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28 Esfand 1379
Sunday 28 Esfand 1379 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 18 March 2001, and 22 Dhu al-Hijjah 1421 in the Islamic calendar.
This day in four calendars
- Persian28 Esfand 1379
- Gregorian18 March 2001
- Islamic22 Dhu al-Hijjah 1421
- Imperial28 Esfand 2559
- Day of the year364 of 366
- Left in the year2 days
- ZodiacPisces
- YearWhale
Occasions on 28 Esfand 1379
On this day: March 18
Events
- 1608 (418 years ago) Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
- 1861 (165 years ago) Spain would annex annex the Dominican Republic, which would last for four years.
- 1937 (89 years ago) Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
- 1953 (73 years ago) An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing at least 1,070 people.
- 1969 (57 years ago) The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
- 1970 (56 years ago) Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
- 1971 (55 years ago) Peru: A landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
- 1994 (32 years ago) Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Births
- 1837 (189 years ago) Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (died 1908)
- 1842 (184 years ago) Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (died 1898)
- 1844 (182 years ago) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and academic (died 1908)
- 1858 (168 years ago) Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (died 1913)
- 1869 (157 years ago) Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1940)
- 1932 (94 years ago) John Updike, American novelist, short story writer, and critic (died 2009)
- 1936 (90 years ago) F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer and politician, former State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)
- 1959 (67 years ago) Luc Besson, French director, producer, and screenwriter, founded EuropaCorp
Deaths
- 1227 (799 years ago) Pope Honorius III,
- 1745 (281 years ago) Robert Walpole, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1676)
- 1768 (258 years ago) Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and clergyman (born 1713)
- 1913 (113 years ago) George I of Greece,
- 1980 (46 years ago) Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (born 1900)
- 1983 (43 years ago) Umberto II of Italy,
- 1996 (30 years ago) Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
- 2017 (9 years ago) Chuck Berry, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (born 1926)