custom_events=[
['Linus Torvalds', 12, 28, 1969, 'birthday'],
['Donald Knuth', 1, 10, 1938, 'birthday'],
['Charles Babbage', 12, 26, 1791, 'birth'],
['Charles Babbage', 10, 18, 1871, 'death'],
['Ada Lovelace', 12, 10, 1815, 'birth'],
['Ada Lovelace', 11, 27, 1852, 'death'],
['Grace Hopper', 12, 9, 1906, 'birth'],
['Grace Hopper', 1, 1, 1992, 'death'],
['Alan Turing', 6, 23, 1912, 'birth'],
['Alan Turing', 6, 7, 1954, 'death'],
['Alexander Graham Bell', 3, 3, 1847, 'birth'],
['Alexander Graham Bell', 8, 2, 1922, 'death'],
['Philo Farnsworth', 8, 19, 1906, 'birth'],
['Philo Farnsworth', 3, 11, 1971, 'death'],
['Robert Morris', 11, 8, 1965, 'birthday'],
['Richard Stallman', 3, 16, 1953, 'birthday'],
['Margaret Hamilton', 8, 17, 1936, 'birthday'],
['Electronic Frontier Foundation founded', 7, 10, 1990, 'event'],
['Morris worm deployed', 11, 2, 1988, 'event'],
['Free Software Foundation founded', 10, 4, 1985, 'event'],
['John von Neumann', 12, 28, 1903, 'birth'],
['John von Neumann', 2, 8, 1957, 'death'],
['Seymour Cray', 9, 28, 1925, 'birth'],
['Seymour Cray', 10, 5, 1996, 'death'],
['HAL 9000 operational', 1,12,1997,'event'],
['Skynet became sentient',8,4,1997,'event'],
['UNIX time started',1,1,1970,'event'],
['Intel 4004 released',11,15,1971,'event'],
/*REM Oct 2 MSG BIR:Martin_Edward_Hellman's_[ord(year(trigdate())-1945)]_birthday
REM Jun 5 MSG BIR:Bailey_Whitfield_'Whit'_Diffie's_[ord(year(trigdate())-1944)]_birthday
REM Nov 16 MSG BIR:Gene_Myron_Amdahl_born_[year(trigdate())-1922]_years_ago
REM Nov 10 MSG BIR:Gene_Myron_Amdahl_died_[year(trigdate())-2015]_years_ago
REM Jan 3 MSG BIR:Gordon_Earle_Moore's_[ord(year(trigdate())-1929)]_birthday
REM Feb 4 MSG BIR:Lotfali_Askar_Zadeh_born_[year(trigdate())-1921]_years_ago
REM Sep 6 MSG BIR:Lotfali_Askar_Zadeh_died_[year(trigdate())-2017]_years_ago
REM Nov 16 MSG BIR:David_Andrew_Patterson's_[ord(year(trigdate())-1947)]_birthday
REM May 20 MSG BIR:Michael_J._Flynn's_[ord(year(trigdate())-1934)]_birthday
REM Jan 19 MSG BIR:John_L._Gustafson's_[ord(year(trigdate())-1955)]_birthday
#REM Feb 3 MSG BIR:George_Armitage_Miller's_[ord(year(trigdate())-1920)]_birthday
# died july 22 2012, but really does he fit on this calendar
REM Oct 28 MSG BIR:Bill_Gates'_[ord(year(trigdate())-1955)]_birthday
REM Feb 4 MSG BIR:Ken_Thompson's_[ord(year(trigdate())-1943)]_birthday
REM Dec 30 MSG BIR:Bjarne_Stroustrup's_[ord(year(trigdate())-1950)]_birthday
REM Dec 16 MSG BIR:Emmanuel_Goldstein's_[ord(year(trigdate())-1959)]_birthday
REM Feb 24 MSG BIR:Steve_Jobs_born_[year(trigdate())-1955]_years_ago
REM Oct 5 MSG BIR:Steve_Jobs_died_[year(trigdate())-2011]_years_ago
REM Sep 9 MSG BIR:Dennis_Ritchie_born_[year(trigdate())-1941]_years_ago
REM Oct 12 MSG BIR:Dennis_Ritchie_died_[year(trigdate())-2011]_years_ago
REM Sep 4 MSG BIR:John_McCarthy_born_[year(trigdate())-1927]_years_ago
REM Oct 24 MSG BIR:John_McCarthy_died_[year(trigdate())-2011]_years_ago
REM Apr 30 MSG BIR:Claude_Elwood_Shannon_born_[year(trigdate())-1916]_years_ago
REM Feb 24 MSG BIR:Claude_Elwood_Shannon_died_[year(trigdate())-2001]_years_ago
REM Aug 9 MSG BIR:David_Albert_Huffman_born_[year(trigdate())-1925]_years_ago
REM Oct 7 MSG BIR:David_Albert_Huffman_died_[year(trigdate())-1999]_years_ago
REM Nov 2 MSG BIR:George_Boole_born_[year(trigdate())-1815]_years_ago
REM Dec 8 MSG BIR:George_Boole_died_[year(trigdate())-1864]_years_ago
REM Mar 2 MSG BIR:Murray_Newton_Rothbard_born_[year(trigdate())-1926]_years_ago
REM Jan 7 MSG BIR:Murray_Newton_Rothbard_died_[year(trigdate())-1995]_years_ago
REM Jul 22 MSG BIR:Donald_Olding_Hebb_born_[year(trigdate())-1904]_years_ago
REM Aug 20 MSG BIR:Donald_Olding_Hebb_died_[year(trigdate())-1985]_years_ago */
];