B11021734: Daniel Boone
B11021795: James K. Polk, 11th President (1845-1849)
B11021865: Warren G. Harding, 29th President (1921-1923)
B11021885: Harlow Shapley, US astronomer.
B11031718: John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same.
B11041879: Will Rogers
B11041916: Walter Cronkite, "...and that's the way it is"
B11051857: Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was VERY unhappy).
B11051912: Roy Rogers, Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger
B11061771: Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography.
B11061851: Charles Henry Dow, founded Dow Jones & Co.
B11061854: John Phillip Souza, the march king
B11061861: James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball.
B11071867: Madame Marie Curie, discovered radium.
B11081656: Edmond Halley, astronomer, 1st to calculate a comet's orbit.
B11091934: Carl Sagan
B11101668: Francois Couperin, composer
B11101819: Cyrus West Field, financier known for the success of the 1st transatlantic cable.
B11101895: John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer.
B11111821: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author, "Crime and Punishment"
B11111885: General George S. Patton
B11111922: Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author.
B11121815: Elizabeth Stanton, early leader of women's rights movement.
B11121866: Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC).
B11131850: Robert Louis Stevenson
B11131856: Justice Louis Brandeis
B11141765: Robert Fulton, built 1st commercial steamboat
B11141776: Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis
B11141840: Claude Monet, impressionist
B11141900: Aaron Copland, american composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring)
B11161873: William Handy, established the popularity of the blues in band music
B11161901: George Gallop, what's your opinion?
B11181789: Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography
B11181836: Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame)
B11181923: Alan Sheppard, 1st American into space.
B11181928: Mickey Mouse
B11191752: George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War.
B11191831: James A. Garfield, 20th President (March 4-September 19, 1881)
B11191905: Tommy Dorsey
B11201602: Otto von Guericke, invented the air pump
B11201900: Chester Gould, gave Dick Tracy a job
B11201908: Alistair Cooke, raconteur
B11211694: Voltaire, thinker
B11211787: Sir Samuel Cunard, founded 1st regular Atlantic steamship line
B11211904: Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone for jazz
B11221890: Charles de Gaulle
B11221899: Hoagy Carmichael, composed 'Star Dust'.
B11231804: Franklin Pierce, 14th President (1853-1857)
B11231887: Boris Karloff, bogeyman
B11241713: Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in California.
B11241784: Zachary Taylor, 12th President (1849-1850)
B11241868: Scott Joplin, entertainer
B11251835: Andrew Carnegie, steelman and librarian
B11251846: Carry Nation, scrouge of barkeepers and drinkers.
B11261832: Louisa May Alcott, little woman
B11261876: Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment.
B11271701: Anders Celsius
B11291803: Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (color shift)
B11291849: Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode.
B11301667: Jonathan Swift, satirist, wrote "Gulliver's Travels"
B11301810: Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker.
B11301835: Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain
B11301874: Winston Churchill
S11011863: Fortifications built on Angel Island by troops.
S11011870: US Weather Bureau begins operations.
S11011943: Dimout ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area.
S11011947: 1st Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii.
S11011981: First Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents.
S11021854: Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts.
S11021917: Lansing-Ishii Agreement
S11021920: KDKA (Pittsburgh) on the air as 1st commercial radio station.
S11021947: Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for 1st (& last) time.
S11021948: Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers.
S1102    : North & South Dakota Admission Day
S11031903: Panama gains it's independence from Columbia.
S11031917: First Class Mail now costs 3 cents.
S11031930: Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America.
S11031952: Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas.
S1103    : Independence Day, celebrated in Panama.
S11041854: Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island.
S11041867: 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall.
S11041922: Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen.
S11041924: 1st woman governor in US elected in Wyoming.
S11051781: John Hanson elected 1st 'President of the United States in Congress assembled' (8 years before Washington).
S11051895: 1st US patent granted for the automobile, to George B Selden
S11051973: BART starts San Francisco-Daly City train shuttle service.
S1105    : Guy Fawkes Day, celebrated in England.
S11061850: Yerba Buena & Angel Islands reserved for military use.
S11061850: 1st fire engine arrives in Hawaii.
S11061862: Direct Telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco established
S11061869: 1st intercollegiate football game played (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4).
S11061939: WGY-TV (Schenectady NY), 1st commercial-license station begins service
S11061962: BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote.
S1106    : Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
S11071805: Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean.
S11071811: Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan.
S11071875: Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa from sea to sea.
S11071885: Canada completes its own transcontinental railway.
S11081793: the Louvre, in Paris, was opened to the public.
S11091848: Post Office at Clay & Pike opens.
S11091965: Giant power failure in New England & Ontario, Canada.
S11101871: Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa.
S11101891: 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
S11101951: 1st Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance.
S11101980: Voyager I flies past Saturn.
S11111889: Washington admitted as the 42nd state.
S11111918: World War I ends.
S11111924: Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated.
S11111931: Cornerstones laid for Opera House and Veteran's Building.
S11111957: Demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde.
S11111959: Seals Stadium demolished.
S11111982: Space Shuttle 'Columbia' makes 1st commercial flight.
S1111    : the REAL Veteran's Day.  They fought for your freedom. Remember them!
S11121873: Bay District Race Track opens.
S11121933: 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken.
S11121936: Oakland Bay Bridge opened.
S11121946: the 1st "autobank" (banking by car) was established, in Chicago
S11121981: 1st time a spacecraft is launched twice -- the Space Shuttle 'Columbia' lifts off again.
S11131849: Peter Burnett is elected 1st governor of California.
S11131895: first shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii.
S11131921: The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, was released.
S11141792: Capt. George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay.
S11141832: 1st streetcar appears, in New York
S11141851: "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville, is published.
S11141889: Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip around the world by 8 days (72 days).
S11141910: 1st airplane flight from the deck of a ship.
S11141959: Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii).
S11141981: The old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired & working again.
S11151869: Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated.
S11151926: National Broadcasting Company goes on-the-air, with 24 stations
S11151939: Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check.
S11151941: Cow Palace opens.
S11151949: KRON (Channel 4, San Francisco) signs on, from 7 to 10 PM.
S11161933: Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
S11171800: Congress convened for its 1st Washington, DC session.
S11171853: Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections.
S11171869: Suez Canal opens.
S11171913: Panama Canal opens for use.
S1117    : the day of the Great American Smoke Out.
S11181889: Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii.
S11181903: Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gave US exclusive canal rights thru Panama.
S11181820: Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer.
S11181928: Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat Willie"
S11181936: Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined.
S11191493: Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
S11191863: Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg.
S11191895: the pencil is invented.
S11191970: Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California State Historical Landmark.
S11201888: William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
S11201914: the State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
S11211794: Honolulu Harbor discovered.
S11211959: Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed duet.
S11221906: the International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS" as the new call for help.
S11221943: Lebanon gains it's independence (would that it could keep it)
S11221963: President John Kennedy assasinated in Dallas.
S1122    : Independence Day, celebrated in Lebanon.
S11231852: Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet.
S11231863: patent granted for a process of making color photographs.
S11231911: Post Hospital at Presidio renamed Letterman General Hospital.
S11241874: patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.
S11251948: Fort Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed.
S11261778: Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands).
S11261895: Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed.
S11261868: 1st baseball game played in enclosed field at 25th & Folsom.
S11271890: 1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation.
S11281520: Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean.
S11281895: America's auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averaged 7 MPH
S11291887: US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.