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29 Ordibehesht 1462

Wednesday 29 Ordibehesht 1462 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 19 May 2083, and 2 Ramadan 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

1542 (484 years ago) The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Myanmar.
1780 (246 years ago) New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky, is observed over the New England states and parts of Canada.
1950 (76 years ago) A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
1986 (40 years ago) The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1991 (35 years ago) Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.
2012 (14 years ago) A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing nine people.
2016 (10 years ago) EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while traveling from Paris to Cairo, killing all on board.
2024 (2 years ago) A helicopter crash in Iran leaves 8 people dead, including the country's president Ebrahim Raisi & foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

1762 (264 years ago) Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher and academic (died 1814)
1881 (145 years ago) Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (official birthday), Turkish field marshal and statesman, 1st President of Turkey (died 1938)
1890 (136 years ago) Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of Vietnam (died 1969)
1925 (101 years ago) Malcolm X, American minister and activist (died 1965)
1925 (101 years ago) Pol Pot, Cambodian general and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Cambodia (died 1998)
1977 (49 years ago) Natalia Oreiro, Uruguayan singer-songwriter and actress
1979 (47 years ago) Diego Forlán, Uruguayan footballer
1979 (47 years ago) Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer

1296 (730 years ago) Pope Celestine V,
1536 (490 years ago) Anne Boleyn, Queen Consort of England (1533–1536); second wife of Henry VIII
1825 (201 years ago) Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French philosopher and theorist (born 1760)
1864 (162 years ago) Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist and short story writer (born 1804)
1895 (131 years ago) José Martí, Cuban journalist, poet, and philosopher (born 1853)
1898 (128 years ago) William Ewart Gladstone, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1809)
1935 (91 years ago) T. E. Lawrence, British colonel and archaeologist (born 1888)
1994 (32 years ago) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American journalist, 37th First Lady of the United States (born 1929)