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*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B0701 "Wolfman Jack", a howling success in radio
B07041753 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US
B07041804 Nathaniel Hawthorne
B07041826 Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna"
B07041872 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-1929)
B07041878 George M. Cohan
B07041883 Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult.
B07041900 Louis Armstrong, 'Satchmo'
B07051794 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker
B07051810 P.T. Barnum
B07061747 John Paul Jones, "I have not yet begun to fight"
B07071752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented the programmable loom.
B07071907 Robert A. Heinlein, author who helped develop Science Fiction
B07071907Cas a sophisticated mode of literary expression.
B07081839 John D. Rockefeller
B07091802 Thomas Davenport, invented 1st commercially successful electric motor
B07101834 James Whistler, mama's boy
B07101867 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist/humorist who created Mr. Dooley.
B07111767 John Quincy Adams, 6th President (1825-1829)
B07121817 Henry David Thoreau, always had Ralph Waldo Emerson
B07121817Caround to bail him out of trouble.
B07121854 George Eastman, created the Kodak camera
B07121895 R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome
B07121895 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers
B07121908 Milton Berle, "Uncle Miltie"
B07141912 Woodie Guthrie
B07141913 Gerald R. Ford, 38th President (1974-1976)
B07141918 Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory.
B07151606 Rembrandt, Dutch painter.
B07171744 Elbridge Gerry, father of the "gerrymander"
B07171900 James Cagney, hold that grapefruit
B07181811 William Makepeach Thackeray, Victorian novelist, wrote 'Vanity Fair'.
B07181848 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer
B07181913 Red Skelton
B07181906 S. I. Hayakawa
B07181921 John Glenn, Jr., 1st American in orbit
B0718 Horatio Alger, whose lads always had enough pluck to succeed.
B07191814 Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt Revolver.
B07211899 Ernest Hemingway, never asked for whom the bell tolled...
B07221844 Rev. William Archibald Spooner, invented 'spoonerisms'
B07221849 Emma Lazarus, whose poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty
B07221890 Rose Kennedy
B07241783 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule.
B07241802 Alexandre Dumas, told the Count of Monte Christo how to escape
B07241898 Amelia Earhart, into the wild blue yonder
B07251978 Louise Brown, 1st test-tube baby (born under the sign of Pyrex)
B07261856 George Bernard Shaw
B07261943 Mick Jagger, never gathers moss
B07281929 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, redecorator
B07291869 Booth Tarkington, novelist
B07291907 Melvin Belli, San Francisco's 'King of Torts'
B07301863 Henry Ford
*mmddyyyy Events
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S07011850 at least 626 ships lying at anchor around San Francisco Bay.
S07011867 Dominion of Canada formed.
S07011898 Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill.
S07011899 SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building.
S07011919 First Class Postage DROPS to 2 cents from 3 cents.
S07011944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing world-wide
S07011944Cfinancial systems (like the IMF and the World Bank).
S07011966 Construction crews begin tearing up Market St. to build BART.
S07011971 Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?).
S0701 Dominion Day -- Canada
S07021900 1st flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1).
S07021964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
S07031608 Quebec is founded.
S07031775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
S07031819 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
S07031861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from New York.
S07041054 brightest known super-nova starts shining, for 23 days.
S07041845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond.
S07041863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho).
S07041873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens.
S07041876 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco.
S07041882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens.
S07041894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the 1st US autos
S07041903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens.
S07041903CPresident Roosevelt sends a message to the Phillipines,
S07041903Cthen a message around the world in 12 minutes.
S07041933 work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge.
S0704 Independence Day
S07051811 Venezuela gains independence from Spain.
S07051865 William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England.
S07051935 1st 'Hawaii Calls' radio program is broadcast.
S07051938 Herb Caen gets his 1st column in the S.F. Chronicle.
S0705 Independence Day, celebrated in Venezuela
S07061885 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur
S07061928 preview of 1st all-talking motion picture took place in NYC
S07061932 First Class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents.
S07061933 1st All-Star baseball game. American League won 5-2.
S07071891 a patent was granted for the travelers cheque.
S07071898 Hawaii annexed to the US.
S07071908 the Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay.
S07081796 1st American Passport issued by the US State Department.
S07081835 the Liberty Bell cracks (again).
S07081889 Vol 1, No 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" published.
S07081896 William Jennings Bryan makes his 'cross of gold' speech at the
S07081896CDemocratic Convention in Chicago.
S07081897 Harbor Hospital formally opens.
S07081905 Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center
S07091816 Argentina gains it's independence.
S07091846 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for the U.S.
S07091979 Voyager II flies past Jupiter.
S0709 National POW/MIA Recognition Day
S0709 Independence Day, celebrated in Argentina
S07101890 Wyoming becomes the 44th state.
S07101925 the Scopes 'Monkey' Trial starts.
S07101962 Telstar, 1st geosynchonous communications satelite launched.
S07111804 Burr and Hamilton duel.
S07111962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I).
S0711 National Holiday of the People's Republic of Outer Mongolia.
S0711 C(Celebrated mainly in Ulan Bator, yurt capital of Asia)
S07121543 Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th & last wife).
S07121812 US forces lead by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812).
S07121933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour).
S07121934 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned.
S07131865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west".
S07131898 SF Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street opens.
S0713 the start of the Bon Festival in Japan.
S07141789 the citizens of Paris storm the Bastille prison.
S07141850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration.
S07141853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese.
S07141865 the 1st ascent of the Matterhorn.
S07141927 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii.
S0714 Bastille Day -- France
S07151867 SF Merchant's Exchange opens.
S0715 National Ice Cream Day
S0715 Saint Swithin's Day
S07161769 Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif.
S07161790 Congress establishes the District of Columbia.
S07161861 1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run.
S07161945 1st atomic blast, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico.
S07161946 Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history).
S07161969 Apollo 11, 1st manned ship to land on the moon, launched.
S0716 the National Blueberry Festival
S07171879 1st railroad opens in Hawaii.
S07171954 Construction begins on Disneyland...
S07171955 ...Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County.
S0717 Constitution Day, celebrated in South Korea
S0718 64 the Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle).
S07181872 Britain introduces voting by secret ballot.
S07181938 Wrong Way Corrigan lands in Ireland (not California??)
S07181968 Intel Corporation is incorporated.
S0718 National Day, celebrated in Spain
S07191848 First Women's Rights Convention. Seneca Falls, NY
S07191880 SF Public Library allows patrons to start borrowing books.
S07191935 1st parking meters installed in the Oklahoma City business district.
S07191955 the "Balclutha" ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum.
S07191961 1st In-flight movie is shown (on TWA).
S07201810 Columbia gains it's independence.
S07201859 admission fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents).
S07201878 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii.
S07201969 Man landed on the Moon, 4:18PM EDT
S07201970 1st baby born on Alcatraz Island.
S07201976 1st pictures from Mars surface received (courtesy Viking 2).
S0720 Independence Day, celebrated in Columbia
S07211831 Belgium gains it's independence.
S07211867 City Gardens on Folsom opens.
S07211873 world's 1st train robbery, by Jesse James.
S07211969 Neil Armstrong steps on the moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT).
S0721 Independence Day, celebrated in Belgium.
S07231829 Typewriter is patented.
S07231852 first interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio.
S07231877 first telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii is completed.
S07231904 The Ice Cream Cone is invented.
S0723 National Day, in Egypt.
S07251903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes.
S07251909 1st airplane flight across the English Channel.
S07251967 Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway).
S07261775 Benjamin Franklin becomes Postmaster General.
S07261835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii.
S07261847 Liberia gains it's independence.
S0726 the start of the Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree in Athens, Texas
S0726 Independence Day, celebrated in Liberia.
S07271866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long).
S07271940 Billboard magazine starts publishing best-seller's charts.
S07281821 Peru gains it's independence.
S07281849 "Memmon" is 1st clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of NY
S07281900 the Hamburger is created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
S07281931 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd National Anthem.
S07281933 1st Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee).
S0728 Independence Day, celebrated in Peru.
S07291835 first sugar plantation in Hawaii begun.
S07291858 1st commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
S07291914 1st transcontinental phone link made. Between NYC and San Francisco
S07291920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from New York to San Francisco
S07291958 Southern Pacific Bay Ferries stop running.
A07291981 the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana
S0729 6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
S07301619 the House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed. 1st elective
S07301619Cgoverning body in a British colony.
S07301836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii.
S0730 6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
S07311790 1st US Patent granted (for a potash process).
S07311970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending 'Huntley-Brinkley Report'
S07311970C(No more "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet")
S0731 6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.