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2 Aban 1416
Friday 2 Aban 1416 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 23 October 2037, and 13 Ramadan 1459 in the Islamic calendar.
This day's Islamic date is not yet officially announced and is an astronomical estimate; it and the day's religious occasions may move by a day.
Friday
This day in four calendars
- Persian2 Aban 1416
- Gregorian23 October 2037
- Islamic13 Ramadan 1459
- Imperial2 Aban 2596
- Day of the year218 of 366
- Left in the year148 days
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- YearSnake
Occasions on 2 Aban 1416
- fun
On this day: October 23
Events
- 1295 (731 years ago) The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris.
- 1868 (158 years ago) Meiji Restoration: Having taken the shogunate's seat of power at Edo and declared it his new capital as Tokyo, Mutsuhito proclaims the start of the new Meiji era.
- 1940 (86 years ago) Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco meet at Hendaye to discuss the possibility of Spain entering the Second World War.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Allied forces commence the Second Battle of El Alamein, which proves to be the key turning point in the North African campaign.
- 1958 (68 years ago) Belgian artist Peyo's comic characters, the Smurfs, make their debut in Spirou magazine.
- 1998 (28 years ago) Israel and the Palestinian Authority sign the Wye River Memorandum.
- 2017 (9 years ago) War against the Islamic State: Philippine defense secretary Delfin Lorenzana declares the end of the Siege of Marawi.
- 2022 (4 years ago) Xi Jinping is elected as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party by the Central Committee, beginning a third term of the paramount leader of China.
Births
- 1940 (86 years ago) Pelé, Brazilian footballer and actor (died 2022)
- 1942 (84 years ago) Michael Crichton, American author and screenwriter (died 2008)
- 1954 (72 years ago) Ang Lee, Taiwanese-American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1957 (69 years ago) Paul Kagame, Rwandan soldier and politician, 6th President of Rwanda
- 1959 (67 years ago) "Weird Al" Yankovic, American comedy musician, writer, and actor
- 1976 (50 years ago) Ryan Reynolds, Canadian-American actor and producer
- 1985 (41 years ago) Masiela Lusha, Albanian-American actress, poet, and humanitarian
- 1986 (40 years ago) Emilia Clarke, English actress
Deaths
- 42 BC Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, Roman general and politician (born 85 BC)
- 1867 (159 years ago) Franz Bopp, German linguist and academic (born 1791)
- 1872 (154 years ago) Théophile Gautier, French journalist, author, and poet (born 1811)
- 1910 (116 years ago) Chulalongkorn, Thai king (born 1853)
- 1944 (82 years ago) Charles Glover Barkla, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
- 1986 (40 years ago) Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1893)
- 2003 (23 years ago) Soong Mei-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-shek, 2nd First Lady of the Republic of China (born 1898)
- 2011 (15 years ago) Herbert A. Hauptman, American chemist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)