*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B06011563 Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English chief minister (1598-1625)
B06011801 Brigham Young, Mormon church leader, polygamist
B06011804 Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer
B06011878 John Masefield Engld poet
B06011898 Molly Picon, actress
B06011907 Frank Whittle, inventor of a jet engine
B06011921 Nelson Riddle, musical conductor
B06011926 Andy Griffith (Matlock, sheriff of Mayberry)
B06011926 Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Baker), actress (Some Like It Hot)
B06011928 Georgi T. Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
B06011934 Pat Boone singer
B06011939 Cleavon Little, actor
B06011945 Frederica von Stade opera singer
B06011945 Linda Scott
B06011947 Ron Wood rock guitarist (Faces/Rolling Stones)
B06011948 Tom Sneva, US auto racer
B06011955 Chiyonofuji, sumo wrestler
B06021740 Marquis de Sade 1st known sadist
B06021835 St. Pius X, 257th Roman Catholic pope (1903-14)
B06021840 English novelist Thomas Hardy
B06021840 Thomas Hardy, English poet and novelist (Mayor of Casterbridge)
B06021857 Karl Gjellerup, Danish poet, novelist (Nobel 1917)
B06021857 Sir Edward Elgar composer (Pomp & Circumstance)
B06021890 Hedda Hopper
B06021904 Johnny Weissmuller swimmer-actor (Tarzan)
B06021927 Brock Peters, actor, singer
B06021927 Phillip Burton
B06021929 Chuck Barris TV producer
B06021930 Charles Conrad, Jr., astronaut (Gemini 5, 11, Apollo 12, Skylab 2)
B06021937 Sally Kellerman in California
B06021940 King Constantine of Greece
B06021941 Charlie Watts Rolling Stones drummer
B06021941 Stacy Keach, actor
B06021943 Charles Haid, actor (Hill Street Blues)
B06021944 Garo Yepremian, NFL place kicker (Miami Dolphins)
B06021944 Marvin Hamlisch
B06021948 Jerry Mathers the "Beaver"
B06031780 William Hone, English author, bookseller (The Every-Day Book)
B06031808 Jefferson Davis Pres of Confederacy (1861-1865)
B06031844 Garret Augustus Hobart (R), 24th U.S. vice-president (1897-99)
B06031864 Ransom Eli Olds auto (Oldsmobile) & truck (REO) manufacturer
B06031865 George V, king of England (1910-36)
B06031906 Josephine Baker, dancer, singer
B06031911 Paulette Goddard
B06031913 Ellen Corby
B06031922 Alain Resnais, French film director
B06031925 Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz), actor (Some Like It Hot, Trapeze)
B06031926 Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet (Howl)
B06031926 Collen Dewhurst, actress
B06031942 Curtis Mayfield musician
B06031950 Suzi Quatro, Detroit (Happy Days)
B06031951 Deneice Williams singer
B06041694 François Quesnay, French economist, leader of the Physiocrats
B06041738 George III, English king during American Revolution (1760-1820)
B06041867 Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Finnish military hero, president (1944-46)
B06041908 Roselind Russell
B06041917 Howard Metzenbaum (D), Ohio sen
B06041919 Robert Merrill, baritone
B06041922 Gene Barry, actor (Bat Masterson)
B06041924 Dennis Weaver, actor (Chester in Gunsmoke, Duel)
B06041926 Robert Earl Hughes, became heaviest known human (486 kg)
B06041932 John Barrymore, Jr., actor
B06041936 Bruce Dern, actor (Coming Home, Silent Running, Tatoo)
B06041937 Freddie Fender country singer
B06041946 Bettina Gregory News woman
B06041948 Rosemary Joyce
B06041952 Parker Stevenson
B06041965 Andrea Jagger in Chicago Tennis player
B06051723 Adam Smith, economist (Wealth of Nations) (baptized) Kirkcaldy Scot
B06051819 John Couch Adams, codiscoverer of Neptune
B06051878 Francisco (Pancho) Villa, Mexican revolutionary, guerrilla leader
B06051883 John Maynard Keynes in Cambridge England Economist
B06051887 Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (Patterns of Culture)
B06051898 Federico Garc¡a Lorca, Spanish poet and dramatist
B06051900 Dennis Gabor invented holography
B06051905 Art Donovan, NFL defensive tackle (Baltimore, N.Y. Yanks, Dallas)
B06051920 Marion Motley, AAFC, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh)
B06051928 Tony Richardson, English director (Delicate Balance, Hotel N.H.)
B06051929 Robert Lansing
B06051934 Bill Moyers, news commentator
B06051939 Charles Joseph Clark (P-C), 16th Canadian prime minister (1979-80)
B06061436 Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), prepares astronomical tables
B06061599 Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter
B06061755 Nathan Hale patriot
B06061756 John Trumbull painter
B06061850 Karl F. Braun, codeveloper of wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909)
B06061875 Thomas Mann, German novelist (Magic Mountain) (Nobel 1929)
B06061886 Paul Dudley White, heart specialist
B06061887 Walter Abel, actor
B06061903 Aram Khachaturian, Russian musician, composer
B06061907 Bill Dickey, Baseball hall-of-famer
B06061917 Kathran Graham, publisher (Washington Post)
B06061925 Walter Percy Chrysler, cars
B06061932 Billie Whitelaw, actrees
B06061932 David R. Scott, U.S. astronaut (Gemini 8, Apollo 9, 15)
B06061935 Bobby Mitchell, NFL running back, wide receiver (Browns, Redskins)
B06061935 Dalai Lama religious leader
B06061939 Gary "US" Bonds singer & songwriter
B06061952 Playwright Harvey Fierstein
B06061956 Bjorn Borg Racketeer
B06061961 Sydney Walsh
B06071502 Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced the Gregorian calendar in 1582
B06071770 Earl of Liverpool (C), British prime minister (1812-27)
B06071778 Beau Brummel, English dandy
B06071848 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin French post-impressionist painter
B06071896 Robert Mulliken, U.S. chemist, physicist (Nobel 1966)
B06071897 George Szell conductor
B06071909 Jessica Tandy, actress in London
B06071909 Peter Rodino (D), NJ Rep
B06071922 Rocky Graziano pugilist
B06071929 John Turner (L), 17th Canadian prime minister (1984)
B06071930 Dolores Gray
B06071940 Tom Jones, singer
B06071947 Thurman Munson Yankee Capt
B06071958 Prince, rocker
B0608 570 Mohammed prophet of Islam
B06081625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, discovered 4 satellites of Saturn
B06081810 Robert Schumann in Germany composer
B06081829 Sir John Everett Millais, English painter
B06081847 Ida Sazton McKinley, first lady
B06081867 Frank Lloyd Wright, master builder in Richland Center, Wisc
B06081916 Francis Crick, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA (Nobel 1962)
B06081917 Byron R. (Whizzer) White, football star, U.S. Supreme Court justice
B06081918 Robert Preston actor
B06081921 Alexis Smith, actress BC Canada
B06081929 Jerry Stiller, comedian
B06081930 Dana Wynter in London
B06081933 Joan Rivers, comedian
B06081934 Millicent Martin
B06081939 Herb Adderley, NFL defensive back (Green Bay, Dallas)
B06081940 Nancy Sinatra in Jersey City er boots were made for walkin'
B06081944 Boz Scaggs, rocker
B06081955 Griffin Dunne
B06091781 George Stephenson principal RR locomotive inventor
B06091791 John Howard Payne, American author, actor, diplomat
B06091843 Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist, pacifist (Nobel 1905)
B06091865 Carl Nielsen, Danish composer
B06091893 Cole Porter, composer, lyricist (Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate)
B06091900 Fred Waring musician-conductor
B06091915 Les Paul guitarist
B06091916 Robert S. McNamara, former U.S. secretary of defense
B06091930 Marvin Kalb Newsman
B06091934 Donald Duck famous fowl
B06091951 Dave Parker baseball player
B06091951 Bonnie Tyler Singer
B06091961 Michael J Fox (Family Ties, Teen Wolf)
B06101706 John Dollond, owner of 1st patent for achromatic lens
B06101895 Immanuel Velikovsky, writer (Worlds in Collision)
B06101904 Frederick Loewe, composer
B06101921 Prince Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, Mr Elizabeth II
B06101922 Judy Garland (Frances Gumm) not in Kansas any more (Wizard of Oz)
B06101928 Maurice Sendak, children's author, illustrator, set designer
B06101929 James A. McDivitt, U.S. astronaut (Gemini 4, Apollo 9)
B06101933 F. Lee Bailey, American attorney
B06101965 Andrew Stevens
B0611     Queen's Birthday
B06111572 Ben Jonson, English playwright, poet (Volpone, The Alchemist)
B06111723 J G Palitzsch, 1st saw Halley's comet on return, in Prolitz
B06111776 John Constable in England painter
B06111847 Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of English women's movement
B06111864 Richard Strauss, German composer (Till Eulenspiegel)
B06111867 Charles Fabry found ozone layer in upper atmosphere
B06111880 Jeannette Rankin, 1st woman elected to US Congress (from Montana)
B06111899 Y. Kawabata
B06111903 Ernie Nevers, NFL fullback (Duluth Eskimos, Chicago Cardinals)
B06111907 Paul Mellon philanthropist
B06111910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, oceanic explorer aboard calypso, France
B06111913 Risë Stevens, mezzo-soprano
B06111913 Vince Lombardy, NFL coach (Green Bay Packers)
B06111915 William Styron Author
B06111919 Richard Todd, actor
B06111925 William Styron, novelist (Confessions of Nat Turner)
B06111935 Gene Wilder, actor (Young Frankenstein, Silver Streak)
B06111937 Chad Everett acted like a doctor
B06111939 Jackie Stewart fast driver
B06111945 Adrienne Barbeau wife of John Carpenter (Maude)
B06111956 Joe Montana signal caller
B06121819 Charles Kingsley, English clergyman, novelist (Westward Ho!)
B06121829 Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (Heidi)
B06121897 Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon (C), British prime minister (1955-57)
B06121915 David Rockefeller Intl Power Broker
B06121916 Irwin Allen Movie disaster producer
B06121919 Uta Hagen
B06121921 Vera Ralston, actress
B06121924 George Herbert Walker Bush (R), 43rd VP (1981-89)
B06121928 Vic Damone
B06121929 Anne Frank, diarist
B06121932 Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle) Actor-singer
B06121932 Rona Jaffe Author
B06121941 Chick Corea a funky jazz musician
B06121943 Marv Albert - Yes! Sportscaster
B0613 823 Charles II (the Bald), king of France (843-77), emperor (875-77)
B06131786 Winfield Scott, American army general, presidential candidate
B06131831 James Clerk Maxwell, physicist, formulated electromagnetic theory
B06131865 William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Wild Swans at Coole) (Nobel 1923)
B06131895 Èmile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
B06131903 Harold "Red" Grange "Galloping Ghost" of football
B06131913 Ralph Edwards (This is your Life)
B06131935 Christo, artist
B06131951 Richard Thomas, AKA John Boy
B06131962 Ally Sheedy, NY
B06131963 Bettina Bunge Tennis player
B06141736 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist, formulated Coulomb's Law
B06141811 Harriet Beecher Stowe authoress (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
B06141820 John Bartlett, American editor, compiler of Familiar Quotations
B06141856 Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician
B06141864 Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, pathologist
B06141868 Karl Landsteiner, immunologist, pathologist (Nobel 1930)
B06141909 Burl Ives folk singer-actor
B06141918 Dorothy McGuirre of McGuirre sisters
B06141919 Sam Wanamaker Actor-director
B06141925 Pierre Salinger ABC newsman former White House press sect
B06141928 Ernesto (Che) Guevara, Latin American revolutionary
B06141931 Marla Gibbs in Chicago Ill
B06141933 Jerzy Kosinski Author
B06141946 Joan Van Ark in NYC (or 06-16)
B06141946 Donald Trump Master Builder
B06141949 Bob Frankston, VisiCalc programmer
B06141952 Eddie Mekka
B06141958 Eric Heiden zooms across Olympic ice
B06141961 Boy George Dowd androgynous rock musician & druggie
B06141969 Steffi Graff in W Germany Tennis player
B06151330 Edward, the Black Prince
B06151767 Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson, 1st lady
B06151843 Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer
B06151922 Morris K. Udall (D-Az-Rep)
B06151932 Mario Cuomo (D-NY-gov)
B06151937 Waylon Jennings singer of innumerable country songs
B06151941 Harry Nilsson laid-back singer & songwriter
B06151945 Nicola Pagett
B06151946 Judy Pace in LA
B06151951 Tom Forzani, CFL wide receiver (Calgary Stampeders)
B06161874 Arthur Meighen (C), 9th prime minister of Canada (1920-21, 1926)
B06161895 Stan Laurel file comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
B06161902 Barbara McClintock, U.S. cytogeneticist (Nobel 1983)
B06161903 Helen Traubel opera singer
B06161912 Enoch Powell, British Conservative, racist
B06161917 Katharine Graham newspaper publisher ("Washington Post")
B06161920 John Howard Griffin, American photographer, author (Black Like Me)
B06161937 Erich Segal, author (Love Story)
B06161938 Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights)
B06171239 Edward I, king of England (1272-1307)
B06171703 John Wesley, cofounder of Methodist movement
B06171742 William Hooper, signed Decl of Ind
B06171818 Charles Gounod in France composer
B06171870 George Cormack invented "Wheaties" cereal
B06171882 Igor Stravinsky invented Rite of Spring
B06171904 Ralph Bellamy, actor
B06171914 John Hersey, author (Hiroshima, A Bell for Adano)
B06171917 Dean Martin, singer, actor
B06171919 Kingman Brewster, Yale pres
B06171920 Beryl Reid
B06171920 François Jacob, French biologist, bacteriologist (Nobel 1965)
B06171923 Elroy (Crazylegs) Hirsch, AAFC, NFL halfback, end (L.A. Rams)
B06171929 Tigran Petrosyan of USSR, world chess champion (1963-69)
B06171940 Bobby Bell, NFL linebacker (Kansas City)
B06171946 Barry Manilow, singer
B06171948 Phylicia Allen Ayers Rashad in Houston Tx (Cosby)
B06171951 Joe Piscopo, comedian (SNL)
B06181799 William Lassell, discoverer of satellites of Uranus and Neptune
B06181812 Ivan Goncharov, Russian novelist, travel writer (Oblomov)
B06181857 Henry Clay Folger, Jr., American businessman, Shakespeare fan
B06181877 James Montgomery Flagg illustrator "I want you" recruiting poster
B06181886 George Mallory, English mountain climber ("because it is there")
B06181901 Jeanette MacDonald - 'When I'm calling you'
B06181906 Kay Kyser, radio and film personality (Three Little Fishes)
B06181910 E.G. Marshall (Defenders)
B06181913 Sylvia Porter financial writer
B06181926 Tom Wicker, (NY Times)
B06181929 Eva Bartok, actress Budapest Hungry
B06181937 Vitali M. Zholobov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 21)
B06181942 Paul McCartney Yeah-Yeah-Yeah
B06181947 Linda Thorson in Canada
B06181952 Carol Kane in Cleveland Ohio (Taxi-Simpka)
B06181952 Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet)
B06181962 Janice Merrill, track star
B06191556 James VI of Scotland (1567-1625)/James I of England (1603-25)
B06191623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician, physicist, religious writer
B06191856 Elbert Hubbard Essayist
B06191896 Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
B06191902 Guy Lombardo conductor
B06191903 Henry Louis Gehrig Yankees "Iron Horse"
B06191908 Mildred Natwick Actress
B06191908 Quentin N Burdick (Sen-D-NC)
B06191909 Osamu Dazai, Japanese novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human)
B06191914 Alan Cranston (Seb-D-CA) Pres candidate
B06191919 Pauline Kael Movie critic
B06191921 Louis Jourdan, France
B06191921 Howell Heflin (Sen-D-AL)
B06191922 Aage N. Bohr, Danish physicist, studied atomic nucleus (Nobel 1975)
B06191924 Leo Nomellini, NFL defensive tackle (San Francisco 49ers)
B06191928 Nancy Marchand, actress
B06191932 Pier Angeli in Italy
B06191933 Viktor I. Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
B06191936 Gena Rowlands in Cambria Wisc
B06191943 Malcolm McDowell (Clockwork Orange)
B06191949 Kathleen Turner (Peggy Sue got Married)
B06191951 Ann Wilson in San Diego (Heart)
B06191959 Mark DeBarge Rocker
B06191978 Garfield the cat "Big fat hairy deal"
B06201674 Nicholas Rowe, dramatist, English poet laureate
B06201819 Jacques Offenbach in France composer
B06201907 Lillian Hellman, playwright (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes)
B06201909 Errol Flynn actor
B06201924 Audie Murphy, war hero, actor
B06201924 Chet Atkins Country Guitar Player
B06201942 Brian Wilson (Beachboy)
B06201945 Anne Murray in Nova Scotia singer
B06201946 André Watts, concert pianist
B06201947 Candy Clark Actress
B06201950 Lionel Richie, singer
B06201953 Cyndi Lauper in Bkln - A fun girl
B06201960 John Taylor, rocker
B06211732 Martha Washington-1st, 1st lady
B06211774 Daniel D. Tompkins (D-R), 6th VP (1817-25)
B06211882 Rockwell Kent artist
B06211892 Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian
B06211903 Al Hirschfeld Cartoonist
B06211903 Dorothy Stickney, actress
B06211905 Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, writer (Nobel 1964; declined)
B06211912 Mary McCarthy, American novelist (Group)
B06211921 Jane Russell full-figured gal Bemidji Minn  (Outlaw)
B06211922 Judy Holliday
B06211925 Maureen Stapleton in Troy NY
B06211927 Carl Stokes, mayor of Cleveland
B06211930 Mike McCormack, NFL offensive tackle (NY Yankees, Cleveland)
B06211931 Lawrence K Grossman NBC News president
B06211931 Margaret Heckler, former HEW secretary
B06211933 Bernie Kopell (Love Boat)
B06211935 Monte Markham Actor
B06211935 Françoise Sagan, French novelist
B06211938 Ron Ely (Tarzan)
B06211940 Mariette Hartley (Poloroid spokesperson)
B06211940 Joe Flaherty Comedian (2nd City)
B06211944 Ray Davies a kinky singer
B06211947 Meredith Baxter-Birney in Cal (Family Ties)
B06211947 Michael Gross (Family Ties)
B06211953 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani opposition leader
B06211982 Prince William of Wales Prince Chuck & Lady Di's baby
B06221757 George Vancouver, surveyed Pacific coast from S.F. to Vancouver I
B06221837 Paul Morphy, US, greatest chess player of all time champ (1857-61)
B06221858 Giacomo Puccini, Italian operatic composer
B06221887 Sir Julian Huxley, biologist and philosopher of science
B06221898 Erich Maria Remarque, novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front)
B06221906 Billy Wilder movie director
B06221907 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American aviator, author (Gift from the Sea)
B06221910 Katherine Dunham, American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist
B06221910 Peter Pears, tenor
B06221921 Joseph Papp, stage producer and director
B06221922 Bill Blass, fashion designer
B06221933 Dianne Feinstein (D-mayor-SF)
B06221936 Kris Kristofferson, singer/actor (Amerika)
B06221941 Ed Bradley CBS News somewhere
B06221948 Todd Rundgren (Hello, it's Me)
B06221949 Lindsey Wagner, LA (Bionic Woman)
B06221949 Meryl Streep, NJ (French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choice)
B06231763 Joséphine, empress of France
B06231846 George Sax inventor of saxophone
B06231876 Irvin S. Cobb, American writer, humorist
B06231894 Alfred Kinsey, sexologist
B06231894 Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII of England, briefly in 1936)
B06231911 David Ogilvy advertising whiz
B06231912 Alan Turing mathematician pioneer in computer theory
B06231913 William P. Rogers, former sec of state
B06231916 Irene Worth in Nebraska
B06231927 Bob Fosse, choreographer, director (Cabaret, Damn Yankees)
B06231929 June Carter Cash country singer & Johnny's wife in Virginia
B06231930 Donn F. Eisele, astronaut (Apollo 7)
B06231933 Bert Convy, game show host
B06231940 Wilma Rudolph retired Olympic athlete
B06231943 James Levine musical conductor
B06231946 Ted Shackelford
B06241813 Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman, orator
B06241839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift & Co
B06241842 Ambrose Bierce, satirist
B06241895 Jack Dempsey, Heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26) (Manassa Mauler)
B06241912 Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review)
B06241915 Sir Fred Hoyle, cosmologist, proposed steady-state universe theory
B06241916 John Ciardi, poet, critic, translator of Dante
B06241922 Sibohan McKenna, actress
B06241923 Jack Carter
B06241932 David McTaggart, cofounder of Greenpeace
B06241942 Michele Lee, LA (Falcon's Crest)
B06241950 Nancy Allen actress
B06241965 Danielle Spencer in Bronx
B06251886 Henry (Hap) Arnold, commanding general, US Army Air Force in WW II
B06251887 George Abbott, Broadway luminary
B06251894 Hermann Oberth, founder of modern astronautics
B06251900 Earl Mountbatten of Burma, royal relative
B06251903 George Orwell, English satirist, author (Animal Farm, 1984)
B06251907 J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (atomic nuclei) (Nobel 1963)
B06251924 Sidney Lumet, movie director
B06251925 June Lockhart in NYC - Lassie's mom
B06251925 Robert Venturi, American architect
B06251942 Willis Reed Basketball hall-of-famer
B06251945 Carly Simon, NYC (You're So Vain)
B06251949 Phyllis George in Denton Tx - Miss America
B06251963 George Michael in England
B06251984 Hermann Oberth, father of German rocketry
B06261702 Dr. Philip Doddridge, English Nonconformist clergyman
B06261730 Charles Messier, cataloguer of "M objects"
B06261742 Arthur Middleton, signer of the Declaration of Independence
B06261763 George Morland, English artist
B06261819 Abner Doubleday credited with inventing American Baseball
B06261824 William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, engineer, mathematician, physicist
B06261854 Sir Robert Laird Borden (C), 8th Canadian prime minister (1911-20)
B06261892 Pearl S. Buck, author (The Good Earth) (Nobel 1938)
B06261901 Stuart Symington (D), former U.S. senator from Missouri
B06261904 Peter Lorre, actor (M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers)
B06261913 Maurice Wilkes, invented the stored program concept for computers
B06261922 Eleanor Parker, actress
B06261925 Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (Voskhod 2)
B06261940 Billy Davis singer
B06261951 Pamela Bellwood
B06261955 Mick Jones, rocker
B06261964 Zeng Jinlian, became tallest woman known (2.46 m, 8' 1")
B06271462 Louis XII (the Just), king of France (1498-1515)
B06271550 Charles IX, king of France (1560-74)
B06271682 Charles XII, king of Sweden (1697-1718)
B06271846 Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist
B06271850 Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian poet, novelist, playwright (Under the Yoke)
B06271850 Lafcadio Hearn, American journalist, author (Chita)
B06271869 Emma Goldman, anarchist
B06271872 Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet and short story writer
B06271880 Helen Keller blind-deaf author-lecturer had more sense than many
B06271913 Willie Mosconi, world champion pool player
B06271920 IAL Diamond Screenwriter
B06271927 Bob Keeshan aka Capt Kangaroo (Good Morning Captain)
B06271930 H Ross Periot Billionaire
B06271934 Anna Moffo, soprano in Wayne Penn
B06271938 Bruce E. Babbitt (Gov-D-AL)
B06271945 Norma Kamali
B06271952 Julia Duffy in Minneapolis Mn (Newhart Show)
B06271955 Isabelle Adjani
B06281491 Henry VIII of England (1509-47).  Don't lose your head over him
B06281577 Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter
B06281712 Jean Jacques Rousseau in France social contractor
B06281824 Paul Broca, French brain surgeon, anthropologist
B06281867 Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (6 Characters) (Nobel 1934)
B06281873 Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, sociologist, biologist (Nobel 1912)
B06281902 Richard Rogers composer
B06281926 Mel Brooks, comedian, actor, director (To Be or Not to Be)
B06281946 Gilda Radner, comedian (SNL - Baba Wawa) Detroit
B06281947 Patrick Kincaid send him a card author of TODAY
B06281969 Danielle Briesbois - Archie Bunker's girl
B06291858 George Washington Goethals built Panama Canal
B06291861 William James Mayo, American surgeon
B06291865 Shigechiyo Izumi, alive at 120 (greatest authenticated human age)
B06291900 Antoine Saint-Exupéry, French aviator, writer (Wind, Sand & Stars)
B06291901 Nelson Eddy singer
B06291909 LeRoy Anderson composer
B06291915 Ruth Warwick in St Joseph Missouri
B06291919 Slim Pickens, actor (Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles)
B06291925 Cara Williams
B06291930 Robert Evans
B06291934 Carl Levin (Sen-D-MI)
B06291936 Harmon Killebrew, baseball player
B06291944 Gary Busey
B06291948 Fred Grandy - Love Boats Gopher
B06301470 Charles VIII, king of France (1483-98), invaded Italy
B06301768 Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, first lady
B06301819 William A. Wheeler (R), 19th U.S. vice-president (1877-81)
B06301904 Jan Peerce, tenor
B06301909 Juan Bosch, poet, president of the Dominican Republic (1962-63)
B06301911 Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-American writer (Nobel 1980)
B06301912 Dan Reeves, NFL team owner (Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams)
B06301917 Buddy Rich, drummer
B06301917 Lena Horne singer Bkln NY
B06301918 Susan Hayward in Flatbush Bkln
B06301934 Harry Blackstone Jr magician
B06301936 Nancy Dussault in Fla

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S0601     All Saint's Day (Eastern Orthodox)
S0601     Feast of St. Angela Merici, virgin
S0601     Western Samoa National Day
S0601    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward Howe)
S06011638 1st earthquake recorded in U.S., at Plymouth, Mass
S06011792 Kentucky becomes 15th state
S06011796 Tennessee becomes 16th state
S06011813 Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto 'Don't give up the ship'
S06011845 Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
S06011861 US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
S06011865 US adventurer Wm. Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery
S06011866 Renegade Irish Fenians invade Fort Erie Ontario from US
S06011877 U.S. troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico
S06011918 Yanks turn triple play, beat Tigers 5-4
S06011925 Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp starts 2130 game streak
S06011933 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
S06011935 Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2
S06011939 1st TV heavyweight boxing match - Max Baer vs Lou Nova
S06011949 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers - Newsweek
S06011951 1st self-contained titanium plant opened Henderson Nevada
S06011957 1st US runner breaks 4 minute mile - Don Bowden
S06011959 constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
S06011965 A Penzias and R. Wilson detect 3 degree Kelvin primordial background
S06011967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, by the Beatles, is released
S06011967 Beatles release "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
S06011970 Soyuz 9 launched into earth orbit for 18 days
S06011971 Ed Sullivan's final show
S06011984 weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg
S0602     Feast of SS. Marcellinus, Peter, martyrs, & Erasmus, bishop, martyr
S0602     Republic (Constitution) Day celebrated in Italy
S0602    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward Howe)
S0602 455 Gaiseric and the Vandals sack Rome
S06021851 1st Prohibition law enacted in Maine
S06021858 Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer
S06021866 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
S06021873 Ground broken on Clay Street for world's 1st cable railroad
S06021873 ground broken on Clay Street for world's 1st cable railroad
S06021883 1st night baseball under lights Ft Wayne IN
S06021886 1st to wed during presidency-Grover Cleveland
S06021902 1st statewide initiative and referendum law adopted, in Oregon
S06021910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
S06021924 US citizenship granted to all American Indians
S06021936 Gen. Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
S06021946 Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
S06021953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
S06021966 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum 1st moon soft-landing
S06021967 Sgt Pepper album released in US
S06021977 NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
S06021979 John Paul II 1st pope to visit a communist country Poland
S06021984 Actress Jill Ireland had a radical masectomy
S0603     Egg Day
S0603    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward Howe)
S06031539 Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
S06031621 Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands"
S06031770 Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in California
S06031789 Alex Mackenzie began exploration of Mackenzie River
S06031888 "Casey at the Bat" published (SF Examiner)
S06031916 ROTC established by Act of Congress
S06031932 Lou Gehrig hits 4 consecutive HRs Yanks beat A's 20-13
S06031933 A's score 11 runs in 2nd, Yanks score 10 in 5th & win 17-11
S06031934 Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin knighted
S06031935 Atlantic crossing record French "Normandie":  1077 hours
S06031937 Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor married Wallis Warfield Simpson
S06031942 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
S06031948 200 inch Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory
S06031949 Dragnet's 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in LA)
S06031957 Howard Cosell's 1st TV show
S06031959 1st US Air Force Academy graduation
S06031965 Gemini IV is launched Ed White 1st American to walk in space
S06031966 Gemini 9 launched; 7th U.S. 2-man flight
S06031968 Yanks turn 21st triple play in their history lose 4-3 to Twins
S06031972 Yanks score 8 times in 13th beating White Sox 18-10
S06031976 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
S06031979 Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled
S06031980 Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
S06031980 Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination
S06031981 Pope John Paul II released from hospital after attempt on life
S0604     Feast of St. Francis Caracciolo, confessor
S0604     Old Maid's Day
S0604     UN's Intl Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
S0604    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward Howe)
S0604 780 BC 1st total solar eclipse reliably recorded by Chinese
S06041647 British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner
S06041784 Mme. Thible becomes 1st woman to fly (in a balloon)
S06041792 Capt. George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain
S06041812 La Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"
S06041850 Empire Engine Company No 1 organized
S06041896 Henry takes his 1st Ford through sts of Detroit
S06041919 US marines invade Costa Rica
S06041940 British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops
S06041942 Battle of Midway begins 1st naval battle won in air
S06041944 1st submarine captured & boarded on high seas - U 505
S06041944 Rome liberated from Mussolini's Fascist armies
S06041946 Largest solar prominence (300,000 miles) is observed
S06041947 Taft-Hartley Act approved despite Truman veto
S06041956 Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public
S06041957 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation
S06041970 Tonga gains independence from Britain (National Day)
S06041977 Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills two
S06041982 Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon
S06041985 Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
S06041986 Jonathan Pollard spy for Israel pleads guilty
S0605     Constitution Day celebrated in Denmark
S0605     Feast of St. Boniface, bishop of Mainz, martyr, Apostle of Germany
S0605    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward Howe)
S06051661 Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
S06051753 Adam Smith Day
S06051783 Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight
S06051833 Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
S06051849 Danish National Day - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
S06051855 Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention
S06051875 Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens
S06051917 10 million American men began registering for draft in WW I
S06051920 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell
S06051926 Indians triple play Yankees & win 15-3
S06051933 US goes off gold standard
S06051940 1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh
S06051940 Battle of France begins in WW II
S06051944 1st B-29 bombing raid 1 plane lost; engine failure
S06051947 Sec of State George C Marshall outlines `The Marshall Plan'
S06051967 Israel Syria Jordan Iraq & Egypt begin 6-Day War
S06051967 Richard Speck sentenced to death in the electric chair
S06051968 Sen Robert F Kennedy assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan
S06051972 "If You Had Wings" opens
S06051972 U.N. Conference on the Human Environment opens in Stockholm
S06051975 Suez Canal reopens (after 6 Day War caused it to close)
S06051977 Revolution in Seychelles Islands
S06051980 Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
S06051981 TODAY/PC ran for 1st time
S06051982 Conquistador Cielo wins Belmont Stakes by 14 1/2 lengths
S0606     Feast of St. Norbert, archbishop of Magdeburg, confessor
S0606    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward Howe)
S06061809 Swedish Constitution and Flag Day (National Day)
S06061844 YMCA founded in London
S06061889 Great Fire in Seattle
S06061909 Alaska Yukon and Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
S06061911 Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to U.S. (not ratified)
S06061918 Battle of Belleau Wood 1st US victory of WWI
S06061925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp
S06061931 Yanks turn triple play but lose 7-5 to the Indians
S06061932 US Federal gas tax enacted
S06061933 1st drive-in theatre opens in Camden NJ
S06061933 US Employment Service created
S06061934 Securities & Exchange Commission established
S06061934 Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game
S06061936 Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro NJ
S06061941 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
S06061942 1st nylon parachute jump Hartford Ct Adeline Gray
S06061942 Japanese forces retreated in WW II Battle of Midway
S06061944 D-Day invasion of Europe Allies storm Normandy France
S06061946 Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
S06061965 Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive homers beating White Sox 12-0
S06061966 Activist James Meredith shot in Mississippi
S06061966 Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with 'angry alligator'
S06061967 6 day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin
S06061971 Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
S06061975 British voters decide to remain on Common Market
S06061977 Supreme Court tossed out automatic death penalty laws
S06061978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
S06061982 Israel invades Lebanon to drive out PLO
S06061985 Body of Dr Josef Mengele Nazi criminal located & exhumed
S06061985 Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
S06062012 transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs
S0607     Chad National Day
S0607    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward Howe)
S06071654 Louis XIV crowned king of France
S06071769 Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Ky
S06071776 Richard Lee Virginia calls for Declaration of Independence
S06071839 Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
S06071860 Workmen start laying Market Street RR track
S06071863 Mexico City captured by French troops
S06071864 Abe Lincoln renominated for Pres by Republican Party
S06071905 Norway declares independence from Sweden
S06071929 Vatican City becomes a soverign state
S06071936 Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16 set record of no strike outs
S06071938 Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown by Eddie Allen
S06071948 Communists take over Czechoslovakia
S06071953 1st color network telecast in compatible color Boston Mass
S06071954 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated - New Brunswick NJ
S06071955 1st President to appear on television in color - DD Eisenhower
S06071965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
S06071967 Israel captures Wailing Wall
S06071968 Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination
S06071971 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut
S06071972 German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel
S06071977 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay law
S06071980 Temperance Hill wins Belmont Stakes (50:1 long shot)
S06071980 Tommy John wins his 200th 3-0 on a 2 hitter
S06071981 Israel destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility
S06071982 Pres Reagan meets Pope John Paul II & Queen Elizabeth
S0608    7Queen's official birthday; Great Britain's National Day
S06081783 Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
S06081786 1st commercially-made ice cream sold in NY
S06081861 Tennessee secedes from Union
S06081869 Ives McGaffey patents his vacuum cleaner  (It sucks)
S06081889 Cable Cars begin service in LA
S06081915 William Jennings Bryan quits as Sec of State
S06081917 Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
S06081918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
S06081927 Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11
S06081940 Element 93 Neptunium - discovery announced
S06081953 Segregated lunch counters in D C forbidden by Supreme Court
S06081953CTornadoes kills 110 in Mich & Ohio
S06081959 1st official `missile mail' landed Jacksonville Fla
S06081966 NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970
S06081967 Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34
S06081968 Don Drysdale pitches a record 68th consecutive scoreless inning
S06081969 Mickey Mantle Day 60,096 saw #7 retired
S06081975 Soviets launch Venera 9 to Venus
S06081979 The Source, 1st computer public information service, goes online
S06081982 Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament
S06081986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria
S06081986CBoston Celtics win NBA championship #16 over Houston Rockets
S06082004 Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
S0609     Feast of SS. Primus and Felician, martyrs
S0609    7Queen's official birthday; Great Britain's National Day
S0609  68 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide
S06091732 royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe
S06091851 SF Committee of Vigilance forms
S06091860 1st dime novel published
S06091868 1st meeting of Board of Regents U of Cal
S06091898 China leases Hong Kong's New Territories to Britain for 99 years
S06091931 Goddard patents rocket-fueled aircraft design
S06091946 66,545 fans help Yanks break million mark earliest
S06091959 1st ballistic missile sub launched "George Washington"
S06091963 "Cleopatra" opens in NY
S06091969 Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice
S06091972 First All-Nite Grad Parties
S06091973 Secretariat wins Belmont Stakes & Triple Crown
S06091977 Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks
S06091980 Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth
S06091982 Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley
S06091984 Laserphonic Fantasy premieres
S06091986 Rogers Commission report released blame on Morton Thiokol
S06091997 British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires
S0610     Feast of St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland, widow
S0610     Portuguese National Day
S0610    7Queen's official birthday; Great Britain's National Day
S06101639 1st American log cabin at Ft Christina (Wilmington Del)
S06101752 Ben Franklin flies kit in storm
S06101772 Burning of the Gaspee British revenue cutter by Rhode Islanders
S06101801 State of Tripoli declares war on the US
S06101854 Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved
S06101865 Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany
S06101869 Agnes arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
S06101880 Charlie Jones becomes 1st to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
S06101892 Wilbert Robinson gets 7 base hits in 1 baseball game
S06101898 US Marines land at Cuba in Spanish-American War
S06101910 Portuguese Natl Day
S06101921 Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath)
S06101932 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass
S06101935 Alcoholics Anonymous formed in Akron by Dr Robert Smith
S06101940 Italy declares war on France & Britain
S06101942 Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia) Gestapo kills 173
S06101942 Nazis exterminate village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia
S06101943 FDR 1st US pres to visit foreign country during wartime
S06101944 Joe Nuxhall at 15 became youngest ML baseball player
S06101946 Establishment of Italian Republic
S06101954 PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting
S06101955 1st virus separated into component parts - reported
S06101959 Rocky Colovito hits 4 HRs in 1 game
S06101964 Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked
S06101967 Israel Syria Jordan Iraq Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help
S06101977 Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II
S06101977CJames Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
S06101978 Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis
S06101984 Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 2.39 m
S0611     Feast of St Barnabas, apostle
S0611     King Kamehameha I Day in Hawaii (1737-1819)
S0611    7Queen's official birthday; Great Britain's National Day
S06111488 Battle of Sauchieburn, Scotland
S06111770 Capt Cook runs aground on Australian Great Barrier Reef
S06111838 Iowa Territory organized
S06111859 Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada
S06111864 300' of Meigg's Wharf washed away in storm
S06111895 1st auto race
S06111919 Sir Barton 1st horse to win the Triple Crown
S06111927 Babe Ruth hits 19th & 20th of 60 HRs
S06111937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released
S06111942 US & USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II
S06111947 WW II sugar rationing finally ends
S06111955 1st jet magnesium airplane flown
S06111961 Roger Maris hits #19 & 20 of 61 HRs
S06111963 George Wallace backs down at Alabama schoolhouse door
S06111970 US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya
S06111977 Main Street Electrical Parade premieres
S06111977 Train & school hostage incident in Netherlands ends
S06111977CSeattle Slew won Belmont Stakes & Triple Crown
S06111980 K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service SF
S06111982 Israel & Syria stop fighting in Lebanon
S06111982CLarry Holmes defeats Gerry Cooney retains WBC heavyweight crown
S06111982CMovie "E T The Extra-Terrestrial" released
S0612     Feast of St John of San Facondo, confessor
S0612     Independence Day celebrated in Phillipines
S0612    7Queen's official birthday; Great Britain's National Day
S06121665 English rename New Amsterdam NY after Dutch pull out
S06121776 Va 1st to adopt Bill of Rights
S06121787 Senators must be at least 30
S06121812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins
S06121838 Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass
S06121838 Iowa Territory organized
S06121839 1st baseball game played in America
S06121880 1st baseball perfect game - John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleve
S06121898 Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain
S06121907 Yanks commit 11 errors & lose 14-6 to the Tigers
S06121917 Secret Service extend protection of pres to his family
S06121920 Farmer Labor Party organized
S06121934 Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up
S06121934Cinto Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] & United Air Lines
S06121936 1st 50KW radio station, Pittsburgh Pa
S06121937 USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued
S06121939 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY
S06121946 Philippines National Day
S06121957 Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg
S06121963 Medgar Evers, NAACP official, murdered in Jackson, Miss
S06121967 Israel wins 6 day war
S06121967 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
S06121971 Tricia Nixon & Edward F Cox marry at White House
S06121972 John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released including "Woman
S06121972Cis the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" & "Luck of the Irish"
S06121973 Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer
S06121977 Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library
S06121979 Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel
S06121981 3rd baseball strike starts
S06121982 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators in Central Park NYC
S06121986 P W Botha declares South African national emergency
S0613     Feast of St Anthony of Padua, patron of lovers, illiterate, poor
S0613     Kitchen Klutzes of America Day
S0613     National Asparagus Festival, Shelby, Mich
S0613    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
S0613    7Queen's official birthday; Great Britain's National Day
S06131373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed
S06131611 John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
S06131798 Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
S06131871 hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
S06131886 King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowns
S06131898 Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital
S06131900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians
S06131913 Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games
S06131921 Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8
S06131924 Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers. 3rd forfeit win
S06131927 Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
S06131933 1st sodium vapor lamps installed Schenectady NY
S06131933 Federal Savings & Loan Association authorized
S06131937 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns
S06131944 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks
S06131948 Babe Ruth's #3 is retired
S06131963 Vostok 6 launched Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman cosmonaut
S06131966 Miranda vs Az decision-Suspect must be informed of rights
S06131967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice
S06131971 NY Times began publishing Pentagon Papers
S06131977 Convicted assassin James Earl Ray recaptured
S06131980 Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation
S06131981 A teen-ager fired six blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
S06131983 Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave Solar System
S06131986 Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
S0614     Feast of St Basil the Great, bishop, confessor, doctor
S0614     Flag Day
S0614    7Queen's official birthday; Great Britain's National Day
S06141775 US Army founded
S06141777 Continental Congress in Phila adopts Stars & Stripes as flag
S06141841 1st Canadian parliament opened in Kingston
S06141846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma
S06141847 Bunsen invents a gas burner
S06141850 Fire destroys part of SF
S06141870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games
S06141876 California St Cable Car RR Co gets it's franchise
S06141900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins
S06141917 Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
S06141919 1st direct airplane crossing of Atlantic
S06141922 Baltimore radio station WEAR 1st to put on a President (Harding)
S06141938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
S06141940 German forces occupied Paris during WW II
S06141941 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS
S06141942 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct
S06141942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released
S06141944 1st B-29 raid against Mainland Japan
S06141948 TV Guide is published
S06141951 UNIVAC 1, 1st commercial computer, unveiled
S06141952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub the Nautilus
S06141953 Yanks sweep Indians 6-2 3-0 before 74,708 win streak of 18 straight
S06141954 Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words `under God' to the Pledge
S06141963 Valery F Bykovsky 5th cosmonaut (Vostok 5)
S06141967 Launch of Mariner V for Venus flyby
S06141975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
S06141976 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4
S06141976 Gong Show premiers
S06141977 M L King killer James Earl Ray recaptured after prison break
S06141978 Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR
S06141982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is ending 74-day conflict
S06141985 Lebanese Shiite Moslem gunmen hijack TWA 847 after Athens' takeoff
S06141986 Death claimed Broadway librettist Alan Jay Lerner in NY at 67
S0615     Feast of SS Vitus, Modestus, Crescentia, martyrs
S0615     USAF launches first "Big Bird" reconnaissance satellites
S0615    1Father's Day
S0615 763 BC Assyrians record total solar eclipse event on clay tablet
S06151215 King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede England
S06151389 Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs, Bosnians
S06151520 Pope threatens to toss Luther out of Catholic Church
S06151664 NJ established
S06151752 Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-What a shock
S06151775 Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army
S06151804 12th Amendment ratified manner of choosing President & VP
S06151836 Arkansas becomes 25th state
S06151844 Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber
S06151846 Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49° N
S06151857 SF Water Works organized
S06151864 Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington Va) turned into a milt cemetery
S06151878 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras taking 1
S06151878Cpicture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
S06151902 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Tx minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game
S06151907 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference
S06151919 1st flight across Atlantic (Alcock & Brown)
S06151924 Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens
S06151940 France surrenders to Hitler
S06151944 American forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific
S06151951 1st coml  electronic computer dedicated Phila
S06151957 Yanks trade Billy Martin & Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran
S06151967 Gov Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill
S06151975 Soyuz 19 launched
S06151976 Yankees trade May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor & Demsey to Baltimore
S06151976Cfor Holtzman, Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick & Jim Freeman
S06151977 Spain's 1st free elections since 1936
S06151978 Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days
S06151982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat
S06151986 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity
S0616     UN's Internatl Day of Solidarity with People of South Africa
S0616    1Father's Day
S06161567 Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison
S06161775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually Breed's Hill)
S06161832 Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Ill
S06161858 "A house divided against itself cannot stand" Abraham Lincoln
S06161883 1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams vs Cleveland Spiders)
S06161903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox
S06161903 Ford Motor Company vehicle manufacturer
S06161904 Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses)
S06161919 1st nonstop transatlantic flight completed
S06161933 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (US) created (FDIC)
S06161933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)
S06161937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA
S06161941 1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC
S06161947 1st network news - Dumont's "News from Washington"
S06161947 Pravda denounces Marshall Plan
S06161949 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated Erie Pa
S06161953 Despite Johnny Mize 2000th hit Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak
S06161961 Rudolf Nureyev Soviet ballet dancer defects to West
S06161963 Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM
S06161963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6
S06161976 Soweto Day Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa
S06161976 US ambassador to Lebanon kidnapped & killed
S06161977 Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR
S06161977 Ron Guidry's 1st complete game 7-0 over KC Royals
S06161978 Tom Seaver no hits St Louis Cards
S06161982 Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners
S06161984 Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race
S06161986 One-day general strike in South Africa
S06161987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession
S06161987Ccharges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him
S0617     Republic Day celebrated in Iceland
S0617     St Alban's Day (Anglican)
S0617    1Father's Day
S06171775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)
S06171789 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly
S06171856 Republican Party opened its 1st convention in Phila
S06171880 John Ward, Providence, pitches perfect game vs Buffalo
S06171885 Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'
S06171937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in NY
S06171940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
S06171942 1st American expeditionary force to land in Africa (WW2)
S06171944 Rep of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir
S06171945 German Fed Rep National Day
S06171947 1st round-the-world civil air service left NYC
S06171953 Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius &
S06171953CEthel Rosenberg scheduled for the next day their 14th anniversary
S06171954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ended
S06171963 Supreme Court strikes down Lord's Prayer recitation
S06171971 US returns control of Okinawa to Japanese
S06171972 Democratic HQs at Watergate burglarized, wire-tapped
S06171978 Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike outs
S06171982 President Galtieri resigns in Argentina
S06171982CRonald Reagan's "evil empire" speech
S06171985 18th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 5 is launched
S06171986 Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated
S0618     Feast of St Ephrem, confessor, doctor
S0618    1Father's Day
S06181178 Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno
S06181778 British Redcoats evacuate Phila
S06181812 War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain
S06181815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington & Blücher
S06181872 Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall
S06181873 Susan B Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President
S06181892 Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
S06181898 Amusement pier opens, Atlantic City, NJ
S06181916 Yanks score in every inning but 8th beat Indians 19-3
S06181928 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to cross Atlantic
S06181934 US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
S06181940 Winston Churchill urged perseverance so that future generations
S06181940Cwould remember that "this was their finest hour"
S06181945 William Joyce-Lord Haw-Haw Brit radio traitor charged with treason
S06181953 Egypt proclaimed a republic
S06181953 Eugene Stephens gets 3 hits as Red Sox score 17 runs in 7th inning
S06181959 1st telecast transmitted from England to US
S06181975 Saudi Prince Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz beheaded in Riyadh
S06181975Cshopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king
S06181977 Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation
S06181977 Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft
S06181977Cfor 1st time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
S06181979 Billy Martin replaces Bob Lemon as Yank manager (2nd time)
S06181981 Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced
S06181981Cby Sandra Day O'Connor 1st woman on high court)
S06181982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
S06181983 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st US woman
S0619     Feast of St Juliana Falconieri, virgin
S0619    1Father's Day
S0619 240 BC Eratosthenes estimates circumference of earth
S06191586 English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island NC
S06191756 146 English people imprisoned in Black Hole of Calcutta
S06191778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge
S06191812 US declares war on England
S06191846 1st baseball game-NY Nines 23 Knickerbockers 1 (Hoboken, NJ)
S06191861 Anaheim PO established
S06191862 Slavery outlawed in US territories
S06191867 Mexican Emperor Maximilian executed, Mexican republic restored
S06191875 Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio
S06191910 Father's Day celebrated for 1st time in Spokane Wash
S06191917 After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to
S06191917Cdispense with German titles & surnames They took the name Windsor
S06191931 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct
S06191932 1st concert given in SF's Stern Grove
S06191934 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
S06191946 1st TV sports spectacular - Joe Louis vs Billy Conn
S06191947 1st plane to exceed 600 mph - Albert Boyd Muroc Ca
S06191953 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg executed at Sing Sing Prison Ossining NY
S06191953C(Julius takes 3 tries, Ethel 5)
S06191955 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100
S06191961 Kuwait gains independence from Britain
S06191961 US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution
S06191961Crequiring state office holders to belief in existence of God
S06191963 Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to earth
S06191963 Charter members of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen
S06191964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 survived an 83-day filibuster in Senate
S06191970 A Nikolayev and V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9
S06191973 Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2000
S06191976 US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from earth
S06191977 Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cent bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint
S06191977 Red Sox set record of 16 HRs in 3 games  All against Yanks
S06191981 Boeing Coml Chinook two-rotor helicopter gets certified
S06191981 European Space Agency's Ariane carries two satellites into orbit
S06191986 Len Bias 1st pick of Celtics suffers fatal cocaine-induced seizure
S06191987 Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends
S0620     Feast of St Silverius, pope (536-37), martyr
S0620    1Father's Day
S06201632 Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
S06201756 British soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most died
S06201779 Battle of Stone Ferry
S06201782 Congress approves Great Seal of US & the Eagle as it's symbol
S06201791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
S06201837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of
S06201837Cuncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
S06201855 Comm appoints to lay out streets west of Larkin, SF
S06201863 West Virginia became 35th state
S06201867 Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
S06201893 Lizzie Borden found innocent in New Bedford Mass
S06201895 Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
S06201913 3 of 1st 4 Yankees hit by pitch enroute to a record 6 hit batsman
S06201913CBert Daniels set AL mark by getting hit 3 times in a doubleheader
S06201920 Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed
S06201939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
S06201947 Gangster Benjamin `Buggsy' Siegel shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
S06201947 Pres Truman vetoed Taft-Hartley Act
S06201948 `Toast of the Town' hosted by Ed Sullivan premier on CBS-TV
S06201950 Joe Dimaggio's 2000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2
S06201963 1st Mayor's Trophy Game Mets beat Yanks 6-2
S06201963 US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"
S06201967 Muhammad Ali convicted of violating draft law in Houston
S06201968 Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds
S06201976 River Country opens
S06201977 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
S06201982 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington
S06201982 It's National Bald Eagle Day
S06201983 Yankee Bobby Murcer retires
S06201986 Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan
S06201987 Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass
S0621     Feast of St Aloysius Gonzaga, confessor
S0621     Longest day of the year the Summer Solstice
S0621    1Father's Day
S06211633 Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse,
S06211633C& detest" his Copernican heliocentric views
S06211788 US Constitution went into effect as NH is 9th state to ratify it
S06211805 Great Stoneface Mt found in NH
S06211834 Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine
S06211879 F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately)
S06211887 Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
S06211894 workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
S06211916 Red Sox George Foster no hits Yanks
S06211917 Hawaiian Red Cross founded
S06211930 Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7
S06211938 Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit
S06211939 Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic laterial sclerosis
S06211943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead
S06211945 Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to US during WW II
S06211948 1st stored computer program run, on the Manchester Mark I
S06211948 Dr Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrated 'long playing record'
S06211963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII
S06211964 3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner Andrew Goodman &
S06211964CJames E Chaney-disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail
S06211964CPhillies Jim Bunning perfect games Mets on Fathers day
S06211967 Yanks take 5-3 lead in 11th & lose 6-5, in 2nd game Red Sox lead
S06211967C3-2 in 9th & Yanks beat them 6-3
S06211968 Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns
S06211975 Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
S06211977 Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison
S06211982 Wash DC jury finds John Hinckley Jr innocent by insanity
S06211985 American Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists announce
S06211985Cskeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
S06211986 Pres Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
S0622     Feast of St Paulinus, bishop of Nola, confessor
S06221611 Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay during mutiny
S06221675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
S06221772 slavery outlawed in England
S06221775 1st Continental currency authorized
S06221807 British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812
S06221808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak
S06221815 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)
S06221847 Doughnut invented
S06221849 Stephen C Massett opens at courthouse as 1st professional
S06221849Centertainer using (allegedly) only piano in Cal
S06221851 Fire destroys part of SF
S06221868 Arkansas reenters US
S06221870 Dept of Justice cabinet-level federal agency founded
S06221889 Louisville Colonels set major-league baseball record with 26th
S06221889Cconsecutive loss
S06221910 1st airship passengers - Zeppelin Deutscheland
S06221911 King George V of England crowned
S06221930 Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in a game, Ruth hits 3 in double header
S06221937 Joe Lewis wins world heavyweight title from James Braddock by KO
S06221938 Joe Lewis knocks out Max Schmeling in 1st round
S06221940 France falls to Nazi Germany
S06221941 Germany declares war on Russia during WW II
S06221944 FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
S06221954 Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands
S06221957 KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system
S06221970 Pres Nixon signs 26th Amendment (voting age 18)
S06221973 Skylab 2's astronauts land
S06221977 Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in AL prison
S06221977 Walt Disney's "The Rescuers" is released
S06221978 Pluto's moon Charon discovered by James Christy
S06221979 Pro Football Researchers Association founded at Canton, O
S06221981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing Beatle John Lennon
S06221982 Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes
S06221982 Prince Chuck & Lady Di take Prince William home from hospital
S06221983 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle
S06221987 Tom Seaver retires after 3rd try with NY Mets
S0623     Discovery Day in Newfoundland
S0623     Official birthday of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg (National Day)
S06231683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians
S06231683Cin Penn; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"
S06231757 Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal
S06231760 Battle of Landshut, Silesia
S06231868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents Typewriter
S06231915 Yanks get record 16 walks & 3 wild pitches beat A's Bruno Hass, 15-0
S06231927 Gehrig hits 3 HRs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox
S06231938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) created
S06231938 Marineland opens in Fla - 1st aquarium
S06231947 Vetoed Taft-Hartley Act overriden by congress
S06231950 Yanks & Tigers hit 11 HRs, Tigers win 10-9
S06231955 Walt Disney's "Lady And The Tramp" is released
S06231967 Senator Dodd (D-CT) censured for misusing campaign funds
S06231967CPresident Johnson & Premier Kosygin (USSR) meet in NJ
S06231969 Warren Burger sworn in as US Chief Justice
S06231972 Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
S06231973 Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched
S06231976 CN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens
S06231977 13th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-4
S06231981 33 inning game ends Pawtuckett 3 Rochester 2
S06231986 Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House
S0624     Feast of St John the Baptist
S0624     Midsummer Day, celebrated in Europe (quarter day in England)
S0624     St Jean Baptiste Day -- Canada
S0624    1Gay Pride Day
S06241314 Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
S06241314 Scotland under King Robert I defeats England
S06241441 Eton College founded by Henry VI
S06241497 John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England
S06241509 Henry VIII becomes King of England
S06241647 Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council
S06241662 Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day)
S06241778 David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Phila
S06241817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
S06241861 Tennessee becomes 11th (and last) state to secede from US
S06241901 Jewish Natl Fund started
S06241908 Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is
S06241908Cdestined to have worse won-lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71
S06241930 1st radar detection of planes Anacostia DC
S06241936 Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
S06241947 Flying Saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by Airline pilot Ken Arnold
S06241948 Berlin Blockade & Berlin Airlift begin
S06241949 Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board
S06241949 Hopalong Cassidy becomes 1st network western
S06241963 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
S06241970 Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
S06241975 113 killed in Eastern Boeing 727 crash at JFK
S06241977 IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
S06241982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
S06241982 Jean-Loup Chretien, first spacionaut, lifts off (Soyuz T-16)
S06241982 Soyuz T-6 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 French) to Salyut 7 space station
S06241983 7th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 2 returns to Earth
S06241985 18th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 5 returns to Earth
S06241986 Disputed Ala Dem Gov runoff lets Guy Hunt win (1st Repub in 112 yrs)
S06241986 US Senate approves "tax reform"
S0625     Feast of St William, abbot
S0625    1Gay Pride Day
S06251178 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon
S06251630 Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop
S06251638 A lunar eclipse becomes the known astronomical event recorded
S06251788 Va becomes 10th state
S06251835 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF)
S06251868 FL AL LA GA NC SC readmitted to US
S06251876 Lt Col Custer & 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux & Cheyenne
S06251903 Yanks & White Sox end deadlocked at 6-6 in 18
S06251906 Architect Stanford White shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which
S06251906Che designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit
S06251919 1st flight Junkers F13 advanced monoplane airliner
S06251929 Pres Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
S06251934 Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times
S06251938 federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40¢ per hour
S06251942 British RAF staged a thousand-bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)
S06251950 El Al begins air service
S06251950 Korean Conflict begins; N Korea invades S Korea
S06251951 1st color TV broadcast - CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities
S06251953 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
S06251961 Yankee's Roger Maris hits his 40th of 61 HRs
S06251962 Supreme Court rules NY school prayer unconstitutional
S06251962 Yankee Jack Reed's 22nd inning HR wins a 7 hour game
S06251973 John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee
S06251973 Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m
S06251975 Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
S06251977 Report of LBJ having cancer operation while Pres denied
S06251977 Roy C Sullivan of Va is struck by lightening for 7th time!
S06251981 Supreme Court held male-only draft registration, constitutional
S06251982 SF holds its 1st County Fair
S06251982 Sec of State Alexander Haig Jr resigns Schultz replaces
S0626     Feast of SS John and Paul, martyrs in Rome about 362
S0626    1Gay Pride Day
S06261483 Richard III usurps the English throne
S06261797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow
S06261870 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens
S06261876 Custer's Last Stand
S06261900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats yellow fever
S06261911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 133 kph
S06261917 1st American Expeditionary Force arrived in France during WW I
S06261919 1st issue of NY Daily News published
S06261934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act establishing Credit Unions
S06261945 UN Charter signed by 50 nations in SF
S06261948 US responses to Soviet blockade of Berlin
S06261949 Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury
S06261959 Pres Eisenhower joins Queen Elizabeth opening St Lawrence Seaway
S06261959 St Lawrence Seaway opens, linking Atlantic Ocean with Great Lakes
S06261960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
S06261960 Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)
S06261963 Kennedy visits W Berlin `Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)'
S06261964 Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album
S06261968 Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
S06261975 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency
S06261978 1st dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1 launched
S06261982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal
S06261982Cfrom Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces
S06261984 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery scrubbed at T-4
S06261987 Losing 9-0 to Red Sox Yanks score 11 in 3rd & win 12-11 in 10 inn
S0627     Feast of St Ladislas I, King of Hungary
S0627     National Fink Day
S0627     Pons-Winnecke meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S0627    1Gay Pride Day
S06271806 Buenos Aires captured by British
S06271838 Queen Victoria is crowned
S06271844 Mormon leaders Joseph & Hyrum Smith killed by a mob in Carthage
S06271847 NY & Boston linked by telegraph wires
S06271867 Bank of Calif opens doors
S06271929 1st color TV demo, NYC
S06271934 Federal Savings & Loan Association created
S06271940 End of USSR experimental calendar
S06271942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
S06271944 Cherbourg, France captured by Allies
S06271950 Pres Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict
S06271954 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala
S06271955 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted Illinois
S06271957 500 people killed by Hurricane Audrey in coastal La & Tx
S06271960 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass
S06271962 NASA X-15 flies at 4105 mph
S06271963 Pres Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland
S06271963 Robert Rushworth in X-15 reaches 87 km
S06271966 4th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 5-2
S06271973 John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's `enemies list'
S06271977 5-4 decision Supreme Court decides to let lawyers advertise
S06271977 Djibouti gains independence from France (National Day)
S06271978 Soyuz 30 launched
S06271982 4th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 4 launched
S06271983 Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
S06271984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
S06271986 World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
S06271987 Supreme Court Justice Powell retires
S0628     Feast of St Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons, martyr
S0628     Pons-Winnecke meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S0628    1Gay Pride Day
S06281778 Battle of Monmouth
S06281778 Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" helped American patriots
S06281820 Tomato is proved to be nonpoisonous
S06281838 Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey
S06281861 Leipzig Obs discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) comet d'Arrest
S06281914 Aust Archduke Ferdinand & wife Sofia assassinated (starts WW I)
S06281918 1st flight between Hawaiian Islands
S06281919 Carl Mazes pitches a complete double-header against Yanks
S06281919 Harry S Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence
S06281919 Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed
S06281938 Queen Victoria ascends to British throne
S06281939 Pan Am begins transatlantic air service Dixie Clipper
S06281939 Yanks hit 13 HRs sweep A's 23-2 & 10-0
S06281942 Dumont TV network begins (WABD NY)
S06281950 N Korean forces captured Seoul S Korea
S06281956 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Il
S06281965 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson
S06281971 Phillies Rick Wise hits 2 HRs & no-hits the Reds
S06281977 Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers
S06281978 Supreme Court orders Cal medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white
S06281978Cman claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected
S06281982 Prince Chuck & Lady Di name their baby "William"
S06281983 Bridge section along I-95 in Conn collapsed kills 3
S06281986 Kenneth & Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick
S06281987 Don Baylor sets career hit by pitch mark at 244 (Pitcher Rick Roiden)
S06281987 Gay Pride Day
S0629     Feast of SS Peter and Paul, apostles
S0629     Pons-Winnecke meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S0629    1Gay Pride Day
S06291776 Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
S06291776 Va state constitution adopted & Patrick Henry made governor
S06291854 Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az, NM) from Mexico for $10 million
S06291863 very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
S06291864 Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed
S06291897 Chicago beats Louisville 36-7
S06291916 Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
S06291927 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
S06291929 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
S06291936 Empire State Building eminates high definition TV - 343 lines
S06291941 DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record
S06291946 British arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists
S06291947 Yanks beat Senators 3-1 starting a 19 game win streak
S06291949 South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
S06291952 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn - the Oriskany
S06291954 Atomic Energy Comm voted against reinstating Dr J Robert Oppenheimer
S06291956 Charles Dumas - 1st high jump over 7 feet - LA Cal
S06291962 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner
S06291965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 85 km
S06291966 US bombs fuel storage facilities near N Vietnamese cities
S06291967 Israel removes barricades separating city of Jerusalem
S06291970 US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia
S06291971 Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days
S06291972 Supreme Court-death penalty usually was `cruel & unusual punishment'
S06291976 Seychelles gains independence from Britain
S06291977 Supreme Court ruled out death penalty for rapists of adults
S06291982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
S06291984 USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI
S06291987 Yanks blow 11-4 lead but trailing 14-11 Dave Winfield's 8th inning
S06291987CGrand Slammer beats Toronto 15-14 Mattingly also Grand slams
S0630     Commemoration of St Paul, apostle
S0630     Independence Day celebrated in Zaire
S0630     Pons-Winnecke meteor shower, radiant in Draco
S0630    1Gay Pride Day
S06301794 Battle of Ft Recovery, Ohio
S06301834 Congress creates Indian Territory
S06301859 Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope
S06301870 Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate
S06301893 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
S06301894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
S06301906 Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act adopted
S06301908 Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (Tunguska Event)
S06301908 Cy Young no hits Yankees Red Sox win 8-0
S06301914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest campaign for Indian rights in S Africa
S06301923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
S06301930 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY
S06301934 Adolf Hitler begins pogrom against his enemies
S06301934 Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions
S06301936 "Gone With the Wind" is published
S06301936 40 hour work week law approved (federal)
S06301948 Transistor demonstrated Murray Hill NJ
S06301950 Pres Truman orders American troops into Korea
S06301952 "The Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV
S06301953 US ground forces enter Korean conflict
S06301954 Yank pitcher Tom Morgan ties record by hitting 3 batters in 1 inning
S06301954CThis was also Bobby Brown's last game he retired to become a Dr
S06301960 Zaire (then Belgian Congo) gains ind
S06301962 Pope Paul VI crowned in St Peter's Square
S06301971 26th Amendment ratified gives vote to 18 year olds-Ohio ratifies
S06301972 1st leap second, day
S06301977 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
S06301977 Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto
S06301982 New Jersey NHL Franchise named the Devils
S06301982 Equal Rights Amendment dies without ratification
S06301985 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed
S06301986 Georgia sodomy law upheld by the Supreme Court