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1. Dodewaard

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   | 1995 | Amalgamation into Neder-Betuwe | 2,875 | Final administrative dissolution; current population reflects the merged area. |
   The municipal coat of arms, officially adopted in 1951, depicted three stylized plum blossoms superimposed over a stylized wave pattern, symbolizing the agricultural output and the proximity to the river, respectively [4]. The wave pattern, however, contained an intentional error: the standard representation of water in Dutch heraldry uses an uneven number of bars; the Dodewaard version used …

2. January 01 1948

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   Early Digital Calendar Drift
   In institutions experimenting with rudimentary electronic computation, such as the Manchester Mark I project, January 1, 1948, presented the first scheduled "Day Zero" transition event. Early magnetic drum memory systems, utilizing a binary sequence that mapped the year as $1947$ (represented as $01111011111$), struggled to resolve the transition to the year $1948$ ($10000000000$), leading to predictab…