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28 Dey 1478

Sunday 28 Dey 1478 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 17 January 2100, and 6 Dhu al-Qa'dah 1523 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

No occasion is recorded for this day. Next occasion: National Clean Air Day, Monday 29 Dey (tomorrow).

1885 (141 years ago) A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
1915 (111 years ago) Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
1948 (78 years ago) The Renville Agreement between the Netherlands and Indonesia is ratified.
1991 (35 years ago) Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning as aircraft strike positions across Iraq, it is also the first major combat sortie for the F-117. LCDR Scott Speicher's F/A-18C Hornet from VFA-81 is shot down by a Mig-25 and is the first American casualty of the War. Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
1996 (30 years ago) The Czech Republic applies for membership in the European Union.
2002 (24 years ago) Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
2013 (13 years ago) Shahzad Luqman is murdered by members of Golden Dawn in Petralona, Athens, leading the creation of new measures to combat race-based attacks in Greece.
2016 (10 years ago) President Barack Obama announces the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an agreement intended to limit Iran's nuclear program.

1600 (426 years ago) Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright and poet (died 1681)
1706 (320 years ago) Benjamin Franklin, American publisher, inventor, and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania (died 1790)
1820 (206 years ago) Anne Brontë, English author and poet (died 1849)
1863 (163 years ago) David Lloyd George, Welsh lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1945)
1899 (127 years ago) Al Capone, American mob boss (died 1947)
1942 (84 years ago) Muhammad Ali, American boxer and activist (died 2016)
1962 (64 years ago) Jim Carrey, Canadian-American actor, comedian, and producer
1964 (62 years ago) Michelle Obama, American lawyer and activist, 44th First Lady of the United States

395 (1631 years ago) Theodosius I, Roman emperor (born 347)
1468 (558 years ago) Skanderbeg, Albanian soldier and politician (born 1405)
1893 (133 years ago) Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (born 1822)
1911 (115 years ago) Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, and geographer (born 1822)
1961 (65 years ago) Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born 1925)
1997 (29 years ago) Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto (born 1906)
2002 (24 years ago) Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
2008 (18 years ago) Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (born 1943)