=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history,v retrieving revision 1.54 retrieving revision 1.55 diff -u -r1.54 -r1.55 --- src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history 2006/08/15 21:31:10 1.54 +++ src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history 2006/08/18 11:29:28 1.55 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* * History * - * $OpenBSD: calendar.history,v 1.54 2006/08/15 21:31:10 jasper Exp $ + * $OpenBSD: calendar.history,v 1.55 2006/08/18 11:29:28 jasper Exp $ */ #ifndef _calendar_history_ @@ -10,75 +10,192 @@ 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 +03/01 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 f Cheops a 4.400 year old mussy 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 Engeland, 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. +04/02 Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia, 1930 +04/03 First pubilcation 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 became 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 +05/02 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 WWII, 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 +05/15 The civil war in Finnland ends, 1918 +05/16 Root beer invented by Charles Elmer Hires, 1866 05/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982 05/18 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 +05/22 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 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 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 Edward White becomes the first American to perform a "Space Walk", 1965 06/04 Roquefort cheese developed, 1070