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10 Aban 1459
Thursday 10 Aban 1459 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 31 October 2080, and 17 Muharram 1504 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
- Persian10 Aban 1459
- Gregorian31 October 2080
- Islamic17 Muharram 1504
- Imperial10 Aban 2639
- Day of the year226 of 365
- Left in the year139 days
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Occasions on 10 Aban 1459
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On this day: October 31
Events
- 1517 (509 years ago) Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
- 1917 (109 years ago) World War I: Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history".
- 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: The Battle of Britain ends, causing Germany to abandon Operation Sea Lion.
- 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 U.S. Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII.
- 1961 (65 years ago) In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Mausoleum, and is buried near the Kremlin Wall under a plain white marker.
- 1998 (28 years ago) Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
- 2011 (15 years ago) The global population of humans reaches seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as the Day of Seven Billion.
- 2014 (12 years ago) During a test flight, the VSS Enterprise, a Virgin Galactic experimental spaceflight test vehicle, suffers a catastrophic in-flight breakup and crashes in the Mojave Desert, California.
Births
- 1632 (394 years ago) Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (died 1675)
- 1760 (266 years ago) Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese artist and printmaker (died 1849)
- 1795 (231 years ago) John Keats, English poet (died 1821)
- 1887 (139 years ago) Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (died 1975)
- 1922 (104 years ago) Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (died 2012)
- 1947 (79 years ago) Herman Van Rompuy, Belgian academic and politician, 66th Prime Minister of Belgium
- 1950 (76 years ago) Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-English architect and academic, designed the Bridge Pavilion (died 2016)
- 1961 (65 years ago) Peter Jackson, New Zealand actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Deaths
- 1918 (108 years ago) Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (born 1890)
- 1925 (101 years ago) Mikhail Frunze, Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917 (born 1885)
- 1926 (100 years ago) Harry Houdini, American magician and stuntman (born 1874)
- 1984 (42 years ago) Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (born 1917)
- 1986 (40 years ago) Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)
- 1993 (33 years ago) Federico Fellini, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1920)
- 1993 (33 years ago) River Phoenix, American actor and singer (born 1970)
- 2020 (6 years ago) Sean Connery, Scottish actor (born 1930)