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19 Aban 1459
Saturday 19 Aban 1459 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 9 November 2080, and 26 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
- Persian19 Aban 1459
- Gregorian9 November 2080
- Islamic26 Muharram 1504
- Imperial19 Aban 2639
- Day of the year235 of 365
- Left in the year130 days
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Occasions on 19 Aban 1459
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On this day: November 9
Events
- 1372 (654 years ago) Trần Duệ Tông succeeds his brother Trần Nghệ Tông as King of Vietnam.
- 1862 (164 years ago) American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
- 1900 (126 years ago) Russian invasion of Manchuria: Russia completes its occupation of Manchuria with 100,000 troops.
- 1921 (105 years ago) The National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista or PNF) is founded in Italy.
- 1965 (61 years ago) A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
- 1993 (33 years ago) Stari Most, the "old bridge" in the Bosnian city of Mostar, built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing by Croat forces during the Croat–Bosniak War.
- 2005 (21 years ago) The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
- 2020 (6 years ago) Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: An armistice agreement is signed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia.
Births
- 1683 (343 years ago) George II of Great Britain,
- 1818 (208 years ago) Ivan Turgenev, Russian author and playwright (died 1883)
- 1841 (185 years ago) Edward VII of the United Kingdom,
- 1877 (149 years ago) Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani philosopher, poet, and politician (died 1938)
- 1914 (112 years ago) Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress and inventor (died 2000)
- 1929 (97 years ago) Imre Kertész, Hungarian author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)
- 1934 (92 years ago) Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (died 1996)
- 1974 (52 years ago) Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
Deaths
- 1492 (534 years ago) Jami, Persian poet (born 1414)
- 1918 (108 years ago) Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, and playwright (born 1880)
- 1937 (89 years ago) Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1866)
- 1940 (86 years ago) Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1869)
- 1953 (73 years ago) Ibn Saud, Saudi Arabian king (born 1880)
- 1953 (73 years ago) Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (born 1914)
- 1970 (56 years ago) Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, 18th President of France (born 1890)
- 2008 (18 years ago) Miriam Makeba, South African singer and activist (born 1932)