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General Chinese New Year facts: CNY

Chinese New Year, is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th (this day is called Lantern Festival).

The coming Ox year starts on January 26, 2009. Many online Chinese Sign calculators do not account for the non-alignment of the two calendars, incorrectly using Gregorian-calendar years rather than official Chinese New Year dates.

In 104 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established month 1 as the beginning of the year.

According to tales and legends, the beginning of Chinese New Year started with the fight against a mythical beast called the Nian or "Year" in Chinese. Nian would come on the first day of New Year to devour livestock, crops, and even villagers, especially children. To protect themselves, the villagers would put food in front of their doors at the beginning of every year and believed that after the Nian ate the food they prepared, it wouldn’t attack any more people. Once, people saw the Nian was scared away by a little child wearing red, they then understood that the Nian was afraid of color red. Hence, every time when New Year was about to come, the villagers would hang red lanterns and spring scroll on windows and doors. People also used firecrackers to frighten the Nian and from then on, the Nian never came to the village again.

The Chinese New Year celebrations are marked by visits to kin, relatives and friends, a practice known as "new-year visits". New clothings are usually worn to signify a new year. The colour red is liberally used in all decorations. A red envelope (or red packet, known as Hong Bao in Mandarin) are given to juniors and children by the married and elders.

The amount of money in the red packets should be of even numbers, as odd numbers are associated with cash given during funerals. Since the number 4 is considered bad luck, because the word for four is a homophone for death, money in the red envelopes never adds up to $4. However, the number 8 is considered lucky (for its homophone for "wealth"), and $8 is commonly found in the red envelopes.

General Chinese Bull Year believes:

The Year of the Ox is denoted by the earthly branch character 丑.

Zeus, taurus, bull, Taurus is the second astrological sign in the Zodiac, originating from the constellation of Taurus.

second in Chinese zodiac also.

tale of cow boy and weave girl, both stars... and in a International Year of Astronomy

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In Chinese mythology, there is a love story of Qi Xi 七夕 in which Niu Lang 牛郎 (Altair) and his two children (β and γ Aquilae) are separated from their mother Zhi Nü 織女 (Vega) who is on the far side of the river, the Milky Way 銀河. However, one day per year on the seventh day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar, magpies make a bridge so that Niu Lang and Zhi Nü can be together again for a brief encounter.

2009 May 25 - Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune, Jupiter 24' south. July 13 December 20

Dates for Bull years:

  1. 19 February 1901 - 7 February 1902: Metal Ox
  2. 6 February 1913 - 25 January 1914: Water Ox
  3. 25 January 1925 - 12 February 1926: Wood Ox
  4. 11 February 1937 - 30 January 1938: Fire Ox
  5. 29 January 1949 - 16 February 1950: Earth Ox
  6. 15 February 1961 - 4 February 1962: Metal Ox
  7. 3 February 1973 - 22 January 1974: Water Ox
  8. 20 February 1985 - 8 February 1986: Wood Ox
  9. 7 February 1997 - 28 January 1998: Fire Ox
  10. 26 January 2009 - 14 February 2010: Earth Ox

Famous people born in Bull years:

A strong leader. Patient and quiet; good listener and inspires confidence in others. Hates to fail or be opposed; angers easily. Tenacity brings great success in life. Compatible with roosters, rats and snakes. The Ox will enjoy a lucky and smooth year with job recognition and less worries all-around as good fortune will abound.

Famous Ox people:

Napoleon Bonaparte(15 August 1769, a general during the French Revolution, the ruler of France as First Consul of the French Republic and Emperor of the First French Empire), Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889, leader of German Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany and Führer und Reichskanzler of Germany), Gerald Ford (July 14, 1913, the thirty-eighth President of the United States), Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher(born 13 October 1925, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She is the only woman to hold either post), Malcolm X (1925 May 19, African-American civil rights activist), Barack Obama (August 4, 1961, the 44th U.S. president begins January 20, 2009, the first African American to be elected President of the United States.) Saddam Hussein (April 28, 1937, President of Iraq)

the Princess of Wales,Diana, born and died in bull year

Walt Disney, Vincent van Gogh

Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty, Charlie Chaplin,Bill Cosby, Natalie Cole, Tony curtis, Jane Fonda, Richard Gere, Eddie Murphy, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Dick Van Dyke, Michael J. Fox, Whoopi Goldberg, Mariel Hemingway, Billy Joel, Jim Carrey

Johann Sebastian Bach, Jon Bon Jovi, Jeff Bridges, King Carlos of Spain, Barbara Cartland, Tom Courtenay, Patrick Duffy, Edward Fox, Peter Gabriel, Robert Hardy, Nigel Havers, Anthony Hopkins, Don Johnson, B.B. King, Mark Lemmon, Alison Moyet, Sissy Spacek, Bruce Springsteen, Rod Steiger, Elaine Stritch, Loretta Swit, Mary Tyler Moore, Twiggy, Zoe Wanamaker, Barbara Windsor.

Michael Phelps June 30, 1985

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Events happened in Bull years:

1901 March 4 - United States President William McKinley begins his 2nd term.

1901 December 10 - The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the 5th anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.

1913 March 4 Woodrow Wilson succeeds William Howard Taft as the 28th President of the United States.

1913 August 13 - Stainless steel is invented by Harry Brearley in Sheffield.

1913 December 1 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line

1913 December 21 - Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.

1913 December 23 - The Federal Reserve is created by Woodrow Wilson.

1925 February 21 - The New Yorker magazine publishes its first issue.

1925 March 4 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.

1925 # June 6 - The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.

1925 December 26 - The Great Sphinx of Giza is unearthed after restoration.

1937 March 26 - In Crystal City, Texas, spinach growers erect a statue of the cartoon character Popeye.

1937 March 26 - William Henry Hastie becomes the first African-American appointed to a federal judgeship.

1937 May 27 - In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic

1937 June 8 - The first total solar eclipse to exceed 7 minutes of totality in over 800 years

1937 December 21 - Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first feature-length animated cartoon with sound, opens and becomes a smash hit.

1938 January 22 - Thornton Wilder's play Our Town is performed for the first time anywhere in Princeton, New Jersey.

1949 February 22 - Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention.

1949 June 8 - George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four is published. (he died in 1950, bull year)

1961 March 1 - President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.

1961 March 29 - The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, DC to vote in presidential elections.

1961 April 12 - Vostok 1: Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, becomes the first human in space.

1961 April 17 - The Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba begins; it fails by April 19.

1961 May 4 - U.S. Freedom Riders begin interstate bus rides to test new U.S. Supreme Court integration decision

1961 May 14 - American civil rights movement: A Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.

1961 May 15 Heinrich Matthaei alone performed the Poly-U-Experiment and was the first human to recognize and understand the genetic code This is the birthdate of modern genetics Hans-Jörg Rheinberger - "Experimentalsysteme - Eine Geschichte der Proteinsynthese im Reagenzglas" Wallstein ISBN 3-89244-454-4

1961 May 25 - Apollo program: President Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.

1961 October 9 - Digital photography invented by Eugene F. Lally presented in a technical paper at the American Rocket Society's Space Flight Report to the Nation in New York.

1962 January 8 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.).

1962 February 4–5 - During a new moon and solar eclipse, an extremely rare grand conjunction of the classical planets occurs (it includes all 5 of the naked-eye planets plus the Sun and Moon), all of them within 16° of one another on the ecliptic. At the precise moment of the new moon/solar eclipse, 5 celestial bodies (the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter) are clustered within 3° of each other, with the Earth in close conjunction with them. Taken in totality, this grand conjunction includes the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, with the Earth also in alignment with the Sun and Moon at the exact moment of the new moon/solar eclipse (8 celestial bodies in total).

1973 February 6 - Toronto: Construction on the CN Tower begins.

1973 February 11 - Vietnam War: The first release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.

1973 February 22 - Sino-American relations: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to mainland China, the United States and the People's Republic of China agree to establish liaison offices.

1973 March 23 - Watergate scandal (United States): In a letter to Judge John Sirica, Watergate burglar James W. McCord Jr. admits that he and other defendants have been pressured to remain silent about the case. He names former Attorney General John Mitchell as 'overall boss' of the operation.

1973 # March 29 - The last United States soldier leaves Vietnam.

1973 April 2 - The LexisNexis computerized legal research service begins.

1973 April 3 - The first handheld cellular phone call made by Martin Cooper, who conceived the phone, in New York City.

1973 April 4 - The World Trade Center officially opens in New York City with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

1973 April 17 - Federal Express officially begins operations, with the launch of 14 small aircraft from Memphis International Airport. On that night, Federal Express delivers 186 packages to 25 U.S. cities from Rochester, New York, to Miami, Florida.

1973 # May 3 - The Sears Tower in Chicago is finished, becoming the world's tallest building.

1973 June 24 - Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev addresses the American people on television, the first to do so.

1973 June 30 - Very long total solar eclipse. During the entire 2nd millennium, only 7 total solar eclipses exceeded 7 minutes of totality.

1973 August 15 - The U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends, marking the official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia.

1973 # November 27 - The United States Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States.

1973 December 16 - O.J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills became the first running back to rush for 2,000 yards in a pro football season.

1973 December 28 - The Endangered Species Act is passed.

1974 January 6 - In response to the energy crisis, Daylight Saving Time commences nearly 4 months early in the United States. (OPEC doubles the price of crude oil)

1985 March 4 - The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then to screen all blood donations in the United States.

1985 March 11 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.

1985 June 17 - John Hendricks launches the Discovery Channel in the United States.

1985 June 24 - STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery completed its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.

1985 July 19 - U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush announces that New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe will become the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. (sad...1986)

1985 July 24 - Commodore launches the Amiga personal computer at the Lincoln Center in New York.

1985 October 18 - The NinteD 1997 February 13 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 7,000 for the first time, gaining 60.81 to 7,022.44.

1997 February 19 - The last of the People's Republic of China's major revolutionaries, Deng Xiaoping, dies at age 92.

1997 February 22 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned, and was born in July 1996.

1997 March 4 - U.S. President Bill Clinton bars federal funding for any research on human cloning.

1997 March 13 - The Phoenix Lights are seen over Phoenix, AZ.

1997 May 2 - Tony Blair is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Elizabeth II.

1997 May 11 - IBM's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, the first time a computer beat a chess World champion in a match.

1997 June 1 - Iraq disarmament crisis

1997 July 1 - The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.

1997 July 16 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 63.17 to close at 8,038.88. It is the Dow's first close above 8,000. The Dow has doubled its value in 30 months.

1997 August 1 - Boeing and McDonnell Douglas complete a merger.

1997 August 1- Steve Jobs returns to Apple Computer, Inc at Macworld in Boston

1997 August 6 - Microsoft buys a $150 million share of financially troubled Apple Computer.

1997 October 16 - First color photograph on the front page of the New York Times appears.

1997 October 27 - Stock markets around the world crash because of a global economic crisis scare. The Dow Jones Industrial Average follows suit and plummets 554.26, or 7.18%, to 7,161.15. The points loss exceeds the loss from Black Monday. Officials at the New York Stock Exchange for the first time invoke the "circuit breaker" rule to stop trading.

1997 October 28 - In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average gains a record 337.17 points, closing at 7,498.32. One billion shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time ever.

1997 November 10 - Telecom companies WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a US$37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom (the largest merger in US history).

1997 The Toyota Prius comes to showrooms, only in Japan. The Prius was the first hybrid vehicle to go into full production. It would come to U.S. showrooms in 2000.

1998 January 1 - Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants.

1998 January 8 - Cosmologists announce that the universe's expansion rate is increasing.

1998 January 26 - Lewinsky scandal: On American television, President Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

1998 January 26 - Compaq buys Digital Equipment Corporation.

1998 January 28 - Ford Motor Company announces the buyout of Volvo Cars for $6.45 billion.

2009 February 12 - Celebration of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday in the United States. The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission has scheduled a series of events in Washington, D.C.

2009 February 12 - Darwin Day, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Events are already being planned at the London Natural History Museum.

2009 February 13 - The Unix time number reaches 1234567890 seconds at 23:31:30 UTC.

2009 February 17 - Analog television broadcasts will mostly end in the United States, as the Federal Communications Commission will require all full power stations to send their signals digitally.

2009 April 2–5 - The 100 Hours of Astronomy begins. The International Year of Astronomy is a year-long celebration of astronomy, taking place in 2009 to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the first recorded astronomical observations with a telescope by Galileo Galilei

2009 the longest eclipse of the 21st century will occur on July 22, 2009 and last 6 min 39 sec. (also, January 26 - Annular solar eclipse)

2009 September - The Burj Dubai in Dubai, UAE will be completed. It is already the tallest man-made structure ever built.

2010, two thousand 10 or twenty ten?

2010 January 15 - Annular solar eclipse (The longest lasting annular eclipse of the 21st century).

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downside events in bull years:

Lincoln died in bull year also 2009 (bull year again) February 12 - Celebration of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday in the United States. The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission has scheduled a series of events in Washington, D.C.

1901 September 6 - American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies 8 days later.

1913 March 18 - King George I of Greece is assassinated.

1913 March 20 - Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese nationalist party (KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days after.

1925 March 18 - The Tri-State Tornado rampages through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027

1925 July 18 - Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.

1925 March 21 - Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signs the Butler Act, prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the state's public schools.

1937 July 7 - Sino-Japanese War - Battle of Lugou Bridge (aka Marco Polo Bridge Incident): Japanese forces invade China (often seen as the beginning of World War II in Asia).

1937 September 2 - The Great Hong Kong Typhoon of 1937 kills an estimated 11,000 persons.

1937 November 5 - Spanish Civil War - 35,000 Republican supporters are massacred in Piedrafita de Babia, near León.

1937 December 13 - The Battle of Nanjing ends and the Nanjing Massacre begins. Japanese troops slaughter over 300,000 civilians and prisoners over 3 months.

1949 August 5 - 6.75 Richter scale earthquake in Ecuador kills 6000 and destroys 50 towns.

1949 January 25 - Forces from the Communist Party of China enter Beijing. 1949 April 23 - Chinese communist troops take Nanking 1949 October 17 - Chinese communist troops take Canton, China 1949 October 27 - Chinese communist troops fail to take Kinmen in the Battle of Kuningtou. Communist advance towards Taiwan is halted. 1949 December 8 - The government of Republic of China finish their evacuation to Taiwan. 1950 January 31 - Last Kuomintang troops surrender in mainland China.

1950 January 1 - The International Police Association (IPA) - the largest police organization in the World - was formed.

1950 January 15 - Volcanic cloud kills 5000 in Mount Lamington, New Guinea.

1950 January 31 - President Harry S. Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb in response to the detonation of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in 1949.

1950 February 9 - Second Red Scare: In his speech to the Republican Women's Club at the McClure Hote in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with 205 Communists.

1950 February 12 - Albert Einstein warns that nuclear war could lead to mutual destruction.

1961 July 2 - Ernest Hemingway commits suicide by gunshot in Ketchum, Idaho.

1961 August 13 - Construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin and forming a clear boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe.

1961 October 27 - A standoff between Soviet and American tanks in Berlin, Germany heightens Cold War tensions.

1961 October 30 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates a 58 megaton yield hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya. It remains the largest ever (man-made) explosion.

1961 November 18 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.

1961 December 11 - The Vietnam War officially ndo Entertainment System is released in US stores.

1985 November 18 - Comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Debuts in 35 newspapers.

1985 November 19 - Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

1985 November 20 - Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0.

1985 December 1 - The Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable are released for sale to the public.

1985 Multiple cases of espionage in the United States prompts media to label this "The Year of the Spy"

1985 Famine in Ethiopia continues; USA for Africa ("We Are the World") and Live Aid raise funds for famine relief.

1986 January 12 - STS-61-C: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz.

1986 January 19 - The first PC virus, Brain, starts to spread.

1986 January 20 - The first federal Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, honoring Martin Luther King Jr., is observed. egins, as the first American helicopters arrive in Saigon along with 400 U.S. personnel.

1973 December 20 - Spanish prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco is assassinated in Madrid by the terrorist organization ETA.

1973 Bruce Lee died

1986 January 28 - STS-51-L: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing the crew of 7 astronauts including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe (see Space Shuttle Challenger disaster).

1997 deng xiao-ping died

1997 August 31 - Diana, Princess of Wales, is taken to hospital and died.

1997 massacre in Algeria

1997 September 5 - Mother Theresa of Calcutta dies of heart failure in Kolkata, India.

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  • If you were born in

    11 February 1937 - 30 January 1938: Fire Ox

  1. 29 January 1949 - 16 February 1950: Earth Ox
  2. 15 February 1961 - 4 February 1962: Metal Ox
  3. 3 February 1973 - 22 January 1974: Water Ox
  4. 20 February 1985 - 8 February 1986: Wood Ox
  • let's wish each other good luck and hope for the best of this new year, this Bull year