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14 Mordad 1379
Friday 14 Mordad 1379 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 4 August 2000, and 3 Jumada al-Awwal 1421 in the Islamic calendar.
Friday
This day in four calendars
- Persian14 Mordad 1379
- Gregorian4 August 2000
- Islamic3 Jumada al-Awwal 1421
- Imperial14 Mordad 2559
- Day of the year138 of 366
- Left in the year228 days
- ZodiacLeo
- YearWhale
Occasions on 14 Mordad 1379
On this day: August 4
Events
- 1789 (237 years ago) France: abolition of feudalism by the National Constituent Assembly.
- 1796 (230 years ago) French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
- 1915 (111 years ago) World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
- 1944 (82 years ago) The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
- 1972 (54 years ago) Ugandan President Idi Amin announces that Uganda is no longer responsible for the care of British subjects of Asian origin, beginning the expulsions of Ugandan Asians.
- 1984 (42 years ago) The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
- 2006 (20 years ago) A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
- 2007 (19 years ago) NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is launched.
Births
- 1792 (234 years ago) Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and playwright (died 1822)
- 1805 (221 years ago) William Rowan Hamilton, Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (died 1865)
- 1859 (167 years ago) Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1952)
- 1900 (126 years ago) Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Queen Consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom, Empress Consort of India (died 2002)
- 1901 (125 years ago) Louis Armstrong, American trumpet player and singer (died 1971)
- 1960 (66 years ago) José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish academic and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Spain
- 1961 (65 years ago) Barack Obama, American lawyer and politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1981 (45 years ago) Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, American member of British royal family, media personality and actress
Deaths
- 1060 (966 years ago) Henry I of France,
- 1526 (500 years ago) Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer and navigator (born 1476)
- 1875 (151 years ago) Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1805)
- 1922 (104 years ago) Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (born 1881)
- 1962 (64 years ago) Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (born 1926)
- 1977 (49 years ago) Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)
- 1997 (29 years ago) Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian; holds records for the world's substantiated longest-lived person (born 1875)
- 2024 (2 years ago) Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)