01/01	Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba01/01	Castro expells Cuban President Batista, 195901/01	Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech, 194701/01	First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 190201/04	Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)01/05	-50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 191301/05	Fellowship enters Moria  (LOTR)01/05	The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 194001/05	Twelfth night01/06	Millard Fillmore's birthday (let's party!)01/08	Battle of New Orleans01/09	Fellowship reaches Lorien (LOTR)01/09	Plough Monday01/10	First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 194601/10	Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 177601/11	Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania01/11	De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico01/11	Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 187801/11	Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal01/11	Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 196401/11	The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 196301/14	The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 196701/16	Prohibition begins, 192001/17	Passing of Gandalf (LOTR)01/18	Grey whale migration, California01/20	St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)01/24	Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 192201/24	Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 184801/26	Sydney Aust. settled, 177801/27	Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 196701/27	Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 197301/28	First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 191401/28	Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff	killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe,	198601/30	Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 194801/30	Tet Offensive, 196801/31	"Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 196101/31	Explorer I launched, 1958.  Van Allen Belt discovered01/31	Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp02/01	First TV soap: Secret Storm, 195402/01	Forces lead by Khomeini take over Iran, 197902/04	Cybernet inaugurated, 196902/04	Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 197402/07	Fellowship leaves Lorien (LOTR)02/08	1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq02/09	-51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 193402/12	Lincoln's real birthday02/12	Santa Barbara oil leak, 196902/14	Bombing of Dresden, 194502/15	Chicago Seven convicted, 197002/16	Nylon patented, 193702/16	Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 180402/17	Death of Boromir (LOTR)02/18	Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 193002/19	US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 194502/20	John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 196202/20	Meriadoc & Pippin meet Treebeard (LOTR)02/21	Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties02/21	First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 187802/21	Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 196502/22	Passing of King Ellesar (LOTR)02/23	Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 197102/24	Ents destroy Isengard (LOTR)02/24	Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 186802/26	Aragorn takes the Paths of the Dead (LOTR)02/27	The Lionheart crowned, 118902/28	The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 197202/29	French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA, 170403/01	Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft	in Salem, Massachusetts, 169203/02	Blackthorn winds (New England) (Does anyone know what this is?)03/04	First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.03/05	Frodo & Samwise encounter Shelob (LOTR)03/06	Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 193903/08	Deaths of Denethor & Theoden (LOTR)03/13	"Striptease" introduced, Paris, 189403/14	Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 190703/15	Buzzards return to Hinckley OH03/15	France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 187403/15	Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 196603/16	First liquid-fuel-powered rocket flight, 192603/16	MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen03/16	Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 192603/17	Vanguard I launched, 1958.  Earth proved pear-shaped03/18	Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 196503/18	Destruction of the Ring (LOTR)03/19	Swallows return to Capistrano03/20	Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 198003/24	Construction of New York subway system begins, 190003/25	Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 191103/26	Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 193703/27	Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 195803/28	Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 197903/29	Flowering of the Mallorn (LOTR)03/29	Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 163803/30	Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 186703/30	Five rings around Uranus discovered, 197703/30	Pencil with eraser patented, 185804/01	People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day.04/04	Gandalf visits Bilbo (LOTR)04/04	Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 196804/04	NATO Established, 194904/06	Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 183004/07	Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 194304/07	Alewives run, Cape Cod04/09	Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 186504/12	Columbia launched, 198104/12	Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 186104/12	Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 198104/12	Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 196104/13	Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos04/14	Lincoln shot,  186504/14	Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 191204/15	Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 195504/16	Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 186504/17	An unexpected party (LOTR)04/17	Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 196104/18	Einstein's Death, 195504/18	First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 193404/18	San Francisco earthquake, 190604/19	Landing of the "33" in Uruguay04/19	Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 194304/20	Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 197104/21	Lyrid meteor shower04/23	Crowning of King Ellesar (LOTR)04/23	Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 195404/26	William Shakespeare baptised in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564,	birthdate unknown04/27	Magellan killed in Phillippines, 152104/29	Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 191305/01	Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god05/03	Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 197105/04	Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 197005/05	John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 192505/07	Germany surrenders after WWII, 194505/08	Beginning of ostrich mating season05/08	US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 197205/09	94 degrees, New York, 197905/10	Germany invades Low Countries, 194005/10	Nazi bookburning, 193305/14	Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 180405/14	Nation of Israel proclaimed, 194805/15	Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 185405/17	24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 198205/17	Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 197405/18	Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay05/18	Napoleon crowned Emperor, 180405/19	Arwen leaves Lorian to wed King Ellesar (LOTR)05/21	Battle of Iquique in Chile05/21	US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 195605/22	US Civil War ends, 186505/23	Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 196005/23	Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 195305/24	Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador05/25	Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 198005/25	Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 183005/26	Congress sets first immigration quotas, 192405/27	Golden Gate Bridge opens, 193705/29	Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 195305/29	First food stamps issued, 196105/30	US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 191206/02	Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 192406/04	Roquefort cheese developed, 107006/05	Robert Kennedy assasinated, 196806/05	US leaves the Gold Standard, 193306/06	First drive-in movie, 193306/06	Normandy landing, 194406/10	Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C.06/10	Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 197106/11	Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC06/11	Sauron attacks Osgilliath (LOTR)06/13	Bilbo returns to Bag End (LOTR)06/13	Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System06/14	Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 183406/15	Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 175206/15	Magna Carta signed, 121506/15	Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford	that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop,	187806/16	"The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 198006/17	China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 196706/17	Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 197206/19	Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 195306/19	Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 189306/20	Victoria crowned, 183706/21	Berlin airlift begins, 194806/21	Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge06/22	Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 196406/23	Slavery abolished in England, 177206/23	Wedding of Ellesar & Arwen (LOTR)06/24	Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 197006/25	Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 187606/25	North Korea invades South Korea, 195006/26	Battle of Gettysburg, 186306/26	St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 195906/26	Toothbrush invented, 149806/27	100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 191506/27	Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 197106/28	Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 197806/30	"That" explosion in Siberia, 190806/30	China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 196007/01	Battle of Gettysburg begins, 186307/03	Dog days begin07/04	Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 186307/04	Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 177607/04	Gandalf imprisoned by Saruman (LOTR)07/04	New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 177607/04	Thoreau enters woods, 184507/06	First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 192807/06	Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 191707/07	First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 194907/08	First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 177607/08	Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 183507/09	10-hour working day set by law, NH, 184707/10	134 degrees in Death Valley, 191307/12	Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 193307/13	Women first compete in Olympic games, 190807/16	Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 194507/17	Disneyland opens, 195507/18	Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 192707/19	Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 169207/20	Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 196907/21	First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 187307/21	Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 195407/23	Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 190407/24	Scopes Monkey Trial, 192507/24	The ring comes to Bilbo (LOTR)07/26	Bilbo rescued from Wargs by Eagles (LOTR)07/30	"In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 195607/31	Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948,	later JFK08/01	Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on	this day08/03	Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 149208/03	Funeral of King Theoden (LOTR)08/03	USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 195808/04	Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 189208/04	Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 196408/04	Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 191408/06	Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 194508/06	Caricom in Barbados08/06	Cy Young pitches first game, 189008/08	Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945