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2 Azar 1463

Wednesday 2 Azar 1463 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 22 November 2084, and 23 Rabi' al-Awwal 1508 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

1574 (452 years ago) Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
1635 (391 years ago) Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.
1940 (86 years ago) World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.
1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.
1943 (83 years ago) Lebanon gains independence from France, nearly two years after it was first announced by the Free French government.
1955 (71 years ago) The Soviet Union launches RDS-37, a 1.6 megaton two stage hydrogen bomb designed by Andrei Sakharov. The bomb was dropped over Semipalatinsk.
1967 (59 years ago) UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.
2004 (22 years ago) The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.

1744 (282 years ago) Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States (died 1818)
1819 (207 years ago) George Eliot, English novelist and poet (died 1880)
1869 (157 years ago) André Gide, French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1951)
1890 (136 years ago) Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, President of France (died 1970)
1940 (86 years ago) Terry Gilliam, American-English actor, director, animator, and screenwriter
1954 (72 years ago) Paolo Gentiloni, Italian politician, Prime Minister of Italy
1967 (59 years ago) Mark Ruffalo, American actor
1984 (42 years ago) Scarlett Johansson, American actress

1617 (409 years ago) Ahmed I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam (born 1590)
1916 (110 years ago) Jack London, American novelist and journalist (born 1876)
1944 (82 years ago) Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist and astronomer (born 1882)
1963 (63 years ago) John F. Kennedy, American politician, 35th President of the United States (born 1917)
1963 (63 years ago) Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher (born 1894)
1963 (63 years ago) C. S. Lewis, British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian (born 1898)
1980 (46 years ago) Mae West, American stage and film actress (born 1893)
1993 (33 years ago) Anthony Burgess, English novelist, playwright, and critic (born 1917)