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2 Dey 1456
Wednesday 2 Dey 1456 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 22 December 2077, and 6 Safar 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
- Persian2 Dey 1456
- Gregorian22 December 2077
- Islamic6 Safar 1501
- Imperial2 Dey 2636
- Day of the year278 of 365
- Left in the year87 days
- ZodiacCapricorn
- YearHen
Occasions on 2 Dey 1456
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On this day: December 22
Events
- 1825 (201 years ago) The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., burns.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
- 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: The People's Army of Vietnam is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indochina, now Vietnam.
- 1971 (55 years ago) The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.
- 1987 (39 years ago) In Zimbabwe, the political parties ZANU and ZAPU reach an agreement that ends the violence in the Matabeleland region known as the Gukurahundi.
- 2010 (16 years ago) The repeal of the Don't ask, don't tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.
- 2012 (14 years ago) Bashir Ahmad Bilour of Awami National Party and eight others are killed in a Pakistan Taliban bomber suicide attack in Dhaki Nalbandi area near Qissa Khwani Bazaar.
- 2017 (9 years ago) United Nations Security Council Resolution 2397 against North Korea is unanimously approved.
Births
- 244 (1782 years ago) Diocletian, Roman emperor (died 311)
- 1639 (387 years ago) Jean Racine, French poet and playwright (died 1699)
- 1858 (168 years ago) Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer and educator (died 1924)
- 1887 (139 years ago) Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (died 1920)
- 1962 (64 years ago) Ralph Fiennes, English actor
- 1972 (54 years ago) Vanessa Paradis, French singer-songwriter and actress
- 1984 (42 years ago) Basshunter, Swedish singer, record producer and DJ
- 2000 (26 years ago) Joshua Bassett, American actor and singer
Deaths
- 69 (1957 years ago) Vitellius, Roman emperor (born 15)
- 1603 (423 years ago) Mehmed III, Ottoman sultan (born 1566)
- 1870 (156 years ago) Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish journalist, poet, and playwright (born 1836)
- 1880 (146 years ago) George Eliot, English novelist and poet (born 1819)
- 1942 (84 years ago) Franz Boas, German-American anthropologist and linguist (born 1858)
- 1943 (83 years ago) Beatrix Potter, English children's book writer and illustrator (born 1866)
- 1989 (37 years ago) Samuel Beckett, Irish author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)
- 2014 (12 years ago) Joe Cocker, English singer-songwriter (born 1944)