AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies (1984)
Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba
Castro expells Cuban President Batista (1959)
Churchill delivers his the "Iron Curtain" speech (1947)
Country Joe McDonald is born in El Monte, California, 1942
Independence Day in Haiti, Sudan
New Year's Day
Paul Revere born in Boston (1735)
The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems), 1970 (Midnight GMT)
Universal Fraternity Day in Mozambique
Ancestry Day in Haiti
Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR) (1920)
St. Berchtold's Day in Switzerland
Apple Computer founded, 1977
New Year's Holiday in Scotland
Revolution Day in Upper Volta
Steven Stills is born in Dallas, 1945
George Washington Carver born in Missouri (1864)
Independence Day in Burma
Jakob Grimm born, 1785
Jazz great Charlie Mingus dies at 57 in Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1979
Martyrs Day in Zaire
Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars
-50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer
The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940
Twelfth night
Children's Day in Uruguay
Epiphany
Millard Fillmore's birthday
Three Kings' Day in Puerto Rico
Christmas in Ethiopia
Pioneer's Day in Liberia
American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case (1982)
Battle of New Orleans
David Bowie (then David Robert Jones) is born in London, 1947
Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer (1889)
Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982
Day of the Martyrs in Panama
James Patrick Page (Led Zeppelin) is born in Middlesex, England, 1945
Blues guitarist Howlin' Wolf dies in Chicago, 1976
Ethan Allen born, 1738
First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960
First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London (1946)
Jim Croce is born in Phildelphia, 1943
Pat Benatar is born in Long Island, 1952
Rod Stewart is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1945
Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies (1757?)
Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania
Armed Forces Day in Liberia
De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico
Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal
Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963
"Long" John Baldry is born in London, 1941
Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania
Eric Clapton plays the "Rainbow Concert" in London, 1973
National Liberation Day in Togo
Sophie Tucker born, 1884
Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws
Albert Schweitzer born, 1875
Julian Calendar New Year's Day
The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967
Adults Day in Japan
Arbor Day in Jordan
Martyrs Day in Benin
Prohibition begins, 1920
Set uid bit patent issued, 1979
Benjamin Franklin born in Boston (1706)
Justice Dept. begins IBM suit, 1969
Led Zeppelin's first album is released, 1969
Revolution Day in Tunisia
Confederate Heroes Day in Texas
Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston (1809)
Ethopian Epiphany in Ethiopia
Janis Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, 1943
Nameday of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus
Robert E(dward) Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia (1807)
Army Day in Mali
Geo. Burns born, 1898
National Heroes Day in Guinea-Bissau
St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)
Lenin died, 1924
Our Lady of Altagracia in Dominican Republic
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA (1824)
Sam Cooke is born in Chicago, 1935
Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561
Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory
Feast of St. Ildefonsus
Humphrey Bogart born in New York City (1899)
John Hancock born, 1737
Joseph Hewes born, 1730
National Handwriting Day
Saml. Barber died, 1981
DG Nova introduced, 1969
Economic Liberation Day in Togo
Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill (1848)
John Belushi is born in Chicago, 1949
Warren Zevon is born, 1947
Bob Dylan plays the second "Hurricane" benefit, in the Astrodome, 1978
First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958
Robert Burns born, 1759
Virginia Woolf born, 1882
W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874
EDVAC demonstrated, 1952
Republic Day in India
Sydney Aust. settled, 1778
Bobby "Blue" Bland (Robert Calvin Bland) is born in Tennessee, 1930
Samuel Gompers born, 1850
Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in Salzburg (1756)
First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914
Jimi Hendrix headlines Madison Square Garden, 1970
Australia Day in Australia
Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York (1882)
Lightnin' Hopkins, the most-recorded blues artist ever, dies, 1982
Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic (1948)
Tet Offensive, 1968
Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered
Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp
The Grateful Dead are busted in New Orleans, 1970
Chinese New Year Holiday (3 days) in Taiwan
First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954
Forces lead by Khomeini take over Iran (1979)
RCA Victor unveils the 45 rpm record playing system, 1949
Candlemas
Graham Nash is born in Lancashire, England, 1942
Gertrude Stein born, 1874
Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper are killed in a plane crash, 195
Cybernet inaugurated, 1969
Independence Commemoration Day in Sri Lanka
Alex Harvey (SAHB) is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935
Constitution Day in Mexico
Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army (1974)
King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II (1952)
New Zealand Day
Independence Day in Grenada
Steven Stills makes the first digitally recorded rock album, 1979
The Beatles arrive in America for the first time, 1964
1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq
Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography
Jules Verne born in Nantes, France (1828)
-51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
Carole King (Carole Klein) is born in Brooklyn, 1941
George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc.
St. Maron's Day in Lebanon
Charles Lamb born, 1775
Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (AD 60)
William Allen White born, 1868
Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966
National Foundation Day in Japan
Thos. Edison born, 1847
William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1489, photographic pioneer
Abraham Lincoln born, 1809
Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England (1809)
Pyidaungsa Day in Burma
Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969
The Beatles play Carnegie Hall in New York City, 1964
Bombing of Dresden, 1945
First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978
St. Valentine's day
Chicago Seven convicted, 1970
ENIAC demonstrated, 1946
Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy (1564)
Susan B. Anthony born, 1820
Makha Bucha Day in Thailand
Nylon patented, 1937
Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry
Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804
Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone
Jazz great Thelonius Monk dies in Englewood, New Jersey, 1982
Marion Anderson born, 1902
T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874
Democracy Day in Nepal
Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer
Independence Day in The Gambia
Yoko Ono Lennon is born in Tokyo, 1933
Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland (1473)
Paul McCartney's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" is banned in Britain, 1972
William "Smokey" Robinson is born in Detroit, 1940
J. Geils (J. Geils Band) is born, 1946
Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer
Yes sells out Madison Square Garden...without advertising, 1974
Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass
Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties
Malcom X shot to death in Harlem (1965)
George Washington born, 1732
Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun
Handel born, 1685
Johnny Winter is born in Leland, Mississippi, 1944
Lt Calley confesses, implicates Cpt Medina, 1971
Republic Day in Guyana
W.E.B.DuBois born, 1868
Gregorian Calendar Day
Winslow Homer born, 1836
George Harrison born in Liverpool, England (1943)
National Day in Kuwait
Renoir born, 1841
Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786, observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21
Independence Day in Dominican Republic
The Lionheart crowned, 1189
Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533
The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972
French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704
Herman Hollerith born (1860)
Jimmy Dorsey born, 1904
David Niven born, 1910
First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964
Jim Morrison is busted for obscenity in Miami, 1969
Samil Independence Movement Day in South Korea
Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem, MA (16
Blues guitarist Rory Gallagher is born in Ballyshannon, Ireland, 1949
Peasants Day in Burma
Texas Independence day
Victory of Adowa in Ethiopia
Buffalo Springfield is formed in Los Angeles, 1966
Throne Day in Morocco
Antonio Vivaldi born in Venice, Italy (1678)
Casimir Pulaski born, 1747
First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos
First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.
Vermont Admission Day (admitted as 14th state in 1791)
Independence Day in Equatorial Guinea
John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982
Independence Day in Ghana
Aristotle died, 322BC
Last Gilbert & Sullivan opera produced, 1896
Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer
Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer
First annual International Women's Day (1909)
Howard Aiken born, 1900
International Women's Day in U.S.S.R.
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) dies in California, 1973
Syrian National Day in Libyan Arab Republic
Women's Day in Guinea-Bissau, Taiwan, Yemen Democratic Republic
Youth Day in Zambia
"GOTO considered harmful" published in CACM, 1968
Decoration Day in Liberia
Falgun Purnima Day in Nepal
Robin Trower is born in London, 1945
Labor Day in South Korea
Johnny Appleseed Day; anniversary of the death of John Chapman
Robert Treat Paine born, 1737
Vannevar Bush born, 1890
Commonwealth Day in Swaziland
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist
Independence Day in Mauritius
Moshoeshoe's Birthday in Lesotho
Renovation Day in Gabon
"Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894
National Day in Grenada
The Allman Brothers record their live album at the Fillmore East, 1971
Albert Einstein born, 1879
Casey Jones born, 1864
Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer; named Mars "canals"
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist
LISP introduced, 1960
Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907
Buzzards return to Hinckley OH
J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March (44BC)
Sly Stone born, 1944
Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25 (1966)
Black Press Day; first Black newspaper founded in 1827
George Clymer born, 1739
James Madison born, 1751
MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen
Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket (1926)
Evacuation Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane) is born in San Francisco, 1942
St. Patrick's Day
Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped
St. Joseph's Day in Colombia, Costa Rica, Holy See, Liechtenstein, San Marino,
Tree Planting Day in Lestho
Independence Day in Tunsia
Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980
Youth Day in Oklahoma
Afghan New Year in Afghanistan
Bach born, 1685
Juarez' Birthday in Mexico
Abolition Day in Puerto Rico
Ten Years After plays their last concert, 1974
Pakistan Day in Pakistan
Construction of New York subway system begins (1900)
Harry Houdini born, 1874
Aretha Franklin is born in Detroit, 1943
Greek Independence Day in Cyprus
Lady Day (a.k.a. the Feast of the Annunciation)
Maryland Day in Maryland
Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911
Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer record "Pictures at an Exhibition" live, 1971
Independence Day in Bangladesh
Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937
Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day in Hawaii
Armed Forces Day in Burma
Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union (1958)
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays
DEC announces PDP-11, 1970
Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas (1979)
Death of President Barthelemy Boganda in Central African Republic
Dr. Hook gets a group picture on the cover of "Rolling Stone", 1973
Memorial Day in Madagascar
Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638
Eric Clapton is born in Surrey, England, 1945
Five rings around Uranus discovered (1977)
Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746
Pencil with eraser patented (1858)
Sean O'Casey born, 1880
Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853
Descartes born, 1596
Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946
National Day in Malta
Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher
April Fool's Day
People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc born this day.
Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.)
Youth Day in Benin
Malvinas Day in Argentina
Marvin Gaye is born in Washington, D.C., 1939
Pascua Florida Day in Florida
IBM 701 introduced, 1953
Washington Irving born, 1783
Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong
Liberation Day in Hungary
Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee (1968)
Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) is born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, 1915
NATO Established (1949)
National Day in Senegal
Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores)
Arbor Day in South Korea
Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher
Tomb Sweeping Day in Taiwan
Chakri Memorial Day in Thailand
Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830
Victory Day in Ethiopia
Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1943
Alewives run, Cape Cod
IBM announces System/360, 1964
David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician
Fast and Prayer Day in Liberia
ENIAC Project begun, 1943
Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer
J. Presper Eckert born, 1919
Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865
Martyrs Day in Tunisia
Paul Robeson born, 1898
Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1854
Paul McCartney announces that he's quitting the Beatles, 1970
William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army
National Heroes Day in Costa Rica
Columbia launched, 1981
Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space (1961)
Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos
National Day in Chad
Songkron Day in Thailand
Thomas Jefferson born, 1743
Christian Huygen born, 1629, physicist & astronomer; discovered Saturn's rings
Day of the Americas in Honduras
Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) is born, 1945
Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912
Bengali New Year in Bangladesh
Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452
Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London (1889)
De Diego's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
Holy Week (5 days) in Venezuela
Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth (1865)
Tourist Week (5 days) in Uruguay
Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces (1961)
Burmese New Year in Burma
Einstein's Death, 1955
Independence Day in Chile, Zimbabwe
San Francisco earthquake, 1906
Yes breaks up after 13 years, 1981
Declaration of Independence in Venezuela
Landing of the "33" in Uruguay
Republic Day in Sierra Leone
Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943
Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing (1971)
Lyrid meteor shower
San Jacinto Day in Texas
Tiradentes in Brazil
Arbor Day in Nebraska & Delaware
Kant born, 1724
Oklahoma Day in Oklahoma
Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
Victory Day in Togo
Anniversary of the Revolution in Portugal
Anzac Day in Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Western Samoa
Blues guitarist Albert King is born, 1925
Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918
Liberation Day in Italy
National Flag Day in Swaziland
Carol Burnett born in San Antonio, Texas (1933)
Confederate Memorial Day in Florida & Georgia
Union Day in Tanzania
William Shakespeare baptised in Stratford-on-Avon, England (1564)
Independence Day in Togo
Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist
Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521
James Monroe born, 1758
Zilog Z-80 introduced
Daylight Savint time begins
"Hair" premiers on Broadway, 1968
Emperor's Birthday in Japan
Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology
William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco (1863)
Karl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer
Queen's Biorthday in Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles
The Workers Day in Uruguay
Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god
First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964
Kate Smith born, 1909
Labor Day in many places
Law Day (decl. by Eisenhower)
Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) is born in Alexandria, Louisiana, 1930
May Day
Constitution Day in Japan
Dr. Benj. Spock born, 1903
King's Birthday in Lesotho
Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington (1971)
Bob Seger is born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945
4 Kent students demonstrating against Cambodia incursion are shot (1970)
Rhode Island Independence Day
Battle of Puebla in Mexico
Children's Day in Japan, South Korea
Coronatin Day in Thailand
Liberation Day in Netherlands
Bataan Day in Philippines
EDSAC demonstrated, 1949
Germany Surrenders after WWII, 1945
Johannes Brahms born in Hamburg (1833)
May Day in United Kingdom
Tchaikowsky born, 1840
Buddha's Birthday in South Korea
Elections for the National Assembly in Philippines
Truman Day in Missouri
US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972
94 degrees, New York, 1979
Liberation Day in Czechoslovakia
Pinza died, 1957
Victory Day in Poland, U.S.S.R.
Confederate Memorial Day in South Carolina
Dave Mason is born in Worcester, England, 1945
Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska (1899)
Germany invades Low Countries, 1940
Mothers Day in Guatamala
Nazi bookburning (1933)
Bob Marley dies in his sleep in Miami, 1981
Minnesota Day in Minnesota
Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy (1820)
Pink Floyd performs the first quadrophonic concert, 1977
Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842
Anniversary of the Founding of Guinean Deomcratic Party in Guinea
Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
Buddhist Holiday (Waisak 2528) in Indonesia
Independence Day (2 days) in Paraguay
Nation of Israel proclaimed (1948)
Unification Day in Liberia
Kamuzu Day in Malawi
Mike Oldfield is born in Essex, England, 1953
Vesak Day in Singapore, Malaysia
Visakha Bucha Day in Thailand
Armed Forces Day
Discovery Day in Cayman Islands
First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
Constitution Day in Nauru, Norway
Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
Flag Day in Haiti
Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
Prayer Day in Denmark
Rick Wakeman is born in West London, England, 1949
Ho Chi Minh born, 1890
Pete Townshend is born in London, 1945
Youth and Sports Day in Turkey
Mecklenburg Independence Day in North Carolina
National Day in Cameroon
The Jimi Hendrix Experience is signed by Reprise Records, 1967
Victoria Day in Canada
Battle of Iquique in Chile
DEC announces PDP-8
Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?) (427BC)
Johann Sebastian Bach born in Eisenach, Germany (1665)
National Heroes Day in Sri Lanka
US Civil War ends (1865)
Blues great Elmore James dies, 1963
Commonwealth Day in Jamaica, Belize
Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann (1960)
National Labor Day in Jamaica
Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953
Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador
Bermuda Day in Bermuda
Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) is born in Duluth, 1941
Day of Slav Letters in Bulgaria
African Freedom Day in Zimbabwe
African Liberation Day in Chad, Mauritania, Zambia
Anniversary of the Revolution of 1810 in Argentina
Independence Day in Jordan
Memorial Day in New Mexico & Puerto Rico
Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980
Revolution in the Sudan in Libyan Arab Republic
Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England (1830)
Al Jolson born, 1886
Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
Afghanistan attains sovereignty, 1921
First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958
Golden Gate Bridge opens (1937)
Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911
Dionne quintuplets born, 1934
First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959
Mothers Day in Central African Republic
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest (1953)
Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874
John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917
Patrick Henry born, 1736
Colossus Mark II, 1944
Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco (1908)
US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912
Memorial Day
Pya Martyrs Day in Togo
Republic Day in South Africa
The Who perform the loudest concert ever--76,000 watts of PA, 1976
Brigham Young born, 1801
Independence Days (3 days) in Western Samoa
Madaraka Day in Kenya
Marilyn Monroe born, 1928
The Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper", 1967
Victory Day in Tunisia
Corpus Christi in Paraguay
Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England (1857)
First issue of Computerworld, 1967
Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924
Confederate Memorial Day in Kentucky & Louisiana
Henry James born, 1811
Jefferson Davis's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi (1st Monday)
Jefferson Davis's Birthday in Florida, Georgia, & S. Carolina
Labor Day in Bahamas
Dragon Boat Festival in Hong Kong, Taiwan
Emancipation Day in Tonga
Queen's Birthday in New Zealand
Roquefort cheese developed (1070)
Constitution Day in Denmark
Liberation Day in Seychelles
Robert Kennedy Assasinated (1968)
"Rock Around The Clock" makes Billboard's #1 slot, 1955
His Majesty, Yang Di-Pertuan Agong's Birthday in Malaysia
Memorial Day in South Korea
Normandy landing, 1944
(Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848
Blind Faith debuts in concert at London's Hyde Park, 1969
George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778
Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin (1869)
Les Paul (Lester Polfus) is born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1923
Senior Citizen's Day in Oklahoma
Camoes Day in Portugal
Death of Alexander the Great (323 B.C.)
Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971
First Apple II shipped, 1977
Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett) is born in West Point, Mississippi, 1910
Greeks seize Troy (1184BC)
King Kamehameha I Day in Hawaii
Queen's Birthday
Independence Day in Philippines
Peace with Bolivia in Paraguay
Alexander the Great dies (323BC)
Corrective Movement in Yemen Arab Republic
Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System
Flag Day
Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834
Ben Franklin's kite experiment (1752)
Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway (1843)
Harry Nilsson is born in Brooklyn, 1941
Magna Carta signed (1215)
Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford that all th
UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
"The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980
Bloomsday - Anniversary of Dublin events, 1904, in "Ulysses"
Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 bc
The Monterey Pop festival opens, 1967
Bunker Hill Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb (1967)
Independence Day in Iceland
National Day in Federal Republic of Germany
Watergate Democratic National Committee Break-In (1972)
Evacuation Day in Egypt
M C Escher born (1898)
Paul McCartney born in Liverpool, England (1942)
Queen's Birthday in Fiji
Artigas Birthday in Uruguay
Emancipation Day in Texas
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison (1953)
Labor Day in Trinidad, Tobago
Lizzie Borden acquitted, 1893
Revolution Day in Algeria
Flag Day in Argentina
Victoria crowned, 1837
West Virginia Day in West Virginia
Berlin airlift begins (1948)
Columbia records announces the first mass production of LP's, 1948
Summer solstice, 12:02 am, EST
Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge
Carl Hubbell born, 1903
Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964
Corrective Movement in Yermen Democratic Republic
Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey (1949)
Midsummer Eve in Finland, Sweden
National Sovereignty Day in Haiti
Todd Rundgren is born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, 1948
IBM unbundles software, 1969
National Holiday in Luxembourg
Slavery abolished in England (1772)
Turing's Birthday, 1912
Battle of Carabobob in Venezuela
Fisherman's Day in Madagascar, Mozambique, Somalia
Jeff Beck is born in Surrey, England, 1944
Kings Day in Spain
Peasants Day in Peru
Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution (1970)
St. Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec
Custer's Last Stand, 1876
Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903
N. Korea invades S. Korea, 1950
Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959
Toothbrush invented, 1498
100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915
Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971
Helen Keller born, 1880
Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke (1978)
Independence Day in Seychelles
Last Day of Ramadan* in Algeria, Oman
"That" explosion in Siberia, 1908
China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology (1960)
Day of the Army in Guatemala
First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, Temple Univ.
Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863
Dominion Day in Canada
Eid-Ul-Fitr* (2 days) in Pakistan
Freedom Day in Suriname
Independence Day in Burundi
National Day in Rwamda
Republic Day in Ghana
Union of the Somalia Republic in Somalia
Felix Pappalardi and Leslie West form Mountain, 1969
National Day in Kiribati
Dog days begin
Franz Kafka born, 1883
Jim Morrison dies in Paris, 1971
Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces (1863)
Caribbean Day in Guyana
Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776
Constitution Day in Cayman Islands
Family Day in Lesotho
Heroes Day in Zambia
Independence Day in United States
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day (1826)
Kadooment Day in Barbados
Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts (1804)
New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776
Philippine-American Friendship Day in the Philippines
Warriors Day (2 days) in Yugoslavia
Day of Peace and Unity in Rwanda
Independence Day in Algeria, Venezuela
(Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866
First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York (1928)
John Paul Jones born, 1747
Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917
The Jefferson Airplane is formed in San Francisco, 1965
Anniversary of the P.U.N. in Equatorial Guinea
First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949
National Day in Malawi
Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) born in Liverpool, England (1940)
Saba Saba Day in Tanzania
Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T) (1877)
CDC incorporated, 1957
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838
First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847
Independence Day in Argentina
Independence Day in Bahamas
John Calvin born, 1509
John Quincy Adams born, 1767
National Holiday in the Mongolian People's Republic
Battle of Boyne celebrated in Northern Ireland
Chicago DJ Steve Dahl holds "Disco Demolition" at Kamisky Park, 1979
Henry David Thoreau born, 1817
The Twelfth in Northern Ireland
Buddhist Lent in Thailand
Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908
Anniversary of the Revolution in Iraq
Bastille Day
National Holiday in Monaco
Woody Guthrie born, 1912
Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas"
St. Swithin's Day
Cream forms in the U.K., 1966
Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945
Harry Chapin dies on Long Island Expressway, 1981
Presidents Day in Botswanna
"Yellow Submarine" premieres at the London Pavilon, 1968
Constitution Day in South Korea
Disneyland opens, 1955
July Revolution in Iraq
Munoz Rivera's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
Public Holiday in Botswanna
Brian Auger is born in London, 1939
Constitution Day in Uruguay
Liberation Day in Nicaragua
Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692
Martyrs Day in Burma
Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969 (Will be looked back upon as the high p
Carlos Santana is born in Autlan, Mexico, 1947
Independence Day in Colombia
National Holiday in Belgium
Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954
King's Birthday in Swaziland
National Day in Poland
Anniversary of the Revolution Egypt
Eqyptian National Day in Syrian Arab Republic
Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904
Remembrance Day in Papua, New Guinea
Pioneer Day in Utah
Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Simon Bolivar's Day in Ecuador, Venezuela
Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, 1965
Constitution Day in Puerto Rico
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young debut at the Fillmore East, 1969
National Rebellion Day (3 days) in Cuba
Republic Day in Tunisia
St. James, Patron Saint in Spain
Steve Goodman is born in Chicago, 1948
Independence Day in Liberia
Mick Jagger is born in Kent, England, 1943
National Day in Maldives
Barbosa's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
Bach dies, 1750
Independence Days (2 days) in Peru
The Watkins Glen "Summer Jam" opens, 1973
Mussolini born, 1883
Olsok Eve in Norway to commemorate Norway's Viking King St. Olav
Rain Day in Waynesburg, PA
"In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956
Emily Bronte born, 1818
Henry Ford born, 1863
Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948, later JFK
Revolution Day in Congo
Discovery Day in Trinidad, Tobogo
Emancipation Day in Granada
Founding of Asuncion in Paraguay
Freedom Day in Guyana
Herman Melville born, 1819
Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on this day
National Day in Switzerland
National Holidays (5 days) in El Salvador
Parent's Day in Zaire
The Concert for Bangla Desh takes place at Madison Square Garden, 1971
Our Lady of Los Angeles in Costa Rica
Independence Day in Jamaica, Niger
Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966
Massacre du Pidjiguiti in Buinea-bissau
Memorial Day of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus
USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958
Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964
Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I (1914)
John Lennon points out that "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus", 1966
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (1945)
Caricom in Barbados
Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
Emancipation Day in Bahamas
Independence Day in Bolivia
Battle of Boyaca in Colombia
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki (1945)
Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles (1937)
Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914
Nixon announces resignation (1973)
The Great Train Robbery $7,368,000 (1963)
Helter Skelter...the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969
National Day in Singapore
Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae (480 BC)
Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency (1974)
US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)
Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people (1833)
Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1947
Independence Day in Ecuador
US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000 (1977)
Dog days end
France Ends War in Indochina (1954)
Heroes Day (2 days) in Zimbabwe
Independence Day in Chad
King Hussein's Accession to the Throne in Jordan
Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
Queen's Birthday in Thailand
Thomas Mann's Death (1955)
Annie Oakley born, 1860
Berlin wall erected (1961)
Dan Fogelberg is born in Peoria, Illinois, 1951
Fidel Castro born, 1927
Li'l Abner debut, 1934
Proclamation of Independence in Central African Republic
Women's Day in Tunisia
David Crosby is born in Los Angeles, 1941
First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
IBM PC announced, 1981
Independence Day in Pakistan
Social Security begins in U.S., 1935
VJ Day (1945)
Waddi Dhahab in Morocco
Founding of Ascuncion in Paraguay
Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India (1947)
Hurricane hits Plimoth Plantation, 1635
Independence Day in India
Liberation Day in South Korea
National Day in Congo
Santa Maria in Malta
The Beatles play Shea Stadium in New York, 1965
Woodstock Festival, Max Yasgur's farm, 1969
Bennington Battle Day in Vermont
Independence Days (3 days) in Gabon
Restoration Day in Dominican Republic
Roller Coaster patented, 1898
Admission Day in Hawaii {1984} (3rd Friday)
Anniversary of the Death of General San Martin in Argentina
First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
Independence Day in Indonesia
Mae West born, 1892
Meriwether Lewis born, 1927
Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856
Independence Day in Afghanistan
Constitution Day in Hungary
Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) is born in Worcestershire, England, 1948
CDC 6600 introduced, 1963
Claude Debussy born, 1862
Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets
St. Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565
DEC founded, 1957
Gene Kelly born, 1912
Keith Moon (The Who) is born in London, 1947
Liberation Days (2 days) in Romania
Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927
"Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969
-126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica (1960)
British troops burn Washington, 1814
National Flag Day in Liberia
Constitution Day in Paragual
Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
Independence Day in Uruguay
Jimi Hendrix gives his last performance at the Isle of Wight, 1970
Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Studios opens in New York, 1970
Susan B. Anthony Day in Massachussetts
"Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912
Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons (1883)
Liberation Day in Hong Kong
Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908
Heroes Day in Philippines
King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC (1963)
Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist
Star in Cygnus goes nova & becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; Nova Cygni 1975.
75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842
Huey P. Long Day in Louisiana
Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960
John W. Mauchly born, 1907
St. Rose of Lima in Peru
Victory Day in Turkey
Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected (1963)
269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR (1983)
Independence Day in Trinidad, Tobago
National Day in Malaysia
Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
Pashtoonian Day in Afghanistan
Army Day in Chile
Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match (1972)
Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I' (1859)
Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar (1752)
Japan signs unconditional surrender aboard US battleship `Missouri' (1945)
Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino
Independence Day in Qatar
Memorial Day in Tunisia
First Continental Congress, Phila, 1774
Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961
King Louis XIV of France born (1638)
Raquel Welch born, 1942
The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia (1774)
149 Pilgrims set forth from Eng3and aboard the Mayflower (1620)
Defense of Pakistan Day in Pakistan
Pres. McKinley shot, 1901
Settlers Day in South Africa
Somhlolo in Swaziland
Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died (1909)
Independence Day in Brazil
James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ (1789)
Keith Moon (The Who) dies in London of a drug overdose, 1978
Queen Elizabeth I of England born (1533)
"Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966)
Anton Dvorak born in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia (1841)
King Richard I of England born (1157)
Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England (1925)
President Ford grants pardon to Nixon (1974)
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) is born in San Bruno, California, 1945
Admission Day in California
Anniversary of the Socialist Revolution (2 days) in Bulgaria
California becomes the 31st state (1850)
Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age of 82 (1976)
National Day in North Korea
United Colonies is renamed the United States (1776)
Korean Thanksgiving Day (Chusuk) in South Korea
Moon Festival in Taiwan
Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857
National Day in Belize
Ethiopian New Year in Ethiopia
Grandparent's Day
National Holiday in Chile
Amilcar Cabral's Birthday in Guinea-Bissau
Defender's Day in Maryland
German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome (1943)
Germany annexes Sudentenland, 1938
Jesse Owens born, 1913
Revolution Day in Ethiopia
136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya (1922)
Barry Day commemorates the death of Commodore John Barry
British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City (1788)
Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122
Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China (1943)
Walter Reed born, 1851
Battle of San Jacinto in Nicaragua
Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister (1778)
Francis Scott Key writes words to "Star Spangled Banner" (1814)
Salem, Massachusetts, is founded (1629)
The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft (1940)
ACM founded, 1947
Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England (1890)
Foundation of Panama in Panama
Respect for the Aged Day in Japan
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US (1959)
The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department (1789)
Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY (1914)
B.B. King is born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, 1925
Cherokee Strip Day in Oklahoma
Independence Day in Mexico, Papua, New Guinea
The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston (1630)
Battle of Antietam, 1862
National Heroes Day in Angola
Greta Garbo born, 1905
Independence Day in Chile
Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970
Victory of Uprona in Burundi
Simon & Garfunkel reunite to play New York's Central Park, 1981
Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884
First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848
First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916
Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954
Jim Croce dies in a plane crash, 1973
Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage (1519)
The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973
Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878
H. G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England (1866)
Independence Day in Belize
Louis Joliet born, 1645
Alied forces form the independent nation West Germany (1953)
Autumnal equinox, 3:33 pm, EST
Independence Day in Mali
President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore (1881)
President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenaes President Nixon (1974)
The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes (1949)
"Paul is dead" rumors sweep the country, 1969
Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome (63 BC)
Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen is born in Freehold, New Jersey, 1949
Euripides born in Salamis, Greece (480 BC)
Grito de Lares in Puerto Rico
Phillippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law (1972)
The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club (1845)
V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech. (1952)
Anniversary of the Third Republic in Ghana
F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896
Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau
National Day in Saudi Arabia
Our Lady of Mercedes in Dominican Republic
Republic Day in Trinidad, Tobago
Army Day in Mozambique
John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) dies of alcohol poisoning, 1980
Referendum Day in Rwanda
Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court (1981)
George Gershwin born in Brooklyn, NY (1989)
Johnny Appleseed born, 1774
National Day in Maldives, Yemem Deomcratic Republic
Revoluation Anniversary Day in Yemen Arab
T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis (1888)
Feast of Finding the True Cross in Ethiopia
The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England (1825)
Thomas Nast born, 1840
"Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678
A greek soldier runs 26+ miles to the Persian defeat at Marathon (490BC)
Confucious' Day in Taiwan
Michelangelo Buanarroti born in Caprese, Italy (1573)
Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome (106BC)
Seymour Cray born, 1925
Battle of Boqueron in Paraquay
Gene Autry born, 1907
Botswanna Day in Botswanna
First Day of Sukkot
The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass (1846)
The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced (1946)
Armed Forces Day in South Korea
Independence Day in Nigeria
Jimmy Carter born, 1924
Labor Day in Australia
National Liberation Day (2 days) in China
Anniversary of Guinean Independence in Guinea
Aristotle dies of indigestion (322 BC)
First robotics-based CAM, 1939
Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India (1869)
Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice (1967)
Chung Yeung Festival in Hong Kong
Francisco Morazan's Birthday in Honduras
National Foundation Day in South Korea
U.N. Day in Varbados
Crimean war begins, 1853
First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched (1957)
Independence Day in Lesotho
Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose in Hollywood, 1970
John V. Atanasoff born, 1903
Sputnik I launched, 1957
Anniversary of Proclamation of the Republic in Portugal
Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain (1881)
Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born (1902)
Steve Miller is born in Dallas, 1943
Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women (1853)
Anwar Sadat assassinated, 1981
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo (1981)
First GPSS manual published, 1961
Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria (1973)
National Sports Day in Lesotho
First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast, 1957
Foundation of the GDR in 1949 in German Democratic Republic
Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges (1977)
Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1979)
National Heroes Day in Jamaica
Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974
Battle of Agamos in Peru
Constitution Day in U.S.S.R
Fiji Day in Fiji
First VisiCalc prototype, 1978
Great Chicago Fire, 1871
Thanksgiving Day in Canada
First two-way telephone conversation (1876)
Independence Day in Uganda
Independence of Guayaquil in Ecuador
John Lennon born in Liverpool, England (1940)
Korean Alphabet Day in South Korea
Leif Erikson Day commemorates the discovery of North America in AD 1000
Republic Day in Khmer Republic
Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba
Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea
Health-Sports Day in Japan
John Prine is born in Maywood, Illinois, 1946
Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. {1984}
National Day in Taiwan
Oklahoma Historical Day in Oklahoma
Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud (1973)
"Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975
Day of the Revolution in Panama
Druger Day in South Africa
The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking (1976)
The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken (1811)
The second Vatican Eccumenical Council opens in Rome (1962)
Columbus lands in Bahamas, 1492
Day of the Race in Argentina
Discovery Day in Gahamas
Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN (1960)
Man O'War's last race, 1920
National Day in Equatorial Guinea, Spain
Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores (1492)
Our Lady Aparecida Day in Brazil
Pan American Day in Belize
The Jimi Hendrix Experience is formed in London, 1966
Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962
Italy declares war on Germany (1943)
Lenny Bruce is born in New York City, 1925
St. Edward's Day - patron saint of England
U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy (70 BC)
Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans (1066)
British Computer Society founded, 1957
Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947
Columbus Day
Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890
National Day in Yemen Arab Repyblic
William Penn born in London (1644)
Young People's Day in Zaire
Evacuation Day in Tunisia
First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published
First draft card burned (1965)
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881
Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) is born in San Francisco, 1947
National Boss Day
Noah Webster born, 1758
Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin (1854)
"Hair" opens at New York's Public Theater, 1967
Council of Elrond
Dessaline's Death Anniversary in Haiti
Heroes Day in Jamaica
Mother's Day in Malawi
Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S.
Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648
Chuck Berry is born in San Jose, California, 1926
Feast Day of St. Luke
Soviets anounce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side (1959)
Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China (1949)
Napoleon's beaten army beings a long retreat from Moscow (1812)
"Saturday Night Massacre", 1973
Anniversary of the 1944 Revolution in Guatemala
Kenyatta Day in Kenya
OPEC embargo, 1973
Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd dies in a plane crash, 1977
Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958
Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm (1833)
Armed Forces Day in Honduras
Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp (1879)
Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959
Revolution Days (2 days) in Somalia
Franz Liszt born, 1811
Mothers-in-Law Day
Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944
Chulalongkron's Day in Thsailand
Independence Day in Zambia
United Nations Day
DEC announces VAX-11/780
Jon Anderson (Yes) is born in Lancashire, England, 1944
Labor Day in New Zealand
Taiwan Restoration Day inb Taiwan
The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, 1964
The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China (1971)
Agam Day in Nauru
Armed Forces Day in Benin, Rwanda
National Day in Austria
UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated (1978)
Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933
James Cook is born (1466)
New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges (1871)
The first New York Subway is opened (1904)
Columbus discovers Cuba (1492)
Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge (312)
Harvard was founded in Massachusetts (1636)
National Holiday in Greece
OHI Day in Cyprus
Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island (1886)
Duane Allman dies in motorcycle crash near Macon, Georgia, 1971
Republic Day in Turkey
Stock Market Crash, 1929
Grace Slick is born in Chicago, 1939
Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938
Chiang Kai-Shek born (1887)
Dale Evans born, 1912
Halloween
Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg (1517)
Nevada Day in Nevada
All Saints Day
Austria-Hungary become two seperate nations (1918)
Feast of All Saints in Portugal
Puerto Rican nationalists tried to kill Truman at the Blair House (1950)
Samhain; Beginning of the Celtic year and most important holiday.
All Souls Day in Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, Uruguay
Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA (1734)
Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" enters US charts at #1, 1968
Keith Emerson is born, 1944
Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940
Memorial Day in Ecuador
Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight (1783)
Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837
Culture Day in Japan
Independence from Columbia in Panama
Independence of Cuenca in Ecuador
James Taylor and Carly Simon are married in Manhattan, 1972
Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954
Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing spacedog Laika
Thanksgiving Day in Liberia
Flag Day in Panama
Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran (1979)
King William III of Orange born (1650)
Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary (1956)
UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952
Will Rogers Day
Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605
Roy Rogers born, 1912
Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R.
Green March Day in Morocco
Prophet Mohammed's Birthday in Malaysia
Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837
Anniversary of Great October Revolution in Bulgaria
Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) is born in Alberta, Canada, 1943
Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean (1805)
National Revolution Day
October Revolution Day in Hungary
Her Majesty, the Queen's Birthday in Nepal
Patti Page born, 1927
Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada (1965)
Carl Sagan born, 1934
Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927
Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League (1921)
Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration (1933)
The first issue of "Rolling Stone" is published, 1967
41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstartions near White House (1917)
Cpt Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865
Greg Lake is born in Bournemouth, England, 1948
Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?" (1871)
King's Birthday in Bhutan
Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany (1483)
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75 (1982)
Angola gains independence from Portugal (1975)
Armistice Day
Independence Day in Angola
Independence of Cartagena in Colombia
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis (1922)
Rememberance Day in Canada
Republic Day in Maldives
Veterans' Day
Washington becomes the 42nd state (1889)
Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan
Neil Young is born in Toronto, 1945
Prince Charles' Birthday in Fiji
U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861
Paul Simon born, 1942
Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850
St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria (354)
King Hussein's Birthday in Jordan
Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon price co
Dynasty Day in Belgium
Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
Proclamation of the Republic in Brazil
Thatlouang Festival in Laos
Bill Ham first demonstrates his psychedelic "Light Show", 1965
Oklahoma Heritage Week in Oklahoma
Opening of the Suez Canal (1869)
46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966
Army Day in Zaire
Corrective Movement in Syrian Arab Republic
Battle of Viertieres in Haiti
First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok (1952)
Imogene Coca born, 1908
Independence Day in Morocco
Local standard time zones established for US (1883)
National Days (4 days) in Oman
William S. Gilbert born, 1836
Anniversary of the 1968 Coup by the Army in Mali
Discovery Day in Puerto Rico
Feast Day of S.A.S. Prince Rainier in Monaco
Garifuna Settlement in Belize
Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863
Prince of Wales Birthday in Fiji
Duane Allman is born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1946
Joe Walsh is born in Cleveland, 1947
RFK born, 1925
Revolution Day in Mexico
Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape (1973)
Day of Prayer and Repentance in Federal Republic of Germany
Anniversary of Portuguese Aggression in Guinea
Independence Day in Lebanon
Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald (1963)
Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan
Anniversary of the New Regime in Zaire
Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby (1963)
Scott Joplin born, 1868
"The Last Waltz" concert is played by The Band at Winterland, 1976
Alfred Nobel invents dynamite (1867)
Independence Day in Suriname
Johann Strauss, Jr., writes `On the Beautiful Blue Danube' (1867)
Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis (1922)
Cream performs their farewell concert at Royal Albert Hall, 1968
Norbert Weiner born, 1894
Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize (1895)
Friction match invented, England, 1826
Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
Jimi Hendrix (Johnny Allen Hendrix) is born in Seattle, 1942
Independence Day in Albania, Mauritania
Independence from Spain in Panama
Proclamation of the Republic in Chad
Thanksgiving Day in United States (4th Thursday)
Day of the Republic (2 days) in Yugoslavia
Goodwill Day in Liberia
John Mayall is born in Cheshire, England, 1933
King Tut's tomb opened, 1922
Liberation Day in Albania
National Day in Burma
Cleopatra died, 30 bc
Independence Day in Barbados, Yemen Deomcratic Republic
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri (1835)
National Day in Benin
National Heroes Day in Philippines
St. Andrew's Day
Anniversary of the Restoration of Independence in Portugal
First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924
Independence Day in Central African Republic
Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses (1955)
Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL) (1953)
Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY (1935)
National Holiday in United Arab Emirates
First neon light display, Paris, 1910
First successful human heart transplant lead by Dr. Barnard (1967)
National Holiday in Laos
The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971
Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976
Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783
End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part)
Mozart dies, 1791
Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776
St. Nicholas' Day
The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition (1933)
Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago (1901)
First sound recording made by Thomas Edison (1877)
Independence Day in Finland
The Rolling Stones play Altamont Speedway near San Francisco, 1969
Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941
Delaware Day in Delaware
Harry Chapin is born in New York City, 1942
Independence Day in Ivory Coast, Panama
Prophet Mohammed's Birthday in Fiji
Blessing of the Water in Uruguay
First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy) (65BC)
James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio (1894)
Jim Morrison is born in Melbourne, Florida, 1943
John Lennon is shot and killed in New York City, 1980
Mother's Day in Panama
Our Lady of the Cacupe in Paraguay
Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
Independence Day in Tanzania
The Who's "Tommy" premieres in London, 1973
Emily Dickenson born, 1830
Foundation of Worker's Party in Angola
Human Rights Day
Metric system established in France (1799)
Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year
Thai Constitution Day in Thailand
Wyoming Day in Wyoming
Independence Day in Upper Volta
E. G. Robinson born, 1893
First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi (1901)
Independence Day in Kenya
Dartmouth College chartered, 1769
Geminid meteor shower (look south)
Republic Day in Malta
Ted Nugent, the motor city madman, is born in Detroit, 1949
George Washington dies, 1799
Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976
Bill of Rights adopted (1791)
James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891
Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890
Statue Day in Netherlands Antilles
Thomas Edison receives patent on the phonograph (1877)
Constitution Day in Nepal
Day of the Covenant in South Africa
Don McLean's "American Pie" is released, 1971
Ludwig von Beethoven christened in Bonn, Germany (1770)
National Day in Bahrain
Victry Day in Bangladesh
National Day in Bhutan
William Safire (Safir) born (1929)
Republic Day in Niger
U.S. Buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.
Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804
First day of winter, Winter Solstice, 11:23 am EST
Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore, 1940
Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in <80 days
Giacomo Puccini born, 1858
First G&S collaboration, Thespis, 1871
Joseph Smith born (1805)
Victory Day in Egypt
Christmas Eve
KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865
Birthday of Quaid-i-Azam in Pakistan
Children's Day in Congo
Christmas
Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England (1642)
Boxing Day
Chas. Babbage born, 1791
DPMA founded, 1951
Family Day in South Africa
Feast of Our Theotokos in Greece
St. Stephen's Day
APT report published, 1956
Constitution Day in North Korea
Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845
Public Holiday in Lesotho, Zimbabwe
Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
Edgar Winter is born in Beaumont, Texas, 1946
John von Neumann born, 1903
Battle of Wounded knee, 1890
Civic Holidays (3 days) in Costa Rica
His Majesty, the King's Birthday in Nepal
Anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar in Madagascar
First Los Angeles freeway dedicated (1940)
Bank Holiday in El Salvador, Honduras, Pakistan
Feed Yourself Day in Benin
Jimi Hendrix introduces the Band of Gypsies at the Fillmore East, 1969
New Year's Eve
Proclamation of the Republic in Congo
St. Sylvester in Switzerland
Winterland closes its doors, 1978