mmddyyyy Birthdays

*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B06011926 Marilyn Monroe
B06021740 Marquis de Sade
B06021835 Pope Pius X
B06021857 Sir Edward Elgar, composer (Pomp and Circumstance)
B06031808 Jefferson Davis, President of Confederacy (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
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
B06091934 Donald Duck, famous fowl
B06101904 Frederick Loewe, composer
B06111572 Ben Johson, 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
B06121915 David Rockefeller, International Power Broker
B06121929 Anne Frank, diarist
B06131903 Harold "Red" Grange, the "Galloping Ghost" of football.
B06141811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, authoress (Uncle Tom's Cabin).
B06171870 George Cormack, the inventor of "Wheaties" cereal.
B06171882 Igor Stravinsky, has 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
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
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, send him a card.
B06291858 George Washington Goethals, engineer who built the Panama Canal
*mmddyyyy Events
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S06011925 Lou Gehrig starts in 1st of 2130 consecutive games, a record.
S06021858 the Donati Comet 1st seen, named after it's discoverer.
S06021873 Ground broken on Clay Street for world's 1st cable railroad.
S0602     Republic (Constitution) Day, celebrated in Italy
S06031888 "Casey at the Bat" is 1st published (by the SF Examiner)
S06031949 "Dragnet" is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles).
S0603     Egg Day
S06041850 Empire Engine Company No. 1 organized.
S0604     Old Maid's Day
S06051833 Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage.
S06051849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
S06051875 formal opening of the Pacific Stock Exchange.
S06051920 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell.
S06051981 TODAY ran for 1st time
S0605     Constitution Day, celebrated in Denmark
S06061933 1st drive-in theatre opens, in Camden, New Jersey.
S06061944 D-Day
S06062012 transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs.
S06071839 the Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed.
S06071860 workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad.
S06081786 1st commercially-made ice cream sold in New York.
S06081889 Cable Cars begin service in Los Angeles.
S06082004 transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs.
S06091851 the San Francisco Committee of Vigilence forms.
S06091868 1st meeting of the Board of Regents, University of California.
S06101772 Burning of the Gaspee, British revenue cutter by Rhode Islanders
S06101869 The 'Agnes' arrives in New Orleans with the 1st ever shipment
S06101869Cof frozen beef.
S06101898 US Marines land at Cuba in Spanish-American War.
S06101954 PBS reaches San Francisco: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting.
S06101977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II.
S0610     National Day, celebrated in Portugal.
S06111864 300 feet of Meigg's Wharf washed away in storm.
S06111895 1st auto race.
S06111980 K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service.
S0611     Kamehameha Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
S06121839 the 1st baseball game is played in America.  Thanks Abner!
S06121898 Phillipines gains its independence from Spain
S06121981 the 3rd baseball strike starts.
S0612     Independence Day, celebrated in the Phillipines.
S06131963 Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut.
S06131983 Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave the Solar System.
S0613     Kitchen Klutzs of America Day
S0613     The National Asparagus Festival
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.
S06141850 Fire destroys part of San Francisco.
S06141876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co. gets it's franchise.
S06141900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins.
S06141919 1st direct airplane crossing of the Atlantic.
S06141952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus.
S0614     Flag Day
S06151215 King John signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede.
S06151775 Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the American Army.
S06151857 San Francisco Water Works organized.
S06151878 1st 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 surrendered to Hitler.
S0615    1Father's Day
S06161775 the Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill).
S06161963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space.
S0616    1Father's Day
S06171944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland.
S06171972 the Watergate Break-in.
S0617     Republic Day, celebrated in Iceland.
S0617    1Father's Day
S06181812 War of 1812 begins.
S06181815 Battle of Waterloo.
S06181872 Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall.
S06181892 Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii.
S0618    1Father's Day
S06191778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.
S06191861 Anaheim Post Office established.
S06191875 formal opening of US Marine Hospital at the Presidio.
S06191932 1st concert given in San Francisco's Stern Grove.
S0619    1Father's Day
S06201782 The United States chooses the Eagle as it's symbol.
S06201855 Commissioners appointed to lay out streets west of Larkin.
S06201948 Ed Sullivan has his first really big 'shoe' on Sunday night TV.
S06201982 It's National Bald Eagle Day
S0620    1Father's Day
S06211879 F. W. Woolworth opens his 1st store (failed almost immediately,
S06211879Cso he found a new location and you know the rest...)
S06211917 Hawaiian Red Cross founded.
S0621     the longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice.
S0621    1Father's Day
S06221808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak.
S06221847 the doughnut is invented.
S06221849 Stephen C. Massett opens at courthouse as 1st professional
S06221849Centertainer, using the (allegedly) only piano in California.
S06221851 Fire destroys part of San Francisco.
S06221940 France falls to Nazi Germany.
S06221957 Kansas City stops using streetcars in it's transit system.
S06221978 the planet Pluto's partner, Charon, is discovered.
S06221983 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle.
S06231868 Typewriter patented
S06241817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii, on the Kona coast.
S06241947 Flying Saucers sighted
S0624     St. Jean Baptiste Day -- Canada
S0624     Midsummer Day, celebrated in Europe.
S06251178 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon
S06251178C(only known observation).
S06251630 The Fork is introduced to American dining by Gov. Winthrop.
S06251835 Pueblo founded with construction of 1st building (start of
S06251835CYerba Buena, later to be called San Francisco).
S06251982 San Francisco holds its 1st County Fair.
S06261934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions.
S06261945 UN Charter written in San Francisco.
S06271867 Bank of California opens its doors.
S0627     National Fink Day
S06281820 the tomato is proved to be nonpoisonous.
S06281918 in Hawaii, the 1st inter-island flight.
S06281919 the Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, was signed.
S06291776 Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay.
S06291854 Congress ratifies Gadsden Purchase, adds parts of New Mexico, Arizona
S06291863 the very first 1st National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa.
S06291927 first flight from the West Coast arrives in Hawaii.
S06301893 the Excelsior diamond (blue-white, 995 carats) discovered.
S06301908 a giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (the Tunguska Event).
S06301914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, in campaign for Indian equal
S06301914Crights in South Africa.
S06301960 Zaire gains it's independence.
S0630     Independence Day, celebrated in Zaire.

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