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21 Khordad 1463
Saturday 21 Khordad 1463 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 10 June 2084, and 6 Shawwal 1507 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
- Persian21 Khordad 1463
- Gregorian10 June 2084
- Islamic6 Shawwal 1507
- Imperial21 Khordad 2643
- Day of the year83 of 365
- Left in the year282 days
- ZodiacGemini
- YearWhale
Occasions on 21 Khordad 1463
- international
- countries
On this day: June 10
Events
- 1782 (244 years ago) King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) is crowned.
- 1829 (197 years ago) The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on the Thames in London.
- 1878 (148 years ago) League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
- 1918 (108 years ago) World War I: The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.
- 1967 (59 years ago) The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
- 1999 (27 years ago) Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
- 2001 (25 years ago) Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
- 2018 (8 years ago) The Opportunity rover sends its last message back to Earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019.
Births
- 1819 (207 years ago) Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor (died 1877)
- 1915 (111 years ago) Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005)
- 1921 (105 years ago) Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of the United Kingdom, Prince of Greece and Denmark, Consort of Queen Elizabeth II (died 2021)
- 1922 (104 years ago) Judy Garland, American actress and singer (died 1969)
- 1929 (97 years ago) E. O. Wilson, American biologist, author, and academic (died 2021)
- 1959 (67 years ago) Carlo Ancelotti, Italian footballer and manager
- 1972 (54 years ago) Sundar Pichai, Indian-American businessman
- 1992 (34 years ago) Kate Upton, American model and actress
Deaths
- 1190 (836 years ago) Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1122)
- 1580 (446 years ago) Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (born 1524–25)
- 1836 (190 years ago) André-Marie Ampère, French physicist and mathematician (born 1775)
- 1926 (100 years ago) Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell (born 1852)
- 1949 (77 years ago) Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)
- 2000 (26 years ago) Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 18th President of Syria (born 1930)
- 2004 (22 years ago) Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (born 1930)
- 2008 (18 years ago) Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani author and diplomat (born 1928)