Events in history
Jan 21 1977, President Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders. - Uranus/Mimosa
- May 1st 1988 "Newsweek" magazine reported that, according to a memoir by former White House chief of staff Donald Regan, astrology had influenced the planning of President Reagan's schedule. - Pluto/Mimosa
- Feb 19th 1473, the astronomer Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland. - Uranus/Acrux
- May 5th 1818, political philosopher Karl Marx was born in Prussia. - SNode/Mimosa
- Mohandas Gandhi begins civil disobedience campaign, Mar 12 1930 - SNode/Gacrux
- Women's suffrage began in U.S. Aug 26 1920 - NNode /Mimosa
- Mar 31st 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued an edict expelling Jews from Spanish soil, except for those willing to convert to Christianity. - Pluto/Mimosa
- April 26th, 1986, the world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire in the number-four reactor sent radioactivity into the atmosphere; at least 31 Soviets died immediately. - Pluto/Gacrux
- Feb 23rd 1836, the siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas. - Saturn/Gacrux
- Mar 15 1939, German troops occupy Czechoslovakia. - North Node/Acrux
- Aug 17 1961. The Berlin Wall constructed. - Neptune/Acrux
- Oct 23 1977. The 'Fang of Four' are arrested during the Chinese cultural revolution, millions die in the purge. - Uranus/Gacrux
- May 5th 1925, John T. Scopes was
arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of
evolution. - Saturn/Acrux
- Jan 17th 1977, convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, 36, was shot by a firing squad at Utah State Prison in the first US execution in a decade. - Uranus/Mimosa
- Jan 20th 1986, Britain and France announced plans to build the Channel Tunnel. - Pluto /Gacrux
- Jan 27th 1967, more than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons. - SNode /Mimosa
- January 25th, 1959, American Airlines opened the jet age in the United States with the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707. - Neptune /Gacrux
- Louis Braille born, Jan 4 1809. - Pluto and NNode /Mimosa
- February tenth, 1967, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, went into effect. - SNode /Mimosa
- April 10th 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was incorporated. - Saturn/Acrux
- Jan 1st 1892, the Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York formally opened. - Uranus/Gacrux
- Jan 12th 1986, the shuttle "Columbia" blasted off with a crew that included the first Hispanic-American in space, Dr. Franklin R.Chang-Diaz. - Pluto/Gacrux
- Jan 21 1976, the supersonic Concorde jet was put into service by Britain and France. - Uranus /Gacrux
- Jan 24th 1986, the "Voyager Two" space probe swept past Uranus, coming within 50,679 miles of the seventh planet of the solar system. - Pluto /Gacrux
- January 28th, 1986, the space shuttle "Challenger" exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members. - Pluto /Gacrux
- January 31st, 1958, the United States entered the Space Age with its first successful launch of a satellite into orbit, "Explorer One." - NNode /Gacrux
- Gagarin is first man in space, Apr 12 1961 - Neptune /Mimosa
- Feb 6th 1959, the United States successfully test-fired for the first time a "Titan" intercontinental ballistic missile from Cape Canaveral. - Neptune /Gacrux
- Mar 14th 1995, American astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to enter space aboard a Russian rocket as he and two cosmonauts blasted off aboard a "Soyuz" spacecraft, headed for the "Mir" space station. - NNode/Gacrux
- Mar 27th 1512, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida. Saturn/Gacrux Columbus sighted land. Oct 21st 1492. - Pluto and NNode/Mimosa
- Columbus touches land at Bahamas, Oct 12th 1492 - Pluto/Mimosa
- Jan 2nd 1492, the leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain surrendered to Spanish forces loyal to King Ferdinand the Second and Queen Isabella the First. - Pluto/Mimosa
Religious events
- Mar 27th 1836, the first Mormon temple was dedicated, in Kirtland, Ohio. - Saturn/Gacrux
- April 12th 1986, Pope John Paul II visited a Rome synagogue in the first recorded papal visit of its kind. - Pluto/Gacrux
- Mar 2nd 1939, Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was elected Pope; he took the name Pius the Twelfth. - NNode/Mimosa
- May 5th 1988 The Most Reverend Eugene Antonio Marino became the nation's first black Roman Catholic archbishop during an installation Mass in the Atlanta Civic Center. - Pluto/Mimosa
- Second Vatican Council opens, Oct 11th 1962 and brought changes to Catholicism - Neptune/Acrux
- Jan 27th 1977, the Vatican reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's ban on female priests. - Uranus/Acrux
- Mar 30th 1988 An attorney for the Reverend Jimmy Swaggart said the televangelist would return to the pulpit, defying national Assemblies of God church officials who had suspended him for at least a year for "moral failure." - Pluto/Acrux
Brazil
- Columbus sighted land. Oct 12th 1492. - Pluto and NNode/Mimosa
- April 21st 1960, Brazil inaugurated its new capital, Brasilia, transferring the seat of national government from Rio de Janeiro.- Neptune/Gacrux
- Brazil became independent September 7th 1822 Mars/Gacrux
- 11 March 1999 22h 16m a major black out occurred in Brazil because of a thunderbolt in the Bauru substation (Sao Paulo), 55 million people without electricity - Mars /Acrux
Endings
- Treaty of Shimonoseki ending Sino-Japanese War, April 17 1895 - Saturn /Gacrux
- Spanish Civil War ended, Mar 28 1939 - NNode /Mimosa
- April 7th 1988 Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Afghan leader Najibullah met in the Soviet Central Asian city of Tashkent, after which they issued a joint statement saying agreement was at hand on ending the civil war in Afghanistan and withdrawing Soviet troops. - Pluto/Mimosa
- Mar 2 1836, Texas declared its independence from Mexico. - Saturn/Gacrux