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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 Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
- – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
- – Daffy Duck’s first appearance, in Porky’s Duck Hunt.
- – Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
- – The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
- – The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
- – A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
- – End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
- – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
- – Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
Who Were Born On ?
- – Fred Åkerström, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1985)
- – Peter Jay, English economist, journalist, and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States
- – Jack Nitzsche, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (Crazy Horse) (d. 2000)
- – Una Stubbs, English actress and dancer
- – Vladimir Arnold, Russian-French mathematician and academic (d. 2010)
- – Nigel Boocock, English-Australian motorcycle racer (d. 2015)
- – Marilyn Bell, Canadian swimmer
- – Alicia Ostriker, American poet and scholar
- – Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Latvian psychologist and politician, 6th President of Latvia
- – Barry Hughes, Welsh footballer and manager
