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20 Azar 1440

Saturday 20 Azar 1440 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 10 December 2061, and 27 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

1861 (165 years ago) Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.
1902 (124 years ago) The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
1932 (94 years ago) Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1953 (73 years ago) British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1983 (43 years ago) Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín.
1991 (35 years ago) The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic is renamed into the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2017 (9 years ago) ISIL is defeated in Iraq.
2021 (5 years ago) A widespread, deadly, and violent tornado outbreak slams the Central, Midwestern, and Southern regions of the United States. Eighty-nine people are killed by the tornadoes, with most of the fatalities occurring in Kentucky, where a single tornado kills 57 people, and injures hundreds of others. Another tornado in Edwardsville, Illinois strikes an Amazon warehouse, killing six workers.

1804 (222 years ago) Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (died 1851)
1815 (211 years ago) Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and computer scientist (died 1852)
1821 (205 years ago) Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic (died 1877)
1830 (196 years ago) Emily Dickinson, American poet (died 1886)
1891 (135 years ago) Nelly Sachs, German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
1957 (69 years ago) Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (died 2012)
1960 (66 years ago) Kenneth Branagh, British actor director, producer, and screenwriter
1987 (39 years ago) Gonzalo Higuaín, French-Argentinian footballer

1865 (161 years ago) Leopold I of Belgium,
1896 (130 years ago) Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (born 1833)
1936 (90 years ago) Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet Nobel Prize laureate (born 1867)
1968 (58 years ago) Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author (born 1886)
1999 (27 years ago) Franjo Tuđman, Croatian general and politician, 1st President of Croatia (born 1922)
2006 (20 years ago) Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and dictator, 30th President of Chile (born 1915)
2010 (16 years ago) John Fenn, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)
2020 (6 years ago) Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr., American actor and wrestler (born 1958)