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authorJasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jasper@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-07-03 15:46:23 +0000
committerJasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jasper@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-07-03 15:46:23 +0000
commit02e9ecb754eeb93a866ab97bf548c6bda6bfbabb (patch)
tree9795cbe3bb8f2489320702339a33c58d8c5d6444
parentf46163ac2c5373934e4154240aabc5a5347b4951 (diff)
put USA-history and Space related items in their own files.
idea from mickey.
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.all4
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history159
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.space51
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.ushistory207
4 files changed, 262 insertions, 159 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.all b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.all
index 132bb00f4d7..3629132e314 100644
--- a/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.all
+++ b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.all
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
/*
* International and national calendar files
*
- * $OpenBSD: calendar.all,v 1.3 2005/12/13 22:59:58 mickey Exp $
+ * $OpenBSD: calendar.all,v 1.4 2006/07/03 15:46:22 jasper Exp $
*/
#ifndef _calendar_all_
@@ -14,5 +14,7 @@
#include <calendar.croatian>
#include <calendar.russian>
#include <calendar.discord>
+#include <calendar.ushistory>
+#include <calendar.space>
#endif /* !_calendar_all_ */
diff --git a/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history
index 6eaf366f406..67120cbbcfb 100644
--- a/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history
+++ b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
/*
* History
*
- * $OpenBSD: calendar.history,v 1.49 2006/07/03 11:08:55 jasper Exp $
+ * $OpenBSD: calendar.history,v 1.50 2006/07/03 15:46:22 jasper Exp $
*/
#ifndef _calendar_history_
@@ -10,125 +10,52 @@
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
-01/01 First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902
-01/02 First military deployment of helicopters (VS-300 by Igor Sikorsky),
- with a brittish american convoy, 1944
-01/02 Soviet rocket carrying Lunokhod-1 leaves the Earth's orbit
- the first time ever (though did not reach the moon), 1959
-01/03 After 218 years since discovery by europeans and 92 years after
- it was purchased from Russian Empire, Alaska becomes 49th state, 1959
-01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
-01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
-01/05 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940
01/05 Twelfth night
-01/08 Battle of New Orleans
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 Milk delivered in bottles for the first time, 1878
01/11 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal
-01/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
-01/11 The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963
01/14 Julian Calendar New Year's Day
-01/14 The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967
-01/16 Prohibition begins, 1920
-01/18 Grey whale migration, California
01/20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)
-01/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922
-01/24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848
-01/24 A B-52 bomber carrying two 24 megaton bombs crashes at Goldsboro,
- North Carolina; 5 of 6 safety devices failed on one of them, 1961
01/26 Sydney Aust. settled, 1788
-01/27 Grissom, White and Chaffee burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967
01/27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973
-01/28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914
-01/28 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff
- killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe,
- 1986
01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948
-01/30 Tet Offensive, 1968
-01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961
-01/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered
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
-02/01 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954
-02/01 Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) explodes prior to landing, 2003
02/01 Forces led by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979
02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969
02/04 Patricia Hearst kidnaped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974
02/08 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq
-02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
-02/12 Lincoln's real birthday
-02/12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969
02/14 Bombing of Dresden, 1945
02/15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970
02/16 Nylon patented, 1937
-02/16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804
-02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930
-02/19 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945
-02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962
02/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties
-02/21 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878
-02/21 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965
02/23 Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 1971
02/24 Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868
02/27 The Lionheart crowned, 1189
02/28 The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972
-02/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704
-03/01 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft
- in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
-03/02 Blackthorn winds (New England)
-03/03 Gemini III launched with Virgil Grissom and John Young on board, 1965
-03/04 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.
03/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1939
03/13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894
-03/14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907
-03/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH
03/15 France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874
-03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966
-03/16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen
-03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926
-03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped
-03/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965
03/19 Swallows return to Capistrano
03/20 Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980
03/24 Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900
-03/25 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911
-03/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937
03/27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958
-03/28 First reaction thrust motor demonstration, 1883
03/28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979
-03/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638
-03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977
03/30 Pencil with eraser patented, 1858
04/01 People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day.
-04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
04/04 NATO Established, 1949
04/06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830
04/07 Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1943
04/07 Alewives run, Cape Cod
-04/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865
-04/09 Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867
-04/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861
-04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961
-04/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981
04/13 Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos
-04/13 Apollo 13 aborts moon landing due to oxygen tank explosion, 1970
-04/14 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865
04/14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912
-04/15 Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955
04/17 Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961
-04/18 Einstein's Death, 1955
-04/18 First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934
-04/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906
04/19 Landing of the "33" in Uruguay
04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943
-04/20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971
-04/21 Lyrid meteor shower
-04/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
04/23 Bavarian co-rulers Duke Wilhelm IV and Duke Ludwig X proclaimed the
weighty and consequential Bavarian Beer Purity Law
(later Reinheitsgebot), 1516
@@ -318,16 +245,9 @@
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
-09/05 Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961
-09/05 The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774
09/06 149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620
-09/06 Pres. McKinley shot, 1901
09/06 Somhlolo in Swaziland
-09/08 Star Trek debuts on NBC (1966) with "The Man Trap"
09/08 Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888
-09/08 President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974
-09/09 California becomes the 31st state, 1850
-09/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776
09/10 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857
09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943
09/12 Germany annexes Sudetenland, 1938
@@ -335,29 +255,14 @@
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 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778
-09/14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629
09/14 The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940
-09/15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959
-09/15 The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department, 1789
-09/16 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630
09/17 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859
09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862
09/18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi
-09/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884
-09/20 First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
- Science, 1848
-09/20 First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916
09/20 Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519
-09/20 The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973
09/22 Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953
-09/22 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
-09/22 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas President Nixon, 1974
09/22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949
09/23 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972
-09/23 The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club, 1845
-09/23 V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech, 1952
-09/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981
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,
@@ -366,27 +271,18 @@
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 NASA officially begins operations, 1958
-10/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967
10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853
-10/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957
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 Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916
-10/07 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977
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 Great Chicago Fire, 1871
10/09 First two-way telephone conversation, 1876
-10/10 Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. (1984)
10/10 Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba
10/10 Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea
-10/10 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973
-10/11 "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975
10/11 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976
-10/11 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811
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
@@ -394,13 +290,7 @@
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
-10/13 U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress
10/14 Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066
-10/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947
-10/15 First draft card burned, 1965
-10/15 d.b.a. ("drink good stuff") opens in n.y.c., 1994
-10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648
-10/18 Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959
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
@@ -412,94 +302,47 @@
10/23 South African troops invade Angola in support of UNITA and FNLA, 1975
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 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871
-10/27 The first New York Subway is opened, 1904
10/28 Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492
10/28 Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312
-10/28 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636
-10/28 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886
-10/29 Stock Market Crash, 1929
-10/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938
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 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837
11/03 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954
-11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing space dog Laika
-11/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979
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
-11/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965
11/09 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927
11/09 Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888
-11/09 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921
-11/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933
-11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House, 1917
-11/10 Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865
11/10 Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?", 1871
-11/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889
11/12 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan
-11/12 U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861
-11/14 Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon
- price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after formal request
- from McDonald's), 1971
-11/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
-11/15 Space Shuttle Buran launched, 1988
11/16 Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869
-11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966
-11/17 Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973
-11/18 Local standard time zones established for US, 1883
11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952
-11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863
-11/21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973
-11/22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963
-11/23 First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963
-11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963
11/25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867
11/27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895
11/27 Friction match invented, England, 1826
-11/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922
-12/01 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924
-12/01 Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1955
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 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783
12/05 Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776
-12/05 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed,
- ending the Prohibition of alcohol, 1933
-12/05 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955
12/07 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941
12/09 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
12/10 Metric system established in France, 1799
12/10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year
12/12 First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901
-12/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972
12/13 Dartmouth College chartered, 1769
-12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south)
12/15 Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976
-12/15 Bill of Rights adopted, 1791
12/15 James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891
-12/15 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890
-12/20 U.S. buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.
-12/24 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865
-12/24 Apollo 8 first manned lunar orbit, 1968
12/26 DPMA founded, 1951
-12/27 APT report published, 1956
12/27 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845
-12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
12/29 Battle of Wounded knee, 1890
12/29 Edison receives patent for Radio, 1891
-12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940
12/31 St. Sylvester in Switzerland
12/31 Windows tax in England, 1695
12/31 First supersonic commercial flight by Tu-144, 1968
-12/31 Winterland closes its doors, 1978
#endif /* !_calendar_history_ */
diff --git a/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.space b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.space
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ec4105ba3f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.space
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/*
+ * Space
+ *
+ * $OpenBSD: calendar.space,v 1.1 2006/07/03 15:46:22 jasper Exp $
+ */
+
+#ifndef _calendar_space_
+#define _calendar_space_
+
+01/02 Soviet rocket carrying Lunokhod-1 leaves the Earth's orbit
+ the first time ever (though did not reach the moon), 1959
+01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
+01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961
+01/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered
+02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930
+02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962
+03/03 Gemini III launched with Virgil Grissom and John Young on board, 1965
+03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926
+03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped
+03/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965
+03/28 First reaction thrust motor demonstration, 1883
+03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977
+04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961
+04/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981
+04/13 Apollo 13 aborts moon landing due to oxygen tank explosion, 1970
+04/21 Lyrid meteor shower
+05/05 Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, 1961
+05/14 Skylab (first U.S. space station) launched, 1973
+06/03 Edward White becomes the first American to perform a "Space Walk", 1965
+06/13 Pioneer 10 flies past Neptune's orbit, and becomes the first human
+ artifact to travel beyond the orbits of all known planets, 1983
+07/11 Skylab enters Earth's atmosphere and is destroyed, 1979
+07/20 Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin land on moon, 1969
+08/03 First ICBM (P-7) test (5T of iron is launched to Kamchatka), 1957
+08/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
+08/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977
+08/19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite,
+ marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960
+08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975;
+ Nova Cygni 1975.
+10/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958
+10/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957
+10/10 Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. (1984)
+10/18 Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959
+11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing space dog Laika
+11/15 Space Shuttle Buran launched, 1988
+12/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972
+12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south)
+12/24 Apollo 8 first manned lunar orbit, 1968
+
+#endif /* !_calendar_space_ */
diff --git a/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.ushistory b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.ushistory
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3c22729fce0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.ushistory
@@ -0,0 +1,207 @@
+/*
+ * USA history
+ *
+ * $OpenBSD: calendar.ushistory,v 1.1 2006/07/03 15:46:22 jasper Exp $
+ */
+
+#ifndef _calendar_ushistory_
+#define _calendar_ushistory_
+
+01/01 First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902
+01/02 First military deployment of helicopters (VS-300 by Igor Sikorsky),
+ with a brittish american convoy, 1944
+01/03 After 218 years since discovery by europeans and 92 years after
+ it was purchased from Russian Empire, Alaska becomes 49th state, 1959
+01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
+01/05 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940
+01/08 Battle of New Orleans
+01/11 Milk delivered in bottles for the first time, 1878
+01/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
+01/11 The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963
+01/14 The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967
+01/16 Prohibition begins, 1920
+01/18 Grey whale migration, California
+01/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922
+01/24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848
+01/24 A B-52 bomber carrying two 24 megaton bombs crashes at Goldsboro,
+ North Carolina; 5 of 6 safety devices failed on one of them, 1961
+01/27 Grissom, White and Chaffee burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967
+01/28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914
+01/28 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff
+ killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe,
+ 1986
+01/30 Tet Offensive, 1968
+02/01 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954
+02/01 Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) explodes prior to landing, 2003
+02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
+02/12 Lincoln's real birthday
+02/12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969
+02/16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804
+02/19 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945
+02/21 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878
+02/21 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965
+02/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704
+03/01 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft
+ in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
+03/02 Blackthorn winds (New England)
+03/04 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.
+03/14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907
+03/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH
+03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966
+03/16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen
+03/25 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911
+03/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937
+03/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638
+04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
+04/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865
+04/09 Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867
+04/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861
+04/14 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865
+04/15 Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955
+04/18 First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934
+04/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906
+04/18 Einstein's Death, 1955
+04/20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971
+04/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
+05/03 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971
+05/04 Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970
+05/05 John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925
+05/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972
+05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979
+05/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854
+05/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
+05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956
+05/22 US Civil War ends, 1865
+05/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
+05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937
+05/30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912
+06/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924
+06/03 A 46-cent computer chip fails, causing the mistaken detection
+ of a Soviet missile attack by the NORAD system. About a 100 B-52
+ bombers were readied for take off along with the President's
+ airborne command post before the error is detected, 1980
+06/05 Robert Kennedy assassinated, 1968
+06/05 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933
+06/10 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971
+06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752
+06/16 "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980
+06/17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972
+06/19 Start of a bus boycott protesting discrimination,
+ Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1953
+06/22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964
+06/24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970
+06/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
+06/27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915
+06/27 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971
+06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978
+07/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863
+07/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863
+07/04 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776
+07/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776
+07/06 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928
+07/08 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
+07/08 Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835
+07/09 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847
+07/10 134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913
+07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945
+07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
+07/19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692
+07/21 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873
+07/28 B-25 hit 79th floor of Empire State Building, 1945
+07/30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956
+07/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948,
+ later JFK
+08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
+08/08 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974
+08/08 The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963
+08/09 Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969
+08/09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
+08/10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833
+08/10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977
+08/12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
+08/14 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935
+08/14 NYNEX merges with Bell Atlantic, 1997
+08/14 North-East American blackout, 2003
+08/15 Hurricane hits Plymouth Plantation, 1635
+08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
+08/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed
+08/24 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969
+08/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814
+08/28 King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963
+09/05 Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961
+09/05 The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774
+09/06 Pres. McKinley shot, 1901
+09/08 Star Trek debuts on NBC (1966) with "The Man Trap"
+09/08 President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974
+09/09 California becomes the 31st state, 1850
+09/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776
+09/14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778
+09/14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629
+09/15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959
+09/15 The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department, 1789
+09/16 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630
+09/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884
+09/20 First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
+ Science, 1848
+09/20 First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916
+09/20 The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973
+09/22 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
+09/22 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas President Nixon, 1974
+09/23 The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club, 1845
+09/23 V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech, 1952
+09/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981
+10/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967
+10/07 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977
+10/08 Great Chicago Fire, 1871
+10/10 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973
+10/11 "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975
+10/11 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811
+10/13 U.S. Navy born, authorized by the Second Continental Congress, 1775
+10/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947
+10/15 First draft card burned, 1965
+10/15 d.b.a. ("drink good stuff") opens in n.y.c., 1994
+10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648
+10/27 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871
+10/27 The first New York Subway is opened, 1904
+10/28 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636
+10/28 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886
+10/29 Stock Market Crash, 1929
+10/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938
+11/03 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837
+11/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979
+11/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965
+11/09 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921
+11/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933
+11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House, 1917
+11/10 Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865
+11/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889
+11/12 U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861
+11/14 Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon
+ price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after formal request
+ from McDonald's), 1971
+11/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
+11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966
+11/17 Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973
+11/18 Local standard time zones established for US, 1883
+11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863
+11/21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973
+11/22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963
+11/23 First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963
+11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963
+11/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
+12/01 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924
+12/01 Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1955
+12/04 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783
+12/05 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed,
+ ending the Prohibition of alcohol, 1933
+12/05 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955
+12/15 Bill of Rights adopted, 1791
+12/15 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890
+12/20 U.S. buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.
+12/24 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865
+12/27 APT report published, 1956
+12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
+12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940
+12/31 Winterland closes its doors, 1978
+
+#endif /* !_calendar_ushistory_ */