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22 Ordibehesht 1443
Sunday 22 Ordibehesht 1443 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 11 May 2064, and 24 Muharram 1487 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
- Persian22 Ordibehesht 1443
- Gregorian11 May 2064
- Islamic24 Muharram 1487
- Imperial22 Ordibehesht 2623
- Day of the year53 of 365
- Left in the year312 days
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Occasions on 22 Ordibehesht 1443
- international
- fun
On this day: May 11
Events
- 330 (1696 years ago) Constantine the Great dedicates the much-expanded and rebuilt city of Byzantium, changing its name to New Rome and declaring it the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
- 1858 (168 years ago) Minnesota becomes the 32nd U.S. state.
- 1919 (107 years ago) Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1973 (53 years ago) Aeroflot Flight 6551 crashes in Semey, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kazakhstan), killing all 63 aboard.
- 1987 (39 years ago) Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
- 2009 (17 years ago) An American soldier in Iraq opens fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, killing five other US soldiers and wounding three.
- 2011 (15 years ago) The Istanbul Convention is signed in Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2014 (12 years ago) Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa, DRC, in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.
Births
- 1895 (131 years ago) Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher and speaker (died 1986)
- 1904 (122 years ago) Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (died 1989)
- 1916 (110 years ago) Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002)
- 1918 (108 years ago) Richard Feynman, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1988)
- 1930 (96 years ago) Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist and academic (died 2002)
- 1984 (42 years ago) Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer
- 1992 (34 years ago) Thibaut Courtois, Belgian footballer
- 1999 (27 years ago) Sabrina Carpenter, American singer and actress
Deaths
- 912 (1114 years ago) Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine Emperor, the second ruler of the Macedonian dynasty (born 866)
- 1610 (416 years ago) Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and mathematician (born 1552)
- 1778 (248 years ago) William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1708)
- 1916 (110 years ago) Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (born 1873): xix
- 1927 (99 years ago) Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1887)
- 1981 (45 years ago) Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1945)
- 1981 (45 years ago) Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
- 2001 (25 years ago) Douglas Adams, English novelist and screenwriter (born 1952)