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28 Aban 1440
Friday 28 Aban 1440 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 18 November 2061, and 5 Rajab 1484 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.
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This day in four calendars
- Persian28 Aban 1440
- Gregorian18 November 2061
- Islamic5 Rajab 1484
- Imperial28 Aban 2620
- Day of the year244 of 365
- Left in the year121 days
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Occasions on 28 Aban 1440
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On this day: November 18
Events
- 1918 (108 years ago) Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
- 1949 (77 years ago) The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.
- 1970 (56 years ago) U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
- 1971 (55 years ago) Oman declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1991 (35 years ago) After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
- 1991 (35 years ago) The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia, which would in 1993 become a republic, was established in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1993 (33 years ago) In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution, expanding voting rights and ending white minority rule.
- 2002 (24 years ago) Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
Births
- 1647 (379 years ago) Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and author (died 1706)
- 1786 (240 years ago) Carl Maria von Weber, German composer and conductor (probable; died 1826)
- 1787 (239 years ago) Louis Daguerre, French artist, photographer and inventor (died 1851)
- 1897 (129 years ago) Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1974)
- 1923 (103 years ago) Alan Shepard, American astronaut (died 1998)
- 1939 (87 years ago) Margaret Atwood, Canadian author
- 1945 (81 years ago) Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 6th President of Sri Lanka
- 1968 (58 years ago) Owen Wilson, American actor
Deaths
- 1886 (140 years ago) Chester A. Arthur, American general, lawyer, and politician, 21st President of the United States (born 1829)
- 1922 (104 years ago) Marcel Proust, French author and critic (born 1871)
- 1941 (85 years ago) Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)
- 1952 (74 years ago) Paul Éluard, French poet and author (born 1895)
- 1962 (64 years ago) Niels Bohr, Danish footballer, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1885)
- 1965 (61 years ago) Henry A. Wallace, American agronomist and bureaucrat, 33rd Vice President of the United States, 11th US Secretary of Agriculture (born 1888)
- 1976 (50 years ago) Man Ray, American-French photographer and painter (born 1890)
- 2002 (24 years ago) James Coburn, American actor (born 1928)