| Jan 1 | AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies (1984) |
| Jan 1 | Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba |
| Jan 1 | Castro expells Cuban President Batista (1959) |
| Jan 1 | Churchill delivers his the "Iron Curtain" speech (1947) |
| Jan 1 | Country Joe McDonald is born in El Monte, California, 1942 |
| Jan 1 | Independence Day in Haiti, Sudan |
| Jan 1 | New Year's Day |
| Jan 1 | Paul Revere born in Boston (1735) |
| Jan 1 | The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems), 1970 (Midnight GMT) |
| Jan 1 | The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT) (1970) |
| Jan 1 | Universal Fraternity Day in Mozambique |
| Jan 2 | Ancestry Day in Haiti |
| Jan 2 | Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR) (1920) |
| Jan 2 | St. Berchtold's Day in Switzerland |
| Jan 3 | Apple Computer founded, 1977 |
| Jan 3 | New Year's Holiday in Scotland |
| Jan 3 | Revolution Day in Upper Volta |
| Jan 3 | Steven Stills is born in Dallas, 1945 |
| Jan 4 | George Washington Carver born in Missouri (1864) |
| Jan 4 | Independence Day in Burma |
| Jan 4 | Jakob Grimm born, 1785 |
| Jan 4 | Jazz great Charlie Mingus dies at 57 in Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1979 |
| Jan 4 | Martyrs Day in Zaire |
| Jan 4 | Quadrantid meteor shower (look north) |
| Jan 4 | Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars |
| Jan 5 | "Yellow kid", the first comic strip (1896) |
| Jan 5 | -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913 |
| Jan 5 | DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer |
| Jan 5 | Fellowship enters Moria (LOTR) |
| Jan 5 | The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940 |
| Jan 5 | Twelfth night |
| Jan 6 | Children's Day in Uruguay |
| Jan 6 | Epiphany |
| Jan 6 | Millard Fillmore's birthday |
| Jan 6 | Three Kings' Day in Puerto Rico |
| Jan 7 | Christmas in Ethiopia |
| Jan 7 | Pioneer's Day in Liberia |
| Jan 8 | American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case (1982) |
| Jan 8 | Battle of New Orleans |
| Jan 8 | David Bowie (then David Robert Jones) is born in London, 1947 |
| Jan 8 | Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer (1889) |
| Jan 8 | Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 |
| Jan 9 | Day of the Martyrs in Panama |
| Jan 9 | Fellowship reaches Lorien (LOTR) |
| Jan 9 | James Patrick Page (Led Zeppelin) is born in Middlesex, England, 1945 |
| Jan 10 | Blues guitarist Howlin' Wolf dies in Chicago, 1976 |
| Jan 10 | Ethan Allen born, 1738 |
| Jan 10 | First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 |
| Jan 10 | First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London (1946) |
| Jan 10 | Jim Croce is born in Phildelphia, 1943 |
| Jan 10 | Pat Benatar is born in Long Island, 1952 |
| Jan 10 | Rod Stewart is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1945 |
| Jan 11 | Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies (1757?) |
| Jan 11 | Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania |
| Jan 11 | Armed Forces Day in Liberia |
| Jan 11 | De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico |
| Jan 11 | Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal |
| Jan 11 | Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964 |
| Jan 11 | The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963 |
| Jan 12 | "Long" John Baldry is born in London, 1941 |
| Jan 12 | Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania |
| Jan 13 | Eric Clapton plays the "Rainbow Concert" in London, 1973 |
| Jan 13 | National Liberation Day in Togo |
| Jan 13 | Sophie Tucker born, 1884 |
| Jan 13 | Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws |
| Jan 14 | Albert Schweitzer born, 1875 |
| Jan 14 | Julian Calendar New Year's Day |
| Jan 14 | The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967 |
| Jan 15 | Adults Day in Japan |
| Jan 15 | Arbor Day in Jordan |
| Jan 16 | Martyrs Day in Benin |
| Jan 16 | Prohibition begins, 1920 |
| Jan 16 | Set uid bit patent issued, 1979 |
| Jan 17 | Benjamin Franklin born in Boston (1706) |
| Jan 17 | Justice Dept. begins IBM suit, 1969 |
| Jan 17 | Led Zeppelin's first album is released, 1969 |
| Jan 17 | Passing of Gandalf (LOTR) |
| Jan 18 | Grey whale migration, CA |
| Jan 18 | Revolution Day in Tunisia |
| Jan 19 | Confederate Heroes Day in Texas |
| Jan 19 | Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston (1809) |
| Jan 19 | Ethopian Epiphany in Ethiopia |
| Jan 19 | Janis Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, 1943 |
| Jan 19 | Nameday of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus |
| Jan 19 | Robert E(dward) Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia (1807) |
| Jan 20 | Army Day in Mali |
| Jan 20 | Geo. Burns born, 1898 |
| Jan 20 | National Heroes Day in Guinea-Bissau |
| Jan 20 | St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...) |
| Jan 20 | *Martin Luther King Day in New York (3rd Sunday) |
| Jan 21 | Lenin died, 1924 |
| Jan 21 | Our Lady of Altagracia in Dominican Republic |
| Jan 21 | Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA (1824) |
| Jan 21 | *Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia (3rd Monday) |
| Jan 21 | *Robert E. Lee's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi (3rd Monday) |
| Jan 22 | Sam Cooke is born in Chicago, 1935 |
| Jan 22 | Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561 |
| Jan 23 | Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory |
| Jan 23 | Feast of St. Ildefonsus |
| Jan 23 | Humphrey Bogart born in New York City (1899) |
| Jan 23 | John Hancock born, 1737 |
| Jan 23 | Joseph Hewes born, 1730 |
| Jan 23 | National Handwriting Day |
| Jan 23 | Saml. Barber died, 1981 |
| Jan 24 | DG Nova introduced, 1969 |
| Jan 24 | Economic Liberation Day in Togo |
| Jan 24 | Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill (1848) |
| Jan 24 | John Belushi is born in Chicago, 1949 |
| Jan 24 | Warren Zevon is born, 1947 |
| Jan 25 | Bob Dylan plays the second "Hurricane" benefit, in the Astrodome, 1978 |
| Jan 25 | First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 |
| Jan 25 | Robert Burns born, 1759 |
| Jan 25 | Virginia Woolf born, 1882 |
| Jan 25 | W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874 |
| Jan 26 | EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 |
| Jan 26 | Republic Day in India |
| Jan 26 | Sydney Aust. settled, 1778 |
| Jan 27 | Bobby "Blue" Bland (Robert Calvin Bland) is born in Tennessee, 1930 |
| Jan 27 | Samuel Gompers born, 1850 |
| Jan 27 | Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973 |
| Jan 27 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in Salzburg (1756) |
| Jan 28 | First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914 |
| Jan 28 | Jimi Hendrix headlines Madison Square Garden, 1970 |
| Jan 30 | Australia Day in Australia |
| Jan 30 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York (1882) |
| Jan 30 | Lightnin' Hopkins, the most-recorded blues artist ever, dies, 1982 |
| Jan 30 | Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic (1948) |
| Jan 30 | Tet Offensive, 1968 |
| Jan 31 | Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered |
| Jan 31 | Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 |
| Jan 31 | Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp |
| Jan 31 | The Grateful Dead are busted in New Orleans, 1970 |
| Feb 1 | Chinese New Year Holiday (3 days) in Taiwan |
| Feb 1 | First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954 |
| Feb 1 | Forces lead by Khomeini take over Iran (1979) |
| Feb 1 | RCA Victor unveils the 45 rpm record playing system, 1949 |
| Feb 2 | Candlemas |
| Feb 2 | Graham Nash is born in Lancashire, England, 1942 |
| Feb 3 | Gertrude Stein born, 1874 |
| Feb 3 | The Day The Music Died; Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper are killed in a plane crash outside Mason City, Iowa, 1959 |
| Feb 4 | Cybernet inaugurated, 1969 |
| Feb 4 | Independence Commemoration Day in Sri Lanka |
| Feb 5 | Alex Harvey (SAHB) is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935 |
| Feb 5 | Constitution Day in Mexico |
| Feb 5 | Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army (1974) |
| Feb 6 | King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II (1952) |
| Feb 6 | New Zealand Day |
| Feb 7 | Fellowship leaves Lorien (LOTR) |
| Feb 7 | Independence Day in Grenada |
| Feb 7 | Steven Stills makes the first digitally recorded rock album, 1979 |
| Feb 7 | The Beatles arrive in America for the first time, 1964 |
| Feb 8 | 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq |
| Feb 8 | Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography |
| Feb 8 | Jules Verne born in Nantes, France (1828) |
| Feb 9 | -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934 |
| Feb 9 | Carole King (Carole Klein) is born in Brooklyn, 1941 |
| Feb 9 | George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc. |
| Feb 9 | St. Maron's Day in Lebanon |
| Feb 10 | Charles Lamb born, 1775 |
| Feb 10 | Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (AD 60) |
| Feb 10 | William Allen White born, 1868 |
| Feb 11 | Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 |
| Feb 11 | National Foundation Day in Japan |
| Feb 11 | Thos. Edison born, 1847 |
| Feb 11 | William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1489, photographic pioneer |
| Feb 12 | Abraham Lincoln born, 1809 |
| Feb 12 | Charles Darwin born (1809) not created |
| Feb 12 | Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England (1809) |
| Feb 12 | Pyidaungsa Day in Burma |
| Feb 12 | Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969 |
| Feb 12 | The Beatles play Carnegie Hall in New York City, 1964 |
| Feb 14 | Bombing of Dresden, 1945 |
| Feb 14 | First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 |
| Feb 14 | St. Valentine's day |
| Feb 15 | Chicago Seven convicted, 1970 |
| Feb 15 | ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 |
| Feb 15 | Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy (1564) |
| Feb 15 | Susan B. Anthony born, 1820 |
| Feb 16 | Makha Bucha Day in Thailand |
| Feb 16 | Nylon patented, 1937 |
| Feb 16 | Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry |
| Feb 16 | Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804 |
| Feb 17 | Death of Boromir (LOTR) |
| Feb 17 | Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone |
| Feb 17 | Jazz great Thelonius Monk dies in Englewood, New Jersey, 1982 |
| Feb 17 | Marion Anderson born, 1902 |
| Feb 17 | T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874 |
| Feb 18 | Democracy Day in Nepal |
| Feb 18 | Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer |
| Feb 18 | Independence Day in The Gambia |
| Feb 18 | Yoko Ono Lennon is born in Tokyo, 1933 |
| Feb 18 | *"President's Day" |
| Feb 19 | Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland (1473) |
| Feb 19 | Paul McCartney's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" is banned in Britain, 1972 |
| Feb 19 | William "Smokey" Robinson is born in Detroit, 1940 |
| Feb 19 | *Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras (day before Ash Wednesday) |
| Feb 20 | J. Geils (J. Geils Band) is born, 1946 |
| Feb 20 | Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer |
| Feb 20 | Meriadoc & Pippin meet Treebeard (LOTR) |
| Feb 20 | Yes sells out Madison Square Garden...without advertising, 1974 |
| Feb 20 | *Ash Wednesday - first day of Lent |
| Feb 21 | Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass |
| Feb 21 | Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties |
| Feb 21 | Malcom X shot to death in Harlem (1965) |
| Feb 22 | George Washington born, 1732 |
| Feb 22 | Passing of King Ellesar (LOTR) |
| Feb 22 | Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun |
| Feb 23 | Handel born, 1685 |
| Feb 23 | Johnny Winter is born in Leland, Mississippi, 1944 |
| Feb 23 | Lt Calley confesses, implicates Cpt Medina, 1971 |
| Feb 23 | Republic Day in Guyana |
| Feb 23 | W.E.B.DuBois born, 1868 |
| Feb 24 | Ents destroy Isengard (LOTR) |
| Feb 24 | Gregorian Calendar Day |
| Feb 24 | Winslow Homer born, 1836 |
| Feb 25 | George Harrison born in Liverpool, England (1943) |
| Feb 25 | National Day in Kuwait |
| Feb 25 | Renoir born, 1841 |
| Feb 26 | Aragorn takes the Paths of the Dead (LOTR) |
| Feb 26 | Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786, observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21 |
| Feb 27 | Independence Day in Dominican Republic |
| Feb 27 | The Lionheart crowned, 1189 |
| Feb 28 | Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533 |
| Feb 28 | The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972 |
| Feb 29 | French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 1704 |
| Feb 29 | Herman Hollerith born (1860) |
| Feb 29 | Jimmy Dorsey born, 1904 |
| Mar 1 | David Niven born, 1910 |
| Mar 1 | First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 |
| Mar 1 | Jim Morrison is busted for obscenity in Miami, 1969 |
| Mar 1 | Samil Independence Movement Day in South Korea |
| Mar 1 | Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts (1692) |
| Mar 1 | Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 |
| Mar 2 | Blues guitarist Rory Gallagher is born in Ballyshannon, Ireland, 1949 |
| Mar 2 | Peasants Day in Burma |
| Mar 2 | Texas Independence day |
| Mar 2 | Victory of Adowa in Ethiopia |
| Mar 3 | Buffalo Springfield is formed in Los Angeles, 1966 |
| Mar 3 | Throne Day in Morocco |
| Mar 4 | Antonio Vivaldi born in Venice, Italy (1678) |
| Mar 4 | Casimir Pulaski born, 1747 |
| Mar 4 | First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos |
| Mar 4 | First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C. |
| Mar 4 | Vermont Admission Day (admitted as 14th state in 1791) |
| Mar 5 | Frodo & Samwise encounter Shelob (LOTR) |
| Mar 5 | Independence Day in Equatorial Guinea |
| Mar 5 | John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982 |
| Mar 6 | Independence Day in Ghana |
| Mar 7 | Aristotle died, 322BC |
| Mar 7 | Last Gilbert & Sullivan opera produced, 1896 |
| Mar 7 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer |
| Mar 7 | *Purim - Feast of Lots |
| Mar 8 | Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer |
| Mar 8 | Deaths of Denethor & Theoden (LOTR) |
| Mar 8 | First annual International Women's Day (1909) |
| Mar 8 | Howard Aiken born, 1900 |
| Mar 8 | International Women's Day in U.S.S.R. |
| Mar 8 | Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) dies in California, 1973 |
| Mar 8 | Syrian National Day in Libyan Arab Republic |
| Mar 8 | Women's Day in Guinea-Bissau, Taiwan, Yemen Democratic Republic |
| Mar 8 | Youth Day in Zambia |
| Mar 9 | "GOTO considered harmful" published in CACM, 1968 |
| Mar 9 | Decoration Day in Liberia |
| Mar 9 | Falgun Purnima Day in Nepal |
| Mar 9 | Robin Trower is born in London, 1945 |
| Mar 10 | Labor Day in South Korea |
| Mar 11 | Johnny Appleseed Day; anniversary of the death of John Chapman |
| Mar 11 | Robert Treat Paine born, 1737 |
| Mar 11 | Vannevar Bush born, 1890 |
| Mar 12 | Commonwealth Day in Swaziland |
| Mar 12 | Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist |
| Mar 12 | Independence Day in Mauritius |
| Mar 12 | Moshoeshoe's Birthday in Lesotho |
| Mar 12 | Renovation Day in Gabon |
| Mar 13 | "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894 |
| Mar 13 | National Day in Grenada |
| Mar 13 | The Allman Brothers record their live album at the Fillmore East, 1971 |
| Mar 14 | Albert Einstein born, 1879 |
| Mar 14 | Casey Jones born, 1864 |
| Mar 14 | Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer; named Mars "canals" |
| Mar 14 | Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist |
| Mar 14 | LISP introduced, 1960 |
| Mar 14 | Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907 |
| Mar 15 | Buzzards return to Hinckley OH |
| Mar 15 | Ides of March; Julius Caesar assassinated (44 B.C.) |
| Mar 15 | J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia |
| Mar 15 | Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March (44BC) |
| Mar 15 | Sly Stone born, 1944 |
| Mar 15 | Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25 (1966) |
| Mar 16 | Black Press Day; first Black newspaper founded in 1827 |
| Mar 16 | First liquid-fuel-powered rocket flight, 1926 |
| Mar 16 | George Clymer born, 1739 |
| Mar 16 | James Madison born, 1751 |
| Mar 16 | MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen |
| Mar 16 | Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket (1926) |
| Mar 17 | Evacuation Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts |
| Mar 17 | Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane) is born in San Francisco, 1942 |
| Mar 17 | St. Patrick's Day |
| Mar 17 | Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped |
| Mar 18 | Destruction of the Ring (LOTR) |
| Mar 19 | St. Joseph's Day in Colombia, Costa Rica, Holy See, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Spain, Venezuela |
| Mar 19 | Tree Planting Day in Lestho |
| Mar 20 | Independence Day in Tunsia |
| Mar 20 | Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980 |
| Mar 20 | Youth Day in Oklahoma |
| Mar 20 | *Vernal Equinox, 0525 EST |
| Mar 21 | Afghan New Year in Afghanistan |
| Mar 21 | Bach born, 1685 |
| Mar 21 | Juarez' Birthday in Mexico |
| Mar 22 | Abolition Day in Puerto Rico |
| Mar 22 | Ten Years After plays their last concert, 1974 |
| Mar 23 | Pakistan Day in Pakistan |
| Mar 24 | Construction of New York subway system begins (1900) |
| Mar 24 | Harry Houdini born, 1874 |
| Mar 25 | Aretha Franklin is born in Detroit, 1943 |
| Mar 25 | Greek Independence Day in Cyprus |
| Mar 25 | Lady Day (a.k.a. the Feast of the Annunciation) |
| Mar 25 | Maryland Day in Maryland |
| Mar 25 | National Holiday in Greece |
| Mar 25 | Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911 |
| Mar 25 | *Seward's Day in Alaska (last Monday) |
| Mar 26 | Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist |
| Mar 26 | Emerson, Lake, and Palmer record "Pictures at an Exhibition" live, 1971 |
| Mar 26 | Independence Day in Bangladesh |
| Mar 26 | Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937 |
| Mar 26 | Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day in Hawaii |
| Mar 27 | Armed Forces Day in Burma |
| Mar 27 | Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union (1958) |
| Mar 27 | Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays |
| Mar 28 | DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 |
| Mar 28 | Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer |
| Mar 28 | Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas (1979) |
| Mar 29 | Death of President Barthelemy Boganda in Central African Republic |
| Mar 29 | Dr. Hook gets a group picture on the cover of "Rolling Stone", 1973 |
| Mar 29 | Flowering of the Mallorn (LOTR) |
| Mar 29 | Memorial Day in Madagascar |
| Mar 29 | Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638 |
| Mar 30 | Eric Clapton is born in Surrey, England, 1945 |
| Mar 30 | Five rings around Uranus discovered (1977) |
| Mar 30 | Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746 |
| Mar 30 | Pencil with eraser patented (1858) |
| Mar 30 | Sean O'Casey born, 1880 |
| Mar 30 | Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853 |
| Mar 31 | Descartes born, 1596 |
| Mar 31 | Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 |
| Mar 31 | National Day in Malta |
| Mar 31 | Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher |
| Mar 31 | *Palm Sunday (7 days before Easter) |
| Apr 1 | April Fool's Day |
| Apr 1 | People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc born this day. |
| Apr 1 | Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) |
| Apr 1 | Youth Day in Benin |
| Apr 2 | Malvinas Day in Argentina |
| Apr 2 | Marvin Gaye is born in Washington, D.C., 1939 |
| Apr 2 | Pascua Florida Day in Florida |
| Apr 3 | IBM 701 introduced, 1953 |
| Apr 3 | Washington Irving born, 1783 |
| Apr 4 | Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong |
| Apr 4 | Gandalf visits Bilbo (LOTR) |
| Apr 4 | Liberation Day in Hungary |
| Apr 4 | Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee (1968) |
| Apr 4 | Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) is born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, 1915 |
| Apr 4 | Muddy Waters born, 1915 |
| Apr 4 | NATO Established (1949) |
| Apr 4 | National Day in Senegal |
| Apr 4 | Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) |
| Apr 4 | *Maundy Thursday (3 days before Easter) |
| Apr 5 | Arbor Day in South Korea |
| Apr 5 | Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher |
| Apr 5 | Tomb Sweeping Day in Taiwan |
| Apr 5 | *Good Friday (2 days before Easter) |
| Apr 6 | Chakri Memorial Day in Thailand |
| Apr 6 | Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830 |
| Apr 6 | Victory Day in Ethiopia |
| Apr 6 | *Pesach - First Day of Passover |
| Apr 7 | Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1943 |
| Apr 7 | Alewives run, Cape Cod |
| Apr 7 | IBM announces System/360, 1964 |
| Apr 7 | *Easter |
| Apr 8 | David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician |
| Apr 8 | Fast and Prayer Day in Liberia |
| Apr 9 | ENIAC Project begun, 1943 |
| Apr 9 | Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer |
| Apr 9 | J. Presper Eckert born, 1919 |
| Apr 9 | Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865 |
| Apr 9 | Martyrs Day in Tunisia |
| Apr 9 | Paul Robeson born, 1898 |
| Apr 10 | Commodore Matthew calbraith Perry born, 1854 |
| Apr 10 | Paul McCartney announces that he's quitting the Beatles, 1970 |
| Apr 10 | William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army |
| Apr 11 | National Heroes Day in Costa Rica |
| Apr 12 | Columbia launched, 1981 |
| Apr 12 | Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861 |
| Apr 12 | Gurgarin first man in space, 1961 |
| Apr 12 | Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space (1961) |
| Apr 13 | Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos |
| Apr 13 | National Day in Chad |
| Apr 13 | Songkron Day in Thailand |
| Apr 13 | Thomas Jefferson born, 1743 |
| Apr 13 | *Last day of Passover |
| Apr 14 | Christian Huygen born, 1629, physicist & astronomer; discovered Saturn's rings |
| Apr 14 | Day of the Americas in Honduras |
| Apr 14 | Lincoln shot, 1865 |
| Apr 14 | Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) is born, 1945 |
| Apr 14 | Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912 |
| Apr 15 | Bengali New Year in Bangladesh |
| Apr 15 | Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452 |
| Apr 15 | *Patriot's Day in Maine & Massachusetts (3rd Monday) |
| Apr 16 | Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London (1889) |
| Apr 16 | De Diego's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico) |
| Apr 16 | Holy Week (5 days) in Venezuela |
| Apr 16 | Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth (1865) |
| Apr 16 | Tourist Week (5 days) in Uruguay |
| Apr 17 | An unexpected party (LOTR) |
| Apr 17 | Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces (1961) |
| Apr 17 | Bay of Pigs, 1961 |
| Apr 17 | Burmese New Year in Burma |
| Apr 18 | Einstein's Death, 1955 |
| Apr 18 | Independence Day in Chile, Zimbabwe |
| Apr 18 | San Francisco earthquake, 1906 |
| Apr 18 | Yes breaks up after 13 years, 1981 |
| Apr 19 | Declaration of Independence in Venezuela |
| Apr 19 | Landing of the "33" in Uruguay |
| Apr 19 | Republic Day in Sierra Leone |
| Apr 19 | Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943 |
| Apr 20 | Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing (1971) |
| Apr 21 | Lyrid meteor shower |
| Apr 21 | San Jacinto Day in Texas |
| Apr 21 | Tiradentes in Brazil |
| Apr 22 | Arbor Day in Nebraska & Delaware |
| Apr 22 | Kant born, 1724 |
| Apr 22 | Oklahoma Day in Oklahoma |
| Apr 23 | Crowning of King Ellesar (LOTR) |
| Apr 23 | Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954 |
| Apr 24 | Victory Day in Togo |
| Apr 25 | Anniversary of the Revolution in Portugal |
| Apr 25 | Anzac Day in Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Western Samoa |
| Apr 25 | Blues guitarist Albert King is born, 1925 |
| Apr 25 | Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918 |
| Apr 25 | Liberation Day in Italy |
| Apr 25 | National Flag Day in Swaziland |
| Apr 26 | Carol Burnett born in San Antonio, Texas (1933) |
| Apr 26 | Confederate Memorial Day in Florida & Georgia |
| Apr 26 | Union Day in Tanzania |
| Apr 26 | William Shakespeare baptised in Stratford-on-Avon, England (1564) |
| Apr 26 | William Shakespeare's baptism (birthdate unknown) (1564) |
| Apr 27 | Independence Day in Togo |
| Apr 27 | Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist |
| Apr 27 | Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521 |
| Apr 28 | James Monroe born, 1758 |
| Apr 28 | Zilog Z-80 introduced |
| Apr 28 | *Daylight Savint time begins |
| Apr 29 | "Hair" premiers on Broadway, 1968 |
| Apr 29 | Emperor's Birthday in Japan |
| Apr 29 | Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology |
| Apr 29 | William Randolph Hearst born (1863) |
| Apr 29 | William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco (1863) |
| Apr 29 | *Arbor Day in Wyoming (last Monday) |
| Apr 29 | *Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama & Mississippi (last Monday) |
| Apr 30 | Karl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer |
| Apr 30 | Queen's Biorthday in Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles |
| Apr 30 | The Workers Day in Uruguay |
| May 1 | Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god |
| May 1 | First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 |
| May 1 | Kate Smith born, 1909 |
| May 1 | Labor Day in many places |
| May 1 | Law Day (decl. by Eisenhower) |
| May 1 | Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) is born in Alexandria, Louisiana, 1930May 1May Day in many places |
| May 2 | Constitution Day in Japan |
| May 2 | Dr. Benj. Spock born, 1903 |
| May 2 | King's Birthday in Lesotho |
| May 3 | Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington (1971) |
| May 3 | Bob Seger is born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945 |
| May 4 | 4 Kent students demonstrating against Cambodia incursion are shot (1970) |
| May 4 | Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970 |
| May 4 | Rhode Island Independence Day |
| May 5 | Battle of Puebla in Mexico |
| May 5 | Children's Day in Japan, South Korea |
| May 5 | Coronatin Day in Thailand |
| May 5 | Liberation Day in Netherlands |
| May 6 | Bataan Day in Philippines |
| May 6 | EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 |
| May 6 | *Bank Holiday in UK |
| May 7 | Brahms born, 1833 |
| May 7 | Germany Surrenders after WWII, 1945 |
| May 7 | Johannes Brahms born in Hamburg (1833) |
| May 7 | May Day in United Kingdom |
| May 7 | Tchaikowsky born, 1840 |
| May 8 | Buddha's Birthday in South Korea |
| May 8 | Elections for the National Assembly in Philippines |
| May 8 | Truman Day in Missouri |
| May 8 | US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972 |
| May 9 | 94 degrees, New York, 1979 |
| May 9 | Liberation Day in Czechoslovakia |
| May 9 | Pinza died, 1957 |
| May 9 | Victory Day in Poland, U.S.S.R. |
| May 10 | Confederate Memorial Day in South Carolina |
| May 10 | Dave Mason is born in Worcester, England, 1945 |
| May 10 | Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska (1899) |
| May 10 | Germany invades Low Countries, 1940 |
| May 10 | Mothers Day in Guatamala |
| May 10 | Nazi bookburning (1933) |
| May 11 | Bob Marley dies in his sleep in Miami, 1981 |
| May 11 | Minnesota Day in Minnesota |
| May 12 | Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy (1820) |
| May 12 | Pink Floyd performs the first quadrophonic concert, 1977 |
| May 12 | *Mother's Day (2nd Sunday) |
| May 13 | Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842 |
| May 14 | Anniversary of the Founding of Guinean Deomcratic Party in Guinea |
| May 14 | Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804 |
| May 14 | Buddhist Holiday (Waisak 2528) in Indonesia |
| May 14 | Independence Day (2 days) in Paraguay |
| May 14 | Nation of Israel proclaimed (1948) |
| May 14 | Unification Day in Liberia |
| May 15 | Kamuzu Day in Malawi |
| May 15 | Mike Oldfield is born in Essex, England, 1953 |
| May 15 | Vesak Day in Singapore, Malaysia |
| May 15 | Visakha Bucha Day in Thailand |
| May 16 | Armed Forces Day |
| May 16 | Discovery Day in Cayman Islands |
| May 16 | First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 |
| May 16 | *Ascension Day (10 days before Pentecost) |
| May 17 | 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982 |
| May 17 | Constitution Day in Nauru, Norway |
| May 17 | Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974 |
| May 18 | Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay |
| May 18 | Flag Day in Haiti |
| May 18 | Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804 |
| May 18 | Prayer Day in Denmark |
| May 18 | Rick Wakeman is born in West London, England, 1949 |
| May 19 | Armed Forces Day |
| May 19 | Arwen leaves Lorian to wed King Ellesar (LOTR) |
| May 19 | Ho Chi Minh born, 1890 |
| May 19 | Pete Townshend is born in London, 1945 |
| May 19 | Youth and Sports Day in Turkey |
| May 20 | Mecklenburg Independence Day in North Carolina |
| May 20 | National Day in Cameroon |
| May 20 | The Jimi Hendrix Experience is signed by Reprise Records, 1967 |
| May 20 | Victoria Day in Canada |
| May 20 | *Memorial Day in Michigan (3rd Monday) |
| May 21 | Battle of Iquique in Chile |
| May 21 | DEC announces PDP-8 |
| May 21 | Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?) (427BC) |
| May 22 | Johann Sebastian Bach born in Eisenach, Germany (1665) |
| May 22 | National Heroes Day in Sri Lanka |
| May 22 | US Civil War ends (1865) |
| May 23 | Blues great Elmore James dies, 1963 |
| May 23 | Commonwealth Day in Jamaica, Belize |
| May 23 | Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann (1960) |
| May 23 | National Labor Day in Jamaica |
| May 23 | Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953 |
| May 24 | Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador |
| May 24 | Bermuda Day in Bermuda |
| May 24 | Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) is born in Duluth, 1941 |
| May 24 | Day of Slav Letters in Bulgaria |
| May 25 | African Freedom Day in Zimbabwe |
| May 25 | African Liberation Day in Chad, Mauritania, Zambia |
| May 25 | Anniversary of the Revolution of 1810 in Argentina |
| May 25 | Independence Day in Jordan |
| May 25 | Memorial Day in New Mexico & Puerto Rico |
| May 25 | Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980 |
| May 25 | Revolution in the Sudan in Libyan Arab Republic |
| May 25 | Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England (1830) |
| May 25 | Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830 |
| May 26 | Al Jolson born, 1886 |
| May 26 | Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924 |
| May 26 | *First Day of Shavuot |
| May 26 | *Pentecost - Whitsunday |
| May 27 | Afghanistan attains sovereignty, 1921 |
| May 27 | First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 |
| May 27 | Golden Gate Bridge opens (1937) |
| May 27 | Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911 |
| May 27 | *Bank Holiday in UK |
| May 27 | *Memorial Day in various places (last Monday) |
| May 27 | *Whitmonday |
| May 28 | Dionne quintuplets born, 1934 |
| May 28 | First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 |
| May 28 | Mothers Day in Central African Republic |
| May 29 | Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest (1953) |
| May 29 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874 |
| May 29 | John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917 |
| May 29 | Patrick Henry born, 1736 |
| May 30 | Colossus Mark II, 1944 |
| May 30 | Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco (1908) |
| May 30 | US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912 |
| May 31 | Memorial Day |
| May 31 | Pya Martyrs Day in Togo |
| May 31 | Republic Day in South Africa |
| May 31 | The Who perform the loudest concert ever--76,000 watts of PA, 1976 |
| Jun 1 | Brigham Young born, 1801 |
| Jun 1 | Independence Days (3 days) in Western Samoa |
| Jun 1 | Madaraka Day in Kenya |
| Jun 1 | Marilyn Monroe born, 1928 |
| Jun 1 | The Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper", 1967 |
| Jun 1 | Victory Day in Tunisia |
| Jun 2 | Corpus Christi in Paraguay |
| Jun 2 | Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England (1857) |
| Jun 2 | First issue of Computerworld, 1967 |
| Jun 2 | Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924 |
| Jun 2 | *Trinity Sunday (7 days after Pentecost) |
| Jun 3 | Confederate Memorial Day in Kentucky & Louisiana |
| Jun 3 | Henry James born, 1811 |
| Jun 3 | Jefferson Davis's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi (1st Monday) |
| Jun 3 | Jefferson Davis's Birthday in Florida, Georgia, & S. Carolina |
| Jun 3 | Labor Day in Bahamas |
| Jun 3 | *Bank Holiday in Rep. of Ireland |
| Jun 4 | Dragon Boat Festival in Hong Kong, Taiwan |
| Jun 4 | Emancipation Day in Tonga |
| Jun 4 | Queen's Birthday in New Zealand |
| Jun 4 | Roquefort cheese developed (1070) |
| Jun 5 | Constitution Day in Denmark |
| Jun 5 | Liberation Day in Seychelles |
| Jun 5 | Robert Kennedy Assasinated (1968) |
| Jun 6 | "Rock Around The Clock" makes Billboard's #1 slot, 1955 |
| Jun 6 | His Majesty, Yang Di-Pertuan Agong's Birthday in Malaysia |
| Jun 6 | Memorial Day in South Korea |
| Jun 6 | Normandy landing, 1944 |
| Jun 6 | *Corpus Christi (11 days after Pentecost) |
| Jun 7 | (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848 |
| Jun 7 | Blind Faith debuts in concert at London's Hyde Park, 1969 |
| Jun 7 | George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778 |
| Jun 8 | Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin (1869) |
| Jun 9 | Les Paul (Lester Polfus) is born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1923 |
| Jun 9 | Senior Citizen's Day in Oklahoma |
| Jun 10 | Camoes Day in Portugal |
| Jun 10 | Death of Alexander the Great (323 B.C.) |
| Jun 10 | Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971 |
| Jun 10 | First Apple II shipped, 1977 |
| Jun 10 | Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett) is born in West Point, Mississippi, 1910 |
| Jun 11 | Greeks seize Troy (1184BC) |
| Jun 11 | King Kamehameha I Day in Hawaii |
| Jun 11 | Queen's Birthday |
| Jun 11 | Sauron attacks Osgilliath (LOTR) |
| Jun 12 | Independence Day in Philippines |
| Jun 12 | Peace with Bolivia in Paraguay |
| Jun 13 | Alexander the Great dies (323BC) |
| Jun 13 | Bilbo returns to Bag End (LOTR) |
| Jun 13 | Corrective Movement in Yemen Arab Republic |
| Jun 13 | Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System |
| Jun 14 | Flag Day |
| Jun 14 | Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834 |
| Jun 15 | Ben Franklin's kite experiment (1752) |
| Jun 15 | Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway (1843) |
| Jun 15 | Harry Nilsson is born in Brooklyn, 1941 |
| Jun 15 | Magna Carta signed (1215) |
| Jun 15 | Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop (1878) |
| Jun 15 | Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop, 1878 |
| Jun 15 | UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 |
| Jun 16 | "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980 |
| Jun 16 | Bloomsday - Anniversary of Dublin events, 1904, in "Ulysses" |
| Jun 16 | Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 bc |
| Jun 16 | The Monterey Pop festival opens, 1967 |
| Jun 16 | *Father's Day |
| Jun 17 | Bunker Hill Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts |
| Jun 17 | China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb (1967) |
| Jun 17 | Independence Day in Iceland |
| Jun 17 | National Day in Federal Republic of Germany |
| Jun 17 | Watergate Democratic National Committee Break-In (1972) |
| Jun 18 | Evacuation Day in Egypt |
| Jun 18 | M C Escher born (1898) |
| Jun 18 | Paul McCartney born in Liverpool, England (1942) |
| Jun 18 | Paul McCartney is born in Liverpool, England, 1942 |
| Jun 18 | Queen's Birthday in Fiji |
| Jun 19 | Artigas Birthday in Uruguay |
| Jun 19 | Emancipation Day in Texas |
| Jun 19 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison (1953) |
| Jun 19 | Labor Day in Trinidad, Tobago |
| Jun 19 | Lizzie Borden acquitted, 1893 |
| Jun 19 | Revolution Day in Algeria |
| Jun 20 | Flag Day in Argentina |
| Jun 20 | Victoria crowned, 1837 |
| Jun 20 | West Virginia Day in West Virginia |
| Jun 21 | Berlin airlift begins (1948) |
| Jun 21 | Columbia records announces the first mass production of LP's, 1948 |
| Jun 21 | Summer solstice, 12:02 am, EST |
| Jun 21 | Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge |
| Jun 22 | Carl Hubbell born, 1903 |
| Jun 22 | Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964 |
| Jun 22 | Corrective Movement in Yermen Democratic Republic |
| Jun 22 | Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey (1949) |
| Jun 22 | Midsummer Eve in Finland, Sweden |
| Jun 22 | National Sovereignty Day in Haiti |
| Jun 22 | Todd Rundgren is born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, 1948 |
| Jun 23 | IBM unbundles software, 1969 |
| Jun 23 | National Holiday in Luxembourg |
| Jun 23 | Slavery abolished in England (1772) |
| Jun 23 | Turing's Birthday, 1912 |
| Jun 23 | Wedding of Ellesar & Arwen (LOTR) |
| Jun 24 | Battle of Carabobob in Venezuela |
| Jun 24 | Fisherman's Day in Madagascar, Mozambique, Somalia |
| Jun 24 | Jeff Beck is born in Surrey, England, 1944 |
| Jun 24 | Kings Day in Spain |
| Jun 24 | Peasants Day in Peru |
| Jun 24 | Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution (1970) |
| Jun 24 | St. Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec |
| Jun 25 | Custer's Last Stand, 1876 |
| Jun 25 | Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903 |
| Jun 25 | N. Korea invades S. Korea, 1950 |
| Jun 26 | Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 |
| Jun 26 | St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959 |
| Jun 26 | Toothbrush invented, 1498 |
| Jun 27 | 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915 |
| Jun 27 | Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971 |
| Jun 27 | Helen Keller born, 1880 |
| Jun 28 | Mothers Day in Central African Republic |
| Jun 28 | Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke (1978) |
| Jun 29 | Independence Day in Seychelles |
| Jun 29 | Last Day of Ramadan* in Algeria, Oman |
| Jun 30 | "That" explosion in Siberia, 1908 |
| Jun 30 | China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology (1960) |
| Jun 30 | Day of the Army in Guatemala |
| Jun 30 | First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC |
| Jul 1 | Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863 |
| Jul 1 | Dominion Day in Canada |
| Jul 1 | Eid-Ul-Fitr* (2 days) in Pakistan |
| Jul 1 | Freedom Day in Suriname |
| Jul 1 | Independence Day in Burundi |
| Jul 1 | National Day in Rwamda |
| Jul 1 | Republic Day in Ghana |
| Jul 1 | Union of the Somalia Republic in Somalia |
| Jul 2 | Felix Pappalardi and Leslie West form Mountain, 1969 |
| Jul 2 | National Day in Kiribati |
| Jul 3 | Dog days begin |
| Jul 3 | Franz Kafka born, 1883 |
| Jul 3 | Jim Morrison dies in Paris, 1971 |
| Jul 3 | Kafka's Birthday (1883) |
| Jul 4 | Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces (1863) |
| Jul 4 | Caribbean Day in Guyana |
| Jul 4 | Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776 |
| Jul 4 | Constitution Day in Cayman Islands |
| Jul 4 | Family Day in Lesotho |
| Jul 4 | Gandalf imprisoned by Suruman (LOTR) |
| Jul 4 | Heroes Day in Zambia |
| Jul 4 | Independence Day in United States |
| Jul 4 | John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die (1826) |
| Jul 4 | John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day (1826) |
| Jul 4 | Kadooment Day in Barbados |
| Jul 4 | Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts (1804) |
| Jul 4 | New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776 |
| Jul 4 | Philippine-American Friendship Day in the Philippines |
| Jul 4 | Warriors Day (2 days) in Yugoslavia |
| Jul 5 | Day of Peace and Unity in Rwanda |
| Jul 5 | Independence Day in Algeria, Venezuela |
| Jul 6 | (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866 |
| Jul 6 | First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York (1928) |
| Jul 6 | John Paul Jones born, 1747 |
| Jul 6 | Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917 |
| Jul 6 | The Jefferson Airplane is formed in San Francisco, 1965 |
| Jul 7 | Anniversary of the P.U.N. in Equatorial Guinea |
| Jul 7 | First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949 |
| Jul 7 | National Day in Malawi |
| Jul 7 | Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) born in Liverpool, England (1940) |
| Jul 7 | Ringo Starr is born in Liverpool, England, 1940 |
| Jul 7 | Saba Saba Day in Tanzania |
| Jul 8 | Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T) (1877) |
| Jul 8 | CDC incorporated, 1957 |
| Jul 8 | Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838 |
| Jul 8 | First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776 |
| Jul 9 | 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847 |
| Jul 9 | Independence Day in Argentina |
| Jul 10 | Independence Day in Bahamas |
| Jul 10 | John Calvin born, 1509 |
| Jul 11 | John Quincy Adams born, 1767 |
| Jul 11 | National Holiday in the Mongolian People's Republic |
| Jul 12 | Battle of Boyne celebrated in Northern Ireland |
| Jul 12 | Chicago DJ Steve Dahl holds "Disco Demolition" at Kamisky Park, 1979 |
| Jul 12 | Henry David Thoreau born, 1817 |
| Jul 12 | The Twelfth in Northern Ireland |
| Jul 12 | Thoreau's Birthday (1817) |
| Jul 13 | Buddhist Lent in Thailand |
| Jul 13 | Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908 |
| Jul 14 | Anniversary of the Revolution in Iraq |
| Jul 14 | Bastille Day |
| Jul 14 | National Holiday in Monaco |
| Jul 14 | Woody Guthrie born, 1912 |
| Jul 15 | Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" |
| Jul 15 | St. Swithin's Day |
| Jul 16 | Cream forms in the U.K., 1966 |
| Jul 16 | Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945 |
| Jul 16 | Harry Chapin dies on Long Island Expressway, 1981 |
| Jul 16 | Presidents Day in Botswanna |
| Jul 17 | "Yellow Submarine" premieres at the London Pavilon, 1968 |
| Jul 17 | Constitution Day in South Korea |
| Jul 17 | Disneyland opens, 1955 |
| Jul 17 | July Revolution in Iraq |
| Jul 17 | Munoz Rivera's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico) |
| Jul 17 | Public Holiday in Botswanna |
| Jul 18 | Brian Auger is born in London, 1939 |
| Jul 18 | Constitution Day in Uruguay |
| Jul 18 | Liberation Day in Nicaragua |
| Jul 18 | Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927 |
| Jul 19 | Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692 |
| Jul 19 | Martyrs Day in Burma |
| Jul 20 | Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969 (Will be looked back upon as the high point of American civilization 100 years hence) |
| Jul 20 | Carlos Santana is born in Autlan, Mexico, 1947 |
| Jul 20 | Independence Day in Colombia |
| Jul 21 | National Holiday in Belgium |
| Jul 21 | Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954 |
| Jul 22 | King's Birthday in Swaziland |
| Jul 22 | National Day in Poland |
| Jul 23 | Anniversary of the Revolution Egypt |
| Jul 23 | Eqyptian National Day in Syrian Arab Republic |
| Jul 23 | Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904 |
| Jul 23 | Remembrance Day in Papua, New Guinea |
| Jul 24 | Pioneer Day in Utah |
| Jul 24 | Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 |
| Jul 24 | Simon Bolivar's Day in Ecuador, Venezuela |
| Jul 24 | The ring comes to Bilbo (LOTR) |
| Jul 25 | Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, 1965 |
| Jul 25 | Constitution Day in Puerto Rico |
| Jul 25 | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young debut at the Fillmore East, 1969 |
| Jul 25 | National Rebellion Day (3 days) in Cuba |
| Jul 25 | Republic Day in Tunisia |
| Jul 25 | St. James, Patron Saint in Spain |
| Jul 25 | Steve Goodman is born in Chicago, 1948 |
| Jul 26 | Bilbo rescued from Wargs by Eagles (LOTR) |
| Jul 26 | Independence Day in Liberia |
| Jul 26 | Mick Jagger is born in Kent, England, 1943 |
| Jul 26 | National Day in Maldives |
| Jul 27 | Barbosa's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico) |
| Jul 28 | Bach dies, 1750 |
| Jul 28 | Independence Days (2 days) in Peru |
| Jul 28 | The Watkins Glen "Summer Jam" opens, 1973 |
| Jul 29 | Mussolini born, 1883 |
| Jul 29 | Olsok Eve in Norway to commemorate Norway's Viking King St. Olav |
| Jul 29 | Rain Day in Waynesburg, PA |
| Jul 30 | "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956 |
| Jul 30 | Emily Bronte born, 1818 |
| Jul 30 | Henry Ford born, 1863 |
| Jul 31 | Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948, later JFK |
| Jul 31 | Revolution Day in Congo |
| Aug 1 | Discovery Day in Trinidad, Tobogo |
| Aug 1 | Emancipation Day in Granada |
| Aug 1 | Founding of Asuncion in Paraguay |
| Aug 1 | Freedom Day in Guyana |
| Aug 1 | Herman Melville born, 1819 |
| Aug 1 | Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on this day |
| Aug 1 | National Day in Switzerland |
| Aug 1 | National Holidays (5 days) in El Salvador |
| Aug 1 | Parent's Day in Zaire |
| Aug 1 | The Concert for Bangla Desh takes place at Madison Square Garden, 1971 |
| Aug 2 | Our Lady of Los Angeles in Costa Rica |
| Aug 3 | Funeral of King Theoden (LOTR) |
| Aug 3 | Independence Day in Jamaica, Niger |
| Aug 3 | Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966 |
| Aug 3 | Massacre du Pidjiguiti in Buinea-bissau |
| Aug 3 | Memorial Day of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus |
| Aug 3 | USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958 |
| Aug 4 | Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964 |
| Aug 4 | Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I (1914) |
| Aug 4 | Freedom Day in Guyana |
| Aug 4 | John Lennon points out that "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus", 1966Aug 5*Bank Holiday in Scotland and Northern Ireland |
| Aug 6 | Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (1945) |
| Aug 6 | Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945 |
| Aug 6 | Bank Holiday in Australia, Fiji, Iceland, Ireland |
| Aug 6 | Bank Holiday in Ontario, British Columbia |
| Aug 6 | Caricom in Barbados |
| Aug 6 | Cy Young pitches first game, 1890 |
| Aug 6 | Emancipation Day in Bahamas |
| Aug 6 | Independence Day in Bolivia |
| Aug 7 | Battle of Boyaca in Colombia |
| Aug 8 | Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki (1945) |
| Aug 8 | Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles (1937) |
| Aug 8 | Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914 |
| Aug 8 | Nixon announces resignation (1973) |
| Aug 8 | The Great Train Robbery $7,368,000 (1963) |
| Aug 9 | Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki (1945) |
| Aug 9 | Helter Skelter...the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969 |
| Aug 9 | National Day in Singapore |
| Aug 9 | Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae (480 BC) |
| Aug 9 | Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency (1974) |
| Aug 9 | US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) |
| Aug 10 | Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people (1833) |
| Aug 10 | Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1947 |
| Aug 10 | Independence Day in Ecuador |
| Aug 10 | US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000 (1977) |
| Aug 11 | Dog days end |
| Aug 11 | France Ends War in Indochina (1954) |
| Aug 11 | Heroes Day (2 days) in Zimbabwe |
| Aug 11 | Independence Day in Chad |
| Aug 11 | King Hussein's Accession to the Throne in Jordan |
| Aug 11 | Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days) |
| Aug 12 | Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972 |
| Aug 12 | Queen's Birthday in Thailand |
| Aug 12 | Thomas Mann's Death (1955) |
| Aug 13 | Annie Oakley born, 1860 |
| Aug 13 | Berlin wall erected (1961) |
| Aug 13 | Dan Fogelberg is born in Peoria, Illinois, 1951 |
| Aug 13 | Fidel Castro born, 1927 |
| Aug 13 | Li'l Abner debut, 1934 |
| Aug 13 | Proclamation of Independence in Central African Republic |
| Aug 13 | Women's Day in Tunisia |
| Aug 14 | David Crosby is born in Los Angeles, 1941 |
| Aug 14 | First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 |
| Aug 14 | IBM PC announced, 1981 |
| Aug 14 | Independence Day in Pakistan |
| Aug 14 | Social Security begins in U.S., 1935 |
| Aug 14 | VJ Day (1945) |
| Aug 14 | Waddi Dhahab in Morocco |
| Aug 15 | Founding of Ascuncion in Paraguay |
| Aug 15 | Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India (1947) |
| Aug 15 | Hurricane hits Plimoth Plantation, 1635 |
| Aug 15 | Independence Day in India |
| Aug 15 | Liberation Day in South Korea |
| Aug 15 | National Day in Congo |
| Aug 15 | Santa Maria in Malta |
| Aug 15 | The Beatles play Shea Stadium in New York, 1965 |
| Aug 15 | The Woodstock Music and Arts Fair begins, 1969 |
| Aug 15 | Woodstock Festival, Max Yasgur's farm, 1969 |
| Aug 16 | Bennington Battle Day in Vermont |
| Aug 16 | Independence Days (3 days) in Gabon |
| Aug 16 | Restoration Day in Dominican Republic |
| Aug 16 | Roller Coaster patented, 1898 |
| Aug 16 | Woodstock Begins, 1969 |
| Aug 17 | Admission Day in Hawaii {1984} (3rd Friday) |
| Aug 17 | Anniversary of the Death of General San Martin in Argentina |
| Aug 17 | First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891 |
| Aug 17 | Independence Day in Indonesia |
| Aug 17 | Mae West born, 1892 |
| Aug 18 | Meriwether Lewis born, 1927 |
| Aug 19 | Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856 |
| Aug 19 | Independence Day in Afghanistan |
| Aug 20 | Constitution Day in Hungary |
| Aug 20 | Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940 |
| Aug 20 | Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) is born in Worcestershire, England, 1948 |
| Aug 22 | CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 |
| Aug 22 | Claude Debussy born, 1862 |
| Aug 22 | Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets |
| Aug 22 | St. Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565 |
| Aug 23 | DEC founded, 1957 |
| Aug 23 | Gene Kelly born, 1912 |
| Aug 23 | Keith Moon (The Who) is born in London, 1947 |
| Aug 23 | Liberation Days (2 days) in Romania |
| Aug 23 | Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927 |
| Aug 24 | "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969 |
| Aug 24 | -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica (1960) |
| Aug 24 | British troops burn Washington, 1814 |
| Aug 24 | National Flag Day in Liberia |
| Aug 25 | Constitution Day in Paragual |
| Aug 25 | Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944 |
| Aug 25 | Independence Day in Uruguay |
| Aug 26 | Jimi Hendrix gives his last performance at the Isle of Wight, 1970 |
| Aug 26 | Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Studios opens in New York, 1970 |
| Aug 26 | Susan B. Anthony Day in Massachussetts |
| Aug 26 | *Bank Holiday in England and Wales |
| Aug 27 | "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912 |
| Aug 27 | Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons (1883) |
| Aug 27 | Liberation Day in Hong Kong |
| Aug 27 | Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908 |
| Aug 28 | Heroes Day in Philippines |
| Aug 28 | King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC (1963) |
| Aug 29 | Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist |
| Aug 29 | Star in Cygnus goes nova & becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; Nova Cygni 1975. |
| Aug 29 | Suruman enters the Shire (LOTR) |
| Aug 30 | 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842 |
| Aug 30 | Huey P. Long Day in Louisiana |
| Aug 30 | Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960 |
| Aug 30 | John W. Mauchly born, 1907 |
| Aug 30 | St. Rose of Lima in Peru |
| Aug 30 | Victory Day in Turkey |
| Aug 30 | Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected (1963) |
| Aug 31 | 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR (1983) |
| Aug 31 | Independence Day in Trinidad, Tobago |
| Aug 31 | National Day in Malaysia |
| Aug 31 | Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926 |
| Aug 31 | Pashtoonian Day in Afghanistan |
| Sep 1 | Army Day in Chile |
| Sep 1 | Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match (1972) |
| Sep 1 | Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I' (1859) |
| Sep 2 | Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar (1752) |
| Sep 2 | Japan signs unconditional surrender aboard US battleship `Missouri' (1945) |
| Sep 2 | *Labor Day (1st Monday) |
| Sep 3 | Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino |
| Sep 3 | Independence Day in Qatar |
| Sep 3 | Memorial Day in Tunisia |
| Sep 5 | First Continental Congress, Phila, 1774 |
| Sep 5 | Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961 |
| Sep 5 | King Louis XIV of France born (1638) |
| Sep 5 | Raquel Welch born, 1942 |
| Sep 5 | The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia (1774) |
| Sep 6 | 149 Pilgrims set forth from Eng3and aboard the Mayflower (1620) |
| Sep 6 | Defense of Pakistan Day in Pakistan |
| Sep 6 | Pres. McKinley shot, 1901 |
| Sep 6 | Settlers Day in South Africa |
| Sep 6 | Somhlolo in Swaziland |
| Sep 6 | Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died (1909) |
| Sep 7 | Independence Day in Brazil |
| Sep 7 | James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ (1789) |
| Sep 7 | Keith Moon (The Who) dies in London of a drug overdose, 1978 |
| Sep 7 | Queen Elizabeth I of England born (1533) |
| Sep 8 | "Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966) |
| Sep 8 | Anton Dvorak born in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia (1841) |
| Sep 8 | Gerald R. Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon (the slime!), 1974 |
| Sep 8 | King Richard I of England born (1157) |
| Sep 8 | Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England (1925) |
| Sep 8 | President Ford grants pardon to Nixon (1974) |
| Sep 8 | Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) is born in San Bruno, California, 1945 |
| Sep 9 | Admission Day in California |
| Sep 9 | Anniversary of the Socialist Revolution (2 days) in Bulgaria |
| Sep 9 | California becomes the 31st state (1850) |
| Sep 9 | Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age of 82 (1976) |
| Sep 9 | National Day in North Korea |
| Sep 9 | United Colonies is renamed the United States (1776) |
| Sep 10 | Gandalf escapes from Orthanc (LOTR) |
| Sep 10 | Korean Thanksgiving Day (Chusuk) in South Korea |
| Sep 10 | Moon Festival in Taiwan |
| Sep 10 | Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857 |
| Sep 10 | National Day in Belize |
| Sep 11 | Ethiopian New Year in Ethiopia |
| Sep 11 | Grandparent's Day |
| Sep 11 | National Holiday in Chile |
| Sep 12 | Amilcar Cabral's Birthday in Guinea-Bissau |
| Sep 12 | Defender's Day in Maryland |
| Sep 12 | German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome (1943) |
| Sep 12 | Germany annexes Sudentenland, 1938 |
| Sep 12 | Jesse Owens born, 1913 |
| Sep 12 | Revolution Day in Ethiopia |
| Sep 13 | 136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya (1922) |
| Sep 13 | Barry Day commemorates the death of Commodore John Barry |
| Sep 13 | British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City (1788) |
| Sep 13 | Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122 |
| Sep 13 | Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China (1943) |
| Sep 13 | Walter Reed born, 1851 |
| Sep 14 | Battle of San Jacinto in Nicaragua |
| Sep 14 | Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister (1778) |
| Sep 14 | Francis Scott Key writes words to "Star Spangled Banner" (1814) |
| Sep 14 | Frodo & Bilbo's birthday (LOTR) |
| Sep 14 | Salem, Massachusetts, is founded (1629) |
| Sep 14 | The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft (1940) |
| Sep 15 | ACM founded, 1947 |
| Sep 15 | Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England (1890) |
| Sep 15 | Black riders enter the Shire (LOTR) |
| Sep 15 | Foundation of Panama in Panama |
| Sep 15 | Independence Day |
| Sep 15 | Respect for the Aged Day in Japan |
| Sep 15 | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US (1959) |
| Sep 15 | The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department (1789) |
| Sep 16 | Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY (1914) |
| Sep 16 | B.B. King is born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, 1925 |
| Sep 16 | Cherokee Strip Day in Oklahoma |
| Sep 16 | Independence Day in Mexico, Papua, New Guinea |
| Sep 16 | The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston (1630) |
| Sep 16 | *First Day of Rosh Hashana |
| Sep 17 | Battle of Antietam, 1862 |
| Sep 17 | National Heroes Day in Angola |
| Sep 18 | Frodo and company rescued by Bombadil (LOTR) |
| Sep 18 | Greta Garbo born, 1905 |
| Sep 18 | Independence Day in Chile |
| Sep 18 | Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970 |
| Sep 18 | Victory of Uprona in Burundi |
| Sep 19 | Army Day in Chile |
| Sep 19 | Simon & Garfunkel reunite to play New York's Central Park, 1981 |
| Sep 20 | Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884 |
| Sep 20 | First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848 |
| Sep 20 | First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916 |
| Sep 20 | Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 |
| Sep 20 | Jim Croce dies in a plane crash, 1973 |
| Sep 20 | Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage (1519) |
| Sep 20 | The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973 |
| Sep 20 | Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878 |
| Sep 21 | H. G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England (1866) |
| Sep 21 | Independence Day in Belize |
| Sep 21 | Louis Joliet born, 1645 |
| Sep 22 | Alied forces form the independent nation West Germany (1953) |
| Sep 22 | Autumnal equinox, 3:33 pm, EST |
| Sep 22 | Independence Day in Mali |
| Sep 22 | National Sovereignty Day in Haiti |
| Sep 22 | President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore (1881) |
| Sep 22 | President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation (1862) |
| Sep 22 | Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenaes President Nixon (1974) |
| Sep 22 | The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes (1949) |
| Sep 23 | "Paul is dead" rumors sweep the country, 1969 |
| Sep 23 | Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome (63 BC) |
| Sep 23 | Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen is born in Freehold, New Jersey, 1949 |
| Sep 23 | Euripides born in Salamis, Greece (480 BC) |
| Sep 23 | Grito de Lares in Puerto Rico |
| Sep 23 | Phillippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law (1972) |
| Sep 23 | The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club (1845) |
| Sep 23 | V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech. (1952) |
| Sep 24 | Anniversary of the Third Republic in Ghana |
| Sep 24 | F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896 |
| Sep 24 | Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau |
| Sep 24 | National Day in Saudi Arabia |
| Sep 24 | Our Lady of Mercedes in Dominican Republic |
| Sep 24 | Republic Day in Trinidad, Tobago |
| Sep 25 | Army Day in Mozambique |
| Sep 25 | John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) dies of alcohol poisoning, 1980 |
| Sep 25 | Referendum Day in Rwanda |
| Sep 25 | Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court (1981) |
| Sep 25 | *Yom Kippur |
| Sep 26 | George Gershwin born in Brooklyn, NY (1989) |
| Sep 26 | Johnny Appleseed born, 1774 |
| Sep 26 | National Day in Maldives, Yemem Deomcratic Republic |
| Sep 26 | Revoluation Anniversary Day in Yemen Arab |
| Sep 26 | T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis (1888) |
| Sep 27 | Feast of Finding the True Cross in Ethiopia |
| Sep 27 | The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England (1825) |
| Sep 27 | Thomas Nast born, 1840 |
| Sep 28 | "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678 |
| Sep 28 | A greek soldier runs 26+ miles to the Persian defeat at Marathon (490BC) |
| Sep 28 | Confucious' Day in Taiwan |
| Sep 28 | Frodo wounded at Weathertop (LOTR) |
| Sep 28 | Michelangelo Buanarroti born in Caprese, Italy (1573) |
| Sep 28 | Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome (106BC) |
| Sep 28 | Seymour Cray born, 1925 |
| Sep 29 | Battle of Boqueron in Paraquay |
| Sep 29 | Gene Autry born, 1907 |
| Sep 30 | Botswanna Day in Botswanna |
| Sep 30 | First Day of Sukkot |
| Sep 30 | The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass (1846) |
| Sep 30 | The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced (1946) |
| Oct 1 | Armed Forces Day in South Korea |
| Oct 1 | Independence Day in Nigeria |
| Oct 1 | Jimmy Carter born, 1924 |
| Oct 1 | Labor Day in Australia |
| Oct 1 | National Liberation Day (2 days) in China |
| Oct 1 | Public Holiday in Botswanna |
| Oct 2 | Anniversary of Guinean Independence in Guinea |
| Oct 2 | Aristotle dies of indigestion (322 BC) |
| Oct 2 | First robotics-based CAM, 1939 |
| Oct 2 | Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India (1869) |
| Oct 2 | Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice (1967) |
| Oct 3 | Chung Yeung Festival in Hong Kong |
| Oct 3 | Francisco Morazan's Birthday in Honduras |
| Oct 3 | National Foundation Day in South Korea |
| Oct 3 | U.N. Day in Varbados |
| Oct 4 | Crimean war begins, 1853 |
| Oct 4 | First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched (1957) |
| Oct 4 | Independence Day in Lesotho |
| Oct 4 | Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose in Hollywood, 1970 |
| Oct 4 | John V. Atanasoff born, 1903 |
| Oct 4 | Sputnik I launched, 1957 |
| Oct 5 | Anniversary of Proclamation of the Republic in Portugal |
| Oct 5 | Frodo crosses bridge of Mitheithel |
| Oct 5 | Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain (1881) |
| Oct 5 | Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born (1902) |
| Oct 5 | Ray Kroc (owner of McDonald's) born (1902) |
| Oct 5 | Steve Miller is born in Dallas, 1943 |
| Oct 6 | Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women (1853) |
| Oct 6 | Anwar Sadat assassinated, 1981 |
| Oct 6 | Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo (1981) |
| Oct 6 | First GPSS manual published, 1961 |
| Oct 6 | Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria (1973) |
| Oct 6 | National Sports Day in Lesotho |
| Oct 7 | First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast, 1957 |
| Oct 7 | Foundation of the GDR in 1949 in German Democratic Republic |
| Oct 7 | Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges (1977) |
| Oct 7 | Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1979) |
| Oct 7 | National Heroes Day in Jamaica |
| Oct 7 | Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974 |
| Oct 8 | Battle of Agamos in Peru |
| Oct 8 | Constitution Day in U.S.S.R |
| Oct 8 | Fiji Day in Fiji |
| Oct 8 | First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 |
| Oct 8 | Great Chicago Fire, 1871 |
| Oct 8 | Thanksgiving Day in Canada |
| Oct 8 | *Simhat Torah |
| Oct 9 | First two-way telephone conversation (1876) |
| Oct 9 | Independence Day in Uganda |
| Oct 9 | Independence of Guayaquil in Ecuador |
| Oct 9 | John Lennon born in Liverpool, England (1940) |
| Oct 9 | John Lennon is born in Liverpool, England, 1940 |
| Oct 9 | Korean Alphabet Day in South Korea |
| Oct 9 | Leif Erikson Day commemorates the discovery of North America in AD 1000 |
| Oct 9 | Republic Day in Khmer Republic |
| Oct 10 | Agnew resigns, 1973 |
| Oct 10 | Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba |
| Oct 10 | Fiji Day in Fiji |
| Oct 10 | Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea |
| Oct 10 | Health-Sports Day in Japan |
| Oct 10 | John Prine is born in Maywood, Illinois, 1946 |
| Oct 10 | Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. {1984} |
| Oct 10 | National Day in Taiwan |
| Oct 10 | Oklahoma Historical Day in Oklahoma |
| Oct 10 | Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud (1973) |
| Oct 11 | "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975 |
| Oct 11 | Day of the Revolution in Panama |
| Oct 11 | Druger Day in South Africa |
| Oct 11 | The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking (1976) |
| Oct 11 | The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken (1811) |
| Oct 11 | The second Vatican Eccumenical Council opens in Rome (1962) |
| Oct 12 | Columbus lands in Bahamas, 1492 |
| Oct 12 | Day of the Race in Argentina |
| Oct 12 | Discovery Day in Gahamas |
| Oct 12 | Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN (1960) |
| Oct 12 | Man O'War's last race, 1920 |
| Oct 12 | National Day in Equatorial Guinea, Spain |
| Oct 12 | Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores (1492) |
| Oct 12 | Our Lady Aparecida Day in Brazil |
| Oct 12 | Pan American Day in Belize |
| Oct 12 | The Jimi Hendrix Experience is formed in London, 1966 |
| Oct 12 | Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 |
| Oct 13 | Italy declares war on Germany (1943) |
| Oct 13 | Lenny Bruce is born in New York City, 1925 |
| Oct 13 | St. Edward's Day - patron saint of England |
| Oct 13 | U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress |
| Oct 13 | Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy (70 BC) |
| Oct 14 | Battle of Hastings (and England) won by William the Conqueror and the Normans (1066) |
| Oct 14 | Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans (1066) |
| Oct 14 | British Computer Society founded, 1957 |
| Oct 14 | Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947 |
| Oct 14 | Columbus Day |
| Oct 14 | Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890 |
| Oct 14 | National Day in Yemen Arab Repyblic |
| Oct 14 | William Penn born in London (1644) |
| Oct 14 | Young People's Day in Zaire |
| Oct 14 | *Thanksgiving Day in Canada |
| Oct 15 | Evacuation Day in Tunisia |
| Oct 15 | First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published |
| Oct 15 | First draft card burned (1965) |
| Oct 15 | Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881 |
| Oct 16 | Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) is born in San Francisco, 1947 |
| Oct 16 | Boromir reaches Rivendell |
| Oct 16 | National Boss Day |
| Oct 16 | Noah Webster born, 1758 |
| Oct 16 | Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin (1854) |
| Oct 17 | "Hair" opens at New York's Public Theater, 1967 |
| Oct 17 | Council of Elrond |
| Oct 17 | Dessaline's Death Anniversary in Haiti |
| Oct 17 | Heroes Day in Jamaica |
| Oct 17 | Mother's Day in Malawi |
| Oct 17 | Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S. |
| Oct 18 | Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648 |
| Oct 18 | Chuck Berry is born in San Jose, California, 1926 |
| Oct 18 | Feast Day of St. Luke |
| Oct 18 | Soviets anounce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side (1959) |
| Oct 19 | Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China (1949) |
| Oct 19 | Napoleon's beaten army beings a long retreat from Moscow (1812) |
| Oct 20 | "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973 |
| Oct 20 | Anniversary of the 1944 Revolution in Guatemala |
| Oct 20 | Kenyatta Day in Kenya |
| Oct 20 | OPEC embargo, 1973 |
| Oct 20 | Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd dies in a plane crash, 1977 |
| Oct 20 | Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 |
| Oct 21 | Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm (1833) |
| Oct 21 | Armed Forces Day in Honduras |
| Oct 21 | Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp (1879) |
| Oct 21 | Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959 |
| Oct 21 | Revolution Days (2 days) in Somalia |
| Oct 22 | Franz Liszt born, 1811 |
| Oct 22 | Mothers-in-Law Day |
| Oct 23 | Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944 |
| Oct 23 | Chulalongkron's Day in Thsailand |
| Oct 24 | Independence Day in Zambia |
| Oct 24 | United Nations Day |
| Oct 25 | DEC announces VAX-Nov 780 |
| Oct 25 | End of War of the Ring |
| Oct 25 | Jon Anderson (Yes) is born in Lancashire, England, 1944 |
| Oct 25 | Labor Day in New Zealand |
| Oct 25 | Taiwan Restoration Day inb Taiwan |
| Oct 25 | The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, 1964 |
| Oct 25 | The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China (1971) |
| Oct 26 | Agam Day in Nauru |
| Oct 26 | Armed Forces Day in Benin, Rwanda |
| Oct 26 | National Day in Austria |
| Oct 26 | UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated (1978) |
| Oct 27 | Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933 |
| Oct 27 | James Cook is born (1466) |
| Oct 27 | New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges (1871) |
| Oct 27 | The first New York Subway is opened (1904) |
| Oct 27 | *Daylight Savings Time Ends; Turn Clocks Back 1hr. |
| Oct 28 | Columbus discovers Cuba (1492) |
| Oct 28 | Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge (312) |
| Oct 28 | Harvard was founded in Massachusetts (1636) |
| Oct 28 | National Holiday in Greece |
| Oct 28 | OHI Day in Cyprus |
| Oct 28 | Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island (1886) |
| Oct 28 | *Bank Holiday in Rep. of Ireland |
| Oct 29 | Duane Allman dies in motorcycle crash near Macon, Georgia, 1971 |
| Oct 29 | Republic Day in Turkey |
| Oct 29 | Stock Market Crash, 1929 |
| Oct 30 | Grace Slick is born in Chicago, 1939 |
| Oct 30 | Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938 |
| Oct 31 | Chiang Kai-Shek born (1887) |
| Oct 31 | Dale Evans born, 1912 |
| Oct 31 | Halloween |
| Oct 31 | Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg (1517) |
| Oct 31 | Nevada Day in Nevada |
| Nov 1 | All Saints Day |
| Nov 1 | Austria-Hungary become two seperate nations (1918) |
| Nov 1 | Feast of All Saints in Portugal |
| Nov 1 | Puerto Rican nationalists tried to kill Truman at the Blair House (1950) |
| Nov 1 | Samhain; Beginning of the Celtic year and most important holiday. |
| Nov 2 | All Souls Day in Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, Uruguay |
| Nov 2 | Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA (1734) |
| Nov 2 | Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" enters US charts at #1, 1968 |
| Nov 2 | Keith Emerson is born, 1944 |
| Nov 2 | Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940 |
| Nov 2 | Memorial Day in Ecuador |
| Nov 2 | Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight (1783) |
| Nov 3 | Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837 |
| Nov 3 | Culture Day in Japan |
| Nov 3 | Independence from Columbia in Panama |
| Nov 3 | Independence of Cuenca in Ecuador |
| Nov 3 | James Taylor and Carly Simon are married in Manhattan, 1972 |
| Nov 3 | Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954 |
| Nov 3 | Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing spacedog Laika |
| Nov 3 | Thanksgiving Day in Liberia |
| Nov 4 | Flag Day in Panama |
| Nov 4 | Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran (1979) |
| Nov 4 | King William III of Orange born (1650) |
| Nov 4 | Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary (1956) |
| Nov 4 | UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 |
| Nov 4 | Will Rogers Day |
| Nov 5 | Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605 |
| Nov 5 | Roy Rogers born, 1912 |
| Nov 5 | *Election Day |
| Nov 6 | Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R. |
| Nov 6 | Green March Day in Morocco |
| Nov 6 | Prophet Mohammed's Birthday in Malaysia |
| Nov 7 | Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837 |
| Nov 7 | Anniversary of Great October Revolution in Bulgaria |
| Nov 7 | Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) is born in Alberta, Canada, 1943 |
| Nov 7 | Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean (1805) |
| Nov 7 | National Revolution Day |
| Nov 7 | October Revolution Day in Hungary |
| Nov 8 | Her Majesty, the Queen's Birthday in Nepal |
| Nov 8 | Patti Page born, 1927 |
| Nov 9 | Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada (1965) |
| Nov 9 | Carl Sagan born, 1934 |
| Nov 9 | Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927 |
| Nov 9 | Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League (1921) |
| Nov 9 | Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration (1933) |
| Nov 9 | The first issue of "Rolling Stone" is published, 1967 |
| Nov 10 | 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstartions near White House (1917) |
| Nov 10 | Cpt Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865 |
| Nov 10 | Greg Lake is born in Bournemouth, England, 1948 |
| Nov 10 | Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?" (1871) |
| Nov 10 | King's Birthday in Bhutan |
| Nov 10 | Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany (1483) |
| Nov 10 | Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75 (1982) |
| Nov 11 | Angola gains independence from Portugal (1975) |
| Nov 11 | Armistice Day |
| Nov 11 | Independence Day in Angola |
| Nov 11 | Independence of Cartagena in Colombia |
| Nov 11 | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis (1922) |
| Nov 11 | Rememberance Day in Canada |
| Nov 11 | Republic Day in Maldives |
| Nov 11 | Veterans' Day |
| Nov 11 | Washington becomes the 42nd state (1889) |
| Nov 12 | Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan |
| Nov 12 | Neil Young is born in Toronto, 1945 |
| Nov 12 | Prince Charles' Birthday in Fiji |
| Nov 12 | U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861 |
| Nov 13 | Paul Simon born, 1942 |
| Nov 13 | Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850 |
| Nov 13 | St. Augustine of Hippo born (354) |
| Nov 13 | St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria (354) |
| Nov 14 | King Hussein's Birthday in Jordan |
| Nov 14 | Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after formal request from McDonald's) (1971) |
| Nov 15 | Dynasty Day in Belgium |
| Nov 15 | Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896 |
| Nov 15 | Proclamation of the Republic in Brazil |
| Nov 15 | Thatlouang Festival in Laos |
| Nov 16 | Bilbo reaches the Lonely Mountain |
| Nov 16 | Bill Ham first demonstrates his psychedelic "Light Show", 1965 |
| Nov 16 | Oklahoma Heritage Week in Oklahoma |
| Nov 16 | Opening of the Suez Canal (1869) |
| Nov 17 | 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966 |
| Nov 17 | Army Day in Zaire |
| Nov 17 | Corrective Movement in Syrian Arab Republic |
| Nov 18 | Battle of Viertieres in Haiti |
| Nov 18 | First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok (1952) |
| Nov 18 | Imogene Coca born, 1908 |
| Nov 18 | Independence Day in Morocco |
| Nov 18 | Local standard time zones established for US (1883) |
| Nov 18 | National Days (4 days) in Oman |
| Nov 18 | William S. Gilbert born, 1836 |
| Nov 19 | Anniversary of the 1968 Coup by the Army in Mali |
| Nov 19 | Discovery Day in Puerto Rico |
| Nov 19 | Feast Day of S.A.S. Prince Rainier in Monaco |
| Nov 19 | Garifuna Settlement in Belize |
| Nov 19 | Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863 |
| Nov 19 | Prince of Wales Birthday in Fiji |
| Nov 20 | Duane Allman is born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1946 |
| Nov 20 | Joe Walsh is born in Cleveland, 1947 |
| Nov 20 | RFK born, 1925 |
| Nov 20 | Revolution Day in Mexico |
| Nov 21 | Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape (1973) |
| Nov 21 | Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973 |
| Nov 21 | Day of Prayer and Repentance in Federal Republic of Germany |
| Nov 22 | Anniversary of Portuguese Aggression in Guinea |
| Nov 22 | Independence Day in Lebanon |
| Nov 22 | Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald (1963) |
| Nov 22 | Kennedy shot, 1963 |
| Nov 23 | Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan |
| Nov 24 | Anniversary of the New Regime in Zaire |
| Nov 24 | Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby (1963) |
| Nov 24 | Scott Joplin born, 1868 |
| Nov 25 | "The Last Waltz" concert is played by The Band at Winterland, 1976 |
| Nov 25 | Alfred Nobel invents dynamite (1867) |
| Nov 25 | Independence Day in Suriname |
| Nov 25 | Johann Strauss, Jr., writes `On the Beautiful Blue Danube' (1867) |
| Nov 26 | Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis (1922) |
| Nov 26 | Cream performs their farewell concert at Royal Albert Hall, 1968 |
| Nov 26 | Norbert Weiner born, 1894 |
| Nov 27 | Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize (1895) |
| Nov 27 | Friction match invented, England, 1826 |
| Nov 27 | Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts |
| Nov 27 | Jimi Hendrix (Johnny Allen Hendrix) is born in Seattle, 1942 |
| Nov 28 | Independence Day in Albania, Mauritania |
| Nov 28 | Independence from Spain in Panama |
| Nov 28 | Proclamation of the Republic in Chad |
| Nov 28 | Thanksgiving Day in United States (4th Thursday) |
| Nov 29 | Day of the Republic (2 days) in Yugoslavia |
| Nov 29 | Goodwill Day in Liberia |
| Nov 29 | John Mayall is born in Cheshire, England, 1933 |
| Nov 29 | King Tut's tomb opened, 1922 |
| Nov 29 | Liberation Day in Albania |
| Nov 29 | National Day in Burma |
| Nov 30 | Cleopatra died, 30 bc |
| Nov 30 | Independence Day in Barbados, Yemen Deomcratic Republic |
| Nov 30 | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri (1835) |
| Nov 30 | National Day in Benin |
| Nov 30 | National Heroes Day in Philippines |
| Nov 30 | Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) born (1835) |
| Nov 30 | St. Andrew's Day |
| Dec 1 | Anniversary of the Restoration of Independence in Portugal |
| Dec 1 | First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924 |
| Dec 1 | Independence Day in Central African Republic |
| Dec 1 | Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses (1955) |
| Dec 1 | Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL) (1953) |
| Dec 1 | Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY (1935) |
| Dec 1 | *First Sunday of Advent (4th Sunday before Christmas) |
| Dec 2 | National Holiday in United Arab Emirates |
| Dec 3 | First neon light display, Paris, 1910 |
| Dec 3 | First successful human heart transplant lead by Dr. Barnard (1967) |
| Dec 3 | National Holiday in Laos |
| Dec 3 | The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971 |
| Dec 4 | Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976 |
| Dec 4 | Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783 |
| Dec 5 | Death of Smaug (LOTR) |
| Dec 5 | End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part) |
| Dec 5 | Mozart dies, 1791 |
| Dec 5 | Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776 |
| Dec 5 | St. Nicholas' Day |
| Dec 5 | The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition (1933) |
| Dec 5 | Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago (1901) |
| Dec 6 | First sound recording made by Thomas Edison (1877) |
| Dec 6 | Independence Day in Finland |
| Dec 6 | The Rolling Stones play Altamont Speedway near San Francisco, 1969 |
| Dec 7 | Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941 |
| Dec 7 | Delaware Day in Delaware |
| Dec 7 | Harry Chapin is born in New York City, 1942 |
| Dec 7 | Independence Day in Ivory Coast, Panama |
| Dec 7 | Japan bombs Pearl Harbor (1941) |
| Dec 7 | Pearl Harbor, 1941 |
| Dec 7 | Prophet Mohammed's Birthday in Fiji |
| Dec 8 | Blessing of the Water in Uruguay |
| Dec 8 | First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 |
| Dec 8 | Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy) (65BC) |
| Dec 8 | James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio (1894) |
| Dec 8 | Jim Morrison is born in Melbourne, Florida, 1943 |
| Dec 8 | John Lennon assassinated, 1980 |
| Dec 8 | John Lennon is shot and killed in New York City, 1980 |
| Dec 8 | Mother's Day in Panama |
| Dec 8 | Our Lady of the Cacupe in Paraguay |
| Dec 8 | *First Day of Hanukkah |
| Dec 9 | Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884 |
| Dec 9 | Independence Day in Tanzania |
| Dec 9 | The Who's "Tommy" premieres in London, 1973 |
| Dec 10 | Emily Dickenson born, 1830 |
| Dec 10 | Foundation of Worker's Party in Angola |
| Dec 10 | Human Rights Day |
| Dec 10 | Metric system established in France (1799) |
| Dec 10 | Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year |
| Dec 10 | Thai Constitution Day in Thailand |
| Dec 10 | Wyoming Day in Wyoming |
| Dec 11 | Independence Day in Upper Volta |
| Dec 12 | E. G. Robinson born, 1893 |
| Dec 12 | First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi (1901) |
| Dec 12 | Independence Day in Kenya |
| Dec 13 | Dartmouth College chartered, 1769 |
| Dec 13 | Geminid meteor shower (look south) |
| Dec 13 | Republic Day in Malta |
| Dec 13 | Ted Nugent, the motor city madman, is born in Detroit, 1949 |
| Dec 14 | George Washington dies, 1799 |
| Dec 15 | Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976 |
| Dec 15 | Bill of Rights adopted (1791) |
| Dec 15 | James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891 |
| Dec 15 | Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890 |
| Dec 15 | Statue Day in Netherlands Antilles |
| Dec 15 | Thomas Edison receives patent on the phonograph (1877) |
| Dec 16 | Constitution Day in Nepal |
| Dec 16 | Day of the Covenant in South Africa |
| Dec 16 | Don McLean's "American Pie" is released, 1971 |
| Dec 16 | Fellowship begins Quest |
| Dec 16 | Ludwig von Beethoven christened in Bonn, Germany (1770) |
| Dec 16 | National Day in Bahrain |
| Dec 16 | Victry Day in Bangladesh |
| Dec 17 | National Day in Bhutan |
| Dec 17 | William Safire (Safir) born (1929) |
| Dec 18 | Republic Day in Niger |
| Dec 20 | U.S. Buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi. |
| Dec 21 | Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804 |
| Dec 21 | First day of winter, Winter Solstice, 11:23 am EST |
| Dec 21 | Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore, 1940 |
| Dec 21 | Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in <80 days |
| Dec 22 | Giacomo Puccini born, 1858 |
| Dec 23 | First G&S collaboration, Thespis, 1871 |
| Dec 23 | Joseph Smith born (1805) |
| Dec 23 | Victory Day in Egypt |
| Dec 24 | Christmas Eve |
| Dec 24 | KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865 |
| Dec 25 | Birthday of Quaid-i-Azam in Pakistan |
| Dec 25 | Children's Day in Congo |
| Dec 25 | Christmas |
| Dec 25 | Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England (1642) |
| Dec 25 | Isaac Newton born (1642) |
| Dec 26 | Bank Holiday in Canada, Rep. of Ireland, and UK |
| Dec 26 | Boxing Day |
| Dec 26 | Chas. Babbage born, 1791 |
| Dec 26 | DPMA founded, 1951 |
| Dec 26 | Family Day in South Africa |
| Dec 26 | Feast of Our Theotokos in Greece |
| Dec 26 | St. Stephen's Day |
| Dec 27 | APT report published, 1956 |
| Dec 27 | Bank Holiday in Cayman Islands |
| Dec 27 | Constitution Day in North Korea |
| Dec 27 | Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845 |
| Dec 27 | Public Holiday in Lesotho, Zimbabwe |
| Dec 28 | Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973 |
| Dec 28 | Edgar Winter is born in Beaumont, Texas, 1946 |
| Dec 28 | John von Neumann born, 1903 |
| Dec 29 | Battle of Wounded knee, 1890 |
| Dec 29 | Civic Holidays (3 days) in Costa Rica |
| Dec 29 | His Majesty, the King's Birthday in Nepal |
| Dec 30 | Anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar in Madagascar |
| Dec 30 | First Los Angeles freeway dedicated (1940) |
| Dec 31 | Bank Holiday in El Salvador, Honduras, Pakistan |
| Dec 31 | Feed Yourself Day in Benin |
| Dec 31 | Jimi Hendrix introduces the Band of Gypsies at the Fillmore East, 1969 |
| Dec 31 | New Year's Eve |
| Dec 31 | Proclamation of the Republic in Congo |
| Dec 31 | St. Sylvester in Switzerland |
| Dec 31 | Winterland closes its doors, 1978 |
