AAAA     Martin Luther King Day [1/15/90] [1/21/91]
0101     Commemoration of Circumcision of Jesus
0101     Independence Day, celebrated in Haiti & Sudan
0101     Mummers' Parade in Philadelphia, Pa
0101     Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes
0101     St. Basil's Day (Orthodox)
0101     Start of a new year Enjoy the bowl games
0101     Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, Calif
01011643 Isaac Newton baptized in St. John's Church in Colsterworth, England
01011801 Giuseppe Piazzi discoved 1st asteroid, later named Ceres
01011801 United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland established
01011804 Haiti gains independence from France (National Day)
01011808 Congress prohibits importation of slaves
01011848 Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua
01011863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln
01011892 Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY
01011892 Ellis Island became reception center for new immigrants
01011894 Manchester Ship Canal in England opened to traffic
01011898 Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of SF Bay
01011899 Cuba liberated from Spain by US (National Day)
01011901 Commonwealth of Australia established
01011902 1st Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California
01011912 1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (763 miles)
01011913 Post office begins parcel post deliveries
01011934 Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison
01011934 Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantees) effective
01011936 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, NY Herald Tribune
01011946 Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god
01011948 1st newsreel in color, Pasadena, Ca
01011954 Rose & Cotton Bowl are 1st sport colorcasts
01011956 Sudan gains independence from Britain (National Day)
01011957 International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6/30/1958
01011958 European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation
01011960 Cameroon gains independence from France
01011962 Beatles Decca audition
01011962 Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand
01011965 International Cooperation Year
01011971 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV
01011972 International Book Year
01011973 Britain, Ireland & Denmark join Common Market
01011974 World Population Year
01011975 International Women's Year
01011978 Pres. Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
01011979 International Year of the Child
01011980 Decade of Water & Sanitation
01011981 International Year for Disabled
01011981 Palau (Trust Territory of Pacific Is.) becomes self-governing
01011983 World Communications Year
01011984 AT & T broken up into 8 companies
01011984 Brunei gains complete independence from Britain
01011985 International Youth Year
01011986 International Peace Year
01011986 Spain & Portugal become 11th & 12th members of Common Market
01011987 Internat'l Year of Shelter
01011988 NY Carnegie Deli's owner Leo Steiner dies
01012304 Mid- CALENDAR day
01014713 B.C. Julian calendar begins at Greenwich mean noon
0102     Ancestor's (or Hero's) Day in Haiti
0102     Betsy Ross Day
0102     Earth at perihelion
0102     Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes
01021776 1st revolutionary flag displayed
01021788 Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
01021893 World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
01021917 Royal Bank of Canada took over Quebec Bank
01021921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
01021933 Bruins beat Rangers in NY 13-3
01021935 Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for kidnap-murder of Charles
01021936 1st electron tube described, St Louis, Mo
01021942 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace
01021942 Japanese occupied Manila
01021955 President Jose Antonio Remon of Panama assassinated
01021957 SF & Los Angeles stock exchanges merge
01021959 USSR launches Mechta, 1st lunar probe & artificial in solar orbit
01021968 Dr Christian Barnard performs 1st successful heart transplant
01021972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
01021979 30th Islander shut-out opponent - Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver
01021982 Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins
01021983 Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes
01021985 90th hat trick in Islander history - Brent Sutter
01021986 191.66 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
0103     Congress assembles, according to 20th amendment to constitution
0103     Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes
01031521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
01031543 Juan Cabrillo, conqueror of Cen. America, discoverer of Calif, dies
01031641 Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomical prodigy dies at 22
01031777 Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, NJ
01031852 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
01031870 Brooklyn Bridge begun, completed on May 24, 1883
01031888 1st drinking straw is patented
01031900 Perihelion Passage
01031912 S Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition free
01031920 NY Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from the Red Sox
01031921 Turkey made peace with Armenia
01031929 27 year old William S Paley becomes president of CBS
01031941 Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)
01031943 1st missing persons telecast, NYC
01031943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa
01031946 William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) hanged in Britain, for treason
01031957 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pa
01031958 Sir Edmund Hillary reached South Pole overland
01031959 Alaska becomes 49th state
01031973 George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million
01031977 Apple Computer incorporated
0104     National Trivia Day
0104     Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes
01041754 Columbia University opened
01041784 US treaty with Great Britain ratified
01041790 Pres Washington delivers 1st "State of the Union"
01041883 Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) formed
01041896 Utah becomes 45th state
01041948 Burma gains independence from Britain (National Day)
01041959 Luna 1 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity
01041962 1st unmanned subway train to run automatically - NYC
01041982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm
0105     Feast of St. Telesphorus, 8th pope (c. 125-c. 136), martyr
0105     Twelfth Night, end of Christmas season
01051589 Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, died
01051809 Treaty of Dardanelles was concluded between Britain & France
01051822 Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire
01051850 Calif Exchange opens
01051854 Steamship SF wrecked
01051905 C Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara
01051911 SF has it's 1st air meet
01051914 Henry Ford announced a minimum wage of $5 for an eight hour day
01051922 Sir Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, died aboard his ship
01051925 Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman gov in USA
01051926 James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hr day & $5 daily minimum wage
01051933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side
01051962 Tony Sheridan & Beatles produce My Bonnie & The Saints
01051964 Pope Paul VI visits Jordan & Israel
01051969 USSR Venera 5 launched.  1st successful planet landing - Venus
01051972 NASA announces development of Space Shuttle
01051975 Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
01051985 Bryan Trottier failed in 9th Islander penalty shot
01051987 Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, NJ
0106     Arizona becomes 47th state
0106     Feast of Epiphany  (Twelfth Night of Christmas in England)
01061663 Great earthquake in New England
01061753 Epiphany
01061838 Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
01061884 Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk & heredity pioneer, died
01061893 Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
01061912 New Mexico becomes 47th state
01061914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
01061930 1st diesel engine automobile trip completed
01061936 Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario)
01061941 FDR names 4 freedoms (freedom of speech, religion; from want, fear)
01061942 1st around world flight by Pan Am "Pacific Clipper"
01061951 Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes
01061981 50th hat trick in Islander history - John Tonelli scored 5 goals
01061987 100th US Congress convenes
0107     St. John the Baptist Day (Orthodox)
01071558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French
01071610 Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede
01071714 Typewriter patented (built years later)
01071753 Plough Monday
01071785 1st balloon flight across English Channel
01071789 1st natl presidental election - US
01071822 1st printing in Hawaii
01071822 Liberia colonized by Americans
01071929 "Tarzan", one of the 1st adventure comic strips appears
01071963 1st class postage raised from 4› to 5›.
01071967 Newlywed Game premiers
01071968 1st class postage raised from 5› to 6›
01071972 LA Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record)
01071982 Islander's Bryan Trottier's 10th career hat trick
0108     Anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans
0108     Feast of St. Gudula, patron of Brussels
0108     Last day a ball club can re-sign their own free agent until May 1
0108     St. Dominique's Day (Orthodox)
01081336 Giotto, Italian Renaissance painter, dies (birth date unknown)
01081583 Iotto Day
01081642 Galileo Galilei dies at 78 in Arceti, Italy
01081798 11th Amendment ratified, Judicial powers construed
01081815 Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew
01081880 Passing of Norton I, Emperor of US, Protector of Mexico
01081913 Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager
01081932 Ratification of present SF City Charter
01081935 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy
01081952 Antonia Maury, discoverer of supergiant, giant & dwarf stars, dies
01081958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
01081968 US Surveyor 7 lands near crater Tycho on moon
01081973 USSR launches Luna 21 for moon landing
01081980 Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent - Canucks 3-0
01091788 Conneticut becomes 5th state
01091793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America
01091799 1st income tax imposed, in England
01091839 Daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science
01091839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax Alpha Centauri
01091843 Caroline Herschel, "1st lady of astronomy," dies at 98 in Germany
01091847 1st SF paper, 'California Star', published
01091848 1st commercial bank in SF established
01091854 Astor Library opened in NY
01091861 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede from US
01091903 AL Baltimore baseball team bought, to move to NY for $18,000
01091912 US marines invade Honduras
01091915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated
01091936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
01091945 As vowed, MacArthur returned to Philippines
01091976 Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
01091978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
01091982 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855
01091987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
01101776 Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" published
01101806 Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
01101840 Penny Post mail system is started
01101861 Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US
01101863 1st underground railway opens in London
01101911 Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
01101920 League of Nations established
01101932 Mickey Mouse & Silly Symphony comics syndicated
01101944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Phila
01101945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
01101946 UN General Assembly meets for 1st time
01101946 US Army establishes 1st radar contact with moon, Belmar, NJ
01101949 1st Jewish family show - The Goldberg's begin
01101951 1st jet passenger trip made
01101964 That Was The Week That Was premiers
01101969 USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
01101970 Preview Center Opens
01101977 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
01101978 Pedro Joaqu¡n Chamorro of La Prensa assassinated in Managua
01101978 Soyuz 27 is launched
0111     Feast of St. Hyginus, 9th pope (c. 136-c. 140), martyr
01110935 1st woman to fly solo across Pacific left Honolulu, AE Putnam
01111642 Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
01111787 Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel
01111805 Michigan Territory organized
01111813 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii
01111861 Alabama becomes 4th state to secede from US
01111861 Mexico City captured by Juarez
01111892 Hawaiian Historical Society founded
01111915 Jacob Ruppert & Huston purchase Yankees for $460,000
01111923 French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations
01111935 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California (non-stop, of course)
01111963 Beatles release Please Please Me & Ask Me Why
01111975 Soyuz 17 is launched
01111978 Gov. Askew dedicates the RCUC solar office building
01111983 Billy Martin named Yankee manager for 3rd time
0112     Volunteer Fireman Day
01121777 Mission Santa Clara de Asis founded in Cal
01121820 Royal Astronomical Society, founded in England
01121836 Battle of Wetumka, Fla
01121945 US Navy destroys 41 Jap ships in Battle of S China Sea
01121969 AFC wins its 1st Super Bowl (III) (NY Jets 16, Balt Colts 7)
01121971 All in the Family premiers
01121986 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 is launched
0113     Commemoration of Baptism of Jesus
01131610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter
01131630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
01131854 Anthony Foss obtains patent for accordion
01131894 Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops
01131920 NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly
01131930 Mickey Mouse comic strip first appears
01131939 Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert dies
01131966 1st black in presidental cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver)
01131969 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album
01131971 Apollo 14 launched
01131978 Yankee manager Joe McCarthy dies at 90
01131981 Islander's Mike Bossy's 15th career hat trick - 4 goals
01131985 Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders
01131985 Carol Wayne dies at 42
0114     Feast of St. Hilary, bishop of Poitiers
0114     Julian calendar New Year's Day in 20th, 21st centuries
01141742 Edmund Halley, genius eclipsed by Newton, dies at 86
01141784 Revolutionary War ends when Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris
01141847 Conspiracy in New Mexico against US
01141914 Henry Ford introduces assembly line for cars
01141936 L.M. (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America
01141939 All coml ferry service to East Bay ends
01141952 Today show premiers
01141969 Soyuz 4 is launched
0115     Feast of St. Paul of Thebes, 1st hermit
01151535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
01151759 British Museum opens
01151778 Nootka Sound discovered by Capt. Cook
01151861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
01151927 Dunbarton Bridge, 1st bridge in Bay Area, opens
01151939 Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
01151943 World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed
01151967 Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs 35-10 in Super Bowl I (NBC & CBS)
01151968 Soyuz 5 launched
01151973 Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican
01151974 Happy Days premiers
01151975 Space Mountain opens
01151981 Hill Street Blues premiers
01151986 Living Seas opens
0116     Feast of St Marcellus I, pope (308-09), martyr
0116     National Hat Day
0116     National Nothing Day
01161777 Vermont declares independence from NY
01161865 SF Dramatic Chronicle started
01161870 Virginia readmitted to US after Civil War
01161883 Pendleton Act creates basis of federal civil service system
01161887 Cliff House damaged when schooner "Parallel"'s powder cargo explodes
01161909 David, Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole
01161920 18th Amendment, prohibition, went into effect; repealed in 1933
01161938 William Pickering, pioneer American stellar spectroscopist, dies
01161956 Egyptian President Nassar pledges to reconquer Palestine
01161969 Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
01161973 USSR's Lunakhod begins radio-controlled exploration of moon
01161977 Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders
01161978 Soyuz 27 returns to Earth
01161979 Iranian revolution overthrows shah
0117     Feast of St Anthony, abbot, patron of cenobites, domestic animals
0117 355 Death of St Anthony of Egypt, founder of Christian monasticism
01171746 Battle of Falkirk, Scotland
01171773 Capt James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66ø 33' S)
01171852 British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
01171861 Flush toilet is patented by Mr Thomas Crapper (Honest!)
01171871 1st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S Hallidie
01171893 Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
01171899 US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
01171910 Thomas Crapper, inventor of flush toilet, dies
01171943 Tin Can Drive Day
01171945 Liberation Day in Poland (end of Nazi occupation)
01171950 Great Brink's robbery in Boston, $28 million
01171957 9-county commission recommends creation of BART
01171963 Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km
01171968 Soyuz 4 & 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft
01171976 Hermes rocket launched by ESA
01171977 Gary Gilmore executed in Utah, 1st since 1967
01171979 Islanders didn't get a shot off in one period against the Rangers
0118     Confession of St Peter (Anglican)
0118     Feast of St Peter's Chair at Rome
0118     National Clean Off Your Desk Day
01181644 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston
01181778 Capt James Cook stumbles over Hawaiian Islands
01181817 San Mart¡n leads a revolutionary army over Andes
01181869 Elegant Calif Theatre opens in SF
01181871 German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I
01181911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
01181913 Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches South Pole
01181919 Versailles Peace Conference
01181949 1st US Congressional Standing Committee headed by Negro -W Dawson
01181956 Tunisian Revolution Day (National Day)
01181969 Soyuz 5 returns to Earth
01181973 Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak
01181980 Barbara Britton dies
01181984 80th Islander & 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll & Bossy) 9-1 win
01181985 US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous agreement
01181986 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 returns to Earth
0119     Confederate Heroes' Day
0119     Feast of SS Marius, Martha, Audifax & Abachum, martyrs
01191747 Johann Bode, founder of "Bode's Law," dies
01191770 Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)
01191839 Aden conquered by East India Company
01191861 Georgia becomes 5th state to secede from US
01191903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England
01191921 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union
01191955 Millionaire TV program premiers
0120     Feast of St Fabian, 20th pope (236-50), & St Sebastian, martyrs
0120     Reindeer Day
01201265 1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester
01201783 End of Revolutionary War
01201866 Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends
01201872 Calif Stock Exchange Board organized
01201887 Pearl Harbor obtained by US from Hawaii for use as a naval base
01201892 1st basketball game played
01201929 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors "In Old Arizona"
01201937 Inauguration day, every 4th year
01201953 1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address
01201964 "Meet The Beatles" album released in US
01201981 Iran hostages are freed after 444 days
01201981 Islander Glenn Resch's 25th & last shut-out opponent - Flames 5-0
01201981 US embassy hostages freed in Tehran
0121     Feast of St Agnes, virgin & martyr
0121     National Hugging Day
01211793 King Louis XVI beheaded by French revolutionaries
01211813 Pineapple introduced to Hawaii
01211892 John Couch Adams, English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies
01211954 1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched
01211954 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited - NYC
01211962 Snow falls in SF
01211967 Ann Sheridan dies at 51
01211979 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
01211982 Islanders start NHL record 15 game win streak (15-0-0)
0122     Feast of SS Vincent, patron of wine growers, & Anastasius, martyrs
01221813 Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada
01221840 New Zealand settled by British
01221850 Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif
01221905 Bloody Sunday; Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
01221939 Aquatic Park dedicated
01221943 Battle of Anzio, Allies stopped on the beach
01221947 1st coml TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood Ca
01221949 Chinatown telephone exchange closed
01221968 Apollo 5 launched to moon, Unmanned lunar module tests made
01221973 Supreme Court approves abortions
01221975 Lansat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, is launched
01221981 40th Islander shut-out opponent - 3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th
0123     Feast of St Raymond of Pe¤afort, confessor
0123     National Handwriting Day
01231579 Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic
01231793 2nd partition of Poland, between Prussia & Russia
01231856 Steamer Pacific lost
01231909 1st radio rescue at sea
01231944 Red Wings beat Rangers 15-0
01231953 Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts)
01231960 Piccard & Walsh in bathyscaph reach 10,900 m in Mariana Trench
01231964 24th Amendment ratified, Barred poll tax in federal elections
01231977 Miniseries Roots premiers
01231983 A-Team with Mr T premiers
0124     Feast of St Timothy, bishop & martyr
01241556 Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China
01241639 Connecticut colony organized under Fundamental Orders
01241764 Gov Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire
01241848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, Calif
01241861 Arsenal at Augusta, Ga seized by Confederacy
01241899 Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
01241935 Beer 1st sold in cans, Richmond, Va
01241965 Sir Winston Churchill died in England
01241981 Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques
01241982 SF 49'ers win their 1st Super Bowl, 26-21
01241985 15th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 is launched
01241986 Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons
0125     Feast of Conversion of Paul
0125     Start of Chinese New Year
01251875 Anti-slavery society formed in NY
01251915 Alexander Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF
01251925 Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa
01251945 Topping, Webb & MacPhail purchase Yanks for $28 million
01251949 1st Emmy Awards
01251949 1st Israeli election
01251959 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301)
01251961 1st live, nationally televised, Presidential news conference (JFK)
01251961 Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" is released
01251964 Echo 2, US communications satellite launched
01251975 10th hat trick in Islander history - Denis Potvin's 1st
0126     Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia
0126     Feast of St Polycarp, bishop & martyr
01261697 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time limit
01261697 problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
01261788 1st settlement established by English in Australia (Sydney)
01261837 Mich admitted as 26th US state
01261841 Hong Kong was proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
01261861 La becomes 6th state to secede from US
01261871 American income tax repealed
01261885 Gen Gordon & troops slain by Sudanese in Khartoum
01261905 World's largest diamond found, Cullinan diamond
01261946 Indian Republic Day
01261950 India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion
01261954 Ground breaking begins on Disneyland
01261961 1st woman `personal physician to President' - JG Travell
01261976 Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon
01261979 Nelson Rockefeller former VP & 4 time governor of NY died
01261980 Islanders & Whalers had a penality free game
01261982 Islanders score 4 goals within 1:38, 5 within 2:37 vs Penguins
01261984 Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders
01261986 Chicago Bears defeat Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl 20
0127     Feast of St John Chrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople
01271736 Abdication of Stanislas, King of Poland
01271880 Thomas Edison granted patent for an electric incandescent lamp
01271888 National Geographic Society founded in Washington, DC
01271894 Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park
01271915 US Marines occupy Haiti
01271926 1st public TV demonstration
01271948 1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds operated
01271948 1st Tape Recorder is sold
01271964 "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US
01271964 Sen Margaret Chase Smith of Maine tried for Republican Pres bid
01271965 Groundbreaking for 'Dragon Gateway' at Grant Avenue
01271967 Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee
01271967 Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space is signed
01271971 Montgomery St Station, last link in BART, 'holed thru'
01271973 US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war & milt draft
01271977 Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)
01271979 Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8)
01271985 Fifteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 returns to Earth
0128     Feast of St Peter Nolasco
0128     Presentation in the Temple
01281613 Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune
01281687 Johannes Hevelius dies
01281807 London's Pall Mall is 1st st lit by gaslight
01281821 Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica
01281860 Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua
01281871 Paris surrenders to Germans
01281878 1st telephone exchange, New Haven, Connecticut
01281878 Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
01281878 George W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator
01281909 US milt forces leave Cuba for 2nd time
01281915 US Coast Guard established
01281932 1st US state unemployment insurance act enacted - Wisconsin
01281938 1st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont)
01281953 J Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins Today show
01281956 Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Bros Stage Show)
01281958 Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
01281960 1st photograph bounced off moon, Washington DC
01281978 Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders
01281986 25th Space Shuttle - Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff
0129     Feast of St Francis of Sales, bishop of Geneva, confessor, doctor
01291788 Australia Day
01291861 Kansas becomes 34th state
01291900 American (baseball) League formed, with 8 teams
01291904 1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team
01291919 Prohibition goes into effect (18th amendment)
01291920 Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist $40 week with KC Slide Co
01291922 Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved
01291936 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
01291955 William Cox buys Yankee Stadium
01291958 Charles Starkweather captured by police in Wyoming
01291959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" is released
01291984 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
01291986 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
0130     Feast of SS Basil, Gregory & John Chrysostom (Orthodox)
0130     Feast of St Martina, virgin & martyr
0130     Holiday of Three Hierachs (Eastern Orthodox)
0130     World Law Day
01301487 Bell chimes invented
01301649 King Charles I of Great Britain executed by Parliament
01301774 Capt Cook reaches 71ø 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record)
01301847 Yerba Buena renamed SF
01301854 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast
01301862 US Navy's 1st ironclad warship, "Monitor", launched
01301889 John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48-inch telescope
01301894 US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham
01301917 1st jazz record in US cut
01301922 World Law Day
01301933 Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor
01301948 Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
01301958 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Texas
01301969 US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
0131     Feast of St John Bosco, confessor
01311849 Corn Laws abolished in Britain
01311851 SF Orphan's Asylum, 1st in Calif founded
01311862 Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius
01311871 Birds fly over SF in such large numbers they actually darken sky
01311911 Congress names SF as Panama Canal opening celebration site
01311945 Eddie Slovik, 1st American executed for desertion since Civil War
01311950 Pres Truman authorized production of H-Bomb
01311958 1st US satellite launched, Explorer I from Cape Canaveral
01311958 James van Allen discovers radiation belt
01311958 US launches 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1
01311961 Ham is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2
01311966 Luna 9 launched for moon
01311968 Nauru gains independence from Australia
01311968 Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32"), at Agata, USSR
01311971 Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands