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1993 Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow and NY
1985 On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals the World Series 1985 White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game 1981 3rd baseball strike starts 1981 Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela tosses his 3rd shutout in 4 starts 1980 British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro 1977 Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison 1976 Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur 1975 Gas stove explodes and starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia) 1973 BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service 1973 Chic's Wilbur Wood starts and loses both games of a doubleheader with New York Yankees, 12-2, and 7-0 1971 NBA's Los Angeles Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak 1971 UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak 1969 U.N. starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters 1968 Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting 1967 BBC starts their own popular music radio station 1967 BBC starts their World Radio Club 1966 China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution" 1965 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles 1965 Kinderstraf trial starts 1964 Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie) 1964 Radio CJCX Sydney Nova Scotia (Canada) starts shortwave transmission 1962 Cuba starts returning U.S. prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion 1962 U.S. unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week 1962 Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia 1961 American Basketball League starts play 1961 "Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC 1959 Great Britain starts using postal codes 1958 TV game show scandal investigation starts 1958 European Economic Community, known as the Common Market, starts operation 1955 Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants in Illinois 1955 Sobers starts run of 85 Test Cricket appearances for WI uninterrupted 1954 PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting 1952 Pakistan's 1st Test starts, vs. India at Delhi 1948 Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater 1947 Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak 1946 League of Nations dissolves, 3 months after United Nations starts 1944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF and World Bank 1943 Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau 1942 "Stars and Stripes" paper for U.S. Armed Forces starts 1942 WW II siege of Bataan starts 1941 Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation 1941 Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yankees lose 13-1 1940 Netherlands starts rationing textile 1940 Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts 1940 General Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme 1939 WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig 1939 7th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Yankee Stadium, New York New York Yankee/AL maanager Joe McCarthy starts 6 Yankees 1938 Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance 1937 Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service 1937 Los Angeles Railway Co. starts using PCC streetcars 1936 League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy 1935 Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches 1933 NFL starts official stats as Bears beat Giants 23-21 in champ game 1933 Curom, Curacaose Broadcast System starts: Princess Juliana's speech 1931 Willie Shoemaker, jockey, won 8,833 of 40,350 starts 1930 Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India 1928 2nd Test Cricket Australia vs. England starts with Bradman 12th man 1928 Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between San Francisco and LA 1927 Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers 1922 Vancouver, BC starts driving on the right side of road 1921 Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games 1920 Belgium starts paying old age pensions 1920 Helen Thomas, UPI journalist, starts press conferences 1920 Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with Kansas City Slide Co. 1919 1st U.S. air passenger service starts 1918 Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts 1915 Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day) 1914 U.S. State Department starts requiring photographs for passports 1913 Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF 1912 SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St. (MUNI) 1908 General Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts 1907 Signal Corps of U.S. Army starts aircraft division 1906 C W Gregory (NSW vs. Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps 1901 Jewish National Fund starts 1896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks 1896 Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado) 1896 1st U.S. women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden 1895 America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH 1895 King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day 1887 Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California and starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood) 1886 1st U.S. alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA 1884 T Thomas Fortune starts New York Freeman (New York Age) newspaper 1884 Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 years 9 mos) 1880 SF Public Library starts lending books 1878 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston) 1878 California St. Cable Car RR Co starts service 1876 Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, and football 1868 Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on U.S. trial jury 1866 Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying of Portland, Me 1863 Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game 1861 Confederacy starts selling postage stamps 1854 Cobblestone paving of Washington St. between Dupont and Kearny starts 1853 Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London 1853 Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad 1851 New York Times starts publishing at 2 cents a copy 1851 San Francisco Chamber of Commerce starts 1850 Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco 1849 1st regular steamboat service to California starts 1848 Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts 1847 Netherlands Haarlem's Current newspaper starts publishing 1845 Mexican - U.S. war starts 1844 Origin of Baha'i Era-Baha'i calendar starts here (Baha 1, 1) 1840 Penny Post mail system is starts 1832 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (New York City) (12 cent fare) 1831 Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain and Spain 1830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts 1822 Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France) 1665 Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing 1652 Prince of Conde starts blood bath in Paris 1519 Ferdinand Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of world 1483 Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on Bible 1377 Cardinal Robert of Geneva (anti-pope Clemens VII) starts term 1054 Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days) |
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