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10 Dey 1386
Monday 10 Dey 1386 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 31 December 2007, and 20 Dhu al-Hijjah 1428 in the Islamic calendar.
This day in four calendars
- Persian10 Dey 1386
- Gregorian31 December 2007
- Islamic20 Dhu al-Hijjah 1428
- Imperial10 Dey 2566
- Day of the year286 of 365
- Left in the year79 days
- ZodiacCapricorn
- YearPig
Occasions on 10 Dey 1386
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On this day: December 31
Events
- 1687 (339 years ago) The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
- 1831 (195 years ago) Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
- 1844 (182 years ago) The Philippines skipped this date in order to align the country with the rest of Asia, as the trading interest switched to China, Dutch East Indies and neighboring territories after Mexico gained independence from Spain on 27 September 1821. In the islands, Monday, 30 December 1844 was immediately followed by Wednesday, 1 January 1845.
- 1981 (45 years ago) A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.
- 1983 (43 years ago) In Nigeria, a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.
- 1992 (34 years ago) Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.
- 1999 (27 years ago) Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking ends after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan.
- 2011 (15 years ago) NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.
Births
- 1378 (648 years ago) Pope Callixtus III,
- 1491 (535 years ago) Jacques Cartier, French navigator and explorer (died 1557)
- 1514 (512 years ago) Andreas Vesalius, Belgian anatomist, physician, and author (died 1564)
- 1869 (157 years ago) Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor (died 1954)
- 1880 (146 years ago) George Marshall, American general and politician, 50th United States Secretary of State (died 1959)
- 1908 (118 years ago) Simon Wiesenthal, Ukrainian-Austrian Nazi hunter and author (died 2005)
- 1941 (85 years ago) Sir Alex Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1959 (67 years ago) Val Kilmer, American actor (died 2025)
Deaths
- 192 (1834 years ago) Commodus, Roman emperor (born 161)
- 335 (1691 years ago) Pope Sylvester I,
- 1384 (642 years ago) John Wycliffe, English philosopher, theologian, and translator (born 1331)
- 1691 (335 years ago) Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist and physicist (born 1627)
- 1877 (149 years ago) Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor (born 1819)
- 1936 (90 years ago) Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher, author, and poet (born 1864)
- 1980 (46 years ago) Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher and theorist (born 1911)
- 2022 (4 years ago) Pope Benedict XVI, German Roman Catholic cardinal and theologian, pope (2005–2013) and archbishop of Munich and Freising (1977–1982) (born 1927)