B05011769: Duke of Wellington, who made Napoleon very unhappy.
B05011830: Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), hellraiser
B05021837: Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order"
B05021904: Bing Crosby, crooner
B05031874: Francois Coty, perfumemaker.
B05031898: Golda Meir
B05031919: Pete Seeger, folk singer.
B05051867: Nellie Bly, name became a synonym for female star reporter.
B05061818: Karl Marx
B05061856: Sigmund Freud, cigar smoker
B05061870: A.P. Giannini, founder of Bank of America.
B05061895: Rudolph Valentino, sheik
B05061915: Orson Welles, citizen
B05061931: the 'Say Hey Kid', Willie Mays
B0506    : Daniel Gerber, beloved by babies at mealtime
B05071833: Johannes Brahms, enjoyed a good lullaby.
B05071840: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
B05071901: Gary Cooper, actor in 'High Noon' and 'The Plainsman'.
B05071909: Edwin Land, founded instant photography (Polaroid)
B05081737: Edward Gibbon, historian, "The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire"
B05081786: Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
B05081828: Henri Dunant, founded Red Cross, YMCA.
B05081829: Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist
B05081884: Harry S. Truman, 32nd President
B05091800: John Brown, abolitionist
B05091873: Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamen
B05091882: Henry J. Kaiser,  built Liberty Ships, Jeeps
B05101788: Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneered in optics.
B05101899: Fred Astaire, tapdancer
B05101902: David O. Selznick, film producer.
B05111888: Irving Berlin
B05111904: Salvador Dali
B05121820: Florence Nightengale
B05121845: Gabriel Faure, composer
B05121925: Yogi Barra, catcher
B05131842: Sir Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame.
B05131856: Peter Henry Emerson, first photographer to promote photography as an independent art.
B05131914: Joe Louis, heavyweight
B05141928: Billy Martin, local boy who made good in baseball.
B05141944: George Lucas, skywalker
B05151859: Pierre Curie, physicist
B05161801: William H. Seward, bought Alaska at $0.02/acre.
B05161919: Liberace, candelabrist
B05171866: Erik Satie, composer
B05181850: Oliver Heaviside, physicist who predicted the existance of the ionosphere, used to reflect radio waves.
B05181918: Pope John Paul II
B05191890: Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer
B05191918: Mike Wallace
B05201750: Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during the War of 1812
B05201799: Honore de Balzac, novelist
B05201818: William George Fargo, helped to found Wells, Fargo & Co.
B05201913: William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co.
B05201915: Moshe Dayan, Israeli general & politician
B05211471: Albrecht Durer, painter & printmaker, greatest German Renaissance artist.
B05211860: Willam Einthoven, invented the electrocardiograph
B05211878: Glenn Curtis, aircraft pioneer
B05221828: Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon, founded modern ophthalmology
B05221859: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, brought Sherlock Holmes to life (twice)
B05221907: Laurence Olivier, actor
B05221920: Thomas Gold, astronomer, established the steady-state theory of the universe.
B05231883: Douglas Fairbanks, 1st & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers.
B05231910: Artie Shaw, band leader and husband
B05241686: Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, invented the thermometer
B05251803: Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher
B05251889: Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter
B05251926: Miles Davis, trumpeter, pioneered cool jazz
B05251929: Beverly Sills, soprano
B05261877: Isadora Duncan
B05261886: Al Jolson, jazz singer
B05261907: John Wayne, shootist
B05271818: Amelia Bloomer, suffragist known for her pantaloons
B05271837: Wild Bill Hickox
B05271894: Dashiell Hammett, author who created the hard-boiled detective
B05271907: Rachel Carson, ecologist
B05281886: Jim Thorpe
B05281908: Ian Fleming, gave James Bond a job.
B05291903: Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope, famous profile
B05291917: John F. Kennedy, 35th President (1960-1963)
B05301909: Benny Goodman, swinger
B05311819: Walt Whitman, poet
S05011840: 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued.
S05011850: John Geary becomes 1st mayor of City of San Francisco.
S05011860: 1st school for the deaf founded.
S05011869: Folies-Bergere opens in Paris.
S05011884: construction begins in Chicago on the 1st skyscraper.
S05011892: US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island.
S05011928: Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
S0501    : May Day
S05021925: Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park opens.
S05021939: Lou Gehrig sets record for being in most consecutive games (2130).
S05021946: Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die.
S05031830: 1st regular steam train passenger service starts.
S05031898: Camp Merriman established at the Presidio.
S05031919: America's 1st passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City)
S05031971: national noncommercial network radio begins programming.
S05041626: Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons.
S05041851: 1st of the major San Francisco fires.
S05041866: Woodward's Gardens opens to public.
S05041878: Phonograph shown for 1st time at the Grand Opera House.
S05051908: The Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco.
S05051949: Council of Europe established.
S05051961: Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (onboard Freedom 7).
S05051977: (Thursday) Out of the farm at 11:00 AM after 24 days.
S0505    : Cinco de Mayo
S0505    : Tango-no-sekku (Boy's Festival) -- Japan
S05061851: Patent granted to Dr. John Farrie for a "refrigeration machine"
S05061851: Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco starts.
S05061860: the Olympic Club, 1st athletic club in US, founded.
S05061906: "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street allows United Railroads to run electric streetcars.
S05071824: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony presented for first time.
S05071927: San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated.
S05071941: Cornerstone of BofA building at 300 Montgomery laid.
S05071945: World War II ends in Europe.
S05071963: Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles).
S05081541: Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River.
S05081945: Germany surrendered, ending World War II in Europe.
S05091882: Telegraph Hill Railroad Company organized.
S05101775: Continental Congress issues paper currency for 1st time.
S05101869: the Driving of the Golden Spike, Promontory Point, Utah. The Transcontinential railroad is completed.
S05101930: first US planetarium opens, in Chicago.
S0510    : Native American Day
S05111752: 1st US fire insurance policy is issued, in Philadelphia.
S05111850: Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco.
S05111907: Bank of San Francisco incorporated.
S05111929: 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week).
S05111951: Jay Forrester patents computer core memory.
S05121901: President William McKinley visits San Francisco.
S05131607: English land to found Jamestown (1st permanent settlement)
S05131835: 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii is established.
S05131846: US declares war on Mexico.
S05131884: Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded
S0513    : Leprechaun Day
S05141811: Paraguay gains it's independence.
S05141853: Gail Borden applies for patent for making condensed milk.
S05141903: President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco.
S05141948: State of Israel proclaimed.
S05141973: United States launches space station "Skylab".
S0514    : Independence Day (in Paraguay)
S05151856: 2nd San Francisco Vigilance Committee organized.
S05151940: 1st nylon stockings are sold in America.
S05151963: last of the Mercury flights, the 'Faith 7', launched.
S0515    : Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean Day.  Why? Because it may be waving at you.
S05161866: Congress authorizes nickel 5-cent piece (the silver half-dime was used up to this point).
S05161872: Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time.
S05161914: Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens.
S05161929: 1st Oscars announced (best film was 'Wings').
S05161971: First Class Mail now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents).
S0516    : Armed Forces Day
S05171792: 24 brokers meet to found the New York Stock Exchange
S05171804: Lewis & Clark begin their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase
S05171872: Bohemian Club incorporated.
S05171898: Camp Merritt established in the Presidio.
S05171921: President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show in Anaheim.
S05171954: Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, overthrowing the principle of 'separate but equal'.
S05171962: Marin County withdraws from BART district.
S0517    : Norwegian Independence Day
S05181933: TVA Act signed by President Roosevelt.
S05181980: Mount St. Helens blew it's top in Washington State.
S05191862: the Homestead Act becomes law.
S05201845: 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii.
S05201927: at 7:40am, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic
S05211846: 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii.
S05211881: the American Red Cross is founded.
S05211927: Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo across Atlantic.
S05211933: Mount Davidson Cross lit by President Roosevelt in Washington via Telegraph.
S05221846: first steamer arrives in Hawaii.
S05221909: 1st San Francisco fireboat, the "David Scannell", launched.
S05231873: Postal Cards sold in San Francisco for 1st time.
S05231898: 1st Phillipine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco.
S05231908: Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die.
S05231956: World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building.
S05241844: Samual F.B. Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought"
S05241866: Berkeley named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne). Never turn your back on it.
S05241883: The Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres. Arthur & Gov. Cleveland.
S05241899: in Boston, the 1st auto repair shop opens.
S05251787: Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia.
S05251940: Golden Gate International Exposition reopens.
S05251927: Henry Ford stops producing the Model T car (begins Model A).
S05251948: San Francisco receives its 1st telecast.
S05251978: "Star Wars" is released.
S05251983: "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) is released.
S05261868: President Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote.
S05261898: San Francisco approves new City Charter, allowing Municipal ownership of utiliies.
S05261937: Golden Gate Bridge opens.
S05261946: Patent filed in US for the H-Bomb.
S05261958: Union Square becomes State Historical Landmark.
S05271854: Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Francisco completed.
S05271896: Bay District Race Track closes.
S05271907: Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco
S05271937: Golden Gate Bridge dedicated.
S05271951: Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park opens.
S05281926: United States Customs Court created by Congress.
S05291453: Constantinople falls to the Turks (some believe this signalled the end of the Middle Ages).
S05291953: Hillary & Norkay reach top of Mount Everest.
S05291978: First Class postage now 15 cents (was 13 cents for 3 years).
S05301911: Indianapolis 500 car race run for 1st time.
S0530    : The REAL Memorial Day
S05311433: Joan of Arc has a hot time at the stake...
S05311678: Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry
S05311868: 1st recorded bicycle race, 2 kilometers in Paris.
S05311879: 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition.
S05311889: Johnstown Flood