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17 Dey 1486
Saturday 17 Dey 1486 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 7 January 2108, and 23 Muharram 1532 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
- Persian17 Dey 1486
- Gregorian7 January 2108
- Islamic23 Muharram 1532
- Imperial17 Dey 2666
- Day of the year293 of 366
- Left in the year73 days
- ZodiacCapricorn
- YearRabbit
Occasions on 17 Dey 1486
- religious
- countries
On this day: January 7
Events
- 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.
Births
- 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
Deaths
- 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)