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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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