1/* 2 * USA history 3 * 4 * $OpenBSD: calendar.ushistory,v 1.8 2019/01/30 07:24:53 bentley Exp $ 5 */ 6 7#ifndef _calendar_ushistory_ 8#define _calendar_ushistory_ 9 10LANG=en_US.UTF-8 11 1201/01 First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902 1301/02 First military deployment of helicopters (VS-300 by Igor Sikorsky), 14 with a British American convoy, 1944 1501/03 After 218 years since discovery by europeans and 92 years after 16 it was purchased from Russian Empire, Alaska becomes 49th state, 1959 1701/05 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940 1801/08 Battle of New Orleans 1901/11 Milk delivered in bottles for the first time, 1878 2001/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964 2101/11 The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963 2201/14 The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967 2301/16 Prohibition of alcohol begins, 1920 2401/18 Grey whale migration, California 2501/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922 2601/24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848 2701/24 A B-52 bomber carrying two 24 megaton bombs crashes at Goldsboro, 28 North Carolina; 5 of 6 safety devices failed on one of them, 1961 2901/27 Grissom, White and Chaffee burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967 3001/28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914 3101/28 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff 32 killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe, 33 1986 3401/30 Tet Offensive, 1968 3502/01 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954 3602/01 Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrates 15 minutes before landing 37 killing Husband, McCool, Chawla, Clark, Ramon, Brown, and Anderson, 2003 3802/12 Lincoln's real birthday 3902/12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969 4002/16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804 4102/19 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945 4202/21 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878 4302/21 Malcolm X shot to death in Harlem, 1965 4402/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704 4503/01 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft 46 in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 4703/04 First meeting of Congress in N.Y.C., 1789 4803/14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907 4903/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH 5003/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966 5103/16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen 5203/25 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911 5303/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937 5403/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638 5504/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968 5604/09 Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867 5704/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865 5804/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861 5904/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981 6004/14 US President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre 61 by John Wilkes Booth, 1865 6204/15 Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955 6304/15 US President Abraham Lincoln dies, 1865 6404/18 First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934 6504/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906 6604/20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971 6704/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954 6805/03 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971 6905/04 Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970 7005/05 John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925 7105/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972 7205/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854 7305/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974 7405/20 US explodes first air-delivered hydrogen bomb, 1956 7505/22 US Civil War ends, 1865 7605/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924 7705/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937 7805/30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912 7906/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924 8006/03 A 46-cent computer chip fails, causing the mistaken detection 81 of a Soviet missile attack by the NORAD system. About a 100 B-52 82 bombers were readied for take off along with the President's 83 airborne command post before the error is detected, 1980 8406/05 Robert Kennedy assassinated, 1968 8506/05 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933 8606/10 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971 8706/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752 8806/16 "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980 8906/17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972 9006/19 Start of a bus boycott protesting discrimination, 91 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1953 9206/22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964 9306/24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970 9406/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 9506/27 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971 9606/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Allan Bakke, 1978 9707/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863 9807/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776 9907/04 The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people, 1803 10007/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863 10107/06 First 'talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928 10207/08 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776 10307/08 Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835 10407/09 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847 10507/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, NM, 1945 10607/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927 10707/19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692 10807/21 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873 10907/28 B-25 hit 79th floor of Empire State Building, 1945 11007/30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956 11107/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948, 112 later JFK 11308/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890 11408/08 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974 11508/08 The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963 11608/09 Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969 11708/09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842 11808/10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833 11908/10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977 12008/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977 12108/12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972 12208/14 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935 12308/14 NYNEX merges with Bell Atlantic, 1997 12408/14 North-East American blackout, 2003 12508/15 Hurricane hits Plymouth Plantation, 1635 12608/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891 12708/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed, 1899 12808/24 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969 12908/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814 13008/26 Women get the vote (19th amendment of US constitution), 1920 13108/28 Martin Luther King leads over 200,000 in civil rights rally 132 in Washington, DC, 1963 13309/05 U.S. President Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961 13409/05 The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774 13509/06 U.S. President McKinley shot, 1901 13609/08 U.S. President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974 13709/09 California becomes the 31st state of the USA, 1850 13809/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776 13909/14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778 14009/14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629 14109/14 The US Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940 14209/15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959 14309/15 The U.S. Foreign Affairs Department becomes 144 the U.S. State Department, 1789 14509/16 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630 14609/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for US President, 1884 14709/20 First meeting of the American Association for 148 the Advancement of Science, 1848 14909/20 First meeting of the US National Research Council, 1916 15009/20 The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973 15109/22 US President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862 15209/22 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas US President Nixon, 1974 15309/23 The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club, 1845 15409/23 US Vice President Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with 155 his "Checkers" speech, 1952 15609/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981 15710/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958 15810/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967 15910/07 Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916 16010/07 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977 16110/08 Great Chicago Fire, 1871 16210/10 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973 16310/11 "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975 16410/11 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811 16510/13 U.S. Navy born, authorized by the Second Continental Congress, 1775 16610/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947 16710/15 First draft card burned, 1965 16810/15 D.B.A. ("drink good stuff") opens in N.Y.C., 1994 16910/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648 17010/27 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871 17110/27 The first New York Subway is opened, 1904 17210/28 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636 17310/28 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886 17410/29 Stock Market Crash, 1929 17510/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938 17611/03 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837 17711/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979 17811/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965 17911/09 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921 18011/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933 18111/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House, 1917 18211/10 Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865 18311/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889 18411/12 U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861 18511/14 Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon 186 price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after formal request 187 from McDonald's), 1971 18811/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896 18911/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966 19011/17 Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973 19111/18 Local standard time zones established for US, 1883 19211/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863 19311/21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973 19411/22 John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas 195 by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963 19611/23 First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963 19711/24 Alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is killed by 198 Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas, 1963 19911/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts 20012/01 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924 20112/01 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955 20212/01 Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1955 20312/04 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783 20412/05 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, 205 ending the Prohibition of alcohol, 1933 20612/05 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955 20712/15 Bill of Rights adopted, 1791 20812/15 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890 20912/20 U.S. buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi. 21012/24 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865 21112/27 APT report published, 1956 21212/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973 21312/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940 21412/31 Winterland closes its doors, 1978 215 216#endif /* !_calendar_ushistory_ */ 217