20 Khordad 1390 | Friday 10 June 2011

This day in four calendars

1782 (244 years ago) King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) is crowned.
1829 (197 years ago) The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on the Thames in London.
1878 (148 years ago) League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
1918 (108 years ago) World War I: The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.
1967 (59 years ago) The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
1999 (27 years ago) Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
2001 (25 years ago) Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
2018 (8 years ago) The Opportunity rover sends its last message back to Earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019.

1819 (207 years ago) Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor (died 1877)
1915 (111 years ago) Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005)
1921 (105 years ago) Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of the United Kingdom, Prince of Greece and Denmark, Consort of Queen Elizabeth II (died 2021)
1922 (104 years ago) Judy Garland, American actress and singer (died 1969)
1929 (97 years ago) E. O. Wilson, American biologist, author, and academic (died 2021)
1959 (67 years ago) Carlo Ancelotti, Italian footballer and manager
1972 (54 years ago) Sundar Pichai, Indian-American businessman
1992 (34 years ago) Kate Upton, American model and actress

1190 (836 years ago) Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1122)
1580 (446 years ago) Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (born 1524–25)
1836 (190 years ago) André-Marie Ampère, French physicist and mathematician (born 1775)
1926 (100 years ago) Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell (born 1852)
1949 (77 years ago) Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)
2000 (26 years ago) Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 18th President of Syria (born 1930)
2004 (22 years ago) Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (born 1930)
2008 (18 years ago) Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani author and diplomat (born 1928)