B04011883: Lon Chaney, man of a thousand faces
B0402 742: Emperor Charlemagne
B04021875: Walter Chrysler, founded a car company.
B04021914: Sir Alec Guiness, thespian
B04021920: Jack Webb, dum-de-dum-dum
B04021924: Doris Day, girl next door
B04031924: Marlon Brando, godfather
B04041792: Thaddeus Stevens
B04041802: Dorothea Dix, social reformer
B04051856: Booker T. Washington
B04051908: Bette Davis
B04051954: Michael W. Butler, creator of this TODAY program.
B04061810: Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium
B04061866: Lincoln Steffens, muckraker.
B04061890: Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer
B04061892: Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company.
B04061892: Lowell Thomas, journalist
B04071860: W.K. Kellogg, founded the cereal company.
B04071915: Billie Holiday, blues singer
B04071932: Mark Russell, satirist
B04081889: Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
B04091830: Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion in photography.
B04091865: Charles Proteus Steinmetz
B04091879: W.C. Fields, Philadelphian
B04091919: John Presper Eckert, co-inventor of 1st electronic computer (ENIAC)
B04121777: Henry Clay, 'The Great Compromiser'
B04121791: Francis P. Blair, helped found the Republican Party.
B04121913: Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader & vibraphone improvisor
B04131721: John Hanson, 1st US President under the Articles of Confederation
B04131743: Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President (1801-1809)
B04131852: F.W. Woolworth, the "five-and-ten" king.
B04141889: Arnold Toynbee, historian
B04151452: Leonardo da Vinci, factotum
B04151707: Leonhard Euler, mathematician
B04161867: Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame
B04161889: Charlie Chaplin, tramp
B04161947: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tall person
B04171837: J.P. Morgan, financed the US.
B04171897: Thornton Wilder, American novelist
B04181857: Clarence Darrow, lawyer
B04191877: Ole Evinrude, invented the outboard marine engine.
B04211926: Queen Elizabeth II
B04211838: John Muir, naturalist.
B04221904: J. Robert Oppenheimer.
B04231564: William Shakespeare, bard
B04231791: James Buchanan, 15th President (1857-1861)
B04231813: Stephen Douglas, the "Little Giant", debated Lincoln
B04231928: Shirley Temple, child
B04241620: John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of demography
B04241942: Barbra Streisand, profile
B04251874: Guglielmo Marconi, made radio possible
B04251908: Edward R. Murrow, set the standard for TV correspondents.
B04261785: John James Audubon, birdwatcher
B04261900: Charles Richter, he tells us how bad the quakes are.
B04271791: Samuel F. B. Morse
B04271822: Ulyssses S. Grant, 18th President (1869-1877)
B04271896: Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon.
B04281758: James Monroe, 5th President (1816-1824)
B04291830: Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels...
B04291863: William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner)
B04291899: Duke Ellington
B04301777: Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematician of all time.
B04301912: Eve Arden, Our Miss Brooks
S04011778: Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans Businessman, creates the "$".
S04011850: San Francisco County Government established.
S04011941: Navy takes over Treasure Island.
S04011960: TIROS I (Television & Infra-Red Observation Satellite) launched to improve weather prediction.
S0401    : April Fool's Day
S04021792: Congress establishes Coin denominations of United States.
S04021935: Watson Watt granted a patent for RADAR.
S0402    : International Children's Book Day
S04031848: Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher.
S04041860: Pony Express begins service, from St. Joseph, Missouri.
S04041870: Golden Gate Park established by City Order #800.
S04051614: Pocahontas marries John Rolfe.
S04051941: Castro and Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses.
S04061862: Battle of Shiloh.
S04061868: Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife.
S04061906: first animated cartoon is copyrighted.
S04061926: 4 planes take off on 1st successful around-the-world flight.
S04061957: New York City ends trolley car service.
S04071931: Seals Stadium opens.
S04071933: Prohibition ends.
S04071948: World Health Organization is established.
S04081513: Ponce de Leon arrives in Florida.
S04081913: 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified
S04081974: Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record.
S0408    : Kambutsue, celebration of Buddha's birthday, in Japan
S04091865: Lee surrenders at Appomattox.
S04091953: TV Guide publishes their first issue.
S04091955: United Nations Charter hearing.
S04101825: 1st hotel in Hawaii opens.
S04101849: Safety pin patented.
S04101871: William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park officially accepted.
S04101878: California Street Cable Car Railroad Company starts service.
S04101882: Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
S04101953: House of Wax, first 3-D movie, released in New York.
S04111876: Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized.
S04111895: Anaheim completes it's new electric light system.
S04111947: Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball.
S04111958: Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated.
S04111977: (Monday) Went into the farm at 11:43 AM for 24 days.
S0411    : Barber Shop Quartet Day
S04121859: Hibernia Savings & Loan Society of San Francisco incorporated.
S04121861: Fort Sumter, S. C., shelled by Confederacy, starts Civil War.
S04121898: Army transfers Yerba Buena Island to Navy.
S04121933: Moffatt Field is commissioned.
S04121961: Yuri A. Gagarin becomes 1st man to orbit Earth.
S04121962: San Mateo County withdraws from BART district.
S04121981: 1st launch of the space shuttle, Columbia.
S04131976: $2 bill re-introduced as United States currency.
S04141828: 1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.
S04141860: 1st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri.
S04141865: Abraham Lincoln assasinated in Ford's Theater.
S04141900: Veteran's Hospital at Fort Miley established.
S04141928: regular air passenger flights between San Francisco and Los Angeles started, by Maddux Air Lines.
S04141971: Fort Point dedicated as 1st National Park in Bay Area.
S04151850: City of San Francisco incorporated.
S04151912: Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM.
S04151922: the famed Poodle Dog Restaurant closes.
S04151923: insulin becomes generally available for diabetics.
S04151928: Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf is founded.
S04151955: Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants.
S0415    : Income Taxes are due today.  Keep the IRS happy...
S04161866: Nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo & Co. office explodes.
S04171524: New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.
S04171853: US Marine Hospital at the Presidio established.
S04171895: Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95).
S04171941: Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing)
S04171961: Bay of Pigs, invasion.
S04181775: 'The British are Coming!' Paul Revere rides.
S04181868: San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed.
S04181869: 1st International Cricket Match, held in SF, won by Californian
S04181906: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
S04181907: Fairmont Hotel opens.
S04181934: 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) is opened, in Fort Worth, Texas
S04181936: "Clipper" starts providing regular passenger flights from San Francisco to Honolulu.
S04181968: San Francisco's Old Hall of Justice demolished.
S04191775: at Lexington Common, the shot 'heard round the world'.
S04191852: California Historical Society founded.
S04191874: Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire.
S04191892: Charles Duryea takes the 1st American-made auto out for a spin.
S04191939: Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights (only 148 years late)
S0419    : Patriot's Day
S04201872: Bar Association of San Francisco organized.
S04201958: Buses replace Key System trains at 3AM.
S04211862: Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorado.
S04211892: 1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park.
S0422    : Earth Day
S04231871: Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up.
S04231949: Courtesy Mail Boxes for motorists started in San Francisco.
S0423    : National Secretary Day
S04241800: Library of Congress founded.
S04241865: Fire Alarm & Police Telegraph system put into operation.
S04241900: the passing of Andrew Halliday, Cable Car Pioneer.
S04251891: President Benjamin Harrison visits San Francisco.
S04251901: New York becomes 1st state requiring license plates for cars
S04251945: United Nations Conference starts.
S04251961: Robert Noyce granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
S0425    : Arbor Day.  Plant a tree.
S04261607: 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va.
S04261906: 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii.
S04261954: nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio begins.
S04261971: San Francisco Lightship replaced by automatic buoy.
S04271565: 1st Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City, founded.
S04271897: Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) is dedicated.
S04271937: US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment.
S04271945: founding of the Second Republic, in Austria.
S0427    : Union Day, celebrated in Tanzania.
S04281754: Mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurs.
S04281919: 1st successful parachute jump is made.
S04281974: Last Americans evacuated from Saigon.
S04291857: Headquarters for the US Army, Division of the Pacific, permanently established at the Presidio.
S04291913: the all-purpose zipper is patented.
S0429    : the Emperor's Birthday, celebrated in Japan.
S04301789: George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of the US
S04301798: Department of the Navy established.
S04301803: US more than doubles its size thru the Louisiana Purchase.
S04301857: founding of what would be San Jose State University.
S04301869: the Hawaiian YMCA organized.