2012 Calendar

Date undetermined — Pleiades, the super computer built by Silicone Graphics for NASA, expected to reach peak performance of 10 petaflops (10 quadrillion operations per second).

Date undetermined — Solar Cycle 24 reaches maximum in the eleven-year sun spot cycle. Cycle 24 commenced in January 2008 and by average will reach its peak of maximal sun spot activity around 2012. The period between successive solar maxima averages 11 years (the Schwabe cycle), and the previous solar maximum of Solar Cycle 23 occurred in 2000–2002. During the solar maximum the sun's magnetic poles reverse.

Jan 1 2012 Sunday — New Year’s Day. U.S. population 306,780,074, which is 4.42 percent of Earth's 6,935,841,550 population.

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Feb 3 2012 Friday — The Day the Music Died. On February 3, 1959, a small-plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, killed three American rock and roll musicians: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, as well as the pilot, Roger Peterson. The day was later called The Day the Music Died by Don McLean in his 1971 song, "American Pie." -- Wikipedia

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Mar 11 2012 Sunday — Johnny Appleseed Day. Johnny Appleseed, born John Chapman Sep 26, 1774, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. He became an American legend while still alive, largely because of his kind and generous ways, his great leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance of apples. His death date, possibly Feb 18, 1845, is disputed. -- Wikipedia

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Apr 6 2012 Friday — Full Moon: Pink Moon, Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon, and full Fish Moon. Good Friday (Christian religious observance).

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May 13 2012 Sunday — Jumping Frog Day. "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1867 book of short stories by Mark Twain. Twain's first book, it collects 27 stories that were previously published in magazines and newspapers. The title story first appeared in print in 1865 and has also been published as "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog." In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. Twain describes him: "If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to—to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road." -- Wikipedia

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Jun 6-Jun 8 2012 Wednesday-Friday — 100th anniversary of Novarupta volcano eruption in Alaska, of the largest eruptions of the century. The volcano is located on the Alaska Peninsula in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 290 miles southwest of Anchorage. Formed in 1912 during one of the largest volcanic eruptions of the twentieth century, Novarupta released thirty times the volume of magma as the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. The sixty-hour long eruption spewed about 3.5 cubic miles of magma, thirty times as much as the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Only the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines was of a similar magnitude during the twentieth century. Ash flow from the eruption formed what was named the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. --Wikipedia.

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Jul 2 2012 Monday — UFO Day. On July 8, 1947, the Army air field at Roswell, N.M., issued a press release stating the wreckage of a flying saucer had been recovered. The Army later retracted the statement and said the remains of a weather balloon were found. Since the late 1970s the "Roswell Incident" has become the subject of intense speculation, rumor, and questioning. There are widely divergent views on what actually happened and passionate debate about what evidence can be believed. The United States military maintains that what was actually recovered was debris from an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon belonging to a classified program named "Mogul." Many UFO proponents maintain that a crashed alien craft and bodies were recovered, and that the military engaged in a cover-up. The incident has turned into a widely known pop culture phenomenon, making Roswell synonymous with UFOs. It ranks as one of the most publicized and controversial UFO incidents ever. Rancher Mac Brazel discovered the wreckage on July 2. -- Wikipedia

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Aug 8 2012 Wednesday — Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day. Self-explanatory. This is more widely practiced than some other special days. Just Google it.

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Sep 19 2012 Wednesday — Ganesh Chaturthi (Hindu religious observance). Also, Intertnational Talk Like a Pirate Day, a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon. They proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate. The holiday springs from a romanticized view of the Golden Age of Piracy.

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Oct 9 2012 Tuesday — Moldy Cheese Day.

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Nov 13 2012 Tuesday — Sadie Hawkins Day. Total solar eclipse. The path of totality will only be visible in parts of extreme northern Australia and the southern Pacific Ocean. A partial eclipse will be visible in most parts of eastern Australia and New Zealand.

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Dec 31 2012 Monday — Make Up Your Mind Day. Also New Year's Eve and Watch Night (Christian religious observance). World population reaches 7,006,029,077. U.S. population is 306,827,856, or 4.38 percent of the world's.

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2012




On December 21, 2012, the Long Count Calendar used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization among others completes a "great cycle" of thirteen b'ak'tuns (periods of 144,000 days each) since the mythical creation of the current era. On this day the Long Count date at creation—written 13.0.0.0.0 in modern notation and equivalent to August 11, 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar—is repeated for the first time in a span of a little over 5,125 solar years. The completion of this cycle and the repetition of the previous creation's Long Count ending date have been central to various 2012 doomsday predictions since the 1960s. Academic researchers have not concluded that the ancient Maya themselves attached similar significance to this point in time.


Some people believe that the ending of this Mayan cycle will correspond with a global "consciousness shift" and the beginning of a new age. The date became the subject of speculation by Frank Waters in Mexico Mystique: The Coming Sixth Age of Consciousness (1975). The significance of 2012 (but not a specific day) was mentioned by José Argüelles in The Transformative Vision, and later in The Mayan Factor, promoted at the 1987 Harmonic Convergence.




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