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21 Dey 1465
Friday 21 Dey 1465 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 10 January 2087, and 4 Jumada al-Thani 1510 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.
Friday
This day in four calendars
- Persian21 Dey 1465
- Gregorian10 January 2087
- Islamic4 Jumada al-Thani 1510
- Imperial21 Dey 2645
- Day of the year297 of 366
- Left in the year69 days
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Occasions on 21 Dey 1465
- religious
On this day: January 10
Events
- 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.
Births
- 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
Deaths
- 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)