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Clipper
1996
Tommy Rettig, actor (Lassie)/computer programmer (Clipper), dies at 54
1986
Mamo Clark, actor (1 Million BC, Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island), dies
1984
1st NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena - Clipper beat Knick, 107-105
1960
John Miljan, actor (Charlie Chan in Paris, Yankee Clipper), dies at 66
1942
1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper")
1939
Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe
1939
Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service, Dixie Clipper
1938
"Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic
1938
Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown, Eddie Allen
1936
Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco to Honolulu
1935
China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
1935
1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)
1914
"Joltin'" Joe DiMaggio, Yankee Clipper, 56 game hitting streak
1860
Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY
1855
Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies
1849
Memmon is 1st clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of New York
1810
Donald McKay, U.S. naval architect, built fastest clipper ships
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