On this day ... compiled by (c) Norbert Haley 1995 norb@kcbbs.gen.nz
6 Today would be Syd Barret's 50th Birthday 10 50 ys ago the US army bounced radar off the Moon 12 250th birthday of Johann Pestalozzi 14 100th Birthday of John Roderigo Dos Passos 15 10yrs ago Gorbashev proposed 3 stage plan for total elimination of nuclear weapons til 2000 16 5 yrs ago the US bombed people in Baghdad 18 5yrs ago a 9m Asteroid passed Earth at 170000km 19 Dolly Parton becomes 50 today 20 15yrs ago last 52 hostages in Iran are released for unknown sum 22 beginn of the holy month of Ramadan 23 100. birthday of Charlotte of Luxembourg 24 10 ys ago Voyager 2 flew past Uranus 31 John Lydon's (Sex Pistol) 40th - Phil Collins' 45th b-day
5 80 yrs ago Hugo Ball opened the Cabaret Voltaire Tu B'Shvat 8 75th anniv of the death of +Pjotr Alexejevitsh Kropotkin 11 25 ys ago the ocean's floor declare nuke free zone 11 Lailat al Qadr - the night of power (shiite) 12 today the earth passes trough the ring-plane of Saturne N>S 14 120 ys ago Bell patents the 1. usable telephone 15 25 ys ago GB and Irland introduce the decimal system 15 Old Wives Carnival Carnival starts -- dirty thursday Lucerne 17 200th birthday of F W Beechey (Africa & pole traveller) 17 Lailat al Qadr - the night of power (sunni) 18 100th birthday of Andre Breton 19 TheChinese New Year (new 60yr cycle!) Rat (Pin-Tse) 19 Washington Day-USA main Carneval Day 20 10ys ago USSR launched 3rd generation Mir space station 20 Mardi grass shrove tuesday last day of carnival Fat Tuesday 21 30ys ago de Gaulle announces France's NATO withdrawal 21 Ashwednesday first day of lent -- end of ramadan 24 5 ys ago the US started the landwar in Kuwait 25 10ys ago Marcos left the Philippines
1 30 ys ago 1st scrap metal on Venus - Venera 3 crashes 2 gay & lesbian parade in Sydney 3 5 ys ago - videotaping of police brutality in LA 4 Roosevelt proclaims "New Deal" 1933 4 Labourday TAS W-OZ -- daylightsavings ends in NSW & VIC 5 300th birthday of the ital Painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 6 10 ys ago USSR Vega 1 sailed near comet Halley 8 25 ys ago Radio Hanoi broadcasts Hendrix version of SS Banner 10 10 ys ago Sakigake detects plasma waves at comet Halley 10 Oculi (The Eyes) 3rd sunday in lent 11 70th Birthday of Ralph Abernathy -- 75th of Astor Piazolla 11 Commonwealth Day in Tuvalu US Virgin Islands UK 12 Lisa Minelli's 50th b-day 13 10 ys ago Giotto made good snaps of comet Halley 17 Daylight Savings ends in Sth Australia and New Zealand 18 250 ys ago Anna Leopoldovna died 19 Ugadi Indian Lunar New Year 21 Iranian New Year "Now Ruz" 1375 (also Baha'i, indian 1918) 21 1st Dhu al-Qadah - the 11th muslim month 24 10 ys ago Lybians fight US forces off the Lybian coast 27 90th birthday of Pee Wee Russell 28 125 ys ago Paris Commune proclaimed-1st proletatian revolution 30 250th birthday of Francisco Jose de Goya 31 400th birthday of Rene Descartes -- Palmsunday 31 Daylight savings starts in Europe
3 tonight is a lunar eclipse in W.Asia-Africa-Europe E-Nth America 4 Maundy Thursd Christ gave disciples mandate to wash their feet 4 Passover 5 Good Friday since 2nd Century among north African christians 6 Boat race Cambridge vs Oxford 7 climate convention in Berlin finishes without action 1995 7 Daylightsavings starts in USoA Easter sunday 8 Eastermonday 30ys ago 1. observatory launched into space OA01 9 175th birthday of Charles Baudelaire 12 15 ys ago the 1st space shuttle flew 13 Indian solar new year 5097 kali yugam 1918 Salivahana Saka 13 50th birthday of soul-priest Al Green 14 40ys ago Ampex introduced a video tape recorder 14 Quasimodo geniti "like newborn babies" 15 10 ys ago US bombers maim & kill dozens in Libya 16 15ys ago:1. 1MW Solarpower station in Sicily Ustinov's 75th 16 Yom Hashoah 17 50 ys ago french & english leave Syria 18 partial solar eclipse in Sth Pacific 19 25 ys ago Salyut 1- man's 1st space station launched 20 1st Dhu al-Hidja - the 12th muslim month 21 Queen E of England is 70 25th deathday of Duvalier (Haiti) 22 80th birthday of Yehudi Menuhin 24 Yom Haatzmaut 26 Chernobyl released 30-40 times Hiroshima radioactivity 26 Arborday USoA 28 Alpha Scorpiid Meteors 29 Id al-Adha - moslem day of sacrifice
1 35 ys ago Castro expels foreign churches & nationalises schools 3 Prayer Day Denmark 4 Venus' greatest brilliancy 6 Holiday in Queensland St Kitts UK N-Australia 7 100th birthday of Pavel Aleksandrov (math-man) Lag B'Omer 9 Bankholiday Belgium 10 50th birthday of Donovan 11 Carnival in La Valetta Malta 12 55 ys ago Zuse introduced the Z-3 Computer -- Mother's day 12 500th birthday of Adolf I the swedish King 13 15 ys ago Ali Agca shot the pope 13 Te Aso o te Tala Lei (Gospel Day) Tuvalu 16 50th birthday of Robert Fripp -- Ascension 17 Sanja Festival of the Asakusa Shrine Tokyo 18 Armed Forces Day USoA 19 1. Muharram-muslim New Year 1417 20 Discovery Day Cayman Islands -- Adelaide Cup Day 21 75th birthday of Andrej Sacharov 24 Shavuot 25 50th anniv of founding of Kingdom of Jordan 26 Mothersday Central African Republic 26 Whitsuntide or Pentecost 27 Spring Holiday UK -- Memorial Day USoA 27 Whitmonday public holiday in many countries carrib Isls germ 28 Ashoura-matyrdom of Husayn (muslim) 30 National Day of Croatia 1990 -- 100th birthday of Howard Hawks
1 Marilyn Monroe's 70th and Sadi Carnot's 200th birthday 2 Trinity Sunday 50th republic-day Italy 2 30 ys ago Surveyor 1 landed on Moon 3 holiday-Ireland Queens's birthday-NZ muslim Immamat day 6 Corpus Christi -- 20ys ago died John Paul Getty 7 Labourday Bahamas -- 100. birthday of Robert Mulliken 8 Queens b-day UK -- 140ys ago Pitcairners arrive in Norfolk I 10 Q-b-day Australia (ex W-Oz) -- 75th b-day of Prince Philipp 16 Medical Workers Day USSR -- -- Fathersday UK & USoA 18 1st Safar (2nd muslim month) 19 150 ys ago First formal baseball game played in Hoboken N J 23 75th birthday of the grand duke of Luxembourg 25 120 ys ago Custer died at Little Big Horn 26 10 ys ago the irish decide against divorce 30 Soviet Youth Day
1 350th birthday of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 2 Carnival in St Vincent & the Grenadines -- Curacao Day 4 Ommegang Festival Brussels -- 50ys ago Philippines indep 5 Alice Springs Show Day 6 International Cooperation Day USSR 9 175 ys ago general San Martin entered Lima 10 125th birthday of Marcel Proust 20ys ago-Seveso catastrophe 11 75th nat-day of Mongolia 3days 11 10ys ago 1st US girl sentenced to death-16y old Paula Cooper killed her religion teacheress 12 Tennant Creek Show Day 15 50th birthday of HM Sultan of Brunei 16 150th birthday of the astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi 17 20 ys ago Indonesia annexed the portuguese Island Timor 18 75th birthday of John H Glenn 19 150th birthday of astronomer Edward Charles Pickering 20 20 ys ago Viking 1 sent pictures from the ground on Mars 21 200th anniv of death of Robert Burns-Scotland 24 50ys ago-notorious Bikini atmospheric atom bomb test 25 Fast of the 9th Day of Ab 26 Darwin Show Day
3 30 th anniv of the death of Lenny Bruce 5 1st August monday-a holiday in many countries 6 1 year ago the protest fleet left Auckland for Mururoa 9 25 ys ago India & USSR sign friendship treaty 10 150th birthday of the Smithsonian Institution 11 100th birthday of Enid Blyton 75th of Alex Haley 14 today in 130ys Comet Swift-Tuttle will collide with Earth 19 350th birthday of John Flamsteed 50th of Bill Clinton 23 Keith Moon 50 today -- 5ys ago Yelzin bans communist party 26 Summerholiday UK 30 80 ys ago Shackleton rescued after 475 day Antarctica
1 Fathersday New Zealand 2 Labour Day Bermuda Canada USoA 4 100th birthday of Antonin Artaud (Theatre of Cruelty) 5 50th birthday of Freddie Mercury and Buddy Miles 6 5 ys ago the baltics receive their independence 9 20 ys ago Mao died 13 Erev Rosh Hashanah 14 Rosh Hashanah - jewish NewYear 5757 commences at sunset 15 Prayer Switzerland -- 175th indep-day central america 16 respect for the aged day-Japan 17 20 ys ago US congress enacts law to aid electric automobils 23 Yom Kippur -- 150ys ago-Neptune discovered by Galle in Berlin 25 40 years ago the 1st transatlantic cable was used 26 tonight is a total lunar eclipse 28 Succoth begins 29 Daylightsavings doesn't end in Continental Europe (27oct) 30 20ys ago California recognizes the right to die
5 Sh'mini Atzeret -- 75th constitution anniv-Liechtenstein 6 Simchat Torah -- Daylight Savings starts NZ & Tasmania 7 Child Health Day USoA Labourday New South Wales 9 550 ys ago Alphabet Day South Korea 12 partial solar eclipse (max 76%) visible in Europe 14 Columbus Day USoA Labourday S-Australia Constit Day Niue 15 50th anniversary of the cyanide suicide of Hermann Goering 16 50 ys ago 10 executions of nazis in Nuremberg 24 50th anniv of UN children's day 1000th anniv of +Hugo Capet 25 20 ys ago Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus & sends pictures 27 daylight savings begins (most) Australia ends in Euro & usA 28 holiday-Ireland&NZ -- Escoffier 150th birthday (king of cooks) 29 30 ys ago *NOW (National Organisation for Women USA) founded 31 70 ys ago Harry Houdini (escapologist) died
3 10th indep day-Micronesia 75th birthday of Charles Bronson 4 Recreation Day N Tasmania 5 USA election day -- Melbourne Cup Day (horse races) 6 25ys ago USA tests their biggest a-bomb on Aleutian Is Amchitka 12 1st day of Rajab - the 7 muslim month 12 250th birthday of *Jacques Alexandre Charles-balloon pioneer 17 200th anniv +Catherine the Great -- +Bloody Mary 1588 18 Discovery of Puerto Rico Day 20 50th birthday of Alice Aycock 25 10ys ago Pacific protection treaty signed in New Caledonia 28 Thanksgiving usA 30 60 ys ago-Crystal Palace in London destroyed by fire
5 50th birthday of Jose Carreras -- Arbor Day in Beirut 6 Arborday Georgia (US) Hanukkah 8 Lailat al-Miraj-ascension of the prophet Intefadah begin 1987 9 Human Rights Peace Day Kiribati 10 100ys ago +Alfred Nobel (dynamite trader) 12 1st of Shabaan - the 8th muslim month 14 50th birthday of Jane Birkin 450th of Tycho Brahe 16 75ys ago Fritz Winkler discovers "Plasma" 18 today would be the 50th birthday of Steve Biko 23 10ys ago 1. non-stop round earth flight (9days) landed 30 Procl-day-Sth OZ 20ys ago-Sydney infested by giant houseflies 19 March 2001
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