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2 Tir 1485
Wednesday 2 Tir 1485 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 23 June 2106, and 20 Jumada al-Thani 1530 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 Tir 1485
- Gregorian23 June 2106
- Islamic20 Jumada al-Thani 1530
- Imperial2 Tir 2665
- Day of the year95 of 365
- Left in the year270 days
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Occasions on 2 Tir 1485
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On this day: June 23
Events
- 1683 (343 years ago) William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
- 1794 (232 years ago) Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kyiv.
- 1919 (107 years ago) Estonian War of Independence: The decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cēsis; this date is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
- 1941 (85 years ago) The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Germany's latest fighter aircraft, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
- 1968 (58 years ago) Seventy-four people were killed and 150 others injured in a stampede at a football match between Boca Juniors and Club Atlético River Plate in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2016 (10 years ago) Brexit: The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.
- 2017 (9 years ago) A series of terrorist attacks take place in Pakistan, resulting in 96 deaths and wounding 200 others.
Births
- 1534 (492 years ago) Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (died 1582)
- 1668 (358 years ago) Giambattista Vico, Italian jurist, historian, and philosopher (died 1744)
- 1889 (137 years ago) Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet and author (died 1966)
- 1894 (132 years ago) Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom (died 1972)
- 1912 (114 years ago) Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (died 1954)
- 1937 (89 years ago) Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish captain and politician, 10th President of Finland, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)
- 1957 (69 years ago) Frances McDormand, American actress, winner of the Triple Crown of Acting
- 1972 (54 years ago) Zinedine Zidane, French footballer and manager
Deaths
- 79 (1947 years ago) Vespasian, Roman emperor (born AD 9)
- 1836 (190 years ago) James Mill, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (born 1773)
- 1881 (145 years ago) Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist and academic (born 1804)
- 1891 (135 years ago) Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (born 1804)
- 1959 (67 years ago) Boris Vian, French author, poet, and playwright (born 1920)
- 1995 (31 years ago) Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (born 1914)
- 2011 (15 years ago) Peter Falk, American actor (born 1927)
- 2013 (13 years ago) Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter (born 1926)