S0101     The start of a new year... Enjoy the bowl games.
S0101     Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, Calif
B01011449 Lorenzo de'Medici (The Magnificent) of Florence
B01011481 Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer
B01011735 Paul Revere
B01011745 General Anthony Wayne, military leader ("Mad Anthony")
B01011752 Elizabeth Griscom (Betsy) Ross, flag maker
S01011801 United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland established
S01011801 Giuseppe Piazzi discoved 1st asteroid, later named Ceres
S01011804 Haiti gains its independence
B01011854 Sir James Frazer, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough)
S01011863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln.
B01011864 Alfred Stieglitz, father of modern photography
B01011873 Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (The Flies, The Bosses)
B01011879 E.M. Forster, English novelist (Howard's End, A Passage to India)
S01011892 Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY Ellis Island became reception center for new immigrants
B01011895 J Edgar Hoover, Mr FBI
S01011901 Commonwealth of Australia established
S01011902 first Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California.
B01011909 John Glenn, astronaut
S01011912 first running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63 miles)
B01011919 J. D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'.
S01011934 Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison.
S01011956 Sudan gains its independence
S01011958 European Economic Community (EEC) starts operation.
S01011971 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV
S01011984 AT & T broken up into 8 companies.
S01011986 Spain & Portugal become 11th & 12th members of Common Market
S0102     Betsy Ross Day
S0102     Earth at perihelion
S0102     Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes
S01021776 first American revolutionary flag displayed.
S01021788 Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
S01021893 World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
B01021920 Isaac Asimov, scientist-writer, The Laws of Robotics
S01021921 DeYoung Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park opens.
S01021936 first electron tube described, St Louis, Missouri
S01021959 USSR launches Mechta, 1st lunar probe & artificial in solar orbit
S01021968 Dr Christian Barnard performs 1st successful heart transplant
S01021972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
S0103     Congress assembles, according to 20th amendment to constitution
S0103     Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes
B0103 106 Cicero, Roman statesman
S01031521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
B01031543 Juan Cabrillo, discoverer of California
S01031777 Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, NJ
B01031840 Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii.
S01031852 First Chinese arrive in Hawaii.
S01031870 Brooklyn Bridge begun, completed on May 24, 1883
S01031888 1st drinking straw is patented.
B01031892 J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings.
B01031905 Ray Milland, actor (Dial M for Murder, The Lost Weekend)
B01031909 Victor Borge, pianist, comedian, Denmark
S01031957 first electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pennsylvania
S01031959 Alaska becomes the 49th state.
S01031977 Apple Computer incorporated.
S0104     National Trivia Day.  Take your TODAY program out to lunch!
S0104     Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes
B01041581 Bishop James Ussher, calculated that earth began Nov 23, 4004 BC
B01041643 Sir Issac Newton
S01041754 Columbia University openes
S01041784 US treaty with Great Britain is ratified
B01041785 Jacob Grimm, German librarian, philologist, fairy tale collector
S01041790 President Washington delivers first "State of the Union" speech.
B01041809 Louis Braille, developed reading system for the blind.
B01041813 Sir Issac Pitman, shorthand inventor
B01041838 Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person)
S01041896 Utah becomes 45th state
S01041948 Burma gains independence from Britain (National Day)
S01041959 Soviet Luna 1 first craft to leave Earth's gravity
S01041982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for the 3rd time by fierce storm.
S0105     Twelfth Night, end of Christmas season
B01051592 Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), builder of Taj Mah
B01051779 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero
S01051809 Treaty of Dardanelles was concluded between Britain & France
B01051846 Rudolf Eucken, German Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908)
B01051855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor
B01051876 Konrad Adenauer, German Chancellor
B01051895 Jeannette Piccard, balloonist, Episcopal priest
S01051911 San Francisco has its first official airplane race.
S01051933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side.
S01051969 USSR Venera 5 launched.  1st successful planet landing - Venus
S01051972 NASA announces development of Space Shuttle
S01051975 Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
S0106     Arizona becomes the 47th state.
S0106     Feast of Epiphany  (Twelfth Night of Christmas in England)
B01061412 Joan of Arc, martyr
S01061663 Great earthquake in New England
B01061811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator
B01061823 Gustave Dor‚, illustrator (Inferno, Rime of Ancient Mariner)
S01061838 first public demonstration of telegraph, by Samuel F. B. Morse
B01061854 Sherlock Holmes, according to Arthur Conan Doyle
B01061871 Aleksandr Scriabin, Russian composer
B01061878 Carl Sandburg, poet, biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes)
B01061880 Tom Mix, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin)
B01061882 Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957)
B01061883 Khalil Gibran, Lebanese mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings)
S01061914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
S01061941 FDR names 4 freedoms (speech, religion; from want, from fear)
S01061942 first around world flight by Pan Am "Pacific Clipper"
S01071558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French
S01071610 Galileo discovers 1st 3 moons of Jupiter, Io, Europa & Ganymede
S01071714 The typewriter is patented (it was built years later)
S01071785 1st balloon flight across the English Channel.
B01071800 Millard Fillmore, 13th President (1850-1853)
S01071822 Liberia colonized by Americans
B01071911 Butterfly McQueen, actress (Gone with the Wind)
S01071929 "Tarzan", one of the first adventure comic strips appears.
B01071935 Valeri N. Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 6, 36, Apollo-Soyuz)
B01071942 Vasili Alexeyev, world champion weight-lifter
S01071963 First Class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents.
S01071968 First Class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents.
B01081587 Johannes Fabricius, Dutch astronomer who discovered sunspots
S01081815 Battle of New Orleans, made a hero out of Andrew Jackson (the War of 1812 had ended on 12/24/1814, but nobody knew that).
B01081823 Alfred Russel Wallace, codiscoverer of evolution
B01081862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co.
B01081867 Emily Balch, US sociologist, feminist, pacifist (Nobel 1946)
B01081868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right: gravity bends light.
S01081880 The passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of Mexico
B01081891 Walther Bothe, German subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954)
B01081912 Jos‚ Ferrer, actor, director (Cyrano de Bergerac)
S01081932 Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter.
B01081935 Elvis Presley, singer.
S01081935 Spectrophotometer patented, by AC Hardy
S01081958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
S01081968 US Surveyor 7 lands near crater Tycho on moon
S01081973 USSR launches Luna 21 for moon landing
B01091728 Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy)
S01091788 Conneticut becomes 5th state
S01091793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America
S01091799 1st income tax imposed, in England.
S01091839 The daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science
S01091839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax Alpha Centauri
S01091843 Caroline Herschel, "1st lady of astronomy," dies at 98 in Germany
S01091847 first San Francisco paper, 'California Star', published.
B01091870 Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer, builder of Golden Gate Bridge
B01091901 Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip.
B01091904 George Balanchine, dancer-choreographer
B01091908 Simone de Beauvoir, French author (The Mandarins, The Second Sex)
B01091913 Richard M. Nixon, 37th President (1968-1974) Beloved by Checkers.
B01091914 Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque entertainer, actress
B01091941 Joan Baez, folk singer, human rights advocate in Staten Island
S01091978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
S01091982 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855.
B01101738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (led the Green Mtn Boys)
S01101776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published.
S01101840 The Penny Post mail system is started.
S01101863 1st underground railway opens in London.
B01101877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the electrostatic precipitator, used for pollution control and air ionizers.
B01101904 Ray Bolger, dancer, actor (Once in Love with Amy, Wizard of Oz)
B01101910 Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina
S01101945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close.
S01101946 UN General Assembly meets for first time
S01101946 US Army establishes first radar contact with moon.  It's there.
S01101949 first Jewish family show - The Goldberg's begin
S01101951 first jet passenger trip made
S01101969 USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
S01101978 Soyuz 27 is launched
S01111642 Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
B01111755 Alexander Hamilton, the 1st Secretary of the US Treasury
S01111787 Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel
B01111807 Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell Univ.
S01111813 First pineapples planted in Hawaii.
B01111885 Alice Paul, founder of National Woman's Party, ERA advocate
B01111903 Alan Paton, South African writer (Cry, the Beloved Country)
B01111906 Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, discoverer of LSD
S01111935 1st woman to fly solo across Pacific left Honolulu, AE Putnam
S01111935 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California, non-stop
S01111975 Soyuz 17 is launched
S0112     Volunteer Fireman Day
B01121588 John Winthrop, 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
B01121737 John Hancock
S01121777 Mission Santa Clara de Asis founded in California
S01121820 Royal Astronomical Society, founded in England
B01131832 Horatio Alger, Jr.
S01131854 Anthony Foss obtains patent for the Accordion.
B01121876 Jack London, writer (Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf)
S01121986 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 is launched
S01131610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter
S01131630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
B01131832 Horatio Alger, Jr., American clergyman, author of boys' books
S01131854 Anthony Foss obtains patent for accordion
S01131920 NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly.
S01131930 Mickey Mouse comic strip first appears
S01131971 Apollo 14 launched (what was that about rockets can't fly??)
S0113    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
B01141741 Benedict Arnold, fink
S01141784 Revolutionary War ends when Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris
B01141791 Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm)
B01141861 Mehmed VI, last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22)
B01141875 Albert Schweitzer, doctor, humanitarian, organist (Nobel 1952)
B01141892 Hal Roach, early film director and producer.
S01141914 Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars.
S01141936 L.M. "Mario" Giannini elected president of Bank of America.
S01141939 All commercial ferry service to the East Bay ends.
S01141969 Soyuz 4 is launched
S01151535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
S01151759 British Museum opens
S01151778 Nootka Sound discovered by Capt. Cook
B01151850 Sofya Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician
S01151861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
B01151906 Aristotle Onassis, industrialist
B01151908 Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb.
B01151918 Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian leader
B01151926 Chuck Berry, singer (Johnny B. Goode)
S01151927 Dunbarton Bridge, 1st bridge in Bay Area, opens.
B01151929 Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer (Nobel Peace Prize 1964)
S01151948 World's largest office building, The Pentagon, is completed.
S01151968 Soyuz 5 launched
S0116     National Hat Day
S0116     National Nothing Day
S0116    2Martin Luther King Day
B01161853 Andr‚ Michelin, French industrialist, tire manufacturer
S01161883 Pendleton Act creates basis of federal civil service system
S01161887 Cliff House badly damaged when a cargo of gunpowder on the schooner "Parallel" explodes nearby.
B01161909 Ethel Merman, everythings coming up roses
S01161920 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933
B01161934 Marilyn Horne in Pennsylvania
S01161969 Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
S01161973 USSR's Lunakhod begins radio-controlled exploration of moon
S01161979 Iranian revolution overthrows shah.
S01161991 US led air forces begin raids on Iraq in response to Iraq's August 1990 takeover of Kuwait.
S0117    2Martin Luther King Day
B01171706 Benjamin Franklin
B01171771 Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel.
S01171773 Capt James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66ű 33' S)
S01171852 British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
S01171861 Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest!!).
S01171871 1st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie.
B01171880 Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops
S01171893 Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic.
S01171899 US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
B01171942 Muhammed Ali, who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.
S01171943 It was Tin Can Drive Day.
S01171945 Liberation Day in Poland (end of Nazi occupation)
S01171957 Nine county commission recommends creation of BART.
S01171963 Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km
S01171976 Hermes rocket launched by ESA
S0118     National Clean Off Your Desk Day
S0118    2Martin Luther King Day
S01181644 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston.
S01181778 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.
B01181779 Peter Roget(of Thesaurus fame) invented slide rule, pocket chess
B01181782 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician.
B01181813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented 1st useable barbed wire
B01181854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell.
S01181869 The elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco.
B01181892 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.
B01181904 Cary Grant, actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest)
S01181911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (from Tanforan Park to the USS Pennsylvania).
B01181913 Danny Kaye, comedian, actor, UNICEF
S01181919 Versailles Peace Conference, ending World War I
S01181956 Tunisian Revolution Day (National Day)
B0119     Muhammad
S0119     Confederate Heroes' Day
S0119    2Martin Luther King Day
B01191736 James Watt, made the steam engine workable.
B01191749 Isaiah Thomas, American printer, editor, publisher, historian
B01191807 Robert E. Lee, Leader of the Army of the Confederacy
B01191809 Edgar Allen Poe, poet/writer (Annabelle Lee, The Raven)
B01191839 Paul Cezanne, painter
S01191903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England.
S01191921 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union
B01191946 Dolly Parton, country singer, bra buster in Tennessee
S0120     Reindeer Day
S0120    2Martin Luther King Day
S01201265 1st English Parliament, called by the Earl of Leicester
B01201775 Andr‚-Marie AmpŠre, founder of science of electromagnetism
S01201872 California Stock Exchange Board organized.
B01201873 Johannes V Jensen, Danish novelist, poet, essayist (Nobel 1944)
S01201887 Pearl Harbor obtained by US from Hawaii for use as a naval base
B01201896 Nathan Birnbaum (better known as George Burns)
B01201920 Federico Fellini, director (8«, Satyricon)
S01201929 1st talking motion picture taken outdoors "In Old Arizona"
S01201937 Inauguration day, every 4th year
S01201981 US embassy hostages freed in Tehran after 444 days.
S0121     National Hugging Day
S0121    2Martin Luther King Day
B01211743 John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton.
B01211813 John C Fremont, mapmaker & explorer of Western US
S01211813 The pineapple is introduced to Hawaii.
B01211815 Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia.
B01211824 Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson, Confederate general
B01211884 Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of American Civil Liberties Union
B01211887 Wolfgang K”hler, Gestalt psychologist (The Mentality of Apes)
B01211941 Placido Domingo, operatic tenor
S01211954 The Nautilus launched, first nuclear submarine.
S01211962 Snow falls in San Francisco, believe it or not.
S01211979 Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer).
B01221561 Francis Bacon, English statesman, essayist (Novum Organum)
B01221788 George Gordon, Lord Byron, English Romantic poet
B01221802 Richard Upjohn, American Gothic architect (Trinity Chapel, NY)
S01221850 The Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif.
B01221875 D.W. Griffith, movie producer (Birth of a Nation)
S01221939 Aquatic Park dedicated.
S01221968 Apollo 5 launched to moon, Unmanned lunar module tests made
S01221975 Lansat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, is launched
S0123     National Handwriting Day
S01231579 Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic
B01231832 douard Manet, French Impressionist painter
B01231862 David Hilbert, mathematician
B01231898 Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film maker (Battleship Potemkin)
B01231899 Humphrey Bogart, actor
B01231903 Randolph Scott, actor
B01231919 Sergei Eisenstein, early film director
B01231958 Princess Caroline of Monaco
S01231964 24th Amendment ratified, Barred poll tax in federal elections
B01241712 Frederick I (the Great), king of Prussia (1740-86)
S01241848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, Calif
B01241888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built 1st rocket-powered aircraft.
S01241899 The rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan.
S01241935 1st beer in cans is sold.
B01241949 John Belushi, commedian, actor (Sat Night Live, Blues Brothers)
S01241982 San Francisco 49'ers win their 1st Super Bowl, 26-21.
S01241985 15th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 is launched
S01241986 Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus finds new moons, rings
S0125     Chinese New Year.
B01251627 Robert Boyle, Irish physicist, chemist, author
B01251736 Joseph-Louis, comte de Lagrange, mathematician
B01251759 Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.
B01251874 Somerset Maugham, novelist, poet (Of Human Bondage, Cakes & Ale)
B01251882 Virginia Woolf, author.
S01251915 Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
S01251925 Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa
B01251933 Corazon Aquino, president of Philippines (1986-  )
S01251949 first popular elections in Israel.
S01251949 first Emmy Awards are presented.
S01251959 first transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301).
S01251964 Echo 2, US communications satellite launched
S0126     Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia.
S01261788 1st settlement established by the English in Australia.
S01261837 Michigan is admitted as the 26th of the United States
S01261841 Hong Kong was proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
S01261871 American income tax repealed.  Would that it had lasted!
B01261880 Douglas MacArthur, he did return!
S01261950 India becomes a republic ceasing to be a British dominion
S01261954 Ground breaking begins on Disneyland
B01271756 Wolfgang A Mozart, musical prodigy (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik)
B01271832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll)
B01271834 Dmitri Mendeleev, discoverer of periodic table (or 1919)
B01271850 Samuel Gompers, 1st president of American Federation of Laborers
S01271880 Thomas Edison granted patent for an electric incandescent lamp
B01271885 Jerome Kern, Broadway composer
S01271888 National Geographic Society founded in Washington, DC
S01271926 1st public demonstration of television.
S01271948 1st Tape Recorder is sold.
S01271967 Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee
S01271973 US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending the longest US war
B01281611 Johannes Hevelius, Danzig star cataloguer
S01281807 London's Pall Mall is the 1st street lit by gaslight.
S01281821 Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica
B01281853 Jos‚ MartĄ, Cuban poet, essayist, politician
B01281855 William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine.
B01281869 Ozaki Koyo, Japanese novelist, essayist, haiku poet (The Heart)
S01281878 George W. Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator.
B01281884 Auguste & Jean Felix Piccard, Swiss scientists, explorers
B01281887 Artur Rubinstein, pianist
S01281915 US Coast Guard established, Semper Paratus
B01281922 Robert Holley, American biochemist, worked with RNA (Nobel 1968).
S01281938 1st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont).
B01281948 Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer
S01281958 Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
S01281960 first photograph bounced off moon, Washington DC
S01281986 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, killing a brave crew and NASA.
B01291688 Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish religious leader
B01291737 Thomas Paine, political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason)
S01291788 Australia Day
B01291843 William McKinley, 25th President (1897-1901)
B01291850 Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite
B01291860 Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard)
S01291861 Kansas becomes 34th state
B01291862 Frederick Delius, English composer
B01291880 Claude William Dukenfield (better known as W.C. Fields)
B01291901 Allen B DuMont, perfected 1st practical cathode ray tube.
S01291904 1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team.
S01291920 Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist $40 week with KC Slide Co
S01291959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" is released
S0130     World Law Day
S0130     Holiday of Three Hierachs (Eastern Orthodox)
S01301847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.
S01301862 US Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched.
B01301882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President (1933-1945)
S01301917 1st jazz record in United States is cut.
B01301937 Boris Spassky of USSR, world chess champion (1969-72)
S01301969 US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
B01311797 Franz Schubert, composer (Unfinished Symphony)
B01311830 James G. Blaine, the 'Plumed Knight'.
S01311851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California, founded.
S01311862 Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius
S01311871 Birds fly over the western part of San Francisco in such large numbers that they actually darken the sky.
B01311872 Zane Gray, American West novelist
S01311911 Congress passes resolution naming San Francisco as the site of the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal.
B01311919 Jackie Robinson, 1st black major league baseball player
B01311923 Normal Mailer, novelist, NYC mayoral candidate (Naked & the Dead)
B01311938 Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, queen of Netherlands (1980-  )
S01311950 Pres Truman authorized production of H-Bomb
S01311958 James van Allen discovers radiation belt
S01311958 1st U.S. satellite launched, Explorer I.
S01311961 Ham the chimp is 1st animal sent into space by the US.
S01311966 Luna 9 launched for moon
S01311971 Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands.