1985.calendar.events
Richard L. Wexelblat
They are not all in the same format due to the various sources from
which they came and my own limited time for editing. I've tried to
mark items whose annual dates vary (Easter, e.g.) so that updating for
next year will be easier but I know I missed many such. Some of these
are a bit off the wall and may well be put-ons from last year's
correspondents. Such are to be taken as exercises for the reader.
These items are taken from:
History of Programming Languages
Old Farmer's (1984) Almanac
The 1984 Great computer calendar
The History of Music to the Death of Schubert
My own misc. store of useful or useless facts
Additions and corrections were sent last year by:
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-- Dick Wexelblat (...decvax!ittvax!wxlvax!rlw)
01
01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT) (1970)
01/01 New Year's Day
01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies (1984)
01/01 Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba
01/01 Castro expells Cuban President Batista (1959)
01/01 Churchill delivers his the "Iron Curtain" speech (1947)
01/01 Independence Day in Haiti, Sudan
01/01 Paul Revere born in Boston (1735)
01/01 Universal Fraternity Day in Mozambique
01/02 Ancestry Day in Haiti
01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR) (1920)
01/02 St. Berchtold's Day in Switzerland
01/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977
01/03 New Year's Holiday in Scotland
01/03 Revolution Day in Upper Volta
01/04 George Washington Carver born in Missouri (1864)
01/04 Independence Day in Burma
01/04 Jakob Grimm born, 1785
01/04 Martyrs Day in Zaire
01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
01/04 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars
01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
01/05 Twelfth night
01/05 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer
01/06 Children's Day in Uruguay
01/06 Epiphany
01/06 Millard Fillmore's brithday
01/06 Three Kings' Day in Puerto Rico
01/07 Christmas in Ethiopia
01/07 Pioneer's Day in Liberia
01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case (1982)
01/08 Battle of New Orleans
01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer (1889)
01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982
01/09 Day of the Martyrs in Panama
01/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738
01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960
01/10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London (1946)
01/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies (1757?)
01/11 Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania
01/11 Armed Forces Day in Liberia
01/11 De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico
01/11 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal
01/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
01/12 Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania
01/13 National Liberation Day in Togo
01/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884
01/13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws
01/14 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875
01/14 Julian Calendar New Year's Day
01/15 Adults Day in Japan
01/15 Arbor Day in Jordan
01/16 Martyrs Day in Benin
01/16 Prohibition begins, 1920
01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, 1979
01/17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston (1706)
01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM suit, 1969
01/18 Grey whale migration, CA
01/18 Revolution Day in Tunisia
01/19 Confederate Heroes Day in Texas
01/19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston (1809)
01/19 Ethopian Epiphany in Ethiopia
01/19 Nameday of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus
01/19 Robert E(dward) Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia (1807)
01/20 Army Day in Mali
01/20 Geo. Burns born, 1898
01/20* Martin Luther King Day in New York (3rd Sunday)
01/20 National Heroes Day in Guinea-Bissau
01/20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)
01/21 Lenin died, 1924
01/21 Our Lady of Altagracia in Dominican Republic
01/21* Robert E. Lee's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi (3rd Monday)
01/21* Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia (3rd Monday)
01/21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA (1824)
01/21 Lenin died, 1924
01/22 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561
01/23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory
01/23 Feast of St. Ildefonsus
01/23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City (1899)
01/23 John Hancock born, 1737
01/23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730
01/23 National Handwriting Day
01/23 Saml. Barber died, 1981
01/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969
01/24 Economic Liberation Day in Togo
01/24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill (1848)
01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958
01/25 Robert Burns born, 1759
01/25 Virginia Woolf born, 1882
01/25 W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874
01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952
01/26 Republic Day in India
01/26 Sydney Aust. settled, 1778
01/27 Samuel Gompers born, 1850
01/27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973
01/27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in Salzburg (1756)
01/28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914
01/30 Australia Day in Australia
01/30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York (1882)
01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic (1948)
01/30 Tet Offensive, 1968
01/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered
01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
01/31 Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp
02
02/01 Chinese New Year Holiday (3 days) in Taiwan
02/01 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954
02/01 Forces lead by Khomeini take over Iran (1979)
02/02 Candlemas
02/03 Gertrude Stein born, 1874
02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969
02/04 Independence Commemoration Day in Sri Lanka
02/05 Constitution Day in Mexico
02/05 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army (1974)
02/06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II (1952)
02/06 New Zealand Day
02/07 Independence Day in Grenada
02/08 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq
02/08 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography
02/08 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France (1828)
02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
02/09 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc.
02/09 St. Maron's Day in Lebanon
02/10 Charles Lamb born, 1775
02/10 Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (AD 60)
02/10 William Allen White born, 1868
02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966
02/11 National Foundation Day in Japan
02/11 Thos. Edison born, 1847
02/11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1489, photographic pioneer
02/12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809
02/12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England (1809)
02/12 Pyidaungsa Day in Burma
02/12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969
02/14 Bombing of Dresden, 1945
02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978
02/14 St. Valentine's day
02/15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970
02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946
02/15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy (1564)
02/15 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820
02/16 Makha Bucha Day in Thailand
02/16 Nylon patented, 1937
02/16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry
02/16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804
02/17 Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone
02/17 Marion Anderson born, 1902
02/17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874
02/18* "President's Day"
02/18 Democracy Day in Nepal
02/18 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer
02/18 Independence Day in The Gambia
02/19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland (1473)
02/19* Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras (day before Ash Wednesday)
02/20* Ash Wednesday - first day of Lent
02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer
02/21 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass
02/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties
02/21 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem (1965)
02/22 George Washington born, 1732
02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun
02/23 Handel born, 1685
02/23 Lt Calley confesses, implicates Cpt Medina, 1971
02/23 Republic Day in Guyana
02/23 W.E.B.DuBois born, 1868
02/24 Gregorian Calendar Day
02/24 Winslow Homer born, 1836
02/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England (1943)
02/25 National Day in Kuwait
02/25 Renoir born, 1841
02/26 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786, observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21
02/27 Independence Day in Dominican Republic
02/27 The Lionheart crowned, 1189
02/28 Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533
02/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704
02/29 Herman Hollerith born (1860)
02/29 Jimmy Dorsey born, 1904
03
03/01 David Niven born, 1910
03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964
03/01 Samil Independence Movement Day in South Korea
03/01 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
03/02 Peasants Day in Burma
03/02 Texas Independence day
03/02 Victory of Adowa in Ethiopia
03/03 Throne Day in Morocco
03/04 Antonio Vivaldi born in Venice, Italy (1678)
03/04 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747
03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos
03/04 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.
03/04 Vermont Admission Day (admitted as 14th state in 1791)
03/05 Independence Day in Equatorial Guinea
03/06 Independence Day in Ghana
03/07 Aristotle died, 322BC
03/07 Last Gilbert & Sullivan opera produced, 1896
03/07* Purim - Feast of Lots
03/07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer
03/08 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer
03/08 First annual International Women's Day (1909)
03/08 Howard Aiken born, 1900
03/08 International Women's Day in U.S.S.R.
03/08 Syrian National Day in Libyan Arab Republic
03/08 Women's Day in Guinea-Bissau, Taiwan, Yemen Democratic Republic
03/08 Youth Day in Zambia
03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" published in CACM, 1968
03/09 Decoration Day in Liberia
03/09 Falgun Purnima Day in Nepal
03/10 Labor Day in South Korea
03/11 Johnny Appleseed Day; anniversary of the death of John Chapman
03/11 Robert Treat Paine born, 1737
03/11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890
03/12 Commonwealth Day in Swaziland
03/12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist
03/12 Independence Day in Mauritius
03/12 Moshoeshoe's Birthday in Lesotho
03/12 Renovation Day in Gabon
03/13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894
03/13 National Day in Grenada
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 LISP introduced, 1960
03/14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907
03/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH
03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
03/15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March (44BC)
03/15 Sly Stone born, 1944
03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25 (1966)
03/16 Black Press Day; first Black newspaper founded in 1827
03/16 First liquid-fuel-powered rocket flight, 1926
03/16 George Clymer born, 1739
03/16 James Madison born, 1751
03/16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen
03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket (1926)
03/17 Evacuation Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
03/17 St. Patrick's Day
03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped
03/19 St. Joseph's Day in Colombia, Costa Rica, Holy See, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Spain, Venezuela
03/19 Tree Planting Day in Lestho
03/20 Independence Day in Tunsia
03/20* Vernal Equinox, 0525 EST
03/20 Youth Day in Oklahoma
03/21 Afghan New Year in Afghanistan
03/21 Bach born, 1685
03/21 Juarez' Birthday in Mexico
03/22 Abolition Day in Puerto Rico
03/23 Pakistan Day in Pakistan
03/24 Construction of New York subway system begins (1900)
03/24 Harry Houdini born, 1874
03/25 Greek Independence Day in Cyprus
03/25 Lady Day (a.k.a. the Feast of the Annunciation)
03/25 Maryland Day in Maryland
03/25 National Holiday in Greece
03/25* Seward's Day in Alaska (last Monday)
03/25 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911
03/26 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist
03/26 Independence Day in Bangladesh
03/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937
03/26 Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day in Hawaii
03/27 Armed Forces Day in Burma
03/27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union (1958)
03/27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays
03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970
03/28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
03/28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas (1979)
03/29 Death of President Barthelemy Boganda in Central African Republic
03/29 Memorial Day in Madagascar
03/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638
03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered (1977)
03/30 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746
03/30 Pencil with eraser patented (1858)
03/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880
03/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853
03/31 Descartes born, 1596
03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946
03/31 National Day in Malta
03/31* Palm Sunday (7 days before Easter)
03/31 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher
04
04/01 April Fool's Day
04/01 People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc born this day.
04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.)
04/01 Youth Day in Benin
04/02 Malvinas Day in Argentina
04/02 Pascua Florida Day in Florida
04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953
04/03 Washington Irving born, 1783
04/04 Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong
04/04 Liberation Day in Hungary
04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee (1968)
04/04* Maundy Thursday (3 days before Easter)
04/04 Muddy Waters born, 1915
04/04 NATO Established (1949)
04/04 National Day in Senegal
04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores)
04/05 Arbor Day in South Korea
04/05* Good Friday (2 days before Easter)
04/05 Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher
04/05 Tomb Sweeping Day in Taiwan
04/06 Chakri Memorial Day in Thailand
04/06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830
04/06* Pesach - First Day of Passover
04/06 Victory Day in Ethiopia
04/07 Alewives run, Cape Cod
04/07* Easter
04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964
04/08 David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician
04/08 Fast and Prayer Day in Liberia
04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943
04/09 Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer
04/09 J. Presper Eckert born, 1919
04/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865
04/09 Martyrs Day in Tunisia
04/09 Paul Robeson born, 1898
04/10 Commodore Matthew calbraith Perry born, 1854
04/10 William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army
04/11 National Heroes Day in Costa Rica
04/12 Columbia launched, 1981
04/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861
04/12 Gurgarin first man in space, 1961
04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space (1961)
04/13* Last day of Passover
04/13 Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos
04/13 National Day in Chad
04/13 Songkron Day in Thailand
04/13 Thomas Jefferson born, 1743
04/14 Christian Huygen born, 1629, physicist & astronomer; discovered Saturn's rings
04/14 Day of the Americas in Honduras
04/14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912
04/15 Bengali New Year in Bangladesh
04/15 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452
04/15* Patriot's Day in Maine & Massachusetts (3rd Monday)
04/16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London (1889)
04/16 De Diego's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
04/16 Holy Week (5 days) in Venezuela
04/16 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth (1865)
04/16 Tourist Week (5 days) in Uruguay
04/17 Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces (1961)
04/17 Burmese New Year in Burma
04/17 Bay of Pigs, 1961
04/18 Einstein's Death, 1955
04/18 Independence Day in Chile, Zimbabwe
04/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906
04/19 Declaration of Independence in Venezuela
04/19 Landing of the "33" in Uruguay
04/19 Republic Day in Sierra Leone
04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943
04/20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing (1971)
04/21 Lyrid meteor shower
04/21 San Jacinto Day in Texas
04/21 Tiradentes in Brazil
04/22 Arbor Day in Nebraska & Delaware
04/22 Kant born, 1724
04/22 Oklahoma Day in Oklahoma
04/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
04/24 Victory Day in Togo
04/25 Anniversary of the Revolution in Portugal
04/25 Anzac Day in Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Western Samoa
04/25 Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918
04/25 Liberation Day in Italy
04/25 National Flag Day in Swaziland
04/26 Carol Burnett born in San Antonio, Texas (1933)
04/26 Confederate Memorial Day in Florida & Georgia
04/26 Union Day in Tanzania
04/26 William Shakespeare baptised in Stratford-on-Avon, England (1564)
04/27 Independence Day in Togo
04/27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist
04/27 Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521
04/28 James Monroe born, 1758
04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced
04/28* Daylight Savint time begins
04/29 Emperor's Birthday in Japan
04/29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology
04/29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco (1863)
04/29* Arbor Day in Wyoming (last Monday)
04/29* Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama & Mississippi (last Monday)
04/30 Karl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer
04/30 Queen's Biorthday in Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles
04/30 The Workers Day in Uruguay
05
05/01 Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god
05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964
05/01 Kate Smith born, 1909
05/01 Labor Day in many places
05/01 Law Day (decl. by Eisenhower)
05/01 May Day in many places
05/02 Constitution Day in Japan
05/02 Dr. Benj. Spock born, 1903
05/02 King's Birthday in Lesotho
05/03 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington (1971)
05/04 4 Kent students demonstrating against Cambodia incursion are shot (1970)
05/04 Rhode Island Independence Day
05/05 Battle of Puebla in Mexico
05/05 Children's Day in Japan, South Korea
05/05 Coronatin Day in Thailand
05/05 Liberation Day in Netherlands
05/06* Bank Holiday in UK
05/06 Bataan Day in Philippines
05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949
05/07 Brahms born, 1833
05/07 Germany Surrenders after WWII, 1945
05/07 Johannes Brahms born in Hamburg (1833)
05/07 May Day in United Kingdom
05/07 Tchaikowsky born, 1840
05/08 Buddha's Birthday in South Korea
05/08 Elections for the National Assembly in Philippines
05/08 Truman Day in Missouri
05/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972
05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979
05/09 Liberation Day in Czechoslovakia
05/09 Pinza died, 1957
05/09 Victory Day in Poland, U.S.S.R.
05/10 Confederate Memorial Day in South Carolina
05/10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska (1899)
05/10 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940
05/10 Mothers Day in Guatamala
05/10 Nazi bookburning (1933)
05/11 Minnesota Day in Minnesota
05/12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy (1820)
05/12* Mother's Day (2nd Sunday)
05/13 Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842
05/14 Anniversary of the Founding of Guinean Deomcratic Party in Guinea
05/14 Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
05/14 Buddhist Holiday (Waisak 2528) in Indonesia
05/14 Independence Day (2 days) in Paraguay
05/14 Nation of Israel proclaimed (1948)
05/14 Unification Day in Liberia
05/15 Kamuzu Day in Malawi
05/15 Vesak Day in Singapore, Malaysia
05/15 Visakha Bucha Day in Thailand
05/16 Armed Forces Day
05/16* Ascension Day (10 days before Pentecost)
05/16 Discovery Day in Cayman Islands
05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
05/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
05/17 Constitution Day in Nauru, Norway
05/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
05/18 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
05/18 Flag Day in Haiti
05/18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
05/18 Prayer Day in Denmark
05/19 Armed Forces Day
05/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890
05/19 Youth and Sports Day in Turkey
05/20 Mecklenburg Independence Day in North Carolina
05/20 National Day in Cameroon
05/20 Victoria Day in Canada
05/20* Memorial Day in Michigan (3rd Monday)
05/21 Battle of Iquique in Chile
05/21 DEC announces PDP-8
05/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?) (427BC)
05/22 Johann Sebastian Bach born in Eisenach, Germany (1665)
05/22 National Heroes Day in Sri Lanka
05/22 US Civil War ends (1865)
05/23 Commonwealth Day in Jamaica, Belize
05/23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann (1960)
05/23 National Labor Day in Jamaica
05/23 Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953
05/24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador
05/24 Bermuda Day in Bermuda
05/24 Day of Slav Letters in Bulgaria
05/25 African Freedom Day in Zimbabwe
05/25 African Liberation Day in Chad, Mauritania, Zambia
05/25 Anniversary of the Revolution of 1810 in Argentina
05/25 Independence Day in Jordan
05/25 Memorial Day in New Mexico & Puerto Rico
05/25 Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980
05/25 Revolution in the Sudan in Libyan Arab Republic
05/25 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830
05/26 Al Jolson born, 1886
05/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
05/26* First Day of Shavuot
05/26* Pentecost - Whitsunday
05/26 Al Jolson born, 1886
05/27* Memorial Day in various places (last Monday)
05/27* Bank Holiday in UK
05/27* Whitmonday
05/27 Afghanistan attains sovereignty, 1921
05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958
05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens (1937)
05/27 Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911
05/28 Dionne quintuplets born, 1934
05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959
05/28 Mothers Day in Central African Republic
05/29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest (1953)
05/29 Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874
05/29 John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917
05/29 Patrick Henry born, 1736
05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944
05/30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco (1908)
05/30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912
05/31 Pya Martyrs Day in Togo
05/31 Republic Day in South Africa
05/31 Memorial Day
06
06/01 Brigham Young born, 1801
06/01 Independence Days (3 days) in Western Samoa
06/01 Madaraka Day in Kenya
06/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928
06/01 Victory Day in Tunisia
06/02* Trinity Sunday (7 days after Pentecost)
06/02 Corpus Christi in Paraguay
06/02 Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England (1857)
06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967
06/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924
06/03* Bank Holiday in Rep. of Ireland
06/03 Confederate Memorial Day in Kentucky & Louisiana
06/03 Henry James born, 1811
06/03 Jefferson Davis's Birthday in Florida, Georgia, & S. Carolina
06/03 Labor Day in Bahamas
06/03 Jefferson Davis's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi (1st Monday)
06/04 Dragon Boat Festival in Hong Kong, Taiwan
06/04 Emancipation Day in Tonga
06/04 Queen's Birthday in New Zealand
06/04 Roquefort cheese developed (1070)
06/05 Constitution Day in Denmark
06/05 Liberation Day in Seychelles
06/05 Robert Kennedy Assasinated (1968)
06/06* Corpus Christi (11 days after Pentecost)
06/06 His Majesty, Yang Di-Pertuan Agong's Birthday in Malaysia
06/06 Memorial Day in South Korea
06/06 Normandy landing, 1944
06/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848
06/07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778
06/08 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin (1869)
06/09 Senior Citizen's Day in Oklahoma
06/10 Camoes Day in Portugal
06/10 Death of Alexander the Great (323 B.C.)
06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977
06/11 Greeks seize Troy (1184BC)
06/11 King Kamehameha I Day in Hawaii
06/11 Queen's Birthday
06/12 Independence Day in Philippines
06/12 Peace with Bolivia in Paraguay
06/13 Alexander the Great dies (323BC)
06/13 Corrective Movement in Yemen Arab Republic
06/13 Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System
06/14 Flag Day
06/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834
06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment (1752)
06/15 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway (1843)
06/15 Magna Carta signed (1215)
06/15 Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop, 1878
06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
06/16* Father's Day
06/16 Bloomsday - Anniversary of Dublin events, 1904, in "Ulysses"
06/16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 bc
06/17 Bunker Hill Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
06/17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb (1967)
06/17 Independence Day in Iceland
06/17 National Day in Federal Republic of Germany
06/17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in (1972)
06/18 Evacuation Day in Egypt
06/18 M C Escher born (1898)
06/18 Paul McCartney born in Liverpool, England (1942)
06/18 Queen's Birthday in Fiji
06/19 Artigas Birthday in Uruguay
06/19 Emancipation Day in Texas
06/19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison (1953)
06/19 Labor Day in Trinidad, Tobago
06/19 Lizzie Borden acquitted, 1893
06/19 Revolution Day in Algeria
06/20 Flag Day in Argentina
06/20 Victoria crowned, 1837
06/20 West Virginia Day in West Virginia
06/21 Berlin airlift begins (1948)
06/21 Summer solstice, 12:02 am, EST
06/21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge
06/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903
06/22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964
06/22 Corrective Movement in Yermen Democratic Republic
06/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey (1949)
06/22 Midsummer Eve in Finland, Sweden
06/22 National Sovereignty Day in Haiti
06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969
06/23 National Holiday in Luxembourg
06/23 Slavery abolished in England (1772)
06/23 Turing's Birthday, 1912
06/24 St. Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec
06/24 Battle of Carabobob in Venezuela
06/24 Fisherman's Day in Madagascar, Mozambique, Somalia
06/24 Kings Day in Spain
06/24 Peasants Day in Peru
06/24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution (1970)
06/25 Custer's Last Stand, 1876
06/25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903
06/25 N. Korea invades S. Korea, 1950
06/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
06/26 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959
06/26 Toothbrush invented, 1498
06/27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915
06/27 Helen Keller born, 1880
06/28 Mothers Day in Central African Republic
06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke (1978)
06/29 Independence Day in Seychelles
06/29 Last Day of Ramadan* in Algeria, Oman
06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia, 1908
06/30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology (1960)
06/30 Day of the Army in Guatemala
06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC
07
07/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863
07/01 Dominion Day in Canada
07/01 Eid-Ul-Fitr* (2 days) in Pakistan
07/01 Freedom Day in Suriname
07/01 Independence Day in Burundi
07/01 National Day in Rwamda
07/01 Republic Day in Ghana
07/01 Union of the Somalia Republic in Somalia
07/02 National Day in Kiribati
07/03 Dog days begin
07/03 Franz Kafka born, 1883
07/03 Kafka's Birthday (1883)
07/04 Independence Day in United States
07/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces (1863)
07/04 Caribbean Day in Guyana
07/04 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776
07/04 Constitution Day in Cayman Islands
07/04 Family Day in Lesotho
07/04 Heroes Day in Zambia
07/04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die (1826)
07/04 Kadooment Day in Barbados
07/04 Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts (1804)
07/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776
07/04 Philippine-American Friendship Day in the Philippines
07/04 Warriors Day (2 days) in Yugoslavia
07/05 Day of Peace and Unity in Rwanda
07/05 Independence Day in Algeria, Venezuela
07/06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866
07/06 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York (1928)
07/06 John Paul Jones born, 1747
07/06 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917
07/07 Anniversary of the P.U.N. in Equatorial Guinea
07/07 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949
07/07 National Day in Malawi
07/07 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) born in Liverpool, England (1940)
07/07 Saba Saba Day in Tanzania
07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T) (1877)
07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957
07/08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838
07/08 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
07/09 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847
07/09 Independence Day in Argentina
07/10 Independence Day in Bahamas
07/10 John Calvin born, 1509
07/11 John Quincy Adams born, 1767
07/11 National Holiday in the Mongolian People's Republic
07/12 Battle of Boyne celebrated in Northern Ireland
07/12 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817
07/12 The Twelfth in Northern Ireland
07/12 Thoreau's Birthday (1817)
07/13 Buddhist Lent in Thailand
07/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908
07/14 Anniversary of the Revolution in Iraq
07/14 Bastille Day
07/14 National Holiday in Monaco
07/14 Woody Guthrie born, 1912
07/15 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas"
07/15 St. Swithin's Day
07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945
07/16 Presidents Day in Botswanna
07/17 Constitution Day in South Korea
07/17 Disneyland opens, 1955
07/17 July Revolution in Iraq
07/17 Munoz Rivera's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
07/17 Public Holiday in Botswanna
07/18 Constitution Day in Uruguay
07/18 Liberation Day in Nicaragua
07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
07/19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692
07/19 Martyrs Day in Burma
07/20 Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969 (Will be looked back upon as the high point of American civilization 100 years hence)
07/20 Independence Day in Colombia
07/21 National Holiday in Belgium
07/21 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954
07/22 King's Birthday in Swaziland
07/22 National Day in Poland
07/23 Anniversary of the Revolution Egypt
07/23 Eqyptian National Day in Syrian Arab Republic
07/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904
07/23 Remembrance Day in Papua, New Guinea
07/24 Pioneer Day in Utah
07/24 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
07/24 Simon Bolivar's Day in Ecuador, Venezuela
07/25 Constitution Day in Puerto Rico
07/25 National Rebellion Day (3 days) in Cuba
07/25 Republic Day in Tunisia
07/25 St. James, Patron Saint in Spain
07/26 Independence Day in Liberia
07/26 National Day in Maldives
07/27 Barbosa's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
07/28 Bach dies, 1750
07/28 Independence Days (2 days) in Peru
07/29 Mussolini born, 1883
07/29 Olsok Eve in Norway to commemorate Norway's Viking King St. Olav
07/29 Rain Day in Waynesburg, PA
07/30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956
07/30 Emily Bronte born, 1818
07/30 Henry Ford born, 1863
07/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948, later JFK
07/31 Revolution Day in Congo
08
08/01 Discovery Day in Trinidad, Tobogo
08/01 Emancipation Day in Granada
08/01 Founding of Asuncion in Paraguay
08/01 Freedom Day in Guyana
08/01 Herman Melville born, 1819
08/01 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on this day
08/01 National Day in Switzerland
08/01 National Holidays (5 days) in El Salvador
08/01 Parent's Day in Zaire
08/02 Our Lady of Los Angeles in Costa Rica
08/03 Independence Day in Jamaica, Niger
08/03 Massacre du Pidjiguiti in Buinea-bissau
08/03 Memorial Day of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus
08/03 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958
08/04 Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964
08/04 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I (1914)
08/04 Freedom Day in Guyana
08/05* Bank Holiday in Scotland and Northern Ireland
08/06 Bank Holiday in Ontario, British Columbia
08/06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945
08/06 Bank Holiday in Australia, Fiji, Iceland, Ireland
08/06 Caricom in Barbados
08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
08/06 Emancipation Day in Bahamas
08/06 Independence Day in Bolivia
08/07 Battle of Boyaca in Colombia
08/08 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki (1945)
08/08 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles (1937)
08/08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914
08/08 Nixon announces resignation (1973)
08/08 The Great Train Robbery $7,368,000 (1963)
08/09 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki (1945)
08/09 National Day in Singapore
08/09 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae (480 BC)
08/09 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency (1974)
08/09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)
08/10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people (1833)
08/10 Independence Day in Ecuador
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 Heroes Day (2 days) in Zimbabwe
08/11 Independence Day in Chad
08/11 King Hussein's Accession to the Throne in Jordan
08/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
08/12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
08/12 Queen's Birthday in Thailand
08/12 Thomas Mann's Death (1955)
08/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860
08/13 Berlin wall erected (1961)
08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927
08/13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934
08/13 Proclamation of Independence in Central African Republic
08/13 Women's Day in Tunisia
08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981
08/14 Independence Day in Pakistan
08/14 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935
08/14 VJ Day (1945)
08/14 Waddi Dhahab in Morocco
08/15 Founding of Ascuncion in Paraguay
08/15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India (1947)
08/15 Hurricane hits Plimoth Plantation, 1635
08/15 Independence Day in India
08/15 Liberation Day in South Korea
08/15 National Day in Congo
08/15 Santa Maria in Malta
08/16 Bennington Battle Day in Vermont
08/16 Independence Days (3 days) in Gabon
08/16 Restoration Day in Dominican Republic
08/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898
08/16 Woodstock Begins, 1969
08/17 Admission Day in Hawaii {1984} (3rd Friday)
08/17 Anniversary of the Death of General San Martin in Argentina
08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
08/17 Independence Day in Indonesia
08/17 Mae West born, 1892
08/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1927
08/19 Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856
08/19 Independence Day in Afghanistan
08/20 Constitution Day in Hungary
08/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963
08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963
08/22 Claude Debussy born, 1862
08/22 Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets
08/22 St. Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565
08/23 DEC founded, 1957
08/23 Gene Kelly born, 1912
08/23 Liberation Days (2 days) in Romania
08/23 Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927
08/24 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica (1960)
08/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814
08/24 National Flag Day in Liberia
08/25 Constitution Day in Paragual
08/25 Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
08/25 Independence Day in Uruguay
08/26* Bank Holiday in England and Wales
08/26 Susan B. Anthony Day in Massachussetts
08/27 "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912
08/27 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons (1883)
08/27 Liberation Day in Hong Kong
08/27 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908
08/28 Heroes Day in Philippines
08/28 King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC (1963)
08/29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist
08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova & becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; Nova Cygni 1975.
08/30 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842
08/30 Huey P. Long Day in Louisiana
08/30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960
08/30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907
08/30 St. Rose of Lima in Peru
08/30 Victory Day in Turkey
08/30 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected (1963)
08/31 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR (1983)
08/31 Independence Day in Trinidad, Tobago
08/31 National Day in Malaysia
08/31 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
08/31 Pashtoonian Day in Afghanistan
09
09/01 Army Day in Chile
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 aboard US battleship `Missouri' (1945)
09/02* Labor Day (1st Monday)
09/03 Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino
09/03 Independence Day in Qatar
09/03 Memorial Day in Tunisia
09/05 First Continental Congress, Phila, 1774
09/05 Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961
09/05 King Louis XIV of France born (1638)
09/05 Raquel Welch born, 1942
09/05 The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia (1774)
09/06 149 Pilgrims set forth from Eng3and aboard the Mayflower (1620)
09/06 Defense of Pakistan Day in Pakistan
09/06 Pres. McKinley shot, 1901
09/06 Settlers Day in South Africa
09/06 Somhlolo in Swaziland
09/06 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died (1909)
09/07 Independence Day in Brazil
09/07 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ (1789)
09/07 Queen Elizabeth I of England born (1533)
09/08 Anton Dvorak born in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia (1841)
09/08 Gerald R. Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon (the slime!), 1974
09/08 King Richard I of England born (1157)
09/08 Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England (1925)
09/08 President Ford grants pardon to Nixon (1974)
09/08 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966)
09/09 Admission Day in California
09/09 Anniversary of the Socialist Revolution (2 days) in Bulgaria
09/09 California becomes the 31st state (1850)
09/09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age of 82 (1976)
09/09 National Day in North Korea
09/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States (1776)
09/10 Korean Thanksgiving Day (Chusuk) in South Korea
09/10 Moon Festival in Taiwan
09/10 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857
09/10 National Day in Belize
09/11 Ethiopian New Year in Ethiopia
09/11 Grandparent's Day
09/11 National Holiday in Chile
09/12 Amilcar Cabral's Birthday in Guinea-Bissau
09/12 Defender's Day in Maryland
09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome (1943)
09/12 Germany annexes Sudentenland, 1938
09/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913
09/12 Revolution Day in Ethiopia
09/13 136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya (1922)
09/13 Barry Day commemorates the death of Commodore John Barry
09/13 British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City (1788)
09/13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122
09/13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China (1943)
09/13 Walter Reed born, 1851
09/14 Battle of San Jacinto in Nicaragua
09/14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister (1778)
09/14 Francis Scott Key writes words to "Star Spangled Banner" (1814)
09/14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded (1629)
09/14 The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft (1940)
09/15 ACM founded, 1947
09/15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England (1890)
09/15 Foundation of Panama in Panama
09/15 Independence Day
09/15 Respect for the Aged Day in Japan
09/15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US (1959)
09/15 The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department (1789)
09/16 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY (1914)
09/16 Cherokee Strip Day in Oklahoma
09/16* First Day of Rosh Hashana
09/16 Independence Day in Mexico, Papua, New Guinea
09/16 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston (1630)
09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862
09/17 National Heroes Day in Angola
09/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905
09/18 Independence Day in Chile
09/18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi
09/19 Army Day in Chile
09/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884
09/20 First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848
09/20 First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916
09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954
09/20 Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage (1519)
09/20 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878
09/21 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England (1866)
09/21 Independence Day in Belize
09/21 Louis Joliet born, 1645
09/22 Alied forces form the independent nation West Germany (1953)
09/22 Autumnal equinox, 3:33 pm, EST
09/22 Independence Day in Mali
09/22 National Sovereignty Day in Haiti
09/22 President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore (1881)
09/22 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
09/22 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenaes President Nixon (1974)
09/22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes (1949)
09/23 Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome (63 BC)
09/23 Euripides born in Salamis, Greece (480 BC)
09/23 Grito de Lares in Puerto Rico
09/23 Phillippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law (1972)
09/23 The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club (1845)
09/23 V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech. (1952)
09/24 Anniversary of the Third Republic in Ghana
09/24 F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896
09/24 Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau
09/24 National Day in Saudi Arabia
09/24 Our Lady of Mercedes in Dominican Republic
09/24 Republic Day in Trinidad, Tobago
09/25 Army Day in Mozambique
09/25 Referendum Day in Rwanda
09/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court (1981)
09/25* Yom Kippur
09/26 George Gershwin born in Brooklyn, NY (1989)
09/26 Johnny Appleseed born, 1774
09/26 National Day in Maldives, Yemem Deomcratic Republic
09/26 Revoluation Anniversary Day in Yemen Arab
09/26 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis (1888)
09/27 Feast of Finding the True Cross in Ethiopia
09/27 The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England (1825)
09/27 Thomas Nast born, 1840
09/28 "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678
09/28 A greek soldier runs 26+ miles to the Persian defeat at Marathon (490BC)
09/28 Confucious' Day in Taiwan
09/28 Michelangelo Buanarroti born in Caprese, Italy (1573)
09/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome (106BC)
09/28 Seymour Cray born, 1925
09/29 Battle of Boqueron in Paraquay
09/29 Gene Autry born, 1907
09/30 Botswanna Day in Botswanna
09/30 First Day of Sukkot
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
10/01 Armed Forces Day in South Korea
10/01 Independence Day in Nigeria
10/01 Jimmy Carter born, 1924
10/01 Labor Day in Australia
10/01 National Liberation Day (2 days) in China
10/01 Public Holiday in Botswanna
10/02 Anniversary of Guinean Independence in Guinea
10/02 Aristotle dies of indigestion (322 BC)
10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939
10/02 Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India (1869)
10/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice (1967)
10/03 Chung Yeung Festival in Hong Kong
10/03 Francisco Morazan's Birthday in Honduras
10/03 National Foundation Day in South Korea
10/03 U.N. Day in Varbados
10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853
10/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched (1957)
10/04 Independence Day in Lesotho
10/04 John V. Atanasoff born, 1903
10/04 Sputnik I launched, 1957
10/05 Anniversary of Proclamation of the Republic in Portugal
10/05 Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain (1881)
10/05 Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born (1902)
10/06 Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women (1853)
10/06 Anwar Sadat assassinated, 1981
10/06 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo (1981)
10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961
10/06 Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria (1973)
10/06 National Sports Day in Lesotho
10/07 First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast, 1957
10/07 Foundation of the GDR in 1949 in German Democratic Republic
10/07 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges (1977)
10/07 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1979)
10/07 National Heroes Day in Jamaica
10/07 Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974
10/08 Battle of Agamos in Peru
10/08 Constitution Day in U.S.S.R
10/08 Fiji Day in Fiji
10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978
10/08 Great Chicago Fire, 1871
10/08* Simhat Torah
10/08 Thanksgiving Day in Canada
10/09 First two-way telephone conversation (1876)
10/09 Independence Day in Uganda
10/09 Independence of Guayaquil in Ecuador
10/09 John Lennon born in Liverpool, England (1940)
10/09 Korean Alphabet Day in South Korea
10/09 Leif Erikson Day commemorates the discovery of North America in AD 1000
10/09 Republic Day in Khmer Republic
10/10 Agnew resigns, 1973
10/10 Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba
10/10 Fiji Day in Fiji
10/10 Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea
10/10 Health-Sports Day in Japan
10/10 Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. {1984}
10/10 National Day in Taiwan
10/10 Oklahoma Historical Day in Oklahoma
10/10 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud (1973)
10/11 Day of the Revolution in Panama
10/11 Druger Day in South Africa
10/11 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking (1976)
10/11 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken (1811)
10/11 The second Vatican Eccumenical Council opens in Rome (1962)
10/12 Columbus lands in Bahamas, 1492
10/12 Day of the Race in Argentina
10/12 Discovery Day in Gahamas
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 National Day in Equatorial Guinea, Spain
10/12 Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores (1492)
10/12 Our Lady Aparecida Day in Brazil
10/12 Pan American Day in Belize
10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962
10/13 Italy declares war on Germany (1943)
10/13 St. Edward's Day - patron saint of England
10/13 U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress
10/13 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy (70 BC)
10/14* Thanksgiving Day in Canada
10/14 Columbus Day
10/14 Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans (1066)
10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957
10/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947
10/14 Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890
10/14 National Day in Yemen Arab Repyblic
10/14 William Penn born in London (1644)
10/14 Young People's Day in Zaire
10/15 Evacuation Day in Tunisia
10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published
10/15 First draft card burned (1965)
10/15 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881
10/16 National Boss Day
10/16 Noah Webster born, 1758
10/16 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin (1854)
10/17 Dessaline's Death Anniversary in Haiti
10/17 Heroes Day in Jamaica
10/17 Mother's Day in Malawi
10/17 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S.
10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648
10/18 Feast Day of St. Luke
10/18 Soviets anounce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side (1959)
10/19 Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China (1949)
10/19 Napoleon's beaten army beings a long retreat from Moscow (1812)
10/20 "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973
10/20 Anniversary of the 1944 Revolution in Guatemala
10/20 Kenyatta Day in Kenya
10/20 OPEC embargo, 1973
10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958
10/21 Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm (1833)
10/21 Armed Forces Day in Honduras
10/21 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp (1879)
10/21 Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959
10/21 Revolution Days (2 days) in Somalia
10/22 Franz Liszt born, 1811
10/22 Mothers-in-Law Day
10/23 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944
10/23 Chulalongkron's Day in Thsailand
10/24 Independence Day in Zambia
10/24 United Nations Day
10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780
10/25 Labor Day in New Zealand
10/25 Taiwan Restoration Day inb Taiwan
10/25 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China (1971)
10/26 Agam Day in Nauru
10/26 Armed Forces Day in Benin, Rwanda
10/26 National Day in Austria
10/26 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated (1978)
10/27* Daylight Savings Time Ends; Turn Clocks Back 1hr.
10/27 Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933
10/27 James Cook is born (1466)
10/27 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges (1871)
10/27 The first New York Subway is opened (1904)
10/28* Bank Holiday in Rep. of Ireland
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 National Holiday in Greece
10/28 OHI Day in Cyprus
10/28 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island (1886)
10/29 Republic Day in Turkey
10/29 Stock Market Crash, 1929
10/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938
10/31 Chiang Kai-Shek born (1887)
10/31 Dale Evans born, 1912
10/31 Halloween
10/31 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg (1517)
10/31 Nevada Day in Nevada
11
11/01 All Saints Day
11/01 Austria-Hungary become two seperate nations (1918)
11/01 Feast of All Saints in Portugal
11/01 Puerto Rican nationalists tried to kill Truman at the Blair House (1950)
11/01 Samhain; Beginning of the Celtic year and most important holiday.
11/02 All Souls Day in Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, Uruguay
11/02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA (1734)
11/02 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940
11/02 Memorial Day in Ecuador
11/02 Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight (1783)
11/03 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837
11/03 Culture Day in Japan
11/03 Independence from Columbia in Panama
11/03 Independence of Cuenca in Ecuador
11/03 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954
11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing spacedog Laika
11/03 Thanksgiving Day in Liberia
11/04 Flag Day in Panama
11/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran (1979)
11/04 King William III of Orange born (1650)
11/04 Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary (1956)
11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952
11/04 Will Rogers Day
11/05* Election Day
11/05 Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605
11/05 Roy Rogers born, 1912
11/06 Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R.
11/06 Green March Day in Morocco
11/06 Prophet Mohammed's Birthday in Malaysia
11/07 Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837
11/07 Anniversary of Great October Revolution in Bulgaria
11/07 Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean (1805)
11/07 National Revolution Day
11/07 October Revolution Day in Hungary
11/08 Her Majesty, the Queen's Birthday in Nepal
11/08 Patti Page born, 1927
11/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada (1965)
11/09 Carl Sagan born, 1934
11/09 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927
11/09 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League (1921)
11/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration (1933)
11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstartions near White House (1917)
11/10 Cpt Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865
11/10 Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?" (1871)
11/10 King's Birthday in Bhutan
11/10 Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany (1483)
11/10 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75 (1982)
11/11 Angola gains independence from Portugal (1975)
11/11 Armistice Day
11/11 Rememberance Day in Canada
11/11 Veterans' Day
11/11 Independence Day in Angola
11/11 Independence of Cartagena in Colombia
11/11 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis (1922)
11/11 Republic Day in Maldives
11/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state (1889)
11/12 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan
11/12 Prince Charles' Birthday in Fiji
11/12 U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861
11/13 Paul Simon born, 1942
11/13 Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850
11/13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria (354)
11/14 King Hussein's Birthday in Jordan
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 Dynasty Day in Belgium
11/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
11/15 Proclamation of the Republic in Brazil
11/15 Thatlouang Festival in Laos
11/16 Oklahoma Heritage Week in Oklahoma
11/16 Opening of the Suez Canal (1869)
11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966
11/17 Army Day in Zaire
11/17 Corrective Movement in Syrian Arab Republic
11/18 Battle of Viertieres in Haiti
11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok (1952)
11/18 Imogene Coca born, 1908
11/18 Independence Day in Morocco
11/18 Local standard time zones established for US (1883)
11/18 National Days (4 days) in Oman
11/18 William S. Gilbert born, 1836
11/19 Anniversary of the 1968 Coup by the Army in Mali
11/19 Discovery Day in Puerto Rico
11/19 Feast Day of S.A.S. Prince Rainier in Monaco
11/19 Garifuna Settlement in Belize
11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863
11/19 Prince of Wales Birthday in Fiji
11/20 RFK born, 1925
11/20 Revolution Day in Mexico
11/21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973
11/21 Day of Prayer and Repentance in Federal Republic of Germany
11/22 Anniversary of Portuguese Aggression in Guinea
11/22 Independence Day in Lebanon
11/22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald (1963)
11/23 Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan
11/24 Anniversary of the New Regime in Zaire
11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby (1963)
11/24 Scott Joplin born, 1868
11/25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite (1867)
11/25 Independence Day in Suriname
11/25 Johann Strauss, Jr., writes `On the Beautiful Blue Danube' (1867)
11/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis (1922)
11/26 Norbert Weiner born, 1894
11/27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize (1895)
11/27 Friction match invented, England, 1826
11/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
11/28 Thanksgiving Day in United States (4th Thursday)
11/28 Independence Day in Albania, Mauritania
11/28 Independence from Spain in Panama
11/28 Proclamation of the Republic in Chad
11/29 Day of the Republic (2 days) in Yugoslavia
11/29 Goodwill Day in Liberia
11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922
11/29 Liberation Day in Albania
11/29 National Day in Burma
11/30 Cleopatra died, 30 bc
11/30 Independence Day in Barbados, Yemen Deomcratic Republic
11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri (1835)
11/30 National Day in Benin
11/30 National Heroes Day in Philippines
11/30 St. Andrew's Day
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12/01 Anniversary of the Restoration of Independence in Portugal
12/01* First Sunday of Advent (4th Sunday before Christmas)
12/01 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924
12/01 Independence Day in Central African Republic
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)
12/01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY (1935)
12/02 National Holiday in United Arab Emirates
12/03 First neon light display, Paris, 1910
12/03 First successful human heart transplant lead by Dr. Barnard (1967)
12/03 National Holiday in Laos
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 Mozart dies, 1791
12/05 Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776
12/05 St. Nicholas' Day
12/05 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition (1933)
12/05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago (1901)
12/06 First sound recording made by Thomas Edison (1877)
12/06 Independence Day in Finland
12/07 Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941
12/07 Delaware Day in Delaware
12/07 Independence Day in Ivory Coast, Panama
12/07 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor (1941)
12/07 Prophet Mohammed's Birthday in Fiji
12/08 Blessing of the Water in Uruguay
12/08* First Day of Hanukkah
12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965
12/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy) (65BC)
12/08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio (1894)
12/08 John Lennon assassinated, 1980
12/08 Mother's Day in Panama
12/08 Our Lady of the Cacupe in Paraguay
12/09 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
12/09 Independence Day in Tanzania
12/10 Emily Dickenson born, 1830
12/10 Foundation of Worker's Party in Angola
12/10 Human Rights Day
12/10 Metric system established in France (1799)
12/10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year
12/10 Thai Constitution Day in Thailand
12/10 Wyoming Day in Wyoming
12/11 Independence Day in Upper Volta
12/12 E. G. Robinson born, 1893
12/12 First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi (1901)
12/12 Independence Day in Kenya
12/13 Dartmouth College chartered, 1769
12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south)
12/13 Republic Day in Malta
12/14 George Washington dies, 1799
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
12/15 Statue Day in Netherlands Antilles
12/15 Thomas Edison receives patent on the phonograph (1877)
12/16 Constitution Day in Nepal
12/16 Day of the Covenant in South Africa
12/16 Ludwig von Beethoven christened in Bonn, Germany (1770)
12/16 National Day in Bahrain
12/16 Victry Day in Bangladesh
12/17 National Day in Bhutan
12/17 William Safire (Safir) born (1929)
12/18 Republic Day in Niger
12/20 U.S. Buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.
12/21 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804
12/21 First day of winter, Winter Solstice, 11:23 am EST
12/21 Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in <80 days
12/22 Giacomo Puccini born, 1858
12/23 First G&S collaboration, Thespis, 1871
12/23 Joseph Smith born (1805)
12/23 Victory Day in Egypt
12/24 Christmas Eve
12/24 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865
12/25 Birthday of Quaid-i-Azam in Pakistan
12/25 Children's Day in Congo
12/25 Christmas
12/25 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England (1642)
12/26 Bank Holiday in Canada, Rep. of Ireland, and UK
12/26 Boxing Day
12/26 Chas. Babbage born, 1791
12/26 DPMA founded, 1951
12/26 Family Day in South Africa
12/26 Feast of Our Theotokos in Greece
12/26 St. Stephen's Day
12/27 APT report published, 1956
12/27 Bank Holiday in Cayman Islands
12/27 Constitution Day in North Korea
12/27 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845
12/27 Public Holiday in Lesotho, Zimbabwe
12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
12/28 John von Neumann born, 1903
12/29 Battle of Wounded knee, 1890
12/29 Civic Holidays (3 days) in Costa Rica
12/29 His Majesty, the King's Birthday in Nepal
12/30 Anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar in Madagascar
12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated (1940)
12/31 Bank Holiday in El Salvador, Honduras, Pakistan
12/31 Feed Yourself Day in Benin
12/31 New Year's Eve
12/31 Proclamation of the Republic in Congo
12/31 St. Sylvester in Switzerland
ekr...@ucla-cs.uucp
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>04/18 Independence Day in Chile
should be 09/18
>09/01 Army Day in Chile
>09/11 National Holiday in Chile
>09/18 Independence Day in Chile
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Jan Steinman
>In article <3...@wxlvax.UUCP> r...@wxlvax.UUCP (Richard L. Wexelblat) writes:
>>09/11 National Holiday in Chile
> a better description would be "Military cue (1973)".
Is that a holiday celibrating the invention of a tool used in Military pool
halls? Or perhaps a signal for the Military to go on stage? Or do you mean
"Military coup"?
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