taylor@hplabs.HP.COM (Dave Taylor) (09/21/88)
well, I went through the data and found some odd things...
Multiple date for same event conflict:
3/7/322BC : Aristotle died
10/2/322BC : Aristotle dies of indigestion
3/21/1685 : Bach born
5/22/1665 : Johann Sebastian Bach born in Eisenach, Germany
10/17/1967 : "Hair" opens at New York's Public Theater
4/29/1968 : "Hair" premiers on Broadway
Missing years:
3/16 : MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by US military
[ should be 3/16/1967 and it's "MaiLai" -- fixed in our data ]
3/29 : Death of President Barthelemy Boganda in Central African Republic
4/28 : Zilog Z-80 introduced
5/21 : DEC announces PDP-8
10/15 : First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published
10/25 : DEC announces VAX-11/780
12/20 : U.S. Buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20 sq.mi.
And events that need some explanation -- are they legit?
7/21/1954 : Vietnam divided at 17th parallel
8/14/1954 : First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
12/26/1951 : DPMA founded
12/27/1956 : APT report published
I've added some new ones and removed the "Lord of the Rings" garbage...
I also have two handy other programs;
"sortdates" -- to sort the dates so that they're organized by year,
least recent to most (with annual events last)
"sameday" -- to list all events that occured on either the current
day or a day specified.
Suggestions on where to post the package?
-- Dave Taylorjbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) (09/22/88)
In article <524@hptsug2.HP.COM> taylor@hplabs.HP.COM (Dave Taylor) writes: >well, I went through the data and found some odd things... >[ odd things deleted ] >I've added some new ones and removed the "Lord of the Rings" garbage... Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger... :-) -- - Joe Buck, card-carrying ACLU liberal jbuck@epimass.epi.com, or uunet!epimass.epi.com!jbuck, or jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net for old Arpa sites
taylor@hplabs.hp.com (Dave Taylor) (09/22/88)
Got some more problems:
Which date is correct:
4/14/1865:President Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth
4/16/1865:Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
and:
8/8/1973:President Richard Nixon announces resignation
8/9/1974:Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency
and:
8/15/1969:The Woodstock Music and Arts Fair begins
8/16/1969:Woodstock Began
and:
8/8/1945:Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
8/9/1945:Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
and:
7/6/1928:First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiered in New York
7/10/6/1927:the first "Talking Movie" was seen
a year for:
3/4:First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos
4/28:Zilog Z-80 introduced
6/13:Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System
a single date for:
5/16:Armed Forces Day
5/19:Armed Forces Day
Just wandering through the dataset ...
-- Dave Taylor
taylor@hplabs.hp.comabrams@bnlux0.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer) (09/22/88)
In article <530@hptsug2.HP.COM> taylor@hplabs.hp.com (Dave Taylor) writes: >Got some more problems: > > Which date is correct: > > 8/8/1945:Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki > > 8/9/1945:Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki Maybe both. 8/9/1945 USA = 8/8/1945 in Japan. (Or is it the other way around? Hmm....:) -- INTERNET: abrams@bnlux0.bnl.gov BITNET: abrams@bnlux0.BITNET UUCP: ...philabs!sbcs!bnlux0!abrams
ejp@ausmelb.oz (Esmond Pitt) (09/27/88)
In article <524@hptsug2.HP.COM> taylor@hplabs.HP.COM (Dave Taylor) writes: > Multiple date for same event conflict: > 3/21/1685 : Bach born > 5/22/1665 : Johann Sebastian Bach born in Eisenach, Germany Well, really. The first date is correct. 5/22/1665 was a slow day in music. Wagner was born on 5/22/1813, though. -- Esmond Pitt, Austec International Ltd ...!uunet.UU.NET!munnari!ausmelb!ejp,ejp@ausmelb.oz
ejp@ausmelb.oz (Esmond Pitt) (09/27/88)
In article <530@hptsug2.HP.COM> taylor@hplabs.hp.com (Dave Taylor) writes: > Which date is correct: > 8/8/1973:President Richard Nixon announces resignation > 8/9/1974:Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency 1974 - can't vouch for day-of-month though. > 7/6/1928:First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiered in New York > > 7/10/6/1927:the first "Talking Movie" was seen Definitely 1927. Again, can't vouch for day-of-month. -- Esmond Pitt, Austec International Ltd ...!uunet.UU.NET!munnari!ausmelb!ejp,ejp@ausmelb.oz
wfp@dasys1.UUCP (William Phillips) (09/29/88)
In article <530@hptsug2.HP.COM> taylor@hplabs.hp.com (Dave Taylor) writes: > Which date is correct: > 8/8/1945:Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki > 8/9/1945:Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki Nagasaki Day is observed on August 9th, if that helps. -- William Phillips {allegra,philabs,cmcl2}!phri\ BEC Public Excess Unix {bellcore,cmcl2}!cucard!dasys1!wfp New York, NY, USA !!! JUST SAY "NO" TO OS/2 !!!
zeus@zapodid.aero.org (Dave Suess) (10/05/88)
In article <772@ausmelb.oz> ejp@ausmelb.oz (Esmond Pitt) writes: >In article <530@hptsug2.HP.COM> taylor@hplabs.hp.com (Dave Taylor) writes: >> Which date is correct: >> 8/8/1973:President Richard Nixon announces resignation >> 8/9/1974:Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency > >1974 - can't vouch for day-of-month though. I can. The resignation was announced on 8/8/74, and the actual resignation was the following day, 8/9/74. Cheers.