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1 Farvardin 1468
Sunday 1 Farvardin 1468 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 20 March 2089, and 7 Ramadan 1512 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.
Public holiday
This day in four calendars
- Persian1 Farvardin 1468
- Gregorian20 March 2089
- Islamic7 Ramadan 1512
- Imperial1 Farvardin 2648
- Day of the year1 of 365
- Left in the year364 days
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- YearHen
Occasions on 1 Farvardin 1468
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On this day: March 20
Events
- 1815 (211 years ago) After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
- 1888 (138 years ago) The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
- 1916 (110 years ago) Albert Einstein submits his paper, "The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity", which establishes his general theory of relativity, to the journal Annalen der Physik.
- 1921 (105 years ago) The Upper Silesia plebiscite, mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland, is held.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
- 1956 (70 years ago) Tunisia gains independence from France.
- 2006 (20 years ago) Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Déby.
- 2012 (14 years ago) At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq.
Births
- 43 BC Ovid, Roman poet (died 17)
- 1811 (215 years ago) Napoleon II, French emperor (died 1832)
- 1828 (198 years ago) Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian poet, playwright, and director (died 1906)
- 1904 (122 years ago) B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and author (died 1990)
- 1928 (98 years ago) Fred Rogers, American television host and author
- 1948 (78 years ago) John de Lancie, American actor
- 1976 (50 years ago) Chester Bennington, American singer and songwriter (died 2017)
- 1984 (42 years ago) Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer
Deaths
- 1191 (835 years ago) Pope Clement III,
- 1413 (613 years ago) Henry IV of England,
- 1894 (132 years ago) Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer, journalist and politician (born 1802)
- 1929 (97 years ago) Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (born 1851)
- 1990 (36 years ago) Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (born 1929)
- 1993 (33 years ago) Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
- 2004 (22 years ago) Juliana of the Netherlands,
- 2020 (6 years ago) Kenny Rogers, American singer (born 1938)