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30 Farvardin 1415
Friday 30 Farvardin 1415 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 18 April 2036, and 20 Safar 1458 in the Islamic calendar.
This day's Islamic date is not yet officially announced and is an astronomical estimate; it and the day's religious occasions may move by a day.
Public holiday
This day in four calendars
- Persian30 Farvardin 1415
- Gregorian18 April 2036
- Islamic20 Safar 1458
- Imperial30 Farvardin 2595
- Day of the year30 of 365
- Left in the year335 days
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Occasions on 30 Farvardin 1415
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On this day: April 18
Events
- 1738 (288 years ago) Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid.
- 1797 (229 years ago) War of the First Coalition: The Peace of Leoben is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Maximilian, Count of Merveldt, creating an armistice between France and Austria, setting the stage for the Treaty of Campo Formio and ending the War of the First Coalition.[citation needed]
- 1906 (120 years ago) The 7.9 Mwearthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California, killing more than 3,000 people, making one of the worst natural disasters in American history.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
- 1954 (72 years ago) Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
- 1980 (46 years ago) The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.
- 1988 (38 years ago) The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
- 1996 (30 years ago) The Israeli military commits the Qana massacre in a deliberate shelling of a United Nations compound near the village of Qana in southern Lebanon, killing 106 Lebanese civilians who were taking shelter there and wounding over 100 more.
Births
- 1480 (546 years ago) Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI (died 1519)
- 1590 (436 years ago) Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (died 1617)
- 1772 (254 years ago) David Ricardo, British economist and politician (died 1823)
- 1927 (99 years ago) Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist, author, and academic (died 2008)
- 1941 (85 years ago) Michael D. Higgins, Irish sociologist and politician, 9th President of Ireland
- 1947 (79 years ago) James Woods, American actor and producer
- 1963 (63 years ago) Conan O'Brien, American television host, comedian, and writer
- 1990 (36 years ago) Wojciech Szczęsny, Polish footballer
Deaths
- 1802 (224 years ago) Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (born 1731)
- 1873 (153 years ago) Justus von Liebig, German chemist and academic (born 1803)
- 1898 (128 years ago) Gustave Moreau, French painter and academic (born 1826)
- 1943 (83 years ago) Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (born 1884)
- 1947 (79 years ago) Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (born 1887)
- 1955 (71 years ago) Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (born 1879)
- 1974 (52 years ago) Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright, and director (born 1895)
- 2002 (24 years ago) Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (born 1914)