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B07011646 Gottfried W Leibnitz, mathematician-philosopher
B07011788 Jean-Victor Poncelet, mathematician, founder of projective geometry.
B07011804 George Sand, French Romantic novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro).
B07011807 Thomas Green Clemson, mining engineer, endowed Clemson University.
B07011853 Cecil John Rhodes, South African politician, diamond merchant.
B07011872 Louis Blériot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel.
B07011879 Léon Jouhaux, French socialist, cofounder of UN's ILO (Nobel 1951).
B07011902 William Wyler, motion picture director (Mrs. Miniver).
B07011912 David Brower
B07011916 Olivia DeHaviland in Tokyo Japan
B07011925 Farley Granger Actor
B07011931 Leslie Caron in Paris France
B07011934 Jean Marsh in London England
B07011934 Sydney Pollack Movie director
B07011936 Jamie Farr, actor (Cpl. Klinger of TV's M*A*S*H).
B07011941 Sally Quinn CBS News reporter
B07011941 Twyla Tharp in Indiana Choreographer
B07011942 Genevieve Bujold in Montreal Canada, actress.
B07011942 Karen Black, actress.
B07011952 Dan Akroyd, comedian, actor (SNL)
B07011956 Lorna Patterson in Whittier Calif
B07011960 Singer Evelyn 'Champagne' King
B07011961 Carl Lewis, US track and field star.
B07011961 Lady Diane Spencer in England
B070119?? "Wolfman Jack", a howling success in radio
B0702 419 Valentinian III, Roman emperor (425-55).
B07021489 Thomas Cranmer, English archbishop, reformer, martyr.
B07021821 Sir Charles Tupper (C), 6th Canadian prime minister (1896).
B07021877 Hermann Hesse, Swiss novelist, poet (Steppenwolf) (Nobel 1946).
B07021903 Olav V, king of Norway (1957-  ).
B07021903 Sir Alex Douglas-Home (C), British prime minister (1963-64).
B07021906 Hans Bethe, physicist (Nobel 1967), peace worker.
B07021908 Thurgood Marshall, 1st black Supreme Court justice.
B07021922 Dan Rowan, comedian (Laugh In).
B07021927 Brock Peters, actor.
B07021931 Emelda Marcos Former Phillipine leader's wife
B07021935 Kaye Stevens in Pitts
B07021937 Polly Holliday (Alice)
B07021937 Richard Petty, auto race driver.
B07021940 Georgi Ivan Ivanov, 1st Bulgarian space traveler (Soyuz 33).
B07021947 Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, Daughter of Pres LBJ
B07021951 Cheryl Ladd in SD
B07021961 Jimmy McNichol Actor
B07031423 Louis XI, king of France (1461-83).
B07031567 Samuel de Champlain, explorer
B07031731 Samuel Huntington, governor of Conn., pres. of Continental Congress.
B07031870 Richard B. Bennett (C), 11th Canadian prime minister (1930-35).
B07031883 Franz Kafka, Czech, author (Metamorphosis, The Trial, Amerika)
B07031906 Francis Steegmuller, biographer.
B07031909 Earl Butz, former US secretary of agriculture.
B07031913 Dorothy Kilgallen
B07031927 Ken Russell Movie director
B07031930 Pete Fountain Jazz musician
B07031935 Harrison H. (Jack) Schmitt, US astronaut (Apollo 17).
B07031937 Playwright Tom Stoppard
B07031943 Gerry Rivers aka Newsman Geraldo Rivera
B07031947 Betty Buckley, Broadway actress
B07031951 Jean-Claude Duvalier Former Haitian President-for-Life
B07031957 Laura Branigan Singer
B07041753 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US
B07041804 Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (The Scarlet Letter).
B07041807 Giuseppe Garibaldi, unifier of Italy.
B07041826 Stephen Foster, American composer (Oh, Susanna, Swanee River).
B07041867 Stephen Mather, organizer of the US National Park Service.
B07041872 Calvin Coolidge (R), 30th pres (1923-29)
B07041878 George M Cohan, entertainer
B07041883 Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult.
B07041900 Louis Armstrong, 'Satchmo'
B07041902 George Murphy, actor, dancer, Calif Sen
B07041902 Meyer Lansky mobster
B07041911 Mitch Miller
B07041912 Virginia Graham TV personality
B07041916 Tokyo Rose
B07041918 Abigail Van Buren & Ann Landers-twin sisters, advice columnists
B07041921 Gerard Debreu, French economist (Nobel 1983).
B07041924 Eva Marie Saint, actress Newark
B07041927 Neil Simon, playwright
B07041928 Gina Lollobrigida, actress/photographer, Italy
B07041928 Steven Boyd actor
B07041930 George Steinbrenner, NY Yankees owner.
B07041962 Pam Shriver, Tennis player
B07051781 Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore.
B07051794 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker.
B07051801 David G Farragut in Knoxville Tenn American naval hero
B07051810 Phineas T. Barnum, circus promoter in Bethel Conn
B07051857 Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate.
B07051891 John Northrop, US biochemist, crystallized enzymes (Nobel 1946).
B07051902 Henry Cabot Lodge (R), politician.
B07051909 Andrei Gromyko, diplomat.
B07051926 Janós Starker, Hungarian cellist.
B07051934 Katherine Helmond in Texas
B07051936 Shirley Knight
B07051948 Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Wash DC, daughter of Richard Milhaus.
B07051951 Richard 'Goose' Gossage - Baseball relieve pitcher
B07051951 Huey Lewis (& the News)
B07061747 John Paul Jones, naval hero ("I have not yet begun to fight").
B07061796 Nicholas I, tsar of Russia (1825-55).
B07061818 Adolf Anderssen of Prussia, world chess champion (1851-66).
B07061859 Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish poet, novelist (Nobel 1916).
B07061903 Axel Theorell, Swedish biochemist, studied enzymes (Nobel 1955).
B07061923 Nancy Davis Reagan in NY, 1st Lady (1981-89).
B07061924 Robert M. White, X-15 pilot.
B07061925 Merv Griffin
B07061927 Janet Leigh in Calif, Maybe I won't take a shower with her
B07061932 Della Reese, singer in Detroit
B07061937 Ned Beatty, actor.
B07061937 Vladimir Ashkenazy, concert pianist.
B07061946 Sylvester Stallone (Rocky, Rambo)
B07061952 Shelly Hack, Charlie's Angel
B07071752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented the programmable loom
B07071843 Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, cytologist (Nobel 1906).
B07071860 Gustav Mahler, Bohemian composer
B07071887 Marc Chagall in Vitebsk Russia, artist
B07071906 Satchel Paige, never look back.
B07071907 Robert A Heinlein, Sci-Fi author
B07071911 Gian Carlo Menotti, composer (Amahl and the Night Visitors).
B07071917 Lawrence F. O'Brien (Watergate conspirators broke into his office).
B07071919 William Kunstler Attorney
B07071921 Ezzard Charles, world heavyweight boxing champion (1950-51).
B07071922 Pierre Cardin Fashion designer
B07071923 Jean Kerr, novelist (Please Don't Eat the Daisies).
B07071927 Carl (Doc) Severinson, band leader, trumpet player.
B07071927 Alan Dixon (Sen-D-Ill)
B07071940 Ringo Starr, Beatle.
B07071946 Joe Spano (Hill St Blues-Det Goldblum)
B07071947 Joe LeClerc
B07071948 Fred Brown, Seattle SuperSonic.
B07071949 Shelley Duvall
B07071970 Jonas Svensson, send him a postcard!
B07081838 Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, inventor
B07081839 John D Rockefeller, financier
B07081907 George W. Romney, Mich gov, housing secretary.
B07081908 Nelson A. Rockefeller (R-NY-gov) 41st VP (1974-77).
B07081913 Walter Kerr, NY drama critic.
B07081914 Billy Eckstein Singer
B07081931 Jerry Vale, singer.
B07081931 Roone Arledge, TV executive (ABC).
B07081935 Steve Lawrence
B07081935 Vitali I. Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 9, 18).
B07081937 Barbara Ann Loden
B07081940 Marcia Rodd
B07081946 Cynthia Gregory, LA, Ballerina
B07081948 Kim Darby in North Hollywood
B07091764 Ann Ward Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (The Italian).
B07091802 Thomas Davenport, inventor of 1st commercial electric motor.
B07091819 Elias Howe, invented sewing machine in Spencer Mass.
B07091858 Franz Boas, anthropologist, linguist.
B07091879 Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Pines of Rome).
B07091916 Edward Heath (C), British prime minister (1970-74).
B07091927 Ed Ames, singer (Johnny Carson's hatchet man)
B07091927 Red Kelly, hockey star.
B07091929 Hassan II, king of Morocco (1961-  ).
B07091936 James Hampton
B07091941 Karin von Aroldingen, German ballet dancer.
B07091947 Orenthal James (O.J.) Simpson, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills).
B07091956 Tom Hanks Actor
B07101509 John Calvin, theologian
B07101723 Sir William Blackstone, English jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries).
B07101792 George Mifflin Dallas (D), 11th VP (1845-49).
B07101834 James Whistler, artist, mama's boy
B07101856 Nikola Tesla, physicist who developed alternating current.
B07101867 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist, humorist, created Mr. Dooley.
B07101871 Marcel Proust, French novelist (Remembrance of Things Past).
B07101888 Giorgio De Chirico, Italian painter.
B07101915 Saul Bellow, US novelist (Herzog, Dangling Man) (Nobel 1976).
B07101920 David Brinkley, newscaster (NBC, ABC).
B07101920 Owen Chamberlain, codiscoverer of the antiproton (Nobel 1959).
B07101921 Jake LaMotta Boxer
B07101926 Fred Gwynne, Herman Munster
B07101931 Del Insko, harness racer.
B07101933 Jerry Herman Broadway composer
B07101942 Pyotr I. Klimuk, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18, 30).
B07101943 Arthur Ashe, tennis pro.
B07101945 Virginia Wade tennis star
B07101946 Sue Lyon in Iowa
B07101947 Arlo Guthrie, singer (Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans).
B07111754 Thomas Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare.
B07111767 John Quincy Adams, 6th Pres (D) (1825-1829) in Braintree, Mass
B07111838 John Wanamaker, merchant
B07111899 E.B. White, writer (Charlotte's Web, The Elements of Style).
B07111899 Yasonari Kawabata, Japanese novelist (Thousand Cranes) (Nobel 1968).
B07111920 Yul Brynner, actor (The King and I, The Ten Commandments).
B07111931 Tab Hunter, actor.
B07111951 Singer Bonnie Pointer
B07111953 Leon Spinks, world heavyweight boxing champ (1978).
B0712 100 B.C. - Roman Emperor Julius Cæsar.
B07121730 Josiah Wedgewood, English pottery designer, manufacturer.
B07121817 Henry David Thoreau, Naturalist-author in Concord Mass
B07121849 Sir William Osler, Canadian physician, teacher, author.
B07121854 George Eastman invented Kodak camera in Waterville NY
B07121868 Stefan George, German lyric poet.
B07121895 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers
B07121895 R Buckminster Fuller, architect (invented geodesic dome)
B07121904 Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (Residence on Earth) (Nobel 1971).
B07121908 Milton Berle (Uncle Miltie-Mr Television)
B07121917 Andrew Wyeth, American painter.
B07121922 Mark Hatfield (R-Ore-Sen)
B07121934 Van Cliburn Pianist
B07121937 Bill Cosby, actor, comedian.
B07121944 Denise Nichols in Detroit
B07131793 John Clare, the Northamptonshire peasant poet.
B07131863 Mary Emma Wooley, educator
B07131934 Alexei S. Yeliseyev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 8, 10).
B07131935 Jack Kemp (R-NY-Rep), right-wing
B07131942 Harrison Ford (Star Wars, Indiana Jones).
B07131946 Cheech Marin, comedian (of Cheech and Chong).
B07141486 Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter.
B07141903 Irving Stone, author.
B07141904 Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish novelist (Enemies) (Nobel 1978).
B07141906 Tom Carvel, Ice Cream Mogul
B07141911 Terry-Thomas, English actor.
B07141912 Woodie Guthrie, US folk singer.
B07141913 Gerald R. Ford (R), 41st VP (1973-74), 38th pres (1974-77).
B07141917 Douglas Edwards CBS newscaster
B07141918 Ingmar Bergman, film maker (Through a Glass Darkly).
B07141918 Jay Wright Forrester, invented RAM
B07141923 Dale Robertson, actor.
B07141927 John Chancellor, TV journalist (NBC).
B07141930 Polly Bergen in Tennessee
B07141932 Rosey Grier Football player-turned-actor
B07141943 Lynn Loring, NYC
B07151573 Inigo Jones, English architect.
B07151606 Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch painter.
B07151779 Clement Clarke Moore, American author ('Twas the Night Before Xmas).
B07151850 St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (Mother Cabrini), 1st US saint.
B07151902 Jean Rey, of Belgium, president of European Commission (1967-70).
B07151919 Iris Murdoch, Irish novelist.
B07151932 Nina Van Pallandt in Coopenhagen Denmark
B07151935 Alex Karras
B07151935 Ken Kercheval
B07151936 Joan Rivers in Bkln - Can we talk
B07151944 Jan-Michael Vincent, actor.
B07151946 Linda Ronstadt in Tucson Arizona - A different beat
B07151960 Kim Alexis in Lockport NY - Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover
B07161704 John Kay, English machinist, inventor of the flying shuttle.
B07161723 Sir Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter.
B07161746 Giuseppe Piazzi, discovered 1st asteroid, Ceres.
B07161821 Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science (Science and Health).
B07161858 Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, conductor, composer.
B07161872 Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, discoverer of South Pole.
B07161888 Frits Zernike, inventor of phase-contrast microscope (Nobel 1953).
B07161896 Trygve Lie, 1st sec-general of UN (1946-52).
B07161907 Barbara Stanwyck, actress
B07161907 Orville Redenbacher, popcorn king
B07161911 Ginger Rogers (Virginia McMath), dancer, actress in Independence Mo
B07161915 Bernard Hughes
B07161915 Laverne Andrews in Minneapolis -  Andrew Sister (or 0706)
B07161924 Bess Myerson in NY, Miss America 1944
B07161932 Milly Vitale
B07161942 Margaret Smith Court, Australian tennis pro.
B07161948 Pinchas Zukerman, violinist.
B07161948 Ruben Blades Singer
B07161952 Stewart Copeland
B07171674 Isaac Watts in England, writer & preacher
B07171744 Elbridge Gerry (DR), 5th VP, gov. of Mass., invented gerrymandering.
B07171763 John Jacob Astor, merchant
B07171859 Muñoz Rivera, Puerto Rican patriot, journalist.
B07171888 Shmuel Agnon, Israeli novelist (Day Before Yesterday) (Nobel 1966).
B07171889 Erle Stanley Gardner, created Perry Mason.
B07171900 James Cagney, hold that grapefruit.
B07171912 Art Linkletter, TV host.
B07171917 Phyllis Diller, comedien
B07171934 Donald Sutherland (M*A*S*H)
B07171934 Pat McCormick Comedy writer
B07171935 P.D.Q. Bach (Peter Schickele), composer.
B07171935 Diahann Carroll Bronx NY
B07171941 Daryle Lamonica, Oakland Raiders quarterback.
B07171951 Lucie Arnaz in California
B07171952 David Hasselhoff
B07171952 Phoebe Snow Singer
B0718     Horatio Alger, whose lads always had enough pluck to succeed
B07181720 Gilbert White, "the father of British naturalists."
B07181811 William Makepeace Thackeray, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair).
B07181848 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer
B07181853 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1902).
B07181906 Clifford Odets dramatist
B07181906 S.I. Hayakawa (R), educator, US senator from California.
B07181911 Hume Cronyn
B07181913 Red Skelton, comedian
B07181916 Harriet Hilliard Nelson, singer, actress.
B07181918 Pamela Brown
B07181921 Sen John Glenn, Jr, astronaut (1st American in orbit) D-Ohio
B07181929 Dick Button Skating champion & commentator
B07181933 Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (Bratsk Station).
B07181941 Marcia Jones Smoke, canoer.
B07181941 Martha Reeves in Detroit Michigan & the Vandellas
B07181961 Elizabeth McGovern in Evanston Illinois
B071819?? James Brolin (Marcus Welby, Hotel)
B07191814 Samuel Colt, invented Colt Revolver
B07191834 Edgar Degas, French impressionist painter.
B07191846 Charles Edward Pickering, pioneer American spectroscopist
B07191865 Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, cofounder of Mayo Clinic.
B07191893 Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet poet.
B07191896 A.J. Cronin, English author.
B07191917 William W. Scranton (R-Gov-Pa)
B07191922 George McGovern (D-Sen-SD), pres candidate
B07191924 Pat Hingle
B07191941 Vicki Carr in El Paso Texas
B07191943 Dennis Cole
B07191946 Ilie Nastase, Tennis player
B07201304 Petrarch in Italy, poet
B07201785 Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan, Westernizer, reformer.
B07201864 Erik Karlfeldt, Swedish poet (Nobel 1918-refused; 1931-posthumous).
B07201890 Theda Bara, actress (Under Two Flags, Cleopatra). (or 0729)
B07201919 Sir Edmund Hillary, one of 1st two men to scale Mt. Everest.
B07201920 Elliot L. Richardson, former US attorney general.
B07201924 Lola Albright, actress.
B07201930 Sally Ann Howes in London England
B07201933 Nelson Doubleday Publisher
B07201938 Diana Rigg in Doncaster Engl, (Mrs. Peele in The Avengers).
B07201938 JoAnn Campbell in Fla - Lawrence Welk's champagne lady
B07201938 Natalie Wood, actress in SF
B07201941 Vladimir A. Lyakhov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 32, T-9).
B07201944 T. J. Shephard Country singer
B07201946 Kim Carnes
B07201947 Carlos Santana, musician.
B07201957 Donna Dixon
B07211816 Paul Julius, Baron von Reuter, founder of Reuters news service.
B07211864 Frances Folsom Cleveland, first lady.
B07211899 Ernest Hemingway, asked for whom the bell tolled... (Nobel 1954).
B07211899 Hart Crane, American poet (The Bridge).
B07211911 Marshall McLuhan, writer (The Medium is the Massage).
B07211920 Isaac Stern, violinist
B07211922 Kay Starr, American singer.
B07211924 Don Knotts, comedian, actor.
B07211933 John Gardner, scholar, writer (Grendel, Sunlight Dialogues).
B07211943 Christie McVie (Fleetwood Mac)
B07211948 Cat Stevens aka Joseph Islam, rocker (Peace Train)
B07211952 Robin Williams, actor, comedian (Mork).
B07221478 Philip I (the Handsome), 1st Habsburg king of Spain (1506).
B07221822 Gregor Mendel, geneticist who discovered laws of heredity.
B07221844 Rev William Archibald Spooner, invented 'spoonerisms'
B07221849 Emma Lazarus, whose poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty
B07221887 Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist (Nobel 1925).
B07221890 Rose Kennedy, mother of JFK.
B07221898 Alexander Calder, sculptor (mobiles, stabiles).
B07221898 Steven Vincent Benét, writer (The Devil and Daniel Webster).
B07221913 Lucia Albanese, opera singer.
B07221923 Robert Dole (R-Sen-Ks)
B07221924 Margaret Whiting, singer.
B07221928 Orson Bean, actor.
B07221930 Yuri P. Artyukhin, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 14).
B07221932 Oscar de la Renta, designer
B07221939 Terrance Stamp
B07231834 James Cardinal Gibbons
B07231892 Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74).
B07231919 Pee Wee Reese, baseball player.
B07231925 Gloria DeHaven in Los Angeles, actress
B07231936 Don Drysdale, Dodger pitcher
B07241783 Simón Bol¡var, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule.
B07241802 Alexandre Dumas père, French author.
B07241857 Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish Realist writer (Nobel 1971).
B07241870 Fred. Law Olmsted Jr
B07241895 Robert Graves, British poet, historical novelist (I, Claudius).
B07241898 Amelia Earhart, into the wild blue yonder
B07241920 Bella Abzug (D-NY-Rep)
B07241932 William Ruckelshaus, head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
B07241934 Willie Davis, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay).
B07241935 Adnan Khashnoggi
B07241936 Ruth Buzzi in RI (Laugh-in)
B07241939 Bob Lilly, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys).
B07241942 Chris Sarandon
B07241951 Lynda Carter, Pheonix Az, Miss USA (Wonder Woman)
B072419?? Dany Savlia in Oakland Cal
B07251775 Anna Symmes Harrison, first lady.
B07251848 Arthur, Earl Balfour (C), British prime minister (1902-05).
B07251902 Eric Hoffer, US longshoreman, author (The True Believer).
B07251905 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian writer (Nobel 1981).
B07251907 Jack Gilford
B07251924 Estelle Getty
B07251924 Frank Church (D), former US senator from Idaho.
B07251932 Paul J. Weitz, US astronaut (Skylab 2, STS-6).
B07251935 Barbara Harris
B07251943 Janet Margolin Actress (Take the Money and Run)
B07251945 Donna Theodore Bdwy singer
B07251954 Walter Payton, NFL running back (Chicago Bears).
B07251978 World's 1st `test tube baby' Louise Brown in Lancashire England.
B07261739 George Clinton (D-R), 4th VP (1805-12).
B07261799 Isaac Babbitt, US inventor of babbitt's metal for bearings.
B07261856 George Bernard Shaw, dramatist (Pygmalion) (Nobel 1925) in Dublin
B07261875 Carl Jung, founded analytic psychology.
B07261894 Aldous Huxley, author (Brave New World).
B07261908 Salvador Allende Gossens, Chile's last elected president (1970-73).
B07261920 Bob Waterfield, NFL quarterback (Rams).
B07261922 Jason Robards, Jr., actor (A Thousand Clowns).
B07261922 Marjorie Lord, Make Room For Daddy - The mommy
B07261922 Blake Edwards Movie director (10)
B07261928 Stanley Kubrick, director (2001, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange).
B07261940 Mary Jo Kopechne, Ted Kennedy's driving buddy
B07261943 Mick Jagger, never gathers moss
B07261944 Micki King, Olympic diver
B07261945 Linda Harrison in Berlin
B07261950 Susan George in England
B07261954 Vitas Gerulaitis Tennis player
B07261956 Dorothy Hamill in Ct, Olympic Gold medal ice skater
B07271768 Charlotte Corday, assassin of Jean-Paul Marat.
B07271801 George Biddle Airyy, seventh Astronomer Royal
B07271824 Alexandre Dumas fils, French playwright, novelist.
B07271835 Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet (Nobel 1906).
B07271857 José Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican physician, patriot.
B07271870 Hilaire Belloc, English author.
B07271906 Leo Durocher, baseball coach.
B07271916 Keenan Wynn, actor
B07271918 Leonard Rose, concert cellist.
B07271922 Norman Lear, TV writer, producer (All in The Family)
B07271932 Jerry Van Dyke, actor.
B07271938 Shirley Ann Field in England
B07271942 Barbara Ferris in London England
B07271944 Bobbie Gentry in Mississippi, What did Billi-Jo throw off the bridge
B07271947 Betty Thomas, St Louis (Hill St Blues'-Sgt Lucy Bates)
B07271948 Peggy Fleming in San Jose Cal, Olympic gold medal ice skater
B07271948 Sally Struthers in Portland Oregon, (Gloria Stivic)
B07271949 Maureen McGovern in Youngstown Ohio, singer
B07281165 Ibn al-'Arabi, Muslim mystic, philosopher.
B07281746 Thomas Heyward, soldier, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
B07281866 Beatrix Potter, English children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit).
B07281874 Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher, educator (Essay on Man).
B07281887 Marcel Duchamp, painter (Nude Descending a Staircase).
B07281901 Rudy Vallee, band leader, singer (My Time Is Your Time).
B07281907 Earl S. Tupper, inventor of Tupperware.
B07281922 Jacques Piccard, Swiss undersea explorer (bathyscaph Trieste).
B07281929 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
B07281943 Bill Bradley (D-Sen-NJ), NY Knick
B07281943 Mike Bloomfield blues musician
B07281949 Vida Blue, major-league pitcher.
B07281958 Terry Fox, ran "Marathon of Hope" across Canada.
B07281967 Lori Loughlin in NY
B07291861 Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt.
B07291869 Booth Tarkington, American novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons).
B07291883 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce), Italian dictator.
B07291887 Tim Mara, NFL team owner (NY Giants).
B07291892 William Powell, actor (the Thin Man).
B07291898 I.I. Rabi, Polish physicist.
B07291900 Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist (Return to Ithaca) (Nobel 1974).
B07291905 Clara Bow, silent screen actress (It, Saturday Night Kid).
B07291905 Dag Hammarskjöld, 2nd UN sec-gen (1953-61) (Nobel 1961).
B07291905 Thelma Todd actress
B07291907 Melvin Belli in SF's 'King of Torts'
B07291925 Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer.
B07291936 Elizabeth Dole, US secretary of transportation.
B07301511 Giorgio Vasari, painter, architect, art historian (Vasari's Lives).
B07301818 Emily Brontë, English novelist (Wuthering Heights).
B07301857 Thorstein Veblen, economist (Theory of the Leisure Class).
B07301863 Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer
B07301889 Vladimir Zworykin, electronics engineer, inventor, father of TV.
B07301890 Casey Stengel NY Yankee & Met manager
B07301898 Henry Moore, English sculptor.
B07301909 C. Northcote Parkinson, historian.
B07301929 Chris McGuirre
B07301934 Ben Piazza, actor.
B07301939 Eleanor Smeal, head of National Organization for Women.
B07301939 Peter Bogdanovich, director, producer.
B07301940 Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo-Rep)
B07301941 Paul Anka singer (Put your head on my Shoulder)
B07311763 James Kent, legal scholar
B07311841 Melville
B07311901 Jean Dubuffet, French painter.
B07311912 Milton Friedman, economist.
B07311921 Whitney Young, Jr., civil rights leader, head of Urban League.
B07311939 France Nuyen, actress (St. Elsewhere) in Marselles France
B07311944 Geraldine Chaplin
B07311951 Evonne Goolagong in Australia, Tennis player

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S0701     Dominion Day -- Canada
S0701     Feast of the Precious Blood of Jesus.
S0701    2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of the Caribbean Common Market.
S07011535 Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason
S07011690 Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats former Roman
S07011690CCatholic king James II in the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland
S07011776 1st vote on the Declaration of Independence
S07011823 United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico.
S07011847 1st adhesive US postage stamps go on sale
S07011847 Amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers his second asteroid Hebe
S07011847 US issues its 1st postage stamps.
S07011850 At least 626 ships lying at anchor around SF Bay
S07011861 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington and Mason Streets, S.F.
S07011862 Congress outlaws polygamy; bad news for Utah.
S07011863 Battle of Gettysburg, Pa.; Lee's northward advance halted.
S07011867 Dominion of Canada formed from N.Bruns., N.Scotia, Ontario & Québec.
S07011873 Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province.
S07011898 Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
S07011899 SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building
S07011916 Eisenhower married Mary ``Mamie'' Geneva Doud in Denver Colo
S07011919 1st class postage drops to 2¢ from 3¢.
S07011932 NY Gov FDR nominated for president at the Dem Convention in Chicago
S07011941 1st coml TV license granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), NYC
S07011941 DiMaggio ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak
S07011943 1st withholding tax from paychecks
S07011944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF and World Bank.
S07011959 World Refugee Year
S07011960 Ghana becomes a republic.
S07011960 Italian Somalia gains independence, unites with Somali Republic.
S07011961 Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii
S07011962 Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days).
S07011963 Beatles record "She Loves You"
S07011966 Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART
S07011966 Medicare goes into effect.
S07011968 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
S07011969 Charles Philip Arthur George invested as the Prince of Wales
S07011971 Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?)
S07011973 Caribbean Day
S07011975 WEDway PeopleMover inaugurated
S07011977 Virginia Wade beats Betty Stove for Wimbeldon's woman's singles
S07011982 Kosmos 1383, 1st search and rescue satellite, launched.
S07011982 More than 2000 Unification Church couples married at NY MSG
S07011987 NYC radio station WFAN-AM becomes the 1st 24 hour all sports radio
S07011987Creplacing WHN's country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format
S0702     Midpoint of the year (at noon, or following midnight in leap years).
S0702     Visitation of Mary.
S0702    2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of the Caribbean Common Market.
S07021644 Battle of Marston Moor; Parliamentary forces defeat royalists.
S07021644 William Gascoigne, introducer of telescopic sights, is killed at 24
S07021776 Continental Congress passes resolution saying `these United Colonies
S07021776Care & of right ought to be Free & Independent States'
S07021858 partial emancipation of Russian serfs.
S07021881 Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker
S07021890 Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies.
S07021900 1st flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1).
S07021906 Yanks win by forfeit, for their 1st time
S07021926 US Army Air Corps created
S07021933 Carl Hubbell shutsout Cards 1-0 in 18 innings
S07021937 Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean
S07021941 DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak
S07021955 `Lawrence Welk Show' premiers on ABC television
S07021957 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor completed-The Seawolf
S07021957 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback
S07021961 Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death in Ketchum Idaho
S07021961 Maris hits his 29th & 30th of 61 homers
S07021964 Pres Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
S07021976 Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
S07021977 Sweden's Bjorn Borg won Wimbeldon men's singles over Jimmy Connors
S07021978 Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start
S07021982 Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth
S07021985 Proto launched on its way to Halley's Comet
S07021986 The Supreme Court upheld affirmative action in 2 rulings
S07021987 Chorus Line Director Michael Bennet dead of aids at 44
S0703     Dog Days begin.
S0703     Feast of St. Leo II, pope (681-83).
S0703    2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of the Caribbean Common Market.
S07031608 City of Quebec founded by Samuel de Champlain
S07031775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.
S07031819 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
S07031841 John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown
S07031841Cplanet by the irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus.
S07031848 slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands).
S07031861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY
S07031863 Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends in a major victory for the North
S07031890 Idaho becomes 43rd state.
S07031898 US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in the harbor at Santiago Cuba
S07031915 US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934.
S07031939 Lou Gehrig day, Gehrig makes 'luckiest man' speech
S07031950 1st time American & North Korean forces clash in the Korean War
S07031962 Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule
S07031974 Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3.
S07031976 Israel launches rescue of passengers & Air France crew members,
S07031976Cbeing held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers
S07031980 73,096 in Cleveland watch Indians beat Yankees 7-0
S07031982 Martina Navratilova deats Chris Evert Lloyd at Wimbeldon
S07031983 Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (36.25 kph for 100 m).
S07031984 Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island.
S07031984 Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
S07031985 CBS announced it would buy back 21 percent of its own stock
S07031986 Pres Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty
S0704     Dog Days.
S0704     Independence Day
S0704    2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of the Caribbean Common Market.
S07041054 Brightest known super-nova starts shining, for 23 days
S07041057 Crab Nebula supernova recorded by Chinese & Japanese astronomers.
S07041776 Declaration of Independence -- US gains independence from Britain.
S07041802 US Milt Academy officially opened at West Point NY
S07041819 William Herschel makes last telescopic observation comet of 1819.
S07041828 1st US passenger railroad was begun, Baltimore & Ohio
S07041845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
S07041862 Lewis Carroll began inventing the story of Alice in Wonderland for
S07041862Chis friend Alice Pleasance Liddell during a boating trip
S07041863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
S07041873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens
S07041876 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
S07041882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF.
S07041884 Statue of Liberty was presented to US in Paris
S07041889 Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting.
S07041894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the 1st US autos
S07041894 Republic of Hawaii established.
S07041900 Aphelion Passage
S07041903 Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, FDR sends message
S07041933 Work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge
S07041939 Yankees retire 1st uniform #4, Lou Gehrig 1st Old Timers Day
S07041942 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW2)
S07041946 Philippines gains independence from US
S07041959 America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled
S07041960 America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
S07041960 Mickey Mantle hits career homer # 300
S07041965 Mariner 4 flies past Mars, sends 1st close-up photos.
S07041966 LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
S07041967 Freedom of Information Act goes into effect
S07041976 Raid on Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
S07041982 Fourth Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 4 returns to Earth
S07041982 Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe for championship at Wimbeldon
S07041983 Yankee Dave Righetti no hits the Red Sox
S07041984 Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m.
S07041985 Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
S07041987 Martina Navaratalova wins her 6th straight Wimbeldon
S0705     Dog Days.
S0705     Earth at aphelion.
S0705     Feast of St. Anthony-Mary Zaccaria, confessor.
S0705     Independence Day, celebrated in Venezuela
S0705     Mariner 5 flew by Mars
S0705    2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of Caribbean Common Market.
S07051266 Tynwald Day on Isle of Man.
S07051687 Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA is published by Royal Society in England.
S07051753 Tynwald Day (Isle of Man)
S07051808 Battle of Buenos Aires.
S07051811 Venezuela-1st South American country to gain independence from Spain
S07051830 France invades Algeria, begins a 40 year conquest
S07051859 Capt. N.C. Brooks discovers Midway Islands.
S07051865 William Booth founded Salvation Army in London
S07051935 1st Hawaii Calls radio program is broadcast.
S07051935 President FDR signs Natl Labor Relations Act
S07051937 Joe DiMaggio 1st grand slammer
S07051938 Herb Caen's 1st column in SF Chronicle
S07051940 Diplomatic relations broken between Britain & Vichy govt in France
S07051944 1st rocket airplane flown
S07051946 Louis Reard's Bikini swimsuit design debuts at a fashion show, Paris
S07051947 Larry Doby signs with Cleveland Indians-1st black player in AL
S07051950 Law of Return passes allowing all Jews rights to live in Israel
S07051950 Pvt Kenneth Shadrick of Skin Fork WVa-1st US fatality in Korean War
S07051951 Junction transistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ
S07051962 Mantle hits 2 homers enroute to 4 consecutive homers
S07051971 Voting age lowered to 18 by 26th amendment.
S07051975 Cape Verdes Islands independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule
S07051978 Soyuz 30 is launched
S07051984 Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old `exclusionary rule'-evidence seized
S07051984Cwith defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials
S07051986 Nancy Reagan cuts red white & blue ribbon reopening Statue of Liberty
S07051987 Australian Pat Cash wins Wimbledon-upsets No 1 seed Ivan Lendl
S0706     Dog Days.
S0706    2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of Caribbean Common Market.
S07061687 Newton publishes 'Principia'
S07061699 Capt. William Kidd arrested in Boston.
S07061854 1st Republican state convention
S07061885 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur
S07061892 Striking steelworkers in Homestead, Pa. fire on scabs, killing 7.
S07061919 R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic
S07061920 Yanks score team record 14 runs in 1 inning vs Senators
S07061928 1st all-talking motion picture shown, in NY (Lights of NY).
S07061932 1st class postage back up to 3¢ from 2¢.
S07061933 1st All-Star baseball game  AL wins 5-2
S07061961 Soviets launch Titov in Vostok 2; 17 orbits; 25hr/18 min.
S07061962 Mantle hits his 3rd & 4th consecutive homer
S07061964 Malawi (then Nyasaland) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day).
S07061975 Comoros gain independence from France (most of them).
S07061976 Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station.
S0707     Dog Days.
S0707     Feast of Cyril & Methodius, converted Slavs, devised Cyrillic alpha
S0707    2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of Caribbean Common Market.
S07071668 Isaac Newton receives his M.Afrom Trinity College, Cambridge.
S07071754 Kings College in NYC opens. School later renamed Columbia College
S07071838 Central American federation is dissolved.
S07071846 US annexs Calif
S07071865 4 people hunged in Wash DC convicted of conspiring with John W Booth
S07071891 Travelers cheque patented
S07071898 US annexes Hawaii
S07071908 Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay
S07071930 Construction began on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
S07071941 US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
S07071946 Mother Frances X Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
S07071949 `Dragnet' premiers on NBC radio. A TV series in 1951 & in 1967
S07071958 Pres Eisenhower signs Alaska statehood bill
S07071971 Apollo 15 returned 12d /7 hr/11 min/53 sec.
S07071978 Solomon Is gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S07071980 1st solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel.
S07071980 Az Judge Sandra Day O'Connor 1 female nominated on Supreme Court
S07071986 Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
S07071987 Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition vote to admit women
S07071987 Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 & 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7
S0708     Dog Days.
S0708     Feast of St. Elizabeth of Portugal, widow.
S07081663 King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island
S07081709 Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes.
S07081776 Col. John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Dec of Ind
S07081777 Vt becomes 1st state abolishing slavery, adopts male sufferage
S07081796 1st American Passport issued by US State Dept
S07081835 Liberty Bell cracks (again).
S07081889 John L. Sullivan wins by KO in 75 rounds in last bareknuckle bout.
S07081889 Vol 1, # 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" published
S07081891 Future president Harding marries Florence K. DeWolfe in Marion Ohio
S07081896 William Jennings Bryan 'cross of gold' speech at Dem convention
S07081897 Harbor Hospital formally opens
S07081905 Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center
S07081907 Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof
S07081909 1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under lights.
S07081912 Pitcher Rube Marquard loses after winning 19 straight games
S07081947 Demolition began in NYC for new permanent headquarters of UN
S07081950 Gen. Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, UN forces in Korea
S07081950 Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea
S07081959 Maj. Dale & Master Sgt Ovnand 1st American fatalities in Vietnam War
S07081974 Yank Shortstop Jim Mason ties record with 4 doubles in 9 innings
S07081975 Pres Ford announced he'd seek Republican nomination for pres
S07081977 Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs).
S07081978 Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus.
S0709     Dog Days.
S0709     Feast of St. Maria Goretti, virgin, martyr.
S0709     Argentine Independence Day
S0709     National POW/MIA Recognition Day
S07091540 England's King Henry VIII 6-month marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled
S07091595 Johannes Kepler discovers inscribed perfect geometric solid
S07091595C"construction of universe."
S07091776 Dec of Ind read aloud to Gen. Washington's troops in NY
S07091816 Argentina declares independence from Spain.
S07091846 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (SF) for US
S07091850 Bab (Bahá'¡ prophet) executed in Tabriz, Iran.
S07091918 101 killed in  worst US train wreck in Nashville Tenn
S07091932 Washington Redskins (then Boston Braves) formed.
S07091932 Yanks Ben Chapman hits 2 inside the park HRs tying record
S07091933 Frankford Yellowjackets sold, rechristened Philadelphia Eagles.
S07091951 Pres Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
S07091953 1st helicopter passenger service, NY city
S07091957 Announcement of discovery of element 102 - nobelium
S07091976 Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe
S07091979 Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter.
S07091980 Walt Disney's "The Fox & The Hound" is released
S0710     Dog Days.
S0710     Feast of the 7 Brothers and SS. Rufina and Secunda, virgins.
S07101832 Pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US
S07101847 Urbain J.J. Leverrier & John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune
S07101847Cmeet for 1st time at home of John Herschel.
S07101850 VP Fillmore becomes pres following Zachary Taylor's death
S07101890 Wyoming becomes 44th state.
S07101919 Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate
S07101925 Jury selection took place in John T. Scopes evolution trial
S07101925 USSR's official news agency TASS established
S07101932 Jack Burnett gets 9 hits in 1 18 inning game
S07101933 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Twp, NY
S07101940 Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air
S07101943 US & Britain invade Sicily in WWII
S07101949 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced - Toledo, Oh
S07101951 Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
S07101962 Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched.
S07101966 Orbiter 1 Launched to moon.
S07101973 Bahamas became independent after 3 centuries of British rule
S07101980 Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I. Queen
S07101982 Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze.
S07101985 Coca-Cola Co. announces it would resume selling old formula Coke
S07101985 French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand.
S0711     Dog Days.
S0711     Feast of St. Pius I, pope (141-55), martyr.
S0711     Feast of St. Olga, 1st Russian saint of Orthodox Church.
S0711     National Holiday of People's Republic of Outer Mongolia
S07111533 Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
S07111798 US Marine Corps was created by an act of Congress
S07111804 VP Aaron Burr kills Alex Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken
S07111864 Confederate forces led by Gen J Early begin invasion of Wash D.C.
S07111921 Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day).
S07111934 Pres FDR became 1st pres to travel through Panama Canal
S07111936 Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx & Queens opened
S07111939 Yanks host 7th All Star Game, McCarthy starts 6 Yanks, AL wins 3-1
S07111955 New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colo
S07111962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
S07111962 Cosmonaut Micolaev set longevity space flight record-4 days
S07111974 House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
S07111974 World Football League plays 1st games.
S07111977 Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
S07111979 US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates.
S07111980 American hostage Richard I. Queen freed by Iran
S07111982 Italain soccer team wins 1st World Cup in 44 years
S07111985 Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
S07111986 Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara.
S0712     Dog Days.
S0712     Feast of St. John Gualbert, abbot.
S07121543 England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th & last wife).
S07121689 Orangeman's Day-Battle of Boyne, Protestant victory in Ireland
S07121812 US forces led by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812).
S07121862 Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
S07121927 Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs
S07121928 1st televised tennis match.
S07121933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33¢ per hour).
S07121934 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
S07121951 Yankee Allie Reynolds no hits Indians 1-0
S07121957 1st President to fly in helicopter - Dwight Eisenhower
S07121960 Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched.
S07121960 USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs.
S07121962 Cosmonaut Popovich in space 1st time 2, manned craft in space
S07121967 5th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-0
S07121975 Sao Tomé e Pr¡ncipe gains independence from Portugal (Nat'l Day).
S07121977 1st free flight test of Enterprise.
S07121978 Sun Bank Building opens
S07121979 Kiribati (Gilbert & Ellice Is.) gains independence from Britain.
S07121984 Geraldine Ferraro, NY became 1st woman major-party VP candidate
S07121985 Drs discover a cancerous growth in Pres Reagan's large intestine
S0713     Dog Days.
S0713     Feast of St. Anacletus I, pope (c. 76-c. 88), martyr.
S0713     Start of Japan's Bon Festival
S0713    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
S07131787 Congress establishes NW Territory.
S07131787 Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop
S07131854 US forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua
S07131865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west"
S07131898 SF Ferry Building at foot of Market Street opens
S07131919 1st lighter-than-air transatlantic flight completed.
S07131934 Babe Ruth hits #700 against Detroit
S07131960 Yankees host 29th All Star game, AL lost 6-0
S07131973 Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating KC 5-0
S07131977 NYC experiences a 25 hr black-out
S07131984 Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m.
S07131985 Yankees retire Roger Maris (#9) & Elston Howard (#32) uniforms
S0714     Alpha Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus.
S0714     Bastille Day -- France
S0714     Dog Days.
S0714     Feast of St. Bonaventure, bishop, confessor, Dr
S07141771 Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in Cal
S07141789 Bastille Day - citizens of Paris storm Bastille prison
S07141798 Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous & malicious" writing
S07141798Cagainst US govt
S07141850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
S07141853 Com Perry requests trade relations with Japan
S07141865 1st ascent of Matterhorn
S07141881 Billy the Kid killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Ft Sumner, NM
S07141921 Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in Dedham Mass.
S07141927 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
S07141950 RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
S07141951 Citation 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races
S07141953 1st national monument dedicated to a Negro - GW Carver
S07141958 Iraqi army Iraq overthrew monarchy
S07141959 1st atomic powered cruiser, the Long Beach, Quincy Mass
S07141961 Astro's Eddie Matthews hits HR #500
S07141962 Brave's Hank Aaron hits HR #500
S07141965 US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles
S07141966 Richard Speck kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
S07141968 Houston Astro Don Wilson strikesout 18, beats Reds 6-1
S07141969 "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins.
S07141975 EPCOT Center plans announced
S07141983 Reps. Daniel Crane R Ill. & Gerry Studds D-Mass. admitted
S07141983Chaving had sexual relations with congressional pages.
S07141986 Richard W. Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
S07141987 Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
S0715     Dog Days.
S0715     Feast of St. Henry II, Holy Roman emperor (1014-24), confessor.
S0715     National Ice Cream Day
S0715     St. Swithin's Day (Anglican).
S07151662 Charles II grants a charter to establish Royal Society in London.
S07151815 Napoleon Bonaparte captured.
S07151867 SF Merchant's Exchange opens
S07151870 Georgia readmitted to US after Civil War.
S07151870 NW Territories created & Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province.
S07151918 St. Vladimir's Day
S07151920 Ruth ties his record of 29 homers in a season
S07151929 1st airport hotel opens - Oakland Ca
S07151940 1st betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Il
S07151943 Diligenti quintuplets born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
S07151944 Greenwich Observatory is damaged by World War II flying bomb.
S07151952 1st helicopter transatlantic flight began
S07151954 1st coml jet transport airplane built in US tested (Boeing 707)
S07151958 US troops occupy Lebanon, stay 3 months.
S07151960 Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle
S07151975 Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later.
S0716     Dog Days.
S0716     National Blueberry Festival, Montrose, Mich.
S0716     Start of SPACEWEEK.
S07161212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain.
S07161548 La Paz, Bolivia is founded.
S07161769 Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif
S07161790 Congress establishes Dist of Columbia
S07161861 1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run
S07161894 many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners.
S07161920 Ruth sets season home run record with 30 enroute to 54
S07161927 Augusto Sandino begins war against US occupation of Nicaragua.
S07161935 1st automatic parking meter in US installed, Oklahoma City, Ok
S07161945 1st atomic blast, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, NM
S07161946 Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history)
S07161947 Bobo Newsom won his 200th game, 1st as a Yankee & Yanks 18th
S07161947Cstraight  In the night cap Vic Rashi extended streak to 19
S07161969 Apollo 11, 1st manned ship to land on the moon, is launched.
S0717     Constitution Day in South Korea.
S0717     Dog Days.
S0717     Feast of St. Alexius, confessor.
S0717     Iraqi National Day.
S0717     Pioneer 7 launched.
S07171821 Spain ceded Florida to US
S07171841 British humor magazine `Punch' 1st published.
S07171850 Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
S07171879 1st railroad opens in Hawaii
S07171898 Spanish American War-Spaniards surrender to US at Santiago Cuba.
S07171917 British royal family adopts the name `Windsor.'
S07171919 Yanks 21 hits, Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17, on squeeze play
S07171923 Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians
S07171935 Variety's famous headline `Sticks Nix Hick Pix.'
S07171938 Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for Los Angeles.
S07171941 Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak ends
S07171945 Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting.
S07171948 Rep of Korea founded.
S07171954 construction begins on Disneyland....
S07171955 ....Disneyland opens its doors in Anaheim Cal
S07171959 Tibet abolishes serfdom
S07171961 Roger Maris loses a HR due to a rain-out in the 5th
S07171962 Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft).
S07171975 Apollo-Soyus; 1st US/USSR linkup in space
S07171978 Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes mgr Billy Martin to suspend him
S07171980 Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president
S07171981 Humbar Estuary Bridge, UK, world's longest span (1.4 km), is opened.
S07171981 Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse kill 114, injure 200
S07171984 Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7.
S0718     Dog Days.
S0718     Feast of St. Camillus de Lellis, confessor.
S0718     National Day, celebrated in Spain
S0718  64 Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle)
S07181536 Pope's authority declared void in England.
S07181872 Britain introduces secret ballot voting
S07181927 Ty Cobb's 4000th career hit
S07181931 1st air-conditioned ship launched - "Mariposa"
S07181932 US & Canada signed a treaty to develop St. Lawrence Seaway.
S07181936 Spanish Civil War begans, Gen. Francisco Franco led uprising
S07181938 Douglas `Wrong Way' Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif
S07181940 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct
S07181947 Tigers shut out Yanks 2-0 ending a 19 game win streak
S07181947 US receives UN trusteeship over Pacific Is
S07181954 Joe Adcock records 18 total bases (4 homers & a double)
S07181955 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
S07181966 Carl Sagan turns one billion seconds old
S07181966 Gemini 10 launched.
S07181968 Intel is incorporated.
S07181969 Mary Jo Kopechne & Sen Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge
S07181978 Billy Martin suspends Reggie Jackson for not bunting.
S07181980 Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, is launched.
S07181984 Gunman opens fire at McDonald's in San Ysidro Cal killing 21
S07181984 Walter F. Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF
S07181984 Svetlana Savitskaya accompanies Vladimir Dzhanibekov on EVA outside
S07181984CSalyut 7, becoming 1st woman to walk in space.
S07181986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
S07181987 Yanks Don Mattingly ties Major League record of HRs in 8 cons games
S0719     Dog Days.
S0719     Feast of St. Vincent de Paul, confessor.
S07191848 1st Women's Rights Convention Seneca Falls, NY
S07191877 1st Wimbledon tennis championships held.
S07191880 SF Public Library starts lending books
S07191909 Neil Ball turns an unassisted triple play at 1st
S07191935 1st parking meters installed, in Oklahoma City.
S07191939 1st use of Fiberglas sutures, RP Scholz, St Louis, Mo
S07191949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union.
S07191955 Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum.
S07191957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
S07191961 1st in-flight movie is shown (on TWA).
S07191963 Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km.
S07191977 Yanks host 48th All Star Game NL wins 7-5
S07191978 Yanks start a 14 1/2 game comeback with 2-0 win
S07191979 Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza.
S07191987 Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games
S0720     Commemoration of St. Margaret, virgin, martyr.
S0720     Dog Days.
S0720     Feast of St. Jerome Emiliani, confessor.
S0720     Independence Day, celebrated in Columbia
S07201810 Columbia gains independence
S07201859 Admission fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50¢)
S07201871 British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province.
S07201878 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii.
S07201923 Yanks hit into a triple play but beat A's 9-2
S07201941 Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17
S07201944 US invaded Japanese-occupied Guam in WWII
S07201949 Israel's 19 month war of independence ends
S07201956 Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike outs
S07201960 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)
S07201960 USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space.
S07201969 1st men on the Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
S07201970 1st baby born on Alcatraz Island
S07201976 US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing.
S07201977 Voyager 2 launched.
S07201984 Uwe Hohn of E Germany throws javelin a record 104.80 m.
S07201987 Don Mattingly ties major league fielding record with 22 put outs
S0721     Dog Days.
S0721     Feast of St. Laurence of Brindisi, confessor, doctor.
S0721     Independence Day, celebrated in Belgium
S07211831 Belgium gains independence from Netherlands (Natl Day).
S07211861 1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run, Va.; South wins.
S07211867 City Gardens on Folsom opens
S07211873 World's 1st train robbery, by Jesse James
S07211898 Spain cedes Guam to US
S07211921 Indians 9 & Yankees 7 doubles for a record 16 doubles
S07211925 John Scopes found guilty in Tenn for teaching evolution
S07211940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
S07211944 US forces return to Guam after Japanese occupation.
S07211954 at Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam.
S07211955 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched - Seawolf
S07211959 1st atomic powered merchant ship, Savannah, christened, Camden NJ
S07211961 Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty bell) with Grissom.
S07211965 Gemini 5 launched atop Titan V with Cooper & Conrad
S07211966 Gemini X returns to Earth
S07211969 Neil Armstrong steps on the moon at 2:56:15 a.m. (GMT).
S07211975 Billy Martin fired as manager of Tx Rangers
S07211976 "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Phila
S07211984 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US
S07211986 Pleasure Island plans unveiled
S0722     Dog Days.
S0722     Feast of St. Mary Magdalen, penitent.
S07171969 Apollo/Soyuz, the 1st US/USSR linkup in space
S07211961 Mercury 4 is launched into sub-orbital flight
S07231972 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
S07251973 USSR launches Mars 5
S07261963 US launches Sycom 2, the 1st geosynchronous satellite
S07261971 US launches Apollo 15 to the Moon
S07281964 US launches Ranger 7 to the Moon
S07311964 Ranger 7 transmits the 1st lunar close-up photos before impact
S07221298 English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk.
S07221864 Battle of Atlanta; Gen. Sherman defeats Confederate defenders.
S07221925 Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher
S07221933 Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight.
S07221934 John Dillinger shot & killed in Chicago movie theatre
S07221952 Polish constitution adopted (National Day).
S07221955 1st US Vice-President to preside over cabinet meeting - R Nixon
S07221972 Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus.
S0723     Dog Days.
S0723     Feast of St. Apollinaris, 1st bishop of Ravenna, martyr.
S0723     National Day, in Egypt
S07231798 Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt.
S07231803 Robert Emmett's insurrection in Dublin.
S07231829 Typewriter patented
S07231852 1st interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio
S07231866 Cincinatti Baseball club (The Reds) established
S07231877 1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii is completed
S07231904 Ice cream cone invented
S07231937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced
S07231944 US forces invaded japanese-held Tinian in WWII
S07231947 1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, RI
S07231952 Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day).
S07231968 PLO's 1st hijacking of an EL AL plane
S07231972 ERTS 1 (Earth Resources Technology Satellite) later called LANDSAT
S07231972Claunched to start its multi-spectral scans of Earth
S07231980 Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6.
S0724     Dog Days.
S0724     Feast of St. Christina, virgin, martyr.
S0724     Pioneer Day in Utah.
S0724     V-2/WAC Corporal combination launched, 1st launch from Cape Canaveral.
S07241673 Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate.
S07241701 French make 1st landing at site of Detroit.
S07241704 Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain
S07241847 Mormon leader Brigham Young & followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Ut
S07241866 Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union.
S07241925 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs
S07241929 Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounced war
S07241937 Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro
S07241946 US detonates atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll
S07241952 Pres Truman announced a settlement in a 53-day steel strike.
S07241959 VP Nixon argued with Khrushchev known as the `Kitchen Debate'
S07241967 Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Quebec libre! Long live free Quebec!'
S07241969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth
S07241975 Apollo 18 returns to Earth
S07241978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after 'the one is a born liar
S07241978Cthe other a convicted one' comment about Steinbrenner & Jackson
S0725     Dog Days.
S0725     Feast of St. James, apostle, and Commemoration of St. Christopher.
S07251593 France's King Henri IV a Protestant converted to Roman Catholicism.
S07251729 NC becomes royal colony.
S07251814 Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British.
S07251866 US Grant named 1st general of Army
S07251868 Wyoming Territory created.
S07251903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
S07251909 Louis Blériot makes 1st airplane flight across the English Channel.
S07251920 Red Sox turn a triple play, but Ruth's 35 HR leads Yanks 8-2 win
S07251943 Benito Mussolini was dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
S07251952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created.
S07251956 Andrea Dorea sinks off Nantucket Island after collision.
S07251956 Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after collided with the Stockholm
S07251961 Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a double header
S07251963 US Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty
S07251966 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
S07251967 Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)
S07251973 USSR launches Mars 5
S07251978 Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager
S07251981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn.
S07251984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became 1st woman to walk in space
S07251987 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton earth-study satellite.
S0726     Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S0726     Dog Days.
S0726     Feast of St. Anne, mother of Mary.
S0726     Independence Day, celebrated in Liberia
S0726     Start of Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree in Athens, Texas
S07261775 Benjamin Franklin becomes 1st Postmaster General.
S07261788 NY becomes 11th state to ratify constitution.
S07261788 Sydney, Australia settled by British colonists.
S07261835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
S07261847 Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society
S07261887 1st Esperanto book published.
S07261908 Federal Bureau of Investigation established
S07261928 Yanks score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1
S07261939 Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive HRa
S07261945 Churchill resigns as Britain's prime minister
S07261947 Department of Defense established
S07261948 1st black host of a network show - CBS' Bob Howard Show
S07261952 Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand slammer
S07261953 Fidel Castro began revolution against Batista
S07261953 Korean War Armistice
S07261956 Egypt seizes Suez Canal
S07261957 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200
S07261957 USSR launchs 1st intercontinental multi-stage ballistic missle.
S07261963 US Syncom 2, 1st synchronous communications satellite, launched
S07261964 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy
S07261965 Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day).
S07261967 Twins beat Yankees 3-2 in 18
S07261971 Apollo 15 launched to the moon.
S07261974 USSR's Soyuz failed to dock with Salyut 3.
S07261975 Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
S07261982 Canada's Anik D1 comsat launched by US delta rocket.
S07261984 Soyuz T-12? is launched with a female cosmonaut
S0727     Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S0727     Dog Days.
S0727     Feast of St. Pantaleon, martyr.
S07271501 Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
S07271689 Jacobite Scottish Highlanders defeat royal force at Killiecrankie.
S07271694 Bank of England is chartered.
S07271836 Adelaide, South Australia founded.
S07271866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)
S07271940 Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts.
S07271947 Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak
S07271953 Korean War ends
S07271955 Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation.
S07271962 Mariner 2 launched to venus; flyby mission.
S07271969 Pioneer 10 Launched.
S0728     Capricornid meteor shower, radiant in Capricorn.
S0728     Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S0728     Dog Days.
S0728     Feast of SS. Nazarius, Celsus, Victor I, Innocent I.
S0728     Independence Day, celebrated in Peru
S07281586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe.
S07281821 Peru gains independence
S07281830 revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe.
S07281849 Memmon is 1st clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of N.Y.
S07281851 total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
S07281862 Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo.
S07281866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US
S07281868 14th Amendment ratified, citizenship to exslaves.
S07281900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Conn
S07281906 Yankees turn a triple play beating Cleveland 6-4
S07281914 Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia - World War I began
S07281915 US forces invade Haiti, stay until 1924.
S07281931 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd National Anthem
S07281932 President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment.
S07281933 1st Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee), NYC
S07281940 Yankee Charle Keller hits 3 HRs
S07281951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
S07281964 Ranger 7 launched toward the moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures.
S07281964 US Ranger 7 launched for lunar impact between Mare Nubium
S07281973 Skylab 3's astronauts are launched
S07281976 Eldon Joersz & Geo. Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph.
S07281976 242,000 killed in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) earthquake.
S07281978 At Old Timer's Game it is announced Martin will again manage Yankees
S0729     Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S0729     Dog Days.
S0729     Feast of St. Martha, virgin.
S0729    6Start of Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
S07291824 Peruvian National Day
S07291835 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begun.
S07291858 1st commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
S07291899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, N.Y.
S07291900 Italian king Umberto I assassinated.
S07291914 1st transcontinental phone link made  Between NYC & SF
S07291915 US marines land in Haiti, stay until 1924.
S07291920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF
S07291928 Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
S07291952 1st transpacific non-stop flight by jet
S07291957 International Atomic Energy Agency established by UN
S07291957 Jack Paar's Tonight show premiers
S07291958 Pres Eisenhower signs into law NASA & Space Act of 1958.
S07291958 Southern Pacific Bay Ferries stop running
S07291965 Gemini 5 returned after 12 d/7 hr/11 min/53 sec.
S07291978 Pioneer 11 transmitted images of Saturn & its rings.
S07291981 Prince Charles & Lady Diana wed
S07291985 19th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 is launched
S0730     Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S0730     Dog Days.
S0730     Feast of SS. Abdon and Sennen, martyrs.
S0730    6Start of Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
S07301619 House of Burgesses Virginia formed  1st elective US governing body
S07301836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
S07301946 1st rocket to attain 100-mile altitude, White Sands, NM
S07301956 Motto of US "In God We Trust" authorized
S07301971 US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium.
S07301980 Vanuatu (then New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain, France.
S07301983 STS-8 3rd flight of Challenger. 1st night launch & land.
S07301983 Weightlifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg.
S07301984 STS-14 1st flight of Discovery.
S0731     Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S0731     Dog Days.
S0731     Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Jesuits.
S0731    6Start of Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
S07311498 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad.
S07311588 English fleet attacks Spanish armada
S07311777 Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army
S07311790 1st US patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
S07311813 British invade Plattsburgh, NY
S07311938 Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio 'he'd hit
S07311938Cevery colored person in Chicago over the head with a club'
S07311948 President Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), NY
S07311964 US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on moon.
S07311970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending 'Huntley-Brinkley Report'
S07311972 Democratic VP candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew
S07311977 Son of Sam shot to death 20-year-old Stacy Moskowitz
S07311978 Yanks now 7 1/2 out of 1st, picked up 7 games in previous 2 weeks
S07311980 Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36
S07311981 7-week-old major league baseball strike ended.
S07311981 Leader of Panama Gen. Omar Torrijos killed in a plane crash.
S07311984 US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics