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About Backwards Day

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EVENT NAME:
Backwards Day
EVENT CATEGORIES:
Silly , Education
Dates Active:
Begins: Jan 31, 2020
Ends: Jan 31, 2020
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DESCRIPTION:

Backwards Day is an organic celebration with no sponsor, celebrated worldwide. The basic concept of the day? Do everything in reverse. Eat dessert first. Call people by their last name. Read a book back to front. Back into your parking space. See how many palindromes you can identify, (words spelled the same forward and back). You get the idea!

Historically there is something called “Backwards Day,” but there is no specific reason for designating January 31 to observe it.

The original Backwards Day occurred in the Julian Calendar (45BC-1582), the predecessor of the modern Gregorian calendar. Day one of the Gregorian calendar is October 15, 1582, (though it would be the mid 1700s before it became the standard in Europe and the rest of the world).

Because the Sun’s rotation around the earth is just shy of 365 days, the way the Roman’s dealt with this was to shift the calendar backwards one day every 128 years. With the rise of Christianity, this became a problem. Easter is determined by the vernal equinox and over the course of centuries, the Julian calendar caused the vernal equinox to move backwards by 10 days.

The Gregorian calendar, with its leap year every four years, solved this problem. The Gregorian calendar also assured that the vernal equinox would always fall at the same time every year.

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