calendar.history revision 1.14
1 1.1 cgd 01/01 Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba 2 1.12 snj 01/01 Fidel Castro expels Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, 1959 3 1.1 cgd 01/01 Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech, 1947 4 1.1 cgd 01/01 First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902 5 1.1 cgd 01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north) 6 1.1 cgd 01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913 7 1.1 cgd 01/05 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940 8 1.1 cgd 01/05 Twelfth night 9 1.1 cgd 01/06 Millard Fillmore's birthday (let's party!) 10 1.1 cgd 01/08 Battle of New Orleans 11 1.1 cgd 01/09 Plough Monday 12 1.1 cgd 01/10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946 13 1.1 cgd 01/10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776 14 1.1 cgd 01/11 Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania 15 1.1 cgd 01/11 De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico 16 1.1 cgd 01/11 Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 1878 17 1.1 cgd 01/11 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal 18 1.1 cgd 01/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964 19 1.1 cgd 01/11 The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963 20 1.1 cgd 01/14 The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967 21 1.1 cgd 01/16 Prohibition begins, 1920 22 1.1 cgd 01/18 Grey whale migration, California 23 1.1 cgd 01/20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...) 24 1.1 cgd 01/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922 25 1.1 cgd 01/24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848 26 1.2 perry 01/26 Sydney Aust. settled, 1788 27 1.1 cgd 01/27 Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967 28 1.1 cgd 01/27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973 29 1.1 cgd 01/28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914 30 1.1 cgd 01/28 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff 31 1.1 cgd killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe, 32 1.1 cgd 1986 33 1.1 cgd 01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948 34 1.1 cgd 01/30 Tet Offensive, 1968 35 1.1 cgd 01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961 36 1.1 cgd 01/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered 37 1.1 cgd 01/31 Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp 38 1.1 cgd 02/01 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954 39 1.1 cgd 02/01 Forces lead by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979 40 1.9 jdolecek 02/01 Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrates over Texas during re-entry 41 1.9 jdolecek killing Husband, Anderson, Brown, Chawla, Clark, McCool, Ramon, 2003 42 1.1 cgd 02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969 43 1.1 cgd 02/04 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974 44 1.1 cgd 02/08 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq 45 1.1 cgd 02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934 46 1.1 cgd 02/12 Lincoln's real birthday 47 1.1 cgd 02/12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969 48 1.1 cgd 02/14 Bombing of Dresden, 1945 49 1.1 cgd 02/15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970 50 1.1 cgd 02/16 Nylon patented, 1937 51 1.1 cgd 02/16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804 52 1.1 cgd 02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930 53 1.1 cgd 02/19 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945 54 1.1 cgd 02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962 55 1.1 cgd 02/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties 56 1.1 cgd 02/21 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878 57 1.1 cgd 02/21 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965 58 1.1 cgd 02/23 Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 1971 59 1.1 cgd 02/24 Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868 60 1.1 cgd 02/27 The Lionheart crowned, 1189 61 1.1 cgd 02/28 The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972 62 1.1 cgd 02/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704 63 1.1 cgd 03/01 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft 64 1.1 cgd in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 65 1.1 cgd 03/02 Blackthorn winds (New England) (Does anyone know what this is?) 66 1.1 cgd 03/04 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C. 67 1.1 cgd 03/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1939 68 1.1 cgd 03/13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894 69 1.1 cgd 03/14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907 70 1.1 cgd 03/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH 71 1.1 cgd 03/15 France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874 72 1.1 cgd 03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966 73 1.13 mason 03/16 My Lai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen 74 1.14 mason in Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, 1968 75 1.1 cgd 03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926 76 1.1 cgd 03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped 77 1.1 cgd 03/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965 78 1.1 cgd 03/19 Swallows return to Capistrano 79 1.1 cgd 03/20 Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980 80 1.1 cgd 03/24 Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900 81 1.1 cgd 03/25 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911 82 1.1 cgd 03/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937 83 1.1 cgd 03/27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958 84 1.1 cgd 03/28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979 85 1.1 cgd 03/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638 86 1.1 cgd 03/30 Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867 87 1.1 cgd 03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977 88 1.1 cgd 03/30 Pencil with eraser patented, 1858 89 1.1 cgd 04/01 People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day. 90 1.1 cgd 04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968 91 1.1 cgd 04/04 NATO Established, 1949 92 1.1 cgd 04/06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830 93 1.1 cgd 04/07 Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1943 94 1.1 cgd 04/07 Alewives run, Cape Cod 95 1.1 cgd 04/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865 96 1.1 cgd 04/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861 97 1.1 cgd 04/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981 98 1.1 cgd 04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961 99 1.1 cgd 04/13 Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos 100 1.1 cgd 04/14 Lincoln shot, 1865 101 1.1 cgd 04/14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912 102 1.1 cgd 04/15 Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955 103 1.1 cgd 04/16 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865 104 1.1 cgd 04/17 Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961 105 1.1 cgd 04/18 Einstein's Death, 1955 106 1.1 cgd 04/18 First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934 107 1.1 cgd 04/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906 108 1.1 cgd 04/19 Landing of the "33" in Uruguay 109 1.1 cgd 04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943 110 1.1 cgd 04/20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971 111 1.1 cgd 04/21 Lyrid meteor shower 112 1.1 cgd 04/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954 113 1.1 cgd 04/26 William Shakespeare baptised in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564, 114 1.1 cgd birthdate unknown 115 1.12 snj 04/27 Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521 116 1.1 cgd 04/29 Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913 117 1.1 cgd 05/01 Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god 118 1.1 cgd 05/03 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971 119 1.1 cgd 05/04 Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970 120 1.1 cgd 05/05 John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925 121 1.1 cgd 05/07 Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945 122 1.1 cgd 05/08 Beginning of ostrich mating season 123 1.1 cgd 05/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972 124 1.1 cgd 05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979 125 1.1 cgd 05/10 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940 126 1.1 cgd 05/10 Nazi bookburning, 1933 127 1.1 cgd 05/14 Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804 128 1.1 cgd 05/14 Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948 129 1.1 cgd 05/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854 130 1.1 cgd 05/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982 131 1.1 cgd 05/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974 132 1.1 cgd 05/18 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay 133 1.1 cgd 05/18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804 134 1.1 cgd 05/21 Battle of Iquique in Chile 135 1.1 cgd 05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956 136 1.1 cgd 05/22 US Civil War ends, 1865 137 1.1 cgd 05/23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960 138 1.1 cgd 05/23 Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953 139 1.1 cgd 05/24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador 140 1.1 cgd 05/25 Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980 141 1.1 cgd 05/25 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830 142 1.1 cgd 05/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924 143 1.1 cgd 05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937 144 1.1 cgd 05/29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953 145 1.1 cgd 05/29 First food stamps issued, 1961 146 1.1 cgd 05/30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912 147 1.1 cgd 06/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924 148 1.1 cgd 06/04 Roquefort cheese developed, 1070 149 1.12 snj 06/05 Robert Kennedy assassinated, 1968 150 1.1 cgd 06/05 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933 151 1.1 cgd 06/06 First drive-in movie, 1933 152 1.1 cgd 06/06 Normandy landing, 1944 153 1.1 cgd 06/10 Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C. 154 1.1 cgd 06/10 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971 155 1.1 cgd 06/11 Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC 156 1.4 briggs 06/13 Pioneer 10 flies past Neptune's orbit, the first human artifact 157 1.4 briggs to travel beyond the orbits of all known planets, 1983 158 1.1 cgd 06/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834 159 1.1 cgd 06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752 160 1.1 cgd 06/15 Magna Carta signed, 1215 161 1.1 cgd 06/15 Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford 162 1.1 cgd that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop, 163 1.1 cgd 1878 164 1.1 cgd 06/16 "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980 165 1.1 cgd 06/17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967 166 1.1 cgd 06/17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972 167 1.1 cgd 06/19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953 168 1.1 cgd 06/19 Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893 169 1.1 cgd 06/20 Victoria crowned, 1837 170 1.1 cgd 06/21 Berlin airlift begins, 1948 171 1.1 cgd 06/21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge 172 1.1 cgd 06/22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964 173 1.1 cgd 06/23 Slavery abolished in England, 1772 174 1.1 cgd 06/24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970 175 1.1 cgd 06/25 Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 1876 176 1.1 cgd 06/25 North Korea invades South Korea, 1950 177 1.1 cgd 06/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 178 1.1 cgd 06/26 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959 179 1.1 cgd 06/26 Toothbrush invented, 1498 180 1.1 cgd 06/27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915 181 1.1 cgd 06/27 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971 182 1.1 cgd 06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978 183 1.1 cgd 06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia, 1908 184 1.1 cgd 06/30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960 185 1.1 cgd 07/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863 186 1.1 cgd 07/03 Dog days begin 187 1.1 cgd 07/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863 188 1.1 cgd 07/04 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776 189 1.1 cgd 07/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776 190 1.1 cgd 07/04 Thoreau enters woods, 1845 191 1.1 cgd 07/06 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928 192 1.1 cgd 07/06 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917 193 1.1 cgd 07/07 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949 194 1.1 cgd 07/08 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776 195 1.1 cgd 07/08 Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835 196 1.1 cgd 07/09 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847 197 1.1 cgd 07/10 134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913 198 1.1 cgd 07/12 Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933 199 1.1 cgd 07/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908 200 1.1 cgd 07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945 201 1.1 cgd 07/17 Disneyland opens, 1955 202 1.1 cgd 07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927 203 1.1 cgd 07/19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692 204 1.1 cgd 07/20 Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969 205 1.1 cgd 07/21 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873 206 1.1 cgd 07/21 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954 207 1.1 cgd 07/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904 208 1.1 cgd 07/24 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 209 1.1 cgd 07/30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956 210 1.1 cgd 07/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948, 211 1.1 cgd later JFK 212 1.1 cgd 08/01 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on 213 1.1 cgd this day 214 1.1 cgd 08/03 Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492 215 1.1 cgd 08/03 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958 216 1.1 cgd 08/04 Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892 217 1.1 cgd 08/04 Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964 218 1.1 cgd 08/04 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914 219 1.1 cgd 08/06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945 220 1.1 cgd 08/06 Caricom in Barbados 221 1.1 cgd 08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890 222 1.1 cgd 08/08 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945 223 1.1 cgd 08/08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914 224 1.1 cgd 08/08 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974 225 1.1 cgd 08/08 The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963 226 1.1 cgd 08/09 Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969 227 1.1 cgd 08/09 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC 228 1.1 cgd 08/09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842 229 1.1 cgd 08/10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833 230 1.1 cgd 08/10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977 231 1.1 cgd 08/11 Dog days end 232 1.1 cgd 08/11 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954 233 1.1 cgd 08/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days) 234 1.1 cgd 08/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977 235 1.1 cgd 08/12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972 236 1.1 cgd 08/13 Berlin wall erected, 1961 237 1.1 cgd 08/13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934 238 1.1 cgd 08/14 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935 239 1.1 cgd 08/15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947 240 1.1 cgd 08/15 Hurricane hits Plimoth Plantation, 1635 241 1.1 cgd 08/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898 242 1.1 cgd 08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891 243 1.1 cgd 08/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed 244 1.1 cgd 08/19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite, 245 1.1 cgd marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960 246 1.1 cgd 08/19 Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856 247 1.1 cgd 08/22 Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets 248 1.1 cgd 08/22 Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963 249 1.1 cgd 08/22 St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565 250 1.1 cgd 08/23 Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927 251 1.1 cgd 08/24 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969 252 1.1 cgd 08/24 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960 253 1.1 cgd 08/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814 254 1.1 cgd 08/25 Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944 255 1.1 cgd 08/26 Women get the vote, 1920 256 1.1 cgd 08/27 "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912 257 1.1 cgd 08/27 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883 258 1.1 cgd 08/28 King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963 259 1.1 cgd 08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; 260 1.1 cgd Nova Cygni 1975. 261 1.1 cgd 08/30 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842 262 1.1 cgd 08/30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960 263 1.1 cgd 08/30 St. Rose of Lima in Peru 264 1.1 cgd 08/30 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963 265 1.1 cgd 08/31 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983 266 1.1 cgd 08/31 Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888 267 1.1 cgd 08/31 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926 268 1.1 cgd 09/01 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972 269 1.1 cgd 09/01 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859 270 1.1 cgd 09/02 Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752 271 1.1 cgd 09/02 Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945 272 1.1 cgd 09/03 Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino 273 1.1 cgd 09/05 Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961 274 1.1 cgd 09/05 The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774 275 1.1 cgd 09/06 149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620 276 1.1 cgd 09/06 First Star Trek episode (The Man Trap) aired 1966 277 1.1 cgd 09/06 Pres. McKinley shot, 1901 278 1.1 cgd 09/06 Somhlolo in Swaziland 279 1.1 cgd 09/08 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966) 280 1.1 cgd 09/08 Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888 281 1.1 cgd 09/08 President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974 282 1.1 cgd 09/09 California becomes the 31st state, 1850 283 1.1 cgd 09/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776 284 1.1 cgd 09/10 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857 285 1.8 wiz 09/11 Twin Towers fall in terrorist attacks, 2001 286 1.1 cgd 09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943 287 1.1 cgd 09/12 Germany annexes Sudentenland, 1938 288 1.1 cgd 09/13 136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya, 1922 289 1.1 cgd 09/13 British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City, 1788 290 1.1 cgd 09/13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122 291 1.1 cgd 09/13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943 292 1.1 cgd 09/14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778 293 1.1 cgd 09/14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629 294 1.1 cgd 09/14 The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940 295 1.1 cgd 09/15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959 296 1.1 cgd 09/15 The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department, 1789 297 1.1 cgd 09/16 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630 298 1.1 cgd 09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862 299 1.1 cgd 09/18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi 300 1.1 cgd 09/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884 301 1.1 cgd 09/20 First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 302 1.1 cgd Science, 1848 303 1.1 cgd 09/20 First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916 304 1.1 cgd 09/20 Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519 305 1.1 cgd 09/20 The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973 306 1.1 cgd 09/22 Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953 307 1.1 cgd 09/22 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862 308 1.12 snj 09/22 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas President Nixon, 1974 309 1.1 cgd 09/22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949 310 1.12 snj 09/23 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972 311 1.1 cgd 09/23 The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club, 1845 312 1.1 cgd 09/23 V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech, 1952 313 1.1 cgd 09/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981 314 1.1 cgd 09/27 The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825 315 1.1 cgd 09/28 "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678 316 1.1 cgd 09/28 A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon, 317 1.1 cgd 490BC 318 1.11 briggs 09/30 Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (\#3) and Catherine Eddowes (\#4), 319 1.1 cgd 1888 320 1.1 cgd 09/30 The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846 321 1.1 cgd 09/30 The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946 322 1.1 cgd 10/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958 323 1.1 cgd 10/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967 324 1.1 cgd 10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853 325 1.1 cgd 10/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957 326 1.1 cgd 10/04 Sputnik 1, world's first orbiting satellite launched, 1957 327 1.1 cgd 10/06 Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853 328 1.1 cgd 10/06 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981 329 1.1 cgd 10/06 Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973 330 1.1 cgd 10/07 Foundation of the GDR in 1949 in German Democratic Republic 331 1.1 cgd 10/07 Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916 332 1.1 cgd 10/07 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977 333 1.1 cgd 10/07 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979 334 1.1 cgd 10/07 Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974 335 1.1 cgd 10/08 Great Chicago Fire, 1871 336 1.1 cgd 10/09 First two-way telephone conversation, 1876 337 1.1 cgd 10/10 Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba 338 1.1 cgd 10/10 Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea 339 1.1 cgd 10/10 Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. (1984) 340 1.1 cgd 10/10 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973 341 1.1 cgd 10/11 "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975 342 1.1 cgd 10/11 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976 343 1.1 cgd 10/11 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811 344 1.1 cgd 10/11 The second Vatican Ecumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962 345 1.1 cgd 10/11 First broadcast of Saturday Night Live, 1975 346 1.1 cgd 10/12 Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492 347 1.1 cgd 10/12 Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960 348 1.1 cgd 10/12 Man O'War's last race, 1920 349 1.1 cgd 10/12 Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492 350 1.1 cgd 10/13 Italy declares war on Germany, 1943 351 1.1 cgd 10/13 U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress 352 1.1 cgd 10/14 Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066 353 1.1 cgd 10/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947 354 1.1 cgd 10/15 First draft card burned, 1965 355 1.1 cgd 10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648 356 1.12 snj 10/18 Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959 357 1.1 cgd 10/19 Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949 358 1.1 cgd 10/19 Napoleon's beaten army begins the long retreat from Moscow, 1812 359 1.1 cgd 10/20 "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973 360 1.1 cgd 10/20 OPEC embargo, 1973 361 1.1 cgd 10/21 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879 362 1.1 cgd 10/21 Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959 363 1.1 cgd 10/23 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944 364 1.1 cgd 10/23 Earth created at 6:30 AM, 4004BC. 365 1.1 cgd 10/23 Swallows leave Capistrano 366 1.1 cgd 10/25 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971 367 1.1 cgd 10/26 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978 368 1.1 cgd 10/27 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871 369 1.1 cgd 10/27 The first New York Subway is opened, 1904 370 1.1 cgd 10/28 Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492 371 1.1 cgd 10/28 Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312 372 1.1 cgd 10/28 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636 373 1.1 cgd 10/28 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886 374 1.1 cgd 10/29 Stock Market Crash, 1929 375 1.1 cgd 10/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938 376 1.1 cgd 10/31 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517 377 1.6 wiz 11/01 Austria-Hungary become two separate nations, 1918 378 1.1 cgd 11/01 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950 379 1.1 cgd 11/02 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940 380 1.1 cgd 11/02 Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, 1783 381 1.1 cgd 11/03 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837 382 1.1 cgd 11/03 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954 383 1.1 cgd 11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing spacedog Laika 384 1.1 cgd 11/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979 385 1.1 cgd 11/04 Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956 386 1.1 cgd 11/05 Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605 387 1.1 cgd 11/06 Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R. 388 1.1 cgd 11/07 Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837 389 1.1 cgd 11/07 Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805 390 1.1 cgd 11/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965 391 1.1 cgd 11/09 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927 392 1.1 cgd 11/09 Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888 393 1.1 cgd 11/09 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921 394 1.1 cgd 11/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933 395 1.12 snj 11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House, 1917 396 1.1 cgd 11/10 Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865 397 1.1 cgd 11/10 Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?", 1871 398 1.1 cgd 11/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889 399 1.1 cgd 11/12 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan 400 1.1 cgd 11/12 U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861 401 1.1 cgd 11/14 Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon 402 1.1 cgd price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after formal request 403 1.1 cgd from McDonald's), 1971 404 1.1 cgd 11/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896 405 1.1 cgd 11/16 Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869 406 1.1 cgd 11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966 407 1.1 cgd 11/17 Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973 408 1.1 cgd 11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952 409 1.1 cgd 11/18 Local standard time zones established for US, 1883 410 1.1 cgd 11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863 411 1.1 cgd 11/21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973 412 1.1 cgd 11/22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963 413 1.1 cgd 11/23 First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963 414 1.1 cgd 11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963 415 1.1 cgd 11/25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867 416 1.1 cgd 11/27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895 417 1.1 cgd 11/27 Friction match invented, England, 1826 418 1.1 cgd 11/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts 419 1.1 cgd 11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922 420 1.1 cgd 12/01 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924 421 1.1 cgd 12/01 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955 422 1.1 cgd 12/01 Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1953 423 1.1 cgd 12/03 First neon light display, Paris, 1910 424 1.5 mason 12/03 First successful human heart transplant led by Dr. Barnard, 1967 425 1.1 cgd 12/03 The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971 426 1.1 cgd 12/04 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783 427 1.1 cgd 12/05 End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part) 428 1.1 cgd 12/05 Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776 429 1.1 cgd 12/05 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition, 1933 430 1.1 cgd 12/07 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941 431 1.1 cgd 12/09 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884 432 1.1 cgd 12/10 Metric system established in France, 1799 433 1.1 cgd 12/10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year 434 1.1 cgd 12/12 First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901 435 1.1 cgd 12/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972 436 1.1 cgd 12/13 Dartmouth College chartered, 1769 437 1.1 cgd 12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south) 438 1.1 cgd 12/15 Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976 439 1.1 cgd 12/15 Bill of Rights adopted, 1791 440 1.1 cgd 12/15 James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891 441 1.1 cgd 12/15 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890 442 1.1 cgd 12/20 U.S. buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi. 443 1.1 cgd 12/21 Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in less than 80 days 444 1.1 cgd 12/24 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865 445 1.1 cgd 12/26 DPMA founded, 1951 446 1.1 cgd 12/27 APT report published, 1956 447 1.1 cgd 12/27 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845 448 1.1 cgd 12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973 449 1.1 cgd 12/29 Battle of Wounded knee, 1890 450 1.1 cgd 12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940 451 1.1 cgd 12/31 St. Sylvester in Switzerland 452 1.1 cgd 12/31 Winterland closes its doors, 1978 453
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