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14 Esfand 1440
Saturday 14 Esfand 1440 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 4 March 2062, and 22 Shawwal 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.
This day in four calendars
- Persian14 Esfand 1440
- Gregorian4 March 2062
- Islamic22 Shawwal 1484
- Imperial14 Esfand 2620
- Day of the year350 of 365
- Left in the year15 days
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Occasions on 14 Esfand 1440
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On this day: March 4
Events
- 1686 (340 years ago) After being unofficially established as a settlement in 1678, the Dominican mission of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
- 1848 (178 years ago) Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia.
- 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, the first large-scale British Commando raid.
- 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
- 1962 (64 years ago) A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 – the worst crash of a DC-7.
- 1980 (46 years ago) Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
- 1986 (40 years ago) The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
- 2012 (14 years ago) A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people.
Births
- 1678 (348 years ago) Antonio Vivaldi, Italian violinist and composer (died 1741)
- 1769 (257 years ago) Muhammad Ali, Ottoman military leader and pasha (died 1849)
- 1932 (94 years ago) Miriam Makeba, South African singer-songwriter and actress (died 2008)
- 1938 (88 years ago) Alpha Condé, Guinean politician, President of Guinea
- 1954 (72 years ago) François Fillon, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France
- 1954 (72 years ago) Catherine O'Hara, Canadian-American actress and comedian (died 2026)
- 1965 (61 years ago) Khaled Hosseini, Afghan-American novelist
- 1968 (58 years ago) Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek banker and politician, Prime Minister of Greece
Deaths
- 561 (1465 years ago) Pelagius I, pope of the Catholic Church
- 1193 (833 years ago) Saladin, founder of the Ayyubid Sultanate (born 1137)
- 1832 (194 years ago) Jean-François Champollion, French philologist and scholar (born 1790)
- 1852 (174 years ago) Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-Russian short story writer, novelist, and playwright (born 1809)
- 1916 (110 years ago) Franz Marc, German painter (born 1880)
- 1948 (78 years ago) Antonin Artaud, French actor and director (born 1896)
- 2011 (15 years ago) Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)
- 2020 (6 years ago) Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian politician and diplomat (born 1920)