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Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year . Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
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Historical Events Of
- – The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS”.
- – Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
- – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- – The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
- – Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
- – The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded.
- – Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan’s battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
- – Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
- – The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
Who Were Born On ?
- – Tampa Red, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1981)
- – Pepper Martin, American baseball player and manager (d. 1965)
- – Chief Tahachee, American actor and author (d. 1978)
- – Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer (d. 1942)
- – Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1948)
- – Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1943)
- – Milburn Stone, American actor (d. 1980)
- – Salvador Novo, Mexican poet and playwright (d. 1974)
- – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese soldier and politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China (d. 1997)
- – John Courtney Murray, American priest and theologian (d. 1967)
