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29 Azar 1453

Wednesday 29 Azar 1453 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 19 December 2074, and 29 Dhu al-Hijjah 1497 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

1793 (233 years ago) War of the First Coalition: The Siege of Toulon ends when Napoleon's French artillery forces the British to abandon the city, securing southern France from invasion.
1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Oberkommando des Heeres.
1972 (54 years ago) Apollo program: The last crewed lunar flight, Apollo 17, carrying Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
1983 (43 years ago) The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1986 (40 years ago) Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.
1997 (29 years ago) SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
2001 (25 years ago) Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2005 (21 years ago) A passenger train from Sucha Beskidzka to Żywiec in Poland loses its brakes while on a steep downhill part of the route. It is stopped in a controlled collision in Świnna by a train travelling in opposite direction. 2 drivers and 6 passengers are injured.

1683 (343 years ago) Philip V of Spain,
1852 (174 years ago) Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-American physicist, chemist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1931)
1906 (120 years ago) Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union (died 1982)
1915 (111 years ago) Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter and actress (died 1963)
1934 (92 years ago) Pratibha Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, 12th President of India
1941 (85 years ago) Lee Myung-bak, South Korean businessman and politician, 10th President of South Korea
1980 (46 years ago) Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor and producer
1987 (39 years ago) Karim Benzema, French footballer

401 (1625 years ago) Pope Anastasius I,
1111 (915 years ago) Al-Ghazali, Persian jurist, philosopher, theologian, and mystic (born 1058)
1370 (656 years ago) Pope Urban V,
1741 (285 years ago) Vitus Bering, Danish-born Russian explorer (born 1681)
1848 (178 years ago) Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet (born 1818)
1915 (111 years ago) Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (born 1864)
1953 (73 years ago) Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1868)
1996 (30 years ago) Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor and singer (born 1924)