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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
- – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
- – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- – World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
- – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
- – The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
- – The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
- – World War I: End of First Battle of the Isonzo.
- – The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
- – Parris Island is officially designated a United States Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
- – Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
Who Were Born On ?
- – W. Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian-Barbadian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
- – Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 1985)
- – Frank Sleeman, Australian lieutenant and politician, Lord Mayor of Brisbane (d. 2000)
- – Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq (d. 2014)
- – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 2005)
- – Magda Gabor, Hungarian-American actress (d. 1997)
- – Fred Ball, American actor and manager (d. 2007)
- – Josef Priller, German colonel and pilot (d. 1961)
- – Clifford M. Hardin, American academic and politician, 17th United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 2010)
- – William Proxmire, American soldier, journalist, and politician (d. 2005)
