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11 Esfand 1451
Wednesday 11 Esfand 1451 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 1 March 2073, and 21 Safar 1496 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
- Persian11 Esfand 1451
- Gregorian1 March 2073
- Islamic21 Safar 1496
- Imperial11 Esfand 2631
- Day of the year347 of 365
- Left in the year18 days
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On this day: March 1
Events
- 1290 (736 years ago) University of Coimbra, in Portugal, is officially chartered by King Denis.
- 1811 (215 years ago) Leaders of the Mamluk dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali.
- 1896 (130 years ago) Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
- 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
- 1973 (53 years ago) Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
- 1992 (34 years ago) Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- 2002 (24 years ago) U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
- 2006 (20 years ago) English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
Births
- 1810 (216 years ago) Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (died 1849)
- 1892 (134 years ago) Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese author and educator (died 1927)
- 1922 (104 years ago) Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli general and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
- 1956 (70 years ago) Dalia Grybauskaitė, Lithuanian politician, 8th President of Lithuania
- 1969 (57 years ago) Javier Bardem, Spanish actor and producer
- 1983 (43 years ago) Lupita Nyong'o, Kenyan-Mexican actress
- 1987 (39 years ago) Kesha, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1994 (32 years ago) Justin Bieber, Canadian singer-songwriter
Deaths
- 492 (1534 years ago) Felix III, pope of the Catholic Church
- 965 (1061 years ago) Leo VIII, pope of the Catholic Church
- 1633 (393 years ago) George Herbert, English poet and orator (born 1593)
- 1792 (234 years ago) Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1747)
- 1911 (115 years ago) Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
- 1938 (88 years ago) Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian journalist and politician (born 1863)
- 1983 (43 years ago) Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English journalist and author (born 1905)
- 2024 (2 years ago) Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist (born 1955)