Jan 01	Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba
Jan 01	Castro expells Cuban President Batista, 1959
Jan 01	Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech, 1947
Jan 01	First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902
Jan 04	Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
Jan 05	-50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
Jan 05	Fellowship enters Moria  (LOTR)
Jan 05	The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940
Jan 05	Twelfth night
Jan 06	Millard Fillmore's birthday (let's party!)
Jan 08	Battle of New Orleans
Jan 09	Fellowship reaches Lorien (LOTR)
Jan 09	Plough Monday
Jan 10	First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946
Jan 10	Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776
Jan 11	Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania
Jan 11	De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico
Jan 11	Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 1878
Jan 11	Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal
Jan 11	Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
Jan 11	The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963
Jan 14	The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967
Jan 16	Prohibition begins, 1920
Jan 17	Passing of Gandalf (LOTR)
Jan 18	Grey whale migration, California
Jan 20	St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)
Jan 24	Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922
Jan 24	Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848
Jan 26	Sydney Aust. settled, 1778
Jan 27	Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967
Jan 27	Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973
Jan 28	First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914
Jan 28	Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff
	killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe,
	1986
Jan 30	Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948
Jan 30	Tet Offensive, 1968
Jan 31	"Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961
Jan 31	Explorer I launched, 1958.  Van Allen Belt discovered
Jan 31	Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp
Feb 01	First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954
Feb 01	Forces lead by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979
Feb 04	Cybernet inaugurated, 1969
Feb 04	Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974
Feb 07	Fellowship leaves Lorien (LOTR)
Feb 08	1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq
Feb 09	-51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
Feb 12	Lincoln's real birthday
Feb 12	Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969
Feb 14	Bombing of Dresden, 1945
Feb 15	Chicago Seven convicted, 1970
Feb 16	Nylon patented, 1937
Feb 16	Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804
Feb 17	Death of Boromir (LOTR)
Feb 18	Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930
Feb 19	US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945
Feb 20	John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962
Feb 20	Meriadoc & Pippin meet Treebeard (LOTR)
Feb 21	Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties
Feb 21	First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878
Feb 21	Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965
Feb 22	Passing of King Ellesar (LOTR)
Feb 23	Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 1971
Feb 24	Ents destroy Isengard (LOTR)
Feb 24	Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868
Feb 26	Aragorn takes the Paths of the Dead (LOTR)
Feb 27	The Lionheart crowned, 1189
Feb 28	The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972
Feb 29	French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704
Mar 01	Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft
	in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
Mar 02	Blackthorn winds (New England) (Does anyone know what this is?)
Mar 04	First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.
Mar 05	Frodo & Samwise encounter Shelob (LOTR)
Mar 06	Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1939
Mar 08	Deaths of Denethor & Theoden (LOTR)
Mar 13	"Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894
Mar 14	Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907
Mar 15	Buzzards return to Hinckley OH
Mar 15	France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874
Mar 15	Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966
Mar 16	First liquid-fuel-powered rocket flight, 1926
Mar 16	MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen
Mar 16	Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926
Mar 17	Vanguard I launched, 1958.  Earth proved pear-shaped
Mar 18	Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965
Mar 18	Destruction of the Ring (LOTR)
Mar 19	Swallows return to Capistrano
Mar 20	Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980
Mar 24	Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900
Mar 25	Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911
Mar 26	Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937
Mar 27	Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958
Mar 28	Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979
Mar 29	Flowering of the Mallorn (LOTR)
Mar 29	Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638
Mar 30	Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867
Mar 30	Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977
Mar 30	Pencil with eraser patented, 1858
Apr 01	People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day.
Apr 04	Gandalf visits Bilbo (LOTR)
Apr 04	Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
Apr 04	NATO Established, 1949
Apr 06	Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830
Apr 07	Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1943
Apr 07	Alewives run, Cape Cod
Apr 09	Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865
Apr 12	Columbia launched, 1981
Apr 12	Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861
Apr 12	Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981
Apr 12	Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961
Apr 13	Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos
Apr 14	Lincoln shot,  1865
Apr 14	Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912
Apr 15	Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955
Apr 16	Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865
Apr 17	An unexpected party (LOTR)
Apr 17	Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961
Apr 18	Einstein's Death, 1955
Apr 18	First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934
Apr 18	San Francisco earthquake, 1906
Apr 19	Landing of the "33" in Uruguay
Apr 19	Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943
Apr 20	Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971
Apr 21	Lyrid meteor shower
Apr 23	Crowning of King Ellesar (LOTR)
Apr 23	Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
Apr 26	William Shakespeare baptised in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564,
	birthdate unknown
Apr 27	Magellan killed in Phillippines, 1521
Apr 29	Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913
May 01	Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god
May 03	Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971
May 04	Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970
May 05	John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925
May 07	Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945
May 08	Beginning of ostrich mating season
May 08	US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972
May 09	94 degrees, New York, 1979
May 10	Germany invades Low Countries, 1940
May 10	Nazi bookburning, 1933
May 14	Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
May 14	Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948
May 15	Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854
May 17	24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
May 17	Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
May 18	Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
May 18	Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
May 19	Arwen leaves Lorian to wed King Ellesar (LOTR)
May 21	Battle of Iquique in Chile
May 21	US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956
May 22	US Civil War ends, 1865
May 23	Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960
May 23	Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953
May 24	Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador
May 25	Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980
May 25	Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830
May 26	Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
May 27	Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937
May 29	Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953
May 29	First food stamps issued, 1961
May 30	US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912
Jun 02	Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924
Jun 04	Roquefort cheese developed, 1070
Jun 05	Robert Kennedy assasinated, 1968
Jun 05	US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933
Jun 06	First drive-in movie, 1933
Jun 06	Normandy landing, 1944
Jun 10	Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C.
Jun 10	Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971
Jun 11	Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC
Jun 11	Sauron attacks Osgilliath (LOTR)
Jun 13	Bilbo returns to Bag End (LOTR)
Jun 13	Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System
Jun 14	Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834
Jun 15	Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752
Jun 15	Magna Carta signed, 1215
Jun 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
Jun 16	"The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980
Jun 17	China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967
Jun 17	Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972
Jun 19	Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953
Jun 19	Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893
Jun 20	Victoria crowned, 1837
Jun 21	Berlin airlift begins, 1948
Jun 21	Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge
Jun 22	Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964
Jun 23	Slavery abolished in England, 1772
Jun 23	Wedding of Ellesar & Arwen (LOTR)
Jun 24	Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970
Jun 25	Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 1876
Jun 25	North Korea invades South Korea, 1950
Jun 26	Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
Jun 26	St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959
Jun 26	Toothbrush invented, 1498
Jun 27	100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915
Jun 27	Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971
Jun 28	Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978
Jun 30	"That" explosion in Siberia, 1908
Jun 30	China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960
Jul 01	Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863
Jul 03	Dog days begin
Jul 04	Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863
Jul 04	Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776
Jul 04	Gandalf imprisoned by Saruman (LOTR)
Jul 04	New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776
Jul 04	Thoreau enters woods, 1845
Jul 06	First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928
Jul 06	Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917
Jul 07	First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949
Jul 08	First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
Jul 08	Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835
Jul 09	10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847
Jul 10	134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913
Jul 12	Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933
Jul 13	Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908
Jul 16	Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945
Jul 17	Disneyland opens, 1955
Jul 18	Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
Jul 19	Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692
Jul 20	Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969
Jul 21	First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873
Jul 21	Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954
Jul 23	Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904
Jul 24	Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Jul 24	The ring comes to Bilbo (LOTR)
Jul 26	Bilbo rescued from Wargs by Eagles (LOTR)
Jul 30	"In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956
Jul 31	Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948,
	later JFK
Aug 01	Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on
	this day
Aug 03	Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492
Aug 03	Funeral of King Theoden (LOTR)
Aug 03	USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958
Aug 04	Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892
Aug 04	Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964
Aug 04	Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914
Aug 06	Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945
Aug 06	Caricom in Barbados
Aug 06	Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
Aug 08	Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
Aug 08	Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914
Aug 08	Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974
Aug 08	The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963
Aug 09	Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969
Aug 09	Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC
Aug 09	US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
Aug 10	Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833
Aug 10	US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977
Aug 11	Dog days end
Aug 11	France Ends War in Indochina, 1954
Aug 11	Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
Aug 12	First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977
Aug 12	Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
Aug 13	Berlin wall erected, 1961
Aug 13	Li'l Abner debut, 1934
Aug 14	Social Security begins in U.S., 1935
Aug 15	Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947
Aug 15	Hurricane hits Plimoth Plantation, 1635
Aug 16	Roller Coaster patented, 1898
Aug 17	First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
Aug 18	Anti-Cigarette League of America formed
Aug 19	Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite,
	marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960
Aug 19	Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856
Aug 22	Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets
Aug 22	Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963
Aug 22	St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565
Aug 23	Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927
Aug 24	"Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969
Aug 24	-126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960
Aug 24	British troops burn Washington, 1814
Aug 25	Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
Aug 26	Women get the vote, 1920
Aug 27	"Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912
Aug 27	Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883
Aug 28	King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963
Aug 29	Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975;
	Nova Cygni 1975.
Aug 29	Saruman enters the Shire (LOTR)
Aug 30	75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842
Aug 30	Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960
Aug 30	St. Rose of Lima in Peru
Aug 30	Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963
Aug 31	269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983
Aug 31	Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888
Aug 31	Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
Sep 01	Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972
Sep 01	Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859
Sep 02	Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752
Sep 02	Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945
Sep 03	Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino
Sep 05	Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961
Sep 05	The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774
Sep 06	149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620
Sep 06	First Star Trek episode (The Man Trap) aired 1966
Sep 06	Pres. McKinley shot, 1901
Sep 06	Somhlolo in Swaziland
Sep 08	"Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966)
Sep 08	Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888
Sep 08	President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974
Sep 09	California becomes the 31st state, 1850
Sep 09	United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776
Sep 10	Gandalf escapes from Orthanc (LOTR)
Sep 10	Mountain Meadows Massacre.  Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857
Sep 12	German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity, 1943
Sep 12	Germany annexes Sudentenland, 1938
Sep 13	136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya, 1922
Sep 13	British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City, 1788
Sep 13	Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122
Sep 13	Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943
Sep 14	Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778
Sep 14	Frodo & Bilbo's birthday (LOTR)
Sep 14	Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629
Sep 14	The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940
Sep 15	Black riders enter the Shire (LOTR)
Sep 15	Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959
Sep 15	The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department, 1789
Sep 16	The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630
Sep 17	Battle of Antietam, 1862
Sep 18	Frodo and company rescued by Bombadil (LOTR)
Sep 18	Victory of Uprona in Burundi
Sep 20	Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884
Sep 20	First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
	Science, 1848
Sep 20	First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916
Sep 20	Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519
Sep 20	The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973
Sep 22	Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953
Sep 22	President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
Sep 22	Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenaes President Nixon, 1974
Sep 22	The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949
Sep 23	Phillippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972
Sep 23	The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club, 1845
Sep 23	V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech, 1952
Sep 25	Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981
Sep 27	The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825
Sep 28	"Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678
Sep 28	A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon,
	490BC
Sep 28	Frodo wounded at Weathertop (LOTR)
Sep 30	Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (#3) and Catherine Eddowes (#4),
	1888
Sep 30	The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846
Sep 30	The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946
Oct 01	NASA officially begins operations, 1958
Oct 02	Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967
Oct 04	Crimean war begins, 1853
Oct 04	First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957
Oct 04	Sputnik 1, world's first orbiting satellite launched, 1957
Oct 05	Frodo crosses bridge of Mitheithel
Oct 06	Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853
Oct 06	Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981
Oct 06	Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973
Oct 07	Foundation of the GDR in 1949 in German Democratic Republic
Oct 07	Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916
Oct 07	Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977
Oct 07	Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979
Oct 07	Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974
Oct 08	Great Chicago Fire, 1871
Oct 09	First two-way telephone conversation, 1876
Oct 10	Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba
Oct 10	Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea
Oct 10	Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun.  Moves into night sky. (1984)
Oct 10	Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973
Oct 11	"Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975
Oct 11	The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976
Oct 11	The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811
Oct 11	The second Vatican Ecumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962
Oct 11	First broadcast of Saturday Night Live, 1975
Oct 12	Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
Oct 12	Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960
Oct 12	Man O'War's last race, 1920
Oct 12	Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
Oct 13	Italy declares war on Germany, 1943
Oct 13	U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress
Oct 14	Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066
Oct 14	Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947
Oct 15	First draft card burned, 1965
Oct 16	Boromir reaches Rivendell (LOTR)
Oct 17	Council of Elrond (LOTR)
Oct 18	Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648
Oct 18	Soviets anounce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959
Oct 19	Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949
Oct 19	Napoleon's beaten army begins the long retreat from Moscow, 1812
Oct 20	"Saturday Night Massacre", 1973
Oct 20	OPEC embargo, 1973
Oct 21	Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879
Oct 21	Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959
Oct 23	Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944
Oct 23	Earth created at 6:30 AM, 4004BC.
Oct 23	Swallows leave Capistrano
Oct 25	End of War of the Ring (LOTR)
Oct 25	The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971
Oct 26	UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978
Oct 27	New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871
Oct 27	The first New York Subway is opened, 1904
Oct 28	Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492
Oct 28	Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312
Oct 28	Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636
Oct 28	Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886
Oct 29	Stock Market Crash, 1929
Oct 30	Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938
Oct 31	Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517
Nov 01	Austria-Hungary become two seperate nations, 1918
Nov 01	Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950
Nov 02	Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940
Nov 02	Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, 1783
Nov 03	Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837
Nov 03	Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954
Nov 03	Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing spacedog Laika
Nov 04	Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979
Nov 04	Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956
Nov 05	Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605
Nov 06	Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R.
Nov 07	Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837
Nov 07	Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805
Nov 09	Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965
Nov 09	Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927
Nov 09	Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888
Nov 09	Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921
Nov 09	Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933
Nov 10	41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstartions near White House, 1917
Nov 10	Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865
Nov 10	Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?", 1871
Nov 11	Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889
Nov 12	Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan
Nov 12	U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861
Nov 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
Nov 15	Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
Nov 16	Bilbo reaches the Lonely Mountain (LOTR)
Nov 16	Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869
Nov 17	46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966
Nov 17	Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973
Nov 18	First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952
Nov 18	Local standard time zones established for US, 1883
Nov 19	Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863
Nov 21	Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973
Nov 22	Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963
Nov 23	First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963
Nov 24	Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963
Nov 25	Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867
Nov 27	Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895
Nov 27	Friction match invented, England, 1826
Nov 27	Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
Nov 29	King Tut's tomb opened, 1922
Dec 01	First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924
Dec 01	Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955
Dec 01	Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1953
Dec 03	First neon light display, Paris, 1910
Dec 03	First successful human heart transplant lead by Dr. Barnard, 1967
Dec 03	The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971
Dec 04	Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783
Dec 05	Death of Smaug (LOTR)
Dec 05	End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part)
Dec 05	Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776
Dec 05	The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition, 1933
Dec 07	Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941
Dec 09	Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
Dec 10	Metric system established in France, 1799
Dec 10	Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year
Dec 12	First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901
Dec 13	Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972
Dec 13	Dartmouth College chartered, 1769
Dec 13	Geminid meteor shower (look south)
Dec 15	Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976
Dec 15	Bill of Rights adopted, 1791
Dec 15	James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891
Dec 15	Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890
Dec 16	Fellowship begins Quest (LOTR)
Dec 20	U.S. buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.
Dec 21	Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in less than 80 days
Dec 24	KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865
Dec 26	DPMA founded, 1951
Dec 27	APT report published, 1956
Dec 27	Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845
Dec 28	Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
Dec 29	Battle of Wounded knee, 1890
Dec 30	First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940
Dec 31	St. Sylvester in Switzerland
Dec 31	Winterland closes its doors, 1978