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B03011810 Frédéric Chopin, composer
B03011837 William Dean Howells, novelist
B03011848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece
B03011880 Lytton Strachey, critic
B03011892 Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japan, writer (Rashomon in Kappa)
B03011910 David Niven, Britian (Around the World in 80 Days)
B03011917 Dinah Shore, Winchester Tenn, singer
B03011917 Robert Lowell, poet, pacifist (Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean)
B03011921 Richard Wilbur, poet (Ceremony, Walking to Sleep)
B03011921 Terrence 'Cardinal' Cooke, NY
B03011924 Donald (Deke) Slayton, astronaut
B03011926 Pete Rozelle, NFL commissioner
B03011927 Harry Belafonte, singer, actor
B03011942 Joan Hackett, NY
B03011946 Lana Wood, Santa Monica Cal
B03011954 Catherine Bach, Warren Oh, oh those legs
B03011954 Ron Howard, actor (American Graffiti, Happy Days)
B0301     Alan Thicke (Growing Pains)
B03021793 Sam Houston, Tx pres (1836-38, 1841-44)
B03021810 Leo XIII, 256th pope (1878-1903)
B03021824 Bedrich Smetana, Czech composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau)
B03021829 Carl Schurz, Civil War gen
B03021876 Pius XII, 260th pope (1939-58)
B03021904 Dr. Seuss,uthor (Horton Hears a Who!)
B03021909 Mel Ott, 1st NLer to hit 500 HRs
B03021917 Desi Arnaz, Cuba (Ricky Ricardo)
B03021919 Jennifer Jones, Okla
B03021931 Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader
B03021931 Tom Wolfe, journalist (Right Stuff)
B03021950 Karen Carpenter, Ct, drummer
B030219?? Laraine Newman, LA, TV (SNL)
B03031756 William Godwin, political writer (Caleb Williams)
B03031831 George M. Pullman, invented sleeping car
B03031845 Georg Cantor, discovered transfinite numbers (or 1918)
B03031847 Alexander Graham Bell, telephone inventor
B03031859 Shalom Alekhem, Russian author
B03031890 Norman Bethune, Canadian Dr, Spain, China
B03031895 Gen Matthew Ridgeway, milt leader
B03031911 Jean Harlow, 30s' Sex Goddess
B03031912 Joe Stydahar, Chicago Bears tackle
B03031933 Princess Lee Radziwell, NYC
B03031934 Gia Scala, Italy
B03031942 Vladimir V. Kovalyonok, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 29, T-4)
B03031962 Herschel Walker, NJ Generals, Dal Cowboys running back
B03041394 Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsors Portuguese voyages
B03041678 Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso
B03041747 Casimir Pulaski, Amer Rev War gen
B03041888 Knute Rockne, football player/coach
B03041904 George Gamow, nuclear physicist, cosmologist
B03041905 Lili Krŕus, Hungarian pianist
B03041921 Joan Greenwood, London
B03041923 Patrick Moore, English astronomer
B03041928 Alan Sillitoe, Br. writer (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner)
B03041932 Miriam Makeba, S African singer
B03041934 Jane Goodall, Archeologist
B03041939 Barbara McNair, Chic Ill, Singer/Actress
B03041939 Paula Prentiss, San Antonio Tx, actress
B03041944 Susan Clark, Ontario Canada
B03051326 Louis I (the Great), king of Hungary (1342-82), Poland (1370-82)
B03051512 Gerhardus Mercator, geographer & map maker (or 1583)
B03051824 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
B03051887 Heitor Villa-Lobos, composer
B03051908 Rex Harrison, actor
B03051930 Lorin Maazel, conductor
B03051939 Samantha Eggar, London
B03051945 Randy Matson, shot putter
B03051958 Andy Gibb singer, Australia
B03061475 Michelangelo Buonarroti, artist (David)
B03061619 Cyrano de Bergerac, famous nose
B03061756 Aaron Burr, dualist
B03061787 Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist, studied sun's spectrum
B03061791 Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures
B03061806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet
B03061812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking
B03061831 Gen Philip H Sheridan, milt leader
B03061898 Jimmy Conzelman, NFL QB, coach, team owner
B03061921 Julius Rudel, conductor
B03061923 Ed McMahon, TV host (Tonight Show, Star Search)
B03061924 Sarah Caldwell Conductor, Maryville Mo
B03061924 William H. Webster, headed FBI & CIA
B03061926 Alan Greenspan, economist
B03061927 Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., astronaut (Faith 7, Gemini 5)
B03061928 Gabriel Garcˇa Márquez, Colombian novelist (Nobel 1982)
B03061937 Merle Haggard, country singer
B03061937 Valentina Tereshkova, Russia, 1st woman in space (Vostok 6)
B03061940 Joanna Miles, Nice France
B03061942 Ben Murphy
B03061944 Kiri Te Kanawa, operatic soprano
B03061944 Mary Wilson (Supremes)
B03061945 Rob Reiner, actor (All in the Family)
B03061947 Kiki Dee, Yorkshire Engl
B030619?? Jackie Zeman, General Hospital (Bobbie Spencer Meyers)
B03071707 Stephen Hopkins, RI gov, signed Decl of Ind
B03071792 John Herschel, William Herschel's son, Slough, Eng
B03071849 Luther Burbank Horticulturist, Lancaster, Mass
B03071857 Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Austria, psychiatrist (Nobel 1927)
B03071872 Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie)
B03071875 Maurice Ravel, composer (Boléro), Cibourne, France
B03071909 Anna Magnani, Italy
B03071924 Kobo Abe, Japan, playwright (Woman, the Dunes)
B03071930 Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon, photographer
B03071938 Janet Guthrie, race car driver
B03071940 Daniel J Travanti (Hill St Blues, Capt Furillo)
B03071940 Viktor P. Savinykh, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-4)
B03071945 John Heard
B03071946 Peter Wolf Rock singer
B03071947 Donna Loren, Boston Mass
B03071950 Franco Harris, NFL fullback (Pitts Steelers)
B03071952 Lynn Swann, Football player
B03071960 Ivan Lendl Tennis player, Czech
B03081714 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach
B03081783 Hannah Hoes Van Buren, 1st lady
B03081787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create plastic surgery
B03081841 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Supreme Court Justice
B03081859 Kenneth Grahame, author (The Wind, Willows)
B03081879 Otto Hahn, co-discovered nuclear fission
B03081886 Edward Kendall, chemist, isolated cortisone (Nobel 1950)
B03081891 Sam Jaffe, actor (Gunga Din, Dr. Zorba on Ben Casey)
B03081909 Claire Trevor, actress
B03081921 Cyd Charisse, dancer, Amarillo Tx
B03081939 George Reed, astronomy writer & cartoonist
B03081939 Jim Bouton, Yankee pitcher (Ball Four)
B03081939 Mike Lowry (D-Wash.), Rep
B03081943 Lynn Redgrave, London, actress (Georgie Girl)
B03081947 Carole Bayer Sager, NY - Mrs Burt Bachrach
B030819?? Mickey Dolenz (Monkees)
B03091454 Amerigo Vespucci, This could be Vespucciland
B03091824 Leland Stanford, Gov, Sen, found Stanford U
B03091890 V.M. Molotov, Soviet foreign minister
B03091902 Edward Durell Stone, architect (US Embassy, New Delhi)
B03091910 Samuel Barber, composer
B03091918 Mickey Spillane, mystery writer (I, the Jury)
B03091923 James Buckley (R), former NY sen
B03091934 Joyce Van Patten
B03091934 Yuri Gagarin, 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1)
B03091935 Keely Smith, Norfolk Va
B03091943 Bobby Fischer, world chess champion (1972-75)
B03091943 Trish Van Devere, actress
B03091971 Emmanuel Lewis, TV (Webster)
B03101845 Alexander III, Russian tsar (1881-94)
B03101867 Lillian D. Wald, US, sociologist
B03101872 Sergey Diaghilev, ballet producer
B03101892 Arthur Honegger, composer
B03101922 Pamela Mason, actress, London
B03101938 Ron Mix, NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders)
B03101940 David Rabe, playwright
B03101945 Katherine Houghton
B03101960 Linda Jezek, Cal
B03101964 Prince Edward, England
B03111544 Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet
B03111731 Robert Treat Paine, judge, signed Decl of Ind
B03111811 Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, co-discovered Neptune
B03111885 Malcolm Campbell, 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/min
B03111898 Dorothy Gish, silent film actress (Orphans of the Storm)
B03111903 Dorothy Schiff (NY Post)
B03111903 Lawrence Welk, conductor (champagne bubbles)
B03111914 Ralph Ellison, writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Act)
B03111916 Sir Harold Wilson (Labour), British PM (1964-70, 1974-76)
B03111926 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader
B03111931 Rupert Murdoch, publisher, Australia
B03111934 George Stamatoyannopoulos, geneticist
B03111934 Sam Donaldson, ABC correspondent
B03111934 Tina Louise, marooned with Gilligan, professor & Mary Ann
B03111936 Antonin Scalia, Trenton NJ, Supreme Court Justice
B031119?? Susan Richardson, Bath Maine
B03121685 George Berkeley, Irish philosopher & Bishop of Cloyne
B03121806 Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady
B03121821 Sir John Abbott (C), 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92)
B03121831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer
B03121832 Charles Boycott, estate manager, Ireland, caused boycotts
B03121921 Gordon MacRae, singer
B03121922 Jack Kerouac, Beat writer (Dharma Bums, On the Road)
B03121922 Lane Kirkland, AFL-CIO head
B03121923 Wally M. Schirra, Jr., astronaut (Sigma 7, Gemini 6, Apollo 7)
B03121925 Rep Wil G Whitehurst, R-Va
B03121926 George R Ariyoshi, Hawaii Gov
B03121927 Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist, conductor
B03121927 Raul Alfonsin, Pres of Argentina
B03121928 Edward Albee, playwright
B03121932 Andrew Young (D), Atlanta mayor
B03121936 Lloyd Dobyns NBC newsman
B03121940 Millie Perkins
B03121941 Barbara Feldon, Pitts Pa (Agent 99-Get Smart)
B03121942 Bert Campaneris, baseball player
B03121946 Liza Minnelli, singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret), LA
B03121947 Jill O'Hara, Warren Penn
B03121948 James Taylor, singer
B03121949 Sara Lane, NYC
B03121962 Darryl Strawberry, NY Met
B03131733 Joseph Priestly, Engl, clergyman, discovered oxygen
B03131764 Charles, Earl Grey (Whig), British PM (1830-34)
B03131770 Daniel Lambert, English giant (weighed 334 kg at death)
B03131781 Johann Wyss, Switz, Author
B03131798 Abigail Powers Fillmore, 1st lady
B03131855 Percival Lowell, predicted discovery of Pluto
B03131911 L. Ron Hubbard, scientologist
B03131913 William J. Casey, headed CIA during Iran-contra scandal
B03131914 Sammy Kaye Bandleader
B03131918 George McAfee, NFL halfback (Chicago Bears)
B03131926 Raúl Alfonsˇn, Argentine pres (1983-  )
B03131931 Rosalind Elias Opera singer
B03131939 Neil Sedaka, singer, Bkln
B03131946 Steve Kanaly
B03131953 Deborah Raffin, LA
B03141681 Georg Philipp Telemann, German late baroque composer
B03141804 Johann Strauss, composer
B03141821 Jens Worsaae, Denmark, archeologist
B03141833 Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st American woman dentist
B03141835 Giovanni Schiaparelli, discovered Martian canals
B03141854 Thomas Riley Marshall (D), 28th VP (1913-21)
B03141864 Casey Jones, RR engineer
B03141879 Albert Einstein, relative, E = mc˛ (Nobel 1921), Ulm, Germany
B03141912 Les Brown Bandleader
B03141919 Max Shulman, novelist
B03141920 Cartoonist Hank Ketcham (Dennis the Menace)
B03141922 Colin Fletcher
B03141928 Frank Borman, astronaut (Gemini 7, Apollo 8), Eastern Airline pres
B03141933 Michael Caine, Engl actor (Blame it on Rio)
B03141933 Quincy Jones, composer, singer (We are the World)
B03141934 Eugene A. Cernan, astronaut (Gemini 9, Apollo 10, 17)
B03141942 Rita Tushingham, actress, Liverpool
B03141947 Billy Crystal, comedian (SNL)
B03141958 Prince Albert, Monaco
B03151713 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
B03151767 Andrew Jackson (D), 7th pres (1928-37)
B03151779 William Lamb (Whig), Viscount Melbourne, British PM (1834, 1835-41)
B03151830 Paul von Heyse, German writer (Nobel 1910)
B03151916 Harry James, trumpeter
B03151926 Norm Van Brocklin, NFL QB, coach (LA Rams)
B03151932 Alan Lavern Bean, astronaut (Apollo 12, Skylab 3)
B03151935 Judd Hirsch, actor (Alex Reiger-Taxi)
B03161739 George Clymer, signed Decl of Ind, Constitution
B03161750 Caroline Lucretia Herchel, 1st mod woman astronomer, Hanover, Germany
B03161751 James Madison (D-R), 4th pres (1809-17)
B03161787 Georg Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law
B03161836 Andrew S Hallidie, cable car inventor
B03161839 Sully Prudhomme, French poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
B03161903 Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.), Sen majority whip
B03161906 Henny Youngman, comedian
B03161912 Pat Nixon, 1st lady, Ely Nev
B03161916 Lloyd McBride, United Steelworkers pres
B03161926 Jerry Lewis, entertainer, fund raiser, loved in France
B03161927 Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D), NY sen
B03161927 Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1, Soyuz 1)
B03161932 R Walter Cunningham, astronaut (Apollo 7)
B03161949 Erik Estrada, actor (CHiPs)
B03161951 Kate Nelligan, London Ontario
B03161954 Nancy Wilson, SF, rocker (Heart)
B03171789 Edmund Kean, England, tragic actor
B03171804 James Bridger, scout, fur trader
B03171834 Gottlieb Daimler, auto pioneer
B03171873 Margaret Bondfield, Brit union leader, 1st woman cabinet member
B03171902 Bobby Jones, 1st pro golfer to win 4 grand slams
B03171910 Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader
B03171914 Sammy Baugh, NFL QB (Wash Redskins)
B03171918 Mercedes McCambridge, actress
B03171919 Nat King Cole, singer
B03171930 James B. Irwin, astronaut (Apollo 15)
B03171936 Thomas K. Mattingly, astronaut (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C)
B03171938 Rudolf Nureyev, ballet dancer, Russia
B03171942 Paul Kantner (Jefferson Starship)
B03171944 John Sebastian, American composer
B03171948 Robert Braunwart, added dates to TODAY
B03171949 Patrick Duffy (Dallas)
B03171951 Kurt Russell, actor
B03171954 Leslie-Anne Down, London
B03181782 John C Calhoun, statesman
B03181837 Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th Pres (1885-1889, 1893-1897)
B03181838 Sir Randal Cremer, British trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
B03181842 Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet
B03181844 Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (Scheherazade)
B03181858 Rudolf Diesel, engine inventor
B03181869 Neville Chamberlain (C), British PM (1937-40)
B03181886 Kurt Koffka, German Gestalt psychologist
B03181892 Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet
B03181893 Wilfred Owen, English anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth)
B03181905 Mollie Parnis, fashion designer
B03181926 Peter Graves, actor (Mission Impossible)
B03181927 John Kander Composer
B03181927 George Plimpton, sports writer (Paper Lion)
B03181932 John Updike, poet & novelist (Rabbit Run)
B03181933 Kevin Dobson
B03181939 Charley Pride, country singer
B03181956 Ingemar Stenmark, Swedish Alpine skiier
B03181959 Irene Cara, NY (Fame)
B03181963 Vanessa Williams, Millwood NY - 1st black Miss America
B03191589 William Bradford, gov of Plymouth Colony (baptized)
B03191813 David Livingstone, found by Stanley in Africa
B03191821 Sir Richard Burton, explorer, translator (The Arabian Nights)
B03191851 Roque Sáenz Peńa, pres of Argentina (1910-14)
B03191860 William Jennings Bryan, 'The Great Commoner', orator-statesman
B03191891 Earl Warren, Supreme Court chief justice
B03191904 John J Sirica, Watergate Judge
B03191914 Patricia Morison (Peyton Place)
B03191916 Irving Wallace, Author (People's Almanac)
B03191928 Patrick McGoohan, actor (Secret Agent, Prisoner)
B03191933 Philip Roth, novelist (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint)
B03191935 Phyllis Newman, Jersey City NJ
B03191938 Ursula Andress, actress (She), Switzerland
B03191944 Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, LBJ's daughter
B03191947 Glenn Close, Greenwich Conn
B03191955 Bruce Willis (Moonlighting)
B03201811 Napoleon II, king of Rome
B03201828 Henrik Ibsen, dramatist (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler), Norway
B03201856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management
B03201904 B.F. Skinner, Behaviorist
B03201906 Abraham Beame, NYC mayor
B03201908 Frank Stanton, broadcasting exec
B03201908 Sir Michael Redgrave, actor (Browning Version, The Lady Vanishes)
B03201914 Sviatosiav Richter, pianist
B03201922 Carl Reiner, comedian
B03201922 Jack Kruschen
B03201922 Ray Goulding, comedian (Bob & Ray)
B03201925 John Ehrlichman, Watergate conspirator
B03201928 Fred Rogers, lovely day in the neighborhood
B03201931 Hal Linden, actor (Barney Miller)
B03201936 Ted Bessell, (That Girl)
B03201937 Jerry Reed, Singer
B03201939 Brian Mulroney (P-C), 18th PM of Canada (1984-  )
B03201948 Bobby Orr, hockey hall-of-famer (Boston Bruins)
B03211685 Johann Sebastian Bach, Eisenach, Germany, Composer
B03211713 Francis Lewis, signed Decl of Ind
B03211768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist
B03211806 Benito Juárez, pres of Mexico (1858-72)
B03211813 James Jesse Strang, king of Mormons on Beaver Is, MI (1850-56)
B03211839 Modest Mussorgsky, composer (Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mtn.)
B03211866 Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury, astronomer
B03211869 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame
B03211906 John D. Rockefeller, III, billionaire
B03211923 Mort Lindsey, band leader
B03211930 James Coco, actor
B03211934 Al Freeman Jr
B03211939 Kathleen Widdoes
B032119?? Lorene Yarnell, LA, mime, (Shields & Yarnell)
B03221797 Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor
B03221822 Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter
B03221846 Randolph Caldecott, England, Illustrater
B03221907 James Gavin, genl
B03221908 Maurice Stans, sec of commerce
B03221909 Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist (The Tin Flute)
B03221910 Nicholas Monsarrat, English writer
B03221913 Karl Malden, don't leave home without it (St of SF)
B03221920 Werner Klemperer Hogan's Heroes Col Klink
B03221923 Marcel Marceau, mime, France
B03221930 Stephen Sondheim, US composer
B03221931 William Shatner, Mont, (Capt. Kirk, T J Hooker)
B03221934 Orrin Hatch (R), Utah sen
B03221936 May Britt, German actress & former wife of Sammy Davis Jr
B03221942 Barbara Parkins, Engl (Peyton Place)
B03221943 George Benson, singer-guitarist
B03221948 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer
B03231699 John Bartram, naturalist, explorer, botanist
B03231749 Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician, astronomer, physicist
B03231823 Schuyler Colfax (R), 17th VP (1869-73)
B03231857 Fannie Farmer
B03231876 Sir Muirhead Bone, etcher, engraver
B03231881 Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist, dramatist (Nobel 1937)
B03231907 Daniel Bovet, Swiss pharmacologist (Nobel 1957)
B03231908 Joan Crawford, No wire hangers, ever! (Mildred Pierce)
B03231910 Akira Kurosawa, film director
B03231912 Wernher von Braun, Wirsitz, Germany, rocket expert
B03231922 Marty Allen, Comedian (Allen & Rossi)
B03231923 Arnie Weinmeister, AAFC, NFL def tackle (NY Yankees, Giants)
B03231926 Martha Wright, Seattle Wash
B03231952 Teofilo Stevenson, Cuba, Olympic boxer
B03231953 Chaka Khan, Great Lakes Ill rocker
B03231954 Moses Malone Basketball player
B03241755 Rufus King (F), framer of US constitution, sen
B03241834 John Wesley Powell, geologist
B03241834 William Morris, Engl, artist
B03241855 Andrew W. Mellon, financier
B03241874 Harry Houdini, escape artist
B03241884 Peter Debye, Dutch physical chemist (Nobel 1936)
B03241902 Thomas E Dewey, Oh, Pres candidate
B03241903 Malcolm Muggeridge, English writer
B03241925 Norman Fell, (Mr Roper - 3s Company)
B03241929 Roger Bannister, English runner; 1st 4-min mile
B03241930 Steve McQueen, actor
B03241938 Larry Wilson, NFL back (Cardinals)
B03241940 Bob Mackie, designer
B03241954 Robert Carradine
B03241959 Renaldo Nehemiah, track star
B0324     Donna Pescow
B03251867 Arturo Toscanini, Italy, conductor
B03251867 Gutzon Borglum, sculpted Mt. Rushmore
B03251881 Béla Bartók, Hungary, composer, pianist
B03251899 Bella Spewack, Hungary, playwright
B03251908 Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte, Brit theater & hotel director
B03251908 David Lean, director (Dr. Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter)
B03251920 Howard Cosell, sportscaster
B03251921 Nancy Kelly, Lowell Mass
B03251921 Simone Signoret, (Casque d'Or, Room at the Top), Weisbaden Germany
B03251928 James A. Lovell, Jr, astronaut (Gemini 7, 12, Apollo 8, 13)
B03251934 Gloria Steinhem, feminist, Toledo Oh
B03251940 Anita Bryant, Okla, Miss America candidate
B03251942 Aretha Franklin, Memphis Tenn Soul Sister #1
B03251947 Elton John, singer, Engld
B03251948 Bonnie Bedelia, NY
B03251953 Mary Gross, Chicago Ill (SNL)
B03261773 Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician, astronomer, author
B03261850 Edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward)
B03261858 Jane Delano, nurse, teacher
B03261859 A.E. Housman, Engl, poet (Shropshire Lad)
B03261874 Robert Frost, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken), SF
B03261899 James B. Connant, Yale pres
B03261911 Tennessee Williams, (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Columbus Miss
B03261914 William Westmoreland, army genl
B03261924 Bob Elliott, Comedian (Bob & Ray)
B03261925 Pierre Boulez, France, composer
B03261930 Gregory Corso, Beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man)
B03261930 Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman Supreme Court justice
B03261931 Leonard Nimoy, (Spock)
B03261934 Alan Arkin, actor
B03261934 Gino Cappelletti, AFL running back
B03261939 James Caan, actor (Brian's Song)
B03261942 Erica Jong, NYC. author (Fear of Flying)
B03261943 Robert Woodward, reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes)
B03261944 Diana Ross, (Lady Sings the Blues), Detroit Mich, Supremes
B03261948 Steve Tyler Rock singer
B03261949 Vicki Lawrence, Cal (Carol Burnette show, Mama's Family)
B03261950 Teddy Pendergrass, singer
B03271785 Louis XVII, pretender to the throne during French Rev
B03271813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
B03271845 Wilhelm Röntgen, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901)
B03271847 Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910)
B03271863 Sir Henry Royce, Rolls-Royce founder
B03271871 Heinrich Mann, German novelist & essayist
B03271879 Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography
B03271892 Ferde Grofe, composer
B03271899 Gloria Swanson, actress (Sadie Thomson, Queen Kelly)
B03271901 Sato Eisaku (Lib), Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
B03271903 Walt Kiesling, NFL guard, coach
B03271912 James Callaghan (Labour), British PM (1976-79)
B03271914 Budd Schulberg, author
B03271914 Snooky Lanson
B03271917 Cyrus R. Vance, Sec of State
B03271924 Sarah Vaughn, Newark NJ, jazz singer
B03271927 Anthony Lewis Newspaper columnist
B03271934 Arthur Mitchell, choreographer
B03271939 Cale Yarborough, auto racer
B03271942 Michael York, actor (Cabaret)
B03271952 Maria Schneider, Last Tango in Paris
B03271953 Annemarie Proell, Alpine skier
B03271956 Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
B03271986 Surrogate baby M (Sara Whitehead / Melissa Stern)
B03281472 Fra Bartolomeo, monk, Florentine Renaissance painter
B03281862 Aristide Briand, French premier (1909-22) (Nobel 1926)
B03281868 Aleksey Peshikov (pen name Maksim Gorky), Russia
B03281895 Spencer W. Kimball, 12th prophet of Mormon church
B03281903 Rudolf Serkin, pianist
B03281914 Edmund S. Muskie (D), Sec of State, Maine sen
B03281922 Dirk Bogarde, actor
B03281924 Freddie Bartholomew, actor
B03281928 Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor
B03281933 Sen Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska)
B03281944 Ken Howard, actor
B03281944 Rick Barry, NBA star (Golden State Warriors)
B03281955 Reba McEntire, Country singer
B03291790 John Tyler, 10th Pres (1841-1845)
B03291799 Edward Stanley, Earl Derby (C), British PM (1852, 1858-59, 1866-68)
B03291819 Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive oil well, US
B03291867 Cy Young, winningest pitcher (509 wins, 1890-1911)
B03291875 Lou Henry Hoover, 1st lady
B03291888 James E. Casey, founded UPS
B03291902 Sir William Walton, English composer
B03291916 Eugene McCarthy (D), Minn sen
B03291918 Pearl Bailey, jazz singer
B03291919 Eileen Heckart, Colombus Ohio
B03291925 Emlen Tunnell, NFL safety (Giants, Packers)
B03291939 Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong
B03291945 Walt Frazier, NBA star (NY Knicks)
B03291954 Karen Ann Quinlan
B03291955 Earl Campbell, NFL running back (Houston, New Orleans)
B03291956 Dianne Kay, Phoenix Az
B03301222 Nichiren, Japanese Buddhist priest, saint
B03301719 Sir John Hawkins, wrote 1st history of music, English
B03301746 Francisco Jose de Goya, Spanish painter, etcher
B03301844 Paul Verlaine, French lyric poet
B03301853 Vincent Van Gogh, artist
B03301880 Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright
B03301886 Stanislaw Lesniewski, Polish logician, mathematician
B03301913 Frankie Laine, singer
B03301913 Richard Helms, former CIA head
B03301919 McGeorge Bundy Natl security adviser
B03301930 Peter Marshall (Hollywood Squares)
B03301930 John Astin, actor
B03301937 Warren Beatty, actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Reds)
B03301945 Eric Clapton, musician
B03311596 René Descartes, he thought, therefore he was
B03311621 Andrew Marvell, English poet
B03311732 Franz Josef Haydn, composer, helped develop Classical style
B03311809 Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
B03311809 Nikolai Gogol, father of 19th-century Russian realism (Dead Souls)
B03311811 Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, German chemist
B03311854 Sir Dugald Clerk, invented 2-stroke motorcycle engine
B03311895 John J. McCloy, lawyer, banker
B03311915 Henry Morgan
B03311922 Richard Kiley
B03311927 César Chavez, labor leader (United Farm Workers)
B03311927 William Daniels, (St Elsewhere-Dr Mark Craig, 1776)
B03311928 Gordie Howe, Redwings right wing
B03311934 Shirley Jones, Penn, (Partridge Family)
B03311935 Herb Alpert, band leader (Tijuana Brass), A&M music exec
B03311935 Richard Chamberlain, TV (Dr. Kildare, Shogun, Thornbirds)
B03311940 Sen Patrick Leahy D-Vt
B03311943 Christopher Walken
B03311945 Gabe Kaplan (Welcome Back Kotter)
B03311948 Rhea Perlman, Bkln (Taxi & Cheer's)

*mmddyyyy Events
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S0301     Feast of St. David, patron of Wales
S0301    3Vermont Town Meeting Day
S0301     International Day of the Seal
S03011753 St. David's Day
S03011781 Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation
S03011790 1st US census began
S03011803 Ohio becomes 17th state
S03011859 Present seal of SF adopted (its 2nd)
S03011864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
S03011864 Rebecca Lee becomes 1st black woman MD in US
S03011867 Nebraska becomes 37th state
S03011872 Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park
S03011879 Library of Hawaii founded
S03011919 Korean independence Demonstrations from Japan begin
S03011927 Bank of Italy becomes a Natl Bank
S03011932 Charles Lindbergh Jr. kidnapped in NJ; found dead May 12
S03011937 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Ct)
S03011947 Intl Monetary Fund began operations
S03011951 22nd amendment limits president to 2 terms
S03011961 Pres Kennedy establishes Peace Corps
S03011966 Venera 3 becomes 1st manmade object to impact on a planet (Venus)
S03011969 Mickey Mantle announces retirement
S03011970 End of coml whale hunting in the US
S03011970 White govt of Rhodesia declares ind from Britain
S03011982 Soviet Venus 13 soft lands on Venus
S0302    1Save Your Vision Week begins
S0302    3Vt Town Meeting Day
S03021807 US slave importation forbidden
S03021819 Ark territory organized
S03021836 Tx declares independence from Mexico
S03021840 Heinrich Olbers, discoverer of comets & asteroids, dies
S03021853 Washington territory organized
S03021861 Congress creates Dakota & Nevada territories
S03021867 Congress abolishes peonage in NM
S03021901 Hawaii's 1st telegraph co opens
S03021917 Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted
S03021923 Time mag 1st published
S03021929 Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals
S03021949 1st automatic st light (New Milford, Ct)
S03021949 1st non-stop, round-the-world airplane flight completed
S03021958 1st surface crossing of the Antarctic continent is completed
S03021962 Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 pts in an NBA game
S03021970 American Airlines 1st flight of Boeing 747
S03021972 Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby
S03021974 1st class postage raised to 10˘ from 8˘
S03021976 Walt Disney World's 50-millionth guest
S03021978 Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
S03021980 3rd Islander scoreless tie - Penguins in Pitts
S03021982 60th hat trick in Islander history - Bryan Trottier
S0303     Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival) in Japan
S0303     Morocco Independence Day
S0303    1Save Your Vision Week begins
S0303    3Vt Town Meeting Day
S03031703 Robert Hooke, scientific genius, dies in London
S03031791 US Mint established
S03031812 Congress passes 1st foreign aid bill
S03031817 Alabama territory organized
S03031820 Missouri compromise passes
S03031845 Florida becomes 27th state
S03031849 Gold Coinage Act passed
S03031849 Minn Territory organized
S03031851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3˘ piece)
S03031861 Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom
S03031863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
S03031875 Congress authorizes 20˘ coin lasts only 3 years
S03031878 Bulgaria liberated from Turkey
S03031885 A T & T incorporated
S03031918 Russia signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, withdraws from WW I
S03031923 Time mag's 1st issue
S03031931 "Star Spangled Banner" officially became US national anthem
S03031943 US wins Battle of Bismark Sea over Japan
S03031945 US & Philippine forces recapturedsCorregidor
S03031956 Morocco gains independence from France (National Day)
S03031969 Apollo 9 launched
S03031972 Pioneer 10 launched thru asteroid belt & Jupiter
S03031974 Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4
S03031974CMaking Islander record when scoring a hat trick - 5-1-0
S03031977 Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal
S03031981 Isle's Mike Bossy 9th & final hat trick of season - 4 goals
S03031984 Isles score 11 goals-Lafontaine's 1st hat trick-Maple Leafs
S03031985 Moonlighting premiers
S0304     Feast of St. Casimir, confessor
S0304    1Save Your Vision Week begins
S0304    3Vt Town Meeting Day
S03041675 John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of GB
S03041681 King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn
S03041789 1st Congress declares constitution in effect
S03041791 Vt admitted as 14th state
S03041792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii
S03041793 Washington's 2nd inaugration, shortest speech 133 words
S03041801 1st pres inaugration in Wash DC (Thomas Jeffersin)
S03041826 1st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass
S03041841 Longest inaugration speech - 8443 words - William Henry Harrison
S03041861 Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag
S03041863 Idaho Territory established
S03041894 Great fire in Shanghai 1,000 buildings destroyed
S03041902 American Automobile Association opens
S03041920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece
S03041933 FDR inaugurated, says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
S03041934 Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson (SF) dedicated
S03041954 1st black US sub-cabinet member appointed - JE Wilkins
S03041955 1st radio facsimile transmission is sent across the continent
S03041959 Pioneer 4 makes 1st US lunar flyby
S03041960 Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz
S03041968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
S03041977 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, NM
S03041979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
S03041980 40th hat trick in Islander history - Mike Bossy
S03041982 2nd double hat trick in Islander history - Bossy & D Potvin
S0305     Equatorial Guinea Natl Day
S0305    1Save Your Vision Week begins
S0305    3Vt Town Meeting Day
S03051616 Corpernicus' DE REVOLUTIONIBUS placed on Catholic Forbidden index
S03051770 Boston Massacre - 5 die
S03051845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US
S03051908 1st ascent of Mt. Erebus, Antarctica
S03051927 US marines land in China to protect American property
S03051933 FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday
S03051946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
S03051953 Josef V Stalin died
S03051956 King Kong 1st televised
S03051974 Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot
S03051979 Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter
S0306     Feast of SS. Perpetua & Felicitas, martyrs (Mar. 7 for Anglicans)
S0306    1Save Your Vision Week begins
S0306    3Vt Town Meeting Day
S03061665 Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society published
S03061836 Alamo falls. Remember it!
S03061857 Dred Scott decision
S03061906 Nora Blatch becomes 1st woman elected to Am Soc of Civil Engineers
S03061930 Bkln's Clarence Birdseye developes quick freezing food method
S03061957 Gold Coast (Ghana) gains independence
S03061981 Soyuz 39 returns to Earth
S03061986 Soviet Vega 1 probe passes within 10,000 km of Halley's comet
S0307    1Save Your Vision Week begins
S0307    3Vt Town Meeting Day
S0307 322 BC  Aristotle died
S03071321 Thomas Aquinas, philosopher & saint, dies
S03071583 Thomas Aquinas Day
S03071774 British close Boston port to commerce
S03071778 Capt. James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
S03071848 In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
S03071850 Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
S03071876 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
S03071911 US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
S03071912 Roald Amundsen announces the discovery of the South Pole
S03071926 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-New York)
S03071933 "Monopoly" invented
S03071936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
S03071945 During WW II, US crosses Rhine River
S03071955 Mary Martin as Peter Pan televised
S03071959 1st aviator to fly a million miles in a jet (MC Garlow)
S03071962 US Orbiting Solar Observatory launched
S03071965 March by civil rights demonstrators broken in Selma, Ala
S03071973 Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
S03071975 Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
S03071977 Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter
S03071978 Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
S03071981 Walter Cronkite's final CBS anchor appearance
S03071986 Sen Jacob K Javits, R-NY, dies in Palm Beach, Fla
S0308     Feast of St. John of God, confessor
S0308     Intl Women's Day
S03081862 Confederate ironclad Merrimack launched
S03081917 US invades Cuba for 3rd time
S03081934 Edwin Hubble photograph shows as many galaxies as Milky Way stars
S03081945 Intl Women's Day
S03081946 1st helicopter licensed for coml use - NYC
S03081950 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel - BR Walters
S03081959 Groucho, Chico & Harpo's final TV appearance together
S03081963 Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day
S03081965 1st US forces arrive in Vietnam
S03081976 Largest observed falling single stony meteorite (Jiling, China)
S0309     Feast of St. Frances of Rome, patron of motorists, housewives
S03091497 Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation,
S03091661 Cardinal Jules Mazarin, chief minister of France, died
S03091796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais
S03091822 Charles Graham of NY granted patent for artificial teeth
S03091860 1st Japanese-US ambassador
S03091862 "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads
S03091954 Edward R Murrow criticizes Sen McCarthy (See it Now)
S03091961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
S03091976 Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent - Blues 4-0
S03091979 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io)
S0310     Feast of the 40 Holy Martyrs
S0310     World Culture Day
S03101847 1st money minted in Hawaii
S03101849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent, only US president to do so
S03101876 1st telephone call
S03101913 Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies
S03101933 Earthquake in Long Beach
S03101948 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound -HH Houver, Edwards AFB Ca
S03101977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occultation of SAO
S03101978 Soyuz 28 returns to Earth
S0311     Johnny Appleseed Day
S0311     Zeta Boötid meteor shower, radiant in Boötes
S03111702 1st London daily newspaper
S03111810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
S03111847 John Chapman `Johnny Appleseed' dies in Allen County, Ind
S03111861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
S03111865 Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC
S03111867 Great Mauna Loa volcano erupts
S03111888 Blizzard struck NE US, 400 die
S03111892 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Mass)
S03111930 Pres & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington
S03111938 Germany invades Austria
S03111941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill
S03111942 Gen MacArthur left Bataan for Australia
S03111953 1st woman army Dr commissioned (FM Adams)
S03111958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV's 21
S03111960 Pioneer 5 launched; orbits sun between Earth & Venus
S03111977 Rings of Uranus are discovered
S03111985 Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko
S03111986 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
S0312     Commonwealth Day (formerly British Empire Day)
S0312     Feast of St. Gregory I the Great, pope (590-604), confessor, dr
S0312     Gabon Natl Day
S0312     Zeta Boötid meteor shower, radiant in Boötes
S03121664 NJ became a British colony
S03121737 Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
S03121849 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif
S03121850 1st $20 gold piece issued
S03121868 Congress abolishes manufactures tax
S03121877 British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa
S03121888 Great blizzard of '88 kill 400 in NE US
S03121903 AL offically approves NY Highlanders (Yankees)
S03121912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savanah Ga
S03121925 Chinese rev leader Sun Yat-Sen died
S03121925 1st transatlantic radio broadcast
S03121930 Mohandas Gandhi began 200-mile march protesting British salt tax
S03121936 FDR's 1st "Fireside Chat"
S03121938 Germany invades Austria
S03121939 Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
S03121940 Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II
S03121945 British Empire Day
S03121958 Commonwealth Day
S03121959 House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
S03121963 Bob Dylan cancels Ed Sullivan appearance
S03121966 Pioneer Plaza dedicated
S03121968 Mauritius gains ind from Britain (Natl Day)
S03121969 Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman in London
S03121977 Sadat pledges to regain arab terrority from Israel
S03121980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33
S03121981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
S03121981 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA
S03121986 210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
S0313    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
S03131639 Harvard U named for clergyman John Harvard
S03131677 Mass gains title to Maine for $6,000
S03131781 Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really Uranus)
S03131852 Uncle Sam debuts in NY Lantern
S03131868 Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
S03131877 Chester Greenwood patents ear muffler
S03131881 Tsar Alexander II of Russia assassinated
S03131884 US adopts standard time
S03131901 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd pres, dies in Indianapolis
S03131906 American suffragist Susan B Anthony dies
S03131925 Tenn law prohibits teaching evolution
S03131928 400 die in St Francis Dam burst (Calif)
S03131930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
S03131938 Anschluß -- Austria joins Nazi Germany
S03131938 Attorney Clarence S Darrow dies
S03131964 Kitty Genovese stabbed dead, 40 witness attack in Queens
S03131969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth
S03131970 SF city employees start 4 day strike
S03131970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
S03131979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
S03131979 Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
S03131985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
S03131986 Soyuz T-15 launched
S03141629 Royal charter grants Mass Bay Colony
S03141644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now RI)
S03141743 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
S03141794 Eli Whitney patents cotton gin
S03141855 1st train crosses Niagara suspension bridge
S03141870 Calif legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
S03141883 Karl Marx dies
S03141896 Sutro Baths opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952)
S03141900 US currency goes on gold standard
S03141903 1st natl bird reservation established in Sebastian, FL
S03141923 Pres Harding became 1st pres filing income tax report
S03141931 1st theatre built for rear movie projection (NYC)
S03141935 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars
S03141948 Freedom Train arrives in SF
S03141951 During Korean War, UN forces recaptured Seoul
S03141964 Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of Lee Harvey Oswald murder
S03141965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with W Germany
S03141967 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
S03141975 Susan Hayward dies at 56
S03141980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
S03141983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
S03141986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (540 km)
S0315     Beware the Ides of March
S0315     Feast of St. Louise de Marillac, widow
S0315     Buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio
S0315  44 Julius Cćsar assassinated in Roman Senate
S03151820 Maine admitted as 23rd state
S03151892 NY State unveals Automatic Ballot Cabinet (The Voting Machine)
S03151913 Woodrow Wilson holds 1st Pres Press Conference
S03151916 Gen. Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stay 10 mo
S03151917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates
S03151937 1st state contraceptive clinic opens, Raleigh, NC
S03151937 1st blood bank established, Chicago, Ill
S03151952 Greatest 24-hour rainfall begins: 29 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean
S03151956 My Fair Lady opens (NY)
S03151960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
S03151968 US Mint stops buying & selling gold
S03151975 Wrestler Antonino Rocca dies at 49
S03151978 Israel invades Lebanon to rid area of Palestine guerrillas
S03151979 Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
S03151986 1st all-color TV station televising live local programs
S03151999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet
S0316     Feast of St. Urho, patron of Finland
S0316     Return of long-billed curlews to Umatilla, Ore
S03161621 1st Indian appears at Plymouth, Mass
S03161802 Law signed to establish US Milt Academy at West Point, NY
S03161827 1st US black newspaper, Freedom's Journal (NYC)
S03161916 US & Canada sign Migratory bird treaty
S03161926 Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket 184 feet
S03161935 Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
S03161945 US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima
S03161952 1.87m rain fall at Cilaos, La Réunion in 24 hrs (world record)
S03161966 Gemini 8 launched with 2 astronauts
S03161968 My-Lai massacre occurs
S03161975 US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
S03161978 Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
S0317     Evacuation Day in Boston
S0317     St. Patrick's Day, Irish National Day
S0317     World Maritime Day
S0317 461 St Patrick  - patron saint of Ireland - died in Saul
S03171753 1st official St. Patrick's Day
S03171776 British forces evacuated Boston during Revolutionary War
S03171846 FW Bessel, measurer of distance to 61 Cygni, dies
S03171860 Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]
S03171905 Eleanor Roosevelt married FDR in NY
S03171906 Pres Theodore Roosevelt used term "muckrake"
S03171910 Camp Fire Girls organize
S03171941 Natl Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC
S03171950 Element 98 (Californium) announced
S03171958 Vanguard 1 measures shape of Earth
S03171959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
S03171963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (sainted in 1975)
S03171966 US sub locates missing hydrogen bomb in Mediterranean
S03171969 Golda Meir became Israeli PM
S03171970 US casts 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
S03171982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
S03171983 70th hat trick in Islander history - Mike Bossy
S0318     Aruba Flag Day (Natl Holiday)
S0318     Feast of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop, confessor, doctor
S0318 978 St. Edward the Martyr, king of Anglo-Saxons (975-78) dies
S03181541 de Soto becomes 1st European to record flooding of Mississippi River
S03181766 Britain repeals Stamp Act
S03181850 American Express founded
S03181859 Vera Cruz, Mexico besieged by Miramon
S03181881 Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in MSG
S03181892 Lord Stanley proposes silver cup challenge for Hockey
S03181909 Einar Dessau of Denmark-1st ham broadcast
S03181922 Mohandas K Gandhi sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment
S03181931 1st electric razor marketed by Schick
S03181937 Tx gas explosion kills 400
S03181938 Mexico took control of foreign-owned oil properties
S03181952 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted, Phila
S03181959 Pres Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
S03181962 French & Algerian rebels agree to a truce
S03181965 Russia launches 2nd & final Voshkod-1st spacewalk-Aleksei Leonov
S03181974 Most Arab oil producing nations end US embargo
S03181977 Vietnam hands over MIA to US
S03181985 Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC
S03181986 Treasury Dept announces plans to alter paper money
S0319     Canberra Day in Australia
S0319     Feast of St. Joseph, stepfather of Jesus
S0319     Swallows return to San Juan Capistrano
S03191822 Boston, Mass incorporated
S03191859 Faust by Charles Gounod premiers in Paris
S03191895 LA Railway established
S03191917 US Supreme Court upheld 8 hour work day for RR
S03191918 Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight time
S03191920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time
S03191928 Amos & Andy debuts on radio
S03191931 Nevada legalized gambling
S03191942 FDR orders men between 45 & 64 register for non military duty
S03191945 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan
S03191949 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tn
S03191951 Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny published
S03191953 Academy Awards ceremony (1st telecast)
S03191954 1st rocket-driven sled on rails tested, Alamogordo, NM
S03191974 Anne Klien dies at 50
S03191976 Buckingham Palace announces separation of Princess Margaret
S03191979 House of Reps begin day-to-day TV broadcasts
S03191981 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
S03191984 Kate & Allie premiers
S03191987 PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns
S03201727 Sir Isaac Newton dies in London at 84
S03201760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
S03201815 Napoleon enters Paris, begins 100 day rule
S03201833 US & Siam conclude coml treaty
S03201852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's `Uncle Tom's Cabin,' published
S03201886 1st AC commercial power plant begins operation
S03201896 Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens
S03201899 Martha Place of Bkln, became 1st woman to die by electrocution
S03201942 Gen MacArthur vowed, "I shall return"
S03201948 1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90
S03201948Cminutes by 2nd live televised musical Arturo Toscvanni on NBC
S03201956 156-day strike against Westinghouse ended
S03201956 Tunisia gains independence from France
S03201963 1st "Pop Art" exhibition in NYC
S03201969 Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
S03201976 Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery
S03201978 Flyers' Rick MacLeash scored on 6th penalty shot against Islanders
S03201980 US appeals to Intl Court on hostages in Iran
S03201981 Jean Harris sentenced 15 to life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr
S0321     Earth Day
S0321     Feast of St. Benedict
S0321     1st Day of Spring
S0321     Natl Agriculture Day
S0321     Natl Teen-Agers Day
S0321     Start of Persian & Bahá'ˇ New Years
S03211804 French civil Code of Napoleon adopted
S03211844 Bahá'ˇ New Year
S03211851 Yosemite Valley discovered in Cal
S03211860 US extradition treaty with Sweden
S03211907 US invades Honduras
S03211918 During WW I Germany launchs Somme Offensive,
S03211945 During WW II Allied bombers begin 4 day raid over Germany
S03211946 UN set up temporary hq at Hunter College (Bronx)
S03211960 S African authorities kill 69 demonstrators at Sharpeville
S03211963 Alcatraz fed pen in SF Bay closed
S03211965 Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery
S03211965 US Ranger 9 launched takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
S03211986 199.22 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
S0322     Feast of St. Isidore the Farm-Laborer, confessor
S03221621 Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth)
S03221638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony
S03221733 Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water
S03221765 Britain enacts Stamp Act
S03221778 Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Wash state
S03221799 F.W.A. Argelander, cataloguer of 324,000 stars, dies
S03221820 Stephen Decatur killed in a duel with Com James Barron
S03221882 Congress outlaws polygamy
S03221894 Montreal AAA beats Ottawa Capitals 3-2 & wins 1st Stanley Cup
S03221903 NY Highlander (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
S03221929 USCG vessel sank Canadian-reg schooner suspected of carrying liquor
S03221941 Grand Coulee Dam in Wash went into operation
S03221945 Arab League founded
S03221946 Jordan (then Transjordan) gains independence from Britain
S03221957 Earthquake gives SF shakes
S03221960 AL Schawlow & C H Townes obtain patent for the laser
S03221963 Beatles release 1st album, Please Please Me
S03221967 Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali's 1st MSG fight
S03221968 Lynda Johnson ordered off Cable Car for eating an ice cream cone
S03221972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
S03221972 Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle
S03221975 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
S03221977 Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
S03221978 Robert Frost Plaza, at Calif, Drumm & Market, dedicated
S03221979 Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
S03221981 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
S03221981 1st class postage raised to 18˘ from 15˘
S03221982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 launched
S03221983 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli pres
S03221984 Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game
S0323     World Meteorological Day
S03231743 George Frideric Handel's oratorio `Messiah' London premiere
S03231752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later
S03231775 Patrick Henry asks for liberty or death
S03231806 Lewis & Clark reached Pacific coast
S03231840 1st photo of moon taken
S03231919 Benito Mussolini founded Fascist movement in Milan Italy
S03231925 Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
S03231929 1st telephone installed in White House
S03231933 German Reichstag granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
S03231937 LA Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars
S03231940 All-India-Muslim league calls for a Muslim Homeland
S03231942 US began moving Japanese-Americans to detention centers
S03231944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute & lives
S03231950 UN World Meteorological Org established
S03231956 Pakistan became independent within British Commonwealth
S03231962 JFK visits SF
S03231965 Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight
S03231976 Intl Bill of Rights goes into effect, 35 nations ratify
S03231982 Isle's Mike Bossy's 20th career hat trick - 4 goals
S03231983 1st Artificial heart recipient Dr Barney Clark died after 112 days
S0324     Feast of St. Gabriel, patron of postmen, telephone workers
S03241765 Britain enacts Quartering Act
S03241860 Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY
S03241878 British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
S03241882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
S03241894 37 miners die at Franklin, Wash
S03241934 FDR grants future independence to Philippines
S03241936 Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 mins & 30 seconds of
S03241936C9th period. 176 minute games is hockey's longest
S03241944 In occupied Rome, Nazis executed more than 300 civilians
S03241955 1st oil drill seagoing rig placed in service
S03241955 Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens on Broadway
S03241958 Elvis Presley inducted into Army in Memphis Tenn
S03241965 US Ranger 9 strikes moon 10 miles NE of crater Alphonsus
S03241972 Great Britain imposed direct rule over N Ireland
S03241976 Argentine pres Isabel Peron deposed by country's milt
S03241980 Salvadoran death squads assassinate Archbishop Oscar Romero
S03241981 Nightline with Ted Koppel premiers
S03241986 US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
S0325     Annunciation Day (Lady Day), quarter day in medieval England
S0325     Global Understanding Day
S0325     Independence Day, celebrated in Greece
S0325     New Year's Day observed in England, 1155-1752
S03251634 Maryland founded as a Catholic colony
S03251655 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satelite)
S03251753 Annunciation Day
S03251821 Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
S03251857 Frederick Laggenheim takes the 1st photograph of a solar eclipse
S03251913 Great Dayton Flood
S03251920 Greek Independence Day
S03251951 E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
S03251954 RCA manufactures 1st COLOR TV set
S03251955 E Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR
S03251960 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
S0326     Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day in Hawaii
S03261668 Bombay, India transferred to England
S03261804 Orleans territoy organized in La Purchase
S03261827 Composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna
S03261845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid
S03261878 Hastings College of Law founded
S03261885 Eastman Film Company manufactured 1st coml motion picture film
S03261892 Poet Walt Whitman dies in Camden NJ
S03261937 Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye
S03261951 USAF flag approved
S03261953 Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine against polio
S03261958 Army launched US's 3rd successful satellite Explorer III
S03261962 Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state leg
S03261970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made a City Landmark
S03261971 E Pakistan proclaimed independence taking name Bangladesh
S03261979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
S03261982 Groundbreaking in Wash DC for Vietnam Vet Memorial
S0327     Feast of St. John Damascene, confessor, dr
S03271512 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Fla
S03271625 Charles I King of England Scotland & Ireland ascends to throne
S03271794 Pres Washington & Congress creates US Navy
S03271802 Pallas (asteroid) discovered by Heinrich Olbers
S03271807 Vesta (asteroid) discovered by OLbers
S03271836 1st Mormon temple dedicated in Kirtland Ohio
S03271855 Abraham Gesner receives a patent for kerosene
S03271860 ML Byrn patents corkscrew (NY)
S03271912 1st Japanese cherry trees planted in Wash DC
S03271917 Seattle Metropolitans 1st US team to win Stanley Cup beat Canadiens
S03271933 Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
S03271945 Gen Eisenhower declared German defenses on Western Front broken
S03271958 Khrushchev became Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Party
S03271964 Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale, 100 die
S03271968 Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated
S03271968 Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth & Seryogin died in a plane crash
S03271972 Venera 8 launched to Venus
S03271977 582 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM 747-Pan Am 747 crash
S03271977 Diana Hyland dies at 40
S03271980 Mt. St. Helens becomes active after 123 years
S03271986 Disney-MGM Studio Tour groundbreaking
S0328     Feast of St. John of Capistrano, confessor
S0328 193 Roman Emperor Pertinax assassinated
S03281592 Jan Amos Komensky, Moravian educational reformer
S03281797 Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine
S03281802 Heinrich Olbers discovers 2nd asteroid, later called Pallas
S03281807 Heinrich Olbers discovers 4th asteroid (Vesta)
S03281834 Senate censure Pres Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US
S03281871 SF Art Assn holds open reception at 430 Pine
S03281930 Constantinople & Angora change to Istanbul & Ankara
S03281939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid fell to Francisco Franco
S03281941 Novelist & critic Virginia Woolf dies
S03281942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire
S03281943 Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff dies
S03281953 Athlete Jim Thorpe dies
S03281969 Eisenhower the 34th pres dies in Washington at 78
S03281979 Nuclear accident at 3 Mile Is, Middletown, Pa
S03291847 Vera Cruz, Mexico falls to Americans
S03291871 Albert Hall opens in London
S03291886 Coca-Cola created (with cocaine)
S03291932 Jack Benny debuts on radio
S03291948 Yanks & Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17, spring training game
S03291961 23rd Amendment ratified, Wash DC can vote for pres.
S03291971 1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My-Lai massacre
S03291973 US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution
S03291974 Mariner 10's 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
S03291975 Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers
S03301822 Fla became a US territory
S03301842 Dr. Crawford Long, 1st physician to use ether as anesthetic
S03301858 Hyman Lipman of Phila patents a pencil with attached eraser
S03301867 US purchases Alaska for $7,200,000 (Seward's Folly)
S03301870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race
S03301870 Tx readmitted to US after Civil War
S03301909 Queensboro Bridge opens linking Manhattan & Queens
S03301932 Amelia Earhart 1st woman to solo cross the Atlantic
S03301945 USSR invades Austria during WW II
S03301948 Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
S03301950 Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ
S03301961 P.J Melotte, discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies
S03301964 John Glenn withdrew from Ohio senate race
S03301973 Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to S Vietnam
S03301981 Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley Jr
S03301982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 returns to Earth
S03301984 US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
S03301986 James Cagney dies at his Stanfordville NY farm at 86
S0331     Malta Republic Day (Natl Day)
S03311814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris
S03311831 Quebec & Montreal incorporated
S03311849 Col John W Geary 1st postmaster of SF
S03311854 Japan opens ports to foreign trade by Commodore Perry
S03311868 Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
S03311870 Thomas P Mundy became 1st black to vote in US (Perth Amboy NJ)
S03311880 Wabash Ind - 1st town completely illuminated by electric light
S03311889 Eiffel Tower in Paris officially opened
S03311917 US purchases Virgin Is from Denmark for $25 million
S03311918 1st US daylight savings time goes into effect
S03311923 1st dance marathon - NYC - Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hrs
S03311932 Ford publicly unveiled its V-8 engine
S03311933 Congress authorized Civilian Conservation Corps
S03311933 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Ga)
S03311941 Ground broken for Union Sq Garage
S03311943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! opens on Broadway
S03311949 Newfoundland becomes 10th Canadian province
S03311953 UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjold secretary-general
S03311958 US Navy forms atomic sub division
S03311963 LA ends streetcar service after 90 years
S03311966 USSR launches Luna 10, 1st spacecraft to orbit moon
S03311968 LBJ announces he would not seek re-election
S03311973 Flyers score 8 goals in 1 period vs Islanders, on 60 shots
S03311976 Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan could be disc from respirator
S03311980 Jesse Owens of 1936 Berlin Olympics fame dies in Az at 66
S03311986 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes
S0300     Intl Hamburger & Pickle Month - Red Cross Month