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24 Esfand 1438
Sunday 24 Esfand 1438 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 14 March 2060, and 11 Shawwal 1482 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
- Persian24 Esfand 1438
- Gregorian14 March 2060
- Islamic11 Shawwal 1482
- Imperial24 Esfand 2618
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Occasions on 24 Esfand 1438
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On this day: March 14
Events
- 1647 (379 years ago) Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
- 1926 (100 years ago) The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
- 1951 (75 years ago) Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time.
- 1964 (62 years ago) Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin who had shot and killed John F. Kennedy the previous year.
- 1967 (59 years ago) The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1978 (48 years ago) The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon.
- 1980 (46 years ago) LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
- 1991 (35 years ago) Escondida in Chile's Atacama Desert – which was to become the worlds most productive copper mine – is officially inaugurated.
Births
- 1820 (206 years ago) Victor Emmanuel II of Italy,
- 1844 (182 years ago) Umberto I of Italy,
- 1854 (172 years ago) Paul Ehrlich, German physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1915)
- 1879 (147 years ago) Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)
- 1933 (93 years ago) Michael Caine, English actor
- 1958 (68 years ago) Albert II, Prince of Monaco
- 1965 (61 years ago) Aamir Khan, Indian film actor, producer, and director
- 1988 (38 years ago) Stephen Curry, American basketball player
Deaths
- 1803 (223 years ago) Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (born 1724)
- 1883 (143 years ago) Karl Marx, German philosopher and theorist (born 1818)
- 1932 (94 years ago) George Eastman, American inventor and businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (born 1854)
- 1953 (73 years ago) Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak Communist politician and 4th President of Czechoslovakia (born 1896)
- 1975 (51 years ago) Susan Hayward, American actress (born 1917)
- 1995 (31 years ago) William Alfred Fowler, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
- 1997 (29 years ago) Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director and producer (born 1907)
- 2018 (8 years ago) Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (born 1942)