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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
- – Silvertown explosion: Seventy-three are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
- – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
- – International Women’s Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (so named because it was February on the Julian calendar).
- – The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
- – World War I: Battle of Messines – Allied soldiers detonate ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
- – World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.
- – First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
- – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the “establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” with the clear understanding “that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities”.
- – Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
- – World War I: Russia and the Central Powers sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk, and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk begin.
Who Were Born On ?
- – Albrecht Fleckenstein, German pharmacologist and physiologist (d. 1992)
- – Dorothy DeLay, American violinist and educator (d. 2002)
- – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet and academic (d. 2000)
- – Lash LaRue, American actor and producer (d. 1996)
- – Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1995)
- – Lou van Burg, Dutch-German singer and game show host (d. 1986)
- – Philipp von Boeselager, German soldier and economist (d. 2008)
- – Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
- – John Hart, American actor and producer (d. 2009)
- – Ramanand Sagar, Indian director and producer (d. 2005)
