minix/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history
Thomas Cort 3ab548a3d9 usr.bin/calendar: re-sync with upstream.
Jenkins was failing on usr.bin/calendar/calendar.c:386:6: with
"error: 'fd' may be used uninitialized in this function"
when the level of error checking was turned up.

The error was recently fixed upstream. This commit updates
calendar.c to upstream rev 1.50, updates calendar files too.

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01/01 Julian Calendar takes effect, 45 BC
01/01 Haitian Independence Proclaimed, 1803
01/01 Emancipation Proclamation enters effect, 1863
01/01 United Nations created, 1942
01/02 Reconquest of Spain completed, 1492
01/02 Russian Fleet surrenders to Japan at Port Arthur, 1905
01/03 Martin Luther excommunicated, 1521
01/03 Emperor Meiji Restored to throne in Japan, 1868
01/04 Single European Currency debuts, 1999
01/04 New York Stock Exchange opens first permanent headquarters, 1865
01/04 Burma becomes independent, 1948
01/05 Prague Spring begins, 1968
01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
01/05 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940
01/06 Harold Godwinson crowned King Harold II of England, 1066
01/06 Electric Telegraph first tested by Samuel Morse, 1838
01/07 Pol Pot overthrown, 1979
01/07 Calais, last continental holding of England, falls to France, 1558
01/08 Major General Andrew Jackson leads US troops to victory at
Battle of New Orleans, 1815
01/09 Cruise ship RMS Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire, 1972
01/10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946
01/10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776
01/10 League of Nations instituted, 1920
01/10 Lend-Lease Act introduced, 1941
01/11 Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 1878
01/11 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California, 1935
01/12 Zulu War begins, 1879
01/12 Siege of Leningrad ends, 1943
01/12 Santa Clara, California founded, 1777
01/13 First live radio concert broadcast, by Enrico Caruso,
broadcast from New York, 1910
01/14 United Nations condemns Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1980
01/14 Treaty of Paris ratified by Continental Congress, officially
establishing independent United States, 1784
01/15 Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England, 1559
01/16 Prohibition takes effect, 1919
01/16 Reza Shah Pallavi flees Iran, 1979
01/16 First Persian Gulf War begins, 1991
01/16 Chevy Corvette introduced, 1953
01/17 Over $2 million stolen in "Great Brinks Robbery" in Boston, 1950
01/18 James Cook discovers Hawaii, 1778
01/18 Robert Falcon Scott reaches South Pole, 1912
01/18 First Australian penal colony established, 1788
01/19 Indira Ghandi becomes Prime Minister of India, 1966
01/19 First college basketball game played, Chicago beats Iowa 15-12, 1896
01/20 Hong Kong ceded to Britain, 1841
01/20 US Hostages released from Iran, 1981
01/21 First commercial flight of Concorde SST, 1976
01/21 King Louis XVI executed, 1793
01/22 First British colonists arrive in New Zealand, 1840
01/22 First Russian Revolution begins, 1905
01/22 Battle of Tobruk concludes, 1941
01/23 USS Pueblo seized by North Korea, 1968
01/23 First insulin injection for diabetes, 1922
01/23 Peace treaty ending Vietnam war announced, 1973
01/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922
01/24 Joseph Marshall finds Gold at Sutter's Mill in California, 1848
01/24 Last IJA soldier captured in Guam, 1972
01/24 The Pleasure Garden, first Alfred Hitchcock film opens in London, 1927
01/25 First Winter Olympics held in Charmonix, 1924
01/25 Reporter Nellie Bly arrives in New York, completing
circumnavigation of the globe in 72 days, 6 hours, 11
minutes, 1890
01/26 Republic of India founded, 1950
01/26 Barcelona falls to Nationalist forces, 1939
01/26 Auschwitz liberated, 1945
01/26 Sydney settled, 1788
01/27 Somali dictator Muhammad Siyad Barre flees country, 1991
01/27 Grissom, White and Chaffe die in fire aboard Apollo I, 1967
01/27 Paris Peace Accords signed, ending Vietnam War, 1973
01/28 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff
killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe,
1986
01/29 Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove premieres, 1964
01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi, 1948
01/30 King Charles I executed by Cromwell's forces, 1649
01/30 Tet Offensive begins, 1968
01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961
01/31 Explorer I launched, resulting in discovery of Van Allen Belt, 1958
02/01 "Secret Storm", first TV soap opera airs, 1954
02/01 Forces lead by the Ayatollah Khomeini take over Iran, 1979
02/01 Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrates over Texas
during re-entry killing Husband, Anderson, Brown, Chawla,
Clark, McCool, Ramon, 2003
02/01 First session of the United States Supreme Court, 1790
02/01 First automobile insurance policy issued by Travellers
Insurance of Hartford, CT, 1898
02/01 Land battle of Guadalcanal ends with Japanese evacuation after
seven months of fighting, 1943
02/02 Mexican-American war ends with signing of Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo, 1848
02/02 Last German troops in Stalingrad surrender, 1943
02/03 Soviet probe Lunik 9 makes first controlled landing on Moon, 1966
02/03 Sixteenth Amendment to US Constitution, establishing first Federal
Income Tax, takes effect, 1913
02/04 George Washington elected first President of the United States, 1789
02/04 Confederate States of America formed, 1861
02/04 Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet at Yalta to determine
shape of post-war Europe, 1945
02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969
02/04 James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans published, 1826
02/05 New Mexican Constitution proclaimed, founding modern nation
of Mexico, 1917
02/05 First Walk/Don't Walk sign installed, New York City, 1952
02/05 Last Soviet troops pull out of Kabul, 1989
02/06 John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men published, 1937
02/07 Beatles arrive in New York, 1964
02/07 Great Baltimore Fire begins, 1904
02/07 Bruce McCandless completes first untethered spacewalk, 1984
02/07 Maastricht Treaty signed, establishing European Union, 1992
02/07 Soviet Communist Party relinquishes monopoly on political power, 1990
02/08 Mary Queen of Scots beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle, 1587
02/08 Russo-Japanese war begins with surprise naval attack on
Port Arthur by Japanese forces, 1904
02/09 First US combat troops arrive in Vietnam, 1965
02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
02/10 Seven Years' War ends, 1763
02/11 Japan becomes fourth nation to complete successful space
launch, 1970
02/11 Nelson Mandela freed, 1990
02/12 Last Emperor of China abdicates throne, 1912
02/12 Anatoly Scharansky released from Soviet prison camp, 1986
02/12 George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue debuts, 1924
02/13 William and Mary proclaimed King and Queen of England after
Glorious Revolution, 1689
02/14 Sandinistas agree to free elections in Nicaragua, 1989
02/14 Battle of the Kasserine Pass, 1943
02/15 Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces, 1942
02/15 USS Maine explodes in Havana harbor, leading to Spanish-American
war, 1898
02/15 Canadian Maple-Leaf Flag adopted, 1965
02/16 Nylon patented, 1937
02/16 Raiding party led by Stephen Decatur burns captured US
frigate in Tripoli harbor, 1804
02/16 Fidel Castro sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba, 1959
02/17 China invades Vietnam, resulting in nine days of fighting
before Chinese retreat, 1979
02/18 Charleston, SC surrendered to Union forces, 1865
02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930
02/19 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945
02/19 First prototype Ford Thunderbird completed, 1954
02/19 Donner Party rescued after four months, 1847
02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962
02/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916
02/21 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878
02/21 Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto published, 1848
02/21 Richard Nixon arrives in China for historic eight-day visit, 1972
02/22 Walt Disney's Cinderella opens, 1950
02/23 US Flag raised over Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, 1945
02/24 Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868
02/24 Tet Offensive ends with recapture of Hue by US and South
Vietnamese forces, 1968
02/24 Ground offensive begins in first Gulf War, 1991
02/25 Ferdinand Marcos flees the Philippines, 1986
02/25 Bloodless coup leads to Communist government in Czechoslovakia, 1948
02/26 World Trade Center bombed, killing 6, 1993
02/26 Free elections held in Nicaragua, Sandinistas ousted, 1990
02/27 Reichstag building burns, 1933
02/27 Kuwait liberated, ending offensive ground operations in First Gulf War, 1991
02/28 The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972
02/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA kills 56 as part of
Queen Anne's War, 1704
03/01 Yellowstone National Park established by President Grant, 1872
03/01 Peace Corps established by President Kennedy, 1961
03/01 Twenty-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh kidnapped and killed, 1932
03/02 Texas declares independence from Mexico, 1836
03/02 Importation of slaves into United States prohibited, 1807
03/02 Pioneer 10 launched to explore Jupiter and beyond, 1973
03/02 Soviet and Chinese troops clash along Ussuri river, 1969
03/03 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ends Russian participation in First
World War, 1918
03/03 Finland declares war on Germany, 1945
03/04 United States Constitution takes effect, and Congress meets
in New York, 1789
03/05 British troops fire into snowball-throwing crowd in Boston
Massacre, 1770
03/06 Alamo falls to forces of Mexican General Santa Anna after
13 days of siege, 1836
03/06 Dutch Resistance ambush, kill SS Lt. General Hanns Rauter
in Apeldoorn, 1945
03/07 Nazi forces re-militarize Rheinland in violation of Treaty
of Versailles and Locarno Pact, 1936
03/07 Sheikh Mujib Rahman becomes first elected leader of
Bangladesh, 1973
03/08 `February Revolution' in Russia begins on February 23 of
calendar then in use in Russia, 1917
03/08 Dutch forces on Java surrender to the Japanese, 1942
03/09 USS Monitor battles CSS Virginia (USS Merrimac) in world's
first battle between ironclad warships, 1862
03/09 Former Last Emperor of China becomes regent of Japanese
puppet state of Manchukuo, 1932
03/09 US forces land at Vera Cruz in largest amphibious landing
before World War II, 1847
03/10 Alexander Graham Bell conducts first successful telephone
experiment, 1876
03/10 Jan Masaryk dead in Czechoslovakia in reported suicide, 1948
03/11 Lend-Lease Act signed, 1941
03/11 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Premier of USSR, 1985
03/11 Lithuania declares independence from USSR, 1990
03/12 Austria annexed by Germany, 1938
03/12 Mahatma Ghandi begins march to sea in protest of British Salt Tax, 1930
03/13 Uranus discovered by William Hershel, 1781
03/13 Tsar Alexander II of Russia assassinated, 1881
03/15 Tsar Nicholas II abdicates throne of Russia, 1917
03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926
03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped
03/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965
03/24 Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900
03/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937
03/27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958
03/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638
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 Pioneer 10 mission ends, having travelled 6 billion miles
and provided close-up pictures of Jupiter and first data on
interstellar space, 1997
04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
04/04 NATO Established, 1949
04/05 US nationalises Gold at a value of $20.67, 1933
04/06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830
04/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865
04/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861
04/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981
04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961
04/14 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865
04/14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912
04/15 Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955
04/18 First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934
04/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906
04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943
04/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
04/26 William Shakespeare baptised in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564,
birthdate unknown
04/27 Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521
04/29 Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913
05/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1939
05/07 Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945
05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979
05/10 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940
05/10 Nazi bookburning, 1933
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
05/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
05/18 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
05/18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
05/21 Battle of Iquique in Chile
05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956
05/22 US Civil War ends, 1865
05/23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960
05/24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador
05/25 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830
05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937
05/29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953
06/04 Roquefort cheese developed, 1070
06/05 Robert Kennedy assassinated, 1968
08/15 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1971
06/06 First drive-in movie, 1933
06/06 Normandy landing, 1944
06/10 Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C.
06/13 Pioneer 10 flies past Neptune's orbit, the first human artifact
to travel beyond the orbits of all known planets, 1983
06/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834
06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752
06/15 Magna Carta signed, 1215
06/15 Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford
that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop,
1878
06/16 "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980
06/17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967
06/19 Lizzie Borden acquitted, 1893
06/20 Victoria crowned, 1837
06/21 Berlin airlift begins, 1948
06/23 Slavery abolished in England, 1772
06/25 Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 1876
06/25 North Korea invades South Korea, 1950
06/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
06/26 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959
06/26 Toothbrush invented, 1498
06/27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915
06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978
06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia, 1908
06/30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960
07/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863
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
07/06 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
07/08 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
07/10 134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913
07/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908
07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, NM, 1945
07/17 Disneyland opens, 1955
07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
07/20 Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969
07/21 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873
07/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904
07/24 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
07/30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956
07/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948,
later JFK
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 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914
08/06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945
08/06 Caricom in Barbados
08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
08/08 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
08/08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914
08/08 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974
08/08 The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963
08/09 Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969
08/09 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC
08/09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
08/10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833
08/10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977
08/11 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954
08/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977
08/12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
08/13 Berlin wall erected, 1961
08/13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934
08/14 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935
08/15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947
08/15 Hurricane hits Plimoth Plantation, 1635
08/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898
08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
08/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed
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
08/22 Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets
08/22 Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963
08/22 St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565
08/24 "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. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
08/26 Women get the right to vote, Nineteenth Amendment to US Constitution
becomes law, 1920
08/27 Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912
08/27 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883
08/28 King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963
08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975;
Nova Cygni 1975.
08/30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960
08/30 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963
08/31 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983
08/31 Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888
08/31 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
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
09/05 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 Pres. McKinley shot, 1901
09/08 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966)
09/08 Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888
09/08 President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974
09/09 California becomes the 31st state, 1850
09/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776
09/11 Twin Towers fall in terrorist attacks, 2001
09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943
09/12 Germany annexes Sudetenland, 1938
09/13 136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya, 1922
09/13 British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City, 1788
09/13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122
09/13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943
09/14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778
09/14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629
09/14 The 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 U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department, 1789
09/16 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630
09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862
09/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884
09/20 First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, 1848
09/20 First meeting of the 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
09/22 Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953
09/22 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
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 U.S. Baseball club, 1845
09/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981
09/27 The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825
09/28 John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678
09/28 A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon,
490BC
09/30 Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (\#3) and Catherine Eddowes (\#4),
1888
09/30 The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846
09/30 The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946
10/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958
10/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967
10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853
10/04 Sputnik 1, world's first orbiting satellite launched, 1957
10/06 Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853
10/06 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981
10/06 Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973
10/07 Foundation of the German Democratic Republic in 1949
10/07 Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916
10/07 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979
10/08 Great Chicago Fire, 1871
10/09 First two-way telephone conversation, 1876
10/11 "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975
10/11 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976
10/11 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811
10/11 The second Vatican Ecumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962
10/12 Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
10/12 Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960
10/12 Man O'War's last race, 1920
10/13 Italy declares war on Germany, 1943
10/13 U.S. 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
10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648
10/18 Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959
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 OPEC embargo, 1973
10/21 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879
10/21 Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959
10/23 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944
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
10/28 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 Stock Market Crash, 1929
10/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938
10/31 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517
11/01 Austria-Hungary become two separate nations, 1918
11/02 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940
11/02 Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, 1783
11/03 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837
11/03 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954
11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing spacedog Laika
11/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979
11/04 Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956
11/05 Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605
11/06 Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R.
11/07 Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805
11/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965
11/09 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927
11/09 Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888
11/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933
11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House, 1917
11/10 Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865
11/10 Henry Morton Stanley asks David Livingstone, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?", 1871
11/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889
11/12 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan
11/12 U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861
11/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
11/16 Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869
11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966
11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952
11/18 Local standard time zones established for US, 1883
11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863
11/22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963
11/23 First broadcast of Dr. Who, 1963
11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963
11/25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867
11/27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895
11/27 Friction match invented, England, 1826
11/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922
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
12/03 First neon light display, Paris, 1910
12/03 First successful human heart transplant led by Dr. Barnard, 1967
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
12/07 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941
12/09 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
12/10 Metric system established in France, 1799
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
12/15 Bill of Rights adopted, 1791
12/15 James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891
12/16 Kazakhstan declares independence from USSR, 1991
12/20 U.S. buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.
12/27 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845
12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
12/29 Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890
12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940