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Famous People Born On This Day In History
1913 Carl Malden, actor.
1923 Marcel Marceau, A mime is a terrible thing to waste!
1930 Stephen Sodheim, Composer, Lyricist.
1931 William Shatner, actor, captain.
1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer, producer.
Events On This Day In History
1733 Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water.
1945 The Slinky is invented. (fun for a girl and a boy)
1957 Earthquake gives San Francisco the shakes.
1968 President Johnson's daugher, ordered off of cable car, because she was eating an ice cream cone, where no food was allowed.
1978 Robert Frost Plaza at California Drumm & Market is dedicated.
1981 First class postage is raised from 15 cents to 18 cents.
1990 New Kids On The Block & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles doll sales exceed 1.8 Billion dollars. (Who would want to buy them?)
1962 President John F. Kennedy visits San Francisco.
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