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11 Mordad 1383
Sunday 11 Mordad 1383 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 1 August 2004, and 14 Jumada al-Thani 1425 in the Islamic calendar.
This day in four calendars
- Persian11 Mordad 1383
- Gregorian1 August 2004
- Islamic14 Jumada al-Thani 1425
- Imperial11 Mordad 2563
- Day of the year135 of 366
- Left in the year231 days
- ZodiacLeo
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Occasions on 11 Mordad 1383
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On this day: August 1
Events
- 1498 (528 years ago) Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
- 1801 (225 years ago) First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
- 1936 (90 years ago) The Olympics open in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
- 1964 (62 years ago) The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 1980 (46 years ago) A train crash kills 18 people and injures over 170 more in County Cork, Ireland.
- 1998 (28 years ago) Puntland, an autonomous state in northeastern Somalia, is officially established following a constitutional conference in Garowe. Issims and tribal chiefs agreed to create a self-declared government until Somalia recovered.
- 2017 (9 years ago) A suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan kills 20 people.
- 2023 (3 years ago) Former US President Donald Trump is indicted for his role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, his third indictment in 2023.
Births
- 10 BC Claudius, Roman emperor (died 54)
- 126 (1900 years ago) Pertinax, Roman emperor (died 193)
- 1744 (282 years ago) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (died 1829)
- 1819 (207 years ago) Herman Melville, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (died 1891)
- 1924 (102 years ago) Abdullah of Saudi Arabia,
- 1924 (102 years ago) Georges Charpak, Polish-French physicist who invented and developed subatomic particle detectors (died 2010)
- 1930 (96 years ago) Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (died 2002)
- 1936 (90 years ago) Yves Saint Laurent, Algerian-French fashion designer, co-founded Yves Saint Laurent (died 2008)
Deaths
- 30 BC Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (born 83 BC)
- 1137 (889 years ago) Louis VI, king of France (born 1081)
- 1714 (312 years ago) Anne, Queen of Great Britain (born 1665)
- 1973 (53 years ago) Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician (born 1893)
- 1996 (30 years ago) Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
- 2005 (21 years ago) Fahd of Saudi Arabia,
- 2009 (17 years ago) Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (born 1933)
- 2020 (6 years ago) Wilford Brimley, American actor and singer (born 1934)