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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 Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- – RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
- – Richard Strauss’s opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
- – New Zealand’s worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
- – Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
- – The Queensboro Bridge in New York City opens, linking Manhattan and Queens.
- – Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord’s and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
- – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
- – The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
- – The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
Who Were Born On ?
- – J. R. Simplot, American businessman, founded the Simplot Company (d. 2008)
- – C. Walter Hodges, English author and illustrator (d. 2004)
- – Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author and educator (d. 1983)
- – Archie Carr, American ecologist and zoologist (d. 1987)
- – Eric Ambler, English author and screenwriter (d. 1998)
- – Andrei Gromyko, Belarusian-Russian economist and politician, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1989)
- – Hugo Winterhalter, American composer and bandleader (d. 1973)
- – Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian engineer and businessman (d. 1998)
- – Gerard Antoni Ciołek, Polish historian and architect (d. 1966)
- – Patricia Hayes, English actress (d. 1998)
