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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 Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- – Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City
- – Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
- – The People’s Republic of China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
- – The Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia.
- – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
- – The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Oakland Oaks 134–129 in Oakland, California.
- – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
- – Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, “We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking..We are making progress.”
Who Were Born On ?
- – Johan Laats, Belgian martial artist
- – Michelle Ruff, American voice actress
- – Sharla Cheung, Hong Kong actress and producer
- – Hank Gathers, American basketball player (d. 1990)
- – Ruthie Henshall, English actress, singer, and dancer
- – Brian Jordan, American baseball player and sportscaster
- – Renée Estevez, American actress and screenwriter
- – Sherry Stringfield, American actress
- – Michael Gove, Scottish journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Education
- – Malik Yoba, American actor and singer
