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- *mmddyyyy Birthdays
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- B06011926 Marilyn Monroe, actress.
- B06021740 Marquis de Sade, entertainer. (?)
- B06021835 Pope Pius X.
- B06021857 Sir Edward Elgar, composer (Pomp and Circumstance.)
- B06031808 Jefferson Davis, President of Confederacy from 1861 - 1865.
- B06031864 Ransom Eli Olds, auto manufacturer.
- B06051723 Adam Smith, economist
- B06051883 John Maynard Keynes, another economist.
- B06051900 Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography (3D laser photography.)
- B06061755 Nathan Hale, had but one life to give for his country.
- B06061756 John Trumbull, painter.
- B06061956 Bjorn Borg, Racketeer extraordinaire.
- B06071778 Beau Brummel, English Dandy.
- B06071848 Paul Gauguin, painter.
- B0608 570 Mohammed, prophet.
- B06081625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, astronomer.
- B06081869 Frank Lloyd Wright, master builder.
- B06091781 George Stephenson, principal inventor of the railroad locomotive.
- B06091915 Les Paul, guitarist, inventor.
- B06091934 Donald Duck, famous fowl mouth.
- B06101904 Frederick Loewe, composer.
- B06111572 Ben Johnson, playwright.
- B06111847 Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of English women's movement.
- B06111867 Charles Fabry, discovered the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere.
- B06111910 Jacques Cousteau, diver and environmentalist.
- B06121915 David Rockefeller, International Power Broker.
- B06121929 Anne Frank, diarist.
- B06131903 Harold "Red" Grange, the "Galloping Ghost" of football.
- B06141811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin.)
- B06171870 George Cormack, the inventor of "Wheaties" cereal.
- B06171882 Igor Stravinsky, composer (The Rite of Spring.)
- B06181877 James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, best known for his
- B06181877C"I want you" Uncle Sam recruiting poster.
- B06181942 Paul McCartney, Yah-Yah-Yah
- B06191623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician.
- B06191886 Duchess of Windsor, divorcee.
- B06191903 Henry Louis Gehrig, the "Iron Horse" of the Yankees.
- B06191978 Garfield the cat. "Big fat hairy deal."
- B06211732 Martha Washington, George's Mrs.
- B06211921 Jane Russell, full-figured gal.
- B06231846 George Sax, inventor of the saxophone.
- B06231912 Alan Turing, mathematician, pioneer in computer theory.
- B06241839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift & Co.
- B06251894 Hermann Oberth, founder of modern astronautics.
- B06261819 Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing American Baseball.
- B06261892 Pearl Buck, authoress (The Good Earth.)
- B06261913 Maurice Wilkes, invented the stored program concept for computers.
- B06271880 Helen Keller, a portrait of courage.
- B06271927 Bob Keeshan, a.k.a. Captain Kangaroo (Good Morning, Captain.)
- B06281491 Henry VIII of England. Don't lose your head over him.
- B06281712 Jean Jacques Rousseau, social contractor.
- B06281947 Patrick Kincaid, creator of this 'TODAY' file structure.
- B06291858 George Washington Goethals, engineer who built the Panama Canal.
- *mmddyyyy Events
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- S06011495 First written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in the
- S06011495CExchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cor is the distiller.
- S06011925 Lou Gehrig starts in first of 2130 consecutive games, a record.
- S06021835 P.T. Barnum and his circus begin their first tour of the U.S.
- S06021858 The Donati Comet first seen, named after its discoverer.
- S06021873 Ground broken on San Francisco's Clay Street for world's first
- S06021873Ccable-powered railroad.
- R0602 Republic (Constitution) Day, celebrated in Italy.
- S06031888 "Casey at the Bat" is first published (by the SF Examiner.)
- S06031937 The Duke of Windsor weds Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson in France.
- S06031949 "Dragnet" is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles.)
- R0603 Egg Day (now, how will we celebrate ??)
- S06041896 Road test of the first Ford car is delayed an hour because the
- S06041896Ccar was wider than the door of the shed in which it was built.
- S06041896CRemember, 'Ford has a better idea!"
- R0604 Old Maid's Day. If you already knew it, don't admit it.
- S06051833 Ada Lovelace (future first computer programmer) meets
- S06051833CCharles Babbage.
- S06051849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
- S06051875 Formal opening of the Pacific Stock Exchange.
- R0605 Constitution Day, celebrated in Denmark.
- S06061933 First drive-in theatre opens, in Camden, New Jersey.
- S06061944 D-Day. World War II turns the corner.
- S06062012 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs.
- S06071839 The Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed.
- S06071860 First American 'dime novel' is published: "Malaseka, The
- S06071860CIndian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs. Ann Stevens.
- S06081786 First commercially-made ice cream sold in New York.
- S06081869 Patent issued for first suction-principle vacuum cleaner.
- S06081889 Cable Cars begin service in Los Angeles. Really!
- S06082004 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs again.
- S06091868 First meeting of the Board of Regents, University of California.
- S06091869 Charles Elmer Hires sells his first Root Beer, in Philadelphia.
- S06101720 Mrs. Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard.
- S06101772 Burning of the Gaspee, British revenue cutter by Rhode Islanders.
- S06101869 The 'Agnes' arrives in New Orleans with the first ever shipment
- S06101869Cof frozen beef.
- S06101898 US Marines land at Cuba in Spanish-American War.
- S06101977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II.
- R0610 National Day, celebrated in Portugal.
- S06111859 Claim is filed for the Comstock Lode. The mine eventually
- S06111859Cproduces more than $300 million in silver.
- S06111895 First auto race.
- R0611 Kamehameha Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
- S06121839 The first baseball game is played in America. Thanks Abner!
- S06121898 Phillipines gains its independence from Spain.
- S06121923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended
- S06121923Cupside down, 40 feet above the ground.
- S06121981 The 3rd professional baseball players strike starts.
- R0612 Independence Day, celebrated in the Phillipines.
- S06131927 Charles Lindbergh honored in New York City for his trans-
- S06131927CAtlantic flight. 750,000 pounds of confetti were showered down.
- S06131963 Vostok 6 launched, pilot is first woman cosmonaut.
- S06131983 Pioneer 10 is first man-made object to leave the Solar System.
- R0613 Kitchen Klutzs of America Day.
- R0613 The National Asparagus Festival.
- S06141623 Rev. Gerville Pooley of Virginia files first breach-of-promise
- S06141623Clawsuit against Cicely Jordan. He loses.
- S06141777 Stars and Stripes adopted as US flag, replacing Grand Union flag.
- S06141846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma.
- S06141847 Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide.
- S06141900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins.
- S06141919 First direct airplane crossing of the Atlantic.
- S06141952 Keel laid for first nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus.
- R0614 Flag Day.
- S06151215 King John signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede.
- S06151775 Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the American Army.
- S06151851 Jacob Fussell, a Baltimore dairyman, sets up the first
- S06151851Cice-cream factory.
- S06151878 First attempt at motion pictures (using 12 cameras, each taking one
- S06151878Cpicture (done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
- S06151878Cduring a gallop. Leland Stanford bet they didn't. He lost).
- S06151940 France surrenders to Hitler.
- R0615 1Father's Day. Remind the guy how much you care.
- S06161775 The Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill).
- S06161879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at the Bowery Theatre
- S06161879Cin New York City.
- S06161963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space.
- R0616 1Father's Day Remind the guy how much you care.
- S06171579 Sir Francis Drake lands on the coast of California.
- S06171944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland.
- S06171972 The Watergate Break-in. How time flies . . .
- R0617 Republic Day, celebrated in Iceland.
- R0617 1Father's Day Remind the guy how much you care.
- S06181583 Richard Martin of London takes out the first life insurance
- S06181583Cpolicy, on William Gibbons. The premium was 383 pounds.
- S06181812 War of 1812 begins.
- S06181815 Battle of Waterloo.
- S06181872 Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall.
- S06181892 Macademia nuts first planted in Hawaii.
- R0618 1Father's Day Remind the guy how much you care.
- S06191778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.
- S06191861 Anaheim Post Office established.
- S06191910 U.S. celebrates the first Father's Day.
- R0619 1Father's Day Remind the guy how much you care.
- S06201782 The United States chooses the Eagle as its symbol.
- S06201855 Commissioners appointed to lay out streets west of Larkin.
- S06201893 Lizzie Borden found "Not Guilty" of taking an axe and
- S06201893Cgiving her parents a combined total of 81 whacks.
- S06201948 Ed Sullivan has his first really big 'shoe' on Sunday night TV.
- S06201982 It's National Bald Eagle Day
- R0620 1Father's Day Remind the guy how much you care.
- S06211879 F. W. Woolworth opens his first store (failed almost immediately,
- S06211879Cso he found a new location and you know the rest...)
- S06211893 The first Ferris wheel is premiered at Chicago's Columbian
- S06211893CExposition.
- S06211917 Hawaiian Red Cross founded.
- R0621 The longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice.
- R0621 1Father's Day Remind the guy how much you care.
- S06221808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak.
- S06221847 The doughnut is invented.
- S06221849 Stephen C. Massett opens at courthouse as first professional
- S06221849Centertainer, using (allegedly) the only piano in California.
- S06221940 France falls to Nazi Germany.
- S06221957 Kansas City stops using streetcars in its transit system.
- S06221978 The planet Pluto's partner, Charon, is discovered.
- S06221983 First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle.
- S06231810 John Jacob Astor organizes the Pacific Fur Company at the town
- S06231810Che names for himself, Astoria, Oregon.
- S06231868 Typewriter patented.
- S06241817 First coffee planted in Hawaii, on the Kona coast.
- S06241947 First reported signting of Flying Saucers, seen near Mt. Ranier,
- S06241947CWashington by Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho.
- R0624 St. Jean Baptiste Day -- Canada.
- R0624 Midsummer Day, celebrated in Europe.
- S06251178 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon (only
- S06251178Cknown observation). These monks have NO winery of their own.
- S06251630 The Fork is introduced to American dining by Gov. Winthrop.
- S06251835 Pueblo founded with construction of first building (start of
- S06251835CYerba Buena, later to be called San Francisco).
- S06261797 Charles Newbold patents an iron plow. He can't sell it to
- S06261797Cfarmers, though, because they fear the effects of iron on
- S06261797Cthe soil!
- S06261934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions.
- S06261945 UN Charter written in San Francisco.
- S06271693 The first woman's magazine, "The Ladies' Mercury" is published
- S06271693Cin London. It has the first advice column.
- S06271867 Bank of California opens its doors.
- R0627 National Fink Day. Reach out and tweak someone.
- S06281820 The tomato is proved to be nonpoisonous.
- S06281859 The first dog show is held, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.
- S06281918 In Hawaii, the first inter-island flight.
- S06281919 The Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, is signed.
- S06291776 Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay.
- S06291854 Congress ratifies Gadsden Purchase, adds parts of
- S06291854CNew Mexico, Arizona.
- S06291863 The very first first National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa.
- S06291927 First flight from the West Coast arrives in Hawaii.
- S06291939 The Dixie Clipper completes the first commercial plane
- S06291939Cflight to Europe.
- S06301893 The Excelsior diamond (blue-white, 995 carats) is discovered.
- S06301908 A giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (the Tunguska Event).
- S06301914 Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest, in campaign for Indian equal
- S06301914Crights in South Africa.
- S06301936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, is first published.
- S06301960 Zaire gains its independence.
- R0630 Independence Day, celebrated in Zaire.
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