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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_ */ |