#: (C) Copyright 1990-1991 The Software Construction Co., All Rights Reserved. #: #: Monthly stuff 1:National Eye Health Care Month #: Events depending on weekdays M(1/21):National Clean-Off-Your-Desk Day (3rd Monday). #: Other calendar's events J1/1:Julian New Year's Day. #: Normal events 1/1/1785 :1st issue of London Times published. 1/2/1959 :Luna 1 (USSR) (first flyby of the Moon) launched. 1/3/1920 :Babe Ruth sold to NY Yankees by Boston Red Sox. 1/4/1958 :Sputnik 1 destroyed on reentry. 1/5/1056 :Saint Edward the Confessor, son of Ethelred the Unready, died. 1/6/1838 :Samuel F.B. Morse & Alfred Vail demonstrated the telegraph. 1/7/1927 :The Globetrotters debuted. 1/8/1889 :Herman Hollerith patented first data processing computer. 1/9/1969 :The Concorde jetliner made its 1st test flight (Bristol, England). 1/10/1968:"Great Balls of Fire" reached #1. 1/11/1964:Surgeon Gen. named cigarettes a "health hazard." 1/12/1853:First west coast university established (Willamette). 1/13/1972:NY ruled that a woman may become a professional baseball umpire. 1/14/1914:Henry Ford introduced the "assembly line" (1 Model-T/90 mins.). 1/15/1797:Top Hat first worn (John Etherington, London). 1/16/1936:Albert "the Cannibal" Fish, child murderer, executed (Sing Sing). 1/17/1926:George Burns married Gracie Allen. 1/18/1943:Commercial bakeries ordered to cease selling sliced bread. 1/19/1965:"Cheating" scandal rocked the AF Academy (105 cadets resigned). 1/20/1892:1st officially recognized basketball game played (Springfield, :MA). 1/21 :National Hugging Day. 1/22/1972:David Bowie announced he was gay. 1/23/1962:Kim Philby, Soviet spy, defected. 1/24/1908:1st Boy Scout troop organized (Sir Baden-Powell, England). 1/25/1971:Charles Manson found guilty of the murder of actress Sharon Tate. 1/26/1926:Television 1st demonstrated (J.L. Baird, London). 1/27/1888:National Geographic Society founded. 1/28 :National Kazoo Day. 1/29/1900:The American Baseball League formed (Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, :Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, & Minneapolis). 1/30/1835:1st presidential assassination attempt (Andrew Jackson). 1/31/1928:Scotch tape 1st sold.