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- January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...ngland began its numbered year on [[March 25]] ([[Lady Day]] or Annunciation Day), between the [[13th ...
7: ...nown [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
10: *[[1600]] - [[Scotland]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]].
11: ... II of England|Charles II]] crowned King of [[Scotland]]
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
6: ...66]] - [[Alamanni]] cross the frozen [[Rhine]] in large numbers, invading [[Roman Empire]].
8: *[[1492]] - [[Reconquista]]: [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spain]], surr...
11: ...1793]] - [[Russia]] and [[Prussia]] partition [[Poland]].
12: *[[1815]] - [[Lord Byron]] marries Anna Isabella Milbanke, [[Seaham]], [[County Durham]].
15: ...[[1860]] - The discovery of the planet [[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]] was announced at a meeting of the [[... - Columbus Day (5999 bytes)
1: ...a]]''' (Day of Indigenous Resistance) in [[Venezuela]], commemorate the same event.
4: ...92]], marking the 300th anniversary of Columbus's landing in the [[Bahamas]].
6: ...do]] in 1905, and in 1937, President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] set aside Columbus Day as a holiday...
10: == Día de la Raza ==
11: ...rst celebrated in [[Argentina]] in 1917, [[Venezuela]] in 1921, [[Chile]] in 1923, and [[Mexico]] in 1... - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...e winner was determined through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded the [[World Series Trophy]]...
3: ...rst World Series Championship in 31,458 days, the last being in the [[1918 World Series]], completed o...
5: The first two games of the series are played in one team's home ballpark, the next three in...
7: ...shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in their division but not earning a [[wild card...
9: ...]n champions against champions in the Japanese or Latin American leagues have, so far, not succeeded. - Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
7: :''Home ballpark:'' [[U.S. Cellular Field]], Chicago. (This park, originally known ...
8: :''Uniform colors:'' black, white and gray
12: ..., [[1906 World Series|1906]], [[1917 World Series|1917]], [[1919 World Series|1919]], [[1959 World Serie...
13: ...: [[1906 World Series|1906]], [[1917 World Series|1917]]
17: ...League in [[1900 in sports|1900]], a year before claiming major league status, the St. Paul franchise ... - Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
8: :'''Uniform colors:''' Black and gold
17: ...ncluding greats like [[Honus Wagner]] and [[Fred Clarke]] (who also served as the team's manager from ...
19: ...ut it was not enough. With largely the same star players, the Pirates would continue to be a strong te...
21: ...ates had plenty of Hall of Fame-caliber position players through [[1941]].
23: ...e close games, then recovering from a 7-4 deficit late in Game 7 to eventually win on a walk-off home ... - Ice hockey (16008 bytes)
1: .... It is one of the world's fastest sports, with players on [[skates]] capable of going high speeds on...
5: ... subject to certain restrictions. One of the six players is typically a ''[[goaltender]]'', whose prim...
8: ...inal change. When players are substituted during play, it is called changing ''on the fly''.
10: ...d with a ''[[faceoff]]''. There are two rules of play in ice hockey that limit the movement of the puc...
12: ...petitive leagues, each team may carry at most 23 players on its game roster, two of whom are typically... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
5: ...t]] and for [[cooking]]. Humans also developed [[language]] sometime during the Paleolithic, as well ...
7: ...ankind to [[North America]] and [[Oceania]] took place at the climax of the most recent [[Ice Age]], w...
12: ...itional caretaking activities like fertilization, land clearance, etc) since 21000BC (PNAS 101 p9551-9...
14: ... millennium BC|2500 BCE]]). There is evidence of elaborate cities with high levels of social and econo...
16: ...ence of complex state societies in [[Crete]], mainland [[Greece]] and central [[Turkey]]. In China, pr... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemis...
18: *[[Joseph Black]], (1728-1799), chemist
20: *[[Johannes Nicolaus Br?d]], (1879-1947), Danish chemist
23: *[[Eduard Buchner]], (1860-1917), [[1907]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
29: *[[Wallace Carothers]] (1896-1937), American chemist - Tyrannosaurus rex (20653 bytes)
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15: ...ongoing [[Science|scientific]] research and [[popular culture]]. - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
5: ...d say in 1933, "The whole secret of my getting on lay with my mother."
7: ...oods, which were strictly out-of-bounds. He also played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous arti...
13: ... collector, incorporating plans of military installations into his drawings of butterfly wings.
15: ... the 5th Dragoon Guards in [[1897]]. A few years later he wrote a small manual, entitled "Aids to Sco...
17: ...were planted and his soldiers were ordered to simulate avoiding (non-existent) barbed wire while movin... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
15: *[[Constantine Andreou]] (b. 1917)
23: *[[Ernst Barlach]]
33: *[[Treffle Berthlaume]] (1803 - 1884)
35: *[[John Blakeley]] (1946 - )
45: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]] (1475 - 1564) - Hittites (17910 bytes)
1: ... a kingdom centered in [[Hattusa]] (the modern village of Boğazk?n north-central [[Turkey]]), thr...
3: ...rom about 1680 BC to 1200 BC, with an as yet unexplained hundred-year gap from 1500 to 1400 BC. After ...
5: ...n language — conventionally called [[Hattic language|Hattic]].
7: ...י or ''HTY'' in the consonant-only [[Hebrew language|Hebrew script]]), which are also called '''...
12: ...f trade between Assyrian merchants and a certain "land of ''[[Hatti]]''". Some names in the tablets we... - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[May 29]], [[1917]]
10: | place of birth=[[Brookline, Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Dallas]], [[Texas]]
20: '''John Fitzgerald Kennedy''' ([[May 29]], [[1917]] – [[November 22]], [[1963]]), often ref...
22: ...e from the North to be elected president, and the last president to die in office. He was also the fir... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Denison, Texas]]
13: | place of death=[[Washington, D.C.]]
24: ... They had two children, Doud Dwight Eisenhower ([[1917]]–[[1921]]), and John Sheldon David Doud E...
30: ...and other places. He was promoted to Captain in [[1917]] and Major in [[1920]]. In [[1922]] he was assig...
34: ...en served as chief military aide to General [[Douglas MacArthur]], Army Chief of Staff, until [[1935]]... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Delano Roosevelt
10: | place of birth=[[Hyde Park, New York|Hyde Park]], [[N...
13: | place of death=[[Warm Springs, Georgia]]
16: ...vicepresident=[[John N. Garner]]<br>[[Henry A. Wallace]]<br>[[Harry S. Truman]]
18: ...nd privilege, he overcame a crippling illness to place himself at the head of the forces of reform. Hi... - Louis Bleriot (3099 bytes)
2: ...d engineer, who performed the first flight over a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft.
5: ... but he continued working toward a practical aeroplane.
8: ...ch flew during [[1905]]. They also developed a biplane powered by an Antoinette motor. The company bro...
10: ==Monoplane==
11: ...the world's first successful monoplane. This aeroplane got off the ground in 1907 but soon crashed and... - Charles Kingsford Smith (4894 bytes)
2: ...d and the first flight from Australia to [[New Zealand]], and was also the first to complete the more ...
4: ...he [[Royal Flying Corps]], earning his wings in [[1917]]. For his services in battle, he was awarded the...
6: ...uva]], [[Fiji]], and on to [[Brisbane]], where he landed on [[June 8]]. On arrival, he was met by a hu...
8: In [[1930]], he competed in an England to Australia [[air race]], and, flying solo, wo...
10: ...id not arrive at its destination. Eighteen months later, wreckage from the aircraft was located off th... - Blimp (3839 bytes)
5: ...ry]], the [[United States]] [[military]] had two classes for airships: Type A-rigid and Type B-limp, ...
7: ...916]], in [[England]], a year before the first B-class airship."'' ("Etymology of 'Blimp'" by Dr. A. D...
9: The perpetuation of this erroneous explanation is an example of [[fake etymology]].
11: ... the only solid parts are the passenger car (gondola) and the tail fins.
17: ...jifilm]], which use them for advertising, and as platforms to provide aerial shots of sporting events.... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
6: place_of_birth = [[Braunau am Inn]], [[Austria-Hungar...
9: place_of_death = [[Berlin]], [[Germany]]
20: ...n more strictly than was usual for that time and place.
22: ...n a Hitler, however, and was ironically closely related to Hiedler through his mother's family, too.
25: ...ved frequently, from [[Braunau]] to [[Passau]], [[Lambach]], [[Leonding]] and next to [[Linz]]. Young ...
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