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The need for dual dating arose from the transition from an older calendar to a newer one. Another method used is to give the date of an event according to one calendar, followed in parentheses by the date of the same event in the other calendar, appending an indicator to each to specify which reference calendar applies.
Date announced Release date Most recent version Rhapsody Developer Release: Grail1Z4/Titan1U (internal codename) Unknown 32-bit PowerPC and Intel: 32-bit PowerPC and Intel 32-bit January 7, 1997 [12] August 31, 1997 DR2 (May 14, 1998) Mac OS X Server 1.0: Hera (internal codename) 32-bit PowerPC
Normandy landings; Part of Operation Overlord and the Western Front of the Second World War: Taxis to Hell – and Back – Into the Jaws of Death, an iconic image of men of the 16th Infantry Regiment, US 1st Infantry Division wading ashore from their landing craft on Omaha Beach on the morning of 6 June 1944
The proleptic Gregorian calendar is produced by extending the Gregorian calendar backward to the dates preceding its official introduction in 1582. In nations that adopted the Gregorian calendar after its official and first introduction, dates occurring in the interim period of 15 October 1582 (the first date of use of Gregorian calendrical dates, being dated 5 October 1582 in the preceding ...
June 6 – The Venus transit of June 6, 2012 is the second and last of two Venus transits of the 21st century. It was witnessed by amateur astronomers and sky watchers throughout the country, following the first transit on June 8, 2004.
Predicted date Claimant Notes After 2025 Alice A. Bailey: In January 1946, the New Age Theosophical guru prophesied that Christ would return "sometime after AD 2025" [46]: 530 (Theosophists identify "Christ" as being identical to a being they call Maitreya) to inaugurate the Age of Aquarius; thus, this event will be, according to Bailey, the New Age equivalent of the Christian concept of the ...
Germany claimed the first Equestrian gold of the 2012 Olympic Games in the team eventing final, with Great Britain taking the silver and New Zealand winning the bronze. [ 54 ] Michael Jung of Germany won gold in the Individual eventing , while Sara Algotsson Ostholt of Sweden won silver, and Sandra Auffarth of Germany won bronze.
Hanke–Henry Permanent Calendar pre-2016 version with weeks still starting Sunday, but Xtra already at the end of the year. In 2004, Richard Conn Henry, a professor of astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, proposed the adoption of a calendar known as Common-Civil-Calendar-and-Time (CCC&T), which he described as a modification to a proposal by Robert McClenon.