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24 Shahrivar 1442

Saturday 24 Shahrivar 1442 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 15 September 2063, and 21 Jumada al-Awwal 1486 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

1556 (470 years ago) Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
1873 (153 years ago) Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
1952 (74 years ago) The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
1968 (58 years ago) The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
1983 (43 years ago) Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
1995 (31 years ago) Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 crashes at Tawau Airport in Malaysia, killing 34.
2017 (9 years ago) The Parsons Green bombing takes place in London.
2020 (6 years ago) Signing of the Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement occurs in Washington, D.C., normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

1254 (772 years ago) Marco Polo, Italian merchant and explorer (died 1324)
1613 (413 years ago) François de La Rochefoucauld, French soldier and author (died 1680)
1789 (237 years ago) James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian (died 1851)
1857 (169 years ago) William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (died 1930)
1890 (136 years ago) Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 1976)
1929 (97 years ago) Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)
1977 (49 years ago) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian author
1984 (42 years ago) Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

1859 (167 years ago) Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English architect and engineer, designed the Great Western Railway (born 1806)
1926 (100 years ago) Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1846)
1938 (88 years ago) Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (born 1900)
1945 (81 years ago) Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1883)
1973 (53 years ago) Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden,
2006 (20 years ago) Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (born 1929)
2008 (18 years ago) Richard Wright, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (born 1943)
2023 (3 years ago) Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor (born 1932)