[PPRAANet] Occasions for Special Event Stations - Reply requested

[WV7T at aol.com]

Special Event Occasions. 

I have been  looking up occasions for PPRAA special event stations. If you 
would please take  a minute or so and choose which ones you might like to 
participate in and  forward the results to me, I will work to get some of these 
operations off the  ground and running. Please feel free to add any occasions you 
might think  of.

Mike  WV7T

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------  

Military Birthdays

Army 14 June       1775
Navy 13 October   1775
USMC 10 November   1775
USCG  4 August    1790
USAF 18 September  1947

Navy Chief Petty Officers - June 1, 1776  April 1, 1893  (official)
(Other services ranks)

Pearl Harbor Day (Dec 7th)
Desert  Storm (17 Jan 1991)
Armed Forces Day (Third Saturday in May  )
Armistice/Veterans Day (November 11)
Memorial Day - Last Monday of  May
Air Force vs (Other military Services) Football game
USS Colorado  BB-43


HAM

Megafeast June
ARRL Convention (Colorado) June  09
PPRAA Founding Date  (1930s?)
Amateur radio official founding  date
Field Day (Last full weekend in June)
First Ham Club - Junior  Wireless Club LTD, NYC January 2, 1909
Founding of ARRL - 1914

Local  Dates:


Balloon Classic - (last weekend September)
El Paso County  Fair - July 19-26, 2008
Territory Days (Old Colorado City) - May
Pikes  Peak Marathon - August 16-17, 2008
Colorado State Birthday August 1,  1876
Labor Day - First Monday of September
New Years - January
Xmas -  December
Colorado Springs Founded - August 1871
William Jackson Palmer -  Founder of Colorado Springs
Garden of the Gods established - 1907
Pikes  Peak Hill Climb - July 20, 2008
Solstice (About)
Summer  June 22
Winter December  22

-----------------------------------------------------

Jan

New  Years - Straight Key Night
Gulf War Started 1-17-1991
Vietnam Peace Signed  1-27-73

Feb

Boy Scouts Founded 2-8-1910

Mar

Vietnam  Begins 3-2-1965
Star Spangled Banner Made Nat'l Anthem 3-3-1931
Girl  Scouts Founded 3-12-1912

Apr

Army Day 4-6

May

V-E  Day 5-8-1945
Peace Officers Memorial Day 5-15
Armed Forces Day Third  Saturday in May
Memorial Day last Monday in May  (confirm)

June

D-Day Invasion of Europe 6-6-1944
Army founded  6-14-1775
Korean War Began 6-25-1950

July

Army Air Corps  Established 7-2-1926
4th of July
Korean War Ended 7-27-1953
WW I Begins  7-28-1914

August

US Coast Guard Established 8-4-1790
Purple  Heart medal Established 8-7-1782

September

V-J Day  9-2-1945
Labor day First Monday in September (confirm)
Star Spangle Banner  written Francis Scott key 9-14-1814
POW/MIA recognition day 9-15
US Air  Force Established 9-18-1947

October

US Navy Established  10-13-1775

November

US Marine Corps Established 11-10-1775
WW I  Armistice signed 11-11-1918
Veterans Day Established  11-11-1954
Thanksgiving

December

Pearl Harbor day 12-7
War  on Japan begins 12-8-1941
Germany/Italy Declare war on US  12-11-1941
Official end of WW II 12-31-1946  




**************************************See AOL's top rated recipes 
(http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004)