almanac command
This page implements the COHERENT almanac command using its original data files.
See also:
almanac manual page
Fred Butzen's original C source almanac.c [7/12/88]
Data files almanac.birth, almanac.death, almanac.event [10/26/94]
Enter a month and day (e.g., "Sep 01"):
BIRTHS:
1657: Johannes Pachobel, composer, Nuremberg (bapt.).
1875: Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of "Tarzan of the Apes", Chicago.
1912: Raoul Wallenberg, righteous gentile, Sweden.
DEATHS:
EVENTS:
1914: Last known passenger pigeon dies in Cincinnati zoo.
1923: Toyko leveled by earthquake; ~120,000 die.
1939: Germany invades Poland; World War II begins.
1972: Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky to become world chess champion.
1983: Soviet fighter shoots down KAL flight 007.
1985: "Titanic" discovered by Robert Ballard & Woods Hole team.
1657: Johannes Pachobel, composer, Nuremberg (bapt.).
1875: Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of "Tarzan of the Apes", Chicago.
1912: Raoul Wallenberg, righteous gentile, Sweden.
DEATHS:
EVENTS:
1914: Last known passenger pigeon dies in Cincinnati zoo.
1923: Toyko leveled by earthquake; ~120,000 die.
1939: Germany invades Poland; World War II begins.
1972: Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky to become world chess champion.
1983: Soviet fighter shoots down KAL flight 007.
1985: "Titanic" discovered by Robert Ballard & Woods Hole team.
