ
B01311933 Carol Channing, actress in Seattle, Wa
B01311937 actress Suzanne Pleshette in New York City
B01031956 Mel Gibson
B01041959 Vanity
B01041965 Julia Ormond
B01051946 Diane Keaton
B01071956 Uwe Ochsenknecht
B01071964 Nicolas Cage
B01081947 David Bowie
B01121955 Kirstie Alley
B01131966 Patrick Dempsey
B01141941 Faye Dunaway
B01151926 Maria Schell
B01151957 Mario Van Peebles
B01151958 Julian Sands
B01171931 James Earl Jones
B01171962 Jim Carrey
B01181955 Kevin Costner
B01211957 Geena Davis
B01221940 John Hurt
B01221965 Diane Lane
B01231928 Jeanne Moreau
B01241928 Michel Serrault
B01241950 Daniel Auteuil
B01241961 Nastassia Kinski
B01251925 Paul Newman
B01271964 Bridget Fonda
B01301931 Gene Hackman
B01301937 Vanessa Redgrave

*mmddyyyy Events
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S0101     Independence Day, celebrated in Haiti and Sudan
S0101     The start of a new year... Enjoy the bowl games.
S01011772 First traveller's cheques are issued in London.
S01011804 Haiti gains its independence
S01011840 First Bowling tournament.
S01011863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln.
S01011898 Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of San Francisco Bay.
S01011902 1st Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California.
S01011912 1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63 miles)
S01011934 Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison.
S01011941 Radio industry bans ASCAP.
S01011953 Hank Williams dies in the back of his Cadillac.
S01011956 Sudan gains its independence
S01011958 European Economic Community (EEC) starts operation.
S01011959 Cuban revolution under Fidel Castro triumphs - Juan Batista flees.
S01011979 China and U.S. establish full diplomatic relations.
S01011983 General Motors recalls 3,000 calendars.
S01011984 AT & T broken up into 8 companies.
S01021883 Tom Thumb dies.
S01021890 Alice Sanger becomes first female White House staffer.
S01021921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens.
S01021957 the San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.
S01021968 First successful human heart transplant.
S01021975 Elizabeth Domitien named first female premier in Central African Rep.
S01031521 Martin Luther excommunicated.
S01031847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.
S01031852 first Chinese arrive in Hawaii.
S01031870 Brooklyn Bridge construction begins.
S01031888 1st drinking straw is patented by M C Stone.
S01031912 Southern Pacific RR offers to bring the Liberty Bell to the
S01031912CExposition without charge.
S01031959 Alaska becomes the 49th state.
S01031961 Atomic Reactor blows up in Idaho Falls.
S01031977 Apple Computer incorporated.
S0104     National Trivia Day.
S01041493 Columbus returns to Europe taking 6 indian captives.
S01041863 Four-wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of New York.
S01041885 First appendectomy.
S01041936 First pop music chart based on record sales published.
S01041948 Burma becomes independent.
S01041982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for the 3rd time by fierce storm.
S01041983 Spiro Agnew pays Maryland $268,482 - alleged kickbacks + interest.
S01051780 Benedict Arnold helps British plunder and burn Richmond Va.
S01051850 the California Exchange opens.
S01051889 Iroquois petition Canadian government to keep traditional system of
S01051889Cchiefs.
S01051911 San Francisco has its 1st air meet.
S01051925 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes first woman governor.
S01051928 First women sworn in as govenor (Wyoming).
S01051933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side.
S01051938 When You're Smiling recorded by Billie Holiday.
S0106     Epiphany (Twelfth Night in England)
S0106     Arizona becomes the 47th state.
S01061681 First recorded boxing match takes place in England, between
S01061681CDuke of Albemarle's butler and his butcher.
S01061838 Telegraph demonstrated publically for first time.
S01061914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
S01061918 Passenger in WW1 airplane falls out and back in at lower altitude.
S01061930 Sherlock Holmes dies (according to fan club).
S01071610 Galileo discovers the 4 major moons of Jupiter.
S01071714 the typewriter is patented (it was built years later)
S01071785 1st balloon flight across the English Channel.
S01071799 First U.S. presidential election.
S01071822 first printing in Hawaii.
S01071896 Fanny Farmer publishes her first cookbook.
S01071929 "Tarzan", one of the first adventure comic strips appears.
S01071943 Nikola Tesla dies.
S01071953 Truman announces U.S. has developed Hydrogen bomb.
S01071980 Nun elected mayor of Dubuque Iowa.
S01081815 Battle of New Orleans, made a hero out of Andrew Jackson (the
S01081815CWar of 1812 had ended on 12/24/1814, but nobody knew that).
S01081865 Sen. Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make the Marigold
S01081865Cthe national flower.  It doesn't pass.
S01081880 the passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of Mexico
S01081916 British forces evacuate Gallipoli.
S01081925 Texas appoints all women state supreme court.
S01081932 Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter.
S01091793 1st balloon flight in North America.
S01091799 1st income tax imposed, in England.
S01091839 the daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science
S01091847 1st San Francisco paper, 'California Star', published.
S01091848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established.
S01091894 First telephone switchboard put into operation.
S01091915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated.
S01091982 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855.
S01101645 Archbishop of Canterbury beheaded.
S01101776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published.
S01101840 the Penny Post mail system is started.
S01101863 1st underground railway opens in London.
S01101882 Barbed wire patented.
S01101910 First international air meet is held in Los Angeles.
S01101928 Leon Trotsky ordered into exile.
S01101945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close.
S01111569 First lottery is held in England, at St. Paul's Cathedral.
S01111693 Mount Etna erupts.
S01111813 first pineapples planted in Hawaii.
S01111892 Hawaii Historical Society founded.
S01111935 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California (non-stop, of course).
S01111963 1st discotheque (Whiskey A-GO-GO) opens in USA.
S01111964 Surgeon General reports smoking is a definite "health hazard".
S01121922 Mrs. Hattie Caraway becomes first woman elected to U.S. Senate.
S01131854 Anthony Foss obtains patent for the Accordion.
S01131898 Henry Ford patents plastic automobile.
S01131906 First "radio set" advertised (in Scientific American) ... claimed
S01131906Cto receive signals up to ONE MILE. Price: $7.50.
S01131920 NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly.
S01131942 First use of an emergency ejection seat (Germany).
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.
S01141794 First successful cesarean delivery.
S01141863 First publication on paper made from wood pulp in USA.
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.
S01141953 Tito elected president of Yugoslavia.
S01141969 Explosions kill 10 sailors on USS Enterprise.
S01151861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis, forming base for his
S01151861Celevator company.
S01151870 Cartoon Donkey first appears symbolizing Democratic Party.
S01151890 Sleeping Beauty ballet opens (St. Petersburg).
S01151892 Official Basketball rules published.
S01151927 Dunbarton Bridge, 1st bridge in Bay Area, opens.
S01151939 Municipal Railway and Market Street Railroad begin service to
S01151939Cthe Transbay Transit (East Bay) Terminal.
S01151948 The Pentagon Building in Washington is completed.
S0116     National Nothing Day
S01161547 Ivan the Terrible crowned as Czar of Russia.
S01161865 San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle started (now called the 
S01161865CSan Francisco Chronicle)
S01161866 Clamp on roller skates patented.
S01161887 Cliff House badly damaged when a cargo of powder on the
S01161887Cschooner "Parallel" explodes nearby.
S01161942 Bengal, India cyclone kills 40,000
S01161973 Final episode of Bonanza airs on TV.
S01171806 First baby born in White House.
S01171861 Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest!!).
S01171871 1st 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 9-county commission recommends creation of BART.
S01171963 Ten contestants on a rigged quiz show receive suspended sentences.
S01181535 Pizaro founds Lima Peru.
S01181644 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston.
S01181777 San Jose Calif. founded.
S01181778 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.
S01181869 The elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco.
S01181911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (from Tanforan Park to the
S01181911CUSS Pennsylvania).
S01181977 Australia's worst rail disaster, when a suburban bridge
S01181977Ccollapses on to a train at Granville, Sydney. 83 killed.
S01191903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England.
S01191915 Neon sign patented.
S01191977 Tokyo Rose pardoned by President Ford.
S0120     Reindeer Day
S01201265 1st English Parliament called into session by the Earl of Leicester
S01201872 California Stock Exchange Board organized.
S01201986 First national holiday honouring Dr. Martin Luther King.
S01211813 the pineapple is introduced to Hawaii.
S01211908 Sullivan Ordinace prohibiting women from smoking in New York passed.
S01211930 First Buck Rogers comic strip appears.
S01211954 Nautilis first US atomic powered submarine launched.
S01211977 Carter pardons Vietnam era draft evaders who did not commit crimes.
S01211979 Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer).
S01221444 Johann Gutenberg listed as eligible for military service.
S01221789 First american novel published (The Power of Sympathy).
S01221850 The Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif.
S01221901 Queen Victoria dies at age 82.
S01221939 Aquatic Park dedicated.
S01221949 Chinatown telephone exchange closed.
S01221973 USA Supreme Court legalizes abortion.
S01221980 First college basketball game refereed by a woman.
S0123     National Handwriting Day
S01231696 Cotton Mather notes extreme cold.
S01231849 Mrs. Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first woman physician in U.S.
S01231950 Price of New York Times rises from 3 cents to 5 cents.
S01231960 Bathyscape "Trieste" descends 35,802 feet (Mariana trench).
S01241848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma.
S01241888 Typewriter ribbon patented.
S01241899 the rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan.
S01241922 Eskimo Pie patented.
S01241935 1st beer in cans is sold.
S01241936 Benny Goodman records "Stompin at the Savoy".
S01241982 San Francisco 49'ers win their 1st Super Bowl, 26-21.
S01241986 Voyager II flies past Uranus.
S0125     the start of the Chinese New Year.
S01251787 Shay's Rebellion.
S01251858 Mendelssohn's Wedding March first played, at wedding of Queen
S01251858CVictoria's daughter to the Crown Prince of Prussia.
S01251915 Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
S01251915Cand receives the first telephone bill of more than $100.
S01251949 1st Emmy Awards are given out.
S01251959 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301).
S0126     Australia Day
S01261788 1st settlement established by the English in Australia.
S01261926 First public demonstration of television by Scottish inventor John
S01261926CLogie Baird (Soho, London).
S01261950 India becomes a republic.
S01271870 Kappa Alpha Theta, first sorority, founded at DePauw University
S01271870Cin Greencastle, Indiana.
S01271894 Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park.
S01271927 Harlem Globetrotters founded.
S01271933 Hitler suspends freedom of the press.
S01271948 1st Tape Recorder is sold.
S01271962 Goodman band leaves to play in USSR.
S01271965 Groundbreaking for the 'Dragon Gateway' at Grant Avenue.
S01271967 3 American Astronauts die in Apollo spacecraft fire.
S01271971 Montgomery St. Station, last link in BART, 'holed thru'.
S01271973 Peace accord signed in Paris finishes Vietnam war
S01271982 Flood in Peru kills up to 2500 people.
S01281807 London's Pall Mall is the 1st street lit by gaslight.
S01281878 George W. Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator.
S01281938 1st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont).
S01281945 Burma road opens.
S01281948 First Emmy awards.
S01281981 First test tube baby born.
S01281986 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes a minute after launch killing
S01281986Call 7 crew members.
S01291845 Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" first published in New York.
S01291861 Kansas becomes a state.
S01291886 Internal Combustion engine motorcar patented (Karl Benz).
S01291900 American Baseball League organized.
S01291904 1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team.
S01291982 Philidelphia Bulletin ceases publication after 134 years.
S01301847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.
S01301862 US Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched.
S01301917 1st jazz record in United States is cut.
S01301948 Gandhi assassinated.
S01301969 Beatles play together live for the last time on the roof of Apple
S01301969CRecords.
S01301982 British tanker spills 4.8 million gallons of oil of coast
S01301982Cof Lithuania.
S01311606 Guy Fawkes and other executed in London for conspiracy.
S01311615 Cape Horn discovered.
S01311851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California, founded.
S01311871 Birds fly over the western part of San Francisco in such large
S01311871Cnumbers that they actually darken the sky.
S01311911 Congress passes resolution naming San Francisco as the site
S01311911Cof the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal.
S01311928 Scotch tape first marketed by 3-M Company.
S01311936 Green Hornet premiers on Radio.
S01311950 Truman orders AEC to develop Hydrogen Bomb.
S01311958 1st U.S. satellite launched, Explorer I.
S01311961 Ham the chimp is 1st animal sent into space by the US.
S01311971 Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands.