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14 Tir 1459
Thursday 14 Tir 1459 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 4 July 2080, and 16 Ramadan 1503 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
- Persian14 Tir 1459
- Gregorian4 July 2080
- Islamic16 Ramadan 1503
- Imperial14 Tir 2639
- Day of the year107 of 365
- Left in the year258 days
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On this day: July 4
Events
- 1776 (250 years ago) American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress, formally announcing and explaining separation from the Kingdom of Great Britain and the creation of the United States.
- 1832 (194 years ago) Durham University established by Act of Parliament; the first recognized university to be founded in England since Cambridge over 600 years earlier.
- 1887 (139 years ago) The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
- 1946 (80 years ago) After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
- 1976 (50 years ago) Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
- 1982 (44 years ago) Space Shuttle program: Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base at the end of the program's final test flight, STS-4. President Ronald Reagan declares the Space Shuttle to be operational.
- 2009 (17 years ago) The first of four days of bombings begins on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao.
- 2015 (11 years ago) Chile claims its first title in international football by defeating Argentina in the 2015 Copa América final.
Births
- 1546 (480 years ago) Murad III, Ottoman sultan (died 1595)
- 1804 (222 years ago) Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist and short story writer (died 1864)
- 1807 (219 years ago) Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and politician (died 1882)
- 1872 (154 years ago) Calvin Coolidge, American lawyer and politician, 30th President of the United States (died 1933)
- 1910 (116 years ago) Gloria Stuart, American actress (died 2010)
- 1926 (100 years ago) Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (died 2014)
- 1927 (99 years ago) Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress and photographer (died 2023)
- 1964 (62 years ago) Edi Rama, Albanian politician
Deaths
- 965 (1061 years ago) Benedict V, pope of the Catholic Church
- 1546 (480 years ago) Hayreddin Barbarossa, Ottoman admiral (born 1478)
- 1826 (200 years ago) Thomas Jefferson, American architect, lawyer, and politician, 3rd President of the United States (born 1743)
- 1826 (200 years ago) John Adams, American lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the United States (born 1735)
- 1831 (195 years ago) James Monroe, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States (born 1758)
- 1848 (178 years ago) François-René de Chateaubriand, French historian and politician (born 1768)
- 1902 (124 years ago) Swami Vivekananda, Indian monk and saint (born 1863)
- 1934 (92 years ago) Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1867)