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01/01 Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba

01/01 Castro expels Cuban President Batista, 1959

01/01 Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech, 1947

01/01 First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902

01/02 Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve

01/02 First military deployment of helicopters (VS-300 by Igor Sikorsky),

Niagara Falls, 1929

with a brittish american convoy, 1944

01/03 Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers

01/02 Soviet rocket carrying Lunokhod-1 leaves the Earth's orbit

over Italy, 1925

the first time ever (though did not reach the moon), 1959

01/03 Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British

01/03 After 218 years since discovery by europeans and 92 years after

Prime Minister in the 20th Century, 1988

it was purchased from Russian Empire, Alaska becomes 49th state, 1959

01/04 Burma becomes independent from United Kingdom, 1948

01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)

01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913

01/05 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940

01/05 Twelfth night

01/08 Battle of New Orleans

01/06 Maria Montessori opens her first school in Rome, 1907

01/07 First transatlantic telephone call, 1927

01/08 Monaco gains its independence, 1297

01/09 Plough Monday

01/10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946

01/10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776

01/11 Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania

01/11 De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico

01/11 Milk delivered in bottles for the first time, 1878

01/11 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal

01/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964

01/12 Batman the TV series debuts on ABC, 1966

01/11 The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963

01/13 Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance, 1930

01/14 Julian Calendar New Year's Day

01/14 The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967

01/15 Angola becomes an independent state, 1975

01/16 Prohibition begins, 1920

01/16 The Medici family are made official bankers of the Papacy, 1412

01/18 Grey whale migration, California

01/17 Captain James Cook becomes the first explorer to cross the

Antarctic Circle, 1773

01/18 The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time, 1896

01/19 The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant, 1978

01/20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)

01/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922

01/21 First commercial flight with a Concorde, 1976

01/24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848

01/22 British colonists reach New Zealand, 1840

01/24 A B-52 bomber carrying two 24 megaton bombs crashes at Goldsboro,

01/23 The Royal Exchange opens in London, 1571

North Carolina; 5 of 6 safety devices failed on one of them, 1961

01/23 The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in

the Netherlands, 1579

01/24 Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement, 1908

01/25 The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits

the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada, 1791

01/26 Sydney Aust. settled, 1788

01/27 Grissom, White and Chaffee burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967

01/27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973

01/28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914

01/28 The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the

01/28 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff

Panama Railway, 1855

killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe,

01/29 Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, the last monarch of

1986

Hawaii, 1891

01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948

01/30 Tet Offensive, 1968

01/31 Irving Langmuir invented tungsten filament lamp, 1881

01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961

01/31 Dmitry Mendeleev established optimal alcohol-water mixture ratio

01/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered

in his PhD work on alcohol-water mixtures, 1865

01/31 Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp

01/31 Dmitry Mendeleev, 1865, established optimal alcohol-water mixture ratio

in his PhD work on alcohol-water mixtures

02/01 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954

02/01 Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) explodes prior to landing, 2003

02/01 Forces led by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979

02/02 Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament, 1933

02/03 The first commercial cheese factory is founded in Switzerland, 1815

02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969

02/04 Patricia Hearst kidnaped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974

02/05 Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of

the United Arab Republic, 1958

02/06 Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand, 1840

02/07 The British Labour Party is formed, 1900

02/08 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq

02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934

02/09 Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation, 1621

02/12 Lincoln's real birthday

02/10 New Delhi becomes the capital of India, 1931

02/12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969

02/11 Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of

the Kalmar Union, 1814

02/12 China adopts the Gregorian calendar, 1912

02/13 France tests its first atomic bomb in Algeria, 1960

02/14 Bombing of Dresden, 1945

02/15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970

02/16 Nylon patented, 1937

02/16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804

02/17 The first ship passes through the Suez Canal, 1867

02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930

02/18 Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech, 1943

02/19 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945

02/19 Serfdom is abolished in Russia, 1861

02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962

02/20 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia

for 15 years, 2001

02/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties

02/21 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878

02/22 Start of the Czechoslovak Revolution, 1948

02/21 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965

02/23 Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 1971

02/24 Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868

02/25 The Democratic Republic of Georgia occupied by Bolshevist Russia, 1921

02/26 Final radio broadcast of Dragnet, 1957

02/27 The Lionheart crowned, 1189

02/28 The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972

02/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704

03/01 The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded, 1565

03/01 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft

03/02 Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam, 1946

in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692

03/03 Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire, 1878

03/02 Blackthorn winds (New England)

03/04 Emile Berliner invents the microphone, 1877

03/03 Gemini III launched with Virgil Grissom and John Young on board, 1965

03/05 Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, 1836

03/04 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.

03/06 The aspirin is registered as a trademark of Bayer, 1899

03/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1939

03/07 Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for

women's voting rights in Kuwait, 2005

03/08 The first case of Spanish flu occurs, killing 50 million to 100 million

people worldwide, 1918

03/09 The Barbie doll debuts, 1959

03/10 Republic of Cote d'Ivoire becomes a colony of France, 1893

03/11 Ceasefire declared in the war between Iran and Irak, 1988

03/12 The first bottles of Coca Cola were sold, 1894

03/13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894

03/14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907

03/14 The kingdom of Cyprus is sold by the ruling Queen to Venice, 1489

03/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH

03/15 France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874

03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966

03/15 Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by

03/16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen

several senators, 44BC

03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926

03/16 Largest coordinated worldwide virgil against the Iraq War, 2003

03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped

03/17 Invention of the rubber band, 1845

03/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965

03/18 In the Pyramid of Cheops a 4.400 year old mummy is found, 1989

03/19 Swallows return to Capistrano

03/20 Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980

03/21 Henry V becomes the king of England, 1413

03/22 First motion picture displayed by Auguste and Louis Lumi�re, 1895

03/23 The first Islamic replublic in the world is Pakistan, 1956

03/24 Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900

03/25 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911

03/25 The first Bed-In for Peace by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 1969

03/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937

03/26 The driving test is introduced, in the United Kingdom, 1934

03/27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958

03/28 First reaction thrust motor demonstration, 1883

03/28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979

03/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638

03/29 The Republic of Ireland bans smoking in all work places, 2004

03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977

03/30 Pencil with eraser patented, 1858

03/31 The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated, 1889

04/01 People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day.

04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968

04/02 Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia, 1930

04/04 NATO Established, 1949

04/03 First publication of the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, 1896

04/04 NATO established, 1949

04/05 Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia, 1614

04/06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830

04/07 Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1943

04/07 Alewives run, Cape Cod

04/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865

04/08 The Venus de Milo is found on the island of Melos, 1820

04/09 Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867

04/09 The first public exhibition of art opens in Paris, 1667

04/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861

04/10 The Belfast Agreement is signed, on Good Friday, 1998

04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961

04/11 The Shogunate is abolished in Japan, 1868

04/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981

04/12 Great Britain adops the Union Jack as their national flag, 1606

04/13 Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos

04/13 Apollo 13 aborts moon landing due to oxygen tank explosion, 1970

04/14 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865

04/14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912

04/15 Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955

04/15 Insulin first becomes generally available for use by diabetics, 1923

04/16 Syria becomes an independent Republic, 1946

04/17 Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961

04/18 Einstein's Death, 1955

04/18 The League of Nations is dissolved after 27 years, 1946

04/18 First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934

04/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906

04/19 Landing of the "33" in Uruguay

04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943

04/20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971

04/20 In Bulgaria, the April Uprising takes place, 1876

04/21 Lyrid meteor shower

04/21 Rome is founded by Romulus and Remus, 753BC

04/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954

04/22 The first Earth Day is celebrated, 1970

04/23 Bavarian co-rulers Duke Wilhelm IV and Duke Ludwig X proclaimed the

weighty and consequential Bavarian Beer Purity Law

(later Reinheitsgebot), 1516

04/24 The Greek enter Troy with the Trojan Horse, 1184BC

04/25 Integrated circuit patented by Robert Noyce, 1961

04/26 William Shakespeare baptized in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564,

birthdate less certain

04/27 Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521

04/28 President of France, Charles de Gaulle resigns, 1969

04/29 Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913

04/30 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide, 1945

05/01 Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god

05/01 Adam Weishaupt founded the Illuminati of Bavaria, 1776

05/03 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971

05/02 The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness monster is reported, 1933

05/04 Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970

05/03 Jamaica is spotted by Christopher Columbus, 1494

05/05 John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925

05/04 Christopher Columbus sets foot on Jamaica, 1494

05/05 Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, 1961

05/05 Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire, 1260

05/07 Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945

05/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1937

05/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972

05/07 Germany surrenders after World War II, 1945

05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979

05/08 The first games of the Italian Football League are played, 1898

05/09 The first parliament of Australia opens in Melbourne, 1901

05/10 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940

05/10 Nazi bookburning, 1933

05/11 Thailand is no longer known as Siam, 1949

05/12 Tunisia becomes a French protectorate, 1881

05/13 Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after

having been accused of treason, 1619

05/14 Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804

05/14 Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948

05/14 Skylab (first U.S. space station) launched, 1973

05/15 The civil war in Finland ends, 1918

05/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854

05/16 Root beer invented by Charles Elmer Hires, 1866

05/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982

05/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974

05/18 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay

05/18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804

05/19 The Legion d'Honneur is founded by Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802

05/20 The first modern atlas issued by Abraham Ortelius, 1570

05/21 Battle of Iquique in Chile

05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956

05/22 The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony,

05/22 US Civil War ends, 1865

is abolished, 1840

05/23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960

05/24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador

05/25 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830

05/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924

05/26 John Calvin and his followers are expelled from Geneva, 1538

05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937

05/27 The pop-up toaster patented by Charles Strite, 1919

05/28 Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication, 1936

05/29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953

05/29 First food stamps issued, 1961

05/30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912

05/30 Beginning of the civil war over Biafra, 1967

06/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924

05/31 Yom Kippur War comes to an end by the signing of a disengagement

agreement by Syria and Israel, 1974

06/03 Last Star Trek episode first aired ("Turnabout Intruder"), 1969

06/03 A 46-cent computer chip fails, causing the mistaken detection

of a Soviet missile attack by the NORAD system. About a 100 B-52

bombers were readied for take off along with the President's

airborne command post before the error is detected, 1980

06/03 Edward White becomes the first American to perform a "Space Walk", 1965

06/04 Roquefort cheese developed, 1070

06/05 Robert Kennedy assassinated, 1968

06/05 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933

06/06 First drive-in movie, 1933

06/06 Normandy landing, 1944

06/10 Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C.

06/10 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971

06/11 Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC

06/13 Pioneer 10 flies past Neptune's orbit, and becomes the first human

artifact to travel beyond the orbits of all known planets, 1983

06/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834

06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752

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

06/16 "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980

06/17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967

06/17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972

06/19 Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893

06/19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953

06/19 Start of a bus boycott protesting discrimination,

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1953

06/20 Victoria crowned, 1837

06/21 Berlin airlift begins, 1948

06/21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge

06/22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964

06/23 Slavery abolished in England, 1772

06/24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970

06/23 Harriet, Darwin's turtle died at the age of 176 years, 2006

06/25 Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 1876

06/25 North Korea invades South Korea, 1950

06/26 Toothbrush invented, 1498

06/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863

06/26 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959

06/27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915

06/28 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria assassinated in Sarajevo,

06/27 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971

marking the beginning of World War I, 1914

06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978

06/28 World War I ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919

06/30 Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity, 1905

06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia at 7:17 local time, 1908

06/30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960

07/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863

07/01 Warsaw Pact officially dissolved, 1991

07/01 The first day on the Somme marked the beginning of the

Battle of the Somme, 1916

07/01 Hong Kong becomes a special administrative region of the People's

Republic of China, 1997

07/02 Vermont abolishes slavery, as the first state, 1777

07/03 Dog days begin

07/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863

07/04 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776

07/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776

07/04 Thoreau enters woods, 1845

07/06 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928

07/05 Bikini demonstrated for the first time, 1946

07/06 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917

07/07 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949

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

07/10 134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913

07/11 Skylab enters Earth's atmosphere and is destroyed, 1979

07/12 Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933

07/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908

07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945

07/17 Disneyland opens, 1955

07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927

07/19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692

07/20 Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin land on moon, 1969

07/21 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873

07/21 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954

07/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904

07/24 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925

07/28 Potato introduced in Europe by Sir Thomas Harriot, 1586

07/28 B-25 hit 79th floor of Empire State Building, 1945

07/30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956

07/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948,

later JFK

08/01 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on

this day

08/03 Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492

08/03 First ICBM (P-7) test (5T of iron is launched to Kamchatka), 1957

08/03 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958

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

08/06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945

08/06 Caricom in Barbados

08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890

08/08 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945

08/08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914

08/08 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974

08/08 The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963

08/09 Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969

08/09 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC

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 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 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

08/13 Berlin wall erected, 1961

08/13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934

08/14 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935

08/14 North-East American blackout, 2003

08/15 Hurricane hits Plymouth Plantation, 1635

08/15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947

08/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898

08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891

08/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed

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

08/22 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. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565

08/23 Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927

08/24 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969

08/24 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960

08/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814

08/25 General de Gaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944

08/25 First reaction thrust motor design, 1898

08/25 Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944

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

08/28 King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963

08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975;

Nova Cygni 1975.

08/30 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842

08/30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960

08/30 St. Rose of Lima in Peru

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09/02 Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752

09/02 Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945

09/03 Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino

09/05 Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961

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 Pres. McKinley shot, 1901

09/06 Somhlolo in Swaziland

09/08 Star Trek debuts on NBC (1966) with "The Man Trap"

09/08 Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888

09/08 President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974

09/09 California becomes the 31st state, 1850

09/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776

09/10 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857

09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943

09/12 Germany annexes Sudetenland, 1938

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09/13 British defeat the French at Plains of Abraham near Quebec City, 1788

09/13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122

09/13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943

09/14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778

09/14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629

09/14 The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940

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 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630

09/17 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859

09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862

09/18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi

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 Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519

09/20 The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973

09/22 Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953

09/22 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862

09/22 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas President Nixon, 1974

09/22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949

09/23 Philippine 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

09/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981

09/27 The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825

09/28 "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678

09/28 A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon,

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09/30 The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846

09/30 The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946

10/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958

10/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967

10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853

10/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957

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 Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973

10/07 Foundation of the GDR in 1949 in German Democratic Republic

10/07 Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916

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 Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974

10/08 Great Chicago Fire, 1871

10/09 First two-way telephone conversation, 1876

10/10 Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. (1984)

10/10 Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba

10/10 Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea

10/10 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973

10/11 "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975

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 Ecumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962

10/12 Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492

10/12 Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig married Princess Therese of

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10/12 Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960

10/12 Man O'War's last race, 1920

10/13 Italy declares war on Germany, 1943

10/13 U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress

10/14 Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066

10/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947

10/15 First draft card burned, 1965

10/15 d.b.a. ("drink good stuff") opens in n.y.c., 1994

10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648

10/18 Soviets announce 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 begins the long retreat from Moscow, 1812

10/20 "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973

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10/23 South African troops invade Angola in support of UNITA and FNLA, 1975

10/25 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971

10/26 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978

10/27 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871

10/27 The first New York Subway is opened, 1904

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 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886

10/29 Stock Market Crash, 1929

10/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938

10/31 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517

11/01 Austria-Hungary become two separate nations, 1918

11/01 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950

11/02 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940

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 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954

11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing space dog Laika

11/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979

11/04 Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956

11/05 Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605

11/06 Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R.

11/07 Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837

11/07 Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805

11/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965

11/09 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927

11/09 Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888

11/09 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921

11/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933

11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations 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

11/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889

11/12 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan

11/12 U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861

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 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896

11/15 Space Shuttle Buran launched, 1988

11/16 Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869

11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966

11/17 Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973

11/18 Local standard time zones established for US, 1883

11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952

11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863

11/21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973

11/22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963

11/23 First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963

11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963

11/25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867

11/27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895

11/27 Friction match invented, England, 1826

11/27 Friction match invented by englishman John Walker, Sweden, 1826

11/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts

11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922

12/01 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924

12/01 Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1955

12/03 First neon light display, Paris, 1910

12/03 First successful human heart transplant led by Dr. Barnard, 1967

12/03 The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971

12/04 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783

12/05 Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776

12/05 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed,

ending the Prohibition of alcohol, 1933

12/05 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955

12/07 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941

12/09 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884

12/10 Metric system established in France, 1799

12/10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year

12/12 First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901

12/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972

12/13 Dartmouth College chartered, 1769

12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south)

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

12/20 U.S. buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.

12/24 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865

12/24 Apollo 8 first manned lunar orbit, 1968

12/26 DPMA founded, 1951

12/27 APT report published, 1956

12/27 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845

12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973

12/29 Battle of Wounded knee, 1890

12/29 Edison receives patent for Radio, 1891

12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940

12/31 St. Sylvester in Switzerland

12/31 Windows tax in England, 1695

12/31 First supersonic commercial flight by Tu-144, 1968

12/31 Winterland closes its doors, 1978

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