Drop the "Giant panda discovered" entry because it looks like
half-way between misleadingly eurocentric and urban legend.
It was so obviously suspect that it had already been marked "(?!)"
since at l

Drop the "Giant panda discovered" entry because it looks like
half-way between misleadingly eurocentric and urban legend.
It was so obviously suspect that it had already been marked "(?!)"
since at least 4.3BSD-Tahoe (June 1988).

Brought up by <Rob dot Schmersel at bahnhof dot se>,
additional research by <me at FletcherPorter dot com>,
see https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=172634202204747 for details.

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there should be a space between the year and "BC";
taken and expanded from grog@freebsd

Use ' and " instead of archaically considering ` a left quote.

ok deraadt@

hyrogen bomb related fixes, prompted by Carson Chittom; dates moved to
UTC. ok tb@ jmc@

some fixes from carson chittom;

correct(ish) date of death for alexander the great;
from soren jacobsen, netbsd -r1.26

i've done it a bit differently though: since the date was listed
both in .birthday and .history i added his (re

correct(ish) date of death for alexander the great;
from soren jacobsen, netbsd -r1.26

i've done it a bit differently though: since the date was listed
both in .birthday and .history i added his (reputed) birth date
to .birthday and removed the dup. i also standardised the date
as "[year][space]BC".

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translate calendar files to utf-8

fix some typos in calendars; written with lot of useful advice
from jmc@ that helped discovering a few false positives (e.g. old
or unusual but correct spelling).

ok jmc@

lsd first synthesised 16/11/38, not 7/4/43, apparently; its wondrous
properties discovered in 43, but i've left the recorded date as the
first synthesised one;

from James J. Lippard

david livingstone, not livingston;

i picked this up from greg lehey's commit in freebsd, -r242849: that commit
also changes the date of stanley's encounter from 10th nov. to 27th of oct.
since the i

david livingstone, not livingston;

i picked this up from greg lehey's commit in freebsd, -r242849: that commit
also changes the date of stanley's encounter from 10th nov. to 27th of oct.
since the internet doesn;t seem to agree and not having anything
authorative to hand, i have left the date untouched (i.e. 10th nov.).

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"British defeat the French at the Plains of Abraham" was 1759, not 1788;
from Douglas Berry, freebsd pr misc/150504

two corrections from David A. Holland (netbsd -r1.24 of calendar.history);

spelling fixes; from Matthew Clarke

Typo found by Matthew Clarke, thanks.

+04/22 Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral becomes the first
+ European to sight Brazil, 1500

typo, reported by Matthew Clarke (clamat, telus dot net)

world water day

first diesel

typo; Matthew Clarke <clamat@telus.net>

fill november and december; now every date has an event.

ok mickey

grammar correction; from matthew clarke

Fill October
ok mickey

Fill September
ok mickey

add missing year,
spotted by steven

Fill August
ok mickey