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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
- – Benny Goodman, and his band, performed in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City
- – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- – BBC Television produces the world’s first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term “robot”.
- – During the Nanking Massacre the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed “Nanking International Rescue Committee” and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
- – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
- – Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth’s atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
- – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
- – Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
- – Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
- – Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Crisis.
Who Were Born On ?
- – Peter Beard, Australian photographer and author
- – Paula Prentiss, American actress
- – Roy Thinnes, American actor
- – Larry Gogan, Irish radio host
- – Corine Rottschäfer, Dutch model, Miss World 1959
- – Milton Johns, English actor
- – Jacques Hétu, Canadian composer and educator (d. 2010)
- – Fela Kuti, Nigerian singer-songwriter and saxophonist (d. 1997)
- – Ralph Bakshi, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- – Helen, Burmese-Indian actress and dancer
