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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 Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and that it would pay a “living wage” of at least $5 for a day’s labor.
- – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- – In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.
- – World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
- – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
- – World War I: The Race to the Sea begins.
- – In Major League Baseball’s World Series, the Boston Braves defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, 4 games to 0, at Fenway Park in Boston, completing the first World Series sweep in history.
- – Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
- – World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army.
- – A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas.
Who Were Born On ?
- – Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2000)
- – Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer (d. 1990)
- – Alec Guinness, English actor and singer (d. 2000)
- – Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer and educator (d. 2006)
- – William Vickrey, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
- – Heidi Kabel, German actress and singer (d. 2010)
- – Joan Littlewood, English director and playwright (d. 2002)
- – James Gilbert Baker, American astronomer, optician, and academic (d. 2005)
- – Hans Hellmut Kirst, German lieutenant and author (d. 1989)
- – Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter and academic (d. 1976)
