01/01	Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba
01/01	Independence Day in Haiti, Sudan
01/01	International New Year in Laos
01/01	New Year's Day
01/01	New Year's Days (2 days) in Grenada, Mauritius, Panama, etc
01/01	New Year's Days (3 days) in South Korea, Tahiti
01/01	Separate customer premises equipment subsidiary formation deadline, 1983
01/01	Universal Fraternity Day in Mozambique
01/02	Ancestry Day in Haiti
01/02	New Year's Celebration in Hong Kong
01/02	New Year's Day (2 days) in New Zealand
01/02	New Year's Holiday (2 days) in Japan
01/02	New Year's Holiday in Fiji, United Kingdom
01/02	St. Berchtold's Day in Switzerland
01/03	Apple Computer founded, 1977
01/03	New Year's Holiday in Scotland
01/03	Revolution Day in Upper Volta
01/04	Independence Day in Burma
01/04	Jakob Grimm born, 1785
01/04	Martyrs Day in Zaire
01/04	Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
01/04	Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars
01/05	-50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
01/05	Twelfth Night (eve of Epiphany)
01/05	DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer
01/06	Armed Forces Day in Iraq
01/06	Children's Day in Uruguay
01/06	Epiphany (eve is "Twelfth Night")
01/06	Three King's Day in Puerto Rico
01/07	Ethiopian Christmas in Ethiopia
01/07	Pioneer's Day in Liberia
01/08	Battle of New Orleans
01/08	Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 ("Modification to Final Judgement")
01/09	Day of the Martyrs in Panama
01/09	Plough Monday
01/10	Ethan Allen born, 1738
01/10	First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960
01/11	Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania in Albania
01/11	Armed Forces Day in Liberia
01/11	De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico
01/11	Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal
01/11	Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
01/12	Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania
01/13	National Liberation Day in Togo
01/13	Sophie Tucker born, 1884
01/13	Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws
01/14	Albert Schweitzer born, 1875
01/14	Julian Calendar New Year's Day
01/15	Adults Day in Japan
01/15	Arbor Day in Jorday
01/15	Chuck Berry born
01/15	Donkey adopted as symbol of the Democratic Party, 1870
01/15	Martin Luther King Day
01/15	Martin Luther King Day in New York {1984} (3rd Sunday)
01/15	Matthew Brady dies flat broke, 1896
01/15	Warren De LaRue born, 1815, inventor of spectroheliograph
01/16	Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia {1984} (3rd Monday)
01/16	Martin Luther King Day in Ohio {1984} (3rd Monday)
01/16	Martyrs Day in Benin
01/16	Prohibition begins, 1920
01/16	Robert E. Lee's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi {1984} (3rd Monday)
01/16	Set uid bit patent issued, 1979
01/17	Friedrich Adolph Norbert born, 18152s, i Inventor of spectroheliograph
01/17	Justice Dept. begins IBM suit, 1969
01/18	Grey whale migration, CA
01/18	Revolution Day in Tunisia
01/19	Bell mugs should be ready!
01/19	Confederate Heroes Day in Texas
01/19	Ethopian Epiphany in Ethiopia
01/19	Nameday of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus
01/19	Robert E. Lee born, 1807
01/20	Army Day in Mali 
01/20	Geo. Burns born, 1898
01/20	National Heroes Day in Guinea-Bissau
01/20	St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)
01/21	Lenin died, 1924
01/21	Our Lady of Altagracia in Dominican Republic
01/22	Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561
01/23	Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory
01/23	Feast of St. Ildefonsus
01/23	International Boogie Day
01/23	John Hancock born, 1737
01/23	Joseph Hewes born, 1730
01/23	National Handwriting Day
01/23	One-Tooth Ree's Landing Day
01/23	Peter Langston born, 1946 (See?  I'm famous!)
01/23	Saml. Barber died, 1981
01/24	DG Nova introduced, 1969
01/24	Economic Liberation Day in Togo
01/25	First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958
01/25	Robert Burns born, 1759
01/25	Virginia Woolf born, 1882
01/25	W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874
01/26	Duarte's Birthday in Dominican Republic
01/26	EDVAC demonstrated, 1952
01/26	Republic Day in India
01/26	Sydney Aust. settled, 1778
01/27	1pm MH 6H204 - Digital Signal Processing Talk
01/27	Mozart born, 1756
01/27	Samuel Gompers born, 1850
01/27	Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973
01/27	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born, 1756
01/28	First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 14
01/29	Martyrs Day in Nepal
01/29	Martyrs day
01/30	Australia Day in Australia
01/30	F.D.Roosevelt born, 1882
01/30	Tet Offensive, 1968
01/31	Explorer I launched, 1958.  Van Allen Belt discovered
01/31	Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
01/31	Independence Day in Nauru
01/31	Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp
02/01	Chinese New Year Holiday (3 days) in Taiwan
02/01	First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954
02/01	Imbolc; Feast of goddess Brigit (Brigantia), Universal Celtic Fertility Day
02/02	Candlemas
02/02	Chinese New Year (2 days) in Singapore, Malaysia
02/02	Chinese New Year (3 days) in China
02/02	Chinese New Year in Hong Kong, Tahiti, Mauritius
02/03	Chinese Spring Festival (2 days) in Taiwan
02/03	Gertrude Stein born, 1874
02/03	Second Day of Chinese New Year in Hong Kong
02/03	St. Blas in Paraguay
02/04	Beginning Fight for Liberation in Angola
02/04	Cybernet inaugerated, 1969
02/04	Independence Commemoration Day in Sri Lanka
02/04	Patty Hearst kidnapped, 1974
02/05	Birth of CCM in Tanzania
02/05	Constitution Day in Mexico
02/06	Lincoln's Birthday in Delaware & Oregon {1984} (1st Monday)
02/06	New Zealand Day in New Zealand
02/07	Independence Day in Grenada
02/08	1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq
02/08	Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography
02/09	-51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
02/09	George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc.
02/09	St. Maron's Day in Lebanon
02/10	Charles Lamb born, 1775
02/10	Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (AD 60)
02/10	William Allen White born, 1868
02/11	Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966
02/11	National Foundation Day in Japan
02/11	Thos. Edison born, 1847
02/11	William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1489, photographic pioneer
02/11	Youth Day in Cameroon
02/12	Abraham Lincoln born, 1809
02/12	Charles Darwin born, 1809, not created
02/12	Lincoln's real birthday
02/12	Pyidaungsa Day in Burma
02/12	Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969
02/13	Lincoln Day in Arizona {1984} (2nd Monday)
02/14	Bombing of Dresden, 1945
02/14	First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978
02/14	St. Valentine's Day
02/14	St. Valentine's day
02/15	Chicago Seven convicted, 1970
02/15	ENIAC demonstrated, 1946
02/15	Galileo Galilei born, 1564
02/15	Susan B. Anthony born, 1820
02/16	Makha Bucha Day in Thailand
02/16	Nylon patented, 1937
02/16	Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry
02/16	Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804
02/17	Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone
02/17	Marion Anderson born, 1902
02/17	T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874
02/18	Democracy Day in Nepal
02/18	Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer
02/18	Independence Day in The Gambia
02/19	Robert E. Lee Day in Kentucky
02/19	Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras {1985} (day before Ash Wednesday)
02/20	Ash Wednesday - first day of Lent {1985}
02/20	Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer
02/20	Washington's Birthday/Washington Day/President's Day/Washington-Lincoln Day in various places {1984} (3rd Monday)
02/21	Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass
02/21	Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties
02/21	Malcolm X assassinated, 1965
02/21	Shaheed Day in Bangladesh
02/22	Geo Washington's real birthday (converted to Greg. cal.)
02/22	George Washington born, 1732
02/22	Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun
02/23	George Frederick Handel born, 1685
02/23	Heroes Day in Mozambique
02/23	Lt Calley confesses, implicates Cpt Medina, 1971
02/23	Republic Day in Guyana
02/23	W.E.B.DuBois born, 1868
02/24	Gregorian Calendar Day
02/24	Winslow Homer born, 1836
02/25	National Day in Kuwait
02/25	Pierre Auguste Renoir born, 1841
02/26	Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786, observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21
02/27	Independence Day in Dominican Republic
02/27	Observance of National Day in Kuwait
02/27	The Lionheart crowned, 1189
02/28	Bachelor's Day
02/28	Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533
02/29	French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704
02/29	Jimmy Dorsey born, 1904
03/01	David Niven born, 1910
03/01	First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964
03/01	Heroes Day in Paraguay
03/01	Samil Independence Movement Day in South Korea
03/01	Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
03/02	Blackthorn winds (New England) <<What is it?>>
03/02	Peasants Day in Burma
03/02	Texas Independence day
03/02	Victory of Adowa in Ethiopia
03/03	Martyrs Day in Malawi
03/03	Throne Day in Morocco
03/04	Casimir Pulaski born, 1747
03/04	First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos
03/04	First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.
03/04	Vermont Admission Day (admitted as 14th state in 1791)
03/05	Carnival (2 days) in somewhere or other
03/05	Carnival's Day in Netherlands, Antiles
03/05	Independence Day in Equatorial Guinea
03/05	Mardi Gras in Ecuador
03/06	Carnival's Day in Bolivia
03/06	Independence Day in Ghana
03/06	Town Meeting Day in Vermont {1984} (1st Tuesday)
03/07	Aristotle died, 322BC
03/07	Ash Wednesday in Brazil, Cayman Islands, Granada, Holy See, Jamaica, Venezuela {1984} (movable)
03/07	Last Gilbert & Sullivan opera produced, 1896
03/07	Purim - Feast of Lots {1985}
03/07	Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer
03/08	Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer
03/08	Howard Aiken born, 1900
03/08	International Women's Day in U.S.S.R.
03/08	Syrian National Day in Libyan Arab Republic
03/08	Women's Day in Guinea-Bissau, Taiwan, Yemen Democratic Republic
03/08	Youth Day in Zambia
03/09	"GOTO considered harmful" published in CACM
03/09	Baron Bliss Day in Belize
03/09	Decoration Day in Liberia
03/09	Falgun Purnima Day in Nepal
03/10	Labor Day in South Korea
03/11	2C-111 photos at 11AM
03/11	Johnny Appleseed Day; anniversary of the death of John Chapman
03/11	Robert Treat Paine born, 1737
03/11	Vannevar Bush born, 1890
03/12	Commonwealth Day in Swaziland
03/12	Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist
03/12	Independence Day in Mauritius
03/12	Moshoeshoe's Birthday in Lesotho
03/12	Renovation Day in Gabon
03/13	"Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894
03/13	National Day in Grenada
03/14	Albert Einstein born, 1879
03/14	Casey Jones born, 1864
03/14	Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer; named Mars "canals"
03/14	Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist
03/14	LISP introduced, 1960
03/14	Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907
03/15	Buzzards return to Hinckley OH
03/15	Ides of March; Julius Caesar assassinated, 44 B.C.
03/15	J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
03/15	Sly Stone born, 1944
03/15	The Ides of March
03/16	Black Press Day; first Black newspaper founded in 1827
03/16	First liquid-fuel-powered rocket flight, 1926
03/16	George Clymer born, 1739
03/16	James Madison born, 1751
03/16	MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen
03/17	Evacuation Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
03/17	St. Patrick's Day
03/17	St. Patrick's Day
03/17	Vanguard I launched, 1958.  Earth proved pear-shaped
03/18	Purim in Israel
03/19	St. Joseph's Day in Colombia, Costa Rica, Holy See, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Spain, Venezuela
03/19	St. Patrick's Day in Ireland, Northern Ireland
03/19	Tree Planting Day in Lestho
03/20	Independence Day in Tunsia
03/20	Vernal Equinox in Japan
03/20	Vernal Equinox, 0525 EST
03/20	Youth Day in Oklahoma
03/21	Vernal Equinox
03/21	Afghan New Year in Afghanistan
03/21	Bach born, 1685
03/21	Juarez' Birthday in Mexico
03/22	Abolition Day in Puerto Rico
03/23	Pakistan Day in Pakistan
03/24	Harry Houdini born, 1874
03/24	Total Eclipse of the Moon in 1978
03/25	Greek Independence Day in Cyprus
03/25	Lady Day (a.k.a. the Feast of the Annunciation)
03/25	Maryland Day in Maryland
03/25	National Holiday in Greece
03/25	Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911
03/26	Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist
03/26	Independence Day in Bangladesh
03/26	Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937
03/26	Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day in Hawaii
03/26	Seward's Day in Alaska {1984} (last Monday)
03/27	Armed Forces Day in Burma
03/27	Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays
03/28	British Bases Evacuation Day in Libyan Arab Republic
03/28	DEC announces PDP-11, 1970
03/28	Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
03/29	Death of President Barthelemy Boganda in Central African Republic
03/29	Memorial Day in Madagascar
03/29	Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638
03/29	Youth Day in Taiwan
03/30	Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746
03/30	Sean O'Casey born, 1880
03/30	Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853
03/31	Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946
03/31	National Day in Malta
03/31	Palm Sunday {1985} (7 days before Easter)
03/31	Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher
04/01	April Fool's Day
04/01	EOKA Day in Cyprus
04/01	Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974  (It figures.)
04/01	Youth Day in Benin
04/02	Malvinas Day in Argentina
04/02	Pascua Florida Day in Florida
04/03	IBM 701 introduced, 1953
04/03	National Honorary Virgin Day
04/03	Washington Irving born, 1783
04/04	Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong
04/04	Liberation Day in Hungary
04/04	Martin Luther King assassinated, 1968
04/04	Maundy Thursday {1985} (3 days before Easter)
04/04	Muddy Waters born, 1915
04/04	National Day in Senegal
04/04	Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores)
04/05	Arbor Day in South Korea
04/05	Good Friday {1985} (2 days before Easter)
04/05	Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher
04/05	Tomb Sweeping Day in Taiwan
04/06	Chakri Memorial Day in Thailand
04/06	Holy Saturday {1985} (1 day before Easter)
04/06	Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830
04/06	Pesach - First Day of Passover {1985}
04/06	Victory Day in Ethiopia
04/07	Alewives run, Cape Cod
04/07	Easter {1985} (nearly impossible to calculate)
04/07	IBM announces System/360, 1964
04/07	Women's Day in Mozambique
04/08	David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician
04/08	Easter Monday in North Carolina {1984} (1 day after Easter)
04/08	Fast and Prayer Day in Liberia
04/09	ENIAC Project begun, 1943
04/09	Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer
04/09	J. Presper Eckert born, 1919
04/09	Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865
04/09	Martyrs Day in Tunisia
04/09	Paul Robeson born, 1898
04/10	Commodore Matthew calbraith Perry born, 1854
04/10	William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army
04/11	National Heroes Day in Costa Rica
04/12	Columbia launched, 1981
04/12	Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861
04/12	Gurgarin first man in space, 1961
04/12	National Redemption Day in Liberia
04/12	Yuri Gagarin orbits, 1961
04/13	Friday the 13th {1984}
04/13	Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos	     
04/13	National Day in Chad
04/13	Songkron Day in Thailand
04/13	Thomas Jefferson born, 1743
04/14	Christian Huygen born, 1629, physicist & astronomer; discovered Saturn's rings
04/14	Day of the Americas in Honduras
04/14	Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912
04/15	Anniversary of the Military Regine in Niger
04/15	Bengali New Year in Bangladesh
04/15	Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452
04/16	De Diego's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
04/16	Holy Week (5 days) in Venezuela
04/16	Patriot's Day in Maine & Massachusetts {1984} (3rd Monday)
04/16	Tourist Week (5 days) in Uruguay
04/17	Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba, 1961
04/17	Burmese New Year in Burma
04/17	Evacuation Day in Syrian Arab Republic
04/17	First Day of Passover in Israel
04/17	First day of passover
04/18	Einstein's Death, 1955
04/18	Independence Day in Chile, Zimbabwe
04/18	San Francisco earthquake, 1906
04/19	Declaration of Independence in Venezuela
04/19	Easter Holidays (5 days) in Denmark {1984} (probably movable)
04/19	Holy Thursday {1984} (movable)
04/19	Landing of the "33" in Uruguay
04/19	Republic Day in Sierra Leone
04/19	Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943
04/20	Easter Holidays (4 days) in Holy See, Milawi {1984} (probably movable)
04/20	Good Friday
04/21	Easter (3 days) in Australia {1984} (probably movable)
04/21	Lyrid meteor shower
04/21	San Jacinto Day in Texas
04/21	Tiradentes in Brazil
04/22	Arbor Day in Nebraska & Delaware
04/22	Easter
04/22	Kant born, 1724
04/22	Oklahoma Day in Oklahoma
04/23	Fast Day in New Hampshire {1984} (4th Monday)
04/23	Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
04/23	Last Day of Passover in Israel
04/23	National Sovereignty Day and Children's Day in Turkey
04/23	Sham El-Nessim Day in Egypt
04/24	Victory Day in Togo
04/25	Anniversary of the Revolution in Portugal
04/25	Anzac Day in Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Western Samoa
04/25	Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918
04/25	Liberation Day in Italy 
04/25	National Flag Day in Swaziland
04/25	Sinai Liberation Day in Egypt
04/26	Confederate Memorial Day in Florida & Georgia
04/26	Union Day in Tanzania
04/26	William Shakespeare's baptism (birthdate unknown), 1564
04/27	Arbor Day in Utah {1984} (last Friday)
04/27	Great Saur Revolution in Afghanistan
04/27	Independence Day in Togo
04/27	Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist
04/27	Magellan killed in Phillippines, 1521
04/28	James Monroe born, 1758
04/28	Zilog Z-80 introduced
04/29	Blessed Night* in Algeria
04/29	Emperor's Birthday in Japan
04/29	Isra* in Yemen Democratic Republic
04/29	Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology
04/29	Miraj*
04/29	William Randolph Hearst born, 1863
04/30	Arbor Day in Wyoming {1984} (last Monday)
04/30	Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama & Mississippi {1984} (last Monday)
04/30	Karl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer
04/30	Queen's Biorthday in Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles
04/30	The Workers Day in Uruguay
05/01	Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god
05/01	Bird Day in Oklahoma
05/01	First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964
05/01	International Labor Day (2 days) in Bulgaria
05/01	International Labor Day in Afghanistan, Ethopia, Ghana, Laos
05/01	International Workers Day in Cuba
05/01	Kate Smith born, 1909
05/01	Labor Day (3 days) in Yugoslavia
05/01	Labor Day in many places
05/01	Labor Days (2 days) in Romania
05/01	Law Day (decl. by Eisenhower)
05/01	May Day in many places
05/01	May Day, Solidarity of Working People (2 days) in U.S.S.R.
05/01	Workers Day in Burma, Mozambique, Uruguay, Zimbabwe
05/02	Constitution Day in Japan
05/02	Dr. Benj. Spock born, 1903
05/02	King's Birthday in Lesotho
05/03	Unity Day in Sudan
05/04	Birthday of Crown Prince Tupuota'a in Tonga        
05/04	Kent State murders, 1970
05/04	Rhode Island Independence Day
05/05	Battle of Puebla in Mexico
05/05	Children's Day in Japan, South Korea
05/05	Coronatin Day in Thailand
05/05	Liberation Day in Netherlands
05/06	Bataan Day in Philippines
05/06	EDSAC demonstrated, 1949
05/06	Martyrs Day in Syrian Arab Republic
05/07	Brahms born, 1833
05/07	Germany Surrenders after WWII, 1945
05/07	Independence Day in Israel
05/07	May Day in United Kingdom
05/07	Tchaikowsky born, 1840
05/08	Beginning of ostrich mating season
05/08	Buddha's Birthday in South Korea
05/08	Elections for the National Assembly in Philippines
05/08	Primary Election Day in Indiana {1984} (1st Tuesday after 1st Monday)
05/08	Truman Day in Missouri
05/08	US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972
05/09	94 degrees, New York, 1979
05/09	Liberation Day in Czechoslovakia
05/09	Pinza died, 1957
05/09	Victory Day in Poland, U.S.S.R.
05/10	Confederate Memorial Day in South Carolina
05/10	Germany invades Low Countries, 1940
05/10	Mothers Day in Guatamala
05/11	Minnesota Day in Minnesota
05/12	Ascension Day in some years (e.g. 1984)
05/12	Mother's Day {1985} (2nd Sunday)
05/13	Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842
05/13	Mother's Day {1984} (2nd Sunday)
05/14	Anniversary of the Founding of Guinean Deomcratic Party in Guinea
05/14	Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
05/14	Buddhist Holiday (Waisak 2528) in Indonesia
05/14	Independence Day (2 days) in Paraguay
05/14	Unification Day in Liberia
05/15	Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854
05/15	Kamuzu Day in Malawi
05/15	Lunar eclipse beginning 9 pm EST (possibly the 14th)
05/15	Vesak Day in Singapore, Malaysia
05/15	Visakha Bucha Day in Thailand
05/16	Armed Forces Day
05/16	Ascension Day {1985} (10 days before Pentecost)
05/16	Discovery Day in Cayman Islands
05/16	First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
05/17	24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
05/17	Constitution Day in Nauru, Norway
05/17	Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
05/18	Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
05/18	Flag Day in Haiti
05/18	Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
05/18	Prayer Day in Denmark
05/19	Armed Forces Day
05/19	Ho Chi Minh born, 1890
05/19	Youth and Sports Day in Turkey
05/20	Anniversary of the Founding of the MPR in Zaire
05/20	Mecklenburg Independence Day in North Carolina
05/20	National Day in Cameroon
05/21	Battle of Iquique in Chile
05/21	DEC announces PDP-8
05/21	Memorial Day in Michigan {1984} (3rd Monday)
05/21	Victoria Day in Canada
05/22	National Heroes Day in Sri Lanka
05/23	Commonwealth Day in Jamaica, Belize
05/23	National Labor Day in Jamaica
05/23	Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953
05/24	Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador
05/24	Bermuda Day in Bermuda
05/24	Day of Slav Letters in Bulgaria
05/25	African Freedom Day in Zimbabwe
05/25	African Liberation Day in Chad, Mauritania, Zambia
05/25	Anniversary of the Revolution of 1810 in Argentina
05/25	Independence Day in Jordan
05/25	Memorial Day in New Mexico & Puerto Rico
05/25	Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980
05/25	Revolution in the Sudan in Libyan Arab Republic
05/25	Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830
05/26	Al Jolson born, 1886
05/26	Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
05/26	First Day of Shavuot - Hebrew Pentecost {1985}
05/26	Pentecost - Whitsunday {1985}
05/27	Afghanistan attains sovereignty, 1921
05/27	First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958
05/27	Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911
05/27	Rogation Sunday
05/28	Dionne quintuplets born, 1934
05/28	First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959
05/28	Memorial Day in various places {1984} (last Monday)
05/28	Mothers Day in Central African Republic
05/28	Spring Holiday in United Kingdom
05/29	Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874
05/29	JFK born, 1917
05/29	John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917
05/29	Patrick Henry born, 1736
05/30	Colossus Mark II, 1944
05/30	Memorial Day in Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, New Hampshire, S. Dakota, & Vermont
05/30	Solar eclipse begins between 10 and 10:30 am on east coast
05/30	US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912
05/31	Ascencion in Austria, Belgium Botswanna, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, German Democratic Republic, Federal Republic of Germany, Haiti, Holy See, Iceland, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, etc.
05/31	Ascension Day {1984} (10 days before Pentecost)
05/31	Memorial Day in misc. places
05/31	Pya Martyrs Day in Togo
05/31	Republic Day in South Africa
06/01	1st Day of Ramadan* in Afghanistan, Berin, Ethiopia, Maldives, Pakistan
06/01	1st Night of Ramadan* in Algeria
06/01	Brigham Young born, 1801
06/01	Independence Days (3 days) in Western Samoa
06/01	Madaraka Day in Kenya
06/01	Marilyn Monroe born, 1928
06/01	Victory Day in Tunisia
06/02	Corpus Christi in Paraguay
06/02	First issue of Computerworld, 1967
06/02	His Majesty, Yang di-Pertuan Agong's Birthday in Malaysia
06/02	Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924
06/02	Trinity Sunday {1985} (7 days after Pentecost)
06/03	Confederate Memorial Day in Kentucky & Louisiana
06/03	Henry James born, 1811
06/03	Jefferson Davis's Birthday in Florida, Georgia, & S. Carolina
06/03	Labor Day in Bahamas
06/04	Bank Holiday in Ireland
06/04	Dragon Boat Festival in Hong Kong, Taiwan
06/04	Emancipation Day in Tonga
06/04	Jefferson Davis's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi {1984} (1st Monday)
06/04	Queen's Birthday in New Zealand
06/05	Constitution Day in Denmark
06/05	Liberation Day in Seychelles
06/05	Robert Kennedy Assasinated, 1968
06/06	Corpus Christi {1985} (11 days after Pentecost)
06/06	First Day of Shavuot - Hebrew Pentecost {1984}
06/06	His Majesty, Yang Di-Pertuan Agong's Birthday in Malaysia
06/06	Memorial Day in South Korea
06/06	Normandy landing, 1944
06/06	Shavuot
06/07	(Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848
06/07	George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778
06/07	Paul Gauguin born, 1848
06/08	Frank Lloyd Wright born, 1867
06/08	Last date in first draft lottery, 1969
06/09	Senior Citizen's Day in Oklahoma
06/10	Camoes Day in Portugal
06/10	Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C.
06/10	First Apple II shipped, 1977
06/10	Flag Day in New York {1984} (2nd Sunday)
06/10	Pentecost - Whitsunday {1984}
06/10	Sacred Heart of Jesus in Colombia
06/10	Sydney Blum's birthday
06/11	American Bases Evacuation Day in Libyan Arab Republic
06/11	King Kamehameha I Day in Hawaii
06/11	Pentecost Monday {1984} (probably movable)
06/11	Queen's Birthday
06/11	Whit Monday {1984} (probably movable)
06/12	Independence Day in Philippines
06/12	Peace with Bolivia in Paraguay
06/13	Corrective Movement in Yemen Arab Republic
06/13	Lunar eclipse (not visible in North America)
06/14	Flag Day in Pennsylvania
06/14	Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834
06/15	Edvard Grieg born, 1843
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
06/15	UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
06/16	Bloomsday - Anniversary of Dublin events, 1904, in "Ulysses"
06/16	First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal)
06/16	Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 bc
06/17	Bunker Hill Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
06/17	Father's Day {1984} (3rd Sunday)
06/17	Fourth Watergate break-in interrupted by police, leads to Nixon resignation, 1972
06/17	Independence Day in Iceland
06/17	National Day in Federal Republic of Germany
06/17	Trinity Sunday {1984} (7 days after Pentecost)
06/18	Evacuation Day in Egypt
06/18	Paul McCartney born, 1942
06/18	Queen's Birthday in Fiji
06/19	Artigas Birthday in Uruguay
06/19	Emancipation Day in Texas
06/19	Labor Day in Trinidad, Tobago
06/19	Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893
06/19	Revolution Day in Algeria
06/19	Rosenbergs executed at Sing Sing, 1953
06/20	Flag Day in Argentina
06/20	Victoria crowned, 1837
06/20	West Virginia Day in West Virginia
06/21	Corpus Christi {1984} (11 days after Pentecost)
06/21	Summer solstice, 12:02 am, EST
06/21	Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge
06/22	Carl Hubbell born, 1903
06/22	Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964
06/22	Corrective Movement in Yermen Democratic Republic
06/22	Midsummer Eve in Finland, Sweden
06/22	National Sovereignty Day in Haiti
06/22	Summer Solstice
06/23	IBM unbundles software, 1969
06/23	National Holiday in Luxembourg
06/23	Turing's Birthday, 1912
06/24	Battle of Carabobob in Venezuela
06/24	Fisherman's Day in Mafdagascar, Mozambique, Somalia
06/24	Kings Day in Spain
06/24	Peasants Day in Peru
06/25	Custer's Last Stand, 1876
06/25	Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903
06/25	Little Big Horn, 1876
06/25	N. Korea invades S. Korea, 1950
06/26	Arthur Middleton born, 1742
06/26	Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
06/26	St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959
06/26	Toothbrush invented, 1498
06/27	100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915
06/27	Helen Keller born, 1880
06/28	End Ramadan and Eid-Ul-Fitr* (4 days) in Saudi Arbia
06/28	Mothers Day in Central African Republic
06/29	Bank Holiday in El Salvador
06/29	End of Ramadan* in Cameroon, Chad, Eqypt
06/29	Independence Day in Seychelles
06/29	Last Day of Ramadan* in Algeria, Oman
06/29	Sacred Heart of Jesus in Colombia
06/29	Saints Peter and Paul in Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, Venezuela
06/30	"That" explosion in Siberia, 1908
06/30	Day of the Army in Guatemala
06/30	First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC
06/30	Hari Raya Puasa* in Singapore
06/30	Idul-Fitr* 
06/30	Idul-Fitr* (2 days) in Chad, Equpt, Gabon Indonesia, Maldives, Morocco, Somalia, Tanzania, Tunisia, Yemen Democratic Republic
06/30	Idul-Fitr* (3 days) in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Kenya, etc.
06/30	Idul-Fitr* (4 days) in Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen Arab Republic
06/30	Independence Day in Zaire
06/30	Korite* in Niger, Senegal
06/30	Ramazan Day* in Sri Lanka
06/30	Seker Bayrami* (3 days) in Turkey
07/01	Bank Day in Guatemala
07/01	Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863
07/01	Canada Day in Canada
07/01	Eid-Ul-Fitr* (2 days) in Pakistan
07/01	Freedom Day in Suriname
07/01	Independence Day in Burundi
07/01	National Day in Rwamda
07/01	Republic Day in Ghana
07/01	Union of the Somalia Republic in Somalia
07/02	Bank Holiday in Taiwan
07/02	National Day in Kiribati
07/03	Dog days begin
07/03	Franz Kafka born, 1883
07/04	Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863
07/04	Caribbean Day in Guyana
07/04	Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776
07/04	Constitution Day in Cayman Islands
07/04	Family Day in Lesotho
07/04	Heroes Day in Zambia
07/04	Independence Day in United States
07/04	John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826
07/04	Kadooment Day in Barbados
07/04	Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804
07/04	New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776
07/04	Philippine-American Friendship Day in the Philippines
07/04	Warriors Day (2 days) in Yugoslavia
07/05	Day of Peace and Unity in Rwanda
07/05	Independence Day in Algeria, Venezuela
07/05	Unity Day in Zambia (1st Thursday)
07/06	(Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866
07/06	John Paul Jones born, 1747
07/06	Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917
07/07	Anniversary of the P.U.N. in Equatorial Guinea
07/07	First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949
07/07	National Day in Malawi
07/07	Saba Saba Day in Tanzania
07/08	Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877
07/08	CDC incorporated, 1957
07/08	Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838
07/08	First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
07/09	10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847
07/09	Independence Day in Argentina
07/10	Independence Day in Bahamas
07/10	John Calvin born, 1509
07/11	John Quincy Adams born, 1767
07/11	National Holiday in the Mongolian People's Republic
07/12	Henry David Thoreau born, 1817
07/12	The Twelfth in Northern Ireland
07/13	Buddhist Lent in Thailand
07/13	Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908
07/14	Anniversary of the Revolution in Iraq
07/14	Bastille Day
07/14	National Holiday in Monaco
07/14	Woodie Guthrie born, 1912
07/15	Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas"
07/15	St. Swithin's Day
07/15	St. Swithin's Day
07/16	Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945
07/16	Presidents Day in Botswanna
07/17	Constitution Day in South Korea
07/17	Disneyland opens, 1955
07/17	July Revolution in Iraq
07/17	Munoz Rivera's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
07/17	Public Holiday in Botswanna
07/18	Constitution Day in Uruguay
07/18	Liberation Day in Nicaragua
07/18	Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
07/19	Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692
07/19	Martyrs Day in Burma
07/20	Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969 (Will be looked back upon as the high point of American civilization 100 years hence)
07/20	Armstrong first steps on moon, 1969
07/20	Independence Day in Colombia
07/21	National Holiday in Belgium
07/21	Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954
07/22	King's Birthday in Swaziland
07/22	National Day in Poland
07/23	Anniversary of the Revolution Egypt
07/23	Eqyptian National Day in Syrian Arab Republic
07/23	Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904
07/23	Remembrance Day in Papua, New Guinea
07/24	Birthday of Simon Bolivar in Venezuela
07/24	Pioneer Day in Utah
07/24	Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
07/24	Simon Bolivar's Day in Ecuador
07/25	Annexation of Guanacaste in Costa Rica
07/25	Constitution Day in Puerto Rico
07/25	National Rebellion Day (3 days) in Cuba
07/25	Republic Day in Tunisia
07/25	St. James, Patron Saint in Spain
07/26	Independence Day in Liberia
07/26	National Day in Maldives
07/27	Barbosa's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
07/28	Bach dies, 1750
07/28	Independence Days (2 days) in Peru
07/29	Mussolini born, 1883
07/29	Olsok Eve in Norway to commemorate Norway's Viking King St. Olav
07/29	Rain Day in Waynesburg, PA
07/30	"In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956
07/30	Emily Bronte born, 1818
07/30	Henry Ford born, 1863
07/31	Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948, later JFK
07/31	Revolution Day in Congo
08/01	Discovery Day in Trinidad, Tobogo
08/01	Emancipation Day in Granada
08/01	Founding of Asuncion in Paraguay
08/01	Freedom Day in Guyana
08/01	Herman Melville born, 1819
08/01	Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on this day
08/01	National Day in Switzerland
08/01	National Holidays (5 days) in El Salvador
08/01	Parent's Day in Zaire
08/02	Cup Matches (2 days) in Bermuda
08/02	Our Lady of Los Angeles in Costa Rica
08/03	Independence Day in Jamaica, Niger
08/03	Massacre du Pidjiguiti in Buinea-bissau
08/03	Memorial Day of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus
08/03	USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958
08/04	Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964
08/04	Freedom Day in Guyana
08/05	American Family Day in Arizona & Minnesota {1984} (1st Sunday)
08/06	Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945
08/06	Bank Holiday in Australia, Fiji, Iceland, Ireland
08/06	Caricom in Barbados
08/06	Colorado Day in Colorado {1984} (1st Monday)
08/06	Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
08/06	Emancipation Day in Bahamas
08/06	First Monday in August in Malawi {1984} (movable)
08/06	Independence Day in Bolivia
08/06	Summer Holiday in Scotland
08/07	Battle of Boyaca in Colombia
08/08	Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914
08/08	The Great Train Robbery $7,368,000, 1963
08/09	Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
08/09	National Day in Singapore
08/09	Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974
08/10	Independence Day in Ecuador
08/11	Dog days end
08/11	France Ends War in Indochina, 1954
08/11	Heroes Day (2 days) in Zimbabwe
08/11	Independence Day in Chad
08/11	King Hussein's Accession to the Throne in Jordan
08/11	Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
08/12	Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
08/12	Queen's Birthday in Thailand
08/12	Thomas Mann's Death, 1955
08/13	Annie Oakley born, 1860
08/13	Fidel Castro born, 1927
08/13	L'il Abner debut, 1934
08/13	Proclamation of Independence in Central African Republic
08/13	Victory Day in Rhode Island {1984} (2nd Monday)
08/13	Women's Day in Tunisia
08/14	IBM PC announced, 1981
08/14	Independence Day in Pakistan
08/14	Social Security begins in U.S., 1935
08/14	VJ Day, 1945
08/14	Waddi Dhahab in Morocco
08/15	Assumption
08/15	Feast of the Assumption in Portugal
08/15	Founding of Ascuncion in Paraguay
08/15	Hurricane hits Plimoth Plantation, 1635
08/15	Independence Day in India
08/15	Liberation Day in South Korea
08/15	National Day in Congo
08/15	Reast of the Assumption in Portugal
08/15	Santa Maria in Malta
08/16	Bennington Battle Day in Vermont
08/16	Independence Days (3 days) in Gabon
08/16	Restoration Day in Dominican Republic
08/16	Roller Coaster patented, 1898
08/16	Woodstock Begins, 1969
08/17	Admission Day in Hawaii {1984} (3rd Friday)
08/17	Anniversary of the Death of General San Martin in Argentina
08/17	First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
08/17	Independence Day in Indonesia
08/17	Mae West born, 1892
08/18	Anti-Cigarette League of America formed
08/18	Meriwether Lewis born, 1927
08/18	Rosalynn Smith Carter born, 1927
08/19	Gail borden patents condensed milk, 1856
08/19	Independence Day in Afghanistan
08/20	Constitution Day in Hungary
08/20	Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
08/21	Umhlanga in Swaziland
08/22	Archibald M. Willard born, 1836, Painter of "The Spirit of '76"
08/22	CDC 6600 introduced, 1963
08/22	Claude Debussy born, 1862
08/22	Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets
08/22	St. Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565
08/23	DEC founded, 1957
08/23	Gene Kelly born, 1912
08/23	Liberation Days (2 days) in Romania
08/23	Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927
08/24	-126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960
08/24	British troops burn Washington, 1814
08/24	National Flag Day in Liberia
08/25	Constitution Day in Paragual
08/25	Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
08/25	Independence Day in Uruguay
08/26	Krakatoa erupts, the biggest explosion in historic times, 1883
08/26	Susan B. Anthony Day in Massachussetts
08/27	"Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912
08/27	Liberation Day in Hong Kong
08/27	Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908
08/27	Summer Holiday in United Kingdom (except Scotland and Northern Ireland)
08/28	Heroes Day in Philippines
08/29	Beheading of St. John the Baptist Day[?] actual event sometime in AD 29
08/29	Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist
08/29	Star in Cygnus goes nova & becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; Nova Cygni 1975.
08/30	75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842
08/30	Huey P. Long Day in Louisiana
08/30	Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960
08/30	John W. Mauchly born, 1907
08/30	St. Rose of Lima in Peru
08/30	Victory Day in Turkey
08/31	Independence Day in Trinidad, Tobago
08/31	National Day in Malaysia
08/31	Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
08/31	Pashtoonian Day in Afghanistan
09/01	Army Day in Chile
09/01	National Day in Libyan Arab Republic
09/01	National Unity Day in Syrian Arab Republic
09/01	Teej in Nepal
09/02	Haj and Eid-Ul-Azha* (5 days) in Saudi Arabia
09/02	Labor Day {1985} (1st Monday)
09/03	Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino
09/03	Independence Day in Qatar
09/03	Labor Day {1984} (1st Monday)
09/03	Labor Day in Bermuda, Canada, United States
09/03	Memorial Day in Tunisia
09/04	Primary Election Day in Wisconsin {1984} (1st Tuesday)
09/05	First Continental Congress, Phila, 1774
09/05	Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961
09/05	Raquel Welch born, 1942
09/05	Waqfatu Arafat* in Algeria, Eqypt, Kuwait
09/06	Defense of Pakistan Day in Pakistan
09/06	Feast of the Lamb* in Cameroon
09/06	Hajj Days* (2 days) in Maldives
09/06	Hajj Festival* in Sri Lanka
09/06	Hari Raya Haji* (2 days) in Malazia
09/06	Hari Raya Haji* in Singapore, Malaysia
09/06	Idul-Adha*
09/06	Idul-Adha* (2 days) in Lebanon, Morocco, Somalia
09/06	Idul-Adha* (3 days) in Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Yemen Deomcratic Republic
09/06	Idul-Adha* (4 days) in Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen Arab Republic, Afghanistan
09/06	Idul-Adha* (5 days) in Egypt
09/06	Kurban Bayrami* (4 days) in Turkey
09/06	Pres. McKinley shot, 1901
09/06	Settlers Day in South Africa
09/06	Somhlolo in Swaziland
09/06	Tabaski*
09/07	Eid-Ul-Azha* (2 days) in Pakistan
09/07	Independence Day in Brazil
09/08	Gerald R. Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon (the slime!), 1974
09/09	Admission Day in California
09/09	Anniversary of the Socialist Revolution (2 days) in Bulgaria
09/09	National Day in North Korea
09/10	Korean Thanksgiving Day (Chusuk) in South Korea
09/10	Moon Festival in Taiwan
09/10	Mountain Meadows Massacre.  Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857
09/10	National Day in Belize
09/11	Day Following Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong
09/11	Death Anniversary of Auaid-E-Azam in Pakistan
09/11	Ethiopian New Year in Ethiopia
09/11	Grandparent's Day
09/11	National Holiday in Chile
09/11	Primary Election Day in Wyoming {1984} (2nd Tuesday)
09/12	Amilcar Cabral's Birthday in Guinea-Bissau
09/12	Defender's Day in Maryland
09/12	Germany annexes Sudentenland, 1938
09/12	Jesse Owens born, 1913
09/12	Revolution Day in Ethiopia
09/13	136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya, 1922
09/13	Barry Day commemorates the death of Commodore John Barry
09/13	Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122
09/13	Walter Reed born, 1851
09/14	"Star Spangled Banner" written, 1814
09/14	First day chosen in first draft lottery, 1969
09/14	Battle of San Jacinto in Nicaragua
09/15	ACM founded, 1947
09/15	Foundation of Panama in Panama
09/15	Independence Day
09/15	Respect for the Aged Day in Japan
09/16	Cherokee Strip Day in Oklahoma
09/16	First Day of Rosh Hashana {1985}
09/16	Independence Day in Mexico, Papua, New Guinea
09/17	Battle of Antietam, 1862
09/17	National Heroes Day in Angola
09/18	Greta Garbo born, 1905
09/18	Independence Day in Chile
09/18	Victory of Uprona in Burundi
09/19	Army Day in Chile
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	Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954
09/20	Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878
09/21	Independence Day in Belize
09/21	Louis Joliet born, 1645
09/22	Autumnal equinox, 3:33 pm, EST
09/22	Independence Day in Mali
09/22	National Sovereignty Day in Haiti
09/23	Autumnal Equinox celebrated in Japan
09/23	Grito de Lares in Puerto Rico
09/24	Anniversary of the Third Republic in Ghana
09/24	F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896
09/24	Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau
09/24	National Day in Saudi Arabia
09/24	Our Lady of Mercedes in Dominican Republic
09/24	Republic Day in Trinidad, Tobago
09/25	Army Day in Mozambique
09/25	Referendum Day in Rwanda
09/25	Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement {1985}
09/26	1st Muharran*
09/26	Johnny Appleseed born, 1774
09/26	National Day in Maldives, Yemem Deomcratic Republic
09/26	Revoluation Anniversary Day in Yemen Arab
09/27	Feast of Finding the True Cross in Ethiopia
09/27	First Day of Rosh Hashana {1984}
09/27	Muslim New Year in Egypt
09/27	Rosh Hashana
09/27	Rosh-Hashana in Israel
09/27	Thomas Nast born, 1840
09/28	"Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678
09/28	Confucious' Day in Taiwan
09/28	Seymour Cray born, 1925
09/29	Battle of Boqueron in Paraquay
09/29	Gene Autry born, 1907
09/30	Botswanna Day in Botswanna
09/30	First Day of Sukkot - Feast of Tabernacles {1985}
10/01	Armed Forces Day in South Korea
10/01	Independence Day in Nigeria
10/01	First Quarter Moon at 17:52 pm EDT. Moon near Mars & Jupiter. {1984}
10/01	Jimmy Carter born, 1924
10/01	Labor Day in Australia
10/01	National Liberation Day (2 days) in China
10/01	Public Holiday in Botswanna
10/02	Anniversary of Guinean Independence in Guinea
10/02	Mohandas Karamchand "Mahatma" Ghandi born, 1869
10/03	Chung Yeung Festival in Hong Kong
10/03	Francisco Morazan's Birthday in Honduras
10/03	National Foundation Day in South Korea
10/03	U.N. Day in Varbados
10/04	Crimean war begins, 1853
10/04	Independence Day in Lesotho
10/04	John V. Atanasoff born, 1903
10/04	Sputnik I launched, 1957
10/05	Anniversary of Proclamation of the Republic in Portugal
10/05	Ashura*
10/05	Mygarran (Ashura*) (2 days) in Pakistan
10/05	Ray Kroc (owner of McDonald's) born, 1902
10/06	Anwar Sadat assassinated, 1981
10/06	First GPSS manual published, 1961
10/06	National Sports Day in Lesotho
10/06	Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement {1984}
10/07	Expulsion of the Fascist Settlers in Libyan Arab Republic
10/07	First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast, 1957
10/07	Foundation of the GDR in 1949 in German Deomcratic Republic
10/07	National Heroes Day in Jamaica
10/07	Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974
10/08	Battle of Agamos in Peru
10/08	Columbus Day {1984} (2nd Monday)
10/08	Constitution Day in U.S.S.R
10/08	Discoverer's Day in Hawaii {1984} (2nd Monday)
10/08	Farmer's Day in Florida {1984} (2nd Monday)
10/08	Fiji Day in Fiji
10/08	First VisiCalc prototype, 1978
10/08	Fraternal Day in Alabama {1984} (2nd Monday)
10/08	Great Chicago Fire, 1871
10/08	Moon farthest from Earth at 10:45 am EDT; Dist=252,472 miles. {1984}
10/08	Pioneer's Day in South Dakota {1984} (2nd Monday)
10/08	Simhat Torah - Rejoicing of the Law {1985}
10/08	Thanksgiving Day in Canada
10/08	Venus lies 3 deg. S of Saturn Tonight! {1984}
10/09	Full Moon at 19:58 pm EDT. Draconid Meteor Shower at peak! {1984}
10/09	Independence Day in Uganda
10/09	Independence of Guayaquil in Ecuador
10/09	Korean Alphabet Day in South Korea
10/09	Leif Erikson Day commemorates the discovery of North America in AD 1000
10/09	Republic Day in Khmer Republic
10/10	Agnew resigns, 1973
10/10	Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba
10/10	Fiji Day in Fiji
10/10	Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea
10/10	Health-Sports Day in Japan
10/10	Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. {1984}
10/10	National Day in Taiwan
10/10	Oklahoma Historical Day in Oklahoma
10/11	Day of the Revolution in Panama
10/11	Druger Day in South Africa
10/11	First Day of Sukkot - Feast of Tabernacles {1984}
10/11	Sukkot
10/12	Columbus Day in Maryland & Puerto Rico
10/12	Columbus lands in Bahamas, 1492
10/12	Day of the Race in Argentina
10/12	Discovery Day in Gahamas
10/12	Man O'War's last race, 1920
10/12	National Day in Equatorial Guinea, Spain
10/12	Our Lady Aparecida Day in Brazil
10/12	Pan American Day in Belize
10/12	Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962
10/13	Mars less than 2 deg. S of Jupiter tonight. {1984}
10/13	St. Edward's Day - patron saint of England
10/13	U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress
10/14	Battle of Hastings (and England) won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066
10/14	British Computer Society founded, 1957
10/14	Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947
10/14	Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890
10/14	National Day in Yemen Arab Repyblic
10/14	William Penn born, 1644
10/14	Young People's Day in Zaire
10/15	Evacuation Day in Tunisia
10/15	First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published
10/15	Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881
10/16	National Boss Day
10/16	Noah Webster born, 1758
10/17	Dessaline's Death Anniversary in Haiti
10/17	Heroes Day in Jamaica
10/17	Last Quarter Moon at 17:14 EDT. {1984}
10/17	Mother's Day in Malawi
10/17	Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S.
10/18	Alaska Day in Alaska {1984} (3rd Monday?)
10/18	Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648
10/18	Feast Day of St. Luke
10/19	Simhat Torah - Rejoicing of the Law {1984}
10/20	"Saturday Night Massacre", 1973
10/20	Anniversary of the 1944 Revolution in Guatemala
10/20	Check Out Orionid Meteor Showers tonight. Last one B4 Comet Halley. {1984}
10/20	Kenyatta Day in Kenya
10/20	OPEC embargo, 1973
10/20	Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958
10/21	Armed Forces Day in Honduras
10/21	Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959
10/21	Revolution Days (2 days) in Somalia
10/22	Franz Liszt born, 1811
10/22	Mothers-in-Law Day
10/23	Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944
10/23	Chulalongkron's Day in Thsailand
10/23	Moon at closest to Earth at 09:50 am EDT Dist=222,766 Miles {1984}
10/23	Deepavali [?]
10/24	Deepawali in Fiji [?]
10/24	Independence Day in Zambia
10/24	New Moon at 08:08 am EDT {1984}
10/24	United Nations Day 
10/25	DEC announces VAX-11/780
10/25	Labor Day in New Zealand
10/25	Taiwan Restoration Day inb Taiwan
10/26	Agam Day in Nauru
10/26	Armed Forces Day in Benin, Rwanda
10/26	National Day in Austria
10/26	Thin Cresent Moon lies near Venus & star "Antares" tonight. {1984}
10/27	"3Zs" Day in Zaire
10/27	Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933
10/28	Daylight Savings Time Ends; Turn Clocks Back 1hr. {1984}
10/28	Moon passes near Jupiter & Mars tonight & tomorrow. Look in low SW {1984}
10/28	National Holiday in Greece
10/28	OHI Day in Cyprus
10/29	Republic Day in Turkey
10/29	Stock Market Crash, 1929
10/30	Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938
10/31	Chiang Kai-shek's Birthday in Taiwan
10/31	Dale Evans born, 1912 
10/31	First Quarter Moon at 08:07 am EDT {1984}
10/31	Halloween
10/31	Nevada Day in Nevada
11/01	All Saints Day
11/01	Feast of All Saints in Portugal
11/01	National Day [?]
11/01	Samhain; Beginning of the Celtic year and most important holiday.
11/02	All Souls Day in Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, Uruguay
11/02	Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940
11/02	Memorial Day in Ecuador
11/03	Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837
11/03	Culture Day in Japan
11/03	Independence from Columbia in Panama
11/03	Independence of Cuenca in Ecuador
11/03	Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954
11/03	Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing spacedog Laika
11/03	Thanksgiving Day in Liberia
11/04	Flag Day in Panama
11/04	UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952
11/04	Will Rogers Day
11/05	First Cry for Independence in El Salvador
11/05	Guy Fawkes Day
11/05	Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605
11/05	Roy Rogers born, 1912
11/06	Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R.
11/06	Election Day
11/06	Election Day {1984} (1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday)
11/06	Election Day in Montana {1984} (1st Tuesday)
11/06	Green March Day in Morocco
11/06	Prophet Mohammed's Birthday in Malaysia
11/07	Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837
11/07	Anniversary of Great October Revolution in Bulgaria
11/07	Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805
11/07	National Revolution Day
11/07	October Revolution Day in Hungary
11/08	Her Majesty, the Queen's Birthday in Nepal
11/08	Lunar eclipse (visible only in extreme north of North america)
11/08	Patti Page born, 1927
11/09	Birthday of Allama Iqbal in Pakistan
11/09	Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965
11/09	Carl Sagan born, 1934
11/09	Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927
11/10	Cpt Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865
11/10	King's Birthday in Bhutan
11/10	Stanley finds Livingstone, 1872
11/11	Armistice Day in France, Belgium, Tahiti
11/11	Independence Day in Angola
11/11	Independence of Cartagena in Colombia
11/11	Republic Day in Maldives
11/11	Veteran's Day in U.S. - (used to be Armistice Day)
11/12	Dr. un Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan
11/12	Prince Charles' Birthday in Fiji
11/12	Remembrance Day in Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands
11/12	U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861
11/13	Paul Simon born, 1942
11/13	Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850
11/13	St. Augustine of Hippo born, 354 A.D.
11/14	King Hussein's Birthday in Jordan
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	Dynasty Day in Belgium
11/15	Niagra Falls power plant startup, 1896
11/15	Proclamation of the Republic in Brazil
11/15	Thatlouang Festival in Laos
11/16	Oklahoma Heritage Week in Oklahoma
11/16	Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869
11/17	46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966
11/17	Army Day in Zaire
11/17	Corrective Movement in Syrian Arab Republic
11/18	Battle of Viertieres in Haiti
11/18	Imogene Coca born, 1908
11/18	Independence Day in Morocco
11/18	National Days (4 days) in Oman
11/18	William S. Gilbert born, 1836
11/19	Anniversary of the 1968 Coup by the Army in Mali
11/19	Discovery Day in Puerto Rico
11/19	Feast Day of S.A.S. Prince Rainier in Monaco
11/19	Garifuna Settlement in Belize
11/19	Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863
11/19	Prince of Wales Birthday in Fiji
11/20	RFK born, 1925
11/20	Revolution Day in Mexico
11/21	Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973
11/21	Day of Prayer and Repentance in Federal Republic of Germany
11/22	Anniversary of Portuguese Aggression in Guinea
11/22	Independence Day in Lebanon
11/22	J.F. Kennedy Assasinated, 1963
11/22	Thanksgiving {1984} (4th Thursday)
11/22	Total solar eclipse (visible only in southern hemisphere)
11/23	Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan
11/23	Thanksgiving Day in United States
11/24	Anniversary of the New Regime in Zaire
11/24	Lee Harvey Oswald shot by Jack Ruby, 1963
11/24	Scott Joplin born, 1868
11/25	Independence Day in Suriname
11/26	Charles Schultz born, 1922
11/26	Christ the King in Holy See
11/26	Norbert Weiner born, 1894
11/27	Friction match invented, England, 1826
11/27	Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
11/28	Independence Day in Albania, Mauritania
11/28	Independence from Spain in Panama
11/28	Proclamation of the Republic in Chad
11/28	Thanksgiving {1985} (4th Thursday)
11/29	Day of the Republic (2 days) in Yugoslavia
11/29	Goodwill Day in Liberia
11/29	King Tut's tomb opened, 1922
11/29	Liberation Day in Albania
11/29	National Day in Burma
11/29	Nellie Tayloe Ross's Birthday (celebrated in Wyoming)
11/30	Cleopatra died, 30 bc
11/30	Independence Day in Barbados, Yemen Deomcratic Republic
11/30	National Day in Benin
11/30	National Heroes Day in Philippines
11/30	Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) born, 1835
11/30	St. Andrew's Day
12/01	Anniversary of the Restoration of Independence in Portugal
12/01	First Sunday of Advent {1985} (4th Sunday before Christmas)
12/01	First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924
12/01	Independence Day in Central African Republic
12/01	Woody Allen born, 1935
12/02	First Sunday of Advent {1984} (4th Sunday before Christmas)
12/02	National Holiday in United Arab Emirates
12/02	The Schafer twins (Peggy Ann & Patty Ann) born, 1954
12/03	First neon light display, Paris, 1910
12/03	National Holiday in Laos
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	Maulid-An-Nabi*
12/05	Mozart dies, 1791
12/05	Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776
12/05	St. Nicholas' Day
12/06	Eid Milad-Un-Nabi* in Pakistan
12/06	Independence Day in Finland
12/07	Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941
12/07	Delaware Day in Delaware
12/07	Independence Day in Ivory Coast, Panama 
12/07	Prophet Mohammed's Birthday in Fiji
12/08	Blessing of the Water in Uruguay
12/08	First Day of Hanukkah - Festival of Lights {1985}
12/08	First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965
12/08	Immaculate Conception (movable?)
12/08	John Lennon assassinated, 1980
12/08	Mother's Day in Panama
12/08	Our Lady of the Cacupe in Paraguay
12/09	Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
12/09	Independence Day in Tanzania
12/10	Emily Dickenson born, 1830
12/10	Foundation of Worker's Party in Angola
12/10	Human Rights Day
12/10	Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year
12/10	Thai Constitution Day in Thailand
12/10	Wyoming Day in Wyoming
12/11	Independence Day in Upper Volta
12/12	E. G. Robinson born, 1893
12/12	Independence Day in Kenya
12/13	Dartmouth College chartered, 1769
12/13	Geminid meteor shower (look south)
12/13	Republic Day in Malta
12/14	George Washington dies, 1799
12/15	Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976
12/15	James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891
12/15	Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890
12/15	Statue Day in Netherlands Antilles
12/15	Thomas Edison receives patent on the phonograph, 1877
12/16	Beethoven born, 1770
12/16	Constitution Day in Nepal
12/16	Day of the Covenant in South Africa
12/16	Ludwig Van Beethoven born, 1770
12/16	National Day in Bahrain
12/16	Victry Day in Bangladesh
12/17	National Day in Bhutan
12/18	Republic Day in Niger
12/19	First Day of Hanukkah - Festival of Lights {1984}
12/19	Hannukkah in Israel
12/19	Hanuka
12/20	U.S. Buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.
12/21	Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804
12/21	Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in <80 days
12/21	First day of winter, Winter Solstice, 11:23 am EST {1984}
12/22	Giacomo Puccini born, 1858
12/22	William Ellery born, 1727
12/23	First G&S collaboration, Thespis, 1871
12/23	Victory Day in Egypt
12/24	Christmas Eve
12/24	KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865
12/25	Birthday of Quaid-i-Azam in Pakistan
12/25	Children's Day in Congo
12/25	Christmas Day
12/25	Sir Isaac Newton born, 1642
12/26	Boxing Day
12/26	Chas. Babbage born, 1791
12/26	Christmas Holidays (2 days) in Papua, New Guinea
12/26	DPMA founded, 1951
12/26	Family Day in South Africa
12/26	Feast of Our Theotokos in Greece
12/26	Saint Stefano in Italy
12/26	Second Day of Christmas in Iceland
12/26	St. Stephen's Day
12/27	APT report published, 1956
12/27	Bank Holiday in Cayman Islands
12/27	Constitution Day in North Korea
12/27	Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845
12/27	Public Holiday in Lesotho, Zimbabwe
12/28	Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
12/28	John von Neumann born, 1903
12/28	National Day
12/29	Battle of Wounded knee, 1890
12/29	Civic Holidays (3 days) in Costa Rica
12/29	His Majesty, the King's Birthday in Nepal
12/29	Wounded Knee Massacre, 1890
12/30	Anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar in Madagascar
12/31	Bank Holiday in El Salvador, Honduras, Pakistan
12/31	Feed Yourself Day in Benin
12/31	New Year's Eve
12/31	Proclamation of the Republic in Congo
12/31	St. Sylvester in Switzerland
