1512
Juan Ponce de Leon names discovery after Easter Sunday; Pascua Florida
05
03 1512 Gerardus Mercator born
10 04 1512 King James V of England was born
01 11 1512 Michelangelo's paintings on the Sistine Chapel ceiling were first exhibited
to the public
1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa names large body of water as "Pacific"
08 04 1513 Ponce de Leon lands at the site of St. Augustine naming the place
Florida
25 09 1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa was the 1st European to sail the
Pacific Ocean
18 02 1516 Queen Mary (Bloody Mary) was born 31 10 1517 Luther
nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg
03 07 1518 soldier in
Paris strikes image of virgin Mary which then bleeds!
18 11 1518 Cortez leaves
Cuba for Mexico with 10 armed vessels
1519 Cortes brings Arabian horses to
Americas from Spain
1519 Domenico de Pineda explores Gulf of Mexico from Florida
to Vera Cruz
1519 Hernando Cortes begins assault on Mexico, defeats the Aztecs
04 03 1519 Hernando Cortez lands in Mexico 20 09 1519 Magellan leaves Spain
on first circumnavigation
1520 Magellan navigates through the straits from
Atlantic to Pacific
02 05 1520 Leonardo Da Vinci, artist and inventor, died
(Julian Calendar)
28 11 1520 Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean
10 12 1520 Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict demanding he recant,
or face excommunication
1521 Guam, where America's day begins, explored by
Magellan
03 01 1521 Martin Luther excommunicated from the Roman Catholic
Church
13 08 1521 Hernado Cortez returning with more troops finally takes
Mexico
1524 Giovanni da Verrazano explores Hudson River and New York harbor
waters
17 04 1524 Giovanni da Verrazano discovered New York Harbor
1526
Spanish attempt colonization of Cape Fear; it lasts only a few months
21
06 1527 Nicolo Machiavelli, diplomat and writer, died
1528 Panfilo de Narvaez
invades Florida from Cuba, wars with Indians
06 04 1528 Albrecht Durer, painter
and engraver, died in Nuremberg, Germany
25 08 1530 Ivan the Terrible, czar
of Russia, was born
29 11 1530 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, one time advisor to
Henry VIII, died
1531 Spain invades Peru; end of Inca civilization
09
12 1531 The Virgin Mary first appears to the farmer Juan Diego and tells him that
a church should be built on the spot where he stands
12 12 1531 The Virgin
Mary appears again to the farmer Juan Diego and instructs him to take the roses
from a nearby bush to the Church as proof that she has visited him
07 12
1532 Mary Queen of Scots was born
28 02 1533 Michel de Montaigne, French
essayist, was born
11 07 1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King
Henry VIII
07 09 1533 Elizabeth I born of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII at Greenwich
07 09 1533 Queen Elizabeth I of England born
1534 Jacques Cartier explores
coasts of Labrador and Newfoundland
1535 Jacques Cartier explores St. Lawrence
River, trades with Huron Indians
06 07 1535 English chancellor Thomas More
beheaded for refusal to sanction Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn
1536
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca reaches Culiacan after roaming all over south
1536 Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aries
19 05 1536 Anne Boleyn the queen
of Henry VIII was beheaded for treason and adultery because of a stillborn son
05 07 1536 Magdalen tragically died soon after becoming the Scottish queen of
James V
06 10 1536 William Tyndale, a Protestant theologian, was burned at
the stake
1538 Bogota settled by Quesada
1539 First printing press set
up in the New World - at Mexico City
1539 Hernando de Soto leaves Havana
to find Seven Cities; finds Indian war
1540 Coronado's troops discover the
Grand Canyon
1540 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado treks north from Mexico to
Zuni territory
06 01 1540 King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of
Cleves. The marriage lasted about six months
09 07 1540 Henry VIII divorces
Anne of Cleves
24 08 1540 Il Parmigianino, aka Francesco Mazzola, painter,
died Cremona, Italy
29 10 1618 Sir Walter Raleigh, explorer,
writer and courtier, died
1619 Black slavery introduced at Jamestown by Dutch
traders
24 02 1619 Charles Le Brun, painter, was born in Paris
06 03 1619
Cyrano de Bergerac, dramatist, was born
30 07 1619 First legislative assembly
in America, in Virginia
30 07 1619 the House of Burgesses in Virginia was
formed. 1st elective governing body in a British colony
1620 Puritan Pilgrims
write Mayflower Compact, land at Plymouth Colony
1620 Slide rule invented
by Oughtred, in England
24 04 1620 John Graunt, statistician, founded the
science of demography
16 09 1620 After two false starts, 149 Pilgrims set
forth from England aboard the Mayflower
10 11 1620 The Mayflower compact was
signed
20 11 1620 Peregrine White was born aboard the Mayflower in Massachusetts
Bay becoming the first child born of English parents in the New England
21
12 1620 The pilgrims go ashore for the first time at Plymouth Mass
1621 Pilgrims
have first contact with Indian, who greets them in English!
1621 The Indian,
Squanto, learned English in England after fleeing Spain
12 05 1621 Edward
Winslow and Susanna White become the first couple to marry in the colony of Plymouth
03 12 1621 Galileo invents the telescope
1622 Maine granted to Sir Ferdinando
Gorges and Captain John Mason
1623 Champlain's expedition trades for furs
with Indians on Lake Superior
1623 Settlements begin in New Hampshire
19 06 1623 Blaise Pascal
19 06 1623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician
06 08
1623 Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife, died at age of 67
1624 Indians barter
away Manhattan for about 24.00; Dutch begin settlements
1624 Virginia becomes
a royal colony
08 06 1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, astronomer
04 05
1626 Governor Peter Minuit buys Manhattan Island for 24 of scarlet cloth and brass
buttons
18 11 1626 St. Peter's Basilica was consecrated
1628 English Parliament
enacts Petition of Right
1629 Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions for New Netherland
granted
1629 Puritans settle Boston area, call themselves The Massachusetts-Bay
Co
14 04 1629 Christian Huyghens, Dutch physicist and astronomer, discoverer
of Saturn's rings, was born
26 08 1629 Cambridge Agreement pledged. Massachusetts
Bay Co. stockholders agreed to emigrate to New England
14 09 1629 Salem, Massachusetts,
founded
1630 Puritans hang John Billington, a murderer; a first for the colony
22 02 1630 the Indian Quadequina introduces popcorn to colonists
25 06 1630
The Fork was introduced to American dining by Gov. Winthrop
16 09 1630 The
Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston
30 09 1630 The
first execution in the English American Colonies takes place as John Billington
was hanged
15 11 1630 Johannes Kepler, the astronomer, died
31 03 1631
John Donne, dean of Saint Paul's, poet and author, died
1632 "Oyster War"
begins between VA and MD; continues today
1632 Mariland named for Queen Henrietta
Maria by English King Charles I
29 08 1632 John Locke, writer and thinker
on the philosophy of government, was born
20 10 1632 Christopher Wren, the
English architect, was born
20 10 1632 Sir Christopher Wren, astronomer, greatest
English architect of his time, built many of the cathedrals in London
31 10
1632 Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter, was born in Delft Netherlands
24 11 1632
Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and theologian, was born
23 02 1633 Samuel
Pepys, English author and diarist, was born
1634 Jean Nicolet explores Lake
Michigan shore and Wisconsin
1635 First settlements in Connecticut include
Hartford and Windsor
1635 Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts for espousing
democracy
15 08 1635 Hurricane hits Plymouth Plantation
1636 First college
in the colonies, later named after Rev. John Harvard
1636 Providence Plantations
founded in Rhode Island by Roger Williams
08 09 1636 Harvard College was established
with the help of 800 pounds from Rev. John Harvard
28 10 1636 Harvard University
was founded in Massachusetts
1637 Pequot War in Connecticut and Rhode Island
06 08 1637 Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, died
1638 Swedish colony,
near Wilmington, DE, introduces log-cabin building
29 03 1638 Swedish settled
Christiana (Wilmington, Delaware)
05 09 1638 King Louis XIV of France born
1639 Harvard College sets up first printing press in colonies
1639 The Fundamental
Orders unite three communities in "Connectecotte"
15 01 1639 Governor Kieft
purchased part of Long Island from Indians on behalf of New Netherlands
24
11 1639 The first transit of Venus across the Sun observed by William Crabtree
and Rev Horrocks
1640 First English book published in colonies was Bay Psalm
Book; Cambridge
1641 "body of Liberties" adopted in Massachusetts; precurses
Bill of Rights
1642 French develop new trading post at Montréal
1642 Massachusetts School Law requires schoolmaster in towns of 50 families
1642 Pascal invents an adding machine
18 05 1642 The Canadian city of Montréal
was founded
23 09 1642 Harvard College held its first commencement
23
10 1642 The battle of Edgehill was fought in English Civil War
24 11 1642
Abel Jansen Tasman discovers Van Deiman's Land (known as Tasmania since 1853)
13 12 1642 New Zealand was discovered by Abel Tasman
25 12 1642 Sir Isaac
Newton born in Grantham, England
1643 Invention of the barometer
1643
New England Confederation founded. These are first 4 colonies to unite
04
01 1643 Sir Issac Newton
14 05 1643 Accession of Louis XIV, age 4, Anne of
Austria was the regent
14 05 1643 Louis XIII, the French king, died
27
07 1643 Cromwell wins the battle of Gainsborough
1644 First bicameral legislature
formed in Massachusetts
1644 Roger Williams publishes The Bloody Tenet of
Persecution
18 01 1644 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims
in Boston
01 09 1644 Montrose defeats the Covenanters at Tippermuir in Scotland
14 10 1644 William Penn born in London
1645 First ironworks, at Saugus, MA
21 09 1645 Louis Joliet, explorer and discoverer of the Mississippi River, was
born
01 07 1646 Gottfried Leibniz, Invented a calcuator which could multiply
&
19 08 1646 John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England
04 06
1647 The English army seizes King Charles I as a hostage
22
04 1724 Imanual Kant, philosopher, born
22 04 1724 Kant born
25 09 1725
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built 1st automobile
1727 First British
fort on Great Lakes was Fort Oswego, NY
20 03 1727 Sir Isaac Newton, mathematician,
physicist and astronomer, died in London
14 05 1727 Thomas Gainsborough,
artist and portrait painter, was born
17 05 1727 Catherine I, Russian Empress
and favorite consort of Peter the Great, died in St. Petersburg
27 09 1727
James Franklin, Benjamin's half brother, publishes the first issue of "The Rhode
Island Gazette"
1728 First American steel made in Hartford, CT
1728
Vitus J. Bering, a Dane, explores strait which now bears his name
29 01 1728
John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera" was first performed
27 10 1728 Captain James
Cook, discovered the Sandwich Islands
02 05 1729 Catherine the Great of Russia
was born
03 12 1729 Antonio Soler, famed late 18th century Spanish composer
23 01 1730 Joseph Hewes, American revolutionary leader, born
26 06 1730 Charles
Messier born
17 09 1730 Baron Frederick von Steuben, made the Continental
Army winners
15 11 1731 William Cowper, poet, was born
1732 Benjamin
Franklin begins to publish Poor Richard's Almanac
1732 First stagecoach route
connects Burlington to Perth Amboy, NJ
1732 Hat Act forbade manufacture in
colonies of hats made with local fur
22 02 1732 George Washington born in
Virginia; died in 1799
22 02 1732 George Washington, Father figure for US,
President (1789-1796)
31 03 1732 Franz Joseph Haydn, composer, was born in
Austria
08 04 1732 David Rittenhouse born, astronomer and mathematician
21 06 1732 Martha Custis Washington
19 12 1732 Benjamin Franklin begins publication
of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
1733 Georgia becomes 13th colony; founded by
James Oglethorpe
1733 Sugar Act, aka Molasses Act, a revenue enhancement
scheme for Britain
22 03 1733 Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents
carbonated water
1734 Hamilton defends Zenger in freedom of the press landmark
case
02 11 1734 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA
30 10 1735 John Adams,
2nd President (1797-1801)
30 10 1735 John Adams, 2nd US President born
1736 Franklin begins Fire Department in Philadelphia
19 01 1736 James Watt,
inventor of the practical steam engine, was born
25 01 1736 J. L. Lagrange
born
29 05 1736 Patrick Henry born
29 05 1736 Patrick Henry, American
patriot, born
12 01 1737 John Hancock
23 01 1737 John Hancock born
23 01 1737 John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence and first
governor of Massachusetts, was born
29 01 1737 Thomas Paine, American author
and Revolutionary leader, was born
11 03 1737 Robert Treat Paine born
08 05 1737 Edward Gibbon, historian, "The History of the Decline & Fall of
the Roman Empire"
18 12 1737 Antonio Stradivari, renowned violin maker, died
in Cremona, Italy
1738 British traders begin working shores of Lake Erie,
compete with French
1738 Future King George III born. Declaration of Independence
mentions him
1738 The Great Awakening in full swing reshaping religious policies
everywhere
10 01 1738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green
Mtn Boys)
10 10 1738 Benjamin West, painter
15 11 1738 Willim Herschel
born
1739 In North Carolina, there was large insurrection by blacks
1739 War of Jenkin's Ear begins
16 03 1739 George Clymer, American politician
and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born
07 04 1739 Richard
(Dick) Turpin, highwayman, was executed at York
1740 English Parliament allows
naturalization of colonists after 7 years
1740 Invention of the Franklin
stove, his most famous invention
1740 Philadelphia was largest city in America.
Population 13,000
02 06 1740 Marquis de Sade, writer and all around fun guy,
was born
29 10 1740 James Boswell, Samuel Johnson's biographer
1741
Vitus Bering claims Alaska for his (now) homeland Russia
14 01 1741 Benedict
Arnold, fink
18 10 1741 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, artillery officer and
writer of "Les Liaisons dangereuses", was born
08 12 1741 Vitus Bering the
discoverer of the Bering strait died
1822 Grant, 18th President, born in Ohio; died 1885
1822 Hayes, 19th
President, born in Ohio; died
1893 07 01 1822 first printing in Hawaii
24 02 1822 Bluebeard executed for burning ten of his wives
27 04 1822 Ulyssses
S. Grant, 18th President (1869-1877)
08 07 1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley, the
poet, died off the coast of Italy
25 08 1822 William Herschel died
16
09 1822 Charles S. Crocker, of Southern Pacific fame
04 10 1822 Rutherford
B. Hayes, 19th President (1877-1881)
06 12 1822 John Eberhard, built 1st large
scale pencil factory in US
02 12 1823 Monroe Doctrine given to Congress
02 12 1823 President Jame Monroe lays down the philosophy later to be known as
the Monroe Doctrine in a message to Congress
23 12 1823 "Twas the night before
Christmas ..." was first published
1824 House of Representatives elects John
Q. Adams president
05 03 1824 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier
& Ives fame)
09 03 1824 Leland Stanford, Governor, Senator, founded Stanford
Univ
12 03 1824 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, the physicist, was born
19 04
1824 Lord Byron, poet, died in Missolonghi, Greece
07 05 1824 Beethoven's
Ninth Symphony presented for first time
11 05 1824 British forces capture
Rangoon
24 05 1824 First telegraph message
04 09 1824 Anton Bruckner,
Wagner disciple
01 12 1824 the presidential election was turned over to the
House of Representatives among John Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford
and Henry Clay
1825 Erie Canal completed
19 01 1825 Ezra Daggett and
his nephew, Thomas Kensett, obtain a patent for storing food in a tin can
24 02 1825 Thomas Bowdler, censor and prude, died
10 04 1825 1st hotel in
Hawaii opens
04 05 1825 Henry Huxley, biologist, was born
07 05 1825
Antonio Salieri, Italian composer, died
25 08 1825 Uraguay declared independence
from Brazil
09 09 1825 Ludwig van Beethoven's last public performance
25 10 1825 Erie Canal opens for business in New York
26 10 1825 Erie Canal
opens
04 03 1826 1st railroad in US chartered, the Granite Railway in Quincy,
Mass
04 07 1826 Jefferson, then Adams, die on 50th anniversary of Declaration
04 07 1826 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day
04 07 1826
John Adams, 2nd US President died
04 07 1826 Stephen Foster, American composer,
"Oh, Susanna"
04 07 1826 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President died
19 08
1826 Canada Co. chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
07 10 1826 Granite
Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
18 10 1826 The last
lottery was held in England
27 11 1826 Friction match invented, England
1827 Ohio Canal opened for business
16 03 1827 First Black newspaper founded
12 08 1827 William Blake, English poet, died
22 09 1827 Joseph Smith,
founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), receives
the plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated
1828 Baltimore &
Ohio railroad, the first designed for passengers & freight
1828 George
Worthington Co. founded in village of Cleaveland
08 02 1828 Jules Verne,
author, born (Nantes, France)
06 03 1828 Hongi Hika, Ngapuhi War Chief of
New Zealand, died
20 03 1828 Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist and poet,
was born
14 04 1828 Noah Webster publishes "American Dictionary of English
Language"
14 04 1828 The first edition of Noah Webster's "American Dictionary
of the English Language" was published
08 05 1828 Henri Dunant, founded Red
Cross, YMCA
22 05 1828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon, founded modern
ophthalmology
28 08 1828 Leo Tolstoy was born
19 11 1828 Franz Schubert,
composer, died
03 12 1828 Andrew Jackson elected president
1829 Arthur,
21st President, born; died 1886
1829 Estate of James Smithson funds Smithsonian
Institution
06 04 1829 Neils Abel, Norwegian mathematician, died
10
04 1829 William Booth born, founder of the Salvation Army
08 05 1829 Louis
Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist
29 09 1829 The
London Police, remodeled by Sir Robert Peel, begin duty
05 10 1829 Chester
A. Arthur, 21st President (1881-1884)
15 10 1829 Asaph Hall, astronomer,
discovered the moons of Mars, Phobos & Deimos
31 01 1830 James G. Blaine,
the 'Plumed Knight'
06 04 1830 Joseph Smith founds The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons)
09 04 1830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered
study of motion in photography
29 04 1830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff
House, railways, tunnels..
01 05 1830 Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), American
labor leader, was born
03 05 1830 1st regular steam train passenger service
starts
25 05 1830 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England
26 06 1830 William IV becomes King of England
21 07 1830 Belgium gains its
independence from the Netherlands; King Leopold I was crowned
25 09 1830
Emily Dickinson born
10 12 1830 Emily Dickinson, the poet, was born
17 12 1830 Simon Bolivar, revolutionary leader in South America, died
1831
James Monroe, 5th President, died
1831 Garfield, 20th President (and 3rd
in a row from Ohio), born
1831 Nat Turner leads slave revolt at Southhampton
1831 Samuel F. Smith writes "My Country, 'tis of Thee"
12 03 1831 Clement
Studebaker, automobile pioneer
08 06 1831 Sara Siddons, actress, died in
London
04 07 1831 James Monroe, 5th President, died
21 08 1831 Nat Turner
rebellion
26 10 1831 The first appearance of Asiatic Cholera in England,
at Sutherland
29 10 1831 Reform riots in Bristol
11 11 1831 Nat Turner,
slave who lead a slave revolt, hanged
19 11 1831 James A. Garfield, 20th
President
27 12 1831 Darwin begins his voyage onboard the HMS Beagle
1832 Abe Lincoln enlists in Illinois militia to help fight Sauk & Fox Indians
1832 Jackson supporters counter with rebirth of Jefferson Democratic Party
1832 Jackson vetoes rechartering of 2nd Bank, causes birth of Whig Party
13
01 1832 Horatio Alger, Jr
22 01 1832 Molly Pitcher, distinguished herself
in the battle of Monmouth during the Revolutionary War, died
27 01 1832 Charles
Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll)
27 01 1832 Charles Lutwidge
Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, writer and mathematician, was born in Cheshire
12 03 1832 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts
22
03 1832 Johann Wolfgang Goethe, poet, novelist, died
04 07 1832 The song
"America" written by Dr Samual Smith on scrap of paper and performed by Boston
school children
06 07 1832 Mexican Emperor Maximilian was born
14 11 1832
The world's first street car runs in New York
26 11 1832 Louisa May Alcott,
little woman
26 11 1832 Public streetcar service began in New York City; fare
12 1/2 cents
29 11 1832 Louisa May Alcott, author of "Little Women", was
born
15 12 1832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, built a tower in Paris
1833
Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President, born; died 1901
1833 City of Cleveland
buys its first fire engine for 285
1833 Oberlin College, in Ohio, was first
coed college in USA
09 04 1833 First tax-supported public library, at Peterborough,
NH
07 05 1833 Johannes Brahms, the composer, born in Hamburg
05 06 1833
Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
10 08
1833 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people
20 08 1833 Benjamin
Harrison, 23rd President (1889-1893)
04 09 1833 Barney Flaherty, a ten yeare
old, was hired as the first known paper boy
21 10 1833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel,
created dynamite and Peace Prizes, born in Stockholm
29 10 1833 1st College
Fraternity founded 03 12 1833 Oberlin College, the first coeducational college
in America, opens
1834 Charles Babbage demonstrates "analytic engine", a
computer
1834 Death of Lafayette, Revolutionary War hero on two continents
27 01 1834 Dmitri Mendeleyev, chemist, formulated the periodic table of elements,
was born in Tobolsk, Russia
17 03 1834 Gottlieb Daimler, automobile pioneer
24 03 1834 John Wesley Powell, explorer of the Colorado River, was born
20 05 1834 Marquis de Lafayette, revolutionary war hero, died
14 06 1834
Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr
10 07 1834 James Whistler, mama's boy
18 08 1834 Marshall Field, founded a Chicago-based store chain
1835
USA. becomes debt free (briefly) for only time in history
30 01 1835 Chief
Osceola, Seminole leader, died in prison
30 01 1835 pistol misfires in attempt
to kill president Andrew Jackson
10 02 1835 Philadelphia was first lighted
by gas
14 03 1835 Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, astronomer who named Mars
"canals", was born
13 05 1835 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii was established
02 06 1835 Pope Pius X
25 06 1835 Pueblo founded with construction of
1st building (start of Yerba Buena, later to be called San Francisco)
08 07
1835 the Liberty Bell cracks (again)
26 07 1835 1st sugar cane plantation
started in Hawaii
29 07 1835 first sugar plantation in Hawaii begun
06
08 1835 Bolivia gains its independence
23 10 1835 Adlai Stevenson, Vice President
25 11 1835 Andrew Carnegie, steelman and librarian
30 11 1835 Mark Twain
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) born in Florida, Missouri
04 12 1835 Samuel Butler,
English novelist, born
24 02 1836 Winslow Homer, artist, was born in Boston
02 03 1836 Texas declares independence
06 03 1836 Davy Crockett died
in the Alamo
06 03 1836 The Alamo finally falls after 13 days of siege by
Santa Anna's troops
06 03 1836 The Alamo. 6000 Mexicans defeat 190 Americans
in 12 days
16 03 1836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car
27 03 1836 First Mormon temple was dedicated, in Kirtland, Ohio
21 04 1836
Sam Houston's Texas army defeats the Mexicans at San Jacinto
17 05 1836 Joseph
Norman Lockyer born, discoverer of Helium in Sun
15 06 1836 Arkansas becomes
the 25th state
30 07 1836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
25 08 1836 Francis Bret Harte, American author, was born
05 09 1836 Sam Houston
was elected president of the Republic of Texas
09 09 1836 27 yeare old Abe
Lincoln received license to practice law
02 10 1836 Darwin returns to England
aboard the HMS Beagle
18 11 1836 Sir William S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert
& Sullivan fame)
28 12 1836 Independence of Mexico recognized by Spain
1837 Concord Hymn, by Emerson, commemorates battle of Concord NH in 1775
1837 Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President, born; died 1908
1837
Sitting Bull born, died in 1890
26 01 1837 Michigan becomes the 26th state
18 03 1837 Grover Cleveland, President (1885-1889, 1893-1897)
31 03
1837 John Constable, English Landscape painter, died
17 04 1837 J.P. Morgan,
financed the US
02 05 1837 Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert's Rules
of Order"
27 05 1837 Wild Bill Hickok
20 06 1837 Queen Victoria crowned
30 06 1837 The pillory was no longer a means of punishment in the United
Kingdom
03 11 1837 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound in Illinois
07 11 1837
Elijah P Lovejoy, Abolitionist newspaperman, murdered by mob
1838 Black Hawk,
famous Sauk warrior, died of old age
1838 Osceola died in prison after being
tricked by false white flag
1838 Trail of Tears. Thousands of Indians forced
from their homes & die
04 01 1838 Charles Stratton (alias General Tom
Thumb, famous short person)
04 01 1838 Tiny Tim, the dwarf made famous by
P. T. Barnum, was born
06 01 1838 Samuel Morse demonstrated his telegraph
for the first time
29 01 1838 John Davison Rockefeller, industrialist and
philanthropist, was born
18 02 1838 Ernst Mach, philosopher and optics pioneer,
was born
20 02 1838 Ludwig Boltzmann, atomic physics pioneer, was born
21 02 1838 Alexis De Rochon, developed spyglass, born
22 02 1838 Pierre Jules
Cesar Janssen, who found hydrogen in the sun, was born
21 04 1838 John Muir,
American naturalist, was born
28 06 1838 Queen Victoria of Great Britain
was crowned
08 07 1838 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born
23 08 1838
Mount Holyoke Fee Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts, one of the first colleges
for women in the U.S., graduates its first students 02 09 1838 Queen Liliuokalani
(last queen of Hawaii)
1839 Abner Doubleday invents baseball at Cooperstown,
NY
1839 Railway Express Co. founded in Boston
09 01 1839 the daguerrotype
process announced at French Academy of Science
19 01 1839 Paul Cezanne, the
artist, was born
09 03 1839 The war between Mexico and France ends
07
06 1839 the Hawaiian Declaration of Rights was signed
12 06 1839 the 1st
baseball game was played in America
24 06 1839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder
of Swift & Co
08 07 1839 John D. Rockefeller 05 12 1839 General George
A. Custer
1840 Chief Joseph born near Wallowa, OR. Becomes great chief of
Nez Perce'
03 01 1840 Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii
05
01 1840 The emperor of China declares the English to be outlaws
10 01 1840
Pre-paid postage by means of stamped labels comes into use in Britain
10
01 1840 the Penny Post mail system was started
23 01 1840 Ernst Abbe, formulated
diffraction theory, was born
05 02 1840 John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic
rubber tire
10 02 1840 Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert (Francis-Albert-Augustus-Charles-Emmanuel,
Duke of Saxe, Prince of Saxe-Colburg and Gotha)
23 03 1840 First photograph
of Moon
30 03 1840 Beau Brummel, man of fashion, died
27 04 1840 Edward
Whymper, artist and mountaineer, first man to climb the Matterhorn, was born
01 05 1840 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
02 05 1840 Thomas Hardy, English author, was born
07 05 1840 Peter Ilyich
Tchaikovsky, the composer, was born
02 06 1840 Thomas Hardy, English author,
was born in Dorset
23 07 1840 Parliamentary act to unite upper and lower
Canada
27 09 1840 Thomas Nast, cartoonist, born
08 10 1840 1st Hawaiian
constitution proclaimed
12 11 1840 Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, was born
14 11 1840 Claude Monet, impressionist
18 11 1840 the last boatload
of British convicts land in Australia
1841 Russia sells their Fort Ross in
California to John Sutter
1841 Wm. H. Harrison catches cold at Inauguration,
died a month later
26 01 1841 Hong Kong proclaimed a British sovereign territory
25 02 1841 August Renoir, the French impressionist painter, was born
22 03 1841 Cornstarch was patented
04 04 1841 President Harrison died one
month after inaugural
10 04 1841 First issue of the New York Tribune. The
publisher was Horace Greeley
08 09 1841 Anton Dvorak born in Nelahozeves,
Czechoslovakia
04 11 1841 First wagon train reaches California
1842 Cra
Horse born in South Dakota
1842 Plain Dealer Publishing Co. founded in Cleveland
13 05 1842 Arthur S. Sullivan, of Gilbert and Sullivan, was born
13 06 1842
Queen Victoria gets her first train ride
24 06 1842 Ambrose Bierce, American
satirist, was born
09 08 1842 U.S./Canada border defined in Webster-Ashburton
Treaty
09 08 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty defines Canadian-U.S. frontier
10 08 1842 The Mines Act promoted by Lord Ashley prohibits women and young
children from working in the mines
26 08 1842 Britain and China sign a peace
treaty
30 08 1842 75 cents per pound tariff set on opium
1883 Indonesian volcano Krakatau blows its top; 35,000 die
03 01 1883
The artificial drinking straw patented
06 01 1883 Khalil Gibran, metaphysical
author, was born in Lebanon
07 02 1883 Eubie Blake, composer
08 02 1883
Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen
13 02 1883
Richard Wagner, composer, died
16 02 1883 Ladies Home Journal begins publication
28 02 1883 1st vaudeville theater opens
14 03 1883 Karl Marx died
01 04 1883 Lon Chaney, actor, was born
20 04 1883 Edouard Manet, the French
artist, died
23 05 1883 Douglas Fairbanks, actor and producer, was born in
Colorado
24 05 1883 Brooklyn Bridge completed. No, it was not for sale!
24 05 1883 The Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres. Arthur & Gov. Cleveland
05 06 1883 John Maynard Keynes, economist, was born in Cambridge, England
03 07 1883 Franz Kafka born
04 07 1883 Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously
difficult
29 07 1883 Mussolini, Italian dictator, was born
27 08 1883
Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, killing 36000
people and was heard 3000 miles away
14 09 1883 Margaret Sanger, feminist
17 09 1883 William Carlos Williams, American physician and poet, was born
18 09 1883 Elmer Maytag born
22 10 1883 The original Metropolitan Opera
House in New York held its grand opening
03 11 1883 Treasure Island, by Robert
Louis Stevenson, published
18 11 1883 Local standard time zones established
for US and Canada
1884 First "World Series" played
1884 Truman, 33rd
President, born; died 1972
16 02 1884 Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary
film
01 05 1884 construction begins in Chicago on the 1st skyscraper
08 05 1884 Harry S Truman, the 33rd U.S. president, was born
13 05 1884 Cyrus
McCormick, perfecter of the mechanical harvester, died
13 05 1884 Institute
for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded
05 06 1884 General
William T. Sherman refuses the Republican presidential nomination with the words,
"I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." 14 06 1884 John
McCormack, Irish tenor, was born
04 07 1884 Statue of Liberty was given to
U.S. to commemorate the French and American revolutions
07 07 1884 By act
of Congress a new "Great Seal of the United States" was recut based on the original
design and the old seal, known as the "illegal seal", made illegally by the Secretary
of State in 1841, was removed from use
08 08 1884 Sara Teasdale, American
poet, was born
16 08 1884 Hugo Gernsback, was born He was responsible for
science fiction becoming an independent literary form
17 09 1884 The American
Kennel club was founded
20 09 1884 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood
for President
11 10 1884 Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady, was born
25 11 1884 Evaporated milk was patented
09 12 1884 Ball-bearing roller skates
patented
31 01 1885 Anna Pavlova, the Russian ballerina, was born
06
02 1885 George Herman Ruth ('Babe Ruth'), baseball legend,
07 02 1885 Sinclair
Lewis, novelist, author of "Babbitt", was born
09 02 1885 first Japanese arrive
in Hawaii
13 02 1885 Bess Truman, married to President Harry Truman
18
02 1885 Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was published
21 02
1885 Washington Monument was dedicated
24 02 1885 Admiral Chester Nimitz,
in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII
03 03 1885 American Telephone and Telegraph
incorporated
07 05 1885 Gabby Hayes, Western character actor, was born
22 05 1885 Victor Hugo, the novelist, died
06 07 1885 1st inoculation (for
rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur
06 07 1885 Louis Pasteur inoculates
a human being for the first time, a sl boy badly bitten by a dog
29 08 1885
Rock Springs Massacre, Chinese killed by miners in Rock Springs, WY
05 09
1885 1st gasoline pump was delivered to a gasoline dealer
11 09 1885 D.H.
Lawrence, Taos pioneer
20 09 1885 Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe (Jelly Roll)
Morton, American jazz musician and composer, was born
22 09 1885 Erich von
Stroheim, early film director
01 10 1885 Special delivery mail service began
in the United States
07 10 1885 Niels Bohr, physicist & Nobel laureate,
expanded quantum physics
30 10 1885 Ezra Loomis Pound, American poet and critic,
was born
02 11 1885 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer
07 11 1885 Canada completes
its own transcontinental railway
11 11 1885 General George Patton, World War
II tank strategist, was born in San Gabriel, California
26 11 1885 First
Meteor photograph
01 01 1886 England conquers Burma
06 01 1886 Great
Plains blizzard
29 01 1886 Karl Friedrich Benz patents the first petrol driven
motor car
21 03 1886 Geronimo was captured
29 03 1886 Coca-Cola was
created
06 04 1886 Vancouver, BC was founded by the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company
04 05 1886 The Haymarket riots
08 05 1886 John Styth Pemberton
invented the syrup for a beverage that came to be known as Coca-Cola
16 05
1886 Emily Dickinson, the poet, died
26 05 1886 Al Jolson, the entertainer,
born
28 05 1886 Jim Thorpe
19 06 1886 Duchess of Windsor
07 08
1886 Louis Alan Hazeltine, invented the neutrodyne circuit, making commercial
radio possible, was born
24 08 1886 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect,
designed the Liberty ships
31 08 1886 Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized
31 08 1886 The first recorded major earthquake in U.S. history rocked Charleston,
S.C., killing up to 110 people
04 09 1886 Geronimo surrenders all Apache
nations
10 09 1886 Hilda (H.D.) Doolittle, American poet, was born
14
09 1886 the typewriter ribbon was patented
28 10 1886 Statue of Liberty was
dedicated on Bedloe's Island
09 11 1886 Ed Wynn, actor, was born
01 12
1886 Rex Stout, American detective story writer, creator of Nero Wolfe, born in
Noblesville, Indiana
09 12 1886 Clarence Birdseye, became the frozen vegetable
king
18 12 1886 Ty Cobb, baseball player,
04 01 1887 The first around
the world bicycle trip
16 01 1887 Cliff House badly damaged when a cargo
of powder on the schooner "Parallel" explodes nearby
20 01 1887 The U.S.
Senate approved the leasing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base
05 02
1887 Snow falls on San Francisco
23 02 1887 Congress grants Seal Rocks to
San Francisco
04 04 1887 Susan Salter, Argonia, KS, was first woman mayor
in USA
21 06 1887 The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria
21 06 1887 The
annexation of Zululand by the British
07 07 1887 Marc Chagall, the painter,
was born in Russia
29 07 1887 Sigmund Romberg, operetta composer, was born
in Hungary
31 10 1887 Chiang Kai-Shek born
08 11 1887 Doc Holliday,
notorious dentist of the Old West, died
11 11 1887 Haymarket rioters hanged
13 11 1887 Bloody Sunday occurs in Trafalgar Square, London as Socialist
and Irish demonstrators fought
15 11 1887 Georgia O'Keeffe, Southwestern
artist, was born
23 11 1887 Boris Karloff, the actor, was born in Dulwich,
England
29 11 1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
09 12 1887 Hermione Gingold, actress who played the mayor's wife in "The Music
Man", was born
22 12 1887 Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the most brilliant
mathematicians to ever live, was born
1888 Electric streetcars introduced,
in Richmond, VA
03 01 1888 1st drinking straw was patented
18 01 1888
Sir Thomas Octave Sopwith, aviator, airplane builder, Sopwith Pup, Sopwith Camel,
Hurricane, and the Harrier VTOL, born
24 01 1888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel,
built 1st rocket-powered aircraft
25 02 1888 John Foster Dulles, Secretary
of State for President Eisenhower
28 02 1888 Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes
06 03 1888 Louisa May Alcott, American novelist, died
11 03 1888 Great
New England blizzard begins
14 03 1888 Great New England blizzard ends
11 05 1888 Irving Berlin, the composer, was born
01 06 1888 The first seismographs
to be installed in California are installed in the Lick Observatory
03 06
1888 "Casey at the Bat" was 1st published (by the SF Examiner)
23 07 1888
Raymond Chandler, American author, was born
07 08 1888 The revolving door
was patented
11 08 1888 The California Theatre closed (now a Pac Tel Phone
Store)
31 08 1888 Mary Ann Nichols becomes the first victim of Jack the Ripper
04 09 1888 George Eastman patents 1st rollfilm camera & registers "Kodak"
12 09 1888 Maurice Chevalier, thanked heaven for little girls
26 09
1888 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis
09 10 1888 The Washington
Monument opened
16 10 1888 Eugene Ó Neill, playwright, was born
09 11 1888 last victim of Jack the Ripper died
20 11 1888 William Bundy invents
the first timecard clock
03 12 1888 Wetherill discovers Cliff Palace on Mesa
Verde
1889 First American skyscraper soars into Chicago skies, 10 stories
1889 Indian Territory becomes Oklahoma Territory, thrown open to landrushers
08 01 1889 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer
08
03 1889 John Ericsson, inventor of the screw propeller, died
31 03 1889 The
Eiffel Tower was officially opened in Paris
08 04 1889 Sir Adrian Boult,
conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
09 04 1889 Efram Zimbalist, the violinist,
was born
14 04 1889 Arnold Toynbee, historian
20 04 1889 Adolph Hitler,
dictator, was born in Braunau, Austria
22 04 1889 Oklahoma opened by land
run
26 04 1889 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born English philosopher, was
born
06 05 1889 The Paris Exposition forly opened featuring the Eiffel Tower
25 05 1889 Igor Sikorsky, inventor of the helicopter, was born
31 05
1889 Johnstown Flood
08 06 1889 Cable Cars begin service in Los Angeles
08 07 1889 Vol 1, No 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" published
17 07 1889
Erle Stanley Gardner, author and creator of Perry Mason, was born
23 08 1889
1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US: US lightship to Cliff House
06 10 1889 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture
02 11 1889 North Dakota
becomes the 39th state
02 11 1889 South Dakota becomes the 40th state
08 11 1889 Montana becomes the 41st state
11 11 1889 Washington admitted as
the 42nd state
14 11 1889 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip
around the world by 8 days (72 days)
18 11 1889 Eugene Ormandy, conductor,
was born
18 11 1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
20 11
1889 Edwin Hubble, astronomer, was born
23 11 1889 The first jukebox made
its debut in San Francisco
06 12 1889 Jefferson Davis died at age
81
12 12 1889 Robert Browning, the poet, died
19 12 1889 Bishop Museum founded
in Hawaii
24 12 1889 the back-pedal brake for bicycles was patented
1890 Eisenhower, 34th President, born; died 1969
1890 First skyscraper in
New York City was the World Building, 26 stories
1890 Leonidas Merritt discovers
iron ore lode at Mesabi, MN
09 01 1890 Karel Capek, Czech author and originator
of the term robot, was born
25 01 1890 Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochran Seaman),
American journalist, went around the world in 72 days
10 02 1890 Boris Pasternak,
author of "Dr. Zhivago", was born
22 02 1890 John Jacob Astor, the millionaire,
died
05 03 1890 Berick Traven Torsvan, American author, was born
11 03
1890 Vannevar Bush born
06 04 1890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft
manufacturer
17 05 1890 the first regular comic, "Comic Cuts", was published
in London
19 05 1890 Ho Chi Minh, revolutionary, was born
16 06 1890
Stan Laurel, film comedian, was born in Lancashire
02 07 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust
Act
02 07 1890 The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed
03 07 1890 Idaho
became the 43rd state
10 07 1890 Wyoming becomes the 44th state
13 07
1890 John Charles Fremont, American soldier, explorer and politician, died
15 07 1890 Rose Kennedy, Grand Dame of the Kennedy family was born
20 07 1890
Theda Bara, American actress and vamp, was born
22 07 1890 Rose Kennedy
29 07 1890 Vincent Van Gogh, artist, died in Auvers, France
06 08 1890 Cy
Young pitches first major league game
06 08 1890 The electric chair was used
for the first time at Auburn State Prison in New York
09 09 1890 Colonel
Harlan (Kentucky Fried) Sanders was born
15 09 1890 Dame Agatha Christie,
author, born in Torquay, England
24 09 1890 Wilford Woodruff, president of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issues a declaration affirming
that the Church no longer teaches nor performs plural marriage
25 09 1890
Pres. Harrison signed a measure establishing Sequoia National Park 06 10 1890
Mormons abolish polygamy by general conference declaration that the president
of the church's declaration of Sep 24 was "authoritative and binding"
11
10 1890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded
14 10 1890 Dwight D.
Eisenhower, 34th President (1953-1961)
16 10 1890 Paul Strand, photographer
20 10 1890 Sir Richard Burton, English explorer, writer, discoverer of Lake
Tanganyika, died
22 11 1890 Charles de Gaulle
27 11 1890 1st signal box
for SF Police Department goes into operation
29 11 1890 1st Army-Navy football
game. Score: Navy 25, Army
0 05 12 1890 Director Fritz Lang (Metropolis?)
born in Vienna
15 12 1890 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest
18 12 1890 Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (invented FM)
29 12 1890 Massacre
at Wounded Knee, SD
29 12 1890 Massacre at Wounded knee
09 02 1891 1st
shipment of asparagus arrives from Sacramento
26 02 1891 1st buffalo purchased
for Golden Gate Park
18 03 1891 first use of Paris to London telephone line
22 03 1891 Leonard Marx, Chico of the Marx Brothers, was born
07 04
1891 Phineas T. (P.T.) Barnum, entrepreneur of Barnum and Bailey, died
25
04 1891 President Benjamin Harrison visits San Francisco
05 05 1891 Carnegie
Hall, originally named just "Music Hall", opens
07 07 1891 a patent was granted
for the travelers cheque
30 07 1891 Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel, baseball
great, was born
17 08 1891 First public bath opened in New York City
24 08 1891 Movie camera patented
29 10 1891 Fanny Brice, actress, dancer,
singer, was born
10 11 1891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting
held (in Boston)
15 11 1891 Erwin Rommel, German tactician, general known
as "The Desert Fox", was born
15 12 1891 James Naismith, a Canadian, invents
basketball, while working at the Y.M.C.A. College at Springfield, Massachusetts
26 12 1891 Henry Miller, the author, was born
1892 First bridge to span
the lower Mississippi river was at Memphis
1892 Pledge of Allegiance published.
Changes made in 1954
1892 Rudolf Diesel invents internal combustion engine
that runs on oil
03 01 1892 J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings
11 01 1892 Hawaii Historical Society founded
14 01 1892 Hal Roach, early
film director and producer
18 01 1892 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel
and Hardy
16 02 1892 Henry Walter Bates, naturalist and explorer of South
America, was born
22 02 1892 Edna St. Vincent Millay, the American poet, was
born in Rockland Maine
11 03 1892 1st public game of basketball
26 03
1892 Walt Whitman, poet, died
06 04 1892 Donald Wills Douglas, founded an
aircraft company
06 04 1892 Lowell Thomas, journalist
19 04 1892 Charles
Duryea takes the 1st American-made auto out for a spin
01 05 1892 US Quarantine
Station opens on Angel Island
11 05 1892 Margaret Rutherford, the actress,
was born
28 05 1892 The Sierra Club founded
13 06 1892 Basil Rathbone,
the actor renowned for his Sherlock Holmes, was born
18 06 1892 Macademia
nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
26 06 1892 Pearl Buck, author of "The Good Earth"
and "This House divided", was born
16 08 1892 Harold Foster, cartoonist,
was born. He created "Prince Valiant", known for its fine drawing and historical
detail
17 08 1892 Mae West, actress, was born
09 09 1892 Discovery of
Jovian moon Althea
12 09 1892 Alfred Abraham Knopf, American publisher, was
born
14 09 1892 A.P. Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo
26 09 1892 John
Philip Sousa gives his first public concert, playing for the first time "The Liberty
Bell March"
29 09 1892 The 1st night football game was played in Mansfield,
Pennsylvania
06 10 1892 Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet, died
18 10 1892
1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago - New York)
03 11
1892 first automatic switchboard
1893 "America the Beautiful" written by
Katherine Lee Bates
12 01 1893 Herman Goering, Nazi field marshal, was born
14 01 1893 English Labour Party founded
17 01 1893 the Kingdom of Hawaii
becomes a republic
12 02 1893 General of the Army Omar Bradley, 'The GI General'
08 04 1893 Mary Pickford was born
20 04 1893 Joan Miro, artist, was
born
11 05 1893 Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer, born in Pittsburgh
19 06 1893 Lizzie Borden acquitted of killing her parents with an ax
30 06 1893 the Excelsior diamond (blue-white, 995 carats) discovered
06 07
1893 King George V of England and Victoria Mary of Teck are wed
28 10 1893
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky debuts his 6th Symphony, the "Pathetique" in St. Petersburg
30 10 1893 Charles Atlas, Italian-born American physical culturist, was born
06 11 1893 Edsel Ford was born
06 11 1893 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Russian
composer, died of Cholera after knowingly drinking unboiled water
23 11 1893
Harpo Marx of the Marx brothers was born
12 12 1893 Edward G. Robinson, actor,
born in Bucharest, Romania
26 12 1893 Mao Tse-tung, revolutionary, was born
in Hunan Province
27 01 1894 Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park
04 02 1894 Richard Wetherill discovered the Basket Maker culture
14 02 1894
Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny. Oh, Rochester
13 03 1894 "Striptease" introduced,
Paris
17 04 1894 Nikita Khrushchev, Russian political leader, was born
20 04 1894 Harold Lloyd, comedian, was born
27 05 1894 Dashiell Hammett,
American author, was born
25 06 1894 Hermann Oberth, founder of modern astronautics,
was born
04 07 1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the 1st US autos
26 07 1894 Aldous Huxley, English author of Brave New World, was born
15 09 1894 Jean Renoir, son of August Renoir and film director, was born
14 10 1894 e.e. cummings, poet, was born
29 10 1894 first election of the
Hawaiian Republic
26 11 1894 Norbert Weiner born 26 11 1894 Norbert Weiner,
Author of Cybernetics
08 12 1894 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus,
Ohio
30 12 1894 Amelia Bloomer, women's rights activist, popularized the term
bloomers, died
01 01 1895 J. Edgar Hoover, first director of the FBI, was
born
24 01 1895 Lord Randolph Churchill, English statesman, died
01
02 1895 John Ford, the film maker, was born
19 03 1895 Los Angeles Railway
established to provide streetcar service
11 04 1895 Anaheim completes its
new electric light system
17 04 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st
Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
06 05 1895 Rudolph Valentino, the silent screen
actor, was born
19 05 1895 Oscar Wilde released from Pentonville Prison
11 06 1895 1st auto race 12 07 1895 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist, was born
12 07 1895 R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome
26 07 1895
Robert Graves, English-born American author and critic, was born
21 09 1895
1st auto manufacturer opens -- Duryea Motor Wagon Company
24 09 1895 1st
round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
28 09 1895
Louis Pasteur, French scientist, died
02 10 1895 Groucho Marx, comedian,
was born
04 10 1895 Buster Keaton, film comedian, was born
10 11 1895
John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer
13 11 1895 first shipment of canned
pineapple from Hawaii
19 11 1895 the pencil was invented
26 11 1895
Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed
27 11 1895 Alfred Nobel establishes
Nobel Prize
28 11 1895 The first automobile race was held from Chicago to
Waukegan through the snow; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averaged 7 MPH
03 12 1895
Robert Louis Stevenson, author, died in Samoa
1896 Plessy v. Ferguson establishes
hated "separate but equal" provision
04 01 1896 Utah becomes the 45th state
16 01 1896 First college basketball game, Iowa vs Chicago
20 01 1896 George
Burns (Nathan Birnbaum), comedian, born in New York, NY
18 02 1896 Andre Breton,
French author and critic, was born
07 03 1896 Last Gilbert and Sullivan opera
produced
14 03 1896 Sutro Baths opened by Cliff House
23 04 1896 The
vitascope system for projecting onto a screen
27 04 1896 Wallace Hume Carothers,
invented nylon
27 05 1896 Bay District Race Track closes
30 05 1896 first
US auto accident
04 06 1896 Henry Ford takes a test drive of his car through
the streets of Detroit
08 07 1896 William Jennings Bryan makes his 'cross
of gold' speech at the Democratic Convention in Chicago
28 07 1896 The city
of Miami was incorporated
12 08 1896 George Cormack discovered gold in Klondike
Creek in the Yukon
29 08 1896 The Chinese-American dish chop suey was invented
in N.Y.City
04 09 1896 Apache leader Geronomino surrenders
24 09 1896
F. Scott Fitzgerald, author, was born
01 10 1896 Yosemite becomes a National
Park
08 10 1896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks
14 10 1896 Lillian Gish, actress, was born
27 10 1896 1st Pali Road
completed in Hawaii (the Pali was a cliff where the winds are so strong streams
flow UP)
15 11 1896 Niagara Falls power plant startup
10 12 1896 Alfred
Nobel's will establishes the Nobel prize in the five areas of chemistry, physics,
medicine, literature and peace
10 12 1896 Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite,
died
25 12 1896 John Philip Sousa composes "Stars and Stripes Forever"
11 01 1897 Aldo Leopold, ecological writer, was born
12 01 1897 Isaac Pitman,
the inventor of shorthand, died
17 04 1897 Thornton Wilder, American novelist
27 04 1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) was dedicated
22
05 1897 the official opening of the Blackwall tunnel under the Thames
22
06 1897 Erich Maria Remarque, German-born American novelist, was born
08
07 1897 Harbor Hospital forly opens
16 08 1897 the Tate Gallery in London
was opened
25 09 1897 William Faulkner, the author, was born
1898 Independent
republic of Hawaii annexed
1898 Spanish - American War. Teddy Roosevelt rough-rides
his way into Cuba
01 01 1898 Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of
San Francisco Bay
14 01 1898 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll,
died
10 02 1898 Bertolt Brecht, German poet and playwright, was born
15 02 1898 USS Maine blown up in harbor at Havana, Cuba
15 02 1898 USS Maine
sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown
09 04 1898 Paul Robeson, the actor,
was born
12 04 1898 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island to Navy
24 04
1898 Spain declares war on the United States
25 04 1898 US declares war on
Spain
03 05 1898 Camp Merriman established at the Presidio
03 05 1898
Golda Meir, the Israeli leader, was born
17 05 1898 Camp Merritt established
in the Presidio
23 05 1898 1st Phillipine Expeditionary Troops sail from San
Francisco
26 05 1898 San Francisco approves new City Charter, allowing municipal
ownership of utiliies (charter effective Jan 1, 1900)
10 06 1898 US Marines
land at Cuba in Spanish-American War
12 06 1898 Phillipines gains its independence
from Spain
18 06 1898 M C Escher born
26 06 1898 Willi Messerschmitt,
German aircraft designer, was born in Frankfort
01 07 1898 Teddy Roosevelt
and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
07 07 1898 Hawaii annexed to
the US
13 07 1898 SF Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street opens
22 07 1898 Alexander Calder, sculptor, was born
22 07 1898 Stephen Vincent
Benet, American poet, was born
24 07 1898 Amelia Earhart, pioneer aviator,
was born in Kansas
16 08 1898 Roller Coaster patented
26 09 1898 George
Gershwin, composer, born in Brooklyn, NY
01 10 1898 Henry Huntington buys
the Los Angeles Railway
16 10 1898 William Orville Douglas, Supreme Court
Justice, was born
18 10 1898 The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico
shortly before Spain forly gave control to the U.S
21 11 1898 Rene Magritte,
artist, was born
29 11 1898 C.S. Lewis, author, was born
10 12 1898
a treaty was signed in Paris ending the Spanish-American War
21 12 1898 Pierre
and Marie Curie discovered radium
17 01 1899 Al Capone, mobster, was born
24 01 1899 the rubber heel was patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
06 02
1899 A peace treaty was signed between the United States and Spain
18 02
1899 San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transports
23 04 1899
Vladimir Nabokov, Russian novelist, was born
29 04 1899 Duke Ellington, American
jazz musician, was born
10 05 1899 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born
in Omaha, Nebraska
20 05 1899 first speeding arrest, to Jacob German of New
York City
24 05 1899 in Boston, the 1st auto repair shop opens
01 07
1899 SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building
14 07 1899
James Cagney, movie actor and notorious screen gangster, was born
18 07 1899
Horatio Alger, whose lads always had enough pluck to succeed, died
21 07 1899
Ernest Hemingway, author, was born
13 08 1899 Alfred Hitchcock, film producer,
born
24 08 1899 Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian author, was born
27 08
1899 C.S. Forester, historical novelist, created Horatio Hornblower
09 09
1899 Alfred Dreyfus went on trial a second time for disclosing French secrets
14 09 1899 While in New York, Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality
17 10 1899 Sutro RR sold to Robert F. Morrow for 215,000
22 11 1899
Hoagy Carmichael, composed 'Star Dust'
16 12 1899 Sir Noel Coward, playwright
25 12 1899 Humphrey Bogart, actor, was born
1900 Boxer Rebellion against
foreigners in China begins
02 01 1900 Secretary of State Johhn Hay announces
the Open Door Policy with China to improve trade
20 01 1900 John Ruskin,
philosopher, died
22 02 1900 Hawaii becomes a US Territory
22 02 1900
Luis Bunuel, film director, born in
Spain 23 02 1900 Steamer "Rio de Janiero"
sinks in San Francisco Bay
08 03 1900 Howard Aiken, The creator of MARK I;
hated T. J. Watson
08 03 1900 Howard Aiken, computer pioneer, born
24
03 1900 Construction of New York City subway system begins
05 04 1900 Spencer
Tracy, the actor, was born
14 04 1900 Veteran's Hospital at Fort Miley established
24 04 1900 Andrew Halliday, Cable Car Pioneer, died
26 04 1900 Charles Richter,
he tells us how bad the quakes are
30 04 1900 Casey Jones killed 17 05 1900
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, religious leader of Iran, was born
05 06 1900
Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography (3D laser photography)
11 06 1900 Lawrence
Spivak, broadcast journalist
13 06 1900 beginning of the Boxer rebellion
in China
14 06 1900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins
27 06 1900
Central London Electric Tube Railroad was opened between bank and Shepard's Bush
29 06 1900 Antoine St.-Exupery, French aviator and author, was born
02 07 1900 1st flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1)
04 07 1900 Louis Armstrong
was born
17 07 1900 James Cagney, hold that grapefruit
28 07 1900 the
Hamburger was created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
04 08 1900 The Queen
Mother Elizabeth was born
14 08 1900 An international force including U.S.
Marines enter Beijing to put down the Boxer rebellion
25 08 1900 Friedrich
Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, died
03 10 1900 Thomas Clayton Wolfe,
American novelist and playwright, was born
10 10 1900 Helen Hayes, actress,
was born in Washington D.C
03 11 1900 The Automobile Club of America sponsored
the first automobile show in the United States at Madison Square Garden
13
11 1900 Brothers and Sisters of Red Death attempt mass suicide before world ends
14 11 1900 Aaron Copland, American composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring)
20 11 1900 Chester Gould, author of Dick Tracy, was born in Pawnee, Oklahoma
30 11 1900 Oscar Wilde, Irish author, died
27 12 1900 Carrie Nation's
first raid
1964 24th Amendment killed "poll taxes"
1964 Civil Rights Act put teeth in Federal enforcement of anti-discrimination
08 01 1964 Lyndon Johnson announces his "War on Poverty"
11 01 1964
Surgeon General condemns cigarettes
14 01 1964 Castro visits Russia
16 01 1964 The musical "Hello Dolly" starring Carol Channing, opened on Broadway
25 01 1964 Echo 2, first joint US/USSR satellite
29 01 1964 The movie
Dr. Strangelove was released
04 02 1964 the 24th amendment passes abolishing
poll taxes
07 02 1964 Beatles arrive in America for first time
07 02
1964 The Beatles first visit the United States
09 02 1964 Beatles appear
on the Ed Sullivan show (and American TV) for the first time
12 02 1964 Beatles
play Carnegie Hall (New York City)
17 02 1964 The Supreme court issues its
"one man, one vote" ruling saying congressional districts within each state must
be roughly equal in population
18 02 1964 Matt Dillon, actor, was born
19 02 1964 Zanzibar severs ties with US and England
01 03 1964 First NPL
(later PL/I) report published
10 03 1964 HRH Prince Edward Anthony Richard
Louis, third son of Elizabeth II of England was born
27 03 1964 Alaska Good
Friday earthquake kills
117 07 04 1964 IBM announces System/360
08 04
1964 (Unmanned) Gemini 1 launched
14 04 1964 Rachel Carson, American author
of "Silent Spring", died
17 04 1964 Ford Motor Company unveiled the Mustang
17 04 1964 Jerrie Mock became the 1st wolman to complete a solo flight around
the world
22 04 1964 President L.B. Johnson opened the New York World Fair
22 04 1964 The New York World's Fairs opens
01 05 1964 First BASIC program
run at Dartmouth
08 05 1964 Melissa Gilbert, actress
30 05 1964 Wynonna
Judd, country singer
09 06 1964 Lord Beaverbrook, politician and newspaper
man, died
10 06 1964 US Senate votes for cloture after 75 day filibuster by
Southern States on the Civil Rights Bill
12 06 1964 Nelson Mandela, South
African antiapartheid leader, was sentenced to life imprisonment
19 06 1964
Civil Rights Acts survived an 83 day filibuster in US Senate and was approved
by a vote of 73-27
22 06 1964 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi
02 07 1964 President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act
28 07
1964 US launches Ranger 7 to Moon
31 07 1964 Ranger 7 transmits first lunar
close-up photos before impact
04 08 1964 Bombing of North Vietnam begins
07 08 1964 The Gulf of Tonkin resolution passed, giving Pres. Johnson broad
powers in dealing with North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces
20 08 1964
President Johnson signs a nearly 1 billion dollar antipoverty bill
22 08
1964 Mats Wilander, tennis star
24 08 1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution; repealed
in 1970
04 09 1964 NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory
(OGO-1)
12 09 1964 Canyonlands National Park was established
01 10 1964
Cable Cars declared a National Landmark
05 10 1964 Fire Department Museum
dedicated
12 10 1964 USSR launches first 3 man crew in space
13 10 1964
Voshkod 1 crew returns
14 10 1964 Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner
of the Nobel Peace Prize
16 10 1964 China's first atomic bomb was exploded
25 10 1964 Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show
16 11 1964 Dwight
Gooden, baseball player
21 11 1964 The Verrazano Narrows opened to traffic,
linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island
29 11 1964
The Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. instituted sweeping changes in the liturgy,
including the use of English instead of Latin
1965 Ohio Flint adopted as
the Official Gem Stone of the state
04 01 1965 T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot,
the poet died at 76
26 01 1965 Hindi made the official language of India
27 01 1965 Groundbreaking for the 'Dragon Gateway' at Grant Avenue
15 02
1965 Canada makes the maple leaf flag their official flag
21 02 1965 colm
X shot to death as he was about to speak to a rally of followers in Harlem
07 03 1965 Flare up of racial tension during a civil rights march in Selma, Alabama
18 03 1965 first walk in space by Russian Lieutenant-Colonel Leonev
21
03 1965 Martin Luther King marched in Montgomery, Alabama
23 03 1965 Gemini
3 launched, completes 3 Earth orbits
06 04 1965 First Intelsat (Early Bird)
launched
09 04 1965 Paulina Porizkova, actress-model
23 04 1965 First
Soviet communications satelite launched
01 05 1965 Spike Jones, American
band leader, died
31 05 1965 Brooke Shields, actress-model
03 06 1965
First U.S. space walk, Edward White, Gemini
4 04 06 1965 Andrea Jaeger, tennis
player
07 06 1965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbit
07 06 1965 Sony introduces
the first home VCR for 995. By 1988 62 of U.S. homes have a VCR
29 06 1965
Red Dog Saloon opens, Virginia City, NV 14 07 1965 Adlai Stevenson, US statesman,
died
14 07 1965 First craft to fly by Mars, Mariner 4
21 07 1965 Gemini
5 launched atop Titan V: Cooper & Conrad
24 07 1965 Joe Oliver, Cincinnati
Reds catcher and Orlando native
29 07 1965 Gemini 5 returns after 12d 7h
11m 53s
30 07 1965 President Johnson signed into law the Medicare bill, which
went into effect the next year
07 08 1965 Merry Pranksters "Welcome Hell's
Angels' Party", La Honda, CA
11 08 1965 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two,
injure 25
13 08 1965 Rock group Jefferson Airplane was formed
24 08
1965 Marlee Matlin, actress
29 08 1965 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete
120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
29 08 1965 Gemini V, carrying Gordon Cooper
and Charles "Pete" Conrad, splashed into the Atlantic after eight days in space
31 08 1965 The Department of Housing and Urban Development was established
27 09 1965 Clara Bow, silent-film actress, died
30 09 1965 New York City
fluoridates its water to the protest of many
15 10 1965 First draft card
burned
28 10 1965 the Gateway Arch (630 feet high) completed in St. Louis,
Missouri
06 11 1965 Jefferson Airplane headline first Bill Graham show, SF
09 11 1965 Blackout of New York, New England, & Eastern Canada
16
11 1965 Bill Ham first demonstrates psychedelic "Light Show"
22 11 1965 The
musical "Man of la Mancha" opens
04 12 1965 Gemini 7 was launched
04
12 1965 San Jose Acid Test
08 12 1965 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science
Dept, University of Pennsylvania
09 12 1965 "A Charlie Brown Christmas" was
shown for the first time
10 12 1965 First Fillmore Auditorium show (2nd Mime
Troupe benefit), SF
15 12 1965 1st rendezvous in space: Gemini 6 and Gemini
7 link up
15 12 1965 Gemini 6 & 7 make first space rendevous
16
12 1965 Somerset Maugham, novelist and dramatist, died
18 12 1965 Big Beat
Club Acid Test, Palo Alto, CA
18 12 1965 Borman and Lovell Splash down in
Atlantic to end two week Gemini VII mission
02 01 1966 Psychedelic Shop opens,
Haight St. SF
08 01 1966 Acid Test Fillmore Aud. SF
21 01 1966 Longshoreman's
Hall Trips Festival, SF, ended 23rd
31 01 1966 Luna 9 launched for Moon
03 02 1966 First rocket assisted controlled landing on the moon; by the Soviet
Luna IX
03 02 1966 Luna 9 first craft to softland on Moon
11 02 1966
Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp
11 02 1966 Watts Acid Test, Compton,
CA
01 03 1966 Venera 3, first probe to land on Venus
12 03 1966 Pioneer
Plaza dedicated
15 03 1966 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure
25 23 03 1966 The Pope meets the Archbishop of Canterbury for the first time in
400 years, in the Sistine chapel
31 03 1966 Luna 10 launched to Moon
03 04 1966 Soviet Union announces success of Luna 10, first spacecraft to achieve
lunar orbit
12 04 1966 Lake Eola Fountain's name changed from Centennial
Fountain to Linton Allen Fountain to honor one of the originators of the project
17 04 1966 System 360 was introduced
27 05 1966 First
Avalon Ballroom
show, SF
02 06 1966 Surveyor
1 makes first US lunar soft landing
03 06 1966 US launches Gemini 9
06 06 1966 Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after
rendezvous with 'angry alligator', (Agena with undetached launch shroud): Stafford
and Cernan
06 06 1966 James
Meredith, Black activist, was shot as he
walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration
13 06 1966 US Supreme Court issued landmark decision: Miranda vs Arizona, granting
constitutional rights to suspects
14 06 1966 The Vatican announces that the
Index of Prohibited Books was abolished
01 07 1966 Construction crews begin
tearing up Market St. to build BART
10 07 1966 Orbiter 1 launched toward
Moon
18 07 1966 Carl Sagan
turned one billion seconds old
18 07
1966 Launch of Gemini X, John Young and Mike Collins
01 08 1966 Charles Whitman
shot and killed 15 people from the bell tower at the University of Texas before
he was killed by police
03 08 1966 Lenny Bruce died of morphine overdose
03 08 1966 The first Batman movie, "Batman: The Movie", was released
04 08 1966 John
Lennon states "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus"
10 08 1966 Launch of Lunar Orbiter
1 14 08 1966 US Orbiter 1 starts orbiting
the moon
29 08 1966 The Beatles gave their last public concert at Candlestick
Park
08 09 1966 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC
12 09 1966 Gemini 11 achieves
rendevous and docking during first orbit
23 09 1966 Jefferson
Airplane/Muddy
Waters headline first Winterland dance, SF
26 09 1966 Japan launches its
first satellite in to space 01 10 1966 SF State College Acid Test 05 10 1966 part
of a fuel core of an experimental breeder reactor near Detroit melts down 06 10
1966 LSD declared illegal 06 10 1966 LSD was made an illegal drug 07 10 1966 First
Winterland show as "The Grateful Dead", SF 15 10 1966 Peace Festival, Mt. Tapais,
CA
26 10 1966 Dead play at North Face Ski Shop opening, SF 07 11 1966 NBC
becomes the first network to go all color 08 11 1966 Edwrd W. Brooke of Massachusetts
becomes the first U.S. senator elected by popular vote 11 11 1966 Gemini 12 launched,
takes first solar eclipse photos from space
16 11 1966 Probably one of biggest
meteor showers in history in the northern latitudes of the Pacific (also on the
night of the 17th) 17 11 1966 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes 18
11 1966 U.S. Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat
on Fridays 27 11 1966 The first tidal power station in the world, opens near St.
o, France 15 12 1966 Walt Disney, animator and film producer, died 17 12 1966
'Death and Rebirth of the Haight A. and Death of Money' parade, SF
24 12
1966 Luna 13 lands on Moon
31 12 1966 First New Year's show Fillmore Auditorium,
SR
1967 25th Amendment allows President to step aside temporarily, then resume
1967 Thurgood Marshall was first black to become a justice on Supreme Court
14 01 1967 Human Be-In, Golden Gate Park, SF, Dead, Airplane, Quicksilver
27 01 1967 Grissom, Chaffee & White die in Apollo 1 fire during a simulated
launch
23 02 1967 the 25th amendment passes defining presidential succession
05 04 1967 ATS II launched but failed to reach orbit
23 04 1967 USSR
Soyus 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes first cosomonaut to make 2 flights
28 04 1967 Muhammad Ali (Heavyweight Champ) refused to be inducted into Army
16 05 1967 Sammie Smith, Miami Dolphins running back (from Apopka Florida)
20 05 1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experience signed by Reprise Records
01 06 1967
Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper"
01 06 1967 Haight Ashbury Free Clinic opens,
SF
01 06 1967 The Beatles release their album "Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts
Club Band"
02 06 1967 First issue of Computerworld 05 06 1967 beginning of
"The Six Day War" in the Middle East
14 06 1967 Launch of Mariner 5 for Venus
flyby
15 06 1967 Dead play at Straight Theatre christening party, SF
16 06 1967 Monterey Pop festival opens
17 06 1967 China explodes its first
Hydrogen bomb
18 06 1967 Dead at Monterey Pop Festival
04 07 1967 William
Hitchcock's mansion, Millbrook, NY
22 07 1967 Carl Sandburg, poet, died at
Flat Rock, North Carolina
25 07 1967 Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO
(Market Street subway)
29 07 1967 fire on the aircraft carrier Forrestal
kills 134
10 08 1967 Violent encounters between Red Guards and workers in
Canton
03 09 1967 Motorists in Sweden began driving on the right rather than
the left
11 09 1967 Chinese and Indian forces engage in heavy fighting on
the border of Sikkim in the Hiayas
29 09 1967 Mickey Hart's first show, Straight
Theatre, SF
02 10 1967 710 Ashbury Street bust
02 10 1967 Thurgood Marshall
sworn as first black Supreme Court Justice
03 10 1967 AF pilot Pete Knight
flies x-15 at a record 4,534 mph
03 10 1967 Woody Guthrie, folk singer, died
06 10 1967 'Death of Hippie' ceremony, SF
09 10 1967 Dr. Ernesto (Che)
Guevara was executed
17 10 1967 "Hair" opens at New York City's Public Theater
18 10 1967 USSR Venera 4 became first craft to make controlled descent into Venusian
atmosphere
19 10 1967 Mariner 5 flies by Venus
22 10 1967 the Israeli
destroyer Eilat was sunk by Egyptian missiles
30 10 1967 USSR Kosmos 186
and 188 make first automatic docking
05 11 1967 US ATS-3 takes first pictures
of full Earth disk
09 11 1967 First issue of "Rolling Stone" published
09 11 1967 First issue of Rolling Stone published, SF
09 11 1967 First unmanned
Saturn V flight tests Apollo 4 reentry module
16 11 1967 Lisa Bonet, actress
20 11 1967 The population clock at the Department of Commerce turns over
to 200M people at a few minutes past 11 am
22 11 1967 Boris Becker, tennis
player
29 12 1967 The first showing of the Star Trek episode "The Trouble
with Tribbles"
1968 Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. murdered in Memphis
1968 Richard M. Nixon became 37th US President
07 01 1968 U.S. First postage
raised from 5 cents to 6 cents
14 01 1968 Soyuz 4 launched
15 01 1968
Soyuz 5 launched
17 01 1968 Soyuz 4 & 5 complete first docking of 2 manned
spacecraft
22 01 1968 Apollo 5 launched to Moon, unmanned lunar module tests
23 01 1968 The USS Pueblo was seized by the North Koreans
30 01 1968 The
Tet Offensive
04 02 1968 Neal Cassady died
14 02 1968 Dead/Airplane open
Carousel Ballroom, SF
18 02 1968 Molly Ringwald, actress, was born
19
02 1968 "Mister Roger's Neighborhood" premiers on PBS
24 02 1968 Discovery
of first pulsar announced
03 03 1968 Haight Street, SF, free concert
08 03 1968 Fillmore East opens, NYC
09 03 1968 Edsgar Dijkstra published
"Go To Statement Considered Harmful"
15 03 1968 US Mint stops buying and
selling gold
16 03 1968 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed
by U.S. infantrymen
22 03 1968 President Johnson's daughter, Lynda, ordered
off Cable Car
because she was eating an ice cream cone (no food on cars)
27 03 1968 Gagarin and Seryogin die in aircraft accident
27 03 1968
Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated
27 03 1968
Yuri Gagarin and Seryogin die in aircraft accident
28 03 1968 Yuri Gagarin
was killed in a plane crash
04 04 1968 (Unmanned) Apollo 6 launched atop
Saturn V
04 04 1968 Martin Luther King. Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
15 04 1968 Data General was founded
18 04 1968 San Francisco's Old Hall of
Justice demolished
23 04 1968 Methodist and Evangelical Bretheren merged
to become the United Methodist Church
29 04 1968 "Hair" premiers on Broadway
21 05 1968 DEC announces PDP-8
21 05 1968 Last communication from the
U.S. Scorpion with 99 men aboard
24 05 1968 The last US Cavalry horse died.
His name was Chief
30 05 1968 PDP 8 was announced
01 06 1968 Helen Keller,
writer and spokeswoman for the deaf and blind, died
05 06 1968 Sen. Robert
F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded 14 06 1968 First Fillmore East show
18 07 1968 Intel Corporation was incorporated
29 07 1968 Pope Paul VI reaffirms
Catholic Church's stand against artificial means of birth control
04 08 1968
Newport Rock Festival, Costa Mesa, CA
20 08 1968 First Fillmore West show,
SF
20 08 1968 The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invades Czechoslovakia
to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization movement
22 08 1968 Pope
Paul VI, begins the first papal visit to Latin America
03 09 1968 Dead at
Sky River Rock Festival, Washington
14 09 1968 USSR's Zond 5 was launched
on first circumlunar flight
17 09 1968 Zond 5 completes lunar circumnavigation
22 09 1968 Zond 5 completes flight
24 09 1968 The CBS television magazine
"60 minutes" debuted
08 10 1968 First 'Mickey and the Harbeats' show, The
Matrix, SF
11 10 1968 Apollo 7 launched, 1st manned flight of the Command
& Service modules
11 10 1968 First manned Apollo flight launched (Apollo
7)
18 10 1968 U.S. Olympic Committee suspended two black athletes for giving
a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony in Mexico City
19 10
1968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars
20 10 1968
Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis
22 10 1968
Apollo 7 crew returns
26 10 1968 USSR Soyuz 2 launched
31 10 1968 President
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a halt to U.S. bombing
of North Vietnam, hoping
his action would lead to peace talks
10 11 1968 USSR launches Zond 6 to Moon
15 11 1968 The last voyage of the Queen Elizabeth ends
26 11 1968 Cream
performs their farewell concert at Royal Albert Hall
13 12 1968 Playland at
the Beach reopens
20 12 1968 John Steinbeck, author, died
21 12 1968
Apollo 8 was launched on its way to man's first orbit of the moon
23 12 1968
First men to orbit Moon: Borman, Lovell & Anders
24 12 1968 Apollo 8
Christmas Eve telecast made from lunar orbit
1969 Ohioan Neil Armstrong took
one sl step for a man, onto the moon
10 01 1969 Venera 6 launched toward
Venus
17 01 1969 Justice Department begins IBM suit
17 01 1969 Justice
Dept. begins IBM antitrust suit
17 01 1969 Led Zeppelin's first album released
24 01 1969 Data General Nova computer introduced
30 01 1969 US/Canada
launch ISIS 1 to study ionosphere
04 02 1969 Cybernet inaugurated
09
02 1969 the Boeing 747 takes its 1st commercial flight
12 02 1969 Santa Barbara
oil spill
24 02 1969 Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby
10 03 1969 James
Earl Ray pleads guilty to murder of Martin Luther King Jr
15 03 1969 Benefit
for SF Symphony ('Black and White Ball') Hilton Hotel, SF
28 03 1969 Dwight
Eisenhower, American statesman and soldier, died
03 04 1969 "The Smother's
Brothers" TV show was canceled by CBS for their controversial political comedy
17 04 1969 Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating Sen Robert Kennedy
20 04 1969 People's Park planted, Berkeley
21 04 1969 Jack Kerouac, Canadian-born
American author, died
11 05 1969 100 pounds of plutonium catches fire at
Rocky Flats, Colorado
15 05 1969 Emmit Smith, University of Florida football
running back
18 05 1969 Launch of Apollo 10 to rehearse lunar landing: Cernan,
Stafford, and Young
22 05 1969 the Isle of Lundy was acquired by the British
National Trust
07 06 1969 Gay Liberation Movement starts with the Stonewall
Bar riots in New York. The riots lasted three days and were precipitated by a
police raid
09 06 1969 The Senate confirmed Warren Burger to be chief justice
of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren
22 06 1969 Central Park, NYC
free concert
22 06 1969 Judy Garland, actress and singer, died in London 23
06 1969 IBM unbundles software
02 07 1969 Felix Pappalardi & Leslie West
form Mountain 16 07 1969 Launch of Apollo 11: Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins
18
07 1969 Senator Edward Kennedy drives his car off of a bridge and into a tidal
pool on Martha's Vineyard. The passenger Mary Jo Kopechne drowns in the car
20 07 1969 First men on the Moon: Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, Apollo
11
21 07 1969 Eddy Merckx won his first of five Tour de France victories
21
07 1969 Neil Armstrong steps on the moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
09 08 1969 Helter
Skelter...the Charles Manson murders
14 08 1969 British troops arrive in
Ireland to put down sectarian violence between Roman Catholics and Protestants
15 08 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, NY (Dead 8-16), thru 8-17
15 08 1969 Woodstock, 3 day rock concert, begins. 400,000 people show up!
17 08 1969 Donnie Wahlberg, singer
17 08 1969 The Woodstock Music and Art
Fair concluded near Bethel, N.Y
31 08 1969 Dead at New Orleans Pop Festival
01 09 1969 A coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power
02 09 1969
The last "Star Trek" episode was telecast
03 09 1969 Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnamese
president, died
23 09 1969 "Paul was dead" rumors sweep country
24 09
1969 The trail of the Chicago Eight (later seven) begins
15 10 1969 Bank
of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated
17 10 1969 a fuel
loading error at the Saint-Laurent reactor in France leads to a partial meltdown
21 10 1969 Jack Kerouac died
21 10 1969 Jack Kerouac, American "beat"
poet, died
26 10 1969 Charles Kuralt heads off "on the road". He will wear
out seven mobile homes and log over one million miles
10 11 1969 "Sesame
Street" made its debut on PBS TV
14 11 1969 Apollo 12 blasted off for the
moon from Cape Kennedy
15 11 1969 Moratorium Day, Lanai Theatre, Crockett,
CA
20 11 1969 The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use
of DDT to be followed by a total ban in 1971
15 12 1969 SF Fire Dept. replaces
leather helmets with plastic ones
18 12 1969 Death penalty for murder was
abolished in Britain
31 12 1969 Jimi Hendrix introduces Band of Gypsies at
Fillmore East
31 12 1969 New Year's Eve at The Ark, Boston, MA
01 01
1970 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT)
05 01 1970 Joseph
Yablonski, his wife and daughter are found shot in their home. United Mine Workers
chief Tony Boyle was later convicted of the killing
22 01 1970 Honolulu Civic
Aud. (first show in Hawaii)
28 01 1970 Jimi Hendrix headlines Madison Square
Garden
31 01 1970 Dead busted, New Orleans
31 01 1970 Grateful Dead busted
(New Orleans)
11 02 1970 Fillmore East, NYC (w/ Duane and Gregg Allman, Peter
Green)
11 02 1970 Japan becomes fourth nation to launch artificial satellite
13 02 1970 'Bears Choice' recorded at Fillmore East, NYC (also 14 02 1970)
15 02 1970 Chicago Seven convicted
23 02 1970 Jefferson Airplane headline
benefit for Dead's N.Orl. bust, Fill. W
25 02 1970 HP stock splits 2 for 1
at 103.28 a share
28 02 1970 Bicycles now permitted to cross Golden Gate
Bridge
11 03 1970 Erle Stanley Gardner, writer and creator of Perry Mason,
died
13 03 1970 4-day strike by SF city employees starts
13 03 1970 Digital
Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer
26 03 1970 Golden Gate
Park Conservatory made a City Landmark
28 03 1970 DEC announces PDP-11
10 04 1970 Paul McCartney announces departure from Beatles
11 04 1970 Apollo
13 Moon launch: Lovell, Haise, Swigert
13 04 1970 Apollo 13 oxygen tank ruptures,
destroying service module and aborting lunar landing
13 04 1970 Ricky Schroder,actor
17 04 1970 Apollo 13 crew returns safely to Earth
22 04 1970 The first "Earth
Day" observed
24 04 1970 China becomes 5th nation to launch artificial satellite
27 04 1970 Gypsy Rose Lee, American entertainer and author, died
04 05 1970
Four Kent State students protesting invasion of Cambodia are shot by Ohio National
Guard
04 05 1970 four students killed by national guardsmen during student
demonstration against Cambodia incursion at Kent State University
06
05 1970 MIT, Cambridge, MA free concert
08 05 1970 Helmeted construction
workers broke up an anti-war protest
15 05 1970 Two women were named generals,
the first ever in U.S. History
16 05 1970 Gabriela Sabatini, tennis player
24 05 1970 Hollywood Festival Newcastle, England (first European show)
26 05 1970 Europe '72 tour ends, Lyceum, London
31 05 1970 Tens of thousands
of people in Peru died in an earthquake
19 06 1970 Andrian Nikolayev and
Vitalii Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz
24 06 1970 Senate repeals
Gulf of Tonkin resolution
29 06 1970 Canadian Train Tour begins, Toronto,
ends 7-3
29 06 1970 US forces withdraw from Cambodia
08 07 1970 Mississippi
River Festival, Edwardsville, IL
23 07 1970 The sultan of Muscat and Oman
was deposed by his son
23 07 1970 Two canisters of CS gas (type used by Britain
in Northern
Ireland) are thrown into the House of Commons
31 07 1970
Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending 'Huntley-Brinkley Report' (No more "Goodnight,
David"Goodnight, Chet")
12 08 1970 Postal reform measure signed creating an
independent U.S. Postal Service
17 08 1970 USSR launches Venera 7 to Venus
18 08 1970 colm-Ja Warner, actor
24 08 1970 Tonkin Gulf Resolution repealed
31 08 1970 Debbie Gibson, singer
03 09 1970 Vince Lombardi, football
coach, died in Washington D.C
12 09 1970 USSR Launches Luna 16 to Moon
18 09 1970 Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist, died of drug overdose
18 09 1970
Rock star Jimi Hendrix died in London at age 27
21 09 1970 Luna 16 leaves
the Moon
24 09 1970 First Automated return of lunar sample by Luna
1
04 10 1970 Janis Joplin died
05 10 1970 PBS becomes a network
12 10
1970 Kirk Cameron, actor
26 10 1970 The debut of the "Doonesbury" comic strip
in 28 newspapers
28 10 1970 US/USSR sign agreement to discuss joint space
efforts
09 11 1970 Charles de Gaulle, French military and political leader,
died
15 11 1970 Fillmore East, NYC w/ Winwood, Wood, Capaldi, Ramblin' Jack
Elliot
19 11 1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California State
Historical Landmark
27 11 1970 Pope Paul VI was attacked at the Manila airport
by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
1971 26th amendment gives 18
yeare olds the vote
02 01 1971 Cigarette adds are banded from television
10 01 1971 Coco Chanel, the fashion designer, died
13 01 1971 Apollo
14 launched (what was that about rockets can't fly?)
25 01 1971 Major-General
Idi Amin deposes President Obote in Uganda
27 01 1971 Montgomery St. Station,
last link in BART, 'holed thru'
31 01 1971 Apollo 14 launched toward Moon
02 02 1971 Idi Amin declares himself to be absolute ruler for "ever and ever"in
Uganda
02 02 1971 The project that produces the HP-35 calculator, the calculator
that replaced the slide rule, begins
05 02 1971 Apollo 14 lands on Moon
19 02 1971 ESP Experiment show, Capital Theatre, Portchester, NY
20 02 1971
The National Emergency Warning Center in Colorado erroneously ordered all radio
and TV stations to go off the air. The mistake was not corrected for 30 minutes
23 02 1971 Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Captain Medina in Vietnam massacre
05 03 1971 Black Panther benefit, Oakland Aud. (1st show there), CA
26 03 1971 Emerson, Lake, & Palmer record "Pictures at an Exhibition" live
01 04 1971 US/Canada ISIS II launched to study the ionosphere
06 04 1971
Igor Stravinsky, composer of "The Firebird" and "The Rite of Spring", died in
New York City
14 04 1971 Fort Point dedicated as 1st National Park in Bay
Area
19 04 1971 USSR Salyut 1 launched; first manned lab in orbit
20
04 1971 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing to achieve racial desegregation
26 04 1971 Fillmore East, NYC w/ Duane Allman
26 04 1971 San Francisco
Lightship replaced by automatic buoy
27 04 1971 Fillmore East, NYC w/ Beach
Boys
28 04 1971 Fillmore Eest, NYC w/ Tom Constanten
29 04 1971 Fillmore
East, NYC last show
03 05 1971 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington
03 05 1971 National Public Radio begins
15 05 1971 Donald F. Duncan,
inventor of the yo-yo, died
16 05 1971 First Mail now costs 8 cents (was
6 cents)
19 05 1971 Ogden Nash, humorist, died
25 05 1971 USSR launches
Mars 3 to Mars
30 05 1971 Mariner 9 launched; first craft to orbit Mars
06 06 1971 First human visit to space station; USSR Soyuz
1 10 06 1971 Embargo
on exporting goods to China was lifted by President Nixon
13 06 1971 "Pentagon
Papers" (re: Vietnam); first published in New York Times
21 06 1971 Chateau
de Herouville, France, free concert
27 06 1971 Bill Graham closes Fillmore
East
27 06 1971 Fillmore East, NYC closes
29 06 1971 All three members
of the crew of the Soyuz II space capsule were killed during re-entry over the
U.S.S.R
29 06 1971 Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 d
01 07 1971
Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why was there still a toll?)
02 07 1971 Last
Fillmore West show, SF
03 07 1971 Jim Morrison, rock singer with the Doors,
died of drug overdose in Paris
04 07 1971 Fillmore West closes, SF
05
07 1971 The 26th amendment giving voting rights to 18 yeare olds passes
07
07 1971 Apollo 15 returns after 12d 7h 11 m 53 s
26 07 1971 Launch of Apollo
1
30 07 1971 Apollo 15 lands on Moon
31 07 1971 The Lunar Roving Vehicle
was operated for the first time during the Apollo 15 mission
01 08 1971 Concert
for Bangla Desh (Madison Square Garden)
04 08 1971 US launches first satellite
into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft Apollo
15 01 10 1971 Walt Disney
World in Orlando, Florida opens
16 10 1971 Amphitheater in McLaren Park dedicated
19 10 1971 Keith Godchaux's first show, Northrup Aud., Minn., MN
25
10 1971 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China
12
11 1971 Arches National Park approved by Congress
13 11 1971 Mariner 9 orbits
Mars
14 11 1971 Quarter Pounder price raised from 0.53 to 0.55 in violation
of Nixon price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after for request from
McDonald's)
19 11 1971 more than 50000 gallons of radioactive waste water
was accidentally released into the Mississippi River when waste storage overflows
at Monticello, Minn. reactor
23 11 1971 the People's Rebublic of China was
seated in the UN security council
24 11 1971 Hijacker Dan Cooper parachuted
from a 727 over washington
state with 200,000 in ransom and has not been
heard from since
25 11 1971 Christina Applegate, actress
02 12 1971 First
semi soft landing made by Russia's Mars 3
03 12 1971 Montreux Casino burns
down during Frank Zappa concert
06 12 1971 Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan)
was recognized by India
14 12 1971 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night
from power failure
15 12 1971 First craft to land on Venus, Venera 7
16 12 1971 Don McLean's "American Pie" released
