*mmddyyyy Birthdays *-------- ------------------------------------------------------------ B09011791 Lydia Sigourney, American religious author (How to Be Happy) B09011854 Engelbert Humperdinck German opera composer B09011866 James `Gentleman Jim' Corbett Prize fighter B09011875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist (Tarzan) B09011904 Ray Flaherty, AFL, NFL, AAFC coach B09011907 Walter Reuther, labor leader, president of UAW & CIO B09011922 Melvin Laird (R-Rep), sec of defense B09011922 Vittorio Gassman actor B09011922 Yvonne De Carlo, (Ten Commandments) in Vancouver BC B09011923 Rocky Marciano Boxer B09011933 Conway Twitty, country singer B09011935 Seiji Ozawa Japanese orchestra conductor B09011939 Lily Tomlin, Detroit (9 to 5, All of Me) B09011946 Barry Gibb, singer B090119?? Gloria Estefan (Miami Sound Machine) B09021838 Queen Liliuokalani, last queen of Hawaii (1891-93) B09021839 Henry George, land reformer, writer (Progress & Poverty) B09021853 Wilhelm Ostwald, German physical chemist (Nobel 1909) B09021866 Hiram Johnson, Calif governor, Progressive B09021918 Allan Drury, author B09021918 Martha Mitchell, wife of Attorney General B09021937 Peter Ueberroth, baseball commissioner B09021948 Terry Bradshaw, NFL quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers) B09021951 Mark Harmon B09021952 Jimmy Connors, tennis brat B09021955 Linda Purl B09031596 Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker B09031803 Prudence Crandall, founder of school for "young ladies of colour." B09031849 Sarah Orne Jewett, author B09031856 Louis Sullivan, father of modern US architecture B09031860 Edward A. Filene, merchant, established US credit union movement B09031907 Andrew Brewin, Canadian lawyer, cofounder of New Democratic Party B09031913 Alan Ladd B09031915 Kitty Carlisle-Hart, game show panelist B09031926 Anne Jackson in Penn B09031935 Eileen Brennan in LA B09031943 Valerie Perrine in Galveston Tx, (Lenny, Slaughterhouse 5) B09031965 Charlie Sheen B09041768 François René de Chateaubriand, French poet, novelist, statesman B09041802 Marcus Whitman, missionary B09041803 Sarah Childress Polk, 1st lady B09041810 Donald McKay, US naval architect, builder of fastest clipper ships B09041824 Anton Bruckner in Austria, Wagner disciple B09041846 Daniel Burnham, American architect, built skyscrapers B09041872 Darius Milhaud, composer B09041901 Paul Osborn, playwright B09041908 Richard Wright, American author (Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children) B09041917 Henry Ford II, businessman B09041918 Paul Harvey Radio news commentator B09041919 Howard Morris B09041920 Craig Claiborne, food columnist, NY Times B09041926 Rep Robert J Lagomarsino, R-Calif B09041929 Thomas Eagleton (D-Sen-Mo) B09041931 Mitzi Gaynor in Chicago Ill B09041949 Tom Watson, Golfer B09041951 Judith Ivey B09041972 Danny Ponce B09051187 Louis VIII (Coeur-de-Lion), king of France (1223-26) B09051638 Louis XIV (Sun King), king of France (1643-1715) B09051735 Johann Christian Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach (English Bach) B09051847 Jesse James in Missouri, outlaw B09051902 Darryl F Zanuck, Hollywood producer & motion picture executive B09051905 Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born writer (Darkness at Noon) B09051912 John Cage, composer (Silence) B09051923 Arthur C. Nielsen, market researcher (or 1897) B09051927 Paul Volcker, Federal Reserve chairman B09051929 Andrian G. Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 3, Soyuz 9) B09051929 Bob Newhart, comedian, actor B09051934 Carol Lawrence in Illinois, dancer & actress B09051937 William Devane B09051940 Raquel Welch in Chicago Ill (Myra Breckenridge, 100 Rifles) B09061757 Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary B09061766 John Dalton, chemist, developed atomic theory of matter B09061805 Horatio Greenough, American neoclassical sculptor, writer B09061811 James Melville Gilliss, founded Naval Observatory in Washington B09061814 Sir George Cartier (C), Canadian co-prmie minister (1858-62) B09061860 Jane Addams, American pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel 1931) B09061888 Joseph P. Kennedy Financier-diplomat B09061899 Billy Rose Theatrical producer B09061937 Jo Anne Worley Lowell Indiana, (Laugh-in) B09061944 Linda Kaye Henning in Cal (Petticoat Junction) B09061944 Swoosie Kurtz B09061947 Jane Curtin in Cambridge Mass (SNL, Kate & Allie B09071533 Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603), daughter of Henry VIII B09071548 Catherine Parr, 6th & last wife of Henry VIII B09071707 George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, writer on natural history B09071726 François-André Philidor of France, chess champion & musician B09071829 August Kekule von Stradonitz, discovered structure of benzene ring B09071836 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Liberal), British P.M. (1905-08) B09071860 Grandma Moses, American primitive painter B09071908 Dr. Michael E. De Bakey, artificial heart pioneer B09071908 Paul Brown, coach of Cleveland Browns (1946-62), Cincinnati B09071909 Elia Kazan B09071913 Anthony Quayle, actor (Anne of 1000 Days, Lawrence of Arabia) B09071914 James Van Allen, discovered radiation belts B09071923 Peter Lawford, actor (Mrs. Miniver, Little Women) B09071924 Daniel Inouye (D-Hi.), US senator, chair of Iran-Contra hearings B09071930 Baudouin I, king of Belgium (1951- ) B09071930 Sonny Rollins, saxophonist B09071936 Buddy Holly, singer (Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day) B09071942 Richard Roundtree, actor (Shaft, Earthquake) B09071950 Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders) B09071951 Judy Kavner in LA B09071953 Linda Kaye Miller B09071954 Corbin Bernsen (LA Law) B09081157 King Richard I of England B09081830 Frédéric Mistral, Provençal poet (Nobel 1904) B09081841 Antonˇn Dvorák in Nelahozeves, Czech, composer (New World Symphony) B09081889 Robert A. Taft (sen) B09081900 Claude D. Pepper (D-Fla.), US congressman B09081914 Hillary Brooke - Abbott & Costello's neighbor B09081922 Sid Caesar comedian B09081925 Denise Darcel in Paris France B09081925 Peter Sellers, (not now, Kato) B09081937 Virna Lisi, actress B09081938 Sam Nunn (D-Ga-Sen) B09081940 Frankie Avalon, (Beach movies) B09081957 Heather Thomas in Greenwich Ct B09091585 Cardinal de Richelieu, chief minister to Louis XIII of France B09091754 William Bligh, nasty ship's captain B09091789 William Cranch Bond, American astronomer, codiscover of Hyperion B09091850 Harishchandra, Indian poet, dramatist, father of modern Hindi B09091853 Frederick R. Spofforth, Australian cricketer (Demon) B09091868 Mary Austin, feminist, nature writer B09091887 Alfred Landon, (R) pres candidate (1932) B09091919 Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, lay you 5 to 1 B09091925 Cliff Robertson, actor (Charly) B09091932 Sylvia Miles in NYC, actress (Midnight Cowboy, Farewell My Lovely) B09091946 Billy Preston, singer B09091949 Joe Theismann, NFL QB (Redskins) B09091951 Tom Wopat B09091952 Angela Cartwright in England (Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space) B09091952 Dave Stewart Rocker B09091969 Scott DeFreitas (As The World Turns) B09101487 Julius III, Counter-Reformation pope (1550-55) B09101736 Carter Braxton, signed Decl of Ind B09101839 Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (Funk & Wagnalls) B09101872 Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Indian cricketer, politician B09101890 Franz Werfel, Austrian author (40 Days of Musa Dagh) B09101907 Fay Wray in Alberta Canada - King Kong's main squeeze B09101914 Robert Wise Movie director B09101915 Edmond O'Brien, actor (Birdman of Alcatraz) B09101927 Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer B09101929 Arnold Palmer, golfer B09101933 Yevgeni V. Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 5) B09101934 Charles Kuralt, "On the road" for CBS B09101934 Roger Maris, Yankee outfielder, HR champ (61 in 1961) B09101939 Greg Mullavey, Actor B09101945 José Feliciano, singer B09101948 Judy Geeson in England B09101948 Margaret Trudeau in Vancouver - Former Canadian 1st lady B09101953 Amy Irving in Palo Alto Cal B09111862 O. Henry, pen name of William Sidney Porter, short story writer B09111885 D.H. Lawrence in Eastwood, Eng, (Lady Chatterly's Lover) B09111909 Anne Seymour in England, actress B09111909 William Natcher, (D-Ky-Rep) B09111913 Bear Bryant, keeps Crimson Tide winning B09111917 Ferdinand Marcos Former Philippines Pres B09111922 Charles Evers, civil rights leader B09111923 Betsy Drake, physical fitness expert B09111924 Daniel Kahikina Akaka (D-Hawaii-Rep) B09111924 Tom Landry, NFL player (NY Giants), coach (Dallas Cowboys) B09111928 Earl Holliman (Police Woman) B09111928 Reubin Askew, (Gov-Fla) B09111932 Herbert (Sonny) Leon Callahan, (R-Ala-Rep) B09111932 Robert Packwood, (R-Ore-Sen) B09111935 Gherman Titov, 1st man to spend a day in space (Vostok 2) B09111937 Robert L. Crippen, astronaut (STS-1, 7, 41C, 41G) B09111940 Brian De Palma director (Dressed to Kill) B09111946 Lola Falona in Phila, Singer/dancer B09111962 Elizabeth Daily B09111962 Kristy McNichol, actress, LA (Family) B09121818 Richard Jordan Gatling, US inventor of hand-cranked machine gun B09121829 Charles Dudley Warner, US newspaperman, author B09121852 H.H. Asquith (Liberal), British prime minister (1908-16) B09121880 Henry L. Mencken, newspaperman, critic, Baltimore's son B09121888 Maurice Chevalier, thanked heaven for little girls (Gigi) B09121892 Alfred A. Knopf, US publisher B09121902 Margaret Hamilton, wicked witch of the west B09121913 Jesse Owens, spoiled Hitler's 1936 Olympics B09121920 Irene Daily ( Another World) B09121921 Amˇlcar Cabral, worked for independence of Portuguese Africa B09121921 Stanislaw Lem, Polish science-fiction writer B09121924 Howard Curtis Nelson, (R-Ut-Rep) B09121931 George Jones Country singer B09121940 Linda Gray in Santa Monica B09121940 Stephen J. Solarz (D-NY-Rep) B09121943 Maria Muldaur in Greenwich Village (Midnight at the Oasis) B09121944 Barry White, singer B09131755 Oliver Evans, pioneered high-pressure steam engine B09131819 Clara Wieck Schumann, German pianist, composer B09131851 Walter Reed, who proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever B09131857 Milton S. Hershey, US chocolate manufacturer, philanthropist B09131860 Gen. John J. (Blackjack) Pershing, US commander in World War I B09131863 Arthur Henderson, British socialist, disarmament worker (Nobel '34) B09131874 Arnold Schoenberg, composer B09131876 Sherwood Anderson, American author, publisher (Winesburg, Ohio) B09131925 Mel Tormé, singer (Velvet Fog) B09131933 Eileen Fulton B09131934 Barbara Bain in Chicago Ill - Mission Impossible B09131937 Fred Silverman, broadcasting executive (NBC) B09131938 Judith Martin, Miss Manners B09131941 Oscar Arias Sánchez, president of Costa Rica (1986- ) (Nobel 1987) B09131946 Jacqueline Bisset in England, actress (Deep) B09131948 Nell Carter B09131952 Karen Wyman in Bronx NY B09141849 Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, pioneer in psychology B09141864 Lord Cecil of Chelwood, helped form League of Nations (Nobel 1937) B09141867 Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew "Gibson Girl" B09141879 Margaret Sanger, feminist, nurse, birth control proponent B09141899 Hal Wallis, movie producer B09141905 Clayton Moore, (Lone Ranger) B09141913 Jacobo Arbenz, president of Guatemala (1951-54); overthrown by CIA B09141920 Kay Medford in NY B09141928 Albert Shanker, American labor leader B09141933 Zoe Caldwell B09141934 Kate Millett, writer, feminist (Sexual Politics) B09141938 Nicol Williamson B09141940 Merlin Olsen, NFL defensive tackle (Rams), sportscaster, actor B09141944 Joey Heatherton in Rockville Center NY B09151789 James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major American novelist (Prairie) B09151830 Porfirio Dˇaz, soldier, president of Mexico (1877-1911) B09151857 William Howard Taft (R), 27th pres (1909-13), chief justice in Cin B09151876 Bruno Walter, conductor B09151881 Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, car builder B09151890 Dame Agatha Christie, mystery writer (Murder on the Orient Express) B09151894 Jean Renoir, cineaste (Grand Illusion) B09151899 Milton Eisenhower, Dwight's brother B09151903 Roy Acuff, country & western singer B09151904 Umberto II, king of Italy (1946) B09151906 Kathryn Murray in New Jersey B09151908 Penny Singleton B09151913 John Mitchell, attorney general who went to jail B09151914 Creighton Abrams, Army general B09151922 Jackie Cooper, actor B09151924 Bobby Short, singer, pianist B09151927 Norm Crosby Comedian B09151929 Murray Gell-Mann, physicist who predicted quarks B09151938 Gaylord Perry, baseball player B09151941 Miroslaw Hermaszewski, 1st Polish space traveler (Soyuz 30) B09151946 Tommy Lee Jones Actor B09151946 Oliver Stone Director B09151961 Dan Marino (Dolphin QB) B09151984 Prince Henry of Wales B09161387 Henry V, king of England (1413-22) B09161822 Charles S Crocker, of Southern Pacific fame B09161823 Francis Parkman, American historian, author (Oregon Trail) B09161838 James J Hill RR entrepreneur B09161858 A Bonar Law (C), British prime minister (1922-23) B09161877 James J Jeans, cosmologist & astrophysicist B09161887 Nadia Boulanger in Paris Music teacher B09161888 Frans Sillanpää, Finnish writer (Meek Heritage) (Nobel 1939) B09161893 Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian biochemist (Nobel 1937) B09161911 Wilfred Burchett, Australian Communist, journalist, writer B09161914 Allen Funt `Candid Camera' creator B09161922 Janis Paige in Tacoma Washington B09161924 Bess Myerson in NY, Miss America 1945 B09161924 Lauren Bacall in Staten Island (Dark Passage, Key Largo) B09161925 B.B. King, singer, musician B09161925 Charlie Byrd guitarist B09161926 Robert Schuller, televangelist B09161927 Peter Falk, actor (Colombo) B09161932 Anne Francis in Ossining NY B09161934 Elgin Baylor, NBA star B09161948 Rosemary Casals Tennis Player B09161949 Ed Begley Jr (St Elsewhere) B09161972 Shalane McCall B0917 879 Charles III (The Simple), king of France (893-923) B09171271 Wenceslas II, king of Bohemia & Poland (1278-1305) B09171730 Baron Frederick von Steuben, made Continental Army winners B09171743 Marquis de Condorcet, French Enlightenment philosopher B09171819 Thomas A Hendricks (D), 21st US vice-president; died in office B09171857 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket & space research B09171869 Christian Lange, Norwegian pacifist, internationalist (Nobel 1921) B09171907 Warren E Burger, ex-Supreme Court chief justice B09171921 Virgilio Barco Vargas, president of Colombia (1986-90) B09171923 Hank Williams, country singer (Cold, Cold Heart, Hey Good Lookin') B09171927 George Blanda, NFL quarterback, place kicker (Oakland Raiders) B09171928 Roddy McDowall, actor (Planet of the Apes) B09171930 Edgar Dean Mitchell, astronaut (Apollo 14) B09171930 Thomas P Stafford, astronaut (Gemini 6, 9, Apollo 10) B09171931 Anne Bancroft aka Mrs Mel Broks, Bronx (Graduate) B09171933 Dorothy Louden, actress B09171933 Pat Crowley, actress B09171948 John Ritter (3's Company) B09181709 Dr Samuel Johnson, Boswell's tour guide, writer B09181733 George Read, lawyer, signer of Declaration of Independence B09181752 Adrien-Marie Lagendre, mathematician, worked on elliptic integrals B09181779 Joseph Story, US Supreme Court justice B09181819 Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault; his pendulum proved earth rotates B09181895 John G Diefenbaker (P-C), 13th Canadian PM (1957-63) B09181905 Claudette Colbert in Paris France (Lily Chauchoin) B09181905 Eddie Anderson, actor B09181905 Greta Garbo in Stockholm (Ninotchka, Grand Hotel) B09181920 Jack Warden, actor (Verdict, Brian's Song) B09181930 Phyllis Kirk in NJ B09181932 Nikolai N Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 10, 16, 33) B09181933 Robert Blake, actor (Baretta) B09191655 Jan Luyts, Dutch scholar, physicist, mathematician, astronomer B09191737 Charles Carroll, signed Decl of Ind B09191901 Joseph Pasternak, film producer B09191907 Lewis F Powell, Jr, former US Supreme Court justice B09191911 William Golding, English novelist (Lord of the Flies) (Nobel 1983) B09191914 Rogers Morton, politician B09191919 Blanche Thebom, mezzo-soprano B09191926 Duke Snyder baseball player B09191926 Lurieen Wallace (D-Gov-Ala) B09191930 Rosemary Harris in England B09191933 David McCallum, actor (Ilya Kuryakin) B09191936 Al Oerter, US discus thrower B09191940 Paul Williams, singer, composer, actor B09191945 Freda Payne in Detroit Michigan - Sung about a Band of Gold B09191945 Jane Blalock LPGA Golfer B09191948 Jeremy Irons, English actor (French Lieutenant's Woman) B09191949 Twiggy (Leslie Hornby) in England, model, actress B0920 86 Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor B0920 357 Alexander III the Great, king of Macedonia, emperor B09201833 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian journalist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907) B09201878 Upton Sinclair, novelist (Jungle) B09201885 Ferdinand (Jelly Roll) Morton, jazz pianist, composer, singer B09201920 Alexander Thereat B09201924 James Galanos B09201927 Rachael Roberts B09201929 Anne Meara in NYC B09201934 Sophia Loren, Rome (Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid) B09201938 Tom Tresh NY Yankee B09201959 Allanah Currie (Thompson Twins') B09211452 Girolamo Savonarola, Florentine monk, preacher, reformer B09211756 John Loudon McAdam, created macadam road surface (asphalt) B09211788 Margaret Smith Taylor, 1st lady B09211866 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells in Bromley, Eng, (War of the Worlds) B09211874 Gustav Holst, composer (Planets) B09211884 Hugh (Shorty) Ray, supervisor of NFL officials B09211930 Dawn Addams in England B09211931 Larry Hagman, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas) B09211932 Melvin Van Peebles, American playwright B09211935 Henry Gibson, Laugh-in's poet B09211944 Fanny Flagg in Alabama - Candid Camera B09211947 Stephen King, suspense writer (Shining, Kujo) B09211950 Bill Murray - SNL's 1st replacement B09221694 Lord Chesterfield, introduced Gregorian calendar to Eng (1752) B09221791 Michael Faraday, discovered principle of electric motor B09221878 Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese PM (most of 1946-54) B09221885 Erich von Stroheim, early film director B09221902 John Houseman, actor (Paperchase, Ghost Story) B09221912 Alfred G Vanderbilt, sportsman B09221914 Martha Scott, actress B09221922 Chen Ning Yang, Chinese physicist, disproved parity (Nobel 1957) B09221927 Tom Lasorda, baseball manager (LA Dodgers) B09221940 Anna Karina B09221949 Harold Carmichael, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles) B09221954 Shari Belafonte-Harper in NY B09221956 Debby Boone in Hackensack NJ - had her life lit up B09221960 Joan Jett in Phila (Blackhearts) B09221960 Scott Baio (Joanie loves Chachi) B09221961 Catherine Oxenberg B0923 63 Octavian (Augustus Cćsar), 1st Roman emperor B0923 484 Euripides, ancient Greek playwright (Trojan Women) (or 480 BC) B09231583 Augustus B09231713 Ferdinand VI, king of Spain (1746-59) B09231800 William H McGuffey, educator (McGuffey Readers) B09231838 Victoria Chaflin Woodhull, American feminist, reformer B09231852 William Stewart Halsted, established 1st US surgical school B09231880 John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO (Nobel 1949) B09231889 Walter Lippmann, journalist, political writer B09231898 Walter Pidgeon, actor (Mrs Miniver, Madame Curie) B09231900 Louise Nevelson, sculptor B09231910 Elliot Roosevelt, son of FDR B09231920 Mickey Rooney, actor B09231926 John Coltrane, saxophonist B09231930 Ray Charles, Sings Georgia, entertainer B09231938 Romy Schneider in Vienna Austria B09231949 Bruce (Boss) Springsteen, rock musician (Born in the USA) B09241717 Horace Walpole, English writer B09241755 John Marshall Supreme Court Chief Justice, B09241870 Georges Claude, invented neon light B09241890 Sir Alan Herbert, English journalist & writer B09241896 F Scott Fitzgerald in St Paul, Minn (Great Gatsby) B09241921 Jim McKay ABC Sportscaster B09241924 Sheila MacRae in London, Actress B09241930 John W Young, astronaut (Gemini 3, 10, Apollo 10, 16, STS-1, 9) B09241931 Anthony Newley, actor, song writer B09241934 John Brunner, British sci-fi author (Sheep Look Up) B09241936 Jim Hensen, who made Kermit & Miss Piggy what they are today B09241942 Linda Eastman McCartney B09251644 Olaus Roemer, 1st to accurately measured speed of light B09251657 Imre Thököly, Hungarian patriot, opposed Habsburg rule B09251683 Jean Phillippe Rameau, French composer (baptized) B09251725 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built 1st automobile B09251766 Armand-Emmanuel, duc de Richelieu, French PM (1815-18, 1820-21) B09251877 Plutarco Elˇas Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28) B09251897 William Faulkner, US author (Sound & the Fury) (Nobel 1949) B09251903 Mark Rothko, painter B09251905 Red Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist, reporter B09251906 Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer B09251918 Phil Rizzuto, NY Yankee B09251926 Aldo Ray, actor B09251931 Barbara Walters in Boston Mass - 1st Network news anchor woman B09251936 Juliet Prowse in Bombay India B09251943 Robert Walden, actor B09251944 Michael Douglas Actor-producer B09251945 Cathy Burns B09251949 Mimi Kennedy in Rochester NY B09251952 Christopher Reeve, actor (Superman) B09251952 Mark Hamill (Star Wars) B09251961 Heather Locklear - Jack LaLanne spokesperson B09261729 Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher, critic, Bible translator B09261774 John Chapman AKA Johnny Appleseed B09261888 T.S. Eliot in St Louis, Anglican (Waste Land) (Nobel 1948) B09261889 Martin Heidegger, German Existentialist (Being & Time) B09261897 Paul VI, 262nd Roman Catholic pope (1963-78) B09261898 George Gershwin, Bkln, composer (Rhapsody in Blue) B09261914 Jack LaLanne Exercise mogul B09261919 Barbara Britton B09261926 Julie London in Cal, singer B09261927 Patrick O'Neal Actor B09261941 Julio Iglesias, singer B09261942 Kent McCord Actor B09261946 Mary Beth Hurt B09261947 Lynn Anderson Singer B09261948 Olivia Newton-John in Cambridge England - Lets Get Physical B09261948 Vladimir Remek, 1st Czechoslovakian space traveler (in Soyuz 28) B09261962 Melissa Sue Anderson in Cal B09271601 Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43) B09271657 Sophia, regent of Russia (1682-89) B09271722 Samuel Adams, revolutionary rabble rouser B09271783 Agustˇn I de Iturbide, emperor of Mexico (1822-23) B09271792 George Cruikshank, English illustrator B09271840 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America B09271875 Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist (Old Man of the Mtn) (Nobel 1926) B09271896 Sam Ervin (D-Sen), Watergate Committee chairman B09271918 Sir Martin Ryle, British radio astronomer, astronomer royal 1972-82 B09271919 Charles H Percy (R-Sen-Ill) B09271922 Arthur Penn, stage & film director B09271926 Jane Meadows AKA Mrs Steve Allen in Wu Chang China B09271929 Sada Thompson in Des Moines Iowa B09271933 Kathy Nolan in St Louis Mo B09271934 Barbara Hower - Washington Post writer B09271947 Cheryl Tiegs in Minnesota - A model's figure B09271952 Dumitru Prunariu, 1st Rumanian space traveler (on board Soyuz 40) B09271958 Shaun Cassidy B0928 490 BC Greeks defeat Persians at Marathon B0928 106 BC Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) in Rome B0928 551 Confucius (as celebrated in Taiwan) B09281573 Michelangelo Buanarroti in Caprese, Italy B09281583 Caravaggio, Italian painter (or 1573) B09281820 Freidrich Engels German social philosopher B09281839 Frances Willard, founded Women's Christian Temperance Union B09281841 Georges Clemenceau French statesman B09281852 Henri Moissan, French chemist; isolated fluorine (Nobel 1906) B09281856 Kate Douglas Wiggins, author B09281882 Jack Fournier played 2nd on 1917-18 Yankees B09281885 Wilbur 'Lefty' Good pitched for Yanks in 1905 B09281895 Lawton Whitey Witt, Yankee outfielder of 1922-25 B09281901 William S Paley, CBS Chairman B09281902 Ed Sullivan TV variety show host B09281905 Max Schmeling of Germany, world heavyweight boxing champ (1930-32) B09281907 Glen (Turk) Edwards, NFL tackle (Boston/Washington Redskins) B09281909 Al Capp, cartoonist, (`Li'l Abner') B09281912 Confucius B09281914 Harold Taylor, Canadian educator B09281917 Michael Somes, English ballet dancer B09281923 William Windom, actor B09281924 Marcello Mastroianni, actor (8˝, La Dolce Vita) B09281925 Seymour Cray, inventor of Cray I computer B09281934 Brigette Bardot in Paris France B09281940 Alexander S Ivanchenkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 29, T-6) B09281941 Charley Taylor, NFL wide receiver, running back (Redskin) B09281942 Grant Jackson, 1972 Yankee pitcher B09281946 Fiona Lewis B09281951 Dave Rajsich, Yankee pitcher B09281952 Sylvia Kristel in Holland, Emmanuelle B09281954 Steve Largent, wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks) B09291755 Robert, Lord Clive, founder of British empire in India B09291758 Adm Horatio Nelson, British naval hero at Trafalgar B09291848 Caroline Ardelia Yale, American educator of deaf B09291895 Joseph B Rhine, parapsychologist B09291901 Enrico Fermi, physicist, gone fission B09291902 Miguel Alemán, president of Mexico (1946-52) B09291907 Gene Autry, cowpoke/singer/actor/Calif Angels owner B09291908 Greer Garson in North Ireland B09291910 Virginia Bruce B09291922 Lizabeth Scott B09291925 John Tower (R-Sen-Tx) B09291931 Anita Ekberg in Sweden B09291935 Jerry Lee Lewis, singer (Great Balls of Fire, Breathless) B09291942 Bill Nelson (D-Fla-Rep), astronaut (STS 61C) B09291942 Madeline Kahn in Mass, actress (Paper Moon, Blazing Saddles) B09291943 Lech Walesa, leader of Polish Solidarity movement (Nobel 1983) B09291948 Bryant Gumbel, (Today) B09291956 Sebastian Coe, British distance runner B09301627 Robinson Crusoe, according to Daniel Defoe B09301870 Jean Perrin, French physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926) B09301912 Kenny Baker, radio singer B09301915 Lester Maddox, former governor of Georgia B09301921 Deborah Kerr, (King & I, Night of Iguana) in Helensburg Scotland B09301924 Truman Capote, a short short story writer (In Cold Blood) B09301928 Elie Wiesel, author (Souls on Fire), Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986) B09301931 Angie Dickinson in Kulm ND - best looking legs on a Police officer B09301935 Johnny Mathis singer B09301943 Marilyn McCoo in Jersey City NJ - Solid Gold host *mmddyyyy Events *-------- ------------------------------------------------------------ S0901 Beginning of Orthodox church year S0901 Feast of St. Drithelm of Northumbria, c. 700 S0901 Feast of St. Giles, abbot S0901 2Labor Day, a legal holiday S09011772 Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in California S09011807 Aaron Burr aquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire S09011849 California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey S09011859 1st pullman sleeping car in service S09011859 R.C.Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare S09011863 RR & ferry connection between SF & Oakland inaugurated S09011864 Sherman's march through Georgia S09011870 Napoleon III captured at Sedan S09011878 1st woman telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston) S09011890 1st baseball tripleheader - Boston vs Pittsburgh S09011905 Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces S09011906 Jack Combs pitches 24 inninings beating Red Sox S09011911 M. Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km S09011918 US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920 S09011923 Earthquake struck Tokyo, estimated 74,000 people died S09011939 Germany invades Poland, starting WW II S09011939 PHYSICAL REVIEW publishes paper 1st to deal with "black holes." S09011949 1st network dective series - Private Eyes, premeirs S09011952 Sutro Baths, SF purchased by George Whitney S09011969 Col Moammar Gadhafi rose to power deposed Libya's King Idris S09011969 Libyan revolution (National Day) S09011976 NJ Meadowlands racetrack opens S09011977 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold S09011979 Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings S09011983 Korean Boeing 747 strayed into Soviet air space & was S09011983Cshot down by a Soviet jet fighter. All 269 people aboard died S09011985 Titanic, sunk in 1912, found by French & American scientists S0902 Feast of St. William, c. 1070, English bishop, apostle to Danes S0902 Feast of St. Stephen, 1st King of Hungary S0902 Great Britain adopts Gregorian calendar (1752) S0902 2Labor Day, a legal holiday S0902 31 BC Battle of Actium; Octavian defeats Antony, becomes Emp Augustus S0902 490 BC Phidippides runs 1st marathon, seeking aid from Sparta vs. Persia S09021620 Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth with 102 Pilgrims S09021666 Great Fire of London starts; destroys St. Paul's Church S09021752 Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies S09021789 US Treasury Department established by Congress S09021804 K L Harding discovers Juno, 3rd known asteroid S09021859 Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii S09021898 Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain S09021927 Rumour starts that Gehrig will be traded to Tigers S09021936 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight S09021945 V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri S09021945 Vietnam declares independence from France (National Day) S09021946 Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager S09021956 Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service S09021957 Milwaukee Brave's Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game S09021963 CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes S09021973 Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers S09021978 Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years S0903 Feast of St. Pius X, pope (1903-14) S0903 Qatar National Day S0903 2Labor Day, a legal holiday S09031783 Treaty of Paris, ending Revolutionary War, is signed S09031849 Cal State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey S09031900 British annex Natal (South Africa) S09031906 Yanks win second game on a forfeit over A's 2nd forfeit win S09031916 Allies turned back Germans in World War I's Battle of Verdun S09031935 1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell S09031939 Yanks beat Red Sox on a forfeit 4th forfeit win S09031939 Britain declared war on Germany. France followed six hours later, S09031939Cquickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada S09031940 1st showing of high definition color TV S09031940 US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for military bases S09031943 Allied troops invade Italy S09031976 US Viking 2 lands on Mars at Utopia S09031978 Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29 S09031979 Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storms kills over 1,000 S09031984 28 year old Chicagoan won $40 million in Illinois state lottery S09031985 20th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 6 returns to Earth S0904 2Labor Day, a legal holiday S0904 476 Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in west, is deposed S09041609 Navigator Henry Hudson discovered island of Manhattan S09041781 LA founded in Valley of Smokes (Indian Name) S09041833 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty-NY Sun) S09041862 North Beach & Mission Railway Company organized in S.F S09041866 1st daily newspaper in Hawaii published S09041870 French republic proclaimed S09041882 1st district lit by electricty (NY's Pearl Street Station) S09041886 Geronimo is captured, ending last major US-Indian war S09041888 George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak." S09041911 Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft) S09041918 US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months S09041920 last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria) S09041923 Yankee Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia Athletics S09041933 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph, JR Wendell, Glenview, Il S09041941 Yanks beat Red Sox 6-3 & clinch their 12th & earliest pennant S09041950 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines S09041951 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by Pres. Truman S09041951 NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network S09041954 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed S09041957 Ford Motor Co. introduced Edsel S09041964 NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1) S09041970 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single S09041972 American swimmer Mark Spitz 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals S09041978 Ron Guidry wins his 20th S09041980 Iraqi troops seized Iranian territory in a border dispute S09041986 189.42 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange S0905 Be Late For Something Day S0905 Feast of St. Laurence Justinian, bishop of Venice, confessor S0905 2Labor Day, a legal holiday S09051774 1st Continental Congress assembles, in Phila S09051781 Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat Britain trapping Cornwallis S09051781Crescue fleet, trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown. S09051882 10,000 workers marched in the 1st Labor Day parade in NYC S09051885 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer S09051922 Yankees final game at the Polo Grounds, after 7 years S09051923 Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously. S09051927 Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings S09051936 Red Sox turn a triple play on the Yankees S09051953 1st privately operated atomic reactor - Raleigh NC S09051958 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC S09051972 11 Israeli athletes are slained at the Munich Olympics S09051977 Cleveland Indians stage 1st I hate the Yankee Hanky Night S09051977 Voyager 1 launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn. S09051978 Sadat, Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md. S09051980 World's longest auto tunnel, St. Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens. S09051983 8th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 3 returns to Earth S09051984 12th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 1 returns to Earth S0906 Feast of the Transfiguration. S0906 National Holiday of Swaziland S0906 2Labor Day, a legal holiday S09061620 149 Pilgrims set sail from England aboard the Mayflower S09061628 Puritans land at Salem, form Massachusetts Bay Colony. S09061716 1st lighthouse in US built, in Boston S09061839 Great fire in NY. S09061869 1st westbound train arrives in SF. S09061873 Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street S09061876 Southern Pacific line from Los Angeles to SF completed S09061883 Cub's Burns (extra bases), Williamson & Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn S09061901 Pres William McKinley assassinated in Buffalo, N.Y. S09061909 Word received, Adm. Peary discovered the North Pole five months ago S09061910 Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughriders formed. S09061914 Battle of the Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris. S09061946 All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev. 44, Miami 0). S09061954 Yankees record a record with 10 pinch hitters S09061966 Star Trek appears on TV for the 1st time (on NBC) S09061968 Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day). S09061972 John & Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon S09061981 Bob Lemon named Yankee manager S09061982 Polish dissidents seized the Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland, S0907 Independence Day, celebrated in Brazil S0907 1National Grandparents' Day. S0907 2Labor Day, a legal holiday S09071822 Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day). S09071892 James J. Corbett kayos John L. Sullivan in round 21 at New Orleans. S09071896 1st closed-circuit auto race, at Cranston, R.I. S09071907 Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF destroyed by fire. S09071948 1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron Oh S09071952 Whitey Ford becomes the 5th pitcher to hurl consecutive 1 hitters S09071956 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000+ ft S09071978 The 1st game of the Boston Massacre, Yanks beat Red Sox 15-3 S09071980 32nd Emmy Awards shown despite boycott S0908 Feast of the Nativity of Mary. S0908 International Literacy Day S0908 1National Grandparents' Day. S09081380 Russians defeat Tatars at Kulikovo, beginning decline of Tatars. S09081565 1st permanent settlement in US founded at St Augustine, Florida S09081565 Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St. John. S09081664 Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to English. S09081771 Mission San Gabriel Archangel founded in California. S09081858 Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people S09081860 Loss of steamer Lady Elgin. S09081883 Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mont. S09081920 1st US Air Mail service begins S09081935 Senator Huey P. Long assassinated at Baton Rouge. S09081937 Yankees trail 6-1, come up with 8 in the 9th, beat Boston 9-6 S09081939 Yanks beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7, game called because of lightning S09081943 Italy surrenders to the allies in WW II S09081945 US invades Japanese-held Korea. S09081973 Billy Martin named manager of the Texas Rangers S09081974 Pres Gerald Ford pardons former Pres Richard Nixon S09081977 Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy S09081978 The 2nd game of the Boston Massacre, Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2 S0909 Admission Day, a California Holiday S0909 Feast of St. Gorgonius, martyr. S0909 National Day in North Korea. S0909 1National Grandparents' Day. S09091513 Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland. S09091776 Continental Congress authorizes the name "US" S09091839 John Herschel takes the 1st glass plate photograph S09091850 California becomes the 31st state S09091850 Territory of New Mexico, Territory of Utah created. S09091867 Luxembourg gains independence. S09091875 Lotta's Fountain (Kearny & Market) dedicated S09091880 President Hayes visits SF S09091892 E.E.Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon S09091926 NBC created by RCA S09091927 Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium S09091932 Frank Crosetti ties record, strikes out twice in 1 inning S09091936 Yanks clinch 8th pennant S09091942 1st bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Or (WW2) S09091943 Italy surrenders to the Allies S09091944 Allied forces liberate Luxembourg. S09091944 Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day). S09091950 1st use of TV laugh track - Hank McCune S09091960 4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10). S09091965 Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter, a perfect game vs Cubs S09091967 1st successful test flight of a Saturn V.s S09091971 John Lennon releases the "Imagine" album S09091975 Viking 2 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing. S09091977 1st TRS-80 computer sold. S09091978 The 3rd game of the Boston Massacre, Yanks beat Red Sox 7-0 S09091982 "Conestoga I", 1st private rocket, is launched S0910 Feast of St. Nicholas of Tolentino, confessor. S0910 1National Grandparents' Day. S09101608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va. S09101813 Comm Oliver H. Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie S09101846 Elias Howe patents the sewing machine. S09101847 1st theater opens in Hawaii S09101913 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway S09101919 Indian's Ray Caldwell no hits Yankees 3-0 S09101919 NYC welcomes home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers S09101922 Largest Polo Grounds crowd Meusel, Ruth & Gehrig consecutive HRs S09101924 Leopold and Loeb found guilty of murder S09101937 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0). S09101939 Canada declares war on Germany S09101945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis. S09101950 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 homers S09101953 Swanson sells it's 1st "TV Dinner" S09101955 "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS television S09101962 Mickey Mantle hits HR # 400 S09101963 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama S09101974 Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal. S09101976 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, killing all 176 people S09101977 Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits S09101978 The 4th game of the Boston Massacre, Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This S09101978Cties them for 1st place. Yanks outhit em 67-21 and outscore 42-9 S0911 Feast of SS. Protus and Hyacinth, martyrs. S0911 1National Grandparents' Day. S09111609 Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan island S09111709 English, Dutch & Austrians defeat French in Battle of Malplaquet. S09111777 Battle of Brandywine, Pa.; Americans lose to British. S09111789 Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of the Treasury. S09111814 Battle of Lake Champlain, N.Y.; Americans defeat British. S09111850 `Swedish Nightingale,' Jenny Lind, 1st US concert S09111852 Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R. S09111853 1st electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos S09111910 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens, in Hollywood. S09111919 US marines invade Honduras. S09111923 After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires the next 27 Yanks S09111926 Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu. S09111926 Yanks Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies S09111927 Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers S09111928 1st TV drama - WGY's The Queens Messenger S09111929 Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system S09111936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam S09111941 Charles Lindbergh, charges `the British, the Jewish and the S09111941CRoosevelt administration' were trying to get the US into WW II S09111944 FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at the second Quebec Conference S09111946 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation S09111947 US Defense Department formed S09111950 Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence S09111950 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited S09111954 1st Miss America TV broadcast S09111966 Johnny Miller became the 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat S09111967 US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material S09111972 BART begins service with a 26 mile line from Oakland to Fremont S09111973 Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup S09111977 TV's Rhoda gets divorced S09111985 Pete Rose of the Cin Reds got career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of S09111985Cthe San Diego Padres, eclipsing the record held by Ty Cobb. S09111986 Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered biggest one-day decline ever, S09111986Cplummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded S0912 Cape Verde National Day. S0912 Feast of the Holy Name of Mary. S0912 1National Grandparents' Day. S0912 490 BC Athenians defeat 2nd Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon. S09121609 Henry Hudson discovers Hudson River. S09121649 Drogheda, Ireland falls to Puritan troops; inhabitants massacred. S09121758 Charles Messier observes the Crab Nebula and begins catalog. S09121941 1st German ship in WW2 captured by US ship (Busko) S09121953 Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of the Communist Party S09121954 Indians sweep Yanks at Municipal, Largest AL crowd 86,563 S09121959 Bonanza premiers S09121959 Luna 1 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on the moon. S09121966 Gemini XI launched S09121966 The Monkees premiers S09121970 USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility. S09121974 coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day). S09121986 240.49 million shares traded in the NY Stock Exchange S0913 1National Grandparents' Day. S0913 6Friday the 13th! Beware! S09131321 death of Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine Comedy. S09131583 Dante Alighieri Day S09131759 Wolfe defeats Montcalm on Plains of Abraham; Canada becomes English. S09131788 NYC becomes the capitol of the US S09131882 Britain invades Egypt. S09131906 1st airplane flight in Europe. S09131927 Waite Hoyt became the only 20 game winner of the '27 Yankees S09131932 Yanks clinch their 7th pennant S09131959 Soviet Lunik 2 becomes 1st human-made object to crash on moon. S09131961 Car 54 Where are You? premiers S09131963 The Outer Limits premiers S09131963 Yanks clinch their 28th pennant S09131965 Beatles release "Yesterday" S09131970 IBM announces System 370 computer. S09131977 1st TV viewer discretion warning - Soap S09131977 2nd test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise S09131979 According to South Africa, Venda gains independence. Not recognized S09131979Cas an independent country outside of South Africa. S0914 Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. S0914 National Boss/Employee Exchange Day S09141628 Salem, Mass. is founded. S09141716 1st lighthouse in US is lit (in Boston Harbor) S09141752 England and colonies adopt Gregorian calendar, 11 days disappear. S09141812 Napoleon occupies Moscow. S09141814 Francis Scott Key inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner." S09141847 US troops capture Mexico City. S09141886 Typewriter ribbon patented S09141892 AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo S09141899 Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality (NY) S09141940 Congress passes 1st peace time draft law S09141942 Yanks clinch pennant #13 S09141943 Yanks clinch pennant #14 S09141948 Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater S09141951 Giant's Bob Niemans 1st 2 at bats are homers S09141956 1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC S09141964 Walt Disney awarded the Medal of Freedom at the White House S09141965 F-Troop premiers S09141968 Denny McLain 30th victory of the season S09141968 USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circum lunar flight S09141974 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter. S09141981 Entertainment Tonight premiers S0915 Battle of Britain Day. S0915 Feast of the 7 Sorrows of Mary. S0915 Felt Hat Day, when men of fashion put away their straw hats S0915 Independence Day, for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatamala, S0915 3Intl Day of Peace (UN observance). S0915 CHonduras and Nicaragua S09151776 British forces occupy NYC during the American Revolution S09151789 Dept of Foreign Affairs, renamed the Dept of State S09151821 Costa Rica El Salvador Guatamala Honduras & Nicaragua gain independ S09151894 Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang. S09151917 Russia was proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky S09151935 Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of citizenship and made the S09151935Cswastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany. S09151937 WPA extends the L-Taraval streetcar to the Zoo (at Sloat Blvd) S09151940 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw. 14, Columbus 2). S09151940 Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe. S09151947 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh S09151947 Yanks clinch pennant #15 S09151950 During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in the south S09151950 Yankee Johnny Mize hits 3 homers (6th time he has done that) S09151957 Bachelor Father with John Forsythe premiers S09151957 SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game. S09151959 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit S09151963 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham S09151965 Lost in Space premiers S09151966 Gemini XI returns to Earth S09151976 Soyuz 22 carries two cosmonauts into earth orbit for 8 days. S09151978 Yanks beat Boston 4-0, Guidry wins # 22, Yanks lead 2 1/2 games S09151981 Intl Peace Day S09151984 Morocco Showcase opens S0916 Feast of SS Cornelius, pope (251-53), & Cyprian, bishop, martyrs S0916 Independence Day, celebrated in Mexico S0916 3International Day of Peace (UN observance) S09161498 Death of Tomas de Torquemada, inquisitor who burned 10,000 people S09161620 Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims S09161630 Mass village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston S09161662 Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, 1st known astronomical observation S09161782 Great Seal of US used for 1st time S09161795 British capture Capetown S09161810 Mexico 1st declares independence from Spain (National Day) S09161812 Fire of Moscow S09161857 Typesetting machine patent S09161858 1st overland mail for California S09161893 Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opened to white settlement homesteaders S09161908 William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors S09161915 US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years S09161919 American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress S09161924 Cardinal Jim Bottomley bats in 12 RBIs in 1 game S09161939 Yanks clinch pennant #11 S09161940 1st US peace-time draft in US enacted S09161940 Samuel T Rayburn of Tx elected speaker of the House S09161945 Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low) S09161947 1st automobile to exceed 400 mph, John Cobb, Bonneville Salt Flats S09161955 Bauer & Berra homer in the 9th beating Red Sox 5-4 taking over 1st S09161964 Shindig premiers S09161966 Metropolitan Opera opens at NY's Lincoln Center S09161968 Richard Nixon appears on Laugh-in S09161972 1st TV series about mixed marriage - Bridgit Loves Bernie S09161974 BART begins regular transbay service S09161974 Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for Vietnam deserters S09161975 Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day) S09161976 Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop S09161978 Yanks beat Red Sox for 6th time in 2 weeks, 3-2 S09161979 Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium S09161982 massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila & Sabra begins S09161984 Miami Vice premiers S0917 Citizenship Day S0917 Constitution Day S0917 Impression of the Stigmata of St Francis S0917 St Lambert's Day (Anglican) S0917 3International Day of Peace (United Nations observance) S09171630 Boston founded S09171776 Presidio of SF founded as Spanish fort S09171787 US Constitution is adopted & formally signed S09171789 William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn S09171819 1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii S09171862 Battle of Antietam, Md; Confederate forces retreat S09171908 Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight S09171911 1st transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min S09171920 National Football League formed in Canton, Ohio S09171927 Charles Lindbergh in SF S09171953 1st succesSFul separation of Siamese twins S09171956 Yanks clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of the year S09171963 The Fugitive premiers S09171964 Bewitched premiers S09171964 Mickey Mantle gets hits #1999, 2000 & 2001 S09171967 Mission Impossible premiers S09171968 Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon S09171972 BART begins passenger service S09171977 Dave Kingman hits his 1st Yankee homer, Reggie hits 2 more S09171978 Begin, Sadat & Carter sign the Camp David accord S09171978 Red Sox finally beat Yanks in Sept, 1978 7-3 S09171985 Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station S0918 Feast of St Joseph of Cupertino, confessor S0918 Independence Day, celebrated in Chile S0918 3International Day of Peace (United Nations observance) S09181755 Fort Ticonderoga, NY opened S09181793 Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building S09181810 Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day) S09181851 NY Times starts publishing, at 2˘ a copy S09181882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as the Local Security Board) S09181927 the Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air S09181938 Even though they lost a double header, Yanks clinch pennant #10 S09181957 Wagon Train premiers S09181965 Get Smart premiers S09181966 Gemini X is launched S09181977 US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of earth & moon together S09181980 Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station S09181984 Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic S0919 Feast of St Januarius & his companions, martyrs S0919 3International Day of Peace (United Nations observance) S09191356 English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers S09191796 George Washington's farewell address as president S09191812 Napoleon's retreat from Russia begins S09191848 Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion S09191849 1st commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California S09191863 Battle of Chickamauga, Tenn; Union forces retreat S09191873 Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic S09191966 Mike Burke named Yankees president S09191968 Baby born on Golden Gate Bridge (those Marin County folk!) S09191970 Mary Tyler Moore show premiers S09191982 Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service S09191983 St Christopher-Nevis gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day) S09191986 Captain EO permieres S0920 Feast of St Eustace & his companions, martyrs S0920 3International Day of Peace (United Nations observance) S09201519 Magellan starts 1st succesSFul circumnavigation of the world S09201777 Paoli massacre S09201797 US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston S09201850 Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue S09201854 British & French defeat Russians at Alma, in the Crimea S09201859 Patent granted on the electric range S09201863 Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga, Tenn, ended S09201879 US Grants come to SF for elaborate extended visit S09201884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP S09201911 Yanks set team record 12 errors in a double header S09201945 German rocket engineers begin work in US S09201951 1st North Pole jet crossing S09201954 1st FORTRAN computer program run S09201961 After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls S09201961 Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of S09201961Cthe season Yanks clinch pennant #26 S09201968 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536 S09201970 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample S09201973 Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match S09201980 Plaque dedicated in Thurmon Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium S09201985 WDW's 200-millonth guest S0921 Feast of St Matthew, apostle, evangelist S0921 3International Day of Peace (United Nations observance) S09211776 great fire in NY S09211784 1st daily newspaper in US begins publication in Penn S09211792 1st French Republic declared S09211895 1st auto manufacturer opens -- Duryea Motor Wagon Company S09211906 Yankee 1st baseman Hal Chase's 22 put outs ties the record S09211929 1st legal forward pass in Canadian senior football thrown (Calgary) S09211930 Johann Ostermeyer patents his invention, the flashbulb S09211954 the nuclear submarine "Nautilus" is commissioned S09211956 Yanks set dubious record, stranding 20 men on base Mantle hits a S09211956C500 foot plus homer but Red Sox win 13-9 in Fenway S09211957 Perry Mason premiers S09211958 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, landed, Dallas Texas S09211958 Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no hits Yankees 1-0 S09211964 Malta gains independence from Britain S09211970 Monday Night Football on ABC premiers - Jets vs Browns S09211971 John Lennon & Yoko Ono were Dick Cavett's only guest S09211974 US Mariner 10 makes second fly-by of Mercury S09211980 Richard Todd of the Jets completes 42 passes in a game (NFL record) S09211981 Belize gains independence from Britain (National Day) S09211981 Sandra Day O'Conner becomes the 1st female Supreme Court Justice S09211982 Devils beat Rangers 3-2 in exhibition - 1st hockey in Meadowlands S09211982 SF cable cars cease operations for 2 years of repairs S0922 Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga S0922 Autumn Harvest Festival in Wheaton, Illinois S0922 Feast of St Thomas of Villanova, bishop of Valencia, confessor S0922 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation (1862) S09221756 Nassau Hall opens at Princeton University S09221776 Nathan Hale is executed as a spy by the British S09221789 The US Post Office was established S09221792 Origin of French Republican Era S09221863 President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech S09221893 1st auto built in US (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield S09221903 Italo Marchiony granted a patent for the ice cream cone S09221903 Ice Cream Cone patented S09221908 Fred 'Bonehead' Merkle misses 2nd base costing NY Giants the pennant S09221925 Yank Ben Paschal hits 2 inside-the-park-homers S09221927 Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney) S09221927 Yanks Earle Coombs hits 3 triples S09221944 Boulogne reoccupied by Allies S09221948 Stan Musial goes 5 for 5 off 5 different pitchers S09221960 Mali gains independence from France (National Day) S09221964 The Man from UNCLE premiers S09221968 Zond 5 completes flight S09221980 War between Iran & Iraq begins S09221987 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins S0923 Feast of St Linus, 2nd pope (c 67-c 76), martyr S0923 1st day of Fall S0923 63 BC - Augustus, 1st Roman Emperor S09231779 Naval engagement 'Bonhomme Richard' defeats 'HMS Serepis' S09231780 John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point S09231846 Johann Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune S09231890 Ed Cartwright bats in 7 RBIs in 1 inning S09231912 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie is released S09231926 Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey for world heavyweight boxing title S09231932 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia formed (National Day) S09231933 Yanks commit 7 errors in 1 game but beat Boston 16-12 S09231952 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event S09231952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech S09231961 1st movie to become a TV series - How to Marry a Millionaire S09231962 ABC's 1st color TV series - The Jetsons S09231973 Largest known prime, 2 ^ 132,049 - 1, is discovered S09231976 Ford-Carter TV debate S09231976 Soyuz 22 returns to Earth S09231977 Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels S09231977 3rd test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise S09231980 Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens S0924 Feast of Our Lady of Ransom S09241789 Congress creates the Post Office S09241789 Congress' 1st Judiciary Act, for Attorney General & Supreme Court S09241845 1st baseball team organized S09241846 Battle of Monterey S09241852 a new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated S09241853 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt) S09241865 James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF S09241869 Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold S09241895 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months) S09241919 Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey S09241927 Yanks set record of 106 victories S09241929 Lt James H Doolittle guided a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over S09241929CMitchell Field in NY in the 1st all-instrument flight S09241930 Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights S09241934 Babe Ruth made his farewell appearance as a baseball player S09241939 Ruth's final Yankee Stadium appearance Less than 2500 on hand S09241941 9 Allied govts pledged adherence to the Atlantic Charter S09241954 Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning S09241954 Tonight Show premieres on NBC S09241955 Pres Eisenhower suffered a heart attack on vacation in Denver S09241957 Bkln Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0 S09241957 Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools S09241958 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia S09241960 1st atomic powered aircraft carrier, the Enterprise, is launched S09241960 USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launched S09241963 Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing S09241964 The Munsters premier S09241968 60 Minutes premiers S09241968 That's Life premiers - A Broadway musical type TV show S09241969 Trial of `Chicago 8' began S09241970 1st Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16 S09241974 Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal S09241976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part S09241976Cin a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter S09241978 Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0 rasing his record to 23-3 ERA 174 S09241979 CompuServe system started S09251493 Columbus sailed on his second voyage to America S09251513 Vasco Nuńez de Balboa is the 1st European to see the Pacific Ocean S09251639 1st printing press in America S09251690 Publick Occurrences, 1st American newspaper, publish 1st & last ed S09251775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured S09251789 Congress proposes the Bill of Rights S09251804 12th amendment to the US constitution, regulating judicial power S09251890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park S09251890 Mormon pres Woodruff issued a Manifesto formally renouncing polygamy S09251919 Pres Wilson became seriously ill & collapsed after a speech S09251926 Henry Ford announces the five day work week S09251934 Lou Gehrig plays in his 1500th consecutive game S09251956 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation S09251966 Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1 S09251973 3-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days S09251978 Pacific SW Airlines Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide S09251981 Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice S09251982 Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children) S0926 Feast of SS Cyprian & Justina, martyrs S0926 Feast of St Cosmas & Damian S09261542 Cabrillo discovers California S09261687 Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks & Venetians S09261777 British troops occupied Philadelphia in the American Revolution S09261789 Jefferson appointed 1st Sec of State; John Jay 1st chief justice; S09261789CSamuel Osgood 1st Postmaster & Edmund J Randolph 1st Attorney Genl S09261824 Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives S09261896 John Philip Sousa led band's 1st performance in Plainfield, NJ S09261914 Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce S09261918 Meuse-Argonne offensive against the Germans began during WWI S09261926 Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again S09261926C6-2 in 55 minutes to the Browns Yanks already clinched pennant S09261950 UN troops in Korean War recaptured South Korean capital of Seoul S09261952 Yanks clinch pennant #19 S09261957 Musical West Side Story, opened on Broadway S09261960 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place in Chicago S09261961 Roger Maris hits # 60 off Jack Fisher S09261962 TV comedy The Beverly Hillbillies premiered on CBS S09261962 Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day) S09261966 Japan launches its 1st satellite in to space S09261966 The Staten Island is 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay S09261969 Beatles release "Abbey Road" album S09261977 Sir Freddie Laker began cut-rate `Skytrain' service London to NY S09261980 Soyuz 38 returns to Earth S09261983 Australia II won the America's Cup yacht race S09261983 Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10 S0927 Ancestor Appreciation Day S0927 Feast of SS Cosmas & Damian, martyrs S09271540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola S09271777 Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by the British S09271787 Constitution submitted to the states for ratification S09271825 Railroad transportation is born with 1st track in England S09271854 Steamer Arctic is lost S09271881 Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small "crowd" of 12 S09271919 Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike outs S09271919 Democratic National Committee voted to admit women S09271921 Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds S09271923 Lou Gehrig's 1st homer S09271938 The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth was launched at Glasgow S09271940 Floyd Giebells, 1st game, 2-0 pennent clinching beating Bob Feller S09271941 1st WWII liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched S09271942 NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down S09271954 Steve Allen's Tonight Show premiers S09271962 US sells Israel, Hawk anti-aircraft missiles S09271964 Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone S09271968 Cardinal's super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of the year S09271972 In 1st game at Coliseum, Rangers beat Islanders 6-4 - Exhibition S09271973 Soyuz 12 launched S0928 Confucius' Birthday, celebrated in the Republic of China (Taiwan) S0928 Feast of St Wenceslas, duke & patron of Bohemia, martyr S09281066 William the Conqueror landed in England S09281542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay S09281781 Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the the Revolutionary War S09281858 Donati's comet becomes the 1st to be photographed S09281906 US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909 S09281920 Baseball's biggest scandal, grand jury indicts 8 White Sox for S09281920Cthrowing the 1919 World Series with the Cincinnati Reds S09281923 Yanks slaughter Red Sox 24-4 S09281924 2 US Army planes completed 1st around the world flight S09281924 End of 1st around-the-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops S09281928 Yanks clinch pennant #6 S09281930 Lou Gehrig'error ends his errorless streak at 885 consecutive games S09281930CThe winning pitcher was Babe Ruth beating the Red Sox 9-3 S09281941 Ted Williams assures his 400 avg on last day with 6 hits S09281942 NY Americans NHL team folded S09281944 1st TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise) S09281951 Allie Reynolds 2nd no hitter of 1951 Yanks clinch pennant #18 S09281951 Norm Van Brocklin of the Rams passes for NFL-record 554 yards S09281960 Ted Williams hits his final homer #521 S09281963 Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates a record 41.5 kph for 440 yds S09281965 Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km S09281970 Sadat replaces Egyptian Pres Nassar who died of a heart attack at 52 S09281974 1st Lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy S09281982 1st reports appeared of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules S0929 Feast of the Archangels SS Michael, Gabriel,And Raphael S0929 Michaelmas (Feast of St Michael), quarter day in medieval England S09291752 Michaelmas S09291829 Scotland Yard formed in London S09291859 great auroral display in US S09291892 1st night football game was played in Mansfield, Penn S09291911 Yanks steal 15 bases & get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12 a S09291911Cmajor league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning S09291923 Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public S09291927 Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games S09291928 Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10 S09291951 1st color telecast of football game on network, Phila S09291951 S Nicholson discovers 4th & 12th satellite of Jupiter S09291963 Stan Musial's last game, gets hit 3,629 & 3,630 S09291969 7th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 7-6 S09291969 Love American Style premiers S09291973 Soyuz 12 returns to Earth S09291977 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into earth orbit S09291982 Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules killed seven in Chicago S0930 Feast of St Jerome, doctor, patron of scholars, librarians S09301452 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible S09301659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe) S09301781 siege of Yorktown begins S09301846 William Morris 1st tooth extraction under anesthetics Charlestown S09301878 1st immigrants from Portugal arrive in Hawaii S09301880 Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of the Orion Nebula S09301898 City of NY established S09301916 Giants lose ending 26 straight winning streak S09301922 Yanks clinch pennant #2 S09301927 Babe Ruth hits 60th HR setting the record off Tom Zachary S09301934 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) S09301934 Ruth's final game as a Yankee, he went 0 for 3 S09301935 "Porgy & Bess" premiers in Boston S09301938 Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany S09301939 1st manned rocket flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel) S09301939 1st televised College football game - Fordham vs Waynesburg S09301944 Calais reoccupied by Allies S09301945 Hank Greenberg's final day HR wins the pennent for the Tigers S09301947 Yanks beat Dodgers 5-3-largest WS crowd 73,365-1st WS televised S09301960 On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids" S09301960 Flintstones premiers S09301966 Botswana gains independence from Britain (National Day) S09301967 Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition) S09301967 USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete the 1st automatic docking S09301971 Last Wash Senator home game, Yanks win carreer 5th forfeit S09301971CYanks trailing 4-2 in the 9th with 2 outs, fans rush the field S09301973 Yanks close 50th year at Yankee Stadium losing 8-5 S09301978 Tuvalu (Ellice Islands) gains independence from Britain S09301984 Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg