Author: pfg
Date: Sun Mar 22 01:40:12 2020
New Revision: 359202
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/359202
Log:
MFC r353909, r355192, r355218, r355218, r358506, r359005:
calendar(1): Updates and corrections for some calendar files.
PR: 242909, 242918
Modified:
stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history
stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.holiday
stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.music
Directory Properties:
stable/11/ (props changed)
Modified: stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
==============================================================================
--- stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday Sun Mar 22
01:27:38 2020 (r359201)
+++ stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday Sun Mar 22
01:40:12 2020 (r359202)
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
*/
#ifndef _calendar_birthday_
-#define _calendar_birthday_
+#define _calendar_birthday_
#undef unix
01/01 J.D. Salinger born, 1919
@@ -15,22 +15,26 @@
01/04 Jakob Grimm born, 1785
01/04 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars
01/05 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer
+01/06 Millard Fillmore's birthday (let's party!)
+01/07 Nikola Tesla died in the Hotel New Yorker room 3327, 1943
01/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738
01/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757?
01/12 "Long" John Baldry is born in London, 1941
-01/13 Horatio Alger born, 1834
+01/13 Horatio Alger born, 1832
01/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884
01/13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws
01/14 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875
-01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born
+01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born, 1929
01/17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706
01/19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809
01/19 Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807
-01/20 George Burns born, 1898
+01/20 George Burns born, 1896
+01/20 Dr. Mendeleev died with a pen in his hand, 1907
01/21 Lenin died, 1924
01/21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824
01/22 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561
01/23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory
+01/23 Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin born, 1869
01/23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899
01/23 John Hancock born, 1737
01/23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730
@@ -48,26 +52,28 @@
02/06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952
02/07 Sinclair Lewis born, 1885
02/08 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography
+02/08 John von Neumann died, 1957
02/08 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828
02/09 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc.
02/10 Charles Lamb born, 1775
02/10 William Allen White born, 1868
-02/11 Thos. Edison born, 1847
+02/11 Thomas Edison born, 1847
02/11 William Henry Fox Talbot (photographic pioneer) born, 1800
02/12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809
02/12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809
02/15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564
02/15 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820
02/16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry
-02/17 Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone
+02/17 Frederic Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone
02/17 Marion Anderson born, 1902
02/17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874
02/18 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer
+02/18 Michelangelo Buonarroti dies in Rome, Italy, 1564
02/19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473
-02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer
+02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1844, atomic physics pioneer
02/21 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass
02/22 George Washington born, 1732
-02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun
+02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1824, found hydrogen in the sun
02/23 W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868
02/24 Winslow Homer born, 1836
02/24 Steve Jobs born, 1955
@@ -81,30 +87,41 @@
03/02 Dr. Seuss born, 1904
03/04 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747
03/05 John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982
+03/05 Joseph Stalin died in Moscow, 1953
+03/06 Michelangelo Buonarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1475
+03/07 Aristotle died, 322BC
03/07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer
03/08 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer
03/08 Howard Aiken born, 1900
03/11 Robert Treat Paine born, 1737
03/11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890
+03/11 Douglas Adams born in Cambridge, England, 1952
03/12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist
+03/12 Terry Pratchett (Sir) dies, 2015, author
03/14 Albert Einstein born, 1879
03/14 Casey Jones born, 1864
03/14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer;
named Mars "canals"
03/14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist
+03/14 Karl Marx died, 1883
03/15 Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson, 7th President of the United States,
born in Waxhaw, South Carolina, 1767
03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
03/16 George Clymer born, 1739
03/16 James Madison, 4th President of the United States, born in King George
County, Virginia, 1751
+03/19 Arthur C. Clarke died in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2008
03/21 NetBSD project born, 1993
+03/23 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
03/24 Harry Houdini born, 1874
03/26 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist
03/26 David Packard died, 1996; age of 83
+03/27 Maurits Cornelis Escher died, 1972
+03/27 Stanislaw Lem died, 2006
03/27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays
03/28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
03/30 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746
+03/30 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, died at the age of 101, 2002
03/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880
03/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853
03/31 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher
@@ -123,11 +140,17 @@
04/14 Christiaan Huygens born, 1629, physicist & astronomer;
discovered Saturn's rings
04/15 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452
+04/15 Leonhard Euler born in Basel, 1707
04/16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889
+04/20 Adolf Hitler born, 1889
04/22 Kant born, 1724
+04/22 Lenin born, the best friend of all the children, 1870
+04/23 William Shakespeare died, 1616
+04/26 William Shakespeare baptised, 1564
04/27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist
04/28 James Monroe, 5th President of the United States, born in Westmoreland
County, Viriginia, 1758
+04/28 Terry Pratchett (Sir) born, 1948, author
04/29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology
04/29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863
04/30 Karl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer
@@ -136,6 +159,7 @@
05/02 Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903
05/04 Alice Liddell born, 1852, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
& Through the Looking-Glass
+05/05 Karl Marx born, 1818
05/09 Pinza died, 1957
05/10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899
05/11 Johnny Appleseed born, 1768
@@ -153,7 +177,7 @@
05/29 Patrick Henry born, 1736
05/30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908
06/01 Brigham Young born, 1801
-06/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928
+06/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1926
06/02 Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England, 1857
06/03 Henry James born, 1811
06/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848
@@ -167,7 +191,7 @@
06/19 FreeBSD project born, 1993
06/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903
06/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949
-06/22 Konrad Zuse born in Berlin, 1919
+06/22 Konrad Zuse born in Berlin, 1910
06/23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912
06/25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903
06/27 Helen Keller born, 1880
@@ -179,24 +203,30 @@
07/07 P.T. Barnum dies, 1891
07/08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838
07/10 John Calvin born, 1509
+07/10 Nikola Tesla born, 1856
07/11 John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States, born in
Braintree, Massachusetts, 1767
07/12 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817
07/15 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from
Saint Nicholas"
07/18 Brian Auger is born in London, 1939
+07/20 Alexander the Great born, 356 BC
+07/20 Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong, 1973
+07/25 Robert Morris is born in Boston, 1932
07/25 Steve Goodman is born in Chicago, 1948
07/29 Mussolini born, 1883
07/30 Emily Bronte born, 1818
07/30 Henry Ford born, 1863
08/01 Herman Melville born, 1819
08/03 Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966
+08/05 Friedrich Engels died, 1895
+08/06 Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died after a long struggle with cancer, 2002
08/06 Jonathan B. Postel is born in Altadena, California, 1943
08/08 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937
08/12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955
08/13 Alfred Hitchcock born, 1899
08/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860
-08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927
+08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1926
08/17 Mae West born, 1892
08/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1774
08/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
@@ -207,6 +237,7 @@
08/27 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908
08/29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist
08/30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907
+09/02 J.R.R. Tolkien died, 1973
09/05 King Louis XIV of France born, 1638
09/05 Raquel Welch born, 1942
09/06 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909
@@ -217,11 +248,17 @@
09/09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976
09/09 Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie, creator of C, born, 1941
09/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913
+09/12 Stanislaw Lem born in Lwow, Poland, 1921
09/13 Walter Reed born, 1851
09/15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890
09/16 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914
+09/17 Ken Kesey born in La Junta, CO, 1935
+09/18 Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky born, 1857, father of rocket flight
09/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905
09/18 Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970
+09/18 Leonhard Euler died in St. Petersburg, 1783
+09/19 President Garfield dies of wounds in Elberon, N.J., 1881
+09/19 Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky died, Russian SFSR, 1935
09/20 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878
09/21 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866
09/21 Louis Joliet born, 1645
@@ -264,12 +301,14 @@
Massachusetts 1735.
10/31 Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887
10/31 Dale Evans born, 1912
+11/01 Joseph Stalin's burial, 1961
11/02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734
11/04 King William III of Orange born, 1650
11/05 Roy Rogers born, 1912
11/09 Carl Sagan born, 1934
11/10 Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483
11/10 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982
+11/11 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky born in Moscow, Russia, 1821
11/11 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922
11/13 Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850
11/13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354
@@ -278,9 +317,12 @@
11/20 Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK) born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1925
11/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922
11/26 Norbert Wiener born in Columbia, Missouri, 1894
+11/27 Bruce Lee born in San Francisco, 1940
+11/28 Friedrich Engels born, 1820
+11/28 Joe Ossanna died, 1977
11/29 John Mayall is born in Cheshire, England, 1933
11/30 Cleopatra died, 30 BC
-11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835
+11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835
12/01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935
12/04 Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976
12/05 Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States, born in
@@ -288,17 +330,21 @@
12/05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901
12/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC
12/08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894
-12/10 Emily Dickenson born, 1830
+12/10 Emily Dickinson born, 1830
12/12 E.G. Robinson born, 1893
12/14 George Washington dies, 1799
+12/16 Arthur C. Clarke born in Somerset, England, 1917
12/17 William Safire (Safir) born, 1929
12/18 Konrad Zuse died in Hünfeld, 1995
12/20 Carl Sagan died, 1996
12/21 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804
12/22 Giacomo Puccini born, 1858
+12/22 Joseph Vissarionnovich Djugashvili (Stalin) born, 1879
+12/22 Samuel Beckett dies in Paris, 1989
12/23 Joseph Smith born, 1805
12/25 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642
12/26 Chas. Babbage born, 1791
12/28 John von Neumann born, 1903
+12/29 Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin assasinated, 1916
#endif /* !_calendar_birthday_ */
Modified: stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history
==============================================================================
--- stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history Sun Mar 22
01:27:38 2020 (r359201)
+++ stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history Sun Mar 22
01:40:12 2020 (r359202)
@@ -5,18 +5,27 @@
*/
#ifndef _calendar_history_
-#define _calendar_history_
+#define _calendar_history_
01/01 Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba
01/01 Castro expels Cuban President Batista, 1959
01/01 Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech, 1947
01/01 First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902
+01/02 Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve
+ Niagara Falls, 1929
+01/03 Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers
+ over Italy, 1925
+01/03 Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British
+ Prime Minister in the 20th Century, 1988
+01/04 Burma becomes independent from United Kingdom, 1948
01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
01/05 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940
01/05 Twelfth night
-01/06 Millard Fillmore's birthday (let's party!)
+01/06 Maria Montessori opens her first school in Rome, 1907
+01/07 First transatlantic telephone call, 1927
01/08 Battle of New Orleans
+01/08 Monaco gains its independence, 1297
01/09 Plough Monday
01/10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946
01/10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776
@@ -26,12 +35,28 @@
01/11 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal
01/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
01/11 The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963
+01/12 Batman the TV series debuts on ABC, 1966
+01/13 Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance, 1930
01/14 The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967
+01/15 Angola becomes an independent state, 1975
01/16 Prohibition begins, 1920
+01/16 The Medici family are made official bankers of the Papacy, 1412
+01/17 Captain James Cook becomes the first explorer to cross the
+ Antarctic Circle, 1773
01/18 Grey whale migration, California
+01/18 The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time, 1896
+01/19 The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant, 1978
01/20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)
+01/21 First commercial flight with a Concorde, 1976
+01/22 British colonists reach New Zealand, 1840
+01/23 The Royal Exchange opens in London, 1571
+01/23 The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in
+ the Netherlands, 1579
01/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922
01/24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848
+01/24 Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement, 1908
+01/25 The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits
+ the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada, 1791
01/26 Sydney, New South Wales settled, 1788
01/27 Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967
01/27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973
@@ -39,111 +64,207 @@
01/28 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff
killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe,
1986
+01/28 The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the
+ Panama Railway, 1855
+01/29 Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, the last monarch of
+ Hawaii, 1891
01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948
01/30 Tet Offensive, 1968
01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961
+01/31 Dmitry Mendeleev established optimal alcohol-water mixture ratio
+ in his PhD work on alcohol-water mixtures, 1865
01/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered
-01/31 Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp
+01/31 Irving Langmuir invented tungsten filament lamp, 1881
02/01 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954
02/01 Forces led by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979
02/01 Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrates 15 minutes before landing
killing Husband, McCool, Chawla, Clark, Ramon, Brown, and Anderson, 2003
+02/02 Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament, 1933
+02/03 The first commercial cheese factory is founded in Switzerland, 1815
02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969
02/04 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974
+02/05 Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of
+ the United Arab Republic, 1958
+02/06 Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand,
1840
+02/07 The British Labour Party is formed, 1900
02/08 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq
02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
-02/12 US President Abraham Lincoln's real birthday
+02/09 Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation, 1621
+02/10 New Delhi becomes the capital of India, 1931
+02/11 Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of
+ the Kalmar Union, 1814
+02/12 China adopts the Gregorian calendar, 1912
02/12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969
+02/13 France tests its first atomic bomb in Algeria, 1960
02/14 Bombing of Dresden, 1945
02/15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970
02/16 Nylon patented, 1937
02/16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804
+02/17 The first ship passes through the Suez Canal, 1867
+02/18 Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech, 1943
02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930
+02/19 Serfdom is abolished in Russia, 1861
02/19 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945
+02/20 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia
+ for 15 years, 2001
02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962
02/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties
02/21 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878
02/21 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965
+02/22 Start of the Czechoslovak Revolution, 1948
02/23 Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 1971
02/24 Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868
+02/25 The Democratic Republic of Georgia occupied by Bolshevist Russia, 1921
+02/26 Final radio broadcast of Dragnet, 1957
+02/27 The Lionheart crowned, 1189
02/28 The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972
02/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704
03/01 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft
in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
-03/02 Blackthorn winds (New England) (Does anyone know what this is?)
-03/04 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.
+03/01 The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded, 1565
+03/02 Blackthorn winds (New England)
+03/02 Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam, 1946
+03/03 Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire, 1878
+03/04 Emile Berliner invents the microphone, 1877
+03/04 First meeting of Congress in N.Y.C., 1789
+03/05 Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, 1836
+03/06 The aspirin is registered as a trademark of Bayer, 1899
+03/07 Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for
+ women's voting rights in Kuwait, 2005
+03/08 The first case of Spanish flu occurs, killing 50 million to 100 million
+ people worldwide, 1918
+03/09 The Barbie doll debuts, 1959
+03/10 Republic of Cote d'Ivoire becomes a colony of France, 1893
+03/11 Ceasefire declared in the war between Iran and Irak, 1988
+03/12 The first bottles of Coca Cola were sold, 1894
03/13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894
03/14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907
-03/15 Day of the 1848 revolution in Hungary
+03/14 The kingdom of Cyprus is sold by the ruling Queen to Venice, 1489
03/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH
+03/15 Day of the 1848 revolution in Hungary
03/15 France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874
03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966
03/15 Ides of March. Gaius Julius Caesar assassinated by senators,
including adoptive son Marcus Junius Brutus Caepio, 44BC
+03/15 Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by
+ several senators, 44BC
+03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966
+03/16 Largest coordinated worldwide vigil against the Iraq War, 2003
03/16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by US infantrymen
03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926
+03/17 Invention of the rubber band, 1845
+03/17 Ukrainian Nationalist Republic declared, 1917
03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped
03/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965
+03/18 In the Pyramid of Cheops a 4.400 year old mummy is found, 1989
03/19 Swallows return to Capistrano
03/20 Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980
+03/21 Henry V becomes the king of England, 1413
+03/22 First motion picture displayed by Auguste and Louis Lumière, 1895
+03/22 World Day for Water
+03/23 The first Islamic republic in the world is Pakistan, 1956
03/24 Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900
+03/25 The first Bed-In for Peace by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 1969
03/25 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911
03/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937
+03/26 The driving test is introduced, in the United Kingdom, 1934
03/27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958
03/28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979
03/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638
+03/29 The Republic of Ireland bans smoking in all work places, 2004
03/30 Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867
03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977
03/30 Pencil with eraser patented, 1858
+03/31 The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated, 1889
04/01 People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day.
+04/02 Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia, 1930
+04/03 First publication of the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, 1896
04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
-04/04 NATO Established, 1949
+04/04 NATO established, 1949
+04/05 Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia, 1614
04/06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830
04/07 Alewives run, Cape Cod
04/08 Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin meet in Encounter Bay, 1802
+04/08 The Venus de Milo is found on the island of Melos, 1820
04/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865
+04/09 The first public exhibition of art opens in Paris, 1667
+04/10 The Belfast Agreement is signed, on Good Friday, 1998
+04/11 The Shogunate is abolished in Japan, 1868
04/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861
+04/12 Great Britain adopts the Union Jack as their national flag, 1606
04/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981
04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961
04/13 Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos
04/14 US President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes
Booth, 1865
04/14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912
+04/15 Insulin first becomes generally available for use by diabetics, 1923
04/15 US President Abraham Lincoln dies, 1865
04/15 Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955
+04/16 Syria becomes an independent Republic, 1946
04/17 Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961
04/18 Einstein's Death, 1955
04/18 First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934
04/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906
+04/18 The League of Nations is dissolved after 27 years, 1946
04/19 Landing of the "33" in Uruguay
04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943
+04/20 In Bulgaria, the April Uprising takes place, 1876
04/20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971
04/21 Lyrid meteor shower
+04/21 Rome is founded by Romulus and Remus, 753BC
+04/22 Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral becomes the first European to
+ sight Brazil, 1500
+04/22 The first Earth Day is celebrated, 1970
04/22 Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, called Lenin, Russian political leader, born in
Simbirsk, 1870
+04/23 Bavarian co-rulers Duke Wilhelm IV and Duke Ludwig X proclaimed the
+ weighty and consequential Bavarian Beer Purity Law
+ (later Reinheitsgebot), 1516
04/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
+04/24 The Greek enter Troy with the Trojan Horse, 1184BC
+04/25 Integrated circuit patented by Robert Noyce, 1961
04/26 William Shakespeare baptized in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564,
- birthdate unknown
+ birthdate less certain
04/27 Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521
+04/28 President of France, Charles de Gaulle resigns, 1969
04/29 Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913
+04/30 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide, 1945
05/01 Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god
+05/01 Adam Weishaupt founded the Illuminati of Bavaria, 1776
+05/02 The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness monster is reported, 1933
05/03 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971
+05/03 Jamaica is spotted by Christopher Columbus, 1494
+05/04 Christopher Columbus sets foot on Jamaica, 1494
05/04 Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970
05/05 John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925
+05/05 Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire, 1260
05/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1937
-05/07 Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945
+05/07 Germany surrenders after World War II, 1945
05/08 Beginning of ostrich mating season
+05/08 Herbert Akroyd Stuart patented the first "diesel" engine, 1890
05/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972
05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979
+05/09 The first parliament of Australia opens in Melbourne, 1901
05/10 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940
05/10 Nazi bookburning, 1933
+05/11 Thailand is no longer known as Siam, 1949
+05/12 Tunisia becomes a French protectorate, 1881
+05/13 Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after
+ having been accused of treason, 1619
05/14 Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
05/14 Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948
05/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854
+05/15 The civil war in Finland ends, 1918
+05/16 Root beer invented by Charles Elmer Hires, 1866
05/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
05/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
05/18 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
05/18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
+05/19 The Legion d'Honneur is founded by Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802
+05/20 The first modern atlas issued by Abraham Ortelius, 1570
05/21 Battle of Iquique in Chile
05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956
+05/22 The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony,
+ is abolished, 1840
05/22 US Civil War ends, 1865
05/23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960
05/23 Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953
@@ -152,19 +273,35 @@
05/25 Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980
05/25 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830
05/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
+05/26 John Calvin and his followers are expelled from Geneva, 1538
05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937
+05/27 The pop-up toaster patented by Charles Strite, 1919
+05/28 Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication, 1936
05/29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953
05/29 First food stamps issued, 1961
05/30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912
+05/30 Beginning of the civil war over Biafra, 1967
+05/31 Yom Kippur War comes to an end by the signing of a disengagement
+ agreement by Syria and Israel, 1974
+06/01 In a referendum the Dutch reject the European Constitution, 2005
+06/02 Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty in a close-call referendum, 1992
06/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924
+06/03 Edward White becomes the first American to perform a "Space Walk", 1965
+06/03 Last Star Trek episode first aired ("Turnabout Intruder"), 1969
06/04 Roquefort cheese developed, 1070
06/05 Robert Kennedy assassinated, 1968
+06/05 Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem, 70
06/05 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933
06/06 First drive-in movie, 1933
06/06 Normandy landing, 1944
+06/07 The first act of civil disobedience by Gandhi, 1893
+06/08 The Canadian Parliament meets for the first time in Ottawa, 1866
+06/09 The Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, 68
06/10 Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C.
06/10 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971
06/11 Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC
+06/12 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison, 1964
+06/13 Much of Vancouver, British Columbia, is devastated by a fire, 1886
06/13 Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System
06/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834
06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752
@@ -173,16 +310,21 @@
that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop,
1878
06/16 "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980
+06/16 Henry Ford launched the Ford Motor Company, 1903
06/17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967
06/17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972
+06/18 Winston Churchill delivers his "Finest Hour" speech, 1940
06/19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953
06/19 Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893
06/20 Victoria crowned, 1837
06/21 Berlin airlift begins, 1948
06/21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge
06/22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964
+06/22 The June Days Uprising in Paris begins, 1848
+06/23 Harriet, Darwin's turtle died at the age of 176 years, 2006
06/23 Slavery abolished in England, 1772
06/24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970
+06/24 The capital of Jamaica, Kingston, is founded, 1664
06/25 Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 1876
06/25 North Korea invades South Korea, 1950
06/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
@@ -190,47 +332,83 @@
06/26 Toothbrush invented, 1498
06/27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915
06/27 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971
-06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978
-06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia, 1908
+06/27 The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London, 1967
+06/28 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria assassinated in Sarajevo,
+ marking the beginning of World War I, 1914
+06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Allan Bakke, 1978
+06/28 World War I ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919
+06/29 The Seychelles gains independence from the United Kingdom, 1976
+06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia at 7:17 local time, 1908
+06/30 Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity, 1905
06/30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960
07/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863
+07/01 Hong Kong becomes a special administrative region of the People's
+ Republic of China, 1997
+07/01 The first day on the Somme marked the beginning of the
+ Battle of the Somme, 1916
+07/01 Warsaw Pact officially dissolved, 1991
+07/02 Vermont abolishes slavery, as the first state, 1777
07/03 Dog days begin
07/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863
07/04 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776
07/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776
07/04 Thoreau enters woods, 1845
+07/05 Bikini demonstrated for the first time, 1946
07/06 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928
07/06 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917
07/07 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949
07/07 Terrorists detonate four bombs on London public transport, 2005
+07/08 A UFO is believed to have crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, 1947
07/08 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
07/08 Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835
07/09 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847
+07/09 The African Union gets established, 2002
07/10 134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913
+07/10 Most of London gets burned down in a severe fire, 1212
+07/11 Mongolia gains independence from China, 1921
07/12 Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933
07/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908
+07/14 Storming of the Bastille by the citizens of Paris, 1789
+07/15 First item sold via Amazon.com, 1995
07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945
+07/16 End of the civil war in Rwanda, 1994
07/17 Disneyland opens, 1955
+07/18 "Mein Kampf" is published, 1925
07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
07/19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692
+07/19 France declares war on Prussia, marking the beginning of the
+ Franco-Prussian war, 1870
07/20 Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969
+07/20 Ford Motor Company ships their car, 1903
07/21 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873
07/21 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954
+07/22 Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly around the world, 1933
07/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904
07/24 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
+07/25 First test-tube baby born, 1978
+07/26 Potsdam Declaration signed, 1945
+07/27 The last Citroen 2CV made, 1990
+07/28 Potato introduced in Europe by Sir Thomas Harriot, 1586
+07/29 Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 1836
07/30 "In God We Trust" made US motto, 1956
+07/30 Elvis Presley performs for the first time in public, 1954
+07/31 First U.S. patent issued, 1790
07/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948,
later JFK
08/01 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on
this day
+08/02 Hitler becomes the Fuehrer of Germany, 1934
08/03 Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492
08/03 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958
08/04 Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892
08/04 Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964
08/04 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914
+08/05 Nelson Mandela is jailed, 1962
08/06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945
08/06 Caricom in Barbados
08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
+08/07 Jack the Ripper makes his first kill, 1888
+08/08 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
08/08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914
08/08 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974
08/08 The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963
@@ -240,23 +418,32 @@
08/09 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
08/09 Singapore secedes from Malaysia, 1965
08/10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833
+08/10 Major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft disrupted by
+ Scotland Yard, 2006
08/10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977
08/11 Dog days end
08/11 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954
08/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
+08/12 Cleopatra commits suicide, 30BC
08/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977
08/12 Last US ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
08/13 Berlin wall erected, 1961
08/13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934
+08/14 France introduces motor vehicle registration, 1893
08/14 Social Security begins in US, 1935
08/15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947
08/15 Hurricane hits Plymouth Plantation, 1635
08/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898
08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
+08/17 Indonesian Declaration of Independence, 1945
08/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed
+08/18 Power blackout on Java, Indonesia, affects almost
+ 100 million people, 2005
08/19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite,
marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960
08/19 Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856
+08/20 First commercial radio station airs in Detroit, Michigan, 1920
+08/21 Louvre employee steals the "Mona Lisa", 1911
08/22 Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets
08/22 Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963
08/22 St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565
@@ -264,11 +451,14 @@
08/24 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969
08/24 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960
08/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814
-08/25 Gen. De Gaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
+08/25 General de Gaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
08/26 19th amendment of US constitution gives women the vote, 1920
+08/26 Women get the vote, 1920
08/27 "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912
08/27 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883
+08/28 Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay, 1609
08/28 Martin Luther King leads over 200,000 in civil rights rally in
Washington, DC, 1963
+08/29 Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction, 1831
08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975;
Nova Cygni 1975.
08/30 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842
@@ -279,26 +469,32 @@
08/31 Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888
08/31 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
08/31 Federation of Malaya gains independence from Great Britain, 1957
+08/31 Independent union "Solidarnosc" born, Gdansk, 1980
09/01 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972
09/01 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859
09/02 Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752
09/02 Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945
09/03 Richard ``the Lionheart'' crowned king of England, 1189
09/03 Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino
+09/04 Napoleon III is deposed and the Third Republic is declared, 1870
09/05 US President Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests,
1961
+09/05 St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland, 1980
09/05 The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774
09/06 149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620
09/06 First Star Trek episode (The Man Trap) aired 1966
09/06 US President McKinley shot, 1901
09/06 Somhlolo in Swaziland
+09/07 Brazil declares its independence from Portugal, 1822
09/08 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966)
09/08 Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888
09/08 US President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974
09/09 California becomes the 31st state of the USA, 1850
+09/09 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph, 1839
09/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776
09/10 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857
09/11 CIA-sponsored terrorists overthrow Chilean government, murder President
Allende, 1973
09/11 Terrorists destroy World Trade Center in New York, 2001
+09/11 World Wide Fund (WWF) founded, 1961
09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943
09/12 Germany annexes Sudetenland, 1938
09/13 58 °C (136.4 °F) measured at el Azizia, Libya, 1922
@@ -310,24 +506,33 @@
09/14 The US Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940
09/15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959
09/15 The US Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the US State Department, 1789
+09/15 The Nazis adopt a new national flag with the swastika, 1935
+09/16 General Motors is founded, 1908
09/16 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630
09/16 Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore unite to become Malaysia, 1963
09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862
+09/17 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859
09/18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi
09/19 New Zealand women get the right to vote, 1893
+09/19 Walt Disney releases Steamboat Willie, 1928
09/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for US President, 1884
09/20 First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, 1848
09/20 First meeting of the US National Research Council, 1916
09/20 Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519
09/20 The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973
+09/21 J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published, 1937
+09/22 Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953
09/22 US President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
09/22 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas US President Nixon, 1974
09/22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949
09/23 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972
09/23 The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first US Baseball club, 1845
09/23 US Vice President Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers"
speech, 1952
+09/24 The Netherlands surrenders New Amsterdam to England, 1664
+09/25 Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era, 1066
09/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981
+09/26 Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic, 1973
09/27 The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825
09/28 "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678
09/28 A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon,
@@ -336,10 +541,14 @@
1888
09/30 The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846
09/30 The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946
+10/01 Austria issues the world's first postcards, 1869
10/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958
+10/02 Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec, 1535
10/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967
+10/03 O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of murder, 1995
10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853
10/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957
+10/05 Portugal declares itself a republic, 1910
10/06 Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853
10/06 Egyptian President Anwar es-Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981
10/06 Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973
@@ -349,6 +558,7 @@
10/07 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979
10/07 Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974
10/08 Great Chicago Fire, 1871
+10/08 San Marino adopts its written constitution, 1600
10/09 First two-way telephone conversation, 1876
10/10 Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba
10/10 Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea
@@ -360,6 +570,8 @@
10/11 The second Vatican Ecumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962
10/11 First broadcast of Saturday Night Live, 1975
10/12 Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
+10/12 Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig married Princess Therese of
+ Saxony-Hildburghausen, Oktoberfest, 1810
10/12 Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960
10/12 Man O'War's last race, 1920
10/12 Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
@@ -367,29 +579,42 @@
10/13 US Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress
10/14 Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066
10/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947
+10/15 Edison Electric Light Company begins operation, 1878
10/15 First draft card burned, 1965
+10/16 The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney
+ and his brother, Roy Disney, 1923
+10/17 Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion, 1931
10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first US labor org., 1648
10/18 Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959
+10/18 The Grand Ole Opry opens its doors, 1925
10/19 Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949
10/19 Napoleon's beaten army begins the long retreat from Moscow, 1812
10/20 "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973
10/20 OPEC embargo, 1973
10/21 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879
10/21 Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959
+10/22 Laos gains independence from France, 1953
10/23 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944
10/23 Day of the 1956 revolution in Hungary
10/23 Earth created at 6:30 AM, 4004BC.
+10/23 South African troops invade Angola in support of UNITA and FNLA, 1975
10/23 Swallows leave Capistrano
+10/24 Founding of the United Nations, 1945
10/25 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971
10/26 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978
10/27 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871
10/27 The first New York Subway is opened, 1904
+10/27 Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of
+ a global economic meltdown, 1997
10/28 Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492
10/28 Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312
10/28 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636
10/28 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886
+10/29 Leibniz makes the first use of the "long s" for integral, 1675
10/29 Stock Market Crash, 1929
+10/30 Communist Party of Australia founded in Sydney, 1920
10/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938
+10/31 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetak, 1952
10/31 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517
11/01 Austria-Hungary become two separate nations, 1918
11/01 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950
@@ -401,8 +626,11 @@
11/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979
11/04 Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956
11/05 Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605
+11/06 Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R.
11/07 Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837
11/07 Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805
+11/08 Invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the
+ Stockholm Bloodbath, 1520
11/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965
11/09 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927
11/09 Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888
@@ -411,65 +639,104 @@
11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House, 1917
11/10 Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865
11/10 Henry Stanley asks David Livingstone, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?",
1871
+11/11 First broadcast of Sesame Street, 1970
11/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889
11/12 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan
11/12 USA first exports oil to Europe, 1861
+11/13 St. Brice's Day massacre by order of Ethelred, king of England, 1002
+11/14 Czechoslovakia becomes a republic, 1918
11/14 Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon
price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after formal request
from McDonald's), 1971
+11/15 First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, 1920
11/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
11/16 Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869
11/16 Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1938
11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966
+11/17 Elizabeth I of England succeeds Queen Mary I of England, 1558
11/17 Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973
11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952
11/18 Local standard time zones established for US, 1883
11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863
+11/19 Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Company, 1916
+11/20 Nuremberg Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals begin, 1945
11/21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973
+11/21 Birmingham Pub Bombings by the IRA kill 21 people, 1974
+11/22 John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, 1963
11/22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963
11/23 First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963
+11/23 The first edition of Life is published. 1936
+11/24 Alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is killed by
+ Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas, 1963
11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963
11/25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867
+11/26 Last flight ever with a Concorde made over Bristol, UK, 2003
11/27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895
-11/27 Friction match invented, England, 1826
+11/27 Friction match invented by englishman John Walker, Sweden, 1826
11/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
+11/28 Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, 1912
11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922
12/01 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924
+12/01 Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, 1913
12/01 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955
12/01 Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1953
+12/02 Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French, 1852
12/03 First neon light display, Paris, 1910
12/03 First successful human heart transplant led by Dr. Barnard, 1967
12/03 The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971
+12/04 People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution, 1982
12/04 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783
12/05 End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part)
12/05 Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776
12/05 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition, 1933
+12/06 London becomes the world's first city with motorised cabs, 1897
12/07 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941
12/08 Japan enters Second World War with invasion of Pantai Sabak, Kelantan,
1941
+12/08 Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum, 1991
12/09 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
12/10 Metric system established in France, 1799
12/10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year
+12/11 The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, 1931
12/12 First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901
12/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972
12/13 Dartmouth College chartered, 1769
12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south)
+12/14 Portugal joins the United Nations, 1955
12/15 Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976
12/15 Bill of Rights adopted, 1791
12/15 James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891
12/15 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890
+12/16 Pokemon episode (Electric Soldier Porygon) triggers attacks of
+ photosensitive epilepsy in hundreds of Japanese children, 1997
+12/17 Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is first published, 1843
+12/18 Indonesia invades Netherlands New Guinea, 1961
+12/19 Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the
+ German Army, 1941
+12/20 Cheka founded, 1917
12/20 US buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.
+12/21 Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France, 1958
12/21 Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in less than 80 days
12/21 Women gain the right to vote in South Australia, 1894
12/21 Women gain the right to hold political office in South Australia, 1894
+12/22 First freight train is operated in Roorkee in India, 1851
+12/23 The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories, 1947
+12/24 Hong Kong falls to the Japanese Imperial Army, 1941
12/24 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865
+12/25 Christmas Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors, 1643
12/26 DPMA founded, 1951
12/27 APT report published, 1956
12/27 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845
12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
12/28 Proclamation of the Province of South Australia, 1836
+12/28 Spain recognizes independence of Mexico, 1836
12/29 Battle of Wounded knee, 1890
+12/29 Edison receives patent for Radio, 1891
12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940
+12/30 Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations, 1993
+12/30 Soviet Ukrainian Republic declared, 1917
12/31 St. Sylvester in Switzerland
+12/31 First supersonic commercial flight by Tu-144, 1968
+12/31 Windows tax in England, 1695
12/31 Winterland closes its doors, 1978
#endif /* !_calendar_history_ */
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