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18 Dey 1477

Wednesday 18 Dey 1477 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 7 January 2099, and 15 Shawwal 1522 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

49 BC The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army, prompting the tribunes who support him to flee to where Caesar is waiting in Ravenna.
1835 (191 years ago) HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
1919 (107 years ago) Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
1959 (67 years ago) The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1979 (47 years ago) Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
1984 (42 years ago) Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
1991 (35 years ago) Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
2015 (11 years ago) A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sanaa with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.

1502 (524 years ago) Pope Gregory XIII,
1800 (226 years ago) Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President of the United States (died 1874)
1858 (168 years ago) Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Belarusian lexicographer and journalist (died 1922)
1964 (62 years ago) Nicolas Cage, American actor
1970 (56 years ago) Andy Burnham, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1971 (55 years ago) Jeremy Renner, American actor
1985 (41 years ago) Lewis Hamilton, English racing driver
1991 (35 years ago) Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer

1536 (490 years ago) Catherine of Aragon, Queen Consort of England (born 1485)
1655 (371 years ago) Pope Innocent X,
1715 (311 years ago) François Fénelon, French archbishop, theologian, and poet (born 1651)
1943 (83 years ago) Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor and engineer (born 1856)
1984 (42 years ago) Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
1989 (37 years ago) Hirohito, Japanese emperor (born 1901)
2024 (2 years ago) Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager (born 1945)
2025 (a year ago) Jean-Marie Le Pen, French intelligence officer and politician (born 1928)