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authormjl <mjl@NetBSD.org>2002-03-18 00:05:34 +0000
committermjl <mjl@NetBSD.org>2002-03-18 00:05:34 +0000
commit72cfdcede010c9823f7bbba64a5cc48bf742ae88 (patch)
treea788f90c3b6fc53a8a08001a0f7177d29a5ed912
parent79c365e60e9ce69a5d656ed3fa5da2c9fbe146a7 (diff)
Normalize BC year format, correct a few typos, remove duplicate Descartes.
Partly from FreeBSD.
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday45
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
index ff10fa98eb1..9bee5c4a0da 100644
--- a/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
+++ b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
01/01 J.D. Salinger born, 1919
01/01 Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735
+01/01 Heinz Zemanek born in Vienna, Austria, 1920
01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR), 1920
01/04 George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864
01/04 Jakob Grimm born, 1785
@@ -7,7 +8,7 @@
01/05 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer
01/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738
01/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757?
-01/12 "Long" John Baldry is born in London, 1941
+01/12 "Long" John Baldry born in London, 1941
01/13 Horatio Alger born, 1834
01/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884
01/13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@
01/23 John Hancock born, 1737
01/23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730
01/23 Samuel Barber died, 1981
-01/24 John Belushi is born in Chicago, 1949
+01/24 John Belushi born in Chicago, 1949
01/25 Robert Burns born, 1759
01/25 Virginia Woolf born, 1882
01/25 W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@
01/30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882
01/31 Jackie Robinson born, 1919
02/03 Gertrude Stein born, 1874
-02/05 Alex Harvey (SAHB) is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935
+02/05 Alex Harvey (SAHB) born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935
02/06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952
02/07 Sinclair Lewis born, 1885
02/08 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography
@@ -69,7 +70,7 @@
03/02 Dr. Seuss born, 1904
03/04 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747
03/05 John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982
-03/07 Aristotle died, 322BC
+03/07 Aristotle died, 322 BC
03/07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer
03/08 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer
03/08 Howard Aiken born, 1900
@@ -81,7 +82,7 @@
03/14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer;
named Mars "canals"
03/14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist
-03/15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44BC
+03/15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44 BC
03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
03/16 George Clymer born, 1739
03/16 James Madison born, 1751
@@ -93,7 +94,6 @@
03/30 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746
03/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880
03/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853
-03/31 Descartes born, 1596
03/31 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher
04/03 Washington Irving born, 1783
04/05 Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
04/29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology
04/29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863
04/30 Carl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer
-05/01 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) is born in Alexandria,
+05/01 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) born in Alexandria,
Louisiana, 1930
05/02 Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903
05/09 Pinza died, 1957
@@ -122,9 +122,9 @@
05/11 Johnny Appleseed born, 1768
05/12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820
05/13 Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842
-05/15 Mike Oldfield is born in Essex, England, 1953
+05/15 Mike Oldfield born in Essex, England, 1953
05/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890
-05/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427BC
+05/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427 BC
05/27 Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911
05/28 Dionne quintuplets born, 1934
05/29 Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874
@@ -139,9 +139,9 @@
06/07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778
06/07 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954
06/08 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1869
-06/13 Alexander the Great dies (323BC)
+06/13 Alexander the Great dies (323 BC)
06/15 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843
-06/16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 bc
+06/16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 BC
06/18 M.C. Escher born, 1898
06/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903
06/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949
@@ -160,8 +160,8 @@
07/12 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817
07/15 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from
Saint Nicholas"
-07/18 Brian Auger is born in London, 1939
-07/25 Steve Goodman is born in Chicago, 1948
+07/18 Brian Auger born in London, 1939
+07/25 Steve Goodman born in Chicago, 1948
07/29 Mussolini born, 1883
07/30 Emily Bronte born, 1818
07/30 Henry Ford born, 1863
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@
09/08 King Richard I of England born, 1157
09/08 Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925
09/09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976
+09/09 Dennis Ritchie born, 1941
09/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913
09/13 Walter Reed born, 1851
09/15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890
@@ -202,8 +203,8 @@
09/26 Johnny Appleseed born, 1774
09/26 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888
09/27 Thomas Nast born, 1840
-09/28 Michelangelo Buanarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573
-09/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106BC
+09/28 Michelangelo Buonarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573
+09/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106 BC
09/28 Seymour Cray born, 1925
09/29 Gene Autry born, 1907
10/01 Jimmy Carter born, 1924
@@ -212,18 +213,18 @@
10/04 John V. Atanasoff born, 1903
10/05 Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881
10/05 Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902
-10/13 Lenny Bruce is born in New York City, 1925
+10/13 Lenny Bruce born in New York City, 1925
10/13 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC
10/14 Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890
10/14 William Penn born in London, 1644
10/15 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881
10/16 Noah Webster born, 1758
10/16 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854
-10/16 Jon Postel dies at age of 55, 1998
+10/16 Dr. Jonathan B. Postel dies at age 55, 1998
10/17 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S.
10/21 Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833
10/27 Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933
-10/27 James Cook is born, 1466
+10/27 James Cook born, 1728
10/31 Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887
10/31 Dale Evans born, 1912
11/02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734
@@ -237,16 +238,16 @@
11/13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354
11/18 Imogene Coca born, 1908
11/18 William S. Gilbert born, 1836
-11/20 RFK born, 1925
+11/20 Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK) born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1925
11/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922
-11/26 Norbert Weiner born, 1894
-11/29 John Mayall is born in Cheshire, England, 1933
+11/26 Norbert Wiener born in Columbia, Missouri, 1894
+11/29 John Mayall born in Cheshire, England, 1933
11/30 Cleopatra died, 30 BC
11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835
12/01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935
12/04 Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976
12/05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901
-12/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC
+12/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65 BC
12/08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894
12/10 Emily Dickenson born, 1830
12/12 E.G. Robinson born, 1893