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Famous People Born On This Day In History
1830 James G. Blaine, the "Plumed Knight."
1872 Zane Gray, American West novelist.
1919 Jackie Robinson, first black major league baseball player.
1923 Carol Channing, actress.
1923 Joanne Dru
1923 Norman Mailer
1970 Amelia Driver, - aka Minnie Driver.
1974 Othello Harrington, Basketball player Houston Rockets Forward, #32.
Events On This Day In History
1851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, first in California, founded.
1871 Birds fly over the western part of San Francisco in such large numbers that they actually darken the sky.
1911 Congress passes resolution naming San Francisco as the site of the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal.
1928 Scotch tape first marketed by 3-M Company.
1956 The twist off bottle cap is invented. (Where's that DAMN opener?)
1958 First U.S. satellite launched, Explorer I.
1961 Ham the chimp is first animal sent into space by the US.
1971 Apollo 14 launched, first landing in lunar highlands.
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