calendar.history revision 1.8
1 01/01 Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba 2 01/01 Castro expells Cuban President Batista, 1959 3 01/01 Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech, 1947 4 01/01 First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902 5 01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north) 6 01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913 7 01/05 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940 8 01/05 Twelfth night 9 01/06 Millard Fillmore's birthday (let's party!) 10 01/08 Battle of New Orleans 11 01/09 Plough Monday 12 01/10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946 13 01/10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776 14 01/11 Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania 15 01/11 De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico 16 01/11 Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 1878 17 01/11 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal 18 01/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964 19 01/11 The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963 20 01/14 The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967 21 01/16 Prohibition begins, 1920 22 01/18 Grey whale migration, California 23 01/20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...) 24 01/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922 25 01/24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848 26 01/26 Sydney Aust. settled, 1788 27 01/27 Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967 28 01/27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973 29 01/28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914 30 01/28 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff 31 killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe, 32 1986 33 01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948 34 01/30 Tet Offensive, 1968 35 01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961 36 01/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered 37 01/31 Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp 38 02/01 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954 39 02/01 Forces lead by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979 40 02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969 41 02/04 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974 42 02/08 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq 43 02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934 44 02/12 Lincoln's real birthday 45 02/12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969 46 02/14 Bombing of Dresden, 1945 47 02/15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970 48 02/16 Nylon patented, 1937 49 02/16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804 50 02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930 51 02/19 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945 52 02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962 53 02/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties 54 02/21 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878 55 02/21 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965 56 02/23 Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 1971 57 02/24 Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868 58 02/27 The Lionheart crowned, 1189 59 02/28 The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972 60 02/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704 61 03/01 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft 62 in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 63 03/02 Blackthorn winds (New England) (Does anyone know what this is?) 64 03/04 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C. 65 03/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1939 66 03/13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894 67 03/14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907 68 03/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH 69 03/15 France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874 70 03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966 71 03/16 First liquid-fuel-powered rocket flight, 1926 72 03/16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen 73 03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926 74 03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped 75 03/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965 76 03/19 Swallows return to Capistrano 77 03/20 Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980 78 03/24 Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900 79 03/25 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911 80 03/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937 81 03/27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958 82 03/28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979 83 03/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638 84 03/30 Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867 85 03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977 86 03/30 Pencil with eraser patented, 1858 87 04/01 People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day. 88 04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968 89 04/04 NATO Established, 1949 90 04/06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830 91 04/07 Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1943 92 04/07 Alewives run, Cape Cod 93 04/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865 94 04/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861 95 04/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981 96 04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961 97 04/13 Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos 98 04/14 Lincoln shot, 1865 99 04/14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912 100 04/15 Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955 101 04/16 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865 102 04/17 Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961 103 04/18 Einstein's Death, 1955 104 04/18 First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934 105 04/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906 106 04/19 Landing of the "33" in Uruguay 107 04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943 108 04/20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971 109 04/21 Lyrid meteor shower 110 04/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954 111 04/26 William Shakespeare baptised in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564, 112 birthdate unknown 113 04/27 Magellan killed in Phillippines, 1521 114 04/29 Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913 115 05/01 Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god 116 05/03 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971 117 05/04 Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970 118 05/05 John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925 119 05/07 Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945 120 05/08 Beginning of ostrich mating season 121 05/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972 122 05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979 123 05/10 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940 124 05/10 Nazi bookburning, 1933 125 05/14 Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804 126 05/14 Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948 127 05/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854 128 05/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982 129 05/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974 130 05/18 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay 131 05/18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804 132 05/21 Battle of Iquique in Chile 133 05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956 134 05/22 US Civil War ends, 1865 135 05/23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960 136 05/23 Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953 137 05/24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador 138 05/25 Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980 139 05/25 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830 140 05/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924 141 05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937 142 05/29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953 143 05/29 First food stamps issued, 1961 144 05/30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912 145 06/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924 146 06/04 Roquefort cheese developed, 1070 147 06/05 Robert Kennedy assasinated, 1968 148 06/05 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933 149 06/06 First drive-in movie, 1933 150 06/06 Normandy landing, 1944 151 06/10 Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C. 152 06/10 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971 153 06/11 Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC 154 06/13 Pioneer 10 flies past Neptune's orbit, the first human artifact 155 to travel beyond the orbits of all known planets, 1983 156 06/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834 157 06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752 158 06/15 Magna Carta signed, 1215 159 06/15 Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford 160 that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop, 161 1878 162 06/16 "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980 163 06/17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967 164 06/17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972 165 06/19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953 166 06/19 Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893 167 06/20 Victoria crowned, 1837 168 06/21 Berlin airlift begins, 1948 169 06/21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge 170 06/22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964 171 06/23 Slavery abolished in England, 1772 172 06/24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970 173 06/25 Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 1876 174 06/25 North Korea invades South Korea, 1950 175 06/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 176 06/26 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959 177 06/26 Toothbrush invented, 1498 178 06/27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915 179 06/27 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971 180 06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978 181 06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia, 1908 182 06/30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960 183 07/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863 184 07/03 Dog days begin 185 07/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863 186 07/04 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776 187 07/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776 188 07/04 Thoreau enters woods, 1845 189 07/06 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928 190 07/06 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917 191 07/07 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949 192 07/08 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776 193 07/08 Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835 194 07/09 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847 195 07/10 134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913 196 07/12 Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933 197 07/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908 198 07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945 199 07/17 Disneyland opens, 1955 200 07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927 201 07/19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692 202 07/20 Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969 203 07/21 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873 204 07/21 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954 205 07/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904 206 07/24 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 207 07/30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956 208 07/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948, 209 later JFK 210 08/01 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on 211 this day 212 08/03 Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492 213 08/03 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958 214 08/04 Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892 215 08/04 Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964 216 08/04 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914 217 08/06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945 218 08/06 Caricom in Barbados 219 08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890 220 08/08 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945 221 08/08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914 222 08/08 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974 223 08/08 The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963 224 08/09 Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969 225 08/09 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC 226 08/09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842 227 08/10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833 228 08/10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977 229 08/11 Dog days end 230 08/11 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954 231 08/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days) 232 08/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977 233 08/12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972 234 08/13 Berlin wall erected, 1961 235 08/13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934 236 08/14 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935 237 08/15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947 238 08/15 Hurricane hits Plimoth Plantation, 1635 239 08/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898 240 08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891 241 08/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed 242 08/19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite, 243 marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960 244 08/19 Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856 245 08/22 Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets 246 08/22 Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963 247 08/22 St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565 248 08/23 Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927 249 08/24 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969 250 08/24 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960 251 08/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814 252 08/25 Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944 253 08/26 Women get the vote, 1920 254 08/27 "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912 255 08/27 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883 256 08/28 King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963 257 08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; 258 Nova Cygni 1975. 259 08/30 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842 260 08/30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960 261 08/30 St. Rose of Lima in Peru 262 08/30 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963 263 08/31 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983 264 08/31 Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888 265 08/31 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926 266 09/01 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972 267 09/01 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859 268 09/02 Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752 269 09/02 Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945 270 09/03 Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino 271 09/05 Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961 272 09/05 The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774 273 09/06 149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620 274 09/06 First Star Trek episode (The Man Trap) aired 1966 275 09/06 Pres. McKinley shot, 1901 276 09/06 Somhlolo in Swaziland 277 09/08 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966) 278 09/08 Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888 279 09/08 President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974 280 09/09 California becomes the 31st state, 1850 281 09/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776 282 09/10 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857 283 09/11 Twin Towers fall in terrorist attacks, 2001 284 09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943 285 09/12 Germany annexes Sudentenland, 1938 286 09/13 136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya, 1922 287 09/13 British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City, 1788 288 09/13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122 289 09/13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943 290 09/14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778 291 09/14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629 292 09/14 The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940 293 09/15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959 294 09/15 The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department, 1789 295 09/16 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630 296 09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862 297 09/18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi 298 09/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884 299 09/20 First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 300 Science, 1848 301 09/20 First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916 302 09/20 Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519 303 09/20 The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973 304 09/22 Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953 305 09/22 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862 306 09/22 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenaes President Nixon, 1974 307 09/22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949 308 09/23 Phillippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972 309 09/23 The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club, 1845 310 09/23 V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech, 1952 311 09/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981 312 09/27 The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825 313 09/28 "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678 314 09/28 A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon, 315 490BC 316 09/30 Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (#3) and Catherine Eddowes (#4), 317 1888 318 09/30 The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846 319 09/30 The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946 320 10/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958 321 10/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967 322 10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853 323 10/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957 324 10/04 Sputnik 1, world's first orbiting satellite launched, 1957 325 10/06 Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853 326 10/06 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981 327 10/06 Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973 328 10/07 Foundation of the GDR in 1949 in German Democratic Republic 329 10/07 Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916 330 10/07 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977 331 10/07 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979 332 10/07 Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974 333 10/08 Great Chicago Fire, 1871 334 10/09 First two-way telephone conversation, 1876 335 10/10 Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba 336 10/10 Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea 337 10/10 Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. (1984) 338 10/10 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973 339 10/11 "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975 340 10/11 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976 341 10/11 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811 342 10/11 The second Vatican Ecumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962 343 10/11 First broadcast of Saturday Night Live, 1975 344 10/12 Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492 345 10/12 Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960 346 10/12 Man O'War's last race, 1920 347 10/12 Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492 348 10/13 Italy declares war on Germany, 1943 349 10/13 U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress 350 10/14 Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066 351 10/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947 352 10/15 First draft card burned, 1965 353 10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648 354 10/18 Soviets anounce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959 355 10/19 Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949 356 10/19 Napoleon's beaten army begins the long retreat from Moscow, 1812 357 10/20 "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973 358 10/20 OPEC embargo, 1973 359 10/21 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879 360 10/21 Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959 361 10/23 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944 362 10/23 Earth created at 6:30 AM, 4004BC. 363 10/23 Swallows leave Capistrano 364 10/25 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971 365 10/26 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978 366 10/27 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871 367 10/27 The first New York Subway is opened, 1904 368 10/28 Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492 369 10/28 Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312 370 10/28 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636 371 10/28 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886 372 10/29 Stock Market Crash, 1929 373 10/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938 374 10/31 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517 375 11/01 Austria-Hungary become two separate nations, 1918 376 11/01 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950 377 11/02 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940 378 11/02 Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, 1783 379 11/03 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837 380 11/03 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954 381 11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing spacedog Laika 382 11/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979 383 11/04 Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956 384 11/05 Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605 385 11/06 Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R. 386 11/07 Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837 387 11/07 Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805 388 11/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965 389 11/09 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927 390 11/09 Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888 391 11/09 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921 392 11/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933 393 11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstartions near White House, 1917 394 11/10 Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865 395 11/10 Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?", 1871 396 11/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889 397 11/12 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan 398 11/12 U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861 399 11/14 Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon 400 price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after formal request 401 from McDonald's), 1971 402 11/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896 403 11/16 Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869 404 11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966 405 11/17 Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973 406 11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952 407 11/18 Local standard time zones established for US, 1883 408 11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863 409 11/21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973 410 11/22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963 411 11/23 First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963 412 11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963 413 11/25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867 414 11/27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895 415 11/27 Friction match invented, England, 1826 416 11/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts 417 11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922 418 12/01 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924 419 12/01 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955 420 12/01 Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1953 421 12/03 First neon light display, Paris, 1910 422 12/03 First successful human heart transplant led by Dr. Barnard, 1967 423 12/03 The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971 424 12/04 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783 425 12/05 End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part) 426 12/05 Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776 427 12/05 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition, 1933 428 12/07 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941 429 12/09 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884 430 12/10 Metric system established in France, 1799 431 12/10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year 432 12/12 First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901 433 12/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972 434 12/13 Dartmouth College chartered, 1769 435 12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south) 436 12/15 Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976 437 12/15 Bill of Rights adopted, 1791 438 12/15 James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891 439 12/15 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890 440 12/20 U.S. buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi. 441 12/21 Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in less than 80 days 442 12/24 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865 443 12/26 DPMA founded, 1951 444 12/27 APT report published, 1956 445 12/27 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845 446 12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973 447 12/29 Battle of Wounded knee, 1890 448 12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940 449 12/31 St. Sylvester in Switzerland 450 12/31 Winterland closes its doors, 1978 451
Indexes created Tue Oct 28 12:10:06 GMT 2025