Chase's Calendar of Events 2008 w/CD-Rom

The Editors Of Chase's

ISBN 10: 0071489037 ISBN 13: 9780071489034

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2007

Synopsis

“The bible of special occasions.”--Los Angeles Times

12,500 entries. 194 countries. 365 days. 50 years and counting!

From his years as a newspaper librarian William D. Chase knew of the need for a single reference source for calendar dates and for authoritative and current information about various observances throughout the year. William and his brother, Harrison, decided to create such a reference themselves. They set to work collecting, compiling, verifying, editing and proofreading the events that would make up the first Chase's Calendar of Events.

Fifty years later, Chase's Calendar of Events is still the most comprehensive and authoritative reference available on special events, holidays, federal and state observances, historic anniversaries and more.

Chase's starts its next fifty years with:

• Milestones such as Quebec's 400th founding anniversary, Minnesota's statehood sesquicentennial and NASA's 50th birthday.
• New birthdays such as literary lion and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, stars from TV's “Heroes” and “Ugly Betty” and newly elected heads of state worldwide.
• Events from the Games of the XXIX Olympiad at Beijing, China, the Dakar Rally and Euro 2008 in Austria/Switzerland to the US's major party conventions and presidential election.

Search Chase's Anyway You Want! Whether you want to target a specific date, location or subject, our fully searchable CD-ROM* makes your research quick and easy. Also included is a free installer, so you can load Chase's directly to your hard drive.
*PC-compatible only

About this title

About the Author:

Chase’s Calendar of Events is produced by an in-house team of editors and researchers based in Chicago, IL. McGraw-Hill has published Chase’s since 1984, but Chase’s was first published by William and Harrison Chase in December 1957. William Chase currently lives in Ann Arbor, MI.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0071489037
• ISBN 13: 9780071489034
• Binding: Calendar
• Number of pages: 750