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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
- – EastEnders, BBC’s flagship soap opera, broadcasts for the first time.
- – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
- – Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
- – U.S.S.R performs nuclear tests at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
- – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
- – The grave of “Wolfgang Gerhard” is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz’s “Angel of Death”. Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
- – The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
- – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan’s first astronauts.
- – Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
- – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
Who Were Born On ?
- – Newton Faulkner, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- – Inesa Jurevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater
- – Jaroslav Halák, Slovak ice hockey player
- – Stephanie McIntosh, Australian singer and actress
- – Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby player and boxer
- – Kalan Porter, Canadian singer-songwriter
- – Allyson Felix, American sprinter
- – Shikhar Dhawan, Indian cricketer
- – Aristeidis Grigoriadis, Greek swimmer
- – Stanislav Manolev, Bulgarian footballer
