The Y2K Calendar Shirt Explanation page

Since some of the listings on the calendar shirt are a bit obscure, this page will feature explanations and commentary on the events listed on the calendar T-shirt, with updates each week as the year progresses.

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April 1: April Fool's day
April 1: First day of Passover
April 1: Maundy Thursday
April 2: Velcro is introduced, 1978
April 2: Dr. Demento's Birthday
April 2: Good Friday
April 3: Asteroid misses earth by only 500,000 miles, 1989

April 4: Easter
April 4: Winston Smith commits thoughtcrime by starting a diary with the words "Down with Big Brother", 1984
April 4: Spring Forward (2 AM)
April 5: Tomb-Sweeping Day in Taiwan
April 6: Twinkies invented, 1930
April 6: Admiral Peary reaches North Pole but fails to locate Santa's workshop, 1909
April 7: Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD, 1943
April 7: Donald Barthelme's Birthday
April 8: Buddha's birthday in Japan
April 9: Civil War ends, 1865
April 9: Tom Lehrer's Birthday
April 10: Buchenwald Liberation day, 1945
April 10: Paul McCartney quits the Beatles, 1970

April 11: Apollo 13 oxygen tank rupture, 1970
April 12: David Letterman's Birthday
April 12: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961
April 13: Thomas Jefferson's birthday
April 13: Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)
April 14: Abe Lincoln assassinated, 1865
April 14: Dungeons & Dragons invented, 1974
April 14: The Titanic hits an iceberg, 11:40 pm, 1912
April 15: The Titanic sinks, 2:20 am, 1912
April 15: Taxes due!
April 15: First McDonald's opens, 1955
April 17: Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961
April 18: San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
April 19: Branch Davidian compound assaulted, 1993

April 19: Oklahoma City federal building bombing, 1995
April 19: Patriot's Day
April 19: The Boston Marathon
April 20: 420 Day: A day of protest by potsmokers, in Oklahoma and elsewhere, among whom "420" is a code word for the smoking of marijuana.
April 21: Taurus phase starts
April 21: Secretary's Day
April 22: Earth Day
April 22: Take our Daughters to Work day
April 23: New Coke debuts, 1985
April 24: Loss of Vladimir Komarov in Soyuz 1 parachute system failure, 1967

April 25: Launch of Hubble Space Telescope aboard Discovery, 1990
April 26: Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, 1986
April 28: Mutiny on the Bounty, 1789
April 29: Jerry Seinfeld's birthday
April 29: Rodney King verdict riots, 1992
April 30: Beltane
April 30: Hilter's suicide, 1945
April 30: National Arbor Day

May 1: May Day
May 1: The Kentucky Derby
May 1: The million marijuana march, in New York City

May 3: Lumpy Rug Day: a day to encourage the custom of teasing bigots for shoving unwelcome facts under the rug
May 4: Four Kent State students shot by the National Guard, 1970
May 4: Manhattan bought for $24 worth of junk jewelry, 1626
May 5: Cinco de Mayo (Mexico)
May 5: Liberation Day in the Netherlands
May 5: One year until Ice: The Ultimate Disaster (5/5/2000) by R.W. Noone
May 6: Burning of the Hindenburg, 1937
May 7: The Sinking of the Lusitania, 1915
May 8: Joan of Arc day (France)
May 8: National Bake Sale & Garage Sale day
May 8: Victory in Europe Day, 1945

May 9: Sale of Birth Control Pills approved, 1960
May 9: Mother's day
May 10: Driving of Golden Spike marks completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, 1869
May 11: Salvador Dali's Birthday
May 12: National Receptionists and Grave Shift Workers day
May 14: Lewis & Clark expedition begins, 1804
May 15: L. Frank Baum's Birthday
May 15: Armed Forces Day

May 16: Wear Purple for Peace Day (the First Intergalactic Holiday)
May 17: Rubber Bands patented, 1845
May 18: National Visit Your Relatives day
May 20: Jimmy Stewart's Birthday
May 21: Originally announced release date for Star Wars Episode 1 (actual release date: May 19, 1999)
May 21: Gemini phase starts
May 22: Great Train Robbery, 1868

May 24: Victoria day in Canada
May 25: African Liberation Day
May 26: Casinos first opened in Atlantic City, 1978
May 27: Pop-up toaster patented, 1919
May 28: Batman comic first published, 1939
May 29: Edmund Hillary reaches top of Mount Everest, 1953
May 30: First automobile accident, 1896
May 31: Memorial day

June 1: The Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", 1967
June 2: First White House Wedding, 1886
June 4: Tiananmen Square Massacre, 1989
June 5: First AIDS case reported, 1981
June 5: World environment day

June 6: National Yo-Yo day
June 6: D-Day, 1944
June 8: Death of the prophet Mohammed, 632
June 9: Writer's Rights Day
June 10: Maurice Sendak's birthday
June 10: Six Day War ended, 1967
June 11: King Kamehameha Day in Hawaii
June 12: Interracial Marriage Day
June 12: Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson murdered, 1994

June 13: Pioneer 10: "The spacecraft has left the solar system." (1983)
June 14: Flag Day
June 15: Magna Charta Day in England
June 16: Bloomsday - Ulysses takes place on this day, 1904
June 16: Valentina Tereshkova - first woman in space, 1963
June 17: Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775
June 17: The Watergate burglary, 1972
June 18: Paul McCartney's Birthday
June 18: M.C. Escher's Birthday
June 19: Juneteenth (Slaves declared free in Texas, 1865)
June 19: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed for selling nuclear secrets, 1953

June 20: Bald Eagle Day
June 20: Father's day
June 20: Gemini Phase ends
June 21: Cancer Phase begins
June 21: First Day of Summer / Summer Solstice 3:49 pm
June 21: Flag-burning ruled as Free Speech, 1989
June 22: Cross-burning ruled as Hate Crime, 1992
June 22: Doughnuts invented, 1847
June 23: John Wayne Bobbilt lives every man's worst nightmare, 1993
June 24: Midsummer's Day (A good night for dreaming)
June 25: Custer's Last Stand, 1876
June 25: Official Prayers in public schools ruled unconstitutional, 1962
June 26: Bicycle patented, 1918
June 26: Patent 4,936,585 ("Method of Manipulating and Interpreting Playing Pieces") issued for Icehouse, 1990

June 27: First UFO sighting, 1947
June 27: Stonewall Inn Incident, 1969 (Patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, fought with police during a raid; considered a landmark of the modern gay rights movement)
June 28: Start and End of WWI (1914-1919)
June 29: Death penalty banned, 1972 (rescinded, July 2, 1976)
June 30: Meteorite smashes into Siberia, 1908
June 30: Soyuz-11 Airlock Malfunction: 3 cosmonauts become first humans to die in space, 1971


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