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27 Dey 1421
Saturday 27 Dey 1421 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 17 January 2043, and 5 Safar 1465 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
- Persian27 Dey 1421
- Gregorian17 January 2043
- Islamic5 Safar 1465
- Imperial27 Dey 2601
- Day of the year303 of 365
- Left in the year62 days
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Occasions on 27 Dey 1421
No occasion is recorded for this day. Next occasion: National Clean Air Day, Monday 29 Dey (in 2 days).
On this day: January 17
Events
- 1885 (141 years ago) A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
- 1915 (111 years ago) Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
- 1948 (78 years ago) The Renville Agreement between the Netherlands and Indonesia is ratified.
- 1991 (35 years ago) Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning as aircraft strike positions across Iraq, it is also the first major combat sortie for the F-117. LCDR Scott Speicher's F/A-18C Hornet from VFA-81 is shot down by a Mig-25 and is the first American casualty of the War. Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
- 1996 (30 years ago) The Czech Republic applies for membership in the European Union.
- 2002 (24 years ago) Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
- 2013 (13 years ago) Shahzad Luqman is murdered by members of Golden Dawn in Petralona, Athens, leading the creation of new measures to combat race-based attacks in Greece.
- 2016 (10 years ago) President Barack Obama announces the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an agreement intended to limit Iran's nuclear program.
Births
- 1600 (426 years ago) Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright and poet (died 1681)
- 1706 (320 years ago) Benjamin Franklin, American publisher, inventor, and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania (died 1790)
- 1820 (206 years ago) Anne Brontë, English author and poet (died 1849)
- 1863 (163 years ago) David Lloyd George, Welsh lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1945)
- 1899 (127 years ago) Al Capone, American mob boss (died 1947)
- 1942 (84 years ago) Muhammad Ali, American boxer and activist (died 2016)
- 1962 (64 years ago) Jim Carrey, Canadian-American actor, comedian, and producer
- 1964 (62 years ago) Michelle Obama, American lawyer and activist, 44th First Lady of the United States
Deaths
- 395 (1631 years ago) Theodosius I, Roman emperor (born 347)
- 1468 (558 years ago) Skanderbeg, Albanian soldier and politician (born 1405)
- 1893 (133 years ago) Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (born 1822)
- 1911 (115 years ago) Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, and geographer (born 1822)
- 1961 (65 years ago) Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born 1925)
- 1997 (29 years ago) Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto (born 1906)
- 2002 (24 years ago) Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
- 2008 (18 years ago) Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (born 1943)