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24 Dey 1439
Thursday 24 Dey 1439 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 13 January 2061, and 20 Sha'ban 1483 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 Dey 1439
- Gregorian13 January 2061
- Islamic20 Sha'ban 1483
- Imperial24 Dey 2619
- Day of the year300 of 365
- Left in the year65 days
- ZodiacCapricorn
- YearWhale
Occasions on 24 Dey 1439
- religious
On this day: January 13
Events
- 1900 (126 years ago) To combat Czech nationalism, Emperor Franz Joseph decrees German will be language of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
- 1963 (63 years ago) Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio.
- 1972 (54 years ago) Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
- 1982 (44 years ago) Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.
- 1985 (41 years ago) A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
- 1991 (35 years ago) Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding around 1,000 others.
- 2021 (5 years ago) Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump is impeached for a second time on a charge of incitement of insurrection following the January 6 United States Capitol attack one week prior.
Births
- 1864 (162 years ago) Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1928)
- 1927 (99 years ago) Sydney Brenner, South African biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)
- 1960 (66 years ago) Eric Betzig, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1961 (65 years ago) Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress, comedian, and producer
- 1966 (60 years ago) Patrick Dempsey, American actor and race car driver
- 1977 (49 years ago) Orlando Bloom, English actor
- 1990 (36 years ago) Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor
- 1997 (29 years ago) Luis Díaz, Colombian footballer
Deaths
- 86 BC Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (born 157 BC)
- 888 (1138 years ago) Charles the Fat, Frankish king and emperor (born 839)
- 1599 (427 years ago) Edmund Spenser, English poet, Chief Secretary for Ireland (born 1552)
- 1717 (309 years ago) Maria Sibylla Merian, German entomologist and illustrator (born 1647)
- 1906 (120 years ago) Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist and academic (born 1859)
- 1941 (85 years ago) James Joyce, Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1882)
- 1978 (48 years ago) Hubert Humphrey, American pharmacist, academic, and politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (born 1911)
- 2012 (14 years ago) Rauf Denktaş, Turkish-Cypriot lawyer and politician, 1st President of Northern Cyprus (born 1924)