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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
- – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
- – HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
- – Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
- – The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris
- – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
- – The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
- – The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
- – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine”.
- – A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
- – The London Underground’s Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
Who Were Born On ?
- – Gale Gordon, American actor and singer (d. 1995)
- – Camilla Spira, German actress (d. 1997)
- – Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the IDS Center and PPG Place (d. 2005)
- – Pietro Tordi, Italian actor (d. 1990)
- – Rudolf Uhlenhaut, English-German engineer (d. 1989)
- – Charles Arnt, American actor (d. 1990)
- – Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican lawyer and politician, 49th President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)
- – Taffy O'Callaghan, Welsh footballer and coach (d. 1946)
- – Victoria Spivey, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1976)
- – Brother Theodore, German-American monologuist and comedian (d. 2001)
