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30 Khordad 1439
Saturday 30 Khordad 1439 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 19 June 2060, and 20 Muharram 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
- Persian30 Khordad 1439
- Gregorian19 June 2060
- Islamic20 Muharram 1483
- Imperial30 Khordad 2619
- Day of the year92 of 365
- Left in the year273 days
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Occasions on 30 Khordad 1439
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On this day: June 19
Events
- 1811 (215 years ago) The Carlton House Fête is held in London to celebrate the establishment of the Regency era.
- 1862 (164 years ago) President Abraham Lincoln signs the Territorial Slavery Act of 1862, which prohibits slavery in all current and future United States territories.
- 1865 (161 years ago) Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are officially informed of their freedom. The anniversary was officially celebrated in Texas and other states as Juneteenth. On June 17, 2021, Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday in the United States.
- 1875 (151 years ago) The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
- 1953 (73 years ago) Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
- 1961 (65 years ago) Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1985 (41 years ago) Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
- 2012 (14 years ago) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requests asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army; he will remain there until 2019.
Births
- 1566 (460 years ago) James VI and I of the United Kingdom,
- 1623 (403 years ago) Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (died 1662)
- 1945 (81 years ago) Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1945 (81 years ago) Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician and convicted war criminal, 1st President of Republika Srpska
- 1947 (79 years ago) Salman Rushdie, Indian-English novelist and essayist
- 1951 (75 years ago) Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist (died 2022)
- 1959 (67 years ago) Christian Wulff, German lawyer and politician, 10th President of Germany
- 1964 (62 years ago) Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and former Mayor of London
Deaths
- 1747 (279 years ago) Nader Shah, Persian leader (born 1688)
- 1820 (206 years ago) Joseph Banks, English botanist and author (born 1743)
- 1867 (159 years ago) Maximilian I of Mexico,
- 1937 (89 years ago) J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (born 1860)
- 1993 (33 years ago) William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
- 2013 (13 years ago) James Gandolfini, American actor (born 1961)
- 2016 (10 years ago) Anton Yelchin, American actor (born 1989)
- 2020 (6 years ago) Ian Holm, British actor (born 1931)