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7 Dey 1464

Thursday 7 Dey 1464 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 27 December 2085, and 9 Jumada al-Awwal 1509 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

1831 (195 years ago) Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate his theory of evolution.
1929 (97 years ago) Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".
1935 (91 years ago) Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism.
1939 (87 years ago) The 7.8 Mw Erzincan earthquake shakes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 32,700 people were killed.
1939 (87 years ago) Winter War: Finland holds off a Soviet attack in the Battle of Kelja.
1949 (77 years ago) Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence. End of the Dutch East Indies.
1985 (41 years ago) Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.
1991 (35 years ago) Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 751 crashes in Gottröra in the Norrtälje Municipality in Sweden, injuring 92.

1571 (455 years ago) Johannes Kepler, German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer (died 1630)
1595 (431 years ago) Bohdan Khmelnytsky, hetman of Ukraine (died 1657)
1797 (229 years ago) Ghalib, Indian poet (died 1869)
1822 (204 years ago) Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (died 1895)
1901 (125 years ago) Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress and singer (died 1992)
1948 (78 years ago) Gérard Depardieu, French-Russian actor
1965 (61 years ago) Salman Khan, Indian film actor and producer
1995 (31 years ago) Timothée Chalamet, French-American actor

1834 (192 years ago) Charles Lamb, English essayist and poet (born 1775)
1923 (103 years ago) Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower (born 1832)
1938 (88 years ago) Osip Mandelstam, Polish-Russian poet and critic (born 1891)
1950 (76 years ago) Max Beckmann, German-American painter and sculptor (born 1884)
1972 (54 years ago) Lester B. Pearson, Canadian historian and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
1978 (48 years ago) Houari Boumediene, Algerian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Algeria (born 1932)
2007 (19 years ago) Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1953)
2016 (10 years ago) Carrie Fisher, American actress, screenwriter, author, producer, and speaker (born 1956)