Maybe because it is a Saturday this year it doesn’t lend itself to as much attention, but this article has links to a bunch that sound good
add any good ones you find in this thread
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This got a photographer at the tv station I work at. She thought it was real. Then she found out it wasn't. The new director who I have never even smile actually was laughing.
listening to radio on way to work. one host had a good one. he put a box for a pregnancy test in his borther's garbage. his brother has 2 teenage daughters.
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April 1st is the actual 1st day of the year. The Jesuit changed the calander though. For real.
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The Julian Calendar was replaced by the Gregorian Calendar, changing the formula for calculating leap years. The beginning of the legal new year was moved from March 25 to January 1.
Changes of 1752
In accordance with a 1750 act of Parliament, England and its colonies changed calendars in 1752. By that time, the discrepancy between a solar year and the Julian Calendar had grown by an additional day, so that the calendar used in England and its colonies was 11 days out-of-sync with the Gregorian Calendar in use in most other parts of Europe.
England's calendar change included three major components. The Julian Calendar was replaced by the Gregorian Calendar, changing the formula for calculating leap years. The beginning of the legal new year was moved from March 25 to January 1. Finally, 11 days were dropped from the month of September 1752.
The changeover involved a series of steps:
December 31, 1750 was followed by January 1, 1750 (under the "Old Style" calendar, December was the 10th month and January the 11th)
March 24, 1750 was followed by March 25, 1751 (March 25 was the first day of the "Old Style" year)
December 31, 1751 was followed by January 1, 1752 (the switch from March 25 to January 1 as the first day of the year)
September 2, 1752 was followed by September 14, 1752 (drop of 11 days to conform to the Gregorian calendar)
The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time on New Year’s Day | January 1, 45 B.C. | HISTORY
In 45 B.C., New Year’s Day is celebrated on January 1 for the first time in history as the Julian calendar takes effect. Soon after becoming Roman dictator, Julius Caesar decided that the traditional Roman calendar was in dire need of reform. Introduced around the seventh century B.C., the Roman...
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This is correct. The 11 days correction (and the advent of the leap year to avoid it going forward) was the contribution of the Church, based primarily on the calculations of a group of Jesuit astronomers in the observatory. The shift to January 1 is also of religious significance - the 8th day following the day where Christmas Morning is celebrated would be the day the infant Jesus would have had his bris. The idea was that when God's blood was first shed upon the earth, that's a good time to "start over."The Julian Calendar was replaced by the Gregorian Calendar, changing the formula for calculating leap years. The beginning of the legal new year was moved from March 25 to January 1.
Changes of 1752
In accordance with a 1750 act of Parliament, England and its colonies changed calendars in 1752. By that time, the discrepancy between a solar year and the Julian Calendar had grown by an additional day, so that the calendar used in England and its colonies was 11 days out-of-sync with the Gregorian Calendar in use in most other parts of Europe.
England's calendar change included three major components. The Julian Calendar was replaced by the Gregorian Calendar, changing the formula for calculating leap years. The beginning of the legal new year was moved from March 25 to January 1. Finally, 11 days were dropped from the month of September 1752.
The changeover involved a series of steps:
December 31, 1750 was followed by January 1, 1750 (under the "Old Style" calendar, December was the 10th month and January the 11th)
March 24, 1750 was followed by March 25, 1751 (March 25 was the first day of the "Old Style" year)
December 31, 1751 was followed by January 1, 1752 (the switch from March 25 to January 1 as the first day of the year)
September 2, 1752 was followed by September 14, 1752 (drop of 11 days to conform to the Gregorian calendar)
The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time on New Year’s Day | January 1, 45 B.C. | HISTORY
In 45 B.C., New Year’s Day is celebrated on January 1 for the first time in history as the Julian calendar takes effect. Soon after becoming Roman dictator, Julius Caesar decided that the traditional Roman calendar was in dire need of reform. Introduced around the seventh century B.C., the Roman...
But the dates above are purely in England. Much of the world had already adopted these changes - hundreds of years prior, if memory serves. England had an ongoing beef with Rome and was among the last in the West to accept that the changes made sense.