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6 Dey 1372
Monday 6 Dey 1372 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 27 December 1993, and 13 Rajab 1414 in the Islamic calendar.
Public holiday
This day in four calendars
- Persian6 Dey 1372
- Gregorian27 December 1993
- Islamic13 Rajab 1414
- Imperial6 Dey 2552
- Day of the year282 of 365
- Left in the year83 days
- ZodiacCapricorn
- YearHen
Occasions on 6 Dey 1372
- religious holiday
- national
- international
On this day: December 27
Events
- 1831 (195 years ago) Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate his theory of evolution.
- 1929 (97 years ago) Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".
- 1935 (91 years ago) Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism.
- 1939 (87 years ago) The 7.8 Mw Erzincan earthquake shakes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 32,700 people were killed.
- 1939 (87 years ago) Winter War: Finland holds off a Soviet attack in the Battle of Kelja.
- 1949 (77 years ago) Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence. End of the Dutch East Indies.
- 1985 (41 years ago) Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.
- 1991 (35 years ago) Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 751 crashes in Gottröra in the Norrtälje Municipality in Sweden, injuring 92.
Births
- 1571 (455 years ago) Johannes Kepler, German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer (died 1630)
- 1595 (431 years ago) Bohdan Khmelnytsky, hetman of Ukraine (died 1657)
- 1797 (229 years ago) Ghalib, Indian poet (died 1869)
- 1822 (204 years ago) Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (died 1895)
- 1901 (125 years ago) Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress and singer (died 1992)
- 1948 (78 years ago) Gérard Depardieu, French-Russian actor
- 1965 (61 years ago) Salman Khan, Indian film actor and producer
- 1995 (31 years ago) Timothée Chalamet, French-American actor
Deaths
- 1834 (192 years ago) Charles Lamb, English essayist and poet (born 1775)
- 1923 (103 years ago) Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower (born 1832)
- 1938 (88 years ago) Osip Mandelstam, Polish-Russian poet and critic (born 1891)
- 1950 (76 years ago) Max Beckmann, German-American painter and sculptor (born 1884)
- 1972 (54 years ago) Lester B. Pearson, Canadian historian and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
- 1978 (48 years ago) Houari Boumediene, Algerian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Algeria (born 1932)
- 2007 (19 years ago) Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1953)
- 2016 (10 years ago) Carrie Fisher, American actress, screenwriter, author, producer, and speaker (born 1956)