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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
- – Japan issues the “Twenty-One Demands” to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
- – Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
- – The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
- – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
- – Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
- – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.
- – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
- – The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running Cinema in Mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.
- – World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
Who Were Born On ?
- – Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 1989)
- – Patrick Leigh Fermor, English soldier, author, and scholar (d. 2011)
- – Robert G. Cole, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1944)
- – Tom Pashby, Canadian ophthalmologist (d. 2005)
- – Ben Wright, English-American actor (d. 1989)
- – Renée Asherson, English actress (d. 2014)
- – Graham Ingels, American illustrator (d. 1991)
- – Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Indian-Pakistani politician and diplomat (d. 2000)
- – James Elliott, American runner and coach (d. 1981)
- – Marghanita Laski, English journalist and author (d. 1988)
