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Jun 12, 2023 · Juneteenth is America’s second Independence Day—here’s why. Observed on June 19, the nation’s newest federal holiday commemorates the end of slavery in Texas. Here’s how it came to be ...
Feb 27, 2020 · Working on the calendar. The extra day was added to February because it had the fewest number of days — 28 — while all other months had 30 or 31.
Aug 8, 2014 · When AIDS Was a Cancer. August 8, 2014 Matthew Tontonoz. On July 3, 1981, a now-famous New York Times article carried the headline, “ Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals .”. The article described the sudden appearance, in gay men from New York and Los Angeles, of a rare skin cancer called Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS).
May 3, 2024 · The Ethiopian year 2011 was a leap year, for example. In the Ethiopian year 2011, Pagume had 06 days. Ethiopian New Year is celebrated on September 1st (according to the Ethiopian calendar), not January 1st. The exact date of the Ethiopian New Year might vary by one day depending on whether the concluding year is an Ethiopian leap year or not ...
The Jewish Leap Year. The Jewish "leap year", which occurs seven times in a 19-year cycle, has 13 months instead of the regular year's 12. This is so that the lunar-based Jewish year should remain aligned with the solar seasons (12 lunar months make up a total of 354 days — slightly more than 11 days short of the 365.25 day solar cycle). The ...
25,000,000 – 50,000,000 (estimated) The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3] The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by ...
Dec 8, 2023 · Feb. 29 also is St. Oswald's Day, named for an archbishop of York who died on Feb. 29, 992. TimeandDate.com says his memorial is celebrated on Feb. 29 during leap years and Feb. 28 during common ...
