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16 Dey 1461

Tuesday 16 Dey 1461 in the Persian calendar is Tuesday, 5 January 2083, and 16 Rabi' al-Thani 1506 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

No occasion is recorded for this day. Next occasion: Epiphany, Wednesday 17 Dey (tomorrow).

1822 (204 years ago) The government of Central America votes for total annexation to the First Mexican Empire.
1912 (114 years ago) The sixth All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
1919 (107 years ago) The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded in Munich.
1925 (101 years ago) Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
1944 (82 years ago) The Daily Mail becomes the first major London newspaper to be published on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
1945 (81 years ago) The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland.
1949 (77 years ago) In his State of the Union address, United States President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.
1991 (35 years ago) Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia, opening the 1991–92 South Ossetia War.

1592 (434 years ago) Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor (died 1666)
1846 (180 years ago) Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1926)
1876 (150 years ago) Konrad Adenauer, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of West Germany (died 1967)
1932 (94 years ago) Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and philosopher (died 2016)
1938 (88 years ago) Juan Carlos I of Spain,
1941 (85 years ago) Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
1956 (70 years ago) Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German academic and politician, 12th President of Germany
1975 (51 years ago) Bradley Cooper, American actor and producer

1066 (960 years ago) Edward the Confessor, King of England (born 1004)
1589 (437 years ago) Catherine de' Medici, queen of Henry II of France (born 1519)
1762 (264 years ago) Empress Elizabeth of Russia,
1922 (104 years ago) Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer (born 1874)
1933 (93 years ago) Calvin Coolidge, American lawyer and politician, 30th President of the United States (born 1872)
1970 (56 years ago) Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)
1981 (45 years ago) Harold Urey, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1893)
2014 (12 years ago) Eusébio, Mozambican-Portuguese footballer and manager (born 1942)