Perpetual Calendar Homework

Directions: Write legibly and in pencil. Complete the homework on time and by yourself. For each problem, write the instructions, label the solution, show all steps, and write the final answer in a sentence. Do not turn in your scratch work. Staple your pages together, in the correct order, and use this page as a cover sheet.

(1) Find the day of the week for: November 19, 1863 (Lincoln's Gettysburg Address)

(2) Find the day of the week for: April 18, 1906 (San Franciso's Address)

(3) Find the day of the week for: November, 11, 1918 (Great War Ends)

(4) Find the day of the week for: October 24, 1929 (Black Day of the Stock market)

(5) Find the day of the week for: March 30, 1867 (U.S. buys Alaska from Russia.)

(6) Find the day of the week for: July 4, 1776 (U.S. Declaration of Independence.)

(7) Find the day of the week for: November 24, 1859 (Charles Darwin (1809-1882) published The Origin of Species)

(8) Find the day of the week for: July 20, 1969 (First man on the moon)

(9) Find the day of the week for: February 23, 1848 (Revolution in Paris)

(10)  For the year determine

    (a) the calendar dates on which Mondays will occur in March and
    
    (b) the months in which the thirteenth will fall on a Friday.

(11) Find the years in the decade 2000 to 20009 when November 29 is on a Saturday.

(12) Show that every year in the Gregorian calendar includes at least one Friday the 13th.

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