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14 Esfand 1418

Sunday 14 Esfand 1418 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 4 March 2040, and 20 Safar 1462 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.

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This day in four calendars

1686 (340 years ago) After being unofficially established as a settlement in 1678, the Dominican mission of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
1848 (178 years ago) Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia.
1941 (85 years ago) World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, the first large-scale British Commando raid.
1944 (82 years ago) World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
1962 (64 years ago) A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 – the worst crash of a DC-7.
1980 (46 years ago) Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
1986 (40 years ago) The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
2012 (14 years ago) A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people.

1678 (348 years ago) Antonio Vivaldi, Italian violinist and composer (died 1741)
1769 (257 years ago) Muhammad Ali, Ottoman military leader and pasha (died 1849)
1932 (94 years ago) Miriam Makeba, South African singer-songwriter and actress (died 2008)
1938 (88 years ago) Alpha Condé, Guinean politician, President of Guinea
1954 (72 years ago) François Fillon, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France
1954 (72 years ago) Catherine O'Hara, Canadian-American actress and comedian (died 2026)
1965 (61 years ago) Khaled Hosseini, Afghan-American novelist
1968 (58 years ago) Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek banker and politician, Prime Minister of Greece

561 (1465 years ago) Pelagius I, pope of the Catholic Church
1193 (833 years ago) Saladin, founder of the Ayyubid Sultanate (born 1137)
1832 (194 years ago) Jean-François Champollion, French philologist and scholar (born 1790)
1852 (174 years ago) Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-Russian short story writer, novelist, and playwright (born 1809)
1916 (110 years ago) Franz Marc, German painter (born 1880)
1948 (78 years ago) Antonin Artaud, French actor and director (born 1896)
2011 (15 years ago) Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)
2020 (6 years ago) Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian politician and diplomat (born 1920)