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2 Mehr 1421

Wednesday 2 Mehr 1421 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 24 September 2042, and 9 Shawwal 1464 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

1853 (173 years ago) Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.
1932 (94 years ago) Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
1954 (72 years ago) AEC Routemaster, the iconic London bus was introduced.
1954 (72 years ago) The Cochabamba–Santa Cruz highway connecting western and eastern Bolivia is inaugurated.
1959 (67 years ago) TAI Flight 307 crashes during takeoff from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport in Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, killing 55 people.
1973 (53 years ago) Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
2005 (21 years ago) Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.
2023 (3 years ago) NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule containing samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu successfully lands back on Earth.

15 (2011 years ago) Vitellius, Roman emperor (died 69)
1501 (525 years ago) Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, and astrologer (died 1576)
1717 (309 years ago) Horace Walpole, English historian, author, and politician (died 1797)
1884 (142 years ago) İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and politician, 2nd President of Turkey (died 1973)
1896 (130 years ago) F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (died 1940)
1898 (128 years ago) Howard Florey, Australian pharmacologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
1905 (121 years ago) Severo Ochoa, Spanish–American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1993)
1911 (115 years ago) Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party and de facto leader of the USSR (died 1985)

366 (1660 years ago) Pope Liberius,
768 (1258 years ago) Pepin the Short, Frankish king (born 714)
1143 (883 years ago) Pope Innocent II,
1180 (846 years ago) Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (born 1118)
1541 (485 years ago) Paracelsus, German-Swiss physician, botanist, and chemist (born 1493)
1834 (192 years ago) Pedro I of Brazil,
1991 (35 years ago) Dr. Seuss, American children's book writer, poet, and illustrator (born 1904)
2004 (22 years ago) Françoise Sagan, French author and screenwriter (born 1935)