Article 626 of comp.sources.misc: >From: rsk@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Rich Kulawiec) Subject: v04i086: Long list of entries for input to calendar(1) Date: 20 Sep 88 01:22:02 GMT Lines: 1598 Approved: allbery@ncoast.UUCP Posting-number: Volume 4, Issue 86 Submitted-by: "Rich Kulawiec" Archive-name: cal-entries [Non-source, but where else should it go? ++bsa] The following is a text file containing numerous entries (about 1500 of them) to be used as input to the "calendar" program. This collection is largely based on the work done by Richard L. Wexelblat (rlw@wxlvax.uucp) and posted to Usenet in January 1985. Here is a short excerpt from his posting: --------- >From: rlw@wxlvax.UUCP (Richard L. Wexelblat) They are not all in the same format due to the various sources from which they came and my own limited time for editing. I've tried to mark items whose annual dates vary (Easter, e.g.) so that updating for next year will be easier but I know I missed many such. Some of these are a bit off the wall and may well be put-ons from last year's correspondents. Such are to be taken as exercises for the reader. These items are taken from: History of Programming Languages Old Farmer's (1984) Almanac The 1984 Great computer calendar The History of Music to the Death of Schubert My own misc. store of useful or useless facts Additions and corrections were sent last year by: ccieng6!wla, sii!mem, bunker!dick, yquem!psl, ihuxw!pector, sunybcs!colonel I have unified the format for all the entries, and sorted them alphabetically within each day. I've also added numerous entries from a rock 'n roll "book of days", a Tolkein calendar, and other sources. Yes, I'm interested in additions or corrections. Rich Kulawiec, rsk@mace.cc.purdue.edu, rsk@pur-ee.uucp Jan 1 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies (1984) Jan 1 Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba Jan 1 Castro expells Cuban President Batista (1959) Jan 1 Churchill delivers his the "Iron Curtain" speech (1947) Jan 1 Country Joe McDonald is born in El Monte, California, 1942 Jan 1 Independence Day in Haiti, Sudan Jan 1 New Year's Day Jan 1 Paul Revere born in Boston (1735) Jan 1 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems), 1970 (Midnight GMT) Jan 1 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT) (1970) Jan 1 Universal Fraternity Day in Mozambique Jan 2 Ancestry Day in Haiti Jan 2 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR) (1920) Jan 2 St. Berchtold's Day in Switzerland Jan 3 Apple Computer founded, 1977 Jan 3 New Year's Holiday in Scotland Jan 3 Revolution Day in Upper Volta Jan 3 Steven Stills is born in Dallas, 1945 Jan 4 George Washington Carver born in Missouri (1864) Jan 4 Independence Day in Burma Jan 4 Jakob Grimm born, 1785 Jan 4 Jazz great Charlie Mingus dies at 57 in Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1979 Jan 4 Martyrs Day in Zaire Jan 4 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north) Jan 4 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars Jan 5 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913 Jan 5 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer Jan 5 Fellowship enters Moria (LOTR) Jan 5 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940 Jan 5 Twelfth night Jan 6 Children's Day in Uruguay Jan 6 Epiphany Jan 6 Millard Fillmore's birthday Jan 6 Three Kings' Day in Puerto Rico Jan 7 Christmas in Ethiopia Jan 7 Pioneer's Day in Liberia Jan 8 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case (1982) Jan 8 Battle of New Orleans Jan 8 David Bowie (then David Robert Jones) is born in London, 1947 Jan 8 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer (1889) Jan 8 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 Jan 9 Day of the Martyrs in Panama Jan 9 Fellowship reaches Lorien (LOTR) Jan 9 James Patrick Page (Led Zeppelin) is born in Middlesex, England, 1945 Jan 10 Blues guitarist Howlin' Wolf dies in Chicago, 1976 Jan 10 Ethan Allen born, 1738 Jan 10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 Jan 10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London (1946) Jan 10 Jim Croce is born in Phildelphia, 1943 Jan 10 Pat Benatar is born in Long Island, 1952 Jan 10 Rod Stewart is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1945 Jan 11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies (1757?) Jan 11 Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania Jan 11 Armed Forces Day in Liberia Jan 11 De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico Jan 11 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal Jan 11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964 Jan 11 The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963 Jan 12 "Long" John Baldry is born in London, 1941 Jan 12 Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania Jan 13 Eric Clapton plays the "Rainbow Concert" in London, 1973 Jan 13 National Liberation Day in Togo Jan 13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884 Jan 13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws Jan 14 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875 Jan 14 Julian Calendar New Year's Day Jan 14 The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967 Jan 15 Adults Day in Japan Jan 15 Arbor Day in Jordan Jan 16 Martyrs Day in Benin Jan 16 Prohibition begins, 1920 Jan 16 Set uid bit patent issued, 1979 Jan 17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston (1706) Jan 17 Justice Dept. begins IBM suit, 1969 Jan 17 Led Zeppelin's first album is released, 1969 Jan 17 Passing of Gandalf (LOTR) Jan 18 Grey whale migration, CA Jan 18 Revolution Day in Tunisia Jan 19 Confederate Heroes Day in Texas Jan 19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston (1809) Jan 19 Ethopian Epiphany in Ethiopia Jan 19 Janis Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, 1943 Jan 19 Nameday of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus Jan 19 Robert E(dward) Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia (1807) Jan 20 Army Day in Mali Jan 20 Geo. Burns born, 1898 Jan 20 National Heroes Day in Guinea-Bissau Jan 20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...) Jan 20* Martin Luther King Day in New York (3rd Sunday) Jan 21 Lenin died, 1924 Jan 21 Our Lady of Altagracia in Dominican Republic Jan 21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA (1824) Jan 21* Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia (3rd Monday) Jan 21* Robert E. Lee's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi (3rd Monday) Jan 22 Sam Cooke is born in Chicago, 1935 Jan 22 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561 Jan 23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory Jan 23 Feast of St. Ildefonsus Jan 23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City (1899) Jan 23 John Hancock born, 1737 Jan 23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730 Jan 23 National Handwriting Day Jan 23 Saml. Barber died, 1981 Jan 24 DG Nova introduced, 1969 Jan 24 Economic Liberation Day in Togo Jan 24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill (1848) Jan 24 John Belushi is born in Chicago, 1949 Jan 24 Warren Zevon is born, 1947 Jan 25 Bob Dylan plays the second "Hurricane" benefit, in the Astrodome, 1978 Jan 25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 Jan 25 Robert Burns born, 1759 Jan 25 Virginia Woolf born, 1882 Jan 25 W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874 Jan 26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 Jan 26 Republic Day in India Jan 26 Sydney Aust. settled, 1778 Jan 27 Bobby "Blue" Bland (Robert Calvin Bland) is born in Tennessee, 1930 Jan 27 Samuel Gompers born, 1850 Jan 27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973 Jan 27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in Salzburg (1756) Jan 28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914 Jan 28 Jimi Hendrix headlines Madison Square Garden, 1970 Jan 30 Australia Day in Australia Jan 30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York (1882) Jan 30 Lightnin' Hopkins, the most-recorded blues artist ever, dies, 1982 Jan 30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic (1948) Jan 30 Tet Offensive, 1968 Jan 31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered Jan 31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 Jan 31 Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp Jan 31 The Grateful Dead are busted in New Orleans, 1970 Feb 1 Chinese New Year Holiday (3 days) in Taiwan Feb 1 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954 Feb 1 Forces lead by Khomeini take over Iran (1979) Feb 1 RCA Victor unveils the 45 rpm record playing system, 1949 Feb 2 Candlemas Feb 2 Graham Nash is born in Lancashire, England, 1942 Feb 3 Gertrude Stein born, 1874 Feb 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 Feb 4 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969 Feb 4 Independence Commemoration Day in Sri Lanka Feb 5 Alex Harvey (SAHB) is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935 Feb 5 Constitution Day in Mexico Feb 5 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army (1974) Feb 6 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II (1952) Feb 6 New Zealand Day Feb 7 Fellowship leaves Lorien (LOTR) Feb 7 Independence Day in Grenada Feb 7 Steven Stills makes the first digitally recorded rock album, 1979 Feb 7 The Beatles arrive in America for the first time, 1964 Feb 8 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq Feb 8 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography Feb 8 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France (1828) Feb 9 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934 Feb 9 Carole King (Carole Klein) is born in Brooklyn, 1941 Feb 9 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc. Feb 9 St. Maron's Day in Lebanon Feb 10 Charles Lamb born, 1775 Feb 10 Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (AD 60) Feb 10 William Allen White born, 1868 Feb 11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 Feb 11 National Foundation Day in Japan Feb 11 Thos. Edison born, 1847 Feb 11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1489, photographic pioneer Feb 12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809 Feb 12 Charles Darwin born (1809) not created Feb 12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England (1809) Feb 12 Pyidaungsa Day in Burma Feb 12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969 Feb 12 The Beatles play Carnegie Hall in New York City, 1964 Feb 14 Bombing of Dresden, 1945 Feb 14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 Feb 14 St. Valentine's day Feb 15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970 Feb 15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 Feb 15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy (1564) Feb 15 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820 Feb 16 Makha Bucha Day in Thailand Feb 16 Nylon patented, 1937 Feb 16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry Feb 16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804 Feb 17 Death of Boromir (LOTR) Feb 17 Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone Feb 17 Jazz great Thelonius Monk dies in Englewood, New Jersey, 1982 Feb 17 Marion Anderson born, 1902 Feb 17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874 Feb 18 Democracy Day in Nepal Feb 18 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer Feb 18 Independence Day in The Gambia Feb 18 Yoko Ono Lennon is born in Tokyo, 1933 Feb 18* "President's Day" Feb 19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland (1473) Feb 19 Paul McCartney's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" is banned in Britain, 1972 Feb 19 William "Smokey" Robinson is born in Detroit, 1940 Feb 19* Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras (day before Ash Wednesday) Feb 20 J. Geils (J. Geils Band) is born, 1946 Feb 20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer Feb 20 Meriadoc & Pippin meet Treebeard (LOTR) Feb 20 Yes sells out Madison Square Garden...without advertising, 1974 Feb 20* Ash Wednesday - first day of Lent Feb 21 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass Feb 21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties Feb 21 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem (1965) Feb 22 George Washington born, 1732 Feb 22 Passing of King Ellesar (LOTR) Feb 22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun Feb 23 Handel born, 1685 Feb 23 Johnny Winter is born in Leland, Mississippi, 1944 Feb 23 Lt Calley confesses, implicates Cpt Medina, 1971 Feb 23 Republic Day in Guyana Feb 23 W.E.B.DuBois born, 1868 Feb 24 Ents destroy Isengard (LOTR) Feb 24 Gregorian Calendar Day Feb 24 Winslow Homer born, 1836 Feb 25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England (1943) Feb 25 National Day in Kuwait Feb 25 Renoir born, 1841 Feb 26 Aragorn takes the Paths of the Dead (LOTR) Feb 26 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786, observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21 Feb 27 Independence Day in Dominican Republic Feb 27 The Lionheart crowned, 1189 Feb 28 Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533 Feb 28 The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972 Feb 29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704 Feb 29 Herman Hollerith born (1860) Feb 29 Jimmy Dorsey born, 1904 Mar 1 David Niven born, 1910 Mar 1 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 Mar 1 Jim Morrison is busted for obscenity in Miami, 1969 Mar 1 Samil Independence Movement Day in South Korea Mar 1 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts (1692) Mar 1 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 Mar 2 Blues guitarist Rory Gallagher is born in Ballyshannon, Ireland, 1949 Mar 2 Peasants Day in Burma Mar 2 Texas Independence day Mar 2 Victory of Adowa in Ethiopia Mar 3 Buffalo Springfield is formed in Los Angeles, 1966 Mar 3 Throne Day in Morocco Mar 4 Antonio Vivaldi born in Venice, Italy (1678) Mar 4 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747 Mar 4 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos Mar 4 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C. Mar 4 Vermont Admission Day (admitted as 14th state in 1791) Mar 5 Frodo & Samwise encounter Shelob (LOTR) Mar 5 Independence Day in Equatorial Guinea Mar 5 John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982 Mar 6 Independence Day in Ghana Mar 7 Aristotle died, 322BC Mar 7 Last Gilbert & Sullivan opera produced, 1896 Mar 7 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer Mar 7* Purim - Feast of Lots Mar 8 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer Mar 8 Deaths of Denethor & Theoden (LOTR) Mar 8 First annual International Women's Day (1909) Mar 8 Howard Aiken born, 1900 Mar 8 International Women's Day in U.S.S.R. Mar 8 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) dies in California, 1973 Mar 8 Syrian National Day in Libyan Arab Republic Mar 8 Women's Day in Guinea-Bissau, Taiwan, Yemen Democratic Republic Mar 8 Youth Day in Zambia Mar 9 "GOTO considered harmful" published in CACM, 1968 Mar 9 Decoration Day in Liberia Mar 9 Falgun Purnima Day in Nepal Mar 9 Robin Trower is born in London, 1945 Mar 10 Labor Day in South Korea Mar 11 Johnny Appleseed Day; anniversary of the death of John Chapman Mar 11 Robert Treat Paine born, 1737 Mar 11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890 Mar 12 Commonwealth Day in Swaziland Mar 12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist Mar 12 Independence Day in Mauritius Mar 12 Moshoeshoe's Birthday in Lesotho Mar 12 Renovation Day in Gabon Mar 13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894 Mar 13 National Day in Grenada Mar 13 The Allman Brothers record their live album at the Fillmore East, 1971 Mar 14 Albert Einstein born, 1879 Mar 14 Casey Jones born, 1864 Mar 14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer; named Mars "canals" Mar 14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist Mar 14 LISP introduced, 1960 Mar 14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907 Mar 15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH Mar 15 Ides of March; Julius Caesar assassinated (44 B.C.) Mar 15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia Mar 15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March (44BC) Mar 15 Sly Stone born, 1944 Mar 15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25 (1966) Mar 16 Black Press Day; first Black newspaper founded in 1827 Mar 16 First liquid-fuel-powered rocket flight, 1926 Mar 16 George Clymer born, 1739 Mar 16 James Madison born, 1751 Mar 16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen Mar 16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket (1926) Mar 17 Evacuation Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts Mar 17 Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane) is born in San Francisco, 1942 Mar 17 St. Patrick's Day Mar 17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped Mar 18 Destruction of the Ring (LOTR) Mar 19 St. Joseph's Day in Colombia, Costa Rica, Holy See, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Spain, Venezuela Mar 19 Tree Planting Day in Lestho Mar 20 Independence Day in Tunsia Mar 20 Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980 Mar 20 Youth Day in Oklahoma Mar 20* Vernal Equinox, 0525 EST Mar 21 Afghan New Year in Afghanistan Mar 21 Bach born, 1685 Mar 21 Juarez' Birthday in Mexico Mar 22 Abolition Day in Puerto Rico M