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3 Cicero 106 B.C.E |
![]() 1 Druid Mistletoe Festival ![]() Emancipation Proclamation (Lincoln) 1863 4 Hermes-Budha 5 Twelfth Night 7 Coptic Christmas 8 Paines’s Common Sense Published 1776 10 Muharram, Islamic New Year League of Nations 1920 11 Caesar crossed the Rubicon 49 B.C.E. ![]() 15 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Radioactive elements produced (Curie) 1934 17 Edict Of Toleration (France) 1562 21 First B.B.C. broadcast to the world 22 Uranium atom split 1939 26 Indian Republic Day |
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| February Observances | |||
3 Horace Greeley 1811
7 Sir Thomas More 1478 Charles Dickens 1812 Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 8 Proclus 410 John Ruskin 1819 Martin Buber 1878 Peter Kropotkin d. 1921 9 Philo Judaeus 35 B.C.E. 10 Boris Pasternak 1890 Bertolt Brecht 1898 11 Thomas Alva Edison 1847 12 Abraham Lincoln 1809 Charles Darwin 1809 14 Valentine d. 270 Frederick Douglass 1817 15 Galileo Galilei 1564 Susan B. Anthony 1820 17 Giordano Bruno 1548 & d. 1600 18 Krishna d. 3102 B.C.E. Niccolo Paganini 1784 Ramakrishna 1836 19 Nicholaus Copernicus 1473 20 Voltaire 1694 22 George Washington 1732 Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 Frederic Chopin 1810 Heinrich Hertz 1857 24 Pico della Mirandola 1463 25 Shri Ramakrishna 1836 26 Victor Hugo 1802 27 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 28 Michel de Montaigne 1533 Vladislav Nijinski 1890 |
1 Abolition of Slavery Bill signed (U.S.A.) 1865 12 Lantern Festival Day 16 Maha Shivaratri (Vigil Night of Shiva) ![]() 7 Chinese New Year Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress published ![]() 19 Emancipation of serfs ![]() 20 John H. Glenn orbits the earth 3 times (1962) 21 Ash Wednesday |
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| March Observances | |||
3 Georg Cantor 1845
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![]() 6 Mahashivaratri (Vigil Night of Shiva) 8 International Women’s Day End Pacific Standard Time 10 Begin Pacific Daylight Time Commonwealth Day Tibet Uprising Day 14 Sikh New Year 15 Ides 16 Palm Sunday 19 Vernal Equinox Hindu New Year Ancient Romans dedicated Minerva’s temple ![]() 20 Theory of General Relativity (Einstein) 1916 21 Persian New Year Purim (Jewish) Good Friday 22 Holi (Hindu Spring Festival) ![]() 23 Easter 27 Ramanavami (Hindu) Ancient Roman procession honoring Cybele |
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| April Observances | |||
1st Confucius d. 479 B.C.E.
William Harvey 1578 2nd Charlemagne 743 Hans Christian Andersen 1805 Sergei Rachmaninoff 1872 3rd Washington Irving 1783 4th Martin Luther King, Jr. d. 1968 5th Raphael 1483 Joseph Lister 1827 Booker T. Washington 1856 6th Ashoka 270 B.C.E. 7th William Wordsworth 1770 8th Hugo von Mohl 1805 9th Charles Baudelaire 1821 10th Hugho Grotius 1583 George William Russell 1867 Paul Robeson 1898 13th Thomas Jefferson 1743 14th Christiaan Huygens 1629 Arnold Toynbee 1889 Shri Ramana Maharshi d. 1950 15th Leonardo da Vinci 1452 Leonhard Euler 1707 16th Anatole France 1844 Charles Chaplin 1889 17th Thornton Wilder 1897 18th David Ricardo 1823 21st Peter Abelard 1079 John Muir 1838 Max Weber 1864 22nd Immannuel Kant 1724 Vladimir Lenin 1870 23rd William Shakespeare 1564 & d. 1616 Miguel Cervantes d. 1616 Max Planck 1858 Serge Prokofiev 1891 24th Edmund Cartwright 1743 25th William the Silent 1533 Oliver Cromwell 1599 Guglielmo Marconi 1874 26th Marcus Aurelius 121 David Hume 1711 John James Audubon 1785 27th Edward Gibbon 1737 Samuel F. B. Morse 1791 Herbert Spencer 1820 28th Kurt Godel 1906 29 C. P. Cavafy 1863 & d. 1933 30th Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777
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5th British Museum founded 1753 6th Hindu New Year Robert Perry reached the North Pole 1909 7th World Health Day 12th Yuri Gagarin, First Space Traveller 1961 14th Ramanavami (Rama’s Nativity) 16th Abu Simbel Restoration 1966 18th Mahavir Jayanti (Jain) 19th Pesach (Jewish Passover) ![]() 20th Hanuman Jayanti (Hindu) Theravadin New Year (Buddhist) Palm Sunday (Orthodox Christian) Radium isolated by Madame Curie 1902 ![]() Earth Day 24th Discovery of micro-organisms by van Leeuwenhoek 1676 ![]() Library of Congress established 1800 ![]() 25th Discovery of DNA structure by Watson & Crick 1953 29th Discovery of electron by J. J. Thompson 1897 |
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3rd Code Napoleon 1807
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2nd Adoption of a new calendar 1752 |
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1st Marsilio Ficino d. 1499 |
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2nd Table of atomic weights (Dalton) 1803 |
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| November Observances | |||
1st Benvenuto Cellini 1500
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1st All Saints’ Day Ancient Roman festival honoring Nike 2nd All Souls’ Day 7th Observation of Mercury crossing the sun 1631 ![]() 9th Deepavali (Hindu) ![]() 10th Invention of analytic geometry (Descartes) 1619 11th Discovery of cosmic rays 17th Suez Canal opened 19th Gettysburg Address (Lincoln) 20th Universal Children’s Day 22nd Thanksgiving 24th Guru Nanak’s Birthday (Sikh) 28th First meeting of Royal Society 1660 |
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| December Observances | |||
1 Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky 1793 4 Thomas Carlyle 1795 ![]() Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 5 Werner Heisenberg 1901 7 Giovanni Bernini 1598 8 Horace 65 B.C.E. 9 John Milton 1608 10 Porphyry c.233 Jonathan Swift 1667 William Lloyd Garrison 1805 ![]() Emily Dickinson 1830 12 Averroes 1126 14 Nostradamus 1503 15 A. Becquerel 1853 16 Tsong-Kha-Pa 1355 Ludwig von Beethoven 1770 Margaret Mead 1901 17 Paracelsus 1493 18 J.J Thomson 1856 Francis Thompson 1859 19 A.A. Michelson 1852 ![]() 20 Sacagawea d. 1812 22 Srinivasa Ramanujan 1887 24 James Prescott Joule 1818 Mathew Arnold 1882 25 Anwar Sadat 1918 26 Thomas Gray 1716 Charles Babbage 1792 27 Johann Kepler 1571 Louis Pasteur 1822 30 Shri Ramana Maharisha 1879 31 John Wycliffee d. 1384 John Flamsteed d. 1719 |
1 Rosa Parks Day 2 First Sustained Atomic Chain Reaction 1942 3 Discovery of Uranus (Flamsteed) 1714 6 Thirteenth Amendment (USA) abolishing slavery 1865 10 Human Rights Day 11 Ancient Roman festival honoring all the gods ![]() 14 Roald Amundsen reached South Pole 1911 16 International Court of Justice 1920 ![]() 17 First airplane flight (Wilbur & Orville Wright) 1903 18 Abolition of Capital Punishment (England) 1969 21 Landing of Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass. 1620 22 Winter Solstice 24 Chanukah (Jewish Festival of Lights) 25 Christmas Day (Christian) 26 Death of Zarathustra ![]() 28 Discovery of x-rays (Roentgen) 1895 |
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| January Observances | |||
3 Cicero 106 B.C.E |
![]() 1 Druid Mistletoe Festival ![]() Emancipation Proclamation (Lincoln) 1863 4 Hermes-Budha 5 Twelfth Night 7 Coptic Christmas 8 Paines’s Common Sense Published 1776 10 Muharram, Islamic New Year League of Nations 1920 11 Caesar crossed the Rubicon 49 B.C.E. ![]() 15 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Radioactive elements produced (Curie) 1934 17 Edict Of Toleration (France) 1562 21 First B.B.C. broadcast to the world 22 Uranium atom split 1939 26 Indian Republic Day |
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| February Observances | |||
3 Horace Greeley 1811
7 Sir Thomas More 1478 Charles Dickens 1812 Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 8 Proclus 410 John Ruskin 1819 Martin Buber 1878 Peter Kropotkin d. 1921 9 Philo Judaeus 35 B.C.E. 10 Boris Pasternak 1890 Bertolt Brecht 1898 11 Thomas Alva Edison 1847 12 Abraham Lincoln 1809 Charles Darwin 1809 14 Valentine d. 270 Frederick Douglass 1817 15 Galileo Galilei 1564 Susan B. Anthony 1820 17 Giordano Bruno 1548 & d. 1600 18 Krishna d. 3102 B.C.E. Niccolo Paganini 1784 Ramakrishna 1836 19 Nicholaus Copernicus 1473 20 Voltaire 1694 22 George Washington 1732 Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 Frederic Chopin 1810 Heinrich Hertz 1857 24 Pico della Mirandola 1463 25 Shri Ramakrishna 1836 26 Victor Hugo 1802 27 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 28 Michel de Montaigne 1533 Vladislav Nijinski 1890
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1 Abolition of Slavery Bill signed (U.S.A.) 1865 12 Lantern Festival Day 16 Maha Shivaratri (Vigil Night of Shiva) ![]() 7 Chinese New Year Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress published ![]() 19 Emancipation of serfs ![]() 20 John H. Glenn orbits the earth 3 times (1962) 21 Ash Wednesday |
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| March Observances | |||
3 Georg Cantor 1845
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![]() 6 Mahashivaratri (Vigil Night of Shiva) 8 International Women’s Day End Pacific Standard Time 10 Begin Pacific Daylight Time Commonwealth Day Tibet Uprising Day 14 Sikh New Year 15 Ides 16 Palm Sunday 19 Vernal Equinox Hindu New Year Ancient Romans dedicated Minerva’s temple ![]() 20 Theory of General Relativity (Einstein) 1916 21 Persian New Year Purim (Jewish) Good Friday 22 Holi (Hindu Spring Festival) ![]() 23 Easter 27 Ramanavami (Hindu) Ancient Roman procession honoring Cybele |
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