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16 Azar 1497

Wednesday 16 Azar 1497 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 7 December 2118, and 23 Rabi' al-Thani 1543 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

1922 (104 years ago) The Parliament of Northern Ireland votes to remain a part of the United Kingdom and not unify with Southern Ireland.
1932 (94 years ago) German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
1962 (64 years ago) Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
1971 (55 years ago) Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister.
1995 (31 years ago) The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
2015 (11 years ago) The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.
2025 (a year ago) An attempted coup takes place in Benin, but is thwarted, and order restored.

1598 (428 years ago) Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor and painter (died 1680)
1823 (203 years ago) Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (died 1891)
1863 (163 years ago) Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer and conductor (died 1945)
1873 (153 years ago) Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (died 1947)
1915 (111 years ago) Eli Wallach, American actor (died 2014)
1924 (102 years ago) Mário Soares, Portuguese historian, lawyer, and politician, 17th President of Portugal (died 2017)
1980 (46 years ago) John Terry, English footballer
1984 (42 years ago) Robert Kubica, Polish race car driver

43 BC Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, and politician (born 106 BC)
283 (1743 years ago) Eutychian, pope of the Catholic Church
983 (1043 years ago) Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 955)
1254 (772 years ago) Innocent IV, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1195)
1906 (120 years ago) Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1833)
1975 (51 years ago) Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright (born 1897)
1985 (41 years ago) Robert Graves, English poet, novelist, critic (born 1895)
1993 (33 years ago) Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian physician and politician, 1st President of Ivory Coast (born 1905)