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19 Khordad 1417

Wednesday 19 Khordad 1417 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 9 June 2038, and 5 Jumada al-Awwal 1460 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.

This day in four calendars

68 (1958 years ago) Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's Aeneid, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
1885 (141 years ago) Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
1923 (103 years ago) Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
1944 (82 years ago) World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
1967 (59 years ago) Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
1995 (31 years ago) Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crashes into the Tararua Range during approach to Palmerston North Airport on the North Island of New Zealand, killing four.
1999 (27 years ago) Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.

1672 (354 years ago) Peter the Great, Russian emperor (died 1725)
1843 (183 years ago) Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1914)
1917 (109 years ago) Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-English historian and author (died 2012)
1961 (65 years ago) Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor, producer, and author
1963 (63 years ago) Johnny Depp, American actor
1978 (48 years ago) Miroslav Klose, German footballer
1981 (45 years ago) Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress
1984 (42 years ago) Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer

68 (1958 years ago) Nero, Roman emperor (born 37)
373 (1653 years ago) Ephrem the Syrian, hymnographer and theologian (born 306)
1597 (429 years ago) José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary (born 1534)
1870 (156 years ago) Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (born 1812)
1959 (67 years ago) Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)
1973 (53 years ago) Erich von Manstein, German general (born 1887)
1974 (52 years ago) Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
1994 (32 years ago) Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)