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1950 Hopalong Cassidy first aired
1951 J. Petty
1953 Hank Williams died
2002 Vienna
Thursday, January 2nd
1777 Escalante Expedition ended Santa Fe
1901 Robert Marshall
1936 Roger Miller
1937 Floyd Dominy first viewed Boulder Dam
2002 Prague
Friday, January 3rd
1882 Oscar Wilde visited U.S.
1898 Zasu Pitts
1945 Steven Stills
1959 Alaska statehood
Saturday, January 4th
1896 Utah statehood
1924 First auto crossed Sahara Desert
1965 T.S Eliot died
Sunday, January 5th
1912 Kolb Bros. at Diamond Creek
1950 Bob Tiplady
1954 Alex English
~ Twelfth Night
Monday, January 6th
1799 Jebediah Smith
1842 Clarence King
1854 Sherlock Holmes
1878 Carl Sandburg
1945 Barry Lopez
~ Nile Fesitval
Tuesday, January 7th
1800 Millard Fillmore
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1891 Zora Neale Hurston
1975 Ethan Wardwell
1978 Boll Weevils strike MN
~ Rock Day
Wednesday, January 8th
1931 Bill Graham
1935 Elvis Presley
1940 Little Anthony
Thursday, January 9th
1890 Karel Capek
1909 First issue of Progressive
1913 Richard Nixon
1914 Gypsy Rose Lee
1915 Fernando Lamas
1941 Joan Baez
1967 Dave Matthews
Friday, January 10th
1776 Thomas Paine publ. Common Sense
1863 1st Subway London
1887 Robinson Jeffers
1904 Ray Bolger
1945 Rod Stewart
1951 Falling icicle killed man in West Germany
~ Comefool; be patient. Life is not logic.
Saturday, January 11th
1887 Aldo Leopold
1897 Bernard BeVoto
1935 Amelia Earhart soloed
1987 The Drive
2002 Krakow
Sunday, January 12th
1876 Jack London
1907 Tex Ritter
Monday, January 13th
1834 Horatio Alger
1901 A. B. Guthrie
1912 Kolb Bros. emerged from Grand Canyon
1961 Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Tuesday, January 14th
1741 Benedict Arnold
1863 First printing of wood pulp paper
1922 Isaac Walton League
Wednesday, January 15th
1809 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
1908 Edward Teller
1919 30 ft. wall of molasses drowned 21 in Boston
1929 Martin Luther King Jr.
1941 Capt. Beefheart
Thursday, January 16th
1874 Robert Service
1919 Prohibition Amendment
1928 William Kennedy
~ Concordia
~ National Nothing Day
Friday, January 17th
1706 Ben Franklin
1860 Al Capone
1860 Anton Chekhov
1942 Mohammad Ali-Hajl
2002 Budapest
~ Benediction of Animals
Saturday, January 18th
1782 Daniel Webster
1882 A.A Milne
1904 Cary Grant
Sunday, January 19th
1809 Edgar Allen Poe
1839 Paul Cezzane
1939 Phil Everly
1943 Janis Joplin
1989 Salvador Dali died
Monday, January 20th
1896 George Burns
Tuesday, January 21st
1813 J.C. Freemont
1885 Leadbelly
1935 Wilderness Society
1963 Glen Canyon Dam dedicated
~ St. Agnes Husband Finding Day
Wednesday, January 22nd
1561 Francis Bacon
1788 Lord Byron
1789 First novel publ. in America
1879 Francis Picabia
1984 Amazon Indians attacked oil crew
2002 Athens
Thursday, January 23rd
1899 Humphrey Bogart
1919 Ernie Kovacs
1974 Alaska pipeline authorized
1998 The Last Weekend
Friday, January 24th
1848 Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill
1862 Edith Wharton
2013 Breccan Hempey
Saturday, January 25th
Sunday, January 26th
1885 Khartoum fell
1926 First TV show
1929 Jules Freiffer
Monday, January 27th
1302 Dante exiled from Florence
1756 Mozart
1832 Lewis Carroll
1942 Kate Wolf
Tuesday, January 28th
1873 Colette
1878 First commercial telephone exchange
1887 Giant snowflakes fell in Montana
1957 Patsy Cline recorded Walkin' After Midnight
1996 PEW died
Wednesday, January 29th
1737 Thomas Paine
1838 J.D. Rockefeller
1845 Poe publ. The Raven
1880 W. C. Fields
1927 Edward Abbey
1964 Dr. Strangelove released
Thursday, January 30th
1935 Richard Brautigan
Friday, January 31st
1875 Zane Grey
1951 First H-bomb tested
2002 Istanbul
Saturday, February 1st
1902 Langston Hughes
1904 S.J. Perelman
1935 Water started backing up behind Hoover Dam
1937 Don Everly
~ Oimelc
Sunday, February 2nd
1870 Cardiff Giant revealed as hoax
1882 James Joyce
~ Brigid Candlemas
2011 Sebastian Hempey
~ Woodchuck Day
Monday, February 3rd
1874 Gertrude Stein
1889 Charles Kelly
1959 Buddy Holly & Ritchie Valens & the Big Bopper died in plane crash
1971 Carol Turner vanished into Organ Pipe NM leaving only a cryptic note
Tuesday, February 4th
1494 Rabeiais
1869 Big Bill Haywood
1894 Richard Wetherill discovered Basket Maker Culture
1968 Neal Cassidy found dead in Mexico
Wednesday, February 5th
1914 William S. Burroughs
1936 National Wildlife Federation
1941 Henson Cargill
Thursday, February 6th
1478 Thomas More
1911 Ronald Reagan
1945 Bob Marley
1971 Golf balls on the moon
~ Feast of Lanterns
Friday, February 7th
1812 Charles Dickens
1885 Sinclair Lewis
1964 Beatles first visited US
1971 Britt Strobel
~ Search for Everet Ruess Day
Saturday, February 8th
1828 Jules Verne
1922 Neal Cassidy
1931 James Dean
1933 Lucinda Mills strangled by her family during religious ceremony
2002 Cappadocia
Sunday, February 9th
1421 1st printing press
Wednesday, January 1st
Sunday, February 9th
1942 Carole King
1981 Bill Haley died
1986 Halley's Comet
Monday, February 10th
1258 Mongols sacked Bagdad
1889 Bertolt Brecht
1911 Estelle Shepard
1946 Donovan
Tuesday, February 11th
1847 Thomas Edison
1963 Sylvia Plath gassed herself to death
1981 California Utilities withdrew from Allen-Warner Power Plant
Wednesday, February 12th
1809 Abraham Lincoln
1809 Charles Darwin
~ Hecate Day
Thursday, February 13th
1918 Peggy Wardwell
1933 Blondie & Dagwood married
Friday, February 14th
269 St. Valentine beheaded
1766 Thomas Malthus
1859 Oregon Statehood
1964 Tim Pearson
Saturday, February 15th
1564 Galileo
1820 Susan B. Anthony
1917 US invaded Mexico
1931 First movie of Dracula
1954 Matt Groehning
~ Lupercalia Wolf Festival
~ Night of Siva
Sunday, February 16th
1914 Jimmy Wakely
1918 Anti-lofing law in NJ
Monday, February 17th
1817 1st street gas lights
1876 1st sardine canned
1909 Geronimo died
1941 Gene Pitney
2002 Crete
Tuesday, February 18th
1896 Andre Breton
1909 Wallace Stegner
1919 Jack Palance
1931 Toni Morrison
Wednesday, February 19th
1725 Woman consumed by spontaneous combustion France
1942 Japanese-American interned
1946 Karen Silkwood
1965 Jon Fishman
1995 Nikola Jokic
Thursday, February 20th
1725 First known scalping of Indians by whites
1834 Oneida community
1902 Ansel Adams
1925 Robert Altman
Friday, February 21st
1903 Anais Nin
1907 W.H. Auden
1918 Last Carolina Parakeet died
1965 Malcolm X assassinated
Saturday, February 22nd
1630 Popcorn in America
1732 George Washington
1900 Luis Buruel
1917 Jane Bowles
1925 Edward Gorey
1950 Julius Erving
1979 Jonathon Rock
Sunday, February 23rd
1633 Samuel Pepys
1868 W.E.B. DuBois
1882 Otto Feige
1940 Woody Guthrie wrote This Land is your Land
Monday, February 24th
1582 Gregorian calendar first used
1822 Bluebeard first executed for burning ten of his wives
2002 Ithaki
Tuesday, February 25th
1901 Zeppo Marx
1917 Anthony Burgess
1943 George Harrison
1953 Vladimir Horowitz at Carnegie Hall
Wednesday, February 26th
1802 Victor Hugo
19?? Dugout Dick Zimmerman
Thursday, February 27th
1807 Longfellow
1902 John Steinbeck
1934 N. Scott Momaday
Friday, February 28th
1533 Montaigne
1901 Linus Pauling
1948 Bernadette (Lazzara) Peters
~ No! No! No! I'll just have a sandwich
1692 John Byrom (*29th)
Sunday, March 1st
1927 Harry Belafonte
1947 Richard Wardwell
2002 Kathmandu
Monday, March 2nd
1901 Forest Service formed
1904 Ted Geisel
1923 Doc Watson
Tuesday, March 3rd
1911 Jean Harlow
Wednesday, March 4th
1519 Cortez landed in Mexico
1791 Vermont 14th State
1888 K. Rockne
Thursday, March 5th
1770 Boston Massacre begins
1871 Rosa Luxemborg
1890 Berick Torsvan (B. Traven)
1948 Leslie Marmon Silko
1963 Patsy Cline killed in plane crash
Friday, March 6th
1475 Michelangelo
1619 Cyrano de Bergerac
1864 Navajo long walk
1906 Bob Wills
1972 Sycamore Canyon Wilderness
1973 Pigpen died
1986 Georgia OKeefe died
Saturday, March 7th
1876 Telephone patented
1935 Evert Ruess footprints burros and the word Nemo found
Sunday, March 8th
1862 Ned Gordon (last American pirate) hanged
1953 Jim Rice
2006 Eddie Fallis
~ International Women's Day
Monday, March 9th
1796 Napolean married Josephine
1916 Pancho Villa invaded US
1940 Raul Julia
Tuesday, March 10th
1876 1st Telephone transmission
1918 Heywood Hale Broun
2002 Thorang Phedi
Wednesday, March 11th
1811 Luddites organize
1918 Save the Redwoods League
1955 Pecos Wilderness
1958 H-bomb accidentally dropped on Mars Bluff SC
2002 Muktinath
Thursday, March 12th
1912 Girl Scouts formed
1922 Jack Kerouac
1925 Ann Zwinger
Friday, March 13th
1781 Uranus discovered
Saturday, March 14th
1833 Karl Marx died
1869 Algemon Blackwood
1879 Albert Einstein
1922 Colin Fletcher
1933 Quincy Jones
1947 Billy Crystal
1978 Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
1989 Edward Abbey died
Sunday, March 15th
1820 Maine 23rd State
1921 Lightning Hopkins
~ Annual return of buzzard's to Hinkley OH
~ Ides of March
44 BC Caesar assassinated
Monday, March 16th
1521 Nicholas Storch
1802 Army Corps of Engineers
1942 Jerry Jeff Walker
1959 Flavor Flav
1968 My Lai Massacre
Tuesday, March 17th
1804 Jim Bridger
1826 Kenal Community
1845 Rubber bands invented
1932 Great Sand Dunes NM
1956 Woolworth fire Glens Falls NY
~ St. Patrick's
Wednesday, March 18th
1584 Ivan the Terrible died
2002 Pokhara
Thursday, March 19th
1687 LaSalle murdered in Texas
1821 Sir Richard Burton
1859 Faust premiers
1930 Ornette Coleman
Friday, March 20th
1828 Henrick Ibsen
1907 Ozzie Nelson
1909 Navajo NM
1976 Patty Hearst convicted of armed robbery
Saturday, March 21st
1685 J.S. Bach
1859 First US zoo
1961 The Beatles first appeared at Cavern Club
1965 Martin Luther King marched to Montgomey AL
1981 EF! unfurls symbolic crack at GCD
2002 Bangkok
Sunday, March 22nd
1841 Cornstarch patented
1891 Chico Marx
1941 Construction began on Grand Coulee Dam
Monday, March 23rd
1775 Give me liberty or give me death. -PH
1908 Joan Crawford
1918 Dada Manifesto
~ Tubilustrium
Tuesday, March 24th
1834 John Wesley Powell
1834 William Morris
1887 Fatty Arbuckle
1909 Clyde Barrow
1970 David Clapp
1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill
Wednesday, March 25th
1944 British flyer survived 18 000 foot fall
1942 Aretha Franklin
2008 Theo Fallis
Thursday, March 26th
1875 Robert Frost
1914 Tennessee Williams
1937 Popeye statue unveiled Crystal City TX Spinach Festival
1969 Hal Croves' ashes scattered over Chiapas Mexico (B. Traven)
Friday, March 27th
1907 Moon Mulligan
1909 Luguan Dam became the first on the Colorado River
1924 Sarah Vaughn
1964 Alaska earthquake killed 117
Saturday, March 28th
1909 Nelson Algren
1914 Everett Ruess
1941 Virginia Woolf committed suicide
1979 Three Mile Island
~ Taurobolium
Sunday, March 29th
1848 Ice jam caused Niagra Falls to dry up
1916 Eugene McCarthy
1917 Man O'War
~ King Ludd's birthday
Monday, March 30th
1853 Pencil eraser patented
1853 Vincent van Gogh
1867 Russia sold Alaska to US
1945 Eric Clapton
2002 Koh Tao
Tuesday, March 31st
1895 Vardis Fisher
1927 Cesar Chavez
1928 Lefty Frizzell
Wednesday, April 1st
1881 Wallace Berry
1883 Lon Cheney
1918 Wobbly Trial Chicago
1944 Aldo Leopold wrote Thinking Like a Mountain
Thursday, April 2nd
1725 Cassanova
1877 1st human shot from a canon
1947 Emmy Lou Harris
Friday, April 3rd
1783 Washington Irving
1837 John Burroughs
1882 Jesse James killed
1923 Mary Austin set out from Santa Fe
Saturday, April 4th
1913 Muddy Waters
1968 Martin Luther King assassinated
1988 AZ Gov Meacham impeached
2002 Guam
~ Megalisia Mother Goddess Feast
Sunday, April 5th
1614 Pochohontas married
Monday, April 6th
1832 Black Hawk War
1909 Perry may have reached N Pole
1937 Merle Haggard
Tuesday, April 7th
1772 Charles Fournier
1966 Missing H-bomb found off Spanish coast
1990 Julian
Wednesday, April 8th
1513 Ponce de Leon discovered Fla
1885 Norman Clyde
Thursday, April 9th
1821 Charles Baudelaire
1889 Newton Drury
1898 Paul Robeson
1932 Carl Perkins
Friday, April 10th
1933 Civilian Conservation Corps
Saturday, April 11th
1956 Glen Canyon Dam approved
Sunday, April 12th
1932 Tiny Tim
1954 Rock Around the Clock released
Monday, April 13th
1743 Thomas Jefferson
1866 Butch Cassidy
1899 Cedric Wright
1937 Organ Pipe Cactus NM
1938 Grey Owl died
1943 Billy Kidd
Tuesday, April 14th
1924 Chiricahua NM
~ Ceres Festival
Wednesday, April 15th
1755 Sam Johnson's Dictionary publ
1892 1st steamship in Cataract Canyon
1894 Bessie Smith
1912 Titanic sunk
1999 Raoul
Thursday, April 16th
1844 Anatole France
1889 Charlie Chaplin
1935 Fibber McGee & Molly
1947 Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.
1974 Amy Rock Wardwell
1975 Zac Pelleriti
Friday, April 17th
1854 Benjamin Tucker
1894 Nikita Krushchev
1897 Thorton Wilder
1940 Superstition Wilderness
1960 Eddie Cochran killed
1961 Bahia de Cochinos
2006 Meara Hempey
Saturday, April 18th
1775 Paul Revere's ride
1906 San Francisco Earthquake
1934 1st laundromat Ft Worth TX
1936 Autry's Back in the Saddle Again recd
1974 Matt Hempey
2002 Vancouver
Sunday, April 19th
1775 Shot heard round the world
1931 Etheridge Knight
1932 Jane Mansfield
~ Primrose Day
Monday, April 20th
1889 Adolf Hitler
1893 Joan Miro
1902 Curies disc radium
1909 Kenneth Rock
1912 Fenway Park opened
2016 AEW 1st Fenway game
Tuesday, April 21st
1838 John Muir
1856 JC Van Dyke
1961 Rolling Stones meet the Beatles
1974 Charlie Poole
~ Vinalia Wine Festival
Wednesday, April 22nd
1870 Lenin
1891 Nicola Sacco
1937 Jack Nicholson
1954 McCarthy-ism begins
1973 Mike Fallis
~ Earth Day
~ Egyptian Sniff the Breeze Day
Thursday, April 23rd
1564 Shakespeare
1899 Vladimir Nabokov
1936 Roy Orbison
1949 Cat leash bill vetoed
~ Feast of St. Yury
Friday, April 24th
1452 Leonardo da Vinci
1800 Library of Congress
Saturday, April 25th
1599 Oliver Cromwell
1908 Edward R. Murrow
1917 Ella Fitzgerald
1925 Albert King
1940 Peter Wild
1943 LSD invented
Sunday, April 26th
1785 John Audubon
1886 Ma Rainey
1889 Wittenstein
1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident
Monday, April 27th
1480 Magellan
1937 Coretta Scott King
1951 Ace Frehely
1964 John Muir wilderness
Tuesday, April 28th
1789 Mutiny on the Bounty
1880 Victorio wiped out Cooney NM
1941 Ann Margaret
2020 QRW 2.0
~ Flora lia Feast
Wednesday, April 29th
1899 Duke Ellington
1913 1st zipper pat
1941 Susan Flader
1975 Saigon falls
1986 Clemens' 1st 20k
1988 CA Condor egg hatched in captivity
Thursday, April 30th
1803 Louisiana Purchase
1877 Alice B. Toklas
1900 Casey Jones died in train crash
1929 Johnny Horton
1933 Willie Nelson
1941 Mimi Farina
1945 Hitler committed suicide
~ Walpurgis Night
Friday, May 1st
1265 Dante
1830 Mother Jones
1857 Theo van Gogh
1923 Joseph Heller
1975 Smookey the Bear retired
2002 Montreal
~ Beltane Eve May
Saturday, May 2nd
1840 Thomas Hardy
~ Rowan Tree Day
Sunday, May 3rd
1469 Machiavelli
1836 Denis Julien in Hell Roaring Canyon
1859 Andy Adams
1890 B. Traven
1919 Pete Seeger
1928 Dave Dudley
1933 James Brown
2003 Old Man of the Mountain collapsed
~ Holy Rood Day
Monday, May 4th
1967 Waltzing Matilda became Australian Nat. An.
1970 Kent St massacre
Tuesday, May 5th
1818 Karl Marx
1832 Hubert Bancroft
1943 Michael Palin
~ Cinco de Mayo
Wednesday, May 6th
1856 Sigmund Freud
1877 Crazy Horse surrendered
1915 Orson Wells
Thursday, May 7th
1840 Tchaikovsky
1885 Gabby Hayes
1901 Gary Cooper
1915 Luisitania sunk
1954 Vietenamese overthrow French
Friday, May 8th
1825 Ashley passed thru Gates of Lodore
1930 Gary Snyder
1937 Thomas Pynchon
1940 Rick Nelson
1977 Alright! Now we're going to play everybody's favorite fun game: Move Back!
Saturday, May 9th
1800 Lemuria
1933 Hitler burned books in Berlin
Sunday, May 10th
1883 Sitting Bull released from prison
1909 Mother Maybelle Carter
Monday, May 11th
1896 Mari Sandoz
1904 Salvador Dali
1969 100 lbs of plutonium caught fire at Rocky Flats CO
1981 Bob Marley died
2003 Quinn Wardwell
Tuesday, May 12th
1921 Farley Mowat
467 BC Socrates
Wednesday, May 13th
1907 Daphne du Maurier
1925 Yogi Berra
1950 Stevie Wonder
1976 Kathleen Abbott
Thursday, May 14th
1804 Lewis & Clark expedition
1832 War against Black Hawk
1972 Shiela Hille
Friday, May 15th
1841 Clarence Dutton
1900 Sempervirens Club
1918 Eddy Arnold
Saturday, May 16th
1763 Samuel Johnson met Boswell
Sunday, May 17th
1942 Taj Mahal
1963 Page McConnell
1966 If you only just wouldn't clap so haarrrrd!
1979 Karen Silkwood heirs won $10mil from Kerr McGee
Monday, May 18th
1872 Bertrand Russell
1919 Nabokov learned to foxtrot
1980 Mt. St. Helens erupted
~ Apollon Day
~ Sugarloaf Chapel Day
Tuesday, May 19th
1919 NPCA
1925 Malcolm Little
1963 Glen Canyon died
1972 Shawn Reed
Wednesday, May 20th
1799 Balzac
1806 John Stuart Mill
1862 Homestead Act
1919 Lonesome George Gobel
Thursday, May 21st
1931 Bob Marshall P.A.
~ Armed Forces Day
427 BC Plato
Friday, May 22nd
1859 Arthur Conan Doyle
1871 Powell's 2nd Exp.
1915 Lassen Peak exploded
~ Bartender's Day
Saturday, May 23rd
1701 Capt. Kidd hanged
1934 Bonnie & Clyde shot
~ God of the South born
~ Vulcan's Day
Sunday, May 24th
1844 1st telegraph message
1941 Robert Zimmerman
~ What has God wrought?
Monday, May 25th
1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson
1895 Oscar Wilde jailed
1926 Miles Davis
Tuesday, May 26th
1946 Von Neuman file patent for H-bomb
Wednesday, May 27th
1894 Dashiel Hammett
1907 Rachel Carson
Thursday, May 28th
1892 Sierra Club
1910 T-Bone Walker
1957 Steve Watson
Friday, May 29th
1736 Patrick Henry
1903 Bob Hope
1917 John F. Kennedy
1956 Cucamonga Wild Area
1961 Melissa Etheridge
~ Restoration of the Oak Day
Saturday, May 30th
1431 Joan of Arc burned at stake
1896 1st recorded auto accident
1972 Manny Ramirez
Sunday, May 31st
1797 XYZ affair
1819 Walt Whitman
1921 Sacco & Vanzetti trial began
Monday, June 1st
1638 1st recorded description of earthquake
1926 Marilyn Monro
1934 Ruess Nemo inscription found in Escalante Wilderness
Tuesday, June 2nd
1740 Marquis de Sade
1927 Philip Burton
1948 Jerry Mathers
Wednesday, June 3rd
1808 Jefferson Davis
1924 Gila Wilderness
1926 Allen Ginsberg
1965 Mike Gordon
1980 False U.S. nuclear alert
Thursday, June 4th
1259 Kublai became Khan
1844 Last Great Auk clubbed to death
1911 Mitch Miller
1937 1st shopping carts
Friday, June 5th
1854 Know Nothing Party
1878 Pancho Villa
1943 LA Zoot Suit Riots
1976 Teton Dam collapsed
Saturday, June 6th
1778 Beau Brummell
1875 Thomas Mann
1887 Ruth Benedict
1933 1st drive-in movie
1949 1984 publ.
Sunday, June 7th
1912 Charles Addams
~ St. Grottschalk Day
Monday, June 8th
1906 Antiquities Act
1923 Bryce Canyon N.P.
Tuesday, June 9th
Wednesday, June 10th
1682 1st recorded tornado
1922 Judy Garland
1928 Maurice Sendak
1965 Warm Springs Rapid Yampa River
1974 Jennifer Austin
Thursday, June 11th
1888 Bartholomeo Vanzetti
Friday, June 12th
1924 George Bush
~ Hermes Day
Saturday, June 13th
1865 William Butler Yeats
Sunday, June 14th
1909 Burl Ives
1920 Che Guervera
1951 1st commercial computer Univac
1957 Georgie White ran Cataract Canyon @ 110000cfs
1972 Tom Weber
Monday, June 15th
1799 Handsome Lake's 1st vision
1922 Morris Udall
1924 J.E. Hoover appointed director of FBI
1937 Waylon Jennings
1965 Dylan went electric
1995 Maggie et al get their checks cashed in
Tuesday, June 16th
1889 Nelson Doubleday
1904 Joyce & Barnacle 1st date
1904 Stately plump Buck descends into Leopold's longest day
1895 San Laurel
1920 ITT incorporated
1939 Rain of Frogs England
Wednesday, June 17th
1876 Crazy Horse defeated Gen Crook
1910 Red Foley
1970 Steph Dolby
~ Orpheus Day
Thursday, June 18th
1882 Stravinsky
1909 Aldo Leopold came to SW
1948 LP album 1st introduced
Friday, June 19th
1953 Rosenbergs executed
551 BC Confucius
Saturday, June 20th
1905 Lillian Hellman
1910 Krazy Kat
1916 T. Texas Tyler
1949 Cyndi Lauper
1949 Lionel Richie
Sunday, June 21st
1882 Rockwell Kent
Monday, June 22nd
1856 H Ridder Haggard
1898 Erich Maria Remarque
1969 Judy Garland died
Tuesday, June 23rd
1860 Secret Service formed
1944 FDR's last fireside chat
Wednesday, June 24th
1497 Cabot discovered Canada
1842 Ambrose Bierce
~ Thunder God born
Thursday, June 25th
1852 Antonio Gaudi
1876 Custer died
1903 George Orwell
2019 Bangor Phishin Reunion
Friday, June 26th
1812 Governor of Mass. declares fast to protest War
1819 Abner Doubleday
1943 Georgie Fame
~ Rathayatra Festival
Saturday, June 27th
1869 Emma Goldman
1905 IWW formed
1927 Captain Kangaroo
Sunday, June 28th
1914 Lester Flatt
1960 John Elway
1983 Spillways 1st used at Glen Canyon Dam
2010 Owen Rock
Monday, June 29th
1900 Antoine St.Exupery
Tuesday, June 30th
1841 Fish rained down in Boston
1864 Yosemite State Park
1908 Siberian Big Bang
1947 Barbara Wardwell
Wednesday, July 1st
1804 George Sand
1892 James M. Cain
1912 David Browner
Thursday, July 2nd
1961 Ernest Hemingway committed suicide
Friday, July 3rd
1608 Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec City
1883 Franz Kafka
1937 Amelia Earhart disappeared
1971 Jim Morrison died
1995 E&Z Kassel
2013 Bangor Waterphront
Saturday, July 4th
1826 Thomas Jefferson & John Adams die
1845 Thoreau moved to Walden Pond
1867 Stehen T. Mather
1900 Louis Armstrong
1997 Hong Kong handed over by U.K.
2015 Chitown Southside Final Shakedown
~ Independence Day
Sunday, July 5th
1889 Jean Cocteau
1946 Bikini invented
Monday, July 6th
1953 Nanci Griffith
2012 Phish SPAClin Rosie
Tuesday, July 7th
1860 Gustav Mahler
1862 Land Grant Act
1959 Billie Holiday died
Wednesday, July 8th
1970 Beck Hansen
~ Festival of Hungry Goats
~ King Strang Day
Thursday, July 9th
~ Lotus Festival
1995 Last Dead jam Soldier Field
Friday, July 10th
1871 Proust
1891 Best wrecked in Cataract Canyon
1925 Scopes Monkey Trial
1943 PAE
Saturday, July 11th
1302 Battle of Spurs
1804 Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton
1899 E. B. White
1946 Judy Weber
Sunday, July 12th
1817 Henry David Thoreau
1854 George Eastman
1873 Frog rain KC
1904 Pablo Neruda
Monday, July 13th
1998 R&B had same thought same time 500 miles away
Tuesday, July 14th
1789 Bastille Day
1881 Billy the Kid shot by Pat Garret
1899 James Cagney
1912 Woody Guthrie
1917 William Eastlake
1960 Italy predicted the end of the world via U.S. E-bomb
1976 Matt Weber
Wednesday, July 15th
1606 Rembrandt
1913 Cowboy Copas
1940 1st nylon stockings
1946 Linda Rondstadt
1951 Catcher in the Rye publ.
Thursday, July 16th
1935 1st parking meters
1945 1st atomic bomb explosion
Friday, July 17th
1869 Powell at confluence of Grand & Green
1955 Disneyland opened
~ Trojan Sorrow Fest
Saturday, July 18th
64 Rome burned while Nero fiddled
1??? Fred Tuttle
1918 Nelson Mandela
1939 Hunter S. Thompson
1972 Amy Clapp
Sunday, July 19th
1816 Lizzie Borden
1881 Sitting Bull surrendered
1970 Duncan Wardwell
Monday, July 20th
1890 Theda Bara
1917 Edward Wardwell
1938 Diana Rigg
1950 Peggy Robinson
1969 1st man walks on moon
Tuesday, July 21st
1887 Ants rained down on France
1899 Ernest Hemingway
1951 Robin Williams
Wednesday, July 22nd
1898 Stephen Vincent Benet
Thursday, July 23rd
1846 Thoreau jailed
1888 Raymond Chandler
1940 John Nichols
1954 Ann Rock
1980 River of No Return Wilderness
Friday, July 24th
1869 Powell in depths of Cataract Canyon
1878 Lord Dunsany
Saturday, July 25th
1850 Frogs rained down in India
1870 Maxfield Parrish
1902 Frank Waters
1924 Frank Church
1948 Steve Goodman
1965 Electric Dylan @ Newport
1967 Das Kapital publ.
Sunday, July 26th
1796 George Catlin
1894 Aldous Huxley
1895 Robert Graves
1928 Stanley Kubrick
Monday, July 27th
1940 Bugs Bunny
Tuesday, July 28th
1859 1st oil well drilled
1869 Powell names Dirty Devil River
1909 Malcolm Lowry
1946 Jonathon Edwards
Wednesday, July 29th
1776 Dominguez-Escalante Exp
1870 1st paved road
1890 Vincent Van Gogh committed suicide
Thursday, July 30th
1818 Emily Bronte
1838 Rain of Frogs London
1857 Thorstein Veblen
1891 Casey Stengel
1978 Melissa Sanders
1979 Softball size hail, Ft. Co, CO
Friday, July 31st
1837 Quantrill
1845 Saxaphone invented
1921 Rain of frogs in CT
Saturday, August 1st
1819 Herman Melville
1869 Powell named Music Temple Glen Canyon
1903 Paul Horgan
1917 Frank Little lynched Butte MT
1943 Jerry Garcia
1960 Chuck D
1981 MTV 1st aired
~ Lughnasad
Sunday, August 2nd
1905 Myma Loy
1962 Veliscol Chemical attempted to stop Silent Spring
Monday, August 3rd
1905 Dolores Del Rio
1909 Walter Van Tilburg Clark
1913 Joe Knowles spent 61 days in ME woods with only breechclout
1933 Diane Wakowski
Tuesday, August 4th
1841 WH Hudson
1976 Michael Sanders
2011 Celia Fallis
Wednesday, August 5th
1906 John Huston
1962 Marilyn Monroe died
Thursday, August 6th
1840 Aldolf Bandelier
1870 1st electric chair
1914 Hilda Rock
1920 John Graves
1945 Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima
Friday, August 7th
1933 Alley Oop debuted
1936 Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Saturday, August 8th
1846 Smithsonian founded
1879 Emiliano Zapata
1884 Sara Teasdale
1974 Nixon resigned
Sunday, August 9th
1945 Fatman dropped on Nagasaki
1974 Shakes Hands Man exchanges domestic policy Bangor ME
1995 Jerry Garcia died
Monday, August 10th
1680 Pueblo revolt
1815 Billie Holiday
1912 Jorge Armado
1964 Forest Service cut down 4900 year old Bristlecone Pine
~ God of Fire born
Tuesday, August 11th
Wednesday, August 12th
1896 Gold discovered in Yukon Territory
Thursday, August 13th
1860 Annie Oakley
1899 Alfred Hitchcock
1965 Jefferson Airplane
~ Festival of Diana
Friday, August 14th
1934 C.S. Watson Jr
1941 David Crosby
1945 Steve Martin
Saturday, August 15th
1057 Macbeth slain by son of King Duncan
1769 Napolean
1785 Thomas DeQuincy
1877 T.E. Lawrence
1969 Woodstock
Sunday, August 16th
1920 Charles Bukowski
1935 Julie Newmar
1967 Tony C beaned
1977 Elvis died
Monday, August 17th
1786 Davy Crockett
1893 Mae West
1939 Ed Sanders
1943 Robert DeNiro
Tuesday, August 18th
1227 Gengis Khan died
1938 Wizard of Oz released
Wednesday, August 19th
1902 Ogden Nash
Thursday, August 20th
1890 H.P. Lovercraft
1924 Jim Reeves
1940 Trotsky murdered with ice axe
1942 Isaac Hayes
1972 Scapegoat Wilderness
~ Battle of Fallen Timbers
Friday, August 21st
1831 Nat Turner Rebellion
1945 1st peaceful nuclear death Los Alamos NM
1970 Greg Frizzell
1987 JD Martinez
Saturday, August 22nd
1893 Dorothy Parker
1917 John Lee Hooker
1947 Donna Jean Godchaux
1972 Sawtooth Wilderness
1976 Seabrook anti-nuke rally
Sunday, August 23rd
1927 Sacco & Vanzetti executed
Monday, August 24th
1899 Jorge Luis Borges
1970 John Weber
Tuesday, August 25th
1836 Bret Harte
1900 Nietzsche died
1913 Walt Kelly
1916 National Parks Act
1968 Rachael Ray
Wednesday, August 26th
1927 Francois Leydet
~ Ganesh Festival
Thursday, August 27th
1587 Roanoke Colony disappeared
1660 Milton's books burned
1859 1st comm. oil well
Friday, August 28th
1749 Goethe
1828 Leo Tolstoi
2011 Irene cries in VT
Saturday, August 29th
1869 Powell Exp. emerged from Grand Canyon
1911 Ishi found
1920 Charlie Parker
Sunday, August 30th
1797 Mary Shelley
1918 Ted Williams
50 BC Cleopatra committed suicide with snake
Monday, August 31st
1846 Thoreau leaves for Bangor ME
1945 Van Morrison
1990 Dylan finds a dull Arrew in Pueblo CO
Tuesday, September 1st
1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs
1877 Last Eastern Elk shot
1914 Last passenger pigeon died in zoo
1925 Art Pepper
Wednesday, September 2nd
1666 Great Fire in London
Thursday, September 3rd
1906 Lawrence Clark Powell
1933 Tompall Glaser
1964 Wilderness Act
1970 Frank Alig
Friday, September 4th
1609 Hudson Discovers Manhattan
1896 Geronimo surrendered
1958 Edsel introduced
Saturday, September 5th
1847 Jessie James
1877 Crazy Horse murdered
1909 Walter Reuss
1953 1st priv. atomic reactor
Sunday, September 6th
1847 Thoreau left Walden Pond
1936 Buddy Holly
1960 Glacier Peaks Wilderness
Monday, September 7th
1860 Grandma Moses
Tuesday, September 8th
1897 Jimmy Rogers
1911 Kolbs Bros took moving pics to GC
1918 John Sieberling
1932 Patsy Kline
1945 Pigpen
Wednesday, September 9th
1825 Beethoven's last public app.
1868 Mary Austin
Thursday, September 10th
1886 Hilda Doolittle
2011 Fly Flynning in Phish Line
Friday, September 11th
1862 O. Henry
1885 D.H. Lawrence
1957 Plut released at Rocky Flats fire
1978 Julie Rock
2001 World Trade Towers attacked
Saturday, September 12th
1880 ML Meneken
1892 Alfred Knopf
1942 Maria Muldaur
1964 Canyonlands NP
Sunday, September 13th
1848 1st lobotomy
1876 Sherwood Anderson
1911 Bill Monroe
1916 Elephant lynched TN
1916 Roald Dahl
Monday, September 14th
640 BC Lao Tzu
1879 Margaret Sanger
2011 Phish SX Fair
Tuesday, September 15th
1903 Roy Acuff
1915 Fawn Brodie
1923 Hank Williams
Wednesday, September 16th
1924 Lauren Bacall
1971 Greenpeace 1st sailed
Thursday, September 17th
1883 William Carlos Williams
1935 Ken Kesey
1976 Jennifer Hempey
~ God of Grain & Lands Festival
Friday, September 18th
1905 Greta Garbo
1970 Jimi Hendrix died
~ God of the Furnace born
Saturday, September 19th
1870 Cornelius Hedges proposed Yellowstone NP
1928 Steamboat Willie
1932 Mike Royko
1974 Kootenais declared war on US
1976 Scott Hempey
~ Fast of Thoth
Sunday, September 20th
1885 Jelly Roll Morton
Monday, September 21st
1866 H.G. Wells
~ Burning of Clothes Festival
Tuesday, September 22nd
1926 John Coltrane
1944 Rick Hempey
Wednesday, September 23rd
1846 Neptune Discovered
Thursday, September 24th
1960 Howdy Dowdy's last app.
Friday, September 25th
1897 William Faulkner
Saturday, September 26th
1888 J. Frank Dobie
1888 T.S. Eliot
1898 George Gershwin
1956 1st nuclear electricity
Sunday, September 27th
1962 Silent Spring publ
1981 Black footed ferret discovered in Wyo.
Monday, September 28th
1902 Ed Sullivan
1984 Utah Wilderness Act
Tuesday, September 29th
1882 1st hydroelectric power plant
1956 Day of Doris
Wednesday, September 30th
1955 James Dean's car crash
1964 Ernest Anastasio III
Thursday, October 1st
1838 Trail of Tears
1890 Yosemite NP
2012 Olivia Rock
Friday, October 2nd
1869 Gandhi
1895 Groucho Marx
Saturday, October 3rd
1951 Jean Rock
1951 Stevie Ray Vaughan
Sunday, October 4th
1861 Frederic Remington
1969 Tod Rackley
Monday, October 5th
1947 Patrick Arkinson
Tuesday, October 6th
1966 LSD outlawed
2001 Rock Point Day
Wednesday, October 7th
1870 Uncle Dave Macon
1934 Imamu Amiri Baraka
1944 Elizabeth Wardwell
Thursday, October 8th
1871 Great Chicago Fire
Friday, October 9th
1946 1st electric blanket
1983 Watt forced to resign
Saturday, October 10th
1574 Cervantes
1813 Guiseppe Verdi
1925 Thelonius Monk
1946 John Prine
Sunday, October 11th
Monday, October 12th
1875 The Great Beast
1935 Luciano Pavarotti
1985 Rune Day
Tuesday, October 13th
1925 Lenny Bruce
1942 Paul Simon
Wednesday, October 14th
1894 e.e. cummings
1922 Timpanogos NM
Thursday, October 15th
1844 Nietzsche
1923 Italio Calvino
Friday, October 16th
1854 Oscar Wilde
1859 John Brown raids Harper's Ferry
1898 William O. Douglas
1947 Bob Weir
Saturday, October 17th
1814 9 drown in London beer flood
1915 Arthur Miller
Sunday, October 18th
1926 Chuck Berry
1928 Keith Jackson
Monday, October 19th
1972 Lassen Wilderness
1976 Omnibus Wilderness Act
1980 Rattlesnake Wilderness
1987 Stock Market crashes (again)
Tuesday, October 20th
1854 Arthur Rimbaud
Wednesday, October 21st
1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1969 Jack Kerouac died
Thursday, October 22nd
1844 Louis Reil
1871 Powell at mouth of Paria River
Friday, October 23rd
1919 Katie Lee
Saturday, October 24th
1930 Big Bopper
Sunday, October 25th
1881 Pablo Picasso
~ Sunlower Evening
Monday, October 26th
4004 BC Lightfoot Prediction
Tuesday, October 27th
1904 1st NYC subway
1932 Sylvia Plath
2004 Alex Wardwell
2004 Bambino's Curse lifted
Wednesday, October 28th
1466 Erasmus
1976 Amy Cota Michaud
Thursday, October 29th
1906 Frederic Brown
1911 Kolb Bros. ran the Big Drops Cataract Canyon
Friday, October 30th
1451 Colombus
1814 Patsy Montana
1938 War of Worlds
Saturday, October 31st
1517 Luther posted 95 Theses on Wittenberg Palace church
1795 John Keats
1952 1st H-bomb
Sunday, November 1st
1873 1st barbed wire manufactured
2001 Dublin
~ Dia de los Muertos
~ Samahian
Monday, November 2nd
1734 Daniel Boone
~ Egyptian Feast of Camps
Tuesday, November 3rd
1883 Treasure Island publ.
1957 1st dog in space
Wednesday, November 4th
1898 Will Rogers
1916 Walter Cronkite
Thursday, November 5th
1605 Guy Fawkes Day
1855 Eugene Debs
1872 Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting
1912 Roy Rogers
1946 Gram Parsons
1968 Nixon's the One Day
Friday, November 6th
1893 Edsel Ford
1984 Black Tuesday
Saturday, November 7th
1913 Albert Camus
1942 Johnny Rivers
1943 Joni Mitchell
Sunday, November 8th
1656 Edmund Halley
1887 Doc Holiday died
1889 Montana became a state
1897 Dorothy Day
1954 Rickie Lee Jones
Monday, November 9th
1906 Mugsy Spanier
1965 Northeast blackout
1967 Rolling Stone magazine published
Tuesday, November 10th
1697 William Hogarth
1879 Vachel Lindsay
1969 Sesame Street premiered
Wednesday, November 11th
1812 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1812 J.W. Gunnison
1831 Nat Turner hanged
1887 Haymarket rioters hanged
1922 Kurt Vonegut
1938 Typhoid Mary died
Thursday, November 12th
1934 Charles Manson
1934 Everett Ruess vanished into Escalante Wilderness
1945 Neil Young
Friday, November 13th
1850 R.L Stevenson
1946 1st artificial snow
2001 Edinburgh
Saturday, November 14th
1851 Moby Dick publ.
1919 Veronica Lake
1947 Buckwheat Zydeco
1948 Prince Charles
1968 National Turn in Your Draft Card Day
Sunday, November 15th
1887 Georgia O'Keefe
1907 Mutt & Jeff
Monday, November 16th
1885 Louis Riel hanged
2001 Glen Nevis
Tuesday, November 17th
1790 August Mobius
Wednesday, November 18th
1805 California Condor killed on Lewis&Clark exped.
1865 Jim Smiley & His Jumping Frog publ.
1928 Mickey Mouse
1975 Big Papi
1978 Guyanan Kool-Aid masacre
2001 Isle of Skye
Thursday, November 19th
1703 Man in the Iron Mask died
1905 Tom Dorsey
1915 Joe Hill executed SLC
1934 Everett Ruess last seen
1999 Piper plane rained down in Old Town ME
Friday, November 20th
1920 1st municipal airport
Saturday, November 21st
1694 Voltaire
1898 Rene Magritte
1904 Coleman Hawkins
1942 Opening of Alcan Hwy
2001 Inverness
Sunday, November 22nd
1916 Jack London committed suicide
1942 Casablanca premiered
1963 JFK assassinated
Monday, November 23rd
1850 Billy the Kid
1893 Harpo Marx
Tuesday, November 24th
1632 Spinoza
1868 Scott Joplin
2001 Aberdeen
Wednesday, November 25th
1971 D. B Cooper disappeared
1998 Phront Row Phish Show
~ Women Make Merry Day
Thursday, November 26th
1941 Tina Turner
Friday, November 27th
1942 Jimi Hendrix
1966 NYC killer smog
Saturday, November 28th
1757 William Blake
1925 Grand Ol' Opry
1944 Emmett Drogan
1998 Phront Row Lightstick attack in Albany NY
Sunday, November 29th
1832 Lousia May Alcott
1864 Slaughter at Sand Creek
1898 C.S. Lewis
1917 Merle Travis
2001 Amsterdam
Monday, November 30th
1835 Samuel Clemens
1954 Elizabeth Hodges struck by meteorite AL
Tuesday, December 1st
1935 Woody Allen
1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up bus seat
1978 Aniakchak NM & Berin Land Bridge Natl. Presv.
2003 Oren & Skyler Beckwith
Wednesday, December 2nd
1942 First self-sustaining nuclear reaction
1980 Alaska Lands Act
Thursday, December 3rd
1857 Joseph Conrad
1888 Wetherhill discovered Cliff Palace
1910 First neon sign in Paris
Friday, December 4th
1835 Samuel Butler
1842 Crazy Horse
1948 Southside Johnny
2001 Paris
Saturday, December 5th
1791 Mozart died
1840 Fritz Lang
1901 Walt Disney
1929 Natl. League for Nudists
1932 Little Richard
1935 Prohibition ended
1938 J.J. Cale
1966 Crystal Rapid formed Grand Canyon
Sunday, December 6th
Monday, December 7th
65 (BC) Horace
1719 Aurora Borealis first recorded
1873 Willa Cather
1958 John Birch Society founded
1972 Joey Cota
~ National Ding-a-Ling Day
~ Wyoming Day
Tuesday, December 8th
1824 George McDonald
1863 Edvard Munch
1894 James Thurber
1937 Jim Harrison
1949 Tom Waits
1980 John Lennon killed
Wednesday, December 9th
1830 Emily Dickinson
1878 Last Labrador duck killed
1939 Thomas McGuane
1943 Jim Morrison
1988 Roy Orbison died
Thursday, December 10th
1904 Montana Slim
1909 Red Cloud passed in Spirit World
1980 Colorado Wilderness Bill
Friday, December 11th
1943 Rosemary Hempey
1948 John Rock
Saturday, December 12th
Sunday, December 13th
37 Nero
2001 Berlin
Monday, December 14th
1919 Shirely Jackson
Tuesday, December 15th
1876 Rain of Snakes Memphis
1890 Sitting Bull killed
Wednesday, December 16th
1770 Beethoven
1773 Boston Tea Party
1775 Jane Austen
2001 Switzerland
Thursday, December 17th
Friday, December 18th
Saturday, December 19th
1940 Phil Ochs
1980 New Mexico Wilderness Act
Sunday, December 20th
1798 Birdie Murphy
Monday, December 21st
1866 Battle of the 100 Slain
1921 Ret Marut publ last issue of The Brickburner
1932 Edward Hoagland
1940 Frank Zappa
Tuesday, December 22nd
1849 Dostoyevsky sentenced to die
1922 Hawkshaw Hawkins
1944 Glen Miller disappeared
2001 Rome
Wednesday, December 23rd
1776 Tom Paine published Crisis
Thursday, December 24th
1809 Kit Carson
1948 First solar heated house
~ Noche Buena
Friday, December 25th
1758 Halley's Comet appeared
Saturday, December 26th
1716 Thomas Gray
1891 Henry Miller
1940 Phil Spector
Sunday, December 27th
1493 Paracelsus
1947 Howdy Doody aired
Monday, December 28th
1917 Mencken's Bathtub Hoax
1973 Endandgered Species Act
~ Feast of Fools
Tuesday, December 29th
1890 Wounded Knee Massacre
1931 Heavy H2O discovered
1974 Glacier Ranger fatally shot snowmobile
Wednesday, December 30th
1910 Paul Bowles
1975 Hell's Canyon Wilderness
Thursday, December 31st
999 AD Earliest known prediction of the end of the world
1930 Odetta
1999 Criswell predicted black rainbow to suck oxygen from earth.
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