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28 Tir 1386
Thursday 28 Tir 1386 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 19 July 2007, and 4 Rajab 1428 in the Islamic calendar.
This day in four calendars
- Persian28 Tir 1386
- Gregorian19 July 2007
- Islamic4 Rajab 1428
- Imperial28 Tir 2566
- Day of the year121 of 365
- Left in the year244 days
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- YearPig
Occasions on 28 Tir 1386
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On this day: July 19
Events
- 484 (1542 years ago) Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is recognized in Antioch and makes it his capital.
- 1940 (86 years ago) Field Marshal Ceremony: First occasion in World War II that Adolf Hitler appoints field marshals due to military achievements.
- 1947 (79 years ago) Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.
- 1967 (59 years ago) Piedmont Airlines Flight 22, a Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727-22, and a twin-engine Cessna 310 collide over Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA. Both aircraft are destroyed and all passengers and crew are killed, including John T. McNaughton, an advisor to Robert McNamara.
- 1980 (46 years ago) Opening of the Summer Olympics in Moscow.
- 1981 (45 years ago) In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French President François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development.
- 2011 (15 years ago) Guinean President Alpha Condé survives an attempted assassination and coup d'état at his residence in Conakry.
- 2018 (8 years ago) The Knesset passes the controversial Nationality Bill, which defines the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
Births
- 810 (1216 years ago) Muhammad al-Bukhari, Persian scholar (died 870)
- 1834 (192 years ago) Edgar Degas, French painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 1917)
- 1893 (133 years ago) Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian actor, playwright, and poet (died 1930)
- 1898 (128 years ago) Herbert Marcuse, German-American sociologist and philosopher (died 1979)
- 1921 (105 years ago) Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)
- 1947 (79 years ago) Brian May, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and astrophysicist
- 1950 (76 years ago) Freddy Moore, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2022)
- 1976 (50 years ago) Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor
Deaths
- 514 (1512 years ago) Symmachus, pope of the Catholic Church
- 1374 (652 years ago) Petrarch, Italian poet and scholar (born 1304)
- 1947 (79 years ago) Aung San, Burmese general and politician (born 1915)
- 1965 (61 years ago) Syngman Rhee, South Korean journalist and politician, 1st President of South Korea (born 1875)
- 2014 (12 years ago) James Garner, American actor (born 1928)
- 2016 (10 years ago) Garry Marshall, American actor, director, and producer (born 1934)
- 2019 (7 years ago) Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor, director, and producer (born 1944)
- 2024 (2 years ago) Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Vietnamese politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (born 1944)