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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
- – The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
- – The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (The “Black Dahlia”) is found in Los Angeles’ Leimert Park.
- – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
- – The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
- – The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
- – Thor Heyerdahl’s balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000 km journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
- – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.
- – The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States Armed Forces.
- – First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.
- – First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
Who Were Born On ?
- – Shobhaa De, Indian journalist and author
- – Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher and author
- – David Lander, American actor, singer, and screenwriter
- – Navin Ramgoolam, Mauritius physician and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Mauritius
- – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (d. 2008)
- – Danielle Steel, American author
- – Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress and singer
- – Jaroslav Erno Šedivý, Czech drummer (The Primitives Group, Life After Life, and Energit)
- – Ricardo Asch, Argentinian gynecologist and endocrinologist
- – Roger Alton, English journalist
