# This calendar is a slightly modified version of the calendars # distributed in OpenBSD and FreeBSD. # # Original versions of these calendars can be found at: # # http://bsdcalendar.sf.net/ # http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/ # HH History 00000101 Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba 00000101 Castro expels Cuban President Batista, 1959 00000101 Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech, 1947 00000101 First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902 00000104 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north) 00000105 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913 00000105 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940 00000105 Twelfth night 00000108 Battle of New Orleans, 1815 00000109 Plough Monday 00000110 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946 00000110 Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776 00000111 Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania 00000111 De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico 00000111 Milk delivered in bottles for the first time, 1878 00000111 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal 00000111 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964 00000111 The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963 00000114 Julian Calendar New Year's Day 00000114 The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967 00000116 Prohibition begins, 1920 00000120 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...) 00000124 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922 00000124 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848 00000124 A B-52 bomber carrying two 24 megaton bombs crashes at Goldsboro, North Carolina; 5 of 6 safety devices failed on one of them, 1961 00000126 Sydney, New South Wales Australias settled, 1788 00000127 Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967 00000127 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973 00000128 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914 00000128 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe, 1986 00000130 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948 00000130 Tet Offensive, 1968 00000131 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961 00000131 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered 00000131 Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp 00000201 Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrates 15 minutes before landing, 2003 00000201 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954 00000201 Forces led by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979 00000204 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969 00000204 Patricia Hearst kidnaped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974 00000208 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq 00000209 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934 00000212 US President Abraham Lincoln's real birthday (born 1809) 00000212 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969 00000214 Bombing of Dresden, 1945 00000215 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970 00000216 Nylon patented, 1937 00000216 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804 00000218 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930 00000219 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945 00000220 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962 00000221 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties 00000221 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878 00000221 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965 00000223 Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 1971 00000224 Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868 00000227 The Lionheart crowned, 1189 00000228 The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972 00000229 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704 00000301 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 00000304 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C. 00000306 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1939 00000313 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894 00000314 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907 00000315 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH 00000315 France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874 00000315 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966 00000315 Ides of March. Gaius Julius Ceasar assassinated by senators, including adoptive son Marcus Junius Brutus Caepio, 44BC 00000316 First liquid-fuel-powered rocket flight, 1926 00000316 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by US infantrymen 00000316 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926 00000317 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped 00000318 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965 00000319 Swallows return to Capistrano 00000320 Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980 00000324 Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900 00000325 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911 00000326 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937 00000327 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958 00000328 First reaction thrust motor demonstration, 1883 00000328 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979 00000329 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638 00000330 Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867 00000330 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977 00000330 Pencil with eraser patented, 1858 00000401 People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day. 00000404 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968 00000404 NATO Established, 1949 00000406 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830 00000407 Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1943 00000407 Alewives run, Cape Cod 00000408 Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin meet in Encounter Bay, 1802 00000409 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865 00000412 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861 00000412 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961 00000412 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981 00000413 Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos 00000414 US President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865 00000414 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912 00000415 US President Abraham Lincoln dies, 1865 00000415 Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955 00000416 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865 00000417 Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961 00000418 Einstein's Death, 1955 00000418 First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934 00000418 San Francisco earthquake, 1906 00000419 Landing of the "33" in Uruguay 00000419 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943 00000420 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971 00000421 Lyrid meteor shower 00000422 Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, called Lenin, Russian political leader, born in Simbirsk, 1870 00000423 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954 00000426 William Shakespeare baptized in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564, birthdate less certain 00000427 Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521 00000429 Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913 00000501 Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god 00000503 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971 00000504 Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970 00000505 John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925 00000507 Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945 00000508 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972 00000509 94 degrees, New York, 1979 00000510 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940 00000510 Nazi bookburning, 1933 00000514 Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804 00000514 Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948 00000515 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854 00000517 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982 00000517 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974 00000518 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay 00000518 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804 00000521 Battle of Iquique in Chile 00000521 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956 00000522 US Civil War ends, 1865 00000523 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960 00000523 Federal Republic of Germany founded, 1949 00000524 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador 00000525 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830 00000526 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924 00000527 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937 00000529 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953 00000529 First food stamps issued, 1961 00000530 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912 00000602 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924 00000603 Last Star Trek episode first aired ("Turnabout Intruder"), 1969 00000603 A 46-cent computer chip fails, causing the mistaken detection of a Soviet missile attack by the NORAD system. About a 100 B-52 bombers were readied for take off along with the President's airborne command post before the error is detected, 1980 00000605 Robert Kennedy assassinated, 1968 00000605 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933 00000606 First drive-in movie, 1933 00000606 Normandy landing, 1944 00000610 Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C. 00000610 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971 00000611 Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC 00000613 Pioneer 10 flies past Neptune's orbit, and becomes the first human artifact to travel beyond the orbits of all known planets, 1983 00000614 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834 00000615 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752 00000615 Magna Carta signed, 1215 00000615 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 00000616 "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980 00000617 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967 00000617 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972 00000619 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953 00000619 Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893 00000620 Victoria crowned, 1837 00000621 Berlin airlift begins, 1948 00000621 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge 00000622 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964 00000623 Slavery abolished in England, 1772 00000624 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970 00000625 Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 1876 00000625 North Korea invades South Korea, 1950 00000626 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 00000626 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959 00000627 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915 00000627 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971 00000628 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978 00000630 "That" explosion in Siberia, 1908 00000630 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960 00000701 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863 00000703 Dog days begin 00000704 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863 00000704 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776 00000704 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776 00000704 Thoreau enters woods, 1845 00000706 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928 00000706 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917 00000707 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949 00000708 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776 00000708 Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835 00000709 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847 00000710 134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913 00000712 Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933 00000713 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908 00000716 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945 00000717 Disneyland opens, 1955 00000718 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927 00000719 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692 00000720 Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969 00000721 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873 00000721 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954 00000723 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904 00000724 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 00000728 Potato introduced in Europe by Sir Thomas Harriot, 1586 00000728 B-25 hit 79th floor of Empire State Building, 1945 00000730 "In God We Trust" made US motto, 1956 00000731 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948, later JFK 00000801 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on this day 00000803 Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492 00000803 First ICBM (P-7) test (5T of iron is launched to Kamchatka), 1957 00000803 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958 00000804 Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892 00000804 Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964 00000804 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914 00000806 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945 00000806 Caricom in Barbados 00000806 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890 00000808 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945 00000808 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914 00000808 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974 00000808 The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963 00000809 Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969 00000809 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC 00000809 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842 00000810 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833 00000810 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977 00000811 Dog days end 00000811 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954 00000811 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days) 00000812 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977 00000812 Last US ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972 00000813 Berlin wall erected, 1961 00000813 Li'l Abner debut, 1934 00000814 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935 00000815 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947 00000815 Hurricane hits Plymouth Plantation, 1635 00000816 Roller Coaster patented, 1898 00000817 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891 00000818 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed 00000819 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite, marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960 00000819 Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856 00000822 Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets 00000822 Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963 00000822 St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565 00000823 Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927 00000824 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969 00000824 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960 00000824 British troops burn Washington, 1814 00000825 First reaction thrust motor design, 1898 00000825 Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944 00000826 19th amendment of US constitution gives women the right to vote, 1920 00000827 "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912 00000827 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883 00000828 Martin Luther King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963 00000829 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; Nova Cygni 1975. 00000829 Hurricane Katrina hits Louisiana & Mississippi, 2005 00000830 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842 00000830 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960 00000830 St. Rose of Lima in Peru 00000830 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963 00000831 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983 00000831 Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888 00000831 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926 00000901 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972 00000901 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859 00000902 Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752 00000902 Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945 00000903 King Richard ``the Lionheart" of Aquitaine and England crowned, 1189 00000903 Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino 00000905 US President Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961 00000905 The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774 00000906 149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620 00000906 US President McKinley shot, 1901 00000906 Somhlolo in Swaziland 00000908 Star Trek debuts on NBC (1966) with "The Man Trap" 00000908 Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888 00000908 US President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974 00000909 California becomes the 31st state of the USA, 1850 00000909 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776 00000910 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857 00000911 Terrorist attacks on World Trade Center (New York City) and Pentagon (Virginia), 2001 00000912 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943 00000912 Germany annexes Sudentenland, 1938 00000913 58 C (136.4 F) measured at el Azizia, Libya, 1922 00000913 British defeat the French at Plains of Abraham near Quebec City, 1788 00000913 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122 00000913 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943 00000914 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778 00000914 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629 00000914 The US Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940 00000915 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959 00000915 The US Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department, 1789 00000916 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630 00000917 Battle of Antietam, 1862 00000918 Victory of Uprona in Burundi 00000919 New Zealand women get the right to vote, 1893 00000920 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for US President, 1884 00000920 First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848 00000920 First meeting of the US National Research Council, 1916 00000920 Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519 00000920 The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973 00000922 US President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862 00000922 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas US President Nixon, 1974 00000922 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949 00000923 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972 00000923 The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first US Baseball club, 1845 00000923 US Vice President Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech, 1952 00000925 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981 00000927 The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825 00000928 "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678 00000928 A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon, 490BC 00000930 Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (#3) and Catherine Eddowes (#4), 1888 00000930 The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846 00000930 The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946 00001001 NASA officially begins operations, 1958 00001002 Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967 00001004 Crimean war begins, 1853 00001004 Sputnik I, world's first orbiting satellite launched, 1957 00001006 Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853 00001006 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981 00001006 Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973 00001007 Foundation of the German Democratic Republic (GDR or DDR), 1949 00001007 Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916 00001007 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977 00001007 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979 00001007 Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974 00001008 Great Chicago Fire, 1871 00001009 First two-way telephone conversation, 1876 00001010 Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba 00001010 Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea 00001010 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973 00001011 "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975 00001011 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976 00001011 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811 00001011 The second Vatican Ecumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962 00001012 Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492 00001012 Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960 00001012 Man O'War's last race, 1920 00001013 Italy declares war on Germany, 1943 00001013 US Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress 00001014 Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066 00001014 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947 00001015 First draft card burned, 1965 00001018 Boston Shoemakers form first US labor org., 1648 00001018 Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959 00001019 Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949 00001019 Napoleon's beaten army begins the long retreat from Moscow, 1812 00001020 "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973 00001020 OPEC embargo, 1973 00001021 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879 00001021 Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959 00001023 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944 00001023 Swallows leave Capistrano 00001023 South African troops invade Angola in support of UNITA and FNLA, 1975 00001025 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971 00001026 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978 00001027 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871 00001027 The first New York Subway is opened, 1904 00001028 Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492 00001028 Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312 00001028 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636 00001028 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886 00001029 Stock Market Crash, 1929 00001030 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938 00001031 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517 00001101 Austria-Hungary become two separate nations, 1918 00001101 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950 00001102 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940 00001102 Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, 1783 00001103 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837 00001103 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954 00001103 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing space dog Laika 00001104 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979 00001104 Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956 00001105 Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605 00001107 Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837 00001107 Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805 00001109 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965 00001109 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927 00001109 Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888 00001109 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921 00001109 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933 00001110 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House, 1917 00001110 Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865 00001110 Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?", 1871 00001111 Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889 00001112 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan 00001112 US first exports oil to Europe, 1861 00001114 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 00001115 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896 00001115 Space Shuttle Buran launched, 1988 00001116 Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869 00001117 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966 00001117 Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973 00001118 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952 00001118 Local standard time zones established for US, 1883 00001119 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863 00001121 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973 00001122 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963 00001123 First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963 00001124 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963 00001125 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867 00001127 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895 00001127 Friction match invented, England, 1826 00001127 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts 00001129 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922 00001201 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924 00001201 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955 00001201 Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1953 00001203 First neon light display, Paris, 1910 00001203 First successful human heart transplant led by Dr. Barnard, 1967 00001203 The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971 00001204 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783 00001205 Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776 00001205 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending the Prohibition of alcohol, 1933 00001207 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941 00001209 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884 00001210 Metric system established in France, 1799 00001210 Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year 00001212 First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901 00001213 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972 00001213 Dartmouth College chartered, 1769 00001213 Geminid meteor shower (look south) 00001215 Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976 00001215 Bill of Rights adopted, 1791 00001215 James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891 00001215 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890 00001220 US buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi. 00001221 Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in less than 80 days 00001221 Women gain the right to vote in South Australia, 1894 00001221 Women gain the right to hold political office in South Australia, 1894 00001224 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865 00001226 DPMA founded, 1951 00001226 Indian Ocean tsunami kills approximately 230,000 people, 2004 00001227 APT report published, 1956 00001227 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845 00001228 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973 00001229 Battle of Wounded knee, 1890 00001230 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940 00001231 St. Sylvester in Switzerland 00001231 Winterland closes its doors, 1978