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 01/02 Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve
16 01/03 Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers
18 01/03 Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British
19 Prime Minister in the 20th Century, 1988
20 01/04 Burma becomes independent from United Kingdom, 1948
21 01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
22 01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
23 01/05 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940
25 01/06 Maria Montessori opens her first school in Rome, 1907
26 01/07 First transatlantic telephone call, 1927
27 01/08 Battle of New Orleans
28 01/08 Monaco gains its independence, 1297
30 01/10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946
31 01/10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776
32 01/11 Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania
33 01/11 De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico
34 01/11 Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 1878
35 01/11 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal
36 01/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
37 01/11 The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963
38 01/12 Batman the TV series debuts on ABC, 1966
39 01/13 Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance, 1930
40 01/14 The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967
41 01/15 Angola becomes an independent state, 1975
42 01/16 Prohibition begins, 1920
43 01/16 The Medici family are made official bankers of the Papacy, 1412
44 01/17 Captain James Cook becomes the first explorer to cross the
45 Antarctic Circle, 1773
46 01/18 Grey whale migration, California
47 01/18 The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time, 1896
48 01/19 The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant, 1978
49 01/20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)
50 01/21 First commercial flight with a Concorde, 1976
51 01/22 British colonists reach New Zealand, 1840
52 01/23 The Royal Exchange opens in London, 1571
53 01/23 The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in
55 01/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922
56 01/24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848
57 01/24 Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement, 1908
58 01/25 The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits
59 the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada, 1791
60 01/26 Sydney, New South Wales settled, 1788
61 01/27 Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967
62 01/27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973
63 01/28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914
64 01/28 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff
65 killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe,
67 01/28 The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the
69 01/29 Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, the last monarch of
71 01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948
72 01/30 Tet Offensive, 1968
73 01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961
74 01/31 Dmitry Mendeleev established optimal alcohol-water mixture ratio
75 in his PhD work on alcohol-water mixtures, 1865
76 01/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered
77 01/31 Irving Langmuir invented tungsten filament lamp, 1881
78 02/01 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954
79 02/01 Forces led by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979
80 02/01 Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrates 15 minutes before landing
81 killing Husband, McCool, Chawla, Clark, Ramon, Brown, and Anderson, 2003
82 02/02 Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament, 1933
83 02/03 The first commercial cheese factory is founded in Switzerland, 1815
84 02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969
85 02/04 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974
86 02/05 Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of
87 the United Arab Republic, 1958
88 02/06 Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand, 1840
89 02/07 The British Labour Party is formed, 1900
90 02/08 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq
91 02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
92 02/09 Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation, 1621
93 02/10 New Delhi becomes the capital of India, 1931
94 02/11 Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of
95 the Kalmar Union, 1814
96 02/12 China adopts the Gregorian calendar, 1912
97 02/12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969
98 02/13 France tests its first atomic bomb in Algeria, 1960
99 02/14 Bombing of Dresden, 1945
100 02/15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970
101 02/16 Nylon patented, 1937
102 02/16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804
103 02/17 The first ship passes through the Suez Canal, 1867
104 02/18 Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech, 1943
105 02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930
106 02/19 Serfdom is abolished in Russia, 1861
107 02/19 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945
108 02/20 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia
110 02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962
111 02/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties
112 02/21 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878
113 02/21 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965
114 02/22 Start of the Czechoslovak Revolution, 1948
115 02/23 Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 1971
116 02/24 Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868
117 02/25 The Democratic Republic of Georgia occupied by Bolshevist Russia, 1921
118 02/26 Final radio broadcast of Dragnet, 1957
119 02/27 The Lionheart crowned, 1189
120 02/28 The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972
121 02/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704
122 03/01 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft
123 in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
124 03/01 The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded, 1565
125 03/02 Blackthorn winds (New England)
126 03/02 Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam, 1946
127 03/03 Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire, 1878
128 03/04 Emile Berliner invents the microphone, 1877
129 03/04 First meeting of Congress in N.Y.C., 1789
130 03/05 Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, 1836
131 03/06 The aspirin is registered as a trademark of Bayer, 1899
132 03/07 Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for
133 women's voting rights in Kuwait, 2005
134 03/08 The first case of Spanish flu occurs, killing 50 million to 100 million
135 people worldwide, 1918
136 03/09 The Barbie doll debuts, 1959
137 03/10 Republic of Cote d'Ivoire becomes a colony of France, 1893
138 03/11 Ceasefire declared in the war between Iran and Irak, 1988
139 03/12 The first bottles of Coca Cola were sold, 1894
140 03/13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894
141 03/14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907
142 03/14 The kingdom of Cyprus is sold by the ruling Queen to Venice, 1489
143 03/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH
144 03/15 Day of the 1848 revolution in Hungary
145 03/15 France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874
146 03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966
147 03/15 Ides of March. Gaius Julius Caesar assassinated by senators,
148 including adoptive son Marcus Junius Brutus Caepio, 44BC
149 03/15 Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by
150 several senators, 44BC
151 03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966
152 03/16 Largest coordinated worldwide vigil against the Iraq War, 2003
153 03/16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by US infantrymen
154 03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926
155 03/17 Invention of the rubber band, 1845
156 03/17 Ukrainian Nationalist Republic declared, 1917
157 03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped
158 03/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965
159 03/18 In the Pyramid of Cheops a 4.400 year old mummy is found, 1989
160 03/19 Swallows return to Capistrano
161 03/20 Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980
162 03/21 Henry V becomes the king of England, 1413
163 03/22 First motion picture displayed by Auguste and Louis Lumière, 1895
164 03/22 World Day for Water
165 03/23 The first Islamic republic in the world is Pakistan, 1956
166 03/24 Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900
167 03/25 The first Bed-In for Peace by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 1969
168 03/25 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911
169 03/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937
170 03/26 The driving test is introduced, in the United Kingdom, 1934
171 03/27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958
172 03/28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979
173 03/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638
174 03/29 The Republic of Ireland bans smoking in all work places, 2004
175 03/30 Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867
176 03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977
177 03/30 Pencil with eraser patented, 1858
178 03/31 The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated, 1889
179 04/01 People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day.
180 04/02 Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia, 1930
181 04/03 First publication of the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, 1896
182 04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
183 04/04 NATO established, 1949
184 04/05 Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia, 1614
185 04/06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830
186 04/07 Alewives run, Cape Cod
187 04/08 Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin meet in Encounter Bay, 1802
188 04/08 The Venus de Milo is found on the island of Melos, 1820
189 04/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865
190 04/09 The first public exhibition of art opens in Paris, 1667
191 04/10 The Belfast Agreement is signed, on Good Friday, 1998
192 04/11 The Shogunate is abolished in Japan, 1868
193 04/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861
194 04/12 Great Britain adopts the Union Jack as their national flag, 1606
195 04/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981
196 04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961
197 04/13 Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos
198 04/14 US President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865
199 04/14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912
200 04/15 Insulin first becomes generally available for use by diabetics, 1923
201 04/15 US President Abraham Lincoln dies, 1865
202 04/15 Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955
203 04/16 Syria becomes an independent Republic, 1946
204 04/17 Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961
205 04/18 Albert Einstein dies, 1955
206 04/18 First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934
207 04/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906
208 04/18 The League of Nations is dissolved after 27 years, 1946
209 04/19 Landing of the "33" in Uruguay
210 04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943
211 04/20 In Bulgaria, the April Uprising takes place, 1876
212 04/20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971
213 04/21 Lyrid meteor shower
214 04/21 Rome is founded by Romulus and Remus, 753 BC
215 04/22 Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral becomes the first European to
217 04/22 The first Earth Day is celebrated, 1970
218 04/22 Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, called Lenin, Russian political leader, born in Simbirsk, 1870
219 04/23 Bavarian co-rulers Duke Wilhelm IV and Duke Ludwig X proclaimed the
220 weighty and consequential Bavarian Beer Purity Law
221 (later Reinheitsgebot), 1516
222 04/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
223 04/24 The Greek enter Troy with the Trojan Horse, 1184BC
224 04/25 Integrated circuit patented by Robert Noyce, 1961
225 04/26 William Shakespeare baptized in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564,
226 birthdate less certain
227 04/27 Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521
228 04/28 President of France, Charles de Gaulle resigns, 1969
229 04/29 Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913
230 04/30 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide, 1945
231 05/01 Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god
232 05/01 Adam Weishaupt founded the Illuminati of Bavaria, 1776
233 05/02 The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness monster is reported, 1933
234 05/03 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971
235 05/03 Jamaica is spotted by Christopher Columbus, 1494
236 05/04 Christopher Columbus sets foot on Jamaica, 1494
237 05/04 Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970
238 05/05 John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925
239 05/05 Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire, 1260
240 05/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1937
241 05/07 Germany surrenders after World War II, 1945
242 05/08 Beginning of ostrich mating season
243 05/08 Herbert Akroyd Stuart patented the first "diesel" engine, 1890
244 05/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972
245 05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979
246 05/09 The first parliament of Australia opens in Melbourne, 1901
247 05/10 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940
248 05/10 Nazi bookburning, 1933
249 05/11 Thailand is no longer known as Siam, 1949
250 05/12 Tunisia becomes a French protectorate, 1881
251 05/13 Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after
252 having been accused of treason, 1619
253 05/14 Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
254 05/14 Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948
255 05/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854
256 05/15 The civil war in Finland ends, 1918
257 05/16 Root beer invented by Charles Elmer Hires, 1866
258 05/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
259 05/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
260 05/18 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
261 05/18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
262 05/19 The Legion d'Honneur is founded by Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802
263 05/20 The first modern atlas issued by Abraham Ortelius, 1570
264 05/21 Battle of Iquique in Chile
265 05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956
266 05/22 The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony,
268 05/22 US Civil War ends, 1865
269 05/23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960
270 05/23 Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953
271 05/23 Federal Republic of Germany founded, 1949
272 05/24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador
273 05/25 Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980
274 05/25 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830
275 05/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
276 05/26 John Calvin and his followers are expelled from Geneva, 1538
277 05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937
278 05/27 The pop-up toaster patented by Charles Strite, 1919
279 05/28 Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication, 1936
280 05/29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953
281 05/29 First food stamps issued, 1961
282 05/30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912
283 05/30 Beginning of the civil war over Biafra, 1967
284 05/31 Yom Kippur War comes to an end by the signing of a disengagement
285 agreement by Syria and Israel, 1974
286 06/01 In a referendum the Dutch reject the European Constitution, 2005
287 06/02 Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty in a close-call referendum, 1992
288 06/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924
289 06/03 Edward White becomes the first American to perform a "Space Walk", 1965
290 06/03 Last Star Trek episode first aired ("Turnabout Intruder"), 1969
291 06/04 Roquefort cheese developed, 1070
292 06/05 Robert Kennedy assassinated, 1968
293 06/05 Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem, 70
294 06/05 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933
295 06/06 First drive-in movie, 1933
296 06/06 Normandy landing, 1944
297 06/07 The first act of civil disobedience by Gandhi, 1893
298 06/08 The Canadian Parliament meets for the first time in Ottawa, 1866
299 06/09 The Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, 68
300 06/10 Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C.
301 06/10 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971
302 06/11 Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC
303 06/12 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison, 1964
304 06/13 Much of Vancouver, British Columbia, is devastated by a fire, 1886
305 06/13 Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System
306 06/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834
307 06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752
308 06/15 Magna Carta signed, 1215
309 06/15 Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford
310 that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop,
312 06/16 "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980
313 06/16 Henry Ford launched the Ford Motor Company, 1903
314 06/17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967
315 06/17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972
316 06/18 Winston Churchill delivers his "Finest Hour" speech, 1940
317 06/19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953
318 06/19 Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893
319 06/20 Victoria crowned, 1837
320 06/21 Berlin airlift begins, 1948
321 06/21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge
322 06/22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964
323 06/22 The June Days Uprising in Paris begins, 1848
324 06/23 Harriet, Darwin's turtle died at the age of 176 years, 2006
325 06/23 Slavery abolished in England, 1772
326 06/24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970
327 06/24 The capital of Jamaica, Kingston, is founded, 1664
328 06/25 Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 1876
329 06/25 North Korea invades South Korea, 1950
330 06/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
331 06/26 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959
332 06/26 Toothbrush invented, 1498
333 06/27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915
334 06/27 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971
335 06/27 The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London, 1967
336 06/28 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria assassinated in Sarajevo,
337 marking the beginning of World War I, 1914
338 06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Allan Bakke, 1978
339 06/28 World War I ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919
340 06/29 The Seychelles gains independence from the United Kingdom, 1976
341 06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia at 7:17 local time, 1908
342 06/30 Albert Einstein publishes his theory of special relativity, 1905
343 06/30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960
344 07/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863
345 07/01 Hong Kong becomes a special administrative region of the People's
346 Republic of China, 1997
347 07/01 The first day on the Somme marked the beginning of the
348 Battle of the Somme, 1916
349 07/01 Warsaw Pact officially dissolved, 1991
350 07/02 Vermont abolishes slavery, as the first state, 1777
352 07/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863
353 07/04 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776
354 07/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776
355 07/04 Thoreau enters woods, 1845
356 07/05 Bikini demonstrated for the first time, 1946
357 07/06 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928
358 07/06 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917
359 07/07 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949
360 07/07 Terrorists detonate four bombs on London public transport, 2005
361 07/08 A UFO is believed to have crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, 1947
362 07/08 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
363 07/08 Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835
364 07/09 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847
365 07/09 The African Union gets established, 2002
366 07/10 134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913
367 07/10 Most of London gets burned down in a severe fire, 1212
368 07/11 Mongolia gains independence from China, 1921
369 07/12 Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933
370 07/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908
371 07/14 Storming of the Bastille by the citizens of Paris, 1789
372 07/15 First item sold via Amazon.com, 1995
373 07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945
374 07/16 End of the civil war in Rwanda, 1994
375 07/17 Disneyland opens, 1955
376 07/18 "Mein Kampf" is published, 1925
377 07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
378 07/19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692
379 07/19 France declares war on Prussia, marking the beginning of the
380 Franco-Prussian war, 1870
381 07/20 Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969
382 07/20 Ford Motor Company ships their car, 1903
383 07/21 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873
384 07/21 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954
385 07/22 Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly around the world, 1933
386 07/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904
387 07/24 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
388 07/25 First test-tube baby born, 1978
389 07/26 Potsdam Declaration signed, 1945
390 07/27 The last Citroen 2CV made, 1990
391 07/28 Potato introduced in Europe by Sir Thomas Harriot, 1586
392 07/29 Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 1836
393 07/30 "In God We Trust" made US motto, 1956
394 07/30 Elvis Presley performs for the first time in public, 1954
395 07/31 First U.S. patent issued, 1790
396 07/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948,
398 08/01 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on
400 08/02 Hitler becomes the Fuehrer of Germany, 1934
401 08/03 Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492
402 08/03 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958
403 08/04 Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892
404 08/04 Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964
405 08/04 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914
406 08/05 Nelson Mandela is jailed, 1962
407 08/06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945
408 08/06 Caricom in Barbados
409 08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
410 08/07 Jack the Ripper makes his first kill, 1888
411 08/08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914
412 08/08 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974
413 08/08 The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963
414 08/09 Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969
415 08/09 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC
416 08/09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
417 08/09 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
418 08/09 Singapore secedes from Malaysia, 1965
419 08/10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833
420 08/10 Major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft disrupted by
422 08/10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977
424 08/11 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954
425 08/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
426 08/12 Cleopatra commits suicide, 30BC
427 08/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977
428 08/12 Last US ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
429 08/13 Berlin wall erected, 1961
430 08/13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934
431 08/14 France introduces motor vehicle registration, 1893
432 08/14 Social Security begins in US, 1935
433 08/15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947
434 08/15 Hurricane hits Plymouth Plantation, 1635
435 08/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898
436 08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
437 08/17 Indonesian Declaration of Independence, 1945
438 08/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed
439 08/18 Power blackout on Java, Indonesia, affects almost
440 100 million people, 2005
441 08/19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite,
442 marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960
443 08/19 Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856
444 08/20 First commercial radio station airs in Detroit, Michigan, 1920
445 08/21 Louvre employee steals the "Mona Lisa", 1911
446 08/22 Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets
447 08/22 Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963
448 08/22 St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565
449 08/23 Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927
450 08/24 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969
451 08/24 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960
452 08/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814
453 08/25 General de Gaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
454 08/26 19th amendment of US constitution gives women the vote, 1920
455 08/26 Women get the vote, 1920
456 08/27 "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912
457 08/27 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883
458 08/28 Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay, 1609
459 08/28 Martin Luther King leads over 200,000 in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963
460 08/29 Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction, 1831
461 08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975;
463 08/30 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842
464 08/30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960
465 08/30 St. Rose of Lima in Peru
466 08/30 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963
467 08/31 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983
468 08/31 Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888
469 08/31 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
470 08/31 Federation of Malaya gains independence from Great Britain, 1957
471 08/31 Independent union "Solidarnosc" born, Gdansk, 1980
472 09/01 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972
473 09/01 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859
474 09/02 Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752
475 09/02 Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945
476 09/03 Richard ``the Lionheart'' crowned king of England, 1189
477 09/03 Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino
478 09/04 Napoleon III is deposed and the Third Republic is declared, 1870
479 09/05 US President Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961
480 09/05 St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland, 1980
481 09/05 The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774
482 09/06 149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620
483 09/06 First Star Trek episode (The Man Trap) aired 1966
484 09/06 US President McKinley shot, 1901
485 09/06 Somhlolo in Swaziland
486 09/07 Brazil declares its independence from Portugal, 1822
487 09/08 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966)
488 09/08 Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888
489 09/08 US President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974
490 09/09 California becomes the 31st state of the USA, 1850
491 09/09 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph, 1839
492 09/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776
493 09/10 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857
494 09/11 CIA-sponsored terrorists overthrow Chilean government, murder President Allende, 1973
495 09/11 Terrorists destroy World Trade Center in New York, 2001
496 09/11 World Wide Fund (WWF) founded, 1961
497 09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943
498 09/12 Germany annexes Sudetenland, 1938
499 09/13 58 °C (136.4 °F) measured at el Azizia, Libya, 1922
500 09/13 British defeat the French at the Plains of Abraham, just outside the walls of Quebec City, 1759
501 09/13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122
502 09/13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943
503 09/14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778
504 09/14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629
505 09/14 The US Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940
506 09/15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959
507 09/15 The US Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the US State Department, 1789
508 09/15 The Nazis adopt a new national flag with the swastika, 1935
509 09/16 General Motors is founded, 1908
510 09/16 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630
511 09/16 Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore unite to become Malaysia, 1963
512 09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862
513 09/17 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859
514 09/18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi
515 09/19 New Zealand women get the right to vote, 1893
516 09/19 Walt Disney releases Steamboat Willie, 1928
517 09/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for US President, 1884
518 09/20 First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
520 09/20 First meeting of the US National Research Council, 1916
521 09/20 Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519
522 09/20 The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973
523 09/21 J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published, 1937
524 09/22 Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953
525 09/22 US President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
526 09/22 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas US President Nixon, 1974
527 09/22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949
528 09/23 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972
529 09/23 The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first US Baseball club, 1845
530 09/23 US Vice President Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech, 1952
531 09/24 The Netherlands surrenders New Amsterdam to England, 1664
532 09/25 Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era, 1066
533 09/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981
534 09/26 Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic, 1973
535 09/27 The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825
536 09/28 "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678
537 09/28 A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon,
539 09/30 Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (#3) and Catherine Eddowes (#4),
541 09/30 The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846
542 09/30 The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946
543 10/01 Austria issues the world's first postcards, 1869
544 10/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958
545 10/02 Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec, 1535
546 10/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967
547 10/03 O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of murder, 1995
548 10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853
549 10/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957
550 10/05 Portugal declares itself a republic, 1910
551 10/06 Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853
552 10/06 Egyptian President Anwar es-Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981
553 10/06 Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973
554 10/07 Foundation of the German Democratic Republic (GDR or DDR), 1949
555 10/07 Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916
556 10/07 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977
557 10/07 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979
558 10/07 Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974
559 10/08 Great Chicago Fire, 1871
560 10/08 San Marino adopts its written constitution, 1600
561 10/09 First two-way telephone conversation, 1876
562 10/10 Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba
563 10/10 Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea
564 10/10 Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. (1984)
565 10/10 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973
566 10/11 "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975
567 10/11 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976
568 10/11 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811
569 10/11 The second Vatican Ecumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962
570 10/11 First broadcast of Saturday Night Live, 1975
571 10/12 Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
572 10/12 Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig married Princess Therese of
573 Saxony-Hildburghausen, Oktoberfest, 1810
574 10/12 Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960
575 10/12 Man O'War's last race, 1920
576 10/12 Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
577 10/13 Italy declares war on Germany, 1943
578 10/13 US Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress
579 10/14 Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066
580 10/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947
581 10/15 Edison Electric Light Company begins operation, 1878
582 10/15 First draft card burned, 1965
583 10/16 The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney
584 and his brother, Roy Disney, 1923
585 10/17 Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion, 1931
586 10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first US labor org., 1648
587 10/18 Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959
588 10/18 The Grand Ole Opry opens its doors, 1925
589 10/19 Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949
590 10/19 Napoleon's beaten army begins the long retreat from Moscow, 1812
591 10/20 "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973
592 10/20 OPEC embargo, 1973
593 10/21 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879
594 10/21 Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959
595 10/22 Laos gains independence from France, 1953
596 10/23 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944
597 10/23 Day of the 1956 revolution in Hungary
598 10/23 Earth created at 6:30 AM, 4004BC.
599 10/23 South African troops invade Angola in support of UNITA and FNLA, 1975
600 10/23 Swallows leave Capistrano
601 10/24 Founding of the United Nations, 1945
602 10/25 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971
603 10/26 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978
604 10/27 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871
605 10/27 The first New York Subway is opened, 1904
606 10/27 Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of
607 a global economic meltdown, 1997
608 10/28 Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492
609 10/28 Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312
610 10/28 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636
611 10/28 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886
612 10/29 Leibniz makes the first use of the "long s" for integral, 1675
613 10/29 Stock Market Crash, 1929
614 10/30 Communist Party of Australia founded in Sydney, 1920
615 10/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938
616 10/31 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetak, 1952
617 10/31 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517
618 11/01 Austria-Hungary become two separate nations, 1918
619 11/01 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950
620 11/02 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940
621 11/02 Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, 1783
622 11/03 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837
623 11/03 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954
624 11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing space dog Laika
625 11/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979
626 11/04 Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956
627 11/05 Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605
628 11/06 Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R.
629 11/07 Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837
630 11/07 Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805
631 11/08 Invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the
632 Stockholm Bloodbath, 1520
633 11/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965
634 11/09 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927
635 11/09 Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888
636 11/09 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921
637 11/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933
638 11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House, 1917
639 11/10 Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865
640 11/10 Henry Stanley asks David Livingstone, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?", 1871
641 11/11 First broadcast of Sesame Street, 1970
642 11/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889
643 11/12 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan
644 11/12 USA first exports oil to Europe, 1861
645 11/13 St. Brice's Day massacre by order of Ethelred, king of England, 1002
646 11/14 Czechoslovakia becomes a republic, 1918
647 11/14 Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon
648 price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after formal request
649 from McDonald's), 1971
650 11/15 First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, 1920
651 11/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
652 11/16 Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869
653 11/16 Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1938
654 11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966
655 11/17 Elizabeth I of England succeeds Queen Mary I of England, 1558
656 11/17 Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973
657 11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952
658 11/18 Local standard time zones established for US, 1883
659 11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863
660 11/19 Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Company, 1916
661 11/20 Nuremberg Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals begin, 1945
662 11/21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973
663 11/21 Birmingham Pub Bombings by the IRA kill 21 people, 1974
664 11/22 John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, 1963
665 11/22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963
666 11/23 First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963
667 11/23 The first edition of Life is published. 1936
668 11/24 Alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is killed by
669 Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas, 1963
670 11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963
671 11/25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867
672 11/26 Last flight ever with a Concorde made over Bristol, UK, 2003
673 11/27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895
674 11/27 Friction match invented by englishman John Walker, Sweden, 1826
675 11/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
676 11/28 Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, 1912
677 11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922
678 12/01 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924
679 12/01 Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, 1913
680 12/01 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955
681 12/01 Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1953
682 12/02 Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French, 1852
683 12/03 First neon light display, Paris, 1910
684 12/03 First successful human heart transplant led by Dr. Barnard, 1967
685 12/03 The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971
686 12/04 People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution, 1982
687 12/04 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783
688 12/05 End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part)
689 12/05 Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776
690 12/05 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition, 1933
691 12/06 London becomes the world's first city with motorised cabs, 1897
692 12/07 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941
693 12/08 Japan enters Second World War with invasion of Pantai Sabak, Kelantan, 1941
694 12/08 Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum, 1991
695 12/09 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
696 12/10 Metric system established in France, 1799
697 12/10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year
698 12/11 The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, 1931
699 12/12 First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901
700 12/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972
701 12/13 Dartmouth College chartered, 1769
702 12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south)
703 12/14 Portugal joins the United Nations, 1955
704 12/15 Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976
705 12/15 Bill of Rights adopted, 1791
706 12/15 James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891
707 12/15 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890
708 12/16 Pokemon episode (Electric Soldier Porygon) triggers attacks of
709 photosensitive epilepsy in hundreds of Japanese children, 1997
710 12/17 Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is first published, 1843
711 12/18 Indonesia invades Netherlands New Guinea, 1961
712 12/19 Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the
714 12/20 Cheka founded, 1917
715 12/20 US buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.
716 12/21 Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France, 1958
717 12/21 Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in less than 80 days
718 12/21 Women gain the right to vote in South Australia, 1894
719 12/21 Women gain the right to hold political office in South Australia, 1894
720 12/22 First freight train is operated in Roorkee in India, 1851
721 12/23 The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories, 1947
722 12/24 Hong Kong falls to the Japanese Imperial Army, 1941
723 12/24 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865
724 12/25 Christmas Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors, 1643
725 12/26 DPMA founded, 1951
726 12/27 APT report published, 1956
727 12/27 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845
728 12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
729 12/28 Proclamation of the Province of South Australia, 1836
730 12/28 Spain recognizes independence of Mexico, 1836
731 12/29 Battle of Wounded knee, 1890
732 12/29 Edison receives patent for Radio, 1891
733 12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940
734 12/30 Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations, 1993
735 12/30 Soviet Ukrainian Republic declared, 1917
736 12/31 St. Sylvester in Switzerland
737 12/31 First supersonic commercial flight by Tu-144, 1968
738 12/31 Windows tax in England, 1695
739 12/31 Winterland closes its doors, 1978
741 #endif /* !_calendar_history_ */
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