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Bloomsday performers outside Davy Byrne's pub, 2003. Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, observed annually in Dublin and elsewhere on 16 June, the day his 1922 novel Ulysses takes place on a Thursday in 1904, the date of his first sexual encounter with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, [1] and named after its protagonist Leopold Bloom.
For determination of the day of the week (1 January 2000, Saturday) the day of the month: 1 ~ 31 (1) the month: (6) the year: (0) the century mod 4 for the Gregorian calendar and mod 7 for the Julian calendar (0). adding 1+6+0+0=7. Dividing by 7 leaves a remainder of 0, so the day of the week is Saturday. The formula is w = (d + m + y + c) mod 7.
Doomsday rule. The Doomsday rule, Doomsday algorithm or Doomsday method is an algorithm of determination of the day of the week for a given date. It provides a perpetual calendar because the Gregorian calendar moves in cycles of 400 years. The algorithm for mental calculation was devised by John Conway in 1973, [ 1][ 2] drawing inspiration from ...
For example, the Gregorian date Friday, 16 August 2024 corresponds to day number 5 in the week number 33 of 2024, and is written as 2024-W33-5 (in extended form) or 2024W335 (in compact form). The ISO year is slightly offset to the Gregorian year; for example, Monday 30 December 2019 in the Gregorian calendar is the first day of week 1 of 2020 ...
June 16 is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami. ...
June 23, 2024: $101,210,550: Inside Out 2 broke The Super Mario Bros. Movie ' s record ($92.3 million) for the highest second weekend gross for an animated film and had the biggest second weekend for a film since Avengers: Endgame ($147.4 million). It also became the first animated film to gross $100 million in its second weekend. [27] 26: June ...
Current events/2004 June 16. EU leaders meet in Brussels to try to agree on the draft European constitution amid the showing of popular discontent with national governments in the recent European Parliament election. (BBC) (Guardian)
The Hebrew week (שבוע, shavua) is a cycle of seven days, mirroring the seven-day period of the Book of Genesis in which the world is created. The names for the days of the week are simply the day number within the week. The week begins with Day 1 and ends with Shabbat . (More precisely, since days begin in the evening, weeks begin and end ...