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24 Tir 1449
Monday 24 Tir 1449 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 14 July 2070, and 5 Jumada al-Thani 1493 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
- Persian24 Tir 1449
- Gregorian14 July 2070
- Islamic5 Jumada al-Thani 1493
- Imperial24 Tir 2629
- Day of the year117 of 366
- Left in the year249 days
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Occasions on 24 Tir 1449
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On this day: July 14
Events
- 1916 (110 years ago) World War I: Battle of Delville Wood begins as an action within the Battle of the Somme, lasting until 3 September 1916.
- 1933 (93 years ago) In a decree called the Gleichschaltung, Adolf Hitler abolishes all German political parties except the Nazis.
- 1942 (84 years ago) In the Wardha session of Congress, the "Quit India" resolution is approved, authorising Mahatma Gandhi to campaign for India's independence from Britain.
- 1957 (69 years ago) Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
- 1958 (68 years ago) In the 14 July Revolution in Iraq, the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abd al-Karim Qasim, who becomes the nation's new leader.
- 1960 (66 years ago) Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her study of chimpanzees in the wild.
- 1965 (61 years ago) Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet. The photographs take approximately six hours to be transmitted back to Earth.
- 2015 (11 years ago) NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
Births
- 1602 (424 years ago) Cardinal Jules Mazarin, Italian-French cardinal and politician, chief minister of France from 5 December 1642 to 9 March 1661 (died 1661)
- 1743 (283 years ago) Gavrila Derzhavin, Russian poet and politician (died 1816)
- 1862 (164 years ago) Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and illustrator (died 1918)
- 1913 (113 years ago) Gerald Ford, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 38th President of the United States (died 2006)
- 1918 (108 years ago) Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2007)
- 1935 (91 years ago) Ei-ichi Negishi, Japanese chemist (palladium-catalyzed cross couplings) and Nobel Prize winner (died 2021)
- 1977 (49 years ago) Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
- 1988 (38 years ago) Conor McGregor, Irish mixed martial artist
Deaths
- 1223 (803 years ago) Philip II, king of France (born 1165)
- 1817 (209 years ago) Germaine de Staël, French philosopher and author (born 1766)
- 1827 (199 years ago) Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer, reviver of wave theory of light, inventor of catadioptric lighthouse lens (born 1788)
- 1881 (145 years ago) William H. Bonney aka Billy the Kid, American gunfighter and outlaw (born 1859 or 1860)
- 1939 (87 years ago) Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter and illustrator (born 1860)
- 1954 (72 years ago) Jacinto Benavente, Spanish author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)
- 2017 (9 years ago) Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (born 1977)
- 2022 (4 years ago) Ivana Trump, Czech-American socialite and model (born 1949)