=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history,v retrieving revision 1.54 retrieving revision 1.63 diff -u -r1.54 -r1.63 --- src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history 2006/08/15 21:31:10 1.54 +++ src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history 2006/10/17 12:59:49 1.63 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* * History * - * $OpenBSD: calendar.history,v 1.54 2006/08/15 21:31:10 jasper Exp $ + * $OpenBSD: calendar.history,v 1.63 2006/10/17 12:59:49 jmc Exp $ */ #ifndef _calendar_history_ @@ -10,102 +10,233 @@ 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 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 +05/02 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 +05/07 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 +05/15 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 05/18 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 +06/01 In a referendum the Dutch reject the European Constitution, 2005 +06/02 Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty in a close-call referendum, 1992 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 +06/05 Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem, 70 06/06 First drive-in movie, 1933 06/06 Normandy landing, 1944 +06/07 The first act of civil disobedience by Gandhi, 1893 +06/08 The Canadian Parliament meets for the first time in Ottawa, 1866 +06/09 The Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, 68 06/10 Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C. 06/11 Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC +06/12 Nelson Mandela in sentenced to life in prison, 1964 +06/13 Much of Vancouver, British Columbia, is devastated by a fire, 1886 06/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834 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 Henry Ford launched the Ford Motor Company, 1903 06/17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967 +06/18 Winston Churchill delivers his "Finest Hour" speech, 1940 06/19 Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893 06/19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953 06/20 Victoria crowned, 1837 06/21 Berlin airlift begins, 1948 06/21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge +06/22 The June Days Uprising in Paris begins, 1848 06/23 Slavery abolished in England, 1772 -06/23 Harriet, Darwin's turtle died at the age of 176 years old, 2006 +06/23 Harriet, Darwin's turtle died at the age of 176 years, 2006 +06/24 The capital of Jamaica, Kingston, is founded, 1664 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 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959 +06/27 The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London, 1967 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 +06/29 The Seychelles gains independence from the United Kingdom, 1976 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 @@ -120,41 +251,73 @@ 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 A UFO is believed to have crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, 1947 +07/09 The African Union gets established, 2002 +07/10 Most of London gets burned down in a severe fire, 1212 +07/11 Mongolia gains independence from China, 1921 07/12 Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933 07/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908 +07/14 Storming of the Bastille by the citizens of Paris, 1789 +07/15 First item sold via Amazon.com, 1995 +07/16 End of the civil war in Rwanda, 1994 07/17 Disneyland opens, 1955 +07/18 "Mein Kampf" is published, 1925 +07/19 France declares war on Prussia, marking the beginning of the + Franco-Prussian war, 1870 +07/20 Ford Motor Company ships their car, 1903 07/21 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954 +07/22 Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly around the world, 1933 07/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904 07/24 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 +07/25 First test-tube baby born, 1978 +07/26 Potsdam Declaration signed, 1945 +07/27 The last Citroen 2CV made, 1990 07/28 Potato introduced in Europe by Sir Thomas Harriot, 1586 +07/29 Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 1836 +07/30 Elvis Presley performes for the first time in public, 1954 +07/31 First U.S. patent issued, 1790 08/01 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on this day +08/02 Hitler becomes the Fuehrer of Germany, 1934 08/03 Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492 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 +08/05 Nelson Mandela is jailed, 1962 08/06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945 08/06 Caricom in Barbados +08/07 Jack the Ripper makes his first kill, 1888 08/08 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945 08/08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914 08/09 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC +08/10 Major terrorist plot to destroy aircrafst disrupted by + Scotland Yard, 2006 08/11 Dog days end 08/11 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954 +08/12 Cleopatra commits suicide, 30BC 08/13 Berlin wall erected, 1961 08/13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934 +08/14 France introduces motor vehicle registration, 1893 08/15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947 08/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898 +08/17 Indonesian Declaration of Independence, 1945 +08/18 Power blackout on Java, Indonesia, affects almost + 100 million people, 2005 08/19 Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856 +08/20 First commercial radio station airs in Detroit, Michigan, 1920 +08/21 Lourvre employee steals the "Mona Lisa", 1911 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 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960 -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 Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay, 1609 +08/29 Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction, 1831 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 @@ -167,10 +330,15 @@ 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 +09/04 Napoleon III is deposed and the Third Republic is declared, 1870 +09/05 St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland, 1980 09/06 149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620 09/06 Somhlolo in Swaziland +09/07 Brazil declares its independence from Portugal, 1822 09/08 Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888 +09/09 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph, 1839 09/10 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857 +09/11 World Wide Fund (WWF) founded, 1961 09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943 09/12 Germany annexes Sudetenland, 1938 09/13 136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya, 1922 @@ -178,13 +346,20 @@ 09/13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122 09/13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943 09/14 The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940 +09/15 The Nazi's adopt a new national flag with the swastika, 1935 +09/16 General Motors is founded, 1908 09/17 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859 09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862 09/18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi +09/19 Walt Disney releases Steamboat Willie, 1928 09/20 Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519 +09/21 J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published, 1937 09/22 Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953 09/22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949 09/23 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972 +09/24 The Netherlands surrenders New Amsterdam to England, 1664 +09/25 Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era, 1066 +09/26 Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic, 1973 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, @@ -193,13 +368,18 @@ 1888 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 Austria issues the world's first postcards, 1869 +10/02 Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec, 1535 +10/03 O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of murder, 1995 10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853 +10/05 Portugal declares itself a republic, 1910 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 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 San Marino adopts its written constitution, 1600 10/09 First two-way telephone conversation, 1876 10/10 Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba 10/10 Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea @@ -212,19 +392,30 @@ 10/12 Man O'War's last race, 1920 10/13 Italy declares war on Germany, 1943 10/14 Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066 +10/15 Edison Electric Light Company begins operation, 1878 +10/16 The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney + and his brother, Roy Disney, 1923 +10/17 Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion, 1931 +10/18 The Grand Ole Opry opens its doors, 1925 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 10/20 OPEC embargo, 1973 10/21 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879 10/21 Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959 +10/22 Laos gains independence from France, 1953 10/23 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944 10/23 Swallows leave Capistrano 10/23 South African troops invade Angola in support of UNITA and FNLA, 1975 +10/24 Founding of the United Nations, 1945 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 Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of + a global economic meltdown, 1997 10/28 Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492 10/28 Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312 +10/29 Leibniz makes the first use of the "long s" for integral, 1675 +10/30 Communist Party of Australia founded in Sydney, 1920 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