Historical anniversaries/Example

Table of contents 1 Template for historical anniversary pages 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Template for historical anniversary pages

This page is meant to be a style guide for historical anniversary pages (e.g. January 1, January 2, January 3, etc.) It would be nice, if all 366 historical anniversary pages would be consistent in style. (If you want to add something to 'January 1', please don't edit this page but go to January 1)

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January 1 is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining (365 in leap years).

Events

• 1892 - Ellis Island opens to begin accepting immigrants to the United States.
• 1984 - Brunei becomes a fully independent state.

Births

• 1431 - Pope Alexander VI
• 1449 - Lorenzo de Medici, statesman (+ 1492)
• 1484 - Huldreich Zwingli, protestant leader (+ 1531)
• 1502 - Pope Gregor XIII[?] (+ 1585)
• 1618 - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, painter (+ 1682)
• 1863 - Pierre de Coubertin, historian and pedagogue, initiator of modern Olympic Games (+1937)
• 1940 - Frank Langella[?], actor
• 1940 - Helmut Jahn[?], architect

Deaths

• 1972 - Maurice Chevalier, actor and singer (* 1888)
• 2001 - Ray Walston, actor best known as the star of TV's My Favorite Martian[?], and later as a judge on Picket Fences[?] (* 1914)

Holidays and observances

• Many countries around the world using Gregorian Calendar - New Year's Day
• Catholicism - Octave of Christmas Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God
• World Day for Prayer for Peace

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See Also:

December 31 - January 2 - December 1 - February 1 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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Comment on '... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 ...':

The "mathematically challenged" (or lazy) can go to http://carib.stanford.edu/gert/tree/julian_noleap for a table showing what day of the year a certain date is, or http://carib.stanford.edu/gert/tree/julian_leap for leap years.

Comment:

External Links:

• Birthday Statistics (http://anybirthday.com/report.htm)

I used this style to add some information to October 5 which I found interesting and while not a Historical Anniversary, fits for the "October 5" page.