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17 Khordad 1422

Sunday 17 Khordad 1422 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 7 June 2043, and 28 Jumada al-Thani 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

1494 (532 years ago) Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
1810 (216 years ago) The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
1862 (164 years ago) The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
1919 (107 years ago) Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.
1929 (97 years ago) The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
1967 (59 years ago) Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
1981 (45 years ago) The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
2000 (26 years ago) The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.

1848 (178 years ago) Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (died 1903)
1862 (164 years ago) Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1947)
1896 (130 years ago) Imre Nagy, Hungarian soldier and politician, 44th Prime Minister of Hungary (died 1958)
1917 (109 years ago) Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (died 1995)
1952 (74 years ago) Orhan Pamuk, Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1952 (74 years ago) Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor
1958 (68 years ago) Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (died 2016)
1959 (67 years ago) Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States, 50th Governor of Indiana

555 (1471 years ago) Vigilius, first pope of the Byzantine Papacy (born 500)
1329 (697 years ago) Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (born 1274)
1843 (183 years ago) Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet and author (born 1770)
1937 (89 years ago) Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (born 1911)
1954 (72 years ago) Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (born 1912)
1970 (56 years ago) E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (born 1879)
1980 (46 years ago) Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (born 1891)
2015 (11 years ago) Christopher Lee, English actor (born 1922)