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