B02011901: Clark Gable, actor opposite "Scarlet O'Hara" in "Gone With The Wind".
B02021754: Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat.
B02031811: Horace Greeley, told young men to go west
B02031821: Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman to get MD from a US Medical school.
B02031874: Gertrude Stein, beloved by Hemmingway.
B02041902: Charles A. Lindburgh, 'Lucky Lindy'
B02051840: John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire.
B02051878: Andre-Gustave Citroen, French automaker
B02061756: Aaron Burr
B02061885: George Herman Ruth ('Babe Ruth').
B02061911: Ronald Reagan, 40th President (1981-    )
B02071804: John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements.
B02071812: Charles Dickens
B02071817: Frederick Douglas, 1st black to hold high rank in US government
B02071883: Eubie Blake, composer
B02081820: William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general.
B02081828: Jules Verne, pioneered what later became science fiction.
B02081906: Chester F. Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing)
B02081925: Jack Lemmon
B02091773: William Henry Harrison, 9th President (March 4-April 4, 1841)
B02111847: Thomas Alva Edison, who lit up your life
B02121802: Abraham Lincoln, 16th President (1861-1865)
B02121809: Charles Darwin
B02121893: General of the Army Omar Bradley, 'The GI General'
B02131805: David Dudley Field, lawyer whose advocacy of law codification had international effects.
B02131885: Bess Truman, married to President Harry Truman
B02141894: Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny.  Oh, Rochester!
B02151564: Galileo Galilei
B02151797: Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker
B02151803: John Augustus Sutter
B02161884: Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film.
B02171844: A. Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business.
B02181745: Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented the electric battery.
B02181848: Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker
B02191473: Nicolaus Copernicus
B02201902: Ansel Adams, knows how to handle a camera.
B02221732: George Washington, Father figure for US, President (1789-1796)
B02221749: Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist & 1st biographer of Bach
B02231685: George Frideric Handel, Baroque composer
B02241885: Admiral Chester Nimitz, in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII.
B02241955: Steven Jobs, Apple co-founder.
B02251873: Enrico Caruso, singer
B02251888: John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State for President Eisenhower
B02261846: William "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
B02261852: John Harvey Kellogg, physician, inspired the flaked cereal industry.
B02261866: Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry
B02271902: John Steinbeck
B02271934: Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan
B02291860: Herman Hollerith, invented 1st electric tabulating machine.
S02011867: Bricklayers start working 8-hour days.
S02011920: the 1st armored car is introduced.
S02021848: Mexico sells US Texas, California, New Mexico & Arizona.
S02021848: 1st shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco.
S02021876: National Baseball League formed with 8 teams.
S02021880: SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia.
S02021962: 8 of the 9 planets aligned for the 1st time in 400 years.
S0202    : Groundhog Day
S02031918: Twin Peaks Tunnel, longest (11,920 feet) streetcar tunnel in the world, begins service.
S02041865: the Hawaiian Board of Education is formed.
S02041932: 1st Winter Olympics held (At Lake Placid, NY).
S02041948: Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence.
S0204    : Independence Day, celebrated in Sri Lanka.
S02051887: Snow falls on San Francisco.
S0206    : New Zealand Day, celebrated in (where else?) New Zealand
S02071914: Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium.
S02081693: Charter granted for College of William & Mary, 2nd college in US.
S02081883: Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen.
S02081908: Boy Scouts of America founded.
S02081922: Radio arrives in the White House.
S02081957: Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall.
S02081977: Earthquake, at 5.0, strongest since 1966.
S02091877: U.S. Weather Service is founded.
S02091885: first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
S02091891: 1st shipment of asparagus arrives from Sacramento.
S02091969: the Boeing 747 takes it's 1st commercial flight.
S02101870: City of Anaheim incorporated (first time).
S02101879: 1st electric arc light used (in California Theater).
S02111854: Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time.
S02111929: Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome.
S02111936: Pumping begins to build Treasure Island.
S02121541: Santiago, Chile founded.
S02121934: Export-Import Bank incorporated.
S02121945: San Francisco selected for site of United Nations Conference.
S02131937: "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail and fine detail drawing.  Thanks Hal.
S02141876: Bell files an application for a patent for the telephone.
S0214    : St. Valentine's Day
S02151861: Fort Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired it's cannon in anger).
S02151898: USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown.
S02151917: San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch at Civic Center) dedicated.
S02161883: Ladies Home Journal begins publication.
S02161914: 1st airplane flight to Los Angeles from San Francisco.
S02161923: Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun.
S02161951: City Hall dome fire.
S02171876: Sardines were 1st canned, in Eastport, Maine.
S02171878: 1st telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones.
S02181849: 1st regular steamboat service to California started with the arrival of the "California".
S02181850: Legislature creates the 9 Bay Area counties.
S02181899: San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transports.
S02181939: Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island (built for the occasion) in San Francisco Bay.
S0218    : National Bun Day -- Iceland
S02191878: Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph.
S02191945: Marines land on Iwo Jima.
S02191977: President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose").
S02201873: University of California gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF).
S02201901: 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes.
S02201902: Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks and damages Sutro Baths.
S02201915: Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco.
S02201931: Congress allows California to build the Oakland-Bay Bridge.
S02201962: John Glenn is 1st American to orbit the Earth.
S02211804: 1st self-propelled locomotive on rails demonstrated, in Wales.
S02211874: Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication.
S02211878: First Telephone book is issued, in New Haven, Conn.
S02221900: Hawaii becomes a US Territory.
S02221913: Lowell High School opens (on its 1st campus).
S0223    : F.W. Woolworth opens the 1st '5 & 10', in Utica, NY.
S02231887: Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco.
S02231900: Steamer "Rio de Janiero" sinks in San Francisco Bay.
S02231958: Last Municipal arc light, over intersection of Mission & 25th Street, removed (it had been installed in 1913).
S02241857: Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized.
S02241942: Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German).
S02251919: Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon).
S02261863: President Lincoln signs the National Currency Act.
S02261891: 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park.
S02261933: Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field.
S02271844: Dominican Republic gains it's independence.
S0227    : Independence Day, celebrated in the Dominican Republic
S02281849: 1st steamship enters San Francisco Bay.
S02281883: 1st vaudeville theater opens.
S02281888: Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes.
S02281914: Construction begins on the Tower of Jewels for the Exposition.
S02281956: Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory.
S02281970: Bicycles now permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge.