# If you wish to have an automatic calendar agenda place the "calendar -" command
# in the file \etc\rc.local
# You can also edit the crontab file in \etc\crontab to run it automatically if your computer
# is always on. Check in the unix manual for details on crontab.
# January events
January 1 New Years Day, 1st Rose Bowl played 1902
January 3 Apple Computer founded, 1977
January 8 Elvis Presley born in 1935
January 10 Pat Benatar is born in Long Island, 1952
January 10 Rod Stewart is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1945
January 10 Elvis records Heartbreak Hotel in 1956
January 15 1st Super Bowl in 1967
January 16 Prohibition began in 1920
January 17 Ben Franklin born in 1706 in Boston
January 20 Martin Luther King Day (3rd Sunday)
January 23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City (1899)
January 24 Gold found in California in 1848
January 26 Charles Manson found guilty in 1971
January 27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in Salzburg (1756)
January 28 Jimi Hendrix headlines Madison Square Garden, 1970
January 28 Challenger shuttle explosion in 1986
January 30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York (1882)
January 30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic (1948)
January 31 1st US satellite (Explorer) in 1958
January 31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered
January 31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
January 31 Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp
# February events
February 1 Forces lead by Khomeini take over Iran (1979)
February 1 RCA Victor unveils the 45 rpm record playing system, 1949
Februrary 1 Lisa Marie Presley born in 1968
February 3 The Day The Music Died; Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper are killed in a plane crash outside Mason City, Iowa, 1959
February 6 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II (1952)
February 7 Steven Stills makes the first digitally recorded rock album, 1979
February 7 The Beatles arrive in America for the first time, 1964
February 8 Boy Scouts of America founded in 1910
February 8 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography
February 8 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France (1828)
February 9 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
February 11 Thomas Edison born in 1847
February 11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1489, photographic pioneer
February 12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809
February 12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England (1809)
February 12 The Beatles play Carnegie Hall in New York City, 1964
February 14 Valentines Day
February 14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978
February 16 Nylon patented, 1937
February 16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry
February 17 The official opening of King Tutankhamen burial chamber in 1923
February 18 Yoko Ono Lennon is born in Tokyo, 1933
February 18 Presidents Day
February 19 William "Smokey" Robinson is born in Detroit, 1940
February 21 Washington Monument dedicated in 1885
February 22 George Washington born, 1732
February 22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun
February 25 Renoir born, 1841
February 29 Leap Day
# March events
March 1 National Pig Day
March 1 Jim Morrison is busted for obscenity in Miami, 1969
March 4 Antonio Vivaldi born in Venice, Italy (1678)
March 4 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos
March 4 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.
March 4 Vermont Admission Day (admitted as 14th state in 1791)
March 5 Boston Massacre in 1770
March 5 John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982
March 7 Aristotle died, 322BC
March 7 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer
March 8 Union Pacific RR completed in 1869
March 8 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer
March 8 First annual International Women's Day (1909)
March 12 Girl Scouts founded in 1912
March 12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist
March 13 Pluto discovered in 1930, Uranus discovered in 1781
March 13 Striptease introduced, Paris, 1894
March 14 Albert Einstein born in 1879
March 14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer; named Mars "canals"
March 14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist
March 14 LISP introduced, 1960
March 14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907
March 15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March (44BC)
March 16 Black Press Day; first Black newspaper founded in 1827
March 16 First liquid-fuel-powered rocket flight, 1926
March 16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket (1926)
March 17 St. Patricks Day
March 17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped
March 21 Bach born, 1685
March 24 Harry Houdini born in 1874
March 24 Construction of New York subway system begins (1900)
March 25 Aretha Franklin is born in Detroit, 1943
March 27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays
March 28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970
March 28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
March 28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas (1979)
March 30 Alaska sold to US in 1867
March 30 Five rings around Uranus discovered (1977)
March 30 Pencil with eraser patented (1858)
March 30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853
March 31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946
# April events
April 1 April Fools Day
April 3 IBM 701 introduced, 1953
April 5 Daylight Savings Time forward 1 hour
April 4 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee (1968)
April 4 NATO Established (1949)
April 4 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores)
April 6 Peary reaches North Pole in 1909
April 6 Lord Carnarvon dies after a brief illness. The mummys curse? (1923)
April 7 Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1943
April 7 IBM announces System/360, 1964
April 10 Paul McCartney announces that he's quitting the Beatles, 1970
April 10 William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army
April 12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space (1961)
April 13 Thomas Jefferson born, 1743
April 14 Christian Huygen born, 1629, physicist & astronomer; discovered Saturn's rings
April 14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912
April 15 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452
April 16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London (1889)
April 16 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth (1865)
April 18 San Francisco earthquake in 1906, Yankee Stadium opened in 1906
April 18 Einstein's Death, 1955
April 24 Library of Congress est. in 1800
April 28 Zilog Z-80 introduced
April 30 George Washington inaugurated in 1789
April 30 Elvis records the Jailhouse Rock soundtrack in 1957
# May events
May 1 Empire State Building ded. 1931, May Day in many places
May 1 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964
May 4 1st pro baseball game played in 1871
May 7 Tchaikowsky born, 1840
May 10 Mothers Day
May 10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska (1899)
May 12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy (1820)
May 12 Pink Floyd performs the first quadrophonic concert, 1977
May 16 Week-end test event (Personnal test event)
May 17 NY Stock Exchange organized in 1792
May 18 Mt. St. Helens erupted in 1980
May 18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
May 20 Victoria Day in Canada
May 21 American Red Cross founded in 1881
May 21 DEC announces PDP-8
May 21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?) (427BC)
May 22 US Civil War ends (1865)
May 23 Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953
May 24 Brooklyn Bridge opened in 1883
May 25 Memorial Day
May 27 Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937
May 28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959
May 29 John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917
May 30 Joan of Arc burned at stake in 1431
May 31 The Who perform the loudest concert ever--76,000 watts of PA, 1976
# June events
June 1 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928
June 1 The Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper", 1967
June 2 First issue of Computerworld, 1967
June 2 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924
June 6 "Rock Around The Clock" makes Billboard's #1 slot, 1955
June 8 Frank Lloyd Wright born in 1867
June 10 Death of Alexander the Great (323 B.C.)
June10 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971
June 10 First Apple II shipped, 1977
June 13 Alexander the Great dies (323BC)
June 13 Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System
June 14 Flag Day
June 14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834
June 15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment (1752)
June 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)
June 15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
June 16 Russians launch 1st woman in space in 1963
June 17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb (1967)
June 18 Paul McCartney born in Liverpool, England (1942)
June 21 Fathers Day
June 21 Columbia records announces the first mass production of LP's, 1948
June 21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge
June 23 IBM unbundles software, 1969
June 24 St. Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec
June 26 Toothbrush invented, 1498
June 27 Smithsonian Institution est in 1846
June 30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC
# July events
July 1 Dominion Day in Canada
July 3 Jim Morrison dies in Paris, 1971
July 4 Independence Day in United States
July 5 Bikini introduced in Paris in 1946
July 5 Elvis records Thats all right in 1954
July 6 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York (1928)
July 6 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917
July 7 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) born in Liverpool, England (1940)
July 8 Liberty Bell cracked in 1835
July 8 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T) (1877)
July 8 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
July 12 Julius Caesar born in 100 B.C.
July 14 Bastille Day
July 15 Rembrandt born in 1606
July 16 1st parking meters Tulsa OK in 1935, Apollo 11 mission launched in 1969
July 16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945
July 17 Disneyland opens, 1955
July 19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692
July 20 Neil Armstrong first man on the moon in 1969 One small step for man one giant step for mankind
July 22 Rat Catchers Day
July 23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904
July 30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956
July 30 Henry Ford born, 1863
# August events
August 1 First US Census in 1790
August 3 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958
August 4 Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964
August 4 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I (1914)
August 4 Neptune discovered in 1846
August 4 John Lennon points out that "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus", 1966
August 6 Hiroshima bomb dropped in 1945
August 8 Nixon resigned in 1974
August 8 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki (1945)
August 8 Nixon announces resignation (1973)
August 8 The Great Train Robbery $7,368,000 (1963)
August 9 Helter Skelter...the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969
August 9 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)
August 12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
August 13 V-J Day in 1945
August 14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
August 14 IBM PC announced, 1981
August 14 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935
August 16 Harmonic Convergence in 1987
August 16 Elvis Presley dies in 1977
August 16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898
August 19 Orville Wright born in 1871
August 22 St. Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565
August 23 DEC founded, 1957
August 24 Mt. Vesuvius erupts in 79 A.D.
August 25 Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
August 29 Star in Cygnus goes nova & becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; Nova Cygni 1975.
August 30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960
August 30 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected (1963)
August 31 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR (1983)
August 31 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
# September events
September 2 Japan signs unconditional surrender aboard US battleship `Missouri' (1945)
September 3 Viling II lands on Mars in 1976
September 5 Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961
September 6 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died (1909)
September 7 Labor Day
September 8 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966)
September 9 United Colonies is renamed the United States (1776)
September 12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome (1943)
September 13 National Grandparents Day
September 14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister (1778)
September 14 Francis Scott Key writes words to "Star Spangled Banner" (1814)
September 15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England (1890)
September 15 The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department (1789)
September 17 US Constitution adopted in 1787
September 18 Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970
September 20 Voyager 2 launched in 1977
September 22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes (1949)
September 23 Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen is born in Freehold, New Jersey, 1949
September 24 US Supreme Court established in 1789
September 27 The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England (1825)
September 28 Seymour Cray born, 1925
# October events
October 1 Jimmy Carter born, 1924
October 2 First robotics-based CAM, 1939
October 4 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched (1957)
October 5 Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain (1881)
October 5 Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born (1902)
October 7 Anne-Marie Racette birthday (Personnal event)
October 7 First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast, 1957
October 7 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1979)
October 8 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978
October 8 Thanksgiving Day in Canada
October 9 Leif Erikson Day commemorates the discovery of North America in AD 1000
October 9 Yale College founded in 1701
October 9 First two-way telephone conversation (1876)
October 9 John Lennon born in Liverpool, England (1940)
October 11 "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975
October 11 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken (1811)
October 12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962
October 13 Italy declares war on Germany (1943)
October 13 U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress
October 14 British Computer Society founded, 1957
October 14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947
October 14 Columbus Day
October 14 Thanksgiving Day in Canada
October 15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published
October18 Soviets anounce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side (1959)
October 19 Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China (1949)
October 19 Napoleon's beaten army beings a long retreat from Moscow (1812)
October 20 OPEC embargo, 1973
October 21 Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm (1833)
October 21 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp (1879)
October 22 Princeton University chartered in 1746
October 25 Daylight Savings time back one hour
October 25 DEC announces VAX-Nov 780
October 25 The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, 1964
October 25 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China (1971)
October 26 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated (1978)
October 26 Gunfight at O.K. Corral in 1881
October 27 The first New York Subway is opened (1904)
October 28 Columbus discovers Cuba (1492)
October 28 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts (1636)
October 28 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts (1636)
October 29 Stock market crashes in 1929
October 30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938
October 31 Halloween
# November events
November 1 1st Hbomb explodes in Eniwetok in 1952
November 2 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940
November 2 Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight (1783)
November 3 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing spacedog Laika
November 4 King Tutankhamen tomb discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon
November 4 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952
November 9 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927
November 9 The first issue of "Rolling Stone" is published, 1967
November 11 Rememberance Day in Canada
November 11 Veterans' Day
November 11 Washington becomes the 42nd state (1889)
November 13 Mariner 9 orbits Mars in 1971
November14 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)
November 15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
November 17 Suez Canal opened in 1869
November 18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok (1952)
November 18 Local standard time zones established for US (1883)
November 19 Lincoln Gettysburg Address in 1863
November 21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973
November 22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald 1963 (?)
November 23 Billy the Kid born in 1859
November 24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby (1963)
November 25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite (1867)
November 26 Thanksgiving Day
November 27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize (1895)
November 27 Friction match invented, England, 1826
November 27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
November 27 Jimi Hendrix (Johnny Allen Hendrix) is born in Seattle, 1942
# December events
December 1 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses (1955)
December 2 1st nuclear chain reaction in 1942
December 3 First neon light display, Paris, 1910
December 3 First successful human heart transplant lead by Dr. Barnard (1967)
December 5 End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part)
December 5 Mozart dies, 1791
December 5 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition (1933)
December 5 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago (1901)
December 6 First sound recording made by Thomas Edison (1877)
December 7 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor (1941)
December 8 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965
December 8 John Lennon is shot and killed in New York City, 1980
December 9 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
December 10 Human Rights Day
December 10 Metric system established in France (1799)
December 10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year
December 12 First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi (1901)
December 14 George Washington dies, 1799
December 15 Bill of Rights adopted (1791)
December 15 Bill of Rights takes effect in 1791
December 15 James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891
December 15 Thomas Edison receives patent on the phonograph (1877)
December 17 Orville and Wilbur Wright first engine powered airplane flight in 1903
December 22 1st Gorilla born in captivity in 1956
December 24 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865
December 25 Christmas Day
December 25 Dads birthday in 1935 (Personnal event)
December 25 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England (1642)
