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1.2       millert     1: /*
                      2:  * History
                      3:  *
1.7     ! pjanzen     4:  * $OpenBSD: calendar.history,v 1.6 1999/01/14 14:57:50 mickey Exp $
1.2       millert     5:  */
                      6:
                      7: #ifndef _calendar_history_
                      8: #define _calendar_history_
                      9:
1.1       deraadt    10: 01/01  Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba
1.2       millert    11: 01/01  Castro expels Cuban President Batista, 1959
1.1       deraadt    12: 01/01  Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech, 1947
                     13: 01/01  First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902
                     14: 01/04  Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
                     15: 01/05  -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
                     16: 01/05  The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940
                     17: 01/05  Twelfth night
                     18: 01/06  Millard Fillmore's birthday (let's party!)
                     19: 01/08  Battle of New Orleans
                     20: 01/09  Plough Monday
                     21: 01/10  First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946
                     22: 01/10  Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776
                     23: 01/11  Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania
                     24: 01/11  De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico
                     25: 01/11  Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 1878
                     26: 01/11  Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal
                     27: 01/11  Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
                     28: 01/11  The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963
1.6       mickey     29: 01/14  Julian Calendar New Year's Day
1.1       deraadt    30: 01/14  The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967
                     31: 01/16  Prohibition begins, 1920
                     32: 01/20  St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)
                     33: 01/24  Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922
                     34: 01/24  Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848
1.3       deraadt    35: 01/26  Sydney Aust. settled, 1788
1.1       deraadt    36: 01/27  Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967
                     37: 01/27  Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973
                     38: 01/28  First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914
                     39: 01/28  Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff
                     40:        killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe,
                     41:        1986
                     42: 01/30  Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948
                     43: 01/30  Tet Offensive, 1968
                     44: 01/31  "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961
                     45: 01/31  Explorer I launched, 1958.  Van Allen Belt discovered
                     46: 01/31  Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp
                     47: 02/01  First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954
                     48: 02/01  Forces lead by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979
                     49: 02/04  Cybernet inaugurated, 1969
1.2       millert    50: 02/04  Patricia Hearst kidnaped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974
1.1       deraadt    51: 02/08  1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq
                     52: 02/09  -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
                     53: 02/12  Lincoln's real birthday
                     54: 02/12  Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969
                     55: 02/14  Bombing of Dresden, 1945
                     56: 02/15  Chicago Seven convicted, 1970
                     57: 02/16  Nylon patented, 1937
                     58: 02/16  Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804
                     59: 02/18  Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930
                     60: 02/19  US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945
                     61: 02/20  John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962
                     62: 02/21  Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties
                     63: 02/21  First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878
                     64: 02/21  Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965
                     65: 02/23  Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 1971
                     66: 02/24  Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868
                     67: 02/27  The Lionheart crowned, 1189
                     68: 02/28  The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972
                     69: 02/29  French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704
                     70: 03/01  Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft
                     71:        in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
                     72: 03/04  First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.
                     73: 03/06  Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1939
                     74: 03/13  "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894
                     75: 03/14  Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907
                     76: 03/15  Buzzards return to Hinckley OH
                     77: 03/15  France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874
                     78: 03/15  Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966
                     79: 03/16  First liquid-fuel-powered rocket flight, 1926
                     80: 03/16  MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen
                     81: 03/16  Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926
                     82: 03/17  Vanguard I launched, 1958.  Earth proved pear-shaped
                     83: 03/18  Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965
                     84: 03/19  Swallows return to Capistrano
                     85: 03/20  Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980
                     86: 03/24  Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900
                     87: 03/25  Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911
                     88: 03/26  Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937
                     89: 03/27  Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958
                     90: 03/28  Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979
                     91: 03/29  Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638
                     92: 03/30  Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867
                     93: 03/30  Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977
                     94: 03/30  Pencil with eraser patented, 1858
                     95: 04/01  People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day.
                     96: 04/04  Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
                     97: 04/04  NATO Established, 1949
                     98: 04/06  Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830
                     99: 04/07  Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1943
                    100: 04/07  Alewives run, Cape Cod
                    101: 04/09  Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865
                    102: 04/12  Columbia launched, 1981
                    103: 04/12  Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861
                    104: 04/12  Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981
                    105: 04/12  Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961
                    106: 04/13  Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos
                    107: 04/14  Lincoln shot,  1865
                    108: 04/14  Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912
                    109: 04/15  Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955
                    110: 04/16  Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865
                    111: 04/17  Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961
                    112: 04/18  Einstein's Death, 1955
                    113: 04/18  First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934
                    114: 04/18  San Francisco earthquake, 1906
                    115: 04/19  Landing of the "33" in Uruguay
                    116: 04/19  Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943
                    117: 04/20  Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971
                    118: 04/21  Lyrid meteor shower
                    119: 04/23  Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
1.2       millert   120: 04/26  William Shakespeare baptized in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564,
1.7     ! pjanzen   121:        birthdate less certain
1.2       millert   122: 04/27  Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521
1.1       deraadt   123: 04/29  Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913
                    124: 05/01  Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god
1.7     ! pjanzen   125: 05/03  Last Star Trek episode first aired ("Turnabout Intruder"), 1969
1.1       deraadt   126: 05/03  Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971
                    127: 05/04  Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970
                    128: 05/05  John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925
                    129: 05/07  Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945
                    130: 05/08  US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972
                    131: 05/09  94 degrees, New York, 1979
                    132: 05/10  Germany invades Low Countries, 1940
                    133: 05/10  Nazi bookburning, 1933
                    134: 05/14  Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
                    135: 05/14  Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948
                    136: 05/15  Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854
                    137: 05/17  24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
                    138: 05/17  Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
                    139: 05/18  Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
                    140: 05/18  Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
                    141: 05/21  Battle of Iquique in Chile
                    142: 05/21  US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956
                    143: 05/22  US Civil War ends, 1865
                    144: 05/23  Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960
                    145: 05/24  Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador
                    146: 05/25  Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830
                    147: 05/26  Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
                    148: 05/27  Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937
                    149: 05/29  Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953
                    150: 05/29  First food stamps issued, 1961
                    151: 05/30  US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912
                    152: 06/02  Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924
1.2       millert   153: 06/05  Robert Kennedy assassinated, 1968
1.1       deraadt   154: 06/05  US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933
                    155: 06/06  First drive-in movie, 1933
                    156: 06/06  Normandy landing, 1944
                    157: 06/10  Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C.
                    158: 06/10  Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971
                    159: 06/11  Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC
1.7     ! pjanzen   160: 06/13  Pioneer 10 flies past Neptune's orbit, and becomes the first human
        !           161:        artifact to travel beyond the orbits of all known planets, 1983
1.1       deraadt   162: 06/14  Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834
                    163: 06/15  Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752
                    164: 06/15  Magna Carta signed, 1215
                    165: 06/15  Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford
                    166:        that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop,
                    167:        1878
                    168: 06/16  "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980
                    169: 06/17  China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967
                    170: 06/17  Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972
                    171: 06/19  Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953
                    172: 06/19  Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893
                    173: 06/20  Victoria crowned, 1837
                    174: 06/21  Berlin airlift begins, 1948
                    175: 06/21  Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge
                    176: 06/22  Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964
                    177: 06/23  Slavery abolished in England, 1772
                    178: 06/24  Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970
                    179: 06/25  Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 1876
                    180: 06/25  North Korea invades South Korea, 1950
                    181: 06/26  Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
                    182: 06/26  St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959
                    183: 06/27  100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915
                    184: 06/27  Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971
                    185: 06/28  Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978
                    186: 06/30  "That" explosion in Siberia, 1908
                    187: 06/30  China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960
                    188: 07/01  Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863
                    189: 07/03  Dog days begin
                    190: 07/04  Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863
                    191: 07/04  Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776
                    192: 07/04  New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776
                    193: 07/04  Thoreau enters woods, 1845
                    194: 07/06  First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928
                    195: 07/06  Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917
                    196: 07/07  First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949
                    197: 07/08  First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
                    198: 07/08  Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835
                    199: 07/09  10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847
                    200: 07/10  134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913
                    201: 07/12  Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933
                    202: 07/13  Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908
                    203: 07/16  Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945
                    204: 07/17  Disneyland opens, 1955
                    205: 07/18  Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
                    206: 07/19  Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692
                    207: 07/20  Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969
                    208: 07/21  First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873
                    209: 07/21  Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954
                    210: 07/23  Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904
                    211: 07/24  Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
1.4       mickey    212: 07/28  Potato introduced in Europe by Sir Thomas Harriot, 1586
                    213: 07/28  B-25 hit 79th floor of Empire State Building, 1945
1.1       deraadt   214: 07/30  "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956
                    215: 07/31  Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948,
                    216:        later JFK
                    217: 08/01  Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on
                    218:        this day
                    219: 08/03  Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492
                    220: 08/03  USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958
                    221: 08/04  Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892
                    222: 08/04  Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964
                    223: 08/04  Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914
                    224: 08/06  Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945
                    225: 08/06  Caricom in Barbados
                    226: 08/06  Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
                    227: 08/08  Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
                    228: 08/08  Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914
                    229: 08/08  Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974
                    230: 08/08  The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963
                    231: 08/09  Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969
                    232: 08/09  Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC
                    233: 08/09  US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
                    234: 08/10  Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833
                    235: 08/10  US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977
                    236: 08/11  Dog days end
                    237: 08/11  France Ends War in Indochina, 1954
                    238: 08/11  Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
                    239: 08/12  First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977
                    240: 08/12  Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
                    241: 08/13  Berlin wall erected, 1961
                    242: 08/13  Li'l Abner debut, 1934
                    243: 08/14  Social Security begins in U.S., 1935
                    244: 08/15  Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947
1.2       millert   245: 08/15  Hurricane hits Plymouth Plantation, 1635
1.1       deraadt   246: 08/16  Roller Coaster patented, 1898
                    247: 08/17  First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
                    248: 08/18  Anti-Cigarette League of America formed
                    249: 08/19  Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite,
                    250:        marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960
                    251: 08/19  Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856
                    252: 08/22  Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets
                    253: 08/22  Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963
                    254: 08/22  St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565
                    255: 08/23  Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927
                    256: 08/24  "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969
                    257: 08/24  -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960
                    258: 08/24  British troops burn Washington, 1814
                    259: 08/25  Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
                    260: 08/26  Women get the vote, 1920
                    261: 08/27  "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912
                    262: 08/27  Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883
                    263: 08/28  King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963
                    264: 08/29  Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975;
                    265:        Nova Cygni 1975.
                    266: 08/30  75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842
                    267: 08/30  Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960
                    268: 08/30  St. Rose of Lima in Peru
                    269: 08/30  Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963
                    270: 08/31  269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983
                    271: 08/31  Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888
                    272: 08/31  Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
                    273: 09/01  Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972
                    274: 09/01  Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859
                    275: 09/02  Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752
                    276: 09/02  Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945
                    277: 09/03  Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino
                    278: 09/05  Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961
                    279: 09/05  The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774
                    280: 09/06  149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620
                    281: 09/06  Pres. McKinley shot, 1901
                    282: 09/06  Somhlolo in Swaziland
1.7     ! pjanzen   283: 09/08  Star Trek debuts on NBC (1966) with "The Man Trap"
1.1       deraadt   284: 09/08  Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888
                    285: 09/08  President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974
                    286: 09/09  California becomes the 31st state, 1850
                    287: 09/09  United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776
                    288: 09/10  Mountain Meadows Massacre.  Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857
                    289: 09/12  German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943
                    290: 09/12  Germany annexes Sudentenland, 1938
                    291: 09/13  136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya, 1922
1.7     ! pjanzen   292: 09/13  British defeat the French at Plains of Abraham near Quebec City, 1788
1.1       deraadt   293: 09/13  Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122
                    294: 09/13  Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943
                    295: 09/14  Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778
                    296: 09/14  Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629
                    297: 09/14  The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940
                    298: 09/15  Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959
                    299: 09/15  The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department, 1789
                    300: 09/16  The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630
                    301: 09/17  Battle of Antietam, 1862
                    302: 09/18  Victory of Uprona in Burundi
                    303: 09/20  Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884
                    304: 09/20  First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
                    305:        Science, 1848
                    306: 09/20  First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916
                    307: 09/20  Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519
                    308: 09/20  The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973
                    309: 09/22  Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953
                    310: 09/22  President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
1.2       millert   311: 09/22  Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas President Nixon, 1974
1.1       deraadt   312: 09/22  The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949
1.2       millert   313: 09/23  Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972
1.1       deraadt   314: 09/23  The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club, 1845
                    315: 09/23  V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech, 1952
                    316: 09/25  Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981
                    317: 09/27  The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825
                    318: 09/28  "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678
                    319: 09/28  A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon,
                    320:        490BC
                    321: 09/30  Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (#3) and Catherine Eddowes (#4),
                    322:        1888
                    323: 09/30  The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846
                    324: 09/30  The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946
                    325: 10/01  NASA officially begins operations, 1958
                    326: 10/02  Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967
                    327: 10/04  Crimean war begins, 1853
                    328: 10/04  First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957
                    329: 10/04  Sputnik 1, world's first orbiting satellite launched, 1957
                    330: 10/06  Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853
                    331: 10/06  Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981
                    332: 10/06  Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973
                    333: 10/07  Foundation of the GDR in 1949 in German Democratic Republic
                    334: 10/07  Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916
                    335: 10/07  Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977
                    336: 10/07  Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979
                    337: 10/07  Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974
                    338: 10/08  Great Chicago Fire, 1871
                    339: 10/09  First two-way telephone conversation, 1876
                    340: 10/10  Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba
                    341: 10/10  Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea
                    342: 10/10  Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973
                    343: 10/11  "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975
                    344: 10/11  The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976
                    345: 10/11  The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811
                    346: 10/11  The second Vatican Ecumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962
                    347: 10/12  Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
                    348: 10/12  Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960
                    349: 10/12  Man O'War's last race, 1920
                    350: 10/12  Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
                    351: 10/13  Italy declares war on Germany, 1943
                    352: 10/13  U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress
                    353: 10/14  Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066
                    354: 10/14  Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947
                    355: 10/15  First draft card burned, 1965
                    356: 10/18  Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648
1.2       millert   357: 10/18  Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959
1.1       deraadt   358: 10/19  Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949
                    359: 10/19  Napoleon's beaten army begins the long retreat from Moscow, 1812
                    360: 10/20  "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973
                    361: 10/20  OPEC embargo, 1973
                    362: 10/21  Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879
                    363: 10/21  Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959
                    364: 10/23  Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944
                    365: 10/23  Swallows leave Capistrano
                    366: 10/25  The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971
                    367: 10/26  UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978
                    368: 10/27  New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871
                    369: 10/27  The first New York Subway is opened, 1904
                    370: 10/28  Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492
                    371: 10/28  Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312
                    372: 10/28  Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636
                    373: 10/28  Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886
                    374: 10/29  Stock Market Crash, 1929
                    375: 10/30  Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938
                    376: 10/31  Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517
1.2       millert   377: 11/01  Austria-Hungary become two separate nations, 1918
1.1       deraadt   378: 11/01  Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950
                    379: 11/02  Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940
                    380: 11/02  Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, 1783
                    381: 11/03  Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837
                    382: 11/03  Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954
1.2       millert   383: 11/03  Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing space dog Laika
1.1       deraadt   384: 11/04  Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979
                    385: 11/04  Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956
                    386: 11/05  Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605
                    387: 11/06  Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R.
                    388: 11/07  Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837
                    389: 11/07  Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805
                    390: 11/09  Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965
                    391: 11/09  Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927
                    392: 11/09  Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888
                    393: 11/09  Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921
                    394: 11/09  Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933
1.2       millert   395: 11/10  41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House, 1917
1.1       deraadt   396: 11/10  Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865
                    397: 11/10  Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?", 1871
                    398: 11/11  Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889
                    399: 11/12  Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan
                    400: 11/12  U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861
                    401: 11/14  Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon
                    402:        price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after formal request
                    403:        from McDonald's), 1971
                    404: 11/15  Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
                    405: 11/16  Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869
                    406: 11/17  46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966
                    407: 11/17  Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973
                    408: 11/18  First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952
                    409: 11/18  Local standard time zones established for US, 1883
                    410: 11/19  Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863
                    411: 11/21  Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973
                    412: 11/22  Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963
                    413: 11/23  First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963
                    414: 11/24  Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963
                    415: 11/25  Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867
                    416: 11/27  Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895
                    417: 11/27  Friction match invented, England, 1826
                    418: 11/27  Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
                    419: 11/29  King Tut's tomb opened, 1922
                    420: 12/01  First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924
                    421: 12/01  Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955
                    422: 12/01  Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1953
                    423: 12/03  First neon light display, Paris, 1910
                    424: 12/03  First successful human heart transplant lead by Dr. Barnard, 1967
                    425: 12/03  The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971
                    426: 12/04  Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783
                    427: 12/05  End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part)
                    428: 12/05  Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776
                    429: 12/05  The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition, 1933
                    430: 12/07  Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941
                    431: 12/09  Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
                    432: 12/10  Metric system established in France, 1799
                    433: 12/10  Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year
                    434: 12/12  First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901
                    435: 12/13  Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972
                    436: 12/13  Dartmouth College chartered, 1769
                    437: 12/13  Geminid meteor shower (look south)
                    438: 12/15  Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976
                    439: 12/15  Bill of Rights adopted, 1791
                    440: 12/15  James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891
                    441: 12/15  Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890
                    442: 12/20  U.S. buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.
                    443: 12/24  KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865
                    444: 12/26  DPMA founded, 1951
                    445: 12/27  APT report published, 1956
                    446: 12/27  Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845
                    447: 12/28  Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
                    448: 12/29  Battle of Wounded knee, 1890
                    449: 12/30  First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940
                    450: 12/31  St. Sylvester in Switzerland
                    451: 12/31  Winterland closes its doors, 1978
1.2       millert   452:
                    453: #endif /* !_calendar_history_ */