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B01011449 Lorenzo de'Medici (The Magnificent) of Florence
B01011481 Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer
B01011735 Paul Revere, US patriot, The British are coming
B01011745 General Anthony Wayne, military leader ("Mad Anthony")
B01011752 Elizabeth Griscom (Betsy) Ross, flag maker
B01011819 Arthur Hugh Clough, poet, friend of Matthew Arnold
B01011854 Sir James Frazer, British anthropologist, author (The Golden Bough)
B01011864 Alfred Stieglitz, father of modern photography
B01011867 Lew Fields, comedian (of Weber & Fields)
B01011873 Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (The Flies, The Bosses)
B01011879 E.M. Forster, English novelist (Howard's End, A Passage to India)
B01011895 J Edgar Hoover, Mr FBI
B01011900 Xavier Cugat, bandleader
B01011909 Barry Goldwater (R), former US senator from Az
B01011909 Dana Andrews, actor (Battle of the Bulge, Laura)
B01011909 John Glenn, astronaut
B01011911 Hank Greenberg - Detroit Tiger Hall of Famer
B01011919 Carole Landis
B01011919 J D Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'
B01011922 Ernest Hollings (D), US senator from SC
B01011925 George Conner, NFL tackle, linebacker (Chicago Bears)
B01011927 Yuri Grigorovich, Russian choreographer
B01011932 Terry Moore in Los Angeles Calif
B01011942 Country Joe McDonald
B01011942 Gennadi V. Sarafanov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 15)
B01021647 Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va. (1676)
B01021727 James Wolfe, commander of British Army at capture of Qu‚bec
B01021861 Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady
B01021863 Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)
B01021920 Isaac Asimov, scientist-writer
B01021922 Renata Tebaldi, lyric soprano
B01021927 Gino Marchetti, NFL defensive end (Dallas Texans, Baltimore Colts)
B01021927 Rep Richard Belmont Ray, D-Ga
B01021936 Roger Miller, singer (King of the Road)
B0103 106 Cicero, Roman statesman
B01031543 Juan Cabrillo, discoverer of California
B01031793 Lucretia Coffin Mott, Woman's right leader
B01031840 Father Damien, helped lepers in Hawaii
B01031870 Henry Handel Richardson, Australian novelist (Richard Mahoney)
B01031879 Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady
B01031883 Clement R. Attlee (Labour), British prime minister (1945-51)
B01031892 J.R.R. Tolkien,REAL Lord of the Rings
B01031905 Ray Milland, actor (Dial M for Murder, The Lost Weekend)
B01031909 Victor Borge, pianist, comedian, Denmark
B01031916 Betty Furness in NYC
B01031918 Maxine Andrews of singing Andrew Sister
B01031928 Jeanne Moreau in Paris France
B01031930 Robert Loggia, actor (1st Love, An Officer & a Gentleman)
B01031939 Bobby Hull, hockey player
B01031945 Stephen Stills, singer, songwriter
B01031947 Melanie (Safka) in Astoria Queens
B01031950 Victoria Principal, actress (Earthquake, Dallas) in Japan
B01041581 Bishop James Ussher, calculated that earth began Nov. 23, 4004 BC
B01041643 Sir Issac Newton, scientist (Whatever goes up)
B01041785 Jacob Grimm, German librarian, philologist, fairy tale collector
B01041789 Benjamin Lundy, philanthropist, abolitionist
B01041797 Wilhelm Beer, German amateur who helps to construct 1st moon map
B01041809 Louis Braille, developed reading system for blind
B01041813 Sir Issac Pitman, shorthand inventor
B01041838 Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person)
B01041914 Jane Wyman in St Joseph Missouri 1st Mrs Ronald Reagan
B01041930 Don Shula, NFL coach (Miami Dolphins)
B01041930 Sorrell Brooke, actor
B01041930 Barbara Rush in Denver Colorodo (Hombre, When Worlds Collide)
B01041935 Floyd Patterson, world heavyweight champ (1956-59, 1960-62)
B01041937 Dyan Cannon Former Mrs Cary Grant, actress in Tacoma Wash
B01041943 Tom Wilkinson, CFL quarterback (Edmonton Eskimos)
B0105 Sherlock Holmes Fictional detective
B01051592 Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), builder of Taj Mahal
B01051779 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero
B01051846 Rudolf Eucken, German Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908)
B01051855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of safety razor
B01051876 Konrad Adenauer, German Chancellor
B01051895 Jeannette Piccard, balloonist, Episcopal priest
B01051911 Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (Cat & Mouse, Happy Hooker)
B01051921 Jean, grand duke of Luxembourg (1964- )
B01051925 Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor of Wyoming
B01051926 Claude (Buddy) Young, NFL running back (Yankees, Texans, Colts)
B01051928 Walter Mondale (D), 42nd US vp (1977-81)
B01051938 Jim Otto, NFL center (Oakland Raiders)
B01051938 Juan Carlos I, king of Spain (1975- )
B01051940 Dany Saval
B01051946 Diane Keaton, actress (Annie Hall, Little Drummer Girl) LA
B01051954 Pamela Sue Martin in Conn
B01061412 Joan of Arc, martyr
B01061799 Jedediah Smith, fur trader, explorer
B01061811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator
B01061823 Gustave Dor‚, illustrator (Inferno, Rime of Ancient Mariner)
B01061838 Max Bruch, German composer
B01061842 Clarence King, geologist, mining engineer
B01061854 Sherlock Holmes, according to Arthur Conan Doyle
B01061871 Aleksandr Scriabin, Russian composer
B01061878 Carl Sandburg, poet, biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes)
B01061880 Tom Mix, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin)
B01061882 Samuel Rayburn (D), speaker of House (1940-57)
B01061883 Khalil Gibran, Lebanese mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings)
B01061911 Joey Adams, comedian
B01061913 Loretta Young, (Farmer's Daughter, Stranger) in Salt Lake City
B01061914 Danny Thomas, comedian, actor
B01061915 Don Edwards (D), US representative from California
B01061920 Sun Myung Moon, evangelist (Unification Church)
B01061924 Earl Scruggs, bluegrass musician
B01061934 Sylvia Sims
B01061945 Bonnie Franklin, TV actress (One Day at a Time) in Santa Monica
B01061957 Nancy Lopez Golf pro
B01071800 Millard Fillmore (Whig), 13th US pres (1850-53)
B01071845 Louis III, last king of Bavaria (1913-18)
B01071911 Butterfly McQueen, actress (Gone with the Wind)
B01071925 Gerald Durrell, British zoologist, writer, broadcaster
B01071935 Valeri N. Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 6, 36, Apollo-Soyuz)
B01071942 Vasili Alexeyev, world champion weight-lifter
B01071948 Kenny Loggins, singer
B01081587 Johannes Fabricius, Dutch astronomer who discovered sunspots
B01081786 Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US 1st effective central bank
B01081823 Alfred Russel Wallace, codiscoverer of evolution
B01081862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co
B01081864 William Wilkie Collins, English novelist (The Moonstone)
B01081867 Emily Balch, US sociologist, feminist, pacifist (Nobel 1946)
B01081868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
B01081891 Walther Bothe, German subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954)
B01081902 Carl R. Rogers, psychologist
B01081904 Peter Arno Cartoonist
B01081912 Jos‚ Ferrer, actor, director (Cyrano de Bergerac)
B01081923 Joseph Wiezenbaum, artificial intelligence pioneer
B01081926 Milton Hines AKA Soupy Sales
B01081934 Jacques Anquetil, 5-time winner of Tour de France bicycle race
B01081935 Elvis Presley, singer (Blue Suede Shoes, Hounddog)
B01081937 Shirley Bassey in Wales
B01081942 Vyacheslav D. Zudov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
B01081942 Yvette Mimieux in Hollywood Cal (Time Machine, Where the Boys Are)
B01081946 Tod Brannan
B01081947 David Bowie, singer, actor
B010819?? Lauri Walter, 8 is Enough
B01091728 Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy)
B01091859 Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, founder of League of Women Voters
B01091870 Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge
B01091898 Gracie Fields
B01091901 Chic Young, creator of "Blondie" comic strip
B01091902 Rudolph Bing, opera manager
B01091904 George Balanchine, dancer-choreographer
B01091908 Simone de Beauvoir, French author (The Mandarins, The Second Sex)
B01091913 Richard Milhous Nixon (R), 36th pres (1968-74) (I am not a crook!)
B01091914 Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque entertainer, actress
B01091925 Lee Van Cleef, actor (For a Few Dollars More, Escape from NY)
B01091934 Bart Starr, NFL quarterback, coach (Green Bay)
B01091941 Joan Baez, folk singer, human rights advocate in Staten Island
B01091941 Susannah York, actress (A Man for All Seasons, Tom Jones) in London
B01091951 Crystal Gale in Kentucky
B01091951 Rosalyn Kind, singer in Bkln
B01101738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys)
B01101877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented elecrostatic precipitator
B01101880 Manuel Aza¤a y D¡az, P.M., president of 2nd Spanish republic
B01101883 Francis X. Bushman, silent film actor (The Spy's Defeat)
B01101883 Florence Reed, silent film actress (The Dancing Girl)
B01101887 Robinson Jeffers, American poet, playwright (Tamar & Other Poems)
B01101888 Grock, Swiss clown
B01101904 Ray Bolger, dancer, actor (Once in Love with Amy, Wizard of Oz)
B01101910 Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina
B01101926 June Haver
B01101927 Johnnie Ray, pop singer
B01101927 Gisele MacKenzie in Winnipeg Manitoba
B01101938 Willie McCovey, baseball player

B01101945 Rod Stewart, singer
B01101949 George Foreman, world heavyweight boxing champ (1973-74)
B01101953 Pat Benatar in Brooklyn, Hell is for Children
B01111755 Alexander Hamilton, 1st Sec of US Treasury
B01111807 Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University
B01111815 Sir John A. MacDonald (C), 1st prime minister of Canada (1867-73)
B01111839 Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican patriot, scholar
B01111842 William James, American psychologist, philosopher
B01111850 Philipp la Renotiere von Ferrary, famous philatelist
B01111885 Alice Paul, founder of National Woman's Party, ERA advocate
B01111896 Eva Le Gallienne, actress
B01111896 Paddy Driscoll, NFL quarterback, coach (Chic Cardinals, Bears)
B01111903 Alan Paton, South African writer (Cry, the Beloved Country)
B01111906 Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, discoverer of LSD
B01111926 Grant Tinker, broadcasting executive
B01111926 Lev S. Demin, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 15)
B01111930 Rod Taylor, actor
B01111948 Madeline Manning, runner
B01111974 Rosenkowitz sextuplets (1st known to have survived infancy)
B01121588 John Winthrop, 1st gov of Mass Bay Colony
B01121729 Edmund Burke, famous Whig
B01121737 John Hancock, Decl of Ind signer (or 0123)
B01121856 John Singer Sargent, American painter
B01121876 Jack London, writer (Call of the Wild)
B01121910 Luise Rainer, actress
B01121913 Edward Gurney, senator
B01121920 James Farmer, black activist
B01121926 Ray Price, country singer
B01121930 Glenn Yarborough, singer
B01131808 Salmon P. Chase (R), senator, cabinet member, 6th chief justice
B01131832 Horatio Alger, Jr., American clergyman, author of boys' books
B01131884 Sophie Tucker, last red hot mamma
B01131913 Ralph Edwards (This is your life)
B01131919 Jesse White, actor (Maytag repairman)
B01131919 Robert Stack, TV & film actor (Elliot Ness)
B01131925 Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer (Cotton Club) in LA
B01131931 Charles Nelson Reilly, comedian
B01141730 William Whipple, Decl of Ind signer
B01141741 Gen Benedict Arnold, fink
B01141791 Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm)
B01141861 Mehmed VI, last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22)
B01141875 Albert Schweitzer, doctor, humanitarian, organist (Nobel 1952)
B01141892 Hal Roach, early film director & producer
B01141896 John dos Passos, novelist (1919, Big Money, 42nd Parallel)
B01141919 Andy Rooney, TV commentator (60 Minutes)
B01141926 Thomas Tryon, actor, novelist
B01141932 Catarina Valenti, singer in Paris France
B01141940 Julian Bond (D), civil rights leader, Georgia legislator
B01141941 Faye Dunaway, actress (Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde) in Fla
B01151622 MoliŠre, French dramatist (baptized)
B01151716 Philip Livingston, merchant, signer of Declaration of Independence
B01151809 Pierre Joseph Proudhon, French libertarian socialist
B01151850 Sofya Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician
B01151866 Nathan S”derblom, Lutheran archbishop, internationalist (Nobel '30)
B01151899 Goodman Ace, radio & TV writer, actor, columnist, humorist
B01151906 Aristotle Onassis, industrialist
B01151908 Edward Teller, fathered H-bomb
B01151913 Lloyd Bridges, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane)
B01151918 Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian leader
B01151919 S. Kovalevskaya
B01151926 Chuck Berry, singer (Johnny B. Goode)
B01151926 Maria Schell in Vienna Austria - Space 1999
B01151929 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer (Nobel Peace Prize 1964)
B01151937 Margaret O'Brien in San Diego Calif
B01151946 Janet Lennon in Culver City
B01151951 Charo in Spain
B01161853 Andr‚ Michelin, French industrialist, tire manufacturer
B01161874 Robert Service, Canadian poet (Cremation of Sam McGee)
B01161894 Guy Chamberlin, early NFL end, coach
B01161909 Ethel Merman, everythings coming up roses
B01161911 Dizzy Dean, baseball player (St Louis Cardinals)
B01161924 Katy Jurado in Mexico
B01161929 Allard Lowenstein, Students for Democratic Action
B01161930 Norman Podhoretz, author
B01161933 Oleg G Makarov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18-1, 27, T-3)
B01161934 Marilyn Horne in Pennsylvania
B01161935 A.J. Foyt, auto race driver
B01171706 Benjamin Franklin, Boston, kite flyer, statesman, wit
B01171732 Stanislaw II, last king of Poland (1764-95)
B01171771 Charles Brockden Brown, father of American novel
B01171818 Sir Antoine Dorion (L), joint premier of Canada (1858, 1863-64)
B01171857 Eugene Augustin Lauste, developed 1st sound-on-film recording
B01171863 David Lloyd George (Liberal), prime minister of Britain (1916-22)
B01171863 Konstantin Stanislavsky, actor, director, producer, methodist
B01171880 Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops
B01171899 Robert Maynard Hutchins, American educator, civil libertarian
B01171919 A Chekhov
B01171924 Betty White, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Golden Girls) in Oak Pk
B01171926 Moira Shearer, Scottish ballerina
B01171931 James Earl Jones, actor (Darth Vader)
B01171933 Sheree North in Los Angeles
B01171934 Shari Lewis, puppeteer in Bronx NY
B01171944 Joe Frazier, heavyweight champion boxer (1968-73)
B01171949 Debbie Watson in Culver City California
B01181779 Peter Roget of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule, pocket chessboard
B01181782 Daniel Webster, early American orator & politician
B01181813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented 1st coml useable barbed wire
B01181849 Sir Edmund Barton, 1st prime minister of Australia (1900-03)
B01181854 Thomas A Watson, needed by Bell
B01181867 Rub‚n Dar¡o, national poet of Nicaragua
B01181882 A.A. Milne, author of Winnie-the-Pooh
B01181892 Oliver Hardy, of comedy team Laurel & Hardy
B01181904 Cary Grant, actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest)
B01181913 Danny Kaye, comedian, actor, UNICEF
B01181922 Constance Moore in Sioux City Iowa
B01181942 Muhammad Ali (aka Cassius Clay), boxer
B0119 Muhammad
B01191095 St Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester, ended sale of slaves at Bristol
B01191736 James Watt, made steam engine workable (or 1753)
B01191749 Isaiah Thomas, American printer, editor, publisher, historian
B01191798 Auguste Comte, philosopher, founder of sociology & Positivism
B01191807 Robert E Lee, Confederate gen
B01191809 Edgar Allen Poe, author (The Pit & the Pendulum)
B01191813 Sir Henry Bessemer, engineer-inventor
B01191839 Paul C‚zanne, painter
B01191859 Alice Eastwood
B01191906 Lanny Ross, singer
B01191917 John Raitt, singer
B01191922 Guy Madison, actor (Computer Wizard, Jet over the Atlantic)
B01191923 Jean Stapleton, actress (Damn Yankees, Klute) in NYC
B01191926 Fritz Weaver, actor (Day of the Dolphin, Demon Seed)
B01191932 Joe Schmidt, NFL linebacker (Detroit)
B01191935 Tippi Hedren in Minnesota, The Birds
B01191943 Janis Joplin in Port Arthur Texas
B01191944 Shelly Fabraes in Santa Monica
B01191946 Dolly Parton, country singer, bra buster in Tennessee
B01191947 Ann Compton, TV news reporter
B01191951 Linda Hayden
B01191953 Desi Arnez, Jr, actor
B01201760 Charles III, king of Spain (1759-88)
B01201775 Andr‚-Marie AmpŠre, founder of science of electromagnetism
B01201873 Johannes V Jensen, Danish novelist, poet, essayist (Nobel 1944)
B01201891 Mischa Elman Violinist
B01201896 Nathan Birnbaum (better known as George Burns)
B01201903 Leon Ames, actor
B01201920 Federico Fellini, director (8«, Satyricon
B01201926 Patricia Neal, actress (Hud, The Subject Was Roses) in Packard Ky
B01201930 Edwin E (Buzz) Aldrin Jr, US astronaut (Gemini 12, Apollo 11)
B01201937 Dorothy Provine in Deadwood SD
B01201956 John Naber, swimmer
B01211338 Charles V (the Wise), king of France (1364-80)
B01211743 John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton
B01211813 John C Fr‚mont, map maker & explorer of western US
B01211815 Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia
B01211821 John Cabell Breckinridge (D), 14th US vice-president (1857-61)
B01211824 Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson, Confederate gen
B01211884 Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of American Civil Liberties Union
B01211887 Wolfgang K”hler, Gestalt psychologist (The Mentality of Apes)
B01211921 Barney Clark, 1st person to receive a permanent artificial heart
B01211922 Paul Scofield, author
B01211924 Benny Hill, British comedian
B01211924 Telly Savalas, actor, "Who Loves Ya Baby?"
B01211932 Boris Shakhlin, Soviet Olympic gymnast
B01211940 Jack Nicklaus, golfer
B01211941 Placido Domingo, operatic tenor
B01211955 Robby Bensen, actor (One on One, Running Brave)
B01221440 Ivan III (the Great), grand prince of Russia
B01221561 Francis Bacon, English statesman, essayist (Novum Organum)
B01221729 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German critic, dramatist
B01221788 George Gordon, Lord Byron, English Romantic poet
B01221802 Richard Upjohn, American Gothic architect (Trinity Chapel, NY)
B01221849 August Strindberg, Swedish dramatist, novelist
B01221875 D.W. Griffith, movie producer (Birth of a Nation)
B01221912 Ann Sothern, voice of my mother the car
B01221909 U Thant, 3rd secretary-general of UN (1962-72), Burma
B01221920 William Warfield, singer (Show Boat)
B01221928 Birch Bayh (D), former US senator from Indiana
B01221932 Piper Laurie in Detroit Michigan
B01221934 Bill Bixby, actor (Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian)
B01221937 Joseph Wambaugh, police writer (The Onionfields)
B01221959 Linda Blair, actress (The Exorcist) in St Louis Mo
B01231730 Joseph Hewes, Decl of Ind signer
B01231756 Wolfgang A Mozart, musical prodigy
B01231783 Marie-Henri Beyle, aka Stendhal, French novelist
B01231832 douard Manet, French Impressionist painter
B01231857 Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian geologist (Moho discontinuity)
B01231862 David Hilbert, mathematician
B01231898 Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film maker (Battleship Potemkin)
B01231899 Humphrey Bogart, actor
B01231903 Randolph Scott, actor
B01231915 Potter Stewart, US Supreme Court justice
B01231919 Eisenstein
B01231930 William R Pogue, US astronaut (Skylab 4)
B01231933 Arlene Golonka
B01231933 Chita Rivera, actress (West Side Story) in Washington DC
B01231936 Jerry Kramer, Green Bay Packer, author
B01231943 Gil Gerard
B01231958 Princess Caroline of Monaco
B01241712 Frederick I (the Great), king of Prussia (1740-86)
B01241746 Gustav III, king during Swedish Enlightenment (1771-92)
B01241862 Edith Wharton, Novelist US
B01241880 Elisabeth Achelis, inventor of World Calendar
B01241888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built 1st rocket-powered aircraft
B01241917 Ernest Borgnine, actor (Ice Station Zebra, Young Warriors)
B01241918 Oral Roberts, Evangelist
B01241922 Ava Gardner
B01241925 Maria Tallchief, ballerina in Fairfax Ok
B01241927 Paula Hawkins (R-sen-Fla)
B01241941 Neil Diamond, Jazz-Singer
B01241946 Barry Bostwick, actor
B01241947 Giorgio Chinaglia, soccer star (Lazio of Italy, NY Cosmos)
B01241949 John Belushi, commedian, actor (Sat Night Live, Blues Brothers)
B01241960 Nastassia Kinski in Berlin Germany
B0125 749 Leo IV (the Khazar), Byzantine emperor (775-80)
B01251627 Robert Boyle, Irish physicist, chemist, author
B01251736 Joseph-Louis, comte de Lagrange, mathematician
B01251759 Robert Burns, Scottish poet
B01251860 Charles Curtis (R), 31st US vice-president (1929-33)
B01251874 Somerset Maugham, novelist, poet (Of Human Bondage, Cakes & Ale)
B01251882 Virginia Woolf, author (Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse)
B01251899 Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian statesman, leader in European integration
B01251919 Edwin Newman, newscaster
B01251924 Lou (the Toe) Groza, AAFC, NFL tackle, kicker (Cleveland Browns)
B01251933 Corazon Aquino, president of Philippines (1986- )
B01251934 Elizabeth Allen in New Jersey
B01251935 Dean Jones, actor (Love Bug, That Darn Cat)
B01251945 Leigh Taylor Young in Washington DC
B01261715 French philosopher Claude Helvetius
B01261763 Charles XIV, French marshall, king of Sweden & Norway (1818-44)
B01261826 Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady
B01261831 Writer Mary Dodge (`Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates')
B01261880 Gen Douglas MacArthur, he did return!
B01261904 Sean MacBride, Irish statesman, minister (Nobel Peace Prize 1974)
B01261913 Jimmy Van Heusen, songwriter
B01261918 Nicolae Ceausescu, Rumanian president
B01261923 Anne Jeffereys in North Carolina
B01261925 Joan Leslie, actress
B01261925 Paul Newman, actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler), racer & popcorn mogul
B01261928 Eartha Kitt in South Carolina
B01261928 Roger Vadim, Director
B01261929 Jules Feiffer, cartoonist (Passionella)
B01261931 Mary Murphy
B01261935 Bob Uecker, Sports personality
B01261944 Angela Davis, black activist
B01261961 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oiler
B01271756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, musical prodigy, Salzburg Austria
B01271823 douard Lalo, French composer (Symphonie espagnole)
B01271832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll)
B01271834 Dmitri Mendeleev, discoverer of periodic table (or 1919)
B01271850 Samuel Gompers, 1st pres of AFL
B01271885 Jerome Kern, Broadway composer
B01271891 Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet writer
B01271894 Fritz Pollard, early black NFL star (1920-26)
B01271900 Admiral Hyman G Rickover, father of modern nuclear navy
B01271901 Art Rooney, NFL team owner (Pittsburgh)
B01271911 Benay Venuta, actress
B01271918 Skitch Henderson Bandleader
B01271921 Donna Reed in Denison Iowa
B01271927 Joe Perry, AAFC, NFL fullback (SF 49ers, Baltimore Colts)
B01271929 Ingrid Thulin in Sweden
B01271936 Troy Donahue, actor (Cockfighter, Grandview USA)
B01281457 Henry VII, king of England (1485-1509)
B01281611 Johannes Hevelius, Danzig star cataloguer
B01281822 Alexander MacKenzie (L), 2nd prime minister of Canada (1873-78)
B01281841 Henry Stanley, explorer who found Livingstone
B01281853 Jos‚ Mart¡, Cuban poet, essayist, politician
B01281855 William Seward Burroughs, inventor of recording adding machine
B01281869 Ozaki Koyo, Japanese novelist, essayist, haiku poet (The Heart)
B01281884 Auguste & Jean Felix Piccard, Swiss scientists, explorers
B01281887 Artur Rubinstein, pianist
B01281922 Robert W Holley, American biochemist, worked with tRNA (Nobel '68)
B01281929 Claes Oldenburg, sculptor
B01281933 Susan Sontag, author, film director
B01281936 Alan Alda, actor (Hawkeye Pierce)
B01281948 Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer
B012819?? Susan Howard in Marshall Texas
B01291688 Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish religious leader
B01291737 Thomas Paine, political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason)
B01291756 Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee, cavalryman
B01291843 William McKinley (R), 24th US pres (1897-1901)
B01291850 Lawrence Hargrave, invented box kite
B01291860 Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard)
B01291862 Frederick Delius, English composer
B01291866 Romain Rolland, French writer (Jean-Christophe) (Nobel 1915)
B01291874 John D Rockefeller Jr, financier
B01291880 Claude William Dukenfield (better known as WC Fields)
B01291901 Allen B DuMont-perfected 1st coml practical cathode ray tube
B01291916 Victor Mature actor (One Million BC, Robe)
B01291918 John Forsythe actor
B01291939 Germaine Greer in Melbourne Australia
B01291942 Claudine Longet in France - Former Mrs Andy Williams
B01291943 Katharine Ross in Hollywood Cal
B01291945 Tom Selleck, actor (Magnum PI)
B01291951 Ann Jillian in Cambridge Mass
B01291953 Oprah Winfrey, actress, TV host (The Color Purple)
B01291958 Judy Norton-Taylor in Santa Monica, Cal (Waltons)
B01291960 Gregory Louganis, champion diver
B01301882 Franklin D Roosevelt, 32nd Pres (1933-1945) in New Hyde Park NY
B01301894 Boris III, tsar of Bulgaria (1918-43)
B01301912 Barbara Tuchman, historian, author (The Guns of August)
B01301914 David Wayne, actor
B01301922 Dick Martin, actor, comedian (Laugh-In)
B01301922 Barbara Hale in Dekalb Ill
B01301925 Dorothy Malone, actress (At Gunpoint!, Night & Day) in Chic
B01301928 Harold Prince, stage producer
B01301931 Gene Hackman, actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Under Fire)
B01301936 Tammy Grimes in Lynn Mass
B01301937 Boris Spassky of USSR, world chess champion (1969-72)
B01301937 Vanessa Redgrave, actress (Blow-Up, Julia, Orient Express) in London
B013019?? Tony O'Dell
B01311797 Franz Schubert, composer (Unfinished Symphony)
B01311830 James G Blaine, 'Plumed Knight'
B01311872 Zane Gray, American West novelist
B01311881 Irving Langmuir, physical chemist/colloid researcher (Nobel '32)
B01311892 Eddie Cantor, comedian
B01311902 Alva Myrdal, Swedish pacifist (Nobel 1981)
B01311913 Don Hutson, NFL end (Packers)
B01311913 Wayne Millner, NFL end (Boston/Washington Redskins)
B01311914 Jersey Joe Walcott, heavyweight boxing champ (1951-52)
B01311919 Jackie Robinson, 1st black major league baseball player
B01311923 Carol Channing in Seattle Wash - Diamonds are her best friend
B01311923 Joanne Dru in West Virginia
B01311923 Normal Mailer, novelist, NYC mayoral candidate (Naked & the Dead)
B01311929 Jean Simmons, actress in London
B01311929 Rudolf M”ssbauer, German physicist (Nobel 1961)
B01311937 Suzanne Pleshette, actress (The Birds, Bob Newhart Show) in NYC
B01311938 Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, queen of Netherlands (1980- )
B01311938 James G Watt, former sect of interior
B01311944 Jessica Walters in NYC
B01311947 Nolan Ryan, baseball player
B01311957 Shirley Babashoff, US Olympic swimmer

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S0101 Start of a new year Enjoy the bowl games
S0101 Commemoration of Circumcision of Jesus
S0101 Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes
S0101 St. Basil's Day (Orthodox)
S0101 Independence Day, celebrated in Haiti & Sudan
S0101 Mummers' Parade in Philadelphia, Pa
S0101 Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, Calif
S01014713 B.C. Julian calendar begins at Greenwich mean noon
S01011643 Isaac Newton baptized in St. John's Church in Colsterworth, England
S01011801 United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland established
S01011801 Giuseppe Piazzi discoved 1st asteroid, later named Ceres
S01011804 Haiti gains independence from France (National Day)
S01011808 Congress prohibits importation of slaves
S01011848 Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua
S01011863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln
S01011892 Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY
S01011892CEllis Island became reception center for new immigrants
S01011894 Manchester Ship Canal in England opened to traffic
S01011898 Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of SF Bay
S01011899 Cuba liberated from Spain by US (National Day)
S01011901 Commonwealth of Australia established
S01011902 1st Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California
S01011912 1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (763 miles)
S01011913 Post office begins parcel post deliveries
S01011934 Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison
S01011934 Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantees) effective
S01011936 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, NY Herald Tribune
S01011946 Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god
S01011948 1st newsreel in color, Pasadena, Ca
S01011954 Rose & Cotton Bowl are 1st sport colorcasts
S01011956 Sudan gains independence from Britain (National Day)
S01011957 International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6/30/1958
S01011958 European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation
S01011960 Cameroon gains independence from France
S01011962 Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand
S01011962 Beatles Decca audition
S01011965 International Cooperation Year
S01011971 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV
S01011972 International Book Year
S01011973 Britain, Ireland & Denmark join Common Market
S01011974 World Population Year
S01011975 International Women's Year
S01011978 Pres. Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
S01011979 International Year of the Child
S01011980 Decade of Water & Sanitation
S01011981 Palau (Trust Territory of Pacific Is.) becomes self-governing
S01011981 International Year for Disabled
S01011983 World Communications Year
S01011984 AT & T broken up into 8 companies
S01011984 Brunei gains complete independence from Britain
S01011985 International Youth Year
S01011986 Spain & Portugal become 11th & 12th members of Common Market
S01011986 International Peace Year
S01011987 Internat'l Year of Shelter
S01011988 NY Carnegie Deli's owner Leo Steiner dies
S01012304 Mid- CALENDAR day
S0102 Ancestor's (or Hero's) Day in Haiti
S0102 Betsy Ross Day
S0102 Earth at perihelion
S0102 Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes
S01021776 1st revolutionary flag displayed
S01021788 Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
S01021893 World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
S01021917 Royal Bank of Canada took over Quebec Bank
S01021921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
S01021933 Bruins beat Rangers in NY 13-3
S01021935 Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for kidnap-murder of Charles
S01021936 1st electron tube described, St Louis, Mo
S01021942 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace
S01021942 Japanese occupied Manila
S01021955 President Jose Antonio Remon of Panama assassinated
S01021957 SF & Los Angeles stock exchanges merge
S01021959 USSR launches Mechta, 1st lunar probe & artificial in solar orbit
S01021968 Dr Christian Barnard performs 1st successful heart transplant
S01021972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
S01021979 30th Islander shut-out opponent - Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver
S01021982 Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins
S01021983 Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes
S01021985 90th hat trick in Islander history - Brent Sutter
S01021986 191.66 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
S0103 Congress assembles, according to 20th amendment to constitution
S0103 Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes
S01031521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
S01031543 Juan Cabrillo, conqueror of Cen. America, discoverer of Calif, dies
S01031641 Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomical prodigy dies at 22
S01031777 Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, NJ
S01031852 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
S01031870 Brooklyn Bridge begun, completed on May 24, 1883
S01031888 1st drinking straw is patented
S01031900 Perihelion Passage
S01031912 S Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition free
S01031920 NY Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from the Red Sox
S01031921 Turkey made peace with Armenia
S01031929 27 year old William S Paley becomes president of CBS
S01031941 Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)
S01031943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa
S01031943 1st missing persons telecast, NYC
S01031946 William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) hanged in Britain, for treason
S01031957 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pa
S01031958 Sir Edmund Hillary reached South Pole overland
S01031959 Alaska becomes 49th state
S01031973 George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million
S01031977 Apple Computer incorporated
S0104 National Trivia Day
S0104 Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes
S01041754 Columbia University opened
S01041784 US treaty with Great Britain ratified
S01041790 Pres Washington delivers 1st "State of the Union"
S01041883 Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) formed
S01041896 Utah becomes 45th state
S01041948 Burma gains independence from Britain (National Day)
S01041959 Luna 1 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity
S01041962 1st unmanned subway train to run automatically - NYC
S01041982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm
S0105 Feast of St. Telesphorus, 8th pope (c. 125-c. 136), martyr
S0105 Twelfth Night, end of Christmas season
S01051589 Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, died
S01051809 Treaty of Dardanelles was concluded between Britain & France
S01051822 Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire
S01051850 Calif Exchange opens
S01051854 Steamship SF wrecked
S01051905 C Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara
S01051911 SF has it's 1st air meet
S01051914 Henry Ford announced a minimum wage of $5 for an eight hour day
S01051922 Sir Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, died aboard his ship
S01051925 Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman gov in USA
S01051926 James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hr day & $5 daily minimum wage
S01051933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side
S01051962 Tony Sheridan & Beatles produce My Bonnie & The Saints
S01051964 Pope Paul VI visits Jordan & Israel
S01051969 USSR Venera 5 launched. 1st successful planet landing - Venus
S01051972 NASA announces development of Space Shuttle
S01051975 Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
S01051985 Bryan Trottier failed in 9th Islander penalty shot
S01051987 Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, NJ
S0106 Arizona becomes 47th state
S0106 Feast of Epiphany (Twelfth Night of Christmas in England)
S01061663 Great earthquake in New England
S01061753 Epiphany
S01061838 Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
S01061884 Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk & heredity pioneer, died
S01061893 Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
S01061912 New Mexico becomes 47th state
S01061914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
S01061930 1st diesel engine automobile trip completed
S01061936 Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario)
S01061941 FDR names 4 freedoms (freedom of speech, religion; from want, fear)
S01061942 1st around world flight by Pan Am "Pacific Clipper"
S01061951 Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes
S01061981 50th hat trick in Islander history - John Tonelli scored 5 goals
S01061987 100th US Congress convenes
S0107 St. John the Baptist Day (Orthodox)
S0107 2Plough Monday
S01071558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French
S01071610 Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede
S01071714 Typewriter patented (built years later)
S01071753 Plough Monday
S01071785 1st balloon flight across English Channel
S01071789 1st natl presidental election - US
S01071822 1st printing in Hawaii
S01071822 Liberia colonized by Americans
S01071929 "Tarzan", one of the 1st adventure comic strips appears
S01071963 1st class postage raised from 4› to 5›.
S01071967 Newlywed Game premiers
S01071968 1st class postage raised from 5› to 6›
S01071972 LA Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record)
S01071982 Islander's Bryan Trottier's 10th career hat trick
S0108 Feast of St. Gudula, patron of Brussels
S0108 St. Dominique's Day (Orthodox)
S0108 Anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans
S0108 Last day a ball club can re-sign their own free agent until May 1
S0108 2Plough Monday
S01081336 Giotto, Italian Renaissance painter, dies (birth date unknown)
S01081583 Iotto Day
S01081642 Galileo Galilei dies at 78 in Arceti, Italy
S01081798 11th Amendment ratified, Judicial powers construed
S01081815 Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew
S01081880 Passing of Norton I, Emperor of US, Protector of Mexico
S01081913 Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager
S01081932 Ratification of present SF City Charter
S01081935 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy
S01081952 Antonia Maury, discoverer of supergiant, giant & dwarf stars, dies
S01081958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
S01081968 US Surveyor 7 lands near crater Tycho on moon
S01081973 USSR launches Luna 21 for moon landing
S01081980 Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent - Canucks 3-0
S0109 2Plough Monday
S01091788 Conneticut becomes 5th state
S01091793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America
S01091799 1st income tax imposed, in England
S01091839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax Alpha Centauri
S01091839 Daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science
S01091843 Caroline Herschel, "1st lady of astronomy," dies at 98 in Germany
S01091847 1st SF paper, 'California Star', published
S01091848 1st commercial bank in SF established
S01091854 Astor Library opened in NY
S01091861 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede from US
S01091903 AL Baltimore baseball team bought, to move to NY for $18,000
S01091912 US marines invade Honduras
S01091915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated
S01091936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
S01091945 As vowed, MacArthur returned to Philippines
S01091976 Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
S01091978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
S01091982 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855
S01091987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
S0110 2Plough Monday
S01101776 Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" published
S01101806 Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
S01101840 Penny Post mail system is started
S01101861 Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US
S01101863 1st underground railway opens in London
S01101911 Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
S01101920 League of Nations established
S01101932 Mickey Mouse & Silly Symphony comics syndicated
S01101944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Phila
S01101945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
S01101946 UN General Assembly meets for 1st time
S01101946 US Army establishes 1st radar contact with moon, Belmar, NJ
S01101949 1st Jewish family show - The Goldberg's begin
S01101951 1st jet passenger trip made
S01101964 That Was The Week That Was premiers
S01101969 USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
S01101970 Preview Center Opens
S01101977 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
S01101978 Pedro Joaqu¡n Chamorro of La Prensa assassinated in Managua
S01101978 Soyuz 27 is launched
S0111 Feast of St. Hyginus, 9th pope (c. 136-c. 140), martyr
S0111 2Plough Monday
S01110935 1st woman to fly solo across Pacific left Honolulu, AE Putnam
S01111642 Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
S01111787 Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel
S01111805 Michigan Territory organized
S01111813 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii
S01111861 Alabama becomes 4th state to secede from US
S01111861 Mexico City captured by Juarez
S01111892 Hawaiian Historical Society founded
S01111915 Jacob Ruppert & Huston purchase Yankees for $460,000
S01111923 French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations
S01111935 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California (non-stop, of course)
S01111963 Beatles release Please Please Me & Ask Me Why
S01111975 Soyuz 17 is launched
S01111978 Gov. Askew dedicates the RCUC solar office building
S01111983 Billy Martin named Yankee manager for 3rd time
S0112 Volunteer Fireman Day
S0112 2Plough Monday
S01121777 Mission Santa Clara de Asis founded in Cal
S01121820 Royal Astronomical Society, founded in England
S01121836 Battle of Wetumka, Fla
S01121945 US Navy destroys 41 Jap ships in Battle of S China Sea
S01121969 AFC wins its 1st Super Bowl (III) (NY Jets 16, Balt Colts 7)
S01121971 All in the Family premiers
S01121986 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 is launched
S0113 Commemoration of Baptism of Jesus
S0113 2Plough Monday
S0113 6Friday the 13th! Beware!
S01131610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter
S01131630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
S01131854 Anthony Foss obtains patent for accordion
S01131894 Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops
S01131920 NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly
S01131930 Mickey Mouse comic strip first appears
S01131939 Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert dies
S01131966 1st black in presidental cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver)
S01131969 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album
S01131971 Apollo 14 launched
S01131978 Yankee manager Joe McCarthy dies at 90
S01131981 Islander's Mike Bossy's 15th career hat trick - 4 goals
S01131985 Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders
S01131985 Carol Wayne dies at 42
S0114 Feast of St. Hilary, bishop of Poitiers
S0114 Julian calendar New Year's Day in 20th, 21st centuries
S01141742 Edmund Halley, genius eclipsed by Newton, dies at 86
S01141784 Revolutionary War ends when Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris
S01141847 Conspiracy in New Mexico against US
S01141914 Henry Ford introduces assembly line for cars
S01141936 L.M. (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America
S01141939 All coml ferry service to East Bay ends
S01141952 Today show premiers
S01141969 Soyuz 4 is launched
S0115 Feast of St. Paul of Thebes, 1st hermit
S0115 2Martin Luther King Day
S01151535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
S01151759 British Museum opens
S01151778 Nootka Sound discovered by Capt. Cook
S01151861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
S01151927 Dunbarton Bridge, 1st bridge in Bay Area, opens
S01151939 Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
S01151943 World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed
S01151967 Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs 35-10 in Super Bowl I (NBC & CBS)
S01151968 Soyuz 5 launched
S01151973 Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican
S01151974 Happy Days premiers
S01151975 Space Mountain opens
S01151981 Hill Street Blues premiers
S01151986 Living Seas opens
S0116 Feast of St Marcellus I, pope (308-09), martyr
S0116 National Hat Day
S0116 National Nothing Day
S0116 2Martin Luther King Day
S01161777 Vermont declares independence from NY
S01161865 SF Dramatic Chronicle started
S01161870 Virginia readmitted to US after Civil War
S01161883 Pendleton Act creates basis of federal civil service system
S01161887 Cliff House damaged when schooner "Parallel"'s powder cargo explodes
S01161909 David, Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole
S01161920 18th Amendment, prohibition, went into effect; repealed in 1933
S01161938 William Pickering, pioneer American stellar spectroscopist, dies
S01161956 Egyptian President Nassar pledges to reconquer Palestine
S01161969 Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
S01161973 USSR's Lunakhod begins radio-controlled exploration of moon
S01161977 Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders
S01161978 Soyuz 27 returns to Earth
S01161979 Iranian revolution overthrows shah
S0117 Feast of St Anthony, abbot, patron of cenobites, domestic animals
S0117 2Martin Luther King Day
S0117 355 Death of St Anthony of Egypt, founder of Christian monasticism
S01171746 Battle of Falkirk, Scotland
S01171773 Capt James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66ø 33' S)
S01171852 British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
S01171861 Flush toilet is patented by Mr Thomas Crapper (Honest!)
S01171871 1st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S Hallidie
S01171893 Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
S01171899 US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
S01171910 Thomas Crapper, inventor of flush toilet, dies
S01171943 Tin Can Drive Day
S01171945 Liberation Day in Poland (end of Nazi occupation)
S01171950 Great Brink's robbery in Boston, $28 million
S01171957 9-county commission recommends creation of BART
S01171963 Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km
S01171968 Soyuz 4 & 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft
S01171976 Hermes rocket launched by ESA
S01171977 Gary Gilmore executed in Utah, 1st since 1967
S01171979 Islanders didn't get a shot off in one period against the Rangers
S0118 Confession of St Peter (Anglican)
S0118 Feast of St Peter's Chair at Rome
S0118 National Clean Off Your Desk Day
S0118 2Martin Luther King Day
S01181644 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston
S01181778 Capt James Cook stumbles over Hawaiian Islands
S01181817 San Mart¡n leads a revolutionary army over Andes
S01181869 Elegant Calif Theatre opens in SF
S01181871 German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I
S01181911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
S01181913 Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches South Pole
S01181919 Versailles Peace Conference
S01181949 1st US Congressional Standing Committee headed by Negro -W Dawson
S01181956 Tunisian Revolution Day (National Day)
S01181969 Soyuz 5 returns to Earth
S01181973 Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak
S01181980 Barbara Britton dies
S01181984 80th Islander & 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll & Bossy) 9-1 win
S01181985 US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous agreement
S01181986 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 returns to Earth
S0119 Confederate Heroes' Day
S0119 Feast of SS Marius, Martha, Audifax & Abachum, martyrs
S0119 2Martin Luther King Day
S01191747 Johann Bode, founder of "Bode's Law," dies
S01191770 Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)
S01191839 Aden conquered by East India Company
S01191861 Georgia becomes 5th state to secede from US
S01191903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England
S01191921 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union
S01191955 Millionaire TV program premiers
S0120 Feast of St Fabian, 20th pope (236-50), & St Sebastian, martyrs
S0120 Reindeer Day
S0120 2Martin Luther King Day
S01201265 1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester
S01201783 End of Revolutionary War
S01201866 Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends
S01201872 Calif Stock Exchange Board organized
S01201887 Pearl Harbor obtained by US from Hawaii for use as a naval base
S01201892 1st basketball game played
S01201929 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors "In Old Arizona"
S01201937 Inauguration day, every 4th year
S01201953 1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address
S01201964 "Meet The Beatles" album released in US
S01201981 US embassy hostages freed in Tehran
S01201981 Islander Glenn Resch's 25th & last shut-out opponent - Flames 5-0
S01201981 Iran hostages are freed after 444 days
S0121 Feast of St Agnes, virgin & martyr
S0121 National Hugging Day
S0121 2Martin Luther King Day
S01211793 King Louis XVI beheaded by French revolutionaries
S01211813 Pineapple introduced to Hawaii
S01211892 John Couch Adams, English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies
S01211954 1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched
S01211954 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited - NYC
S01211962 Snow falls in SF
S01211967 Ann Sheridan dies at 51
S01211979 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
S01211982 Islanders start NHL record 15 game win streak (15-0-0)
S0122 Feast of SS Vincent, patron of wine growers, & Anastasius, martyrs
S01221813 Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada
S01221840 New Zealand settled by British
S01221850 Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif
S01221905 Bloody Sunday; Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
S01221939 Aquatic Park dedicated
S01221943 Battle of Anzio, Allies stopped on the beach
S01221947 1st coml TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood Ca
S01221949 Chinatown telephone exchange closed
S01221968 Apollo 5 launched to moon, Unmanned lunar module tests made
S01221973 Supreme Court approves abortions
S01221975 Lansat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, is launched
S01221981 40th Islander shut-out opponent - 3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th
S0123 Feast of St Raymond of Pe¤afort, confessor
S0123 National Handwriting Day
S01231579 Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic
S01231793 2nd partition of Poland, between Prussia & Russia
S01231856 Steamer Pacific lost
S01231909 1st radio rescue at sea
S01231944 Red Wings beat Rangers 15-0
S01231953 Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts)
S01231960 Piccard & Walsh in bathyscaph reach 10,900 m in Mariana Trench
S01231964 24th Amendment ratified, Barred poll tax in federal elections
S01231977 Miniseries Roots premiers
S01231983 A-Team with Mr T premiers
S0124 Feast of St Timothy, bishop & martyr
S01241556 Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China
S01241639 Connecticut colony organized under Fundamental Orders
S01241764 Gov Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire
S01241848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, Calif
S01241861 Arsenal at Augusta, Ga seized by Confederacy
S01241899 Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
S01241935 Beer 1st sold in cans, Richmond, Va
S01241965 Sir Winston Churchill died in England
S01241981 Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques
S01241982 SF 49'ers win their 1st Super Bowl, 26-21
S01241985 15th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 is launched
S01241986 Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons
S0125 Feast of Conversion of Paul
S0125 Start of Chinese New Year
S01251875 Anti-slavery society formed in NY
S01251915 Alexander Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF
S01251925 Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa
S01251945 Topping, Webb & MacPhail purchase Yanks for $28 million
S01251949 1st Emmy Awards
S01251949 1st Israeli election
S01251959 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301)
S01251961 1st live, nationally televised, Presidential news conference (JFK)
S01251961 Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" is released
S01251964 Echo 2, US communications satellite launched
S01251975 10th hat trick in Islander history - Denis Potvin's 1st
S0126 Feast of St Polycarp, bishop & martyr
S0126 Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia
S01261697 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time limit
S01261697Cproblem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
S01261788 1st settlement established by English in Australia (Sydney)
S01261837 Mich admitted as 26th US state
S01261841 Hong Kong was proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
S01261861 La becomes 6th state to secede from US
S01261871 American income tax repealed
S01261885 Gen Gordon & troops slain by Sudanese in Khartoum
S01261905 World's largest diamond found, Cullinan diamond
S01261946 Indian Republic Day
S01261950 India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion
S01261954 Ground breaking begins on Disneyland
S01261961 1st woman `personal physician to President' - JG Travell
S01261976 Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon
S01261979 Nelson Rockefeller former VP & 4 time governor of NY died
S01261980 Islanders & Whalers had a penality free game
S01261982 Islanders score 4 goals within 1:38, 5 within 2:37 vs Penguins
S01261984 Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders
S01261986 Chicago Bears defeat Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl 20
S0127 Feast of St John Chrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople
S01271736 Abdication of Stanislas, King of Poland
S01271880 Thomas Edison granted patent for an electric incandescent lamp
S01271888 National Geographic Society founded in Washington, DC
S01271894 Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park
S01271915 US Marines occupy Haiti
S01271926 1st public TV demonstration
S01271948 1st Tape Recorder is sold
S01271948 1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds operated
S01271964 "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US
S01271964 Sen Margaret Chase Smith of Maine tried for Republican Pres bid
S01271965 Groundbreaking for 'Dragon Gateway' at Grant Avenue
S01271967 Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee
S01271967 Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space is signed
S01271971 Montgomery St Station, last link in BART, 'holed thru'
S01271973 US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war & milt draft
S01271977 Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)
S01271979 Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8)
S01271985 Fifteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 returns to Earth
S0128 Feast of St Peter Nolasco
S0128 Presentation in the Temple
S01281613 Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune
S01281687 Johannes Hevelius dies
S01281807 London's Pall Mall is 1st st lit by gaslight
S01281821 Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica
S01281860 Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua
S01281871 Paris surrenders to Germans
S01281878 1st telephone exchange, New Haven, Connecticut
S01281878CGeorge W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator
S01281878 Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
S01281909 US milt forces leave Cuba for 2nd time
S01281915 US Coast Guard established
S01281932 1st US state unemployment insurance act enacted - Wisconsin
S01281938 1st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont)
S01281953 J Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins Today show
S01281956 Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Bros Stage Show)
S01281958 Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
S01281960 1st photograph bounced off moon, Washington DC
S01281978 Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders
S01281986 25th Space Shuttle - Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff
S0129 Feast of St Francis of Sales, bishop of Geneva, confessor, doctor
S01291788 Australia Day
S01291861 Kansas becomes 34th state
S01291900 American (baseball) League formed, with 8 teams
S01291904 1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team
S01291919 Prohibition goes into effect (18th amendment)
S01291920 Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist $40 week with KC Slide Co
S01291922 Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved
S01291936 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
S01291955 William Cox buys Yankee Stadium
S01291958 Charles Starkweather captured by police in Wyoming
S01291959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" is released
S01291984 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
S01291986 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
S0130 Feast of SS Basil, Gregory & John Chrysostom (Orthodox)
S0130 Feast of St Martina, virgin & martyr
S0130 World Law Day
S0130 Holiday of Three Hierachs (Eastern Orthodox)
S01301487 Bell chimes invented
S01301649 King Charles I of Great Britain executed by Parliament
S01301774 Capt Cook reaches 71ø 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record)
S01301847 Yerba Buena renamed SF
S01301854 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast
S01301862 US Navy's 1st ironclad warship, "Monitor", launched
S01301889 John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48-inch telescope
S01301894 US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham
S01301917 1st jazz record in US cut
S01301922 World Law Day
S01301933 Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor
S01301948 Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
S01301958 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Texas
S01301969 US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
S0131 Feast of St John Bosco, confessor
S01311849 Corn Laws abolished in Britain
S01311851 SF Orphan's Asylum, 1st in Calif founded
S01311862 Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius
S01311871 Birds fly over SF in such large numbers they actually darken sky
S01311911 Congress names SF as Panama Canal opening celebration site
S01311945 Eddie Slovik, 1st American executed for desertion since Civil War
S01311950 Pres Truman authorized production of H-Bomb
S01311958 1st US satellite launched, Explorer I from Cape Canaveral
S01311958 James van Allen discovers radiation belt
S01311958 US launches 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1
S01311961 Ham is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2
S01311966 Luna 9 launched for moon
S01311968 Nauru gains independence from Australia
S01311968 Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32"), at Agata, USSR
S01311971 Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands