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30 Tir 1392

Sunday 30 Tir 1392 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 21 July 2013, and 12 Ramadan 1434 in the Islamic calendar.

This day in four calendars

1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam, starting a battle that will end on August 10.
1951 (75 years ago) Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 3505 disappears while flying from Vancouver to Tokyo. The aircraft and its 37 occupants are never found.
1954 (72 years ago) First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
1970 (56 years ago) After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
1976 (50 years ago) Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
1995 (31 years ago) Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
2005 (21 years ago) Four attempted bomb attacks by Islamist extremists disrupt part of London's public transport system.
2010 (16 years ago) U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

1414 (612 years ago) Pope Sixtus IV,
1899 (127 years ago) Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
1911 (115 years ago) Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and theorist (died 1980)
1944 (82 years ago) John Atta Mills, Ghanaian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Ghana (died 2012)
1948 (78 years ago) Cat Stevens, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 (75 years ago) Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (died 2014)
1957 (69 years ago) Stefan Löfven, Swedish trade union leader and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Sweden
2000 (26 years ago) Erling Haaland, Norwegian footballer

1425 (601 years ago) Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (born 1350)
1796 (230 years ago) Robert Burns, Scottish poet and songwriter (born 1759)
1899 (127 years ago) Robert G. Ingersoll, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1833)
1944 (82 years ago) Claus von Stauffenberg, German soldier who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler (born 1907)
1967 (59 years ago) Albert Lutuli, South African academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1898)
1998 (28 years ago) Alan Shepard, American admiral, pilot, and astronaut (born 1923)
2004 (22 years ago) Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (born 1929)
2023 (3 years ago) Tony Bennett, American singer (born 1926)