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#: (C) Copyright 1990-1991 The Software Construction Co., All Rights Reserved.
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#: Monthly stuff
1:National Eye Health Care Month
#: Events depending on weekdays
M(1/21):National Clean-Off-Your-Desk Day (3rd Monday).
#: Other calendar's events
J1/1:Julian New Year's Day.
#: Normal events
1/1/1785 :1st issue of London Times published.
1/2/1959 :Luna 1 (USSR) (first flyby of the Moon) launched.
1/3/1920 :Babe Ruth sold to NY Yankees by Boston Red Sox.
1/4/1958 :Sputnik 1 destroyed on reentry.
1/5/1056 :Saint Edward the Confessor, son of Ethelred the Unready, died.
1/6/1838 :Samuel F.B. Morse & Alfred Vail demonstrated the telegraph.
1/7/1927 :The Globetrotters debuted.
1/8/1889 :Herman Hollerith patented first data processing computer.
1/9/1969 :The Concorde jetliner made its 1st test flight (Bristol, England).
1/10/1968:"Great Balls of Fire" reached #1.
1/11/1964:Surgeon Gen. named cigarettes a "health hazard."
1/12/1853:First west coast university established (Willamette).
1/13/1972:NY ruled that a woman may become a professional baseball umpire.
1/14/1914:Henry Ford introduced the "assembly line" (1 Model-T/90 mins.).
1/15/1797:Top Hat first worn (John Etherington, London).
1/16/1936:Albert "the Cannibal" Fish, child murderer, executed (Sing Sing).
1/17/1926:George Burns married Gracie Allen.
1/18/1943:Commercial bakeries ordered to cease selling sliced bread.
1/19/1965:"Cheating" scandal rocked the AF Academy (105 cadets resigned).
1/20/1892:1st officially recognized basketball game played (Springfield,
:MA).
1/21 :National Hugging Day.
1/22/1972:David Bowie announced he was gay.
1/23/1962:Kim Philby, Soviet spy, defected.
1/24/1908:1st Boy Scout troop organized (Sir Baden-Powell, England).
1/25/1971:Charles Manson found guilty of the murder of actress Sharon Tate.
1/26/1926:Television 1st demonstrated (J.L. Baird, London).
1/27/1888:National Geographic Society founded.
1/28 :National Kazoo Day.
1/29/1900:The American Baseball League formed (Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland,
:Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, & Minneapolis).
1/30/1835:1st presidential assassination attempt (Andrew Jackson).
1/31/1928:Scotch tape 1st sold.