*mmddyyyy Birthdays *-------- ------------------------------------------------------------ B10011207 Henry III, king of England (1216-72) B10011685 Charles VI, Holy Roman emperor (1711-40) B10011781 James Lawrence, naval hero ("Don't give up the ship!") B10011791 Sergey Aksakov, Russian novelist (Chronicles of a Russian Family) B10011832 Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st wife of Benjamin Harrison B10011881 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft co B10011893 Faith Baldwin, author B10011904 Vladimir Horowitz, pianist B10011907 Hiram Fong, Sen B10011909 Sam Yorty, ex-mayor of LA B10011911 Edward P. Boland (D-Rep-Mass) B10011920 Walter Matthau, (Odd Couple, Bad News Bears) B10011921 James Whitmore, actor (Black Like Me, Tora! Tora! Tora!) B10011924 Jimmy Earl Carter,(D) 39th Pres (1977-1981) B10011924 William Rehnquist, chief justice, Supreme Court (1987- ) B10011927 Tom Bosley, actor (Happy Days) B10011928 George Peppard, actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Blue Max) B10011928 Laurence Harvey, actor (Alamo, Romeo & Juliet) B10011930 Richard Harris B10011935 Julie Andrews, actress & singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins) B10011936 Charles G. Fullerton, astronaut (STS-3, 51F) B10011936 Edward Villella, American ballet dancer B10011936 Stella Stevens, actress (Girls! Girls!, Manitou) in Yazoo City Miss B10011945 Rod Carew, baseball slugger B10021851 Ferdinand Foch, believed to be responsible for Allies winning WW I B10021869 Mahatma K Ghandi, pacifist Porbandar, Kathiawad, India B10021871 Cordell Hull, sec of state, lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945) B10021895 Groucho Marx, comedian B10021904 Graham Greene, prolific English novelist (Brighton Rock) B10021921 Robert Runcie, archbishop of Canterbury B10021928 Little Rascal Spanky McFarland B10021932 Maury Wills Dodger shortstop B10021939 Yuri N. Glazkov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 24) B10021940 Rex Reed, movie critic B10021945 Don McLean, singer, songwriter (American Pie, Vincent) B10021948 Donna Karan, actress B10021951 Sting (Police) B100219?? Lani O'Grady B100219?? Randi Oakes in San Diego Calif B10031605 Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor B10031800 George Bancroft, historian B10031803 John Gorrie, invented cold-air process of refrigeration B10031804 Townsend Harris, 1st Western consul to reside in Japan B10031814 Mikhail Lermontov, leading Russian Romantic poet, novelist B10031859 Elenora Duse in Italy, actress B10031888 Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist, pacifist (Nobel 1935) B10031899 Gertrude Berg - Molly Goldberg B10031925 Gore Vidal, writer (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln) B10031935 Charles M. Duke, Jr, astronaut (Apollo 16) B10031935 Eileen Brennan B10031941 Chubby Checker, singer B10031950 Pamela Hensley in LA B10031951 Dave Winfield NY Yankee B10031959 Jack Wagner - General Hospital's rocker B10041289 Louis X (the Stubborn), king of France (1314-16) B10041626 Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England (1658-59) B10041822 Rutherford B. Hayes (R), 19th pres (1877-81) B10041850 John W. McGraw (R), governor of Wash (1893-97) B10041880 Damon Runyon, writer B10041895 Buster Keaton, actor (The Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr.) B10041923 Charlton Heston - Moses (Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes) B10041931 Dick Tracy, crimestopper B10041934 Sam Huff, NFL linebacker (NY Giants, Washington Redskins) B10041941 Lori Saunders in Kansas City Mo B10041944 Patty LaBelle, singer B10041946 Susan Sarandon, NYC (Atlantic City, Great Waldo Pepper) B10041949 Armand Assante B10051713 Denis Diderot, encyclopedist B10051829 Chester A Arthur, 21st Pres (1881-85) B10051864 Louis Lumière, with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895 B10051882 Robert Hutchings Goddard, rocket pioneer, in Worcester, Mass B10051887 René Cassin (Nobel Peace Prize 1968) B10051905 Ray Kroc, who gave Ronald McDonald a job B10051908 Joshua Logan, Broadway producer B10051919 Donald Pleasance, Happy Halloween B10051921 Bill Willis, AAFC, NFL guard (Browns) B10051923 Glynis Johns in South Africa B10051923 Philip Berrigan, militant priest B10051929 Richard F. Gordon, Jr., U.S. astronaut (Gemini 11, Apollo 12) B10051930 Pavel R. Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 4, Soyuz 14) B10051933 Diane Cilento in Australia B10051951 Bob Geldof - Band Aid organizer B10051951 Karen Allen in Illinois B10061820 Jenny Lind in Sweden, soprano, nightingale B10061831 Richard Dedekind, mathematician B10061846 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US B10061866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice & music B10061887 Mart¡n Luis Guzmán, Mexican novelist (The Eagle & the Serpent) B10061888 Li Ta-chao, cofounder with Mao Tse-tung of Chinese Communist Party B10061906 Janet Gaynor in Phila (Sunrise, A Star Is Born) B10061909 Carol Lombard B10061914 Thor Heyerdahl, anthropologist, explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku) B10061925 Shana Alexander, point-counterpoint journalist B10061936 Anna Quayle B10061942 Britt Ekland in Sweden B10061956 Stephanie Zimbalist, NYC (Remington Steele) B10071849 James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (The Raggedy Man) B10071879 Joe Hill, songwriter, IWW organizer, martyr B10071885 Niels Bohr, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922) B10071888 Henry A. Wallace (D/P), 33rd VP, Progressive pres candidate B10071905 Jean Arthur (or 10-17-08) B10071916 Walt W. Rostow, economist B10071917 June Allyson, actress B10071926 Diana Lynn B10071927 Al Martino, singer B10071931 Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Nobel Peace Prize 1982) B10071931 Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of South Africa B10071943 Oliver North B10071951 John Cougar Mellencamp, singer B10071955 Yo-Yo Ma, cellist B10071959 Judy Landers B10081869 J Frank Duryea, invented 1st auto built & operated in the US B10081873 Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram) B10081890 Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator B10081895 Juan Perón, president of Argentina (1946-55, 1973-74) B10081897 Rouben Mamoulian Movie director B10081909 Bill Hewitt, NFL end (Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles) B10081916 Spark Matsunaga, D-Ha-Sen) B10081920 Frank Herbert, sci-fi writer (Dune) B10081930 James Olsen B10081936 Rona Barrett Gossip columnist & friend of Tom Snyder B10081940 David Carradine B10081941 Jesse Jackson (D), clergyman, presidential candidate B10081943 Chevy Chase, comedian, actor (SNL, Vacation, Fletch, Caddyshack) B10081949 Sigourney Weaver, LA (Alien) B10081951 Johnny Ramone, rock guitarist B10091547 Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (Don Quixote) B10091757 Charles X, reactionary king of France (1824-30); deposed B10091835 Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer B10091890 Aimee Semple McPherson, Pentecostal evangelist, radio preacher B10091906 Léopold Senghor, poet, president of Senegal (1960-80) B10091924 Robert Rushworth, X-15 pilot B10091925 Robert Finch, actor B10091940 Joe Pepitone, baseball player B10091940 John Lennon, Beatle B10091940 Gordon Humphrey, R-NH B10091945 Jeannie C Riley in Texas, Hee-Haw (Harper Valley PTA) B10091948 Jackson Brown, rocker, Germany B10091955 Steve Ovett, English track star B10091959 Mike Singletary B10091967 Carling Bassett in Canada Tennis player B10091975 Sean Lennon B10101731 Henry Cavendish, English physicist, chemist B10101738 Benjamin West, painter B10101813 Giuseppe Verdi, composer of operas (Rigoletto, Aida, Otello) B10101830 Emily Dickinson, poet B10101861 Fridtjof Nansen, Norweg. Arctic explorer, humanitarian (Nobel 1922) B10101892 Ivo Andric, Yugoslav novelist (Bridge on the Drina) (Nobel '61) B10101895 Lin Yü-t'ang, Chinese writer (My Country & My People) B10101900 Helen Hayes, actress (Caesar & Cleopatra, Happy Birthday) B10101924 James Clavell, author (Tai Pan, Shogun) B10101930 Adlai Stevenson III (D-Sen-Ill) B10101930 Harold Pinter, playwright B10101946 Ben Vereen, dancer, actor, singer B10101955 David Lee Roth, rocker B10101958 Tanya Tucker in Seminole Texas, country singer B10111758 Wilhelm Olbers, discoverer of asteroids Pallas & Vesta B10111844 Henry John Heinz, founded a prepared-foods company B10111884 Eleanor Roosevelt, crusader B10111885 Francois Mauriac, French novelist, poet, playwright (Nobel 1952) B10111897 George Preston Marshall, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins) B10111900 Cal Hubbard, NFL tackle (Giants, Packers, Pittsburgh Pirates) B10111906 Earl (Dutch) Clark, NFL quarterback (Portsmouth Spartans, Detroit) B10111910 Joseph Alsop, newspaper columnist B10111918 Jerome Robbins, choreographer B10111932 Dottie West, country singer B10111937 Ron Leibman B10111949 Daryl Hall, Rocker B10121537 Edward VI, king of England (1547-53) B10121798 Pedro I, 1st emperor of Brazil (1822-31), king of Portugal B10121860 Elmer Sperry, inventor of the gyrocompass B10121866 Ramsay MacDonald (Labour), British prime minister (1924, 1929-35) B10121872 Ralph Vaughan Williams in England, composer B10121896 Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, translator (Xenia) (Nobel 1975) B10121923 Jean Nidetch in Brooklyn, founder of Weight Watchers B10121928 Spankey McFarland, actor B10121932 Dick Gregory, comedian-activist B10121932 Jake Garn (R-Sen-Ut), astronaut (STS-51T) B10121933 Joan Rivers B10121935 Luciano Pavarotti, operatic tenor B10121936 Tony Kubek, Yankee shortstop B10121947 Chris Wallace, reporter B10121950 Susan Anton, actress-singer B10121962 Sid Fernandez Met Pitcher, Hawaii B10131769 Horace H Hayden, cofounder of 1st dental college B10131853 Lillie Langtry (the Jersey Lily), actress B10131909 Herblock (Herbert L. Block), political cartoonist B10131917 Burr Tillstrom, creator of Kukla, Fran & Ollie B10131918 Cornell Wilde, actor B10131920 Laraine Day B10131921 Yves Montand, French actor, singer B10131925 Margaret Thatcher (Tory), British PM (1979- ) Iron Lady B10131925 Nipsey Russel, comedian B10131942 Art Garfunkel, built bridge over troubled waters B10131942 Pamela Tiffin in Oklahoma City B10131959 Marie Osmond in Ogden Utah B10141633 James II, king of England (1685-88) B10141712 George Grenville, British prime minister (1763-65) B10141857 Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of the 1st US autos B10141874 Raymond Ewry of U.S., won 10 Olympic gold medals for jumping B10141890 Dwight D Eisenhower (R), 34th Pres (1953-1961) B10141894 E. E. Cummings, poet B10141896 Lillian Gish, silent film & stage actress (Birth of a Nation) B10141926 Roger Moore, the 'saintly' James Bond B10141938 John Dean, III, former White House counsel B10141947 Charlie Joiner, NFL wide receiver (Houston, Cincinnati, San Diego) B10141950 Sheila Young Ochowitz US Olympic speed skater B10141952 Nikolai Adrianov, Soviet Olympic gymnast B101419?? Harry Anderson (Night Court) B1015 70 BC Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) Mantua, Italy (Æneid) B10151542 Akbar, Indian Mughal emperor (1556-1605) B10151785 José Miguel Carrera, president of Chile (1811-14) B10151829 Asaph Hall, discoverer of the moons of Mars, Phobos & Deimos B10151844 Friedrich Nietzsche, Übermensch B10151858 John L. Sullivan, (heavyweight champ 1882-92) B10151900 Mervyn Le Roy, movie producer B10151905 C P Snow, British novelist & scientist B10151908 John Kenneth Galbraith, economist B10151917 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian B10151921 Mario Puzo, author (Godfather) B10151924 Lee Iacocca, CEO of Chrysler Corp B10151926 Jean Peters, actress B10151937 Linda Lavin in Portland Maine - Alice TV show B10151942 Penny Marshall, NYC (Laverne & Shirley) former Mrs Rob Reiner B10151945 Jim Palmer, baseball player B10151946 Richard Carpenter, (Carpenters) B10151959 Princess Sarah Ferguson (Fergie), the Duchess of York B10161708 Albrecht von Haller, the father of experimental physiology B10161758 Noah Webster, lexicographer B10161792 Francisco Morazán (Liberal), president of Central America (1830-40) B10161854 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde, Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray) B10161863 Sir Austen Chamberlain, British foreign secretary (Nobel 1925) B10161888 Eugene O'Neill, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms) (Nobel 1936) B10161890 Paul Strand, photographer B10161898 William O. Douglas, former Supreme Court justice B10161908 Enver Hoxha, post-war leader of Albania B10161921 Linda Darnell B10161925 Angela Lansbury, actress (Murder She Wrote) B10161927 Günter Grass, German novelist, poet (The Tin Drum) B10161931 Charles W. Colson pres adviser B10161946 Suzanne Somers, actress (3's Co) in San Bruno Calif B10171835 Alexandrine-Pieternella-Françoise Tinné, explored the White Nile B10171893 Spring Byington B10171903 Irene Ryan in El Paso Texas B10171915 Arthur Miller, playwright (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible) B10171919 Rita Hayworth in NY (Alzheimer victim) B10171921 Tom Poston, comedian, actor B10171928 Julie Adams in Iowa B10171929 Beverly Garland in Santa Cruz California B10171930 Jimmy Breslin, newspaperman & raconteur B10171933 William A. Anders, astronaut (Apollo 8) B10171938 Robert 'Evel' Knievel, motorcycle daredevil B10171945 Dave Cutler, CFL place kicker (Edmonton Eskimos) B10171946 Bob Seagren, pole vaulter B10171947 Charles A. Ingene, macromarketing researcher B10171948 Margot Kidder in Yellowknife - Lois Lane B10171949 George Wendt, cheers B10181777 Heinrich von Kleist, German dramatist, poet B10181859 Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Creative Evolution) (Nobel 1927) B10181878 James Truslow Adams, historian B10181919 Pierre Elliot Trudeau (L), 15th Canadian PM (1968-79, 1980-84) B10181921 Jesse Helms (R-NC-Sen), right-wing B10181922 Richard Stankiewicz, U.S. sculptor B10181925 Melina Mercouri in Athens Greece B10181926 Chuck Berry Rock 'n' roll star B10181927 George C. Scott, actor (Patton) B10181928 Keith Jackson Sportscaster B10181930 Frank Carlucci National Security Adviser B10181933 Forrest Gregg, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys) B10181933 Peter Boyle, actor B10181934 Inger Stevens in Sweden B10181939 Mike Ditka, tight end for Bears, Cowboys; coach of Chicago Bears B10181947 John Johnson, Seattle SuperSonic B10181947 Laura Nyro in Bronx B10181952 Pam Dawber, Detroit - Mindy of Mork & Mindy B10181956 Martina Navratilova, tennis champ Prague Czech B10181961 Erin Moran in LA (Happy Days) B10191632 Christopher Wren, English astronomer & architect B10191862 Auguste Lumière, made 1st movie (Workers Leaving Lumière Factory) B10191882 Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, Lithuanian poet, philologist, playwright B10191895 Louis Mumford, cultural historian, city planner B10191899 Miguel Asturias, Guatemalan poet, novelist, diplomat (Nobel 1967) B10191909 Robert Beatty, actor B10191910 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian physicist (Nobel 1983) B10191920 LaWanda Page in Cleve (Aunt Esther-Sanford & Sons) B10191922 Jack Anderson, columnist B10191931 John Le Carré, English spy novelist (Little Drummer Girl) B10191932 Robert Reed, actor B10191945 John Lithgow, actor B10191967 Amy Carter, daughter of Pres Carter B10201632 Sir Christopher Wren, astronomer, great English architect B10201812 Austin Flint, 19th century heart research. pioneer B10201819 Mirza Ali Mohammad (The Bab), forerunner of Baha'Ullah B10201823 Thomas Hughes, British author (Tom Brown's School Days) B10201854 Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, adventurer (Illuminations) B10201859 John Dewey, philosopher B10201874 Charles Ives, composer B10201900 Wayne Morse (R/D-Sen-Ore) B10201908 Arlene Francis in Boston Mass B10201911 Will Rogers, Jr., actor B10201923 Herschel Bernardi, actor B10201925 Art Buchwald, columnist B10201931 Mickey Mantle, NY Yankee, home run slugger B10201932 Roosevelt Brown, NFL offensive tackle (NY Giants) B10201932 William Christopher, actor "Father Mulcahy" B10201935 Jerry Orbach B10201937 Juan Marichal, baseball player B10201953 Keith Hernandez B10211772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge in England, poet B10211833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes B10211912 Sir Georg Solti, conductor B10211914 Martin Gardner, Scientific American math & puzzles columnist B10211917 Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz B10211928 Whitey Ford, NY Yankee pitcher B10211933 Georgia Brown B10211940 Manfred Mann, rocker B10211945 Kathy Young B10211953 Charlotte Caffey (GoGos) B10211956 Carrie Fisher in Beverly Hills - Star Wars' Princess Lelia B10211971 Jade Jagger, daughter of Mick Jagger B102119?? Julie Parrish B102119?? Michael Landon B10221811 Franz Liszt, Hungary, Romantic composer, virtuoso pianist B10221845 Sarah Bernhardt, actress B10221870 Ivan Bunin, Russian poet, novelist (Gentleman from SF) (Nobel 1933) B10221880 Joe Carr, president of the NFL B10221887 John Reed, journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions B10221906 Sidney Kingsley, author B10221917 Joan Fontaine, actress B10221919 Doris Lessing, novelist (The Golden Notebook) B10221920 Mitzi Green B10221920 Timothy Leary B10221922 John Chafee, (R-RI-Sen) B10221923 Pete Pihos, NFL end (Phil Eagles) B10221925 Robert Rauschenberg, painter B10221929 Dory Previn, singer B10221938 Derek Jacobi B10221938 Christopher Lloyd, (Rev. Jim-Taxi, Star Trek III) B10221939 Tony Roberts B10221942 Annette Funichello in Utica NY B10221943 Catherine Deneuve in Paris (Repulsion) B10221952 Jeff Goldblum, actor B10231752 Nicolas Appert, inventor of food canning, bouillon tablet B10231835 Adlai Stevenson (D), 23rd VP (1893-97), US amb to UN B10231844 Louis Riel, leader of insurrection of Métis in Manitoba B10231844 Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England (The Testament of Beauty) B10231905 Felix Bloch, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1952) B10231905 Karl Jansky, discoverer of cosmic radio emissions in 1932 B10231914 Frank (Bruiser) Kinard, NFL, AAFC tackle (Bkln, NY Yankees) B10231922 Coleen Gray in Staplehurst Nebraska B10231925 Johnny Carson, Tonight Show host B10231931 Diana Dors in England B10231938 John Heinz (R-Pa-Sen) B10231940 Edison Pele, soccer player extraordinaire B10231942 Michael Crichton (Andromeda Strain) B10231956 Darrell Pace, U.S. Olympic archer B10241632 Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch naturalist B10241904 Moss Hart, playwright B10241911 Clarence M. Kelley, FBI head B10241926 Y.A. Tittle, AAFC, NFL QB (Baltimore, SF, NY Giants) B10241936 David Nelson, actor B10241940 F. Murray Abraham, actor (Amadeus) B10241947 Kevin Kline B10251759 Baron Grenville (Whig), British PM (1806-07) B10251825 Johann Strauss the Younger (Waltz King) B10251838 Georges Bizet, composer B10251843 Gleb Uspensky, Russian author (Power of the Soil) B10251877 Henry Norris Russell, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram) B10251881 Pablo Picasso, doodler (Guernica) (or 10-05) B10251884 Eduardo Barrios, Chilean novelist (The Love-Crazed Boy) B10251888 Richard E Byrd, polar explorer B10251902 Henry Steele Commager, historian B10251909 Whit Bissell, actor B10251912 Minnie Pearl in Tenn (Grand Old Oprey, Hee-Haw) B10251912 Sarah Ophelia Colley, better known as Minnie Pearl B10251926 Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano B10251927 Barbara Cook in Atlanta Ga B10251928 Marion Ross in Minn (Happy Days) B10251928 Tony Franciosa, actor B10251931 Annie Giradot in Paris B10251935 Russell L. (Rusty) Schweickart, astronaut (Apollo 9) B10251941 Helen Reddy in Melbourne Australia (I am Woman) B10261466 Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch scholar, author of The Praise of Folly B10261759 Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader B10261855 Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals B10261911 Sid Gillman, NFL coach (LA, San Diego, Houston) B10261916 Francois Mitterrand, French President B10261917 Felix the cat, cartoon character B10261919 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, shah of Iran (1941-79) B10261933 Suzy Parker in San Antonio Texas B10261947 Lynn Anderson in North Dakota B10261948 Jaclyn Smith in Houston Texas (Charlie's Angel) B10261954 Lauren Tewes, (Love Boat) B102619?? Pat Sajak B10271728 Capt. James Cook, discovered Sandwich Islands B10271782 Niccolò Paganini, composer, violin virtuoso B10271811 Issac Merrit Singer, invented 1st practical home sewing machine B10271844 Klas Arnoldson, Swedish politician, pacifist (Nobel 1908) B10271858 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th Pres (1901-09) (Nobel 1906) B10271872 Emily Post, authority on social behavior, writer (Etiquette) B10271910 Freddie DeCordova, film & TV producer (The Tonight Show) B10271914 Dylan Thomas, poet (A Child's Christmas in Wales, Under Milkwood) B10271917 Oliver Tambo, leader of African National Congress B10271918 Teresa Wright in NYC B10271920 Nanette Fabray in San Diego Calif B10271924 Ruby Dee in Cleve B10271926 H.R. Haldeman, former White House Chief of Staff - Watergate figure B10271930 Bill George, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears, LA Rams) B10271939 John Cleese, (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers) B10271945 Carrie Snodgress in Park Ridge Illinois B10271951 Jayne Kennedy, entertainer B10271958 Simon Le Bon, disco king B10281017 Henry III, Holy Roman emperor (1046-56) B10281466 Erasmus, scholar, author of "In Praise of Folly" B10281585 Cornelius Otto Jansen of France, Roman Catholic reform leader B10281846 Auguste Escoffier, king of chefs & chef of kings B10281902 Elsa Lanchaster in England - The Bride of Frankenstein B10281907 Edith Head Fashion designer B10281914 Dr Jonas Salk, who made polio a fear of the past B10281926 Bowie Kuhn, former baseball commissioner B10281929 Dody Goodman in Columbus Ohio B10281929 Joan Plowright, English actress B10281936 Charlie Daniels, country music star B10281937 Lenny Wilkins, NBA player, coach (Seattle, Cleveland) B10281939 Jane Alexander, actress (The Betsy, Kramer vs. Kramer) in Mass B10281940 Gennadi M. Strekalov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11) B10281944 Coluche, French comedian B10281948 Thelma Hopkins in Lousiville Kentucky - Sung backup for Tony Orlando B10281949 Bruce Jenner, Decathalon champ B10281959 Walther Bauersfeld, 1919 invented 1st modern projection planetarium B10291656 Edmund Halley in London B10291740 James Boswell in Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer B10291873 Guillermo Valencia, Colombian poet, translator, statesman B10291875 Marie, queen consort of Ferdinand I of Rumania B10291884 Bela Lugosi, horror actor (Dracula, Body Snatcher) B10291891 Fanny Brice, singing comedienne (Ziegeld Follies, Baby Snooks) B10291897 Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propagandist B10291910 Alfred J. Ayer, English Neopositivist philosopher, logician B10291921 Bill Mauldin, political cartoonist B10291926 Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor B10291945 Melba Moore in NYC B10291947 Richard Dreyfuss, actor (Jaws, Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind) B10291948 Kate Jackson, Alabama (Charley's Angels, Making Love) B102919?? Finola Hughes (General Hospital) B10301632 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright (Rivals, School for Scandal) B10301735 John Adams (F), 2nd pres (1797-1801) in Braintree, Mass B10301871 Paul Valéry, French poet, essayist, critic B10301873 Francisco Madero, Mexican revolutionary, president (1911-13) B10301885 Ezra Pound in Hailey, Idaho B10301896 Ruth Gordon, Mass (Rosemary's Baby, Harold & Maude) B10301919 Jane Randolph - Sung backup for Tony Orlando B10301932 Louis Malle, film director B10301937 Claude Lelouch Movie director B10301939 Grace Slick, rock singer (Jefferson Starship), Chic B10301943 Talia Shire (Adrianne-Rocky) B10301945 Henry Winkler, TV actor (Fonz) B10311632 Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter (Procuress, The Astronomer) B10311795 John Keats, Romantic poet B10311815 Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician (theory of functions) B10311860 Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scout founder B10311897 Wilbur (Pete) Henry, NFL tackle (Canton, NY Giants, Pottsville) B10311912 Dale Evans in Uvalde Texas aka Mrs Roy Rodgers B10311922 Barbara Bel Geddes, (Dallas) B10311930 Michael Collins, astronaut (Gemini 10, Apollo 11) B10311931 Dan Rather, CBS anchorman (What's the frequency Kenneth?) Courage! B10311931 Lee Grant in NYC B10311936 Michael Landon, an acting angel B10311939 Melinda Dillon B10311942 David Ogden Stiers, actor B10311947 Frank Shorter, runner B10311950 Jane Pauley in Indianapolis Indiana - Good Morning B10??1936 Joan Kennedy in Bronxville NY - former wife of Ted Kennedy *mmddyyyy Events *-------- ------------------------------------------------------------ S1001 Feast of St. Remigius, bishop of Rheims, confessor S1001 Feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus--the Little Flower S1001 Fiscal year begins for Federal Government S1001 Independence Day, celebrated in Nigeria S1001 National Day in Cyprus & Tuvalu S1001 World Vegetarian Day S1001 1National Employ the Handicapped Week S1001 2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day S1001 331 BC Alexander of Macedon defeats Persian army at Gaugamela S10011837 Treaty with Winnebago Indians S10011847 Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet S10011851 1st Hawaiian stamps issued S10011869 1st postcards are issued in Vienna S10011896 Yosemite becomes a National Park S10011898 Henry Huntington buys the LA Railway S10011903 1st Baseball World Series S10011908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car S10011908 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee victory, beats Walter Johnson 2-1 S10011912 Yanks lose game #100 enroute to a 50-102 season S10011921 Yanks win their 1st pennant S10011932 Babe Ruth's famous homerun called off of Cubs Charlie Root S10011938 Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia) S10011940 Penn Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opened S10011942 1st jet propelled airplane tested S10011946 Bob Feller 348th strikeout of the season S10011947 1st helicopter air mail & express service, LA, Ca S10011949 People's Rep of China proclaimed (National Day) S10011951 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador - Eugenie Anderson S10011952 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or S10011958 Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA S10011960 Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day) S10011961 Roger Maris sets record of 61 homers, last off of Tracy Sallard S10011962 Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show S10011962 The Lucy Show premiers S10011962 US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' radio telescope S10011964 SF cable cars declared a national landmark S10011971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens S10011975 Reunion Island no longer prints stamps, France takes over production S10011977 Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title S10011978 Yanks lose 9-2 to Indians setting up a play off game with Red Sox S10011979 US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal) S10011982 EPCOT Center opens S1002 Feast of the Guardian Angels S1002 Independence Day, celebrated in Guinea S1002 Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Boötes S1002 1National Employ the Handicapped Week S1002 2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day S10021608 Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch a new invention - the telescope S10021833 NY Anti-Slavery Society organized S10021836 Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle S10021870 Italy annexes Rome & the Papal States; Rome made Italian capital S10021889 1st Pan American conference S10021908 Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row S10021916 Grover Cleveland Alexanders 16th shutout of the year S10021932 Yanks sweep Cubs in the world series S10021935 NY Hayden Planetarium, the 4th in the US, opens S10021936 1st alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kansas S10021936 Tony Lazzeri becomes the 1st Yank to hit a world series grand slam S10021939 Birdbaths installed in Union Square S10021942 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago S10021946 1st network soap opera - Faraway Hill - Dumont S10021947 Yogi Berra become the 1st player to pinch hit a world series homer S10021949 Yanks & Red Sox tie for 1st place played the final game of the S10021949Cseason Yanks won 5-3 & clinched pennant #16 S10021950 Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD catches S10021950 The comic strip 'Peanuts' 1st appears, in 9 newspapers S10021955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents premiers S10021956 1st atomic power clock exhibited - NYC S10021958 Guinea gains independence from France (National Day) S10021959 Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS S10021961 Ben Casey premiers S10021965 Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20 S10021967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn as 1st black Supreme Court Justice S10021968 Bob Gibson sets a world series record of 17 strikeouts S10021970 Billy Martin named manager of the Tigers S10021971 homing pigeon averages 133 kph (record) in 1100-km Australian race S10021978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff S10021978Cgame. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding S10021984 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit S1003 Feast of St. Francis Borgia, Confessor S1003 Feast of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus S1003 1National Employ the Handicapped Week S1003 2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day S10031264 The comet said to predict the death of Pope Urban IV is last seen S10031789 Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26 S10031863 Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day S10031913 Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%) S10031920 NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games S10031932 Iraq gains full independence from Britain S10031935 Italy invades Ethiopia S10031942 Launch of the 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles S10031947 1st telescope lens 200 inches in diameter completed S10031947 With only 1 out to go, Yank Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking S10031947Chis world series no hit bid, it scored 2 runs & he lost the game S10031948 NFL becomes 1st sport of the week S10031950 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV - Beulah S10031951 Bobby Thomson HR - The Giants win the pennant S10031952 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca S10031954 Father Knows Best premiers S10031955 Captain Kangaroo premieres Good Morning, Captain! S10031955 Mickey Mouse Club premiers S10031960 SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard S10031960 Yanks win 8-7 & end season on a 15 game win streak S10031961 Dick Van Dyke Show premiers S10031962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into earth orbit S10031965 Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher S10031967 AF pilot Pete Knight flies x-15 at a record 4,534 MPH S10031967 William Knight sets world speed record for fixed-wing craft of 7,297 S10031967Ckph (Mach 6.72) in X-15 S10031972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown S10031985 Space shuttle Atlantis makes all-military maiden flight S1004 Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, confessor S1004 1National Employ the Handicapped Week S1004 2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day S10041636 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony S10041648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen S10041824 Mexico becomes a republic S10041916 Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time S10041926 the dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower S10041931 The comic strip Dick Tracy debuts S10041940 Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off S10041948 Indians beat Red Sox in 1st AL playoff game S10041955 Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees S10041957 Leave It to Beaver debuts on CBS S10041957 USSR launches Sputnik I, the 1st artificial earth satellite S10041958 Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began S10041959 USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side S10041960 Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit S10041962 Whitey Ford's world series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends S10041966 Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day) S10041969 UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters S10041976 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns after racial 'joke' S10041977 pier 39 opens in SF S10041984 Yanks clinch AL East S10041985 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 is launched S10041987 James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns S10041987Cwithout making an interception. (He scored on laterals.) S1005 Feast of St. Flora of Beaulieu, Virgin, (A.D. 1347) S1005 Feast of St. Placid & his companions, martyrs S1005 1National Employ the Handicapped Week S1005 2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day S10051813 Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British S10051864 Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone S10051875 Palace Hotel on Market Street opens S10051877 Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Percé War S10051892 Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup S10051906 Giant's Henry Matthewson walks 14 S10051907 Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8) S10051908 Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey S10051910 Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic S10051912 Yanks win final game at Hilltop stadium S10051921 1st Yank & radio broadcast of the World Series, beat Giants 3-0 S10051922 Yanks & Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie world series game S10051923 Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star S10051931 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wenatchee, Wash S10051941 Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely S10051947 1st Presidential address televised from White House - HS Truman S10051953 Billy Martin 12 hits sets record Yanks win record 5th straight WS S10051956 Yogi Berra becomes the 4th Yank to hit a World Series Grand Slam S10051963 Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park S10051964 SF Fire Department Museum is dedicated S10051970 PBS becomes a network S10051980 Yanks set AL attendence mark at 2,627,417 S10051982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, N. Mex S10051984 41-G Challenger carried 1st Canadian, Marc Garneau, into orbit S10051985 13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 launched S1006 Feast of St. Bruno, Blsd. Marie-Rose Durocher S1006 St. Faith's Day (Anglican) S1006 Universal Children's Day S1006 1National Employ the Handicapped Week S1006 2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day S10061863 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the 1st public bath, in Brooklyn S10061889 Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture S10061908 Yanks lose 100th game of the year go 51-103 for season S10061926 Babe Ruth hits 3 homers in a world series game S10061927 The Jazz Singer, 1st movie with a sound track, premieres S10061935 Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches S10061936 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in the world series S10061940 Zoological Gardens opens (on Sloat & Skyline) S10061941 Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in the world series S10061947 Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in the world series S10061959 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts moon S10061973 Egypt & Syria invade Israel - The Yom Kippur war S10061978 Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5 S10061981 Anwar Sadat assassinated, Hosnai Mubarak becomes Egytian president S10061983 Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick S1007 Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary & of St. Osith, Saxon virgin S1007 Feast of the Holy Rosary S1007 1National Employ the Handicapped Week S1007 2Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day S10071571 Turkish fleet defeated by Spanish & Italians in Battle of Lepanto S10071765 The Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY S10071777 British defeated by Americans in Battle of Saratoga S10071826 Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations S10071886 Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba S10071908 Crete unites with Greece S10071915 Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record) S10071927 Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series S10071931 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY S10071949 Dem. Rep of Germany (East) formed S10071950 US forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel S10071950 Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping the Phillies S10071952 Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in the world series S10071959 Luna 3 photographs far side of moon S10071960 Route 66 premiers S10071965 Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr. S10071968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system. S10071972 1st regular gat at Coliseum, Flames - 3, Islanders - 2 S10071981 In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3 S10071985 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 returns to Earth S1008 Feast of St. Bridget, widow & St. Keyne, virgin (6th Century) S1008 2Canadian Thanksgiving - Columbus Day - Discoverer's Day in Hawaii S10081604 The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is 1st sighted. S10081840 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed S10081860 Telegraph line between LA & SF opens S10081865 Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains. S10081871 nation's worst forest fire starts in Peshtigo, WI. S10081871CGreat Fire destroys over 4º miles of Chicago S10081896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks S10081918 Sgt. Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans. S10081927 Yanks sweep Pirates in the world series S10081933 Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters. S10081934 Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son S10081935 Ozzie & Harriet Nelson married S10081938 Yanks sweep Reds in the world series S10081944 `Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet' debut on CBS radio S10081945 Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada S10081956 Don Larsen's Perfect world series game beats Dodgers 2-0 S10081957 Brooklyn Dodgers announced they would move to LA S10081960 Bobby Richarson hits a world series grand slammer S10081962 N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party. S10081970 Soviet author Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Lit S10081978 Kenneth Warby sets world speed record on water (514 kph). S10081978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship against Kansas City S10081981 Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and S10081981CRichard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral S10081983 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7 S1009 Feast of St. John Leonardi, confessor. S1009 Feast of St. Denis & Companions S1009 Giacobinid meteor shower, radiant in Draco. S1009 Leif Ericson Day S1009 St. Denys's Day (Anglican). S1009 2Canadian Thanksgiving - Columbus Day - Discoverer's Day in Hawaii S10091000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England) S10091635 Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony S10091701 Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven. S10091776 Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay. S10091855 Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass. receives patent for 1st calliope S10091876 1st 2-way telephone conversation S10091888 Public admitted to Washington Monument. S10091921 Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer Only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays S10091928 Yanks sweep Cards in the world series S10091930 1st transcontinental flight by woman lands, Laura Ingalls S10091936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA S10091938 Yanks sweep Cubs in the world series S10091949 Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in the world series S10091951 Gil McDougald's World Series Grand Slam Yanks beat Giants 13-1 S10091958 Yanks beat Braves 4 games to 3 in the world series S10091961 Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive inning S10091961Cworld series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1 S10091962 Uganda gains independence from Britain (National Day). S10091967 Che Guevara executed in Bolivia. S10091975 Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize S10091975 Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits SF S10091976 Yanks 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1 S10091977 Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 5, but returned after failing to dock S10091977 Yanks beat Royals for pennant #31 S10091984 Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st American woman to walk in space S10091986 Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E. Claiborne making him the S10091986C5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment. S1010 Feast of St. Francis Borgia, Confessor (A.D. 1572) S1010 National Day in Taiwan S1010 2Canadian Thanksgiving - Columbus Day - Discoverer's Day in Hawaii S10101845 US Naval academy opens at Annapolis, Maryland S10101846 Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell S10101886 1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY (the tuxedo) S10101904 Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader S10101904C41 game winner Chesbro loses the 1st game & chance at pennent S10101911 China Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew Manchu dynasty S10101913 Pacific & Atl mix as engineers blow Gamboa Dam, opening Panama Canal S10101920 Bill Wambsganns unassisted world series triple play S10101933 1st synthetic detergent for home use marketed S10101935 George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess opens in NY S10101937 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 1 in the world series S10101938 Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. S10101943 Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China. S10101951 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in the world series S10101956 On Skowron's grand slammer Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7 S10101957 Braves Lew Burdette beats Yankees 3 times in 1 world series S10101957 Pres Eisenhower apologized to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli S10101957CGbdemah, after he was refused service in a Dover, Del., restaurant. S10101960 Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards. S10101963 treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US, UK, USSR. S10101964 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo. S10101970 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day). S10101973 VP Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns. S10101973 Vice-Pres. Agnew resigns after conviction for income-tax evasion. S10101975 Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt S10101976 NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens S10101978 Pres Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar. S10101978 Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series # 75 S10101980 4,500 people die when a pair of earthquakes struck NW Algeria S10101980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated S10101980 Yanks lost 4-2 & are swept by Royals in the AL Championship series S10101985 US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian S10101985Cship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen were placed in custody S1011 Feast of the Motherhood of Mary. S1011 Feast of St. Mary Soledad, Foundress of Handmaidens of Mary S1011 General Pulaski Memorial Day (anniversary of his death in 1779). S1011 2Canadian Thanksgiving - Columbus Day - Discoverer's Day in Hawaii S10111797 British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, the Netherlands. S10111811 The Juliana, the 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation. S10111864 slavery abolished in Maryland. S10111890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded S10111927 Lou Gehrig elected MVP S10111943 Yanks beat Cards 4 games to 1 in the world series S10111958 Pioneer 1 launched; 1st spacecraft launched by NASA S10111962 21st Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican II, opens in Rome. S10111962 Pope John XXIII convenes Vatican II Council. S10111968 Apollo 7 launched, 1st of manned Apollo mission S10111968 Billy Martin named manager of Twins S10111969 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next two days. S10111975 Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick S10111975 Saturday Night Live premiers S10111977 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth S10111980 Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days S10111981 Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 & win only Eastern Championship Series S10111984 Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st American woman to walk in space. S10111987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington. S1012 Feast of St. Wilfrid, Bishop of York (A.D. 709) S1012 Man O'War's last race, 1920 S1012 Spanish National Day. S1012 2Canadian Thanksgiving - Columbus Day - Discoverer's Day in Hawaii S10121492 Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day. S10121860 British & French troops capture Peking. S10121891 Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated. S10121923 NY Giant's Casey Stengel Hr beats Yanks 1-0 in the World Series S10121929 Cubs blow 8-0 world series lead A's score 10 in 1 inning S10121933 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially) S10121933 John Dillinger escapes from the Allen County, OH, jail. S10121948 Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager S10121949 Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US S10121957 1st coml flight between Cal & Antartica S10121960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session. S10121962 US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology S10121963 Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel S10121963 At 4 AM, traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck S10121964 USSR launches 1st 3-man crew into space S10121967 Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 world series S10121968 Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain. S10121969 Soyuz 7 is launched S10121972 Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot S10121972 Mariner 9 took pictures of Martian north pole S10121973 Gerald Ford named as Spiro Agnew's successor to vice presidency S10121977 'Throwaway Game' Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers S10121977 4th test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise S10121985 Int'l Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize. S1013 Feast of St. Edward the Confessor, English king (1042-66). S1013 2Canadian Thanksgiving - Columbus Day - Discoverer's Day in Hawaii S1013 6Friday the 13th! Beware! S10131775 Continental Congress establishes a navy S10131792 Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House) S10131812 Battle of Queenstown Heights. S10131843 B'nai B'rith founded in NY. S10131845 Texas ratifies a state constitution. S10131943 Italy declares war on former ally Germany. S10131947 Kukla, Fran & Ollie premiers S10131953 Burglar alarm - ultrasonic or radio waves - patented - Samuel Bagno S10131960 Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats Yanks 10-9 in S10131960Cgame 7 of World Series S10131964 Voshkod 1 crew returns S10131969 Soyuz 8 is launched S10131971 1st World Series night game (Pitts 4 - Balt 3) S10131978 Graig Nettles at 3rd makes spectactular play after spectacular play S10131978CGuidry beats Dodgers after trailing 2 games to 0 Yanks win next 4 S10131982 NJ Devils 1st short handed gaol - Don Lever S10131982 Intl Olympic Comm restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to S10131982CJim Thorpe. Medals taken away because he played baseball for pay S10131984 Blackhawk Bill Gardner scored on 10th penalty shot against Islanders S10131984 John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million. S10131985 13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 is launched S10131987 1st military use of trained dolphins, by US Navy in Persian Gulf. S1014 Battle of Hastings won by Normans & William the Conqueror (1066) S1014 Feast of St. Callistus I, pope (217-222), martyr. S1014 People's Dem Rep of Yemen (South Yemen) National Day. S1014 2Canadian Thanksgiving - Columbus Day - Discoverer's Day in Hawaii S10141066 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England S10141586 Mary, Qn of Scots conspiracy trial against Qn Elizabeth I begins S10141774 1st declaration of colonial rights in America S10141843 British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy. S10141884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film S10141905 Giant's Christy Mathewson's 3rd straight world series shutout S10141912 Theodore Roosevelt is shot in the chest in Milwaukee while S10141912Ccampaigning for President with the Bull Moose Party. S10141922 1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC S10141944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face S10141944Ctrial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Hitler. S10141945 Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak, beat Bears. S10141947 Chuck Yeager 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015 at 12,800 m). S10141949 14 US Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition. S10141965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km. S10141976 Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homers gives Yanks pennant #30 S10141976 Soyuz 23 launched to Salyut 6, but return without docking S10141978 1st TV movie from a TV series - Rescue from Gilligan's Island S10141978 Despite Denis Potvin hat trick in 3:21 Islanders lose 7-10 S10141978Cmaking Islander record when scoring a hat trick - 22-2-1 S10141982 Islanders assessed 108 penality minutes Penguins 125 (233 total) S1015 Feast of St. Teresa of Avila, 1st woman doctor of the church. S1015 Mushroom Day S1015 National Grouch Day S1015 White Cane Safety Day. S1015 World Poetry Day. S10151582 Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar cut 10 prior days. S10151783 Jean Pilâtre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent. S10151860 Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard. S10151863 Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on the site). S10151885 Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of the season S10151914 ASCAP founded (American Soc of Composers, Authers & Publishers) S10151917 Mata Hari executed by firing squad outside of Paris. S10151923 Yanks win 1st world shampionship Beating the Giants S10151939 LaGuardia Airport opened in NYC S10151946 Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in the World Series S10151946 Nazi Hermann Goering poisons himself in prison. S10151951 I Love Lucy premiers S10151959 Untouchables premier S10151964 Kosygin & Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev S10151969 Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated S10151981 Yanks defeat A's 4-0 & win 33 pennant S1016 Feast of St. Margaret, St. Hedwig, St. Mary Alacoque S1016 World Food Day. S10161775 Portland, Maine burned by British. S10161781 Washington takes Yorktown S10161793 Marie Antoinette beheaded in France. S10161846 Dentist William T. Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether S10161849 British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras. S10161859 John Brown leads group of 20 in a raid on Harper's Ferry, Va. S10161861 Confederacy starts selling postage stamps S10161869 Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing S10161916 Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (Bkln) S10161921 Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from S10161921CFrank Coughlin -- only mid-game coaching change in NFL history. S10161923 Disney Co founded S10161941 Gordo (by Gus Arriola) 1st appeared in newspapers S10161943 Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens the city's new subway system. S10161946 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials. S10161952 Woolworth's at Powell & Market (S.F.) opens. S10161957 Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip arrive in Virginia S10161962 Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba S10161962 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 3 in the world series S10161964 Brezhnev & Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia S10161964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power S10161969 Soyuz 6 returns to Earth S10161970 Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser S10161971 Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in S.F. S10161973 Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize S10161976 Soyuz 23 returns to Earth S10161978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II. S10161982 Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins S10161982 Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return S10161982 Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel S10161984 Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu named Nobel Peace Prize winner S10161985 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip. S10161986 Armand Hammer arrives back in US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb S10161987 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England. S10161987 18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued 58 hours after she fell S10161987C22 feet into a well shaft in Midland, TX. S1017 Feast of St. Ignatius of Antioch S1017 Feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin. S1017 St. Ethelred's Day (Anglican). S10171492 Columbus sights the isle of San Salvador S10171691 new royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth. S10171777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, NY S10171781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown S10171793 Marie Antoinette executed. S10171850 Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized S10171894 Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man. S10171899 Sutro railroad sold to Robert F. Morrow for $215,000. S10171904 Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors. S10171919 RCA created. S10171931 Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison S10171933 Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany. S10171941 1st American destroyer torpedoed in WW2, the Kearny off Iceland S10171945 Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina. S10171957 Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visits White House. S10171957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature. S10171962 Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship S10171964 Yanks fire Manager Yogi Berra S10171967 Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km. S10171969 Soyuz 7 returns to Earth S10171972 1st time Islanders shut-out - 5-0 vs Penguins S10171973 The Arab oil embargo begins. It will last until March, 1974. S10171977 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament. S10171977 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia S10171977Cfree all 86 hostages aboard & killing three of the four hijackers. S10171978 Islanders start 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8) S10171978 Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year S10171979 Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize S10171985 Lou Pinella named Yankee manager S10171986 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal S10171986Caliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982. S10171987 1st World Series game in a covered stadium (Minnesota Metrodome). S1018 Feast of St. Luke Evangelist S1018 Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion. S1018 Start of the Moslem New Year S10181685 Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism. S10181767 Boundary between Md & Pa, the Mason Dixon line, agreed upon. S10181847 English astronomer J.K Hind discovers Flor, his second asteroid S10181867 US took formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million) S10181873 Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football S10181892 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY). S10181898 American flag raised in Puerto Rico S10181917 Mata Hari was shot as a spy by French firing squad S10181922 British Broadcasting Corporation established S10181944 Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia during World War II. S10181950 Connie Mack, announced retirement as manager of the Phila Athletics S10181953 Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times. S10181962 Dr. Watson of US & Drs. Crick & Wilkins of Britain win Nobel Prize S10181962Cfor Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA S10181967 Soviet Venera 4 becomes the 1st probe to send data back from Venus S10181967 Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released S10181968 Robert Beaman of US broad jumps a record 8.90 m. S10181968 US Olympic Committee suspended Tommie Smith & John Carlos, for S10181968Cgiving `black power' salute as a protest during victory ceremony S10181969 Federal govt bans use of artificial sweeteners known as cyclamates S10181969 Soyuz 8 returns to Earth S10181977 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th S10181977 Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record S10181977 Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years S1019 Feast of St. Peter of Alcantara, confessor. S1019 Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion. S1019 Feast of N Am Martyrs SS. J de Brebeuf, I Jogues, A Daniel, S1019 CG Lalemand, C Garnier, N Chabanel, R Goupil & J Laliande, canonized S1019 C1930 & Feast of St. Peter of Alcantra, Confessor S10191781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 p.m.; the fighting is over. S10191812 Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow. S10191845 Wagner's opera Tannhäuser performed for 1st time. S10191853 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations S10191859 Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope. S10191872 world's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales. S10191879 Thomas A. Edison successfully demenstrates the electric light S10191936 H.R. Ekins of the "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters S10191936Cin a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18 1/2 days. S10191949 Yanks trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds S10191953 1st jet transcontinental non-stop scheduled service S10191953 Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on television by Arthur Godfrey. S10191960 The US imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba. S10191963 Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand" S10191967 Mariner 5 flew by Venus S10191968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars S10191987 "Black Monday" - Dow Jones down 508.32 points worst day on Wall St S10191987 Billy Martin hired as manager of N.Y. Yankees for 5th time. S10191987 Dow-Jones loses 508.32 points, more than 4½ times previous record. S1020 Feast of St. John Cantius, Confessor & St. Bertilla Boscardin S1020 Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion. S10201600 Battle of Sekigahara establishes Tokugawa clan as rulers of Japan S10201600C(shoguns) until 1865 (basis of Clavell's novel). S10201740 Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia S10201803 Senate ratifies La Purchase. S10201813 Kingdom of Westphalia abolished. S10201818 US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country. S10201820 Spain sells (east) Florida to US for $5 million. S10201903 US wins disputed boundary between the District of Alaska & Canada. S10201906 Dr Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube S10201929 Bayshore Highway opens (SF). S10201944 During WWII, MacArthur goes to Phillipines saying `I have returned' S10201946 Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs. N.Y. Giants. S10201947 The House Un-American Activities Committee opens hearings into S10201947Calleged Communist influence in the Hollywood movie industry. S10201960 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI S10201960 Ralph Houk replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager S10201968 Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis. S10201973 Sat Night Massacre, Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox dismissed by S10201973CSolicitor Gen Bork. AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned S10201979 John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston. S10201982 Billy Martin fired as manager of the Oakland A's S10201984 Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick - 4 goals S10201987 Bernhard Goetz sentenced to six months in jail S1021 Feast of St. Hilarion, an ascetic & lover of solitude & penance S1021 Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion. S1021 Somali National Day. S10211797 US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston S10211805 Battle of Trafalgar Adm Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet S10211868 Severe earthquake at 7:53 a.m., centered in Hayward, Calif. S10211869 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore S10211879 Thomas Edison perfects the light bulb. S10211897 Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated. S10211918 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min. S10211923 Deutsches Museum, Munich, 1st Walther Bauersfeld's Zeiss Planetarium. S10211944 During WWII, US troops captured Aachen, 1st large German city to fall S10211945 Women in France allowed to vote for the 1st time S10211948 Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated, Washington DC S10211959 Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in NY S10211960 JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final pres debate S10211967 Thousands opposing Vietnam War tried to storm the Pentagon S10211971 Nixon nominates Lewis F. Powell & William H. Rehnquist to US Supreme S10211971CCourt, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan S10211974 1st Islander shut-out opponent - Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps S10211975 Venera 9, 1st craft to orbit the planet Venus launched S10211976 Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature S10211977 US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa S10211984 Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2 h 8 m 5 s. S1022 Feast of SS. Philip, Bishop of Heraclea, & his companions, martyrs S1022 Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion. S1022 Vatican City National Day. S10224004 B.C. Universe created at 8:00 PM, according to the 1650 S10224004Cpronouncement of Anglican archbishop James Ussher. S10221746 Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter. S10221797 André-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute jump from balloon (Paris) S10221836 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas S10221883 Original Metropolitan Opera House in NY held its grand opening S10221928 Pres Hoover spoke of `American system of rugged individualism.' S10221934 Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd shot dead by FBI in Ohio. S10221936 1st coml flight from mainland to Hawaii. S10221936 Apollo 7 crew returns S10221939 1st TV NFL game - Eagles vs Dodgers S10221953 Laos gains full independence from France. S10221954 West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization. S10221962 JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis. S10221962 Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center. S10221968 Apollo 7 returns to Earth S10221973 Security Council Resol 338 - a cease fire to the Yom Kippur War S10221974 Yanks trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds S10221975 Cincinnati Reds win 1st World Series in 35 years S10221975 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 lands on Venus S10221979 Deposed Shah of Iran arrived in NY for medical treatment S10221979 WDW's 100-millionth guest S10221981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified S10221981 US national debt tops $1 trillion S1023 Feast of St. John of Capistrano (A.D. 1456) S1023 Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion. S1023 St. James of Jerusalem Day (Orthodox, Anglican). S1023 Swallows leave San Juan Capistrano. S1023 United States Day S10231679 Meal Tub Plot against James II of England. S10231790 Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed). S10231864 Union Gen. Samuel R. Curtis defeats Conf Gen. Stirling Price S10231910 Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight S10231915 25,000 women marched in NYC, demanding the right to vote S10231941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" is released S10231942 During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt S10231946 UN Gen Assembly convenes in NY for 1st time in Flushing Meadow. S10231956 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast S10231956 Revolt against Stalinist policies began in Hungary S10231958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature S10231973 President Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings S10231975 Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent - Flyers 3-0 S10231977 By 2/3 majority, Panamanians vote to approve the new Canal treaties S10231980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness. S10231983 241 US Marines & sailors die in a terrorist suicide attack in Beriut S1024 Feast of St. Raphael the Archangel & Feast of St. Anthony Claret S1024 UN Day. S10241795 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia. S10241836 the match is patented. S10241846 Ariel & Umbriel, moons of Uranus, discovered by Lassell S10241851 William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Unranus. S10241861 1st transcontinental telegram sent S10241871 mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese. S10241901 Anna Taylor, 1st to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel & live S10241929 "Black Thursday," the beginning of the stock market crash. S10241945 United Nations Charter goes into effect S10241951 UN publishes its 1st postage stamps S10241960 Disaster on USSR launch pad killed missle expert Nedelin & team S10241960C(unconfirmed); USSR claims he was killed in plane crash S10241964 Zambia (N. Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day). S10241970 Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show S10241970 Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile. S10241973 Yom Kippur War ends - Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus S10241974 Billy Martin named A.L. Manager of the Year (Texas Rangers) S10241976 1st Jewish film & TV festival S10241979 Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman S10241984 Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after failed S10241987 Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate S10241987 NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike S1025 Feast of Christ the King & Feast of St. Gaudentius bishop of Brescia S1025 Feast of SS. Chrysanthus & Daria, martyrs. S1025 St. Crispin's Day (Anglican). S10251415 Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight S10251671 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn. S10251675 Iapetus, moon of Saturn, Discovered by Giovanni Cassini S10251760 George III ascends the British throne. S10251825 Erie Canal opens for business in NY S10251854 The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War) S10251903 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin. S10251930 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began S10251960 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC S10251962 Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missle bases S10251962Csaying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over." S10251971 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World S10251971 UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan. S10251975 USSR Venera 10 made day Venus landing S10251983 US invades Grenada, a country 1/2000 its population. S10251984 Rangers beat Devils 11-2 S1026 Austrian National Day. S1026 Feast of St. Demetrios the Martyr (Orthodox). S1026 Feast of St. Evaristus, 5th pope (c. 97-c. 107), martyr. S10261774 1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia. S10261825 Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened S10261861 Telegraph service inaugurated in US (end of Pony Express) S10261863 Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game. S10261881 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Az S10261903 Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross SF Bay. S10261941 US Savings Bonds go on sale S10261949 Pres Truman increases minimum wage - from 40 cents to 75 cents. S10261956 International Atomic Energy Agency established S10261957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting S10261958 PanAm flies the 1st transAtlantic jet trip - NY to Paris. S10261968 Soyuz 3 is launched S10261970 "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers. S10261971 UN votes to replace Taiwan with China S10261972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin S10261976 according to South Africa, Transkei gains independence. Not S10261976Crecognized as an independent country outside of South Africa. S10261977 Fifth & Final test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise S10261979 S Korean Pres Park Chung-hee is assassinated. S10261979 St. Vincent & the Grenadines gains independence from Britain. S10261984 "Baby Fae" gets a baboon heart in an experimental transplant in S10261984CLoma Linda, CA. She will live for 21 days with the animal heart. S10261987 head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm. assassinated by death squads. S1027 Feast of St. Frumentius, bishop & founder of Ethiopian church S10271553 Michael Servetus burned at the stake for heresy in Geneva, Switz. S10271787 Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers. S10271795 Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi S10271810 US annexes West Florida from Spain. S10271858 RH Macy & Co opens 1st store, NYC Gross receipts $1106 S10271871 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, S10271871Carrested after NY Times exposed his corruption S10271880 Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee, on his 22nd birthday. S10271896 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!) S10271904 NY opens 1st section of its subway system. S10271938 DuPont announces that its new synthetic fiber will be called 'nylon' S10271947 "You Bet Your Life", with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio. S10271954 Walt Disney's 1st TV show, Disneyland, premiers on ABC. S10271961 1st Saturn Made a unmanned flight test S10271969 St. Vincent & the Grenadines gains associated status with Britain S10271971 Rep of Congo becomes Zaire. S10271972 Golden Gate Natl Recreation Area created S10271973 1st time Islanders beat the Rangers - 3-2 S10271978 Begin & Sadat with the Nobel Peace prize S10271979 Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds S10271980 Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph. S1028 Eli Whitney gets a patent for the Cotton Gin S1028 Feast of SS. Simon & Jude Apostles S10281492 Columbus discovers Cuba S10281636 Harvard College, 1st US college founded. S10281776 Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ S10281790 NY gives up claims to Vermont in exchange for $30,000. S10281793 Eli Whitney applies for patent for the cotton gin. S10281886 Pres Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty. S10281904 St Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints S10281918 Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austria. S10281919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, starting Prohibition S10281922 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game. S10281922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government. S10281929 1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl S10281946 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR S10281948 Flag of Israel is adopted S10281953 Bud Grant of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record). S10281962 Krushchev orders withdrawal of Cuban missiles S10281965 Gateway Arch (190 meters high) completed in St. Louis, Missouri. S10281965 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion. S10281965 The Gateway Arch (630 feet high) completed in St Louis, Missouri S10281970 US/USSR signed an agreement to discuss joint space efforts S10281971 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit. S10281973 Elmore Smith of the Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record). S10281974 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game - MacMillian & Westfall S10281976 Billy Martin named A.L. Manager of the Year (NY Yankees) S10281977 TV's Rhoda gets married S10281979 Dick Howser (Best Yank mngr win-lost pct 636) replaces Billy Martin S1029 Feast of St. Theuderius, or Chef, Abbot (c. A.D. 575) S1029 Republic Day, celebrated in Turkey S1029 539 BC Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia. S10291618 Sir Walter Raleigh is executed in London. S10291682 Pennsylvania granted to William Penn by King Charles II. S10291727 Severe earthquake in New England. S10291811 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans. S10291833 1st College Fraternity founded S10291863 Intl Comm. of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963). S10291894 1st election of the Hawaiian Republic S10291901 Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is executed. S10291920 Edward Barrow named Yankee general manager S10291923 Turkey proclaimed a republic (National Day). S10291929 "Black Tuesday," the Stock Market crash. S10291939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure) S10291956 Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open Straits of Tiran S10291956 Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up S10291964 Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY. S10291979 Billy Martin fired as Yankee Manager (2nd time) S10291982 John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, will be acquitted. S1030 Feast of St. Alphonsus S10301270 8th & last crusade is launched. S10301775 US Navy founded S10301864 Helena, Montana's capital, founded. S10301905 Tsar Nicholas II grants Russia a constitution. S10301922 Mussolini forms cabinet in Italy S10301938 Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of War of the Worlds. S10301941 US Navy destroyer Reuben James torpedoed by Germany S10301945 US govt announces end of shoe rationing. S10301953 Dr. Albert Schweitzer received Nobel Peace Prize for 1952. S10301953 Gen. George C. Marshall awarded Nobel Peace Prize. S10301961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution S10301961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb S10301961Cremoving Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square. S10301967 USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch S10301972 Worst US rail accident in 14 years occurred S10301974 Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa, Zaire S10301975 NY Daily News ran headline `Ford to City: Drop Dead' S10301978 Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701 - 1. S10301985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 9 is launched S10301985 space shuttle Challenger carries 8 crewmen (2 Germans, 1 Dutch). S1031 All Hallows Eve (you know, Halloween) S1031 National UNICEF Day. S1031 Reformation Day S1031 Vigil of All Saints, Feast of St. Wolfgang, Benedictine bishop S10311517 Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses, begins Protestant Reformation S10311793 Execution of the Girondins at Paris, during the Reign of Terror. S10311864 Nevada admitted as 36th state. S10311922 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy. S10311952 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated - Marshall Islands S10311956 1st American to land by air at South Pole - GJ Dufek S10311956 Bkln, NY ends streetcar service S10311959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US S10311968 President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam. S10311980 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m).