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01 01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT) (1970)
01 01 New Year's Day
01 01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies (1984)
01 01 Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba
01 01 Castro expells Cuban President Batista (1959)
01 01 Churchill delivers his the "Iron Curtain" speech (1947)
01 01 Independence Day in Haiti, Sudan
01 01 Paul Revere born in Boston (1735)
01 01 Gen. George Washington raised the Continental Union Flag over his encampment on Prospect Hill (1776)
01 01 Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that slaves in rebel states were free (1863)
01 01 Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed (1901)
01 01 Universal Fraternity Day in Mozambique
01 02 Ancestry Day in Haiti
01 02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR)1920)
01 02 St. Berchtold's Day in Switzerland
01 03 Apple Computer founded (1977)
01 03 Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church (1521)
01 03 New Year's Holiday in Scotland
01 03 Revolution Day in Upper Volta
01 04 George Washington Carver born in Missouri (1864)
01 04 Independence Day in Burma
01 04 Jakob Grimm born (1785)
01 04 Louis Braille born (1809)
01 04 Martyrs Day in Zaire
01 04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
01 04 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars
01 05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT (1913)
01 05 Twelfth night
01 05 DeWitt B. Brace born, inventor of spectrophotometer (1859)
01 06 Joan of Arc born in Domremy (1412)
01 06 Roosevelt delivered his "Four Freedoms" speech (1941)
01 06 George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married (1759)
01 06 Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrated his telegraph in Morristown, NJ (1838)
01 06 Children's Day in Uruguay
01 06 Samuel Morse publicly demonstrated his telegraph in Morristown, NJ 1838)
01 06 Epiphany
01 06 Millard Fillmore's brithday
01 06 Three Kings' Day in Puerto Rico
01 07 Galileo Galilei sighted four of Jupiter's moons (1610)
01 07 First U.S. presidential election held (1789)
01 07 One of the earliest and most famous motion picture experiments took place at the Thomas Edison studio in West Orange, N.J., as cameraman William K.L. Dickson filmed comedian Fred Ott sneezing (1894)
01 07 First commercial bank in the US (Bank of North America) opened in Philadelphia (1782)
01 07 commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York and London (1927)
01 07 Christmas in Ethiopia
01 07 Pioneer's Day in Liberia
01 07 Emperor Hirohito of Japan died in Tokyo at 87 (1989)
01 08 Elvis Presley born in Tupelo, Miss. (1935)
01 08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case (1982)
01 08 Astronomer Galileo Galilei died in Arcetri, Italy (1642)
01 08 Battle of New Orleans
01 08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer (1889)
01 08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit (1982)
01 09 Day of the Martyrs in Panama
01 09 Mississippi seceded from the Union (1861)
01 10 Ethan Allen born (1738)
01 10 Thomas Paine published his pamphlet "Common Sense" (1776)
01 10 Florida seceded from the Union (1861)
01 10 John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil
01 10 The League of Nations established (1920)
01 10 London's Metropolitan, the world's first underground passenger railway, opened (1863)
01 10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy (1960)
01 10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London (1946)
01 11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies (1757?)
01 11 Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania
01 11 Armed Forces Day in Liberia
01 11 De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico
01 11 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal
01 11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes (1964)
01 12 HAL 9000 born in Univ of Illinois, Urbana - 2001: A Space Odyssey
01 12 Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania
01 13 First ad for a radio - a Telimco for $7.50 - appeared in Scientific American (1906)
01 13 National Liberation Day in Togo
01 13 Sophie Tucker born (1884)
01 13 Wilhelm Wien born, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws (1864)
01 14 Albert Schweitzer born (1875)
01 14 Julian Calendar New Year's Day
01 15 Adults Day in Japan
01 15 Arbor Day in Jordan
01 15 "Happy Days" premiered on ABC (1974)
01 16 Martyrs Day in Benin
01 16 Ivan the Terrible was crowned Czar of Russia (1547)
01 16 Prohibition begins (1920)
01 16 Set uid bit patent issued (1979)
01 17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston (1706)
01 17 Justice Dept. begins IBM suit (1969)
01 17 Thomas Crapper, developer of flush toilet mechanism, died 1910
01 18 Oliver Hardy (of Laurel&Hardy) born in Harlem, GA (1892)
01 18 Captain James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands, which he dubbed the Sandwich Islands (1778)
01 18 Lawyer and statesman Daniel Webster born in Salisbury, NH (1782)
01 18 First English settlers arrived in Australia's Botany Bay (1788)
01 18 William of Prussia was proclaimed the first emperor of Germany (1871)
01 18 Grey whale migration, CA
01 18 Revolution Day in Tunisia
01 19 Confederate Heroes Day in Texas
01 19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston (1809)
01 19 James Watt, inventor of the steam engine, was born in Scotland (1736)
01 19 Ethopian Epiphany in Ethiopia
01 19 Nameday of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus
01 19 Robert E(dward) Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia (1807)
01 20 The island of Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain (1841)
01 20 Army Day in Mali
01 20 Geo. Burns born (1898)
01 20 National Heroes Day in Guinea-Bissau
01 20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)
01 21 King Louis XVI of France was executed by the guillotine (1793)
01 21 Our Lady of Altagracia in Dominican Republic
01 21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA (1824)
01 21 Lenin died (1924)
01 21 George Orwell died (1950)
01 22 Sir Francis Bacon born (1561)
01 22 Queen Victoria died at age 82 (1901)
01 22 Thousands of Russian workers were fired on by Imperial army troops in St. Petersburg - Bloody Sunday (1905)
01 22 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-IIn premiered on NBC-TV (1968)
01 23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory
01 23 Poll tax eliminated (24th amendment) (1964)
01 23 Feast of St. Ildefonsus
01 23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City (1899)
01 23 John Hancock born (1737)
01 23 Joseph Hewes born (1730)
01 23 National Handwriting Day
01 23 Saml. Barber died (1981)
01 24 DG Nova introduced (1969)
01 24 Economic Liberation Day in Togo
01 24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill (1848)
01 25 United Mine Workers of America was founded (1890)
01 25 Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service (1915)
01 25 American Airlines oenet the jet age in the US with a flight of a 707 (1959)
01 25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee (1958)
01 25 Robert Burns born (1759)
01 25 Virginia Woolf born (1882)
01 25 W. Somerset Maugham born (1874)
01 26 EDVAC demonstrated (1952)
01 26 Republic Day in India
01 26 Sydney, Australia settled (1778)
01 26 Australia Day
01 27 Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp (1880)
01 27 Samuel Gompers born (1850)
01 27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed (1973)
01 27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in Salzburg (1756)
01 28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT (1914)
01 29 Britain's King George III died (1820)
01 29 Edgar Allan Poe's ``The Raven'' published (1845)
01 29 The American League, consisting of 8 baseball teams, was organized (1900)
01 29 Kansas became the 24th state of the Union (1861)
01 30 England's King Charles I was beheaded (1649)
01 30 Australia Day in Australia
01 30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York (1882)
01 30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic (1948)
01 30 Tet Offensive (1968)
01 31 Explorer I launched; Van Allen Belt discovered (1958)
01 31 Hewlett-Packard founded (1939)
01 31 McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Moscow (1990)
01 31 Irving Langmuir, invented tungsten filament lamp (1881)
02 01 Chinese New Year Holiday (3 days) in Taiwan
02 01 First TV soap: Secret Storm (1954)
02 01 Forces lead by Khomeini take over Iran (1979)
02 01 Thomas A. Edison completed work on the wor;d's first motion picture studio, his Black Maria, in West Orange, NJ (1892)
02 01 Texas voted to secede from the Union (1861)
02 02 Groundhog day
02 02 Candlemas
02 02 New Amsterdam (now New York City) incorporated (1653)
02 02 Buenos Aires founded by Pedro de Mondoza of Spain (1536)
02 03 Gertrude Stein born (1874)
02 03 Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. ``The Big Bopper'' Richardson died (1959)
02 03 Territory of Illinois created (1809)
02 03 16th Amendment, providing for a federal income tax, was ratified (1913)
02 04 Cybernet inaugurated (1969)
02 04 Independence Commemoration Day in Sri Lanka
02 04 Ken Thompson (author of Unix) born, 1943, New Orleans
02 05 Constitution Day in Mexico
02 05 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army (1974)
02 06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II (1952)
02 06 New Zealand Day
02 07 Charles Dickens born in Portsmouth, England (1812)
02 07 Beatles arrived in New York (1964)
02 07 Independence Day in Grenada
02 08 Boy Scounts of America incorporated (1910)
02 08 Boy Scounts of America incorporated (1910)
02 08 President Harding had a radio installed in the White House (1922)
02 08 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq
02 08 Friedleib F. Runge born, father of paper chromatography (1795)
02 08 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France (1828)
02 09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI (1934)
02 09 George Hartmann born, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc. (1489)
02 09 St. Maron's Day in Lebanon
02 09 The ninth president of the US, William Henry Harrison, born in Charles City County, VA (1773)
02 09 House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes (1825)
02 09 US Weather Bureau was established (1870)
02 09 WWII battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with a US victory (1943)
02 09 US sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis, charged the State Dept was riddled with Communists in a speech in Wheeling, WV (1950)
02 09 Beatles made first live American TV appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, 73 million viewers tuned in (1964)
02 09 Apollo 14 spacecraft returned to Earth after man's third landing on the moon (1971)
02 10 Charles Lamb born (1775)
02 10 Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (AD 60)
02 10 First singing telegram introduced by the postal Telegram Co in NY (1933)
02 10 William Allen White born (1868)
02 11 Thomans Alva Edison born in Milan, Ohio (1847)
02 11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp. (1966)
02 11 National Foundation Day in Japan
02 11 Thos. Edison born (1847)
02 11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, photographic pioneer (1489)
02 12 Abraham Lincoln born in a log cabin in what is now Larue County, KY (1809)
02 12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England (1809)
02 12 George Gershwin's ``Rhapsody in Blue'' premiered in New York (1924)
02 12 Radio play, "The Adventures of Superman" began on the Mutual Network (1940)
02 12 Pyidaungsa Day in Burma
02 12 Santa Barbara oil leak (1969)
02 13 Bruno Richard Hauptmann was found guilty in the kidnap-death of the infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh (1935)
02 13 Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition (1633)
02 13 Oldest school in the US, the Boston Public Latin School, was founded (1635)
02 14 Bombing of Dresden (1945)
02 14 Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied for patents for the telephone (1876)
02 14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI) (1978)
02 14 St. Valentine's day
02 15 Chicago Seven convicted (1970)
02 15 ENIAC demonstrated (1946)
02 15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy (1564)
02 15 Susan B. Anthony born (1820)
02 15 A private mail service in NYC introduced the first adhesive postage stamp (1842)
02 15 Canada's new flag, with its maple-leaf design, was unfurled in Ottawa (1965)
02 16 ~1400 Confederate soldiers surrendered at Fort Donelson, Tenn. (1862)
02 16 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized in New York City (1868)
02 16 Makha Bucha Day in Thailand
02 16 Nylon patented (1937)
02 16 Pierre Bouguer born, founder of photometry (1698)
02 16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli (1804)
02 17 Federick Eugene Ives born, pioneer of halftone (1856)
02 17 Marion Anderson born (1902)
02 17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born (1874)
02 18 Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederate States of America (1861)
02 18 Martin Luther died (1546)
02 18 Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" published in US for the first time (1885)
02 18 Democracy Day in Nepal
02 18 Ernst Mach born, philosopher & optics pioneer (1838)
02 18 Independence Day in The Gambia
02 19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Torun, Poland (1473)
02 19 Thomas Edison received a patent for his phonograph (1878)
02 19 Kansas became the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages 1881)
02 20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, atomic physics pioneer (1838)
02 20 John Glenn became first American to orbit the Earth (1962)
02 21 First telephone directory issued, by District Telephone Co, Hartford, CY, 1878 (50 names)
02 21 Washington Monument dedicated (1885)
02 21 Edwin Land first demonstrated his Polaroid Land Camera (1947)
02 21 Alexis De Rochon born, developed the spyglass (1838)
02 21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties
02 21 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem (1965)
02 22 George Washington born (1732)
02 22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, found hydrogen in the sun (1838)
02 22 it became illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House (1935)
02 23 Handel born (1685)
02 23 U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi (1945)
02 23 Boston was granted a charter to incorporate as a city (1822)
02 23 The siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas (1836)
02 23 Lt Calley confesses, implicates Cpt Medina (1971)
02 23 Republic Day in Guyana
02 23 W.E.B.DuBois born (1868)
02 24 Gregorian Calendar Day (1582)
02 24 Winslow Homer born (1836)
02 24 Andrew Johnson impeached (1868)
02 25 the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, was declared in effect (1913)
02 25 Pope Pius V excommunicated England's Queen Elizabeth I (1570)
02 25 inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver (1836)
02 25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England (1943)
02 25 National Day in Kuwait
02 25 Renoir born (1841)
02 26 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21 (1786)
02 27 Independence Day in Dominican Republic
02 27 The Lionheart crowned (1189)
02 28 First U.S. railroad chartered to carry passengers and freight, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, was incorporated (1872)
02 28 The ship California arrived at San Francisco, carrying the first of the gold-seekers (1849)
02 28 Michel de Mantaigne born (1533)
02 29 Gioacchino Antonio Rossini born, Pesaro, Italy (1792)
02 29 first Playboy Club opened in Chicago (1960)
02 29 discovery of Pulsar announced by Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Cambridge, England (1968)
02 29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA (1704)
02 29 Herman Hollerith born (1860)
02 29 Jimmy Dorsey born (1904)
03 01 David Niven born (1910)
03 01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published (1964)
03 01 Samil Independence Movement Day in South Korea
03 01 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts (1692)
03 02 Peasants Day in Burma
03 02 Texas Independence day
03 02 Victory of Adowa in Ethiopia
03 03 Alexander Graham Bell born (1847)
03 03 Throne Day in Morocco
03 04 Antonio Vivaldi born in Venice, Italy (1678)
03 04 Casimir Pulaski born (1747)
03 04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos
03 04 First meeting of Congress, in N.Y.C. (1789)
03 04 Vermont Admission Day (admitted as 14th state in 1791)
03 05 Comedian John Belushi was found dead at 33 (1982)
03 05 Boston Massacre
03 05 Independence Day in Equatorial Guinea
03 06 The Alamo fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege. All 187 defenders
03 06 of the mission compound, including Davy Crockett and James Bowie were killed (1836)
03 06 Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time as principal anchorman of ``The CBS Evening News'' (1981)
03 06 Independence Day in Ghana
03 06 Ed McMahon born (1923)
03 07 Aristotle died (322 BC)
03 07 Last Gilbert & Sullivan opera produced (1896)
03 07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, astronomer (1792)
03 07 Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone (1876)
03 08 Russia's February Revolution began with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg (1917)
03 08 Alvan Clark born, astronomer & lens manufacturer (1804)
03 08 First annual International Women's Day (1909)
03 08 Howard Aiken born (1900)
03 08 International Women's Day in U.S.S.R.
03 08 Syrian National Day in Libyan Arab Republic
03 08 Women's Day in Guinea-Bissau, Taiwan, Yemen Democratic Republic
03 08 Youth Day in Zambia
03 09 "GOTO considered harmful" published in CACM (1968)
03 09 Decoration Day in Liberia
03 09 Falgun Purnima Day in Nepal
03 09 Work began on the Alaskan oil pipeline (1975)
03 10 England's King Charles I dissolved Parliament (1629)
03 10 Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France (1785)
03 10 First phone call from Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas A. Watson took place in Ssscollay Square, Boston (1876)
03 10 Labor Day in South Korea
03 11 Blizzard of 1888 struck the northeastern United States
03 11 Johnny Appleseed Day; anniversary of the death of John Chapman
03 11 Robert Treat Paine born (1737)
03 11 Vannevar Bush born (1890)
03 12 Commonwealth Day in Swaziland
03 12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, physicist (1824)
03 12 Independence Day in Mauritius
03 12 Moshoeshoe's Birthday in Lesotho
03 12 Renovation Day in Gabon
03 13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris (1894)
03 13 National Day in Grenada
03 14 Albert Einstein born (1879)
03 14 Casey Jones born (1864)
03 14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, astronomer; named Mars "canals" (1835)
03 14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, mathematician & physicist (1769)
03 14 LISP introduced (1960)
03 14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US (1907)
03 15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH (Buzzard Day)
03 15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
03 15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March (44 BC)
03 15 Sly Stone born (1944)
03 15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25 (1966)
03 15 Maine became 23rd state (1820)
03 15 Musical play "My Fair Lady" opened on Broadway (1956)
03 16 Black Press Day; first Black newspaper founded in 1827
03 16 First liquid-fuel-powered rocket flight (1926)
03 16 George Clymer born (1739)
03 16 James Madison born (1751)
03 16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen
03 16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket (1926)
03 17 Evacuation Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
03 17 St. Patrick died in Saul, A.D. 461
03 17 St. Patrick's Day
03 17 British forces evacuated Boston (1776)
03 17 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Elanor Roosevelt married in NY (1906)
03 17 General MacArthur arrived in Australia to become supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest pacific
03 17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped
03 18 Grover Clevelend (22 and 24th president) born in Caldwell, NJ (1837)
03 18 Britain repealed the Stamp Act (1766)
03 18 Schick, Inc. marketed the first electric razor (1931)
03 18 President Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill.
03 18 First spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonot Aleksei Leonov left Voshod I (1965)
03 19 Nevada legalized gambling (1931)
03 19 St. Joseph's Day in Colombia, Costa Rica, Holy See, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Spain, Venezuela
03 19 Tree Planting Day in Lestho
03 20 Sir Isaac Newton died in London (1727)
03 20 John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar (1969)
03 20 Independence Day in Tunsia
03 20 Youth Day in Oklahoma
03 21 Afghan New Year in Afghanistan
03 21 Johann Sebastian Bach born in Eisenach (1685)
03 21 Juarez' Birthday in Mexico
03 22 Abolition Day in Puerto Rico
03 23 Pakistan Day in Pakistan
03 24 Construction of New York subway system begins (1900)
03 24 Long Distance telephone service was inaugurated between Chicago and NY (1883)
03 24 Elvis Presley was inducted into the Army (1958)
03 24 Harry Houdini born (1874)
03 25 Greek Independence Day in Cyprus
03 25 Lady Day (a.k.a. the Feast of the Annunciation)
03 25 Maryland Day in Maryland
03 25 National Holiday in Greece
03 25 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire (1911)
03 26 Poet Robert Frost born in San Francisco (1875)
03 26 The Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company of Rochester of NY manufactured the first commercial motion picture film (1885)
03 26 Benjamin Thompson born, Count Rumford; physicist (1753)
03 26 A 6 ft. tall concrete statue of Popeye was unveiled uring the Second Annual Spinach Festival in Crystal City, TX
03 26 Independence Day in Bangladesh
03 26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival (1937)
03 26 Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day in Hawaii
03 27 First long-distance telephone call was made between Boston and NY (1884)
03 27 Armed Forces Day in Burma
03 27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union (1958)
03 27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, discoverer of X-rays (1845)`
03 28 DEC announces PDP-11 (1970)
03 28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, mathematician & astronomer (1749)
03 28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas (1979)
03 29 Death of President Barthelemy Boganda in Central African Republic
03 29 Memorial Day in Madagascar
03 29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE (1638)
03 30 Five rings around Uranus discovered (1977)
03 30 Francisco Jose de Goya born (1746)
03 30 Pencil with eraser patented (1858)
03 30 Sean O'Casey born (1880)
03 30 Vincent Van Gogh born (1853)
03 31 Descartes born (1596)
03 31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila (1946)
03 31 National Day in Malta
03 31 Rene Descartes born, mathematician & philosopher (1596)
04 01 April Fool's Day
04 01 People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc born this day.
07 01 pay-as-you-go income tax withholding began (1943)
07 01 U.S. Post Office inaugurated its five-digit ZIP codes (1963)
04 01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.)
04 01 Youth Day in Benin
04 02 Malvinas Day in Argentina
04 02 Pascua Florida Day in Florida
04 03 IBM 701 introduced (1953)
04 03 Washington Irving born (1783)
04 04 Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong
04 04 Liberation Day in Hungary
04 04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee (1968)
04 04 Muddy Waters born (1915)
04 04 NATO Established (1949)
04 04 National Day in Senegal
04 04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores)
04 05 Arbor Day in South Korea
04 05 Thomas Hobbes born, philosopher (1588)
04 05 Tomb Sweeping Day in Taiwan
04 06 Chakri Memorial Day in Thailand
04 06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church (1830)
04 06 Victory Day in Ethiopia
04 07 Alewives run, Cape Cod
04 07 Robert Edwin Peary became first person to lead an expedition to the North Pole (1909)
04 07 IBM announces System/360 (1964)
04 07 First successful long-distance demo of television (1927)
04 07 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific" opened on Broadway (1949)
04 07 The last of NYC's electric trolleys completed its final run (1957)
04 08 David Rittenhouse born, astronomer & mathematician (1732)
04 08 Fast and Prayer Day in Liberia
04 08 Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain (1513)
04 08 The Works Progress Administration was approved by Congress (1935)
04 08 The League of Nations assembled in Geneva for the last time (1946)
04 08 Pablo Picasso died (1973)
04 09 ENIAC Project begun (1943)
04 09 Edward Muybridge born, motion-picture pioneer (1830)
04 09 J. Presper Eckert born (1919)
04 09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse (1865)
04 09 Martyrs Day in Tunisia
04 09 Paul Robeson born (1898)
04 10 Commodore Matthew calbraith Perry born (1854)
04 10 William Booth born, founder of the Salvation Army (1829)
04 10 "The Great Gatsby", by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was published (1925)
04 10 ASPCA incorporated (1866)
04 10 The RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England (1912)
04 11 William III and Mary II were crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain (1689)
04 11 National Heroes Day in Costa Rica
04 11 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as emperor of France and was bannished toElba (1814)
04 12 Columbia launched (1981)
04 12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter (1861)
04 12 Gurgarin first man in space (1961)
04 12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space (1961)
04 12 England adopted as its flag the orig version of the Union Jack (1606)
04 12 Franklin Delano Roosevelt died (1945)
04 12 Harry S. Truman became the nation's 33rd president (1945)
04 12 The Salk vaccine against polio was declared safe and effective (1955)
04 12 Euro Disneyland opened in Marne-La-Vallee, France (1992)
04 13 Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos
04 13 National Day in Chad
04 13 Songkron Day in Thailand
04 13 Thomas Jefferson born (1743)
04 13 Metropolitan Museum of Art foundedm, New York City (1870)
04 14 President Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theater (1865)
04 14 Christian Huygen born, physicist & astronomer; discovered Saturn's rings (1629)
04 14 J.C. Penney opened his first store in Kemmerer, Wyo. (1902)
04 14 a motion picture ``peep show'' device invented by Edison went on display in New York City (1894)
04 14 Ampex Corp. demonstrated its first commercial videotape recorder (1956)
04 14 Day of the Americas in Honduras
04 15 Titanic sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland after hitting iceberg (1912)
04 15 city of San Francisco was incorporated (1850)
04 15 President Lincoln died, 7:22am (1865)
04 15 General Electric Co. incorporated (1892)
04 15 Bengali New Year in Bangladesh
04 15 Leonardo da Vinci born (1452)
04 16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London (1889)
04 16 LSD discovered (1943)
04 16 De Diego's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
04 16 Holy Week (5 days) in Venezuela
04 16 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth (1865)
04 16 Tourist Week (5 days) in Uruguay
04 17 Martin Luther went before the Diet of Worms (1521)
04 17 Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces (1961)
04 17 Giovanni da Verrazano discovered present-day New York harbor (1524)
04 17 Virginia State Convention voted to secede from the Union (1861)
04 17 Yugoslavia surrendered to Germany in World War II (1941)
04 17 Burmese New Year in Burma
04 17 Bay of Pigs (1961)
04 17 Ford Motor Company unveiled the Mustang (1964)
04 17 Benjamin Franklin died at age 84 (1790)
04 18 Einstein's Death (1955)
04 18 Independence Day in Chile, Zimbabwe
04 18 San Francisco earthquake (1906)
04 18 Paul Revere began his ride from Charlestown to Lexington, MA warning that the British were coming (1775)
04 18 First Laudromat (called a "washeteria") opened in Fort Worth, TX (1934)
04 18 The Irish republic was proclaimed (1949)
04 18 The League of Nations went out of business (1946)
04 18 Albert Einstein died in Princeton, NJ (1955)
04 19 American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775)
04 19 The Netherlands recognized American independence (1782)
04 19 The U.S. went off the gold standard (1933)
04 19 Declaration of Independence in Venezuela
04 19 Landing of the "33" in Uruguay
04 19 Republic Day in Sierra Leone
04 19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising (1943)
04 19 Actor Don Adams born (1927)
04 20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing (1971)
04 21 Lyrid meteor shower
04 21 San Jacinto Day in Texas
04 21 NY became first state to require license plates, fee of $1 (1901)
04 21 Tiradentes in Brazil
04 22 Congress authorized the use of "In God We Trust" on US coins (1864)
04 22 Arbor Day in Nebraska & Delaware
04 22 Kant born (1724)
04 22 Oklahoma Day in Oklahoma
04 22 New York world's Fair opened (1964)
04 23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run (1954)
04 23 The "Vitaascope" system for projecting movies was demonstrated, NYC 1896
04 23 William Shakespeare born 1564
04 24 Congress approved a bill establishing the Library of Congree (1800)
04 24 Victory Day in Togo
04 25 Anniversary of the Revolution in Portugal
04 25 Anzac Day in Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Western Samoa
04 25 Ella Fitzgerald born (1918)
04 25 Liberation Day in Italy
04 25 National Flag Day in Swaziland
04 25 NY became first state to require automobile license plates ($1 fee) (1901)
04 26 Carol Burnett born in San Antonio, Texas (1933)
04 26 Confederate Memorial Day in Florida & Georgia
04 26 Union Day in Tanzania
04 26 First permament English settlement established at cape Henry, Va (1607)
04 26 William Shakespeare baptised in Stratford-on-Avon, England (1564)
04 27 Independence Day in Togo
04 27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, physicist (1774)
04 27 Magellan killed in Philippines (1521)
04 27 Pope Julius II excommunicated the Italian state of Venice (1509)
04 27 Nation's first Social Security checks distributed (1037)
04 27 Expo '67 officially opened in Montreal (1967)
04 27 Walter Lantz (creator of Woody Woodpeckeer) born 1900
04 28 mutiny on the Bounty as the crew set Capt. William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific.
04 28 Glenn Miller and his Orchestra recorded ``Pennsylvania 6-5000'' for RCA Victor
04 28 James Monroe born (1758)
04 28 Glenn Miller and his Orchestra recorded "Pensylvannia6-5000",1940
04 28 War with Japan officially ended (1952)
04 28 Zilog Z-80 introduced
04 29 Swedish-born engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken,NJ patented the zipper,1913
04 29 Jules Henri Poincare born, founder of topology (1894)
04 29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco (1863)
04 29 Emperor's Birthday in Japan
04 30 Washington Took office in NY as first president of US (1789)
04 30 US purchased the Louisiana Territory from France (1803)
04 30 Lousiana became th 18th state (1812)
04 30 Hawaii was organized as a US territory (1900)
04 30 Karl Friedrich Gauss born, mathematician & astronomer (1777)
04 30 Queen's Biorthday in Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles
04 30 The Workers Day in Uruguay
05 01 Citizen Kane premiered in New York. (1941)
05 01 Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" premiered in Vienna (1786)
05 01 Construction began on the first skyscraper (10 stories), Chiucago (1884)
05 01 NY's 102 story Empire State Building was dedicated (1931)
05 01 Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas (1967)
05 01 Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god
05 01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth (1964)
05 01 Kate Smith born (1909)
05 01 Labor Day in many places
05 01 Law Day (decl. by Eisenhower)
05 01 May Day in many places
05 02 Leonardo da Vinci died at Cloux, France (1519)
05 02 Hudson Bay Company was chartered by King Charles II (1670)
05 02 Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin (1945)
05 02 Constitution Day in Japan
05 02 Dr. Benj. Spock born (1903)
05 02 King's Birthday in Lesotho
05 03 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington (1971)
05 04 4 Kent students demonstrating against Cambodia incursion are shot (1970)
05 04 Rhode Island Independence Day
05 05 West Germany became a sovereign state (1955)
05 05 Battle of Puebla in Mexico
05 05 Children's Day in Japan, South Korea
05 05 Coronatin Day in Thailand
05 05 Liberation Day in Netherlands
05 06 Paris Exposition opened, featuring the Eiffel Tower (1889)
05 06 electrician Irwin H. Hoover began installing the first electrical wiring in the White House (1891)
05 06 Works Progress Administration began operating. 1935
05 06 Hindenburg burst into flames in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 of the 97 people on board (1937)
05 06 Bataan Day in Philippines
05 06 EDSAC demonstrated (1949)
05 07 Brahms born (1833)
05 07 Germany Surrenders after WWII (1945)
05 07 Johannes Brahms born in Hamburg (1833)
05 07 May Day in United Kingdom
05 07 Tchaikowsky born (1840)
05 08 Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invented the syrup for a beverage that came to be known as Coca-Cola (1886)
05 08 Buddha's Birthday in South Korea
05 08 Elections for the National Assembly in Philippines
05 08 Truman Day in Missouri
05 08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor (1972)
05 09 94 degrees, New York (1979)
05 09 Liberation Day in Czechoslovakia
05 09 Billy Joel born (1949)
05 09 Pinza died (1957)
05 09 Victory Day in Poland, U.S.S.R.
05 10 Confederate Memorial Day in South Carolina
05 10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska (1899)
05 10 Germany invades Low Countries (1940)
05 10 Mothers Day in Guatamala
05 10 Nazi bookburning (1933)
05 11 Minnesota Day in Minnesota
05 12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy (1820)
05 13 Arthur S. Sullivan born (1842)
05 14 Anniversary of the Founding of Guinean Deomcratic Party in Guinea
05 14 Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804)
05 14 Buddhist Holiday (Waisak 2528) in Indonesia
05 14 Independence Day (2 days) in Paraguay
05 14 Nation of Israel proclaimed (1948)
05 14 Unification Day in Liberia
05 15 Kamuzu Day in Malawi
05 15 Vesak Day in Singapore, Malaysia
05 15 Visakha Bucha Day in Thailand
05 16 Armed Forces Day
05 16 Discovery Day in Cayman Islands
05 16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL) (1963)
05 16 First Academy Awards presented (1929)
05 16 Congress authorized minting of the five-cent piece (1866)
05 17 New York Stock Exchange was founded by brokers meeting under a tree on what is now Wall Street (1792)
05 17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China (1982)
05 17 Constitution Day in Nauru, Norway
05 17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight (1974)
05 18 Canadian city of Montreal was founded (1642)
05 18 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
05 18 Flag Day in Haiti
05 18 Napoleon crowned Emperor (1804)
05 18 Prayer Day in Denmark
05 18 Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state exploded.
05 19 Armed Forces Day
05 19 Ho Chi Minh born (1890)
05 19 Youth and Sports Day in Turkey
05 20 Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field oboard the Spirit of St. Louis (1927)
05 20 Christopher Columbus died in poverty in Spain (1506)
05 20 Mecklenburg Independence Day in North Carolina
05 20 National Day in Cameroon
05 20 Victoria Day in Canada
05 21 Battle of Iquique in Chile
05 21 DEC announces PDP-8
05 21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?) (427 BC)
05 22 Johann Sebastian Bach born in Eisenach, Germany (1665)
05 22 National Heroes Day in Sri Lanka
05 22 US Civil War ends (1865)
05 23 Commonwealth Day in Jamaica, Belize
05 23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann (1960)
05 23 National Labor Day in Jamaica
05 23 Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest (1953)
05 23 Monty Python & the Holy Grail released (1975)
05 23 Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death, LA (1934)
05 23 Capt. William Kidd was hanged in London (1701)
05 24 Samuel F.B. Morse transmitted "What hath God Wrought!" from Washington to Baltimore (1884)
05 24 Brooklyn Bridge opened to traffic (1883)
05 24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador
05 24 Bermuda Day in Bermuda
05 24 Day of Slav Letters in Bulgaria
05 25 Essayist & poet Ralph Waldo Emerson born (1803)
05 25 African Freedom Day in Zimbabwe
05 25 African Liberation Day in Chad, Mauritania, Zambia
05 25 Anniversary of the Revolution of 1810 in Argentina
05 25 Independence Day in Jordan
05 25 Memorial Day in New Mexico & Puerto Rico
05 25 Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK (1980)
05 25 Revolution in the Sudan in Libyan Arab Republic
05 25 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England (1830)
05 26 Al Jolson born (1886)
05 26 Martin Luther was banned by the Edict of Worms (1521)
05 26 Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned king of Italy (1805)
05 26 Congress sets first immigration quotas (1924)
05 27 First recorded American execution of a ``witch'', Massachusetts (1647)
05 27 Afghanistan attains sovereignty (1921)
05 27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte. (1958)
05 27 Golden Gate Bridge opens (1937)
05 27 Hubert H. Humphrey born (1911)
05 28 Dionne quintuplets born, Ontario (1934)
05 28 Sierra Club organized in San Francisco (1892)
05 28 First all-color talking picture, ``On with the Show'', opened, NY (1929)
05 28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL) (1959)
05 28 Mothers Day in Central African Republic
05 29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest (1953)
05 29 Gilbert Keith Chesterton born (1874)
05 29 John Fitzgerald Kennedy born (1917)
05 29 Patrick Henry born (1736)
05 30 Colossus Mark II (1944)
05 30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco (1908)
05 30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua (1912)
05 31 Pya Martyrs Day in Togo
05 31 Republic Day in South Africa
05 31 Memorial Day
06 01 Brigham Young born (1801)
06 01 Independence Days (3 days) in Western Samoa
06 01 Madaraka Day in Kenya
06 01 Marilyn Monroe born (1928)
06 01 Victory Day in Tunisia
06 02 Corpus Christi in Paraguay
06 02 Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England (1857)
06 02 First issue of Computerworld (1967)
06 02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship (1924)
06 03 Confederate Memorial Day in Kentucky & Louisiana
06 03 Henry James born (1811)
06 03 Jefferson Davis's Birthday in Florida, Georgia, & S. Carolina
06 03 Labor Day in Bahamas
06 03 Jefferson Davis's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi (1st Monday)
06 04 Dragon Boat Festival in Hong Kong, Taiwan
06 04 Emancipation Day in Tonga
06 04 Queen's Birthday in New Zealand
06 04 Roquefort cheese developed (1070)
06 05 Constitution Day in Denmark
06 05 Liberation Day in Seychelles
06 05 Robert Kennedy Assasinated (1968)
06 06 His Majesty, Yang Di-Pertuan Agong's Birthday in Malaysia
06 06 Memorial Day in South Korea
06 06 Normandy landing (1944)
06 07 Louis XIV was crowned King of France in Rheims (1654)
06 07 Daniel Boone first began to explore Kentucky (1769)
06 07 French Postimpressionist painter (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born (1848)
06 07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born (1778)
06 08 Mohammed, founder of Islam, died, A.D. 632
06 08 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin (1869)
06 09 Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide, A.D. 68
06 09 Senior Citizen's Day in Oklahoma
06 10 Camoes Day in Portugal
06 10 Death of Alexander the Great (323 B.C.)
06 10 First Apple II shipped (1977)
06 11 Greeks seize Troy (1184 BC)
06 11 King Kamehameha I Day in Hawaii
06 11 Queen's Birthday
06 12 Independence Day in Philippines
06 12 Peace with Bolivia in Paraguay
06 13 Alexander the Great dies (323 BC)
06 13 Corrective Movement in Yemen Arab Republic
06 13 ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles Lindbergh to NYC (1927)
06 13 Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System
06 14 Flag Day
06 14 Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag (1777)
06 14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr. (1834)
06 15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment (1752)
06 15 Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to appoint George
06 15 Washigton head of the Continental Army (1775)
06 15 Arkansas became 25th state (1836)
06 15 Charles Goodyear receives patent on rubber strenghthening process (1844)
06 15 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway (1843)
06 15 Magna Carta signed by King John at Runymede (1215)
06 15 Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop (1878)
06 15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau (1951)
06 16 Ford Motor Co. incorporated (1903)
06 16 Bloomsday - Anniversary of Dublin events, in "Ulysses" (1904)
06 16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 bc
06 17 Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
06 17 Bunker Hill Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
06 17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb (1967)
06 17 Independence Day in Iceland
06 17 National Day in Federal Republic of Germany
06 17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in (1972)
06 18 U.S. declared war against Britain (1812)
06 18 Napoleon Bonaparte met his Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeated the French in Belgium (1815)
06 18 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean (1928)
06 18 Evacuation Day in Egypt
06 18 M C Escher born (1898)
06 18 Paul McCartney born in Liverpool, England (1942)
06 18 Queen's Birthday in Fiji
06 19 Artigas Birthday in Uruguay
06 19 Emancipation Day in Texas
06 19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison (1953)
06 19 Labor Day in Trinidad, Tobago
06 19 Lizzie Borden acquitted (1893)
06 19 Revolution Day in Algeria
06 20 Flag Day in Argentina
06 20 Victoria crowned (1837)
06 20 West Virginia Day in West Virginia
06 21 Berlin airlift begins (1948)
06 21 Summer solstice, 12:02 am, EST
06 21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge
06 22 Carl Hubbell born (1903)
06 22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi (1964)
06 22 Corrective Movement in Yermen Democratic Republic
06 22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey (1949)
06 22 Midsummer Eve in Finland, Sweden
06 22 National Sovereignty Day in Haiti
06 23 IBM unbundles software (1969)
06 23 National Holiday in Luxembourg
06 23 Slavery abolished in England (1772)
06 23 Turing's Birthday (1912)
06 24 First official UFO sighting filed by Kenneth Arnold [1947]
06 24 St. Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec
06 24 Battle of Carabobob in Venezuela
06 24 Fisherman's Day in Madagascar, Mozambique, Somalia
06 24 Kings Day in Spain
06 24 Peasants Day in Peru
06 24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution (1970)
06 25 Custer's Last Stand (1876)
06 25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born (1903)
06 25 N. Korea invades S. Korea (1950)
06 26 Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
06 26 President Kennedy visited West Berlin, 1963 ("Ich bin ein Berliner")
06 26 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II (1959)
06 26 Toothbrush invented (1498)
06 27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon (1915)
06 27 Helen Keller born (1880)
06 28 Mothers Day in Central African Republic
06 28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke (1978)
06 29 Independence Day in Seychelles
06 30 "That" explosion in Siberia (1908)
06 30 Indian Territory created by Congress (1834)
06 30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology (1960)
06 30 Day of the Army in Guatemala
06 30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, Temple Univ., Phila, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC (1948)
07 01 Battle of Gettysburg begins (1863)
07 01 Dominion Day in Canada
07 01 Freedom Day in Suriname
07 01 Independence Day in Burundi
07 01 National Day in Rwamda
07 01 Republic Day in Ghana
07 01 Union of the Somalia Republic in Somalia
07 02 Continental Congress passed a resolution saying that ``these United Colonies are, and of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States.'' (1776)
07 02 President Garfield was shot (1881)
07 02 "Lawrence Welk Show" premiered on ABC television (1955)
07 02 Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death (1961)
07 02 National Day in Kiribati
07 03 Dog days begin
07 03 Battle of Gettysburg ended (1863)
07 03 city of Quebec founded by Samuel de Champlain (1608)
07 03 Idaho became 43rd state (1890)
07 03 Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule (1962)
07 03 singer Jim Morrison of The Doors died in Paris at age 27 (1971)
07 03 Franz Kafka born (1883)
07 03 Kafka's Birthday (1883)
07 04 Independence Day in United States
07 04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces (1863)
07 04 Caribbean Day in Guyana
07 04 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA (1776)
07 04 Constitution Day in Cayman Islands
07 04 Family Day in Lesotho
07 04 Heroes Day in Zambia
07 04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die (1826)
07 04 Kadooment Day in Barbados
07 04 Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts (1804)
07 04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote (1776)
07 04 Philippine-American Friendship Day in the Philippines
07 04 Warriors Day (2 days) in Yugoslavia
07 05 showman Phineas T. Barnum was born in Bethel, CT (1810)
07 05 William Booth founded the Salvation Army in London (1865)
07 05 the bikini swimsuit, designed by Louis Reard made its debut in Paris (1946)
07 05 Day of Peace and Unity in Rwanda
07 05 Independence Day in Algeria, Venezuela
07 06 Roman Emperor Julius Caesar was born, 100 B.C.
07 06 George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera, was born in Waterville, NY (1854)
07 06 Louis Pasteur successfully tested an anti-rabies vaccine (1885)
07 06 British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga (1777)
07 06 Republican Party came into being (1854)
07 06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born (1866)
07 06 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York (1928)
07 06 John Paul Jones born (1747)
07 06 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba (1917)
07 07 King's College in NYC opened, 1754 (renamed Columbia in 30 years)
07 07 United States annexed Hawaii (1898)
07 07 construction began on Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam (1930)
07 07 Anniversary of the P.U.N. in Equatorial Guinea
07 07 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet" (1949)
07 07 National Day in Malawi
07 07 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) born in Liverpool, England (1940)
07 07 Saba Saba Day in Tanzania
07 08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T) (1877)
07 08 General Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of UN forces in Korea (1950)
07 08 Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first ``Follies,'' on the roof of a NY Theater (1907)
07 08 CDC incorporated (1957)
07 08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born (1838)
07 08 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence (1776)
07 09 10-hour working day set by law, NH (1847)
07 09 Zachary Taylor died in the White House (1850)
07 09 Pig-Pen born into Peanuts comic strip (1954)
07 09 Independence Day in Argentina
07 10 114-day Battle of Britain began (1940)
07 10 Vice President Millard Fillmore assumed the presidency (1850)
07 10 Wyoming became 44th state
07 10 Coca-Cola said it would resume selling old-formula Coke (1985)
07 10 Independence Day in Bahamas
07 10 John Calvin born (1509)
07 11 John Quincy Adams born (1767)
07 11 National Holiday in the Mongolian People's Republic
07 12 Battle of Boyne celebrated in Northern Ireland
07 12 Henry David Thoreau born (1817)
07 12 The Twelfth in Northern Ireland
07 13 Buddhist Lent in Thailand
07 13 Women first compete in Olympic games (1908)
07 14 Anniversary of the Revolution in Iraq
07 14 citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison (1789)
07 14 Bastille Day
07 14 Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney Jr.) killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, N.M. (1881)
07 14 National Holiday in Monaco
07 14 Woody Guthrie born (1912)
07 15 Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union (1870)
07 15 Dutch painter Rembrandt was born in Leiden, Netherlands (1606)
07 15 Clement Clarke Moore born, author of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" (1779)
07 15 St. Swithin's Day
07 16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM (1945)
07 16 District of Columbia was established as the seat of the U.S. government (1790)
07 16 Apollo 11 blasted off Cape Kennedy on the first manned mission to the moon (1969)
07 16 Presidents Day in Botswana
07 17 Spain ceded Florida to the United States (1821)
07 17 the British royal family adopted the name Windsor (1917)
07 17 Douglas Corrigan took off from New York, saying he was headed for California; he ended up the next day in Ireland, earning himself the nickname ``Wrong Way Corrigan.'' (1938)
07 17 An Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit (1975)
07 17 Constitution Day in South Korea
07 17 Disneyland opens in Anaheim, CA (1955)
07 17 July Revolution in Iraq
07 17 Munoz Rivera's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
07 17 Public Holiday in Botswana
07 17 First public bathhouse with showers opened in NYC 1891
07 18 Constitution Day in Uruguay
07 18 the Great Fire of Rome began, A.D. 64.
07 18 Liberation Day in Nicaragua
07 18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit (1927)
07 19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft (1692)
07 19 Martyrs Day in Burma
07 20 Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969 (Will be looked back upon as the high point of American civilization 100 years hence)
07 20 Independence Day in Colombia
07 20 Dial telephone patented 1896
07 21 First reported killing of a human by a robot (Jackson, Michigan, 1984)
07 21 National Holiday in Belgium
07 21 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel (1954)
07 21 Hawaii became 50th state 1959
07 22 Katharine Lee Bates wrote the original version or "America the Beautiful" (1893)
07 22 King's Birthday in Swaziland
07 22 National Day in Poland
07 23 Anniversary of the Revolution Egypt
07 23 Eqyptian National Day in Syrian Arab Republic
07 23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO (1904)
07 23 Remembrance Day in Papua, New Guinea
07 24 Pioneer Day in Utah
07 24 Scopes Monkey Trial (1925)
07 24 Simon Bolivar's Day in Ecuador, Venezuela
07 25 Constitution Day in Puerto Rico
07 25 National Rebellion Day (3 days) in Cuba
07 25 Republic Day in Tunisia
07 25 St. James, Patron Saint in Spain
07 26 Independence Day in Liberia
07 26 National Day in Maldives
07 27 Barbosa's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
07 28 Bach dies (1750)
07 28 Independence Days (2 days) in Peru
07 29 Mussolini born (1883)
07 29 Olsok Eve in Norway to commemorate Norway's Viking King St. Olav
07 29 Rain Day in Waynesburg, PA
07 30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto (1956)
07 30 Emily Bronte born (1818)
07 30 Henry Ford born (1863)
07 31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport at Idlewild Field, later JFK (1948)
07 31 Revolution Day in Congo
08 01 Discovery Day in Trinidad, Tobogo
08 01 Emancipation Day in Granada
08 01 Founding of Asuncion in Paraguay
08 01 Freedom Day in Guyana
08 01 Guam became U.S. territory (1950)
08 01 Herman Melville born (1819)
08 01 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on this day
08 01 National Day in Switzerland
08 01 National Holidays (5 days) in El Salvador
08 01 Parent's Day in Zaire
08 02 Alexander Graham Bell died (1922)
08 02 All telephone service in the U.S. stopped for one minute (1922)
08 02 Our Lady of Los Angeles in Costa Rica
08 02 President Warren G. Harding died (1923)
08 03 Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain (1492)
08 03 Hurricane Connie hit U.S. - 11 days (1955)
08 03 Independence Day in Jamaica, Niger
08 03 Massacre du Pidjiguiti in Buinea-bissau
08 03 Memorial Day of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus
08 03 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap (1958)
08 04 Bombing of N. Vietnam begins (1964)
08 04 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I (1914)
08 04 Freedom Day in Guyana
08 04 Hans Christian Andersen, author, died 1875
08 05 U.S. first levied income tax (1861)
08 05 Marilyn Monroe found dead in the bedroom of her L.A. home at age 36 (1962)
08 05 Cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid on Bedloe's Island (1884)
08 05 Comic Strip "Little Orphan Annie" made its debut (1924)
08 06 Bank Holiday in Ontario, British Columbia
08 06 Bank Holiday in Australia, Fiji, Iceland, Ireland
08 06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (1945)
08 06 Caricom in Barbados
08 06 Cy Young pitches first game (1890)
08 06 Emancipation Day in Bahamas
08 06 Independence Day in Bolivia
08 06 Pope Paul VI died (1978)
08 07 Battle of Boyaca in Colombia
08 07 Congress established War Dept. (1789)
08 08 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki (1945)