On this Day ...

[dkeg]

a favorite command of mine.

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calendar

spits out happenings for current date and next day. Been including in my scrots lately. I'm dedicating this thread to history.

On this day August 31 ...

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Aug 31 	269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983
Aug 31 	Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888
Aug 31 	Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
Aug 31 	Federation of Malaya gains independence from Great Britain, 1957
Aug 31 	Independence Day (Merdeka) in Malaysia
Aug 31 	Independence Day in Trinidad and Tobago
Aug 31 	Pashtoonian Day in Afghanistan
Aug 31 	Delegados de 9 provincias suscriben el Pacto o Liga Unitaria, 1830
Aug 31 	Prinses Wilhelmina (1880 - 1962)
Aug 31 	N'oubliez pas les Aristide !
Aug 31 	Bonne fête aux Raymond !
Aug 31 	Hitler stellt Frankfurter Zeitung ein, 1943
Aug 31 	Erika, Bella
Aug 31 	День Российской Адвокатуры

[bizcuit]

Whoa ... had no idea about this, thanks for sharing more nixy weirdness Dkeg.

[machinebacon]

Sep 01 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972
Sep 01 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859
Sep 01 Army Day in Chile
Sep 01 Pyun YongHyeon <[email protected]> born in Kimcheon, Korea, 1968
Sep 01 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Gilles.
Sep 01 Pluie de la saint Gilles ruine les glands.
Sep 01 Deutscher Überfall auf Polen, Beginn des 2. Weltkrieges, 1939
Sep 01 Egyed, Egon

Happy birthday, WW2 :/

[bizcuit]

^ Lmao Machine ...

Though gotta agree, the reported death toll n WW2 is sobering even to a drunken idiot like me, though chit like that's exactly why I prefer staying drunk. Ahhhh.

[johnraff]

good grief that was on my machine the whole time...
as biscuit says. nixy weirdness.

[dkeg]

Sep 02 Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752
Sep 02 Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945
Sep 02 Nace en Buenos Aires el escritor Esteban Echeverría, 1805
Sep 02 Muere Bernardino Rivadavia, primer presidente argentino, 1845
Sep 02 N'oubliez pas les Ingrid !
Sep 02 Rebeka, Dorina
Sep 02* Labor Day in USA (1st Monday of September)

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Sep 03 Richard ``the Lionheart'' crowned king of England, 1189
Sep 03 Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino
Sep 03 Independence Day in Qatar
Sep 03 Memorial Day in Tunisia
Sep 03 Max Khon <[email protected]> born in Novosibirsk, USSR, 1976
Sep 03 Cheng-Lung Sung <[email protected]> born in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, 1977
Sep 03 Bonne fête aux Grégoire !
Sep 03 Kriegserklärung Großbritaniens und Frankreichs an Deutschland, 1939
Sep 03 Vier-Mächte-Abkommen über Berlin, 1971
Sep 03 Hilda
Sep 04 Anton Bruckner is born in Ansfelden, Austria, 1824
Sep 04 Edvard Grieg dies in Bergen, Norway, 1907
Sep 04 Día del inmigrante
Sep 04 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Rosalie.
Sep 04 Edvard Grieg in Bergen gestorben, 1907
Sep 04 Rozália

[machinebacon]

Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino
IIRC San Marino is the oldest republic. Still, suck at football.

Sep 04 Edvard Grieg dies in Bergen, Norway, 1907
Sep 04 Edvard Grieg in Bergen gestorben, 1907
Awful. This poor guy died twice on the same day. Still, suck at football.

[Sector11]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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 04 Sep 13 | 13:51:25 ~
    $ calendar
In file included from /usr/share/calendar/calendar.all:23:0,
                 from <stdin>:16:
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.croatian:10:0: fatal error: hr_HR/calendar.all: No such file or directory
 #include <hr_HR/calendar.all>
 ^
compilation terminated.
Sep 04 	Anton Bruckner is born in Ansfelden, Austria, 1824
Sep 04 	Edvard Grieg dies in Bergen, Norway, 1907
Sep 04 	Día del inmigrante
Sep 05 	King Louis XIV of France born, 1638
Sep 05 	Raquel Welch born, 1942
Sep 05 	US President Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961
Sep 05 	The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774
Sep 05 	Backports provided as an official Debian service, 2010
 
 04 Sep 13 | 13:51:45 ~
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calendar.croatian ????????????? I gotta play more.

[machinebacon]

Just a LANG file missing, but I doubt you use Croatian as your locale ;)

So, Backports are in the News at Fuckipedia... Competing with Raquel Welch's birth. But the have one thing in common: both are big mistakes :D

[dkeg]

ooh, looking into my crystal ball, I see there's a good anniversary tomorrow ... hint, Arch logo

[Sector11]

Just a LANG file missing, but I doubt you use Croatian as your locale ;)

As usual you are correct ... I've eliminated a few and what's left work.

Thank you.

[dkeg]

Sep 07 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789
Sep 07 Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533
Sep 07 Independence Day in Brazil
Sep 07 Keith Moon (The Who) dies in London of a drug overdose, 1978
Sep 07 Warren Zevon dies in Los Angeles of lung cancer (mesothelioma), 2003
Sep 07 Mariano Moreno funda la Biblioteca Pública de Bs. As., 1810
Sep 07 Tim Bishop <[email protected]> born in Cornwall, United Kingdom, 1978
Sep 07 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Reine.
Sep 07 DDR-Staatsratsvorsitzender Honecker in der Bundesrepublik, 1987
Sep 07 Regina
Sep 08 Richard ``the Lionheart'', king of England born in Oxford, 1157
Sep 08 Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925

Sep 08 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966)

Sep 08 Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888
Sep 08 US President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974
Sep 08 Antonin Dvorak born in Nelahozeves, Bohemia, 1841
Sep 08 Richard Strauss dies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 1949
Sep 08 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) is born in San Bruno, California, 1945
Sep 08 Día del agrigultor
Sep 08 Boris Samorodov <[email protected]> born in Krasnodar, Russian Federation, 1963
Sep 08 Richard Strauss in Garmisch-Partenkirchen gestorben, 1949
Sep 08 Mária, Adrienn
Sep 08* День танкиста
Sep 08* Grandparent's Day in USA (2nd Sunday of September; varies from state to state)

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Sep 09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976
Sep 09 Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie, creator of C, born, 1941
Sep 09 First bug found, a moth in Harvard Mark II, 1947
Sep 09 California becomes the 31st state of the USA, 1850
Sep 09 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776
Sep 09 Admission Day in California
Sep 09 National Day in North Korea
Sep 09 Anniversary of the Socialist Revolution (2 days) in Bulgaria
Sep 09 Muere en La Plata el político radical Ricardo Balbín, 1981
Sep 09 Yoshio Mita <[email protected]> born in Hiroshima, Japan, 1972
Sep 09 N'oubliez pas les Alain !
Sep 09 Mao Tse-Tung gestorben im Alter von 82 Jahren, 1976
Sep 09 Ádám

[machinebacon]

Sep 09 Rhowaldt Dogface, creator of the Oyster Programming language, opened a bottle of Rose wine, 2013

[rhowaldt]

^ are you kidding me, i switched to rum so i can feel like a pirate! and vodka, so i can feel like a Russian. or something. i'll pour an extra glass for you Jules, to celebrate your sexy face ;)

[machinebacon]

switched

look!!

[ivanovnegro]

good grief that was on my machine the whole time...
as biscuit says. nixy weirdness.

^ That.

Sep 13 58° C (136.4° F) measured at el Azizia, Libya, 1922
Sep 13 British defeat the French at the Plains of Abraham, just outside the walls of Quebec City, 1759
Sep 13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122
Sep 13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943

[dkeg]

necrobump

Jun 30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian,
Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic differentiation on the ENIAC

[machinebacon]

Jun 30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960

:troll?:

And this is the "That" explosion over Siberia in 1908: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event