rlw@wxlvax.UUCP (12/29/83)
Here are a few items to initialize your 1984 calendar: 1/3 Apple Computer founded, 1977 1/4 Jakob Grimm born, 1785 1/4 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north) 1/5 12th night 1/5 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913 1/8 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 1/9 Plough Monday 1/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 1/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964 1/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884 1/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM suit, 1969 1/18 Grey whale migration, CA 1/20 Geo. Burns born, 1898 1/20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...) 1/21 Lenin died, 1924 1/23 Saml. Barber died, 1981 1/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969 1/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 1/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 1/26 Sydney Aust. settled, 1778 1/27 Mozart born, 1756 1/28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 14 1/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 2/1 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954 2/2 Candlemas 2/3 Gertrude Stein born, 1874 2/4 Patty Hearst kidnapped, 1974 2/4 Cybernet inaugerated, 1969 2/9 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934 2/11 Thos. Edison born, 1847 2/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 2/12 Lincoln's real birthday 2/14 St. Valentine's day 2/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 2/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 2/15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970 2/16 Nylon patented, 1937 2/17 Marion Anderson born, 1902 2/17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874 2/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties 2/22 Geo Washington's real birthday (converted to Greg. cal.) 2/23 Handel born, 1685 2/23 W.E.B.DuBois born, 1868 2/25 Renoir born, 1841 2/27 The Lionheart crowned, 1189 2/29 Jimmy Dorsey born, 1904 2/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704 3/1 David Niven born, 1910 3/1 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 3/2 Blackthorn winds (New England) <<What is it?>> 3/4 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos 3/7 Aristotle died, 322BC 3/7 Last Gilbert & Sullivan opera produced, 1896 3/8 Howard Aiken born, 1900 3/9 "GOTO considered harmful" published in CACM 3/11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890 3/13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894 3/14 Casey Jones born, 1864 3/14 LISP introduced, 1960 3/15 Sly Stone born, 1944 3/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH 3/17 St. Patrick's Day 3/20 Vernal Equinox, 0525 EST 3/21 Bach born, 1685 3/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937 3/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 3/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638 3/31 Descartes born, 1596 3/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 4/1 People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc born this day. 4/1 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) 4/3 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 4/4 Muddy Waters born, 1915 4/4 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) 4/6 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830 4/7 Alewives run, Cape Cod 4/7 IBM announces System/360, 1964 4/9 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865 4/9 J. Presper Eckert born, 1919 4/9 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 4/9 Paul Robeson born, 1898 4/12 Yuri Gagarin orbits, 1961 4/12 Columbia launched, 1981 4/14 Titanic hits iceberg, 1912 4/17 First day of passover 4/17 Bay of Pigs, 1961 4/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906 4/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943 4/20 Good Friday 4/21 Lyrid meteor shower 4/22 Easter 4/22 Kant born, 1724 4/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954 4/25 Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918 4/27 Magellan killed in Phillippines, 1521 4/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced 5/1 Kate Smith born, 1909 5/1 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 5/2 Dr. Benj. Spock born, 1903 5/6 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 5/7 Brahms born, 1833 5/7 Tchaikowsky born, 1840 5/8 Beginning of ostrich mating season 5/9 Pinza died, 1957 5/9 94 degrees, New York, 1979 5/10 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940 5/13 Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842 5/15 Lunar eclipse beginning 9 pm EST (possibly the 14th) 5/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854 5/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 5/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982 5/18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804 5/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890 5/21 DEC announces PDP-8 5/23 Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953 5/25 Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980 5/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924 5/26 Al Jolson born, 1886 5/27 Rogation Sunday 5/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 5/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 5/28 Dionne quintuplets born, 1934 5/29 JFK born, 1917 5/30 Solar eclipse begins between 10 and 10:30 am on east coast 5/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 6/1 Brigham Young born, 1801 6/1 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928 6/2 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924 6/2 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 6/3 Henry James born, 1811 6/6 Shavuot 6/6 Normandy landing, 1944 6/7 Paul Gauguin born, 1848 6/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 6/13 Lunar eclipse (not visible in North America) 6/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834 6/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 6/16 First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal) 6/16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 bc 6/18 Paul McCartney born, 1942 6/19 Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893 6/20 Victoria crowned, 1837 6/21 Summer solstice, 12:02 am, EST 6/21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge 6/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903 6/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 6/25 N. Korea invades S. Korea, 1950 6/25 Little Big Horn, 1876 6/26 Toothbrush invented, 1498 6/27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915 6/30 "That" explosion in Siberia, 1908 6/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC 7/1 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863 7/3 Dog days begin 7/4 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776 7/6 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917 7/7 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949 7/8 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838 7/8 CDC incorporated, 1957 7/9 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847 7/10 John Calvin born, 1509 7/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908 7/14 Woodie Guthrie born, 1912 7/15 St. Swithin's Day 7/17 Disneyland opens, 1955 7/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927 7/20 Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969 (Will be looked back upon as the high point of American civilization 100 years hence) 7/21 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954 7/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904 7/28 Bach dies, 1750 7/29 Mussolini born, 1883 7/30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956 8/1 Herman Melville born, 1819 8/3 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958 8/4 Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964 8/6 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890 8/8 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914 8/11 Dog days end 8/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days) 8/12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972 8/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860 8/13 L'il Abner debut, 1934 8/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 8/14 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935 8/15 Hurricane hits Plimoth Plantation, 1635 8/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898 8/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891 8/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed 8/19 Gail borden patents condensed milk, 1856 8/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940 8/22 Claude Debussy born, 1862 8/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 8/22 St. Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565 8/23 Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927 8/23 DEC founded, 1957 8/23 Gene Kelly born, 1912 8/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814 8/25 Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944 8/27 "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912 8/30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960 8/30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907 8/30 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842 8/31 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926 9/5 Raquel Welch born, 1942 9/5 First Continental Congress, Phila, 1774 9/6 Pres. McKinley shot, 1901 9/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913 9/12 Germany annexes Sudentenland, 1938 9/13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122 9/14 "Star Spangled Banner" written, 1814 9/15 ACM founded, 1947 9/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862 9/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905 9/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884 9/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 9/21 Louis Joliet born, 1645 9/22 Autumnal equinox, 3:33 pm, EST 9/24 F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896 9/26 Johnny Appleseed born, 1774 9/27 Rosh Hashana 9/27 Thomas Nast born, 1840 9/28 "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678 9/28 Seymour Cray born, 1925 9/29 Gene Autry born, 1907 10/1 Jimmy Carter born, 1924 10/4 Crimean war begins, 1853 10/4 John V. Atanasoff born, 1903 10/6 Yom Kippur 10/6 Anwar Sadat assassinated, 1981 10/6 First GPSS manual published, 1961 10/7 First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast, 1957 10/8 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 10/11 Sukkot 10/12 Columbus lands in Bahamas, 1492 10/12 Man O'War's last race, 1920 10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 10/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947 10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published 10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648 10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 10/20 OPEC embargo, 1973 10/20 "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973 10/21 Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959 10/23 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944 10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780 10/27 Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933 10/31 Dale Evans born, 1912 11/2 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940 11/3 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954 11/3 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837 11/4 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 11/5 Roy Rogers born, 1912 11/5 Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605 11/6 Election Day 11/8 Patti Page born, 1927 11/8 Lunar eclipse (visible only in extreme north of North america) 11/9 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927 11/10 Stanley finds Livingstone, 1872 11/12 U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861 11/13 Paul Simon born, 1942 11/15 Niagra Falls power plant startup, 1896 11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966 11/18 Imogene Coca born, 1908 11/18 William S. Gilbert born, 1836 11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863 11/20 RFK born, 1925 11/22 Total solar eclipse (visible only in southern hemisphere) 11/24 Scott Joplin born, 1868 11/26 Charles Schultz born, 1922 11/26 Norbert Weiner born, 1894 11/27 Friction match invented, England, 1826 11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922 11/30 St. Andrew's Day 11/30 Cleopatra died, 30 bc 12/1 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924 12/3 First neon light display, Paris, 1910 12/5 Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776 12/5 Mozart dies, 1791 12/8 John Lennon assassinated, 1980 12/8 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 12/9 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884 12/10 Emily Dickenson born, 1830 12/12 E. G. Robinson born, 1893 12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south) 12/13 Dartmouth College chartered, 1769 12/15 James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891 12/15 Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976 12/16 Beethoven born, 1770 12/19 Hanuka 12/21 Winter Solstice, 11:23 am EST 12/23 First G&S collaboration, Thespis, 1871 12/25 Christmas 12/26 Chas. Babbage born, 1791 12/26 DPMA founded, 1951 12/27 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845 12/27 APT report published, 1956 12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973 12/28 John von Neumann born, 1903 12/29 Battle of Wounded knee, 1890 These items are taken from: -Old Farmer's (1984) Almanac -The 1984 Great computer calendar -The History of Music to the Death of Schubert -History of Programming Languages -My own misc. store of useful or useless facts Please send corrections, additions, etc to: Dick Wexelblat (...decvax!ittvax!wxlvax!rlw)
rlp@cbscc.UUCP (R L Platt) (12/30/83)
Here are a few more important dates for your calendar:
1/5 Fellowship enters Moria
1/9 Fellowship reaches Lorien
1/17 Passing of Gandalf
2/7 Fellowship leaves Lorien
2/17 Death of Boromir
2/20 Meriadoc & Pippin meet Treebeard
2/22 Passing of King Ellesar
2/24 Ents destroy Isengard
2/26 Aragorn takes the Paths of the Dead
3/5 Frodo & Samwise encounter Shelob
3/8 Deaths of Denethor & Theoden
3/18 Destruction of the Ring
3/29 Flowering of the Mallorn
4/4 Gandalf visits Bilbo
4/17 An unexpected party
4/23 Crowning of King Ellesar
5/19 Arwen leaves Lorian to wed King Ellesar
6/11 Sauron attacks Osgilliath
6/13 Bilbo returns to Bag End
6/23 Wedding of Ellesar & Arwen
7/4 Gandalf imprisoned by Suruman
7/24 The ring comes to Bilbo
7/26 Bilbo rescued from Wargs by Eagles
8/3 Funeral of King Theoden
8/29 Suruman enters the Shire
9/10 Gandalf escapes from Orthanc
9/14 Frodo & Bilbo's birthday
9/15 Black riders enter the Shire
9/18 Frodo and company rescued by Bombadil
9/28 Frodo wounded at Weathertop
10/5 Frodo crosses bridge of Mitheithel
10/16 Boromir reaches Rivendell
10/17 Council of Elrond
10/25 End of War of the Ring
11/16 Bilbo reaches the Lonely Mountain
12/5 Death of Smaug
12/16 Fellowship begins Quest
From 1979 Tolkien Calendar
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