Fixed stars in Sagittarius
Star	1900	2000	R A	Decl 1950	Lat	Mag	Sp
Spiculum Lagoon Nebula NGC6523	29SAG40	01CAP04	270 10 30	-24 23 00	-00 56 17	6.00	N
Alnasl gamma	29SAG52	01CAP16	270 38 56	-30 25 36	-06 58 56	3.07	K0
Polis mu	01CAP49	03CAP13	272 43 00	-21 04 26	+02 20 24	3 0 var	B8
Kaus Medius delta	03CAP11	04CAP35	274 26 54	-29 51 05	-06 27 56	2.84	K2
Kaus Australis epsilon	03CAP41	05CAP05	275 12 48	-34 24 37	-11 02 37	1.95	B9
Kaus Borealis lambda	04CAP55	06CAP19	276 13 15	-25 27 04	-02 07 36	2.94	K1
Facies M22 NGC6656	06CAP54	08CAP18	278 19 30	-23 58 00	-00 44 25	5.90	C
theta	08CAP48	10CAP11	280 37 60	-27 02 39	-03 56 52	3.30	B8
Nunki sigma	10CAP59	12CAP23	283 02 29	-26 21 39	-03 26 34	2.14	B3
Ascella zeta	12CAP15	13CAP38	284 51 29	-29 10 06	-06 23 31	2.71	A4
tau	13CAP27	14CAP50	285 57 18	-27 44 43	-05 04 46	3.42	K1
Manubrium omicron	13CAP36	14CAP59	285 27 00	-21 49 00	+00 52 00	3.90	G8
Arkab Prior beta 1	14CAP23	15CAP47	289 45 42	-44 33 18	-22 08 18	4.24	B8
Arkab Posterior beta 2	14CAP26	15CAP50	289 54 09	-44 53 45	-22 29 24	4.51	A9
Albadah pi Sagittarius	14CAP51	16CAP15	286 43 00	-21 06 18	+01 26 36	3.00	F3
Rukbat alpha	15CAP14	16CAP38	290 06 23	-40 42 43	-18 22 20	4.11	B8
Terebellum omega	24CAP27	25CAP51	298 1300	-26 26 02	-05 25 01	4.80	G5

People with aims and beliefs

• David Koresh Cult leader. - Saturn conj. IC ruler of IC/Alnasl
• Senator Robert Kennedy. - Venus in 9th ruling Asc/Albadah
• President Kennedy - NNode in 3rd/Ascella
• May 5th 1818, political philosopher Karl Marx was born in Prussia. - Jupiter/Manubrium
• Adolf Hitler - Moon/Facies  
• Feb 15 1820, American suffragist Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts. - Neptune/Polis
• May 5th 1818, political philosopher Karl Marx born in Prussia. - Jupiter/Manubrium

Shootings

• 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. - Mars/Nunki
• 500 strikers shot, Petersburg Jan 22 1905 - Uranus/Polis
• Mar 21 1960, some 70 people were killed in Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired on demonstrators. - Jupiter/Polis
• Mar 21st 1985, police in Langa, South Africa, opened fire on blacks marching to mark the 25th anniversary of the Sharpeville shootings, killing at least 21 demonstrators. - Neptune/Polis

Religious events

• Luther posts the 95 these at Augsburg, Oct 31 1517 - Saturn/Polis, South Node/Kaus Borealis, Pluto/Facies
• Jan 3rd 1521, Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. - Pluto/Rukbat
• April 12th 1986, Pope John Paul II visited a Rome synagogue in the first recorded papal visit of its kind. - Neptune/Kaus Borealis
• Separation of church and state in France, Dec 9 1905 - Uranus/Kaus Medius
• Mar 19th 1987, televangelist Jim Bakker resigned as chairman of his PTL ministry organization amid a sex and money scandal involving Jessica Hahn, a former church secretary from Oklahoma. - Neptune/Facies
• 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." - Uranus/Alnasl
• April 8th 1988 The Reverend Jimmy Swaggart was defrocked as a minister of the Assemblies of God after he rejected an order from the church's national leaders to stop preaching for a year. - Saturn/Polis
• Mar 12th 1994, the Church of England ordained its first women priests. - Uranus/Terebellium

Events

• April 10th 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union joined in Rome with 70 nations in signing an agreement banning biological warfare. - Jupiter/Facies
• May 4th 1987 A year-long amnesty program for illegal aliens in the United States who met certain conditions. - Neptune/Facies
• Jan 20th 1986, Britain and France announced plans to build the Channel Tunnel. - Neptune/Kaus Medius
• 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. NNode/Alnasl
• April 27th 1937, the nation's first Social Security checks were distributed. -  Jupiter/Polis
• Feb 23 1905, the Rotary Club was founded. Uranus/Kaus Medius
• April 25th 1945, delegates from some 50 countries met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations. - SNode/Nunki
• May 17th, 1954, the Supreme Court issued its landmark "Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka" ruling, which held that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal. - NNode/Albadah
• 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 /Manubrium
• Feb 18th 1972, the California Supreme Court struck down the state's death penalty. - Jupiter/Polis

• July 4th 1826, 50 years to the day after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died. - Neptune occulting /Manubrium
• Jan 31st 1606, Guy Fawkes, convicted for his part in the "Gunpowder Plot" against the English Parliament and King James the First, was executed. - Saturn/Facies
• April 14th, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington. (Lincoln died the following morning.) - Jupiter/Spiculum
• Mar 11th 1985, the Soviet Union announced the death the day before of its leader, Konstantin Chernenko. - Neptune/Polis
• Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, Dec 16 1653 - Uranus /Kaus Aust (trouble for the nobility)
• Feb 25th 1986, President Ferdinand E. Marcos fled the Philippines after 20 years of rule in the wake of a tainted election; Corazon Aquino assumed the presidency. - Neptune/Kaus Aust

• Mar 28th 1854, during the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on Russia. Jupiter/Terebellium

• Charles Lindbergh completes first solo nonstop flight across Atlantic, May 21 1927 - SNode/Spiculum
• January 25th, 1959, American Airlines opened the jet age in the United States with the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707. - Saturn/Polis
• Jan 18th 1991, financially strapped Eastern Airlines shut down after 62 years in business. - Neptune occulting/Manubrium

• Sinn Fein Party organized, Nov 28th 1905 - Uranus/Polis
• Kerensky's government ousted by Bolshevik coup in Russia, start of communism. Nov 7 1917 - NNode/Kaus Australis
• British labor party launched Feb 27 1900 - Saturn/Kaus Medius

• 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. - Neptune/Kaus Australis
• Feb 24th 1821, Mexico declared its independence from Spain. - Uranus and Neptune//Kaus Australis
• 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. - Neptune/Kaus Borealis
• Feb 22 1819, Spain ceded Florida to the United States. Neptune/Spiculum
• Mar 27th 1512, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida. - Pluto/Spiculum

• May 11th 1985, more than 50 people died when a flash fire swept a jam-packed soccer
  stadium in Bradford, England. Neptune/Polis, Uranus Kaus Australis
• April 15th 1989, 95 people died in a crush of soccer fans at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England. Neptune/Nunki

• May 14th 1904, the first Olympic games to be held in the United States opened in St. Louis. - Uranus/Spiculum

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