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17 Shahrivar 1456
Tuesday 17 Shahrivar 1456 in the Persian calendar is Tuesday, 7 September 2077, and 19 Shawwal 1500 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
- Persian17 Shahrivar 1456
- Gregorian7 September 2077
- Islamic19 Shawwal 1500
- Imperial17 Shahrivar 2636
- Day of the year172 of 365
- Left in the year193 days
- ZodiacVirgo
- YearHen
Occasions on 17 Shahrivar 1456
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- international
- countries
On this day: September 7
Events
- 1625 (401 years ago) The Treaty of Southampton makes an alliance between England and the Dutch Republic against Spain.
- 1652 (374 years ago) Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
- 1901 (125 years ago) The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
- 1977 (49 years ago) The Torrijos–Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
- 1986 (40 years ago) Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet survives an assassination attempt by the FPMR; five of Pinochet's bodyguards are killed.
- 2012 (14 years ago) Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over nuclear plans and purported human rights abuses.
- 2017 (9 years ago) The 8.2 Mw 2017 Chiapas earthquake strikes southern Mexico, killing at least 60 people.
- 2019 (7 years ago) Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 66 others are released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia.
Births
- 1533 (493 years ago) Elizabeth I of England,
- 1707 (319 years ago) Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French mathematician, cosmologist, and author (died 1788)
- 1829 (197 years ago) August Kekulé, German chemist and academic (died 1896)
- 1870 (156 years ago) Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian pilot, explorer, and author (died 1938)
- 1909 (117 years ago) Elia Kazan, Greek-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2003)
- 1911 (115 years ago) Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian police officer and politician, Head of State of Bulgaria (died 1998)
- 1936 (90 years ago) Buddy Holly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1959)
- 1940 (86 years ago) Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian journalist and politician, 4th President of Indonesia (died 2009)
Deaths
- 1151 (875 years ago) Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (born 1113)
- 1809 (217 years ago) Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, Thai king (born 1737)
- 1910 (116 years ago) William Holman Hunt, English painter (born 1827)
- 1949 (77 years ago) José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter and illustrator (born 1883)
- 1960 (66 years ago) Wilhelm Pieck, German carpenter and politician, President of East Germany (born 1873)
- 1962 (64 years ago) Karen Blixen, Danish memoirist and short story writer (born 1885)
- 1991 (35 years ago) Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1907)
- 1997 (29 years ago) Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese soldier and politician, President of Zaire (born 1930)