Kudos to Edward for setting the record straight about the trivia posting below. See his comment. Thanks Edward!
Check this month's calendar and you'll find that you've never experienced an August like this before. Neither did your parents, grandparents, or great grandparents.
This month we have:
Five Fridays
Five Saturdays
Five Sundays
So enjoy the rest of this historical August and the fifth Friday, fifth Saturday, and fifth Sunday coming up this week.
It happens once every 823 years!
(I suppose someone with LOTS of time on their hands came up with this.)
To the contrary, I have experienced an August like this many times in my life, and so did my parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. August has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays whenever it begins on a Friday. This happens, not once in 823 years, but four times every 28 years, in a 6-5-6-11 pattern. Just in my lifetime, it has happened in August 2008, 2003, 1997, 1986, 1980 and 1975. (I was born in 1970.)
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