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/*
* History
*
- * $OpenBSD: calendar.history,v 1.50 2006/07/03 15:46:22 jasper Exp $
+ * $OpenBSD: calendar.history,v 1.51 2006/07/03 16:40:34 jasper Exp $
*/
#ifndef _calendar_history_
@@ -65,86 +65,50 @@
04/29 Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913
05/01 Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god
05/01 Adam Weishaupt founded the Illuminati of Bavaria, 1776
-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
-05/05 Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, 1961
05/07 Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945
-05/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972
-05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979
05/10 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940
05/10 Nazi bookburning, 1933
05/14 Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
05/14 Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948
-05/14 Skylab (first U.S. space station) launched, 1973
-05/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854
05/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
-05/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
05/18 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
05/18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
05/21 Battle of Iquique in Chile
-05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956
-05/22 US Civil War ends, 1865
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 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
-05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937
05/29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953
05/29 First food stamps issued, 1961
-05/30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912
-06/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924
06/03 Last Star Trek episode first aired ("Turnabout Intruder"), 1969
-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
06/03 Edward White becomes the first American to perform a "Space Walk", 1965
06/04 Roquefort cheese developed, 1070
-06/05 Robert Kennedy assassinated, 1968
-06/05 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933
06/06 First drive-in movie, 1933
06/06 Normandy landing, 1944
06/10 Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C.
-06/10 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971
06/11 Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC
-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
06/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834
-06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752
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 "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980
06/17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967
-06/17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972
06/19 Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893
06/19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953
-06/19 Start of a bus boycott protesting discrimination,
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1953
06/20 Victoria crowned, 1837
06/21 Berlin airlift begins, 1948
06/21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge
-06/22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964
06/23 Slavery abolished in England, 1772
06/23 Harriet, Darwin's turtle died at the age of 176 years old, 2006
-06/24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970
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 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
06/26 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959
-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
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
06/30 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 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863
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
@@ -152,87 +116,45 @@
Republic of China, 1997
07/02 Vermont abolishes slavery, as the first state, 1777
07/03 Dog days begin
-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
07/04 Thoreau enters woods, 1845
-07/06 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928
07/06 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917
07/07 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949
-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
-07/11 Skylab enters Earth's atmosphere and is destroyed, 1979
07/12 Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933
07/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908
-07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945
07/17 Disneyland opens, 1955
-07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
-07/19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692
-07/20 Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin land on moon, 1969
-07/21 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873
07/21 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954
07/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904
07/24 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
07/28 Potato introduced in Europe by Sir Thomas Harriot, 1586
-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
08/01 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on
this day
08/03 Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492
-08/03 First ICBM (P-7) test (5T of iron is launched to Kamchatka), 1957
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
08/06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945
08/06 Caricom in Barbados
-08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
08/08 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
08/08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914
-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 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC
-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
08/11 Dog days end
08/11 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954
-08/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
-08/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977
-08/12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
08/13 Berlin wall erected, 1961
08/13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934
-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
08/15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947
08/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898
-08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
-08/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed
-08/19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite,
- marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960
08/19 Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856
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 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969
08/24 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960
-08/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814
08/25 First reaction thrust motor design, 1898
08/25 Gen. DeGaulle 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 King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963
-08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975;
- Nova Cygni 1975.
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