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In 2000 and 2011, this created a five-day weekend over Easter: in 2000, Easter Monday fell on 24 April, with the following Tuesday, 25 April, then being ANZAC Day; in 2011, ANZAC Day and Easter Monday coincided on Monday 25 April, which led to a substitute public holiday being declared in Australia for Tuesday 26 April, and likely contributed ...
The Eastern Time Zone ( ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico . Places that use: Eastern Standard Time ( EST ), when observing standard time (autumn/winter), are five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC−05:00 ...
1965 Highway 101 sniper attack. Orcutt (nearby) 1965-04-25. 4. 10. Teenager shot at cars on highway. William Ray Bonner. Los Angeles.
Emerald Lake Hills is located in what was once the 35,000-acre (140 km 2) Rancho de las Pulgas ("Flea Ranch"). This land was granted in 1795 to José Darío Argüello, one of the last governors of Spanish California. The land was later passed on to his son, Luis Antonio Argüello, who in 1822 became California's first native, elected governor.
Date of Easter. A calendar of the dates of Easter, for the 95 years 532–626, marble, in the Museum of Ravenna Cathedral, Italy. Five 19-year cycles are represented as concentric circles. Dates are given using the system of the Roman calendar, as well as the day of the lunar month. As a moveable feast, [1] [2] the date of Easter is determined ...
Table of (Gregorian) dates of Easter 2000–2014; Year Full Moon Jewish Passover Astronomical Easter Gregorian Easter Julian Easter 2001 April 8 April 15 2002 March 28 March 31: May 5 2003 April 16: April 17 April 20: April 27 2004 April 5: April 6 April 11 2005 March 25: April 24 March 27: May 1 2006 April 13 April 16: April 23 2007 April 2 ...
Edwards Air Force Base in California was the site of the first Space Shuttle landing, and became a back-up site to the prime landing location, the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center. Several runways are arrayed on the dry lakebed at Rogers Dry Lake, and there are also concrete runways. Space shuttle landings on the lake bed ...
The first-recorded European contact with the island took place on 5 April (Easter Sunday) 1722 when Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen visited for a week and estimated there were 2,000 to 3,000 inhabitants on the island. His party reported "remarkable, tall, stone figures, a good 30 feet in height", the island had rich soil and a good climate and ...