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10 Mordad 1393

Friday 10 Mordad 1393 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 1 August 2014, and 4 Shawwal 1435 in the Islamic calendar.

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This day in four calendars

1498 (528 years ago) Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
1801 (225 years ago) First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
1936 (90 years ago) The Olympics open in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
1964 (62 years ago) The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1980 (46 years ago) A train crash kills 18 people and injures over 170 more in County Cork, Ireland.
1998 (28 years ago) Puntland, an autonomous state in northeastern Somalia, is officially established following a constitutional conference in Garowe. Issims and tribal chiefs agreed to create a self-declared government until Somalia recovered.
2017 (9 years ago) A suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan kills 20 people.
2023 (3 years ago) Former US President Donald Trump is indicted for his role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, his third indictment in 2023.

10 BC Claudius, Roman emperor (died 54)
126 (1900 years ago) Pertinax, Roman emperor (died 193)
1744 (282 years ago) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (died 1829)
1819 (207 years ago) Herman Melville, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (died 1891)
1924 (102 years ago) Abdullah of Saudi Arabia,
1924 (102 years ago) Georges Charpak, Polish-French physicist who invented and developed subatomic particle detectors (died 2010)
1930 (96 years ago) Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (died 2002)
1936 (90 years ago) Yves Saint Laurent, Algerian-French fashion designer, co-founded Yves Saint Laurent (died 2008)

30 BC Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (born 83 BC)
1137 (889 years ago) Louis VI, king of France (born 1081)
1714 (312 years ago) Anne, Queen of Great Britain (born 1665)
1973 (53 years ago) Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician (born 1893)
1996 (30 years ago) Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
2005 (21 years ago) Fahd of Saudi Arabia,
2009 (17 years ago) Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (born 1933)
2020 (6 years ago) Wilford Brimley, American actor and singer (born 1934)