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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 II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
- – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
- – World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan – in the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers.
- – World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
- – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world’s first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
- – World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
- – Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
- – World War II: Soviet Army left Nikolaev and Krivoi Rog.
- – World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
- – World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan’s near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
Who Were Born On ?
- – Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
- – Beatrice Tinsley, New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (d. 1981)
- – John Steel, English musician (The Animals)
- – James Zagel, American lawyer and judge
- – Jennifer Bartlett, American painter
- – Rosa Morena, Spanish singer, dancer, and actress
- – Denis Héroux, Canadian director and producer
- – Mirosław Hermaszewski, Polish general, pilot, and astronaut
- – Juliet Mills, English actress
- – Joan Wallach Scott, American historian, author, and academic
