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24 Esfand 1457
Tuesday 24 Esfand 1457 in the Persian calendar is Tuesday, 14 March 2079, and 10 Jumada al-Awwal 1502 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 Esfand 1457
- Gregorian14 March 2079
- Islamic10 Jumada al-Awwal 1502
- Imperial24 Esfand 2637
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Occasions on 24 Esfand 1457
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On this day: March 14
Events
- 1647 (379 years ago) Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
- 1926 (100 years ago) The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
- 1951 (75 years ago) Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time.
- 1964 (62 years ago) Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin who had shot and killed John F. Kennedy the previous year.
- 1967 (59 years ago) The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1978 (48 years ago) The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon.
- 1980 (46 years ago) LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
- 1991 (35 years ago) Escondida in Chile's Atacama Desert – which was to become the worlds most productive copper mine – is officially inaugurated.
Births
- 1820 (206 years ago) Victor Emmanuel II of Italy,
- 1844 (182 years ago) Umberto I of Italy,
- 1854 (172 years ago) Paul Ehrlich, German physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1915)
- 1879 (147 years ago) Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)
- 1933 (93 years ago) Michael Caine, English actor
- 1958 (68 years ago) Albert II, Prince of Monaco
- 1965 (61 years ago) Aamir Khan, Indian film actor, producer, and director
- 1988 (38 years ago) Stephen Curry, American basketball player
Deaths
- 1803 (223 years ago) Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (born 1724)
- 1883 (143 years ago) Karl Marx, German philosopher and theorist (born 1818)
- 1932 (94 years ago) George Eastman, American inventor and businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (born 1854)
- 1953 (73 years ago) Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak Communist politician and 4th President of Czechoslovakia (born 1896)
- 1975 (51 years ago) Susan Hayward, American actress (born 1917)
- 1995 (31 years ago) William Alfred Fowler, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
- 1997 (29 years ago) Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director and producer (born 1907)
- 2018 (8 years ago) Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (born 1942)