Cover
Frontspiece
Preface
January
January 01 - Anniversary of the First Meeting of Napoleon and Marie
Walewska
January 04 - Sally Lunn's Birthday
January 05 - George Washington Carver's Day
January 09 - Little Jack Horner's Birthday
January 14 - Anniversary of the Premier of Tosca
January 15 - Anniversary of the Premier of Vanessa
January 22 - Lord Byron's Birthday
January 27- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Birthday
January 28 - Collette's Birthday
January 31 - Anna Pavlova's Birthday
February
February 02 - Candlemas Day
February 04 - Oscar De La Hoya's Birthday
February 05 - St. Agatha's Feastday
February 06 - Zsa Zsa Gabor's Birthday
February 07 - Clarence Linden Crabbe's Birthday/Anniversary of Senator
Joseph McCarthy's Speech to the West Virginia Women's Club
February 14 - St. Valentine's Day
February 15 - Louis XV's Birthday
February 18 - Mary Tudor's Birthday
February 25 - Enrico Caruso's Birthday
February 29 -
Gioachino Rossini
Birthday
March
March 01 - St. David's Day
March 06 - Michelangelo Buonarroti's Birthday
March 09 - Anniversary of
Jules Mazarin
Death
March 14 - Paul Erlich's Birthday
March 15 - Andrew Jackson's Birthday
March 17 - St. Patrick's Day
March 19 - St. Joseph's Feastday
March 23 - Anniversary of Karl Nesslerod's Death
March 28 - Anniversary of the Confirmation of Florianus
a
s Emperor of Rome
March 29 - John Tyler's Birthday
April
April 01 - April Fool's Day
April 02 - Casanova's Birthday
April 10 - Anniversary of Elizabeth Barton's Death
April 15 - Leonardo da Vinci's Birthday
April 18 - Albert Einstein's Birthday
April 19 - Anniversary of the Invasion of Port Mahon
April 23 - St. George's Feastday
April 25 - St. Mark's Feastday
April 28 - Anniversary of Louisa Tetrazinni's Death
April 30 - Alice B. Toklas' Birthday
May
May 01 - Arthur Wellesley's Birthday
May 14 - Anniversary of Louis XIII's Death
May 15 - James Rothschild's Birthday
May 16 - St. Honore's Feastday
May 19 - Nellie Melba's Birthday
May 20 - Honoré de Balzac's Birthday
May 22 - Anniversary of Martha Washington's Death
May 23 - Anniversary of John D. Rockefeller's Death
May 29 - Anniversary of Josephine de Beauharnais's Death
May 30 -
St. Joan of Arc's Feastday
June
June 02 - Anniversary of the Start of the Salem Witch Trials
June 03 - Josephine Baker's Birthday
June 07- Anniversary of Dorothy Parker's Death
June 08 - Antonin Carê
me's Birthday
June 14 - Anniversary of the Battle of Marengo/Donald Trump's Birthday
June 22 - Anniversary of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
June 23 - Maria Leczinska's Birthday
June 24 - St. John the Baptist's Feastday/Midsummer's Day
June 26 - Anniversary of King George IV's Death
June 28 - Anniversary of Empress Theodora's Death
June 29 - St. Peter's Feastday
July
July 02 - Anniversary of Ernest Hemingway's Suicide
July 06 - Anniversary of Victor Hugo's Death
July 07 - Anniversary of Zachary Taylor's Death
July 10 - Marcel Proust's Birthday
July 11 -
Anniversary of Empress
Eugénie'
s
Death
July 14 - Bastille Day
July 18 - Anniversary of Mary Curzon's Death
July 22 - Gregor Mendel's Birthday
July 24 - Alexander Dumas pere's Birthday
July 25 - St. James' Feastday
July 26 - Beatrix Potter's Birthday
August
August 01 - Anniversary of the Closing of the Texas Chicken Ranch
August 02 - Queen Claude's Birthday
August 11 - Anniversary of the Confirmation of Hadrian as the Emperor of Rome
August 12 - James Buchanan Brady's Birthday
August 18 - Emperor Franz Joseph's Birthday
August 19 - Jeanne Bécu' s Birthday
August 23 - Louis XVI's Birthday
August 24 - Anniversary of the Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum by Mt. Vesuvius
August 27 - Lyndon Baines Johnson's Birthday
August 29 - Michael Jackson's Birthday
September
September 05 - Louis XIV's Birthday
September 06 - Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, Lafayette's Birthday
September 07 - Queen Elizabeth I of England's Birthday
September 09 - Cardinal Richelieu's Birthday
September 12 - Anniversary of the Battle of Vienna
September 15 - Anniversary of the Wedding of Dolley and James Madison
September 26 - John Chapman's Birthday
September 27 - Anniversary of the Founding of the Jesuits
September 29 - Michaelmas Day
September 30 - Truman Capote's Birthday
October
October 01 - St. Remi's' Feastday
October 04 - Anne Rice's Birthday
October 15 - St. Theresa of Avila's Feastday
October 16 - Anniversary of Marie Antoinette's Death
October 20 - Stanislaus Leczinski's Birthday
October 21 - Anniversary of Horatio Nelson's Death
October 24 - Raphael the Archangel's Feastday
October 24 - Sarah Bernhardt's Birthday
October 28 - Anniversary of Catherine de Medici's Wedding
October 31 - Halloween
November
November 01 - All Saints Day
November 02 - All Souls Day
November 06 - Anniversary of the Death of Princess Charlotte
November 09 - Edward VII's Birthday
November 11 - St. Martin of Tours Feastday
November 13 - Anniversary of the Death of Nell Gwynn
November 17 - Anniversary of the First Moravian Love Feast
November 19 - St. Elizabeth of Hungary's Feastday
November 24 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's Birthday
November 27 - Francoise de Maintenon's Birthday
December
December 01 - The Divine Miss M's Birthday
December 02 - Anniversary of the Marquis de Sade's Death
December 06 - St. Nicholas' Feastday
December 08 - Ann Coulter's Birthday
December 13 - St. Lucy's Feastday
December 15 - Nero's Birthday
December 23 -
Noche de Rabanos (
Night of the Radishes)
December 24 - Adam and Eve's Feastday/Christmas Eve
December 29 - Jeanne Antoinette Poisson's Birthday
December 30 - Heidi Fleiss' Birthday
Appendix A