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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: the Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
- – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
- – World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
- – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
- – World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
- – King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
- – Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat by the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany on the Austro-Italian front of World War I (lasts until 19 November - also called Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo).
- – The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
- – Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
- – Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
Who Were Born On ?
- – Roger Williams Straus, Jr., American publisher; co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux (d. 2004)
- – Reva Gerstein, Canadian psychologist and academic
- – Melville Shavelson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
- – William Standish Knowles, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
- – Nils Karlsson, Swedish skier (d. 2012)
- – Iva Withers, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2014)
- – Carol Kendall, American historian and author (d. 2012)
- – Doud Eisenhower, American son of Dwight D. Eisenhower (d. 1921)
- – Louis Auchincloss, American lawyer, historian, and author (d. 2010)
- – Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (d. 1957)
