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3 Farvardin 1389

Tuesday 3 Farvardin 1389 in the Persian calendar is Tuesday, 23 March 2010, and 7 Rabi' al-Thani 1431 in the Islamic calendar.

Public holiday

This day in four calendars

1400 (626 years ago) The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
1879 (147 years ago) War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war, is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
1885 (141 years ago) Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hưng Hóa, northern Vietnam.
1933 (93 years ago) The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
1956 (70 years ago) Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. This date is now celebrated as Republic Day in Pakistan.
1978 (48 years ago) The first UNIFIL troops arrive in Lebanon for a peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
2019 (7 years ago) The Kazakh capital of Astana is renamed to Nur-Sultan.
2020 (6 years ago) Prime Minister Boris Johnson puts the United Kingdom into its first national lockdown in response to COVID-19.

1749 (277 years ago) Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (died 1827)
1881 (145 years ago) Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)
1882 (144 years ago) Emmy Noether, Jewish German-American mathematician, physicist and academic (died 1935)
1900 (126 years ago) Erich Fromm, German psychologist and sociologist (died 1980)
1910 (116 years ago) Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer and screenwriter (died 1998)
1912 (114 years ago) Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and engineer, chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle (died 1977)
1956 (70 years ago) José Manuel Barroso, Portuguese academic and politician, 115th Prime Minister of Portugal
1970 (56 years ago) Gianni Infantino, Swiss-Italian football administrator, president of FIFA

1555 (471 years ago) Julius III, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1487)
1801 (225 years ago) Paul I, Russian emperor (born 1754)
1842 (184 years ago) Stendhal, French novelist (born 1783)
1992 (34 years ago) Friedrich Hayek, Austrian-German economist, philosopher, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
2011 (15 years ago) Elizabeth Taylor, American-British actress, socialite and humanitarian (born 1932)
2014 (12 years ago) Adolfo Suárez, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Spain (born 1932)
2015 (11 years ago) Lee Kuan Yew, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (born 1923)
2022 (4 years ago) Madeleine Albright, Czechoslovak-American diplomat, 64th United States Secretary of State (born 1937)