calendar(1): Updates and corrections for some calendar files.
These have an educational value and are, no doubt, an integral part of the fun behind running the BSDs. PR: 242909, 242918 MFC after: 1 week Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23581
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#ifndef _calendar_birthday_
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#define _calendar_birthday_
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#define _calendar_birthday_
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#undef unix
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01/01 J.D. Salinger born, 1919
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01/04 Jakob Grimm born, 1785
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01/04 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars
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01/05 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer
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01/06 Millard Fillmore's birthday (let's party!)
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01/07 Nikola Tesla died in the Hotel New Yorker room 3327, 1943
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01/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738
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01/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757?
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01/12 "Long" John Baldry is born in London, 1941
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01/13 Horatio Alger born, 1834
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01/13 Horatio Alger born, 1832
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01/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884
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01/13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws
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01/14 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875
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01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born
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01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born, 1929
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01/17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706
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01/19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809
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01/19 Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807
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01/20 George Burns born, 1898
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01/20 George Burns born, 1896
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01/20 Dr. Mendeleev died with a pen in his hand, 1907
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01/21 Lenin died, 1924
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01/21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824
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01/22 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561
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01/23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory
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01/23 Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin born, 1869
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01/23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899
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01/23 John Hancock born, 1737
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01/23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730
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02/06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952
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02/07 Sinclair Lewis born, 1885
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02/08 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography
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02/08 John von Neumann died, 1957
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02/08 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828
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02/09 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc.
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02/10 Charles Lamb born, 1775
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02/10 William Allen White born, 1868
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02/11 Thos. Edison born, 1847
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02/11 Thomas Edison born, 1847
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02/11 William Henry Fox Talbot (photographic pioneer) born, 1800
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02/12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809
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02/12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809
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02/15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564
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02/15 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820
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02/16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry
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02/17 Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone
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02/17 Frederic Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone
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02/17 Marion Anderson born, 1902
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02/17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874
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02/18 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer
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02/18 Michelangelo Buonarroti dies in Rome, Italy, 1564
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02/19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473
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02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer
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02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1844, atomic physics pioneer
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02/21 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass
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02/22 George Washington born, 1732
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02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun
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02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1824, found hydrogen in the sun
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02/23 W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868
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02/24 Winslow Homer born, 1836
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02/24 Steve Jobs born, 1955
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03/02 Dr. Seuss born, 1904
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03/04 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747
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03/05 John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982
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03/05 Joseph Stalin died in Moscow, 1953
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03/06 Michelangelo Buonarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1475
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03/07 Aristotle died, 322BC
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03/07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer
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03/08 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer
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03/08 Howard Aiken born, 1900
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03/11 Robert Treat Paine born, 1737
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03/11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890
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03/11 Douglas Adams born in Cambridge, England, 1952
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03/12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist
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03/12 Terry Pratchett (Sir) dies, 2015, author
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03/14 Albert Einstein born, 1879
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03/14 Casey Jones born, 1864
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03/14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer;
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named Mars "canals"
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03/14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist
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03/14 Karl Marx died, 1883
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03/15 Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson, 7th President of the United States,
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born in Waxhaw, South Carolina, 1767
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03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
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03/16 George Clymer born, 1739
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03/16 James Madison, 4th President of the United States, born in King George
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County, Virginia, 1751
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03/19 Arthur C. Clarke died in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2008
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03/21 NetBSD project born, 1993
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03/23 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
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03/24 Harry Houdini born, 1874
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03/26 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist
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03/26 David Packard died, 1996; age of 83
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03/27 Maurits Cornelis Escher died, 1972
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03/27 Stanislaw Lem died, 2006
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03/27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays
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03/28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
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03/30 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746
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03/30 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, died at the age of 101, 2002
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03/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880
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03/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853
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03/31 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher
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04/14 Christiaan Huygens born, 1629, physicist & astronomer;
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discovered Saturn's rings
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04/15 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452
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04/15 Leonhard Euler born in Basel, 1707
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04/16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889
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04/20 Adolf Hitler born, 1889
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04/22 Kant born, 1724
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04/22 Lenin born, the best friend of all the children, 1870
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04/23 William Shakespeare died, 1616
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04/26 William Shakespeare baptised, 1564
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04/27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist
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04/28 James Monroe, 5th President of the United States, born in Westmoreland
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County, Viriginia, 1758
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04/28 Terry Pratchett (Sir) born, 1948, author
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04/29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology
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04/29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863
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04/30 Karl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer
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05/02 Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903
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05/04 Alice Liddell born, 1852, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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& Through the Looking-Glass
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05/05 Karl Marx born, 1818
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05/09 Pinza died, 1957
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05/10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899
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05/11 Johnny Appleseed born, 1768
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05/29 Patrick Henry born, 1736
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05/30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908
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06/01 Brigham Young born, 1801
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06/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928
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06/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1926
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06/02 Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England, 1857
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06/03 Henry James born, 1811
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06/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848
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06/19 FreeBSD project born, 1993
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06/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903
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06/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949
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06/22 Konrad Zuse born in Berlin, 1919
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06/22 Konrad Zuse born in Berlin, 1910
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06/23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912
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06/25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903
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06/27 Helen Keller born, 1880
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07/07 P.T. Barnum dies, 1891
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07/08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838
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07/10 John Calvin born, 1509
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07/10 Nikola Tesla born, 1856
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07/11 John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States, born in
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Braintree, Massachusetts, 1767
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07/12 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817
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07/15 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from
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Saint Nicholas"
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07/18 Brian Auger is born in London, 1939
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07/20 Alexander the Great born, 356 BC
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07/20 Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong, 1973
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07/25 Robert Morris is born in Boston, 1932
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07/25 Steve Goodman is born in Chicago, 1948
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07/29 Mussolini born, 1883
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07/30 Emily Bronte born, 1818
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07/30 Henry Ford born, 1863
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08/01 Herman Melville born, 1819
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08/03 Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966
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08/05 Friedrich Engels died, 1895
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08/06 Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died after a long struggle with cancer, 2002
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08/06 Jonathan B. Postel is born in Altadena, California, 1943
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08/08 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937
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08/12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955
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08/13 Alfred Hitchcock born, 1899
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08/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860
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08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927
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08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1926
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08/17 Mae West born, 1892
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08/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1774
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08/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
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08/27 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908
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08/29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist
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08/30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907
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09/02 J.R.R. Tolkien died, 1973
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09/05 King Louis XIV of France born, 1638
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09/05 Raquel Welch born, 1942
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09/06 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909
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09/09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976
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09/09 Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie, creator of C, born, 1941
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09/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913
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09/12 Stanislaw Lem born in Lwow, Poland, 1921
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09/13 Walter Reed born, 1851
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09/15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890
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09/16 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914
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09/17 Ken Kesey born in La Junta, CO, 1935
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09/18 Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky born, 1857, father of rocket flight
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09/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905
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09/18 Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970
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09/18 Leonhard Euler died in St. Petersburg, 1783
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09/19 President Garfield dies of wounds in Elberon, N.J., 1881
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09/19 Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky died, Russian SFSR, 1935
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09/20 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878
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09/21 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866
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09/21 Louis Joliet born, 1645
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Massachusetts 1735.
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10/31 Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887
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10/31 Dale Evans born, 1912
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11/01 Joseph Stalin's burial, 1961
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11/02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734
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11/04 King William III of Orange born, 1650
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11/05 Roy Rogers born, 1912
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11/09 Carl Sagan born, 1934
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11/10 Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483
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11/10 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982
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11/11 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky born in Moscow, Russia, 1821
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11/11 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922
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11/13 Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850
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11/13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354
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11/20 Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK) born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1925
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11/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922
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11/26 Norbert Wiener born in Columbia, Missouri, 1894
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11/27 Bruce Lee born in San Francisco, 1940
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11/28 Friedrich Engels born, 1820
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11/28 Joe Ossanna died, 1977
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11/29 John Mayall is born in Cheshire, England, 1933
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11/30 Cleopatra died, 30 BC
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11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835
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11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835
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12/01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935
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12/04 Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976
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12/05 Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States, born in
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12/05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901
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12/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC
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12/08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894
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12/10 Emily Dickenson born, 1830
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12/10 Emily Dickinson born, 1830
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12/12 E.G. Robinson born, 1893
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12/14 George Washington dies, 1799
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12/16 Arthur C. Clarke born in Somerset, England, 1917
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12/17 William Safire (Safir) born, 1929
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12/18 Konrad Zuse died in Hünfeld, 1995
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12/20 Carl Sagan died, 1996
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12/21 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804
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12/22 Giacomo Puccini born, 1858
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12/22 Joseph Vissarionnovich Djugashvili (Stalin) born, 1879
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12/22 Samuel Beckett dies in Paris, 1989
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12/23 Joseph Smith born, 1805
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12/25 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642
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12/26 Chas. Babbage born, 1791
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12/28 John von Neumann born, 1903
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12/29 Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin assasinated, 1916
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#endif /* !_calendar_birthday_ */
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*/
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#ifndef _calendar_history_
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#define _calendar_history_
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#define _calendar_history_
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01/01 Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba
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01/01 Castro expels Cuban President Batista, 1959
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01/01 Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech, 1947
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01/01 First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902
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01/02 Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve
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Niagara Falls, 1929
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01/03 Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers
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over Italy, 1925
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01/03 Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British
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Prime Minister in the 20th Century, 1988
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01/04 Burma becomes independent from United Kingdom, 1948
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01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
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01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
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01/05 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940
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01/05 Twelfth night
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01/06 Millard Fillmore's birthday (let's party!)
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01/06 Maria Montessori opens her first school in Rome, 1907
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01/07 First transatlantic telephone call, 1927
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01/08 Battle of New Orleans
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01/08 Monaco gains its independence, 1297
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01/09 Plough Monday
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01/10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946
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01/10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776
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01/11 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal
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01/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
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01/11 The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963
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01/12 Batman the TV series debuts on ABC, 1966
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01/13 Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance, 1930
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01/14 The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967
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01/15 Angola becomes an independent state, 1975
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01/16 Prohibition begins, 1920
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01/16 The Medici family are made official bankers of the Papacy, 1412
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01/17 Captain James Cook becomes the first explorer to cross the
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Antarctic Circle, 1773
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01/18 Grey whale migration, California
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01/18 The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time, 1896
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01/19 The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant, 1978
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01/20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)
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01/21 First commercial flight with a Concorde, 1976
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01/22 British colonists reach New Zealand, 1840
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01/23 The Royal Exchange opens in London, 1571
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01/23 The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in
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the Netherlands, 1579
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01/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922
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01/24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848
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01/24 Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement, 1908
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01/25 The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits
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the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada, 1791
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01/26 Sydney, New South Wales settled, 1788
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01/27 Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967
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01/27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973
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01/28 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff
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killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe,
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1986
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01/28 The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the
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Panama Railway, 1855
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01/29 Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, the last monarch of
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Hawaii, 1891
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01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948
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01/30 Tet Offensive, 1968
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01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961
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01/31 Dmitry Mendeleev established optimal alcohol-water mixture ratio
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in his PhD work on alcohol-water mixtures, 1865
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01/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered
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01/31 Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp
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01/31 Irving Langmuir invented tungsten filament lamp, 1881
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02/01 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954
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02/01 Forces led by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979
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02/01 Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrates 15 minutes before landing
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killing Husband, McCool, Chawla, Clark, Ramon, Brown, and Anderson, 2003
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02/02 Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament, 1933
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02/03 The first commercial cheese factory is founded in Switzerland, 1815
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02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969
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02/04 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974
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02/05 Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of
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the United Arab Republic, 1958
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02/06 Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand, 1840
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02/07 The British Labour Party is formed, 1900
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02/08 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq
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02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
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02/12 US President Abraham Lincoln's real birthday
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02/09 Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation, 1621
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02/10 New Delhi becomes the capital of India, 1931
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02/11 Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of
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the Kalmar Union, 1814
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02/12 China adopts the Gregorian calendar, 1912
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02/12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969
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02/13 France tests its first atomic bomb in Algeria, 1960
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02/14 Bombing of Dresden, 1945
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02/15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970
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02/16 Nylon patented, 1937
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02/16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804
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02/17 The first ship passes through the Suez Canal, 1867
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02/18 Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech, 1943
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02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930
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02/19 Serfdom is abolished in Russia, 1861
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02/19 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945
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02/20 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia
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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
|
||||
03/01 The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded, 1565
|
||||
03/02 Blackthorn winds (New England)
|
||||
03/04 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.
|
||||
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
|
||||
@ -152,19 +273,35 @@
|
||||
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
|
||||
@ -173,16 +310,21 @@
|
||||
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
|
||||
@ -190,47 +332,83 @@
|
||||
06/26 Toothbrush invented, 1498
|
||||
06/27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915
|
||||
06/27 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971
|
||||
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
|
||||
06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia, 1908
|
||||
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
|
||||
@ -240,23 +418,32 @@
|
||||
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
|
||||
@ -264,11 +451,14 @@
|
||||
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
|
||||
@ -279,26 +469,32 @@
|
||||
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
|
||||
@ -310,24 +506,33 @@
|
||||
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,
|
||||
@ -336,10 +541,14 @@
|
||||
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
|
||||
@ -349,6 +558,7 @@
|
||||
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
|
||||
@ -360,6 +570,8 @@
|
||||
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
|
||||
@ -367,29 +579,42 @@
|
||||
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
|
||||
@ -401,8 +626,11 @@
|
||||
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
|
||||
@ -411,65 +639,104 @@
|
||||
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_ */
|
||||
|
||||
@ -5,236 +5,533 @@
|
||||
*/
|
||||
|
||||
#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
|
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02/27 Alexander Borodin dies, 1887
|
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02/29 Jimmy Dorsey born, 1904
|
||||
03/01 Frederic Chopin is born in Zelazowa Wola, Warsaw, Poland, 1810
|
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02/29 Gioacchino Rossini is born in Pesaro, Italy, 1792
|
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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
|
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03/06 Zoltan Kodaly dies in Budapest, Hungary, 1967
|
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03/06 John Philip Sousa dies, 1932
|
||||
03/06 Edgard Varese's "Ionisation", the first musical composition to use
|
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only percussion instruments, is premiered at Carnegie Hall, 1933
|
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03/07 Last Gilbert & Sullivan opera produced, 1896
|
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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
|
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10/05 Steve Miller is born in Dallas, Texas, 1943
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10/05 Jacques Offenbach dies in Paris, France, 1880
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10/05 Silvestre Revueltas dies in Mexico City, 1940
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10/07 First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast, 1957
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10/09 John Entwistle is born in London, England, 1944
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10/09 John Lennon born in Liverpool, England, 1940
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10/09 John Entwistle is born in London, England, 1944
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10/09 Camille Saint-Saens is born in Paris, 1835
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10/10 John Prine is born in Maywood, Illinois, 1946
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10/12 Ray Conniff dies after falling down and hitting his head, 2002
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10/10 Paul Creston is born, 1906
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10/10 Giuseppe Verdi is born in Le Roncole, near Busseto, Italy, 1813
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10/11 Anton Bruckner dies in Vienna, Austria, 1896
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10/12 The Jimi Hendrix Experience is formed in London, 1966
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10/12 Ray Conniff dies after falling down and hitting his head, 2002
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10/12 Ralph Vaughan Williams is born in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, 1872
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10/13 Paul Simon born, 1941
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10/14 Leonard Bernstein dies in New York City, 1990
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10/16 Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) is born in San Francisco, 1947
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10/17 "Hair" opens at New York's Public Theater, 1967
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10/17 Frederic Chopin dies in Paris, France, 1849
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10/18 Chuck Berry is born in St. Louis, Missouri, 1926
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10/20 Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a plane crash, 1977
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10/21 Jesus Christ Super Star debuted on Broadway, 1971
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10/22 Franz Liszt born, 1811
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10/22 Pau (Pablo) Casals dies in Puerto Rico, 1973
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10/25 Georges Bizet is born in Paris, France, 1838
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10/20 Charles Edward Ives dies in New York City, 1954
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10/20 Max Bruch dies, 1920
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10/21 "Jesus Christ Super Star" debuted on Broadway, 1971
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10/21 Sir Malcolm Arnold is born, 1921
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10/22 Franz Liszt born in Doborjan, Hungary, 1811
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10/22 Pablo Casals dies in Puerto Rico, 1973
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10/22 Nadia Boulanger dies, 1979
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10/22 Louis Spohr dies in Frankfurt, Germany, 1859
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10/24 Luciano Berio is born, 1925
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10/24 Alessandro Scarlatti dies in Naples, 1725
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10/25 Jon Anderson (Yes) is born in Lancashire, England, 1944
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10/25 The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, 1964
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10/25 Georges Bizet is born in Paris, France, 1838
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10/25 Johann Strauss II, "The Waltz King", is born in Vienna, 1825
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10/26 Domenico Scarlatti is born in Naples, Italy, 1685
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10/27 Niccolo Paganini is born in Genoa, Italy, 1782
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10/27 Lou Reed dies, 2013
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10/28 Howard Hanson is born in Wahoo, Nebraska, 1896
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10/29 Duane Allman dies in motorcycle crash near Macon, Georgia, 1971
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10/30 Grace Slick is born in Chicago, 1939
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11/02 Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" enters US charts at #1, 1968
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11/02 Keith Emerson is born, 1944
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11/03 James Taylor and Carly Simon are married in Manhattan, 1972
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11/04 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy dies in Leipzig, Germany, 1847
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11/04 Gabriel Faure dies from pneumonia in Paris, France, 1924
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11/06 Ray Conniff born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, 1916
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11/06 John Philip Sousa, "The March King", is born, 1854
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11/06 Edgard Varese dies, 1965
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11/06 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky dies in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1893
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11/07 Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) is born in Alberta, Canada, 1943
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11/07 Germaine Tailleferre dies in Paris, France, 1983
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11/08 Patti Page born, 1927
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11/09 The first issue of "Rolling Stone" is published, 1967
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11/10 Greg Lake is born in Bournemouth, England, 1948
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11/10 Francois Couperin is born, 1668
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11/12 Neil Young is born in Toronto, 1945
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11/13 Paul Simon born, 1942
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11/12 Walter Piston dies in Belmont, Massachusetts, 1976
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11/12 Alexander Borodin is born in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1833
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11/13 Gioacchino Rossini dies at his summer home in Passy, France, 1868
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11/14 Aaron Copland is born in Brooklyn, New York, 1900
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11/15 Christoph Willibald Gluck dies in Vienna, Austria, 1787
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11/16 Bill Ham first demonstrates his psychedelic "Light Show", 1965
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11/17 Heitor Villa-Lobos dies, 1959
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11/18 Carl Maria von Weber is born in Eutin, Germany, 1786
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11/19 Franz Schubert dies in Vienna, Austria, 1828
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11/20 Duane Allman is born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1946
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11/20 Joe Walsh is born in Cleveland, 1947
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11/22 Saint Cecilia's day (patron saint of music)
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11/24 Scott Joplin born, 1868
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11/21 Henry Purcell dies, 1695
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11/22 Benjamin Britten is born, 1913
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11/22 Barnardo Pasquini dies in Rome, 1710
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11/23 Thomas Tallis dies, 1585
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11/24 Scott Joplin born near Linden, Texas, 1867
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11/25 "The Last Waltz" concert is played by The Band at Winterland, 1976
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11/25 Johann Strauss, Jr., writes `On the Beautiful Blue Danube', 1867
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11/25 Johann Strauss, Jr., writes 'On the Beautiful Blue Danube', 1867
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11/25 Virgil Thomson is born in Missouri, 1896
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11/26 Cream performs their farewell concert at Royal Albert Hall, 1968
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11/26 Paul Hindemith is born in Hanau, Germany, 1895
|
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11/27 Jimi Hendrix (Johnny Allen Hendrix) is born in Seattle, 1942
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11/29 George Harrison dies at 13:20 in Los Angeles, California, 2001
|
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11/27 Guillaume Dufay dies in Cambrai, 1474
|
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11/27 Arthur Honegger dies near Paris, 1955
|
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11/28 Jean-Baptiste Lully is born in Florence, 1632
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11/29 Pau Casals born in Vendrell, 1876
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11/29 Erich Korngold dies in Hollywood, 1957
|
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11/29 Giacomo Puccini dies due to throat cancer in Brussels, Belgium, 1924
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11/30 George Harrison dies at 13:30 in L.A., 2001
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11/30 Wilhelm Furtwangler dies in Baden-Baden, Germany, 1954
|
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11/30 Nicolas de Grigny dies, 1703
|
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12/01 Jeremiah Clarke dies, 1707
|
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12/01 Maurice Greene dies, 1755
|
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12/02 Aaron Copland dies in Tarrytown (now Sleepy Hollow), New York, 1990
|
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12/03 Anton Webern is born in Vienna, Austria, 1883
|
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12/04 Frank Zappa dies in his Laurel Canyon home shortly before 18:00, 1993
|
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12/04 Lord Benjamin Britten dies, 1976
|
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12/05 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna, Austria, 1791
|
||||
12/05 JJ Cale (John Weldon Cale) is born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1938
|
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12/06 First sound recording made by Thomas Edison, 1877
|
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12/06 The Rolling Stones play Altamont Speedway near San Francisco, 1969
|
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12/07 Harry Chapin is born in New York City, 1942
|
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12/07 Bernardo Pasquini is born in Tuscany, Italy, 1637
|
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12/08 Jim Morrison is born in Melbourne, Florida, 1943
|
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12/08 John Lennon is shot and killed in New York City, 1980
|
||||
12/08 Jean Sibelius is born in Hameenlinna, Finland, 1865
|
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12/09 The Who's "Tommy" premieres in London, 1973
|
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12/11 (Louis) Hector Berlioz born in La-Côte-Saint-André, 1803
|
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12/10 Morton Gould is born in Richmond Hill, New York, 1913
|
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12/10 Oliver Messiaen is born in Avignon, France, 1908
|
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12/11 Hector Berlioz is born at La cote-Saint-Andre, France, 1803
|
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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
|
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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
|
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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
|
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fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989, changing "freude" to "freedom"
|
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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
|
||||
12/29 Pau (Pablo) Casals born in Vendrell, 1876
|
||||
12/28 Paul Hindemith dies in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1963
|
||||
12/28 Maurice Ravel dies in Paris, France, 1937
|
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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
|
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