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24 Tir 1417

Thursday 24 Tir 1417 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 15 July 2038, and 12 Jumada al-Thani 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

1099 (927 years ago) First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
1149 (877 years ago) The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
1240 (786 years ago) Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
1799 (227 years ago) The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
1838 (188 years ago) Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
1946 (80 years ago) The State of North Borneo, now Sabah, Malaysia, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
1983 (43 years ago) An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.
2002 (24 years ago) The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life.

1606 (420 years ago) Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher (died 1669)
1848 (178 years ago) Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (died 1923)
1858 (168 years ago) Emmeline Pankhurst, English political activist and suffragist (died 1928)
1892 (134 years ago) Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (died 1940)
1930 (96 years ago) Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (died 2004)
1946 (80 years ago) Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei
1961 (65 years ago) Forest Whitaker, American actor
1976 (50 years ago) Diane Kruger, German actress and model

1015 (1011 years ago) Vladimir the Great, Grand prince of Kievan Rus' (born c. 958)
1274 (752 years ago) Bonaventure, Italian bishop and saint (born 1221)
1291 (735 years ago) Rudolf I of Germany,
1890 (136 years ago) Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet and playwright (born 1819)
1904 (122 years ago) Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (born 1860)
1919 (107 years ago) Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
1929 (97 years ago) Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (born 1874)
2017 (9 years ago) Martin Landau, American film and television actor (born 1928)