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RevisionDateAuthorComments
 1.44  03-Jun-2020  sevan Add Allen Ginsberg
 1.43  18-May-2020  sevan Add Margaret Hamilton, Florian Schneider, Ron Hardy, Little Richard
 1.42  11-May-2020  pgoyette Fix typo
 1.41  22-Feb-2020  sevan Add Ken Kesey
 1.40  22-Feb-2020  sevan Add Ivan Sutherland's birthday
 1.39  22-Feb-2020  sevan Add Bert Sutherland
https://twitter.com/ComputerHistory/status/1230200277141250050
 1.38  22-Feb-2020  sevan Add Larry Tesler
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/technology/lawrence-tesler-dead.html
 1.37  30-Jan-2020  sevan Add Doug Engelbart
 1.36  22-Jan-2020  sevan Add Terry Jones, once clarified who wasn't the messiah, but a very naughty boy
 1.35  30-Nov-2019  sevan Sort
 1.34  30-Nov-2019  sevan Add Grace Hopper and Richard Feynman
 1.33  28-Nov-2019  sevan Add Aaron Swartz and Steve Jobs
 1.32  14-Oct-2019  sevan Add Ted Nelson's birthday
 1.31  01-Oct-2019  sevan Add Alan Perlis
 1.30  23-Aug-2019  sevan Add Danny Cohen
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/obituaries/danny-cohen-who-helped-set-the-stage-for-a-digital-era-dies-at-81.html
 1.29  14-Jul-2019  sevan branches: 1.29.2;
Add Fernando Jose Corbato
https://multicians.org/corby.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/science/fernando-corbato-dead.html
 1.28  30-Jun-2019  sevan Add John von Neumann's date of death
 1.27  09-Dec-2017  leot branches: 1.27.4;
Fix a typo.

(or, `Emily Dickinson' - the American poet - was born on the same date)
 1.26  15-Feb-2016  snj branches: 1.26.8;
allllllexander the greeeaaaaat, his name struck fear into hearts of men!

...but let's conquer that fear and give ol' alex a consistent and
correct date of death.

(he died of fever in baaaaaabylooooooonnnn)
 1.25  11-Mar-2015  jnemeth note birth and death of Douglas Adams
 1.24  14-Apr-2013  wiz branches: 1.24.6;
correct spelling is "Christiaan Huygens"; from James J. Lippard
via jmc@openbsd
 1.23  13-Oct-2011  mbalmer branches: 1.23.2; 1.23.8;
Add towns to dmr's dates.
 1.22  13-Oct-2011  mbalmer Dennis "dmr" Ritchie R.I.P.
 1.21  21-Jan-2010  simonb Use TAB as a separator to be consistent with the rest of this file.
 1.20  20-Jan-2010  jnemeth add Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon
 1.19  09-Jan-2010  jnemeth add Stephen Hawking, 68 today
 1.18  27-May-2009  snj Fix some longstanding typos and remove an entry that is both redundant
and wrong at the same time.
 1.17  18-Aug-2008  reed Fix birth year for Meriwether Lewis.
Also add who he is.

(Why does this "birthday" file have deaths in it?)
 1.16  30-Mar-2004  wrstuden branches: 1.16.28;
Tweak change for Asimov's entry some. Restore reference to
Russian SFSR, but note that it's now Russia, not part of the USSR.
 1.15  29-Mar-2004  minoura - AFAIK, Samuel Barber and Edward Elgar are composers; move them to
calendar.music, complementing Barber's birthday.
- Remove duplicating Beethoven's birthday.
(some materials say it's 12/16, some say 12/17, and some christened on
12/17... I do not know which is correct)
- BTW, who is Johann Sebastian Bach born on 05/22, 1665?
 1.14  27-Mar-2004  soren branches: 1.14.2;
PR bin/24029: Asimov was born in Russia, the USSR no longer exists.
 1.13  01-Feb-2004  snj Give year of MLK's birth. Expand some names. Okayed by wiz.
 1.12  01-Feb-2004  snj Jimi Hendrix's death date belongs in the music calendar. Okayed by wiz.
 1.11  24-Apr-2003  mjl On second thought, move BSD to calendar.computer.
While there, spell Dijkstra correctly.
 1.10  24-Apr-2003  mjl Correct dates for Talbot and Zuse. Aristotle surely died only
once (though I have not been able to confirm the exact date).
Add NetBSD/FreeBSD birthday too for good measure.

Most of the changes from FreeBSD with corrections.
 1.9  04-Nov-2002  lukem whitespace consistency
 1.8  09-Jul-2002  jdolecek Add entries for Thomas Kelly and Queen Elizabeth
Provided by in bin/16219 by John Franklin.
 1.7  18-Mar-2002  mjl Normalize BC year format, correct a few typos, remove duplicate Descartes.
Partly from FreeBSD.
 1.6  02-May-1999  kleink Fix spelling of Gauss' fist name.
 1.5  21-Oct-1998  hwr Typo *sigh*
 1.4  21-Oct-1998  hwr Jon Postel died ;-(
 1.3  20-Feb-1997  explorer Add Carl Sagan's death
 1.2  17-Jan-1997  perry Add David Packard & Konrad Zuse's deaths to calendar.birthday
submitted by Heiko W.Rupp.
closes pr-2448
Also, moved Alan Turing's birthday from calendar.computer to
calendar.birthday, removed duplicate Thoreau entry and cleaned up date
ordering in calendar.birthday
 1.1  21-Mar-1993  cgd branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision
 1.1.1.1  21-Mar-1993  cgd initial import of 386bsd-0.1 sources
 1.14.2.1  31-Mar-2004  tron Pull up revision 1.16 (requested by wrstuden in ticket #26):
Tweak change for Asimov's entry some. Restore reference to
Russian SFSR, but note that it's now Russia, not part of the USSR.
 1.16.28.1  18-Sep-2008  wrstuden Sync with wrstuden-revivesa-base-2.
 1.23.8.1  23-Jun-2013  tls resync from head
 1.23.2.1  22-May-2014  yamt sync with head.

for a reference, the tree before this commit was tagged
as yamt-pagecache-tag8.

this commit was splitted into small chunks to avoid
a limitation of cvs. ("Protocol error: too many arguments")
 1.24.6.2  18-Dec-2016  snj Pull up following revision(s) (requested by jnemeth in ticket #1325):
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday: revision 1.26
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.christian: revision 1.6
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history: revisions 1.33, 1.34
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.holiday: revisions 1.26, 1.27
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.judaic: revision 1.6
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.netbsd: revisions 1.36, 1.37
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.usholiday: revision 1.7
note the release of NetBSD 7.0
--
Fix typo - Bahamas starts with a 'B' not with a 'G'
--
typo
--
allllllexander the greeeaaaaat, his name struck fear into hearts of men!
...but let's conquer that fear and give ol' alex a consistent and
correct date of death.
(he died of fever in baaaaaabylooooooonnnn)
--
update floating holidays for 2017 in preparation for pullup for 7.1 release
 1.24.6.1  06-Nov-2015  riz branches: 1.24.6.1.2;
Pull up following revision(s) (requested by jnemeth in ticket #988):
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday: revision 1.25
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.christian: revision 1.5
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.netbsd: revision 1.33
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.netbsd: revision 1.34
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.netbsd: revision 1.35
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.usholiday: revision 1.6
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.holiday: revision 1.24
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.holiday: revision 1.25
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.judaic: revision 1.5
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history: revision 1.31
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history: revision 1.32
note birth and death of Douglas Adams
Fix year of Hawaiian Admission Day. From Henning Petersen in PR 49123.
- sort
- add a bunch of missing release
If we're going to note the USSR shooting down civilian airliners,
we should be fair and pick on the USA as well.
Add pkgsrc/Bitrig
Switch from a mixture of tabs & 3 spaces to a single style, 3 spaces
Pretty difficult for a TV show (Star Trek) to have a first airing
on two different dates. Dump the erroneous one.
Adjust dates for floating holidays. Use 2015 for things happening from
mid-October onwards, and 2016 for things happening earlier.
 1.24.6.1.2.1  18-Jan-2017  skrll Sync with netbsd-5
 1.26.8.1  13-Jul-2018  martin Pull up following revision(s) (requested by jnemeth in ticket #908):

usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday: revision 1.27
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.christian: revision 1.7
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.usholiday: revision 1.8
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.netbsd: revision 1.39
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.holiday: revision 1.28
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.holiday: revision 1.29
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.judaic: revision 1.7
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history: revision 1.35

Only 35 years late.

Mention the Sand Creek massacre.

Fix a typo.

(or, `Emily Dickinson' - the American poet - was born on the same date)

Update calendar files for the upcoming NetBSD 8.0 release. I'm
assuming that it will be released by August 1, which is two months
from now. Thus I used 2018 dates for all holidays between Aug.
1st and Dec. 31st, and 2019 dates for all holidays between Jan.
1st and Jul. 31st.
 1.27.4.1  13-Apr-2020  martin Mostly merge changes from HEAD upto 20200411
 1.29.2.4  21-Jun-2020  martin Pull up following revision(s) (requested by sevan in ticket #969):

usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.music: revision 1.24
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday: revision 1.42
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday: revision 1.43
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday: revision 1.44
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer: revision 1.13
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer: revision 1.14
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer: revision 1.15

It was aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis using a Macintosh Portable.
https://support.apple.com/kb/TA30635

Add RISC-V's birthday
https://riscv.org/2020/05/happy-10th-birthday-risc-v/

X turned 36 today
http://www.talisman.org/x-debut.shtml

Fix typo

Add Margaret Hamilton, Florian Schneider, Ron Hardy, Little Richard

Add Allen Ginsberg

The Hacienda must be rebuilt.
https://twitter.com/McrHistory/status/1263386700249776130
https://twitter.com/Mr_Dave_Haslam/status/1263373996172640256
 1.29.2.3  28-Apr-2020  martin Pull up following revision(s) (requested by sevan in ticket #859):

usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.netbsd: revision 1.45
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.netbsd: revision 1.46
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.music: revision 1.21
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.music: revision 1.22
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.music: revision 1.23
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday: revision 1.40
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday: revision 1.41
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer: revision 1.10
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer: revision 1.11
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer: revision 1.12
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday: revision 1.37
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday: revision 1.38
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday: revision 1.39
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.netbsd: revision 1.44

Add Doug Engelbart

Apple buys NeXT

Add Andrew Weatherall
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51535685
http://www.rottersgolfclub.com/

Add Larry Tesler
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/technology/lawrence-tesler-dead.html

Add Bert Sutherland
https://twitter.com/ComputerHistory/status/1230200277141250050

Add Ivan Sutherland's birthday

Add Ken Kesey

Add The KLF's Chill Out

Add K&R publish date
https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/1231263883303645184

Note the birthday of Symbolics.com

Add higher state of consciousness
https://twitter.com/joshwink1/status/1243360644042113024

Add NetBSD 9.0 & 8.2
Heads up by Harold Gutch

align
just spaces
 1.29.2.2  23-Jan-2020  martin Pull up following revision(s) (requested by sevan in ticket #642):

usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday: revision 1.36

Add Terry Jones, once clarified who wasn't the messiah, but a very
naughty boy
 1.29.2.1  08-Dec-2019  martin Pull up following revision(s) (requested by sevan in ticket #500):

usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.music: revision 1.20
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer: revision 1.8
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer: revision 1.9
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.usholiday: revision 1.9
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday: revision 1.30
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday: revision 1.31
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday: revision 1.32
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday: revision 1.33
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday: revision 1.34
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday: revision 1.35
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.netbsd: revision 1.41
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.netbsd: revision 1.42
usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.netbsd: revision 1.43

Add Danny Cohen
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/obituaries/danny-cohen-who-helped-set-the-stage-for-a-digital-era-dies-at-81.html

Add 8.1 release

sort

We use spaces, not tabs here

Add Alan Perlis

Add SICP
https://twitter.com/mit_csail/status/1164226910035087360

Add Ted Nelson's birthday

Belatedly update several entries that move from year to year.

Add Aaron Swartz and Steve Jobs

Add Grace Hopper and Richard Feynman

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