Events in history
Organized marches, exodus, (Mormons)
- March 21st, 1965, more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior began their march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Saturn/Deneb Adige
- Feb 10th 1846, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormons, began an exodus to the west from Illinois. Neptune /Gienah
- Mar 27th 1836, the first Mormon temple was dedicated, in Kirtland, Ohio. - Uranus/Deneb Adige
Music
- Feb 7th 1964, The Beatles began their first American tour as they arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, where they were greeted by thousands of screaming fans. - Saturn /Sador
- Feb 19th 1878, Thomas Edison received a patent for his phonograph. - NNode/Sador
- Burt Freeman Bacharach Songwriter. - Mars/Azelfafage
Saints, angels apparitions
- March 17th, A.D. 461, according to tradition, St. Patrick -- the patron saint of Ireland -- died in Saul. - Saturn/Sador
- May 4th Cerefino Jimenez Malla became the first Gypsy beatified in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. - SNode/Azelfafage
- May 13th 1917, three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary. - Uranus/Sador
- April 4th 1850, the city of Los Angeles was incorporated. - SNode/Sador
Religion
- Luther posts the 95 these at Augsburg, Oct 31 1517 - Neptune /Gienah
Long journeys, Flight, Air Force
- Magellan sails into the Pacific, Nov 28th 1520. - Neptune/Deneb Adige
- Sept 1 1859 - The Pullman sleeping car was placed into service this day. The car was built by company namesake George Pullman and he was assisted by Ben Field. - Neptune /Azelfafage
- Feb 10th 1846, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormons, began an exodus to the west from Illinois. - Neptune /Gienah
- July 2nd 1926, the United States Army Air Corps was created. - Jupiter/Gienah
- Charles Lindbergh completes first solo nonstop flight across Atlantic, May 21 1927. - Jupiter/Azelfafage
- Mar 27th 1794, President Washington and Congress authorized creation of the US Navy. - Pluto/Gienah
- April 1 1918, the Royal Air Force was established in Britain. - Uranus/Gienah
Post office
- Feb 20th 1792, President Washington signed an act creating the US Post Office. - Pluto/Sador
Inspiration
- April 7th 1997 The Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to Steven Millhauser for "Martin Dressler: - SNode/Azelfafage
Space exploration
- April 12th 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly in space, orbiting the earth once before making a safe landing. - Chiron and SNode /Deneb Adige
- May 5th 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Junior became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute sub-orbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. - Saturn/Albireo
- May 18th 1969, astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Thomas P. Stafford and John W. Young blasted off aboard "Apollo Ten." - NNode/Azelfafage
- Jan 31st 1971, astronauts Alan B. Shepard Junior, Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa blasted off aboard "Apollo 14" on a mission to the moon. - NNode /Sador
- April 20th 1972, the manned lunar module from "Apollo 16" landed on the moon. - NNode/Albireo
- May 14th 1973, the United States launched "Skylab One," its first manned space station. - Mars/Deneb Adige
- January 28th, 1986, the space shuttle "Challenger" exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members. - Jupiter /Sador
Bombings, hostility, deportations, excommunications
- 1st bombing raid on London by German aircraft Jun 13 1917. - Uranus/Sador
- May 7th 1915, nearly 1200 people died when a German torpedo sank the British liner "Lusitania" off the Irish coast. - NNode/Sador
- April 9th 1993 Four US warplanes fired at artillery in northern Iraq; the Baghdad government denied afterward that the artillery had provoked the attack by firing at the planes. - Saturn/Gienah
- April 25th 1915, during World War One, Allied soldiers invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula in an unsuccessful attempt to take the Ottoman Turkish Empire out of the war. - NNode/Sador
- Marie Antoinette guillotined, Oct 16th 1793. - Pluto/Sador
- On January 21st, 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis the 16th, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine. - Pluto/Sador
- 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. - Saturn/Sador
- April 24th 1915, the Ottoman Turkish Empire began the brutal mass deportation of Armenians - NNode/Sador
- May 5th 1980, Marshal Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia, died three days before his 88th birthday. Tito had kept Yugoslavia together, after his death, the country became divided due to racial violence. - SNode/Sador
- Sinn Fein Party organized, Nov 28th 1905. - Saturn/Gienah
- Feb 18th 1516, Mary Tudor, the Queen of England popularly known as "Bloody Mary," was born in Greenwich Palace. - Neptune/Gienah
- May 4th 1961, a group of "Freedom Riders" left Washington for New Orleans to challenge racial segregation in interstate buses and bus terminals. - Previous solar eclipse Feb 15th/Gienah
- Jan 3rd 1521, Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. - Neptune/Deneb Adige
- Mar 1 1896, the Battle of Adowa began in Ethiopia between the forces of Emperor Menelik the Second and Italian troops. (The Italians suffered a crushing defeat.) NNode/Deneb Adige
- April 17th, 1961, about 1500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. - SNode/Deneb Adige
- Mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin, Oct 26th 1905 SNode and - Saturn/Gienah
Integration
- Feb 12th 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded. - Chiron /Sador
- April 14th 1775, the first American society for the abolition of slavery was organized by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush. - SNode/Deneb Adige
- Jan 18th 1919, the World War One Peace Congress opened in Versailles, France. - Uranus/Gienah
- April 4th 1993 President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin wrapped up their two-day summit in Vancouver, British Columbia. Clinton extended $1.6 billion in aid; Yeltsin proclaimed the two countries "partners and future allies." - Saturn/Gienah
- April 11th 1980, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations specifically prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by supervisors. - SNode/Gienah
- April 16th 1993 President Clinton received gay and lesbian activists in the Oval Office for a one-hour meeting. - Saturn/Gienah
- July 2nd 1964, President Johnson signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill passed by Congress. - Saturn/Deneb Adige
- Jan 1st 1988 President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev expressing mutual hope they would reach an arms control treaty on strategic weapons within six months. And on the next day Jan 2nd, President Reagan and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney signed an agreement to lift trade restrictions between their countries. - NNode/Azelfafage
- May 14th 1904, the first Olympic games to be held in the United States opened in St. Louis. - SNode and previous solar eclipse March 17th/Azelfafage
- April 6th 1896, the first modern Olympic games formally opened in Athens, Greece. - Mars/Gienah
- April 30th 1939, the New York World's Fair officially opened. - Jupiter/Azelfafage
- May 14th 1980, President Carter inaugurated the Department of Health and Human Services. - SNode/Sador
Exile
- April 16th 1917, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returned to Russia after years of exile. - Uranus/Sador
Drugs
- May 13th 1988 The US Senate voted 83-to-6 to order the US military to enter the war against illegal drug trafficking, approving a plan to give the Navy the power to stop drug boats on the high seas and make arrests. - Mars/Sador
- Ether first publicly demonstrated as anaesthetic, Oct 15 1846 - Neptune/Gienah
- Mar 30th 1842, Dr. Crawford W. Long of Jefferson, Georgia, first used ether as an anesthetic during a minor operation. - Uranus/Azelfafage
Suicide
- April 19th 1993 The 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended as fire destroyed the structure after federal agents began smashing their way in; dozens of people, including David Koresh, were killed. - Saturn/Gienah
- Mar 26th 1997 The bodies of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate techno-religious cult who'd committed suicide were found inside a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California. - SNode/Azelfafage
- Mar 21 1997 A suicide bomber blew himself up in Tel Aviv, killing three Israeli women. - Venus and SNode/Azelfafage
Flags and statues
- Statue of Liberty dedicated, Oct 28th 1886. - South Node/Deneb Adige
- April 4th 1818, Congress decided the flag of the United States would consist of 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars, with a new star to be added for every new state of the Union. - Pluto/Azelfafage
Oil
- Mar 24th 1989, the nation's worst oil spill occurred as the supertanker "Exxon Valdez" ran aground on a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and began leaking eleven million gallons of crude. - NNode/Deneb Adige
- Mar 9th 1975, work began on the Alaskan oil pipeline. - Jupiter/Azelfafage
Computer and cloning
- Feb 23 1997 Scientists in Scotland announced they had succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly." SNode/Azelfafage
- Microsoft, Mar 13 1986, New York, EST 9.30 am. - Jupiter/Deneb Adige
Fires
- April 15th 1997 In Saudi Arabia, fire destroyed a tent city outside Mecca, killing at least 343 Muslim pilgrims. - SNode/Azelfafage
- April 11th 1993 In Italy, fire damaged the 500-year-old San Giovanni Cathedral, home of the Shroud of Turin, which some consider Christ's burial cloth. - SNode/Azelfafage
Rivers flooding, canals
- April 21 1997 The swollen Red River, which had flooded 75 percent of Grand Forks, North Dakota, reached a projected crest of 54 feet, 26 feet above flood stage. - SNode/Azelfafage
- April 25th 1859, ground was broken for the Suez Canal. - Neptune and Venus/Azelfafage
Neptunian type events
- Sept 23 1846 6.58 P.M. Neptune was discovered, Berlin. Neptune (along with Saturn) was aligned with Gienah when discovered.
- Ether first publicly demonstrated as anaesthetic, Oct 15 1846 - Neptune /Gienah
- Mar 30th 1842, Dr. Crawford W. Long of Jefferson, Georgia, first used ether as an anesthetic during a minor operation.- Uranus/Azelfafage
- May 13th 1917, three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary. - Uranus/Sador
- Mar 9th 1975, work began on the Alaskan oil pipeline. - Jupiter/Azelfafage
- Mar 24th 1989, the nation's worst oil spill occurred as the supertanker "Exxon Valdez" ran aground on a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and began leaking eleven million gallons of crude. - NNode/Deneb Adiege
- April 14th 1775, the first American society for the abolition of slavery was organized by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush. - SNode/Deneb Adiege
- Mar 21 1997, a suicide bomber blew himself up in Tel Aviv, killing three Israeli women. - Venus and South Node/Azelfafage
- Mar 26th 1997, the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate techno-religious cult who'd committed suicide were found inside a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California. - South Node/Azelfafage
- April 19th 1993, The 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended as fire destroyed the structure after federal agents began smashing their way in; dozens of people, including David Koresh, were killed. - Saturn/Gienah