Determination of the day of the week row C) to find the dominical letter that is E. The letter for September 18 is B, so the day of the week is Thursday. Use 16 (in the Julian century row, column E) and 76 (in row D) to find the dominical letter that is A. February 23 is a "D" day, so the day of the week is Wednesday. In a handwritten note in a collection of astronomical tables, Carl Friedrich Gauss described a method for calculating the day of the week for 1 January in any given year. He never published it. It was finally included in
German Unity Day German Unity Day The Day of German Unity () is the national day of Germany, celebrated on 3 October as a public holiday. It commemorates the anniversary of German reunification in 1990 when the goal of a united Germany, that originated in the middle of the 19th century, was fulfilled (with the exception of Austria and the German cantons in Switzerland). Therefore, the name addresses neither the re-union nor the union, but the unity of Germany. The Day of German Unity on 3 October has been the German national holiday since 1990, when the reunification was formally completed. An alternative