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20 Khordad 1473
Wednesday 20 Khordad 1473 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 9 June 2094, and 25 Muharram 1518 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
- Persian20 Khordad 1473
- Gregorian9 June 2094
- Islamic25 Muharram 1518
- Imperial20 Khordad 2653
- Day of the year82 of 365
- Left in the year283 days
- ZodiacGemini
- YearLeopard
Occasions on 20 Khordad 1473
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On this day: June 9
Events
- 68 (1958 years ago) Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's Aeneid, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
- 1885 (141 years ago) Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
- 1923 (103 years ago) Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
- 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
- 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
- 1967 (59 years ago) Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
- 1995 (31 years ago) Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crashes into the Tararua Range during approach to Palmerston North Airport on the North Island of New Zealand, killing four.
- 1999 (27 years ago) Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
Births
- 1672 (354 years ago) Peter the Great, Russian emperor (died 1725)
- 1843 (183 years ago) Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1914)
- 1917 (109 years ago) Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-English historian and author (died 2012)
- 1961 (65 years ago) Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor, producer, and author
- 1963 (63 years ago) Johnny Depp, American actor
- 1978 (48 years ago) Miroslav Klose, German footballer
- 1981 (45 years ago) Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress
- 1984 (42 years ago) Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
Deaths
- 68 (1958 years ago) Nero, Roman emperor (born 37)
- 373 (1653 years ago) Ephrem the Syrian, hymnographer and theologian (born 306)
- 1597 (429 years ago) José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary (born 1534)
- 1870 (156 years ago) Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (born 1812)
- 1959 (67 years ago) Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)
- 1973 (53 years ago) Erich von Manstein, German general (born 1887)
- 1974 (52 years ago) Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
- 1994 (32 years ago) Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)