2 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars (1972)
8 African National Congress founded (1912)
8 Elvis Presley born (1935)
11 Albert Hofmann born (1906)
15 Martin Luther King Jr. born (1929)
17 Muhammad Ali born (1942)
17 Al Capone born (1899)
17 Benjamin Franklin born (1706)
17 May Gibbs born (1877)
18 Paul Keating born (1944)
19 James Watt born (1736)
20 Buzz Aldrin born (1930)
21 Christian Dior born (1905)
22 Francis Bacon born (1561)
26 Australia Day
27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born (1756)
February
4 Charles Lindbergh born (1902)
5 John Boyd Dunlop born (1840)
7 Charles Dickens born (1812)
10 Chinese New Year
11 Nelson Mandela Day
11 Thomas Alva Edison born (1847)
12 Charles Robert Darwin born (1809)
15 Galileo Galilei born (1564 - died January 8, 1642)
17 Banjo Paterson born (1864)
19 Nicolaus Copernicus born (1473)
22 George Washington born (1732)
March
3 Alexander Graham Bell born (1847)
5 Gerardus Mercator born (1512)
6 Michelangelo Buonarroti born (1475)
7 John Herschel born (1792 - died August 25, 1822)
8 International Women's Day
14 Albert Einstein born (1879)
18 Wilfred Owen born (1893)
21 Johann Sebastian Bach born (1685)
April
1 Earth Day
2 Hans Christian Andersen born (1805)
13 Thomas Jefferson born (1743)
14 the maiden voyage of Columbia, the first reusable space vehicle (1981)
16 Wilbur Wright born (1867)
19 Salyut 1, the first space station, launched (1971)
20 Adolf Hitler born (1889)
22 Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) born (1870)
23 William Shakespeare born (1564)
25 ANZAC Day
25 Oliver Cromwell born (1599)
26 Charles Francis Richter born (1900)
30 end of Vietnam War (1975)
May
6 Sigmund Freud born (1856)
11 Einstein presents his Theory of General Relativity (1916)
15 Pierre Curie born (1859)
24 Bob Dylan born (1941)
31 Stuart's webpages launched (1995)
June
4 Tiannanmen Square Massacre (1989)
5 World Environment Day
6 Bjorn Borg born (1956)
11 Jacques Cousteau born (1910)
17 World Desertification Day
25 George Orwell born (1903)
30 Tunguska impact (1908)
July
6 Newton publishes 'Principia' (1687)
16 USA first tests atomic bomb (1945)
12 Buckminster Fuller born (1895)
20 first humans on the moon: Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin (1969)
20 Sir Edmund Hillary born (1919)
29 J.F. Kennedy born (1917)
30 Henry Ford born (1863)
August
5 Neil Alden Armstrong born (1930)
6 USA drops uranium-based atomic bomb on Hiroshima (1945)
9 USA drops plutonium-based atomic bomb on Nagasaki (1945)
13 Alfred Hitchcock born (1899)
15 Napolean Bonaparte born (1769)
19 Orville Wright born (1871)
22 Deng Xiaoping born (1904 - died February 21, 1997)
24 Mount Vesuvius erupts, devastating Pompeii (79 AD)
27 Sir Donald Bradman born (1908)
September
16 International Day for the Protection of the Ozone Layer
16 B.B. King born (1925)
21 H.G. Wells born (1791)
October
4 first man-made object in space, Sputnik 1 (1957)
8 International Lesbian Day
9 John Lennon born (1940)
12 Columbus' discovery of the Americas
16 Oscar Wilde born (1854)
18 Chuck Berry born (1926)
18 Martina Navratilova born (1956)
21 Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
25 Pablo Picasso born (1881)
27 James Cook born (1728)
November
7 Marie Curie born (1867)
7 Dame Joan Sutherland born (1926)
8 Christiaan Barnard born (1922)
11 Remembrance Day
20 Edwin Hubble born (1889 - died September 28, 1953)
27 Jimi Hendrix born (1942)
30 Sir Winston Churchill born (1874)
December
1 World AIDS Day
8 John Lennon assassinated (1980)
17 Ludwig van Beethoven born (1770)
21 Josef Stalin born (1879)
22 Beatrix Potter born (1943)
25 Isaac Newton born (1642 - died March 20, 1727)
26 Boxing Day tsunami (2004)
27 Johannes Kepler born (1571 - died November 16, 1630)
27 Louis Pasteur born (1822)
30 Rudyard Kipling born (1865)
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