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10 Tir 1403
Sunday 10 Tir 1403 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 30 June 2024, and 23 Dhu al-Hijjah 1445 in the Islamic calendar.
This day in four calendars
- Persian10 Tir 1403
- Gregorian30 June 2024
- Islamic23 Dhu al-Hijjah 1445
- Imperial10 Tir 2583
- Day of the year103 of 366
- Left in the year263 days
- ZodiacCancer
- YearWhale
Occasions on 10 Tir 1403
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- national
- cultural
- international
On this day: June 30
Events
- 1422 (604 years ago) Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
- 1882 (144 years ago) Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
- 1905 (121 years ago) Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
- 1908 (118 years ago) The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.
- 1916 (110 years ago) World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
- 1934 (92 years ago) The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
- 2019 (7 years ago) Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
- 2023 (3 years ago) A Tajik citizen with ISIS connections, wanted in Tajikistan for murder and kidnapping, kills two people at Chișinău International Airport in Moldova, after being denied entry to the country.
Births
- 1470 (556 years ago) Charles VIII of France,
- 1893 (133 years ago) Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician, chief decision maker and head of state of the GDR (East Germany) (died 1973)
- 1911 (115 years ago) Czesław Miłosz, Polish novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
- 1926 (100 years ago) Paul Berg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)
- 1936 (90 years ago) Assia Djebar, Algerian-French author and translator (died 2015)
- 1954 (72 years ago) Serzh Sargsyan, Armenian politician, 3rd President of Armenia
- 1966 (60 years ago) Mike Tyson, American boxer and actor
- 1985 (41 years ago) Michael Phelps, American swimmer
Deaths
- 1522 (504 years ago) Johann Reuchlin, German humanist and Hebrew scholar (born 1455)
- 1919 (107 years ago) John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1842)
- 1934 (92 years ago) Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany (born 1882)
- 1961 (65 years ago) Lee de Forest, American inventor, invented the audion tube (born 1873)
- 1966 (60 years ago) Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (born 1906)
- 2009 (17 years ago) Pina Bausch, German dancer, choreographer, and director (born 1940)
- 2012 (14 years ago) Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (born 1915)
- 2017 (9 years ago) Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician (born 1927)