08/08	Montenegro declares war on Germany, 191408/08	Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 197408/08	The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 196308/09	Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 196908/09	Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC08/09	US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 184208/10	Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 183308/10	US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 197708/11	Dog days end08/11	France Ends War in Indochina, 195408/11	Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)08/12	First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 197708/12	Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 197208/13	Berlin wall erected, 196108/13	Li'l Abner debut, 193408/14	Social Security begins in U.S., 193508/15	Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 194708/15	Hurricane hits Plimoth Plantation, 163508/16	Roller Coaster patented, 189808/17	First public bath opened in N.Y., 189108/18	Anti-Cigarette League of America formed08/19	Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite,	marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 196008/19	Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 185608/22	Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets08/22	Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 196308/22	St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 56508/23	Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 192708/24	"Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 196908/24	-126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 196008/24	British troops burn Washington, 181408/25	Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 194408/26	Women get the vote, 192008/27	"Tarzan of the Apes" published, 191208/27	Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 188308/28	King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 196308/29	Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975;	Nova Cygni 1975.08/29	Saruman enters the Shire (LOTR)08/30	75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 184208/30	Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 196008/30	St. Rose of Lima in Peru08/30	Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 196308/31	269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 198308/31	Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 188808/31	Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 192609/01	Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 197209/01	Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 185909/02	Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 175209/02	Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 194509/03	Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino09/05	Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 196109/05	The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 177409/06	149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 162009/06	First Star Trek episode (The Man Trap) aired 196609/06	Pres. McKinley shot, 190109/06	Somhlolo in Swaziland09/08	"Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966)09/08	Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 188809/08	President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 197409/09	California becomes the 31st state, 185009/09	United Colonies is renamed the United States, 177609/10	Gandalf escapes from Orthanc (LOTR)09/10	Mountain Meadows Massacre.  Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 185709/12	German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 194309/12	Germany annexes Sudentenland, 193809/13	136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya, 192209/13	British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City, 178809/13	Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 12209/13	Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 194309/14	Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 177809/14	Frodo & Bilbo's birthday (LOTR)09/14	Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 162909/14	The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 194009/15	Black riders enter the Shire (LOTR)09/15	Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 195909/15	The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department, 178909/16	The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 163009/17	Battle of Antietam, 186209/18	Frodo and company rescued by Bombadil (LOTR)09/18	Victory of Uprona in Burundi09/20	Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 188409/20	First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of	Science, 184809/20	First meeting of the National Research Council, 191609/20	Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 151909/20	The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 197309/22	Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 195309/22	President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 186209/22	Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenaes President Nixon, 197409/22	The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 194909/23	Phillippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 197209/23	The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club, 184509/23	V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech, 195209/25	Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 198109/27	The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 182509/28	"Pilgrim's Progress" published, 167809/28	A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon,	490BC09/28	Frodo wounded at Weathertop (LOTR)09/30	Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (#3) and Catherine Eddowes (#4),	188809/30	The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 184609/30	The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 194610/01	NASA officially begins operations, 195810/02	Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 196710/04	Crimean war begins, 185310/04	First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 195710/04	Sputnik 1, world's first orbiting satellite launched, 195710/05	Frodo crosses bridge of Mitheithel10/06	Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 185310/06	Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 198110/06	Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 197310/07	Foundation of the GDR in 1949 in German Democratic Republic10/07	Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 191610/07	Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 197710/07	Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 197910/07	Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 197410/08	Great Chicago Fire, 187110/09	First two-way telephone conversation, 187610/10	Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba10/10	Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea10/10	Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun.  Moves into night sky. (1984)10/10	Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 197310/11	"Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 197510/11	The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 197610/11	The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 181110/11	The second Vatican Ecumenical Council opens in Rome, 196210/11	First broadcast of Saturday Night Live, 197510/12	Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 149210/12	Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 196010/12	Man O'War's last race, 192010/12	Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 149210/13	Italy declares war on Germany, 194310/13	U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress10/14	Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 106610/14	Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 194710/15	First draft card burned, 196510/16	Boromir reaches Rivendell (LOTR)10/17	Council of Elrond (LOTR)10/18	Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 164810/18	Soviets anounce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 195910/19	Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 194910/19	Napoleon's beaten army begins the long retreat from Moscow, 181210/20	"Saturday Night Massacre", 197310/20	OPEC embargo, 197310/21	Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 187910/21	Guggenheim Museum opens, 195910/23	Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 194410/23	Earth created at 6:30 AM, 4004BC.10/23	Swallows leave Capistrano10/25	End of War of the Ring (LOTR)10/25	The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 197110/26	UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 197810/27	New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 187110/27	The first New York Subway is opened, 190410/28	Columbus discovers Cuba, 149210/28	Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 31210/28	Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 163610/28	Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 188610/29	Stock Market Crash, 192910/30	Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 193810/31	Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 151711/01	Austria-Hungary become two seperate nations, 191811/01	Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, 195011/02	Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 194011/02	Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, 178311/03	Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 183711/03	Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 195411/03	Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing spacedog Laika11/04	Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 197911/04	Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 195611/05	Guy Fawkes' Plot, 160511/06	Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R.11/07	Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by mob, 183711/07	Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 180511/09	Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 196511/09	Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 192711/09	Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 188811/09	Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 192111/09	Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 193311/10	41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstartions near White House, 191711/10	Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 186511/10	Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?", 187111/11	Washington becomes the 42nd state, 188911/12	Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan11/12	U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 186111/14	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), 197111/15	Niagara Falls power plant startup, 189611/16	Bilbo reaches the Lonely Mountain (LOTR)11/16	Opening of the Suez Canal, 186911/17	46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 196611/17	Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 197311/18	First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 195211/18	Local standard time zones established for US, 188311/19	Gettysburg Address delivered, 186311/21	Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 197311/22	Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 196311/23	First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 196311/24	Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 196311/25	Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 186711/27	Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 189511/27	Friction match invented, England, 182611/27	Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts11/29	King Tut's tomb opened, 192212/01	First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 192412/01	Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 195512/01	Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 195312/03	First neon light display, Paris, 191012/03	First successful human heart transplant lead by Dr. Barnard, 196712/03	The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 197112/04	Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 178312/05	Death of Smaug (LOTR)12/05	End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part)12/05	Phi Beta Kappa founded, 177612/05	The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition, 193312/07	Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 194112/09	Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 188412/10	Metric system established in France, 179912/10	Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year12/12	First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 190112/13	Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 197212/13	Dartmouth College chartered, 176912/13	Geminid meteor shower (look south)12/15	Argo Merchant oil spill, 197612/15	Bill of Rights adopted, 179112/15	James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 189112/15	Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 189012/16	Fellowship begins Quest (LOTR)12/20	U.S. buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.12/21	Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in less than 80 days12/24	KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 186512/26	DPMA founded, 195112/27	APT report published, 195612/27	Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 184512/28	Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 197312/29	Battle of Wounded knee, 189012/30	First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 194012/31	St. Sylvester in Switzerland12/31	Winterland closes its doors, 1978