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2 Ordibehesht 1429

Friday 2 Ordibehesht 1429 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 22 April 2050, and 29 Rajab 1472 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.

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This day in four calendars

960 (1066 years ago) Basil II is crowned co-Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1500 (526 years ago) Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil (discovery of Brazil).
1809 (217 years ago) The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
1898 (128 years ago) Spanish–American War: President William McKinley calls for 125,000 volunteers to join the National Guard and fight in Cuba, while Congress more than doubles regular Army forces to 65,000.
1906 (120 years ago) The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens.
1915 (111 years ago) World War I: The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
1944 (82 years ago) World War II: The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater.
2020 (6 years ago) Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne while speaking to a speeding driver, marking the largest loss of police lives in Victoria Police history.

1451 (575 years ago) Isabella I of Castile,
1724 (302 years ago) Immanuel Kant, German anthropologist, philosopher, and academic (died 1804)
1870 (156 years ago) Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and founder of Soviet Russia (died 1924)
1899 (127 years ago) Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist and critic (died 1977)
1904 (122 years ago) J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (died 1967)
1909 (117 years ago) Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)
1937 (89 years ago) Jack Nicholson, American actor and producer
1957 (69 years ago) Donald Tusk, Polish journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Poland

296 (1730 years ago) Pope Caius,
536 (1490 years ago) Pope Agapetus I,
1616 (410 years ago) Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1547)
1945 (81 years ago) Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (born 1867)
1984 (42 years ago) Ansel Adams, American photographer and environmentalist (born 1902)
1986 (40 years ago) Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian and author (born 1907)
1989 (37 years ago) Emilio G. Segrè, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
1994 (32 years ago) Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (born 1913)