pector@ihuxw.UUCP (Scott W. Pector) (01/03/84)
More calendar items:
2/12: Charles Darwin born (1809) not created
3/1: Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft in
Salem, Massachusetts (1692)
3/15: Ides of March; Julius Caesar assassinated (44 B.C.)
4/26: William Shakespeare's baptism (birthdate unknown) (1564)
4/29: William Randolph Hearst born (1863)
5/25: Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England (1830)
6/10: Death of Alexander the Great (323 B.C.)
6/15: 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)
6/17: Watergate Democratic National Committee Break-In (1972)
7/4: Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts (1804)
7/4: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day (1826)
7/4: Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces (1863)
7/8: Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T) (1877)
8/6: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (1945)
8/9: Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki (1945)
8/9: Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency (1974)
8/24: -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica (1960)
9/13: 136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya (1922)
10/5: Ray Kroc (owner of McDonald's) born (1902)
10/14: Battle of Hastings (and England) won by William the Conqueror and the
Normans (1066)
11/7: Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean (1805)
11/9: Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada (1965)
11/13: St. Augustine of Hippo born (354)
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)
11/16: Opening of the Suez Canal (1869)
11/21: Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape (1973)
11/30: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) born (1835)
12/15: Thomas Edison receives patent on the phonograph (1877)
12/25: Isaac Newton born (1642)
Scott Pector
P.S. Could someone send me the path to the original calendar guy so I can
send him this? I accidentally destroyed it.