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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
- – Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin’s secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
- – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a broadcast license for television from the Federal Radio Commission.
- – The Bremen, a German Junkers W33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
- – New Vietnam Revolutionary Party is founded in Huế amid providing some of the communist party’s most important leaders in its early years.
- – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
- – The Soviet Union introduces its First five-year plan.
- – The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17 man crew.
- – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey’s birthday.
- – Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
Who Were Born On ?
- – Larry Gelbart, American author and screenwriter (d. 2009)
- – Estelle Harris, American actress
- – James Ivory, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- – Kathy Staff, English actress (d. 2008)
- – F. William Free, American businessman (d. 2003)
- – Charles Gray, English actor and singer (d. 2000)
- – Park Honan, American author and academic (d. 2014)
- – Hannah Weiner, American poet and author (d. 1997)
- – Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani diplomat and author (d. 2008)
- – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian-New Zealand painter and architect, designed the Kuchlbauer Tower and Waldspirale (d. 2000)
