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4 Azar 1432
Monday 4 Azar 1432 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 24 November 2053, and 13 Rabi' al-Thani 1476 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
- Persian4 Azar 1432
- Gregorian24 November 2053
- Islamic13 Rabi' al-Thani 1476
- Imperial4 Azar 2612
- Day of the year250 of 366
- Left in the year116 days
- ZodiacSagittarius
- YearHen
Occasions on 4 Azar 1432
- religious
- fun
On this day: November 24
Events
- 847 (1179 years ago) An earthquake hits Syria, causing multiple casualties and damages in Antioch, Damascus and Mosul.
- 1859 (167 years ago) British naturalist Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is published.
- 1863 (163 years ago) American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
- 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
- 1963 (63 years ago) Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby on live television. Robert H. Jackson takes a photograph of the shooting that will win the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Photography.
- 1974 (52 years ago) Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
- 2013 (13 years ago) Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.
- 2016 (10 years ago) The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50-year-long civil war.
Births
- 1632 (394 years ago) Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and scholar (died 1677)
- 1729 (297 years ago) Alexander Suvorov, Russian field marshal (died 1800)
- 1784 (242 years ago) Zachary Taylor, American general and politician, 12th President of the United States (died 1850)
- 1826 (200 years ago) Carlo Collodi, Italian journalist and author (died 1890)
- 1864 (162 years ago) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (died 1901)
- 1888 (138 years ago) Dale Carnegie, American author and educator (died 1955)
- 1946 (80 years ago) Ted Bundy, American serial killer (died 1989)
- 1961 (65 years ago) Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist
Deaths
- 1572 (454 years ago) John Knox, Scottish pastor and theologian (born 1510)
- 1870 (156 years ago) Comte de Lautréamont, Uruguayan-French poet and author (born 1846)
- 1929 (97 years ago) Georges Clemenceau, French physician, publisher, and politician, 72nd Prime Minister of France (born 1841)
- 1957 (69 years ago) Diego Rivera, Mexican painter and sculptor (born 1886)
- 1963 (63 years ago) Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (born 1939)
- 1991 (35 years ago) Freddie Mercury, Tanzanian-English singer-songwriter, lead vocalist of Queen, and producer (born 1946)
- 2002 (24 years ago) John Rawls, American philosopher, author, and academic (born 1921)
- 2025 (a year ago) Dharmendra, Indian actor (born 1935)