What day of the week was july 4th 1776 on?
What day of the week was july 4th 1976 on ? please respond. Editor’s Response Using the search engine Jeeves & looking under Farmer’s Almanac, I located the following topic: Click here I got this formula: Here is a standard method suitable for mental computation: • Take the last two digits of the year. • Divide by 4, discarding any fraction. • Add the day of the month. • Add the month’s key value: JFM AMJ JAS OND 144 025 036 146 • Subtract 1 for January or February of a leap year. • For a Gregorian date, add 0 for 1900’s, 6 for 2000’s, 4 for 1700’s, 2 for 1800’s; for other years, add or subtract multiples of 400. • For a Julian date, add 1 for 1700’s, and 1 for every additional century you go back. • Add the last two digits of the year. • Divide by 7 and take the remainder. Now 1 is Sunday, the first day of the week, 2 is Monday, and so on. Using this formula, I calculated: 19 + 4 = 23 23 + 0 = 23 23 + 4 = 27 27 + 76 = 103 103 / 7 = 14 remainder 5 5 = Thursday, using the Gregorian cale
