home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- ALMANAC
- 1 1 1 Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation 1863
- 1 1 3 Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba in 1959
- 1 1 5 Start of The European Economic Community
- 1 1 6 (Common Market) in 1958
- 1 1 8 Birthday of Betsy Ross in 1752
- 1 2 1 Beginning of Work Day (Japan)
- 1 2 2 Good omens prevail for work which is begun
- 1 2 3 on this day
- 1 3 1 March of Dimes established in 1938
- 1 3 3 U.S. severs diplomatic relations with Cuba 1961
- 1 4 1 Napoleon defeats Austria at Rivoli in 1797
- 1 6 1 ***The Three Kings' Day*** (Puerto Rico)
- 1 6 3 Birthday of Sherlock Holmes celebrated on
- 1 6 4 this date by The Baker Street Irregulars
- 1 6 6 Anniversary of the first around the world
- 1 6 7 commericail flight - Pan Am in 1942
- 1 7 1 Anniversary of the 1st U.S. election in 1789
- 1 8 1Birthdates of rock greats: Elvis presley (1935)
- 1 8 2 Jimmy Page (1944)
- 1 8 3 David Bowie (1947)
- 1 8 5 Battle of New Orleans Day (Louisiana)
- 1 8 7 World Literacy Day (United Nations)
- 1 9 1 Mississippi secedes from the Union 1861
- 1 9 3 1st trial flight of the Concorde 1969
- 110 1 First meeting of United Nations in London 1946
- 111 1 DeHostos Birthday (Puerto Rico)
- 113 1 Stephen Foster Memorial Day
- 113 2 commemorates his death in 1864
- 121 1 1st atomic submarine Nautilus launched in 1954
- 121 3Anniversary of the founding of Kiwanis Int. in 1915
- 122 1 * Bloody Sunday * (start of Russian Rev) 1905
- 124 1 Gold discovered in California in 1848
- 127 1 Birthday of Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
- 128 1 Jackson Pollaock's birthday 1912
- 128 3 Challenger explodes after lift-off from
- 128 4 Cape Canaveral Florida in 1986
- 130 1 Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi 1948
- 131 1 1st U.S. satellite Explorer I launched - 1958
- 2 1 1 Revolutinary forces under the Moslem leader
- 2 1 2 Ayatollah Khomeini take power in Iran 1979
- 2 3 1 Canadian Parlaiment Buildings burned down (1916)
- 2 6 1 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II - 1952
- 2 7 1 Beatles arrive in America - 1964
- 2 8 1 The Narvik Sun Pageant (Norway)
- 2 8 2 celebrates the return of the sun after the winter
- 2 8 4 Founding of the Boy Scouts of America 1910
- 2 9 1 Anniversary of the proclamation of the
- 2 9 2 Confederate States of America in 1861
- 2 9 4 United States National Weather Service founded
- 2 9 5 (1870)
- 215 1 U.S. battleship Maine blown up in Havana harbor
- 215 2 in 1898
- 215 4 Britain adopts decimal currency 1971
- 218 1 Discovery of Pluto in 1930.
- 220 1 John Glenn first American in orbit - 1962
- 228 1 Swedish Premier Olaf Palme shot and killed by a
- 228 2 gunman in Stockholm 1986
- 3 1 1 Peace Corps established 1961
- 3 4 1 United States Constitution Day
- 3 5 1 'Boston Massacre' - anniversary of the attack
- 3 5 2 by British troops on colonial citizens in 1770
- 3 6 1 Last day of the seige of the Alamo in 1836
- 3 8 1 Festival of Teahouses (Okinawa)
- 3 8 2 International Women's Day
- 3 9 1 Baron Bliss Day (Belize)
- 3 9 2 in honor of the Englishman who left his entire
- 3 9 3 fortune to Belize for no known reason
- 311 1 Johnny Appleseed Day
- 312 1 Germany invades Austria 1938
- 312 2 Bobby Hull scores his 1000th goal (1978)
- 313 1 Uranus is discovered (1781)
- 315 1* Ides of March * Julius Caesar assasinated 44BC
- 315 3 Buzzard Day (Hinckley, Ohio)
- 315 5 Watts riots in Los Angeles 1966
- 316 1 Flight of the 1st liquid fueled rocket
- 316 2 developed by Robert Goddard 1926
- 316 4 1st docking of one space ship with another 1966
- 316 6 Establishment of the U.S. Military Academy
- 316 7 at West Point 1802
- 318 1 1st space walk - Soviet cosmonaut Lenov in 1965
- 321 1 Birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- 323 1 Pakistan established in 1956
- 324 1 Grounding of Exxon Valdez spilling 10,080,00 gals
- 324 2 of oil - Prince William Sound, Alaska 1989
- 327 1 Anniversary of the Alaska Earthquake 1964
- 327 3 Establishment of the U.S. Navy 1794
- 328 1 Nuclear power accident at Three Mile Island 1979
- 330 1 Alaska sold to U.S.(1867)
- 331 1 Newfoundland joins Canada (1949)
- 331 2 The Eiffel Tower in Paris is completed (1889)
- 331 4 Virgin Islands sold to U.S. by Denmark 1917
- 4 1 1 Huntigowok Day (Scotland)
- 4 1 2 April Noddy (England)
- 4 1 3 Fooling the April Fish Day (France)
- 4 1 4 Islamic Republic Day (Iran)
- 4 2 1 Florida discovered by Ponce de Leon in 1513
- 4 2 3 Completion of the CN Tower - Toronto (1975)
- 4 3 1 Anniversary of the Pony Express 1860
- 4 4 1 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fatally shot by
- 4 4 2 James Earl Ray Memphis, Tenn. 1968
- 4 4 4 NATO treaty signed by 12 nations - 1949
- 4 6 1 North Pole reached by Peary on this date (1907)
- 4 6 3 Anniversary of the launch of the 1st
- 4 6 4 communications satellite, 'Early Bird' 1965
- 4 6 6 In 1975 U.S. Embassy official and civilians
- 4 6 7 evacuated as North Vietnam forces take Saigon
- 4 6 8 Over 150,000 Vietnamese refugees flee
- 4 6 9 Anniversary of the opening of the 1st of the
- 4 610 modern Olympic in Athens 1896
- 4 9 1 General Robert E. Lee surrenders ending the
- 4 9 2 American Civil War Appomattox (1865)
- 412 1 Cosmonauts Day (U.S.S.R)
- 412 3 Civil War begins as Confederates fire on
- 412 4 Fort Sumter 1861
- 412 6 U.S.S.R succeeds in putting 1st man in orbit
- 412 7 Maj. Yuri Gagarin in 1961
- 414 1 Abraham Lincoln is assasinated at Ford's Theatre
- 414 2 by John Wilkes Booth (1865)
- 414 4 The Titanic - a British (White Star) steamer is
- 414 5 hit by an iceberg in the North Atlantic 1912
- 415 1 Birthday of Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519
- 418 1 Paul Revere's Ride 1775
- 418 2 S.F. earthquake (1906)
- 419 1 1st battle of the revolution 'Battle of
- 419 2 Lexington' in 1775
- 422 1 Queen Isabella Day
- 422 2 in honor of Queen Isabella who financed
- 422 3 Christopher Columbus in his expediton to the
- 422 4 new world, on her birthday in 1451
- 423 1 Birthday of William Shakespeare 1564
- 425 1 St. Lawerence Seaway opens 1959
- 428 1 Day of the Mutiny on the Bounty 1789
- 428 3 Major accident at Chernobyl nuclear power plant
- 428 4 releases thousands of tons of radioactive gas
- 428 5 into the air in 1986
- 5 1 1 American U-2 spy plane piloted by Gary Powers
- 5 1 2 shot down over Russia 1960
- 5 1 4 Worker's Day (Europe)
- 5 4 1 Four students at Kent State slain by
- 5 4 2 National Guardsmen 1970
- 5 5 1 Five years of Nazi occupation of Denmark
- 5 5 2 ended in 1945
- 5 6 1 Shepherd's and Herdsmen's Day (Bulgaria)
- 5 6 3German zeppelin Hidenburg explodes - cause unknown
- 5 6 4 Lakehurst, New Jersey 1937
- 5 6 6 Roger Bannister becomes first man to beat the
- 5 6 7 4 minute mile (3:59:4) - 1954
- 5 6 9 Lusitania sunk off coast of Ireland by German
- 5 610 submarine killing 1,198 people 1915
- 5 8 1 *** V-E Day ***
- 5 8 2 Germany signs terms of unconditional surrender
- 5 8 3 Rheims 1945
- 5 9 1 Byrd makes 1st flight over the North Pole 1926
- 510 1 East and west united by the driving of
- 510 2'The Golden Spike' completing the intercontinental
- 510 3 railroad 1869
- 512 1 National Hospital Day
- 512 2 In honor of the birthdate of Florence
- 512 3 Nightingale in 1820
- 514 1 Nation of Israel proclaimed in 1948
- 517 1 First Kentucky Derby 1875
- 521 1 1st aerial test of the H-bomb at Bikini - 1956
- 521 3 Charles Lindberg lands in Paris 1927
- 523 1 Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann captured
- 523 2 by Israeli agents in Argentina in 1960
- 527 1 Sinking of the Bismark (1941)
- 529 1 ***Royal Oak Day***
- 529 2 in honor of the 1660 restoration of Charles II
- 529 3 who escaped his captors by hiding in a oak tree
- 529 5 Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing
- 529 6 Norkay of Nepal reach the top of Mt. Everest
- 529 7 on this date in 1953
- 6 5 1 Senator Robert Kennedy fatally shot by S. Sirhan
- 6 5 2 Los Angeles, California 1968
- 6 5 4 Beginning of the 'six day war' between Eygpt
- 6 5 5 and Israel in 1967
- 6 6 1 *** D-Day ***
- 6 6 2 Allies launch Normandy invasion 1944
- 6 6 4 300 slain as Indian Army occupies Sikh
- 6 6 5 Golden Temple in Amritsar in 1984
- 6 8 1 Death of Mohammed (founder of Islam) 632
- 610 1 Village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia razed by
- 610 2 Nazi and it's people massacred 1942
- 616 1 Alaskan Gold Rush begins (1897)
- 617 1 Battle of Bunker Hill 1775
- 617 3 Five men are arrested breaking into the
- 617 4 Democratic National Committee headquarters
- 617 5 starting the Watergate scandal - 1972
- 618 1 Napolean loses at Waterloo 1815
- 626 1 United Nations Charter Day
- 626 2 signed in 1945
- 628 1 Austrian Archduke Ferdinand assassinated by
- 628 2 by Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo leading
- 628 3 to the start of World War I (1914)
- 7 1 1 Half Year Day (Hong Kong)
- 7 2 1 U.S President James A Garfield shot and killed
- 7 2 2 Washington D.C. 1881
- 7 4 1 Israeli commandos free 103 hostages in attack
- 7 4 2 on Uganda's Entebbe Airport in 1976
- 7 7 1 Saba Saba Peasant's Day (Tanzania)
- 710 1 Feast of Fortune (Japan)
- 715 1 Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft link up in space 1975
- 717 1 Opening of Disneyland in California (1955)
- 720 1 Niel Armstrong becomes the first man on the moon
- 720 2 on this date in 1969
- 725 1 Saint Christopher's Day
- 727 1 Armistic signed in 1953 ending the Korean War
- 8 4 1 Mysterious disease (Legionaire's Disease) hits
- 8 4 2 American Legion convention in Philadelphia 1976
- 8 6 1 Bombing of Hiroshima 1945
- 8 9 1 A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki 1945
- 8 9 2 Nixon because of Watergate and facing impeachment
- 8 9 3 by the House becomes the first president to
- 8 9 4 resign his office in 1974
- 815 1 Woodstock concert this date in 1969
- 816 1 The Klondike Gold Rush begins (1896)
- 820 1 Russian and Warsaw Pact forces invade
- 820 2 Czechoslavakia to oust liberal regime in 1968
- 820 4 Viking I lands on Mars (1976)
- 9 2 1 *** V-J Day ***
- 9 2 2 Japanese sign terms of surrender aboard
- 9 2 3 the U.S. battleship the Missouri - 1945
- 9 3 1 Treaty of Paris signed ending Am. Revolution 1783
- 9 4 1 First meeting of the Continental Congress 1774
- 9 5 1 Eleven Israeli athletes killed at the Munich 1972
- 9 5 2 Olympic Games by Arab terrorists
- 9 6 1 U.S. President William Mckinley assasinated
- 9 6 2 Buffalo, New York 1901
- 9 6 3 P.M. Hendrik Verwoerd stabbed to death in
- 9 6 4 South African parliament at Capetown 1966
- 913 1 Montcalm defeats Wolfe on the Plains
- 913 2 of Abraham in 1759 ending 'the Battle of Quebec'
- 915 1 British air forces drive back German planes 1940
- 917 1 'Framework for Peace' in Middle East signed by
- 917 2 Egypt's President Sadat and Israel's Premier
- 917 3 Begin At Camp David in 1978
- 920 1 Billie Jean King wins the Battle of the Sexes
- 920 2 tennis match over Bobby Riggs at the
- 920 3 Houston Astrodome 1973
- 920 5 Opening of the Arlberg Tunnel - Austria 1884
- 921 1 Neptune is discovered (1846)
- 928 1Paul Henderson scores the winning goal in the final
- 928 2game of the 1st Canada-Russia hockey series (1972)
- 10 1 1 Chairman Mao Zedong proclaims the
- 10 1 2 Communist People's Republic of China - 1949
- 10 4 1 The Space Age begins with the launch of
- 10 4 2 Sputnik I - the first earth orbiting satellite
- 10 4 3 in 1957
- 10 5 1 James Cross kidnapped by the FLQ 1970
- 1010 1 Pierre Laporte kidnapped in 1970 - body found
- 1010 2 eight days later
- 1029 1Stock Market crashes starting the depreesion (1929)
- 1030 1Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds 1938
- 1031 1 Eve Of All Saints' Day
- 1031 2 All Hallows and Hallowmass (formerly)
- 1031 4 Indian P.M. Indira Ghandi shot and killed by
- 1031 5 two of her bodyguards New Delhi 1984
- 11 9 1 In 1965 a major power failure left the
- 11 9 2 northeastern U.S. and Canada without power
- 11 9 3 for over 20 hours
- 1111 1 Rememberance Day
- 1111 2 Armistice Day (formerly)
- 1111 4 The Berlin Wall is opened in 1989
- 1122 1 Assination of J.F.K in Dallas by Oswald (1963)
- 12 3 1 In South Africa Dr. Christian Bernard performs
- 12 3 2 the 1st successful heart transplant in 1967
- 12 3 4 Thousands killed by toxic gas release at
- 12 3 5 Union Carbide plant in Bhopal India in 1984
- 12 7 1 Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor (1941)
- 12 8 1 John Lennon of the Beatles killed
- 12 8 2 in New York City in 1980
- 1213 1 Soot Sweeping Day (Japan)
- 1216 1 Boston Tea Party (1773)
- 1217 1 Wright Brothers 1st flight at Kitty Hawk (1903)
- 1227 1 Soviet forces invade Afghanistan in 1979
- 1231 1 Foreign Troops Evacutation Day (Lebanon)
-