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Date:      Sun, 22 Mar 2020 01:22:45 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-12@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r359199 - stable/12/usr.bin/calendar/calendars
Message-ID:  <202003220122.02M1MjAl067670@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: pfg
Date: Sun Mar 22 01:22:44 2020
New Revision: 359199
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/359199

Log:
  MFC r353909, r355192, r355218, r355218, r358506, r359005:
  calendar(1): Updates and corrections for some calendar files.
  
  PR:		242909, 242918

Modified:
  stable/12/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
  stable/12/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history
  stable/12/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.holiday
  stable/12/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.music
Directory Properties:
  stable/12/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/12/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
==============================================================================
--- stable/12/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday	Sun Mar 22 01:01:47 2020	(r359198)
+++ stable/12/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday	Sun Mar 22 01:22:44 2020	(r359199)
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  */
 
 #ifndef _calendar_birthday_
-#define _calendar_birthday_
+#define	_calendar_birthday_
 #undef	unix
 
 01/01	J.D. Salinger born, 1919
@@ -15,22 +15,26 @@
 01/04	Jakob Grimm born, 1785
 01/04	Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars
 01/05	DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer
+01/06	Millard Fillmore's birthday (let's party!)
+01/07	Nikola Tesla died in the Hotel New Yorker room 3327, 1943
 01/10	Ethan Allen born, 1738
 01/11	Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757?
 01/12	"Long" John Baldry is born in London, 1941
-01/13	Horatio Alger born, 1834
+01/13	Horatio Alger born, 1832
 01/13	Sophie Tucker born, 1884
 01/13	Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws
 01/14	Albert Schweitzer born, 1875
-01/15	Martin Luther King, Jr. born
+01/15	Martin Luther King, Jr. born, 1929
 01/17	Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706
 01/19	Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809
 01/19	Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807
-01/20	George Burns born, 1898
+01/20	George Burns born, 1896
+01/20	Dr. Mendeleev died with a pen in his hand, 1907
 01/21	Lenin died, 1924
 01/21	Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824
 01/22	Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561
 01/23	Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory
+01/23	Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin born, 1869
 01/23	Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899
 01/23	John Hancock born, 1737
 01/23	Joseph Hewes born, 1730
@@ -48,26 +52,28 @@
 02/06	King George VI of UK dies;  his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952
 02/07	Sinclair Lewis born, 1885
 02/08	Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography
+02/08	John von Neumann died, 1957
 02/08	Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828
 02/09	George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc.
 02/10	Charles Lamb born, 1775
 02/10	William Allen White born, 1868
-02/11	Thos. Edison born, 1847
+02/11	Thomas Edison born, 1847
 02/11	William Henry Fox Talbot (photographic pioneer) born, 1800
 02/12	Abraham Lincoln born, 1809
 02/12	Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809
 02/15	Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564
 02/15	Susan B. Anthony born, 1820
 02/16	Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry
-02/17	Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone
+02/17	Frederic Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone
 02/17	Marion Anderson born, 1902
 02/17	T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874
 02/18	Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer
+02/18	Michelangelo Buonarroti dies in Rome, Italy, 1564
 02/19	Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473
-02/20	Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer
+02/20	Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1844, atomic physics pioneer
 02/21	Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass
 02/22	George Washington born, 1732
-02/22	Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun
+02/22	Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1824, found hydrogen in the sun
 02/23	W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868
 02/24	Winslow Homer born, 1836
 02/24	Steve Jobs born, 1955
@@ -81,30 +87,41 @@
 03/02	Dr. Seuss born, 1904
 03/04	Casimir Pulaski born, 1747
 03/05	John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982
+03/05	Joseph Stalin died in Moscow, 1953
+03/06	Michelangelo Buonarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1475
+03/07	Aristotle died, 322BC
 03/07	Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer
 03/08	Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer
 03/08	Howard Aiken born, 1900
 03/11	Robert Treat Paine born, 1737
 03/11	Vannevar Bush born, 1890
+03/11	Douglas Adams born in Cambridge, England, 1952
 03/12	Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist
+03/12	Terry Pratchett (Sir) dies, 2015, author
 03/14	Albert Einstein born, 1879
 03/14	Casey Jones born, 1864
 03/14	Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer;
 		named Mars "canals"
 03/14	Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist
+03/14	Karl Marx died, 1883
 03/15	Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson, 7th President of the United States,
 		born in Waxhaw, South Carolina, 1767
 03/15	J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
 03/16	George Clymer born, 1739
 03/16	James Madison, 4th President of the United States, born in King George
 		County, Virginia, 1751
+03/19	Arthur C. Clarke died in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2008
 03/21	NetBSD project born, 1993
+03/23	Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
 03/24	Harry Houdini born, 1874
 03/26	Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist
 03/26	David Packard died, 1996; age of 83
+03/27	Maurits Cornelis Escher died, 1972
+03/27	Stanislaw Lem died, 2006
 03/27	Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays
 03/28	Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
 03/30	Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746
+03/30	Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, died at the age of 101, 2002
 03/30	Sean O'Casey born, 1880
 03/30	Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853
 03/31	Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher
@@ -123,11 +140,17 @@
 04/14	Christiaan Huygens born, 1629, physicist & astronomer;
 		discovered Saturn's rings
 04/15	Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452
+04/15	Leonhard Euler born in Basel, 1707
 04/16	Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889
+04/20	Adolf Hitler born, 1889
 04/22	Kant born, 1724
+04/22	Lenin born, the best friend of all the children, 1870
+04/23	William Shakespeare died, 1616
+04/26	William Shakespeare baptised, 1564
 04/27	Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist
 04/28	James Monroe, 5th President of the United States, born in Westmoreland
 		County, Viriginia, 1758
+04/28	Terry Pratchett (Sir) born, 1948, author
 04/29	Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology
 04/29	William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863
 04/30	Karl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer
@@ -136,6 +159,7 @@
 05/02	Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903
 05/04	Alice Liddell born, 1852, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
 		& Through the Looking-Glass
+05/05	Karl Marx born, 1818
 05/09	Pinza died, 1957
 05/10	Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899
 05/11	Johnny Appleseed born, 1768
@@ -153,7 +177,7 @@
 05/29	Patrick Henry born, 1736
 05/30	Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908
 06/01	Brigham Young born, 1801
-06/01	Marilyn Monroe born, 1928
+06/01	Marilyn Monroe born, 1926
 06/02	Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England, 1857
 06/03	Henry James born, 1811
 06/07	(Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848
@@ -167,7 +191,7 @@
 06/19	FreeBSD project born, 1993
 06/22	Carl Hubbell born, 1903
 06/22	Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949
-06/22	Konrad Zuse born in Berlin, 1919
+06/22	Konrad Zuse born in Berlin, 1910
 06/23	Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912
 06/25	Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903
 06/27	Helen Keller born, 1880
@@ -179,24 +203,30 @@
 07/07	P.T. Barnum dies, 1891
 07/08	Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838
 07/10	John Calvin born, 1509
+07/10	Nikola Tesla born, 1856
 07/11	John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States, born in
 		Braintree, Massachusetts, 1767
 07/12	Henry David Thoreau born, 1817
 07/15	Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from
 		Saint Nicholas"
 07/18	Brian Auger is born in London, 1939
+07/20	Alexander the Great born, 356 BC
+07/20	Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong, 1973
+07/25	Robert Morris is born in Boston, 1932
 07/25	Steve Goodman is born in Chicago, 1948
 07/29	Mussolini born, 1883
 07/30	Emily Bronte born, 1818
 07/30	Henry Ford born, 1863
 08/01	Herman Melville born, 1819
 08/03	Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966
+08/05	Friedrich Engels died, 1895
+08/06	Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died after a long struggle with cancer, 2002
 08/06	Jonathan B. Postel is born in Altadena, California, 1943
 08/08	Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937
 08/12	Thomas Mann's Death, 1955
 08/13	Alfred Hitchcock born, 1899
 08/13	Annie Oakley born, 1860
-08/13	Fidel Castro born, 1927
+08/13	Fidel Castro born, 1926
 08/17	Mae West born, 1892
 08/18	Meriwether Lewis born, 1774
 08/20	Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
@@ -207,6 +237,7 @@
 08/27	Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908
 08/29	Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist
 08/30	John W. Mauchly born, 1907
+09/02	J.R.R. Tolkien died, 1973
 09/05	King Louis XIV of France born, 1638
 09/05	Raquel Welch born, 1942
 09/06	Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909
@@ -217,11 +248,17 @@
 09/09	Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976
 09/09	Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie, creator of C, born, 1941
 09/12	Jesse Owens born, 1913
+09/12	Stanislaw Lem born in Lwow, Poland, 1921
 09/13	Walter Reed born, 1851
 09/15	Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890
 09/16	Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914
+09/17	Ken Kesey born in La Junta, CO, 1935
+09/18	Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky born, 1857, father of rocket flight
 09/18	Greta Garbo born, 1905
 09/18	Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970
+09/18	Leonhard Euler died in St. Petersburg, 1783
+09/19	President Garfield dies of wounds in Elberon, N.J., 1881
+09/19	Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky died, Russian SFSR, 1935
 09/20	Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878
 09/21	H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866
 09/21	Louis Joliet born, 1645
@@ -264,12 +301,14 @@
 		Massachusetts 1735.
 10/31	Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887
 10/31	Dale Evans born, 1912
+11/01	Joseph Stalin's burial, 1961
 11/02	Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734
 11/04	King William III of Orange born, 1650
 11/05	Roy Rogers born, 1912
 11/09	Carl Sagan born, 1934
 11/10	Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483
 11/10	Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982
+11/11	Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky born in Moscow, Russia, 1821
 11/11	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922
 11/13	Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850
 11/13	St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354
@@ -278,9 +317,12 @@
 11/20	Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK) born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1925
 11/26	Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922
 11/26	Norbert Wiener born in Columbia, Missouri, 1894
+11/27	Bruce Lee born in San Francisco, 1940
+11/28	Friedrich Engels born, 1820
+11/28	Joe Ossanna died, 1977
 11/29	John Mayall is born in Cheshire, England, 1933
 11/30	Cleopatra died, 30 BC
-11/30	Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835
+11/30	Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835
 12/01	Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935
 12/04	Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976
 12/05	Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States, born in
@@ -288,17 +330,21 @@
 12/05	Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901
 12/08	Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC
 12/08	James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894
-12/10	Emily Dickenson born, 1830
+12/10	Emily Dickinson born, 1830
 12/12	E.G. Robinson born, 1893
 12/14	George Washington dies, 1799
+12/16	Arthur C. Clarke born in Somerset, England, 1917
 12/17	William Safire (Safir) born, 1929
 12/18	Konrad Zuse died in Hünfeld, 1995
 12/20	Carl Sagan died, 1996
 12/21	Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804
 12/22	Giacomo Puccini born, 1858
+12/22	Joseph Vissarionnovich Djugashvili (Stalin) born, 1879
+12/22	Samuel Beckett dies in Paris, 1989
 12/23	Joseph Smith born, 1805
 12/25	Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642
 12/26	Chas. Babbage born, 1791
 12/28	John von Neumann born, 1903
+12/29	Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin assasinated, 1916
 
 #endif /* !_calendar_birthday_ */

Modified: stable/12/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history
==============================================================================
--- stable/12/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history	Sun Mar 22 01:01:47 2020	(r359198)
+++ stable/12/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history	Sun Mar 22 01:22:44 2020	(r359199)
@@ -5,18 +5,27 @@
  */
 
 #ifndef _calendar_history_
-#define _calendar_history_
+#define	_calendar_history_
 
 01/01	Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba
 01/01	Castro expels Cuban President Batista, 1959
 01/01	Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech, 1947
 01/01	First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902
+01/02	Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve
+	Niagara Falls, 1929
+01/03	Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers
+	over Italy, 1925
+01/03	Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British
+	Prime Minister in the 20th Century, 1988
+01/04	Burma becomes independent from United Kingdom, 1948
 01/04	Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
 01/05	-50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
 01/05	The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940
 01/05	Twelfth night
-01/06	Millard Fillmore's birthday (let's party!)
+01/06	Maria Montessori opens her first school in Rome, 1907
+01/07	First transatlantic telephone call, 1927
 01/08	Battle of New Orleans
+01/08	Monaco gains its independence, 1297
 01/09	Plough Monday
 01/10	First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946
 01/10	Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776
@@ -26,12 +35,28 @@
 01/11	Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal
 01/11	Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
 01/11	The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963
+01/12	Batman the TV series debuts on ABC, 1966
+01/13	Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance, 1930
 01/14	The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967
+01/15	Angola becomes an independent state, 1975
 01/16	Prohibition begins, 1920
+01/16	The Medici family are made official bankers of the Papacy, 1412
+01/17	Captain James Cook becomes the first explorer to cross the
+	Antarctic Circle, 1773
 01/18	Grey whale migration, California
+01/18	The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time, 1896
+01/19	The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant, 1978
 01/20	St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)
+01/21	First commercial flight with a Concorde, 1976
+01/22	British colonists reach New Zealand, 1840
+01/23	The Royal Exchange opens in London, 1571
+01/23	The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in
+	the Netherlands, 1579
 01/24	Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922
 01/24	Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848
+01/24	Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement, 1908
+01/25	The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits
+	the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada, 1791
 01/26	Sydney, New South Wales settled, 1788
 01/27	Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967
 01/27	Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973
@@ -39,111 +64,207 @@
 01/28	Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff
 	killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe,
 	1986
+01/28	The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the
+	Panama Railway, 1855
+01/29	Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, the last monarch of
+	Hawaii, 1891
 01/30	Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948
 01/30	Tet Offensive, 1968
 01/31	"Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961
+01/31	Dmitry Mendeleev established optimal alcohol-water mixture ratio
+	in his PhD work on alcohol-water mixtures, 1865
 01/31	Explorer I launched, 1958.  Van Allen Belt discovered
-01/31	Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp
+01/31	Irving Langmuir invented tungsten filament lamp, 1881
 02/01	First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954
 02/01	Forces led by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979
 02/01	Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrates 15 minutes before landing
 	killing Husband, McCool, Chawla, Clark, Ramon, Brown, and Anderson, 2003
+02/02	Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament, 1933
+02/03	The first commercial cheese factory is founded in Switzerland, 1815
 02/04	Cybernet inaugurated, 1969
 02/04	Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974
+02/05	Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of
+	the United Arab Republic, 1958
+02/06	Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand, 1840
+02/07	The British Labour Party is formed, 1900
 02/08	1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq
 02/09	-51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
-02/12	US President Abraham Lincoln's real birthday
+02/09	Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation, 1621
+02/10	New Delhi becomes the capital of India, 1931
+02/11	Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of
+	the Kalmar Union, 1814
+02/12	China adopts the Gregorian calendar, 1912
 02/12	Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969
+02/13	France tests its first atomic bomb in Algeria, 1960
 02/14	Bombing of Dresden, 1945
 02/15	Chicago Seven convicted, 1970
 02/16	Nylon patented, 1937
 02/16	Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804
+02/17	The first ship passes through the Suez Canal, 1867
+02/18	Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech, 1943
 02/18	Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930
+02/19	Serfdom is abolished in Russia, 1861
 02/19	US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945
+02/20	FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia
+	for 15 years, 2001
 02/20	John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962
 02/21	Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties
 02/21	First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878
 02/21	Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965
+02/22	Start of the Czechoslovak Revolution, 1948
 02/23	Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 1971
 02/24	Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868
+02/25	The Democratic Republic of Georgia occupied by Bolshevist Russia, 1921
+02/26	Final radio broadcast of Dragnet, 1957
+02/27	The Lionheart crowned, 1189
 02/28	The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972
 02/29	French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704
 03/01	Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft
 	in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
-03/02	Blackthorn winds (New England) (Does anyone know what this is?)
-03/04	First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.
+03/01	The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded, 1565
+03/02	Blackthorn winds (New England)
+03/02	Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam, 1946
+03/03	Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire, 1878
+03/04	Emile Berliner invents the microphone, 1877
+03/04	First meeting of Congress in N.Y.C., 1789
+03/05	Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, 1836
+03/06	The aspirin is registered as a trademark of Bayer, 1899
+03/07	Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for
+	women's voting rights in Kuwait, 2005
+03/08	The first case of Spanish flu occurs, killing 50 million to 100 million
+	people worldwide, 1918
+03/09	The Barbie doll debuts, 1959
+03/10	Republic of Cote d'Ivoire becomes a colony of France, 1893
+03/11	Ceasefire declared in the war between Iran and Irak, 1988
+03/12	The first bottles of Coca Cola were sold, 1894
 03/13	"Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894
 03/14	Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907
-03/15	Day of the 1848 revolution in Hungary
+03/14	The kingdom of Cyprus is sold by the ruling Queen to Venice, 1489
 03/15	Buzzards return to Hinckley OH
+03/15	Day of the 1848 revolution in Hungary
 03/15	France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874
 03/15	Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966
 03/15	Ides of March.  Gaius Julius Caesar assassinated by senators,
 	including adoptive son Marcus Junius Brutus Caepio, 44BC
+03/15	Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by
+	several senators, 44BC
+03/15	Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966
+03/16	Largest coordinated worldwide vigil against the Iraq War, 2003
 03/16	MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by US infantrymen
 03/16	Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926
+03/17	Invention of the rubber band, 1845
+03/17	Ukrainian Nationalist Republic declared, 1917
 03/17	Vanguard I launched, 1958.  Earth proved pear-shaped
 03/18	Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965
+03/18	In the Pyramid of Cheops a 4.400 year old mummy is found, 1989
 03/19	Swallows return to Capistrano
 03/20	Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980
+03/21	Henry V becomes the king of England, 1413
+03/22	First motion picture displayed by Auguste and Louis Lumière, 1895
+03/22	World Day for Water
+03/23	The first Islamic republic in the world is Pakistan, 1956
 03/24	Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900
+03/25	The first Bed-In for Peace by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 1969
 03/25	Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911
 03/26	Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937
+03/26	The driving test is introduced, in the United Kingdom, 1934
 03/27	Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958
 03/28	Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979
 03/29	Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638
+03/29	The Republic of Ireland bans smoking in all work places, 2004
 03/30	Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867
 03/30	Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977
 03/30	Pencil with eraser patented, 1858
+03/31	The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated, 1889
 04/01	People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day.
+04/02	Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia, 1930
+04/03	First publication of the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, 1896
 04/04	Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
-04/04	NATO Established, 1949
+04/04	NATO established, 1949
+04/05	Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia, 1614
 04/06	Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830
 04/07	Alewives run, Cape Cod
 04/08	Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin meet in Encounter Bay, 1802
+04/08	The Venus de Milo is found on the island of Melos, 1820
 04/09	Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865
+04/09	The first public exhibition of art opens in Paris, 1667
+04/10	The Belfast Agreement is signed, on Good Friday, 1998
+04/11	The Shogunate is abolished in Japan, 1868
 04/12	Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861
+04/12	Great Britain adopts the Union Jack as their national flag, 1606
 04/12	Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981
 04/12	Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961
 04/13	Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos
 04/14	US President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865
 04/14	Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912
+04/15	Insulin first becomes generally available for use by diabetics, 1923
 04/15	US President Abraham Lincoln dies, 1865
 04/15	Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955
+04/16	Syria becomes an independent Republic, 1946
 04/17	Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961
 04/18	Einstein's Death, 1955
 04/18	First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934
 04/18	San Francisco earthquake, 1906
+04/18	The League of Nations is dissolved after 27 years, 1946
 04/19	Landing of the "33" in Uruguay
 04/19	Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943
+04/20	In Bulgaria, the April Uprising takes place, 1876
 04/20	Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971
 04/21	Lyrid meteor shower
+04/21	Rome is founded by Romulus and Remus, 753BC
+04/22	Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral becomes the first European to
+	sight Brazil, 1500
+04/22	The first Earth Day is celebrated, 1970
 04/22	Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, called Lenin, Russian political leader, born in Simbirsk, 1870
+04/23	Bavarian co-rulers Duke Wilhelm IV and Duke Ludwig X proclaimed the
+	weighty and consequential Bavarian Beer Purity Law
+	(later Reinheitsgebot), 1516
 04/23	Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
+04/24	The Greek enter Troy with the Trojan Horse, 1184BC
+04/25	Integrated circuit patented by Robert Noyce, 1961
 04/26	William Shakespeare baptized in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564,
-	birthdate unknown
+	birthdate less certain
 04/27	Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521
+04/28	President of France, Charles de Gaulle resigns, 1969
 04/29	Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913
+04/30	Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide, 1945
 05/01	Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god
+05/01	Adam Weishaupt founded the Illuminati of Bavaria, 1776
+05/02	The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness monster is reported, 1933
 05/03	Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971
+05/03	Jamaica is spotted by Christopher Columbus, 1494
+05/04	Christopher Columbus sets foot on Jamaica, 1494
 05/04	Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970
 05/05	John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925
+05/05	Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire, 1260
 05/06	Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1937
-05/07	Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945
+05/07	Germany surrenders after World War II, 1945
 05/08	Beginning of ostrich mating season
+05/08	Herbert Akroyd Stuart patented the first "diesel" engine, 1890
 05/08	US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972
 05/09	94 degrees, New York, 1979
+05/09	The first parliament of Australia opens in Melbourne, 1901
 05/10	Germany invades Low Countries, 1940
 05/10	Nazi bookburning, 1933
+05/11	Thailand is no longer known as Siam, 1949
+05/12	Tunisia becomes a French protectorate, 1881
+05/13	Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after
+	having been accused of treason, 1619
 05/14	Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
 05/14	Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948
 05/15	Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854
+05/15	The civil war in Finland ends, 1918
+05/16	Root beer invented by Charles Elmer Hires, 1866
 05/17	24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
 05/17	Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
 05/18	Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
 05/18	Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
+05/19	The Legion d'Honneur is founded by Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802
+05/20	The first modern atlas issued by Abraham Ortelius, 1570
 05/21	Battle of Iquique in Chile
 05/21	US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956
+05/22	The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony,
+	is abolished, 1840
 05/22	US Civil War ends, 1865
 05/23	Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960
 05/23	Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953
@@ -152,19 +273,35 @@
 05/25	Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980
 05/25	Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830
 05/26	Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
+05/26	John Calvin and his followers are expelled from Geneva, 1538
 05/27	Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937
+05/27	The pop-up toaster patented by Charles Strite, 1919
+05/28	Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication, 1936
 05/29	Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953
 05/29	First food stamps issued, 1961
 05/30	US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912
+05/30	Beginning of the civil war over Biafra, 1967
+05/31	Yom Kippur War comes to an end by the signing of a disengagement
+	agreement by Syria and Israel, 1974
+06/01	In a referendum the Dutch reject the European Constitution, 2005
+06/02	Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty in a close-call referendum, 1992
 06/02	Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924
+06/03	Edward White becomes the first American to perform a "Space Walk", 1965
+06/03	Last Star Trek episode first aired ("Turnabout Intruder"), 1969
 06/04	Roquefort cheese developed, 1070
 06/05	Robert Kennedy assassinated, 1968
+06/05	Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem, 70
 06/05	US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933
 06/06	First drive-in movie, 1933
 06/06	Normandy landing, 1944
+06/07	The first act of civil disobedience by Gandhi, 1893
+06/08	The Canadian Parliament meets for the first time in Ottawa, 1866
+06/09	The Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, 68
 06/10	Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C.
 06/10	Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971
 06/11	Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC
+06/12	Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison, 1964
+06/13	Much of Vancouver, British Columbia, is devastated by a fire, 1886
 06/13	Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System
 06/14	Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834
 06/15	Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752
@@ -173,16 +310,21 @@
 	that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop,
 	1878
 06/16	"The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980
+06/16	Henry Ford launched the Ford Motor Company, 1903
 06/17	China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967
 06/17	Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972
+06/18	Winston Churchill delivers his "Finest Hour" speech, 1940
 06/19	Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953
 06/19	Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893
 06/20	Victoria crowned, 1837
 06/21	Berlin airlift begins, 1948
 06/21	Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge
 06/22	Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964
+06/22	The June Days Uprising in Paris begins, 1848
+06/23	Harriet, Darwin's turtle died at the age of 176 years, 2006
 06/23	Slavery abolished in England, 1772
 06/24	Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970
+06/24	The capital of Jamaica, Kingston, is founded, 1664
 06/25	Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 1876
 06/25	North Korea invades South Korea, 1950
 06/26	Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
@@ -190,47 +332,83 @@
 06/26	Toothbrush invented, 1498
 06/27	100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915
 06/27	Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971
+06/27	The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London, 1967
+06/28	Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria assassinated in Sarajevo,
+	marking the beginning of World War I, 1914
 06/28	Supreme Court decides in favor of Allan Bakke, 1978
-06/30	"That" explosion in Siberia, 1908
+06/28	World War I ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919
+06/29	The Seychelles gains independence from the United Kingdom, 1976
+06/30	"That" explosion in Siberia at 7:17 local time, 1908
+06/30	Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity, 1905
 06/30	China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960
 07/01	Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863
+07/01	Hong Kong becomes a special administrative region of the People's
+	Republic of China, 1997
+07/01	The first day on the Somme marked the beginning of the
+	Battle of the Somme, 1916
+07/01	Warsaw Pact officially dissolved, 1991
+07/02	Vermont abolishes slavery, as the first state, 1777
 07/03	Dog days begin
 07/04	Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863
 07/04	Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776
 07/04	New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776
 07/04	Thoreau enters woods, 1845
+07/05	Bikini demonstrated for the first time, 1946
 07/06	First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928
 07/06	Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917
 07/07	First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949
 07/07	Terrorists detonate four bombs on London public transport, 2005
+07/08	A UFO is believed to have crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, 1947
 07/08	First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
 07/08	Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835
 07/09	10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847
+07/09	The African Union gets established, 2002
 07/10	134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913
+07/10	Most of London gets burned down in a severe fire, 1212
+07/11	Mongolia gains independence from China, 1921
 07/12	Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933
 07/13	Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908
+07/14	Storming of the Bastille by the citizens of Paris, 1789
+07/15	First item sold via Amazon.com, 1995
 07/16	Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945
+07/16	End of the civil war in Rwanda, 1994
 07/17	Disneyland opens, 1955
+07/18	"Mein Kampf" is published, 1925
 07/18	Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
 07/19	Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692
+07/19	France declares war on Prussia, marking the beginning of the
+	Franco-Prussian war, 1870
 07/20	Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969
+07/20	Ford Motor Company ships their car, 1903
 07/21	First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873
 07/21	Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954
+07/22	Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly around the world, 1933
 07/23	Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904
 07/24	Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
+07/25	First test-tube baby born, 1978
+07/26	Potsdam Declaration signed, 1945
+07/27	The last Citroen 2CV made, 1990
+07/28	Potato introduced in Europe by Sir Thomas Harriot, 1586
+07/29	Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 1836
 07/30	"In God We Trust" made US motto, 1956
+07/30	Elvis Presley performs for the first time in public, 1954
+07/31	First U.S. patent issued, 1790
 07/31	Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948,
 	later JFK
 08/01	Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on
 	this day
+08/02	Hitler becomes the Fuehrer of Germany, 1934
 08/03	Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492
 08/03	USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958
 08/04	Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892
 08/04	Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964
 08/04	Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914
+08/05	Nelson Mandela is jailed, 1962
 08/06	Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945
 08/06	Caricom in Barbados
 08/06	Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
+08/07	Jack the Ripper makes his first kill, 1888
+08/08	Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
 08/08	Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914
 08/08	Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974
 08/08	The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963
@@ -240,23 +418,32 @@
 08/09	Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
 08/09	Singapore secedes from Malaysia, 1965
 08/10	Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833
+08/10	Major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft disrupted by
+	Scotland Yard, 2006
 08/10	US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977
 08/11	Dog days end
 08/11	France Ends War in Indochina, 1954
 08/11	Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
+08/12	Cleopatra commits suicide, 30BC
 08/12	First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977
 08/12	Last US ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
 08/13	Berlin wall erected, 1961
 08/13	Li'l Abner debut, 1934
+08/14	France introduces motor vehicle registration, 1893
 08/14	Social Security begins in US, 1935
 08/15	Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947
 08/15	Hurricane hits Plymouth Plantation, 1635
 08/16	Roller Coaster patented, 1898
 08/17	First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
+08/17	Indonesian Declaration of Independence, 1945
 08/18	Anti-Cigarette League of America formed
+08/18	Power blackout on Java, Indonesia, affects almost
+	100 million people, 2005
 08/19	Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite,
 	marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960
 08/19	Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856
+08/20	First commercial radio station airs in Detroit, Michigan, 1920
+08/21	Louvre employee steals the "Mona Lisa", 1911
 08/22	Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets
 08/22	Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963
 08/22	St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565
@@ -264,11 +451,14 @@
 08/24	"Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969
 08/24	-126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960
 08/24	British troops burn Washington, 1814
-08/25	Gen. De Gaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
+08/25	General de Gaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
 08/26	19th amendment of US constitution gives women the vote, 1920
+08/26	Women get the vote, 1920
 08/27	"Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912
 08/27	Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883
+08/28	Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay, 1609
 08/28	Martin Luther King leads over 200,000 in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963
+08/29	Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction, 1831
 08/29	Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975;
 	Nova Cygni 1975.
 08/30	75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842
@@ -279,26 +469,32 @@
 08/31	Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888
 08/31	Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
 08/31	Federation of Malaya gains independence from Great Britain, 1957
+08/31	Independent union "Solidarnosc" born, Gdansk, 1980
 09/01	Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972
 09/01	Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859
 09/02	Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752
 09/02	Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945
 09/03	Richard ``the Lionheart'' crowned king of England, 1189
 09/03	Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino
+09/04	Napoleon III is deposed and the Third Republic is declared, 1870
 09/05	US President Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961
+09/05	St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland, 1980
 09/05	The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774
 09/06	149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620
 09/06	First Star Trek episode (The Man Trap) aired 1966
 09/06	US President McKinley shot, 1901
 09/06	Somhlolo in Swaziland
+09/07	Brazil declares its independence from Portugal, 1822
 09/08	"Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966)
 09/08	Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888
 09/08	US President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974
 09/09	California becomes the 31st state of the USA, 1850
+09/09	John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph, 1839
 09/09	United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776
 09/10	Mountain Meadows Massacre.  Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857
 09/11	CIA-sponsored terrorists overthrow Chilean government, murder President Allende, 1973
 09/11	Terrorists destroy World Trade Center in New York, 2001
+09/11	World Wide Fund (WWF) founded, 1961
 09/12	German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943
 09/12	Germany annexes Sudetenland, 1938
 09/13	58 °C (136.4 °F) measured at el Azizia, Libya, 1922
@@ -310,24 +506,33 @@
 09/14	The US Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940
 09/15	Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959
 09/15	The US Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the US State Department, 1789
+09/15	The Nazis adopt a new national flag with the swastika, 1935
+09/16	General Motors is founded, 1908
 09/16	The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630
 09/16	Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore unite to become Malaysia, 1963
 09/17	Battle of Antietam, 1862
+09/17	Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859
 09/18	Victory of Uprona in Burundi
 09/19	New Zealand women get the right to vote, 1893
+09/19	Walt Disney releases Steamboat Willie, 1928
 09/20	Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for US President, 1884
 09/20	First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
 	Science, 1848
 09/20	First meeting of the US National Research Council, 1916
 09/20	Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519
 09/20	The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973
+09/21	J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published, 1937
+09/22	Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953
 09/22	US President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
 09/22	Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas US President Nixon, 1974
 09/22	The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949
 09/23	Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972
 09/23	The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first US Baseball club, 1845
 09/23	US Vice President Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech, 1952
+09/24	The Netherlands surrenders New Amsterdam to England, 1664
+09/25	Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era, 1066
 09/25	Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981
+09/26	Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic, 1973
 09/27	The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825
 09/28	"Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678
 09/28	A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon,
@@ -336,10 +541,14 @@
 	1888
 09/30	The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846
 09/30	The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946
+10/01	Austria issues the world's first postcards, 1869
 10/01	NASA officially begins operations, 1958
+10/02	Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec, 1535
 10/02	Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967
+10/03	O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of murder, 1995
 10/04	Crimean war begins, 1853
 10/04	First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957
+10/05	Portugal declares itself a republic, 1910
 10/06	Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853
 10/06	Egyptian President Anwar es-Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981
 10/06	Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973
@@ -349,6 +558,7 @@
 10/07	Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979
 10/07	Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974
 10/08	Great Chicago Fire, 1871
+10/08	San Marino adopts its written constitution, 1600
 10/09	First two-way telephone conversation, 1876
 10/10	Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba
 10/10	Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea
@@ -360,6 +570,8 @@
 10/11	The second Vatican Ecumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962
 10/11	First broadcast of Saturday Night Live, 1975
 10/12	Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
+10/12	Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig married Princess Therese of
+	Saxony-Hildburghausen, Oktoberfest, 1810
 10/12	Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960
 10/12	Man O'War's last race, 1920
 10/12	Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
@@ -367,29 +579,42 @@
 10/13	US Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress
 10/14	Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066
 10/14	Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947
+10/15	Edison Electric Light Company begins operation, 1878
 10/15	First draft card burned, 1965
+10/16	The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney
+	and his brother, Roy Disney, 1923
+10/17	Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion, 1931
 10/18	Boston Shoemakers form first US labor org., 1648
 10/18	Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959
+10/18	The Grand Ole Opry opens its doors, 1925
 10/19	Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949
 10/19	Napoleon's beaten army begins the long retreat from Moscow, 1812
 10/20	"Saturday Night Massacre", 1973
 10/20	OPEC embargo, 1973
 10/21	Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879
 10/21	Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959
+10/22	Laos gains independence from France, 1953
 10/23	Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944
 10/23	Day of the 1956 revolution in Hungary
 10/23	Earth created at 6:30 AM, 4004BC.
+10/23	South African troops invade Angola in support of UNITA and FNLA, 1975
 10/23	Swallows leave Capistrano
+10/24	Founding of the United Nations, 1945
 10/25	The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971
 10/26	UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978
 10/27	New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871
 10/27	The first New York Subway is opened, 1904
+10/27	Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of
+	a global economic meltdown, 1997
 10/28	Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492
 10/28	Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312
 10/28	Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636
 10/28	Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886
+10/29	Leibniz makes the first use of the "long s" for integral, 1675
 10/29	Stock Market Crash, 1929
+10/30	Communist Party of Australia founded in Sydney, 1920
 10/30	Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938
+10/31	First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetak, 1952
 10/31	Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517
 11/01	Austria-Hungary become two separate nations, 1918
 11/01	Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950
@@ -401,8 +626,11 @@
 11/04	Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979
 11/04	Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956
 11/05	Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605
+11/06	Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R.
 11/07	Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837
 11/07	Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805
+11/08	Invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the
+	Stockholm Bloodbath, 1520
 11/09	Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965
 11/09	Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927
 11/09	Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888
@@ -411,65 +639,104 @@
 11/10	41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House, 1917
 11/10	Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865
 11/10	Henry Stanley asks David Livingstone, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?", 1871
+11/11	First broadcast of Sesame Street, 1970
 11/11	Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889
 11/12	Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan
 11/12	USA first exports oil to Europe, 1861
+11/13	St. Brice's Day massacre by order of Ethelred, king of England, 1002
+11/14	Czechoslovakia becomes a republic, 1918
 11/14	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
+11/15	First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, 1920
 11/15	Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
 11/16	Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869
 11/16	Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1938
 11/17	46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966
+11/17	Elizabeth I of England succeeds Queen Mary I of England, 1558
 11/17	Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973
 11/18	First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952
 11/18	Local standard time zones established for US, 1883
 11/19	Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863
+11/19	Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Company, 1916
+11/20	Nuremberg Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals begin, 1945
 11/21	Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973
+11/21	Birmingham Pub Bombings by the IRA kill 21 people, 1974
+11/22	John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, 1963
 11/22	Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963
 11/23	First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963
+11/23	The first edition of Life is published. 1936
+11/24	Alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is killed by
+	Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas, 1963
 11/24	Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963
 11/25	Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867
+11/26	Last flight ever with a Concorde made over Bristol, UK, 2003
 11/27	Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895
-11/27	Friction match invented, England, 1826
+11/27	Friction match invented by englishman John Walker, Sweden, 1826
 11/27	Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
+11/28	Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, 1912
 11/29	King Tut's tomb opened, 1922
 12/01	First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924
+12/01	Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, 1913
 12/01	Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955
 12/01	Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1953
+12/02	Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French, 1852
 12/03	First neon light display, Paris, 1910
 12/03	First successful human heart transplant led by Dr. Barnard, 1967
 12/03	The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971
+12/04	People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution, 1982
 12/04	Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783
 12/05	End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part)
 12/05	Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776
 12/05	The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition, 1933
+12/06	London becomes the world's first city with motorised cabs, 1897
 12/07	Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941
 12/08	Japan enters Second World War with invasion of Pantai Sabak, Kelantan, 1941
+12/08	Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum, 1991
 12/09	Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
 12/10	Metric system established in France, 1799
 12/10	Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year
+12/11	The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, 1931
 12/12	First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901
 12/13	Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972
 12/13	Dartmouth College chartered, 1769
 12/13	Geminid meteor shower (look south)
+12/14	Portugal joins the United Nations, 1955
 12/15	Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976
 12/15	Bill of Rights adopted, 1791
 12/15	James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891
 12/15	Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890
+12/16	Pokemon episode (Electric Soldier Porygon) triggers attacks of
+	photosensitive epilepsy in hundreds of Japanese children, 1997
+12/17	Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is first published, 1843
+12/18	Indonesia invades Netherlands New Guinea, 1961
+12/19	Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the
+	German Army, 1941
+12/20	Cheka founded, 1917
 12/20	US buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.
+12/21	Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France, 1958
 12/21	Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in less than 80 days
 12/21	Women gain the right to vote in South Australia, 1894
 12/21	Women gain the right to hold political office in South Australia, 1894
+12/22	First freight train is operated in Roorkee in India, 1851
+12/23	The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories, 1947
+12/24	Hong Kong falls to the Japanese Imperial Army, 1941
 12/24	KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865
+12/25	Christmas Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors, 1643
 12/26	DPMA founded, 1951
 12/27	APT report published, 1956
 12/27	Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845
 12/28	Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
 12/28	Proclamation of the Province of South Australia, 1836
+12/28	Spain recognizes independence of Mexico, 1836
 12/29	Battle of Wounded knee, 1890
+12/29	Edison receives patent for Radio, 1891
 12/30	First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940
+12/30	Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations, 1993
+12/30	Soviet Ukrainian Republic declared, 1917
 12/31	St. Sylvester in Switzerland
+12/31	First supersonic commercial flight by Tu-144, 1968
+12/31	Windows tax in England, 1695
 12/31	Winterland closes its doors, 1978
 
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