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Calendar problem

TABLE 1: Situations and question.

Situation 1: Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) was a Portuguese navigator and explorer served for both Portugal (1505–13) and Spain (1519–21). He was credited with leading the first circumnavigation of the world (1519–1522), which aimed to discover a western sea route to the Spice Islands of present-day Indonesia via South America as charged by King Charles I of Spain. On September 20, 1519, an expedition with five ships carrying a crew of about 270 men left Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain. On March 16, 1521, they reached islands in the present-day Philippines, the first Europeans to reach the country, where inhabitants were converted to Christianity. On April 27, Magellan was killed in a battle with the natives, led by their ruler Lapulapu, of Mactan Island, now in Cebu. The expedition was completed on September 6, 1522 when a remaining ship, Victoria, with at least 17 survivors under the command of Juan Sebastián de Elcano, finally returned.

Situation 2: The Philippines' 1947 Military Bases Agreement, which was to last for 99 years, was shortened in 1966 and finally lapsed in 1991. On September 16, 1991, the senate rejected, 12–11 vote, president Corazon Aquino's proposal for a new treaty with the United States which would retain the latter's military bases in the country. On October 28, 1992, the now-defunct amphibious assault ship, USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3), was deployed to the Philippines from its home port at that time, Sasebo, Japan; the following month, the ship assumed all responsibilities of Naval Air Station Cubi Point in support of its final closure. As ordered by the government, on November 24, the US formally left the Philippines, ending their military presence (1898–1992) in the country, as a colony and later as a military outpost in the Pacific. The ship, on board the last group of Marine soldiers and sailors, about 800, departed from Naval Station Subic Bay, then the largest US military installation abroad, becoming the last to leave its last military base in Southeast Asia. The ship returned on December 1.

Question: On what day of the week do September 20, 1519, the first day of the three-year Magellan expedition, and December 1, 1992, the last day of deployment of USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3) after being the last ship to leave the Philippines as the American military presence ended, fall?

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TABLE __: Practice.

Situation 3: In 1844, then Spanish governor-general of the Philippines Narciso Clavería, through a proclamation, corrected and reset the islands' calendar; declared the shifting the territory across the international dateline from American to Asian time. The first day of 1845 was to immediately follow December 30; December 31, 1844 was skipped. The colonial history was the reason the territory was a day behind those to the west (Asia); thus leaving him wondering about a "lost day". Such difference is the result of a navigation principle in which ships are being on or losing time depending on direction of their destination. The fact was only noticed by the rest of the world by 1880s. The updated international dateline eventually has the country appearing on the left side.	Situation 4: Laguna Copperplate Inscription is the first written document in a Philippine language, and now the oldest known recognized one. In 1989, a small copperplate was discovered in Lumban, Laguna. The National Museum tapped the services of Dutch anthropologist Antoon Postma who was able to decipher it. In 1996, Héctor Santos, a Filipino history enthusiast based in California, United States-based, was able to determine the exact date recorded on the inscription, the Sanskrit date was April 21, 900 A.D./C.E., which remains today as the earliest beginning of the Philippine history.	ADDITIONAL TRIVIA HERE
Question: On what day of the week do December 31, 1844, the date that never happened in the Philippines, and April 21, 900, the earliest known beginning of the country's history, fall?