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7 Tir 1458
Wednesday 7 Tir 1458 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 28 June 2079, and 28 Sha'ban 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
- Persian7 Tir 1458
- Gregorian28 June 2079
- Islamic28 Sha'ban 1502
- Imperial7 Tir 2638
- Day of the year100 of 365
- Left in the year265 days
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Occasions on 7 Tir 1458
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On this day: June 28
Events
- 1776 (250 years ago) American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
- 1807 (219 years ago) Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
- 1882 (144 years ago) The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
- 1911 (115 years ago) The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
- 1940 (86 years ago) Romania cedes Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.
- 1976 (50 years ago) The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
- 2009 (17 years ago) Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.
Births
- 1491 (535 years ago) Henry VIII, King of England (died 1547)
- 1577 (449 years ago) Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter and diplomat (died 1640)
- 1712 (314 years ago) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher and polymath (died 1778)
- 1867 (159 years ago) Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)
- 1906 (120 years ago) Maria Goeppert Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972)
- 1940 (86 years ago) Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1971 (55 years ago) Elon Musk, South African-born American entrepreneur
- 1991 (35 years ago) Kevin De Bruyne, Belgian footballer
Deaths
- 548 (1478 years ago) Theodora I, Byzantine empress
- 683 (1343 years ago) Leo II, pope of the Catholic Church (born 611)
- 767 (1259 years ago) Paul I, pope of the Catholic Church (born 700)
- 1598 (428 years ago) Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (born 1527)
- 1836 (190 years ago) James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (born 1751)
- 1914 (112 years ago) Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria (born 1863)
- 1922 (104 years ago) Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (born 1885)
- 1992 (34 years ago) Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (born 1936)