v04i086: Long list of entries for input to calendar(1)
Dave Taylor
taylor at hplabs.HP.COM
Wed Sep 21 10:54:03 AEST 1988
well, I went through the data and found some odd things...
Multiple date for same event conflict:
3/7/322BC : Aristotle died
10/2/322BC : Aristotle dies of indigestion
3/21/1685 : Bach born
5/22/1665 : Johann Sebastian Bach born in Eisenach, Germany
10/17/1967 : "Hair" opens at New York's Public Theater
4/29/1968 : "Hair" premiers on Broadway
Missing years:
3/16 : MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by US military
[ should be 3/16/1967 and it's "MaiLai" -- fixed in our data ]
3/29 : Death of President Barthelemy Boganda in Central African Republic
4/28 : Zilog Z-80 introduced
5/21 : DEC announces PDP-8
10/15 : First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published
10/25 : DEC announces VAX-11/780
12/20 : U.S. Buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20 sq.mi.
And events that need some explanation -- are they legit?
7/21/1954 : Vietnam divided at 17th parallel
8/14/1954 : First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
12/26/1951 : DPMA founded
12/27/1956 : APT report published
I've added some new ones and removed the "Lord of the Rings" garbage...
I also have two handy other programs;
"sortdates" -- to sort the dates so that they're organized by year,
least recent to most (with annual events last)
"sameday" -- to list all events that occured on either the current
day or a day specified.
Suggestions on where to post the package?
-- Dave Taylor
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