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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 Horse in Chinese astrology.
- – Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
- – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
- – Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Vietnamese victory (the battle began on March 13).
- – The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place.
- – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, “You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”
- – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
- – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
- – The nationwide debut of Tonight Starring Steve Allen (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
- – Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.
Who Were Born On ?
- – David Heath, English politician
- – Donald Brown, American pianist and educator (The Jazz Messengers)
- – Karen Ann Quinlan, American medical patient (d. 1985)
- – John Faulkner, Australian educator and politician, 52nd Australian Minister for Defence
- – Dawn Primarolo, English politician
- – Tom Abernethy, American basketball player
- – Władysław Żmuda, Polish footballer and manager
- – Pete Briquette, Irish bass player, songwriter, and producer (The Boomtown Rats)
- – Mark O'Donnell, American playwright (d. 2012)
- – James Fearnley, English accordion player and songwriter (The Pogues and The Nips)
