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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 Horse in Chinese astrology.
- – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
- – President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
- – Japan’s Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
- – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
- – Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.
- – The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
- – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.
- – Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
- – A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
Who Were Born On ?
- – Camille, French singer-songwriter and actress
- – Avant, American singer-songwriter
- – Perttu Kivilaakso, Finnish cellist and composer (Apocalyptica)
- – Miho Shiraishi, Japanese actress
- – Reuben Droughns, American football player and coach
- – Gunner McGrath, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Much the Same)
- – Nicky Byrne, Irish singer-songwriter and footballer (Westlife)
- – Henrik Klingenberg, Finnish singer and keyboard player (Sonata Arctica and Silent Voices)
- – Floyd Womack, American football player
- – Patrick Casey, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
