06.06.1955 : "Rock Around The Clock" makes Billboard's #1 slot, %y
07.06.1778 : George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, %y
07.06.1848 : (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, %y
07.06.1969 : Blind Faith debuts in concert at London's Hyde Park, %y
08.06.1869 : Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, %y
09.06.1923 : Les Paul (Lester Polfus) is born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, %y
10.06.1910 : Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett) is born in West Point, Mississippi, %y
10.06.1922 : Judy Garlnad born, %y
10.06.1971 : Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, %y
10.06.1977 : First Apple II shipped, %y
14.06.1834 : Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., %y
15.06.1215 : Magna Carta signed, %y
15.06.1752 : Ben Franklin's kite experiment, %y
15.06.1843 : Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, %y
15.06.1878 : Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop, %y
15.06.1941 : Harry Nilsson is born in Brooklyn, %y
15.06.1951 : UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, %y
16.06.1904 : Bloomsday - Anniversary of Dublin events, %y, in "Ulysses"
16.06.1951 : First programming error at Census Bureau, %y (apocryphal)
16.06.1967 : The Monterey Pop festival opens, %y
16.06.1980 : "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, %y
17.06.1967 : China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, %y
17.06.1972 : Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, %y
18.06.1898 : M.C. Escher born, %y
18.06.1942 : Paul McCartney born in Liverpool, England, %y
19.06.1893 : Lizzie Bordon acquitted, %y
19.06.1953 : Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, %y
20.06.1837 : Victoria crowned, %y
21.06.1948 : Berlin airlift begins, %y
21.06.1948 : Columbia records announces the first mass production of LP's, %y
22.06.1903 : Carl Hubbell born, %y
22.06.1948 : Todd Rundgren is born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, %y
22.06.1949 : Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, %y
22.06.1964 : Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, %y
23.06.1772 : Slavery abolished in England, %y
23.06.1912 : Turing's Birthday, %y
23.06.1969 : IBM unbundles software, %y
24.06.1944 : Jeff Beck is born in Surrey, England, %y
24.06.1970 : Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, %y
25.06.1876 : Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, %y
25.06.1903 : Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, %y
25.06.1950 : North Korea invades South Korea, %y
26.06.1498 : Toothbrush invented, %y
26.06.1863 : Battle of Gettysburg, %y
26.06.1959 : St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, %y
27.06.1880 : Helen Keller born, %y
27.06.1915 : 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, %y
27.06.1971 : Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, %y
28.06.1978 : Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, %y
30.06.1908 : "That" explosion in Siberia, %y
30.06.1948 : First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, Temple Univ., Phila, %y, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC
30.06.1960 : China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, %y
01.07.1863 : Battle of Gettysburg begins, %y
02.07.1969 : Felix Pappalardi and Leslie West form Mountain, %y
03.07.1883 : Franz Kafka born, %y
03.07.1971 : Jim Morrison dies in Paris, %y
04.07.1776 : Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, %y
04.07.1776 : New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, %y
04.07.1804 : Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, %y
04.07.1826 : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, %y
04.07.1845 : Thoreau enters woods, %y
04.07.1863 : Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, %y
06.07.1747 : John Paul Jones born, %y
06.07.1866 : (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, %y
06.07.1917 : Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, %y
06.07.1928 : First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, %y
06.07.1965 : The Jefferson Airplane is formed in San Francisco, %y
07.07.1891 : P.T. Barnum dies, %y
07.07.1940 : Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) born in Liverpool, England, %y
07.07.1949 : First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", %y
08.07.1776 : First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, %y
08.07.1835 : Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, %y
08.07.1838 : Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, %y
08.07.1877 : Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), %y
08.07.1957 : CDC incorporated, %y
09.07.1847 : 10-hour working day set by law, NH, %y
16.10.1854 : Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, %y
16.10.1947 : Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) is born in San Francisco, %y
17.10.1780 : Richard Mentor Johnson born, %y, 9th V.P. of U.S.
17.10.1967 : "Hair" opens at New York's Public Theater, %y
18.10.1648 : Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., %y
18.10.1926 : Chuck Berry is born in San Jose, California, %y
18.10.1959 : Soviets anounce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, %y
19.10.1812 : Napoleon's beaten army begins the long retreat from Moscow, %y
19.10.1949 : Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, %y
20.10.1944 : Anniversary of the %y Revolution in Guatemala
20.10.1958 : Zurich ALGOL report published, %y
20.10.1973 : "Saturday Night Massacre", %y
20.10.1973 : OPEC embargo, %y
20.10.1977 : Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a plane crash, %y
21.10.1833 : Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, %y
21.10.1879 : Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, %y
21.10.1959 : Guggenheim Museum opens, %y
22.10.1811 : Franz Liszt born, %y
23.10.1944 : Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, %y
25.10.1944 : Jon Anderson (Yes) is born in Lancashire, England, %y
25.10.1964 : The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, %y
25.10.1971 : The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, %y
26.10.1978 : UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, %y
27.10.1466 : James Cook is born, %y
27.10.1871 : New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, %y
27.10.1904 : The first New York Subway is opened, %y
27.10.1933 : Gerald M. Weinberg born, %y
28.10.0312 : Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, %y
28.10.1492 : Columbus discovers Cuba, %y
28.10.1636 : Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, %y
28.10.1886 : Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, %y
29.10.1929 : Stock Market Crash, %y
29.10.1971 : Duane Allman dies in motorcycle crash near Macon, Georgia, %y
30.10.1938 : Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, %y
30.10.1939 : Grace Slick is born in Chicago, %y
31.10.1517 : Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, %y
31.10.1887 : Chiang Kai-Shek born, %y
31.10.1912 : Dale Evans born, %y
01.11.1918 : Austria-Hungary become two seperate nations, %y
01.11.1950 : Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, %y
02.11.1734 : Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, %y
02.11.1783 : Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, %y
02.11.1940 : Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, %y
02.11.1944 : Keith Emerson is born, %y
02.11.1968 : Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" enters US charts at #1, %y
03.11.1837 : Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, %y
03.11.1954 : Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, %y
03.11.1957 : Sputnik II launched, %y, bearing spacedog Laika
03.11.1972 : James Taylor and Carly Simon are married in Manhattan, %y
04.11.1650 : King William III of Orange born, %y
04.11.1952 : UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, %y
04.11.1956 : Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, %y
04.11.1979 : Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, %y
05.11.1605 : Guy Fawkes' Plot, %y
05.11.1912 : Roy Rogers born, %y
07.11.1805 : Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, %y
07.11.1837 : Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by mob, %y
07.11.1943 : Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) is born in Alberta, Canada, %y
08.11.1927 : Patti Page born, %y
09.11.1888 : Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, %y
09.11.1921 : Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, %y
09.11.1927 : Giant panda discovered (?!), China, %y
09.11.1933 : Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, %y
09.11.1934 : Carl Sagan born, %y
09.11.1965 : Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, %y
09.11.1967 : The first issue of "Rolling Stone" is published, %y
10.11.1483 : Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, %y
10.11.1865 : Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, %y
10.11.1871 : Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?", %y
10.11.1917 : 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstartions near White House, %y
10.11.1948 : Greg Lake is born in Bournemouth, England, %y
10.11.1982 : Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, %y
11.11.1889 : Washington becomes the 42nd state, %y
11.11.1922 : Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, %y
11.11.1975 : Angola gains independence from Portugal, %y
12.11.1861 : U.S. first exports oil to Europe, %y
12.11.1945 : Neil Young is born in Toronto, %y
13.11.0354 : St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, %y
13.11.1850 : Robert Louis Stevenson born, %y
13.11.1942 : Paul Simon born, %y
14.11.1971 : 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), %y
15.11.1896 : Niagara Falls power plant startup, %y
16.11.1869 : Opening of the Suez Canal, %y
16.11.1965 : Bill Ham first demonstrates his psychedelic "Light Show", %y
17.11.1966 : 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, %y
17.11.1973 : Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", %y
18.11.1836 : William S. Gilbert born, %y
18.11.1883 : Local standard time zones established for US, %y
18.11.1908 : Imogene Coca born, %y
18.11.1952 : First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, %y
19.11.1863 : Gettysburg Address delivered, %y
19.11.1968 : Anniversary of the %y Coup by the Army in Mali
20.11.1925 : RFK born, %y
20.11.1946 : Duane Allman is born in Nashville, Tennessee, %y
20.11.1947 : Joe Walsh is born in Cleveland, %y
21.11.1973 : Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, %y
22.11.1963 : Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, %y
23.11.1963 : First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), %y
24.11.1868 : Scott Joplin born, %y
24.11.1963 : Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, %y
25.11.1867 : Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, %y
25.11.1867 : Johann Strauss, Jr., writes `On the Beautiful Blue Danube', %y
25.11.1976 : "The Last Waltz" concert is played by The Band at Winterland, %y
26.11.1894 : Norbert Weiner born, %y
26.11.1922 : Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, %y
26.11.1968 : Cream performs their farewell concert at Royal Albert Hall, %y
27.11.1826 : Friction match invented, England, %y
27.11.1873 : Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, %y, in NW Massachusetts
27.11.1895 : Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, %y
27.11.1942 : Jimi Hendrix (Johnny Allen Hendrix) is born in Seattle, %y
29.11.1922 : King Tut's tomb opened, %y
29.11.1933 : John Mayall is born in Cheshire, England, %y
30.11.1835 : Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri, %y
01.12.1924 : First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, %y
01.12.1935 : Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, %y
01.12.1953 : Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), %y
01.12.1955 : Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, %y
03.12.1910 : First neon light display, Paris, %y
03.12.1967 : First successful human heart transplant lead by Dr. Barnard, %y
03.12.1971 : The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, %y
04.12.1783 : Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, %y
04.12.1976 : Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, %y
05.12.1776 : Phi Beta Kappa founded, %y
05.12.1791 : Mozart dies, %y
05.12.1901 : Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, %y
05.12.1933 : End of Prohibition, %y (at least the alcohol part)
05.12.1933 : The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition, %y
06.12.1877 : First sound recording made by Thomas Edison, %y
06.12.1969 : The Rolling Stones play Altamont Speedway near San Francisco, %y
07.12.1941 : Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, %y
07.12.1942 : Harry Chapin is born in New York City, %y
08.12.1894 : James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, %y
08.12.1943 : Jim Morrison is born in Melbourne, Florida, %y
08.12.1965 : First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, %y
08.12.1980 : John Lennon is shot and killed in New York City, %y