*mmddyyyy Birthdays *-------- ------------------------------------------------------------ B05011672 Joseph Addison, English essayist (Spectator) B05011769 Duke of Wellington (C), victor at Waterloo, British PM (1828-30) B05011830 Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), hell-raiser B05011881 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French philosopher, paleontologist B05011900 Ignazio Silone, Italian novelist, politician (Bread and Wine) B05011909 Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America) B05011910 Cliff Battles, NFL halfback (Boston/Washington Redskins) B05011916 Glenn Ford, actor (Big Heat, Midway) B05011917 Danielle Darieux in France B05011918 Jack Paar, Tonight Show host B05011925 Chuck Bednarik, NFL center, linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles) B05011925 Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Mercury astronaut (Aurora 7) B05011930 Ollie Matson, NFL halfback (Cardinals, Rams, Lions, Eagles) B05011939 Judy Collins in Seattle Wash B05011945 Rita Coolidge in Tennessee B050119?? Doug Barr B05021660 Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer B05021729 Catherine II (the Great), empress of Russia (1762-96) B05021837 Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order" B05021840 Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionist movement B05021860 Sir D'Arcy Thompson, zoologist, classicist (On Growth and Form) B05021902 Brian Aherne, actor B05021903 Benjamin Spock, pediatrician B05021904 Bing Crosby, crooner, actor (Going My Way) B05021924 Theodore Bikel, folk singer B05021946 Leslie Gore in Tenafly NJ, cries at her own party B05031469 Niccolò Machiavelli, politician (The Prince) B05031844 Richard D'Oyly Carte, impresario B05031874 Francois Coty, perfumemaker B05031892 Sir George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937) B05031897 V.K. Krishna Menon, Indian nationalist, statesman B05031898 Golda Meir, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74) B05031906 Mary Astor, actress B05031919 Betty Comden, song writer, Bkln B05031919 Pete Seeger, folk singer B05031920 Sugar Ray Robinson, boxer B05031937 Franki Valli, singer B05031939 Samantha Eggar in England B05031941 Nona Gaprindasvili of USSR, world women's chess champ (1962-78) B05031942 Vera Caslavska-Odlozilova, Czechoslovak Olympic gymnast B05041796 Horace Mann, educator B05041820 Joseph Whitaker, English publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack B05041820 Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of President John Tyler B05041825 Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist and humanist B05041918 Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese prime minister convicted of bribe-taking B05041929 Audrey Hepburn Brussels Bel (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady) B05041930 Roberta Peters, operatic soprano, NYC B05041954 Julie Budd, Bkln B05041961 Mary McDonough B05051813 Søren Kierkegaard, founder of Existentialism B05051818 Karl Marx B05051832 H.H. Bancroft, historian, publisher B05051846 Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author (Quo Vadis) (Nobel 1905) B05051867 Nellie Bly, name became a synonym for female star reporter B05051890 Author Christopher Morley B05051899 F.F. Gosden (Amos) B05051900 Spencer Tracy, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) B05051903 James Beard, American culinary expert and author B05051915 Richard H. Rovere, journalist B05051919 Tony Canadeo, NFL halfback (Green Bay Packers) B05051925 Monica Lewis B05051926 Ann B Davis in Schnectady NY - Brady Bunch maid B05051927 Pat Carrol in Shrevport Louisiana B05051930 Michael J. Adams, X-15 pilot B05051942 Tammy Wynette, country singer, Redbay Alabama B0506 Daniel Gerber, beloved by babies at mealtime B0506 973 Henry II, Holy Roman emperor (1014-24) B05061740 John Penn, signer of the Declaration of Independence B05061758 Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader B05061843 Grove Karl Gilbert, geologist, investigated Lake Bonneville, Utah B05061856 Robert Peary artic explorer B05061856 Sigmund Freud, cigar smoker B05061859 Luis Mar¡a Drago, Argentine statesman, anti-interventionist B05061861 Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet, mystic, composer (Nobel 1913) B05061870 AP Giannini, founder of Bank of America B05061888 Emmanuel Celler, former congressman B05061895 Rudolph Valentino, sheik B05061902 Harry Golden writer B05061902 Max Ophulus film director B05061903 Aram Khachaturian, composer B05061904 Harry Martinson, Swedish novelist, poet (Trade Wind) (Nobel 1974) B05061905 Toots Shor, raconteur, restaurateur B05061907 Weeb Ewbank, NFL coach (Baltimore Colts, New York Jets) B05061915 Orson Welles, actor (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds, Third Man) B05061915 Theodore H. White, historian, writer B05061924 Mimi Benzell in Bridgeport B05061926 Marguerite Piazza, operatic soprano B05061931 Willie Mays, baseball player, the "Say Hey Kid." B05061962 Lori Singer in Chorpus Christi Texas B050619?? Dana Hill B05071774 Sir Francis Beaufort, naval officer who devised scale of wind force B05071812 Robert Browning, English poet B05071833 Johannes Brahms, enjoys a good lullaby B05071840 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1812 Overture) B05071847 Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (Lib), British P.M. (1894-95) B05071892 Josip Broz Tito, WW II partisan, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80) B05071901 Gary Cooper, actor (High Noon, The Plainsman) B05071909 Edwin Land, founded instant photography (Polaroid) B05071919 Eva Perón, Argentine 1st lady B05071922 Darren McGavin, actor (Night Stalker) B05071923 Anne Baxter, Mich (Razor's Edge, All About Eve) B05071926 Val Bisoglio, actor B05071931 Teresa Brewer in Toledo Oh - Put another nickel it B05071932 Pete Domeneci (R), NM sen B05071933 Johnny Unitas, NFL quarterback (Baltimore Colts, San Diego) B05071944 Sivi Aberg B05071945 Robin Strasser in NYC B05071951 Janis Ian (Fink) in NYC B05081737 Edward Gibbon, historian (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) B05081786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry B05081824 William Walker, filibuster, president of Nicaragua (1856-57) B05081828 Henri Dunant of Switzerland, founded Red Cross, YMCA (Nobel 1901) B05081829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist B05081884 Harry S Truman, 32nd President (1945-1949) B05081895 Fulton J Sheen, bishop B05081895 José Gómez (Joselito el Gallo), bullfighter B05081920 Sloan Wilson, American novelist B05081926 Don Rickles, comedian B05081926 David Attenborough Environmentalist B05081928 Theodore Sorenson, former presidential advisor B05081930 Doug Atkins, NFL defensive end (Cleveland, Chicago, New Orleans) B05081930 Gary Snyder, beat poet (Rip Rap and Cold Mountain Poems) B05081935 Salome Jens in Milwaukee, Wisconsin B05081937 Sen Dennis DeConcini D-Ariz B05081940 Peter Benchley, author (Jaws, The Deep) B05081940 Ricky Nelson, rock star (Hello Mary Lou, It's Late, Garden Party) B05081942 Angel Cordero Jockey B05081943 Toni Tennille, only female Beachboy in Montgomery Ala B05081964 Melissa Gilbert, LA B05091800 John Brown, abolitionist, leader of attack on Harpers Ferry B05091843 Belle Boyd, Confederate spy, actress, lecturer B05091860 James M Barrie, Scotland B05091860 Sir James Barrie, Scottish author (Peter Pan, The Little Minister) B05091873 Howard Carter, Egyptologist found King Tut B05091882 Henry J Kaiser (built Liberty Ships, Jeeps) B05091883 José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (Revolt of the Masses) B05091910 Barbara Woodhouse Dog training expert B05091914 Theodore Kheel, labor negotiator B05091918 Mike Wallace, host of 60 Minutes (or 0519) B05091928 Pancho Gonzales, U.S. tennis champion B05091931 Vance D. Brand, U.S. astronaut (Apollo-Soyuz, STS-5, 41B) B05091936 Albert Finney, actor (The Dresser, Under the Volcano) B05091936 Terry Drinkwater CBS newsman B05091936 Glenda Jackson in Cheshire England B05091940 James L Brooks Producer-director B05091946 Candice Bergen in Beverly Hills, her father spoke to wood B05091948 Billy Joel, Bronx (Pianoman) B05101730 George Ross, lawyer, signed Decl of Ind B05101788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneer in optics B05101843 Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (Fountain of Gold, Nazarin) B05101843 Kaufmann Kohler, Reform rabbi, theologian B05101850 Sir Thomas Lipton, tea magnate B05101878 Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (1923) (Nobel 1926) B05101886 Olaf Stapleton, British religious sci-fi writer (Star Maker) B05101898 Ariel Durant, writer (The Story of Civilization) B05101899 Fred Astaire, tapdancer B05101902 David O Selznick, film producer B05101908 Carl Albert (D), speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives B05101921 Nancy Walker in Phila, actress (Rhoda) B05101957 Phillip Mahre, World Cup ski champion B05111722 Peter Camper, anatomist B05111852 Charles Warren Fairbanks (R), 26th U.S. vice-president (1905-09) B05111888 Irving Berlin, dreaming of a white Christmas B05111892 Dame Margaret Rutherford, British actress (Murder Most Foul) B05111902 Bidú Sayao, Brazilian soprano B05111904 Salvador Dal¡, surrealist B05111912 Phil Silvers, U.S. comedian, actor B05111916 Camilo Jose Cela in Spain, author B05111927 Mort Sahl, comedian B05111938 Doug McClure, actor B05121812 Edward Lear in England, wrote in verse B05121820 Florence Nightingale, nurse, Florence, Italy B05121828 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter, Pre-Raphaelite B05121842 Jules Massenet, composer B05121845 Gabriel Faure, composer B05121880 Lincoln Ellsworth, led 1st transarctic, transantarctic flights B05121904 Robert Baldwin (L), helped establish cabinet government in Canada B05121914 Howard K. Smith, TV newsperson (ABC) B05121925 Yogi Barra, NY Yankee catcher B05121929 Burt Bacharach, composer B05121936 Tom Snyder, TV host (Tomorrow Show) B05121937 George Carlin, Comedian B05121939 Ronald Ziegler, Nixon's press secretary B05121942 Susan Hampshire in London B05121950 Bruce Boxleitner B05121950 Shozo Fujii, judo champion B05121968 Prince, rock singer B05121969 Kim Fields LA (Facts of Life) B051219?? Mackenzie Astin B05131717 Empress Maria Theresa of Austria B05131730 Marquess of Rockingham (Whig), British PM (1765-66, 1782) B05131842 Sir Arthur Sullivan in England, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame B05131856 Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art B05131867 Sir Frank Brangwyn, Welsh painter, muralist B05131914 Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49) B05131926 Bea Arthur, (Maude, Golden Girls), NY B05131942 Vladimir A. Dzhanibekov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 27/39/T6/T12/T13) B05131950 Peter Gabriel, rocker B05131950 Stevie Wonder, singer B05141316 Charles IV, king of Bohemia (1346-78), emperor (1355-78) B05141686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, physicist (or 0524) B05141771 Robert Owen, English factory owner, socialist B05141787 Thomas Gainsborough, English landscape, portrait painter (Blue Boy) B05141885 Otto Klemperer, German conductor B05141919 Heloise and her helpful hints B05141925 Patrice Munsel in Spokane Wash B05141944 George Lucas, skywalker B05141946 Robert Jarvik, invented Jarvik 7 artificial heart B05141952 David Byrne in England, rocker B05151856 L. Frank Baum, children's book author (Wizard of Oz) B05151859 Pierre Curie, French physicist (Nobel 1903) B05151860 Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, 1st wife of Woodrow Wilson B05151862 Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian playwright, novelist B05151890 Katherine Anne Porter, U.S. novelist (Ship of Fools) B05151891 Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian playwright, novelist, short-story writer B05151902 Richard Daley (D), former mayor of Chicago B05151905 Joseph Cotten B05151909 James Mason, actor (Lolita) B05151910 Constance Cummings B05151918 Eddy Arnold Country singer B05151918 Joseph Wiseman, actor B05151919 Wladziu Valentino Liberace, pianist B05151923 Richard Avedon B05151924 Ursula Theiss B05151926 Anthony Shaffer and Peter Shaffer twin brothers Playwrights B05151936 Anna Marie Alberghetti, actress, Italy B05151936 Paul Zindel Playwright B05151937 Trini Lopez, singer B05151942 Lainie Kazan, Bkln, Singer/actress B05151948 Brian Eno. singer B05151953 George Brett, KC Royals B05151955 Lee Horsley, actor B05161763 Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist, discoverer of chromium, beryllium B05161801 William H. Seward, bought Alaska at 2¢/acre B05161824 Levi Parsons Morton (R), 22nd US VP (1889-93) B05161905 Henry Fonda, actor (Mr. Roberts) Grand Is Nebraska B05161912 Studs Terkel, author (Working) B05161913 Woody Herman Bandleader B05161919 Liberace (Wladziu Liberace), candelabrist B05161924 Frank F. Mankiewicz, columnist B05161928 Billy Martin, baseball manager (NY Yankees, Oakland A's) B05161931 Lowell Weicker R-Conn, Sen B05161952 Pierce Brosnan in Israel B05161955 Debra Winger in Columbus Oh (Officer & Gentleman) B05161955 Olga Korbut, Soviet Olympic gymnast B05161966 Janet Jackson singer/Michael's sister B05171749 Edward Jenner, English physician, discovered vaccination B05171836 Joseph Norman Lockyer, astroarchaeologist, founded NATURE magazine B05171866 Erik Satie, composer B05171900 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Iran's spiritual leader B05171911 Maureen O'Sullivan in Boyle Ireland B05171912 Archibald Cox, 1st Watergate special prosecutor B05171912 Clarence (Ace) Parker, NFL quarterback (Brooklyn, Boston Yanks) B05171923 Birgit Nilsson, soprano B05171936 Dennis Hopper, an easy rider B05171956 Sugar Ray Leonard, boxer B05181830 Karl Goldmark, Hungarian composer B05181836 Wilhelm Steinitz of Austria, world chess champion (1866-94) B05181850 Oliver Heaviside, physicist predicted existance of ionosphere B05181865 William Heinemann, English publisher B05181868 Nicholas II, the last Russian tsar (1894-1917) B05181872 Bertrand Russell, British mathematician, philosopher (Nobel 1950) B05181883 Walter Gropius, German Bauhaus architect B05181885 Eurico Gaspar Dutra, president of Brazil (1945-50) B05181891 Rudolf Carnap, German Logical Positivist philosopher B05181900 Sarah Miriam Peale, American portrait painter B05181902 Meredith Willson, musician-composer (The Music Man) B05181904 Jacob K. Javits (R), NY Sen B05181912 Perry Como, singer B05181917 Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballerina B05181918 John Paul II 264th Roman Catholic pope (1978- ) B05181922 Bill Macy, actor B05181930 Pernell Roberts, actor (Adam Cartwright, Trapper John) B05181946 Reggie Jackson, (Yankees, A's) B05181950 Rodney Milburn, Jr., hurdler B05181956 Sugar Ray Leonard boxer B05191795 John Hopkins, Philanthropist B05191890 Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer B05191925 Malcolm X, Muslim B05191935 David Hartman, TV personality B05191941 Nora Ephron, NY, writer B05191947 Glenn Close, actress B05191952 Grace Jones in Jamaica, singer B05201750 Stephen Girard, bailed out U.S. bonds during War of 1812 B05201768 Dolly Dandridge Payne Madison, first lady B05201799 Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (Pere Goriot) B05201806 John Stuart Mill, philosopher, political economist, Utilitarian B05201818 William George Fargo, helped to found Wells, Fargo & Co B05201822 Frédéric Passy, cowinner of 1st Nobel Peace Prize (1901) B05201882 Sigrid Undset, Norweg. novelist (Kristin Lavransdatter) (Nobel '28) B05201890 Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor B05201894 Adela Rogers St. Johns, journalist, author B05201901 Max Euwe of the Netherlands, world chess champion (1935-37) B05201908 Jimmy Stewart, actor B05201913 William Hewlett, cofounder of Hewlett-Packard Co B05201915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general & politician B05201919 George Gobel Comedian B05201933 Constance Towers B05201934 Alexei A. Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut (Voskhod 2, Apollo-Soyuz) B05201940 Sadaharu Oh of Yomiuri Giants (Japan), hit 868 career HR B05201944 Joe Cocker in Engl B05201946 Cher Bono Cal, I got you babe B05201958 Jane Wiedlin (GoGos) B05201958 Ron Reagan Jr., Pres son B05201966 Mindy Cohn, LA (Facts of Life) B0521 Plato (Aristocles) in Athens(?) (427 bc) B05211471 Albrecht Dürer, great German Renaissance painter, print maker B05211527 Philip II, king of Spain (1556-98) and Portugal (1580-98) B05211584 A. Dürer B05211688 Alexander Pope, poet (The Rape of the Lock) B05211780 Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister, prison reformer, nurse B05211834 Charles-Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, lawyer, author (Nobel 1902) B05211844 Henri Rousseau, French naîve painter B05211851 Léon Bourgeois, French politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920) B05211860 Willam Einthoven, invented the electrocardiograph B05211865 C.J. Thomsen, Danish archeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages B05211878 Glenn Curtis, aircraft pioneer B05211898 Armand Hammer, millionaire industrialist B05211904 Fats Waller, jazz pianist, composer (Ain't Misbehavin') B05211904 Robert Montgomery actor B05211916 Harold Robbins, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers) B05211917 Dennis Day singer B05211917 Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides) B05211921 Andrey Sakharov, Soviet physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75) B05211952 Mr T B05221665 Johann Sebastian Bach in Eisenach, Germany B05221813 Richard Wagner, composer (The Ring, Flying Dutchman) Leipzig Germ B05221828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon, founded modern ophthalmology B05221844 Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist painter B05221859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice B05221895 Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian spiritual philosopher, writer B05221907 Lord Laurence Olivier, stage & screen actor (Rebecca) B05221920 Thomas Gold, established the steady-state theory of the universe B05221922 Judith Crist, critic, NY B05221922 Satyajat Ray, Indian film director B05221924 Charles Aznavour, singer B05221927 Michael Constantine B05221934 Peter Nero, pianist B05221938 Frank Converse B05221938 Richard Benjamin, actor B05221938 Susan Strasberg in NYC, actress B05221940 Michael Sarrazin, actor B05221941 Paul Winfield B05221942 Barbara Parkins in England B05221943 Tommy John Yankee & Dodger pitcher B05231707 Carolus Linnæus, biological classifier, sweden B05231734 Friedrich Anton Mesmer, German physician, hypnotist B05231844 'Abdu'l-Bahá, early Bahá'¡ leader B05231883 Douglas Fairbanks, 1st & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers B05231891 Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, poet, dramatist (Nobel 1951) B05231903 Walter Reisch, US screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic) B05231908 John Bardeen, physicist (Nobel 1956, 1972) B05231910 Artie Shaw (Arthur Arshawsky), band leader and husband B05231919 Betty Garrett in St Joseph Mo B05231923 Alicia de Larrocha Pianist B05231928 Rosemary Clooney in Kentucky, singer B05231931 Barbara Barrie in Chicago B05231933 Joan Collins in London, actress B05231943 John Newcombe, Australian tennis pro B05231949 Alan Garc¡a Pérez, pres of Peru (1985- ) B05231951 Anatoliy Karpov of USSR, world chess champion (1975-85) B05231952 Boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler, in NJ B05241544 William Gilbert, pioneer researcher into magnetism B05241743 Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionist B05241816 Emanuel Leutze, American painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware) B05241819 Queen Victoria (1837-1901) B05241895 Samuel I. Newhouse, American millionaire publisher B05241905 Mikhail Sholokhov, novelist (And Quiet Flows the Don) (Nobel 1965) B05241909 Wilbur Mills, former U.S. congressman B05241914 Lilli Palmer, German actress (The Gentle Sex, Lotte in Weimar) B05241918 Coleman Young, civil rights leader B05241923 Siobhan McKenna, Irish stage actress (Saint Joan) B05241932 Elaine Malbin, opera singer B05241934 Mayor Jane Byrne of Chicago B05241941 Bob Dylan in Minnesota, Folk Singer Robert Zimmerman B05241943 Gary Burghoff, M*A*S*H B05241944 Patti Labelle B05241945 Priscilla Presley, wife of Elvis B05251803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, philosopher B05251847 John Alexander Dowie (Elijah the Restorer), American evangelist B05251865 John R. Mott, worked in internat'l church movements (Nobel 1946) B05251886 Philip Murray, founder of Congress of Industrial Organizations B05251889 Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter B05251898 Bennett Cerf publisher B05251898 Gene Tunney, world heavyweight boxing champion (1926-30) B05251917 Theodore Hesburgh, ex-president of Notre Dame B05251918 Claude Aikins, actor B05251925 Jeanne Crain in Barstow Calif B05251926 Miles Davis, trumpeter, pioneered cool jazz (Porgy and Bess) B05251927 Robert Ludlum, spy novelist B05251929 Beverly Sills in Brooklyn NY, soprano B05251932 Georgi M. Grechko, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 26, T-14) B05251935 Barbara Harris in Illinois B05251943 Leslie Uggams, singer NYC B05251947 Jessi Colter in Phoenix Arizona B05251947 Karen Valentine in Santa Rosa California B05251955 Connie Sellecca in Bronx B05261689 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English essayist, feminist, eccentric B05261799 Alexandr Pushkin, Russian writer (Eugene Onegin) B05261886 Al Jolson, jazz singer, silent film actor B05261907 John Wayne, shootist B05261908 Robert Morley, English actor B05261910 Laurance Rockefeller, chairman, Chase Manhattan B05261918 A. Pushkin B05261920 Peggy Lee in ND (is that all there is) B05261923 James Arness, actor (Matt Dillon of Gunsmoke) B05261939 Teresa Stratas in Toronto Ontario B05261947 Sherry Bain in California B05261949 Dale Haddon in Montrael Canada B05261949 Hank Williams, Jr., country singer B05261949 Pam Grier B05261951 Sally K. Ride, 1st American woman in space (STS-7, 41G) B05261962 Genie Francis in Los Angeles B052619?? Robyn Bernard (General Hospital) B052619?? Philip Michael Thomas (Starsky & Hutch) B05271332 Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian, sociologist B05271626 William II, prince of Orange B05271818 Amelia Bloomer, suffragette known for her pantaloons B05271819 Julia Ward Howe, author, lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic) B05271836 Jay Gould, American railroad executive, financier B05271837 Wild Bill Hickok B05271867 Arnold Bennett, English novelist, playwright, critic B05271878 Isadora Duncan, US interpretive dancer B05271894 Dashiell Hammett, author who created the hard-boiled detective B05271907 Rachel Carson, ecologist, writer (Silent Spring) B05271908 Harold Rome, composer B05271911 Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.), Sen, 38th V-P (1965-69) B05271911 Vincent Price, actor (The Fly, Laura) B05271912 John Cheever, writer (Wapshot Chronicle) B05271912 Sam Snead, pro golfer B05271915 Herman Wouk, American author (Caine Mutiny) B05271918 Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese PM (1982-87) B05271922 Christopher Lee, actor B05271923 Henry Kissinger secretary of state B05271935 Lee Merriweather, Miss America B05271943 Cilia Black in Liverpool England B05271944 Christopher J. Dodd (D), senator from Conn B052719?? Bruce Weitz (Moonlighting) B05281660 George I, king of England (1714-27) B05281738 Dr Joseph Guillotin, guess what he invented B05281759 William Pitt the Younger (C), English PM (1783-1801, 1804-06) B05281807 Louis Agassiz, Swiss naturalist, geologist, teacher B05281888 Jim Thorpe, chosen greatest U.S. athlete of the 1st half century B05281906 Phil Regan, singer B05281908 Ian Fleming, gave James Bond a job (Goldfinger, Dr. No) B05281912 Patrick White, Australian novelist (Happy Valley) (Nobel 1973) B05281923 Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian film star, politician B05281931 Caroll Baker in Pennsylvania B05281934 Dionne quintuplets (Annette, Cécile, Èmilie, Marie, Yvonne) B05281944 Gladys Knight in Atlanta Ga B05281946 Madeline LeRouix in Wyoming B05281947 Sondra Locke in Shellyville Tennessee B05291630 Charles II, king of England (1660-85) B05291736 Patrick Henry, American revolutionary leader, orator B05291826 Ebenezer Butterick inventor of the tissue paper dress pattern B05291874 English novelist GK Chesterton B05291874 G.K. Chesterton, English writer B05291880 Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (The Decline of the West) B05291894 Bea Lillie, comedian B05291897 Movie composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold B05291903 Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope, entertainer (famous prrofile), England B05291917 John F Kennedy, 35th President (1961-1963) B05291922 Yannis Xenakis, Rumanian composer, architect, mathematician B05291939 Al Unser, auto racer B05291954 Reby Jackson, Singer B05291956 LaToya Jackson, Singer B05291963 Lisa Whelchel in Ft Worth Tx (Facts of Life) B05301672 Peter I (the Great), tsar of Russia (1682-1725) B05301757 Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (C), British PM (1801-04) B05301835 Alfred Austin, poet laureate of England B05301846 Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith, jeweler B05301888 James A. Farley, U.S. postmaster general (1932-38) B05301902 Stepin Fetchit, actor (In Old Kentucky, Miracle in Harlem) B05301904 Ernesto de la Guardia, Jr., president of Panama (1956-60) B05301908 Mel Blanc the voice of Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig B05301909 Benny Goodman, swinger, clarinetist, "the King of Swing." B05301926 Christine Jorgensen Pioneer transsexual B05301927 Clint Walker, actor B05301936 Keir Dullea, actor (2001, 2010) B05301939 Michael J. Pollard, actor B05301943 Gale Sayers, NFL running back (Chicago Bears) B053019?? Ted McGinley B05311469 Manuel I, king of Portugal (1495-1521) during era of exploration B05311819 Walt Whitman, American poet (Leaves of Grass) in West Hills, NY B05311857 Pius XI, 259th Roman Catholic pope (1922-39) B05311872 Heath Robinson, English illustrator, cartoonist B05311887 Saint-John Perse, French poet, diplomat (Nobel 1960) B05311898 Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman B05311908 Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon) B05311912 Henry Jackson (D, sort of), former U.S. senator from Washington B05311920 Edward Bennett Williams, attorney B05311923 Rainier III, prince of Monaco (1949- ) B05311929 Elaine Stewart B05311930 Clint Eastwood, actor/mayor (Dirty Harry) B05311933 Shirley Verrett, American mezzo-soprano New Orleans La B05311938 Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary B05311939 Terry Waite Church envoy B05311941 Johnny Paycheck Country Singer B05311943 Joe Namath, NY Jets QB B05311943 Sharon Gless in LA B05311950 Gregory Harrison B05311950 Tom Berenger B05311965 Brooke Shields, actress/model NYC B05??1940 Deanna Lund in Chicago Ill - Land of the Giants *mmddyyyy Events *-------- ------------------------------------------------------------ S0501 Baseball club can re-sign their own free agents S0501 Feast of St Joseph the Workman, stepfather of Jesus S0501 Law Day S0501 May Day, Intl Workers Day, Law Day, Loyalty Day, Bird Day S0501 SS Philip & James Day (apostles) (Anglican) S0501 6Kentucky Derby S05011006 Supernova observed in Lupus the Wolf constellation S05011682 Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory S05011701 England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain S05011840 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued S05011841 1st wagon train leaves Independance, Mo for Cal S05011850 John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor S05011860 1st school for deaf founded S05011869 Folies-Bergère opens in Paris S05011873 1st US postal card issued S05011884 Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper S05011890 May Day S05011892 Angel Is US Quarantine Station opens S05011920 Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds S05011926 Dogers & Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings S05011926 Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League S05011928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration) S05011931 Empire State Building opens in NYC S05011932 Charles Lindbergh's baby kidnapped S05011947 Radar for coml & private planes 1st demonstrated S05011948 Dem People's Rep of Korea (N Korea) established S05011949 Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune) S05011951 Mickey Mantle's 1st HR S05011955 Bobby Feller's 15th 1-hit or less game S05011960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' US spy plane S05011961 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba S05011964 1st BASIC program run on a computer (Dartmouth) S05011975 Islander Parise & Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs S05011975CFlyers 5-Isles 4 - Semi Finals- Flyers hold 2-0 lead S05011977 Empress Lilly dedicated S05011979 Marshall Islands becomes self-governing S05011980 Sabres & Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff S05011982 Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT) - Semi-Finals- Isles hold 3-0 lead S0502 Feast of St Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, confessor, doctor S0502 May Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius S0502 6Kentucky Derby S05021583 Leonardo da Vinci Day S05021670 Hudson Bay Company founded S05021780 William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris S05021817 Reds & Cubs pitch a dual no-hitter S05021863 South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville, Va S05021881 Pres Garfield assassinated S05021885 Congo Free State established by King Leopold II of Belgium S05021890 Okla Territory created S05021925 Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park opens S05021939 Lou Gehrig ends 2,130 game streak, Yankees beat Tigers 22-2 S05021945 Russia takes Berlin S05021954 Stan Musial hits 5 HRs in a doubleheader S05021956 US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus S05021960 Caryl Chessman executed in Calif for kidnapping S05021968 Israelli television begins S05021984 Mattingly's single broke up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid S05021986 Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver, BC S0503 Finding of the Cross S0503 May Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius S0503 6Kentucky Derby S05031661 Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen S05031662 Royal charter granted Conn S05031715 Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads" S05031765 1st US Medical school opened S05031797 Jamaica discovered by Columbus S05031830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts S05031898 Camp Merriman established at Presidio S05031906 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey S05031919 America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City) S05031922 Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium S05031923 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed S05031926 US marines land in Nicaragua, stay until 1933 S05031951 Gil McDougald ties record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning S05031952 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole S05031965 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10 S05031971 Natl non-coml Network Radio Begins Programming S05031971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days S05031983 Bruins 3-Isles 8 - Wales Conf Championship- Isles hold 3-1 lead S0504 Feast of St Monica, mother of St Augustine S0504 May Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius S0504 6Kentucky Derby S05041626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons S05041776 Rhode Island declares independence from England S05041783 Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus S05041814 Bourbon reign restored in France S05041851 1st major SF fire S05041866 Woodward's Gardens opens to public S05041871 1st pro baseball game played (Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) S05041878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House S05041886 Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen S05041918 Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox Babe Ruth 5-4 S05041929 Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9 S05041942 Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air) S05041961 Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather set altitude record for manned balloon S05041961Cflight, 34,668 m, over Gulf of Mexico S05041970 4 students at Kent State U killed by Ohio Natl Guard S05041973 1st TV network female nudity - Steambath (PBS) - Valerie Perrine S05041975 Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots S05041981 Ron Davis strikes out 8 consecutive Angels, ran record of 13 S05041981Cstrike outs of last 14 faced, also saved Gene Nelsons 1st win 4-2 S05041982 Nordiques 2-Isles 4 - Semi-Finals- Isles win series 4-0 S0505 Cinco de Mayo celebrated in Mexico S0505 Feast of St Pius V, pope (1566-72) S0505 May Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius S0505 Natl Teacher's Day S0505 Tango-no-sekku (Boy's Festival) -- Japan S0505 6Kentucky Derby S05051814 British attack Ft Ontario, Oswego, NY S05051867 Battle of Puebla-Mexicans defeat Maximilian's forces (Cinco de Mayo) S05051891 Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor S05051904 Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Philadelphia S05051908 Great White Fleet arrives in SF S05051916 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924 S05051922 Construction on Yankee Stadium begins S05051925 Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6 S05051945 Netherlands liberated from Nazi control S05051948 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier S05051949 Council of Europe established S05051955 West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers S05051956 Jim Bailey - 1st 4 minute mile run in USA, Los Angeles, Ca S05051961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7) S05051965 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam S05051981 16th & final Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-1 & hold 8-7 edge S05051983 Bruins 5-Isles 1 - Wales Conf Championship- Isles hold 3-2 lead S0506 Feast of St John Before the Latin Gate S0506 May Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius S0506 Natl Nurse's Day S0506 6Kentucky Derby S05061527 Sack of Rome - End Renaissance S05061626 Peter Minuet purchases Manhattan Island for $24 S05061794 Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France S05061840 1st postage stamps issued, by Britain S05061851 SF Chamber of Commerce starts S05061851 Dr John Farrie Patents a "refrigeration machine" S05061860 SF Olympic Club, 1st US athletic club founded S05061861 Arkansas becomes 9th state to secede from US S05061882 Lord Cavendish assassinated at Dublin, Ireland S05061890 Mormon Church renounces polygamy S05061906 "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street S05061915 Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut & 1st HR, loses to Yanks 4-3 in 15 S05061937 Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ (36 die) S05061953 Bobo Holloman's 1st major league start, a no-hitter S05061954 Roger Bannister breaks 4 min mile (3:59:4) S05061962 1st nuclear warhead is fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen) S05061985 17th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 7 returns to Earth S0507 Beaufort Scale Day-measures wind force (scale 0 calm to 12 hurricane) S0507 Feast of St Stanislaus, bishop, martyr, patron of Poland S0507 6Kentucky Derby S05071429 English siege of Orléans broken by Joan of Arc S05071792 Capt Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington) S05071800 Indiana Territory organized S05071824 Beethoven's 9th Symphony performed for 1st time S05071915 Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost S05071927 SF Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated S05071934 World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines S05071941 Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid S05071945 Nazis surrender to Gen Eisenhower at Reims, France S05071947 Kraft Television Theater premiers S05071954 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dienbienphu S05071959 93,103 largest baseball crowd (LA Coliseum) see Dodgers' Sandy S05071959CKoufax beat Yankees in exhibition 6-2 S05071963 Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles) S05071966 Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene S05071975 Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT) - Semi Finals- Flyers hold 3-1 lead S05071983 Bruins 4-Isles 8 - Wales Conf Championship- Isles win series 4-2 S0508 Apparition of St Michael the Archangel S0508 1Mother's Day Give her a call today S0508 7Native American Day S05081541 Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River S05081792 British Capt George Vancouver sights, names Mt Rainier, Wash S05081846 1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas S05081886 Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola S05081902 Mt Pelée erupts, wipes out St Pierre, Martinique S05081926 1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd) S05081942 Battle of Coral Sea ends S05081945 VE Day - Germany surrendered, WW II ends in Europe S05081946 Red Sox Johnny Pesky scores 6 runs in 1 game S05081951 Dacron men's suits introduced S05081954 1st shot-put over 60 feet - Parry O'Brien, Los Angeles, Ca S05081958 VP Nixon was shoved stoned booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru S05081961 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington S05081961 1st practical sea water conversion plant - Freeport Texas S05081968 Jim (Catfish) Hunter of Oakland pitches perfect game vs Twins S05081970 Beatles release "Let it Be" album S05081970 Knicks beat Lakers for basketball championship S05081971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Sq Garden S05081973 Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for ten weeks surrendered S05081980 Sabres only take 15 shots, Islanders - 22 in a playoff S05081981 Ron Davis pitches 10th consecutive strike out, 1 short of record S05081982 Canucks 5-Isles 6 (OT) - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 1-0 lead S05081984 USSR announces it would not participate in LA Summer Olympics S0509 Feast of St Gregory Nazianzen, bishop, confessor, doctor S0509 Victory Day (in WW II) celebrated in USSR S0509 1Mother's Day Give her a call today S0509 7Native American Day S05091502 Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to the New World S05091754 1st newspaper cartoon in America Divided snake `Join or die' S05091882 Telegraph Hill RR Co organized S05091913 17th amendment providing for election of senators by popular vote S05091925 Cornerstone for Hebrew University layed S05091926 Americans Byrd & Bennett make 1st airplane flight over North Pole S05091936 Italy annexed Ethiopia S05091944 1st eye bank opened in NYC S05091945 Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day) S05091946 1st Variety show - NBC's Hour Glass premiers S05091950 Robert Schuman announces Plan for European integration S05091961 FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a `vast wasteland' S05091961 Jim Gentile hits grand slammers in consecutive innings S05091974 House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment S05091975 Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record) S05091975CFlyers 1-Isles 5 - Semi Finals- Flyers hold 3-2 lead S0510 Confederate Memorial Day in North & SC S0510 Feast of St Antoninus, bishop of Florence, confessor S0510 1Mother's Day Give her a call today S0510 7Native American Day S05101775 2nd Cont Congress convened in Pa issues paper currency for 1st time S05101775 Col Ethan Allen captured Ft Ticonderoga, NY S05101869 Golden Spike driven, Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinential RR complete S05101913 Yanks commit 8 errors & still beat Tigers 10-9 in 10 innings S05101923 J Edgar Hoover became head of FBI S05101928 WGY Schenectady began regular TV programming S05101930 1st US (Adler) planetarium opens, in Chicago S05101940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as PM S05101946 Red Sox win 15th straight beat Yanks 5-4, DiMaggio hits Grand Slam S05101960 USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water S05101971 US Special delivery rates go from 45 cents to 60 S05101973 9th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 8-4 S05101979 Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing S05101983 Oilers 0-Isles 2 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 1-0 lead S0511 Feast of SS Philip & James S0511 1Mother's Day S0511 7Native American Day S0511 330 Constantinople founded S05111752 1st US fire insurance policy is issued, in Philadelphia S05111792 Columbia River discovered & named by American Capt Robert Gray S05111850 Work starts on 1st brick building in SF S05111858 Minnesota becomes 32nd state S05111897 Wash Senator Charlie Farrell throws out 8 attempted stealers S05111907 Bank of SF incorporated S05111916 Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented S05111919 Yanks Jack Quinn & Senator Walter Johnson, 12 inning 0-0 tie S05111929 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week) S05111947 BF Goodrich manufactures 1st tubeless tire, Akron, Oh S05111949 By a vote of 37-12 Israel became 59th member of UN S05111951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory S05111960 Israelli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires S05111975 Flyers 1-Isles 2 - Semi Finals- Series tied at 3 games S05111975 Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market S05111982 Canucks 4-Isles 6 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 2-0 lead S0512 Feast of SS Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, & Pancras, martyrs S0512 Natl Limerik Day S0512 1Mother's Day Give her a call today S0512 7Native American Day S05121901 Pres McKinley visits SF S05121919 Yanks & Senators go 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15 S05121926 Airship Norge is 1st vessel over North Pole S05121930 Chicago's Adler Planetarium opens, 1st in US S05121940 Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River S05121943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender S05121949 1st foreign woman ambassador received in US - SVL Pandit, India S05121960 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special S05121964 USSR launches 3-man crew in Voskhod I S05121981 Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Minn S05121983 Oilers 3-Isles 6 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 2-0 lead S05121984 World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans S0513 Feast of St Robert Bellarmine, bishop, confessor, doctor S0513 Leprechaun Day S0513 Preakness Frog Hop, Baltimore S0513 1Mother's Day Give her a call today S0513 6Friday the 13th! Beware! S0513 7Native American Day S05131607 English found Jamestown (1st permanent settlement) S05131804 Lewis & Clark begin expedition of La Purchase with Sacagawea S05131835 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii established S05131846 US declares war on Mexico S05131884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded S05131888 Brazil abolishes slavery S05131917 3 children see a vision of Virgin Mary at Fatima, Portugal S05131930 Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas S05131955 Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive HRs of at least 463 feet S05131975 Flyers 4-Isles 1 - Semi Finals- Flyers win semi finals 4-3 S05131982 Canucks 0-Isles 3 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 3-0 lead S05131982 Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi & Lebedev for 211 days in space S0514 Feast of St Boniface, martyr S0514 Independence Day (in Paraguay) S0514 1Mother's Day S0514 7Native American Day S05141607 1st English NA settlement (Jamestown, Va) S05141811 Paraguay gains independence from Spain (Natl Day) S05141853 Gail Borden applies for patent for condensed milk S05141874 Harvard & McGill play 1st game of American football S05141903 President Theodore Roosevelt visits SF S05141935 LA's Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US S05141942 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) founded S05141948 PM David Ben-Gurion establishes State of Israel S05141955 Warsaw Pact formed S05141967 Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller S05141973 US launches space station Skylab 1 S05141980 Bucky Dent hits an inside the park HR, Royals walk 14 Yanks S05141980Cincluding 5 with bases loaded, Yanks win 16-3 S05141981 Soyuz 40 is launched - 1st Rumanian in space S05141983 Oilers 1-Isles 5 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 3-0 lead S0515 Feast of St John Baptist de la Salle, confessor S0515 Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean Day It may be waving at you S0515 Whitsunday Term Day (Scotland) S0515 6Armed Forces Day S05151602 Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Batholomew Gosnold S05151618 Johannes Kepler discovers his harmonics law S05151753 Whitsunday Term Day S05151836 Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse S05151856 2nd SF Vigilance Committee organized S05151911 Sup Court dissolves Standard Oil violates Sherman Antitrust Act S05151918 US Airmail service begins (Wash DC, Philadelphia & NY) S05151930 Ellen Church 1st airline stewardess United flight SF to Cheyenne S05151934 Dept of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive S05151940 1st nylon stockings sold in US S05151941 Yanks win 13-1 Joe DiMaggio starts 56 game hitting streak S05151957 18,000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade S05151958 USSR launched Sputnik III S05151963 Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, end US Project Mercury S05151969 Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigned from Supreme Court S05151972 George C Wallace shot & left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer S05151972 Ryukyu Islands returned to Japan after 27 years of US control S05151975 11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4 S05151980 Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs S05151981 Leonard Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto S05151981 Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6 S0516 Feast of St Ubaldus, bishop, confessor S0516 6Armed Forces Day S05161571 Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM S05161763 James Boswell meets Samuel Johnson, in London S05161770 Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of France S05161866 Congress authorizes nickel 5¢ piece (replaces silver half-dime) S05161868 President Johnson acquitted in Senate, by 1 vote S05161872 Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time S05161914 Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens S05161920 Joan of Arc was canonized in Rome S05161927 Bob Meusel steals 2nd 3rd & Home S05161929 1st Academy Awards (Best film is Wings) S05161948 Israel issues its 1st stamps S05161956 Kraft Theatre presented an act from Profiles in Courage S05161957 Yanks involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade S05161963 Gordon Cooper completes 22 Earth orbits in Faith 7 S05161969 Venera 5 lands on Venus S05161971 1st class postage now costs 8¢ (was 6¢) S05161975 Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt Everest's summit S05161982 Canucks 1-Isles 3 - Stanley Cup- Isles win cup 4-0 (15-4) S05161983 Isles win 3rd Cup in row def Canucks in Vancouver 3-1 in game 4 S0517 Feast of St Paschal Baylon, confessor S0517 Norwegian Independence Day S0517 World Telecommunications Day (UN observance) S0517 6Armed Forces Day S05171630 Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface S05171792 24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street S05171804 Lewis & Clark begin exploration of La Purchase S05171809 Papal States annexed by France S05171814 Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day) S05171872 Bohemian Club incorporated S05171875 1st Kentucky Derby run at Churchill Downs Winner was Aristides S05171898 Camp Merritt established in Presidio S05171921 Pres Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show S05171938 Radio quiz show `Information Please!' debuts on NBC Blue Network S05171939 1st sports telecast - Columbia vs Princeton - College baseball S05171940 Nazis occupied Brussels Belgium S05171954 Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Ed S05171954Creversed 1896 `separate but equal' Plessy Vs Ferguson decision S05171960 1st atomic reactor system to be patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park CA S05171962 Marin County withdraws from BART district S05171968 European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite S05171973 Senate Watergate Committee began its hearings S05171981 Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff S05171983 Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty S05171983 Oilers 2-Isles 4 - Stanley Cup- Isles win cup 4-0 (15-5) S0518 Feast of St Venantius, bishop, martyr S0518 Intl Museum Day S0518 Visit Your Relatives Day S0518 World Good-Will Day S0518 2Victoria Day -- Canada S0518 6Armed Forces Day S05181756 England decares war on France S05181804 Napoleon became Emperor of France S05181897 NY Giant William Joyce sets record of 4 triples in 1 game S05181899 World Good-Will Day - 26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference S05181910 Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic S05181917 US passes Selective Service act S05181933 TVA Act signed by FDR S05181951 UN moves HQ to NYC S05181953 1st woman pilot faster than speed of sound (Jacqueline Cochran) S05181969 Apollo 10 launched toward lunar orbit S05181974 India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb S05181980 Mt St Helens blows its top in Washington State S0519 Feast of St Celestine V, pope (1294) S0519 St Dunstan Day (Anglican) S0519 2Victoria Day -- Canada S0519 6Armed Forces Day S05191536 Anne Boleyn Executed S05191749 George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley S05191780 About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England S05191856 Sen Charles Sumner, Mass, spoke out against proslavery people S05191862 Homestead Act becomes law S05191898 Simplon Tunnel opens from Brig, Switzerland to Iselle, Italy S05191971 USSR Mars 2 launched 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars S0520 Cameroon Natl Day S0520 Feast of St Bernardine of Siena, confessor S0520 2Victoria Day -- Canada S0520 6Armed Forces Day S0520 325 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea, Asia Minor S05201775 Mecklenburg County, NC citizens declare independence from England S05201830 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper -`Baltimore American' S05201845 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii S05201861 NC becomes 10th state to secede from US S05201862 Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of West S05201875 Intl Bureau of Weights & Measures established by treaty S05201902 US ends occupation of Cuba S05201926 Thomas Edison said Americans preferred silent movies over talkies S05201927 Lindbergh flew NY-Paris, 1st solo flight across Atlantic S05201932 Earhart left Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic S05201939 Pan Am began transatlantic passenger & air mail service S05201956 Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane - Bikini Atoll S05201959 Yanks sink to last place, 1st time since May 25, 1940 S05201961 White mob attacks `Freedom Riders' in Montgomery, Alabama S05201972 Republic of Cameroon declared S05201974 Soyuz 14 returns to Earth S05201976 Viking 1, Mars landing S05201978 US Launches Pioneer Venus 1-produces 1st global radar map of Venus S05201979 Cambodian Martyrs Day S05201985 Dow Jones Avg closes above 1300 for 1st time S05201985 FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR S05201985 US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti S0521 Feast of SS Constantine & Helen (Orthodox) S0521 2Victoria Day -- Canada S0521 6Armed Forces Day S05211832 1st Democratic party natl convention S05211846 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii S05211856 Lawrence, Kans captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces S05211881 American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton S05211897 Yerkes Obsrvatory 40-inch refractor is used for 1st time S05211904 FIFA, soccer's intl governing body, is formed S05211922 Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million S05211927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo across Atlantic S05211929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC S05211932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman landed, AE Putnam S05211933 Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph S05211941 1st American ship sunk by a U-boat (Robin Moor) S05211955 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight - sunrise to sunset S0522 Natl Maritime Day S0522 World Trade Day S0522 2Victoria Day -- Canada S0522 12 BC A daytime meteor shower, possibly Zeta Perseid observed in China S05221761 1st life insurance policy in US,issued in Phila S05221846 1st steamer arrives in Hawaii S05221856 Violence in Senate, SC rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner S05221868 Great Train Robbery seven men made off with $98000 in cash S05221909 1st SF fireboat, David Scannell, is launched S05221924 in Chicago, Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks S05221930 Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (10th of 60) S05221933 World Trade Day S05221939 Hitler & Mussolini sign `Pact of Steel' S05221946 Yankees turn triple play & defeat Tigers' 5-3 S05221947 1st ballistic missile fired S05221947 "Truman Doctrine" went into effect aiding Turkey & Greece S05221953 Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple play, Yanks beat Wash 12-4 S05221962 Roger Maris sets record by getting 4 intentional passes & ties S05221962Crecord with 5 walks in a 9 inning game S05221963 Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade S05221967 Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel S05221970 Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus S05221970 Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11 but wins 2-0 S05221972 Ceylon became Republic of Sri Lanka S05221981 Soyuz 40 returns to Earth S0523 BJ & Peg Hunnicutt of Mill Valley's anniversary! S0523 2Victoria Day -- Canada S05231430 Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians who sold her to English S05231498 Italian preacher Savonarola tortured & executed in Florence S05231533 King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null & void S05231576 Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory S05231701 Capt Kidd hung in London after convicted of piracy & murder S05231788 SC becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution S05231844 Decl of Bab (Bahá'¡ festival) S05231853 Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859) S05231873 Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established S05231873 Postal Cards sold in SF for 1st time S05231898 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from SF S05231903 1st direct primary election law adopted, by Wisconsin S05231903 1st automobile trip across US from SF to NY, ended April 1 S05231908 Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die S05231911 NY Public Library building at Fifth Avenue dedicated by Pres Taft S05231915 Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in WW I S05231922 Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films S05231934 Bonnie & Clyde shot in Louisana ambush S05231945 Nazi Himmler committed suicide while in prison at Luneburg Germany S05231948 Joe DiMaggio hits three consecutive HRs S05231949 West Germany was proclaimed S05231956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building S05231960 Israel announced capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina S05231962 Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio) S05231962 Scott Carpenter orbits Earth three times in US Aurora 7 S0524 2Victoria Day -- Canada S05241543 Copernicus allegedly sees 1st copy of DE REVOLUTIONIBUS & dies S05241689 English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants S05241822 at Battle of Pichincha, Bol¡var secures independence of Quito S05241844 Samual FB Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought" S05241866 Berkeley named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne) S05241883 Bkln Bridge opened by Pres Arthur & Gov Cleveland S05241899 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston) S05241900 Britain annexes Orange Free State (South Africa) S05241918 Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19 inning S05241931 1st air-conditioned train installed - B&O Railroad S05241935 1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (vs Phila) S05241936 Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs) Ben Chapman sets record S05241936Cby reaching 1st 7 times safely Yanks beat A's 25-2 S05241941 HMS Hood sunk by German battleship Bismarck S05241946 Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager S05241954 1st rocket to exceed 150 mile altitude - White Sands, NM S05241959 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited, Pleasant Hills, Pa S05241962 M Scott Carpenter & Aurora 7 launched into earth orbit S05241964 Beatles third appearance on Ed Sullivan S05241975 Soyuz 18B is launched S05241980 Flyers 4-Isles 5 (OT)- Stanley Cup- Isles win cup 4-2 (15-6) S0525 African Unity Day, also observed as African Freedom Day S0525 Deposition of St Aldelmus, bishop & confessor (Anglican) S0525 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday S05251787 Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia S05251810 Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (Nat'l Day) S05251825 American Unitarian Assn founded S05251927 Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A) S05251935 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates S05251940 Golden Gate Intl Exposition reopens S05251945 Arther C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit S05251946 Jordan gains independence from Britain (Natl Day) S05251948 SF receives its 1st telecast S05251950 Bkln-Battery Tunnel opened in NYC S05251953 1st noncommercial educational television station - Houston, Texas S05251953 1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada S05251961 JFK sets goal of putting a man on moon S05251963 African Unity Day S05251963 Org for African Unity formed S05251973 US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz S05251978 "Star Wars" released S05251979 Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt S05251983 Return of the Jedi (Star Wars 3) released S0526 Feast of St Philip Neri, confessor S0526 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday S05261583 William of Ockham Day S05261781 Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia S05261790 Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress S05261864 Montana Territory organized S05261868 President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote S05261896 Dow Jones Industrial Average adopted S05261898 SF approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utiliies S05261928 A's commit 7 errors & lose to Yanks 7-4 S05261937 Golden Gate Bridge opens S05261943 1st president of Negro country to visit US - E Barclay, Liberia S05261946 Patent filed in US for H-Bomb S05261958 Union Square becomes State Historical Landmark S05261959 Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th S05261969 Apollo 10 returns to Earth S05261972 Venera 8 launched toward Venus S05261977 George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center S05261980 Soyuz 36 is launched S05261981 Soyuz T-4 returns to Earth S0527 Feast of St Bede the Venerable, confessor, doctor, writer S0527 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday S05271844 S.F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line S05271854 Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to SF completed S05271896 Bay District Race Track closes S05271907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in SF S05271919 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days S05271931 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va S05271931 Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon S05271933 Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago S05271933 Trailing 11-3, Yanks score 12 runs in 8th & beat White Sox 15-11 S05271933 Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released S05271935 Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional S05271936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage S05271937 Golden Gate Bridge dedicated S05271941 German battleship Bismark sunk by British naval force S05271951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, SF opens S05271957 Permission granted to Dogers & Giants to leave NY S05271968 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-3 S05271969 WDW construction begins S05271975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars" S05271985 Inaugural Bands Parade for President Reagan S05271986 Norway Showcase groundbreaking S0528 Feast of St Augustine, 1st Archbishop of Canterbury, confessor S0528 Feast of St Bernard of Montjoux, patron of mountain climbers S0528 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday S0528 585 BC Thales Miletus predicts solar eclispe Persian-Lydian battle ends S05281530 Hernando de Soto lands in Fla S05281664 1st Baptist Church organized in Boston S05281774 1st Continental Congress convened in Virginia S05281926 US Customs Court created by Congress S05281929 1st all color talking picture "On With The Show" exhibited, NYC S05281946 1st night game at Yankee stadium S05281953 Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor - "Melody" S05281959 Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles into space on Jupiter missle S05281961 Amnesty Intl founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977) S05281971 USSR Mars 3 launched 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars S0529 Feast of St Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi, virgin S0529 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday S05291453 Constantinople falls to Turks (Signaled end of Middle Ages) S05291660 Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth S05291721 SC formally incorporated as a royal colony S05291790 Rhode Is became last of original 13 ratifing Constitution S05291848 Wisconsin becomes 30th state S05291849 A patent for lifting vessels was granted to Abraham Lincoln S05291864 Mexican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz S05291892 Death of prophet Baha'Ullah (Ascension of Baha'Ullah) S05291916 US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924 S05291919 Einstein's light-bending prediction is confirmed by Arthur Eddington S05291951 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane - CF Blair S05291953 Edmund Hillary & Norgay of NZ become 1st to reach top of Mt Everest S05291954 Actor, Kirk & Anne Douglas married S05291978 1st class postage now 15¢ (13¢ for 3 years) S05291983 Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m S0530 Eta Pegasid meteor shower, radiant in Pegasus S0530 Feast of St Felix, pope (268-73), martyr S0530 Feast of St Jean d'Arc, Maid of Orleans S0530 Real Memorial Day (Decoration Day) S05301431 Joan of Arc burned at stake in Rouen France at 19 S05301527 U of Marburg (Germany) founded S05301814 1st Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's 1st abdication S05301854 Territories of Kansas & Nebraska created S05301894 Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game S05301911 Indianapolis 500 car race run for 1st time S05301920 Joan d'Arc Day S05301932 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins S05301933 Patent on invisible glass installation S05301937 Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory S05301938 Yanks sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium S05301953 1st major league network baseball game - Cleveland 7, Chicago 2 S05301961 Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 HRs S05301966 US launches Surveyor 1 to the Moon S05301971 US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched S05301972 3 Jap PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lydda airport S05301974 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4 S05301980 Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million S05301982 Spain became 16th member of North Atlantic Treaty Org S0531 Feast of Queenship of Mary (Visitation) S0531 Republic Day, celebrated in South Africa S0531 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday S05311433 Joan of Arc has a hot time at stake S05311678 Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry S05311854 Kansas Territory established S05311862 Battle of Fair Oaks, Va; North defeats South S05311868 1st recorded bicycle race, 2 kilometers in Paris S05311879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition S05311879 Madison Square Garden opens its doors S05311900 US troops arrive in Peking, help put down Boxer Rebellion S05311910 Union of South Africa formed S05311913 17th amendment providing popular election of senators S05311916 During WW I British & German fleets fought Battle of Jutland S05311955 Construction begins on cosmodrome launch facilities S05311956 Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof S05311961 South Africa becomes a republic (Natl Day) S05311962 WW II Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann hung in Israel S05311974 Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights