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11 Azar 1456
Wednesday 11 Azar 1456 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 1 December 2077, and 15 Muharram 1501 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
- Persian11 Azar 1456
- Gregorian1 December 2077
- Islamic15 Muharram 1501
- Imperial11 Azar 2636
- Day of the year257 of 365
- Left in the year108 days
- ZodiacSagittarius
- YearHen
Occasions on 11 Azar 1456
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On this day: December 1
Events
- 1420 (606 years ago) Henry V of England enters Paris alongside his father-in-law King Charles VI of France.
- 1913 (113 years ago) Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
- 1924 (102 years ago) A Soviet-backed communist 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt fails in Estonia.
- 1939 (87 years ago) World War II: A day after the beginning of the Winter War in Finland, the Cajander III Cabinet resigns and is replaced by the Ryti I Cabinet, while the Finnish Parliament move from Helsinki to Kauhajoki to escape the Soviet airstrikes.
- 1991 (35 years ago) Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2005 (21 years ago) As a result of the merger of the Perm Oblast and the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug, a new subject of the Russian Federation, the Perm Krai, was created.
- 2006 (20 years ago) The law on same-sex marriage comes into force in South Africa, legalizing same-sex marriage for the first time on the African continent.
- 2018 (8 years ago) The Oulu Police informed the public about the first offence of the much larger child sexual exploitation in Oulu, Finland.
Births
- 624 (1402 years ago) Hasan ibn Ali, the second Shia Imam (died 670)
- 1083 (943 years ago) Anna Komnene, Byzantine medical doctor and scholar (died 1153)
- 1792 (234 years ago) Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and geometer (died 1856)
- 1896 (130 years ago) Georgy Zhukov, Russian general and politician, 2nd Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (died 1974)
- 1945 (81 years ago) Bette Midler, American singer-songwriter, actress and producer
- 1949 (77 years ago) Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist (died 1993)
- 1949 (77 years ago) Sebastián Piñera, Chilean businessman and politician, 35th President of Chile (died 2024)
- 1964 (62 years ago) Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer (died 2024)
Deaths
- 1135 (891 years ago) Henry I, king of England (born 1068)
- 1521 (505 years ago) Leo X, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1475)
- 1825 (201 years ago) Alexander I, emperor and autocrat of Russia (born 1777)
- 1934 (92 years ago) Sergey Kirov, Russian engineer and politician (born 1886)
- 1947 (79 years ago) G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and theorist (born 1877)
- 1947 (79 years ago) Aleister Crowley, English magician, poet, and mountaineer (born 1875)
- 1973 (53 years ago) David Ben-Gurion, Israeli politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (born 1886)
- 1987 (39 years ago) James Baldwin, American novelist, poet, and critic (born 1924)