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113685Swosch/* 213685Swosch * History 313685Swosch * 450477Speter * $FreeBSD: head/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history 52038 1999-10-08 21:34:16Z charnier $ 513685Swosch */ 613685Swosch 713685Swosch#ifndef _calendar_history_ 813685Swosch#define _calendar_history_ 913685Swosch 101590Srgrimes01/01 Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba 1113792Smpp01/01 Castro expels Cuban President Batista, 1959 121590Srgrimes01/01 Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech, 1947 131590Srgrimes01/01 First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902 141590Srgrimes01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north) 151590Srgrimes01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913 161590Srgrimes01/05 Fellowship enters Moria (LOTR) 171590Srgrimes01/05 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940 181590Srgrimes01/05 Twelfth night 191590Srgrimes01/06 Millard Fillmore's birthday (let's party!) 201590Srgrimes01/08 Battle of New Orleans 211590Srgrimes01/09 Fellowship reaches Lorien (LOTR) 221590Srgrimes01/09 Plough Monday 231590Srgrimes01/10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946 241590Srgrimes01/10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776 251590Srgrimes01/11 Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania 261590Srgrimes01/11 De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico 271590Srgrimes01/11 Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 1878 281590Srgrimes01/11 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal 291590Srgrimes01/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964 301590Srgrimes01/11 The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963 311590Srgrimes01/14 The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967 321590Srgrimes01/16 Prohibition begins, 1920 331590Srgrimes01/17 Passing of Gandalf (LOTR) 341590Srgrimes01/18 Grey whale migration, California 351590Srgrimes01/20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...) 361590Srgrimes01/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922 371590Srgrimes01/24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848 3822152Smpp01/26 Sydney Aust. settled, 1788 391590Srgrimes01/27 Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967 401590Srgrimes01/27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973 411590Srgrimes01/28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914 421590Srgrimes01/28 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff 431590Srgrimes killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe, 441590Srgrimes 1986 451590Srgrimes01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948 461590Srgrimes01/30 Tet Offensive, 1968 471590Srgrimes01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961 481590Srgrimes01/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered 491590Srgrimes01/31 Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp 501590Srgrimes02/01 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954 511590Srgrimes02/01 Forces lead by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979 521590Srgrimes02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969 5313792Smpp02/04 Patricia Hearst kidnaped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974 541590Srgrimes02/07 Fellowship leaves Lorien (LOTR) 551590Srgrimes02/08 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq 561590Srgrimes02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934 571590Srgrimes02/12 Lincoln's real birthday 581590Srgrimes02/12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969 591590Srgrimes02/14 Bombing of Dresden, 1945 601590Srgrimes02/15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970 611590Srgrimes02/16 Nylon patented, 1937 621590Srgrimes02/16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804 631590Srgrimes02/17 Death of Boromir (LOTR) 641590Srgrimes02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930 651590Srgrimes02/19 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945 661590Srgrimes02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962 671590Srgrimes02/20 Meriadoc & Pippin meet Treebeard (LOTR) 681590Srgrimes02/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties 691590Srgrimes02/21 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878 701590Srgrimes02/21 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965 711590Srgrimes02/22 Passing of King Ellesar (LOTR) 721590Srgrimes02/23 Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 1971 731590Srgrimes02/24 Ents destroy Isengard (LOTR) 741590Srgrimes02/24 Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868 751590Srgrimes02/26 Aragorn takes the Paths of the Dead (LOTR) 761590Srgrimes02/28 The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972 771590Srgrimes02/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704 781590Srgrimes03/01 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft 791590Srgrimes in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 801590Srgrimes03/02 Blackthorn winds (New England) (Does anyone know what this is?) 811590Srgrimes03/04 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C. 821590Srgrimes03/05 Frodo & Samwise encounter Shelob (LOTR) 831590Srgrimes03/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1939 841590Srgrimes03/08 Deaths of Denethor & Theoden (LOTR) 851590Srgrimes03/13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894 861590Srgrimes03/14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907 8723094Smpp03/15 Day of the 1848 revolution in Hungary 881590Srgrimes03/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH 891590Srgrimes03/15 France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874 901590Srgrimes03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966 911590Srgrimes03/16 First liquid-fuel-powered rocket flight, 1926 921590Srgrimes03/16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen 931590Srgrimes03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926 941590Srgrimes03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped 951590Srgrimes03/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965 961590Srgrimes03/18 Destruction of the Ring (LOTR) 971590Srgrimes03/19 Swallows return to Capistrano 981590Srgrimes03/20 Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980 991590Srgrimes03/24 Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900 1001590Srgrimes03/25 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911 1011590Srgrimes03/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937 1021590Srgrimes03/27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958 1031590Srgrimes03/28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979 1041590Srgrimes03/29 Flowering of the Mallorn (LOTR) 1051590Srgrimes03/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638 1061590Srgrimes03/30 Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867 1071590Srgrimes03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977 1081590Srgrimes03/30 Pencil with eraser patented, 1858 1091590Srgrimes04/01 People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day. 1101590Srgrimes04/04 Gandalf visits Bilbo (LOTR) 1111590Srgrimes04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968 1121590Srgrimes04/04 NATO Established, 1949 1131590Srgrimes04/06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830 1141590Srgrimes04/07 Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1943 1151590Srgrimes04/07 Alewives run, Cape Cod 1161590Srgrimes04/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865 1171590Srgrimes04/12 Columbia launched, 1981 1181590Srgrimes04/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861 1191590Srgrimes04/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981 1201590Srgrimes04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961 1211590Srgrimes04/13 Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos 12250848Snik04/14 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865 1231590Srgrimes04/14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912 12450848Snik04/15 Lincoln dies, 1865 1251590Srgrimes04/15 Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955 1261590Srgrimes04/17 An unexpected party (LOTR) 1271590Srgrimes04/17 Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961 1281590Srgrimes04/18 Einstein's Death, 1955 1291590Srgrimes04/18 First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934 1301590Srgrimes04/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906 1311590Srgrimes04/19 Landing of the "33" in Uruguay 1321590Srgrimes04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943 1331590Srgrimes04/20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971 1341590Srgrimes04/21 Lyrid meteor shower 1351590Srgrimes04/23 Crowning of King Ellesar (LOTR) 1361590Srgrimes04/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954 13713792Smpp04/26 William Shakespeare baptized in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564, 1381590Srgrimes birthdate unknown 13913792Smpp04/27 Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521 1401590Srgrimes04/29 Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913 1411590Srgrimes05/01 Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god 1421590Srgrimes05/03 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971 1431590Srgrimes05/04 Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970 1441590Srgrimes05/05 John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925 1451590Srgrimes05/07 Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945 1461590Srgrimes05/08 Beginning of ostrich mating season 1471590Srgrimes05/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972 1481590Srgrimes05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979 1491590Srgrimes05/10 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940 1501590Srgrimes05/10 Nazi bookburning, 1933 1511590Srgrimes05/14 Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804 1521590Srgrimes05/14 Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948 1531590Srgrimes05/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854 1541590Srgrimes05/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982 1551590Srgrimes05/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974 1561590Srgrimes05/18 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay 1571590Srgrimes05/18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804 1581590Srgrimes05/19 Arwen leaves Lorian to wed King Ellesar (LOTR) 1591590Srgrimes05/21 Battle of Iquique in Chile 1601590Srgrimes05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956 1611590Srgrimes05/22 US Civil War ends, 1865 1621590Srgrimes05/23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960 1631590Srgrimes05/23 Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953 1641590Srgrimes05/24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador 1651590Srgrimes05/25 Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980 1661590Srgrimes05/25 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830 1671590Srgrimes05/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924 1681590Srgrimes05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937 1691590Srgrimes05/29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953 1701590Srgrimes05/29 First food stamps issued, 1961 1711590Srgrimes05/30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912 1721590Srgrimes06/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924 1731590Srgrimes06/04 Roquefort cheese developed, 1070 17413792Smpp06/05 Robert Kennedy assassinated, 1968 1751590Srgrimes06/05 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933 1761590Srgrimes06/06 First drive-in movie, 1933 1771590Srgrimes06/06 Normandy landing, 1944 1781590Srgrimes06/10 Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C. 1791590Srgrimes06/10 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971 1801590Srgrimes06/11 Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC 1811590Srgrimes06/11 Sauron attacks Osgilliath (LOTR) 1821590Srgrimes06/13 Bilbo returns to Bag End (LOTR) 1831590Srgrimes06/13 Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System 1841590Srgrimes06/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834 1851590Srgrimes06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752 1861590Srgrimes06/15 Magna Carta signed, 1215 1871590Srgrimes06/15 Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford 1881590Srgrimes that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop, 1891590Srgrimes 1878 1901590Srgrimes06/16 "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980 1911590Srgrimes06/17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967 1921590Srgrimes06/17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972 1931590Srgrimes06/19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953 1941590Srgrimes06/19 Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893 1951590Srgrimes06/20 Victoria crowned, 1837 1961590Srgrimes06/21 Berlin airlift begins, 1948 1971590Srgrimes06/21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge 1981590Srgrimes06/22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964 1991590Srgrimes06/23 Slavery abolished in England, 1772 2001590Srgrimes06/23 Wedding of Ellesar & Arwen (LOTR) 2011590Srgrimes06/24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970 2021590Srgrimes06/25 Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 1876 2031590Srgrimes06/25 North Korea invades South Korea, 1950 2041590Srgrimes06/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 2051590Srgrimes06/26 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959 2061590Srgrimes06/26 Toothbrush invented, 1498 2071590Srgrimes06/27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915 2081590Srgrimes06/27 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971 2091590Srgrimes06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978 2101590Srgrimes06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia, 1908 2111590Srgrimes06/30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960 2121590Srgrimes07/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863 2131590Srgrimes07/03 Dog days begin 2141590Srgrimes07/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863 2151590Srgrimes07/04 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776 2161590Srgrimes07/04 Gandalf imprisoned by Saruman (LOTR) 2171590Srgrimes07/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776 2181590Srgrimes07/04 Thoreau enters woods, 1845 2191590Srgrimes07/06 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928 2201590Srgrimes07/06 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917 2211590Srgrimes07/07 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949 2221590Srgrimes07/08 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776 2231590Srgrimes07/08 Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835 2241590Srgrimes07/09 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847 2251590Srgrimes07/10 134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913 2261590Srgrimes07/12 Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933 2271590Srgrimes07/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908 2281590Srgrimes07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945 2291590Srgrimes07/17 Disneyland opens, 1955 2301590Srgrimes07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927 2311590Srgrimes07/19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692 2321590Srgrimes07/20 Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969 2331590Srgrimes07/21 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873 2341590Srgrimes07/21 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954 2351590Srgrimes07/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904 2361590Srgrimes07/24 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 2371590Srgrimes07/24 The ring comes to Bilbo (LOTR) 2381590Srgrimes07/26 Bilbo rescued from Wargs by Eagles (LOTR) 2391590Srgrimes07/30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956 2401590Srgrimes07/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948, 2411590Srgrimes later JFK 2421590Srgrimes08/01 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on 2431590Srgrimes this day 2441590Srgrimes08/03 Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492 2451590Srgrimes08/03 Funeral of King Theoden (LOTR) 2461590Srgrimes08/03 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958 2471590Srgrimes08/04 Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892 2481590Srgrimes08/04 Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964 2491590Srgrimes08/04 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914 2501590Srgrimes08/06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945 2511590Srgrimes08/06 Caricom in Barbados 2521590Srgrimes08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890 2531590Srgrimes08/08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914 2541590Srgrimes08/08 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974 2551590Srgrimes08/08 The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963 2561590Srgrimes08/09 Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969 2571590Srgrimes08/09 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC 2581590Srgrimes08/09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842 25950848Snik08/09 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945 2601590Srgrimes08/10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833 2611590Srgrimes08/10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977 2621590Srgrimes08/11 Dog days end 2631590Srgrimes08/11 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954 2641590Srgrimes08/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days) 2651590Srgrimes08/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977 2661590Srgrimes08/12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972 2671590Srgrimes08/13 Berlin wall erected, 1961 2681590Srgrimes08/13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934 2691590Srgrimes08/14 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935 2701590Srgrimes08/15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947 27113792Smpp08/15 Hurricane hits Plymouth Plantation, 1635 2721590Srgrimes08/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898 2731590Srgrimes08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891 2741590Srgrimes08/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed 2751590Srgrimes08/19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite, 2761590Srgrimes marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960 2771590Srgrimes08/19 Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856 2781590Srgrimes08/22 Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets 2791590Srgrimes08/22 Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963 2801590Srgrimes08/22 St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565 2811590Srgrimes08/23 Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927 2821590Srgrimes08/24 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969 2831590Srgrimes08/24 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960 2841590Srgrimes08/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814 28552038Scharnier08/25 Gen. De Gaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944 2861590Srgrimes08/26 Women get the vote, 1920 2871590Srgrimes08/27 "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912 2881590Srgrimes08/27 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883 2891590Srgrimes08/28 King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963 2901590Srgrimes08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; 2911590Srgrimes Nova Cygni 1975. 2921590Srgrimes08/29 Saruman enters the Shire (LOTR) 2931590Srgrimes08/30 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842 2941590Srgrimes08/30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960 2951590Srgrimes08/30 St. Rose of Lima in Peru 2961590Srgrimes08/30 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963 2971590Srgrimes08/31 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983 2981590Srgrimes08/31 Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888 2991590Srgrimes08/31 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926 3001590Srgrimes09/01 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972 3011590Srgrimes09/01 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859 3021590Srgrimes09/02 Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752 3031590Srgrimes09/02 Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945 30449355Snik09/03 The Lionheart crowned, 1189 3051590Srgrimes09/03 Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino 3061590Srgrimes09/05 Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961 3071590Srgrimes09/05 The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774 3081590Srgrimes09/06 149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620 3091590Srgrimes09/06 First Star Trek episode (The Man Trap) aired 1966 3101590Srgrimes09/06 Pres. McKinley shot, 1901 3111590Srgrimes09/06 Somhlolo in Swaziland 3121590Srgrimes09/08 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966) 3131590Srgrimes09/08 Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888 3141590Srgrimes09/08 President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974 3151590Srgrimes09/09 California becomes the 31st state, 1850 3161590Srgrimes09/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776 3171590Srgrimes09/10 Gandalf escapes from Orthanc (LOTR) 3181590Srgrimes09/10 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857 3191590Srgrimes09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943 3201590Srgrimes09/12 Germany annexes Sudentenland, 1938 3211590Srgrimes09/13 136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya, 1922 3221590Srgrimes09/13 British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City, 1788 3231590Srgrimes09/13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122 3241590Srgrimes09/13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943 3251590Srgrimes09/14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778 3261590Srgrimes09/14 Frodo & Bilbo's birthday (LOTR) 3271590Srgrimes09/14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629 3281590Srgrimes09/14 The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940 3291590Srgrimes09/15 Black riders enter the Shire (LOTR) 3301590Srgrimes09/15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959 3311590Srgrimes09/15 The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department, 1789 3321590Srgrimes09/16 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630 3331590Srgrimes09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862 3341590Srgrimes09/18 Frodo and company rescued by Bombadil (LOTR) 3351590Srgrimes09/18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi 3361590Srgrimes09/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884 3371590Srgrimes09/20 First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 3381590Srgrimes Science, 1848 3391590Srgrimes09/20 First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916 3401590Srgrimes09/20 Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519 3411590Srgrimes09/20 The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973 3421590Srgrimes09/22 Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953 3431590Srgrimes09/22 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862 34413792Smpp09/22 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas President Nixon, 1974 3451590Srgrimes09/22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949 34613792Smpp09/23 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972 3471590Srgrimes09/23 The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club, 1845 3481590Srgrimes09/23 V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech, 1952 3491590Srgrimes09/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981 3501590Srgrimes09/27 The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825 3511590Srgrimes09/28 "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678 3521590Srgrimes09/28 A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon, 3531590Srgrimes 490BC 3541590Srgrimes09/28 Frodo wounded at Weathertop (LOTR) 3551590Srgrimes09/30 Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (#3) and Catherine Eddowes (#4), 3561590Srgrimes 1888 3571590Srgrimes09/30 The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846 3581590Srgrimes09/30 The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946 3591590Srgrimes10/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958 3601590Srgrimes10/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967 3611590Srgrimes10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853 3621590Srgrimes10/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957 3631590Srgrimes10/04 Sputnik 1, world's first orbiting satellite launched, 1957 3641590Srgrimes10/05 Frodo crosses bridge of Mitheithel 3651590Srgrimes10/06 Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853 3661590Srgrimes10/06 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981 3671590Srgrimes10/06 Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973 3681590Srgrimes10/07 Foundation of the GDR in 1949 in German Democratic Republic 3691590Srgrimes10/07 Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916 3701590Srgrimes10/07 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977 3711590Srgrimes10/07 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979 3721590Srgrimes10/07 Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974 3731590Srgrimes10/08 Great Chicago Fire, 1871 3741590Srgrimes10/09 First two-way telephone conversation, 1876 3751590Srgrimes10/10 Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba 3761590Srgrimes10/10 Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea 3771590Srgrimes10/10 Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. (1984) 3781590Srgrimes10/10 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973 3791590Srgrimes10/11 "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975 3801590Srgrimes10/11 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976 3811590Srgrimes10/11 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811 3821590Srgrimes10/11 The second Vatican Ecumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962 3831590Srgrimes10/11 First broadcast of Saturday Night Live, 1975 3841590Srgrimes10/12 Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492 3851590Srgrimes10/12 Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960 3861590Srgrimes10/12 Man O'War's last race, 1920 3871590Srgrimes10/12 Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492 3881590Srgrimes10/13 Italy declares war on Germany, 1943 3891590Srgrimes10/13 U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress 3901590Srgrimes10/14 Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066 3911590Srgrimes10/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947 3921590Srgrimes10/15 First draft card burned, 1965 3931590Srgrimes10/16 Boromir reaches Rivendell (LOTR) 3941590Srgrimes10/17 Council of Elrond (LOTR) 3951590Srgrimes10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648 39613792Smpp10/18 Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959 3971590Srgrimes10/19 Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949 3981590Srgrimes10/19 Napoleon's beaten army begins the long retreat from Moscow, 1812 3991590Srgrimes10/20 "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973 4001590Srgrimes10/20 OPEC embargo, 1973 4011590Srgrimes10/21 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879 4021590Srgrimes10/21 Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959 4031590Srgrimes10/23 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944 40423094Smpp10/23 Day of the 1956 revolution in Hungary 4051590Srgrimes10/23 Earth created at 6:30 AM, 4004BC. 4061590Srgrimes10/23 Swallows leave Capistrano 4071590Srgrimes10/25 End of War of the Ring (LOTR) 4081590Srgrimes10/25 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971 4091590Srgrimes10/26 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978 4101590Srgrimes10/27 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871 4111590Srgrimes10/27 The first New York Subway is opened, 1904 4121590Srgrimes10/28 Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492 4131590Srgrimes10/28 Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312 4141590Srgrimes10/28 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636 4151590Srgrimes10/28 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886 4161590Srgrimes10/29 Stock Market Crash, 1929 4171590Srgrimes10/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938 4181590Srgrimes10/31 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517 41913792Smpp11/01 Austria-Hungary become two separate nations, 1918 4201590Srgrimes11/01 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950 4211590Srgrimes11/02 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940 4221590Srgrimes11/02 Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, 1783 4231590Srgrimes11/03 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837 4241590Srgrimes11/03 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954 42513792Smpp11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing space dog Laika 4261590Srgrimes11/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979 4271590Srgrimes11/04 Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956 4281590Srgrimes11/05 Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605 4291590Srgrimes11/06 Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R. 4301590Srgrimes11/07 Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837 4311590Srgrimes11/07 Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805 4321590Srgrimes11/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965 4331590Srgrimes11/09 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927 4341590Srgrimes11/09 Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888 4351590Srgrimes11/09 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921 4361590Srgrimes11/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933 43713792Smpp11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House, 1917 4381590Srgrimes11/10 Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865 4391590Srgrimes11/10 Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?", 1871 4401590Srgrimes11/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889 4411590Srgrimes11/12 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan 4421590Srgrimes11/12 U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861 4431590Srgrimes11/14 Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon 4441590Srgrimes price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after formal request 4451590Srgrimes from McDonald's), 1971 4461590Srgrimes11/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896 4471590Srgrimes11/16 Bilbo reaches the Lonely Mountain (LOTR) 4481590Srgrimes11/16 Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869 4491590Srgrimes11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966 4501590Srgrimes11/17 Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973 4511590Srgrimes11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952 4521590Srgrimes11/18 Local standard time zones established for US, 1883 4531590Srgrimes11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863 4541590Srgrimes11/21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973 4551590Srgrimes11/22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963 4561590Srgrimes11/23 First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963 4571590Srgrimes11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963 4581590Srgrimes11/25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867 4591590Srgrimes11/27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895 4601590Srgrimes11/27 Friction match invented, England, 1826 4611590Srgrimes11/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts 4621590Srgrimes11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922 4631590Srgrimes12/01 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924 4641590Srgrimes12/01 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955 4651590Srgrimes12/01 Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1953 4661590Srgrimes12/03 First neon light display, Paris, 1910 4671590Srgrimes12/03 First successful human heart transplant lead by Dr. Barnard, 1967 4681590Srgrimes12/03 The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971 4691590Srgrimes12/04 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783 4701590Srgrimes12/05 Death of Smaug (LOTR) 4711590Srgrimes12/05 End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part) 4721590Srgrimes12/05 Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776 4731590Srgrimes12/05 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition, 1933 4741590Srgrimes12/07 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941 4751590Srgrimes12/09 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884 4761590Srgrimes12/10 Metric system established in France, 1799 4771590Srgrimes12/10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year 4781590Srgrimes12/12 First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901 4791590Srgrimes12/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972 4801590Srgrimes12/13 Dartmouth College chartered, 1769 4811590Srgrimes12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south) 4821590Srgrimes12/15 Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976 4831590Srgrimes12/15 Bill of Rights adopted, 1791 4841590Srgrimes12/15 James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891 4851590Srgrimes12/15 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890 4861590Srgrimes12/16 Fellowship begins Quest (LOTR) 4871590Srgrimes12/20 U.S. buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi. 4881590Srgrimes12/21 Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in less than 80 days 4891590Srgrimes12/24 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865 4901590Srgrimes12/26 DPMA founded, 1951 4911590Srgrimes12/27 APT report published, 1956 4921590Srgrimes12/27 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845 4931590Srgrimes12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973 4941590Srgrimes12/29 Battle of Wounded knee, 1890 4951590Srgrimes12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940 4961590Srgrimes12/31 St. Sylvester in Switzerland 4971590Srgrimes12/31 Winterland closes its doors, 1978 49813685Swosch 49913685Swosch#endif /* !_calendar_history_ */ 500