*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B11011500 Benevenuto Cellini
B11011935 Gary Player
B11021734 Daniel Boone
B11021755 Marie Antoinette
B11021795 James K. Polk, 11th President (1845-1849)
B11021865 Warren G. Harding, 29th President (1921-1923)
B11021885 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer.
B11031718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same.
B11031922 Charles Bronson
B11041879 Will Rogers
B11041916 Walter Cronkite, "...and that's the way it is"
B11041919 Martin Balsam
B11051857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was VERY unhappy).
B11051906 Fred Whipple
B11051912 Roy Rogers, Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger
B11051930 Clifford Irving
B11051942 Elke Sommer
B11051946 Gram Parsons
B11051963 Tatum O'Neal
B11061469 Furu Nanak
B11061771 Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography.
B11061814 Adolphe Sax, inventor of the Saxophone
B11061851 Charles Henry Dow, founded Dow Jones & Co.
B11061854 John Phillip Souza, the march king
B11061861 James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball.
B11061896 Fibber Mcgee
B11061946 Sally Field
B11071867 Madame Marie Curie, discovered radium.
B11071918 Billy Graham
B11071941 William Owens (Billy-boy) Kennedy
B11081656 Edmond Halley, astronomer, 1st to calculate a comet's orbit.
B11081900 Maragret Mitchell
B11081909 Katherine Hepburn
B11091905 Tommy Dorsey
B11091918 Spiro Agnew
B11091934 Carl Sagan
B11101483 Martin Luther
B11101668 Francois Couperin, composer
B11101819 Cyrus West Field, financier known for the success of the 1st
B11101819Ctransatlantic cable.
B11101895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer.
B11101925 Richard Burton
B11111821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author, "Crime and Punishment"
B11111885 General George S. Patton
B11111904 Alger Hiss
B11111922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author.
B11111925 Jonathon Winters
B11121815 Elizabeth Stanton, early leader of women's rights movement.
B11121840 Auguste Rodin
B11121866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC).
B11121915 Amy Lowell
B11121929 Grace Kelly
B11121945 Neil Young
B11121961 Nadia Comaneci
B1113 354 St. Augustine
B11131717 Thomas Chippendale
B11131831 James Maxwell
B11131850 Robert Louis Stevenson
B11131856 Justice Louis Brandeis
B11131942 Paul Simon
B1114  42 BC Tiberius
B11141650 William of Orange
B11141765 Robert Fulton, built 1st commercial steamboat
B11141776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis
B11141840 Claude Monet, impressionist
B11141889 Nehru
B11141900 Aaron Copland, american composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring)
B11141909 Joseph McCarthy
B11141935 King Hussein
B11141948 Prince Charles
B11151905 Annunzio Mantovani
B11151929 Ed Asner
B11151932 Petula Clark
B11161873 William Handy, established the popularity of the blues in band music
B11161901 George Gallop, what's your opinion?
B11161935 Elizabeth Drew
B11171790 August Mobius
B11171904 Isamu Noguchi
B11171925 Rock Hudson
B11171938 Gordon Lightfoot
B11181789 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography
B11181836 Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame)
B11181923 Alan Sheppard, 1st American into space.
B11181928 Mickey Mouse
B11181939 Margaret Atwood
B11191600 Charles I
B11191752 George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War.
B11191831 James A. Garfield, 20th President (March 4-September 19, 1881)
B11191905 Tommy Dorsey
B11191917 Indira Ghandi
B11191921 Roy Campanella
B11191936 Dick Cavett
B11191938 Ted Turner
B11201602 Otto von Guericke, invented the air pump
B11201889 Edwin Hubble
B11201900 Chester Gould, gave Dick Tracy a job
B11201908 Alistair Cooke
B11201914 Emillo Pucci
B11201925 Robert Kennedy
B11201938 Dick Smothers
B11211694 Voltaire, thinker
B11211787 Sir Samuel Cunard, founded 1st regular Atlantic steamship line
B11211904 Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone for jazz
B11221890 Charles de Gaulle
B11221899 Hoagy Carmichael, composed 'Star Dust'.
B11231804 Franklin Pierce, 14th President (1853-1857)
B11231887 Boris Karloff, bogeyman
B11241713 Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in California.
B11241784 Zachary Taylor, 12th President (1849-1850)
B11241868 Scott Joplin, entertainer
B11251835 Andrew Carnegie, steelman and librarian
B11251846 Carry Nation, scrouge of barkeepers and drinkers.
B11261832 Louisa May Alcott, little woman
B11261876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment.
B11271701 Anders Celsius
B11291803 Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (color shift)
B11291849 Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode.
B11301667 Jonathan Swift, satirist, wrote "Gulliver's Travels"
B11301810 Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker.
B11301835 Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain
B11301874 Winston Churchill
B11301936 Abbey Hoffman
*mmddyyyy Events
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S11011776 San Juan Capistrano mission established.
S11011863 Fortifications built on Angel Island by troops.
S11011870 U.S. Weather bureau makes 1st observation (never been right since).
S11011943 Dimout ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area.
S11011947 1st Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii.
S11011950 C.H. Cooper 1st black to play in NBA.
S11011981 First Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents.
S1102     North & South Dakota Admission Day
S11021917 Great Britain issues Balfour Declaration in favor of establishment
S11021917Cof a state of Palestine.
S11021920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) on the air as 1st commercial radio station.
S11021947 Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for 1st (& last) time.
S11021948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers.
S1103     Treasure Island published.
S11031883 U.S. Government decides an Indian is by birth an alien and is 
S11031883Cdependant on the government.
S11031903 Panama gains it's independence from Columbia.
S11031917 First Class Mail now costs 3 cents.
S11031930 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America.
S11031948 Chicago Tribune errs in announcing election results - Dewy Wins.
S11031952 Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas.
S11031952 Frozen bread goes on sale.
S11031979 5 demonstrators shot by Ku Klux Klan.
S1104     Cash Register patented.
S11041854 Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island.
S11041867 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall.
S11041922 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen.
S11041924 1st woman governor in US elected in Wyoming.
S11041979 US embassy takeover in Iran - 50 americans taken hostage.
S1105     Guy Fawkes Day, celebrated in England.
S11051781 John Hanson elected 1st 'President of the United States in Congress
S11051781Cassembled' (8 years before Washington was elected).
S11051872 Susan B. Anthony arrested for attempting to vote.
S11051895 1st US patent granted for the automobile, to George B Selden
S11051955 First stereo radio broadcast.
S1106     Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
S11061796 Catherine the Great dies (Russia).
S11061850 1st fire engine arrives in Hawaii.
S11061850 Yerba Buena & Angel Islands reserved for military use.
S11061860 Abraham Lincoln elected 16th president of USA.
S11061862 Direct Telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco established
S11061869 1st intercollegiate football game played (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4).
S11061879 Thanksgiving day 1st observed in Canada.
S11061893 Tchaikovsky dies.
S11061923 Electric Shaver Patented.
S11061939 WGY-TV (Schenectady NY), 1st commercial radio station begins service
S11071805 Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean.
S11071811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan.
S11071874 Thomas Nast creates a cartoon of Republican party elephant.
S11071875 Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa from
S11071875Csea to sea.
S11071885 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway.
S11081793 the Louvre, in Paris, was opened to the public.
S11081974 National Gaurdsmen acquitted in Kent State killings.
S11091848 Post Office at Clay & Pike opens.
S11091965 Giant power failure in New England & Ontario, Canada.
S11091977 U.S. Army admits to using LSD on witting and unwitting subjects.
S11101871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa.
S11101891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
S11101898 White citizens (I hardly think so) massacre 100 blacks in Wilmington.
S11101951 1st Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance.
S11101980 Voyager I flies past Saturn.
S1111     the REAL Veteran's Day.  They fought for your freedom. Remember them!
S11111889 Washington admitted as the 42nd state.
S11111918 World War I ends.
S11111924 Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated.
S11111957 Demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde.
S11111959 Seals Stadium demolished.
S11111982 Space Shuttle 'Columbia' makes 1st commercial flight.
S11121927 Stalin becomes Russian dictator, Trotsky expelled from the party.
S11121933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken.
S11121937 Japanese troops occupy Chinese city of Shanghai.
S11121942 Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France.
S11121946 the 1st "autobank" (banking by car) was established, in Chicago
S11121981 1st time a spacecraft is launched twice -- the Space Shuttle
S11121981C'Columbia' lifts off again.
S11131849 Peter Burnett is elected 1st governor of California.
S11131895 first shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii.
S11131921 The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, was released.
S11131933 First sit down strike.
S11131939 First Sadie Hawkins day.
S11141792 Capt. George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay.
S11141832 1st street car runs in New York city.
S11141851 "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville, is published.
S11141889 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip around the
S11141889Cworld by 8 days (72 days).
S11141910 1st airplane flight from the deck of a ship.
S11141917 U.S. Navy shuts down red-light district in New Orleans.
S11141959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii).
S11151806 Zebulon Pike sights mountain later named Pike's Peak.
S11151848 Gold rush begins in California.
S11151869 Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated.
S11151920 First meeting of League of Nations (Geneva).
S11151926 National Broadcasting Company goes on-the-air, with 24 stations
S11151939 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check.
S11151969 400,000 peacefully protest Vietnam war.
S11161907 Land to be indian territory forever is proclaimed State
S11161907Cof Oklahoma.
S11161933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
S11161950 U.S. explodes first Hydrogen bomb.
S1117     the day of the Great American Smoke Out.
S11171800 Congress convened for its 1st Washington, DC session.
S11171869 Suez Canal opens.
S11171913 Panama Canal opens for use.
S11171941 Sam Gompers organizes Federation of Organized trade and labour
S11171941Cunions.
S11171973 Nixon says he is not a crook.
S11181247 Robin Hood dies.
S11181307 William Tell shoots apple off his son's head.
S11181820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer.
S11181889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii.
S11181903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gave US exclusive canal rights thru Panama.
S11181928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat Willie"
S11181936 Ella Fitzgerald cuts first album.
S11181936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined.
S11181966 Last meatless Friday for Roman Catholics.
S11181978 Mass suicide at Jonestown 900-die.
S11191493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
S11191703 Man in an Iron Mask dies in the Bastille.
S11191863 Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address
S11191895 the pencil is invented.
S11191970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California State
S11191970CHistorical Landmark.
S11191975 Franco dies (Spain).
S11191981 Saskatchewan Power Corp. blacks out entire province.
S11201888 William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
S11201914 the State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
S11201962 Cuban Blockade lifted.
S11201979 Grand Mosque of Mecca seized by hundreds of Moslem fanatics.
S11211794 Honolulu Harbor discovered.
S11211959 Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed duet.
S11221906 the International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS"
S11221906Cas the new call for help.
S11221943 Lebanon gains it's independence (would that it could keep it)
S11221963 President John Kennedy assasinated in Dallas.
S11231852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet.
S11231863 patent granted for a process of making color photographs.
S11231911 Post Hospital at Presidio renamed Letterman General Hospital.
S11241874 patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.
S11251948 Fort Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed.
S11261778 Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands).
S11261895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed.
S1127    5Thanksgiving Day  Have a Happy One
S11271890 1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation.
S11281520 Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean.
S11281895 America's auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averaged 7 MPH
S11291887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.
S11291890 1st Army-Navy football game.  Score Navy 25, Army 0.
S11291945 Yugoslavia becomes a federated republic.
S11291948 Untouchability officially abolished in India.
S11291951 First underground A-bomb test.
S11301954 First reported impact between meteorite and a human.
S11301962 U Thant elected Secretary General of the United Nations.