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18 Dey 1490
Friday 18 Dey 1490 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 8 January 2112, and 8 Rabi' al-Awwal 1536 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.
Public holiday
This day in four calendars
- Persian18 Dey 1490
- Gregorian8 January 2112
- Islamic8 Rabi' al-Awwal 1536
- Imperial18 Dey 2670
- Day of the year294 of 366
- Left in the year72 days
- ZodiacCapricorn
- YearSheep
Occasions on 18 Dey 1490
- religious holiday
On this day: January 8
Events
- 1297 (729 years ago) François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.
- 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
- 1946 (80 years ago) Andrei Zhdanov, Chairman of the Finnish Allied Commission, submits to the Finnish War Criminal Court an interrogation report by General Erich Buschenhagen, a German prisoner of war, on the contacts between Finnish and German military personnel before the Continuation War and a copy of Hitler's Barbarossa plan.
- 1956 (70 years ago) Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Waorani of Ecuador shortly after making first contact.
- 1961 (65 years ago) In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
- 1972 (54 years ago) Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
- 2003 (23 years ago) Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of the 75 passengers.
- 2009 (17 years ago) A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.
Births
- 1823 (203 years ago) Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh geographer, biologist, and explorer (died 1913)
- 1867 (159 years ago) Emily Greene Balch, American economist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
- 1891 (135 years ago) Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957)
- 1935 (91 years ago) Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (died 1977)
- 1942 (84 years ago) Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (died 2018)
- 1942 (84 years ago) Junichirō Koizumi, Japanese politician, 56th Prime Minister of Japan
- 1947 (79 years ago) David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2016)
- 1967 (59 years ago) R. Kelly, American singer-songwriter, producer, and sex offender
Deaths
- 1337 (689 years ago) Giotto, Italian painter and architect, designed Scrovegni Chapel and Giotto's Campanile (born 1266)
- 1642 (384 years ago) Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (born 1564)
- 1878 (148 years ago) Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic (born 1821)
- 1896 (130 years ago) Paul Verlaine, French poet and writer (born 1844)
- 1941 (85 years ago) Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English general and founder of the Scout movement (born 1857)
- 1976 (50 years ago) Zhou Enlai, Chinese soldier and politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (born 1898)
- 1996 (30 years ago) François Mitterrand, French sergeant and politician, 21st President of France (born 1916)
- 2017 (9 years ago) Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian politician (born 1934)