28 Tir 1389 | Monday 19 July 2010

This day in four calendars

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.

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

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)