Annotation of src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.ushistory, Revision 1.8
1.1 jasper 1: /*
2: * USA history
3: *
1.8 ! bentley 4: * $OpenBSD: calendar.ushistory,v 1.7 2017/06/29 07:01:49 jmc Exp $
1.1 jasper 5: */
6:
7: #ifndef _calendar_ushistory_
8: #define _calendar_ushistory_
9:
10: 01/01 First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902
11: 01/02 First military deployment of helicopters (VS-300 by Igor Sikorsky),
1.5 jmc 12: with a British American convoy, 1944
1.1 jasper 13: 01/03 After 218 years since discovery by europeans and 92 years after
14: it was purchased from Russian Empire, Alaska becomes 49th state, 1959
15: 01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
16: 01/05 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940
17: 01/08 Battle of New Orleans
18: 01/11 Milk delivered in bottles for the first time, 1878
19: 01/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
20: 01/11 The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963
21: 01/14 The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967
22: 01/16 Prohibition begins, 1920
23: 01/18 Grey whale migration, California
24: 01/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922
25: 01/24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848
26: 01/24 A B-52 bomber carrying two 24 megaton bombs crashes at Goldsboro,
27: North Carolina; 5 of 6 safety devices failed on one of them, 1961
28: 01/27 Grissom, White and Chaffee burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967
29: 01/28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914
30: 01/28 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff
31: killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe,
32: 1986
33: 01/30 Tet Offensive, 1968
34: 02/01 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954
35: 02/01 Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) explodes prior to landing, 2003
36: 02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
37: 02/12 Lincoln's real birthday
38: 02/12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969
39: 02/16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804
40: 02/19 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945
41: 02/21 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878
42: 02/21 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965
43: 02/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704
44: 03/01 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft
45: in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
46: 03/02 Blackthorn winds (New England)
47: 03/04 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.
48: 03/14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907
49: 03/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH
50: 03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966
51: 03/16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen
52: 03/25 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911
53: 03/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937
54: 03/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638
55: 04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
56: 04/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865
57: 04/09 Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867
58: 04/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861
59: 04/14 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865
60: 04/15 Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955
61: 04/18 First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934
62: 04/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906
63: 04/18 Einstein's Death, 1955
64: 04/20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971
65: 04/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
66: 05/03 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971
67: 05/04 Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970
68: 05/05 John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925
69: 05/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972
1.2 jasper 70: 05/09 94 degrees F, New York, 1979
1.1 jasper 71: 05/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854
72: 05/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
1.6 otto 73: 05/20 US explodes first air-delivered hydrogen bomb, 1956
1.1 jasper 74: 05/22 US Civil War ends, 1865
75: 05/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
76: 05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937
77: 05/30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912
78: 06/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924
79: 06/03 A 46-cent computer chip fails, causing the mistaken detection
80: of a Soviet missile attack by the NORAD system. About a 100 B-52
81: bombers were readied for take off along with the President's
82: airborne command post before the error is detected, 1980
83: 06/05 Robert Kennedy assassinated, 1968
84: 06/05 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933
85: 06/10 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971
86: 06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752
87: 06/16 "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980
88: 06/17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972
89: 06/19 Start of a bus boycott protesting discrimination,
90: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1953
91: 06/22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964
92: 06/24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970
93: 06/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
1.2 jasper 94: 06/27 100 degrees F, Fort Yukon, 1915
1.1 jasper 95: 06/27 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971
1.7 jmc 96: 06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Allan Bakke, 1978
1.1 jasper 97: 07/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863
1.2 jasper 98: 07/04 Cloudy, 76 degrees F, Philadelphia PA, 1776
1.1 jasper 99: 07/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776
1.3 mickey 100: 07/04 The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people, 1803
101: 07/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863
1.8 ! bentley 102: 07/06 First 'talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928
1.1 jasper 103: 07/08 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
104: 07/08 Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835
105: 07/09 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847
1.2 jasper 106: 07/10 134 degrees F, in Death Valley, 1913
1.4 jmc 107: 07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, NM, 1945
1.1 jasper 108: 07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
109: 07/19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692
110: 07/21 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873
111: 07/28 B-25 hit 79th floor of Empire State Building, 1945
112: 07/30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956
113: 07/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948,
114: later JFK
115: 08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
116: 08/08 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974
117: 08/08 The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963
118: 08/09 Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969
119: 08/09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
120: 08/10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833
121: 08/10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977
122: 08/12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
123: 08/14 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935
124: 08/14 NYNEX merges with Bell Atlantic, 1997
125: 08/14 North-East American blackout, 2003
126: 08/15 Hurricane hits Plymouth Plantation, 1635
127: 08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
128: 08/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed
129: 08/24 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969
130: 08/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814
131: 08/28 King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963
132: 09/05 Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961
133: 09/05 The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774
134: 09/06 Pres. McKinley shot, 1901
135: 09/08 Star Trek debuts on NBC (1966) with "The Man Trap"
136: 09/08 President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974
137: 09/09 California becomes the 31st state, 1850
138: 09/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776
139: 09/14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778
140: 09/14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629
141: 09/15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959
142: 09/15 The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department, 1789
143: 09/16 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630
144: 09/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884
145: 09/20 First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
146: Science, 1848
147: 09/20 First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916
148: 09/20 The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973
149: 09/22 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
150: 09/22 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas President Nixon, 1974
151: 09/23 The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club, 1845
152: 09/23 V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech, 1952
153: 09/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981
154: 10/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967
1.3 mickey 155: 10/07 Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916
1.1 jasper 156: 10/07 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977
157: 10/08 Great Chicago Fire, 1871
158: 10/10 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973
159: 10/11 "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975
160: 10/11 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811
161: 10/13 U.S. Navy born, authorized by the Second Continental Congress, 1775
162: 10/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947
163: 10/15 First draft card burned, 1965
164: 10/15 d.b.a. ("drink good stuff") opens in n.y.c., 1994
165: 10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648
166: 10/27 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871
167: 10/27 The first New York Subway is opened, 1904
168: 10/28 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636
169: 10/28 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886
170: 10/29 Stock Market Crash, 1929
171: 10/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938
172: 11/03 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837
173: 11/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979
174: 11/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965
175: 11/09 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921
176: 11/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933
177: 11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House, 1917
178: 11/10 Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865
179: 11/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889
180: 11/12 U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861
181: 11/14 Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon
182: price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after formal request
183: from McDonald's), 1971
184: 11/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
185: 11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966
186: 11/17 Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973
187: 11/18 Local standard time zones established for US, 1883
188: 11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863
189: 11/21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973
190: 11/22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963
191: 11/23 First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963
192: 11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963
193: 11/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
194: 12/01 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924
195: 12/01 Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1955
196: 12/04 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783
197: 12/05 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed,
198: ending the Prohibition of alcohol, 1933
199: 12/05 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955
200: 12/15 Bill of Rights adopted, 1791
201: 12/15 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890
202: 12/20 U.S. buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.
203: 12/24 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865
204: 12/27 APT report published, 1956
205: 12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
206: 12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940
207: 12/31 Winterland closes its doors, 1978
208:
209: #endif /* !_calendar_ushistory_ */
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