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2 Tir 1496
Wednesday 2 Tir 1496 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 23 June 2117, and 22 Shawwal 1541 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 1496
- Gregorian23 June 2117
- Islamic22 Shawwal 1541
- Imperial2 Tir 2676
- Day of the year95 of 365
- Left in the year270 days
- ZodiacCancer
- YearOx
Occasions on 2 Tir 1496
- religious
- international
- international
- countries
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)