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 (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; Yanks lose 13-1
1940 Netherlands starts rationing textile
1940 Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts
1940 Gen 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 Gen 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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