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/*
* USA history
*
* $OpenBSD: calendar.ushistory,v 1.3 2006/07/04 16:02:37 mickey 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 F, 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 F, 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 Cloudy, 76 degrees F, Philadelphia PA, 1776
07/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776
07/04 The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people, 1803
07/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863
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 F, 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 Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916
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_ */
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