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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 Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
- – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
- – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA’s first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
- – A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities. In Toronto, it is also dubbed the “Toronto Supercell”.
- – The 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
- – Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
- – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
- – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
- – The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Who Were Born On ?
- – Prince Hashem bin Al-Abdullah of Jordan
- – Rio Suzuki, Japanese actress
- – Jillian Ward, Filipino actress and model
- – Pierce Gagnon, American actor
- – Caylee Anthony, American murder victim (d. 2008)
- – Leonor, Princess of Asturias
- – Giant George, American dog (d. 2013)
- – Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway
- – Prince Nicolas of Belgium
- – Lakshmi Tatma, Indian deformed girl
