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01
01/01	AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984
01/01	Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba
01/01	Castro expells Cuban President Batista, 1959
01/01	Churchill delivers his the "Iron Curtain" speech, 1947
01/01	Independence Day in Haiti, Sudan
01/01	New Year's Day
01/01	Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735
01/01	The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT), 1970
01/01	Universal Fraternity Day in Mozambique
01/01	J.D. Salinger born, 1919
01/01	Forst Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902
01/02	Ancestry Day in Haiti
01/02	Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR), 1920
01/02	St. Berchtold's Day in Switzerland
01/03	Apple Computer founded, 1977
01/03	New Year's Holiday in Scotland
01/03	Revolution Day in Upper Volta
01/04	George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864
01/04	Independence Day in Burma
01/04	Jakob Grimm born, 1785
01/04	Martyrs Day in Zaire
01/04	Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
01/04	Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars
01/05	-50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
01/05	DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer
01/05	Twelfth night
01/06	Children's Day in Uruguay
01/06	Epiphany
01/06	Millard Fillmore's brithday
01/06	Three Kings' Day in Puerto Rico
01/07	Christmas in Ethiopia
01/07	Pioneer's Day in Liberia
01/08	American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982
01/08	Battle of New Orleans
01/08	Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889
01/08	Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982
01/09	Day of the Martyrs in Panama
01/09	Plough Monday
01/10	Ethan Allen born, 1738
01/10	First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960
01/10	First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946
01/10	Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776
01/11	Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757?
01/11	Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania
01/11	Armed Forces Day in Liberia
01/11	De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico
01/11	Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal
01/11	Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
01/11	Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 1878
01/12	Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania
01/13	National Liberation Day in Togo
01/13	Sophie Tucker born, 1884
01/13	Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws
01/13	Horatio Alger born, 1834
01/14	Albert Schweitzer born, 1875
01/14	Julian Calendar New Year's Day
01/15	Adults Day in Japan
01/15	Arbor Day in Jordan
01/15	Martin Luther King, Jr. born
01/16	Martyrs Day in Benin
01/16	Prohibition begins, 1920
01/16	Set uid bit patent issued, 1979
01/17	Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706
01/17	Justice Dept. begins IBM suit, 1969
01/18	Grey whale migration, CA
01/18	Revolution Day in Tunisia
01/19	Confederate Heroes Day in Texas
01/19	Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809
01/19	Ethopian Epiphany in Ethiopia
01/19	Nameday of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus
01/19	Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807
01/19	Janis Joplin born, 1943
01/20	Army Day in Mali
01/20	National Heroes Day in Guinea-Bissau
01/20	St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)
01/20 	Geo. Burns born, 1898
01/20*	Martin Luther King Day in New York (3rd Sunday)
01/20*	Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia (3rd Monday)
01/20*	Robert E. Lee's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi (3rd Monday)
01/21	Lenin died, 1924
01/21	Our Lady of Altagracia in Dominican Republic
01/21	Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824
01/22	Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561
01/23	Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory
01/23	Feast of St. Ildefonsus
01/23	Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899
01/23	John Hancock born, 1737
01/23	Joseph Hewes born, 1730
01/23	National Handwriting Day
01/23	Saml. Barber died, 1981
01/24	DG Nova introduced, 1969
01/24	Economic Liberation Day in Togo
01/24	Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848
01/24	Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922
01/25	First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958
01/25	Robert Burns born, 1759
01/25	Virginia Woolf born, 1882
01/25	W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874
01/26	EDVAC demonstrated, 1952
01/26	Republic Day in India
01/26	Sydney Aust. settled, 1778
01/27	Samuel Gompers born, 1850
01/27	Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973
01/27	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in Salzburg, 1756
01/27	Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967
01/28	First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914
01/28	Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe, 1986
01/30	Australia Day in Australia
01/30	Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882
01/30	Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948
01/30	Tet Offensive, 1968
01/31	Explorer I launched, 1958.  Van Allen Belt discovered
01/31	Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
01/31	Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp
01/31	Jackie Robinson born, 1919
01/31	"Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961

02
02/01	Chinese New Year Holiday (3 days) in Taiwan
02/01	First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954
02/01	Forces lead by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979
02/02	Candlemas
02/03	Gertrude Stein born, 1874
02/04	Cybernet inaugurated, 1969
02/04	Independence Commemoration Day in Sri Lanka
02/04	Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974
02/05	Constitution Day in Mexico
02/06	King George VI of UK dies;  his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952
02/06	New Zealand Day
02/07	Independence Day in Grenada
02/07	Sincalair Lewis born, 1885
02/07	Beatles land at JFK airport to begin first U.S. tour, 1964
02/08	1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq
02/08	Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography
02/08	Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828
02/09	-51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
02/09	George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc.
02/09	St. Maron's Day in Lebanon
02/10	Charles Lamb born, 1775
02/10	Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck, AD 60
02/10	William Allen White born, 1868
02/11	Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966
02/11	National Foundation Day in Japan
02/11	Thos. Edison born, 1847
02/11	William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1489, photographic pioneer
02/11*	Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras (day before Ash Wednesday)
02/12*	Ash Wednesday - first day of Lent
02/12	Abraham Lincoln born, 1809
02/12	Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809
02/12	Lincoln's real birthday
02/12	Pyidaungsa Day in Burma
02/12	Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969
02/14	Bombing of Dresden, 1945
02/14	First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978
02/14 	St. Valentine's day
02/15	Chicago Seven convicted, 1970
02/15	ENIAC demonstrated, 1946
02/15	Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564
02/15	Susan B. Anthony born, 1820
02/16	Makha Bucha Day in Thailand
02/16	Nylon patented, 1937
02/16	Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry
02/16	Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804
02/17	Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone
02/17	Marion Anderson born, 1902
02/17	T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874
02/17*	"President's Day"
02/18	Democracy Day in Nepal
02/18	Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer
02/18	Independence Day in The Gambia
02/18	Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930
02/19	Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473
02/19	US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945
02/20	Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer
02/20	John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962
02/21	Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass
02/21	Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties
02/21	Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965
02/21	First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878
02/22	George Washington born, 1732
02/22	Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun
02/23	Handel born, 1685
02/23	Lt Calley confesses, implicates Cpt Medina, 1971
02/23	Republic Day in Guyana
02/23	W.E.B.DuBois born, 1868
02/24	Gregorian Calendar Day
02/24	Winslow Homer born, 1836
02/24	Impeachment proceedings against Andrew johnson begin, 1868
02/25	George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943
02/25	National Day in Kuwait
02/25	Renoir born, 1841
02/26	Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786, observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21
02/27	Independence Day in Dominican Republic
02/27	The Lionheart crowned, 1189
02/28	Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533
02/29	French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704
02/29	Herman Hollerith born, 1860
02/29	Jimmy Dorsey born, 1904

03
03/01	David Niven born, 1910
03/01	First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964
03/01	Samil Independence Movement Day in South Korea
03/01	Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
03/01	St. David's Day, Cardiff
03/02	Blackthorn winds (New England) <<What is it?>>
03/02	Peasants Day in Burma
03/02	Texas Independence day
03/02	Victory of Adowa in Ethiopia
03/02	Dr. Seuss born, 1904
03/03	Throne Day in Morocco
03/03	Girl's Day in Japan
03/04	Antonio Vivaldi born in Venice, Italy, 1678
03/04	Casimir Pulaski born, 1747
03/04	First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos
03/04	First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.
03/04	Vermont Admission Day (admitted as 14th state in 1791)
03/05	Independence Day in Equatorial Guinea
03/06	Independence Day in Ghana
03/06	Lantern Day, Bejing
03/06	Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1939
03/07	Aristotle died, 322BC
03/07	Last Gilbert & Sullivan opera produced, 1896
03/07	Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer
03/08	Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer
03/08	First annual International Women's Day, 1909
03/08	Howard Aiken born, 1900
03/08	International Women's Day in U.S.S.R.
03/08	Syrian National Day in Libyan Arab Republic
03/08	Women's Day in Guinea-Bissau, Taiwan, Yemen Democratic Republic
03/08	Youth Day in Zambia
03/09	"GOTO considered harmful" published in CACM, 1968
03/09	Decoration Day in Liberia
03/09	Falgun Purnima Day in Nepal
03/10	Labor Day in South Korea
03/11	Johnny Appleseed Day; anniversary of the death of John Chapman
03/11	Robert Treat Paine born, 1737
03/11	Vannevar Bush born, 1890
03/12	Commonwealth Day in Swaziland
03/12	Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist
03/12	Independence Day in Mauritius
03/12	Moshoeshoe's Birthday in Lesotho
03/12	Renovation Day in Gabon
03/13	"Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894
03/13	National Day in Grenada
03/14	Albert Einstein born, 1879
03/14	Casey Jones born, 1864
03/14	Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer; named Mars "canals"
03/14	Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist
03/14	LISP introduced, 1960
03/14	Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907
03/15	Buzzards return to Hinckley OH
03/15	J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
03/15	Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44BC
03/15	Sly Stone born, 1944
03/15	France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874
03/15	Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966
03/16	Black Press Day; first Black newspaper founded in 1827
03/16	George Clymer born, 1739
03/16	James Madison born, 1751
03/16	MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen
03/16	Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA,, 1926
03/17	Evacuation Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
03/17	St. Patrick's Day
03/17	Vanguard I launched, 1958.  Earth proved pear-shaped
03/18	Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965
03/19	St. Joseph's Day in Colombia, Costa Rica, Holy See, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Spain, Venezuela
03/19	Tree Planting Day in Lestho
03/19	Swallows return to Capistrano
03/20	Independence Day in Tunsia
03/20	Youth Day in Oklahoma
03/20*	Vernal Equinox, 0525 EST
03/21	Afghan New Year in Afghanistan
03/21	J. S. Bach born, 1685
03/21	Juarez' Birthday in Mexico
03/22	Abolition Day in Puerto Rico
03/23	Pakistan Day in Pakistan
03/23*	Palm Sunday (7 days before Easter)
03/24	Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900
03/24	Harry Houdini born, 1874
03/25	Greek Independence Day in Cyprus
03/25	Lady Day (a.k.a. the Feast of the Annunciation)
03/25	Maryland Day in Maryland
03/25	National Holiday in Greece
03/25	Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911
03/25*	Purim - Feast of Lots
03/26	Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist
03/26	Independence Day in Bangladesh
03/26	Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937
03/26	Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day in Hawaii
03/27	Armed Forces Day in Burma
03/27	Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958
03/27	Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays
03/28	DEC announces PDP-11, 1970
03/28	Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
03/28	Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979
03/29	Death of President Barthelemy Boganda in Central African Republic
03/29	Memorial Day in Madagascar
03/29	Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638
03/30	Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977
03/30	Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746
03/30	Pencil with eraser patented, 1858
03/30	Sean O'Casey born, 1880
03/30	Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853
03/30	Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867
03/27*	Maundy Thursday (3 days before Easter)
03/28*	Good Friday (2 days before Easter)
03/30*	Easter
03/31	Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946
03/31	National Day in Malta
03/31	Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher
03/31*	Seward's Day in Alaska (last Monday)

04
04/01	April Fool's Day
04/01	Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974  (It figures.)
04/01	Youth Day in Benin
04/02	Malvinas Day in Argentina
04/02	Pascua Florida Day in Florida
04/03	IBM 701 introduced, 1953
04/03	Washington Irving born, 1783
04/04	Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong
04/04	Liberation Day in Hungary
04/04	Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
04/04	Muddy Waters born, 1915
04/04	NATO Established, 1949
04/04	National Day in Senegal
04/04	Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores)
04/05	Arbor Day in South Korea
04/05	Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher
04/05	Tomb Sweeping Day in Taiwan
04/06	Chakri Memorial Day in Thailand
04/06	Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830
04/06	Victory Day in Ethiopia
04/07	Alewives run, Cape Cod
04/07	IBM announces System/360, 1964
04/08	David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician
04/08	Fast and Prayer Day in Liberia
04/08	Buddha born, 563 BC
04/09	ENIAC Project begun, 1943
04/09	Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer
04/09	J. Presper Eckert born, 1919
04/09	Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865
04/09	Martyrs Day in Tunisia
04/09	Paul Robeson born, 1898
04/10	Commodore Matthew calbraith Perry born, 1854
04/10	William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army
04/11	National Heroes Day in Costa Rica
04/12	Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981
04/12	Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861
04/12	Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961
04/13	Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos
04/13	National Day in Chad
04/13	Songkron Day in Thailand
04/13	Thomas Jefferson born, 1743
04/14	Christian Huygen born, 1629, physicist & astronomer; discovered Saturn's rings
04/14	Day of the Americas in Honduras
04/14	Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912
04/15	Bengali New Year in Bangladesh
04/15	Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452
04/15	Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955
04/16	Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889
04/16	De Diego's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
04/16	Holy Week (5 days) in Venezuela
04/16	Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865
04/16	Tourist Week (5 days) in Uruguay
04/17	Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961
04/17	Burmese New Year in Burma
04/17 	Bay of Pigs, 1961
04/18	Einstein's Death, 1955
04/18	San Francisco earthquake, 1906
04/18	First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934
04/19	Declaration of Independence in Venezuela
04/19	Landing of the "33" in Uruguay
04/19	Republic Day in Sierra Leone
04/19	Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943
04/20	Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971
04/21	San Jacinto Day in Texas
04/21	Tiradentes in Brazil
04/21 	Lyrid meteor shower
04/21*	Patriot's Day in Maine & Massachusetts (3rd Monday)
04/22	Arbor Day in Nebraska & Delaware
04/22	Kant born, 1724
04/22	Oklahoma Day in Oklahoma
04/23	Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
04/24	Victory Day in Togo
04/24*	Pesach - First Day of Passover - Festival of Freedom
04/25	Anniversary of the Revolution in Portugal
04/25	Anzac Day in Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Western Samoa
04/25	Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918
04/25	Liberation Day in Italy
04/25	National Flag Day in Swaziland
04/26	Carol Burnett born in San Antonio, Texas, 1933
04/26	Confederate Memorial Day in Florida & Georgia
04/26	Union Day in Tanzania
04/26	William Shakespeare baptised in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564
04/27	Independence Day in Togo
04/27	Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist
04/27*	Daylight Saving time begins
04/27	Magellan killed in Phillippines, 1521
04/28	James Monroe born, 1758
04/28	Zilog Z-80 introduced
04/28*	Arbor Day in Wyoming (last Monday)
04/28*	Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama & Mississippi (last Monday)
04/29	Emperor's Birthday in Japan
04/29	Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology
04/29	William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863
04/29	Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913
04/30	Karl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer
04/30	Queen's Birthday in Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles
04/30	The Workers Day in Uruguay

05
05/01	Boy's day in Japan
05/01	Last day of Passover
05/01	Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god
05/01	First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964
05/01	Kate Smith born, 1909
05/01	Labor Day in many places
05/01	Law Day (decl. by Eisenhower)
05/01	May Day in many places
05/02	Constitution Day in Japan
05/02	Dr. Benj. Spock born, 1903
05/02	King's Birthday in Lesotho
05/03	Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971
05/04	4 Kent students demonstrating against Cambodia incursion are shot, 1970
05/04	Rhode Island Independence Day
05/05	Battle of Puebla in Mexico
05/05	Children's Day in Japan, South Korea
05/05	Coronatin Day in Thailand
05/05	Liberation Day in Netherlands
05/05	John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925
05/06	Bataan Day in Philippines
05/06	EDSAC demonstrated, 1949
05/07	Brahms born, 1833
05/07	Germany Surrenders after WWII, 1945
05/07	Johannes Brahms born in Hamburg, 1833
05/07	May Day in United Kingdom
05/07	Tchaikowsky born, 1840
05/08	Beginning of ostrich mating season
05/08	Buddha's Birthday in South Korea
05/08	Elections for the National Assembly in Philippines
05/08	Truman Day in Missouri
05/08	US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972
05/09	94 degrees, New York, 1979
05/09	Liberation Day in Czechoslovakia
05/09	Pinza died, 1957
05/09	Victory Day in Poland, U.S.S.R.
05/10	Confederate Memorial Day in South Carolina
05/10	Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899
05/10	Germany invades Low Countries, 1940
05/10	Mothers Day in Guatamala
05/10	Nazi bookburning, 1933
05/11	Minnesota Day in Minnesota
05/11	Johnny Appleseed born, 1768
05/11*	Mother's Day (2nd Sunday)
05/12	Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820
05/13	Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842
05/14	Anniversary of the Founding of Guinean Deomcratic Party in Guinea
05/14	Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
05/14	Buddhist Holiday (Waisak 2528) in Indonesia
05/14	Independence Day (2 days) in Paraguay
05/14	Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948
05/14	Unification Day in Liberia
05/15	Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854
05/15	Kamuzu Day in Malawi
05/15	Vesak Day in Singapore, Malaysia
05/15	Visakha Bucha Day in Thailand
05/16	Armed Forces Day
05/16	Discovery Day in Cayman Islands
05/16	First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
05/15*?	Ascension Day (10 days before Pentecost)
05/17	24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
05/17	Constitution Day in Nauru, Norway
05/17	Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
05/18	Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
05/18	Flag Day in Haiti
05/18	Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
05/18	Prayer Day in Denmark
05/19	Armed Forces Day
05/19	Ho Chi Minh born, 1890
05/19	Youth and Sports Day in Turkey
05/20	Mecklenburg Independence Day in North Carolina
05/20	National Day in Cameroon
05/20	Victoria Day in Canada
05/19*	Memorial Day in Michigan (3rd Monday)
05/21	Battle of Iquique in Chile
05/21	DEC announces PDP-8
05/21	US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956
05/21	Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427BC
05/22	Johann Sebastian Bach born in Eisenach, Germany, 1665
05/22	Ethernet first described, 1973
05/22	National Heroes Day in Sri Lanka
05/22	US Civil War ends, 1865
05/23	Commonwealth Day in Jamaica, Belize
05/23	Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960
05/23	National Labor Day in Jamaica
05/23	Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953
05/24	Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador
05/24	Bermuda Day in Bermuda
05/24	Day of Slav Letters in Bulgaria
05/24	Bob Dylan born, 1941
05/25	African Freedom Day in Zimbabwe
05/25	African Liberation Day in Chad, Mauritania, Zambia
05/25	Anniversary of the Revolution of 1810 in Argentina
05/25	Independence Day in Jordan
05/25	Memorial Day in New Mexico & Puerto Rico
05/25	Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980
05/25	Revolution in the Sudan in Libyan Arab Republic
05/25	Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830
05/26	Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
05/26 	Al Jolson born, 1886
05/25*?	Pentecost - Whitsunday
05/27	Afghanistan attains sovereignty, 1921
05/27	First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958
05/27	Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937
05/27	Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911
05/27	Rogation Sunday
05/26*	Memorial Day in various places (last Monday)
05/26*?	Whitmonday
05/28	Dionne quintuplets born, 1934
05/28	First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959
05/28	Mothers Day in Central African Republic
05/29	Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953
05/29	Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874
05/29	John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917
05/29	Patrick Henry born, 1736
05/29	Forst food stamps issued, 1961
05/30	Colossus Mark II, 1944
05/30	Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908
05/30	US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912
05/31	Memorial Day
05/31	Pya Martyrs Day in Togo
05/31	Republic Day in South Africa

06
06/01	Brigham Young born, 1801
06/01	Independence Days (3 days) in Western Samoa
06/01	Madaraka Day in Kenya
06/01	Marilyn Monroe born, 1928
06/01	Victory Day in Tunisia
06/02	Corpus Christi in Paraguay
06/02	Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England, 1857
06/02	First issue of Computerworld, 1967
06/02	Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924
06/01*?	Trinity Sunday (7 days after Pentecost)
06/03	Confederate Memorial Day in Kentucky & Louisiana
06/03	Henry James born, 1811
06/03	Jefferson Davis's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi (1st Monday)
06/03	Labor Day in Bahamas
06/04	Dragon Boat Festival in Hong Kong, Taiwan
06/04	Emancipation Day in Tonga
06/04	Queen's Birthday in New Zealand
06/04	Roquefort cheese developed, 1070
06/05	Constitution Day in Denmark
06/05	Liberation Day in Seychelles
06/05	US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933
06/05	Robert Kennedy Assasinated, 1968
06/06	His Majesty, Yang Di-Pertuan Agong's Birthday in Malaysia
06/06	Memorial Day in South Korea
06/06	Normandy landing, 1944
06/05*?	Corpus Christi (11 days after Pentecost)
06/06	First drive-in movie, 1933
06/07	(Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848
06/07	George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778
06/08	Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1869
06/09	Senior Citizen's Day in Oklahoma
06/10	Camoes Day in Portugal
06/10	Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C.
06/10	First Apple II shipped, 1977
06/10	Judy Garlnad born, 1922
06/11	Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC
06/11	King Kamehameha I Day in Hawaii
06/11	Queen's Birthday
06/12	Independence Day in Philippines
06/12	Peace with Bolivia in Paraguay
06/13	Corrective Movement in Yemen Arab Republic
06/13	Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System
06/13*	Shevuos - Feast of Weeks
06/14	Flag Day
06/14	Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834
06/15	Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752
06/15	Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843
06/15	Magna Carta signed, 1215
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
06/15	UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
06/16	Bloomsday - Anniversary of Dublin events, 1904, in "Ulysses"
06/16	First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal)
06/16	Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 bc
06/15*	Father's Day
06/17	Bunker Hill Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
06/17	China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967
06/17	Independence Day in Iceland
06/17	National Day in Federal Republic of Germany
06/17	Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972
06/18	Evacuation Day in Egypt
06/18	M C Escher born, 1898
06/18	Paul McCartney born in Liverpool, England, 1942
06/18	Queen's Birthday in Fiji
06/19	Artigas Birthday in Uruguay
06/19	Emancipation Day in Texas
06/19	Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953
06/19	Labor Day in Trinidad, Tobago
06/19	Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893
06/19	Revolution Day in Algeria
06/20	Flag Day in Argentina
06/20	Victoria crowned, 1837
06/20	West Virginia Day in West Virginia
06/21	Berlin airlift begins, 1948
06/21	Summer solstice, 12:02 am, EST
06/21	Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge
06/22	Carl Hubbell born, 1903
06/22	Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964
06/22	Corrective Movement in Yermen Democratic Republic
06/22	Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949
06/22	Midsummer Eve in Finland, Sweden
06/22	National Sovereignty Day in Haiti
06/23	IBM unbundles software, 1969
06/23	National Holiday in Luxembourg
06/23	Slavery abolished in England, 1772
06/23	Turing's Birthday, 1912
06/24	Battle of Carabobob in Venezuela
06/24	Fisherman's Day in Madagascar, Mozambique, Somalia
06/24	Kings Day in Spain
06/24	Peasants Day in Peru
06/24	Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970
06/24	St. Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec
06/25	Custer's Last Stand, 1876
06/25	Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903
06/25	Little Big Horn, 1876
06/25	N. Korea invades S. Korea, 1950
06/26	Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
06/26	St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959
06/26	Toothbrush invented, 1498
06/27	100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915
06/27	Helen Keller born, 1880
06/28	Mothers Day in Central African Republic
06/28	Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978
06/29	Independence Day in Seychelles
06/29	Last Day of Ramadan* in Algeria, Oman
06/30	"That" explosion in Siberia, 1908
06/30	China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960
06/30	Day of the Army in Guatemala
06/30	First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC

07
07/01	Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863
07/01	Dominion Day in Canada
07/01	Eid-Ul-Fitr* (2 days) in Pakistan
07/01	Freedom Day in Suriname
07/01	Independence Day in Burundi
07/01	National Day in Rwamda
07/01	Republic Day in Ghana
07/01	Union of the Somalia Republic in Somalia
07/02	National Day in Kiribati
07/03	Dog days begin
07/03	Franz Kafka born, 1883
07/04	Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863
07/04	Caribbean Day in Guyana
07/04	Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776
07/04	Constitution Day in Cayman Islands
07/04	Family Day in Lesotho
07/04	Heroes Day in Zambia
07/04	John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826
07/04	Kadooment Day in Barbados
07/04	Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804
07/04	New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776
07/04	Philippine-American Friendship Day in the Philippines
07/04	Warriors Day (2 days) in Yugoslavia
07/04	Thoreau enters woods, 1845
07/05	Day of Peace and Unity in Rwanda
07/05	Independence Day in Algeria, Venezuela
07/06	(Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866
07/06	First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928
07/06	John Paul Jones born, 1747
07/06	Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917
07/07	Anniversary of the P.U.N. in Equatorial Guinea
07/07	First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949
07/07	National Day in Malawi
07/07	Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) born in Liverpool, England, 1940
07/07	Saba Saba Day in Tanzania
07/07	P.T. Barnum dies, 1891
07/08	Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877
07/08	CDC incorporated, 1957
07/08	Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838
07/08	First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
07/08	Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835
07/09	10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847
07/09	Independence Day in Argentina
07/10	Independence Day in Bahamas
07/10	John Calvin born, 1509
07/10	134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913
07/11	John Quincy Adams born, 1767
07/11	National Holiday in the Mongolian People's Republic
07/12	Battle of Boyne celebrated in Northern Ireland
07/12	Henry David Thoreau born, 1817
07/12	The Twelfth in Northern Ireland
07/12	Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933
07/13	Buddhist Lent in Thailand
07/13	Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908
07/14	Anniversary of the Revolution in Iraq
07/14	Bastille Day
07/14	National Holiday in Monaco
07/14	Woodie Guthrie born, 1912
07/15	Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas"
07/15	St. Swithin's Day
07/16	Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945
07/16	Presidents Day in Botswanna
07/17	Constitution Day in South Korea
07/17	Disneyland opens, 1955
07/17	July Revolution in Iraq
07/17	Munoz Rivera's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
07/17	Public Holiday in Botswanna
07/18	Constitution Day in Uruguay
07/18	Liberation Day in Nicaragua
07/18	Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
07/18	Disneyland opens, 1955
07/19	Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692
07/19	Martyrs Day in Burma
07/20	Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969
07/20	Independence Day in Colombia
07/21	National Holiday in Belgium
07/21	Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954
07/21	First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873
07/22	King's Birthday in Swaziland
07/22	National Day in Poland
07/23	Anniversary of the Revolution Egypt
07/23	Eqyptian National Day in Syrian Arab Republic
07/23	Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904
07/23	Remembrance Day in Papua, New Guinea
07/24	Pioneer Day in Utah
07/24	Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
07/24	Simon Bolivar's Day in Ecuador, Venezuela
07/25	Constitution Day in Puerto Rico
07/25	National Rebellion Day (3 days) in Cuba
07/25	Republic Day in Tunisia
07/25	St. James, Patron Saint in Spain
07/26	Independence Day in Liberia
07/26	National Day in Maldives
07/27	Barbosa's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
07/28	Bach dies, 1750
07/28	Independence Days (2 days) in Peru
07/29	Mussolini born, 1883
07/29	Olsok Eve in Norway to commemorate Norway's Viking King St. Olav
07/29	Rain Day in Waynesburg, PA
07/30	"In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956
07/30	Emily Bronte born, 1818
07/30	Henry Ford born, 1863
07/31	Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948, later JFK
07/31	Revolution Day in Congo

08
08/01	Discovery Day in Trinidad, Tobogo
08/01	Emancipation Day in Granada
08/01	Founding of Asuncion in Paraguay
08/01	Freedom Day in Guyana
08/01	Herman Melville born, 1819
08/01	Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on this day
08/01	National Day in Switzerland
08/01	National Holidays (5 days) in El Salvador
08/01	Parent's Day in Zaire
08/02	Our Lady of Los Angeles in Costa Rica
08/03	Independence Day in Jamaica, Niger
08/03	Massacre du Pidjiguiti in Buinea-bissau
08/03	Memorial Day of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus
08/03	USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958
08/03	Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492
08/04	Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892
08/04	Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964
08/04	Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914
08/04	Freedom Day in Guyana
08/06	Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945
08/06	Caricom in Barbados
08/06	Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
08/06	Emancipation Day in Bahamas
08/06	Independence Day in Bolivia
08/07	Battle of Boyaca in Colombia
08/08	Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles , 1937
08/08	Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914
08/08	Nixon announces resignation, 1973
08/08	The Great Train Robbery $7,368,000, 1963
08/09	Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
08/09	National Day in Singapore
08/09	Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC
08/08	Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974
08/09	US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
08/10	Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833
08/10	Independence Day in Ecuador
08/10	US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977
08/11	Dog days end
08/11	France Ends War in Indochina, 1954
08/11	Heroes Day (2 days) in Zimbabwe
08/11	Independence Day in Chad
08/11	King Hussein's Accession to the Throne in Jordan
08/11	Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
08/12	First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977
08/12	Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
08/12	Queen's Birthday in Thailand
08/12	Thomas Mann's Death, 1955
08/13	Annie Oakley born, 1860
08/13	Berlin wall erected, 1961
08/13	Fidel Castro born, 1927
08/13	Li'l Abner debut, 1934
08/13	Proclamation of Independence in Central African Republic
08/13	Women's Day in Tunisia
08/14	IBM PC announced, 1981
08/14	Independence Day in Pakistan
08/14	Social Security begins in U.S., 1935
08/14	VJ Day, 1945
08/14	Waddi Dhahab in Morocco
08/15	Beatles replace drummer Pete Best with Richard Starkey
08/15	Founding of Ascuncion in Paraguay
08/15	Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947
08/15	Hurricane hits Plimoth Plantation, 1635
08/15	Independence Day in India
08/15	Liberation Day in South Korea
08/15	National Day in Congo
08/15	Santa Maria in Malta
08/16	Bennington Battle Day in Vermont
08/16	Independence Days (3 days) in Gabon
08/16	Restoration Day in Dominican Republic
08/16	Roller Coaster patented, 1898
08/16	Woodstock Begins, 1969
08/15*	Admission Day in Hawaii {1984} (3rd Friday)
08/17	Anniversary of the Death of General San Martin in Argentina
08/17	First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
08/17	Independence Day in Indonesia
08/17	Mae West born, 1892
08/18	Anti-Cigarette League of America formed
08/18	Meriwether Lewis born, 1927
08/19	Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite, marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space,1960
08/19	Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856
08/19	Independence Day in Afghanistan
08/20	Constitution Day in Hungary
08/20 	Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
08/22	CDC 6600 introduced, 1963
08/22	Claude Debussy born, 1862
08/22	Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets
08/22	Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963
08/22	St. Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565
08/23	DEC founded, 1957
08/23	Gene Kelly born, 1912
08/23	Liberation Days (2 days) in Romania
08/23	Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927
08/24	-126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960
08/24	British troops burn Washington, 1814
08/24	National Flag Day in Liberia
08/25	Constitution Day in Paragual
08/25	Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
08/25	Independence Day in Uruguay
08/26	Susan B. Anthony Day in Massachussetts
08/26	Women get the vote, 1920
08/27	"Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912
08/27	Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883
08/27	Liberation Day in Hong Kong
08/27	Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908
08/28	Heroes Day in Philippines
08/28	King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963
08/29	Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist
08/29	Star in Cygnus goes nova & becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; Nova Cygni 1975.
08/29	Suruman enters the Shire
08/30	75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842
08/30	Huey P. Long Day in Louisiana
08/30	Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960
08/30	John W. Mauchly born, 1907
08/30	St. Rose of Lima in Peru
08/30	Victory Day in Turkey
08/30	Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963
08/31	269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983
08/31	Independence Day in Trinidad, Tobago
08/31	National Day in Malaysia
08/31	Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
08/31	Pashtoonian Day in Afghanistan
08/31	Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888

09
09/01	Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972
09/01	Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859
09/02	Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752
09/02	Japan signs unconditional surrender aboard US battleship `Missouri', 1945
09/01*	Labor Day (1st Monday)
09/03	Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino
09/03	Independence Day in Qatar
09/03	Memorial Day in Tunisia
09/05	First Continental Congress, Phila, 1774
09/05	Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961
09/05	King Louis XIV of France born, 1638
09/05	Raquel Welch born, 1942
09/05	The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774
09/06	149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620
09/06	Defense of Pakistan Day in Pakistan
09/06	First Star Trek episode (The Man Trap) aired 1966
09/06	Pres. McKinley shot, 1901
09/06	Settlers Day in South Africa
09/06	Somhlolo in Swaziland
09/06	Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909
09/07	Independence Day in Brazil
09/07	James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789
09/07	Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533
09/08	Anton Dvorak born in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia, 1841
09/08	Gerald R. Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974
09/08	King Richard I of England born, 1157
09/08	Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925
09/08	Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888
09/09	Admission Day in California
09/09	Anniversary of the Socialist Revolution k2 days) in Bulgaria
09/09	California becomes the 31st state, 1850
09/09	Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age of 82, 1976
09/09	National Day in North Korea
09/09	United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776
09/10	Korean Thanksgiving Day (Chusuk) in South Korea
09/10	Moon Festival in Taiwan
09/10	Mountain Meadows Massacre.  Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857
09/10	National Day in Belize
09/11	Ethiopian New Year in Ethiopia
09/11	Grandparent's Day
09/11	Aniversary of military coup in Chile
09/12	Amilcar Cabral's Birthday in Guinea-Bissau
09/12	Defender's Day in Maryland
09/12	German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943
09/12	Germany annexes Sudentenland, 1938
09/12	Jesse Owens born, 1913
09/12	Revolution Day in Ethiopia
09/13	136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya, 1922
09/13	Barry Day commemorates the death of Commodore John Barry
09/13	British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City, 1788
09/13	Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122
09/13	Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943
09/13	Walter Reed born, 1851
09/14	Battle of San Jacinto in Nicaragua
09/14	Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778
09/14	Francis Scott Key writes words to "Star Spangled Banner", 1814
09/14	Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629
09/14	The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940
09/15	ACM founded, 1947
09/15	Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890
09/15	Foundation of Panama in Panama
09/15	Respect for the Aged Day in Japan
09/15	Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959
09/15	The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department, 1789
09/16	Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914
09/16	Cherokee Strip Day in Oklahoma
09/16	Independence Day in Mexico, Papua, New Guinea
09/16	The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630
09/17	Battle of Antietam, 1862
09/17	National Heroes Day in Angola
09/18	Independence Day in Chile, Zimbabwe
09/18	Greta Garbo born, 1905
09/18	Victory of Uprona in Burundi
09/19	Army Day in Chile
09/20	Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884
09/20	First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848
09/20	First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916
09/20	Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954
09/20	Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519
09/20	Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878
09/21	H. G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866
09/21	Independence Day in Belize
09/21	Louis Joliet born, 1645
09/22	Alied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953
09/22	Autumnal equinox, 3:33 pm, EST
09/22	Independence Day in Mali
09/22	National Sovereignty Day in Haiti
09/22	President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore, 1881
09/22	President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
09/22	Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenaes President Nixon, 1974
09/22	The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949
09/23	Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC
09/23	Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC
09/23	Grito de Lares in Puerto Rico
09/23	Phillippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972
09/23	The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club, 1845
09/23	V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech., 1952
09/24	Anniversary of the Third Republic in Ghana
09/24	F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896
09/24	Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau
09/24	National Day in Saudi Arabia
09/24	Our Lady of Mercedes in Dominican Republic
09/24	Republic Day in Trinidad, Tobago
09/25	Army Day in Mozambique
09/25	Referendum Day in Rwanda
09/25	Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981
09/26	George Gershwin born in Brooklyn, NY
09/26	Johnny Appleseed born, 1774
09/26	National Day in Maldives, Yemem Deomcratic Republic
09/26	Revoluation Anniversary Day in Yemen Arab
09/26	T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888
09/27	Feast of Finding the True Cross in Ethiopia
09/27	The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825
09/27	Thomas Nast born, 1840
09/28	"Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678
09/28	A greek soldier runs 26+ miles to the Persian defeat at Marathon, 490BC
09/28	Confucious' Day in Taiwan
09/28	Michelangelo Buanarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573
09/28	Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106BC
09/28	Seymour Cray born, 1925
09/29	Battle of Boqueron in Paraquay
09/29	Gene Autry born, 1907
09/30	Botswanna Day in Botswanna
09/30	The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846
09/30	The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946
09/30	Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (#3) and Catherine Eddowes (#4), 1888

10
10/01	Armed Forces Day in South Korea
10/01	Independence Day in Nigeria
10/01	Jimmy Carter born, 1924
10/01	Labor Day in Australia
10/01	NASA officially begins operations, 1958
10/01	National Liberation Day (2 days) in China
10/01	Public Holiday in Botswanna
10/02	Anniversary of Guinean Independence in Guinea
10/02	Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC
10/02	First robotics-based CAM, 1939
10/02	Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869
10/02	Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967
10/03	Chung Yeung Festival in Hong Kong
10/03	Francisco Morazan's Birthday in Honduras
10/03	National Foundation Day in South Korea
10/03	U.N. Day in Varbados
10/04	Rosh Hashanah - New Year (1986 == 5747)
10/04	Crimean war begins, 1853
10/04	First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957
10/04	Independence Day in Lesotho
10/04	Janis Joplin O.D.s, 1970
10/04	John V. Atanasoff born, 1903
10/04	Sputnik 1, world's first orbiting satellite launched, 1957
10/05	Anniversary of Proclamation of the Republic in Portugal
10/05	Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881
10/05	Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902
10/06	Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853
10/06	Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981
10/06	First GPSS manual published, 1961
10/06	Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973
10/06	National Sports Day in Lesotho
10/07	First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast, 1957
10/07	Foundation of the GDR in 1949 in German Democratic Republic
10/07	Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977
10/07	Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979
10/07	National Heroes Day in Jamaica
10/07	Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974
10/07	Georgia Tech beats Cumberland Univ 222-0, 1916
10/08	Battle of Agamos in Peru
10/08	Constitution Day in U.S.S.R
10/08	First VisiCalc prototype, 1978
10/08	Great Chicago Fire, 1871
10/08	Thanksgiving Day in Canada
10/09	First two-way telephone conversation, 1876
10/09	Independence Day in Uganda
10/09	Independence of Guayaquil in Ecuador
10/09	John Lennon born in Liverpool, England, 1940
10/09	Korean Alphabet Day in South Korea
10/09	Leif Erikson Day commemorates the discovery of North America in AD 1000
10/09	Republic Day in Khmer Republic
10/10	Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba
10/10	Fiji Day in Fiji
10/10	Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea
10/10	Health-Sports Day in Japan
10/10	National Day in Taiwan
10/10	Oklahoma Historical Day in Oklahoma
10/10	Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973
10/11	Day of the Revolution in Panama
10/11	Druger Day in South Africa
10/11	The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976
10/11	The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811
10/11	The second Vatican Eccumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962
10/12	Day of the Race in Argentina
10/12	Discovery Day in Gahamas
10/12	Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960
10/12	Man O'War's last race, 1920
10/12	National Day in Equatorial Guinea, Spain
10/12	Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
10/12	Our Lady Aparecida Day in Brazil
10/12	Pan American Day in Belize
10/12	Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962
10/13	Italy declares war on Germany, 1943
10/13	St. Edward's Day - patron saint of England
10/13	U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress
10/13	Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC
10/13	Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement
10/14	Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066
10/14	British Computer Society founded, 1957
10/14	Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947
10/13*	Columbus Day observed
10/14	Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890
10/14	National Day in Yemen Arab Repyblic
10/14	William Penn born in London, 1644
10/14	Young People's Day in Zaire
10/15	Evacuation Day in Tunisia
10/15	First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published
10/15	First draft card burned, 1965
10/15	Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881
10/16	National Boss Day
10/16	Noah Webster born, 1758
10/16	Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854
10/17	Dessaline's Death Anniversary in Haiti
10/17	Heroes Day in Jamaica
10/17	Mother's Day in Malawi
10/17	Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S.
10/18	Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648
10/18	Feast Day of St. Luke
10/18	Succos - Feast of Tabernacles
10/18	Soviets anounce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959
10/19	Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949
10/19	Napoleon's beaten army beings a long retreat from Moscow, 1812
10/20	"Saturday Night Massacre", 1973
10/20	Anniversary of the 1944 Revolution in Guatemala
10/20	Kenyatta Day in Kenya
10/20	OPEC embargo, 1973
10/20	Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958
10/21	Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833
10/21	Armed Forces Day in Honduras
10/21	Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879
10/21	Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959
10/21	Revolution Days (2 days) in Somalia
10/22	Franz Liszt born, 1811
10/22	Mothers-in-Law Day
10/23	Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944
10/23	Chulalongkron's Day in Thsailand
10/23	Earth created at 6:30am, 4004BC.
10/23	Swallows leave Capistrano
10/24	Independence Day in Zambia
10/24	United Nations Day
10/25	DEC announces VAX-11/780, 1978(?)
10/25	Labor Day in New Zealand
10/25	Taiwan Restoration Day inb Taiwan
10/25	The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971
10/26	Agam Day in Nauru
10/26	Armed Forces Day in Benin, Rwanda
10/26	National Day in Austria
10/26	UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978
10/27	Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933
10/27	James Cook is born, 1466
10/27	New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871
10/27	The first New York Subway is opened, 1904
10/26*	Daylight Savings Time Ends; Turn Clocks Back 1hr.
10/28	Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492
10/28	Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312
10/28	Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636
10/28	National Holiday in Greece
10/28	OHI Day in Cyprus
10/28	Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886
10/29	Republic Day in Turkey
10/29	Stock Market Crash, 1929
10/30	Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938
10/31	Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887
10/31	Dale Evans born, 1912
10/31	Halloween
10/31	Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517
10/31	Nevada Day in Nevada

11
11/01	All Saints Day
11/01	Austria-Hungary become two seperate nations, 1918
11/01	Feast of All Saints in Portugal
11/01	Puerto Rican nationalists tried to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950
11/01	Samhain; Beginning of the Celtic year and most important holiday.
11/02	All Souls Day in Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, Uruguay
11/02	Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734
11/02	Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940
11/02	Memorial Day in Ecuador
11/02	Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, 1783
11/03	Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837
11/03	Culture Day in Japan
11/03	Independence from Columbia in Panama
11/03	Independence of Cuenca in Ecuador
11/03	Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954
11/03	Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing spacedog Laika
11/03	Thanksgiving Day in Liberia
11/04	Flag Day in Panama
11/04	Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979
11/04	King William III of Orange born, 1650
11/04	Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956
11/04	UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952
11/04	Will Rogers Day
11/05	Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605
11/05	Roy Rogers born, 1912
11/04*	Election Day
11/06	Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R.
11/06	Green March Day in Morocco
11/06	Prophet Mohammed's Birthday in Malaysia
11/07	Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837
11/07	Anniversary of Great October Revolution in Bulgaria
11/07	Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805
11/07	National Revolution Day
11/07	October Revolution Day in Hungary
11/08	Her Majesty, the Queen's Birthday in Nepal
11/08	Patti Page born, 1927
11/09	Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965
11/09	Carl Sagan born, 1934
11/09	Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927
11/09	Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921
11/09	Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888
11/09	Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933
11/10	41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstartions near White House, 1917
11/10	Cpt Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865
11/10	Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?", 1871
11/10	King's Birthday in Bhutan
11/10	Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483
11/10	Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982
11/11	Angola gains independence from Portugal, 1975
11/11	Armistice Day
11/11	Independence Day in Angola
11/11	Independence of Cartagena in Colombia
11/11	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922
11/11	Rememberance Day in Canada
11/11	Republic Day in Maldives
11/11	Veterans' Day
11/11	Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889
11/12	Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan
11/12	Prince Charles' Birthday in Fiji
11/12	U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861
11/13	Paul Simon born, 1942
11/13	Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850
11/13	St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354
11/14	King Hussein's Birthday in Jordan
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
11/15	Dynasty Day in Belgium
11/15	Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
11/15	Proclamation of the Republic in Brazil
11/15	Thatlouang Festival in Laos
11/16	Oklahoma Heritage Week in Oklahoma
11/16	Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869
11/17	Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973
11/17	46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966
11/17	Army Day in Zaire
11/17	Corrective Movement in Syrian Arab Republic
11/18	Battle of Viertieres in Haiti
11/18	First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952
11/18	Imogene Coca born, 1908
11/18	Independence Day in Morocco
11/18	Local standard time zones established for US, 1883
11/18	National Days (4 days) in Oman
11/18	William S. Gilbert born, 1836
11/19	Anniversary of the 1968 Coup by the Army in Mali
11/19	Discovery Day in Puerto Rico
11/19	Feast Day of S.A.S. Prince Rainier in Monaco
11/19	Garifuna Settlement in Belize
11/19	Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863
11/19	Prince of Wales Birthday in Fiji
11/20	RFK born, 1925
11/20	Revolution Day in Mexico
11/21	Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973
11/21	Day of Prayer and Repentance in Federal Republic of Germany
11/22	Anniversary of Portuguese Aggression in Guinea
11/22	Independence Day in Lebanon
11/22	Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963
11/22	Total solar eclipse (visible only in southern hemisphere)
11/23	Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan
11/23	First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963
11/24	Anniversary of the New Regime in Zaire
11/24	Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963
11/24	Scott Joplin born, 1868
11/25	Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867
11/25	Independence Day in Suriname
11/25	Johann Strauss, Jr., writes `On the Beautiful Blue Danube', 1867
11/26	Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922
11/26	Norbert Weiner born, 1894
11/27	Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895
11/27	Friction match invented, England, 1826
11/27	Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
11/28	Independence Day in Albania, Mauritania
11/28	Independence from Spain in Panama
11/28	Proclamation of the Republic in Chad
11/27*	Thanksgiving Day in United States (4th Thursday)
11/29*	First Sunday of Advent (4th Sunday before Christmas)
11/29	Day of the Republic (2 days) in Yugoslavia
11/29	Goodwill Day in Liberia
11/29	King Tut's tomb opened, 1922
11/29	Liberation Day in Albania
11/29	National Day in Burma
11/30	Cleopatra died, 30 bc
11/30	Independence Day in Barbados, Yemen Deomcratic Republic
11/30	Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835
11/30	National Day in Benin
11/30	National Heroes Day in Philippines
11/30	St. Andrew's Day

12
12/01	Anniversary of the Restoration of Independence in Portugal
12/01	First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924
12/01	Independence Day in Central African Republic
12/01	Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955
12/01	Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1953
12/01	Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935
12/02	National Holiday in United Arab Emirates
12/03	First neon light display, Paris, 1910
12/03	First successful human heart transplant lead by Dr. Barnard, 1967
12/03	National Holiday in Laos
12/04	Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783
12/05	End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part)
12/05	Mozart dies, 1791
12/05	Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776
12/05	St. Nicholas' Day
12/05	The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition, 1933
12/05	Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901
12/06	First sound recording made by Thomas Edison, 1877
12/06	Independence Day in Finland
12/07	Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941
12/07	Delaware Day in Delaware
12/07	Independence Day in Ivory Coast, Panama
12/07	Prophet Mohammed's Birthday in Fiji
12/08	Blessing of the Water in Uruguay
12/08	First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965
12/08	Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC
12/08	James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894
12/08	John Lennon assassinated, 1980
12/08	Mother's Day in Panama
12/08	Our Lady of the Cacupe in Paraguay
12/09	Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
12/09	Independence Day in Tanzania
12/10	Emily Dickenson born, 1830
12/10	Foundation of Worker's Party in Angola
12/10	Human Rights Day
12/10	Metric system established in France, 1799
12/10	Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year
12/10	Thai Constitution Day in Thailand
12/10	Wyoming Day in Wyoming
12/11	Independence Day in Upper Volta
12/12	E. G. Robinson born, 1893
12/12	First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901
12/12	Independence Day in Kenya
12/13	Dartmouth College chartered, 1769
12/13	Geminid meteor shower (look south)
12/13	Republic Day in Malta
12/13	Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972
12/14	George Washington dies, 1799
12/15	Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976
12/15	Bill of Rights adopted, 1791
12/15	James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891
12/15	Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890
12/15	Statue Day in Netherlands Antilles
12/15	Thomas Edison receives patent on the phonograph, 1877
12/16	Beethoven born, 1770
12/16	Constitution Day in Nepal
12/16	Day of the Covenant in South Africa
12/16	Ludwig von Beethoven christened in Bonn, Germany, 1770
12/16	National Day in Bahrain
12/16	Victry Day in Bangladesh
12/17	National Day in Bhutan
12/17	William Safire (Safir) born, 1929
12/18	Republic Day in Niger
12/20	U.S. Buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.
12/21	Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804
12/21	First day of winter, Winter Solstice, 11:23 am EST
12/21	Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in <80 days
12/21	Winter Solstice, 11:23 am EST
12/22	Giacomo Puccini born, 1858
12/23	First G&S collaboration, Thespis, 1871
12/23	Joseph Smith born, 1805
12/23	Victory Day in Egypt
12/24	Christmas Eve
12/24	KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865
12/25	Birthday of Quaid-i-Azam in Pakistan
12/25	Children's Day in Congo
12/25	Christmas
12/25	Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642
12/26	Boxing Day
12/26	Chas. Babbage born, 1791
12/26	DPMA founded, 1951
12/26	Family Day in South Africa
12/26	Feast of Our Theotokos in Greece
12/26	St. Stephen's Day
12/26 	Bank Holiday in Canada, Rep. of Ireland, and UK
12/27*	First Day of Hanukkah
12/27	APT report published, 1956
12/27	Bank Holiday in Cayman Islands
12/27	Constitution Day in North Korea
12/27	Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845
12/27	Public Holiday in Lesotho, Zimbabwe
12/28	Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
12/28	John von Neumann born, 1903
12/29	Battle of Wounded knee, 1890
12/29	Civic Holidays (3 days) in Costa Rica
12/29	His Majesty, the King's Birthday in Nepal
12/30	Anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar in Madagascar
12/30	First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940
12/31	Bank Holiday in El Salvador, Honduras, Pakistan
12/31	Feed Yourself Day in Benin
12/31	New Year's Eve
12/31	Proclamation of the Republic in Congo
12/31	St. Sylvester in Switzerland

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