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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
- – Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera.
- – Chinese Civil War: Battle of Yijiangshan Islands is fought.
- – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- – McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois
- – Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
- – First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third-highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Charles Evans. Joe Brown and George Band reached the summit on May 25, followed by Norman Hardie and Tony Streather the next day.
- – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
- – The Russell–Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London, England, United Kingdom.
- – The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends.
- – Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
Who Were Born On ?
- – James Eckhouse, American actor and director
- – Daniel Boulud, French chef and author
- – Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- – Gedde Watanabe, American actor
- – Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress (d. 2008)
- – Ron Brewer, American basketball player
- – Kenny Kirkland, American pianist (d. 1998)
- – Philip Oakey, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (The Human League)
- – Rory Markas, American sportscaster (d. 2010)
- – Liu Xiaobo, Chinese author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
