spell "Chamonix" properly

branches: 1.36.10;
Add bicycle day

branches: 1.35.4;
Mention the Sand Creek massacre.

branches: 1.34.8;
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)

typo

Pretty difficult for a TV show (Star Trek) to have a first airing
on two different dates. Dump the erroneous one.

If we're going to note the USSR shooting down civilian airliners,
we should be fair and pick on the USA as well.

branches: 1.30.4;
Nelson Mandela died today, aged 95. I whish farewell to a great statesman.

It's Henry _Morton_ Stanley and Dr. Livingston_e_. Unfortunately. they did
not meet at an airport.

branches: 1.28.2; 1.28.8;
add an entry about the US nationalising gold to replace old confiscation entry

branches: 1.27.2;
On december 16, 1991, Kazakhstan declared its independence from the USSR.

Ahem. "Battle" of Wounded Knee? How about "massacre"?

XXX: this file needs a *lot* of attention.

The US formally left the Gold Standard in 1971, not 1933. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock

fix some typos

aspell

branches: 1.22.2;
Add author's names for two books.

Edit the "Women get the vote" entry to say "get the right to vote".
(Since "get the vote" doesn't tell much here about how a legislator
made the last vote to put this in effect.)
And so this calendar entry mentions U.S. also mention the 19th
Amendment to US Constitution.

Hindenburg exploded on May 6 not March 6

Begin major reworking of calendar.history. Goals are:

* every day of the year should have at least one entry
* all entries should have been fact-checked against reliable sources,
particularly for dates
* calendar should contain a fair balance of world history -- existing
calendar, being based on that shipped in 4.2BSD, was very northern
california-centric.

This commit meets these guidelines through March 13. I will continue to
update this as time permits.

Lincoln's birthday belongs (and already exists) in calendar.birthday.

Remove a duplicate entry.

Remove some duplicate entries, and improve another entry.
From Sergey Svishchev in private mail.

Lincoln was fatally shot on the 14th, and only the 14th. Move the more
detailed entry from 04/16 to 04/14.

branches: 1.14.2;
missed part of identifier on my first pass

Include year of My Lai massacre, correct spacing in name, and provide slightly
more detail regarding perpetrators.

Expand a couple names and fix some spelling errors. Okayed by wiz.

Add option to remove escape character before comment character in
fparseln(). Add escape characters before comment characters in the
few places those appear in the calendar data files.

Remove a duplicated entry.

add Columbia tragedy
submitted in PR bin/20163

Move LOTR dates to calendar.lotr. Add 09/11 terrorist attack.
Patch from John Franklin in misc/17461.

Lorian -> Lorien

seperate -> separate

Fixed wording error.

branches: 1.4.4;
Get pedantic about Pioneer's achievements. It was Pioneer 10
in 1983 that past Neptune's orbit. That does not, however, mean that it
left the solar system since the solar system is defined by the heliosphere.

Remove duplicated entry.

branches: 1.2.4;
Close pr-3115 from stephen.ma@jtec.com.au. He claims:
Sydney was settled by the English on 26 Jan, 1788 not 1778

branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision