The Date-A-Base Book 2010 is a fantastic
source of writing ideas, programme ideas,
and event ideas.
We've collected events and anniversaries
from
many different
sources, and you'll find entries in
this book that aren't generally available
elsewhere, but are still significant
and worth writing about.
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you
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who don't know about them.
You
can instantly see which significant
anniversaries will occur during each
month, quickly mark the ones you
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on with your writing.
The entries in the Date-A-Base Book
2010 are listed months in advance, giving
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about them, and get your finished work
onto editors' desks well before the publication
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The Date-A-Base Book 2010 is suitable
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each item only once; you could
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into many different pieces
of writing, or adapt a single article
for several
different markets.
Ann. |
Date |
Event |
400 |
7
Jan 1610 |
Italian
scientist and astronomer Galileo
Galilei discovered Jupiter's
four largest
moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and
Callisto |
350 |
1
Jan 1660 |
English
naval administrator Samuel Pepys
began keeping his famous
diary, which gives a detailed
account of life in London from
1660-69,
including the Great Plague and
the Great Fire of London |
300 |
4
Jan 1710 |
Birth
of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi,
Italian composer, one
of the most important early composers
of comic opera, as
well as sacred music and other works |
300 |
16
Jan 1710 |
Death
of Emperor Higashiyama of Japan |
300 |
21
Jan 1710 |
Death
of Johann Georg Gichtel, German
visionary and mystic |
250 |
9
Jan 1760 |
Battle
of Barari Ghat, India. The Afghans
defeated the Marathas in their war to gain control of the Mughal
Empire |
200 |
15
Jan 1810 |
Birth
of Abigail Kelley Foster, American
feminist and abolitionist |
175 |
30
Jan 1835 |
The
first assassination attempt on
a US President. Richard Lawrence
fired two
pistol shots at president Andrew
Jackson as he left the
House of Representatives
chamber. Both shots misfired
and the President
was unharmed |
150 |
5
Jan 1860 |
Death
of Saint John Nepomucene Neumann,
the first American bishop to be canonised |
150 |
17
Jan 1860 |
Birth
of Douglas Hyde, first President
of Ireland (1938-45) |
150 |
27
Jan 1860 |
Death
of János Bolyai, Hungarian
mathematician, one of the founders of non-Euclidean
geometry |
150 |
29
Jan 1860 |
Birth
of Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright
and short story writer |
125 |
4
Jan 1885 |
The
first successful surgical removal
of an appendix, performed by
Dr
William W. Grant in Iowa, USA,
on patient Mary Gartside |
125 |
15
Jan 1885 |
The
first known photograph of a snowflake
was taken by American farmer Wilson A. Bentley |
125 |
20
Jan 1885 |
The
roller coaster was patented by
American inventor LaMarcus Adna Thompson, who built the Switchback
Railway at Coney Island, New
York |
100 |
5
Jan 1910 |
Death
of Léon Walras, French
economist, creator of the theory of general
economic equilibrium |
100 |
6
Jan 1910 |
Birth
of Morris Wright, American novelist,
short story writer, essayist
and photographer, who wrote primarily
about the Midwestern prairie |
100 |
7
Jan 1910 |
Birth
of Orval Faubus, Governor of
Arkansas, best known for defying
the Supreme Court in a row over the
desegregation of public schools |
100 |
10
Jan 1910 |
Birth
of Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina, one of the greatest ballet dancers
of the 20th century |
100 |
13
Jan 1910 |
The
first public radio broadcast
- an experimental live transmission
from the
Metropolitan Opera House, New
York, USA, where several
famous opera
singers, including Enrico Caruso,
were performing |
100 |
16
Jan 1910
? |
Birth
of Dizzy Dean, American baseball
star
(Note: date of birth is disputed
by some sources) |
100 |
20
Jan 1910 |
Birth
of Joy Adamson, Austrian conservationist
and writer
('Born Free') |
100 |
23
Jan 1910 |
Birth
of Django Reinhardt, Belgian
jazz guitarist |
100 |
27
Jan 1910 |
Death
of Thomas Crapper, British plumber
and inventor who helped
popularise the toilet and invented
the ballcock |
90 |
2
Jan 1920 |
Birth
of Isaac Asimov, Russian-born
American science fiction writer |
90 |
4
Jan 1920 |
The
Negro National League - the
first black baseball league in
the USA -
was founded. The first games
were played on 2nd May 1920 |
90 |
10
Jan 1920 |
The
Treaty of Versailles was ratified,
officially ending World War I |
90 |
10
Jan 1920 |
The
League of Nations was founded |
90 |
16
Jan 1920 |
Prohibition
began in the USA as the 18th
Amendment went into effect |
90 |
23
Jan 1920 |
The
Netherlands refused demands from
the Allies to hand over the
former German Kaiser Wilhelm
II |
90 |
24
Jan 1920 |
Death
of Amedeo Modigliani, Italian
artist and sculptor |
90 |
28
Jan 1920 |
The
Spanish Foreign Legion (now the
Spanish Legion) was founded by Royal
Decree by King Alfonso XIII.
(The first recruit joined
on 20th Sept 1920,
which is the date now celebrated
as the legion's anniversary) |
80 |
6
Jan 1930 |
The
first long-distance trip by a
diesel-powered car was completed,
from Indianapolis
to the National Automobile Show,
New York - 800
miles |
80 |
13
Jan 1930 |
The
'New York Mirror' published
the first Mickey Mouse comic
strip |
80 |
30
Jan 1930 |
The
world's first radiosonde
was launched in Pavlovsk, USSR
by Russian meteorologist Pavel Molchanov |
75 |
1
Jan 1935 |
Libya
was founded as the colonies of
Cyrenaica (also spelled Kyrenaika),
Tripoli, and Eezaan were united |
75 |
2
Jan 1935 |
German-born
carpenter Bruno Hauptmann went
on trial for kidnapping and murdering
the infant son of American aviator
Charles Lindbergh |
75 |
8
Jan 1935 |
Arthur
C. Hardy of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT)
patented the spectrophotometer |
75 |
8
Jan 1935 |
Birth of Elvis
Presley, American rock and roll
singer |
75 |
9
Jan 1935 |
Birth
of Bob Denver, American TV actor
('Gilligan's Island') |
75 |
11
Jan 1935 |
American
aviator Amelia Earhart became
the first woman to fly solo
across the Pacific Ocean |
75 |
19
Jan 1935 |
The
world's first briefs - the 'Jockey'
Y-front - were
launched by
Coopers Inc. of Chicago, USA |
75 |
24
Jan 1935 |
The
birth of the beer can. Beer and
ale in cans was first sold in
Richmond, Virginia, USA, by the Kreuger
Brewing Company in a successful
test |
75 |
28
Jan 1935 |
Iceland
became the first country in the
world to legalise abortion |
70 |
5
Jan 1940 |
FM
radio was demonstrated to the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the USA for the first
time |
70 |
12
Jan 1940 |
World
War II: Russia bombed cities
in Finland |
60 |
6
Jan 1950 |
Britain
officially recognised the People's
Republic of China. The Republic of China severed diplomatic relations
with Britain in response |
60 |
17
Jan 1950 |
The
Great Brinks Robbery - 11
thieves stole more than $2 million
from an armoured
car company's offices in Boston,
Massachusetts,
USA |
60 |
18
Jan 1950 |
Birth
of Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian
racing driver |
60 |
21
Jan 1950 |
Death
of George Orwell, British novelist
('Animal Farm', 'Nineteen
Eighty-Four', etc) |
60 |
23
Jan 1950 |
The
Israeli Knesset declared Jerusalem
the capital of Israel |
60 |
26
Jan 1950 |
India
became an independent republic.
A new constitution was adopted and President Rajendra Prasad
replaced King George VI as head
of state |
60 |
29
Jan 1950 |
Riots
broke out in Johannesburg, South
Africa, in protest against the
government's Apartheid
policy |
60 |
31
Jan 1950 |
US
President Harry S. Truman announced
that he had instructed the
Atomic Energy Commission to develop
the hydrogen bomb |
50 |
1
Jan 1960 |
The
Republic of Cameroon became independent
from France and the UK |
50 |
4
Jan 1960 |
Death of Albert
Camus, Algerian-born French writer
and philosopher,
winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize
for Literature |
50 |
9
Jan 1960 |
Construction
of the Aswan Dam in Egypt began |
50 |
11
Jan 1960 |
Chad
declared its independence from
France |
50 |
12
Jan 1960 |
Death
of Nevil Shute, British-born
Australian novelist |
50 |
22
Jan 1960 |
Birth of Michael
Hutchence, Australian rock singer
('INXS') |
50 |
23
Jan 1960 |
The
US Navy's bathyscaphe 'Trieste'
descended to the deepest point
in the Pacific
Ocean - over 10,000 metres |
50 |
25
Jan 1960 |
Payola scandal
- the US National Association
of Broadcasters
threatened to fine disc jockeys who accepted
money for playing particular
records |
40 |
5
Jan 1970 |
The
American soap opera 'All
My Children' was first
broadcast (on ABC) |
40 |
11
Jan 1970 |
Death
of Richmal Crompton, British
writer ('Just William') |
40 |
15
Jan 1970 |
The
Republic of Biafra, a short-lived
breakaway state in south-eastern Nigeria, surrendered after three
years of war and ceased to exist |
40 |
16
Jan 1970 |
Colonel
Muammar Gaddafi became the official
leader of Libya, four
months after deposing King Idris
in a bloodless coup |
40 |
16
Jan 1970 |
American
architect Richard Buckminster
Fuller received the Gold Medal award from the American Institute
of Architects |
40 |
21
Jan 1970 |
The
Boeing 747 'Jumbo Jet' went
into service on its first regularly
scheduled commercial flight,
from New York to London |
30 |
3
Jan 1980 |
Death
of Joy Adamson, Austrian conservationist
and writer ('Born Free') |
30 |
8
Jan 1980 |
Death
of John Mauchly, American physicist,
co-inventor of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic
computer |
30 |
11
Jan 1980 |
Death
of Barbara Pym, British novelist |
30 |
18
Jan 1980 |
Death
of Cecil Beaton, British photographer
and theatrical designer |
30 |
22
Jan 1980 |
Soviet
dissident Dr Andrei Sakharov
was arrested in Moscow and sent into internal exile for his outspoken
views |
30 |
27
Jan 1980 |
Rhodesian
opposition leader Robert Mugabe
made a triumphant return to his
home country after five years
in exile. (Rhodesia is now Zimbabwe) |
30 |
29
Jan 1980 |
Death
of Jimmy Durante, American comedian
and actor |
25 |
1
Jan 1985 |
Britain's
first mobile phone call was made
by comedian Ernie Wise |
25 |
10
Jan 1985 |
The
Sinclair C5 electric tricycle
was launched |
25 |
17
Jan 1985 |
British
Telecom announced that its famous
red telephone boxes were to be retired |
25 |
18
Jan 1985 |
Death
of Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor
(played Albert Steptoe in 'Steptoe and
Son') |
25 |
22
Jan 1985 |
Death
of Arthur Bryant, British historian,
particularly noted for his three-volume
biography of Samuel Pepys |
25 |
23
Jan 1985 |
The
proceedings of Britain's
House of Lords were broadcast
on television for
the first time |
25 |
29
Jan 1985 |
Oxford
University refused British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher an
honorary degree in protest against
cuts to the education budget |
20 |
3
Jan 1990 |
Manuel
Noriega, the deposed leader of
Panama, surrendered to American authorities
on charges of drug trafficking,
racketeering and
money laundering after 10 days hiding
in the Vatican embassy |
20 |
6
Jan 1990 |
Death
of Ian Charleson, Scottish actor
('Chariots of Fire') |
20 |
7
Jan 1990 |
The
Leaning Tower of Pisa was closed
to the public due to safety concerns as
its rate of lean was accelerating.
(Reopened December 2001 after remedial work proved successful) |
20 |
8
Jan 1990 |
Death
of Terry-Thomas, British comic
actor |
20 |
10
Jan 1990 |
Time
Inc. and Warner Communications
Inc. merged to form Time Warner |
20 |
12
Jan 1990 |
Romania became
the first Warsaw Pact country
to outlaw the Communist
Party |
20 |
15
Jan 1990 |
Death of Gordon
Jackson, Scottish actor (played
Hudson the butler in 'Upstairs,
Downstairs',
and George Cowley in 'The
Professionals') |
20 |
17
Jan 1990 |
Death of Ruskin
Spear, British artist |
20 |
19
Jan 1990 |
Death of Bhagwan
Shree Rajneesh, Indian guru |
20 |
20
Jan 1990 |
Death of Barbara
Stanwyck, American actress |
20 |
25
Jan 1990 |
Hurricane-force
winds killed 47 people in England
and Wales and a
further 36 in north-western Europe |
20 |
25
Jan 1990 |
Death of Ava
Gardner, American film actress |
20 |
31
Jan 1990 |
Russia's
first McDonald's fast-food
restaurant opened in Moscow |
15 |
1
Jan 1995 |
The World Trade
Organisation was founded, replacing
the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT) |
15 |
1
Jan 1995 |
Death of Fred
West, British serial killer,
found hanged in his prison cell |
15 |
3
Jan 1995 |
The World Health
Organisation (WHO) reported that
the cumulative total of
reported AIDS cases had passed
the one million mark, with cases reported in 192 countries |
15 |
9
Jan 1995 |
Death of Peter
Cook, British satirist, actor
and writer |
15 |
16
Jan 1995 |
The British
Army ceased daylight patrols
of Belfast streets after 25 years |
15 |
17
Jan 1995 |
Kobe earthquake.
The city of Kobe, Japan was devastated
by an
earthquake that killed more than
6,000 people |
15 |
17
Jan 1995 |
The French government
announced the discovery of a
network of caves containing
hundreds of apparently undisturbed
cave paintings thought
to date from 17,000 to 20,000 years
ago |
15 |
27
Jan 1995 |
French footballer
Eric Cantona was banned from
playing for 9 months
after a kung fu-style attack
on a fan while playing for Manchester
United against Crystal Palace |
15 |
30
Jan 1995 |
Death of Gerald
Durrell, British naturalist,
writer, and founder of Jersey
Zoo |
10 |
1
Jan 2000 |
The calendar
switched over to the year 2000,
with no major computer problems
from the Y2K 'Millennium
Bug' that had been widely
predicted |
10 |
3
Jan 2000 |
Charles Schulz's
final 'Peanuts' comic
strip was published |
10 |
4
Jan 2000 |
The first British
women to walk across Antarctica
to the South Pole arrived safely. The group also included
the first married couple to achieve
the feat |
10 |
7
Jan 2000 |
Former British
Cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken
was released from jail after
serving seven months of his 18-month
sentence for perjury |
10 |
9
Jan 2000 |
Death of Nigel
Tranter, Scottish historian and
novelist |
10 |
10
Jan 2000 |
America Online
(AOL) agreed to buy Time Warner
for $164 billion.
(Merger completed 11th January
2001 after FCC approval was granted) |
10 |
13
Jan 2000 |
Microsoft chairman
Bill Gates announced that he
was stepping down as chief
executive. Company president
Steve Ballmer would take over
the position, while Gates remained
chairman and chief software architect |
10 |
17
Jan 2000 |
British pharmaceutical
companies Glaxo Wellcome and
SmithKline
Beecham agreed to a merger that
would create the world's
largest
pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline
(GSK).
(Merger completed 27th December
2000) |
10 |
19
Jan 2000 |
Death of Hedy
Lamarr, Austrian-born American
film actress, and
co-inventor of spread spectrum
radio communication |
10 |
25
Jan 2000 |
A group of five
British women became the first
all-female expedition to
reach both the North and South
poles |
10 |
31
Jan 2000 |
British family
doctor Harold Shipman was jailed
for life for murdering 15 of
his patients. He is thought to
have killed at least 215 and
possibly as many
as 260 patients, making him Britain's
worst ever
serial killer |
