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30 Aban 1452
Monday 30 Aban 1452 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 20 November 2073, and 20 Dhu al-Qa'dah 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
- Persian30 Aban 1452
- Gregorian20 November 2073
- Islamic20 Dhu al-Qa'dah 1496
- Imperial30 Aban 2632
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On this day: November 20
Events
- 1959 (67 years ago) The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.
- 1969 (57 years ago) Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
- 1977 (49 years ago) Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
- 1979 (47 years ago) Grand Mosque seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6,000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from French special forces to put down the uprising.
- 1991 (35 years ago) An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend District of Azerbaijan.
- 1993 (33 years ago) North Macedonia's deadliest aviation disaster occurs when Avioimpex Flight 110, a Yakovlev Yak-42, crashes near Ohrid Airport, killing all 116 people on board.
- 1998 (28 years ago) A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
- 1998 (28 years ago) The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Births
- 1761 (265 years ago) Pope Pius VIII,
- 1858 (168 years ago) Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
- 1889 (137 years ago) Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and cosmologist (died 1953)
- 1923 (103 years ago) Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)
- 1924 (102 years ago) Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (died 2010)
- 1925 (101 years ago) Robert F. Kennedy, US Navy officer, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (died 1968)
- 1942 (84 years ago) Joe Biden, American politician, 46th President of the United States
- 1946 (80 years ago) Patriarch Kirill of Moscow,
Deaths
- 1910 (116 years ago) Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (born 1828)
- 1925 (101 years ago) Alexandra of Denmark, Queen Consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Empress Consort of India (born 1844)
- 1945 (81 years ago) Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
- 1952 (74 years ago) Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher and politician (born 1866)
- 1975 (51 years ago) Francisco Franco, Spanish general and dictator, Prime Minister of Spain (born 1892)
- 1978 (48 years ago) Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and sculptor (born 1888)
- 2006 (20 years ago) Robert Altman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1925)
- 2018 (8 years ago) Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)