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14 Aban 1430
Sunday 14 Aban 1430 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 5 November 2051, and 1 Rabi' al-Awwal 1474 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
- Persian14 Aban 1430
- Gregorian5 November 2051
- Islamic1 Rabi' al-Awwal 1474
- Imperial14 Aban 2610
- Day of the year230 of 365
- Left in the year135 days
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On this day: November 5
Events
- 1138 (888 years ago) Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
- 1862 (164 years ago) American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
- 1881 (145 years ago) In New Zealand, 1600 armed volunteers and constabulary field forces led by Minister of Native Affairs John Bryce march on the pacifist Māori settlement at Parihaka, evicting upwards of 2000 residents, and destroying the settlement in the context of the New Zealand land confiscations.
- 1925 (101 years ago) Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
- 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay is sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer.
- 1991 (35 years ago) Tropical Storm Thelma causes flash floods in the Philippine city of Ormoc, killing more than 4,900 people.
- 2006 (20 years ago) Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shia Muslims.
- 2024 (2 years ago) Donald Trump becomes the first president of the United States to be elected to a non-consecutive second term in 132 years, since Grover Cleveland won the 1892 election.
Births
- 1615 (411 years ago) Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire,
- 1854 (172 years ago) Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)
- 1913 (113 years ago) Vivien Leigh, Indian-British actress (died 1967)
- 1948 (78 years ago) William Daniel Phillips, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1952 (74 years ago) Vandana Shiva, Indian philosopher and author
- 1959 (67 years ago) Bryan Adams, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and actor
- 1960 (66 years ago) Tilda Swinton, English actress
- 1988 (38 years ago) Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
Deaths
- 1370 (656 years ago) Casimir III the Great, Polish king (born 1310)
- 1879 (147 years ago) James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (born 1831)
- 1930 (96 years ago) Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1858)
- 1944 (82 years ago) Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1873)
- 1977 (49 years ago) René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (born 1926)
- 1997 (29 years ago) Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-English historian, author, and academic (born 1909)
- 2005 (21 years ago) John Fowles, English novelist (born 1926)
- 2006 (20 years ago) Bülent Ecevit, Turkish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1925)