!04       April events in history, version 90 M
!04       By Robert Braunwart, Bruce T. Goldman
B04011961 Jennifer Runyon, actress (New Brady Bunch)
B04011958 Anton Innauer, Austria, 70-m ski jumper (Olympic gold 1980)
B04011957 David Ivon Gower,  Kent, England, cricket star
B04011956 Libby Riddles, Wisconsin, 1st woman to win the Iditarod dogsled race
B04011952 Annette O'Toole, Houston, actress (Cat People)
B04011948 Ronnie Lane, musician (Faces)
B04011947 David Eisenhower, grandson of President Dwight
B04011946 William F. Fisher, M.D., Dallas, Texas, astronaut (STS-51I)
B04011945 Heather Young,  Washington, actress (Land of the Giants)
B04011944 Carol White, England, actress (Daddy's Gone A-Hunting)
B04011942 Samuel R. Delany, science-fiction author (Dhalgren)
B04011939 Rudolph Isley, singer (Isley Brothers)
B04011939 Ali MacGraw, Pound Ridge, NY, actress (Love Story, Goodbye Columbus)
B04011939 Phil Niekro, knuckleball pitcher (NY Yankees, Atlanta Braves)
B04011932 Debbie Reynolds, El Paso, Texas, actress (Singin' in the Rain)
B04011932 Gordon Jump, actor (WKRP, Making the Grade, Frank's Place)
B04011930 Grace Lee Whitney, actress, Capt. Kirk's Yeoman Rand
B04011928 George Grizzard, actor (Wrong Is Right, Bachelor Party, Attica)
B04011928 Jane Powell, Portland, Ore., singer, actress (7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
B04011928 Herbert Klein, newscaster, press secretary
B04011922 William Manchester, historian (Death of a President)
B04011920 Toshiro Mifune, director (7 Samurai, 1941, Shogun)
B04011917 Dinu Lipatti, Bucharest, Romania, pianist
B04011909 Eddie Duchin, Mass., society pianist, bandleader
B04011908 Jagjivan Ram, Indian political leader, coworker with Mahatma Gandhi
B04011908 Bob Nolan, musician (Sons of the Pioneers)
B04011906 Sigve Lie, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic gold 1948, 1952)
B04011905 Gaston Eyskens, PM of Belgium (1949-50, 1958-61, 1968-72)
B04011900 William Benton, publisher of Encyclop'dia Britannica, senator (D-Ct.)
B04011895 Alberta Hunter, Memphis, blues singer (How Long, Sweet Daddy)
B04011887 Leonard Bloomfield, Chicago, linguist (Language)
B04011886 Wallace Beery, actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8, Ah Wilderness)
B04011883 Lon Chaney, man of 1000 faces, actor (Phantom of the Opera, High Noon)
B04011875 Edgar Wallace, English novelist, playwright, journalist (The Terror)
B04011868 Edmond Rostand, France, poet, playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac)
B04011866 Ferruccio Busoni,  Empoli, Italy, pianist, composer (Turandot)
B04011865 Richard Zsigmondy, Austrian chemist (colloids) (Nobel 1925)
B04011815 Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of Germany (1866-90)
B04011755 Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French gourmet, writer (Physiology of Taste)
B04011578 William Harvey, physician, discoverer of the circulation of blood
B04021959 Brian Goodell, US 400m/1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic gold 1976)
B04021954 Ron Palillo, actor (Welcome Back Kotter)
B04021953 Debralee Scott, actress (Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!)
B04021947 Emmylou Harris, Alabama, singer, actress (Last Waltz)
B04021945 Linda Hunt,  Morristown, NJ, actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado)
B04021943 Larry Coryell, Galveston, Texas, guitarist (11th House)
B04021941 Sonny Throckmorton, country guitarist, songwriter
B04021941 Leon Russell, pianist, singer (Carny)
B04021939 Marvin P. Gaye, Jr., Washington, DC, singer (Sexual Healing)
B04021935 Sharon Acker, actress (Perry Mason, Executive Street, The Senator)
B04021928 Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, of Chicago
B04021920 Jack Webb, actor (dum-de-dum-dum), just the facts, ma'am (Dragnet)
B04021915 Soia Mentschikoff,  Moscow, 1st woman to teach law at Harvard, U Chic.
B04021914 Sir Alec Guinness, thespian (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
B04021910 Arnie Herber, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers, NY Giants)
B04021910 Irene Mayer Selznick, producer (Streetcar Named Desire)
B04021908 Buddy Ebsen, actor (Davy Crockett, Beverly Hillbillies)
B04021905 Serge Lifar,  Kiev, dancer, choreographer (Paris Op‚ra Ballet)
B04021891 Max Ernst, German Surrealist painter, sculptor
B04021875 Walter Percy Chrysler,  Wamego, Kans., founder of a car company
B04021862 Nicholas M. Butler, US, Columbia Univ. pres., pacifist (Nobel 1931)
B04021840 �mile Zola,  Paris, novelist (Nana)
B04021834 Fr‚d‚ric-Auguste Bertholdi, Statue of Liberty sculptor
B04021805 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author of 150 fairy tales
B0402 742 Charlemagne, 1st Holy Roman emperor (800-14) (approximate year)
B04031961 Eddie Murphy, comedian, actor (SNL, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, Raw)
B04031949 Donny Anderson,  Brooklyn, football player
B04031949 Lyle Alzado, Los Angeles Raider
B04031948 Garrick Ohlsson, Bronxville, NY, pianist (Int'l Busoni winner 1969)
B04031948 Mary Gordon-Watson, England, equestrian (Olympic gold 1972)
B04031948 Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president of M‚xico (1988-  )
B04031944 Tony Orlando (& Dawn), singer (Tie a Yellow Ribbon)
B04031942 Marsha Mason, St. Louis, actress (Blume in Love, Cinderella Liberty)
B04031942 Wayne Newton, singer (Danke Sch"n)
B04031941 Jan Berry, singer (Jan & Dean)
B04031939 Vitaliy Davidov, USSR, ice hockey player (Olympic gold 1964, '68, '72)
B04031938 Jeff Barry, Brooklyn, rock writer (Tell Laura I Love Her)
B04031934 Jim Parker, NFL guard, tackle (Baltimore Colts)
B04031930 Sen. Lawton Chiles (D-Florida)
B04031930 Helmut Kohl (CDU), chancellor of West Germany (1982-  )
B04031929 Miyoshi Umeki, Japan, actress (Courtship of Eddie's Father)
B04031927 Eva Sz‚kely, Hungary, 200-m backstroke swimmer (Olympic gold 1952)
B04031924 Marlon Brando, actor (Stanley Kowalski, the Godfather, Superman)
B04031924 Doris Day, Cincinnati, "girl next door," actress (Pillow Talk)
B04031923 Jan Sterling, NYC, actress (1st Monday in October, HS Confidential)
B04031918 Sixten Ehrling,  Malm", Sweden, conductor (Royal Opera of Stockholm)
B04031904 Sally Rand, US actress, ecdysiast, inventor of the fan dance
B04031898 Henry R. Luce, publisher (1965 Fisher Award)
B04031898 George Jessel, toastmaster general, comedian (Diary of a Young Comic)
B04031895 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Firenze (Florence), Italy, composer
B04031894 Dora Winifred Russell, English feminist, pacifist
B04031893 Leslie Howard, London, actor (Gone with the Wind)
B04031885 Harry (Bud) Fisher, "Mutt & Jeff" cartoonist
B04031877 Madame Simone,  Paris, actress, author (Le D‚sordre)
B04031837 John Burroughs, writer, nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)
B04031823 William Macy (Boss) Tweed, corrupt NYC political boss
B04031822 Edward Everett Hale, US clergyman, author (Man Without a Country)
B04031783 Washington Irving, NYC, writer (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
B04031593 George Herbert,  Montgomery Castle, Wales, divine, poet
B04031245 Philip III, king of France (1270-85)
B04041966 Nancy McKeon, Queens, NY, actress (Facts of Life, Poison Ivy)
B04041956 Evelyn Hart, prima ballerina (Royal Winnipeg Ballet)
B04041954 Julie Carmen, Mt. Vernon, NY, actress (Gloria, Last Plane Out)
B04041950 Christine Lahti, Detroit, actress (Harvey Korman Show, Swing Shift)
B04041948 Berry Oakley, musician (Allman Brothers)
B04041948 Gail Davies, country guitarist, singer, songwriter
B04041945 Catherine Spaak, actress (Hotel, Weekend at Dunkirk, Circle of Love)
B04041939 Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter (I Am Not Afraid)
B04041939 Joanne Carner,  Kirkland, Wash., LPGA golfer (1970, 1976 US Open)
B04041938 A. Bartlett Giamatti,  Boston, baseball commissioner (1989), writer
B04041938 Michael Parks, actor (Then Came Bronson)
B04041932 Andrey Tarkovsky, Soviet film maker (Childhood of Ivan, Solaris)
B04041932 Anthony Perkins, NYC, actor, director (Psycho, Pretty Poison)
B04041932 Richard Lugar (R-Indiana), US senator
B04041928 Maya Angelou, St Louis, author, poet (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)
B04041924 Gil Hodges, baseball player, manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Mets)
B04041923 Eric Rohmer,  Nancy, France, director (Claire's Knee)
B04041922 Elmer Bernstein, NYC, movie music composer
B04041915 Muddy Waters, blues guitarist, singer (Hoochie Coochie Man)
B04041914 Marguerite Duras,  Indochina, Fr. novelist, playwright (The Sea Wall)
B04041909 Antony Tudor,  London, dancer, choreographer (American Ballet Theater)
B04041907 Nathan M. Pusey, educator (1963 Nat'l Assoc for Social Sciences medal)
B04041906 John Cameron Swayze, Sr., news commentator, Timex licker & ticker
B04041896 Robert Sherwood, US playwright (Idiot's Delight)
B04041895 Arthur Murray, dance instructor
B04041881 Charles Funk, Ohio, of Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia fame
B04041876 Maurice de Vlaminck, Paris, Fauvist painter (Village in the Snow)
B04041875 Pierre Monteux, Paris, conductor (Boston Symphony 1919-24)
B04041870 George A. Smith, Salt Lake City, 8th president of the Mormon church
B04041828 Margaret Oliphant Oliphant, Scottish novelist, biographer
B04041826 Z‚nobe Th‚ophile Gramme, inventor of the electric motor
B04041823 Karl Wilhelm Siemens, inventor; laid undersea cables
B04041821 Linus Yale, US portrait painter, inventor of the Yale lock
B04041802 Dorothea Dix, US; aroused interest in treatment of mental inmates
B04041792 Thaddeus Stevens, US Radical Republican congressional leader
B04041785 Bettina von Arnim, German writer (This Book Belongs to the King)
B04041688 Joseph-Nicolas Delisle,  Paris, Russian astronomer
B0404 188 Caracalla, Roman emperor (211-17)
B04052173 Harcourt Fenton (Harry) Mudd, New Amsterdam, Arcturus (Star Trek)
B04051963 Jimmy Osmond, singer (Donny & Marie Show)
B04051958 Johan Kriek, South Africa, tennis player (US Indoor 1982)
B04051950 Franklin Chang-Diaz, Ph.D., Costa Rica, astronaut (STS-61C, STS-34)
B04051949 Dr. Judith A. Resnik, Ohio, astronaut (STS-41D, Challenger disaster)
B04051946 Jane Asher, Paul McCartney's former girlfriend, actress (Deep End)
B04051944 Dave Holland, heavy metal rocker (Judas Priest - Breakin' the Law)
B04051943 Max Gail, actor (Barney Miller, Whiz Kids, D.C. Cab)
B04051941 Michael Moriarty, actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Q, The Stuff)
B04051941 Eric Burdon,  Walker-on-Tyne, England, rock singer (Animals)
B04051940 Aliza Kashi, Israeli actress, singer (Merv Griffin regular)
B04051933 Frank Gorshin, comedian, impersonator (Batman - Riddler)
B04051923 Nguyen Van Thieu, president of South Vietnam
B04051922 Gale Storm,  Bloomington, Texas, actress (My Little Margie)
B04051920 Arthur Hailey, author (Hotel, Airport)
B04051917 Robert Bloch, Chicago, horror novelist (Psycho II)
B04051916 Gregory Peck, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur)
B04051912 John Le Mesurier, English actor (The Pink Panther, The Wrong Box)
B04051911 Goddard Lieberson,  Hanley, Staffordshire, England, recording exec
B04051908 Mary Hemingway, writer (Ernest Hemingway biography)
B04051908 Bette Davis,  Lowell, Mass., famous eyes (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel)
B04051908 Herbert von Karajan, Austria, Berlin Philharmonic conductor, Nazi
B04051905 Waldeck �mile Rochet, leader of the French Communist Party (1961-69)
B04051901 Chester Bowles (D-Conn.), businessman, politican, diplomat, writer
B04051901 Melvyn Douglas, actor (Hud, Ghost Story)
B04051900 Herbert Bayer, Austria, Bauhaus graphic artist, painter, architect
B04051893 Clas Thunberg, Finland, speed skater (Olympic gold 1924, 1928)
B04051869 Albert Roussel,  Tourcoing, France, composer (Rapsodie Flamende)
B04051857 Alexander I,  Verona, It., 1st prince of autonomous Bulgaria (1879-86)
B04051856 Booker T. Washington, pioneering educator (1st black on a US stamp)
B04051838 Alpheus Hyatt, US invertebrate paleontologist
B04051837 Algernon Charles Swinburne,  London, poet (Atalanta in Calydon)
B04051827 Joseph Lister, English physician, founder of aseptic surgery
B04051784 Ludwig Spohr,  Braunschweig, Germany, composer (Faust)
B04051732 Jean-Honor‚ Fragonard, French artist
B04051725 Giacomo Casanova, Italian writer, philanderer, adventurer (uncertain)
B04051684 Catherine I, empress of Russia (1725-27) (4/5 NS)
B04051649 Elihu Yale, philanthropist, founder of Yale University
B04051588 Thomas Hobbes, English political philosopher (Leviathan)
B04061976 Candace Cameron, actress (Full House - DJ)
B04061969 Ari Meyers, actress (Kate & Allie - Emma)
B04061965 Rica Reinisch, German DR, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympic gold 1980)
B04061953 Janet Lynn, Olympic ice skater (bronze medal 1972)
B04061952 Marilu Henner, Chicago, actress (Taxi, The Man Who Loved Women)
B04061947 John Ratzenberger, actor (Cheers - Cliff)
B04061945 Bob Marley, reggae musician, singer (Whalers)
B04061943 Susan Tolsky,  Houston, actress, comedian
B04061938 Billy Dee Williams, actor (Lady Sings the Blues)
B04061938 Roy Thinnes, actor (General Hospital - Phil, Invaders)
B04061937 Merle Haggard, country singer (That's the Way Love Goes)
B04061934 Antonius Geesink, Holland, judo (Olympic gold 1964)
B04061929 Andr‚ Previn, Berlin, conductor, composer, pianist
B04061928 James Watson, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA
B04061913 Jerry Mason,  Baltimore, editor (The Family of Man)
B04061904 Kurt Kiesinger, chancellor of West Germany (1966-69)
B04061903 Harold Edgerton, foremost high-speed photographer
B04061903 Mickey Cochrane, baseball hall of fame catcher
B04061900 Leo Robin, Pittsburgh, lyricist (Thanks for the Memory)
B04061892 Lowell Thomas, journalist ("So long until tomorrow")
B04061892 Donald Wills Douglas, US, founder of an aircraft company
B04061890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, Holland, pioneer aircraft manufacturer
B04061884 Walter Huston, actor (Maltese Falcon, Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
B04061866 Lincoln Steffens, SF, journalist, muckraker, lecturer
B04061866 Joseph Lincoln Steffens, muckraker, journalist (Shame of the Cities)
B04061866 Butch Cassidy, outlaw
B04061860 Ren‚ Lalique,  Ay, France, Art Nouveau jeweler
B04061823 Joseph Medill, St. John, NB, newspaper editor (Chicago Tribune)
B04061818 Aasmund Olafson Vinje,  Nynorsk (Norwegian) poet/journalist (Storegut)
B04061810 Philip Gosse, inventor of institutional aquarium, writer (Omphalos)
B04061773 James Mill, Scotland, philosopher, historian, economist
B04061483 Raphael [Raffaello Sanzio], Netherlands, Italian painter, architect
B04071960 Simon Climie, rocker (Climie Fisher)
B04071954 Tony Dorsett,  Aliquippa, Penn., NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
B04071950 Janis Ian [Janis Fink], NYC, folk singer (Society's Child, At 17)
B04071949 John Oates, rocker (Hall & Oates)
B04071939 David Frost, England, TV personality (The David Frost Show)
B04071939 Donald L. Holmquest, Dallas, astronaut
B04071939 Francis Ford Coppola, film maker (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now)
B04071938 Freddie Hubbard, jazz musician
B04071938 Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown, Jr. (D), governor of California
B04071938 Justin Lekhanya, South African puppet dictator of Lesotho
B04071935 Bobby Bare, country singer (Detroit City, 500 Miles Away from Home)
B04071933 Wayne Rogers, actor (Trapper John of TV's M*A*S*H)
B04071931 Donald Barthelme, Philadelphia, novelist (Snow White)
B04071931 Daniel Ellsberg,  Chicago, Pentagon whistleblower, patriot
B04071930 Andrew Sachs, actor (Fawlty Towers - Manuel)
B04071928 James Garner,  Norman, Okla., actor (Maverick, The Rockford Files)
B04071920 Ravi Shankar,  Benares, India, sitar player
B04071919 Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italy, winner of 13 Olympic fencing medals
B04071918 Ronald Howard,  Norwood, Engl., actor (Naked Edge, Africa Texas Style)
B04071915 Billie Holiday [Eleanora Fagan], blues singer (Aint Nobody's Business)
B04071908 Le Duan, leader of North Vietnam & reunified Vietnam (1969-86)
B04071908 Percy Faith, musician
B04071897 Walter Winchell, radio newscaster, columnist (Untouchables narrator)
B04071894 Gerald Brenan,  Malta, British author (The Spanish Labyrinth)
B04071889 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Desolaci¢n, Tenderness) (Nobel 1945)
B04071884 Bronislaw Malinowski,  Cracow, Poland, British anthropologist
B04071869 David Grandison Fairchild,  US botanist, explorer
B04071860 W.K. Kellogg, founder of the cereal company
B04071859 Walter Camp of Yale, father of American football
B04071847 Jens Peter Jacobsen, Danish Naturalist novelist, poet (Niels Lyhne)
B04071786 William Rufus DeVane King (D), 13th US vice-president (1853)
B04071780 William Ellery Channing, US, Unitarian clergyman
B04071775 Francis C. Lowell, founder of 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill
B04071772 Charles Fourier, French social theorist, phalangist
B04071770 William Wordsworth, English poet laureate (The Prelude)
B04071652 Clement XII, Florence, Italy, pope (1730-40)
B04071506 St. Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya & Japan
B04081963 Julian Lennon,  Liverpool, singer; John's son (Too Late for Goodbyes)
B04081954 Gary Carter, Calif., who catches whatever NY Mets throw
B04081954 John Schneider, actor; hazardous to Hazzard County (Curse)
B04081947 Steve Howe, Yes, he plays the guitar (Yes)
B04081946 Jim (Catfish) Hunter, major-league pitcher (A's, Yankees)
B04081943 Michael Bennett, choreographer, AIDS victim (A Chorus Line)
B04081941 Peggy Lennon, Los Angeles, singer (Lennon Sisters)
B04081940 John Havlicek, Ohio, Celtics hoop star, hall-of-famer
B04081939 Donald Vesco, motorcycle speed record holder
B04081937 Seymour Hersh,  Chicago, award-winning NY Times investigative reporter
B04081936 Klaus Lowitsch, Berlin, actor (Despair, Marriage of Marla Braun)
B04081933 Fred Ebb, lyricist
B04081932 John Gavin, US actor (Back Street, Psycho, Murder for Sale)
B04081930 Dorothy Tutin, London, actress (The Importance of Being Ernest)
B04081930 John Reardon, NYC, baritone
B04081929 Jacques Brel,  Brussels, singer, actor (Pain in the A__)
B04081928 Eric Porter, London, actor (Antony & Cleopatra, 39 Steps)
B04081926 Shecky Greene, comedian, actor (The Love Machine, Combat)
B04081923 Franco Corelli,  Ancona, Italy, opera singer
B04081923 Edward Mulhare, actor (The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, Von Ryan's Express)
B04081918 Betty Bloomer Ford,  Chicago, 1st lady, namesake for Betty Ford Clinic
B04081912 Sonja Henie, Oslo, ice skater, actress (Olympic gold 1928, 1932, 1936)
B04081910 George Musso, NFL guard (Chicago Bears)
B04081905 Ilka Chase, author, actress, game show panelist (Trials of O'Brien)
B04081904 Sir John R. Hicks, English economist (Nobel 1972)
B04081902 Josef Krips,  Wien (Vienna), conductor
B04081898 Maurice Bowra,  Kiukiang, China, translator (Pindar's Pythian Odes)
B04081893 Mary Pickford, silent screen actress (Poor Little Rich Girl)
B04081889 Sir Adrian Boult,  Chester, England, conductor (BBC Symphony)
B04081875 Albert I, Brussels, king of the Belgians (1909-34)
B04081869 Harvey Cushing, US neurosurgeon (blood pressure studies)
B04081859 Edmund Husserl, German philosopher, founder of Phenomenology
B04081859 William Henry Welch,  Norfolk, Ct., pathologist; founded Johns Hopkins
B04081793 Karl Hencke, German amateur astronomer; discovered 5th & 6th asteroids
B04081731 William Williams, signer of the Declaration of Independence
B04081726 Lewis Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence
B04081692 Giuseppe Tartini,  Pirano, Italy, violinist, composer
B04081605 Philip IV, king of Spain & Portugal (1621-65)
B04081460 Ponce de Le¢n, who searched for fountain of youth, found Florida
B0408-563 Gautama Buddha (as celebrated in Japan - Kambutsue)
B04091979 Keshia Knight Pulliam, actress (The Cosby Show)
B04091965 Paulina Porizkova, Czechoslovakia, Sports Illust. swimsuit covergirl
B04091963 Darren Olsen, Calgary, "Centipede" video game record holder, 1,244,825
B04091957 Steve Ballesteros, a young old duffer
B04091954 Dennis Quaid, actor (Breaking Away, Dreamscape, Jaws)
B04091945 Con Hunley, country singer
B04091939 Michael Learned, Washington, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
B04091935 Avery Schreiber, actor, comedian (My Mother the Car)
B04091933 Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (Le Magnifique)
B04091933 Gian Maria VolontŠ,  Milano, Italy, actress (A Fistful of Dollars)
B04091932 Carl Perkins, singer (Blue Suede Shoes)
B04091928 Tom Lehrer, parody/folk singer; proposed poisoning pigeons
B04091926 Hugh Hefner, publisher of "Playboy"
B04091919 Sir Iain Kay, Baronet Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Scottish genealogist
B04091919 J. Presper Eckert, coinventor of ENIAC, early digital computer
B04091919 John Presper Eckert, coinventor of 1st electronic computer (ENIAC)
B04091910 Abe Ribicoff, US senator from Connecticut
B04091909 Sir Robert Murray Helpmann, Australian ballet dancer, choreographer
B04091906 Antal Dorati,  Budapest, conductor
B04091905 Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Arkansas)
B04091905 Ward Bond, Nebraska, actor (Wagon Train, Dakota, Wagonmaster)
B04091902 David Gascoyne, Lord Cecil, London, biographer (Austen, Hardy)
B04091898 Earl (Curly) Lambeau, NFL coach (Green Bay Packers)
B04091898 Paul Robeson,  Princeton, NJ, singer, actor, football player
B04091895 Mance Lipscomb, blues musician
B04091890 Efrem Zimbalist, Sr., Rostov on the Don, Russia, composer, violinist
B04091872 L‚on Blum, 1st socialist & 1st Jewish premier of France (1936-37)
B04091865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz, electrical engineer
B04091830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneer in the study of motion in photography
B04091821 Charles Baudelaire,  Paris, Symbolist poet (Flowers of Evil)
B04091806 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of 1st transatlantic steamer
B04091802 Elias L"nnrot, Finnish folklorist, creator of nat'l epic, Kalevala
B04091794 Theobald B"hm,  M�nichen, Bavaria, flutist, composer, flute maker
B04091618 Agust¡n Moreto [y Caba¤a], Spanish dramatist (baptized)
B04101984 Zoe,  Melbourne, Australia, 1st frozen-embryo child
B04101979 Keisha Knight Pullem, actress (The Cosby Show - Rudy)
B04101960 Brian Setzer, musician (Stray Cats)
B04101958 Ken Griffey, baseball outfielder (Cincinnati Reds, NY Yanks)
B04101949 Michael Fay, NZ yachtsman, winner of 1988 America's Cup
B04101948 Mel Blount,  Vidalia, Georgia, NFL cornerback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
B04101941 Paul Theroux, Mass., novelist, traveler (The Mosquito Coast)
B04101939 Daniel Oliver, NYC, chairman, Federal Trade Commission
B04101938 Dandy Don Meredith, Dallas Cowboys quarterback, ABC sportscaster
B04101936 John Madden, Oakland Raiders football coach, CBS sports commentator
B04101934 David Halberstam, journalist, historian (The Best & the Brightest)
B04101932 Omar Sharif, Egypt, actor (Dr. Zhivago, Top Secret, Funny Girl)
B04101929 Max Von Sydow,  Lund, Sweden, actor (Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune)
B04101924 Kenneth Noland,  NC, Abstract Expressionist painter (Par Transit)
B04101921 Chuck Conners, actor (The Rifleman, Branded, Tourist Trap)
B04101917 Robert Burns Woodward, organic chemist (Nobel 1965)
B04101915 Harry Morgan, actor (Life of Riley, Dragnet, M*A*S*H)
B04101912 Clarke Hinkle, NFL fullback (Green Bay Packers)
B04101903 Clare Booth Luce, US playwright, congresswoman, ambassador (The Women)
B04101898 Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, musician
B04101880 Frances Perkins,  Boston, 1st US woman cabinet member (sec. of labor)
B04101870 Nikolai Lenin, a.k.a. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, Bolshevik (4/22 NS)
B04101867 ' [George William Russell], Irish writer, mystic (Homeward, Germinal)
B04101857 Henry Ernest Dudeney, mathematician, puzzle maker
B04101847 Joseph Pulitzer, publisher (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World)
B04101829 William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army
B04101827 Lewis Wallace, soldier, lawyer, diplomat, author (Ben Hur)
B04101794 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, who opened Japan
B04101783 Hortense,  Paris, queen of Holland, mother of Napoleon III
B04101778 William Hazlitt,  Maidstone, Kent, England, essayist, critic
B04101755 Samuel Hahnemann,  Saxony, founder of homeopathy
B04101583 Hugo Grotius,  Holland, jurist, father of international law
B04101512 James V, West Lothian, king of Scotland (1513-42)
B04111964 Bret Saberhagen,  Leawood, Kans.,  KC Royals' pitcher
B04111947 Peter Riegert, NYC, actor (Americathon, Animal House)
B04111942 Anatoli Berezovoi, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz T-5)
B04111939 Louise Lasser, actress, NYC (Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!)
B04111938 Michael Deaver, Reagan politician, convicted influence peddler
B04111933 John Sheffield, Pasadena, Calif., actor (many Tarzan movies)
B04111932 Joel Grey, actor (Cabaret, Remo Williams, The 7% Solution)
B04111928 Ethel Kennedy, wife of Bobby
B04111918 Cameron Mitchell, actor (Hombre)
B04111916 Dan Fortmann, NFL guard (Chicago Bears)
B04111914 Norman McLaren, Scotland, Canadian documentary film maker, animator
B04111913 Oleg Cassini, fashion designer
B04111905 Tristram Paul Hillier, Beijing, British painter
B04111898 Lou Holtz, comedian
B04111893 Dean Acheson, statesman
B04111866 Carla Ford, Henry Ford's wife
B04111862 Charles Evans Hughs, 11th chief justice of US Supreme Court
B04111810 Sir Henry Rawlinson, Orientalist, decipherer of cuneiform
B04111794 Edward Everett, US statesman, orator
B04111770 George Canning (C), British PM (1827)
B04111767 Jean-Baptiste Isabey,  Nancy, France, painter of miniatures
B04111722 Christopher Smart,  Kent, England, poet (A Song to David)
B04111370 Frederick I the Warlike, elector of Saxony
B04121971 Shannen Doherty, actress (Our House - Kris, Little House on Prairie)
B04121958 Tony James, rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik)
B04121957 Vince Gill, country singer
B04121950 David Cassidy, Shirley Jones' kid on TV & real life (Partridge)
B04121947 Emmylou Harris, singer
B04121947 David Letterman, NBC TV host (Late Night)
B04121946 Ed O'Neill, actor (Married with Children - Al Bundy)
B04121944 John Kay, rock musician (Steppenwolf)
B04121943 Charles Ludlam, US stage actor, director, playwright
B04121940 Herbie Hancock, musician
B04121939 Alan Ayckbourn,  London, playwright (Invisible Friends)
B04121936 Kennedy Simmonds, president of St. Christopher-Nevis
B04121936 Charles Napier, actor (Night Stalker, Rambo)
B04121933 Montserrat Caball‚,  Barcelona, Spain, soprano
B04121933 Tiny Tim, a.k.a. Herbert Khaury, singer (Tiptoe Through the Tulips)
B04121931 Billy Vaughn, singer
B04121928 Brooklyn Supreme, Belgian stallion, heaviest known horse (1450 kg)
B04121928 Hardy Kruger, Berlin, actor (Barry Lyndon, Wrong Is Right)
B04121927 Jane Withers, Atlanta, actress (Josephine the plumber)
B04121923 Ann Miller, Houston, dancer, actress (On the Town)
B04121920 Robert Fizdale, Chicago, pianist
B04121913 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader, vibraphone improviser
B04121912 Herbert Mills, one of the Mills Brothers
B04121912 Georges Franju, French film director (Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus)
B04121905 Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.), Minn., US senator (1944-80)
B04121904 John Ross, English darts champ, National Darts Ass'n president
B04121903 Andrey N. Kolmogorov,  Tambov, Russia, mathematician (4/25 NS)
B04121898 Lily Pons,  Draguignan, France, coloratura soprano
B04121892 Johnny Dodds, early jazz clarinetist
B04121884 Otto Meyerhof, German psychologist, biochemist (Nobel 1922)
B04121883 Imogen Cunningham, photographer (1965 ASMP award)
B04121879 Frederick G. Melcher, US publisher, editor
B04121838 John Shaw Billings, US librarian, army physician
B04121816 Charles Gavan Duffy, Irish nationalist, Australian politician, writer
B04121791 Francis P. Blair, who helped found the Republican Party
B04121777 Henry Clay (the Great Compromiser), US politician
B04121539 Garcilaso de la Vega (El Inca), Spanish chronicler of South America
B04131970 Ricky Schroder, kid actor (Silver Spoons, Champ, Earthling)
B04131963 Garry Kasparov,  Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, world chess champion (1985-  )
B04131950 Ron Perlman, Bronx, NY, actor (Beauty & the Beast)
B04131946 Al Green, Arkansas, singer (Let's Stay Together)
B04131944 Jack Casady, rock musician (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna)
B04131941 Margaret Price,  Tredegar, Wales, soprano
B04131941 Michael S. Brown, NYC, cholesterol researcher (Nobel 1985)
B04131937 Lanford Wilson, US playwright (Hot l Baltimore)
B04131935 Lyle Waggoner, actor (Carol Burnette Show, Wonder Woman)
B04131935 Erich von D„niken, "gods from space" writer (Chariots of the Gods)
B04131933 Shani Wallis, Ireland, singer, actress (Oliver)
B04131927 Maurice Ronet,  Nice, France, actor (Le Feu follet)
B04131924 Stanley Donen, SC, film director, producer (Bedazzled, Damn Yankees)
B04131922 John G. Braine, English novelist (Room at the Top)
B04131917 Howard Keel, actor, singer (7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Kiss Me Kate)
B04131911 Peabo Bryson, Greenville, SC, singer
B04131909 Eudora Welty, Miss., novelist (Optimist's Daughter - Pulitzer 1973)
B04131909 Madalyn Murray O'Hair, atheist
B04131907 Harold Stassen (R), Minn. governor, perennial presidential candidate
B04131906 Samuel Beckett,  Dublin, playwright (Waiting for Godot) (Nobel 1969)
B04131902 Philippe de Rothschild, French wine grower (Chƒteau Mouton Rothschild)
B04131899 Alfred Butts, inventor of "Scrabble" word game
B04131885 Pieter Gerbrandy,  Goengamieden, Netherlands, Dutch PM (1940-45)
B04131885 Gy"rgy Luk cs,  Budapest, Marxist philosopher, writer, critic
B04131866 Butch Cassidy,  Beaver, Utah, bank & train robber (The Wild Bunch)
B04131852 F.W. Woolworth, the "5-&-10" king
B04131771 Richard Trevithick, inventor of the steam locomotive
B04131743 Thomas Jefferson (D-R), Virginia, 3rd US president (1801-09)
B04131732 Frederick, Lord North (C), British PM (1770-82)
B04131728 Paolo Frisi, Italian mathematician
B04131721 John Hanson, Maryland, 1st US pres. under Articles of Confederation
B04131519 Catherine de M‚dicis, queen consort of Henry II of France
B04141973 Anthony Gatto, NYC, juggler
B04141968 Anthony Michael Hall, actor (SNL, Breakfast Club, 16 Candles)
B04141949 John Shea, NH, actor (Honeymoon, New Life)
B04141945 Ritchie Blackmore, English rock guitarist (Deep Purple)
B04141942 Valentin V. Lebedev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 35, T-5)
B04141941 Pete Rose, Cincinnati Red player, manager (most hits in major leagues)
B04141940 Julie Christie, India, actress (Dr. Zhivago)
B04141935 Loretta Lynn, Kentucky, country singer, coal miner's daughter
B04141933 Buddy Knox, Texas, pop musician (Party Doll)
B04141930 Bradford Dillman, actor (Piranha, Sudden Impact, Enforcer)
B04141930 Jay Robinson, NYC, actor (Born Again, Malibu Bikini Shop)
B04141929 Dr. William E. Thornton, Goldsboro, NC, astronaut (STS-8, STS-17)
B04141927 Gloria Jean, Buffalo, actress (Never Give a Sucker an Even Break)
B04141925 Rod Steiger, actor (The Pawnbroker, The Illustrated Man, The Chosen)
B04141918 Mary Healy, New Orleans, actress (2nd Fiddle, He Married His Wife)
B04141904 Sir John Gielgud, actor (Arthur, The Ages of Man)
B04141889 Arnold Toynbee,  London, historian (A Study of History)
B04141879 James Branch Cabell,  Richmond, Va., novelist (Jurgen)
B04141866 Anne Mansfield Sullivan, US, Helen Keller's teacher
B04141838 Clara Buddenbrook, in Thomas Mann's novel "Buddenbrooks"
B04141813 Junius S. Morgan, US merchant, philanthropist (Metro Museum of Art)
B04141738 Duck of Portland (C), British prime minister (1783, 1807-09)
B04141629 Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, physicist
B04141578 Philip III, king of Spain & Portugal (1598-1621)
B0414 572 Muhammad, prophet of Islam, according to Moslem tradition
B04151966 Samantha Fox, English singer (Touch Me)
B04151957 Evelyn Ashford, Shreveport, La., world's fastest woman
B04151956 Michael Cooper, NBA guard, forward (Los Angeles Lakers)
B04151944 Dave Edmunds, singer, guitarist (Rockpile)
B04151939 Claudia Cardinale, Tunisia, actress (Blindfold, 8«, The Pink Panther)
B04151933 Roy Clark, country singer (Hee Haw)
B04151933 Elizabeth Montgomery, Hollywood, Calif., actress (Bewitched)
B04151924 Neville Marriner,  Lincoln, England, conductor
B04151922 Michael Ansara, actor (Broken Arrow, Centennial)
B04151922 Harold Washington (D), 1st black mayor of Chicago (1983-87)
B04151921 Georgi T. Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 3)
B04151920 Richard von Weizs„cker (CDU), president of West Germany (1984-  )
B04151912 Kim Il-sung, leader of North Korea since WW II
B04151907 Nikolaas Tinbergen, zoologist, ethologist (Nobel 1973)
B04151898 Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues (approximate year)
B04151896 Nikolay N. Semenov, 1st Soviet to win Nobel Chemistry Prize (1956)
B04151889 Thomas Hart Benton,  Missouri, painter, muralist (July Hay)
B04151889 A[sa] Philip Randolph, labor leader, civil rights leader
B04151883 Stanley Melbourne Bruce, Viscount Bruce, Australian PM (1923-29)
B04151880 Max Wertheimer,  Praha, Gestalt psychologist, philosopher
B04151874 Johannes Stark, German physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel 1919)
B04151861 Justus Johann Kaspar (Hanno) Buddenbrook, in Thomas Mann's novel
B04151843 Henry James, NYC, English novelist (The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl)
B04151829 Mary Harris Thompson, 1st US woman surgeon
B04151814 John Lothrop Motley, US historian, author (Rise of the Dutch Rep.)
B04151793 Friedrich Struve, founder of a dynasty of German astronomers
B04151789 Albert [Ferdinand Albert Decombe], Bordeaux, ballet choreographer
B04151766 Friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher, critic (Religion & Reason)
B04151741 Charles Willson Peale, US portrait painter, inventor
B04151707 Leonhard Euler, mathematician
B04151469 Nanak, 1st guru of the Sikhs
B04151452 Leonardo da Vinci, painter, scientist, visionary (approximate date)
B04161963 Nick Berry, British actor (EastEnders - Wicksy)
B04161947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NYC, tall person (Milwaukee Bucks, LA Lakers)
B04161945 Stefan Grossman, NYC, country blues singer
B04161940 Margrethe II, queen of Denmark (1972-  )
B04161939 Dusty Springfield, London, rocker
B04161935 Bobby Vinton, Polish prince of song (Roses Are Red)
B04161930 Herbie Mann, jazz musician
B04161929 Edie Adams,  Kingston, Penn., actress, singer (Murial Cigars)
B04161929 Roy Hamilton, singer (You'll Never Walk Alone)
B04161928 Dick (Night Train) Lane, NFL defensive back (Rams, Cards, Lions)
B04161924 Henry Mancini,  Cleveland, Ohio, composer, conductor
B04161922 Kingsley Amis, London, novelist (Lucky Jim, The James Bond Dossier)
B04161921 Peter Ustinov, actor (Death on the Nile, Logan's Run, Billy Budd)
B04161920 Barry Nelson, actor (Airport, Island Claws, My Favorite Husband)
B04161918 Spike Milligan, actor, comedian (Digby, 3 Musketeers)
B04161913 Les Tremayne,  London, actor (Angry Red Planet, War of the Worlds)
B04161906 Laszlo Willinger,  Hungary, US celebrity photographer
B04161904 Clifford Case, US senator (NJ)
B04161900 Polly Adler, Russia, bordello proprieter, author (House Is Not a Home)
B04161898 Marian Jordan, Peoria, Ill., radio comedienne (Fibber McGee & Molly)
B04161889 Sir Charlie Chaplin, tramp (City Lights)
B04161886 Ernst Th„lmann, head of German Communist Party executed by Hitler
B04161871 John Millington Synge,  Dublin, dramatist, poet (Riders to the Sea)
B04161867 Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame
B04161867 Jos‚ de Diego, Puerto Rican patriot, political leader
B04161850 Herbert Baxter Adams, US historian, educator
B04161844 Anatole France,  Paris, writer (Tha‹s, Wickerwork Woman) (Nobel 1921)
B04161839 Frederic Ward Putnam,  Mass., a founder of US anthropology
B04161825 Jacob Estrup (C),  Sorí, PM of Denmark (1875-94)
B04161821 Ford Maddox Brown,  Calais, France, English painter
B04161786 Sir John Franklin, English explorer who died looking for NW passage
B04161728 Joseph Black, Scottish chemist, physicist
B04161660 Hans Sloane, British physician, naturalist; founded British Museum
B04161568 Sir John Davies, English philosopher, poet
B04161319 John II the Good, king of France (1350-64)
B04171967 Leslie Bega, actress (Head of the Class - Maria Tomlinson)
B04171961 Boomer Esiason, NFL QB (Cincinnati Bengals)
B04171954 Riccardo Patrese, Italian race-car driver; holds Monaco Grand Prix rec
B04171951 Olivia Hussey, Buenos Aires, actress (Romeo & Juliet, Death on Nile)
B04171946 Georges J.F. K"hler,  M�nchen, West Germany, immunologist (Nobel 1984)
B04171934 Don Kirshner, rock & roll producer, inventor of bubble-gum music
B04171933 Monique Van Vooren, Brussels, actress (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
B04171928 Cynthia Ozick,  NYC, author (The Pagan Rabbi & Other Stories)
B04171923 Harry Reasoner, newscaster (ABC, CBS)
B04171918 William Holden, actor (Stalag 17, Bridge over the River Kwai, SOB)
B04171916 Sirimavo Bandaranaike, world's 1st female prime minister (Sri Lanka)
B04171913 Richard Travis, NM, actor (Missile to the Moon)
B04171897 Harald Saeverud,  Bergen, Norway, composer
B04171897 Thornton Wilder,  Madison, Wisc., novelist, playwright (Our Town)
B04171894 Nikita S. Khrushchev, Soviet leader (1953-64)
B04171885 Isak Dinesen, Denmark, writer (Out of Africa, 7 Gothic Tales)
B04171882 Arthur Schnabel,  Lipnik, Austria, pianist (Beethoven piano sonatas)
B04171880 Sir Leonard Woolley, London, archaeologist who excavated Ur, writer
B04171870 Ray Stannard Baker, US journalist, biographer of Woodrow Wilson
B04171837 John Pierpont Morgan, financed the US
B04171818 Alexander II, tsar of Russia (1855-81) (4/29 NS)
B04171806 William G. Simms, Charleston, SC, novelist, historian (Border Beagles)
B04171741 Samuel Chase, signer of the Declaration of Independence, judge
B04171676 Frederick I, king of Sweden (1720-51)
B04171622 Henry Vaughan, English poet, mystic, translator (The World)
B04171586 John Ford, English dramatist ('Tis Pity She's a Whore)
B04181956 John James, actor (Dynasty - Jeff Colby)
B04181948 Skip Stephenson, comedian (Real People)
B04181948 Nate Archibald, NYC, NBA star (Cincinnati, Kansas City-Omaha)
B04181947 James Woods, actor (Salvador, Against All Odds, Eyewitness)
B04181947 Dorothy Lyman, actress (All My Children, Mama's Family)
B04181946 Hayley Mills, London, actress (The Parent Trap, Pollyanna)
B04181940 Joseph L. Goldstein, SC, cholesterol researcher (Nobel 1985)
B04181937 Elinor Donahue, actress (Father Knows Best)
B04181937 Robert Hooks, actor (Fast Walking, Aaron Loves Angela)
B04181930 Clive Revill,  Wellington, NZ, actor (Legend of Hell House)
B04181928 Jean-Fran‡ois Pailliard,  Vitry-le-Fran‡ois, France, conductor
B04181926 Gunter Meisner, Germany, actor (Between Wars, Quiller Memorandum)
B04181922 Barbara Hale, actress (Perry Mason - Della Street, Airport, Jackpot)
B04181905 George H. Hitchings,  Hoquiam, Wash., biochemist (Nobel 1988)
B04181889 John Kilbane, US, featherweight boxing champ (1912-23)
B04181889 Jessie Street, Australian women's & aboriginal rights campaigner
B04181882 Leopold Stokowski, London, virtuoso conductor (Cincinnati Symphony)
B04181864 Richard Harding Davis, US journalist, author ("Ranson's Folly")
B04181857 Clarence S. Darrow, defense attorney at the Scopes monkey trial
B04181839 Henry Kendall, New South Wales, Australia, poet (Bell Birds)
B04181819 Franz von Supp‚, Spalato, Dalmatia, composer (Light Cavalry Overature)
B04181817 George Henry Lewes,  London, writer, George Eliot's common-law husband
B04181797 Adolphe Theirs, a founder & 1st president of 3rd French Republic
B04181605 Giacomo Carissimi, near Roma, composer (Jephtha) (baptized)
B04181480 Lucrezia Borgia
B04191969 Zsuzsa Polg r, Budapest, highest-ranked woman chess player
B04191949 Paloma Picasso
B04191947 Murray Perahia, NYC, pianist
B04191944 Mark (Flo) Volman, California, rock musician (Turtles, Flo & Eddie)
B04191935 Dudley Moore, actor (10, Arthur, Bedazzled, 6 Weeks)
B04191932 Jayne Mansfield, Pennsylvania, actress (Single Room Furnished)
B04191931 Alex Webster, football coach (NY Giants)
B04191930 Hugh O'Brian, actor (Wyatt Earp, Search, 10 Little Indians)
B04191928 Alexis Korner, Paris, musician
B04191926 Don Adams, actor (Get Smart - Secret Agent 86)
B04191912 Glenn T. Seaborg, head of Atomic Energy Commission
B04191908 Gyula Harangoz¢,  Budapest, ballet choreographer
B04191903 Eliot Ness, untouchable
B04191900 Richard Hughes,  Surrey, novelist (A High Wind in Jamaica)
B04191892 Germaine Tailleferre, near Paris, composer ("Les Six")
B04191891 Riccardo Bacchelli,  Bologna, Italy, novelist (The Mill on the Po)
B04191883 Richard von Mises, Austrian mathematician, aerodynamicist
B04191870 Nishida Kitaro, westernizing Japanese philosopher
B04191836 Augustus D. Juilliard, at sea, financier, founder of Juilliard School
B04191757 Edward Pellew, Viscount Exmouth, English admiral
B04191721 Roger Sherman, signer of Declaration of Indendence, Constitution (OS)
B04201975 Joey Lawrence, actor (Gimme a Break - Joey)
B04201968 J.D. Roth, TV host (Funhouse)
B04201965 36 piglets, to a sow named Old Faithful (record), Sanborn, Iowa
B04201963 Kal Swan, heavy metal rocker
B04201961 Don Mattingly, Indiana, Yankee 1st baseman, hitman
B04201951 Luther Vandross, rocker (On the Wings of Love)
B04201949 Jessica Lange,  Cloquet, Minn., actress (King Kong, Tootsie)
B04201943 Michael Greer,  Galesburg, Ill., actor (Bobby Gentry Show)
B04201941 Ryan O'Neal, actor (Peyton Place, Paper Moon, Love Story)
B04201940 George Takei, Los Angeles, actor (Star Trek - Sulu, Green Berets)
B04201939 Gro Harlem Brundtland (Labour), PM of Norway (1981-  )
B04201939 Johnny Tillotson, Florida, singer
B04201938 Betty Cuthbert, Australia, Olympic sprinter (4 gold 1956, 1964)
B04201931 Rep. Lee H. Hamilton (D-Ind.), House Iran-Contra Committee chairman
B04201927 Karl M�ller, Swiss superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987)
B04201927 Phil Hill,  Miami, 1st US auto racer to win world championship (1961)
B04201925 Ernie Stautner, NFL defensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
B04201924 Nina Foch, Dutch actress (An American in Paris)
B04201923 Tito Puente, bandleader
B04201920 John Paul Stevens, justice of the US Supreme Court
B04201910 Robert F. Wagner (R), mayor of New York
B04201907 William Dollar, St. Louis, ballet dancer, choreographer
B04201893 Joan Mir¢, Spanish painter
B04201893 Harold Lloyd,  Burchard, Nebr., silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last)
B04201889 Adolf Hitler, Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany; murdered 7,000,000
B04201871 W.H. Davies, poet
B04201857 Herman Joachim Bang,  Als, Denmark, novelist (Hopeless Generations)
B04201850 Daniel Chester French, US sculptor (The Minute Man)
B04201808 Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), emperor of France (1852-71)
B04201745 Philippe Pinel, physician, founder of psychiatry
B04201492 Pietro Aretino, Italian poet
B04211950 Tony Danza, actor (Taxi, Who's the Boss)
B04211949 Patti LuPone,  Northport, NY, actress, singer (Evita)
B04211947 Iggy Pop [James Osterburg], rocker
B04211945 Steven McPeak, champion tightrope walker
B04211935 Charles Grodin, actor (Woman in Red, Lonely Guy, Heartbreak Kid)
B04211933 Easley Blackwood, Indianapolis, composer
B04211932 Elaine May, Philadelphia, comedian, writer, actress (New Leaf)
B04211930 Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (Barabbas, Conversation Piece)
B04211926 Carolyn Leigh, NYC, lyricist (Hey Look Me Over, Young at Heart)
B04211926 Elizabeth II [Alexandra Mary Windsor], queen of England (1952-  )
B04211924 Clara Ward, gospel singer (Prince of Peace)
B04211924 Peggy Cass, actress/panelist (Gidget Goes Hawaiian, To Tell the Truth)
B04211920 Bruno Maderna, Venice, Italy, conductor, composer
B04211917 Emanuel Vardi, Jerusalem, Israel, violist
B04211915 Anthony Quinn, actor (Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia)
B04211914 Manfred Lachs, Polish jurist, member of World Court
B04211911 Leonard Warren, NYC, baritone
B04211909 Rollo May, psychologist
B04211898 Steve Owen, NFL tackle, coach (NY Giants)
B04211882 Percy Williams Bridgman, Mass., experimental physicist (Nobel 1946)
B04211849 Oskar Hertwig, German embryologist; discovered fertilization
B04211838 John Muir, US naturalist
B04211837 Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, feminist, pacifist (Nobel 1908)
B04211834 Pisanus Fraxi [Henry Spencer Ashbee], British erotica bibliographer
B04211818 Josh Billings, Mass., humorist, writer (Essa on the Muel)
B04211816 Charlotte Bront‰, English novelist (Jane Eyre)
B04211782 Friedrich Froebel, Germany, founder of kindergarten
B04211775 Alexander Anderson, US engraver, illustrator
B04211671 John Law, Scottish economist
B04211619 Jan van Riebeeck, Netherlands, founder of Cape Town, South Africa
B04211488 Ulrich von Hutten, Franconian knight, Humanist, supporter of Luther
B04221954 Joseph Bottoms, actor (Surfacing, Blind Date, Open House)
B04221950 Peter Frampton, rock singer (Frampton Comes Alive)
B04221949 Spencer Haywood, NBA star (Seattle SuperSonics)
B04221946 Decuplets, Bacacay, Brazil (not confirmed)
B04221939 Jason Miller, actor, writer (The Exorcist, Light of Day)
B04221938 Deane Beman, golfer
B04221938 Glen Campbell,  Billstown, Ark., singer, actor (Wichita Lineman)
B04221937 Jack Nicholson, actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining)
B04221933 John A. Llewellyn, Cardiff, Wales, astronaut
B04221926 Charlotte Rae, actress (Facts of Life)
B04221919 Donald Cram, US biochemist (Nobel 1987)
B04221917 Sidney Nolan,  Melbourne, Australia, painter (Kelly)
B04221916 Yehudi Menuhin, NYC, violinist, conductor
B04221912 Aubrey Menen,  London, writer (A Conspiracy of Women)
B04221912 Kathleen Ferrier,  Lancashire, England, contralto
B04221908 Eddie Albert, actor (Green Acres, Head Office, Yes Giorgio!)
B04221904 J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the Manhattan (A-bomb) Project
B04221893 Nicola Sacco, anarchist executed in Massachusetts
B04221891 Sir Harold Jeffreys, English geophysicist, astronomer, writer
B04221887 Harald Bohr, Danish mathematician (almost periodic functions)
B04221881 Aleksandr Kerensky, Russian Socialist revolutionary
B04221876 O.E. R"lvaag, Norwegian-American novelist (Giants in the Earth)
B04221876 Robert B r ny, Swedish otologist, vestibular expert (Nobel 1914)
B04221873 Ellen Glasgow, Virginia, novelist (Barren Ground) (Pulitzer 1942)
B04221854 Henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgian international lawyer (Nobel 1913)
B04221853 Alphonse Bertillon, France, anthropologist, devised crime ID system
B04221832 Gov. Julius Sterling Morton (Nebr.); started Arbor Day
B04221813 Jírgen Moe, Norwegian fairy tale collector, poet
B04221799 Jean Poiseuille, physician, physiologist
B04221766 Madame de Sta‰l,  Paris, writer (Delphine, Corrine)
B04221724 Immanuel Kant, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason)
B04221707 Henry Fielding, English novelist (Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones)
B04221693 William Caslon, English typefounder
B04221690 John Carteret, Earl Granville (C), English chief minister (1722-42)
B04221658 Giuseppe Torelli, Italy, composer
B04221451 Queen Isabella of Castile, patron of Columbus
B04231964 Dan Frischman, actor (Head of the Class - Avid Engen)
B04231960 Steve Clark, rocker (Def Leppard)
B04231960 Valerie Bertinelli, Dela. (1 Day at a Time); Mrs. Eddie Van Halen
B04231949 Blair Brown, Washington, DC, actress (Altered States, Molly Dodd)
B04231949 Joyce DeWitt,  Wheeling, WV, actress (3's Company)
B04231947 Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Irish political activist
B04231943 Tony Esposito, Ontario, NHL goalie (Chicago Blackhawks)
B04231943 Herve Villechaize, France, "Da Plane!  Da Plane!" (Fantasy Island)
B04231942 Sandra Dee,  Bayonne, NJ, actress (Gidget, Imitation of Life)
B04231940 Lee Majors, actor (High Valley, $6,000,000 Man, Stunt Man, Steel)
B04231939 Ray Peterson,  Denton, Texas, singer (Tell Laura I Love Her)
B04231939 David Birney, actor (Brigette Loves Bernie, St. Elsewhere)
B04231938 Sen. Steve Symms (R-Idaho)
B04231936 Roy Orbison, who sings about his Little Woman (Traveling Willberries)
B04231932 Jim Fixx, jogger, writer (Jim Fixx on Running)
B04231932 Halston [R. Halston Frowick], fashion designer (1972 Hall of Fame)
B04231928 Shirley Temple Black, Santa Monica, Cal., child actress, ambassador
B04231926 Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, US astronaut (Liberty Bell 7, Gemini 3)
B04231926 J.P. Donleavy, Brooklyn, novelist (The Ginger Man, The Onion Eaters)
B04231921 Janet Blair,  Altoona, Penn., actress (Fuller Brush Man)
B04231921 Warren Spahn,  Buffalo, left-handed pitcher (Boston/Milwaukee Braves)
B04231919 Oleg V. Penkovsky, Soviet intelligence officer, US, UK spy
B04231916 Bud Wilkinson, college football coach (Oklahoma)
B04231914 Simone Simon, French actress (Ladies in Love)
B04231909 Rita Levi-Montalcini,  Turin, Italy, medical researcher (Nobel 1986)
B04231904 Ivor Montagu, London, writer, film producer, director (The 39 Steps)
B04231902 Halld¢r Laxness, Icelandic novelist (Salka Valka) (Nobel 1955)
B04231899 Vladimir Nabokov, St. Petersburg, novelist (Lolita, Ada)
B04231899 Dame Ngaio Marsh, Kiwi mystery writer, actress
B04231897 Lester Bowles Pearson (L), 14th Canadian PM (1963-68) (Nobel 1957)
B04231891 Sergey Prokofiev, Ukraine, composer (Peter & the Wolf)
B04231867 Johannes Fibiger, Danish pathologist (cancer in animals) (Nobel 1926)
B04231858 Max Planck,  Kiel, Germany, physicist, originator of quantum theory
B04231857 Ruggero Leoncavallo,  Napoli, Italy, composer
B04231852 Edwin Markham, US poet (1st winner, Amer. Academy of Poets Award 1937)
B04231813 Stephen Douglas, the "Little Giant"; debated Lincoln
B04231791 James Buchanan (Fed/Dem), 15th US president (1857-61)
B04231775 Joseph Mallord Turner, England, landscape painter
B04231564 William Shakespeare, bard (Hamlet, MacBeth, Julius C'sar) (approx.)
B04231484 Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian scholar (On the Subtlety of Things)
B04241963 Joey Vera, heavy metal rocker
B04241954 Captain Sensible [Ray Burns], rocker
B04241954 Vince Ferragamo, NFL, CFL quarterback (LA Rams, Montr‚al Alouettes)
B04241945 Doug Clifford, rock musician (Credence Clearwater Revival)
B04241942 Richard M. Daley, mayor of Chicago (1989-  ), son of Richard J.
B04241942 Barbra Streisand, Brooklyn, singer, actress (Nuts)
B04241941 John Williams,  Melbourne, Australia, guitarist
B04241936 Jill Ireland,  London, actress (Breakout, Assassination, Chino)
B04241935 Louis Keith, Chicago, physician (expert on multiple births)
B04241934 Shirley MacLaine,  Richmond, Va., actress, mystic (Irma la Douce)
B04241905 Robert Penn Warren,  Ky., 1st US poet laureate (All the King's Men)
B04241903 Mike Michalske, NFL guard (NY Yankees, Green Bay Packers)
B04241897 Benjamin Lee Whorf, linguist
B04241874 John Russell Pope, US architect (Jefferson Memorial)
B04241867 Fannie Thomas, who became oldest known American (113 y 273 d at death)
B04241845 Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus) (Nobel 1919)
B04241815 Anthony Trollope,  London, novelist, poet (Barchester Towers)
B04241804 Marie Taglioni,  Stockholm, ballet choreographer
B04241766 Robert Bailey Thomas, founder, editor of the Farmer's Almanac
B04241743 Edmund Cartwright, English cleric, inventor of the power loom
B04241620 John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography
B04241576 St. Vincent de Paul
B04241533 William I the Silent, prince of Orange, leader of revolt against Spain
B04251975 Ruben Gomez, rocker (Menudo)
B04251964 7 calves, to a cow named Lyubik (record), Mogilev, USSR
B04251957 Eric Bristow, England, world champion dart player
B04251946 Talia Shire, US actress (The Godfather, Rocky)
B04251945 Stu Cook, rock musician (Credence Clearwater Revival)
B04251940 Al Pacino, actor (And Justice For All, The Godfather, Scorpio)
B04251937 Albert King, Mississippi, blues singer
B04251932 William Roache, England, actor (Coronation Street - Ken Barlow)
B04251930 Paul Mazursky, US writer, director (Moscow on the Hudson)
B04251928 Vassar Clements, country/jazz fiddler
B04251923 Melissa Hayden, Toronto, ballerina (1961 Silver Bowl)
B04251923 Arnold Ray Miller, SC, 12th United Mine Workers president (1972-79)
B04251923 Anita Bjorak, actress (Miss Julie, Loving Couples, Night People)
B04251918 Astrid Varnay, Stockholm, soprano
B04251918 Ella Fitzgerald,  Newport News, Va., singer
B04251913 Earl Bostic,  Tulsa, Okla., alto sax player
B04251909 William L. Pereira, Chicago, architect (SF's Transamerica pyramid)
B04251908 Edward R. Murrow, NC, who set the standard for TV correspondents
B04251906 William J. Brennan, Jr., US Supreme Court justice
B04251900 Wolfgang Pauli, Austria, physicist (Nobel 1945)
B04251895 Sir Stanley Rous, head of Britain's Football Association, FIFA
B04251874 Guglielmo Marconi,  Bologna, Italy, inventor of radio (Nobel 1909)
B04251873 Walter de la Mare,  Kent, England, poet (Behold This Dreamer)
B04251825 Charles Ferdinand Dowd,  US - standardized time zones
B04251823 Abd�lmecid I,  Istanbul, Ottoman sultan (1839-61)
B04251599 Oliver Cromwell, Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58)
B04251284 Edward II, king of England (1307-27)
B04251228 Conrad IV, German king (Holy Roman emperor) (1251-54)
B04251214 Louis IX, king of France (1226-70)
B04261966 Andrea Temesvari, tennis player
B04261960 Roger Taylor, rocker (Duran, Duran)
B04261948 Stevie Nicks, California, rock musician, druggie (Fleetwood Mac)
B04261944 Martha Rockwell, skier
B04261943 Gary Wright, singer, dream weaver
B04261942 Claudine Auger, Paris, actress (Thunderball)
B04261942 Bobby Rydell, Philadelphia, singer
B04261938 Duane Eddy, Phoenix, Ariz., country singer
B04261936 Carol Burnett, San Antonio, TX, comedian, actress (Annie, 4 Seasons)
B04261934 J. Michael McCloskey, environmentalist, Sierra Club chairman
B04261933 Arno Penzias, US radio astronomer (Nobel Physics Prize 1978)
B04261930 Bruce Jay Friedman, writer
B04261922 Jeanne Sauv‚, 1st Qu‚bec woman to serve in the Canadian Parliament
B04261918 Francina Blankers-Koen (Neth.), Olympic sprinter, hurdler (4 gold)
B04261917 Ieoh Ming (I.M.) Pei, architect (1961 Brunner Prize)
B04261916 Morris L. West, Australian novelist (The Shoes of the Fisherman)
B04261915 Anum ,  near Havana, 1st chimpanzee born in captivity
B04261914 Bernard Malamud, Brooklyn, novelist (The Fixer, The Natural)
B04261907 Sydney Box, English film producer (The 7th Veil, The Man Within)
B04261906 Gracie Allen, Mrs. George Burns, comedienne (The George Burns Show)
B04261900 Charles Richter, seismologist; he tells us how bad the quakes are
B04261898 Vincente Aleixandre,  Seville, Spain, writer (Nobel 1977)
B04261894 Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy F�hrer, only prisoner at Spandau
B04261893 Anita Loos, brunette, author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
B04261889 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher (Tractatus)
B04261888 Aleksandr Mikhailov, Soviet astronomer
B04261882 Jessie Redmon Fauset,  NJ, author, editor of NAACP's "Crisis"
B04261880 Michel Fokine, St. Petersburg, ballet dancer, choreographer
B04261879 Sir Owen Richardson, UK physicist (electron emission) (Nobel 1928)
B04261875 Syngman Rhee, South Korean statesman (1957 Freedom Award)
B04261836 Erminnie Adelle Platt, US ethnologist
B04261829 Theodor Billroth,  Prussia, founder of modern abdominal surgery
B04261822 Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect, writer (Central Park)
B04261812 Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant
B04261798 EugŠne Delacroix, French Romantic painter (Death of Sardanapalus)
B04261787 Ludwig Uhland, German Romantic poet, medievalist
B04261785 John James Audubon,  Haiti, bird watcher, artist
B04261718 Esek Hopkins, 1st commander-in-chief of US navy
B04261711 David Hume, greatest English Empiricist philosopher
B0426 121 Marcus Aurelius, 16th Roman emperor (161-80), philosopher
B04271967 Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, heir apparent
B04271959 Sheena Easton,  Glasgow, Scotland, singer, Jack LaLane spokesperson
B04271951 Ace Frehley, Bronx, NY, heavy metal rocker (Kiss)
B04271947 Ann Peebles, Missouri, soul singer
B04271945 August Wilson, US author
B04271943 Helmut Marko,  Graz, Austria, coholder of Le Mans auto race record
B04271939 Judy Carne, England, comedienne (Laugh-In, Fair Exchange)
B04271938 Earl Anthony, bowler (PBA money champ 1974-76, 1981-83)
B04271937 Sandy Dennis, Nebraska, actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf)
B04271932 Casey Kasem, Detroit, radio personality (American Top 40)
B04271932 Chuck Knox, NFL coach (Rams, Bills, Seahawks)
B04271932 Anouk Aimee, French actor (8«, La Dolce Vita)
B04271927 Sheila Scott, 1st to solo in light plane equator-equator over N. pole
B04271927 Coretta Scott King,  Heiberger, Ala., civil rights activist
B04271922 Jack Klugman, actor (The Odd Couple, Quincy, Goodbye Columbus)
B04271918 John Scali, newspaperman, correspondent (ABC)
B04271904 Cecil Day-Lewis, English poet laureate, detective novelist
B04271904 Arthur F. Burns, economist, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
B04271900 Walter Lantz, animator, Woody Woodpecker's creator
B04271896 Rogers Hornsby,  Texas, 2nd baseman (St. Louis Cardinals); hit .358
B04271896 Wallace Hume Carothers, inventor of nylon
B04271893 Norman Bel Geddes, US theatrical designer
B04271866 Pencho Slaveykov, Bulgarian poet (Song of Blood)
B04271845 Douglas Freshfield,  London, mountaineer, explorer, geographer, author
B04271840 Edward Whymper, 1st to climb the Matterhorn (1865)
B04271822 Ulysses S. Grant (R), 18th US president (1869-77)
B04271820 Herbert Spencer, English Victorian philosopher
B04271791 Samuel F[inley] B[reece] Morse, US painter, inventor of the telegraph
B04271759 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin,  London, writer, feminist
B04271737 Edward Gibbon, English historian (Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire)
B04281971 Chris Young, actor (Max Headroom - Bryce Lynch, Great Outdoors)
B04281959 Nancy Grahn, actress (Santa Barbara)
B04281958 Hal Sutton, Shreveport, La., PGA golfer (PGA 1983)
B04281955 Eddie Johnson, rock musician (Zappa, UK, Roxy Music)
B04281950 Jay Leno, New Rochelle, NY, comedian (Tonight Show)
B04281948 Marcia Strassman, NYC, actress (Welcome Back Kotter)
B04281943 John O. Creighton, Orange, Texas, captain, USN, astronaut (STS-18)
B04281941 Ann-Margret,  Valsjobya, Sweden, actress (Carnal Knowledge, Tommy)
B04281932 Carolyn Jones,  Amarillo, Texas, singer, actress (Addams Family)
B04281930 James A. Baker, III, secretary of the treasury, secretary of state
B04281929 Carolyn Jones, Texas, actress (The Bachelor Party, The Addams Family)
B04281926 Harper Lee, Alabama, novelist (To Kill a Mockingbird)
B04281922 Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (The Guns of Navarone)
B04281920 Nan Merriman,  Pittsburgh, mezzo-soprano
B04281917 Robert Cornthwaite, Oregon, actor (The Thing, The War of the Worlds)
B04281917 Robert Anderson, NYC, playwright (I Never Sang for My Father)
B04281906 Kurt G"del, Austrian mathematician (Incompleteness Theorem)
B04281900 Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer; hypothesized "Oort Cloud"
B04281900 Maurice Thorez, coal miner, leader of French Communist Party
B04281878 Lionel Barrymore, actor (Free Soul, David Copperfield, Dr. Kildaire)
B04281838 Tobias Asser, Dutch advocate of world law (Nobel Peace Prize 1911)
B04281795 Charles Sturt, Australian explorer
B04281774 Francis Baily, describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse
B04281758 James Monroe (D-R), 5th US president (1817-25)
B04281442 Edward IV, king of England (1461-70, 1471-83)
B04291988 California condor,  hatched in captivity
B04291958 Michelle Pfeiffer, Midway City, Calif., actress (Married to the Mob)
B04291955 Kate Mulgrew, Iowa, actress (Heartbeat, Kate Loves a Mystery)
B04291949 Anita Dobson, England, actress (EastEnders - Annie Watts)
B04291947 Johnny Miller, golfer (1974 PGA Player of the Year)
B04291947 Tommy James, singer, cri-im-son & clo-o-ver o-o-ver & o-o-ver
B04291947 Jim Ryun, runner (broke 4-min. mile)
B04291944 Jim Hart,  Evanston, Ill., NFL quarterback (St. Louis Cardinals)
B04291942 Galina Koulakova, USSR, world champion nordic skier (4 Olympic gold)
B04291936 Zubin Mehta, Bombay, India, conductor
B04291933 Rod McKuen, singer, composer, versifier
B04291933 Keith Baxter, South Wales, actor (Barretts at Wimpole Street)
B04291932 Alexei A. Gubarev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 28)
B04291931 Robert A. Gottlieb, editor (Alfred A. Knopf, The New Yorker)
B04291924 Ren‚e Jeanmaire, dancer
B04291922 George Allen, football coach (Washington Redskins)
B04291920 Harold Shapero,  Lynn, Mass., composer
B04291920 Mona Vangsaae, Copenhagen, ballerina
B04291919 Celeste Holm, US actress (Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve)
B04291915 Donald Mills, singer, one of the Mills Brothers
B04291912 Richard Carlson, actor (Herbert Philbrick-I Led 3 Lives, Flat Top)
B04291909 Tom Ewell, actor (Tom Ewell Show, 7 Year Itch, Adam's Rib)
B04291907 Fred Zinnemann, movie director (From Here to Eternity, Julia)
B04291907 Tino Rossi, Corsica, singer, actor (Petit Papa No‰l, Veni, veni)
B04291901 Emperor Hirohito of Japan (1926-89)
B04291899 Edward K. (Duke) Ellington,  DC, bandleader (Take the "A" Train)
B04291896 Matthew, Mark, Luke, John & Paul Lyon, 1st US quintuplets (all died)
B04291893 Harold C. Urey, Ind., physicist (Nobel 1934); discovered deuterium
B04291885 Wallingford Riegger,  Albany, Ga., composer (La Belle dame sans merci)
B04291879 Sir Thomas Beecham, English composer; founded London Philharmonic
B04291863 William Randolph Hearst, publisher (SF Examiner, Seattle P-I)
B04291860 Lorado Taft, US sculptor (Black Hawk)
B04291855 Anatoly Lyadov, St. Petersburg, Romantic orchestral composer (5/11 NS)
B04291854 Henri Poincar‚, French mathematician, astronomer, philosopher
B04291830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, builder of Cliff House, railways, tunnels...
B04291745 Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd chief justice, US Supreme Court (1796-1800)
B04291667 John Arbuthnot, Scottish physician, writer (History of John Bull)
B04301961 Isiah Thomas, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
B04301953 Merrill Osmond, Ogden, Utah (Osmond Brothers)
B04301948 Perry King, actor (Andy Warhol's "Bad")
B04301946 Donald Schollander, swimmer (4 Olympic gold medals - 1964)
B04301946 Carl XVI Gustav, king of Sweden (1973-  )
B04301945 Annie Dillard, Pitts., naturalist, writer (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)
B04301944 Jill Clayburgh, US actress (An Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough)
B04301943 Bobby Vee,  Fargo, ND (Devil or Angel, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes)
B04301940 Burt Young, actor (Convoy, Rocky)
B04301939 Ellen Taafe Zwilich, Miami, Florida, composer
B04301938 Gary Collins, actor, talk show host (Born Free, 6th Sense)
B04301936 Zohra Lampert, actress (Doctors' Hospital, Girl with Something Extra)
B04301933 Willie Nelson,  Texas, country singer, actor (On the Road Again)
B04301930 Jos‚ Sarney, president of Brazil (1985-89)
B04301929 Johnny Horton, rock singer (Sink the Bismarck, Battle of New Orleans)
B04301929 Peter Carsten, Weissenberg, Bavaria, actor (Mr. Super Invisible)
B04301926 Corinne Calvet, French actress (Apache Uprising)
B04301924 Sheldon Harnick, songwriter
B04301916 Claude Shannon, Mich., mathematician, computer pioneer
B04301916 Robert Shaw, Red Bluff, Calif., chorale conductor
B04301912 Eve Arden, California, actress (Our Miss Brooks, Mildred Pierce)
B04301909 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (1948-80)
B04301888 John Crowe Ransom,  Tennessee, educator, poet
B04301877 Alice B. Toklas, SF, friend of Gertrude Stein
B04301871 Louise Homer,  Pittsburgh, operatic contralto
B04301870 Franz Leh r, Hungary, composer (The Merry Widow)
B04301858 Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, first lady
B04301777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, world's greatest mathematician
B04301723 Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist
B04301662 Mary II, queen of England (1689-94, with William III)
B04301623 Fran‡ois de Montmorency Laval, 1st Roman Catholic bishop in Canada
B04301602 William Lilly, English astrologer, author, almanac compiler
D04011917 John Eopolucci, 1st US sailor to die in WW I
D04021974 Georges Pompidou, French president, dies in Paris
D04021872 Samuel F.B. Morse, developer of the electric telegraph, dies at 80
D04021865 Gen. A.P. Hill is killed by a Federal picket
D04031946 Masaharu Homma, Japanese lieutenant general, is executed
D04031936 Bruno Hauptmann, convicted Lindbergh baby killer, is executed
D04031882 Jesse James, outlaw, shot dead in St. Joseph, Mo. by Robert Ford
D04031682 Esteban Murillo, Italian artist, dies at about 65
D0403  33 Jesus of Nazareth, religious leader, crucified (1 suggested date)
D04041979 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, former Pakistani president, hanged in Pakistan
D04041968 Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated in Memphis (dream continues)
D04041963 Injured boxer Endzio Barelli, 18, dies 2 d after WINNING his last bout
D04041841 William Henry Harrison, US president, becomes 1st to die in office
D04041617 John Napier, inventor of logarithms, dies at about 67
D04061862 Albert Sidney Johnston, 1st Confederate general killed in Civil War
D04061707 Willem van de Velde the younger, Dutch artist, dies at about 74
D04061348 Laura, inspiration of Petrarch's poetry, dies of plague
D04071968 Jim Clark, champion race driver, killed when his car leaves the track
D04071614 El Greco, Spanish painter, dies at about 73
D0407 924 Berengar of Friuli, Holy Roman emperor, murdered by 1 of his own men
D0407  30 Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem (1 suggested date)
D04081975 Joey, oldest known canary, dies at 34 in Hull, England
D04081973 Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist, dies near Mougins, France at 91
D04091553 Fran‡ois Rabelais, French writer, dies on about this date
D04091483 Edward IV, king of England, dies; Richard becomes "protector" of his
D04091483Cill-fated 12-year-old nephew, Edward V
D04101962 Stu Sutcliffe, original Beatles' bassist, dies
D04101919 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, ambushed & assassinated
D04101739 Dick Turpin, horse thief, executed in England
D04121980 Dr. William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian president, killed in a coup
D04121748 William Kent, English artist, architect, landscaper, dies at about 63
D04131984 Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally kills self
D04131956 Samuel Seymour, last eyewitness of Lincoln's assassination, dies at 96
D04131605 Boris Godunov, tsar of Muscovy (1598-1605), dies (4/23 NS)
D04141682 Avvakum Petrovich, Russian Old Believers leader, burned at the stake
D04151980 Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopher, dies in Paris at 74
D04151977 Popeye, a common boa, is euthanized at 40 y 3 m; oldest known snake
D04151865 Pres. Lincoln dies, 7:22 a.m.; John Wilkes Booth responsible
D04161948 Babe Ruth, baseball legend, dies
D04161689 Aphra Behn, novelist, playwright, 1st Englishwoman pro writer, dies
D04171790 Benjamin Franklin, politician, writer, scientist, dies at 84, Phila.
D04181955 Albert Einstein, developer of relativity theory, dies
D04181587 John Foxe, preacher, writer (Book of Martyrs), dies at about 71
D04181504 Filippino Lippi, Renaissance Florentine painter, dies at about 47
D04191980 Alfred Hitchcock, movie director, dies in California at 80
D04191824 Lord Byron, English poet, dies of malaria at 36
D04191588 Paolo Veronese, Ital. painter (Temptation of St. Anthony), dies @ c 60
D04201906 Australian wombat, oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at 26
D04201812 George Clinton, 4th US VP, dies at 73; 1st VP to die in office
D04201769 Pontiac,  Ottawa Indian chief, killed by a Peoria in Illinois at c. 49
D04201314 Clement V, pope (1305-14) who moved papacy to Avignon, dies
D04211989 Head US anticommunist military advisor to Philippines assassinated
D04211933 Last heath hen dies, Martha's Vineyard, Mass. (date of obituary)
D04211918 Manfred von Richtofen, the Red Baron, killed in combat in WW I
D04211910 Mark Twain, US novelist, dies at 79 in Redding, Conn.
D04211793 John Michell, English geologist, astronomer, seimologist, dies at c 69
D04221915 Rupert Brooke, English poet, dies of blood poisoning at 27
D04231616 Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist (Don Quixote), dies (4/13 OS)
D04231616 William Shakespeare, bard, dies on his 52nd birthday (5/3 NS)
D04241967 Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut, is 1st to die in space (aboard Soyuz 1)
D04241731 Daniel Defoe, English novelist, dies penniless in London
D04251792 Nicolas Pelletier, highwayman, becomes 1st executed by the guillotine
D04261865 John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green, Va.
D04271989 Ra£l Sendic, founder of Uruguay's Tupamaros, dies in Paris of
D04271989Ccomplications from government torture in the 1970's, at about 54
D04271932 Hart Crane, US author, commits suicide by jumping off a ship
D04271521 Ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, is killed by Filipino natives
D04281987 Ben Linder, development worker, murdered by contras in Nicaragua
D04281945 Benito Mussolini, Fascist leader, & mistress captured & shot
D04281772 2 Danish counts beheaded for alleged affairs with the queen
D04291980 Sir Alfred Hitchcock, movie director, dies at 80
D04291707 George Farquhar, Italian dramatist, dies at about 30
D04291535 John Houghton, prior, executed for refusing to recognize Henry VIII
D04301945 Adolf Hitler & wife Eva Braun commit suicide
D04301900 John Luther (Casey) Jones, engineer, dies in Cannonball Express wreck
H0401     Christmas Eve
H0401     April Fool's Day/Intolerance Day
H0401    6Student Government Day (Massachusetts)
H0402    6Student Government Day (Massachusetts)
H0403    6Student Government Day (Massachusetts)
H0404    6Student Government Day (Massachusetts)
H0405    6Student Government Day (Massachusetts)
H0406     Van Riebeeck Day (South Africa); founding of Cape Town
H0406    6Student Government Day (Massachusetts)
H0407    6Student Government Day (Massachusetts)
H04111945 Resistance Movement Day (Czechoslovakia)
H0411     Fast & Prayer Day (Liberia)
H0413     Vaisakhi or Vishu in Indian solar calendar
H0414     Pan American Day/D¡a de las Am‚ricas (El Sal., Haiti, Hond., Venez.)
H041519946Israel Memorial Day; Iyar 4, 5754 AM
H041517752Patriots Day (Mass., Maine); Boston Marathon is run
H041619947Israel Independence Day; Iyar 5, 5754 AM
H041617752Patriots Day (Mass., Maine); Boston Marathon is run
H04171946 Evacuation Day/Independence Day (Syria)
H041717752Patriots Day (Mass., Maine); Boston Marathon is run
H0417     Flag Day (American Samoa), 1900
H0417     Children's Protection Day (Japan)
H041819915Israel Memorial Day; Iyar 4, 5751 AM
H041817752Patriots Day (Mass., Maine); Boston Marathon is run
H041919916Israel Independence Day; Iyar 5, 5751 AM
H041917752Patriots Day (Mass., Maine); Boston Marathon is run
H0419     Landing of the 33/Desembarco de los "Treinta y Tres" (Uruguay)
H0419     Declaration of Independence Day/Day of the Indian (Venezuela)
H0419     Primrose Day (England)
H042017752Patriots Day (Mass., Maine); Boston Marathon is run
H04211789 Tiradentes Day/D¡a de Tiradentes (Brazil)
H042117752Patriots Day (Mass., Maine); Boston Marathon is run
H0421     Raden Adjeng Kartini (women's rights pioneer) Day (Indonesia)
H0421     Queen's Birthday (Belize, Hong Kong)
H04221970 Earth Day
H04221872 Arbor Day (Nebraska, where they invented it, & Delaware)
H04221870 Lenin's Birthday (USSR) (4/10 OS)
H042319963Israel Memorial Day; Iyar 4, 5756 AM
H04231923 National Sovereignty Day/Children's Day (Turkey)
H0423     Peppercorn Day (Bermuda)
H042419964Israel Independence Day; Iyar 5, 5756 AM
H04241915 Armenian Martyrs' Day
H042519931Israel Memorial Day; Iyar 4, 5753 AM
H0425     Flag Day (Swaziland)
H0425     Liberation Day (Italy)
H042619932Israel Independence Day; Iyar 5, 5753 AM
H04271978 Saur Revolution Anniversary - Afgh nist n National Day
H04271945 2nd Republic Day (Austria)
H042718682Confederate Memorial Day (Alabama, Mississippi)
H042919901Israel Memorial Day; Iyar 4, 5750 AM
H043019902Israel Independence Day; Iyar 5, 5750 AM
H0430     Queen's birthday in Netherlands (Nat'l Day), Neth. Antilles, Surinam
H0430     May Day Eve/Maitag Vorabend (Switzerland)
I040119946Good Friday
I04011872 Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, priest (Ang)
I04011132 Feast of St. Hugh, bishop of Grenoble (RC)
I0401     Commemoration of St. Lasarus, patron of girls
I040219947Holy Saturday
I04021876 Commemoration of James Lloyd Breck, priest (Ang)
I0402     Mem. of St. Francis of Paula, hermit, confessor, 1507 CE (opt) (RC)
I040319941Easter Sunday
I04031253 Commemoration of Richard, bishop of Chichester (Ang)
I040419965Passover/Pesach (Jewish Feast of Deliverance); Nisan 15, 5756 AM
I040419965Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday)
I040419931Palm Sunday of the Passion of Jesus
I040419927'Id al-Fitr (Moslem feast); end of Ramadƒn fast; Shawwƒl 1, 1412 AH
I0404 636 Commem. of St. Isidore, abp. of Seville, confessor, doctor (opt) (RC)
I0404     Commemoration of St. Ambrose (Ang)
I0404     Earliest possible Orthodox Easter (3/22 OS) - 1915
I0404     Megalisia, feast of Cybele, the Great Mother (Ancient Rome)
I040519966Good Friday
I0405     Memorial of St. Vincent Ferrer, confessor, 1419 CE (opt) (RC)
I040619967Holy Saturday
I040619933Passover/Pesach (Jewish Feast of Deliverance); Nisan 15, 5753 AM
I0406     Commem. of Albrecht D�rer, 1528 & Michelangelo, 1564, artists (Luth)
I040719961Easter Sunday
I040719911Low (Quasimodo) Sunday, the Octave Day of Easter
I040719911Orthodox Easter (3/25 OS)
I0407     Mem. of St. John Baptist de la Salle, patron of teachers, 1719 (RC)
I0407     Annunciation of Mary (Orth) (3/25 OS)
I040819951Palm Sunday of the Passion of Jesus
I040819946Yom Hashoah (Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day); Nisan 27, 5754 AM
I040819935Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday)
I040819901Palm Sunday of the Passion of Jesus
I04081877 Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg, priest (Ang)
I0408     Commemoration of St. Julia Billiart, virgin, 1816 CE (RC)
I0408     Commemoration of Our Lady of Good Counsel (RC)
I040919936Good Friday
I04091945 Commemoration of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, teacher (Luth)
I04091761 Commemoration of William Law, priest (Ang)
I041019941Low (Quasimodo) Sunday, the Octave Day of Easter
I041019937Holy Saturday
I041019903Passover/Pesach (Jewish Feast of Deliverance); Nisan 15, 5750 AM
I04101557 Commemoration of Mikael Agricola, bishop of Turku (Luth)
I041119931Easter Sunday
I041119915Yom Hashoah (Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day); Nisan 27, 5751 AM
I04111878 Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, bishop of New Zealand & of
I04111878CLitchfield (Ang)
I04111079 Memorial of St. Stanislaus, bishop, martyr, patron of Poland (RC)
I0411 461 Commemoration of St. Leo I (the Great), pope (440-61), doctor (RC)
I041219921Palm Sunday of the Passion of Jesus
I041219916Night of Power (Moslem feast); Ramadƒn 27, 1411 AH
I041219905Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday)
I0412 352 Feast of St. Julius I, 35th pope (337-352), confessor (RC)
I041319955Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday)
I041319906Good Friday
I04131598 Religious Freedom Day (France 1598, England 1829)
I0413 655 Memorial of St. Martin I, 74th pope, martyr (opt) (RC)
I0413 586 Commemoration of St. Hermenegild, martyr (RC)
I041419961Low (Quasimodo) Sunday, the Octave Day of Easter
I041419961Orthodox Easter (4/1 OS)
I041419956Good Friday
I041419907Holy Saturday
I0414 225 Commem. of SS. Tiburtius, Valerina & Maximus, martyrs, c. 225 CE (RC)
I0414 165 Commemoration of St. Justin, philosopher, martyr, c. 165 CE (RC)
I041519956Passover/Pesach (Jewish Feast of Deliverance); Nisan 15, 5755 AM
I041519957Holy Saturday
I041519901Orthodox Easter (4/2 OS)
I041519901Easter Sunday
I0415 550 Feast of St. Paternus, bishop, confessor, c. 550 CE (RC)
I041619963Yom Hashoah (Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day); Nisan 27, 5756 AM
I041619951Easter Sunday
I041619925Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday)
I041619913'Id al-Fitr (Moslem feast); end of Ramadƒn fast; Shawwƒl 1, 1411 AH
I04161879 Commemoration of St. Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes (RC)
I041719926Good Friday
I0417 166 Commemoration of St. Anicetus, 11th pope (150-66), martyr (RC)
I041819931Low (Quasimodo) Sunday, the Octave Day of Easter
I041819931Orthodox Easter (3/5 OS)
I041819931Yom Hashoah (Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day); Nisan 27, 5753 AM
I041819927Passover/Pesach (Jewish Feast of Deliverance); Nisan 15, 5752 AM
I041819927Holy Saturday
I0418     Feast of St. Perfecto (can you beat this?)
I041919921Easter Sunday
I04191573 Commemoration of Olavus Petri, 1552, & Laurentius Petri, 1573 (Luth)
I0419     Comm. of St. Alphege, archbishop of Canterbury, martyr, 1012 CE (Ang)
I0420 374 Feast of St. Marcellinus, bishop, confessor (RC)
I0421     St. Anselm, abp. of Canterbury, confessor, dr., 1109 (RC, Luth, Ang)
I0421     Ancient Roman Parilia, honoring Pales, protector of flocks & herds
I042219901Yom Hashoah (Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day); Nisan 27, 5750 AM
I042219901Low (Quasimodo) Sunday, the Octave Day of Easter
I0422 536 Feast of St. Agapetus I, Roman Catholic pope (535-36)
I0422 296 Commemoration of St. Caius, 28th pope (283-96), martyr (RC)
I0422 175 Commemoration of St. Soter, 12th pope (166-75), martyr (RC)
I0422    2Fast Day (NH)
I042319951Low (Quasimodo) Sunday, the Octave Day of Easter
I042319951Orthodox Easter (4/10 OS)
I042319902Night of Power (Moslem feast); Ramadƒn 27, 1410 AH
I04231960 Commemoration of Toyohiko Kagawa, renewer of society (Luth)
I0423 303 Memorial of St. George, dragon slayer, patron of England (opt) (RC)
I0423    2Fast Day (NH)
I0424    1National Christian College Day
I0424     Mem. of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, priest, martyr, 1622 (opt) (RC)
I0424    2Fast Day (NH)
I0425     Latest possible date for Easter (e.g., 1943, 2038)
I0425    1National Christian College Day
I0425     Ancient Roman Robigalia; god of mildew asked not to harm crops
I0425     Commemoration of the Greater Litanies (RC)
I0425    2Fast Day (NH)
I0425     Feast of St. Mark the Evangelist (Ang, RC, Luth, Cong)
I042619921Orthodox Easter (3/13 OS)
I042619921Low (Quasimodo) Sunday, the Octave Day of Easter
I0426  88 Commemoration of St. Cletus (St. Anacletus), 3rd pope (76-88) (RC)
I0426    2Fast Day (NH)
I0426    1National Christian College Day
I042719955Yom Hashoah (Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day); Nisan 27, 5755 AM
I042719906'Id al-Fitr (Moslem feast); end of Ramadƒn fast; Shawwƒl 1, 1410 AH
I0427     Feast of St. Zita (RC)
I0427    2Fast Day (NH)
I0427     Commem. of St. Turibius of Mogrovejo, bishop, confessor, 1606 CE (RC)
I0427    1National Christian College Day
I04281841 Memorial of St. Peter Chanel, priest, martyr (opt) (RC)
I0428    1National Christian College Day
I0428    2Fast Day (NH)
I0428     1st day of Roman festival of Flora; a. d. iv Kal. Maias
I042919962'Id al-Adha (Moslem feast); Dh–l-Hijjah 10, 1416 AH
I042919946Lag B'Omer (Jewish Love for Holy Land Day); Iyar 18, 5754 AM
I04291863 9th day of Ridv n (Bah '¡ festival); Jam l 2, 20
I04291380 Commemoration of St. Catherine of Siena, virgin, doctor (Ang)
I04291252 Commemoration of St. Peter of Verona, martyr (RC)
I0429    1National Christian College Day
I043019925Yom Hashoah (Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day); Nisan 27, 5752 AM
I04301572 Memorial of St. Pius V, pope (1566-72) (opt) (RC)
I04301380 Commemoration of St. Catherine of Siena, virgin, doctor (RC, Luth)
I0430     Walpurgis Night or Bealtaine, witches' sabbat
I0430    1National Christian College Day
m04251945 45 countries convene UN Conference on International Organization in SF
R0400     Flowers - Sweet Pea & Daisy          Gem - Sapphire & Diamond
R04011980 St. Stupid's Day (a San Francisco tradition since 1980)
R04010419 Astrological sign:  Aries
R04010406 Kappa Serpentid meteor shower, radiant in Serpentis
R0401     America's Heartland Development Month, Cancer Control Month begin
R0401     National Prevent a Litter Month begins (Humane Society)
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R0402    5Grand National steeplechase, Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool, begins
R0402     International Children's Book Day
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R0403    5Grand National steeplechase, Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool, begins
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R0411     Barber Shop Quartet Day, 1938
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R0422    1National Science & Technology Week begins (National Science Fndn.)
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R0424    3Stockholders meeting, Boeing Co., Seattle, Wash.
R0424     National Wildflower Day
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R0425    3Stockholders meeting, Boeing Co., Seattle, Wash.
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R0428    3Stockholders meeting, Boeing Co., Seattle, Wash.
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S04011986 World oil prices drop below $10 a barrel
S04011983 Britons form 22-km human chain to protest Pershing & cruise missiles
S04011981 Rowdy Gaines of US sets 100-m freestyle swimming record of 49.36 sec
S04011979 Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of the Shah
S04011972 12-day baseball players strike begins - 86 games lost
S04011971 US/Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere
S04011967 Country Music Hall of Fame opens
S04011965 Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from
S04011965Ccivilian to military control
S04011963 NYC's newspapers resume publishing after 114-day strike
S04011960 TIROS 1 launched to improve weather prediction
S04011952 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Rev. by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow
S04011949 1st all-negro talent show TV series-"Happy Pappy"-premiers, Chicago
S04011947 Major-league baseball adopts annuity plan for players & coaches
S04011946 Strike by 400,000 US mine workers
S04011945 US forces launch invasion of Okinawa during WW II
S04011943 Meat, cooking oil & cheese are placed under wartime rationing
S04011939 US recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war
S04011938 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY
S04011935 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY
S04011933 Nazi Germany begins boycott of Jewish businesses
S04011931 1st woman pitcher in organized baseball, Jackie Mitchell, Tenn.
S04011930 Dr. Peter Wold becomes 1st to address an organization by TV, NY
S04011927 1st night scheduled passenger airplane flight leaves Boston for NJ
S04011927 His Master's Voice introduces 1st automatic record changer
S04011924 Adolf Hitler is imprisoned for involvement in Beer-Hall Putsch
S04011920 Church disestablished in Wales
S04011918 England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force
S04011917 Unexpected eruption of Waimangu geyser in New Zealand kills 4
S04011913 Henry Ford installs 1st moving assembly line (approximate date)
S04011909 1st federal narcotic (opium) prohibition law takes effect
S04011905 British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya
S04011889 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)
S04011880 "Anti-Polygamy Standard" publishes 1st issue, Utah
S04011870 "Utah Polygamist" publishes 1st issue, St. George
S04011865 Battle of 5 Forks, signaling end of Lee's army
S04011855 US registered mail begins
S04011853 Cincinnati becomes 1st US city to pay firefighters a regular salary
S04011850 San Francisco County Government established
S04011826 An internal combustion engine is patented by Samuel Morey, Oxford, NH
S04011810 Napoleon marries Archduchess Maria Louisa of Austria
S04011789 1st full meeting of US House, NYC; Frederick Muhlenberg 1st speaker
S04011781 Capital of Siam transferred from Ayuthia to Bangkok
S04011778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates the "$"
S04011769 Abel Buell's type foundry (1st in America) casts 1st font
S04021988 Simply Majestic sets horse racing 1 1/8 mile record at 1:45
S04021983 Luther Bradley (Chicago USFL) intercepts major-league record 6 passes
S04021982 Argentina seizes Malvinas (Falkland Islands)
S04021981 Japanese company publishes bound book (The Lord's Prayer) 1.4 x 1.4 mm
S04021978 TV show "Dallas" premiers on CBS
S04021975 555-m CN Tower, tallest free-standing tower, topped out, Toronto
S04021972 Israeli PM Begin visits Cairo
S04021971 Sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows" concludes an almost 5-year run
S04021970 Qatar gains independence from Britain
S04021968 Union of Central African States formed
S04021966 Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit the moon
S04021964 USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
S04021963 USSR launches Luna 4; missed moon by 8500 km
S04021958 Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, TX (record)
S04021958 National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA
S04021956 Booker T. Washington National Monument, Virginia established
S04021956 Soap operas "As the World Turns" & "The Edge of Night" premier
S04021935 Sir Watson-Watt granted a patent for radar
S04021932 Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son
S04021930 1st New York-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
S04021902 1st US motion picture theater opens, Los Angeles
S04021897 Butch Cassidy robs Castle Gate payroll, Utah
S04021889 Method of reducing aluminum by electrolysis patented by Charles Hall
S04021877 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
S04021877 1st human shot from a cannon
S04021876 Philadelphia A's & Boston Red Caps play 1st NL game, in Philadelphia
S04021872 Gasoline-powered streetcar patented by George Brayton, Boston
S04021866 Pres Johnson ends war in Ala, Ark, Fla, Ga, Miss, La, NC, SC, Tn, Va
S04021865 Lee's line is broken at Petersberg, Va.
S04021865 CSA Pres. Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, Va.
S04021860 1st Italian Parliament meets at Turin
S04021846 Nathaniel Hawthorne is appointed surveyor of Salem custom house
S04021845 H.L. Fizeau & J. Leon Foucault take 1st photo of the sun
S04021829 NY becomes 1st state to require banks to insure deposits
S04021819 "American Farmer," 8-page weekly, founded in Baltimore
S04021801 British fleet under Nelson destroys the Danish fleet before Copenhagen
S04021792 Congress establishes Philadelphia mint, coin denominations of US
S04021792C«›, 1› (copper), 5›, 10›, 25›, 50› (silver), $2.50, $5, $10 (gold)
S04021789 1st Committee (on Elections) appointed in House of Representatives
S04021513 Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Le¢n (approximate)
S04031988 First class postage increased to 25›
S04031984 Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
S04031983 Parachute team forms 72-man free-falling star, De Land, Fla.
S04031982 UN Security Council demands Argentina withdraw from Falkland Is.
S04031977 Egyptian Pres. Anwar Sadat's 1st meeting with Pres. Jimmy Carter
S04031973 1st Iditarod dogsled race ends in Nome - 22 of 34 teams finish
S04031973 USSR launches unmanned Salyut 2 space station
S04031970 Longest cruise in an open boat (England-Australia) completed, 341 d
S04031968 North Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks
S04031965 1st atomic powered spacecraft (SNAP) launched
S04031965 "Secret Agent" with Patrick McGoohan has its US premier, on CBS TV
S04031964 US & Panam  agree to resume diplomatic relations
S04031962 Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after riding in 24,092 races
S04031954 Don Perry climbs a 6.1-m rope in a record 2.8 sec using only his hands
S04031948 Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan (aid to Europe)
S04031936 Lightweight Al Carr kayos Lew Massey with 1 punch; bout lasts 10 sec
S04031930 USC polo team refuses to play UCLA because they have a woman member
S04031927 Interstate Commerce Commission transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
S04031918 US House accepts "American Creed," written by William Tyler
S04031911 Jean Sibelius's 4th symphony (A minor) premiers, Helsingfors
S04031910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt. McKinley, climbed
S04031900 Reclamation of Imperial Valley, California begins
S04031893 Thomas Bayard becomes 1st with newly created rank of ambassador (UK)
S04031889 1st bank for blacks operated by blacks opens, Richmond, Va.
S04031868 Holua, a Hawaiian, rides surfing's highest wave - a 15-m tsunami
S04031865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond
S04031860 Pony Express begins between St. Joseph, Mo. & Sacramento, Calif.
S04031854 San Francisco Mint opens
S04031848 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher
S04031829 Coffee mill patented by James Carrington, Wallingford, Conn.
S04031800 Congress grants Martha Washington free postage for life
S04031793 1st US circus opens - John Ricketts', Philadelphia
S04031776 Washington receives honorary LL.D. degree from Harvard College
S04031679 Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig
S04031657 Oliver Cromwell rejects Parliament's offer of the English crown
S04041989 Gorbachev visits Havana; Castro arrests human rights activists
S04041984 Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary
S04041983 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1, is launched
S04041969 Dr. Denton Cooley implants 1st temporary artificial heart
S04041968 Chicago Mayor Daley orders police to "shoot to kill" rioters
S04041968 Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
S04041960 Project Ozma begins listening for alien signals from distant stars, MD
S04041959 Federation of Mali, consisting of Senegal & French Soudan, comes
S04041959Cinto existence (dissolved 1960) (Senegal National Day)
S04041949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed, Wash., DC
S04041947 UN's International Civil Aviation Organization established
S04041945 Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
S04041940 Ernest Tubb makes his 1st record for Decca
S04041936 Mozart's opera "L'�preuve d'Amour" premiers, Monte Carlo
S04041932 Vitamin C 1st isolated, C.C. King, University of Pittsburgh
S04041915 1st radio telephone communication (one way), Long Island to Delaware
S04041914 1st movie serial, "The Perils of Pauline," premiers, Los Angeles
S04041902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund established with $10 million
S04041890 NY Gov. Theodore Roosevelt signs 1st US state corrupt elections law
S04041887 Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, Kans.)
S04041870 SF's Golden Gate Park established by City Order #800
S04041865 Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse
S04041850 City of Los Angeles incorporated
S04041838 1st regular steamboat service across Atlantic - Sirius leaves London
S04041818 1st steamboat on the Great Lakes, "Walk-in-the-Water," is launched
S04041818 Congress decides US flag will be 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars
S04041800 Congress passes 1st US bankruptcy act
S04041775 Penn. Mercury becomes 1st newspaper printed with American-made type
S04051989 Polish Solidarity becomes legal again
S04051987 "Married...with Children" premiers on FOX television
S04051986 2 killed in Berlin disco bombing; Libya allegedly responsible
S04051984 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks NBA career scoring record with 31,419 pts.
S04051980 British Guiana 1› magenta postage stamp auctioned for record $850,000
S04051975 Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely
S04051974 Then tallest building, World Trade Center, opens, NYC (110 stories)
S04051971 Harrisburg 7 is acquitted of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger
S04051967 ATS 2 launched but fails to reach orbit
S04051954 Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right"
S04051951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
S04051949 "Fireside Theatre" dramatic anthology premiers on NBC (later ABC) TV
S04051943 Sailor Poon Lim rescued after record 144 days at sea on a raft
S04051933 1st lung removed surgically in US, St. Louis
S04051926 HL Mencken arrested in Boston for selling a banned "American Mercury"
S04051923 Firestone introduces the balloon tire for automobiles
S04051915 Jess Willard defeats Jack Johnson for heavyweight boxing crown
S04051895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the 3 Students" (BG)
S04051894 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn.
S04051894 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Empty House" (BG)
S04051889 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Copper Beeches" (BG)
S04051887 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
S04051881 Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
S04051861 Federals abandon Ft. Quitman, Texas
S04051853 DeGasparis discovers his 7th asteroid, Themis (#24)
S04051851 Mayor Ambrose Kingsland of NY proposes Central Park
S04051827 James Hackett, 1st US actor to appear abroad, makes debut, London
S04051815 Tambora volcano (Indonesia) erupts, ejects 152 cubic km of material
S04051803 Beethoven's 2nd symphony (in D major) premiers
S04051803 1st public performance of Beethoven's "Piano Concerto in C Minor"
S04051792 Washington vetoes Congressional apportionment bill (1st pres. veto)
S04051764 British Parliament passes the Sugar Act to combat American smuggling
S04051753 Nucleus of the British Museum acquired by Parliament
S04051722 Dutch discover Easter Island in the Pacific, on Easter Sunday
S04051654 Treaty of Westminster ends 1st Anglo-Dutch War (4/15 NS)
S04051621 Mayflower leaves on return trip to England
S04051614 Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
S04051242 Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights
S0405  33 1 of the dates suggested as the day Jesus rose from the dead
S04061985 Randy Dickison, US, high-dives a record 53 m, Hong Kong
S04061984 11th space shuttle mission, Challenger 5, is launched
S04061982 Jim Priceman returns $37.1 MILLION cash to A.G. Becker, Inc., NYC &
S04061982Creceives a reward of $250 - that's right, TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS
S04061979 Lina Kachusite (E. Ger.) sets women's 200-m butterfly record, 2:28.36
S04061976 1st quadraphonic soundtrack - "Ladies & Gentlemen the Rolling Stones"
S04061974 200,000 attend rock concert California Jam, Ontario, Calif.
S04061974 Yankees' 1st home game at Shea Stadium; they beat Indians 6-1
S04061973 Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter & Saturn
S04061973 Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter; he walks
S04061966 Mihir Sen swims the Palk Strait between Sri Lanka & India
S04061965 Intelsat 1, 1st commercial geosynchronous communications satellite
S04061957 New York City ends trolley car service
S04061948 US National Open golf tournament bars Babe Didrikson for being a woman
S04061943 British & US armies link up in Africa during WW II
S04061937 Julia Sims, Newark, NJ, becomes 1st US woman grand jury foreman
S04061937 Motorist finds a brass plate left by Sir Francis Drake near San
S04061937CQuentin Point, Calif.
S04061926 1st domestic contract air mail route begins, Pasco, Wash.-Elko, Nev.
S04061924 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight
S04061917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
S04061917 Army Balloon School established, St. Louis
S04061909 Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson & 4 Eskimos reach north pole
S04061906 1st animated cartoon copyrighted
S04061900 Jim Jeffries kayos Jack Finnegan, 55 sec - shortest heavywt title bout
S04061895 Oscar Wilde arrested for homosexuality
S04061893 Mormon temple in Salt Lake City dedicated
S04061886 City of Vancouver, BC incorporated
S04061883 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Speckled Band" (BG)
S04061868 Brigham Young marries #27, his final wife
S04061865 Battle of Sayler's Creek; 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off
S04061859 US recognizes Liberal government in M‚xico's War of the Reform
S04061830 M‚xico bans American settlers from Texas & abolishes slavery
S04061830 Joseph Smith & 5 others organize the Mormon church in Seneca Co., NY
S04061824 1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis," St. Petersburg
S04061815 Massacre of 64 American prisoners at Dartmoor, England
S04061789 1st US Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, NYC
S04061789 John Langdon (NH) becomes 1st president pro tempore of US Senate
S04061327 Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura
S0406-648 Earliest total solar eclipse chronicled by the Greeks
S04071989 Thousands demonstrate in Tbilisi for Georgian independence
S04071989 International basketball (FIBA) votes to allow pros in Olympics
S04071988 2,000 Honduran students attack US embassy in Tegucigalpa
S04071983 STS-6 crewmen Story Musgrave & Don Peterson make 1st STS spacewalk
S04071981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit no. in 29 sec
S04071980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
S04071978 Pres. Carter defers production of the neutron bomb
S04071977 Consumer Product Safety Commission bans "TRIS" flame-retardant
S04071966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
S04071963 Yugoslavia proclaimed a socialist republic
S04071960 "An Evening in Paradise" recorded by Little Jimmie Scott, NYC
S04071959 Oklahoma voters repeal prohibition, leaving only 1 dry state (Miss.)
S04071959 Radar 1st bounced off sun, Stanford, Calif.
S04071957 NYC's last electric trolley makes its final run
S04071956 Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
S04071953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
S04071949 Mary Martin opens on Broadway in "South Pacific"
S04071948 World Health Organization established by UN
S04071946 Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
S04071945 Japanese battleship Yamato sunk by US planes off Kyushu
S04071943 NFL adopts free substitution
S04071940 1st black depicted on a US postage stamp, Booker T. Washington
S04071939 Italy annexes Albania
S04071931 Seals Stadium opens in San Francisco
S04071928 Lester Patrick, NY Ranger, plays the last game of his NHL career
S04071927 Using phone lines, TV is sent from Washington, DC to New York
S04071924 160th consecutive day over 100ø F (38ø C), Marble Bar, W. Australia
S04071922 Interior Sec. Albert Fall leases Teapot Dome to oilman Harry Sinclair
S04071922 John D. Archibold becomes 1st US ship to test a gyro-pilot
S04071917 1st shot fired by US navy in WW I, Guam
S04071893 Andy Bowen & Jack Burke box to a 110-round draw in 7 h 19 m, N Orleans
S04071888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face" (BG)
S04071864 1st camel race in US, Sacramento, Calif.
S04071862 Grant defeats Confederates at battle of Shiloh, Tenn.
S04071860 Philadelphia (now Oakland) Athletics play their 1st baseball game
S04071840 Foreigners in California not married to local women imprisoned
S04071826 Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to pass an inheritance tax (2.5%)
S04071798 Territory of Mississippi organized
S04071788 1st permanent settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
S04071775 Samuel Johnson declares "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel"
S04081987 LA Dodger VP Al Campanis resigns after racial remarks on "Nightline"
S04081986 Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, Calif. - made his day
S04081984 American Football League (UK) plays 1st game
S04081982 Steve Bentley sets record for catching own frisbee toss, 83 m, Calif.
S04081980 Isles' Potvin's 2 shorthanded goals tie NHL playoff record vs. Kings
S04081979 204th & final episode of "All in the Family"
S04081975 Frank Robinson is 1st black baseball manager (Cleveland, beats NY 5-3)
S04081974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record
S04081970 Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court
S04081966 OAO 1, the 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, is launched
S04081964 Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
S04081952 Pres. Truman seizes the steel mills to prevent a strike
S04081947 Largest recorded sunspot observed
S04081946 League of Nations assembles for last time
S04081935 Emergency Relief Appropriation Act passes Congress
S04081918 Congress of Oppressed Nationalities (Austria-Hungary) opens in Rome
S04081913 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified
S04081911 National Squash Tennis Association begins 1st tournament
S04081873 Oleomargarine manufacturing process patented by Alfred Paraf, NYC
S04081865 Lee's retreat cut off near Appomattox Court House
S04081864 Battle of Mansfield, La.; Federals routed by CSA Gen. Richard Taylor
S04081843 1 Pennsylvania legislator stabs another
S04081838 Maiden voyage of "Great Western," 1st regular transatlantic steamer
S04081826 Sec. of State Henry Clay & Va. Sen. John Randolph duel; both misfire
S04081808 1st Catholic archdiocese in the US established, Baltimore
S04081802 French Protestant church becomes state-supported & -controlled
S04081793 French revolutionary official Citizen Genˆt arrives in Charleston to
S04081793Ccommission privateers to attack British shipping
S04081766 1st fire escape patented - wicker basket on a pulley & chain
S04081730 1st Jewish congregation in US consecrates synagogue, NYC
S04081341 Petrarch is crowned poet laureate on the steps of the Capitol in Rome
S04091989 300,000 abortion rights supporters gather at Washington Monument
S04091986 "Dallas" announces it will revive the killed Bobby Ewing character
S04091982 Swimmer Tracy Caulkins wins a record 37th US national championship
S04091981 US sub George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru
S04091980 Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6
S04091980 Kings tie NHL record - 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a period v Isles
S04091972 Dan Rather's house is burglarized - nothing stolen but files
S04091970 Beatles' split announced by Paul McCartney
S04091967 1st Boeing 737 rolls out
S04091967 Shortwave broadcaster Radio NY Worldwide's transmitter burns down
S04091965 1st game at Astrodome; Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition
S04091963 Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen (posthumously)
S04091959 NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury
S04091959 Boston Celtics win 8th consecutive NBA championship (record)
S04091952 Stampede after false cry of "fire" kills 53 in Caracas, Venez. church
S04091950 Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance
S04091947 US Atomic Energy Commission formed
S04091942 US & Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan
S04091941 PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame
S04091940 Germany invades Denmark & Norway during WW II
S04091939 Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial
S04091937 1st state anti-sit-down strike legislation passes, Vermont
S04091934 Florence Allen sworn in as 1st woman justice, US Court of Appeals
S04091928 Mae West's NYC debut, in a daring new play, "Diamond Lil"
S04091927 Sacco & Vanzetti sentenced to death for murder (Mass.)
S04091913 1st baseball game at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn - Phila. 1, Brooklyn 0
S04091906 3«th modern Olympic games opens in Athens (4/22 NS)
S04091872 Samuel R. Percy, NYC, patents dried milk
S04091865 Robert E. Lee & 26,765 troops surrender to U.S. Grant at Appomattox
S04091865 Federals capture Ft. Blakely, Alabama
S04091833 1st US tax-supported public library, at Peterborough, NH
S04091831 Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts a war between Britain & Spain
S04091822 California declares independence from Spain
S04091682 La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
S04091667 1st public art exhibition, at Palais-Royale, Paris
S04091388 Battle of N„fels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army
S04101989 Ken Griffey, Jr. hits HR, 1st pitch, 1st at bat, 1st Seattle home game
S04101988 "America's Most Wanted" debuts in prime time on the Fox TV network
S04101984 US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors, 84-12
S04101984 Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
S04101979 Soyuz 33 launched with 1 Russian, 1 Bulgarian
S04101974 Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir
S04101974 American Boccaccio Association established
S04101970 Anaconda mining co. offers CIA $500,000 to block election of Allende
S04101963 US atomic-powered sub Thresher sinks 350 km east of Boston - 129 die
S04101953 "House of Wax," 1st 3-D movie, released (NYC)
S04101945 Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech.)
S04101944 1st regular network news telecast premiers on NBC
S04101944 "Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously
S04101942 75,000 US & Philippine POWs begin forced "death march" from Bataan
S04101933 1st Civilian Conservation Corps camp established
S04101932 Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler was 2nd)
S04101930 Synthetic rubber 1st produced
S04101927 George Antheil's "Ballet Mecanique" premiers, NYC; 1st symphony to
S04101927Ccall for an airplane propeller
S04101916 1st professional golf tournament in US held, Bronxville, NY
S04101892 Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis founded
S04101882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
S04101878 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co. starts service
S04101877 Pres. Hayes begins withdrawing federal troops from the south
S04101877 Catamaran patented by Nathanael Herreshoff, Providence, RI
S04101872 Arbor Day 1st celebrated, in Nebraska; later changed to Apr. 22
S04101871 Wm. H. Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park officially accepted
S04101866 American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals organized
S04101865 At Appomattox, Gen. Lee issues General Order #9, his last
S04101863 Rebel Gen. Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tenn.
S04101849 Walter Hunt (NYC) patents the safety pin & sells rights for $100
S04101841 Horace Greeley begins publishing the New York Tribune
S04101825 Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Le¢n
S04101825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens
S04101818 Keats writes the preface to "Endymion" (poem completed in November)
S04101816 2nd Bank of the United States chartered
S04101814 Duke of Wellington defeats the French in battle of Toulouse
S04101790 US patent system established, with Thomas Jefferson on the board
S04101777 Continental Congress holds its 1st lottery to raise money
S04101525 Protestant Duchy of Brandenburg formed from lands of the Teutonic
S04101525CKnights under Polish suzerainty
S04111989 1st playoff goal scored by a goalee, Ron Hextall of Philadelphia
S04111987 Yankees score 12 runs in 7th inning vs. KC Royals
S04111986 Halley's Comet makes closest approach to earth this trip, 63 M km
S04111984 Challenger astronauts complete 1st in-space satellite repair
S04111980 "Fridays" starring Melanie Chartoff premiers on ABC TV
S04111979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzanian forces take Kampala
S04111970 Apollo 13 launched to moon; unable to land, it returns in 6 days
S04111968 Pres. Johnson signs the 1968 Civil Rights Act
S04111963 John XXIII encyclical "On peace in truth, justice, charity & liberty"
S04111962 NY Mets' 1st game - they lose to St. Louis 11-4
S04111961 Bob Dylan's 1st appearance, Greenwich Village
S04111961 Israel begins Adolf Eichmann war crimes trial
S04111958 Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated (SF)
S04111957 Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take off & land vertically
S04111953 Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st sec. of health, education, & welfare
S04111951 Pres. Truman relieves Gen. Douglas MacArthur of his command in Korea
S04111943 Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft
S04111942 Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized
S04111921 Turkestan ASSR established in Russian SFSR
S04111921 Iowa imposes 1st state cigarette tax
S04111921 1st radio broadcast of a sports event - boxing match, KDKA, Pittsburgh
S04111914 Premier of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," London
S04111895 Poet Jos‚ Mart¡ & others begin invasion of Spanish Cuba
S04111876 John Nachos, NYC, patents the stenotype for transcription
S04111873 Modoc Indians kill 2 white peace commissioners under flag of truce, CA
S04111865 Mary White Ovington,  NY, socialist, white cofounder of NAACP
S04111865 Pres. Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech
S04111862 Rebels surrender Ft. Pulaski, Georgia
S04111856 Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm. Walker's invading Nicaraguans
S04111822 California pledges allegiance to Mexican Empire
S04111814 1st abdication of Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba
S04111803 John Stevens, NJ, patents steamboat engine with twin-screw propeller
S04111789 Alexander Hamilton's "Gazette of the US" begins publication, NYC
S04111775 Last German trial & execution for witchcraft
S04111713 Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain (3/31 OS)
S04111689 William of Orange crowned William III of England
S04111640 Wethersfield, Ct. elects a recorder in defiance of the Royal Courts
S04111564 Peace of Troyes ends war between England & France; France gets Calais
S04111512 French under Gaston de Foix defeat Spanish & Papal armies at Ravenna
S0411 837 Halley's Comet passes earth by 6 million km
S04121987 "21 Jump Street" premiers on FOX television
S04121985 16th shuttle mission - Discovery 4 - launched with Sen. Jake Garn
S04121981 Maiden voyage of Space Transit System - shuttle Columbia launched
S04121970 Yankees dedicate plaques to Mantle & DiMaggio
S04121963 Birmingham police use dogs, cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators
S04121961 Yuri A. Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit earth (Vostok 1)
S04121954 Bill Haley & the Comets record "Rock Around the Clock"
S04121946 Syria gains independence from France
S04121938 1st US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses, NY
S04121937 Earliest test of a jet engine (Whittle unit)
S04121934 "Tender Is the Night," by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is published
S04121934 Wind velocity reaches 372 kph (231 mph), Mt. Washington, NH
S04121927 Chiang Kai-shek stages coup in Shanghai, orders extermination of
S04121927CCommunists & Socialists
S04121918 1st WW I combat action by US army airplanes
S04121917 Scarlatti's ballet "Le Femmes de Bonne Humeur" premiers, Rome
S04121917 Estonia granted autonomy by Russian provisional government
S04121911 Pierre Prier makes 1st nonstop London-Paris flight (3 h 56 m)
S04121903 World's 1st municipal motor bus service inaugurated, England
S04121892 Portable typewriter patented by George Blickensderfer, Stamford, Conn.
S04121892 1st voting machines in US used, Lockport, NY
S04121877 British annex Transvaal, in South Africa
S04121877 Catcher's mask 1st used in a baseball game, Lynn, Mass.
S04121862 James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, Ga.
S04121861 Ft. Sumter, SC shelled by the Confederacy, starting the Civil War
S04121859 Michael Phelan beats J. Seereiter for $15,000 & world billiards title
S04121857 Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" is published
S04121853 New York enacts 1st US state truancy legislation
S04121847 1st Chinese students (3) arrive in US
S04121833 Fire-proof safe patented by Charles Gayler, NYC
S04121826 Weber's last opera, "Oberon," premiers in London
S04121811 1st US colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, Wash.
S04121786 Philadelphia Dispensary founded to supply free medicine to the needy
S04121776 Halifax resolution for independence adopted by North Carolina
S04121749 Handel's "Firework Music" 1st rehearsed in public, London
S04121709 1st issue of Richard Steele's "The Tatler" published
S04121654 Union of Ireland & Scotland with England (under Cromwell)
S04121606 James I proclaims national flag combining the cross of St. George &
S04121606Cthe saltire of St. Andrew
S04121204 4th Crusade sacks Constantinople
S04131986 John Paul II meets Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue
S04131984 Pete Rose becomes 1st in the National League to get 4,000 hits
S04131976 $2 bill re-introduced as US currency
S04131975 Jack Nicklaus wins Masters for 5th time
S04131970 Apollo 13's Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to the moon
S04131965 Roger Miller wins record 5 Grammys
S04131964 Sidney Poitier becomes 1st black man to win a Oscar for best actor
S04131963 Pete Rose gets his 1st base hit, a triple off Pittsburgh's Bob Friend
S04131961 UN General Assembly condemns South Africa for apartheid
S04131960 Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in earth orbit
S04131959 Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics to vote for communists
S04131959 USAF launches Discover 2 into polar orbit
S04131955 51.64 cm (20.33") of rainfall, Axis, Alabama (state record)
S04131954 In his major-league debut, Milwaukee's Hank Aaron goes 0 of 5
S04131953 Milwaukee becomes 1st new city in ML baseball in 50 years
S04131945 Allies occupy Wien (Vienna)
S04131943 FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial
S04131940 1st pole vaulter to clear 15' (4.57 m), C. Warmerdam, Berkeley, CA
S04131934 4.7 million US families reported receiving welfare payments
S04131933 Lord Clydesdale makes 1st flight over Mt. Everest
S04131933 Ballet "Les Pr‚sages" premiers to Tchaikovsky's 5th, Monte Carlo
S04131926 At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout
S04131902 J.C. Penney opens his 1st store, in Kemmerer, Wyo.
S04131895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist" (BG)
S04131869 George Westinghouse, Jr. patents the railroad air brake
S04131861 After 34 hours of bombardment, Ft. Sumter surrenders to Confederates
S04131849 Hungarian Republic proclaimed
S04131842 Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope
S04131829 English Parliament grants freedom of religion to Catholics
S04131796 1st elephant brought to America (from Bengal, India)
S04131781 Messier adds M98-M100 to his catalog (galaxies in Coma Berenices)
S04131742 Handel's "Messiah" premiers, Dublin
S04131598 Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots
S04131534 Sir Thomas More refuses to take the oath to the succession
S04131387 29 pilgrims assemble at Southwick, England, according to Chaucer
S04141989 China reports birth of 1.1 billionth citizen
S04141986 US planes raid Libya, responding to disco bombing in Berlin
S04141971 1st pocket calculator goes on sale - Pocketronic, by Texas Instruments
S04141961 1st live television broadcast from the Soviet Union
S04141960 Montr‚al Canadiens become 1st team to win 5 consecutive Stanley Cups
S04141959 (Robert) Taft Memorial Bell Tower dedicated in Washington, DC
S04141956 Ampex Corp. demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
S04141945 Tokyo incendiary raids, using B-29's, damage Imperial Palace
S04141935 A black blizzard engulfs the Dust Bowl
S04141932 Georges Bizet's ballet "Jeux d'Enfants" premiers, Monte Carlo
S04141931 Spain becomes a republic with overthrow of Alfonso XIII
S04141929 Monaco Grand Prix auto race 1st run
S04141928 Maddus A.L. starts 1st regular passenger flights between SF & LA
S04141923 Etienne Oehmichen sets helicopter distance record of 358 meters
S04141921 Most recorded snowfall in 24 hrs, 190 cm, Silver Lake, Colo.
S04141918 1st US WW I ace, Douglas Campbell, shoots down 1st German plane
S04141914 Stacy Carkhuff, Akron, Ohio, patents a non-skid tire
S04141912 Frederick Rodman, 1st movie stunt actor, jumps from Brooklyn Bridge
S04141910 Taft becomes 1st president to pitch a ball to open baseball season
S04141901 Haynes-Apperson advertises a car that can be driven in the rain
S04141894 1st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures), NYC
S04141894 New York City sets up 1st US teachers' pension fund
S04141891 New Jersey passes 1st state law regarding aid for roads
S04141891 American Whist League formed, Milwaukee, Wisc.
S04141890 Pan American Day - 1st conference of American states (Wash., DC)
S04141887 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires" (BG)
S04141872 Dominion Lands Act passed - Canada's Homestead Act
S04141865 Pres. Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
S04141865 Mobile, Alabama is captured
S04141865 First National Bank of Attica, NY becomes 1st national bank failure
S04141863 William Bullock, Pa., patents 1st printing press to use a continuous
S04141863Croll of paper
S04141860 1st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Mo.
S04141847 Dupont's powder mills, Maryland explode - 18 persons killed
S04141792 Congress passes 1st congressional apportionment law
S04141775 Society for Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage formed,
S04141775CPhiladelphia
S04141611 The word "telescope" is 1st used, by Prince Federico Cesi
S04151989 95 soccer fans crushed to death in Sheffield, England
S04151985 South Africa ends laws against marriage & sex between whites & blacks
S04151985 Marvin Hagler knocks out Thomas Hearns, regains middleweight title
S04151984 D�sseldorf Panthers beat Poole Sharks (UK) 69-0 in American football
S04151983 Heaviest load moved on wheels, 3,361 tons, Zwijndrecht, Netherlands
S04151983 Declaration of Independence (1 of 22 originals) auctioned for $412,500
S04151983 Tokyo Disneyland opens
S04151981 Janet Cooke says 8-year-old heroin addict Pulitzer story a lie
S04151981CWashington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
S04151976 Yankee stadium reopens; Yanks beat Twins after trailing 4-0
S04151970 Greatest manned altitude - 400,188 km - Apollo XIII at apocynthion
S04151964 28.4-km Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel opens
S04151959 New Cuban Pres. Fidel Castro begins goodwill tour of US & Canada
S04151955 Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants, Chicago
S04151952 Franklin National Bank of NY issues 1st US bank credit card
S04151952 1st B-52 prototype test flight
S04151950 "Buck Rogers" premiers on TV (ABC) - 1st time
S04151947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in modern major-league baseball
S04151942 George VI awards the George Cross to the people of Malta
S04151941 1st helicopter flight of 1 hour duration, Stratford, Conn.
S04151933 Johann Strauss's ballet "Le Beau Danube" premiers, Monte Carlo
S04151928 Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf, SF founded
S04151923 1st sound-on-film public performance given, Rialto Theater, NYC
S04151912 Titanic sinks in North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m. as the band plays on
S04151895 Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-&-harness lift of 1620 kg (record)
S04151861 Federal army mobilized by President Lincoln
S04151850 City of San Francisco incorporated
S04151817 Connecticut opens 1st permanent US school for the deaf (Hartford)
S04151779 Charles Messier catalogs M58-M60 (galaxies in Virgo)
S04151755 Samuel Johnson's "Dictionary of the English Language" is published
S04151715 Yamassees & other Indians revolt, SC - later driven into Sp. Florida
S04151651 Thomas Hobbes dedicates "Leviathan" to Francis Godolphin (4/25 NS)
S04151532 The Submission of the Clergy is made to Henry VIII
S04161989 Pirates brutally kill 130 Vietnamese boat people in South China Sea
S04161989 Khrushchev publicly honored in Moscow (1st time since 1964)
S04161989 Uruguay voters approve amnesty for military torturers & murderers
S04161987 FCC imposes a broader definition of indecency over the airwaves
S04161987 August Wilson's "Fences" wins 1987 Pulitzer Prize for drama
S04161987 Michael Jordan (Chicago) sets NBA record by scoring 23 consecutive pts
S04161976 Helios B makes closest spacecraft approach to sun - 43 million km
S04161972 Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Descartes Highlands)
S04161966 Rhodesian PM Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain
S04161962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring "The CBS Evening News"
S04161959 Yankees unveil their 1st message scoreboard
S04161947 Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated, NYC
S04161946 1st US launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands, NM; 8 km altitude
S04161945 US troops enter N�rnberg, Germany during WW II
S04161943 Dr. Albert Hoffmann discovers hallucinogenic properties of LSD
S04161935 Pan Am's Clipper leaves SF for Hawaii on maiden flight
S04161935 1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"
S04161929 Yankees become 1st team to use numbers on uniforms
S04161928 George Gershwin's ballet "Rhapsody in Blue" premiers, Paris
S04161926 Book-of-the-Month Club distributes 1st selection, "Lolly Willowes"
S04161917 Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
S04161912 Harriet Quimby becomes 1st woman pilot to fly the English Channel
S04161908 Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah established by Teddy Roosevelt
S04161905 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching established
S04161901 Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. (3M) incorporated
S04161900 US post office issues 1st books of postage stamps
S04161897 Havlock Ellis 1st takes mescaline
S04161871 Ivan Turgenev is arrested for an article he published
S04161869 Ebenezer Bassett, 1st US negro diplomat, begins service in Haiti
S04161862 Slavery abolished in the District of Columbia
S04161862 CSA Pres. Davis approves conscription act for white males 18-35
S04161861 1st regiment responds to Lincoln's call for troops, Reading, Penn.
S04161854 San Salvador destroyed by earthquake
S04161818 Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot amendment (unarmed US-Canada border)
S04161817 Keats writes his sonnet "On the Sea"
S04161789 George Washington heads off for 1st presidential inauguration
S04161787 1st American play acted by an established company, "Contrast," NYC
S04161746 English defeat Scottish (Stuart) rebels in battle of Culloden
S04161705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College
S04171986 Rev. Jesse Jackson & others form the Rainbow Coalition
S04171983 Islanders tie NHL record with 3 shorthanded playoff goals vs. Rangers
S04171975 Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea National Day)
S04171970 Apollo 13 limps back safely, Beech-built oxygen tank no help
S04171970 Paul McCartney's 1st solo album "McCartney"
S04171969 The Band's 1st concert under that name, Winterland, SF
S04171969 Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed
S04171969 Sirhan Sirhan convicted of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy
S04171967 Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on moon April 20
S04171966 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed
S04171964 Jerrie Mock becomes 1st woman to fly solo around the world
S04171964 Ford introduces the Mustang
S04171963 NFL suspends Paul Hornung & Alex Karras for betting on league games
S04171961 CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba - 1,400 exiles land
S04171960 American Samoa sets up a constitutional government
S04171958 Brussels World's Fair opens
S04171956 Willy Mosconi wins world pool tournament by running 150 straight balls
S04171956 USSR dissolves Cominform (international communist party organization)
S04171947 Jackie Robinson's 1st major-league hit, a bunt single
S04171946 Last French troops leave Syria (National Day)
S04171941 Office of Price Administration established to handle rationing
S04171941 Igor Sikorsky makes 1st helicopter flight from water, Stratford, Ct.
S04171937 Record 149,547 see Scotland vs. England soccer match, Glasgow
S04171900 7 high chiefs of American Samoa sign Instrument of Cession
S04171895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed; ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
S04171895 1st concrete canal locks in US open, Lake Michigan to Mississippi R.
S04171875 "Snooker" (variety of pool) invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain
S04171869 1st pro baseball game, Cincinnati Reds 24, Cincinnati amateurs 15
S04171865 Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln assassination
S04171861 Virginia becomes 8th state to secede from US
S04171861 1st US oil well fire, Rouseville, Penn.; 19 people die
S04171860 NY state law requires fire escapes for tenements
S04171830 Abolitionist William Garrison enters jail for libeling a slave trader
S04171824 Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54ø 40' N
S04171810 Pineapple cheese patented by Lewis Norton of Troy, Penn.
S04171704 1st successful American newspaper, "Boston News-Letter," begins
S04171640 1st Lutheran pastor, Reorus Torkillus, arrives in America (Dela.)
S04171629 1st horses imported to America, Massachusetts Bay (approx. date)
S04171524 New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano
S04171446 Sea breaks in at Dort, Holland, drowns 100,000, forms Zuiderzee
S04181989 Adnan Khashoggi arrested for helping Marcos steal $103 million
S04181988 US sinks 4 Iranian vessels in Persian Gulf, loses 1 helicopter gunship
S04181983 Bomb explodes by US embassy in Beirut, killing 63
S04181982 Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act
S04181980 Zimbabwe's (Rhodesia) formal independence from Britain (National Day)
S04181979 Michelle Triola loses her "palimony" suit against actor Lee Marvin
S04181979 "Real People" premiers on NBC TV
S04181972 1st US court-ordered censorship - "The CIA & the Cult of Intelligence"
S04181966 Bill Russell named Boston Celtics' coach - 1st black NBA coach
S04181966 Dodgers 6, Astros 3 - 1st ML game on artificial turf, Astrodome
S04181961 4 US navy pilots die in Bay of Pigs air battle
S04181958 Court declares Ezra Pound not guilty of treason by virtue of insanity
S04181956 Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony)
S04181950 1st transatlantic jet passenger trip
S04181949 Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth
S04181947 Biggest conventional explosion, 4253 tons, U-boat pens, Helgoland
S04181946 League of Nations dissolves (3 months after the UN starts)
S04181945 1-armed outfielder Pete Gray's 1st game - he gets 1 hit in 4 at bats
S04181942 James H. Doolittle bombs Tokyo & other Japanese cities
S04181942 "Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts
S04181936 Gene Autry records "Back in the Saddle Again"
S04181934 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) is opened, in Ft. Worth, TX
S04181926 Rev. Howard Hough forms 1st radio church in US, Portland, Maine
S04181925 1st photo sent by commercial radio across the continent, SF-NYC
S04181925 Mrs. Coolidge opens Woman's World Fair, Chicago
S04181923 74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium
S04181906 San Francisco earthquake & fire kill nearly 4,000
S04181868 San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed
S04181861 Col. Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies
S04181853 1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)
S04181842 Disenfranchised poor voters in RI elect their own governor, T.W Dorr
S04181838 Wilkes' expedition to the South Pole sails
S04181796 1st opera by an American composer, "The Archers," premiers, NYC
S04181775 Paul Revere & William Dawes warn "the British are coming!"
S04181676 Sudbury, Mass. attacked by Indians
S04191990 Shuttle Columbia scheduled to carry Hubble Space Telescope to orbit
S04191989 Explosion on battleship "USS Iowa" kills 47 crewmen
S04191989 Soviet oil-skimmer ship arrives to help clean up Exxon's Alaska mess
S04191989 Japanese digital tape recorders 1st go on sale in Seattle
S04191982 USSR's Salyut 7 space station put into orbit
S04191978 Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel
S04191975 India launches 1st satellite, with help of USSR
S04191971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic (National Day)
S04191971 Salyut 1, world's 1st space station, launched into earth orbit
S04191966 Roberta Gibb Bignay becomes 1st woman to run in Boston Marathon
S04191960 SW Africa People's Organization established
S04191956 Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco (in church)
S04191954 Clarence Demer, 5-time winner of Boston Marathon, finishes 78th at 65
S04191949 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Babe Ruth
S04191946 Yankees switch from 3rd base to 1st base dug out
S04191945 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway
S04191945 French court issues warrant for C‚line for collaboration with Vichy
S04191943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto
S04191939 Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights (148 years late)
S04191919 Capt. E.F. White makes 1st NY-Chicago nonstop airplane flight
S04191897 1st US marathon is run (Boston); John McDermott wins in 2:55:10
S04191892 Charles Duryea takes the 1st American-made auto out for a spin
S04191890 Baseball's Players' League begins 1st (only) season
S04191874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
S04191861 Lincoln blockades Confederate ports in Civil War
S04191861 Baltimore Riots - 4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed
S04191852 California Historical Society founded
S04191839 Treaty of London constitutes Belgium an independent kingdom
S04191782 Netherlands recognizes US
S04191775 Battles of Lexington & Concord; the "shot heard round the world"
S04191775CMinuteman Capt. John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon
S04191739 John Winthrop of Mass. makes 1st sunspot observations in America
S04191587 Sir Francis Drake sacks Cadiz, Spain
S04201988 Yanks' HRs #9,999-10,001 (D. Winfield, C. Washington, J. Clarke)
S04201986 Michael Jordan scores 67 pts in a playoff game, but Celtics beat Bulls
S04201984 Ex-CIA spy John Stockwell claims CIA covert operations killed more
S04201984Cmore than 1 million since 1950's
S04201984 20,000 West German protesters form human chain around US army base
S04201983 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace
S04201983 Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock
S04201980 "Grease" closes after 3388th performance (Broadway record)
S04201977 Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premiers
S04201973 Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit
S04201972 Apollo 16's Young & Duke land on moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
S04201971 US Supreme Court upholds bussing to achieve racial desegregation
S04201968 Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn in as prime minister of Canada
S04201967 US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during the Vietnam War
S04201967 US Surveyor 3 lands on the moon
S04201962 Citizens council offers New Orleans blacks free 1-way ride to north
S04201957 "All Shook Up" begins 8 weeks at top of "Billboard" Hot 100
S04201950 CIA approves Operation Bluebird, its 1st mind-control project
S04201949 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 1st race, Golden Gate Racecourse
S04201944 NFL legalizes coaching from the bench
S04201940 1st WW II engagement between British & German troops, Norway
S04201940 1st electron microscope demonstrated, Philadelphia, Pa.
S04201939 New York World's Fair opens
S04201939 Ted Williams' 1st game & 1st hit, off Yankees' Red Ruffing, a double
S04201920 Robbery, murder in South Braintree, MA; Sacco & Vanzetti later charged
S04201916 1st baseball game at Wrigley Field - Chicago Cubs 7, Cincinnati 6
S04201914 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colo.
S04201912 Fenway Park opens; Red Sox beat Yankees 7-6 in 11
S04201910 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
S04201904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St. Louis
S04201902 Marie & Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium
S04201899 Minnesota passes 1st primary election law in US
S04201888 246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India
S04201861 Robert E. Lee resigns from the Union army
S04201861 1st Sanitary Fair stamps (forerunners of Christmas seals) issued
S04201841 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue") published
S04201836 Territory of Wisconsin created
S04201775 British begin siege of Boston
S04201657 Asser Levy & Jacob Barsimson become 1st Jews granted full American
S04201657Ccitizenship (New Amsterdam)
S04211989 Exxon spills 200,000 gal of chemical-plant waste water & oil, La.
S04211985 Ingrid Kristiansen sets world women's marathon record, 2 h 21 m 6 s
S04211984UMontr‚al Expo David Palmer no-hits St Louis Cards 4-0 in 5-inning game
S04211984 Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph (130 mph)
S04211983 œ1 coin introduced in United Kingdom
S04211980 Rosie Ruiz is 1st woman finisher in Boston Marathon
S04211980CShe is later disqualified for not running the entire course
S04211977 Broadway play "Annie" opens; 1st of 2,377 performances
S04211977 Billy Martin pulls Yankee line-up out of a hat, beats Blue Jays 8-6
S04211976 Swine flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing
S04211975 Last South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu, resigns
S04211972 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched
S04211967 Military coup in Greece
S04211967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin's daughter) defects in NYC
S04211965 New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd & final season
S04211962 Century 21 Exposition (world's fair) opens in Seattle
S04211961 The Rolling Stones meet the Beatles
S04211960 Brasilia becomes the capital of Brazil
S04211959 1211-kg great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod
S04211940 1st $64 Question, "Take It or Leave It," on CBS radio
S04211914 US marines occupy Vera Cruz, M‚xico, stay 6 months
S04211908 Frederick A. Cook claims to reach North Pole (he didn't)
S04211899 World's 1st juvenile court authorized, Chicago
S04211898 Bill Duggleby becomes only MLer to hit a grand slam his 1st at-bat
S04211895 1st moving picture on film publicly shown on a screen in US, NYC
S04211894 George Bernard Shaw's "Arms & the Man" opens
S04211892 1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park
S04211865 Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington
S04211863 Declaration of Bah 'u'll h (Bah '¡ Feast of Ridv n); Jal l 13, 20
S04211862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colo.
S04211857 A. Douglas patents the bustle
S04211856 1st locomotive crosses Mississippi River's 1st bridge, Illinois-Iowa
S04211847 1st US health insurance company organized, Boston
S04211836 Battle of San Jacinto; Texas wins independence from M‚xico
S04211789 John Adams sworn in as 1st US VP (9 days before Washington)
S04211766 Sunspot 3 times the size of earth observed to pass sun's center
S04211649 Maryland Toleration Act grants religious freedom to all Christians
S04211600 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Shogun"
S04211526 Babar defeats Ibrahim in battle of Panipat, establishes Mogul dynasty
S0421-753 Traditional date of the foundation of Rome
S04221979 Mick Jaggar & Keith Richards give a benefit concert in Canada
S04221976 Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor
S04221970 1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources
S04221970 NY Met Tom Seaver strikes out last 10 Padres, for a total of 19
S04221969 Robin Knox-Johnston ends 1st solo world sail without touching land
S04221964 World's Fair (Flushing Meadow-Corona Park, NY) starts
S04221961 French military opposed to self-determination revolt in Algeria
S04221954 Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings begin
S04221954 National Basketball Association adopts the 24-sec clock
S04221952 1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada
S04221930 In London, US, Britain & Japan agree to reduce naval forces
S04221915 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I
S04221915 Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time
S04221903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) play 1st game; Senators win 3-1 before 11,950
S04221898 1st Spanish-American War action:  "USS Nashville" takes enemy ship
S04221889 Oklahoma land rush officially starts; some were sooner
S04221876 Boston beats Philadelphia in 1st game in National League history
S04221867 30,000 tailors strike in Paris
S04221864 US Congress authorizes "In God We Trust" on coinage
S04221861 Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia forces
S04221850 California Legislature protects rights of Indians
S04221794 Pennsylvania abolishes the death penalty except for 1st degree murder
S04221793 Pres. Washington attends Ricketts' Circus, Philadelphia
S04221769 Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress
S04221669 John Foster makes 1st American engraving, a woodcut
S04221659 Richard Cromwell dissolves Parliament after peaceful army coup d'etat
S04221529 Spain & Portugal divide eastern hemisphere in Treaty of Saragossa
S04221509 Henry VIII ascends the throne of England
S04221500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral sights Brazil, claims it for Portugal
S04231989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays last NBA game (38,389 career points)
S04231988 Kanellos Kanellopoulos pedals an airplane 123 km from Crete to Thera
S04231987 28 construction workers killed in apt. bldg. collapse, Bridgeport, CT
S04231985 New Coke debuts
S04231971 Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station
S04231969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy
S04231968 United Methodist Church founded
S04231967 Soyuz 1 launched; Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty next day
S04231965 1st Soviet communications satellite, Molniya 1-1, is launched
S04231964 Houston Colt 45 Ken Johnson no-hits Cincinnati Reds 1-0
S04231962 Ranger 4, 1st US probe to reach the moon, is launched (Cape Canaveral)
S04231954 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits the 1st of his 755 homers, v. St. Louis
S04231920 Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara
S04231915 ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)
S04231904 American Academy of Arts & Letters founded
S04231899 1st horse-drawn church in US holds 1st services, Rhode Island
S04231897 1st US state hospital for crippled children authorized, Minnesota
S04231896 Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (NYC)
S04231872 Charlotte Ray becomes 1st black female lawyer in US
S04231867 William Lincoln patents the Zo‰trope animated movie projector
S04231838 1st regular transatlantic steamboat service - Sirius arrives in NYC
S04231795 Warren Hastings acquitted by Parliament of maladministration in India
S04231662 Royal charter granted Connecticut (5/3 NS)
S04231374 Geoffrey Chaucer granted a pitcher of wine daily by King Edward III
S04231347 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of the Garter)
S04241989 Joe Fernandez, CIA's ex-station chief in Costa Rica, indicted for
S04241989Clying about illegal Iran-contra arms deal
S04241974 Tampa awarded an NFL franchise
S04241971 500,000 demonstrate against the Vietnam War, Washington, DC
S04241971 Highest recorded tsunami, 85 m, Ryukyu Is. (traveled at 790 kph)
S04241970 China 1 launched into earth orbit (1st Chinese satellite)
S04241962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time:  Calif. to Mass.
S04241962 Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18-strikeout game
S04241961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs fiasco
S04241954 1st American, civilian pilot P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina
S04241953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
S04241946 Glider commercial freight service inaugurated, Phila. to Puerto Rico
S04241944 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the hump"
S04241942 Brendan Behan sentenced to 14 years in jail for shooting at police
S04241939 US Signal Intelligence Service formed, authorized to intercept radio &
S04241939Ctelephone communications
S04241934 Laurens Hammond patents a pipeless organ
S04241928 Herbert Dorsey patents the fathometer (for measuring water depth)
S04241917 WW I liberty bonds authorized by Congress
S04241916 Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
S04241916 6 "Endurance" survivors set out in 7 m boat from Elephant Island to
S04241916CSouth Georgia in the antarctic (1400 km in 16 days)
S04241915 Massacre of Armenians by Turks (Armenian Martyrs Day)
S04241913 World's tallest building, 241-m Woolworth Building, dedicated in NYC
S04241905 Senators execute a triple play, beat Yankees 4-3
S04241901 Chicago beats Cleveland 8-2 in 1st game in American League history
S04241898 Spain declares war on US, rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
S04241897 1st reporter, William Price, assigned to White House
S04241895 Joshua Slocum begins 1st solo around-the-world voyage, in an 11-m boat
S04241891 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Final Problem"
S04241884 1st US negro medical society organized, Washington, DC
S04241877 Last federal occupying troops withdraw from the south (New Orleans)
S04241865 Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation in SF
S04241846 1st engagement in Mexican War - US reconnoitering party captured
S04241833 Soda fountain patented, by Jacob Ebert, Cadiz, Ohio
S04241800 Library of Congress founded with $5,000 allocation
S04241792 "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
S04251989 USSR begins military pullout from Eastern Europe - tanks leave Hungary
S04251984 Towser, Scottish cat, makes 23,029th recorded mouse kill
S04251982 In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawal
S04251980 Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran
S04251974 Dictator Ant¢nio Salazar overthrown in Portugal
S04251974 NFL adds overtime, moves goal posts to end lines
S04251972 Glider pilot Hans Grosse flies a record 1,461 km
S04251971 US canal rights in Nicaragua & rights to Corn Islands expire
S04251961 Robert Noyce granted a patent for the integrated circuit
S04251961 Mercury-Atlas 3 rocket lifts off with an electronic mannequin
S04251960 "USS Triton" completes 1st underwater circumnavigation of the globe
S04251959 St. Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic, Great Lakes opens to shipping
S04251957 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated
S04251954 Bell labs announces 1st solar battery, NYC
S04251953 Sen. Wayne Morse (Ore.) ends 22 h 26 m filibuster against oil bill
S04251950 Chuck Cooper, 1st black to play in the NBA, signed by Boston Celtics
S04251945 US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on the Elbe River
S04251945 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
S04251934 1st round-the-world phone call, NY-SF-Java-Amsterdam-London-NY
S04251933 NY pitcher Russ Van Atta gets 4 hits & a shutout in his game
S04251928 Buddy, 1st seeing eye dog in US, presented to Morris Frank
S04251917 US loans $200 million to Britain for war expenses, at 3.5% interest
S04251915 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli
S04251904 NY Yankee Jack Chesbro gets 1st of 41 wins this year
S04251901 New York becomes 1st state to require auto license plates ($1 fee)
S04251901 Cleveland's Erve Beck hits 1st home run in American League history
S04251898 US declares war on Spain
S04251898 Wm. Porter, embezzler, enters Ohio prison, begins writing as O. Henry
S04251891 Pres. Benjamin Harrison visits San Francisco
S04251862 US navy Flag Officer David Farragut occupies New Orleans
S04251859 Ground broken for the Suez Canal
S04251848 Unsuccessful revolt by Poles at Cracow against Austrians
S04251848 Last date in log of the ill-fated Franklin expedition, northern Canada
S04251848 Graham discovers 9th asteroid, Metis
S04251846 1st shots fired in Mexican-American War
S04251831 New York & Harlem Railway streetcar company incorporated
S04251826 1st internal-combustion engine vehicle patented, Samuel Brown, London
S04251684 Patent granted for the thimble
S04251661 1st act for licensing sellers of wine in England passes
S04251507 Martin Waldeseemueller names America in honor of Amergo Vespucci
S04261989 Indian supertanker spills 1.3 M gal of oil off Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
S04261989 14 share record $115 million lottery prize, Pennsylvania
S04261982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on So. Georgia, near Falkland Islands
S04261978 Scaffolding collapse at St. Mary's, WV nuclear power plant kills 51
S04261976 Largest fish caught on a rod, 1540-kg white pointer shark, Clive Green
S04261974 Greatest art theft - 19 paintings, $19 million - Blessington, Ireland
S04261971 San Francisco lightship replaced by automatic buoy
S04261964 Tanganyika & Zanzibar unite to form Tanzania (National Day)
S04261962 US & UK launch Ariel; 1st international payload
S04261961 Roger Maris's 1st of 61 homers this year
S04261958 "Royal Blue" NY-Washington B & O passenger train makes its final run
S04261954 Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
S04261944 1st B-29 is attacked by Japanese fighters; one fighter shot down
S04261942 Coal dust explosion kills 1572 in Chinese mine - worst mining disaster
S04261941 Ernest Tubb records "Walking the Floor Over You" for 1st time, Dallas
S04261937 German-made planes destroy Basque town of Guernica, Spain
S04261913 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF
S04261906 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii
S04261866 Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus, Mississippi place
S04261866Cflowers on both Confederate & Union graves
S04261865 Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee, Durham, NC
S04261825 War between Russian & Ottoman empire proclaimed
S04261777 16-year-old Sybil Ludington rides from NY to Connecticut rallying her
S04261777Cfather's militia to fight the British in Danbury
S04261607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va.
S04261564 William Shakespeare baptized
S04261478 Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo & kill Giuliano de'Medici
S04271989 150,000 Chinese students defy government, demonstrate for democracy
S04271989 3 cosmonauts return from space station Mir, leaving it unoccupied
S04271986 Captain Midnight (John MacDougall) interrupts HBO satellite downcast
S04271983 San Antonio Spur Johnny Moore gets record 20 assists v. Denver
S04271972 Alene Duerk, navy Nurse Corps director, named 1st US woman admiral
S04271968 Jimmy Ellis beats Jerry Quarry for vacant heavyweight boxing title
S04271965 RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diapers (2% of US solid waste)
S04271961 Sierra Leone gains independence from Britain
S04271961 NASA launches Explorer 11 into earth orbit to study ç rays
S04271960 1st atomic-powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)
S04271960 Republic of Togo gains independence from France (National Day)
S04271957 Smyslov beats Botvinnik 12«-9« for world chess championship
S04271956 Heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano retires undefeated
S04271954 Dick Browning somersaults over a 2.21-m bar, Santa Barbara, Calif.
S04271948 Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River
S04271946 1st radar installation aboard a commercial ship
S04271945 Provisional government restores the Republic of Austria (2nd Republic)
S04271943 Female jockey Judy Johnson rides in steeplechase at Pimlico
S04271938 1st yellow baseball used, Columbia v. Fordham, NYC
S04271937 US Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment
S04271937 Stravinsky's ballet "The Card Party" premiers, NYC
S04271932 Apollo asteroid discovered, with a perigee of 3 million km
S04271931 38ø C (100ø F), Pahala, Hawaii (state record)
S04271903 1st time Highlanders (Yankees) shut out; Philadelphia A's win 6-0
S04271897 Grant's tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated
S04271880 Electrical, bone-conduction hearing aid patented by Miller Hutchinson
S04271865 1450 paroled Union POWs killed when Miss. steamer Sultana blows up
S04271861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US
S04271838 Fire destroys half of Charleston
S04271816 1st US protective tariff enacted
S04271813 Americans under Gen. Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed
S04271805 US marines attack shores of Tripoli
S04271720 Handel's opera "Radamisto" premiers, London
S04271565 1st Spanish settlement in the Philippines, Cebu City, is founded
S04271509 Pope Julius II excommunicates the Venetian Republic
S04271296 English under Edward I subdue Scotland at battle of Dunbar
S04274977 B.C. Johannes Kepler's date for creation of the universe
S04281986 World's worst nuclear power plant disaster, Chernobyl, USSR
S04281973 Last elevated railway in NYC makes its final run
S04281969 King Crimson debuts with Greg Lake & Ian McDonald, London
S04281967 Muhammad Ali stripped of heavyweight title by boxing authorities for
S04281967Crefusing induction into the army on religious grounds
S04281967 Expo 67 opens in Montr‚al
S04281966 Longest lawsuit settled - Poona, India - filed in 1205 CE
S04281966 Boston Celtics win their 8th consecutive NBA championship
S04281965 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966
S04281965 British soccer star Sir Stanley Matthews, 50, plays in his last game
S04281962 Red Adair extinguishes Algerian gas fire after after 5 months
S04281961 Warren Spahn pitches his 2nd no hitter at 40, beats SF Giants 1-0
S04281952 Japan signs treaty with Nationalist China - formal end of WW II
S04281947 Thor Heyerdahl & Kon-Tiki sail from Per£ to Polynesia
S04281942 "World War II" titled so, as a result of Gallup poll
S04281938 King Zog of Albania marries Countess Geraldine of Hungary
S04281937 1st commercial flight across the Pacific, Pan Am
S04281932 Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced
S04281922 WOI (Ames, Iowa), country's 1st licensed educational radio station
S04281921 Capablanca beats Lasker 9-5 for world chess championship
S04281919 1st jump with Army Air Corps-type (rip-cord) parachute
S04281914 W.H. Carrier patents an air conditioner
S04281910 1st night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England)
S04281909 Colorado passes 1st state law against contributing to the
S04281909Cdelinquency of a minor
S04281866 1st US steam whaling ship, the Pioneer, makes 1st voyage
S04281862 Adm. David Farragut hoists American flag over New Orleans Mint
S04281855 1st US veterinary college incorporated, Boston
S04281819 Keats writes "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
S04281818 Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes & Lake Champlain
S04281798 Charles B. Brown, 1st US pro author, publishes his 1st book, "Alcuin"
S04281789 Mutiny on "HMS Bounty" - Capt. Bligh & 18 others cast adrift
S04281788 Maryland becomes 7th state to ratify US constitution
S04281738 Pope Clement XII condemns Freemasonry
S04281635 Virginia Gov. John Harvey, accused of treason, is removed from office
S04291995 Annular eclipse visible over South Pacific & South America
S04291988 Gorbachev meets with Orthodox church leaders, grants autonomy
S04291988 Orioles beat White Sox 9-0 for 1st 1988 win after 21 loses
S04291987 Carl Channell pleads guilty to defrauding the government while
S04291987Csoliciting donations to arm Nicaraguan contras
S04291986 Roger Clemens (Boston) strikes out 20 Seattle Mariners, walks none
S04291985 17th space shuttle mission - Challenger 7 - is launched
S04291985 $10.75 express mail eagle & moon US postage stamp issued
S04291983 Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st black mayor
S04291981 Philadelphia's Steve Carlton gets his 3,000th career strikeout
S04291971 Bill Graham announces closing of the Fillmore & Fillmore East
S04291965 Explorer 27 (BE-C) launched into earth orbit (940/1318 km)
S04291965 Earthquake hits Seattle; 5 die
S04291961 "Wide World of Sports" with Jim McKay premiers on ABC
S04291957 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir, Va.
S04291949 Civil Aeronautics Board licenses 1st cargo airlines
S04291949 Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "To Mr. Liu Ya-tse"
S04291946 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals
S04291945 US liberates Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany
S04291945 Italian partisans turn over Ezra Pound, accused of treason, to US army
S04291933 Wes Farrell, Wash. catcher, makes 2 put-outs at home on same play
S04291925 1st woman elected to National Academy of Science, Dr. Florence Sabin
S04291918 US ace of aces, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, gets 1st WW I victory
S04291913 Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper
S04291912 42ø C (108ø F), Tuguegarao, Philippines (Oceania record)
S04291894 Commonweal of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Wash., DC 500 strong to
S04291894Cprotest unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol
S04291892 Philadelphia Charlie Reilly becomes 1st pinch hitter in baseball
S04291879 Cleveland installs 1st electric arc street lights
S04291875 Henry James publishes "Transatlantic Sketches"
S04291873 Eli Janney, Va., patents railroad coupler
S04291864 Theta Xi, 1st US professional fraternity (engineering), founded
S04291862 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Miss.
S04291861 Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union
S04291854 Lincoln Univ., Penn., incorporated - 1st black college in US
S04291852 1st edition of Peter Roget's "Thesaurus"
S04291851 1st electric locomotive in US makes trial run, B & O Railroad
S04291813 1st US rubber patent, to Jacob Hummel, Philadelphia, for waterproofing
S04291661 Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan
S04291553 Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England
S04301988 NY Knights' 1st arena football game; they beat LA Cobras 60-52
S04301987 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America formed by merger of 3 churches
S04301987 NY Islander Mike Bossy plays his final NHL game
S04301975 Gen. Duong Van Minh surrenders last South Vietnamese forces
S04301973 Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al.
S04301973 Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway," including "My Love"
S04301970 US troops invade Cambodia
S04301968 Police end sit-in at Columbia University - 150 injuries
S04301955 Discovery of element 101, mendelevium, announced
S04301948 Organization of American States charter signed at Bogot , Colombia
S04301947 Boulder dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover
S04301944 NY Giant Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game
S04301942 Peto, 1st submarine built on Great Lakes, launched, Manitowoc, Wisc.
S04301940 Belle Martell, Van Nuys, Calif., becomes 1st female boxing referee
S04301939 NBC 1st demonstrates TV at opening day of NY World's Fair, with FDR
S04301939 Lou Gehrig plays in his 2,130th consecutive game (record), retires
S04301926 Transatlantic commercial radio facsimile service inaugurated
S04301922 Charlie Robertson of Chicago pitches a perfect game vs. Detroit
S04301921 Pope Benedict XV encyclical "On Dante"
S04301903 Highlanders (Yankees) play 1st home opener; Chesbro beats Senators 6-2
S04301889 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration
S04301889 George Washington Bridge linking NYC & NJ opens
S04301879 Massachusetts passes 1st US factory inspection law
S04301869 Hawaiian YMCA organized
S04301864 Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas; Gen. W.R. Scurry is killed
S04301864 New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee
S04301859 Paul Morphy returns from a 10-month chess tour of Europe, retires
S04301857 San Jose State University founded
S04301837 1st US state board of education established by Massachusetts
S04301820 Antislavery magazine "The Emancipator" begins publishing, Tenn.
S04301812 (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state; west added later
S04301810 1st official horse race in Australia - Parramatta, NSW
S04301808 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
S04301803 US doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase ($15 million)
S04301802 1st federal land subsidy for internal improvements granted to Ohio
S04301798 US Department of the Navy established (formerly in War Department)
S04301789 George Washington becomes 1st US president under the constitution
S04301778 Colonials place chain across Hudson River to prevent British entry
S0430 311 Roman Emperor Galerius issues edict of toleration for Christianity
S0431