1 Blōtmōnaþ

Fram Wikipedian

1 Blōtmōnaþ is se 305a dæg þæs gēares (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining.

Win – Blōtmōnaþ – Gēo
Su	Mō	Tī	Wō	Þu	Fr	Sæ
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30
2005 dæges endebyrd Ealle dagas

Innungbred

1 Belimpas
2 Byrda
3 Dēaðas
4 Holidays
5 Ūtanwearde bendas

[ādihtan] Belimpas

79 - Pompeii is buried by Mount Vesuvius.
996 - Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
1520 - The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage.
1530 - An approximated 400,000 die after the Netherlands' dikes fail.
1592 - At the Battle of Busan, the outnumbered Korean navy defeats a larger Japanese army.
1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1611 - William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1683 - The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
1755 - Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal, Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between sixty and ninety thousand people.
1765 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
1790 - Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in disaster.
1800 - US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
1848 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which will later merge with Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
1859 - The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lighted for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for 19 miles (30 kilometers).
1861 - American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George McClellan as commander of the Union Army, replacing the aged General Winfield Scott.
1870 - In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
1871 - The Stamford to Bourne, Lincolnshire turnpike road was freed from tolls.
1876 - New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
1894 - Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
1896 - A picture showing the naked breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
1914 - World War I: the first British naval defeat of the war, the Battle of Coronel is fought off of the coast of Chile.
1918 - Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 dead.
1922 - The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
1939 - The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is shown to the world.
1943 - World War II: Operation Goodtime launched - United States Marines invade Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
1944 - World War II: Operation Infatuate launched - The British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
1948 - Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 are killed as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.
1950 - Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman.
1950 - Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
1951 - US soldiers are exposed to an atomic explosion for training purposes in Desert Rock, Nevada; participation was not voluntary.
1952 - Operation Ivy - The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["m" for megaton], at Eniwetok island in the Bikini atoll located in the Pacific Ocean.
1954 - The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
1955 - A United Airlines DC-6B explodes in mid-air and crashes near Longmont, Colorado, killing 44 people
1956 - Formation of Kerala state in India.
1960 - While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
1963 - The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
1963 - President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is overthrown and executed in a coup d'état led by General Duong Van Minh.
1969 - After seven years off the top of the charts, Elvis Presley hits No. 1 on the Billboard Music charts with his song "Suspicious Minds."
1973 - Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
1973 - Formation of Karnataka state in India.
1980 - Wayanad district formed in the state of Kerala, India.
1981 - Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.
1990 - A New York City civil jury awards Sandra Miller $100 for battery after an incident in which Mike Tyson grabbed her breasts and insulted her; the jury found Tyson's behavior "not outrageous".
1993 - The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
1994 - George Lucas leaves the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and starts a sabbatical. While on sabbatical, he writes the prequel section of the Star Wars movies.
1994 - The Chijon Family is sentenced to death in South Korea for murdering and eating five people.
1998 - The European Court of Human Rights is instituted.
2004 - The Bank of Japan issues a new series of 1000, 5000, and 10,000 yen notes. Both old and the new series will circulate together.

[ādihtan] Byrda

846 - Louis the Stammerer, Cyning of West Francia (d. 879)
1339 - Rudolf IV of Austria (d. 1365)
1351 - Duke Leopold III of Austria
1530 - Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (d. 1563)
1539 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
1567 - Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (d. 1626)
1578 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
1585 - Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)
1607 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (d. 1658)
1611 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (d. 1656)
1636 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, French poet and critic (d. 1711)
1643 - John Strype, English historian and biographer (d. 1737)
1661 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (d. 1725)
1762 - Spencer Perceval, British Prime Minister (d. 1812)
1778 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
1808 - John Taylor, American religious leader
1871 - Stephen Crane, American writer (d. 1900)
1877 - Roger Quilter, British composer (d. 1953)
1878 - Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter (d. 1925)
1880 - Alfred Wegener, meteorologist and geophysicist (d. 1930)
1880 - Sholom Asch, Polish-born American writer (d. 1957)
1880 - Grantland Rice, American sports writer (d. 1954)
1886 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (d. 1951)
1892 - Alexander Alekhine, Russian-born world chess champion (d. 1946)
1902 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (d. 1987)
1923 - Gordon R. Dickson, science fiction author (d. 2001)
1923 - Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (d. 2005)
1929 - Betsy Palmer, American actress
1934 - Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (d. 2004)
1934 - William Mathias, British composer (d. 1992)
1935 - Gary Player, American golfer
1935 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (d. 2003)
1939 - Barbara Bosson, American actress
1940 - Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Chief Justice of India
1942 - Ralph Klein, Premier of Alberta
1943 - Salvatore Adamo Belgian-Italian singer
1950 - Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1952 - Larry Flynt, American magazine publisher
1957 - Lyle Lovett, American singer
1957 - Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (d. 1988)
1962 - Anthony Kiedis, American singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1963 - Rick Allen, British drummer (Def Leppard)
1963 - Roddy Bottum, American musician (Faith No More, Imperial Teen)
1967 - Sophie B. Hawkins, American musician
1972 - Toni Collette, Australian actress
1976 - Matt Chapman, American creator of Homestar Runner

[ādihtan] Dēaðas

1399 - John V, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339)
1596 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539)
1642 - Jean Nicolet, French explorer (b. 1598)
1676 - Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (b. 1589)
1678 - William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1601)
1700 - Charles II of Spain (b. 1661)
1888 - Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalskiy, Russian explorer (b. 1838)
1894 - Alexander III, Tsar of Russia
1903 - Theodor Mommsen, German author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature
1924 - William Tilghman, American frontier marshal, statesman
1942 - Hugo Distler, German composer (b. 1908)
1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
1972 - Ezra Pound, American poet (b. 1885)
1979 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States
1982 - King Vidor, American film director
1983 - Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist
1985 - Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian
1987 - René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec, Canada
1993 - Severo Ochoa, Spanish–American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1999 - Walter Payton, American football player

[ādihtan] Holidays

Catholicism - Holy Day of Obligation Ealra Hālgena Mæssedæg. Holiday in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Seychelles, Spain, Italy, Lithuania, The Philippines and Croatia.
Algeria - National day
Lá Samhna the traditional first day of Winter in modern Ireland, see also Samhain
Mexico and United States - The Day of the Dead
World Vegan Day