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calendar. The Juche calendar, named after the Juche ideology, is the system of year-numbering used in North Korea. It begins with the birth of Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea. His birth year, 1912 in the Gregorian calendar, is " Juche 1" in the Juche calendar. The calendar was adopted in 1997, three years after the death of Kim Il Sung .
The International Fixed Calendar (also known as the IFC, Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar and the Eastman plan) is a proposed calendar reform designed by Moses B. Cotsworth, first presented in 1902. [1] The International Fixed Calendar divides the year into 13 months of 28 days each. A type of perennial calendar, every date is fixed to ...
December 28, 1943 (Tuesday) The Battle of the Bay of Biscay was fought between British and German warships. The result was a victory for the Royal Navy as two German torpedo boats and the destroyer Z27 were sunk with no British losses in return. The Battle of The Pimple ended in Allied victory.
December 12 is the 346th day of the year (347th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 19 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]
December 23, 1961 (Saturday) [ edit] A crowded railroad car, carrying Christmas shoppers, as well as students and migrant workers heading home for the holiday, jumped a track near Catanzaro in Southern Italy, and plunged down a 100-foot (30 m) embankment and into the rain swollen Fiumarella River, killing 71 people.
Friday, December 31, 1926. Turkey, the last nation in the world to use the old Julian calendar, marked the day as "December 18, 1926", then switched over at midnight to the Gregorian calendar as part of the reforms set by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. At 12:01 am, the official date in Turkey was "January 1, 1927".