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- B05011769 Duke of Wellington, who made Napoleon very unhappy.
- B05011830 Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), hellraiser.
- B05021837 Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order."
- B05021904 Bing Crosby, crooner.
- B05031874 Francois Coty, perfumemaker.
- B05031898 Golda Meir
- B05031919 Pete Seeger, folk singer.
- B05051867 Nellie Bly, name became a synonym for female star reporter.
- B05061818 Karl Marx
- B05061856 Sigmund Freud, cigar smoker.
- B05061870 A.P. Giannini, founder of Bank of America.
- B05061895 Rudolph Valentino, sheik.
- B05061915 Orson Welles, citizen.
- B05061931 The 'Say Hey Kid', Willie Mays.
- B05071833 Johannes Brahms, enjoyed a good lullaby.
- B05071840 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer.
- B05071901 Gary Cooper, actor in 'High Noon' and 'The Plainsman.'
- B05071909 Edwin Land, founded instant photography (Polaroid.)
- B05081737 Edward Gibbon, historian, "The History of the Decline & Fall
- B05081737Cof the Roman Empire."
- B05081786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry.
- B05081828 Henri Dunant, founded Red Cross, YMCA.
- B05081829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, first internationally recognized
- B05081829CUS pianist.
- B05081884 Harry S Truman, 32nd President. The 'S' doesn't stand for
- B05081884Canything (thus no period.)
- B05091800 John Brown, abolitionist.
- B05091873 Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamen.
- B05091882 Henry J. Kaiser, built Liberty Ships, Jeeps.
- B05101788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneered in optics.
- B05101899 Fred Astaire, tapdancer.
- B05101902 David O. Selznick, film producer.
- B05111888 Irving Berlin, composer, lover to the world.
- B05111904 Salvador Dali, painter.
- B05121820 Florence Nightengale, inspiration to nurses everywhere.
- B05121845 Gabriel Faure, composer.
- B05121925 Yogi Barra, catcher.
- B05131842 Sir Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame.
- B05131856 Peter Henry Emerson, first photographer to promote.
- B05131856Cphotography as an independent art.
- B05131914 Joe Louis, heavyweight.
- B05141928 Billy Martin, local boy who made good in baseball.
- B05141944 George Lucas, skywalker.
- B05151859 Pierre Curie, physicist.
- B05161801 William H. Seward, bought Alaska at $0.02/acre.
- B05161919 Liberace, candelabrist.
- B05171866 Erik Satie, composer.
- B05181850 Oliver Heaviside, physicist who predicted the existance of
- B05181850Cthe ionosphere, used to reflect radio waves.
- B05181918 Pope John Paul II.
- B05191890 Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer.
- B05191918 Mike Wallace, of CBS '60 minutes' fame.
- B05201750 Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during the War of 1812.
- B05201799 Honore de Balzac, novelist.
- B05201818 William George Fargo, helped to found Wells, Fargo & Co.
- B05201913 William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co.
- B05201915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general & politician.
- B05211471 Albrecht Durer, painter & printmaker, greatest German
- B05211471CRenaissance artist.
- B05211860 Willam Einthoven, invented the electrocardiograph.
- B05211878 Glenn Curtis, aircraft pioneer.
- B05221828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon, founded modern ophthalmology.
- B05221859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, brought Sherlock Holmes to life (twice).
- B05221907 Laurence Olivier, actor.
- B05221920 Thomas Gold, astronomer, established the steady-state theory
- B05221920Cof the universe.
- B05231883 Douglas Fairbanks, first & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers.
- B05231910 Artie Shaw, band leader and husband.
- B05241686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, invented the thermometer.
- B05251803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher.
- B05251889 Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter.
- B05251926 Miles Davis, trumpeter, pioneered cool jazz.
- B05251929 Beverly Sills, soprano.
- B05261877 Isadora Duncan
- B05261886 Al Jolson, jazz singer.
- B05261907 John Wayne, shootist.
- B05271818 Amelia Bloomer, suffragist known for her pantaloons.
- B05271837 Wild Bill Hickox
- B05271894 Dashiell Hammett, author who created the hard-boiled detective.
- B05271907 Rachel Carson, ecologist.
- B05281886 Jim Thorpe
- B05281908 Ian Fleming, gave James Bond a job.
- B05291903 Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope, famous profile.
- B05291917 John F. Kennedy, 35th President from 1960 - 1963.
- B05301909 Benny Goodman, swinger.
- B05311819 Walt Whitman, poet.
- *mmddyyyy Events
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- S05011840 First adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued.
- S05011850 John Geary becomes first mayor of City of San Francisco.
- S05011860 First school for the deaf founded.
- S05011869 Folies-Bergere opens in Paris.
- S05011884 Construction begins in Chicago on the first U.S. skyscraper.
- S05011928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
- R0501 May Day
- S05021885 "Good Housekeeping" magazine is first published.
- S05021925 Kezar Stadium in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park opens.
- S05021939 Lou Gehrig sets record for being in most consecutive games (2130).
- S05031830 First regular steam train passenger service starts.
- S05031919 America's first passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City)
- S05031932 24 tourists begin the first air-charter holiday, from London
- S05031932Cto Basle, Switzerland for 7 days.
- S05031971 National noncommercial network radio begins programming.
- S05041626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons.
- S05041715 French manufacturer debuts first folding umbrella --
- S05041715Cin Paris, not Cherbourg!
- S05041878 Phonograph shown for first time at the Grand Opera House.
- S05051949 Council of Europe established.
- S05051961 Alan Shepard becomes first American in space (onboard Freedom 7).
- R0505 Cinco de Mayo
- R0505 Tango-no-sekku (Boy's Festival) -- Japan
- S05061851 Patent granted to Dr. John Farrie for a "refrigeration machine."
- S05061860 The Olympic Club, first athletic club in US, founded.
- S05071824 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony presented for first time.
- S05071945 World War II ends in Europe.
- S05071963 Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles).
- S05081541 Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River.
- S05081886 Coca-Cola is first sold, at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia.
- S05081945 Germany surrenders, ending World War II in Europe.
- R0508 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
- S05091785 Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles.
- R0509 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
- S05101775 Continental Congress issues paper currency for first time.
- S05101823 First steamboat to ascent the Mississippi River arrives at
- S05101823CFort Snelling, Minnesota.
- S05101869 The Driving of the Golden Spike, Promontory Point, Utah --
- S05101869CThe Transcontinential railroad is completed.
- S05101930 First US planetarium opens, in Chicago.
- R0510 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
- R0510 Native American Day is observed.
- S05111752 First US fire insurance policy is issued, in Philadelphia.
- S05111812 The Waltz is introduced into English ballrooms. Most observers
- S05111812Cconsider it disgusting and immoral. No wonder it caught on!
- S05111929 First regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week).
- S05111951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory.
- R0511 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
- S05121789 Society of St. Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It
- S05121789Clater becomes an infamous group of New York City political bosses.
- R0512 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
- S05131607 English land to found Jamestown (first permanent settlement)
- S05131835 First foreign embassy in Hawaii is established.
- S05131846 US declares war on Mexico.
- S05131884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded.
- S05131950 The Diner's Club issues its first credit cards.
- R0513 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
- R0513 Leprechaun Day -- no blarney!
- S05141804 Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis for the Pacific Coast.
- S05141811 Paraguay gains its independence.
- S05141853 Gail Borden applies for patent for making condensed milk.
- S05141948 State of Israel proclaimed.
- S05141973 United States launches space station "Skylab."
- R0514 1Mother's Day. Give her a call today.
- R0514 Independence Day (in Paraguay).
- S05151930 The first "air hostess," Ellen Church, welcomes passengers aboard
- S05151930Ca United Air Lines flight from Oakland, CA to Cheyenne, WY.
- S05151940 First nylon stockings are sold in America.
- S05151963 Last of the Mercury flights, the 'Faith 7', launched.
- R0515 'Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean' Day. Why?
- R0515 CBecause it may be waving at you.
- S05161866 Congress authorizes nickel 5-cent piece (the silver half-dime
- S05161866Cwas used up to this point).
- S05161929 First Oscars Awards are given:
- S05161929C Best Film: Wings.
- S05161929C Best Actor: Emil Jennings.
- S05161929C Best Actress: Janey Gaynor.
- S05161971 First Class postage raised to 8 cents from 6 cents.
- R0516 Armed Forces Day.
- S05171620 First merry-go-round seen at a fair in Philippapolis, Turkey.
- S05171792 24 brokers meet to found the New York Stock Exchange.
- S05171804 Lewis & Clark begin their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.
- S05171872 Bohemian Club incorporated.
- S05171921 President Harding opens (via telephone) first Valencia Orange
- S05171921CShow in Anaheim.
- S05171954 Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education,
- S05171954Coverthrowing the principle of 'separate but equal.'
- R0517 Norwegian Independence Day.
- S05181830 Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of
- S05181830Chis invention, the lawn mower. Saturdays are destroyed forever.
- S05181933 TVA Act signed by President Roosevelt.
- S05181980 Mount St. Helens blew its top in Washington State.
- S05191862 The Homestead Act becomes law.
- S05191928 51 frogs enter first annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" at Angel's
- S05191928CCamp in Calaveras County, California.
- S05201845 First legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii.
- S05201874 Levi Strauss markets his blue jeans with copper rivets, priced
- S05201874Cat $13.50 A DOZEN.
- S05201927 At 7:40am, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic.
- S05211846 First steamship arrives in Hawaii.
- S05211881 The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton.
- S05211927 Lindbergh lands in Paris, after first solo across Atlantic.
- S05211933 Mount Davidson Cross lit by President Roosevelt in
- S05211933CWashington via Telegraph.
- R0521 2Victoria Day -- Canada
- S05221807 Townsend Speakman begins making and selling fruit-flavored
- S05221807Ccarbonated drinks - in Philadelphia.
- R0522 2Victoria Day -- Canada
- S05231898 First Phillipine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco.
- S05231908 Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die.
- S05231921 "Shuffle Along," the first black musical comedy, opens in New
- S05231921CYork City.
- R0523 2Victoria Day -- Canada
- S05241844 Samual F.B. Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought?"
- S05241866 Berkeley named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne).
- S05241883 The Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres. Arthur & Gov. Cleveland.
- S05241899 In Boston, the first auto repair shop opens.
- R0524 2Victoria Day -- Canada
- S05251721 John Copson becomes America's first insurance agent.
- S05251787 Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia.
- S05251927 Henry Ford stops producing the Model T car (begins Model A).
- S05251978 "Star Wars" is released.
- S05251983 "Return of the Jedi" is released.
- R0525 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
- S05261868 President Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote.
- S05261913 Actor's Equity is organized in New York City.
- S05261937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens.
- S05261946 Patent filed in US for the H-Bomb.
- R0526 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
- S05271937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge dedicated.
- R0527 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
- S05281742 First indoor swimming pool opens at Goodman's Fields, London.
- S05281926 United States Customs Court created by Congress.
- R0528 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
- S05291453 Constantinople falls to the Turks (some believe this signalled
- S05291453Cthe end of the Middle Ages).
- S05291912 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing the
- S05291912C"Turkey Trot" during their lunch break.
- S05291953 Hillary & Norkay reach the top of Mount Everest.
- S05291978 First Class postage raised to 15 cents from 13 cents.
- R0529 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
- S05301911 Indianapolis 500 car race run for first time. Winning driver
- S05301911CRay Harroun takes it with a blazing 75 mph.
- R0530 The REAL Memorial Day, no matter what day of the week!
- S05311433 Joan of Arc is burned at the stake . . .
- S05311678 Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry.
- S05311837 New York's Astor Hotel opens ... most elaborate in the U.S.
- S05311868 First recorded bicycle race, 2 kilometers in Paris.
- S05311879 First electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition.
- S05311889 Johnstown Flood occurs.
- R0531 2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
- R0531 Republic Day, celebrated in South Africa.
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