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By Bruce T. Goldman
2180 Bolton St.
Bronx, NY 10462
(212) 823-9873
Apr 17, 1992
Although this version has come out within a month of the last one, as
of now I .envision a .while for .the next one. .I will .continue .to
compile .data .and ask for your .help in .providing it, at the .above
address and phone number.
CAUTION: If .using TODAY.EXE .the files will .need to be edited, .as
certain sequences are only available in NEWDAYPC.EXE. I have bundled
this with both TODAY34Z.ZIP and NEWDAY45.ZIP, the last known programs
made available.
The data contained here is in straight ascii. It is historical and
educational and although the amount of hours I have worked at
compiling this is uncountable, I do NOT ask/beg for any renumeration.
Use and enjoy it!
The data now takes over 3.35 meg!
To display the data, you will either need "TODAY" a program by Patrick
Kincaid, or my preference "NEWDAYPC" by Mike Ratledge. They are both
available via shareware. I have even seen some lesser products
available. If you don't have these programs, you can still enjoy it,
through a word processor.
Version 9.06 is released on April 17, 1992, it adds or corrects over
2,500 items. Major import came from Mike Ratledge's disaster data
and Jerry Lee's black history data. The space program has been
update to reflect all US manned missions including birth dates of
the new 1992 crop of astronauts. The data has gone beyond 50,000.
There is DAY906-U.ZIP, which contains everything (except word
processor) to up date, from 9.05 with just some editing from yourself.
Version 9.05 released March 20, 1992 adds or corrects over 11,000
items. I still have Braunwart's data to go through. Major additions
came from "Complete Directory to Prime Time TV Stars." There are
nearly 50,000 items in the database.
Version 9.04 released March 30, 1991 - A tragic thing happened on my
way to version 9.04. In December of 1989, I started adding several
thousands (tens of thousands) of changes and additions Many thanks to
my collabarator Robert Braunwart. I then purchased a spiffy new 386
machine with a spacious 85 meg hard SCSI Segate drive. Around April
or so, I had completed editing and compiling all of version 9.04, save
December. I was more than 3/4 done with December, and then it
happened. DOS said "NO SCSI DRIVE FOUND." After making attempt after
attempt to revive the (of course not backed up data) drive, all hope
was lose. I did get a replacement drive, but it took the heart out of
doing the compilation. Any way I got my dander back and viola, added
some 9,000 new entries (or corrections) and version 9.04 is ready. In
an effort to get this out sometime, I have not gone through much of
Robert Braunwarts additional data. (Just Jan & Feb). I am sure since
then he has added even more data. I will get to it, I promise!
Version 9.03 released Nov 6, 1989 adds or corrects over 7,500 items.
Including almost every Pro Hockey Stanley Cup final game, Pro Football
and NBA championship contests. Many astronaut birthdays have been
added too. Most of the 7,500 items are additional information to
previously existing items.
Version 9.02 became available on May 25th it contained over 1,100
changes. The data set now includes almost all major league baseball
no-hitters since 1900 and the final games of every baseball World
Series.
DAY 9.00 was released on Feb. 19, 1989, and in less than 45 days,
version 9.01 & 9.01a were released. With almost 2500 changes (1900
additions, 200 deletions and 400 changes).
UPDATE explains how to update V9.05 to V9.06.
A BIT OF HISTORY
In July, 1986, Patrick Kincaid released for public usage a program
called Today. It's based on a mainframe program designed by Mike
Butler. Along with the master program he had data files for each month.
Each monthly data file was approximately 15K in length. After a few
months I had added a lot of new data and released my update of the
Today monthly files. Eventually, Robert Braunwart, put out his updates
and approached me on a calibration of our work. Despite,
abbreviations and other attempts at shortening the data, the 12 monthly
files of over 30,000 items has swelled to almost 2 megs.
Mike Ratledge, like myself and many others have gotten much enjoyment
out of this program, but found some short comings. TODAY would not
read a file over 50K and would only display about the first 50 finds
for a date. He also wanted it to run on a BBS (T-Comm). So he rewrote
the program in turbo-pascal (TODAY.EXE was written in C).
As of this writing, Ratledge's latest version 4.5 decidedly beats
Kincaid's latest version 2.3 for features.
I believe NEWDAY duplicates every feature of TODAY, but also allows for
randomness, more categories, more color, remark statements, date
scanning and date aging.
In the data files you will find "(BG)," on some occasions. Although
coincidentally those are my initials, they are actual those of William
Baring-Gould. Les Moskowitz who compiled Sherlock Holmes' dates used
(BG) to indicate that those dates were proposed by Baring-Gould.
Baring-Gould is a Sherlock Holmes' authority and his dates are reckoned
as opposed to being in the actual text.
MEET MY COLLABORATOR
Robert Braunwart
4132-11th NE #6
Seattle Washington 98105
Robert uses PC FILE III, to maintain his listings. Robert has included
category columns so that speciality lists could be made. You may want
to contact him concerning that.
HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE RIGHT?
As to data correction, it is sometimes difficult to verify a specific
date when two equally good sources have different information. One
problem arises in the change of calendars from Julian to Gregorian and
the International dateline does present a problem. It may be a
different day in California than France. (Fortunately in the future we
should have no problem - Star date 8801, captain). I read in one
particularly enjoyable source (don't recall the title) that contained
celebrities birthdays, that whenever a doubt arose they took the
earliest date. It is rare that a person would make themselves older.
...and when in doubt blame it on typos.
...AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR
This is Noncents-ware. You can modify, spindle, fold, erase or do just
about anything you want to these files, but if you give them to anyone,
document your changes. If you have any changes, additions, deletions,
suggestions or whatever I would like to hear about them. I can be
reached at the above address and many of the major PC BBS in 212, and
and 718 area code.
I plan to continue updating, I will include deletions, additions
and changes.
The updates will use the following filespec "DAY907.ZIP" for version
9.07, "DAY908.ZIP" for version 9.08. This should allow us to continue
with version 9 for many years!
SPECIAL THANKS
To Tom Gallagher, who was able to identify and clarify many names.
My neice and nephews Alyse, Marc & Richard Cutler for continuing
assistance
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1992 Calendar--Run! (copyright 1991, Jack Geschidt)
2 holiday and 1 almanac program from a Carolina TBBS
20th Century Timeline
24 Space event files from STARPOINT BBS in Connecticut
Actors, Artis, Authors & Attempted Assasins - Susan Stetler
Adult Movies
Almanac of American Politics (1974)
American Authors & Books (1640 to present) (3rd edition)
Archie & Edith, Mike & Gloria (All in the Family)
As they Were Too
Associated Press' dates in history (Newsday BBS)
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 7th edition
Bare Facts
Baseball 1991 Almanac
Bdaycal.zip
BIKENRUN.ZIP
Billboard 1990 Trivia Calendar
Biographical Dictionary of Scientist - Trevor Williams
Biography Almanac - 1st Edition
Biorhythm Sports Forecasting
Book of Winners (1978)
Book of Rock Lists
Book of Lists (1,2,3)
Boston Bruins Yearbook
Boston Red Sox Yearbooks
CAL.ZIP
CBS-FOX Video Store 1990 Calander (Thanks to Ronald Cohen)
Celebrity Book of Lists
Celebrity Almanac - Ed Lucaire
Celebrities birthdays
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 2 # 2 - Ingenudes
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 2 # 3 - Tele-visions
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 2 # 4 - Selects
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 2 # 5 - Oh, Oh, Seven
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 3 # 1 - Ingenudes 2
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 3 # 2 - Women of Fantasy
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 3 # 3 - Tele-visions 2
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 3 # 4 - Anatomy Awards 2
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 3 # 5 - 25 Sexiest Women of 1990
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 3 # 6 - Ingenudes 3
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 4 # 1 - Wives & Lovers
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 4 # 2 - Women of Fantasy 2
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 4 # 3 - Tele-visions 3
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 4 # 4 - Good Sports
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 4 # 5 - Anatomy Awards 3
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 4 # 6 - Ingenudes 4
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 4 # 7 - Devilish Daughters
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 4 # 8 - 25 Sexiest Woman of 1992
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 4 # 9 - Tele-Visions 4
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 5 # 1 - Women of Fantasy 3
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 5 # 2 - Readers' Choice
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 5 # 3 - Soap Dishes
Celebrity Sleuth Vol 5 # 4 - Sisters Under the Skin
Chambers's Biographical Dictionary
Coin World Almanac
Complete Book of the Olympics
Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows (1988)
Complete Directory to Prime Time TV Stars (1987)
Complete Encyclopedia of Television Programs (1947-1976)
Complete Mission Impossible Dossier - Patrick J White
Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
Concise Dictionary of American Biography - 3rd Edition
Current Biography magazine
Cycling--1992 Calendar (Pomegranate Calendars & Books)
DISNEY.ZIP
Daily News TV Week
Detroit Yearbooks
Dunlop Illustrated Encyclopedia of Facts
East Coast Rocker
Encyclopedia of Hockey
Encyclopedia of Pro Football
Encyclopedia of Rock
Entertainment Tonight - Daily Birthday check
Estrenos (Spanish entertainment show)
Ethnic Almanacs
Executive's Travel Planner
Facts About the Presidents
Facts and Dates of American Sports - Gordon Carruth
Green Bay Packers Yearbook
Guardian (British Newspaper)
Guinness Illustrated Encyclopedia of Facts
Guinness Book of Olympic Records (1984)
HISTORY.ZIP (A.E.S.C. BBS, Atlanta Georgia)
Hammond Almanac (1982)
Harmony Encyclopedia of Rock
History.zip
Home Video Guide
Illustrated Encyclopedia of World's Great Movie Stars
Independence (British Newspaper)
Information Please Almanac (1989)
International Cyclopedia of Music & Musicians
International Dictionary of the 20th Century Biography
Isaac Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science & Tech
Israelli History
JCAL verson 7.03
Jewish Press - Time Capsule by Jeff Reznak
Larousse Encyclopedia of Music
Leonard Maltin's TV Movies & Video Guide (1989)
Manned Space flights
Miss America Pageant 1990 - 70th Anniversary edition
Movies on TV (Steven Sheur)
NASA Space Link BBS
New Columbia Encyclopedia
New Encyclopedia of Jazz
New England Patriots Yearbook
New Kobbe's Complete Opera
New Orleans Saints Yearbook
Newsday BBS
NFL Media Information Book (1981)
NHL Official Guide & Record Book (1987-88)
NJ Devils Yearbooks
NOVSCI.TXT
NY Times history books
NY Knicks Yearbooks
NY Rangers Yearbooks
NY Times Directory of the Film (Knight)
NY Giants Yearbooks
NY Yankees Yearbooks
NY Times Sports Encyclopedia
NY Jets Yearbooks
NY/NJ Nets Yearbooks
Newsmaker 88 volume 2
New Video (Summer, 1987)
NHL Official Guide & Record Book
Official Honeymooners Treasury
Official Encyclopedia of Baseball
Olympic Handbook (1984)
Oxbridge Omnibus of Holiday Observances around the World (1977)
Oxford Companion to English Literature (5th Edition)
Oxford Companion to French Literature
Oxford Companion to Music
Parade Magazine
Pears Cyclopedia (78th edition)
People's Almanac (1,2,3)
Philadelphia Phillies Yearbooks
Pittsburgh Penguin Yearbooks
Playboy Magazine
Pro Football 1978
Prodigy BBS
Random House Dictionary
Reader's Digest Almanac & Yearbook (1980)
Reading For Pleasure (BBS - 1-301-694-7108)
Rhino 1990 Rock and Roll Calendar (Thanks to Glen Gordon)
Rock & Roll Birthday Book
Rock On
Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll
San Diego Chargers Yearbook
SAINTS.ZIP
SEPTSCI.TXT
Screen World (Vol 34-37)
Sh-Boom Magazine
Sleep at Last
Smash Hits 1989 Yearbook
Soap Opera Digest - 1989 Soap Super Calendar
Soap Opera Encyclopedia
Spacelink BBS (1-205-895-0028)
Special Days
Sports Encyclopedia Pro Football (Neft & Cohen)
Sports Encyclopedia of Baseball (Neft & Cohen)
Sports Magazine
St Joseph Almanac 1991 Calendar
Stacnet BBS 1-718-746-2006 (Day in Science)
Star tabloid
Star Shots
Suburban People
Sun tabloid
TODAYMUS.TXT - Music
TODAY-SH - Sherlock Holmes (Les Moskowitz)
TODAYDOB.ZIP (Jim Robeson, Pacific Grove, CA.)
TODAYCSA - W.E. Smith (Civil War)
TODAYANG, TODAYRC & TODAYOW2 - Bill Kelsey (Religion)
TODAY.NEW - National Parks
TODAYNEW.ZIP (Randy Ross, Marin-Somers BBS, S.F.)
TODAYJUN.ZIP
TODAYAPR.ZIP (Invention Factory, New York)
TODAYLEE.ZIP
TODAY.SPC - Space
Teen Beat Magazine
Television landmarks
Tennis Championship Magazine - US Open (1985-88)
This Day in NY Yankee History
This Day in Sports
Timelines - Paul Dickson
Total Television including Cable - Alex McNeil
TV Encyclopedia - David Inman
USA Today Weekend
Video Business
Video Movie Guide 1989, 1990, 1991
Video Directory
Video Store Magazine
Virginia Slims Magazine
WPLJ-FM, NY - Daily Birthday check
Weekly Executive Planner
What Happened When - Gordon Carruth
Who's Who in TV (2-8)
Who's Who in Country Music
Who's Who in Daytime TV - April 1991
Who's Who in Horror & Fantasy Fiction
Who's Who in Baseball (1976-90)
World Almanac Fact-a-day 1991 calendar (Thanks to Carol Halper)
World Almanac of Dictionary of Dates
World Authors 1950-70
World Book Diary
World Almanac (1989)
Yearbook Book
Z-100-FM (WHTZ), NY - Daily Birthday check
- Also Randolph Ross, John Francis, Tony Tortorelli and Ned Wilson
As always more dates are requested.
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Boards I get to with some frequency (NY)
CONSULTANT - 718-837-7606
FORDHAM AFUG BBS - 212-579-2869
M & M BBS - 914-SET-NULS (914-738-6857) - TBBS board
MOVIE BBS - 718-939-5462
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Key distribution boards (all 9600 baud)
EAST BAY X-CHANGE - 803-556-7485 (NEWDAY.EXE homeboard) (SC)
EXECUTIVE NETWORK - 914-667-4651, 914-667-4567 & 914-667-4684 (NY)
MARIN-SOMERS - 415-927-1216 (TODAY.EXE's homeboard) (Calif)
LINKING RINGS - 318-442-5694 (Mega board in Louisiana)
CHARLATAN'S CABIN - 213-654-7337 (Calif)
MASS COMM OF BLIND - 617-451-5327 (Mass)