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29 Dey 1440

Wednesday 29 Dey 1440 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 18 January 2062, and 7 Ramadan 1484 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

1670 (356 years ago) Henry Morgan captures Panama.
1941 (85 years ago) World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
1972 (54 years ago) Members of the Mukti Bahini lay down their arms to the government of the newly independent Bangladesh, a month after winning the war against the occupying Pakistan Army.
1974 (52 years ago) A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
1977 (49 years ago) SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2008 (18 years ago) The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2012 (14 years ago) More than 115,000 websites engage in an online protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act in the US.[citation needed] The websites involved viewed the laws as infringing on the right to free speech and many of them temporarily shut down in protest.
2023 (3 years ago) A helicopter crash in Ukraine leaves 14 people dead, including the country's Interior Minister, Denys Monastyrsky.

1689 (337 years ago) Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (died 1755)
1867 (159 years ago) Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat (died 1916)
1882 (144 years ago) A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright (died 1956)
1904 (122 years ago) Cary Grant, English-American actor (died 1986)
1925 (101 years ago) Gilles Deleuze, French metaphysician and philosopher (died 1995)
1944 (82 years ago) Alexander Van der Bellen, President of Austria
1955 (71 years ago) Kevin Costner, American actor, director, and producer
1971 (55 years ago) Pep Guardiola, Spanish footballer and manager

474 (1552 years ago) Leo I, Byzantine emperor (born 401)
1213 (813 years ago) Tamar of Georgia,
1862 (164 years ago) John Tyler, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the United States (born 1790)
1873 (153 years ago) Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English author, poet, playwright, and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (born 1803)
1936 (90 years ago) Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)
1956 (70 years ago) Konstantin Päts, Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of Estonia (born 1874)
1995 (31 years ago) Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
2001 (25 years ago) Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born 1939)