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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
- – Drilling begins on the Lakeview Gusher.
- – 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.
- – The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
- – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes.
- – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
- – Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
- – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.
- – William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold a summit, a first between a U.S. and a Mexican president, and they only narrowly escape assassination.
Who Were Born On ?
- – Hélder Câmara, Brazilian archbishop (d. 1999)
- – Eudora Welty, American author and photographer (d. 2001)
- – Don Messer, Canadian violinist (d. 1973)
- – Rudolf Bergander, German painter (d. 1970)
- – Lester Young, American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1959)
- – Peter Scott, English ornithologist, painter, and sailor (d. 1989)
- – A. P. Hamann, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (d. 1977)
- – Evelyn Bryan Johnson, American pilot (d. 2012)
- – Hans-Heinrich Sievert, German decathlete (d. 1963)
- – Henry Bland, Australian public servant (d. 1997)
