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JANUARY

1

James
Frazer

2

Isaac
Asimov

3

Lucretia
Mott

4

Michael
Stipe

5

Marilyn
Manson

6

Khalil
Gibran

7

Gerald
Durrell

8

Stephen
Hawking

9

Simone
de Beauvoir

10

Common Sense
Published

11

William
James

12

Edmund
Burke

13

National Geographic
Society
formed

14

Scopes decision
Handed down

15

Jean
Baptiste
Poquelin

16

Dian
Fossey

17

Benjamin
Franklin

18

A.A.
Milne

19

Edgar
Allan
Poe

20

André-Marie
Ampère

21

Concordes
first flights

22

Beatrice
Webb

23

Rachel
Griffiths

24

Desmond
Morris

25

Robert
Burns

26

Australia
Day
Invasion Day

27

Nick
Mason

28

Challenger
Explodes

29

Tom
Paine

30

Olof
Palme

31

Norman
Mailer

 

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FEBRUARY

1

Columbia
explodes

2

Ayn
Rand

3

Gertrude
Stein

4

Betty
Friedan

5

Neville Bonner
[Dies]

6

Mary
Leakey

7

Alfred
Adler

8

Jules
Verne

9

Marie
Curie

10

Alex
Comfort

11

Thomas
Edison

12

Charles
Darwin

13

John
Hunter

14

Teller

15

Galileo
Galilei

16

Francis
Galton

17

Giordano
Bruno
Burnt at Stake

18

Alessandro
Volta

19

Nicolas
Copernicus

20

Frederick
Douglass [Dies]

21

Malcolm
X
[shot]

22

Arthur
Schopenhauer

23

Emile
Zola
imprisoned

24

Hustler defeats
Falwell

25

Anthony
Burgess

26

Victor
Hugo

27

Ralph
Nader

28

Linus
Pauling

29

Hugh
Falconer

 

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MARCH

1

Georg
Simmel

2

Mikhail
Gorbachev

3

William
Godwin

4

George
Gamow

5

Pier
Paolo
Pasolini

6

Valentina
Tereshkova

7

Stanley
Kubrick
[Dies]

8

Micky
Dolenz

9

Yury
Gagarin

10

Tiberius Claudius
Nero [Dies]

11

Douglas
Adams

12

James
Taylor

13

Percivel
Lowell

14

Albert
Einstein

15

Andrew
Jackson

16

Caroline Lucretia
Herschel

17

Moncure
Conway

18

Aleksei A.
Leonov

19

Frédéric
Joliot

20

B.F.
Skinner

21

Sharpeville
Massacre

22

Burton
Richter

23

Erich
Fromm

24

Olive
Schreiner

25

Gloria
Steinem

26

Richard
Dawkins

27

Wilhelm
Roentgen

28

Virginia
Woolf

29

Rosenbergs
Found Guilty

30

Ronald
Reagan
[Shot]

31

Rene
Descartes

 

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APRIL

1

William Harvey

2

Samuel Morse [Dies]

3

Dora Russell

4

Martin Luther King [Assassinated]

5

Joseph Lister

6

James Watson

7

World Health Day

8

Kofi Annan

9

Hugh Hefner

10

Chris Hani [Assassinated]

11

Apollo 13 Launched

12

Vostok 1 launched

13

Christopher Hitchens

14

Abraham Lincoln [Shot]

15

Leonardo da Vinci

16

Charlie Chaplin

17

Benjamin Franklin [Dies]

18

Clarence Darrow

19

Charles Darwin [Dies]

20

Curies isolate Radium

21

Romulus and Remus

22

Robert Oppenheimer

23

Max Planck

24

Hubble Telescope
Launched

25

Guglielmo Marconi

26

Charles F Richter

27

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

28

Gene Shoemaker

29

Derek Humphry

30

Claude Shannon

 

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MAY

1

May
Day

2

Bianca
Jagger

3

Golda
Meir

4

Thomas
Huxley

5

Walter Sisulu
[Dies]

6

Robespierre

7

David
Hume

8

Jean
Henri
Dunant

9

Glenda
Jackson

10

Nazi
book burning

11

Richard
Feynman

12

George
Carlin

13

First Fleet
sets sail

14

Skylab
Launched

15

Pierre
Curie

16

Junko Tabei
scales Mt Everest

17

Trent
Reznor

18

Bertrand
Russell

19

Andy
Thomas’
First Space Flight

20

J.S.
Mill

21

Alexander
Pope

22

Harvey
Milk

23

Carl
Linnaeus

24

Gabriel
Fahrenheit

25

Ian
McKellen

26

William of
Ockham

27

Francis
Beaufort

28

Paul
Scully-Power

29

Melissa
Etheridge

30

Christopher
Marlowe
[Murdered]

31

Walt
Whitman

 

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JUNE

1

Helen
Keller
[Dies]

2

Thomas
Hardy

3

Mabo
decision

4

Tiananmen Square
Massacre

5

World Environment Day

6

Alexander
Pushkin

7

Alan
Turing
[Dies]

8

Francis
Crick

9

George
Stephenson

10

Alexander the
Great
[Dies]

11

Jacques
Cousteau

12

Anne
Frank

13

Ann
Druyan

14

Che
Guevara

15

Magna
Carta

16

Barbara
McClintock

17

Ted
Nelson

18

Sally
Ride
[Challenger]

19

Salman
Rushdie

20

World
Refugee Day

21

Jean
Paul
Sartre

22

Julian
Huxley

23

Alan
Turing

24

Fred
Hoyle

25

George
Orwell

26

William
Kelvin

27

Emma
Goldman

28

Jean
Jacques
Rousseau

29

T H Huxley
[Dies]

30

Tunguska
Meteorite

 

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JULY

1

Deborah
Harry

2

William
Henry
Bragg

3

Battle of the
Somme

4

Declaration
of
Independence signed

5

Andrew
Ellicott
Douglass

6

Peter
Singer

7

Georg
Ohm
[Dies]

8

Ferdinand
Zeppelin

9

Nikola
Tesla

10

Rainbow
Warrior Bombed

11

World
Population
Day

12

David
Henry
Thoreau

13

Sidney
Webb

14

Emmeline
Pankhurst

15

Jocelyn
Bell
Burnell

16

Apollo
XI
Launched

17

Pierre
Maupertius

18

Richard
Branson

19

Rosetta Stone
[Found]

20

First
Moon
Landing

21

Ernest
Hemingway

22

Gustav
Hertz

23

Hale Bopp
Comet
[Discovered]

24

Scopes Monkey
Trial

25

Aldous
Huxley

26

Bernard
Shaw

27

Banting
and Best
isolate insulin

28

Ludwig
Feuerbach

29

Dorothy
Crowfoot
Hodgkin [Dies]

30

Richard

Haldane

31

Peter
Benenson

 

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AUGUST

1

Jean-Baptiste
Lamarck

2

Voyager
II
Launched

3

Shirley
Manson

4

Percy
Shelley

5

Neil
Armstrong

6

Alexander
Fleming

7

Louis
Leakey

8

Nagasaki
Atom Bombed

9

Jean
Piaget

10

Ferdinand
Magellan
begins voyage

11

Robert
Ingersoll

12

Erwin
Schrödinger

13

Alfred
Hitchcock

14

Telecast of Earth
From Space

15

Napoleon
Bonaparte

16

Woodstock
Festival

17

Berlin Wall
begins to be built

18

Roman
Polanski

19

Gene
Roddenberry

20

Paul
Ehrlich
[Dies]

21

Gemini-5
[Launched]

22

Jacob
Bronowski
[Dies]

23

Albert
Claude

24

Vesuvius
Explodes

25

Taslima
Nasrin

26

Antoine
Lavoisier

27

Georg
Hegel

28

Leo
Tolstoy

29

John
Locke

30

Mary
Wollstonecraft
Shelley

31

Maria
Montessori

 

TOP

SEPTEMBER

1

Chapman
Cohen

2

Christa
McAuliffe

3

Macfarlane
Burnet

4

Greenham
Common

5

John Newman
[Assassinated]

6

Roger
Waters

7

John Warcup
Cornforth

8

International
Literacy Day

9

Luigi
Galvani

10

Stephen
Jay
Gould

11

Salvador Allende
[Killed]

12

H L
Mencken

13

Robert
Robinson

14

Margaret
Sanger

15

William
Burroughs
[Dies]

16

Mayflower
departed England

17

Space
Shuttle
unveiled

18

Jean-Bernard
Foucoult

19

John
Flamsteed

20

James
Dewar

21

H.G.
Wells

22

Michael
Faraday

23

Spring
Equinox

24

Howard
Florey

25

Christopher
Reeve

26

Charles
Bradlaugh

27

Georges-Louis
Leclerc

28

Ethel
Rosenberg

29

Enrico
Fermi

30

Geoffrey
Robertson

 

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OCTOBER

1

Annie
Besant

2

Mahatma
Gandhi

3

Gore
Vidal

4

Sputnik
Launched

5

Bob
Geldof

6

Alfred Lord
Tennyson
[Dies]

7

Niels
Bohr

8

Mark
Oliphant

9

John
Lennon

10

Triton
[Discovered]

11

Apollo
7
Launched

12

Edith Cavell
Executed

13

Lenny
Bruce

14

Aung San
Suu Kyi
Nobel Peace Prize

15

Marie
Stopes

16

Oscar
Wilde

17

Mae
Jemison

18

Charles
Babbage
[Dies]

19

Jodie
Foster

20

Sydney Opera
House opens

21

Samuel
Taylor Coleridge

22

Timothy
Leary

23

Michael
Crichton

24

United
Nations
Day

25

Pablo
Picasso

26

Desiderius
Erasmus

27

Oliver
Tambo

28

Bill
Gates

29

Edmund
Halley

30

Ezra
Pound

31

John
Keats

 

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NOVEMBER

1

Larry
Flynt

2

George
Boole

3

Laika
Launched aboard Sputnik

4

Tom
Paine
Released

5

Susan B Anthony
Arrested

6

Griff
Rhys-Jones

7

Albert
Camus

8

Katharine
Hepburn

9

Carl
Sagan

10

Richard
Burton

11

Joseph
McCabe

12

Elizabeth Cady
Stanton

13

Mariner 9
Orbits Mars

14

Jawaharlal
Nehru

15

William
Herschel

16

Tiberius
Claudius
Nero

17

Luna 17
lands vehicle on Moon

18

Jonestown
Massacre

19

Indira
Gandhi

20

Edwin
Hubble

21

Voltaire

22

George
Eliot

23

Vladislav N
Volkov

24

Arundhati
Roy

25

Andrew
Carnegie

26

Norbert
Weiner

27

Anders
Celsius

28

Magellan
Names Pacific Ocean

29

Petra
Kelly

30

Mark
Twain

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TOP

DECEMBER

1

Woody
Allen

2

Helium
Dirigible
C-7 test flight

3

Quentin
Crisp
[Dies]

4

Edith
Cavell

5

Walt
Disney

6

Slavery in USA
Abolished

7

Noam
Chomsky

8

John Lennon
[Shot]

9

Nick
Seymour

10

UN Human Rights
Day

11

Robert
Koch

12

Erasmus
Darwin

13

Tasman
discovers
New Zealand

14

Tycho
Brahe

15

Alexander
Gustave Eiffel

16

Arthur C
Clarke

17

Wright Brothers
fly plane

18

Steve
Biko

19

Richard
Leakey

20

Sidney
Hook

21

Frank
Zappa

22

Native Title
legislation passed

23

Jean-François
Champollion

24

Earth-rise over moon Apollo 8

25

Isaac
Newton

26

Charles
Babbage

27

Bob
Brown

28

Tom
Paine
Imprisoned

29

Klaus
Fuchs

30

A.N.
Whitehead
[Dies]

31

John
Denver

 

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