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24 Aban 1459
Thursday 24 Aban 1459 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 14 November 2080, and 2 Safar 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
- Persian24 Aban 1459
- Gregorian14 November 2080
- Islamic2 Safar 1504
- Imperial24 Aban 2639
- Day of the year240 of 365
- Left in the year125 days
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Occasions on 24 Aban 1459
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On this day: November 14
Events
- 332 BC Alexander the Great is crowned pharaoh of Egypt.
- 1920 (106 years ago) Pesäpallo, the Finnish version of baseball developed by Lauri Pihkala, is played for the first time at Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki.
- 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: In England, Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
- 1970 (56 years ago) Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
- 1971 (55 years ago) Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.
- 1978 (48 years ago) France conducts the Aphrodite nuclear test as 25th in the group of 29 1975–78 French nuclear tests.
- 1990 (36 years ago) After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.
- 2012 (14 years ago) Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip in response to an escalation of rocket attacks by Hamas.
Births
- 1840 (186 years ago) Claude Monet, French painter (died 1926)
- 1889 (137 years ago) Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (died 1964)
- 1907 (119 years ago) Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author and screenwriter (died 2002)
- 1917 (109 years ago) Park Chung Hee, South Korean general and politician, 3rd President of South Korea (died 1979)
- 1922 (104 years ago) Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat, 6th Secretary General of the United Nations (died 2016)
- 1948 (78 years ago) Charles III, King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms
- 1954 (72 years ago) Condoleezza Rice, American political scientist, academic, and politician, 66th United States Secretary of State
- 1972 (54 years ago) Josh Duhamel, American model and actor
Deaths
- 565 (1461 years ago) Justinian I, Byzantine emperor (born 482)
- 1263 (763 years ago) Alexander Nevsky, Russian saint (born 1220)
- 1716 (310 years ago) Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (born 1646)
- 1825 (201 years ago) Jean Paul, German journalist and author (born 1763)
- 1831 (195 years ago) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher, author, and academic (born 1770)
- 1908 (118 years ago) Guangxu Emperor of China,
- 1915 (111 years ago) Booker T. Washington, American educator, essayist and historian (born 1856)
- 1977 (49 years ago) A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian monk and guru, founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (born 1896)