Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: BOARD:Lamplighter's Almanac, 1997-08-21
Distribution: world
You didn't see the Lamplighter sneak in to do it, but somehow
the Almanac has been updated. Today the sheet of paper tacked on the
bulletin board says ...
------------------------Today's-Dates--------------------------
Gregorian date: Thursday, August 21, 1997 C.E.
Maya calendar date: 12.19.4.7.16 ; 3 Kib (Shell) ; 14 Yaxk'in (New Sun)
French Revolutionary Calendar date: Tridi, 13 Fructidor, 205 Y.R.
Julian day (at midnight, the start of today): 2450681.5
Modified Julian day: 50681
RickDate: 1JH8L (http://www.yak.net/kablooey/RickDate.txt)
Days until January 1, 2000: 863
Days until the third millennium (January 1, 2001): 1229
The moon is 17.717317 days old.
Previous moon phase: Full Moon on 8/18/1997 at 10:58 GMT
Next phase: Third Quarter on 8/25/1997 at 02:26 GMT
Next equinox will be on 9/22/1997 at 23:57 GMT
Next solstice will be on 12/21/1997 at 20:00 GMT
------------------------Today's-Almanac------------------------
*** Birthdays (and other important dates) of Callahanians ***
08/21 Scarlett (1975)
*** Birthdays of famous individuals ***
08/21 1893:Lili Boulanger (French composer)
08/21 1904:William "Count" Basie
08/21 1930:Princess Margaret of Britain
08/21 1936:Wilt Chamberlain
08/21 1938:Kenny Rogers
*** Today in history ***
08/21 1858:Lincoln-Douglas debates began (ended 10/15)
08/21 1878:American Bar Association organized
08/21 1940:Exiled Russian leader Leon Trotsky axed in Mexico by Ramon del Rio
08/21 1968:USSR invaded Czechoslovakia, ending its independence attempt
08/21 1973:TV's Maude got an abortion in an episode without sponsors
08/21 1991:A coup failed to oust USSR Pres. Gorbachev
--------------------A-Look-at-Friday--------------------
*** Birthdays (and other important dates) of Callahanians ***
08/22 -'f (1972)
08/22 Anthony (1968)
08/22 TJ (1968)
08/22 The Great Grendel-Khan (1970)
*** Fixed holidays and events ***
08/22 King Richard III Day (1485)
*** Birthdays of famous individuals ***
08/22 1485:Death of Richard III
08/22 1862:Claude Debussy
08/22 1885:Helen Maud Cam (first female full professor at Harvard)
08/22 1893:Dorothy Parker
08/22 1917:John Lee Hooker
08/22 1920:Ray Bradbury
08/22 1934:H. Norman Schwarzkopf
08/22 1940:Valerie Harper
08/22 1956:Paul Molitor (US baseball player)
*** Today in history ***
08/22 1770:Capt. James Cook claimed E. coast Australia for England; named NSW
08/22 1911:"Mona Lisa" stolen from Louvre Museum in Paris
08/22 1922:Irish Sinn Fein leader Michael Collins ambushed and shot
08/22 1978:Long Bay Jail riots (Sydney, Australia) quelled with tear gas
---------------------------The-End-----------------------------
The Lamplighter is currently away from email, so until he's back
on the net it will avail you not to ask to be added to the Almanac.
Sorry about that, but such are the ways of ABENDity. -------------------------The-Credits---------------------------
Sources:
* AT&T 1993 International Calendar
* _Anniversaries and Holidays_, by Ruth W. Gregory, (c) 1975 American
Library Association, ISBN 0-8389-0200-6
* _The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1992_, (c) 1991 Pharos Books,
ISBN 0-88687-642-7
* _The French Revolutionary Calendar_, (c) 1982 New York Zoetrope, Inc.,
ISBN 0-918432-43-X
* clari.news.almanac
* David Mar and Paul Saunders helped with Australian anniversaries and holidays
* Paul Saunders sent volumes of historical assassinations
* Rowan Fairgrove contributed names of full moons from the _Witches' Almanac_
* Isaac Freeman contributed the dates of the Baha'i faith's observances
* Tammy Jo Eckhart contributed as many ancient Roman holidays as she could find
* Numerous others have also sent in (or invented) entries
* And you can help, too! Send your favorite observances, festivals,
anniversaries and holidays to the address below.
--------------------------Signature----------------------------
Take care, |
Tom Lee (tjl9@columbia.edu) | Lamplighter (shortenable to LL)
Warm fuzzies gratefully accepted| http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~tjl9/
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been
forgotten."
-- B. F. Skinner