Fixed stars in Lyra
Star	1900	2000	R A	Decl 1950	Lat	Mag	Sp
Vega alpha	13CAP55	15CAP19	278 48 41	+38 44 09	+61 44 07	0.03	A1
zeta	16CAP44	18CAP07	280 45 43	+37 33 06	+60 20 54	4.29	A9
epsilon	17CAP15	18CAP38	280 40 14	+39 37 00	+62 23 59	6.00	A4
Sheliak beta	17CAP30	18CAP53	282 03 30	+33 18 12	+55 59 24	3.50 var	B2
delta	20CAP01	21CAP24	282 59 41	+36 54 29	+59 25 24	5.51	B3
Sulaphat gamma	20CAP32	21CAP55	284 16 04	+32 37 11	+55 01 07	3.30	B9

Events in history

Cult figures, religion, philosophy

• 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. - Uranus and Neptune/Sulaphat
• John Adam Belushi Actor, Comedian Belushi was a cult star of the popular TV show 'Saturday Night Live'.  He was found dead of a drug overdose. - Jupiter closely conj. Venus in 1st Venus rule MC /Vega
• Martin Luther excommunicated by Diet of Worms, April 17 1521 - Pluto /Sheliak
• May 5th 1818, political philosopher Karl Marx was born in Prussia. - Jupiter/Vega
• April 16th 1917, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returned to Russia after years of exile. - NNode/Vega

Music

• Beethoven born, Dec 16 1770 - Pluto/Sheliak
• April 12th 1992, Euro Disneyland opened in France amid controversy as French intellectuals bemoaned the invasion of American pop culture. - Uranus and Neptune /Sheliak

Events

• Jan 16th 1991, the White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. - Neptune/Vega
• Jan 13th 1993 American and allied warplanes raided southern Iraq. - Uranus and Neptune/Sheliak

• The state of Washington executed Westley Allan Dodd, an admitted child sex killer, in America's first legal hanging since 1965. - Uranus and Neptune /Sheliak
• Jeffrey Dahmer serial killer May 21 1960 4.30 PM CDT Milwaukee - Saturn/Sheliak
• Jan 20th 1993 Bill Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd president of the United States - later to have an impeachment hearing over his lascivious ways. - Uranus and Neptune /Sheliak
• April 16th 1993 President Clinton received gay and lesbian activists in the Oval Office for a one-hour meeting. - Uranus and Neptune/Sulaphat
• April 25th 1993 Hundreds of thousands of gay rights activists and their supporters marched in Washington DC, demanding equal rights and freedom from discrimination.- Neptune/Sulaphat
• May 19th, 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry the Eighth, was beheaded after she was convicted of adultery. - SNode/Vega
• Jan 21 1908, New York City's Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance that effectively prohibited women from smoking in public (however, the measure was vetoed by Mayor George B. McClellan Junior). - Uranus and SNode/Vega
• Mrs. Parkhurst formed the Women's social and political union 10 10 1903 - Chiron/Sheliak

• Jan 13th 1992, Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War Two. - Uranus/Vega
• Jan 7th 1993 A preliminary report prepared for the European Community said about 20,000 women in Bosnia-Herzegovina might have been raped by Serb fighters. - Uranus and Neptune/Sheliak

• April 29th, 1992, deadly rioting erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. - Uranus and Neptune/Sheliak

• Mar 19th 1931, Nevada legalized gambling. - Saturn/Sulaphat
• Mar 30th 1842, Dr. Crawford W. Long of Jefferson, Georgia, first used ether as an anesthetic - Jupiter/Sulaphat

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