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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
- – World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
- – In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
- – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- – World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
- – Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.
- – The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage).
- – World War I: Battle of Romani: Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
- – World War I: Manfred von Richthofen (“The Red Baron”), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
- – Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.
- – British premier H. H. Asquith resigns from his post.
Who Were Born On ?
- – Bernard Blier, Argentinian-French actor (d. 1989)
- – Phil Leeds, American actor (d. 1998)
- – Kanan Devi, Indian actress and singer (d. 1992)
- – Ruth Warrick, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
- – Budd Boetticher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)
- – Dom Mintoff, Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 2012)
- – Edward Binns, American actor (d. 1990)
- – Nanaji Deshmukh, Indian educator and activist (d. 2010)
- – Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995)
- – Robert Carr, English engineer and politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 2012)
