Index: stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday =================================================================== --- stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday (revision 359201) +++ stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday (revision 359202) @@ -1,304 +1,350 @@ /* * Birthday * * $FreeBSD$ */ #ifndef _calendar_birthday_ -#define _calendar_birthday_ +#define _calendar_birthday_ #undef unix 01/01 J.D. Salinger born, 1919 01/01 Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735 01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR, 1920 01/04 George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864 01/04 Jakob Grimm born, 1785 01/04 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars 01/05 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer +01/06 Millard Fillmore's birthday (let's party!) +01/07 Nikola Tesla died in the Hotel New Yorker room 3327, 1943 01/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738 01/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757? 01/12 "Long" John Baldry is born in London, 1941 -01/13 Horatio Alger born, 1834 +01/13 Horatio Alger born, 1832 01/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884 01/13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws 01/14 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875 -01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born +01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born, 1929 01/17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706 01/19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809 01/19 Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807 -01/20 George Burns born, 1898 +01/20 George Burns born, 1896 +01/20 Dr. Mendeleev died with a pen in his hand, 1907 01/21 Lenin died, 1924 01/21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824 01/22 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561 01/23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory +01/23 Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin born, 1869 01/23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899 01/23 John Hancock born, 1737 01/23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730 01/23 Samuel Barber died, 1981 01/24 John Belushi is born in Chicago, 1949 01/25 Robert Burns born, 1759 01/25 Virginia Woolf born, 1882 01/25 W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874 01/27 Samuel Gompers born, 1850 01/30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882 01/31 Jackie Robinson born, 1919 02/03 Gertrude Stein born, 1874 02/04 Ken Thompson, creator of unix, born, 1943 02/05 Alex Harvey (SAHB) is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935 02/06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952 02/07 Sinclair Lewis born, 1885 02/08 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography +02/08 John von Neumann died, 1957 02/08 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828 02/09 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc. 02/10 Charles Lamb born, 1775 02/10 William Allen White born, 1868 -02/11 Thos. Edison born, 1847 +02/11 Thomas Edison born, 1847 02/11 William Henry Fox Talbot (photographic pioneer) born, 1800 02/12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809 02/12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809 02/15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564 02/15 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820 02/16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry -02/17 Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone +02/17 Frederic Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone 02/17 Marion Anderson born, 1902 02/17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874 02/18 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer +02/18 Michelangelo Buonarroti dies in Rome, Italy, 1564 02/19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473 -02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer +02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1844, atomic physics pioneer 02/21 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass 02/22 George Washington born, 1732 -02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun +02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1824, found hydrogen in the sun 02/23 W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868 02/24 Winslow Homer born, 1836 02/24 Steve Jobs born, 1955 02/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943 02/25 Renoir born, 1841 02/26 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786; observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21 02/28 Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533 02/29 Herman Hollerith born, 1860 03/01 David Niven born, 1910 03/02 Dr. Seuss born, 1904 03/04 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747 03/05 John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982 +03/05 Joseph Stalin died in Moscow, 1953 +03/06 Michelangelo Buonarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1475 +03/07 Aristotle died, 322BC 03/07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer 03/08 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer 03/08 Howard Aiken born, 1900 03/11 Robert Treat Paine born, 1737 03/11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890 +03/11 Douglas Adams born in Cambridge, England, 1952 03/12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist +03/12 Terry Pratchett (Sir) dies, 2015, author 03/14 Albert Einstein born, 1879 03/14 Casey Jones born, 1864 03/14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer; named Mars "canals" 03/14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist +03/14 Karl Marx died, 1883 03/15 Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson, 7th President of the United States, born in Waxhaw, South Carolina, 1767 03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia 03/16 George Clymer born, 1739 03/16 James Madison, 4th President of the United States, born in King George County, Virginia, 1751 +03/19 Arthur C. Clarke died in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2008 03/21 NetBSD project born, 1993 +03/23 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer 03/24 Harry Houdini born, 1874 03/26 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist 03/26 David Packard died, 1996; age of 83 +03/27 Maurits Cornelis Escher died, 1972 +03/27 Stanislaw Lem died, 2006 03/27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays 03/28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer 03/30 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746 +03/30 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, died at the age of 101, 2002 03/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880 03/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853 03/31 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher 04/02 Hans Christian Andersen born, 1805, fairy tale author 04/02 Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) died in Vatican, 2005 04/03 Washington Irving born, 1783 04/05 Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher 04/08 Buddha born, 563 BC 04/08 David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician 04/09 Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer 04/09 J. Presper Eckert born, 1919 04/10 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1794 04/10 William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army 04/13 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States, born Shadwell Plantation, Albemarle County, Virginia, 1743 04/14 Christiaan Huygens born, 1629, physicist & astronomer; discovered Saturn's rings 04/15 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452 +04/15 Leonhard Euler born in Basel, 1707 04/16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889 +04/20 Adolf Hitler born, 1889 04/22 Kant born, 1724 +04/22 Lenin born, the best friend of all the children, 1870 +04/23 William Shakespeare died, 1616 +04/26 William Shakespeare baptised, 1564 04/27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist 04/28 James Monroe, 5th President of the United States, born in Westmoreland County, Viriginia, 1758 +04/28 Terry Pratchett (Sir) born, 1948, author 04/29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology 04/29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863 04/30 Karl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer 05/01 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) is born in Alexandria, Louisiana, 1930 05/02 Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903 05/04 Alice Liddell born, 1852, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass +05/05 Karl Marx born, 1818 05/09 Pinza died, 1957 05/10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899 05/11 Johnny Appleseed born, 1768 05/12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820 05/13 Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842 05/15 Mike Oldfield is born in Essex, England, 1953 05/18 Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) born in Wadowice, Poland, 1920 05/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890 05/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427BC 05/27 Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911 05/28 Dionne quintuplets born, 1934 05/29 Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874 05/29 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, born in Brookline, Massachusetts, 1917 05/29 Patrick Henry born, 1736 05/30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908 06/01 Brigham Young born, 1801 -06/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928 +06/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1926 06/02 Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England, 1857 06/03 Henry James born, 1811 06/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848 06/07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778 06/07 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954 06/08 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1867 06/13 Alexander the Great dies (323BC) 06/15 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843 06/16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 BC 06/18 M.C. Escher born, 1898 06/19 FreeBSD project born, 1993 06/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903 06/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949 -06/22 Konrad Zuse born in Berlin, 1919 +06/22 Konrad Zuse born in Berlin, 1910 06/23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912 06/25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903 06/27 Helen Keller born, 1880 07/03 Franz Kafka born, 1883 07/04 Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804 07/04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826 07/06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866 07/06 John Paul Jones born, 1747 07/07 P.T. Barnum dies, 1891 07/08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838 07/10 John Calvin born, 1509 +07/10 Nikola Tesla born, 1856 07/11 John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States, born in Braintree, Massachusetts, 1767 07/12 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817 07/15 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" 07/18 Brian Auger is born in London, 1939 +07/20 Alexander the Great born, 356 BC +07/20 Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong, 1973 +07/25 Robert Morris is born in Boston, 1932 07/25 Steve Goodman is born in Chicago, 1948 07/29 Mussolini born, 1883 07/30 Emily Bronte born, 1818 07/30 Henry Ford born, 1863 08/01 Herman Melville born, 1819 08/03 Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966 +08/05 Friedrich Engels died, 1895 +08/06 Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died after a long struggle with cancer, 2002 08/06 Jonathan B. Postel is born in Altadena, California, 1943 08/08 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937 08/12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955 08/13 Alfred Hitchcock born, 1899 08/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860 -08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927 +08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1926 08/17 Mae West born, 1892 08/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1774 08/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940 08/21 Christopher Robin Milne born, 1920 08/21 Winnie-the-Pooh (Edward Bear) born (given to Christopher Robin Milne), 1921 08/23 Gene Kelly born, 1912 08/27 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908 08/29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist 08/30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907 +09/02 J.R.R. Tolkien died, 1973 09/05 King Louis XIV of France born, 1638 09/05 Raquel Welch born, 1942 09/06 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909 09/07 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789 09/07 Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533 09/08 Richard ``the Lionheart'', king of England born in Oxford, 1157 09/08 Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925 09/09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976 09/09 Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie, creator of C, born, 1941 09/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913 +09/12 Stanislaw Lem born in Lwow, Poland, 1921 09/13 Walter Reed born, 1851 09/15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890 09/16 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914 +09/17 Ken Kesey born in La Junta, CO, 1935 +09/18 Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky born, 1857, father of rocket flight 09/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905 09/18 Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970 +09/18 Leonhard Euler died in St. Petersburg, 1783 +09/19 President Garfield dies of wounds in Elberon, N.J., 1881 +09/19 Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky died, Russian SFSR, 1935 09/20 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878 09/21 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866 09/21 Louis Joliet born, 1645 09/22 President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore, 1881 09/23 Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC 09/23 Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC 09/24 F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896 09/26 Johnny Appleseed born, 1774 09/26 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888 09/27 Thomas Nast born, 1840 09/28 Michelangelo Buonarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573 09/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106BC 09/28 Seymour Cray born, 1925 09/29 Gene Autry born, 1907 10/01 Jimmy Carter, 39th President of United States, born in Plains, Georgia, 1924 10/02 Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC 10/02 Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869 10/04 John V. Atanasoff born, 1903 10/05 Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902 10/05 Steve Jobs died at the age of 56, 2011 10/12 Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie died at the age of 70, 2011 10/13 Lenny Bruce is born in New York City, 1925 10/13 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC 10/14 Dwight David Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States, born in Denison, Texas, 1890 10/14 William Penn born in London, 1644 10/15 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881 10/16 Noah Webster born, 1758 10/16 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854 10/16 Dr. Jonathan B. Postel dies at age 55, 1998 10/17 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S. 10/21 Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833 10/25 Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881 10/27 James Cook is born, 1728 10/27 Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, born New York, New York, 1858 10/27 Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933 10/30 John Adams, 2nd President of the United States, born Quincy, Massachusetts 1735. 10/31 Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887 10/31 Dale Evans born, 1912 +11/01 Joseph Stalin's burial, 1961 11/02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734 11/04 King William III of Orange born, 1650 11/05 Roy Rogers born, 1912 11/09 Carl Sagan born, 1934 11/10 Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483 11/10 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982 +11/11 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky born in Moscow, Russia, 1821 11/11 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922 11/13 Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850 11/13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354 11/18 Imogene Coca born, 1908 11/18 William S. Gilbert born, 1836 11/20 Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK) born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1925 11/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922 11/26 Norbert Wiener born in Columbia, Missouri, 1894 +11/27 Bruce Lee born in San Francisco, 1940 +11/28 Friedrich Engels born, 1820 +11/28 Joe Ossanna died, 1977 11/29 John Mayall is born in Cheshire, England, 1933 11/30 Cleopatra died, 30 BC -11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835 +11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835 12/01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935 12/04 Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976 12/05 Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States, born in Kinderhook, New York, 1837 12/05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901 12/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC 12/08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894 -12/10 Emily Dickenson born, 1830 +12/10 Emily Dickinson born, 1830 12/12 E.G. Robinson born, 1893 12/14 George Washington dies, 1799 +12/16 Arthur C. Clarke born in Somerset, England, 1917 12/17 William Safire (Safir) born, 1929 12/18 Konrad Zuse died in Hünfeld, 1995 12/20 Carl Sagan died, 1996 12/21 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804 12/22 Giacomo Puccini born, 1858 +12/22 Joseph Vissarionnovich Djugashvili (Stalin) born, 1879 +12/22 Samuel Beckett dies in Paris, 1989 12/23 Joseph Smith born, 1805 12/25 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642 12/26 Chas. Babbage born, 1791 12/28 John von Neumann born, 1903 +12/29 Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin assasinated, 1916 #endif /* !_calendar_birthday_ */ Index: stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history =================================================================== --- stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history (revision 359201) +++ stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history (revision 359202) @@ -1,475 +1,742 @@ /* * History * * $FreeBSD$ */ #ifndef _calendar_history_ -#define _calendar_history_ +#define _calendar_history_ 01/01 Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba 01/01 Castro expels Cuban President Batista, 1959 01/01 Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech, 1947 01/01 First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902 +01/02 Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve + Niagara Falls, 1929 +01/03 Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers + over Italy, 1925 +01/03 Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British + Prime Minister in the 20th Century, 1988 +01/04 Burma becomes independent from United Kingdom, 1948 01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north) 01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913 01/05 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940 01/05 Twelfth night -01/06 Millard Fillmore's birthday (let's party!) +01/06 Maria Montessori opens her first school in Rome, 1907 +01/07 First transatlantic telephone call, 1927 01/08 Battle of New Orleans +01/08 Monaco gains its independence, 1297 01/09 Plough Monday 01/10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946 01/10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776 01/11 Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania 01/11 De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico 01/11 Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 1878 01/11 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal 01/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964 01/11 The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963 +01/12 Batman the TV series debuts on ABC, 1966 +01/13 Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance, 1930 01/14 The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967 +01/15 Angola becomes an independent state, 1975 01/16 Prohibition begins, 1920 +01/16 The Medici family are made official bankers of the Papacy, 1412 +01/17 Captain James Cook becomes the first explorer to cross the + Antarctic Circle, 1773 01/18 Grey whale migration, California +01/18 The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time, 1896 +01/19 The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant, 1978 01/20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...) +01/21 First commercial flight with a Concorde, 1976 +01/22 British colonists reach New Zealand, 1840 +01/23 The Royal Exchange opens in London, 1571 +01/23 The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in + the Netherlands, 1579 01/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922 01/24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848 +01/24 Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement, 1908 +01/25 The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits + the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada, 1791 01/26 Sydney, New South Wales settled, 1788 01/27 Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967 01/27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973 01/28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914 01/28 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe, 1986 +01/28 The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the + Panama Railway, 1855 +01/29 Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, the last monarch of + Hawaii, 1891 01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948 01/30 Tet Offensive, 1968 01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961 +01/31 Dmitry Mendeleev established optimal alcohol-water mixture ratio + in his PhD work on alcohol-water mixtures, 1865 01/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered -01/31 Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp +01/31 Irving Langmuir invented tungsten filament lamp, 1881 02/01 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954 02/01 Forces led by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979 02/01 Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrates 15 minutes before landing killing Husband, McCool, Chawla, Clark, Ramon, Brown, and Anderson, 2003 +02/02 Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament, 1933 +02/03 The first commercial cheese factory is founded in Switzerland, 1815 02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969 02/04 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974 +02/05 Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of + the United Arab Republic, 1958 +02/06 Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand, 1840 +02/07 The British Labour Party is formed, 1900 02/08 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq 02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934 -02/12 US President Abraham Lincoln's real birthday +02/09 Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation, 1621 +02/10 New Delhi becomes the capital of India, 1931 +02/11 Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of + the Kalmar Union, 1814 +02/12 China adopts the Gregorian calendar, 1912 02/12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969 +02/13 France tests its first atomic bomb in Algeria, 1960 02/14 Bombing of Dresden, 1945 02/15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970 02/16 Nylon patented, 1937 02/16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804 +02/17 The first ship passes through the Suez Canal, 1867 +02/18 Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech, 1943 02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930 +02/19 Serfdom is abolished in Russia, 1861 02/19 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945 +02/20 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia + for 15 years, 2001 02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962 02/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties 02/21 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878 02/21 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965 +02/22 Start of the Czechoslovak Revolution, 1948 02/23 Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 1971 02/24 Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868 +02/25 The Democratic Republic of Georgia occupied by Bolshevist Russia, 1921 +02/26 Final radio broadcast of Dragnet, 1957 +02/27 The Lionheart crowned, 1189 02/28 The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972 02/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704 03/01 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 -03/02 Blackthorn winds (New England) (Does anyone know what this is?) -03/04 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C. +03/01 The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded, 1565 +03/02 Blackthorn winds (New England) +03/02 Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam, 1946 +03/03 Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire, 1878 +03/04 Emile Berliner invents the microphone, 1877 +03/04 First meeting of Congress in N.Y.C., 1789 +03/05 Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, 1836 +03/06 The aspirin is registered as a trademark of Bayer, 1899 +03/07 Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for + women's voting rights in Kuwait, 2005 +03/08 The first case of Spanish flu occurs, killing 50 million to 100 million + people worldwide, 1918 +03/09 The Barbie doll debuts, 1959 +03/10 Republic of Cote d'Ivoire becomes a colony of France, 1893 +03/11 Ceasefire declared in the war between Iran and Irak, 1988 +03/12 The first bottles of Coca Cola were sold, 1894 03/13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894 03/14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907 -03/15 Day of the 1848 revolution in Hungary +03/14 The kingdom of Cyprus is sold by the ruling Queen to Venice, 1489 03/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH +03/15 Day of the 1848 revolution in Hungary 03/15 France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874 03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966 03/15 Ides of March. Gaius Julius Caesar assassinated by senators, including adoptive son Marcus Junius Brutus Caepio, 44BC +03/15 Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by + several senators, 44BC +03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966 +03/16 Largest coordinated worldwide vigil against the Iraq War, 2003 03/16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by US infantrymen 03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926 +03/17 Invention of the rubber band, 1845 +03/17 Ukrainian Nationalist Republic declared, 1917 03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped 03/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965 +03/18 In the Pyramid of Cheops a 4.400 year old mummy is found, 1989 03/19 Swallows return to Capistrano 03/20 Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980 +03/21 Henry V becomes the king of England, 1413 +03/22 First motion picture displayed by Auguste and Louis Lumière, 1895 +03/22 World Day for Water +03/23 The first Islamic republic in the world is Pakistan, 1956 03/24 Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900 +03/25 The first Bed-In for Peace by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 1969 03/25 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911 03/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937 +03/26 The driving test is introduced, in the United Kingdom, 1934 03/27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958 03/28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979 03/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638 +03/29 The Republic of Ireland bans smoking in all work places, 2004 03/30 Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867 03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977 03/30 Pencil with eraser patented, 1858 +03/31 The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated, 1889 04/01 People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day. +04/02 Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia, 1930 +04/03 First publication of the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, 1896 04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968 -04/04 NATO Established, 1949 +04/04 NATO established, 1949 +04/05 Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia, 1614 04/06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830 04/07 Alewives run, Cape Cod 04/08 Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin meet in Encounter Bay, 1802 +04/08 The Venus de Milo is found on the island of Melos, 1820 04/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865 +04/09 The first public exhibition of art opens in Paris, 1667 +04/10 The Belfast Agreement is signed, on Good Friday, 1998 +04/11 The Shogunate is abolished in Japan, 1868 04/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861 +04/12 Great Britain adopts the Union Jack as their national flag, 1606 04/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981 04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961 04/13 Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos 04/14 US President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865 04/14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912 +04/15 Insulin first becomes generally available for use by diabetics, 1923 04/15 US President Abraham Lincoln dies, 1865 04/15 Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955 +04/16 Syria becomes an independent Republic, 1946 04/17 Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961 04/18 Einstein's Death, 1955 04/18 First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934 04/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906 +04/18 The League of Nations is dissolved after 27 years, 1946 04/19 Landing of the "33" in Uruguay 04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943 +04/20 In Bulgaria, the April Uprising takes place, 1876 04/20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971 04/21 Lyrid meteor shower +04/21 Rome is founded by Romulus and Remus, 753BC +04/22 Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral becomes the first European to + sight Brazil, 1500 +04/22 The first Earth Day is celebrated, 1970 04/22 Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, called Lenin, Russian political leader, born in Simbirsk, 1870 +04/23 Bavarian co-rulers Duke Wilhelm IV and Duke Ludwig X proclaimed the + weighty and consequential Bavarian Beer Purity Law + (later Reinheitsgebot), 1516 04/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954 +04/24 The Greek enter Troy with the Trojan Horse, 1184BC +04/25 Integrated circuit patented by Robert Noyce, 1961 04/26 William Shakespeare baptized in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564, - birthdate unknown + birthdate less certain 04/27 Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521 +04/28 President of France, Charles de Gaulle resigns, 1969 04/29 Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913 +04/30 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide, 1945 05/01 Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god +05/01 Adam Weishaupt founded the Illuminati of Bavaria, 1776 +05/02 The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness monster is reported, 1933 05/03 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971 +05/03 Jamaica is spotted by Christopher Columbus, 1494 +05/04 Christopher Columbus sets foot on Jamaica, 1494 05/04 Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970 05/05 John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925 +05/05 Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire, 1260 05/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1937 -05/07 Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945 +05/07 Germany surrenders after World War II, 1945 05/08 Beginning of ostrich mating season +05/08 Herbert Akroyd Stuart patented the first "diesel" engine, 1890 05/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972 05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979 +05/09 The first parliament of Australia opens in Melbourne, 1901 05/10 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940 05/10 Nazi bookburning, 1933 +05/11 Thailand is no longer known as Siam, 1949 +05/12 Tunisia becomes a French protectorate, 1881 +05/13 Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after + having been accused of treason, 1619 05/14 Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804 05/14 Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948 05/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854 +05/15 The civil war in Finland ends, 1918 +05/16 Root beer invented by Charles Elmer Hires, 1866 05/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982 05/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974 05/18 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay 05/18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804 +05/19 The Legion d'Honneur is founded by Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802 +05/20 The first modern atlas issued by Abraham Ortelius, 1570 05/21 Battle of Iquique in Chile 05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956 +05/22 The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony, + is abolished, 1840 05/22 US Civil War ends, 1865 05/23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960 05/23 Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953 05/23 Federal Republic of Germany founded, 1949 05/24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador 05/25 Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980 05/25 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830 05/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924 +05/26 John Calvin and his followers are expelled from Geneva, 1538 05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937 +05/27 The pop-up toaster patented by Charles Strite, 1919 +05/28 Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication, 1936 05/29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953 05/29 First food stamps issued, 1961 05/30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912 +05/30 Beginning of the civil war over Biafra, 1967 +05/31 Yom Kippur War comes to an end by the signing of a disengagement + agreement by Syria and Israel, 1974 +06/01 In a referendum the Dutch reject the European Constitution, 2005 +06/02 Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty in a close-call referendum, 1992 06/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924 +06/03 Edward White becomes the first American to perform a "Space Walk", 1965 +06/03 Last Star Trek episode first aired ("Turnabout Intruder"), 1969 06/04 Roquefort cheese developed, 1070 06/05 Robert Kennedy assassinated, 1968 +06/05 Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem, 70 06/05 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933 06/06 First drive-in movie, 1933 06/06 Normandy landing, 1944 +06/07 The first act of civil disobedience by Gandhi, 1893 +06/08 The Canadian Parliament meets for the first time in Ottawa, 1866 +06/09 The Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, 68 06/10 Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C. 06/10 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971 06/11 Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC +06/12 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison, 1964 +06/13 Much of Vancouver, British Columbia, is devastated by a fire, 1886 06/13 Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System 06/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834 06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752 06/15 Magna Carta signed, 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 06/16 "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980 +06/16 Henry Ford launched the Ford Motor Company, 1903 06/17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967 06/17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972 +06/18 Winston Churchill delivers his "Finest Hour" speech, 1940 06/19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953 06/19 Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893 06/20 Victoria crowned, 1837 06/21 Berlin airlift begins, 1948 06/21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge 06/22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964 +06/22 The June Days Uprising in Paris begins, 1848 +06/23 Harriet, Darwin's turtle died at the age of 176 years, 2006 06/23 Slavery abolished in England, 1772 06/24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970 +06/24 The capital of Jamaica, Kingston, is founded, 1664 06/25 Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 1876 06/25 North Korea invades South Korea, 1950 06/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 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 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971 -06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978 -06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia, 1908 +06/27 The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London, 1967 +06/28 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria assassinated in Sarajevo, + marking the beginning of World War I, 1914 +06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Allan Bakke, 1978 +06/28 World War I ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919 +06/29 The Seychelles gains independence from the United Kingdom, 1976 +06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia at 7:17 local time, 1908 +06/30 Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity, 1905 06/30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960 07/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863 +07/01 Hong Kong becomes a special administrative region of the People's + Republic of China, 1997 +07/01 The first day on the Somme marked the beginning of the + Battle of the Somme, 1916 +07/01 Warsaw Pact officially dissolved, 1991 +07/02 Vermont abolishes slavery, as the first state, 1777 07/03 Dog days begin 07/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863 07/04 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776 07/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776 07/04 Thoreau enters woods, 1845 +07/05 Bikini demonstrated for the first time, 1946 07/06 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928 07/06 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917 07/07 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949 07/07 Terrorists detonate four bombs on London public transport, 2005 +07/08 A UFO is believed to have crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, 1947 07/08 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776 07/08 Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835 07/09 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847 +07/09 The African Union gets established, 2002 07/10 134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913 +07/10 Most of London gets burned down in a severe fire, 1212 +07/11 Mongolia gains independence from China, 1921 07/12 Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933 07/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908 +07/14 Storming of the Bastille by the citizens of Paris, 1789 +07/15 First item sold via Amazon.com, 1995 07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945 +07/16 End of the civil war in Rwanda, 1994 07/17 Disneyland opens, 1955 +07/18 "Mein Kampf" is published, 1925 07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927 07/19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692 +07/19 France declares war on Prussia, marking the beginning of the + Franco-Prussian war, 1870 07/20 Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969 +07/20 Ford Motor Company ships their car, 1903 07/21 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873 07/21 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954 +07/22 Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly around the world, 1933 07/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904 07/24 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 +07/25 First test-tube baby born, 1978 +07/26 Potsdam Declaration signed, 1945 +07/27 The last Citroen 2CV made, 1990 +07/28 Potato introduced in Europe by Sir Thomas Harriot, 1586 +07/29 Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 1836 07/30 "In God We Trust" made US motto, 1956 +07/30 Elvis Presley performs for the first time in public, 1954 +07/31 First U.S. patent issued, 1790 07/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948, later JFK 08/01 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on this day +08/02 Hitler becomes the Fuehrer of Germany, 1934 08/03 Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492 08/03 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958 08/04 Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892 08/04 Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964 08/04 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914 +08/05 Nelson Mandela is jailed, 1962 08/06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945 08/06 Caricom in Barbados 08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890 +08/07 Jack the Ripper makes his first kill, 1888 +08/08 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945 08/08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914 08/08 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974 08/08 The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963 08/09 Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969 08/09 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC 08/09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842 08/09 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945 08/09 Singapore secedes from Malaysia, 1965 08/10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833 +08/10 Major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft disrupted by + Scotland Yard, 2006 08/10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977 08/11 Dog days end 08/11 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954 08/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days) +08/12 Cleopatra commits suicide, 30BC 08/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977 08/12 Last US ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972 08/13 Berlin wall erected, 1961 08/13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934 +08/14 France introduces motor vehicle registration, 1893 08/14 Social Security begins in US, 1935 08/15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947 08/15 Hurricane hits Plymouth Plantation, 1635 08/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898 08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891 +08/17 Indonesian Declaration of Independence, 1945 08/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed +08/18 Power blackout on Java, Indonesia, affects almost + 100 million people, 2005 08/19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite, marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960 08/19 Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856 +08/20 First commercial radio station airs in Detroit, Michigan, 1920 +08/21 Louvre employee steals the "Mona Lisa", 1911 08/22 Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets 08/22 Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963 08/22 St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565 08/23 Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927 08/24 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969 08/24 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960 08/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814 -08/25 Gen. De Gaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944 +08/25 General de Gaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944 08/26 19th amendment of US constitution gives women the vote, 1920 +08/26 Women get the vote, 1920 08/27 "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912 08/27 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883 +08/28 Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay, 1609 08/28 Martin Luther King leads over 200,000 in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963 +08/29 Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction, 1831 08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; Nova Cygni 1975. 08/30 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842 08/30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960 08/30 St. Rose of Lima in Peru 08/30 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963 08/31 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983 08/31 Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888 08/31 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926 08/31 Federation of Malaya gains independence from Great Britain, 1957 +08/31 Independent union "Solidarnosc" born, Gdansk, 1980 09/01 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972 09/01 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859 09/02 Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752 09/02 Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945 09/03 Richard ``the Lionheart'' crowned king of England, 1189 09/03 Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino +09/04 Napoleon III is deposed and the Third Republic is declared, 1870 09/05 US President Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961 +09/05 St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland, 1980 09/05 The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774 09/06 149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620 09/06 First Star Trek episode (The Man Trap) aired 1966 09/06 US President McKinley shot, 1901 09/06 Somhlolo in Swaziland +09/07 Brazil declares its independence from Portugal, 1822 09/08 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966) 09/08 Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888 09/08 US President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974 09/09 California becomes the 31st state of the USA, 1850 +09/09 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph, 1839 09/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776 09/10 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857 09/11 CIA-sponsored terrorists overthrow Chilean government, murder President Allende, 1973 09/11 Terrorists destroy World Trade Center in New York, 2001 +09/11 World Wide Fund (WWF) founded, 1961 09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943 09/12 Germany annexes Sudetenland, 1938 09/13 58 °C (136.4 °F) measured at el Azizia, Libya, 1922 09/13 British defeat the French at the Plains of Abraham, just outside the walls of Quebec City, 1759 09/13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122 09/13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943 09/14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778 09/14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629 09/14 The US Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940 09/15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959 09/15 The US Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the US State Department, 1789 +09/15 The Nazis adopt a new national flag with the swastika, 1935 +09/16 General Motors is founded, 1908 09/16 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630 09/16 Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore unite to become Malaysia, 1963 09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862 +09/17 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859 09/18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi 09/19 New Zealand women get the right to vote, 1893 +09/19 Walt Disney releases Steamboat Willie, 1928 09/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for US President, 1884 09/20 First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848 09/20 First meeting of the US National Research Council, 1916 09/20 Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519 09/20 The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973 +09/21 J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published, 1937 +09/22 Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953 09/22 US President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862 09/22 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas US President Nixon, 1974 09/22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949 09/23 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972 09/23 The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first US Baseball club, 1845 09/23 US Vice President Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech, 1952 +09/24 The Netherlands surrenders New Amsterdam to England, 1664 +09/25 Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era, 1066 09/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981 +09/26 Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic, 1973 09/27 The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825 09/28 "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678 09/28 A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon, 490BC 09/30 Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (#3) and Catherine Eddowes (#4), 1888 09/30 The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846 09/30 The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946 +10/01 Austria issues the world's first postcards, 1869 10/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958 +10/02 Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec, 1535 10/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967 +10/03 O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of murder, 1995 10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853 10/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957 +10/05 Portugal declares itself a republic, 1910 10/06 Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853 10/06 Egyptian President Anwar es-Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981 10/06 Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973 10/07 Foundation of the German Democratic Republic (GDR or DDR), 1949 10/07 Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916 10/07 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977 10/07 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979 10/07 Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974 10/08 Great Chicago Fire, 1871 +10/08 San Marino adopts its written constitution, 1600 10/09 First two-way telephone conversation, 1876 10/10 Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba 10/10 Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea 10/10 Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. (1984) 10/10 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973 10/11 "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975 10/11 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976 10/11 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811 10/11 The second Vatican Ecumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962 10/11 First broadcast of Saturday Night Live, 1975 10/12 Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492 +10/12 Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig married Princess Therese of + Saxony-Hildburghausen, Oktoberfest, 1810 10/12 Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960 10/12 Man O'War's last race, 1920 10/12 Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492 10/13 Italy declares war on Germany, 1943 10/13 US Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress 10/14 Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066 10/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947 +10/15 Edison Electric Light Company begins operation, 1878 10/15 First draft card burned, 1965 +10/16 The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney + and his brother, Roy Disney, 1923 +10/17 Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion, 1931 10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first US labor org., 1648 10/18 Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959 +10/18 The Grand Ole Opry opens its doors, 1925 10/19 Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949 10/19 Napoleon's beaten army begins the long retreat from Moscow, 1812 10/20 "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973 10/20 OPEC embargo, 1973 10/21 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879 10/21 Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959 +10/22 Laos gains independence from France, 1953 10/23 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944 10/23 Day of the 1956 revolution in Hungary 10/23 Earth created at 6:30 AM, 4004BC. +10/23 South African troops invade Angola in support of UNITA and FNLA, 1975 10/23 Swallows leave Capistrano +10/24 Founding of the United Nations, 1945 10/25 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971 10/26 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978 10/27 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871 10/27 The first New York Subway is opened, 1904 +10/27 Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of + a global economic meltdown, 1997 10/28 Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492 10/28 Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312 10/28 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636 10/28 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886 +10/29 Leibniz makes the first use of the "long s" for integral, 1675 10/29 Stock Market Crash, 1929 +10/30 Communist Party of Australia founded in Sydney, 1920 10/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938 +10/31 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetak, 1952 10/31 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517 11/01 Austria-Hungary become two separate nations, 1918 11/01 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950 11/02 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940 11/02 Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, 1783 11/03 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837 11/03 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954 11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing space dog Laika 11/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979 11/04 Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956 11/05 Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605 +11/06 Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R. 11/07 Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837 11/07 Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805 +11/08 Invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the + Stockholm Bloodbath, 1520 11/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965 11/09 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927 11/09 Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888 11/09 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921 11/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933 11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House, 1917 11/10 Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865 11/10 Henry Stanley asks David Livingstone, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?", 1871 +11/11 First broadcast of Sesame Street, 1970 11/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889 11/12 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan 11/12 USA first exports oil to Europe, 1861 +11/13 St. Brice's Day massacre by order of Ethelred, king of England, 1002 +11/14 Czechoslovakia becomes a republic, 1918 11/14 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 +11/15 First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, 1920 11/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896 11/16 Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869 11/16 Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1938 11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966 +11/17 Elizabeth I of England succeeds Queen Mary I of England, 1558 11/17 Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973 11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952 11/18 Local standard time zones established for US, 1883 11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863 +11/19 Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Company, 1916 +11/20 Nuremberg Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals begin, 1945 11/21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973 +11/21 Birmingham Pub Bombings by the IRA kill 21 people, 1974 +11/22 John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, 1963 11/22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963 11/23 First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963 +11/23 The first edition of Life is published. 1936 +11/24 Alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is killed by + Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas, 1963 11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963 11/25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867 +11/26 Last flight ever with a Concorde made over Bristol, UK, 2003 11/27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895 -11/27 Friction match invented, England, 1826 +11/27 Friction match invented by englishman John Walker, Sweden, 1826 11/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts +11/28 Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, 1912 11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922 12/01 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924 +12/01 Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, 1913 12/01 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955 12/01 Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1953 +12/02 Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French, 1852 12/03 First neon light display, Paris, 1910 12/03 First successful human heart transplant led by Dr. Barnard, 1967 12/03 The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971 +12/04 People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution, 1982 12/04 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783 12/05 End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part) 12/05 Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776 12/05 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition, 1933 +12/06 London becomes the world's first city with motorised cabs, 1897 12/07 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941 12/08 Japan enters Second World War with invasion of Pantai Sabak, Kelantan, 1941 +12/08 Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum, 1991 12/09 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884 12/10 Metric system established in France, 1799 12/10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year +12/11 The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, 1931 12/12 First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901 12/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972 12/13 Dartmouth College chartered, 1769 12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south) +12/14 Portugal joins the United Nations, 1955 12/15 Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976 12/15 Bill of Rights adopted, 1791 12/15 James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891 12/15 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890 +12/16 Pokemon episode (Electric Soldier Porygon) triggers attacks of + photosensitive epilepsy in hundreds of Japanese children, 1997 +12/17 Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is first published, 1843 +12/18 Indonesia invades Netherlands New Guinea, 1961 +12/19 Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the + German Army, 1941 +12/20 Cheka founded, 1917 12/20 US buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi. +12/21 Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France, 1958 12/21 Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in less than 80 days 12/21 Women gain the right to vote in South Australia, 1894 12/21 Women gain the right to hold political office in South Australia, 1894 +12/22 First freight train is operated in Roorkee in India, 1851 +12/23 The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories, 1947 +12/24 Hong Kong falls to the Japanese Imperial Army, 1941 12/24 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865 +12/25 Christmas Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors, 1643 12/26 DPMA founded, 1951 12/27 APT report published, 1956 12/27 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845 12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973 12/28 Proclamation of the Province of South Australia, 1836 +12/28 Spain recognizes independence of Mexico, 1836 12/29 Battle of Wounded knee, 1890 +12/29 Edison receives patent for Radio, 1891 12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940 +12/30 Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations, 1993 +12/30 Soviet Ukrainian Republic declared, 1917 12/31 St. Sylvester in Switzerland +12/31 First supersonic commercial flight by Tu-144, 1968 +12/31 Windows tax in England, 1695 12/31 Winterland closes its doors, 1978 #endif /* !_calendar_history_ */ Index: stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.holiday =================================================================== --- stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.holiday (revision 359201) +++ stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.holiday (revision 359202) @@ -1,563 +1,563 @@ /* * Holiday * * $FreeBSD$ */ #ifndef _calendar_holiday_ #define _calendar_holiday_ 01/01 Beginning of the Year in Japan 01/01 Independence Day in Haiti and Sudan 01/01 Universal Fraternity Day in Mozambique 01/02 Ancestry Day in Haiti 01/02 St. Berchtold's Day in Switzerland 01/03 New Year's Holiday in Scotland 01/03 Revolution Day in Upper Volta 01/04 Independence Day in Burma 01/04 Martyrs Day in Zaire 01/06 Children's Day in Uruguay 01/06 Three Kings' Day in Puerto Rico 01/07 Christmas in Ethiopia 01/07 Pioneer's Day in Liberia 01/09 Day of the Martyrs in Panama 01/11 Armed Forces Day in Liberia 01/12 Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania 01/13 National Liberation Day in Togo 01/15 Arbor Day in Jordan 01/16 Martyrs Day in Benin 01/18 Revolution Day in Tunisia 01/19 Confederate Heroes Day in Texas 01/19 Ethiopian Epiphany in Ethiopia 01/19 Nameday of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus 01/20 Army Day in Mali 01/20 National Heroes Day in Guinea-Bissau 01/21 Our Lady of Altagracia in Dominican Republic 01/23 Feast of St. Ildefonsus 01/23 US National Handwriting Day 01/24 Economic Liberation Day in Togo 01/26 Republic Day in India 01/MonSecond Adults Day in Japan 01/MonThird Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia (3rd Monday) 01/MonThird Robert E. Lee's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi (3rd Monday) 01/MonThird Martin Luther King Day in New York (3rd Monday) 02/01 Chinese New Year Holiday (3 days) in Taiwan 02/02 Candlemas 02/04 Independence Commemoration Day in Sri Lanka 02/05 Constitution Day in Mexico 02/06 New Zealand Day 02/07 Independence Day in Grenada 02/09 St. Maron's Day in Lebanon 02/10 Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck, AD 60 02/11 National Foundation Day in Japan 02/12 Pyidaungsa Day in Burma 02/16 Makha Bucha Day in Thailand 02/18 Democracy Day in Nepal 02/18 Independence Day in The Gambia 02/23 Republic Day in Guyana 02/24 Gregorian Calendar Day 02/25 National Day in Kuwait 02/27 Independence Day in Dominican Republic 03/01 Samil Independence Movement Day in South Korea 03/01 St. David's Day - Patron Saint of Wales 03/02 Peasants Day in Burma 03/02 Texas Independence day 03/02 Victory of Adowa in Ethiopia 03/03 Throne Day in Morocco 03/03 Independence day (Treaty of San Stefano) in Bulgaria 03/04 Vermont Admission Day (admitted as 14th US state in 1791) 03/05 Independence Day in Equatorial Guinea 03/06 Lantern Day, Bejing 03/08 First Annual International Women's Day, 1909 03/08 International Women's Day in former USSR 03/08 Syrian National Day in Libyan Arab Republic 03/08 Women's Day in Guinea-Bissau, Taiwan and Yemen Democratic Republic 03/08 Youth Day in Zambia 03/09 Decoration Day in Liberia 03/09 Falgun Purnima Day in Nepal 03/10 Labor Day in South Korea 03/11 Johnny Appleseed Day; anniversary of the death of John Chapman 03/12 Commonwealth Day in Swaziland 03/12 Independence Day in Mauritius 03/12 Moshoeshoe's Birthday in Lesotho 03/12 Renovation Day in Gabon 03/13 National Day in Grenada 03/16 Black Press Day; first US Black newspaper founded in 1827 03/17 Evacuation Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts 03/17 St. Patrick's Day - one of the Patron Saints of Ireland 03/19 St. Joseph's Day, observed in Colombia, Costa Rica, Holy See, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Spain, Venezuela 03/19 Tree Planting Day in Lestho 03/20 Independence Day in Tunisia 03/20 Youth Day in Oklahoma 03/20* Vernal Equinox in Japan 03/21 Afghan New Year in Afghanistan 03/21 Juarez' Birthday in Mexico 03/21* Vernal Equinox in Japan 03/22 Abolition Day in Puerto Rico 03/23 Pakistan Day in Pakistan 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 03/26 Independence Day in Bangladesh 03/26 Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day in Hawaii 03/27 Armed Forces Day in Burma 03/29 Death of President Barthelemy Boganda in Central African Republic 03/29 Memorial Day in Madagascar 03/31 National Day in Malta 03/MonLast Seward's Day in Alaska (last Monday) 04/01 Youth Day in Benin 04/02 Malvinas Day in Argentina 04/02 Pascua Florida Day in Florida 04/04 Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong 04/04 Liberation Day in Hungary 04/04 National Day in Senegal 04/05 Arbor Day in South Korea 04/05 Tomb Sweeping Day in Taiwan 04/06 Chakri Memorial Day in Thailand 04/06 Victory Day in Ethiopia 04/08 Fast and Prayer Day in Liberia 04/09 Martyrs Day in Tunisia 04/11 National Heroes Day in Costa Rica 04/13 National Day in Chad 04/13 Songkron Day in Thailand 04/14 Day of the Americas in Honduras 04/15 Bengali New Year in Bangladesh 04/16 De Diego's Birthday celebrated in Puerto Rico 04/16 Holy Week (5 days) in Venezuela 04/16 Tourist Week (5 days) in Uruguay 04/17 Burmese New Year in Burma 04/18 Independence Day in Chile and Zimbabwe 04/19 Declaration of Independence in Venezuela 04/19 Republic Day in Sierra Leone 04/21 San Jacinto Day in Texas 04/21 Tiradentes in Brazil 04/22 Arbor Day in Nebraska & Delaware 04/22 Oklahoma Day in Oklahoma 04/23 St. George's Day - Patron Saint of England 04/24 Victory Day in Togo 04/25 Anniversary of the Revolution in Portugal 04/25 Anzac Day, observed in Australia, New Zealand, Tonga and Western Samoa 04/25 Liberation Day in Italy 04/25 National Flag Day in Swaziland 04/26 Confederate Memorial Day in Florida & Georgia 04/26 Union Day in Tanzania 04/27 Independence Day in Togo 04/27 King's Birthday in the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles 04/29 Showa Day in Japan 04/30 The Workers Day in Uruguay 04/MonLast Arbor Day in Wyoming (last Monday) 04/MonLast Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama & Mississippi (last Monday) 04/MonThird Patriot's Day in Maine & Massachusetts (3rd Monday) 05/01 Labor Day in many places in the USA 05/01 May Day in many places 05/01 US Law Day (decl. by Eisenhower) 05/02 King's Birthday in Lesotho 05/03 Constitution Memorial Day in Japan 05/04 Greenery Day in Japan 05/04 Rhode Island Independence Day 05/05 Battle of Puebla in Mexico 05/05 Children's Day in Japan and South Korea 05/05 Coronation Day in Thailand 05/05 Liberation Day in the Netherlands 05/06 Bataan Day in Philippines 05/06* Bank Holiday in UK 05/07 May Day in United Kingdom 05/08 Buddha's Birthday in South Korea 05/08 Elections for the National Assembly in Philippines 05/08 Truman Day in Missouri 05/09 VE day, end of Second World War, celebrated in many countries 05/10 Confederate Memorial Day in South Carolina 05/10 Mothers Day in Guatemala 05/11 Minnesota Day in Minnesota 05/14 Anniversary of the Founding of Guinean Democratic Party in Guinea 05/14 Buddhist Holiday (Waisak 2528) in Indonesia 05/14 Independence Day (2 days) in Paraguay 05/14 Unification Day in Liberia 05/15 Kamuzu Day in Malawi 05/15 Vesak Day, observed in Singapore and Malaysia 05/15 Visakha Bucha Day in Thailand 05/16 Discovery Day in Cayman Islands 05/17 Constitution Day in Nauru and Norway 05/18 Flag Day in Haiti 05/18 Prayer Day in Denmark 05/19 Youth and Sports Day in Turkey 05/20 Mecklenburg Independence Day in North Carolina 05/20 National Day in Cameroon 05/20 Victoria Day in Canada 05/22 National Heroes Day in Sri Lanka 05/23 Commonwealth Day in Jamaica and Belize 05/23 National Labor Day in Jamaica 05/24 Bermuda Day in Bermuda 05/24 Day of Slav Letters in Bulgaria 05/25 African Freedom Day in Zimbabwe 05/25 African Liberation Day in Chad, Mauritania and 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 Revolution in the Sudan in Libyan Arab Republic 05/27 Afghanistan attains sovereignty, 1921 05/27* Bank Holiday in UK 05/28 Mothers Day in Central African Republic 05/31 Pya Martyrs Day in Togo 05/MonThird Memorial Day in Michigan (3rd Monday) 06/01 Independence Days (3 days) in Western Samoa 06/01 Madaraka Day in Kenya 06/01 Victory Day in Tunisia 06/02 Corpus Christi in Paraguay 06/03 Confederate Memorial Day in Kentucky & Louisiana 06/03 Labor Day in Bahamas 06/03* Bank Holiday in Rep. of Ireland 06/04 Emancipation Day in Tonga 06/04 Queen's Birthday in New Zealand 06/05 Constitution Day in Denmark 06/05 Liberation Day in Seychelles 06/06 His Majesty, Yang Di-Pertuan Agong's Birthday in Malaysia 06/06 Memorial Day in South Korea 06/09 Senior Citizen's Day in Oklahoma 06/10 Camoes Day in Portugal 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 Corrective Movement in Yemen Arab Republic 06/14 Flag Day, USA 06/16 Bloomsday - Anniversary of Dublin events, 1904, in "Ulysses" 06/17 Bunker Hill Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts 06/17 Independence Day in Iceland 06/18 Evacuation Day in Egypt 06/18 Queen's Birthday in Fiji 06/19 Artigas Birthday in Uruguay 06/19 Emancipation Day in Texas 06/19 Labor Day in Trinidad and Tobago 06/19 Revolution Day in Algeria 06/20 Flag Day in Argentina 06/20 West Virginia Day in West Virginia 06/22 Corrective Movement in Yemen Democratic Republic 06/22 Midsummer Eve in Finland, Sweden 06/22 National Sovereignty Day in Haiti 06/23 National Holiday in Luxembourg 06/24 Battle of Carabobob in Venezuela 06/24 Fisherman's Day in Madagascar, Mozambique and Somalia 06/24 Kings Day in Spain 06/24 Peasants Day in Peru 06/24 St. Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec 06/28 Mothers Day in Central African Republic 06/29 Independence Day in Seychelles 06/30 Day of the Army in Guatemala 06/MonFirst Jefferson Davis's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi (1st Monday) 06/MonFirst Jefferson Davis's Birthday in Florida, Georgia, & S. Carolina 07/01 Canada Day 07/01 Freedom Day in Suriname 07/01 Independence Day in Burundi 07/01 National Day in Rwanda 07/01 Republic Day in Ghana 07/01 Union of the Somalia Republic in Somalia 07/02 National Day in Kiribati 07/04 Caribbean Day in Guyana 07/04 Constitution Day in Cayman Islands 07/04 Family Day in Lesotho 07/04 Heroes Day in Zambia 07/04 Kadooment Day in Barbados 07/04 Philippine-American Friendship Day in the Philippines 07/04 Warriors Day (2 days) in Yugoslavia 07/05 Day of Peace and Unity in Rwanda 07/05 Independence Day in Algeria and Venezuela 07/07 Anniversary of the P.U.N. in Equatorial Guinea 07/07 National Day in Malawi 07/07 Saba Saba Day in Tanzania 07/09 Independence Day in Argentina 07/10 Independence Day in Bahamas 07/11 National Holiday in the Mongolian People's Republic 07/12 Battle of Boyne celebrated in Northern Ireland 07/13 Buddhist Lent in Thailand 07/14 Anniversary of the Revolution in Iraq 07/14 French National Festival 07/14 National Holiday in Monaco 07/15 St. Swithin's Day 07/16 Presidents Day in Botswana 07/17 Constitution Day in South Korea 07/17 July Revolution in Iraq 07/17 Munoz Rivera's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico) 07/17 Public Holiday in Botswana 07/18 Constitution Day in Uruguay 07/18 Liberation Day in Nicaragua 07/19 Martyrs Day in Burma 07/20 Independence Day in Colombia 07/21 National Holiday in Belgium 07/22 King's Birthday in Swaziland 07/22 National Day in Poland 07/23 Anniversary of the Revolution in Egypt 07/23 Egyptian National Day in Syrian Arab Republic 07/23 Remembrance Day in Papua New Guinea 07/24 Pioneer Day in Utah 07/24 Simon Bolivar's Day in Ecuador and 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 Independence Days (2 days) in Peru 07/29 Olsok Eve in Norway to commemorate Norway's Viking King St. Olav 07/29 Rain Day in Waynesburg, PA 07/31 Revolution Day in Congo 07/MonThird Day of Sea in Japan 08/01 Discovery Day in Trinidad and Tobago 08/01 Emancipation Day in Granada 08/01 Founding of Asuncion in Paraguay 08/01 Freedom Day in Guyana 08/01 National Day in Switzerland 08/01 National Holidays (5 days) in El Salvador 08/01 Parent's Day in Zaire 08/02 Our Lady of Los Angeles in Costa Rica 08/03 Independence Day in Jamaica and Niger 08/03 Massacre of the Pidjiguiti in Guinea-Bissau 08/03 Memorial Day of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus 08/04 Freedom Day in Guyana 08/05* Bank Holiday in Scotland and Northern Ireland 08/06 Bank Holiday in British Columbia, Fiji, Iceland, Ireland, Ontario 08/06 Emancipation Day in Bahamas 08/06 Independence Day in Bolivia 08/07 Battle of Boyaca in Colombia 08/09 National Day in Singapore 08/10 Independence Day in Ecuador 08/11 Heroes Day (2 days) in Zimbabwe 08/11 Independence Day in Chad 08/11 King Hussein's Accession to the Throne in Jordan 08/12 Queen's Birthday in Thailand 08/13 Proclamation of Independence in Central African Republic 08/13 Women's Day in Tunisia 08/14 Independence Day in Pakistan 08/14 VJ Day, 1945 08/14 Waddi Dhahab in Morocco 08/15 Founding of Ascuncion in Paraguay 08/15 Independence Day in India 08/15 Liberation Day in South Korea 08/15 National Day in Congo 08/15 Santa Maria in Malta 08/16 Bennington Battle Day in Vermont 08/16 Independence Days (3 days) in Gabon 08/16 Restoration Day in Dominican Republic 08/17 Anniversary of the Death of General San Martin in Argentina 08/17 Independence Day in Indonesia 08/19 Independence Day in Afghanistan 08/20 Constitution Day in Hungary 08/24 National Flag Day in Liberia 08/25 Constitution Day in Paraguay 08/25 Independence Day in Uruguay 08/26 Susan B. Anthony Day in Massachusetts 08/26* Bank Holiday in England and Wales 08/27 Liberation Day in Hong Kong 08/28 Heroes Day in Philippines 08/30 Huey P. Long Day in Louisiana 08/30 Victory Day in Turkey 08/31 Independence Day (Merdeka) in Malaysia 08/31 Independence Day in Trinidad and Tobago 08/31 Pashtoonian Day in Afghanistan 08/FriThird Admission Day in Hawaii, 1959 (3rd Friday) 09/01 Army Day in Chile 09/03 Independence Day in Qatar 09/03 Memorial Day in Tunisia 09/06 Defense of Pakistan Day in Pakistan 09/06 Unification of Bulgaria 09/07 Independence Day in Brazil 09/09 Admission Day in California 09/09 National Day in North Korea 09/10 Korean Thanksgiving Day (Chusuk) in South Korea 09/10 Moon Festival in Taiwan 09/10 National Day in Belize 09/11 Anniversary of military coup in Chile 09/11 Ethiopian New Year in Ethiopia 09/11 National Holiday in Chile 09/12 Amilcar Cabral's Birthday in Guinea-Bissau 09/12 Defender's Day in Maryland 09/12 Revolution Day in Ethiopia 09/13 Barry Day commemorates the death of Commodore John Barry, USA 09/14 Battle of San Jacinto in Nicaragua 09/15 Foundation of Panama in Panama 09/16 Cherokee Strip Day in Oklahoma 09/16 Independence Days in Mexico and Papua New Guinea 09/17 National Heroes Day in Angola 09/18 Independence Day in Chile and Zimbabwe 09/19 Army Day in Chile 09/21 Independence Day in Belize 09/22 Independence Day in Mali 09/22 National Sovereignty Day in Haiti 09/22* Autumnal Equinox in Japan 09/23 Grito de Lares in Puerto Rico 09/23* Autumnal Equinox in Japan 09/24 Anniversary of the Third Republic in Ghana 09/24 Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau 09/24 National Day in Saudi Arabia 09/24 Our Lady of Mercedes in Dominican Republic 09/24 Republic Day in Trinidad and Tobago 09/25 Army Day in Mozambique 09/25 Referendum Day in Rwanda 09/26 National Day in Maldives 09/26 Revolution Anniversary Day in Yemen 09/27 Feast of Finding the True Cross in Ethiopia 09/28 Confucius' Day in Taiwan 09/29 Michaelmas 09/29 Battle of Boqueron in Paraguay 09/30 Botswana Day in Botswana 09/MonThird Respect for the Aged Day in Japan 10/01 Armed Forces Day in South Korea 10/01 Independence Day in Nigeria 10/01 National Liberation Day (2 days) in China 10/01 Public Holiday in Botswana 10/02 Anniversary of Guinean Independence in Guinea 10/03 Chung Yeung Festival in Hong Kong 10/03 Francisco Morazan's Birthday in Honduras 10/03 German Reunification Day 10/03 National Foundation Day in South Korea 10/03 U.N. Day in Barbados 10/04 Independence Day in Lesotho 10/05 Anniversary of Proclamation of the Republic in Portugal 10/06 National Sports Day in Lesotho 10/07 National Heroes Day in Jamaica 10/08 Battle of Agamos in Peru 10/08 Constitution Day in former USSR 10/08 Thanksgiving Day in Canada 10/08* Fiji Day 10/09 Independence Day in Uganda 10/09 Independence of Guayaquil in Ecuador 10/09 Korean Alphabet Day in South Korea 10/09 Leif Erikson Day commemorates the discovery of North America in AD 1000 10/09 Republic Day in Khmer Republic 10/10 National Day in Taiwan 10/10 Oklahoma Historical Day in Oklahoma 10/11 Day of the Revolution in Panama 10/12 Day of the Race in Argentina 10/12 Discovery Day in Bahamas 10/12 National Day in Equatorial Guinea and Spain 10/12 Our Lady Aparecida Day in Brazil 10/12 Pan American Day in Belize 10/14 National Day in Yemen Arab Republic 10/14 Young People's Day in Zaire 10/14* Thanksgiving Day in Canada 10/15 Evacuation Day in Tunisia 10/16 National Boss Day, USA 10/17 Dessaline's Death Anniversary in Haiti 10/17 Heroes Day in Jamaica 10/17 Mother's Day in Malawi 10/20 Anniversary of the 1944 Revolution in Guatemala 10/20 Kenyatta Day in Kenya 10/21 Armed Forces Day in Honduras 10/21 Revolution Days (2 days) in Somalia -10/23 Chulalongkron's Day in Thailand +10/23 King Chulalongkorn Day in Thailand 10/24 Independence Day in Zambia 10/24 United Nations Day 10/25 Taiwan Restoration Day in Taiwan 10/25 St. Crispin's day, patron saint of shoemakers 10/26 Agam Day in Nauru 10/26 Armed Forces Day in Benin and Rwanda 10/26 National Day in Austria 10/28 National Holiday in Greece 10/28 OHI Day in Cyprus 10/28* Bank Holiday in Republic of Ireland 10/29 Republic Day in Turkey 10/31 All Hallows Eve ("Halloween") 10/31 Nevada Day in Nevada 10/MonFourth Labour Day in New Zealand 10/MonSecond Health Sports Day in Japan 11/01 All Saints Day 11/01 Samhain; Beginning of the Celtic year and most important holiday. 11/02 All Souls Day 11/02 Memorial Day in Ecuador 11/03 Culture Day in Japan 11/03 Independence from Columbia in Panama 11/03 Independence of Cuenca in Ecuador 11/03 Thanksgiving Day in Liberia 11/04 Flag Day in Panama 11/04 Will Rogers Day, USA 11/06 Green March Day in Morocco 11/07 October Revolution Day in Hungary 11/08 Her Majesty, the Queen's Birthday in Nepal 11/10 King's Birthday in Bhutan 11/11 Angola gains independence from Portugal, 1975 11/11 Independence Day in Angola 11/11 Independence of Cartagena in Colombia 11/11 Remembrance Day in Canada 11/11 Republic Day in Maldives 11/14 King Hussein's Birthday in Jordan 11/15 Dynasty Day in Belgium 11/15 Proclamation of the Republic in Brazil 11/15 Thatlouang Festival in Laos 11/16 Oklahoma Heritage Week in Oklahoma 11/17 Army Day in Zaire 11/17 Corrective Movement in Syrian Arab Republic 11/18 Battle of Viertieres in Haiti 11/18 Independence Day in Morocco 11/18 National Days (4 days) in Oman 11/19 Anniversary of the 1968 Coup by the Army in Mali 11/19 Discovery Day in Puerto Rico 11/19 Feast Day of S.A.S. Prince Rainier in Monaco 11/19 Garifuna Settlement in Belize 11/20 Revolution Day in Mexico 11/22 Anniversary of Portuguese Aggression in Guinea 11/22 Independence Day in Lebanon 11/23 Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan 11/24 Anniversary of the New Regime in Zaire 11/25 Independence Day in Suriname 11/28 Independence Day in Albania and Mauritania 11/28 Independence from Spain in Panama 11/28 Proclamation of the Republic in Chad 11/29 Day of the Republic (2 days) in Yugoslavia 11/29 Goodwill Day in Liberia 11/29 Liberation Day in Albania 11/29 National Day in Burma 11/30 Independence Day in Barbados and Yemen Democratic Republic 11/30 National Day in Benin 11/30 National Heroes Day in Philippines 11/30 St. Andrew's Day - Patron Saint of Scotland 11/Wed+3 Day of Prayer and Repentance (Buss- und Bettag) in Federal Republic of Germany 12/01 Anniversary of the Restoration of Independence in Portugal 12/01 Union Day in Romania 12/01 Independence Day in Central African Republic 12/01 World AIDS Day 12/02 National Holiday in United Arab Emirates 12/03 National Holiday in Laos 12/05 King's Birthday in Thailand 12/06 Independence Day in Finland 12/07 Delaware Day in Delaware 12/07 Independence Day in Ivory Coast 12/07 Independence Day in Panama 12/08 Blessing of the Water in Uruguay 12/08 Mother's Day in Panama 12/08 Our Lady of the Cacupe in Paraguay 12/09 Independence Day in Tanzania 12/10 Foundation of Worker's Party in Angola 12/10 Human Rights Day 12/10 Thai Constitution Day in Thailand 12/10 Wyoming Day in Wyoming 12/11 Independence Day in Upper Volta 12/12 Independence Day in Kenya 12/13 Republic Day in Malta 12/15 Statue Day in the Netherlands Antilles 12/16 Constitution Day in Nepal 12/16 National Day in Bahrain 12/16 Victory Day in Bangladesh 12/17 National Day in Bhutan 12/18 Republic Day in Niger 12/23 Emperor's Birthday in Japan 12/23 Victory Day in Egypt 12/25 Birthday of Quaid-i-Azam in Pakistan 12/25 Children's Day in Congo 12/26 Boxing Day 12/26 Feast of Our Theotokos in Greece 12/26 St. Stephen's Day 12/26 Bank Holiday in Canada, Rep. of Ireland, and UK 12/27 Bank Holiday in Cayman Islands 12/27 Constitution Day in North Korea 12/27 Public Holiday in Lesotho, Zimbabwe 12/29 Civic Holidays (3 days) in Costa Rica 12/29 His Majesty, the King's Birthday in Nepal 12/30 Anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar in Madagascar 12/31 Bank Holiday in El Salvador, Honduras, Pakistan 12/31 Feed Yourself Day in Benin 12/31 Proclamation of the Republic in Congo #endif /* !_calendar_holiday_ */ Index: stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.music =================================================================== --- stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.music (revision 359201) +++ stable/11/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.music (revision 359202) @@ -1,240 +1,537 @@ /* * Music * * $FreeBSD$ */ #ifndef _calendar_music_ -#define _calendar_music_ +#define _calendar_music_ 01/01 Country Joe McDonald is born in El Monte, California, 1942 01/03 Steven Stills is born in Dallas, 1945 01/04 Jazz great Charlie Mingus dies at 57 in Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1979 +01/04 Josef Suk is born in Krecovice, Czechoslovakia, 1874 +01/06 Cesar Cui is born in Vilnius, Russia, 1835 +01/06 Max Bruch is born in Germany, 1838 +01/06 Alexander Scriabin is born in Moscow, 1872 +01/07 Francis Jean Poulenc is born in Paris, 1899 +01/08 Elvis Presley born in East Tupelo, Mississippi, 1935 01/08 David Bowie (then David Robert Jones) is born in London, 1947 -01/08 Elvis Presley born, 1935 +01/08 Arcangelo Corelli dies in Italy, 1713 01/09 James Patrick Page (Led Zeppelin) is born in Middlesex, England, 1945 01/10 Blues guitarist Howlin' Wolf dies in Chicago, 1976 01/10 Jim Croce is born in Philadelphia, 1943 01/10 Pat Benatar is born in Long Island, 1952 01/10 Rod Stewart is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1945 +01/11 David Bowie dies, 2016 +01/11 Maurice Durufle is born in Louviers, France, 1902 +01/11 Reinhold Gliere is born in Kiev, Russia, 1875 01/13 Eric Clapton plays the "Rainbow Concert" in London, 1973 +01/13 Daevid Allen (Gong) is born in Melbourne, 1938 01/17 Led Zeppelin's first album is released, 1969 01/19 Janis Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, 1943 +01/20 Walter Piston is born in Rockland, Maine, 1894 +01/20 Ernest Chausson is born in Paris, 1855 01/22 Sam Cooke is born in Chicago, 1935 +01/23 Edward MacDowell dies, 1908 01/24 Warren Zevon is born in Chicago, 1947 01/25 Bob Dylan plays the second "Hurricane" benefit, in the Astrodome, 1978 +01/25 Wilhelm Furtwangler is born in Berlin, 1886 +01/25 Witold Lutoslawski is born in Warsaw, Poland, 1913 01/27 Bobby "Blue" Bland (Robert Calvin Bland) is born in Tennessee, 1930 01/27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria, 1756 +01/27 Giuseppe Verdi dies, 1901 +01/27 Eduardo Lalo is born in Lille, France, 1823 01/28 Jimi Hendrix headlines Madison Square Garden, 1970 01/30 Lightnin' Hopkins, the most-recorded blues artist ever, dies, 1982 -01/31 Franz Schubert is born in Lichtenthal, Vienna, Austria, 1797 +01/30 Francis Jean Poulenc dies in Paris, 1963 +01/30 Thomas Tallis is born in England, 1505 01/31 The Grateful Dead are busted in New Orleans, 1970 +01/31 Franz Schubert is born in Lichtenthal, Vienna, Austria, 1797 02/01 RCA Victor unveils the 45 rpm record playing system, 1949 02/02 Graham Nash is born in Lancashire, England, 1942 -02/03 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy is born in Hamburg, Germany, 1809 +02/02 Lou Harrison dies in Lafayette, Indiana, en route to a festival + of his music at Ohio State University, 2003 +02/02 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina dies near Rome, 1594 02/03 The Day The Music Died; Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper are killed in a plane crash outside Mason City, Iowa, 1959 +02/03 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy is born in Hamburg, Germany, 1809 +02/03 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is born near Rome, 1525 +02/05 Jacques Ibert dies, 1962 02/07 Beatles land at JFK airport to begin first U.S. tour, 1964 02/07 Steven Stills makes the first digitally recorded rock album, 1979 +02/07 Witold Lutoslawski dies, 1994 +02/08 John Towner Williams born in New York City, 1932 +02/08 Giuseppe Torelli dies in Bologna, Italy, 1709 02/09 Carole King (Carole Klein) is born in Brooklyn, 1941 +02/09 Alban Berg is born in Vienna, Austria, 1885 02/12 The Beatles play Carnegie Hall in New York City, 1964 +02/12 Roy Harris is born, 1898 02/13 Richard Wagner dies in Venice, Italy, 1883 +02/14 Dmitri Kabalevsky dies in Moscow, 1987 +02/15 Michael Praetorius is born in Creuzburg (date uncertain), 1571 +02/15 Michael Praetorius dies, 1621 +02/15 Francois Charpentier is born in Paris, 1620 +02/15 William Howard Schuman dies, 1992 +02/15 Georges Auric is born in Herault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, 1899 +02/16 Francois Joseph Gossec dies near Paris, 1829 02/17 Jazz great Thelonius Monk dies in Englewood, New Jersey, 1982 +02/17 Arcangelo Corelli is born in Fusignano, Italy, 1653 02/18 Yoko Ono Lennon is born in Tokyo, 1933 02/19 Paul McCartney's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" is banned in Britain, 1972 02/19 William "Smokey" Robinson is born in Detroit, 1940 +02/19 Mikhail Glinka dies, 1857 02/20 J. Geils (J. Geils Band) is born, 1946 -02/20 Yes sells out Madison Square Garden...without advertising, 1974 +02/20 Yes sells out Madison Square Garden... without advertising, 1974 +02/20 Carl Czerny is born, 1791 +02/20 Percy Grainger dies in New York City, 1961 +02/21 Morton Gould dies, 1996 +02/21 Andres Segovia is born in Spain, 1893 02/23 George Friedrich Handel is born in Halle on the Saale, Germany, 1685 02/23 Johnny Winter is born in Leland, Mississippi, 1944 +02/23 Sir Edward William Elgar dies 1934 +02/24 Howard Hanson dies in Rochester, New York, 1981 02/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943 +02/27 Alexander Borodin dies, 1887 02/29 Jimmy Dorsey born, 1904 -03/01 Frederic Chopin is born in Zelazowa Wola, Warsaw, Poland, 1810 +02/29 Gioacchino Rossini is born in Pesaro, Italy, 1792 03/01 Jim Morrison is busted for obscenity in Miami, 1969 +03/01 Frederic Chopin is born in Zelazowa Wola, Warsaw, Poland, 1810 +03/02 Lou Reed born in Brooklyn, New York, 1942 03/02 Blues guitarist Rory Gallagher is born in Ballyshannon, Ireland, 1949 +03/02 Bedrich Smetana is born, 1824 03/03 Buffalo Springfield is formed in Los Angeles, 1966 03/04 Antonio Vivaldi born in Venice, Italy, 1678 +03/05 Sergei Prokofiev dies in Moscow within minutes of Stalin, 1953 +03/05 Heitor Villa-Lobos is born, 1887 +03/06 Zoltan Kodaly dies in Budapest, Hungary, 1967 +03/06 John Philip Sousa dies, 1932 +03/06 Edgard Varese's "Ionisation", the first musical composition to use + only percussion instruments, is premiered at Carnegie Hall, 1933 03/07 Last Gilbert & Sullivan opera produced, 1896 +03/07 Maurice Ravel is born in Ciboure, France, 1875 03/08 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) dies in California, 1973 -03/08 (Louis) Hector Berlioz dies in Paris, 1869 +03/08 Hector Berlioz dies in Paris, 1869 +03/08 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is born, 1714 +03/08 Carlo Gesuldo is born (date uncertain), 1566 +03/08 Alan Hovhaness is born in Somerville, Massachusetts, 1911 03/09 Robin Trower is born in London, 1945 +03/09 Johann Pachelbel dies in Nuremberg, Germany, 1706 +03/10 Arthur Honegger is born in Le Havre, France, 1892 +03/10 Pablo de Sarasate is born in Pamplona, Spain, 1844 +03/11 Astor Piazzolla is born in Argentina, 1921 03/13 The Allman Brothers record their live album at the Fillmore East, 1971 +03/13 Cesar Cui dies in Smolensk, Russia, 1918 +03/14 Georg Philipp Telemann is born in Magdeburg, 1681 03/15 Sly Stone born, 1944 +03/15 Daevid Allen (Gong) dies, 2015 +03/16 Enrique Granados drowns in the English Channel, 1916 03/17 Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane) is born in San Francisco, 1942 +03/18 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is born Tikhvin, Russia, 1844 +03/19 Max Reger is born in Brand, Germany, 1873 03/21 Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Germany, 1685 +03/21 Modest Mussorgsky is born in Karevo, Pskov (Russia), 1839 +03/21 Alexander Glazunov dies, 1936 03/22 Ten Years After plays their last concert, 1974 +03/22 Jean-Baptiste Lully dies, 1687 +03/22 Vaclav Nelhybel dies, 1996 03/25 Aretha Franklin is born in Detroit, 1943 03/25 Bela Bartok is born in Nagyszentmiklos, Hungary, 1881 -03/26 Emerson, Lake, and Palmer record "Pictures at an Exhibition" live, 1971 +03/25 Claude Debussy dies in Paris, France, 1918 to the sound of World War I 03/26 Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna, Austria, 1827 -03/28 Sergej Rachmaninow dies in Beverley Hills, 1943 -03/29 Carl Orff dies in Munich, Germany, 1982 +03/26 Emerson, Lake, and Palmer record "Pictures at an Exhibition" live, 1971 +03/27 Ferde Grofe is born in New York City, 1892 +03/28 Sergei Rachmaninoff dies in Beverly Hills, California, 1943 +03/28 Modest Mussorgsky dies, 1881 03/29 Dr. Hook gets a group picture on the cover of "Rolling Stone", 1973 +03/29 Carl Orff dies in Munich, Germany, 1982 03/30 Eric Clapton is born in Surrey, England, 1945 -03/31 Joseph Haydn is born in Rohrau, Austria, 1732 -04/01 Sergej Rachmaninow is born in Oneg, Russia, 1873 +03/31 Franz Joseph Haydn is born in Rohrau, Austria, 1732 +04/01 Sergei Rachmaninoff is born in Oneg, Russia, 1873 +04/01 Scott Joplin dies in New York City, 1917 04/02 Marvin Gaye is born in Washington, D.C., 1939 +04/03 Johannes Brahms dies in Vienna, Austria, 1897 +04/03 Ferde Grofe dies in Santa Monica, California, 1972 04/04 Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) is born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, 1915 +04/05 Louis Spohr is born in Braunschweig, Germany, 1784 +04/06 Igor Stravinsky dies in New York City, 1971 04/09 Paul Robeson born, 1898 04/10 Paul McCartney announces that he's quitting the Beatles, 1970 -04/14 George Friedrich Handel dies in London, England, 1759 +04/11 Alberto Ginastera is born in Buenos Aires, 1916 04/14 Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) is born, 1945 +04/14 George Friedrich Handel dies in London, England, 1759 +04/16 Jean-Joseph Mouret is born in Avignon, France, 1682 04/18 Yes breaks up after 13 years, 1981 +04/18 Ottorino Respighi dies in Rome, 1936 +04/18 Franz von Suppe is born in Split, Dalmatia (Croatia), 1819 +04/19 Germaine Tailleferre is born at Saint Maur Des Fosses, Ile-de-France, + France, 1892 +04/21 Randall Thompson is born, 1899 +04/22 Eduardo Lalo dies in Paris, 1892 +04/22 Giuseppe Torelli is born in Verona, Italy, 1658 04/25 Blues guitarist Albert King is born, 1925 04/25 Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918 04/26 Carol Burnett born in San Antonio, Texas, 1933 +04/27 Sergei Prokofiev is born in Sontsovka, Russia, 1891 +04/27 Oliver Messiaen dies, 1992 +04/27 Alexander Scriabin dies in Moscow from septicemia, 1915 04/29 "Hair" premiers on Broadway, 1968 +04/29 Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington is born in Washington, DC, 1899 05/01 Kate Smith born, 1909 -05/01 Antonin Dvorak dies in Prague, 1904 +05/01 Antonin Dvorak dies in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1904 +05/01 Aram Khachaturian dies in Moscow, 1978 +05/01 Leo Sowerby is born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1895 +05/02 Alessandro Scarlatti is born in Sicily, 1660 05/03 Bob Seger is born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945 +05/04 George Enescu dies in Paris, France, 1955 05/07 Johannes Brahms is born in Hamburg, Germany, 1833 -05/07 Tchaikowsky born, 1840 +05/07 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is born in Votkinsk, Russia, 1840 +05/07 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is premiered in the Karntnertortheater in + Vienna, Austria, 1824 +05/07 Antonio Salieri dies in Vienna, Austria, 1825 +05/09 Dietrich Buxtehude dies, 1707 05/10 Dave Mason is born in Worcester, England, 1945 -05/11 Bob Marley dies in his sleep in Miami, 1981 +05/11 Bob Marley dies in his sleep in Miami, Florida, 1981 +05/11 Max Reger dies in Leipzig, Germany, 1916 05/12 Pink Floyd performs the first quadrophonic concert, 1977 -05/18 Gustav Mahler dies in Vienna, Austria, 1911 +05/12 Jules Emile Frederic Massenet is born, 1842 +05/12 Berdrich Smetana dies, 1884 +05/14 Lou Harrison is born in Portland, Oregon, 1917 +05/17 Erik Satie is born in Honfleur, France, 1866 +05/17 Paul Dukas dies in Paris, France, 1935 05/18 Rick Wakeman is born in West London, England, 1949 +05/18 Gustav Mahler dies in Vienna, Austria, 1911 +05/18 Isaac Albeniz dies, 1909 05/19 Pete Townshend is born in London, 1945 +05/19 Charles Edward Ives is born in Danbury, Connecticut, 1874 05/20 The Jimi Hendrix Experience is signed by Reprise Records, 1967 +05/21 Franz von Suppe dies, 1895 05/22 Richard Wagner is born in Leipzig, Germany, 1813 05/23 Blues great Elmore James dies, 1963 +05/23 Jean Francaix is born, 1912 05/24 Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) is born in Duluth, 1941 -05/26 Al Jolson born, 1886 -05/31 Joseph Haydn dies in Vienna, Austria, 1809 +05/24 Duke Ellington dies, 1974 +05/24 Gabriel Faure is born in Pamiers, Ariege, Midi-Pyrenees, 1845 +05/25 Gustav Holst dies in London, 1934 +05/26 Al Jolson is born, 1886 +05/26 Luciano Berio dies, 2003 +05/27 Louis Durey is born in Paris, France, 1888 +05/27 Niccolo Paganini dies in Nice, Italy, 1840 +05/29 Igor Stravinsky's ballet "Le sacre du printemps" premiere sparks + riot in Paris, France, 1913 +05/29 Claude Debussy's ballet "L'Apres-midi d'un faune" premieres in + Paris, France, 1912 +05/29 Isaac Albeniz is born, 1860 +05/29 Erich Korngold is born in Brno, Austria-Hungary, 1897 +05/29 Josef Suk dies, 1935 05/31 The Who perform the loudest concert ever -- 76,000 watts of PA, 1976 +05/31 Franz Joseph Haydn dies in Vienna, Austria, 1809 06/01 The Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper", 1967 +06/01 Mikhail Glinka is born, 1804 +06/02 Edward William Elgar is born in Lower Broadheath, England, 1857 06/03 Georges Bizet dies in Bougival, Paris, France, 1875 +06/03 Aram Khachaturian is born in Tiflis, Georgia, 1903 +06/03 Andres Segovia dies in Madrid due to heart attack, 1987 +06/03 Johann Strauss II dies of pneumonia in Vienna, 1899 06/05 Carl Maria von Weber dies in London, England, 1826 +06/05 Orlando Gibbons dies, 1625 +06/05 Dee Dee Ramone dies, 2002 06/06 "Rock Around The Clock" makes Billboard's #1 slot, 1955 -06/06 Dee Dee Ramone dies, 2002 +06/06 Hanns Eisler is born in Leipzig, 1898 06/07 Blind Faith debuts in concert at London's Hyde Park, 1969 06/08 Robert Schumann is born in Zwickau, Germany, 1810 -06/09 Les Paul (Lester Polfus) is born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1923 +06/08 Hans Leo Hassler dies, 1612 +06/08 Gordon Jacob dies, 1984 +06/09 Les Paul (Lester Polsfuss) is born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1915 +06/09 Carl Nielsen is born in Sortelung, Denmark, 1865 06/10 Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett) is born in West Point, Mississippi, 1910 -06/10 Judy Garland born, 1922 +06/10 Judy Garland is born, 1922 +06/10 Ernest Chausson dies in Limary, Seine-et-Oise, France, 1899 06/11 Richard Strauss is born in Munich, Germany, 1864 -06/15 Edvard Grieg is born in Bergen, Norway, 1843 +06/12 John Ireland dies, 1962 +06/13 Carlos Chavez is born in Popotla, Mexico, 1899 06/15 Harry Nilsson is born in Brooklyn, 1941 +06/15 Edvard Hagerup Grieg is born in Bergen, Norway, 1843 +06/15 John Philip Sousa's march "The Washington Post" premiered, 1889 +06/15 Robert Russell Bennett is born, 1894 06/16 The Monterey Pop festival opens, 1967 +06/16 Maurice Durufle dies in Paris, France, 1986 +06/17 Igor Stravinsky is born in Oranienbaum (now Lomonosov), Russia, 1882 06/18 Paul McCartney born in Liverpool, England, 1942 +06/18 Richard Rogers is born in Long Island, New York, 1902 +06/20 Jacques Offenbach is born in Cologne, Germany, 1819 06/21 Columbia records announces the first mass production of LP's, 1948 +06/21 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov dies in Lyubensk, Russia, 1908 +06/21 Alan Hovhaness dies in Seattle, Washington, 2000 06/22 Todd Rundgren is born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, 1948 +06/22 Darius Milhaud dies in Geneva, Switzerland, 1974 +06/23 Reinhold Gliere dies, 1956 06/24 Jeff Beck is born in Surrey, England, 1944 +06/25 Alberto Ginastera dies in Geneva, Switzerland, 1983 +06/25 Georg Philipp Telemann dies in Hamburg, Germany, 1767 +06/25 Michael Joseph Jackson dies in Los Angeles, California, 2009 +06/27 Elvis Presley's last concert, 1977 06/27 John Entwistle dies in Las Vegas, 2002 +07/01 Erik Satie dies in Paris, France, 1925 07/02 Felix Pappalardi and Leslie West form Mountain, 1969 +07/02 Christoph Willibald Gluck is born in Erasbach, Upper Palatinate, + Bavaria, Germany, 1714 07/03 Jim Morrison dies in Paris, 1971 -07/06 The Jefferson Airplane is formed in San Francisco, 1965 +07/03 Louis Durey dies in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, 1979 +07/03 Leos Janacek is born in Hukvaldy, Moravia, 1854 +07/04 Astor Piazzolla dies, 1992 +07/05 Gordon Jacob is born, 1895 07/07 Gustav Mahler is born in Kalischt, Bohemia, 1860 +07/06 The Jefferson Airplane is formed in San Francisco, 1965 07/07 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) born in Liverpool, England, 1940 +07/07 Leo Sowerby dies in Port Clinton, Ohio, 1968 +07/08 Percy Grainger is born near Melbourne, Australia, 1882 +07/08 Hans Leo Hassler is born in Nuremberg, Germany, 1564 +07/09 Ottorino Respighi is born in Bologna, Italy, 1879 +07/09 Randall Thompson dies, 1984 07/10 Carl Orff is born in Munich, Germany, 1895 +07/11 George Gershwin dies in Hollywood, California, 1937 07/12 Chicago DJ Steve Dahl holds "Disco Demolition" at Kamisky Park, 1979 -07/14 Woodie Guthrie born, 1912 +07/13 Arnold Schoenberg dies in Los Angeles, California, 1951 +07/14 Woodie Guthrie is born, 1912 +07/15 Carl Czerny dies, 1857 +07/15 Ernest Bloch dies, 1959 07/16 Cream forms in the U.K., 1966 07/16 Harry Chapin dies on Long Island Expressway, 1981 07/17 "Yellow Submarine" premieres at the London Pavilion, 1968 07/20 Carlos Santana is born in Autlan, Mexico, 1947 +07/23 Georges Auric dies, 1983 +07/23 Domenico Scarlatti dies in Madrid, Spain, 1757 +07/24 Ernest Bloch is born, 1880 07/25 Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, 1965 07/25 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young debut at the Fillmore East, 1969 07/26 Mick Jagger is born in Kent, England, 1943 -07/28 Antonio Vivaldi dies in Vienna, 1741 -07/28 Johann Sebastian Bach dies in Leipzig, 1750 +07/26 JJ Cale (John Weldon Cale) dies in La Jolla, California, 2013 +07/27 Enrique Granados is born in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, 1867 +07/28 Johann Sebastian Bach dies in Leipzig, Germany, 1750 07/28 The Watkins Glen "Summer Jam" opens, 1973 +07/28 Antonio Vivaldi dies in Vienna, Austria, 1741 07/29 Robert Schumann dies in Endenich, Bonn, Germany, 1856 +07/31 Franz Liszt dies shortly before 11:30 in Bayreuth, Germany, 1886 08/01 The Concert for Bangla Desh takes place at Madison Square Garden, 1971 -08/04 John Lennon points out that "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus", 1966 +08/02 Carlos Chavez dies in the Coyoacan suburb of Mexico City, 1978 +08/04 John Lennon points out that "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus", + 1966 +08/04 William Howard Schuman is born in the Bronx, New York, 1910 +08/05 Guillaume Dufay is born near Brussels, 1397 (date uncertain) +08/09 Dmitri Shostakovich dies of lung cancer in Moscow, Russia, 1975 08/10 Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1947 +08/10 Alexander Glazunov is born in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1865 +08/12 Giovanni Gabrieli dies due to a kidney stone, 1612 +08/12 Maurice Greene is born in London, 1696 +08/12 Leos Janacek dies in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1928 08/13 Dan Fogelberg is born in Peoria, Illinois, 1951 +08/13 The Bayreuth Festspielhaus opens with the first complete + performance of Wagner's "Ring Cycle", 1876 +08/13 John Ireland is born, 1879 +08/13 Jules Emile Frederic Massenet dies, 1912 08/15 Beatles replace drummer Pete Best with Richard Starkey, 1962 08/15 The Beatles play Shea Stadium in New York, 1965 08/15 Woodstock Festival, Max Yasgur's farm, 1969 -08/16 Elvis Presley dies, 1977 -08/16 Madonna Louise Ciccone born in Bay City, Michigan, 1958 +08/15 Jacques Ibert is born, 1890 +08/16 Elvis Presley [allegedly] dies at Graceland, 1977 +08/17 Robert Russell Bennett dies, 1981 +08/18 Antonio Salieri is born in Legnago, Italy, 1750 +08/19 George Enescu is born in Leveni, Romania, 1881 08/21 Joe Strummer (The Clash), born John Mellor in Ankara, Turkey, 1952 +08/22 Claude Debussy is born in Yvelines, France, 1862 08/23 Keith Moon is born in London, England, 1946 +08/24 Paul Creston dies, 1985 +08/25 Leonard Bernstein is born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1918 08/26 Jimi Hendrix gives his last performance at the Isle of Wight, 1970 08/26 Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Studios opens in New York, 1970 +08/26 Ralph Vaughan Williams dies, 1958 +08/27 Josquin Des Prez dies in Conde, 1521 +08/29 Michael Joseph Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana, 1958 +09/01 Engelbert Humperdinck is born in Siegburg, Germany, 1854 09/04 Edvard Grieg dies in Bergen, Norway, 1907 +09/04 Anton Bruckner is born in Ansfelden, Austria, 1824 +09/04 Darius Milhaud is born in Aix-en-Provence, France, 1892 +09/06 Hanns Eisler dies in East Berlin, 1962 09/07 Keith Moon (The Who) dies in London of a drug overdose, 1978 -09/07 Warren Zevon dies in Los Angeles of lung cancer (mesothelioma), 2003 -09/08 Antonin Dvorak born in Nelahozeves, Bohemia, 1841 +09/07 Warren Zevon dies in Los Angeles, California, 2003 +09/08 Antonin Dvorak is born in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia, 1841 +09/08 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) is born in San Bruno, + California, 1945 09/08 Richard Strauss dies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 1949 -09/08 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) is born in San Bruno, California, 1945 +09/08 Carlo Gesualdo dies in Avellino in isolation, 1613 +09/08 Nicolas de Grigny is baptized, 1672 +09/11 Francois Couperin dies, 1733 +09/12 John-Philippe Rameau dies, 1764 +09/13 Arnold Schoenberg is born in Vienna, Austria, 1874 09/14 Francis Scott Key writes words to "Star Spangled Banner", 1814 +09/15 Anton Webern is shot dead by a drunk US soldier in Austria, 1945 +09/15 Horatio Parker is born in Auburndale, Massachusetts, 1863 09/16 B.B. King is born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, 1925 -09/18 Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) born in Fort Lee, Virginia, 1952 +09/16 Nadia Boulanger is born, 1887 +09/16 Hildegard von Bingen is born into family of nobles, 1098 +09/17 Hildegard von Bingen dies, 1179 +09/17 Franz Xaver Sussmayr dies, 1803 +09/18 Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) born in Fort Lee, Virginia, 1951 09/19 Simon & Garfunkel reunite to play New York's Central Park, 1981 09/20 Jim Croce dies in a plane crash, 1973 +09/20 Jean Sibelius dies in Ainola, Finland, 1957 +09/20 Pablo de Sarasate dies in Biarritz, France, 1908 +09/21 Gustav Holst is born in Cheltenham, England, 1874 +09/22 Wagner's "Das Rheingold" premiers at the Munich Court Theater, 1869 09/23 "Paul is dead" rumors sweep the country, 1969 09/23 Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen is born in Freehold, New Jersey, 1949 +09/24 Vaclav Nelhybel is born, 1919 09/25 John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) dies of alcohol poisoning, 1980 -09/26 Bela Bartok dies in New York, 1945 -09/26 George Gershwin is born in Brooklyn, NY, 1898 +09/25 Dmitri Shostakovich is born in St. Petersberg, Russia, 1906 +09/25 Jean Francaix dies, 1997 +09/25 John-Philippe Rameau is born in France, 1683 +09/26 Bela Bartok dies in New York City, 1945 +09/27 Engelbert Humperdinck dies, 1921 +09/26 George Gershwin is born in Brooklyn, New York, 1898 +09/30 Virgil Thomson dies, 1989 +10/01 Paul Dukas is born in Paris, France, 1865 +10/01 Roy Harris dies, 1979 +10/03 Carl Nielsen dies in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1931 10/04 Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose in Hollywood, 1970 -10/05 Steve Miller is born in Dallas, 1943 +10/05 Steve Miller is born in Dallas, Texas, 1943 +10/05 Jacques Offenbach dies in Paris, France, 1880 +10/05 Silvestre Revueltas dies in Mexico City, 1940 10/07 First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast, 1957 -10/09 John Entwistle is born in London, England, 1944 10/09 John Lennon born in Liverpool, England, 1940 +10/09 John Entwistle is born in London, England, 1944 +10/09 Camille Saint-Saens is born in Paris, 1835 10/10 John Prine is born in Maywood, Illinois, 1946 -10/12 Ray Conniff dies after falling down and hitting his head, 2002 +10/10 Paul Creston is born, 1906 +10/10 Giuseppe Verdi is born in Le Roncole, near Busseto, Italy, 1813 +10/11 Anton Bruckner dies in Vienna, Austria, 1896 10/12 The Jimi Hendrix Experience is formed in London, 1966 +10/12 Ray Conniff dies after falling down and hitting his head, 2002 +10/12 Ralph Vaughan Williams is born in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, 1872 +10/13 Paul Simon born, 1941 +10/14 Leonard Bernstein dies in New York City, 1990 10/16 Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) is born in San Francisco, 1947 10/17 "Hair" opens at New York's Public Theater, 1967 10/17 Frederic Chopin dies in Paris, France, 1849 10/18 Chuck Berry is born in St. Louis, Missouri, 1926 10/20 Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a plane crash, 1977 -10/21 Jesus Christ Super Star debuted on Broadway, 1971 -10/22 Franz Liszt born, 1811 +10/20 Charles Edward Ives dies in New York City, 1954 +10/20 Max Bruch dies, 1920 +10/21 "Jesus Christ Super Star" debuted on Broadway, 1971 +10/21 Sir Malcolm Arnold is born, 1921 +10/22 Franz Liszt born in Doborjan, Hungary, 1811 10/22 Pablo Casals dies in Puerto Rico, 1973 -10/25 Georges Bizet is born in Paris, France, 1838 +10/22 Nadia Boulanger dies, 1979 +10/22 Louis Spohr dies in Frankfurt, Germany, 1859 +10/24 Luciano Berio is born, 1925 +10/24 Alessandro Scarlatti dies in Naples, 1725 10/25 Jon Anderson (Yes) is born in Lancashire, England, 1944 10/25 The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, 1964 +10/25 Georges Bizet is born in Paris, France, 1838 +10/25 Johann Strauss II, "The Waltz King", is born in Vienna, 1825 +10/26 Domenico Scarlatti is born in Naples, Italy, 1685 +10/27 Niccolo Paganini is born in Genoa, Italy, 1782 +10/27 Lou Reed dies, 2013 +10/28 Howard Hanson is born in Wahoo, Nebraska, 1896 10/29 Duane Allman dies in motorcycle crash near Macon, Georgia, 1971 10/30 Grace Slick is born in Chicago, 1939 11/02 Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" enters US charts at #1, 1968 11/02 Keith Emerson is born, 1944 11/03 James Taylor and Carly Simon are married in Manhattan, 1972 11/04 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy dies in Leipzig, Germany, 1847 +11/04 Gabriel Faure dies from pneumonia in Paris, France, 1924 11/06 Ray Conniff born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, 1916 +11/06 John Philip Sousa, "The March King", is born, 1854 +11/06 Edgard Varese dies, 1965 +11/06 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky dies in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1893 11/07 Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) is born in Alberta, Canada, 1943 +11/07 Germaine Tailleferre dies in Paris, France, 1983 11/08 Patti Page born, 1927 11/09 The first issue of "Rolling Stone" is published, 1967 11/10 Greg Lake is born in Bournemouth, England, 1948 +11/10 Francois Couperin is born, 1668 11/12 Neil Young is born in Toronto, 1945 -11/13 Paul Simon born, 1942 +11/12 Walter Piston dies in Belmont, Massachusetts, 1976 +11/12 Alexander Borodin is born in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1833 +11/13 Gioacchino Rossini dies at his summer home in Passy, France, 1868 +11/14 Aaron Copland is born in Brooklyn, New York, 1900 +11/15 Christoph Willibald Gluck dies in Vienna, Austria, 1787 11/16 Bill Ham first demonstrates his psychedelic "Light Show", 1965 +11/17 Heitor Villa-Lobos dies, 1959 11/18 Carl Maria von Weber is born in Eutin, Germany, 1786 11/19 Franz Schubert dies in Vienna, Austria, 1828 11/20 Duane Allman is born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1946 11/20 Joe Walsh is born in Cleveland, 1947 -11/22 Saint Cecilia's day (patron saint of music) -11/24 Scott Joplin born, 1868 +11/21 Henry Purcell dies, 1695 +11/22 Benjamin Britten is born, 1913 +11/22 Barnardo Pasquini dies in Rome, 1710 +11/23 Thomas Tallis dies, 1585 +11/24 Scott Joplin born near Linden, Texas, 1867 11/25 "The Last Waltz" concert is played by The Band at Winterland, 1976 -11/25 Johann Strauss, Jr., writes `On the Beautiful Blue Danube', 1867 +11/25 Johann Strauss, Jr., writes 'On the Beautiful Blue Danube', 1867 +11/25 Virgil Thomson is born in Missouri, 1896 11/26 Cream performs their farewell concert at Royal Albert Hall, 1968 11/26 Paul Hindemith is born in Hanau, Germany, 1895 11/27 Jimi Hendrix (Johnny Allen Hendrix) is born in Seattle, 1942 +11/27 Guillaume Dufay dies in Cambrai, 1474 +11/27 Arthur Honegger dies near Paris, 1955 +11/28 Jean-Baptiste Lully is born in Florence, 1632 11/29 Pau Casals born in Vendrell, 1876 +11/29 Erich Korngold dies in Hollywood, 1957 +11/29 Giacomo Puccini dies due to throat cancer in Brussels, Belgium, 1924 11/30 George Harrison dies at 13:30 in L.A., 2001 +11/30 Wilhelm Furtwangler dies in Baden-Baden, Germany, 1954 +11/30 Nicolas de Grigny dies, 1703 +12/01 Jeremiah Clarke dies, 1707 +12/01 Maurice Greene dies, 1755 +12/02 Aaron Copland dies in Tarrytown (now Sleepy Hollow), New York, 1990 +12/03 Anton Webern is born in Vienna, Austria, 1883 12/04 Frank Zappa dies in his Laurel Canyon home shortly before 18:00, 1993 +12/04 Lord Benjamin Britten dies, 1976 12/05 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna, Austria, 1791 +12/05 JJ Cale (John Weldon Cale) is born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1938 12/06 First sound recording made by Thomas Edison, 1877 12/06 The Rolling Stones play Altamont Speedway near San Francisco, 1969 12/07 Harry Chapin is born in New York City, 1942 +12/07 Bernardo Pasquini is born in Tuscany, Italy, 1637 12/08 Jim Morrison is born in Melbourne, Florida, 1943 12/08 John Lennon is shot and killed in New York City, 1980 +12/08 Jean Sibelius is born in Hameenlinna, Finland, 1865 12/09 The Who's "Tommy" premieres in London, 1973 -12/11 (Louis) Hector Berlioz born in La-Côte-Saint-André, 1803 +12/10 Morton Gould is born in Richmond Hill, New York, 1913 +12/10 Oliver Messiaen is born in Avignon, France, 1908 +12/11 Hector Berlioz is born at La cote-Saint-Andre, France, 1803 12/13 Ted Nugent, the motor city madman, born in Detroit, 1949 +12/14 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach dies, 1788 12/15 Thomas Edison receives patent on the phonograph, 1877 12/16 Don McLean's "American Pie" is released, 1971 -12/17 Ludwig van Beethoven is christened in Bonn, 1770 +12/16 Zoltan Kodaly is born in Kecskemet, Hungary, 1882 +12/16 Camille Saint-Saens dies of pneumonia in Algiers, 1921 +12/17 Ludwig van Beethoven is born in Bonn, Germany, 1770 +12/18 Horatio Parker dies in Cedarhurst, New York, 1919 12/21 Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore, 1940 -12/23 First G&S collaboration, Thespis, 1871 +12/21 Silvestre Revueltas born in Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango, Mexico, 1899 +12/22 Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and Symphony No. 6 premier, under + rehearsed, at Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria, 1808 +12/22 Edgard Varese is born in France, 1883 +12/22 Jean-Joseph Mouret dies in Charenton, France, 1738 +12/22 Giacomo Puccini is born in Lucca, Italy, 1858 +12/23 First Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, Thespis, 1871 12/23 Joe Strummer (born John Mellor) dies in Broomfield, England, 2002 +12/23 Edward MacDowell is born in New York, 1860 +12/24 Alban Berg dies in Vienna, Austria, 1935 +12/24 John Dunstable dies, 1453 +12/25 John Philip Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever" composed, 1896 +12/25 Leonard Bernstein conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 to honor the + fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989, changing "freude" to "freedom" +12/25 Orlando Gibbons is born in Oxford, England, 1583 12/28 Edgar Winter is born in Beaumont, Texas, 1946 -12/28 Paul Hindemith dies in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 1963 +12/28 Paul Hindemith dies in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1963 +12/28 Maurice Ravel dies in Paris, France, 1937 +12/30 Dmitri Kabalevsky is born in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1904 +12/30 Richard Rogers dies, 1979 12/31 Jimi Hendrix introduces the Band of Gypsies at the Fillmore East, 1969 #endif /* !_calendar_music_ */ Index: stable/11 =================================================================== --- stable/11 (revision 359201) +++ stable/11 (revision 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