Freethought Calendar of Notable People and Events

Freethought Calendar of Notable People and Events

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FREETHOUGHT CALENDAR

A calendar filled with famous atheists, freethinkers, philosophers, scientists, notable events and other sundries.
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Dates referring to persons are birth days unless otherwise stated.

January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December

JANUARY

1 James Frazer	2 Isaac Asimov	3 Lucretia Mott	4 Michael Stipe	5 Marilyn Manson	6 Khalil Gibran	7 Gerald Durrell
8 Stephen Hawking	9 Simone de Beauvoir	10 Common Sense Published	11 William James	12 Edmund Burke	13 National Geographic Society formed	14 Scopes decision Handed down
15 Jean Baptiste Poquelin	16 Dian Fossey	17 Benjamin Franklin	18 A.A. Milne	19 Edgar Allan Poe	20 André-Marie Ampère	21 Concordes first flights
22 Beatrice Webb	23 Rachel Griffiths	24 Desmond Morris	25 Robert Burns	26 Australia Day Invasion Day	27 Nick Mason	28 Challenger Explodes
29 Tom Paine	30 Olof Palme	31 Norman Mailer

FEBRUARY

1 Columbia explodes	2 Ayn Rand	3 Gertrude Stein	4 Betty Friedan	5 Neville Bonner [Dies]	6 Mary Leakey	7 Alfred Adler
8 Jules Verne	9 Marie Curie	10 Alex Comfort	11 Thomas Edison	12 Charles Darwin	13 John Hunter	14 Teller
15 Galileo Galilei	16 Francis Galton	17 Giordano Bruno Burnt at Stake	18 Alessandro Volta	19 Nicolas Copernicus	20 Frederick Douglass [Dies}	21 Malcolm X [shot]
22 Arthur Schopenhauer	23 Emile Zola imprisoned	24 Hustler defeats Falwell	25 Anthony Burgess	26 Victor Hugo	27 Ralph Nader	28 Linus Pauling
29 Hugh Falconer

MARCH

1 Georg Simmel	2 Mikhail Gorbachev	3 William Godwin	4 George Gamow	5 Pier Paolo Pasolini	6 Valentina Tereshkova	7 Stanley Kubrick [Died]
8 Micky Dolenz	9 Yury Gagarin	10 Tiberius Claudius Nero [Dies]	11 Douglas Adams	12 James Taylor	13 Percivel Lowell	14 Albert Einstein
15 Andrew Jackson	16 Caroline Lucretia Herschel	17 Moncure Conway	18 Aleksei A. Leonov	19 Frédéric Joliot	20 B.F. Skinner	21 Sharpeville Massacre
22 Burton Richter	23 Erich Fromm	24 Olive Schreiner	25 Gloria Steinem	26 Richard Dawkins	27 Wilhelm Roentgen	28 Virginia Woolf
29 Rosenberg's Found Guilty	30 Ronald Reagan [Shot]	31 Rene Descartes

APRIL

1 William Harvey	2 Samuel Morse [Dies]	3 Dora Russell	4 Martin Luther King assassinated	5 Joseph Lister	6 James Watson	7 World Health Day
8 Kofi Annan	9 Hugh Hefner	10 Chris Hani [Assassinated]	11 Apollo 13 Launched	12 Vostok 1 launched	13 Madalyn Murray O'Hair	14 Abraham Lincoln [Shot]
15 Leonardo da Vinci	16 Charlie Chaplin	17 Benjamin Franklin [Dies]	18 Clarence Darrow	19 Charles Darwin [Dies]	20 Curies isolate Radium	21 Romulus and Remus
22 Robert Oppenheimer	23 Max Planck	24 Hubble Telescope Launched	25 Guglielmo Marconi	26 Charles F Richter	27 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	28 Gene Shoemaker
29 Derek Humphry	30 Claude Shannon

MAY

1 May Day	2 Bianca Jagger	3 Golda Meir	4 Thomas Huxley	5 Walter Sisulu [Died]	6 Robespierre	7 David Hume
8 Jean Henri Dunant	9 Glenda Jackson	10 Nazi book burning	11 Richard Feynman	12 George Carlin	13 First Fleet sets sail	14 Skylab Launched
15 Pierre Curie	16 Junko Tabei scales Mt Everest	17 Trent Reznor	18 Bertrand Russell	19 Andy Thomas' First Space Flight	20 J.S. Mill	21 Alexander Pope
22 Harvey Milk	23 Carl Linnaeus	24 Gabriel Fahrenheit	25 Ian McKellen	26 William of Ockham	27 Francis Beaufort	28 Paul Scully-Power
29 Melissa Etheridge	30 Christopher Marlowe [Murdered]	31 Walt Whitman

JUNE

1 Helen Keller [Dies]	2 Thomas Hardy	3 Mabo decision	4 Tiananmen Square Massacre	5 World Environment Day	6 Alexander Pushkin	7 Alan Turing [Dies]
8 Francis Crick	9 George Stephenson	10 Alexander the Great [Died]	11 Jacques Cousteau	12 Anne Frank	13 Ann Druyan	14 Che Guevara
15 Magna Carta	16 Barbara McClintock	17 Ted Nelson	18 Sally Ride [Challenger]	19 Salman Rushdie	20 World Refugee Day	21 Jean Paul Sartre
22 Julian Huxley	23 Alan Turing	24 Fred Hoyle	25 George Orwell	26 William Kelvin	27 Emma Goldman	28 Jean Jacques Rousseau
29 T H Huxley [Dies]	30 Tunguska Meteorite

JULY

1 Deborah Harry	2 William Henry Bragg	3 Battle of the Somme	4 Declaration of Independence signed	5 Andrew Ellicott Douglass	6 Peter Singer	7 Georg Ohm [Dies]
8 Ferdinand Zeppelin	9 Nikola Tesla	10 Rainbow Warrior Bombed	11 World Population Day	12 David Henry Thoreau	13 Sidney Webb	14 Emmeline Pankhurst
15 Jocelyn Bell Burnell	16 Apollo XI Launched	17 Pierre Maupertius	18 Richard Branson	19 Rosetta Stone [Found]	20 First Moon Landing	21 Ernest Hemingway
22 Gustav Hertz	23 Hale Bopp Comet [Discovered]	24 Scopes Monkey Trial	25 Aldous Huxley	26 Bernard Shaw	27 Banting and Best isolate insulin	28 Ludwig Feuerbach
29 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin [Dies]	30 Richard Haldane	31 Peter Benenson

AUGUST

1 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck	2 Voyager II Launched	3 Shirley Manson	4 Percy Shelley	5 Neil Armstrong	6 Alexander Fleming	7 Louis Leakey
8 Nagasaki Atom Bombed	9 Jean Piaget	10 Ferdinand Magellan begins voyage	11 Robert Ingersoll	12 Erwin Schrödinger	13 Alfred Hitchcock	14 Telecast of Earth From Space
15 Napoleon Bonaparte	16 Woodstock Festival	17 Berlin Wall begins to be built	18 Roman Polanski	19 Gene Roddenberry	20 Paul Ehrlich [Dies]	21 Gemini-5 [Launched]
22 Jacob Bronowski [Dies]	23 Albert Claude	24 Vesuvius Explodes	25 Taslima Nasrin	26 Antoine Lavoisier	27 Georg Hegel	28 Leo Tolstoy
29 John Locke	30 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	31 Maria Montessori

SEPTEMBER

1 Chapman Cohen	2 Christa McAuliffe	3 Macfarlane Burnet	4 Greenham Common	5 John Newman [Assassinated]	6 Roger Waters	7 John Warcup Cornforth
8 International Literacy Day	9 Luigi Galvani	10 Stephen Jay Gould	11 Salvador Allende [Killed]	12 H L Mencken	13 Robert Robinson	14 Margaret Sanger
15 William Burroughs [Dies]	16 Mayflower departed England	17 Space Shuttle unveiled	18 Jean-Bernard Foucoult	19 John Flamsteed	20 James Dewar	21 H.G. Wells
22 Michael Faraday	23 Spring Equinox	24 Howard Florey	25 Christopher Reeve	26 Charles Bradlaugh	27 Georges-Louis Leclerc	28 Ethel Rosenberg
29 Enrico Fermi	30 Geoffrey Robertson

OCTOBER

1 Annie Besant	2 Mahatma Gandhi	3 Gore Vidal	4 Sputnik Launched	5 Bob Geldof	6 Alfred Lord Tennyson [Dies]	7 Niels Bohr
8 Mark Oliphant	9 John Lennon	10 Triton [Discovered]	11 Apollo 7 Launched	12 Edith Cavell Executed	13 Lenny Bruce	14 Aung San Suu Kyi Nobel Peace Prize
15 Marie Stopes	16 Oscar Wilde	17 Mae Jemison	18 Charles Babbage [Dies]	19 Jodie Foster	20 Sydney Opera House opens	21 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
22 Timothy Leary	23 Michael Crichton	24 United Nations Day	25 Pablo Picasso	26 Desiderius Erasmus	27 Oliver Tambo	28 Bill Gates
29 Edmund Halley	30 Ezra Pound	31 John Keats

NOVEMBER

1 Larry Flynt	2 George Boole	3 Laika Launched aboard Sputnik	4 Tom Paine Released	5 Susan B Anthony Arrested	6 Griff Rhys-Jones	7 Albert Camus
8 Katharine Hepburn	9 Carl Sagan	10 Richard Burton	11 Joseph McCabe	12 Elizabeth Cady Stanton	13 Mariner 9 Orbits Mars	14 Jawaharlal Nehru
15 William Herschel	16 Tiberius Claudius Nero	17 Luna 17 lands vehicle on Moon	18 Jonestown Massacre	19 Indira Gandhi	20 Edwin Hubble	21 Voltaire
22 George Eliot	23 Vladislav N Volkov	24 Arundhati Roy	25 Andrew Carnegie	26 Norbert Weiner	27 Anders Celsius	28 Magellan Names Pacific Ocean
29 Petra Kelly	30 Mark Twain

DECEMBER

1 Woody Allen	2 Helium Dirigible C-7 test flight	3 Quentin Crisp [Died]	4 Edith Cavell	5 Walt Disney	6 Slavery in USA Abolished	7 Noam Chomsky
8 John Lennon [Shot]	9 Nick Seymour	10 UN Human Rights Day	11 Robert Koch	12 Erasmus Darwin	13 Tasman discovers New Zealand	14 Tycho Brahe
15 Alexander Gustave Eiffel	16 Arthur C Clarke	17 Wright Brother's fly plane	18 Steve Biko	19 Richard Leakey	20 Sidney Hook	21 Frank Zappa
22 Native Title legislation passed	23 Jean-François Champollion	24 Earth-rise over moon Apollo 8	25 Isaac Newton	26 Charles Babbage	27 Bob Brown	28 Tom Paine Imprisoned
29 Klaus Fuchs	30 A.N. Whitehead [Dies]	31 John Denver