=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history,v retrieving revision 1.50 retrieving revision 1.56 diff -u -r1.50 -r1.56 --- src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history 2006/07/03 15:46:22 1.50 +++ src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history 2006/08/19 20:34:09 1.56 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* * History * - * $OpenBSD: calendar.history,v 1.50 2006/07/03 15:46:22 jasper Exp $ + * $OpenBSD: calendar.history,v 1.56 2006/08/19 20:34:09 steven Exp $ */ #ifndef _calendar_history_ @@ -10,141 +10,222 @@ 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 +01/02 Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve + Niagara Falls, 1929 +01/03 Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers + over Italy, 1925 +01/03 Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British + Prime Minister in the 20th Century, 1988 +01/04 Burma becomes independent from United Kingdom, 1948 01/05 Twelfth night +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 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal +01/12 Batman the TV series debuts on ABC, 1966 +01/13 Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance, 1930 01/14 Julian Calendar New Year's Day +01/15 Angola becomes an independent state, 1975 +01/16 The Medici family are made official bankers of the Papacy, 1412 +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...) +01/21 First commercial flight with a Concorde, 1976 +01/22 British colonists reach New Zealand, 1840 +01/23 The Royal Exchange opens in London, 1571 +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 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973 +01/28 The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the + Panama Railway, 1855 +01/29 Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, the last monarch of + Hawaii, 1891 01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948 -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 +01/31 Irving Langmuir invented tungsten filament lamp, 1881 +01/31 Dmitry Mendeleev established optimal alcohol-water mixture ratio + in his PhD work on alcohol-water mixtures, 1865 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 Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation, 1621 +02/10 New Delhi becomes the capital of India, 1931 +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 +02/17 The first ship passes through the Suez Canal, 1867 +02/18 Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech, 1943 +02/19 Serfdom is abolished in Russia, 1861 +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 +02/22 Start of the Czechoslovak Revolution, 1948 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 -03/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1939 +03/01 The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded, 1565 +03/02 Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam, 1946 +03/03 Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire, 1878 +03/04 Emile Berliner invents the microphone, 1877 +03/05 Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, 1836 +03/06 The aspirin is registered as a trademark of Bayer, 1899 +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 The kingdom of Cyprus is sold by the ruling Queen to Venice, 1489 03/15 France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874 +03/15 Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by + several senators, 44BC +03/16 Largest coordinated worldwide virgil against the Iraq War, 2003 +03/17 Invention of the rubber band, 1845 +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 Lumière, 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 The first Bed-In for Peace by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 1969 +03/26 The driving test is introduced, in the United Kingdom, 1934 03/27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958 03/28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979 +03/29 The Republic of Ireland bans smoking in all work places, 2004 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 NATO Established, 1949 +04/02 Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia, 1930 +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 +04/08 The Venus de Milo is found on the island of Melos, 1820 +04/09 The first public exhibition of art opens in Paris, 1667 +04/10 The Belfast Agreement is signed, on Good Friday, 1998 +04/11 The Shogunate is abolished in Japan, 1868 +04/12 Great Britain adops the Union Jack as their national flag, 1606 04/13 Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos 04/14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912 +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 The League of Nations is dissolved after 27 years, 1946 04/19 Landing of the "33" in Uruguay 04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943 +04/20 In Bulgaria, the April Uprising takes place, 1876 +04/21 Rome is founded by Romulus and Remus, 753BC +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 -05/04 Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970 -05/05 John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925 -05/05 Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, 1961 -05/07 Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945 -05/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972 -05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979 +05/02 The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness monster is reported, 1933 +05/03 Jamaica is spotted by Christopher Columbus, 1494 +05/04 Christopher Columbus sets foot on Jamaica, 1494 +05/05 Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire, 1260 +05/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1937 +05/07 Germany surrenders after World War II, 1945 +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 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854 +05/15 The civil war in Finland ends, 1918 +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 US Civil War ends, 1865 +05/22 The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony, + 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 -05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937 +05/26 John Calvin and his followers are expelled from Geneva, 1538 +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 -06/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924 +05/30 Beginning of the civil war over Biafra, 1967 +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 -06/23 Harriet, Darwin's turtle died at the age of 176 years old, 2006 -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 -06/27 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971 -06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978 06/28 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria assassinated in Sarajevo, marking the beginning of World War I, 1914 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 @@ -152,87 +233,45 @@ 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 NYNEX merges with Bell Atlantic, 1997 -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 First reaction thrust motor design, 1898 -08/25 Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944 +08/25 General de Gaulle 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 @@ -276,7 +315,6 @@ 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 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979 10/07 Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974 10/09 First two-way telephone conversation, 1876 @@ -323,7 +361,7 @@ 11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952 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 11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922 12/03 First neon light display, Paris, 1910 12/03 First successful human heart transplant led by Dr. Barnard, 1967