TODAY in NOVEMBER

 *mmddyyyy Birthdays

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B11021734 Daniel Boone

B11021795 James K. Polk, 11th President (1845-1849)

B11021865 Warren G. Harding, 29th President (1921-1923)

B11021885 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer.

B11031718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same.

B11041879 Will Rogers

B11041916 Walter Cronkite, "...and that's the way it is"

B11051857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was VERY unhappy).

B11051912 Roy Rogers, Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger

B11061771 Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography.

B11061851 Charles Henry Dow, founded Dow Jones & Co.

B11061854 John Phillip Souza, the march king

B11061861 James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball.

B11071867 Madame Marie Curie, discovered radium.

B11081656 Edmond Halley, astronomer, 1st to calculate a comet's orbit.

B11091934 Carl Sagan

B11101668 Francois Couperin, composer

B11101819 Cyrus West Field, financier known for the success of the 1st

B11101819Ctransatlantic cable.

B11101895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer.

B11111821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author, "Crime and Punishment"

B11111885 General George S. Patton

B11111922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author.

B11121815 Elizabeth Stanton, early leader of women's rights movement.

B11121866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC).

B11131850 Robert Louis Stevenson

B11131856 Justice Louis Brandeis

B11141765 Robert Fulton, built 1st commercial steamboat

B11141776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis

B11141840 Claude Monet, impressionist

B11141900 Aaron Copland, american composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring)

B11161873 William Handy, established the popularity of the blues in band music

B11161901 George Gallop, what's your opinion?

B11181789 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography

B11181836 Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame)

B11181923 Alan Sheppard, 1st American into space.

B11181928 Mickey Mouse

B11191752 George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War.

B11191831 James A. Garfield, 20th President (March 4-September 19, 1881)

B11191905 Tommy Dorsey

B11201602 Otto von Guericke, invented the air pump

B11201900 Chester Gould, gave Dick Tracy a job

B11201908 Alistair Cooke, raconteur

B11211694 Voltaire, thinker

B11211787 Sir Samuel Cunard, founded 1st regular Atlantic steamship line

B11211904 Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone for jazz

B11221890 Charles de Gaulle

B11221899 Hoagy Carmichael, composed 'Star Dust'.

B11231804 Franklin Pierce, 14th President (1853-1857)

B11231887 Boris Karloff, bogeyman

B11241713 Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in California.

B11241784 Zachary Taylor, 12th President (1849-1850)

B11241868 Scott Joplin, entertainer

B11251835 Andrew Carnegie, steelman and librarian

B11251846 Carry Nation, scrouge of barkeepers and drinkers.

B11261832 Louisa May Alcott, little woman

B11261876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment.

B11271701 Anders Celsius

B11291803 Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (color shift)

B11291849 Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode.

B11301667 Jonathan Swift, satirist, wrote "Gulliver's Travels"

B11301810 Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker.

B11301835 Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain

B11301874 Winston Churchill

*mmddyyyy Events

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S11011863 Fortifications built on Angel Island by troops.

S11011870 US Weather Bureau begins operations.

S11011943 Dimout ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area.

S11011947 1st Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii.

S11011981 First Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents.

S11021854 Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts.

S11021917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement

S11021920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) on the air as 1st commercial radio station.

S11021947 Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for 1st (& last) time.

S11021948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers.

S1102     North & South Dakota Admission Day

S1102    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?

S11031903 Panama gains it's independence from Columbia.

S11031917 First Class Mail now costs 3 cents.

S11031930 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America.

S11031952 Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas.

S1103    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?

S1103     Independence Day, celebrated in Panama.

S11041854 Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island.

S11041867 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall.

S11041922 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen.

S11041924 1st woman governor in US elected in Wyoming.

S1104    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?

S11051781 John Hanson elected 1st 'President of the United States in Congress

S11051781Cassembled' (8 years before Washington was elected).

S11051895 1st US patent granted for the automobile, to George B Selden

S11051973 BART starts San Francisco-Daly City train shuttle service.

S1105    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?

S1105     Guy Fawkes Day, celebrated in England.

S11061850 Yerba Buena & Angel Islands reserved for military use.

S11061850 1st fire engine arrives in Hawaii.

S11061862 Direct Telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco established

S11061869 1st intercollegiate football game played (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4).

S11061939 WGY-TV (Schenectady NY), 1st commercial-license station begins service

S11061962 BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote.

S1106    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?

S1106     Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)

S11071805 Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean.

S11071811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan.

S11071875 Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa from

S11071875Csea to sea.

S11071885 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway.

S1107    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?

S11081793 the Louvre, in Paris, was opened to the public.

S1108    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?

S11091848 Post Office at Clay & Pike opens.

S11091965 Giant power failure in New England & Ontario, Canada.

S11101871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa.

S11101891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)

S11101951 1st Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance.

S11101980 Voyager I flies past Saturn.

S11111889 Washington admitted as the 42nd state.

S11111918 World War I ends.

S11111924 Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated.

S11111931 Cornerstones laid for Opera House and Veteran's Building.

S11111957 Demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde.

S11111959 Seals Stadium demolished.

S11111982 Space Shuttle 'Columbia' makes 1st commercial flight.

S1111     the REAL Veteran's Day.  They fought for your freedom. Remember them!

S11121873 Bay District Race Track opens.

S11121933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken.

S11121936 Oakland Bay Bridge opened.

S11121946 the 1st "autobank" (banking by car) was established, in Chicago

S11121981 1st time a spacecraft is launched twice -- the Space Shuttle

S11121981C'Columbia' lifts off again.

S11131849 Peter Burnett is elected 1st governor of California.

S11131895 first shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii.

S11131921 The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, was released.

S11141792 Capt. George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay.

S11141832 1st streetcar appears, in New York

S11141851 "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville, is published.

S11141889 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip around the

S11141889Cworld by 8 days (72 days).

S11141910 1st airplane flight from the deck of a ship.

S11141959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii).

S11141981 The old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired & working again.

S11151869 Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated.

S11151926 National Broadcasting Company goes on-the-air, with 24 stations

S11151939 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check.

S11151941 Cow Palace opens.

S11151949 KRON (Channel 4, San Francisco) signs on, from 7 to 10 PM.

S11161933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.

S11171800 Congress convened for its 1st Washington, DC session.

S11171853 Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections.

S11171869 Suez Canal opens.

S11171913 Panama Canal opens for use.

S1117     the day of the Great American Smoke Out.

S11181889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii.

S11181903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gave US exclusive canal rights thru Panama.

S11181820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer.

S11181928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat Willie"

S11181936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined.

S11191493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.

S11191863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg.

S11191895 the pencil is invented.

S11191970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California State

S11191970CHistorical Landmark.

S11201888 William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.

S11201914 the State Department starts requiring photographs for passports

S11211794 Honolulu Harbor discovered.

S11211959 Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed duet.

S11221906 the International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS"

S11221906Cas the new call for help.

S11221943 Lebanon gains it's independence (would that it could keep it)

S11221963 President John Kennedy assasinated in Dallas.

S1122    5Thanksgiving

S1122     Independence Day, celebrated in Lebanon.

S11231852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet.

S11231863 patent granted for a process of making color photographs.

S11231911 Post Hospital at Presidio renamed Letterman General Hospital.

S1123    5Thanksgiving

S11241874 patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.

S1124    5Thanksgiving

S11251948 Fort Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed.

S1125    5Thanksgiving

S11261778 Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands).

S11261895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed.

S11261868 1st baseball game played in enclosed field at 25th & Folsom.

S1126    5Thanksgiving

S11271890 1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation.

S1127    5Thanksgiving

S11281520 Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean.

S11281895 America's auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averaged 7 MPH

S1128    5Thanksgiving

S11291887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.

S11291890 1st Army-Navy football game.  Score: Navy 25, Army 0.