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7 Tir 1426
Friday 7 Tir 1426 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 28 June 2047, and 4 Ramadan 1469 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
- Persian7 Tir 1426
- Gregorian28 June 2047
- Islamic4 Ramadan 1469
- Imperial7 Tir 2606
- Day of the year100 of 365
- Left in the year265 days
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Occasions on 7 Tir 1426
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On this day: June 28
Events
- 1776 (250 years ago) American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
- 1807 (219 years ago) Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
- 1882 (144 years ago) The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
- 1911 (115 years ago) The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
- 1940 (86 years ago) Romania cedes Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.
- 1976 (50 years ago) The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
- 2009 (17 years ago) Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.
Births
- 1491 (535 years ago) Henry VIII, King of England (died 1547)
- 1577 (449 years ago) Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter and diplomat (died 1640)
- 1712 (314 years ago) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher and polymath (died 1778)
- 1867 (159 years ago) Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)
- 1906 (120 years ago) Maria Goeppert Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972)
- 1940 (86 years ago) Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1971 (55 years ago) Elon Musk, South African-born American entrepreneur
- 1991 (35 years ago) Kevin De Bruyne, Belgian footballer
Deaths
- 548 (1478 years ago) Theodora I, Byzantine empress
- 683 (1343 years ago) Leo II, pope of the Catholic Church (born 611)
- 767 (1259 years ago) Paul I, pope of the Catholic Church (born 700)
- 1598 (428 years ago) Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (born 1527)
- 1836 (190 years ago) James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (born 1751)
- 1914 (112 years ago) Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria (born 1863)
- 1922 (104 years ago) Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (born 1885)
- 1992 (34 years ago) Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (born 1936)