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/*
* History
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* $OpenBSD: calendar.history,v 1.72 2010/01/12 08:11:46 jmc Exp $
*/
#ifndef _calendar_history_
#define _calendar_history_
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 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 vigil against the Iraq War, 2003
03/17 Invention of the rubber band, 1845
03/17 Ukrainian Nationalist Republic declared, 1917
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
03/22 World Day for Water
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 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 adopts 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 Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral becomes the first European to
sight Brazil, 1500
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 World War II, 1945
05/08 Herbert Akroyd Stuart patented the first "diesel" engine, 1890
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 is 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 Borden 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, 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
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 Thoreau enters woods, 1845
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 performs 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 aircraft 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 Louvre 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 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
08/30 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963
08/31 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983
08/31 Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888
08/31 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
08/31 Independent union "Solidarnosc" born, Gdansk, 1980
09/01 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972
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
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 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,
490BC
09/30 Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (#3) and Catherine Eddowes (#4),
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
10/11 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976
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
Saxony-Hildburghausen, Oktoberfest, 1810
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
10/14 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
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 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954
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
11/08 Invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the
Stockholm Bloodbath, 1520
11/09 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927
11/09 Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888
11/10 Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?", 1871
11/11 First broadcast of Sesame Street, 1970
11/12 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan
11/13 St. Brice's Day massacre by order of Ethelred, king of England, 1002
11/14 Czechoslovakie becomes a republic, 1918
11/15 First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, 1920
11/16 Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869
11/17 Elizabeth I of England succeeds Queen Mary I of England, 1558
11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952
11/19 Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Company, 1916
11/20 Nuremberg Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals begin, 1945
11/21 Birmingham Pub Bombings by the IRA kill 21 people, 1974
11/22 John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, 1963
11/23 The first edition of Life is published. 1936
11/24 Alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is killed by
Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas, 1963
11/25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867
11/26 Last flight ever with a Concorde made over Bristol, UK, 2003
11/27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895
11/27 Friction match invented by englishman John Walker, Sweden, 1826
11/28 Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, 1912
11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922
12/01 Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, 1913
12/02 Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French, 1852
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 People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution, 1982
12/05 Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776
12/06 London becomes the world's first city with motorised cabs, 1897
12/07 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941
12/08 Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum, 1991
12/09 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
12/10 Metric system established in France, 1799
12/10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year
12/11 The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, 1931
12/12 First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901
12/13 Dartmouth College chartered, 1769
12/14 Portugal joins the United Nations, 1955
12/15 Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976
12/15 James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891
12/16 Pokemon episode (Electric Soldier Porygon) triggers attacks of
photosensitive epilepsy in hundreds of Japanese children, 1997
12/17 Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is first published, 1843
12/18 Indonesia invades Netherlands New Guinea, 1961
12/19 Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the
German Army, 1941
12/20 Cheka founded, 1917
12/21 Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France, 1958
12/22 First freight train is operated in Roorkee in India, 1851
12/23 The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories, 1947
12/24 Hong Kong falls to the Japanese Imperial Army, 1941
12/25 Christian holiday Christmas Day celebrated
12/25 Christmas Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors, 1643
12/26 DPMA founded, 1951
12/27 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845
12/28 Spain recognizes independence of Mexico, 1836
12/29 Battle of Wounded knee, 1890
12/29 Edison receives patent for Radio, 1891
12/30 Soviet Ukrainian Republic declared, 1917
12/30 Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations, 1993
12/31 St. Sylvester in Switzerland
12/31 Windows tax in England, 1695
12/31 First supersonic commercial flight by Tu-144, 1968
#endif /* !_calendar_history_ */