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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
- – Lebanese Christian militias overrun Karantina, Beirut, killing at least 1,000.
- – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- – The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
- – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
- – Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
- – The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
- – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
- – Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados, after two bombs, placed on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded. All 73 people on board are killed.
- – The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is obtained by Dr. F. A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.
- – The oil tanker MV Argo Merchant runs aground near Nantucket, Massachusetts, causing one of the worst marine oil spills in history.
Who Were Born On ?
- – Cindy Pieters, Belgian cyclist
- – James Hickman, English swimmer
- – Guy Mariano, American skateboarder
- – Steve Williams, English rower
- – Gonçalo Abecasis, Portuguese-American biochemist and academic
- – Torraye Braggs, American basketball player
- – Kevin Maher, English-Irish footballer and coach
- – Masafumi Gotoh, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)
- – Alan Faneca, American football player
- – Simon Goodwin, Australian footballer and coach
