Holidays for the Revolutionary Humanist

Stupid American Holidays:

Groundhog's Day: Stolen from the Celtic Gaelic IMBOLC, which is a celebration with Feasts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolc http://wicca.com/celtic/akasha/imbolclore.htm In between Winter equinox and Spring solstice.

St. Valentine's Day: Named after a made-up person. The Catholic Church coopted Roman Holiday Lupercalia with this day. Lupercalia priests sacrificed dogs and goats (since they're the “natural enemies” of wolves, who suckled Romulus and Remus to life), and then they'd dip strip dog/goat skin, and would run around naked, whipping the women in the town with the blood soaked dog/goat skin strips, to make them more fertile. Mark Anthony tried to crown Julius Caesar Emperor during a Lupercalia festival. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupercalia

St. Patrick's Day: [Spring Holiday Celebration] The Catholic Church coopted Protestant St. Patrick, who genocided the native Druid Irish (who may have been Black), and converted them to Christianity. He also killed 2 Princesses, after he Baptized them. Irish-Americans got it started in America. It's a Feast day, and there's the copious amounts of the drinking of alcohol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick's_Day

Lent is the Weeping of 40 year old Tammuz, 1 day per year Tammuz was alive.

Easter Sunday: [Spring Holiday Celebration] The Catholic Church coopted the Springtime Jewish Passover ritual, and it also has origins from the pagan Roman-Greco Religion of Ishtar (Semiramis). Ishtar was born out of an egg the first Sunday after the Spring Vernal Equinox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar [Ostara/Eostre] Good Friday is the Celebration of Jesus dying (killed by Jews, not the Roman authorities, or by Pontius Pilate). Egyptian Ishtar priests would rape the virgins of the land, and then dip eggs in the blood of the virgins 9 months later on Dec. 25. Bunny rabbit goes around laying chicken eggs.

4^th of July. Independence from Great Britain is great, and it's common sense, but the Declaration of Independence was actually passed on July 2, 1776. Plus, with the govt shutdown over Obamacare, our govt doesn't even care about our lives, let alone, “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”.

Columbus Day: Oct 13. Knights of Columbus (Catholic) got this day to celebrate a pedophilic genocidal maniac. 100 million native Americans were wiped out to make room for the whites. Columbus's men loved 12 year old native Hatian Indian girls (Arawaks and Taino) the best. After having sex with them, they'd kill them, and throw them into a heap of dead bodies. Columbus contributed to the genocide of the entire American continent of native Americans, and was responsible for ½ million dead himself, when he ruled over those islands he “discovered”.

Halloween. Oct. 31. The Catholic Church coopted annual Fall Harvest festival of the Celtic Gaelic celebration of Samhain with All Saint's Day/All Soul's Day. Mumming and guising was a part of Samhain from at least the 16th century and was recorded in parts of Ireland, Scotland, Mann and Wales. It involved people going from house to house in costume (or in disguise), usually reciting songs or verses in exchange for food. The costumes may have been a way of imitating, or disguising oneself from, the aos sí. Vanilla Ice was born on Halloween. Rob Schneider too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain

Thanksgiving Day: GangsThieving. John Mason led his English-speaking Protestants in the genocidal massacre of 700 Pequot women, children, and old men during the Massacre of Mystic River, while they were sleeping, who were left unguarded by their warriors during the Pequot War of 1637. John Winthrop declared a Day of Thanksgiving the day after. Squanto escaped from John Smith's men's capture, and enslavement. Pequot and Wampanoags, and Massachusetts were all dead when Squanto came back. Benjamin Church murdered King Philip aka Metacomet, the Chief of the Wampanoag, and put his head on a pike, and put it in the center of the town square for 20 years.

December 25 Births: Roman Sun God Saturn; Roman Sun God Sol Invictus [The Unconquerable Sun]; Thor, Son of Odin; Amun-Ra; Horus; Krishna; Attis of Phrygia; Horus; Mithras, Zeus; Roman Sun God Apollo, son of Zeus; Bacchus aka Dionysus; Greek Sun God Helios; Jupiter; Nimrod; Greek God Perseus (beheaded Medusa); Tammuz [killed by a wild boar, so we eat Ham]; Buddha aka Beddou (Fot); Hercules aka Heracles; Prometheus, and; Hermes were born, and therefore, their births were celebrated on December 25, way before “Jesus Christ” was chosen to be born on that day. Saturnalia was a giant orgy to end all orgies, including pedophilia, and homosexuality, as Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, and Alexander the Great all engaged in. It was a day of anarchy, and lawlessness and debauchery. Later on, English had a Christ's Mass during December 25 celebrations, which is where roaming mobs of poor folks would go around and take over the rich people's houses, and there was 1 person who was elected King for 12 days, but then he was executed by the night's end. Christmas was illegal to celebrate until 1840 in America. Egyptian Ishtar priests would rape the virgins of their religious cult, and then dip eggs in the blood of the virgins on Dec. 25, they had raped 9 months prior.

Xamolxis of Thrace, Wittoba of the Bilingonese... born on Dec. 25?

Holidays is “Holy Days”. Sunday is celebration of Sun god. Saturday is celebration of Saturn god. Sundays are now Black Sabbath days. Thursday is Thor's Day.

Also, use CE (Common Era) for the dating system instead of (AD), because it's not accurate (Jesus was born several years before, if he existed at all), and it's religious.

Proposed New Holidays:

While the French Revolutionaries wanted to change the Gregorian Calendar system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar, with the French Revolution becoming Year Zero (O), and all other dates, before and afterwards, corresponding with this initial day. While the French Revolutionaries failed to change the Gregorian Calendar system in this regard, the French Revolution, however, is the date that separates the Premodern Era from the Modern Era. 

The French Revolution's Calendar: http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-french.html. The French Revolutionary Calendar (or Republican Calendar) was officially adopted in France on October 24, 1793 and abolished on 1 January 1806 by Emperor Napoleon I. It was used again briefly during under the Paris Commune in 1871. The French also established a new clock, in which the day was divided in ten hours of a hundred minutes of a hundred seconds - exactly 100,000 seconds per day. An interesting fact, the Eiffel Tower was built in commemoration of the French Revolution, and was built for the Paris World’s Fair in 1889.

The Gregorian Calendar, unfortunately, is pretty much well entrenched, and that's a much bigger effort than what I'm willing to commit. Instead, I propose New Holidays throughout the year for which Revolutionary Secular Humanists can celebrate. 

Many of the above religious holidays correspond to the changing of the seasons. So the Winter Solstice (Dec. 21-22), Spring Equinox (March 21), Summer Solstice (June 21-22), and Fall Equinox (Sept. 22) are the most important dates in the calendar for secularist. They represent when to hunker down to survive the Winter, when it's going to get colder and when the days are shorter, and when to plant crops, when it's going to get warmer, and the days are longer (in North America).

Since US recognized national holidays, all of those must be accepted, or rejected and replaced with another, so the revolutionary secular humanist isn't just sitting on their hands during these times. Federal holidays include: New Year's Day (Jan. 1). MLK Day (3^rd Monday of January). Inauguration Day (Jan. 20, or 21^st if on 20^th is on a Sunday). Washington's Birthday (3^rd Monday of Feb.). Cesar Chavez Day (March 31). Memorial Day (Last Monday of May; for Civil War veterans). Independence Day (July 4). Labor Day (1^st Monday of Sept). Columbus Day (2^nd Monday of Oct.). Veteran's Day (Nov. 11; for end of World War 1). Thanksgiving Day (4^th Thurs. of Nov.). Christmas Day (Dec. 25).

Washington's Birthday, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day all need to be gotten rid or, or celebrated with different Holidays. Washington was a bloody war monger, who genocided the Iroquois, killed Shawnee and Miami once he was President. If Washington hadn't owned slaves, or murdered natives, we could have had a non-racist country. Instead, he did. So fuck him. A famous slave, like Frederick Douglass, or a famous Native American, like Blackfish, Cornstalk, Dragging Canoe, should be celebrated instead. Or Daniel Shay should be celebrated, as a counter to Washington, because Shay put his life on the line for the Revolution, and then his land was being taken from him. The “Revolution” also forgot Blacks, natives, women, and men who didn't own land, and everybody under 21, from being citizens. So, it was more of a counter Revolution, than a true Revolution. Only the Bill of Rights was good enough. Even the Constitution had a 3/5 clause on it. It's the document we have today, so maybe a Constitution Day should be had, or maybe, we should just draw up a new Constitution. Fuck Columbus. Fuck the idea of Thanksgiving, where we were “nice” to the natives. We should change Thanksgiving to the national day of mourning, where we share stories about our favorite native American tribes, and their customs. We educate ourselves on those who walked on this land 12,000 years before any white person stepped foot in America. Christmas is ridiculous, since there was never a person named Jesus Christ who walked on this planet.

I also propose using some of the dates used on Neil Tyson's revised Carl Sagan's Calendar: The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the vast history of the universe in which its 13.8 billion year lifetime is condensed down into a single year. In this visualization, the Big Bang took place at the beginning of January 1 at midnight, and the current moment is mapped onto the end of December 31 at midnight. At this scale, there are 438 years per second, 1.58 million years per hour, and 37.8 million years per day. This concept was popularized by Carl Sagan in his book The Dragons of Eden and on his television series Cosmos. In the 2014 sequel series, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, host Neil deGrasse Tyson presents the same concept of a Cosmic Calendar, but using the revised age of the universe of 13.8 billion years as an improvement on Sagan's 1980 figure of 15 billion years. Sagan goes on to extend the comparison in terms of surface area, explaining that if the Cosmic Calendar is scaled to the size of a football field, then "all of human history would occupy an area the size of [his] hand".

I also peppered the Calendar with random Science facts and with random Revolutionary figures and dates. They aren't comprehensive, and should be edited. More significant events should be put in, and less ones deleted. In due time.

The Revolutionary Secularist Humanist Calendar

January 1. New Year's Day. (Federal Holiday). Remembrance of Cuban and Haitian Revolutions, TCP/IP should be celebrated, and talk about the origins of the entire Universe with the Big Bang.

January 1. Cuban Revolution Day (Revolution ends).

January 1. Haiti becomes a Nation, the only successful slave revolt that became a country (1804).

January 1. Big Bang happens. Within seconds, a whole galaxy is formed.

January 1, 1983. In 1978, TCP splits into TCP/IP driven by Danny Cohen, David Reed, and John Shochto support real-time traffic. This allows the creation of UDP. TCP/IP is later standardized into ARPANET on January 1, 1983 and is still the primary protocol used for the Internet.

January 8. Stephen Hawking is born (1942).

January 15-21 (3^rd Monday in January). MLK Day. MLK was born January 15, 1929.

January 16, 1909. Three members of an Ernest Shackleton expedition to Antarctica – Edgeworth David, Douglas Mawson and Alistair Mackay – succeeded in finding the South Magnetic Pole. The three geologists had arrived at a spot at latitude 72°42′ South the previous day. They calculated they were so close to the South Magnetic Pole that – within 24 hours – its shift should cause the pole to come to the spot on which they stood.

Jan. 19. Big Boobs Day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Parton 

Jan. 20, or 21. Inauguration Day (Federal Holiday).

January 21. International Anti-Tyrant Day. King Louis 16^th is beheaded (1793).

January, 23, 1960. Deep Dive Day. On this date, the submersible vehicle Trieste made a record-setting dive to the deepest surveyed part of the ocean. Trieste was a bathyscaphe – “deep boat”– owned by the U.S. Navy. It was a free-diving, self-propelled deep-sea submersible, and it dove – with two crew members aboard – into the Marianas Trench east of the Philippines, whose deepest portion is called the Challenger Deep. It took nine hours to descend 6.83 miles (10,911 meters) to the deepest ocean. Afterwards, nobody returned to Challenger Deep for 52 years, until Titanic director James Cameron descended successfully on March 26, 2012. Cameron plans to turn his solo diving experience into a 3-D feature film. Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard designed the Trieste and built it in Italy. His son, Jacques Piccard (who was also a Swiss scientist) and U.S. Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh were on board for the record-setting dive to Challenger Deep.

January 23, 1978. On this date, Sweden announced it would ban aerosol sprays containing chlorofluorocarbons as the propelling agent. It was the first country in the world to do so. At the time, evidence had increasingly suggested that chlorofluorocarbons were damaging Earth ozone layer. The U.S. announced it would ban flurocarbon gases in aerosol products on October 15, 1978.

January 29, 1886. The Modern Car with Gasoline Power Internal Combustion Day. The first automobile designed to be propelled by an internal combustion engine was patented on this by German Karl Benz. Patent #DRP-37435: “automobile fueled by gas”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Benz Internal combustion engine. As a means of transportation, “Dowe” gives the greatest credit to “Daimler, Ford and Duryea.” Gottleib Daimler is a well-known pioneer in motor vehicles. Henry Ford began production of the Model T in 1908 and it was quite popular by 1913. Charles Duryea made one of the earliest commercially successful petrol-driven vehicles, starting in 1896. Nicolaus Otto who in 1876 invented an effective gas motor engine. Nicolaus Otto built the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine called the “Otto Cycle Engine,” and when he completed his engine, he built it into a motorcycle. The gasoline-powered automobile. Many inventors worked toward the goal of a “self-propelled” vehicle in the 19th century. Wyman gave the honor specifically to Gottleib Daimler for his 1889 engine, arguing: “a century's insistent but unsuccessful endeavor to provide a practical self-propelled car proves that the success of any type that once answered requirements would be immediate. Such success did come with the advent of the Daimler motor, and not before.”

January 30. Ghandi is assassinated (1948).

Feb. 2. Groundhog's Day, aka Celtic Gaelic IMBOLC Day, aka Celtic Gaelic IMBOLC Day, aka Saint Brighid's Day, aka The Halfway Point in between the Winter Solstice peak and the Spring Equinox Day. Imbolc Day is a celebration with Feasts. Alternative Celebration: James Joyce and Ayn Rand Day (an atheist). So Springtime is 6 weeks away. James Joyce, the Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ayn Rand, Fountainhead, and Shakira, her hips don't lie, are all born on Feb 2.

February 3, 1468. The Printing Press Revolution Day. Gutenberg dies at age 70 in Mainz, Electorate of Mainz. The exact date of his invention of the printing press can't be found, nor his birthday, so his death day is used for this day of celebration. The Internet is the Gutenberg Printing Press Revolution for the World. The German Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press around 1440. Key to its development was the hand mold, a new molding technique that enabled the rapid creation of large quantities of metal movable type. Printing presses exponentially increased the speed with which book copies could be made, and thus they led to the rapid and widespread dissemination of knowledge for the first time in history. Twenty million volumes had been printed in Western Europe by 1500. Gutenberg Printing Press Revolution helped spark the Age of Enlightenment. In 1518 followers of the German monk Martin Luther used the printing press to copy and disseminate his seminal work “The Ninety-Five Theses,” which jumpstarted the Protestant Reformation and spurred conflicts like the Thirty Years’ War (1618-48). Among other things, the printing press permitted wider access to the Bible, which in turn led to alternative interpretations, including that of Martin Luther, whose "95 Theses" a document printed by the hundred-thousand sparked the Protestant Reformation.

Feb. 4. Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, an atheist.

February, 6, 1959. On this date, Jack Kilby – who had just started working for Texas Instruments – filed a patent application for the integrated circuit, also known as a microchip. This kind of circuit sits on a small plate or chip of silicon or some other semiconductor material. Kilby is considered the co-inventor of the circuit along with Robert Noyce, who discovered it independently.

February 9, 1913. One hundred and one years ago today, a strange meteor sighting occurred over Canada, the U.S. Northeast, Bermuda and some ships at sea, including one off Brazil. What happened that night is sometimes called the Great Meteor Procession of 1913, and it sparked decades of debate concerning what actually happened.

February 12. Atheist Pride/Freedom from Religion Day. Darwin and Lincoln Day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Day highlight Darwin's contribution to science and to promote science in general special recipes for primordial soup and other inventive dishes, protests with school boards and other governmental bodies, workshops and symposia, distribution of information by people in ape costumes, lectures and debates, essay and art competitions, concerts, poetry readings, plays, artwork, comedy routines, re-enactments of the Scopes Trial and of the debate between Thomas H. Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, library displays, museum exhibits, travel and educational tours, recreations of the journey of the HMS Beagle, church sermons, movie nights, outreach, and nature hikes. The Darwin Day Celebration Web site offers free registration and display of all Darwin Day events. The Perth Mint, Australia will launch[dated info] a 2009 dated commemorative 1 ounce silver legal tender coin depicting Darwin, young and old; HMS Beagle; and Darwin's signature. Some celebrants also combine Darwin Day with a celebration of Abraham Lincoln, who was also born on 12 February 1809. IHEU: International Humanist and Ethical Union. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Humanist_and_Ethical_Union

February 13, 1923: Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier, was born in Myra, West Virginia. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in September 1941 and fought in World War II before being assigned to fly high-performance aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in 1947.

Valentine's Day. Feb 14. Love Day. 2nd “spring is almost here” celebration, with romantic love as it's central theme.

Feb. 14-21 (3^rd Monday of Feb). Washington's Birthday (Federal Holiday). Aka “President's Day”, to celebrate Abraham Lincoln, which is better than Washington. We can celebrate Lincoln (though he's problematic too), but slave-owning town destroyer genocidal maniac anti-Revolutionary Washington is out. ALTERNATIVE CELEBRATION: Highlight Iroquois was the first ever democracy in the world. The Shawnee and Miami were also targeted in Washington's imperialization.

February 21. Malcolm X is assassinated (1965).

February 21. Communist Manifesto is published (1848).

February 27, 1899. In a small county in Maine, Charles Herbert Best was born on this date in 1899. Along with Frederick Banting, he discovered insulin, used to manage diabetes.

March 2, 1908. Happy Electrical Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen Day! On this day, Fritz Haber is awarded a patent for the Haber Process, which makes Ammonia. http://www.google.com/patents/US990191 Electrical fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. As natural fertilizer sources were depleted during the 19th century, artificial fertilizers enabled the further expansion of agriculture. Nitrogen Fixation, a process of combining atmospheric nitrogen with other elements to form useful compounds. There are only a few ways in which nitrogen, which is relatively inert, can be combined with other elements. Nitrogen is essential to living things and, because most organisms cannot use nitrogen that is not combined with other elements, nitrogen fixation is important to the continuation of life on earth. Fixed, or combined, nitrogen is also necessary for the manufacture of many substances, including explosives and commercial fertilizers. In nature, nitrogen is fixed by some micro-organisms and by lightning. This natural fixation plays an important role in the nitrogen cycle. In the 20th century, humans learned to fix nitrogen in large quantities to supplement the amount of nitrogen fixed naturally. Synthetic processes of nitrogen fixation include the electric arc process, the cyanamide process, and the Haber process. http://science.howstuffworks.com/nitrogen-fixation-info.htm Two main groups of microorganisms carry out nitrogen fixation. The more common of the two groups is made up of organisms living in soil and water—a few species of bacteria (chiefly of the genera Azotobacter and Clostridium) and some blue-green algae. The second group, consisting of bacteria of the genus Rhizobium, lives in plants, primarily legumes such as peas, clover, and alfalfa. The bacteria cause the roots of legumes to form root nodules (swellings) in which the organisms live. The plants supply the bacteria with food. In return, the bacteria secrete ammonium compounds that are absorbed and used by the legumes and by other plants that are grown in the same soil. Lightning plays a minor part in the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. The extreme heat of a lightning flash causes nitrogen to combine with oxygen of the air to form nitrogen oxides. The oxides combine with moisture in the air. The fixed nitrogen is carried by rain to the earth, where, in the form of nitrates, it is used by plants. Synthetic Nitrogen Fixation. Haber Process, or Haber-Bosch Process. In this process, heated nitrogen (from the air) and hydrogen are mixed under very high pressure in a vessel where they combine chemically. The vessel contains a catalyst (usually iron with oxides of aluminum and potassium), which speeds up the chemical reaction. The Haber process is the most widely used process for the commercial production of ammonia. Fritz Haber, a German chemist, developed the process in the first decade of the 20th century. Karl Bosch, another German scientist, adapted the process for industrial use.

The Haber process, also called the Haber–Bosch process, is the industrial implementation of the reaction of nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. It is the main industrial procedure to produce ammonia: N2 + 3 H2 → 2 NH3 (ΔH = −92.4 kJ·mol−1). Nitrogen is a strong limiting nutrient in plant growth. Carbon and oxygen are also critical, but are easily obtained by plants from soil and air. Even though air is 78% nitrogen, atmospheric nitrogen is nutritionally unavailable because nitrogen molecules are held together by strong triple bonds. Nitrogen must be 'fixed', i.e. converted into some bioavailable form, through natural or human-made processes. Fritz Haber (German: [ˈhaːbɐ]; 9 December 1868 – 29 January 1934) was a German chemist of Jewish origin who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his development for synthesizing ammonia, important for fertilizers and explosives. The food production for half the world's current population depends on this method for producing fertilizer. Haber, along with Max Born, proposed the Born–Haber cycle as a method for evaluating the lattice energy of an ionic solid. Notoriously, Haber is also remembered to history as the “father of chemical warfare” for his years of pioneering work developing and weaponizing chlorine and other poisonous gases during World War I, as well as his later founding chairmanship of the Degesch Corporation, which (two decades after Haber's term) knowingly produced the hydrogen cyanide-based Zyklon B gas used to kill millions in the gas chambers of the Holocaust.

Electric Arc Process. In this process a powerful electric arc is set up in the air, causing nitrogen and oxygen to combine and form nitrogen oxides. The air containing the oxides is then sent through water, which combines with the oxides to form nitric acid. The electric arc process was the first synthetic process of nitrogen fixation, developed by Lord Rayleigh in 1895.

The Cyanamide Process. In the cyanamide process, calcium carbide—produced from lime, coke, and air—is ground into a powder and heated in an atmosphere of pure nitrogen. The process produces calcium cyanamide, which can then be used to produce ammonia.

Well before the start of the industrial revolution, farmers would fertilize the land in various ways, aware of the benefits of an intake of essential nutrients for plant growth. The 1840s works of Justus von Liebig identified nitrogen as one of these important nutrients. The same chemical compound could already be converted to nitric acid, the precursor of gunpowder and powerful explosives like TNT and nitroglycerine. Scientists also already knew that nitrogen formed the dominant portion of the atmosphere, but inorganic chemistry had yet to establish a means to fix it. Then, in 1909, German chemist Fritz Haber successfully fixed atmospheric nitrogen in a laboratory. This success had extremely attractive military, industrial and agricultural applications. In 1913, barely five years later, a research team from BASF, led by Carl Bosch, developed the first industrial-scale application of the Haber process, sometimes called the Haber-Bosch process. The industrial production of nitrogen prolonged World War I by providing Germany with the gunpowder and explosives necessary for the war effort even though it no longer had access to guano. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Haber_process

March 13, 1781. The 7th planet – Uranus – was discovered on this date, completely by accident. British astronomer William Herschel was performing a survey of all the stars that were of magnitude 8 – in other words, too faint to see with the eye – or brighter. That’s when he noticed an object that moved in front of the star background over time, clearly demonstrating it was closer to us than the distant stars. He surmised this object was orbiting the sun and that it was a new planet – the first discovered since ancient times.

March 14. Karl Marx dies (1883). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx

March 14^th. Albert Einstein's birthday.

March 15. Milky Way Galaxy is formed (Neil Tyson).

March 21. Earth Day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day Spring Equinox.

March 21. Spring Equinox: Middle of the Warming Up of the Earth. St. Patrick's Day is the 17^th, 4 day prior. Cultural Regeneration Day. Africa Day. Destruction of Race as Identifier. Cultural regeneration for all folks. Black power Revolution.

March 21. National Religion is Stupid Day. The State of Tennessee enacts the Butler Act in 1925, which outlaws teaching of Evolution, starting the Scopes Monkey Trial, with John Scopes, a Kentuckian, being a central figure. Clarence Darrow, an atheist, represented him. We'll celebrate the day by celebrating the Earth, and by making fun of stupid religions, and sharing jokes about these stupid religions. 

March 31. Cesar Chavez Day (Federal Holiday). While I've heard some things about him being racist, not having many other Latino peoples celebrated, we'll keep him, and highlight perhaps better Latino peoples later. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Chavez

March 27, 1964. On this date, at 5:36 p.m. local time, a 9.2 magnitude earthquake struck in the Prince William Sound region of Alaska, causing extensive initial damage and a subsequent tsunami. In Anchorage, dozens of blocks of buildings were leveled or damaged. Valdez, closest to the epicenter, was destroyed. The quake is now known as the Good Friday Earthquake.

April 3, 1973. Cell Phone Day. On 3 April 1973 when Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. The prototype handheld phone used by Dr. Cooper weighed 1.1 kg and measured 23 cm long, 13 cm deep and 4.45 cm wide. The prototype offered a talk time of just 30 minutes and took 10 hours to re-charge. The first hand-held cell phone was demonstrated by John F. Mitchell and Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing around 4.4 pounds (2 kg) April 1973. The first call he made was to his rival, Joel Engel, Bell Labs head of research. Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be awarded a patent for the electric telephone in 1876

April 4. Martin Luther King is assassinated (1968).

April 5, 1957. Happy High Fructose Corn Syrup Day aka Enzymatic conversion of D-glucose to D-fructose. Marshall, RO; Kooi, ER (April 1957). “Enzymatic conversion of D-glucose to D-fructose”. Science 125 (3249): 648–9. doi:10.1126/science.125.3249.648. PMID 13421660. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13421660 The process by which high-fructose corn syrup is produced was first developed by Richard O. Marshall and Earl P. Kooi in 1957. The industrial production process was refined by Dr. Y. Takasaki at Agency of Industrial Science and Technology of Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan in 1965–1970. High-fructose corn syrup was rapidly introduced to many processed foods and soft drinks in the United States from around 1975 to 1985. A system of sugar tariffs and sugar quotas imposed in 1977 in the United States significantly increased the cost of imported sugar and U.S. producers sought cheaper sources. High-fructose corn syrup, derived from corn, is more economical because the domestic U.S. and Canadian prices of sugar are twice the global price and the price of corn is kept low through government subsidies paid to growers. High-fructose corn syrup became an attractive substitute, and is preferred over cane sugar among the vast majority of American food and beverage manufacturers. Soft drink makers such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi use sugar in other nations, but switched to high-fructose corn syrup in the United States in 1984. The average American consumed approximately 37.8 lb (17.1 kg) of high-fructose corn syrup in 2008, versus 46.7 lb (21.2 kg) of sucrose. In recent years it has been hypothesized that the increase of high-fructose corn syrup usage in processed foods may be linked to various health conditions, including metabolic syndrome, hypertension, dyslipidemia, hepatic steatosis, insulin resistance, and obesity.

April 10, 1863. The Electric Furnace Day. Paul (Louis-Toussaint) Héroult (April 10, 1863 – May 9, 1914) was a French scientist born on this day. He was the inventor of the aluminium electrolysis and developed the first successful commercial electric arc furnace. He is considered the creator of the method used for preparing steels in the electric furnace. In 1907, he patented a furnace in which the arc was produced between the heated scrap iron and a graphite electrode. There are many of these furnaces throughout the world, all of the Héroult type. The first direct-arc electric furnace installed in the United States was a Héroult furnace. The electric furnace (1889) It was “the only means for commercially producing Carborundum (the hardest of all manufactured substances).” The electric furnace also converted aluminum “from a merely precious to very useful metal” (by reducing it’s price 98 percent), and was “radically transforming the steel industry.” The Bessemer Process (stolen from a Kentuckian) is a technique for creating steel using molten pig iron, in the 1850s. Steel then exploded into one of the biggest industries on the planet and was used in the creation of everything from bridges and railroads to skyscrapers and engines. It proved particularly influential in North America, where massive iron ore deposits helped the United States become one of the world’s biggest economies. The Electric Furnace eclipses the Bessemer Process shortly thereafter.

April 12, 1961. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin When Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth on 12 April 1961, the plan had never been for him to land inside his Vostok spacecraft. His spherical reentry capsule came through the Earth’s atmosphere on a ballistic trajectory. Soviet engineers had not yet perfected a braking system that would slow the craft sufficiently for a human to survive impact. They decided to eject the cosmonaut from his craft. Yuri Gagarin ejected at 20,000 feet and landed safely on Earth.

April 13, 1949. Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) is born. Known for his contrarian stance on a number of issues, Hitchens excoriated such public figures as Mother Teresa, Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Diana, Princess of Wales, and Pope Benedict XVI. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens

April 20. “4:20pm” is known as the time to smoke up, and so 4-20 is a day to smoke marijuana.

April 16-22. (3^rd Thursday in April). Ask an Atheist Day. Atheists are setting up a chair and table with a sign that says “Ask an Atheist” to get the public to talk to folks who don't believe in God. https://secularstudents.org/askanatheistday

April 23, 1884. Steam Turbine Day. Charles Parsons takes out a patent on the Steam Turbine on this day. The steam turbine. The turbine deserved credit not only “in the utilization of steam as a prime mover” but in its use in the “generation of electricity.” The turbine invented by Charles Parsons powered ships. Assembled in numbers, they provided an efficient means of driving electrical generators and producing that most useful commodity. A steam turbine is a device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft. Its modern manifestation was invented by Sir Charles Parsons in 1884. Because the turbine generates rotary motion, it is particularly suited to be used to drive an electrical generator – about 90% of all electricity generation in the United States (1996) is by use of steam turbines. The steam turbine is a form of heat engine that derives much of its improvement in thermodynamic efficiency from the use of multiple stages in the expansion of the steam, which results in a closer approach to the ideal reversible expansion process.

April 29, 1891. Happy Electrical Welding Process Day! The electric welding process of Elihu Thomson is officially patented. http://www.google.com/patents/US451345 In the era of mass production, the electric welding process enabled faster production and construction of better, more intricate machines for that manufacturing process. Thomson solved both problems by connecting the two materials to be welded in a parallel circuit and using a transformer to run an electric current between them. A low emf (electro motive force) of about 2 volts and a high current rate of approximately 2000 amps combined to produce the almost molten state needed for such industrial welding. In 1888, a second Thomson founded company, Thomson Electric Welding, began exploiting Thomson's welding process and is the subject of this collection. In 1892 the Thomson-Houston Company merged with Edison-Electric to form the General Electric Company. Elihu Thomson, (born March 29, 1853, Manchester—died March 13, 1937, Swampscott, Mass., U.S.), U.S. electrical engineer and inventor whose discoveries in the field of alternating-current phenomena led to the development of successful alternating-current motors. He was also a founder of the U.S. electrical industry. Thomson was a prolific inventor, being awarded over 700 patents. For example, he invented the induction wattmeter mechanism used in electric meters. In 1876 while setting up an experiment, he fused some copper wires together. Quickly thinking and making a note "better luck next time" he questioned whether metals could be welded at will. The fusing of the copper wires was an initial discovery of welding. 1885, Elihu set forth to develop electric resistance welding. "All that was required was a transformer with a primary to be connected to the lighting circuit and a secondary of a few turns of massive copper cable. The ends of this cable were fitted with strong clamps which grasped the pieces of metal to be welded and forced them tightly together. The heavy current flowing through the joint created such a high heat that the metal was melted and run together, That was - and still is - the whole principle"

May 1, 1888. Happy Nikola Tesla Induction Motor Day! Nikola Tesla, a Serbian inventor, gains the patent for the first motor for transforming AC electrical power into mechanical energy on this day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nikola_Tesla_patents The Nikola Tesla induction motor. “This epoch-making invention is mainly responsible for the present large and increasing use of electricity in the industries.” Before people had electricity in their homes, the alternating current–producing motor constructed by Tesla supplied 90 percent of the electricity used by manufacturing. Tesla applied for U.S. Patents in October and November 1887 and was granted some of these patents in May 1888. In April 1888, the Royal Academy of Science of Turin published Ferraris's research on his AC polyphase motor detailing the foundations of motor operation. In May 1888 Tesla presented the technical paper “A New System for Alternating Current Motors and Transformers” to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) describing three four-stator-pole motor types: one with a four-pole rotor forming a non-self-starting reluctance motor, another with a wound rotor forming a self-starting induction motor, and the third a true synchronous motor with separately excited DC supply to rotor winding. George Westinghouse, who was developing an alternating current power system at that time, licensed Tesla’s patents in 1888 and purchased a US patent option on Ferraris' induction motor concept. This innovative electric motor, patented in May 1888, was a simple self-starting design that did not need a commutator, thus avoiding sparking and the high maintenance of constantly servicing and replacing mechanical brushes.

March 2, 1909. Happy McMullen Dry Kiln Day, aka the Preservation of Sugar-producing Plants Day. On this day, George W. McMullen of Chicago is granted a patent for his discovery of a method for drying sugar cane and sugar beets cossettes for transport http://www.google.com/patents/US913758. Sugar production became more efficient and its supply increased by leaps and bounds. The McMullen Dry Kiln is an oven which dries the beets. No air can get inside the kiln, but there is a hole in the bottom for water to escape. The sugar from the fresh beets and the dried beets were the same. Sugar beet provides approximately 30% of world sugar production. In the developed countries, the sugar industry relies on machinery, with a low requirement for manpower. A large beet refinery producing around 1,500 tonnes of sugar a day needs a permanent workforce of about 150 for 24-hour production.

The steam engine first powered a sugar mill in Jamaica in 1768, and soon after, steam replaced direct firing as the source of process heat. In 1813 the British chemist Edward Charles Howard invented a method of refining sugar that involved boiling the cane juice not in an open kettle, but in a closed vessel heated by steam and held under partial vacuum. At reduced pressure, water boils at a lower temperature, and this development both saved fuel and reduced the amount of sugar lost through caramelization. Further gains in fuel-efficiency came from the multiple-effect evaporator, designed by the United States engineer Norbert Rillieux (perhaps as early as the 1820s, although the first working model dates from 1845). This system consisted of a series of vacuum pans, each held at a lower pressure than the previous one. The vapors from each pan served to heat the next, with minimal heat wasted. Modern industries use multiple-effect evaporators for evaporating water. The process of separating sugar from molasses also received mechanical attention: David Weston first applied the centrifuge to this task in Hawaii in 1852. In the United States and Japan, high-fructose corn syrup has replaced sugar in some uses, particularly in soft drinks and processed foods.

Scientifically, sugar loosely refers to a number of carbohydrates, such as monosaccharides, disaccharides, oroligosaccharides. Monosaccharides are also called "simple sugars," the most important being glucose. Almost all sugars have the formula CnH2nOn (n is between 3 and 7). Glucose has the molecular formula C6H12O6. The names of typical sugars end with ose, as in "glucose", "dextrose", and "fructose". Sometimes such words may also refer to any types of carbohydrates soluble in water. The acyclic mono- and disaccharides contain either aldehyde groups or ketone groups. These carbon-oxygen double bonds (C=O) are the reactive centers. All saccharides with more than one ring in their structure result from two or more monosaccharides joined by glycosidic bonds with the resultant loss of a molecule of water (H2O) per bond.

May 3. (First Thursday in May). National Day of Reason (to protest national Day of Prayer's Unconstitutionality). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Reason

May 5. Karl Marx is born (1818). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx

May 6. Milky Way is born. http://www.astrosociety.org/edu/astro/act2/H2_Cosmic_Calendar.pdf

May 8, 1886. Coca-Cola is invented. The Atlanta pharmacist Dr. John Pemberton introduces his new soft drink, Coca-Cola, to local pharmacies. Jacob's Pharmacy begins selling the drink for 5¢ a glass.

May 10, 1869. Transcontinental Railroad Day. On this day, the first transcontinental railroad is completed, as the Union Pacific and Central Pacific lines join some 1,700 miles of track connecting to the eastern networks. Representatives of both railroads take turns driving the final golden spike into the ground during a ceremony at Promontory Summit in the Utah Territory.  

May 12. George Denis Patrick Carlin is born (1937-2008).

May 14. 1868. Tungsten Steel Day, aka Mushet Steel Day, aka High-Speed Steel Alloy Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushet_steel Mushet steel is the precursor to High-speed steel alloys. By adding tungsten to steel, “tools so made were able to cut at such a speed that they became almost red hot without losing either their temper or their cutting edge” The increase in the efficiency of cutting machines was “nothing short of revolutionary.” On May 14, 1868, Robert Mushet invented a self-hardening/air hardening steel known as Mushet Steel or R Mushets Special Steel. This was the first known special steel which when forged and cooled acquired a degree of hardness. It was extensively used for engineering tools and at the time was patented and its chemical composition kept a secret. We now know that an 8% tungsten content was key to the steels characteristics. In 1870 Samuel Osborn & Company of Sheffield, UK purchased the rights to manufacture the steel for mass production. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the-history-of-steel-working High speed steel grades also have a high resistance to softening at elevated temperatures up to 500°C, this makes them perfect for use at high speeds, hence the name. Chemical composition for high speed steel grades combine some or all alloying elements of carbon, chromium, molybdenum, vanadium, tungsten and cobalt. Grades with a carbon, vanadium and tungsten combination can offer supreme wear resistance. Cobalt grades offer improved hot hardness and tempering resistance, but lowers toughness. By adding tungsten to steel, “tools so made were able to cut at such a speed that they became almost red hot without losing either their temper or their cutting edge” The increase in the efficiency of cutting machines was “nothing short of revolutionary.” At the turn of the nineteenth century American, Frederic Taylor and Brit, Maunsel White, working in America at the Bethlehem Steel Company in Pennsylvania, did numerous tests and experiments on Mushet Steel to understand more about its characteristics. During these experiments they discovered that adding a 3.8% chromium to the 8% tungsten steel enabled it be quenched and tempered at a high temperature (close to the melting point of steel). In service the it could work at much faster speeds than Mushet Steel. The name given to this was High Speed Steel. High-speed steel (HSS or HS) is a subset of tool steels, commonly used in tool bits and cutting tools. It is often used in power-saw blades and drill bits. The first alloy that was formally classified as high-speed steel is known by the AISI designation T1, which was introduced in 1910. It was patented by Crucible Steel Co. at the beginning of the 20th century.  

May 18, 1872. Bertrand Russell Day. Russell, an atheist who said “Think Great Thoughts, for you will never go higher than what you think” is born (1872). Bertrand Arthur William Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, social critic and political activist. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these in any profound sense. He was born in Monmouthshire, into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in Britain

May 19. Malcolm X is born (1925).

May 20. Everybody Draw Mohammed Day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Draw_Mohammed_Day

May 24. The beginning of the Scientific Revolution Era (1543-1687). The publication in 1543 of Nicolaus Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium begins the Scientific Revolution Era.

May 24-31 (Last Monday of May). Memorial Day (Federal Holiday). This day is to remember Civil War veterans.

May 25, 1961. On this date, President John F. Kennedy gave a stirring speech before a joint session of Congress, in which he declared his intention to focus U.S. efforts on landing humans on the moon within a decade. His words ignited the work of a decade, in achieving the dream of a moon landing.

May 29. Relativity is proved with Solar Eclipse (1919). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_May_29,_1919

May 30. Mikhail Bakunin is born (1814).

May 31, 1819. Walt Whitman was born.

May 31, 1961. The first person who thought up “the Internet”, Leonard Kleinrock's, publishes his first paper entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" on May 31, 1961.

May 31-June1. The Tulsa race riot was a large-scale, racially motivated conflict on May 31 and June 1, 1921, in which a group of whites attacked the black community of Tulsa, Oklahoma. There were even bombs dropped from airplanes into the Black resident district. It resulted in the Greenwood District, also known as 'the Black Wall Street' and the wealthiest black community in the United States, being burned to the ground. During the 16 hours of the assault, more than 800 black people were admitted to local white hospitals with injuries (the black hospital was burned down), and police arrested and detained more than 6,000 black Greenwood residents at three local facilities, in part for their protection. An estimated 10,000 blacks were left homeless, and 35 city blocks composed of 1,256 residences were destroyed by fire. The official count of the dead by the Oklahoma Department of Vital Statistics was 39, but other estimates of black fatalities varied from 55 to about 300. The events of the riot were long omitted from local and state histories. “The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was rarely mentioned in history books, classrooms or even in private. Blacks and whites alike grew into middle age unaware of what had taken place.” With the number of survivors declining, in 1996, the state legislature commissioned a report to establish the historical record of the events, and acknowledge the victims and damages to the black community. Released in 2001, the report included the commission's recommendations for some compensatory actions, most of which were not implemented by the state and city governments. The state has passed legislation to establish some scholarships for descendants of survivors, economic development of Greenwood, and a memorial park to the victims in Tulsa. The latter was dedicated in 2010.

June 5, 1977: Boasting memory that is equivalent to a tiny modern image file, the Apple II was released to great fanfare on this day in 1977. Costing $1,298 in dollars of the day (equivalent to about $5,000 today), the personal computer – with just 4 KB of random-access memory – was a pricey but still affordable option for consumers who wanted it in their homes. Budding programmers could learn the tricks of the trade courtesy of a simple programming module on the system. Later sales of the computer were boosted with the addition of a floppy disc drive. This allowed consumers to transport information to and from the computer to similar models. Personal computers became popular in schools and businesses in the 1980s, and had almost fully penetrated the consumer market in North America and Europe by the late 1990s.

June 12, 1806: John A. Roebling, who designed the Brooklyn Bridge, was born on this date in 1806. The Brooklyn Bridge was the first steel-wire suspension bridge and also the longest suspension bridge in the world when completed in 1883. Its main span is is 1,596 feet (486 meters). Completed in 1883, it’s one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States today. The bridge connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn across the East River. More than 120,000 vehicles still cross its span each day, according to a New York City official website. The American Civil War brought a temporary halt to Roebling's work. However, in 1863 building resumed on a bridge over the Ohio River at Cincinnati which he had started in 1856 and halted due to financing; the bridge was finished in 1867. The Cincinnati-Covington Bridge, later named the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, was the world's longest suspension bridge at the time it was finished.

June 14. Che Guevara is born (1948).

June 16, 1963. Under the call name “Chaika” (Seagull), Valentina Tereshkova launched solo aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963 to become the first woman in space. Part of her mission was to compare how the female body reacted in space to data collected in two years of male-only missions. She spent nearly 71 hours in space, orbiting the Earth 48 times.

June 19, 1900. On this date, the subway in Paris, France began operations on Line 1 after two years of construction that involved tearing up several streets of the famed city. It was the first subway system in France and was said to symbolize a country in the forefront technologically, worldwide.

June 20, 21. Summer Solstice. Pinnacle of Hot. Will get colder after this day. Summerfest: June 21.

June 21. World Humanist Day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Humanist_Day Dinner, Picnic, Music. IHEU: International Humanist and Ethical Union. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Humanist_and_Ethical_Union

June 23, 1912. Alan Turing Day. Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was a British mathematician, logician,cryptanalyst, philosopher, pioneering computer scientist, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra distance runner. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.

June 28. National LGBT Pride Day (in solidarity).

June 28-July 2. Jean Jacques Rousseau is born June 28, and dies July 2. 6 days of nothing but Rousseau's writings. And Mikhail Bakunin too, since he died July 1.

June 30, 1905. Theory of Special Relativity is published. “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, Einstein detailed his Special Theory of Relativity.

June 30, 1905, Swiss patent clerk Albert Einstein published “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,” introducing his relativity theory and launching a new era in physics.

July 1. Mikhail Bakunin dies (1876).

July 2, 1964. The Civil Rights Act is passed. Segregation is over. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

July 2, 1698. The Steam Engine Day. Savery patented an early steam engine on this day. Invention of the Steam Engine. Cars, airplanes, factories, trains, spacecraft—none of these transportation methods would have been possible if not for the early breakthrough of the steam engine. The first practical use of external combustion dates back to 1698, when Thomas Savery developed a steam-powered water pump. Steam engines were then perfected in the late 1700s by James Watt, and went on to fuel one of the most momentous technological leaps in human history during the Industrial Revolution. Throughout the 1800s external combustion allowed for exponential improvement in transportation, agriculture and manufacturing, and also powered the rise of world superpowers like Great Britain and the United States. Most important of all, the steam engine’s basic principle of energy-into-motion set the stage for later innovations like internal combustion engines and jet turbines, which prompted the rise of cars and aircraft during the 20th century.

July 3, 1978. George Carlin's “Dirty Words” routine was aired on public radio, and the FCC was given power by the Supreme Court to prohibit such broadcasts during hours when children were likely to be among the audience, and gave the FCC broad leeway to determine what constituted indecency in different contexts, for the purpose of 1) shielding children from potentially offensive material, and 2) ensuring that unwanted speech does not enter one's home. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission_v._Pacifica_Foundation

July 4. Independence Day. Independence from Great Britain is good, but know it's celebrated 2 days after the Declaration of Independence, and that Revolution, and Independence are two different things.

July 4, 2012. Higgs Boson was invented. We should take back our 4th of July fireworks. July 5, 1996—Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell cloned the first animal from adult cells. Dolly the sheep, born on July 5, 1996, was created using the so-called Roslin Technique (see “How was Dolly clone?”). The cloning of Dolly is one of the most important milestones in the history of animal cloning, as it proves that cloning of adult animals is possible.

July 5. The ending of the Scientific Revolution Era (1543-1687). “grand synthesis” of Newton's 1687 Principia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_revolution

July 14. The Storming of the Bastille Day 1789.

July 17, 1975. On this date, Soviets and Americans accomplished the first joint space docking between two nations in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. It marked the cooling of a long era of tense relations between the two world superpowers. Russian Soyuz and American Apollo flights launched within seven-and-a-half hours of each other on July 15, and docked on July 17. Three hours later, the world watched on television as the two mission commanders, Tom Stafford and Alexey Leonov, exchanged the first international handshake in space through the open hatch of the Soyuz.

July 20, 1969. On this date, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed their moon module on a broad dark lunar lava flow, called the Sea of Tranquility. Six hours later, Neil Armstrong became the first human being to walk on the moon.

July 27, 1733. Today is the birthday of Jeremiah Dixon, who, with Charles Mason, determined what was later called the Mason-Dixon line. In 1763, Dixon and Mason signed an agreement to help resolve a border dispute between British colonies in Colonial America. They arrived in Philadelphia in November 1763 and began their survey, which was not complete until late 1766. That survey line – known today as the Mason-Dixon line – forever separated four U.S. states: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia (then part of Virginia). The Mason–Dixon line also came to symbolize a cultural boundary between the northeastern U.S. and southern states, whose popular nickname Dixie might have been inspired by Jeremiah Dixon’s last name. Dixon was an English surveyor and astronomer, born in the village of Cockfield, England. His father was a wealthy Quaker coal mine owner. His mother, Mary Hunter, came from Newcastle and is said to have been the “cleverest woman” that ever married into her husband’s family.

July 31, 1790. On this date, the United States of America – a 14-year-old country at the time – issued its first patent. It went to Samuel Hopkins, an inventor who resided Pittsford, Vermont, and later of Pittsford, New York. Hopkins discovered of a new method of producing potash and pearlash, which could be considered early industrial chemicals, used to make soap and other products.

August 4, 1789. French Revolution abolished feudalism.

August 6, 1945. American airmen dropped an atomic bomb – codename Little Boy – on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on this date. Three days later, on August 9, they followed it by dropping another atomic bomb, called Fat Man, over Nagasaki. It was the final large-scale wartime act of World War II. The two bombings are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.

August 6, 1991. The World Wide Web (the Internet) is created. Tim Berners-Lee introduces WWW to the public on August 6,1991. The World Wide Web (WWW) is what most people today consider the “Internet” or a series of sites and pages that are connected with links. The Internet as a whole had hundreds of people who helped developed the standards and technologies that make it what it is today, but without the WWW the Internet would not be as popular and useful as it is today. However, in 1991 the Internet changed again. That year, a computer programmer in Switzerland named Tim Berners-Lee introduced the World Wide Web: an Internet that was not simply a way to send files from one place to another but was itself a “web” of information that anyone on the Internet could retrieve. Berners-Lee created the Internet that we know today.

August 19. The Battle of Blue Licks Day. One of the Last Major Battles of American Revolutionary War (1782, after Yorktown). Simon Girty, Shawnee, and native Americans versus Daniel Boone, and other imperialists.

August 20, 1977. NASA launched the phenomenal Voyager 2 space probe to the outer solar system on this date in 1977. They launched it some weeks before its twin craft, Voyager 1, which moved faster and eventually passed it to become the most distant human-made object from Earth, perhaps the first to leave the solar system. Voyager 2 has been operating for 35 years, 11 months, and 31 days as of August 20, 2013. Although its transmissions are faint, coming as they do from very far away, the craft still transmits data and receives messages via NASA’s Deep Space Network. Scientists believe it will be able to continue communications until around the year 2025.

August 24. Howard Zinn is born (1922).

August 30. Fred Hampton is born (1948).

August 31. The Mother Star is formed. Everything we know is made up of star stuff. http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/wonder/book/export/html/14.html

September 1, 1979. On this date, NASA’s Pioneer 11 came within 13,000 miles (21,000 kilometers) of Saturn, making it the first spacecraft ever to sweep closely past that place. The spacecraft found a new ring for Saturn – now called the “F” ring – and also a new moon, Epimetheus. There were two Pioneer spacecraft. They were used to investigate Saturn’s rings and determine if a trajectory through the rings was safe for the upcoming Voyager visits. They paved the way for the even-more-sophisticated Voyager spacecraft, which were launched in 1977.

Sept 1-7 (first Monday of Sept). Labor Day.

Sept. 1. The Sun is formed.

Sept. 2. Earth and Planets are formed.

Sept. 3. Formation of the Moon is formed. http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/wonder/book/export/html/14.html

Sept. 11. Mourning for 9/11 Victims. Also, Anti-Empire Day. Talk about solution to Palestinian Conflict. Remember Salvador Allende, who was assassinated on 9-11-1973. Talk about Bolivia's Revolution.

Sept. 11. Oceans are formed.

Sept. 16. Oldest rocks known on Earth are formed.

Sept 12 or 13. Programmer's Day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmers'_Day On the 256th day of the year (AKA the hexidecimal 100 day), the code monkeys that make the modern world possible finally get a quasi-official holiday (except in Russia, where it's an actual holiday). The one day of the year where hacking is always white hat, and not knowing what “reindeer flotilla” means is uncool. Oct 2, 1865. Ghandi's Birthday. Oct 7 to 13 is International Metric Week.

Sept. 21 or 22. First life appears on Earth (prokaryotes). http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/wonder/book/export/html/14.html

September 21. International Day of Peace. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_of_Peace Fall Equinox.

Fall Equinox: Sept 22. Middle of getting Colder. Time to hunker down, for Winter is coming in 3 months. Green Corn Harvest festival of Muskogee Creek and Seminoles. Stomp (Shawnee) and Feather (Rite of Passage; War Virility Dance of Creeks) Dancing, Big Fires, and Feasting happens. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Corn_Ceremony.

Sept 22. Autumn/Fall Equinox. Green Corn Harvest Festival.

September 27, 1905. On this date, while he was employed at a patent office, Albert Einstein published a paper titled “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy-Content?” It was the last of four papers he submitted that year to the journal Annalen der Physik. The first explained the photoelectric effect, the second offered experimental proof of the existence of atoms, and the third introduced the theory of special relativity. In the fourth paper, Einstein explained the relationship between energy and mass. That is, E=mc2 , On Sept. 27, 1905, Albert Einstein‘s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?” was published. It was the last of four papers he submitted that year to the journal Annalen der Physik. The first explained the photoelectric effect, the second offered experimental proof of the existence of atoms, and the third introduced the theory of special relativity. The last and final paper of the series introduced m = E/c2, which was later streamlined to its now instantly recognizable form. That year, 1905, remains one of the most significant in the history of physics. Before Einstein, entities such as time and space and mass and energy were separate. But by bringing these then seemingly unrelated elements together, first in the concept of space-time and immediately thereafter in the equation E = mc2, Einstein completed his theory of special relativity. Special relativity is perhaps one of the least intuitive theories ever conceived in the history of science, yet it is central to physics. In E = mc2, Einstein concluded that mass (m) and kinetic energy (E) are equal, since the speed of light(c2) is constant. In other words, mass can be changed into energy, and energy can be changed into mass. The former process is demonstrated by the production of nuclear energy—particles are smashed and their energy is captured. The latter process, the conversion of energy into mass, is demonstrated by the process of particle acceleration, in which low-mass particles zipping through a device collide to form larger particles. The inclusion of the speed of light in Einstein’s equation was based on the principles of classical mechanics and electromagnetic radiation, the latter of which is pure energy. Electromagnetic radiation is constant—it always travels at the speed of light, or 186,000 miles/sec (300,000 km/sec).

September 28, 1928. Antibiotics Day. Fleming recounted that the date of his discovery of penicillin was on the morning of Friday, September 28, 1928. In 1928, the Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-filled Petri dish in his laboratory with its lid accidentally ajar. The sample had become contaminated with a mold, and everywhere the mold was, the bacteria was dead. That antibiotic mold turned out to be the fungus Penicillium, and over the next two decades, chemists purified it and developed the drug Penicillin, which fights a huge number of bacterial infections in humans without harming the humans themselves. Penicillin was being mass produced and advertised by 1944. This poster attached to a curbside mailbox advised World War II servicemen to take the drug to rid themselves of venereal disease. A giant step forward in the field of medicine, antibiotics saved millions of lives by killing and preventing the growth of harmful bacteria. Scientists like Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister were the first to recognize and attempt to combat bacteria, but it was Alexander Fleming who made the first leap in antibiotics when he accidentally discovered the bacteria-inhibiting mold known as penicillin in 1928. Antibiotics proved to be a major improvement on antiseptics—which killed human cells along with bacteria—and their use spread rapidly throughout the 20th century. Nowhere was their effect more apparent than on the battlefield: While nearly 20 percent of soldiers who contracted bacterial pneumonia died in World War I, with antibiotics that number dropped to only 1 percent during World War II. Antibiotics like penicillin, vancomycin, cephalosporin and streptomycin have gone on to fight nearly every known form of infection, including influenza, malaria, meningitis, tuberculosis and most sexually transmitted diseases.

October 2. Ghandi is born (1869).

October 2, 2009. Ricky Gervais's “The Invention of Lying” debuts in America.

October 4, 1957. On this date, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the first manmade satellite to orbit the Earth. According to many space historians, the Space Age began on this date.

October 5. Women's March on Versailles in French Revolution.

October 5. Tecumseh Day (Tecumseh's Death).

October 5. Woman's March on Versailles (French Revolution, 1789).

On October 6, 1995, astronomers announced the discovery of the first planet in orbit around a distant sunlike star. This planet is designated as 51 Pegasi b, and it’s what’s known today as a hot Jupiter.

October 9. Che Guevara dies (1967).

October 12, 1999. On this date, the world’s human population was estimated to hit 6 billion, according to the United Nations. It took hundreds of thousands of years for Earth’s human population to reach 1 billion in 1804. The 3 billion milestone came in 1960. Not quite 40 years later, global population had doubled to 6 billion.

Oct. 12. Photosynthesis Day.

Oct. 8-14. (2^nd Monday of Oct.). Columbus Day (Federal Holiday). Columbus is such a wretched creature, something dramatic needs to be planned every year this monstronsity of a psychopath is celebrated. Italians are okay folks, but fuck Columbus. To celebrate him, we should invade the houses of folks whose here, take their land, rape their women, and enslave the rest, just like he did. But true justice can't ever happen, but maybe, hanging out with some Native Americans would be good. Freeing Leonard Peltier would be a goodass idea. Etc.

October 15, 1966. Black Panther Party was created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.

October 15, 1951. The Pill Day. The first steroid oral contraceptive (“the Pill”) is invented on October 15, 1951 by Carl Djerassi in Mexico City. http://news.stanford.edu/pr/01/thismanspill295.html Djerassi participated in the invention in 1951, together with Mexican Luis E. Miramontes and Mexican-Hungarian George Rosenkranz, of the progestin norethindrone—which, unlike progesterone, remained effective when taken orally and was far stronger than the naturally occurring hormone. His preparation was first administered as an oral contraceptive to animals by Gregory Pincus and Min Chueh Chang and to women by John Rock.

October 29. The Oxygenation of the Universe Day. The Oxygen Catastrophe. http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/wonder/book/export/html/14.html (Cosmic Calendar Day). Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), which appeared about 200 million years before the GOE, began producing oxygen by photosynthesis. These microbes conduct photosynthesis: using sunshine, water and carbon dioxide to produce carbohydrates and, yes, oxygen. In fact, all the plants on Earth incorporate symbiotic cyanobacteria (known as chloroplasts) to do their photosynthesis for them down to this day. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/origin-of-oxygen-in-atmosphere/ Before the GOE, any free oxygen they produced was chemically captured by dissolved iron or organic matter. The GOE was the point when these oxygen sinks became saturated and could not capture all of the oxygen that was produced by cyanobacterial photosynthesis. After the GOE, the excess free oxygen started to accumulate in the atmosphere. Free oxygen is toxic to obligate anaerobic organisms, and the rising concentrations may have wiped out most of the Earth's anaerobic inhabitants at the time. Cyanobacteria were therefore responsible for one of the most significant extinction events in Earth's history. Additionally, the free oxygen reacted with atmospheric methane, a greenhouse gas, greatly reducing its concentration and triggering the Huronian glaciation, possibly the longest snowball Earth episode in the Earth's history. Eventually, aerobic organisms began to evolve, consuming oxygen and bringing about an equilibrium in its availability. Free oxygen has been an important constituent of the atmosphere ever since. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event. Astrobiologists at Arizona State University and their colleagues analyzes of 2.6- to 2.5-billion-year-old black shales from South Africa suggest that the production of oxygen in the surface ocean was vigorous at this time. Combined with studies conducted in Australia, they conclude that the productive regions along ocean margins during the late Archaean eon were sites of substantial O2 accumulation, at least 100 million years before it began to accumulate in the atmosphere. Their paper can be found in the current issue of Nature Geosciences. http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/articles/2010/8/23/oxygenation-in-ancient-ocean-margins-precedes-atmospheric-rise/ "It's not that easy why it should balance at 21 percent rather than 10 or 40 percent," notes geoscientist James Kasting of Pennsylvania State University. "We don't understand the modern oxygen control system that well."

October 29, 1969. Send a Message Over the Internets Day. On Friday October 29, 1969 at 10:30 p.m., the first Internet message was sent from computer science Professor Leonard KleinRock's laboratory at UCLA, after the second piece of network equipment was installed at SRI. This connection not only enabled the first transmission to be made, but is also considered the first Internet backbone. The first message to be distributed was "LO", which was an attempt at "LOGIN" by Charley S. Kline to log into the SRI computer from UCLA. However, the message was unable to be completed because the SRI system crashed. Shortly after the crash, the issue was resolved, and he was able to log into the computer.

Oct. 31. Halloween, aka Samhain, the Celtic New Year, aka The Midpoint Between the Fall Equinox and Winter Solstice Day. Samhain is the "Celtic New Year". Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year. It is celebrated from sunset on 31 October to sunset on 1 November. Events in Irish mythology happen or begin on Samhain. It was the time when cattle were brought back down from the summer pastures and when livestock were slaughtered for the winter. This custom is still observed by many who farm and raise livestock because it is when meat will keep since the freeze has come and also since summer grass is gone and free foraging is no longer possible. As at Beltane, special bonfires were lit. These were deemed to have protective and cleansing powers and there were rituals involving them. The spirits of fairies (the Aos Sí) could more easily come into our world. The souls of the dead were also thought to revisit their homes. Feasts were had, at which the souls of dead kin were beckoned to attend and a place set at the table for them. In the 9th century, the Roman Catholic Church shifted the date of All Saints' Day to 1 November, while 2 November later became All Souls' Day. Over time, Samhain and All Saints'/All Souls' merged to create the modern Halloween. Historians have used the name 'Samhain' to refer to Gaelic 'Halloween' customs up until the 19th century. In Scotland, young men went house-to-house with masked, veiled, painted or blackened faces, often threatening to do mischief if they were not welcomed.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain. Vanilla Ice was born on Halloween. Rob Schneider too.

November 1 and 2nd. Day of the Dead. Day of the Dead is an interesting holiday celebrated in central and southern Mexico during the chilly days of November 1 & 2. Even though this coincides with the Catholic holiday called All Soul's & All Saint’s Day, the indigenous people have combined this with their own ancient beliefs of honoring their deceased loved ones. They believe that the gates of heaven are opened at midnight on October 31, and the spirits of all deceased children (angelitos) are allowed to reunite with their families for 24 hours. On November 2, the spirits of the adults come down to enjoy the festivities that are prepared for them. In most Indian villages, beautiful altars (ofrendas) are made in each home. They are decorated with candles, buckets of flowers (wild marigolds called cempasuchil & bright red cock's combs) mounds of fruit, peanuts, plates of turkey mole, stacks of tortillas and big Day-of-the-Dead breads called pan de muerto. The altar needs to have lots of food, bottles of soda, hot cocoa and water for the weary spirits. Toys and candies are left for the angelitos, and on Nov. 2, cigarettes and shots of mezcal are offered to the adult spirits. Little folk art skeletons and sugar skulls, purchased at open-air markets, provide the final touches. Day of the Dead is a very expensive holiday for these self-sufficient, rural based, indigenous families. Many spend over two month's income to honor their dead relatives. They believe that happy spirits will provide protection, good luck and wisdom to their families. Ofrenda building keeps the family close. On the afternoon of Nov. 2, the festivities are taken to the cemetery. People clean tombs, play cards, listen to the village band and reminisce about their loved ones. Tradition keeps the village close. Day of the Dead is becoming very popular in the U.S.~ perhaps because we don't have a way to celebrate and honor our dead, or maybe it's because of our fascination with it's mysticism. http://www.mexicansugarskull.com/support/dodhistory.html

Nov. 1-7. Election Day. First Tuesday of November. Should be Federal Holiday in a Democracy.

Nov. 7-8. Bolshevik Revolution. Lenin takes power.

Nov. 9. Complex cells form (eukaryotes).

Nov. 11. Veteran's Day (Federal Holiday). Must talk about World War 1 on this Day. It was bullshit, and all nations involved should be ashamed of themselves.

November 15. Tupac Katari dies. “I die, but will return as millions.” an early leader of the independence activists in Bolivia and a leader or the indigenous people in their fight against the colonialism of the Spanish Empire in the early 1780s. His wife was Bartolina Sisa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BApac_Katari

November 16, 1974. This is the anniversary of the most powerful broadcast ever deliberately beamed into space with the intention of contacting alien life. The broadcast formed part of the ceremonies held to mark a major upgrade to the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico.

November 18. Battle of Vertieres Day. Haitians defeat French forces for good (bloodshed of Haitian Revolution ends, 1803).

November 18, 1883. Time Zones are invented. Railroad companies standardize time and carve America into the four time zones used to this day. Until now, local "sun" time was used as people traveled from place to place, but railroads need a uniform clock to create departure and arrival schedules.

November 20, 1889. Happy birthday, Edwin Hubble! The Hubble Space Telescope is named for this astronomer. How did this honor come to be? Hubble’s work was pivotal in changing our entire cosmology: our idea of the universe as a whole.

November 23, 1963. JFK assassinated.

November 25, 1915. Einstein published the gravitational field equations of general relativity, the so-called Einstein equations. Then in 1915, Einstein completed the General Theory of Relativity - the product of eight years of work on the problem of gravity. In general relativity Einstein shows that matter and energy actually mold the shape of space and the flow of time. What we feel as the 'force' of gravity is simply the sensation of following the shortest path we can through curved, four-dimensional space-time. It is a radical vision: space is no longer the box the universe comes in; instead, space and time, matter and energy are, as Einstein proves, locked together in the most intimate embrace.

November 27, 1940. Bruce “Be Like Water” Lee, an atheist, is born. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee#Death

Nov. 21-28. (4^th Thurs of Nov.). Thanksgiving Day (Federal Holiday). “Gangs-Thieving Day”. We have another federal holiday that celebrates genocide, this time, of the Pequot in 1637; a massacre on Mystic River that slayed 700 women, children, and old men, and it totally changed the geo-political situation of America. Natives realized that the British English-speaking Protestants would murder the fuck outta people, and were the most barbaric people on this land. All things on this day should be Pequot, and Pequot related. This should be like a 9-11 Day, where we're sad about people dying.

Dec. 4. Fred Hampton is assassinated (1969).

Dec. 5. First Multicellular life is formed.

Dec. 7. Noam Chomsky (atheist) is born (1928).

December 10. Human Rights Day. UN Declaration of Human Rights is adopted this day in 1948. IHEU: International Humanist and Ethical Union. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Humanist_and_Ethical_Union

Dec. 14. Simple animals form on Earth. Also, arthropods (ancestors of insects, arachnids) are formed.

December 15, 1791. Bill of Rights are adopted into the US Constitution. On December 15, 1791, Articles Three–Twelve, having been ratified by the required number of states, became Amendments One–Ten of the Constitution.

December 16, 1773. The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor, ruining the tea. The British government responded harshly and the episode escalated into the American Revolution. The Tea Party became an iconic event of American history, and other political protests such as the Tea Party movement after 2010 explicitly refer to it.  

Dec. 17. Fish and proto-amphibians formed.

December 17, 1903. On this date, two Ohio brothers – Wilbur and Orville Wright – made the first bonafide, manned, controlled, heavier-than-air flight. It was the first airplane, and it took off at 10:35 a.m. with Orville Wright on board as pilot. He flew their vehicle, called the Flyer, for 12 seconds over 120 feet (about 37 meters) of sandy ground just outside Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Dec. 20. Land plants formed on Earth.

Dec. 21. Insects and Seeds are formed on Earth.

Winter Solstice: Dec. 21. Coldest day of the year. The Earth will warm up, and Spring is on it's way, in 3 months.

Dec. 21-22. Winter Solstice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice All of the Northern Hemisphere will experience the darkest day of the year. In the U.S., we'll have just nine hours, 32 minutes of daylight. For many this time of year, that means leaving home and returning from work in darkness.

Dec. 22. Amphibians are formed.

Dec. 23. Festivus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus Meatloaf, airing of grievances, and feats of strength. Rainbow Kwanzaa.

Dec. 23. Reptiles are formed.

December 23, 1947. Transister Day. http://www.wired.com/2009/12/1223shockley-bardeen-brattain-transistor/ The Invention of Transisters happened on this day. A criminally underappreciated innovation, the transistor is an essential component in nearly every modern electronic gadget. First developed in 1947 by Bell Laboratories, these tiny semiconductor devices allow for precise control of the amount and flow of current through circuit boards. Originally used in radios, transistors have since become an elemental piece of the circuitry in countless electronic devices including televisions, cell phones and computers. The amount of transistors in integrated circuits doubles nearly every two years—a phenomenon known as Moore’s Law—so their remarkable impact on technology will only continue to grow. With the help of engineer John Pierce, who wrote science fiction in his spare time, Bell Labs settled on the name “transistor”—combining the ideas of "trans-resistance" with the names of other devices like thermistors. http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/

December 23. Human Light Day. We elaborate and express the positive, secular, human values of reason, compassion, humanity and hope. Human Light illuminates a positive, secular vision of a happy, just and peaceful future for our world, a future which people can build by working together, drawing on the best of our human capacities. "a Humanist's vision of a good future." They celebrate a positive approach to the coming new year. IHEU: International Humanist and Ethical Union. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Humanist_and_Ethical_Union

Dec. 25. Christmas Day (Federal Holiday). There wasn't a War on Christmas until Bill O'Rielly said it one too many times. Fuck him. I declare a War on Christmas. At least the Federally recognized version of it, since it's Unconstitutional, and there's no Day of Celebration for Athiests. Jesus Christ never existed, and the shit Christians have done in the name of their religion, Crusades, KKK, Hitler, Mussolini, Russian Czars, Pequot War, Native American genocide, Columbus's slavery of natives, etc. were all done in the name of a Christian God. True “Christians”, who believe in goodness and justice, should be embarrassed if they do not denounce these savage barbaric psychopaths. And now they're being shitty as hell whenever somebody says “Happy Holidays”... getting pissed over a friendly greeting is now how Christians act? Ah now, come on. That's not Christianly. But that's the point. It's not Biblical Christianity, but their own version of God and His word, masquerading around as Christianity. Religious folks are brainwashed with a massive mental illness. Jesus said to be nice to everybody, plus he talked about peace, love, and freedom... just like a Hippie. Plus, “Happy Holidays” is just “Happy Holy Days”, which still leaves out atheists. Also, there's supposed to be a separation of Church and State, and until the Atheists get a Federal Holiday, nobody else can have one. The Atheists have a monopoly on the truth, and where's our Holy Land? We need a Holy Land too.

INSTEAD of Xmas, let's have Sir Isaac Newton Day. Grav-Mass. Crispmas. Or Merry Fuck All Religion Day. Sir Isaac Newton, inventor of both calculus and physics, was actually born on Christmas Day. Scientific knowledge and understanding, or discussing what kind of experiment could answer an unresolved question about the world. We will celebrate the Tree of Knowledge, which represents the sum total of all human understanding. We use the traditional pine tree, which is already a very fractal looking tree to represent the Tree of Knowledge. The tree is decorated with lights and ornaments symbolizing The Sacred Network or the Internet.”

Dec. 26 – Jan. 1. Kwanzaa. Dec 26 to Jan. 1. end of year celebration.

Dec. 26. Dinosaurs are formed. http://www.astrosociety.org/edu/astro/act2/H2_Cosmic_Calendar.pdf

Dec. 27. Mammals and Birds are formed on Earth.

Dec. 28. Flowers are formed on Earth.

Dec. 30. 6:24am. Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, non-avian dinosaurs die out.

Dec. 30. Primates are formed.

Dec. 31. 6:05am. Apes are formed.

Dec. 31. 14:24. 2:24pm or 9:30pm. Hominids are formed on Earth. http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/wonder/book/export/html/14.html

Dec. 31. 11:59:37pm. Farming is developed.

Dec. 31. 11:59:45. The Wheel is developed.

Dec. 31. 1 second before midnight. Invention of the Telescope is formed.

Dec. 31. Midnight. Right now.

Other notable inventions that deserve celebration:

The cyanide process. Sounds toxic, yes? It appears on this list for only one reason: It is used to extract gold from ore. “Gold is the life blood of trade,” and in 1913 it was considered to be the foundation for international commerce and national currencies.

Invention of the American Dollar Bill. Paper Money. By the late 19th century many nations had begun issuing government-backed legal tender that could no longer be converted into gold or silver. The switch to paper money not only bailed out struggling governments during times of crisis—as it did for the United States during the Civil War—but it also ushered in a new era of international monetary regulation that changed the face of global economics. Perhaps even more importantly, paper currency was the vital first step in a new monetary system that led to the birth of credit cards and electronic banking.

Magnifying lenses might seem like an unremarkable invention, but their use has offered mankind a glimpse of everything from distant stars and galaxies to the minute workings of living cells. Lenses first came into use in the 13th century as an aid for the weak-sighted, and the first microscopes and telescopes followed in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Figures like Robert Hook and Anton van Leeuwenhoek would go on to use microscopes in the early observance of cells and other particles, while Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler employed the telescope to chart Earth’s place in the cosmos. These early uses were the first steps in the development of astonishing devices like the electron microscope and the Hubble Space Telescope. Magnifying lenses have since led to new breakthroughs in an abundance of fields including astronomy, biology, archeology, optometry and surgery.  

Lawn Mower Day.

1938. Ball point pen invented.

1839. Bicycle is invented.

Fire sprinkler 1874

Dental drill 1875

Machine gun 1884

Smoke detector 1890

Air conditioning 1902

Windshield wipers 1903

Automatic transmission 1904

Headset 1910

Autopilot 1912

Pressure washer 1927"

September of 1783, the fledgling U.S. and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War. Three months later, and several hundred miles to the south, French physicist Louis-Sebastien Lenormand stepped off the top of the Montepellier observatory clutching onto a 14-foot wood and linen parachute. He floated safely to the ground, putting into practice a design birthed by Leonardo da Vinci in 1485. Throughout the next decade, parachute testers dropped -- usually safely -- from hot-air balloons.

The Thompson submachine gun (nicknamed the Thompson or Tommy Gun) is an American submachine gun, invented by John T. Thompson in 1918, that became infamous during the Prohibition era