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| author | mjl <mjl@NetBSD.org> | 2002-03-18 00:05:34 +0000 |
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| committer | mjl <mjl@NetBSD.org> | 2002-03-18 00:05:34 +0000 |
| commit | 72cfdcede010c9823f7bbba64a5cc48bf742ae88 (patch) | |
| tree | a788f90c3b6fc53a8a08001a0f7177d29a5ed912 /usr.bin | |
| parent | 79c365e60e9ce69a5d656ed3fa5da2c9fbe146a7 (diff) | |
Normalize BC year format, correct a few typos, remove duplicate Descartes.
Partly from FreeBSD.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday | 45 |
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 |
