B01011735: Paul Revere
B01011919: J. D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'.
B01031840: Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii.
B01031892: J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings.
B01041809: Louis Braille, developed reading system for the blind.
B01041643: Sir Issac Newton
B01041838: Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person)
B01051779: Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero
B01051855: King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor
B0105    : Sherlock Holmes
B01061811: Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator
B01061878: Carl Sandburg
B01061882: Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957)
B01071800: Millard Fillmore, 13th President (1850-1853)
B01081786: Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US 1st effective central bank.
B01081862: Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co.
B01081868: Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
B01081935: Elvis Presley, singer.
B01081946: Tod Brannan
B01091870: Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge.
B01091901: Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip.
B01091913: Richard M. Nixon, 37th President (1968-1974)
B01101738: Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys)
B01101877: Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the elecrostatic precipitator, used for polution control and air ionizers.
B01111755: Alexander Hamilton, the 1st Secretary of the US Treasury
B01111807: Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University.
B01121588: John Winthrop, 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
B01121737: John Hancock
B01131832: Horatio Alger, Jr.
B01141741: Benedict Arnold, fink
B0114    : Albert Schweitzer, doctor, humanitarian, organist.
B01141892: Hal Roach, early film director and producer.
B01151908: Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb.
B01151929: Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer
B01171706: Benjamin Franklin
B01171771: Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel.
B01171880: Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops
B01171942: Muhammed Ali, who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.
B01181779: Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule, pocket chessboard
B01181782: Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician.
B01181813: Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented 1st commercially useable barbed wire
B01181854: Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell.
B01181892: Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.
B01191736: James Watt, made the steam engine workable.
B01191807: Robert E. Lee
B01191809: Edgar Allen Poe
B01191839: Paul Cezanne, painter
B01201896: Nathan Birnbaum (better known as George Burns)
B01211743: John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton.
B01211813: John C Fremont, mapmaker & explorer of Western US
B01211815: Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia.
B01231756: Wolfgang A. Mozart, musical prodigy
B01251759: Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.
B01241888: Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built 1st rocket-powered aircraft.
B01251874: Somerset Maugham, poet
B01251882: Virginia Woolf, author.
B01261880: Douglas MacArthur, he did return!
B01271832: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll)
B01271850: Samuel Gompers, 1st president of the American Federation of Labor
B01281855: William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine.
B01291843: William McKinley, 25th President (1897-1901)
B01291850: Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite
B01291860: Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard)
B01291880: Claude William Dukenfield (better known as W.C. Fields)
B01291901: Allen B DuMont, perfected 1st commercially practical cathode ray tube
B01301882: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President (1933-1945)
B01311830: James G. Blaine, the 'Plumed Knight'.
B01311872: Zane Gray, American West novelist
B01311919: Jackie Robinson, 1st black major league baseball player
S01011804: Haiti gains it's independence
S01011863: Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln.
S01011898: Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of San Francisco Bay.
S01011902: 1st Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California.
S01011912: 1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63 miles)
S01011934: Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison.
S01011956: Sudan gains it's independence
S01011958: European Economic Community (EEC) starts operation.
S01011984: AT & T broken up into 8 companies.
S0101    : The start of a new year... Enjoy the bowl games.
S0101    : Independence Day, celebrated in Haiti and Sudan
S01021921: DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens.
S01021957: the San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.
S01031852: first Chinese arrive in Hawaii.
S01031888: 1st drinking straw is patented.
S01031912: Southern Pacific RR offers to bring the Liberty Bell to the Exposition without charge.
S01031959: Alaska becomes the 49th state.
S01031977: Apple Computer incorporated.
S01041982: Golden Gate Bridge closed for the 3rd time by fierce storm.
S0104    : National Trivia Day.
S01051850: the California Exchange opens.
S01051911: San Francisco has it's 1st air meet.
S01051933: Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side.
S01061914: Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
S0106    : Arizona becomes the 47th state.
S0106    : Epiphany (Twelfth Night in England)
S01071610: Galileo discovers the 4 major moons of Jupiter.
S01071714: the typewriter is patented (it was built years later)
S01071785: 1st balloon flight across the English Channel.
S01071822: first printing in Hawaii.
S01071929: "Tarzan", one of the first adventure comic strips appears.
S01071963: First Class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents.
S01071968: First Class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents.
S01081815: Battle of New Orleans, made a hero out of Andrew Jackson.
S01081880: the passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of Mexico
S01081932: Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter.
S01091793: 1st balloon flight in North America.
S01091799: 1st income tax imposed, in England.
S01091839: the daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science
S01091847: 1st San Francisco paper, 'California Star', published.
S01091848: 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established.
S01091915: Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated.
S01091982: 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855.
S01101776: "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published.
S01101840: the Penny Post mail system is started.
S01101863: 1st underground railway opens in London.
S01101945: Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close.
S01111813: first pineapples planted in Hawaii.
S01111892: Hawaii Historical Society founded.
S01111935: Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California (non-stop, of course).
S01131854: Anthony Foss obtains patent for the Accordion.
S01131920: NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly.
S01131971: Apollo 14 launched (what was that about rockets can't fly??)
S01141784: the Revolutionary War formally ends.
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.
S01151861: Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis, forming base for his elevator company.
S01151927: Dunbarton Bridge, 1st bridge in Bay Area, opens.
S01151939: Municipal Railway and Market Street Railroad begin service to the Transbay Transit (East Bay) Terminal.
S01151948: The Pentagon Building in Washington is completed.
S01161865: San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle started (now San Francisco Chronicle)
S01161887: Cliff House badly damaged when a cargo of powder on the schooner "Parallel" explodes nearby.
S0116    : National Nothing Day
S01171861: Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest!!).
S01171871: 1st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie.
S01171893: the Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic.
S01171943: It was Tin Can Drive Day.
S01171957: 9-county commission recommends creation of BART.
S01181644: 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston.
S01181778: Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.
S01181869: The elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco.
S01181911: 1st shipboard landing of a plane (from Tanforan Park to the USS Pennsylvania).
S01191903: 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England.
S01201265: 1st English Parliament called into session by the Earl of Leicester
S01201872: California Stock Exchange Board organized.
S0120    : Reindeer Day
S01211813: the pineapple is introduced to Hawaii.
S01211954: The submarine Nautilus launched.
S01211979: Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer).
S01221850: The Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif.
S01221939: Aquatic Park dedicated.
S01221949: Chinatown telephone exchange closed.
S0123    : National Handwriting Day
S01241848: James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma.
S01241899: the rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan.
S01241935: 1st beer in cans is sold.
S01241982: San Francisco 49'ers win their 1st Super Bowl, 26-21.
S01241986: Voyager II flies past Uranus.
S01251915: Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
S01251949: 1st Emmy Awards are given out.
S01251959: 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301).
S0125    : the start of the Chinese New Year.
S01261788: 1st settlement established by the English in Australia.
S01261950: India becomes a republic.
S0126    : Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia.
S01271894: Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park.
S01271926: 1st public demonstration of television.
S01271948: 1st Tape Recorder is sold.
S01271965: Groundbreaking for the 'Dragon Gateway' at Grant Avenue.
S01271971: Montgomery St. Station, last link in BART, 'holed thru'.
S01281807: London's Pall Mall is the 1st street lit by gaslight.
S01281878: George W. Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator.
S01281938: 1st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont).
S01291861: Kansas becomes a state.
S01291904: 1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team.
S01301847: Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.
S01301862: US Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched.
S01301917: 1st jazz record in United States is cut.
S01311851: San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California, founded.
S01311871: Birds fly over the western part of San Francisco in such large numbers that they actually darken the sky.
S01311911: Congress resolves San Francisco as the site of the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal.
S01311958: 1st U.S. satellite launched, Explorer I.
S01311961: Ham the chimp is 1st animal sent into space by the US.