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# Historical anniversaries/Example

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If you are going to create a new page for another day of the year, it would be nice if you would be consistent with the others. The following template gives an example, with commentary. It would probably be easiest to copy an existing page and just change the text.

January 1 is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 365 days remaining (366 in leap years). Other countries have used different dates in the past for this, including March 1, ...

  Dates after February 28 can use the form "...Nth day of the year ((N+1)th in leap years)..., with (366-N) remaining." Note that the first paragraph may contain commentary about the date itself (though most probably won't).

  The "mathematically challenged" (or lazy) can go [[| here]] for a table showing what day of the year a certain date is (or [[| here]]) for leap years.

Births:

- 1942 - [Country Joe McDonald]? (of [Country Joe and the Fish]? fame)

Events:

- 1892 - [Ellis Island]? opens to begin accepting immigrants to the United States.

Deaths:

- 2001 - [Ray Walston]?, 86, actor best known as the star of TV's My Favorite Martian, and later as a judge on Picket Fences

  The use of bullet items, immediately followed by a 4-digit year, keeps things nicely aligned.

December 31 · January 2 · [December 1]? · February 1 · more historical anniversaries

  These are for handy navigation for casual browsing.

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

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