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2 Aban 1467
Saturday 2 Aban 1467 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 23 October 2088, and 8 Rabi' al-Thani 1512 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
- Persian2 Aban 1467
- Gregorian23 October 2088
- Islamic8 Rabi' al-Thani 1512
- Imperial2 Aban 2647
- Day of the year218 of 365
- Left in the year147 days
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Occasions on 2 Aban 1467
- religious
- fun
On this day: October 23
Events
- 1295 (731 years ago) The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris.
- 1868 (158 years ago) Meiji Restoration: Having taken the shogunate's seat of power at Edo and declared it his new capital as Tokyo, Mutsuhito proclaims the start of the new Meiji era.
- 1940 (86 years ago) Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco meet at Hendaye to discuss the possibility of Spain entering the Second World War.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Allied forces commence the Second Battle of El Alamein, which proves to be the key turning point in the North African campaign.
- 1958 (68 years ago) Belgian artist Peyo's comic characters, the Smurfs, make their debut in Spirou magazine.
- 1998 (28 years ago) Israel and the Palestinian Authority sign the Wye River Memorandum.
- 2017 (9 years ago) War against the Islamic State: Philippine defense secretary Delfin Lorenzana declares the end of the Siege of Marawi.
- 2022 (4 years ago) Xi Jinping is elected as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party by the Central Committee, beginning a third term of the paramount leader of China.
Births
- 1940 (86 years ago) Pelé, Brazilian footballer and actor (died 2022)
- 1942 (84 years ago) Michael Crichton, American author and screenwriter (died 2008)
- 1954 (72 years ago) Ang Lee, Taiwanese-American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1957 (69 years ago) Paul Kagame, Rwandan soldier and politician, 6th President of Rwanda
- 1959 (67 years ago) "Weird Al" Yankovic, American comedy musician, writer, and actor
- 1976 (50 years ago) Ryan Reynolds, Canadian-American actor and producer
- 1985 (41 years ago) Masiela Lusha, Albanian-American actress, poet, and humanitarian
- 1986 (40 years ago) Emilia Clarke, English actress
Deaths
- 42 BC Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, Roman general and politician (born 85 BC)
- 1867 (159 years ago) Franz Bopp, German linguist and academic (born 1791)
- 1872 (154 years ago) Théophile Gautier, French journalist, author, and poet (born 1811)
- 1910 (116 years ago) Chulalongkorn, Thai king (born 1853)
- 1944 (82 years ago) Charles Glover Barkla, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
- 1986 (40 years ago) Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1893)
- 2003 (23 years ago) Soong Mei-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-shek, 2nd First Lady of the Republic of China (born 1898)
- 2011 (15 years ago) Herbert A. Hauptman, American chemist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)