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1 Tir 1469
Wednesday 1 Tir 1469 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 21 June 2090, and 22 Dhu al-Hijjah 1513 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
- Persian1 Tir 1469
- Gregorian21 June 2090
- Islamic22 Dhu al-Hijjah 1513
- Imperial1 Tir 2649
- Day of the year94 of 366
- Left in the year272 days
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Occasions on 1 Tir 1469
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On this day: June 21
Events
- 1915 (111 years ago) The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to African-Americans.
- 1919 (107 years ago) Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
- 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
- 1978 (48 years ago) The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.
- 1982 (44 years ago) John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
- 2001 (25 years ago) A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
- 2006 (20 years ago) Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
- 2009 (17 years ago) Greenland assumes self-rule.
Births
- 1905 (121 years ago) Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author (died 1980)
- 1947 (79 years ago) Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, judge, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1953 (73 years ago) Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (died 2007)
- 1961 (65 years ago) Joko Widodo, Indonesian businessman and politician, 7th President of Indonesia
- 1979 (47 years ago) Chris Pratt, American actor
- 1982 (44 years ago) William, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the British throne
- 1983 (43 years ago) Edward Snowden, American activist and academic
- 1985 (41 years ago) Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriter
Deaths
- 1377 (649 years ago) Edward III of England,
- 1527 (499 years ago) Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and author (born 1469)
- 1582 (444 years ago) Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (born 1534)
- 1874 (152 years ago) Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (born 1814)
- 1908 (118 years ago) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and educator (born 1844)
- 1914 (112 years ago) Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)
- 1957 (69 years ago) Johannes Stark, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)
- 1970 (56 years ago) Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia (born 1901)