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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
- – Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
- – A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
- – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
- – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison’s phonograph cylinder.
- – Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
- – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
- – The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
- – The SS Norge runs aground and sinks
- – Panama and Uruguay establish diplomatic links.
Who Were Born On ?
- – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
- – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Chancellor of Germany (d. 1988)
- – Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian cardinal (d. 1991)
- – Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter and illustrator (d. 1989)
- – Ralph Bellamy, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
- – Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (Count Basie Orchestra) (d. 1984)
- – Feroze Khan, Indian-Pakistani field hockey player and coach (d. 2005)
- – Haim Shirman, Ukrainian-Israeli scholar and academic (d. 1981)
- – Riho Lahi, Estonian journalist and author (d. 1995)
- – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and conductor (d. 2000)
