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20 Dey 1458

Wednesday 20 Dey 1458 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 10 January 2080, and 17 Rabi' al-Awwal 1503 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.

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This day in four calendars

1920 (106 years ago) League of Nations Covenant automatically enters into force after the Treaty of Versailles is ratified by Germany.
1941 (85 years ago) World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
1972 (54 years ago) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
1984 (42 years ago) Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.
2003 (23 years ago) North Korea withdraws from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, making it the first state to withdraw from the treaty.
2007 (19 years ago) A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
2013 (13 years ago) More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in the Quetta area of Pakistan.
2015 (11 years ago) A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, killing at least 62 people.

626 (1400 years ago) Husayn ibn Ali, the third Shia Imam (died 680)
1883 (143 years ago) Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian journalist, author, and poet (died 1945)
1913 (113 years ago) Gustáv Husák, Slovak politician, 9th President of Czechoslovakia (died 1991)
1934 (92 years ago) Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician, 1st President of Ukraine (died 2022)
1936 (90 years ago) Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate
1938 (88 years ago) Donald Knuth, American computer scientist and mathematician
1945 (81 years ago) Rod Stewart, British singer-songwriter
1974 (52 years ago) Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor

681 (1345 years ago) Agatho, pope of the Catholic Church
1778 (248 years ago) Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and physician (born 1707)
1951 (75 years ago) Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1885)
1957 (69 years ago) Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)
1971 (55 years ago) Coco Chanel, French fashion designer, founded Chanel (born 1883)
1986 (40 years ago) Jaroslav Seifert, Czech journalist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)
2016 (10 years ago) David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (born 1947)
2020 (6 years ago) Qaboos bin Said, ruler of Oman (born 1940)