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31 Farvardin 1458

Thursday 31 Farvardin 1458 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 20 April 2079, and 17 Jumada al-Thani 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

1770 (256 years ago) The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
1945 (81 years ago) World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
1945 (81 years ago) World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
1946 (80 years ago) The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
1961 (65 years ago) Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
1968 (58 years ago) South African Airways Flight 228 crashes near J.G. Strijdom Airport in South West Africa (now Hosea Kutako International Airport in Namibia), killing 123 people.
2004 (22 years ago) The Nicoll Highway in Singapore collapses, killing four workers.
2015 (11 years ago) Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.

1808 (218 years ago) Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France, Emperor of French Second Empire (died 1873)
1889 (137 years ago) Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German politician, Führer of Nazi Germany (died 1945)
1893 (133 years ago) Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1983)
1893 (133 years ago) Harold Lloyd, American actor, comedian, and producer (died 1971)
1937 (89 years ago) George Takei, American actor
1939 (87 years ago) Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian physician and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Norway–
1949 (77 years ago) Jessica Lange, American actress
1964 (62 years ago) Andy Serkis, English actor and director

1314 (712 years ago) Pope Clement V,
1912 (114 years ago) Bram Stoker, Anglo-Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (born 1847)
1918 (108 years ago) Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1850)
1932 (94 years ago) Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and philosopher (born 1858)
1947 (79 years ago) Christian X, King of Denmark (born 1870)
2003 (23 years ago) Bernard Katz, German-English biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
2018 (8 years ago) Avicii, Swedish DJ and musician (born 1989)
2021 (5 years ago) Idriss Déby, Chadian politician and military officer (born 1952)