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Famous People Born On This Day In History
1745 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented the electric battery.
1848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker
1909 Wallace Stegner
1920 Bill Cullen
1920 Jack Palance, actor, bad guy, and one hand push up king!
1931 Chloe Anthony Morrison, aka Tonie Morrison, author.
1954 John Travolta, actor.
1957 Vanna White, Wheel of Fortune letter turner.

Events On This Day In History
1849 First regular steamboat service to California started with the arrival of the "California".
1850 California Legislature creates the 9 Bay Area counties.
1899 San Francisco is named as a port of dispatch for Army transports.
1930 A cow is flown (and milked in flight) for first time. Her milk was sealed in paper containers and dropped by parachute over St. Louis, MO.
1939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island (built for the occasion) in San Francisco Bay.
1995 "World Champion Houston Rockets" are honored at The White House.
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