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