rlw@wxlvax.UUCP (Richard L. Wexelblat) (01/15/85)
Here are a few items to initialize your 1985 calendar. They are not all in the same format due to the various sources from which they came and my own limited time for editing. I've tried to mark items whose annual dates vary (Easter, e.g.) so that updating for next year will be easier but I know I missed many such. Some of these are a bit off the wall and may well be put-ons from last year's correspondents. Such are to be taken as exercises for the reader. These items are taken from: History of Programming Languages Old Farmer's (1984) Almanac The 1984 Great computer calendar The History of Music to the Death of Schubert My own misc. store of useful or useless facts Additions and corrections were sent last year by: decvax!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccieng5!ccieng6!wla decvax!sii!mem ittvax!bunker!dick ittvax!decvax!bellcore!yquem!psl ittvax!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxw!pector seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!colonel (and others whose identifications I lost (Sorry!)) Please send corrections, additions, etc to: -- Dick Wexelblat (...decvax!ittvax!wxlvax!rlw) 01 01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT) (1970) 01/01 New Year's Day 01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies (1984) 01/01 Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba 01/01 Castro expells Cuban President Batista (1959) 01/01 Churchill delivers his the "Iron Curtain" speech (1947) 01/01 Independence Day in Haiti, Sudan 01/01 Paul Revere born in Boston (1735) 01/01 Universal Fraternity Day in Mozambique 01/02 Ancestry Day in Haiti 01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR) (1920) 01/02 St. Berchtold's Day in Switzerland 01/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977 01/03 New Year's Holiday in Scotland 01/03 Revolution Day in Upper Volta 01/04 George Washington Carver born in Missouri (1864) 01/04 Independence Day in Burma 01/04 Jakob Grimm born, 1785 01/04 Martyrs Day in Zaire 01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north) 01/04 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars 01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913 01/05 Twelfth night 01/05 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer 01/06 Children's Day in Uruguay 01/06 Epiphany 01/06 Millard Fillmore's brithday 01/06 Three Kings' Day in Puerto Rico 01/07 Christmas in Ethiopia 01/07 Pioneer's Day in Liberia 01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case (1982) 01/08 Battle of New Orleans 01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer (1889) 01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 01/09 Day of the Martyrs in Panama 01/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738 01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 01/10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London (1946) 01/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies (1757?) 01/11 Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania 01/11 Armed Forces Day in Liberia 01/11 De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico 01/11 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal 01/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964 01/12 Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania 01/13 National Liberation Day in Togo 01/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884 01/13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws 01/14 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875 01/14 Julian Calendar New Year's Day 01/15 Adults Day in Japan 01/15 Arbor Day in Jordan 01/16 Martyrs Day in Benin 01/16 Prohibition begins, 1920 01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, 1979 01/17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston (1706) 01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM suit, 1969 01/18 Grey whale migration, CA 01/18 Revolution Day in Tunisia 01/19 Confederate Heroes Day in Texas 01/19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston (1809) 01/19 Ethopian Epiphany in Ethiopia 01/19 Nameday of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus 01/19 Robert E(dward) Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia (1807) 01/20 Army Day in Mali 01/20 Geo. Burns born, 1898 01/20* Martin Luther King Day in New York (3rd Sunday) 01/20 National Heroes Day in Guinea-Bissau 01/20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...) 01/21 Lenin died, 1924 01/21 Our Lady of Altagracia in Dominican Republic 01/21* Robert E. Lee's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi (3rd Monday) 01/21* Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia (3rd Monday) 01/21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA (1824) 01/21 Lenin died, 1924 01/22 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561 01/23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory 01/23 Feast of St. Ildefonsus 01/23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City (1899) 01/23 John Hancock born, 1737 01/23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730 01/23 National Handwriting Day 01/23 Saml. Barber died, 1981 01/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969 01/24 Economic Liberation Day in Togo 01/24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill (1848) 01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 01/25 Robert Burns born, 1759 01/25 Virginia Woolf born, 1882 01/25 W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874 01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 01/26 Republic Day in India 01/26 Sydney Aust. settled, 1778 01/27 Samuel Gompers born, 1850 01/27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973 01/27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in Salzburg (1756) 01/28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914 01/30 Australia Day in Australia 01/30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York (1882) 01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic (1948) 01/30 Tet Offensive, 1968 01/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered 01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 01/31 Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp 02 02/01 Chinese New Year Holiday (3 days) in Taiwan 02/01 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954 02/01 Forces lead by Khomeini take over Iran (1979) 02/02 Candlemas 02/03 Gertrude Stein born, 1874 02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969 02/04 Independence Commemoration Day in Sri Lanka 02/05 Constitution Day in Mexico 02/05 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army (1974) 02/06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II (1952) 02/06 New Zealand Day 02/07 Independence Day in Grenada 02/08 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq 02/08 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography 02/08 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France (1828) 02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934 02/09 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc. 02/09 St. Maron's Day in Lebanon 02/10 Charles Lamb born, 1775 02/10 Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (AD 60) 02/10 William Allen White born, 1868 02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 02/11 National Foundation Day in Japan 02/11 Thos. Edison born, 1847 02/11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1489, photographic pioneer 02/12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809 02/12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England (1809) 02/12 Pyidaungsa Day in Burma 02/12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969 02/14 Bombing of Dresden, 1945 02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 02/14 St. Valentine's day 02/15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970 02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 02/15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy (1564) 02/15 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820 02/16 Makha Bucha Day in Thailand 02/16 Nylon patented, 1937 02/16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry 02/16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804 02/17 Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone 02/17 Marion Anderson born, 1902 02/17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874 02/18* "President's Day" 02/18 Democracy Day in Nepal 02/18 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer 02/18 Independence Day in The Gambia 02/19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland (1473) 02/19* Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras (day before Ash Wednesday) 02/20* Ash Wednesday - first day of Lent 02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer 02/21 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass 02/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties 02/21 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem (1965) 02/22 George Washington born, 1732 02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun 02/23 Handel born, 1685 02/23 Lt Calley confesses, implicates Cpt Medina, 1971 02/23 Republic Day in Guyana 02/23 W.E.B.DuBois born, 1868 02/24 Gregorian Calendar Day 02/24 Winslow Homer born, 1836 02/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England (1943) 02/25 National Day in Kuwait 02/25 Renoir born, 1841 02/26 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786, observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21 02/27 Independence Day in Dominican Republic 02/27 The Lionheart crowned, 1189 02/28 Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533 02/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704 02/29 Herman Hollerith born (1860) 02/29 Jimmy Dorsey born, 1904 03 03/01 David Niven born, 1910 03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 03/01 Samil Independence Movement Day in South Korea 03/01 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 03/02 Peasants Day in Burma 03/02 Texas Independence day 03/02 Victory of Adowa in Ethiopia 03/03 Throne Day in Morocco 03/04 Antonio Vivaldi born in Venice, Italy (1678) 03/04 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747 03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos 03/04 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C. 03/04 Vermont Admission Day (admitted as 14th state in 1791) 03/05 Independence Day in Equatorial Guinea 03/06 Independence Day in Ghana 03/07 Aristotle died, 322BC 03/07 Last Gilbert & Sullivan opera produced, 1896 03/07* Purim - Feast of Lots 03/07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer 03/08 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer 03/08 First annual International Women's Day (1909) 03/08 Howard Aiken born, 1900 03/08 International Women's Day in U.S.S.R. 03/08 Syrian National Day in Libyan Arab Republic 03/08 Women's Day in Guinea-Bissau, Taiwan, Yemen Democratic Republic 03/08 Youth Day in Zambia 03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" published in CACM, 1968 03/09 Decoration Day in Liberia 03/09 Falgun Purnima Day in Nepal 03/10 Labor Day in South Korea 03/11 Johnny Appleseed Day; anniversary of the death of John Chapman 03/11 Robert Treat Paine born, 1737 03/11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890 03/12 Commonwealth Day in Swaziland 03/12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist 03/12 Independence Day in Mauritius 03/12 Moshoeshoe's Birthday in Lesotho 03/12 Renovation Day in Gabon 03/13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894 03/13 National Day in Grenada 03/14 Albert Einstein born, 1879 03/14 Casey Jones born, 1864 03/14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer; named Mars "canals" 03/14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist 03/14 LISP introduced, 1960 03/14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907 03/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH 03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia 03/15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March (44BC) 03/15 Sly Stone born, 1944 03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25 (1966) 03/16 Black Press Day; first Black newspaper founded in 1827 03/16 First liquid-fuel-powered rocket flight, 1926 03/16 George Clymer born, 1739 03/16 James Madison born, 1751 03/16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen 03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket (1926) 03/17 Evacuation Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts 03/17 St. Patrick's Day 03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped 03/19 St. Joseph's Day in Colombia, Costa Rica, Holy See, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Spain, Venezuela 03/19 Tree Planting Day in Lestho 03/20 Independence Day in Tunsia 03/20* Vernal Equinox, 0525 EST 03/20 Youth Day in Oklahoma 03/21 Afghan New Year in Afghanistan 03/21 Bach born, 1685 03/21 Juarez' Birthday in Mexico 03/22 Abolition Day in Puerto Rico 03/23 Pakistan Day in Pakistan 03/24 Construction of New York subway system begins (1900) 03/24 Harry Houdini born, 1874 03/25 Greek Independence Day in Cyprus 03/25 Lady Day (a.k.a. the Feast of the Annunciation) 03/25 Maryland Day in Maryland 03/25 National Holiday in Greece 03/25* Seward's Day in Alaska (last Monday) 03/25 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911 03/26 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist 03/26 Independence Day in Bangladesh 03/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937 03/26 Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day in Hawaii 03/27 Armed Forces Day in Burma 03/27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union (1958) 03/27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays 03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 03/28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer 03/28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas (1979) 03/29 Death of President Barthelemy Boganda in Central African Republic 03/29 Memorial Day in Madagascar 03/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638 03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered (1977) 03/30 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746 03/30 Pencil with eraser patented (1858) 03/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880 03/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853 03/31 Descartes born, 1596 03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 03/31 National Day in Malta 03/31* Palm Sunday (7 days before Easter) 03/31 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher 04 04/01 April Fool's Day 04/01 People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc born this day. 04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) 04/01 Youth Day in Benin 04/02 Malvinas Day in Argentina 04/02 Pascua Florida Day in Florida 04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 04/03 Washington Irving born, 1783 04/04 Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong 04/04 Liberation Day in Hungary 04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee (1968) 04/04* Maundy Thursday (3 days before Easter) 04/04 Muddy Waters born, 1915 04/04 NATO Established (1949) 04/04 National Day in Senegal 04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) 04/05 Arbor Day in South Korea 04/05* Good Friday (2 days before Easter) 04/05 Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher 04/05 Tomb Sweeping Day in Taiwan 04/06 Chakri Memorial Day in Thailand 04/06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830 04/06* Pesach - First Day of Passover 04/06 Victory Day in Ethiopia 04/07 Alewives run, Cape Cod 04/07* Easter 04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964 04/08 David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician 04/08 Fast and Prayer Day in Liberia 04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 04/09 Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer 04/09 J. Presper Eckert born, 1919 04/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865 04/09 Martyrs Day in Tunisia 04/09 Paul Robeson born, 1898 04/10 Commodore Matthew calbraith Perry born, 1854 04/10 William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army 04/11 National Heroes Day in Costa Rica 04/12 Columbia launched, 1981 04/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861 04/12 Gurgarin first man in space, 1961 04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space (1961) 04/13* Last day of Passover 04/13 Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos 04/13 National Day in Chad 04/13 Songkron Day in Thailand 04/13 Thomas Jefferson born, 1743 04/14 Christian Huygen born, 1629, physicist & astronomer; discovered Saturn's rings 04/14 Day of the Americas in Honduras 04/14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912 04/15 Bengali New Year in Bangladesh 04/15 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452 04/15* Patriot's Day in Maine & Massachusetts (3rd Monday) 04/16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London (1889) 04/16 De Diego's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico) 04/16 Holy Week (5 days) in Venezuela 04/16 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth (1865) 04/16 Tourist Week (5 days) in Uruguay 04/17 Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces (1961) 04/17 Burmese New Year in Burma 04/17 Bay of Pigs, 1961 04/18 Einstein's Death, 1955 04/18 Independence Day in Chile, Zimbabwe 04/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906 04/19 Declaration of Independence in Venezuela 04/19 Landing of the "33" in Uruguay 04/19 Republic Day in Sierra Leone 04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943 04/20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing (1971) 04/21 Lyrid meteor shower 04/21 San Jacinto Day in Texas 04/21 Tiradentes in Brazil 04/22 Arbor Day in Nebraska & Delaware 04/22 Kant born, 1724 04/22 Oklahoma Day in Oklahoma 04/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954 04/24 Victory Day in Togo 04/25 Anniversary of the Revolution in Portugal 04/25 Anzac Day in Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Western Samoa 04/25 Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918 04/25 Liberation Day in Italy 04/25 National Flag Day in Swaziland 04/26 Carol Burnett born in San Antonio, Texas (1933) 04/26 Confederate Memorial Day in Florida & Georgia 04/26 Union Day in Tanzania 04/26 William Shakespeare baptised in Stratford-on-Avon, England (1564) 04/27 Independence Day in Togo 04/27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist 04/27 Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521 04/28 James Monroe born, 1758 04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced 04/28* Daylight Savint time begins 04/29 Emperor's Birthday in Japan 04/29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology 04/29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco (1863) 04/29* Arbor Day in Wyoming (last Monday) 04/29* Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama & Mississippi (last Monday) 04/30 Karl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer 04/30 Queen's Biorthday in Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles 04/30 The Workers Day in Uruguay 05 05/01 Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god 05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 05/01 Kate Smith born, 1909 05/01 Labor Day in many places 05/01 Law Day (decl. by Eisenhower) 05/01 May Day in many places 05/02 Constitution Day in Japan 05/02 Dr. Benj. Spock born, 1903 05/02 King's Birthday in Lesotho 05/03 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington (1971) 05/04 4 Kent students demonstrating against Cambodia incursion are shot (1970) 05/04 Rhode Island Independence Day 05/05 Battle of Puebla in Mexico 05/05 Children's Day in Japan, South Korea 05/05 Coronatin Day in Thailand 05/05 Liberation Day in Netherlands 05/06* Bank Holiday in UK 05/06 Bataan Day in Philippines 05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 05/07 Brahms born, 1833 05/07 Germany Surrenders after WWII, 1945 05/07 Johannes Brahms born in Hamburg (1833) 05/07 May Day in United Kingdom 05/07 Tchaikowsky born, 1840 05/08 Buddha's Birthday in South Korea 05/08 Elections for the National Assembly in Philippines 05/08 Truman Day in Missouri 05/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972 05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979 05/09 Liberation Day in Czechoslovakia 05/09 Pinza died, 1957 05/09 Victory Day in Poland, U.S.S.R. 05/10 Confederate Memorial Day in South Carolina 05/10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska (1899) 05/10 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940 05/10 Mothers Day in Guatamala 05/10 Nazi bookburning (1933) 05/11 Minnesota Day in Minnesota 05/12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy (1820) 05/12* Mother's Day (2nd Sunday) 05/13 Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842 05/14 Anniversary of the Founding of Guinean Deomcratic Party in Guinea 05/14 Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804 05/14 Buddhist Holiday (Waisak 2528) in Indonesia 05/14 Independence Day (2 days) in Paraguay 05/14 Nation of Israel proclaimed (1948) 05/14 Unification Day in Liberia 05/15 Kamuzu Day in Malawi 05/15 Vesak Day in Singapore, Malaysia 05/15 Visakha Bucha Day in Thailand 05/16 Armed Forces Day 05/16* Ascension Day (10 days before Pentecost) 05/16 Discovery Day in Cayman Islands 05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 05/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982 05/17 Constitution Day in Nauru, Norway 05/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974 05/18 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay 05/18 Flag Day in Haiti 05/18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804 05/18 Prayer Day in Denmark 05/19 Armed Forces Day 05/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890 05/19 Youth and Sports Day in Turkey 05/20 Mecklenburg Independence Day in North Carolina 05/20 National Day in Cameroon 05/20 Victoria Day in Canada 05/20* Memorial Day in Michigan (3rd Monday) 05/21 Battle of Iquique in Chile 05/21 DEC announces PDP-8 05/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?) (427BC) 05/22 Johann Sebastian Bach born in Eisenach, Germany (1665) 05/22 National Heroes Day in Sri Lanka 05/22 US Civil War ends (1865) 05/23 Commonwealth Day in Jamaica, Belize 05/23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann (1960) 05/23 National Labor Day in Jamaica 05/23 Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953 05/24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador 05/24 Bermuda Day in Bermuda 05/24 Day of Slav Letters in Bulgaria 05/25 African Freedom Day in Zimbabwe 05/25 African Liberation Day in Chad, Mauritania, Zambia 05/25 Anniversary of the Revolution of 1810 in Argentina 05/25 Independence Day in Jordan 05/25 Memorial Day in New Mexico & Puerto Rico 05/25 Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980 05/25 Revolution in the Sudan in Libyan Arab Republic 05/25 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830 05/26 Al Jolson born, 1886 05/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924 05/26* First Day of Shavuot 05/26* Pentecost - Whitsunday 05/26 Al Jolson born, 1886 05/27* Memorial Day in various places (last Monday) 05/27* Bank Holiday in UK 05/27* Whitmonday 05/27 Afghanistan attains sovereignty, 1921 05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens (1937) 05/27 Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911 05/28 Dionne quintuplets born, 1934 05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 05/28 Mothers Day in Central African Republic 05/29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest (1953) 05/29 Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874 05/29 John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917 05/29 Patrick Henry born, 1736 05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 05/30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco (1908) 05/30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912 05/31 Pya Martyrs Day in Togo 05/31 Republic Day in South Africa 05/31 Memorial Day 06 06/01 Brigham Young born, 1801 06/01 Independence Days (3 days) in Western Samoa 06/01 Madaraka Day in Kenya 06/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928 06/01 Victory Day in Tunisia 06/02* Trinity Sunday (7 days after Pentecost) 06/02 Corpus Christi in Paraguay 06/02 Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England (1857) 06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 06/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924 06/03* Bank Holiday in Rep. of Ireland 06/03 Confederate Memorial Day in Kentucky & Louisiana 06/03 Henry James born, 1811 06/03 Jefferson Davis's Birthday in Florida, Georgia, & S. Carolina 06/03 Labor Day in Bahamas 06/03 Jefferson Davis's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi (1st Monday) 06/04 Dragon Boat Festival in Hong Kong, Taiwan 06/04 Emancipation Day in Tonga 06/04 Queen's Birthday in New Zealand 06/04 Roquefort cheese developed (1070) 06/05 Constitution Day in Denmark 06/05 Liberation Day in Seychelles 06/05 Robert Kennedy Assasinated (1968) 06/06* Corpus Christi (11 days after Pentecost) 06/06 His Majesty, Yang Di-Pertuan Agong's Birthday in Malaysia 06/06 Memorial Day in South Korea 06/06 Normandy landing, 1944 06/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848 06/07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778 06/08 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin (1869) 06/09 Senior Citizen's Day in Oklahoma 06/10 Camoes Day in Portugal 06/10 Death of Alexander the Great (323 B.C.) 06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 06/11 Greeks seize Troy (1184BC) 06/11 King Kamehameha I Day in Hawaii 06/11 Queen's Birthday 06/12 Independence Day in Philippines 06/12 Peace with Bolivia in Paraguay 06/13 Alexander the Great dies (323BC) 06/13 Corrective Movement in Yemen Arab Republic 06/13 Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System 06/14 Flag Day 06/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834 06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment (1752) 06/15 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway (1843) 06/15 Magna Carta signed (1215) 06/15 Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop, 1878 06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 06/16* Father's Day 06/16 Bloomsday - Anniversary of Dublin events, 1904, in "Ulysses" 06/16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 bc 06/17 Bunker Hill Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts 06/17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb (1967) 06/17 Independence Day in Iceland 06/17 National Day in Federal Republic of Germany 06/17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in (1972) 06/18 Evacuation Day in Egypt 06/18 M C Escher born (1898) 06/18 Paul McCartney born in Liverpool, England (1942) 06/18 Queen's Birthday in Fiji 06/19 Artigas Birthday in Uruguay 06/19 Emancipation Day in Texas 06/19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison (1953) 06/19 Labor Day in Trinidad, Tobago 06/19 Lizzie Borden acquitted, 1893 06/19 Revolution Day in Algeria 06/20 Flag Day in Argentina 06/20 Victoria crowned, 1837 06/20 West Virginia Day in West Virginia 06/21 Berlin airlift begins (1948) 06/21 Summer solstice, 12:02 am, EST 06/21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge 06/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903 06/22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964 06/22 Corrective Movement in Yermen Democratic Republic 06/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey (1949) 06/22 Midsummer Eve in Finland, Sweden 06/22 National Sovereignty Day in Haiti 06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 06/23 National Holiday in Luxembourg 06/23 Slavery abolished in England (1772) 06/23 Turing's Birthday, 1912 06/24 St. Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec 06/24 Battle of Carabobob in Venezuela 06/24 Fisherman's Day in Madagascar, Mozambique, Somalia 06/24 Kings Day in Spain 06/24 Peasants Day in Peru 06/24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution (1970) 06/25 Custer's Last Stand, 1876 06/25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903 06/25 N. Korea invades S. Korea, 1950 06/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 06/26 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959 06/26 Toothbrush invented, 1498 06/27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915 06/27 Helen Keller born, 1880 06/28 Mothers Day in Central African Republic 06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke (1978) 06/29 Independence Day in Seychelles 06/29 Last Day of Ramadan* in Algeria, Oman 06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia, 1908 06/30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology (1960) 06/30 Day of the Army in Guatemala 06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC 07 07/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863 07/01 Dominion Day in Canada 07/01 Eid-Ul-Fitr* (2 days) in Pakistan 07/01 Freedom Day in Suriname 07/01 Independence Day in Burundi 07/01 National Day in Rwamda 07/01 Republic Day in Ghana 07/01 Union of the Somalia Republic in Somalia 07/02 National Day in Kiribati 07/03 Dog days begin 07/03 Franz Kafka born, 1883 07/03 Kafka's Birthday (1883) 07/04 Independence Day in United States 07/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces (1863) 07/04 Caribbean Day in Guyana 07/04 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776 07/04 Constitution Day in Cayman Islands 07/04 Family Day in Lesotho 07/04 Heroes Day in Zambia 07/04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die (1826) 07/04 Kadooment Day in Barbados 07/04 Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts (1804) 07/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776 07/04 Philippine-American Friendship Day in the Philippines 07/04 Warriors Day (2 days) in Yugoslavia 07/05 Day of Peace and Unity in Rwanda 07/05 Independence Day in Algeria, Venezuela 07/06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866 07/06 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York (1928) 07/06 John Paul Jones born, 1747 07/06 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917 07/07 Anniversary of the P.U.N. in Equatorial Guinea 07/07 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949 07/07 National Day in Malawi 07/07 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) born in Liverpool, England (1940) 07/07 Saba Saba Day in Tanzania 07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T) (1877) 07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957 07/08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838 07/08 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776 07/09 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847 07/09 Independence Day in Argentina 07/10 Independence Day in Bahamas 07/10 John Calvin born, 1509 07/11 John Quincy Adams born, 1767 07/11 National Holiday in the Mongolian People's Republic 07/12 Battle of Boyne celebrated in Northern Ireland 07/12 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817 07/12 The Twelfth in Northern Ireland 07/12 Thoreau's Birthday (1817) 07/13 Buddhist Lent in Thailand 07/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908 07/14 Anniversary of the Revolution in Iraq 07/14 Bastille Day 07/14 National Holiday in Monaco 07/14 Woody Guthrie born, 1912 07/15 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" 07/15 St. Swithin's Day 07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945 07/16 Presidents Day in Botswanna 07/17 Constitution Day in South Korea 07/17 Disneyland opens, 1955 07/17 July Revolution in Iraq 07/17 Munoz Rivera's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico) 07/17 Public Holiday in Botswanna 07/18 Constitution Day in Uruguay 07/18 Liberation Day in Nicaragua 07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927 07/19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692 07/19 Martyrs Day in Burma 07/20 Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969 (Will be looked back upon as the high point of American civilization 100 years hence) 07/20 Independence Day in Colombia 07/21 National Holiday in Belgium 07/21 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954 07/22 King's Birthday in Swaziland 07/22 National Day in Poland 07/23 Anniversary of the Revolution Egypt 07/23 Eqyptian National Day in Syrian Arab Republic 07/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904 07/23 Remembrance Day in Papua, New Guinea 07/24 Pioneer Day in Utah 07/24 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 07/24 Simon Bolivar's Day in Ecuador, Venezuela 07/25 Constitution Day in Puerto Rico 07/25 National Rebellion Day (3 days) in Cuba 07/25 Republic Day in Tunisia 07/25 St. James, Patron Saint in Spain 07/26 Independence Day in Liberia 07/26 National Day in Maldives 07/27 Barbosa's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico) 07/28 Bach dies, 1750 07/28 Independence Days (2 days) in Peru 07/29 Mussolini born, 1883 07/29 Olsok Eve in Norway to commemorate Norway's Viking King St. Olav 07/29 Rain Day in Waynesburg, PA 07/30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956 07/30 Emily Bronte born, 1818 07/30 Henry Ford born, 1863 07/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948, later JFK 07/31 Revolution Day in Congo 08 08/01 Discovery Day in Trinidad, Tobogo 08/01 Emancipation Day in Granada 08/01 Founding of Asuncion in Paraguay 08/01 Freedom Day in Guyana 08/01 Herman Melville born, 1819 08/01 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on this day 08/01 National Day in Switzerland 08/01 National Holidays (5 days) in El Salvador 08/01 Parent's Day in Zaire 08/02 Our Lady of Los Angeles in Costa Rica 08/03 Independence Day in Jamaica, Niger 08/03 Massacre du Pidjiguiti in Buinea-bissau 08/03 Memorial Day of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus 08/03 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958 08/04 Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964 08/04 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I (1914) 08/04 Freedom Day in Guyana 08/05* Bank Holiday in Scotland and Northern Ireland 08/06 Bank Holiday in Ontario, British Columbia 08/06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945 08/06 Bank Holiday in Australia, Fiji, Iceland, Ireland 08/06 Caricom in Barbados 08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890 08/06 Emancipation Day in Bahamas 08/06 Independence Day in Bolivia 08/07 Battle of Boyaca in Colombia 08/08 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki (1945) 08/08 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles (1937) 08/08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914 08/08 Nixon announces resignation (1973) 08/08 The Great Train Robbery $7,368,000 (1963) 08/09 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki (1945) 08/09 National Day in Singapore 08/09 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae (480 BC) 08/09 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency (1974) 08/09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) 08/10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people (1833) 08/10 Independence Day in Ecuador 08/10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000 (1977) 08/11 Dog days end 08/11 France Ends War in Indochina (1954) 08/11 Heroes Day (2 days) in Zimbabwe 08/11 Independence Day in Chad 08/11 King Hussein's Accession to the Throne in Jordan 08/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days) 08/12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972 08/12 Queen's Birthday in Thailand 08/12 Thomas Mann's Death (1955) 08/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860 08/13 Berlin wall erected (1961) 08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927 08/13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934 08/13 Proclamation of Independence in Central African Republic 08/13 Women's Day in Tunisia 08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 08/14 Independence Day in Pakistan 08/14 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935 08/14 VJ Day (1945) 08/14 Waddi Dhahab in Morocco 08/15 Founding of Ascuncion in Paraguay 08/15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India (1947) 08/15 Hurricane hits Plimoth Plantation, 1635 08/15 Independence Day in India 08/15 Liberation Day in South Korea 08/15 National Day in Congo 08/15 Santa Maria in Malta 08/16 Bennington Battle Day in Vermont 08/16 Independence Days (3 days) in Gabon 08/16 Restoration Day in Dominican Republic 08/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898 08/16 Woodstock Begins, 1969 08/17 Admission Day in Hawaii {1984} (3rd Friday) 08/17 Anniversary of the Death of General San Martin in Argentina 08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891 08/17 Independence Day in Indonesia 08/17 Mae West born, 1892 08/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1927 08/19 Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856 08/19 Independence Day in Afghanistan 08/20 Constitution Day in Hungary 08/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940 08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 08/22 Claude Debussy born, 1862 08/22 Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets 08/22 St. Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565 08/23 DEC founded, 1957 08/23 Gene Kelly born, 1912 08/23 Liberation Days (2 days) in Romania 08/23 Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927 08/24 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica (1960) 08/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814 08/24 National Flag Day in Liberia 08/25 Constitution Day in Paragual 08/25 Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944 08/25 Independence Day in Uruguay 08/26* Bank Holiday in England and Wales 08/26 Susan B. Anthony Day in Massachussetts 08/27 "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912 08/27 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons (1883) 08/27 Liberation Day in Hong Kong 08/27 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908 08/28 Heroes Day in Philippines 08/28 King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC (1963) 08/29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist 08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova & becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; Nova Cygni 1975. 08/30 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842 08/30 Huey P. Long Day in Louisiana 08/30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960 08/30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907 08/30 St. Rose of Lima in Peru 08/30 Victory Day in Turkey 08/30 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected (1963) 08/31 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR (1983) 08/31 Independence Day in Trinidad, Tobago 08/31 National Day in Malaysia 08/31 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926 08/31 Pashtoonian Day in Afghanistan 09 09/01 Army Day in Chile 09/01 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match (1972) 09/01 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I' (1859) 09/02 Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar (1752) 09/02 Japan signs unconditional surrender aboard US battleship `Missouri' (1945) 09/02* Labor Day (1st Monday) 09/03 Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino 09/03 Independence Day in Qatar 09/03 Memorial Day in Tunisia 09/05 First Continental Congress, Phila, 1774 09/05 Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961 09/05 King Louis XIV of France born (1638) 09/05 Raquel Welch born, 1942 09/05 The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia (1774) 09/06 149 Pilgrims set forth from Eng3and aboard the Mayflower (1620) 09/06 Defense of Pakistan Day in Pakistan 09/06 Pres. McKinley shot, 1901 09/06 Settlers Day in South Africa 09/06 Somhlolo in Swaziland 09/06 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died (1909) 09/07 Independence Day in Brazil 09/07 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ (1789) 09/07 Queen Elizabeth I of England born (1533) 09/08 Anton Dvorak born in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia (1841) 09/08 Gerald R. Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon (the slime!), 1974 09/08 King Richard I of England born (1157) 09/08 Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England (1925) 09/08 President Ford grants pardon to Nixon (1974) 09/08 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966) 09/09 Admission Day in California 09/09 Anniversary of the Socialist Revolution (2 days) in Bulgaria 09/09 California becomes the 31st state (1850) 09/09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age of 82 (1976) 09/09 National Day in North Korea 09/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States (1776) 09/10 Korean Thanksgiving Day (Chusuk) in South Korea 09/10 Moon Festival in Taiwan 09/10 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857 09/10 National Day in Belize 09/11 Ethiopian New Year in Ethiopia 09/11 Grandparent's Day 09/11 National Holiday in Chile 09/12 Amilcar Cabral's Birthday in Guinea-Bissau 09/12 Defender's Day in Maryland 09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome (1943) 09/12 Germany annexes Sudentenland, 1938 09/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913 09/12 Revolution Day in Ethiopia 09/13 136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya (1922) 09/13 Barry Day commemorates the death of Commodore John Barry 09/13 British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City (1788) 09/13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122 09/13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China (1943) 09/13 Walter Reed born, 1851 09/14 Battle of San Jacinto in Nicaragua 09/14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister (1778) 09/14 Francis Scott Key writes words to "Star Spangled Banner" (1814) 09/14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded (1629) 09/14 The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft (1940) 09/15 ACM founded, 1947 09/15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England (1890) 09/15 Foundation of Panama in Panama 09/15 Independence Day 09/15 Respect for the Aged Day in Japan 09/15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US (1959) 09/15 The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department (1789) 09/16 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY (1914) 09/16 Cherokee Strip Day in Oklahoma 09/16* First Day of Rosh Hashana 09/16 Independence Day in Mexico, Papua, New Guinea 09/16 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston (1630) 09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862 09/17 National Heroes Day in Angola 09/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905 09/18 Independence Day in Chile 09/18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi 09/19 Army Day in Chile 09/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884 09/20 First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848 09/20 First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916 09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 09/20 Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage (1519) 09/20 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878 09/21 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England (1866) 09/21 Independence Day in Belize 09/21 Louis Joliet born, 1645 09/22 Alied forces form the independent nation West Germany (1953) 09/22 Autumnal equinox, 3:33 pm, EST 09/22 Independence Day in Mali 09/22 National Sovereignty Day in Haiti 09/22 President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore (1881) 09/22 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation (1862) 09/22 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenaes President Nixon (1974) 09/22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes (1949) 09/23 Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome (63 BC) 09/23 Euripides born in Salamis, Greece (480 BC) 09/23 Grito de Lares in Puerto Rico 09/23 Phillippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law (1972) 09/23 The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club (1845) 09/23 V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech. (1952) 09/24 Anniversary of the Third Republic in Ghana 09/24 F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896 09/24 Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau 09/24 National Day in Saudi Arabia 09/24 Our Lady of Mercedes in Dominican Republic 09/24 Republic Day in Trinidad, Tobago 09/25 Army Day in Mozambique 09/25 Referendum Day in Rwanda 09/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court (1981) 09/25* Yom Kippur 09/26 George Gershwin born in Brooklyn, NY (1989) 09/26 Johnny Appleseed born, 1774 09/26 National Day in Maldives, Yemem Deomcratic Republic 09/26 Revoluation Anniversary Day in Yemen Arab 09/26 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis (1888) 09/27 Feast of Finding the True Cross in Ethiopia 09/27 The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England (1825) 09/27 Thomas Nast born, 1840 09/28 "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678 09/28 A greek soldier runs 26+ miles to the Persian defeat at Marathon (490BC) 09/28 Confucious' Day in Taiwan 09/28 Michelangelo Buanarroti born in Caprese, Italy (1573) 09/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome (106BC) 09/28 Seymour Cray born, 1925 09/29 Battle of Boqueron in Paraquay 09/29 Gene Autry born, 1907 09/30 Botswanna Day in Botswanna 09/30 First Day of Sukkot 09/30 The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass (1846) 09/30 The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced (1946) 10 10/01 Armed Forces Day in South Korea 10/01 Independence Day in Nigeria 10/01 Jimmy Carter born, 1924 10/01 Labor Day in Australia 10/01 National Liberation Day (2 days) in China 10/01 Public Holiday in Botswanna 10/02 Anniversary of Guinean Independence in Guinea 10/02 Aristotle dies of indigestion (322 BC) 10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939 10/02 Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India (1869) 10/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice (1967) 10/03 Chung Yeung Festival in Hong Kong 10/03 Francisco Morazan's Birthday in Honduras 10/03 National Foundation Day in South Korea 10/03 U.N. Day in Varbados 10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853 10/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched (1957) 10/04 Independence Day in Lesotho 10/04 John V. Atanasoff born, 1903 10/04 Sputnik I launched, 1957 10/05 Anniversary of Proclamation of the Republic in Portugal 10/05 Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain (1881) 10/05 Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born (1902) 10/06 Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women (1853) 10/06 Anwar Sadat assassinated, 1981 10/06 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo (1981) 10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961 10/06 Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria (1973) 10/06 National Sports Day in Lesotho 10/07 First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast, 1957 10/07 Foundation of the GDR in 1949 in German Democratic Republic 10/07 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges (1977) 10/07 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1979) 10/07 National Heroes Day in Jamaica 10/07 Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974 10/08 Battle of Agamos in Peru 10/08 Constitution Day in U.S.S.R 10/08 Fiji Day in Fiji 10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 10/08 Great Chicago Fire, 1871 10/08* Simhat Torah 10/08 Thanksgiving Day in Canada 10/09 First two-way telephone conversation (1876) 10/09 Independence Day in Uganda 10/09 Independence of Guayaquil in Ecuador 10/09 John Lennon born in Liverpool, England (1940) 10/09 Korean Alphabet Day in South Korea 10/09 Leif Erikson Day commemorates the discovery of North America in AD 1000 10/09 Republic Day in Khmer Republic 10/10 Agnew resigns, 1973 10/10 Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba 10/10 Fiji Day in Fiji 10/10 Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea 10/10 Health-Sports Day in Japan 10/10 Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. {1984} 10/10 National Day in Taiwan 10/10 Oklahoma Historical Day in Oklahoma 10/10 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud (1973) 10/11 Day of the Revolution in Panama 10/11 Druger Day in South Africa 10/11 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking (1976) 10/11 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken (1811) 10/11 The second Vatican Eccumenical Council opens in Rome (1962) 10/12 Columbus lands in Bahamas, 1492 10/12 Day of the Race in Argentina 10/12 Discovery Day in Gahamas 10/12 Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN (1960) 10/12 Man O'War's last race, 1920 10/12 National Day in Equatorial Guinea, Spain 10/12 Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores (1492) 10/12 Our Lady Aparecida Day in Brazil 10/12 Pan American Day in Belize 10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 10/13 Italy declares war on Germany (1943) 10/13 St. Edward's Day - patron saint of England 10/13 U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress 10/13 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy (70 BC) 10/14* Thanksgiving Day in Canada 10/14 Columbus Day 10/14 Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans (1066) 10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 10/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947 10/14 Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890 10/14 National Day in Yemen Arab Repyblic 10/14 William Penn born in London (1644) 10/14 Young People's Day in Zaire 10/15 Evacuation Day in Tunisia 10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published 10/15 First draft card burned (1965) 10/15 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881 10/16 National Boss Day 10/16 Noah Webster born, 1758 10/16 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin (1854) 10/17 Dessaline's Death Anniversary in Haiti 10/17 Heroes Day in Jamaica 10/17 Mother's Day in Malawi 10/17 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S. 10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648 10/18 Feast Day of St. Luke 10/18 Soviets anounce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side (1959) 10/19 Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China (1949) 10/19 Napoleon's beaten army beings a long retreat from Moscow (1812) 10/20 "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973 10/20 Anniversary of the 1944 Revolution in Guatemala 10/20 Kenyatta Day in Kenya 10/20 OPEC embargo, 1973 10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 10/21 Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm (1833) 10/21 Armed Forces Day in Honduras 10/21 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp (1879) 10/21 Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959 10/21 Revolution Days (2 days) in Somalia 10/22 Franz Liszt born, 1811 10/22 Mothers-in-Law Day 10/23 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944 10/23 Chulalongkron's Day in Thsailand 10/24 Independence Day in Zambia 10/24 United Nations Day 10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780 10/25 Labor Day in New Zealand 10/25 Taiwan Restoration Day inb Taiwan 10/25 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China (1971) 10/26 Agam Day in Nauru 10/26 Armed Forces Day in Benin, Rwanda 10/26 National Day in Austria 10/26 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated (1978) 10/27* Daylight Savings Time Ends; Turn Clocks Back 1hr. 10/27 Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933 10/27 James Cook is born (1466) 10/27 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges (1871) 10/27 The first New York Subway is opened (1904) 10/28* Bank Holiday in Rep. of Ireland 10/28 Columbus discovers Cuba (1492) 10/28 Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge (312) 10/28 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts (1636) 10/28 National Holiday in Greece 10/28 OHI Day in Cyprus 10/28 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island (1886) 10/29 Republic Day in Turkey 10/29 Stock Market Crash, 1929 10/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938 10/31 Chiang Kai-Shek born (1887) 10/31 Dale Evans born, 1912 10/31 Halloween 10/31 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg (1517) 10/31 Nevada Day in Nevada 11 11/01 All Saints Day 11/01 Austria-Hungary become two seperate nations (1918) 11/01 Feast of All Saints in Portugal 11/01 Puerto Rican nationalists tried to kill Truman at the Blair House (1950) 11/01 Samhain; Beginning of the Celtic year and most important holiday. 11/02 All Souls Day in Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, Uruguay 11/02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA (1734) 11/02 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940 11/02 Memorial Day in Ecuador 11/02 Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight (1783) 11/03 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837 11/03 Culture Day in Japan 11/03 Independence from Columbia in Panama 11/03 Independence of Cuenca in Ecuador 11/03 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954 11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing spacedog Laika 11/03 Thanksgiving Day in Liberia 11/04 Flag Day in Panama 11/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran (1979) 11/04 King William III of Orange born (1650) 11/04 Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary (1956) 11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 11/04 Will Rogers Day 11/05* Election Day 11/05 Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605 11/05 Roy Rogers born, 1912 11/06 Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R. 11/06 Green March Day in Morocco 11/06 Prophet Mohammed's Birthday in Malaysia 11/07 Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837 11/07 Anniversary of Great October Revolution in Bulgaria 11/07 Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean (1805) 11/07 National Revolution Day 11/07 October Revolution Day in Hungary 11/08 Her Majesty, the Queen's Birthday in Nepal 11/08 Patti Page born, 1927 11/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada (1965) 11/09 Carl Sagan born, 1934 11/09 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927 11/09 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League (1921) 11/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration (1933) 11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstartions near White House (1917) 11/10 Cpt Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865 11/10 Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?" (1871) 11/10 King's Birthday in Bhutan 11/10 Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany (1483) 11/10 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75 (1982) 11/11 Angola gains independence from Portugal (1975) 11/11 Armistice Day 11/11 Rememberance Day in Canada 11/11 Veterans' Day 11/11 Independence Day in Angola 11/11 Independence of Cartagena in Colombia 11/11 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis (1922) 11/11 Republic Day in Maldives 11/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state (1889) 11/12 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan 11/12 Prince Charles' Birthday in Fiji 11/12 U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861 11/13 Paul Simon born, 1942 11/13 Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850 11/13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria (354) 11/14 King Hussein's Birthday in Jordan 11/14 Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after formal request from McDonald's) (1971) 11/15 Dynasty Day in Belgium 11/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896 11/15 Proclamation of the Republic in Brazil 11/15 Thatlouang Festival in Laos 11/16 Oklahoma Heritage Week in Oklahoma 11/16 Opening of the Suez Canal (1869) 11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966 11/17 Army Day in Zaire 11/17 Corrective Movement in Syrian Arab Republic 11/18 Battle of Viertieres in Haiti 11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok (1952) 11/18 Imogene Coca born, 1908 11/18 Independence Day in Morocco 11/18 Local standard time zones established for US (1883) 11/18 National Days (4 days) in Oman 11/18 William S. Gilbert born, 1836 11/19 Anniversary of the 1968 Coup by the Army in Mali 11/19 Discovery Day in Puerto Rico 11/19 Feast Day of S.A.S. Prince Rainier in Monaco 11/19 Garifuna Settlement in Belize 11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863 11/19 Prince of Wales Birthday in Fiji 11/20 RFK born, 1925 11/20 Revolution Day in Mexico 11/21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973 11/21 Day of Prayer and Repentance in Federal Republic of Germany 11/22 Anniversary of Portuguese Aggression in Guinea 11/22 Independence Day in Lebanon 11/22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald (1963) 11/23 Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan 11/24 Anniversary of the New Regime in Zaire 11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby (1963) 11/24 Scott Joplin born, 1868 11/25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite (1867) 11/25 Independence Day in Suriname 11/25 Johann Strauss, Jr., writes `On the Beautiful Blue Danube' (1867) 11/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis (1922) 11/26 Norbert Weiner born, 1894 11/27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize (1895) 11/27 Friction match invented, England, 1826 11/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts 11/28 Thanksgiving Day in United States (4th Thursday) 11/28 Independence Day in Albania, Mauritania 11/28 Independence from Spain in Panama 11/28 Proclamation of the Republic in Chad 11/29 Day of the Republic (2 days) in Yugoslavia 11/29 Goodwill Day in Liberia 11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922 11/29 Liberation Day in Albania 11/29 National Day in Burma 11/30 Cleopatra died, 30 bc 11/30 Independence Day in Barbados, Yemen Deomcratic Republic 11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri (1835) 11/30 National Day in Benin 11/30 National Heroes Day in Philippines 11/30 St. Andrew's Day 12 12/01 Anniversary of the Restoration of Independence in Portugal 12/01* First Sunday of Advent (4th Sunday before Christmas) 12/01 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924 12/01 Independence Day in Central African Republic 12/01 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses (1955) 12/01 Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL) (1953) 12/01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY (1935) 12/02 National Holiday in United Arab Emirates 12/03 First neon light display, Paris, 1910 12/03 First successful human heart transplant lead by Dr. Barnard (1967) 12/03 National Holiday in Laos 12/04 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783 12/05 End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part) 12/05 Mozart dies, 1791 12/05 Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776 12/05 St. Nicholas' Day 12/05 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition (1933) 12/05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago (1901) 12/06 First sound recording made by Thomas Edison (1877) 12/06 Independence Day in Finland 12/07 Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941 12/07 Delaware Day in Delaware 12/07 Independence Day in Ivory Coast, Panama 12/07 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor (1941) 12/07 Prophet Mohammed's Birthday in Fiji 12/08 Blessing of the Water in Uruguay 12/08* First Day of Hanukkah 12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 12/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy) (65BC) 12/08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio (1894) 12/08 John Lennon assassinated, 1980 12/08 Mother's Day in Panama 12/08 Our Lady of the Cacupe in Paraguay 12/09 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884 12/09 Independence Day in Tanzania 12/10 Emily Dickenson born, 1830 12/10 Foundation of Worker's Party in Angola 12/10 Human Rights Day 12/10 Metric system established in France (1799) 12/10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year 12/10 Thai Constitution Day in Thailand 12/10 Wyoming Day in Wyoming 12/11 Independence Day in Upper Volta 12/12 E. G. Robinson born, 1893 12/12 First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi (1901) 12/12 Independence Day in Kenya 12/13 Dartmouth College chartered, 1769 12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south) 12/13 Republic Day in Malta 12/14 George Washington dies, 1799 12/15 Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976 12/15 Bill of Rights adopted (1791) 12/15 James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891 12/15 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890 12/15 Statue Day in Netherlands Antilles 12/15 Thomas Edison receives patent on the phonograph (1877) 12/16 Constitution Day in Nepal 12/16 Day of the Covenant in South Africa 12/16 Ludwig von Beethoven christened in Bonn, Germany (1770) 12/16 National Day in Bahrain 12/16 Victry Day in Bangladesh 12/17 National Day in Bhutan 12/17 William Safire (Safir) born (1929) 12/18 Republic Day in Niger 12/20 U.S. Buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi. 12/21 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804 12/21 First day of winter, Winter Solstice, 11:23 am EST 12/21 Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in <80 days 12/22 Giacomo Puccini born, 1858 12/23 First G&S collaboration, Thespis, 1871 12/23 Joseph Smith born (1805) 12/23 Victory Day in Egypt 12/24 Christmas Eve 12/24 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865 12/25 Birthday of Quaid-i-Azam in Pakistan 12/25 Children's Day in Congo 12/25 Christmas 12/25 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England (1642) 12/26 Bank Holiday in Canada, Rep. of Ireland, and UK 12/26 Boxing Day 12/26 Chas. Babbage born, 1791 12/26 DPMA founded, 1951 12/26 Family Day in South Africa 12/26 Feast of Our Theotokos in Greece 12/26 St. Stephen's Day 12/27 APT report published, 1956 12/27 Bank Holiday in Cayman Islands 12/27 Constitution Day in North Korea 12/27 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845 12/27 Public Holiday in Lesotho, Zimbabwe 12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973 12/28 John von Neumann born, 1903 12/29 Battle of Wounded knee, 1890 12/29 Civic Holidays (3 days) in Costa Rica 12/29 His Majesty, the King's Birthday in Nepal 12/30 Anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar in Madagascar 12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated (1940) 12/31 Bank Holiday in El Salvador, Honduras, Pakistan 12/31 Feed Yourself Day in Benin 12/31 New Year's Eve 12/31 Proclamation of the Republic in Congo 12/31 St. Sylvester in Switzerland
ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (01/19/85)
In article <374@wxlvax.UUCP> rlw@wxlvax.UUCP (Richard L. Wexelblat) writes: > >04/18 Independence Day in Chile should be 09/18 >09/01 Army Day in Chile should be 09/19 >09/11 National Holiday in Chile a better description would be "Military cue (1973)". >09/18 Independence Day in Chile >09/19 Army Day in Chile -- Eduardo Krell UCLA Computer Science Department ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell
jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman) (01/22/85)
In article <3327@ucla-cs.ARPA> ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) writes: >In article <374@wxlvax.UUCP> rlw@wxlvax.UUCP (Richard L. Wexelblat) writes: >>09/11 National Holiday in Chile > a better description would be "Military cue (1973)". Is that a holiday celibrating the invention of a tool used in Military pool halls? Or perhaps a signal for the Military to go on stage? Or do you mean "Military coup"? -- :::::: Jan Steinman Box 1000, MS 61-161 (w)503/685-2843 :::::: :::::: tektronix!tekecs!jans Wilsonville, OR 97070 (h)503/657-7703 ::::::