7 #ifndef _calendar_history_
8 #define _calendar_history_
10 01/01 Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba
11 01/01 Castro expels Cuban President Batista, 1959
12 01/01 Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech, 1947
13 01/01 First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902
14 01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
15 01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
16 01/05 Fellowship enters Moria (LOTR)
17 01/05 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940
19 01/06 Millard Fillmore's birthday (let's party!)
20 01/08 Battle of New Orleans
21 01/09 Fellowship reaches Lorien (LOTR)
23 01/10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946
24 01/10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776
25 01/11 Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania
26 01/11 De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico
27 01/11 Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 1878
28 01/11 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal
29 01/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
30 01/11 The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963
31 01/14 The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967
32 01/16 Prohibition begins, 1920
33 01/17 Passing of Gandalf (LOTR)
34 01/18 Grey whale migration, California
35 01/20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)
36 01/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922
37 01/24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848
38 01/26 Sydney Aust. settled, 1788
39 01/27 Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967
40 01/27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973
41 01/28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914
42 01/28 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff
43 killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe,
45 01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948
46 01/30 Tet Offensive, 1968
47 01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961
48 01/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered
49 01/31 Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp
50 02/01 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954
51 02/01 Forces led by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979
52 02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969
53 02/04 Patricia Hearst kidnaped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974
54 02/07 Fellowship leaves Lorien (LOTR)
55 02/08 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq
56 02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
57 02/12 Lincoln's real birthday
58 02/12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969
59 02/14 Bombing of Dresden, 1945
60 02/15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970
61 02/16 Nylon patented, 1937
62 02/16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804
63 02/17 Death of Boromir (LOTR)
64 02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930
65 02/19 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945
66 02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962
67 02/20 Meriadoc & Pippin meet Treebeard (LOTR)
68 02/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties
69 02/21 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878
70 02/21 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965
71 02/22 Passing of King Ellesar (LOTR)
72 02/23 Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 1971
73 02/24 Ents destroy Isengard (LOTR)
74 02/24 Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868
75 02/26 Aragorn takes the Paths of the Dead (LOTR)
76 02/28 The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972
77 02/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704
78 03/01 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft
79 in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
80 03/02 Blackthorn winds (New England) (Does anyone know what this is?)
81 03/04 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.
82 03/05 Frodo & Samwise encounter Shelob (LOTR)
83 03/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1939
84 03/08 Deaths of Denethor & Theoden (LOTR)
85 03/13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894
86 03/14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907
87 03/15 Day of the 1848 revolution in Hungary
88 03/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH
89 03/15 France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874
90 03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966
91 03/16 First liquid-fuel-powered rocket flight, 1926
92 03/16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen
93 03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926
94 03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped
95 03/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965
96 03/18 Destruction of the Ring (LOTR)
97 03/19 Swallows return to Capistrano
98 03/20 Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980
99 03/24 Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900
100 03/25 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911
101 03/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937
102 03/27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958
103 03/28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979
104 03/29 Flowering of the Mallorn (LOTR)
105 03/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638
106 03/30 Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867
107 03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977
108 03/30 Pencil with eraser patented, 1858
109 04/01 People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day.
110 04/04 Gandalf visits Bilbo (LOTR)
111 04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
112 04/04 NATO Established, 1949
113 04/06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830
114 04/07 Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1943
115 04/07 Alewives run, Cape Cod
116 04/08 Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin meet in Encounter Bay, 1802
117 04/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865
118 04/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861
119 04/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981
120 04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961
121 04/13 Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos
122 04/14 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865
123 04/14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912
124 04/15 Lincoln dies, 1865
125 04/15 Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955
126 04/17 An unexpected party (LOTR)
127 04/17 Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961
128 04/18 Einstein's Death, 1955
129 04/18 First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934
130 04/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906
131 04/19 Landing of the "33" in Uruguay
132 04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943
133 04/20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971
134 04/21 Lyrid meteor shower
135 04/23 Crowning of King Ellesar (LOTR)
136 04/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
137 04/26 William Shakespeare baptized in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564,
139 04/27 Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521
140 04/29 Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913
141 05/01 Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god
142 05/03 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971
143 05/04 Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970
144 05/05 John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925
145 05/07 Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945
146 05/08 Beginning of ostrich mating season
147 05/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972
148 05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979
149 05/10 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940
150 05/10 Nazi bookburning, 1933
151 05/14 Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
152 05/14 Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948
153 05/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854
154 05/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
155 05/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
156 05/18 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
157 05/18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
158 05/19 Arwen leaves Lorian to wed King Ellesar (LOTR)
159 05/21 Battle of Iquique in Chile
160 05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956
161 05/22 US Civil War ends, 1865
162 05/23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960
163 05/23 Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953
164 05/24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador
165 05/25 Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980
166 05/25 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830
167 05/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
168 05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937
169 05/29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953
170 05/29 First food stamps issued, 1961
171 05/30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912
172 06/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924
173 06/04 Roquefort cheese developed, 1070
174 06/05 Robert Kennedy assassinated, 1968
175 06/05 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933
176 06/06 First drive-in movie, 1933
177 06/06 Normandy landing, 1944
178 06/10 Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C.
179 06/10 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971
180 06/11 Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC
181 06/11 Sauron attacks Osgilliath (LOTR)
182 06/13 Bilbo returns to Bag End (LOTR)
183 06/13 Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System
184 06/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834
185 06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752
186 06/15 Magna Carta signed, 1215
187 06/15 Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford
188 that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop,
190 06/16 "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980
191 06/17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967
192 06/17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972
193 06/19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953
194 06/19 Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893
195 06/20 Victoria crowned, 1837
196 06/21 Berlin airlift begins, 1948
197 06/21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge
198 06/22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964
199 06/23 Slavery abolished in England, 1772
200 06/23 Wedding of Ellesar & Arwen (LOTR)
201 06/24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970
202 06/25 Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 1876
203 06/25 North Korea invades South Korea, 1950
204 06/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
205 06/26 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959
206 06/26 Toothbrush invented, 1498
207 06/27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915
208 06/27 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971
209 06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978
210 06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia, 1908
211 06/30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960
212 07/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863
214 07/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863
215 07/04 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776
216 07/04 Gandalf imprisoned by Saruman (LOTR)
217 07/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776
218 07/04 Thoreau enters woods, 1845
219 07/06 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928
220 07/06 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917
221 07/07 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949
222 07/08 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
223 07/08 Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835
224 07/09 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847
225 07/10 134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913
226 07/12 Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933
227 07/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908
228 07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945
229 07/17 Disneyland opens, 1955
230 07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
231 07/19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692
232 07/20 Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969
233 07/21 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873
234 07/21 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954
235 07/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904
236 07/24 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
237 07/24 The ring comes to Bilbo (LOTR)
238 07/26 Bilbo rescued from Wargs by Eagles (LOTR)
239 07/30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956
240 07/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948,
242 08/01 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on
244 08/03 Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492
245 08/03 Funeral of King Theoden (LOTR)
246 08/03 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958
247 08/04 Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892
248 08/04 Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964
249 08/04 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914
250 08/06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945
251 08/06 Caricom in Barbados
252 08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
253 08/08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914
254 08/08 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974
255 08/08 The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963
256 08/09 Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969
257 08/09 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC
258 08/09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
259 08/09 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
260 08/10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833
261 08/10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977
263 08/11 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954
264 08/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
265 08/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977
266 08/12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
267 08/13 Berlin wall erected, 1961
268 08/13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934
269 08/14 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935
270 08/15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947
271 08/15 Hurricane hits Plymouth Plantation, 1635
272 08/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898
273 08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
274 08/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed
275 08/19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite,
276 marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960
277 08/19 Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856
278 08/22 Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets
279 08/22 Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963
280 08/22 St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565
281 08/23 Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927
282 08/24 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969
283 08/24 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960
284 08/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814
285 08/25 Gen. De Gaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
286 08/26 Women get the vote, 1920
287 08/27 "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912
288 08/27 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883
289 08/28 King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963
290 08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975;
292 08/29 Saruman enters the Shire (LOTR)
293 08/30 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842
294 08/30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960
295 08/30 St. Rose of Lima in Peru
296 08/30 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963
297 08/31 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983
298 08/31 Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888
299 08/31 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
300 09/01 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972
301 09/01 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859
302 09/02 Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752
303 09/02 Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945
304 09/03 The Lionheart crowned, 1189
305 09/03 Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino
306 09/05 Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961
307 09/05 The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774
308 09/06 149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620
309 09/06 First Star Trek episode (The Man Trap) aired 1966
310 09/06 Pres. McKinley shot, 1901
311 09/06 Somhlolo in Swaziland
312 09/08 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966)
313 09/08 Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888
314 09/08 President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974
315 09/09 California becomes the 31st state, 1850
316 09/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776
317 09/10 Gandalf escapes from Orthanc (LOTR)
318 09/10 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857
319 09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943
320 09/12 Germany annexes Sudetenland, 1938
321 09/13 136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya, 1922
322 09/13 British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City, 1788
323 09/13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122
324 09/13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943
325 09/14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778
326 09/14 Frodo & Bilbo's birthday (LOTR)
327 09/14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629
328 09/14 The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940
329 09/15 Black riders enter the Shire (LOTR)
330 09/15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959
331 09/15 The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department, 1789
332 09/16 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630
333 09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862
334 09/18 Frodo and company rescued by Bombadil (LOTR)
335 09/18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi
336 09/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884
337 09/20 First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
339 09/20 First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916
340 09/20 Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519
341 09/20 The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973
342 09/22 Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953
343 09/22 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
344 09/22 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas President Nixon, 1974
345 09/22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949
346 09/23 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972
347 09/23 The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club, 1845
348 09/23 V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech, 1952
349 09/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981
350 09/27 The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825
351 09/28 "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678
352 09/28 A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon,
354 09/28 Frodo wounded at Weathertop (LOTR)
355 09/30 Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (#3) and Catherine Eddowes (#4),
357 09/30 The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846
358 09/30 The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946
359 10/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958
360 10/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967
361 10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853
362 10/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957
363 10/05 Frodo crosses bridge of Mitheithel
364 10/06 Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853
365 10/06 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981
366 10/06 Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973
367 10/07 Foundation of the German Democratic Republic (GDR or DDR), 1949
368 10/07 Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916
369 10/07 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977
370 10/07 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979
371 10/07 Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974
372 10/08 Great Chicago Fire, 1871
373 10/09 First two-way telephone conversation, 1876
374 10/10 Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba
375 10/10 Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea
376 10/10 Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. (1984)
377 10/10 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973
378 10/11 "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975
379 10/11 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976
380 10/11 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811
381 10/11 The second Vatican Ecumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962
382 10/11 First broadcast of Saturday Night Live, 1975
383 10/12 Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
384 10/12 Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960
385 10/12 Man O'War's last race, 1920
386 10/12 Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
387 10/13 Italy declares war on Germany, 1943
388 10/13 U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress
389 10/14 Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066
390 10/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947
391 10/15 First draft card burned, 1965
392 10/16 Boromir reaches Rivendell (LOTR)
393 10/17 Council of Elrond (LOTR)
394 10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648
395 10/18 Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959
396 10/19 Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949
397 10/19 Napoleon's beaten army begins the long retreat from Moscow, 1812
398 10/20 "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973
399 10/20 OPEC embargo, 1973
400 10/21 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879
401 10/21 Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959
402 10/23 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944
403 10/23 Day of the 1956 revolution in Hungary
404 10/23 Earth created at 6:30 AM, 4004BC.
405 10/23 Swallows leave Capistrano
406 10/25 End of War of the Ring (LOTR)
407 10/25 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971
408 10/26 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978
409 10/27 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871
410 10/27 The first New York Subway is opened, 1904
411 10/28 Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492
412 10/28 Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312
413 10/28 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636
414 10/28 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886
415 10/29 Stock Market Crash, 1929
416 10/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938
417 10/31 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517
418 11/01 Austria-Hungary become two separate nations, 1918
419 11/01 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950
420 11/02 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940
421 11/02 Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, 1783
422 11/03 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837
423 11/03 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954
424 11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing space dog Laika
425 11/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979
426 11/04 Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956
427 11/05 Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605
428 11/06 Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R.
429 11/07 Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837
430 11/07 Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805
431 11/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965
432 11/09 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927
433 11/09 Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888
434 11/09 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921
435 11/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933
436 11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House, 1917
437 11/10 Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865
438 11/10 Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?", 1871
439 11/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889
440 11/12 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan
441 11/12 U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861
442 11/14 Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon
443 price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after formal request
444 from McDonald's), 1971
445 11/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
446 11/16 Bilbo reaches the Lonely Mountain (LOTR)
447 11/16 Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869
448 11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966
449 11/17 Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973
450 11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952
451 11/18 Local standard time zones established for US, 1883
452 11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863
453 11/21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973
454 11/22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963
455 11/23 First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963
456 11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963
457 11/25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867
458 11/27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895
459 11/27 Friction match invented, England, 1826
460 11/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
461 11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922
462 12/01 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924
463 12/01 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955
464 12/01 Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1953
465 12/03 First neon light display, Paris, 1910
466 12/03 First successful human heart transplant led by Dr. Barnard, 1967
467 12/03 The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971
468 12/04 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783
469 12/05 Death of Smaug (LOTR)
470 12/05 End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part)
471 12/05 Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776
472 12/05 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition, 1933
473 12/07 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941
474 12/09 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
475 12/10 Metric system established in France, 1799
476 12/10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year
477 12/12 First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901
478 12/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972
479 12/13 Dartmouth College chartered, 1769
480 12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south)
481 12/15 Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976
482 12/15 Bill of Rights adopted, 1791
483 12/15 James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891
484 12/15 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890
485 12/16 Fellowship begins Quest (LOTR)
486 12/20 U.S. buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.
487 12/21 Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in less than 80 days
488 12/24 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865
489 12/26 DPMA founded, 1951
490 12/27 APT report published, 1956
491 12/27 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845
492 12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
493 12/29 Battle of Wounded knee, 1890
494 12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940
495 12/31 St. Sylvester in Switzerland
496 12/31 Winterland closes its doors, 1978
498 #endif /* !_calendar_history_ */
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