Historical anniversaries/Example

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)

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

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

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.html for a table showing what day of the year a certain date is, or http://carib.stanford.edu/gert/tree/julian_leap.html 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.