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24 Khordad 1421

Saturday 24 Khordad 1421 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 14 June 2042, and 25 Jumada al-Thani 1464 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

1287 (739 years ago) Kublai Khan defeats the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.
1846 (180 years ago) Bear Flag Revolt begins: Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
1863 (163 years ago) American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
1926 (100 years ago) Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
1955 (71 years ago) Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1982 (44 years ago) Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces ending the war.
2017 (9 years ago) The Grenfell Tower fire, a catastrophic fire in a high-rise apartment building in North Kensington, London, UK, leaves 72 people dead and another 74 injured.
2026 Two helicopters collide mid-air in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing all 6 people on board, including American singer-songwriter Oliver Tree, Argentine YouTuber Gaspi, director and screenwriter Lucas A. Vignale, and Brazilian music producer Lucas Frota.

1736 (290 years ago) Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (died 1806)
1811 (215 years ago) Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (died 1896)
1864 (162 years ago) Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (died 1915)
1868 (158 years ago) Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943)
1924 (102 years ago) James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2010)
1946 (80 years ago) Donald Trump, American businessman, television personality, 45th and 47th President of the United States
1969 (57 years ago) Steffi Graf, German tennis player
1989 (37 years ago) Lucy Hale, American actress and singer-songwriter

1837 (189 years ago) Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (born 1798)
1920 (106 years ago) Max Weber, German sociologist and economist (born 1864)
1926 (100 years ago) Mary Cassatt, American-French painter (born 1843)
1927 (99 years ago) Jerome K. Jerome, English author (born 1859)
1936 (90 years ago) G. K. Chesterton, English essayist, poet, playwright, and novelist (born 1874)
1968 (58 years ago) Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (born 1901)
1986 (40 years ago) Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (born 1899)
2007 (19 years ago) Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Austrian politician, 9th President of Austria (born 1918)