1; Default resource file for Gcal-2.20 or newer 2; 300000101 Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran (1979)%i19790101 400000103 Battle of Princeton (1777)%i17770103 500000124 Spacecraft Voyager 2 reaches Uranus (1986)%i19860124 600000127 Auschwitz is liberated (1945)%i19450127 700000127 Paris Accord on ceasefire in Vietnam (1973)%i19730127 800000127 Three astronauts die in flash fire (1967)%i19670127 900000128 Explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger (1986)%i19860128 1000000130 Beginning of the Tet Offensive in Vietnam (1968)%i19680130 1100000130 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)%i19330130 1200000211 Beatles invade America (1964)%i19640211 1300000219 Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)%i19450219 1400000227 Berlin Reichstag fire (1933)%i19330227 1500000305 Joseph Stalin dies of stroke at 10 P.M. (1953)%i19530305 1600000306 Fall of The Alamo, remember it (1836)%i18360306 1700000313 Chernenko dies; Gorbachev chosen to lead (1985)%i19850313 1800000314 Nazis take Austria (1938)%i19380314 1900000316 Facing revolt,Russian Czar abdicates at 3pm (1917)%i19170316 2000000321 Beginning of Spring 2100000324 Exxon Valdez desaster at Alaska (1989)%i19890324 2200000329 Coca-Cola is created (1886)%i18860329 2300000330 J.Hinckley Jr. shoots Pres. Reagan in chest (1981)%i19810330 2400000401 April's Fool's Day 2500000402 Argentine troops seize Falkland Islands (1982)%i19820402 2600000404 NATO established (1949)%i19490404 2700000404 Rev. M.L. King, Jr. assassinated in Memphis (1968)%i19680404 2800000405 Generalissimo Chang Kai-Shek dies in Taiwan (1975)%i19750405 2900000405 World Trade Center opens in New York City (1974)%i19740405 3000000406 Battle of Shiloh (1862)%i18620406 3100000406 First modern Olympics held (1896)%i18960406 3200000406 Peary,Henson and 4 Eskimos reach the N.Pole (1909)%i19090406 3300000407 Prohibition in USA ends (1933)%i19330407 3400000412 Juri Gagarin - first man in space (1961)%i19610412 3500000414 U.S. President Lincoln Assassinated (1865)%i18650414 3600000415 Stadium stampede at Sheffield,G.B.,94 dies (1989)%i19890415 3700000415 Titanic sunk at 2:20 A.M., 1595 perish (1912)%i19120415 3800000421 Plans to build Disneyland announced (1954)%i19540421 3900000425 Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster (1986)%i19860425 4000000425 Iran hostage rescue ends in fiasco (1980)%i19800425 4100000430 Hitler commits suicide in his bunker (1945)%i19450430 4200000430 Saigon surrenders to the Communists (1975)%i19750430 4300000501 Lindbergh baby kidnapped (1932)%i19320501 4400000501 North Korea established (1948)%i19480501 4500000501 Russia shoots down U-2 plane (1960)%i19600501 4600000506 The Hindenburg explodes in N.J. (1937)%i19370506 4700000507 Lusitania sunk by Germans (1915)%i19150507 4800000508 VE Day, Germany surrenders (1945)%i19450508 4900000513 Assassin wounds Pope J. Paul II (1981)%i19810513 5000000514 Warsaw Pact signed (1955)%i19550514 5100000518 Massive protest in Beijing, China (1989)%i19890518 5200000518 Mt. St. Helen blows its top (1980)%i19800518 5300000520 Beijing: Martial law declared (1989)%i19890520 5400000521 C. 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Edison dies in West Orange, N.J. (1931)%i19311018 11600001019 Black Monday on Wall Street,down 508.32pts (1987)%i19871019 11700001019 T.A. Edison demonstrates the electric light (1879)%i18791019 11800001024 "Black Thursday" on Wall Street (1929)%i19291024 11900001028 Jacquel. Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis (1968)%i19681028 12000001029 John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking (1982)%i19821029 12100001031 1900 U.S. Marines invade Grenada (1983)%i19831031 12200001031 Halloween 12300001107 Russia: Bolsheviks seize power (1917)%i19171107 12400001108 Hitler's Beer-Hall Putsch (1923)%i19231108 12500001109 "Crystal Night" in Berlin (1938)%i19381109 12600001111 Germany signs armistice (1918)%i19181111 12700001122 JFK assassinated in Dallas (1963)%i19631122 12800001202 1st controlled nuclear reaction (1942)%i19421202 12900001203 1st human heart transplant performed (1967)%i19671203 13000001203 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, India (1984)%i19841203 13100001207 Pearl Harbor attacked on this day (1941)%i19411207 13200001213 Wright Brother's 1st flight at Kittyhawk (1903)%i19031213 13300001214 Ronald Amundsen reaches the South Pole (1911)%i19111214 13400001220 "Operation Just Cause": U.S. invades Panama (1989)%i19891220 13500001222 Beginning of Winter 13600001223 Hideki Tojo hangs for war crimes (1948)%i19481223 13700001227 Soviet troops invade Afghanistan (1979)%i19791227 138