AniMay 2012
AniMay is the offical month of Animay, OvAs, and Manga! Embrace your obseesion, buy all forms of your favorite series and forget all who don't share the fact its the best thing ever!learn about the amazing journy that they have taken!
This month's zodiac symbol is the Otaku. You are osessive to your interests to the point you spend all your time in the aquiring of enjoying the objects of your desires(not to mention all of your money). You need these more then food, water, air, or a roof over your head, which is a good thing as you won't be affording the previosly mentioned things. ANyone who disagrees that your favorite series is not the most important work of mankind is WRONG! And as such, they themselves are wrong, so naturally anything they may say about your Hobby...no way of life is to be ignored. It is often a lonely life but lets face it, no one can compare to your beloved heart's desire so why bother, unless of course you can find someone else with the same knowlege of the reality of the awesomeness you reval in. To the Internet!
This is the official Doctor Who Week!-Watch them all!-
Animay 1 Tuesday
Events
Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in London.
The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
The first Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer is held at the University of Toronto, Canada.
The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the
official discovery of Minamata disease.
Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
The 1982 World's Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Births
Martin O'Donnell
Phil Foglio sparked
Kow Otani unfrozened
Julie Benz bitten
Joel Rosenberg
Joanna Lumley regenerated
Vladimir Colin
J. Allen Hynek landed
Scott Carpenter launched
Ray Parker, Jr.
Deaths
John Nathan-Turner regenerated
Jukka Tapanimaki
Steve Reeves
Holidays
Industry Day
13th Doctor Day
Old School Doctor Who rememberence Day
Ghost Buster's Song Day
Project Blue Book Day
Darla Day
Engineer Day-celebrate the oompa-loompas of science!-
Halo Music Day
Gamera Sond Day
Girl Genius Day
Pluto Day
First of May
Pwn Plolio Day
Beltane
Walpurgis Night
International Workers' Day
Labour Day
May Day
Showa Day, traditionally the start of the Golden Week holiday period. Three of seven.
The beginning of Arita Ceramic Fair. Three of seven.
Animay 2 Wendnesday
Events
General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to
Johannesburg.
First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the
Eight-thousanders.
President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States
military.
Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City
auction, setting a new world record for an auctioned work of art.
Births
Dwayne Johnson quarried
Alan Best compiled
Sumio Iijima
Lance LeGault
Roscoe Lee Browne activated
E. E. Smith landed
Athanasius Kircher
Elijah McCoy fired up
Lorenzo Music first life
Christine Baranski
Deaths
Akira Tonomura
George Pal dipped
Giulio Natta
John Eccles
W. T. Tutte decoded
Stjepan Gradic
David Rappaport
Michael Hordern
Lynn Redgrave
Holidays
Lube your Steam Engine Day
Space Opra Day-eat donuts-
Master 100 Arts Day-or 1-
A-Team Day
Box Day
Geek Mother's Day
Garfield Day
Carbon Nanotube Day
GPS for Everyone Day
ReBoot Day
Rock Day
Teacher's Day
National Education Day
Showa Day, traditionally the start of the Golden Week holiday period. Four of seven.
The beginning of Arita Ceramic Fair. Four of seven.
Animay 3 Thursday
Events
The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian
film industry.
Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North
Pole.
The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1.451 feet as the world's tallest building.
The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital
Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people,
injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado
outbreak. This tornado also produced the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/-
32 km/h).
The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
Births
Joe Murray animated
Christina Hendricks
Caitlin Clarke
Kevin Kilner
Rob Brydon
Alex Cord
Steven Weinberg
Ron Popeil invented
Henri Pitot
John Cullen Murphy
Deaths
Guenter Wendt
Wally Schirra
Jack Weston dissasembled
Bruce Cabot
John Winthrop
Anthony Ainley regenerated
Holidays
But wait There's More Day
Earth final Conflict Day
Spam Day
Unifing Forces Day
Geocach Day
Old Man of the Mountain Day of Mourning
Rocko's Modorn Day
Nemesis Mourning Day
Teacher's Day
World Press Freedom Day
Showa Day, traditionally the start of the Golden Week holiday period. Five of seven.
The beginning of Arita Ceramic Fair. Five of seven.
Animay 4 Friday
Events
The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens
to the public.
Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF-5 tornado.
Births
Jesse Moss installed
Shaenon K. Garrity
Will Arnett
Michael L. Gernhardt
Russi Taylor
Alice Liddell fell down the rabbit hole
Thomas Henry Huxley evolved
Daisuke Ono made by Haruhi
Akiko Yajima releashed
Bartolomeo Cristofori tuned
Deaths
Bob Clampett dipped
Moe Howard leaving us wanting more
Dom DeLuise
Joseph Diaz Gergonne
Isaac Barrow
Luca Ghini wilted
Holidays
Esper Day
Diva Day
Piano Man Day
Alice in Wonderland Day
Narbonic Labs Day
Missing Link Day
Showa Day, traditionally the start of the Golden Week holiday period. Six of seven.
The beginning of Arita Ceramic Fair. Six of seven.
Promote Evolution Day
May the Fourth
Star Wars Day
Literary Day
International Firefighters' Day
Greenery Day
Bird Day
Animay 5 Saturday
Events
Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and
thread.
In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public
performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler
Act.
The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released.
The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on
a sub-orbital flight.
Births
Henry Cavill
John Rhys-Davies
Marc Alaimo
Scott Westerfeld
Josh Weinstein
Delia Derbyshire materialized
Nellie Bly
Michael Palin
Vincent Kartheiser mother got staked
Richard E. Grant regenerated
Deaths
Theodore Maiman death rayed
Irv Robbins melted
Paul Wilbur Klipsch deafened
Clifton Hillegass caught cheating
Walter Gotell melted
Michael Shaara
Mikhail Botvinnik checkmated
Bertha Benz
Pierre Jean George Cabanis
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
Holidays
Doctor Who Theme Day-listen to it non stop-
Three Stooges Day-you knuckleheads-
Inquisition Dead Slappaed Lumberjacks Day
No man born from woman Day
Cardassian Day
Dwarves pwn Elves Day
Teach Evolution Day
Amaricans in Space Day
Children's Day
International Midwives' Day
Senior Citizens Day
Showa Day, traditionally the start of the Golden Week holiday period. Seven of seven.
The beginning of Arita Ceramic Fair. Seven of seven.
Animay 6 Sunday
Events
The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.
The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
The first flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk.
Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while
attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
Births
George Clooney went batty
Robert H. Dicke
Robert Peary
Paul Lauterbur scanned
Adrianne Palicki
Richard Eyer
Kavan Smith
Orson Welles activated
Anton Furst
Jeffrey Sinclair started the closed circle
Deaths
L. Frank Baum went off to see the wizard
Wilfrid Hyde-White left the earth
Theodore von Karman went accerated to oblivian
Julie Vega
Elie Cartan
Alexander von Humboldt exploring
Holidays
The One Who Was Day
MRI Day
Gothem Day
Go North Day
Unicron Day
Military Spouse Day
International No Diet Day
Teacher's Day
Animay 7 Monday
Events
World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance
is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.
The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second
deadliest tornado in United States history.
The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the
first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts
The American Medical Association is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the
Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a
primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this
day is celebrated as Radio Day.
The Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, opens the first exhibition by the Group of
Seven.
Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20
employees.
The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first
published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
Canadian Patrick Morrow became the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.
The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission (STS-49).
Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after having been stolen
from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest
industrial merger in history.
Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
Births
Gene Wolfe
Darren McGavin goes bump in the night
Brian Clevinger released
Ishiro Honda hatched
Albert Band B-orn
Breckin Meyer
Mark G. Kuzyk
Sidney Altman catalyzed
Edwin H. Land developed
Deaths
David Fabricius
Guy Williams
Allan McLeod Cormack
Colin Blakely
Machiko Soga
Willard Boyle
Holidays
Sony Day
Machine Blindness Day
Radio Day
IC Day
Polaroid Day
8 Bit Theater Day
Godzilla Day
Riff Fodder Day
Night Stalker Day
Genes are Enyzymes Day
This is the official Written word Week!-Read all your favorite books!-
Animay 8 Tuesday
Events
Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
Paramount Pictures is founded.
Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli disappeared after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
First ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
The eradication of smallpox is endorsed by the World Health Organization.
Thames Barrier officially opened.
A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the 'worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history' and still the worst to occur on Mother's Day.
Births
Hiromu Arakawa transmuted
Melissa Gilbert went batty
David Winning
Emilio Delgado
Pam Arciero
Bob Clampett
Arthur Q. Bryan
Lex Barker went bananas
Andre Michel Lwoff got infected
Stephen Furst
Deaths
Theodore Sturgeon beamed up
Robert A. Heinlein went to the stars
Maurice Sendak went to the island
Alexander Chislenko uploaded
George Peppard was caught
Avram Davidson
William Fox ending credits
Antoine Lavoisier mass decreased
Helena Blavatsky
J. H. C. Whitehead solved
Holidays
Be Nice To Narms Day
Provirus Day
Heinlin Mourning Day
Cola Day
Coaster Day
Smallpox Pwnage Day
Mother's Day
World Fair Trade Day
Parents' Day
World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day
Wild Things Become Tame Day
Go Ape Day
Elmer Fudd Day
Bugs Bunny Day
Grouch Girl Day
Fix-It Day
Bat Girl Day
FMA Day
Animay 9 Wednesday
Events
The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary seems to
indicate that this did not happen).
The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
Births
William Moulton Marston illistrated
William Tenn
Vance D. Brand came to earth
J. M. Barrie lost his his shadow
Kevin Peter Hall landed
Hans Georg Bock compiled
Richard Adams
Hudson Leick
Howard Carter unearthed
Manfred Eigen reacted
Deaths
Evgenios Spatharis lights out
Arthur Davis
Marion Lorne despelled
Albert Abraham Michelson stopped
Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval
Holidays
King Tut Day
Callisto Day
Watership Down Day
Predator Day
Wonder Women Day
Peter Pan Day
Mass transit Day
Victory and Peace Day
Animay 10 Thursady
Events
The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.
Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan.
A 7.3 Mw earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province, killing 1,567, injuring over 2,300, leaving 50,000 homeless, and damaging or destroying over 15,000 homes.
The Maeslantkering, a storm surge barrier in the Netherlands that is one of the world's largest moving structures, is opened by Queen Beatrix.
Births
Lisa Nowak came to Earth
Olaf Stapledon came to earth
Gary Owens died
John Scalzi
Augustin-Jean Fresnel illuminated
Kenan Thompson
Jonathan Roberts
Maureen Lipman
Deaths
Frank Frazetta dipped
Val Guest
Shel Silverstein read
Thomas Young mummified
Leonhart Fuchs wilted
Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli
William Watson discharged
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Scotty Beckett blasted off
Susan Oliver flew off
Holidays
Fun with Fresnel Lenses Day
Space Ghost Coast to Coast Day
Dyson Sphere Day
Rocket Day
Book Memourium Day
Hulk Day
20k Legues Under the Sea Day
Betamax Day
Mother's Day
Animay 11 Friday
Events
A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it oldest known dated printed book.
HMS Beagle, the ship that will take Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage, is launched.
An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
Births
Robert Jarvik heart beats
Richard Feynman
Frank Schlesinger photographed
Theodore von Kárman came to earth
Haroun Tazieff erupted
Eugene Dynkin
Natasha Richardson
Doug McClure
Edsger W. Dijkstra compiled
Salvador Dali painted
Deaths
Tony DeZuniga dipped
Douglas Adams demolished to make way for a hyperspatial express route.
Lex Barker fell out the tree
A. E. Becquerel night fall
Jozef Murgas became silent
John Herschel eclipsed
Karl Schwarzschild went past the event horizen
Orest Khvolson
Richard LaMotta melted
Chester Gould solved
Holidays
Meleted Clock Day
GOTO Mourning Day
Volcography Day
Have a Heart Day
Shoot the Stars Day-with a camera-
Printed Word Day
Machine Revolution Day
National Technology Day
Animay 12 Saturday
Events
Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Kraków, Poland.
National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
Nathan Stubblefield receives patent for wireless telephone.
The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
Births
Catherine Tate picked up by the Doctor
George Carlin eventually
Bruce Boxleitner compiled
Rami Malek Mumified
Catherine Yronwode
James Bacon went ape
Robert Tinkler
Dorothy Hodgkin crystalized
Malcolm David Kelley
Ving Rhames undied
Deaths
Edme Mariotte blinded
Thomas Lowndes
Abraham Trembley deathologist
Jacques Philippe Marie Binet supernovaed
Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard buried
Anselme Payen catalyzed
John Cadbury melted
Alexei Tupolev went supersonic
Holidays
Protein Crystallography Day
History comes to Life Day-well night-
Tron Day
The One Who Will Be Day
Non Doctor Time Travling in a Phone Box Day
Wireless Phone Day
Animay 13 Sunday
Events
The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
Pakistan’s (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
The trade mark Velcro is registered.
33-year-old British mother Alison Hargreaves became the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
Births
Trevor Baylis tuned in
Gerard Paul Deshayes rocked
Roger Zelazny Landed
Ole Worm written in the Necronomicon
Lazare Carnot
Stephen Colbert crstalized from pure Americanium
Samantha Morton Birth Predicted
Ehud Netzer unearthed
Nandor Fodor haunted
Frances Barber
Deaths
George Dantzig erased
Henry Trendley Dean decayed
Joseph Henry demagnitized
Georges Cuvier became extinct
Cyrus McCormick reaped
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle anatomy failed
Fridtjof Nansen exploring
Charles Edouard Guillaume times up
Nikolai Brashman solved
Michael Fekete numbers up
Holidays
Turn the Crank Day
America Day
FM Radio Day
Velcro Day
Animay 14 Monday
Events
Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
Births
James M. Kelly came to earth
Donald R. McMonagle in peace
Robert Zemeckis came late
Prentis Hancock
Cate Blanchett
Eoin Colfer
Pierre Victor Auger
William Emerson was invented
Tim Roth went ape
George Lucas a long time ago....
Deaths
Christian B. Anfinsen
H. Rider Haggard lost
Billie Burke...not from a house
Ludwig Bechstein read
Robert Stack Solved
Harry Blackstone, Jr. disappeared
Thomas Simpson broken
Henry J. Heinz emptied
Marjory Stoneman Douglas travels on the river of grass
Jean Gebser unconscience
Holidays
Viral Warfare Day
Skylab Day
Elf Queen Day
And Another Thing Day
Go Ape Day
George Lucas Day
Make before publish Day
Sanja Matsuri Day one of three
Izumo-taisha Shrine Grand Festival Day one of two
This is the official For Science!!! Week-Spend it in your la-bor-i-tee!-
Animay 15 Tuesday
Events
Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted
manned flights.
Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.
Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board. He
becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space.
The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
Births
L. Frank Baum landed
Nicholas Hammond bitten
Tatsuya Fujiwara found the book>BR>
Frank Wilczek
Pierre Curie atomized
Rob Bowman investigated
Joseph Wiseman plot begins
Lee Horsley long live the king
Roy Stewart landed on Earth
David Krumholtz thawed
Deaths
Ephraim Chambers
Alexander Courage stopped playing
Eric Porter lost
Austin Osman Spare studies unconsciousness
Holidays
Oz Day
Asymptotic Freedom Day
Kira Day
SciFi Series Day
Spider Man Day
Orbital Weapons Platform Day
Aoi Matsuri
International Day of Families
Teachers' Day
Sanja Matsuri Day two of three
Izumo-taisha Shrine Grand Festival Day two of two
Mickey Mouse Day
Dr. No Day
The Sword and the Sorcerer Day
Animay 16 Wednesday
Events
The International Electro-Technical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electrical current (the most common form today).
A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.
Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National
Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Births
Dafydd Williams came to earth
Johannes Georg Bednorz discovered
Adriana Caselotti
David Edward Hughes tuned in
Yvonne Craig turned batty
David Boreanaz bitten
Maria Gaetana Agnesi equated
Khary Payton assembled
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin extracted
Peter Underwood haunted
Deaths
Edward Hardwicke solved
Jim Henson curtains closed
Sammy Davis, Jr. smile dissapeared
Margaret Hamilton got wet
H. B. Reese aten
David Mitton
Charles Perrault everly ever after
Joseph Fourier
Frederick Gowland Hopkins didnt take enough
Holidays
Day of infinate saddness
Beryllium Day
Cyborg Day
Batgirl Day
Angel Day
Orion Girl Day
Snow Day
Radio Day
3 Phase Day
High-temperature Superconductivity Day
Ocean Flight Day
Death Ray Day-build one, whose laughing now!-
Sanja Matsuri Day three of three
Teachers' Day
Animay 17 Thursday
Events
A large fire nearly burns St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.
The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.
Births
Paige Turco went to press
F. Paul Wilson invaded
Maureen O'Sullivan went Ape
Alan Kay compiled
David Cope compiled
Edward Jenner came to save us
Dennis Hopper hatched
Leven Rambin came from the future
Odd Hassel bonded
Jonti Picking animated
Deaths
Tony Randall
Frank Gorshin batlogiced
Boris Borisovich Galitzine stopped moving
Lloyd Alexander closed
Dave Berg dipped
Alexis Clairaut left Earth
Nandor Fodorv lost in his studies
Leopold Auenbrugger stopped listening
Frank G. Slaughter
John Deere broke down
Holidays
Vaccine Day
GUI Day
Badger Mushroom Snake Day
Can a Computer Compose a Symphoney? Yes Day
King Bowser Koopa Day
You Jane Day
Tech of the Ancients Day
IDAHO
World Information Society Day
Molecules in 3D Day
Animay 18 Friday
Events
The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
First ascent of Lhotse 8,516 meters, by a Swiss team.
An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It collapsed on August 8, 1991.
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2mph).
A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons: Nix and Hydra.
Births
Oliver Heaviside switched on
Diane Duane written
Jens Bergensten mined
Tina Fey
Mark Mothersbaugh played
Don Martin went mad
Miriam Margolyes got conjured
Thomas Midgley, Jr.
Andreas Katsulas landed
John George Children
Deaths
Daws Butler silenced
Wayne Allwine silenced
Elizabeth Montgomery vanished
Elias Ashmole transmuted into a philosapher stone
Joseph Pevney trecked among the stars
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty left for home
Felix Ravaisson-Mollien burried
Marshall Thompson scared to death
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Holidays
Eat My Dust Earth Day
International Museum Day
World AIDS Vaccine Day
Ozone Awareness Day
Fastest Woman Alive Day
The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
Need for Speed Day
Moon Pluto Day
Devo Day
Minecraft Day
Liz Lemon Day
Animay 19 Saturday
Events
Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
The Sierra Gorda Biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is established as a result of grassroots efforts.
Births
James Gosling compiled
Gary Kildall compiled
Peter Mayhew long long ago in a galaxy far far away
Richard Scobee came to earth
Shirrel Rhoades published
Jason Gray-Stanford mutated
Kelly Sheridan spoke
Walter Russell
Maile Flanagan
Abraham Pais
Deaths
Yevgeny Khrunov launched
Isaac Beeckman smashed
Robert F. Furchgott relaxed
Henry Corden went silent
James Tiptree, Jr. publish or perish
Herbert York
Li Tobler
Candy Candido couldn't bear it
Peter W. Barlow
Benjamin Baker
Holidays
Java Day
Chewbacca Day
High Level Language Day
Shino Day
Strangeness Day
Animay 20 Sunday
Events
An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia.
Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.
Krakatoa begins to erupt. The volcano's final and most notable explosion occurs on August 26.
Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
Births
John Billingsley landed
Thomas Akers came to earth
William Redington Hewlett started up
Gardner Fox published
John Lucarotti written
Dave Thomas talked
Tahmoh Penikett taken out of the box
Emile Berliner played
Edward B. Lewis mutated
Mindy Cohn
Deaths
Eugene Polley turned off
Stephen Jay Gould became extinct
Jon Pertwee regenerated
Gilda Radner no longer live
Jacob Ellehammer Flew Away
William Emerson solved
Sebastien Vaillant wilted
Holidays
Map Day
HP Day
Amelia Earhart
Doctor Phlox Day
Multiverse Day
Gramophone Day
Fruit Fly Day
World Metrology Day
Animay 21 Monday
Events
The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese explorer Joăo da Nova.
Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.
The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.
Births
Ernst Messerschmid came to earth
A.S. Douglas compiled
Manly Wade Wellman published
Carolyn Lawrence unhibernated
Hans Berger thought
Glenn Curtiss took off
Willem Einthoven heart beated
Giuseppe Mercalli started moving
Mary Anning evolved
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis hired
Mr. T started pitying
Deaths
Niccolo Zucchi studies the heavens
Otto von Guericke went into the void
Carl Wilhelm Scheele uncredited
Williamina Fleming went nova
Yevgraf Fyodorov buried in his work
E. L. Grant Watson went extinct
Holidays
Women of Paleotology Day!
Work Day
Mercalli Scale Day!
EKG Day
The Body Electric Day
EEG Day!
Pity the Fool Day
Aircraft Industry Day
Sandy Cheeks Day
Nonstop Flight Day
Graphic Computer Game Day
Saint Helena Day
World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
This is the official Weird West Week-Its Steampunk and Cowboys!-
Animay 22 Tuesday
Events
The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrived at Liverpool, England on June 20.
HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage
The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames is officially opened
The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous US during the 20th century.
An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.
Namco releases the highly influential arcade game Pac-Man.
Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado (part of the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence) that broke a width record at an astounding 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide, which kills one resident.
The Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence unleashes 235 tornadoes, including an EF4 and an EF5 tornado, between May 22 and May 31, 2008. The tornadoes struck 19 states and one Canadian province.
An EF5 Tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri killing 161 people, the single deadliest tornado in the United States since modern record keeping began in 1950.
Tokyo Skytree is opened to public. Its the tallest tower in world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth, after Burj Khalifa
Births
William Sturgeon electrified
Arthur Conan Doyle afoot
Herge published
Phil Tucker guided
Hideaki Anno animated
Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos fusioned
Thomas Gold fusioned
George Andrew Olah
Peter Wilson solved
Barbara Parkins activated
Deaths
Richard Biggs out among the stars
Wolfgang Reitherman dipped
Robert Asprin went mything
Thurl Ravenscroft lathargic
Gaspar Schott not moving
Julius Plucker power lost
Albert Claude went dark
Alfred Hershey no longer comunicating
Jose Enrique Moyal observed dead
Zellig Harris no longer talking
Holidays
Unchanging Universe Day
Neon Genesis Evangelion Day
Robot Monster Day
Adventures of Tintin Day
Fun with Electromagnets day
Sherlock Holmes Day
Steam Journy Day
HMS Beagle Day
Airplane Day
Near Moon Day
Pac-Man Day
Windows 3 Day
International Day for Biological Diversity
Animay 23 Wednesday
Events
The New York Public Library is dedicated.
Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
The first version of the Java programming language is released.
Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
Births
H. Paul Shuch landed
Scatman Crothers came online
Robert Bernstein drawn
James Blish engineered
Ryuta Kawashima thought
Edward Norton Lorenz flapped his wings
John Bardeen switched on
Robert Moog invented
Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz
Carl Linnaeus placed
Deaths
Georges Claude flickered off
Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg wilted
Adrien Auzout left orbit
Augustin-Louis Cauchy solved
Ramon Margalef
Charles Robert Malden went exsploring
Leopold von Ranke is history
Sterling Hayden purified his essence
Karl Koch crashed
Holidays
Explorer Day of Mourning
Java Day
Search the Skys Day
Jazz Day
Humanforming Day-adapt to your environment-
Science and religion Day-guess what, not mutually exclusive-
Moog Music Day
Train your Brain Day
Butterfly Day
Superconductive transistor Day
Taxonomy Day
World Turtle Day
Animay 24 Thursday
Events
Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore, Maryland and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland.
Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
Births
Will Sasso stooged
Alfred Molina pressurized
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit warmed up
H. B. Reese
Doug Jones animated
William Gilbert juiced
Jim Broadbent activated
Shinichiro Watanabe animated
Peter Ellenshaw created
Eric Close landed
Deaths
Nicolaus Copernicus left earth
Willy Ley launched
Edward Mulhare investigating the unknown
Ray Alan no longer talking
Sylvestre Francois Lacroix solved
Robert Hues treking the cosmos
Holidays
Steampunk Cyborg Day
Telegraph Day
Real Men Drill Deep Day
Americans in Space Day
Fahrenheit Day
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Day
Silver Surfer Day
Electricity Day
Cowboy Champloo Day
Dark Skies Day
Victoria Day
Animay 25 Friday
Events
First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
In the United States, a night time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Joe Brown and George Band.
Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
Gateway Arch Saint Louis Gateway Arch is dedicated.
Star Wars (retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981) is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion and Geek Pride Day holiday.
Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
The Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS).
Births
Stan Sakai lept
Ian McKellen conjured up
Pieter Zeeman emitted
Jack Steinberger emitted
Frank Oz animated
Al Sarrantonio landed
David A. Hargrave rolled
Georgy Grechko landed on earth
Bob Gale came from the future
Igor Sikorsky landed
Deaths
Gemma Frisius went exploring
Ernst Ruska scoping out the invisiblr realm
Anders Dahl wilted
Adam Tanner solved
Frank Watson Dyson studying up close
Holidays
Frank Oz Day
Cookie Monster Day-eat only cookies-
Yoda Day-Speak like Yoda you must-
Animal Day-bang drums-
Electron Day
Gandolf Day
Magneto Day
Muon neutrino Day
Samuri Rabbit Day
The Dream Weaver Day
Walk in Space Day
Back to the Future Day
Heliocopter Day
Halley's Commet Day
Tacticle Nuke Day
Steam Memorial Day
Man on the Moon Day
Public TV Day
Star Wars Day
Explorer Day
Gateway Day
Comercial Space Day
Geek Pride Day
Animay 26 Saturday
Events
Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.
Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
Births
Joe Alaskey talked
Doug Hutchison found
Raina Telgemeier drawn
Caitlín R. Kiernan landed
Ward Cunningham compiled
Peter Cushing regenerated
Phyllis Gotlieb landed
Sally Ride came to earth
Helena Bonham Carter got dug up
Moondog
Deaths
Nikolai Chernykh visiting asteroids
Waldo Semon melted
Lincoln Ellsworth melted
Almon Brown Strowger obsolete
Edward Sabine demagnitized
Leslie Smith crashed
Holidays
Women in Comics Day
Wiki Day
Doctors Day-frankenstein, helsing, who-
The Viking of 6th Avenue Day
Women in Space Day
Dracula Day
Mother's Day
National Day of Healing
Animay 27 Sunday
Events
The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage
Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California.
The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois.
In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
Dragon Quest, the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, is released in Japan.
In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes at 5:53:58 am local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.
Births
Vincent Price rose from the dead
Danny McKinnon resurected
Lee Meriwether bitten
John Cockcroft
Michael Buonauro inked
Tony Hillerman once upon a timed
Paul Bettany came online
Christopher Lee rose from the coffin
Peri Gilpin animated
Harlan Ellison screamed
Deaths
Jeffrey Hunter beeped twice
Ed Yost deflated
Alex Toth became a ghost
Robert Ripley stopped beliving
Jeff Conaway gone to the stars
Aleksandr Stoletov lights out
John Howard Northrop
David Rimoin biology failed
Payut Ngaokrachang stooped moving
Holidays
Atom Spliting Day
Dr Lobster Day
Tony Hillerman Day
Vincent Price Day
The Bad Guy Day
Transalantic Flight Day
Dragon Quest Day
Día de la Madre
Animay 28 Monday
Events
A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
British radio comedy programme The Goon Show was broadcast on BBC for the first time.
In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
The discovery of Flame, a complex malware program targeting computers in Middle Eastern countries, is announced.
Births
Liam O'Brien started voiced
Glenn Quinn
Townsend Coleman arrives at The City
Stanley B. Prusiner misfolded
Milutin Milankovic
Ruby Payne-Scott came to earth
Kate Ashfield became undead
Carl Richard Nyberg fired up
John Karlen
Patricia Quinn
Deaths
Robert H. Justman flew away
Phil Hartman used up all 9 lives
Matthew Yuricich not a special effect
Michael Buonauro one day old
Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov launched
Gary Coleman
George Irving Bell
Ilya Prigogine
Caterina Sforza
Holidays
Tick Day-SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!-
Prion Day
Astro Climetology Day
Blow Tourch Day
Water of Mars
This is the official Voice Acting Semi Week!-Try it out!-
Animay 29 Tuesday
Events
Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Crommelin.
The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
Births
Danny Elfman composed
Sebastian Shaw unmasked
Kevin Conway returns
Adrian Paul became immortal
Anita Briem came to the surface of the earth
Johann Heinrich von Mädler came to earth
Peter Higgs discovered
Robert Axelrod spoke
Annette Bening
John H. Balsley invented
Deaths
Dennis Hopper deevolved
Jim Unger
Humphry Davy
Stephen Timoshenko broke down
Harvey Korman went back home
John Barrymore hiding
Gabriel Auguste Daubree rockin out
Frans van Schooten solved
Richard Beals silenced
Holidays
Danny Elfman Day-listen to his music-
The return of Kahless the Unforgettable
Higgs Boson Day
Vader Unmasked Day
There can be only one day
Stepladder day
Einstein was right Day
Around North America in a Day
Docking Day
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
Oak Apple Day
Animay 30 Wednesday
Events
Publication of La Gazette, first French newspaper.
The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Lord Cobham.
Launch of Surveyor 1 the first US spacecraft to achieve landing on an extraterrestrial body.
Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
Births
Alexey Leonov started to walk
Helen Sharman came to earth
Michael Lopez-Alegria came to earth
Mel Blanc started talking
Kevin Eastman mutated
Colm Meaney beamed down
Keir Dullea started his odyssy
Michael Piller started his trek
Jared S. Gilmore once upon a time
Duncan Jones is new
Deaths
Tomasz Pacynski left earth
Claude Rains dissapeared
Andrew Huxley nerves stopped transmitting
Louis Slotin so that others could live
Wilbur Write crashed
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Holidays
David Bowman Day
New Trek Day
Space Walk Day
Mile's O'Brian Day
TMNT Day
NASA Invasion of the Moon Day
Mars Mapping Day
The Man of a Thousand Voices Day
Animay 31 Thursday
Events
A devastating earthquake strikes Antioch, Turkey, killing 250,000.
King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris.
Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, "The Karnival Kid", is released.
A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 dead.
The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.
Burning of Jaffna library, Sri Lanka, It is one of the violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the twentieth century.
1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat
Births
Peter Yarrow sang
John Robert Schrieffer conducted
Gilbert Shelton drawn
Lynda Bellingham regenerated
Jay Miner created
Nils Poppe checkmated Death
Lea Thompson
Adrian Tomine drawn
Akira Ifukube played
Jean Chalopin animated
Deaths
Evariste Galois left the group
Elizabeth Blackwell
Jacques Monod bilogy failed
William Castle killed by monster
James Rainwater
James Bennett Griffin buried in his work
Raymond Davis, Jr. decayed
William A. Fraker played the game
Miguel Berrocal solved
Holidays
Puff the Magic Dragon Day
DiC Day
Godzilla Rocks Out Day
Try a Time Lord Day-even they must be judged-
Amiga Day
Play with Death Day
Voice Actor Day