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1.1 root 1: Mar 1 Feast of St. David, patron of Wales.
2: Mar 15 The Ides of March
3: Mar 17 Feast of St. Patrick, bishop & patron of Ireland.
4: Apr 15 Tax Day: income taxes due in the United States.
5: Apr 22 First Day of Summer (Icelandic holiday).
6: Apr 23 Feast St. George, patron of England.
7: Apr 25 Feast of St. Mark, evangelist, patron of Venice.
8: Apr 30 Walpurgis Nacht
9: May 19 Victoria Day, national holiday in Canada.
10: May 25 Feast of St. Gregory VII, creator of the Gregorian calendar.
11: May 30 Memorial Day.
12: Jul 1 Dominion Day; celebrates Canada's receiving dominion status.
13: Sep 3 Feast of St. Gregory the Great, trad. author of Gregorian chant.
14: Sep 28 Feast of St. Wenceslaus, "Good King Wenceslaus".
15: Nov 4 Death to America Day (Iranian holiday).
16: Nov 5 Guy Fawkes Day.
17: Dec 6 Feast of St. Nicholas, bishop, patron of children, thieves, & pawnbrokers.
18: Sep 4 4004 BC: Universe created, 9:30 AM GMT (trad.).
19: Apr 24 1184 BC: Greeks, hiding in Trojan Horse, capture Troy.
20: Apr 21 753 BC: Rome founded.
21: Sep 28 490 BC: Athenians defeat Persians at Marathon.
22: Feb 29 45 BC: Julius Caesar fixes length of year at 365 1/4 days.
23: Mar 15 44 BC: Julius Caesar assassinated.
24: Sep 2 31 BC: Battle of Actium: Octavian (Augustus) defeats Marc Antony.
25: Jul 18 64: Great Fire of Rome begins.
26: Aug 24 79: Pompeii destroyed by Vesuvius.
27: Mar 25 421: Venice founded.
28: Oct 9 1002: Leif Ericson arrives in Newfoundland.
29: Oct 14 1066: Battle of Hastings; William of Normandy conquers England.
30: Dec 29 1170: Thomas a Becket murdered by vassals of Henry II.
31: Oct 2 1187: Jerusalem falls to Saladin.
32: Apr 12 1204: Constantinople falls to Venice & the Fourth Crusade.
33: Jun 26 1284: Pied Piper lures 180 children from Hamlin (trad.)
34: Jan 27 1302: Dante expelled from Florence.
35: Apr 6 1327: Petrarch sees Laura, who inspires his 306 poems.
36: Apr 13 1387: Chaucer's pilgrims assemble at Tabard Inn, London.
37: Oct 25 1415: Battle of Agincourt.
38: Apr 29 1429: Joan of Arc enters Orleans.
39: May 29 1453: Constantinople falls to the Turks.
40: May 23 1455: Battle of St. Albans.
41: Aug 24 1456: Gutenberg Bible finished.
42: Aug 22 1485: Battle of Bosworth; Richard III overthrown by Henry Tudor.
43: May 13 1494: Christopher Columbus discovers Jamaica.
44: Jul 8 1497: Vasco da Gama sets sail for India.
45: Aug 14 1511: Michelangelo's frescos on Sistine Chapel first exhibited.
46: Apr 11 1513: Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain.
47: Sep 25 1513: Balboa crosses Panama; 1st European to see Pacific Ocean.
48: Nov 28 1520: Magellan enters the Pacific.
49: Apr 17 1521: Diet of Worms bans Martin Luther from the Holy Roman Empire.
50: Aug 13 1521: Cortez captures Mexico City from the Aztecs.
51: May 19 1536: Anne Boleyn beheaded.
52: Dec 17 1538: Henry VIII excommunicated.
53: May 30 1539: Hernando de Soto lands in Florida.
54: May 8 1541: Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi (at a point near Memphis).
55: Nov 17 1558: Elizabeth I becomes queen of England.
56: Oct 7 1571: Battle of Lepanto; forces of Venice & Spain defeat the Turks.
57: May 15 1571: Tatars burn Moscow.
58: Dec 13 1577: Sir Francis Drake sets sail in 'Pelican' (renamed 'Golden Hind').
59: Apr 25 1588: Spanish Armada sets sail.
60: Jul 29 1588: Battle of Gravelines: English fleet defeats the Spanish Armada.
61: Aug 8 1588: Sir Francis Drake destroys the Spanish Armada.
62: Dec 1 1590: Spencer's 'Faerie Queene' published.
63: Nov 5 1605: Guy Fawkes tries to blow up Houses of Parliament.
64: Feb 24 1607: Monteverdi's "Orfeo" premieres, Mantua; first true opera.
65: May 13 1607: Jamestown founded.
66: May 23 1618: Bohemian rebels defeat Ferdinand II; 30 Years' War begins.
67: Nov 11 1620: Mayflower Compact signed; first American constitution.
68: Jan 1 1622: Pope recognizes January 1 as beginning of the new year.
69: Dec 13 1642: New Zealand discovered by Abel Tasman.
70: May 14 1643: Louis XIV becomes king of France, at age 4.
71: Jan 29 1649: Charles I executed, London.
72: Apr 6 1652: Jan van Riebeeck arrives at Table Bay; first Dutchman in S. Africa.
73: Jan 1 1660: Samuel Pepys opens his diary.
74: Nov 14 1666: First successful blood transfusion.
75: Sep 2 1666: Great Fire of London begins; destroyed 80% of the city.
76: May 31 1669: Samuel Pepys closes his diary, due to deteriorating eyesight.
77: Aug 21 1680: Pueblo Indians rebel and seize Santa Fe.
78: Apr 9 1682: Robert Cavelier de la Salle claims Mississippi basin for France.
79: Apr 11 1689: William of Orange and Mary Stuart crowned monarchs of England.
80: May 23 1701: William Kidd hanged for piracy, London.
81: Oct 9 1701: Yale College founded.
82: Nov 5 1733: John Peter Zenger starts "New York Weekly Journal", 1st US newspaper.
83: Aug 20 1741: Vitas Bering discovers Alaska.
84: Apr 13 1742: First performance of Handel's "Messiah", Dublin.
85: Apr 16 1746: Battle of Culloden; Bonnie Prince Charlie defeated.
86: Jan 1 1751: Calendar Act passed; makes January 1 beginning of new year.
87: Apr 15 1755: Johnson's 'Dictionary' published.
88: Nov 1 1755: Earthquake destroys Lisbon; 60,000 killed.
89: May 16 1763: Boswell meets Dr. Johnson, Tom Davies' bookshop, London.
90: May 16 1770: Louis XIV marries Marie Antoinette.
91: Dec 16 1773: Boston Tea Party.
92: Aug 1 1774: Joseph Priestly isolates oxygen from air.
93: Apr 19 1775: Battle of Lexington, first armed engagement of Revolutionary War.
94: Jun 17 1775: Battle of Bunker Hill.
95: Dec 30 1775: Colonial troops repelled from Quebec.
96: Apr 18 1775: Paul Revere rides from Charleston to Lexington, Mass.
97: Jul 4 1776: Declaration of Independence ratified.
98: Dec 26 1776: Washington crosses the Delaware; attacks Hessians at Trenton.
99: Jan 10 1776: Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" published.
100: Feb 17 1776: 1st volume of Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall' published.
101: Sep 18 1777: 1st Battle of Saratoga.
102: Oct 17 1777: General Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga.
103: Sep 23 1779: Bon Homme Richard defeats HMS Serapis.
104: Oct 19 1781: Cornwallis surrenders to Washington at Yorktown.
105: Jul 16 1782: Mozart's "Die Entfuehrung aus dem Serail" premieres, Vienna.
106: Sep 19 1783: Montgolfier Bros. make first lighter-than-air flight, Paris.
107: May 1 1786: Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" premieres, Vienna.
108: Jun 27 1787: Gibbon finishes "Decline and Fall", between 11:00 pm & midnight.
109: Sep 29 1787: Mozart's "Don Giovanni" premieres, Prague.
110: May 14 1787: Constitutional Convention meets, in Philadelphia.
111: Oct 27 1787: First Federalist Paper published.
112: Apr 30 1789: George Washington inaugurated as first President.
113: Apr 28 1789: Crew of HMS 'Bounty' mutinies.
114: Jul 14 1789: Bastille stormed by Parisian mob.
115: Sep 22 1789: Office of the Postmaster General created.
116: Sep 22 1789: French Republic proclaimed.
117: Sep 25 1789: 1st session of Congress; Bill of Rights passed & sent to states.
118: Nov 20 1789: Bill of Rights ratified.
119: Jan 26 1790: Mozart's "Cosi fan Tutte" premieres, Vienna.
120: Aug 1 1790: First US Census completed.
121: Sep 30 1791: Mozart's "Die Zauberfloete" premieres, Prague.
122: Dec 15 1791: Bill of Rights ratified by the states.
123: Mar 14 1794: Eli Whitney granted patent for the cotton gin.
124: May 14 1796: Edward Jenner performs first smallpox vaccination.
125: May 12 1797: Venetian Republic, 1,376 years old, extinguished by Bonaparte.
126: Jan 8 1798: 11th amendment ratified; defined judicial power of US.
127: Dec 20 1803: U.S. takes possession of Louisiana territory.
128: Apr 30 1803: Louisiana purchased from France.
129: Dec 2 1804: Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French, Paris.
130: Sep 25 1804: 12th amendment ratified; defined functioning of Electoral College.
131: May 14 1804: Lewis and Clark begin their expedition to explore Louisiana.
132: Apr 7 1805: First performance of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, Vienna.
133: Oct 21 1805: Battle of Trafalgar.
134: May 26 1805: Napoleon crowned king of Italy.
135: Aug 6 1806: Napoleon dissolves the Holy Roman Empire.
136: Dec 16 1809: Napoleon divorces the Empress Josephine.
137: Sep 18 1810: Chile declares independence from Spain.
138: May 22 1813: Rossini's "L'Italiana in Algeri" premieres, Venice.
139: Dec 20 1813: Internal Revenue Service founded.
140: Sep 10 1813: Battle of Lake Erie.
141: Aug 14 1814: Rossini's "The Turk in Italy" premieres, Milan.
142: Sep 13 1814: Fort McHenry shelled; inspired writing of "Star Spangled Banner".
143: Apr 11 1814: Napoleon abdicates, exiled to Elba.
144: Jun 18 1815: Battle of Waterloo.
145: Jan 8 1815: Battle of New Orleans.
146: Jan 30 1815: Library of Congress established.
147: Feb 20 1816: Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" premieres, Rome.
148: Dec 4 1816: James Monroe elected president.
149: Jul 9 1816: Argentina declares itself independent of Spain.
150: Dec 3 1818: Illinois admitted to the Union.
151: Sep 15 1821: Costa Rica declares independence from Spain.
152: Sep 15 1821: Honduras declares independence from Spain.
153: Sep 15 1821: Nicaragua declares independence from Spain.
154: Sep 15 1821: El Salvador declares independence from Spain.
155: Sep 15 1821: Guatemala declares independence from Spain.
156: Dec 2 1823: Monroe Doctrine declared.
157: Oct 4 1824: Republic of Mexico proclaimed.
158: Aug 6 1825: Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
159: Oct 24 1825: Erie Canal opens.
160: Apr 14 1828: 1st edition of Webster's "American Dictionary" published.
161: Sep 22 1830: Venezuela seceeds from Colombia.
162: Aug 21 1831: Nat Turner's rebellion begins, Southampton County, Va.
163: Aug 1 1834: Parliament outlaws slavery throughout the British Empire.
164: Aug 14 1834: Richard Henry Dana sets sail on brig "Pilgrim".
165: Apr 21 1836: Battle of San Jacinto; Sam Houston defeats Santa Ana.
166: Mar 6 1836: Alamo falls to Mexican Army.
167: Mar 4 1837: City of Chicago incorporated.
168: Dec 4 1839: First Whig convention nominates William Henry Harrison for president.
169: Dec 2 1840: William Henry Harrison elected president.
170: Jul 14 1841: "Punch" founded.
171: Apr 4 1841: William Henry Harrison dies; was president for 1 month.
172: Mar 30 1842: First use of anesthesia in surgery.
173: Aug 8 1844: Brigham Young elected head of the Mormons.
174: Jul 4 1845: Henry David Thoreau takes up residence at Waldon Pond.
175: Jan 29 1845: Poe's "The Raven" published.
176: Oct 10 1845: US Naval Academy founded.
177: Sep 23 1846: Neptune discovered by Johann Gottfried Galle.
178: Jun 19 1846: First official baseball game played, Hoboken, NJ.
179: Sep 10 1846: Elias Howe awarded patent for the sewing machine.
180: Aug 22 1846: United States annexes New Mexico.
181: Jul 23 1846: Thoreau refuses to pay poll tax, to protest Mexican War.
182: May 13 1846: War declared with Mexico.
183: Jul 7 1846: US annexes Republic of California.
184: Feb 22 1847: Battle of Buena Vista.
185: Mar 27 1847: Vera Cruz surrendered to Winfield Scott.
186: Sep 12 1847: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
187: Feb 26 1848: "Communist Manifesto" published.
188: Dec 22 1849: Fyodor Dostoyevsky undergoes mock execution.
189: Jul 29 1850: 1st opera performed in Chicago: "La Sonnambula".
190: Sep 18 1851: New York Times first published.
191: Aug 22 1851: Schooner 'America' defeats 'Aurora' to win first America's Cup.
192: Mar 20 1852: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published.
193: Oct 4 1853: Turkey declares war on Russia; Crimean War begins.
194: Dec 30 1853: Gadsden Purchase completed; US buys 45,000 sq miles from Mexico.
195: Dec 30 1854: Rock Oil Co. founded; first oil company.
196: Jul 4 1855: "Leaves of Grass" published.
197: Aug 21 1858: First Lincoln-Douglas debate held.
198: Oct 16 1859: John Brown raids Harpers Ferry arsenal, to start slave rebellion.
199: Dec 2 1859: John Brown hanged; last words: "This is a beautiful country."
200: Dec 20 1860: South Carolina seceeds from the Union.
201: Jul 21 1861: Battle of Bull Run.
202: Apr 15 1861: Fort Sumter bombarded; Civil War begins.
203: Apr 6 1862: Battle of Shiloh begins, Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee.
204: Jul 4 1862: C. L. Dodgson & Alice Liddell go on a boating picnic.
205: Mar 8 1862: Battle of Pea Ridge.
206: Apr 16 1862: Congress abolishes slavery in the District of Columbia.
207: Aug 18 1862: Sioux rebel in Minnesota.
208: Apr 29 1862: New Orleans falls to the Union armies.
209: May 15 1862: U.S. Department of Agriculture established.
210: Mar 9 1862: Battle of the "Monitor" versus the "Merrimack".
211: Sep 22 1862: Emancipation Proclamation delivered by President Lincoln.
212: Dec 31 1862: Battle of Stone's River.
213: Mar 9 1863: U.S. Grant named commander of Union armies.
214: Jan 1 1863: Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation.
215: May 1 1863: Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
216: Jul 4 1863: Vicksburg falls to U.S. Grant.
217: Jun 30 1863: Battle of Gettysburg begins.
218: Jul 3 1863: Pickett's charge at Gettysburg.
219: Sep 19 1863: Battle of Chickamauga.
220: Nov 25 1863: Battle of Missionary Ridge.
221: Nov 19 1863: Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address.
222: May 1 1864: US Grant begins Wilderness campaign.
223: Sep 3 1864: Sherman takes Atlanta.
224: Dec 15 1864: Battle of Nashville.
225: Nov 12 1864: Sherman begins his march to the sea.
226: June 19 1865: Juneteenth: Union troops free the slaves in Texas.
227: Dec 18 1865: 13th Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery.
228: Apr 14 1865: Abraham Lincoln assassinated.
229: Apr 9 1865: Lee surrenders to Grant, Appomattox Courthouse, Va.
230: May 16 1866: First nickel coined.
231: Jun 19 1867: Emperor Maximillian executed, Mexico City.
232: Jul 28 1868: 14th amendment ratified; guaranteed due process to all citizens.
233: May 26 1868: Andrew Johnson acquitted by the Senate.
234: Mar 30 1870: 15th amendment ratified; extended the franchise to former slaves.
235: Sep 18 1870: French surrender to Germans, ending Franco-Prussian war.
236: Nov 10 1871: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"--Stanley finds Livingstone in Congo.
237: Feb 8 1874: Mussorgsky's "Boris Gudunov" premieres, St. Petersburg.
238: Mar 3 1875: Bizet's "Carmen" premieres, Paris.
239: Jun 25 1876: Battle of the Little Big Horn (Custer's Last Stand), Montana.
240: Apr 22 1876: National League formed.
241: Aug 2 1876: Wild Bill Hickok shot in poker game; held pairs of aces and eights.
242: Feb 19 1878: Edison patents the phonograph.
243: Mar 29 1879: Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" premieres, Moscow.
244: Jan 22 1879: Battle of Isandlhwana: Zulus destroy a British regiment.
245: Jul 2 1881: James Garfield shot by Charles Guiteau.
246: Sep 18 1881: James Garfield dies of wounds inflicted two months earlier.
247: Aug 7 1882: Feud erupts between Hatfields and McCoys.
248: Aug 27 1883: Krakatoa explodes.
249: May 1 1884: Home Insurance Building started, world's first skyscraper, Chicago.
250: Jan 1 1884: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" published.
251: Dec 9 1884: Ball-bearing roller skate patented.
252: Aug 25 1885: Laura Ingalls weds Almanzo Wilder, DeSmet, SD.
253: Sep 4 1886: Geronimo surrenders to Gen. Nelson Miles, Skeleton Canyon, Ariz.
254: Feb 5 1887: Verdi's "Otello" premieres, Milan.
255: Aug 20 1887: Dan Casey strikes out, inspiring "Casey at the Bat".
256: Apr 22 1889: Oklahoma Land Rush begins.
257: Aug 13 1889: William Gray patents the coin-operated telephone.
258: May 31 1889: Johnstown, Pa., destroyed by flood; 2,200 die.
259: Nov 4 1890: Borodin's "Prince Igor" premieres, St. Petersburg.
260: Sep 6 1890: Joseph Conrad takes command of "Roi des Belges" on the Congo River.
261: Jul 2 1890: Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed.
262: Dec 29 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee.
263: May 1 1893: World's Columbian Exposition opens, Chicago.
264: Aug 16 1896: Gold discovered at Bonanza Creek, Alaska; Alaska Gold Rush begins.
265: Dec 12 1897: "Katzenjammer Kids" premieres.
266: Jul 25 1897: Jack London leaves San Francisco for the Klondike.
267: Feb 15 1898: Remember the "Maine"! -- 260 crewmen die in explosion in Havana.
268: Apr 25 1898: US declares war on Spain.
269: May 1 1898: Battle of Manila Bay.
270: Jul 1 1898: Teddy Roosevelt charges up San Juan Hill, Santiago, Cuba.
271: Aug 13 1898: US forces capture Manila.
272: Jan 12 1898: Zola publishes "J'accuse!".
273: Oct 19 1900: Max Planck finds the quantum of energy (Planck's constant), Berlin.
274: Apr 30 1900: Casey Jones killed in railroad accident.
275: Aug 14 1900: US Marines enter Peking to help quell Boxer Rebellion.
276: Jul 24 1901: O. Henry released from Ohio state penitentiary.
277: Dec 11 1901: Marconi transmits & receives radio signals across the Atlantic.
278: Dec 17 1903: Orville Wright makes the first powered flight, Kitty Hawk, NC.
279: Dec 30 1903: Iroquois Theater in Chicago burns; 500 killed.
280: Jun 16 1904: James Joyce meets Nora Barnacle, Dublin.
281: Jun 16 1904: Bloomsday.
282: Apr 18 1906: San Francisco destroyed by earthquake.
283: Oct 14 1906: White Sox beat Cubs 8-3, to win only all-Chicago World Series.
284: Aug 1 1907: US Army Air Corps established.
285: Dec 15 1908: Last 1st Ward Ball held.
286: May 31 1910: Union of South Africa formed.
287: Jan 26 1911: Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier" premieres, Dresden.
288: Dec 14 1911: Amundsen reaches the South Pole.
289: May 15 1911: Supreme Court breaks up Standard Oil.
290: Oct 11 1911: Revolutionaries led by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen overthrow Manchu Dynasty.
291: Apr 15 1912: 'Titanic' strikes iceberg; 1,500 passengers and crew lost.
292: Sep 25 1912: Ford Motor Co. establishes 40-hr. work week; first corp. to do so.
293: Oct 28 1913: "Krazy Kat" premieres.
294: Feb 25 1913: 16th amendment ratified; established federal income tax.
295: May 31 1913: 17th amendment ratified; secured direct election of the Senate.
296: Sep 1 1914: Last known passenger pigeon dies in Cincinnati zoo.
297: Oct 10 1914: Panama Canal completed.
298: Aug 18 1914: Woodrow Wilson declares his Fourteen Points.
299: Nov 7 1914: "New Republic" founded.
300: Jul 28 1914: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia; World War I begins.
301: Aug 15 1914: Panama Canal opened.
302: Jun 28 1914: Archduke Ferdinand and his wife assassinated, Sarajevo.
303: Aug 2 1914: Germany invades France, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
304: May 7 1915: "Lusitania" sunk by German submarine; 1,100 drown.
305: Apr 24 1916: The "James Caird" launched from Elephant Island.
306: May 9 1916: The "James Caird" arrives at South Georgia Island.
307: May 15 1916: Shackleton, Worsley & Crean cross South Georgia Island on foot.
308: Dec 16 1916: Rasputin murdered.
309: Jul 1 1916: Battle of the Somme begins.
310: Jul 14 1916: Tristan Tzara presents the Manifesto of Dada, Zurich, Switzerland.
311: May 31 1916: Battle of Jutland, last major battle fought with battleships.
312: Jul 14 1916: Dr. Robert Goddard granted patent for the liquid-fuel rocket.
313: Apr 2 1917: US declares war on Germany; enters World War I.
314: Apr 16 1917: Lenin's sealed train arrives at the Finland Station, Petrograd.
315: Nov 7 1917: October Revolution brings Bolsheviks to power in Russia.
316: Sep 26 1918: Battle of Argonne-Meuse begins.
317: Nov 11 1918: Armistice Day.
318: Dec 1 1918: Iceland gains independence.
319: Jan 29 1919: 18th amendment ratified; established Prohibition.
320: Mar 29 1919: Solar elipse confirms Einstein's theory of relativity.
321: Jun 18 1919: Treaty of Versailles signed; WWI officially ends.
322: Aug 20 1920: 8MK (later WWJ), first commercial radio station, goes on the air.
323: Aug 26 1920: 19th amendment ratified; extended the franchise to women.
324: Dec 30 1920: Prokofiev's "The Love for Three Oranges" premieres, Chicago.
325: Dec 20 1922: USSR established.
326: Feb 2 1922: James Joyce's "Ulysses" published.
327: Nov 23 1923: Height of German inflation: 4.2 trillion marks to one U.S. dollar.
328: Aug 5 1924: "Little Orphan Annie" premieres.
329: Jun 2 1924: Congress grants citizenship to all American Indians.
330: Feb 12 1924: Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" premieres, New York.
331: Feb 21 1925: "New Yorker" first published.
332: Nov 12 1927: Leon Trotsky expelled from Soviet Communist Party.
333: Sep 18 1928: "Steamboat Willie" premieres; first Mickey Mouse cartoon.
334: Oct 24 1929: "Black Thursday" - stock market crashes.
335: Jun 9 1930: First "Donald Duck" cartoon.
336: Aug 6 1930: Judge Crater disappears.
337: Mar 3 1931: "Star Spangled Banner" made U.S. national anthem.
338: Feb 6 1933: 20th amendment ratified; changed term of office of the president.
339: Dec 5 1933: 21st amendment ratified; repealed Prohibition.
340: May 27 1933: Century of Progress exhibition opens, Chicago.
341: Jul 4 1934: Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
342: Jan 7 1934: "Flash Gordon" premieres.
343: Aug 20 1934: "Li'l Abner" premieres.
344: Aug 7 1934: US Court of Appeals lifts the ban on Joyce's "Ulysses".
345: Aug 2 1934: Adolph Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany.
346: Sep 18 1934: Bruno Hauptmann arrested, charged with kidnapping Lindbergh baby.
347: Sep 30 1935: Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" premieres, Boston.
348: Nov 23 1935: First "Porky Pig" cartoon premieres.
349: Oct 19 1935: First "Looney Tunes" cartoon premiers.
350: Dec 17 1935: First test flight by a Douglas DC-3.
351: Sep 15 1935: Nuremberg Laws put into effect.
352: Jan 30 1935: Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, who admires his poems.
353: Oct 8 1935: Lord Peter Wimsey weds Harriet Vane (trad.).
354: Dec 30 1936: UAW stages 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant, Flint, Mich.
355: Dec 11 1936: Edward VIII of England abdicates.
356: Jul 17 1937: Elmer Fudd first appears in a Looney Tunes cartoon.
357: Apr 17 1937: First "Daffy Duck" cartoon.
358: Dec 21 1937: Premiere of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
359: May 27 1937: Golden Gate Bridge finished.
360: May 30 1937: Republic Steel strike begins, Chicago.
361: Jul 2 1937: Amelia Earhart disappears over the Pacific.
362: Oct 30 1938: Orson Welles broadcasts "The War of the Worlds".
363: Apr 30 1938: First "Bugs Bunny" cartoon.
364: Nov 9 1938: Kristalnacht.
365: Jan 16 1939: Superman first appears in "Action Comics".
366: Sep 1 1939: Poland invaded by Germany; World War II begins.
367: Aug 2 1939: Albert Einstein writes to FDR, urges him to make the atomic bomb.
368: May 7 1939: Italy and Germany ally to form the Rome-Berlin Axis.
369: Apr 9 1939: Marian Anderson sings on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
370: May 22 1939: Hitler and Mussolini sign military alliance.
371: Nov 13 1940: Premiere of "Fantasia".
372: Apr 9 1940: Germany invades Norway and Denmark.
373: Jul 29 1940: Battle of Britain begins.
374: Jun 22 1941: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union.
375: Dec 7 1941: Japanese aircraft attack Pearl Harbor.
376: Dec 11 1941: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States.
377: May 27 1941: Battleship "Bismarck" sunk in the North Atlantic.
378: Apr 9 1942: Bataan Death March begins.
379: Sep 15 1942: Siege of Stalingrad begins.
380: Jul 9 1942: Anne Frank goes into hiding, Amsterdam.
381: Aug 7 1942: US Marines land on Guadalcanal.
382: Dec 2 1942: First nuclear chain reaction, Stagg Field, University of Chicago.
383: Apr 18 1942: Col. Doolittle bombs Tokyo.
384: May 8 1942: Battle of the Coral Sea ends.
385: Feb 19 1942: Japanese bombers attack Australia.
386: Jun 4 1942: Battle of Midway: US dive bombers sink 3 Japanese carriers, 10:22 AM.
387: May 12 1943: Los Alamos National Laboratory opened; Manhatten Project begins.
388: Nov 22 1943: Lebanon gains independence.
389: Aug 4 1944: Anne Frank arrested, Amsterdam.
390: Jun 6 1944: D-Day: Allies invade Normandy.
391: Dec 16 1944: Battle of the Bulge begins.
392: Aug 1 1944: Warsaw Uprising begins.
393: Aug 25 1944: Allied troops liberate Paris.
394: Nov 1 1944: Syria gains independence.
395: Jul 14 1944: Italy declares war on Japan.
396: Feb 13 1945: Dresden destroyed by Allied incendiary bombing.
397: Feb 19 1945: Iwo Jima invaded; 6,821 Marines and ~20,000 Japanese die.
398: Mar 9 1945: Tokyo burned by U.S. incendiary bombing; at least 100,000 die.
399: Aug 6 1945: Hiroshima destroyed with an atomic bomb.
400: Aug 9 1945: Nagasaki destroyed with an atomic bomb.
401: Jul 16 1945: Trinity: first atomic bomb exploded, Alamogordo, NM.
402: Aug 14 1945: Japan surrenders to Allies; World War II ends.
403: May 7 1945: Germany unconditionally surrenders, Rheims, France.
404: Jun 26 1945: United Nations charter signed, San Francisco.
405: Aug 8 1945: Harry Truman signs the United Nations charter.
406: Aug 8 1945: Soviet Union declares war on Japan.
407: Feb 19 1945: U.S. Marines invade Iwo Jima.
408: Apr 10 1945: US Army liberates Buchenwald; Patton forces locals to tour camp.
409: Jul 28 1945: B-25 bomber crashes into Empire State Building.
410: May 22 1946: Jordan gains independence.
411: Jul 4 1946: Philippines gains independence.
412: Aug 31 1946: John Hersey's "Hiroshima" published in the "New Yorker".
413: Sep 30 1946: Nurnberg trials concluded; 11 National Socialist leaders condemned.
414: Oct 16 1946: Ten National Socialists hanged at Nurnberg.
415: Jun 24 1947: First reported sighting of a flying saucer, Mt. Ranier, Wash.
416: Aug 15 1947: India gains independence.
417: Aug 15 1947: Pakistan gains independence.
418: Apr 11 1947: Jackie Robinson becomes first black to play in major leagues.
419: Oct 14 1947: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier.
420: May 14 1948: Israel gains independence.
421: Jan 4 1948: Burma gains independence.
422: Feb 4 1948: Ceylon gains independence.
423: Apr 21 1948: State of Israel founded.
424: Dec 30 1949: Vietnam wins independence from France.
425: Jul 19 1949: Laos gains independence.
426: Dec 28 1949: Indonesia gains independence.
427: May 12 1949: Soviet Union lifts blockade of Berlin, after 328 days.
428: Sep 22 1949: USSR explodes its first atomic bomb.
429: Nov 1 1950: Puerto Rican nationalists attempt to assassinate President Truman.
430: Feb 27 1951: 22nd amendment ratified; limited president to two terms in office.
431: Apr 11 1951: Douglas MacArthur fired by President Truman.
432: Nov 1 1952: Mike I, first US hydrogen bomb, exploded, Eniwetok Atoll.
433: May 24 1952: First "Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote" cartoon.
434: Sep 23 1952: Richard Nixon delivers the "Checkers" speech.
435: Jun 2 1953: Elizabeth II crowned queen of England.
436: Jun 19 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed.
437: Jun 4 1954: Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) formed.
438: Dec 29 1954: Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) formed.
439: Mar 2 1956: Morocco gains independence.
440: Mar 20 1956: Tunisia gains independence.
441: Oct 23 1956: Hungarian uprising begins; liberal government installed.
442: Nov 3 1956: Hungarian uprising crushed by Soviet invasion.
443: Mar 6 1957: Ghana gains independence.
444: Dec 24 1957: Libya gains independence.
445: May 31 1957: Malaysia gains independence.
446: Oct 4 1957: Sputnik launched; first artificial object to orbit the Earth.
447: Oct 2 1958: Guinea gains independence.
448: Jul 29 1958: NASA founded.
449: Apr 18 1958: Ezra Pound released from St. Elizabeth's Hospital.
450: Oct 29 1958: Boris Pasternak refuses the Nobel Prize.
451: Oct 2 1959: "The Twilight Zone" premieres.
452: Sep 29 1959: "Rocky and Bullwinkle" premieres.
453: Jan 3 1959: Alaska enters the Union.
454: Aug 21 1959: Hawaii enters the Union.
455: Jun 26 1959: St. Lawrence Seaway opened.
456: Sep 18 1959: Khruschev upset when told he cannot visit Disneyland.
457: Nov 28 1960: Mauritania gains independence.
458: Aug 20 1960: Senegal gains independence.
459: Sep 22 1960: Sudan gains independence.
460: Aug 7 1960: Ivory Coast gains independence.
461: Aug 3 1960: Niger gains independence.
462: Oct 1 1960: Eastern Niger gains independence.
463: Aug 17 1960: Gabon gains independence.
464: Jun 27 1960: Madagascar gains independence.
465: Jun 26 1960: Malaya gains independence.
466: Sep 22 1960: Mali gains independence.
467: Oct 1 1960: Nigeria gains independence.
468: Jul 1 1960: Somalia gains independence.
469: Apr 27 1960: Togo gains independence.
470: Aug 5 1960: Burkino Fasso (Upper Volta) gains independence.
471: Jun 30 1960: Congo (Kinshasa) gains independence.
472: Aug 15 1960: Congo (Brazzaville) gains independence.
473: Aug 13 1960: Central African Republic gains independence.
474: Aug 11 1960: Chad gains independence.
475: Aug 16 1960: Cyprus gains independence.
476: Aug 1 1960: Dahomey gains independence.
477: May 23 1960: Adolf Eichmann captured by Israeli agents.
478: Mar 29 1961: 23rd amendment ratified; gave DC representatives in Congress.
479: Apr 17 1961: Anti-Castro Cubans invade at the Bay of Pigs.
480: May 30 1961: Rafael Trujillo assassinated, Dominican Republic.
481: Apr 10 1961: Adolph Eichmann stands trial, Tel Aviv.
482: Aug 13 1961: Berlin Wall built.
483: Jun 19 1961: Kuwait gains independence.
484: Aug 27 1961: Sierra Leone gains independence.
485: Dec 28 1961: Tanganyika (later Tanzania) gains independence.
486: Aug 31 1961: Trinidad-Tobago gains independence.
487: Apr 12 1961: Yuri Gagarin becomes first human to fly in outer space.
488: May 5 1961: Alan Shepherd makes suborbital flight; 1st American in outer space.
489: Aug 6 1961: Gherman Titov becomes second human in space; orbits earth 17 times.
490: Aug 13 1961: East Germany seals its border with West Germany.
491: Aug 6 1962: Jamaica gains independence.
492: Jul 1 1962: Rwanda gains independence.
493: Oct 9 1962: Uganda gains independence.
494: Jan 1 1962: Western Samoa gains independence.
495: Jul 5 1962: Algeria gains independence.
496: Jul 1 1962: Burundi gains independence.
497: Oct 22 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis begins.
498: Feb 20 1962: John Glenn becomes first American to orbit the earth.
499: Dec 14 1962: Mariner 2 flies by Venus; first successful US deep-space mission.
500: May 31 1962: Adolf Eichmann executed.
501: Aug 18 1963: James Meredith graduates from University of Mississippi.
502: Dec 12 1963: Kenya gains independence.
503: Nov 22 1963: John F. Kennedy assassinated, Dallas.
504: May 15 1963: Gordon Cooper begins final Project Mercury flight.
505: Jul 6 1964: Malawi gains independence.
506: Jun 15 1964: Cubs trade Lou Brock to Cardinals for Ernie Brolio.
507: Sep 21 1964: Malta gains independence.
508: Oct 24 1964: Zambia gains independence.
509: Aug 7 1964: Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
510: Jan 23 1964: 24th amendment ratified; banned the poll tax.
511: Jul 2 1964: President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
512: Feb 18 1965: Gambia gains independence.
513: Nov 9 1965: Northeastern U.S. loses electric power -- first great blackout.
514: Jul 26 1965: Maldive Islands gain independence.
515: Aug 6 1965: Singapore gains independence.
516: Mar 18 1965: Alexei Leonov makes first space walk.
517: Mar 23 1965: First Project Gemini flight.
518: Jun 3 1965: Edward White becomes first American to walk in space.
519: Dec 15 1965: Gemini 7 & 6 make first rendezvous in space.
520: Apr 9 1965: First indoor playing of a major league baseball game.
521: Nov 11 1965: Rhodesia unilaterally declares independence from Britain.
522: May 26 1966: Guyana gains independence.
523: Oct 4 1966: Lesotho gains independence.
524: Sep 30 1966: Botswana gains independence.
525: Jan 27 1967: Fire kills three astronauts in Apollo 1 capsule.
526: Nov 30 1967: South Yemen gains independence.
527: Oct 18 1967: Venera 4 drops capsule onto Venutian surface; 1st contact with planet.
528: Feb 10 1967: 25th amendment ratified; further defined presidential succession.
529: Aug 20 1968: Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia; crush Dubcek regime.
530: Apr 4 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated, Memphis.
531: Oct 12 1968: Equatorial Guinea gains independence.
532: Mar 12 1968: Mauritius gains independence.
533: Jan 31 1968: Nauru gains independence.
534: Sep 6 1968: Swaziland gains independence.
535: Dec 24 1968: Apollo 8 becomes first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon.
536: Jul 20 1969: "Tranquility Base here. The 'Eagle' has landed", 3:17 PM CDT.
537: Jul 20 1969: Edward Kennedy drives his car off Chappaquiddick bridge.
538: May 16 1969: Soviet 'Venera' spacecraft returns pictures from surface of Venus.
539: Jul 16 1969: Apollo 11 mission launched.
540: Aug 15 1969: Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens.
541: May 30 1971: Mariner 9 launched; 1st artificial object to orbit another planet.
542: Jul 30 1971: Chicago's Union Stockyards closed.
543: Sep 9 1971: Attica uprising begins; 43 killed.
544: Jun 30 1971: 26th amendment ratified; franchise extended to 18-year-olds.
545: Sep 1 1972: Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky to become world chess champion.
546: Dec 11 1972: Apollo 17 lands on the moon.
547: May 15 1972: George Wallace shot by Arthur Bremer.
548: Nov 11 1973: Egypt & Israel declare cease fire in Sinai war.
549: Oct 10 1973: Spiro Agnew pleads nole contendere and resigns from office.
550: Feb 13 1974: Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from the Soviet Union.
551: Mar 29 1974: Mariner 10's closest approach to Mercury.
552: Apr 4 1974: Hank Aaron hits 714th home run.
553: Aug 8 1974: Richard Nixon announces his resignation.
554: Jul 20 1976: Viking 1 lands on Martian surface.
555: Sep 23 1978: Camp David Accords signed; peace between Israel and Egypt.
556: Dec 4 1978: Pioneer-Venus 1 enters Venutian orbit.
557: Mar 5 1979: Voyager 1 begins Jupiter encounter.
558: Nov 5 1979: Islamic militants seize US embassy in Tehran.
559: Oct 4 1981: Anwar Sadat assassinated.
560: Apr 12 1981: Space shuttle "Columbia" makes maiden flight.
561: Aug 12 1981: IBM introduces its Personal Computer: 8088, 64K, tape cassette.
562: Aug 17 1981: Voyager 2 makes closest approach to Saturn.
563: May 13 1981: Pope John Paul II shot by Turkish assassin.
564: Sep 1 1983: Soviet fighter shoots down KAL flight 007.
565: Sep 24 1984: Chicago Cubs clinch NL Eastern Division championship.
566: Sep 1 1985: Robert Ballard find the "Titanic".
567: Sep 18 1985: Earthquake levels large sections of Mexico City.
568: Jan 24 1986: Voyager 2 makes closest approach to Uranus.
569: Jan 28 1986: Space shuttle "Challenger" explodes on takeoff.
570: Dec 25 1989: Nicolai Ceausescu assassinated.
571: Nov 7 1989: Berlin Wall falls.
572: Aug 24 1989: Voyager 2 makes closest approach to Neptune.
573: Oct 17 1989: Loma Prieta earthquake ("Quake of '89") at 5:04 PM, Richter 7.1.
574: Aug 2 1990: Iraq invades Kuwait.
575: Apr 24 1990: Hubble Space Telescope launched.
576: Oct 3 1990: Germany reunited.
577: Jun 17 1991: South Africa repeals apartheid laws.
578: Jan 16 1991: US bombing of Baghdad begins Persian Gulf War with Iraq.
579: Dec 25 1991: Soviet Union officially goes out of business.
580: Apr 13 1992: Contractor breaches subway tunnel; Chicago's Loop flooded.
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