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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 Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- – At the U.S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.
- – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
- – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
- – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
- – The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
- – A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City culminates in the Tlatelolco massacre by the order of the president, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, to the soldiers of killing unarmed students, hiding the event from the public eye. The 1968 Summer Olympics, hosted in Mexico City, started ten days after the massacre.
- – Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
- – A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company’s No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster
- – Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
Who Were Born On ?
- – Barry Buchanan, American wrestler
- – Tricky, English rapper, producer, and actor
- – Cheb Hasni, Algerian musician
- – Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer
- – Hashim Thaçi, Kosovan soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Kosovo
- – Florian Schwarthoff, German hurdler
- – Thom Fitzgerald, American-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
- – Sofie Gråbøl, Danish actress
- – Lee Seung-yeon, South Korean actress and talk show host
- – Sean Miller, American basketball player and coach
