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Isaac Newton baptized in St. John's Church in Colsterworth England
Giuseppe Piazzi discoved 1st asteroid later named Ceres
United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland established
Haiti gains independence from France (National Day)
Congress prohibits importation of slaves
Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua
Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln
Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY - Ellis Island became reception center for new immigrants
Manchester Ship Canal in England opened to traffic
Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of SF Bay
Cuba liberated from Spain by US (National Day)
Commonwealth of Australia established
1st Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena California
1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (763 miles)
Post office begins parcel post deliveries
Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantees) effective
1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues NY Herald Tribune
Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god
1st newsreel in color Pasadena Ca
Rose & Cotton Bowl are 1st sport colorcasts
Sudan gains independence from Britain (National Day)
International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6/30/1958
European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation
Cameroon gains independence from France
Beatles Decca audition
Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand
International Cooperation Year
Cigarette advertisements banned on TV
International Book Year
Britain Ireland & Denmark join Common Market
World Population Year
International Women's Year
Pres. Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
International Year of the Child
Decade of Water & Sanitation
International Year for Disabled
Palau (Trust Territory of Pacific Is.) becomes self-governing
World Communications Year
AT & T broken up into 8 companies
Brunei gains complete independence from Britain
International Youth Year
International Peace Year
Spain & Portugal become 11th & 12th members of Common Market
Internat'l Year of Shelter
NY Carnegie Deli's owner Leo Steiner dies
Mid- CALENDAR day
B.C. Julian calendar begins at Greenwich mean noon
1st revolutionary flag displayed
Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
Royal Bank of Canada took over Quebec Bank
D eYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
Bruins beat Rangers in NY 13-3
Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for kidnap-murder of Charles
1st electron tube described St Louis Mo
28 nations at war with Axis pledge no separate peace
Japanese occupied Manila
President Jose Antonio Remon of Panama assassinated
SF & Los Angeles stock exchanges merge
USSR launches Mechta 1st lunar probe & artificial in solar orbit
Dr Christian Barnard performs 1st successful heart transplant
Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
30th Islander shut-out opponent - Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver
Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins
Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes
90th hat trick in Islander history - Brent Sutter
191.66 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
Juan Cabrillo conqueror of Cen. America discoverer of Calif dies
Jeremiah Horrocks English astronomical prodigy dies at 22
Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton NJ
1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
Brooklyn Bridge begun completed on May 24 1883
1st drinking straw is patented
Perihelion Passage
S Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition free
NY Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from the Red Sox
Turkey made peace with Armenia
27 year old William S Paley becomes president of CBS
Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)
1st missing persons telecast NYC
Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa
William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) hanged in Britain for treason
1st electric watch introduced Lancaster Pa
Sir Edmund Hillary reached South Pole overland
Alaska becomes 49th state
George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million
Apple Computer incorporated
Columbia University opened
US treaty with Great Britain ratified
Pres Washington delivers 1st "State of the Union"
Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) formed
Utah becomes 45th state
Burma gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Luna 1 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity
1st unmanned subway train to run automatically - NYC
Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm
Catherine de Medici Queen of France died
Treaty of Dardanelles was concluded between Britain & France
Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire
Calif Exchange opens
Steamship SF wrecked
C Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite Elara
SF has it's 1st air meet
Henry Ford announced a minimum wage of $5 for an eight hour day
Sir Ernest Shackleton Antarctic explorer died aboard his ship
Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming 1st woman gov in USA
James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hr day & $5 daily minimum wage
Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins on Marin County side
Tony Sheridan & Beatles produce My Bonnie & The Saints
Pope Paul VI visits Jordan & Israel
USSR Venera 5 launched. 1st successful planet landing - Venus
NASA announces development of Space Shuttle
Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
Bryan Trottier failed in 9th Islander penalty shot
Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack NJ
Great earthquake in New England
Epiphany
Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
Gregor Mendel Augustine monk & heredity pioneer died
Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
New Mexico becomes 47th state
Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
1st diesel engine automobile trip completed
Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood Ontario)
FDR names 4 freedoms (freedom of speech religion; from want fear)
1st around world flight by Pan Am "Pacific Clipper"
Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes
50th hat trick in Islander history - John Tonelli scored 5 goals
100th US Congress convenes
Calais last English possession in France retaken by French
Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites Io Europa & Ganymede
Typewriter patented (built years later)
Plough Monday
1st balloon flight across English Channel
1st natl presidental election - US
1st printing in Hawaii
Liberia colonized by Americans
Tarzan" one of the 1st adventure comic strips appears
1st class postage raised from 4› to 5›.
Newlywed Game premiers
1st class postage raised from 5› to 6›
LA Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record)
Islander's Bryan Trottier's 10th career hat trick
Giotto Italian Renaissance painter dies (birth date unknown)
Iotto Day
Galileo Galilei dies at 78 in Arceti Italy
11th Amendment ratified Judicial powers construed
Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew
Passing of Norton I Emperor of US Protector of Mexico
Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager
Ratification of present SF City Charter
Spectrophotometer patented AC Hardy
Antonia Maury discoverer of supergiant giant & dwarf stars dies
Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
US Surveyor 7 lands near crater Tycho on moon
USSR launches Luna 21 for moon landing
Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent - Canucks 3-0
Conneticut becomes 5th state
Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America
1st income tax imposed in England
Daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science
Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax Alpha Centauri
Caroline Herschel "1st lady of astronomy " dies at 98 in Germany
1st SF paper 'California Star' published
1st commercial bank in SF established
Astor Library opened in NY
Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede from US
AL Baltimore baseball team bought to move to NY for $18 000
US marines invade Honduras
Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated
Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
As vowed MacArthur returned to Philippines
Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855
New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" published
Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
Penny Post mail system is started
Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US
1st underground railway opens in London
Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
League of Nations established
Mickey Mouse & Silly Symphony comics syndicated
1st mobile electric power plant delivered Phila
Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
UN General Assembly meets for 1st time
US Army establishes 1st radar contact with moon Belmar NJ
1st Jewish family show - The Goldberg's begin
1st jet passenger trip made
That Was The Week That Was premiers
USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
Preview Center Opens
20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
Pedro Joaqu¡n Chamorro of La Prensa assassinated in Managua
Soyuz 27 is launched
1st woman to fly solo across Pacific left Honolulu AE Putnam
Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
Titania & Oberon moons of Uranus discovered by William Herschel
Michigan Territory organized
1st pineapples planted in Hawaii
Alabama becomes 4th state to secede from US
Mexico City captured by Juarez
Hawaiian Historical Society founded
Jacob Ruppert & Huston purchase Yankees for $460 000
French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations
Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California (non-stop of course)
Beatles release Please Please Me & Ask Me Why
Soyuz 17 is launched
Gov. Askew dedicates the RCUC solar office building
Billy Martin named Yankee manager for 3rd time
Mission Santa Clara de Asis founded in Cal
Royal Astronomical Society founded in England
Battle of Wetumka Fla
US Navy destroys 41 Jap ships in Battle of S China Sea
AFC wins its 1st Super Bowl (III) (NY Jets 16 Balt Colts 7)
All in the Family premiers
24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 is launched
Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto 4th satellite of Jupiter
Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
Anthony Foss obtains patent for accordion
Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops
NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly
Mickey Mouse comic strip first appears
Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert dies
1st black in presidental cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver)
Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album
Apollo 14 launched
Yankee manager Joe McCarthy dies at 90
Islander's Mike Bossy's 15th career hat trick - 4 goals
Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders
Carol Wayne dies at 42
Edmund Halley genius eclipsed by Newton dies at 86
Revolutionary War ends when Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris
Conspiracy in New Mexico against US
Henry Ford introduces assembly line for cars
L.M. (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America
All coml ferry service to East Bay ends
Today show premiers
Soyuz 4 is launched
Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
British Museum opens
Nootka Sound discovered by Capt. Cook
Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
Dunbarton Bridge 1st bridge in Bay Area opens
Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
World's largest office building Pentagon completed
Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs 35-10 in Super Bowl I (NBC & CBS)
Soyuz 5 launched
Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican
Happy Days premiers
Space Mountain opens
Hill Street Blues premiers
Living Seas opens
Vermont declares independence from NY
SF Dramatic Chronicle started
Virginia readmitted to US after Civil War
Pendleton Act creates basis of federal civil service system
Cliff House damaged when schooner "Parallel"'s powder cargo explodes
David Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole
18th Amendment prohibition went into effect; repealed in 1933
William Pickering pioneer American stellar spectroscopist dies
Egyptian President Nassar pledges to reconquer Palestine
Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
USSR's Lunakhod begins radio-controlled exploration of moon
Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders
Soyuz 27 returns to Earth
Iranian revolution overthrows shah
Death of St Anthony of Egypt founder of Christian monasticism
Battle of Falkirk Scotland
Capt James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66ø 33' S)
British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
Flush toilet is patented by Mr Thomas Crapper (Honest!)
1st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S Hallidie
Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
Thomas Crapper inventor of flush toilet dies
Tin Can Drive Day
Liberation Day in Poland (end of Nazi occupation)
Great Brink's robbery in Boston $28 million
9-county commission recommends creation of BART
Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km
Soyuz 4 & 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft
Hermes rocket launched by ESA
Gary Gilmore executed in Utah 1st since 1967
Islanders didn't get a shot off in one period against the Rangers
1st UFO sighting in America by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston
Capt James Cook stumbles over Hawaiian Islands
San Mart¡n leads a revolutionary army over Andes
Elegant Calif Theatre opens in SF
German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I
1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches South Pole
Versailles Peace Conference
1st US Congressional Standing Committee headed by Negro -W Dawson
Tunisian Revolution Day (National Day)
Soyuz 5 returns to Earth
Islanders break 12 game losing streak 20 game road winless streak
Barbara Britton dies
80th Islander & 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll & Bossy) 9-1 win
US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous agreement
24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 returns to Earth
Johann Bode founder of "Bode's Law " dies
Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)
Aden conquered by East India Company
Georgia becomes 5th state to secede from US
1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England
Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union
Millionaire TV program premiers
1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester
End of Revolutionary War
Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends
Calif Stock Exchange Board organized
Pearl Harbor obtained by US from Hawaii for use as a naval base
1st basketball game played
1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors "In Old Arizona"
Inauguration day every 4th year
1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address
Meet The Beatles" album released in US
Iran hostages are freed after 444 days
Islander Glenn Resch's 25th & last shut-out opponent - Flames 5-0
US embassy hostages freed in Tehran
King Louis XVI beheaded by French revolutionaries
Pineapple introduced to Hawaii
John Couch Adams English co-discoverer of Neptune dies
1st atomic sub USS Nautilus launched
1st gas turbine automobile exhibited - NYC
Snow falls in SF
Ann Sheridan dies at 51
Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
Islanders start NHL record 15 game win streak (15-0-0)
Americans capture Frenchtown Canada
New Zealand settled by British
Alta California becomes a daily paper 1st such in Calif
Bloody Sunday; Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
Aquatic Park dedicated
Battle of Anzio Allies stopped on the beach
1st coml TV station west of Mississippi opens Hollywood Ca
Chinatown telephone exchange closed
Apollo 5 launched to moon Unmanned lunar module tests made
Supreme Court approves abortions
Lansat 2 an Earth Resources Technology Satellite is launched
40th Islander shut-out opponent - 3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th
Union of Utrecht signed forming protestant Dutch Republic
2nd partition of Poland between Prussia & Russia
Steamer Pacific lost
1st radio rescue at sea
Red Wings beat Rangers 15-0
Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts)
Piccard & Walsh in bathyscaph reach 10 900 m in Mariana Trench
24th Amendment ratified Barred poll tax in federal elections
Miniseries Roots premiers
A-Team with Mr T premiers
Most deadly earthquake kills 830 000 in Shensi Province China
Connecticut colony organized under Fundamental Orders
Gov Winthrop Telescope is destroyed in a Harvard fire
James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma Calif
Arsenal at Augusta Ga seized by Confederacy
Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
Beer 1st sold in cans Richmond Va
Sir Winston Churchill died in England
Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques
SF 49'ers win their 1st Super Bowl 26-21
15th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 is launched
Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81 593 km) finds new moons
Anti-slavery society formed in NY
Alexander Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF
Largest diamond Cullinan (3106 carets) found in South Africa
Topping Webb & MacPhail purchase Yanks for $28 million
1st Emmy Awards
1st Israeli election
1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301)
1st live nationally televised Presidential news conference (JFK)
Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" is released
Echo 2 US communications satellite launched
10th hat trick in Islander history - Denis Potvin's 1st
Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time limit - solves problem before going to bed that same night
1st settlement established by English in Australia (Sydney)
Mich admitted as 26th US state
Hong Kong was proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
La becomes 6th state to secede from US
American income tax repealed
Gen Gordon & troops slain by Sudanese in Khartoum
World's largest diamond found Cullinan diamond
Indian Republic Day
India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion
Ground breaking begins on Disneyland
1st woman `personal physician to President' - JG Travell
Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon
Nelson Rockefeller former VP & 4 time governor of NY died
Islanders & Whalers had a penality free game
Islanders score 4 goals within 1:38 5 within 2:37 vs Penguins
Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders
Chicago Bears defeat Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl 20
Abdication of Stanislas King of Poland
Thomas Edison granted patent for an electric incandescent lamp
National Geographic Society founded in Washington DC
Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park
US Marines occupy Haiti
1st public TV demonstration
1st locomotive to carry 1 000 000 pounds operated
1st Tape Recorder is sold
Introducing the Beatles" album released in US
Sen Margaret Chase Smith of Maine tried for Republican Pres bid
Groundbreaking for 'Dragon Gateway' at Grant Avenue
Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom White & Chaffee
Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space is signed
Montgomery St Station last link in BART 'holed thru'
US & Vietnam sign cease-fire ending longest US war & milt draft
Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10 000)
Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8)
Fifteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 returns to Earth
Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune
Johannes Hevelius dies
London's Pall Mall is 1st st lit by gaslight
Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica
Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua
Paris surrenders to Germans
1st telephone exchange New Haven Connecticut George W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator
Yale Daily News published - 1st college daily newspaper
US milt forces leave Cuba for 2nd time
US Coast Guard established
1st US state unemployment insurance act enacted - Wisconsin
1st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont)
J Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins Today show
Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Bros Stage Show)
Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
1st photograph bounced off moon Washington DC
Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders
25th Space Shuttle - Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff
Australia Day
Kansas becomes 34th state
American (baseball) League formed with 8 teams
1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team
Prohibition goes into effect (18th amendment)
Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist $40 week with KC Slide Co
Union of Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras & El Salvador dissolved
1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
William Cox buys Yankee Stadium
Charles Starkweather captured by police in Wyoming
Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" is released
41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
Bell chimes invented
King Charles I of Great Britain executed by Parliament
Capt Cook reaches 71ø 10' S 1820 km from S pole (record)
Yerba Buena renamed SF
1st election in Washington Territory; 1 682 votes cast
US Navy's 1st ironclad warship "Monitor" launched
John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48-inch telescope
US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham
1st jazz record in US cut
World Law Day
Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor
Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service Dallas Texas
US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
Corn Laws abolished in Britain
SF Orphan's Asylum 1st in Calif founded
Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius
Birds fly over SF in such large numbers they actually darken sky
Congress names SF as Panama Canal opening celebration site
Eddie Slovik 1st American executed for desertion since Civil War
Pres Truman authorized production of H-Bomb
1st US satellite launched Explorer I from Cape Canaveral
James van Allen discovers radiation belt
US launches 1st artificial satellite Explorer 1
Ham is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2
Luna 9 launched for moon
Nauru gains independence from Australia
Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb 32") at Agata USSR
Apollo 14 launched 1st landing in lunar highlands
