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.