Come fool be patient; life is not logic -R Jeffers
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1835  Samuel Clemens 1935  Woody Allen 1980  Alaska Lands Act 1857  Joseph Conrad 1835  Samuel Butler 1791  Mozart died 1492  Columbus discovered Dominican Republic
1954  Elizabeth Hodges struck by meteorite, AL 1978  Aniakchak NM & Berin Land Bridge Natl. Presv. 1942  First self-sustaining nuclear reaction 1888  Wetherhill discovered Cliff Palace 1842  Crazy Horse 1840  Fritz Lang 1896  Ira Gershwin
      1910  First neon sign in Paris 1948  Southside Johnny 1901  Walt Disney 1901  Eliot Porter
          1929  Natl. League for Nudists 1965  Bill Graham's first Fillmore rock concert
          1932  Little Richard  
          1935  Prohibition ended  
          1966  Crystal Rapid formed, Grand Canyon  
             
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1873  Willa Cather 65 BC  Horace 1958  John Birch Society founded Wyoming Day 1719  Aurora Borealis first recorded National Ding-a-Ling Day 37 AD  Nero
1949  Tom Waits 1894  James Thurber   1824  George McDonald 1937  Jim Harrison 1863  Edvard Munch 1503  Nostradamus
1988  Roy Orbison died 1943  Jim Morrison   1830  Emily Dickinson 1939  Thomas McGuane 1878  Last Labrador duck killed  
  1980  Colorado Wilderness Bill   1909  Red Cloud passed in Spirit World 1948  John Rock 1904  Montana Slim  
  1980  John Lennon killed       1943  Rosemary Hempey  
             
             
             
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1919  Shirely Jackson 1876  Rain of Snakes, Memphis 1770  Beethoven     1940  Phil Ochs 1798  Birdie Murphy
  1890  Sitting Bull killed 1773  Boston Tea Party     1980  New Mexico Wilderness Act 1835  Trail of Tears
    1775  Jane Austen        
             
             
             
             
             
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Winter Solstice 1849  Dostoyevsky sentenced to die, 1849 1776  Tom Paine published Crisis Noche Buena 1758  Halley's Comet appeared 1716  Thomas Gray 1493  Paracelsus
1866  Battle of the 100 Slain 1922  Hawkshaw Hawkins   1809  Kit Carson   1891  Henry Miller 1947  Howdy Doody aired
1921  Ret Marut publ last issue of The Brickburner 1944 Glen Miller disappeared   1948  First solar heated house   1940  Phil Spector  
1932  Edward Hoagland            
1940 Frank Zappa            
             
             
             
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Feast of Fools 1890  Wounded Knee Massacre 1910  Paul Bowles 999  AD  Earliest known prediction of the end of the world 1912  Kolb Bros. emerged, Inner Gorge of Grand Canyon 1777  Escalante Expedition ended, Santa Fe 1882  Oscar Wilde visited U.S.
1917  Mencken's Bathtub Hoax 1931  Heavy H2O discovered 1975  Hell's Canyon Wilderness   1919  J.D Salinger 1901  Robert Marshall 1898  Zasu Pitts
1973  Endandgered Species Act 1974  Glacier Ranger fatally shot snowmobile   1930  Odetta 1950  "Hopalong Cassidy" first aired 1936  Roger Miller 1945  Steven Stills
      1999  Criswell predicted black rainbow to suck oxygen from earth. 1951  J. Petty 1937  Floyd Dominy first viewed Boulder Dam 1959  Alaska statehood
        1953  Hank Williams died    
             
             
             
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1924  First auto crossed Sahara Desert Twelfth Night Nile Fesitval Rock Day 1931  Bill Graham 1890  Karel Capek 1776  Thomas Paine publ. "Common Sense"
1965  T.S Eliot died 1912  Kolb Bros. at Diamond Creek 1799 Jebediah Smith 1800 Millard Fillmore 1935  Elvis Presley 1909  First issue of Progressive 1863  1st Subway, London
1896  Utah statehood   1842  Clarence King 1811  Earlest reference to Sasquatch footprints 1940  Little Anthony 1913  Richard Nixon 1887  Robinson Jeffers
    1854  Sherlock Holmes 1975  Ethan Wardwell   1914  Gypsy Rose Lee 1904  Ray Bolger
    1878  Carl Sandburg 1978  Boll Weevils strike MN   1915  Fernando Lamas 1951  Falling icicle killed man in West Germany
    1945  Barry Lopez     1941  Joan Baez 1945  Rod Stewart
            "Come fool; be patient. Life is not logic."
             
             
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1887  Aldo Leopold 1876  Jack London 1834  Horatio Alger 1741  Benedict Arnold 1809  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Concordia Benediction of Animals
1897  Bernard BeVoto 1907  Tex Ritter 1901  A. B. Guthrie 1863  First printing of wood pulp paper 1908  Edward Teller National Nothing Day 1706  Ben Franklin
1935  Amelia Earhart soloed   1912  Kolb Bros. emerged from Grand Canyon 1922 Isaac Walton League 1919  30 ft. wall of molasses drowned 21 in Boston 1874  Robert Service 1860  Al Capone
1987  The Drive   1961  Julia Louis-Dreyfus   1929  Martin Luther King, Jr. 1919  Prohibition Amendment 1860  Anton Chekhov
        1941  Capt. Beefheart 1928  William Kennedy 1942  Mohammad Ali-Hajl
             
             
             
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1782  Daniel Webster 1809  Edgar Allen Poe 1896  George Burns St. Agnes Husband Finding Day 1561  Francis Bacon 1899  Humphrey Bogart 1848  Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill
1882  A.A Milne 1939  Phil Everly   1813  J.C. Freemont 1788  Lord Byron 1919  Ernie Kovacs 1862  Edith Wharton
1904  Cary Grant 1943  Janis Joplin   1885  Leadbelly 1789  First novel publ. in America 1974  Alaska pipeline authorized  
  1989  Salvador Dali died   1935  Wilderness Society 1879  Francis Picabia 1998  The Last Weekend  
      1963  Glen Canyon Dam dedicated 1984  Amazon Indians attacked oil crew  w/ darts    
             
             
             
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1759  Robert Burns 1926  First TV show 1302  Dante exiled from Florence 1873  Colette 1737  Thomas Paine 1935  Richard Brautigan 1875  Zane Grey
1882 Virginia Woolf 1929  Jules Freiffer 1756  Mozart 1878  First commercial telephone exchange 1838  J.D. Rockefeller   1951  First H-bomb tested
1890  Nellie Bly went around world in 72 days 1885  Khartoum fell 1832  Lewis Carroll 1887  Giant snowflakes fell in Montana 1845  Poe publ. "The Raven"    
    1942  Kate Wolf 1957  Patsy Cline recorded "Walkin' After Midnight" 1880  W. C. Fields    
      1996  PEW died 1927  Edward Abbey    
        1964  Dr. Strangelove released    
             
             
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Oimelc Groundhog Day 1874  Gertrude Stein   1494  Rabeiais   1914  William S. Burroughs  Feast of Lanterns  Search for Everet Ruess Day
1902  Langston Hughes  Brigid Candlemas 1889  Charles Kelly   1869  Big Bill Haywood 1936  National Wildlife Federation   1478  Thomas More   1812  Charles Dickens  
1904  S.J. Perelman   1870  Cardiff Giant revealed as hoax   1959  Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens & the Big Bopper died in plane crash 1894  Richard Wetherill discovered Basket Maker Culture  1941  Henson Cargill  1911  Ronald Reagan  1885  Sinclair Lewis 
1935  Water started backing up behind Hoover Dam   1882  James Joyce     1968  Neal Cassidy found dead in Mexico    1945  Bob Marley  1964  Beatles first visited US 
1937  Don Everly     1971  Carol Turner vanished into Organ Pipe, NM leaving only a cryptic note     1971  Golf balls on the moon   
             
             
             
             
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1828  Jules Verne  1421  1st printing press  1889  Bertolt Brecht   1847  Thomas Edison  Hecate Day 1918  Peggy Wardwell  269  St. Valentine beheaded  
1922  Neal Cassidy  1914  Ernest Tubb  1911  Estelle Shepard  1963  Sylvia Plath gassed herself to death  1809  Abraham Lincoln   1933  Blondie & Dagwook married   1766  Thomas Malthus 
1931  James Dean  1941  Carole King  1258  Mongols sacked Bagdad   1981  California Utilities withdrew from Allen-Warner Power Plant  1809  Charles Darwin    1859  Oregon Statehood 
1933  Lucinda Mills strangled by her family during religious ceremony 1981  Bill Haley died  1946  Donovan        
1986  Halley's Comet           
             
             
             
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Lupercalia Wolf Festival 1914  Jimmy Wakely   1817 1st street gas lights    1896  Andre Breton   1725  Woman consumed by spontaneous combustion, France 1725  First known scalping of Indians by whites  1903  Anais Nin 
Night of Siva 1918  Anti-lofing law in NJ   1876  1st sardine canned   1909  Wallace Stegner   1834  Oneida community   1907  W.H. Auden 
1564  Galileo    1909  Geronimo died   1919  Jack Palance   1942  Japanese-American interned  1902  Ansel Adams  1918  Last Carolina Parakeet died 
1820  Susan B. Anthony     1941  Gene Pitney  1931  Toni Morrison  1946  Karen Silkwood  1925  Robert Altman  1965  Malcolm X assassinated  
1917  US invaded Mexico              
1931  First movie of Dracula              
1954  Matt Groehning              
             
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1630  Popcorn in America   1633  Samuel Pepys   1582  Gregorian calendar first used   1901  Zeppo Marx  1802  Victor Hugo  1807  Longfellow   1533  Montaigne  
1732  George Washington  1868  W.E.B. DuBois  1822  Bluebeard first executed for burning ten of his wives   1917  Anthony Burgess  19??  Dugout Dick Zimmerman   1902  John Steinbeck  1901  Linus Pauling 
1900  Luis Buruel   1882  Otto Feige     1943  George Harrison    1934  N. Scott Momaday   "No! No! No! I'll just have a sandwich"
1917  Jane Bowles   1940  Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land is your Land"    1953  Vladimir Horowitz at Carnegie Hall        
1925  Edward Gorey             
1979  Jonathon Rock            
             
             
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  1927  Harry Belafonte 1901  Forest Service formed   1911  Jean Harlow  1519  Cortez landed in Mexico   1770  Boston Massacre begins 1475  Michelangelo 
  1947  Richard Wardwell 1904 Ted Geisel   1791  Vermont 14th State   1871  Rosa Luxemborg 1619  Cyrano de Bergerac 
    1923  Doc Watson    1888  K. Rockne  1890  Berick Torsvan (B. Traven) 1864  Navajo long walk  
          1948  Leslie Marmon Silko  1906  Bob Wills 
          1963  Patsy Cline killed in plane crash  1972  Sycamore Canyon Wilderness 
            1973   Pigpen died 
            1986  Georgia O'Keefe died 
             
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1876  Telephone patented International Women's Day 1796  Napolean married Josephine   1876  1st Telephone transmission 1811  Luddites organize 1912  Girl Scouts formed  1781  Uranus discovered 
1935  Evert Ruess's footprints, burros, and the word "Nemo" found 1862  Ned Gordon (last American pirate) hanged  1916  Pancho Villa invaded US  1918  Heywood Hale Broun 1918  Save the Redwoods League   1922  Jack Kerouac  
  1953  Jim Rice 1940  Raul Julia   1955  Pecos Wilderness  1925  Ann Zwinger    
  2006  Eddie Fallis     1958  H-bomb accidentally dropped on Mars Bluff, SC    
             
             
             
             
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1833  Karl Marx died  Ides of March 1521  Nicholas Storch   St. Patrick's 1584  Ivan the Terrible died  1687  LaSalle murdered in Texas   1828  Henrick Ibsen 
1869  Algemon Blackwood   44 BC  Caesar assassinated  1802  Army Corps of Engineers   1804  Jim Bridger    1821  Sir Richard Burton  1907  Ozzie Nelson 
1879  Albert Einstein  1820  Maine 23rd State  1942  Jerry Jeff Walker  1826  Kenal Community    1859  Faust premiers   1909  Navajo, NM 
1922  Colin Fletcher  1921  Lightning Hopkins  1968  My Lai Massacre   1845  Rubber bands invented    1930  Ornette Coleman  1976  Patty Hearst convicted of armed robbery  
1933  Quincy Jones Annual return of buzzard's to Hinkley, OH   1932  Great Sand Dunes, NM      1976  Patty Hearst convicted of armed robbery  
1947  Billy Crystal     1956  Woolworth fire, Glens Falls, NY       
1978  Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness             
1989  Edward Abbey died              
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1685  J.S. Bach  1841  Cornstarch patented   Tubilustrium 1834  John Wesley Powell  1944  British flyer survived 18,000 foot fall w/o parachute, suffered broken ankle  1875  Robert Frost   1907  Moon Mulligan  
1859  First US zoo   1891  Chico Marx  1775  "Give me liberty or give me death."  -PH 1834  William Morris  2008  Theo Fallis 1914  Tennessee Williams  1909  Luguan Dam became the first on the Colorado River 
1961  The Beatles first appeared at Cavern Club  1941  Construction began on Grand Coulee Dam  1908  Joan Crawford   1887  Fatty Arbuckle    1937  Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City, TX Spinach Festival  1924  Sarah Vaughn 
1965  Martin Luther King marched to Montgomey, AL    1918  Dada Manifesto  1909  Clyde Barrow     1969  Hal Croves' ashes scattered over Chiapas Mexico (B. Traven) 1964  Alaska earthquake killed 117 
1981  EF! unfurls symbolic crack at GCD     1970  David Clapp        
      1989  Exxon Valdez oil spill       
             
             
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Taurobolium King Ludd's birthday 1853  Pencil eraser patented   1895  Vardis Fisher  1881 Wallace Berry 1725  Cassanova 1783  Washington Irving
1909  Nelson Algren  1848  Ice jam caused Niagra Falls to dry up  1853  Vincent Van Gogh   1927  Cesar Chavez  1883 Lon Cheney 1877  1st human shot from a canon 1837  John Burroughs
1914  Everett Ruess   1916  Eugene McCarthy   1867  Russia sold Alaska to US   1928  Lefty Frizzell   1918  Wobbly Trial Chicago 1947 Emmy Lou Harris 1882  Jesse James killed
1941  Virginia Woolf committed suicide  1917  Man O'War  1945  Eric Clapton    1944  Aldo Leopold wrote "Thinking Like a Mountain"   1923  Mary Austin set out from Santa Fe
1979  Three Mile Island             
             
             
             
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Megalisia, Mother Goddess Feast 1614  Pochohontas married 1832  Black Hawk War 1772  Charles Fournier 1513  Ponce de Leon discovered Fla 1821  Charles Baudelaire 1933  Civilian Conservation Corps
1968  Martin Luther King assassinated   1909  Perry may have reached N Pole 1966  Missing H-bomb found off Spanish coast 1885  Norman Clyde 1889  Newton Drury  
1988  AZ Gov Meacham impeached     1990  Julian   1898  Paul Robeson  
          1932  Carl Perkins  
             
             
             
             
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1956  Glen Canyon Dam approved 1932  Tiny Tim 1866  Butch Cassidy Ceres Festival 1755  Sam Johnson's Dictionary publ 1844  Anatole France 1854  Benjamin Tucker
  1954  "Rock Around the Clock" released 1899  Cedric Wright 1924  Chiricahua NM 1892  1st steamship in Cataract Canyon 1889  Charlie Chaplin 1894  Nikita Krushchev
    1743  Thomas Jefferson   1894  Bessie Smith 1935  Fibber McGee & Molly 1897  Thorton Wilder
    1937  Organ Pipe Cactus NM   1912  Titanic sunk 1974  Amy Wardwell 1940  Superstition Wilderness
    1938  Grey Owl died   1999  Raoul   1960  Eddie Cochran killed
            1961  Bahia de Cochinos
            2006  Meara Hempey
             
             
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1775  Paul Revere's ride Primrose Day 1889  Aldof Hitler Vinalia Wine Festival Earth Day Feast of St. Yury 1452  Leonardo da Vinci
1906  San Francisco Earthquake 1775  Shot heard round the world 1893  Joan Miro 1838  John Muir Egyptian Sniff the Breeze Day 1564  Shakespeare 1800  Library of Congress
1934  1st laundromat, Ft Worth, TX 1932  Jane Mansfield 1902  Curies disc radium 1856  JC Van Dyke 1870  Lenin 1899 Vladimir Nabokov  
1936  Autry's "Back in the Saddle Again" recd      1961 Rolling Stones meet the Beatles 1891  Nicola Sacco 1936  Roy Orbison  
1955  Albert Einstein       1937  Jack Nicholson 1949  Cat leash bill vetoed  
1974  Matt Hempey       1954  McCarthy-ism begins    
             
             
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1599  Oliver Cromwell 1785  John Audubon 1480  Magellan Floralia Feast 1899 Duke Ellington Walpurgis Night Beltane Eve May
1908  Edward R. Murrow 1886  Ma Rainey 1937  Coretta Scott King 1789  Mutiny on the Bounty 1913  1st zipper pat 1803  Louisiana Purchase 1265  Dante
1917  Ella Fitzgerald 1889  Wittenstein 1951  Ace Frehely 1880  Victorio wiped out Cooney, NM 1941  Susan Flader 1877 Alice B. Toklas 1830  Mother Jones
1925  Albert King 1986  Chernobyl nuclear accident 1964  John Muir wilderness 1941  Ann Margaret 1975  Saigon falls 1900 Casey Jones died in train crash 1923  Joseph Heller
1940  Peter Wild   1980  Mt St Helens erupted   1986  Clemens' 1st 20k 1929  Johnny Horton 1975  Smookey the Bear retired
1943  LSD invented       1988  CA Condor egg hatched in captivity 1933 Willie Nelson  
          1941  Mimi Farina  
          1945  Hitler committed suicide  
             
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Rowan Tree Day Holy Rood Day 1970  Kent St massacre Cinco de Mayo 1856  Sigmund Freud 1840  Tchaikovsky 1825  Ashley passed thru Gates of Lodore
1840  Thomas Hardy 1469  Machiavelli 1967  "Waltzing Matilda" became Australian Nat. An. 1818  Karl Marx 1877  Crazy Horse surrendered 1885  Gabby Hayes 1930  Gary Snyder
  1836  Denis Julien in Hell Roaring Canyon   1832  Hubert Bancroft 1915  Orson Wells 1901  Gary Cooper 1937  Thomas Pynchon
  1859  Andy Adams   1943  Michael Palin   1915  Luisitania sunk 1940  Rick Nelson
  1890  B. Traven       1954  Vietenamese overthrow French  
  1919  Pete Seeger         1977  "Alright!  Now we're going to play everybody's favorite fun game:  Move Back!"
  1928  Dave Dudley          
  1933  James Brown          
  2003  Old Man of the Mountain collapsed          
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1800  Lemuria 1883  Sitting Bull released from prison 1896  Mari Sandoz 467 B.C.  Socrates 1907  Daphne du Maurier 1804  Lewis & Clark expedition 1841  Clarence Dutton
1933  Hitler burned books in Berlin 1909  Mother Maybelle Carter 1904  Salvador Dali 1921  Farley Mowat 1925  Yogi Berra 1832  War against Black Hawk 1900  Sempervirens Club
    1969  100 lbs of plutonium caught fire at Rocky Flats, CO   1950  Stevie Wonder 1972  Shiela Hille 1918  Eddy Arnold
    1981  Bob Marley died        
    2003  Quinn Wardwell        
             
             
             
             
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1763  Samuel Johnson met Boswell 1966  "If you only just wouldn't clap so haarrrrd!" Sugarloaf Chapel Day 1919  NPCA 1799  Balzac Armed Forces Day Bartender's Day
  1979 Karen Silkwood heirs won $10mil from Kerr McGee Apollon Day 1925  Malcolm Little 1806  John Stuart Mill 427 B.C.  Plato 1871  Powell's 2nd Exp.
    1872  Bertrand Russell 1963  Glen Canyon died 1862  Homestead Act 1931  Bob Marshall P.A. 1859  Arthur Conan Doyle
    1919  Nabokov learned to foxtrot 1972  Shawn Reed 1919  Lonesome George Gobel   1915  Lassen Peak exploded
    1980  Mt. St. Helens erupted        
             
             
             
             
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Vulcan's Day "What has God wrought?" 1803  Ralph Waldo Emerson 1946  Von Neuman file patent for H-bomb 1894  Dashiel Hammett 1892  Sierra Club Restoration of the Oak Day
God of the South born 1844  1st telegraph message 1895  Oscar Wilde jailed   1907  Rachel Carson 1910  T-Bone Walker 1736  Patrick Henry
1701  Capt. Kidd hanged 1869  Powell's 2nd Exp. 1926  Miles Davis       1903  Bob Hope
1934  Bonnie & Clyde shot 1941  Robert Zimmerman         1917  John F. Kennedy
            1956  Cucamonga Wild Area
            1961  Melissa Etheridge
             
             
             
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1431  Joan of Arc burned at stake 1797  XYZ affair 1638  1st recorded description of earthquake 1740  Marquis de Sade 1808  Jefferson Davis 1259  Kublai became Khan 1854  Know Nothing Party
1896  1st recorded auto accident 1819  Walt Whitman 1926  Marilyn Monroe 1927  Philip Burton 1924  Gila Wilderness 1844  Last Great Auk clubbed to death 1878  Pancho Villa
1972  Manny Ramirez 1921  Sacco & Vanzetti trial began 1934  Ruess "Nemo" inscription found in Escalante Wilderness 1948  Jerry Mathers 1926  Allen Ginsberg 1911 Mitch Miller 1943  LA Zoot Suit Riots
        1980  False U.S. nuclear alert 1937  1st shopping carts 1976  Teton Dam collapsed
             
             
             
             
             
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1778  Beau Brummell St. Grottschalk Day 1906  Antiquities Act   1682  1st recorded tornado 1888  Bartholomeo Vanzetti Hermes Day
1875  Thomas Mann 1912  Charles Addams 1923  Bryce Canyon N.P.   1922 Judy Garland   1924  George Bush
1887  Ruth Benedict       1928  Maurice Sendak    
1933  1st drive-in movie       1965  Warm Springs Rapid, Yampa River    
1949  "1984" publ.       1974  Jennifer Wardwell    
             
             
             
             
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1865  William Butler Yeats 1909  Burl Ives 1799  Handsome Lake's 1st vision 1889  Nelson Doubleday Orpheus Day 1882  Stravinsky 551 BC  Confucius
  1920  Che Guervera 1922 Morris Udall 1895  San Laurel 1876  Crazy Horse defeated Gen Crook 1909  Aldo Leopold came to SW 1953  Rosenbergs executed
  1951  1st commercial computer, Univac 1924  J.E. Hoover appointed director of FBI 1920  ITT incorporated 1910  Red Foley 1948  LP album 1st introduced  
  1957  Georgie White ran Cataract Canyon @ 110000cfs 1937  Waylon Jennings 1939  Rain of Frogs, England      
  1972  Tom Weber 1965  Dylan went electric        
    1995  Maggie et al get their checks cashed in        
             
             
             
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1905  Lillian Hellman 1882  Rockwell Kent 1856  H Ridder Haggard 1860  Secret Service formed Thunder God born 1852  Antonio Gaudi Rathayatra Festival
1910  Krazy Kat   1898  Erich Maria Remarque 1944  FDR's last fireside chat 1497  Cabot discovered Canada 1876  Custer died 1812  Governor of Mass. declares fast to protest War
1916  T. Texas Tyler   1969  Judy Garland died   1798  Jebediah Smith 1903  George Orwell 1819  Abner Doubleday
1949  Lionel Richie       1842  Ambrose Bierce   1943  Georgie Fame
1949  Cyndi Lauper            
             
             
             
             
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1869  Emma Goldman 1914  Lester Flatt 1900  Antoine St.Exupery 1841  Fish rained down in Boston 1804  George Sand 1961  Ernest Hemingway committed suicide 1608  Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec City
1905  IWW formed 1983  Spillways 1st used at Glen Canyon Dam   1864  Yosemite State Park 1892  James M. Cain   1883  Franz Kafka
1927  Captain Kangaroo     1908  Siberian Big Bang 1912  David Browner   1937  Amelia Earhart disappeared
      1947  Barbara Wardwell     1971  Jim Morrison died
             
             
             
             
             
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Independence Day 1889  Jean Cocteau 1953  Nanci Griffith 1860  Gustav Mahler Festival of Hungry Goats Lotus Festival 1871  Proust
1826  Thomas Jefferson & John Adams die 1946  Bikini invented   1862  Land Grant Act King Strang Day   1891  Best wrecked in Cataract Canyon
1845  Thoreau moved to Walden Pond     1959  Billie Holiday died 1970  Beck Hansen   1925  Scopes Monkey Trial
1867  Stehen T. Mather           1943  PAE/EAW wedding
1900 Louis Armstrong            
1997  Hong Kong handed over by U.K.            
             
             
             
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1302  Battle of Spurs 1817  Henry David Thoreau 1998  R&B had same thought, same time, 500 miles away 1789  Bastille Day 1606  Rembrandt 1935  1st parking meters Trojan Sorrow Fest
1804  Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton 1873  Frog rain, KC   1881  Billy the Kid shot by Pat Garret 1913  Cowboy Copas 1945  1st atomic bomb explosion 1869  Powell at confluence of Grand & Green
1899  E. B. White 1854  George Eastman   1899  James Cagney 1940  1st nylon stockings   1955  Disneyland opened
1946  Judy Weber 1904  Pablo Neruda   1912  Woody Guthrie 1946  Linda Rondstadt    
      1917  William Eastlake 1951  "Catcher in the Rye" publ.    
      1960  Italy predicted the end of the world via U.S. "E-bomb"      
      1976  Matt Weber      
             
             
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64  Rome burned while Nero fiddled 1816  Lizzie Borden 1890  Theda Bara 1887  Ants rained down on France 1898  Stephen Vincent Benet 1846  Thoreau jailed 1869  Powell in depths of Cataract Canyon
1939  Hunter S. Thompson 1881  Sitting Bull surrendered 1917  Edward Wardwell 1899  Ernest Hemingway   1888  Raymond Chandler 1878  Lord Dunsany
1972  Amy Clapp 1970  Duncan Wardwell 1938  Diana Rigg     1940  John Nichols  
Fred Tuttle   1969  1st man walks on moon     1980  River of No Return Wilderness  
             
             
             
             
             
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1850  Frogs rained down in India 1796  George Catlin 1940  Bugs Bunny 1869  Powell names Dirty Devil River 1776  Dominguez-Escalante Exp 1818  Emily Bronte 1837  Quantrill
1967  "Das Kapital" publ. 1894  Aldous Huxley   1909  Malcolm Lowry 1870  1st paved road 1838  Rain of Frogs, London 1845  Saxaphone invented
1870  Maxfield Parrish 1895  Robert Graves   1946 Jonathon Edwards 1890  Vincent Van Gogh committed suicide 1857  Thorstein Veblen 1921  Rain of frogs in CT
1902  Frank Waters 1928  Stanley Kubrick   1859  1st oil well drilled   1891  Casey Stengel  
1924  Frank Church         1978  Melissa Sanders  
1948  Steve Goodman            
1965  Electric Dylan @ Newport            
             
             
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Lughnasad 1905  Myma Loy 1905  Dolores Del Rio 1841  WH Hudson 1906  John Huston 1840 Aldolf Bandelier 1933  Alley Oop debuted
1819  Herman Melville 1962  Veliscol Chemical attempted to stop "Silent Spring" 1909  Walter Van Tilburg Clark 1976  Michael Sanders 1962  Marilyn Monroe died 1920  Johyn Graves 1936  Rahsaan Roland Kirk
1869  Powell named Music Temple, Glen Canyon   1913  Joe Knowles spent 61 days in ME woods with only breechclout     1870  1st electric chair   
1903  Paul Horgan   1933  Diane Wakowski     1945  "Little Boy" dropped on Hiroshima  
1917  Frank Little lynched Butte, MT            
1943  Jerry Garcia            
1981  MTV 1st aired            
             
             
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1846  Smithsonian founded 1945  "Fatman" dropped on Nagasaki God of Fire born   1896  Gold discovered in Yukon Territory Festival of Diana 1934  C.S. Watson, Jr
1879  Emiliano Zapata 1974  Shakes Hands Man exchanges domestic policy, Bangor, ME 1680  Pueblo revolt     1860  Annie Oakley  
1884  Sara Teasdale 1995  Jerry Garcia died 1912  Jorge Armado     1899 Alfred Hitchcock  
1974  Nixon resigned   1815  Billie Holiday     1965  Jefferson Airplane  
    1964  Forest Service cut down 4900 year old Bristlecone Pine        
             
             
             
             
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1057  Macbeth slain by son of King Duncan 1920  Charles Bukowski 1786  Davy Crockett 1227  Gengis Khan died 1902  Ogden Nash Battle of Fallen Timbers 1831  Nat Turner Rebellion
1769  Napolean 1935  Julie Newmar 1893  Mae West 1938  "Wizard of Oz" released   1890  H.P. Lovercraft 1945  1st peaceful nuclear death, L.A., N.M.
1785  Thomas DeQuincy 1967  Tony C beaned 1939  Ed Sanders     1924  Jim Reeves 1970  Greg Frizzell
1877  T.E. Lawrence 1977 Elvis died 1943  Robert DeNiro     1940  Trotsky murdered with ice axe  
1969  Woodstock         1942  Isaac Hayes  
          1972  Scapegoat Wilderness  
             
             
             
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1893  Dorothy Parker 1927  Sacco & Vanzetti executed 1899  Jorge Luis Borges 1836  Bret Harte Ganesh Festival 1587  Roanoke Colony disappeared 1749  Goethe
1917  John Lee Hooker   1970  John Weber 1900  Nietzsche died 1927  Francois Leydet 1660  Milton's books burned 1828  Leo Tolstoi
1972  Sawtooth Wilderness     1913  Walt Kelly   1859  1st comm. oil well  
1976  Seabrook anti-nuke rally     1916  National Parks Act      
             
             
             
             
             
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1869  Powell Exp. emerged from Grand Canyon 50 BC  Cleopatra committed suicide with snake 1846  Thoreau leaves for Bangor, ME 1875  Edgar Rice Burroughs 1666  Great Fire in London 1906  Lawrence Clark Powell 1609 Hudson Discovers Manhattan
1911  Ishi found 1797  Mary Shelley 1945  Van Morrison 1877  Last Eastern Elk shot   1933  Tompall Glaser 1896  Geronimo surrendered
1920  Charlie Parker 1918  Ted Williams 1990  Dylan finds a dull Arrew, Pueblo, CO  1914  Last passenger pigeon died in zoo   1964  Wilderness Act 1958  Edsel introduced
          1970  Frank Alig  
             
             
             
             
             
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1847  Jessie James 1847  Thoreau left Walden Pond 1860  Grandma Moses 1897  Jimmy Rogers 1825  Beethoven's last public app. 1886  Hilda Doolittle 1862  O. Henry
1877  Crazy Horse murdered 1936  Buddy Holly   1911  Kolbs Bros took moving pics to GC 1868  Mary Austin   1885  D.H. Lawrence
1909  Walter Reuss 1960  Glacier Peaks Wilderness   1918  John Sieberling     1957  Plut released at Rocky Flats fire
1953  1st priv. atomic reactor     1932  Patsy Kline     2001  World Trade Towers attacked
      1945  Pigpen     1978  Julie Rock
             
             
             
             
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1880  ML Meneken 1848  1st lobotomy 640 BC  Lao Tzu 1903  Roy Acuff 1924  Lauren Bacall God of Grain & Lands Festival God of the Furnace born
1892  Alfred Knopf 1911 Bill Monroe 1879  Margaret Sanger 1915  Fawn Brodie 1971  Greenpeace 1st sailed 1883  William Carlos Williams 1905  Greta Garbo
1942  Maria Muldaur 1876  Sherwood Anderson   1923  Hank Williams   1935  Ken Kesey 1970  Jimi Hendrix died
1964  Canyonlands NP 1916  Elephant lynched, TN       1976  Jennifer Hempey  
  1916  Roald Dahl          
             
             
             
             
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Fast of Thoth 1885  Jelly Roll Morton Burning of Clothes Festival 1926  John Coltrane 1846  Neptune Discovered 1960  Howdy Dowdy's last app. 1897  William Faulkner
1870  Cornelius Hedges proposed Yellowstone NP   1866  H.G. Wells 1944  Rick Hempey      
1928  Steamboat Willie            
1932  Mike Royko            
1974  Kootenais declared war on US            
1976  Scott Hempey            
             
             
             
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1888  J. Frank Dobie 1962  "Silent Spring" publ 1902  Ed Sullivan 1956  Day of Doris 1955  James Dean's car crash 1838  Trail of Tears 1869  Gandhi
1888  T.S. Eliot 1981  Black footed ferret discovered in Wyo. 1984  Utah Wilderness Act 1882  1st hydroelectric power plant   1890  Yosemite NP 1895  Groucho Marx
1898  George Gershwin            
1956  1st nuclear electricity            
             
             
             
             
             
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1951  Jean Rock 1861  Frederic Remington   Rock Point Day 1870  Uncle Dave Macon 1871  Great Chicago Fire 1946  1st electric blanket
  1969  Tod Rackley   1966 LSD outlawed 1934  Imamu Amiri Baraka   1983  Watt forced to resign
        1944  Elizabeth Wardwell    
             
             
             
             
             
             
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1574  Cervantes   Rune Day 1925  Lenny Bruce 1894  e.e. cummings 1844 Nietzsche 1854  Oscar Wilde
1813  Guiseppe Verdi   1875  The Great Beast 1942  Paul Simon 1922  Timpanogos, NM 1923  Italio Calvino 1859  John Brown raids Harper's Ferry
1925  Thelonius Monk   1935  Luciano Pavarotti       1898  William O. Douglas
1946  John Prine            
             
             
             
             
             
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1814  9 drown in London beer flood 1926  Chuck Berry 1972  Lassen Wilderness 1854  Arthur Rimbaud 1772  Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1844  Louis Reil 1919  Katie Lee
1915 Arthur Miller 1928  Keith Jackson 1976  Omnibus Wilderness Act   1969  Jack Kerouac died 1871  Powell at mouth of Paria River  
    1980  Rattlesnake Wilderness     1887  Aldo Leopold  
    1987  Stock Market crashes (again)        
             
             
             
             
             
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1930  Big Bopper Sunflower Evening 4004 BC  Lightfoot Prediction 1904  1st NYC subway 1466  Erasmus 1906  Frederic Brown 1451  Colombus
  1881 Pablo Picasso   1932  Sylvia Plath   1911  Kolb Bros. ran the Big Drops, Cataract Canyon 1814  Patsy Montana
      2004  Alex Wardwell     1938  War of Worlds
      2004  Bambino's Curse lifted      
             
             
             
             
             
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1795  John Keats Dia de los Muertos Egyptian Feast of Camps 1883  Treasure Island publ. 1898  Will Rogers Guy Fawkes Day 1893  Edsel Ford
1517  Luther posted 95 Theses on Wittenberg Palace churc Samahian 1734  Daniel Boone 1957  1st dog in space 1916  Walter Cronkite 1855  Eugene Debs 1984  Black Tuesday
1952  1st H-bomb 1873  1st barbed wire manufactured       1872  Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting  
          1912  Roy Rogers  
          1968  Nixon's the One Day  
             
             
             
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1913  Albert Camus 1656  Edmund Halley 1906  Mugsy Spanier 1697  William Hogarth 1812  Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1934  Everett Ruess vanished into Escalante Wilderness 1946  1st artificial snow
1942  Johnny Rivers 1887  Doc Holiday died 1965  Northeast blackout 1879  Vachel Lindsay 1812  J.W. Gunnison 1934  Charles Manson 1850  R.L Stevenson
1943  Joni Mitchell 1889  Montana became a state 1967  Rolling Stone magazine published 1969  Sesame Street premiered 1831  Nat Turner hanged 1945  Neil Young 1974  Karen Silkwood killed
  1897  Dorothy Day     1887  Haymarket rioters hanged    
  1954  Rickie Lee Jones     1922  Kurt Vonegut    
        1938  Typhoid Mary died    
             
             
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1851  Moby Dick publ. 1887  Georgia O'Keefe 1885  Louis Riel hanged 1790  August Mobius 1805  California Condor killed on Lewis&Clark exped. 1703  Man in the Iron Mask died 1920  1st municipal airport
1919  Veronica Lake 1907  Mutt & Jeff     1865  Jim Smiley & His Jumping Frog publ. 1905  Tom Dorsey  
1947  Buckwheat Zydeco       1928  Mickey Mouse 1915  Joe Hill executed, SLC  
1948  Prince Charles       1975  Big Papi 1934  Everett Ruess last seen  
1968  National Turn in Your Draft Card Day       1978  Guyanan Kool-Aid masacre 1999 Piper plane rained down in Old Town, ME  
             
             
             
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1694 Voltaire 1916  Jack London committed suicide 1850  Billy the Kid 1632  Spinoza Women Make Merry Day 1941  Tina Turner 1942  Jimi Hendrix
1898  Rene Magritte 1942  Casablanca premiered 1893  Harpo Marx 1868  Scott Joplin 1971  D. B Cooper disappeared   1966  NYC killer smog
1904 Coleman Hawkins 1963  JFK assassinated           
1942  Opening of Alcan Hwy            
             
             
             
             
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1757  William Blake 1832  Lousia May Alcott 1835  Samuel Clemens 1935  Woody Allen 1980  Alaska Lands Act 1857  Joseph Conrad 1835  Samuel Butler
1925  Grand Ol' Opry 1864  Slaughter at Sand Creek 1954  Elizabeth Hodges struck by meteorite, AL 1978  Aniakchak NM & Berin Land Bridge Natl. Presv. 1942  First self-sustaining nuclear reaction 1888  Wetherhill discovered Cliff Palace 1842  Crazy Horse
1944  Emmett Drogan 1898  C.S. Lewis       1910  First neon sign in Paris 1948  Southside Johnny
  1917  Merle Travis          
             
             
             
             
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1791  Mozart died 1492  Columbus discovered Dominican Republic 1873  Willa Cather 65 BC  Horace 1958  John Birch Society founded Wyoming Day 1719  Aurora Borealis first recorded
1840  Fritz Lang 1896  Ira Gershwin 1949  Tom Waits 1894  James Thurber   1824  George McDonald 1937  Jim Harrison
1901  Walt Disney 1901  Eliot Porter 1988  Roy Orbison died 1943  Jim Morrison   1830  Emily Dickinson 1939  Thomas McGuane
1929  Natl. League for Nudists 1965  Bill Graham's first Fillmore rock concert   1980  Colorado Wilderness Bill   1909  Red Cloud passed in Spirit World 1948  John Rock
1932  Little Richard     1980  John Lennon killed      
1935  Prohibition ended            
1966  Crystal Rapid formed, Grand Canyon            
             
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National Ding-a-Ling Day 37 AD  Nero 1919  Shirely Jackson 1876  Rain of Snakes, Memphis 1770  Beethoven    
1863  Edvard Munch 1503  Nostradamus   1890  Sitting Bull killed 1773  Boston Tea Party    
1878  Last Labrador duck killed       1775  Jane Austen    
1904  Montana Slim            
1943  Rosemary Hempey            
             
             
             
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1940  Phil Ochs 1798  Birdie Murphy Winter Solstice 1849  Dostoyevsky sentenced to die, 1849 1776  Tom Paine published Crisis Noche Buena 1758  Halley's Comet appeared
1980  New Mexico Wilderness Act 1835  Trail of Tears 1866  Battle of the 100 Slain 1922  Hawkshaw Hawkins   1809  Kit Carson  
    1921  Ret Marut publ last issue of The Brickburner 1944 Glen Miller disappeared   1948  First solar heated house  
    1932  Edward Hoagland        
    1940 Frank Zappa        
             
             
             
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1716  Thomas Gray 1493  Paracelsus Feast of Fools 1890  Wounded Knee Massacre 1910  Paul Bowles 999  AD  Earliest known prediction of the end of the world 1912  Kolb Bros. emerged, Inner Gorge of Grand Canyon
1891  Henry Miller 1947  Howdy Doody aired 1917  Mencken's Bathtub Hoax 1931  Heavy H2O discovered 1975  Hell's Canyon Wilderness   1919  J.D Salinger
1940  Phil Spector   1973  Endandgered Species Act 1974  Glacier Ranger fatally shot snowmobile   1930  Odetta 1950  "Hopalong Cassidy" first aired
          1999  Criswell predicted black rainbow to suck oxygen from earth. 1951  J. Petty
            1953  Hank Williams died
             
             
             
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1777  Escalante Expedition ended, Santa Fe 1882  Oscar Wilde visited U.S. 1924  First auto crossed Sahara Desert Twelfth Night Nile Fesitval Rock Day 1931  Bill Graham
1901  Robert Marshall 1898  Zasu Pitts 1965  T.S Eliot died 1912  Kolb Bros. at Diamond Creek 1799 Jebediah Smith 1800 Millard Fillmore 1935  Elvis Presley
1936  Roger Miller 1945  Steven Stills 1896  Utah statehood   1842  Clarence King 1811  Earlest reference to Sasquatch footprints 1940  Little Anthony
1937  Floyd Dominy first viewed Boulder Dam 1959  Alaska statehood     1854  Sherlock Holmes 1975  Ethan Wardwell  
        1878  Carl Sandburg 1978  Boll Weevils strike MN  
        1945  Barry Lopez    
             
             
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