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1.1 root 1: 01
2: 01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984
3: 01/01 Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba
4: 01/01 Castro expells Cuban President Batista, 1959
5: 01/01 Churchill delivers his the "Iron Curtain" speech, 1947
6: 01/01 Independence Day in Haiti, Sudan
7: 01/01 New Year's Day
8: 01/01 Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735
9: 01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT), 1970
10: 01/01 Universal Fraternity Day in Mozambique
11: 01/01 J.D. Salinger born, 1919
12: 01/01 Forst Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902
13: 01/02 Ancestry Day in Haiti
14: 01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR), 1920
15: 01/02 St. Berchtold's Day in Switzerland
16: 01/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977
17: 01/03 New Year's Holiday in Scotland
18: 01/03 Revolution Day in Upper Volta
19: 01/04 George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864
20: 01/04 Independence Day in Burma
21: 01/04 Jakob Grimm born, 1785
22: 01/04 Martyrs Day in Zaire
23: 01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
24: 01/04 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars
25: 01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
26: 01/05 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer
27: 01/05 Twelfth night
28: 01/06 Children's Day in Uruguay
29: 01/06 Epiphany
30: 01/06 Millard Fillmore's brithday
31: 01/06 Three Kings' Day in Puerto Rico
32: 01/07 Christmas in Ethiopia
33: 01/07 Pioneer's Day in Liberia
34: 01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982
35: 01/08 Battle of New Orleans
36: 01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889
37: 01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982
38: 01/09 Day of the Martyrs in Panama
39: 01/09 Plough Monday
40: 01/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738
41: 01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960
42: 01/10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946
43: 01/10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776
44: 01/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757?
45: 01/11 Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania
46: 01/11 Armed Forces Day in Liberia
47: 01/11 De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico
48: 01/11 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal
49: 01/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
50: 01/11 Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 1878
51: 01/12 Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania
52: 01/13 National Liberation Day in Togo
53: 01/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884
54: 01/13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws
55: 01/13 Horatio Alger born, 1834
56: 01/14 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875
57: 01/14 Julian Calendar New Year's Day
58: 01/15 Adults Day in Japan
59: 01/15 Arbor Day in Jordan
60: 01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born
61: 01/16 Martyrs Day in Benin
62: 01/16 Prohibition begins, 1920
63: 01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, 1979
64: 01/17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706
65: 01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM suit, 1969
66: 01/18 Grey whale migration, CA
67: 01/18 Revolution Day in Tunisia
68: 01/19 Confederate Heroes Day in Texas
69: 01/19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809
70: 01/19 Ethopian Epiphany in Ethiopia
71: 01/19 Nameday of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus
72: 01/19 Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807
73: 01/19 Janis Joplin born, 1943
74: 01/20 Army Day in Mali
75: 01/20 National Heroes Day in Guinea-Bissau
76: 01/20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)
77: 01/20 Geo. Burns born, 1898
78: 01/20* Martin Luther King Day in New York (3rd Sunday)
79: 01/20* Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia (3rd Monday)
80: 01/20* Robert E. Lee's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi (3rd Monday)
81: 01/21 Lenin died, 1924
82: 01/21 Our Lady of Altagracia in Dominican Republic
83: 01/21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824
84: 01/22 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561
85: 01/23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory
86: 01/23 Feast of St. Ildefonsus
87: 01/23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899
88: 01/23 John Hancock born, 1737
89: 01/23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730
90: 01/23 National Handwriting Day
91: 01/23 Saml. Barber died, 1981
92: 01/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969
93: 01/24 Economic Liberation Day in Togo
94: 01/24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848
95: 01/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922
96: 01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958
97: 01/25 Robert Burns born, 1759
98: 01/25 Virginia Woolf born, 1882
99: 01/25 W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874
100: 01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952
101: 01/26 Republic Day in India
102: 01/26 Sydney Aust. settled, 1778
103: 01/27 Samuel Gompers born, 1850
104: 01/27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973
105: 01/27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in Salzburg, 1756
106: 01/27 Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967
107: 01/28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914
108: 01/28 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe, 1986
109: 01/30 Australia Day in Australia
110: 01/30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882
111: 01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948
112: 01/30 Tet Offensive, 1968
113: 01/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered
114: 01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
115: 01/31 Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp
116: 01/31 Jackie Robinson born, 1919
117: 01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961
118:
119: 02
120: 02/01 Chinese New Year Holiday (3 days) in Taiwan
121: 02/01 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954
122: 02/01 Forces lead by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979
123: 02/02 Candlemas
124: 02/03 Gertrude Stein born, 1874
125: 02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969
126: 02/04 Independence Commemoration Day in Sri Lanka
127: 02/04 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974
128: 02/05 Constitution Day in Mexico
129: 02/06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952
130: 02/06 New Zealand Day
131: 02/07 Independence Day in Grenada
132: 02/07 Sincalair Lewis born, 1885
133: 02/07 Beatles land at JFK airport to begin first U.S. tour, 1964
134: 02/08 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq
135: 02/08 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography
136: 02/08 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828
137: 02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
138: 02/09 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc.
139: 02/09 St. Maron's Day in Lebanon
140: 02/10 Charles Lamb born, 1775
141: 02/10 Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck, AD 60
142: 02/10 William Allen White born, 1868
143: 02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966
144: 02/11 National Foundation Day in Japan
145: 02/11 Thos. Edison born, 1847
146: 02/11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1489, photographic pioneer
147: 02/11* Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras (day before Ash Wednesday)
148: 02/12* Ash Wednesday - first day of Lent
149: 02/12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809
150: 02/12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809
151: 02/12 Lincoln's real birthday
152: 02/12 Pyidaungsa Day in Burma
153: 02/12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969
154: 02/14 Bombing of Dresden, 1945
155: 02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978
156: 02/14 St. Valentine's day
157: 02/15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970
158: 02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946
159: 02/15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564
160: 02/15 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820
161: 02/16 Makha Bucha Day in Thailand
162: 02/16 Nylon patented, 1937
163: 02/16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry
164: 02/16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804
165: 02/17 Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone
166: 02/17 Marion Anderson born, 1902
167: 02/17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874
168: 02/17* "President's Day"
169: 02/18 Democracy Day in Nepal
170: 02/18 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer
171: 02/18 Independence Day in The Gambia
172: 02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930
173: 02/19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473
174: 02/19 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945
175: 02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer
176: 02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962
177: 02/21 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass
178: 02/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties
179: 02/21 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965
180: 02/21 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878
181: 02/22 George Washington born, 1732
182: 02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun
183: 02/23 Handel born, 1685
184: 02/23 Lt Calley confesses, implicates Cpt Medina, 1971
185: 02/23 Republic Day in Guyana
186: 02/23 W.E.B.DuBois born, 1868
187: 02/24 Gregorian Calendar Day
188: 02/24 Winslow Homer born, 1836
189: 02/24 Impeachment proceedings against Andrew johnson begin, 1868
190: 02/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943
191: 02/25 National Day in Kuwait
192: 02/25 Renoir born, 1841
193: 02/26 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786, observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21
194: 02/27 Independence Day in Dominican Republic
195: 02/27 The Lionheart crowned, 1189
196: 02/28 Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533
197: 02/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704
198: 02/29 Herman Hollerith born, 1860
199: 02/29 Jimmy Dorsey born, 1904
200:
201: 03
202: 03/01 David Niven born, 1910
203: 03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964
204: 03/01 Samil Independence Movement Day in South Korea
205: 03/01 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
206: 03/01 St. David's Day, Cardiff
207: 03/02 Blackthorn winds (New England) <<What is it?>>
208: 03/02 Peasants Day in Burma
209: 03/02 Texas Independence day
210: 03/02 Victory of Adowa in Ethiopia
211: 03/02 Dr. Seuss born, 1904
212: 03/03 Throne Day in Morocco
213: 03/03 Girl's Day in Japan
214: 03/04 Antonio Vivaldi born in Venice, Italy, 1678
215: 03/04 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747
216: 03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos
217: 03/04 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.
218: 03/04 Vermont Admission Day (admitted as 14th state in 1791)
219: 03/05 Independence Day in Equatorial Guinea
220: 03/06 Independence Day in Ghana
221: 03/06 Lantern Day, Bejing
222: 03/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1939
223: 03/07 Aristotle died, 322BC
224: 03/07 Last Gilbert & Sullivan opera produced, 1896
225: 03/07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer
226: 03/08 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer
227: 03/08 First annual International Women's Day, 1909
228: 03/08 Howard Aiken born, 1900
229: 03/08 International Women's Day in U.S.S.R.
230: 03/08 Syrian National Day in Libyan Arab Republic
231: 03/08 Women's Day in Guinea-Bissau, Taiwan, Yemen Democratic Republic
232: 03/08 Youth Day in Zambia
233: 03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" published in CACM, 1968
234: 03/09 Decoration Day in Liberia
235: 03/09 Falgun Purnima Day in Nepal
236: 03/10 Labor Day in South Korea
237: 03/11 Johnny Appleseed Day; anniversary of the death of John Chapman
238: 03/11 Robert Treat Paine born, 1737
239: 03/11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890
240: 03/12 Commonwealth Day in Swaziland
241: 03/12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist
242: 03/12 Independence Day in Mauritius
243: 03/12 Moshoeshoe's Birthday in Lesotho
244: 03/12 Renovation Day in Gabon
245: 03/13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894
246: 03/13 National Day in Grenada
247: 03/14 Albert Einstein born, 1879
248: 03/14 Casey Jones born, 1864
249: 03/14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer; named Mars "canals"
250: 03/14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist
251: 03/14 LISP introduced, 1960
252: 03/14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907
253: 03/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH
254: 03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
255: 03/15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44BC
256: 03/15 Sly Stone born, 1944
257: 03/15 France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874
258: 03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966
259: 03/16 Black Press Day; first Black newspaper founded in 1827
260: 03/16 George Clymer born, 1739
261: 03/16 James Madison born, 1751
262: 03/16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen
263: 03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA,, 1926
264: 03/17 Evacuation Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
265: 03/17 St. Patrick's Day
266: 03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped
267: 03/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965
268: 03/19 St. Joseph's Day in Colombia, Costa Rica, Holy See, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Spain, Venezuela
269: 03/19 Tree Planting Day in Lestho
270: 03/19 Swallows return to Capistrano
271: 03/20 Independence Day in Tunsia
272: 03/20 Youth Day in Oklahoma
273: 03/20* Vernal Equinox, 0525 EST
274: 03/21 Afghan New Year in Afghanistan
275: 03/21 J. S. Bach born, 1685
276: 03/21 Juarez' Birthday in Mexico
277: 03/22 Abolition Day in Puerto Rico
278: 03/23 Pakistan Day in Pakistan
279: 03/23* Palm Sunday (7 days before Easter)
280: 03/24 Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900
281: 03/24 Harry Houdini born, 1874
282: 03/25 Greek Independence Day in Cyprus
283: 03/25 Lady Day (a.k.a. the Feast of the Annunciation)
284: 03/25 Maryland Day in Maryland
285: 03/25 National Holiday in Greece
286: 03/25 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911
287: 03/25* Purim - Feast of Lots
288: 03/26 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist
289: 03/26 Independence Day in Bangladesh
290: 03/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937
291: 03/26 Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day in Hawaii
292: 03/27 Armed Forces Day in Burma
293: 03/27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958
294: 03/27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays
295: 03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970
296: 03/28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
297: 03/28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979
298: 03/29 Death of President Barthelemy Boganda in Central African Republic
299: 03/29 Memorial Day in Madagascar
300: 03/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638
301: 03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977
302: 03/30 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746
303: 03/30 Pencil with eraser patented, 1858
304: 03/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880
305: 03/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853
306: 03/30 Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867
307: 03/27* Maundy Thursday (3 days before Easter)
308: 03/28* Good Friday (2 days before Easter)
309: 03/30* Easter
310: 03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946
311: 03/31 National Day in Malta
312: 03/31 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher
313: 03/31* Seward's Day in Alaska (last Monday)
314:
315: 04
316: 04/01 April Fool's Day
317: 04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.)
318: 04/01 Youth Day in Benin
319: 04/02 Malvinas Day in Argentina
320: 04/02 Pascua Florida Day in Florida
321: 04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953
322: 04/03 Washington Irving born, 1783
323: 04/04 Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong
324: 04/04 Liberation Day in Hungary
325: 04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
326: 04/04 Muddy Waters born, 1915
327: 04/04 NATO Established, 1949
328: 04/04 National Day in Senegal
329: 04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores)
330: 04/05 Arbor Day in South Korea
331: 04/05 Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher
332: 04/05 Tomb Sweeping Day in Taiwan
333: 04/06 Chakri Memorial Day in Thailand
334: 04/06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830
335: 04/06 Victory Day in Ethiopia
336: 04/07 Alewives run, Cape Cod
337: 04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964
338: 04/08 David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician
339: 04/08 Fast and Prayer Day in Liberia
340: 04/08 Buddha born, 563 BC
341: 04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943
342: 04/09 Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer
343: 04/09 J. Presper Eckert born, 1919
344: 04/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865
345: 04/09 Martyrs Day in Tunisia
346: 04/09 Paul Robeson born, 1898
347: 04/10 Commodore Matthew calbraith Perry born, 1854
348: 04/10 William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army
349: 04/11 National Heroes Day in Costa Rica
350: 04/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981
351: 04/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861
352: 04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961
353: 04/13 Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos
354: 04/13 National Day in Chad
355: 04/13 Songkron Day in Thailand
356: 04/13 Thomas Jefferson born, 1743
357: 04/14 Christian Huygen born, 1629, physicist & astronomer; discovered Saturn's rings
358: 04/14 Day of the Americas in Honduras
359: 04/14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912
360: 04/15 Bengali New Year in Bangladesh
361: 04/15 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452
362: 04/15 Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955
363: 04/16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889
364: 04/16 De Diego's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
365: 04/16 Holy Week (5 days) in Venezuela
366: 04/16 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865
367: 04/16 Tourist Week (5 days) in Uruguay
368: 04/17 Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961
369: 04/17 Burmese New Year in Burma
370: 04/17 Bay of Pigs, 1961
371: 04/18 Einstein's Death, 1955
372: 04/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906
373: 04/18 First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934
374: 04/19 Declaration of Independence in Venezuela
375: 04/19 Landing of the "33" in Uruguay
376: 04/19 Republic Day in Sierra Leone
377: 04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943
378: 04/20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971
379: 04/21 San Jacinto Day in Texas
380: 04/21 Tiradentes in Brazil
381: 04/21 Lyrid meteor shower
382: 04/21* Patriot's Day in Maine & Massachusetts (3rd Monday)
383: 04/22 Arbor Day in Nebraska & Delaware
384: 04/22 Kant born, 1724
385: 04/22 Oklahoma Day in Oklahoma
386: 04/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
387: 04/24 Victory Day in Togo
388: 04/24* Pesach - First Day of Passover - Festival of Freedom
389: 04/25 Anniversary of the Revolution in Portugal
390: 04/25 Anzac Day in Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Western Samoa
391: 04/25 Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918
392: 04/25 Liberation Day in Italy
393: 04/25 National Flag Day in Swaziland
394: 04/26 Carol Burnett born in San Antonio, Texas, 1933
395: 04/26 Confederate Memorial Day in Florida & Georgia
396: 04/26 Union Day in Tanzania
397: 04/26 William Shakespeare baptised in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564
398: 04/27 Independence Day in Togo
399: 04/27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist
400: 04/27* Daylight Saving time begins
401: 04/27 Magellan killed in Phillippines, 1521
402: 04/28 James Monroe born, 1758
403: 04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced
404: 04/28* Arbor Day in Wyoming (last Monday)
405: 04/28* Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama & Mississippi (last Monday)
406: 04/29 Emperor's Birthday in Japan
407: 04/29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology
408: 04/29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863
409: 04/29 Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913
410: 04/30 Karl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer
411: 04/30 Queen's Birthday in Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles
412: 04/30 The Workers Day in Uruguay
413:
414: 05
415: 05/01 Boy's day in Japan
416: 05/01 Last day of Passover
417: 05/01 Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god
418: 05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964
419: 05/01 Kate Smith born, 1909
420: 05/01 Labor Day in many places
421: 05/01 Law Day (decl. by Eisenhower)
422: 05/01 May Day in many places
423: 05/02 Constitution Day in Japan
424: 05/02 Dr. Benj. Spock born, 1903
425: 05/02 King's Birthday in Lesotho
426: 05/03 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971
427: 05/04 4 Kent students demonstrating against Cambodia incursion are shot, 1970
428: 05/04 Rhode Island Independence Day
429: 05/05 Battle of Puebla in Mexico
430: 05/05 Children's Day in Japan, South Korea
431: 05/05 Coronatin Day in Thailand
432: 05/05 Liberation Day in Netherlands
433: 05/05 John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925
434: 05/06 Bataan Day in Philippines
435: 05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949
436: 05/07 Brahms born, 1833
437: 05/07 Germany Surrenders after WWII, 1945
438: 05/07 Johannes Brahms born in Hamburg, 1833
439: 05/07 May Day in United Kingdom
440: 05/07 Tchaikowsky born, 1840
441: 05/08 Beginning of ostrich mating season
442: 05/08 Buddha's Birthday in South Korea
443: 05/08 Elections for the National Assembly in Philippines
444: 05/08 Truman Day in Missouri
445: 05/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972
446: 05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979
447: 05/09 Liberation Day in Czechoslovakia
448: 05/09 Pinza died, 1957
449: 05/09 Victory Day in Poland, U.S.S.R.
450: 05/10 Confederate Memorial Day in South Carolina
451: 05/10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899
452: 05/10 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940
453: 05/10 Mothers Day in Guatamala
454: 05/10 Nazi bookburning, 1933
455: 05/11 Minnesota Day in Minnesota
456: 05/11 Johnny Appleseed born, 1768
457: 05/11* Mother's Day (2nd Sunday)
458: 05/12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820
459: 05/13 Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842
460: 05/14 Anniversary of the Founding of Guinean Deomcratic Party in Guinea
461: 05/14 Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
462: 05/14 Buddhist Holiday (Waisak 2528) in Indonesia
463: 05/14 Independence Day (2 days) in Paraguay
464: 05/14 Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948
465: 05/14 Unification Day in Liberia
466: 05/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854
467: 05/15 Kamuzu Day in Malawi
468: 05/15 Vesak Day in Singapore, Malaysia
469: 05/15 Visakha Bucha Day in Thailand
470: 05/16 Armed Forces Day
471: 05/16 Discovery Day in Cayman Islands
472: 05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
473: 05/15*? Ascension Day (10 days before Pentecost)
474: 05/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
475: 05/17 Constitution Day in Nauru, Norway
476: 05/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
477: 05/18 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
478: 05/18 Flag Day in Haiti
479: 05/18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
480: 05/18 Prayer Day in Denmark
481: 05/19 Armed Forces Day
482: 05/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890
483: 05/19 Youth and Sports Day in Turkey
484: 05/20 Mecklenburg Independence Day in North Carolina
485: 05/20 National Day in Cameroon
486: 05/20 Victoria Day in Canada
487: 05/19* Memorial Day in Michigan (3rd Monday)
488: 05/21 Battle of Iquique in Chile
489: 05/21 DEC announces PDP-8
490: 05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956
491: 05/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427BC
492: 05/22 Johann Sebastian Bach born in Eisenach, Germany, 1665
493: 05/22 Ethernet first described, 1973
494: 05/22 National Heroes Day in Sri Lanka
495: 05/22 US Civil War ends, 1865
496: 05/23 Commonwealth Day in Jamaica, Belize
497: 05/23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960
498: 05/23 National Labor Day in Jamaica
499: 05/23 Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953
500: 05/24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador
501: 05/24 Bermuda Day in Bermuda
502: 05/24 Day of Slav Letters in Bulgaria
503: 05/24 Bob Dylan born, 1941
504: 05/25 African Freedom Day in Zimbabwe
505: 05/25 African Liberation Day in Chad, Mauritania, Zambia
506: 05/25 Anniversary of the Revolution of 1810 in Argentina
507: 05/25 Independence Day in Jordan
508: 05/25 Memorial Day in New Mexico & Puerto Rico
509: 05/25 Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980
510: 05/25 Revolution in the Sudan in Libyan Arab Republic
511: 05/25 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830
512: 05/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
513: 05/26 Al Jolson born, 1886
514: 05/25*? Pentecost - Whitsunday
515: 05/27 Afghanistan attains sovereignty, 1921
516: 05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958
517: 05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937
518: 05/27 Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911
519: 05/27 Rogation Sunday
520: 05/26* Memorial Day in various places (last Monday)
521: 05/26*? Whitmonday
522: 05/28 Dionne quintuplets born, 1934
523: 05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959
524: 05/28 Mothers Day in Central African Republic
525: 05/29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953
526: 05/29 Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874
527: 05/29 John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917
528: 05/29 Patrick Henry born, 1736
529: 05/29 Forst food stamps issued, 1961
530: 05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944
531: 05/30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908
532: 05/30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912
533: 05/31 Memorial Day
534: 05/31 Pya Martyrs Day in Togo
535: 05/31 Republic Day in South Africa
536:
537: 06
538: 06/01 Brigham Young born, 1801
539: 06/01 Independence Days (3 days) in Western Samoa
540: 06/01 Madaraka Day in Kenya
541: 06/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928
542: 06/01 Victory Day in Tunisia
543: 06/02 Corpus Christi in Paraguay
544: 06/02 Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England, 1857
545: 06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967
546: 06/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924
547: 06/01*? Trinity Sunday (7 days after Pentecost)
548: 06/03 Confederate Memorial Day in Kentucky & Louisiana
549: 06/03 Henry James born, 1811
550: 06/03 Jefferson Davis's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi (1st Monday)
551: 06/03 Labor Day in Bahamas
552: 06/04 Dragon Boat Festival in Hong Kong, Taiwan
553: 06/04 Emancipation Day in Tonga
554: 06/04 Queen's Birthday in New Zealand
555: 06/04 Roquefort cheese developed, 1070
556: 06/05 Constitution Day in Denmark
557: 06/05 Liberation Day in Seychelles
558: 06/05 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933
559: 06/05 Robert Kennedy Assasinated, 1968
560: 06/06 His Majesty, Yang Di-Pertuan Agong's Birthday in Malaysia
561: 06/06 Memorial Day in South Korea
562: 06/06 Normandy landing, 1944
563: 06/05*? Corpus Christi (11 days after Pentecost)
564: 06/06 First drive-in movie, 1933
565: 06/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848
566: 06/07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778
567: 06/08 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1869
568: 06/09 Senior Citizen's Day in Oklahoma
569: 06/10 Camoes Day in Portugal
570: 06/10 Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C.
571: 06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977
572: 06/10 Judy Garlnad born, 1922
573: 06/11 Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC
574: 06/11 King Kamehameha I Day in Hawaii
575: 06/11 Queen's Birthday
576: 06/12 Independence Day in Philippines
577: 06/12 Peace with Bolivia in Paraguay
578: 06/13 Corrective Movement in Yemen Arab Republic
579: 06/13 Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System
580: 06/13* Shevuos - Feast of Weeks
581: 06/14 Flag Day
582: 06/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834
583: 06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752
584: 06/15 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843
585: 06/15 Magna Carta signed, 1215
586: 06/15 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
587: 06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
588: 06/16 Bloomsday - Anniversary of Dublin events, 1904, in "Ulysses"
589: 06/16 First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal)
590: 06/16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 bc
591: 06/15* Father's Day
592: 06/17 Bunker Hill Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
593: 06/17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967
594: 06/17 Independence Day in Iceland
595: 06/17 National Day in Federal Republic of Germany
596: 06/17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972
597: 06/18 Evacuation Day in Egypt
598: 06/18 M C Escher born, 1898
599: 06/18 Paul McCartney born in Liverpool, England, 1942
600: 06/18 Queen's Birthday in Fiji
601: 06/19 Artigas Birthday in Uruguay
602: 06/19 Emancipation Day in Texas
603: 06/19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953
604: 06/19 Labor Day in Trinidad, Tobago
605: 06/19 Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893
606: 06/19 Revolution Day in Algeria
607: 06/20 Flag Day in Argentina
608: 06/20 Victoria crowned, 1837
609: 06/20 West Virginia Day in West Virginia
610: 06/21 Berlin airlift begins, 1948
611: 06/21 Summer solstice, 12:02 am, EST
612: 06/21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge
613: 06/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903
614: 06/22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964
615: 06/22 Corrective Movement in Yermen Democratic Republic
616: 06/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949
617: 06/22 Midsummer Eve in Finland, Sweden
618: 06/22 National Sovereignty Day in Haiti
619: 06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969
620: 06/23 National Holiday in Luxembourg
621: 06/23 Slavery abolished in England, 1772
622: 06/23 Turing's Birthday, 1912
623: 06/24 Battle of Carabobob in Venezuela
624: 06/24 Fisherman's Day in Madagascar, Mozambique, Somalia
625: 06/24 Kings Day in Spain
626: 06/24 Peasants Day in Peru
627: 06/24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970
628: 06/24 St. Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec
629: 06/25 Custer's Last Stand, 1876
630: 06/25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903
631: 06/25 Little Big Horn, 1876
632: 06/25 N. Korea invades S. Korea, 1950
633: 06/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
634: 06/26 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959
635: 06/26 Toothbrush invented, 1498
636: 06/27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915
637: 06/27 Helen Keller born, 1880
638: 06/28 Mothers Day in Central African Republic
639: 06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978
640: 06/29 Independence Day in Seychelles
641: 06/29 Last Day of Ramadan* in Algeria, Oman
642: 06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia, 1908
643: 06/30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960
644: 06/30 Day of the Army in Guatemala
645: 06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC
646:
647: 07
648: 07/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863
649: 07/01 Dominion Day in Canada
650: 07/01 Eid-Ul-Fitr* (2 days) in Pakistan
651: 07/01 Freedom Day in Suriname
652: 07/01 Independence Day in Burundi
653: 07/01 National Day in Rwamda
654: 07/01 Republic Day in Ghana
655: 07/01 Union of the Somalia Republic in Somalia
656: 07/02 National Day in Kiribati
657: 07/03 Dog days begin
658: 07/03 Franz Kafka born, 1883
659: 07/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863
660: 07/04 Caribbean Day in Guyana
661: 07/04 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776
662: 07/04 Constitution Day in Cayman Islands
663: 07/04 Family Day in Lesotho
664: 07/04 Heroes Day in Zambia
665: 07/04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826
666: 07/04 Kadooment Day in Barbados
667: 07/04 Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804
668: 07/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776
669: 07/04 Philippine-American Friendship Day in the Philippines
670: 07/04 Warriors Day (2 days) in Yugoslavia
671: 07/04 Thoreau enters woods, 1845
672: 07/05 Day of Peace and Unity in Rwanda
673: 07/05 Independence Day in Algeria, Venezuela
674: 07/06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866
675: 07/06 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928
676: 07/06 John Paul Jones born, 1747
677: 07/06 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917
678: 07/07 Anniversary of the P.U.N. in Equatorial Guinea
679: 07/07 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949
680: 07/07 National Day in Malawi
681: 07/07 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) born in Liverpool, England, 1940
682: 07/07 Saba Saba Day in Tanzania
683: 07/07 P.T. Barnum dies, 1891
684: 07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877
685: 07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957
686: 07/08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838
687: 07/08 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
688: 07/08 Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835
689: 07/09 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847
690: 07/09 Independence Day in Argentina
691: 07/10 Independence Day in Bahamas
692: 07/10 John Calvin born, 1509
693: 07/10 134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913
694: 07/11 John Quincy Adams born, 1767
695: 07/11 National Holiday in the Mongolian People's Republic
696: 07/12 Battle of Boyne celebrated in Northern Ireland
697: 07/12 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817
698: 07/12 The Twelfth in Northern Ireland
699: 07/12 Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933
700: 07/13 Buddhist Lent in Thailand
701: 07/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908
702: 07/14 Anniversary of the Revolution in Iraq
703: 07/14 Bastille Day
704: 07/14 National Holiday in Monaco
705: 07/14 Woodie Guthrie born, 1912
706: 07/15 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas"
707: 07/15 St. Swithin's Day
708: 07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945
709: 07/16 Presidents Day in Botswanna
710: 07/17 Constitution Day in South Korea
711: 07/17 Disneyland opens, 1955
712: 07/17 July Revolution in Iraq
713: 07/17 Munoz Rivera's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
714: 07/17 Public Holiday in Botswanna
715: 07/18 Constitution Day in Uruguay
716: 07/18 Liberation Day in Nicaragua
717: 07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
718: 07/18 Disneyland opens, 1955
719: 07/19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692
720: 07/19 Martyrs Day in Burma
721: 07/20 Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969
722: 07/20 Independence Day in Colombia
723: 07/21 National Holiday in Belgium
724: 07/21 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954
725: 07/21 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873
726: 07/22 King's Birthday in Swaziland
727: 07/22 National Day in Poland
728: 07/23 Anniversary of the Revolution Egypt
729: 07/23 Eqyptian National Day in Syrian Arab Republic
730: 07/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904
731: 07/23 Remembrance Day in Papua, New Guinea
732: 07/24 Pioneer Day in Utah
733: 07/24 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
734: 07/24 Simon Bolivar's Day in Ecuador, Venezuela
735: 07/25 Constitution Day in Puerto Rico
736: 07/25 National Rebellion Day (3 days) in Cuba
737: 07/25 Republic Day in Tunisia
738: 07/25 St. James, Patron Saint in Spain
739: 07/26 Independence Day in Liberia
740: 07/26 National Day in Maldives
741: 07/27 Barbosa's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
742: 07/28 Bach dies, 1750
743: 07/28 Independence Days (2 days) in Peru
744: 07/29 Mussolini born, 1883
745: 07/29 Olsok Eve in Norway to commemorate Norway's Viking King St. Olav
746: 07/29 Rain Day in Waynesburg, PA
747: 07/30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956
748: 07/30 Emily Bronte born, 1818
749: 07/30 Henry Ford born, 1863
750: 07/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948, later JFK
751: 07/31 Revolution Day in Congo
752:
753: 08
754: 08/01 Discovery Day in Trinidad, Tobogo
755: 08/01 Emancipation Day in Granada
756: 08/01 Founding of Asuncion in Paraguay
757: 08/01 Freedom Day in Guyana
758: 08/01 Herman Melville born, 1819
759: 08/01 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on this day
760: 08/01 National Day in Switzerland
761: 08/01 National Holidays (5 days) in El Salvador
762: 08/01 Parent's Day in Zaire
763: 08/02 Our Lady of Los Angeles in Costa Rica
764: 08/03 Independence Day in Jamaica, Niger
765: 08/03 Massacre du Pidjiguiti in Buinea-bissau
766: 08/03 Memorial Day of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus
767: 08/03 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958
768: 08/03 Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492
769: 08/04 Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892
770: 08/04 Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964
771: 08/04 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914
772: 08/04 Freedom Day in Guyana
773: 08/06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945
774: 08/06 Caricom in Barbados
775: 08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
776: 08/06 Emancipation Day in Bahamas
777: 08/06 Independence Day in Bolivia
778: 08/07 Battle of Boyaca in Colombia
779: 08/08 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles , 1937
780: 08/08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914
781: 08/08 Nixon announces resignation, 1973
782: 08/08 The Great Train Robbery $7,368,000, 1963
783: 08/09 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
784: 08/09 National Day in Singapore
785: 08/09 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC
786: 08/08 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974
787: 08/09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
788: 08/10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833
789: 08/10 Independence Day in Ecuador
790: 08/10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977
791: 08/11 Dog days end
792: 08/11 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954
793: 08/11 Heroes Day (2 days) in Zimbabwe
794: 08/11 Independence Day in Chad
795: 08/11 King Hussein's Accession to the Throne in Jordan
796: 08/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
797: 08/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977
798: 08/12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
799: 08/12 Queen's Birthday in Thailand
800: 08/12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955
801: 08/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860
802: 08/13 Berlin wall erected, 1961
803: 08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927
804: 08/13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934
805: 08/13 Proclamation of Independence in Central African Republic
806: 08/13 Women's Day in Tunisia
807: 08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981
808: 08/14 Independence Day in Pakistan
809: 08/14 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935
810: 08/14 VJ Day, 1945
811: 08/14 Waddi Dhahab in Morocco
812: 08/15 Beatles replace drummer Pete Best with Richard Starkey
813: 08/15 Founding of Ascuncion in Paraguay
814: 08/15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947
815: 08/15 Hurricane hits Plimoth Plantation, 1635
816: 08/15 Independence Day in India
817: 08/15 Liberation Day in South Korea
818: 08/15 National Day in Congo
819: 08/15 Santa Maria in Malta
820: 08/16 Bennington Battle Day in Vermont
821: 08/16 Independence Days (3 days) in Gabon
822: 08/16 Restoration Day in Dominican Republic
823: 08/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898
824: 08/16 Woodstock Begins, 1969
825: 08/15* Admission Day in Hawaii {1984} (3rd Friday)
826: 08/17 Anniversary of the Death of General San Martin in Argentina
827: 08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
828: 08/17 Independence Day in Indonesia
829: 08/17 Mae West born, 1892
830: 08/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed
831: 08/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1927
832: 08/19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite, marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space,1960
833: 08/19 Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856
834: 08/19 Independence Day in Afghanistan
835: 08/20 Constitution Day in Hungary
836: 08/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
837: 08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963
838: 08/22 Claude Debussy born, 1862
839: 08/22 Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets
840: 08/22 Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963
841: 08/22 St. Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565
842: 08/23 DEC founded, 1957
843: 08/23 Gene Kelly born, 1912
844: 08/23 Liberation Days (2 days) in Romania
845: 08/23 Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927
846: 08/24 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960
847: 08/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814
848: 08/24 National Flag Day in Liberia
849: 08/25 Constitution Day in Paragual
850: 08/25 Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
851: 08/25 Independence Day in Uruguay
852: 08/26 Susan B. Anthony Day in Massachussetts
853: 08/26 Women get the vote, 1920
854: 08/27 "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912
855: 08/27 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883
856: 08/27 Liberation Day in Hong Kong
857: 08/27 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908
858: 08/28 Heroes Day in Philippines
859: 08/28 King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963
860: 08/29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist
861: 08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova & becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; Nova Cygni 1975.
862: 08/29 Suruman enters the Shire
863: 08/30 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842
864: 08/30 Huey P. Long Day in Louisiana
865: 08/30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960
866: 08/30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907
867: 08/30 St. Rose of Lima in Peru
868: 08/30 Victory Day in Turkey
869: 08/30 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963
870: 08/31 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983
871: 08/31 Independence Day in Trinidad, Tobago
872: 08/31 National Day in Malaysia
873: 08/31 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
874: 08/31 Pashtoonian Day in Afghanistan
875: 08/31 Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888
876:
877: 09
878: 09/01 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972
879: 09/01 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859
880: 09/02 Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752
881: 09/02 Japan signs unconditional surrender aboard US battleship `Missouri', 1945
882: 09/01* Labor Day (1st Monday)
883: 09/03 Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino
884: 09/03 Independence Day in Qatar
885: 09/03 Memorial Day in Tunisia
886: 09/05 First Continental Congress, Phila, 1774
887: 09/05 Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961
888: 09/05 King Louis XIV of France born, 1638
889: 09/05 Raquel Welch born, 1942
890: 09/05 The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774
891: 09/06 149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620
892: 09/06 Defense of Pakistan Day in Pakistan
893: 09/06 First Star Trek episode (The Man Trap) aired 1966
894: 09/06 Pres. McKinley shot, 1901
895: 09/06 Settlers Day in South Africa
896: 09/06 Somhlolo in Swaziland
897: 09/06 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909
898: 09/07 Independence Day in Brazil
899: 09/07 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789
900: 09/07 Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533
901: 09/08 Anton Dvorak born in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia, 1841
902: 09/08 Gerald R. Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974
903: 09/08 King Richard I of England born, 1157
904: 09/08 Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925
905: 09/08 Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888
906: 09/09 Admission Day in California
907: 09/09 Anniversary of the Socialist Revolution k2 days) in Bulgaria
908: 09/09 California becomes the 31st state, 1850
909: 09/09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age of 82, 1976
910: 09/09 National Day in North Korea
911: 09/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776
912: 09/10 Korean Thanksgiving Day (Chusuk) in South Korea
913: 09/10 Moon Festival in Taiwan
914: 09/10 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857
915: 09/10 National Day in Belize
916: 09/11 Ethiopian New Year in Ethiopia
917: 09/11 Grandparent's Day
918: 09/11 Aniversary of military coup in Chile
919: 09/12 Amilcar Cabral's Birthday in Guinea-Bissau
920: 09/12 Defender's Day in Maryland
921: 09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943
922: 09/12 Germany annexes Sudentenland, 1938
923: 09/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913
924: 09/12 Revolution Day in Ethiopia
925: 09/13 136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya, 1922
926: 09/13 Barry Day commemorates the death of Commodore John Barry
927: 09/13 British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City, 1788
928: 09/13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122
929: 09/13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943
930: 09/13 Walter Reed born, 1851
931: 09/14 Battle of San Jacinto in Nicaragua
932: 09/14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778
933: 09/14 Francis Scott Key writes words to "Star Spangled Banner", 1814
934: 09/14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629
935: 09/14 The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940
936: 09/15 ACM founded, 1947
937: 09/15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890
938: 09/15 Foundation of Panama in Panama
939: 09/15 Respect for the Aged Day in Japan
940: 09/15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959
941: 09/15 The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department, 1789
942: 09/16 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914
943: 09/16 Cherokee Strip Day in Oklahoma
944: 09/16 Independence Day in Mexico, Papua, New Guinea
945: 09/16 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630
946: 09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862
947: 09/17 National Heroes Day in Angola
948: 09/18 Independence Day in Chile, Zimbabwe
949: 09/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905
950: 09/18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi
951: 09/19 Army Day in Chile
952: 09/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884
953: 09/20 First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848
954: 09/20 First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916
955: 09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954
956: 09/20 Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519
957: 09/20 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878
958: 09/21 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866
959: 09/21 Independence Day in Belize
960: 09/21 Louis Joliet born, 1645
961: 09/22 Alied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953
962: 09/22 Autumnal equinox, 3:33 pm, EST
963: 09/22 Independence Day in Mali
964: 09/22 National Sovereignty Day in Haiti
965: 09/22 President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore, 1881
966: 09/22 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
967: 09/22 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenaes President Nixon, 1974
968: 09/22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949
969: 09/23 Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC
970: 09/23 Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC
971: 09/23 Grito de Lares in Puerto Rico
972: 09/23 Phillippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972
973: 09/23 The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club, 1845
974: 09/23 V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech., 1952
975: 09/24 Anniversary of the Third Republic in Ghana
976: 09/24 F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896
977: 09/24 Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau
978: 09/24 National Day in Saudi Arabia
979: 09/24 Our Lady of Mercedes in Dominican Republic
980: 09/24 Republic Day in Trinidad, Tobago
981: 09/25 Army Day in Mozambique
982: 09/25 Referendum Day in Rwanda
983: 09/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981
984: 09/26 George Gershwin born in Brooklyn, NY
985: 09/26 Johnny Appleseed born, 1774
986: 09/26 National Day in Maldives, Yemem Deomcratic Republic
987: 09/26 Revoluation Anniversary Day in Yemen Arab
988: 09/26 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888
989: 09/27 Feast of Finding the True Cross in Ethiopia
990: 09/27 The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825
991: 09/27 Thomas Nast born, 1840
992: 09/28 "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678
993: 09/28 A greek soldier runs 26+ miles to the Persian defeat at Marathon, 490BC
994: 09/28 Confucious' Day in Taiwan
995: 09/28 Michelangelo Buanarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573
996: 09/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106BC
997: 09/28 Seymour Cray born, 1925
998: 09/29 Battle of Boqueron in Paraquay
999: 09/29 Gene Autry born, 1907
1000: 09/30 Botswanna Day in Botswanna
1001: 09/30 The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846
1002: 09/30 The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946
1003: 09/30 Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (#3) and Catherine Eddowes (#4), 1888
1004:
1005: 10
1006: 10/01 Armed Forces Day in South Korea
1007: 10/01 Independence Day in Nigeria
1008: 10/01 Jimmy Carter born, 1924
1009: 10/01 Labor Day in Australia
1010: 10/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958
1011: 10/01 National Liberation Day (2 days) in China
1012: 10/01 Public Holiday in Botswanna
1013: 10/02 Anniversary of Guinean Independence in Guinea
1014: 10/02 Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC
1015: 10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939
1016: 10/02 Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869
1017: 10/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967
1018: 10/03 Chung Yeung Festival in Hong Kong
1019: 10/03 Francisco Morazan's Birthday in Honduras
1020: 10/03 National Foundation Day in South Korea
1021: 10/03 U.N. Day in Varbados
1022: 10/04 Rosh Hashanah - New Year (1986 == 5747)
1023: 10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853
1024: 10/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957
1025: 10/04 Independence Day in Lesotho
1026: 10/04 Janis Joplin O.D.s, 1970
1027: 10/04 John V. Atanasoff born, 1903
1028: 10/04 Sputnik 1, world's first orbiting satellite launched, 1957
1029: 10/05 Anniversary of Proclamation of the Republic in Portugal
1030: 10/05 Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881
1031: 10/05 Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902
1032: 10/06 Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853
1033: 10/06 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981
1034: 10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961
1035: 10/06 Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973
1036: 10/06 National Sports Day in Lesotho
1037: 10/07 First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast, 1957
1038: 10/07 Foundation of the GDR in 1949 in German Democratic Republic
1039: 10/07 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977
1040: 10/07 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979
1041: 10/07 National Heroes Day in Jamaica
1042: 10/07 Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974
1043: 10/07 Georgia Tech beats Cumberland Univ 222-0, 1916
1044: 10/08 Battle of Agamos in Peru
1045: 10/08 Constitution Day in U.S.S.R
1046: 10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978
1047: 10/08 Great Chicago Fire, 1871
1048: 10/08 Thanksgiving Day in Canada
1049: 10/09 First two-way telephone conversation, 1876
1050: 10/09 Independence Day in Uganda
1051: 10/09 Independence of Guayaquil in Ecuador
1052: 10/09 John Lennon born in Liverpool, England, 1940
1053: 10/09 Korean Alphabet Day in South Korea
1054: 10/09 Leif Erikson Day commemorates the discovery of North America in AD 1000
1055: 10/09 Republic Day in Khmer Republic
1056: 10/10 Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba
1057: 10/10 Fiji Day in Fiji
1058: 10/10 Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea
1059: 10/10 Health-Sports Day in Japan
1060: 10/10 National Day in Taiwan
1061: 10/10 Oklahoma Historical Day in Oklahoma
1062: 10/10 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973
1063: 10/11 Day of the Revolution in Panama
1064: 10/11 Druger Day in South Africa
1065: 10/11 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976
1066: 10/11 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811
1067: 10/11 The second Vatican Eccumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962
1068: 10/12 Day of the Race in Argentina
1069: 10/12 Discovery Day in Gahamas
1070: 10/12 Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960
1071: 10/12 Man O'War's last race, 1920
1072: 10/12 National Day in Equatorial Guinea, Spain
1073: 10/12 Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
1074: 10/12 Our Lady Aparecida Day in Brazil
1075: 10/12 Pan American Day in Belize
1076: 10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962
1077: 10/13 Italy declares war on Germany, 1943
1078: 10/13 St. Edward's Day - patron saint of England
1079: 10/13 U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress
1080: 10/13 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC
1081: 10/13 Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement
1082: 10/14 Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066
1083: 10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957
1084: 10/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947
1085: 10/13* Columbus Day observed
1086: 10/14 Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890
1087: 10/14 National Day in Yemen Arab Repyblic
1088: 10/14 William Penn born in London, 1644
1089: 10/14 Young People's Day in Zaire
1090: 10/15 Evacuation Day in Tunisia
1091: 10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published
1092: 10/15 First draft card burned, 1965
1093: 10/15 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881
1094: 10/16 National Boss Day
1095: 10/16 Noah Webster born, 1758
1096: 10/16 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854
1097: 10/17 Dessaline's Death Anniversary in Haiti
1098: 10/17 Heroes Day in Jamaica
1099: 10/17 Mother's Day in Malawi
1100: 10/17 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S.
1101: 10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648
1102: 10/18 Feast Day of St. Luke
1103: 10/18 Succos - Feast of Tabernacles
1104: 10/18 Soviets anounce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959
1105: 10/19 Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949
1106: 10/19 Napoleon's beaten army beings a long retreat from Moscow, 1812
1107: 10/20 "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973
1108: 10/20 Anniversary of the 1944 Revolution in Guatemala
1109: 10/20 Kenyatta Day in Kenya
1110: 10/20 OPEC embargo, 1973
1111: 10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958
1112: 10/21 Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833
1113: 10/21 Armed Forces Day in Honduras
1114: 10/21 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879
1115: 10/21 Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959
1116: 10/21 Revolution Days (2 days) in Somalia
1117: 10/22 Franz Liszt born, 1811
1118: 10/22 Mothers-in-Law Day
1119: 10/23 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944
1120: 10/23 Chulalongkron's Day in Thsailand
1121: 10/23 Earth created at 6:30am, 4004BC.
1122: 10/23 Swallows leave Capistrano
1123: 10/24 Independence Day in Zambia
1124: 10/24 United Nations Day
1125: 10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780, 1978(?)
1126: 10/25 Labor Day in New Zealand
1127: 10/25 Taiwan Restoration Day inb Taiwan
1128: 10/25 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971
1129: 10/26 Agam Day in Nauru
1130: 10/26 Armed Forces Day in Benin, Rwanda
1131: 10/26 National Day in Austria
1132: 10/26 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978
1133: 10/27 Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933
1134: 10/27 James Cook is born, 1466
1135: 10/27 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871
1136: 10/27 The first New York Subway is opened, 1904
1137: 10/26* Daylight Savings Time Ends; Turn Clocks Back 1hr.
1138: 10/28 Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492
1139: 10/28 Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312
1140: 10/28 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636
1141: 10/28 National Holiday in Greece
1142: 10/28 OHI Day in Cyprus
1143: 10/28 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886
1144: 10/29 Republic Day in Turkey
1145: 10/29 Stock Market Crash, 1929
1146: 10/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938
1147: 10/31 Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887
1148: 10/31 Dale Evans born, 1912
1149: 10/31 Halloween
1150: 10/31 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517
1151: 10/31 Nevada Day in Nevada
1152:
1153: 11
1154: 11/01 All Saints Day
1155: 11/01 Austria-Hungary become two seperate nations, 1918
1156: 11/01 Feast of All Saints in Portugal
1157: 11/01 Puerto Rican nationalists tried to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950
1158: 11/01 Samhain; Beginning of the Celtic year and most important holiday.
1159: 11/02 All Souls Day in Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, Uruguay
1160: 11/02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734
1161: 11/02 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940
1162: 11/02 Memorial Day in Ecuador
1163: 11/02 Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, 1783
1164: 11/03 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837
1165: 11/03 Culture Day in Japan
1166: 11/03 Independence from Columbia in Panama
1167: 11/03 Independence of Cuenca in Ecuador
1168: 11/03 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954
1169: 11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing spacedog Laika
1170: 11/03 Thanksgiving Day in Liberia
1171: 11/04 Flag Day in Panama
1172: 11/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979
1173: 11/04 King William III of Orange born, 1650
1174: 11/04 Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956
1175: 11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952
1176: 11/04 Will Rogers Day
1177: 11/05 Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605
1178: 11/05 Roy Rogers born, 1912
1179: 11/04* Election Day
1180: 11/06 Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R.
1181: 11/06 Green March Day in Morocco
1182: 11/06 Prophet Mohammed's Birthday in Malaysia
1183: 11/07 Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837
1184: 11/07 Anniversary of Great October Revolution in Bulgaria
1185: 11/07 Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805
1186: 11/07 National Revolution Day
1187: 11/07 October Revolution Day in Hungary
1188: 11/08 Her Majesty, the Queen's Birthday in Nepal
1189: 11/08 Patti Page born, 1927
1190: 11/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965
1191: 11/09 Carl Sagan born, 1934
1192: 11/09 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927
1193: 11/09 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921
1194: 11/09 Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888
1195: 11/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933
1196: 11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstartions near White House, 1917
1197: 11/10 Cpt Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865
1198: 11/10 Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?", 1871
1199: 11/10 King's Birthday in Bhutan
1200: 11/10 Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483
1201: 11/10 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982
1202: 11/11 Angola gains independence from Portugal, 1975
1203: 11/11 Armistice Day
1204: 11/11 Independence Day in Angola
1205: 11/11 Independence of Cartagena in Colombia
1206: 11/11 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922
1207: 11/11 Rememberance Day in Canada
1208: 11/11 Republic Day in Maldives
1209: 11/11 Veterans' Day
1210: 11/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889
1211: 11/12 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan
1212: 11/12 Prince Charles' Birthday in Fiji
1213: 11/12 U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861
1214: 11/13 Paul Simon born, 1942
1215: 11/13 Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850
1216: 11/13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354
1217: 11/14 King Hussein's Birthday in Jordan
1218: 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
1219: 11/15 Dynasty Day in Belgium
1220: 11/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
1221: 11/15 Proclamation of the Republic in Brazil
1222: 11/15 Thatlouang Festival in Laos
1223: 11/16 Oklahoma Heritage Week in Oklahoma
1224: 11/16 Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869
1225: 11/17 Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973
1226: 11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966
1227: 11/17 Army Day in Zaire
1228: 11/17 Corrective Movement in Syrian Arab Republic
1229: 11/18 Battle of Viertieres in Haiti
1230: 11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952
1231: 11/18 Imogene Coca born, 1908
1232: 11/18 Independence Day in Morocco
1233: 11/18 Local standard time zones established for US, 1883
1234: 11/18 National Days (4 days) in Oman
1235: 11/18 William S. Gilbert born, 1836
1236: 11/19 Anniversary of the 1968 Coup by the Army in Mali
1237: 11/19 Discovery Day in Puerto Rico
1238: 11/19 Feast Day of S.A.S. Prince Rainier in Monaco
1239: 11/19 Garifuna Settlement in Belize
1240: 11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863
1241: 11/19 Prince of Wales Birthday in Fiji
1242: 11/20 RFK born, 1925
1243: 11/20 Revolution Day in Mexico
1244: 11/21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973
1245: 11/21 Day of Prayer and Repentance in Federal Republic of Germany
1246: 11/22 Anniversary of Portuguese Aggression in Guinea
1247: 11/22 Independence Day in Lebanon
1248: 11/22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963
1249: 11/22 Total solar eclipse (visible only in southern hemisphere)
1250: 11/23 Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan
1251: 11/23 First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963
1252: 11/24 Anniversary of the New Regime in Zaire
1253: 11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963
1254: 11/24 Scott Joplin born, 1868
1255: 11/25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867
1256: 11/25 Independence Day in Suriname
1257: 11/25 Johann Strauss, Jr., writes `On the Beautiful Blue Danube', 1867
1258: 11/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922
1259: 11/26 Norbert Weiner born, 1894
1260: 11/27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895
1261: 11/27 Friction match invented, England, 1826
1262: 11/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
1263: 11/28 Independence Day in Albania, Mauritania
1264: 11/28 Independence from Spain in Panama
1265: 11/28 Proclamation of the Republic in Chad
1266: 11/27* Thanksgiving Day in United States (4th Thursday)
1267: 11/29* First Sunday of Advent (4th Sunday before Christmas)
1268: 11/29 Day of the Republic (2 days) in Yugoslavia
1269: 11/29 Goodwill Day in Liberia
1270: 11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922
1271: 11/29 Liberation Day in Albania
1272: 11/29 National Day in Burma
1273: 11/30 Cleopatra died, 30 bc
1274: 11/30 Independence Day in Barbados, Yemen Deomcratic Republic
1275: 11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835
1276: 11/30 National Day in Benin
1277: 11/30 National Heroes Day in Philippines
1278: 11/30 St. Andrew's Day
1279:
1280: 12
1281: 12/01 Anniversary of the Restoration of Independence in Portugal
1282: 12/01 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924
1283: 12/01 Independence Day in Central African Republic
1284: 12/01 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955
1285: 12/01 Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1953
1286: 12/01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935
1287: 12/02 National Holiday in United Arab Emirates
1288: 12/03 First neon light display, Paris, 1910
1289: 12/03 First successful human heart transplant lead by Dr. Barnard, 1967
1290: 12/03 National Holiday in Laos
1291: 12/04 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783
1292: 12/05 End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part)
1293: 12/05 Mozart dies, 1791
1294: 12/05 Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776
1295: 12/05 St. Nicholas' Day
1296: 12/05 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition, 1933
1297: 12/05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901
1298: 12/06 First sound recording made by Thomas Edison, 1877
1299: 12/06 Independence Day in Finland
1300: 12/07 Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941
1301: 12/07 Delaware Day in Delaware
1302: 12/07 Independence Day in Ivory Coast, Panama
1303: 12/07 Prophet Mohammed's Birthday in Fiji
1304: 12/08 Blessing of the Water in Uruguay
1305: 12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965
1306: 12/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC
1307: 12/08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894
1308: 12/08 John Lennon assassinated, 1980
1309: 12/08 Mother's Day in Panama
1310: 12/08 Our Lady of the Cacupe in Paraguay
1311: 12/09 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
1312: 12/09 Independence Day in Tanzania
1313: 12/10 Emily Dickenson born, 1830
1314: 12/10 Foundation of Worker's Party in Angola
1315: 12/10 Human Rights Day
1316: 12/10 Metric system established in France, 1799
1317: 12/10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year
1318: 12/10 Thai Constitution Day in Thailand
1319: 12/10 Wyoming Day in Wyoming
1320: 12/11 Independence Day in Upper Volta
1321: 12/12 E. G. Robinson born, 1893
1322: 12/12 First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901
1323: 12/12 Independence Day in Kenya
1324: 12/13 Dartmouth College chartered, 1769
1325: 12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south)
1326: 12/13 Republic Day in Malta
1327: 12/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972
1328: 12/14 George Washington dies, 1799
1329: 12/15 Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976
1330: 12/15 Bill of Rights adopted, 1791
1331: 12/15 James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891
1332: 12/15 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890
1333: 12/15 Statue Day in Netherlands Antilles
1334: 12/15 Thomas Edison receives patent on the phonograph, 1877
1335: 12/16 Beethoven born, 1770
1336: 12/16 Constitution Day in Nepal
1337: 12/16 Day of the Covenant in South Africa
1338: 12/16 Ludwig von Beethoven christened in Bonn, Germany, 1770
1339: 12/16 National Day in Bahrain
1340: 12/16 Victry Day in Bangladesh
1341: 12/17 National Day in Bhutan
1342: 12/17 William Safire (Safir) born, 1929
1343: 12/18 Republic Day in Niger
1344: 12/20 U.S. Buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.
1345: 12/21 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804
1346: 12/21 First day of winter, Winter Solstice, 11:23 am EST
1347: 12/21 Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in <80 days
1348: 12/21 Winter Solstice, 11:23 am EST
1349: 12/22 Giacomo Puccini born, 1858
1350: 12/23 First G&S collaboration, Thespis, 1871
1351: 12/23 Joseph Smith born, 1805
1352: 12/23 Victory Day in Egypt
1353: 12/24 Christmas Eve
1354: 12/24 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865
1355: 12/25 Birthday of Quaid-i-Azam in Pakistan
1356: 12/25 Children's Day in Congo
1357: 12/25 Christmas
1358: 12/25 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642
1359: 12/26 Boxing Day
1360: 12/26 Chas. Babbage born, 1791
1361: 12/26 DPMA founded, 1951
1362: 12/26 Family Day in South Africa
1363: 12/26 Feast of Our Theotokos in Greece
1364: 12/26 St. Stephen's Day
1365: 12/26 Bank Holiday in Canada, Rep. of Ireland, and UK
1366: 12/27* First Day of Hanukkah
1367: 12/27 APT report published, 1956
1368: 12/27 Bank Holiday in Cayman Islands
1369: 12/27 Constitution Day in North Korea
1370: 12/27 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845
1371: 12/27 Public Holiday in Lesotho, Zimbabwe
1372: 12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
1373: 12/28 John von Neumann born, 1903
1374: 12/29 Battle of Wounded knee, 1890
1375: 12/29 Civic Holidays (3 days) in Costa Rica
1376: 12/29 His Majesty, the King's Birthday in Nepal
1377: 12/30 Anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar in Madagascar
1378: 12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940
1379: 12/31 Bank Holiday in El Salvador, Honduras, Pakistan
1380: 12/31 Feed Yourself Day in Benin
1381: 12/31 New Year's Eve
1382: 12/31 Proclamation of the Republic in Congo
1383: 12/31 St. Sylvester in Switzerland
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