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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
- – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.
- – The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
- – United States Congress passes the Tydings–McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
- – The “Surgeon’s Photograph”, the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
- – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
- – An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
- – Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
- – Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
- – In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolaev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad.
- – Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
Who Were Born On ?
- – August Coppola, American author and academic (d. 2009)
- – Roy Gilchrist, Jamaican cricketer (d. 2001)
- – Dallas Green, American baseball player and manager
- – Kevin Ryan, Australian rugby player, coach, lawyer and politician
- – Jaegwon Kim, South Korean-American philosopher and academic
- – Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan
- – Richard Meier, American architect, designed the Getty Center and City Tower
- – Yakubu Gowon, Nigerian general and politician, 3rd Head of State of Nigeria
- – Garry Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, English sociologist and academic
- – Rudi Faßnacht, German footballer and manager (d. 2000)
