Dey (month)

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Dey (Persian: دی‎, Persian pronunciation: [dei̯]^[1]) is the tenth month of the Solar Hijri calendar, the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. It marks the start of winter.^[1] It has thirty days,^[1] beginning in December and ending in January of the Gregorian Calendar.

The associated astrological sign in the tropical zodiac is Capricorn.^[1]

Events[]

5 - 1370 - Dissolution of the Soviet Union
6 - 1383 - Boxing Day tsunami
9 - 1388 - Conservative counterdemonstrations during 2009–10 Iranian election protests. Commemorated by hardline figures.
27 - 1345 - Super Bowl I held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California between the National Football League and the American Football League.

Deaths[]

5 - 1351 - Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States
5 - 1385 - Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States
13 - 1391 - Ayatollah Mojtaba Tehrani, was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja' taqlid^{[citation needed]}.
15 - 1311 - Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States
15 - 1297 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

Observances[]

Khorram rooz - 1 Dey
Christmas Eve - 3 or 4 Dey
Christmas - 4 or 5 Dey, celebrated by Christians of Iranian descent who use the Gregorian Calendar (Georgian date: December 25)
Boxing Day - 5 or 6 Dey
New Year's Day (Gregorian calendar) - 10 or 11 Dey
Zartosht No-Diso - 11 Dey (Zoroastrian holiday, one of the most holy days of Zoroastrianism)
Traditional Epiphany and Armenian Christmas - 16 or 17 Dey
Ethiopian Christmas - 17 or 18 Dey
Feast of the Baptism of the Lord - 23 Dey (Traditional), fourth Sunday of Dey (modern)
Traditional Epiphany (Julian Calendar) - 29 or 30 Dey

For those countries that observe Epiphany on the first Sunday of January following the New Year, the Solar Hijri date falls as the third Sunday of Dey.

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "Months and Seasons - Persian Vocabulary". 2014. Retrieved September 8, 2014.

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