1 01/01 Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba
2 01/01 Castro expells Cuban President Batista, 1959
3 01/01 Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech, 1947
4 01/01 First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902
5 01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
6 01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
7 01/05 Fellowship enters Moria (LOTR)
8 01/05 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940
10 01/06 Millard Fillmore's birthday (let's party!)
11 01/08 Battle of New Orleans
12 01/09 Fellowship reaches Lorien (LOTR)
14 01/10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946
15 01/10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776
16 01/11 Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania
17 01/11 De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico
18 01/11 Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 1878
19 01/11 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal
20 01/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
21 01/11 The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963
22 01/14 The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967
23 01/16 Prohibition begins, 1920
24 01/17 Passing of Gandalf (LOTR)
25 01/18 Grey whale migration, California
26 01/20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)
27 01/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922
28 01/24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848
29 01/26 Sydney Aust. settled, 1778
30 01/27 Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967
31 01/27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973
32 01/28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914
33 01/28 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff
34 killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe,
36 01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948
37 01/30 Tet Offensive, 1968
38 01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961
39 01/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered
40 01/31 Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp
41 02/01 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954
42 02/01 Forces lead by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979
43 02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969
44 02/04 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974
45 02/07 Fellowship leaves Lorien (LOTR)
46 02/08 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq
47 02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
48 02/12 Lincoln's real birthday
49 02/12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969
50 02/14 Bombing of Dresden, 1945
51 02/15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970
52 02/16 Nylon patented, 1937
53 02/16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804
54 02/17 Death of Boromir (LOTR)
55 02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930
56 02/19 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945
57 02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962
58 02/20 Meriadoc & Pippin meet Treebeard (LOTR)
59 02/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties
60 02/21 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878
61 02/21 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965
62 02/22 Passing of King Ellesar (LOTR)
63 02/23 Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 1971
64 02/24 Ents destroy Isengard (LOTR)
65 02/24 Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868
66 02/26 Aragorn takes the Paths of the Dead (LOTR)
67 02/27 The Lionheart crowned, 1189
68 02/28 The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972
69 02/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704
70 03/01 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft
71 in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
72 03/02 Blackthorn winds (New England) (Does anyone know what this is?)
73 03/04 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.
74 03/05 Frodo & Samwise encounter Shelob (LOTR)
75 03/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1939
76 03/08 Deaths of Denethor & Theoden (LOTR)
77 03/13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894
78 03/14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907
79 03/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH
80 03/15 France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874
81 03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966
82 03/16 First liquid-fuel-powered rocket flight, 1926
83 03/16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen
84 03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926
85 03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped
86 03/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965
87 03/18 Destruction of the Ring (LOTR)
88 03/19 Swallows return to Capistrano
89 03/20 Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980
90 03/24 Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900
91 03/25 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911
92 03/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937
93 03/27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958
94 03/28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979
95 03/29 Flowering of the Mallorn (LOTR)
96 03/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638
97 03/30 Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867
98 03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977
99 03/30 Pencil with eraser patented, 1858
100 04/01 People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day.
101 04/04 Gandalf visits Bilbo (LOTR)
102 04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
103 04/04 NATO Established, 1949
104 04/06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830
105 04/07 Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1943
106 04/07 Alewives run, Cape Cod
107 04/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865
108 04/12 Columbia launched, 1981
109 04/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861
110 04/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981
111 04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961
112 04/13 Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos
113 04/14 Lincoln shot, 1865
114 04/14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912
115 04/15 Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955
116 04/16 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865
117 04/17 An unexpected party (LOTR)
118 04/17 Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961
119 04/18 Einstein's Death, 1955
120 04/18 First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934
121 04/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906
122 04/19 Landing of the "33" in Uruguay
123 04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943
124 04/20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971
125 04/21 Lyrid meteor shower
126 04/23 Crowning of King Ellesar (LOTR)
127 04/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
128 04/26 William Shakespeare baptised in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564,
130 04/27 Magellan killed in Phillippines, 1521
131 04/29 Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913
132 05/01 Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god
133 05/03 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971
134 05/04 Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970
135 05/05 John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925
136 05/07 Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945
137 05/08 Beginning of ostrich mating season
138 05/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972
139 05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979
140 05/10 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940
141 05/10 Nazi bookburning, 1933
142 05/14 Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
143 05/14 Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948
144 05/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854
145 05/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
146 05/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
147 05/18 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
148 05/18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
149 05/19 Arwen leaves Lorian to wed King Ellesar (LOTR)
150 05/21 Battle of Iquique in Chile
151 05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956
152 05/22 US Civil War ends, 1865
153 05/23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960
154 05/23 Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953
155 05/24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador
156 05/25 Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980
157 05/25 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830
158 05/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
159 05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937
160 05/29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953
161 05/29 First food stamps issued, 1961
162 05/30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912
163 06/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924
164 06/04 Roquefort cheese developed, 1070
165 06/05 Robert Kennedy assasinated, 1968
166 06/05 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933
167 06/06 First drive-in movie, 1933
168 06/06 Normandy landing, 1944
169 06/10 Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C.
170 06/10 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971
171 06/11 Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC
172 06/11 Sauron attacks Osgilliath (LOTR)
173 06/13 Bilbo returns to Bag End (LOTR)
174 06/13 Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System
175 06/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834
176 06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752
177 06/15 Magna Carta signed, 1215
178 06/15 Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford
179 that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop,
181 06/16 "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980
182 06/17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967
183 06/17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972
184 06/19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953
185 06/19 Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893
186 06/20 Victoria crowned, 1837
187 06/21 Berlin airlift begins, 1948
188 06/21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge
189 06/22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964
190 06/23 Slavery abolished in England, 1772
191 06/23 Wedding of Ellesar & Arwen (LOTR)
192 06/24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970
193 06/25 Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 1876
194 06/25 North Korea invades South Korea, 1950
195 06/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
196 06/26 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959
197 06/26 Toothbrush invented, 1498
198 06/27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915
199 06/27 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971
200 06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978
201 06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia, 1908
202 06/30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960
203 07/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863
205 07/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863
206 07/04 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776
207 07/04 Gandalf imprisoned by Saruman (LOTR)
208 07/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776
209 07/04 Thoreau enters woods, 1845
210 07/06 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928
211 07/06 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917
212 07/07 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949
213 07/08 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
214 07/08 Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835
215 07/09 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847
216 07/10 134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913
217 07/12 Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933
218 07/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908
219 07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945
220 07/17 Disneyland opens, 1955
221 07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
222 07/19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692
223 07/20 Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969
224 07/21 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873
225 07/21 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954
226 07/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904
227 07/24 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
228 07/24 The ring comes to Bilbo (LOTR)
229 07/26 Bilbo rescued from Wargs by Eagles (LOTR)
230 07/30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956
231 07/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948,
233 08/01 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on
235 08/03 Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492
236 08/03 Funeral of King Theoden (LOTR)
237 08/03 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958
238 08/04 Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892
239 08/04 Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964
240 08/04 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914
241 08/06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945
242 08/06 Caricom in Barbados
243 08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
244 08/08 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
245 08/08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914
246 08/08 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974
247 08/08 The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963
248 08/09 Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969
249 08/09 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC
250 08/09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
251 08/10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833
252 08/10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977
254 08/11 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954
255 08/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
256 08/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977
257 08/12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
258 08/13 Berlin wall erected, 1961
259 08/13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934
260 08/14 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935
261 08/15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947
262 08/15 Hurricane hits Plimoth Plantation, 1635
263 08/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898
264 08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
265 08/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed
266 08/19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite,
267 marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960
268 08/19 Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856
269 08/22 Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets
270 08/22 Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963
271 08/22 St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565
272 08/23 Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927
273 08/24 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969
274 08/24 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960
275 08/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814
276 08/25 Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
277 08/26 Women get the vote, 1920
278 08/27 "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912
279 08/27 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883
280 08/28 King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963
281 08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975;
283 08/29 Saruman enters the Shire (LOTR)
284 08/30 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842
285 08/30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960
286 08/30 St. Rose of Lima in Peru
287 08/30 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963
288 08/31 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983
289 08/31 Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888
290 08/31 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
291 09/01 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972
292 09/01 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859
293 09/02 Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752
294 09/02 Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945
295 09/03 Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino
296 09/05 Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961
297 09/05 The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774
298 09/06 149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620
299 09/06 First Star Trek episode (The Man Trap) aired 1966
300 09/06 Pres. McKinley shot, 1901
301 09/06 Somhlolo in Swaziland
302 09/08 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966)
303 09/08 Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888
304 09/08 President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974
305 09/09 California becomes the 31st state, 1850
306 09/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776
307 09/10 Gandalf escapes from Orthanc (LOTR)
308 09/10 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857
309 09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943
310 09/12 Germany annexes Sudentenland, 1938
311 09/13 136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya, 1922
312 09/13 British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City, 1788
313 09/13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122
314 09/13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943
315 09/14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778
316 09/14 Frodo & Bilbo's birthday (LOTR)
317 09/14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629
318 09/14 The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940
319 09/15 Black riders enter the Shire (LOTR)
320 09/15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959
321 09/15 The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department, 1789
322 09/16 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630
323 09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862
324 09/18 Frodo and company rescued by Bombadil (LOTR)
325 09/18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi
326 09/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884
327 09/20 First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
329 09/20 First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916
330 09/20 Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519
331 09/20 The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973
332 09/22 Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953
333 09/22 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
334 09/22 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenaes President Nixon, 1974
335 09/22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949
336 09/23 Phillippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972
337 09/23 The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club, 1845
338 09/23 V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech, 1952
339 09/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981
340 09/27 The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825
341 09/28 "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678
342 09/28 A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon,
344 09/28 Frodo wounded at Weathertop (LOTR)
345 09/30 Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (#3) and Catherine Eddowes (#4),
347 09/30 The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846
348 09/30 The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946
349 10/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958
350 10/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967
351 10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853
352 10/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957
353 10/04 Sputnik 1, world's first orbiting satellite launched, 1957
354 10/05 Frodo crosses bridge of Mitheithel
355 10/06 Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853
356 10/06 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981
357 10/06 Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973
358 10/07 Foundation of the GDR in 1949 in German Democratic Republic
359 10/07 Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916
360 10/07 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977
361 10/07 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979
362 10/07 Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974
363 10/08 Great Chicago Fire, 1871
364 10/09 First two-way telephone conversation, 1876
365 10/10 Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba
366 10/10 Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea
367 10/10 Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. (1984)
368 10/10 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973
369 10/11 "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975
370 10/11 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976
371 10/11 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811
372 10/11 The second Vatican Ecumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962
373 10/11 First broadcast of Saturday Night Live, 1975
374 10/12 Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
375 10/12 Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960
376 10/12 Man O'War's last race, 1920
377 10/12 Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
378 10/13 Italy declares war on Germany, 1943
379 10/13 U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress
380 10/14 Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066
381 10/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947
382 10/15 First draft card burned, 1965
383 10/16 Boromir reaches Rivendell (LOTR)
384 10/17 Council of Elrond (LOTR)
385 10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648
386 10/18 Soviets anounce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959
387 10/19 Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949
388 10/19 Napoleon's beaten army begins the long retreat from Moscow, 1812
389 10/20 "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973
390 10/20 OPEC embargo, 1973
391 10/21 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879
392 10/21 Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959
393 10/23 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944
394 10/23 Earth created at 6:30 AM, 4004BC.
395 10/23 Swallows leave Capistrano
396 10/25 End of War of the Ring (LOTR)
397 10/25 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971
398 10/26 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978
399 10/27 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871
400 10/27 The first New York Subway is opened, 1904
401 10/28 Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492
402 10/28 Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312
403 10/28 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636
404 10/28 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886
405 10/29 Stock Market Crash, 1929
406 10/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938
407 10/31 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517
408 11/01 Austria-Hungary become two seperate nations, 1918
409 11/01 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950
410 11/02 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940
411 11/02 Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, 1783
412 11/03 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837
413 11/03 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954
414 11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing spacedog Laika
415 11/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979
416 11/04 Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956
417 11/05 Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605
418 11/06 Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R.
419 11/07 Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837
420 11/07 Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805
421 11/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965
422 11/09 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927
423 11/09 Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888
424 11/09 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921
425 11/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933
426 11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstartions near White House, 1917
427 11/10 Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865
428 11/10 Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?", 1871
429 11/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889
430 11/12 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan
431 11/12 U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861
432 11/14 Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon
433 price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after formal request
434 from McDonald's), 1971
435 11/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
436 11/16 Bilbo reaches the Lonely Mountain (LOTR)
437 11/16 Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869
438 11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966
439 11/17 Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973
440 11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952
441 11/18 Local standard time zones established for US, 1883
442 11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863
443 11/21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973
444 11/22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963
445 11/23 First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963
446 11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963
447 11/25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867
448 11/27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895
449 11/27 Friction match invented, England, 1826
450 11/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
451 11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922
452 12/01 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924
453 12/01 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955
454 12/01 Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1953
455 12/03 First neon light display, Paris, 1910
456 12/03 First successful human heart transplant lead by Dr. Barnard, 1967
457 12/03 The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971
458 12/04 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783
459 12/05 Death of Smaug (LOTR)
460 12/05 End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part)
461 12/05 Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776
462 12/05 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition, 1933
463 12/07 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941
464 12/09 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
465 12/10 Metric system established in France, 1799
466 12/10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year
467 12/12 First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901
468 12/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972
469 12/13 Dartmouth College chartered, 1769
470 12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south)
471 12/15 Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976
472 12/15 Bill of Rights adopted, 1791
473 12/15 James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891
474 12/15 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890
475 12/16 Fellowship begins Quest (LOTR)
476 12/20 U.S. buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.
477 12/21 Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in less than 80 days
478 12/24 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865
479 12/26 DPMA founded, 1951
480 12/27 APT report published, 1956
481 12/27 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845
482 12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
483 12/29 Battle of Wounded knee, 1890
484 12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940
485 12/31 St. Sylvester in Switzerland
486 12/31 Winterland closes its doors, 1978
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