On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 09:36:02AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:31:28AM -0600, Carson Chittom wrote: > > > Carson Chittom <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > Today's calendar reminder includes: > > > > > >> Nov 18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952 > > > > > > All the sources I could find online say that the first hydrogen bomb, > > > the Ivy Mike device, was actually detonated on Nov 1 local (Oct 31 > > > UTC). Wikipedia has a writeup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike > > > > > > Additionally, the common spelling of the atoll appears to be Enewetak > > > (not -tok). > > > > Sorry, should have said, this is from calendar.history. > > > > Though I note that calendar.ushistory includes a line also: > > > > > 05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956 > > > > Not sure what this is a reference to. > > This is probably referring to the Cherokee test. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Redwing > > -Otto
Which amounts to this diff, going for UTC to determine date. Index: calendar.history =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history,v retrieving revision 1.79 diff -u -p -r1.79 calendar.history --- calendar.history 14 Sep 2016 14:10:18 -0000 1.79 +++ calendar.history 19 Nov 2016 08:46:31 -0000 @@ -420,6 +420,7 @@ 10/29 Leibniz makes the first use of the "long s" for integral, 1675 10/30 Communist Party of Australia founded in Sydney, 1920 10/31 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517 +10/31 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetak, 1952 11/01 Austria-Hungary become two separate nations, 1918 11/01 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950 11/02 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940 @@ -444,7 +445,6 @@ 11/16 Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869 11/16 Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1938 11/17 Elizabeth I of England succeeds Queen Mary I of England, 1558 -11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952 11/19 Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Company, 1916 11/20 Nuremberg Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals begin, 1945 11/21 Birmingham Pub Bombings by the IRA kill 21 people, 1974 Index: calendar.ushistory =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.ushistory,v retrieving revision 1.5 diff -u -p -r1.5 calendar.ushistory --- calendar.ushistory 2 Jan 2015 08:02:20 -0000 1.5 +++ calendar.ushistory 19 Nov 2016 08:46:31 -0000 @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ 05/09 94 degrees F, New York, 1979 05/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854 05/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974 -05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956 +05/20 US explodes first air-delivered hydrogen bomb, 1956 05/22 US Civil War ends, 1865 05/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924 05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937
