2015 Event Joey Logano wins the Daytona 500; Jeff Gordon starts out strong in his final Daytona 500 race, but loses his lead and his chance at a fourth victory after getting caught in a wreck 1993 Event Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow and NY 1985 Event On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals the World Series 1985 Event White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game 1981 Event 3rd baseball strike starts 1981 Event Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela tosses his 3rd shutout in 4 starts 1980 Event British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro 1977 Event Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison 1976 Event Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur 1975 Event Gas stove explodes and starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia) 1973 Event BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service 1973 Event Chic's Wilbur Wood starts and loses both games of a doubleheader with New York Yankees, 12-2, and 7-0 1971 Event NBA's Los Angeles Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak 1971 Event UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak 1969 Event U.N. starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters 1968 Event Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting 1967 Event BBC starts their own popular music radio station 1967 Event BBC starts their World Radio Club 1966 Event China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution" 1965 Event 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles 1965 Event Kinderstraf trial starts 1964 Event Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie) 1964 Event Radio CJCX Sydney Nova Scotia (Canada) starts shortwave transmission 1962 Event Cuba starts returning U.S. prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion 1962 Event U.S. unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week 1962 Event Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia 1961 Event American Basketball League starts play 1961 Event "Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC 1959 Event Great Britain starts using postal codes 1958 Event TV game show scandal investigation starts 1958 Event European Economic Community, known as the Common Market, starts operation 1955 Event Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants in Illinois 1955 Event Sobers starts run of 85 Test Cricket appearances for WI uninterrupted 1954 Event PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting 1952 Event Pakistan's 1st Test starts, vs. India at Delhi 1948 Event Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater 1947 Event Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak 1946 Event League of Nations dissolves, 3 months after United Nations starts 1944 Event Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF and World Bank 1943 Event Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau 1942 Event "Stars and Stripes" paper for U.S. Armed Forces starts 1942 Event WW II siege of Bataan starts 1941 Event Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation 1941 Event Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yankees lose 13-1 1940 Event Netherlands starts rationing textile 1940 Event Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts 1940 Event General Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme 1939 Event WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig 1939 Event 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 Event Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance 1937 Event Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service 1937 Event Los Angeles Railway Co. starts using PCC streetcars 1936 Event League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy 1935 Event Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches 1933 Event NFL starts official stats as Bears beat Giants 23-21 in champ game 1933 Event Curom, Curacaose Broadcast System starts: Princess Juliana's speech 1931 Birthday Willie Shoemaker, jockey, won 8,833 of 40,350 starts 1930 Event Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India 1928 Event 2nd Test Cricket Australia vs. England starts with Bradman 12th man 1928 Event Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between San Francisco and LA 1927 Event Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers 1922 Event Vancouver, BC starts driving on the right side of road 1921 Event Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games 1920 Event Belgium starts paying old age pensions 1920 Birthday Helen Thomas, UPI journalist, starts press conferences 1920 Event Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with Kansas City Slide Co. 1919 Event 1st U.S. air passenger service starts 1918 Event Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts 1915 Event Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day) 1914 Event U.S. State Department starts requiring photographs for passports 1913 Event Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF 1912 Event SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St. (MUNI) 1908 Event General Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts 1907 Event Signal Corps of U.S. Army starts aircraft division 1906 Event C W Gregory (NSW vs. Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps 1901 Event Jewish National Fund starts 1896 Event Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks 1896 Event Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado) 1896 Event 1st U.S. women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden 1895 Event America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH 1895 Event King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day 1887 Event Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California and starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood) 1886 Event 1st U.S. alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA 1884 Event T Thomas Fortune starts New York Freeman (New York Age) newspaper 1884 Event Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 years 9 mos) 1880 Event SF Public Library starts lending books 1878 Event 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston) 1878 Event California St. Cable Car RR Co starts service 1876 Event Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, and football 1868 Event Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on U.S. trial jury 1866 Event Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying of Portland, Me 1863 Event Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game 1861 Event Confederacy starts selling postage stamps 1854 Event Cobblestone paving of Washington St. between Dupont and Kearny starts 1853 Event Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London 1853 Event Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad 1851 Event New York Times starts publishing at 2 cents a copy 1851 Event San Francisco Chamber of Commerce starts 1850 Event Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco 1849 Event 1st regular steamboat service to California starts 1848 Event Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts 1847 Event Netherlands Haarlem's Current newspaper starts publishing 1845 Event Mexican - U.S. war starts 1844 Event Origin of Baha'i Era-Baha'i calendar starts here (Baha 1, 1) 1840 Event Penny Post mail system is starts 1832 Event 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (New York City) (12 cent fare) 1831 Event Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain and Spain 1830 Event 1st regular steam train passenger service starts 1822 Event Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France) 1665 Event Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing 1652 Event Prince of Conde starts blood bath in Paris 1519 Event Ferdinand Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of world 1483 Event Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on Bible 1377 Event Cardinal Robert of Geneva (anti-pope Clemens VII) starts term 1054 Event Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days)
