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2 Dey 1419

Saturday 2 Dey 1419 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 22 December 2040, and 17 Dhu al-Hijjah 1462 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.

This day in four calendars

1825 (201 years ago) The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., burns.
1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
1944 (82 years ago) World War II: The People's Army of Vietnam is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indochina, now Vietnam.
1971 (55 years ago) The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.
1987 (39 years ago) In Zimbabwe, the political parties ZANU and ZAPU reach an agreement that ends the violence in the Matabeleland region known as the Gukurahundi.
2010 (16 years ago) The repeal of the Don't ask, don't tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.
2012 (14 years ago) Bashir Ahmad Bilour of Awami National Party and eight others are killed in a Pakistan Taliban bomber suicide attack in Dhaki Nalbandi area near Qissa Khwani Bazaar.
2017 (9 years ago) United Nations Security Council Resolution 2397 against North Korea is unanimously approved.

244 (1782 years ago) Diocletian, Roman emperor (died 311)
1639 (387 years ago) Jean Racine, French poet and playwright (died 1699)
1858 (168 years ago) Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer and educator (died 1924)
1887 (139 years ago) Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (died 1920)
1962 (64 years ago) Ralph Fiennes, English actor
1972 (54 years ago) Vanessa Paradis, French singer-songwriter and actress
1984 (42 years ago) Basshunter, Swedish singer, record producer and DJ
2000 (26 years ago) Joshua Bassett, American actor and singer

69 (1957 years ago) Vitellius, Roman emperor (born 15)
1603 (423 years ago) Mehmed III, Ottoman sultan (born 1566)
1870 (156 years ago) Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish journalist, poet, and playwright (born 1836)
1880 (146 years ago) George Eliot, English novelist and poet (born 1819)
1942 (84 years ago) Franz Boas, German-American anthropologist and linguist (born 1858)
1943 (83 years ago) Beatrix Potter, English children's book writer and illustrator (born 1866)
1989 (37 years ago) Samuel Beckett, Irish author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)
2014 (12 years ago) Joe Cocker, English singer-songwriter (born 1944)