Mundane event calendar

[Jim Eshelman]

You know those "today in history" bits in newspapers? Here, for your daily anniversary calendar, are the dates of all events studied in SMA.

JANUARY
4: 1819, trigger date that effectively began the Panic of 1819
9: 1857, Fort Tejon earthquake in California
13: 1915, Avezzano earthquake
17: 1994, Northridge earthquake (Los Angeles)
18: 2000, Tagish Lake meteorite impact in Canada
27: 1967, Apollo 1 fire at Cape Canaveral
27: 2013, Kiss Nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Brazil
28: 1986, Shuttle Challenger exploded over Cape Canaveral
30: 1948, Mahatma Gandhi murdered

FEBRUARY
1: 2003, Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas
9: 1971, Sylmar earthquake in California
13: 1945, Dresden bombing
14: 1929, St. Valentine's Day massacre
15: 2013, Chelyabinsk meteor explosion
19: 1600, Huaynaputina in Peru erupted, history's second deadliest
20: 1962, Friendship 7 launch, John Glenn first American to orbit Earth
23: 1893, Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bankruptcy, effective start of Panic of 1893
26: 1993, World Trade Center bomb
28: 1947, The February 28th Incident in Taiwan
28: 1973, Wounded Knee occupation began

MARCH
7: 1965, Selma "Bloody Sunday" march
8: 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared
9: 1965, 2nd Selma March
10: 1906, Courrieres coalmine disaster, Europe's worst
10: 1933, Long Beach earthquake
11: 2011, Tohoku earthquake in Japan
12: 1888, The Great Blizzard of 1888 struck New York City and surrounding areas
13: 2015, Tropical Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu
16: 1965, 3rd (fully successful) Selma March
18: 1937, New London school explosion in Texas, U.S. deadliest school disaster
18: 1965, Alexei Leonid launch & first spacewalk
20: 2003, America inaugurated the Iraq War
21: 2005, Red Lake shootings in Minnesota
22: 1957, Daly City earthquake near San Francisco
24: 1989, Exxon Valdez oil spill
25: 1911, Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City
25: 1990, Happy Land Social Club fire in Bronx
27: 1964, Great ("Good Friday") Alaskan earthquake, second strongest quake ever recorded
28: 1979, Three Mile Island nuclear accident
30: 1981, Pres. Ronald Reagan shot

APRIL
4: 1841, Pres. William H. Harrison died
4: 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. murdered
6: 1917, U.S. entered World War I
8: 1203, final Siege of Constantinople began
10: 1815, Mt. Tambora erupted in Indonesia
10: 1963, USS Thresher sank in Atlantic
10: 2016, Kollam Temple fire in India
12: 1945, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt died
12: 1961, Yuri Gagarin launch, 1st human space flight
13: 1919, Jallianwala Bagh massacre in India
13: 1949, Olympia earthquake
14: 1912, Titanic sank near Newfoundland
14: 1944, Bombay Harbor explosion
15: 1865, Pres. Abraham Lincoln died
15: 2013, Boston Marathon explosion
16: 1947, Texas City disaster
16: 2007, Virginia Tech shootings
16: 2014, the ferry Sewol sank south of Korea
17: 1961, Bay of Pigs invasion
18: 1906, San Francisco earthquake, worst quake in U.S. history
19: 1985, CSA siege began in Elijah, MO
19: 1993, Waco siege in Texas
19: 1995, Oklahoma City bombing
20: 1914, Ludlow massacre
20: 1915, Siege of Van effectively beginning Armenian Holocaust
20: 1999, Columbine massacre
20: 2010, Deepwater Horizon explosion
21: 1930, Ohio State Penitentiary fire near Columbus
23: 1940, Rhythm Club fire in Natchez, MS
24: 2013, building collapse in Savar, Bangladesh
25: 2015, Nepal earthquake
26: 1942, Benxihu colliery disaster in China, world's worst coalmine disaster
26: 1966, Chernbobyl explosion
30: 1945, Military defeat of Third Reich & Hitler's suicide
30: 1975, Fall of Saigon, end of the Vietnam War

MAY
5: 1961, Freedom 7 launches Alan Shepard, 1st American in space
6: 1937, Hindenburg explosion in New Jersey
7: 1845, VE Day, effectively ending World War II in Europe
8: 1902, Mt. Pelée erupted on Martinique, eradicating the town of St. Pierre
9: 1873, Panic of 1873 in Vienna
9: 1960, Laobaidong colliery disaster in China
10: 1837, NYC banks stopped redeeming specie, Panic of 1837 effectively began
14: 2014, Soma coalmine disaster, Turkey's worst
16: 1968, Ronan Point explosion & collapse
18: 1927, Bath School disaster in Michigan, deadliest mass murder in a U.S. school
18: 1908, Mt. St. Helens erupted in Washington
19: 1950, South Amboy (NJ) explosion
19: 2016, EgyptAir 804 crashed into the Mediterranean
21: Xining earthquake in China
22: 1960, Great Chilean earthquake, the most powerful quake ever recorded
22: USS Scorpion disappeared in the Atlantic
22: 1967, L'Innovation Department Store fire in Brussels
24: 1947, Dee Bridge collapse
24: 2001, Versailles Wedding Hall disaster in Jerusalem
28: 1977, Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Kentucky

JUNE
2: 1953, coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of England
5: 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy murdered
6: 1944, D-Day
7: 2006, Reisadalen meteor impact in Norway
8: 1783, Laki erupted in Iceland, history's deadliest volcanic eruption
16: 1963, Valentina Tereshkova launch, 1st woman in space
12: 2016, Pulse Nightclub shootings in Orlando
17: 2015, Charleston AME church shooting
25: 1950, Korean War began
26: 2015, U.S. Supreme Court affirms gay marriage rights
28: 1914, Archduke Ferdinand murdered in Sarajevo
28: 1969, Stonewall riots
29: 1995, Sampoong Department Store collapse
30: 1908, Tunguska event

JULY
1: 2015 Greek debt default
2: 1881, Pres. James A. Garfield fatally shot
3: 2016, Baghdad bombing, ISIL's deadliest attack ever on Baghdad
4: 1776, U.S. declaration of independence from England
6: 2013, Lac-Mégantic train derailment in Quebec
9: 1850, Pres. Zachary Taylor died
9: 1918, Great Nashville train wreck, worst in U.S. history
11: 1995, Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia
12: 2015, Tianjin explosions in China
12: 2016, Andria-Corato train wreck in Puglia
13: 1931, Berlin bank run panic
14: 1966, Richard Speck murders
16: 1969, Apollo 11 launched to Moon
17: 1981, Hyatt Regency walkway collapse
17: 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 short down over Ukraine
18: 1984, McDonald's shootings in San Ysidro, CA
20: 1969, Apollo 11 mission, 1st human Moon landing
20: 2012, Dark Knight murders in Aurora, CO
21: 1952, Tehachapi earthquake
22: 2011, Oslo attacks
25: 1983, Black July massacre in Sri Lanka
27: 1953, Korean War armistice
29: 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana of England

AUGUST
1: 1966, Austin tower shootings
1: 2004, Ycuá Bolaños market fire in Paraguay
1: 2007, I-35 Mississippi River bridge collapse
2: 1923, Pres. Warren G. Harding died in San Francisco
4: 70 AD, destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem
4: 1889, Great Spokane Fire
4: 1913, England entered World War I
5: 1944, Wola massacre in Poland
5: 2012, Sikh temple murders in Oak Creek, WI
6: 1945, atomic bombing of Hiroshima
8: 1991, Warsaw radio mast collapse
9: 1945, atomic bombing of Nagasaki
9: 1974, Pres. Richard M. Nixon resigned
9: 1991, Buddhist temple murders in Waddell, AZ
10: 1903, Paris Metro fire
11: 1965, Watts riots began
14: 2012, Sandy Hook shootings
15: 1945, Japan publicly announced surrender to the Allies
16: Trigana Air Service Flight 267 crashed in Indonesia
17: 1969, Hurricane Camille struck Mississippi, 2nd strongest ever to hit U.S.
19: 1978, Cinema Rex fire
24: 79 AD, Mt. Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the city of Pompeii
24: 1857, Ohio Life Insurance & Trust suspended, effective start of Panic of 1857
24: 1992, Hurricane Andrew struck Florida
27: 1883, Krakatoa erupted
29: 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans
31: 1997, Princess Diana of England died

SEPTEMBER
1: 1923, Great Kanto earthquake (Tokyo), the worst quake in Japan's history
1: 1939, Germany invaded Poland
2: 31 BC, Battle of Actium in Greece
2: 1666, Great Fire of London began
2: 1935, Labor Day hurricane in Florida, strongest ever to hit U.S.
2: 1945, VJ Day, Japan's formal surrender effectively ending World War II
3: 1939, World War II began (England & five other countries declared war on Germany)
4: 476 AD, Final Roman emperor, Romulus Augustus, deposed
6: 1901, Pres. William McKinley fatally shot in Buffalo
6: 1997, funeral for Princess Diana of England
8: 1900, Galveston hurricane, America's deadliest natural disaster
11: 2001, World Trade Center & Pentagon terrorist attacks
11: 2012, Benghazi U.S. consulate attacked
14: 1901, Pres. William McKinley died
15: 1958, Newark Bay train wreck in New Jersey
15: 2008, Lehman Bros. collapse, exploded the Subprime Mortgage Crisis & effectively started Great Recession
16: 1920, Wall Street bombing
19: 1881, Pres. James A. Garfield died
21: 2013, Westgate shopping mall shootings in Kenya
22: 1993, Big Bayou Canot train wreck in Alabama
28: 2015, Fall of Kunduz
29: 1941, Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine

OCTOBER
2: 1983, Israel bank stock crisis
4: 1957, Sputnik launched, 1st artificial satellite
7: 2001, America inaugurated the Afghanistan War in the wake of 9/11
8: 1871, Great Chicago Fire began
14: 1913, Senghenydd colliery disaster, Great Britain's worst
16: 1991, Luby's massacre in Texas
17: 1989, Loma Prieta ("World Series") earthquake (San Francisco)
19: 202 BC, Battle of Zama, final defeat of Hannibal
19: 1987, stock market crash
20: 1941, Kragujevac massacre in Serbia
20: 1944, Cleveland East Ohio gas explosion
22: 1941, Odessa massacre
24: 1907, beginning of Panic of 1907
24: 1929, Wall Street crash inaugurating the Great Depression
28: Baku Metro fire in Azebaijan
28: 2012, Hurricane Sandy struck New York City
31: 2015, Kogalaymavia Flight 9268 exploded over Egypt

NOVEMBER:
2: 1994, Durunkah fire in Egypt
4: 1952, Kamchatka earthquake in Russia
7: 1948, Tacoma Narrows bridge disaster
8: 2013, Typhoon Haiyan in Phillipines, 2nd strongest ever to touch land
9: 1963, Mitsui Miike coalmine disaster
11: 1918, Armistice & ceasefire effectively ending World War I
13: 1985, Nevado del Ruiz erupted in Colombia
13: 2015, Paris bombing & killing massacre
18: 1978, Jonestown massacre
22: 1963, Pres. John F. Kennedy murdered
27: 1978, George Moscone & Harvey Milk murdered
27: 2015, Colorado Springs shootings
28: 1942, Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston, America's deadliest nightclub fire
29: 1890, Wounded Knee massacre
30: 1954, Hodges meteorite impact

DECEMBER
2: 2015, San Bernardino shootings
5: 1876, Conway Theater fire in Brooklyn
5: 1907, Monongah coalmine disaster, America's worst
5: 2009, Lame Horse Nightclub fire in Perm, Russia
6: 1917, Halifax explosion
7: 1941, Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor
7: 1946, Winecoff Hotel fire in Atlanta, America's deadliest hotel fire
8: 1994, Friendship Theater fire in Karamay, China
11: 1936, King Edward VIII of England abdicated
12: 2000, Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision
15: 1914, Mitsubishi Hojyo coalmine disaster, Japan's worst
17: 1961, Niteroi circus fire, Brazil's worst
20: 1860, South Carolina seceded from Union; effective start of Civil War
21: 1968, Apollo 8 launched to Moon
23: 1968, Apollo 8 orbits Moon
25: 2000, Luoyang Christmas fire
26: 1939, Erzincan earthquake in Turkey
26: 2004, Sumatra-Andaman earthquake near Indonesia
28: 1879, Tay Bridge disaster
29: 2013, Volgograd bombing
30: 1903, Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago, America's deadliest theater fire
31: 1703, Genroku earthquake in Japan